Patents by Inventor WI-LAN, INC.

WI-LAN, INC. has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20130223348
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are described to facilitate co-channel co-existence in a wireless communication environment. First information and second information related to a shared channel may be transmitted. The first information may be transmitted across a plurality of subcarriers over a first symbol set of a subframe and the second information may be transmitted within a subset of the plurality of subcarriers over a second symbol set of the subframe. The second information may include channel-sharing information regarding the wireless communication environment. The channel-sharing information may reduce intercell interference with at least one other base station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2013
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Applicant: Wi-LAN, Inc.
    Inventor: Wi-LAN, Inc.
  • Publication number: 20130223388
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for communicating and utilizing persistent allocation of resources are described herein. A base station may allocate persistent resources to a client station, and may associate the client station or persistent resource allocation with a particular shared NACK channel. The base station may monitor the NACK channel for a NACK indicating a map error. The base station may monitor the resource allocation to implicitly determine a map error. The base station may resend one or more persistent resource allocation information elements in response to the NACK or implicit error determination. A client station having a persistent resource allocation may monitor persistent resource allocation information elements in map messages and/or may indicate failure to receive a persistent resource allocation information element in a NACK message on a shared NACK channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2013
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Applicant: Wi-LAN, Inc.
    Inventor: Wi-LAN, Inc.
  • Publication number: 20130166983
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are described for determining, via a Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) module, that a maximum number of retransmissions has been reached for a HARQ packet. The HARQ module may communicate an internal NACK to a message retransmission module indicating a transmission failure. The message retransmission module may retransmit at least a part of the message. The retransmission may be performed prior to the expiration of a timer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2013
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Applicant: WI-LAN, INC.
    Inventor: WI-LAN, INC.
  • Publication number: 20130128812
    Abstract: A method of wireless communication including a base station transmitting a preamble including information indicating a sector identifier and an antenna port value. The base station further transmits a pilot sequence, wherein the pilot sequence and the location of the pilot sequence are based on the sector identifier and on the antenna port value. A base station configured to perform the method is also disclosed. A corresponding subscriber station configured to receive the preamble and pilot sequence is also disclosed, as well as a subscriber station method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2012
    Publication date: May 23, 2013
    Applicant: WI-LAN, INC.
    Inventor: Wi-LAN, Inc.
  • Publication number: 20130128711
    Abstract: There is provided an optical multiplexer including: a substrate having a plurality of beam transmitting portions; and diffraction gratings diffracting beams irradiated to the beam transmitting portions at different angles, each diffraction grating being formed in the corresponding beam transmitting portion. Accordingly, it is possible to reduce an alignment error and manufacturing cost and to reduce the entire size of a recording apparatus or a reproducing apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2012
    Publication date: May 23, 2013
    Applicant: WI LAN Inc.
    Inventor: WI LAN Inc.
  • Publication number: 20130121125
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for processing optical information using a low density parity check code are suggested. An optical information recording method includes the steps of encoding data to record into a low density parity check code; representing the data, which is encoded into the low density parity check code, to a spatial light modulator in the unit of a data page; and modulating a recording beam into the data page representing the spatial light modulator to be recorded in the form of hologram in a recording medium. By blocking inexact probability information from being concentrated in the LDPC code block, by achieving exact probability information through effective allocation of a mark, and by improving average accuracy of the pixel, which corresponds to the LDPC code, failure rate of decoding can be minimized so that decoding performance can be improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2012
    Publication date: May 16, 2013
    Applicant: WI LAN Inc.
    Inventor: WI LAN Inc.
  • Publication number: 20130064155
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus permitting the coexistence of multiple communication links to distinct wireless systems in a client device are disclosed. A wireless device can interface with both a primary communications system and at least one distinct communications system by managing the coexistence of active communications with the multiple communication systems. The wireless device can initially configure communications with the primary communications system for dynamically reconfigurable time multiplexed operation having scheduled periods of inactivity. The wireless device can determine timing and scheduling of communications with the distinct communications systems and can schedule the communications with the distinct communications systems during periods of inactivity in the primary communications system. The periods of inactivity may be limited to the scheduled periods of inactivity or can include unscheduled periods of inactivity occurring during active periods of the time multiplexed operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2012
    Publication date: March 14, 2013
    Applicant: WI-LAN, INC.
    Inventor: Wi-LAN, Inc.
  • Publication number: 20130039328
    Abstract: The invention provides a method and system for adaptive point to multipoint wireless communication. The wireless physical layer and the wireless media-access-control (MAC) layer collectively include a set of parameters, which are adaptively modified by a base station controller for communication with a plurality of customer premises equipment. The base station controller adjusts communication with each customer premises equipment individually and adaptively in response to changes in characteristics of communication, including physical characteristics, amount of communication traffic, and nature of application for the communication traffic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2012
    Publication date: February 14, 2013
    Applicant: WI-LAN, INC.
    Inventor: Wi-LAN, Inc.
  • Publication number: 20130034078
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for requesting and allocating bandwidth in a broadband wireless communication system. The inventive method and apparatus includes a combination of techniques that allow a plurality of CPEs to communicate their bandwidth request messages to respective base stations. The CPE is responsible for distributing the allocated uplink bandwidth in a manner that accommodates the services provided by the CPE. By using a combination of bandwidth allocation techniques, the present invention advantageously makes use of the efficiency benefits associated with each technique.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2012
    Publication date: February 7, 2013
    Applicant: WI-LAN, INC.
    Inventor: WI-LAN, INC.