| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 7620009 |
Wireless communication method and apparatus for reporting traffic volume measurement information |
November 17, 2009 |
| A wireless communication method and apparatus for reporting traffic volume measurement (TVM) information used to support enhanced uplink (EU) data transmissions between a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU), i.e., a mobile station, and a Node-B. After storing EU data in a buffer, the W |
| 7613157 |
Wireless communication method and apparatus for processing enhanced uplink scheduling grants |
November 3, 2009 |
| A method and apparatus for processing enhanced uplink scheduling grants are disclosed. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) detects an absolute grant (AG) and a relative grant (RG). Once the WTRU detects an AG or a RG, a new serving grant (SG) is generated and a hybrid automatic r |
| 7609632 |
Scheduling mechanism for MAC entity |
October 27, 2009 |
| A code division multiple access (CDMA) radio network controller (RNC) comprises a medium access controller-controlling/shared (MAC-c/sh) entity. The MAC-c/sh entity has a scheduling mechanism managing a forward access channel (FACH) resources. The scheduling mechanism schedules data |
| 7599707 |
Method and system for controlling transmission power of a downlink signaling channel based on en |
October 6, 2009 |
| A method and system for controlling the transmission power of at least one downlink (DL) enhanced uplink (EU) signaling channel such that enhanced dedicated channel (E-DCH) DL signaling is delivered efficiently and reliably. The system includes at least one wireless transmit/receive unit |
| 7599339 |
Method and system for transferring wireless transmit/receive unit-specific information |
October 6, 2009 |
| The present invention is related to a method and system for transferring wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU)-specific information to support enhanced uplink (EU) operation in a wireless communication system. A radio network controller (RNC) obtains WTRU-specific information, and tr |
| 7596117 |
Scheduling data transmission by medium access control (MAC) layer in a mobile network |
September 29, 2009 |
| A method for use by a MAC common channel of an RNC to select a transport format combination (TFC) whereby a candidate set of TFCs is selected, and a TFC is chosen from the set of TFCs according to selection criteria. |
| 7584397 |
Method and apparatus for dynamically adjusting data transmission parameters and controlling H-AR |
September 1, 2009 |
| In a wireless communication system including a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) which transfers data to a Node-B, data transmission parameters such as modulation and coding scheme (MCS) and transport block set (TBS) size are dynamically adjusted on a transmission time interval ( |
| 7581147 |
Radio resource control-service data unit reception |
August 25, 2009 |
| A method for receiving a segmented communication begins by periodically transmitting the segmented communication. The segmented communication is received and each segment of the segmented communication is examined to determine if the segment is valid. If the segment is valid, then the |
| 7574645 |
Wireless communication method and apparatus for detecting and decoding enhanced dedicated channe |
August 11, 2009 |
| A wireless communication method and apparatus for detecting and decoding enhanced dedicated channel (E-DCH) hybrid automatic repeat request (H-ARQ) indicator channel (E-HICH) transmissions are disclosed. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) receives E-HICH transmissions and detect |
| 7573913 |
Synchronization of timing advance and deviation |
August 11, 2009 |
| A system and method for reducing the latency from timing deviation (TD) measurement to time advance (TA) adjustment. The invention uses a deterministic procedure to coordinate time advance (TA) commands and timing deviation (TD) measurements so that failed transmissions or mobile ter |
| 7561594 |
User equipment having improved power savings during full and partial DTX modes of operation |
July 14, 2009 |
| The present invention achieves power savings by turning off all or some of the baseband processing for codes and timeslots that have not been transmitted due to full or partial DTX. With respect to partial DTX, the transmitted codes and associated timeslots and radio frames within the |
| 7555307 |
Outer loop power control for wireless communication systems |
June 30, 2009 |
| A method system and components for outer loop power control particularly useful for non-real time/real time data services uses data transmitted in many bursts of short duration, called Temp-DCH allocations. A target metric, preferably, target SIR, is adjusted with differing step up and |
| 7522557 |
TFC and E-TFC selection for a user equipment |
April 21, 2009 |
| A user equipment determines transport format combinations (TFCs) that are available for at a dedicated channel (DCH) based on at least a maximum transmit power for the user equipment. A TFC is selected from the available TFCs for the DCH. Based on a remaining power after the TFC sele |
| 7483494 |
Dynamic link adaption for time division duplex (TDD) |
January 27, 2009 |
| A UE system implements dynamic link adaptation by adding or changing control information to notify a receiver which timeslots and codes are currently active and which timeslots should be avoided. The UE provides synchronization such that the receiver knows which timeslots and codes t |
| 7460877 |
Uplink power control using received reference signal |
December 2, 2008 |
| A user equipment (UE) receives a reference signal over a physical reference channel using a reference channel receiver and obtains reference power levels from the reference signal. The interference level is obtained and a path loss is calculated in response to the reference signal. T |
| 7433337 |
Node B and RNC actions during a serving HSDPA cell change |
October 7, 2008 |
| A system and method in accordance with the present invention reduce the amount of data that is stalled in a source Node B after a serving HS-DSCH cell change in a communication system that includes a serving RNC and at least one Node B. In a first embodiment, the RNC temporarily suspends |
| 7430206 |
Wireless communication method and apparatus for detecting and correcting transmission errors |
September 30, 2008 |
| A wireless communication system is configured to monitor transmission sequence numbers (TSNs) assigned to protocol data units (PDUs) processed by the system. The system includes at least one user equipment (UE) having, a queue, and a Node B in communication with the UE. The UE determ |
| 7430185 |
System for permitting control of the purging of a node B by the serving radio network controller |
September 30, 2008 |
| A system and method which permit the RNC to control purging of data buffered in the Node B. The RNC monitors for a triggering event, which initiates the purging process. The RNC then informs the Node B of the need to purge data by transmitting a purge command, which prompts the Node |
| 7408952 |
Wireless communication method and apparatus for scheduling prioritized data for a plurality of m |
August 5, 2008 |
| A wireless communication method and apparatus for scheduling data having different priorities for a plurality of wireless transmit/receive units (WTRUs), (i.e., users) is disclosed. The normalized average active throughput for each of the WTRUs is computed. Then, the normalized chann |
| 7408904 |
Method and apparatus for reducing uplink and downlink transmission errors by supporting adaptive |
August 5, 2008 |
| A method and apparatus for supporting Adaptive Modulation and Coding (AM&C) and Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (H-ARQ) functions in a cellular system including at least one wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) and a Node B. A signal is received at the WTRU indicating a need for AM& |
| 7408902 |
Method of using a radio network controller for controlling data bit rates to maintain the qualit |
August 5, 2008 |
| A wireless communication method and system for controlling the current data bit rate of a radio link (RL) to maintain the quality of the RL. The system includes a core network (CN), a radio network controller (RNC) and at least one wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU). The RL is establi |
| 7408895 |
Method and apparatus for scheduling transmissions via an enhanced dedicated channel |
August 5, 2008 |
| A method and apparatus for scheduling transmissions via an enhanced dedicated channel (E-DCH) are disclosed. A scheduled power is calculated for scheduled data flows. A remaining transmit power is calculated for the E-DCH transmission. A rate request message is generated, wherein the |
| 7400861 |
Power control of point to multipoint physical channels |
July 15, 2008 |
| Data is transmitted over a particular channel from a transmitter to a plurality of receivers. The particular channel is received at the plurality of receivers. Each of the receivers sends power control information to the transmitter based on a measured reception quality and the recep |
| 7397790 |
Packet switched connections using dedicated channels |
July 8, 2008 |
| A temporary (temp) dedicated channel (DCH) is used to support communications. The temp-DCH channel is a channel that is assigned to a user having a set duration. After the duration expires, the channel is automatically released to the user. Embodiments of the invention relate to esta |
| 7392452 |
Medium access control-high speed |
June 24, 2008 |
| A medium access control-high speed (MAC-hs) comprises a hybrid automatic repeat request (H-ARQ) device configured to receive data blocks over a wideband-code division multiple access (W-CDMA) high speed-downlink shared channel (HS-DSCH). The H-ARQ device generates an acknowledgement |
| 7376879 |
MAC architecture in wireless communication systems supporting H-ARQ |
May 20, 2008 |
| A medium access control (MAC) architecture determines transmission latency and block error rate requirements for a plurality of data flows, each data flow having an associated priority and each data flow comprising a plurality of data blocks. The MAC architecture specifies a scheduling |
| 7313117 |
System and method for fast dynamic link adaptation |
December 25, 2007 |
| The present invention discloses a method and system for enabling efficient reduction of TFCs in the TFCS to achieve desired transmission, while remaining within desired power and data requirements. Upon the UE transmission power requirement exceeding the maximum or allowable transmis |
| 7298713 |
Method and system for reducing message instances |
November 20, 2007 |
| A method and system for transmitting data with reduced message instances is disclosed. A wireless message network uses destination identifiers and message pointers to direct message data to multiple mobile units and avoid duplication of messages. In order to provide increased efficiency |
| 7239870 |
Wireless communication method and apparatus with reconfigurable architecture for supporting an e |
July 3, 2007 |
| A method and apparatus for supporting an enhanced uplink soft handover (EU-SHO) operation for a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU). The apparatus may be a multi-cell wireless communication system including at least two EU-SHO Node-Bs and a radio network controller (RNC). The RNC i |
| 7218949 |
Outer loop power control for wireless communication systems |
May 15, 2007 |
| A method system and components for outer loop power control particularly useful for non-real time/real time data services uses data transmitted in many bursts of short duration, called Temp-DCH allocations. A target metric, preferably, target SIR, is adjusted with differing step up and |
| 7215655 |
Transport format combination selection in a wireless transmit/receive unit |
May 8, 2007 |
| A method for selecting a transport format combination (TFC) in a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) is disclosed. The WTRU is configured to process more than one coded composite transport channel (CCTrCH) for uplink transmission. The WTRU estimates a transmit power for each of a p |
| 7212824 |
Channel switching for support of multimedia broadcast and multicast services |
May 1, 2007 |
| The present invention includes a radio access network and a method for sending a multimedia broadcasts/multicast services (MBMS) using channel switching. The channel switching is between dedicated and shared/common channels. The invention also includes MBMS reception scheduling for use |
| 7209711 |
Dynamic channel quality measurement procedures for optimizing data transmission in a wireless di |
April 24, 2007 |
| Data transmission is optimized in a wireless digital communication system including a base station and a plurality of user equipment mobile terminals (UEs). Adaptive modulation and coding (AM&C) is employed to achieve improved radio resource utilization and provide optimum data rates |
| 7206581 |
Method and apparatus for processing data blocks during soft handover |
April 17, 2007 |
| A method and apparatus for processing data blocks during soft handover. The apparatus may be a wireless communication system including at least two enhanced uplink soft handover (EU-SHO) Node-Bs and a radio network controller (RNC). Each Node-B decodes a received data block and forwards |
| 7197323 |
Wireless communication method and system for coordinating paging occasions on a common paging ch |
March 27, 2007 |
| A method of paging a plurality of users by synchronizing user equipment (UE) specific paging and Point-to-Multipoint (PtM) user group paging to reduce power consumption when the UE is in a discontinuous reception state. The UE identities are defined such that paging occasions and com |
| 7181176 |
Closed loop transmit diversity of point to multipoint physical channels |
February 20, 2007 |
| Data is to be transmitted from one transmitting point to multiple reception points in a wireless communication system. A transmitting antenna array has multiple antenna elements at the one transmitting point. Channel information is measured for each antenna element at each reception |
| 7180885 |
Receiving point-to-point and point-to-point multipoint multimedia broadcasts/multicast services |
February 20, 2007 |
| Receiving multimedia broadcasts/multicast services (MBMS) by a user equipment (UE) comprises when an MBMS service is transmitted as a point-to-point transmission, receiving information associated with the point-to-point transmission of a point-to-point MBMS service. Point-to-point MB |
| 7177290 |
Transport format combination selection in a wireless transmit/receive unit |
February 13, 2007 |
| A method for selecting a transport format combination (TFC) in a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) is disclosed. The WTRU is configured to process more than one coded composite transport channel (CCTrCH) for uplink transmission. The WTRU estimates a transmit power for each of a p |
| 7171163 |
Dynamic channel quality measurement procedure implemented in a wireless digital communication sy |
January 30, 2007 |
| A wireless digital communication system includes a base station in communication with a plurality of user equipment mobile terminals (UEs). The system prioritizes the forwarding of blocks of downlink data to designated ones of the UEs. The system employs adaptive modulation and codin |
| 7127256 |
Dynamic channel quality measurement procedure implemented by user equipment for adaptive modulat |
October 24, 2006 |
| A wireless digital communication method for a plurality of user equipment mobile terminals (UEs) to communicate with a base station. Adaptive modulation and coding (AM&C) is used to achieve improved radio resource utilization and provide optimum data rates for user services. Blocks of |
| 7095724 |
System and method for using unused arbitrary bits in the data field of a special burst |
August 22, 2006 |
| A system and method for reducing the unused capacity of a wireless communication channel utilize the data fields of an special burst (SB) in order to signal physical layer control signaling for coordination between a Node B and a user equipment (UE). The control signaling may include |
| 7092371 |
System and method for fast dynamic link adaptation |
August 15, 2006 |
| The present invention discloses a method and system for enabling efficient reduction of TFCs in the TFCS to achieve desired transmission, while remaining within desired power and data requirements. Upon the UE transmission power requirement exceeding the maximum or allowable transmis |
| 7068626 |
Method of using a mobile unit to autonomously determine a serving cell |
June 27, 2006 |
| A time division duplex method for determining whether to initiate handover of a mobile unit from a serving base station to a target base station, the method comprises receiving the broadcast channel from the serving base station (BCH.sub.ser); calculating the serving base station receive |
| 7068618 |
Dynamic link adaption for time division duplex (TDD) |
June 27, 2006 |
| A TTD system implements dynamic link adaptation by adding or changing control information to notify the receiver which timeslots and codes are currently active and which timeslots should be avoided. The system synchronizes the transmitter and the receiver such that the receiver knows |
| 7058032 |
Scheduling data transmission by medium access control (MAC) layer in a mobile network |
June 6, 2006 |
| A method and strategy for transport format combination (TFC) selection and related algorithms in wireless communications. The method provides procedures used by the MAC layer in both the UE and the RNC to schedule data transmission. In the inventive method, each time the maximum tran |
| 7046648 |
Wireless communication method and apparatus for coordinating Node-B's and supporting enhanced up |
May 16, 2006 |
| A wireless communication method and apparatus for coordinating Node-Bs during handover for enhanced uplink (EU) transmission. In one embodiment, a radio network controller (RNC) initiates an inter-Node-B soft handover. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) establishes communication |
| 7039030 |
Wireless communication system with selectively sized data transport blocks |
May 2, 2006 |
| A wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU) for a code division multiple access (CDMA) telecommunication system utilizes a plurality of protocol layers including a physical layer and a medium access control (MAC) layer such that the MAC layer provides data to the physical layer via plurality |
| 7023835 |
Synchronization of timing advance and deviation |
April 4, 2006 |
| A system and method for reducing the latency from timing deviation (TD) measurement to time advance (TA) adjustment. The invention uses a deterministic procedure to coordinate time advance (TA) commands and timing deviation (TD) measurements so that failed transmissions or mobile ter |
| 7020151 |
Flow control of a spread spectrum multiuser channel |
March 28, 2006 |
| Packet data from multiple types of data sources is stored. The data sources have reroutable and non-reroutable data. The multiple types of data sources flow into a multiuser channel in a wireless spread spectrum code division multiple access communication system. A queue for incoming |
| 7006481 |
System and method for integrating WLAN and 3G |
February 28, 2006 |
| A method and system for providing ubiquitous coverage and seamless connectivity for devices which support Internet access via third generation (3G) cellular and IEEE 802.11 wideband local area network (WLAN) technologies, irrespective of which radio access technology is available. |
