| Patent application number | Description | Published |
| 20100173640 | Single User Multiple Input Multiple Output User Equipment - In accordance with the exemplary embodiments of the invention there is at least a method, apparatus, and a computer program to perform operations including receiving information descriptive of a type of radio access which a user equipment is acting on, and in response to receiving the information descriptive of a particular type of radio access, transmitting from a multiple transmit antenna user equipment so that the transmission appears, at a receiver, to have been made by a single antenna user equipment, or by a user equipment that supports antenna switching/selection. | 07-08-2010 |
| 20100202311 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING CHANNEL STATE REPORTING - An approach is provided for optimizing the timing scheme for channel state reporting. A platform determines an offset value for each of a plurality of user equipment. The offset value relates to timing between a channel state measurement point and a corresponding point for reporting of the channel state measurement. The platform further initiates signaling of the offset values to the respective user equipment. | 08-12-2010 |
| 20100248708 | Method, Apparatus and Computer Program Product for Reducing Outage Probability for Mobile Devices - An apparatus for enabling dual mode communication may include a processor. The processor may be configured to receive ( | 09-30-2010 |
| 20110086657 | CELL SEARCH FOR FLEXIBLE SPECTRUM USE - Structure of a multi-carrier flexible spectrum wireless cell is determined from received synchronization or broadcast channels of detected individual carriers. The determined structure is used to select an intended carrier for initial access or cell reselection to the flexible spectrum wireless cell. The structure may have carriers compatible with an earlier version (LTE/Release | 04-14-2011 |
| 20110092200 | INTERFERENCE AVOIDANCE ON COMMON CHANNELS IN UNCOORDINATED NETWORK DEPLOYMENTS WITH FLEXIBLE SPECTRUM USE - A network access node selects one chunk of spectrum from a plurality of chunks of spectrum to be a primary chunk for a particular cell; transmits in the primary chunk from a broadcast channel BCH that contains information needed by a terminal to at least perform initial cell access; and uses a synchronization channel SCH to indicate which chunk of the plurality of chunks is the primary chunk. A user equipment receives a SCH in a particular chunk of spectrum; determines from it that one chunk is a primary chunk for a particular cell; tunes its receiver to a BCH in the primary chunk and uses information received on the BCH to obtain initial access to the particular cell. In various embodiments the SCH is only in the primary chunk or the SCH has some indication (e.g., cell ID or relative position of primary chunk) telling which chunk is primary. | 04-21-2011 |
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| 20080311949 | Determining a Transmission Window for Transmission Bursts of Broadcast Service - In an embodiment, a method, apparatus and system are provided for determining a transmission window for transmission bursts of broadcast service. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes a link-terminating element configured to receive a multimedia broadcast and multimedia multicast service message from a network control element. The apparatus also includes a processor configured to define a burst transmission window for the multimedia broadcast and multimedia multicast service message. The apparatus also includes a transceiver configured to transmit the multimedia broadcast and multimedia multicast service message within the burst transmission window. | 12-18-2008 |
| 20090323574 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING EFFICIENT CONTROL TRANSMISSION FOR SINGLE FREQUENCY NETWORK-BASED BROADCASTING OR MULTICASTING - A system and method for providing efficient control transmission for single frequency network-based broadcasting and/or multicasting. Various parameters that are needed to decode local single frequency network transmissions are signaled in a channel that is separate from the overlay single frequency network control channel. In various embodiments, this channel is transmitted at the level of a local single frequency network or at an individual cell level. This allows this channel to provide, at any given geographical location, the parameters that are used in the transmission of the particular local single frequency networks in that location. | 12-31-2009 |
| 20100009687 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENABLING EFFICIENT MBMS DOWNLINK RADIO RESOURCE RE-USE FOR OTHER DOWNLINK TRAFFIC - A system and method by which individual user equipment items can be informed about subframes re-used or exceptionally used for unicast transmission. In various embodiments, a dedicated indication is transmitted to each item of user equipment. This indication may comprise, for example, a dedicated message transmitted to those user equipment items that will get additional unicast downlink allocations in the re-used subframes. In other embodiments, common broadcast signaling is used to indicate subframe re-use to all items of user equipment. This signaling may be transmitted on a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) or on a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) as a common broadcast message. | 01-14-2010 |
| 20110038344 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR INITIALIZATION AND MAPPING OF REFERENCE SIGNALS IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An apparatus and method for initialization and mapping of reference signals in a communication system. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes a processor and memory including computer program code. The memory and the computer program code are configured to, with the processor, cause the apparatus to generate a reference signal employable with a plurality of physical resource blocks corresponding to a bandwidth of a communication system, and allocate resource elements of an assigned physical resource block from the plurality of physical resource blocks to a user equipment. The memory and the computer program code are further configured to, with the processor, cause the apparatus to generate a dedicated reference signal for the user equipment by allocating elements of the reference signal in accordance with allocated resource elements of the assigned physical resource block. | 02-17-2011 |
| 20110039574 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR POSITIONING A WIRELESS USER EQUIPMENT - In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, a method is disclosed that comprises receiving a reference signal from each of at least two target neighbor cells via at least one receiving branch at a user equipment; estimating a timing range based at least on one of a timing advance for a serving cell and an inter-cell distance between the target neighbor cell and the serving cell; computing a reference signal time difference for the received reference signal from the target neighbor cell; and screening the computed reference signal time difference using the estimated timing range. | 02-17-2011 |