US Patent Issued to NEC on March 31 for "Wireless communication system, its base station and mobile station, communication synchronization management method and timer control program therefor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. RE50,853, issued on March 31, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Wireless communication system, its base station and mobile station, communication synchronization management method and timer control program therefor" was invented by Hisashi Futaki (Tokyo) and Jinsock Lee (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless communication system is provided for reducing the probability that latency before data transmission increases when a mobile station that is actually in sync is judged to be out of sync. A base station causes the timing calculation part to calculate the timing advance (TA) of a transmit timing from the mth mobile station; ca...