Combined Time And Frequency Assignment Patents (Class 370/436)
  • Patent number: 8619789
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a battery-operated communication device “quick-samples” a frequency hopping sequence at a periodic rate corresponding to a substantially low duty cycle, and is discovered by (e.g., attached to) a main-powered communication device. During a scheduled sample, the main-powered communication device transmits a control packet to be received by the battery-operated communication device, the control packet containing timing information and transmitted to account for worst-case clock drift error between the two devices. The battery-operated communication device responds to the control packet with a link-layer acknowledgment containing timing information from the battery-operated communication device. Accordingly, the two devices may re-synchronize their timing based on the timing information in the control packet and acknowledgment, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan W. Hui, Lik Chuen Alec Woo, Wei Hong
  • Patent number: 8611308
    Abstract: A Method and apparatus for a user handing over to a home NodeB are provided. The method comprises the following steps: when the user initiates a handover procedure from a source NodeB to a target home NodeB, a target home NodeB gateway receiving a relocation request message from a mobility management unit of a core network; the target home NodeB gateway generating a user context for the user according to the relocation request message, allocating a user context identifier for the user context, and sending the user context identifier and the relocation request message to the target home NodeB; and when receiving a relocation request acknowledgement message replied by the target home NodeB, the target home NodeB gateway sending the relocation request acknowledgement message to the mobility management unit of the core network. The application of the above technical solution can ensure the handover of a user to a home NodeB which serves as a target NodeB successfully.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Jing Wang, Lanlan Li, Lin Liu, Di Wang
  • Patent number: 8611364
    Abstract: A universal serial bus (USB) control system includes a plurality of antennas configured to transmit and receive a radio frequency (RF) signal, a plurality of wireless USB modules connected to the plurality of antennas, and an application layer connected to the plurality of wireless USB modules. Each wireless USB module is configured to convert the RF signal received through a corresponding antenna into data, convert the data into the RF signal, and transmit the RF signal through the corresponding antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: KyuMan Lee, YunYoung Kim, Jinyong Chung
  • Patent number: 8594117
    Abstract: A base station in a mobile communications system which uses a single-carrier technique for uplink includes a classifying unit which classifies, for each of multiple user apparatuses according to a path loss between the respective user apparatus and the base station, the multiple user apparatuses into two or more groups; and a scheduler which plans allocating of uplink resources to the user apparatuses. Uplink signals of each user apparatus that have multiple frequency components lined up in equal frequency intervals are multiplexed using a distributed frequency division multiplexing technique such that they are made mutually orthogonal on a frequency axis, the scheduler plans the resource allocating such that the user apparatuses belonging to different groups utilize different group bands or different time slots, and the group bands are specified by dividing a system band into groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Teruo Kawamura, Yoshiaki Ofuji, Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Kenichi Higuchi, Mamoru Sawahashi, Seizo Onoe
  • Patent number: 8588201
    Abstract: Sub-channelization gain in an OFDMA-based wireless channel is enhanced by utilizing packet fragmentation when implementing a constant bit rate (CBR) real time (RT) packet application. A packet that would normally be transmitted using multiple sub-channels in a single OFDMA frame may be fragmented and delivered through the wireless channel over multiple frames. Because fewer sub-channels are used within each frame, sub-channelization gain is enhanced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Muthaiah Venkatachalam, Masud Kibria, Shailender Timiri
  • Patent number: 8588315
    Abstract: Provided are a decoding apparatus, a decoding method and a receiving apparatus for decoding in a system supporting an OFDM/OFDMA scheme. The decoding method includes the steps of: receiving phase-modulated signal; performing subcarrier demodulation on the received signal and generating correlation metrics; generating decoding metrics using the correlation metrics; and determining a payload using the largest metric of the decoding metrics and at least one of an average metric and the second largest metric of the decoding metrics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: Intellectual Discovery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zheng Zi Li, Yong Suk Hwang, Jae Hyeong Kim, Sang Bae Ji
  • Patent number: 8582486
    Abstract: A method for efficiently providing data and a reference signal (RS) when antennas are added to an existing system is provided. The method includes transmitting an RS in a downlink MIMO system that supports a first user equipment (UE) and a second UE, the first UE recognizing four predetermined transmitting antennas among eight transmitting antennas and the second UE recognizing the eight transmitting antennas, generating a subframe that can be recognized by both the first UE and the second UE and transmitting the generated subframe to the first UE and the second UE, where the first UE and the second UE recognize all orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols of the subframe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Yu Jin Noh, Ki Jun Kim, Dae Won Lee, Bong Hoe Kim, Joon Kui Ahn
  • Patent number: 8582673
    Abstract: A method for mapping physical random access channel (PRACHs) is provided in the present invention, wherein W PRACHs have the same time domain location and the serial number of each PRACH is w=0, 1, 2, . . . , W?1. The method includes: mapping the PRACHs with the odd w numbers from high frequency to low frequency, or from low frequency to high frequency in a usable frequency band, mapping the PRACHs with the even w numbers from low frequency to high frequency, or from high frequency to low frequency in the usable frequency band. One PRACH occupies 6 continuous resource blocks in the frequency domain, and the frequency bands occupied by the two adjacent PRACHs in the frequency domain do not overlap, furthermore the same mapping process is used for each version number r.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Peng Hao, Shuqiang Xia, Chunli Liang, Bo Dai, Bin Yu
  • Patent number: 8576871
    Abstract: A collision avoidance method for subscribers to fight for a right to speak of a multi-party conversation in a digital intercommunication system includes: sending a frame of instructions from the transmitting subscriber to the receiving subscribers for declaring a beginning of a fight for phase; in a subset of frame moments during the fight-for phase, sending maintenance information by the transmitting subscriber to the receiving subscribers; in another subset of the frame moments during the fight-for phase, broadcasting a request for the right to speak by the receiving subscribers intending to obtain the right to speak in turn, the fight-for phase not closing until at least one of the receiving subscribers sends out a request message; hearing the request message, ceasing fighting for the right to speak by the other receiving subscribers; and the receiving subscriber obtaining the right to speak as a new transmitting subscriber and beginning to speak.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Spreadtrum Communications (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hongchao Deng, Jingdong Lin
  • Patent number: 8571055
    Abstract: A method for assigning sending permissions in a telecommunications system and a telecommunications system comprising a unit (20) providing access to said system for at least one telecommunication terminal (40) and a control unit (11) for scheduling data transfer between said at least one telecommunication terminal and the telecommunications system, whereby the control unit (11) is located apart from the access providing unit (20) and whereby said data transfer takes place on at least one transmission channel and more than one telecommunication terminal is arranged to use the same transmission channel so that a telecommunication terminal is allowed to send on the transmission channel when a sending permission is assigned to said telecommunication terminal, whereby the access providing unit (20) is arranged to assign a sending permission to the telecommunication terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventor: Mika Forssell
  • Patent number: 8571056
    Abstract: A base station receives a first radio resource control (RRC) message comprising parameter(s) indicating whether a wireless device supports an enhanced physical downlink control channel (ePDCCH). The base station transmits a second RRC message causing configuration of first radio resources of a first ePDCCH. The base station transmits scheduling information on the first ePDCCH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: Ofinno Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Esmael Hejazi Dinan
  • Patent number: 8570975
    Abstract: The present invention is related to methods, apparatuses, systems and computer software for determining an amount of physical resources for downlink transmission, and allocating uplink physical resources for transmission of data-non-associated control signaling based at least on the amount of physical resources for downlink transmission. The amount of physical resources for downlink transmission comprises an amount of downlink control signaling. The present invention further relates to a framework for mapping the dedicated uplink control channels directly to single physical resource blocks. The framework is able to efficiently shift physical resources to and from the uplink control channel for ACK/NACK reports, in a data-non-associated control signaling scheme and on a per subframe basis. The present invention is also concerned with scheduler, for example an eNodeB scheduler, which uses its scheduling history and knowledge of user equipment capabilities to increase utilization of uplink resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: Core Wireless Licensing S.a.r.l.
    Inventors: Troels Kolding, Frank Frederiksen
  • Patent number: 8565184
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and to an apparatus for transmitting/receiving data in a relay communication system. The method comprises the steps of: setting, as a guard band, the first predetermined number of symbol transmission slots of a data transmission period in a subframe resource element of a downlink channel constituted by a control signal transmission period to which a control signal is allocated and the data transmission period to which downlink data is allocated; allocating reference signals to symbols of the data transmission period; puncturing the symbols corresponding to the guard band from among the symbols to which said reference signals are allocated; and transmitting signals to which said reference signals are allocated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Han-Byul Seo, Byoung-Hoon Kim
  • Patent number: 8565254
    Abstract: A radio base station (eNB) according to the present invention includes an aggregation level determination unit configured to determine an aggregation level based on CQI notified from a mobile station (UE), a control channel element assignment unit configured to assign a plurality of continuous CCE to a PDCCH addressed to the mobile station (UE), based on the determined aggregation level, and a resource assignment unit configured to assign resource element groups constituting the assigned CCE as a resource for the PDCCH addressed to the mobile station (UE). The control channel element assignment unit is configured to assign a plurality of continuous CCE to the PDCCH addressed to the mobile station (UE) based on an aggregation level changed by the aggregation level determination unit, when failing to assign CCE to the PDCCH addressed to the mobile station (UE).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Naoto Okubo, Hiroyuki Ishii
  • Patent number: 8547927
    Abstract: A method for a user equipment to perform random access to a base station in a wireless communication system that supports multiple uplink and downlink carriers is provided. In the method, system information including cell identifier information of each of the downlink component carriers and PRACH TF slot and preamble sequence information which is common to all downlink component carriers, the system information being broadcast through each downlink component carrier corresponding to the cell identifier information, is received. A PRACH preamble is transmitted through one uplink component carrier linked to the downlink component carriers using the received PRACH TF slot and preamble sequence information. An RACH response is received through each of the downlink component carriers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Dong Youn Seo, Jung Hoon Lee, Ki Jun Kim, Joon Kui Ahn
  • Patent number: 8547857
    Abstract: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate scheduling uplink transmissions. For instance, a time sharing scheme can be utilized such that differing mobile devices can be scheduled to transmit during differing time slots; however, it is also contemplated that a static scheme can be employed. Pursuant to an illustration, an interference budget can be combined with a time varying weighting factor associated with a base station; the weighting factor can be predefined and/or adaptively adjusted (e.g., based upon a load balancing mechanism). Moreover, the weighted interference budget can be leveraged for selecting mobile devices for uplink transmission (e.g., based at least in part upon path loss ratios of the mobile devices). Further, disparate interference budgets can be utilized by differing channels of a sector at a particular time. Also, for example, a base station can assign a loading factor to be utilized by wireless terminal(s) for generating channel quality report(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Xinzhou Wu, Sundeep Rangan, Prashanth Hande, Arnab Das, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 8547883
    Abstract: A system and method for transmitting resource allocation information by a base station in a communication system is provided. The method includes generating first MAP messages for user terminals, each of which includes an identifier of a corresponding user terminal and corresponds to resource allocation information on a first band, in an order of user terminals, generating a second MAP message, which corresponds to resource allocation information for a user terminal allocated resources of only a second band, and generating third MAP messages, which correspond to resource allocation information on the second band, for user terminals allocated resources of both the first band and the second band, among the user terminals, in the order of user terminals allocated resources of both the first band and the second band, transmitting the first MAP message through the first band, and transmitting the second and third MAP messages through the second band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Young-Ho Jung, Yung-Soo Kim, Myeon-Kyun Cho
  • Patent number: 8547926
    Abstract: A method for configuring system information, a method for transmitting system information, and a method for transmitting resource ratio information are disclosed. A method for receiving system information elements includes receiving a first message including a fixed-size system information element from a base station, and receiving a second message including an variable-size system information element from the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Young Soo Yuk, Jeong Ki Kim, Ki Seon Ryu, Yong Ho Kim
  • Patent number: 8547988
    Abstract: A wireless combination time, frequency and spectral shaping communications method that transmits data in convolution unit matrices (data frames) of N×N (N2), where generally either all N2 data symbols or elements are received over N spreading time intervals (each composed of N time slices), or none are. To transmit, each data element is assigned a unique waveform which is derived from a basic waveform of duration N time slices over one spreading time interval, where each basic waveform has a data element specific combination of a time and frequency cyclic shift. At the receiver, the received signal is correlated with the set of all N2 waveforms previously assigned to each data element by a transmitter for that specific time spreading interval, producing a unique correlation score for each one of the N2 data elements. The scores are summed over each data element, and this summation reproduces the data frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Inventors: Ronny Hadani, Selim Shlomo Rakib
  • Patent number: 8548083
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for mapping/demapping a resource efficiently in a wireless communication system are provided. A resource mapping method of a transmitter in a wireless communication system includes precoding pairs of symbols, arranging the pairs of precoded symbols adjacently in a resource block, and transmitting the pairs of precoded symbols in the resource block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sung Tae Kim, Youn Sun Kim, Jin Kyu Han, In Ho Lee
  • Patent number: 8542589
    Abstract: Techniques for quickly sending feedback information for beamforming are described. A transmitter/initiator sends a first frame comprising training symbols. A receiver/responder receives the first frame, determines the amount of time to generate feedback information, and determines the amount of time to send the feedback information. The receiver then determines the length of a second frame carrying the feedback information based on the amounts of time to generate and send the feedback information. The receiver sends the second frame after waiting a short interframe space (SIFS) period from the end of the first frame, without performing channel access. The receiver generates the feedback information based on the training symbols and sends the information in the second frame when ready. The transmitter receives the second frame, derives at least one steering matrix based on the feedback information, and sends a third frame with the at least one steering matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2013
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Shravan K. Surineni, J. Rodney Walton, Mark S. Wallace, Steven J. Howard
  • Publication number: 20130243010
    Abstract: A method and system operable to implement a multiple range, and optionally one-dimensional, transport scheduling process suitable to facilitate signal transport over a network for a variety of traffic types with different service requirements where two-dimensional mapping across frequency and/or time is required.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2013
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicant: Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Luis Alberto Campos, Jennifer Andreoli-Fang
  • Patent number: 8526410
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus related to the sharing of wide area network (WAN) downlink bandwidth with peer to peer communication signaling usage are described. A WAN, e.g., cellular, wireless communications device using a base station attachment point, transmits a signal to be used by a peer to peer wireless communications device for controlling its peer to peer transmit power level. The peer to peer wireless communications device receives and measures the strength of the power control signal from the WAN wireless communications device. The measurement information is used by the peer to peer wireless communications device in determining whether or not peer to peer signal transmission is permitted and/or in determining a peer to peer transmission power level. Thus the WAN device is able to manage interference from the peer to peer devices in its vicinity which impacts its recovery of WAN base station downlink signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Junyi Li, Rajiv Laroia, Xinzhou Wu
  • Patent number: 8526459
    Abstract: A base station receives a first radio resource control (RRC) message comprising parameter(s) indicating whether a wireless device supports an enhanced physical downlink control channel (ePDCCH). The base station transmits a second RRC message causing configuration of first radio resources of a first ePDCCH and second radio resources of a first data channel. The second RRC message indicates a frequency allocation for the first ePDCCH in terms of resource blocks in a subset of subframes. The base station transmits scheduling information on the first ePDCCH in a first subframe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Ofinno Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Esmael Hejazi Dinan
  • Patent number: 8520612
    Abstract: A method for radio resource control is carried out in a radio communications system including multiple base stations. In this method, a radio resource that can be used by the base stations is divided into multiple first radio resources on the frequency axis. Then one or more of the first radio resources are allocated to a second radio resource for initially transmitting a packet and the other first radio resources are allocated to a third radio resource for retransmitting the packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomonori Yamamoto, Rintaro Katayama, Keisuke Takeuchi, Koki Uwano
  • Patent number: 8515429
    Abstract: A method of controlling operation of a wireless telecommunications network is disclosed. The method uses location information as part of a dead reckoning algorithm to determine the general direction and average speeds of either an individual mobile station or herd of mobile stations at varying levels of abstraction. This information is then used to provision the telecommunications network in advance of a herd's arrival at a particular destination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventor: Karl Quinn
  • Patent number: 8509099
    Abstract: A technique for resource allocation in a wireless network (for example, an access point type wireless network), which supports concurrent communication on a band of channels, is provided. The technique includes accepting connectivity information for the network that supports concurrent communication on the band of channels. A conflict graph is generated from the connectivity information. The generated conflict graph models concurrent communication on the band of channels. A linear programming approach, which incorporates information form the conflict graph and rate requirements for nodes of the network, can be utilized to maximize throughput of the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Sudipta Sengupta, Minghua Chen, Ranveer Chandra
  • 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: 8494006
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for transmitting a downlink reference signal in a wireless communication system supporting multiple antennas is disclosed. A method for transmitting Channel State Information-Reference Signals (CSI-RSs) for eight or less antenna ports includes selecting one of a plurality of CSI-RS Resource Element (RE) groups defined on a data region of a downlink subframe and mapping CSI-RSs for the eight or less antenna ports to the selected CSI-RS RE group, and transmitting the downlink subframe in which the CSI-RSs for the eight or less antenna ports are mapped. The plurality of CSI-RS RE groups is defined such that a transmission diversity RE pair for data transmitted on the downlink subframe is not broken.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Dae Won Lee, Hak Seong Kim, Byoung Hoon Kim, Ki Jun Kim, Eun Sun Kim
  • Patent number: 8494072
    Abstract: Aspects relate to a flexible interleaving scheme that provides frequency diversity to randomizes interference Frequency diversity groups can be utilized, wherein control channel elements (CCEs) gain greater frequency diversity for a given number of mini-CCEs (e.g., subset of CCEs). A frequency diversity group index is permuted according to a bit reversed scheme to facilitate control channel elements with a small number of mini-CCEs to also gain sufficient frequency diversity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: Peter Gaal, Yongbin Wei, Byoung-Hoon Kim, Durga Prasad Malladi, Juan Montojo
  • Patent number: 8483235
    Abstract: Provided are a preamble structure and a channel estimation algorithm thereof. A communication method for a transmitter for channel estimation in a Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) wireless communication system having N receiving antennas, includes generating a preamble interval having a short training field that includes a predetermined pattern iterated N times on a time domain and is used for compensating for a carrier frequency offset, and transmitting a packet having the preamble interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Minho Cheong, Sok-Kyu Lee, Seung-Chan Bang, Il-Gu Lee
  • Patent number: 8483257
    Abstract: A frequency hopping scheme in a communication system using a plurality of sub-carriers is disclosed. A sub-band for frequency hopping is set and the frequency hopping scheme is applied using the set sub-band. The frequency hopping scheme is applied in the communication system by assigning a virtual index to a resource block including one or more sub-carriers and transforming the virtual index according to a specific rule to acquire a virtual index of a next resource block for the frequency hopping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Joon Kui Ahn, Ki Jun Kim, Jung Hoon Lee, Suk Hyon Yoon
  • Patent number: 8477697
    Abstract: Mechanisms to interlace multiple legacy frames to enhance radio resource utilization are described. Also described are mechanisms to modify a low-latency frame structure to appear as legacy frames. In one aspect, partially blanked-out legacy frames are interlaced with time offsets so that they complement each other to leave no idle system time. To a legacy user equipment, the interlaced frame appears as normal legacy frames used by multiple legacy cells. In another aspect, the low-latency frame is modified to appear as an interlaced frame. Again to the legacy user equipment, the low-latency frame appears as legacy frames from multiple legacy cells. To the low-latency user equipment, the modified low-latency frame still appear as normal low-latency frame. In this manner, radio resources of the legacy base stations are optimally utilized. Also, low-latency base stations are enabled to provide serves to the legacy user equipments without wasting radio resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Shiau-He Shawn Tsai, Per Ernström
  • Patent number: 8477712
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for mapping physical random access channels, which comprises the following steps: the PRACHs in the same time domain location are mapped from low frequency to high frequency, or from high frequency to low frequency in usable frequency resource, wherein one PRACH occupies 6 resource blocks, and the frequency bands occupied by two adjacent PRACHs in the frequency domain do not overlap; or the PRACHs in the same time domain location are mapped from two sides to the middle in usable frequency resource, wherein one PRACH occupies 6 resource blocks, and the frequency bands occupied by two adjacent PRACHs in the frequency domain do not overlap. The present invention enables uniformly distributing the PRACHs which require to be processed by the same base station in the time domain, and decreasing the inter-cell interference of the second type PRACH to the utmost extent at the same time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Peng Hao, Bin Yu, Shuqiang Xia, Chunli Liang, Bo Dai
  • Patent number: 8472406
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for handover data integrity of a mobile station in a wireless data network with a plurality of wireless network service areas. The method and apparatus includes initiating handover by a mobile station, identifying a target access service network (ASN) for handover from a serving ASN. When the target ASN is identified, receive a data integrity capability from the target ASN, and determine whether a direct data delivery mode is available as a data integrity mode. When a direct data delivery mode is available, direct data delivery is performed with the data associated with the service flow from the serving ASN to the target ASN.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Chandra Sekhar Bontu, Prabaharan Kanesalingam, Devaki Chandramouli
  • Patent number: 8472536
    Abstract: A method of controlling interference in a wireless communication system is disclosed. A method for controlling interference by a transmitter of a wireless communication system with multiple antennas comprises generating a base codebook subset including at least one precoding matrix selected from a base codebook; transmitting a base codebook subset indication, which represents the at least one precoding matrix included in the base codebook subset, to a receiver; and precoding data using the base codebook subset or the base codebook.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Wook Bong Lee, Su Nam Kim, Jae Wan Kim, Dong Guk Lim, Bin Chul Ihm, Moon Il Lee
  • Patent number: 8457151
    Abstract: In a method for mapping an operating frequency band of a mobile station device in a mobile communication system, an operating frequency band position at the time of idle mode of respective mobile station devices is arranged so as to be distributed throughout a unique frequency bandwidth of a base station device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shohei Yamada, Wahoh Oh, Keiichi Hibi
  • Patent number: 8457146
    Abstract: A method and system operable to implement a multiple range, and optionally one-dimensional, transport scheduling process suitable to facilitate signal transport over a network for a variety of traffic types with different service requirements where two-dimensional mapping across frequency and/or time is required.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Luis Alberto Campos, Jennifer Andreoli-Fang
  • Patent number: 8451792
    Abstract: The object is achieved by providing a base station apparatus for performing time and frequency scheduling in uplink packet access with: an interference amount measurement part configured to measure an uplink interference amount for each interference amount measurement unit which comprises a predetermined period and a predetermined number of frequency blocks; an interference amount determination part configured to determine whether the uplink interference amount satisfies a predetermined condition; and an overload indicator reporting part configured to report an overload indicator to a neighboring cell when the predetermined condition is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Motohiro Tanno, Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Kenichi Higuchi, Mamoru Sawahashi, Toshifumi Sato
  • Patent number: 8452334
    Abstract: A quantized multi-rank beamforming scheme for multiple-antenna systems such as a multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) wireless downlink. User equipment (UE) estimates downlink channel and transmit power and determines rank and power allocations. A quantized beamforming matrix is then determined by the UE using successive beamforming. The UE also determines channel quality indices (CQI) which it feeds-back to the wireless downlink base station along with the index of the quantized beamforming matrix. The base station uses the CQI information to select a UE for scheduling of downlink transmission and the quantized beamforming matrix index received from the selected UE to beamform the downlink transmission to the UE. Base station overhead and is minimized while providing near-optimal performance given the constraints of a limited feed-back channel and computational complexity of the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Assignee: NEC Laboratories America, Inc.
    Inventor: Mohammad Ali Khojastepour
  • Publication number: 20130121342
    Abstract: A method for transmitting a signal in a multi-antenna system is provided. The method includes designating an analog beam to a plurality of generated modulation symbol sequences corresponding to a plurality of antenna ports, for each antenna port of the plurality, multiplexing signals, to which a beam is designated by the beam assignment, to a plurality of beam groups each having the same antenna beam combination, mapping beam group signals generated by the beam multiplexing, to at least one Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbol and time and frequency resources, generating OFDM symbol signals corresponding to one or more antenna beams by OFDM-converting the beam group signals according to the resource mapping, converting the OFDM symbol signals into analog Radio Frequency (RF) signals, and transmitting the analog RF signals via a plurality of antenna elements by carrying the analog RF signals on associated antenna beams by analog beamforming.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2012
    Publication date: May 16, 2013
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO. LTD.
    Inventor: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
  • Patent number: 8442002
    Abstract: For enhancing user throughput and coverage within a multi-cell radio system a method for operating a multi-cell radio system, especially an OFDMA-based radio system including a plurality of base stations, wherein different frequency reuse factors are used within different reuse zones of one cell by a fractional frequency reuse (FFR) scheme, the method includes the following steps: allocating a size or resource to the different reuse zones, and allocating users into different reuse zones. Further, a multi-cell radio system is described, preferably for carrying out the above mentioned method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignees: NEC Europe Ltd., NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Jun Zhou, Linghang Fan, Yuefeng Zhou, Tetsu Ikeda
  • Patent number: 8442065
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for supporting Quality of Service (QoS) in a wideband wireless communication system using multiple Frequency Allocations (FAs) are provided. In a transmitting method for packet distribution in the wideband wireless communication system, the method includes, during a network entry process, determining a number of FAs through multi-FA capability negotiation; distributing packets, received from a superordinate layer, through the multiple FAs; and transmitting the packets distributed through the multiple FAs. Accordingly, packets can be effectively distributed through multiple FAs, and QoS can be effectively provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Nam-Gi Kim, Jae-Hee Cho, Hyoung-Kyu Lim, Min-Hee Cho
  • Patent number: 8432950
    Abstract: A maneuvering signal for controlling a radio-controlled object is transmitted using 2.4 GHz band frequency hopping techniques. In a trainer mode, an instructor's radio control transmitter is configured to transmit the maneuvering signal and receive a trainer signal in each of frame periods by which a frequency is switched in accordance with the frequency hopping scheme. A trainee's radio control transmitter is configured to transmit the trainer signal for each of the frame periods by which a frequency is switched in accordance with the frequency hopping scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2013
    Assignee: Futaba Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Tanaka, Eiichi Nishizawa
  • Patent number: 8432928
    Abstract: A handover control method carried out at a mobile station for switching a destination base station in a multi-hop network includes a reception step of receiving a communication signal and information of neighboring base stations used to identify a base station existing in the surrounding area of the base station transmitted from the base station, and a control step of controlling handover on the basis of the signal and information thus received. The control step includes a present destination decision step of deciding the base station currently connected, a switching decision step of using the information of neighboring base stations to decide whether or not the base station to be connected is to be switched over, and a switching step of switching over the base station to be connected on the basis of the decision result of the switching decision step. Thus unnecessary handover operations can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2013
    Assignee: Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kentarou Yanagihara
  • Patent number: 8428101
    Abstract: Systems and methods of interference-triggered frequency hopping in a wireless communication system. A master is provided in the wireless communication system in wireless communication with slave nodes each configured to use different preselected communication frequencies to permit frequency hopping. A current channel is selected from among multiple channels in the wireless communication system in which the master and at least some of the slave nodes send and receive wireless communications. Each of the channels uses different ones of the preselected communication frequencies. In the current channel, interference with communications between the master and a selected one of the slave nodes that use the current channel is detected. A new channel is selected only in response to detecting the interference. The system switches from the current channel to the new channel such that communications between the master and the selected slave node use the new channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: Redline Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Octavian Sarca, Yuriy Popov, Aurei Picu, Serban Cretu
  • Patent number: 8422437
    Abstract: A resource assignment method for a communication system provides a method to realize an estimate of channel with high accuracy for terminals which change channels rapidly. A resource assignment unit (102), supplied with channel information ISCI1 to NSCIN, determines assignment of resources to a first to a Nth terminals and outputs a resource assignment information SRA. A multiplex signal generating unit (103), supplied with the resource assignment information SRA, outputs a transmission signal STX. A resource selector (104), supplied with the channel information 1SCI1 to NSCIN and the relative position information SRP, determines the assignment of resources to the first to Nth terminals and outputs the resource assignment information SRA. A resource position generating unit (105), supplied with the resource assignment information SRA, calculates a relative position of an empty resource with respect to a multiplex position of a pilot signal and outputs the relative position information SRP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshikazu Kakura
  • Patent number: 8416798
    Abstract: A femtocell in communication with a centralized server and a communication terminal obtains an available frequency range of a telecom operator via the Internet, detects communication parameters of neighboring femtocells and macrocells according to the obtained available frequency range, and randomly generates a set of communication parameters suitable for the femtocell according to the detected communication parameters. The femtocell further requires the centralized server to confirm availability of the set of generated communication parameters, and employs the generated communication parameters to communicate with the communication terminal if the set of generated communication parameters is available.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2013
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chia-Chun Chien
  • Patent number: 8416750
    Abstract: A method and system is disclosed for selectively scheduling control channel messages ahead of traffic channel data. When a RAN in a wireless communication system operating at least according to IS-856 determines that a delay condition exists in the transmission of a particular control packet to access terminals, the RAN will determine if there is a particular traffic packet in active transmission that is classified according to best effort service (or similarly-characterized service class), and further if at least a threshold number of a nominal number of time-slot segments of the particular traffic packet remain untransmitted. If such a traffic packet is identified, the RAN will cancel transmission of the particular traffic packet and replace it with immediate transmission of the particular control packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2013
    Assignee: Sprint Spectrum L.P.
    Inventors: Sachin R. Vargantwar, Maulik Shah, Deveshkumar Rai, Debasish Sarkar, Manoj Shetty
  • Patent number: RE44203
    Abstract: A method of allocating radio resources in a wireless communication system is disclosed. A method of allocating radio resources from a network of a wireless communication system in accordance with a plurality of scheduling modes comprises transmitting first scheduling information to a user equipment to allocate radio resources to the user equipment in accordance with a first scheduling mode, the first scheduling information including a first user equipment identifier, and transmitting second scheduling information to the user equipment to allocate radio resources to the user equipment in accordance with a second scheduling mode, the second scheduling information including a second user equipment identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Sung Duck Chun, Young Dae Lee, Sung Jun Park, Seung June Yi