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| 20080205360 | Balancing clusters of a wireless mesh network - An apparatus and method of propagating a size of a cluster within a wireless mesh network is disclosed. The method includes a gateway within the cluster maintaining information of access nodes within the cluster. The gateway determines a cluster size based on the maintained information, and transmits routing packets that include the cluster size of the gateway. An apparatus and method of balancing clusters of a wireless mesh network is also disclosed. The method includes the gateway of each cluster originating beacons, wherein the beacons include a size of the cluster of the gateway. The access nodes of each cluster, re-broadcasts beacons received from the gateway of the cluster. A connecting access node selects which cluster to connect to at least in part based on the size of each of the clusters. | 08-28-2008 |
| 20080207221 | Prequalification of potential wireless customers - An apparatus and method of pre-qualifying a potential customer of a wireless network is disclosed. The prequalification includes obtaining a location input by the potential customer, and accessing a wireless network performance database. An expected level of wireless connection performance of the potential customer is estimated based upon the location input by the potential customer, and wireless network performance stored within the network performance database. The expected level of performance is communicated to the potential customer. | 08-28-2008 |
| 20100085920 | Method of Subnet Roaming within a Network - Disclosed is an apparatus and method of client device roaming from a home subnet to a foreign subnet of a network. The method includes the client device accessing the network through a first access node of the home subnet, and the client device roaming to a second access node of the foreign subnet, the client device accessing the network through the second access node, the client device maintaining a fixed client IP address, default gateway IP address and IP subnet attachment as the client device roams from the first access node to the second access node. | 04-08-2010 |
| 20100202397 | Wireless Routing Based On Data Packet Classfication - Apparatuses and methods of using multiple radios of a wireless access node of a wireless network are disclosed. One method includes selecting a 4.9 GHz radio exclusively for public safety data packets, selecting other radios for other types of data packets, and selecting other radios for public safety data packets depending upon specification by a network operator. | 08-12-2010 |
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| 20100080163 | APPARATUS AND METHODS OF PROVIDING AND RECEIVING VENUE LEVEL TRANSMISSIONS AND SERVICES - A venue-cast system and method for providing and receiving venue level transmissions and services, including discovery of a venue specific transmission by receiving an overhead signal from a non-venue network, extracting information for receiving the venue specific transmission from the overhead signal, and tuning to receive the venue specific transmission based on the extracted information. The venue level transmission may be provided and received in a manner that does not prevent an access terminal from receiving a local area or wide area transmission. | 04-01-2010 |
| 20100195628 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TIME-DIVISION MULTIPLEXING (TDM) FOR MULTIPLE SIGNAL OFDM SIGNAL FORMATS - Methods, systems and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for operating time division multiplexing (TDM) on segments of MediaFLO superframes comprising: generating a MediaFLO OFDM waveform with at least one MediaFLO frame; allocating a MediaFLO local multiplex time segment in the at least one MediaFLO frame for non-MediaFLO data; and inserting the non-MediaFLO data into the MediaFLO local multiplex time segment. In one example, the non-MediaFLO data is a DVB-H table that is split into two time segments within the MediaFLO OFDM waveform. In another aspect, the apparatus and method for operating time division multiplexing (TDM) on alternate whole superframes of time comprising generating a MediaFLO OFDM waveform with a plurality of MediaFLO superframes; multiplexing the MediaFLO OFDM waveform with non-MediaFLO data over the plurality of MediaFLO superframes for whole superframe durations; and inserting MediaFLO data in at least one of the plurality of MediaFLO superframes. | 08-05-2010 |
| 20100260161 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR INTERLEAVING IN A FORWARD LINK ONLY SYSTEM - Methods and devices for encoding and interleaving data packets for broadcast and for de-interleaving and decoding data packets in a communication system eliminate detrimental biasing effects by using pseudo-random M-sequence bit encoding as part of the turbo encoding and decoding. The use of pseudo-random M-sequence bit encoding mitigates biasing effects that may otherwise be introduced if conventional r-c interleaving is applied to long turbo encoded data which would degrade reception in the presence of broadcast interference. | 10-14-2010 |
| 20100304699 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR POSITION SIGNAL ASSISTED WINDOW PLACEMENT - Methods and circuits for positioning a signal sampling window within a wireless receiver device for use in a multi-transmitter wireless broadcast network include generating a long channel model based upon a signal identifying transmitters that can be processed without aliases, and positioning the signal sampling window based upon the long channel model. For example, in a MediaFLO® broadcast, the long channel model may be generated by receiving positioning pilot channel (PPC) signals. Positions for the signal sampling window may be determined by identifying hypothetical signal sampling window positions, calculating signal to interference and noise ratio (SINR) values for each identified hypothetical, and selecting the hypothetical with the best SINR. Using a long channel model to position the signal sampling window may provide improved window placement, reduce destructive aliasing, and reduce a time guard in the window placement. The long channel model may be used in conjunction with terrain databases. | 12-02-2010 |
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| 20090003234 | Link quality prediction - A method and apparatus of predicting link quality of a link is disclosed. The method includes receiving multi-carrier modulated signals over a period of time, estimating an SNR for each received sub-carrier, constructing a sequence of the SNRs, and estimating link PER based upon knowledge of encoding and/or interleaving used during transmission, and the sequence of SNRs. | 01-01-2009 |
| 20090103591 | Bit confidence weighting based on levels of interference - Methods and systems of frequency hopping communication are disclosed. One method includes a receiver obtaining a frequency hopping sequence, wherein the frequency hopping sequence defines a time sequence of reception through each of a plurality of frequency hopping bands. For each of the plurality of frequency hopping bands, the receiver estimates an interference level and assigns a band weight to the frequency hopping band based on the estimated interference level. The receiver receives a signal that includes symbols occupying the plurality of frequency hopping bands according to the frequency hopping sequence, and demodulates the symbols producing a stream of estimated bit values and corresponding bit value confidence levels. The bit value confidence levels of each of the estimated bit values are adjusted according to the band weight of a corresponding frequency hopping band. | 04-23-2009 |
| 20090147830 | Synchronization band selection of a frequency hopping wireless receiver - Methods and systems of a receiver selecting a subset of plurality of frequency hopping bands for synchronization of the receiver are disclosed. One method includes the receiver determining a receive signal quality metric for each band of the plurality of frequency hopping bands, and selecting at least one synchronization band as a subset of the plurality of frequency hopping bands for synchronization based on the receive signal quality metric of each of the plurality of frequency hopping bands. | 06-11-2009 |
| 20090185599 | Adjusting a transmit time of a wireless device - Methods of adjusting a transmit time of a wireless device are disclosed. One method includes a receiver determining a frequency hopping sequence of an interfering signal. The receiver obtains an observed pattern of at least one of time and frequency overlap between the interfering signal and a signal of interest. The receiver determines a desired pattern of at least one of time and frequency overlap between the interfering signal and the signal of interest. A desired transmit time delay of the signal of interest is adjusted based on a difference between the observed pattern and the desired pattern. | 07-23-2009 |
| 20100008400 | Receiving wireless signals with multiple diversity settings - Methods and systems of receiving wireless signals are disclosed. One method includes a receiver characterizing signal quality parameters of receive signals for a plurality of receive diversity settings. The receiver selects a first receive diversity setting for synchronizing the receiver with the receive signal based on the characterized signal quality parameters. The receiver selects a second receive diversity setting for receiving data with the receive signal based on the characterized signal quality parameters. | 01-14-2010 |
