Telecommunications inventions 03/06

20060068698 - Multicarrier transmitter and method for transmitting multiple data streams with cyclic delay diversity: A multicarrier transmitter may transmit cyclically delayed linear combinations of two or more data streams with three or more antennas. In some embodiments, the multicarrier transmitter may transmit cyclically delayed linear combinations of three data streams with four antennas....

20060068697 - Transmitter: The present invention provides a transmitter conforming to the EER method in a wide frequency band at high efficiency. For this purpose, the amplitude component of a modulated signal is input to the power supply terminal of a high-frequency power amplifier 130, the I and Q quadrature signals thereof are...

20060068699 - Apparatus and method for receiving satellite dmb: Disclosed is a satellite digital multimedia broadcasting (DMB) receiving apparatus and method for tracking the position of a satellite and displaying the satellite's position on a terminal. Additionally, in the presence of an obstacle, notifying a user of a reception impossible state caused by the obstacle, in order to enable...

20060068700 - Method and system for broadcasting data messages to a vehicle: The invention provides systems and methods for targeting broadcast messages to particular vehicles or classes of vehicles. In one embodiment, the system comprises an information center for creating and sending a broadcast data message, and a relay section that receives the broadcast data message and relays the message to a...

20060068702 - Application execution method, file data download method, file data upload method, communication method, network identifier setting method and wireless communication terminal: A game device is provided with an SSID setting unit and a channel setting unit. The SSID setting unit sets up an SSID (a network identifier) in accordance with a communication mode. Communication modes include a download standby mode, a download mode, a lobby mode and a game mode. By...

20060068701 - Rfid verifier system with grade classification: An RFID verifier includes a transmit signal strength indicator (TSSI) and a receive signal strength indicator (RSSI). Using the TSSI, the RFID verifier may determine the amount of power an interrogated RFID tag is illuminated with. Similarly, using the RSSI, the RFID verifier may determine the amount of power returned...

20060068706 - Connector attached bluetooth wireless earphone: A connector attached bluetooth wireless earphone is set forth. More than one connector are attached to the earphone at random locations such that they are connected directly or indirectly with a microphone or cassette connector and then properly fix the microphone in the vehicle where it is convenient to serve...

20060068704 - Method for transmitting an assignment through wireless transmission: A method and system whereby a customer automatically receives an assignment on his wireless device without the need to visit a reservation desk. When the customer initially makes a reservation with a vendor, a computer records the wireless device's identification. When the customer arrives at or near the vendor's location,...

20060068703 - Methods and systems for proximity communication: Methods and systems to provide proximity based communication between users of proximity communication devices (“PCD”). A localized communication network is established by peer-to-peer communication between PCDs. Each PCD communicates with other PCDs in a localized, peer-to-peer network structure. Each PCD is identified to other PCDs in its own localized area...

20060068705 - System and method for coherent communication in a network: A method is provided for increasing the effective transmission range for ones of a plurality of low-power transmitters arranged in an array. In particular, the low-power transmitters are arranged to simultaneously transmit a common information stream, and the transmitters are caused to transmit in a coherent manner. The resultant transmitted...

20060068707 - Frequency selective leveling loop for multi-signal phased array transmitters: A frequency selective leveling loop that performs phase and amplitude control of multiple signals within a phased array structure is disclosed. The leveling loop sensor componants are embedded into the array structure. The frequency selective leveling loop can be used with multiple signal amplifiers, and a conventional phase array jamming...

20060068709 - Adaptive set partitioning for reduced state equalization and joint demodulation: A method and a receiver (mobile station) are described herein for mitigating interference in a radio signal received from a base station and interfered for example by at least one co-channel base station, at least one adjacent channel base station and/or additive white Gaussian noise. The receiver mitigates the interference...

20060068710 - Implementation technique for linear phase equalization in multi-mode rf transmitters: The present invention implements an architecture that changes the sequence of digital processing so that equalization occurs prior to phase accumulation. A phase differentiator receives an envelope path phase signal to produce a differentiated phase signal to an equalizer. The transfer function of the phase differentiator is implemented so that...

20060068708 - System and method of eliminating or minimizing lo-related interference from tuners: Disclosed are systems and methods of eliminating or reducing interference resulting from harmonics of local oscillator frequencies of mixers. In one embodiment, a determination is made as to a zone or zones in which harmonics result in undesired spur generation. Inter-tuner spurs and intra-tuner spurs may be identified such that...

20060068716 - Measurement of local oscillation leakage: The measuring of local oscillation leakage in radio frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) begins by concurrently enabling a transmitter portion and a receiver portion of a radio frequency integrated circuit. The processing then continues by providing a zero input to the transmitter portion such that information contained in the RF signals...

20060068714 - Method and apparatus for generating a channel estimate using a non-pilot portion of a signal: An apparatus and a method for generating a channel estimate using a non-pilot signal. More specifically, there is provided a receiver comprising a device configured to receive a transmitted signal having a pilot portion and non-pilot portion and a channel estimator configured to calculate a channel estimate based on the...

20060068712 - Method of remotely monitoring and troubleshooting multiple radio network controllers: A method of capturing data across interfaces of multiple radio network controllers, distributing the captured data for correlation on a call basis and then correlating and displaying all the captured data corresponding to each of the multiple radio network controllers. Data is captured across various interfaces of radio network controllers...

20060068713 - Mobile phone positioning apparatus for radiation testing: A mobile phone positioning apparatus provides a rotational movement and switching functionality among three planes (H, E1 and E2) as requested by a radiation test. The positioning apparatus includes a base, a support shaft, a platform and a testing plane switch apparatus. The testing plane switch apparatus is mounted on...

20060068715 - System and method for asymmetric enhanced mode operation in a digital communication system: A method for reducing interference from a wireless communications system. The interference threshold is set based on a quality criterion that can be measured during operation of the system. The quality criterion is measured during system operation. Preferably, a separate quality criterion measurement is performed for each of an uplink...

20060068717 - Method for dynamically estimating noise floor and rise over thermal (rot): A method for controlling access of a subscriber station to a wireless communications system facilitates the maintenance of a performance target of the reverse link and desired geographic coverage of the reverse link. The method for controlling access of a subscriber station to a wireless communications system includes measuring a...

20060068711 - Rfid verifier: An RFID verifier includes a transmit signal strength indicator (TSSI) and a receive signal strength indicator (RSSI). Using the TSSI, the RFID verifier may determine the amount of power an interrogated RFID tag is illuminated with. Similarly, using the RSSI, the RFID verifier may determine the amount of power returned...

20060068718 - Compact feedback for closed loop mimo: Compact feedback schemes are presented for use in closed loop multiple input, multiple output systems....

20060068719 - System and method for optimizing a directional communication link: A feedback link is provided in a directional communication system, such as a millimeter wave communication link, to allow a directional transmitter to optimize an antenna alignment and gain. A remote receiver in the directional link can receive a transmission over the directional link and determine a signal metric, such...

20060068720 - Apparatus and method for generating frequencies: A frequency generation apparatus and a method are provided. The frequency generation apparatus for generating a plurality of center frequencies for use in multi-band hopping communication, includes: an oscillator generating an oscillation frequency; a reference frequency generator multiplying the oscillation frequency by a first multiplication rate to generate a reference...

20060068721 - Rapidly adjustable local oscillation module and applications thereof: A rapidly adjustable local oscillation (LO) module for use in a radio transmitter or a radio receiver includes an oscillation generating module and a high frequency switching module. The oscillation generating module is operably coupled to generate a plurality of local oscillations. The high frequency switching module is operably coupled...

20060068722 - Wireless communications device with extendable and retractable input/output device: A wireless communications device has an audio transducer to facilitate communications via a wireless communications network. The audio transducer is disposed on an extendable member that is positionable in a retracted position and an extended position. When the extendable member is in the retracted position, the audio transducer is positioned...

20060068723 - Linear high powered integrated circuit amplifier: A linear high powered integrated circuit amplifier includes a plurality of power amplifiers, balanced integrated circuit coupling, and a combining circuit. The balanced integrated circuit coupling couples a signal to the plurality of power amplifiers to the up-conversion module such that the power amplifiers amplify the signal to produce a...

20060068724 - Radio transmitting apparatus, radio receiving apparatus, and m-ary modulation communication system: P/S conversion section 302 performs parallel/serial conversion of data sequences #1 through #4 input in parallel, in accordance with control by assignment control section 303, so that data to a higher-priority communication terminal is assigned to an upper bit in one symbol; M-ary modulation section 304 performs M-ary modulation on...

20060068725 - Feedback control loop for amplitude modulation in a polar transmitter with a translational loop: Amplitude modulation is provided for a polar transmitter that incorporates a translational loop. The input to the polar transmitter and translational loop may be an amplitude modulated signal. The amplitude modulation of the transmitter may be controlled via a closed loop to help ensure that the output of the amplifier...

20060068726 - Transmitter and radio communication terminal using the same: A radio communication terminal is provided, in which the noise reduction and the cost reduction of a dual-mode transmitter handling two types of modulation systems of a non-constant amplitude modulation and a constant amplitude modulation can be realized. By applying a phase synchronization loop to the output signal of an...

20060068727 - Method and system for dynamic range power control: A system for current efficient dynamic power range control in a transmitter lineup (10) can include a switched mixer (18) coupled to a switched step attenuator (20) and a switched power driver (22) coupled to the switched step attenuator. Linearity and efficiency can be substantially maintained for more than 70...

20060068728 - A technique of detecting the propagation environment of radio wave: In a detector device 10 of the invention, a wave detection module 20 receives and detects radio wave in a predetermined frequency band, which is used by a target wireless communication device for telecommunication. An extraction module 30 extracts a pattern representing a time-series variation in presence or absence of...

20060068729 - Portable device utilizing vehicle audio system for playing music of specific format: The invention is a portable device utilizing a vehicle audio system for playing music of specific format. The primary object of the invention is to provide a portable device capable of emitting an electromagnetic signal to shield a specific frequency of a FM radio receiver of the vehicle audio system,...

20060068730 - High frequency peak power detection circuit: A digital high frequency power detection circuit includes a peak detecting circuit and a peak computing circuit. The peak detecting circuit is operably coupled to detect a peak value of a high frequency signal and includes an amplifier, transistor, and capacitor. The amplifier has a 1st input, 2nd input and...

20060068731 - Advisory alert of low signal strength for cell phone user: The invention provides an advisory alert indicating conditions are such that an ongoing telephone call involving a cellular telephone may be dropped due to insufficient signal strength. A decrease in signal strength over time that exceeds a specified percentage decrease provides the primary basis for triggering the advisory alert. This...

20060068732 - Receiver gain control using a pilot signal: A method and system is disclosed for perform receiver gain control. A pilot signal is transmitted prior to each transmit period to facilitate an initial gain setting for a corresponding receiver period. This pilot signal has known properties and requires a much smaller receiver dynamic range than the rest of...

20060068733 - Automatic gain control for a wlan system: An Automatic Gain Control (AGC) method and system thereof. The power of a detected signal is first checked to ensure that it is large enough for AGC process. A power average of the detected signal is computed and compared to a first threshold in order to determine whether to proceed...

20060068734 - Radio receiver and radio receiving method: A radio receiver comprises an LNA which amplifies An RF signal, a quadrature demodulator which directly demodulates the amplified RF signal into a B/B signal, using a LO signal, a VGA which amplifies the B/B signal, a DC offset canceller which executes feedback control on the amplified B/B signal, and...

20060068735 - Radio receiver and radio receiving method: A radio receiver comprises an LNA which amplifies An RF signal, a quadrature demodulator which directly demodulates the amplified RF signal into a B/B signal, using a LO signal, a VGA which amplifies the B/B signal, a DC offset canceller which executes feedback control on the amplified B/B signal, and...

20060068736 - Controlling the frequency of an oscillator: A technique includes generating an analog voltage to control a frequency for an oscillator. The analog signal is converted into a digital signal, and the frequency is controlled in response to the digital signal....

20060068737 - Sigma-delta based phase lock loop: A sigma-delta based phase lock loop device is provided that includes a phase frequency detector (PFD), a charge pump and a voltage controlled oscillator. The PFD to receive a reference signal and a feedback signal and to output signals based on a comparison of the reference signal and the feedback...

20060068738 - Closed loop feedback in mimo systems: Feedback bandwidth may be reduced in a closed loop MIMO system by representing a beamforming matrix using orthogonal generator matrices....

20060068739 - Receiver, receiving method and portable wireless apparatus: This invention provides a receiver in which the calibration time by repeated operations to correct phase mismatch and amplitude mismatch between I and Q signals can be reduced. The receiver comprises mixers which convert received RF signals into quadrature modulated IF signals, signal paths which filter and amplify and output...

20060068740 - Receiver if circuit including image rejection mixer and active bandpass filter: A receiver IF circuit includes the following: a variable gain amplifier for amplifying an RF input signal; a frequency converter for mixing the amplified RF input signal and a local signal to generate polyphase intermediate-frequency signals that are used for suppressing an image component; a polyphase filter for receiving the...

20060068741 - Reducing noise and distortion in a receiver system: A receiver, implemented with low noise and low distortion, to process an input signal containing signals of interest and unwanted interference signal. In an embodiment, the receiver contains a mixer which generates an intermediate signal in the form of an electric current, and a filter which filters the unwanted interference...

20060068742 - Reducing noise and distortion in a receiver system: A trans-impedance filter circuit provided according to an aspect of the present invention contains an operational amplifier, a first resistor, a first capacitor, a second resistor, and a second capacitor. The second capacitor is connected in parallel between the inverting input terminal and an output path of the operational amplifier....

20060068743 - Receiver of double conversion system: A receiver of double conversion system wherein unwanted components included in received signals can be removed without fail and wherein the number of constituent parts has been reduced. The receiver comprises an antenna tuning circuit 10 including a tuning coil 11 and a variable-capacitance diode 13; a high frequency amplification...

20060068744 - Controlling the frequency of an oscillator: A technique includes selectively coupling impedances to an oscillator to establish a first frequency of operation of the oscillator. The technique includes repeating the selective coupling in a feedback loop to cause the first frequency to be near a second frequency....

20060068745 - Combined automatic frequency correction and time track system to minimize sample timing errors: A circuit including an analog to digital converter and a processor is disclosed. The analog to digital converter may be configured to generate a plurality of samples from a received signal in response to a reference signal. The processor may be configured to designate one of an early sample of...

20060068746 - Direct conversion receiver radio frequency integrated circuit: An integrated circuit includes an RF receiver has a direct-conversion down-converter and demodulator architecture with an integrated low noise amplifier (LNA) for operation in a frequency band of interest (cellular) and provisions for an off-chip LNA for operation in a second (higher) frequency band of interest (such as PCS). A...

20060068747 - Wireless device minimizing use of external bandpass filter between low-noise amplifier and first mixer: A receiver system design and architecture that implements a 3-step gain LNA and an analog VGA for a WCDMA handsets and local area base stations, providing a wireless device eliminating the use of external bandpass filter between low-noise amplifier and first mixer....

20060068748 - Communication semiconductor integrated circuit and radio communication system: A direct upconversion system communication semiconductor integrated circuit includes a frequency converter circuit for up-converting a transmission signal and a notch filter located at a subsequent stage of the frequency converter circuit. The notch filter is served to cut off at least third-order harmonics of a local signal....

20060068749 - Low noise filter for a wireless receiver: A low noise filter is arranged to receive an input signal from a downconverter. The low noise filter is constructed to block or cancel any DC offset in the input signal, as well as filter selected frequency components from the input signal. The low noise filter uses a shared capacitor...

20060068750 - Power-scavenging receiver to generate a signal to be used to control operational state: Methods and apparatuses for selectively powering an electronic device based on signals from a power-scavenging receiver circuit....

20060068751 - Unconnected power save mode for improving battery life of wireless stations in wireless local area networks: An unconnected power save method reduces the battery consumption of a wireless station in a wireless local area network (WLAN). A wireless station enters a sleep mode between scans for a prospective access point. The sleep duration time is determined using the current position of the station relative to the...

20060068752 - Method and apparatus for providing an alarm notification by a dispatch call: A first server (103) includes an alarm interface, receiving alarm notifications (117, 119) from alarm generating equipment (101); a communication interface, transmitting/receiving communications via a communication network (105); and a processor. The processor can receive alarm notification(s) via the alarm interface; convert the alarm notification(s) to alarm information; determine recipient(s)...

20060068753 - Emergency call handling system: An emergency call handling system and method that accepts emergency services requests (e.g., 9-1-1 calls), routes and delivers them to appropriate emergency services call takers (e.g., Public Safety Answer Points or “PSAP” and other appropriate recipients). The centralized design of the system provides additional functionality such as emergency management capabilities....

20060068755 - Early detection and monitoring of online fraud: Various embodiments of the invention provide solutions (including inter alia, systems, methods and software) for dealing with online fraud. In particular, various embodiments of the invention can provide early warning of an online fraud, for instance by finding suspicious domains and/or monitoring those domains for activity. If a suspicious domain...

20060068754 - System and method for securing a large infrastructure: A security monitoring system 10 for a large infrastructure 12 is provided. The system includes several magnetometers 14 disposed around an area 16 of the infrastructure. According to aspects of present technique at least one magnetometer 28 is configured to relay an alert signal indicating a change in a magnetic...

20060068759 - Authentication system and authentication method: A home server according to the present invention includes: a storage unit for storing an operation item indicating a type of operation content of the remote operation, and operation data in which each operation item corresponds with necessity of an authentication; a transmission-reception unit for receiving the operation direction from...

20060068757 - Method, apparatus and system for maintaining a persistent wireless network connection: A method, apparatus and system to enable remote computing devices to maintain secure persistent wireless network connections. In one embodiment, a monitoring component may determine whether a user is logged into the network. If the user is not logged into the network, the monitoring module may retrieve and apply a...

20060068756 - Mobile user authentication in connection with access to mobile services: The present invention relates to a method and a system for enabling a server (120) on a packet switched network (130) to authenticate a user of a wireless terminal (100) prior to granting the terminal access to a service administrated by the server. According to the invention, the wireless terminal...

20060068758 - Securing local and intra-platform links: A method of securing a local link may involve exchange of initiation messages and negotiation of ciphersuites across a local link. The method then transmits a server authentication and receives a client authentication. Upon validation of the server and client authentication, information from the cipher is used to encrypt communications...

20060068764 - Apparatus and method for managing messages of a wireless communications terminal: A wireless communications terminal and a method for managing messages of a wireless communication terminal includes: generating as a single file comprising a portion of messages stored in a message storage box of the wireless communication terminal; and transmitting the single file to a pre-determined e-mail address....

20060068762 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for delivering messaging service messages: A messaging service subscriber caching (MSSC) function caches mobile subscriber location information obtained from intercepted mobility management signaling messages. The MSSC function intercepts messaging service messages that are destined for a messaging service center and performs a first delivery attempt using the cached subscriber location information....

20060068763 - Polyrhythm generator for mobile audio platform applications and methods thereof: A mobile communications device includes a host processor, a host interface coupled to the host processor, a polyrhythm generator coupled to the host processor for processing a first signal and transferring the processed first signal to the host processor via the host interface, and an input device coupled to the...

20060068760 - System and method for pairing dual mode wired/wireless devices: A method and apparatus for establishing wireless communication between a first and a second dual mode device, each dual mode device having a wired communication interface and a wireless communication interface. A wired connection between the first dual mode device and the second dual mode device is established via the...

20060068761 - System and method for prioritizing a store-and-forward message: Systems and methods are disclosed for prioritizing a store-and-forward message in a store-and-forward data communication system. A store-and-forward data communication system is provided according to an embodiment of the invention. The store-and-forward data communication system includes a priority system configured to generate a priority level for a store-and-forward message. The...

20060068765 - Method and system of updating a function value on a subscriber unit and a network: In a wireless subscriber unit (26) having a receiver (36) for receiving a message (38) sent from a transmission source (21), a transmitter (60) for sending a change notification message (28) to the transmission source, and a function key (52) which operates using a function value (50), a method (100)...

20060068766 - Communication device with operational response capability and method therefor: A communication device 200 includes a memory 220, a transceiver 210, and a communication processor 215 coupled between. The memory 220 stores at least one device operation 310 associated with each of at least one linguistic term 305. The transceiver 210 is capable of receiving a communication. The communication processor...

20060068770 - Automatic call system and method, and an alert engine and an activation stage used in the system: A system for automatically calling a set of receivers includes an alert engine for commanding calls to the receivers of the set in accordance with an alert procedure defining at least one conditional transition between stages of calling a list of receivers. The alert procedure is stored in a file...

20060068769 - Detecting and diagnosing performance problems in a wireless network through neighbor collaboration: Systems and methods are described for detecting and diagnosing performance problems in wireless communications networks. Diagnostic programs execute on a wireless device, neighboring devices, and a wireless access point to collaborate in diagnosing network problems. The neighboring devices eavesdrop on a diagnostic session between the device and the access point...

20060068767 - Method, apparatus and computer program product for accessing a facility directory: Accessing information about a facility includes loading a program and profile for facility services in a memory associated with a user's wireless portable device. The services have telephones connected via a local area network (“LAN”), so that a call originating on the LAN to such a telephone may be completed...

20060068768 - Mobile telephone handset, mobile telephone system and method: A method for creating a contact on a mobile device includes processing a request from a user to create a contact or group. After a predetermined period, if a confirmation of the creation of the contact or group has not been received, then the group is deleted from the mobile...

20060068771 - Method and apparatus for high performance key detection with key debounce: A system for detecting a key with key debounce including a circuit for detecting a key activation; a first counter coupled to the circuit and a clock for testing the key activation for a first user definable number of clock cycles; a key debounce buffer for storing a key index...

20060068772 - Terminal and method of automatically executing function establishment thereof: A terminal and method of automatically executing function establishment thereof are disclosed, by which establishments of supportable services and additional functions can be supported under a user-oriented environment, by which a function establishment of the terminal can be automatically executed according to a user, and by which function establishment contents...

20060068773 - Method and system for concurrent testing of multiple cellular phones: Multiple cellular phones are connected to a test component by separate RF connections. The test component may be implemented within a test station or as a discrete test module. Each cell phone is assigned a unique channel or channels to communicate with the test component at or near the same...

20060068774 - Telephony apparatus for pbx system: There is disclosed a telephony apparatus comprising a base station and a handset, one of the base station and the handset being connected to a telephony system via an IEEE 802.11 interface, the base station and the handset each further being provided with an Bluetooth interface, speech data and/or control...

20060068775 - Apparatus and method for detecting wireless local area network signals: An apparatus and method for detecting wireless local area network (WLAN) signals scans an area for radio-wave signals that meet IEEE802.11a, 802.11b, and 802.11g standards, and converts any detected radio-wave signal into a received signal strength indicator (RSSI) data, which is stored, recorded, and compared by a control unit with...

20060068776 - Roadside narrowband wireless communication apparatus: Since transmission between a roadside antenna unit and a roadside apparatus is performed by optical communication wherein a radio frequency is transmitted as an optical signal, the system has undesirably been expensive, and teletransmission has not been offered by the system. Also, there has been another problem that workers have...

20060068777 - Air interface cooperation between wwan and wlan: Methods and systems for communicating in a wireless network include usage based switching between two or more different types of air interfaces. In example implementations, a first air interface for wireless wide area networks (WWAN) may be used for low bandwidth data transfers and a second interface for wireless local...

20060068778 - Blocking network selection redirection attempts in roaming: An apparatus for blocking of redirection attempts by a home network when a mobile unit roams in a visited network. The apparatus comprises: a detector, configured for detecting a roaming transaction by a mobile unit of a visiting user and a respective redirection attempt of the mobile unit from the...

20060068779 - Roaming of mobile radio units in a multicast digital network: During idle periods in a non trunked mobile radio network, the base stations periodically transmit a channel-marking signal. While the channel-marking signal is being transmitted base stations in the same “channel”, with adjacent coverage areas, announce information about the base station sending the channel-marking signal. Following the base station announcements,...

20060068780 - Providing mobility control information to a communications device: A method for providing mobility control information to a communications device includes determining, for a transceiver device of a communication system, mobility control information of at least one further transceiver device and broadcasting system information from the transceiver device on a basic broadcast control channel, wherein the system information comprises...

20060068782 - Cell search method and mobile communication terminal: A mobile communication terminal according to the present invention includes: a receiver for receiving a signal from a base station via an antenna; a cell search section for searching for a cell of a desired network; a cell storage section for storing information about a frequency that is used by...

20060068781 - Method and apparatus for efficient network scanning: A method and apparatus for efficient network scanning that selects candidate frequencies based upon the frequency bands that were noted as being active during a previous network scan. A mobile device performs a full network scan on power up or on radio cycle and determines the available active bands. This...

20060068784 - Location updating in communications networks: This disclosure concerns methods and systems for network communications. In one example of such a method, respective groups of cells are first allocated to respective location regions. Next, respective indicators are received from various devices, indicating the identity of the cell occupied by the corresponding device. Additionally, a database is...

20060068783 - Method for providing telecommunications services, related system and information technology product: A method for providing telecommunications services in an environment in which a plurality of telecommunications systems operate according to different standards (WLAN, UMTS) and are reachable from a terminal (T) in an integrated manner, wherein at least one of said services can be provided by more systems. Upon the provision...

20060068785 - Secure communication over a medium which includes a potentially insecure communication link: In an information processing system, a mobile phone obtains a setting program which makes security settings for ensuring security of communication by performing authentication with a communication destination on an unsecured communication link, from a registration server through a secure, first communication link; an information processing device executes the setting...

20060068786 - Dialing services on a mobile handset and remote provisioning therefor: A mobile communication device such as a mobile telephone comprises: a communication management module configured to use logic in order to manage communication, for example, correct dialing sequences, translate short codes between networks, set preferences for connecting to roaming networks etc.; and an update unit which obtains data from the...

20060068787 - Patron service allocation: Opportunistic and proactive scheduling of service establishment services can be performed, in part, by tracking customer availability to receive a service. For example, assuming a service establishment maintains a wait-list for a certain service, customers can be monitored to determine whether they appear available to receive their service at their...

20060068789 - Radio configuration selection during inter-bs call handoff: A handoff method in a wireless communication network enables radio configuration selection information to be exchanged between target and source base stations (BSs) involved in the handoff. For example, a source BS may determine that a given mobile station's Forward Supplemental Channel (F-SCH) should be handed off to a target...

20060068788 - Transfer of a service session with a mobile from a first wireless local area network to one of its neighbours: A method is provided of transfer of a service session with a mobile terminal from a first wireless local area network to one of its neighbours in a telecommunications system. According to the method, temporary credentials are provided to the mobile terminal, each being usable for access to a corresponding...

20060068790 - Wireless base station device and path search method: In a wireless base station device that communicates with a mobile device via an advance base station, the reception timing determination portion determines the reception timing of data that is transmitted by a mobile device that exists in a cell of the advance base station on the basis of the...

20060068791 - Derivation of optimal antenna weights during soft handover: Wireless communication method and system for improving optimal antenna weight derivation in transmit diversity mode during soft handover. The method and system use scale factors that depend on the reliability of the feedback information (FBI) detection on the uplink. Depending on FBI detections for each link, the scale factors are...

20060068793 - Signalling method of radio bearer information and therefor network: In a cellular communication network comprising a plurality of cells, and further comprising one or more multicast/broadcast service providers arranged to provide a plurality of multicast/broadcast services over a radio interface to a mobile communication device located in a current cell, a method is provided for providing radio bearer configuration...

20060068792 - System and method for using determination of the operating parameters of a mobile device: A system and method of determined selected operating parameters for a mobile unit (102). Mobile device performance information is monitored in at least one neighboring cell (108, 110, or 112) and mobile device performance information is monitored in a serving cell (106). Selected operating parameters of a mobile device (102)...

20060068797 - Connection management apparatus, connection management system, and connection management method: When a communication usage fee of a mobile communication terminal exceed a maximum charge, a mobile communication network side is made to manage a connection destination of the mobile communication terminal. When a mobile communication network receives a connection request message sent from a cell phone, it transmits a phone...

20060068796 - Retrieving jurisdiction information from home location register: Calls to a wireless telephone number that are to be redirected by a gateway switch to another number can be properly billed, even if the wireless telephone number is ported to another service provider by billing the wireless telephone number subscriber for the charge that would have been incurred by...

20060068795 - System and method for optimizing mobility access: A telecommunications processing device (110) includes a wireless network interface (120); and a processor (401) operably coupled to an auto detect module (121) configured to maintain a prioritized WiFi network connection list; wherein said processor (401) is programmed to attempt access a wireless packet network (102) using said wireless network...

20060068794 - System and method for using an embedded mobility algorithm: A wireless telephone includes a cellular telephone controller configured to interface the cellular telephone to a telephone network; a wireless packet network controller configured to interface the wireless telephone to one or more packet networks for voice over IP voice connection; and a wireless network access point controller configured to...

20060068798 - Method, apparatus, and system for designing and planning a shared satellite communications network: A computer-implemented satellite network planning system that enables a user to plan a satellite communications network, using an industry-standard spreadsheet as a platform. The spreadsheet contains embedded equations used to produce a network design that describes components of a physical layer of the planned network (i.e. hub terminals, satellite, and...

20060068800 - Method for mitigating intermodulation interference using channel power estimation and attenuation in a two-way radio communications system: A method for maximizing intermodulation interference protection during a handoff between radio cell sites (300) includes scanning a plurality of radio channels (302) and measuring the signal power (307, 315) for at least one of the radio channels. One or more receiver attenuators (313) are then set based on the...

20060068801 - Mobile communication system and mobile communication method: An estimator 120 of a mobile station 100a of the present invention estimates traveling speed information which is a value variable with either a traveling speed of the mobile station or a variation in the traveling speed. A comparison unit 130 or a comparison unit 320 compares the traveling speed...

20060068799 - Open-host wireless access system: An “open-host” wireless access system includes a wireless access point (AP) that identifies the SSID from a WLAN connection request. A wireless service provider (WSP) is associated with the SSID. The AP is coupled to a demarcation switch within the access system. The demarcation switch includes a series of ports,...

20060068802 - Method for calculating a dynamic set of location areas for a mobile unit: The present invention provides a method for calculating a dynamic set of location areas for a mobile unit. An initial set of location areas is defined for the mobile unit. Movement patterns of the mobile unit are determined, and a revised set of location areas for the mobile unit are...

20060068806 - Method and apparatus of selectively blocking harmful p2p traffic in network: A method of selectively blocking harmful P2P traffic on a network is provided. The method includes: (a) determining whether data transmitted to and from external terminals through the network is P2P traffic; (b) when it is determined that the data is P2P traffic, determining whether the transmitted and received P2P...

20060068804 - Techniques to preserve bandwidth in a communication system: Method and apparatus to preserve bandwidth in a communication system are described....

20060068803 - Wireless base station: In a wireless base station which, on receipt of an instruction from a host node, establishes a call through a dedicated control channel (DCCH), and establishes communication through a channel comprised of a dedicated traffic channel (DTCH) and a dedicated control channel (DCCH) multiplexed to each other, the dedicated control...

20060068805 - Wireless communication mapping apparatus, systems, and methods: Apparatus and systems, as well as methods and articles, may operate to generate a system coverage map from a plurality of geosystemic data points, as well as to change wireless system operational parameters responsive to various parameters associated with the plurality of geosystemic data points....

20060068807 - Optimised control of traffic load on switches in a communication network: The invention relates to a method and a system for optimised resource use of one or more selected switches in a communication network for alerting the population when an undesirable event occurs in a specific geographical area by means of messages transmitted via the switches. The switches may form a...

20060068809 - Method for finding the location of a mobile terminal in a cellular radio system: A system, method and device are provided which determine the position of a mobile station in connection with consulting signal delay transmission data from an almanac for the purpose of identifying the nearest set of base stations. Thereafter, the position of the mobile station is determined using multilateration....

20060068808 - Method, system and apparatus for using mobile telephone and gps receiver to inexpensively access the server based gis context for navigation operations: Method, system and apparatus for using a mobile phone with GPS receiver attached are provided for navigation operation. The GPS device locates coordinates using the Satellite Positioning System (SPS). An apparatus and method are invented to convert the GPS coordinates into encoded voice prompts, text messages or touch-tone signals. The...

20060068810 - Position calculation method and storage medium storing a program threrefor: A position calculation method includes a step of calculating error degradation quantities about respective measurement results (“distance-ranging results”) on distances between respective reference stations and a detection-target station from the respective distance-ranging results and positions of the respective reference stations, a step of calculating weight-assigning factors about the respective distance-ranging...

20060068811 - Collaboratively locating disconnected clients and rogue access points in a wireless network: Methods are described for using collaboration of neighboring wireless devices to enable location of disconnected wireless devices and rogue wireless access points. A central server computes the locations of the neighboring clients and uses those locations to estimate the location of a disconnected client. These techniques may take advantage of...

20060068812 - Scheduling tasks dynamically depending on the location of a mobile user: Systems, methods, and computer program products for automatically scheduling and rescheduling tasks based on predictable, observable, or measurable events, and on conditions occurring in the vicinity of the user's location. A plurality of tasks are defined by the user. Events or conditions depending on the user's location and affecting the...

20060068813 - Method for determining a mobility index for a mobile unit: The present invention provides a method for paging a mobile unit. A mobility index is calculated for a mobile unit. The mobility index is calculated using the last interaction of the mobile unit with the MSC, the cell sector of the mobile unit, and the time of the last interaction...

20060068818 - Audience participation method and apparatus: Apparatus for interactive broadcasting comprises: an in step device for determining predetermined times in a broadcast relevant to user interaction; a content insertion device for inserting interactivity content for sending over a network to users for interaction at the predetermined times; and an embedding unit for embedding timing control into...

20060068817 - Automated teller machine: An automated teller machine (ATM) is adapted to receive a text message from a mobile telecommunications device provided through an RF communications system. The ATM then interprets the received text message, and provides information or a service in response to the received text message....

20060068816 - Network based contacts with optional dtmf exchange of the same: A method is provided for managing contact information for a wireless mobile terminal (40) having an electronic directory that stores contacts thereon along with the telephone numbers for the contacts. The method includes: maintaining a database (70) containing contact information for a user of the terminal (40), the contact information...

20060068815 - System and method for cellular telephone network access point: A wireless telephone includes a cellular telephone controller configured to interface the cellular telephone to a telephone network; a wireless packet network controller configured to interface the wireless telephone to packet network; and a wireless network access point controller configured to interface a computer to said packet network via telephone...

20060068814 - Wireless data communication method: A data communication method for information exchange in a wireless communication system. Various types of information are stored in a database according to a predefined format, and transmitted during voice communication using an EMS message. The corresponding database of the receiver is then updated automatically according to the received EMS...

20060068819 - Radio base station system, channel assignment method and channel assignment program: A frame synchronizing unit of a slave base station synchronizes its own frame with a frame of the master base station, reception control slot setting control unit sets, as a reception control slot, a predetermined reception slot in its own frame matching in timing with a reception control slot in...

20060068820 - Wireless communication system, wireless communication apparatus and wireless communication method, and computer program: A wireless communication system in which each of communication stations performs networking operation in an autonomous, distributed manner, wherein each of the communication stations gathers information indicative of a band use situation in peripheral stations, grasps bands usable and unusable by the own station from the gathered information to set...

20060068821 - Method, device, base station and system for direct uplink access in a mobile communications network: The invention relates to a method between a communications device (110) and a communications network, which communications network generally provides at least a direct cell access mechanism and an alternative cell access mechanism for the communications device for uplink access to the communications network. The method comprises determining by the...

20060068822 - Method and apparatus for implementation of ad hoc mesh network: By using current positions or predictions of future positions of mobile wireless communication devices, the performance of an ad hoc mesh network is improved. Current positions and predictions of future positions can be used to determine when to set up communication channels between devices. Current and future positions can be...

20060068824 - Method and apparatus for interactive audience participation at a live spectator event: The present invention relates to a method for providing interactive audience participation at live spectator events. The method includes providing spectators with an interactive device that presents a promotional message and includes a user interface, broadcasting audio programming to the spectator through the interactive device, querying the spectators, wherein answers...

20060068823 - Method of compressing control information in a wireless communication system: A method of compressing uplink control information in a wireless communication system where an MSS scans neighbor BSs upon request from a serving BS and transmits neighbor BS information to the serving BS. In the method, the serving BS broadcasts a neighbor advertisement message including the BS ID of at...

20060068825 - Base station device and packet transmission power control method: Transmission destination determiner 301 selects communication terminals to be candidates to transmit a packet to from a packet transmission control signal, and determines a transmission destination apparatus based on CQI signals from the communication terminal apparatuses selected. Packet channel quality estimator estimates the quality of a received packet at the...

20060068829 - Inhibiting system traffic from unregistered mobile stations: A method and system for reducing transmissions from unregistered mobile wireless devices including inhibiting administrative type transmissions from the mobile wireless device upon detection that the mobile wireless device is in a first transmission mode indicating that the mobile wireless device is deactivated or unregistered. Moreover, the administrative type transmission...

20060068827 - Measuring power of a pilot channel of a transmit signal: The present invention provides a device for measuring a pilot channel output power of a transmitter, such as a base station transmitting spread spectrum signals. For example, the device may include a detector to deliver an analog signal or a digital number that is proportional to a code domain power...

20060068826 - Method and apparatus for controlling transmission power in a wireless network: A technique of providing wireless network service utilizes an initial threshold to determine whether a signal received from a cellular device is of sufficient strength to warrant further processing. The technique may be implemented in a power controller of a base station, where the power controller includes an outer loop...

20060068831 - Predictive power control in a digital diversity receiver: A method (300) and an apparatus (202) for a digital diversity receiver having a first receiver branch (204) and a second receiver branch (206) for adjusting a receiver power control loop during a radio frame (100) of a known length are provide. The digital diversity receiver (202) receives a first...

20060068830 - Signal configuration based transmitter adjustment in wireless communication devices: A method in a wireless communication transmitter including a baseband processor (310) that dynamically configures the transmitter for a particular signal configuration, and a headroom controller (350) for adjusting transmitter headroom based on the particular signal configuration. In one embodiment, the PA headroom is controlled based on a power metric,...

20060068828 - Using power of a pilot channel to control output power from a transmitter: The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for using power of a pilot channel to control an output power from a transmitter, such as a base station transmitting spread spectrum signals. In one embodiment, a method for controlling an output power from a transmitter associated with a communication...

20060068832 - Wireless device atttery conservation method and system: Generally, the present invention provides a method for detecting poor RF conditions, and entering different sleep mode levels or phases in accordance with the RF conditions to save battery power. Mobile device battery life can be conserved when the mobile device detects poor RF conditions and enters a deep sleep...

20060068835 - Background sound mixer for mobile audio platform applications and methods thereof: A cellular phone including a host processor, a host interface coupled to the host processor, a sound mixer coupled to the host processor and provides an output signal to the host processor through the host interface, and an audio analog-to-digital converter (ADC) coupled to the sound mixer to provide an...

20060068833 - Hand grips for hand held devices: The present invention relates to a plurality of attachable handgrips for a cell phone. Preferably the handgrips can have an elongated generally flat and flexible base member having a sticky surface for attachment to a surface portion of the cell phone. The base member also has a grip surface for...

20060068834 - Method and apparatus for detachable and configurable user interfaces for ultrasound systems: A method and apparatus for detachable and configurable user interfaces for ultrasound systems. The apparatus of one embodiment comprises a mating surface to physically receive a detachable user interface. The detachable user interface is comprised of a plurality of wireless control modules. A wireless communication device is coupled to a...

20060068838 - Apparatus and method for improving gps receive sensitivity in mobile terminal: Provided is a Global Positioning System (GPS) receive sensitivity-improving apparatus and method in a Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) mobile terminal, which improves a GPS receive sensitivity by preventing a reference frequency variation caused by a thermal transient in the CDMA mobile terminal. The mobile terminal includes a transmitter equipped...

20060068840 - Event transportation system and method: An event guide system to coordinate passenger transport and to provide event information including a transport vehicle, a host processor, and a portable processor remote from the host processor. The vehicle includes a processor capable of receiving event information and video data from the portable processor, as well as transmitting...

20060068841 - Method and apparatus for interfacing among mobile terminal, base station and core network in mobile telecommunications system: A method, apparatus and a computer readable record media storing instructions for executing the same method for interfacing among a hybrid type synchronous or asynchronous terminal to a core network in a next generation mobile telecommunications system. The hybrid type synchronous or asynchronous radio network determines the operating type of...

20060068837 - Method and apparatus for synchronizing wlan in a multi-mode radio system: Methods and apparatus for synchronizing Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) communication within a multi-mode radio. A multi-mode radio can support communication with a WLAN and at least one other wireless communication system. The multiple systems can be distinct and asynchronous. Transmitting, or attempting to transmit, over a WLAN communication link...

20060068836 - Structure of a mobile terminal for different communication systems: A mobile terminal (1) is to be suitably constructed for different communication systems. The terminal contains in its physical layer exchangeable receive modules (3) which are coupled with higher layers via a convergence layer (4). In the higher shifts is arranged a reconfigurable protocol stack (9, 10) for the different...

20060068839 - Using browser-controlled diagnostic channel to manage wireless data terminal devices: A wireless data terminal apparatus, comprising: a wireless data terminal unit configured to provide data communication over a wireless telecommunication network, the wireless data terminal unit including at least a data processor, an RF section, and a built-in diagnostic unit, wherein the built-in diagnostic unit is configured to process and...

20060068842 - Wireless communications adapter for a hearing assistance device: A wireless communications adapter adapted for connection to a direct audio input of a hearing assistance device, the wireless communications adapter adapted for radio frequency communications with a remote device. Varying embodiments enable communication using a protocol compatible with a BLUETOOTH standard to reach a hearing assistance device through a...

20060068844 - Detachable radio module: A radio module that detachably connects with a host device. A radio module is provided that includes an antenna as an integral part of the radio module. The antenna satisfies regulatory requirements by being an integral part of the radio module. The radio module includes an interface circuit that provides...

20060068843 - Mobile audio platform architecture and method thereof: A mobile communications device includes a host processor, a host interface coupled to the host processor, a mobile audio platform unit coupled to the host processor for processing a first signal and transferring the processed first signal to the host processor via the host interface, and an input device coupled...

20060068846 - Monitoring the use of services in a telecommunication network: Method for billing use of a service in a telecommunication network comprising a communication device (MOB) communicating through a network with a machine (SERV), said communication device (MOB) being coupled to a smart card (CAR), said smart card including services able to initiate an action or to receive an action...

20060068845 - Sim-card for operation with a terminal of a communication network: The invention relates to a SIM card for operation with a terminal of a communication network, characterised in being embodied as a telematic SIM card such that only connections to fixed target and/or source addresses may be generated using the terminal....

20060068847 - Mobile control system, mobile control method, mobile control device and mobile control program: A new mobile control system, a mobile control method, a mobile control device and a mobile control program, which are capable of achieving efficient control by integrating a plurality of mobile control services when simultaneously applying a plurality of mobile control services to mobile terminals or exchange networks, are provided....

20060068849 - Interference control in cdma networks: It is proposed to decrease the interference in a CDMA network by automatically adapting the radiation pattern, and thereby the coverage areas, of a cell to the service coverage area without operator intervention. This will increase the overall capacity of the network, because a fully loaded cell generates less interference...

20060068848 - System and method for load distribution between base station sectors: A base station for a cellular telecommunications network is arranged to support a plurality of angular sectors. Each sector has a single dual column antenna, or two single column antennas, and each column is dual polarized such that each element in each column has a correspondingly polarized element in the...

20060068850 - Communication apparatus and software: The communication apparatus (1) is capable of scheduling transmission of a message at a specified time to a specified communication address. The message, the time, and the communication address can be entered well before the specified time. The message is stored in a first storage means (7). The time and...

20060068851 - Accessory device for mobile communication device: An accessory device for a mobile communication device comprises a stylus containing a short-range wireless interface for communicating with the mobile communication device. The stylus can be used conventionally to input data and commands into the mobile communication device via a touch screen. Additionally, the stylus may include an input...

20060068855 - Cellular phone and operational mode switching method thereof: It is an object of the present invention to shorten the time needed to start when a cellular phone is switched on. If a power key is switched off during operation, the display of an LCD is switched off, and key interrupts and the like are masked. In this case,...

20060068853 - Gps receiver having rf front end power management and simultaneous baseband searching of frequency and code chip offset: A GPS receiver includes baseband resources for simultaneous determination of carrier frequency shift and code chip offset. Reduction in the power consumption of a receiver is achieved by managing the sampling rate of an analog-to-digital converter, the intermediate frequency of the RF front end, and the front end bandwidth so...

20060068854 - Power efficient signal acquisition with multiple receive antennas: In a wireless device having multiple receive antennas, wireless medium sensing operations are performed using a reduced number of receive antennas. Receive chains associated with unused receive antennas are deactivated to reduce power consumption within the device....

20060068852 - System for reducing power consumption of a wireless terminal and increasing capacity of a wireless communication system: A system and a method for reducing the power consumption of a wireless terminal and increasing capacity of a wireless communication system, without sacrificing the functions of the terminal. A base station includes a memory for storing the characteristics of the wireless terminal, the types of voice traffic that are...

20060068856 - Mobile wireless communications device with reduced interfering energy into audio circuit and related methods: A mobile wireless communications device includes a housing and circuit board carried by the housing. RF circuitry and a processor are operative with each other and carried by the circuit board. A receiver speaker and microphone are carried by the housing. Audio circuitry is carried by the circuit board and...

20060068857 - Hybrid mobile headset: Embodiments of a hybrid (wired/wireless) headset are described herein, including a mobile headset that provides users with the connectivity method most appropriate for a given scenario. In various embodiments, a hybrid wired/wireless headset is configurable to connect to a phone (or other connected device) using at least one of a...

20060068859 - Automatic/manual slide type communication terminal: A slide type communication terminal designed to allow a sliding operation to be smoothly completed by means of a driving unit and a travel-enlarging member. In the communication terminal having a first body and a second body, a driving unit includes a motor and a pinion connected to the motor....

20060068858 - Slider mobile telephone comprising a bending wave loudspeaker: The disclosure relates to a mobile telephone equipped with a first and a second housing part, which can be displaced in relation to one another in such a way that sections of the housing part are exposed by said displacement. Exemplary amendments are characterized in that one of the exposed...

20060057956 - Method and system for telematically deactivating satellite radio systems: A method and system for providing a user of a mobile vehicle with informational associated with a transmitted satellite radio program. The call center receives a data request for informational data associated with a radio program at a call center from a telematics unit via a wireless network. A determination...

20060057957 - Digital broadcast receiving apparatus and method thereof: A digital broadcast receiving apparatus and a method thereof are disclosed. The digital broadcast receiving apparatus includes a demultiplexer for separating a multichannel transport stream into a plurality of broadcasting channel data and outputting the broadcasting channel data, a buffer unit, including a plurality of buffers having different capacities that...

20060057958 - Method of creating active multipaths for mimo wireless systems: A method of transmission in a wireless communication system including a transmitter, a transceiver and a receiver. The transmitter transmits a first signal from to the receiver. The transceiver also receives the first signal and retransmits the first signal to the receiver by modifying the signal characteristics, such that the...

20060057959 - Radio having a mems preselect filter: The present invention provides systems and methods for pre-filter in a VHF receiver using Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) filters. The system includes an antenna, and first and second Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) filters. The first MEMS filter filters a signal received by the antenna based on a first pre-defined bandwidth, and the...

20060057961 - Coordination of cellular telephones in a residential area to obviate need for wired residential service: A comprehensive method for coordinating cellular phones in a residential area to obviate the need for wired residential service. The present invention includes coordinating a set of wireless devices in a residential area to be able to receive a call directed to a user's cellular telephone. Said wireless devices can...

20060057960 - Systems and methods for remote data storage: A mobile data repository system includes a data storage unit to store content; and a wireless controller coupled to the data storage unit, the wireless transceiver adapted to communicate with a remote processor and store data in the data storage unit....

20060057962 - Wireless communications module: An electronic system having a wireless peripheral module and a wireless network transceiver may include an interface that includes one or more co-existence signal lines that may allow coordination of wireless transmission between the wireless peripheral module and the wireless network transceiver....

20060057963 - Wireless network device and communication method using the wireless network device: A wireless network device and a communication method using the wireless network device are provided to simplify an association process of the device moving over different wireless networks and to enhance mobility of the device. The wireless network device includes an allocater allocating a device identifier (ID) to a predetermined...

20060057965 - Estimation of channel quality for wireless communication network: The present invention provides a method of estimating a channel quality of a wireless data transmission channel on the basis of channel quality indicators. By means of estimating the channel quality an accurate and momentary channel quality of a data transmission channel can be obtained on the basis of non-momentary...

20060057964 - Implementing a smart antenna in wireless local area network: A method for implementing a smart antenna in establishing association between a station (STA) and an access point (AP) in a wireless local area network begins by transmitting a beacon frame by the AP on one antenna beam. The beacon frame is received at the STA, which measures the signal...

20060057966 - Communication terminal apparatus, method of changing function and/or setting of communication terminal apparatus, and program: A communication terminal apparatus includes a situation change detecting unit that detects a change in external situation and transmits an external situation change detection signal, and a control unit that receives the external situation change detection signal, thereby reads out a predetermined function and/or setting stored in a storing unit,...

20060057967 - Power supply control apparatus and power supply control method: A port power supplying control section instructs a power supply interface section to start power supply from a port to which a power receiving apparatus successfully detected by power receiving apparatus detection processing is connected. For each port, power supply from which is started, a power supply possible/impossible judgment section...

20060057968 - Communication management method, central control station, communication station, communication management program, and computer-readale recording medium storing communication management program: A central control station carries out allocations of transmission rights according to a rule that a value obtained by subtracting (i) a value of a broken line (11) from (ii) a value of a straight line (10) is always limited according to a certain constant value (TXOP bound) smaller than...

20060057969 - Delay diversity in a wireless communication system: A wireless communication system for voice or data such as a WLAN system utilizes multiple transmit antennae and multiple receive antennae. The multiple transmit antennae exhibit different delay paths and the multiple receive antennae exhibit different delay paths. The delay of one of the transmit antennae paths is different from...

20060057970 - System and method for reducing the effects of clock harmonic frequencies: A system and a method are provided for reducing the effects of spurious frequencies in a wireless communications device. The system comprises a processor having a reference frequency input and a clock having an output connected to the processor input. The clock supplies a clock frequency, or reference frequency, to...

20060057971 - Wireless communication device and radio communication system using the same: A wireless communication apparatus has a current system and a standby system independent of each other. An interface circuit la of a radio 10a outputs two signals input from an MUX device 101 as a signal of a current system and a signal of a standby system to a V...

20060057972 - Adapter for a modular wireless communication device: A safety helmet adapter for a modular wireless communication device. The safety helmet adapter can include a base housing configured to be detachably coupled to the safety helmet, a housing cover coupled to the base housing, the housing cover having an open position and a closed position, the housing cover...

20060057973 - Adapter for a modular wireless communication device: An adapter for a modular wireless communication device. The adapter can include a lanyard, a cradle coupled to the lanyard, the cradle configured to support a short range wireless communication module, the cradle including an audio plug configured to provide a connection to the short range wireless communication module when...

20060057974 - System and method of transmitting data from an aircraft: A system and method of transmitting data from an aircraft includes a PC card that acquires aircraft data and transmits the aircraft data over a radio frequency communications signal into the skin of the aircraft, which radiates the radio frequency communications signal to a location remote from the aircraft....

20060057975 - Antenna diversity system and method for operating said system: The invention relates to an antenna diversity comprising a first and a second antenna element where the first antenna element is operated in an active mode whereas the second antenna element is operated in a parasitic mode. The present invention minimizes the amount of mismatch while still being able to...

20060057976 - Delay calibration in polar modulation transmitters: A method and apparatus for dynamically compensating for delay mismatch between a supply signal and an input signal of a power amplifier in polar modulation transmitters. One exemplary polar modulation transmitter according to the present invention comprises a power amplifier, a phase modulator, a regulator, a delay tracking circuit, and...

20060057977 - Pulse transmitters having multiple outputs in phase relationship and methods of operation: A transmitter provides a plurality of output signals. The transmitter includes a processor, a modulator, a first circuit, and a second circuit. The modulator provides a modulated signal responsive to the processor. The modulated signal includes an amplitude modulated radio frequency for transmitting a pulse. The first circuit provides a...

20060057979 - Dynamic power control circuit of wireless communication device: The present invention is to provide a dynamic power control circuit for a wireless communication device, which comprises a power detector, a comparator, a low pass filter and an adder disposed between a radio frequency auto-gain control circuit and an antenna thereof. A reference voltage is imposed on the adder...

20060057980 - Transmitter circuit with modulated power amplifier bias control based on rf carrier envelope tracking: The present invention is a transmitter circuit in which envelope tracking of a power amplifier output is used to derive its power supply modulation. The circuit includes a power amplifier for amplifying an RF signal, a voltage power source and a switching amplifier for producing a modulated output responsive to...

20060057978 - Wireless transmitter configuration: A method in a mobile wireless communication transmitter, the method including obtaining (200) transmitter power related information, for example, transmitter headroom information and transmitter inter-modulation distortion information, and requesting (210) a change in transmitter channel configuration, for example, frame size, based on the transmitter power related information obtained. In another...

20060057981 - Communication terminal device and amplifying circuit: The power-variable amplifying unit is constituted with a variable gain amplifier (21) in which a gain is variably controlled with a control voltage corresponding to the above-described TPC bit, a driver amplifier (22) with a fixed gain, and a power amplifier (23) with a fixed gain. Then, a variable resistance...

20060057982 - Transmission apparatus and mobile communication terminal apparatus: An output level of a transmission apparatus 1 is determined, depending on an attenuation amount of an attenuator 30, a gain of one of a high output level amplification section 17 and a low output level amplification section 18, which is used. A reference voltage Vref(H) is discontinuously changed. Depending...

20060057983 - Low noise image reject mixer and method therefor: A receiver (200) includes a transconductance mixer (310), a polyphase filter (320), and a transimpedance amplifier (330). The transconductance mixer (310) mixes a radio frequency (RF) voltage signal into a current signal having a plurality of phases using a local oscillator signal. The polyphase filter (320) filters the current signal...

20060057984 - Modular electronic device: A module electronic device, for example a car radio, a navigation system or a radar detection system, comprising a fixed module fitted with external electrical contact elements, which is to be mounted on a wall, for example a dashboard, and a detachable module fitted with electronic components and external electrical...

20060057985 - System and method for measuring radiation characteristic of antenna: An antenna measurement system is provided to measure the radiation characteristic of a source antenna (2), and obtain more correct far-field range data within a short period of time. The antenna measurement system includes a tester body placed apart from the source antenna (2) with a predetermined distance. A plurality...

20060057986 - Scanning receiver: With the objective of providing a scanning receiver capable of capturing a target radio wave in an extremely short period of time by use of a simple constituting means, a plurality of wide frequency division bands in which a full frequency range is divided into predetermined frequency ranges are set...

20060057987 - Terminal and associated transducer assembly and method for selectively transducing in at least two frequency bands: A terminal is provided for selectively communicating in at least two frequency bands. The terminal includes an antenna transducer including a first port and a second port, where the antenna transducer is capable of selectively transducing first radio signals (e.g., low power radio frequency (LPRF) signals) to and/or from the...

20060057988 - Low cost planar double balanced mixer: A double balanced mixer includes a local oscillator balun, a radio frequency balun and four diodes. The local oscillator balun has a transmission line, a half wavelength transmission line and a quarter wavelength transmission line mounted on a printed circuit board. The radio frequency balun has a transmission line, a...

20060057989 - Zero if down converter with even order harmonic suppression: An embodiment is directed to a zero IF down converter circuit. The circuit comprises a voltage-to-current converter, a mixer, and a suppression circuit. The voltage-to-current converter converts an RF voltage signal to an RF current signal. The mixer changes the frequency of the current signal to a lower frequency current...

20060057990 - Gain boosting rf gain stage with cross-coupled capacitors: A RF differential gain stage has cross-coupled capacitors between input and output nodes of the amplifier stage to boost gain. The gain boost allows cancellation of the series resistance of an inductive load of the amplifier stage....

20060057991 - Mixer gain control with gain tracking offsets: An apparatus and method to use a gain control network across source terminals of cascode transistors that drive a differential current to control gain. The drains of the cascode transistors are coupled to a load such as a mixer. The cascode arrangement provides high impedance coupling to the load and...

20060057992 - Frequency allocation using a single vco: An apparatus and method to use a single voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) to generate frequencies to cover multiple frequency bands. The single VCO generates local oscillator signals for more than one frequency band of a communication standard or protocol, such as the IEEE 802.11 standard....

20060057995 - Frequency synthesizer using pll architecture for wireless frequency allocation: An apparatus method to provide a frequency synthesizer using a phase locked loop in a communication device to provide a particular frequency allocation to generate an output from the PLL. The synthesizer includes a phase locked loop (PLL) circuit that has a feedback loop. The feedback loop has a feedback...

20060057996 - High frequency low noise phase-frequency detector and phase noise reduction method and apparatus: The present invention discloses a new type of extremely low-noise phase-frequency detector (PFD) 500, broadband from DC to multi-GHz RF frequencies for PLL synthesizer applications. Free of any feedback mechanisms, thus inherently fast, it operates close to transition frequency fT of IC processes or frequency limits of discrete mixers. The...

20060057993 - Method and apparatus for quadrature modulation techical field: A method and apparatus (200) for modulating I and Q signals to compensate for phase error between the quadrature outputs of a local oscillator (126) of a quadrature modulator(s). The error in the quadrature outputs of the local oscillator is effectively compensated by pre-processing (201) incoming I(t) and Q(t) baseband...

20060057994 - Multiple rate local oscillation generator and applications thereof: A local oscillation generator includes a clock circuit, a first divide module, a first mixing module, a second divide module, and a second mixing module. The clock circuit is operably coupled to generate a first clock signal. The first divide module is operably coupled to divide rate of the first...

20060057997 - Apparatus and method for pulse measurement: A measurement apparatus (1) for measuring peak pulses of a radio frequency input signal (RFinput) comprises mixing means for mixing the radio frequency input signal (RFinput) with a local oscillator signal (LO) in order to convert the radio frequency input signal (RFinput) directly to zero centre frequency thereby suppressing frequency...

20060057998 - Frequency mixing apparatus: A frequency mixing apparatus is provided. In the frequency mixing apparatus, a PMOS transistor is coupled to an NMOS transistor in a cascode configuration and an LO signal is applied to the bulks of the PMOS and NMOS transistors so that an input signal applied to their gates is mixed...

20060057999 - Mixer offset cancellation without generating i/q imbalance: An offset cancellation scheme in which offset cancellation current is sourced into one differential branch of a driver circuit and sinked from the opposite differential branch. The source/sink arrangement allows for offset cancellation current to be introduced into the circuit, but the overall total average current remains substantially unchanged. When...

20060058000 - Integrated radio frequency module: A radio frequency (RF) module includes a multilayer substrate having dielectric layers and metallization layers that include one or more circuit elements. The metallization layers are located between the dielectric layers. The RF module also includes a symmetric transmission input associated with the multilayer substrate, an RF element on the...

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20060058002 - Roadside-based communication system and method: A roadside-based communication system providing backup communication between emergency mobile units and emergency command centers. In the event of failure of a primary communication, the mobile units transmit wireless messages to nearby roadside controllers that may take the form of intersection controllers. The intersection controllers receive the wireless messages, convert...

20060058003 - Providing wired and wireless voice and data services: In a communication terminal system, a system main device (i.e., main phone) terminal has a function of a keyphone main device so that the whole system is compact and the system has a wireless Local Area Network (LAN) Access Point (AP) for wirelessly transmitting and receiving voice and data between...

20060058004 - Emergency broadcast message receiver: A method (200) and an apparatus (106) for a communication device for conveying information contained in an emergency broadcast message to an external device (110) are provided. The communication device (106) monitors (204) incoming broadcast messages in at least one of a broadcast mode and a multicast mode of a...

20060058005 - Wireless communication device for receiving an emergency broadcast message: A method (200) and an apparatus (106) for a wireless communication device for receiving an emergency broadcast message are provided. The wireless communication device (106) monitors (204) incoming broadcast messages, and determines (206) whether the incoming broadcast messages include the emergency broadcast message. If the emergency broadcast message is included,...

20060058006 - Charging efficiency: A method for performing charging in a telecommunications system, comprising: storing at a subscriber information store subscription information including charging arrangement information indicative of the charging arrangement for a first communication terminal operating in the telecommunications system; providing by means of packet data interface apparatus packet data communication services to...

20060058007 - Architecture for facilitating group sessions across dispatch operators: An inter-working network facilitating group communications among subscribers spanning a plurality of disparate dispatch networks, a signaling controller, a media gateway, a system for facilitating the monetization of inter-carrier dispatch communications and a group management server. The signaling controller and media gateway generate dispatch call records for dispatch sessions facilitated...

20060058008 - System and method for facilitating roaming of push to talk subscribers across disparate dispatch networks: An inter-working network facilitating PTT communications among roaming subscribers spanning a plurality of disparate dispatch networks includes a signaling controller, a media gateway, a system for facilitating the monetization of inter-carrier dispatch communications and a group management server. The signaling controller and media gateway generate dispatch call records for dispatch...

20060058009 - System and method for wireless download capability of media objects from multiple sources: A wireless communication system (100) capable downloading media objects (336) to a mobile device (102) from content sources (104, 106, 108) is provided. At least one server (300) includes a memory (306) that stores a download descriptor (334), associated with a media object (336), which includes multiple server identifiers (408,...

20060058010 - Telecommunications: A computer-implemented method of determining rating data for use in rating a service requested to be provided to a subscriber of a telecommunications system, the method comprising the steps of: storing individual subscriber records relating respectively to individual subscribers of a telecommunications systems. storing, in a subscriber record relating to...

20060058011 - Method and device for storing and accessing personal information: Basic personal data of an individual is stored as different data files based on content or intended use. The selection of personal data for inclusion in a data file may be performed in accordance with service provider requests or by the end user, preferably with the assistance of templates. Each...

20060058012 - Apparatus and method for im to ptt correlation of mobile phones as associated devices: Some embodiments provide a system and method for enabling automatic call configuration to associated devices of parties involved in a data session. The call configuration involves a computing device utilized by an originating party. The originating party has an associated device other than the computing device which can be used...

20060058015 - Application control system and application control method: To provide an application control system and application control method that ensure security when exercising operation control of application software from a service-providing server and prevent waste of communication resources even when control is exercised frequently. The application control system comprises a request-receiving part that receives request information that is...

20060058014 - Device and method for downloading character image from website in wireless terminal: A character service apparatus includes a character content database for storing characters and individual lists of characters purchased by each of users, a content server, connected to a data communication network, for downloading character information to terminals connected thereto, registering a purchased character in a character list of a corresponding...

20060058013 - Handheld electronic device including simplified enabling and disabling of short-range wireless communications element, and associated method: An improved handheld electronic device and an associated method provide a simplified mechanism for enabling and disabling a short-range wireless communications element used to create a connection to a short-range wireless network, such as a Bluetooth™ network. The method, implemented by the handheld electronic device, includes enabling the short-range wireless...

20060058017 - Programmable wireless electrode system for medical monitoring: A wireless, programmable system for bio-potential signal acquisition (e.g., electrocardiogram (ECG) data) includes a base unit and a plurality of individual wireless, remotely programmable transceivers that connect to patch electrodes. The base unit manages the transceivers by issuing registration, configuration, data acquisition, and transmission commands using wireless techniques. Bio-potential signals...

20060058016 - Wireless projector equipped with embedded download server: A wireless projector equipped with an embedded download server to allow users to directly download transport software and driver from a server to a client device to improve use convenience. Through the embedded download server and the technique of Universal Plug and Play (UPnP), the client device can directly download...

20060058020 - Location updating in communications networks: This disclosure concerns systems and methods for location updating in communications networks. In one example, when a device initiates a connection to an access network, by way of which a communications network is adapted to provide core network GSM functions to devices registered therewith over a non-GSM bearer, a core...

20060058019 - Method and system for dynamically modifying the appearance of browser screens on a client device: In one embodiment, a connection of a client device to a wireless access point is identified. Further, the appearance of a screen presented on the client device is modified to reflect the brand associated with a provider of the wireless access point....

20060058021 - Providing services in communications networks: This disclosure is concerned with systems and methods for network communications. In one example, a cellular telecommunications network includes a radio access network with multiple geographically distributed cells, and further includes a core network for providing cellular telecommunications network functions to devices registered therewith over a cellular telecommunications network bearer....

20060058018 - Tag for facilitating interaction with a wireless communication device: A tag is provided, which can be associated with one or more individuals and/or a connection to a predetermined network resource, and which can be used to facilitating interaction of the wireless communication device with the corresponding individual(s) and/or resource. The tag includes a transmitter and a storage element including...

20060058022 - Systems and methods for calibrating transmission of an antenna array: Disclosed herein are various embodiments of methods, systems, and apparatuses for sending and receiving signals in a digital communication system. In one embodiment performs steps of transmitting a signal from a device with a first antenna array and calibrating the signal with a phase shift of the signal. In one...

20060058023 - Educational satellite system and a method of use thereof: In one embodiment, an educational non-flight capable satellite is described comprising a plurality of modular subsystems that are adapted to be coupled together via standardized bus connectors and standard mechanical connectors. The educational satellite is fully functional and can be utilized for teaching satellite engineering and operation at high school...

20060058024 - Method and system for file management in a mobile network: The invention is concerned with a system for file management in a mobile network. The network has one or more mobile terminals having a memory with saved file information and a central database containing information to be updated. The system has means for requesting a change in the files of...

20060058025 - System and method for providing subscriber presence information in a dispatch network: A system and method for providing subscriber presence information in a dispatch network is disclosed. In an embodiment of the method, presence subscription information related to a dispatch network subscriber is provided to a home location register. A presence message is provided to a presence server related to the subscription...

20060058027 - Method and apparatus for carrier frequency estimation and correction for gps: A method and apparatus for frequency estimation useful in location determination utilizes a plurality of energy detectors to estimate the frequency associated with a peak energy value as determined by the energy detectors. An iterative process is implemented such that the frequency estimate corresponds to the Doppler frequency or carrier...

20060058026 - Methods of operating radio communications devices including predefined streaming times and addresses and related devices: Methods of operating radio communications devices may include accepting user input at the radio communications device of a streaming time to initiate media streaming, and accepting user input at the radio communications device of a network address of a streaming server to provide media streaming content. At the streaming time,...

20060058028 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for automatically provisioning intelligent network (in) platforms, including home location registers (hlrs), and routing nodes with prepaid mobile subscriber information: Methods, systems, and computer program products for automatically provisioning prepaid mobile subscriber information in a telecommunications network are provided. In one method, a location management message regarding a prepaid mobile subscriber is received at a routing node. The routing node determines whether a routing address translation entry exists for the...

20060058029 - Wireless network device and method for reassociation between wireless networks using the wireless network device: A wireless network device and a method for reassociation between wireless networks using the wireless network device designed to simplify a reassociation process of the device moving between the wireless networks are provided. The wireless network device includes a first frame transceiver receiving a reassociation request frame from a predetermined...

20060058030 - Method for dynamically adapting radio signal strength threshold level in a subscriber radio based upon site type preference: A method for dynamically adapting a radio signal strength indicator (RSSI) threshold level of a subscriber radio in two-way radio communications includes determining pre-assigned subsystem site type (211) by a subscriber radio upon attempted registration with a subscriber radio subsystem site. The RSSI threshold level within the subscriber radio is...

20060058031 - Mobile communication station , communication method and communications system: A mobile station, a telecommunications method, and a telecommunications system employing a MT-TA Interface description capable of dealing with a handover between different wireless communications methods. When a wireless channel control part receives a handover request from a corresponding mobile network, the wireless channel control part communicates with a corresponding...

20060058032 - Handoff between cellular and enterprise wireless networks: A mobile station includes a first wireless interface that can couple to a first wireless network, a second wireless interface that can couple to a second wireless network, and a controller. The controller can negotiate a first wireless link with the first wireless network using the first wireless interface and...

20060058033 - Method and apparatus for efficient neighbor cell measurement: A data packet transmission monitor (15) monitors the transmission of data packets in a given wireless communication system to determine (20) a predetermined condition. In response to determining the predetermined condition, the transceiver (14) for the base station (13) automatically sends (21) a signal to one or more wireless communication...

20060058034 - Enhanced assisted cell change: A system and method for minimizing the gap in service during the reception of an MBMS session due to the reselection of a neighboring cell in which that MBMS session is not ongoing, wherein a mobile station (MS) indicates its target cell and MBMS service id (i.e., BSIC, neighboring cell...

20060058035 - Wireless communication device and radar detection method therefor: A wireless communication device includes a receiver circuit that receives a wireless signal. Here, the wireless signal includes a signal from a node in a communication network to which the wireless communication device belongs and a radar signal. The receiver circuit detects a received power of the wireless signal. The...

20060058037 - Custom information for wireless subscribers based on proximity: A method of delivering location-specific information to a wireless subscriber includes receiving one or more rules from an information distribution entity. The one or more rules define a geographic area related to the information distribution entity and define information to be distributed to the wireless subscriber when a wireless device...

20060058038 - Method for controlling paging and registration of a mobile device in a wireless communications system: A method for locating a mobile device in a wireless communications system comprised of a plurality of base stations is provided. The method comprises associating the mobile device with a first base station of the plurality of base stations. Thereafter, a paging signal is delivered from a subset of base...

20060058039 - Method of generating control signals based on location of radio terminals: A method of generating a control signal to enable or inhibit a wide variety of applications is provided. The method generally includes the steps of determining the location of a first mobile radio terminal, determining the location of a second mobile radio terminal, comparing the locations of the terminals, and...

20060058036 - Mobile information terminal and communication system: Herein disclosed are a portable information terminal and a communication system according to the present invention. The portable information terminal comprises an information providing unit 109 for providing information in accordance with a providing method which the information providing unit 109 is set to, a providing pattern data storage unit...

20060058040 - Method and system for telematics services redirect: The present invention provides a method of operating a telematics device within a mobile vehicle communication system. The method includes receiving a request to initiate communication and identifying a request type based on the received request. The method further includes associating the identified request type with at least one service...

20060058042 - Roaming method and system in location information system: A roaming method and system using a SUPL (Secure User Plane Location)-based location information system, are provided. According to an aspect of the present invention, the method can include the steps of establishing a transmission control protocol (TCP) connection between a target terminal and a visited network associated with the...

20060058041 - System and method for providing position alerting with a mobile device: A cellular device connects with a network of base stations. Each base station covers a corresponding service area, and broadcasts unique identifying information in a standard manner. A portable computing platform is used as a POI database and server for the cellular device, and establishes a communications link with the...

20060058043 - Portable cellular phone system, and portable cellular phone terminal device, and information transmitting center used in same system: A portable cellular phone terminal device having a communication function for communicating via a network through a use of portable cellular phone services provided by a portable cellular phone service provider and an accessory function in addition to the communication function, the portable cellular phone terminal device including: a restriction...

20060058044 - Mobile station repaging method and apparatus: A system controller (10) having a first mode of operation to repage a wireless mobile station in a multi-zone wireless communication system (11). The system controller (10) accesses a location register (12) to obtain a zone location corresponding to a wireless mobile station. The system controller (10) then uses the...

20060058045 - Proximity location: The invention relates to a system (10) comprising a proximity location service application in a global network for at least one of data- and telecommunication and a network for mobile communication through mobile devices (18, 20, 22), and a method and an electronic memory therefore. The location service application provides...

20060058046 - Information delivering apparatus and information delivering method: A movement history of the user is transmitted from each of a plurality of terminals (11) owned by the user to a movement history management server (13). The server (13) filters display-conditioned information received from an information provider terminal (14) by referring to the display conditions of the information and...

20060058047 - Hard handover method and apparatus for user equipment (ue) using frequency layer convergence (flc) in a multimedia broadcast/multicast system (mbms) system: Disclosed a method for efficiently performing a frequency shift when a User Equipment (UE) intends to receive at least one service through at least one preferred frequency in a system for providing a Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service (MBMS) service. The method comprises the steps of inserting information for a preferred frequency...

20060058048 - Method and apparatus for an e-commerce message using sms: The invention provides a method for generating an SMS business message for processing by a software application comprising the steps of: a data collection interface accepting outgoing instructions and outgoing data from said software application; a message encoding engine encoding said outgoing instructions and outgoing data from said software application...

20060058049 - Network communication system: The present invention is directed to a network communication system that provides textual communication and call transferring between nodes. The system further allows simultaneous notification of multiple nodes of an incoming call. The system includes a local computer that may also serve as a node in the system. A call...

20060058050 - Private branch exchange system and service method for distributing sms messages to extension units: The present invention relates to a PBX system for providing exchange service to a number of extension subscribers. In the PBX system, a main exchange center provides a private branch exchange service to a number of extension subscribers. When a ring is received via a main line, the main exchange...

20060058051 - Mobile communication system, base station, mobile station, and radio communication method used for them: There is provided a mobile communication system capable of reducing the power consumption in the packet wait state and promptly transmitting a packet when data transmission is requested. At a predetermined synchronization establishment interval start time (T1), a base station starts transmission of DPCH (DL) which is a downlink individual...

20060058052 - System and method for queueing and moderating group talk: Systems of methods for performing queued and moderated talk groups in a system featuring network provided half duplex communications talk group sessions. For queuing, rather than dropping a talk request from a user which is listening, the request is forwarded to the network and maintained in a list which is...

20060058053 - Method for logging in a mobile terminal at an access point of a local communication network, and access point and terminal for carrying out the method: The invention relates to a method for the initial login of an especially mobile terminal at an access point of a local communication network, whereby a first transmission power of a first radio transmitter/radio receiver of the access point is reduced after detection of the terminal, in such a way...

20060058055 - Mobile communication terminal and method of controlling signal-transmission power: A mobile communication terminal includes a de-spreader which de-spreads signals received from a base station, a RAKE-synthesizer which RAKE-synthesizes the de-spread signals, a SIR detector which measures a SIR of the received signals, a SIR comparator which compares a SIR of the received signals to a target SIR, a quality...

20060058054 - Radio communication system, communition terminal device, base station device, and radio communication method: A radio communication system carrying out uplink scheduling so as to reduce interference at a base station apparatus even when there are communication terminal apparatuses in the process of soft handover. In this system, a separation section (110) of a communication terminal apparatus separates a result of demodulation of a...

20060058056 - Method for controlling handoff between secondary agents in a wireless communications system: A method for controlling a communications session with a mobile device in a wireless communications system comprised of a plurality of base stations is provided. The method comprises selecting a plurality of base stations, where at least a portion of the base stations are adapted to operate as a secondary...

20060058057 - High capacity ancillary storage unit removably attachable to mobile cellular telephone member: Cellular telephones embodying 3G system protocols with a storage drive that can add upwards of two to four gigabytes of data storage to the mobile wireless cellular telephone member in a portable attachment that is readily integratable with any standard cellular 3G telephone housing. A high function Third Generation (3G)...

20060058058 - Mobile wireless communications device with reduced interfering energy from the keyboard: A mobile wireless communications device includes a circuit board carried by a housing and having RF circuitry and a processor operative with the RF circuitry. A keyboard is carried by the housing and includes a keypad array circuit. A keypad connector is carried by the keypad and is operatively connected...

20060058060 - Mobile-service switching center, base station controller, multicall communication mode supporting terminal and method of changing number of calls in multicall communication mode: A method and apparatus of changing the number of calls in a multicall communication mode including detecting an occurrence of handover, transmitting a special message having inserted therein call-number changing information regarding the increase or decrease of a number of calls to a switching center as a connection destination connected...

20060058059 - Wireless terminal apparatus for automatically changing wlan standard and method thereof: A wireless terminal apparatus having a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) standard automatic change function and method thereof are provided. The wireless terminal apparatus comprises a memory for storing information of a condition change, a wireless communication module for communicating with a predetermined correspondent node according to a first WLAN...

20060058062 - Method for wireless network security exposure visualization and scenario analysis: According to an embodiment of the present invention, security exposure analysis of wireless network within a selected local geographic area is provided. A computer model of the selected local geographic region comprising a layout is generated. Information regarding wireless network components is provided to the computer model. Using the computer...

20060058061 - Transmitting apparatus receiving apparatus radio communication method and radio communication system: A radio communication method for transmitting data to radio stations, wherein propagation parameters to be estimated in a receiving station are controlled, based on the data transmitting, by an array antenna comprising a plurality of antenna elements to perform data transmitting in a transmitting station. This allows channels characterized by...

20060058063 - Handheld electronic device including cross application use of phone related inputs, and associated method: An improved handheld electronic device and an associated method provide added convenience for the user by enabling the user to quickly and easily initiate telephone related functions from applications other than the device's phone and address book applications using a dedicated phone related key. The device includes a plurality of...

20060058065 - Apparatus and a method for extending phone book records of a subscriber identification module (sim) card: An apparatus for extending “phone book” records of a subscriber identification module (SIM) card comprising a detecting module for accessing a subscriber identification code (SIC) of the SIM card and a memory is provided. A storage window marked by the SIC is defined in the memory. As the user edits...

20060058064 - Mobile communication terminal: When an IC card is inserted into a mobile communication terminal, a reading unit reads the identification number of the IC card from the IC card and then notifies it to an identification unit, and the identification unit determines whether or not the acquired information is stored in a storage...

20060058066 - Cordless wall phone with voltage outlet separation: A cordless wall phone with voltage outlet separation provided with a base, a recessed electrical box with an interior set within the base, a mobile handset to dial outgoing phone calls, which can rest on the base for recharging, a phone jack to receive an incoming telephone line that is...

20060058067 - System and method for transmitting data between a base station and a mobile unit using frequency-diverse carriers: A wireless communication system including a base transceiver station (BTS) adapted to transmit data to a mobile unit (MU) during a communication session by way of a first set of different frequency carriers. The BTS may send the data to the MU using CDMA modulation. The BTS may also receive...

20060058068 - Wireless communication system having a signaling gateway serving as an intermediary between a dispatch call controller and a base station: A wireless communication system including dispatch call controllers, signaling gateways, base stations, a first network coupling the dispatch call controllers to the signaling gateways, and a second network coupling the signaling gateways to the base stations. The signaling gateways serve as intermediaries between dispatch call controllers and base stations by...

20060058069 - Method and apparatus for wet contact detection in a portable communication device: A method of detecting wetness in an accessory jack of a portable communication device (100), such as a two-way radio, is provided. By monitoring an accessory jack detect pin of the radio (104) for a change in resistance (106) that falls within predetermined parameters, a determination can be made (108)...

20060058070 - Universal device with means of holding a portable electronic device and communicating therewith: Provided is a universal device comprising a main body including a plurality of connecting sections including an upper plate and a lower plate in which devices including a built-in speaker, a transceiver unit such as a piece of GPS equipment or a wireless transceiver, a swivel coupling assembly adapted to...

20060058071 - Gain selected cell phone booster: Apparatus for boosting the signal between a cell phone (14) and a cell site (16), which includes an amplifier (64) that continually operates at a fixed gain. A power detector (72) controls an attenuator (62) that can be switched to pass the amplified signal through an attenuator (74) of moderate...

20060058072 - Gain selected cell phone booster system: Apparatus for boosting the signal between a cell phone (14) and a cell site (16), which includes an amplifier (64) that continually operates at a fixed gain. A power detector (72) controls an attenuator (62) that can be switched to pass the amplified signal through an attenuator (74) of moderate...

20060058073 - Portable cellular phone holder which has an electric charging ability: Disclosed herein is a portable cellular phone holder having an electric charging function. The portable cellular phone holder is provided with a terminal cap (30) to electrically connect a contact terminal (12a) of a cellular phone (10) to a charging terminal (25) of a charger part (20) provided in the...

20060058075 - Communicating object and method of locating such an object: A communicating object comprising long-range wireless communication means, active short-range wireless location means and control means designed, on the one hand, to activate and/or deactivate, at least partly, the power supply for the long-range communication means and, on the other hand, to deactivate, at least partly, the power supply for...

20060058074 - Power dissipation reduction in wireless transceivers: Methods and circuits for reducing power dissipation in wireless transceivers and other electronic circuits and systems. Embodiments of the present invention use bias current reduction, impedance scaling, and gain changes either separately or in combination to reduce power dissipation. For example, bias currents are reduced in response to a need...

20060058076 - Recharging method and associated apparatus: The present invention provides apparatus and an associated method for remotely energizing power storage devices. Energization may preferably be effected through the use of RF energy within frequencies of the wireless fidelity standards. The remote station preferably has at least one antenna having an effective area greater than its physical...

20060058077 - Method and apparatus for spacing a display from a chassis in an information handling system: A spacer apparatus comprises a rigid base member including a stop surface located on a top portion of the base member and a resilient member coupled to the rigid base member, the resilient member positioned adjacent the stop surface. The spacer apparatus may be installed in an information handling system...

20060058078 - Positioning structure, positioning method, case and mobile communication terminal: In integrally forming a positioning convexity on an inner surface of a case, breakage during a fall and the like is prevented by increasing the strength of the positioning convexity without causing a defective appearance during the molding of the case. In performing the positioning of a top cover and...

20060058079 - Foldable portable information processing device for displaying plural images: In the event that a cellular telephone is placed in a charging stand in an incoming wait status or if a predetermined time that the device has been left unattended elapses, a slide show display is executed which sequentially switches and displays a plurality of images in the main display...

20060058080 - Demountable strapping module and handheld electronic device utilizing the same: A demountable strapping module for a handheld electronic device. A latch element engages a strapping element, and a strap winds around the engaged strapping element. The strapping element with the strap and the latch element are inserted into the handheld electronic device. Thus, it is convenient for a strap to...

20060058081 - Cellular telephone caddy: A caddy for storing and supporting a cellular telephone includes a connection for electrically connecting the telephone to a headset that has an earpiece and a microphone. A winder/reeler is also included to store the cable associated with the headset....

20060052052 - Apparatus and method for receiving digital multimedia broadcasting signals: An apparatus and method for receiving a multimedia broadcasting service in a mobile communication system including a satellite digital multimedia broadcasting (DMB) reception system and a terrestrial DMB reception system. In the apparatus, a satellite DMB modem block demodulates a satellite broadcast signal received from the satellite DMB system. A...

20060052053 - Receiver apparatus and satellite broadcast reception system therewith: In an LNB 10, a power supply circuit 12 has pre-regulators PRa and PRb provided one for each of power supply paths respectively from ports 13a and 13b, a bypass portion BP that, when the potential difference between the output terminals of the pre-regulators PRa and PRb is greater than...

20060052056 - Communication apparatus and method using human body as medium: Provided is to a communication apparatus and method using a human body as a medium, in which secure/normal data signals are transmitted/received to the inside and outside of a human body respectively, through at least two different frequency channels classified according to a predetermined reference value, to thereby efficiently use...

20060052055 - Electronic near field communication enabled multifunctional device and method of its operation: A computer program stored in a memory unit of an electronic near field communication module for near field communication devices in environments with different data formats according to different protocols is able to carry out a first initiation operation using a first data format according to a protocol of a...

20060052054 - Noncontact short distance communication system for sliding door: A noncontacting short-range communication device for a slide door for excellently performing bidirectional data communication by electromagnetic induction coupling between the side of a vehicle body and the side of the slide door is provided. Data are transmitted and received between the first communication unit 31 connected to the first...

20060052057 - Group codes for use by radio proximity applications: A wireless communication device (11) including a proximity application (11c) using a short-range radio link and using group codes (11d) for a simple determination of potential common interests with users of correspondingly configured wireless communication devices (12). The group codes (11d) indicate membership in a group of people having at...

20060052058 - Method of transferring data between two phs handsets in a short distance: The present invention is to provide a method of transferring data between two PHS handsets in a short distance, which comprises the steps of registering two PHS handsets in a group, assigning a channel for data communication therebetween, configuring two PHS handsets as a sender and a recipient in the...

20060052059 - System and method for automatically adjustable directional antenna: Systems and methods for an automatically adjustable directional antenna are provided. A broadband wireless device includes an RF transparent housing. The housing includes a directional antenna and a wireless modem coupled to the directional antenna. The wireless modem incorporates a mechanical antenna adjuster which automatically adjusts the direction of the...

20060052061 - Automatic user availability status determination for a handheld communication device: To automatically determine the availability status of the user of a handheld communication device, various selected conditions of the device may be checked, which imply whether or not the user is likely Available, or Unavailable or the equivalent. Normally, the selected conditions are checked only if the user has not...

20060052060 - Computerized recording and notification of the delivery and pickup of retail goods: Openings and closings of a secured storage receptacle are logged to record the transfer of items. The system gains access to a signal-transmitting receptacle; transmits a first confirmation signal to a mobile transmission node; processes the first confirmation signal at the mobile transmission node; transmits a second confirmation signal to...

20060052062 - Maximum likelihood estimation of the channel coefficients and of the dc offset in a digital baseband signal of a radio receiver using the sage algorithm: The proposed iterative method concurrently calculates maximum likelihood estimated values for the channel coefficients (h0, . . . , hL; θh) and the DC offset (d; θd) on the basis of a training sequence (TSC) in a TDMA mobile communications system. The SAGE algorithm leads to two recursion formulae, by...

20060052064 - Carrying case for cell phone or other device with protective end cap and cushioning: The carrying case for a cell phone or other small electronic device includes a front, a rear, two opposing sides and a bottom. A resilient plastic bottom end cap forms a protective shield at the bottom. The end cap may include recessed grooves and/or raised lands to enhance impact resistance...

20060052063 - Changeable soft cover for mobile devices: A method and apparatus for changing the appearance of a mobile device is described herein. According to the present invention, at least a portion of a housing of an exemplary mobile device comprises a soft cover having a changeable appearance. Responsive to user input, a controller disposed within the housing...

20060052065 - Transmit diversity fo base stations: A method and corresponding upgrade kit, for enhancing a base station (10) having a CDMA air interface and a passive antenna (12) with receive space diversity capability so as to provide the base station with transmit diversity capability. The method comprises attaching a radio frequency interface unit to an R.F....

20060052066 - Wireless repeater using a single rf chain for use in a tdd wireless network: A repeater for re-transmitting an incoming RF signal comprising: a first antenna array for receiving the incoming RF signal; a second antenna array for transmitting an outgoing RF signal; and a transceiver for down-converting the incoming RF signal to a down-converted signal, processing the down-converted signal, and up-converting the processed...

20060052068 - Communications signal amplifiers having independent power control and amplitude modulation: The present invention, generally speaking, provides methods and apparatus for producing an amplitude modulated communications signal, in which a constant-envelope carrier signal is modified in response to a power control signal to produce a modified constant-envelope carrier signal. The modified constant-envelope carrier signal is amplified in response to an amplitude...

20060052067 - Millimeter microwave point-to-multipoint broadcasting systems, components and methods that monitor and rebroadcast data packets: Selected data packets that were broadcast over millimeter microwave frequencies to millimeter microwave receiving stations in a millimeter microwave broadcasting system footprint are rebroadcast. Rebroadcasting is selected based upon an indication that is received from a subset of the millimeter microwave receiving stations, that the one or more data packets...

20060052069 - Communication apparatus: A communication apparatus which performs wireless communication with other communication devices existing in the neighborhood, includes: a transmission processing element 13 for processing a transmission signal; an antenna 17 for wirelessly transmitting an output of the transmission processing element 13; and an output power regulation element 16 for attenuating the...

20060052070 - Proactive gain control system for communications receivers: The present invention discloses a proactive gain control system for a communications receiver. The proactive gain control system includes a variable gain module for outputting an output signal in response to an input signal. A detector detects the output signal and outputs a detection signal representing a signal strength of...

20060052071 - System and method for reducing phase distortion in a linear transmitter: The invention decreases phase distortion in a transmitter by balancing C load in the power amplifier input such that a PGA won't have phase distortion....

20060052072 - Electronic apparatus and system with multi-purpose interface: A highly versatile interface that is capable of digital and audio signal coupling is provided. The interface comprises contacts (122, 124, 216, 218) that are used to couple both audio and digital signals, and separate contacts (126, 220) that are used initiate and negotiate signaling mode transitions. Transitions can be...

20060052073 - Wide-band modulation pll, timing error correction system of wide-band modulation pll, modulation timing error correction method and method for adjusting radio communication apparatus having wide-band modulation pll: There is provided a PLL portion containing a voltage controlled oscillator (101), a frequency divider (105), a phase comparator (104) and a loop filter (103). A frequency-dividing ratio of the frequency divider (105) is controlled to apply modulation, and also an input voltage of the voltage controlled oscillator (101) is...

20060052074 - Reactance adjustment device, transceiver and transmission device using the same, signal processing circuit suitable for them, reactance adjustment method, transmission method, and reception method: A reactance adjuster includes an electrode (123) inducing an electric-field in an electric-field transmittable medium (121), an adjusting signal generation section (13) outputting alternatingly a high level or a low level signal to a resonance section (7), an electric-field detection section (15) generating an electric signal based on the electric-field...

20060052075 - Testing integrated circuits using high bandwidth wireless technology: According to embodiments of the present invention, a UWB (ultra wideband) communication system is employed to wirelessly test and configure circuits on a die. Baseband signals may be utilized with resulting simplification in CMOS circuits, or orthogonal frequency division multiplexing may be employed to allow more than one communication channel....

20060052076 - Sample rate adaption in signal processing: The mixed signal chip (10) takes analogue signals received at, for example, a mobile telephone and converts them to the digital domain for subsequent processing. Through use of sample rate adaption and adjustable filtering, the mixed signal chip can work on radio signals formatted according to different standards....

20060052077 - Tunable compensation device and method for received signals: The present invention relates to a tunable compensation device and method for received signals. The tunable compensation device comprises a first antenna, a compensation device, a second antenna and a signal processing unit. The first antenna receives a first radio wave. The compensation device receives and compensates the first radio...

20060052078 - Device for amplifying the signal from a receive antenna: Device for amplifying the signal from a receive antenna Device for amplifying the signal from an antenna for receiving waves in a first frequency band, in particular of radiofrequency type, comprising signal amplification means and means of converting the signal from a first frequency band to a second, lower frequency...

20060052079 - Method for controlling the power consumption in an electronic appliance: A method is provided for controlling the power consumption in an electronic appliance which has a data interface suitable for data transmissions, the method involving data transmissions which arise being monitored and registered and the power consumption in the electronic appliance being controlled on the basis of the registered data...

20060052081 - Apparatus and method for displaying digital multimedia broadcasting channel information in a terminal: An apparatus and a method for displaying digital multimedia broadcasting channel information in a terminal. The apparatus includes a first display unit for displaying the digital multimedia broadcasting channel information, a second display unit for displaying program information corresponding to a channel selected by a user, and a control unit...

20060052080 - Mobile device having voice user interface, and a methode for testing the compatibility of an application with the mobile device: A mobile device or MS having voice user interface (UI) as part of its multimodal input/output capabilities is provided with a storage area for storing a profile indicating the voice UI capabilities. The profile indicates the automatic speech recognition, text-to-speech, vocabulary and grammar capabilities, amongst others. An application, such as...

20060052082 - Cellular telephone billing method featuring variable rate depending on amount of service consumed during service interval: Provided herein is a billing method for cellular service providers to offer customers which take into account the fact that an individual's use varies from one service interval to the next, and automatically adjusts the amount invoiced to the consumer based on the minutes of service actually consumed by a...

20060052083 - Method and device for subdividing data service charges in a network: A device and a method of subdividing data service charge in mobile communication network is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving a billing initiation request signal from a wireless data service device (either an interworking function (IWF) unit or a packet data serving node (PDSN)), producing a usage-amount...

20060052084 - Apparatus for and method of operating a mobile communication device sensor: A wireless apparatus includes a cellular radio interface that is adapted to perform a data exchange by way of a wireless data network, a user identity module containing information for authorization of a user for use of wireless networks, and a control unit which controls establishment and implementation of the...

20060052086 - Information link service system, electronic equipment, mobile terminal, authentication apparatus and communication method: An internet service server transmits an information link mail to a cellular phone through a cellular phone mail server. If the received e-mail is an information link mail, the cellular phone transfers it, for example, to a navigation apparatus. Upon receipt of the information link mail, the navigation apparatus starts...

20060052085 - System, apparatus and method for sim-based authentication and encryption in wireless local area network access: The invention refers to a system, apparatus and method for carrying out a SIM-based authentication of a user accessing a WLAN, without having provided yet an IP connectivity, along with a layer-2 encryption mechanism for protecting the path between the Terminal Equipment and the Mobile network. Therefore, the invention provides...

20060052089 - Method and apparatus for subscribing and receiving personalized updates in a format customized for handheld mobile communication devices: A system for communicating with a mobile device is provided by aggregating content from at least one source of content having a first set of markup tags readable by executable code on the mobile device and a second set of markup tags. The aggregated content having the second set of...

20060052088 - Scheduler system and method thereof: Disclosed is a method and system based on MAC frames for enabling a QAP to seamlessly operate between granting polls for upstream and sidestream traffic while sending downstream frames. The inventive scheduling method uses a minimum set of mandatory TSPEC parameters to generate a schedule, which provides minimum performance requirement...

20060052087 - System and method for event notifications in a multimedia network: A communication system comprising a multimedia network and an entity that is external to the multimedia network and arranged to subscribe to the multimedia network for notifications regarding events that associates with at least one other entity of the communication system. The multimedia network comprises an information storage entity for...

20060052090 - Electronic navigation system and method: The invention provides a method and system for providing route guidance and other information from a base unit to a remote unit in response to a request from the remote unit. A query is formatted at the remote unit, the query including the request, and is transmitted from the remote...

20060052091 - Advanced contact identification system: A system and method of advanced identification information to be created and distributed to users of wireless communication devices, such as mobile phones. Subscribers can define their own personas as collections of information which define the users. Subscribers can then publish their persona(s) to their friends' and associates' mobile phones,...

20060052092 - Method of configuring an in-vehicle telematics unit: The present invention present invention provides a method and system for configuring a telematics unit in a mobile vehicle. An assigned system identifier is stored in the telematics unit, and a determination is made as to whether the assigned system identifier corresponds to a broadcast system identifier. A wireless carrier...

20060052093 - Architecture and method for intercepting communications in a communications network: An architecture and method for intercepting communications in a communications network is disclosed. The architecture includes a first access device that captures call identifying information of a call to the communications network and transmits the captured call identifying information to a network infrastructure of the communications network over a communications...

20060052094 - Software-defined radio apparatus: To simplify the configuration of functional modules in a software-defined radio apparatus, and facilitate the development of software. The functional modules have input and output terminals of a common configuration. Distributed timing control is performed so that the functional modules operate in their respective timings, and the functional modules have...

20060052095 - Communication method, system, devices and software arranged to operate in this system and devices: This invention provides a communication method, system, devices and software arranged to operate in said system and devices for communicating control and guidance information, or any messages and data information between different devices (1 or 2 or 5 or 6) like mobile or fixed devices such as telephone, mobile phones,...

20060052097 - I-port controller: A multi-zone audio system is provided that is portable to a handheld audio device at a plurality of locations. The system includes a multi-zone audio system controller having an audio input/output selection circuit for selectively regulating the source and distribution of audio signals. A plurality of handheld connector docks are...

20060052098 - Method and apparatus of notifying user of service area and service type for a mobile terminal: A service area notification method in a mobile terminal wherein a current received signal strength of the mobile terminal is detected, and a service area corresponding to the current received signal strength is determined from among a plurality of service areas distinguished according to received signal strength. The user is...

20060052096 - Wireless communication systems and methods for updating locating information of mobile station using multicast: A wireless zone-based communication system (200, 300) includes a plurality of zones (150-158) being served with short data capabilities by a plurality of short data routers (220-224). At least one zone controller (210) from a number of zone controllers transmits a multicast message (430, 440) to the plurality of short...

20060052099 - Wireless protocol converter: Methods and systems for interfacing between broadband wireless communication systems and Local Area Network (LAN) systems includes a repeater station placed at a location that receives sufficient signal strength from a broadband wireless service provider. LAN devices interface with the broadband wireless service provider through the repeater station. The LAN...

20060052100 - Roaming method: The method relates to the management of roaming of mobile subscribers between a home network and foreign networks. The roaming behavior of a mobile terminal is based on roaming settings in the form of contents of different control files saved in the mobile terminal of the subscribers. A first file...

20060052101 - Method for assigning and searching a roaming number of mobile subsribers: The present invention provides a method for assigning and searching a mobile subscriber roaming number, wherein in a Visitor Location Register, the mobile subscriber roaming number is managed by a plurality of Visitor Location Register modules, said method of assigning a mobile subscriber roaming number is characterized in that, said...

20060052103 - Communication network, radio base station, radio network controller and resource management method therefor: A method includes establishing a plurality of radio links between a plurality of mobile devices and a base station. Here, the plurality of mobile devices communicate with the base station via the plurality of radio links. The method may further comprise assigning each of the plurality of radio links a...

20060052102 - Mobile radio communication apparatus for selecting a high priority system at the time of turning power on: Disclosed herein is a mobile radio communication apparatus, wherein priority data items representing the priorities of base stations are stored. The SID of the base station seized when the apparatus was turned off last is stored in the apparatus, too. When the apparatus is turned on, it may identify a...

20060052105 - Handover method used in a wireless communication system: A handover method used in a wireless communication system for handing over a mobile device from a first base station to a second base station is provided. Firstly, a first signal power between the mobile device and the first base station as well as a second signal power between the...

20060052106 - Method and apparatus for performing fast handover: A method of performing, and an apparatus to perform, handover in a mobile node, the method including selectively performing the handover according to neighbor information received from a predetermined access point, wherein the neighbor information comprises information regarding at least one access point neighboring the predetermined access point....

20060052108 - Methods and apparatus of improving inter-sector and/or inter-cell handoffs in a multi-carrier wireless communications system: A wireless communications system, e.g., an OFDM system, uses a plurality of carrier frequencies each with an associated frequency band. A base station sector transmitter in the system transmits ordinary signaling, e.g., user data, in its own assigned band. In addition the sector base station transmitter periodically transmits beacon signals...

20060052107 - Mobile communication system, handover controller, and handover controlling method: A mobile communication system of the present invention includes a handover control unit and a packet transfer network, which are independent of each other. The handover control unit selects a handover control system in accordance with a QoS. The handover control unit issues an instruction to the packet transfer network...

20060052104 - Wireless communication terminal and handoff determination method: A wireless communication terminal includes a measurement section that measures quality of a signal transmitted from a base station, a determination section that determines whether or not handoff is to be performed based on a measurement result of the measurement section and a criterion of the determination of the handoff,...

20060052109 - Motion-based user input for a wireless communication device: A method and apparatus for executing a pre-defined function responsive to user-generated motion is described herein. In exemplary embodiments, executing the pre-defined functions includes implementing a random chance game, answering an incoming call, terminating a call, initiating a call with a user-specified recipient, powering up the wireless communication device, activating...

20060052110 - Method and system for minimizing call setup delay for calls occurring in one or more wireless networks: Provided is a method and system for minimizing call setup delay in a network. The system includes a central node that may be connected to multiple home location registers (HLRs) and a number portability database (NPDB). The central node may also be associated with two tables. The first table includes...

20060052111 - Grant channel assignment: Methods and apparatus for scheduling grant channels to carry grant messages to a plurality of scheduled mobile stations. The scheduling of grant channels involves dynamically assigning to a current mobile station of the plurality of scheduled mobile stations, a previously unassigned grant channel from a list of grant channels monitored...

20060052112 - Direction finding cell phones: A direction finding system comprising: at least one first hand holdable unit comprising circuitry that transmits a radio beacon signal; and at least one second hand holdable unit having a display screen and comprising direction finding (DF) circuitry that receives a radio beacon (RB) signal transmitted by a first unit...

20060052114 - Method and system for determining the speed and position of a mobile unit: Apparatus and methods are disclosed for estimating the position and velocity of mobile wireless transmit/receive units (WTRUs) in a wireless communication system. Network stations use directional communication beams to divide service areas into sectors to provide communication services to the WTRUs. A WTRU saves pertinent information such as sector ID,...

20060052113 - Roaming presence and context management: Apparatus for mediating between a cellular telephony network and a wireless LAN, comprises a first adaptor for allowing signal exchange with the cellular telephony network, a second adaptor for allowing signal exchange with the wireless LAN; and a presence tracker associated with the adaptors for obtaining and storing a current...

20060052115 - Procedure to increase position location availabilty: A device, method and system are provide which permits the methodology used to make the position determination to change dynamically in connection with achieving a position fix of a desired accuracy....

20060052116 - Cellular phone area code look-up tables: An improved caller ID system for providing geographic location information about an incoming call to a cell phone is provided. The area code of an incoming call based on the caller ID information is detected and an area code database is accessed within the cell phone or on the cellular...

20060052117 - Mobile station apparatus paging control method and mobile communication system: A paging control method, which can change for each mobile station apparatus the number of times of paging signal retransmission in a W-CDMA mobile communication system, the method including monitoring and recording whether a mobile station apparatus responds to a paging signal or the mobile station apparatus calls; and changing...

20060052120 - Communication terminal: A device coupled to a communication terminal allows an emergency sequence to be triggered. During the emergency sequence, the communication terminal outputs a signal, so that, by way of example, a voice link is set up to a prescribed telephone number. The external triggering apparatus is in the form of...

20060052118 - Layout process for multimedia messages: The present invention is in the field of imaging. The present invention relates more particularly to an automatic layout process, on at least one page (37), for a composite multimedia message, intended to be displayed on a terminal screen, and intended to be printed using a printer communicating with the...

20060052119 - Method and apparatus for interfacing to communications messages: A user interface system is provided for managing communications messages of a communications device supporting voice and data services. The user interface system is operative to receive a data element wherein the data element identifies the type of communications message received and sender identification, display a menu upon receiving the...

20060052121 - Mobile communication system and mobile communication terminal: A mobile communication system transfers a packet to a mobile communication terminal forming an adhoc network, through a core network, based on address information of the mobile communication terminal. The address information of the mobile communication terminal includes common information which is changed when a connection point between the adhoc...

20060052122 - Radio device, channel allocation method, and channel, allocation program: When there is a connection request to a base station supporting adaptive modulation from a terminal supporting adaptive modulation, the base station measures a D wave level that indicates communication environment of the transmission path. When the measured D wave level is not lower than a threshold value of D...

20060052123 - System and method for frequency planning: A system and method for frequency planning is provided. In systems with consecutive frequency channels, half-channel frequency reuse can be provided between channels employed by different cells. Specifically, two channels in two proximately located cells can overlap within the frequency spectrum by one-half of the frequency of a channel. Half-channel...

20060052124 - Reconfigurable base station using mobile station rf asic: A reconfigurable RF transceiver for use in either a base station or a mobile station Of a wireless network. The reconfigurable RF transceiver comprises a first receive path that down-converts an incoming RF signal to analog and digital baseband signals. The first receive path in a first mode down-converts the...

20060052125 - Network and terminal for forming an adhoc network by responsive to an inquiry forwarded by a slave terminal, setting up by the master unit a connection with the terminal to be incorporated into the network: The invention relates to a network having at least one slave terminal (7-10) and a master terminal (6) that is connected thereto that is provided for instructing at least one slave terminal (7) to check for inquiries from at least one other terminal (11) to be incorporated in the network....

20060052126 - Push-to-talk signaling and media inter-working architecture: An inter-working network for facilitating dispatch communications between subscribers of disparate dispatch networks includes core inter-working components and regional inter-working components. The core inter-working components include a network management system, an address translation server, a location server and a billing clearinghouse. Regional inter-working components include a plurality of points-of-presence and...

20060052127 - System and method for voice and text based service interworking: A method of communication includes receiving a request to initiate a push-to-talk/instant messaging exchange from a push-to-talk device. A determination is made in order to ascertain if an instant messaging device is available to partake in the push-to-talk/instant messaging exchange. If the instant messaging device is available, the push-to-talk device...

20060052128 - Information terminal device: An information terminal device (10) comprises a main body case (50), a rectangular video display unit (60) provided on the front side of the main body case (50), and a plurality of audio output units (81, 82) disposed at a specified angle to the video display unit (60) and formed...

20060052129 - Method and device for playing mpeg layer-3 files stored in a mobile phone: A method and device for playing MPEG Layer-3 (MP3) files stored in a mobile phone is disclosed, which enables users to stereophonically enjoy the MP3 music stored in the mobile phone with expending battery power economically or even expending no additional battery power. The device can connect the mobile phone...

20060052130 - Architecture to facilitate interoperability and inter-working of push to talk technologies: An inter-working network includes a plurality of interfaces for facilitating communications with a plurality of dispatch networks, a proxy, a signaling bridge, a signaling controller and a signaling gateway. The interfaces include a border gateway that manages communications between the inter-working architecture and each dispatch network. The proxy analyzes incoming...

20060052131 - Multi-band wireless transceiver and method of controlling the same: A multi-band wireless transceiver having a plurality of signal-processing paths, and further having a function of making wireless communication through a plurality of frequency bands by selecting one of the signal-processing paths, includes a band identification circuit for identifying a frequency band, the band identification circuit identifying a frequency band...

20060052132 - Mobile electronic three-dimensional compass: The invention relates to a mobile electronic system. In order to expand and enhance the usability of the mobile electronic system, it is proposed that it comprises a 3D magnetometer 51 performing magnetic measurements in three dimensions and providing data indicative of the current posture of the mobile electronic system...

20060052135 - Portable cellular phone system and portable cellular phone terminal device used in same system: A portable cellular phone terminal device having a communication function for communicating via a network and at least one accessory function in addition to the communication function, said portable cellular phone terminal device including: a reading section for reading ID information containing information for connection with said network from a...

20060052133 - System and method for providing an integrated mobile, data and communication manager: A system and method for providing mobile voice and data communication capability through wireless communication with an integrated communications manager (ICM) is provided. Briefly described, in architecture, one embodiment of the system can be implemented as a wireless communication device containing a wireless communication transceiver, a power source, and a...

20060052134 - System for controlling additional function of communications terminal and the communications terminal: A technology is disclosed for providing an additional function control system which permits a carrier to select whether or not an additional function possessed by a communications terminal can be made available. A communications network is connected to a communications terminal when using a communications function of the communications terminal...

20060052136 - Applications of broadband media and position sensing phones: A cellular telephone is used as a remote control device to control operations on the users nonportable computer which is remote location to the cellular telephone. The user can carry out various operations on the cellular telephone which cause the remote computer to take some additional action....

20060052137 - Radio network controller (rnc) and method for optimising decision regarding operational states for an umts user equipment (ue): A Wireless communication s stem (100, 200) Comprises an infrastructure element that allocates wireless resources to one of a plurality of wireless communication units (112-116) dependent upon an operational state of the wireless communication unit. The infrastructure element transitions the wireless communication unit between a plurality of operational states based...

20060052138 - Multi-channel demodulation with blind digital beamforming: A system and method for receiving communication signals is provided. According to the method, a plurality of communication signals is received, each communication signal comprising one or more source signals. The plurality of communication signals are multiplexed into a multiplexed signal, which is then converted into a baseband signal. The...

20060052139 - Apparatus and method for ofdm data communications: A radio system employing Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexed (OFDM) includes a Base Transceiver Station (BTS) along with a number of mobile terminals located within a coverage area of the BTS. In this system, a target mobile terminal is provided with a focused transmission beam to receive high data rate traffic...

20060052141 - Handsfree system and mobile phone: In a handsfree system, when a mobile phone receives an incoming voice call from a mobile phone network while data communicating with a device that is an in-vehicle device (handsfree device), the mobile phone is automatically changed from a handset mode to a handsfree mode. Thereby, immediately after the mobile...

20060052140 - Methods, systems, and key fob apparatuses for facilitating hands free mobile communications from within an automotive vehicle: Methods, systems, and key fob apparatuses for facilitating hands free mobile communications from within an automotive vehicle are provided. The apparatus includes a key fob with a housing and a SIM associated with the housing. The SIM is operative to identify a subscriber to a mobile telephone network when interfaced...

20060052142 - Mobile link selection method for establishing highly efficient communications between mobile devices: The present invention provides a new solution to reliable communication between automobiles and other communications devices. It relies on multiple available wireless bands and the addition of significant memory buffering to automobiles. The memory buffering is used to enable a new communications model for messages that we call Mobile Message...

20060052145 - Data input key for a portable apparatus and key array thereof: A data input key for a portable apparatus and a key array thereof. The data input key includes a first key having a first recess positioned on the top thereof and a second key that has a second recess positioned on the top thereof, while facing the first recess, and...

20060052144 - Holder, electrical supply, and rf transmitter unit for electronic devices: A holder, electrical supply, and optional RF transmitter unit to hold, supply power to, and receive a data signal from an operating electronic device when the device (e.g., MP3 player) is held in the unit is disclosed. Electrical power enters the unit's power acquisition portion (e.g., cigarette lighter adapter) from...

20060052143 - Piezoelectric user interface: The invention relates to an apparatus (1) comprising a keypad (2), and means for generating a tactile response to a user of the apparatus when a key in said keypad is pressed. In order accomplish a simple construction requiring a minimum of space, said means for generating a tactile response...

20060052146 - Heated mounted display device with mobile phone functions: A head mounted display device with mobile phone functions comprises a transceiver for emitting and receiving wireless signals; an antenna connected to the transceiver for emitting or receiving signals; a digital content storage unit; a signal processing unit connected to the digital content storage unit for receiving signals from the...

20060046636 - Method for verifying anti-scrambling efficiency of a communication system: comparing at least one of the three ratios with a threshold value....

20060046637 - Antenna for communication with a satellite: A telecommunication system uses a satellite antenna showing on the horizontal plane, a sufficiently narrow radiation lobe to discriminate two adjacent satellites and showing on the vertical plane, a sufficiently narrow vertical lobe to ensure an adequate gain, but sufficiently ample to enable the reception of a certain number of...

20060046640 - Broadcasting receiving apparatus, broadcasting receiving method, and broadcasting receiving system: To provide a broadcasting receiving apparatus has a tuner section which selects a broadcasting signal and demodulating it to output a demodulated signal, a processing section which decodes the demodulated signal and outputs an video audio signal, and a control section which controls the broadcasting receiving apparatus to detect a...

20060046638 - Mobile satellite communication system: In a moving body satellite communication apparatus for performing communication with a satellite by an antenna with a radome mounted on a moving body such as an aircraft, loss due to transmission through the radome, and distortion of polarization characteristics are compensated in the inside of the antenna. Variable phase...

20060046639 - Vehicle oriented switched antenna system: An antenna system is provided having switched directional antennas. The antenna system includes a first antenna for receiving signals within a first directional coverage zone, and a second antenna for receiving signals within a second directional coverage zone. According to one embodiment, the first and second antennas are located on...

20060046641 - Screen protection apparatus equipped with character information transmission function: A screen protection apparatus equipped with character information transmission and calendar memo function is located in a mobile communication device. It includes a condition setting module, a display module, an information storing module, an information access module, a timer and a switch module. The condition setting module aims to set...

20060046642 - Wireless communication system and lift system having the same: A wireless communication system for providing a radio frequency (RF) link between an enclosed environment that is at least substantially shielded from RF signals, and the outside of the enclosed environment is disclosed. The wireless communication system includes at least one gateway antenna arranged at an entrance point of the...

20060046643 - Wireless communication system, relay station device and base station device: A wireless communication system, relay station device, and base station device reduce dead zones in which communication with the base station device is not possible, and enable expansion of service areas. The BS transmits to the RS burst packets and MAP messages including information providing notification of the timing of...

20060046645 - Cell phones that communicate over a network of other cell phones as well as base stations: A method for a requesting cell phone includes (1) generating a request to communicate with a base station, (2) transmitting the request to a repeater cell phone, and (3) upon receiving a response to the request, transmitting data to the repeater phone for relay to the base station. A method...

20060046646 - Method and system for deploying a wireless repeater: A method (200) of dynamically deploying wireless repeaters in a communication network can include establishing (205) a first wireless repeater serving as a communication node, evaluating (210) quality of a signal dynamically among at least one additional repeater being deployed in the communication network and the communication node, and selectively...

20060046647 - Proxy mobile station using assignable mobile identifier to access a wireless network: A proxy mobile station for retransmitting reverse channel signals from a mobile station to a base station of a wireless network. The proxy mobile station comprises: 1) a controller for receiving reverse channel data to be transmitted to the base station and transmitting the reverse channel data using an assigned...

20060046644 - Software-defined repeater for use in a wireless network: A software-defined repeater for use in a wireless network. The software-defined repeater comprises: 1) a first software-defined transceiver that receives forward channel signals transmitted by a base station and transmits reverse channel signals to the base station according to a first air interface standard; and 2) a second software-defined transceiver...

20060046648 - System for concurrent mobile two-way data communications and tv reception: A low profile mobile in-motion antenna and transmit/receive terminal system for two-way “VSAT” type satellite communication using FSS service, preferably in Ku band, supporting at the same time TV signal reception from the same satellite or a separate DBS satellite located at the same or nearby geo-stationary orbital position....

20060046649 - Targeted messaging for mobile vehicles using satellite-radio broadcasts: A targeted message is sent to a mobile vehicle using a satellite broadcast system. A satellite broadcast message including a vehicle identification tag and the targeted message is received at the mobile vehicle. A determination is made on whether to play the targeted message at the mobile vehicle based on...

20060046651 - Method and system for the configuration of a mobile station baseband circuit for an acoustic accessory: A method and system for the configuration of a mobile station baseband circuit for an acoustic accessory having an identifier, the method comprising the steps of: determining whether the mobile device recognizes the identifier of the acoustic device; and configuring the baseband circuit with a DSP filter response and CODEC...

20060046650 - Pen-type wireless transceiver for mobile communication terminal using bluetooth: Disclosed herein is a pen-type wireless transceiver for a mobile communication terminal using Bluetooth. The pen-type wireless transceiver includes a pen type body, an LED, a pattern type antenna, a speaker, an LCD display, a button unit, a battery, a microphone, a Bluetooth controller, an audio interface, a main board,...

20060046655 - Radio communication system, radio communication device, and radio communication method: A radio communication system for transmitting voice or music data includes a data supplying source device for supplying the voice or music data, the data supplying source device having a reflector for transmitting a reflected wave signal obtained by modulating a received radio wave based on the data to be...

20060046652 - Short distance wireless setting system and method for automatic transfer function of mobile phones: A short distance wireless setting system and method aim to set automatic transfer function for at least one mobile phone. The setting system includes a short distance transmission module and a short distance receiving module. The short distance transmission module is located in a transfer phone to transmit the telephone...

20060046653 - Systems and methods for bluetooth resource conservation: A Bluetooth device searches for another Bluetooth device or a Bluetooth command in response to a user intervention event. A user intervention event can take many forms, such as, for example, a connection to a power source or communication device, a mechanical configuration change, or a user input. Specifically, a...

20060046654 - Wireless communication apparatus for use in communication using identification data: A wireless communication apparatus that communicates between first and second wireless communication apparatuses. The second wireless communication apparatus includes a storage unit for storing group ID, a switch for giving instructions of setting up group ID, a transmission/reception unit for transmitting group ID read out from the storage unit to...

20060046656 - Bluetooth headset and bluetooth device connectable to audio equipment: A bluetooth headset and a bluetooth device connectable to audio equipment are provided. The bluetooth device is suitable for connecting a stereo headset. The bluetooth headset and the bluetooth device are suitable for transceiving signals in a mobile communication device and an audio equipment. Both the bluetooth headset and the...

20060046660 - Apparatus, and associated method, for calculating communication channel indications for use in a radio communication system that utilizes closed-loop power control: Apparatus, and an associated method, for determining a carrier-to-interference ratio to be used in a closed-loop power control scheme to control power levels at which data is sent to a mobile station operable pursuant to a high-rate data communications service. A signal power level calculator calculates power levels of a...

20060046661 - Coverage determination and switching between overlay communication systems: For coverage determination and system switching, a terminal obtains pilot strength estimates for base stations in first and second wireless communication systems (e.g., packet data system and voice/data system) and received signal quality estimates for at least one serving base station in the first system. The terminal derives various metrics...

20060046657 - Diversity receiver and method for estimating signal quality: Receivers (1,11) like mobile or cordless terminals and mobile or cordless base stations for receiving signals and comprising decision takers (2,12) for taking decisions like selecting antennas in antenna diversity systems (3) or like selecting channels to be used for communication (13) or like synchronisation decisions for synchronisation purposes are...

20060046659 - Providing robustness in fading radio channels: A carrier frequency is selected to be used to communicate information to a transceiver in a communication system. Selecting includes, on each of one or more carrier frequencies, transmitting a probe message to the transceiver. A frequency offset between any two adjacent ones of the carrier frequencies is at least...

20060046658 - Scheduling methods for wireless networks: The invention concerns routing, scheduling, and power control methods for single and multi-hop wireless networks. A multi-hop network is one in which source and destination nodes may communicate directly or through relay nodes. Nodes in single hop networks communicate without use of relay nodes. Embodiments of the invention may produce...

20060046662 - Packet data transmission in a mimo system: A packet data transmission system comprises primary stations (PS) having signal transmitting and receiving means and antennas (PA1 to PA4) for propagating downlink signals and receiving uplink signals and a plurality of secondary stations (SS) able to roam within the coverage areas of the primary stations. Each secondary station (SS1)...

20060046663 - Frequency synthesizer and frequency synthesis method: A dual frequency synthesizer includes a reference oscillator, an R counter, a first fractional-N phase-locked loop (for a receiving channel) and a second fractional-N phase-locked loop (for a transmitting channel) and one shared sigma-delta modulator. The reference oscillator outputs a reference oscillation frequency clock. The R counter outputs a reference...

20060046664 - Parasitic mobility in dynamically distributed sensor networks: A distributed sensor networks employing mobile sensing nodes that are carried to desired locations by attaching themselves to moving hosts and detaching themselves when the host arrives at the desired location or is moving away from the desired location. Each sensing node may carry a plurality of environmental sensors and...

20060046665 - System and method for digital memorized predistortion for wireless communication: An embodiment of the invention is a system for signal processing in preparation for wireless transmission, the wireless transmission being from a portable wireless communication device and including use of a power amplifier having nonlinear characteristics. The system includes memory for storing digitally-indexed information. The digitally-indexed information models nonlinear characteristics...

20060046666 - Transmission device, transmission output control method, and radio communication device: Either linear operating mode or saturation operating mode is set as the operating mode of a high-frequency power amplifier (15) on the basis of an operating mode set signal (107). The gain of a variable gain amplifier (14) provided in front of the high-frequency power amplifier (15) and values of...

20060046667 - Power amplifying circuit in mobile terminal: The present invention relates to a power amplifying circuit of a mobile terminal and, more particularly, to a voltage gain control circuit in a mobile terminal which is capable of acquiring a variable voltage gain. The present invention includes a transceiver controller to produce a voltage gain control signal and...

20060046668 - Power consumption controlling apparatus for high frequency amplifier: A power consumption controlling apparatus controls power consumption of a high frequency amplifier to reduce the power consumption by adjusting a power supply voltage and a bias voltage of the high frequency amplifier which amplifies a high frequency transmitting signal. The power consumption controlling apparatus includes: a receiving circuit for...

20060046669 - Method and apparatus for audio recall: A system that provides quick access to previously selected audio is disclosed. The system includes processor logic that evaluates at least a first and second user-selected audio. An input controller is dynamically-coded by the processor logic for recalling audio information associated with the first user-selected audio when the second user-selected...

20060046670 - Separation of am cochannel signals in an overloaded signal environment: Multiple cochannel AM signals received in an overloaded signal environment may be separated using RF data through a method of iterative projections....

20060046671 - Transmission device, transmission method, reception device, reception method, transmission/reception device, communication method, recording medium, and program: The present invention relates to a transmitting apparatus, a transmitting method, a receiving apparatus, a receiving method, a transceiver, a communication apparatus and method, a recording medium, and a program in which high quality voice can be decoded. A cellular telephone 421-1 outputs coded voice data and also supplies uncoded...

20060046672 - Systems and methods for blind source separation of wireless communication signals: A multi-mode receiver and methods are provided, which use blind source separation (BSS) analysis to distinguish the various wireless communication signals from each other. Specifically, different signal types can be identified by BSS. The different signal types can be in overlapping frequencies or they can be in completely different frequencies....

20060046673 - Gps receiver module: The invention relates to a receiver module (1), more particularly a GPS (Global Positioning System) receiver module for receiving PS signals and for determining position data therefrom, as well as a dual band antenna (2) for such a receiver module (1). The dual band antenna (2) has at least a...

20060046675 - Converter circuit for a limiter receiver structure and method for converting a signal in a limiter receiver structure: The present invention relates generally to a converter circuit with a limiter to convert an analog reception signal into a value-discrete limiter signal. An evaluation circuit determines a zero crossing distance signal from the temporal distances between successive zero crossings of the limiter signal. A synthesis circuit calculates a digital...

20060046674 - Envelope detector with dc level shifting: An envelope detector that does not generate an undesirable DC offset at its DC output signal. An envelope detector according to the present teachings includes a circuit for performing a DC level shift on an AC input signal applied to the envelope detector such that a magnitude of the DC...

20060046676 - Method for evaluating the redeption quality of a stereo radio set and stereo radio set: According to the invention, a precise criterion for evaluating the reception quality is derived in a stereo radio set from the signal energy or power of the upper and lower sideband (OS, US) of the L−R signal (L−R) of the stereo multiplex signal (MPX). To achieve this, the upper sideband...

20060046677 - Received signal strength measurement circuit, received signal strength detection circuit and wireless receiver: The RSSI circuit of the present invention includes: an IF amplifier section, which includes multiple stages of serially connected differential amplifiers for amplifying, with use of a current source IA provided as a power source for amplification, an IF signal corresponding to a received signal; an RSSI amplifier section for...

20060046678 - High-frequency receiver and portable device using the same: A high-frequency receiver and a portable device using the same receiver are proposed for reducing power consumption. Image interference determiner (44) determines whether or not image interference exists at the present position in a desirable channel to be received, which channel is obtained by a receiving section (39) or a...

20060046679 - Flat intermediate if filter for tuners: The invention describes an intermediate frequency input circuit (1), which is coupled between output nodes of a frequency mixing circuit (2) and input nodes of an intermediate frequency amplifier circuit (3). The intermediate frequency circuit (1) comprises a first inductor (4), a first capacitor (6) and a third capacitor (8),...

20060046680 - Wireless communication apparatus: An wireless communication apparatus having a first case and a second case connected on each end to be able to open and close. The first case has an antenna element in an end opposite to the connected end, the second case has a first display unit displaying an image on...

20060046681 - High frequency wireless receiver circuits and methods: Embodiments of the present invention include circuits for use in wireless receivers that provide wide band matching with improved gain and noise performance. In one embodiment, the present invention includes a wireless receiver comprising an antenna, a first transistor having a source coupled to the antenna, a second transistor having...

20060046682 - Dual-band bandpass filter: A dual-band bandpass filter having a first pass band and a second pass band respectively corresponding to a first frequency and a second frequency. The filter includes a first pair of resonators, a second pair of resonators and a first coupling element. The first pair of resonators includes a first...

20060046683 - Radio receiver/transceiver: A radio receiver is selectively operable in a current mode or a voltage mode according to conditions prevailing within a wireless environment. If the signal levels within the wireless environment are relatively low, the radio receiver is operable in current mode. If the signal levels within the wireless environment are...

20060046684 - User welcoming system for an automobile: A welcoming system for welcoming a user of an automobile has a host communication means provided in the automobile or a facility around a parking location of the automobile. The system further has a distance detecting means for detecting a distance between the user and the parking automobile. A welcoming...

20060046685 - System and process for automatically adjusting the acoustic settings to best fit an audio system: The present invention provides systems and a process for automatically adjusting acoustic settings that best fit the program type of an audio device. The present system includes an auto-tone control comprising a micro controller for identifying PTY information based on a PTY information signal received; and software operably connected to...

20060046686 - Method and apparatus for wireless internet access: A device for providing wireless Internet access has been described. The device includes an antenna. The antenna is for receiving wireless queries and transmitting wireless responses. The device includes a program. The program is for converting the wireless queries into Internet compatible protocols. The program is for receiving the Internet...

20060046687 - Apparatus and method for transmitting/receiving an emergency rescue request using uwb signals: An apparatus and a method for transmitting/receiving emergency rescue signals are disclosed. In the apparatus and the method, when an emergency occurs, it is possible to provide a function capable of notifying a place at which such an emergency has occurred by means of a corresponding terminal. Accordingly, when a...

20060046688 - Medium sensing histogram for wlan resource reporting: The admissibility of periodic traffic to a wireless medium can be estimated using a measurement report format that includes a field indicating the number of bins for a predetermined channel of the wireless medium that were busy during a measurement period, and a field indicating the number of bins for...

20060046689 - Mobile communication terminal, wireless data service authentication server, system for automatically blocking voice call connection, and method of processing various messages in mobile communication terminal: Disclosed is a technology for preventing a legitimate terminal's user from being damaged due to the fraudulent usage of a cloned terminal. A mobile communication terminal transmits authentication information containing terminal usage time information to a wireless network according to a voice call connection procedure, and performs a voice call...

20060046691 - Information processing device for authentication processing, information processing method, and control program for executing the method: An information processing method for an information processing device which performs multiple types of authentication processing performing authentication processing before accepting at least one or more independent services and executing the aforementioned services. The information processing method includes: a receiving step for receiving service requests including the authentication information from...

20060046690 - Pseudo-secret key generation in a communications system: Pseudo-secret key generation in a communications system. A subscriber station may be configured with a processing system having first and second security protocols. The processing system uses the first security protocol to generate a pseudo-secret key from a challenge received from a service provider, and uses the second security protocol...

20060046694 - Method and apparatus for automatically deactivating a keypad lock: The present invention relates to a method for automatically deactivating a keypad lock and a communication apparatus for performing the method, wherein when in locked mode, the communication apparatus does not react to any other keypad command but a predetermined unlocking signals and signals from numeric keys. It is not...

20060046692 - Techniques for establishing secure electronic communication between parties using wireless mobile devices: Use of electronic devices to communicate using a cryptographic key that has been exchanged by parties using mobile wireless devices. Two or more individuals may exchange identification information using a short-range wireless protocol so that the individuals may physically see and verify each other's identities, which may eliminate the need...

20060046693 - Wireless local area network (wlan) authentication method, wlan client and wlan service node (wsn): A method, Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) client, and WLAN Service Node (WSN) that allows an Extensible Authentication Protocol—Subscriber Information module (EAP-SIM) module of the WLAN client, which module may be wither downloaded from the Internet or pre-installed in the WLAN client, to extract user credentials from a Subscriber Information...

20060046695 - Interactive digital television messaging system: A message delivery system is arranged to accept a message from a message source and deliver it to a message recipient in a telecommunications system including an Intelligent Network platform having a plurality of applications, each application being stored at a respective Service Control Point within the Intelligent Network platform,...

20060046696 - System and method for maintaining on a handheld electronic device information that is substantially current and is readily available to a user: An improved system and method for managing data on a handheld electronic device includes a server that periodically pushes data to a particular handheld electronic device, with the data being stored on the handheld electronic device by way of a routine running in the background whereby such reception and storage...

20060046697 - Methods for enhanced communication between a plurality of communication systems: The present invention includes methods in an interoperability system for: notifying a user in a first communication system that a trunked radio system is ready to receive data; broadcasting or distributing an emergency announcement from a trunked radio system to the other radio systems in the interoperability system; a user...

20060046698 - Telephony service system: A method of automatically allocating a mailbox to a called party in a digital telephone network, including the steps: receiving a call to be routed to a called party; extracting one or more relevant predefined parameters from the call; using one or more of the extracted parameters to determine the...

20060046700 - Establishing special relationships between mobile devices: A method and system for establishing special relationships between mobile devices has been disclosed. The method and system configures a plurality of contact classes for a mobile device, where each contact class comprises associated properties, and assigning at least one contact to one of the contact classes. The communication between...

20060046699 - Method for changing graphical data like avatars by mobile telecommunication terminals: The present invention relates to a mobile telecommunication terminal (1) comprising display means (6), loudspeaker and microphone means and means for communication with other mobile or non-mobile communication terminals over a first connection supporting communication of speech. Said mobile telecommunication terminal (1) further supports transmission to, and representation of, proprietary...

20060046701 - Method and mobile communication terminal for answering silently a call: The invention relates in general to the field of mobile devices e.g. mobile communication terminals and a method for answering silently a call. According to the invention a call is answered silently with a mobile communication terminal in such a way that a receiver is kept on so that a...

20060046702 - Portable wireless communication apparatus: When a call is on hold due to an operating input from a key input unit, a music signal processing unit plays back music stored in a memory card and transmits it as a holding tone via a audio signal switching unit and a wireless signal processing unit to a...

20060046703 - Method and system for updating software of a cellular phone: A method and a system for updating software containing a first program and a first data group. The first program has a corresponding first program version number and the first data group has a corresponding first data group version number. The method includes providing a second program which has a...

20060046704 - Mobile communication terminal: A mobile communication terminal includes a radio unit (6) having a wireless-communications function, an input/output unit (1) for receiving disable setting information about a setting which disables the wireless-communications function of the radio unit (6), an internal memory (3) in which information indicating an operation mode of the radio unit...

20060046705 - Radio communication system: A radio communication system includes ID control equipment, a operation control unit, line controller, pieces of base station, and radio terminals. In the radio communication system, environment information about identification information (IDs) etc. set for the radio terminals is managed effectively. In the ID control equipment, an ID information setting...

20060046707 - Context-aware filter for participants in persistent communication: A processing device local context is determined, and a communication of the processing device is filtered at least in part according to the local context....

20060046706 - Monitoring and remote control of wireless communication device accessories and functionality: A method in a wireless communication device, for example a cell phone, having at least one accessory with other than wireless communication functionality, including monitoring accessory usage (410), providing accessory usage information (420), receiving a message with control information (430), controlling the accessory based on the control information received. The...

20060046708 - Device and method for controlling an authentication in a telecommunications network: The invention relates to a device and a method for controlling an authentication in a telecommunications network, using a subscriber connection device for connecting a user region to an exchange by means of an external data transmission interface and for implementing an internal data transmission interface in the user region,...

20060046709 - Proximity detection using wireless signal strengths: Described is a system and method in a wireless (Wi-Fi) network comprising a server, clients and various mechanisms that compute lists of other clients and resources that are physically nearby. Clients report Wi-Fi access points' signal strengths to a server, which uses that data to compute the proximity of resources...

20060046711 - Discovery of occurrence-data: Methods, devices, and systems for discovery of electronic occurrence-data, including data protected by an information security measure. In an approach, an exemplary system includes data storage operable to store a plurality of instances of occurrence-data, each instance of the occurrence-data having a representative feature, a central computing device operable to...

20060046710 - Test system for checking transmission processes in a mobile radio network, and method for authenticating a mobile telephone using one such test system: A test system (1) serves to check transmission processes in a mobile radio network (2). The latter comprises a central switching computer (8), a local mobile telephone (13) equipped for SIM communication, and a transmission unit (3) comprising a local transmission unit (5). Other components of the test system (1)...

20060046713 - Ipv6/ipv4 tunneling method: A mobile host MH and its home network HN correspond to both the Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) and the Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6). An authentication server (RS) is accommodated in the home network HN. A corresponding host H corresponds to the IPv6 and is accommodated in the IPv6...

20060046712 - Wireless communication of context sensitive content, systems methods and computer program product: The present invention pertains to systems, methods and computer program product that allows businesses, governments and other organizations to quickly and easily develop content in a customizable format that can be delivered within a wireless network. A wireless content delivery engine adapts content to a variety of formats suited to...

20060046714 - Mobile services control platform providing a converged voice service: A mobile services control platform supports an enhanced service, Voice Forwarding to Wi-Fi or Wi-Fi Voice. Functionally, the service allows a subscriber to use a Wi-Fi device to receive voice calls directed to his or her mobile number. In a representative example, when the user connects over a Wi-Fi network,...

20060046715 - Packetized voice communication method and system: A packetized voice communication method and system. Techniques are disclosed for supporting communication between aircraft and ground stations using packetized digitally-encoded messages. The encoded messages, which originate from verbalized messages, may be transmitted using conventional and future radio frequency (RF) radio communication technologies. Virtual channels are employed to enable a...

20060046716 - Multi-network seamless roaming through a software-defined-radio: A method is provided for seamless roaming over multiple dissimilar wireless networks leveraging a set of one or more SDRs, and possibly some traditional radio communication devices. The method includes determining whether alternate networks are available regardless of whether the SDR has only a single transmitter and receiver or multiple...

20060046718 - Presentation and management of aircraft availability data: A method for facilitating communication between a plurality of fixed base operators and a plurality of charter operators, including receiving a fixed base operator profile from a remote fixed base operator; querying a plurality of aircraft availability data based on the fixed base operator profile to obtain an opportunity; and...

20060046717 - Wireless device configuration management: A method for providing wireless device management. The method comprises receiving a first request for wireless devices comprising specified software. The specified software is loaded on each of the wireless devices in response to the first request. The wireless devices comprising the specified software are delivered. The wireless devices are...

20060046719 - Method and apparatus for automatic connection of communication devices: A method and apparatus for automatically initiating a long-range wireless connection between two or more communication devices is described herein. According to the present invention, an initiating communication device enters a connection request mode responsive to a connection request input. Once in the connection request mode, the initiating communication device...

20060046720 - Mobile communications terminal, system and method therefore: A method of obtaining communication party identity information in a mobile terminal is disclosed. According to the method, an attempt from a remote communication party to establish communication over a mobile telecommunications network is detected. First identity information about the remote communication party is determined from the detected attempt. A...

20060046721 - Dialling error warning system and method: A dialling error notification system for visiting subscribers in a visited mobile telephony network (VPLMN), a visiting subscriber being a subscriber from a home mobile telephony network (HPLMN) different from the visited mobile telephony network. The system comprises: a first node of the visited mobile telephony network comprising apparatus for...

20060046722 - Handover method for next generation mobile communication system having overlapping area: Disclosed is a handover method for an IP-based next generation mobile communication system. With a handover method including 1) determining whether or not a predetermined mobile terminal goes into the overlapping area; 2) starting a Layer 3 (L3) handover operation between the neighboring access routers as the mobile terminal goes...

20060046723 - Method and apparatus for utilizing historical network information for mitigating excessive network updates when selecting a communications channel: A method and apparatus utilizing historical network information for mitigating excessive network updates when performing channel selection between a serving base transceiver station and an adjacent base transceiver station when determined channel selection would result in either a Location Area Update (LAU) or a Routing Area Update (RAU) is presented....

20060046724 - Soft handoff management: The invention is a method for performing a soft handoff of a mobile terminal (MT) from a source (BSC) to a target BSC in a telecommunication network. The method further detects a failure at one of the target BSC and the source BSC that handle a call for the MT....

20060046729 - Call processing method and apparatus in a private communication system: A call processing method and apparatus in a private wireless communication system or WPBX, by which when the WPBX service subscriber originates a PLMN voice call in the private wireless communication service zone without inputting the preset identification number, the call is forwarded to the PSTN and/or wired/wireless Internet linked...

20060046728 - Cellular mobile communication system and method using heterogeneous wireless network: A cellular mobile communication system and method for using a heterogeneous wireless network are provided. The system includes an access point of a wireless LAN (Local Area Network) for providing a wireless resource using a wireless LAN-dedicated frequency; a base station of a cellular network connected with the access point...

20060046726 - Communication method between a fixed telephone and a personal handyphone system mobile phone by means of a two-way conversation communication function: The invention relates to a communication method between a fixed telephone and a PHS mobile phone by means of a two-way conversation function, which comprises the steps of registering a PHS mobile phone and a fixed telephone having a PHS mobile two-way communication module installed therein in the same subsystem...

20060046725 - Method and device for establishing a communication connection between an exchange and a terminal: A method for establishing a communication connection between a control center and a terminal is described, the control center (preferably a server) transmitting a request to establish a connection to a terminal (preferably a client), and in the case of a correct request, the terminal automatically establishing a connection (client-server...

20060046727 - Telecommunications wake-up system and method: A system and method for providing a telecommunication device wake-up (TWU) so vital communication, including but not limited to, priority and emergency calls, can be delivered to a telecommunications device that is turned from its normal “On-mode”, to a “Listening Mode” (LM). Telecommunication device wake-up (TWU) is crucial. Important and...

20060046730 - Support for multiple access point switched beam antennas: A plurality of virtual wireless networks are defined. Each of the plurality of virtual wireless networks has a different set of requirements. A node is capable of producing a plurality of antenna beams or patterns. Each virtual wireless network is associated with a unique group of the antenna beams or...

20060046733 - Method for controlling transmission over a radio channel between a sending unit and receiving units and equipments for implementing the method: The invention relates to a method for controlling transmission over a radio channel between a sending unit and a group of receiving units in a radio communication system, the method comprising the following steps relating to information aimed at a subgroup of at least one receiving unit of said group...

20060046731 - Radio communication apparatus: A reception processing unit measures reception states of input reception signals of each of a plurality of channels, generates local channel reception information, and applies a reception processing to the input reception signals to generate decoded signals. A media-access-control unit generates transmission frames for each of the channels using transmission...

20060046732 - Traffic channel: The present invention provides a traffic channel to a user on a mobile device. Traffic content associated with a traffic channel is automatically delivered and stored on a mobile electronic device for access by a user. Using the device, users can quickly access the traffic information without having to type...

20060046734 - Method for radio system resource managment: Radio system resource management is provided in a cellular radio communication network like a multiple-carrier network. Information is transmitted on at least one frequency range consisting of a plurality of sub-carriers. The sub-carriers of the frequency range are temporarily made available to each cellular radio for transmitting information. The sub-carriers...

20060046735 - Adaptive power control method for cellular systems: A method for adaptive power control in a mobile communication system (100) determines (120) whether an RF loading factor (110) is greater than a threshold value. If the RF loading factor is above the threshold value, the method reduces call quality (140). Next, a determination is made whether the RF...

20060046738 - Method of interpolating channel quality: The present invention discloses a method of interpolating channel quality in a wireless communication system, said wireless communication system comprising a node B and a user equipment, said user equipment periodically reporting the channel quality to said node B, said method comprising the steps of: estimating, by said node B,...

20060046736 - Methods and apparatus for managing wireless device power consumption by selecting among plural communication transceivers: A portable electronic device includes a first type of wireless transceiver and a second type of wireless transceiver. The device determines at least one of the quantity and type of data currently required to be transmitted. One of the two transceivers is selected based on the determined type and/or quantity...

20060046737 - Rapid search for optimal wireless network configuration: A search algorithm to find a globally optimal radio plan for a wireless network, including assignments of frequency and transmission power to multiple access points. Two different evaluation metrics are used in order to provide an optimal solution in a reasonable time period. Frequency searches are performed using a special...

20060046739 - Method and apparatus for improving performance in wireless networks by tuning receiver sensitivity thresholds: A method to adjust either the detection sensitivity threshold (e.g., the clear channel assessment (CCA) for an 802.11 complaint wireless transceiver) and/or the receiver communication sensitivity threshold (e.g., the start of packet (SOP) for an 802.11 complaint wireless transceiver) to improve performance in a wireless networking environment, such as a...

20060046741 - Method of establishing a communication connection: The invention concerns a method of establishing a communication connection between terminals (21 to 27) as well as a server (3) for supporting such establishment. Geographical positions of subscribers of a user group are determined. The server (3) correlates said geographical positions with road network data (31) and dynamically assigns...

20060046740 - Technique for providing location-based information concerning products and services through an information assistance service: A user who is “roaming,” as determined, e.g., by his/her use of a mobile communication device, or by his/her obtaining travel directions, may be tracked and offered various goods and services, and advertising information depending on the circumstances that the user may encounter. In a first embodiment, when a user...

20060046742 - Enabling access to private information: A method for enabling access to private information, such as private information, at a first radio telecommunications device comprising: assigning an access level to a first entity; receiving a request for private information from the first entity; determining, using the assigned access level, whether the first entity is entitled to...

20060046743 - Group organization according to device location: A location of a communication device is determined, and one or more characteristics associated with the communication device and/or a user or users thereof are applied to affect a determination of which of at least one other communication devices sharing an identified area or areas with the location of the...

20060046744 - System and method for enforcing location privacy using rights management: A system and method for securely delivering the location information of a mobile device to a location consumer is presented. In operation, the mobile device user issues a license to a location consumer. The license identifies the location consumer and any conditions the mobile device user places on the license....

20060046745 - Portable device for connection to the person: A portable device (2) comprising: unauthorized separation detection means arranged to detect the unauthorized separation of the portable device (2) from a person; and control means arranged to effect at least partial disablement of the portable device (2) in response to the unauthorized separation of the portable device (2) and...

20060046746 - System and apparatus for managing access to wireless communication devices while present within a specified physical area: A method, system, apparatus, and computer program product is presented by which mobile communications services are managed, based upon the location of the mobile communications device within absolute three dimensional area or locale, as determined by the legal managers or owners of that locale. The locale may be subdivided into...

20060046747 - Method and apparatus for processing location service messages in a satellite position location system: Method and apparatus for processing location service messages in a satellite position location system is described. In one example, a mobile receiver includes a satellite signal receiver, wireless circuitry, and at least one module. The satellite signal receiver is configured to receive satellite positioning system signals, such as Global Positioning...

20060046748 - Mobile communication network: A mobile communication network comprising a plurality of base stations and a plurality of mobile machines, the unit for supplying particular location information assigned to a predetermined particular area in advance to the mobile machines moving in the particular area and the mobile machines conduct location registration to the base...

20060046749 - Method and apparatus for locating position of a mobile device in an assisted satellite positioning system: Method and apparatus for locating position of a mobile device in an assisted satellite positioning system is described. In one example, satellite measurement data is obtained from a plurality of satellites at a mobile device. Position of the mobile device is computed using the satellite measurement data. The position is...

20060046750 - Method and system for automatically providing handset operational status information to a wireless carrier: Discloses a system to provide cellular handset operational status information to wireless carriers relating to insertion or proximity of mobile cellular handsets to a hybrid fixed wireless interface (HFWI) device. Upon handset coupling to a HFWI, by insertion of the handset into a receiving connector on the HFWI or proximity...

20060046752 - Mobile services control platform providing a message forwarding service: A mobile services control platform supports enhanced services for SMS or MMS message forwarding. The service allows a subscriber to receive SMS (Short Message Service) directed to his or her mobile number across a range of devices, depending on the context, the device, and the network the user is connected...

20060046751 - Status request messages for use on a mobile handset: An efficient way to communication with a mobile handset for testing and debugging is described. Additionally, the communication process can also be used to make updates to the mobile handset. Data from a mobile handset can be analyzed. This data may include, for example, information relating to the performance of...

20060046753 - Systems and methods for object identification: Methods and systems for providing information services over a communications network include steps and structure for receiving an inquiry message from a mobile subscriber relating to an information service that is desired by the mobile subscriber, routing the inquiry message for processing, performing one or more activities in accordance with...

20060046754 - Proxy translator for extending the coverage area of a wireless network: A proxy translator for use in a wireless network. The proxy translator re-transmits forward and reverse channel signals between a base station and mobile stations. The proxy translator comprises a first proxy mobile station that communicate with a base station and a proxy base transceiver subsystem (BTS) that communicates with...

20060046758 - Methods of retrieving a message from a message server in a push-to-talk network: In a push-to-talk communications network, a method of retrieving a set of messages from a message server to a first receiving device is disclosed. The method includes sending a notification for each of the set of messages to the first receiving device that the set of messages can be retrieved,...

20060046757 - Methods of transmitting a message to a message server in a push-to-talk network: In a push-to-talk communications network, a method of transmitting a message from a sending device to a set of receiving devices is disclosed. The method includes selecting the set of receiving devices from a contact list on the sending device, such that each of the receiving devices has an address...

20060046759 - Mobile communication system using push to talk scheme for supplying location based service and method therefor: A mobile communication system using a push to talk (PTT) scheme for providing a location based service (LBS) is provided. The system comprises a positioning server for confirming requested location information and transmitting subscriber information corresponding to the requested location information in cooperation with a mobile switching center and a...

20060046756 - System and method for transmitting and playing alert tones in a push-to-talk system: A system and method for transmitting alert tone information among communicating wireless devices to identify a speaker in a push-to-talk system. A predefined set of alert tones is stored in a wireless device, and when a user presses a push-to-talk button on the wireless device, the wireless device displays a...

20060046755 - System and method for transmitting graphics data in a push-to-talk system: A system and method that transmits and displays graphical images among wireless devices in a push-to-talk system A predefined set of graphical images is stored in a wireless device, and when a user presses a push-to-talk button on the wireless device, the wireless device displays a list of predefined images...

20060046761 - Method and apparatus to customize a universal notifier: A universal notifier (115) is individualized with an appended custom tag so that users may recognize calls intended for them. When a call transmitted from a communication device (101), is received by a recipient communication device (103), the universal notifier, for example an existing private call receive tone, is generated,...

20060046760 - Optimistic talk-permit reliability enhancement in a push-to-talk system: A system, method, and computer program for providing a greater reliability for a direct-communication, such as push-to-talk communication, being bridged between members of a communicating group of wireless telecommunication devices. Each wireless telecommunication device, such as a cellular telephone or PDA, of a plurality periodically informs a group communication server...

20060046762 - System and method for controlling congestion between response messages responsive to a group call page in a mobile communication system: A system and method for controlling congestion between response messages responsive to a group call page in a mobile communication system are provided. Efficient group call control is accomplished by transmitting a group call page message comprising a group call identifier to an access terminal through a control channel, and...

20060046765 - Base station, mobile station and control method therefor: An exemplary method for a communication network according to the present invention includes detecting movement of a mobile station, and modifying a control for the communication network based on the detection of the movement. In an exemplary embodiment, a transmit power control may be increased or decreased based the movement...

20060046763 - Method and apparatus for dual mode power control: An apparatus and method for dual mode power control. A transmitter is capable of operating in a first mode of operation and a second mode of operation, the first mode of operation and the second mode of operation including a closed loop control mode and an open loop control mode,...

20060046766 - Method and system for bidirectional communications and power transmission: A system for bidirectional data and power transmission are shown and described. In an embodiment, the system includes a network power controller that protects the network against over-current conditions by disconnecting system power when high current is detected at the power input. In an embodiment, power and data are transmitted...

20060046767 - Open-loop power control enhancement for blind rescue channel operation: A method and apparatus for determining an efficient and reliable power level for the MS's transmitter for reverse link communications during a rescue procedure to rescue dropped calls quickly and with a high success rate is disclosed. A mobile station's mean rescue transmission output power level is computed by first...

20060046764 - Output power error absorbing circuit and multi-carrier transmitter having the same: A power correction value generating unit determines a power correction value for minimizing an error, from a reference output power value of a carrier multiplexed signal, generating due to peak power suppression under a carrier setting based on the carrier setting relating to either one or both of the number...

20060046768 - Mobile phone address book population device and technique: An exemplary mobile phone includes a display, an input key, a processor coupled to the display and to the input key, and a memory coupled to the processor. The memory is capable of storing a data collection structure, such as an electronic address book, and the data collection structure is...

20060046770 - Mobile wireless communications device with reduced interference from the keyboard into the radio receiver: A mobile wireless communications device includes a housing and circuit board carried by the housing. Radio frequency (RF) circuitry carried by the circuit board forms a transmitter and receiver. A processor is carried by the circuit board and operative with the RF circuitry. A keyboard connector is mounted on the...

20060046771 - Radio communication apparatus with a bus dedicated to data transmission: Disclosed is the hardware construction of a radio communication apparatus that can meet advanced radio communications. A control bus for transferring control signals between a main processor and components is separated from a data bus for transferring transmission/receive signals between processor units including sub-processors and an external interface. The sub-processors...

20060046769 - Radio preset system for phone numbers: A method of initiating a wireless phone call from a mobile vehicle. The method includes storing at least one phone number in a vehicle communication system. The vehicle communication system includes a radio in communication with a telematics unit. The method further includes linking the stored phone number to a...

20060046772 - Static preventing device and mobile handset having the same: A mobile handset having a static preventing device comprises a handset body having components such as a PCB, a detachable battery, a locking member for securing the battery to or for releasing the battery from the handset body, a conductive contact plate located by the locking member, a ground provided...

20060046773 - Method and apparatus for processing multiple wireless communication services: The present invention is related to a method and apparatus for processing multiple wireless communication services in a receiver. A receiver receives more than one wireless communication service simultaneously via a wireless interface. Each service is transmitted via a different carrier frequency band. The multiple received carrier signals are down-converted...

20060046775 - Intelligent antenna and method for configuring the same: Describes is an antenna which includes a memory storage device storing authorized use data corresponding to wireless communication restrictions and a data connection connected to the memory storage device. When the antenna is connected to a computing device, the authorized use data is transferred from the memory storage device to...

20060046776 - Multifunctional mobile phone with automatic cannot answer messaging: A multifunctional mobile phone includes a control system, a keypad (3) with a switch (31) comprising a “self-take pictures” position, a camera module (4) with an image sensor and a “self-take pictures” state, a timer connected to the camera module, and a housing (2) for receiving the control system, the...

20060046774 - Radio communication apparatus: A communication apparatus operating under a back scattering system involving processes of QPSK modulation is provided. The apparatus includes: a first signal channel for acquiring a first reflected wave by getting an incoming radio wave directly reflected without wave passage through any phase shifter; a second signal channel for acquiring...

20060046777 - Serial communication control in a wireless communication system: A mobile station for serial communication control in a wireless network comprises a personal assistant module adapted to transmit an operation signal to a serial port of the personal assistant module to enable serial communication with a mobile station processor. The mobile station also comprises the mobile station processor coupled...

20060046780 - Audio system for portable device: An audio system includes an enclosure having a transducer. The transducer creates a vibration in the enclosure in response to being driven by an audio signal having a frequency range. A cradle assembly mechanically couples a portable device to the enclosure through an isolator. A portion of the vibration is...

20060046779 - Method and apparatus for providing enhanced functionality for a mobile communication device: A mobile communication device is provided with an electrical interface in a battery compartment (204) of the mobile communication device. The interface is provided by a flexible circuit member (106) disposed on a radiation shield (100), which is mounted on a circuit board (14) of the mobile communication device. The...

20060046781 - Mobile communications terminal and method therefore: A mobile communication terminal comprising a user interface and a processor. The mobile communication terminal receives colour data, from which the processor generates a colour scheme for the user interface. The light generating means receive the colour scheme and provide a coloured light to user interface in accordance with the...

20060046778 - System for listening to playback of music files by a portable audio device while in a vehicle: A system for removably connecting and interfacing an electronic portable audio device with an otherwise substantially conventional vehicle audio system to facilitate listening to playback of electronic music files stored on the portable audio device. A docking connector for receiving the portable audio device is physically and operatively integrated into...

20060046782 - Communication card system, communication system, and web information transmission and processing device: A communication card system (101) comprises a second communication card (2a), a second information processing system (3a), and a user terminal unit (51). The second information processing system (3a) synthesizes concealed image data to be communicated in main image data for display, and provides the synthesized image data. An image...

20060046783 - Sliding module for mobile terminal: Disclosed is a sliding module for a mobile terminal, which includes a sliding plate having a guide rail with curving points in first and second sections adjacent to each other in a longitudinal direction; a guide plate connected to the sliding plate to support the slidable movement of the sliding...

20060046784 - Multiple antenna control mechanism for wireless analog communications: A multiple antenna control mechanism for wireless analog communications is disclosed. The control mechanism includes an antenna switch unit, a receiver unit, and a control unit. The antenna switch unit has multiple sets of reception antennas and associated low-noise amplifiers, and a single-pole-multiple-throw RF switch. It receives a wireless by...

20060046785 - Telephone number modification: A method and apparatus for automatically modifying a dialled number into a standard international number before saving it in the telephone book, irrespective of the form in which the number is actually dialled. The number then stored in the telephone book is then stored in a form in which it...

20060046786 - Mobile communication terminal and method: A mobile communications terminal having a display comprising a display and at least one multi color light emitting diode provided adjacent to the display....

20060046787 - Mobile wireless communications device with reduced interfering energy from the display and related methods: A mobile wireless communications device includes a housing and circuit board carried by the housing and includes radio frequency (RF) circuitry and a processor carried by the circuit board and operative with each other. A display connector for an LCD connector is mounted on the circuit board and adapted to...

20060046788 - Device detection in a mobile communication terminal: A method for determining connection of an external device to a mobile communication terminal is provided. The method comprises detecting connection of an external device to a mobile communication terminal based on a signal generated by a first operation module of the mobile communication terminal; activating a connection interrupt routine,...

20060046789 - Apparatus and method for controlling uplink power in a mobile communication system using a tdd scheme: An apparatus and a method for controlling uplink power utilizing an open-loop scheme in a mobile communication system using a TDD scheme. According to the apparatus and the method, an AT determines initial uplink transmit power and transmits uplink signals to an AP using the determined initial uplink transmit power,...

20060046790 - Split battery supply: A headset system has a headset for direct wireless communication of audio data with a communication terminal and including a first power supply unit. The system includes a headset carrying device and a charger for charging the first power supply unit from a second poser supply unit. The headset carrying...

20060046791 - Apparatus and method for turning wireless tv on/off: An apparatus and method for turning on/off a wireless display device, are provided. The apparatus includes a transmitter to receive image signals to be displayed on the wireless display device and to transmit the received image signals via wireless communication, and a receiver to receive the image signals transmitted from...

20060046792 - Hinge apparatus and methods therefor: A collapsible device having first housing (110) rotateably coupled to a second housing (120) so as to rotate from a closed position (103) to an open position (200), wherein the first housing is angularly displaced from the second housing, for example in a wireless communications device. The first housing also...

20060046794 - System and method for transmitting barrier control signals from a wireless device: A communication method and system for transmitting and receiving wireless communications and controlling a barrier operator includes a wireless communication portion for providing wireless communications between a user at a communication device and a target communication device. The method and system also uses an accessory portion connected to but functionally...

20060046793 - Universal accessory interface for mobile computing terminals: Described is an accessory for a mobile computing device which has a first interface. The accessory include a second interface and a third interface. The second interface compliments the first interface for mating therewith to enable communication between the device and the accessory. The third interface is substantially similar to...

20060046795 - Cellular phone with separate antenna: A cellular phone suite includes a main body (10) and a pair of glasses (20). The glasses have a frame (21). The frame has the function of an antenna for wireless communication. The cellular phone further includes a first transceiver (12) and a second transceiver (22). The first transceiver is...

20060046797 - Slidable and automatic rotatable apparatus: A slidable and automatic rotatable apparatus disposed in a portable electronic device and providing the portable electronic device, which includes a first housing and a second housing, with a first status and a second status is provided. The apparatus includes a third housing, a protruding part disposed on the second...

20060046796 - Sliding device for dual sliding-type portable communication apparatus: A dual sliding-type portable communication apparatus having a housing configured to slide in a twofold manner is provided. The apparatus includes a main housing, a sliding housing which is configured to slide on the main housing to expose/hide the main housing, a slider, and a dual sliding guide slidably coupled...

20060046798 - Mobile wireless communications device with reduced microphone noise from radio frequency communications circuitry: A mobile wireless communications device includes a housing and circuit board in the housing and having radio frequency (RF) circuitry and a power amplifier and microphone mounted thereon. An antenna is carried within the housing and operative with the RF circuitry. An RF shield surrounds and isolates the microphone from...