Wi-lan Inc.

Other

Ensemble Communications, Inc.

Thales Avionics, Inc.

Proximetry, Inc.

Cisco Technology, Inc.

Harington Valve, LLC

Monument Bank of Intellectual Property, LLC

Nortel Networks Corporation

Ensemble Communication, Inc.

Yair Bourlas

Kenneth L Stanwood

Lei Wang

Srikanth Gummadi

Brian Spinar

Ron Porat

Sheldon I Gilbert

Ofer Zimmerman

Adam Edward Newham

Kirupairaj Asirvatham

Amir Serok

Robert P Gilmore

Ramon Khalona

Paul W Piggin

Aleksander Seman

Timothy Leo Gallagher

Gene Wesley Marsh

Brian David Petry

Roger B Marks

Jaroslaw Dzierzega

Eli Arviv

Frederick Wales Price

Blaine Clifford Readler

John Wiss

Jacques Behar

Stephen C Pollmann

Pranesh Sinha

Sharon Akler

Peter Graumann

Tracy Raymond Trent

Michael Sanderson

Juan York

Krzysztof Ronald Grochla

Paul William Piggin

Karle J Johnson

George Lin

Kripps Asirvatham

Doraid Y Sadiq

Maciej Zenon Borzecki

Bartlomiej Piotr Swiercz

Krzysztof Waclaw Jaskiewicz

Xiaolong Huang

Todd Robert Sutton

Wing Fai Lo

Wee Peng Goh

Lewis Neal Cohen

Charles Alfred Bergan

David Gazelle

Sina Zahedi

Darren E Smith

Penny Efraim

Sam A Liu

Siddharth R Ram

Richard Joseph Nowak

Lewis N Cohen

Gene W March

Ell Arviv

Patrick Siu

Wendy S Smith

Michael G Reeves

Gary Lee Samad, Jr

Leszek Naruszewicz

Michael N Reeves

Multiple channels are aggregated. In an example embodiment, first data is transmitted on a first channel to a wireless device, and second data is simultaneously transmitted on a second channel to the wireless device. The first data and the second data are transmitted in a coordinated manner by aggregating the first channel and the second channel. Various example channel characteristics and combinations thereof are described. Different data allocation options for aggregated channels are described. Other alternative implementations are also presented herein.

Multi-band channel aggregation

Methods and apparatus for communicating and utilizing persistent allocation of resources are described herein. A base station may allocate persistent resources to a client station, and may associate the client station or persistent resource allocation with a particular shared NACK channel. The base station may monitor the NACK channel for a NACK indicating a map error. The base station may monitor the resource allocation to implicitly determine a map error. The base station may resend one or more persistent resource allocation information elements in response to the NACK or implicit error determination. A client station having a persistent resource allocation may monitor persistent resource allocation information elements in map messages and/or may indicate failure to receive a persistent resource allocation information element in a NACK message on a shared NACK channel.

Base station configured for operation based on persistent resource allocation information

Client station configured for operation based on persistent resource allocation information

Systems and methods of pre-allocating identifiers to wireless devices for use in requesting resources over a random access channel are described. A wireless communication system includes a random access channel over which wireless devices can anonymously send requests for resources. The base stations receiving and processing the anonymous requests reduces the probability of random access channel collisions and conserves the resources needed to support the anonymous requests by pre-allocating one or more identifiers to select wireless devices. The wireless devices having the pre-allocated codes can transmit a particular code over the random access channel as a request for resources that uniquely identifies the requester.

Pre-allocated random access identifiers

Base station configured for persistent resource allocation

A method and apparatus for allocating bandwidth in a broadband wireless communication system is disclosed. One embodiment uses a self-correcting bandwidth request/grant protocol. The self-correcting bandwidth request/grant protocol utilizes a combination of incremental and aggregate bandwidth requests. CPEs primarily transmit incremental bandwidth requests to their associated base stations, followed by periodic transmissions of aggregate bandwidth requests. The use of periodic aggregate bandwidth requests (that express the current state of their respective connection queues) allows the bandwidth allocation method and apparatus to be 'self-correcting'. Another embodiment utilizes an abridged bandwidth request/grant protocol to allocate bandwidth. The abridged bandwidth request/grant protocol system utilizes padding packets to request a reduction in bandwidth allocation to a CPE. A base station modem alerts a base station CPU when the BS modem receives a padding packet from a CPE. After alerting the BS CPU the method can reduce the associated CPE's bandwidth allocation.

Method and apparatus for bandwidth request/grant protocols in a wireless communication system

A fixed content server stores electronic content for delivery to a nomadic server on a vehicle. A schedule for arrival and departure of the vehicle transporting the nomadic server at a destination location is obtained, and a destination content server is identified. An electronic package is generated to contain an identifier for the vehicle and an identifier for the destination content server. Delivery of the electronic package to the destination content server at the destination location is initiated based on the schedule for arrival of the vehicle transporting the nomadic server to the destination location so delivery of the electronic package is initiated while the vehicle is traveling to the destination location. A time is determined to upload the electronic package from the destination content server to the nomadic server of the vehicle. Quality of service that a network uses to deliver the electronic package is provisioned based thereon.

Systems and methods for distributing content using attributes

The subject matter disclosed herein provides methods and apparatus for closed loop operation of a wireless system implementing multiple input multiple output (MIMO). In one aspect, there is provided a method. The method may include receiving a payload including channel estimation information. Moreover, one or more bits of the payload may be inserted into a subset of the tiles of a slot. The slot including the subset of the tiles carrying the one or more bits of the payload may be provided as part of a closed loop MIMO-based system. Related systems, apparatus, methods, and/or articles are also described.

Closed loop MIMO harmonized feedback

An advanced technology frame structure is described herein. The advanced technology frame structure can enhance a first technology frame structure in dimensions of time, frequency, or a combination of time and frequency. A second technology frame structure time division multiplexes second technology subframes with the first technology downlink and uplink subframes. The first technology downlink subframe can be divided into a first technology downlink subframe and one or more second technology downlink subframes. Similarly, the first technology uplink subframe can be divided into a first uplink subframe and one or more second technology uplink subframes. These principles can be expanded upon and can be applied in many communication systems.

Advanced technology frame structure with backward compatibility

Growing community of inventors

San Diego, CA, United States of America

Yair Bourlas