Qualcomm Incorporated

Brian K Butler

Edward George Tiedemann, Jr

Haitao Zhang

Klein S Gilhousen

Avneesh Agrawal

Paul E Bender

Tao Chen

Roberto Padovani

Deepu John

Matthew Stuart Grob

Jeffrey Alexander Levin

Ephraim Zehavi

Baaziz Achour

Thomas Wilborn

Mohammad Jafar Mohseni

Yongbin Wei

Jun Wang

Luca Blessent

Ragulan Sinnarajah

Gilbert Christopher Sih

Leonard N Schiff

Jack K Wolf

Brian K Harms

Sanjiv Nanda

John Edward Smee

Shimman Arvind Patel

Jilei Hou

Gene Wesley Marsh

Joseph P Odenwalder

Yu-Cheun Jou

Parvathanathan Subrahmanya

Lindsay A Weaver, Jr

Roland Reinhard Rick

Franklin Peter Antonio

Keith William Saints

Qiuzhen Zou

Jafar Mohseni

Sanjay K Jha

Gwain Bayley

Richard Alan Stewart

William G Ames

Thunyachate Ekvetchavit

David W Hansquine

Sherman A Gregory

Henry David Pfister

James T Determan

Douglas Grover

Edward G Tiedemann

Ananthanarayanan Chockalingam

Marie M Bjerede

Alessandro Vanelli Coralli

Arthur S Kerns

Peter Carson

Peter S Gaal

Raghu Narayan Challa

Brian Clarke Banister

Farrokh Abrishamkar

Charles Edward Wheatley

Yu-Chuan G Lin

Peter Hans Rauber

Kenneth Robert Baker

Kenneth David Easton

Ahmed Saifuddin

Mark Roh

Nicholas K Yu

Amnon Silberger

Quaeed Motiwala

Daniel Ray Kindred

Ryan Milne

Gordon Skinner

Lindsay A Weaver

Jack Keil Wolf

Charles E Iii Wheatley

Kenneth R Baker

Thunachate Ekvetchavit

Methods, apparatus, systems and computer program products are provided for an improved media content rating system. The rating system herein disclosed is highly-granular in nature, in that, the rating system allows for ratings to be based on the number of times that portions, segments, clips of the media file are played or otherwise executed, as opposed to basing the media content rating solely on the number of times that the media file is played. In this regard, the aspects herein described may further provide for ratings of the portions, segments, clips of the media content as opposed to limiting the rating to a rating for the overall media content file.

Methods and apparatus for an enhanced media content rating system

Devices and methods are provided for the controlling access to access point (AP) base stations. In particular, described herein are techniques for the automated configuration of AP base stations for restricted access. For example, the technique may involve receiving a contact list from an access terminal (AT) associated with the AP base station and a network operator. From the received contact list, saved contacts associated with the operator may be identified. The technique may further involve retrieving identifiers for the identified contacts, and generating an allowed user list from the identifiers, which may be used to configure the AP base station for restricted access.

Method and system for restricted access configuration of access point base stations

An apparatus for providing wireless coverage to a plurality of sectors includes means for generating a reference sequence, and means for applying a time domain orthogonal sequence to the reference sequence to generate a reference signal for broadcasting over one of the sectors. An apparatus for wireless communications within a sector includes means for receiving a broadcast within a sector, the received broadcast comprising a reference signal having a time domain orthogonal sequence applied to a reference sequence, and means for recovering the reference sequence from the received broadcast.

Time orthogonalization of reference signals

A deployment and distribution model improves content delivery with a business incentive for placement of kiosks with one or more wireless access points in public locations so that portable media players (PMPs) can receive media content (e.g., audio, video, text, haptic content, etc.). In addition, coordination between subscribing users of PMPs, vendors who provide kiosks, and a network central controller of a content distribution system allow for prepositioning of video content at the kiosks through economically desirable low data rate communication links from the network (e.g., dial-up modem, DSL, etc.); coordinated queuing of downloads (e.g., partial downloads) between kiosk to PMP, peer-to-peer (P2P) downloading between PMPs, and uploads from PMP to kiosk; billing/crediting to correspond with such participation in the distribution; and changing priority/selection of prepositioning of content at kiosks to reflect a clientele profile.

Deployment and distribution model for improved content delivery system

A dynamic shared forward link channel (or 'data' channel) is used to send multicast data to a group of wireless devices, e.g., using a common long code mask for the data channel. Reference power control (PC) bits are also sent on the data channel and used for signal quality estimation. A shared forward link control channel is used to send user-specific signaling to individual wireless devices, e.g., using time division multiplexing (TDM) and a unique long code mask for each wireless device. A shared forward link indicator channel is used to send reverse link (RL) PC bits to the wireless devices, e.g., using TDM. The data channel is jointly power controlled by all wireless devices receiving the data channel. The control and indicator channels are individually power controlled by each wireless device such that the signaling and RL PC bits sent on these channels for the wireless device are reliably received.

Dynamic shared forward link channel for a wireless communication system

Methods and systems for estimating and canceling pilot interference in a wireless (e.g., CDMA) communication system. In one method, a received signal comprised of a number of signal instances, each including a pilot, is initially processed to provide data samples. Each signal instance's pilot interference may be estimated by despreading the data samples with a spreading sequence for the signal instance, channelizing the despread data to provide pilot symbols, filtering the pilot symbols to estimate the channel response of the signal instance, and multiplying the estimated channel response with the spreading sequence. The pilot interference estimates due to a plurality of interfering multipaths are accumulated to derive the total pilot interference, which is subtracted from the data samples to provide pilot-canceled data samples. These samples are then processed to derive demodulated data for each of at least one (desired) signal instance in the received signal.

Method and apparatus for canceling pilot interference in a wireless communication system

A novel and improved method and system for paging a cellular telephone or other wireless terminal using two paging channels that reduces standby mode power consumption described. In one embodiment of the invention, a minimally encoded quick paging channel is established over which short, quick page messages are transmitted during one of a set of quick paging slots. The quick page message indicates that a communications request has been received, and that the receiving communication terminals should process a highly encoded full paging channel over which more detailed, full page messages are transmitted during the next full paging slot. A terminal monitors full paging channel only after a quick page message has been received on the quick paging channel.

Dual event slotted paging

A method and system for a handoff in a broadcast communication system is disclosed. A subscriber assisted handoff is impractical in a broadcast communication system due to e.g., a high signaling load, a difficulty to synchronize the broadcast transmission. On the other hand, the small number of broadcast channels enables the subscriber station to perform the handoff autonomously. To streamline the autonomous handoff decision process, several distinct sets of pilot identifiers and rules for transitioning among the sets are defined. To fully integrate broadcast services with the services provided by the cellular telephone systems in a subscriber environment, a method for various handoff scenarios are analyzed.

Method and system for a handoff in a broadcast communication system

Techniques for canceling pilot interference in a wireless (e.g., CDMA) communication system. In one method, a received signal comprised of a number of signal instances, each including a pilot, is initially processed to provide data samples. Each signal instance's pilot interference may be estimated by despreading the data samples with a spreading sequence for the signal instance, channelizing the despread data to provide pilot symbols, filtering the pilot symbols to estimate the channel response of the signal instance, and multiplying the estimated channel response with the spreading sequence to provide the estimated pilot interference. The pilot interference estimates due to all interfering multipaths are combined to derive the total pilot interference, which is subtracted from the data samples to provide pilot-canceled data samples. These samples are then processed to derive demodulated data for each of at least one (desired) signal instance in the received signal.

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