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.