Qualcomm Incorporated

David Puig Oses

Yongbin Wei

Stein Arne Lundby

Edward George Tiedemann, Jr

Tao Chen

Peter S Gaal

Avinash Jain

Aleksandar Damnjanovic

Durga Prasad Malladi

Serge D Willenegger

Joseph P Odenwalder

Sandip Sarkar

Gang Bao

Edward G Tiedemann

Ning Bi

Harinath Garudadri

Yingyong Qi

Jack M Holtzman

Andrew P Dejaco

Suhail Jalil

Chienchung Chang

Narendranath Malayath

William Yee-Ming Huang

Aleksander Damnjanovic

Edward G Tiedeamnn

Avinash Qualcomm Incorp Jain

Peter Qualcomm Incorp Gaal

Sandip Qualcomm Incorp Sarkar

Sandip Qualcomm Incorporated Sarkar

Aleksandar Qualcomm Incorporated Damnjanovic

A method and apparatus for controlling a data rate of a transmission in a wireless communication system during handoff. Controlling the data rate includes receiving transmissions from a plurality of base stations, wherein at least one of the received transmissions includes an acknowledgement message. Then determining a rate control command included within transmissions of the base station that includes the acknowledgement message and using the command to control the data rate. Controlling the data rate also includes receiving transmissions from a plurality of base stations. Then determining a plurality of rate control commands included within the received transmissions from the plurality of base stations. The rate control commands are then combined and used to control the data rate.

Data rate control in soft handoff and during cell-switching

Method and Apparatus for Processing Shared Sub-packets in a Communication System are disclosed. A communication system providing both voice and data services allows for a plurality of subscriber station to share a data sent in a unit of a forward traffic channel. To provide information required by the subscriber stations to determine that a unit of the forward traffic channel is shared, and to correctly decode the data, different control channel structures are described. Additionally, the control channel structures provides for more efficient signaling of code channel assignment.

Method and apparatus for processing shared sub-packets in a communication system

Embodiments disclosed herein address the need in the art for reduced overhead control with the ability to adjust transmission rates as necessary. In one aspect, a first signal indicates an acknowledgement of a decoded subpacket and whether or not a rate control command is generated, and a second signal conditionally indicates the rate control command when one is generated. In another aspect, a grant may be generated concurrently with the acknowledgement. In yet another aspect, a mobile station monitors the first signal, conditionally monitors the second signal as indicated by the first signal, and may monitor a third signal comprising a grant. In yet another aspect, one or more base stations transmit one or more of the various signals. Various other aspects are also presented. These aspects have the benefit of providing the flexibility of grant-based control while utilizing lower overhead when rate control commands are used, thus increasing system utilization, increasing capacity and throughput.

Combining grant, acknowledgement, and rate control commands

Methods and apparatus are presented for improving the feedback of channel information to a serving base station, which allows a reduction in the reverse link load while allowing the base station to improve the forward link data throughput. Over a channel quality indicator channel, three subchannels are generated; the re-synch subchannel, the differential feedback subchannel, and the transition indicator subchannel. The information carried on each subchannel can be used separately or together by a base station to selectively update internal registers storing channel conditions. The channel conditions are used to determine transmission formats, power levels, and data rates of forward link transmissions.

Channel quality feedback mechanism and method

A method for scheduling packet data transmissions in a wireless communication system wherein a per-user Priority Function (PF) is calculated based on the channel condition and throughput for each user. In one embodiment, the system supports retransmission of data packets and sub-packets, wherein the retransmission information is used to schedule data transmissions. In another embodiment, at each time interval the system updates the priority factor for the user having the highest priority factor in the previous time interval. The priority factors of the other users remain unchanged.

Method and apparatus for scheduling packet data transmissions in a wireless communication system

Techniques for improved margin control in a data communication system are disclosed. In one aspect, margin is adjusted in response to a first subpacket error rate. In another aspect, margin is further adjusted in response to an overall packet error rate. In yet another aspect, the first subpacket error rate is adjusted in response to an overall packet error rate. Various other aspects are also presented. These aspects have the benefit of responsive margin control when the overall packet error rate is relatively low, resulting in improved data throughput and increased system capacity.

Margin control in a data communication system

Embodiments disclosed herein address the need in the art for an extended acknowledgment/rate control channel. In one aspect, an acknowledgment command and a rate control command are combined to form a combined command. In another aspect, the combined command is generated in accordance with a constellation of points, each point corresponding to a pair consisting of a rate control command and an acknowledgment command. In yet another aspect, the points of the constellation are designed to provide the desired probability of error for the respective command pairs. In yet another aspect, a common rate control command is transmitted along with a combined or dedicated rate control command. Various other aspects are also presented. These aspects have the benefit of reduced overhead while providing acknowledgment and rate control to single remote stations and/or groups of remote stations.

Extended acknowledgement and rate control channel

Method and apparatus for processing shared subpackets in a communication system

Embodiments disclosed herein address the need in the art for efficient management of grant, acknowledgement, and rate control channels. In one aspect, a list associated with a first station is generated or stored, the list comprising zero or more identifiers, each identifier identifying one of a plurality of second stations for sending a message to the first station. In another aspect, sets of lists for one or more first stations are generated or stored. In yet another aspect, the messages may be acknowledgements, rate control commands, or grants. In yet another aspect, messages comprising one or more identifiers in the list are generated. Various other aspects are also presented. These aspects have the benefit of reduced overhead while managing grant, acknowledgment and rate control messaging for one or more remote stations.

Grant, acknowledgement, and rate control active sets

A method and system for speech recognition combines different types of engines in order to recognize user-defined digits and control words, predefined digits and control words, and nametags. Speaker-independent engines are combined with speaker-dependent engines. A Hidden Markov Model (HMM) engine is combined with Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) engines.

System and method for hybrid voice recognition

Methods and apparatus are presented to select optimal transmission formats for transmissions to a single user or simultaneous transmissions to multiple users. Priority information and channel state information associated with each user are used to determine the optimal transmit formats. In particular, said formation is used to maximize a given revenue function that enhances system throughput while maintaining fairness among users. Once transmit formats are determined, any unallocated system resources, such as unused Walsh codes or transmission power, can be evenly or proportionately distributed among the users.

Selecting optimal transmit formats for transmissions over allocated time durations

A method and system that combines voice recognition engines and resolves any differences between the results of individual voice recognition engines. A speaker independent (SI) Hidden Markov Model (HMM) engine, a speaker independent Dynamic Time Warping (DTW-SI) engine and a speaker dependent Dynamic Time Warping (DTW-SD) engine are combined. Combining and resolving the results of these engines results in a system with better recognition accuracy and lower rejection rates than using the results of only one engine.

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