Telecommunications inventions 01/06

20060019599 - Media drive clamping device provided with communication means: An apparatus has communication means for obtaining an electromagnetical coupling with a first antenna (22) on an information carrier (1), a support member (61) and a clamping member (62) for clamping the information carrier in axial direction, a bridge (63) for supporting the clamping member, and a second antenna (66)...

20060019600 - Wireless communication system for high-speed transport and method thereof: A wireless communication system includes a fixed base transceiver station that includes a fixed base station number and a fixed broadcast control channel (BCCH) allocation list and broadcasts a fixed BCCH covering a first range; and a first base transceiver station that includes a first number and a first BCCH...

20060019601 - Method and apparatus for blending an audio signal in an in-band on-channel radio system: A method for processing a composite digital audio broadcast signal to mitigate intermittent interruptions in the reception of the digital audio broadcast signal, the method comprising the steps of separating an analog audio portion of the digital audio broadcast signal from a digital audio portion of the digital audio broadcast...

20060019602 - Method and device for transmission parameter selection in mobile communications: In a MIMO delay spread (OFDM) system or a MIMO single carrier (non-OFDM) system wherein a transmitter transmits signals to a receiver through multipath fading channels, an equivalent frequency-domain MIMO multipath channel matrix is used to estimate the maximum mutual information regarding the relationship between transmitted signals and received signals....

20060019604 - System and method for excluding narrow band noise from a communication channel: A signal filtering system and method that may be used in conjunction with a repeater or an input stage of a base-station. The system may include an analog to digital converter adapted to sample a received signal and to produce a data stream corresponding to the received signal in the...

20060019603 - Wireless repeater with arbitrary programmable selectivity: The invention relates to wireless repeater systems and methods. In embodiments, such systems and methods involve receiving a wireless transmission signal; and processing the wireless transmission signal using a digital signal processing facility (DSP); wherein the DSP is adapted to filter at least one sub-band of the wireless transmission signal...

20060019605 - Wireless signal transfer by sound waves: The present invention uses mechanical sound waves as sound waves as signal carriers for establishing wireless connections for wide varieties of devices. Example applications include computer mice, computer keyboard, video game controller, wireless telephone, cellular phone, household appliance control, ID device, and security system....

20060019606 - Multi-channel measurement system and power supplying method for the system: It is intended to realize a multi-channel measurement system and a power supply method for the system, the system being capable of performing maintenance of each of channel units and detectors without interrupting a power supply to the overall system. The multi-channel measurement system having a plurality of channel units...

20060019607 - Apparatus and method for storing and reading out data in a mobile terminal: Disclosed is a mobile terminal and in particular a data storing and reading method of a mobile terminal which makes it possible to perform mutual data exchange between a mobile terminal and a personal computer (PC) by using a universal serial bus interface (USB). For this purpose, there is provided...

20060019608 - Communications device, mobile terminal: An HSDPA-compatible mobile terminal comprises a first measurement unit that measures the CPICH reception quality, a second measurement unit that measures the HS-PDSCH reception quality, a control unit that exerts control, depending on the reception environment, to either generate the CQI information using, primarily, the measurement results in the first...

20060019609 - Method and apparatus to transfer data and detect weak signals: A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for a communications device transferring data. A signal strength is received for a communications link used to transfer data to a destination. In response to the signal strength less than a threshold, the data is cached in the communications device to form cached data....

20060019610 - Radio communication device and method of controlling transmission rate: The communication terminal apparatus measures reception quality and reports the measurement result to the base station apparatus, and the base station apparatus switches the transmission rate based on the reported result of the reception quality. In this way, the transmission rate is switched starting at the point in time at...

20060019611 - Distributed balanced duplexer: The present invention relates to a system and a method that employs a distributed balanced duplexer that can be utilized to facilitate concurrent signal transmission and reception. The system and method can be employed within mobile devices such as cell phones and utilize two-filters (e.g., acoustic) with substantially similar input/output...

20060019612 - Radio communication device that meets a plurality of frequency bands: The device of the invention includes an antenna (1) capable of transmitting and receiving radio waves of first and second frequency bands, a wave separator (2), antenna sharing devices (3A, 3B) respectively provided so as to correspond to the frequency bands, transmitting circuits (4A, 4B), transmitting PLL synthesizers (5A, 5B),...

20060019613 - System and method for managing talk burst authority of a mobile communication terminal: A method for managing talk burst authority of a mobile communication terminal for a PTT service comprises detecting a trigger signal generated from a voice activity detector in response to an audio input; activating a voice recognition processor to process the audio input; deactivating the corresponding voice recognition processor after...

20060019614 - Mobile information apparatus: A mobile information apparatus having first and second operation modes includes upper, middle, and lower bodies of equipment arranged in layers, a hinge for pivotally connecting the upper body of equipment to the middle body of equipment so that the upper and middle bodies of equipment have folded and unfolded...

20060019615 - Wireless keying for a continuous wave (cw) amateur radio transmitter: This invention generally relates to Morse code sending keys systems. More specifically, this invention relates to a wireless key system that can select a particular amateur radio transmitter on a crowded radio bench and direct it to send Morse code messages in a continuous wave (CW) transmission mode without a...

20060019616 - Transmitter: A transmitter for modulating an externally supplied audio signal according to a predetermined modulation system and for transmitting an obtained modulation signal includes a modulator for modulating the audio signal according to the modulation system; a balance convertor for converting the modulation signal in an unbalanced mode generated by the...

20060019617 - Apparatus, system, and method for down converting and up converting electromagnetic signals: Methods, systems, and apparatuses for down-converting and up-converting an electromagnetic signal. In embodiments, the invention operates by receiving an electromagnetic signal and recursively operating on approximate half cycles of a carrier signal. The recursive operations can be performed at a sub-harmonic rate of the carrier signal. The invention accumulates the...

20060019618 - Method to deliver messaging templates in digital broadcast service guide: Provided are apparatuses and methods for transmitting and receiving ESG fragments associated with an event or program. The event or program may have an interaction service component in which a subscriber can interact with the program in real-time. The program content information, such as audio and video data associated with...

20060019619 - Differential signal receiver and method: A differential signal receiver and method is disclosed. One embodiment relates to a receiver for receiving a differential signal. The receiver includes a first voltage-to-current converter that converts the voltage received at a first input to a first current, and a second voltage-to-current converter that converts a voltage signal received...

20060019621 - Radio frequency circuit and communication system with power amplifier control: A radio frequency circuit includes a radio frequency signal source which produces a radio frequency signal, a power amplifier which power amplifies the radio frequency signal from the radio frequency signal source, and a control unit which controls an output power of the power amplifier. Particularly, the control unit is...

20060019620 - Transmission module: A transmission module includes: a power amplifier amplifies power of a radio frequency signal that is to be transmitted via an antenna; a coupler that allows the radio frequency signal from the power amplifier to travel toward the antenna and causes adverse radio frequency power to ground; and a substrate...

20060019622 - System and apparatus for a direct conversion receiver and transmitter: A system for transmitting and receiving data is provided. The system includes a direct-conversion receiver that receives a signal modulated on a carrier frequency signal. The direct-conversion receiver includes one or more subharmonic local oscillator mixers. A local oscillator is connected to the direct conversion receiver, and generates a signal...

20060019623 - Method and apparatus for tuning radio frequency: A double conversion RF tuner includes an up-conversion unit and a down-conversion unit. The up-conversion unit up converts a received radio frequency (RF) signal corresponding to a first frequency band to a first intermediate frequency (IF) signal and up-converts the received RF signal corresponding to a second frequency band higher...

20060019624 - Simplified high frequency tuner and tuning method: A disclosed method tunes a signal from a channelized spectrum having a predetermined channel spacing. A signal of interest having a predetermined maximum bandwidth is mixed with a local oscillator signal, which has a frequency that is an integer multiple of the channel spacing or one-half of a channel spacing...

20060019625 - Multi-frequency signal source: A multi-frequency signal source and a method for providing a multi-frequency signal source with phase-lock capability are provided. The multi-frequency signal source includes a plurality of single-section filters each configured to provide oscillation of a signal at a different frequency. The multi-frequency signal source further includes a phase lock component...

20060019626 - Programmable filter: A filter wherein the poles and zeroes are programmable in a high speed control loop to form a particular desired filter profile. The control loop retrains the filter's poles and zeroes during the “off” time between the reception or transmission time slots. Desired pole and zero frequencies are injected and...

20060019627 - Adaptive correction of a received signal frequency response tilt: Distortion due to transmission characteristics of a transmission medium is corrected by measuring leakage in a signal orthogonal to a received signal. The frequency response of an equalizer is adaptively adjusted until the measured leakage is at a local minimum....

20060019628 - Low flicker noise current-folded mixer: The current-folded mixer of this invention comprises an input stage and a switching stage. The input stage receives a radio frequency input RF and generates a modulated bias current to the switching stage. The switching stage has a switching pair, connected to a common node, to receive an input signal...

20060019629 - Redundant powered device circuit: A redundant powering system for a powered device receiving power over communication cabling, the redundant powering system comprising: a redundant power supply comprising a first power sourcing equipment and a second power sourcing equipment; a powered device; communication cabling connecting the redundant power supply to the powered device, the communication...

20060019631 - Operations method for providing wireless communication services: The present invention is directed to an improved operations method for a wireless communication system. The improved business method, operations method, network and system of the present invention includes the steps of delivering cellular services to the mass market, reducing peak capacity, increasing overall capacity utilization, improving capital utilization, providing...

20060019630 - System and method to support multiple wireless accounts for a given subscriber: A system and method are disclosed to support multiple wireless account for a given subscriber. A method that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, linking various accounts to a wireless enabled device of a wireless service subscriber. In one embodiment, device addresses like telephone numbers and...

20060019632 - Dedicated wireless device business method: A business model that is dedicated to supporting a wireless messaging device. The model offers unlimited services on a dependent device, including mixed limited/unlimited usage models, pre-and post-pay models, and models not found in a conventional monthly recurring charge system. The model further includes components that address service selection, suspension,...

20060019633 - Mobile telephone alarm system cellular alarm for cars: My invention is the connection and use of car owner's mobile telephone unit connected to the car alarm systems as a security measure and to avoid noise pollution, which is known as A mobile telephone Alarm system, cellular alarm for cars. This invention is a car alarm system incorporated and...

20060019635 - Enhanced use of a network access identifier in wlan: A network including a user equipment for accessing at least one of wireless local area network interworking services and third generation partnership project network services. The network also includes at least one third generation partnership project network for providing the third generation partnership project network services to the user equipment....

20060019634 - Secure messaging via a mobile communications network: A mobile terminal adapted to receive a message via a mobile communications network; request authentication data from the user of said mobile terminal; and automatically generate an acknowledgment message to the sender of said message including said authentication data....

20060019637 - Method and multimedia message center for delivering a multimedia message to a telecommunication device configured as a multimedia message sink, and telecommunication device for accessing multimedia messages stored in a storage location of a multimedia mes: The present application discloses an apparatus, system and method for reducing the time required for transmitting a multimedia message from any sender to any addressee and thus generally cut the cost of the multimedia message service. A traffic channel connection is kept to a receiving telecommunication device, which is established...

20060019636 - Method and system for transmitting messages on telecommunications network and related sender terminal: The method comprises the steps of:- receiving (17) from a sender terminal (18) a text message, such as an SMS message,- integrating (16) said text message with a video content, to generate a multimedia message, and- transmitting (10) to at least a recipient terminal (12, 13, 14) said multimedia message...

20060019638 - Delayed user notification of events in a mobile device: A sender-specified courtesy notification scheme to delay notification by a receiving device of the receipt of a data message is disclosed. A sender may specify a notification parameter defining a delay and send the parameter in association with the data message to a recipient. The recipient's receiving device evaluates the...

20060019639 - System and method for handling electronic messages: Systems and methods for handling messages on a mobile device. A system and method could be configured to receive at a mobile device a message that is associated with a message expiry indicator. If a message expiry indicator is determined to be associated with the received message, then the received...

20060019640 - Smart redial method for mobile phones: The present invention discloses a smart redial method for mobile phones capable of saving several sets of phone numbers of different contact persons in a phone book function of a mobile phone, so that when a user dials one of the telephone number of a contact person in the phone...

20060019641 - Transmission of notifications for broadcast and multicast services: To transmit notification indicators for broadcast and multicast services, a base station maps the services to random sequences based on their identifiers. The base station generates the random sequence for each service based on a hash function or a PN generator and the service identifier. Each random sequence is associated...

20060019642 - Dynamic creation, selection, and scheduling of radio frequency communications: A method of developing a visual/audio campaign for delivery to a device having a radio wave receiver is disclosed. The method includes a managing node receiving broadcast specific information from a plurality of radio stations, the managing node receiving broadcast non-specific information, the managing node creating the visual/audio campaign at...

20060019645 - Enforcement of permitted cell phone usage: A set of usage rules are implemented to disable particular features of a wireless device (e.g., audible ringing, use of camera, etc.), or to forcibly power down the device, based upon it's presence in an area with restricted usage rules. A number of BLUETOOTH™ enabled or other suitably enabled devices...

20060019644 - Method for preventing personal handy-phone system handset from being reassigned with new phone number: The present invention discloses a method of preventing a PHS handset from being reassigned to a new phone number by installing an encryption program in a PHS handset. The encryption comprises an encryption algorithm, and such encryption algorithm can compute a coded password from a specific code, such that after...

20060019647 - Method for use in a communication system: This invention relates to a method for use in a communications system comprising the steps of determining if user equipment is capable of supporting a first technology and obtaining from said user equipment information about said user equipment only if said user equipment is capable of supporting said first technology....

20060019643 - Method of sending instruction to mobile phone by short message: The present invention discloses a method of sending instructions to a mobile phone by short message, which uses a short message service provided in mobile phones to send a short message attached with a control information or instruction therein, and enables a mobile phone at a receiving end to execute...

20060019646 - Network support for mobile handset application customization: Embodiments of the system and method allow a mobile terminal to download customization applications from a network. The method may have the steps of: sending, by a mobile terminal, a request to the network to download mobile terminal functionality; verifying, by the network, authorized access for the mobile terminal to...

20060019648 - Communication zone on a keyboard: A control device is provided that is configured to provide control commands to a computing device, and the computing device is configured to wirelessly communicate information with a mobile device. The control device including a communication zone that includes at least one button configured to be pressed once by a...

20060019649 - System and method for remote telephone ringer: A system and method for a remote telephone ringer, which when used in proximity to a wireless or non-wireless telephone rings or vibrates when the telephone itself rings or vibrates. The method includes a protocol for communicating status from a sending device to a receiving device. In response to a...

20060019650 - Recovering from a disconnected phone call: A method for handling an interruption of a telephone call in a mobile telephone network between a first user of a first telephone and a second user of a second telephone. The method includes detecting the onset of an interruption in a telephone connection. The detection is performed either manually...

20060019651 - Wireless communication system and test method thereof, and access terminal for testing wireless communication system: A wireless communication system and its test method capable of executing a test of the wireless communication apparatus from a remote place by using a terminal generally used in wireless communication systems are implemented with a low-cost configuration and a simple procedure. A terminal obtained by installing a test AP...

20060019652 - Communication processing device communication processing method, and computer program: A Communication processing device, a communication processing method, and a computer program are provided. A configuration is provided wherein multiple access points are set as slaves, a mobile device is set as a master, so as to enable use of multiple resources at different access points. A mobile communication processing...

20060019653 - Controlling and managing access to multiple networks: The disclosure is directed to a mobile communication device, and method for registering with a network from a mobile communications device. A processor in the mobile device may be used to establish a network connection with a server in a network. The mobile device may also include a transceiver that...

20060019657 - Gprs data protocol architecture for an unlicensed wireless communication system: An unlicensed wireless service is adapted to generate the interface protocols of a licensed wireless service to provide transparent transition of communication sessions between a licensed wireless service and an unlicensed wireless service. In one embodiment, a mobile station includes level 1, level 2, and level 3 protocols for licensed...

20060019658 - Gsm signaling protocol architecture for an unlicensed wireless communication system: An unlicensed wireless service is adapted to generate the interface protocols of a licensed wireless service to provide transparent transition of communication sessions between a licensed wireless service and an unlicensed wireless service. In one embodiment, a mobile station includes level 1, level 2, and level 3 protocols for licensed...

20060019656 - Mobile station implementation for switching between licensed and unlicensed wireless systems: An unlicensed wireless service is adapted to generate the interface protocols of a licensed wireless service to provide transparent transition of communication sessions between a licensed wireless service and an unlicensed wireless service. In one embodiment, a mobile station includes level 1, level 2, and level 3 protocols for licensed...

20060019654 - Press-to-connect for wireless communications systems: An advanced voice service known as “Press-to-Connect” for wireless communications systems. A real-time exchange interfaces to the wireless network to provide a Press-to-Connect (PTC) call between an initiator and one or more recipients, wherein the PTC call comprises a time-limited Press-to-Talk (P2T) call. The real-time exchange uses a Talk Timer...

20060019655 - System and method for communications in a multi-platform environment: A radio networking system includes at least a first communication port operable to facilitate communication between the radio networking system and a first communication platform. The system further includes at least a second communication port operable to facilitate communication between the radio networking system and a second communication platform. Additionally,...

20060019659 - System and method for roaming between networks: A system and method for roaming between networks include determining a presence of a mobile unit by determining when the mobile unit leaves a first network and enters a second network, and routing one or more calls based on the presence of the mobile unit by offloading the one or...

20060019660 - System and method of conforming wireless devices to worldwide regulations: Countries or regions of the world can have different regulations governing wireless devices. A client product advantageously conforms to any regulatory environment, thereby allowing the client product to operate permissibly in any wireless network. The client product scans all frequencies at a predetermined interval for explicit information on regulation-conformant methods...

20060019661 - Service area determination method for determining whether a mobile terminal is in the service area of a repeater or in the service area of a radio base station: A propagation delay-propagation loss table is stored in advance in a radio base station, a first area and a second area being set in advance in the propagation delay-propagation loss table, the first area being predicted to contain the relation between the propagation delay and propagation loss when a mobile...

20060019662 - Methods and apparatus for transmission scheduling in wireless networks: Systems and techniques for scheduling of data transmission to remote mobile units so as to provide at least an acceptably low level of delay. A scheduler computes an urgency value for each data stream serving a mobile unit and sets the urgency value equal to the highest urgency value of...

20060019664 - Method and apparatus for inter-cell handover in wireless networks using multiple protocols: A communication system formed by a private wireless network that can be used with public wireless networks using a public wireless protocol, such as GSM, and typically includes public networks, such as PSTN, ISDN and the Internet, using a wired-packet protocol, such as IP. The private network also typically includes...

20060019663 - Robust and fast handover in a wireless local area network: A method for communicating a list of handover candidates in a wireless local area network from a station to a serving access point (AP) begins by determining a list of handover candidate APs at the station. The candidate list is sorted at the station and is sent to the serving...

20060019665 - Cellular communications systems: A method of operating a cellular communications system comprising at least one macro cell having a macro cell base station and at least one micro cell having a micro cell base station, at least part of the micro cell being located within an area served by the macro cell base...

20060019666 - Method and gateway for controlling call routing: A gateway (111, 200) and method for routing calls for a wireless communication unit (113) via a selected network (105, 124, 131) comprises an access point (217) supporting a wireless LAN and a modem (203, 229) for wireless connections to a wireless WAN and an interface 227 with a wired...

20060019667 - System and method for providing integrated voice and data services utilizing wired cordless access with unlicensed spectrum and wired access with licensed spectrum: Systems and methods for providing integrated wireless and wired data voice and data services via a dual mode telecommunications device are provided. A communication directed to an address associated with a dual mode device is received. If the dual mode device is in range of a wireless access point connected...

20060019668 - Calibration procedure for wireless networks with direct mode traffic: A calibration procedure of wireless networks to create a topology map mainly consists of two phases: a measurement phase during which each wireless device, i. e. all mobile terminals end the central controller transmits a calibration signal in broadcast mode (S2, S3, S4) and each other wireless device measures the...

20060019669 - Cellular mobile communication system and method using heterogeneous wireless network: A cellular mobile communication system and method using a heterogeneous wireless network are provided. The system includes a first wireless network providing a wireless resource using a first wireless frequency band, a first device of a cellular network connected with the first wireless network through a wire network, and a...

20060019670 - Wireless communication system and channel changing method thereof: A wireless communication system and a channel changing method thereof are provided. The wireless communication system which includes a plurality of channels, uses one of the plurality of channels as a specific channel, and uses another channel of the plurality of channels as a communication channel, includes: a base terminal...

20060019671 - Qos differentiation for wcdma services mapped onto an e-dch channel: A system has user equipment (1; 2) each having buffers (3, 4, 5, 6; 7, 8, 9, 10) for storing packets classified according to priority and ready for transmission over a radio interface to a network element (12). In such a system, user equipment sends capacity request signals (11; 13)...

20060019672 - Transmitting data in a wireless network: A method is described for transmitting data, particularly but not exclusively packet data, from a transmitting station to a receiving station via a wireless channel. The data is transmitted in transmission intervals or TTI slots. The method comprises estimating a utilisation factor representing usage of the transmission intervals, and scheduling...

20060019673 - Channel allocation for access point in mesh network: A channel allocation method for dynamically allocating channels of a plurality of radio interfaces at each access point included in a mesh network is provided. The method includes the steps of (a) acquiring, at each access point, in-node information about the access point itself, and (b) grouping high-traffic access points...

20060019674 - System and method for calibration of a wireless network: In one embodiment, the present invention is a method and system for calibrating a wireless network including a Mobile Switching Center (MSC), and a Position Determination Device (PDD). The wireless network is capable of determining the position of a handset. The method includes receiving a trigger from the MSC; sending...

20060019675 - Technology for controlling wireless communication: A mobile terminal is carried by a moving object, and the mobile station is configured to perform wireless communications with a base terminal from among a plurality of base stations. The mobile station acquires a communication status between itself and at least a first base station and a second base...

20060019676 - System for dynamically pushing information to a user utilizing global positioning system: A computer implemented method is provided for directing region-specific information. The method receives information relating to location of users, and provides location-specific information to the users....

20060019677 - Packet aware scheduler in wireless communication systems: Apparatuses and methodologies are described that facilitate packet aware scheduling are provided. In some embodiments, if all of the information of a packet cannot be scheduled in a single transmission period, additional resources may be assigned to transmission of the contents of the packet based upon latency requirements and/or transmission...

20060019678 - Communication system and communication terminal apparatus: In a case when a wireless communication is carried out between a communication terminal apparatus and a wireless key apparatus in which one of the two apparatuses which carry out the communication becomes a master and the other one becomes a slave, the slave detects a signal from the master...

20060019679 - System, method, and apparatus for determining and using the position of wireless devices or infrastructure for wireless network enhancements: A system and method for estimating the position of wireless devices within a wireless communication network combines measured RF channel characteristics for the wireless device with one or more predicted performance lookup tables, each of which correlates an RF channel characteristic to some higher order network performance metric and/or a...

20060019680 - System and method for permitting maintenance of privacy of main number assigned to wireless device: A wireless communications system is depicted in which a message can be delivered to a wireless device. In the communications system, a first number included within a true address for communication with the device is associated with the device. A second number distinct from the first number is also associated...

20060019681 - Reducing delay in setting up calls: A method (600) and apparatus (700) for reducing delay associated with a call set-up for a call between an originating communication unit (120) and a target communication unit (121-124) in a radio access system (RAS) (101) is described. A call is initiated with a target communication unit prior to a...

20060019682 - Apparatus for improving communication quality of phs handset and method thereof: The present invention is to provide an apparatus for improving communication quality of PHS handset and method thereof, which enables any two PHS handsets to be extensions and communicate directly by utilizing a fixed private telephone or a fixed public telephone having a wireless communication exchange module as a main...

20060019685 - Method for handling service requests in a mobile telecommunication network: The method of the invention handles a request message from a mobile station to a content provider in a network comprising at least said mobile station, said content provider and a radio system with a first component for directing messages sent from and to mobile stations and a second component...

20060019683 - Method of transmitting pictures by mobile telecommunication device: The present invention discloses a method of transmitting pictures by a mobile telecommunication device through a picture specification conversion program installed in the mobile telecommunication device, and by using the picture specification conversion table to convert the specification of a picture information into the size complying with the display screen...

20060019684 - Short message filter mechanism and communication device: A communication device with a short message filter mechanism. The communication device comprises an incoming phone number filter module for acquiring the number of digits in an incoming phone number accompanying a short message received by the communication device and, if the number of digits in the incoming phone number...

20060019686 - Method of controlling a processor for radio isolation using a timer: A method of operating a radio-frequency (RF) circuitry and a signal-processing circuitry in a mobile telephone apparatus includes at least partially disabling the signal-processing circuitry while transmitting or receiving signals. In one example, a processor is efficiently disabled by generating and servicing an interrupt of relatively high priority. One advantage...

20060019687 - System and method for silent retry: A system and method for synchronizing the operation of a wireless mobile station (102) and a base station (104) includes receiving a message at the base station (104) indicating a state of operation of the wireless mobile station (102). A determination is made as to whether the base station (104)...

20060019688 - System and method for providing public/private mobile communication service: A method for providing public and private mobile communication service in a mobile communication system. The system constructs a mobile communication network including a private base station transceiver subsystem (Base station Transceiver Subsystem) of a private mobile communication network and a plurality of base station transceiver subsystems of a public...

20060019691 - Method and system for evaluating the efficacy of locally-applied anti-proliferative or other agents on neointimal hyperplasia, immunohistochemical and vascular cell cycle changes in injured or atherosclerotic rabbit central ear arteries: A methodology for percutaneously accessing the central ear artery of a rabbit may be utilized for inducing, treating and evaluating injuries therein to determine the pathology of the injuries and the safety and efficacy of the treatment. The central ear artery of a rabbit is similar to morphology to human...

20060019689 - Mobile phone push-to-talk voice activation: A voice activated method of establishing a Push-to-Talk (PTT) connection from a mobile phone is disclosed. The mobile phone user presses and holds a PTT key on the mobile phone. The user then speaks the name of a contact. The mobile phone recognizes the name of a contact that has...

20060019692 - Pt service system and method: A PT service system and method are provided. According to an embodiment, there is provided a client device comprising a PT (push-to) client to transmit a talk burst request message for requesting a permission to send a talk burst. The talk burst request message includes a timestamp which includes time...

20060019690 - System and method of providing group dispatch calling between users in distinct geographical areas: A dispatch communications system is disclosed that facilitates group dispatch communications respectively between subscriber units residing within a first geographical area, subscriber units residing within a second geographical area, and subscriber units residing respectively within the first and second geographical areas. The dispatch communications system includes a first intra-area dispatch...

20060019693 - Method for effecting wireless communication between radio stations and device for carrying out the method: The present invention is based on the fundamental idea that, in many applications, the intended communication partner differs, such as by his position or other features, which are easily influenced by the user, from all other potential and unintended communication partners (third parties) in such a manner that the transmission...

20060019695 - Method of communication and base station: There are provided a method of communication which can reliably transmit information from a base station to a wireless terminal in a system which can reduce power consumption by intermittent operation in which the wireless terminal repeats operating state and suspended state by power on and off and the base...

20060019694 - Power control for a wireless communication system utilizing orthogonal multiplexing: Techniques for adjusting transmit power to mitigate both intra-sector interference to a serving base station and inter-sector interference to neighbor base stations are described. The amount of inter-sector interference that a terminal may cause may be roughly estimated based on the total interference observed by each neighbor base station, channel...

20060019697 - Method for transmitting signals from a plurality of base stations to a mobile station: A method of transmitting signals from a plurality of first stations to the same second station, said method comprising the steps of transmitting first signals comprising a first communication and first associated information from one of said plurality of first stations to said second station; transmitting second signals comprising said...

20060019696 - Radio communication device and associated coupling structure comprising at least one conductor board and at least one flat antenna coupled thereto: A radio communication device is provided which includes a conductor board and a flat antenna disposed in the housing thereof and arranged at a distance from each other, thereby forming a coupling structure. A coupling area with a predetermined antenna volume is contained in the coupling structure between the antenna...

20060019698 - Method and apparatus for radio system with multiple communication modes: A radio communication system includes provider equipment and at least two subscriber radio units, each operable in a telephone communication mode and a dispatch communication mode. The provider equipment is operable to receive a communication request from a subscriber radio unit, the request including a requested communication mode and a...

20060019699 - Method of uploading web blog in mobile communication terminal and system thereof: A method of uploading a web blog in a mobile communication terminal and system thereof are disclosed, in which the web blog is composed and stored by off-line using the mobile communication terminal, in which the web blog is transmitted via a wireless connection to a computer, and by which...

20060019700 - Multi-band zigbee transceiver supporting ieee 802.15.4 wireless communication: Disclosed herein is a multi-band ZigBee transceiver for supporting IEEE 802.15.4 wireless communications. In the multi-band ZigBee transceiver, a Multi-Mode Modem (MMM) selects any one of a European version standard using 860 MHz band, a US version standard using 920 MHz band, and a worldwide version standard using 2.4 GHz...

20060019701 - Restrictive reuse set management: A restrictive reuse set management algorithm for equal grade of service on a forward link (FL) transmission is described. While a restrictive reuse algorithm is known to improve the SINR of weak users in interference limited networks, the fairness issue associated with restrictive reuse has not been explored. The bandwidth...

20060019704 - Integrating wireless telephone with external call processor: An integrated call processing system, comprising: a wireless telephone including a keypad, a speaker, and a microphone to enable entry of call information and to enable phone transaction through one of a plurality of telephone networks; and a software telephone processor configured to receive and process the call information, wherein...

20060019705 - Memory card, memory card communication control method, electronic device, and wireless communication system: A memory card, memory card communication control method, electronic device, and wireless communication system are provided. The memory card can be used when inserted into an electronic device on which driver software cannot be installed, and can be inserted into an electronic device in the same manner as an existing...

20060019703 - Structure for turning on/off wireless communications of notebook computer by latch member: The present invention discloses a structure for turning on/off the wireless communications of a notebook computer by a latch member, which comprises a latch groove disposed at a free end of a screen display of the notebook computer and a latch member disposed on a main system of the notebook...

20060019702 - System and method for distributing promotion messages to a communication terminal: This invention relates to a system and a method for distributing an invitation to one or more communication terminals connected in a wireless communications network. The system and method enables a user of a communication terminal to invite other users of communication terminals to a shared media experience, such as...

20060019707 - Handheld electronic device having facilitated telephone dialing with audible sound tags, and associated method: An improved hand held electronic device and an associated method provide facilitated telephone dialing by providing audible sound tags in the form of spoken words representative of numbers that can be selected by a user for dialing. The handheld electronic device includes an input apparatus that can generate a plurality...

20060019706 - Mobile phone with mouse device: The present invention discloses a mobile phone having a mouse device that allows users to easily control a pointer on a screen or quickly open a dialog box. The mobile phones of the invention comprises a screen, a mouse device, and two function keys on the mobile phone; wherein the...

20060019708 - System and method to allow simple ip mobile nodes to operate seamlessly in a mobile ip network with true roaming capabilities: A system and method of transmitting information between a mobile node and a home agent of the mobile node. The mobile node has an associated home AAA server. The address of the HAAA is determined. The HAAA is contacted and, responsively, receives information indicating a methodology of determining the home...

20060019712 - Calibration apparatus for smart antenna and method thereof: This invention is related to the calibration apparatus and method for compensating the phase characteristics in the receiving and transmitting signal paths of array antenna system, especially adaptive array antenna system operating as the base station system. The objective of this invention is to provide the calibration apparatus and method...

20060019710 - Compensating for radiation pattern in radio system, and radio system: The invention relates to compensation of a radiation pattern tern in a radio system. The solution comprises forming a primary radiation pattern by weighting signals of antenna branches with primary weights. The primary radiation pattern is compensated with a compensating radiation pattern after one or more antenna branches have been...

20060019711 - Integrated circuit package: The integrated circuit package according to the present invention comprises: a plurality of functioning units operable to perform processing on input data and output a result of the processing; a plurality of antenna units each of which is positioned to (i) receive radio-transmitted data from at least another one of...

20060019709 - Mobile communication apparatus and method including base station and mobile station having multi-antenna: A mobile communication apparatus including a base station and at least two mobile stations, having multiple antennas, respectively is provided. In the mobile communication apparatus, the base station restores from feedback signals transmitted from the mobile stations weight information determined in the mobile stations, generates from the restored weight information...

20060019713 - Hands-free circuit and method: A hands-free circuit (10) and method produces audio information (90) corresponding to voice tag information (60) stored either in the hands-free circuit (10) or in a wireless device (320). The hands-free circuit includes a wireless local area network (WLAN) transceiver (20), memory (40) and a speech processor (30). For example,...

20060019715 - Apparatus and method for call using hot-key: An apparatus and method for calling using a hot-key function in a mobile terminal are disclosed. The apparatus includes a database for storing information of search subjects, a controller for mapping extracted search subjects from the database to the keys of keypad, respectively, in accordance with a predetermined mapping mode,...

20060019714 - Apparatus and method for controlling a function of a wireless terminal: An apparatus and a method are provided for controlling functions of a wireless terminal. The apparatus and method comprise detecting a position of the wireless terminal, detecting a position signal according to the position of the wireless terminal, and controlling a speaker and a microphone of the voice inputting/outputting module...

20060019717 - Method for using multi-function key in a portable phone: A method for using a multi-function key for a portable phone having a multi-function key for generating a plurality of input signals. First, menu items are displayed in a main menu upon generation of a first input signal according to manipulation of multi-function key in a stand-by state, an intended...

20060019716 - Mobile information services: Mobile communications devices display contextually relevant information based on the presence, status, and identification of a user. Lens templates control how the information is displayed and can be customized and designed for specific usage profiles. The lenses that are used can be updated at any time to accommodate changes in...

20060019718 - Bluetooth headset in-car holder/car kit: A Bluetooth headset in-car holder/car kit has a main body having an end formed into a pivoted plug for plugging in a cigarette lighter on a vehicle to obtain a power supply, and another end into a holding seat for a wireless Bluetooth headset to seat therein. The holding seat...

20060019719 - Mobile terminal having round external speaker: Disclosed is a mobile terminal having a round external speaker. The round external speaker can be easily and simply mounted on the mobile terminal without a separate mounting unit by inserting a mounting protrusion portion of the mobile terminal into a mounting groove portion....

20060019720 - Information registering and retrieving system, in-vehicle apparatus and portable apparatus: When an in-vehicle apparatus receives an information retrieval request from a portable cellular phone along with a phone ID of the cellular phone, a link key is generated in the in-vehicle apparatus based on the phone ID and an apparatus ID of the in-vehicle apparatus. When the link key coincides...

20060019721 - Power supply arrangement for battery powered device: The invention relates to a method for conversion of a battery voltage in a battery powered headworn communication device, the method comprising providing a voltage reduction to a fixed part of the input voltage and providing a variable reduction that ensures that a minimum voltage is maintained. Preferably the fixed...

20060019722 - Apparatus and method for saving power of a mobile communication terminal: An apparatus and a method for saving power of a mobile station (MS). The apparatus includes an RF unit for processing radio signals transmitted between an MS and a BS, and a processor for performing an RX task, a layer 2 task, a main control task, and a searcher task....

20060019723 - Automatic control of power save operation in a portable communication device utilizing historical usage information: A system and method for automatically controlling power save operation of a portable communication system utilizing historical usage information. Various aspects of the present invention may comprise monitoring usage of a portable communication system. A usage monitor module may perform such monitoring. Usage information for the portable communication system may...

20060019724 - Reducing power consumption in a networked battery-operated device using sensors: A method and system for mobile device power consumption management decreases the instantaneous power consumption of a mobile device, increasing operational lifetime of the device. In an embodiment of the invention, the mobile device is associated with a plurality of device behavior modification techniques that can be set in response...

20060019727 - Antenna mount for mobile terminal: An antenna mounting device for a mobile terminal comprises a cradle configured to detachably install to the mobile terminal and a rotary bar rotatably coupled to the cradle, configured to rotate with respect to the cradle. The antenna mounting device also comprises an antenna coupled to the rotary bar, configured...

20060019726 - Locking apparatus of swing hinge module for mobile communication terminals: Disclosed herein is a locking apparatus of a swing hinge module for mobile communication terminals that is capable of improving a locking force of the swing hinge module, the mobile communication terminal including first and second housings rotatably connected to each other by the swing hinge module. The swing hinge...

20060019725 - Personal handphone system handset for children: The present invention discloses a personal handphone system (PHS) handset for children, which comprises a plurality of indicating lamps, a plurality of drawings corresponding to the indicating lamps, a plurality of arrow keys and an enter key for selecting the indicating lamp, a lit indicating lamp being selected by controlling...

20060019728 - Portable device: A portable phone 1 includes a first housing 2, a second housing 4 having a display section 14, and a hinge section 3 that connects the first housing 2 and the second housing 4 so that the display section is positioned horizontally when placing the portable phone 1 on an...

20060019729 - Systems and methods for a comfortable wireless communication device: An improved wireless communication device, method, and system, that is easy to operate for people of all ages, particularly for senior citizens, that is compact, ergonomic, and comfortable, but which also provides simplicity of operation for those users who do not require complex cellular telephone capabilities or features....

20060019730 - Antenna for mobile communication terminal: An antenna of a mobile communication terminal comprises: a first antenna portion having a plurality of strip portions curved with a certain interval, and having a feed point for an electric connection at one end thereof; a second antenna portion having a plurality of strip portions curved with a certain...

20060014487 - Method and device for estimating a signal to interference ratio (sir) in wcdma systems: A method and device (100) for estimating a signal to interference ratio (SIR) of a signal transmitted from a first unit and to a remotely located second unit in a Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) wireless communication system. The transmitted TPC (Transmit Power Control) is checked and upon this...

20060014488 - Communication system: A wireless network system for distributing broadband signals through a plurality of terminal devices located a distance from the origination point of the broadband signals, such as a cell tower. The wireless network has an interface point (receiving antenna) for communicating signaling data from the service point to a selected...

20060014489 - Communication system and method for mobile and stationary devices: A communication system for mobile and stationary devices has at least one transmitter/receiver unit provided for the mobile and stationary devices and covering a defined transmission/reception range, and is formed so that at least partial overlap of the transmission/reception ranges of the mobile and/or stationary devices results in accidental communication...

20060014490 - Method and system of displaying content associated with broadcast program: A media system comprising a broadcast system, a telecommunication system, a content processing system, and a user terminal. While a media stream is broadcast, a group of content items associated with the media stream are generated. The content items are presented in the user terminal in a first mode, wherein...

20060014491 - Apparatus and method for echo cancellation in a wireless repeater using cross-polarized antenna elements: A repeater for re-transmitting uplink and downlink signals in a wireless network. The repeater uses antenna cross-polarization, signal cancellation and digital processing techniques to reduce or eliminate coupling of echo signals between the receive and transmit antennas of the downlink and uplink signal paths in the repeater....

20060014492 - Ieee 802.11e mac signaling to support schedule qos: The Station Management Entity (SME) 202 and/or Media Access Control (MAC) SubLayer Management Entity (MLME) 201 within a Hybrid Controller (HC) or wireless station (WSTA) 106, 109 for an IEEE 802.11 wireless data communications system 100 employ primitives in connection with a Schedule Quality of Service (QoS) Action frame. The...

20060014493 - Method, system and computer readable medium for providing an output signal having a theme to a device in a short distance wireless network: A method, system, and computer readable medium allows a user to select an output signal for device/terminal in short distance wireless network. In embodiments of the present invention, the output signal is a ring tone, alarm, background image, vibration signal, font type, or portion of a motion picture. In embodiments...

20060014494 - Methods and apparatus for synchronization of training sequences: A receiver and a method for receiving a signal comprising a carrier modulated with a known training sequence is described in which an estimate a carrier frequency offset is obtained from an autocorrelation signal by autocorrelation of the part of the received signal containing a known training sequence. The received...

20060014496 - System for in-band and near-band interference mitigation: The present invention provides a system for mitigating deleterious interference effects on a wireless LAN system (100). An access point is adapted to monitor communications for an interference condition (104, 106). Some desired time threshold is provided. The access point is adapted to alter an operational characteristic responsive to an...

20060014495 - Wireless communication system: A wireless communication system that can perform transmission current control of a handset in accordance with a radio wave situation. The wireless communication system includes a base phone and a handset, in which the base phone includes an RSSI detection section for detecting the RSSI of a carrier wave and...

20060014497 - Radio device, transmission/reception directivity control method, and transmission/ reception directivity control program: A radio device includes an array antenna including a plurality of antennas; an adaptive array processing unit multiplying signals provided from the respective antennas of the array antenna by receive weights, and thereby extracting a signal received from desired another radio device; a switch circuit provided corresponding to at least...

20060014498 - Transmit channel policing system, device, and method: Systems and methods are provided for controlling transmit channel utilization in systems providing walkie-talkie-like communications to wireless devices. Parameters such as a maximum talk time and back off time are provided to each wireless device to control how long they can continuously occupy the talk channel, and to control how...

20060014499 - Multiple modulation schemes in single rate layering wireless communication systems: A MIMO communication system is adapted to encode multiple data streams at the same adaptable rate. Accordingly, the set of all possible modulation/rate combinations to all modulations with common rates is decreased thus resulting in the reduction of the number of possible packet formats carrying the data streams. Rate prediction...

20060014500 - Devices for reducing the dynamic range of signals in transmitters of communication systems: A device reduces the dynamic range of a signal at a first point along a signal processing direction in a transmitter of a communication system. The device includes an input to which an input signal is applied, a correction prediction device, a delay device, an addition device, and an output....

20060014501 - Applications of universal frequency translation: Frequency translation and applications of same are described herein. Such applications include, but are not limited to, frequency down-conversion, frequency up-conversion, enhanced signal reception, unified down-conversion and filtering, and combinations and applications of same....

20060014503 - Isolated sensor for an antenna: A system for measuring output power from an antenna. A sensor receives a sample of wireless signals from the antenna and communicates data about the signal back to the transmitter in a manner such that the antenna pattern is undisturbed. An optical coupler, e.g., fiber optic, is used to send...

20060014502 - Linear amplification device with a non-linear amplification element for a mobile radio device: A system and method to optimize the efficiency of an amplifier device is provided by the including a non-linear amplifier in a mobile radio device. A phase displaced signal in relation to the input signal is respectively produced in the amplifier device with a non-linear power amplifier and in a...

20060014504 - Pulse modulation circuit: Provided is a pulse modulation circuit that improves the on/off operation and improves the on/off ratio of an output power of the entire pulse modulation circuit in the switching operation. The pulse modulation circuit inputs a local oscillation wave and a DC pulse signal, mixes a second harmonic wave of...

20060014505 - Mobile station apparatus and receiving method: A mobile station apparatus is provided that performs receive processing efficiently and reduces unnecessary power consumption. In this mobile station apparatus, a signaling detector (71) detects the timing transmit diversity mode of the base station of the HSDPA serving cell changes and reports this change timing to a controller (72)....

20060014506 - Dynamic carrier selection and link adaptation in fading environments: A channel response of a channel in a dual-mode radio communication system is determined by detecting a wideband signal and using a narrowband receiver to generate received signal strength measurements at frequencies located within a bandwidth of the wideband signal. The wideband signal need not be intended for reception by...

20060014507 - Radio receiver: A radio receiver (30) comprises an ADC (13) including a clip counter. The power of digitised signals provided by the ADC (13) is estimated by a power estimator (31), and an ideal gain value is computed from the power so estimated by a gain computation device (32). Gain computation signals...

20060014508 - Device and method for determining the level of an input signal intended to be applied to a receiving system: The invention relates to a device for determining the level of an input signal (101) intended to be applied to a receiving system (TUN), said receiving system (TUN) comprising arranged in series a set of discrete gain amplifiers (102-103-105-107), a selective filter (104), a mixer (106), said receiving system (TUN)...

20060014509 - Adaptive-biased mixer: A system or method for a circuit network that receives an RF signal, and where a plurality of switching transistors receive an RF signal output by the circuit network and perform mixing with a local oscillation (LO) signal received on a LO input. An active bias circuit performs active bias...

20060014510 - Semiconductor integrated circuit for wireless communication: A semiconductor integrated circuit with a PLL (Phase Locked Loop) built therein is used in a semiconductor integrated circuit for wireless communication. The PLL circuit generates an oscillation signal having a predetermined frequency, which is combined with a receive signal or a transmit signal for wireless communication. The PLL circuit...

20060014511 - Multi-antenna/multi-receiver array diversity system: The present invention is a system for increasing Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) in a wireless communication system comprising a plurality of antennas each antenna providing a signal, a device for selecting a subset of signals provided by the plurality of antennas, a maximum ratio combiner for summing the selected subset of...

20060014512 - Programmable mixer for reducing local oscillator feedthrough and radio applications thereof: A state of a programmable mixer is set during a calibration phase to minimize local oscillator feedthrough. During a calibration phase, inputs to the programmable mixer are set to zero, or to a known state and the local oscillator is set to a calibration frequency. Then, one of a plurality...

20060014513 - Communication semiconductor integrated circuit device and a wireless communication system: In a communication semiconductor integrated circuit device using offset PLL architectures and including an oscillator circuit and a frequency divider circuit generating an intermediate frequency signal, the oscillator circuit includes an oscillator, a programmable frequency divider which frequency-divides the oscillation signal in accordance with frequency division information, a phase comparator...

20060014514 - Self-biased high-speed receiver: A self-biased high-speed receiver is described. The receiver is powered by one power supply with the core operation voltage and one power supply with the IO operation voltage. The receiver is self-biased to provide a stable bias voltage. A reference voltage and an IO signal are applied on the receiver...

20060014515 - Dynamically matched mixer system with improved in-phase and quadrature (i/q) balance and second order intercept point (ip2) performance: A dynamically matched mixer system (200) for use in a direct conversion radio frequency (RF) receiver includes a frequency generator (201, 203, 205) that includes plurality of dividers (407) for providing differential local oscillator reference sources (FLO+ and FLO−) and mitigation frequency reference sources (F1 and F2) from reference oscillator...

20060014516 - Mobile station apparatus capable of changing access control classes due to low battery condition for power saving and method of the same: The invention relates to a mobile station apparatus in a communication system. The communication system comprises a plurality of base stations for providing mobile communication service within a covered communication area. The mobile station apparatus comprises a memory for recording a predetermined access control class and determining which base station...

20060014517 - Method and apparatus for providing network support for a wireless emergency call: A system is provided to allow a network to obtain the location of a mobile station (e.g. mobile phone) having AGPS/AFLT CDMA capability during an emergency call—without the use of the MPCAP parameter. The MPC invokes the PDE, which is IS-801 AGPS capable, without the MPCAP parameter. The PDE then...

20060014518 - Mobile phone payment method and system: A mobile phone payment method and system in which a mobile phone, a photo receiver, and a control server for storing payment-related information of a user of the mobile phone, download the payment-related information of the user from the control server to the mobile phone. The payment-related information is converted...

20060014519 - Pooling groups of wireless communication users: Systems and methods for pooling a plurality of telecommunication users into groups is disclosed. One method includes ranking the telecommunication users in an order based on a usage parameter. The usage parameter, for example, may be the average service usage time per billing period. Once ranked, the telecommunication users are...

20060014520 - Method and system for supporting guest services provided by a wireless lan: In a first aspect, the present invention is a method that includes establishing a relationship between a mobile device and a service, utilizing the service to authorize a guest relationship between the mobile device and a wireless network with which the mobile device has no preexisting relationship, and in response...

20060014521 - Data protection method and system using the same: A data protection method. The data protection method is implemented between a server and a mobile communication device capable of wireless communication with the server. The mobile communication device transmits a media download request to the server for downloading of media data. The server receives the media download request and...

20060014522 - Method and apparatus to provide inline encryption and decryption for a wireless station via data streaming over a fast network: A method of wirelessly transmitting or receiving a packet of information, and an apparatus to wirelessly transmit or receive a packet of information. In the case of transmitting, the method includes streaming a data element, including at least some of the contents of the packet, over a network link during...

20060014524 - Communication system between a mobile terminal and a communication server and associated communication processes: The present invention relates to a communication system including at least one client module built into a mobile terminal for distributing an encoded data item, a server module built into a communication server for retrieving the data coming from at least one existing external network and a communication network for...

20060014525 - Messaging system in a hybrid network and mobile communication environment: Providing communication between a network communication device and a mobile communication device is disclosed. A server is in communication with a mobile communications network. The server communicates with mobile communication devices in the mobile communications network using a first protocol. The server monitors the state of each mobile communication device,...

20060014523 - Method and appratus for providing content to a mobile terminal: The invention provides a method of providing content to a mobile terminal, the method comprising the steps of: receiving data at the mobile terminal; classifying the content data in accordance with classification data comprised within the content data; storing the content data within the mobile terminal; creating an access object...

20060014526 - Mobile terminal, method and computer program product for storing and retrieving network parameters: A mobile terminal, method and computer program product are provided for storing sets of parameters, including the encryption keys, utilized during prior communication sessions with various networks such that those sets of parameters may be retrieved and reused during subsequent communication sessions with the same networks....

20060014527 - Apparatus and method for transmitting voice message in mobile communication terminal: The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for transmitting voice message in mobile communication terminal which may automatically transmit voice message of a caller and receive voice message of a receiver in response to the voice message of the caller. There is provided an apparatus for transmitting voice...

20060014529 - Mobile terminal apparatus: A purpose of the present invention is that even in a portable terminal apparatus for executing a wireless communication, information can be acquired from a site on a predetermined network every predetermined time instant, and a user can easily acquire desirable information when it is required. A control unit (11)...

20060014530 - Personal server: A personal server is provided for use with a mobile device, such as a cellular telephone. The personal server provides services to the user of the mobile device and to others authorized by the user, but to no other users. The personal server may be a home PC of the...

20060014528 - Wireless point to multipoint system: A point to multipoint wireless communication system includes an access point having an antenna, a processor, and circuitry in communication with the access point antenna and controlled by the access point processor to transmit wireless electromagnetic signals to, and receive wireless electromagnetic signals from, an area. A plurality of subscriber...

20060014531 - System for ms-assisted location trigger, and service methods thereof: Disclosed is a location trigger system for a location-based service comprising a mobile station in which a LAT detecting the location trigger is embedded; an LBS platform transmitting location trigger assisted information on a location trigger area to the MS, and handling the location trigger in accordance with events invoked...

20060014532 - Proximity-based authorization: Methods and apparatuses are disclosed for enabling the response to a command from a wireless terminal to be based at least partially on the presence or absence of other users nearby, and possibly the identity of those users. In the illustrated embodiment, a server maintains an updated list of the...

20060014533 - Apparatuses and methods for measuring signal strengths of wireless networks: A signal tester including a controller operable to communicate with and receive signal strength data for a wireless networks corresponding to first and second modems, respectively. The tester includes a display operable to display the signal strength data for the first wireless network and the second wireless network....

20060014534 - System and method for providing upnp announcements convergence: A system and method for updating and/or refreshing service announcements at regular intervals to a limited device within a network. The limited device sends a signal to the other devices in the network, requesting that refreshments and/or updates be provided at certain intervals. During these intervals, the limited device can...

20060014535 - Hierarchical program packages for user terminal subscribable services: A wireless communication method for modifying a subscription that includes, receiving subscription information, demodulating the subscription information according to a wireless scheme, displaying a set of available program packages for subscription using the demodulated subscription information and allowing a selection of one or more displayed packages, wherein the subscription is...

20060014536 - Systems and methods of distributed self-configuration for extended service set mesh networks: An embodiment selects radio frequency parameters that are optimal for an extended service set mesh network having a wireless mesh of several access points and clients. This embodiment may include: periodically scanning, by all access points and clients, channels to maintain an up-to-date channel interference table and to detect an...

20060014537 - Wireless lan communication system, wireless lan connection method, and wireless lan terminal apparatus: An object of the invention is to reduce the power consumption at the time of an automatic homing operation performed between a base station apparatus and a wireless LAN terminal apparatus. When an automatic homing operation is performed in which a scanning operation is repeated for searching an AP as...

20060014538 - Frequency quality criteria for inter-frequency handover in a td-cdma communication system: A method for determining whether to perform IFHO (inter-frequency handover) of a UF apparatus from one cell to another and from one carrier frequency to another in a TD-CDMA telecommunications network (including e.g. a TD-SCDMA network)—based separately on coverage and capacity, using one decision metric for coverage (e.g. based on...

20060014539 - Method, medium, and apparatus controlling handover between different networks: A method, medium, and apparatus controlling a handover between different network types, including the operations of transmitting a message requesting a transmission bandwidth change, so as to have a transmission bandwidth supported by a new network after movement of the mobile terminal, from the mobile terminal to the server after...

20060014540 - Method of call routing in a public/private communication system: A public/private communication system is provided which includes a public communication device 100, a private communication device (102) and a radio accessory extension (RAE) 200 coupled therebetween. The RAE (200) of the present invention provides audio and/or display capability which allows the public communication device to operate as a private...

20060014541 - Method for setting cell information in radio access network: Disclosed is a method of easily and reliably setting cell information in a control-plane processing device and a user-plane processing device in a radio access network, wherein the radio access network is provided with a radio network controller, which is divided into a control-plane processing device and a user-plane processing...

20060014542 - Rate prediction in fractional reuse systems: Apparatus and methods for rate prediction in a wireless communication system having fractional frequency reuse are disclosed. A wireless communication system implementing Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) can implement a fractional frequency reuse plan where a portion of carriers is allocated for terminals not anticipating handoff and another portion...

20060014543 - Carrier allocation: In a carrier allocation scheme for a cellular communications system, cells are divided into groups of different types (CG1, CG2, CG3, CG4) and carriers (fxyz) are divided into sets (f1yz, f2yz, f3yz, f4yz) allocated respectively to the different types. Carriers may be re-used between different groups of the same type,...

20060014544 - Method and a system for selecting non-real-time users to perform cell reselection: The invention relates to traffic management in a radio system. The method comprises: monitoring at least one cell load parameter of non-real-time users in a radio cell; triggering a cell reselection process in the radio cell on the basis of a cell load parameter exceeding a pre-set cell load threshold;...

20060014548 - Determination of mobile terminal position: A multitude of measurement units is distributed over a cell area in a wireless communications system. The measurements units are instructed to measure properties of uplink signals of radio resources utilized by mobile terminals, whose position is requested. The measurements are in particular embodiments signal strength measures. The measurements are...

20060014546 - Dynamic media content for collaborators including disparate location representations: Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for delivering dynamic media content to collaborators. Embodiments typically include providing collaborative event media content including a grammar and a structured document; receiving a plurality of disparate client location representations; generating a dynamic client context for a client in dependence upon at...

20060014549 - Smart telephone call routing for wireless communication devices: The present disclosure relates to calls to a particular communication service and carrier networks, based on location of a user. The user has a wireless communication wireless communication device that functions as a locator of the user, and indicates where the user may be in proximity to communication networks that...

20060014547 - System and method for location based policy management: The disclosure is directed to a system including a set of short-range wireless access points and a policy server. The set of short-range wireless access points are configured to provide a short-range wireless network having a coverage area and are configured to communicate with a wireless enabled device within the...

20060014545 - Using multiple receive antenna to determine the location of a transmitter with respect to a receiver in ultra wideband systems: An apparatus, system, method, and computer program product for determining a location of at least an image of a transmitter transmitting a signal is disclosed. The location of at least the image of the transmitter is determined by receiving a signal transmitted by the transmitter at at least three receiver...

20060014551 - Apparatus and method for processing call in mobile communication system: An apparatus and method for processing a call in a mobile communication system are provided. In the apparatus and method for processing a call in the mobile communication system, a base station sector at which a mobile station is located and a neighboring base station sector are designated as one...

20060014550 - Supporting idle mode of mobile station in wireless access system: A method of supporting a mobile station that is in an idle mode in a wireless communication system using a paging controller comprises entering an idle mode by a mobile station, receiving a paging command from a base station in the same paging group, the paging command comprising a paging...

20060014552 - Customer service messaging, such as on mobile devices: A mobile device and corresponding service provider are configured to provide a user of the mobile device with access to one or more instant messaging help entities, from the mobile device. The one or more instant messaging help entities may be associated with the corresponding service provider or with a...

20060014553 - Wireless communication terminal for unifying multiple messages and method thereof: A wireless communication terminal having a function for unifying multiple messages and a method thereof are disclosed. The wireless communication terminal having a function for unifying multiple messages includes: a wireless transceiver; an output unit; a memory for storing a multi-message unifying interface program, a multi-message unifying program, transmitting messages,...

20060014554 - Method for terminal-assisted interference control in a multi-carrier mobile communication system: A method for terminal-assisted interference control in a mobile communication system employing multi-carrier techniques such as OFDM, the mobile communication system comprising a network with a plurality of base stations controlled by a central entity, and the base stations having means for communication with user terminals located inside their cell...

20060014555 - Method and apparatus for determining whether a talkgroup is occupied: A method and system for informing a subscriber unit in a trunked communication system of whether a talkgroup is occupied. The method and apparatus receive a request to communicate with the trunked communication system and select a talkgroup of the trunked communication system. The method and system also communicate with...

20060014556 - Method and apparatus for processing call in ptt over cellular (poc) system: A push to talk (PTT) system. Where when there is a call connection request to any terminal in a PTT system with a pre-establ