| Motorola Mobility, Inc. Patent applications |
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| 20120136991 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR IMPROVING A BROWSING EXPERIENCE - A wireless communication device ( | 05-31-2012 |
| 20120135774 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OBTAINING OVERHEAD INFORMATION WITHIN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for obtaining overhead information by a mobile is provided herein. During operation, the mobile will be communicating with a first system on an active data channel. The mobile node will be able to measure pilot PN phase and amplitude for a second system that is a potential candidate to handoff and will have that information available. The data channel of the active service is used to query a proxy server that provides overhead information for the second base station. More particularly, when PN phase and amplitude information is provided to the proxy server, the proxy server will identify the base station and provide the overhead information needed to associate with the second base station. | 05-31-2012 |
| 20120135735 | Method of a Serving Base Station for Facilitating a Mobile Station to Perform a Fast Handoff - A method for facilitating a mobile station to perform a fast handoff in a wireless communication system allows a handoff procedure to be anticipated (by the mobile station, its serving base station, or both) based on historical information regarding prior successful handoff procedures. In operation, the serving base station monitors ( | 05-31-2012 |
| 20120131353 | PERIPHERAL AUTHENTICATION - This document describes techniques ( | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120131230 | Authenticating, Tracking, and Using a Peripheral - This document describes techniques ( | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120129564 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR POWER-AWARE DATA SYNCHORONIZATION IN WIRLESS DEVICES - Disclosed are devices and methods of a communication device including initiating an initial communication via a modem in response to a data pull communication event or a data push communication event and determining by the controller a measured network condition associated with transmitting the initial communication as well as determining by the controller the power consumption of the initial communication based on a measured network condition value processed by monitoring the modem. Methods of a communication device further include comparing the power consumption value with a predetermined power consumption value stored in the memory related to a predetermined acceptable measured network condition value for this type of communication event, and terminating by the controller, the communication when the power consumption value exceeds the predetermined power consumption value based upon the acceptable measured network condition value for this type of communication event. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120124570 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FACILITATING THE PROVIDING OF SOFTWARE UPDATES TO MOBILE DEVICES - A method and system for facilitating updating of software programming on a plurality of mobile devices are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving at a server, from the mobile devices, first information regarding usage of at least one feature at the mobile devices. The method further includes recognizing at the server that a software update is available, and determining an ordering of at least some of the mobile devices, the ordering taking into account the first information. Additionally, the method also includes sending the software update for receipt by each of the at least some mobile devices so that the software update can be implemented thereon, where the sending proceeds at least partly based upon the ordering. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120124501 | DISPLAY OF CONTROLLABLE ATTRIBUTES FOR A CONTROLLABLE ITEM BASED ON CONTEXT - In one embodiment, a method includes determining focus on a focus item associated with a controllable item. The focus item is displayed on an interface that includes a plurality of display positions. A context for the controllable item based on the focus being on the focus item and a set of controllable attributes associated with the controllable item are determined. The method dynamically determines an order of the set of controllable attributes based on the context. The context is used to prioritize the set of controllable attributes in the order. The set of controllable attributes is displayed in the order in at least a portion of the plurality of display positions. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120124500 | USE OF DISCRETE INPUT TO CONTROL CONTROLLABLE DEVICE - In one embodiment, a method includes determining focus on a focus item associated with a controllable item. The focus item is displayed on an interface used to automatically control the controllable item. A controllable attribute is determined for controlling the controllable item. The controllable attribute is controllable by a first input device using incremental inputs. The method outputs an interface control on the interface for the controllable attribute. The interface control is configured to receive a discrete value from a second input device where the second input device is configured to transmit the discrete value. The discrete value is received from the second input device and the method causes automatic control of the controllable item to adjust the controllable attribute of the controllable item from a current value to the discrete value based on receiving the discrete value. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120122472 | Positioning Reference Signal Assistance Data Signaling for Enhanced Interference Coordination in a Wireless Communication Network - A method in a wireless terminal includes receiving a measurement subframe pattern indicating a first set of subframes on which a transmission from a first base station must be processed, receiving Positioning Reference Signal (PRS) subframe pattern information corresponding to a second base station, determining a subset of the first set of subframes that overlaps with subframes in the PRS subframe pattern information, and processing a transmission received in the subset of the first set of subframes from the first base station. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120122440 | Positioning Reference Signal Assistance Data Signaling for Enhanced Interference Coordination in a Wireless Communication Network - A method in a wireless communication terminal is disclosed. The method includes receiving a first signal including a desired second signal and an interference component, wherein the interference component includes at least a third signal transmitted in an Almost Blank Subframe (ABS) by a neighbor cell, and configuring the wireless communication terminal to employ interference reduction to process the first signal based on a configuration of the interference component. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120116869 | COORDINATING ADVERTISING AMONG USER DEVICES - Disclosed are methods for coordinating advertising among at least two devices currently being used by the same user. A server receives information about what advertising is sent to a first user device. Based on that information, the server creates a “context directive” that specifies how to appropriately direct advertising to a second user device. The context directive is sent to a device that manages an advertising campaign for the second device. The context directive can be based on advertising policy rules set by campaign managers for the first and second user devices. The policy rules may be based on demographic information associated with the user of the second device. In some embodiments, a server collects information on advertisements sent to the various user devices, correlates that information, and produces a report. Advertising managers use this report to gauge the effectiveness of their campaigns across devices. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120116560 | Apparatus and Method for Generating an Output Audio Data Signal - An apparatus receives an input encoded audio data signal comprising a base layer and at least one enhancement layer. A reference unit ( | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120115527 | Configuring Unscheduled Periods to Enable Interference Reduction in Heterogeneous Networks - A mobile station in a wireless communication network is disclosed. The mobile station includes a transceiver coupled to a processor configured to rank a plurality of detected cells according to a signal level metric of the plurality of cells, to determine a first pattern of time periods during which a highest ranked cell is configured to transmit only a restricted set of information, and to perform measurements of cells other than the highest ranked cell, of the plurality of cells, only during the first pattern of time periods. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120115485 | Idle State Interference Mitigation in Wireless Communication Network - A method in a mobile station for ranking cells in order to perform reselection from a serving cell to a second cell is disclosed. The method includes detecting a second cell that the mobile station is not allowed to access, determining resources used for transmission of a signal of the second cell, and applying a reselection bias if the resources used for transmission of the signal of the second cell do not substantially overlap resources used for transmission of a signal of the serving cell. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120113961 | Interference Measurements in Enhanced Inter-Cell Interference Coordination Capable Wireless Terminals - A wireless communication terminal is disclosed. The terminal includes a transceiver coupled to a processor configured to estimate a signal power associated with a second transmission from a second base station, wherein the second transmission is part of a signal received at the terminal wherein the signal includes a first transmission from a first base station and the second transmission from the second base station. The processor is also configured to estimate a Receive Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) of the received signal, and to subtract the signal power associated with the second transmission from the estimated RSSI to obtain a modified RSSI. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120113927 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INTERLEAVING SEQUENCE ELEMENTS OF AN OFDMA SYNCHRONIZATION CHANNEL - A method and apparatus is provided for transmitting an orthogonal frequency domain multiple access (OFDMA) signal including a synchronization channel signal transmitted including a plurality of sequence elements interleaved in time and frequency. The synchronization channel signal sequence elements enable an initial acquisition and cell search method with low computational load by providing predetermined time domain symmetry for common sequence elements in OFDMA symbol periods for OFDMA symbol timing detection and frequency error detection in an OFDMA system supporting multiple system bandwidths, both synchronized and un-synchronized systems, a large cell index and an OFDMA symbol structure with both short and long cyclic prefix length. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120113847 | Configuring Unscheduled Periods to Enable Interference Reduction in Heterogeneous Networks - A mobile station in a wireless communication network is disclosed. The mobile station includes a transceiver coupled to a processor configured to perform measurements of signals of one or more cells of a wireless communication system during a first set of subframes, to cause the transceiver to transmit a measurement report including at least the measurements of signals of the one or more cells, and to indicate that the measurements of the one or more cells were performed during the first set of subframes. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120113846 | Idle State Interference Mitigation in Wireless Communication Network - A mobile station is disclosed wherein the mobile station determines interference by assessing one or more frames in a first periodic sequence of frames relative to a reference and, in response to the assessment, monitors transmissions from a base station for paging signals during a second periodic sequence of frames, wherein the second periodic sequence of frames is offset from the first periodic sequence of frames by a predetermined amount. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120113844 | INTERFERENCE MEASUREMENTS IN ENHANCED INTER-CELL INTERFERENCE COORDINATION CAPABLE WIRELESS TERMINALS - A wireless communication terminal is disclose. The terminal includes a transceiver coupled to a processor configured to determine that a subset of a plurality of REs must be excluded from demodulation, the plurality of resource elements (REs) received in a signal from a first base station, to estimate a hypothetical block error rate (BLER) based on the signal received from the first base station by excluding the subset of the plurality of Res, and to estimate channel state information based on the hypothetical block error rate (BLER). | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120113611 | VIEWABLE SURFACE HAVING UNOTICEABLE SMUDGES | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120112930 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING A DEVICE - A method and apparatus for controlling a device is provided herein. During operation, a user's headset is tapped upon in order to control a device. More particularly, a user's headset (or the device itself) uses circuitry that allows the headset or the device to detect user taps (for example on either earpiece of the connected 3.5 mm jack stereo headset, or the housing of the headset). The taps serve as user inputs to control the device. Because a user can control a device simply by tapping upon a headset, the device can be accessed without necessitating the need to wake the device to access control functions (e.g., music control functions). | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120108233 | Hand-Held Communication Device with Auxiliary Input Apparatus and Method - A hand-held communication device, such as a cellular telephone or a personal digital assistant (PDA), comprises a sensor assembly and an auxiliary input interface. The auxiliary input interface is situated along one or more exterior surfaces of the device and is electrically coupled to processing circuitry within the device. The sensor assembly is removably attached to the one or more exterior surfaces of device and provides signals at the multiple outputs in response to tactile inputs from the user. In one embodiment, an assignment procedure assigns tactile inputs from the user to predefined functions of the device and/or one or more software applications installed in the device. During subsequent operation of the device, each of the specific tactile input executes one or more predefined functions. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120102495 | RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IN A MULTI-OPERATING ENVIRONMENT - A method for providing user access to telephony operations in a multi operating environment having memory resources nearly depleted that include determining whether a predetermined first memory threshold of a computing environment has been reached and displaying a user interface corresponding to memory usage; and determining whether a predetermined second memory threshold, greater than the first, of the computing environment has been reached. Restricting computing functionality and allowing user access for telephony operations, corresponding to a mobile device, when the second memory threshold is reached is included as well. Also included is maintaining the computing restriction until the memory usage returns below the second memory threshold. | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120099751 | ATTACHABLE EXTERNAL ACOUSTIC CHAMBERS FOR A MOBILE DEVICE - A wireless mobile electronic device includes a first housing and a first acoustic chamber disposed within the first housing. A sound generator, within said first housing, is acoustically coupled to the first acoustic chamber. Additionally, a first acoustic port defines an opening into the first acoustic chamber. The acoustic port includes a first mating structure configured for mating with a second mating structure of a second acoustic chamber, exclusive of said first housing. | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120095758 | AUDIO SIGNAL BANDWIDTH EXTENSION IN CELP-BASED SPEECH CODER - A method for decoding an audio signal in a decoder having a CELP-based decoder element including a fixed codebook component, at least one pitch period value, and a first decoder output, wherein a bandwidth of the audio signal extends beyond a bandwidth of the CELP-based decoder element. The method includes obtaining an up-sampled fixed codebook signal by up-sampling the fixed codebook component to a higher sample rate, obtaining an up-sampled excitation signal based on the up-sampled fixed codebook signal and an up-sampled pitch period value, and obtaining a composite output signal based on the up-sampled excitation signal and an output signal of the CELP-based decoder element, wherein the composite output signal includes a bandwidth portion that extends beyond a bandwidth of the CELP-based decoder element. | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120095757 | AUDIO SIGNAL BANDWIDTH EXTENSION IN CELP-BASED SPEECH CODER - A method for decoding an audio signal having a bandwidth that extends beyond a bandwidth of a CELP excitation signal in an audio decoder including a CELP-based decoder element. The method includes obtaining a second excitation signal having an audio bandwidth extending beyond the audio bandwidth of the CELP excitation signal, obtaining a set of signals by filtering the second excitation signal with a set of bandpass filters, scaling the set of signals using a set of energy-based parameters, and obtaining a composite output signal by combining the scaled set of signals with a signal based on the audio signal decoded by the CELP-based decoder element. | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120092266 | Method and Apparatus for Providing a Navigation Path on a Touch Display of a Portable Device - The application discloses a method and apparatus for providing a navigation path at a portable device. The method includes receiving a continuous sequence of touch inputs at the touch display. The touch display includes at least a source location and a destination location. The method then includes determining the source location based on a first touch input of the continuous sequence of touch inputs, and determining the destination location based on a second touch input of the continuous sequence of touch inputs. The method further includes mapping the continuous sequence of touch inputs between the source location and the destination location with corresponding path coordinates, and displaying the navigation path, at the touch display, between the source location and the destination location based on the corresponding path coordinates. | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120090019 | Digital-Rights Management - A method and apparatus for digital-rights management is provided herein. Various forms of authorization are allowed, with each form of authorization being dependent upon an action taken on the digital content. In particular, when server-based authorization is unavailable, less-risky operations are allowed by performing an internal authorization scheme. Thus, higher security offered by a server-based DRM is required for risky actions, yet non-risky actions on the digital content may still be taken when the server is unavailable. | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120088455 | INTER-MODULATION DISTORTION REDUCTION IN MULTI-MODE WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A method in a multimode wireless communication device that communicates using a first radio access technology in a first mode and using a second radio access technology in a second mode is disclosed. The device determines a state of the first radio access technology, indicates to the second radio access technology a state of the first radio access technology, and adjusts a maximum transmit power limit associated with either the first radio access technology or the second radio access technology based on the state of the first radio access technology. | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120087424 | Uplink Precoding For Retransmission Without Explicit Precoding Instruction - A method in a wireless communication device includes receiving precoding matrix information including first and second precoding submatrices, transmitting a first transport block from a first set of at least two antennas according to the first precoding submatrix and a second transport block from a second set of at least two antennas according to the second precoding submatrix, receiving a retransmission request for the second transport block, and retransmitting the second transport block according to a retransmission precoding matrix from at least one of the first set of antennas and at least one of the second set of antennas. | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120087396 | METHOD AND APPARATUS IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - An apparatus and a method therein include selecting a size of a soft buffer memory partition per component carrier in a Carrier Aggregation scenario. The method supports multiple carriers to select a size of a soft buffer memory partition, the partition associated with receiving data on at least one component carrier, the multi-carrier system comprising at least two component carriers, each component carrier is associated with a configured bandwidth, the apparatus comprising the processor configured to select a size of a soft buffer memory partition for the first component carrier based at least in part on a first total number of soft channel bits, a first number associated with hybrid automatic retransmit request processes, and the configured bandwidth of the first component carrier. | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120087327 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING DOWNLINK ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AND TRANSMIT INDICATORS IN AN ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A communication system provides downlink acknowledgments corresponding to uplink transmission using hybrid automatic repeat request to multiple users in an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing communication system, wherein a frequency bandwidth comprises multiple frequency sub-carriers, by spreading each acknowledgment of multiple acknowledgments with a selected spreading sequence of multiple spreading sequences to produce multiple spread acknowledgments, wherein each acknowledgment is intended for a different user of the multiple users, and distributing the multiple spread acknowledgments across the multiple frequency sub-carriers. | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120079359 | MULTI-LAYER CYCLIC REDUNDANCY CHECK CODE IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A communication device is disclosed. The device is configured to generate a first block of first cyclic redundancy check (CRC) parity bits on a transport block wherein the first block of CRC parity bits is based on a first generator polynomial, to attach the first block of CRC parity bits to the transport block and to segment the transport block into multiple code blocks. The processor is also configured to generate a second block of CRC parity bits on each code block wherein each of the second blocks of CRC parity bits is based on a second generator polynomial that is different than the first generator polynomial. The first and second generator polynomials have a common degree. A second block of CRC parity bits is attached to each code block, and the code blocks are concatenated after channel encoding. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120079100 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Embodiments of methods of evaluating a wireless communication device using a computing system are provided. The embodiments include establishing a data connection between the wireless communication device and the computing system, and receiving device-specific information associated with the wireless communication device. The device-specific information includes at least one identifier associated with the wireless communication device. The device-specific information is provided to a server over a network, and additional device-specific information associated with evaluating the wireless communication device is received in response to providing the device-specific information to the server. Finally, in response to receiving the additional device-specific information, diagnostic-related information and a representation of the additional device-specific information are displayed on the computing system. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120079062 | SELECTIVELY RECEIVING MEDIA CONTENT - Disclosed are methods that associate “importance” information with chunks of a media presentation. An end-user device or server uses this information to intelligently manage resources when downloading or rendering the media presentation. Many different types of importance information are used. An editor can tag a chunk as important based on the content of the chunk or may give the chunk a rating, or importance can be inferred from download statistics. In some embodiments, the end-user device determines the importance of a chunk based on observations of the behavior of the device's user. The end-user device can send its locally gathered behavioral observations to a server to enhance that server's demographic information. The server can observe its own download behavior to infer importance. The end-user device may choose to either not download, or to download at a low resolution, those chunks deemed to be unimportant, thus saving bandwidth and battery power. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120079059 | SELECTIVELY RECEIVING MEDIA CONTENT - Disclosed are methods that associate “importance” information with chunks of a media presentation. An end-user device or server uses this information to intelligently manage resources when downloading or rendering the media presentation. Many different types of importance information are used. An editor can tag a chunk as important based on the content of the chunk or may give the chunk a rating, or importance can be inferred from download statistics. In some embodiments, the end-user device determines the importance of a chunk based on observations of the behavior of the device's user. The end-user device can send its locally gathered behavioral observations to a server to enhance that server's demographic information. The server can observe its own download behavior to infer importance. The end-user device may choose to either not download, or to download at a low resolution, those chunks deemed to be unimportant, thus saving bandwidth and battery power. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120079058 | CONTEXTUALLY RELEVANT MEDIA BUNDLE - Disclosed are methods for associating contextual information with a “media bundle.” A user is alerted to the existence of the media bundle when his current context corresponds in a pre-defined way to the context associated with the bundle. Upon being alerted, the user can choose to download and review the contents of the media bundle. In general, the contextual information personalizes the context to an individual or set of individuals and ties the bundle to a matter of particular interest to the individual. In some embodiments, “context triggers” are downloaded to a user's personal device. Each of these triggers specifies the context of a particular media bundle. The user device monitors its current context and alerts the user when the user's current context corresponds to that of one of the context triggers. Some embodiments allow the user, after reviewing the media bundle, to create and upload a response. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120079000 | SELECTIVELY RECEIVING MEDIA CONTENT - Disclosed are methods for associating size information with each chunk of a media presentation. This size information is sent to an end-user device. There are many ways to characterize the size of a chunk beyond simply giving the number of bytes in the chunk. Some embodiments send an approximation of the size or a relative size. In some embodiments, a server publishes a “reference” value for a media presentation and then, for each chunk, gives the size relative to that reference value. The device decides whether or not to download the chunk. The device might decide that it is unlikely that the next chunk can be downloaded in time. Then, to avoid the possibility of a video freeze, the device could request the next chunk at a lower resolution. In some situations, the device decides to request a completely different chunk or to not request any chunk at all. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120078130 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ROBUST HEART RATE SENSING - A heart rate sensing system ( | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120078120 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ROBUST HEART RATE SENSING - A heart rate sensing system ( | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120078119 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ROBUST HEART RATE SENSING - A heart rate sensing system ( | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120078066 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ROBUST HEART RATE SENSING - A heart rate sensing system ( | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120072157 | USER COMPUTER DEVICE WITH TEMPERATURE SENSING CAPABILITIES AND METHOD OF OPERATING SAME - A user computer device is provided that comprises a temperature sensitive touchscreen having a temperature sensitive user interface comprising multiple thermal energy emitter/detector devices, such as thermocouples. The multiple thermal energy emitter/detector devices are capable both of detecting thermal energy and emitting thermal energy. The temperature sensitive user interface generates thermal patterns that may be transferred to other thermally sensitive electronic devices or that may be used to authenticate the user computer device. The user computer device also can detect and thermally communicate with a thermal energy docking station and, based on thermal recognition, activate applications displayed on the temperature sensitive touchscreen. Further, the user computer device can auto-bias a temperature of the temperature sensitive user interface in order to better assure proper operation of the temperature sensitive user interface in all operating conditions. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120072044 | USER COMPUTER DEVICE WITH TEMPERATURE SENSING CAPABILITIES AND METHOD OF OPERATING SAME - A user computer device is provided that comprises a temperature sensitive touchscreen having a temperature sensitive user interface comprising multiple thermal energy emitter/detector devices, such as thermocouples. The multiple thermal energy emitter/detector devices are capable both of detecting thermal energy and emitting thermal energy. The temperature sensitive user interface generates thermal patterns that may be transferred to other thermally sensitive electronic devices or that may be used to authenticate the user computer device. The user computer device also can detect and thermally communicate with a thermal energy docking station and, based on thermal recognition, activate applications displayed on the temperature sensitive touchscreen. Further, the user computer device can auto-bias a temperature of the temperature sensitive user interface in order to better assure proper operation of the temperature sensitive user interface in all operating conditions. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120071215 | Method and Apparatus for Controlling a Smart Phone Charger - A method for controlling a charger to charge a power source of an electronic device includes connecting the charger and the electronic device and determining whether the power source of the electronic device is to be charged. The method further includes, the electronic device, sending a first control signal to the charger to enable charging of the power source of the electronic device in response to determining that the power source is to be charged and sending a second control signal to the charger to disable charging of the power source of the electronic device in response to determining that the power source is not to be charged. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120069925 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FEEDBACK IN CLOSED LOOP TRANSMITTING - A method an apparatus is described for providing feedback for closed-loop transmitting with multiple transmit and receive antennas. The method includes a first step | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120069764 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DOWNLINK RESOURCE ALLOCATION IN AN ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A communication is provided that schedules both Distributed Virtual Resource Blocks (DVRB) and Localized Virtual Resource Blocks (LVRB) in a same frequency channel, thereby obtaining the benefits of frequency selective scheduling while minimizing the uplink feedback overhead. In one embodiment of the invention, the communication system assigns one or more downlink Physical Resource Blocks (PRBs) of multiple downlink Physical Resource Blocks (PRBs) to each user equipment (UE) given an LVRB to produce at least one reserved PRB and multiple non-reserved PRBs and assigns a part of each PRB of the multiple non-reserved PRBs to a UE given a DVRB. In another embodiment of the invention, the communication system assigns PRBs pre-reserved for localized transmission to UEs scheduled for LVRBs and assigns parts of multiple PRBs pre-reserved for distributed transmission to each UE given a DVRB. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120068952 | USER COMPUTER DEVICE WITH TEMPERATURE SENSING CAPABILITIES AND METHOD OF OPERATING SAME - A user computer device is provided that comprises a temperature sensitive touchscreen having a temperature sensitive user interface comprising multiple thermal energy emitter/detector devices, such as thermocouples. The multiple thermal energy emitter/detector devices are capable both of detecting thermal energy and emitting thermal energy. The temperature sensitive user interface generates thermal patterns that may be transferred to other thermally sensitive electronic devices or that may be used to authenticate the user computer device. The user computer device also can detect and thermally communicate with a thermal energy docking station and, based on thermal recognition, activate applications displayed on the temperature sensitive touchscreen. Further, the user computer device can auto-bias a temperature of the temperature sensitive user interface in order to better assure proper operation of the temperature sensitive user interface in all operating conditions. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120066639 | SCROLLING DEVICE COLLECTION ON AN INTERFACE - In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a selection of a set of devices. A scrolling collection is generated using the set of devices where the set of devices being available for control through an interface. The method scrolls through devices in the set of devices where the scrolling includes: determining a device in the set of devices; determining a control for the determined device; and displaying the determined device and the determined control on the interface. The determined device is controllable through the interface using the determined control while being displayed and devices in the set of devices other than the displayed determined device are not displayed on the interface. | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120065749 | Display of Devices on an Interface based on a Contextual Event - In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a signal indicating a detection of a detected event at an origination device. The signal is automatically received based on the detection by the origination device. A rule associated with the event is determined where the rule defines contextual information to determine for the event. The contextual information defined by the rule is then determined. The method then analyzes a context for devices in a set of devices to determine a group of devices in the set of devices based on the contextual information. Each device in the set of devices is classified with a context. The group of devices is sent to a destination device for automatic display of the group of devices to allow control of the group of devices from the destination device. | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120064925 | Method for an Electronic Device for Providing Group Information Associated with a Group of Contacts - There is disclosed a method of an electronic device for providing group information associated with a group of contacts. After a group name associated with a group of contacts is obtained, the electronic device allows selection of one or more contacts of the group of contacts. Distinction between contacts of the group of contacts that are recipients and contacts of the group of contacts that are not recipients is provided based on the selection of the contact(s). The electronic device displays contacts that are recipients in place of the group name at a display. | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120064863 | Method of an Electronic Device for Providing Contact or Group Information for a Contact or Group of Contacts - There is disclosed a method of an electronic device for providing group information associated with a group of contacts. After selecting a particular message type and obtaining a group name, the electronic device displays the number of contacts associated with the particular message type and the total number of contacts of the group of contacts. | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120062503 | DEVICE FOR INTEGRATING CAPACTIVE TOUCH WITH ELECTROPHORETIC DISPLAYS - A display assembly comprises a touch sensor including at least one first electrode and at least one second electrode, and an electrophoretic display (EPD). The EPD including the at least one first electrode as a drive electrode. | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120057731 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ACTIVATING A MEDIA PLAYER - A method and device for activating a media player enables efficient and convenient access to media files. The method includes determining that a wireless communication device is not operatively coupled to a network. An operative coupling of a speaker system to the wireless communication device is detected. The media player is then activated automatically in response to detecting the operative coupling of the speaker system to the wireless communication device. | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120057585 | Method and System for Link Adaptation Using Metric Feedback - A method for link adaptation at a base station using metric feedback is disclosed. The method can include the steps of communicating with a mobile station over a communication link having one or more sub-channels and during the communication, receiving from the mobile station a plurality of mutual information per coded bit metrics for a plurality of candidate modulation types per coding layer. The mutual information per coded bit metrics can be based on channel state knowledge of the sub-channels. Also, based on the received information, the operational performance of the mobile station can be predicted in view of one or more transmission parameters and performance factors and one or more of the transmission parameters, including a modulation type selected from one of the plurality of candidate modulation types per coding layer, can be selected based on a transmission condition of the communication link. | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120046906 | PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE HAVING DIRECTIONAL PROXIMITY SENSORS BASED ON DEVICE ORIENTATION - A portable electronic device having one or more proximity sensors. The portable electronic device comprises a housing, one or more signal emitters to direct source signal(s) based on the orientation of the housing, and one or more signal receivers to receive return signals corresponding to the source signal(s). The device may include multiple signal emitters and a sensor to identify an orientation of the housing. The appropriate signal emitter may be selected based on the orientation of the housing as identified by the sensor. | 02-23-2012 |
| 20120044853 | BROADCAST MESSAGING IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS - A wireless communication device includes a receiver configured to receive an emergency alert configuration message identifying which sub-message of an emergency broadcast message comprising a collection of sub-messages to be received by the wireless communication device, wherein the wireless communication device is configured to receive only the sub-message of the emergency broadcast message identified by the emergency alert configuration message. | 02-23-2012 |
| 20120044814 | UPLINK BUFFER STATUS REPORTING OF RELAY STATIONS IN WIRELESS NETWORKS - The present disclosure is directed to a method for reporting uplink buffer status of a relay station to a base station in a wireless network. The method includes monitoring an uplink buffer of the relay station communicating with the base station, where the uplink buffer comprises data to be transmitted from one or more user terminals to the base station. The method further includes sending an uplink buffer status report from the relay station to the base station, where the uplink buffer status report includes occupancy status information of the monitored uplink buffer and a number of user terminals having data queued up at the relay station to be transmitted to the base station. | 02-23-2012 |
| 20120044812 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CHANGE OF PRIMARY CELL DURING CARRIER AGGREGATION - Methods for performing change of primary cell during carrier aggregation operation are described. A mobile station (MS) receives a message to change a primary cell and to perform a random access communication with a new primary cell. Upon receiving a random access response message from the new primary cell, the MS starts transmitting a control channel to the new primary cell. In one embodiment, the MS releases the configuration of an uplink control channel and transmits uplink control information through an uplink shared channel. Upon completion of the primary cell change procedure, the MS starts transmission of an uplink control channel to the new primary cell. | 02-23-2012 |
| 20120039251 | METHOD OF CODEBOOK DESIGN AND PRECODER FEEDBACK IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - A method for two component feedback in wireless communication systems wherein a wireless communication device sends a first representation of a first matrix chosen from a first codebook, the first matrix is a N-by-N diagonal matrix with the k-th diagonal elements being σ1*exp(jπ(k−1)m/N), for k from 1 to N/2 and being σ2*exp(jπ(k−N/2−1)m/N) for k from N/2+1 to N, N is a number of antennas, m is an integer between 0 and N−1, and σ1, σ2 are complex valued scalars. The device also sends a second representation of a second N-by-R matrix chosen from a second codebook, with R being a number of spatial layers wherein the first and second representations together convey a precoder matrix as the matrix product of the first and second matrices. | 02-16-2012 |
| 20120032970 | SETTING THE WHITE BALANCE OF A VIDEO FRAME - Disclosed is a method for setting the white balance of a video frame. The frame is first divided into sub-regions. Those sub-regions determined to be possibly dominantly monochromatic are eliminated from consideration, and the white balance is set by adjusting the color gain of the frame, the adjusting based on the other sub-regions in the frame. A sub-region is determined to be possibly dominantly monochromatic if the difference between its averaged color and each of a set of neutral reference colors is greater than a threshold. If the difference between the averaged color and at least one of the neutral reference colors is less than or equal to the threshold, then the sub-region is still determined to be possibly dominantly monochromatic if that neutral reference color, along with an illuminant type of a previous frame in the video, match closely enough to an element in an ambiguous reference color list. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120008597 | CONTROLLING INTERFERENCE IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for controlling interference in a wireless communication system includes a first step of performing | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120001723 | Display of Devices on an Interface based on a Contextual Event - In one embodiment, a method includes displaying a portion of a plurality of devices in a viewing area on an interface. The portion of the plurality of devices are controllable automatically through the interface. A selection of a device in the portion of the plurality of devices is received. A first set of devices in the plurality of devices is determined that includes a similar controllable feature as the selected device. A second set of devices in the portion of the plurality of devices that does not include the similar controllable feature is also determined. The method then replaces the second set of devices with the first set of devices in the viewing area. The similar controllable feature for the selected device and the first set of devices is controllable through the interface. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20110310837 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REDUCING ROUND TRIP LATENCY AND OVERHEAD WITHIN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - During operation radio frames are divided into a plurality of subframes. Data is transmitted over the radio frames within a plurality of subframes, and having a frame duration selected from two or more possible frame durations. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110292853 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR REDUCING POWER DRAIN WHILE CAMPED ON A WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORK | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110281578 | MINIMIZING MEASUREMENTS DURING CARRIER AGGREGATION IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method in a mobile station including configuring the mobile station for carrier aggregation on at least a primary serving cell and a secondary serving cell, configuring the mobile station to perform measurements of cells operating on at least the primary carrier frequency and the secondary carrier frequency, refraining from triggering a measurement report when a neighbor cell operating on the primary carrier frequency is better than the primary serving cell only if a signal level of the primary serving cell is better than a first threshold, and triggering a measurement report when a neighbor cell operating on the secondary carrier frequency is better than the secondary serving cell only if the signal level of the primary serving cell is worse than a second threshold. | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110280191 | METHOD OF ESTABLISHING AN HRPD SIGNAL LINK | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110275374 | HANDOVER DURING CARRIER AGGREGATION OPERATION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK - Methods for performing handovers and addition of carriers during carrier aggregation operation are described. A mobile station can indicate failure to perform downlink synchronization to some but not all cells of a target eNB, in response to a handover command. The mobile station can activate carriers based on various combinations of transmission of random access preambles, reception of random access response messages and transmission of handover complete messages. A base station can activate carriers based on various combinations of reception of random access preambles, transmission of random access response messages and reception of handover complete messages. | 11-10-2011 |
| 20110274188 | METHOD AND PRECODER INFORMATION FEEDBACK IN MULTI-ANTENNA WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - A method for two component feedback in wireless communication systems is disclosed, with a wireless communication device sending a first representation of a first matrix chosen from a first codebook, wherein the first matrix has at least two columns, the wireless communication device sending a second representation of a second matrix chosen from a second codebook, and the base station obtaining a precoder from the first representation and the second representation. | 11-10-2011 |
| 20110274059 | MULTIPLEXING CONTROL AND DATA ON MULTILAYER UPLINK TRANSMISSIONS - The present disclosure relates to resource allocation in multi-layer transmissions in transmissions of user data and control information. A wireless terminal allocates resources in a multi-layer transmission for one more types of control information based on scheduling information and control allocation parameters. The multi-layer transmission includes control information and one or more user data streams that are mapped to multiple transmission layers and transmitted by the wireless terminal. | 11-10-2011 |
| 20110268104 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INITIAL ACQUISITION AND CELL SEARCH FOR AN OFDMA SYSTEM - A method and apparatus is provided for transmitting an orthogonal frequency domain multiple access (OFDMA) signal including a synchronization channel signal transmitted within a localized portion of a bandwidth of the OFDMA signal, the synchronization channel signal having predetermined time domain symmetry within the localized portion of the bandwidth and including information for providing at least partial cell identification information. The synchronization channel signal enables an initial acquisition and cell search method with low computational load which provides OFDMA symbol timing detection and frequency error detection and frame boundary detection and cell specific information detection in an OFDMA system supporting multiple system bandwidths, both synchronized and un-synchronized systems, a large cell index and an OFDMA symbol structure with both short and long cyclic prefix length. | 11-03-2011 |
| 20110268079 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INITIAL ACQUISITION AND CELL SEARCH FOR AN OFDMA SYSTEM - A method and apparatus is provided for transmitting an orthogonal frequency domain multiple access (OFDMA) signal including a synchronization channel signal transmitted within a localized portion of a bandwidth of the OFDMA signal, the synchronization channel signal having predetermined time domain symmetry within the localized portion of the bandwidth and including information for providing at least partial cell identification information. The synchronization channel signal enables an initial acquisition and cell search method with low computational load which provides OFDMA symbol timing detection and frequency error detection and frame boundary detection and cell specific information detection in an OFDMA system supporting multiple system bandwiths, both synchronized and un-synchronized systems, a large cell index and an OFDMA symbol structure with both short and long cyclic prefix length. | 11-03-2011 |
| 20110261736 | Method and Apparatus for Performing Mobility Measurements in a Communication Network - A method and apparatus for performing mobility measurement in a communication network ( | 10-27-2011 |
| 20110235539 | Adaptive Bearer Configuration for Broacast/Multicast Service - A method and apparatus for providing adaptive bearer configuration for MBMS delivery is disclosed. A first aspect of the present disclosure is a method of operating a wireless infrastructure entity ( | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110216723 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMISSION WITHIN A MULTI-CARRIER COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus are provided for indicating to a communication unit a plurality of modulation and coding schemes (MCSs) to be utilized for communication. During a first MCS is determined for first resource blocks to be sent to a first remote unit or base station, and a second MCS is determined for a second resource block to be sent to the remote unit or base station. A message is transmitted indicating the first and the second MCS and also indicating the first resource blocks and the second resource block. Finally, a first PDU is transmitted to the remote unit or base station at a first time using the first MCS and the first resource blocks and a second PDU is transmitted to the remote unit or base station at the first time using the second MCS and the second resource block. | 09-08-2011 |
| 20110212754 | Flip-Type Communication Device with a Single Output Audio Transducer - A flip-type communication device | 09-01-2011 |
| 20110211542 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INTERLEAVING SEQUENCE ELEMENTS OF AN OFDMA SYNCRHONIZATION CHANNEL - A method and apparatus is provided for transmitting an orthogonal frequency domain multiple access (OFDMA) signal including a synchronization channel signal transmitted including a plurality of sequence elements interleaved in time and frequency. The synchronization channel signal sequence elements enable an initial acquisition and cell search method with low computational load by providing predetermined time domain symmetry for common sequence elements in OFDMA symbol periods for OFDMA symbol timing detection and frequency error detection in an OFDMA system supporting multiple system bandwidths, both synchronized and un-synchronized systems, a large cell index and an OFDMA symbol structure with both short and long cyclic prefix length. | 09-01-2011 |
| 20110202866 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR A USER INTERFACE CONFIGURED TO DISPLAY EVENT INFORMATION - An embodiment of a user interface of an electronic device is configured to display user interface elements along a timeline. Each displayed user interface element is associated with an event that is characterized by one or more event attributes. The event attributes include a temporal attribute (e.g., a date and/or time). Each user interface element is relatively positioned along the timeline based on its temporal attribute, and each user interface element is displayed with a visual representation of a set of its associated event attributes. The displayed set of event attributes for a particular user interface element is determined based on a position of the user interface element along the timeline and/or a spatial zoom level at the time. The spatial zoom level and/or position along the timeline of each user interface element may be modified based on user inputs. | 08-18-2011 |
| 20110197104 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING AND DECODING DATA - A method and apparatus for selecting interleaver sizes for turbo codes is provided herein. During operation information block of size K is received. An interleaver size K′ is determined that is related to K″, where K″ from a set of sizes; wherein the set of sizes comprise K″=a | 08-11-2011 |
| 20110194401 | REFERENCE SEQUENCE CONSTRUCTION FOR FAST CELL SEARCH - A method and apparatus for fast cell search based on a chirp reference signal transmission is disclosed herein. A primary synchronization channel (P-SCH) and two secondary synchronization channels (S-SCH | 08-11-2011 |
| 20110190018 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING A DISTRIBUTED ARCHTECTURE DIGITAL WIRELESS COMMUNCIATION SYSTEM - A communication system supports H-ARQ, AMC, active set handoff, and scheduling functions in a distributed fashion by allowing a mobile station (MS) to signal control information corresponding to an enhanced reverse link transmission to Active Set base transceiver stations (BTSs) and by allowing the BTSs to perform control functions that were supported by an RNC in the prior art. The communication system allows time and SIR-based H-ARQ flush functions at the BTSs during soft handoff (SHO), provides an efficient control channel structure to support scheduling, H-ARQ, AMC functions for an enhanced reverse link, or uplink, channel in order to maximize throughput, and enables an MS in a SHO region to choose a scheduling assignment corresponding to a best TFRI out of multiple assignments it receives from multiple active set BTS. As a result, the enhanced uplink channel can be scheduled during SHO without any explicit communication between the BTSs. | 08-04-2011 |
| 20110182264 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FAST CELL SEARCH - The GCL sequence index of each cell/sector is assigned so that a difference of the indices between adjacent cells/sectors is more than N, where N≧1. During GCL index detection, the adjacent N−1 indices of an index with the largest magnitude can be deleted from handoff candidate cell indices. | 07-28-2011 |
| 20110176440 | RESTRICTIONS ON AUTONOMOUS MUTING TO ENABLE TIME DIFFERENCE OF ARRIVAL MEASUREMENTS - A mobile terminal receives a transmission from a base station including a group of Nprs consecutive subframes, where Nprs is a number of subframes constituting the group, and each subframe is capable of transmitting a positioning reference signal (PRS). The group of Nprs consecutive subframes is configured such that a transition between a subframe that does, or does not, include a PRS transmission to a subsequent subframe that does not, or does, include a PRS transmission can occur only after an even number of subframes 2*k, where k=0, 1, 2 . . . . The mobile terminal determines an estimated time of arrival of the transmission from the base station based on a portion of the transmission that includes a PRS transmission. | 07-21-2011 |
| 20110176405 | METHOD AND APPRATUS FOR RATE MATCHING WITHIN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for rate matching is described. During operation of a transmitter, multiple data streams are received and individually interleaved with a permutation of a same length K | 07-21-2011 |
| 20110165919 | RADIOTELEPHONE MODULE AND DEVICES CONTAINING SAME - A radiotelephone module ( | 07-07-2011 |
| 20110161892 | Display Interface and Method for Presenting Visual Feedback of a User Interaction - A display interface and method for presenting visual feedback of a user interaction with an image being presented via an electronic device are provided. The display interface includes a display adapted for visually presenting to the user at least a portion of an image. The display interface further includes a user input adapted for receiving a gesture including a user interaction with the electronic device. The display interface still further includes a controller. The controller is adapted for associating the gesture with a function, determining whether the associated function has reached a limit which would preclude execution of the associated function, and executing the function associated with the detected gesture. If the associated function has not reached the limit which would preclude execution of the associated function, then controller is adapted for executing the function associated with the detected gesture. If the associated function has reached the limit which would preclude execution of the associated function, then the controller is adapted for producing an image distortion proximate the user interaction. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110150362 | Method of exchanging photos with interface content provider website - A photo is received from a mobile device. The photo is stored at an intermediary server. The photo is formatted at the intermediary server for at least one content provider website. The photo is transmitted to the at least one content provider website. Another method downloads a photo. The method receives in an intermediary web server, content from a content provider website. The content includes at least a photo. The intermediary server determines if the photo is new. If the photo is new, the intermediary server determines if the photo is properly formatted for the mobile device client program and sends the content including the photo to a user device including the client program. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110138329 | Display Interface and Method for Displaying Multiple Items Arranged in a Sequence - A display interface and method for displaying multiple items arranged in a sequence are provided for presenting to the user via the display the multiple items along one of multiple paths as the user scrolls through the items. The display interface includes a display, a user input and a controller. The display is adapted for visually presenting to the user the multiple items from the group of items arranged in the sequence. The user input is adapted for receiving at least one of multiple different user gestures. The controller is adapted for comparing a received user gesture with one of a plurality of predefined gestures which are intended to signal a desire to scroll through the group of items arranged in the sequence, where as the group of items are scrolled through, a different subset of multiple items from the group of items arranged in the sequence are presented to the user via the display. If a first one of the plurality of predefined gestures is received, the multiple items from the group of items arranged in the sequence are presented to the user via the display along a first path on the display. If a second one of the plurality of predefined gestures is received, the multiple items from the group of items arranged in the sequence are presented to the user via the display along a second path on the display, which is different from the first path. | 06-09-2011 |
| 20110131321 | MOBILE COMPUTING DEVICE AND METHOD WITH INTELLIGENT PUSHING MANAGEMENT | 06-02-2011 |
| 20110111779 | INTERFERENCE REDUCTION FOR TERMINALS OPERATING IN HETEROGENEOUS WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS - A wireless communication infrastructure entity in a wireless communication system implementing an uplink control channel using a narrowband frequency resource within a wideband frequency resource. The entity includes a controller communicably coupled to the transceiver wherein the controller is configured to cause the transceiver to signal a location for an uplink control channel within the wideband frequency resource. The uplink control channel includes at least a pair of uplink control channels separated within the wideband frequency resource and accommodates simultaneous uplink transmissions by multiple user equipment communicating in the wireless communication system. | 05-12-2011 |
| 20110110251 | INTERFERENCE MITIGATION IN HETEROGENEOUS WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS - A method in a wireless terminal transceiver includes receiving a sequence of frames from a first base station, wherein each frame in the sequence contains a first set of time-frequency resources which may be used for scheduling data and a second set of time-frequency resources not used for scheduling data. The transceiver also receives a message from the first base station identifying a third set of time-frequency resources that is a subset of the first set of time-frequency resources, and estimates the channel state based on the transmission received in the third set of time-frequency resources. | 05-12-2011 |
| 20110109543 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING NAVIGATIONAL VIEWS ON A PORTABLE DEVICE - A portable device ( | 05-12-2011 |
| 20110105135 | INTERFERENCE COORDINATION IN HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS USING WIRELESS TERMINALS AS RELAYS - A method in a wireless communication device and a wireless base station related to spectral efficiency optimization via interference control and mitigation in heterogeneous networks including macro-cells and home-base stations or femto-cells, wherein a mobile station provides a path for coordinating resource utilization between two base stations to facilitate interference coordination and/or mitigation. | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110105128 | SYSTEM INFORMATION MANAGEMENT IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - A method in a wireless communication entity includes storing system information of a first base station when it is within coverage of the first base station and attached to a second base station, determining that the mobile station is no longer within the coverage of the first base station subsequent to storing the system information of the first base station, and deleting the stored system information of the first base station. | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110085588 | METHOD FOR PRECODING BASED ON ANTENNA GROUPING - A method an apparatus for performing uplink transmission in a user device with a plurality of transmit antennas, including transmitting a first data stream from a first subset of the antennas according to a first precoding vector wherein the first precoding vector may be any vector in a precoding codebook, and transmitting a second data stream from a second subset of the antennas according to a second precoding vector wherein any vector in the precoding codebook may be used for the second precoding vector when the second precoding vector is the same as the first precoding vector to within a scaling factor. | 04-14-2011 |
| 20110040881 | SIP HEADER TO INDICATE MOBILITY TRANSFER OPERATION | 02-17-2011 |
| 20110007716 | EVENT TRIGGER FOR SCHEDULING INFORMATION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS - A mobile wireless communication terminal and a method therein including a message generation entity communicably coupled to a transmitter of a wireless transceiver, the message generation entity generating a scheduling information message for transmission by the transmitter in response to a serving cell change notification message received by a receiver, wherein the scheduling information message is indicative of resources required to schedule a transmission by the mobile wireless communication terminal. | 01-13-2011 |
| 20100309891 | ALLOCATION OF CONTROL CHANNEL FOR RADIO RESOURCE ASSIGNMENT IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - A wireless communication device for receiving a frame corresponding to a transmission time interval, the frame having a control channel including at least two control channel elements and an embedded bit sequence, the location of which indicates a portion of the control channel used for radio resource assignment, wherein the portion of the control channel used for radio resource assignment may be less than the entire control channel of the frame having the embedded bit sequence, and wherein the at least two frames may use different portions of the control channel for radio resource assignment. | 12-09-2010 |
