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7327998 System and method of providing a geographic view of nodes in a wireless network  
A geographic view rendering tool receives geographic location data for nodes in a wireless network and renders a geographic view displaying the nodes at their corresponding geographic locations. Th...
7315162 Reducing power consumption of electrical meters  
The invention contemplates an electrical power meter and method of operating the electrical power meter. The inventive power meter includes a power supply for converting alternating current (AC) vo...
7312721 Data collector for an automated meter reading system  
The invention includes an electronic utility meter, a data collector/meter and a method for communicating data in an automated meter reading system. The inventive method includes communicating data...
7308370 Using a fixed network wireless data collection system to improve utility responsiveness to power outages  
A system for determining service outages and restorations includes an outage management server (OMS) that generates reports of outages and restoration information for metering endpoints. The outage...
7308369 Ensuring automatic season change demand resets in a mesh type network of telemetry devices  
Methods and systems of enforcing a season change demand reset in a meter that communicates via a wireless network. When billing data is received by a server, it is accompanied by a season change de...
7301476 Dynamic self-configuring metering network  
A dynamic self-configuring system for collecting metering data comprises a collector meter. The collector meter scans for meters that are operable to directly communicate with the collector and reg...
7262709 System and method for efficient configuration in a fixed network automated meter reading system  
Meters are configured using either a program update method or a meter update method. In the program update method, meters associated with a specified configuration program are identified and config...
RE39735 Cellular communication system, and mobile and base stations used in the same  
When a mobile station becomes a soft handover state, a reception quality monitor 104 measures reception quality of a pilot signal from each base station. Base station specifying means 105 gener...
7242938 Mobile assisted handoff system and method  
A system and method for improved mobile assisted handoff in a digital cellular communication system that gives the mobile station the ability to synchronize to candidate base station transmissions ...
7239250 System and method for improved transmission of meter data  
The system includes a number of first meters, which are typically battery powered transmit only devices. The system includes a number of two-way meters, which are operable to both transmit and rece...
7233587 Method and system for encapsulating time division multiplex data into individual packets of a packet based network  
A method of encapsulating TDM data into individual data packets for transmission across a packet network includes delineating the TDM data into one or more signaling multiframes, wherein each signa...
7227350 Bias technique for electric utility meter  
The invention contemplates an electrical power meter and method of operating the same, where the meter has electronic components (e.g., a power supply and a voltage sensing circuit) and receives al...
7187906 Method and system for configurable qualification and registration in a fixed network automated meter reading system  
A dynamic self-configuring system for collecting metering data comprises a collector meter. The collector meter scans for meters that are operable to directly communicate with the collector and reg...
7176807 System for automatically enforcing a demand reset in a fixed network of electricity meters  
Methods and systems of enforcing a demand reset in a meter that communicates via a wireless network. When billing data is received by a server, it is accompanied by a demand reset counter. The coun...
7170425 System and method for creating multiple operating territories within a meter reading system  
The present invention enables multiple operating territories to be defined, named, and managed within a meter reading system. Each operating territory may correspond to a geographic sub-section of ...
7145474 Dynamic self-configuring metering network  
A dynamic self-configuring system for collecting metering data comprises a collector meter. The collector meter scans for meters that are operable to directly communicate with the collector and reg...
7142106 System and method of visualizing network layout and performance characteristics in a wireless network  
A system for visually detailing the layout of a wireless network and for providing performance statistics regarding the network. Graphical diagrams are generated in accordance with a request wherei...
7126494 Remote access to electronic meters using a TCP/IP protocol suite  
An electronic meter incorporates a TCP/IP protocol suite and an HTTP server to provide two-way access to the meter data. Alternatively, the TCP/IP protocol suite may be incorporated into a gateway ...
7119713 Dynamic self-configuring metering network  
A dynamic self-configuring system for collecting metering data comprises a collector meter. The collector meter scans for meters that are operable to directly communicate with the collector and reg...
7046682 Network-enabled, extensible metering system  
To allow meter data users to have access to needed information and at the same time address the rapidly shifting requirements of the deregulated marketplace, a new business model, apparatus and sys...
7043243 Mobile assisted handoff system and method  
A system and method for improved mobile assisted handoff in a digital cellular communication system that gives the mobile station the ability to synchronize to candidate base station transmissions ...
6950423 Packet transmission method, packet transmission device, radio frame transmission method, mobile communication method, mobile communication system, and exchange  
When packet sending and receiving apparatus 21 sets a connection, timing control apparatus 22 generates a timing information Tf as the packet is dispersed equivalently. Timing control apparatus...
6867707 Automated on-site meter registration confirmation using a portable, wireless computing device  
The invention is directed to a method and system for verifying an installation of an meter, for example, an electric power meter. The inventive method includes identifying the electric power meter ...
6839333 TDMA-TDD/FDD radio communication system and channel selection method and apparatus for such a system  
A TDMA radio communication system combines time and frequency division duplex. It includes a first base station transmitting in first downlink frames on a first carrier frequency in a first frequen...
6795419 Wireless telecommunications system using multislot channel allocation for multimedia broadcast/multicast service  
A method is disclosed for operating a wireless telecommunication system for providing a Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service MBMS broadcast transmission from a network operator ( 10 ) to a mobile...
6700902 Method and system for improving wireless data packet delivery  
A system and method for improving the delivery of data between a first signal transmitter/receiver device and a second signal transmitter/receiver device. Data is dynamically sized into at least on...
6694138 Mobile assisted handoff system and method  
A system and method for improved mobile assisted handoff in a digital cellular communication system that gives the mobile station the ability to synchronize to candidate base station transmissions ...
6618364 Frame offset setting arrangement and frame offset setting method  
In a frame offset setting arrangement which is arranged in a base station of a code division multiple access system for setting frame offset values in mobile units by informing the frame offset val...
6466555 Mobile radio communications system  
A mobile radio communications system having a plurality of base stations accommodating a plurality of mobile stations through radio transmission channels, each of the base stations being connected ...
6359876 CDMA cellular communication system using frame offset distribution of all base stations to avoid traffic peak  
In a CDMA communication system, wherein mobile stations transmit frames at timing offset from each other according to a frame offset value, a base station controller determines a distribution of fr...
6333973 Integrated message center  
An integrated message center operates on telecommunications equipment, having a display and a processor, to consolidate messages of different types for viewing and manipulation by a user. The telec...
6333923 Mobile radio communications system  
A mobile radio communications system having a plurality of base stations accommodating a plurality of mobile stations through radio transmission channels, each of the base stations being connected ...
6188903 Method and apparatus for frequency reuse in cellular communication systems  
A time sharing method and apparatus for frequency reuse in cellular communication systems. Frequency reuse is enhanced by synchronizing cell transmit/receive base stations in a cellular system to a...
6167036 Method and apparatus for a sectored cell of a cellular radio communications system  
A nine-sectored cell (20) of a cellular radio communications system has three base transceiver stations (BTSs) colocated at its cell site (26). Each BTS is substantially independently coupled to a ...
6108549 Method and apparatus for passing network device operations between network devices  
A method and apparatus for passing network device operations between a source and a target network device which are associated with a mobile communication unit in a radio communication system is pr...
6108322 Method of enabling handoff  
A method improves the decoding rate and reliability of adjacent cell base stations by expediting the decode process if the signal quality of a traffic channel is within a predetermined range. In pa...
6101177 Cell extension in a cellular telephone system  
In a cellular telephone system of the type having TDMA channels, the beginnings of the time slots of an uplink transmission as seen in the base station are offset from the beginnings of the time sl...
6091936 Method and apparatus for reducing co-channel interference  
The amount of co-channel interference which occurs for any given time slot in a cellular communication system can be reduced by distributing or averaging out the co-channel interference to other ti...
6044272 Mobile assisted handoff system and method  
A system and method for improved mobile assisted handoff in a digital cellular communication system that gives the mobile station the ability to synchronize to candidate base station transmissions ...
6038455 Reverse channel reuse scheme in a time shared cellular communication system  
A time sharing method and apparatus for frequency reuse in cellular communication systems. Frequency reuse is enhanced by synchronizing cell transmit/receive base stations in a cellular system to a...
5999818 Frequency re-used and time-shared cellular communication system having multiple radio communication systems  
A method and apparatus for multiplexing time-shared base stations between a plurality of radio communication systems in a cellular communication system. Each radio communication system in the cellu...
5959981 Method and apparatus for transmitting information in a communication network  
In a communication system where frame boundaries for the discrete frames for different users may be offset relative to one another, assignment of a remote unit (125) to a particular frame offset oc...
5901144 Mobile radio communications system  
A mobile radio communications system having a plurality of base stations accommodating a plurality of mobile stations through radio transmission channels, each of the base stations being connected ...
EP0884920A1 Method of transmitting logical broadcast control channels by a base station of adigital cellular communication system  
The transmitted control logical channels are multiplexed together, and eventually with other logical channels, such that the common logical control channels and the independent dedicated logical co...
5850433 System and method for providing an on-line directory service  
An on-line directory service includes a server associated with a database containing a plurality of directory listings including advertising information. A customer subscribing to the on-line direc...
5822314 Communications system and method of operation  
A method of operation of a communications system, having first (10) and second communications units (12) communicating frame divided information via a relay device (11). The second communications u...
5784362 Temporary frame identification for ARQ in a reservation-slotted-ALOHA type of protocol  
Automatic repeat request (ARQ) functionality in a cellular mobile packet data communication system using a reservation slotted-ALOHA protocol is provided by assigning a temporary frame identity (TF...
5774790 Sectorized cellular mobile radio system with sector signalling and control in predetermined time slots  
A cellular mobile radio system comprises cells divided into P sectors each having its own timebase. The system uses time division multiple access and accordingly transmission is effected in bursts ...
5734836 Method of preventing double data reception in selective reception communication system  
A selective reception communication system operates to prevent a double data reception from occurring owing to the difference between times at which data are transmitted over transmission paths whe...
5701592 Method and system for desynchronizing overhead messages in a radiocommunication system  
A method and system for controlling overhead information transmission in a radicommunication system is described. By desynchronizing information trasmitted in two streams on a control channel, load...

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