Telecommunications inventions 10/06

20060240766 - Efficient broadcast and multicast transmission over shared downlink channels: Method for transmission of broadcast- and/or multicast-data within a mobile communication system, preferably according to HSDPA technology (High Speed Downlink Packet Access), wherein the communication system has a multitude of mobile terminals (UE) is characterized in that—regarding a high level of efficiency of data transmission—selectable terminals (UE) within a radio...

20060240767 - Geosynchronous satellite constellation: A satellite communications system is described for increasing capacity through spectrum reuse by multiple satellites. The system includes a constellation of satellites traveling in a geosynchronous orbit, where the geosynchronous orbit defines a satellite track. The satellite track of the constellation overlaps a geostationary orbital location occupied by a legacy...

20060240768 - Dual band voltage-controlled oscillator: A resonance circuit is interposed between a base and a collector of an oscillating transistor and is configured such that a resonance frequency is switched in correspondence with two different frequency bands. A first feedback unit is interposed between the base and an emitter of the oscillating transistor and a...

20060240769 - Transmission canceller for wireless local area network: A frequency translating repeater (200) for use in a wireless local area network includes a cancellation unit. Canceller (402) is controlled by control (401) to provide an injection signal for canceling leakage in a receive signal path. Reference coupler (403) provides a reference signal from the transmit signal, injection coupler...

20060240773 - Apparatus and method for encoding and decoding in a mobile communication system: A system and method are provided for setting a point of time when information is applied in a mobile communication system. A broadcast overhead message including additional information is received and its application time-point is computed. The broadcast overhead message including the additional information is then applied at the computed...

20060240770 - Information communication system, transmitting apparatus, transmitting method, and computer program: Transmission of contents from a transmitting apparatus to a plurality of receiving apparatuses is performed, while putting restrictions on a communication area and the number of receiving apparatuses in conformity with a definition of DTCP. In a case of a need to distribute literary works such as movies and the...

20060240772 - Locator device with sensor based power management: By combining a signal generator with integrated sensors and the ability to accept external instructions, a unique system of active devices can efficiently improve the overall power management and improve the products overall performance. One example of this system would be to design a force sensor, a RC network, an...

20060240771 - Use of location awareness ot establish communications with a target clinician in a healthcare environment: A method of communicating in a healthcare establishment. The method comprises receiving data indicative of a desire to communicate with a target clinician; receiving data regarding a wirelessly detectable tag associated with the target clinician; determining a location of the target clinician within the healthcare establishment based at least in...

20060240776 - Communications system, communications apparatus, and communication method: A communication system, a communication apparatus, and a communication method are provided. A communications apparatus includes a generation unit for generating a transmission message sent to a different communications apparatus and effective for only one transmission, a first communications units for communicating with the different communications apparatus using Near Field...

20060240775 - Data communication apparatus functioning as id tag and id-tag reader and writer: A data communication apparatus includes an antenna, an analog front-end circuit, and a controller. The analog front-end circuit is connected between the antenna and the controller and includes first and second modulators, a driver, a demodulator, and an input switch. The first modulator modulates data to be transmitted to other...

20060240774 - Radio system, terminal device, computer program product, and method of defining availability of queried devices: There is provided a terminal device comprising a processing unit for controlling the functions of the terminal device, a communication unit for communicating with one or more communication devices, and a user interface. The communication unit is configured to query for nearby communication devices utilising wireless local connectivity technologies, and...

20060240777 - Decreasing mutual interference between multiple bluetooth piconets by controlling the channel usage with the help of the adaptive frequency hopping methods: The present invention reduces inter-network interference between simultaneously-operating closely situated short-range wireless networks. The system provides a central controller that, in addition to eliminating frequencies with known outside interference, may divide an available frequency range into groups of sub-bands that are assigned to the various wireless networks. The wireless communication...

20060240778 - Mobile communication device: A mobile communication device for communicating a radio communication device associated with a radio transmitter. The mobile communication device includes a short-range radio communication unit configured to transmit a requirement signal for short-range radio communication connection to the radio communication device, and configured to receive a signal from the radio...

20060240779 - Dc offset cancellation circuits and methods: Embodiments of the present invention include circuits and methods for reducing DC Offset. In one embodiment the present invention includes storing DC offset on internal capacitances. In one embodiment, parallel stages are used to remove DC offset corresponding to different local oscillator frequencies. Embodiments of the invention further include changing...

20060240780 - scheme for operating a wireless station having directional antennas: Disclosed is a wireless station having a receiver and a network allocation vector associated with each of a plurality of directional antennas. The receivers concurrently listen for frames from remote stations. When any receiver detects a frame from a remote station, the receiver activates its associated NAV. The station has...

20060240781 - Mega-telecommunication and information system: An entertainment device for vehicles configured to incorporate various telecommunication and Internet applications and communicatively connected to a sun-visor comprising a monitor screen configured with an electronic screen protector for protecting the screen responsive for viewing contents. The device incorporates receivers and transmitters to enable cell phone and Internet transmission...

20060240782 - Measuring interference in radio networks: In a radio access network (e.g., a cellular network), a radio receiver is configured with a switch that alternatively couples an antenna and an impedance-matched load to the remainder of the receiver. Sector load, e.g., rise-over-thermal (ROT), is monitored by comparing a first measurement of signal power in a radio...

20060240783 - Transmitting and receiving system, transmitting apparatus, transmitting method, receiving apparatus, receiving method, and program: A transmitting and receiving system is provided. The transmitting of receiving system includes a transmitting apparatus to transmit data and a receiving apparatus to receive the data by means of radio communication. The transmitting apparatus includes: data transmission means for transmitting the data; state information reception means for receiving state...

20060240784 - Antenna array calibration for wireless communication systems: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate calibrating an antenna array in a wireless network by generating a copy of a transmitted signal or transmitted signal from a transmit chain of an antenna and providing it to a receive chain of one or more antennas in the array for comparison...

20060240785 - Transceiver apparatus for use in a multi-frequency communication system, base station of a multi-frequency communication system, method for use of the transceiver apparatus, method of transceiving a multi-frequency signal in a multi-frequency communicatio: In a transceiver apparatus for use in a multi-frequency communication system a multi-frequency antenna terminal operation allows antenna transmission and reception-modes to be combined. A frequency conversion circuitry has a transmission path and a reception path, wherein each of these paths communicatively connects a signal processor and an antennaswitch. The...

20060240786 - Method and system for broadband predistortion linearization: The invention relates to a method and system for wideband digital pre-distortion linearization, which is used to overcome the influence of memory effect in radio frequency power amplifier, to expand digital pre-distortion linearization bandwidth, and to improve digital pre-distortion linearization performance. The method and system can get an in-band pre-distortion...

20060240787 - Data transmitter and data transceiver incorporating saw filter: The invention relates to a data transmitter and a data transceiver incorporating a passive device such as a SAW filter, which can modulate frequency by using the SAW filter in order to transmit digital data via analog communication path. The transmitter or transceiver generates at least two up/down-chirp signals having...

20060240788 - Transmission output control circuit, and wireless device using the same: According to a transmitting output control circuit, one end of a coupling capacitor and one end of main line of a directional coupler are coupled with an output terminal of a power amplifier. A switch for coupling the other end of the coupling capacitor and one end of a sub...

20060240789 - Reuse of digital-to-analog converters in a multi-mode transmitter: A transmitter for generating modulated signals is shown, wherein in a first-type operating mode, a first digital signal is input into a digital-to-analog converter to obtain a first analog signal that is input into a first-type unit, in which a first-type modulated signal is generated in dependence on at least...

20060240790 - Wireless transmitter: A wireless transmitter for generating and transmitting wireless signals comprises a main unit and a plurality of auxiliary units, each having an outer casing and a fastening mechanism for connecting the casing of each auxiliary unit to that of the main unit. The main unit includes a signal generator for...

20060240791 - Differential/single-ended input stage: An input stage for an integrated circuit device provides constant gain in selectable modes of either differential or single-ended operation. In one embodiment, transconductance devices are arranged so that the input impedance of the input stage matches the signal source impedance, regardless whether the input stage is selected to operate...

20060240792 - Wireless communication system, wireless communication terminal, and wireless communication method: A wireless communication system includes: a base station; a first wireless communication terminal that receives a first signal from the base station; and a second wireless communication terminal that receives a second signal from the base station. The first signal is to be used by the second wireless communication terminal....

20060240793 - Dual mode radio frequency reception device and corresponding multimedia receiver: The invention relates to a dual mode radio frequency reception device of the type enabling the reception firstly of multi-carrier broadcast signals in a first frequency band and secondly radio positioning signals in a second frequency band, comprising a single preprocessing module (21), particularly including a pass-band antenna filter (211)...

20060240794 - Method and apparatus for canceling interference from high power, high data rate signals: A method and apparatus in a radio receiver for canceling interference from a high power, high data rate signal received in a combined signal that includes a contribution from the high power signal and a contribution from a lower power signal. It is first determined whether the high power signal...

20060240795 - Noise whitening: A method of noise whitening a received signal comprises estimating (201) the noise of a channel; calculating (202) the power spectrum of the channel; adding (203) the estimated noise and the calculated power spectrum to build (204) a positive definite band matrix; applying (205) symmetric factorisation to the matrix; deriving...

20060240796 - System for processing signals received and transmitted by a radiocommunication apparatus comprising two modules, and corresponding module and device: A system for processing signals received and transmitted by a radiocommunication apparatus comprising two modules and to the corresponding module and device. The system includes signal-processing means distributed between two different modules and each of said modules comprises at least two components on a substrate in a case which is...

20060240797 - Superregenerative am demodulator: An AM receiver incorporates an antenna, a transistor, a current source, and a power supply. The antenna is connected to a gate electrode of the transistor and through a link to a signal earth. In operation, the antenna receives radiation and generates a corresponding input signal which propagates to the...

20060240798 - Apparatus and methods for control of sleep modes in a transceiver: Disclosed are apparatus and methods for control of sleep modes in a transceiver or receiver. In particular, a transceiver is disclosed including a processor configured to determine timing information concerning sleep periods for at least a portion of components within the transceiver. The transceiver also includes a sleep control logic...

20060240799 - Method of supporting sleep mode in broadband wireless access system: The primitives between an upper management layer and the MAC layer within a mobile station and a base station are defined in order to specify and clarify the operations within the protocol stack layers in a broadband wireless access system to allow a mobile station to perform sleep mode. Media...

20060240800 - Wireless appliance alert notification system: A method for wireless notifications that an electrical appliance is plugged in and ‘on’. The system architecture consists of one or more transmitters and a receiver. The method for implementation for this invention is as follows: Transmitters are plugged into 110V outlets. Electrical appliances that are normally plugged in to...

20060240801 - Pre-paid wireless interactive voice response system: 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 their current rate plan and features. In system also includes provisions that...

20060240802 - Method and apparatus for generating session keys: Nonce exchange with a target BS is performed even when the MS connected to the source BS so when the mobile reaches the new BS, it will be able to create a fresh key quickly. Alternatively, the MS can provide the nonce directly to the target base station immediately (or...

20060240803 - Automated notification systems and methods: An automated notification method comprises detecting an event requiring a notification to a user, determining a level of urgency of the event, selecting a notification method (from predetermined user-specified notification methods) based on the level of urgency of the event, performing the notification method, and dynamically changing the notification method...

20060240806 - Data security device: A backup device comprising a secondary user-carried device for backing up data from a primary portable data storage device is described. The backup device includes a short-range wireless communication link, a communication interface for communicating with the primary portable data storage device over the communication link to receive data to...

20060240804 - Data security in a mobile e-mail service: A method for conveying e-mail traffic between an e-mail server (108) and a mobile terminal (102) which has an e-mail address (122A) under the e-mail server and permanent terminal identity (122B) and a temporary identity (122D) in an access network (114). A connectivity function (600) is operationally coupled to the...

20060240805 - E-mail messaging to/from a mobile terminal: Systems and methods for sharing an e-mail address between a host system (100) and a mobile terminal (102) addressable by a temporary wireless identity (122D) in an access network (114). A terminal identifier (122A) is assigned to the mobile terminal (102) or its user. The system comprises a connectivity function...

20060240807 - Wireless sensing system and method: An apparatus and method is provided for sensing data relating to a structure (14), including an inspection site sensor system having at least one microprocessor (16) coupled to the structure. At least one sensor (12) for sensing data is connected to each of the at least one microprocessors that compare...

20060240809 - Method and system for restricting use of additional functions in a mobile terminal: A method of restricting the use of at least one additional function in a mobile terminal is provided. The mobile terminal generates new data by executing an additional function of the mobile terminal. The mobile terminal encrypts the data with currently received location information, upon receipt of a restriction signal,...

20060240810 - Mobile communication system, mobile communication device and method for incoming-call filtering: A mobile communication system, a mobile communication device, and a method for incoming-call filtering are provided. The mobile communication device includes a wide area communication module and a local area communication module that are selectively enabled. A server includes a plurality of data groups and at least one response function....

20060240808 - System and method of providing advertisements to cellular devices: A method of advertising is disclosed and includes monitoring transmission data of one or more cellular towers located along a freeway and recording an identification and a time and date stamp for one or more cellular devices that establish communication via the one or more cellular towers as the at...

20060240811 - Wireless satellite digital audio radio service (sdars) head unit with portable subscription and cell phone abilities: A system and method for automated activation of a radio, or content receiver, used to receive subscription radio services such as XM or Sirius radio. A wireless communications device with a short range data link wirelessly communicates with the content receiver to control the content receiver and receive a unique...

20060240812 - Network support for suspect's geo-location monitoring and alerting: An apparatus in one example has: at least one high security area in the wireless telecommunications network; a storage in the wireless telecommunications network, the storage having at least one phone number corresponding to the at least one mobile terminal; detection module in the wireless telecommunications network that outputs a...

20060240813 - Data communication system and method for determining round-trip-time adaptable to communication environment: A data communication system adapting a radio link protocol (RLP) includes at least one base transceiver station (BTS) for communicating with a plurality of subscriber stations (SSs); and a base station controller (BSC) for setting radio link protocol (RLP) round-trip-time (RTT) value for the at least one BTS under its...

20060240815 - Apparatus and method for performing rf calibration in mobile phone: Disclosed herein is an apparatus and method for performing radio frequency calibration in a mobile phone. The apparatus includes a process control Personal Computer (PC), a base station controller simulator, a switching jig, and a Level Translator (LT). The process control PC performs the overall control of the apparatus for...

20060240814 - Method and system for evaluating and optimizing rf receiver locations in a receiver system: Performance data for a receiver system are generated based on one or more receiver locations and one or more performance parameters. The performance parameters may relate to the environment, the receivers, and a signal emitter. The performance data are then displayed to a user. The location of one or more...

20060240816 - Wireless phone system: A wireless phone system comprises a base station and a wireless handset that selectively communicates with the base station using at least one of first and second wireless modes. The second wireless mode has a greater range and higher operating power than the first wireless mode....

20060240817 - Multi-wireless connection device: Provided is a multi-wireless connection device that point-to-multipoint connects a communication link between a plurality of cellular phones to be connected to a cellular network, and a cordless phone that remote controls an outgoing call from the plurality of cellular phones to the cellular network or an incoming call from...

20060240818 - System, method, and apparatus for command and control of remote instrumentation: A remote instrument control and reporting system utilizes a host communication gateway based on hardware and software that interfaces with a field device, remote terminal unit, or control system that operates across multiple communications infrastructures to a common back end data delivery system. This design allows Modbus hosts or similar...

20060240820 - Inbound roamer call control system: A system for implementing call control services for an inbound roamer is provided. The system includes a control node to implement the call control services in response to an initiation request. The system further includes a service node to send a terminating customized applications for mobile network enhanced logic subscription...

20060240819 - Method and system for providing mobile number portability between different wireless networks of different technologies: An economical method and system is disclosed for supporting seamless mobile number portability between different wireless networks of different technologies without introducing changes to existing network entities in the wireless networks involved in the service....

20060240822 - Dynamic generation of csi for outbound roamers: The present invention provides a system and method for providing Customized Applications for Mobile network Enhanced Logic (CAMEL) Subscription Information (CSI) of an outbound roamer of a Home Public Mobile Network (HPMN) such that the outbound roamer is roaming in a Visited Public Mobile Network (VPMN). The system comprises a...

20060240821 - Identifying and automatically messaging system for a wireless communication server and operating method for the same: An identifying and automatically messaging system for a wireless communication server and an operating method for the same is disclosed. A mobile phone having a wireless communication module of the preferred embodiment brings the representative of the owner in different occasion by employing the identifying and messaging system. Whereby, the...

20060240823 - Method and apparatus for cdma timer-based registration on a mobile device: A method and apparatus for improved timer based registration for a mobile device with a network, the network having a standard slot cycle time for interrupts, the method comprising the steps of: receiving, at the mobile device, a system parameter message from the network, the message having a value indicating...

20060240824 - Method for quick registration from a mobile device: A system, apparatus, and method is directed towards managing a quick registration of a mobile device over a network. The quick registration is directed at enabling an end-user to conveniently register a mobile device to be useable for such communications sessions, as an instant messaging (IM) session, and the like....

20060240827 - Apparatus and method for performing handoff with a mobile station having a smart antenna: A mobile station configured to perform a soft handoff. The mobile station comprises a receiver and a smart antenna module. The receiver is configured to receive a plurality of similar RF signals that comprises a plurality of first RF signals generated by a serving base station or first base station...

20060240830 - Apparatus, method and computer program providing fast, zero data loss high speed data packet access (hsdpa) serving cell change: To handover a mobile terminal from a serving base station BTS to a target BTS, a radio network controller RNC: 1) informs the mobile terminal of the pending handover so it can preconfigure to communicate with the target BTS; 2) indicates to the serving BTS which will be the last...

20060240826 - Communication system and handover communication method: When a downlink transmission is performed in the handover state in a mobile communication system having a mobile station, base stations and a base station controller, user data from the base station controller is transmitted from a first base station to the mobile station and error correction code for the...

20060240829 - Discovery of neighbour cell beacon frequencies in mobile networks: In order to discover at least part of a frequency list used by an active wireless device in a cellular communications network for neighbour cell signal measurements, measurement reports are extracted from messages carrying reports of measurements relating to propagation of wireless signals between the network and the device. Additional...

20060240831 - Method, apparatus and computer program providing high-speed downlink packet access (hsdpa) cell change without rrc acknowledgment: Handing over a mobile terminal MT from a serving base station BS to a target BS employs a handover window HW during which the MT monitors a shared control channel of the target BS. The network determines whether to handover based on a MT measurement report. Once handover is determined,...

20060240825 - Mobile communication method, mobile communication apparatus, home agent apparatus, access router information server apparatus, and mobile communication system: A mobile communication apparatus includes a mobile IP/Fast Mobile IP processing part, an access router searching part for acquiring information on access router apparatuses, a Fast Mobile IP compliance determining part for determining whether the access router apparatuses comply with Fast Mobile IP, and a Fast Mobile IP control part...

20060240828 - Wireless handoffs between multiple networks: The disclosure is directed to a mobile communication device, and method for handing off a mobile communications device between two networks. A processor in the mobile device may be used to establish a network connection with a server in a first network while supporting a call in a second network....

20060240832 - Method of executing handover in broadband wireless access system: The primitives between an upper management layer and the MAC layer within a mobile station and a base station are defined in order to specify and clarify the operations within the protocol stack layers in a broadband wireless access system to allow a mobile station to execute handover. Media Independent...

20060240833 - Mobile station for performing handoff using position information and method thereof: A mobile station (MS) for performing a handoff using position information including a global positioning system (GPS) module for receiving one or more GPS signals; and a controller for calculating a position of the MS by enabling the GPS module if a handoff condition occurs and transmitting the calculated position...

20060240834 - Method and system for coverage prediction in wireless networks: A method and system for estimating the number of transceivers in a service area (100) are disclosed. A calibration area (102) is selected from the service area, and a defined number of transceivers are placed in the calibration area. Input parameters are determined for the defined number of transceivers, which...

20060240835 - Model and method for computing performance bounds in multi-hop wireless networks: Disclosed is a general model and method for computing performance bounds in multi-hop wireless networks. Rather than focusing on computing asymptotic performance bounds under assumptions of homogeneity or randomness in the network topology and/or workload, the present invention accommodates any given network, technology, interference model, routing paradigm, and workload. Using...

20060240836 - Independently acquiring and tracking wireless communication system signaling channel assignments on communication links: A system for monitoring each channel of the communication link (307) for protocol messages and identifying a set of channels with valid protocol messages and, monitoring the set of channels to determine the transceivers (309) served by the set of channels and associating the transciver (309) with respective channels from...

20060240837 - Signaling connection admission control in a wireless network: A method for admission control of control plane signaling requests includes receiving a signaling request. Upon receipt of the signaling connection request, a first determination is performed to determine whether to provide admission to common resources. When the first determination is negative, a second determination is performed to determine whether...

20060240838 - Frequency overlay communication system and control method thereof: A frequency overlay communication system that includes a first communication system for performing communication using a first frequency band being a preset bandwidth; and a second communication system for performing communication using a second frequency band being a second preset bandwidth, wherein the second frequency band includes the first frequency...

20060240844 - Computationally-efficient estimation of the location of a wireless terminal based on pattern matching: A method of using a non-GPS-derived technique to estimate the location of an Assisted-GPS-enabled wireless terminal for the purposes of generating location-specific assistance data for the wireless terminal is disclosed. The wireless terminal then uses the assistance data to acquire and process one or more GPS signals and to derive...

20060240840 - Continuous data optimization by filtering and positioning systems: Methods and systems of continuously optimizing data in WiFi positioning systems. A location-based services system for WiFi-enabled devices calculates the position of WiFi-enabled devices. A WiFi-enabled device communicates with WiFi access points within range of the WiFi-enabled device so that observed WiFi access points identify themselves. A reference database is...

20060240841 - Estimating the location of a wireless terminal based on assisted gps and pattern matching: A method of using a non-GPS-derived technique to estimate the location of an Assisted-GPS-enabled wireless terminal for the purposes of generating location-specific assistance data for the wireless terminal is disclosed. The wireless terminal then uses the assistance data to acquire and process one or more GPS signals and to derive...

20060240843 - Estimating the location of a wireless terminal based on non-uniform locations: A technique for estimating the location of a wireless terminal at an unknown location in a geographic region is disclosed. The technique is based on the recognition that there are traits of electromagnetic signals that are dependent on topography, the receiver, the location of the transmitter, and other factors. For...

20060240842 - Estimating the location of a wireless terminal based on non-uniform probabilities of movement: A technique for estimating the location of a wireless terminal at an unknown location in a geographic region is disclosed. The technique is based on the recognition that there are traits of electromagnetic signals that are dependent on topography, the receiver, the location of the transmitter, and other factors. For...

20060240846 - Estimating the location of a wireless terminal based on signal path impairment: A technique for estimating the location of a wireless terminal at an unknown location in a geographic region is disclosed. The technique is based on the recognition that there are traits of electromagnetic signals that are dependent on topography, the receiver, the location of the transmitter, and other factors. For...

20060240845 - Estimating the location of a wireless terminal based on the traits of the multipath components of a signal: A technique for estimating the location of a wireless terminal at an unknown location in a geographic region is disclosed. The technique is based on the recognition that there are traits of electromagnetic signals that are dependent on topography, the receiver, the location of the transmitter, and other factors. For...

20060240839 - Methods and systems for location estimation: Methods and systems for location estimation. Signals are received from a plurality of satellites and a plurality of base stations by a mobile station. The location of the mobile station is estimated according to TOA (Time-Of-Arrival) and TDOA (Time Difference-Of-Arrival) measurements calculated based on the signals....

20060240847 - Mobile communication terminal for providing geographical information and method thereof: A mobile communication terminal including gps reception unit configured to receive location information indicating where the mobile terminal is located, a display unit configured to display geographical information based on the received location information, and a controller configured to provide additional information corresponding to the displayed geographical information. Further, the...

20060240848 - Determining approximate locations of network devices that are inaccessible to gps signals: Methods, apparatus, and computer program products for determining approximate locations of network devices. Information is received concerning last known locations of portable network devices that attach to a network, and used to compute an approximate location of an obscured network device attached to the network. In some embodiments, the last...

20060240849 - Update notification system, update monitoring apparatus, mobile communication terminal, information processing apparatus, contents acquisition instructing method, contents acquiring method, and program storing medium: An update notification system is capable of efficiently acquiring updated contents. Provided are an update monitoring apparatus 6 for monitoring contents stored in a server 7 for their update situations to transmit an update notification signal when the contents is updated, a mobile communication terminal 3 for notifying the user...

20060240851 - Interactive messaging system: The interactive messaging system of the present invention provides for an interactive communication process between users, both senders and recipients. The sender composes a message by filling in a template stored in data services. Once completed, the sender pushes the message to a recipient's wireless device if the wireless device...

20060240850 - Method and system for sending binary messages: Systems and methods for sending binary messages to a wireless communication device are provided. A mobile handset maintains a database of contacts including an indicator identifying whether a particular contact is capable or incapable of receiving a binary message. When a mobile handset attempts to send a binary message to...

20060240852 - Method and system to enable mobile transactions: A system and method for allowing users to specify using commonly available mobile devices such as mobile telephones, transactions to be performed is described. More particularly, the invention provides a transaction interface layer which uses a predetermined lightweight message syntax to allow a user to specify transactions to be performed....

20060240853 - Wireless sensor alerts: Techniques are provided for wireless sensor alerts. In certain implementations, wireless sensor alerts may be facilitated by a process at a wireless device. The process may include detecting a signal representing an environmental state in the vicinity of the wireless device, comparing the environmental state represented by the signal against...

20060240854 - Sychronization method for terminal-to-terminal direct communication in time division duplex mobile communication system: A method for the terminal-to-terminal direct communication in the TDMA mobile communication system includes the following steps when making use of the uplink timeslots of the normal communication: in the initial phase, a sender still transmits a signal to a receiver according to its transmission timing for the normal communication;...

20060240856 - Implicit group formation around feed content for mobile devices: A unique system and method that facilitates group-based mobile communication around external feed content is provided. The system and method involve adding external feed content to content generated within a group. Both types of content can be viewed on the mobile devices of the group. Updates to the feed content...

20060240857 - Multicast transmission system and data distribution method: A multicast transmission system includes a server and a plurality of terminal devices, the servers and the terminal devices connected through a network. Each terminal device includes data transmission means for transmitting data to the server during a PTT call, and output means for receiving counting result data from the...

20060240855 - Systems and methods for updating presence in a mobile communication network: A mobile communication device is configured to use peer-to-peer communication to update presence information for the associated subscriber. Peer-to-peer communication bypass the network and reduce network overhead and reduce bandwidth consumption. The mobile communication device can also be configured to provide updated presence information to the network, whenever there is...

20060240858 - Base station, mobile station, communication system, and communication method: A base station communicates with plural mobile stations using a common channel common to the mobile stations, and a predetermined number of a plurality of shared channels assigned to the mobile stations. The base station includes a scheduler that acquires, for each of the mobile stations, a transmitting power ratio...

20060240859 - Method for controlling transmission power on communication channels and base station to implement the method: A base station transmits blocks, in successive transmission time intervals, to radio terminals, over communication channels shared between the radio terminals comprising traffic channels and control channels associated with traffic channels, some of the transmitted blocks being positively or negatively acknowledged by the radio terminals. With regard to a radio...

20060240862 - Mobile image-based information retrieval system: An image-based information retrieval system, including a mobile telephone, a remote recognition server, and a remote media server,the mobile telephone having a built-in camera and a communication link for transmitting an image from the built-in camera to the remote recognition server and for receiving mobile media content from the remote...

20060240860 - Network support for blocked dialing at vehicular high speed: An apparatus in one example has: a mobile terminal, the mobile terminal having a GPS (Global Positioning System) unit and a dialing disable unit; a GPS module in a wireless telecommunications network having an input to receive GPS location data from the mobile terminal; a blocking module operatively coupled to...

20060240861 - On-waiting apparatus of communication device: An on-waiting apparatus of communication device according to the invention provides a telephone capable of dialing for outgoing and receiving incoming calls via a communication device or a public telephone network, and is also capable of receiving incoming calls when already in connection using a multi-directional circuit and an exchange...

20060240865 - Athletic performance monitoring system and method: An athletic performance monitoring system and method are disclosed that assist a user in monitoring an athletic endeavor. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a local area wireless transceiver capable of receiving a signal from a motion sensor. A performance engine may be...

20060240863 - Wireless phone system: A wireless phone system comprises a base station and a wireless handset that selectively communicates with the base station using at least one of first and second wireless modes. The second wireless mode has a greater range and higher operating power than the first wireless mode....

20060240864 - Wireless phone system: A wireless phone system comprises a base station and a wireless handset that selectively communicates with the base station using at least one of first and second wireless modes. The second wireless mode has a greater range and higher operating power than the first wireless mode....

20060240866 - Method and system for controlling a portable communication device based on its orientation: According to one embodiment, a method includes determining an orientation of a portable communication device and controlling an aspect of the operation of the portable communication device based on the determined orientation....

20060240867 - Mobile phone with monitoring functions, monitoring system and monitoring method thereof: A mobile phone with monitoring functions, a monitoring system and a monitoring method thereof are disclosed. The mobile phone monitoring system includes at least a mobile phone, a monitoring unit, a control unit and a predetermined abnormality reaction unit. The mobile phone serves as the mainbody of the monitoring system....

20060240868 - System and method for providing sms contact information to a wireless mobile device: A system and process for updating files on a wireless mobile device is provided. The wireless mobile device has an RF (radio frequency) card which cooperates with a wireless network to provide wireless communication. In one example, the wireless network maintains a message contact list on a network server. The...

20060240869 - Wireless data communication card with compact antenna: A wireless data communication card configured in accordance with an example embodiment of the invention includes a low profile antenna arrangement that does not protrude from the housing of the computing device when the wireless data communication card is inserted into the housing. The low profile design is achieved without...

20060240870 - Wireless base station and a wireless phone: On receiving a link channel assignment request or a link channel reassignment request from a mobile station, a wireless base station specifies a unique word (UW) that is not assigned to any other mobile stations, and sends a channel assignment notification containing the specified UW to the requesting mobile station....

20060240871 - System and method for audible error messaging of an incorrect optical medium: An error engine associated with an optical disc drive plays an audible voice error message if an optical medium inserted in the optical drive based system is incompatible with the optical drive based system. For instance, if an optical medium with video navigation is input into an optical drive based...

20060240872 - Electronic device and method for operating the same: An electronic device includes an angle sensor and an input unit. The angle sensor is for detecting a rotation angle of the electronic device relative to an initial location as the electronic device rotates from the initial location. The input unit is for generating an input signal. When the rotation...

20060240873 - Method for displaying images in telecommunication terminal and telecommunication terminal using the same: Disclosed is an apparatus and a method for displaying images or videos in a telecommunication terminal having a rotatable display. When the display has been rotated, images or videos are displayed as they are and, when the display has not been rotated, target regions are chosen from the images or...

20060240874 - Mobile communication apparatus with rotatable display screen: The present invention provides a mobile communication apparatus with a rotatable display screen. The mobile communication apparatus, according to the invention, includes a main module, a display module, and an actuating device. The display module includes a frame and a rotatable screen mounted on the frame. The actuating device is...

20060240875 - Reproducing device, setting changing method, and setting changing device: A reproducing device that can reproduce data and operates on a battery includes displaying means, attitude detecting means for detecting an attitude of the reproducing device, determining means for determining whether the reproducing device satisfies a predetermined condition, and controlling means for changing a setting of the reproducing device on...

20060240876 - Pen with an indicating function for receiving a phone call: A pen with an indicating function for receiving a call to a cell phone includes a sound and light electronic circuit arranged in an interior of the pen. The sound and light electronic circuit is composed of a battery, a light emitter, a speaker and a switch (maybe consisting of...

20060240877 - System and method for providing in-coming call alerts: An automated process and system for setting an alert style for a communications device is provided. A scheduling program is used to define one or more activities. The scheduling program may operate on the communication device, or may be operated remotely. An alert style is selected and associated with a...

20060240878 - Cordless telephone outlet device: A cordless telephone outlet device that not only provides the cordless telephone access to a telephone network, but also provides the cordless telephone the proper DC electrical energy for proper operation eliminating the need for an unsightly external DC power supply typically connected to an AC outlet. Further, the device...

20060240879 - Mobile communication terminal: An improved mobile communication terminal (100) is obtained, which is easy to operate while protecting the main display (102) when not in use. This is realized in the invention by letting the display body part, i.e. the first body part (101), to be located within the main body part, i.e....

20060240880 - Single hand cellular flip phones opener: The Single Hand Flip Phone Opener is mechanical attachment to cellular flip-phones, which makes possible for the user of such a phone to open the phone with one hand. The invention is based on the fact that big percent of the cellular phones are flip-type and operating that type phones...

20060240881 - Portable terminal: A portable terminal includes: a body case including a button operation unit and a circuit unit; at least one sliding case which is sildably connected to the body case to protrude from the body case and in which a closed resonance space is formed when the sliding case protrudes; and...

20060240882 - Self-structuring antenna arrangement: An antenna arrangement includes an antenna circuit for receiving and/or transmitting radio frequency signals. A signal feed circuit is coupled with the antenna circuit. A performance-adjusting device includes at least one of: a structure feed switch selectively interconnecting the antenna circuit and the signal feed circuit; a variable impedance element...

20060234623 - System and method for efficient transfer of applications and data during device swap: A method for automatically registering the runtime environment and related component applications with an application gateway when transferring the applications from a first wireless device to a second wireless device is provided. Applications installed on the first wireless device are registered with an application gateway, which maintains a registration list...

20060234624 - System and method of dynamic packet transmission for agps: A system and method for dynamically transferring satellite data packets through GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) in an AGPS(Assisted Global Positioning System) is disclosed. The satellite data are transmitted in dynamic size of segments so as to improve the transmission efficiency. When the network communication is stalled or broken, the...

20060234625 - Wireless audio for entertainment systems: A set top box comprises a signal receiver that includes a front end that receives digital broadband signals and a tuner that tunes a channel including digital audio and video signals. A signal demodulator communicates with the signal receiver and demodulates the digital audio and video signals. A decoder outputs...

20060234626 - Broadband high efficiency traveling wave tube amplifier system: A power control system for a satellite receiving radio-frequency signals includes a traveling wave tube amplifier system and corresponding traveling wave tube. An anode voltage of the traveling wave tube amplifier system is used to modulate or saturate the current of the electron beam of the traveling wave tube so...

20060234627 - Mobile radio combiner and multi-coupler unit: A broadband RF Spectrum Transmitter combiner is duplexed with a Receiver splitter/multicoupler through a unique circulator/isolator configuration to provide a bi-directional radio input, unidirectional input at the receiver multicoupler to the radio and a unidirectional output from the radio to the transmitter combiner output. The circulator/isolator duplexer circuitry may be...

20060234628 - Radio communication system, radio transmission apparatus and radio reception apparatus: Radio communication system includes radio transmitter containing unit dividing transmission data into first-code blocks each having N-bit data, unit adding error detection codes to first-code blocks, unit assigning first-code blocks to second-code blocks each including M carriers each having L symbols, and unit transmitting second-code blocks, and radio receiver containing...

20060234629 - Method for operating a short haul radio transmitting/ radio receiving system conforming to a short haul radio communication standard and a master device for implementing said method: A method and apparatus for operating a short-haul radio transmitting/radio receiving system conforming to a short-haul radio communication standard wherein a maximum number of devices able to communicate is exceeded. The devices exceeding the maximum number of devices communicating with a master device are switched to a park mode and,...

20060234632 - Method of updating firmware using object push profile in the bluetooth object exchange protocol: A method of updating firmware using the object push profile in the bluetooth object exchange protocol is proposed. This method first makes use of a bluetooth transmitter to connect a bluetooth electronic device whose firmware is to be updated and a host storing a new program code. Next, the bluetooth...

20060234630 - Ping feature for electronic devices: A pinging electronic device, a pingable electronic device and a network for the devices are disclosed. The ping electronic devices comprising a ping function and a transmitter wherein the ping function is adapted to generate and the transmitter is adapted to transmit over an ad hoc wireless network at least...

20060234631 - System and method for generation of interest -based wide area virtual network connections: A system and method that allows users of wireless mobile devices such as cellular telephones to automatically identify one another, alert users to detection of nearby users, transmit information of common interest and communicate in real-time at increased distances. Two mobile devices may in embodiments identify one another using Bluetooth...

20060234633 - Simultaneous channel estimation of a carrier and an interferer: Interference suppression in a receiver in a wireless network that utilizes training sequences for synchronization and channel estimation, wherein the training sequence of an interfering channel overlaps the training sequence of a desired channel to cause degraded channel estimation, by generating a channel estimate for a carrier part of a...

20060234634 - Integrated circuit comprising a transmission channel with an integrated independent tester: The invention relates to an integrated circuit (IC) comprising of a signal transmission channel (TX) including radio frequencies and a built-in tester (TEST) intended to test radio characteristics of said integrated circuit, said tester (TEST) comprising of—first means (COUPL) for recovering a part of the signal generated by the transmission...

20060234640 - Measuring of the coverage area of a base transceiver station: The object of the invention is a method for determining the coverage area of a base transceiver station (BTS) of a cellular network and for finding the optimum place of location of the base transceiver station (BTS). The method comprises connecting a wireless terminal (21) to the base transceiver station...

20060234637 - Method and apparatus for measuring highly reflective channel performance: A serial communications link includes a plurality of projections disposed on a reference channel. The projections may be disposed at predetermined angles relative to a signal propagation axis of the reference channel, and may be spaced to tune the reference channel to a predetermined jitter profile based on a data...

20060234635 - Mobile communication device and method for controlling such a mobile communication device: A mobile communication device and a method for a mobile communication device, including a multiplicity of modes of operation with different operational functions. The mobile communication device encompasses sensors for determining body-related parameters of the user and/or environmental parameters of the mobile communication device. The mobile communication device includes a...

20060234638 - Responding to changes in measurement of system load in spread spectrum communication systems: The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for responding to changes in measurement of a system load in a spread spectrum communication system. Using a load control algorithm, for example, the spread spectrum communication system may handle sudden changes or variations, such as spikes or steps in system...

20060234639 - System and method for monitoring and measuring end-to-end performance using wireless devices: A system and method by which a mobile wireless device dynamically decides the other end host to initiate a session to automatically conduct a performance test. Results of the performance test are then transferred to a monitoring server under appropriate conditions. A method for conducting a performance test on a...

20060234636 - Wireless network virtual station address translation with external data source: A method and system for the capture of data files transmitted over a wired network by a data traffic generator. The mapping and/or translation of network addressing data contained within the captured data frames is such that the frames, when transferred over the wireless medium, appear to have originated from...

20060234642 - Low feedback scheme for link quality reporting based on the exp esm technique: A method for providing a low-feedback scheme for link-quality reporting based on the EESM technique is provided herein. During operation, a node will analyze the current channel conditions and determine a non-linear approximation of the carrier to interference plus noise ratio (CINR). The non-linear approximation is sent to a communication...

20060234641 - System for using an existing cellular network to detect incidents of gps jaming: A system for detecting incidents of GPS signal jamming utilizes one or more cellular telecommunications networks where GPS signals are received at various geographically dispersed base stations for timing or synchronization purposes—e.g., certain CDMA-based mobile phone networks. Each base station is outfitted with a data routing subsystem that routes data...

20060234645 - Method and apparatus to provide low cost transmit beamforming for network devices: Techniques and structures for use in generating an approximated beamforming matrix in a MIMO based system are disclosed. The techniques and structures may be used to allow closed loop MIMO beamforming to be performed within a device that does not include singular value decomposition (SVD) circuitry....

20060234644 - Method for setting the retransmission timeout period in a packet switched communication network: The present invention relates to a method for updating the value of a time-out period in a data unit sender. The updating comprises deriving an intermediate value from the n most recently measured values of a response time, augmenting the intermediate value, reducing the current value of the time-out period,...

20060234643 - Radio communication system and transmission mode selecting method: A radio communication system for quickly selecting an optimum transmission mode in accordance with the quality and situation of a propagation path is provided. The system comprises first and second radio communication apparatuses capable of radio-communicating with each other. The first radio communication apparatus comprises a propagation path environment estimator...

20060234646 - Rate selection for a quasi-orthogonal communication system: To select a rate for a transmitter in a communication system, a receiver obtains a channel response estimate and a received SINR estimate for the transmitter, e.g., based on a pilot received from the transmitter. The receiver computes a hypothesized SINR for the transmitter based on the channel response estimate...

20060234647 - Receiver and transmitter of a frequency-modulated signal: The receiver of the invention consists of a non-baseband component (1), a frequency demodulator (3), and a baseband component (5). The non-baseband component (1) causes a first group delay variation in a frequency-modulated non-baseband signal while processing the non-baseband signal. The first group delay variation in the frequency modulated non-baseband...

20060234648 - Wireless transmitter: A magnetic field tolerant amplifier having an amplifier stage, a differential to single-ended output amplifier stage and a first and second delay line. In another embodiment the invention relates to a magnetic gradient cancellation delay line including two coils connected in series at a junction and non-inductively wound to cancel...

20060234649 - Mobile communication device: It is an object of the present invention to accomplish a frequency synthesizer portion capable of simultaneous operations for transmission and reception with a simple configuration. A mobile communication device associated with the present invention has a frequency-switchable first VCO (11) for creating local oscillator signals for transmission and reception,...

20060234650 - Low voltage differential signaling transceiver: A low voltage differential signaling transceiver includes a transmitter and a receiver, the transmitter having a first terminal in signal communication with a transmission line, a source resistance in signal communication with the first terminal, a switch in signal communication with the source resistance and in switchable signal communication from...

20060234651 - Method and apparatus for hysteresis control: A hysteresis control method for a control system includes setting an arbitrary reference value for an existing position of a control width and calculating a difference between a present input value and the arbitrary reference value. A direction of increase/decrease from a control value and an input value variation width...

20060234652 - Transmission apparatus, communication apparatus and mobile radio apparatus: Transmission apparatus capable of reducing distortion of the vector modulation wave that is the transmission output to a sufficiently small level is provided. An amplifying section (105) generates a vector modulation wave based on an amplitude component modulation signal and a phase modulation wave. A synchronous demodulating section (107) detects...

20060234653 - Antenna setting apparatus: An antenna setting apparatus that allows a user to receive a broadcast from a desired direction easily and excellently is configured as follows: an antenna setting apparatus includes: a control unit changing the direction of a smart antenna with high sensitivity; a tuner extracting a signal; a CPU controlling the...

20060234654 - Method and apparatus for linearization in a quadrature transmitter: A wireless communication unit (300) comprises a linearised transmitter (325) having a forward path, a power amplifier (324) and a feedback loop, operably coupled to the power amplifier (324) and the forward path. The feedback loop comprises a loop adjustment function (442), and the forward path and feedback loop comprise...

20060234655 - Amplifier apparatus, polar modulation transmission apparatus and wireless communication apparatus: A quantizer 122, and a plurality of down-samplers 124-1 to 124-N down-sampling the quantized output at a speed of (1/N) of the sampling rate of the quantizer 122 and shifting the respective phases by (360/N) degrees so as to provide a latched output, are provided. As a result, it is...

20060234656 - Communication semiconductor integrated circuit, communication electronic component and wireless communication system: A communication semiconductor integrated circuit includes a phase control loop and an amplitude control loop. A gain of a variable gain amplifier when it is detected from an output of the comparator that the amplitudes of the reference signal and the feedback signal are equal to each other while a...

20060234657 - Communication device and an antenna therefor: A communications device, such as a cellular telephone (10), comprises a rf circuit and a PIFA antenna (16) having feed and shorting terminations. An electrically conductive, self supporting member (18) is provided to effect a connection between contact points of the rf circuit and the antenna The member (18) has...

20060234658 - Mobile communication terminal supporting simultaneous gps: There is provided a mobile communication terminal supporting S-GPS (Simultaneous Global Positioning System) which has a controller, a keypad, a display unit, an audio processor, a memory unit, and an RF transceiver, the mobile communication terminal including: a wideband antenna which receives a CDMA-band signal, a PCS-band signal, and a...

20060234659 - Wirless control system, control device, controllable device device control method, control program, and computer readable recording medium containing the same: The wireless control system of the present invention constitutes a wireless AV system (101) which forms a wireless transmission network (1) in which a wireless center unit (102) and a TV main body unit (103) are connected with each other by a wireless LAN. The wireless center unit (102) transmits...

20060234660 - Received signal to noise indicator: A wireless transmit/receive unit comprising a radio frequency signal measurement device that is configured to produce a value indicating a radio frequency signal, noise and interference received power at an antenna connector. An average noise plus interference measuring device is configured to produce a value indicating a measured average noise...

20060234661 - Semiconductor integrated circuit for communication and portable communication terminal: The present invention provides a semiconductor integrated circuit for communication (radio frequency IC) capable of detecting and correcting variations in an amplitude loop band of a transmission circuit having a phase control loop and an amplitude control loop without using an external measuring apparatus. In a semiconductor integrated circuit for...

20060234662 - Low complexity equalizer for radio receiver: A diversity receiver (60) has two diverse channels fed by the antennas, an adaptive equalizer (20,30) for each channel and a coefficient adapter (40) for adapting two sets of coefficients in a time shared manner for the equalizers. A combiner combines the equalized signals. By sharing one adapter for adapting...

20060234663 - System and method for steering directional antenna for wireless communications: A system and method for determining an optimal antenna position of a directional antenna in a wireless communication system are described. The optimal antenna position is determined by calculating a steering metric value for possible antenna positions and the antenna position with the highest steering metric value is selected as...

20060234664 - Calibration method for suppressing second order distortion: Calibration methods and circuits for suppressing second order distortion in a direct conversion receiver. In the calibration method, a signal output by a down converter is filtered to obtain an interference signal, and strength of the interference signal is detected. A calibration code is obtained according to the detected strength...

20060234665 - Mixer circuits and methods with improved spectral purity: Embodiments of the present invention include mixer circuits and methods with improved spectral purity. In one embodiment the present invention includes a mixer circuit comprising a first transistor having a gate, a source and a drain, a second transistor having a gate, a source and a drain, a first capacitance...

20060234666 - Mixer circuits and methods with matched bias currents: Embodiments of the present invention include circuits and methods for improving the spectral purity of mixer circuits. In one embodiment the present invention includes a mixer circuit including a bias circuit, the bias circuit comprising a first transistor having a gate, a source, and a drain, wherein the drain is...

20060234668 - Communication semiconductor integrated circuit: The communication semiconductor integrated circuit includes serial-signal processing circuits having low-pass filters and variable gain amplifier circuits cascade-connected in series. The low-pass filters constituting the serial-signal processing circuit each include a variable capacitance circuit composed of capacitance elements and switching elements connected in series to the capacitance elements, respectively, and...

20060234667 - High-frequency ic and gps receiver: The high-frequency IC according to an embodiment of the invention includes a mixer down-converting the RF signal into an IF signal with a given center frequency lower than that of the RF signal, a first-order low-pass filter with a pass band set narrower than a bandwidth of the IF signal...

20060234669 - Mobile device with manually operated power source: A mobile device with a manually operated power source which generates power sufficient to operate the device when shaken by a user. A cable connected between the power source and mobile device carries the generated power from the power source to the mobile device such that the mobile device can...

20060234670 - Transceiver with closed loop control of antenna tuning and power level: A trainable transceiver for learning and transmitting an activation signal that includes an RF carrier frequency modulated with a code for remotely actuating a device, such as a garage door opener. The trainable transceiver preferably includes a controller, a signal generator, and a dynamically tunable antenna having a variable impedance...

20060234671 - Electronic device, time correction method and time correction program thereof: The present invention is made with the aim of performing time correction appropriately, regarding an electronic device that corrects its device side time with a time correction information supplied from outside the device. This is achieved by the electronic device (mobile terminal device 2) that corrects its device side time...

20060234672 - Geographically specific picture telephone advisory alert broadcasting system: A method of broadcasting advisory alerts via communications networks where a central notification computer is provided to broadcast advisory alerts to electronic device addresses stored in a subscriber database in a text, oral, pictorial, and computer retrievable format. The subscriber database contains subscriber data sets which each include the electronic...

20060234674 - Charging in a communication system: The invention provides, according to one embodiment, a method for charging for services in a communication system which includes a charging entity and at least two connection support entities for providing resources to support a connection in the communication system. The method may include detecting initiation of a connection for...

20060234673 - Intelligent intersection apparatus and method for network-based positioning: An intelligent intersection method and apparatus for network-based positioning include defining a first cell model having a first antenna as a center point and a second cell model having a second antenna as the center point, determining first and second distances from the first and second antennas, respectively, to a...

20060234676 - Method and apparatus for authenticating a mobile station in a wireless communication network: A communication system controls access of a mobile station (MS) to a wireless communication network by generating a RAND Token and conveying the RAND Token and associated constraints to the MS prior to a determination by the MS of a need to access the communication network, wherein the RAND Token...

20060234675 - Method and apparatus for authentication scheme and for network access using an electronic frank: An electronic frank, e.g. electronic stamp, in use arranged to be associated with data to be transmitted over a telecommunications network (405) to an intended recipient at a destination address (408), the electronic frank comprising a data structure containing a set of at least one authenticated parameter-value, each parameter-value associated...

20060234679 - Information protection system for mobile terminal device, information protection method for mobile terminal device, control program, computer-readable medium and electronic information device: An information protection system for a mobile terminal device, the information protection system including: an authentication device for performing a person authentication process when an information protection request for the mobile terminal device is issued in order to identify whether any person being subjected to authentication is an owner of...

20060234678 - Method and system for managing data traffic in wireless networks: The present invention can be used to facilitate the integration of wireless capability provided by wireless access points into an enterprise computer network. A gateway server is interposed between wireless access points and protected networks to provide security and integration functions, for example, authentication, access control, link privacy, link integrity,...

20060234677 - Method for channel control with wireless transmission: A method for channel control with wireless transmission is provided, in which a receiver is adopted to collect identification signals sent by a plurality of different wireless controllers. Because of the wireless transmission structure, the method automatically switches the setting of the channel list within an authorized range. According to...

20060234680 - Method of managing voicemails from a mobile telephone: A method of managing voice messages using a mobile telephone, comprising the steps of: (a) a graphical user interface (GUI) being opened on the mobile telephone, the GUI individually listing remotely stored voice messages in a menu list, the voice messages being meant for a user of the mobile telephone;...

20060234681 - System and method for data and message optimization in wireless communications: Data and message optimization in wireless communications are enabled by a wireless device with a user application provisioned with an optimized data structure for storing information associated with a remote service that utilizes complex data structures for conveying the information to devices that access the remote service. A proxy maps...

20060234682 - Method and apparatus for locating wireless access points: A wireless access point locator (108) operating as an interactive voice response (UVR) system has a memory (108B), and a processor (108A). The processor is programmed to locate (204) one or more wireless access points in response to a request from a calling party (102), and submit (212) to the...

20060234683 - Method and system for delivering a voice mail notification to a subscriber using cellular phone network: A method and system of the present invention delivers a voice mail notification to a subscriber of a voice mail system to indicate that a voice mail message is waiting in the subscriber mailbox. The voice mail system cellular phone network. The voice mail notification typically includes the calling party...

20060234685 - Broadcasting user-specific information: Described are methods and systems, including computer program products, for broadcasting user-specific information through satellite radio or digital radio. Generally, information specific to a user is correlated with an identifier associated with a receiver associated with the user, and the information is broadcast to the receiver, such that use of...

20060234686 - System and method for providing user awareness in a smart phone: A system and method for providing a plurality of options to a mobile telephone user based upon the user's prior activities. The present invention includes an “action input,” the actuation of which results in a menu of previously performed activities by the user. For example, the menu can display activities...

20060234684 - System for and method of reproducing multimedia contents in mobile communication terminal: A method of reproducing multimedia contents in a mobile communication environment is provided. The method comprises configuring a first mobile terminal connected to at least a second mobile terminal in a communication network to download a content file from a remote content server; synchronizing the first mobile terminal with the...

20060234687 - Enhanced features in an advanced voice services (avs) framework for wireless communications systems: A real-time exchange (RTX) interfaces to a wireless communications system to provide enhanced features for advanced voice services (AVS), which include location-based information, voice portal integration, push ring tones and voice message screening....

20060234688 - Method and system for communicating user identification information: A method and system for communicating user identification information comprising steps of transmitting or receiving signals including at least one parameter to identify users interests from or at a first device; identifying one or more second devices according to the signal parameters, and selectively connecting identified devices....

20060234689 - System and method for simplification of data structure in wireless communications: System and method for data simplification in wireless communications are enabled by an application developer toolkit used to convert complex service messages to a simplified data structure for storing information associated with a remote service that utilizes complex data structures for conveying the information to devices that access the remote...

20060234690 - Management of multiple user identities in a communication system: A computer-implemented method for communication includes assigning to at least first and second communication terminals (22) of a communication system (20) at least respective first and second private identities and a common public identity different from at least the first and second private identities. Registrations of the public identity and...

20060234691 - Adaptive radio patch interface system: The present invention is directed to an RF communications system that includes a first radio processor module having a first receiver portion programmed to convert a first analog receive signal into a first digital audio receive signal. The first analog receive signal conforms to a first set of radio signal...

20060234692 - Poc communication server apparatus, terminal apparatus and poc communication method: Subject to user's setting in PoC group communication, the user address of that user is set to non notification against other users. In case of starting PoC group communication, a PoC subscriber selects non notification subjects and transmits a PoC session commencement request. At that time, the caller sets his...

20060234693 - Single wireless communication device with multiple, concurrent subscriber number capability: A wireless communication device, a method, and a computer program product that enable multiple subscriber numbers to be concurrently assigned to and supported within a single communication device, such as a wireless/cellular phone. The communication device is designed with circuit components and logic that allows two or more subscriber numbers...

20060234694 - Calibration apparatus: In a calibration apparatus, which calibrates the phases of main signals input to each of the antenna elements of an array antenna, a calibration signal generation portion generates calibration signals, which are combined with main signals. An RF switch alternately inputs to a wireless receiving portion the signals radiated from...

20060234695 - Mobile communication system and mobile communication method: A mobile communication system includes a home agent which transfers a communication packet to a mobile communication device connected to a foreign network, an address management section which manages a plurality of IP addresses, an address generation section which assigns any of the IP addresses managed, by the address management...

20060234696 - Mobile communication terminal and method for displaying and transmitting idle screen display message: A mobile communication terminal and a method for display an idle screen message are disclosed. When an idle screen message is received, the message is displayed on an idle screen. If the message is a short message, the message is displayed as a phrase of the idle screen, and if...

20060234698 - Apparatus and process for a universal diagnostic monitor module on a wireless device: A wireless device includes a communications processing engine having a plurality of diagnostic data relating to the operation of the wireless device on a wireless network; a computer platform having a universal diagnostic monitor module operable to retrieve selected ones of the plurality of diagnostic data from the communications processing...

20060234697 - Diagnostics and self-healing in a wireless communications device based on peer-to-peer signaling and emulation: A method (400) of responding to a signaling problem at a communication device (102) includes identifying (404, 414) another communication device (118) to act as a peer of the communication device if a first signal quality measurement of a wide-area signal received at the communication device is less than a...

20060234699 - System and method for establishing the instantaneous speed of an object: calculation means (8) comprising: means for measuring the frequency shift of the signal received relative to the frequency of the signal transmitted, means for establishing the vectorial difference of the speeds of the object and the satellite by calculating the Doppler effect and, means for calculating the speed in the...

20060234700 - Aircraft in-flight entertainment system including digital radio service and associated methods: An aircraft in-flight entertainment (IFE) system includes a headend unit, and a plurality of seat electronic boxes (SEBs) spaced throughout the aircraft. 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...

20060234701 - Method and system for distributed roaming services for mobile users on wireless mesh networks: A method and system for distributed roaming in a wireless mesh network are disclosed. Cells are able to track and predict a users movement throughout the network. The user's roaming profile is forwarded to predicted future cells before the user actually enters those cells. When the user enters a new...

20060234702 - Selective transmission of mobile radio communications system service information: A radio base station does not broadcast service information without a request from a mobile radio terminal. When a mobile radio enters or approaches a coverage area of the base station, it transmits a service information request in or near the radio coverage area. The service information is associated with...

20060234703 - Method for displaying special alerting icon: A method used in wireless communications for displaying an icon on a wireless communications device indicating that a calling party is a subscriber of a same wireless communications service provider of a called party. A terminating mobile station switching center (MSC) flags a routing number port associated with a routing...

20060234704 - System and method for transmitting/receiving data in a multicarrier communication system: A multicarrier communication system divides a full frequency band into a plurality of sub-carrier frequency bands, generates a plurality of segments having a frequency-time domain occupied by a predetermined number of sub-frequency bands and a predetermined number of time intervals, and classifies a plurality of segment types according to each...

20060234705 - Method, apparatus and computer program providing for rapid network selection in a multimode device: A mobile station includes at least one radio frequency transceiver, a data processor and a memory coupled to the data processor. The memory stores information that includes an overlay function and overlay parameters for use by the data processor to perform system selection by invoking the overlay function to determine...

20060234706 - Collective notification of node reset to subset of connections in radio access network: Upon reset of a control node (261) of a radio access network (24) which controls connections with user equipment units (30) in a connected mode, a message (102) indicative of the reset is sent between nodes of the radio access network. The message results from occurrence of a reset procedure...

20060234707 - Method and system for recovering from hand-off fail for use in cdma 2000 1xev-do system: A multimedia mobile communication system for recovering a handoff failure comprises: a hybrid access terminal; a base station transceiver subsystem for transmitting and receiving the voice and the data; a base station a mobile switching center a 1xEV-DO transceiver, and an access network controller for controlling the handoff by transmitting...

20060234710 - Method for performing roaming in dual mode mobile terminal capable of preventing ping-pong phenomenon: A method for performing roaming in a dual mode mobile terminal in such a manner that a ping-pong phenomenon, occurring under a weak electric field between communication networks providing communication services using different mobile communication techniques can be prevented. To this end, a communication path connected between modems performing a...

20060234708 - Method, system, network entity, and end-user terminal for controlling a handover of a cellular terminal: A method, a system and an end-user terminal for providing a handover between a digital unidirectional data communication domain and a digital bi-directional data communication domain is disclosed. Exemplary domains can be a broadcast network such as IP over DVB (Digital Video Broadcasting) network, or a broadcast mode, in further...

20060234709 - System, devices, methods and programs for reducing service interruption during routing area change: Before execution of a routing area update (RAU) procedure associated with a handover of a mobile station (40) from a source cell to a target cell in a mobile telecommunication system, a handover required message (14) is sent to a core network (CN) from a source base station (16) in...

20060234711 - Method for restricting calls to a cell phone: The present invention is a method for restricting calls to a cell phone, including the steps of: receiving restriction information; testing an incoming call to the cell phone against the restriction information; and, if testing determines that the incoming call is restricted, routing the incoming call to a voice mail...

20060234712 - Routing wireless communications: A method for routing wireless communications by a host system comprises receiving from a wireless communication device(CD) of a wireless subscriber(WS) a valid routing request data; authenticating WS's account information as valid subscriber account based on predetermined authentication criteria, and if account information is valid, receiving from wireless CD a...

20060234713 - Dynamically obtaining neighborhood information: Obtaining neighborhood information for a cell includes establishing the presence of a mobile node in a first cell having a first cell site. A communication session for the mobile node is facilitated. Neighborhood information is determined in response to facilitating the communication session. The neighborhood information describes a second cell...

20060234714 - Modified overhead adjustment function: A MOAF algorithm is used to resize cells for balancing capacity. The MOAF algorithm bases its decision on a cell and all other cells which the algorithm decides are sufficiently close in a propagation sense to affect the results. The MOAF algorithm also automatically determines those cells in an area...

20060234715 - Apparatus and method for controlling transmission power in communication systems using orthogonal frequency division multiple access scheme: Disclosed is a method for controlling transmission power to be allocated to sub-carrier signals in a cellular communication system capable of dividing a frequency band into a plurality of sub-carrier bands and multiplexing the sub-carrier signals of the sub-carrier bands based on multiple frequency reuse factors. The method comprises the...

20060234716 - Techniques for radio link resource management in wireless networks carrying packet traffic: A method includes receiving on an uplink communication path one or more packets from a user equipment, and determining radio link resources to be allocated on the uplink communication path for the user equipment. The determination is based at least in part on an information content of the one or...

20060234717 - Listening frequency and resource planning for cdma based ad-hoc networks: This invention is about a method to reduce the near-far effect in the physical and media access control (MAC) layer for focusing on CDMA radio technologies in ad-hoc network systems. The radio resource is first organized and separated into small pieces, divided in both frequency domain (FDMA) and in time...

20060234718 - Communication system, communication unit and method of power saving therein: A communication system (200) comprises a system management function (246) for managing base-site resources and system throughput of data. The system management function (246) defines a number of resources. The system management function (236), such as a radio network controller, comprises a data throughput identification function to identify one or...

20060234719 - Methods and apparatus for selecting communication channels based on channel load information: Embodiments of methods and apparatus for selecting communication channels based on channel load information are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed....

20060234720 - Wireless communication system, access point and wireless station composing the wireless communication system, and communication load balancing method for access point: To reduce load on an access point even if a large number of wireless stations are located very close to the access point. An access point detects a communication load value (S1 and S2) and reports it to wireless stations (S3). The access point waits for a predetermined time after...

20060234721 - Facilitating routing requests received in wireless communication devices: A method and apparatus are disclosed for facilitating a routing request received in a wireless communication device of a wireless subscriber. The method comprises receiving a first string of data input by the wireless subscriber wherein the first string comprises a predetermined format recognizable by a communication application residing on...

20060234724 - Method, apparatus and system for gps time synchronization using cellular signal bursts: A system, apparatus and corresponding method by which to synchronize to a time reference a main module of a device—a main module such as global positioning system (GPS) receiver—using a cellular communication signal received by a cellular module also included in the device. To synchronize the main module to the...

20060234723 - Methods and terminal devices: A method and terminal device are provided which effect the steps of receiving a message indicating that a user of another terminal device has pressed a talk button, the message including a geographical location of the other terminal device, or any information derived therefrom; and indicating the geographical location of...

20060234722 - Methods, configuration and computer program having program code means and computer program product for determining a position of a mobile communications device within a communications network: To determine a position of a mobile communications device within a communications network (localization). possible location areas for the mobile communications device are determined from communications signals of the mobile communications device by using base stations located within the communication network, and these possible location areas are superimposed to form...

20060234725 - Celluar based location of wireless local area networks: A method for locating a wireless local area network WLAN transmitting a request to a wireless service provider of a wireless network for a location of the wireless local area network (WLAN), and receiving from the wireless service provider the location of the wireless local area network (WLAN). An apparatus...

20060234727 - Method and system for initiating and handling an emergency call: A system and method of making an emergency voice call from a portable computing device is disclosed. The portable computing device communicates with the cellular base station. A cellular base station identifier that corresponds to the cellular base station is determined. A public safety answering point identifier associated with the...

20060234726 - Method and system for initiating and handling an emergency call utilizing geographical zones: A method and system of making an emergency voice call is disclosed. Location data is received from a positioning device. A location area identifier is determined. The location area identifier corresponds to a geographical area encompassing a geographical location being represented by the location data. A voice call destination number...

20060234728 - Apparatus and method for processing call and message-related events in a wireless terminal: A character agent function is added to a wireless terminal and an avatar user interface (UI) for generating and processing an event is expressed when an event occurs in the wireless terminal, such that call and message-related events occurring in the wireless terminal can be expressed through the character agent...

20060234729 - Transmission method, transmission apparatus and communication system: Of any one of transmission method X of transmitting modulated signal A and modulated signal B including the same data from a plurality of antennas and transmission method Y of transmitting modulated signal A and modulated signal B having different data from the plurality of antennas, base station apparatus 201...

20060234732 - Method and apparatus for delayed transmission of sms messages: A method for delayed transmission of a message from a mobile terminal to a recipient over a mobile communication network is provide. The method comprises composing a message content, wherein the message content is stored in a storage medium of the mobile terminal; associating transmission information with the message content,...

20060234735 - Presence-enabled mobile access: A real-time communications system that is capable of convening an on-line meeting or teleconference involving text, audio, video, and/or data between multiple users of mobile and non-mobile devices. A mobile telephone is operative to receive an invitation to join an on-line meeting with at least one user of another mobile...

20060234736 - Providing contact data in a wireless telecommunication system: Providing contact data in a wireless telecommunication system comprises receiving a contact data record from a first mobile device and storing the contact data record in a contact database remote from the mobile device. A selection can be received remotely for the contact data record from a second mobile device....

20060234733 - Routing element and methods: A routing element passes messages between an application server and a plurality of signalling gateways. The routing element is operable to receive a message comprising routing information from one of the application server and a one of the signalling gateways and forward the message to the other of the application...

20060234730 - System and method for accessing multiple data sources by mobile applications: A system for accessing multiple data sources by mobile applications, the system comprising an application gateway server including a message broker for communicating between the system and a mobile device and a message transformer for communicating with a plurality of backend servers having different data source infrastructures. A method of...

20060234734 - System and method for exchanging sms message: Disclosed is a system and a method for exchanging a short messaging service (SMS) message. To do this, when a sender edits SMS message data which is longer than the length regulated in an SMS message transmission standard, the SMS message data is compressed using Huffman coding and transmitted. A...

20060234731 - System and method for secure messaging between wireless device and application gateway: A method and system for secure messaging between a wireless device and an application gateway provides for connecting a device to an application mapping layer via a secure socket and exchanging encryption keys for effecting asymmetric encryption between the device and the application gateway. The encryption has a first set...

20060234737 - Method and arrangement for frequency synchronization of a mobile station with a base atation in a mobile communication system: In a method for synchronizing a mobile station with the base station in a mobile communication system, a reference-frequency oscillator is re-adjusted. To enable an inexpensive reference-frequency oscillator of simple construction to be used, the frequency variations resulting from a change in the temperature of the mobile station and a...

20060234739 - Method and system for synchronizing a clock for an adjacent network to a clock for an overlay network: A method of synchronizing a clock for an adjacent network (AN) to a clock for an overlay network (ON) is provided. The method includes extracting an ON clock signal from an outgoing signal transmitted from the overlay network. The AN clock is synchronized to the ON clock based on the...

20060234738 - Method for synchronisation of a radio communication system divided into radio cells a base station and a mobile station in such system: A method synchronizes a radio communication system divided into radio cells. Data is transmitted in the radio communication system by a multiple access method. Each radio cell thus has a base station for the radio feed of several mobile stations, allocated to the radio cell. A synchronization of the base...

20060234740 - Communication method, communication device, and computer program: In order to solve a problem of an accumulation on the transmission side, a delay on the reception side, and the like at the time of transmission in a communication system such as a wireless LAN system, each communication station in a network transmits a beacon in which information with...

20060234742 - Method of connecting to network in broadband wireless access system: The primitives between an upper management layer and the MAC layer within a mobile station and a base station are defined in order to specify and clarify the operations within the protocol stack layers in a broadband wireless access system to allow a mobile station to perform a method of...

20060234741 - Tfc selection in the uplink: In mobile communications system comprising a network and at least one mobile station, a method for selecting a transport format combination TFC to be used for communication from the mobile station to the network, over a channel of variable quality. The method comprises the steps of: (in the network) calculating...

20060234743 - System and method for managing data to be pushed to a wireless device when the device may be outside of a coverage range: A push proxy server for pushing data to a wireless device having a coverage state of online or offline. The push proxy server comprises a coverage state detector, memory, a data store, and a transceiver. The coverage state detector determines the coverage state of the wireless device. The memory stores...

20060234746 - Communication service methods and systems: A method is provided to enable a participant of a communication event established using a first communication service to initiate a communication with at least one other participant of the communication event using a second communication service. The method includes receiving, from the participant of the communication event, a communication,...

20060234745 - Method and system for collecting opinions of push-to-talk over cellular participants in push-to-talk over cellular network: A method and system collect opinions of PoC clients in a PoC network, and provide a PoC system with an opinion voting function capable of collecting the opinions and performing an opinion voting procedure regardless of whether a floor is used when a user collects the opinion. The method includes...

20060234744 - Method and system for splitting terminals in push-to-talk over cellular network: A method establishes a PoC multimedia session for making a PoC multimedia call according to a support attribute of a PoC terminal and sets media for each session. In the method, a message for setting a session management server to split arbitrary PoC user terminals according to an attribute of...

20060234747 - System, method, and device for providing communications using a distributed mobile architecture: A method of providing telephone communication is disclosed and includes allowing a group call between four or more participants. Each participant calls from a separate telephone device that communicates with a base transceiver station that is coupled to a distributed mobile architecture server. The method also includes providing full duplex...

20060234748 - Method for performing trs communication in a mobile communication terminal: A method for performing communication in a mobile communication terminal capable of TRS communication. In the method, the mobile communication terminal periodically searches for another TRS channel or a mobile communication paging channel even though the mobile communication terminal is in communication or is in TRS communication, and informs a...

20060234754 - Base station transmission control method, cellular system and base station: When performing base station selection type transmission power control, transmission of the dedicated physical control channel signal by non-transmitting base stations is halted while minimizing the impact on uplink transmission power control. This decreases downlink interference and increases downlink channel capacity. At a base station, reception quality measuring unit 506...

20060234750 - Method and apparatus for quantization and detection of power loadings in mimo beamforming systems: A telecommunication system has a wireless transmitter that transmits data stream signals via multiple channels over a plurality of antennas, the transmitter having a power controller that selects transmission power loading per channel. The telecommunication system further has a wireless receiver that receives data stream signals from the transmitter, and...

20060234753 - Method of measuring receive power of cdma mobile communication system, and cdma mobile communication system: The receive power of uplink signals in a CDMA mobile communication system is measured by prohibiting a mobile station from transmitting an uplink signal including a frame over a first channel during a predetermined transmission prohibition period, and measuring a receive power of uplink signals at a base station transmitted...

20060234752 - Multiple other sector information combining for power control in a wireless communication system: Techniques for adjusting transmit power to mitigate both intra-sector interference to a serving base station and inter-sector interference to neighbor base stations are described. This may be done by combining interference information from multiple base stations....

20060234751 - Power loading method and apparatus for throughput enhancement in mimo systems: An apparatus and method for closed-loop signaling over multiple channels in a telecommunication system. Channel condition for each channel is obtained, and transmission power loading per channel is determined according to channel condition. The information bit streams is transmitted via the multiple channels over a plurality of transmitter antennas according...

20060234749 - Reverse loop protocol: It is possible to operate a wireless system, such as a CDMA system, in a more efficient manner by employing a statistical approach for setting power targets for reverse loop transmission. Unlike present methods for setting such targets a figure-of-merit quantity such as the frame error rate need not be...

20060234755 - Cell selection broadcast and multicast communication environments: Cells from which to receive information transmitted on a traffic channel that is not subject to power control in a cellular radio communications system are selected. Selection involves, for each of a plurality of candidate cells, using an offset value that indicates a relationship between a pilot channel transmission power...

20060234756 - Method for selecting base station: When one base station to which a terminal is to connect is determined from a plurality of base stations in a wireless communication system, the best base station is selected according to the communication quality or the content of communication services. In the wireless communication system, the plurality of base...

20060234757 - Method of efficiently reselecting cell in mobile station using gps: A cell reselection function in a mobile station (MS) through an adjacent cell search is provided. The MS in an idle state obtains its own moving speed and current location using Global Positioning System (GPS) location information, calculates a predicted moving location, and stores the predicted moving location. Thereafter, when...

20060234759 - Apparatus and method for processing a function execution recommendation alarm event in wireless terminal: Disclosed are an apparatus and method for processing function events in a wireless terminal. The apparatus includes a memory for storing a character UI image according to the function events of the wireless terminal; an event collection section for collecting the function events occurring in the wireless terminal, and generating...

20060234758 - Context-aware and location-aware cellular phones and methods: Context-aware and location-aware cellular phones and methods are described. In one embodiment, cellular phones are configured to wirelessly receive information that pertains to their current context or location. The phones then automatically use the information to modify one or more cellular phone behaviors, e.g. by turning the phone off, changing...

20060234760 - Apparatus and method for requesting initiation of a communication session using capability configuration parameters with card application toolkit: A means by which a list of service options may be used as capability configuration parameters to specify a card application toolkit call setup command, such as from R-UIM applications, is provided. For example, when the R-UIM application sends a call setup command to a mobile communication station, the R-UIM...

20060234764 - Electronic device, operational restriction control method thereof and operational restriction control program thereof: The present invention relates to an electronic device capable of operating multiple functions simultaneously, and enables to operate another function on which operational restriction has been put, with no decline in security features, even while operating a particular function. The electronic device is an electronic device (e.g., mobile terminal device...

20060234762 - Method and apparatus for selecting a communication mode for performing user requested data transfers: A method and apparatus for downloading and uploading digital data using a dual-mode wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU). When in a first mode, the WTRU communicates with a first network, such as a universal mobile telecommunication system (UMTS). While the WTRU is in the first mode, a user of the WTRU...

20060234763 - System and method for generating a wireless application from a web service definition: System and method for creating a wireless application from a web service definition language employs an algorithm that analyzes each message of the web service definition an maps the message to a wireless application message and a wireless application data structure. The message maps are used by a proxy at...

20060234765 - System and method of utilizing a remote server to create movies and slide shows for viewing on a cellular telephone: There is provided herein a system and method for automatically creating digital video works within a remote server based on digital image content contained in a user's camera cell phone or attached memory card. In the preferred arrangement, the cell phone owner will begin by selecting digital content (e.g., still...

20060234761 - Ultra wideband radio transmitter, ultra wideband radio receiver, and ultra wideband radio communication method: Disclosed are ultra wideband radio transmitter, ultra wideband radio receiver, and ultra wideband radio communication method capable of securing higher transfer rate and communication quality than conventional ones while avoiding a band where communication signals are concentrated, and capable of miniaturizing an antenna. In a transmitter, a delay time controller...

20060234766 - Methods and systems for providing wireless information transportation using dual frequencies: Systems and methods are disclosed for providing wireless information transportation. The disclosed systems and methods may include using an unlicensed radio frequency to transmit information from a first point to a second point in a data transport system and determining that the unlicensed radio frequency no longer provides a sufficient...

20060234769 - Cellular phone in form factor of a conventional audio cassette: A hands free cellular phone system combining a full featured cellular phone with a form factor of a conventional audio cassette is provided. Several embodiments enabling real time interactive multimedia applications are also provided. Said hands free cellular phone system comprises a cellular phone device (1) in form factor of...

20060234767 - Imaging device and mobile terminal using this imaging device: An imaging unit mounted on a compact portable terminal equipment such as a cellular phone set, etc. On a side of a flexible printed circuit board (FPC) having an opening (20) at a predetermined position thereof, an imaging element (2) is provided such that at least a part of the...

20060234768 - System and method for providing access to sms messages for blind people and mobile communication device employing the same: Mobile communication devices and methods relating to information output to a user of a mobile communication device, and especially to output for disabled users. To enable blind users to gain access to information, in particular text information, one method includes converting digital text information into electrical signals and employing the...

20060234770 - Communication device and method for controlling the same: A communication device comprises a first memory which stores telephone books, each including identification information and a name of a communication party, a second memory which stores communication histories, each including a communication time and identification information and a name of a communication party, a changing device which changes a...

20060234771 - Headset adapter for ip or digital phone: The headset adapter allows using standard cell phone headset with IP or digital phone, equipped with built-in modular headset jack. Adapter comprises of three basic components: RJ-9 modular plug, 4-conductor cable, and 2.5 mm stereo phone jack. Components connected to couple phone signals with standard headset circuits....

20060234773 - Fast booting method for mobile communication device: The invention discloses a fast booting method for a mobile communication device. This method is accomplished by dividing a memory module of a mobile communication device into two areas, a virtual identity module storage and a mobile communication data storage. The virtual identity storage can store the set of data...

20060234772 - Forensic toolkit and method for accessing data stored on electronic smart cards: A tool kit for accessing data stored on an electronic SMART card is provided, the kit comprising a SMART card reader and recorder, at least one storage card, and a control card. The card reader and recorder is operative to read and copy the electronic SMART card onto the storage...

20060234774 - System, method, and device for providing communications using a distributed mobile architecture: A device for providing a communication path between two or more wireless telephones via one or more wireless transceivers is disclosed. The device includes a housing that includes a mobile switching center module and includes a base station controller module. Further, in another particular embodiment, the mobile switching center module...

20060234775 - Electronic communication system: In order to develop an electronic communication system (100; 100′), designed for a progressive movement means, having at least one base station (10) and having at least one carrier station (60) such that the possible uses of this communication system (100; 100′) can also be extended to other important areas...

20060234776 - Antenna selection diversity apparatus and receiving method: An antenna selection diversity apparatus capable of shortening, when antennas are switched in frame units, a measuring time of antennas and shortening the time of selecting an optimal antenna from among a plurality of antennas on standby. In this apparatus, an antenna selection section (109) selects one of three antennas...

20060234777 - Flexible multi-sector multiple antenna system: A radio access network having multiple sectors comprises two or more sector transmitters serving respective sectors for transmitting data to mobile stations; a plurality of antennas, each antenna assigned to a respective sector transmitter; and a antenna management processor controlling sector antenna assignments and operative to dynamically reassign a sector...

20060234778 - Wireless communications terminal, communications protocol switching method, communications protocol switching program, and integrated circuit of wireless communications terminal: The present invention provides a wireless communications terminal capable of preventing radio interferences from being caused by other wireless communications concurrent with a contactless communications. A wireless communications terminal (101) receives, in a contactless communications, a command from a reader/writer (105) via a second wireless communications section (209), and analyzes...

20060234779 - Method and device for supplying power to leds: The invention relates to a device for lighting at least one light emitting diode to be supplied with predefined minimum forward voltage and maximum current. It comprises: voltage supply means for supplying voltage to the light emitting diode, a pulse generator for generating a cyclic pulse signal having predefined on-times...

20060234780 - Speakerphone with detachable ear bud: This invention is a wireless, speakerphone accessory that allows the user to be in either public or private communication with a remote electronic device like a mobile telephone. The accessory includes a detachable ear bud that can be worn in a user's ear so that only the user hears the...

20060234781 - Portable wireless communication device and methods of configuring same when connected to a vehicle: A portable wireless communication device (22) and method for configuring the same when connected to a hands-free system in a vehicle (20). In one embodiment, the device (22) has an interface (36A) and a detector (70A). The interface (36A) is for connecting the wireless communication device (22) to a hands-free...

20060234784 - Collapsible portable display: A collapsible portable video display is provided, which incorporates a mini-projector, a folding mirror, and a rear projection foldable screen. In one type of implementation the display is incorporated into a mobile consumer appliance, such as a cellphone, mobile DVD player, etc. In other type of implementation the display device...

20060234782 - Conversion module and chassis arrangement, and related methods: A telecommunications arrangement including a chassis, at least one power supply, and a plurality of conversion modules that provide an electrical-to-optical or optical-to-electrical signal conversion. The chassis includes a separate back plane made up of individual back panels. The back panels are attached to the chassis by a tab and...

20060234785 - Portable terminal having replaceable modules: Disclosed is a portable terminal having replaceable accessory modules. An accessory module can be rigidly mounted using a frame of the portable terminal, and can be easily replaced with another module according to a user's selection to satisfy various consumer demands. The portable terminal includes a body, accessory modules which...

20060234783 - Wireless receiver with a foldable antenna: A wireless receiver has a first housing, an antenna installed inside the first housing for receiving digital video/audio signals, a second housing, a flexible pipe connected to the first housing and the second housing and capable of being bent so as to form an angle between the first housing and...

20060234786 - Portable terminal: A mobile terminal includes an upper housing (1) and a lower housing (2) that can be mutually slid for enabling the mobile terminal to enter either of a closed state in which the upper housing (1) and the lower housing (2) overlap each other as a whole and an open...

20060234789 - Complementary beamforming methods and apparatuses: Improved methods and apparatuses are provided to address a potential “hidden beam problem” in wireless communication systems employing smart antennas. The improved methods and apparatuses utilize complementary beamforming (CBF) techniques, such as, for example, Subspace Complementary Beamforming (SCBF), Complementary Superposition Beamforming (CSBF) and/or Single Beam Complementary Beamforming (SBCBF) techniques....

20060234788 - Hand-held wireless communication device with ceramic screws: A wireless communication device having an antenna area includes at least a first component, a second component and a connector. The connector is made of ceramic material and is disposed in the antenna area for fixing and connecting the first component and the second component so as to avoid interference...

20060234787 - Mechanically isolated wireless communications system and method: A system and method for transmitting wireless energy between two or more components housed within a faraday-like cage structure. In one preferred form a cooling plenum of an equipment rack supporting a plurality of independent components is used for transmitting wireless signals between the components. In another form a wireless...

20060229011 - Frequency conversion method using single side band mixer, and frequency conversion circuit using the same: A frequency conversion circuit is provided, to remove unwanted spurious variations in an output from a single side band mixer. In the frequency conversion circuit, polyphase filters are connected to at least one of input and output ports of a single side band mixer. The polyphase filters associate the spurious...

20060229016 - Apparatus and method for displaying information in bluetooth communication mode of wireless terminal: An apparatus and method are provided for displaying information in a Bluetooth communication mode of a wireless terminal. When devices for performing Bluetooth communication in the wireless terminal are searched, a controller of the wireless terminal classifies the searched devices according to device type, displays the classified devices, provides notification...

20060229012 - Bluetooth mobile phone having a detachable bluetooth earpiece: A Bluetooth mobile phone includes a first module and a second module detachable from the first module. When the first and second modules are separated, signals are wirelessly transmitted between the first and second modules in a Bluetooth mode. When combining the first and second modules, a connection interface of...

20060229015 - Device and method for displaying files during bluetooth communication in a wireless terminal: A device and method for displaying files during Bluetooth communication in a wireless terminal is provided. The device comprises a controller for controlling and transmitting only a shared file upon request for file transmission, and a Bluetooth module for transmitting the shared file. The method comprises determining whether a wireless...

20060229014 - Electronic device, priority connection method and priority connection program: The present invention is comprised of a communication unit (short-range wireless communication unit 10) for transmitting/receiving a short-range wireless signal to/from one or more devices (devices 61 to 6N) with a short-range wireless communication function, a registration unit (database 18) for adding priorities to the plurality of the devices and...

20060229013 - Wireless communication module: A wireless communication module. A base includes a first surface and a at least one cavity formed on the first surface. First electronic element is disposed within the cavity. A plate includes a second surface. A wireless transmitting element is formed on a second surface in a patterning method and...

20060229017 - Interference cancellation in wireless relaying networks: In accordance with the invention, signal information representative of a first set of information to be transmitted more than one time over at least one link is stored as a priori known signal information. This could be previously received and/or, detected information, own transmitted information or otherwise available relevant signal...

20060229018 - Apparatus and method for use in testing wireless devices: A modular test chassis for use in testing wireless devices includes a backplane and a channel emulation module coupled to the backplane. The channel emulation module comprises circuitry for emulating the effects of a dynamic physical environment (including air, interfering signals, interfering structures, movement, etc.) on signals in the transmission...

20060229019 - Channel sounding method and apparatus: A modular test chassis for use in testing wireless devices includes a backplane and a channel emulation module coupled to the backplane. The channel emulation module comprises circuitry for emulating the effects of a dynamic physical environment (including air, interfering signals, interfering structures, movement, etc.) on signals in the transmission...

20060229020 - Modular wireless test architecture and method: A modular test chassis for use in testing wireless devices includes a backplane and a channel emulation module coupled to the backplane. The channel emulation module comprises circuitry for emulating the effects of a dynamic physical environment (including air, interfering signals, interfering structures, movement, etc.) on signals in the transmission...

20060229021 - Control 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 a request signal with which to have a second radio apparatus provide information on rates at the second radio apparatus. When transmitting the request signal,...

20060229022 - Detection of power-drain denial-of-service attacks in wireless networks: In a wireless network, an architecture for wireless attack resistance (AWARE) detects power-drain denial-of-service (DoS) attacks by generating statistical measures relating the power consumption by a mobile unit and data transmitted to and from the mobile unit during normal operations of the wireless network. The AWARE architecture compares those statistical...

20060229023 - Device, system and method for coordinating power saving with access categories: A method, device and system to set a power saving mode of for example a station to correspond to a power saving parameter that may be associated with a access category of a wireless packet in for example a uplink and a downlink of such station....

20060229026 - Method for calibrating a wireless base station using an internal source: A method is provided for controlling a radio frequency generator in a wirelss base station. The method comprises determining a first power level of a radio frequency transmission, and determining a second power level of a calibration transmission. The calibration transmission is of a known magnitude. The first power level...

20060229025 - Method for extracting optimal reverse link capacity by scaling reverse link eb/no setpoint based on aggregate channel load and condition: A method for extracting the optimal capacity in a cellular network reverse link involves controlling the reverse link Eb/No setpoint (or other control setting) based on the aggregate reverse link load and channel condition. The cellular network includes a plurality of mobile stations that wirelessly communicate with a base station...

20060229024 - System and method for efficient power supply regulation compatible with radio frequency operation: The invention can utilize a switching power regulator and a non-switching power regulator in conjunction to provide regulated power to the digital logic. The digital logic and switching regulator may be deactivated during RF activity so that interference from both the digital circuitry and the switching regulator is significantly reduced....

20060229028 - Method and apparatus for providing a sidetone in a wireless communication device: A wireless communication device is disclosed that provides a sidetone to the device user. The device converts an outbound analog audio signal to an outbound audio bitstream from which a sidetone bitstream is extracted. The device also converts an inbound digital audio signal to an inbound audio bitstream. A filter...

20060229027 - Method and apparatus for provisioning a device: An article (100) has a device (122), and a radio frequency identification (RFID) module (102) coupled to the device. The RFID module is programmed to receive (210) provisioning instructions from a wireless source (142), and transfer (212) to the device the provisioning instructions when said device is enabled....

20060229029 - Ultra high frequency / very high frequency (uhf/vhf) band enhancement: A wireless device that includes a Ultra High Frequency/Very High Frequency (UHF/VHF) based radio to cognitively search for and use vacant channels and multiple MIMO based radios siliconized with the UHF/VHF based radio....

20060229030 - Tunable duplexer with common node notch filter: A mobile station with a tunable duplexer is disclosed. The mobile station includes a processor and memory in electronic communication with the processor. The mobile station includes a receive path that has a receive band reject filter in electronic communication with an antenna at a common node. The receive path...

20060229031 - Wireless communication system, transmitter and receiver used therefor, and wireless communication method: A wireless communication system has a transmitter and a receiver. The transmitter includes a transmission-data-processing device that generates items of data for a first series and items of data for a second series, a transmission-processing device that generates transmission signals for each series based on these items of data, and...

20060229032 - Rfid transceiver device: An RFID transceiver device is capable of high sensitivity reception, by the reduction of noise, irrespective of the distance to the tag. The RFID transceiver device includes a delay circuit between a local oscillation circuit and a demodulation circuit, wherein the amount of delay of the delay circuit is set...

20060229033 - Clock circuit for a microprocessor: A wireless communication device is described having a transmitter that generates electromagnetic interference when operating in a transmit mode. The wireleess communication device comprises a clock circuit including a first clock element configured to generate a first clock output, and a second clock element configured to generat a second clock...

20060229034 - Ergonomic handheld remote controller: A handheld controller is for remotely controlling a mobile gaming unit, such as a remote-controlled car. The controller includes a housing having a longitudinal axis, a first controlling mechanism, such as a trigger, for controlling speed and direction of the mobile gaming unit and, a second controlling mechanism including a...

20060229035 - High-frequency circuit and communications apparatus comprising same: A high-frequency circuit for use in a dual-band wireless communications apparatus selectively using first and second frequency bands, comprising a diplexer connected to the output of a power amplifier for sending either one of transmission signals in the first and second frequency bands to an antenna, a coupler having a...

20060229036 - Method for predistortion of a signal, and a transmitting device having digital predistortion, in particular for mobile radio: A method is proposed for signal processing with predistortion. An amplifier circuit is provided for this purpose, whose operating states are characterized by at least one characteristic variable. A digital modulation signal having two components (R, φ), as well as a power word (LS), derived from the first component (R),...

20060229037 - Piecewise linearizer circuit for radio frequency amplification: An apparatus and method for amplifying a radio frequency signal including, generating a plurality of shaped pulses utilizing a piecewise linearizer circuit, applying the plurality of shaped pulses to a first input of a radio frequency amplifier circuit, and injecting a radio frequency carrier into a second input of the...

20060229038 - Wireless transmitter having multiple power amplifier drivers (pads) that are selectively biased to provide substantially linear magnitude and phase responses: A method and apparatus are provided for enabling a transmitter to have a substantially linear magnitude response and a substantially linear phase response. The transmitter includes first and second power amplifier drivers (PADs) having respective first and second non-linear phase responses. The first non-linear phase response is based on a...

20060229039 - Gain boosting for local oscillation distribution circuitry: A multi-band integrated circuit radio transceiver comprising receive and transmit radio front end circuit blocks further includes a local oscillation generator for generating a local oscillation for use by the receive and transmit radio front end circuit blocks to down convert received RF signals to baseband or low intermediate frequency...

20060229041 - Carrier sensing method and rfid transceiver device using the same: An RFID transceiver device is proposed capable of carrier sensing even when the difference with respect to the carrier frequency employed by the other system is close to “0”. The device includes a control and signal processing circuit; a local oscillation circuit that generates a local oscillation signal of frequency...

20060229040 - Remote control for issuing commands to a remote-controlled device: The invention relates to a remote control for issuing commands to a remote-controlled device in a wireless manner. In said remote control, an assignment mode can run prior to start-up. The remote control also comprises a rechargeable battery for supplying power. The remote-controlled device is equipped with a docking point...

20060229042 - Method and apparatus for generating arbitrary phase shift using a phase shifter based on adding two perpendicular vectors with variable gains: A radio frequency (RF) phase shifter having an RC-CR circuit that includes a first capacitor having a first capacitor node and a second capacitor node and a first resistor coupled between the first capacitor node and a ground. The RC-CR circuit also includes a second resistor having a first resistor...

20060229044 - Combined discrete automatic gain control (agc) and dc estimation: An automatic gain control (AGC) and DC estimation and correction technique for wireless communication devices is provided. An AGC signal, which controls a gain applied to a received signal by a gain stage to generate a scaled signal, is assigned one of a relatively small number of values in accordance...

20060229043 - Direct conversion receiver circuit: A receiver circuit includes a low noise amplifier (LNA) 1 to which a received signal is input, a mixer 2 for mixing an output of the LNA and a local signal, a first low-pass filter 3 for receiving an output of the mixer, and a composite amplifier in which a...

20060229045 - Tri-state rf switch: A tri-state RF MEMS switch includes: a first well formed in a first substrate; a first input signal line and a first output signal line forming a first gap therebetween in the first well; a post bar forming a boundary between the second well and third well in the second...

20060229046 - Variable gain amplifier for low voltage applications: An integrated communications system. Comprising a substrate having a receiver disposed on the substrate for converting a received signal to an IF signal. Coupled to a VGA for low voltage applications and coupled to the receiver for processing the IF signal. The VGA includes a bank pair having a first...

20060229047 - Systems and methods for recovering a signal of interest from a complex signal: A system for recovering a signal of interest from a complex signal is provided. The system includes a plurality of different oscillators. Each of the plurality of oscillators is configured to facilitate improving a signal-to-noise ratio of an input complex signal by adjusting an oscillation frequency of each of the...

20060229048 - Remote control of antenna line devices: A control means for controlling an antenna line device (6) in a radio telecommunications network in response to an input control signal has a plurality of possible modes of operation, in each of which the control means (26) is operable to receive, decode and implement the control signals in accordance...

20060229049 - Diversity reception for co-siting base stations: A connection unit comprising a feeder port for connecting the connection unit to an antenna feeder, a first relay port for connecting the connection unit to a receiving and transmitting port of a first base station, and a second relay port for connecting the connection unit to a diversity receiver...

20060229050 - Frequency matching and optimization system for an rf receiver: A system for selectively changing the operating frequency of an RF receiver includes a receiver having a selection interface, and a frequency matching module removably attached to the barrier operator. After detecting an input on its selection interface, the receiver responsively changes its operating frequency from its current frequency to...

20060229051 - Interference selection and cancellation for cdma communications: Interference cancellation for CDMA handsets comprises projecting a received signal onto a subspace that is substantially orthogonal to an interference subspace. Selection of the interference subspace includes extracting at least one interfering signal from the received signal. Interference selection may include calculating a signal-power threshold from which the presence or...

20060229052 - Circuit and method for signal reception using a low intermediate frequency reception: A method and circuit for receiving a radio frequency signal by receiving and amplifying the radio frequency signal to produce a received signal and generating first and second clock signals corresponding to first and second channel signals, respectively, of the received signal and multiplying the received signal with the clock...

20060229053 - Implantable rf telemetry devices with power saving mode: An electronic implantable device with a power saving circuit incorporates a radio frequency receiver with low power consumption. A high power radio receiver is normally turned off during a period of inactivity. When an analyzer detects a predetermined identification code in a received radio frequency signal, it outputs a signal...

20060229057 - Apparatus and method for processing information from a telephone network: In a telecommunications network having a radio access network (RAN) portion and a core network (CN) portion, data records are built from messages monitored in the RAN portion, each data record including at least two different predetermined types of field values, such as time, location area, cause indicative of a...

20060229054 - Help desk connect: Providing assistance to a user of a mobile device involves sending a signal from the mobile device to a help service computing arrangement via a network to initiate a help session. Device-specific data of the mobile device is sent via the network and targeted for a help database. A session...

20060229055 - Portable electronic device with an impact-detecting function: A portable electronic device includes a housing, and a fragment mechanism installed inside the housing. The fragment mechanism includes a first fragment, and a second fragment pressing against the first fragment. The first fragment is capable of being separated from the second fragment when an impulsive force greater than a...

20060229056 - Radio: It is a finding of the present invention that a user of a broadcast receiver gets text information significantly more quickly if a reference to another text information object in the broadcasting signal is contained in a text information object included in the broadcasting signal, which is currently displayed on...

20060229059 - Emergency call handling in a voice-over-packet environment: A network element for use in a network that provides voice-over-packet services to a plurality of communication devices, each of the communication devices being associated with a respective directory number. The network element comprises an interface connectable to a trunk group dedicated to emergency calls and a control entity. The...

20060229058 - Real-time person-to-person communication using geospatial addressing: Real-time location-based messaging methods and systems enable users of portable computing devices to communicate with other users of portable computing devices based upon the current geographic location of the one or more users. A user can select or define a geographic coordinate(s) in the physical world and a proximity/area around...

20060229060 - Method and system of alerting callers to surcharges: Method and system of alerting callers of surcharges associated with making phone calls. The method and system relating to calls made between affiliated and non-affiliated providers wherein the surcharges are fees incurred in service calls therebetween. The fees may be flat-rate fees or other per phone call fees which are...

20060229062 - Protection method using a password verifying schedule for a mobile communication device: A protection method using a password verifying schedule for a mobile communication device is disclosed in this invention, which comprises at least the steps of setting a password verifying schedule and a first password then storing said password verifying schedule and said first password, determining whether system time of the...

20060229061 - Secure switching system for networks and method for securing switching: Methods and systems are provided for secure switching of a roaming wireless terminal. The system includes a network having a plurality of access points for communicating with a wireless terminal. The network includes a first access point configured to couple with the wireless terminal, and a second access point configured...

20060229063 - Systems and methods automatically updating contact information: The subject invention provides a system and/or a method that facilitates automatically updating contact information. An interface can receive identification data related to a first mobile communication device, wherein a contact update component can provide contact information to a second mobile communication device and automatically update such contact information. The...

20060229064 - Interface for transmitting trace information: A method for transmitting trace data to a network tester, comprising: tracing data transmission between a mobile terminal and a network, transmitting the trace data by using a standardized interface specification, and controlling, via specific AT commands, the setting of the trace parameters and the communicating of the trace data....

20060229065 - System and method for pushing information to a mobile device: A system for pushing information to a mobile device includes an information source, a wireless network, and a proxy content server. The information source stores information. The wireless network sends and receives transmissions to and from the mobile device. The proxy content server is in communication with the information source...

20060229066 - Method and system for remotely operating and viewing a wireless telephone device: A method, system, and program product enable a user of one wireless telephone device to remotely view or operate another wireless telephone device. The method includes a first wireless device that receives a remote control command from a second wireless device, wherein the remote control command requests authorization for the...

20060229067 - Wireless interface for test and measurement device: A network test and measurement system including a data acquisition system that receives frames from a network under test. An analyzer executes software analyzing the output of the data acquisition system. A wireless interface for receiving commands that control the operation of the software....

20060229068 - Selecting a network entity: A method selects a network entity in a communication system. The method includes receiving, in a controller entity of an unlicensed radio spectrum access network, location information of a communication device connected to one of the unlicensed radio spectrum access network and another access network. The method further includes determining...

20060229069 - Administrator for automatically adapting a transmission channel: A method and system for exchanging data using a wireless connection according to which a user with one or more portable terminals is located in the transmission and receiving area of at least one network and the terminal or terminals log on automatically to the network in order to establish...

20060229070 - Soft handoff method and apparatus for mobile vehicles using directional antennas: A system and method for implementing soft handoffs in a cellular communications system on a mobile platform. The system employs an antenna controller in communication with a beam forming network that generates two independently aimable lobes from a single beam. The single beam is radiated by a phased array antenna...

20060229071 - Roaming arrangement: The invention relates to a method of arranging roaming in a telecommunications system comprising a local network, at least one public land mobile network, and a terminal equipment. In the telecommunications system, public land mobile network identifiers and network element identifiers linked therewith are defined. These public land mobile network...

20060229072 - Method and apparatus to track count of broadcast content recipients in a wireless telephone network: A base station in a wireless communications network counts mobile stations receiving broadcast content via multi-user channel. The base station broadcasts a repeating message identifying at least one broadcast content stream and, for each stream, a REGISTER (R) or DO NOT REGISTER (DNR) indicator. Mobile stations periodically re-examine contents of...

20060229075 - Supporting handover of mobile terminal: The present invention relates to supporting a handover of a mobile terminal. Preferably, the present invention performs a scan of a neighboring network different from a current network of the mobile terminal to determine the presence of an accessible link of the neighboring network for performing a handover, wherein the...

20060229074 - System and method for an inter-system voip handoff: The present disclosure relates generally to systems and methods for an inter-system VoIP handoff. In one example, a method for handing off a VoIP call from an evolution-data only (EV-DO) network to a non-EV-DO network includes determining whether the VoIP call needs to be handed off to the non-EV-DO network,...

20060229073 - Transmitting handoff messages using higher power: A wireless communication network (20) includes a power management module (50) for controlling the power of transmission between a base station (38) and a mobile station (40). Bearer traffic (e.g., voice or data signals) are transmitted using a first transmission power limit. Handoff messages are transmitted using a second, higher...

20060229076 - Soft handoff method and apparatus for mobile vehicles using directional antennas: A system and method for implementing soft handoffs in a cellular communications system on a mobile platform. The system employs an antenna controller in communication with a beam forming network that generates two independently aimable lobes from a single beam. The single beam is radiated by a phased array antenna...

20060229077 - Soft handoff method and apparatus for mobile vehicles using directional antennas: A system and method for implementing soft handoffs in a communications system on a mobile platform. The system employs an antenna controller in communication with a beam forming network that generates two independently aimable lobes from a single beam. The single beam is radiated by a phased array antenna on...

20060229078 - Service convergence across multiple communication domains: A computer-implemented method for communication includes assigning to at least first and second communication terminals (22) of a communication system (20) at least respective first and second private identities and a common public identity different from at least the first and second private identities. Registrations of the public identity and...

20060229081 - Communication system with request reservation timeslot management: A communication system is provided for communication between network nodes and a communication controller that provides for request timeslot management. In the network, when an individual node has data to transmit, the node transmits a request signal to the communication controller over an assigned timeslot. The timeslots are assigned to...

20060229079 - Method and device for radio resource allocation in multi-standard wireless communication systems: A wireless communication system, comprises a plurality of transceivers, receiving and transmitting RF signals (40); a plurality of RF processing units (60), processing said received signals or signals to be transmitted by said transceivers; RF resources allocator, detecting (90) information contained in received signals from a uplink on the types...

20060229080 - Net-centric coordination channel (ncc): Methods and apparatus are provided for registering an unanticipated node into an ad-hoc network. A communication channel is dedicated as the link between a registry within the network and unanticipated nodes. The dedicated communication link typically comprises primary and secondary frequencies in the RF spectrum. An unanticipated node can be...

20060229082 - Receiving point-to-point and point-to-point multipoint multimedia broadcasts/multicast services: Receiving multimedia broadcasts/multicast services (MBMS) by a user equipment (UE) comprises when an MBMS service is transmitted as a point-to-point transmission, receiving information associated with the point-to-point transmission of a point-to-point MBMS service. Point-to-point MBMS segments of the point-to-point transmission are received over a dedicated traffic channel in response to...

20060229083 - Methods and apparatus for reduced energy communication in an ad hoc network: The invention relates to communications devices for reduced energy communications in an ad hoc network. The communication device includes a first low-powered transceiver for initiating communications with other communications devices and a second transceiver for transmitting data messages to the other communications devices once communication is initiated. The communication device...

20060229087 - Location-based cell determination for mobile communication networks: The geographic location of user equipment operating in a cellular communication network is determined, and handover is performed at least in part in response to the geographic location of the user equipment....

20060229084 - Method and system for including location information in a ussd message by a network node: The present invention relates to a method of providing a location specific service in a digital cellular communication network using unstructured supplementary service data. In the method, the service data is sent to a network node of said network by at least one mobile station, and the service is dependent...

20060229086 - Surveillance system and method: A plurality of modules interact to form an adaptive network in which each module transmits and receives data signals indicative of proximity of objects. A central computer accumulates the data produced or received and relayed by each module for analyzing proximity responses to transmit through the adaptive network control signals...

20060229085 - System and method for providing communication and positioning information: A communication module capable of simultaneously providing communication and positioning information is provided. The communication module includes a processor with an integrated positioning receiver. The processor transmits and receives communication information, such as interconnect voice, dispatch voice, or data, using a first transceiver. The integrated positioning receiver is coupled to...

20060229088 - Voice broadcast location system: A system and method is discussed for targeting a message to an intended listener over a public announcement system by selecting a single broadcast location, such as a speaker, from a plurality of broadcast locations. A typical method for locating a listener uses a method of triangulation of a wireless...

20060229089 - Method and apparatus for interference control in wireless communication systems: Embodiments disclosed herein relate to providing effective interference control in a wireless communication system. In one embodiment, a method for determining an interference level in a wireless communication system is described, including: determining a rise-over-thermal (RoT) metric based on an RoT received at each receiver antenna of an access network,...

20060229090 - Symbol stream virtual radio organism method & apparatus: A method of communicating using evolutionary synthesis for band-limited voice and data channels....

20060229091 - Multiplexing on the reverse link feedbacks for multiple forward link frequencies: The present patent application comprises a method and apparatus for multiplexing reverse link feedback channels on a single reverse link frequency supporting multiple forward link frequencies for forward link channels, comprising assigning the reverse link frequency to a mobile station, assigning one or more of the forward link frequencies to...

20060229092 - Method and system for establishing wireless peer-to-peer communications: The present invention provides a wireless network system for establishing peer-to-peer communication between mobile terminals. Upon determining that peer-to-peer communication can be established between two mobile terminal, the wireless network system transmits to each of the mobile terminals information about radio resources used by the other one of the mobile...

20060229095 - Method and system for performing media storage service in push-to-talk over cellular network: A method is disclosed which sets a PoC Box service and transmits information on a service identifier by using a standard SIP, a SDP, an XCAP, and a PAP, in order to remain compatible with conventional PoC technology when performing call processing of session connection using a PoC Box. Further,...

20060229093 - Push to talk over cellular (half-duplex) to full-duplex voice conferencing: Methods of enabling non-Push-To-Talk (PTT) enabled devices, configured for full-duplex communication, to participate in a PTT-over-Cellular (PoC) session that includes a PTT enabled device, are presented including: detecting start of speech from the non-PTT enabled device; generating a floor control request on behalf of the at least one non-PTT enabled...

20060229094 - User equipment, method and system for simultaneous session control: A user equipment (UE), method and system for controlling a simultaneous session are discussed. According to an embodiment, the system includes a UE to transmit a SIP message including simultaneous sessions support (SSS) setting information associated with the UE to a home network including a server; and the server to...

20060229096 - Method of power control for call migration: In a method of controlling transmit power for a user call migrating between a first entity and a second entity in a base station of a wireless communication system, power control may be performed, as a call of the user is migrated from the first to the second entity, or...

20060229097 - Computer-readable medium, method, and device for associating information with a contact: A method, computer-readable medium, and a computing device are provided for associating one or more data objects and other information with one or more contacts. In certain embodiments, an association application operates to access, analyze, and associate one or more data objects and other information with one or more contacts....

20060229098 - Methods of delivering calls on dual-mode wireless handsets: Embodiments of the invention provide novel solutions, including systems, methods and/or software, for providing handoffs between cellular providers and VoIP providers. In some cases, for example, upon the initiation of a call from a dual-mode cellular phone, the cellular network (and/or a component thereof) may be configured to store the...

20060229099 - Systems and methods for operating a computing device having image capture capabilities: Systems and methods for operating a portable computing device having a broad set of functionality, such as image or audio/video capture capabilities, are provided. One or more specialized modes are provided in a portable computing device, such as a smart phone, for intelligently disabling any distracting functionality of the portable...

20060229100 - Wireless detector and adapter: The wireless communication device includes a housing at least partially enclosing a processor, a self-contained power source, an interface, a wireless transceiver, a wireless network detector and a wireless network adapter. The interface is configured to communicate with an external computing device. The wireless transceiver is configured for transmitting and...

20060229102 - Stored radio bearer configurations for umts networks: A scheme is provided for indexing and storing radio bearer configurations for a UMTS wireless communication network, such as a UTRAN. A radio network controller maintains a list of radio bearer configurations and an identifier for each configuration. One or more of these configurations and their identifiers are sent to...

20060229101 - Systems for delivering calls on dual-mode wireless handsets: Embodiments of the invention provide novel solutions, including systems, methods and/or software, for providing handoffs between cellular providers and VoIP providers. In some cases, for example, upon the initiation of a call from a dual-mode cellular phone, the cellular network (and/or a component thereof) may be configured to store the...

20060229103 - Point-to-multipoint communications system and method: A point-to-multipoint communications system. The system uses an antenna to generate a single beam having independently steerable, narrow lobes. The phase array and amplitude array distributions used to form the lobes are controlled so that the lobes track and provide full duplex communication links with two or more RF terminals...

20060229104 - Soft handoff method and apparatus for mobile vehicles using directional antennas: A system and method for implementing soft handoffs in a cellular communications system on a mobile platform. The system employs an antenna controller in communication with a beam forming network that generates two independently aimable lobes from a single beam. The single beam is radiated by a phased array antenna...

20060229105 - Method for call origination using short key in mobile communication terminal and mobile communication terminal implementing the same: A call origination method and mobile communication terminal for using a short key in the mobile communication terminal are provided for performing call origination conveniently, where a short key setup menu is received, at least one number is received, for which short keys are set according to the short key...

20060229107 - Method of displaying call information in mobile communication terminal and mobile communication terminal adapted to display call information: Disclosed is a method of displaying call information in a mobile communication terminal and a mobile communication terminal adapted to display call information. The method includes the steps of checking the call information when a call occurs, updating and storing the call information according to a status of the call,...

20060229106 - Mobile communication terminal: A mobile communication terminal is provided whose operability is improved by enabling a user to promptly use a function that the user requires, upon suspension of execution of an application program. A mobile communication terminal (mobile phone) 20 includes an output unit 216 having a liquid crystal display (LCD) 27...

20060229108 - Mobile phone extension and data interface via an audio headset connection: A method and apparatus is present for achieving simple and inexpensive communications from wired phones to mobile or cell phones called a mobile phone extension. It is inexpensive because of flexible system architecture and simple hardware implementation. It allows phone calls to be made from wired phones over a cell...

20060229110 - Hands-free apparatus working with bluetooth earphone: A hands-free apparatus working with Bluetooth earphone includes a Bluetooth earphone, a transmission element, and a car audio. Wherein the bluetooth earphone includes a connector plug for a first connector of a transmission element to connect with, and a second connector of the transmission element is able to lodge in...

20060229109 - Method and system for initiating communication from a vehicle: A method for mobile vehicle well-being notification including receiving a contact name from a user at a call center and receiving a contact method associated with the contact name from the user at the call center. The method further includes receiving a contact message associated with the contact name from...

20060229111 - Rechargeable wireless input device: An input device has a body and a battery that is retained in the body. A receiver is coupled to a computer via a cable, with the body removably engaging the receiver. The computer delivers power through the cable and the receiver to charge the battery, while the input device...

20060229112 - Cellular telephone charging station and method: An apparatus and method is disclosed for allowing a user to charge the battery(s) within a cellular telephone. According to one aspect of the invention, an interface is provided for receiving a payment from a user. In response thereto, a timer is set to operate for a period to time...

20060229113 - Reducing power consumption of a short-range wireless communication reader associated with a mobile terminal: Methods, mobile terminal devices and computer program products are provided that are capable of reducing power consumption by detecting error events signifying unsuccessful short-range wireless communication activation operations and adjusting the frequency of the activation of the reader based on the detection of the error events. In this regard, the...

20060229114 - Mobile entertainment and communication device: A mobile entertainment and communication device in a palm-held size housing has a cellular or satellite telephone capable of wireless communication with the Internet and one or more replaceable memory card sockets for receiving a blank memory card for recording data directly from the Internet and, in particular, musical performances...

20060229115 - Multifunction electronic device: The invention relates to a sliding and clamshell mechanism for an electronic device which comprises a first part comprising a first side, and a second side opposite to the first side, and further comprises a movable second part attached to the first part by a hinge, where the hinge is...

20060229118 - Folding cellular phone and slide cellular phone: A folding cellular phone and a slide cellular phone with excellent usability. A folding cellular phone 1 has a status detection unit 20 which detects whether the folding cellular phone 1 is in a folded status or an opened status, a memory 21 which holds information to respond to an...

20060229116 - Folding information processor: A foldable mobile terminal capable of carrying out more highly complicated key input such as key input for operating a certain function even in a state in which a housing is closed. This foldable mobile terminal includes a first housing and a second housing connected to each other to be...

20060229117 - Mobile communication terminal: A mobile communication terminal comprises three body elements connected by a multi-functional hinge member for movement from a closed folded operative position to a flipped open first operative position revealing a display carried by one body element and a first keypad carried by a second body element and to a...

20060223438 - Multi purpose standardized telecommunications network: Because of the pervasive nature of information and communication technologies and the services that derive from them, coupled with the large prizes to be won, the telecommunications sector is subjected to a lot of attention. In this era, technology has gone to endless limits. Room sized computers are coming into...

20060223439 - Wireless repeater assembly: A wireless repeater assembly is described. The wireless repeater assembly includes a receiver for receiving wireless data communications, wherein the receiver includes a receiving antenna for receiving analog signals; a receiver filter adapted to enable frequencies of a predetermined range to pass onto a receiver amplifier; and the receiver amplifier...

20060223440 - Low frequency noise source and method of calibration thereof: A low frequency noise source includes a digital section having a controller, a low frequency noise generator coupled to the controller, a calibration waveform generator coupled to the controller, and a switch coupled to outputs of the noise generator and the calibration waveform generator for selectively coupling one of them...

20060223441 - Method and arrangement for channel estimation in a wireless communication system: A method and arrangement (100) for PRACH burst channel detection in a UTRA TDD wireless communication system in which training sequences are constructed from a single periodic base code. Unwanted cross-correlation peaks, having magnitude less than correlation peaks, are removed (440) from the correlator outputs, maintaining optimal signal-to-noise ratio of...

20060223443 - Systems and methods for coordinating the coverage and capacity of a wireless base station: A communications base station is installed at a selected new location and the base station, prior to going “on line” monitors the wireless traffic from other base stations within interference range of the new base station's coverage area. The new base station also monitors the wireless traffic between mobile devices...

20060223442 - Techniques to select data rates for a wireless system: A system, apparatus, method and article to select data rates for a wireless communication system are described. An apparatus may include a media access control processor to monitor interference levels for a receiver, estimate throughput values for each interference level, and select a data rate based on the throughput values....

20060223444 - Method and system for adaptive control of reverse link interference: A method for controlling reverse link loading in a communication system comprises determining a reverse link load in the communication system. The communication system comprises a plurality of mobile units configured to receive a rate indicator from a base station. The rate indicator comprises a first state indicating the mobile...

20060223447 - Adaptive down bias to power changes for controlling random walk: A wireless communication network (20) utilizes a down bias to minimize or eliminate random walk when controlling a transmit power between a base station (38) and a mobile station (40). In a disclosed example, a link quality monitoring module (54) determines the quality of a link between the mobile station...

20060223445 - Closed-loop power controlled radio communication system: In a radio communication system (50) employing closed loop power control a primary station (100) adjusts its transmit power in response to control information including power control commands received from a secondary station (100). If the primary station (100) fails to obey the power control commands the secondary station modifies...

20060223448 - Method and system for coordinating radio resources in unlicensed frequency bands: A method and system is provided for coordinating radio resources in shared or unlicensed frequency bands. Specifically, a set of operating parameters and a receiver-transmitter feedback mechanism are provided that govern the coordination of radio spectrum usage by a plurality of wireless devices. This is achieved by rewarding good receivers...

20060223446 - Methods of detecting mobile stations not following power control commands: In a method of detecting a mobile station that is not following a power control command, for each time slot, a received signal-to-interference ratio (SIR) value of the mobile as measured by a given base station is compared with a given average SIR target value. An error metric may be...

20060223449 - Systems and methods for control channel signaling: Methods and apparatuses are disclosed for providing flexible channel information feedback. In some cases this may be according to reporting types assigned by one or more sectors, with different reporting types for each sector. In other cases, a reporting mode is determined to determine the reporting types to be utilized....

20060223453 - Frequency shifted wireless local area network system: A structure of circuit boards for a wireless communication apparatus, comprising a first radio-frequency circuit board provided with circuit devices for transmitting and receiving radio-frequency signals at a first frequency band mounted on the first radio-frequency circuit board; and a baseband circuit board provided with a baseband processor and a...

20060223450 - Method and apparatus to resist fading in mimo and simo wireless systems: In a wireless communication system the receiver includes a first plurality of receive chains and a second plurality of antennas. Each receive chain is selectively connectable to selected antennas. The antennas are selected based on criteria obtained from a received RF signal to produce an antenna configuration connected to the...

20060223452 - Microcontroller: A microcontroller is disposed on a receiving part of a wireless system in order to process a demodulation signal generated by a receiver circuit, and includes a memory and a CPU. The memory stores a control program of the microcontroller. The control program thereof includes a dual loop routine for...

20060223451 - Transceiver with receive path overload protection and method: A transceiver includes a detuning circuit to generate an impedance mismatch in a receive signal path in response to a control signal provided by loop-control circuitry. The loop-control circuitry generates the control signal based on a comparison of detected peak signal levels in the receive signal path. In this way,...

20060223454 - Precise frequency generation for low duty cycle transceivers using a single crystal oscillator: An apparatus and method for calibrating a non-crystal oscillator in a transceiver unit using a crystal-oscillator includes the step of establishing a time base based upon oscillations of the crystal oscillator. A comparison of the number of oscillations for the non-crystal oscillator and the crystal oscillator is made during a...

20060223455 - System and method for wireless communication using low-pulling digital interface signals: The digital interface between the baseband section and the RF transceiver section of a wireless communication device may cause undesired pulling to an impedance sensitive portion of the RF transceiver section. In one embodiment, an original interface signal that exhibits a duty cycle is modified by an interface control block...

20060223457 - System and method for dc offset correction in transmit baseband: A radio frequency (RF) transceiver is provided. The RF transceiver comprises a transmit path comprising an output coupled to an RF antenna, a feedback path comprising an input coupled to the output of the transmit path, and a DC offset calibration module comprising a first input coupled to an output...

20060223456 - Techniques for partitioning radios in wireless communication systems: A method and apparatus is provided for partitioning a radio using a multi-chip module to group some or all of the components of the radio in a single package. In one example, a radio uses a multi-chip module, including a chip carrier. Various components of the radio reside in integrated...

20060223458 - Radio frequency transceiver integrated circuit floor plan applicable to mimo: A Radio Frequency (RF) transceiver Integrated Circuit (IC) includes a first RF transceiver group, a first baseband section, a second RF transceiver group, a second baseband section, local oscillation circuitry, and local oscillation distribution circuitry. The first baseband section communicatively couples to the first RF transceiver group. The second RF...

20060223459 - Apparatus and method for identifying last speaker in a push-to-talk system: An apparatus and method for displaying identity information of a last speaker in a push-to-talk (PTT) system. A wireless communication device receives PTT communications and identification information of PTT speakers from a remote server. The wireless communication device displays the identification information of at least the last speaker while playing...

20060223460 - Techniques to enhance diversity for a wireless system: A system, apparatus, method and article to manage diversity for a wireless multicarrier communication system are described. An apparatus may include a diversity agent to couple to a transmitter, the diversity agent to convert a determined number of input bits into symbols, interleave the symbols across multiple spatial streams, and...

20060223461 - Digital broadcast methods and apparatus: A transmitter apparatus, e.g., at a base station, transmits program information using a plurality of carriers with at least some of the carriers having different transmit power levels. The carrier associated with the highest transmit power level conveys broadcast information carrying basic program information. A carrier associated with a lower...

20060223462 - Dynamic gain and phase compensation for power amplifier load switching: Methods and apparatus are provided for gain and phase compensation in a radio frequency (RF) transmitter (108). The RF transmitter (108) has at least one power amplifier (PA) (205) for providing a transmitted signal having a signal power therefrom. An RF power detector (208) is coupled to the at least...

20060223463 - Method and apparatus for dynamic gain and phase compensations: Dynamic gain and phase compensation is provided in a radio frequency (RF) receiver (106) including at least one switched Low Noise Amplifier (LNA) (212) coupled to an RF gain control unit (226) providing a gain control signal to the at least one switched LNA (212) for control thereof. The RF...

20060223465 - Dual mode communication system, dual mode communication method and dual mode communication user equipment: A dual mode communication system, with user equipment selectively connectable to a plurality of communication systems, for switching communication systems to which the user equipment should be connected, detects that the remaining battery level fell below a first threshold in the user equipment communicating over the W-CDMA system. In the...

20060223464 - Method for switching a power amplifier: A power amplifier switching circuit includes a transmission filter. A first switch having an input connects to the transmission filter. A second switch connects to a first output of the first switch. A receive portion of a duplexer connects to an output of the second switch. A power amplifier receives...

20060223466 - Gain control in a multiple rf transceiver integrated circuit: A radio frequency (RF) transceiver integrated circuit (IC) includes a plurality of baseband Tx sections, a plurality of RF Tx sections, a plurality of RF Rx sections, and a plurality of baseband Rx sections. The RF transceiver IC further includes a static digital interface, a dynamic digital interface, and gain...

20060223467 - Method and device for low-power fm transmission of audio data to rds (radio data system) capable fm radio receiver: A method for radio transmission of audio data from an audio player device for receipt by an RDS capable FM radio receiver, comprising scanning an FM frequency range to detect available radio frequencies on which no broadcast transmissions or interfering signals are currently received; storing detected available frequencies; selecting one...

20060223468 - Dynamic digital up and down converters: The present invention relates to dynamically configured wireless communication systems. In particular, in one embodiment, dynamically configured up and down converters in a communication system is provided. The method comprises receiving a request to change a protocol in a communication channel. Obtaining one or more parameters associated with the change...

20060223469 - Radio receiver device having field intensity detector: A radio receiver device of the present invention may be used in a navigation system mounted on an automotive vehicle. The radio receiver device includes a receiver for receiving radio waves, a detector for detecting field intensity of the radio waves and a display panel for displaying the detected field...

20060223470 - Radio-frequency communication control system, radio-frequency communication control method and computer-readable storage medium: An RF communication control system for executing the process of transmitting and receiving an RF signal through an RF control circuit unit and digitally processing the data contained in the RF signal through a baseband circuit unit, is disclosed. The baseband circuit unit includes a setting parameter holder for holding...

20060223471 - Receiver having a gain cancelling amplifier: A technique includes applying a first gain to a first radio frequency signal to generate a second radio frequency signal, and the technique includes generating an intermediate frequency signal in response to the second radio frequency signal. In response to a change occurring in the first gain, a second gain...

20060223472 - Dc cancellation circuit: The present invention relates to a DC offset canceling circuit. In one aspect of the invention, a DC offset canceling circuit with independently configurable gain and roll-off frequency is provided. In one embodiment of the present invention, the DC offset canceling circuit is used in the receive path of a...

20060223473 - Phase locked loop with power distribution: A phase locked loop includes a detection module, a control conversion module, a controlled oscillation module, a divider module, and a power distribution module. The detection module is operably coupled to produce a difference signal based on a difference between a reference oscillation and a feedback oscillation. The control conversion...

20060223474 - Semiconductor integrated circuit: In a communication semiconductor integrated circuit, a capacitance included in a filter on the output side of a mixer circuit is reduced without requiring the cutoff frequency of the filter to be changed. A Gilbert cell circuit is used as a mixer circuit which combines, for downconversion, a reception signal...

20060223475 - Receiver having no tracking error: A receiver includes an up/down counter that controls turning on/off of individual switching units, and a count signal generator that compares a control voltage with a first reference voltage and a second reference voltage lower than the first reference voltage and outputs a count signal to the up/down counter. The...

20060223476 - Antenna selection diversity apparatus and method in a broadband wireless communication system: An apparatus and method for improving antenna diversity in a receiver of a broadband wireless communication system using multiple antennas are provided. The receiver with the diversity apparatus uses a structure of multiple analog front ends, a structure for measuring antenna-by-antenna reception power values/Carrier-to-Interference plus Noise Ratios (CINRs) after Fast...

20060223477 - Receiving apparatus, signal processing circuit, and signal receiving method: There is provided a receiving apparatus having a simple configuration and an excellent ability to eliminate multipath noise, in which an antenna in a good reception state can be instantly selected. A reception signal from an antenna is inputted to an intermediate-frequency amplifying circuit via an antenna switching circuit, a...

20060223478 - Method and apparatus for measuring communications link quality: A method and apparatus for measuring communications link quality provides accurate on-chip estimation of the difficulty of achieving a particular bit error rate (BER) for a communications link. A low cost/complexity accumulator circuit connected to internal signals from a clock/data recovery (CDR) circuit provides a measure of high frequency and...

20060223479 - Separation of cochannel fm signals: Multiple cochannel FM signals received, for example, in an overloaded signal environment may be separated using parallel interference cancellation techniques....

20060223480 - Crosstalk reduction method, apparatus, and system: A data driver drives a data signal on a channel, and a current mode driver drives a varying current on the channel to reduce crosstalk....

20060223481 - Integrated circuit layout for a television tuner: An integrated circuit including one or more radio frequency (RF) filters to receive an RF signal and to generate a filtered RF signal and a down conversion stage coupled to the RF filters, the down conversion stage further including a local oscillator circuit and an intermediate frequency (IF) filter, the...

20060223482 - Local oscillation routing plan applicable to a multiple rf band rf mimo transceiver: Local oscillation circuitry for use in an RF transceiver Integrated Circuit (IC) includes local oscillation generation circuitry operable to produce a local oscillation and local oscillation distribution circuitry. The local oscillation distribution circuitry includes a splitting circuit, a first distribution portion, and a second distribution portion. The splitting circuit receives...

20060223483 - Multiple band direct conversion radio frequency transceiver integrated circuit: A multiple band direct conversion radio frequency (RF) transceiver integrated circuit (IC) includes a multiple band direct conversion transmitter section, a multiple band direct conversion receiver section, and a local oscillation module. The multiple band direct conversion transmitter section includes a transmit baseband module and a multiple frequency band transmission...

20060223484 - Bipolar transistor and radio frequency amplifier circuit: A bipolar transistor and a radio frequency amplifier circuit capable of preventing thermal runaway in the bipolar transistor without affecting the radio frequency amplifier circuit, which includes: a direct-current (DC) bias terminal to which a DC bias is supplied; a DC base electrode connected to the DC terminal; a radio...

20060223485 - Tracking filter for selecting channel of wideband frequency: The present invention relates to a filter, and more particularly, to a tracking filter for selecting a channel of a wideband frequency. The tracking filter for selecting a channel of a wideband frequency, which is for increasing the selectivity of a wideband frequency, includes: a first tracking portion for filtering...

20060223486 - Method and apparatus for powering and loading software into a battery-less electronic device: Automated software loading into a battery-less mobile phone is accomplished through attachment of a special non-standard USB On-The-Go cable to a serial connector of the mobile phone, thereby delivering power supply and unique signals for placing the phone in a special mode of operation used for production or distribution. In...

20060223487 - Multi-band mixer and quadrature signal generator for a multi-mode radio receiver: A multi-band high gain mixer and quadrature signal generator allows a receiver system to receive signals at multiple frequency bands without requiring significant hardware duplication. A single mixer directly receives any of three communication frequency bands such as Universal Mobile Telecommunication System (UMTS), Personal Communication Services (PCS), Digital Communication System...

20060223489 - Broadcast data receiver: An object of the present invention is to provide a broadcast data receiver which is able to easily receive information about predetermined person. An address book 120 holds the personal identifying information for identifying person. The BML document extracting section 150 extracts the BML document described by the BML from...

20060223488 - Method for the remote control of a venue, particularly a sales venue: In a remote monitoring process of a location, notably a sales location, of a type according to which images representing a part of the location are sent remotely to be centralized in a central monitoring device, the images are sent by means of a digital photographic device integrated into an...

20060223490 - System and method for providing deferred service: Disclosed is a system for providing a deferred service, the system including a Secure User Plane Location (SUPL) agent for requesting the deferred service according to a requirement of a client; and a SUPL Location Platform (SLP) for checking for allowance or denial of an event report for an event...

20060223491 - Filtered wireless communications: In accordance with the principles of the present invention, a method and apparatus for filtered wireless communications is provided. The method provides a filtered wireless zone. Signaling channels normally serving a geographic vicinity are scanned, with the channel identity and the system identity of each signaling channel recorded. A transmitter-receiver...

20060223492 - System and method for alert notification to affected mobile units in a geographic area: A wireless telecommunication system is used to provide alert notifications such as weather alerts to affected mobile units in a geographic area. In one embodiment, responsive to receiving an alert notification, an MSC identifies one or more affected mobile units located within the coverage area and sends a message including...

20060223494 - Location-based emergency announcements: A system and method for sending and receiving emergency announcements from a server to a client device are disclosed. The announcements can be sent based on the location of the client device and/or a designated time window. An announcement manager on the client device can display, store and manage the...

20060223493 - Method and apparatus for enhancing the survivability of wireless communication systems in response to catastrophic events: A method and apparatus for enhancing the survivability of a wireless communications network in response to catastrophic events. The operation of one or more partitions of wireless system components is monitored, and one or more emergency communications are rerouted through the network when one or more of these partitions of...

20060223495 - Method and apparatus for monitoring usage patterns of a wireless device: Apparatus and methods for monitoring usage patterns of a wireless device may include a usage monitoring and reporting module operable to monitor and log usage on a wireless device based on a received usage configuration. Further, based on the usage configuration, the wireless device may forward the log to another...

20060223497 - Service access control interface for an unlicensed wireless communication system: Some embodiments provide a system for authorization and authentication of an unlicensed mobile access (UMA) subscriber. The system includes an UMA network controller (UNC) which is communicatively coupled to a licensed wireless communication system. The system also includes an access point (AP) that serves a wireless local area network (WLAN)....

20060223498 - Service access control interface for an unlicensed wireless communication system: Some embodiments provide a system for authorization and authentication of an unlicensed mobile access (UMA) subscriber. The system includes an UMA network controller (UNC) which is communicatively coupled to a licensed wireless communication system. The system also includes an access point (AP) that serves a wireless local area network (WLAN)....

20060223496 - System and method for detection of mobile handset software corruption: A system and method for detecting wireless telecommunications mobile handset software corruption is provided. The method includes retrieving stored configuration data and stored checksum for a mobile handset stored on a wireless telecommunications network element, determining an actual checksum from the mobile handset, comparing the actual mobile handset checksum with...

20060223501 - Authentication method and authentication unit: transmitting by the terminal a service request, that comprises the user identification U3, via the first fixed access line; and determining with a processor, for the service request, the user identification and the first fixed access line; and controlling with the processor the plurality of associations, upon the presence of...

20060223500 - Authentication system: In some preferred embodiments, in an authentication system including a plurality of portable devices and a base station, if the portable device is operated by an internal battery, ID data encrypted at a higher level are exchanged (normal mode), and if the portable device is operated by electromagnetic induction coupling...

20060223499 - Broadcast subscription management method and apparatus: A method and apparatus for broadcast subscription management in a mobile station (110) comprises sending (302) a subscriber identifier, which may be for example an international mobile station identifier and a radio receiver identification with a transmitter of the mobile station to a wireless communications network (100). The mobile station...

20060223502 - Method of providing voicemails to a wireless information device: Voicemail is received at a voicemail server and converted to an audio file format; it is then sent or streamed over a wide area network to a voice to text transcription system comprising a network of computers. One of the networked computers plays back the voice message to an operator...

20060223504 - Efficient server polling system and method: A method of requesting content from a communication server in a mobile communication network is provided. The method comprises determining whether the mobile device is in a first mode; requesting content for delivery to the mobile device, while the mobile device is in the first mode; and discontinuing requesting the...

20060223507 - Information processing apparatus and method, information processing system, and transmission medium: When a user gets interested in some music he/she listens to somewhere, for example, in a coffee shop, the user records that music in a memory provided in a portable terminal. A processor reads the information stored in the memory and performs a predetermined process on it. The resultant information...

20060223503 - Method and system for updating capabilities of a device: A method and system for transmitting data to a device is described. The method includes steps of comparing, in a server, a list of capabilities of the server against a list of capabilities of a mobile terminal and creating a list of capabilities in the server and not in the...

20060223506 - Method of communication between a server and a mobile terminal: A mobile terminal sends to a server at least one image showing a model of the appearance of a person, as well as other items of information such as the type of an event to be attended or information about the person attending, and the server sends back to the...

20060223505 - Methods, systems, and products for demographic discounting: Methods, systems, and computer program products are disclosed for providing a discount to a device. One method obtains a location of the device and obtains a demographic indicator associated with the device. The discount is retrieved from memory, and the discount is based on the location and on the demographic...

20060223508 - Methods, systems, and products for distance-based discounting: Methods, systems, and computer program products are disclosed for providing a discount to a wireless device. One method obtains a location of the wireless device and retrieves the discount from memory. The discount is based on the location, and the discount increases as a distance from a reference location increases....

20060223509 - Task selection assistance apparatus and task selection assistance method: The present invention provides a task selection assistance apparatus, and a task selection assistance method, which enable burdens on a user to be alleviated in selecting a task for solving a problem. A domain candidate determining portion 210 determines domain candidates to be presented to the user from among domains...

20060223510 - Method of implementing multi-party conference service by using broadcast/multicast service of a wireless communications system: This invention provides a method of implementing a multi-party conference service (MPCS) using broadcast/multicast service of a wireless communications system used for a conference focus, the context of a corresponding broadcast/multicast service session is generated based on the media flow information, multicast service session information and MPCS information. The generated...

20060223511 - System and method for call forwarding based on localized wireless identification: A system and method for call forwarding based on localized wireless identification are provided. In one exemplary embodiment, a landline telephone is equipped with a localized landline telephone identifier device which broadcasts an identification signal within a localized limited range. A wireless telephone is equipped with a detection unit that...

20060223512 - Method and system for providing a hands-free functionality on mobile telecommunication terminals by the temporary downloading of a speech-processing algorithm: A method for carrying out hands-free communication using a telecommunication terminal includes loading, at least temporarily, at least one program from a service server into the telecommunication terminal and implementing the at least one program for use at least for a duration of a communication connection. The at least one...

20060223516 - Remotely configurable mobile unit: A system for remotely tracking a mobile unit is presented. The system includes a computer connected to a data network, mobile units collecting data and transmitting the data to the computer, and a configuration database connected to the data network. The configuration database stores configuration parameters for the mobile units....

20060223514 - Signal enhancement through diversity: Methods and systems for improving signal quality using diversity are provided. Two or more radio antennas are adapted to receive radio signals from wireless devices. One or more servers are adapted to receive two or more data streams, wherein each data stream is a digital representation of radio signals received...

20060223515 - Snmp management in a software defined radio: A communications system is presented. One or more radio head units are adapted to receive radio signals through one or more radio antennas and adapted to communicate voice and data streams to one or more radio head interface modules. The one or more radio head interface modules are adapted to...

20060223513 - Triggering email/pim events based on sms headers and content: A message composed by a user using a computer is stored in a computer-readable medium. The message is associated with a distribution list of one or more intended recipients of the message, and an identifier to trigger sending of the message to the one or more intended recipients on the...

20060223517 - Field downloading of wireless device software: Disclosed is a system and method for field updating software in wireless communications devices. The software in the devices is organized into libraries referenced or organized by symbols, and is organized into associated code segments or sections. Software can be changed in the field by downloading, through a wireless connection,...

20060223518 - Location sharing and tracking using mobile phones or other wireless devices: A system for exchanging GPS or other position data between wireless devices for purposes of group activities, child location monitoring, work group coordination, dispatching of employees etc. Cell phones and other wireless devices with GPS receivers have loaded therein a Buddy Watch application and a TalkControl application. The Buddy Watch...

20060223519 - Communication restriction control system and communication restriction control method: The present invention provides a communication restriction control system and a communication restriction control method capable of performing communication restriction control depending on circumstances of communication restriction control area. The mobile terminal transmits a response request signal to a radio response equipment provided in the communication restriction control area which...

20060223520 - Methods and apparatus for efficient digital broadcast signaling in a wireless communications system: First and second transmitters transmit signals communicating the same information, e.g., program segment, but at different times. Different carriers may, but need not be, used by the different transmitters. If a wireless terminal can not recover broadcast segment information from one carrier, the wireless terminal can switch to another transmitter...

20060223522 - Gsm/umts emulator: A GSM/UMTS emulator is disclosed for emulating a real network so that certain device functionalities can be easily tested. The architecture of such a GSM/UMTS emulator may include a terminal PC and a server. The terminal PC runs the device (including a radio interface layer and a multiplexer). The server...

20060223523 - Method of analyzing the operation of a cellular mobile telecommunications network: The method analyzes the operation of a cellular mobile telecommunications network comprising a set of cells each associated with a base station adapted to communicate with a mobile station present in the cell. The method comprises: a) for each cell, collecting one or more variables characteristic of the operation of...

20060223521 - System and method for testing a mobile telephone network: A method for testing a mobile telephony network having a plurality of cells whose sizing depends on at least one selection or reselection parameter comprises a step for the recording, on an onboard computer connected to a mobile telephone, of predefined values of selection and reselection parameters for each cell...

20060223524 - Device, system and method of establishing a wireless communication link: Briefly, some embodiments of the invention provide devices, systems and methods of selectively establishing a wireless communication link. For example, a method in accordance with an embodiment of the invention may include selecting to transmit data either via a direct wireless communication link or via an indirect wireless communication link...

20060223525 - System for providing dynamic group and service assignments: System for providing dynamic group and service assignments. In one embodiment, a method is provided for dynamically assigning regional groups and service providers to provide services for equipment. The method includes determining that the equipment has moved into a selected regional group, and assigning the equipment to the selected regional...

20060223526 - Techniques to manage roaming: A system, apparatus, method and article to manage roaming in a wireless communication system are described. An apparatus may include a first wireless device having a processor to receive roaming information for a second wireless device from a third wireless device, and send the roaming information to the second wireless...

20060223527 - Methods for network selection and discovery of service information in public wireless hotspots: A roaming information code which can be wirelessly or otherwise transmitted as a SSID or other data field(s) of a wireless technology or standard. Further, a RIC-VAP scheme for provider-specific security information. Still further, wirelessly or otherwise transmitted compact price and AP workload information codes....

20060223528 - Roaming profiles for wireless devices: A method in a provisioning system for provisioning a wireless device, the method comprising: receiving from the wireless device information for identifying a current network of operation for the wireless device; identifying one or more services with the current network; and, transmitting to the wireless device provisioning information for the...

20060223529 - Data processing apparatus for probe traffic information and data processing system and method for probe traffic information: By utilizing a cell phone carried by a driver or a fellow passenger to exchange with a base station during talking (through polling during non-talking), position information of the cell phone is obtained. The position information is collected and gathered as probe data and by matching the data with road...

20060223530 - System and method for personal identification number messaging: A relay site associated with a wireless network can send messages between mobile devices associated with the wireless network without having to transmit the messages to a host system. The messages include PIN messages and each of the mobile devices has a PIN address. The relay site includes a relay...

20060223531 - Wireless telecommunication network registration roaming call origination, and roaming call delivery methods: This invention regards wireless telecommunication network registration, roaming call origination, and roaming call delivery methods. The telecommunications network includes a Roaming Solution network, the network including a Roaming Server, a National Location Register, and an 800 number Remote Switching Unit. The network may be integrated with a standard SS7 type...

20060223535 - Hard handoff procedure for dedicated and high speed shared channels: A wireless communication network (20) utilizes a hard handoff procedure for switching between cells serving a mobile station (40). In a disclosed example, the existing link between the mobile station (40) and a serving base station (38) is not released until a new link between a target base station (32)...

20060223536 - Method and apparatus for handover in a wireless communication device between wireless domains: A method and apparatus for handover in a wireless communication device between wireless domains is described. In one example, a signal employing a short-range wireless protocol is detected at the wireless communication device. For example, the short-range wireless protocol may be a near-field communication (NFC) protocol, a radio frequency identification...

20060223532 - Method for user equipment mobility management and communication system: The present invention relates to a method of UE mobility management and a mobile communication system of implementing this method, where the system includes: a core network communicating with the universal terrestrial radio access network (UTRAN) via the Iu interface; UTRAN consisting of multiple radio network systems (RNS) and communicating...

20060223534 - Methods for informing subscribers of adjacent sites: Methods for informing a mobile device of adjacent sites in a RF communication system wherein the RF communication system comprises a first network and a second network are disclosed. A mobile device in the first network of the RF communication system updates a signaling gateway with position information of the...

20060223533 - Mobile communication system, radio base station containing control device in the mobile communication system and control method thereof: A mobile communication system includes: a mobile terminal unit (UE); a radio base station (Node B) for performing communication with the mobile terminal unit via radio line; a radio controller (RNC) controlling the radio base station and physically divided to first control means (CPE) for performing signaling transfer control and...

20060223537 - Mobile communication system, relief method of competition between downlink rrc message and inter-cell movement of user equipment, and radio network controller: The present invention provides a relief method of competition between a Down Link RRC message and inter-cell movement of user equipment which can continue communication even when acknowledgment of the Down Link RRC message cannot be performed. An RLC layer of the radio network controller (RNC) divides a Down Link...

20060223538 - Mobile communications system, radio network controller, and active set control method: An active set control method for handover operation in a CDMA communications system in which propagation conditions of an uplink channel and a downlink channel for an access link of cell are different, provides that when a cell is deleted from the active set based on a request of a...

20060223539 - Radio access architecture with resource coordination of a plurality of base stations owned by different entities: In one aspect of the instant invention, a method is provided for controlling a communications system in which base stations owned by different entities are permitted to bid in an auction to establish a communications session for a mobile device. The method comprises sending a request to a first and...

20060223542 - Filtered wireless communications: In accordance with the principles of the present invention, a method and apparatus for filtered wireless communications is provided. The method provides a filtered wireless zone, preferably for second-generation cellular systems. Signal levels from surrounding cells are tested. The identities and frequencies of surrounding cells are received and a list...

20060223544 - Method and apparatus providing plurality of services via one channel in mobile communication system: A method and apparatus for providing and receiving a plurality of services via a single channel in a mobile communications system is provided, by which a plurality of the services can be effectively provided via the single channel....

20060223540 - Progressive reuse partitioning for improved interference resection in wireless packet networks: A method for radio resource allocation based on planned priority ordering to realize the maximum carrier to interference ratio (C/I) in a cellular system that employs frequency reuse. Reuse of co-channel resources is progressively increased as traffic load increases based on the available spectrum. By using this method, interference rejection...

20060223543 - Transmission rate control method, mobile station, and radio base station: A transmission rate control method for controlling transmission rate of uplink user data, including: notifying, at a radio network controller, a first correspondence of a transmission data block size of the uplink user data to a transmission wave amplitude ratio between an enhanced dedicated physical data channel and a dedicated...

20060223541 - Use of multiple wireless interfaces in wireless networks: A system and method for transmitting data over a plurality of channels is described. The system determines a clear channel and transmits data over that channel. In some examples, the data is formatted prior to identification of the clear channel. In other examples, the data is formatted after identification of...

20060223545 - Power load balancing in cellular networks: A wireless mobile device is configured to set up communications via wireless links with wireless base stations of a cellular communication system and to obtain information indicative of shadow prices of said wireless base stations via wireless transmissions. Each of the wireless base stations has a corresponding shadow price. The...

20060223546 - Adapting a communications network of wireless access nodes to a changing environment: The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for adapting a communications network of a plurality of wireless access nodes, such as base stations to a changing environment. The method comprises determining a current location of at least a first user in the communications network, identifying a need for...

20060223547 - Environment sensitive notifications for mobile devices: Systems and methods for generating notifications based on one or more environmental conditions sensed a mobile computing device. The notifications can also be based on information related to one or more applications that can run on the mobile computing device. The mobile device can also detect non-environmental inputs from the...

20060223548 - Method for sending urgent messages in a mobile communication device: A method of sending urgent messages for a mobile communication device is disclosed in this invention, which comprises at least the flowing steps: setting at least two predetermined keys on the first mobile communication device, pressing the two keys essentially simultaneously for a predetermined duration, acquiring a base station identity...

20060223549 - Network system for aided gps broadcast positioning: A network approach for aided GPS broadcast positioning where A-GPS data is made available in the network and broadcast via cell broadcast servers to wireless devices in order to reduce the time required to determine the position of a wireless device....

20060223550 - Method and apparatus for providing improved border paging in a wireless network: This technique is applied in the circumstances where an intersystem page message, e.g. an IS41 ISPAGE2 message, is received in a first border switching module. The intersystem page message may originate from a second border switching module. In this case, the network determines whether the second border switching module is...

20060223551 - Method and apparatus for validating radio resource control messages: A method for validating radio resource control (RRC) messages begins by receiving a RRC message at a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) from a radio access network. A determination is made at the WTRU whether the message is valid by applying a predetermined validation rule. The WTRU accepts the message if...

20060223555 - Automatic time setting method for mobile terminals: A method is provided for automatically setting time in a mobile terminal, whereby the mobile communication terminal can automatically set time in an asynchronous mobile communication system. By providing a message to the mobile terminal that includes time information, the mobile terminal may automatically set the time rather than a...

20060223553 - Event control system and method for a mobile communication network: A system for controlling an event on a mobile communication device is provided. The system comprising at least one circuit for receiving a message communicated over a wireless communication network; and at least one circuit for converting the message to a command executable by a processor of a mobile communication...

20060223554 - Method and system for temporal delivery of email messages: One embodiment includes an exemplary method of providing temporal control of email delivery. The method further includes receiving message data comprising at least a message body and a selected time. The message further includes displaying a first portion of the message data prior to the selected time. The first portion...

20060223552 - System and method for vehicle delay notification using a mobile telecommunications network: A system and method of vehicle delay notification. The method includes determining a vehicle delay, determining that the vehicle delay meets or exceeds a delay threshold, determining one or more affected mobile telecommunications subscribers, and sending a message to one or more mobile telecommunications phones notifying the one or more...

20060223558 - Cross-core calibration in a multi-radio system: A Radio Frequency (RF) transceiver includes a first RF transceiver group, a second RF transceiver group, local oscillation circuitry, and calibration control circuitry. Each of the RF transceiver group has an RF transmitter and an RF receiver. The local oscillation circuitry selectively produces a local oscillation to the first RF...

20060223557 - Efficient gap allocation for cell measurements in asynchronous communication networks: Techniques for allocating transmission gaps and making cell measurements in asynchronous communication networks are described. A terminal establishes communication with a first communication network (e.g., a W-CDMA network), receives an initial allocation of transmission gaps for making cell measurements, and makes measurements for cells in a second communication network (e.g.,...

20060223556 - Mobile device synchronization based on proximity to a data source: A system for data communication is disclosed. The system comprises a detection module that ascertains when a mobile wireless communication device is located within a first range of a data source. The system further comprises a data module that automatically sends information to the mobile wireless communication device when the...

20060223559 - Doppler compensation scheme: At least one embodiment of the invention provides an automated frequency offset compensation method, system, and apparatus that improves throughput between one or more wireless communication devices by compensating for frequency offsets caused by a Doppler effect. In particular, one implementation estimates the frequency offset and uses this to compensate...

20060223560 - Repeat dialing in wireless networks to called parties that are powered off: A wireless network is disclosed that provides repeat dialing to called parties that are powered off. The wireless network includes an originating MSC system, a Home Location Register (HLR) system for a called party, and a serving MSC system that serves the called party. Responsive to identifying that the called...

20060223561 - Base station bandwidth allocation for extending coverage within a cell: A wireless communication system (20) utilizes a first frequency from a bandwidth provided by a base station (24) for communications between the base station (24) and mobile stations (26, 28) using at least one intermediary transceiver (42-52). The intermediary transceivers receive communications from at least one of the mobile stations...

20060223562 - Method and apparatus for indicating an expected level of quality in a private push to talk (ptt) network: A method and apparatus for indicating an expected level of quality in a private Push To Talk (PTT) network are disclosed. The method and apparatus receive at least one of an affiliation message and a talkgroup call request for a first subscriber unit of the private PTT network wherein a...

20060223563 - Method and system for transmitting information of respondent participating in push-to-talk over cellular network session: Disclosed is a push-to-talk-over-cellular (PoC) service that transmits information on a group talk in a wireless connection section for operation in a mobile environment with a low traffic burden and higher efficiency. The PoC service transmits a PoC call request message of an originating PoC client to a terminating PoC...

20060223564 - System and method for efficiently providing high-performance dispatch services in a wireless system: A system and method for providing high performance dispatch services for a push-to-talk (PTT) communication over a wireless communication network. When a wireless device is powered up, it registers with a server and then transitions to a paging state instead of an idle state. When the wireless device is ready...

20060223566 - Determining a target transmit power of a wireless transmission according to security requirements: Different target transmit powers are determined for different wireless transmissions from a wireless device, the different transmissions having different security requirements. For example, the security requirements of a particular transmission may include a security ranking of a device to which one or more frames carried by the particular transmission are...

20060223567 - Method of managing radio resources and node b apparatus implementing the same: A method of managing radio resources and a Node B implementing the same are provided. If the total radio resources used in a cell exceed target radio resources signaled by an RNC, uplink rates are equally allocated to primary UEs and non-primary UEs by controlling the signal strengths of the...

20060223565 - Method to optimize forward link capacity from a mixed population of single- and dual-diversity mobile stations: A method for optimizing the capacity of a forward link in a cellular telecommunications network involves dynamically setting the minimum gain level on the forward link for each mobile station, based each mobile station's individual performance. The cellular network has one or more base stations and a mixed population of...

20060223571 - Cell phone having laser lighting effect: A cell phone having a laser lighting effect includes a housing, and a laser indicator mounted on the housing to emit a laser light outwardly from the housing to provide a laser lighting effect. The laser indicator includes a laser generator, a shade, a light permeable plate, a switch, and...

20060223569 - Handheld medium probe for managing wireless networks: A portable, battery-powered device includes a human interface mechanism for the purpose of enabling human interaction, comprising tactile inputs via a keypad and visual outputs via an alphanumeric display; a computing platform for the purpose of hosting network management software, comprising microprocessor, memory and input/output means; a wireless router for...

20060223570 - Mobile wireless communications device having improved rf immunity of audio transducers to electromagnetic interference (emi): A mobile wireless communications device includes a housing and circuit board carried by the housing and having radio frequency (RF) circuitry and a processor operative with each other. Audio circuitry is carried by the circuit board and an audio transducer assembly, such as a speaker, has electrical contacts that electrically...

20060223568 - System and method for initiating and conducting polite communications: A target mobile station (104) is operated in an automatic answer mode. At least one session invitation (106) is received at the target mobile station (104). The session invitation (106) requests that a user manually accept the session invitation (106) thereby, at least temporarily, overriding the automatic answer mode. A...

20060223573 - Communications handoff using an adaptive antenna: One implementation provides a novel station-to-station handoff using an adaptive or directional antenna. The directional antenna generates a plurality of directional search beams to search for pilot signals from new base stations. The search beams are scanned one beam at a time to obtain the relative direction of all new...

20060223576 - Content selection and delivery of complementary information: A telephone call may be established with a mobile communications device in response to a user dialing an abbreviated dialing code. Content provided external to the mobile communications device associated with the abbreviated dialing code may be identified. Thereafter, a message may be sent to the mobile communications device including...

20060223572 - Dynamic reconfiguration of resources through page headers: Methods and systems for reconfiguring communications systems are provided. A communications system comprises one or more radio head interface modules and a call processing software module. The one or more radio head interface modules are adapted to communicate with the call processing software module. The call processing software module performs...

20060223574 - Method and apparatus for selecting a multi-band access point to associate with a multi-band mobile station: A method and apparatus for selecting one of a plurality of multi-band access points (APs) to associate with a multi-band wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) are disclosed. The multi-band APs broadcast frequency band information regarding multiple frequency bands on which the multi-band AP is configured to operate. The multi-band WTRU selects...

20060223575 - Mode selection methods and related devices in a mobile communication system: A mode selection method is utilized in a mobile station. The mobile station can operate in a plurality of supported modes in a mobile communication system. The mobile communication system comprises a plurality of cells. The method comprises: calculating a suggested value of mode selection to match a current environmental...

20060223577 - Techniques for partitioning radios in wireless communication systems: A method and apparatus is provided for partitioning a radio using a multi-chip module to group some or all of the components of the radio in a single package. In one example, a radio uses a multi-chip module, including a chip carrier. Various components of the radio reside in integrated...

20060223578 - Dynamic readjustment of power: A dynamically reconfigurable communications system is presented. The communications system comprises a server, including one or more radio head interface modules, a call processing software module, and a radio head unit coupled to the radio head interface module over one or more transport mediums. The one or more radio head...

20060223581 - Mobile device interface for input devices: A mobile electronic device includes an earphone/microphone port, an I/O circuit to receive a modulated data signal from data input devices via the earphone/microphone port, and a processor unit programmed to extract data from the modulated data signal. The processor unit (or the I/O circuit) detects connection of a device...

20060223580 - Mobile device interface for input devices using existing mobile device connectors: A system and method for receiving data in a mobile electronic device from a data input device are disclosed. For example, the system includes logic configured to detect connection of a data input device to a connector coupled to the mobile electronic device. This detection is performed by at least...

20060223579 - Universal battery charger and data transfer system: A universal battery charger and data transfer system includes a data transfer module and a power supply module. The data transfer module has a data protocol detection circuit that detects the data transfer protocol of the wireless communication device. The data transfer module also has a programmable data transfer circuit...

20060223582 - Switching device via power key initiated wizard: A method and apparatus are provided for allowing a user to switch data containing user information from one device to another device, where the user is enabled to transfer data between devices in response to the user turning on or off the one device by either pressing a power or...

20060223585 - Flow control in a cellular communication system: A base station comprises an RNC message receiver which receives data packets from a Radio Network Controller, RNC. The data packets are transmitted over air interface channels by a transmitter. Buffer memory buffers the data packets prior to transmission and a scheduler schedules the data packets for transmission over the...

20060223584 - Notify me service in wireless networks: A wireless network that provides notify me service for calls directed to called stations not currently registered on a network. A wireless network includes a network interface that serves a call from a calling station, and a called station network that serves a called station. The calling station initiates a...

20060223586 - Transport resource control system and method, and radio network controller used in the same: A W-CDMA mobile communication system, capable of providing, between T-plane and C-plane, a control system for transport resources with high independency and simplicity, which controls transport resources through respective interfaces between RNC and CN, RNC, Node B by linking a call in mobile terminal with call information “1” to “4”...

20060223583 - Trunk architecture for coupling central offices associated with public switched telephone networks: The present invention provides a wireless backbone for use with a public switched telephone network (PSTN). In one embodiment, the wireless backbone includes a central office switch coupled to the PSTN and configured to process a plurality of calls associated with the PSTN. Additionally, the wireless backbone also includes a...

20060223587 - Antenna array pattern distortion mitigation: At least one feature provides a way to perform point-to-multipoint transmissions using adaptive or directional antennas while reducing antenna pattern distortion. Generally, rather than transmitting the same waveform to two or more receivers, an information-bearing signal is transformed into different decorrelated waveforms and each decorrelated waveform is transmitted to a...

20060223589 - Communication apparatus and communication program storage medium: A communication apparatus which communicates with an external apparatus by receiving a communication request transmitted from the external apparatus based a call-out number uniquely allocated to the communication apparatus, includes: a communication request receiver which receives identification information allocated to the external apparatus and the communication request independently of a...

20060223588 - Instruction processing system of handheld electronic apparatus: An instruction processing system includes a sensor, a recording device, a memory device and an instruction-executing device. The sensor is used for converting a user's contact action applied on the handheld electronic apparatus into an electronic signal. The recording device is used for converting the electronic signal into an electronic...

20060223590 - Mobile terminal and program executed therein: A CPU of a mobile telephone can carry out both a standby operation for monitoring an incoming call addressed to the mobile telephone and an image processing operation for processing an image captured by a camera. When a camera-dedicated mode is selected, the standby operation is prohibited during an image...

20060223591 - Communications device and method for automatically answering an incoming call: A communications device (100) and method (300) for selectively answering an incoming call received by the communications device (100). The method (100) provides an alert signal (330) in response to receiving; the incoming call (310) and then provides for automatically answering the incoming call (360) when the device detects (355)...

20060223592 - Hands-free telephone apparatus: A hands-free telephone apparatus which supports a user so as not to restrict the functions of the hands-free telephone processor. The hands-free telephone processor inquires the state of the mobile telephone when the model of the connected mobile telephone is unknown. If the hands-free telephone processor receives the notification of...

20060223593 - Content delivery system and method for a mobile communication device: A method of content transmission to a mobile device in a mobile communication network is provided. The method comprises determining whether the mobile device is in a first mode; delivering real-time content to the mobile device while the mobile device is in the first mode; and discontinuing delivery of real-time...

20060223594 - Mobile phones: Mobile phones. A mobile phone includes a main body and a hands-free headset detachably connected to the main body. The hands-free headset has a receiver and a microphone. When the hands-free headset and the main body are connected, the receiver and the microphone are received in the main body, and...

20060223595 - Folder-type portable communication device having sliding display unit: Disclosed is a portable communication device having a sliding display unit. The portable communication device has a body, a folder which rotates about a hinge axis to be folded or unfolded with respect to the body, a sliding display unit which is folded or unfolded together with the folder with...

20060223596 - Rotating slide-type mobile communication terminal: Disclosed herein is a rotating slide-type mobile communication terminal. The rotating slide-type mobile communication terminal of the present invention includes a main body which includes a pair of guide rails having different curvatures and lengths formed at both sides in a central portion of the main body. The rotating slide-type...

20060223597 - Mobile wireless communications device having improved antenna impedance match and antenna gain from rf energy: A mobile wireless communications device and associated method of making same includes a housing and circuit board having a ground plane. Radio frequency (RF) circuitry and a processor are carried by the circuit board and operative with each other. An antenna is carried by the housing and operative with the...