Patents Issued in August 6, 2013
  • Patent number: 8503334
    Abstract: A method includes tagging core routes of a core network service node associated with the core network service with an assigned core service specific route target, and distributing the core routes tagged with the assigned core service specific route target to one or more customers subscribing to the core network service associated with the core service node, whereby the customers are enabled to reach the core network service node via a core network service VPN.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: Level 3 Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Marcus Hines, Daryl Malas, Jaime Miles, Gary Ratterree
  • Patent number: 8503335
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for receiving or transmitting broadcast data are provided. The broadcast data receiving method includes: acquiring first signaling information indicating an ensemble in which service composition information of a broadcasting service is transmitted, acquiring the service composition information based on the first signaling information, and providing the broadcasting service based on the service composition information and the first signaling information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sung-il Park, June-hee Lee, Ga-hyun Ryu, Jong-hwa Kim
  • Patent number: 8503336
    Abstract: A system and method for design, tracking, measurement, prediction and optimization of data communications networks includes a site specific model of the physical environment, and performs a wide variety of different calculations for predicting network performance using a combination of prediction modes and measurement data based on the components used in the communications networks, the physical environment, and radio propagation characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: Wireless Valley Communications, Inc
    Inventors: Theodore Rappaport, Roger Skidmore, Benjamin Henty
  • Patent number: 8503337
    Abstract: A method for transmitting a physical uplink control signal in a time division duplex system, wherein the uplink control signal is more than 2 bits. The method comprises the following steps of: a base station distributing a plurality of uplink channel code resources of a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) for a user equipment, and making an agreement with the user equipment to transmit different contents represented by the uplink control signal using different uplink channel code resources; the user equipment selecting one or more uplink channel code resources from the distributed uplink channel code resources according to the content of the uplink control signal to be transmitted, and transmitting the uplink control signal on the physical uplink control channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Shuqiang Xia, Chunli Liang
  • Patent number: 8503338
    Abstract: Orthogonality in cyclic shift (CS) and orthogonal cover code (OCC) selection for DMRS in MIMO is improved by new nDMRS to nDMRS(2) mapping patterns. Values in the mapping tables are arranged in sets, with minimum CS separation between the values in each set. Additionally, the semi-static nDMRS is independently configurable for each UL component carrier (CC) in the case of cross-CC scheduling in carrier aggregation, and the PHICH allocation formula that defines the allocation of the PHICH process relative to the kth codeword (CW) on the cth UL CC is a function of both the CS index nDMRS,k,c(2) that is dynamically assigned to a certain layer of the considered CW and the semi-static CS offset nDMRS,c(1) for the cth CC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: George Jöngren, Stefano Sorrentino
  • Patent number: 8503339
    Abstract: A wireless communication apparatus performs bi-directional communication with an initiator. The apparatus is allocated an allocation period for data transmission from the initiator. The apparatus includes means for generating a first physical frame including an acknowledgement frame with respect to data received from the initiator, and generating a second physical frame in which a plurality of transmission data frames addressed to the initiator are aggregated. The apparatus also includes means for transmitting the first physical frame at a first transmission rate and the second physical frame at a second transmission rate, during the allocation period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Tetsu Nakajima, Tomoko Adachi, Masahiro Takagi, Tomoya Tandai, Yoriko Utsunomiya, Toshihisa Nabetani
  • Patent number: 8503340
    Abstract: A voice communication system over WiFi 802.11 network includes: WiFi phone devices, subscription servers and wireless access points. Through voice and data gateways the system can transfer both voice and data streams through WiFi; Phone devices with both wired and WiFi wireless interfaces can automatically switches between wired network and wireless network through WiFi access points. Subscription server maintains the current status of each device every time it changes location. Voice packets are prioritized over regular data packets and dispatched to different network interface by smart packet dispatcher. Quality of service for voice conversation over WiFi is achieved by various methods: piggy-tail method and ACK enhancements and other improvements to reduce delay and latency of real time voice packets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Inventor: Yongyong Xu
  • Patent number: 8503341
    Abstract: A client device is provided, including: a WiMAX access module for accessing a WiMAX network, and receiving a WiMAX wireless data from the WiMAX network; a switching module for being connected between the WiMAX access module and a network processor, and realizing transparent data transmission between the WiMAX access module and the network processor; the network processor for processing the WiMAX wireless data received from the switching module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventor: Dingzhou Yang
  • Patent number: 8503342
    Abstract: A transmitter is provided having transmission methods that minimize the power needed to ensure reliable reception in a coverage area. In one aspect, data that requires re-transmission as acknowledged mode data is re-transmitted when the power level of the transmission link is higher than a pre-determined level set for reliable reception. The data rate of the re-transmitted data is set according to the difference in the actual power and the pre-determined level. In a second aspect, two transmitting antennae are used to transmit the same signals with a frequency off-set. The frequency off-set can be used to determine the phase of the signals being received at the receiver, so that a phase off-set can be introduced to optimise the effect of interference at the receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: Airvana LLC
    Inventor: Andrew Richardson
  • Patent number: 8503343
    Abstract: A technique is disclosed, by which it is possible to achieve the reduction of power consumption of each wireless node and to perform efficient access control in wireless communication system. According to this technique, a given period with a beacon transmitted from a gateway (GW) 100 at the foremost position is divided to an active period where each wireless node (P2P tag) transmits and receives a frame and a sleep period where transmitting and receiving of the frames are stopped. Further, the active period is divided to a plurality of timeslots each with a fixed length, and the period is partitioned to sub-periods where each type of a GW, a fixed node (P2P-S tag), and a mobile node (P2P-M tag) can transmit frames respectively. Each of the P2P tags selects a timeslot at random from the period for each type, and after waiting for a waiting period at random at the selected timeslot, it transmits a frame including information to identify the selected timeslot or the waiting period in addition to its own ID.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuya Kawakami, Michiru Yokobori, Kazuhiko Miyamoto, Yoshihiro Suzuki
  • Patent number: 8503344
    Abstract: A notification method, an access point (AP), a station (STA), and a wireless system are disclosed. The notification method includes checking whether a power event occurs, and notifying the power event to an STA if the power event occurs. According to the present invention, the STA can learn about the power event, which helps the STA to decide on the subsequent action according to the power event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Guiming Shu, Zhiming Ding
  • Patent number: 8503345
    Abstract: A method of handling a point-to-multipoint (p-t-m) Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (MBMS) service in a wireless communications system includes the following step of receiving a message used for carrying information of the p-t-m MBMS service via a first channel when a radio resource control (RRC) state of the receiving terminal is a dedicated state. The message includes an instruction utilized to indicate the receiving terminal to release resources used for receiving the p-t-m MBMS service. Otherwise, the method includes the step of adding an instruction into a message used for carrying information of the p-t-m MBMS service when the message is transmitted to a receiving terminal via a dedicated channel. The instruction is utilized to indicate the receiving terminal to release resources used for receiving the p-t-m MBMS service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: Innovative Sonic Limited
    Inventor: Richard Lee-Chee Kuo
  • Patent number: 8503346
    Abstract: A wireless network using a network coding scheme is provided. The wireless network may include at least two source nodes, at least two destination nodes, and a relay node. The at least two source nodes may divide source messages into partial source messages, and transmit the partial source messages to the relay node. The relay node may generate a network-coded message using the network coding scheme. The at least two destination nodes may overhear the partial source messages using overhearing channels and obtain the source messages based on the received network-coded message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chan Soo Hwang
  • Patent number: 8503347
    Abstract: A transmitting system, a receiving system, and a method for processing a broadcast signal are disclosed. The receiving system comprises a tuner, a channel equalizer, a turbo decoder, a demultiplexer, a first error correction decoder, a block deinterleaver, and a second error correction decoder. The tuner receives a broadcast signal including a data group. The data group comprises mobile service data, regularly spaced known data sequences, and signaling data. The turbo decoder performs turbo decoding for the signaling data included in the channel equalized broadcast signal in the channel equalizer. The block deinterleaver performs block deinterleaving for the turbo-decoded FIC data in a block unit of TNoG (the number of all data groups assigned to one subframe)×51 bytes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Won Gyu Song, Byoung Gill Kim, Hyoung-Gon Lee, In Hwan Choi, Jin Woo Kim
  • Patent number: 8503348
    Abstract: Provided is a method for transmitting a sounding reference signal (SRS) of a relay station. The method includes: receiving SRS parameters; allocating a radio resource by using the SRS parameters; and transmitting the SRS to a base station by using the radio resource, wherein the radio resource indicated by the SRS parameters includes a symbol in which a guard time for switching signal transmission and reception is located in a time domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Hak Seong Kim, Han Byul Seo, Byoung Hoon Kim, Ki Jun Kim
  • Patent number: 8503349
    Abstract: The relay apparatus includes a wireless communication unit configured to carry out wireless communication with the base station, and capable of direct wireless communications respectively with other relay apparatuses belonging to the wireless LAN, without going through the base station, and a path search unit configured to compare the throughput of a wireless communication path for carrying out data transfer to a destination apparatus without going through the base station, with the throughput of a wireless communication path for carrying out data transfer to a destination apparatus going through the base station; and select the path having higher throughput.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: Buffalo Inc.
    Inventor: Yoshiteru Tamura
  • Patent number: 8503350
    Abstract: A communication method in a wireless communication system includes receiving information to determine whether or not to permit a relay of a communication between a first wireless station and a second wireless station, and relaying the communication based on at least the received information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: University-Industry Cooperation Group of Kyung Hee University
    Inventor: Gwang Hoon Park
  • Patent number: 8503351
    Abstract: Systems and methods for packet re-transmission in multi-hop wireless networks are provided. RLP packet retransmission only starts from the hop where L1 ARQ fails. This may result in an increased efficiency of radio resource utilization. In particular, the benefit may be greatest for implementations where the last hop is more unstable than the remaining hops. This is the case for the cellular downlink where the last hop is between a relay and a mobile terminal, and this hop is typically the most unstable. However, applications are not limited to this particular case. Any improvement in RLP recovery delay may be translated into an improvement in system capacity and per-terminal throughput.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Hang Zhang, Shalini Periyalwar
  • Patent number: 8503352
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving a reference signal for positioning in a wireless communication system are provided. In the method, a BS locates a PA preamble in a second frame among frames constituting each of multiple superframes, locates a SA preamble in first symbols of first and third frames among the frames constituting each of the multiple superframes, determines multiple consecutive first superframes belonging to an LBS zone from among the multiple superframes, includes a reference signal for LBS in a first symbol of a first subframe of a last frame among frames constituting each of the first superframes, includes data in a first symbol of a first subframe of a last frame among frames constituting each of second superframes that correspond to the multiple superframes excluding the first superframes when the data is to be transmitted, and communicates with an MS by using the first and second superframes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sang-Heon Kim, Jae-Weon Cho, Hee-Won Kang, Jin-Hee Won
  • Patent number: 8503353
    Abstract: Arrangements are presented for adjusting a power level and data rate at an access terminal. The access terminal may include a transmitter module configured to transmit data packets to a gateway. The access terminal may include a receiver module configured to receive control data generated at the gateway. The access terminal may also include a control module. The control module may evaluate the received control data. The control module may increase a transmit power level for data packets to be transmitted from the transmitter module when a first set of conditions is not satisfied. In the first set of conditions, the control data may include a first command. The control module may increase a data rate for data packets to be transmitted from the transmitter module when a second set of conditions is satisfied. In the second set of conditions, the control data may include a second command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Pei Chen, Bin Tian
  • Patent number: 8503354
    Abstract: Various example embodiments are disclosed relating to wireless networks, such as relay networks or multi-hop networks, and also relating to control signaling techniques for wireless networks. In an example embodiment, a method or technique may include transmitting (e.g., data or control) frames in a downlink direction and control frames in an uplink direction during a first phase, and transmitting (e.g., data or control) frames in an uplink direction and control frames in a downlink direction during a second phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventors: Klaus Doppler, Lars Lindh
  • Patent number: 8503355
    Abstract: A method, a server and a system for managing a session in walkie-talkie (“push-to-talk”) mode between terminals each of which has respective capacities for encoding and decoding voice and/or image signals. The terminals are logged onto the session via a server and a first wireless telecommunications network to which the terminals are connected and a second network to which the server is connected. The server comprises a data encoder/decoder. When a session is established at the request of a terminal, a sender terminal sends data encoded according to an initial type of coding to one or more receiver terminals that are connected via the server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: France Telecom
    Inventors: Aude Pichelin, Nathalie Beziot, Khadjia Daoud-Triki
  • Patent number: 8503356
    Abstract: A wireless communication method and apparatus for selecting cells in an orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) system are disclosed. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) measures a downlink path loss of a current serving cell and at least one other cell. The WTRU determines whether a path loss difference between the serving cell and the other cell is below a threshold. If the path loss difference is below the threshold, the WTRU measures a channel quality indicator (CQI) for each of the plurality of subcarrier blocks in the downlink of the current serving cell and the other cell, respectively. The WTRU reports the CQIs to a serving Node-B which selects a new cell based on the CQIs. Alternatively, a centralized access gateway (aGW) may select the new serving cell/Node-B, or the cell selection decision made by the serving Node-B may be forwarded to another Node-B via the centralized aGW.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: InterDigital Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Guodong Zhang, Jung-Lin Pan, Yingming Tsai
  • Patent number: 8503357
    Abstract: One of a plurality of radio terminals that transmit radio signals to a radio base station under a space multiplexing scheme, including a receiving unit 42 that receives an access right request signal with respect to the radio base station from an other radio terminal, a prevention unit 43 that prevents transmission of radio signals when receiving radio signals directed to an other radio terminal, a cancellation unit 43 that cancels the prevention of transmission when receiving an access right assignment signal during the prevention of transmission and a transmitting unit 41 that transmits a data signal to the radio base station according to the assignment signal, wherein radio signals are transmitted to the radio base station simultaneously with the other radio terminals and under the space multiplexing scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Ryoko Matsuo, Tatsuma Hirano, Toshihisa Nabetani, Tomoko Adachi, Kiyoshi Toshimitsu
  • Patent number: 8503358
    Abstract: A system for providing a wireless device with access to a computer network includes an access point that sets up a radio link with the wireless device and couples the wireless device to the network. The system also includes a server that receives data packets from the access point through the computer network. The data packets include at least one data packet that has a first identifier that uniquely identifies the wireless device and a second identifier that corresponds to at least one of a manufacturer code or a vendor code of the wireless device. The system further includes a database that is coupled to the server and stores data for associating a service plan with the first and second identifiers and basing the service plan, at least in part, on the second identifier. Other features and systems are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Hanson, Paulo S. T. Chow
  • Patent number: 8503359
    Abstract: For directional wireless communications, at least one new response to a Request-to-Send (RTS) message has been created to avoid a hidden-node problem that is particular to directional networks. In response to an RTS received during a NAV period, a Denial-to-Send (DTS) may be transmitted to indicate that the responding device cannot currently communicate further because its NAV is currently set, but it will be ready to communicate after expiration of the time period specified in the DTS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventor: Carlos Cordeiro
  • Patent number: 8503360
    Abstract: A method of wireless communication is disclosed that includes receiving detected channel information from a plurality of access terminals; selecting a set of access terminals from the plurality of access terminals based on the received channel information; creating a beamforming vector for each access terminal in the set of selected access terminals; and transmitting a signal using at least one of the created beamforming vectors. An apparatus for performing the method is also disclosed herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jilei Hou, Jinghu Chen, John E. Smee, Joseph B. Soriaga, Navid Hassanpour Ghady
  • Patent number: 8503361
    Abstract: Apparatuses and methods for enabling IMS services for non-IMS UEs via a home base station subsystem are described. In various embodiments, a home base station subsystem includes a message generator configured to generate an Internet Protocol multimedia subscription request message comprising a unique user identifier and an information request message, the information request message requesting an Internet Protocol multimedia subscription for the user identified by the unique user identifier. The home base station subsystem also includes a transmitter configured to transmit the generated Internet Protocol multimedia subscription request message to a user database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Maik Bienas, Martin Hans
  • Patent number: 8503362
    Abstract: The present invention relates to sound data transmission between a wireless sound transmitter that transmits sound data received from a multimedia source, and a wireless sound speaker that outputs sound signal by receiving the sound data, and more particularly, to a method for compensation of a play time delay between the wireless sound speakers occurring when the multichannel sound data is distributed and transmitted from the wireless sound transmitter to the multiple wireless sound speakers. The differences in the play time points occurring between the speakers in a TDMA based multichannel wireless transmission system, are pre-compensated through the delay of the sound data in the WSDT.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: Korea Electronics Technology Institute
    Inventors: Jungwook Wee, Wongi Jeon, Younsung Lee, Hyunsik Kim
  • Patent number: 8503363
    Abstract: A wireless mobile router (140) includes wireless network interfaces (202) and (218) attached to a network controller (142). The wireless network interface (202) communicates with a cellular network (110) to access cellular network services. The wireless network interface (218) and the network controller (142) comprise a WLAN (170) or PAN (180) and a network router hosting a plurality of client devices. Each client device may access a wide area network, WAN over the cellular network. The wireless mobile router (140) is configured to exchange various cellular network signals with various WLAN and PAN networks. The wireless mobile router (140) is particularly suitable for use in a vehicle or at locations where WAN access is not readily available.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: WAAV Inc.
    Inventors: John Fulknier, Brian J. Smith
  • Patent number: 8503364
    Abstract: Devices and methods are provided for implementing an over-the-air (OTA) broadcast of an overload indication to reduce interference levels at neighboring node(s). In one embodiment, the method involves receiving the OTA broadcast of the overload indication from a neighboring node. The method further involves performing transmit power control based upon the received overload indication to reduce Interference over Thermal (IoT) noise at the neighboring node (e.g., by adjusting the transmit power spectral density). Such a method may be performed, for example, by an access terminal or a small base node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Xiaoxia Zhang, Durga Prasad Malladi, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 8503365
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for detecting a cell in a mobile communication system such as an LTE (Long Term Evolution) system are provided. In the method, when a signal is received from at least one base station, a primary synchronization channel (PSCH) detector detects a PSCH symbol in the signal. Then a PSCH validity determiner ascertains a valid value of the PSCH symbol and determines whether the valid value is greater than a given threshold. If the PSCH symbol is greater than the threshold, a secondary synchronization channel (SSCH) allocator estimates a position of an SSCH symbol in the signal using the PSCH symbol. Then an SSCH detector detects the SSCH symbol at the estimated position, so that a neighboring cell can be found through the detected SSCH symbol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Yun Sung Mo
  • Patent number: 8503366
    Abstract: A radio communication system includes a plurality of radio communication devices that transmit and receive a subframe as a unit. Each of the plurality of radio communication devices adds a cyclic prefix to the head of the effective symbol of each OFDM symbol that makes up a subframe and adds a postfix to the tail of the effective symbol of the last OFDM symbol of the subframe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Tetsu Ikeda
  • Patent number: 8503367
    Abstract: Systems and techniques relating to wireless communications are described. A described technique includes obtaining data for a transmission to a wireless communication device. The wireless communication device can be configured to process incoming transmissions based on an aggregate data unit format that specifies signaling for aggregating multiple medium access control (MAC) data units. The technique includes, in a physical (PHY) frame, an aggregate data unit that is based on the data and the aggregate data unit format, the aggregate data unit including a single MAC data unit. The technique includes, in the PHY frame, an indication to signal that the MAC data unit in the aggregate data unit is singular and to cause the wireless communication device to accept the aggregate data unit without a corresponding block acknowledgement agreement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: Marvell World Trade Ltd.
    Inventors: Yong Liu, Harish Ramamurthy, Ken Kinwah Ho, Raja Banerjea, Hongyuan Zhang
  • Patent number: 8503368
    Abstract: Exemplary methods and systems may generally be implemented to allow a macro-network base station without access to a GPS reference signal to provide some or all of the functionality for which existing macro-network base stations typically rely on GPS. In a first aspect, an exemplary macro-network base station may determine its location using a location-determination technique that is based upon the angles of arrival of FM radio signals from nearby FM stations. In a second aspect, an exemplary macro-network base station may stabilize its local oscillator by phase-locking its local oscillator to an FM radio signal, and periodically adjusting its local oscillator to account for phase drift of the FM radio signal. And in a third aspect, an exemplary macro-network base station may synchronize its frame-start timing with a nearby base station using a frame-start timing signal that the base station has synchronized to frame transmissions from the nearby base station during a setup routine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Inventors: Walter Rausch, Durga Satapathy
  • Patent number: 8503369
    Abstract: Disclosed are a cellular phone terminal, a cellular phone system and a privacy protection method therefor that enable to prevent leakage of private information from the communication data when conducting a search for wireless LAN base stations. The cellular phone terminal comprises, in addition to the cellular phone function section, a cellular phone network transmitter/receiver section, a wireless LAN transmitter/receiver section and a wireless LAN connection control section, an SSID•MAC address management section connected to the wireless LAN connection control section and the cellular phone network transmitter/receiver section. The SSID•MAC address management section is allocated by a MAC address management server one or more temporary MAC addresses together with their time limit by way of the cellular phone network transmitter/receiver section and a cellular phone base station and the temporary MAC addresses are used when conducting a search for wireless LAN base stations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Yasuhiro Mizukoshi
  • Patent number: 8503370
    Abstract: A system and methodology that facilitates efficient utilization of bandwidth on a transmission link between a base station and a core mobility network, during content delivery is provided. Moreover, the system includes a data storage device, adjunct to, or integrated within, the base station for storing content locally. Typically, the data storage device is updated by downloading content from the core network at an optimal time. For example, content can be downloaded to the data storage device when the core network-to-base station link is idle, under utilized and/or has sufficient bandwidth for the download. On receiving a request for content from a user equipment (UE), the base station can directly deliver the content to the UE from the data storage device, over an air interface, when the requested content is locally available.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: Robert Klein, Arthur Brisebois
  • Patent number: 8503371
    Abstract: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate communication by supplying an immediate re-send of an assignment, when such assignment is not decoded by an access node (“AN”). In one embodiment, the assignment to AT can be re-sent immediately, hence mitigating a requirement for the AT to indicate that “Yes” the assignment was received, or “No” that the assignment was not received. Accordingly, if the AN does not decode the assignment, the assignment is re-sent, and a request latency can be removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Gwendolyn D. Barriac, Edward Harrison Teague
  • Patent number: 8503372
    Abstract: Voiceband compression techniques are employed in order to enable an RF telecommunications base station to accommodate data signals of high speed voiceband modems and FAX machines. An Ultra-High Speed Codec supports voiceband modem and FAX transmissions up to 14.4 kb/s and operates using four 16-phase RF slots. Because these codecs transmit information over several RF slots which can be contiguous, the slots within RF communication channels are dynamically allocated. The Dynamic Time slot/Bandwidth Allocation feature detects and monitors the data transmission and forms a data channel from the necessary number of slots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: Interdigital Technology Corporation
    Inventor: Scott David Kurtz
  • Patent number: 8503373
    Abstract: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate multiplexing of localized transmissions and distributed transmissions to reduce overhead transmission costs. According to various aspects, systems and/or methods are described that enable selection of an optimal transmission scheme in order to accommodate various traffic services, user abilities and channel properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jelena M. Damnjanovic, Durga Prasad Malladi
  • Patent number: 8503374
    Abstract: An apparatus, method, and computer-program product are provided for wireless communication between uplink and downlink nodes via a relay. The relay is configured to simultaneously communicate with the uplink and downlink nodes on a common channel. For simultaneous communication, radio resources may be allocated to the relay to maintain orthogonality on both the uplink and downlink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Gavin Bernard Horn, Ashwin Sampath, Sanjiv Nanda
  • Patent number: 8503375
    Abstract: Techniques for sending control information in a wireless communication system are described. In an aspect, a UE spreads control information across frequency with a DFT and across time with an orthogonal sequence to obtain output data for the control information. In one design, the UE receives codewords for N HARQ processes in N downlink subframes, determines an ACK value for each HARQ process, codes N ACK values for the N HARQ processes to obtain ACK information, generates output data for the ACK information, and sends the output data in one of M uplink subframes. In another aspect, first control information is processed based on a first coding and multiplexing scheme utilizing code division multiplexing in time and frequency domains. Second control information is processed based on a second coding and multiplexing scheme utilizing code division multiplexing in time domain and spreading in frequency domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Durga Prasad Malladi, Byoung-Hoon Kim, Juan Montojo, Sandip Sarkar
  • Patent number: 8503376
    Abstract: The present invention is related to a wireless communication system. 3G UMTS mobile phone systems rely on a protected smart card called the UMTS integrated circuit card (UICC) that provides UMTS subscriber identity module (USIM) applications as a basis or root of various security measures protecting the communication path between the 3G mobile terminal and the UMTS wireless network (or UTRAN). Disclosed is a method by which the UICC exchanges information with a terminal, such as an Internal Key Center (IKC 1250) and a Bootstrapping Server Function (BSF 1270) enables a procedure where multiple local keys specific to applications and Network Application Functions (NAFs) (Ks_local) are used for authentication and to encrypt and decrypt messages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: InterDigital Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Inhyok Cha, Chinmayee V. Rathi, Yogendra C. Shah, Louis J. Guccione, Andreas U. Schmidt, Nicolai Kuntze
  • Patent number: 8503377
    Abstract: Embodiments of methods for multi-band wireless communication and bandwidth management are described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Carlos Cordeiro, Minyoung Park
  • Patent number: 8503378
    Abstract: A disclosed base station in a multi-carrier system performs frequency scheduling in a frequency bandwidth including plural resource blocks each including one or more sub-carriers. The base station includes a frequency scheduler determining scheduling information for allocating one or more resource blocks to a communication terminal having good channel quality based on a channel quality indicator reported from plural of the communication terminals; a unit encoding and modulating a control channel transmitting the scheduling information; a multiplexing unit frequency-division multiplexing the control channel with a channel other than the control channel in accordance with the scheduling information; and a unit transmitting an output signal from the multiplexing unit in the multi-carrier system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Nobuhiko Miki, Kenichi Higuchi, Mamoru Sawahashi
  • Patent number: 8503379
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for performing codebook-based precoding in a Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) wireless communication system are provided. In a method for operating a Base Station (BS) in a MIMO wireless communication system, a reference signal including pilot signals, which are divided by a predefined number of bands and are multiplied by respective codes in a codebook, is transmitted. One or more Mobile Stations (MSs) destined for spatial multiple access are selected using an index of a band and CQI of the band corresponding to the index, which are fed back from one or more MSs. A precoding matrix is generated to process data streams of the selected one or more MSs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sung-Ho Lee, Keun-Chul Hwang, Sung-Woo Park
  • Patent number: 8503380
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method in a cellular communication system, for avoiding errors in a HARQ process, wherein an NDI flag is used both for indicating either semi-persistent scheduling, SPS activation or SPS retransmissions, and also for indicating, by toggling of the flag, a new transmission in dynamic scheduling mode. The method comprises the steps of receiving, in a scheduling message, an indication that dynamically scheduled transmission will take place; if a semi persistent resource has occurred for the same HARQ process since a previously received indication for dynamically scheduled transmission, then considering the NDI flag to be toggled regardless of the value of the NDI flag. Thus, if the condition is fulfilled, a UE will always regard the NDI flag as indicating or requesting a new data transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Michael Meyer, Magnus Lindström, Johan Torsner, Henning Wiemann
  • Patent number: 8503381
    Abstract: A method of a Mobile Station (MS) configuring radio connection in a multiple component carrier system is provided. The method includes receiving distribution information from a Base Station (BS) through a first Component Carrier (CC), selecting a second CC for radio connection to the BS on a basis of the distribution information, and performing the radio connection through the second CC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Young Dae Lee, Sung Hoon Jung, Seung June Yi, Sung Duck Chun, Sung Jun Park
  • Patent number: 8503382
    Abstract: A method for processing signals in a communication system includes selecting, from a plurality of users, a first user having a channel gain that is greater than a channel gain corresponding to a remaining portion of the plurality of users. At least a second user may be selected from a portion of the remaining portion of the plurality of users, based on a feedback channel gain of the second user. The selected second user may have a channel direction that is approximately orthogonal to a channel direction of the first user. System capacity may be determined based on the selecting of the first user and the selecting of the second user. The channel gain may be defined by a quantized channel gain. A quantized channel direction of the selected first user may be determined for the selecting of the second user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Jun Zheng, Chengjin Zhang, Pieter van Rooyen
  • Patent number: 8503383
    Abstract: This invention relates to cognitive radio based wireless communications of dynamic spectrum access networks, and more particularly to a method of addressing inter-systems (cells) coexistence and spectrum sharing. The described method of spectrum sharing called On-Demand Spectrum Contention, integrates Dynamic Frequency Selection and Transmission Power Control with iterative on-demand spectrum contentions and provides fairness, adaptability, and efficiency of spectrum access for dynamic spectrum access systems using active inter-system coordination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Wendong Hu, George A. Vlantis