Telecommunications inventions 06/06

20060141923 - Providing a multimedia message with a multimedia messaging service message in a mobile environment: The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for communicating a multimedia messaging service message from a source mobile device to a target mobile device in a telecommunications network. The method comprises receiving a request for a multimedia message and associating the multimedia message to the multimedia messaging service...

20060141924 - Stand-alone digital radio mondiale receiver device: A wireless electronic device receives a digital broadcast data stream above 150 kilohertz, using a digital receiver. The device has a visual output unit for displaying or causing to be displayed a digital image or text received via the broadcast data stream. A user input device enables a user to...

20060141926 - Call rejections and reminders in order to enhance enjoyment of media items: A mobile station rejects an incoming call. A call initiation signal associated with the incoming call is received from the second mobile station. It is determined whether the mobile station is in a given one of two or more predetermined communication states with a media player, wherein the given predetermined...

20060141925 - Hands-free adaptor: An apparatus (100) suitable for connecting a communications device or other audio/audio-visual device to an audio system comprises a cassette-type audio adaptor (102) having receiver means for receiving audio and/or data signals transmitted from the device or the like and connecting means (120) connecting the receiver means to a head...

20060141927 - Mobile communication terminal, base station and registration control method: A mobile communication terminal, base station and registration control method are capable of preemptively preventing congestion between a mobile communication terminal and a wireless base station distributing multicast content. The mobile communication terminal judges whether or not a restriction is applied (Step S12) or a partial restriction (partially restricted) is...

20060141928 - Radio terminal, method for producing communication packet, and computer-readable recording medium: In a radio communication system, a radio terminal for communicating with a plurality of radio terminals via repeaters is allowed simplified inputting of identification information of other radio terminals. The radio terminal used in the communication system in which communication is performed between a plurality of radio terminals via repeaters...

20060141929 - Cellular communication system: Methods and apparatus for improving the performance of a conventional cellular telephone system. In a conventional system, a base station (12) located in a cell (10) both sends and receives signals to and from handheld phones (14). In one embodiment, the present invention employs a relay transceiver (18) located in...

20060141930 - Aircraft in-flight entertainment system including low power transceivers and associated methods: An aircraft in-flight entertainment (IFE) system includes an antenna, an external communications transceiver connected to the antenna for communicating external the aircraft, and a plurality of seat electronic boxes (SEBs) spaced throughout the aircraft for distributing entertainment related data. A distribution network is connected to the SEBs and to the...

20060141931 - Method for exchanging data between field devices: A method for exchanging data between field devices used in automation technology. The method permits data exchange via radio waves in addition to a data exchange via a field bus. This permits a more rapid data exchange, which is not restricted by the protocol control of the field bus....

20060141932 - Method and system for identifying coverage gaps in a wireless infrastructure: Described is a system which includes a wireless arrangement and a mobile unit. The mobile unit includes a wireless transducer and a data acquisition arrangement (“DAA”). The DAA obtains identification data from a marker which is situated on a permanent fixture at a predetermined location. The wireless transducer sends a...

20060141933 - Channel estimation for interference cancellation: A method and system for interference cancellation (IC). One aspect relates to traffic interference cancellation. Another aspect relates to joint IC for pilot, overhead and data. Another aspect relates to improved channel estimation. Another aspect relates to adaptation of transmit subchannel gains....

20060141935 - Joint interference cancellation of pilot, overhead and traffic channels: A method and system for interference cancellation (IC). One aspect relates to traffic interference cancellation. Another aspect relates to joint IC for pilot, overhead and data. Another aspect relates to improved channel estimation. Another aspect relates to adaptation of transmit subchannel gains....

20060141934 - Traffic interference cancellation: A method and system for interference cancellation (IC). One aspect relates to traffic interference cancellation. Another aspect relates to joint IC for pilot, overhead and data. Another aspect relates to improved channel estimation. Another aspect relates to adaptation of transmit subchannel gains....

20060141936 - Diversity system for measuring reception quality: To assist an operator to position a wireless camera (CSF) so that a base station (SB) receives with good quality a radiofrequency signal (S) transmitted from a transmitter (EC) linked to the camera, several measurers (M1-MK) linked to diversity receivers (R1-RK) of the signal each determine whether a characteristic of...

20060141937 - Method of test characterization of an analog front end receiver in a communication system: A multi-port transceiver includes a transmitter and receiver for each port. The invention is a test method and apparatus for testing individual components in the transmit and receive paths. Specifically, the invention includes a method of testing the full range of a programmable gain amplifier (PGA) and an analog to...

20060141938 - System including a communication apparatus having a digital audio interface for audio testing with radio isolation: A system includes a communication apparatus coupled to a test subsystem through a converter. The test subsystem may be configured to initiate an audio test of the communication apparatus and receive in response a set of audio test data at a predetermined constant data rate. The communication apparatus may be...

20060141939 - Mobile communications system and control technique thereof: Each mobile terminal and/or radio base station determines whether a radio base station transmits radio waves of excessive power. Based on determination results obtained by a plurality of mobile terminals and/or radio base stations, a radio-system management server determines whether a certain radio base station transmits radio waves of excessive...

20060141940 - Intelligent bridge between pstn and asynchronous communication channel: An intelligent communications bridge device (“Meterpod”) of a remote Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system advantageously facilitates monitoring, reporting and control of public utility meters. The Meterpod is an intelligent gateway that installs onto existing metering and monitoring equipment and provides a wireless communications link from the remote equipment...

20060141941 - Method and system for establishing a communication network: A communication device is provided having a transceiver adapted to send and receive wireless communication signals and a contact surface. A contact circuit is adapted to detect contact of another communication device with said contact surface. A controller is adapted to enable communication only between the communication device and detected...

20060141942 - Wireless stereo synchronizaing transceiver: A wireless stereo synchronizing transceiver is disclosed to include a receiving processing unit having a mixer circuit, a transmitting processing unit, which has a stereo modulating mixing circuit and a first voltage control oscillator circuit connected to the stereo modulating mixing circuit, and a synchronizing processing unit, which has a...

20060141944 - Antenna sharing device and wireless communication terminal using the same: A compact, inexpensive antenna sharing device meeting requirements in terms of transmitter distortion characteristic and ESD characteristic is provided which separates and combines signals transmitted and received in first to third signal bands and which thereby enables an antenna terminal to be shared as a common terminal. It includes a...

20060141943 - Transmit and receive antenna switch: Antenna switches (1,10) in dual-band or multi-band mobile phones are according to a basic idea provided with a serial semiconductor switches (11,21,12,22) per transmitting branch (2,3) and with a further semiconductor switch (13,23) coupled in parallel to a receiving branch (4,5,6), to obtain isolation between branches (2-6) in a simple...

20060141945 - Mobile communication terminal and method therefor: A mobile communication apparatus including a user interface UI, a processor, and one or more sensors is disclosed. The one or more sensors are arranged to provide one or more signals, and the processor is arranged to present a warning depending on the one or more signals through the UI....

20060141946 - Communication apparatus having a standard serial communication interface compatible with radio isolation: A communication apparatus including a digital processing circuit coupled to a radio frequency (RF) circuit and to a serial communications device. The serial communications device may be configured to buffer data communicated between the digital processing circuit and an external device. A portion of the serial communications device may be...

20060141948 - Adjustable steering mechanism for radio frequency toy controller: A controller for a radio-controlled toy, comprising a housing, a first interface disposed on a first side of the housing, a second interface disposed on a second side of the housing, and a steering wheel having a steering shaft, the steering shaft being adapted to be inserted into either of...

20060141947 - Computer implemented methods and computer program products for evaluating radio communications systems: A computer implemented method is disclosed, for modeling a frequency assignment for a radio communications system, comprising a plurality of radio transmitters. The method comprises assigning a frequency to one of said plurality of radio transmitters based on a probability of said radio transmitter being assigned a predetermined frequency. Also...

20060141950 - Method and apparatus for controlling mimo system using single serial programming interface: A method and apparatus for controlling a multi-input multi-output (MIMO) radio frequency (RF) transceiver having a plurality of RF blocks using a single serial programming interface (SPI) are provided. The MIMO system includes: a MIMO transceiver, having one or more input and output units and a serial interface conversion unit...

20060141949 - Method and apparatus to increase the diversity order for a multi-carrier fdm system: A transmitter operates to increase a diversity order of a multi-carrier frequency division multiplex (MC-FDM) system. The transmitter has at least two transmit antennas and circuitry to provide at least two of the MC system frequency sub-carriers to different ones of the at least two transmit antennas....

20060141951 - Transmission diversity systems: A time-varying transformation is used to correlate the magnitude of the interference between multiple antenna paths. Embodiments incorporating the time-varying transformations provide transmit diversity gains to remote stations that are not configured for transmit diversity reception. In addition, some of the embodiments can be further configured to balance the load...

20060141953 - Method and apparatus for a dedicated physical channel in a wireless communication system: Method and apparatus for determining a transmission configuration for a dedicated channel in a wireless communication system. In one embodiment, an optimum configuration is determined based on minimizing Peak-to-Average Ratio (PAR) of the channel. The configuration is defined as a transmission pair of transmission branch and spreading code. The transmission...

20060141952 - Multi-mode modulator and transmitter: The present invention relates generally to communications, and more specifically to a method and apparatus of modulating baseband and RF (radio frequency) signals. A modulator topology is disclosed in which an input signal x(t) is up-converted to an output signal y(t), either by mixing it with two mixing signals φ1...

20060141954 - Slice based architecture for a multifunction radio: An electronic radio system multifunction slice (100) for a electronic radio system (400). The slice (100) includes an antenna interface (102), several multi-band transceivers. (106-112), a processor (104), and an avionics interface (114). The antenna interface (102) couples to the antenna preconditioners of the aircraft. The processor (104) is coupled...

20060141955 - Data transmission method, base station and transmitter for compensating for non-linearities in a transmission chain: A transmitter compensates for the non-linearities within a transmission chain. The transmitter includes, for instance, a first forming device for forming, on the basis of at least one set of signal properties, at least one state expansion vector comprising quantities characterizing a signal. The transmitter includes a modifier for modifying...

20060141956 - Wireless device and wireless network system: When the communication channel is to be changed, a more optimal communication channel is determined by summing up the results of measuring communication states transmitted from individual wireless terminals A, B, and C and making a collective judgment. Weighting coefficients are set to the individual wireless terminals A, B, and...

20060141957 - Controlling q-factor of filters: The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for controlling a Q-factor for a filter. The method comprises stabilizing an active feedback to provide a variable feedback in a filter, varying the active feedback based on an input signal to the filter, and producing a desired Q-factor for the...

20060141959 - Multi-antenna receiving and processing circuit assembly: A multi-antenna receiving and processing circuit assembly is disclosed to include multiple antennas for receiving wireless signals, multiple pre-processing units respectively electrically connected to the antennas, a matching circuit electrically connected to the pre-processing units for matching signals from the pre-processing units into a matching signal, a post-processing unit electrically...

20060141958 - Non-resonant antennas embedded in wireless peripherals: A peripheral apparatus includes a housing, a semiconductor device, and an antenna. The peripheral apparatus generates and transmits radio frequency (RF) control signals to a host device. The semiconductor device is contained within the housing and generates the RF control signals. The antenna is fully contained within the semiconductor device...

20060141960 - Triggering an emergency mode in a radio communication system and methods thereof: A mobile communication device (106) comprising a transceiver (202), and a processor (203) coupled to the transceiver. The processor is programmed to enter (304) an emergency mode corresponding to an alteration type of an element of the mobile communication device, and process (306) messages according to the emergency mode....

20060141961 - Method and system for selective receiver shutdown: The invention concerns a method (400) and system (100) for selective receiver shutdown. The method can include the steps of—at a mobile communications unit (128)—receiving (412) and transmitting (412) over a traffic channel (500) that supports the transmission of at least voice signals and has a receive channel (514) and...

20060141962 - Selecting/acquiring desired multimedia content: A consumer electronics device comprises a receiver to receive a broadcast signal transmitted by a commercial broadcast radio station, a controller, and a communications interface. The broadcast radio signal comprises multimedia content that may be rendered to the user and information identifying the multimedia content. The controller generates a request...

20060141963 - Method and apparatus to reduce the jitter in wideband pll frequency synthesizers using noise attenuation: A noise attenuator loop filter for PLL applications that allows a full on-chip integration of the loop filter capacitors, while ensuring a low output clock phase noise (jitter) is disclosed. A voltage attenuator (A) is inserted between the loop filter (passive or active) and the controlled oscillator. The attenuator attenuates...

20060141964 - Variable gain amplifier device: A variable gain amplifier device controlled by a first gain control signal comprises a gain controlled amplifier having a gain and including a differential pair of first and second MOS type transistors configured to operate in a weak inversion region; and a control signal converter configured to convert the first...

20060141965 - System for dynamic control of automatic gain control take-over-point and method of operation: A receiver for processing a signal comprises a first amplifier circuit and a second amplifier circuit. The first amplifier circuit is operated in association with a first gain profile. The second amplifier circuit is operated in association with a second gain profile. The receiver further comprises a gain control circuit...

20060141967 - Frequency synthesizer for dual mode receiver: In a portable dual mode receiver circuit, a dual modulus clock system is provided which can, by selective use of integer division on a multiplied master clock, select specific channels with two different channel spacings in several different bands, providing power and space savings and achieving simplicity of operation....

20060141966 - Method and apparatus for generating a phase-locked output signal: A method and apparatus for generating a phase-locked output signal includes generating an intermediate signal phase locked to an input signal by frequency dividing the intermediate signal by a temporally-varying divide ratio sequence to generate a first feedback signal and phase comparing the first feedback signal with the input signal....

20060141968 - Wireless communication apparatus and wireless communication board: A wireless communication apparatus including: a plurality of transmitting/receiving sections which cooperate with each other to perform a wireless communication by the same communication method; a power supplying section which supplies power to the plurality of transmitting/receiving sections; and a switching section which switches between a mode in which only...

20060141969 - L1/l2 gps receiver: In a system and method for simultaneously receiving or switching between dual frequency carrier signals in a GPS receiver, the GPS receiver is adapted to utilize different harmonics of a sub-harmonic frequency generator, which may include a lower frequency voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) to detect the L1 and L2 GPS...

20060141970 - Three-phase mixer-system: Three-phase mixer-systems comprising at least three groups of mixers (1-4,5-8,9-12,30) for frequency translating signals are (basic idea) provided with balancing means (13-21,31) for suppressing certain mixing products with harmonics of the oscillator signal resulting from unbalance (insight). Said three groups of mixers (1-4,5-8,9-12) each comprise a group of switching transistors...

20060141971 - Method and apparatus for detection and classification of impairments on an rf modulated network: A method is disclosed for maintaining the integrity of a communication system. The method comprises detecting common path distortion (CPD) and periodic impulse/burst (PIB) noise in a received signal in the communication system. After isolating the CPD and PIB noise, ingress noise in the received signal is identified. Isolating the...

20060141973 - Digital architecture for radio-frequency apparatus and associated methods: A radio-frequency (RF) receiver includes a receiver analog circuitry and a receiver digital circuitry. The receiver analog circuitry resides within a first integrated circuit and the receiver digital circuitry resides within a second integrated circuit. The second integrated circuit couples to the first integrated circuit via a one-bit digital interface....

20060141972 - Signal processing device and direct conversion reception device: A base band signal input from an input terminal (10) has a DC component which is blocked off by a high pass filter (12). When the signal which has passed through the high pass filter (12) has a voltage out of a predetermined set voltage range, the signal of the...

20060141974 - Low if mixer with improved selectivity performance: A low IF mixer and method for down-converting a signal at a desired frequency are disclosed with improved selectivity performance. The energy of sidebands on each side of the desired frequency is evaluated; and a local oscillator frequency is selected based on the evaluation of the energy. Generally, the local...

20060141975 - Methods and systems for down-converting a signal using a complementary transistor structure: Methods, systems, and apparatuses for down-converting an electromagnetic (EM) signal by aliasing the EM signal are described herein. Briefly stated, such methods, systems, and apparatuses operate by receiving an EM signal and an aliasing signal having an aliasing rate. The EM signal is aliased according to the aliasing signal to...

20060141976 - Passive reflection mixer: In one aspect, a mixer that provides improved isolation between an input oscillator and a mixing cell. In another aspect, a mixer that includes circuitry operative to shape an input signal provided by a local oscillator....

20060141977 - Mixer and converter using same: A mixer, which is a single balanced mixer, includes an LO port for inputting an LO signal, an RF port for inputting an RF signal, an IF port for outputting an IF signal, a balun for converting an unbalanced signal into a balanced signal, and a pair of mixer diodes...

20060141978 - Compact radio frequency harmonic filter using integrated passive device technology: A radio frequency (“RF”) harmonic filter circuit as disclosed herein is fabricated using integrated passive device (“IPD”) technology. The RF harmonic filter circuit is configured to provide second, third, and fourth harmonic rejection while providing good input and output impedance matching. The RF harmonic filter circuit employs only one IPD...

20060141979 - Radio frequency circuit with integrated on-chip radio frequency signal coupler: A radio frequency (“RF”) circuit configured in accordance with an embodiment of the invention is fabricated on a substrate using integrated passive device (“IPD”) process technology. The RF circuit (which may be, for example, a harmonic filter) includes at least one RF signal line section and an integrated RF coupler...

20060141980 - Mobile communication terminal having malfunction-preventing function: A mobile communication terminal having a malfunction-preventing function is provided, including a keypad; a voltage source which is activated by voltage supplied to an EN terminal, processes voltage supplied from a battery, and outputs the processed voltage; a power_on switching unit switched on when a switch_on key of the keypad...

20060141981 - Universal temporary communication id with service integration: A method is provided for obtaining a temporary ID. A request is created for a temporary ID for a first user that has a permanent ID for being contacted through a first mode of communication. The request, which includes at least one usage rule provided by the first user, is...

20060141982 - Technique for identifying status of users and status of subscribers' accounts in a communications system: A communications system and method for handling a call to the system based on whether the caller is a subscriber. In one example, in an information assistance service communications system, if the user is a subscriber, the call may be directed to a first operator device for directory assistance, while...

20060141984 - Client-based context-based billing for wireless networks: The invention increases billing options for a wireless service provider by allowing the provider to make billing decisions based upon what a client or mobile station application does both on and off the network. This type of billing, based on context, generates a billing record of events whether or not...

20060141983 - Network usage analysis system using customer and pricing information to maximize revenue and method: A network usage analysis system includes a data collector that is coupled to a network. The network has a first and a second network service provider and the first network service provider has a plurality of subscribers. The data collector collects usage data corresponding to a usage metric for the...

20060141985 - Dynamic management for interface access permissions: A system, device, and method, for managing application interface access permissions for an application (302) in an electronic device, such as a wireless device (104), is disclosed. The method includes associating a security policy with an application (302). The method further includes creating a history log (324) associated with the...

20060141986 - Electronic apparatus and wireless communication control method: When a user wants to transfer display data of a personal computer to project it by a projector, the user firstly mounts a medium on the projector to depress a dedicated button of a remote controller. Then, since a variety of items of information including random numbers generated from the...

20060141987 - Identification of a terminal with a server: A chip card in a terminal such as a mobile radiotelephone is identified by a first identifier with a server including for example the nominal locating recorder in a cellular radiotelephone network, without the first identifier being transmitted in a clear form or substituted by a provisional identifier. An anonymous...

20060141991 - Automatic dialing for a wireless communications device: A wireless communications device comprises a transceiver, memory, and a controller. The transceiver permits a user to communicate with a remote party via a wireless communications network. Whenever the user places an outgoing call, the controller stores characteristics of the outgoing call in memory. These include the phone number of...

20060141992 - Memory full pipeline: A method of accommodating legacy devices in which application memory is not able to operate fast enough to reliably receive data from a relay or other external device is disclosed. An application queue memory space is provided, either as a separate memory chip or as an area created and maintained...

20060141988 - Messaging over mobile phone network for digital multimedia network: A method of distributing a message from a message administration service to a subscriber receiver decoder of a digital multimedia network comprises transferring a determined message for a determined receiver decoder from the message administration service to a point to point communication system distinct from the multimedia network. A destination...

20060141989 - Method for selectively deleting messages received by a radio telephone: A method (20) for selectively deleting messages received by a radio telephone (1). The method (20) includes detecting when the telephone (1) has moved from a previous coverage area to a current coverage area and selectively obtaining a set of coverage area specific messages (Mset) stored in a memory (16,18)...

20060141993 - Server processing in providing messages for a wireless device connecting to a server: A system and method for providing a message on the graphic display of a wireless device while the wireless device is connecting to an application download server across a wireless network. When the wireless device attempts to communicate with an application download server or changes files while navigating an application...

20060141990 - System and method of predicting user input to a mobile terminal: A method of predicting user input to a mobile terminal is presented. The mobile terminal creates a raw user input data record comprised of input to the mobile terminal. A contextual data record is appended to the raw user input data record and both are stored. Another process processes the...

20060141996 - Device and method for telephone number search in mobile terminal: Disclosed is a device and method for searching for telephone numbers in a mobile terminal. The device includes a phonebook for storing telephone numbers dialed or received in a specific area, together with the number of calls to or from each of the telephone numbers; a user input unit for...

20060141995 - Provision of user policy to terminal: There is disclosed a method for providing a user policy to a terminal connected in a network, the method comprising: configuring a user policy for the terminal; and authenticating the terminal, wherein the method further includes providing the configured user policy to the terminal responsive to successful authentication....

20060141994 - Techniques for monitoring mobile telecommunications for shared accounts: The present invention provides techniques for monitoring mobile communications. In one aspect, a method of monitoring mobile telephone usage is provided. The method comprises the step of relaying usage information pertaining to one or more mobile telephones to one or more other mobile telephones....

20060141997 - System and method for remote controlling equipment with the aid of api functions, and corresponding device, radiocommunication module, and set of functions: The disclosure relates to a system for remote controlling equipment, which allows at least one server and at least one remote piece of equipment to be interconnected according to the MQIsdp protocol. Said system associates radiocommunication means with at least one of said remote pieces of equipment in order to...

20060141999 - Air interface management in mobile communications: Air interface management apparatus for use in network-based control of measurements made by mobile user equipment with respect to cells of the network is adapted to detect conflict in content of measurement control messages instructing the report of pathloss measurement values. Conflict is detected in particular where the message specifies:...

20060141998 - Wireless communication network measurement data collection using infrastructure overlay-based handset location systems: A method and system for collecting test and measurement data for a wireless communication system utilizes a network overlay geo-location system to collect the data. The wireless communication system has plural base stations defining a signal coverage area for communication with a mobile appliance and collects test and measurement data...

20060142001 - Methods and apparatus for monitoring a communication network: Methods and apparatus for monitoring a communication network are disclosed. A disclosed method of monitoring a communication network periodically collects data from a plurality of network elements within the communication network. The disclosed method analyzes the collected data in accordance with a rule that corresponds to a characteristic of performance...

20060142000 - Methods and apparatus to perform wireless peering in communication systems: Methods and apparatus to route communications at an interexchange carrier are disclosed. One method of routing communications may include receiving a communication at the interexchange carrier, determining a destination at which the communication is to terminate, and routing the communication from the interexchange carrier through a terminating access charge free...

20060142002 - Area entertainment system including digital radio service and associated methods: An area entertainment system includes a headend unit, and electronic boxes spaced throughout the area. The headend unit includes a digital satellite radio receiver. A local area network (LAN) connects the digital satellite radio receiver for providing digital satellite radio signals to the electronic boxes. The entertainment system further includes...

20060142003 - Service management: A method of establishing a connection in a telecommunications system in which an intermediate network provides for communications between a user terminal and one or more of a plurality of serving network entities each capable of providing communications services to the user terminal by means of at least one telecommunications...

20060142004 - Method and apparatus to intelligently perform scanning and assist scanning by profiling scanning history: According to one embodiment, a method involves determining whether a wireless connection between a first access point and a wireless station has failed. If so, a partial scanning process is conducted only on a subset of communication channels over which data is transmitted by access points neighboring the first access...

20060142006 - Method and apparatus for increasing call receiving rate of a terminal: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for increasing call receiving rate of a terminal. This method includes establishing a data call between the terminal and a base station, and determining the presence or absence of registration of the terminal to the server. The server supports wireless communication between...

20060142007 - Method and apparatus to manage a resource: A method includes selecting a registration resource at a first location and assigning the registration resource to a customer at a second location. The registration resource is released at the second location independently of the first location....

20060142005 - Providing service distribution between distributed applications: A system is provided to facilitate distribution of a service between a first application and a second application. The system includes a remote socket object, a service registry, and a service mapper. The service mapper receives notification from the service registry indicating registration of the remote socket object created in...

20060142008 - Apparatus and method for handover in mobile communication system: An apparatus and method for a handover in a mobile communication system are provided. The handover apparatus includes an interface unit for setting a first path used before the handover and a second path used after the handover, for the mobile terminal undergoing the handover. A controller determines whether or...

20060142009 - Prevention of unnecessary hand-over caused by fading: A hand-over control method is disclosed to control the change of connections between a radio communication terminal and a plurality of radio communication base stations for radio communication. The received power of a signal from a radio communication base station in a cell that that is subject to the influence...

20060142011 - Method for the routing of communications to a voice over internet protocol terminal in a mobile communication system: The invention relates to a method a method for routing calls and messages in a communication system. In the method a mobile station registers to a call control node using a logical name. The logical name is mapped in a directory to an international mobile subscriber identity. The call control...

20060142010 - Method, system and apparatus for call path reconfiguration: A method, apparatus and system for reconfiguring communications call paths enables more efficient use of communications network resources and enhanced service offerings. A plurality of feature control points (FCPs) located in a plurality of different types of communications carrier networks are controlled by a single call service node (CSN). The...

20060142012 - Methods and systems for telephony processing, including location based call transfers: The present invention provides flexible call processing. In one embodiment, an inbound call from a calling party is received at a call processing system. The inbound call is intended for a called party. A determination is made that a first condition has occurred and/or is occurring. The called party's location...

20060142013 - System for mobile broadband networking using dynamic quality of service provisioning: A wireless networking system uses mobile and fixed transceivers to achieve a network with changing topology. A routing process includes quality-of-service considerations in the network to allow for features such as file or other data transfer, streaming audio and video, digital telephone communications, etc. The routing process adapts to transceiver...

20060142014 - Base-station cell design method and base-station cell design apparatus, and program thereof in mobile communication system: The above base-station cell design method is for sequentially adding base stations, and a technique of which throughput is few is employed for a radio-wave propagation characteristic evaluation to be made in this addition, and a technique of which the throughput is much, but which is of high-precision, more specifically,...

20060142015 - Methods and techniques in channel assignment in a cellular network: A cellular network configuration tool is described that performs frequency assignments for use in a cellular network. The channels are assigned in accordance with input configuration data such as a channel separation matrix, geographic data, and requested channel assignments for each sector included in the cellular network being configured. The...

20060142016 - Method for operating a mobile radio telephone system, mobile radio telephone system, mobile station and device for determining a sub-group of adjacent radio cells in a mobile radio telephone system: A mobile radio telephone system has at least one first radio cell, several radio cells to that are adjacent to the first radio cell and base stations, each of the latter covering one of the radio cells. A sub-group of the adjacent radio cells is determined depending on the position...

20060142017 - Mobile terminal and wireless communication system: A wireless communication system for high-speed motion use, capable of shortening the frequency channel search time and increasing the communication time available for service. The system includes an access point communicating on a designated one frequency channel and a mobile terminal communicating on the same received channel by receiving radio...

20060142018 - Apparatus and method for providing dynamic communications network traffic control: Systems and methods for controlling traffic on a communications network include dynamic and flexible control plans that enable service providers to control or influence customer access to communications facilities. Communications facilities are monitored to identify network elements, such as cell sites, that are overloaded. When the traffic intensity on a...

20060142020 - Channel assignment based on service type and wireless communication environment: The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for assigning a channel in response to a request for service for a mobile station in a wireless communication network serving a plurality of regions, such as cells in a digital cellular network. The mobile station may be located in one...

20060142021 - Load balancing on shared wireless channels: The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for balancing traffic load between a plurality of users on one or more shared wireless channels, e.g., from a communication node associated with a network of a plurality of cells including a first and a second cell. The method comprises determining...

20060142019 - Method and radio communication system for the transmission of useful information as a service to several user stations: A method and radio communication system for the transmit useful information as a service to several user stations with at least one radio network controller, at least one base station and at least one user station. The radio network controller is connected to an access device in a core network....

20060142022 - Method of operating a base station of wireless communications network, base station of a wireless communications network and radio network controller: m

20060142023 - Method in a mobile telecommunication network for obtaining location and time information about users: The method is for obtaining location and time information about users. A digital content is first created which is stored in a user terminal. Location data is then retrieved from the user terminal. Either or both of the location data and the digital content are digitally signed in the user...

20060142024 - System and method for invoking applications based on a location of a mobile station: The present invention reduces latencies in a wireless network while decreasing bandwidth usage in the wireless network for mobile stations. The wireless network monitors the current access network identifier for a mobile station. Upon detecting a change in current access network identifier due to movement of the mobile station, the...

20060142025 - Vehicle stereo system: A vehicle stereo system installed in a motor vehicle is disclosed to include a global positioning module that calculates the present location data of the motor vehicle, a memory device that has stored therein radio network records, each radio network record containing a plurality of geographic zones, and a plurality...

20060142026 - Remote operation and maintenance center with location based services: A method and systems for modifying one or more parameters of one or more base stations includes establishing a connection (113) between an operation and maintenance center (OMC) (101) and a communication device (111). Information is exchanged from the communication device (111) to the OMC (101) representative of a location...

20060142027 - Methods, apparatus and computer program product providing enhanced location-based services for mobile users: A mobile terminal (10) includes a transceiver (11); a user interface (10D) and a location module (10B) coupled to the transceiver and responsive to a trigger to request that a map be downloaded to the mobile terminal for storage in a memory (10C). The location module is further coupled to...

20060142028 - Low layer paging indicator processing system and method for multi-layer communication equipment used in a wireless communication system: A wireless communication system implements wireless communications between a base station and a plurality of User Equipments (UEs) including paging of UEs by initially processing paging indicator information. A first embodiment involves a UE's physical layer L1 being configured for interpreting a paging indicator (PI) to activate a preset decoding...

20060142030 - Apparatus and method of wireless instant messaging: A wireless communication device declares one of a plurality of extended instant messaging states and transmits the declared states to a presence information server. Declared extended instant messaging states for destination devices are received, and an enhanced instant message based on delared extended instant messaging states is generated....

20060142029 - Wireless network system for efficiently delivering multimedia messages: The present invention provides a wireless network system that enables direct wireless delivery of a multimedia message from a first MMS user agent to a second MMS user agent. In accordance with one embodiment of the invention, the wireless network system includes a MMS server that receives, from the first...

20060142031 - Multicast communication method in a cdma mobile communication system: A multicast communication method in a CDMA mobile communication system which is capable of reducing a transmission power in a base station system, and is capable of performing an efficient multicast operation for a large number of mobile subscribers is provided. The starting of information distribution by a multicast operation...

20060142032 - Cell selection and inter-frequency handover: The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for controlling a communications system that includes a mobile wireless device, a first and a second base station and a radio network controller. The communications system may allocate frequency bands to users on a multiplicity of channels associated with a multi-layer...

20060142033 - Multi-radio unification protocol: An invention is disclosed whereby a wireless network node, equipped with two or more radio transceivers statically tuned to non-interfering frequency channels, can make decisions regarding which channel to use when communicating with a neighboring wireless node. A multi-radio unification protocol implemented in a wireless node coordinates the use of...

20060142035 - Power efficient channel scheduling in a wireless network: A method and system for optimizing channel access scheduling for multiple wireless computing devices over a wireless network improves channel access efficiency with respect to a primary channel. An access point, or host computer, includes a host transceiver for receiving control information from the wireless computing devices over a low...

20060142034 - Systems and methods for device discovery: Systems and methods for enabling wireless devices to discover a number of other proximate wireless devices are disclosed. The discovery may include the discovery of network configuration parameters useful for establishing a connection between the wireless devices. The disclosed systems and methods for device discovery may operate in a number...

20060142036 - Handling talk burst denials in group communication system supporting ptt service: A method for processing a talk burst of a PTT server when a PTT terminal requests permission to send a talk burst, but the talk burst has already been allocated to another PTT terminal. The PTT server sends to every PTT terminal having a session established therefor, a talk burst...

20060142037 - Method and system for processing poc call based on answer mode of push to talk over cellular system client: Disclosed is a method and system for establishing a session for a Push to Talk (PTT) over Cellular call (PoC). In the method, when an answer (response) mode of a PoC server and a PoC client are not in accordance with each other, an error message is transmitted to the...

20060142041 - Adaptation of transmit subchannel gains in a system with interference cancellation: A method and system for interference cancellation (IC). One aspect relates to traffic interference cancellation. Another aspect relates to joint IC for pilot, overhead and data. Another aspect relates to improved channel estimation. Another aspect relates to adaptation of transmit subchannel gains....

20060142044 - Apparatus and method for controlling power in mobile terminal having diversity receiver: Disclosed is an apparatus for controlling a transmission (TX) power in a mobile terminal having at least two receive (RX) antennas. The apparatus includes a TX gain estimator for determining an AGC gain value corresponding to the estimated TX power; a compensation gain detector for determining a gain compensation value...

20060142039 - Form-in-place fastening for fuel cell assemblies: A fuel cell sub-assembly includes first and second flow field plates each comprising several fastener apertures defined at a number of fastening locations. A membrane electrode assembly is situated between the first and second flow field plates and includes several fastener apertures defined at a number of fastening locations, the...

20060142038 - Method and apparatus for reducing transmitted energy in power-controlled systems based on early decoding: The present invention provides a method for reducing transmitted energy based on early decoding. The method includes accessing a first portion of a block including a plurality of symbols indicative of an encoded message. The first portion has been transmitted at a first transmission power and having less than all...

20060142045 - Method of adjusting a signal power in a variable data rate mode in a mobile communication system: The present invention relates to a mobile communication system, and more particularly, to a method of adjusting a signal power in a variable data rate mode. Accordingly, the present invention includes steps of allocating a reference pilot signal level to each of a plurality of data rates supported by the...

20060142042 - Mobile communication system: In a mobile communication system, a mobile switching center 27 changes a transmission rate of communication data transmitted from a mobile station 16 and so on to a database 11 or a transmission rate of communication data transmitted from the database 11 to the mobile station 16 and so on,...

20060142043 - Mobile station in wireless communication system and method of controlling signal-transmission power in wireless communication system: A mobile station in a CDMA wireless communication system, includes a receiver which receives power-control data by which power for transmitting a wireless signal is controlled, from a plurality of base stations during soft handover, a judging unit which judges tendency in accordance with which the power-control data varies, in...

20060142040 - Scheduling calls in downlink transmissions: The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for scheduling a call for a wireless device in a transmission, e.g., a High Speed Downlink Packet Access transmission from a communication node associated with a network. The method comprises determining a current and a future traffic load on a downlink...

20060142048 - Apparatus and methods for improved management of server devices: Apparatus, systems and methods for improved management of devices, one embodiment of which includes a plurality of system components, at least one of which includes an antenna coupled to the system component to transmit signals containing information related to at least one performance aspect of the system component. Other embodiments...

20060142046 - Interactive system associated with electronic equipment: The aim of the present disclosure is to develop a digit input functionality. For this purpose, a navigation input element designed for other purpose is used from now on....

20060142049 - Message having a first protocol revision field indicating a message format and a second protocol revision field indicating mandatory features in a standards revision: A mobile station for wireless communication includes a control processor configured to generate a message for transmission on a reverse channel, the message including a first protocol revision field and a second protocol revision field. The first protocol revision field is for indicating a message format supported by the mobile...

20060142050 - Method and device for telephone number search in a mobile terminal: Disclosed is a method and device for searching for a telephone number in a mobile terminal having a direction key that consists of a left arrow, a right arrow, an up arrow and a down arrow. The method includes displaying one or more consecutive digits input by a user in...

20060142047 - Rf collaboration method to reduce rf interference with wireless adapter: A system and method for preventing a wireless controller system and WiFi radio system within a game console from interfering with each other. Specifically, the WiFi system is adapted to avoid activating its transmitter during the controller receive times by detecting a signal sent to the WiFi module indicating where...

20060142052 - Dual-mode gsm/phs mobile phone adopting a single antenna: A GSM/PHS dual-mode mobile phone adopting a single antenna includes an antenna separately connected to a GSM module and a PHS module through an antenna module, and the antenna module is connected to a central processing unit for receiving a control signal transmitted from the central processing unit to switch...

20060142051 - Method and apparatus to optimize the utilization of the carriers in a flexible multi-carrier system: Aspects of this invention provide a MC wireless network, and a method, to allocate at least one carrier to a mobile station. The method includes making an initial carrier allocation of M carrier(s) to the mobile station, where M is less than or equal to a total number of carriers...

20060142059 - Communication device, image-pickup device, storage medium and communication method: A communication device is provided which is capable of transmitting pickup images efficiently with high portability, manipulativity and instantaneous response. The communication device is disclosed in which according to one preferred embodiment, a control apparatus starts a communicating (such as radio transmission) operation in a communication apparatus simultaneous to an...

20060142056 - Digital broadcast receiver: The present invention provides a digital broadcast receiver which can prevent the user from mistaking blackout status for trouble with the digital broadcast receiver as much as possible. In cases where the AV decoder 4 cannot receive the IDR frame because of a bad broadcast transmission, it is possible that...

20060142057 - Med-phone: An apparatus to enable an individual to input, access, store and revise pertinent medical and other relevant information. The apparatus comprises a cell phone having a computer chip installed in the cell phone for inputting and storing selected medical and other relevant information. A number sequence code connected for communication...

20060142053 - Method and system for incorporating a lens in a clam shaped housing: A communication device (10) in a clam shaped housing includes a camera (12) incorporated within a first portion (18) of the clam-shaped housing and a lens (14) incorporated within a second portion (19) of the clam-shaped housing. The camera and the lens can substantially align when the first portion pivots...

20060142054 - Mobile communications terminal and method therefor: A user of a camera equipped communication terminal is aided by the use of the invention when, e.g., dialing a phone number, sending a message to a recipient associated with the phone number, or simply store the phone number in a contact database in the terminal. The camera is pointed...

20060142055 - Printed circuit board structure for mobile terminal: A printed circuit board structure for a mobile terminal including a main printed circuit board including elements required for functions of the mobile terminal and mounted on an upper surface of the main printed circuit board, and an auxiliary printed circuit board laminated on the main printed circuit board including...

20060142058 - System and method for wireless transactions: Embodiments of the present invention are directed to an attachment that may be coupled to a wireless communication device, such as a cellular telephone, personal digital assistant (PDA), or the like to perform commercial or other information transactions, as well as to an apparatus, system and method for conducting such...

20060142062 - Communication device for connection to an external acoustic transducer: A communication device has a socket 41 for connection to a plug 47 of an external acoustic transducer device 35, 37. The communication device includes a phone chip 101 for communicating with the external acoustic transducer device via the plug and socket. The phone chip 101 has an interface 39...

20060142061 - Dual module clock supply for can communication module: A CAN communication module (10) comprising a protocol kernel (14) and a CAN logic block (12) is provided. The protocol kernel includes a CAN bus interface and the CAN logic block includes a module interface for connection to an external peripheral bus (22), a message RAM (28) and a CAN...

20060142060 - Transmitter-receiver earphone set having a foldable receiver unit: The present invention is to provide a folding earphone comprising a narrow elongated hollow body having a protruding transmitter unit at one end thereof. The transmitter unit has a speaker and a cable extending from the speaker toward the inside thereof for connecting to an external electronic apparatus, a narrow...

20060142063 - Antenna communication method for a chip card and associated device: The invention relates to a communication method comprising the following steps consisting in: using a device which is equipped with at least one antenna and at least two contacts which are connected to the antenna; using a chip card comprising a chip which is equipped with at least two surface...

20060142064 - Communication apparatus having a sim interface compatible with radio isolation: A communication apparatus including a radio frequency (RF) circuit coupled to a digital processing circuit and an interface circuit coupled to an authentication device. The RF circuit may be configured to operate on a radio frequency signal. A portion of the digital processing circuit may be disabled during an active...

20060142065 - Switching station, subscriber location information registration method, subscriber service information acquisition method, subscriber service information registration method, and subscriber service information transmission method: A switching station etc., are provided. When a mobile station moves from an area of a switching station into an area of another switching station having a VLR which has accepted the maximum number of subscribers, the switching station registers subscriber location information about the mobile station in an HLR...

20060142066 - Cellular mobile radio network and method for setting up a base station of a cellular mobile radio network: A cellular mobile radio network having at least one base station integrated into a facility supplied via a power supply network and being connected to an assigned base station controller. The at least one base station includes a module for exchanging radio frequency signals with mobile radio devices; a first...

20060142067 - Mobile communications terminal and method therefore: A method for notifying items in a mobile communication apparatus is disclosed, including the steps of: determining a text for notification of an item; generating a call to a telephone; and rendering the text by a synthetic voice through the call, and a computer program for performing the method. Further,...

20060142068 - Electronic apparatus: An electronic apparatus, a message sender, a message receiver, and a mobile communication apparatus is disclosed. The electronic apparatus and the mobile communication apparatus include an input means arranged to receive instructions from a user, a processor arranged to assign parameters for three-dimensional viewing of items, wherein the parameters depend...

20060142069 - Earphone jack for eliminating power noise in mobile communication terminal, and operating method thereof: An earphone jack for a mobile communication terminal and a driving method thereof, wherein the earphone jack includes a first speaker terminal for providing a positive (+) differential call voice signal when a call voice signal is output, a second speaker terminal for providing a negative (−) differential call voice...

20060142070 - Mobile communication terminal equipped with speaker phone function and method for removing feedback effect when speaker phone is used: A mobile communication terminal equipped with speaker phone functionality and a method for removing feedback when the speaker phone is in use are disclosed. The mobile communication terminal includes: a first voice input path serving as a default voice input path; a second voice input path serving as an additional...

20060142071 - Keypad for portable wireless devices: A keypad includes a plurality of keys that can be selectively coupled electrically with a printed circuit board to create electrical signals representative of a characters to be input to the portable wireless device. Each key further includes a plurality of contact points wherein each contact point can be separately...

20060142072 - Portable communication device with global positioning system antenna: A portable communication device (100) has an antenna with predominantly upward antenna radiation patterns at GPS frequencies. The portable communication device (100) includes a housing with a base portion (240) enclosing base portion circuitry (241) and an upper clamshell portion (242) enclosing upper clamshell portion circuitry (243). The portable communication...

20060142074 - Mobile communication unit with display area widening mechanism: A mobile communication unit having a housing with at least one longitudinal side and a display area, and, a pivotably movable cover assembly longitudinally connected to the longitudinal side of the housing, the cover assembly being pivotably or slidably movable between a closed position and an open position relative to...

20060142073 - Slider mechanism: A slider mechanism (414) includes a first element (516), a second element (518) and a biasing device (590). The second element (518) slides with respect to the first element (516) along a path. The biasing device (590) functions as an over-center mechanism, such that external force is required to move...

20060142075 - Apparatus and method for matching antenna of mobile communication terminal: An apparatus for matching an antenna of a mobile communication terminal and its method are disclosed. The apparatus for matching an antenna of a mobile communication terminal includes a sensing unit for generating a first match signal when an antenna of the mobile communication terminal and a display unit becomes...

20060135056 - Radio communication terminal with a detachable active housing and related connector: A radio communication terminal includes a data processor for controlling terminal functions and an attachment for releasable attachment of a housing to the terminal. The terminal includes a multipath connector connected to the data processor. The multipath connector includes a terminal system connector, and a housing connector configured to provide...

20060135058 - Location-based broadcast messaging for radioterminal users: Methods, radioterminals, and broadcast message generation consoles provide location-based broadcast messaging for users. A method of operating a radioterminal can include receiving at the radioterminal over a wireless air interface a broadcast message that includes region information that defines a geographic region of applicability. A determination is made at the...

20060135057 - Method for offering seeing-information and broadcast receiving apparatus thereof: A method and broadcast receiving apparatus are provided for offering seeing-information. The method includes a determination as to whether a current seeing point change manipulation to change a current seeing point of time into a point of time prior to a current broadcast point of time is input. If a...

20060135059 - Method using a set-top box communicating between a remote data network and a wireless communication network: Disclosed are methods and systems for connecting a set-top box (STB) to the Internet over existing and future wireless networks, combining television with wireless Internet access. A conventional television is used in combination with a STB that has a wireless or wired keyboard, a power supply, and audio/visual connections for...

20060135060 - Methods and systems for configuring satellite antenna cell patterns in response to terrestrial use of satellite frequencies: Space-based wireless radiotelephone communications are provided in a satellite footprint over a satellite radiotelephone frequency band. The satellite footprint is divided into satellite cells in which satellite radiotelephone frequencies of the satellite radiotelephone frequency band are spatially reused. At least one of the satellite radiotelephone frequencies that is assigned to...

20060135061 - Digital video broadcast-handheld (dvb-h) antennas for wireless terminals: An antenna for a wireless terminal can include an antenna configured to be removably coupled to the wireless terminal and configured for display of digital video broadcast data based on received DVB-H compliant signals....

20060135063 - Data transmission method and radio system: The invention relates to a data transmission method and a radio system comprising at least one subscriber terminal and at least one base station including an antenna, by means of which the base station transmits signals to the subscriber terminal. The subscriber terminal includes a measuring mechanism which determines the...

20060135062 - Radio communication system, base station apparatus, and downstream transmission directing characteristic control method used therefor: A communication bit rate computing unit (24) computes the cumulative bit rate of downlink communication data, at which a base station communicates with a terminal, and totalizes the bit rates for each sector area. A amplitude/phase control unit (23) checks whether the cumulative bit rate for each sector area, reported...

20060135065 - Bluetooth device and method for providing service determined according to bluetooth pin: Disclosed herein are a Bluetooth device and method for providing a service determined according to Bluetooth PIN. The Bluetooth device includes a storage unit, a reception unit, a control unit, a key generation unit and a transmission unit. The storage unit stores the types of services and security policies according...

20060135064 - Method and apparatus for bonding process in bluetooth device: A method and apparatus for a bonding process in a user terminal having a Bluetooth module. The method includes recognizing a barcode of a Bluetooth device to be connected using a camera module, acquiring bonding information of the Bluetooth device from the barcode, performing pairing with the Bluetooth device using...

20060135068 - Apparatus, and associated method, for facilitating network scanning by a wlan terminal operable in a multiple-network wlan system: Apparatus, and an associated method, for facilitating identification of primary, secondary, and hidden SSID values in a multi-network WLAN system. A determiner embodied at a mobile terminal determines primary SSID values of networks whose beacon signals are delivered to the mobile terminal. And, responsive to the determinations, further determinations are...

20060135066 - Associating a wireless station with an access point: A station associates with an access point in a wireless local area network conforming to, e.g., an IEEE 802.11 standard. The station measures the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) for the downlink from each of the access points sending either a beacon or a probe response, and forms a first list of...

20060135067 - Method and apparatus for configuring a wlan: A method and apparatus for adapting a wireless terminal to different short-range wireless network requirements based on a region of operation associated with a location of the wireless terminal as described herein. The wireless terminal determines a region of operation associated with the location of the wireless terminal. Exemplary regions...

20060135069 - Portable device with antenna diversity: A portable device suitable for communicating with a communications network over a main wireless transmitter/receiver module comprises a main antenna. The module communicates with the portable device via an interface, wherein said portable device further comprises at least one secondary wireless transmitter/receiver module comprising a diversity antenna and communicating with...

20060135071 - Noise removing apparatus for wireless transceiver: Disclosed is a noise removing apparatus for a wireless transceiver, the apparatus including a transmission-frequency control voltage generation unit for generating a transmission frequency control voltage to control a transmission frequency, which is used to convert a baseband signal to be transmitted into a signal having a transmission frequency band;...

20060135070 - Prediction of uplink interference potential generated by an ancillary terrestrial network and/or radioterminals: Methods are provided for predicting uplink interference potential to a mobile satellite system (MSS) generated by ancillary terrestrial components (ATCs) of an ancillary terrestrial network (ATN) and/or ATC radioterminals that are configured to terrestrially use/reuse satellite frequencies that are used and/or authorized for use by a MSS. The methods include...

20060135072 - Apparatus and related methods to aid in system identification in a heterogeneous communication system environment: An apparatus and associated methods to aid in system identification in a heterogeneous communication environment is generally described herein....

20060135073 - Signaling bit detection with adaptive threshold: For signaling detection using an adaptive threshold, the channel condition obsereved by a signaling bit (e.g., a paging indicator bit) is estimated (e.g., by a pilot strength estimate). A metric for the signaling bit is computed based on recovered symbols for the signaling bit and the estimated channel condition. An...

20060135074 - Method and apparatus for transmitting importance layers for scalable data services: The present invention relates to a radio access network and a communication method in a wireless system comprising a radio access network and a plurality of mobile terminals. To enable a user terminal to carry out interfrequency measurements without additional significant requirements on processing time, the RAN notifies a mobile...

20060135076 - Method and device for controlling radio access: A method for controlling a number of simultaneous radio connections in a communication device is presented. The control of a number of simultaneous radio connections is carried out in the communication device. Parameters of the radio connections are controlled such that interference between the radio connections is minimized....

20060135075 - Method and system for dynamic hybrid multiple access in an ofdm-based wireless network: A method of dynamic hybrid multiple access in a wireless network that comprises a plurality of subscriber stations is provided. The method includes selecting a sub-carrier status for each of the subscriber stations based on at least one predetermined condition for the subscriber station. The sub-carrier status is either hopping...

20060135077 - Multi-transceiver system and methods of compensating offset frequency: Disclosed is a multi-transceiver system adapted to estimate a frequency offset on basis of a test signal and a reference signal. Transceivers in the multi-transceiver system are adapted to transmit signals compensated with the frequency offsets....

20060135078 - Path timing detecting method in mobile communications system and base station: A path timing detecting method and a base station are provided which can improve the accuracy of detecting the path timings and check an increase in the processing load in the random access in a mobile communications system. First, the method identifies the effective path timing range using a preamble,...

20060135080 - Systems and methods that utilize a capacity-based signal-to-noise ratio to predict and improve mobile communication: Techniques for utilizing a capacity-based effective signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) to improve wireless communication are described herein. In an embodiment, a mobile terminal can determine the effective SNR from a forward link channel using pilot/data symbols. The mobile terminal can convey the effective SNR to a base station. In order to...

20060135079 - Transmit power reduction for a wireless device with multiple transmit signal paths: A wireless device is equipped with multiple (e.g., two) antennas, which may be of different designs. Each antenna interacts with the wireless environment in a different manner and achieves different scattering effect. The wireless device has one transmit signal path for each antenna. Each transmit signal path generates an RF...

20060135081 - System and method for data communication over multi-input, multi-output channels: System and method for estimating data transmitted by a plurality of transmit elements across a communications channel. The system comprises a plurality of receive interfaces, each operative to receive a signal via the channel and output a respective sequence of received data elements. The system also comprises a space matched...

20060135082 - Single oscillator transceiver frequency plan: A frequency plan is provided for particular use in a transceiver. Advantageously, a single oscillator may be used to generate desired frequency signal. One or more power splitters receive the signal and equally divide the signal into first and second signals having a frequency substantially equal to the original. Multipliers...

20060135083 - Interoperability between receivers and transmitters in a mobile station: Techniques are disclosed for improving the interoperability of transmitters and receivers in a mobile station. Certain exemplary techniques involve performing filtering in a transmitter in response to a notification that a receiver is able to receive a reception frequency band. Other exemplary techniques involve changing one or more inputs of...

20060135084 - Rf front-end matching circuits for a transceiver module with t/r switch integrated in a transceiver chip: Radio frequency front-end matching circuits suitable for a transceiver module with TR switch integrated in a transceiver chip. The radio frequency front-end transceiver module comprises a radio frequency (RF) front-end device, a transmit/receive (TR) switch, a transmitter, a receiver and an internal matching circuit, in which the TR switch, the...

20060135085 - Wireless telephone with uni-directional and omni-directional microphones: A wireless telephone having a first microphone and a second microphone and a method for processing audio signal in a wireless telephone having a first microphone and a second microphone. The wireless telephone includes a first microphone, a second microphone, and a signal processor, wherein at least one of the...

20060135086 - Wireless transceiving apparatus for variability of signal processing band: Provided is a wireless transceiving apparatus for variability of signal processing band, in which at least one resonator of an analog processor and a VCO are simultaneously controlled using a frequency synthesizer, and a frequency of the VCO and a resonance frequency of the analog processor are controlled to have...

20060135088 - Extended microphone with positioning display: An extended microphone for a radio communication equipment is disclosed. The extended microphone includes a microphone body; an adapter for connecting the extended microphone with the radio communication equipment; a GPS module disposed on the microphone body for providing a positioning message; and a display module disposed on the microphone...

20060135087 - Limited use telecommunications device: In accordance with the present invention there is provided a cellular phone adapted to be used by a young child. The phone only has three buttons for use by the child that are programmed by the child's parents. The buttons are programmed by first receiving a call on the phone...

20060135089 - Polar modulator and a use thereof: A polar modulator has a low AM-AM and AM-PM distortion comprises a phase locked loop. The phase locked loop is designed for outputting a high-frequency signal with a frequency derived from a phase modulation signal at an actuating input of the phase locked loop. A filter device, for suppressing a...

20060135090 - Antenna for a foldable radio device: An antenna intended for a foldable radio device, and a radio device with such an antenna. The first turning part (TP1) of the radio device includes the radio frequency transmitting and receiving amplifiers of the device, an antenna port (AP) and a first antenna element (320), by which the device...

20060135091 - Priority information management device for a radio communication terminal of a radio communication network: A device is dedicated to managing priority information in a radio communication terminal of a radio communication network, comprising a communication module able to communicate with the network. The device includes processing means adapted, in the event of reception by the hybrid communication module of a message broadcast by the...

20060135092 - Radio frequency filter: wherein the at least one second material of the compensation element (6) acts on the at least one first material of at least one subsection of the inner conductor tube (2) by exerting mechanical force, such that the thermal expansion of the at least one first material and/or the length...

20060135093 - Transmitter and mobile communication terminal using the same: A transmitter employing variable gain amplifiers and operating with both constant and nonconstant envelope modulation systems is contrived to suppress variation in the transmitting power when constant envelope modulation is performed. The transmitter comprises a PM loop, an AM loop, and a variable gain amplifier which is shared by the...

20060135096 - High-efficiency modulating rf amplifier: The present invention, generally speaking, provides for high-efficiency power control of a high-efficiency (e.g., hard-limiting or switch-mode) power amplifier in such a manner as to achieve a desired modulation. In one embodiment, the spread between a maximum frequency of the desired modulation and the operating frequency of a switch-mode DC-DC...

20060135094 - Method and apparatus to manage power consumption of a semiconductor device: Briefly, a method an apparatus of a power management system of a semiconductor device capable of managing a power consumption of the semiconductor device by varying an operating voltage of the semiconductor device according to a voltage value based on a reference number....

20060135095 - System for controlling power on a mobile station and supporting method and apparatus: In the present power control technique, a power control circuit (404) that is operably coupled to a receiver circuit (412) assesses (514, 522) a tclip adjust value based on a power cutback value from the receiver circuit. The tclip adjust value is forwarded to a peak to average ratio control...

20060135097 - Wireless communication system using a plurality of antenna elements with adaptive weighting and combining techniques: The present invention provides a method and system for operating a wireless communication system in which received signals from a plurality of antennas are weighted and combined with a beam forming operation to form an output signal. The beam forming operation determines weights adjusted to increase a desired signal power...

20060135098 - Method and apparatus for processing digital broadcast audio in the am/fm bands: A receiver includes a processor that processes AM/FM signals and signals from digital broadcasts in the AM/FM bands. The processor includes a digital broadcast audio processing controller and a digital broadcast audio processor. Upon determining an increased probability of an imminent digital broadcast audio dropout, the digital broadcast audio processing...

20060135099 - Receiving apparatus and reception antenna setting method: In a receiving apparatus equipped with a plurality of tuners, if a reception antenna is controlled in such a manner that a reception condition of a channel tuned by one tuner may become suitable, then a reception condition of the channel tuned by another tuner does not always become suitable....

20060135100 - Mobile phone capable of presenting a clock in a power-off mode: A mobile phone capable of presenting a clock thereon in a power-off mode is disclosed, in which a user thereof may initialize the clock to be presented when the mobile phone is powered off simply by pressing a specific key on the mobile phone without the need of powering on...

20060135101 - Interference reduction using low complexity antenna array: Interference reduction is achieved within a communication device using a low complexity antenna array. In at least one embodiment, phase and magnitude values associated with an antenna element within a low complexity array are dynamically adjusted during device operation in a manner that enhances a predetermined quality criterion (e.g., SINR)....

20060135103 - Self-tuned millimeter wave rf transceiver module: A self-tuned millimeter wave transceiver module includes a microwave monolithic integrated circuit (MMIC) having at least one amplifier. A controller is operatively connected to the MMIC for sensing amplifier operating conditions and tuning the at least one amplifier to an optimum operating condition. The controller includes a surface mounted microcontroller...

20060135102 - Tuner for compensating for take-over point depending on temperature: The present invention relates to temperature compensation of a tuner, and more particularly, to a tuner in which Take-Over Point (TOP) is compensated for according to a temperature. The tuner according to the present invention down-converts a Radio Frequency (RF) wireless signal and outputs the converted signal. The tuner compensates...