Telecommunications inventions 05/06

20060111038 - Transmission apparatus and reception apparatus: Via a mobile communication network, a transmission apparatus receives position information representing a current position of a reception apparatus. Based on the received position information, the transmission apparatus generates notice data indicating that it is necessary to correct preprogrammed program information identifying a program which has been preprogrammed for viewing...

20060111039 - System and method for porting a personalized indicium assigned to a mobile communications device: In one embodiment, a scheme is provided for porting a personalized indicium, i.e., a Personal Information Number or PIN, from a first mobile communications device to a second mobile communications device. Upon receiving identity information from the first mobile communications device via a secure peer-to-peer communication session, the second mobile...

20060111040 - Wireless tank monitoring system having satellite communications capability: A wireless tank monitoring system for remotely monitoring a plurality of storage tanks is provided. This tank monitoring system utilizes wireless communication from individual tank level monitors to a single SatComm Gateway. The SatComm Gateway then utilizes a low-Earth Orbit satellite constellation to transmit information to a central data collection...

20060111041 - Aggregate radiated power control for multi-band/multi-mode satellite radiotelephone communications systems and methods: A satellite radiotelephone system includes a space-based component that is configured to communicate with multiple radiotelephones over multiple frequency bands and/or multiple air interfaces. An ancillary terrestrial network is configured to communicate terrestrially with the multiple radiotelephones over substantially the multiple frequency bands and/or substantially the multiple air interfaces. An...

20060111042 - Electronic device, method and communication system: An electronic device (100) has a first wireless transceiver module (120) using a first communication protocol and a second wireless transceiver module (140) using a second communication protocol. Both wireless transceiver modules are coupled between an application layer (150) and an at least partially shared physical layer (110) of the...

20060111043 - Validation of the presence of an electromagnetic transponder in the field of a phase demodulation reader: A terminal for generating an electromagnetic field adapted to communicating with at least one transponder, and a method for controlling such a terminal including: an oscillating circuit adapted to being excited by a remote supply signal of the transponder; a phase demodulator for detecting possible data transmitted by the transponder;...

20060111046 - Mobile device registration system: To provide a mobile device registration system, with which it is impossible to register from a third party's mobile device which is already registered with respect to one vehicle, a mobile device ID with respect to another vehicle to improve security. The system of the present invention includes: a smart...

20060111044 - Stereo signal communication using bluetooth transceivers in earpieces: A system and method for signal communication. First and second audio signals are wirelessly transmitted a Bluetooth transceiver T over a first channel and a second channel to Bluetooth transceivers T1 and T2, respectively, in accordance with prevailing Bluetooth standards. The transceivers T1 and T2 are respectively comprised by first...

20060111045 - System and method for multi-mode radio operation: Described is a system having a mobile station and an access point which connects the mobile station to a network. The mobile station has a first mode of operation and a second mode of operation. In the first mode of operation, the mobile station transmits a data packet intended for...

20060111047 - Wireless communication system: A communication system providing wireless communication among wireless users through a number of cellular base stations. The system includes a connecting station with a millimeter wave wireless transceiver in communication with a fiber optic or high-speed cable communication network. The transceiver is adapted to communicate at millimeter wave frequencies higher...

20060111048 - Receiver circuit unit for radio controlled toys: To obtain a receiver circuit unit for radio controlled toys configured such that the drive of a plurality of types of radio controlled toys can be controlled by a single transmitter by removably mounting the receiver circuit unit as a separate item. To provide a receiver circuit unit for radio...

20060111049 - Method and device for preventing interference of transmission frequency from electronic products: A method and a device that prevent interference and overcome the problem of identification between signals simultaneously transmitted from electronic products by providing a learning controller on a receiving unit and a frequency variation generating controller on each electronic product to establish a unit identification frequency for each individual electronic...

20060111050 - Multi-antenna communication system employing improved signal calibration: An apparatus and method for correcting phase and amplitude variations of a data signal caused by a non-linear system in a multi-antenna communication system. A BS adds a reference signal with a power level less than the power of the data signal to the data signal and accumulates the response...

20060111051 - Homodyne rfid receiver and method: An RFID circuit comprises an RF carrier signal source, and a hybrid coupled thereto operable to generate first, second and third phase-shifted RF carrier signals. The circuit further comprises first, second, and third mixers coupled to the hybrid each operable to multiply one of the first, second and third respective...

20060111052 - Mobile station body comprised of stacked elements: An improved body design for a mobile station or other electronic device is provided. Unlike conventional mobile station bodies, which are comprised of durable polymer shells that are rigidly joined together (e.g., by ultra-sonic welding, adhesives, etc.) to enclose operational elements and circuitry, a replaceable and enhanceable body structure comprised...

20060111053 - Rfid system using mobile phone as device of access control and security response: The present invention discloses a RFID system using mobile phone as a device of access control and security response, comprising: a mobile phone, having a RFID tag disposed therein; a RFID transponder, capable of activating the RFID tag for enabling the mobile phone to issue a message while detecting the...

20060111055 - Communication system: A communications system comprises two groups of antennas with a plurality of antennas in each group arranged such that in use signals transmitted from all of the antennas 1 in one group are received by all of the antennas 2 in the second group, and processing means 5 to decode...

20060111054 - Method and system for selecting transmit antennas to reduce antenna correlation: A method and system is disclosed for transmitting data over at least one transmit antenna to reduce antenna correlation in wireless communication systems. The transmit antennas are comprised of randomly selected antenna elements wherein the antenna elements are randomly selected from antenna elements of a plurality of antennas of a...

20060111056 - Electronic antenna beam steering using ancillary receivers and related methods: Communications device may include a plurality of antenna elements, an ancillary control receiver, and a primary receiver. The plurality of antenna elements may provide respective fixed beams. The ancillary control receiver may be coupled to each of the antenna elements, and the ancillary control receiver may be configured to measure...

20060111057 - Transmitter: In a transmitter of the present invention, a modulated signal is separated into an amplitude component and a phase component which are inputted to a radio-frequency modulated signal input terminal and a supply voltage terminal of a radio-frequency power amplifier. A voltage adjustment circuit is provided between an output terminal...

20060111058 - Communications systems and methods using wireline adapters: Systems and techniques for communication over telephony wireline. A command interface and control device may include a wireline input configured to connect the device to an operative line of a wireline telephony network (such as the PSTN) and to transmit voice signals to and receive voice signals from the wireline...

20060111061 - Method and apparatus for estimating and controlling initial time slot gain in a wireless communication system: In a time-division duplex (TDD) system, a reliable initialization scheme that is applicable to an automatic gain controller (AGC) at a base station is implemented in various forms depending on the availability of certain information such as signal-to-interference ratio (SIR), spreading factors and other parameters. A more accurate estimation of...

20060111060 - Power control circuit, semiconductor device and transceiver circuit using the same: There is provided a power control circuit having a stable high-speed operation, and a semiconductor device and a transceiver circuit using it. The power control circuit controls the gain of an amplifier so that power outputted from the amplifier reaches a desired value according to a digital control signal. The...

20060111059 - System and method for detecting radio frequency signals over a range of powers: The present invention is directed to a power detection circuit for use in a wireless transmitting device. The circuit makes use of multiple gain paths so that two or more scaling factors are provided. Each scaling factor allows the detector circuit to provide more ADC levels per dB and thus...

20060111062 - Adaptive radio frequency wakeup detection: A method is provided for detecting the broadcasting of a RF message from a remote transmitter to an in-vehicle receiver. The RF message includes an initial preamble having a plurality of pulses. Power is provided to the receiver for a first predetermined period of time. The preamble pulses received are...

20060111063 - Tuning method and apparatus for reducing interference between adjacent channels: A tuning method comprises: detecting a fundamental intermediate frequency IF0 of a channel to be received; determining whether the fundamental intermediate frequency IF0 is affected by an adjacent channel; when the fundamental intermediate frequency IF0 is affected by the adjacent channel, detecting a tuning intermediate frequency that is not affected...

20060111064 - Radio-controlled timepiece: To enable tuning in to a standard radio signal readily. The receiving unit amplifies a signal output from the variable-capacitance diode with an AGC amplifier, extracts a time code with the detection circuit, and outputs the time code to the control unit. The control unit detects the voltage level of...

20060111065 - Electronic circuit and method of manufacturing the same: In an electronic circuit capable of eliminating a direct current component while suppressing deterioration of frequency characteristics in a wide frequency band, the electronic circuit includes a first capacitor, which eliminates, when the wide frequency band is divided into a low frequency band and a high frequency band, the direct...

20060111066 - Tuner: A tuner is provided for selecting a channel for reception from a multiple channel input signal. The tuner has a signal path which converts a selected channel, for example in a frequency changer, to a standard intermediate frequency and supplies this to a demodulator. The signal path has at least...

20060111067 - Tuner circuit and digital broadcast receiver with the same: A tuner circuit according to the invention includes two AGC control units supplying AGC voltages V1 and V2 to an AGC amplifier, respectively. When the AGC voltage V1 is higher the AGC voltage V2, a voltage on a cathode of a diode becomes high, and the diode 11 is turned...

20060111068 - Driver device for a voltage-controlled oscillator: A driver device for a voltage-controlled oscillator, having an unstable voltage source, a voltage regulator, a driver for generating a control voltage for the oscillator, and a feedback loop which controls the driver as a function of the output signal of the oscillator; the voltage regulator supplying the feedback loop...

20060111069 - Weighting circuit for adjusting a control loop: For a weighting circuit for adjusting a feedback control loop to an input signal of the feedback control loop the feedback control loop comprises a system under control and a device for generating a control difference signal by subtracting a weighted feedback signal from the input signal. The control difference...

20060111070 - Dc extracting arrangement and a filter: The present invention relates to a DC extracting arrangement in a RF filter used for extracting a DC voltage and/or a low frequency signal (DC/Com. signal) superimposed on a RF signal. The DC/Com. signal is extracted using a low pass filter which is arranged inside the first resonator inside the...

20060111071 - Method for performing dual mode image rejection calibration in a receiver: A method is disclosed for performing dual mode image rejection calibration in a receiver. A first image correction factor is acquired (1302) for use in a receiver system (15) using a first known signal associated with a first signal band during a startup mode. The first image correction factor is...

20060111072 - Wireless communication system and method using clock swapping during image rejection calibration: A wireless communication receiver is disclosed that operates in a test mode to determine image correction information that is used to suppress undesired image signals when the receiver switches to a normal operational mode. In one embodiment, the receiver includes a frequency synthesizer coupled by a quadrature divider to an...

20060111073 - Demodulator of frequency modulated signals, and demodulating method of frequency modulated signals: To present a demodulator of frequency modulated signals and a demodulating method of frequency modulated signals capable of demodulating frequency modulated signals having frequency deviation favorably. An input signal SIN (f±fDEV) having frequency deviation (±fDEV) from carrier frequency (f) is inputted in a signal converting unit 1, and an input...

20060111074 - Hybrid heterodyne transmitters and receivers: Disclosed are hybrid heterodyne transmitters and receivers for use in communications systems, or other systems, and the corresponding methods for hybrid heterodyne transmitting and receiving. A heterodyne receiver for converting a continuous time modulated signal to a discrete time digital baseband signal includes a sigma-delta modulator. The sigma-delta modulator is...

20060111075 - Built-in antenna apparatus of portable wireless terminal: A portable wireless terminal with a main body having a main board, and a battery pack detachably mounted in the main body and used as power supply means for the terminal, wherein the battery pack includes an upper case frame; a lower case frame coupled with the upper case frame...

20060111076 - Electronic device holder: A holder for an electronic device includes a cradle, or receiving section, for an electronic device, and a coupling section for coupling to an accessory. The receiving section has a bottom and at least three sides, and is capable of accommodating an electronic device like a cellular telephone. The sides...

20060111077 - Method for avoiding double charging of a service in a telecommunication system: In a telecommunication system wherein both a first layer charging function and a second layer charging function are able to attend to the processing of the charging data of the first layer, there is a risk of the first twice. To ensure that a client is not unnecessarily charged twice...

20060111078 - Method of calculating fee for downloading data from wap network: The present invention provides a method of calculating fee for downloading data from the wireless application protocol (WAP) network, comprising the steps of: issuing a request for downloading data from a mobile communication device to a network server; recording a subscriber ID from the mobile communication device and a data...

20060111079 - Methods for providing communications services: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for providing communications services. One method receives a request for communications service. The request for communications service originates from a client communications device, and the request for communications service is communicated to a service provider of a communications network. A preferred scenario of segmentation,...

20060111082 - Method for resolving and accessing selected service in wireless local area network: The present invention discloses a method for resolving and accessing a selected service in a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN), wherein a service resolving unit is preconfigured for initial access, the method comprising: a WLAN user terminal sending a service establishing request to the service resolving unit; after receiving the...

20060111081 - System and method for assigning a personalized indicium to a mobile communications device: In one embodiment, a scheme is provided for assigning a personalized indicium to a mobile communications device which includes logic means operable to generate a temporary Personal Information Number (PIN) for transmitting in a request to a network node. Upon validating the request, a response is provided by the network...

20060111080 - System and method for securing a personalized indicium assigned to a mobile communications device: In one embodiment, a scheme is provided for securing a personalized indicium assigned to a mobile communications device. Upon detecting at a network node that an address associated with the mobile communications device has changed, a challenge-and-response procedure is negotiated between the mobile communications device and the network node for...

20060111083 - Method of transferring data files to and from a portable wireless communication device: Disclosed is a method of transferring data files from an internal memory within a portable wireless communication device to an external storage device by means of a wireless communication network. A connection is automatically established between the portable wireless communication device and the external storage device via the wireless communication...

20060111084 - System and method for over-the-air update of wireless communication devices: A system and method is provided for over-the-air updating of a wireless communication device. The system and method provides the ability to update both direct-addressable and non-direct-addressable portions of the device memory. The system and method uses an agent that is downloaded to the wireless communication device as part of...

20060111085 - Ringtone service server, mobile communication terminal, and method for setting incoming call notification in a mobile communication: A method and apparatus for setting incoming call notification of a called party's mobile communication terminal in a calling party's mobile communication terminal are provided. When a call request is sent from the calling party's mobile communication terminal to the called party's mobile communication terminal through a mobile communication network,...

20060111086 - Methods and apparatus for efficiently managing the storage of e-mail message information for a mobile station: Methods and apparatus for efficiently managing the storage of e-mail message information for a mobile station are described. In one illustrative example, a plurality of e-mail messages are received by the mobile station through a wireless network and stored in memory. If a size of the e-mail messages reaches a...

20060111087 - Generation of service agreements for the use of network internal functions in telecommnication networks: Network internal functions of a telecommunication network can be access from an external site (Se), for example, a server, for the running of external services for network users (Mo), whereby the access is achieved by means of a secure service interface device (S2) on a network (“access network”) on the...

20060111088 - Method and system for filtering wavetable information for wireless devices: A method for providing wavetable information to a wireless device from a content server over a wireless network, the wavetable information including a plurality of samples corresponding to a plurality of notes, comprising: in response to a request from the wireless device, receiving at a proxy server the wavetable information...

20060111090 - Method of enabling telephone control via printed control interface: A method of enabling at least one function of a telephone to be controlled is provided. The telephone is operative to perform the function in response to a command from a computer system. The method includes the steps of: (a) providing a control interface containing information relating to the function,...

20060111089 - System and method for mobile resource management having mobile agent location identification: A mobile resource management system and method for managing the arrival of a mobile agent at a location of a customer, the system including a mobile agent location module, a customer communication module, and a mobile agent communication module. The mobile agent location module is configured for identifying a location...

20060111091 - Apparatus and method for forming image by authenticating caller based on caller identification: An apparatus and method for forming an image by authenticating a caller based on the caller identification of the caller are provided. The method includes: receiving caller identification and registering the received caller identification; receiving a call from a communication terminal and determining whether the caller identification of the communication...

20060111092 - Alert management apparatus and method: An alert management system (AMS) can initiate, process, and monitor an alert cycle. The AMS can initiate a predefined alert based on an initiation command or based on a comparison of data to predefined alert initiation rules. The AMS can select individuals to contact and/or plans for contacting each individual...

20060111093 - Apparatus and method for controlling portable terminal: Provided is an apparatus and method for controlling a portable terminal. The apparatus includes a contact sensing unit which senses an area of an external surface of the portable terminal contacted by a user as the user holds the portable terminal, a recognizing unit which recognizes a function mode of...

20060111095 - Dynamically distributed, portal-based application services network topology for cellular systems: Methods, apparatuses and systems directed to a portal-based, dynamically distributed application topology for cellular systems. The portal-based application topology, in one implementation, is an application architecture featuring strategic dynamic distribution of the man-machine interface (such as data acquisition and information presentation) and the backend processing aspects, of a particular application....

20060111094 - Method for controlling voice gain in a communication terminal and apparatus of enabling the method: Disclosed are a method for automatically controlling volume so that sending volume and receiving volume are equal in accordance with a communication network accessed at a communication terminal, and an apparatus for performing the method. The present invention receives communication information from an accessed base station in a mobile communication...

20060111096 - Wireless identification security activation device: A security activation method for wireless identification for controlling an electronic device system boot up includes the following steps: receiving a first identification signal, designating a corresponding first identification code as a pre-established account, transmitting a confirmation signal to a wireless transmission device corresponding to the pre-established account, receiving an...

20060111097 - Communication apparatus, system, and method therefor: In a communication control method for wireless communication between a first communication device and a second communication device through a wireless communication unit, identification information is notified from the second communication device to the first communication device by using a communication unit other than the wireless communication unit. Wireless communication...

20060111099 - Method and system for self-terminating a media service due to an out-of-coverage condition: A method and mobile device that self-terminates a media service if an out-of-coverage condition is detected. The media service operates on top of a connectionless peer-to-peer packet-based transport protocol. The out-of-coverage condition may relate to the mobile device itself or to a remote mobile device engaged in the media service....

20060111098 - Out-of-coverage service termination using proxy: A method and system that employs a proxy server associated with a mobile device in a wireless network, wherein the proxy server monitors whether the mobile device is still in coverage. The media service operates on top of a connectionless peer-to-peer packet-based transport protocol. If the proxy server detects that...

20060111101 - Method and system for identifying occurrence of shadowing phenomenon during wireless communications: A method for identifying occurrence of shadowing phenomenon is to be implemented using a wireless communications system that includes signal transmitting and receiving devices. The signal-receiving device periodically executes a synchronization process to evaluate quality of wireless communications conducted through a signal transmission path between the signal transmitting and receiving...

20060111100 - Radio communication apparatus or mobile station: To provide a radio communication apparatus and a mobile station sensitive to change in the radio environment. A mobile station corresponding to the HSDPA and transmitting the CQI information used for the adaptive modulation control executed by a radio base station, comprising a radio environment supervising unit for supervising change...

20060111102 - Controlling hand-off in a mobile node with two mobile ip clients: Extending Mobile IP to support both local and remote access by using two MIP client stacks in the end node, a roaming Node in the local access network, a standard Home Agent in the remote network. Messages between the AR and the MN, and between the internal modules of the...

20060111103 - Fast active scanning wireless network apparatus and method: In a fast active scanning wireless network apparatus and method for quick determination of available access points (20), information about a candidate set of available access points (20) is obtained, and a candidate access point is identified from the candidate set. A mobile station (10) then queries the candidate access...

20060111104 - Control channel priority access systems and methods: Methods and systems for priority access to control channels are provided. A mobile stations is assigned a user priority value. The mobile station selects a retry algorithm from a plurality of retry algorithms based on the assigned user priority value. Alternatively, the assigned user priority value can be used as...

20060111105 - System and method for managing secure registration of a mobile communications device: In one embodiment, a scheme is provided for managing secure registration of a mobile communications device. Upon being provided with an upgraded registration process that requires encryption, the mobile communications device has the option of continuing to register with a network node using a downgraded registration process within a specified...

20060111107 - Method for user terminal accessing home network quickly in wireless local area network: The present invention discloses a method for a user terminal in a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) quickly accessing its home network. Pre-store in each user terminal, respectively, the identifications of all the WLANs with direct connections to the home network of the corresponding user terminal. For a user terminal...

20060111106 - Radio controller, server and mobile communication method: A radio controller includes: a schedule information receiver for receiving schedule information related to a schedule of data transmission; a selection execution determiner for determining, based on the schedule information, whether or not to select a cell used by a mobile station after the data reception; and a selection execution...

20060111109 - Broadcasting channel handover in mobile communication terminal: A mobile communication terminal for receiving a multimedia broadcast signal comprises a controlling unit adapted to extract channel information associated with a first mobile communication terminal location from a signal at the first mobile communication terminal location. The mobile communication terminal also comprises a comparing unit adapted to compare extracted...

20060111108 - System and method for performing inter-layer handoff in a hierarchical cellular system: To take advantage of hierarchical cell layers, an inter-layer handoff system determines a cell layer for servicing a wireless unit at least as a function of the duration that the wireless unit is in a cell or set of cells of a cell layer. For example, as a function of...

20060111111 - Method and system to support fast hand-over of mobile subscriber stations in broadband wireless networks: Method and system to support fast hand-over of mobile subscriber stations in broadband wireless networks. In connection with a hand-over process, a determination is made to which target base station (BS) an air interface for a mobile subscriber station (MSS) is to be handed-over. Various service requirements are requested by...

20060111112 - Mobility management apparatus and methods: A wireless mobility management system including a visitor location register configured to store a visiting user profile and communicate with a mobile switching center to route a wireless call supporting a user-session, a home location register configured to store a home user profile and update a user location associated with...

20060111110 - Radio resource control method in mobile communication system, and mobile communication system: The invention relates to a radio resource control method, a mobile communications system and a network element implementing the method. According to the invention, the cell change procedures performed by the user equipment in an idle state are controlled dynamically with control information that is adjusted according to a predetermined...

20060111113 - Virtual private network with mobile nodes: A virtual private network has an internal secured portion which connects to an external portion, the network via at least a first gateway and via a second gateway. There are a plurality of workstations including at least one mobile workstation in the external portion. The network automatically changes the point...

20060111114 - Method and apparatus for inter-system active handoff of a hybrid subscriber unit: A communication system provides for an active handoff of a voice call between a packet switched network and a circuit switched network. An active handoff from the packet switched network to the circuit switched network is accomplished by multicasting the call over forward links of both networks during the handoff....

20060111115 - Method and apparatus for inter-system active handoff of a hybrid subscriber unit: A communication system provides for an active handoff of a voice call between a packet switched network and a circuit switched network. An active handoff from the packet switched network to the circuit switched network is accomplished by multicasting the call over forward links of both networks during the handoff....

20060111117 - Communication system with controlled talk around mode: The method provides talk around in an OFDMA communication system by sending a talk around request from a subscriber unit to a base unit. At the subscriber unit a RSSI (received signal strength indication) of a signal received from the base unit is determined and sent back to the base...

20060111116 - Methods and systems for signaling in a communications network for ported, migrated and/or dual-mode subscribers: Methods and systems for processing messages at a first network node in a mobile communications network are disclosed. A first message relating to a communication in a mobile communications network that includes a called directory number is received. A lookup is performed in a first database based on the called...

20060111118 - Method for managing radio resources and radio system: The invention relates to a radio system and a method for managing radio resources in a radio system. The method comprises receiving radio capacity information of the radio cell, receiving transport capacity information on transport network, the transport network being used for connecting the base stations of the radio network...

20060111119 - Mobile terminal apparatus and transmission power control method: A communication terminal apparatus is provided that is used in a CDMA radio communication system. In this apparatus, a resource allocation section (191) allocates first channel and second channel resources based on DPCCH transmission power and an offset value. A TFC Selection section (162) creates TFCs based on buffer amounts...

20060111120 - System and method for dynamic scheduling of channels in a code division multiple access system: A base station system for dynamically allocating channels to an incoming data stream. The base station system comprises an input for receiving the incoming data stream and a processor for receiving the incoming data stream from the input. The processor is operable to determine a desired level of service for...

20060111121 - Communication performance calculation method and communication performance calculation apparatus in mobile communication system, and blocking probability calculation method and blocking probability calculation apparatus in communication system, and record: A subdivision data holding unit holds data of transmission power Pi and traffic intensity Ai of each subdivision. A propagation associated data holding unit holds data used for calculating received power, such as the height above the ground of antennas of the base stations and mobile stations. A received power...

20060111122 - Method and system for sending localization and identity dependent information to mobile terminals: The present invention discloses methods and devices, with which a selection action of information is performed in a central system before communicating the selected information to a user terminal. This selection (4,6) is according to the invention based on a least both the identity (9) of the user and the...

20060111124 - System and method for geo-location of mobile appliances using diverse standard tasking and reporting: A novel system and method for tasking and reporting the geolocation of a mobile appliance for a wireless communications network overlay system is disclosed. Embodiments of the novel system and method allow for geolocating a mobile appliance regardless of the wireless air interface protocol standard utilized by the mobile appliance....

20060111123 - Wide area and large capacity intelligent object tracking system and method: The wide area object and large capacity tracking system comprises a plurality of tags to be attached to an object to be tracked and being configured so as to generate and transmit a tag signal indicative of the object-related information, a tag-recording unit configured to program a tag's memory with...

20060111125 - Location-based authentication of wireless terminal: A wireless terminal receives an operation request from a user and accesses a plurality of location based access rules based upon the operation request, each location based access rules including a location parameter and corresponding authentication requirements. A location of the wireless terminal is determined. A location based access rule...

20060111126 - Use of triggers and a location hypercube to enable push-based location applications: A method, system, and article of manufacture enable the use of location based applications (LBA). A location server (LS) on a wireless network receives trigger information from a LBA that is located outside of the wireless network. The trigger information defines a source locatable and spatial information (defining spatial criteria...

20060111127 - Method for transmitting/receiving paging information in mobile communication system: A method for transmitting/receiving paging information in a mobile communication system includes transmitting information through a Broadcast Channel and then receiving paging information through a paging indicator channel based on the indicator transmitted through the Broadcast Channel. The indicator indicates whether or not paging information is transmitted through the paging...

20060111130 - Method and apparatus for transmitting sms message between mobile communication network and wlan and system using the same: A method and system for providing a short message service (SMS) between a cellular mobile communication network and an IEEE 802.11 WLAN are provided. To provide the SMS between the mobile communication network and the WLAN, a short message gateway (SMGW) is further provided between existing SS7 network and IP...

20060111129 - Method of transmitting feedback information in an orthogononal frequency division multiplexing (ofdm)/ ofdm access (ofdma) mobile communication system: A method of transmitting feedback information in a wireless communication system is disclosed. More specifically, the method comprises a mobile station (MS) which determines whether to transmit feedback information to a base station (BS) without solicitation from the BS. After determining to do so, the MS transmits a request message...

20060111131 - Short message service (sms) remote control for mobile station: In one embodiment, a short message service (SMS) remote control for a mobile station comprises receiving a SMS message at a first mobile station in a first area, the SMS message received from a server via a communication network. The method also comprises transmitting the SMS message from the first...

20060111128 - System and method for delay reduction in a network: A system and method for reducing the transmission delay of messages sent through a network from a source mobile unit (112) to a destination mobile unit (114). Portions of a data message are received (202). The portions of the data message are decoded (204) and a type of the data...

20060111132 - Method and apparatus for removing cross modulation noise in a wireless transceiver: A method and apparatus are provided for removing cross modulation (CM) noise in a wireless transceiver. A determination is made as to whether a transmission signal to be supplied to a transmitter of the wireless transceiver is present. If the transmission signal is present, a level of the transmission signal...

20060111133 - Intermittent communication method and intermittent communication device: When an intermittent communication mode is entered, a check period and intermittent reception mode period thereof are determined and the intermittent reception mode is reentered through an ignored process, that is, when the intermittent reception mode is entered, the check period and intermittent reception mode period are determined in overhead...

20060111134 - Ussd-facilitated call setup for push to talk over cellular (poc) services: A method of setting up a Push-To-Talk-over-Cellular (PoC) call between a calling mobile station (MS) and a called MS in a cellular communications network. In GSM/GPRS networks, the method decreases the call setup time, from the time the push-to-talk button is pressed, by causing the called MS to change to...

20060111136 - Call redirection in a mobile station: A method for redirecting a wireless communication between mobile stations comprises performing the wireless communication at a first mobile station, and transmitting mobile station information related to the first mobile station from the first mobile station to a second mobile station. The method also comprises receiving the wireless communication at...

20060111135 - Method to facilitate distribution of group identifications for push-to-talk groups: A method is provided of distributing push-to-talk group identifiers. When the PTT group is created, the user terminal for the group creator automatically generates and sends a group identification message containing the group identifier to the other group members. The user terminals receiving the message recognize that it contains a...

20060111137 - Base station and transmission power control method: A base station is disclosed. The base station includes: a service area status determination unit configured to determine status of a service area of the base station based on received signals from mobile stations; a total transmission power determination unit configured to determine status of total transmission power of the...

20060111139 - Portable information terminal and information transmitting method: The disclosed invention provides a portable information terminal making it possible to easily transmit a plurality of kinds of information. The portable information terminal allows its user to select information categories to transmit from items stored as personal and/or schedule information in its memory. The selected categories are associated with...

20060111138 - Wireless communication circuit, wireless communication circuit system, and wireless communication apparatus: A first switch is provided between a received signal detector circuit and an amplifier circuit of a microphone signal, and a high pass filter, and a second switch is provided between a high pass filter, and a signal amplifier circuit in a preceding stage of a loudspeaker and an amplitude...

20060111140 - Method and system for managing multiple communication functions in a mobile vehicle communication unit: A method of managing multiple communication functions in a mobile vehicle is provided. A communication request signal is received from the mobile vehicle at a call status intelligence module. The communication status of a telematics unit is determined. A communication function is executed via the telematics unit in response to...

20060111141 - Method and apparatus for reducing frequency errors associated with an inter-system scan: A plural-mode receiver 10 is able to receive signals from a first communication system (e.g. WCDMA) or signals from a second, different communication system e.g. GSM). The receiver 10 comprises a first receiver chain 13, 15,17,19 for receiving signals of the first communication system and a second receiver chain 12,...

20060111142 - Apparatus and method for providing an improved character input display in a mobile communication terminal: An apparatus and a method for providing improved character input displays in a mobile communication terminal. When the user inputs a first key, a first key number corresponding to the input key is displayed in an enlarged form on the display unit in the mobile communication terminal. Thereafter, if the...

20060111144 - Communication apparatus and communication method: According to this invention, a communication apparatus includes a communication unit which communicates with an external device, a management unit which manages a transmission condition of presence information, and a control unit which controls transmission of the presence information via the communication unit on the basis of the transmission condition...

20060111143 - Method and system for sending location coded images: A system is described that utilizes an imager in a wireless device in a wireless network and tags a digital image with positioning data....

20060111145 - Mobile device that uses removable medium for playback of content: A system for providing playback of media content to a user. The system comprises a portable wireless device, where the wireless device has a media drive and an application that reads content from a medium inserted in the media drive. The system further comprises a service that communicates with the...

20060111146 - Portable communication terminal for multimedia: Disclosed is a portable communication terminal. The portable communication terminal includes a camera module; a body including a plurality of keys, the body being connected to the camera module by a first hinge portion rotatable about a first hinge axis; and a display section including a display unit, the display...

20060111147 - Sim card data transfer system and methods: System and method for transferring data from a first subscriber identity module (SIM) card to a second SIM card are provided. The first SIM card is inserted into a wireless telephone. Software is downloaded to the wireless telephone. The software converts the data from a format of the first SIM...

20060111148 - Low complexity beamformers for multiple transmit and receive antennas: Beamforming systems having a few bits of channel state information fed back to the transmitter benefit from low complexity decoding structures and performances gains compared with systems that do not have channel state feedback. Both unit rank and higher rank systems are implemented. Substantial design effort may be avoided by...

20060111149 - System and method utilizing dynamic beam forming for wireless communication signals: The present invention relates to a method and system using dynamic beam forming for wireless communication signals in a wireless network. Base stations and/or UEs are provided with antenna systems having a range of beam forming selections. Relative base station and UE locations are one type of criteria used to...

20060111150 - Communication terminal with a parameterised bandwidth expansion, and method for the bandwidth expansion thereof: The disclosure relates to a communication terminal having a bandwidth expansion device for expanding the bandwidth of a narrowband voice signal, on a low-frequency and/or high-frequency side, by synthesizing at least one frequency band on the basis of the narrowband voice signal. A qualitatively satisfactory bandwidth expansion is thus performed...

20060111151 - Apparatus to provide signal link between mobile phone and landline house telephone for voice communication: A claimed utility box design that can be connected to a mobile phone with V.92 data modem function and a landline house telephone which is unsupported by local telephone service provider. The utility box houses a claimed circuit design to control signal currents for both in-coming and out-going phone calls,...

20060111152 - Apparatus and method for inputting characters in a mobile communication terminal: An apparatus and method are provided for inputting a character in a mobile communication terminal which displays character items representing types of characters on a screen of the mobile communication terminal in order for a user to select a type of character to be input in a character input mode....

20060111153 - Method of alerting incoming call for wireless telephone apparatus: A method of alerting incoming call for wireless telephone apparatus includes the procedures of: receiving a calling signal sent from a wireless telephone apparatus by a wireless transceiver module of a computer enabled platform, confirming the phone identification data in the calling signal matching a preset comparison data, and switching...

20060111154 - Apparatus and method for a full-duplex speakerphone using a digital automobile radio and a cellular phone: An automobile digital radio and a cell phone are coupled to provide a hands-free full-duplex speakerphone for the vehicle operator. A digital signal processor and associated apparatus of the digital radio can be used to provide echo-cancellation. The system can be used for both full-duplex communication and for audio performance...

20060111156 - Apparatus and method for controlling battery power in a digital multimedia broadcasting terminal: An apparatus controls battery power in a mobile terminal supporting digital multimedia broadcasting (DMB) service. In the apparatus, first and second radio frequency (RF) signal processors respectively process DMB signals and call signals received through associated antennas. A DMB modem demodulates DMB signals output from the first RF signal processor....

20060111155 - Mobile terminal having support power pack: A mobile terminal including a support power pack attached to the mobile terminal and configured to hold at least one battery to provide an auxiliary power source for the mobile terminal, and a converter configured to convert a voltage of the at least one battery held in the support power...

20060111159 - Portable radio device: A portable radio device has a first case including at least one of a conductive member and a first substrate. The device has a second case for incorporating a second substrate to mount a radio circuit thereon, and an antenna element. The first case and the second case are movably...

20060111157 - Rotatable wireless transceiver device: In a wireless transceiver device, a connector module has a coupling section with a first pivot part extending along a first pivot axis. A coupling base is formed with a first pivot hole that engages rotatably the first pivot part to permit relative rotation between the coupling base and the...

20060111158 - Sliding-type electronic device with a semi-automatic opening mechanism: An electronic device includes a first module including a fixed component. Widths of the front end to the transition part being gradually increasing, and widths of the rear end to the transition part being gradually increasing. The wireless communication further includes a second module connected to the first module in...

20060111160 - Portable electric device: A portable electric device, to provide mobile phones and PDA functions, includes a main body and a sub-body. The main body has a first keyboard and a second keyboard that are operated in different directions. The sub-body has a large display screen on one side and a small display screen...

20060111161 - Portable communication apparatus having keys moved up/down by rotation: A portable communication apparatus equipped with up/down keys. The portable communication apparatus includes a main housing, a sliding housing adapted to slide to be opened and closed while continuously facing the main housing, a number of keys arranged in a predetermined position on the top surface of the main housing...

20060111162 - Portable wireless terminal having conductor for improving antenna property: A portable wireless terminal with a built-in antenna module is provided. In the portable wireless terminal, a main body includes an upper case frame, a lower case frame, and a main board mounted between the upper and lower case frames. A built-in antenna module is disposed on the main board....

20060111163 - Fm transmission antenna device in a portable terminal: An FM transmission antenna device in a portable terminal is provided. In the FM transmission antenna device, an antenna pattern is attached to a surface of the portable terminal, an FPC extends from the antenna pattern, and a connector is provided at an end of the FPC, for connecting the...

20060105701 - Jamming system: A jamming apparatus includes jamming control circuitry and plural antenna sets fed by the jamming control circuitry. A first antenna set includes first and second directional antennas directed along respective first and second main lobe directions that are parallel to one another. A second antenna set includes first and second...

20060105702 - System and method for interactive monitoring of satellite radio use: A system and method of monitoring Satellite Digital Audio Radio (SDAR) use in which a receiver records and stores radio-use parameters, such as a channel or song being listened to, a time a receiver is active and a signal quality and type in a flash memory. The memory can also...

20060105703 - Broadcast station synchronization method and mobile terminal: A broadcast station synchronization method in a mobile terminal operating with a system clock different from the reference clock of a broadcast station, wherein a clock synchronized with the broadcast station is reproduced according to an internal reference clock corrected by the reference time information from the broadcast station, a...

20060105704 - Mobile communications terminal for receiving digital multimedia broadcastinging and system thereof: A mobile communications terminal for receiving a digital multimedia broadcasting and a system thereof are discussed. The system in one aspect includes a broadcasting terminal for broadcasting a received digital multimedia broadcasting signal, and at least one mobile communications terminal for displaying the digital multimedia broadcasting signal broadcast from the...

20060105705 - Consumer installer repeater for wireless communication: A consumer repeater for use in a structure comprises a donor unit with a communication antenna, the donor unit configured for communicating with a remote location within a communication band. A broadcast unit with a communication antenna is configured for communicating with a device that is located in or proximate...

20060105708 - Communication system, communication receiving device and communication terminal in the system: An information providing method and apparatus in which a radio wave signal is transmitted from plural artificial satellites and received at plural receiving equipment located within a pre-defined service area, and receiving within a pre-defined range of operational elevation angle by a receiving antenna. The plural artificial satellites are viewable...

20060105707 - Satellite communications systems, components and methods for operating shared satellite gateways: A shared satellite gateway can be configured to process at least first and second communications signals associated with respective at least first and second space-based components. The at least first and second communications signals are provided to/from the shared satellite gateway by respective at least first and second service links...

20060105706 - System and method incorporating adaptive and reconfigurable cells: A system and method by which specialized components (tenants) are mounted to an assembly comprising a plurality of modular units. Each modular unit has one or more interface connecting locations for one or more of a power connection, a thermal connection and data base connection, along with one or more...

20060105709 - Apparatus and method for high-speed data communication in a mobile communication system with a plurality of transmitting and receiving antennas: An apparatus and method are provided for transmitting and receiving high-speed packet data without path loss in a mobile communication system with a plurality of transmitting and receiving antennas. To support high-speed data for a mobile station (MS), a base station (BS) identifies a correlation between the number of transmitting...

20060105710 - Radio communication apparatus and radio communication method: With the enhancement of communication throughput in each transmitting and receiving station according to the fading fluctuation velocity between transmitting stations and receiving stations as the object, signal transmitted from a radio communication apparatus of another party is received by antenna 9 and reception RF section 1, channel time variation...

20060105711 - Bandwidth oriented reconfiguration of wireless ad hoc networks: A first wireless ad hoc network with a certain available amount of bandwidth comprises a plurality of wireless terminals communicating via wireless connections with each other. Each wireless connection requires a certain amount of the available amount of bandwidth. A problem occurs, if a wireless terminal wants to set up...

20060105713 - System and method for managing wireless connections in computer: A Wireless Connection Utility (WCU) provides a unified user experience for managing various types of wireless connections, including Wireless WANs, Wireless LANs, and Bluetooth networks. The WCU functions as a gateway for a user of a computer to monitor the computer's wireless network status, to switch wireless connections, to configure...

20060105712 - Wireless device support for electronic devices: Disclosed are a unique system and method that facilitate establishing and maintaining a secure connection between at least one wireless input component and a host (e.g., PC). The system and method involve the wireless input component broadcasting a message that can be “heard” by any potential host located within a...

20060105714 - Wireless printer configuration module: A printer comprises a print mechanism and a wireless communication module including a wireless transceiver and a configuration module. The configuration module is adapted to electronically query at least one available wireless device to determine at least one wireless security parameter of the at least one available wireless device and...

20060105716 - Human interface device and wireless communication method thereof: Provided are a human interface device and a wireless communication method thereof. The wireless communication method of the human interface includes the steps of: setting up an occupancy channel of the host digital terminal and the wireless input unit by communicating data for setting up the occupancy channel through the...

20060105717 - Method and apparatus for determining a data rate: A data rate determining method and apparatus in a smart-antenna mobile communication system are provided. A ratio of other-cell interference to AWGN in total noise received at an MS is estimated and a power margin is applied in proportion to highly time-variant other-cell interference. Therefore, despite a change in the...

20060105715 - Radio communication apparatus: A plurality of carriers are divided into two systems, one on a low-frequency side and the other on a high-frequency side, a transmitting unit that executes processing for transmitting a signal wirelessly is provided in each of the two systems, and output lines of transmit amplifiers of each of the...

20060105718 - Method and apparatus for detecting and selectively utilizing peripheral devices: A method and apparatus for providing a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) with access to at least one peripheral device, and/or at least one peripheral device associated with an available auxiliary device. The current peripheral device requirements of the WTRU are determined. The radio frequency (RF) environment of the WTRU is...

20060105719 - Information processing apparatus and communication apparatus: The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus and a communication apparatus for accurately recognizing at the base station the current receiving quality of the mobile terminals for improving the throughput of the base station. A mobile terminal 61 determines its own receiving quality based on the signal received...

20060105720 - Signal interface for a wireless device: A technique includes selectively coupling lines of a signal interface to a radio frequency front end device and a device other than the radio frequency front end device. The technique includes terminating unselected lines of the signal interface....

20060105721 - Ruggedized tradesworkers radio: A tradesworker's radio has a weather and impact resistant features to enable a tradesworker to use the radio under adverse working conditions, such as construction or other work sites. Louvered grills covering moisture resistant loudspeakers are angled downward to protect the speakers from direct splash in case the radio is...

20060105722 - Portable data entry device with a detachable host pda: An apparatus and method are disclosed that can adapt off-the shelf PDA devices (90) to user input/output applications such as data entry applications and cellular phone applications. The resulting apparatus (10) may be sized and shaped to be durable and facilitate handheld operation when the user is mobile during use....

20060105723 - Simple crest factor reduction technique for non-constant envelope signals: A technique for Crest Factor reduction of non-constant envelope signals is described. The input to any nonlinear circuit is modified by a Crest Factor reduction circuit, prior to being applied to the nonlinear circuit. The Crest Factor reduction circuit can either be performed at baseband or RF/IF frequencies. When performed...

20060105724 - Transmitting and receiving method, and radio apparatus utilizing the same: A processing unit transmits, from at least one of a plurality of antennas, data corresponding respectively to the plurality of antennas. A control unit generates request signals with which to let a second radio apparatus supply information on rates at the second radio apparatus. When transmitting the request signal, the...

20060105725 - Method and system for a control scheme on power and common-mode voltage reduction for a transmitter: Provided is a method and system for controlling current characteristics in a transceiver having a transmitter. The transmitter includes a plurality of current cells. Each cell is configurable for operating in different modes. The method includes determining a first probability associated with transmitting data at a particular symbolic level and...

20060105726 - Leakage electromagnetic wave communication device: Reception channel information is communicated to the communication target with a communication device having a receiving function. A local oscillation frequency signal of a local oscillator is modulated with a digital modulator into frequency data as reception channel information, a local oscillation frequency signal associated with the oscillation operation of...

20060105727 - Method of tuning frequency and apparatus thereof: A method of tuning a frequency and apparatus thereof are disclosed, in which broadcast channel information for bringing up the image of broadcasting is used and by which the frequency corresponding to the broadcast channel information is automatically tuned. The present invention includes the steps of storing a broadcast channel...

20060105729 - Frequency comb generator for synthesizers: A circuit arrangement and a method for obtaining a signal for use in down-converting a signal of a relatively high frequency VCO (7). A pulse train (S1) is generated as a function of a reference signal which is then fed into an oscillator (2) so as to generate a signal...

20060105728 - Phase adjusting method and apparatus: In a phase adjusting method and device in which a phase deviation between main signal frames themselves returned from a station end device through an antenna end device to the station end device without using a control signal for the phase adjustment, a reference signal generated in a first device...

20060105730 - Antenna arrangement for multi-input multi-output wireless local area network: Line-of-sight and non-line-of-sight channel conditions are efficiently and optimally handled in a MIMO wireless network by coupling two or more dual polarization antennas together through a controller that selects a prescribed combination of antenna outputs in response to determination of the existence of a particular channel condition. In this manner,...

20060105731 - Circuit and method for reducing direct current biases: A method is provided for reducing a DC bias in a receiver. This method includes isolating a second circuit portion from a first circuit portion (535) and determining a second DC bias correction value for the second circuit portion that will eliminate a second DC bias at the isolated second...

20060105732 - Wideband image rejection mixer: An image rejection mixer including a first and a second hybrid couplers and a first and a second traveling-wave mixers is disclosed. The first hybrid coupler divides an input radio frequency (RF) signal to a first RF signal and a second RF signal, the second RF signal being in quadrature...

20060105733 - System and method for developing ultra-sensitive microwave and millimeter wave phase discriminators: A method and system for improving sensitivity of microwave and millimeter phase discriminators is disclosed. An exemplary embodiment of a phase discriminator includes two mixers inserted between two 90 degree hybrids. One hybrid splits the reference or LO signal into two signals of equal magnitude with a phase difference of...

20060105734 - Oscillation device and oscillation method: An oscillation device, includes: an oscillator circuit that generates an oscillation signal based on a direct current voltage to be inputted, the oscillation signal being provided with a specification requested by a supplied device that is supposed to receive a supply of the oscillation signal; a gate circuit provided in...

20060105735 - Method and system for compensation of dc offset in an rf receiver: Aspects of compensating for DC offset in an RF receiver may comprise sampling data from at least one of a plurality of output paths, selecting a sampled data and generating at least one feedback signal based on the selected sampled data. The generated feedback signal may be fed back to...

20060105736 - Wideband up-conversion mixer: An up-conversion mixer includes a first and a second hybrid couplers and a first and a second traveling-wave mixers is disclosed. The first hybrid coupler receives an input intermediate frequency (IF) signal and produces a first IF signal (IF1) and a second IF (IF2) signal, the second IF signal being...

20060105737 - Method and apparatus for integrating a surface acoustic wave filter and a transceiver: A method and an apparatus for integrating a surface acoustic wave (SAW) filter and a transceiver are provided to solve the problem of having a large area of the prior-art integration of a SAW filter and a transceiver; wherein a device for integrating a SAW filter and a transceiver is...

20060105738 - Relay apparatus and relay method: Plural terminal devices are arranged under a relay apparatus. The relay apparatus includes a mobile communication network connection unit, a packet switching network connection unit, and an emergency call determination unit. The emergency call determination unit determines whether or not the calls originated from the terminal devices are emergency calls,...

20060105739 - Delicate metering of computer usage: A pay-per-use or metered-use computer uses a balance manager to monitor usage and update a value balance according to a first usage schedule when the computer is in active use. When the activity level of the computer is reduced below a threshold, the balance manager may update the value balance...

20060105740 - Method and apparatus for providing secure wireless communication: An approach is provided for securely communicating in a wireless network. A cryptographic server generates a command to enable a secure mode of operation for a wireless device, wherein the wireless device can operate in a secure mode and an unsecure mode in support of two-way messaging. The cryptographic server...

20060105741 - Method and apparatus for security of ip security tunnel using public key infrastructure in mobile communication network: A method and apparatus is provided for security of an IP security tunnel using public key infrastructure, including the steps of receiving a request message which relates to a security service requested by a mobile node, determining if there is security association (SA) for the security service and determining if...

20060105746 - Controlling communication equipment: A method controls use of a user equipment. The method includes switching a wireless user equipment into a mode wherein the capability of the wireless user equipment to select an access network from available access networks is restricted. The method also includes sending from an allowable access network control instructions...

20060105742 - Method for issuing instant mobile card using wireless network and accounting it using short distance communication: The invention relates to a method of issuing an instant mobile card using a wireless network and processing a payment using short-range communication and a computer-readable recording medium for storing a program for executing the method. In the instant mobile car issuing method, an instant mobile card issuing request is...

20060105743 - Method of making phone calls from a locked out handheld electronic device and a handheld electronic device incorporating the same: Outgoing phone calls can be made on a handheld electronic device that has been locked to prevent unauthorized use through an override that permits the making of outgoing phone calls while applications additional to the phone application remain locked. In some embodiments, the override can not be selected unless first...

20060105744 - System and method for protecting data in a synchronized environment: A system includes a mobile device providing a plurality of applications and an agent providing first and second authentication procedures for authenticating a user of the mobile device to first and second applications running on the mobile device. A first application is enabled by authenticating a user through a first...

20060105745 - System and method for protecting data provided by a cellular telephone: A method for authenticating a user to a cellular telephone includes providing a cellular telephone, providing a matrix having a plurality of authentication parameters in one dimension and a plurality of applications provided by the cellular telephone in another dimension, associating each of the plurality of applications provided by the...

20060105747 - Testing methods and apparatus for wireless communications: Several testing methods and apparatus for wireless communications, such as a cellular telephone communications, are described. One method for use in troubleshooting a problematic call in a wireless communication system by a computer test station includes the steps of receiving a telephone call from a wireless telephone unit while the...

20060105749 - Apparatus, system, and method for transmitting content in home network: An apparatus, system, and method for transmitting content in a home network is provided in which predetermined content is recorded according to preprogrammed recording information set by a user. The content is transcoded and encrypted using a content storage device and then encrypted and transmitted to a user selected mobile...

20060105750 - Method and system for the prevention of unwanted wireless telecommunications: The invention of present speaks to a method and system for the prevention of unwanted wireless telecommunications which is implemented as part of a computer program product in (preferentially) the telecommunications operator's network, which meets and/or exceeds much of current, proposed and even academically anticipated legislative (and by necessity, technical)...

20060105748 - Portable storage device with encryption system: A portable data storage device has a non-volatile memory 3 for storing user data, an interface section 7 for receiving and transmitting data to a host, and a master control unit 1 for transferring data to and from the non-volatile memory 3. The portable data storage device further includes an...

20060105751 - Techniques for communicating personalized information: The present invention provides improved techniques for communicating information. In one aspect, a method of communicating personalized information is provided which comprises the following steps. A presence of an individual at a particular location is passively detected, e.g., using one or more devices at the location which are configured to...

20060105752 - Apparatus and method for processing short messages in a terminal: Apparatus and method for processing short messages in a wireless or wired terminal, such as a facsimile machine or MFP, by which reception result messages of short messages received via a network can be effectively transmitted to transmitting terminals via the network. When the short messages are received via a...

20060105753 - Method, wireless handheld electronic device and system of remotely controlling e-mail settings from the device: A system includes a wireless handheld electronic device having a plurality of e-mail settings associated therewith. A plurality of servers include an e-mail server and a wireless enterprise server having a database maintaining at least one of the e-mail settings. The wireless enterprise server is adapted to wirelessly communicate with...

20060105754 - Single number reachability using cellular and desktop telephones: A system for providing a single number reachability solution for communications with a desktop telephone and a cellular telephone includes a mobility application coupled to a call management application. The call management application can associate a telephone number with a desktop telephone and a first communication port, receive a first...

20060105755 - Method and arrangement for positioning a mobile terminal: A method and arrangement are shown for positioning a mobile terminal, particularly within a finite local area. In the method, in the transmitting mobile terminal, there is defined a function that is observable by senses and executable, and a functional instruction is created for activating said function. The functional instruction,...

20060105756 - Multi-functional integrated circuit apparatus in mobile communication terminal and driving method thereof: A multi-functional integrated circuit (IC) apparatus in a mobile communication terminal capable of implementing at least two functions by using one IC of the mobile communication terminal, and a method thereof. Programs are set according to each module by using a PLD, interfaces having different functions are shared by using...

20060105757 - Wireless communication terminal with an opening/closing sensing function using a plurality of magnetic pole sensors and method therefor: A wireless communication terminal with an opening/closing function using a plurality of magnetic pole sensors and method therefor is provided. The invention activates or inactivates a display unit via a switch by sensing an opening/closing of a sub-body using the magnetic pole sensors, to thereby prevent a malfunctioning due to...

20060105758 - Method and apparatus to disable function of mobile station: Briefly, a method an apparatus and a wireless communication system having a base station. The base station may include a locater to locate presence of the mobile station in a restricted area and a controller to send a reconfiguration signal to reconfigure a setup of the mobile station according to...

20060105759 - Management server for determining perceived quality of service maps in a mobile communication network: A management server of a cellular communication network comprises processing means for determining a quality of service map in at least some cells of the network from information sent to said network by at least some of the mobile terminals that have set up radio links within those cells, representing...

20060105761 - Method and apparatus for allocating uplink resources in a multiple-input multiple-output (mimo) communication system: Techniques to schedule uplink data transmission for a number of terminals in a wireless communication system. In one method, a number of sets of terminals are formed for possible data transmission, with each set including a unique combination of terminals and corresponds to a hypothesis to be evaluated. The performance...

20060105762 - Testing methods and apparatus for wireless communications: Several testing methods and apparatus for wireless communications, such as a cellular telephone communications, are described. One method for use in troubleshooting a problematic call in a wireless communication system by a computer test station includes the steps of receiving a telephone call from a wireless telephone unit while the...

20060105763 - Testing methods and apparatus for wireless communications: Several testing methods and apparatus for wireless communications, such as a cellular telephone communications, are described. One method for use in troubleshooting a problematic call in a wireless communication system by a computer test station includes the steps of receiving a telephone call from a wireless telephone unit while the...

20060105760 - Ubiquitous connectivity and control system for remote locations: A thermostat control system for monitoring and controlling environmental characteristics of a building includes a base station unit and a remote access unit continuously interfacing through instant wireless private direct connectivity. The system also includes a plurality of sensors that measure the environmental characteristics and provide the thermostat unit with...

20060105764 - Adaptive wireless networks and methods for communicating multimedia in a proactive enterprise: In a wireless network, wireless communication devices include a distributed network information base (DNIB) to store network information and a service agent to communicate the network information directly between non-adjacent layers of a protocol stack. The service agents utilize the network information to at least maintain or enhance performance of...

20060105765 - Wireless communication terminal and radio communication method: A wireless communication terminal is disclosed which has mass data such as stream data delivered thereto efficiently over a wireless communication network so that the overall utilization efficiency of the network is improved as well. While a wireless communication terminal (100) is receiving stream data for its use, a main...

20060105766 - Method for delivering a call to a dual-mode mobile unit using a single number: The present invention provides a method for delivering a call request to a mobile unit. A call request is received for a dual mode mobile unit that is able to access a plurality of communication networks utilizing a plurality of communication protocols. The call request is routed to a call...

20060105767 - Method and system for bits and coding assignment utilizing eigen beamforming with fixed rates for closed loop wlan: A method and system for bits and coding assignment utilizing Eigen beamforming with fixed rates for a closed loop WLAN is provided. Aspects of the method for communicating information in a communication system may comprise transmitting data via a plurality of radio frequency (RF) channels utilizing a plurality of transmitting...

20060105768 - Handoff methods, and devices utilizing same: A handoff method. A mobile station calculates and records the strength of a pilot signal from a cell as reference strength if a handoff occurs in a first system. The mobile station further adjusts the reference strength according to the effect caused by forward and reverse links between a base...

20060105769 - Optimizing radio communication efficiency and methods thereof: A selective call radio (106) operating in a communication system (100) including a plurality of radio base stations (104) operating in a corresponding plurality of communication zones (102), wherein the selective call radio is programmed to measure (206) a temperature of the selective call radio receiving radiated signals from a...

20060105770 - Handoff of communication sessions between cellular and desktop telephones: A method for effecting handoff of a communication session between a cellular telephone and a desktop telephone includes anchoring a communication session involving a remote device and a cellular telephone in an enterprise network such that signaling for the communication session passes through an element of the enterprise network; receiving...

20060105771 - Method, system and components for facilitating wireless communication in a sectored service area: Network Allocation Vector (NAV) and “beam access control” (BAC) techniques are provided to address data collision problems in WLANs wherein APs provide wireless network access in a service area defined by multiple sectors via use of a switchable antenna system or the like. Preferably, every time the AP visits a...

20060105772 - Dedicated high priority access channel: The invention relates to a system and method for use in wireless packet data mode communications for facilitating communications between one or more remote devices and a base target device. The invention provides a high priority access channel (406) that can be utilized by specifically enabled packet data capable remote...

20060105773 - Call access control method: The present invention discloses a call access control (CAC) method applicable to call access during call initiation and cell switching in TDD-CDMA mobile communication system. The method comprises: counting the number of accessed subscribers in all current communication time slots of the home base station for an access request from...

20060105774 - Apparatus and method for arbitrary data rate ramp up after overload on wireless interface: To prevent oscillation in load levels on radio interfaces between one or more user equipment devices and neighboring base stations after the base stations have reduced the data rates of the one or more user equipment devices connected thereto over said radio interfaces, one or more radio network controllers select...

20060105778 - Frequency allocation in a radio system: In a method of selecting a radio channel from a plurality of radio channels comprised in a frequency plan and assigning the selected radio channel to a mobile radio station in consideration of the current geographic location of the mobile radio station which is provided with memory means storing data...

20060105780 - Location-based information intermediation and acquisition method, intermediation computer system, and mobile communication terminal: A system for providing a mobile communication terminal, the position of which can be detected with location-based information that is associated with a detected position, and a method of service for providing the mobile communication terminal with the location-based information automatically and quickly by synchronizing with behavior of the mobile...

20060105781 - Location-based information intermediation and acquisition method, intermediation computer system, and mobile communication terminal: A system for providing a mobile communication terminal, the position of which can be detected with location-based information that is associated with a detected position, and a method of service for providing the mobile communication terminal with the location-based information automatically and quickly by synchronizing with behavior of the mobile...

20060105776 - Method and system for providing location information for emergency services: Emergency Services architecture for determining the location of a wireless caller. The architecture leverages a synchronization feature of GSM networks of the Base Station Subsystem (BSS) to enable employment of sparse networks by removing WLS (Wireless Location Sensor) equipment from selected cell sites. Thus, the location of a wireless caller...

20060105779 - Method, system and apparatus for detecting a position of a terminal in a network: In a position detection system utilizing a WLAN supporting multiple data transfer rates, it is possible to reduce the number of required installed base stations, so system construction costs can be lowered. In a wireless station, a transmitted signal is judged at the time of transmission, and in case it...

20060105775 - Method, system, and program for network design, analysis, and optimization: Provided are a method, system, and program for rendering information on network infrastructure. A selection of customer sites is received and a database is queried to determine geographical locations of the selected network sites. A graphical user interface is rendered including representations of the selected customer sites in a map...

20060105777 - Wireless base station and mobile station: A mobile station used in a mobile communication system which accepts location registrations from mobile stations in order to perform mobile station location management, the mobile station being comprising a detection unit which detects that it is in an overlap region of hierarchical location registration areas; and a delay unit...

20060105782 - Method and apparatus for controlling a geo-tracking device: A method and an embodiment for controlling a geo-tracking device by receiving a request for a geo-location, conveying a wakeup signal to a geo-tracking device according to the request, receiving from the geo-tracking device one or more position messages, generating a position report according to the one or more position...

20060105783 - Guest amenity system and methods for using same: A guest amenity system and method are disclosed, and include providing each one of at least some of the individuals of a group with a wireless enabled portable communicator having an identification tag with a unique identification tag identifier. At least one monitoring site is located within a defined environment...

20060105784 - Location blocking service from a web advertiser: Location-blocking and identity-blocking services that can be commercially offered by a service promoter, e.g., a cellular service provider or a web advertiser. In the identity-blocking service, the service promoter may disclose the current physical location of a mobile subscriber (i.e., a cellular phone operator) to a third party (e.g., a...

20060105787 - Apparatus and method for providing location-based information: An apparatus and method for providing location-based information are provided. The apparatus includes: an input unit, which receives information on a first location and information on a second location from a user; a decoding unit, which decodes the location-based service data contained in the broadcast signals; a control unit, which...

20060105786 - Apparatus for monitoring the environment of a person by telephone: An apparatus for monitoring the environment of a person from any dialable telephone includes a small transmitter/receiver which is attached to the person whose environment is to be monitored. The transmitter/receiver contains cellular/wireless/mobile electronics and programming and may be dialed similarly to the dialing of any cellular phone. The transmitter/receiver...

20060105788 - Method of sending a location report from target user equipment: Disclosed herein is a method useful for target user equipment (UE) sending a location report. When the target UE is located in a first central network (CN) of a location service (LCS) system, the target UE reports the location report to the LCS system. If the target UE does not...

20060105785 - Transponder subsystem for supporing location awareness in wireless networks: The present invention is related to an apparatus and method for determining the location of a communication device within a wireless network in order to provide a geolocation functionality to the communication device participating under an access protocol of a wireless local-area network (WLAN) infrastructure such as IEEE 0.802.11 or...

20060105790 - Method for automatically originating international call and mobile communication terminal using the same: Disclosed are a method for automatically originating an international call and a mobile communication terminal using the same, such that a function of automatically originating an international call according to movement of a mobile communication terminal between countries is provided. The mobile communication terminal includes a country code detecting unit...

20060105789 - Websites mapping system and method: A method and system of accessing websites data by cellular telephones. A cellular telephone communicates with global positioning devices so that the geographical location of the cellular telephone at a given time is recorded. A database is provided containing information regarding websites classified according to the geographical location of the...

20060105791 - Method and apparatus of scanning control signal: Briefly, a method and apparatus to perform a passive scanning by partitioning a control signal scanning period into two or more portions. A distance from one portion of scanning period to another portion of scanning period is substantially equal to a control signal transmission interval....

20060105792 - Method and apparatus for proving push-to-talk services to non-push-to-talk enabled networks: A method for providing push-to-talk service between PTT enabled devices and non-PTT enabled devices is disclosed. First, the non-PTT enabled device is registered at a PTT interworking agent. Then, signaling data is received at an interface in a first format. The signaling data includes an identifier corresponding to one or...

20060105793 - Broadcast message services for communication devices engaged in push-to-talk communication: A method (200) and an apparatus (700) for a wireless communication network (102) for providing a broadcast message to a group of wireless communication devices (104, 106, 108) engaged in a push-to-talk (“PTT”) communication are provided. The wireless communication network (102) receives (204) broadcast information from a priority entity (118),...

20060105795 - Passive locator: Groups of consenting users such as families can track where other members of the same group are under agreed upon access arrangements. The locating system can operate in a passive mode. Users do not have to actively sign-in or check-in to the locating system for the locating system to obtain...

20060105794 - Push to view system for telephone communications: Provided is a system for providing a “push-to-view” (P2V) capability in conjunction with telecommunication devices. When a key, button or switch on a telecommunication device is pressed or switched, a camera at a remote site is activated. An image is then transmitted from the remote camera and displayed on the...

20060105797 - Method and apparatus for adjusting a mobile communication device's transmission power: A bandwidth monitor (14) monitors (21) the bandwidth of a transmission channel for a given wireless communication device (10), and a signal quality factor monitor (15) monitors (22) a signal quality factor relating to the wireless communication device's transmission. In response to the monitored factors, a transmission power setting unit...

20060105798 - Method and apparatus for outer-loop power control for enhanced uplink communications: Various embodiments are described to address the need for an apparatus and method of outer-loop power control for enhanced uplink communications that address some of the outstanding problems in the prior art. Generally expressed, a base site (131), while a first uplink channel is inactive, monitors packet retransmissions to generate...

20060105796 - System and method for uplink rate selection: Techniques are provided herein to mitigate the effects of link imbalance for the uplink between a terminal (or UE) and multiple base stations (or Node Bs). An uplink transmission rate is selected based on an adjusted nominal uplink transmission rate and the difference between power control commands from different nodes....

20060105801 - Apparatus and method for automatically changing communication mode in mobile communication terminal: Disclosed is a system and a method which automatically change a communication mode in a mobile communication terminal. The system includes a detection part for detecting a state of the mobile communication terminal. It is determined if the mobile communication terminal is in the open state, an ear-mike or a...

20060105802 - Communication system with reconfigurable hardware structure and reconfiguration method therefor: A communication system is provided with a reconfigurable hardware structure to provide implementation flexibility while minimizing a reduction in low power consumption performance. The communication system includes a plurality of processing element (PE) blocks for processing data based on multiple wireless transmission standards, memories for storing data being processed or...

20060105803 - Mobile terminal holder: A mobile terminal holder includes a body configured to receive a mobile terminal mounted thereon, and a receiving portion provided in the body. The receiving portion is configured to receive a cooling element for heat-exchange with a mobile terminal mounted on the body. Even if the mobile terminal is used...

20060105804 - Portable computing, communication and entertainment device with central processor carried in a detachable handset: The present invention relates in general to portable processor based devices that provide computing, communication or entertainment functionality. More particularly, the present invention pertains to portable processor based devices operable while being held in its user's hand and providing communications, organizer and/or entertainment functions, such as cellular telephones, palm-sized organizers,...

20060105799 - Portable telephone: A portable phone comprises an upper casing 11 provided with a speaker 14 and a display screen 15, a lower casing 12 on which a keyboard is disposed 18, and an antenna 16 mounted on an upper end of the upper casing 11 or a lower end of the lower...

20060105800 - Timer-based ringer control for mobile phones: Disclosed is an apparatus and method for temporarily turning off the ringer of a mobile phone for a specific amount of time as it is carried to public places and events, such as churches, movie theaters and weddings. The user can quickly turn off the ringer by using a special...

20060105805 - Pre-paid wireless interactive voice response system with variable announcements: A wireless communications system providing interactive voice response is disclosed. The system is menu-driven, and can accept information and requests from customers. In response to one type of request, the system can provide the customer with information regarding one or more previous transactions. The system also includes provisions that permit...

20060105807 - Method for reliably managing database in gsm/gprs hybrid terminal and hybrid terminal: Disclosed is a hybrid terminal, which includes a mobile terminal unit for a Global System for Mobile communication (GSM) or a General Packet Radio Service (GPRS), a PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) unit combined with the mobile terminal unit, and a mirror database being connected between the mobile terminal and the...

20060105806 - Mobile device with selectable camera position: A combination mobile terminal and camera comprising a housing and a camera device integrated into a first portion of the housing. The camera device and the first portion of the housing in which the camera is integrated are moveable between a first position where the first portion of the housing...

20060105808 - Input-output device with universal phone port: A keyboard and a microphone for inputting information, a display screen and a speaker for viewing or hearing information, and a processor, all mounted to or within a housing in the form of a laptop computer or hand-held computer. A phone interface has a slot, channel, or other support member...

20060105812 - Apparatus and method for switching operation mode in a dual-mode terminal: An apparatus and method for switching a mode in a dual-mode terminal are provided. If the current operation mode is a GSM mode, a CDMA mode key is displayed upon booting of the dual-mode terminal. Upon selection of the CDMA mode key, the operation mode is switched to the CDMA...

20060105809 - Desktop cellular phone having sim card-related security features: A system and method for securing a desktop cellular phone, having a SIM card inserted therein, includes turning on the phone and sending first data from a SIM card processor to the phone processor. The phone processor computes second data, using a first algorithm and the first data, and sends...

20060105811 - Mobile communicator: A mobile communication apparatus enable its' user to set limit on communication expense is disclosed herein. The mobile communication apparatus uses a communication module to perform wireless communication under the control of a limitation module which shuts off the communication module responding to a result from the comparison module showing...

20060105810 - Remote programming/activation of sim enabled ata device: Systems and methods for programming and/or activating a subscriber identity module (SIM) enabled analog telephone adapter (ATA) device. A component activates and/or programs a SIM-enabled ATA module. Additionally, a component is provided that communicates with a network, such that the activation/programming component enables functionality of the SIM-ATA device by programming...

20060105813 - Transmitting and receiving method, and radio apparatus utilizing the same: A processing unit transmits, from at least one of a plurality of antennas, data corresponding respectively to the plurality of antennas. A control unit generates request signals with which to let a second radio apparatus supply information on rates at the second radio apparatus. When transmitting the request signal, the...

20060105815 - Methods, mobile terminals, and computer program products for display of mobile terminal density information: A method of providing information on a mobile terminal can include displaying mobile terminal density information on a mobile terminal display according to a selectable context based on parameters reported by mobile terminals operating in a wireless communications network to a server....

20060105816 - System and method for offering wireless internet services: A method and apparatus are provided for offering wireless Internet services in a wireless Internet service system having a web server and a plurality of mobile terminals connected to the web server via a wireless network. The method comprises the steps of receiving access information including rotation status of a...

20060105814 - Telephone apparatus: It is an object of the present invention to provide a portable telephone in which a display portion can be used as a mirror and electric power can be saved under a key locked state. In the telephone according to the present invention, in a front surface of a display...

20060105817 - Method and apparatus for capturing phone movement: A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for managing alerts. A ring tone is audibly presented to alert the user of the incoming call in response to detecting receipt of the incoming call. A selected movement of the mobile communications device is monitored in response to audibly presenting the ring tone....

20060105818 - Telecommunication terminal comprising a memory for storing acoustic effect data: A telecommunication terminal is provided which includes a recording device for recording acoustic user information, a memory for storing acoustic effect data, and a mixing device which is embodied in such a way that, in a mixing mode of operation, the acoustic user information recorded by the recording device is...

20060105819 - Portable electronic device's docking cradle on vechicle: The present invention relates to a docking cradle on a vehicle including a main body, a cradle with a socket formed on the bottom thereof, a width-adjustable fender formed in the front on each side, a hinge complex formed in the rear to connect with an antenna, and an electronic...

20060105820 - Wireless communication terminal: A wireless communication terminal able to suppress deterioration of antenna characteristics due to opening/closing of a terminal, that is, wireless communication terminal having, a first housing; a second housing connected so that both housings can be opened and closed with respect to each other; an antenna arranged in one housing...

20060105821 - Wrap-around carrying case for cell phone or other personal electronic device: The carrying case includes front, rear and other sides having at least one swath of elastic material to laterally compress the phone or personal electronic device in the carrying case. The addition of releasable fasteners and/or a strap permits adjustment of the lateral compression. The fasteners may replace the elastic...

20060105822 - Open architecture mobile electronic device: A portable electronic device includes a body having pivotally joined front and back sections such that an interior space is defined therebetween. At least one receptacle is formed in the body for releasable connection of a viewing device therein. At least one receptacle is formed in the body for releasable...

20060105823 - Communication device: A communication device. The communication device comprises a body, a circuit board, an antenna unit and a cap. The body is host receiving the circuit board therein, and the antenna unit electronically connected to the circuit board is located at one side of the body for receiving and transmitting signals....

20060105824 - Sliding-folding type portable communication apparatus: Disclosed is a sliding-folding type portable communication apparatus that provides advantages of both sliding type and folding type portable communication apparatuses. The sliding-folding type portable communication apparatus has a soft cover having a folding section, a hinge unit provided in the folding section, and a body coupled to the soft...

20060099907 - Digital multimedia broadcast receiver and user interface method thereof: A digital multimedia broadcast (DMB) receiver and a user interface including a processor that processes the received DMB signal and extracts information regarding ensembles and services from the DMB signal so that the user interface can display received services using the extracted information regarding the ensembles and services. The user...

20060099906 - Satellite broadcast receiver for dividing power of satellite broadcast signal using wilkinson power divider: A satellite broadcast receiver including a pre-amplifier to amplify and output a received satellite broadcast signal, a power division part to split the amplified satellite broadcase signal into first and second signals having first and second powers, respectively, using a Wilkinson power divider, a tuner to receive the first signal,...

20060099908 - Hand-ear user interface for hand-held device: A hand-held information processing device, such as a mobile phone, has a thumb wheel that lets the user scan a circular array of options. Each respective one of the options is represented by a respective audio output that gets played out when the wheel is turned a notch up or...

20060099909 - Mobile communication terminal with global positioning system: A mobile communication terminal with a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver is disclosed. The mobile communication terminal comprises an antenna configured to receive a radio telecommunication signal for terrestrial communication and a GPS signal, an antenna matching circuit coupled to the antenna for impedance matching of the GPS signal, a...

20060099910 - Aiding beam identification in a satellite system: A system and method for determining timing offset errors in a low earth orbit satellite system based upon Doppler and Doppler rate of change is provided. A user terminal determines first and second timing offsets respectively associated with first and second satellite beams from respective first and second satellites. Next,...

20060099911 - Presence update system and method therefor, and mobile communication terminal and non-contact communication apparatus used therefor: A burden on a user is reduced as much as possible in updating presence,and the presence is automatically updated. Near-field communication is performed with a non-contact communication apparatus installed in each place by means of the low-power-output transmission/receiving section of a mobile phone to acquire, from the non-contact communication apparatus,...

20060099912 - Apparatus and method for transmit power level reporting with reduced interference: A method and apparatus for transmit power level reporting with reduced interference. An average radio frequency power level can be computed from measurements for each of a plurality of radio frequency channels of a hop sequence. The presence of interference can be detected on a radio frequency channel. The total...

20060099913 - Method and apparatus for power control in a mobile radio system: A telecommunications system for improving quality of service (QoS) to users via the implementation of an extended outer loop power control algorithm. A radio resource manager (RRM) operates to determine the number of channels allotted to users within a network at a certain time. The RRM implements the extended outer...

20060099914 - Multiband radio antenna: A multiband radio antenna device (1) for a radio communication terminal, comprising a flat ground substrate (2), and in a plane parallel to said ground substrate a flat parasitic element (7) and a flat antenna element (3). Said antenna element has a longitudinal member (4), a first transverse member (5)...

20060099915 - Methods and apparatus of providing transmit and/or receive diversity with multiple antennas in wireless communication systems: Transmit and/or receive diversity is achieved using multiple antennas. In some embodiments, a single transmitter chain within a wireless terminal is coupled over time to a plurality of transmit antennas. At any given time, a controllable switching module couples the single transmitter chain to one the plurality of transmit antennas....

20060099916 - Selectable sideband transmission: The sideband used by a low-intermediate-frequency transmitter for transmitting signals on a channel is selectable. In some embodiments of the invention, the sideband used for transmitting signals is selected based on the location of the channel within a band of channels. In such embodiments, the lower sideband may be selected...

20060099917 - Wireless transmitter dc offset recalibration: In many circuits, including those operating in radio frequency (RF), there is commonly a need to perform DC offset cancellation. The DC offset is an error in an output signal in respect to the input that may cause a circuit to enter into undesirable or non-tolerable conditions of operation. While...

20060099918 - Transmission signal generating apparatus: In a transmission signal generating apparatus according to the present invention, a voice signal is amplified by a variable amplifier which varies its amplification factor in accordance with an amplitude control signal, and the amplitude of the voice signal output from the variable amplifier is limited by a variable limiter...

20060099919 - Systems and methods for vector power amplification: Methods and systems for vector combining power amplification are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a plurality of signals are individually amplified, then summed to form a desired time-varying complex envelope signal. Phase and/or frequency characteristics of one or more of the signals are controlled to provide the desired phase, frequency,...

20060099920 - Intermediate frequency circuit for television tuner with improved intermediate frequency characteristic: An intermediate frequency circuit includes an intermediate frequency tuning circuit which resonates parallel to an intermediate frequency signal, a N−1 channel trap circuit connected to the output of the intermediate frequency tuning circuit, for removing voice signal components of lower neighboring channels, an intermediate frequency amplifier connected to the output...

20060099921 - Antenna module for receiving signal having broadcasting frequency: The present invention relates to an antenna module for receiving a signal having broadcasting frequency in a mobile terminal. The antenna module includes: an antenna element having a length shorter than a ½ wavelength of a receiving frequency; and an active impedance matching unit connected to one end of the...

20060099922 - Variable gain amplifying circuit with matchable input/output impedance: A variable gain amplifying circuit includes a gate-grounded amplifying FET and a collector-grounded amplifying transistor. A gate voltage of the FET and a base voltage of the transistor are adjusted by a supplied AGC voltage. When an input RF signal has small amplitude, the gate voltage is increased by a...

20060099923 - Method for monitoring broadcast signals at alternative frequencies and gain control unit: Many broadcast stations transmit their programs via a variety of different frequencies. The invention relates to monitoring alternative frequencies during the reception of a broadcast signal at a present frequency. Whenever the broadcast signal at an alternative frequency is checked, the receiver's gain is instantaneously switched from a present gain...

20060099924 - Inquiry device in non-contact ic card system: An inquiry device in the conventional non-contact IC card system has a problem that the electronic circuit size is large and complicated, requiring a very expensive high frequency part to increase the cost. In order to solve this problem, a part of the signal processing function realized by an electronic...

20060099925 - Radio receiver: In a radio receiver according to the present invention, an N:1 multiplexer multiplexes N signals received through N receiver antennas into one output, and a downconverter downconverts the combined signals into baseband signals, and two 1:N analog demultiplexers demultiplex the N combined and downconverted received signals into in-phase signal elements...

20060099926 - Method and device for transmission with reduced crosstalk: The invention relates to a method and a device for transmission with reduced crosstalk in interconnections used for sending a plurality of signals, such as the interconnections made with flat multiconductor cables, or with the tracks of a printed circuit board, or inside an integrated circuit. An interconnection with four...

20060099927 - Integrated wireless transceiver and audio processor: Circuits, methods, and apparatus incorporate both a wireless physical interface and audio processing unit on a single integrated circuit. The wireless physical interface may include a receiver, transmitter, or a complete transceiver. The audio processing unit is typically in communication with both the wireless interface and one or more wired...

20060099928 - Method of enabling an emergency call in an ieee 802.11e enabled wireless local area network: The present invention is based on inserting an additional information into the admission control requests (7,8) defined in IEEE 802.11e in order to identify and differentiate the requests (7,8) related to emergency calls. By doing this, the entity entitled to perform the admission control, i.e. the central controller (3), or,...

20060099929 - Authentication in a roaming environment: Methods and systems are provided that authenticate an intended user of a mobile client in a roaming environment. One embodiment of the invention provides a mobile communication network architecture that includes a first base station (e.g., a first base station controller and/or a first transceiver station), a second base station...

20060099931 - Automatic phone number to website linking system and method: A system and method for providing data to a phone user based on a phone number entered by the user. The phone may access a website or send a message to a remote site when the phone number is entered or a send command is received from the user. The...

20060099933 - Call admission control of a shared-access resource during a handover: A method and an apparatus are disclosed that enable call admission control during a handover for a telecommunications terminal that uses a shared-access resource. In accordance with the illustrative embodiment of the present invention, a first wireless terminal and a second terminal are already on a call, and are exchanging...

20060099930 - Customization of data session retry mechanism in a wireless packet data service network: In one embodiment, a scheme is provided for customization of a mobile communications device's data session retry mechanism in a wireless packet data service network. Upon detecting that a cause code has been returned by a node disposed in a wireless packet data service network, a structure is interrogated to...

20060099932 - Systems and methods for providing visibility to ss7 integrated on-line networks: A system and method capture data from an SS7 network and pair each invoke message with its corresponding response message. Each message is stored in a daily file as well as in a table dedicated for that particular message type. A separate file is also maintained on each MIN and...

20060099934 - Incoming call information notification method and apparatus using intelligent network: Disclosed herein is an incoming call information notification method in an incoming call information notification system. The method includes the steps of a subscriber setting a call forwarding condition that call forwarding be performed when a called terminal does not answer or is busy, and setting an incoming call information...

20060099935 - Method and system for registering an unlicensed mobile access subscriber with a network controller: Redirection of mobile subscriber registrations using location information is described. In one embodiment, the invention includes establishing a data communications connection with a mobile station at a data communications network controller, receiving location information from the mobile station, and redirecting the mobile station to a different network controller based on...

20060099936 - System and method for providing short message targeted advertisements over a wireless communications network: A method and system for providing targeted advertisement information to consumers over a wireless communications network. In one embodiment, local advertisers register to advertise on certain wireless communications devices that are in close proximity to the advertiser. As a consumer enters a cell site that is near the location of...

20060099939 - Mobile telephone terminal, base station, communication system, method of adding/changing operations: Users implement additions/changes of functions of mobile telephone terminal themselves without difficulty and fulfill widely-ranged needs belonging to respective users. A mobile telephone terminal which is provided with a connecting part 106 to be connected to a detachably attachable camera 105-1 and executes process corresponding to functions of the camera...

20060099938 - Screen changing method in mobile terminal: A mobile terminal and a screen changing method in the mobile terminal are discussed. The method in one embodiment includes selecting a function key on the mobile terminal, determining a type of the selected function key, and changing a current process displayed on one of a first and second display...

20060099937 - Using pim calendar on a mobile device to configure a profile: A method of automatically changing a profile in a mobile communication device, wherein the mobile communication device is equipped with a calendar mechanism includes setting an event begin time and an event end time in the calendar mechanism; selecting an event profile to be in use during the event; detecting...

20060099942 - Method and mobile apparatus of receiving a multimedia message: A receiver terminal, like a mobile apparatus or a mobile phone, downloads a multimedia message from a message center via a network. An arrival notification is first transmitted from the message center to the receiver terminal. In the notification, a length of the multimedia message is identified. The receiver terminal,...

20060099940 - Method for changing the status of a mobile apparatus: The present invention provides a method for changing the status of a mobile apparatus based upon the velocity of the mobile apparatus. The communication system determines the velocity of a mobile apparatus by calculating the difference between a first position of a mobile apparatus at a first time and a...

20060099941 - Methods and apparatus for providing application-specific messaging over a global system for mobile wireless communication system: Methods and apparatuses for transmitting application-specific data over a control channel of a GMS telecommunications system. In one embodiment of the invention the application-specific data is transmitted from an application device to a central monitoring station in the content field of a register_ss message. In one embodiment of the invention,...

20060099943 - Apparatus and method for receiving improved roaming service in a mobile terminal: An apparatus and method for receiving an improved roaming service in an MS are provided. Upon power-on of the MS, the MS stores information about PLMN cells that can be added as neighbor cells and determines whether a roaming service is required by checking frequency synchronization between the MS and...

20060099944 - Method and system for providing mobile vehicle sales recommendations: A method and system for providing mobile vehicle sales recommendations. Vehicle usage data for at least one mobile vehicle is received at a call center, at least one vehicle usage profile is created based on the received vehicle usage data, a vehicle profile request is received at the call center...

20060099945 - Using pim calendar on a mobile device to configure the user profile: A method of automatically changing a user profile in a mobile communication device, wherein the mobile communication device is equipped with a calendar mechanism, including setting a number of user profiles in the mobile communication device; setting an event begin time and an event end time in the calendar mechanism;...

20060099946 - Method of improving mobility management capabilities at registration zone, packet zone, and color code borders in a wireless communications system: In a 3G CDMA2000 IS-2000 wireless communications system, a base station at the border between two packet zones, transmits an Extended System Parameters message that includes the identity of a primary packet zone supported by that base station as well as the identities other secondary adjoining packet zones supported by...

20060099947 - System and method for user management: In user management for a device, when information on a user who wants to use a device is received, settings for the user to use the device based on the information are generated on the user. Then, the information on the user and the generated settings for the user are...

20060099949 - Handover system and method in heterogeneous network: A handover system and method in a heterogeneous network are provided. The handover system includes a first network for providing a radio resource using a first radio frequency bandwidth. A first apparatus of a cellular network is connected to the first network through a wired network. A mobile station accesses...

20060099948 - Media-independent handover (mih) method featuring a simplified beacon: A method for implementing a Media Independent Handover (MIH) service between one or more of a heterogeneous and a non-heterogeneous network comprises providing an MIH beacon from one or more of a network (Net) or a mobile node (MN); acknowledging a receipt of the MIH beacon by another of the...

20060099951 - Handover processing method in media gateways: A handover processing method in a Media Gateways (MGW) in which a Mobile Switching Center (MSC) server can perform a handover operation regardless of a switch type of the MGW by allowing a MGW only supporting a single-switch to provide the same handover processing as one supporting a multi-switch, the...

20060099950 - Method and apparatus for activating an inactive mobile unit in a distributed network: The present invention provides a method of wireless communication in a distributed network comprised of a mobile unit, a plurality of gateways, and a plurality of base stations associated with the gateways. The method includes receiving information indicative of a first base station from a first gateway associated with the...

20060099952 - Proactive deployment of decision mechanisms for optimal handover: To achieve optimal selection of new access points for mobile devices (10) being located in a mobile communication environment (14), according to the present invention there is provided a method of assisting handovers for a mobile device in a mobile communication environment. It is proposed to proactively deploy a handover...

20060099953 - Wireless communication system using joint detection to compensate for poor rf condition based on user priority: A wireless communication system including a carrier network, a network application server coupled to the carrier network, and a base station coupled to the carrier network. The base station is adapted to determine whether a subscriber unit is designated as having relatively high priority for accessing the carrier network; encode...

20060099954 - Wireless communication network: A wireless communication network is provided that includes a plurality of communication cells each defined by at least one communication coverage area and a plurality of access points each corresponding to a different one of the plurality of communication cells. Each access point is configured to communicate on a first...

20060099955 - Reassigning channels in a spatial diversity radio communications system: Methods and systems are provided for assigning channels in a spatial division multiple access communication network. The network includes a plurality of conventional channels some of which are configurable to be shared concurrently by plural subscribers. The method includes determining combinations of subscribers from the existing subscribers. Enhancement activities are...

20060099956 - Method for transmitting data stream via wireless medium and a wireless network: The present invention provides a method for transmitting data stream via wireless medium for contention based medium access across a wireless network having a plurality of stations and an access point communicating to the stations via wireless medium. The method includes: (i) transmitting data stream from the station according to...

20060099957 - Data monitoring system in communication network and monitoring method thereof: A data monitoring system in communication network has the global position system (GPS) receiver, a packet data collecting device and a mobile station-packet data serving node monitoring system (MPMS). The GPS receiver provides time information which is received from the GPS satellites. The packet data collecting device collects the communication...

20060099958 - Method and system for positioning in a mobile communication network: A method and system for obtaining the position of a mobile station (1) located in a current network of a communications system including a plurality of networks supporting different positioning protocols. The current network (6) (107) is identified at a location centre (2) based on the identified current network (6),...

20060099959 - Method and system to monitor movable entities: A method to wirelessly monitor an entity having an attached transponder is disclosed. A geographical zone is defined. The geographical zone can be defined by allowing a user to define and load to a transponder a plurality of waypoints, each waypoint defined by a geographical coordinate and a radius originating...

20060099962 - Apparatus and method for tuning a broadcast channel: An apparatus for tuning a broadcast channel and method thereof are disclosed, by which a broadcast channel is tuned using a global positioning system (GPS) in a mobile multimedia broadcast receiving terminal, and by which a first broadcast channel is changed to a second broadcast channel responsive to the terminal...

20060099960 - Method for processing a location request of an area event change: Disclosed is a method for processing location request of change of area event where an LCS system sends a location request of change of area event to target UE. After receiving the location request of change of area event, target UE detects that change of area event has occurred and...

20060099961 - Method of processing a periodic location request: Disclosed is a method of processing a periodic location request when a location service system receives the periodic location request sent by a location service (LCS) client in relation to target user equipment and confirms the periodic location request as a periodic location request. The location service system allocates a...

20060099963 - Location-based mobile service provision: A method (300) of providing location based services using a wireless communication system (100, 200) that facilitates communication to and/or from a plurality of communication units (250-262). The method includes the step of transmitting a wireless message (220), from a mobile service provider (112) to a number of communication devices...

20060099965 - Methods, systems and computer program products for remotely controlling wireless terminals: Wireless terminals are remotely controlled by identifying a wireless terminal that is located at a premises and obtaining at least one operational authorization rule for the wireless terminal that was identified, and that applies to the premises at which the wireless terminal is located. Selected operations of the wireless terminal...

20060099964 - System and method for location based content correlation: A method and a system to correlate location and content. For example hyperlinked content can be received from a user including current geographical position data. The current geographical position data can be extracted from the hyperlinked content. Location or geographically-based content can be selected based on the current geographical position...

20060099966 - 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...

20060099968 - Automatic electronic device detection: A cellular telephone and method that detects that it is present within a station for deliver of combustible material, e.g., a gas station. The station sends a wireless “beacon”, which is received by the telephone to indicate to the telephone that it is within the range of a station. The...

20060099969 - Method and system to monitor persons utilizing wireless media: A method and system of selectively communicating with a first portable device within pre-defined geographical zones is disclosed. The first portable device is associated with a geographical zone defined utilizing latitude and longitude attributes. Data representative of the geographical zone is then loaded on the first portable device. The first...

20060099967 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for implementing proximity-based sound emission controls: Methods, systems, and computer program products for implementing proximity-based sound emission controls. The method includes detecting the presence of a device at a controlled access location. The detecting is performed upon entrance to the controlled access location by the device. The method also includes adjusting sound control settings established for...

20060099970 - Method and system for providing a log of mobile station location requests: A method and system of providing a log of mobile station geographic location requests is useful for protecting the privacy of mobile station users. The method is performed on a mobile station and includes receiving in the mobile station a location request from a requestor, the location request seeking the...

20060099971 - Method and system to monitor and control devices utilizing wireless media: A method and system of selectively communicating with one or more devices within pre-defined geographical zones is disclosed. A plurality of geographical zones is defined, each zone being defined by latitude and longitude attributes. A plurality of devices is associated with each geographical zone with which a portable device can...

20060099972 - Method and apparatus for paging an idle mobile unit in a distributed network: The present invention provides a method of wireless telecommunication in a network comprised of an inactive mobile unit, a plurality of gateways, and a plurality of base stations associated with the gateways. The method may include receiving information indicative of a first base station associated with a first gateway in...

20060099973 - Method and apparatus for activating a dormant mobile unit in a distributed network: The present invention provides a method of wireless telecommunication in a distributed network comprised of a plurality of access points. The method includes receiving information indicating that a dormant call session is to be activated. The method also includes providing an identifier indicative of the dormant call session. The identifier...

20060099974 - Smart call delivery with gis integration: A method of delivering a call to a called party's device. The method includes receiving a call directed to a wireline device and validating that a telephone number of the wireline device is associated with a telephone number of a wireless device. The method also includes transmitting a message to...

20060099976 - Integrated message delivery over a plurality of transport mediums: Facilitating a communication directed to a communication device operable to receive data over a plurality of transport mediums includes determining present transport coverage of the communication device, determining which transport mediums the communication device is presently operable to receive the communication, and selecting one of theses transport mediums for delivery...

20060099979 - Method and apparatus for providing broadcast messages in a communications network: The present invention is a novel and improved method for providing broadcast short message services (SMS) in a communication network. It is an objective of the present invention to provide a method and apparatus that insures the successful transmission of the broadcast message while minimizing the impact of providing the...

20060099977 - Method of mobile phone remote setup by utilizing sms: A method of mobile phone remote setup by utilizing SMS, which enables a mobile phone to send a normal SMS message, comprising a remote control function including a series of characters in a remote control selection and corresponding installation parameters, in the form of protocol data units (PDUs) through wireless...

20060099975 - Personal data assistant having a detachable voice communication device: Described is a mobile computing arrangement which includes a body including a communication dock; a first data link port situated in the dock; a memory storing data that includes at least one telephone number; and a detachable voice communication device including a wireless transducer, a memory and a second data...

20060099978 - Wireless communication terminal with function of confiirming receiver's identity by displaying image corresponding to the receiver and method thereof: A wireless communication terminal having a function of confirming a receiver by searching an image when editing a message and a method thereof are disclosed. The wireless communication terminal includes: an input unit for receiving a message transmitting request signal, a telephone number and a message; a storing unit for...

20060099980 - Method of controlling operation of at least one transmitter and/or one receiver, communication system and use of such a method or such a system: Method of and communication system for controlling operation of at least one transmitter and/or one receiver in a communication system, e.g. a system for transmission of control signals, request signals, interrogation signals etc. wherein a signal comprising a message frame transmitted from a transmitter to a receiver comprises a message...

20060099981 - Communique system with active feedback for cellular communication networks: An apparatus and method for providing a communique constituting program content concurrently delivered to a plurality of subscribers is described. Subscriber confirmation for each of a plurality of subscribers is stored. The subscribers whose wireless devices are active in a cell are identified. Data that identifies a plurality of subscribers...

20060099982 - Group calls in a mobile radio system: A method of arbitrating group calls in a digital mobile radio system without need of a central component. In general terms the base station that are serving mobile units in a call each announce the nature of the signals that they are receiving. The stations then each compare the signals...

20060099983 - System and method for performing group call processing in a key telephone system: A system and method processes a group call of a key telephone system. When a sender requests a call, a key telephone system transmits a message including a group call mask, which indicates a recognition number of the group corresponding to the call, to every Digital Enhanced Cordless Telephone (DECT)...

20060099985 - Apparatus and method for radio transmission in a cellular communication system: A base station (101) of a cellular communication system (100) comprises a receiver (105) and a channel quality processor (111) which receive channel quality indications from a communication unit (103). The base station (101) further comprises a transmitter (107) for transmitting signals to the communication unit (103). A first power...

20060099984 - Method and apparatus for determing a transmit power: The invention relates to determining a transmit power in a cellular communication system comprising a cell including an inner zone served by a first carrier and an outer zone. A base station (201) comprises a receiver (211) for receiving measurement reports from communication units (203, 205, 207, 209). The measurement...

20060099986 - Power control: The invention relates to control of transmission power in cellular networks, specifically in cells having transmitters in several frequency bands. The invention allows the network to control the maximum transmission power of a mobile station in more than one frequency band....

20060099987 - System and method of providing data fill application to support large-scale configuration changes: A wireless communication system is disclosed, comprising a network; a plurality of base stations coupled to the network; and an operations and management center comprising a network interface coupled to the network, and a processor to: generate a new frequency plan for the plurality of base stations; compare the new...

20060099988 - Method and system for manipulating a shared object: A system includes a first wireless device (102) and a second wireless device (106), each having at least two communication modes—one for voice transmission and reception and one for data transmission and reception, and able to communicate wirelessly with each other. The system also includes a shared object between the...

20060099989 - Radio communication apparatus: A radio communication apparatus of the present invention comprises a radio unit capable of transmitting or receiving a first radio communication signal of a Bluetooth standard and a second radio communication signal of a cordless phone standard and a synchronism discriminator for discriminating a radio communication standard signal. The radio...

20060099991 - Method and apparatus for detecting and protecting a credential card: An approach for determining a type of credential card in a reader and, for some aspects, implementing a protection approach based on the determined type of credential card. For one aspect, an indication that a credential card has been received at a credential reader is received. In response, an instruction...

20060099992 - Method for controlling a sub-device of mobile equipment using a sim application toolkit: A method provides various interfaces between an ME and a SIM supporting a SAT. The method provides a combination of commands to enable control of a sub-device attached to the ME by means of SAT. According to the method, a mobile communication terminal with various sub-devices having a plurality of...

20060099990 - System and method for controlling access to a wireless medium: Some representative embodiments are directed to controlling access to a wireless medium using “credit” periods and “free” periods. During a credit period, credits are initially assigned to the stations and each station is repetitively polled as long as the station has credit remaining and data is available to communicate. During...

20060099993 - Multiple antenna portable hand-held electronic device: A portable hand-held electronic device including a first section having electronic circuitry with a ground plane and a first antenna adapted to communicate with a mobile telephone system; and a second section movably connected to the first section. The second section includes a second frequency antenna. The second antenna is...

20060099995 - Mobile communication terminal having detachable wireless display window, and operation method thereof: A mobile communication terminal and an operation method thereof are provided. The terminal includes: a detachable display window detached from a main body, for performing short-range wireless communication with the main body; and the main body for performing the short-range wireless communication with the detachable display window, wherein the detachable...

20060099994 - Pc's wireless human-computer interacting device: The invention relates to a wireless human-machine interactive device of personal computer including two parts, a display and a base. The display can be independently used separately from the base. The key features are in that: the display output module comprising at least a central processing unit (CPU) and a...

20060099996 - Portable apparatus having a flat-panel speaker and display and control method therefor: A portable apparatus includes a sound output device for outputting a sound by vibrating a plate-shaped transparent member. The plate-shaped transparent member overlies a display screen. A display means displays an image on the display screen, and a display controller controls the display meansso that the display means displays ear...

20060099997 - Portable cellular phone, portable cellular phone system, message format controlling method, and message format controlling program: A portable cellular phone is provided which is capable of transmitting a message corresponding to a terminal of a message receiver even in a case where any one or some of terminals of message receivers have a function of receiving a message of a MMS (Multimedia Message Service) format and...

20060099998 - System and method for measuring a power cutoff level in a mobile terminal: A system and method are provided for measuring a power cutoff level in a mobile terminal. The system includes a power cutoff level measurer, a power supply, and a mobile terminal. The power cutoff level measurer sends a predetermined power supply command to the power supply. The power supply supplies...

20060099999 - Connector for charging cellular phone: The present invention relates to a connector for charging a mobile phone, for example a cellular phone in which a charging state can be acknowledged by a light emitting element that changes its color according to an amount of a charging voltage. Furthermore, the present invention relates to a connector...

20060100001 - Backscatter communication device wake-up methods, communication device wake-up methods, and radio frequency identification device wake-up methods: Radio frequency identification devices, backscatter communication device wake-up methods, communication device wake-up methods and a radio frequency identification device wake-up method are described. In one aspect, a wireless communication device includes a processor configured to process a plurality of received wireless signals and to control the communication of a plurality...

20060100000 - System and method for dynamic power savings for short range wireless systems: A method (100) and system (11) of dynamic power savings for a shorter range wireless connection based on service conditions for a longer range wireless connection can include the monitoring (102) a latency requirement for the longer range wireless connection based on service conditions and dynamically modifying (104) a reconnect...

20060100002 - Wireless node providing improved battery power consumption and system employing the same: A system includes fobs and sensors each of which has a wireless transceiver, a processor and a battery powering the transceiver and processor. A server includes a processor and wireless transceiver, both of which are mains-powered. A fob processor timer repetitively causes its processor to enter a normal mode from...

20060100003 - Folding type electronic device: A folding-type electronic device, such as a portable telephone, is provided with a functional component such as a switch that a user can operate regardless of whether the device is in the opened state or in the closed state, without increasing the number of parts and without expanding the mounting...

20060100004 - Portable communication apparatus with a tri-column type cradling function: A portable communication apparatus equipped with a tri-column type cradling function, and wide-view and stereophonic sound functions. The portable communication apparatus includes a central housing, a first housing rotatably coupled to the central housing about a first hinge axis in such a manner that the first housing is movable closely...

20060100005 - Pda carrying case: A personal data assistant (PDA) carrying case includes a main body (10), an expansion cover (40) having a first clasp (46) extending therefrom, a resilient clip (22) mounted on the main body, and a button (29). An opening (33) is defined in the main body for matching the expansion cover....

20060094349 - Dockable portable satellite receiver: A portable satellite receiver includes a tuner, an antenna, and an amplifier. The portable satellite receiver has a protective housing enclosing the tuner, antenna, and amplifier. The portable satellite receiver is configured to interface with an accessory device through a communication link such that the accessory device receives audio signals...

20060094350 - Position detection system, position detection method therefor, position detection communication device, and communication device: In a position detection system, a plurality of first communication devices each comprise a transmitter for transmitting a distance-calculation signal for calculating distance to the second communication device; a detector for detecting, by receiving from the second communication device a signal corresponding to the distance-calculation signal, phase difference between the...

20060094351 - System and method of providing n-tiered enterprise/web-based management, procedure coordination, and control of a geosynchronous satellite fleet: An N-Tiered enterprise and/or N-Tiered Web-based enterprise system and methods for managing, monitoring, coordinating the procedures of and optionally controlling a fleet of geosynchronous satellites through a distributed network such as the Internet. The system and associated object oriented software architecture seamlessly supports monitoring and analyzing real-time, near real-time, historical/playback,...

20060094352 - Apparatus and methods for power control in satellite communications systems with satellite-linked terrestrial stations: A signal power control loop is provided for a link between a terrestrial station and a terminal when the terminal and a satellite are linked via the terrestrial station. The signal power control loop may control transmitted signal power of the terminal and/or the terrestrial station. In some embodiments, the...

20060094353 - Mobile communication terminal and method therefore: A method for providing an international telecommunication number comprising a plurality of digits corresponding to at least a country code, from a mobile telecommunication terminal to a base station, is disclosed. The method comprises receiving a plurality of digits in a control unit in the mobile telecommunication terminal, said digits...

20060094354 - System and method for over the air provisioning of a mobile communications device: A mobile communications device includes logic means operable to generate a request that is transmitted to a first network node. The request includes a personal information number and at least one device identifier associated with the mobile communications device. The mobile communications device also includes logic means operable to receive...

20060094355 - Bluetooth device for hands-free conversation and voice dialing on a bluetooth cellular phone: A bluetooth device includes a controller, a bluetooth module for wireless transmission together with a bluetooth cellular phone, a microphone, a speaker, a connector for connection to a keyboard, buttons for operating the controller with, and a memory; a database is built in the memory by means of inputting phone...

20060094356 - Method for operating a near field communication system: A method for operating a near field communication system (10) of at least a first and a second participating near field communication device (21, 22) is proposed, wherein for each participating near field communication device (21, 22) an idle process (ID) is performed by repeatedly changing the respective participating near...

20060094358 - High speed voice message retrieval via a phone, and a universal telephone number exchange system: A system consisting of hand phones (Cellular) allowing wireless means, to transmit and receive owners' phone numbers within a short range without using any telephone service and also allowing the phone to download messages from voice mail system or an answering machine that saves the messages in MP3 or any...

20060094360 - Method and system for identifying device on universal plug and play network and playing content using the device: A method and system for quickly selecting a device desired by a user from among a plurality of devices on a home network and playing content included in a portable device using the selected device are provided. The method includes displaying a device list of the plurality of content player...

20060094359 - Method for detecting bluetooth device using company id: Disclosed is a method for detecting a Bluetooth device by using a company ID. The method includes searching by a user equipment having a Bluetooth function in order to connect the user equipment to a desired Bluetooth device; and selecting and displaying information about counterpart Bluetooth devices, each of which...

20060094357 - System and method for providing a single-ended receive portion and a differential transmit portion in a wireless transceiver: In an input/output circuit (200), a differential balun (250) is provided that has first and second balun inputs and first and second balun outputs. An antenna (230) is connected to the first and second balun outputs. A differential amplifier (220) has one output connected to the first balun input, and...

20060094363 - Apparatus and method for dynamically allocating resources in a communication system using an orthogonal frequency division multiple access scheme: An orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) communication system. The system has a plurality of cells, divides an entire frequency band into a plurality of subcarrier bands in each cell, and has subchannels that are a set of a preset number of subcarrier bands, respectively. Interference from neighbor cells of...

20060094362 - Method and system for a polyphase clock for a second intermediate frequency (if) mixer to improve signal quality: Methods and systems for reducing interference in a signal are disclosed herein. Aspects of the method may comprise generating a first local oscillator signal. The generated first local oscillator signal may be phase-shifted to generate a second local oscillator signal and the second local oscillator signal may be phase-shifted to...

20060094361 - Method and system for process, voltage, and temperature (pvt) measurement and calibration: In RF transceivers, a method and system for a second order input intercept point (IIP2) correction are provided. A DC offset sensor may detect DC offset voltages produced by blocker signals in “I” and “Q” signal component paths in an RF receiver. The DC offset sensor may generate control signals...

20060094364 - Information processing apparatus and communication control method: An information processing apparatus includes an antenna corresponding to a first wireless communication scheme, a first wireless communication unit which executes wireless communication by the first wireless communication scheme using the antenna corresponding to the first wireless communication scheme, a plurality of antennas corresponding to a second wireless communication scheme,...

20060094366 - Apparatus and method for signal transmission and reception using downlink channel information in a sleep mode in a bwa communication system: An apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving a signal according to a change of downlink channel information by a mobile station in a broadband wireless access communication system. The method includes: detecting the change of the downlink channel information; receiving a report from a base station that there is...

20060094365 - Channel simulator and wireless apparatus evaluation method: An output signal of digital baseband processing section 41 is directly input, and receiver noise adding section 103 adds receiver noise simulating the SNR variation due to fading to the signal while keeping an entire signal level constant in single-path channel simulation, while in multipath channel simulation, instantaneous variation adding...

20060094367 - Communication terminal apparatus, base station apparatus, and radio communication method: A retransmission request signal creation section (119) outputs an ACK signal or NACK signal to a NACK signal counting section (120) based on the result of error detection by an error detection section (118), the NACK signal counting section (120) counts, for each communication mode, the number of NACK signals...

20060094368 - Apparatus and method for selecting an antenna in a digital broadcast receiving terminal: An apparatus and method for supplying information so that power consumption in a digital broadcast receiving terminal can be reduced and a user can use an appropriate antenna depending on a situation. The digital broadcast receiving terminal includes an external antenna detachably assembled with the outside of the terminal a...

20060094369 - Determining optimal access point locations for access points that perform automatic channel selection and automatic power adjustment: An automatic channel selection (ACS) process enables an access point to determine a best channel available, i.e., the channel with a least amount of interference, for it operation. When ACS is enabled, the access point scans frequencies for all neighboring access points and their signal strengths. Based on this data,...

20060094372 - Method for uplink scheduling in communication system using frequency hopping-orthogonal frequency division multiple access scheme: Disclosed is a method for uplink scheduling in a communication system. The method for uplink scheduling in a communication system having a cellular structure hopping between sub-channels according to a predetermined rule whenever a signal is transmitted The communication system dividing a whole frequency band into a plurality of sub-carrier...

20060094371 - Wireless access point (ap) automatic channel selection: An automatic channel selection (ACS) process enables an access point to determine a best channel available, i.e., the channel with a least amount of interference, for it operation. When ACS is enabled, the access point scans frequencies for all neighboring access points and their signal strengths. Based on this data,...

20060094370 - Wireless access point (ap) automatic channel selection and automatic power adjustment: An automatic channel selection (ACS) process enables an access point to determine a best channel available, i.e., the channel with a least amount of interference, for it operation. When ACS is enabled, the access point scans frequencies for all neighboring access points and their signal strengths. Based on this data,...

20060094373 - Closed-loop signalling method for controlling multiple transmit beams and correspondingly adapted transceiver devices: A closed-loop signalling method controls multiple transmit beams. The method also includes transmitting a plurality of beams from a first transceiver via a plurality of transmission channels to a second transceiver, evaluating, at the second transceiver, characteristics of the plurality of transmitted beams received at the second transceiver. The method...

20060094374 - Frequency synthesizer and synthesis method for generating a multiband local oscillator signal: A phase locked loop (PLL) frequency synthesizer to produce a local oscillator signal for a transmitter for operation at a plurality of RF frequency bands that are disparate. The transmitter has an intermediate frequency that is a sizable fraction of the bandwidth of one or more of the RF bands....

20060094375 - Portable survey inspection device: A wireless inspection device comprising: telescoping boom for extending said device to a position to be tested; an access point affixed to an end of said boom means for outputting a wireless signal to be tested; a power pack for powering the access point; and a tripod on wheels affixed...

20060094376 - Apparatus and method for high efficiency power amplification for a mobile communication system: An method and apparatus for power amplification in a mobile communication system, wherein a signal converter for receives signals from a baseband-side, modulates the received signals into oversampled baseband digital signals, and generates signals having a constant envelope with the oversampled base band digital signals, an up-converter up-converts the generated...

20060094377 - Method and system for output common mode control for reducing dc offset for an if mixer that downconverts a received signal to dc without introducing additional offset: A method and system for output common mode control for reducing DC offset for an IF mixer that downconverts a received signal to DC without introducing additional offset is provided. Aspects of the method may comprise averaging signals having an output common mode DC level, which are generated from an...

20060094378 - Dual-diaphragm speaker assemblies with acoustic passageways and mobile terminals including the same: A mobile terminal includes a portable terminal housing and a speaker housing positioned in the portable terminal housing. The speaker housing includes a first micro-speaker having a first frequency response and a second micro-speaker having a second frequency response and positioned proximate the first micro-speaker. The terminal housing further includes...

20060094379 - Radio broadcast receiver: A radio broadcast receiver is provided which reduces the degradation in quality of diversity-received signals. When a difference in level between a reception signal of a main antenna and a reception signal of a sub antenna is less than a predetermined threshold value, and when a difference in phase between...

20060094380 - Interface configuration by a memory tag: A memory tag is powered by and addressable via a radio frequency wireless link to read data from a memory. The memory tag is addressable by a reader. The memory holds data and interface configuration information relating to the operation of an interface device. This interface configuration information comprising at...

20060094381 - Method and system for a synthesizer/local oscillator generator (logen) architecture for a quad-band gsm/gprs radio: Methods and systems for processing signals for a multiband radio are disclosed herein. Aspects of the method may comprise dividing an input signal generated by an oscillator used to generate signals for each of a plurality of bands for the multiband radio. A feedback loop reference signal may be generated...

20060094382 - Signal receiver and method for controlling gain of a tuner: A signal receiver (300) has a tuner (301), which receives an RF_IN signal and outputs a desired IF_OUT intermediate frequency signal to a demodulator (311). The demodulator (311), on the basis of the signal level received from the tuner and the AGC characteristic set by a processor (321), controls the...

20060094383 - Signal receiver and method for optimizing gain of a tuner: A signal receiver (300) has a tuner (301), which receives an RF_IN signal and outputs a desired IF_OUT intermediate frequency signal to a demodulator (311). The demodulator (311) controls the RF_AGC and IF_AGC tuner gains according to an AGC characteristic of the tuner, to provide a constant level of the...

20060094384 - Automatic gain control with gain stepping and regulation: An automatic gain control device and a related method for its operation, using a first-order control loop for adjusting a received communication signal to compensate for variations in received signal power. The device bases its adjustments on a measure of the average received root-mean-square (rms) signal power and, in its...

20060094385 - Architecture for multiple-antenna systems: The invention is a system and method for sharing components of a single-path receiver or transmitter system multiple antennas. Specifically, according to one embodiment of the present invention, multiple antennas simultaneously share an analog-to-digital converter unit. The signal from one antenna is downconverted to a positive frequency band while the...

20060094386 - Method and system for a second order input intercept point (iip2) calibration scheme: In RF transceivers, a method and system for a second order input intercept point (IIP2) calibration scheme are provided. Transceiver calibration schemes to compensate for DC offsets produced by interfering signals may be performed during production testing or field operation. During production testing, an external source may inject a blocker...

20060094387 - Method and system for a second order input intercept point (iip2) correction: In RF transceivers a method and system for process, voltage, and temperature (PVT) measurement and calibration are provided. A nominal DC offset current may be generated at a nominal temperature and may be based on a calibration voltage. A nominal transconductance parameter may be determined based on the nominal DC...

20060094388 - Method and system for single sideband mixing receiver architecture for improving signal quality: Certain embodiments of the invention may be found in a method and system for single sideband mixing receiver architecture for improving signal quality in an RF communication system. An embodiment of the invention may mix a first input signal with a first local oscillator signal, via a first mixer, to...

20060094390 - Method and system for a dual mode receiver with low intermediate frequency (if) and zero second if: In RF transceivers, a method and system for a dual mode receiver with low intermediate frequency (IF) and zero second IF are provided. An RF receivers may be adapted to operate in a low IF down conversion mode or a baseband down conversion mode. A control signal may be generated...

20060094389 - Push-pull amplifier and frequency converter circuit: As an output amplifier of a frequency converter circuit, a push-pull amplifier that allows operating with a small consumption current and providing a high gain is used. Further, the push-pull amplifier is configured to have a voltage drop circuit to lower the collector potential of the upper transistor to the...

20060094391 - Method and system for an analog zero-if interface for gsm receivers: Certain embodiments for an analog zero-IF interface for GSM receivers, where a receiver may receive RF signals and downconvert the RF signal to a VLIF signal in the analog domain. The VLIF signal may be further downconverted to a baseband signal in the analog domain. The baseband signal may be...

20060094392 - Backscatter receiver maintaining sensitivity with varying power levels: A method and apparatus for maintaining sensitivity of a homodyne receiver over varying transmitter power levels is disclosed. The method includes adjusting output power levels of a transmitter driver. A bias supply voltage to the transmitter driver may be adjusted to adjust the output power levels. A control voltage to...

20060094393 - High frequency module: A high frequency module comprises: a switch circuit connected to two antenna terminals; a diplexer connected to two reception signal terminals and the switch circuit; and a diplexter connected to two transmission signal terminals and the switch circuit. Each of the diplexers incorporates two band-pass filters and a low-pass filter....

20060094394 - High-frequency amplifier having simple circuit structure and television tuner using high-frequency amplifier: A high-frequency amplifier includes first and second amplifying stages disposed in parallel for amplifying VHF/UHF television signals. The first amplifying stage includes a first FET and a second FET of a grounded-gate type connected in series between a common input terminal and a first output terminal to which a VHF-signal...

20060094395 - Local oscillator feedthrough cancellation scheme to remove rf and baseband offsets: An scheme to provide local oscillator feedthrough offset cancellation to remove baseband and radio frequency coupled offsets. Two separate offset cancellation currents are injected at a driver which drives a baseband signal into a mixer to mix with a local oscillator signal. One offset cancellation current cancels a baseband local...

20060094396 - Apparatus and method for connecting an emergency call: An apparatus and method for connecting an emergency call with a wireless communication device. An initial direct transfer message with an emergency cause can be sent on an existing radio resource control connection. A cell change order can be received. Alternately, a connection release message with a call redirection cause...

20060094397 - Apparatus and method for connecting an emergency call: An apparatus and method for connecting an emergency call with a wireless communication device. An initial direct transfer message with an emergency cause can be sent on an existing radio resource control connection. A cell change order can be received. Alternately, a connection release message with a call redirection cause...

20060094398 - Methods and apparatus for flexible communication device usage attribution: A technique for providing flexible communication device usage attribution is provided. Identification information of a user of a communication device is received from the communication device at a primary service provider. It is determined if the user of the communication device is the owner of the communication device at the...

20060094399 - Asset security system application using mobile station having an integrated transponder reader: A method of operating a mobile station (301) is provided in which the mobile station (301) may receive data from transponders corresponding to a set of items such as a brief case (305), wallet (307) and suit case (309). The mobile station (301) may then compare the transponder data to...

20060094400 - System and method for filtering access points presented to a user and locking onto an access point: The present invention filters access points presented to a user and locks onto an access point. The present invention includes an access point filtering unit and an access point locking unit. The access point filtering unit determines the access points that are accessible by a client device and then filters...

20060094403 - Arrangement and a method relating to ip network access: The present invention relates to an arrangement and a method respectively for providing an end user with access to an IP network (login). It comprises a user station, an access server of an access network, a web server and an authentication server. The end user station comprises first means for...

20060094401 - Method and apparatus for authentication of mobile devices: A method and apparatus for authentication in a wireless communication network is disclosed. A secret is shared between a mobile device and a home device. When a mobile device requests a connection to a remote device and the remote device does not have knowledge of the shared secret, the remote...

20060094402 - Security monitoring method in bluetooth device: Disclosed is a security monitoring method in a Bluetooth device, the method including detecting transmission or reception of a predetermined monitor-target message when a user device is in a connection-available or authentication-available scan mode enabling a user to recognize the occurrence of the monitor-target message; and recording log information about...

20060094404 - Communications control method and apparatus: A communications controller is provided for empowering the user of a communications device, such as a telephone or other device, to assume control over incoming communications. This communications controller is based on artificial intelligence and behavior modeling techniques. Each communication is identified by unique identification information associated with an incoming...

20060094407 - Cellular media message forwarding: A system and method for communicating a message. Various aspects of the present invention may comprise determining whether a communication link between a sender's communication device and a recipient's communication device is presently available. If it is determined that a communication link between the sender's communication device and the recipient's...

20060094409 - Method and apparatus for interactive audience participation at a live entertainment event: A method and apparatus provide interactive audience participation at live entertainment events. Enjoyment for a plurality of participants is enhanced. Participants employ wireless interactive devices that present a promotional message and include user input and output interfaces. Participants are queried, and enter answers via the user input interface. The answers...

20060094406 - Method for advertising on digital cellular telephones and reducing costs to the end user: The present invention relates to a method for displaying messages, such as advertisements, consumer promotions, and customer service announcements, on digital wireless communication devices, such as digital cellular telephones, comprising the steps of creating at least one visual advertising message, or other desirable information, in the form of an information...

20060094408 - Method of counting the number of multimedia broadcasting multicast service subscribers: The present invention discloses a method of counting the number of MBMS subscribers, comprising: setting different types of notifications, each of which is designed to instruct UEs in at least one mode to respond said counting number of subscribers; the network side issuing different types of notifications, so as to...

20060094405 - Mobile station service applications using service kiosk with transponder: In a first embodiment of the present invention, a mobile station (101) interrogates an RFID tag (127) located on a service kiosk (129) and receives data. The mobile station (101) parses the data to obtain a server (123) address and information identifying a service offered by the kiosk (129), and...

20060094410 - Method for advertising on digital cellular telephones and reducing costs to the end user: The present invention relates to a method for displaying messages, such as advertisements, on digital wireless communication devices, such as digital cellular telephones, comprising the steps of creating at least one visual advertising message in the form of an information file for display on a digital wireless communication device, valuating...

20060094411 - Mobile station telephony service applications for mobile station having integrated transponder readers: In an embodiment of the present invention, a mobile station (301) interrogates an RFID tag (305) which may be located on a desk top phone (303), or an advertising billboard, and receives data. The mobile station (301) parses the data to obtain a telephone number, which may be an IP...

20060094413 - Application protocol identification: Networks, methods, and devices are provided for handling a session in a telecommunications network. One method embodiment includes receiving a service request to a network device. The service request is associated with a service application. The method includes identifying a protocol type to handle the session based on a database...

20060094414 - Management server and mobile terminal: A management server includes a determination unit and a notification unit. The determination unit determines a communication network to which a mobile terminal connectable to a plurality of the communication networks by one telephone number is connecting. The notification unit issues a notice on the communication network connecting to the...

20060094412 - System and method for restricting functionality of a mobile device: There is provided a mobile device (102) comprising a wireless communication transceiver (202), a radio frequency identification reader (228) and a processor (204) configured to manage operation of the wireless communication transceiver (202) and the radio frequency identification reader (228), and a method thereof. The wireless communication transceiver (202) is...

20060094415 - Selective disablement of mobile communication equipment capabilities: Network services and/or network capabilities in a mobile terminal operating in a mobile communications system are selectively enabled. This involves receiving an information element encoded to indicate whether each of a number of network services and/or network capabilities is enabled or disabled. The information element is then stored in the...

20060094418 - Communicating signals according to a quality indicator and a time boundary indicator: One or more quality indicators are established at a first communication device having antenna elements. The quality indicators indicate a quality of one or more communication links between the first communication device and one or more second communication devices. A modification is determined according to the quality indicators, where the...

20060094416 - Mobile communication terminal test system capable of visually recognizing communication condition and response signal: A test procedure control unit outputs control information including time setting information in order to carry out a transition test of a connection state of a mobile communication terminal of a cellular system. In accordance with the control information, a transmission/reception unit generates a plurality of test signals including predetermined...

20060094417 - Systems and methods for handling information from wireless nodes, including nodes for communication with aircraft: Systems and methods for handling information from wireless nodes, including nodes for communication with aircraft, are disclosed. A system in accordance with one aspect of the invention includes a sensor configured to sense information corresponding to a characteristic of a wireless node. The wireless node can be one of a...

20060094419 - Data backup system and method for mobile communication terminal, mobile communication terminal and backup device used for same, and backup data transmission method: A data backup system and a data backup method for backing up data stored in a mobile communication terminal to a backup device via a communication network, capable of optimizing network traffic as well as improving the selectivity of backup data to thereby improve convenience for the user, a mobile...

20060094420 - Multi frequency band/multi air interface/multi spectrum reuse cluster size/multi cell size satellite radioterminal communicaitons systems and methods: Satellite radioterminal communications systems, methods and components thereof, can use multiple frequency segments of at least one satellite frequency band, multiple air interfaces, multiple spectrum reuse cluster sizes and/or multiple geographic cell sizes. For example, a space-based component is configured to communicate with first radioterminals in first satellite cells over...

20060094421 - System and method for over the air provisioning of a single pdp context mobile communications device: A mobile communications device includes logic means operable to establish a first data to transmit a request for parameters to a first network node and receive a response by the first network node including the parameters. The mobile communications device also has logic means operable to automatically releasing the first...

20060094422 - Internal cavity surveillance system (icss): This document will describe and relate a new, improved, and innovative “virtual” all-inclusive system/process of total connectivity. This connectivity can be achieved under the umbrella of my invention titled Internal Cavity System (ICSS). The object here is to improve/combine these components—as well as creating new products to enhance ICSS's development—into...

20060094423 - Method and apparatus for providing managed roaming service in a wireless network: A managed roaming application is provided within a wireless network to intercept roaming registration, or location update, requests. The managed roaming application performs call logic routines on these requests. The implementation of such routines facilitates improved management of roaming service for the service provider....

20060094424 - System and method for hlr inquiry: A method and system for facilitating HLR access includes receiving a query request from a query entity, processing the query request to yield an SS7 request message, dispatching the SS7 request message to a HLR, receiving an SS7 response message from the HLR, constructing a query response, and returning the...

20060094427 - Network selection in gan environment: In one embodiment, a scheme is provided for network discovery and selection by a user equipment (UE) device that is operable in wide area cellular network (WACN) bands as well as in wireless access network bands. In particular, the UE device is operable to select a WACN that is accessible...

20060094425 - Recharging apparatus: An energy harvesting circuit has an active automatic tuning circuit to search for broadcast frequencies in a band of interest and selecting only those broadcast signals received with sufficient RF strength to be used in energy harvesting. This circuit would provide power storage devices with a circuit that has a...

20060094426 - Wireless communication system and method: A wireless communication system and method that can operate without relying on fixed infrastructure, such as fixed base stations and mobile terminal switching offices (MTSOs), of prior art cellular communication systems. In one embodiment of the invention, a SOWC protocol is used based on de novo creation of communication pathways...

20060094428 - Handset register system and method: A handset register system allowing a user to enter register data through a register menu on a handset to perform register process in a customer service center includes a user database and a receiving device. The user database stores the register data of a plurality of users. The receiving device...

20060094429 - Multiple personality telephony devices: A mobile device supports concurrent registrations of different wireless personalities with one or more service provider networks. Potentially using a single wireless interface, the mobile device can register and maintain multiple personalities and monitor for notifications targeted to any one of these personalities....

20060094431 - Method, system and mobile station for handing off communications from a cellular radio access network to an unlicensed mobile access network: A method, system and mobile station for handing off communications from a cellular radio access network, such as a code division multiple access (CDMA) radio access network, to an unlicensed mobile access network (UMAN) are provided. The handoff may be effected by a signaling sequence between the mobile station, an...

20060094430 - Wireless mobile station call handoff: Communication handoff in a radio telecommunications network in which a quality measurement between a mobile wireless device and a first fixed transceiving entity in the radio telecommunications network is obtained in readiness for potentially handing off the communication. A quality driven handoff is initiated when the quality measurement falls within...

20060094433 - Fast handover with reduced service interruption for high speed data channels in a wireless system: A method is provided for controlling a wireless communications system. The method comprises communicating data to a first base station, and selecting a switchover time for ceasing communications with the first base station and beginning communications with a second base station. The switchover time is based on channel conditions associated...

20060094432 - Handoff method for mobile communication system: A method of performing a handoff in a mobile communication system includes measuring signal strength of signals received by a mobile station from an active base station and comparing the measured signal strength of the active base station with a first threshold value. If the measured signal strength of the...

20060094434 - Method and a system of sharing resources: Disclosed are a method and a system of sharing resources between operators in cellular mobile communication networks, wherein each operator comprises its own dedicated resource. The particularity of the present invention lies in that for a new connection, i.e. an incoming call and/or a handover, a serving operator (A) is...

20060094435 - Method and apparatus for channel feedback: A method for communicating channel estimates on a plurality of subcarriers between a transmitting device and a receiving device. The transmitting device determines a channel estimates on a plurality of subcarriers and then encodes the channel estimates into at least one encoded channel waveform. Then the transmitting device transmits the...

20060094436 - System and method for assigning a sub-channel in a bwa communication system: A method for requesting a Base Station (BS) to assign a sub-channel by a Subscriber Station (SS) in a Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) communication system including the SS and the BS, the BS assigning the sub-channel to the SS by a predetermined scheme. The method includes determining by the SS...

20060094437 - Method, apparatus and system for redistribution of mobile stations to different channels: Method and apparatus for enhanced selection of a channel for use in redistributing mobile stations to various frequencies in a communication system. In one aspect, the method appends a redistribution alteration record to a common channel redistribution message. The redistribution alteration record alters the sequencing of the mobile station when...

20060094439 - Method for assessment of a coverage of a cellular network system: For assessment of a coverage of a cellular network system, in particular a CDMA cellular network system, at least one present quality value of the network system is measured at a predetermined location, under a present load of the network system. As well, at least one required quality value of...

20060094438 - System and method for determining user-perceived holes in wireless communication coverage areas: There are disclosed systems and methods for inferring “holes” in wireless communication coverage areas. These holes are determined based on the user's view of coverage at various locations within geographical areas covered by a broadcast signal. In one embodiment, the wireless coverage area is a cellular network and the holes...

20060094440 - Method for multicast load balancing in wireless lans: A method for multicast load balancing in a wireless network having a plurality of access points. The method includes setting a maximum Internet protocol multicast bandwidth for the access points, receiving an admissions control request from a client at one of the access points, and determining whether the admissions control...

20060094441 - Method, subscriber device and radio communication system for transmitting user data messages: A method is provided for transmitting user data messages from a network element of a radio communication system via at least one transmission channel to at least one subscriber terminal of the radio communication system, whereby the form of the user data messages is announced before the transmission thereof via...

20060094442 - Wireless/wired mobile communication device with option to automatically block wireless communication when connected for wired communication: A mobile wireless communication device also has at least one wired communication port. Enhanced security is achieved by permitting the device to automatically disable one or more wireless ports when connected to a wired port. Specific combinations/permutations of such automatic control may be effected by use of an IT Policy...

20060094443 - Geographical web browser, methods, apparatus and systems: A geographical web browser allows a user to navigate a network application such as the Word Wide Web by physically navigating in geographical coordinates. For example, a geographical web browser is implemented in a mobile unit such as a dashboard computer. The mobile unit includes one or more transducers such...

20060094444 - Intelligent network interface: The present invention provides methods and apparatus for interconnecting disparate communications systems. A call request that originates from a communications network is directed to a network interface. The network interface consequently redirects the call request to a communications entity, such as a radio or a cellular radio system that serves...

20060094445 - Method and apparatus of restricting data access: Disclosed are method and apparatus of restricting a data access. In particular, disclosed are method and apparatus for restricting an access to downloaded data to be possible only in permitted area or permitted time. A method for restricting data access of the invention, comprising: downloading data having information about an...

20060094446 - Method for limiting quantity of location information request flows in location service: Disclosed is a method for restricting Location request flow in location service, related to flow control technique. The method includes: after receiving Location request sent by LCS Client, LCS Server verifying whether the number of current Location request task is more than Maximum Location request task, if yes, LCS Server...

20060094447 - System and method for using location information to execute an action: Provided are methods for executing an action in response to a request for a service using location information in conjunction with service-specific parameters. A user may request a provider of a specified service (e.g., taxi, plumber, pharmacist, etc.). In evaluating the request, providers may be evaluated based on the location...

20060094448 - Unified object transfer for multiple wireless transfer mechanisms: A source wireless device is capable of transmitting items over a wireless network using a number of different wireless transfer mechanism such as, for example, Infra-Red (IR) or Bluetooth. Several potential destination wireless devices may be capable of receiving the item using at least one of the different wireless transfer...

20060094449 - Method and apparatus for preventing communication link degradation due to the disengagement or movement of a self-positioning transceiver: A method and apparatus for preventing the degradation of a communication link formed by a plurality of self-positioning transceivers when at least one of the transceivers changes position and/or disengages from the link. When it is determined that at least one of the transceivers is moving or is going to...

20060094450 - Method for controlling an operation mode of a mobile terminal in a broadband wireless access communication system: A method for controlling an operation mode of a terminal in a broadband wireless access communication system. In the method, the operation modes of the terminal is subdivided, such that it is possible to effectively reduce power consumption of the terminal. In particular, the method allows the terminal to operate...

20060094451 - Method of setting phone number of mobile communication terminals: A method of setting a phone number of a plurality of mobile communication terminals is disclosed, by which a mobile telecommunication service can be supported in a manner of employing a single representative phone number for a plurality of the mobile communication terminals possessed by one subscriber and in which...

20060094452 - Cell selecting apparatus in mobile communication terminal and method thereof: The present invention provides a mobile communications terminal that may comprise: a transceiver to send and receive signals with a serving cell and one or more neighboring cells; a memory to store characteristic parameter values related to the signals; and a controller cooperating with the transceiver and the memory to...

20060094453 - Apparatus and method for setting multimedia items using an mms message in a mobile terminal: Provided is an apparatus and method for setting multimedia using a Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) message in a mobile terminal. The apparatus includes an encoder for encoding data for a multimedia setup item into an MMS message; and a controller for providing the multimedia setup item, controlling the encoder to...

20060094454 - System and method for sending internet message in mobile communication terminal: A method and system for sending and posting a message in a mobile communication environment, are discussed. In one embodiment, the system for positing a message includes a first terminal configured to send a message with a destination number and message access level information, and a server configured to post...

20060094455 - Method and system for setting application settings for a push-to-talk service: A Multimedia system and a method in a Multimedia system where a first user with user equipment (1) uses a Push to talk service (PTT) to communicate with at least one second subscriber's user equipment (2) using said Push to talk service (PTT), wherein a PTT-server (3) providing the PTT-service...

20060094456 - Device and method for service discovery in adhoc networks using beacon signalling: A wireless communication device (101) for direct communication with one or more near-proximity devices (111, 113) to form an adhoc network is provided. The wireless communication device comprises a transceiver (201) configured to send, via wireless link, a beacon signal. The beacon signal includes a device identifier (305) and a...

20060094459 - Method and apparatus for mitigating power-control error during a soft handoff in a wireless communication system: A plurality of base stations (600) are programmed (702) with a uniform power-control bit pattern to be sent to a mobile unit during a plurality of power-control bit times, before the mobile unit is acquired on a reverse link. The plurality of base stations are further arranged and programmed to...

20060094460 - Method and apparatus for performing fast power control in a mobile communication system: A method and apparatus for controlling transmission power levels in a mobile communication system. The method provides for a closed-loop power control method. A mobile station provides information on the quality of the signal received from the base station, and the base station responds by adjusting the power allocated to...

20060094458 - Wireless communication module, communication terminal, and impedance matching method: A wireless communication module for engaging in communications with a base station, the wireless communication module being incorporated into an information device having an antenna, includes a transmitter, a transmission power being controlled by the base station; variable impedance matching section arranged between an antenna connector connected to the antenna...

20060094457 - Wireless communication terminal with power delay function: A wireless communication terminal with a power delay function is provided to prevent a power-on of the terminal by an external force rather than by a user's intention by delaying a time taken to apply a power using a power delay circuit (e.g., capacitor having a large capacitance value). The...

20060094461 - Dual mode human interface device: A dual mode human interface device (HID) includes a wireless interface for wireless communication with a host computer; a wired interface for wired communication with the host computer; and a processor coupled with the wireless interface and the wired interface for transferring data between the HID and the host computer,...

20060094465 - Method and apparatus for compensating an oscillator in a location-enabled wireless device: A method and apparatus for compensating an oscillator in a location-enabled wireless device is described. In an example, a mobile device includes a wireless receiver for receiving wireless signals and a GPS receiver for receiving GPS signals. The mobile device also includes an oscillator having an associated temperature model. A...

20060094462 - Method and system for exchanging data between a mobile phone and a pc: User information such as address books, calendars, images, ring tones, and the like may be exchanged between a mobile device such as, for example, a mobile phone and a personal computer, using an enhanced or extended version of an AT command set. Client code in the mobile device and application...

20060094463 - Multiprocessing apparatus for a wireless terminal and method thereof: A multiprocessing apparatus for a wireless terminal capable of implementing a direct access mode between internal processors of a wireless terminal and a method thereof. An operation signal processor is provided between a main processor and an application processor to enable a direct memory access mode for the application processor...

20060094464 - Portable terminal apparatus with tv function and tv antenna with function as input pen: A portable terminal apparatus with TV function and a TV antenna with function as an input pen, in which the TV antenna is integrated with the input pen for the touch panel while ensuring sufficient sensitivity so that the internal space of the apparatus is effectively utilized, thus rendering the...

20060094467 - Methods and apparatus for implementing telemetry applications on a subscriber identity module: Embodiments of the invention provide methods and apparatuses for implementing telemetry applications with the SIM card of a mobile equipment. For one embodiment of the invention the telemetry application allows the encoding of TAD within a supplementary services message and transmission of the TAD over a control channel of a...

20060094466 - Systems and methods for providing expansion to wireless communicators: An add-on circuit for expanding the functionality of a wireless telephone includes an expansion board adapted to be plugged into an expansion port of the wireless telephone; an expansion circuit mounted on the expansion board; and computer code executed by the wireless telephone to retrieve information from the expansion circuit...

20060094468 - Base station apparatus and communication terminal apparatus: A directivity control section 103 performs weight control over a received signal using channel estimation and optimum weights, performs processing such as generation of the received signal and generates a plurality of weight-controlled transmission signals. A received signal demodulation section 104 extracts an SIR measurement result from the received signal....

20060094469 - Broadcast information transmission: In a mobile communication system, broadcast information is transmitted from a radio base station to a mobile station. A transmission power calculation unit calculates the transmission power for transmitting resending data frames from the radio base station to the mobile station by a unicast transmission method. The transmission power calculation...

20060094470 - Communications system and method: A signal distribution system for distributing signals, such as for outdoor wireless networks, comprises a number of remote hubs, each of which can direct wireless signals to a number of antennas. The antennas are used to provide wireless service to the service users, such as mobile units, within their geographic...

20060094471 - Dielectric loaded cavity filters for applications in proximity to the antenna: A dielectric-based RF device such as a tower mounted amplifier (TMA), mast-head amplifier (MHA), or Tower Mounted Boosters (TMB) includes a housing having a plurality of cavities and an input and an output, the input being coupled to the antenna and the output being coupled to a base station. The...

20060094472 - Intelligent codec selection to optimize audio transmission in wireless communications: An optimal compressor/decompressor (codec) module is intelligently selected for use when transmitting audio from a mobile communication device to a recipient. The codec can be selected based on the type of the audio data or the characteristics of the recipient. The codec can also be selected based on whether the...

20060094473 - Telematics hotlining process: A system and method of providing service for a Telematics communication device includes a first step of providing a vehicular radiotelephone communication system including a cellular radiotelephone network for connecting the communication device with a service operator. The communication device includes a controller pre-programmed with a hotlined analog telephone number...

20060094475 - Method and means for decreasing the peak to average power ratio in mobile phones: A method for improving the output signal of a mobile terminal, in particular a UMTS mobile terminal, comprises the steps of clipping said signal for decreasing its peak to average power ratio to a predefined threshold; submitting said clipped signal to a power amplifier designed to amplify the clipped signal....

20060094474 - Mobile digital communication/computing device having a context sensitive audio system: A mobile client device, such as a wireless mobile or a palm sized personal digital assistant, is provided with at least a first and second audio resources and companion programming instructions/circuitry to generate various audio signals in a more context sensitive manner, while multi-media resources are being utilized. The instructions/circuitry...

20060094476 - Fast synchronization functionality for wireless access points: A method for synchronizing a mobile station includes exiting a low power state to provide a wireless network and obtaining an identity and a last known power state of the mobile station from a station list. The mobile station is polled based on the last known power state and noted...

20060094478 - Mobile power handling method and apparatus: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for determining when power saving functions are not beneficial to a mobile communication device and then limiting or inhibiting the use of power saving functions. Information received either from an external entity or information stored in the mobile communication device is utilized...

20060094477 - Power saving system and method: A power saving method (10) in a wireless device having a short range communication link with a host device can include the steps of establishing the short range communication link with the host device (14), establishing at least one function of the wireless device in the host device (16), and...

20060094480 - Mobile terminal and display control method thereof: A mobile terminal in which the user can manipulate the pointer easily without keystrokes or any pointing device. When the select button of an input unit is depressed, a tilt sensor provided with an accelerometer detects the tilt of a mobile terminal from a reference angle. Based on the tilt...

20060094479 - Personal communications and cosmetics apparatus: A portable personal communications and cosmetics apparatus (1) comprising a base unit (2) having side walls with cavities (17a-f) therein for receiving removable cosmetics products (18a-f) and a mobile phone unit (3) mounted, e.g. removably, on the base unit (2)....

20060094481 - Earphone and microphone adapter: An earphone and microphone adapter consists of a housing, with a cellular telephone interface on the housing connecting a cellular telephone with an audio circuit. Audio input to the audio circuit received via the cellular telephone interface passes through the audio circuit to an earphone interface where it can be...

20060094482 - Bi-axial swivel mechanism in electronic apparatus: A support shaft is received in a socket for relative rotation. A first hollow space penetrates through the support shaft. A first hollow member extends in a first direction from the tip end of the support shaft. The first hollow member defines a second hollow space extending in the first...

20060094483 - Mobile terminal: In a mobile terminal capable of preventing its breakage or damage by absorbing a shock of a contact between a folder and a main body in unfolding or folding of the folder by installing a buffer member to contact portions of the folder and the main body, a mobile terminal...

20060094486 - Apparatus and method for matching an antenna of a mobile communication terminal: An apparatus for matching an antenna of a mobile communication terminal is disclosed. The apparatus comprises antenna matching units for connecting to the antenna, and a path controller connecting at least one of the antenna matching units between the antenna and an internal circuit unit for measuring power emission values...

20060094485 - Method and apparatus for preventing communication link degradation due to the detrimental orientation of a mobile station: A method and apparatus for preventing communication link degradation due to wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) position changes and detrimental orientation. When it is determined that at least one of a plurality of WTRUs in a communication link is moving or is going to move, the radio frequency (RF) beam pattern...

20060094484 - Mobile communication terminal: A mobile phone unit is provided in which a characteristic of an antenna is improved and SAR is reduced without lowering an antenna gain during communication. An antenna 26 (electrical length λ/4), an antenna connection conductive member 22 (electrical length λ/4) that is a circuit board connected to the antenna...