Telecommunications inventions 04/06

20060089097 - Method and system for managing digital satellite content for broadcast to a target fleet: A method of managing digital satellite content for delivery to a target fleet is provided. At least one member of the target fleet is identified. Digital satellite content to be transmitted is determined and addressed to the identified member of the target fleet. The digital satellite content is then transmitted....

20060089098 - Mobile terminal, control method of recording and playing back of broadcast program in a mobile terminal and program: Disclosed is a mobile terminal capable of receiving a broadcast signal, in which two housings are joined. The mobile terminal includes a relative position detecting unit for detecting a change in relative position of the two housings, and a control unit to control recording and playing back of a broadcast...

20060089099 - Method and apparatus for allowing communication units to utilize non-licensed spectrum: A method and apparatus for allowing communication units to utilize non-licensed spectrum is provided herein. In particular, when a radio determines a need to transmit within non-licensed spectrum, the radio searches for a beacon being transmitted. The beacon identifies a priority of the current user of the non-licensed spectrum. If...

20060089100 - System and method of billing for minutes shared between a portable wireless communication device and a telematics unit: A method of tracking short-range wireless communication in a vehicle. The method includes tracking a total usage time of a short-range wireless connection between a telematics unit and a portable wireless communication device, sending the tracked total usage time from the telematics unit to a call center via a wireless...

20060089101 - Source driver capable of controlling source line driving signals in a liquid crystal display device: There is provided a source driver capable of controlling the timing of source line driving signals in a liquid crystal display device. The source driver includes a plurality of output circuits, each output circuit including an output buffer and a switch. The output buffer amplifies an analog image signal, and...

20060089102 - Radio communication apparatus and radio communication method: A CIR measuring section 307 measures CIRs of all blocks received and a block selection section 308 makes a threshold decision based on the CIR measurement result and threshold information according to an amount of traffic in the own cell and neighboring cells. As a result of the threshold decision,...

20060089104 - Method for improving an hs-dsch transport format allocation: This invention describes a method for a new methodology for improving a high speed downlink shared channel (HS-DSCH) transport format allocation in communication systems (e.g., mobile phone networks) using, e.g., a network element such as a node B. As CQI (channel quality indicator) reports made by a user terminal) are...

20060089103 - Wireless interference detector: A radio frequency (RF) source detector detects and analyzes RF signals in order to determine the source of interference. The source detector is useful for installing and troubleshooting a wireless local area network (WLAN) or similar communication devices. The detector includes a receiver to receive RF signals from unknown RF...

20060089105 - Radio communication apparatus and transmission power control method: A transmission power control information section issues an indication to a variable gain control amplifier at a predetermined control cycle. The variable gain control amplifier controls a transmission power according to the given indication amount. An adjustment amount generator adjusts the indication amount to be given to the variable gain...

20060089106 - Wireless adaptor: A wireless adaptor is proposed to make at least a wired device able to be used in a wireless manner. It can be used together with a wireless transmitting/receiving device. The wireless adaptor includes at least a connecting port for connecting with a wired device and receiving signals sent therefrom;...

20060089107 - Transmit-receive switch architecture providing pre-transmit isolation: A transmit-receive switch architecture comprises a first switch coupled to transmit circuitry and to an antenna, a second switch coupled to receive circuitry and to ground, wherein the second switch is configured to couple the receive circuitry to ground during a time period in which a power source associated with...

20060089108 - Mechanical latch including rf antenna: A portable electronic device, including a base mechanically coupled to a display enclosure with a hinge, is built including latches on the display enclosure configured to mechanically lock the display enclosure to the base when the display is closed. The latches are permanently coupled to the display enclosure and are...

20060089109 - Transmitting apparatus of communication system: A transmitting apparatus according to the present invention includes a prefilter for compensating a previously measured estimated impulse response of a communication system by assuming a communication system in which the transmitting apparatus and the receiving apparatus are directly connected. The prefilter included in the transmitting apparatus compensates an original...

20060089110 - Digital modulation signal mixer: The present invention includes a mixer circuit integrating a voltage-to-currrent conversion in the same stage. A mixer device 20 of a transmission system comprises a pair of transistors 41 and 42 forming a differential circuit having two differential inputs receiving a carrier VLO, two differential current outputs delivering a differential...

20060089111 - Polar modulator and method for determining an amplitude offset in a polar modulator: A polar modulator contains a first input for supplying an amplitude modulation word and a second input for supplying a phase modulation word. The first input is connected to a first signal path, and the second input is connected to a second signal path. The polar modulator contains a converter...

20060089112 - Wireless neural data acquisition system: A Wireless Neural Data Acquisition System, including a headstage, an RF receiver, an analog-to-digital converter, a digital signal processor, and a communication interface; the headstage including: at least one input pre-amplifier band-pass filter and amplifier, a multiplexer (MUX), an RF Modulator comprising a voltage control oscillator (VCO), a transmitting antenna,...

20060089113 - Radio control receiver system for multiple bands, frequencies and modulation protocol coverage: The present invention provides a radio receiver system for a radio controlled device with the ability to select an operating frequency for a radio controlled receiver unit using a modular programmer to be plugged into the receiver unit in order to select and program the receiver unit with an operating...

20060089114 - Receiver architectures utilizing coarse analog tuning and associated methods: A technique includes receiving a signal spectrum that includes a plurality of channels within a first frequency range. The technique includes receiving a selection signal that identifies at least one desired channel to be tuned. The technique includes providing an oscillator that has a second frequency range that is substantially...

20060089115 - Dual band superheterodyne receiver: A MMIC based superheterodyne receiver for converting at RF energy in an upper and a lower frequency band includes at least one attenuator for the RF energy input, a mixer for mixing the lower band input with a LO1 signal, another mixer for mixing the upper band input with the...

20060089116 - Automatic adjustment circuit, automatic adjustment method, and portable terminal: An automatic adjustment circuit, including: a passive element disposed in an end portion of a circuit board; and an impedance adjustment circuit disposed between the passive element and a ground section of the circuit board to adjust impedance of the passive element....

20060089117 - Mobile terminal device and antenna switch: A mobile terminal device having an antenna switch able to efficiently switch connection between reception signals from a first antenna, a second antenna, and a third antenna able to be plugged into an antenna socket to at least a first wireless circuit and a second wireless circuit. The antenna switch...

20060089118 - System and method for automated identification of end user devices by a universal remote control device: A system and method for more efficient and simple configuration of a universal remote control device is disclosed. The inventive system and method includes a universal remote control device which incorporates a transceiver. Further, end user devices, which the universal remote control issues function command include a transceiver. The universal...

20060089120 - Desktop cellular phone with security features: A system and method for implementing security features in a desktop cellular phone. One or more operating conditions, which may be based on physical location of the phone, on features of a SIM card in the phone, or on any other suitable factors, are defined for the phone. A current...

20060089119 - Method and a device for scatternet formation in ad hoc networks: The invention relates to a method and a device for scatternet formation in a wireless ad hoc networks, a device (306) executing the described method tries to establish connections (318) to as many devices as allowed utilizing applicable search techniques (312), such as inquiry and inquiry scan in case of...

20060089121 - Method and apparatus for automatic connecting of virtual private network clients to a network: A device is disclosed. The device includes a virtual private network (VPN) to automatically retrieve user VPN credentials and to automatically establish a VPN using the credentials whenever a network connection is established to a network access point....

20060089122 - Method and apparatus for balancing wireless access based on centralized information: A method and apparatus for managing and balancing wireless access based on centralized information is provided. A request to provide service to a wireless client is received from a first access node in a plurality of access node. An access policy, applicable to the first access node, is selected from...

20060089126 - Key revocation in a mobile device: A system for revoking access to a mobile device comprises a mobile device providing a plurality of applications and an agent providing a plurality of revocation procedures for revoking access by the mobile device to the plurality of applications running on the mobile device. Access to a first application is...

20060089125 - Multiple time outs for applications in a mobile device: A method for revoking access to a mobile device includes providing a plurality of authenticated applications accessible by the mobile device, and providing a plurality of revocation timeout intervals for revoking access by the mobile device to the plurality of authenticated applications. Access to a first authenticated application is revoked...

20060089124 - Systems and methods for providing security to different functions: Methods and systems are provided that use smartcards, such as subscriber identity module (SIM) cards to provide secure functions for a mobile client. One embodiment of the invention provides a mobile communication network system that includes a mobile network, a mobile terminal, a server coupled to the mobile terminal via...

20060089123 - Use of information on smartcards for authentication and encryption: Methods and systems are provided that use information on smartcards, such subscriber identity module (SIM) cards for authentication and encryption. One embodiment of the invention provides a mobile communication network architecture that includes a mobile network, a mobile terminal, a server coupled to the mobile terminal via the mobile network,...

20060089127 - Wireless lan system, wireless terminal, wireless base station, communication configuration method for wireless terminal, and program thereof: A wireless LAN system in which a user who is already authorized to access a network need not repeat again the process of obtaining the authorization even when the network topology has changed, a wireless terminal, a wireless base station and a server used in the same. The wireless base...

20060089128 - Method of an apparatus for handling messages in a mobile communications enviroment: A method and system of transferring messages from a message source to a mobile station in a cellular system comprises assigning to each message a priority characteristic before the message is transmitted to mobile station. The message is then transmitted together with the assigned priority characteristic, depending on the priority...

20060089129 - Mobile communication terminal and method therefore: A method for organizing data records in a memory in a mobile telecommunication terminal is disclosed. The method comprises receiving a plurality of digits, which identify a subscriber terminal in a telecommunication network, in a control unit in the mobile telecommunication terminal. The method moreover comprises storing the plurality of...

20060089130 - Communication method, communication terminal apparatus, communication server apparatus, and communication system: Upon receiving a message, a mail server (20) causes an SMSC (30) to transmit a reception notice. In response to the reception notice, a digest acquisition unit (211) of a cellular phone (60) requests information (digest information) about the message of the mail server (20). In accordance with a user's...

20060089131 - Delay timers for managing internal state changes and messages in user equipment for real-time multimedia applications: Timers in push-to-talk (PTT) enabled client devices are used to regulate packet traffic to and from the client device. In one embodiment, during a real-time multimedia session, a suspend timer is activated during data communication channel suspension. The session is held until suspend timer times out. If the data communication...

20060089132 - Channel switching in a mobile station: A mobile station adapted for channel switching comprises an input unit adapted to receive user input associated with selection of content. The mobile station also comprises a timer generating unit operatively coupled to the input unit, adapted to generate a timer related to transmission of a command derived from the...

20060089133 - Communication device, address search device, address acquisition method, authentication method, communication disconnection method, and address search method: A search device communicates with a first device and a second device through a network. The search device includes a storage unit that stores therein a first telephone number of the first device, a second telephone number of the second device, and a first communication address of the first device...

20060089134 - System and method for using location information to execute an action: A system and method is provided for using location information associated with wireless devices. The system includes a wireless device, a location system, and a feature server. The wireless device includes any wireless apparatus having wireless communications capabilities. The location system can generate location information pinpointing the location of the...

20060089135 - Cellular phone and automatic program update method used therefor: A cellular phone includes a key input determination unit, key input information storage unit, program storage unit, time decision unit, download execution unit, download execution unit, and program update unit. The key input determination unit determines whether a key input is done, and outputs a determination result as determination information....

20060089136 - System and method for provisioning broadcast and multicast services in a wireless network: A method of provisioning broadcast services and multicast services in a mobile station is provided. The method includes receiving a selection of a program to be transmitted by a base station at a subsequent predetermined time. A BCMC Request Order is generated based on the selection. The BCMC Request Order...

20060089137 - Method for reducing wireless communication procedure failure: A method for reducing wireless communication procedure failure. The method can include initiating a procedure over an existing radio resource control connection on a universal mobile telecommunication system. The method can also include receiving a connection release signal prior to receiving a response from a core network regarding the initiated...

20060089138 - Method of scanning for beacon transmissions in wlan: A wireless station (114) is within range of more than one access point (120, 124) transmitting on the same channel. The wireless station is associated with one access point and not the other. Consequently the wireless station may receive undesired beacons (304) and desired beacons (302) on the channel. To...

20060089139 - Telecommunications and telephony network: An integrated telecommunications and telephony network (AT), which is independent from the conventional service companies, and can guarantee global connectivity (geographical, vocal, data, fax, video, points of access for dedicated mobile devices. Internet access) between users of the same network as well as with users of networks which belong to...

20060089140 - Network and method of realizing local roaming for subscribers: The present invention provides a network and a method for implementing localized roaming of mobile subscribers; said network comprises BTS, BSC, VLR, HLR, and RNM that is connected to HLR; said RNM is used to manage mobile phone numbers in the home region and the contracted roaming region and allocate...

20060089142 - Active set update (asu) with high speed downlink shared channel (hs-dsch) information: Because the current RRC: ACTIVE SET UPDATE message presently used in soft handover does not contain HS-DSCH related information, which could be utilized for a Serving HS-DSCH cell change, a separate Radio Bearer Control procedure is needed between the UE (10) and the RNC (20) for carrying out the Serving...

20060089143 - Devices, softwares and methods for handling off live calls between legs of csv and vox modalities: Devices, softwares methods hand off a live call from an original leg of a first modality (such as Circuit Switched Voice) to an alternate leg of another modality (such as Voice over Internet Protocol). An original leg of a call is established using the first modality. Then the alternate leg...

20060089141 - Method and apparatus for allocating a beacon signal in a wireless communications network: A method and apparatus for transmitting beacon signals in a wireless communications network. For a given cell site, a single frequency may be used for the beacon signal by assigning different beacon signal time slots to different sectors of the cell site. During one time slot, the beacon signal is...

20060089144 - Method and system for transmitting/receiving neighbor base-station advertisement message in broadband wireless access system: Disclosed is a method and system for transmitting/receiving a neighbor base-station information message in a broadband wireless access system. A base station sets and transmits a neighbor base-station information message, which includes a specific flag field for limiting neighbor base-station information and a reserved field and omits iterative neighbor base-station...

20060089146 - Method and apparatus for controlling call routing when testing nodes of a network in which mobile services switching centers and serving gprs support nodes are pooled: The present invention ensures that a tester's call for testing a MSC or SGSN when it is brought back on line will be routed to the proper MSC or SGSN to be tested. In accordance with one embodiment, a call from a tester is identified by, for example, comparing the...

20060089147 - Mobile network infrastructure for applications, personalized user interfaces, and services: A mobile network infrastructure or platform for applications, personalized user interfaces and services is disclosed. The mobile platform provides a plurality of applications and services to subscribers or end-users of mobile or wireless devices. The platform allows the subscribers or end-users to personalize the look-and-feel of the mobile desktop and...

20060089145 - Wireless vehicle-specific data management: System and method for providing vehicle-specific data to vehicles is provided. A preferred embodiment comprises downloading vehicle-specific data to mass-transit vehicles when vehicles are within a predetermined area, such as a garage, parking lot, gas station, or the like, via a wireless interface, such as a WiFi communications link. The...

20060089148 - Method and system for creating and deploying a mesh network: A method and system for creating and deploying a mesh network are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises providing a mesh router having a plurality of radios. The mesh router is used in a cell of a plurality of cells that covers a geographic region. Channels are assigned to...

20060089149 - Radio communication apparatus and radio communication method: A radio communication apparatus determines whether a reception signal is received normally. The apparatus measures strengths of the reception signal, assesses frequency channels using a result whether the reception signal is received normally and a strength of the reception signal, and decides that zero or more of the frequency channels...

20060089150 - Method of managing processing resources in a mobile radio system: A method of managing processing resources in a mobile radio system, in which a first entity manages radio resources and corresponding processing resources, the latter being provided in a second entity separate from the first entity. The second entity signals to the first entity its global processing capacity, or capacity...

20060089152 - Location-based synchronization of mobile terminals: This invention describes a new methodology for a location-based synchronization of content in mobile terminals (e.g., wireless devices, portable devices, mobile communication devices, mobile phones, etc.). The present invention enables a new usage model for mobile terminals: it makes it possible to have the content of the mobile terminal be...

20060089153 - Location-sensitive calibration data: A system, method and device are provided for determining the position of a mobile station through the identification of an approximate position of the mobile station. Thereafter received signal strength (RSSI) fingerprint data for the approximate position is requested and retrieved. The fingerprint data and received signal strength data collected...

20060089151 - System and method for controlling modulation: A system and method for controlling modulation. The system includes a plurality of modulators and a transmitting unit. The plurality of modulators decodes data from a data signal and also encodes the data into a clock signal. The transmitting unit transmits the encoded clock signal. According to the system and...

20060089155 - Positioning system, terminal device, information provision device, terminal device's control method, and terminal device's control program: A positioning system that reduces an increase in a terrain information transmission/reception processing burden on a recording unit of a terminal device such as a GPS receiver is provided. An information provision device can store terrain information. By way of a divided terrain information obtainment unit, the terminal device can...

20060089156 - Positioning system, terminal device, positioning device, control method for terminal device, control program for terminal device, and computer-readable recording medium for recording control program for terminal device: A positioning system capable of reducing the volume of data communication in a server positioning system is provided. A terminal device has the information for a positioning transmitting section and can transmit information for positioning containing the actually measured current positioning basic information and/or the estimated basic information to the...

20060089154 - Wireless terminal location using apparatus and methods employing carrier diversity: Wireless terminals, e.g., mobile nodes, receive, identify, and measure broadcast signals from a plurality of cells. They determine relative transmission power relationships corresponding to the received measured signals and determine at least two channel gain ratios. A geographic area is determined corresponding to the obtained at least two channel gain...

20060089157 - Mobile caching and data relay vectoring systems and methods: The present invention provides systems and methods for providing mobile users with requested resources. In one such method, first and second location indicators for the mobile user are received, with each of the location indicators having a time associated therewith. The method includes calculating a mobile vector of the mobile...

20060089158 - Method of determining a phs mobile phone user's exact position: The prevent invention is to provide a method of determining a PHS mobile phone user's exact position, which comprises the steps of establishing a positioning database containing a plurality of CS (cell station) numbers and position information associated with the CS numbers respectively in the mobile phone; entering into a...

20060089159 - Open location management device: The invention provides an open location management device, an open location management system and an open location management method, in which an open location management device receives a user location management request from a location information requester, and selects one location management provider from one or more location management providers...

20060089160 - Systems and methods for displaying location-based maps on communication devices: Tickers are populated with location-based information that is selected according to the geographic location of communication devices. The location of a communication device is identified based on a GPS system, proximity to transmitters in a wireless network, user input, or using other techniques. Location-appropriate content is obtained either in real-time...

20060089161 - Performing idle mode in a wireless access system: A method for controlling an idle mode in a mobile station comprises transmitting an idle mode request message to a serving base station to enter the idle mode. The method also comprises determining whether a skip threshold parameter has been exceeded, the skip threshold parameter associated with a number of...

20060089162 - Arrangement and method for the channel-selective reception of a signal taking account of a time-dependent occurrence of a final range of a signal section of the signal: In an arrangement (1) for processing a signal (S) which has successive signal sections (SP), wherein each signal section (SP) comprises a useful information item (UI) and an additional information item (AI) and wherein a time-dependent occurrence of a final range (EA) of a signal section (SP) can be determined...

20060089163 - Method and system for delivering messages: The invention concerns a method (300) and system (100) for delivering messages. The method can include the steps of receiving (314) a message from a sender, selectively storing (316) the message from the sender and notifying (322) a user of a target portable electronic device (134) of the message when...

20060089164 - Method and system for transmitting mms notification message: Disclosed is a method for transmitting an MMS notification message including the steps of transmitting the MMS notification message including information used for receiving an MMS message to a receiving subscriber terminal, and retransmitting the MMS notification message to another subscriber terminal designated in advance by a subscriber of the...

20060089165 - Virtual network solution for sms message exchange between gsm and ansi (tia/eia 41) networks: Systems and methods for exchanging a short message service (SMS) message between networks operating in accordance with different standards. An intermediary system operates between a first network operating in accordance with a first standard and a second network operating in accordance with a second standard. A routing information request for...

20060089166 - Radio communication system: A radio communication system for leveling off the processing loads of radio stations (access points) to which mobile terminals are connected, to improve the quality of service in radio communication. A mobile terminal searches for a beacon signal and transmits a connection request to a radio station which has sent...

20060089167 - System and method for initiating push-to-talk sessions between outside services and user equipment: Outside services are connected to user equipment via a push-to-talk (PTT) session by signing-up the user equipment with the outside service, generating a request to establish the PTT session between the user equipment and the outside service, establishing the PTT session, and transmitting media from the outside service to the...

20060089168 - Communication system, communication method, and program thereof: A communication system, a communication method and program thereof capable of easily constructing a system in which communication between an IC tag and a mobile information terminal having a built-in or externally-attached reader/writer is used. URL information in the Web page for disclosing personal information stored on the IC tag...

20060089169 - Method and system of providing cellular/wlan dual mode telecommunication services: A method and a system of providing cellular/wireless network dual mode communication services are provided. The wireless network interface normally stays in the standby mode, and the cellular interface is closed. When receiving calls, the cellular system receives the calls and wakes up the wireless network system to communicate to...

20060089170 - Combination wireless communications device and portable stereo: A hand-held wireless communications device operates in a communications mode and a stereo mode. The device comprises a housing, a long-range transceiver within the housing to communicate with a base station in the communications mode, and a receiver within the housing to receive radio signals from a broadcast radio station...

20060089171 - Mobile phone with usb interface: A mobile phone having a USB interface and including a main body and a battery pack removably mounted to the main body is provided. The mobile phone includes a USB connector that may be connected to an external device to allow data transmission between the external device and the mobile...

20060089172 - Method for accessing a sim in composite terminals: A method for accessing an SIM in a composite terminal. The method includes determining, by a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) module, whether a subscriber identification information request signal occurs; and directly accessing the SIM and reading the subscriber identification information stored in the SIM when the subscriber identification information request...

20060089173 - Apparatus and method for utilizing trunk in mobile communications system: An apparatus and method for utilizing a trunk in a mobile communications system capable of efficiently utilizing and operating the trunk when accepting subscribers for various services in one base station, wherein the one base station can accept subscribers for mobile communications services in any mobile communications system using different...

20060089175 - Call switchover in wireless headset: A method for call switchover in a wireless headset that is wirelessly coupled to a mobile station comprises transmitting user input related to a call service from the wireless headset to the mobile station. The method also comprises determining whether the user input related to the call service is received...

20060089174 - Mobile computing device with a physical button for wireless communications: A mobile computing device includes a wireless communication interface and a physical button for wireless communications. The wireless communication interface communicates with other devices and is switchable between a number of different wireless communications states. The physical button is used to both switch the wireless communications state of the wireless...

20060089176 - Acoustic device for vehicle: The vehicle-mounted acoustic apparatus of the present invention can be connected to a mobile phone 50; can receive hands-free conversations from the mobile phone 50 and radio broadcasts; and provides a microphone 3 for collecting the sounds of a user, and a speaker 2 for producing the sounds of a...

20060089177 - Battery modem using short range wireless technology: The present invention is directed to a battery modem using Short Range Wireless technology. A battery modem using a short range wireless technology in a data communication apparatus capable of performing wired/wireless data communication depending on whether a battery is mounted therein, wherein the battery modem detects base band communication...

20060089178 - Cordless telephone set: A cordless telephone set includes a charger base and a telephone apparatus. A concave retaining section of the charger base has an inclined surface and an open section. A power feeding terminal for supplying power with a charging terminal of the telephone apparatus is provided on a lower part of...

20060089179 - System and method of controlling audio output in mobile communication terminal having television function: Disclosed are a system and a method of controlling an audio output in a mobile communication terminal, and more particularly to a system and a method of controlling an audio output of mobile communication terminal, wherein when a broadcasting channel is changed, an audio signal of the mobile communication terminal...

20060089180 - Mobile communication terminal: A mobile terminal has means for providing push-to-talk functionality, a volume control member, and a controller associated with the volume control member. The controller is adapted to cause a change in an acoustic output level of the mobile terminal in response to a user actuation of said volume control member....

20060089181 - Depressible hinge and mobile stations using same: The present invention is directed to an opening mechanism for a mobile station. The mobile station includes a first portion foldably coupled to a second portion via a hinge region. The mobile station includes inner and outer surfaces, which are separated by opposing lateral edges provided therebetween. According to various...

20060089182 - Elastomeric tensioner and mobile stations using same: The present invention provides an improved hinge design for a mobile station or other electronic device that simplifies hinge assembly and thus, provides a more cost-effective manufactured product. Moreover, the improved hinge assembly complements the aesthetic appeal of the foldable mobile station and provides less stress on various internal elements....

20060089183 - Portable communication apparatus: Disclosed is a portable communication apparatus. The portable communication apparatus includes a first housing including a plurality of keys, a second housing including a main display unit and being movable from the first housing about a first hinge axis and being rotated about a second hinge axis, which is perpendicular...

20060089184 - Built-in antenna module in portable wireless terminal: Disclosed is a built-in antenna module for a portable wireless terminal, in which an antenna carrier allows a distance between a radiator and a mainboard. In the built-in antenna module, the antenna carrier includes a plate type junction panel to which the radiator is fixed, an outer barrier rib extending...

20060089185 - Buglarproof apparatus and its method using mobile phone for an automobile: Disclosed is a burglarproof apparatus for an automobile using a mobile phone, which includes a door sensor for recognizing opening and closing of a door and sending a control signal accordingly, an input unit installed near a driver seat for receiving image and voice and sending it to an in-car...

20060089186 - Modular apparatus holder with multipurpose intermediate support member for supporting minicomputers, cell phones and similar apparatus: In a modular holder for supporting an apparatus or instrument such as a minicomputer or a cell phone, comprising a support member with a support head and an apparatus holder supported thereby, an intermediate box is releasably mounted with one side thereof by an engagement structure onto the support head...

20060084376 - Information providing method: The name of a broadcasting station, transmitting broadcast signals being received by a user, is to be informed extremely readily to the user. A radio receiver (2) transmits frequency data corresponding to the frequency of FM broadcast signals being received, and territory data corresponding to the territory where the radio...

20060084377 - Method for controlling broadcasting signal transmission in wireless communication system providing broadcasting service and corresponding system: Disclosed are a method for broadcasting signal transmission in a wireless communication system providing a broadcasting service and a corresponding wireless communication system. In such a method and a system, a terminal receives a signal transmitted from a repeater to calculate received performance information of the signal and then transmits...

20060084378 - Phased array antenna intermodulation suppression beam smearing method: An intermodulation suppression method using phased array antenna electronics insignificantly degrades the desired primary main beams while substantially suppressing undesired intermodulation product beams, and particularly undesired third-ordered intermodulation product beams. The beam smearing method has two aspects, including phase smearing and angle smearing for respective subarrays to reduce the intermodulation-product...

20060084379 - Repeater system for strong signal environments: A repeater system combines co-located antennas, an intentional imbalance in signal amplification between downlink and uplink, stability management and an amplification indicator to create a user-installed solution to co-channel interference within cellular systems, in strong signal environments such as elevated locations or high-rise building. The invention may be particularly relevant...

20060084380 - Systems and methods for short range wireless communication: A magnetic induction data transmission network comprising a master hub, at least one sensor node communicatively coupled to the master hub and a magnetic induction coil preferably adapted to be worn about a bodypart of a subject such as an individual's waist or neck. In at least one embodiment of...

20060084383 - Method and system for collocated ieee 802.11 b/g wlan, and bt with fm in coexistent operation: A method and system for collocated IEEE 802.11 b/g WLAN, and Bluetooth (BT) with FM in coexistent operation are provided. A single chip comprising an integrated BT radio and an integrated FM radio in a coexistence station may generate a priority signal to disable WLAN transmissions in a WLAN radio...

20060084382 - Method and system for selective equalization enablement based on modulation type: Aspects of a method and system for selective equalization enablement based on modulation type may be found in a method for processing a radio frequency (RF) signal that comprises receiving a Bluetooth signal via an RF channel, detecting a modulation type of the received Bluetooth signal, and selecting an equalization...

20060084381 - Method for establishing a connection between a mobile device and a second device: The present invention relates to a method for establishing a connection from a mobile device (10) to a second device (20) both provided with a short range wireless communications module (11, 21). To reduce the set-up time for establishing such a connection significantly the method according to the present invention...

20060084385 - Efficient attribute collection technique for mappers: This invention integrates a novel technique for mappers to efficiently collect attributes utilizing various wireless systems such as bluetooth. The wireless technique in the data-gathering device allows the flag-man/data gatherer to input useful information into the device, which can readily be available to the mapper at the other end. This...

20060084384 - Mobile communications terminal, accessories and method therefore: An accessory device for an electric device is disclosed. The accessory device including a control unit adapted to determine at least one parameter value related to a current operational status of the accessory device and for use by the electric device, and a transceiver connected to the control unit and...

20060084386 - Dc offset calibration system: A division ratio of a first frequency divider that generates a local signal and a division ratio of a second frequency divider that generates a RF interfering signal are different, and a first frequency synthesizer that generates the local signal and a second frequency synthesizer that generates the RF interfering...

20060084387 - Method and system for suppressing unwanted responses in wireless communication systems: A method and system is disclosed for suppressing unwanted responses in wireless communication systems. The system comprises a transmitting terminal and a receiving terminal. The transmitting terminal comprises an antenna array including a primary antenna and a secondary antenna. The primary and secondary antennas are configured so that signals transmitted...

20060084388 - Determining a power control group boundary of a power control group: Determining a power control group boundary includes receiving a plurality of samples having power control groups, where each power control group corresponds to a time period. The following are repeated for a predetermined number of iterations: a window is set at a point of a sample; a number of power...

20060084390 - Measurement reporting in a telecommunication system: The basic idea of the present invention is to specify at least two different triggers for sending a measurement report from the mobile station to the network. According to the invention, the network specifies the triggers to be used in different measurement report types. The triggers are preferably upper or...

20060084389 - Retransmission scheme in a cellular communication system: An apparatus 300 for a cellular communication system (100) comprises a buffer (303) which receives data for transmission over an air interface (115). The buffer (303) is coupled to a scheduler (305) which schedules the data and allocates the physical resource of the air interface (115). The transmissions are performed...

20060084391 - Method and apparatus for providing limiting power adjustment in a wireless communication system: An approach provides for limiting power adjustment in a wireless system (e.g., cellular network) to extend, for example, talk time. Parameter values specifying operating conditions of the wireless terminal are collected for power adjustment of a radio frequency (RF) amplifier within the wireless terminal. A power adjustment factor is computed...

20060084392 - Transceiver system and method of using same: A chip comprises and operational section and an input/output section. The operational section includes a controller. The input/output (I/O) section is coupled to the operational section. The I/O section comprises a transformer and a switching device. The transformer includes a primary side connected to first and second I/O ports and...

20060084393 - Luminescent signaling displays utilizing a wireless mobile communication device: The present invention includes a wireless mobile communication device with a body casing having an exterior surface, and a number of light sources (LS) disposed on the exterior surface. A machine accessible medium is provided with instructions to selectively activate the number of LS in a spatial movement dependent manner...

20060084394 - Visualization supplemented wireless wireless mobile telephony: A wireless mobile phone is provided with the capability to visually convey various information to users, using a number of light emitting devcies (LEDs). The information may include notification of an incoming call, text messages of a call (in Morse code representations), complementary graphics for non-graphics contents, and visual representations...

20060084395 - Method of controlling a plurality of internal antennas in a mobile communication device: By using multiple antennas in a diversity arrangement, a mobile communication device is operable to automatically optimize the best antenna or antenna combination in reaction to the device's immediate environment. The individual antenna designs can be optimized to provide high antenna system efficiency for a number of likely device environments....

20060084396 - Smart tuning am transmitter: A radio transmitter is adapted to automatically adjust aerial impedance for a selected radio frequency. The radio transmitter includes a tunable radio frequency signal generator that has an impedance and is adapted to generate a radio frequency signal in the range of approximately 510 kilohertz to approximately 1705 kilohertz. The...

20060084397 - Shielding assembly for an rf sensor current transducer: An RF sensor is provided herein. The sensor comprises a clamping mechanism (101), a metal collar (113) disposed about the clamping mechanism, an RF current transducer (203) having a transducer coil (213) disposed on a circuit board (126), the RF current transducer being disposed adjacent to the collar, and a...

20060084398 - Method and apparatus for predictively optimizing efficiency of a radio frequency (rf) power amplifier: An approach provides for predictive and continuous supply voltage adjustment of a Radio Frequency (RF) power amplifier in a wireless terminal. A voltage value is predictively determined to continuously control a voltage converter of the wireless terminal for maximizing RF power amplifier efficiency. A control signal is output based on...

20060084399 - Semiconductor device and module having a transceiver with a built-in regulator: An object of the present invention is to provide a transmitter-receiver RF-IC having a built-in regulator, which can reduce a minimum value of an input voltage of the regulator without increasing its area, the input voltage being supplied from a battery, the transmitter-receiver RF-IC being capable of normal operation with...

20060084400 - Simplified practical rank and mechanism, and associated method, to adapt mimo modulation in a multi-carrier system with feedback: A method of adapting transmission parameters in a multicarrier communication system having multiple transmit antennas and/or multiple receive antennas, whereby a statistical parameter of a wideband channel is computed, one type of matrix modulation scheme is selected to be used for a given multicarrier modulation symbol, one type of signal...

20060084401 - Integrated structure of inductances with shared values on a semiconductor substrate: An integrated circuit including a structure of inductances on a semiconductor substrate, intended for operating at frequencies greater than several hundreds of MHz, including a first inductance formed by a conductive track and having first and second terminals respectively connected to each of the two ends of the conductive track,...

20060084402 - Filter control method, signal processing circuit and integrated circuit for wireless receiver: A conventional method of controlling the passband of a filter involves an increase in cost for a chip due to a large area of a detection circuit for determining the level of an interference wave. The present invention utilizes a result obtained by detecting the amplitude level of a signal...

20060084403 - Radio frequency power amplifier: A radio frequency (RF) power amplification circuit including a power amplifier is provided for preventing breakdown of the power amplifier. The power amplifier includes an input for receiving RF signals and an output for providing amplified RF signals. The RF power amplification circuit also includes a bias circuit coupled to...

20060084404 - Methods and apparatus for selecting between multiple carriers using a single receiver chain tuned to a single carrier: Receivers accommodating carrier frequency selection methods in wireless communications systems employing multiple carrier frequencies are described. Although the receiver is tuned to a single band, an estimate of the channel quality corresponding to the currently used carrier and an alternative carrier is generated without switching between carriers. Transmitters of different...

20060084405 - Circuitry for a receiving system with improved directivity and signal to noise ratio: A receive system, including special integrated circuits, for providing enhanced directivity in the form of a narrowed receive beam and a relatively small antenna with performance comparable to a much larger antenna at similar frequencies. Received signals are converted to digital values and stored in a manner which enables subsequent...

20060084406 - Systems and methods for increasing bandwidth of wireless communications: An improved radio transmitter encodes at least one data bit on each cycle of a carrier signal. The data is encoded on the carrier signal using phase modulation. Because at least one data bit is encoded on each cycle of the carrier signal, a carrier signal having a frequency (f)...

20060084407 - Power management method for reducing data transmission error: A power management method for reducing data transmission errors is applicable in a mobile phone to be executed before the mobile phone enters into in a power-saving mode. The method comprises the following steps. First, whether transmitted data is accessed by a data transmission mechanism during the period of a...

20060084408 - Discontinuous reception method for mobile communication terminal device and mobile communication terminal device: A discontinuous reception method for a mobile communication terminal device and a mobile communication terminal device which, when a PTT (Push-to-Talk) system call is provided, make it possible to reduce the amount of electrical power consumed by the mobile communication terminal device and to start a PTT-system telephone call with...

20060084409 - Systems for and methods of programming a remote control: A remote control comprises a receiver and a configuration circuit. The receiver is operable to receive a programming signal that includes programming instructions corresponding to an electronic device, and the configuration circuit is coupled to the receiver and is operable to configure the remote control according to the programming instructions...

20060084410 - Flexible billing architecture: A flexible billing system captures communication events on a more granular level then current communication systems. The captured communication events can then be aggregated into different event categories and combined with other event parameters to provide a wider variety of billing options to mobile network operators. The flexible billing system...

20060084411 - Wireless infrastructure device for providing security in a wireless network: A method and wireless infrastructure device is provided. A wireless infrastructure device is configured so that the wireless infrastructure device includes security information, associated with providing security to a wireless network. The wireless infrastructure device is also provided with an interface, via which, the wireless infrastructure device is operable to...

20060084413 - Mobile terminal for real-time audio file downloading and method thereof: A mobile terminal enabling real-time bell sound downloading and coloring services by data communication with a service file download server without requiring separate manipulation of the terminal by a user is disclosed. The mobile terminal includes a profile managing module for comparing a profile set in the mobile terminal and...

20060084412 - Wireless messaging system: Messages are routed via a cellular communications network to multiple cellular communications receivers configured for answering calls placed to a common subscriber number, such that a message originated with a single cellular call may reach multiple recipients. The geographic area of message distribution may be controlled by selectively enabling different...

20060084414 - Directory assistance with location information: A method for a mobile station to receive directory assistance by calling (501) a directory assistance system and providing (503) a directory assistance request. Depending on the preference of the user, the mobile station receives (550) a data message from the directory assistance system that includes a resulting telephone number...

20060084415 - Transmitter and receiver: Specifically, a transmitter (100) in a transmission and reception system comprising the transmitter (100) for transmitting program contents (21) and attribution information (22) of program and a receiver (200) for receiving the program contents (21) and accumulating part or whole of the program contents (21) transmits meaning information (24) indicating...

20060084416 - Mobile terminal device: A mobile terminal device includes a communication portion, a display plane, a first storage portion, and a control portion which controls to display a standby screen on the display plane during a standby operation of the communication portion. When the communication portion receives a communication message, the control portion controls...

20060084418 - Apparatus and method for limiting communication range of fixed wireless terminal: Disclosed are an apparatus and a method for limiting a communication range of a fixed wireless terminal. The method comprises the steps of generating and radio-transmitting communication maintaining data through a transmitting unit in a fixed device; receiving, through a receiving unit of a mobile device, the communication maintaining data...

20060084417 - Interface selection from multiple networks: An arrangement is disclosed that enables a mobile device to manage multiple network interfaces in order to be substantially always reachable on the Internet. Wired LAN, Wireless LAN, Wireless PAN and cellular systems are technologies that are employed in the exemplary embodiment described. Scanning of the available network infrastructures is...

20060084419 - Electrical system controlling device with wireless communication link: A system for remotely controlling and monitoring an electrical system includes an electrical system controlling device connected to the electrical system for monitoring and controlling the electrical system and electronic controls for monitoring and controlling the electrical system controlling device. A wireless communications interface enables remote wireless access to the...

20060084422 - Control glove: A control glove includes a contact point provided on the thumb and the four fingers of the glove and a controller. The contact point on the thumb is a common point, and the contact points on the four fingers respectively direct one it e m of operations different from one...

20060084420 - Method and integrated system for networked control of an environment of a mobile object: A controller (301), for example on a field interface of a resource management system (300), determines a location of a mobile object (303a, 303b, 303c) and controls an environment thereof. The controller (301) receives, via a first transceiver (307), a communication including information representative of the mobile object; receives a...

20060084421 - Universal remote control system: The present invention relates to a universal remote control system comprising a remote control means and one or more receiver modules installed in the device to be controlled by the remote control means. The remote control means includes an input means and a signal emitter means. The receiver module includes...

20060084428 - Apparatus and method for detecting communication operation resulted from an erroneous content in mobile platform: Disclosed are an apparatus and a method for detecting whether a content executed in a mobile platform of mobile communication terminal perform a communication operation without a user's reservation or permission, thereby preventing an unexpected communication operation. In this invention, if a content performs the communication operation due to its...

20060084424 - Locking/unlocking a portable electronic device: A portable electronic device operable in a first mode and a second mode, comprising: input means having a first key and a second key, wherein, when the device is in the first mode, the device is not responsive to the individual actuation of the first key and, when the device...

20060084425 - Maximum ratio combining of channel estimation for joint detection in td-scdma systems: The embodiments of the present invention relate to the general area of wireless communication systems and, in particular, to channel estimation for joint detection of data signals in TD-SCDMA systems. While time slots and spreading codes separate the users in a TD-SCDMA system, multiple access interference affects all its users....

20060084423 - Means and method for measuring the status of a core interface between two core subnetworks in a telecommunication system: The invention relates to a signaling method for GSM/GPRS communication systems. The status of a core interface between two core subnetworks is measured in the core network (S2), preferably through a keep-alive mechanism (S1). A status indication message is then sent to the radio network (S3). In this way, the...

20060084427 - Mobile communication system including scheduler and mobile communication terminal of the system: Each mobile communication terminal receives an evaluation function threshold value of each base station transmitted from the base station, and calculates the evaluation function value of each base station on the basis of communication quality between the mobile communication terminal and base station. The mobile communication terminal compares the calculated...

20060084426 - Vector network analyzer with independently tuned receivers characterizes frequency translation devices: A Vector Network Analyzer is equipped with receivers for measuring a1, b1, a2 and b2 and which can each be tuned to track either the RF signal (F1) applied to the FTD or to the IF (F2) produced by the FTD. Additional forward side and reverse side mixers are provided...

20060084429 - Apparatus and method for monitoring and analysis of communication over a wireless network: In the method for monitoring communication in a wireless communication network, a network explorer may be passively attached to the wireless communication network. The network explorer may store data associated with received communication over the wireless communication network and performs an analysis on the stored data. In the apparatus of...

20060084430 - System and method for categorizing information into zones to determine delivery patterns: The present invention relates to a system and method of exchanging information that can be specific to a person and their current location. The method uses the location of a wireless device held by a stakeholder, i.e. a person that is related to the information, and routes information to the...

20060084431 - Method and apparatus for facilitating interaction between a home subscriber server (hss) and a home location register (hlr) in a legacy network: A technique and system are provided to allow home subscriber servers (HSSs) to retrieve a subscriber's dynamic location/state information from a legacy home location register (HLR). For example, a mobile application part (MAP) operation ATI (AnyTimeInterrogation) messaging technique may be used by the home subscriber server (HSS) to query the...

20060084432 - Differentiated access parameters for random access channel: Two or more different sets of access parameters are stored in mobile station memory. When the mobile station sends an access message on the reverse access channel, it selects a set of access parameters based on the type of service. For high priority services, the mobile station selects a set...

20060084433 - Communication terminal system and method of displaying status of wireless terminal of the same: In a communication terminal system and a method of displaying status information relative to at least one wireless terminal, terminal status information is received so as to enable current status information on registration, conversation, etc. of wireless terminals to be displayed on a display unit of a main device thereof....

20060084434 - Mobile terminal and mobile communication method: A mobile terminal in a mobile communication system in which a server performs routing control based on registration information sent from the plurality of mobile terminals, including; an exchanging unit configured to exchange, with another mobile terminal, link information showing a link set in the another mobile terminal, and operational...

20060084438 - Method and system for controlling hard handoff in mobile network: A method and system for controlling an inter-mobile switching center hard handoff in a mobile network are provided. The method includes recognizing, at a terminal, a target cell whose pilot strength is equal to or higher than a candidate qualification reference value and transmitting a pilot strength measurement message to...

20060084436 - Methods and apparatus for inter-bsc soft handoff: A method for performing a soft handoff, including establishing a first control channel via a network between a first BSC and a first BTS. The method also includes establishing a second control channel via the network between a second BSC and a second BTS. A call between a mobile station...

20060084435 - Signaling mechanism for handover in digital broadcasting: A time slicing digital broadcast system includes a dynamic handover process switching a handheld terminal receiving services in a first signal to a second signal providing the same services, while roaming among cells in the digital broadcast system. The terminal takes into account the varying intervals between bursts in the...

20060084437 - Soft handover control method, soft handover control program and mobile communication terminal device: When the calling out of a mobile communication terminal connected to a base station by a RL causes a control unit in the terminal to start a call connection sequence, and the electric field level measurement of a base station pilot signal after transition to a CELL_DCH state causes a...

20060084439 - System and method to facilitate inter-frequency handoff of mobile terminals in a wireless communication network: A system and method for facilitating inter-frequency handoff of a mobile node (102) in a wireless communication network (100). The system and method permit a mobile node (102), equipped with a single receiver, to perform handoffs seamlessly from one infrastructure node (106-1) to another infrastructure node (106-2) without having to...

20060084440 - Method and apparatus for handing over a subscriber unit between celluar communication systems: The invention relates to handover of a subscriber unit (301,305) from a first cellular communication system (201) to a second cellular communication system (203). The first communication system is for example a UMTS communication system supporting a plurality of connections, and the second communication system is for example a GSM...

20060084442 - Method and apparatus for reducing communication latency in a wireless group call: A wireless handheld communication device (102) for reducing a communication delay at a proximate wireless communication device is disclosed. The wireless handheld communication device simultaneously transmits to a remote station (106) through a base station (108), and transmits to the proximate wireless communication device (104) directly. The method includes communicating...

20060084441 - Wireless communication method and system for restoring services previously provided by a disabled cell: A method and system for restoring services previously provided by a disabled cell. A wireless communication system includes a plurality of cells, and each cell includes a base station. The system detects the disabled cell, and selects at least two base stations included by two respective cells that neighbor the...

20060084443 - Cell reselection for improving network interconnection: This invention describes a new methodology for a cell reselection by a mobile station (MS) for improving network interconnection and interoperability in a limited mobile access environment. The invention is applicable to any kind of networks and their interconnections. The invention describes how the MS can better recover from failed...

20060084444 - System and method utilizing a cognitive transceiver for ad hoc networking: The present invention provides methods and apparatuses for utilizing unused portions of an allocated frequency spectrum in a wireless communications system that broadcasts content to wireless stations. A first wireless station may communicate with a second wireless station on an idle broadcast channel while keeping the resulting interference level below...

20060084445 - Method of controlling sharing of radio resources in mobile communication system: A radio network controller in a mobile communication network detects characteristics of mobile devices that are wireless connected to a radio base station managed by the radio network controller. The radio network controller decides whether the mobile devices can be classified into at least one group according to the detected...

20060084446 - Mobile station with a plurality of interfaces: A method and a mobile station, in which the CPU memory of the mobile station provides interfaces for a plurality of applications that are external to the mobile station. Applications program modules for the external applications are stored in that part of the CPU memory of a mobile station which...

20060084447 - Method and apparatus for enhanced 911 location using power control in a wireless system: A method of locating a mobile telephone includes steps of receiving, transmitting, increasing and determining. In the receiving step, a first base station receives a call from a mobile telephone, the call including a dialed number and a TDMA signal. In the transmitting step, the base station transmits a control...

20060084448 - Method and apparatus for determining adjacency of wireless device to pos terminal: One or more stationary wireless readers are used to determine the relative strength of calibration signals sent from fixed locations adjacent to POS terminals. Then, the signal strength of signals being transmitted by wireless devices within range of the one or more wireless readers is evaluated to determine the relative...

20060084449 - Method and apparatus for evaluating locations according to feng shui principles: A communication device (112) includes a communications receiver (120), an AM/FM receiver (124), a three-dimensional Hall-effect sensor (226), a digital camera (128), and a GPS receiver (130), which each have multiple uses. In addition to their usual functions, the various capabilities of the respective elements (112, 120, 124, 226, 128,...

20060084450 - Communication apparatus and a method of indicating receipt of an electronic message, and a server, a method and a computer program product for providing a computerized icon ordering service: A communication apparatus has a controller (800); an interface (806; 850) adapted to receive an electronic message (852); a display (836); and a memory (802; 804). The memory is adapted to store image data representing at least one predefined icon to be presented on the display so as to indicate...

20060084451 - Method and apparatus for routing short messages in mobile telephone networks: A method for routing short messages using a router in a mobile telecommunications network. The method comprises: receiving a short message from a short message element; attempting to deliver a short message without passing through a store and forward function; and if said attempted delivery fails, directing said short message...

20060084452 - Radio communication terminal device and radio communication method for forming radio communication terminal network: A radio communication terminal network with a tree structure is formed in such a way that a plurality of receiving side terminal devices on a downstream side of a source terminal device are connected to the source terminal device, and other receiving side terminal devices on a further downstream side...

20060084453 - Message transmission in wireless access system: A method for transmitting messages to alter the operating status between a mobile station and a base station in a wireless access system comprises, at the mobile station, transmitting a first message to the base station, setting a first count to a first predetermined value and enabling a first, the...

20060084455 - Apparatus and method for requesting or allocating a push-to-talk right to talk and/or for requesting or communicating queuing information: A push-to-talk communication system is described in which a decision unit (chair) and/or a queue are provided for allocating the right to talk during a push-to-talk communication, and corresponding control messages, request messages and information messages are transmitted....

20060084454 - Call processing system and method based on answer mode of push to talk over cellular user: A call processing system and method based on an answer mode of a Push-to-Talk over Cellular (PoC) user are provided. A data format is defined, which inserts an indicator indicating a manual answer override into a payload of a Real-time Transport Control Protocol (RTCP) in a format of a new...

20060084457 - Method and apparatus for reducing transport delay in a push-to-talk system: In real-time critical wireless data applications, such as Push-to-talk over Cellular (PoC) or Push-To-Talk (PTT) and Voice-over-IP (VoIP), a user of a PTT mobile station pushes a button to indicate his desire to communicate with a pre-defined group (e.g., a buddy list) of people. This action triggers the PTT mobile...

20060084456 - Site dependent buddy list addition for temporary ptt communication: A system and method of creating a temporary site dependent push-to-talk/media (PTT/M) group for allowing PTT/M communications among a visiting PTT/M equipped mobile device and site based PTT/M equipped devices while the visiting PTT/M equipped mobile device is on-site. An on-site device is responsible for detecting when a visiting PTT/M...

20060084458 - Adaptive power control mode apparatus and method for increased radio frequency link capacity: A method of adaptive power control in an electronic device comprising the steps of receiving a signal from a wireless radio access network indicating a method for setting a supplemental threshold; determining a value for the supplemental threshold utilizing the indicated method from the RAN; and setting the supplemental threshold....

20060084459 - Outer loop power control of user equipment in wireless communication: A faster power control method especially of use in case of a UE device communicating with a SAP (e.g. a Node B) of a UTRAN via E-DCH, where instead of the SAP (e.g. a Node B) receiving from the serving RNC a new SIR target to use because of changing...

20060084460 - Terminal transmit power control with link adaptation: Methods for coordinating power usage and link adaptation in wireless communications are described. Terminals and/or access points (APs) may attempt to modify terminals' transmit power in relation to a desired communication data transfer rate. Link adoption may also be used in conjunction with the described methods....

20060084461 - Wireless communication apparatus and wireless communication system: A wireless communication apparatus includes an M-number of (M is an integer of 2 or more) receiving portions connected to respective antennas, a frame analyzing section configured to analyze a reception signal received by the M-number of receiving portions, and a selecting section configured to select a receiving portion to...

20060084464 - Apparatus and method for firmware download in a mobile audio platform: A cellular phone includes a host processor, a system memory for storing at least one program, 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, a program memory coupled to the mobile audio platform...

20060084467 - Apparatus and method for selectively connecting mobile communication terminal to telephone network: A mobile communication terminal includes an input unit having a plurality of number keys and a plurality of call keys; a controller for instructing a call connection to a wired communication network or to a mobile communication network with reference to a ‘telephone network connection method’ arbitrarily set by a...

20060084466 - Hinge unit and mobile terminal having the hinge unit: A mobile terminal including a main body, a folder body rotatably connected with the main body, a hinge connection part rotatably connecting the main body and the folder body, and a hinge unit mounted at the hinge connection part and configured to variably control a torque applied to the folder...

20060084468 - Mobile communication device having speaker unit: A mobile communication device is provided that includes a first body, a second body hingedly-coupled to the first body and speaker unit installed in the second body such that sound generated when the first body is folded closed with respect to the second body can be directly transferred outside the...

20060084465 - Mobile communication terminal: A mobile communication terminal with dedicated keys for controlling an integrated functional component such as an audio player, in which the dedicated keys are situated at convenient positions for use. The mobile communication terminal includes a housing that accommodates parts which enable wireless communications with an external device and has...

20060084463 - Mobile communication terminal having emergency call function and method of processing emergency call request in the mobile communication terminal: Disclosed herein are a mobile communication terminal equipped with a subscriber identification module and a method of processing an emergency call request in the mobile communication terminal. The mobile communication terminal includes: a keypad; a display unit; a RF module for communicating with a base station; and a controller for...

20060084462 - Presenting an information item on a mobile device: This invention relates to a method of and a mobile device (10) for presenting an information item. Said mobile device can be a personal digital assistant, a palm top, a cell phone or a mobile phone. Said method including the steps of: retrieving an identification of at least one of...

20060084470 - System for establishing data transmission path between mobile phone terminals: In a network system including base stations accommodated in a mobile phone network through an IP network, when a mobile phone terminal as a calling terminal makes a calling request and the calling request from the calling terminal is sent through a source base station to the mobile phone network...

20060084469 - Transmitter and receiver architecture for multi-mode wireless device: A multi-mode wireless device having a transceiver including a multi-mode transmitter and a multi-mode receiver. The transmitter can include a multi-mode transmit baseband portion configured to support all of the transmit modes. Similarly, the receiver can include a multi-mode baseband portion that is configured to support all of the receive...

20060084471 - System and method for making and receiving cellular telephone calls at a wired analog telephone device: A cellular telephone docking station is provided and includes a semiconductor device that has a processor and a memory device that is coupled to the processor. An identification device is coupled to the semiconductor device and the identification device includes a docking station identification. The cellular telephone docking station also...

20060084472 - Method for managing personal identification information of a subscriber identity module card in a mobile communication terminal: A method by which a user can use a function of a subscriber identity module (SIM) without directly inputting a personal identification number (PIN). The user can directly input the user's personal information corresponding to a predetermined security question for user authentication of the mobile communication terminal. The security question...

20060084473 - Base station architecture: The invention relates to a macro base station, comprising at least one module for implementing the base station functionality between external interfaces of the base station, wherein the module is mountable as one unit....

20060084474 - Method and system for managing a cell sectorized by both an angle in azimuth and a distance from a base station: A method and system for managing a cell sectorized by both an angle in azimuth and a distance from a base station are disclosed. A wireless communication system comprises a base station and a cell. The base station comprises an antenna array for generating a plurality of directional beams which...

20060084475 - Mobile communication systems, mobile communication methods, base stations, mobile stations, and signal transmission methods in the mobile communication systems: A mobile station is configured to measure receiving qualities of respective signals from a first antenna and a second antenna of a base station (S3, S5), store the results of the measurement, and request the base station to retransmit a signal from an antenna with a higher receiving quality, based...

20060084476 - Push to talk voice buffering systems and methods in wireless communication calls: Systems and methods are provided for voice buffering for a VOVC PTT call. The buffering starts before the VOVC call is established....

20060084477 - Custom navigation menu for a mobile device: A method of customizing a navigation menu of a mobile device is provided. The method comprises selecting a first screen displayed on the mobile device in accordance with a first navigation order; and assigning to the first screen a second navigation order....

20060084479 - Method and network apparatus for selectively displaying multiple information items related to network: A method and network apparatus for selectively displaying multiple information items related to network are provided. The network apparatus for selectively displaying multiple network information items, includes a network transceiver transmitting and receiving data through a network and providing information relating to the activation status of the network and information...

20060084478 - Most frequently used contact information display for a communication device: A method of displaying most frequently used information on a mobile communication device is provided. The method comprises monitoring usage of a plurality of contact information associated with a process for initiating contact with an entity, wherein said plurality of contact information is stored in a database accessible by the...

20060084480 - Apparatus and method for stimulating one or more areas on a wearer: A system includes a wireless device (101) and at least one stimulator pad (400, 500). The stimulator pad (400, 500) has a set of electrodes (404) that are in communication with the wireless device (101). The stimulator pad (400, 500) is worn on the skin of a user. The wireless...

20060084481 - Communication device: A communication device. The communication device comprises a body, a battery unit and an ejecting device. The body comprises an opening, a first port, a first positioning portion and a receptacle. The opening is formed on one end of the body, and the receptacle is a hollow rectangular space connecting...

20060084482 - Electronic hand-held device with a back cover keypad and a related method: A hand-held device such as a mobile terminal or a PDA comprising a display on one side, or alternatively, means for connecting to an external display, and a keypad on another side is presented. A light key press is visually indicated (202) to the user of the device via the...

20060079175 - Broadcast editing apparatus of mobile terminal and method thereof: The present invention relates to a broadcast editing apparatus and method for editing a satellite broadcast signal in a mobile terminal of a wireless communication system. A satellite broadcast signal received from a satellite or a gap filter is divided into a video signal and an audio signal. An inputted...

20060079176 - Apparatus and method for reusing satellite broadcast spectrum for terrestrially broadcast signals: A satellite receiving antenna at a user location receives satellite signals at a first frequency from a satellite. The satellite signals travel along a satellite signal route encompassed within an aperture of the satellite receiving antenna. A terrestrial transmitter transmits signals at the first frequency along a wireless transmission route...

20060079177 - Wireless communicatin antenna and wireless communication device: The present invention is directed to a wireless communication apparatus provided at various electronic equipments having wireless communication function, and performs, by a system control unit (6), in accordance with communication band used, a control to select plural communication circuits (4), (5) having communication bands different from each other, which...

20060079182 - Bluetooth communicator, short range wireless communicator and program: While a handsfree device being multi-profile compatible is maintaining a connection for a handsfree profile (HFP) with a mobile phone handset, the handsfree device cuts off the connection for the HFP based on a user's operation. After cutting off, the handsfree device establishes a connection for a dial-up network profile...

20060079181 - Bluetooth ctp mobile telecommunication terminal, bluetooth ctp gateway, and connection method thereof: A bluetooth CTP (Cordless Telephony Profile) mobile telecommunication terminal, a bluetooth CTP gateway, and a connection method thereof are provided such that the function of both a wire telephone and a wireless telephone are enabled in one mobile telecommunication terminal. A CTP terminal attempts a CTP connection to a CTP...

20060079180 - Methods, apparatus, systems and computer program products for energy management of short-range communication modules in mobile terminal devices: The methods, apparatus, systems and computer program products provide for sensing a magnetic field, emitted by a short-range communication source, to activate short-range communication modules in a mobile terminal. In addition to sensing the magnetic field, the terminal may rely on other parameters, such as operational state of the terminal,...

20060079178 - Reconfigurable wireless communications device and radio: An apparatus for short-range wireless communications includes a transceiver configured to operate different modes. Each of these modes corresponds to a particular wireless link type. In addition, the apparatus includes a controller for selectively activating one of the operational modes of the transceiver. The controller sends one or more operational...

20060079179 - Short-distance wireless transmission device for driving functions of medical equipment: A short-distance wireless transmission device for driving functions of medical equipment, the short-distance wireless transmission device includes a data converting module and a signal emitting module integrated in an electronic product. As such, a user can input a control command via the electronic product, by means of the data converting...

20060079184 - Channel estimator, demodulator, speed estimator and method thereof: A channel estimator, demodulator, speed estimator and method thereof. The speed estimator may generate a speed indicator indicating a speed of a mobile device. The channel estimator may perform channel estimation based on the estimated speed indicated by the speed indicator. The demodulator may perform channel compensation based on the...

20060079183 - Detecting interference between neighboring basic service sets (bsss) in wireless local area network (wlan) system: Detecting interference between neighboring Basic Service Sets (BSSs) in a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) system conforming to an IEEE 802.11 standard in which an arbitrary Access Point (AP) wirelessly transmits and receives frames to and from a station in a relevant BSS includes: receiving the frames; calculating an other-BSSID...

20060079185 - Radio communication system, mobile terminal unit thereof, and azimuth determining method: Disclosed are a mobile station unit which can obtain azimuth information with a simple construction and a radio communication system including the mobile terminal unit. According to the present invention, in a terminal station, an arrival direction obtaining section 203 obtains an arrival direction of a received azimuth designation signal...

20060079186 - Apparatus and method for controlling gain of a transceiving device in a wireless terminal for a communication system: An apparatus for controlling a gain of a transceiving device in a terminal for a communication system is disclosed. A memory stores predetermined thresholds for level-by-level gain controlling. A signal intensity detector detects an intensity value of a received signal. Comparators compare the received signal intensity value with thresholds predetermined...

20060079187 - Gps, infrasonics, audio tools armband for location and assistance in response to astronomical and other crises: Astronomical crises come in the form of galactic collisions, stellar collisions, collisions with asteroids, solar storms and collisions of many other types. There also can be increases in ultraviolet, microwave, gamma, or infrared radiation. This device and method is somewhat different in that it is a way to locate people...

20060079188 - Devices and methods for retaining an antenna: The disclosed embodiments provide devices and methods for securely retaining an antenna to a communications device. The disclosed embodiments include an antenna assembly connectable with a housing. The antenna assembly may include a connector having a connector body extending from a first end to a second end and thereby defining...

20060079189 - Wireless communication apparatus: A wireless communication apparatus that provides an electronic apparatus with a wireless communication capability includes a connector connectable to the electronic apparatus, and an antenna section that is movable between a first position that covers said connector, and a second position that exposes said connector....

20060079190 - Data communication system with optimal damping function: A data communication system includes a plurality of sensor initiators, each of which has first and second antennas; a communication control module and a plurality of sensor communication modules. The communication control module is connected with the plurality of sensor initiators through a LAN and is configured to control the...

20060079191 - Method and apparatus for continuously controlling the dynamic range from an analog-to-digital converter: A method for continuously determining the required dynamic range for an analog-to-digital converter by determining the received signal strength and using this received signal strength value in combination with the overall dynamic range for the ADC and the target resolution of the ADC to decode a radio channel in the...

20060079192 - Processing architecture for a receiving system with improved directivity and signal to noise ratio: A receive system providing enhanced directivity in the form of a narrowed receive beam and a relatively small antenna with performance comparable to a much larger antenna at similar frequencies. Received signals are converted to digital values and stored in a manner which enables subsequent processing directed to improving the...

20060079193 - Radio receiver and gain control method: A radio receiver includes a branching unit, a first gain-control system, a second-gain control system, and a signal processing unit. The branching unit branches a radio signal received by the radio receiver into two signals. The first-gain control system performs a gain control of a pilot signal in one of...

20060079194 - Communications receiver method and apparatus: A radiofrequency (RF) receiver circuit and method offer one or more performance improvements, such as an increased input compression point through better out-of-band interference suppression. In one example, an RF receiver circuit includes a low-noise amplifier (LNA) circuit and a mixer. The mixer output signal serves as negative feedback to...

20060079196 - Data receiver adaptive to rssi and a method of determining its threshold: A modem generates a new RSSI threshold value in response to a flag signal representing the quality of the threshold value indicated by the result of error detection supplied from one monitor, and supplies the generated threshold value to another monitor. The RSSI threshold value set in the other monitor...

20060079195 - Low if receiver systems and methods: Embodiments of a low intermediate frequency system and method are disclosed. In one embodiment, among others, a method for operating a receiver is disclosed that comprises receiving a radio frequency signal, downconverting the radio frequency signal to a downconverted signal comprising an in-phase component and quadrature component, and estimating a...

20060079197 - System and method for sap fm demodulation: Certain embodiments of the present invention provides a system and method for SAP FM demodulation. The system includes a bandpass filter for isolating the SAP signal, a Hilbert filter to produce a copy of the SAP signal phase shifted by 90 degrees, an FM demodulator for demodulating the SAP signal...

20060079198 - Apparatus, method and system for range extension of a data communication signal on a high voltage cable: A reconditioning system for extending the reach of a RF communication signal using a high voltage cable and a neutral conductor as a communication channel. A reconditioner of the reconditioning system is either a repeater or a regenerator and is coupled to the high voltage cable using novel high voltage...

20060079200 - Disaster system control method and disaster system control apparatus: In a disaster system control method and apparatus transmitting disaster status information through a mobile communication network or a fixed communication network, in order to promptly transmit/receive disaster status information at a time of a disaster occurrence between a disaster monitoring person and afflicted people within a disaster occurrence area,...

20060079199 - Interrupting chip: Provided is an interrupting chip designed to eliminate the problems related to disseminating information via electronic devices when those devices are not powered on, or are not tuned to the appropriate channel capable of receiving emergency broadcast information. By providing an interrupting chip within electronic devices that convey information to...

20060079201 - System, method, and medium for managing conversational user interface according to usage pattern for portable operation: An automated mobile operating method, medium, mobile system, and mobile phone extracting a pattern of operation of a mobile device based on operational data for the mobile device, comparing the pattern and the operational data of the mobile device to determine whether the pattern is a new pattern not previously...

20060079202 - Method and apparatus to set and retrieve status in communications devices: A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for identifying a caller status. A status for a selected entry in an electronic phone book in a communications device is retrieved. The status of the selected entry is presented prior to initiating the call for the selected entry in response to a selection...

20060079203 - Method and system for enabling two way communication during a failed transmission condition: A method and system for enabling two way communications between a mobile vehicle and a call center during a failed transmission condition is disclosed. A cleared number voice call is initiated from a telematics unit to a call center based on a failed transmission condition. A cleared number voice call...

20060079205 - Mutual authentication with modified message authentication code: Methods and devices for instructing a subscriber identity module in a cellular communications network to process non-standard authentication information in a standard manner are disclosed. One embodiment of a method comprises receiving a first message authentication code (MAC) and an authentication management field (AMF) at a subscriber identity module as...

20060079206 - Terminal device for preventing resource waste and a control method thereof: A terminal device for preventing the waste of resources is connected to an authentication server and at least one external device through networks, and a method for controlling the same. The terminal device comprises a communication module for requesting authentication in connection with the authentication server and receiving a result...

20060079204 - Wireless device content information theft protection system: A wireless device, such as a laptop computer or a cellular phone, may contain confidential information which may be secured by an internal security system. When the device is stolen, the user can provide a portion of a kill code to a wireless service provider. The wireless service provider provides...

20060079209 - Data processing unit, data processing method and data processing system: During operation a check is made, by utilizing a tuning function of tuning communication parameters, if communication parameters used for wireless communication with another movable unit are suitable. When the communication parameters are found to be unsuitable, new communication parameters are used for communication. Thus, the communication performance of the...

20060079210 - Message automatic notification system, message automatic notification method, communication terminal device, and recording medium: A message automatic notification system sends a message via a communication network to at least another communication terminal devices registered in a communication terminal device. The communication terminal device includes a control circuit, a communication circuit, and a memory unit. The control circuit causes a message-sending condition to be registered...

20060079207 - Method for configuring hold entertainment: A method for configuring hold entertainment includes monitoring a wireless connection between a telematics unit and a call center for a data input and muting a source input responsive to detection of the data input....

20060079211 - Method of triggering a transfer of data stored in a database: A method of sending data stored in a database from a sender to a recipient, which are mobile phone users, in relationship with a manager that defines a managing software application, wherein database and the manager are in connection with a website, involves entering into a connection between the sender...

20060079208 - Mobile telephone network-based system for detection and location of hazardous agents: A system for detecting hazardous agents is based on cellular telephone networks. The cellular telephones in public circulation have at least one detector for detecting at least one hazardous agent and broadcast alarm packets upon detecting the hazardous agent. A computer or computer network interconnected with telephones by the cellular...

20060079214 - Method and apparatus for showing wireless mobile device data content on an external viewer: A method, apparatus, system and computer program product are presented for showing a presentation created and running on a mobile device on an external display device wherein the information data content is transferred from the mobile device to the external display device independent of the characteristics, data format and screen...

20060079212 - Radio communication device and radio communication method: A radio communication device includes: clock generation means (31A to 31D, 30) for generating a plurality of clocks; data signal generation means (204, 203) for inputting transmission signals of a plurality of types to be transmitted and generating a plurality of data signals including the plurality of types of transmission...

20060079213 - System and method of music generation: There is provided herein a system and method for generating music on multiple cell phones or other mobile computing devices, wherein two or more users (to include a user and a computer) acting together may create a joint musical work. The instant methods enable multiple users to create music in...

20060079215 - Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for redirecting telephone calls from a wireless device in a telecommunications network: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for redirecting telephone calls from a wireless device in a telecommunications network. The existence of a predefined condition is determined after an incoming call is received in the wireless device. The predefined condition may be based on a number of criteria including the...

20060079217 - Compressed audio information: Compressed entertainment content such as audio or video or both includes additional aspects and operations associated their way. The compressed audio may be used to signal computers such as a telephone or reminder for an appointment. A melody line may be extracted from the audio, or the audio may be...

20060079216 - System for detecting the production data of a number of textile machines: The invention relates to a system comprising control computers (1) for controlling and detecting the operating data e.g. the speed, stoppage, cause of stoppage, etc., for each textile machine, and a central computer (2) for determining the production data. The control computers (1) and the central computer (2) respectively comprise...

20060079218 - Filtered wireless communications: A method and apparatus for filtered wireless communications is provided. The method provides a managed wireless zone. A wireless zone communication system is provided having one or more wireless nodes. The wireless node can be a cellular base substation including a power source, a processor having software stored in memory,...

20060079222 - Cellular communications drive test system and method: A system for and method of cellular telephone system monitoring includes a cellular switch which is remotely accessed and placed in a call monitor mode. A GPS receiver is connected to a mobile telephone via an interface unit. Call performance information (e.g., signal strength, BER and call events) are recorded...

20060079219 - Method and system for performing failed wireless communication diagnostics: A method and computer usable medium storing a computer program for performing failed wireless communication diagnostics are disclosed. A failed transmission condition is recognized. A cleared number communication channel is established between a telematics unit and either a service provider or a call center responsive to the received failed transmission...

20060079220 - Method for operating a smart antenna in a wlan using medium access control information: A communications device with a switched beam antenna operates in a wireless local area network (WLAN) that includes a plurality of transmitters. The switched beam antenna generates a plurality of antenna beams. A method for operating the communications device includes receiving signals from the plurality of transmitters operating within the...

20060079221 - Network-controlled feedback for mimo systems: In a selective MIMO system, the mobile station provides channel quality feedback for one or more possible transmission mode. The mobile station provides channel quality feedback for a first mode regardless of channel conditions and determines whether to provide feedback for one or more additional modes based on current channel...

20060079223 - Communication method: A method for communication over a telecommunications network includes selecting a public telecommunication station located in the vicinity of a mobile telephone. The public telecommunication station is used by the mobile telephone as an access point to the telecommunications network....

20060079226 - Service control system and service control method: Degradation of user convenience in regard to service provision in mobile data communications is prevented even in cases such as where a mobile communications terminal of a different system has been adopted in order to receive roaming service. A service control system comprises a contract content database which stores the...

20060079224 - Using an enhanced preferred roaming list in a terminal device: A method (200) in a CDMA terminal device for acquiring a system identified in an enhanced preferred roaming list (enhanced PRL), with at least one entry containing a mobile country code, includes the steps of obtaining (210) system identifiers from SYNCH channels on a scan list, determining (220) if the...

20060079225 - Vlr roaming statistics for ipn (intelligent preferred network): A system and a method for determining redirection attempts in an IPN (Intelligent Preferred Network) while taking into account roaming VLR parameters. The system utilizes per-VLR roaming statistics to improve decisions regarding redirection attempts, thus further optimizing the IPN success ratio....

20060079229 - Method for controlling communication, method for controlling terminal, communication control device, gateway terminal, and mobile terminal: The present invention reduces the number of location registration signals transmitted by slave terminals of gateway terminals forming ad hoc networks. Information on the current location of a gateway terminal is acquired. On the basis of the current location information acquired, a plurality of gateway terminals are grouped into a...

20060079228 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing wireless-fidelity (wi-fi) gateway visitor location register (vlr) functionality: Methods, Systems, and Computer Program Products for Providing Wireless-Fidelity (Wi-Fi) Gateway Visitor Location Register (VLR) Functionality. A method is disclosed herein for providing Wi-Fi gateway VLR functionality for an access point in a Wi-Fi network. The steps of the method can occur at a Wi-Fi gateway VLR that can perform...

20060079227 - System and method for improved imei registration: Methods and systems for IMEI registration are provided. In accordance with exemplary embodiments of the present invention, when an IMEI registration fails due to a network failure, the mobile station implements a back-off algorithm for future IMEI registration attempts. Specifically, the present invention provides a back-off algorithm which determines a...

20060079231 - Apparatus, system and method for providing security service in home network: Provided are apparatuses, systems and methods for providing security services. The apparatus includes a network interface unit for transceiving data between a control device and a management device, a controller for controlling provision of services requested from the control device through the network interface unit when a permit time, during...

20060079230 - System and methods for redundant networks: Systems and methods for redundant data communication are presented. In some embodiments, a redundant wireless networking system includes at least two wireless access points directly associated with a wired network and configured to provide wireless network access over one or more common areas, and one or more transceivers whose locations...

20060079234 - Handover process free of short-break and packet loss in cdma mobile communication system on ip network: When a mobile node makes handover, the mobile node issues a binding update message and sends the binding update message to a base transceiver station from which handover is made. When the base transceiver station from which handover is made sends radio data to the mobile node, it also transfers...

20060079233 - Method and associated apparatus for increment accuracy of geographical foreign agent topology relation in heterogeneous access networks: One aspect of the present invention regards a method of coordinating the handoff of a mobile carrier between a first access network and a second access network, the method including handing off from a first access network that the mobile carrier is currently operating within to a second access network...

20060079232 - Wireless lan handover method, wireless terminal, program product for use in the wireless terminal, and wireless communications system: A wireless terminal is associated with a Basic Service Set (BSS) or an Independent Basic Service Set (IBSS). The wireless terminal notifies the currently associated target of transition into power saving mode, before migrating from the currently associated BSS or IBSS to another BSS or IBSS. Subsequently, the wireless LAN...

20060079235 - System and method for handover in a broadband wireless access communication system: A system and a method for performing a handover in a broadband wireless access communication system including a serving BS, target BSs adjacent to the serving BS, and the MS currently communicating with the serving BS. The method includes receiving neighbor ranging code information from the serving BS, transmitting the...

20060079237 - Method and system for least call routing for one or more telephone calls: A method for determining a least cost routing method for a predetermined telephone call. The method includes providing a predetermined telephone number from a handset from a geographic location and identifying more than one service provider from a plurality of service providers in a database having an access number associated...

20060079236 - Pseudo number portability in fixed-mobile convergence with one number: A Fixed-Mobile Convergence (FMC) network and method of handling calls in a FMC network. Registration is maintained for FMC User Equipment (UE) with at least two (a primary and a secondary) networks, e.g., a mobile network and a fixed network with a wireless connection capability. The primary network maintains subscribers...

20060079238 - User interface method and system for cellular phone: An alternative method for operating a mobile handset. The method includes providing a mobile hand set comprising a user interface and a mobile application, which is coupled to a telephone network. The method includes entering a predetermined phone number through the user interface and determining a destination location of the...

20060079239 - Method and apparatus for indicating preferred layer information in multimedia broadcast/multicast service (mbms): A method is disclosed for transferring preferred frequency information in a mobile communication system which establishes a preferred frequency layer and a non-preferred frequency layer for a Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service (MBMS) service. The method involves the steps of determining at least one preferred frequency of the MBMS service when a...

20060079240 - Apparatus and method for assigning subcarrier in ofdma communication system: A subcarrier assignment apparatus and a subcarrier assignment method, in which each of a plurality of Base Stations (BSs) constituting an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) communication system provides services in the capacity of a serving BS to Mobile Stations (MSs). Channel quality information for the respective MSs are...

20060079241 - Apparatus, and an associated method, for facilitating communication transition in a radio communication system: Apparatus, and an associated method, for requesting, and allocating communication resources at a new fixed-site transceiver of a radio communication system, such as a new access point of a wireless local area network. A resource information container is formed that is structured to include information elements that identify, amongst other...

20060079242 - Enhanced assisted cell change: A system and method for minimizing signalling loads due to mutual exchanges of information between neighboring cells in which the same session is transmitted, and for reducing the time required to transmit MBMS neighbor cell information messages in a serving cell when a higher level of signalling occurs, wherein all...

20060079246 - Location based service for point-to-multipoint broadcasting: A method for providing a location based service (LBS) in a point-to-multipoint broadcasting system comprises, in a mobile station, receiving a transmitter identifier (ID) from a point-to-multipoint transmitter, and obtaining location information based on the transmitter ID. The method also comprises determining a service area for the LBS based on...

20060079250 - Method and apparatus for providing enhanced communication capability for mobile devices on a virtual private network (vpn): A service communication system for mobile vehicles has a cellular telephony interface in individual ones of the mobile vehicles, for establishing telephony events over a cellular network with a base station, and a global positioning system in individual ones of the mobile vehicles for determining global position from transmissions from...

20060079247 - Method for directing a user of a mobile device from a current location to a product: A method is described for directing a user of a mobile device from a current location to a product, wherein an identification code of the product is recorded in the mobile device and transmitted to a name server. The identification code is used in the name server among others for...

20060079245 - Methods and systems for position co-ordination: A position coordination system for coordinating a position of a number of users includes at least one user terminal, at least one mobile communications device, and a network connecting the at least one user terminal and the at least one mobile communications device. The at least one user terminal is...

20060079248 - Mobile communication terminal and position information using method: An object of the present invention is to provide a cell phone capable of using base station position information and GPS position information more appropriately. This cell phone 10 is provided with a first position acquirer 12 for acquiring first position information of cell phone 10 calculated using a position...

20060079244 - System and method for collecting continuous location updates while minimizing overall network utilization: A wireless device and method for providing location updates to a wireless network includes determining a current location of the wireless device, comparing the current location to a second location and transmitting a location update, including presence information, to the wireless network when the current location differs from the second...

20060079243 - Telephone system and method for selectively ringing a portable phone based on the self-detected geographical position of the portable phone: A portable phone is equipped with a position detector that detects the geographical position of the portable phone, and the function of the phone can be changed according to its geographical position. One or more “regions” may be defined by the user of the portable phone, and the ring parameters...

20060079249 - User privacy management apparatus and method in mobile communications system: Provided is a user privacy management apparatus and method on a Secure User Plane Location (SUPL) network including a SUPL Location Platform (SLP) and a SUPL Enabled Terminal (SET) and performing privacy authorization according to location of the SET, wherein when the location of the SET is calculated, the SLP...

20060079251 - Technique for effective communications with, and provision of global positioning system (gps) based advertising information to, automobiles: In an automobile, communications to and from the automobile are in the form of messages. Such messages are referred to as “electronic car-mail” or “C-mail” messages as each message has a destination or origination address which includes an identifier, e.g., a vehicle identification number (VIN), identifying the automobile. The messages...

20060079252 - Technique for effective communications with, and provision of global positioning system (gps) based advertising information to, automobiles: In an automobile, communications to and from the automobile are in the form of messages. Such messages are referred to as “electronic car-mail” or “C-mail” messages as each message has a destination or origination address which includes an identifier, e.g., a vehicle identification number (VIN), identifying the automobile. The messages...

20060079253 - Magnetic suspension bearing: A magnetic suspension bearing includes a plurality of magnets enclosed in an outer and an inner enclosure respectively. These magnets are disposed staggeringly up and down remaining a gap between each pair of magnets so as to generate a magnetic suspension force produced form repulsion force between magnets of the...

20060079254 - Method and apparatus for updating a control file: A method of simultaneously upgrading control files in mobile devices (5) and remote devices (45) utlising Cell Broadcast messages. A control file is divided into a number of packets which are sent in the user data sections (18, 20) of a sequence of Cell Broadcasts messages. The mobile data (5)...

20060079255 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for short message service (sms) spam filtering using e-mail spam filtering resources: Methods, systems, and computer program products are disclosed for preventing the delivery of unwanted SMS messages, such as those containing unsolicited commercial messages or spam, in a communications network. More particularly, SMS messages are intercepted prior to delivery and at least a portion of the SMS message content is encapsulated...

20060079256 - Apparatus for measuring fa wireless communication propagation environment and method thereof: Disclosed are an apparatus for measuring an FA wireless communication propagation environment and a method thereof which enables an FA measurer to easily measure the whole FA wireless communication propagation environment established between a base transceiver subsystem (BTS) and a mobile terminal at a certain place. If the FA change...

20060079257 - Communication terminal device and radio communication method: A transmission method selection section (223) selects either a first packet transmission method or a second packet transmission method. When the first packet transmission method is selected, an SRQ information generation section (224) generates SRQ (scheduling request) information based on the amount of data calculated by a data amount measuring...

20060079259 - Radio resources messaging in an unlicensed wireless communication system: An unlicensed wireless service is adapted to generate the interface protocols of a licensed wireless service to provide transparent transition of communication sessions between a licensed wireless service and an unlicensed wireless service. In one embodiment, a mobile station includes level 1, level 2, and level 3 protocols for licensed...

20060079258 - Registration messaging for an unlicensed wireless communication system: An unlicensed wireless service is adapted to generate the interface protocols of a licensed wireless service to provide transparent transition of communication sessions between a licensed wireless service and an unlicensed wireless service. In one embodiment, a mobile station includes level 1, level 2, and level 3 protocols for licensed...

20060079260 - Ad-hoc dispatch chatroom: A system and method of establishing a multi-party dispatch communication session is disclosed. In accordance with an embodiment of a method of the present invention, the method includes receiving an invitation to join a multi-party dispatch communication session directed to a called party at a dispatch network. The invitation is...

20060079261 - Push-to-talk communication system, mobile communication terminal, and voice transmitting method: Provided is a push-to-talk (PTT) communication system including: a server for controlling PTT communications; and a mobile communication terminal that requests the server for a voice transmission right for transmitting voice information to a predetermined communication counterpart based on the PTT communications. The mobile communication terminal requests the server for...

20060079262 - Method and apparatus for providing dispatch-type services in a cellular communication system: An interconnect communication system is provided that provides for dispatch-type services including Instant Access call set up, talkgroup creation and management, and in-band floor arbitration and mode switching that employ in-band signaling tones. By providing talkgroup creation and management and in-band floor arbitration that are transparent to the underlying network,...

20060079267 - Apparatus and method for measuring and reporting uplink load in a cellular mobile communication system: An apparatus and method for measuring and reporting uplink load in a base station (BS) in a cellular mobile communication system are provided. The BS includes a rise over thermal (ROT) detector for measuring a ROT representing uplink load, and reporting information from which the ROT can be derived to...

20060079266 - Coding selection method: The invention relates to channel coding in the air interface in telecommunication systems, and specifically to methods used in selecting coding methods. The network utilises information reported by a power control channel quality reporting procedure, such as reporting procedures used for Enhanced Power Control or Fast Power Control, for controlling...

20060079268 - Congestion control in a wireless communication system using the battery level: A method for congestion control in the uplink of a wireless communication system having a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) and a radio network controller (RNC) begins by receiving an interference report for each user. The average noise rise for each user calculated and congestion relieving measures are implemented based upon...

20060079264 - Outer loop power control of user equipment in wireless communication: A faster power control method especially of use in case of a UE device communicating with a SAP (e.g. a Node B) of a UTRAN via E-DCH, where instead of the SAP (e.g. a Node B) receiving from the serving RNC a new SIR target to use because of changing...

20060079263 - Target value control method for transmission power control, base station control device and mobile station used for the same: When a reception data block has no error (S1: NO), a target SIRt is updated by a reduction amount according to the count CBN having no reception data block error continuously (S3). That is, when the CBN is 1 to 100, reduction is made by ΔSIRt×BLERt/(1−BLERt) (Here, the BLERt is...

20060079265 - Wireless system: The measured total power supply and the number of terminals (traffic volume) covered by a base station are obtained from the base station. From the traffic volume, the total power supply required to the base station is estimated. The measured total power supply is compared with the estimated total power...

20060079269 - Cellular telephone design for the elderly: A cellular telephone designed specifically to be visually appealing and practical for the elderly and those with reduced dexterity. Although the keypad buttons on the cellular telephone are approximately 260 square millimeters and have large spaces between adjacent keys to reduce instances of pressing the wrong button and to optimize...

20060079270 - Power path apparatus of mobile terminal and a method thereof: In a mobile terminal including a broadcast program receiving chip and performing original functions of a mobile terminal and broadcast program receiving functions, the mobile terminal includes a processor, a power path unit, a broadcast signal processor, and a display unit. The processor controls the entire mobile terminal and performs...

20060079271 - Stereo terminal and method for voice calling using the stereo terminal: Disclosed is a stereo mobile terminal including an RF section for receiving or transmitting stereo speech data during a voice call; a demultiplexer for demultiplexing the received stereo speech data into a plurality of speech data and outputting the plurality of speech data; an audio codec for converting the plurality...

20060079272 - Methods and apparatus for communication in a wireless system: One embodiment of the invention is directed to operating, in a wireless network, a device that is designed for operation in a different wireless network. In one embodiment, a device designed to operate in a GSM wireless network may be used to communicate in a PHS wireless network....

20060079274 - Radio resources messaging for a mobile station in an unlicensed wireless communication system: An unlicensed wireless service is adapted to generate the interface protocols of a licensed wireless service to provide transparent transition of communication sessions between a licensed wireless service and an unlicensed wireless service. In one embodiment, a mobile station includes level 1, level 2, and level 3 protocols for licensed...

20060079273 - Registration messaging for a mobile station in an unlicensed wireless communication system: An unlicensed wireless service is adapted to generate the interface protocols of a licensed wireless service to provide transparent transition of communication sessions between a licensed wireless service and an unlicensed wireless service. In one embodiment, a mobile station includes level 1, level 2, and level 3 protocols for licensed...

20060079275 - Method and device for selecting between internal and external antennas: In an RF front-end having a plurality of signal paths connectable to an internal antenna or an external antenna, an antenna switch part is used to select either the internal or the external antenna. In the antenna switch part, two series switches are used to operatively connect to the same...

20060079276 - Combination wireless mouse/mobile telephone system: A combination handheld mobile telephone and wireless mouse for navigating a Windows®-based operating system of a computer comprises a telephone battery that is transformed to accommodate the electronics of the mouse. The mouse is attached to the telephone by connecting means that replaces the original (old) telephone backing or housing...

20060079277 - Notebook computer with replaceable battery unit: A small light weight modular microcomputer based computer and communications systems, designed for both portability and desktop uses. The systems make use of a relative large flat panel display device assembly (2), an expandable hinge device (10), battery power source (9), keyboard assembly (16), and wireless communications devices (32, 51)....

20060079278 - Method for automatic radio operational mode selection: A method is performed to collect information in a work machine including an on-board data link connecting a wireless device and at least one on-board module. The process includes providing a first operational mode for the wireless device that allows the wireless device to perform a first set of operations...

20060079279 - Mobille phone having the function of a mouse: A mobile phone includes a base, a screen connected to the base, and a control panel; the base has a signal receiving plate, and a slide block on the upper side, which can slide on the base in any direction; the control panel has a connecting hole on a lower...

20060079280 - Personal wireless gateway and method for implementing the same: A personal wireless gateway (PWG) comprises a host controller that bridges telecommunications devices using different transmission media allowing a telecommunications device designed for a particular media to be used to communicate over any other available media. Corded and cordless plain old telephones (POTS) may initiate and receive telephone calls over...

20060079282 - Cellular telephone device having a non-contact type integrated circuit card processing section: When a card remaining balance for a non-contact type integrated circuit card processing chip 114 has been updated, a CPU 101 indicates that the card remaining balance has been updated by performing drive control of a notification portion (information LED 8, information speaker 9) having a cellular telephone function....

20060079284 - Communications of uicc in mobile devices using internet protocols: A mobile device and UICC communication using standard Internet protocols. Such communication allows users access to their UICC information using standard web browsers and allows use of the UICCs to communicate with remote servers and thereby provide secure services for Internet transactions. The mobile device has a communications module to...

20060079283 - Sim/uim card arrangement in portable wireless terminal: There is provided a SIM (Subscriber Identity Module)/UIM (User Identity Module) card arrangement in a slide type portable wireless terminal having a main body and a slide body sliding by a predetermined length in a lengthwise direction of the terminal to slide up and down on the main body. In...

20060079281 - System and a method for a sim card based multi-lingual messaging application: The present invention provides a Subscriber Identification Module (SIM) card based system and method for implementing pixel-based multi-lingual Unicode compatible messaging applications. The system comprises input and output units, SIM card, cellular based device and migration module in a transmission protocol server. The SIM Card with inbuilt language manager comprises...

20060079289 - Array beamforming with wide nulls: A method and implementation of wireless communication are disclosed in which wireless signals are exchanged between at least one remote client and a directional antenna array associated with a wireless network, wherein the directional antenna array includes a plurality of antenna elements. A statistical matrix analysis is performed for each...

20060079288 - 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...

20060079290 - Radio communication system: There is disclosed a radio communication system in which a constitution of a base station and further a control station can be simplified. A radio communication system according to the present invention converts a received signal received by a plurality of antenna elements in a base station to a signal...

20060079285 - Transmission of mote-associated index data: Methods and/or systems relating to mote networks having one or more indexes....

20060079286 - Wireless lan technologies for reducing interference between or among wireless lan access points: A wireless LAN technology for reducing interference between (or among) wireless LAN access points is provided. A wireless LAN access point is provided with a directional antenna, an interference detector detecting interference effected by another wireless LAN access point on the directional antenna, and a direction adjusting mechanism adjusting a...

20060079287 - Wireless lan technologies for reducing interference between or among wireless lan access points: A wireless LAN technology for reducing interference between (or among) wireless LAN access points is provided. A wireless LAN access point is provided with a directional antenna, an interference detector detecting interference effected by another wireless LAN access point on the directional antenna, and a direction adjusting mechanism adjusting a...

20060079291 - Method and apparatus for multi-sensory speech enhancement on a mobile device: A mobile device includes an air conduction microphone and an alternative sensor that provides an alternative sensor signal indicative of speech. A communication interface permits the mobile device to communicate directly with other mobile devices....

20060079293 - Emoticon input method and apparatus: An apparatus, such as a communication device, is provided with emoticon input logic associated with an input key to improve the ease-of-use of the apparatus for entering emoticons, e.g. into a text message, while the apparatus is operating e.g. in a text mode. Responsive to a selection of the associated...

20060079292 - Full screen display of key entries: A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for displaying keystrokes on a display screen in the mobile communications device. In response to detecting a user input selecting a character on a keypad, the character is displayed on the display screen using a full screen display of the character. The full screen...

20060079294 - System, method and mobile unit to sense objects or text and retrieve related information: A system, method and mobile unit to sense objects and/or text and retrieve related images, text or translations. The system may allow users to instantly access information about an object or text with a mobile device, such as a mobile phone, pager, personal digital assistant (PDA) or lap top computer....

20060079295 - Method and system for playing an audible alert: A method (900) and system in the form of a telephone (100) for defining and playing on the radio telephone a user defined audible alert or ring tone enables creative selection of portions of digital music files. The method (900) includes receiving (905) an incoming communication signal for communicating with...

20060079296 - Voltage supply device and method for operating such a voltage supply device: A voltage supply device for use in portable devices comprises a connection which is designed to connect an energy storage device, and a first means which is designed to provide a first supply voltage when the energy stored in the energy storage device is above a threshold value and not...

20060079297 - Apparatus and method for controlling the power consumption of a combined umts/gsm/edge radio station: A mobile station has an apparatus by means of which the power consumption of the mobile station is controlled. The apparatus has a monitoring unit which is connected to the at least two radio systems in the mobile station. During activity pauses in the mobile station, whose time duration and...

20060079298 - Portable electronic device: An object of the invention is to smoothen the loading of a battery pack, to ensure the electric connection between the battery pack and the main body of a mobile electronic apparatus, and to reduce the manufacture cost. In the invention, a mobile electronic apparatus comprises collision avoiding mechanisms (4)...

20060079299 - Sliding structure for a mobile device: The present invention is a sliding structure for a mobile device, which has a main body and a sub body buckled with each other for sliding within a predestined distance, having a cover and a base disposed on the main body and sub body respectively; and at least one elastic...

20060079300 - Structure of an ornamental member of a faceplate of a mobile phone: A mobile phone includes a faceplate, which has a transparent plate portion, and a holding tunnel next to an inner side of the transparent plate portion, and which is provided with an ornamental member inserted in the holding tunnel to face the transparent plate portion; the ornamental member includes a...

20060079301 - Drawer-type mobile phone: A drawer-type mobile phone includes a main body with a drawer cover which is slidably movable along a face of the main body. The drawer cover has a panel form, allowing sides of the drawer cover to move along both side faces of the main body. A speaker is mounted...

20060079302 - Mobile phone with camera: A mobile telephone with a camera function has an optimum shooting posture and optimum storage ability. The mobile telephone has a first housing and a second housing which are so connected by a hinge to enable longitudinal folding. A main display section has an operation section containing a set of...

20060079303 - Swing hinge device of a portable terminal: A swing hinge device of a portable terminal for rotatably coupling a pair of housings included in the portable terminal while maintaining the housings facing each other, includes a hinge housing, a hinge cam received in the hinge housing to perform a linearly reciprocating movement in a longitudinal direction of...

20060079304 - System and method for manually adjustable directional antenna: Systems and methods for a manually adjustable directional antenna are disclosed. The device includes a housing and the housing includes a wireless modem, a directional antenna and an adjustment mechanism. The adjustment mechanism is coupled to the directional antenna via a mounting pipe. Alternatively, the housing includes a directional antenna,...

20060079305 - Mobile station cover and welding method: Various embodiments are directed to an improved mobile station cover assembly adapted for at least partially enclosing a wireless telecommunications signal receiving and generating assembly. In one embodiment, the cover assembly includes a belt adapted to receive one or more weldable articles. The belt has a first end, a second...

20060079306 - Portable mounting device for mobile entertainment unit: A portable mounting device for mounting a mobile entertainment unit onto two spaced apart supporters includes an elongated housing, a fixture mounting unit and an entertainment mounting device. The fixture mounting unit includes two retention arms spacedly provided on the fixture mounting side of the elongated housing for detachably engaging...

20060073785 - Mobile device diagnosis, test, application deployment and update from a web page: A method for deploying an application to a mobile device comprises providing a web page to a computing device coupled to a communications network for receiving the web page, the web page comprising a configuration determination and loading component for deploying the application to the mobile device coupled to the...

20060073786 - Voice quality on a communication link based on customer feedback: Architecture that facilitates initiation of a user feedback signal during a telephone call when perceiving reduced voice quality. In response to receiving the feedback signal, the telephone network performs a number of measurements on the system and related to the user device that can be analyzed to determine the problem,...

20060073787 - Wireless headset for communications device: Disclosed herein is a communications system implementing a headset wirelessly connected to a half-duplex communications device, such as a two-way radio or a radio-simulating cellular phone. The headset may incorporate a transmit/receive switch wherein a transmit signal is wirelessly transmitted from the headset to the communications device to direct the...

20060073788 - Context based connectivity for mobile devices: A system for automatically creating a preferred wireless connection medium order in a wireless communication device (WCD) for connecting to a network. A server on the network detects when a new device has entered a designated space, identifies the device, determines its capabilities and creates a wireless connection medium order...

20060073789 - Multi-carrier communication apparatus: A multi-carrier communications apparatus which communicates between a first station and a second station as a destination station using a reference signal used for estimating a state of a channel, the multi-carrier communications apparatus comprising a multi-carrier modulator which modulates data on a plurality of subcarriers, a transmission unit configured...

20060073790 - Method and system for weight determination in a spatial multiplexing mimo system for wcdma/hsdpa: Certain aspects of the method may comprise generating models for a received plurality of spatially multiplexed communication signals for multiple channels from a plurality of transmit antennas. A calculated signal to noise ratio (SNR) of each multiple channel may be maximized based on the generated models. A phase and an...

20060073791 - Power management and distributed scheduling for uplink transmissions in wireless systems: To schedule uplink transmission time slots for a collection of mobile. communication devices, a set of base station target interference patterns is associated with base stations. A time slot target interference pattern is assigned for each time slot and it repeats after several time slots. The time slot target interference...

20060073792 - Circuit having isolated transmitting and receiving paths: An electrical circuit includes an antenna connection for receiving a signal, a first signal path connected to the antenna connection, a filter arranged in the first signal path, and a first and a second gate circuit connected in series. The first gate circuit is connected to the antenna connection, and...

20060073793 - Local oscillator (lo) port linearization for communication system with ratiometric transmit path architecture: An RF transmitter (104) includes a shared local oscillator circuit (126), transmit path circuitry (120, 122, 124), a divider (134), and a lowpass filter (322). The shared local oscillator circuit (126) generates a shared LO signal (116). The transmit path circuitry (120, 122, 124) mixes a baseband signal (107) and...

20060073794 - Arrangement and method for product information interaction with building control system elements: A first embodiment of the invention includes an arrangement for maintaining an environment for a movable object. The arrangement includes an information device, at least one RF device and a building system controller. The information device is disposed in a substantially fixed relationship with the movable object such that the...

20060073795 - Portable telephone for conveying real time walkie-talkie streaming audio-video: A communications device having a display and an integral camera and being provided with a walkie-talkie mode for conveying real time streaming audio-video to one or more receiving devices....

20060073796 - Apparatus for receiving and issuing data through a display on an interior of a passenger compartment of a motor vehicle: This invention has as an object a complex multifunctional apparatus for receiving and issuing data through of the visualization of the latter by means of a display or a monitor on the interior of the passenger compartment of a motor vehicle, with a control device and mobile telephone remote control...

20060073797 - Method and system for diversity processing: In an RF communication system, aspects for diversity processing may comprise processing a plurality of received multipath signals as clusters of signals. The received multipath signals may be diversity signals received from diversity transmit antennas at a base station. Timing information may be generated for tracking the clusters of signals....

20060073798 - Tuner: A single conversion tuner comprises an image reject downconverter and a plurality of tracking RF bandpass filters ahead of the downconverter for providing image rejection. The downconverter comprises first and second mixers which mix the signal from the filters with quadrature commutating signals from a commutating signal generator. The mixer...

20060073799 - Receiving circuit for radio-wave clock broadcast wave: A receiving circuit for a radio-wave clock broadcast wave having a frequency converter that converts a received signal of the radio-wave clock broadcast wave into a signal of a frequency in the bandwidth of an AM radio broadcast. The converted-into signal is input to a first high frequency amplifier of...

20060073800 - Selectable high-side/low-side mix for high intermediate frequency (if) receivers: A method in which one of a high-side mix mode and a low-side mix mode is selected in response to an interference characteristic of a desired channel of a radio frequency (RF) input signal is disclosed. In the high-side mix mode, a direct digital frequency synthesizer (130) is initialized to...

20060073801 - Adaptive beam forming receiver: The present invention provides a method and system for operating a wireless communication system in which received signals from a plurality of antennas are weighted and combined with a beam forming operation to form an output signal. In an embodiment of the present invention, beamforming operations are performed with maximal...

20060073802 - Phase combining diversity: Embodiments of methods of receiving transmitted signals are disclosed. The methods include a first antenna receiving a second signal, a second antenna receiving a second signal, adjusting a phase relationship between the first signal and the second signal, combining the phase adjusted first signal and second signal, and processing the...

20060073803 - Direct conversion receiver with dc offset compensation: A direct conversion receiver includes a mixer for converting an RF signal into a baseband signal, a dynamic DC offset compensator for compensating for a dynamic DC offset caused by the effect of second order nonlinear distortion of the mixer on an interfering wave that enters the input terminals of...

20060073804 - Semiconductor integrated circuit and a software radio device: To realize a software radio processing with a reduced circuit area by hardware and software which can process transmission and reception, or synchronization and demodulation in time division. There are provided a circuit DRC that can dynamically change a configuration with a structure that can change the configuration at a...

20060073805 - Dynamic fd coexistence method for plc systems: A power line communication method is provided for realizing data communication between at least one first or sending power line communication partner device (P1) and at least one second or receiving power line communication partner device (P10). The inventive method comprises a step of checking transmission conditions of a plurality...

20060073806 - Personal emergency communication system: A personal emergency communication system includes a user-carried portable communication unit having a single button, which when depressed by the user, wirelessly sends a call request signal to a base unit. The base unit initiates a telephone call through a dial-up network to an emergency response center and places an...

20060073807 - Cellular pedometer: A cellular phone contains a pedometer feature operating from a logging of repeated acceleration measurements, and captures body movements in a similar way as a stand alone pedometer. The acceleration measurements may be taken from a dedicated accelerometer, or from an accelerometer otherwise already integrated into the cell phone for...

20060073809 - Online loyalty program: A system for increasing consumer affinity for a brand associated with a sponsor, comprising a server computer hosting a Web site. The server computer enables a user and a sub-user affiliated with the user to access the Web site over a computer network through a client computer and stores data...

20060073808 - System and method for control of air time of communication devices: The present invention relates to a system for providing wireless communication services, audio and multimedia contents and services, live services and financial services from a cellular phone to individual users where total or partial control of all outgoing and incoming communications, of all phone numbers (including cellular phone number, destination...

20060073810 - Mobile content delivery system: A mobile content delivery system that optimizes the delivery of especially bandwidth-consuming content (or the flow of any peak-hour data traffic) in a way that best utilizes the free capacity in the radio network, thus enabling considerably more efficient usage of the radio capacity. It also allows new services and...

20060073811 - System and method for authentication in a mobile communications system: The present invention provides an authentication method and apparatus for authenticating an identity of a subscriber attached to a network. According to the invention, in a network terminal, a subscriber identity module is used so that a response is obtained as a result of a challenge given to the identity...

20060073813 - Method and system of a voice recording device and a mobile computing device: A method and system of a voice recording device and a mobile computing device. Some of the exemplary embodiments may be a method comprising creating a voice recording with a voice recording device at least partially within a chassis of a mobile computing device (the creating while the mobile computer...

20060073812 - Sharing information feed data: Sharing information feed data via a network involves forming a token describing the information feed data. The token is received at a first data processing arrangement via the network. The token is processed at the first data processing arrangement to determine the information feed data. Access to the information feed...

20060073816 - Apparatus and method for displaying an event in a wireless terminal: A display apparatus for use in a wireless terminal is provided. A memory stores user interface (UI) data for cases mapped to events occurring in the wireless terminal. A controller collects the events occurring in the wireless terminal. The controller selects at least one executable case for the collected events....

20060073814 - Embedded specification of menu navigation for mobile devices: A method, system and apparatus for specifying menu navigation for mobile devices. In accordance with the present invention, a listing of resources in a mobile application each can be configured with a hyperlink specifying a computing location of the resource. Each hyperlink further can include an embedded specification of menu...

20060073815 - Enhanced directory assistance system with download features: An enhanced directory assistance system has a directory assistance platform, configured to receive a verbal request from a requester for a desired downloadable item among a plurality of downloadable items. A download features module coupled to the directory assistance platform, where the download features module is configured to retrieve information...

20060073817 - Apparatus and method for displaying information of calling partner during call waiting in portable wireless terminal: Disclosed is a system for displaying on calling partner terminal during call waiting information on a wireless terminal received via an Internet server through which a user stores a call connection community screen, with a message containing a call connection community screen is received via the Internet server and displayed...

20060073819 - Automatic audio intensity adjustment: The volume, or audio intensity, of audio output from a mobile communication device may be selected based on a detected state of the environment of the mobile communication device....

20060073818 - Mobile wireless communications device providing enhanced text navigation indicators and related methods: A mobile wireless communications device may include a portable, handheld housing, and a display and keypad carried by the housing. In particular, the keypad may include a plurality of symbol keys each having indicia of at least one respective symbol thereon, and an alternate function key. A user input device...

20060073820 - Method and apparatus for remote control and updating of wireless mobile devices: A method and apparatus are provided to in one aspect update data on a wireless mobile device. Available updates may include both mandatory and discretionary updates, where the mandatory updates are always installed on the wireless mobile device. In another aspect, a method and apparatus for of remotely instructing a...

20060073821 - Method and device for simulating a communication on a terminal device: The present invention relates to a method and a device (20) in a network environment having the capability to exchange data (24) via the communication network (22) and for simulating a communication (26) by generating messages with a minimized use of the communication network. The simulation of the communication is...

20060073823 - Method and system for channel estimation in a single channel mimo system with multiple rf chains for wcdma/hsdpa: Aspects of a method and system for channel estimation in a MIMO communication system with multiple RF chains for WCDMA/HSDPA may comprise receiving a plurality of communication signals from a plurality of transmit antennas. A plurality of vectors of baseband combined channel estimates may be generated based on phase rotation...

20060073822 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for time-based inhibiting of alarms and time-based removal of inhibited alarms: Methods, systems, and computer program products for time-based setting and removal of alarm inhibits are disclosed. In one method, a command is provided that allows a user to specify a time period with which an alarm generated within a telecommunications signaling platform will be inhibited. Once the command is received,...

20060073824 - System and method to avoid congestion in wireless networks: A system and method to facilitate transmitting a data message between a base station (108) and a mobile station (122) determines whether the base station (108) is compliant in operation with the mobile station (122). Based upon the determining whether the base station (108) is compliant with the mobile station...

20060073825 - Techniques for inductive communication systems: Contents of one or more received messages can be analyzed to determine whether a transceiver device generating the inductive field has already been programmed with a unique communication code. If not, bidirectional communications can be established to program the transceiver device with a unique communication code over an inductive link....

20060073826 - System and method for selecting a wireless serving mode: A system and method for selecting a wireless serving node include the capability to receive a wireless registration request at a wireless serving node and to determine whether the serving node is managing a wireless session associated with the registration request. The system and method also include the capability to...

20060073828 - Hard handover method, controller and communication system: The invention is related to a controller of a communication system, the controller comprising: means for determining user terminal time delay between delivery and acknowledgement of a transmission; means for conveying the user terminal time delay; means for calculating switching time delay; and means for transferring user terminal data conveyance...

20060073827 - System and handover mechanism in frequency multilple band environment and equipment therefor: A mechanism for supporting the decision on performing a communication connection changeover of a subscriber terminal in a wireless communication network, in particular in a multiple band WLAN, is proposed. The subscriber terminal is a to communicate with an access node on two or more frequency bands. AP related communication...

20060073829 - Mobile communication terminal and control method thereof: A mobile communication terminal and a control method thereof are provided, where a plurality of antennas receives signals from systems having different frequency bands and a plurality of system modems communicates with the systems having the different frequency bands, respectively. A switching unit positioned between the plurality of antennas and...

20060073830 - Soft handoff system, mobile terminal having the same, and soft handoff method: Disclosed are a soft handoff system, a soft handoff method, and a mobile terminal equipped with the soft handoff system. The soft handoff system for a mobile terminal analyzes periodically monitored wireless conditions of neighbor base stations, transmits a PSMM (Pilot Strength Measurement Message) to a current base station when...

20060073831 - Transfer of a user equipment in a communication system: The disclosure relates to transfer of a user equipment from a network to another network. In the method a user equipment communicating with a first network is transferred from the first network to a second network providing resources to a plurality of operators. After initiation of the transfer, an operator...

20060073832 - Automatically populated display regions for discovered access points and stations in a user interface representing a wireless communication network deployed in a physical environment: A system for providing automatically populated display regions showing discovered access points and stations in a user interface representing a wireless communication network deployed in a physical environment. A generated user interface includes a first display region in which access point representations are displayed as corresponding access points are automatically...

20060073833 - Frequency allocation in communication network: A radio network element, comprising means for communicating, in a first coverage area, with a mobile terminal applying a primary frequency, means for communicating, in the first coverage area, with the mobile terminal by applying one or more secondary frequencies, if the mobile terminal can support and requests for one...

20060073836 - Base station based methods and apparatus for supporting break before make handoffs in a multi-carrier system: A mobile communications device initiates a handoff from its current base station (BS) sector network attachment point to a new BS sector. The mobile sends a handoff request over its current wireless link to the current BS sector, which forwards the request to the new BS sector, e.g., via a...

20060073834 - Method and apparatus for call set up in a wireless communication system that permits a sharing of mobile identifiers: A communication system reduces a likelihood that a call is set up with a wrong mobile station (MS) when a same Mobile Identification Number (MIN) is shared by multiple MSs by allocating duplicate physical layer parameters to each MS. In response to receiving a call, the system pages an MS....

20060073835 - Service-oriented protection scheme for a radio access network: The present invention supports a protection path in a radio access network in order to continue communication between terminating nodes of the radio access network if a failure occurs with a communications path between the terminating nodes. A node may assume the functionality of a router, a base transceiver station,...

20060073837 - Radio-channel connection controller and mobile communication network system: The network system of the present invention comprises a plurality of base transceiver stations, a plurality of antenna systems, and a radio-channel connection controller. The radio-channel connection controller comprises a connection switching unit switching the connection between the plurality of base transceiver stations and the plurality of antenna systems, and...

20060073838 - Automatic critical health care service system using wireless communication, positioning and/or rf id: Three solutions for an automatic critical health care service system are proposed. First two solutions include a mobile phone device, a service provider system, a home hospital system and a nearest hospital system. The third solution also includes a RF ID technology based storage means. The mobile phone device comprises...

20060073839 - Method of targeting a message to a communication device selected from among a set of communication devices: A method for sending messages from a particular device to one or more other devices communicants (300) uses the relative geographic location of the targeted devices as addressing criteria. The particular device forms or joins a network of potential communicants, and exchanges information to determine their relative geographic location with...

20060073840 - Method and system for identifying an access point into a wireless network: A method and system for a mobile station to identify to a wireless network agent, an access point into a wireless network. The mobile station obtains an indication of an access point into the wireless network and inserts the indication into a mobile registration message. The access point identifier identifies...

20060073841 - Method and communication system for establishing a voice call connection: A communication system and method for establishing a voice call connection with a wireless communication device is provided. The communication system includes a first network, which supports circuit switched voice call connections, a second network, which supports data packet voice call connections, and one or more wireless communication devices. The...

20060073842 - Message transmitting apparatus and method in mobile communication terminal: The present invention relates to a message transmitting apparatus and method in a mobile communication terminal and solves the problem of a message transmission being stopped when a message size exceeds a message capacity is solved. Also, memory resources of the mobile communication terminal are more efficiently utilized because an...

20060073843 - Content formatting and device configuration in group communication sessions: A method in a communication network entity, for example, a push-to-talk/anything server, for content sharing in a group communication session including obtaining (210) participant information from a plurality of group participants, determining (220) common group information based on the group participant information obtained, and sending (230) the common group information...

20060073844 - Electronic device with ambient light sensor: An electronic device having a first piece, a second piece moveable between an open position and a closed position with respect to the first piece, and an ambient light sensor operable to detect ambient light when the second piece is not closed. The electronic device is operated in a first...

20060073845 - Wireless apparatus for identification and multimedia files transmission: The present invention relates to a wireless apparatus for identification and multimedia files transmission. To utilize on audio-visual devices, this wireless apparatus integrates an IC card copy protection, a RF (Radio Frequency) wireless communication, and an addressing and communication technologies of communication interface, like USB (Universal Serial Bus) for example,...

20060073846 - Communication resource selection within a multi-band wireless communication system: Upon determining (11) a need to transmit a message (such as a paging message) to a mobile station within a multi-band wireless communications system, the system (via, for example, a mobile switching center) identifies (12) discrete geographic locations within the system having a likelihood of presently supporting the mobile station...

20060073847 - Scheme and algorithm to form direct links: In a wireless network having an access point (AP) station and a first client station communicating over a selectable channel, the first client station includes a memory operable to store parameters corresponding to a mode of operation of the first client station. Infrastructure parameters correspond to an infrastructure mode and...

20060073848 - Mobile communication device: A mobile communication device is disclosed, by which configurations of loaded antenna and card are enhanced. The present invention includes a body including elements performing wireless mobile communications and auxiliary functions, a socket provided to one side of the body to compensate functions of the body and to detachably receive...

20060073849 - Mobile radio communication system: A mobile radio communication system is provided for keeping high-quality communications and preventing disconnection of a radio link in fast movement. The system includes the radio network controller provided with a storage unit and a control unit. The storage unit stores grouped-user-equipments management information to be used for identifying and...

20060073850 - Steering a smart antenna using link layer performance: A method for steering a smart antenna in a wireless communication system begins by selecting a beam steering criterion. The antenna is switched to one of a plurality of measurement positions and link quality metrics are measured at each measurement position. The steering criterion are optimized based on the measured...

20060073854 - Cellular phone: An object of the present invention is to reduce power consumption during a wait state to thereby extend battery life in a cellular phone having at least two processors, a processor for telephone functions that processes telephone functions, and a processor for application functions that processes application functions. To achieve...

20060073851 - Display of wireless data: A mobile electronic device for receiving and displaying information from a wireless signal transmission is provided. The device utilizes one or more mechanical and/or digital indicators for displaying the information. One embodiment of the invention provides a smart personal object, such as a watch device, for receiving and displaying wireless...

20060073853 - Interactive imaging for cellular phones: A method for interacting with imagery on a cellular phone, including rendering an image on a display for a cellular phone, detecting that a user has selected an active area of the display using an input device for the cellular phone, and automatically activating a function of the cellular phone...

20060073852 - Wireless device having a configurable camera interface to support digital image processing: A camera operably coupled to a configurable camera interface within a wireless terminal operable to process images in accordance with multiple data formats. This camera interface has an ARM and an image process accelerator operably coupled to the ARM. The combination receives a captured digital image having a first data...

20060073856 - Remoted vibrating element for a mobile phone: According to one example embodiment of the inventive subject matter, there is provided apparatus comprising a mobile telephone including a tactile ringer component that in a first mode is attached and carried with the mobile phone in a carrier mechanism and in a second mode is detached from the phone...

20060073855 - Single point notification for a mobile device: A handheld communication device includes a single notification element, which may be, for instance, a plurality of light emitting diodes packaged together, and a microprocessor for controlling the single notification element such that the single notification element presents a temporal color pattern to indicate a state of the handheld communication...

20060073857 - Receiving device, semiconductor integrated circuit, transmitting/receiving device, transport apparatus portable transmitting/receiving device, communication system and receiving method: A receiving device includes a receiver circuit for outputting a received signal as a reception electric field intensity signal, an operation control circuit for controlling an operation of the receiver circuit, and an intermittent reception control circuit for outputting a periodic signal. A comparator circuit holds a first threshold indicating...

20060073859 - Handheld electronic device with dual operation mode: A hand-held electronic device includes a cover, a display screen, a body and a sliding mechanism. A first input keyboard and a second input keyboard are mounted on the cover and the body, respectively. The display screen disposed on the cover has a first display mode and a second display...

20060073858 - Slide mechanism of portable device and portable telephone: To provide a slide mechanism of a portable device structured to allow slide operation semiautomatically, and a portable telephone provided with the slide mechanism of the portable device, it comprises a base member 5 mounted on either one of the first casing 2 and the second casing 3, a slider...