| Patent application number | Description | Published |
| 20110013598 | PERFORMING PROCESSING WITH RESPECT TO AN OVERHEAD MESSAGE FOR A MOBILE STATION IN TUNNEL MODE - A mobile station determines whether the mobile station is receiving an overhead message in tunnel mode during a handover procedure of the mobile station from a source wireless access network to a target wireless network. The source and target wireless access networks are according to different technologies. In response to determining that the mobile station is in the tunnel mode, tunnel mode processing of the overhead message is performed. In response to determining that the mobile station is not in the tunnel mode, different processing of the overhead message is performed. | 01-20-2011 |
| 20110038308 | FORMING SPATIAL BEAMS WITHIN A CELL SEGMENT - To perform wireless communications in a wireless network, at least two spatial beams are formed within a cell segment, where the at least two spatial beams are associated with different power levels. The at least two spatial beams are swept across the cell segment according to a sweep pattern. In some implementations, multiple antenna assemblies can be used, where each antenna assembly has plural antenna elements. A lower one of the antenna assemblies can be used to form high and lower power beams, and an upper one of the antenna assemblies can be used to communicate backhaul information, for example. | 02-17-2011 |
| 20110039543 | Performance for a Multiple Antenna Beamforming Cellular Network - The present invention provides for an improved application of signal strength weightings in a SDMA sectorized cellular network. The improved signal strength weightings application is conducted through the improved selection of weightings from a new codebook subset or by the selection of weightings from a larger codebook subset. In a further embodiment, an antenna beam index or bit map can be used to select the best beam(s) in a SDMA sectorized cellular network. In another embodiment, a field or factor in an uplink or downlink transmission packet can designate which directional transmission beam is best suited for the transmission or when the directional transmission beam should be activated. | 02-17-2011 |
| 20110065448 | System and Method for Supporting Antenna Beamforming in a Cellular Network - The present invention is a method and system for supporting a beamfonming antenna system in a mobile broadband communication network with an improved beam pattern, beam sweep pattern, pilot channel design with feedback and reporting rules, and control signaling design. Specifically, the improved beam pattern includes a method of supporting wireless communications in a wireless network forming at least two spatial beams within a cell segment where the at least two spatial beams are associated with different power levels, and separately, where at least two spatial beams can be moved across the cell segment according to a unique sweep pattern. The pilot channel design improves network bandwidth performance and improve user mobility tracking. Feedback and reporting rules can be established using a particular field designator, CQI, in the preferred embodiment. | 03-17-2011 |
| 20110092243 | CONTROLLING ALLOCATION OF A PORTION OF A SHARED CHANNEL TO USE FOR CONTROL INFORMATION - To control allocation of a portion of a shared channel to use for control information, a base station determines an amount of resource elements of the shared channel to use for the control information in place of traffic data. The base station sends, to a mobile station, an indication relating to an offset parameter, where the indication is provided to allow the mobile station to compute a value for the offset parameter such that the mobile station can determine the amount of the resource elements of the shared channel to allocate for the control information. | 04-21-2011 |
| Patent application number | Description | Published |
| 20100322143 | Uplink Transmissions for Type 2 Relay - A method for providing user agent data. The method includes an access node receiving an indicator sent from a relay node as an indication that the relay node has received data from the user agent. | 12-23-2010 |
| 20100325506 | Downlink Transmissions for Type 2 Relay - A method for transmitting data to a user agent. The method includes a relay node receiving information from an access node, the information containing the data that is to be transmitted to the user agent and control information that the access node will use to transmit the data to the user agent. The method further includes the relay node transmitting the data to the user agent at the time the access node transmits the data to the user agent, the relay node using the control information that the access node uses to transmit the data to the user agent. | 12-23-2010 |
| 20110080864 | Relay Backhaul Link Quality Considerations For Mobility Procedures - A system including a processor configured to determine whether or not to perform a mobility procedure based at least in part on a backhaul link quality between a relay node and an access node. | 04-07-2011 |
| 20110081903 | Determining Link Quality For Networks Having Relays - A device configured to calculate a cell quality ranking criterion for a measured cell, wherein calculating is performed by taking into account at least a signal quality of a backhaul link between a relay node (RN) and an access node. The device may be one of a user equipment (UE), RN, an access node, and a component in a network. | 04-07-2011 |