| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 7248571 |
Multi-user time slots for TDMA |
July 24, 2007 |
| A method of transmitting speech frames in a TDMA network in which at least one time-slot of the TDMA frame is allocated to at least two users. The method comprises encoding user data from the at least two users into a single RLC/MAC block, allocating at least one time slot to the RLC/MAC |
| 7248566 |
Wireless network with transmission control in a half-duplex voice conference mode |
July 24, 2007 |
| Voice packets transmitted by an originating wireless user for use in a half-duplex communication mode in a one to many communication session are monitored for an unexpected cessation. If an unexpected cessation of such voice packets is detected for a predetermined time period, the sessio |
| 7248183 |
Method and apparatus for secure traffic light interruption |
July 24, 2007 |
| This invention relates to a method and apparatus for secure traffic light interruption. A purpose of this invention is to allow for the use of a secure system to allow the interruption of the traffic light signals by emergency (and other authorized) vehicles. An objective of this inventi |
| 7245932 |
Real time administration of shared communication plan arrangements |
July 17, 2007 |
| A method and apparatus for providing real time updates of a database describing the features of individual terminals of a shared plan telecommunications group for communication sessions from and to that individual terminal. The characteristics (numbering plan, incoming and outgoing s |
| 7245920 |
Apparatus and method for use in allocating a channel resource in wireless multiple access commun |
July 17, 2007 |
| Allocation of a wireless communications system channel resource is managed by utilizing traffic segment allocation. This is realized by partitioning the channel resource into an assignment channel and a traffic channel in a fixed manner. The assignment channel includes assignment segment |
| 7245919 |
Parallel multiple measurement message handling for soft handoff in CDMA systems |
July 17, 2007 |
| A method of processing, in parallel fashion, messages from a User Equipment (UE) in soft handoff with a plurality of base stations of a wireless communication system. Measurement Messages from the User Equipment are received and stored in a message buffer for a defined period of time |
| 7245709 |
Portability of subscriber features in a telecommunication system |
July 17, 2007 |
| A telephone subscriber is provided with call features associated with his home telephone line when the subscriber is at a remote (different) telephone line. Aspects include: registration of the subscriber at a remote telephone line with association of the subscriber's normal call fea |
| 7245675 |
Upstream data transmission |
July 17, 2007 |
| A process transmits digital data to an A/D converter via an analog channel. The process includes generating a sequence of output signals by preceding a sequence of input signal points to precompensate for ISI in the analog channel. In the preceding is matched to the ISI, at least one |
| 7245589 |
Wireless media gateway with bearer path control and tone allocation |
July 17, 2007 |
| A method is provided for operating a media gateway in a telecommunications system. The gateway provides bearer paths for communication traffic between network segments via contexts. Each context includes a collection of terminations that link the gateway to the network segments and a |
| 7245586 |
Buffer management based on buffer sharing across ports and per-port minimum buffer guarantee |
July 17, 2007 |
| This invention introduces an intelligent buffering sharing scheme that supports multiple service classes and multiple drop priorities per class. The available buffers are shared between different queues but at the same time every queue will be guaranteed a certain minimum buffer allocati |
| 7243122 |
Computer implemented method and apparatus for fulfilling a request for information content with |
July 10, 2007 |
| A method of fulfilling a request for information content with a user-selectable version of a file containing that information content. Selection of a hyperlink to information content results in generation of a menu of versions of files containing that information content. The menu di |
| 7242964 |
Shaping of EM field for transmission to multiple terminals |
July 10, 2007 |
| A method and apparatus for directing energy in a plurality of azimuth directions. The amount of energy directed in the azimuth direction of a mobile terminal is a function of the location and acceptable receive strength of at least two mobile terminals. The function is such that the |
| 7242953 |
Transmitting a control message on a forward access channel (FACH) in a network for mobile teleco |
July 10, 2007 |
| A method is provided of transmitting a control message on a Forward Access Channel (FACH) from a base station in a network for mobile telecommunications in response to a Random Access Channel (RACH) message received from a mobile user terminal. The RACH message indicates to the base |
| 7242948 |
Providing location based directory numbers for personalized services |
July 10, 2007 |
| In this invention, a wireless terminal location is monitored and used to locate providers of a requested service that are proximate to the location of the wireless terminal. At least one of the providers located is selected and identified by name and/or telephone number and/or the lo |
| 7242763 |
Systems and methods for far-end noise reduction and near-end noise compensation in a mixed time- |
July 10, 2007 |
| Methods and systems for a mixed time-frequency domain compander, where the expander and compressor are applied in the frequency domain (subbands), while the limiter and the linear gain are applied in the time-domain (full band). Far-end noise reduction is achieved by adapting the expande |
| 7242739 |
Method and apparatus for multiphase, fast-locking clock and data recovery |
July 10, 2007 |
| A method and apparatus for clock and data recovery that is advantageous in burst-mode systems is disclosed. This clock and data recovery method allows a) fast locking to a rapidly changed phase of the transmission clock, and b) stable tracking of a slowly changing phase of the transm |
| 7242727 |
Method of determining transmit power for transmit eigenbeams in a multiple-input multiple-output |
July 10, 2007 |
| In the method according to the present invention, a transmit power for each eigenbeam in a set of eigenbeams forming at least a portion of a multiple transmit antenna system is determined based on noise associated with each eigenbeam in the set of eigenbeams. The set of eigenbeams is |
| 7242724 |
Method and apparatus for transmitting signals in a multi-antenna mobile communications system th |
July 10, 2007 |
| A method is provided for transmitting signals from a transmitter comprising two or more antennas in a mobile telecommunications network. The method involves determining channel state information, estimating the reliability of that channel state information, and space time block encod |
| 7242701 |
Laser wavelength control arrangement and method |
July 10, 2007 |
| Wavelength control and stabilization of a laser is achieved by a practical, inexpensive, and accurate technique adapted for most optical transmission system applications by a method involving a laser characterization phase and a laser wavelength control and stabilization phase. This |
| 7242691 |
Optimal load balancing across multiple switching fabrics |
July 10, 2007 |
| A system for efficiently sending cells in-order to independent switching fabrics according to a serial high speed interface (HSI) protocol. The system includes redundancy in that fabrics may be removed by deleting the fabrics from striping and reassembly sequences. When fabrics are added |
| 7242664 |
Hybrid protection using mesh restoration and 1:1 protection |
July 10, 2007 |
| A method, architecture and service of providing a multiple tiered pricing structure for providing a first service level to priority traffic where the priority traffic is protected via a 1:1 protection system, and a second service level for non-priority or extra traffic, wherein the extra |
| 7242041 |
Field-effect transistors with weakly coupled layered inorganic semiconductors |
July 10, 2007 |
| A field-effect transistor includes source, drain, and gate electrodes; a crystalline or polycrystalline layer of inorganic semiconductor; and a dielectric layer. The layer of inorganic semiconductor has an active channel portion physically extending from the source electrode to the d |
| 7240240 |
Managing process state information in an operating system environment |
July 3, 2007 |
| A technique for managing process state information involves pushing process state information from the kernel space to the user space in the event of an application crash and generating a core file at the user level instead of at the kernel level. Handling the process state informati |
| 7239879 |
Opportunistic beamforming and scheduling of users in a communication system |
July 3, 2007 |
| In a method of determining a beam to be generated for a user, a user may be selected from a user population based on a parameter that is tracked for each user in the user population, and a beam preferred by the selected user may be determined. The preferred beam may be generated and |
| 7239875 |
Establishing or releasing a radio connection between a mobile and a cell for wireless telecommun |
July 3, 2007 |
| A method is provided of establishing or releasing a radio connection between a first mobile user station and a first cell for wireless telecommunications during a call with the first mobile user station. This is both whilst the call continues and dependent upon at least one predeterm |
| 7239866 |
Spam checking for internetwork messages |
July 3, 2007 |
| This invention relates to a method and apparatus for blocking spam messages originated in a different network. An anti-spam check is made in response to an initial Send Routing Information (SRI) message received in a destination network of a message. The result of this check is sent back |
| 7239618 |
Single phase local mobility scheme for wireless access to packet-based networks |
July 3, 2007 |
| Local mobility within a subnet is supported by classifying wireless base stations, and the routers used to forward packets to those base stations, within defined domains. Domains are defined to incorporate a subnet having a plurality of base stations. Base stations are used by mobile |
| 7239617 |
Per call interactive high speed packet data activation |
July 3, 2007 |
| The method and apparatus is for providing a mobile station in a telecommunication network with capability of activating a high speed packet data session without subscribing to a high speed packet data service and selecting a higher data rate than the rate it is currently subscribing |
| 7239610 |
Methods and devices for partial upper layer frame loss detection based retransmission |
July 3, 2007 |
| The present invention is aimed at techniques for detecting the "partial loss" of an upper layer frame. One technique envisions a detection platform adapted to determine whether a packet is a final packet for a particular upper layer frame. A comparator platform then compares packets |
| 7236795 |
Controlling processor load in a wireless telecommunications network node |
June 26, 2007 |
| A wireless telecommunications network node is provided. The node includes a processor configured to handle call traffic and to record measurement data. The processor is also configured to detect processor load and to automatically adjust the rate of recordal of measurements dependent on |
| 7236791 |
Radio channel allocation for national security and emergency preparedness calls |
June 26, 2007 |
| The present invention relates to wireless telephone networks, and more particularly to the allocation of radio channels to calls in CDMA-based systems when their Radio Access Networks (RAN) are congested. A Base Station (BS) receives a call origination from a mobile device. The BS co |
| 7236789 |
Channel rate and physical channel selection in wireless communications networks |
June 26, 2007 |
| In the method for selecting a channel rate, link quality between the serving portion of the network and a mobile station is determined from at least one signal strength measurement. A channel rate is then selected based on the determined link quality. Also, a physical channel is assi |
| 7236780 |
Method for changing mobile subscriber service plan |
June 26, 2007 |
| A method for automating changes to a service plan between a mobile subscriber and a wireless service provider is provided. In one embodiment, the method creates a temporary service plan for the subscriber. This method includes: a) receiving a request to create the temporary plan, b) |
| 7236536 |
Method and apparatus for detection and decoding of signals received from a linear propagation ch |
June 26, 2007 |
| Techniques for transmitting and receiving signals using a linear propagation channel, and the detection and decoding of the signals, are described. The symbols are decoded by computing the likelihood of each bit in a block of data in light of all blocks of received complex data and t |
| 7236484 |
Methods and systems for providing wide-band voice service via a telephone switch system |
June 26, 2007 |
| Methods and systems for providing wide-band voice service via a telecommunications switch are described herein. A call can be initiated from a wide-band telecommunications device (e.g., an IP telephone) to another telecommunications device through a gateway (e.g., an IP gateway) asso |
| 7233399 |
Feedback control of an interferometer |
June 19, 2007 |
| The invention proposes a method for feedback control, in which a portion of a data signal is split and rectified and the signal intensity is detected with slow speed electronics for improving the control of a delay line interferometer (DLI) used in optical data transmission. A control |
| 7231521 |
Scheme for authentication and dynamic key exchange |
June 12, 2007 |
| A scheme for authentication, dynamic key generation and exchange provides means for authentication of mobile nodes (22) and generation of per session, per node, encryption keys for encrypting/decrypting communications between a mobile node (22) and an access point (24) in wireless lo |
| 7231106 |
Apparatus for directing an optical signal from an input fiber to an output fiber within a high i |
June 12, 2007 |
| The invention includes an apparatus for receiving an optical signal from an optical input means and directing the optical signal to one of a plurality of optical output means. The apparatus includes a solid signal propagating material having a refractive index greater than the refrac |
| 7230910 |
Optimal channel sounding system |
June 12, 2007 |
| A channel sounding system employs orthogonal sequences to meet the Cramer-Rao bound in estimating the channel and achieves considerable simplification of the structure necessary to perform the channel sounding. These advantages are achieved by developing orthogonal sequences of subst |
| 7229847 |
Forming electrical contacts to a molecular layer |
June 12, 2007 |
| The present invention provides a process for forming electrical contacts to a molecular layer in a nanoscale device, the nanoscale device, and a method of manufacturing an integrated circuit comprise such devices. The process includes coating a surface of a stamp with a metal layer and |
| 7228539 |
Method and apparatus for updating inter-server communication software |
June 5, 2007 |
| A method and apparatus for updating inter-server communication software in a network are provided. More particularly, the invention is directed to a technique for software updating of servers that reduces the unavailability of network resources due to the update process. In this rega |
| 7228504 |
Apparatus and method enabling configurable graphical display of table-based data in a web-based |
June 5, 2007 |
| Method for displaying user-configurable data in a table in a web browser application includes obtaining a copy of a table template, creating a file that defines table properties, performing a customization subroutine. The customization subroutine includes the steps of instructing a D |
| 7228486 |
Methods and devices for randomizing burst errors |
June 5, 2007 |
| Error bursts are randomized by an interleaver which makes use of "set leaders" to generate permutation indices. The permutation indices are used to route bits from initial positions in an input bit stream to re-arranged or randomized positions in an output bit stream. When the output |
| 7228259 |
Method and apparatus for structure-preserving reduced-order modeling |
June 5, 2007 |
| A processing unit of an analysis system comprises a processor coupled to a memory, and is configured to generate a structure-preserving reduced-order model of a circuit, device or system. The reduced-order model in one embodiment is generated by projection of input matrices character |
| 7228134 |
Method of minimizing reverse channel interference caused by an abnormally high number of access |
June 5, 2007 |
| When an overload condition is determined to exist at a base station in a wireless communications system based on the number of unsuccessful access attempts to access the system relative to the successful access attempts to access the system, the base station broadcasts a message to each |
| 7228037 |
Integrated polarization beam splitter with quarter-wave plate for polarimeter and PMD compensati |
June 5, 2007 |
| An optical device for changing polarization comprises a waveguide having a waveguide end facet coupled to a quarter-wave plate/reflector combination to rotate the polarization of incident light to the waveguide by 90 degrees. In one embodiment, a polarization beam splitter/rotator co |
| 7227905 |
Open-loop diversity technique for systems employing multi-transmitter antennas |
June 5, 2007 |
| A method and apparatus for increasing the capacity of a system that use four transmit antennas and that employs conventional channel coding by performing space-time coding in a particular way. Each of two pairs of symbol sub-streams is space-time coded to form a respective pair of tr |
| 7227851 |
Transport channel multiplexing system and method |
June 5, 2007 |
| A transport channel multiplexing system provides improved use of wireless resources in a shared data channel system. For example, the transport channel system reduces the amount of transport format information required for using a shared data channel, such as the actual number of pac |
| 7227479 |
Digital background calibration for time-interlaced analog-to-digital converters |
June 5, 2007 |
| The present invention provides for background calibration of a time-interleaved analog-to-digital converter (TIADC). In one embodiment, a background calibrator includes a TIADC having a parallel array of time-interleaved main signal processors, each main signal processor including an |
| 7227465 |
Security bar with fiber optic cable based security monitoring |
June 5, 2007 |
| A security bar providing improved security from breach is obtained with the use of a fiber optic cable longitudinally inserted in a hollowed out cavity thereof. Monitoring of the security bar to identify attempts at breach thereof may be achieved by connecting an optical light source to |
