Combining Or Distributing Information Via Code Word Channels Using Multiple Access Techniques (e.g., Cdma) Patents (Class 370/342)
  • Patent number: 9264935
    Abstract: A wireless terminal comprises a communications interface and a congestion controller. The communications interface communicates over a radio interface with a base station. The congestion controller, upon occurrence of a congestion indication, reduces uplink transmission power of the wireless terminal by lowering a transport format combination for use by the wireless terminal for transmitting an enhanced dedicated uplink channel (E-DCH) over the radio interface to the base station. In an example embodiment and mode, the congestion controller performs an expedited transport format combination reduction procedure which is distinct from Dedicated Physical Control Channel (DPCCH) power reduction based on a command received in a closed loop power control procedure, e.g., on a Fractional-DPCH (F-DPCH) channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Xinyu Gu, Andreas Höglund, Edgar Ramos, Zhang Zhang
  • Patent number: 9264960
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described for determining candidates for handover of wireless devices in a wireless network. An application requirement, a mobility, and an activity factor associated with wireless devices in communication with a first access node may be used to classify wireless devices. The first access node may then receive signal information and identifiers of second access nodes from the wireless devices. The second access node identifiers may be transmitted in response to a reporting event based on a first signal level of the first access node and second signal levels of the second access nodes. A communication link between the first access node and each second access node may be used to transmit second access node network characteristics to the first access node in order to determine if the second access node is a candidate for handover of wireless devices having classification criteria.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: Sprint Spectrum L.P.
    Inventors: Pinalkumari Tailor, Yun-Sung Kim, Manmeet Kaur
  • Patent number: 9258825
    Abstract: The present invention makes it possible to transmit and receive CSI-RSs adequately even when the number of CSI-RSs increase following the increase of antennas. The present invention provides a base station apparatus (20) that transmits CSI-RSs to a mobile terminal apparatus (10A) which is capable of receiving CSI-RSs for channel state measurement from a plurality of antennas, and to a mobile terminal apparatus (10B) which is capable of receiving CSI-RSs from a smaller number of antennas than the mobile terminal apparatus, and this base station apparatus has a CSI-RS allocation section (211) which allocates CSI-RSs for the number of antennas which the mobile terminal apparatus (10A) supports, to radio resources, and a transmitting/receiving section which reports, to the mobile terminal apparatus (10A), the resources where the CSI-RSs are allocated, and which, upon reporting the resources where CSI-RSs are allocated, to the mobile terminal apparatus (10B), reports part of the resources as resources to be muted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Tetsushi Abe, Satoshi Nagata, Mikio Iwamura
  • Patent number: 9258162
    Abstract: A method and system are provided for reducing the peak factor in a multi-carrier communication system, the data being transmitted on m channels comprising, in the transmission of data in the form of a frame, a step in which a number d of desynchronization symbols are introduced at the start of each of the frames, the number d being chosen as a function of the transmission channel number concerned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignee: THALES
    Inventors: Sebastien Herry, Sylvain Traverso, Catherine Lamy-Bergot
  • Patent number: 9258040
    Abstract: A transmitter generates and transmits a low rate signal to its intended receiver. Upon receiving the low rate signal, the intended receiver generates and transmits a channel sounding response (CSR), said CSR being a short burst having a predefined transmit format and carrying predetermined information. The transmitter then analyzes the CSR and determines uplink channel response, estimates downlink channel response, and determines appropriate transmit parameter settings based on the analysis and downlink response estimate. Adjustment of the transmit parameters can be made in either the MAC or PHY layer or in a combination of both. After adjusting its transmit parameters and modulating sub-carriers with user-data according to the determined transmit settings, the transmitter transmits the user-data to the receiver on a preferred portion of bandwidth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignee: InterDigital Technology Corporation
    Inventor: Joseph S. Levy
  • Patent number: 9258812
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication system, and more specifically, to an ACK/NACK (Acknowledgement/Negative ACK) transmission method in a wireless communication system and an apparatus therefor. The ACK/NACK transmission method preformed by user equipment in a wireless communication system comprises: receiving a PDCCH (Physical Downlink Control Channel); receiving a PDSCH (Physical Downlink Shared Channel) indicated by the PDCCH; and transmitting an ACK/NACK for the PDSCH. According to the ACK/NACK transmission method and apparatus of the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Seunghee Han, Hyunsoo Ko, Jaehoon Chung, Moonil Lee
  • Patent number: 9257036
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses for managing sensor information are disclosed. An example apparatus can comprise a power unit configured to collect energy, a sensor unit configured to receive sensor data from a sensor, a memory unit configured to store the sensor data, a communication unit configured to wirelessly broadcast the sensor data to one or more sensor nodes in a network of sensor nodes, and a processing unit. The processing unit can be configured to operate at least one of the sensor unit, the memory unit, and the communication unit after the energy collected in the power unit reaches a threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignee: University of Alaska Anchorage
    Inventors: John Lund, Todd Petersen
  • Patent number: 9258785
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for transmitting and receiving an uplink signal by a mobile terminal in a wireless communication system are provided. The first mobile terminal includes a receiver configured to receive, from a base station, a power control variable determined based on an interference value for a first receive beam used in order to receive an uplink signal of the first mobile terminal from among a plurality of receive beams of the base station, to receive, from the base station, neighboring receive beam allocation data indicating whether any of the receive beams in the plurality of receive beams, different from the first receive beam, is being used for uplink signal reception, to determine an uplink transmit power value based on the received power control variable and neighboring receive beam allocation data, and to transmit an uplink signal to the base station by using the determined uplink transmit power value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Su-Ryong Jeong, Tae-Young Kim, Jeong-Ho Park, Ji-Yun Seol, Hyun-Kyu Yu
  • Patent number: 9252865
    Abstract: The present invention reduces the degradation in performance of one or more radio signals that are co-transmitted with a first radio signal from the same transmitting antenna in the same frequency channel and received by the same antenna due to multipath or other shared interference, where the one or more radio signals can be separated from the first radio signal. All received signals are coupled to the same adaptive array or adaptive filter to reduce multipath or other shared interference of the first radio signal, which reduces multipath and other shared interference in the other radio signals before they are separated and processed by their respective receivers, or the individual radio signals are separated before the first signal enters the adaptive array and coupled to a slave weighting network slaved to the weights of the adaptive array of the first signal to reduce interference in all the signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Inventor: Kenneth F Rilling
  • Patent number: 9247394
    Abstract: Techniques are presented to determine a location of a wireless client device operating in a wireless local area network. A beacon report request action frame is sent to a wireless client device, where the request frame is configured to cause the wireless client device to transmit a broadcast probe request frame. A beacon report response message is received from the wireless client device and includes one or more probe response frames transmitted by one or more wireless access points that receive the broadcast probe request frame. The wireless client device location is determined based in part on signal strength information in the probe response frames sent by the one or more wireless access points and which signal strength information indicates the signal strength observed by the one or more wireless access points with respect to the broadcast probe request frame transmitted by the wireless client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: Cisco Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Mubeesh Ali V. M., Karthikeyan Balasubramanian
  • Patent number: 9237024
    Abstract: In a wireless multihop network having node devices within communication range neighboring node devices in a corresponding local neighborhood, the node devices generate visibility messages to be transmitted via connection-less broadcast. The visibility messages include at least an identifier of the corresponding node device. Visibility messages received by each of the node devices from the one or more neighboring node devices are processed to determine a measure of density of the local neighborhood. This measure of density also accounts for the heterogeneous transmit power capabilities of node devices and is used for updating of one or more operational parameter of the node device relating to utilization of the radio communications medium by that node device. A degree of utilization of the medium through the control of transmission data rate and power is adjusted based on an inverse relation to the measure of density determined from the received visibility messages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: Cooper Technologies Company
    Inventors: Roger Alexander, Shashikant Chowdhary, Steven Baigal, Sergey Sukhobok, Sharif M. Redwan Siddiqui, Shravan Rangaraju
  • Patent number: 9237088
    Abstract: The present invention proposes a specific handling of tel URIs in an IMS terminating network so as to enable routing of calls using telephone numbers (and not SIP URIs with embedded telephone numbers) as identifiers of the target users of those calls. Specifically, the present invention introduces a conversion module which is located within the IMS terminating network and is capable of converting SIP URIs with embedded telephone numbers into equivalent tel URIs which are then used by a terminating I-CSCF and S-CSCF to query the SLF and/or HSS so that they can route the calls to the target users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET L M ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Jesus-Javier Arauz-Rosado, Fredrik Airiksson
  • Patent number: 9237408
    Abstract: A wireless communication system transmits information requested by a wireless communication terminal to the wireless communication terminal moving through a spot wireless area. In a wireless base station, an external information communication control section controls communication with a server. A contents memory stores at least a part of contents received from the server. A wireless communication section communicates with the communication terminal using a predetermined communication method. A control section establishes connection with the communication terminal using a first connection which does not require an authentication procedure, or using a second connection which requires the authentication procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tsutomu Mukai, Hitoshi Takai
  • Patent number: 9236900
    Abstract: Disclosed are a radio transmission device and a radio transmission method which can reduce a processing amount or a memory amount while maintaining the randomizing effect of other cell interference. When using as a reference signal, a ZC sequence of the sequence length uniquely correlated to a transmission bandwidth of a reference signal, as the transmission bandwidth becomes smaller and the sequence length of the ZC sequence becomes shorter, the sequence is switched at a shorter time interval and as the transmission bandwidth becomes greater and the sequence length of the ZC sequence becomes longer, the switching is performed at a longer time interval. Thus, a reference signal is generated by using the ZC sequence in accordance with the timing into which the reference signal transmission bandwidth and the sequence are switched.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Takashi Iwai, Daichi Imamura, Sadaki Futagi, Yoshihiko Ogawa, Tomofumi Takata, Atsushi Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 9232542
    Abstract: A mobile station includes communication control circuitry that selects a preamble contained in a first Random Access Preamble group when a message size based on data available for transmission does not meet a first condition or when a value calculated based on a reference signal received power of downlink does not meet a second condition, a preamble contained in a second Random Access Preamble group when the message size based on data available for transmission meets the first condition and the value calculated based on the reference signal received power of downlink meets the second condition, and a preamble contained in the third Random Access Preamble group for a handover, independent of the message size based on data available for transmission and the value calculated based on the reference signal received power of downlink. The communication control circuitry also generates and transmits a selected preamble.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: Godo Kaisha IP Bridge 1
    Inventors: Takashi Iwai, Daichi Imamura, Sadaki Futagi, Atsushi Matsumoto, Tomofumi Takata
  • Patent number: 9231745
    Abstract: A method and apparatus of a user equipment are provided for transmitting a channel status report in a communication system. The method includes receiving first information for at least one channel status report; generating a first channel status report corresponding to the first information for the at least one channel status report based on a reference signal in a first subframe; and transmitting the first channel status report based on the first information for the at least one channel status report in a second subframe. The first information for the at least one channel status report comprises information for a period and an offset, and a difference between the first subframe and the second subframe is a smallest value greater than or equal to a predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: In Ho Lee, Youn Sun Kim, Jin Kyu Han
  • Patent number: 9231797
    Abstract: A burst detector featuring a dynamic threshold that is calculated according to the detection efficiency while operating in a noisy environment. In one embodiment, signals from various directions are multiplied by appropriate weights, wherein the weights are a function of the FAR, the throughput, and/or various modem indications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: GO NET SYSTEMS LTD.
    Inventors: Moshe Salhov, Aviv Salamon
  • Patent number: 9231744
    Abstract: A method and apparatus of a user equipment are provided for transmitting a channel status report in a communication system. The method includes receiving first information for at least one channel status report; generating a first channel status report corresponding to the first information for the at least one channel status report based on a reference signal in a first subframe; and transmitting the first channel status report based on the first information for the at least one channel status report in a second subframe. The first information for the at least one channel status report comprises information for a period and an offset, and a difference between the first subframe and the second subframe is a smallest value greater than or equal to a predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: In Ho Lee, Youn Sun Kim, Jin Kyu Han
  • Patent number: 9232523
    Abstract: Sending information to user equipment (UE) indicating which time slots are not for use by a downlink shared channel is provided. Downlink shared channel resources in shared channel time slots are allocated for UEs. The UEs are subsequently sent downlink shared channel data in the shared channel time slots and sent non-downlink shared channel data to UEs in non-shared channel time slots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: Intellectual Ventures Holding 81 LLC
    Inventor: Peter Jonathon Legg
  • Patent number: 9226291
    Abstract: A method includes determining at least one first station and at least one second station have a relative timing difference. The method then determines a muting schedule for the at least one first station for a plurality of sub-frames, wherein the muting schedule includes at least two adjacent muted sub-frames. The method further includes initiating sending an indication of the muting schedule to the at least one first station and the at least one second station wherein information on one or more channels is transmitted from the at least one second station during the at least two adjacent muted sub-frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
    Inventor: Jurgen Michel
  • Patent number: 9226304
    Abstract: A method of connecting devices to a network is provided. The method includes providing base stations connected to a network, and at each of the base stations, receiving probe signals from terminal devices. For each of the terminal devices, the base station calculates a signature waveform based on a time-reversed waveform of a channel response signal derived from the corresponding probe signal. For each of the terminal devices, the base station determines a downlink transmit signal for the terminal device based on the downlink data and the corresponding signature waveform, and transmits the downlink signals to the terminal devices. Several base stations have overlapping broadcast regions, several terminal devices are located within the overlapped broadcast regions, the base stations transmit the downlink signals using a same frequency band, and some downlink signals transmitted by base stations having overlapping broadcast regions also overlap in time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: Origin Wireless, Inc.
    Inventors: Yan Chen, Hang Ma, Yi Han, Hung-Quoc Lai, K. J. Ray Liu
  • Patent number: 9225577
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an exciter comprises a sine wave generator, a filter, a digital/analog converter, and a quadrature modulator. The sine wave generator generates a first sine wave and a second sine wave while changing a frequency in a predetermined step at a preset time interval. The filter sets one of stored filter coefficients and performs filter processing for the first sine wave and the second sine wave. The digital/analog converter converts the first sine wave and the second sine wave after the filter processing into a first analog signal and a second analog signal, respectively. The quadrature modulator quadrature-modulates the first analog signal and the second analog signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Itsuhei Shimizu
  • Patent number: 9226295
    Abstract: A hybrid band intelligent backhaul radio (HB-IBR) is disclosed that is a combination of two radios operating in different bands. Embodiments include a dual radio configuration wherein a first radio operates in a non-line of sight (NLOS) radio link configuration and a second ancillary radio operates in a near line of sight or line of sight configuration (n)LOS. For example, the HB-IBR may have an Intelligent Backhaul Radio (IBR) operating in the non-line of sight mode of operation within the 5.8 GHz unlicensed band, and have an ancillary radio link operating in the FCC part 101 E band of operation at 60 GHz. A common medium access control (MAC) block may be utilized between the dual radios.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: CBF Networks, INc.
    Inventors: Kevin J. Negus, James A. Proctor, Jr.
  • Patent number: 9225409
    Abstract: The invention concerns a method for precoding in an open loop transmission communications system, wherein the method includes precoding data at each of M REs with a precoding matrix, precoding each of DM-RSs with one column of a precoding matrix which is same as that used for precoding M data REs. The method is distinguished by using at least L?2 different precoding matrices from a set of precoding matrices W to precode the M REs and the E allocated REs such that REs precoded with a first precoding matrix are interleaved with REs precoded with at least one additional, different precoding matrix and the number of used precoding matrices L is adapted to the transmission rank r and number N of available DM-RS. The invention further concerns a radio transmitter and a user equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jianghua Liu, Anahid Robert Safavi, Branislav Popovic
  • Patent number: 9225412
    Abstract: A method of operation of a communication system includes: determining a channel estimate based on an arriving communication for characterizing a channel; calculating a conditional measure based on the channel estimate for characterizing the channel at a subsequent index; generating a channel-based probability function using the conditional measure, the channel-based probability function based on a feedback metric; determining a stochastic channel indicator based on a value of the feedback metric producing a target condition from the channel-based probability function; and sending the stochastic channel indicator for controlling communication at a base station for communication through a device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jungwon Lee, Junghyun Bae, Inyup Kang
  • Patent number: 9220021
    Abstract: A user apparatus transmits an uplink control signal to a base station apparatus using a single carrier scheme. The user apparatus includes: a unit configured to prepare acknowledgement information indicating positive acknowledgement or negative acknowledgement for a downlink data signal based on a result of demodulation of the downlink data signal; a unit configured to prepare channel state information indicating reception quality of a downlink reference signal; a unit configured to channel-code multiplexed control information in which the acknowledgement information and the channel state information are multiplexed to prepare the uplink control signal; and a unit configured to transmit the uplink control signal using dedicated resources different from resources for an uplink data signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Naoto Ookubo, Hiroyuki Ishii, Nobuhiko Miki, Kenichi Higuchi, Yoshihisa Kishiyama
  • Patent number: 9219591
    Abstract: An approach is provided for acknowledgement bundling. Dynamically scheduling of one or more of subframes per bundling window is performed by reusing an assignment index field (e.g., downlink assignment index (DAI) field). The assignment index field has a value greater than or equal to number of previously assigned subframes within the bundling window. The bundling window defines a group of subframes for common acknowledgement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
    Inventors: Xiangguang Che, Peng Chen, Frank Frederiksen, Troels Kolding
  • Patent number: 9220020
    Abstract: A user apparatus transmits an uplink control signal to a base station apparatus using a single carrier scheme. The user apparatus includes: a unit configured to prepare acknowledgement information indicating positive acknowledgement or negative acknowledgement for a downlink data signal based on a result of demodulation of the downlink data signal; a unit configured to prepare channel state information indicating reception quality of a downlink reference signal; a unit configured to channel-code multiplexed control information in which the acknowledgement information and the channel state information are multiplexed to prepare the uplink control signal; and a unit configured to transmit the uplink control signal using dedicated resources different from resources for an uplink data signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Naoto Okubo, Hiroyuki Ishii, Nobuhiko Miki, Kenichi Higuchi, Yoshihisa Kishiyama
  • Patent number: 9219522
    Abstract: A code division multiple access communication system has a base station with a plurality of transmitting antennas. From each transmitting antenna of the base station, a pilot signal is transmitted having a different chip sequence than the other transmitting antenna. At a user equipment, the transmitted pilot signals are received from each transmitting antenna. A weight adjustment is derived in response to the received transmitted pilot signals. The user equipment transmits the weight adjustment to the base station. The transmitted weight adjustment is received from the user equipment. A data signal is processed to produce a plurality of versions of the data signal. At least a portion of each processed data signal has a different chip sequence than the other processed data signal version. At least one processed data signal version is weighted by a weight value adjusted in response to the received transmitted weight adjustment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: InterDigital Technology Corporation
    Inventor: David K. Mesecher
  • Patent number: 9214995
    Abstract: Systems and methods can implemented to joint transmission for interference management in wireless communications. A first transmitter having M antennas can acquire a channel state information (CSI) matrix for each of a plurality of multiple-input-multiple output (MIMO) channels between a first transmitter and a plurality of receivers. The first transmitter can determine transmission ranks, wherein each of the transmission ranks corresponds to a number of one or more data streams to be transmitted from both the first transmitter and a second transmitter to a receiver of the plurality of receivers. A maximum transmission rank may be identified from the determined transmission ranks. Transmit data can be generated that include the one or more data streams to each of the corresponding plurality of receivers. A precoding matrix can be generated for the generated transmit data based, at least in part, on the acquired CSI matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventor: Amin Mobasher
  • Patent number: 9214984
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate to an interference cancellation method and system. The interference cancellation system of the present invention includes a centralized cancellation unit and at least two signal processing units, where at least a part of signal processing units in the at least two signal processing units are configured to detect at least a part of user signals in all user signals input into the interference cancellation system and reconstruct the detected user signals; the centralized cancellation unit is configured to perform cancellation on reconstructed signals and the user signals input into the interference cancellation system; and the at least two signal processing units are configured to detect, according to a residual signal after the cancellation, the user signals input into the interference cancellation system and output the detected signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yongchao Pan, Bitao Li, Liang Xu
  • Patent number: 9210106
    Abstract: A communication device (1) for a wideband code division multiple access communication (W-CDMA) system is described. The communication device has an antenna interface (AIF), a front end processor (FE), a packet generator (PG), a packet writer (PW) and one or more digital signal processors (DSP1, DSP2). The front end processor (FE) is configured to receive one or more antenna signals from the antenna interface (AIF) and to calculate soft symbols representing symbols transmitted by a UE (UE0, UE1) using descrambling and despreading of the one or more antenna signals using a plurality of fingers assigned to the UE. The packet generator (PG) is configured to organize the soft symbols into packets, each packet comprising the soft symbols from the plurality of fingers assigned to a respective UE associated with one physical channel of the one of more physical channels and with the same symbol index. The packet writer (PW) is configured to write the packets into a system memory (SYSMEM).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
    Inventors: Neeman Yuval, Bar-Or Amit, Bezalel Kfir, Shahar Yoel, Zach Noam
  • Patent number: 9203526
    Abstract: The present invention discloses method and system for improving performance of interference cancellation in a radio communication system. The method comprises: estimating power of an interfering signal contained in a received signal; estimating power of an additive estimate error signal added to the interfering signal; and canceling the interfering signal from the received signal if the estimated power of the additive estimate error signal is lower than the estimated power of the interfering signal. A cellular mobile terminal and a cellular base station comprising the system are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: ZTE WISTRON TELECOM AB
    Inventor: Hans Grubeck
  • Patent number: 9204310
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method for converting mobile allocation and an upper control node of a base station. The method for converting mobile allocation includes: determining that at least one cell in cells controlled by an upper control node of a base station requires mobile allocation (MA) conversion; and instructing a base station to which the at least one cell belongs to convert, according to a time slot cluster, an MA occupied by a time slot of the at least one cell, where the time slot cluster is formed by the same time slots on different carrier frequencies. The embodiments of the invention may implement dynamic MA conversion according to actual conditions of a network, thereby guaranteeing the performance of the network, and improving the calling experience of users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhiqiang Ju, Dongyu Chu, Liwen Zhang
  • Patent number: 9204244
    Abstract: Method, apparatus, and computer program product example embodiments enable access to a wireless communications medium. In example embodiments, a method comprises determining, by a first wireless node, whether there are enough master nodes within range in a wireless communication network comprising a plurality of wireless nodes; and assuming, by the first wireless node, a role of a master node to participate in synchronization message contention in the wireless communication network, in response to determining that there are not enough master nodes within range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Enrico Rantala, Mika Kasslin, Janne Marin
  • Patent number: 9197249
    Abstract: Systems and methods of transmitting includes one or more low-density parity-check (LDPC) encoders configured to adaptively encode one or more streams of input data by adjusting error correction strength based upon channel conditions. One or more mappers are configured to map one or more encoded data streams to symbols by associating bits of the symbols to points of an optimum signal constellation design (OSCD) based on one or more encoded data streams, the OSCD being decomposed into two or more sub-constellations. A spectral multiplexer is configured to combine symbol streams for the one or more encoded data streams to provide a plurality of spectral band groups. A mode multiplexer is configured to combine spectral contents of the plurality of spectral band groups allocated to a plurality of spatial modes for transmission over a transmission medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: NEC Laboratories America, Inc.
    Inventors: Ivan B. Djordjevic, Ting Wang
  • Patent number: 9191777
    Abstract: Described herein are methods and apparatuses for the provision and management of value added services without a requirement for specific client software on a wireless receive/transmit unit (WRTU). The methods and apparatuses described may be applied to wireless networks supporting HTTP transfers without disrupting the wireless network configuration. In the embodiments described herein, a web request may be received by a Service Management Entity (SME) that may be located in an access point (AP) from a WRTU. The SME may transmit a proxy auto-configuration (PAC) file to the WRTU. This PAC file may include a uniform resource locator (URL) associated with a Service Delivery Entity (SDE), and the URL chosen may be based on rules associated with a location of the WRTU. The SDE may then receive a second web request from the WRTU and respond by transmitting a message to the WRTU such as a transaction trigger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: AIRSENSE WIRELESS LTD.
    Inventors: Edward R. Thomas, David P. Thompson, Alain C. Briancon
  • Patent number: 9184820
    Abstract: A space-time signal processing system with advantageously reduced complexity. The system may take advantage of multiple transmitter antenna elements and/or multiple receiver antenna elements, or multiple polarizations of a single transmitter antenna element and/or single receiver antenna element. The system is not restricted to wireless contexts and may exploit any channel having multiple inputs or multiple outputs and certain other characteristics. Multi-path effects in a transmission medium cause a multiplicative increase in capacity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory G. Raleigh, Vincent K. Jones, IV, Michael A. Pollack
  • Patent number: 9184890
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are provided for transmission of at least two HARQ-ACK bits. Information for at least two configured cells and information for a transmission mode for each of the at least two configured cells are received. At least one transport block is received on the at least two configured cells. The at least two HARQ-ACK bits are generated based on a number of the at least two configured cells and the transmission mode for each of the at least two configured cells. Transmission power for the at least two HARQ-ACK bits is adjusted based on a number of the received at least one transport block. The at least two HARQ-ACK bits are transmitted on a PUCCH. A transmission mode supports one transport block or up to two transport blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Aris Papasakellariou, Young-Bum Kim
  • Patent number: 9185686
    Abstract: A base station judges whether backup channel of the base station has therein a channel which is not an operating channel of another base station configuring an adjacent cell by the channel management unit, and, if there is at least one channel which is not an operating channel of the another base station, performs fairness processing according to a prescribed etiquette to have one of the channels as an operating channel of the base station, and, if not, determines a base station which requests a release of an operating channel from the another based on the basis of a degree of satisfaction defined as a function of an offered communication traffic within a cell, a transmission rate depending on a propagation environment between the base station and a wireless communication terminal and an actually allocated operating channel number, and performs negotiation processing to cause a release of an operating channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: Hitachi Kokusai Electric Inc.
    Inventors: Keigo Hasegawa, Masayuki Takekawa, Keat Beng Toh
  • Patent number: 9184869
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method in which a terminal transmits control information in a wireless communication system, comprising the following steps: selecting a PUCCH resource for control information from among a plurality of PUCCH resources; transmitting, through the selected PUCCH resources, a PUCCH signal carrying the modulation value corresponding to the control information; and transmitting a reference signal for the demodulation of the PUCCH signal, wherein the control information is identified by a combination of the PUCCH resource and resources for the modulation value and the reference signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Seunghee Han, Jaehoon Chung, Hyunwoo Lee
  • Patent number: 9184941
    Abstract: A channel estimation method and apparatus are provided for a terminal in a cellular mobile communication system including a plurality of base stations. The method includes maintaining a maximum number of CSI processes supported by the UE; receiving CSI process report information; determining a number of CSI to be updated based on the maximum number of CSI processes supported by the UE; generating at least one CSI report based on the determined number of CSI to be updated; and transmitting the at least one CIS report to an evolved Node B (eNB).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyojin Lee, Younsun Kim, Juho Lee
  • Patent number: 9184821
    Abstract: When communication is to be performed between communication devices having a directivity control function, a plurality of antenna-setting pairs available for the communication are stored by an initial training, and the communication is started by using one of the plurality of antenna-setting pairs. When the communication quality is deteriorated, firstly, a training signal is transmitted while successively setting each one of the plurality of antenna-setting candidates determined in the initial training in a transmitting antenna of one of the communication devices (400), and the training signal is received in a state where a quasi-omni pattern is generated in a receiving antenna of the other communication device (500). In this way, in radio communication performing beam forming, it is possible to ensure the time synchronization between the communication devices when communication is disconnected or communication quality is deteriorated due to shielding or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenichi Hosoya, Kenichi Maruhashi, Naoyuki Orihashi
  • Patent number: 9179268
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a system and method for providing MultiCast and BroadCast Service (MCBCS). According to the present invention, the MCBCS system and method supports session start and data path registration procedures, join and leave procedure for providing the MCBCS with static or dynamic multicast service schemes, and supports procedures for providing to mobile stations operating in idle mode. Accordingly, the present invention enables effectively implementing the MCBCS in a wireless communication system, particularly in WiMAX system, and provides the MCBCS according to the mobile stations operating in idle mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: POSCO ICT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Su-Lyun Sung, Dong-Hyun Lee
  • Patent number: 9178560
    Abstract: A decoding unit for decoding a signal modulating a plurality of symbols wherein each symbol carries a plurality of information which are code-division multiplexed in the time domain and in the frequency domain and wherein each information is associated with a known sequence of phase rotations, the phase in the known sequence varying deterministically between the plurality of symbols. The decoding unit first performs a phase rotation of the received plurality of symbols, then performs the time-domain despreading operation and finally performs the frequency-domain despreading operation. A processor, a receiver, a method and a computer program are also claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
    Inventor: Samuel Kerhuel
  • Patent number: 9178597
    Abstract: A method and apparatus of providing a base station with updated transmission channel information is disclosed. The method includes the base station transmitting beamformed signals to a first terminal. A second terminal receives the transmitted beamformed signals, and measures a signal quality. The second terminal conveys back to the base station the measured signal quality, and a transmission identifier of the beamformed data signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Bertrand Hochwald, Harold Artes
  • Patent number: 9173156
    Abstract: A method and system may receive, at an intermediate vehicle, a route request packet from a source vehicle. The system and method may enter a routing entry comprising a path from intermediate vehicle to the source vehicle and a quality metric value in a routing table. The method and system may receive, at a destination vehicle, the route request packet broadcast from one or more intermediate vehicles. The method and system may transmit, along a path from the destination vehicle to source vehicle, a route reply message. The method and system may transfer data from the source vehicle to the destination vehicle along the path. The method and system may monitor one or more quality metric values associated with the data transferred to the destination vehicle along the path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Fan Bai, Nawaporn Wisitpongphan
  • Patent number: 9173173
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a method and a device for controlling power of a cognitive radio system. The method comprises: measuring a system parameter of a cognitive radio system and a system parameter of a TV system located in an adjacent channel of the cognitive radio system; determining a maximum transmission power of the cognitive radio system according to the system parameter of the cognitive radio system and the system parameter of the TV system; controlling an actual transmission power of the cognitive radio system to be less than the maximum transmission power. In the disclosure, interference to the TV system can be reduced maximally, so that the sensitivity of a receiver inside the TV system is guaranteed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Min Wei, Nan Zhao, Mei Chen, Kaibo Tian, Yan Li
  • Patent number: 9173125
    Abstract: A mobile station (MS) that transmits uplink data on a PUSCH, the PUSCH being assigned by using a PDCCH. The MS receives a radio resource control signal including first information instructing the MS apparatus to periodically transmit first reception quality information (RQI) and receives, on the PDCCH, second information instructing the MS to transmit second RQI on the PUSCH. The MS transmits only the second RQI on the PUSCH in a case that the transmission of the first RQI which is instructed by using the first information and the transmission of the second RQI which is instructed by using the second information would occur at the same time, where the second RQI is transmitted together with the uplink data on the PUSCH and an amount of resources for the second RQI is determined based on a size of the PUSCH assigned by using the PDCCH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tatsushi Aiba, Shohei Yamada, Hiroshi Katsuragawa
  • Patent number: 9161308
    Abstract: Access terminals are adapted to facilitate discontinuous transmission (DTX) employable during active transmissions. According to one example, an access terminal may be actively transmitting a plurality of frames on a reverse link channel. The access terminal can autonomously implement a DTX operation during the active reverse link transmissions, in which a transmitter circuit is powered down for periods of time less than a duration of one frame. As a result, reverse link transmissions are punctured during the powered down periods. Other aspects, embodiments, and features are also included.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jing Sun, Rashid Ahmed Akbar Attar, Christopher Gerard Lott, Joseph B. Soriaga, Jun Hu