Telecommunications inventions 02/07

20070042706 - System and methods of radio interference based localization in sensor networks: A method for radio interference based sensor localization. In one embodiment, the method has the steps of creating an interference signal from a first transmitter and a second transmitter, measuring phase offsets of the interference signal received by a first receiver and a second receiver, respectively, and determining the locations... Agent: Morris Manning Martin LLP

20070042707 - Apparatus and method for determining the attitude of a remotely monitored device: An apparatus and method for the determination of the attitude of a remotely monitored device attached or non-attached to the body of a remotely monitored person is disclosed. The device attitude is determined by two tilt-over switches having pre-defined operating angles that operate in combination. Periodically, indication concerning the number... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20070042709 - Audio device having integrated satellite receiver and fm transmitter functionalities: An audio device comprises a satellite receiver for receiving an audio signal via a receive antenna. A transmitter transmits the audio signal to an external receiver via a transmit antenna for remote rendering of the audio signal. A cup-shaped housing encloses the satellite receiver and the transmitter. The cup-shaped housing... Agent: Vector Products, Inc. Robert Powell

20070042708 - Systems and methods for voice and data communication: Disclosed systems and methods are directed to an ability to use a portable data storage and display device to communicate via communication satellites with remote receiving nodes by incorporating, attached to, located within, or locally in data communication with, the device, a satellite communication transceiver. Direct access to virtually any... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070042710 - Mobile terminals with media tuning and methods and computer program products for operating the same: Methods of providing broadcast media source tuning information to a remote device from a mobile terminal having a local user interface include receiving a user request to transmit tuning information for a selected broadcast media source from a user interface of the mobile terminal and receiving an identification of the... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20070042711 - Method for establishing data transmission path and sensor network employing the same: A sensor network system and method for establishing a data transmission path are is disclosed. The method for establishing a data transmission path of a sink node and the network system which includes a plurality of nodes including the sink node, includes a) requesting nodes on a previously established data... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070042712 - Bluetooth earphone: This invention relates to Bluetooth earphone. Existing Bluetooth earphones have some problems: users must wear the earphone to use it, so that the user will feel uncomfortable if the user uses the earphone for a long time. In order to solve these problems, this invention has added a speaker with... Agent: GlobalIPServices

20070042713 - Portable health monitoring system: A health monitoring system containing a Bluetooth transceiver and one or more health signs sensors automatically detects conditions that require medical attention based on configurable rules, calls a phone number and sends an alert.... Agent: Mourad Ben Ayed

20070042714 - Portable loss prevention system: A loss prevention system containing a Bluetooth transceiver and a motion detection system monitors the presence of a portable electronic device such as a cell phone in the vicinity and alerts when that device leaves its vicinity. The system transceiver is activated upon detecting a movement and turned off after... Agent: Mourad Ben Ayed

20070042715 - Optimized directional antenna system: A method of operating a wireless access point having a configurable antenna system includes determining a transmission signal quality metric for a first station with the configurable antenna system in a first configuration, determining a transmission signal quality metric for a second station with the configurable antenna system in the... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20070042716 - Automatic radio site survey using a robot: A method, apparatus, and carrier medium carrying computer readable code. The apparatus includes a mobile robot arranged in operation to traverse an area, a first transceiver for a wireless network mounted on the robot and arranged in operation to communicate with a second transceiver to effect radio measurement operations including... Agent: Dov Rosenfeld

20070042720 - Mimo communication system and user scheduling method: Embodiments of the present invention relates to a MIMO communication system and its user scheduling method. The MIMO communication system includes: a transmitter that is configured to transmit the data frame including at least the channel estimation signal and the user data; and a receiver that is configured to receive... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070042718 - Outer loop power control method and apparatus for wireless communications systems: Outer loop power control (OLPC) method and apparatus for mobile communications systems which allow rapid adjustment of the target desired signal to interference ratio (SIRtarget) satisfying a target block error rate (BLERtarget). Specifically, the outer loop power control method proposed herein is termed “Outage-Based OLPC” and establishes that the target... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20070042719 - Outer loop power control method and device for wireless communications systems: The method and device proposed for wireless communications systems based on WCDMA technology modifies the desired signal to interference ratio target (SIRtarget) when it detects the exit from the wind-up condition in the mobile communication, that is, when the unwinding process has started, in order to match it to the... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20070042717 - Scheduling multi-user transmission in the downlink of a multi-antenna wireless communication system: The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for controlling a radio frequency transmission, over a downlink to at least one mobile station user among a plurality of mobile station users, from a plurality of antennas associated with a base station in a wireless communication system. The method includes... Agent: Williams, Morgan & Amerson

20070042722 - Half-duplex communication system, low-voltage differential signaling transceiver of the system and pre-driver of the transceiver: A half-duplex communication system may include one or more low-voltage differential signaling half-duplex transceivers. Each transceiver may include a plurality of input terminals receiving a plurality differential data signals, an input driver transferring the differential data signals from differential transmission lines through output terminals, and an output driver transferring the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070042721 - Receiver adc clock delay based on echo signals: A device and method for a full-duplex transceiver is disclosed. The transceiver includes a transmitter DAC coupled to a transmission channel. The transmit DAC converting a digital transmission signal into an analog transmission signal. The transceiver further includes a receiver connected to the transmission channel. The receiver receives a desired... Agent: Teranetics Patent Department

20070042723 - Mobile terminal apparatus and broadcast receiving method: A mobile terminal apparatus is disclosed which includes: a tuner device configured to perform frequency conversion upon selecting a signal on a desired channel from a receiver signal derived from a received broadcast signal; a communication device configured to conduct wireless communications; and a control device configured to control the... Agent: Robert J. Depke Lewis T. Steadman

20070042724 - Asynchronous response system with acknowledge: A wireless response system and method of receiving user responses from a plurality of users at a base unit includes providing a base unit having a base transceiver that is adapted to wireless signal transmitting and wireless signal receiving and providing a plurality of response units. Each of the response... Agent: Van Dyke, Gardner, Linn And Burkhart, LLP

20070042725 - Systems and methods for tuning an antenna configuration in a mobile communication device: A mobile communication device comprises a plurality of spatially and/or polar diverse antenna configurations. Signals received by each of the plurality of antenna configurations are combined in a combiner and passed to a rake receiver that can be configured to combine the signals received by each of the plurality of... Agent: Kyocera Wireless Corp.

20070042726 - Distortion compensation in wireless digital communication: A distortion compensating technique applied to a transmitter for transmitting a quadrature modulated signal in a wireless digital communication system is provided. A phase adjustment value is determined for a quadrature demodulated feedback signal based on comparison between the feedback signal and a reference signal to be transmitted from the... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070042727 - Systems and methods for voice and data communication: Disclosed systems and methods are directed to an ability to use a portable data storage and display device to communicate via communication satellites with remote receiving nodes by incorporating, attached to, located within, or locally in data communication with, the device, a satellite communication transceiver. Direct access to virtually any... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070042729 - Inductive power supply, remote device powered by inductive power supply and method for operating same: An inductive power supply includes a transceiver for sending information between the remote device and the inductive power supply. The remote device determines the actual voltage and then sends a command to the inductive power supply to change the operating frequency if the actual voltage is different from the desired... Agent: Warner, Norcross & Judd In Re: Alticor Inc.

20070042728 - Transmitter having dc offset cancellation: A transmitter generates a transmitter output signal from first and second baseband signals. The transmitter includes a detector to detect a local oscillator (LO) leakage signal in the transmitter output signal. A controller coupled to the detector determines a direct LO coupling component and a baseband DC offset component of... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox PLLC

20070042730 - Terrestrial-digital multimedia broadcasting and digital audio broadcasting low intermediate frequency receiver: Provided is a terrestrial-digital multimedia broadcasting (T-DMB) and digital audio broadcasting (DAB) low intermediate frequency (IF) receiver. A T-DMB and DAB low IF receiver comprises a low noise amplifier (LNA), an image rejection down-conversion mixer, a low pass filter, an amplifier, a local oscillator, a phase-locked loop, and at least... Agent: Wolf, Block, Shorr And Solis-cohen LLP

20070042731 - Multimedia terminal: In the described multimedia terminal, a car radio in particular, including a display unit and an operator unit, the operator unit being removable from the multimedia terminal and having operating elements for controlling the multimedia terminal, the operator unit is a remote transmission unit for wireless transmission of control signals... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070042733 - Radio terminal: There is provided with a radio terminal which carries out data transmission using frequency bands licensed to other licensed radio terminals, including: a judging section configured to carry out a modulation analysis on a radio signal for each frequency band to judge whether the radio signal is a radio signal... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070042732 - Tuner and method for selecting a channel using band-selection filter and broadcast signal receiver including the tuner: A device, system, and method for improving the performance of a tuner for a selected channel by providing a band selection filter controlled by a digital voltage, instead of a notch filter for controlling FM radio signals. The tuner includes a band-selection filter module for selecting a radio frequency RF... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070042734 - Tuner and broadcasting signal receiver including the same: A tuner and a broadcasting signal receiver including the tuner. The tuner includes a band selection module that selects an RF broadcasting signal within the frequency band corresponding to a selected channel, and a low noise amplifier module that amplifies the signal with a specific received signal strength indicator (RSSI)... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070042735 - System and method for generating optical return-to-zero signals with differential bi-phase shift and frequency chirp: A system and method for generating an optical return-to-zero signal. The system includes an electro-optical conversion system. The electro-optical conversion system is configured to receive an input electrical non-return-to-zero signal, process information associated with the input electrical non-return-to-zero signal, and generate an output optical return-to-zero signal based on at least... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070042737 - Controllable mixer: A heterodyne receiver has a mixer with at least one transistor whose operating point can be varied dynamically. The quality of the output signal from the mixer is assessed in order to control the operating point. The operating point is set such that the collector current is increased when the... Agent: Thomson Licensing Inc.

20070042736 - Detection circuit and method of adjusting dectection circuit: A gain control section (150) controls an attenuator (101) to change the level of a signal output from the attenuator (101) to variable amplifiers (121, 131) and at the same time controls the variable amplifiers (121, 131) to adjust the gains in the variable amplifiers (121, 131). Through this adjustment,... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20070042738 - Receiver architecture for minimizing use of external bandpass filter between low-noise amplifier and first mixer: A wireless receiver is provided that includes a multi-step gain-control low-noise amplifier (LNA) stage and a mixer stage. The LNA stage is operable to amplify at least one input signal to generate at least one LNA output. The mixer stage is directly coupled to the LNA stage (without an intervening... Agent: Docket Clerk

20070042739 - Process and diagnostic device for selective testing of receiver antennas in a multi-antenna system: Mobile radio reception, in particular in motor vehicles, has the disadvantage in comparison to geographically fixed home reception, that line of sight contact with the transmitter rarely exists and the signal strength near the ground is significantly smaller than the signal strength for roof-top antennas. For minimizing these disturbances, antenna... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070042740 - Automatic selection of compensation value to reduce im2 product in mixed signal output: An apparatus, for automatically selecting a compensation value usable to reduce a second order intermodulation (IM2) product in an output signal of a mixer, may include: a mixer to output a mixed signal; a detector to detect an IM2 product in samples corresponding to the mixed signal; a compensation determination... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070042741 - Wireless communications device including a joint space-time optimum filters (jstof) using qr and eigenvalue decompositions: A wireless communications device may include a wireless transmitter and a wireless receiver. The wireless receiver may include a filter for reducing co-channel interference and may include a multi-channel, space-time filter circuit that filters n signal parts that have been split from a communications signal by jointly estimating space-time filter... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20070042743 - Frequency changer and tuner: A frequency changer for a radio frequency tuner and a tuner incorporating such a frequency changer are provided. The frequency changer comprises a mixer comprising a plurality of mixing stages. The output signals of these stages are supplied without relative phase shift to a summer, for example, in the form... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20070042742 - Terrestrial-digital multimedia broadcasting and digital audio broadcasting low intermediate frequency receiver: A terrestrial-digital multimedia broadcasting (T-DMB) and digital audio broadcasting (DAB) low intermediate frequency (IF) receiver comprises a low noise amplifier (LNA), an image rejection down-conversion mixer, a low pass filter, an amplifier, a local oscillator, a phase-locked loop, and an automatic gain controller (AGC). Particularly, the LNA, the image rejection... Agent: Wolf, Block, Shorr And Solis-cohen LLP

20070042744 - Quadrature frequency changer, tuner and modulator: A quadrature frequency changer comprising first and second mixers and a local oscillator and a tuner and modulator including the quadrature frequency changer are provided. The local oscillator provides first and second commutating signals which are nominally in phase-quadrature and includes an arrangement for changing the phase of the first... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20070042745 - Wireless communication device: A wireless communication device relays data between a USB terminal of a computer, and a peripheral device which is usually connected to the USB terminal. The wireless communication device has a DC power input terminal connected to an external power source, and a DC power output terminal connected to the... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP Patent Department

20070042746 - Cellular phone housing with retractable microphone/earpiece assembly: A cellular telephone housing with a retractable microphone or earpiece component. The cellular telephone housing lends itself to styling in the shape of a guitar body, while the retractable microphone or earpiece is shaped like a guitar neck. The retractable assembly assumes a position coplanar to the functional face of... Agent: Stainbrook & Stainbrook, LLP

20070042747 - System and method for the emergency voice and image e-mail transmitter device: A voice-image e-mail transmitter device that is designed for emergency and surveillance purposes is disclosed. This device converts voice signals and picture images into digital format, which are transmitted to the nearest voice-image message receiving station from where the digital signal strings are parsed and converted into audio and image... Agent: Stephen B. Ackerman

20070042748 - Systems and methods for facilitating queue participation and management: The invention relates to, systems and methods that may be used to facilitate customer participation in queues by allowing them to view queue wait times of several establishments at once and leave designated waiting areas. Additionally, establishments can use the described systems and methods to manage/monitor queues, improve service, and... Agent: Kirton And Mcconkie

20070042749 - Portable loss prevention system: A portable proximity detection system containing a standards based short wireless transceiver, a controller and an alarm system monitors the presence of a portable electronic device equipped with a compatible transceiver within range and alarms when that device leaves its range.... Agent: Mourad Ben Ayed

20070042750 - Multiple access internet portal revenue sharing: Multiple access internet portal billing systems are provided. A representative system, among others, includes a communication facility, a wireless internet server, and a transaction billing system. The communication facility includes a billing platform, and is operable to connect to a plurality of wireless device platforms through a mobile network, and... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP/ Bellsouth I.p. Corp

20070042751 - Control device to transfer units of connection time between donor and beneficiary terminals of communication network(s): A device (D) is dedicated to controlling the transfer of units of connection time for a communication network (N1) having accounting and/or billing equipment (ABE1). This device (D) includes processing means (PM) that, when they receive a request to transfer a chosen quantity of units of connection time to a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070042753 - Wireless network infrastructure: An access point of a network maintains information about data received at the access point from a server accessible via the network and provides to the server the information maintained at the access point. The access point then receives from the server a payment for an account associated with an... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group

20070042752 - Wireless network infrastructure: An access point of a network maintains information about data received at the access point from a server accessible via the network and provides to the server the information maintained at the access point. The access point then receives from the server a pavement for an account associated with an... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group

20070042754 - Security parameter provisioning in an open platform using 3g security infrastructure: A method and system for provisioning a shared secret key to enable trusted communications between a SIM and a platform running a trusted application in a third generation or beyond wireless network.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070042755 - Systems and methods for two-factor remote user authentication: This invention discloses a system of remote user authentication to an authentication server, with a telephone interface to the authentication server that only receives routed calls that have originated from a cell phone in a cellular network and a call handling logic function which routs only those calls to the... Agent: Tara Chand Singhal

20070042756 - Provisioning in communications systems: Provisioning is described for use in communications systems. The provisioning includes receiving a message at an inbox of a device. The message includes information of an electronic location of a source device from which to download the appropriate application and device and user-specific information used for configuration of the application.... Agent: Courtney Staniford & Gregory LLP

20070042757 - Apparatus and method for transmitting/receiving notification message in a broadcasting system, and system thereof: A terminal apparatus is provided for receiving a broadcast service from a broadcasting system. A receiver receives a notification message from the broadcasting system. A message parser parses the notification message received by the receiver according to a certain format. A controller determines whether the received notification message is a... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070042758 - Method and system for creating audio identification messages: The invention concerns a system (100) and method (200, 300, 400) for creating audio identification messages for a first communication device (102). In one arrangement, the method can include the step of populating a call list. This can be done by associating a recorded audio identification message with a caller... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20070042759 - System and method for providing mileage on wireless network: Disclosed is a mileage providing system and method on a wireless network. When a user is connected through a wired network or a wireless network and requests transmission of predetermined contents, the system transmits the contents including a mileage module to a user terminal. After this, the mileage module is... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070042760 - Method of compensating a provider for advertisements displayed on a mobile phone: A method and apparatus for advertising on a mobile phone. In one embodiment the method includes the steps of downloading an advertisement to the mobile phone using an advertisement server; selecting the downloaded advertisement on the mobile phone by a user of the mobile phone; providing by a server additional... Agent: Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham LLP

20070042761 - Message inputting device: A message inputting device is provided. The message inputting device includes a template having a blank space for filling so as to produce a message.... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20070042762 - Mobile conferencing and audio sharing technology: A method and apparatus is provided for setting up a voice conference call or sharing audio content (e.g. music, news, voice / phone call). The method in respect to voice conferencing includes the steps of providing an audio mixer that receives an audio input from each of at least three... Agent: Levenfeld Pearlstein Intellectual Property Department

20070042763 - Method for simulating an incoming call on a mobile phone: By setting in advance a waiting time and the content for displaying on a mobile phone, a simulation of an incoming call on the mobile phone is activated by a specific combination of key inputs. The incoming call can be simulated to accommodate various calling and responding situations according to... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070042764 - Telephone with dynamically programmable push buttons for access to advanced applications: A device and method for providing simple access to subscriber selected applications that reside in a telephone network. A programmable communication device that includes programmable push buttons operable for providing a user one button access to voice based and text based applications. A storage register is associated with each of... Agent: Merchant & Gould LLC Attention Of Murrell W. Blackburn

20070042765 - Method and apparatus for providing intelligent deactivation of electronic devices in aircraft: A method and apparatus for automatically deactivating an electronic device during flight of an aircraft. The method utilizes a global positioning system (GPS) or assisted global positioning system (AGPS) circuit to facilitate computing the acceleration, velocity and altitude of the electronic device and comparing this information to a profile to... Agent: Raymond R. Moser Jr., Esq. MoserIPLaw Group

20070042766 - System and method for delta-based over-the-air software upgrades for a wireless mobile station: A mobile station capable of being upgraded by a delta file received from a software upgrade server via a wireless network. The mobile station comprises: 1) a memory for storing an original image file and the delta file, wherein the delta file is suitable for upgrading the original image file;... Agent: Docket Clerk

20070042767 - Tethered digital butler consumer electronic device and method: The present invention relates to a tethered digital butler consumer electronics product and method. The tethered digital butler, of a price and form factor suitable for consumer electronics markets of developed and developing countries, includes a communications and multi-media console and a wireless remote. The remote may resemble a handheld... Agent: Haynes Beffel & Wolfeld LLP

20070042769 - Communications security management: A method of operation for managing network security features is disclosed. A communication device such as a mobile telephone or a modem can establish a position as a communications intermediary supporting communications between a first communication device such as a personal computer and a third communication device such as a... Agent: Larson Newman Abel Polansky & White, LLP

20070042768 - Programmable boost signal generation method and apparatus: An apparatus and method for generating a programmable boost signal. A first input receives at least one programming control signal. A second input receives a reference signal. The programmable boost signal generation circuit receives the programming control signal and the reference signal and generates a boost signal with at least... Agent: Avago Technologies, Ltd.

20070042770 - Information distribution: The art relates to information distribution service providing technology. The server system predicts the distribution state of mobile information terminals in the future, based on the location information of mobile information terminals and change over time in the distribution state of service users (mobile information terminals) with a specific user... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070042771 - System and method for providing quality of service in a communication network: Method and system for providing quality of service in communication network. According to an embodiment, the present invention provides a communication network system. The communication network system includes a first entity that is configured to store information on a first database and to provide first network access information. The first... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070042774 - Broadband security data communications system for in-flight aircraft: A broadband security data communications system for in-flight aircraft has been developed. The system includes multiple overlapping ground stations that communicate with an in-flight aircraft via the to IEEE 802.16 Air Interface Standard. Security Data including video surveillance of the aircraft is then transmitted to the ground.... Agent: Bradley Arant Rose & White LLP

20070042773 - Broadband wireless communication system for in-flight aircraft: A broadband wireless communication system for in-flight aircraft has been developed. The system includes multiple ground transmission stations that are located along a predefined air corridor within overlapping communications range and a receiver station located on board the in-flight aircraft. The ground transmission stations provide a broadband wireless communications link... Agent: Bradley Arant Rose & White LLP

20070042772 - Position location for airborne networks: A wireless communications system, and a corresponding method, for use with an aircraft, includes airborne pico cell base stations mounted on the aircraft, the base stations capable of communication with wireless devices used by subscribers on the aircraft via using switching/transaction processing equipment located optionally on the aircraft or in... Agent: Andrews Kurth LLP

20070042775 - System search to detect for a wireless communication network in a crowded frequency band: Techniques for efficiently performing system search to obtain service from a wireless system as quickly as possible are described. A terminal initially looks for service from a first (e.g., W-CDMA) system. The terminal identifies network(s) in the first system from which service was received in the past and performs acquisition... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070042776 - Wireless packet-switched paging apparatus, systems, and methods: Embodiments of wireless packet-switched paging apparatus, systems, and methods are described generally herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070042777 - System, method, and apparatus for voice handoffs: A power management system is described where the handset can enter sleep or hibernation mode for a particular service, when the particular service is either not used or not available. The handset is capable of using the service, even in response to a non-user initiated incoming request for communication. The... Agent: Edward M. Livingston 628 Ellen Drive

20070042778 - Cellular radio network reusing frequencies: Method of arranging a cellular radio network in a geographical area which is already covered by an existing cellular radio network, wherein cell clusters of the cellular radio network to be introduced and using a specific transmission frequency are located in areas determined by connecting at least two cells of... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070042780 - Methods and systems for adaptive server selection in wireless communications: Embodiments disclosed herein relate to methods and systems for providing adaptive server selection in wireless communications. An access terminal may be configured to determine a forward link quality metric associated with each of a plurality of sectors serviced by a plurality of access points; assign credits to each sector in... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070042781 - Methods and systems for server selection during feedback channel impairment in wireless communications: Embodiments disclosed herein relate to methods and systems for server selection during feedback channel impairment in wireless communications. The feedback channel may be provided by a data rate control (DRC) channel, transmitted from an access terminal to an access network relating the selected serving sector (DRC cover) and the desired... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070042779 - Number portability service in a telecommunication system: The present invention relates to a method and a network element in a telecommunications system. The telecommunications system comprises at least two telecommunications networks and means for providing number portability service between the networks and also supplementary telecommunications services. The method comprises the steps of initiating a set-up procedure for... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070042785 - Apparatus, method and computer program product providing for release, configuration and reconfiguration of e-rgch/e-hich at a ser ving cell change: Communications are received from a user equipment UE on an uplink enhanced dedicated channel E-DCH. The radio resources of at least one downlink channel that supports the E-DCH are either released or configured or reconfigured while the E-DCH is maintained for the UE. The downlink channels may be E-AGCH, E-HICH,... Agent: Harrington & Smith, LLP

20070042786 - Dynamic channel allocation in multiple-access communication systems: Dynamic allocation of communication channels among communication units (CU) in a communications system. Dynamic channel allocation employs a reservation set for reserving channels and an allocation set corresponding to the reservation set for receiving allocated channels. The reservation set and the allocation set are changed dynamically as a function of... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group

20070042783 - Frequency multiplexed architecture: A receiver (10) is arranged to simultaneously receive at least a first (S1) radio frequency signal having a first frequency band (1) and a second radio frequency signal (S3) having a second frequency band (3) that is at least partly overlapping the first frequency band (1). The receiver has frequency... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070042782 - Harq reordering method for wcdma enhanced uplink dedicated channel: A method for HARQ reordering in Enhanced Uplink Dedicated Channel of WCDMA system includes following steps: locating the soft combination buffer in the Node B and the reordering buffer in the SRNC; locating the HARQ entity in the Node B; locating the reordering queue distribution entity, the reordering entity and... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070042784 - Uplink resource allocation to control intercell interference in a wireless communication system: Embodiments of the present invention exploit the reciprocity of radio channels in TDD, and longer-term correlation between average uplink and downlink path losses in FDD wireless communication systems to enable distributed schedulers in an enhanced uplink system to allocate uplink transmission resources while preemptively managing intercell interference levels. Each cell's... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070042787 - Wireless point to multipoint system: A point to multipoint wireless communication system includes an access point having an antenna, a processor, and circuitry in communication with the access point antenna and controlled by the access point processor to transmit wireless electromagnetic signals to, and receive wireless electromagnetic signals from, an area. A plurality of subscriber... Agent: Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, LLP

20070042788 - Method for processing a location service: The present invention discloses a method for processing a location service, the method comprises: a target UE sending an MO-LR location service invoke to an LCS system, carrying an LCS Client identity and a service identity; the LCS system receiving the MO-LR location service invoke, positioning the target UE, and... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070042789 - System and method for using location information to execute an action: A system and method is provided for using location information associated with wireless devices. The system includes a wireless device, a location system, and a feature server. The wireless device includes any wireless apparatus having wireless communications capabilities. The location system can generate location information pinpointing the location of the... Agent: Merchant & Gould Bellsouth Corporation

20070042790 - Locating system and method: A mobile rover has a navigation receiver receiving radio positioning data from radio positioning entities. The mobile rover can report its position to a mobile controller unit or another entity so that the location of the mobile unit can be tracked based on the radio positioning data received by the... Agent: Lawrence S. Cohen

20070042792 - Determining message format according to status information: Automatic determination of message format according to status information is described. The formatting includes selecting via a calling device a recipient to receive a communication. A communication request is generated corresponding to the communication. A status of the recipient is automatically determined. The status includes information of a service that... Agent: Courtney Staniford & Gregory LLP

20070042791 - Presence and availability management over a public communication network: A system and method are disclosed for providing a distributed presence and availability management network (PAMN). PAMN presence detection elements or devices can be distributed throughout enterprise, wireless, and wire-line communication systems. The PAMN can include a first element having a first session initiated protocol (SIP) application to interface to... Agent: Toler Schaffer, LLP

20070042793 - Method for transferring a message in a predetermined sending time and related communication system thereof: A method for transferring a message from a first portable electronic device to a second portable electronic device through a server is disclosed. The method includes: utilizing the first portable electronic device to add a relay information to the message and then delivering the message to the server; utilizing the... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070042794 - Method of processing control information messages for point-to-multipoint services: A method of scheduling messages based upon whether there are any changes in the content of each message to be scheduled, and also considering certain information that may be needed by the terminal. Messages are scheduled such that the terminal (UE) would only need to perform minimal reading operations, thus... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070042795 - Method of band multiplexing to improve system capacity for a multi-band communication system: A control method of synchronizing communications between or among a plurality of devices in a communication system includes detecting beacons from the plurality of devices in the communication system, establishing a reservation for at least a portion of the plurality of devices in the communication system, each reservation being a... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20070042796 - Method, system, base station and data carrier for clash-free transmission between a base station and a number of mobile data carriers: To enable a method and a system, having at least one base station (B) and/or one data carrier (D1, D2), for transmitting signals (K, C; A1, A2) between the base station (B) and a number of mobile data carriers (D1, D2) operating in the crypto mode or in the plain... Agent: Philips Electronics North America Corporation Intellectual Property & Standards

20070042797 - Signaling method and system for channel switching in a wireless local area network: A signaling method and apparatus for channel switching in a WLAN are provided. In the signaling method and apparatus, a data transmission channel is allocated to a receiver and a transmitter. A channel index is set to indicate the allocated channel in a duration field. A current channel is switched... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070042799 - Auto adaptive technique to provide adequate coverage and mitigate rf interference: A method and system for optimizing the transmit power within a wireless network. The required change in transmit power of a home base station is determined by measured pilot strengths at the home mobile stations and/or at foreign mobiles stations, both from the home base station and a macro base... Agent: Docket Clerk

20070042798 - Transmit power initialization for secondary reverse link carriers in a wireless communication network: A method and apparatus provide for setting the initial transmit power of secondary reverse link carriers used by mobile stations in conjunction with primary reverse link carriers. In one or more embodiments, a mobile station sets the initial transmit power of a secondary reverse link carrier relative to the transmit... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20070042800 - Mobile phone: Provided is a mobile telephone that outputs new search results each time a user either selects a plurality of groups or changes a search condition. Each time new search results are outputted, a displayed size and coordinates of icons corresponding to parties found as the new search results are determined.... Agent: Armstrong, Kratz, Quintos, Hanson & Brooks, LLP

20070042801 - Mobile phone, incoming call notification method, and incoming call notification program: When an incoming voice call is detected, a mobile phone 100 judges whether an application that coordinates multicast service and unicast communication is running. If the application is not running, the user is notified of incoming voice calls. On the other hand, if in an application running state, priority mode... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20070042802 - Multi-mode-multi-band wireless transceiver: Disclosed is a multi-mode/multi-band wireless transceiver. The multi-mode/multi-band wireless transceiver includes a tunable duplexer including transmission and reception channel filters of which transmission and reception channel filtering frequencies respectively are controlled by an external element; and a control portion for controlling the transmission and reception channel filtering frequencies to correspond... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070042804 - Intercom/wireless door bell for multi-handset telephone system: A multi handset telephone system with a wireless telecom/doorbell module. The telecom/doorbell module has similar electronics as a cordless handset that includes audio and RF link with a base unit. A speakerphone functionality of a wireless telecom/doorbell audio processor is used to provide an intercom audio conversation. The wireless intercom/doorbell... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070042803 - Mobile station for an unmanned vehicle: A mobile station for an unmanned vehicle comprises a vehicular storage area for storing a vehicle during transit or at rest. A first wireless transceiver communicates a status or command between the vehicle and the mobile station during at least one of vehicular deployment and rest. A station controller manages... Agent: Deere & Company

20070042805 - Communications device comprising a touch-sensitive display unit and an actuating element for selecting highlighted characters: The invention relates to a communications device comprising a touch-sensitive display unit for displaying characters. Said device also comprises a data entry pen for highlighting displayed characters, actuating element and a processor device, which are configured in such a way that the character that is currently highlighted by means of... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070042807 - Compound portable computing device with dual portion keyboards coupled over a transmission link: A compound portable computing device comprising two or more separate portable devices coupled over a wireless link is described. A first portable computing device contains a keypad with keys dedicated to use with a function of the devices. A circuit of the first portable computing device reconfigures the first keypad... Agent: Courtney Staniford & Gregory LLP

20070042806 - Tethered digital butler consumer electronic device and method: The present invention relates to a tethered digital butler consumer electronics product and method. The tethered digital butler, of a price and form factor suitable for consumer electronics markets of developed and developing countries, includes a communications and multi-media console and a wireless remote. The remote may resemble a handheld... Agent: Haynes Beffel & Wolfeld LLP

20070042808 - Operating system for a mobile phone: An operating system for a mobile phone (1) includes a mobile phone having storage capacity adapted to the operating system, such as RAM, ROM, PROM or E-PROM, and a user identifier card provided by the operator, such as a SIM card (8). The data carried by the user identifier card... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070042811 - Earphone jack handfree: An earphone jack handsfree includes an earphone jack signal line and a handsfree host. The earphone jack signal line has one end connecting to an earphone jack of a mobile phone and other end connecting to the handsfree host. The handsfree host includes at least a microphone, a speaker, a... Agent: Bruce H. Troxell Suite 1404

20070042810 - Earphone jack signal line: An earphone jack signal line includes a conductive wire which has a first connector on one end and a second connector on other end. The first connector is inserted into an earphone jack of a mobile phone. The second connector is connected to a handsfree. The signal line includes at... Agent: Bruce H. Troxell Suite 1404

20070042809 - User interface unit for telephone: A user interface apparatus for remote control of a telephone having an input adapted for inputting telephone control signals; a display for outputting visual information, a communications unit adapted for short distance wireless signal communication; circuitry adapted to convey input telephone control signals and display control signals between the user... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20070042812 - Vehicle immersive communication system: A vehicle communication system facilitates hands-free interaction with a mobile device in a vehicle or elsewhere. Users interact with the system by speaking to it. The system processes text and processes commands. The system supports Bluetooth wireless technology for hands-free use. The system handles telephone calls, email, and SMS text... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds, P.C.

20070042813 - Mobile telephone device: A mobile telephone device (30) includes a TV-viewing function as an additional function. A battery (7) supplies power to each circuit of the mobile telephone device (30). The battery (7) can shut off the power supply to a tuner (4) by control of a baseband chip (3). A battery remaining... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070042814 - Mobile station: Provided is a mobile station that a user is able to use without inconvenience, and that is able to realize power consumption saving. The mobile station: records a speech-communication history including information identifying a time at which speech communication occurred; decides a cycle changing time and a cycle-after-change based on... Agent: Armstrong, Kratz, Quintos, Hanson & Brooks, LLP

20070042815 - Availability settings in mobile terminals: A mobile telephone has running as a background task thereon an instant messaging (IM) program. The IM program associates an availability setting of the mobile telephone, which setting is dependent on the profile to which the telephone is currently set. If an application is run or an activity commenced, this... Agent: Perman & Green

20070042817 - Ergonomic mobile device: An ergonomic mobile device. The mobile device comprises a main portion and a sliding portion. The main portion comprises a first sloped surface. The sliding portion, slidably connected to the main portion, comprises an upper surface and a second sloped surface. The first sloped surface faces the second sloped surface... Agent: Quintero Law Office, PC

20070042816 - Handheld communication device with key-lock: A handheld telecommunication device includes a housing, keys, a display, a speaker, a microphone, and an electronic operating circuit connected to and co-operable with the display, the speaker, and the microphone for performing various functions including telecommunication functions. The operating circuit includes a sensor for sensing placement of the housing... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20070042818 - Headset unit: A headset unit for interfacing user-supplied communications and audio player devices with a speaker or headphones. The headset unit includes a cradle having a first area for releasably holding the communications device and a second area for releasably holding the audio player. The cradle includes circuitry for electrically connecting the... Agent: Harshaw Research Incorporated

20070042819 - Wireless network shielding system and method: An enhanced wireless network system including a visible-light transparent, transmission shielding component for application to or incorporation in windows to create a shielded wireless network operation area. The shielding component enhances network performance by substantially reducing extraneous electromagnetic interference and enhances network security by substantially containing electromagnetic transmissions to desired... Agent: Hogan & Hartson LLPIPGroup, Columbia Square

20070042820 - Garter holder for small electronic device about leg or thigh: An electronic device holder of a garter-type design, to be worn for convenient access to the electronic device and as a fashion accessory. The invention comprises a leg strap, device support, and straps or a plate to hold down the device. In the preferred embodiment, the leg strap, a continuous... Agent: Steven Pinkert, Esq. Pinkert Law Firm, P.A.

20070042821 - Wrist watch-type headset assembly: A wrist watch-type headset assembly for wirelessly communicating with a portable terminal is provided. In the wrist watch-type headset assembly, a fixing body of a predetermined shape includes a band to be worn around the wrist of a user, and a headset having a Bluetooth module is detachably installed on... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070037511 - Enhanced data rate receiver: A receiver having circuitry for generating first digitized samples from a received analog signal at a first sampling rate, e.g. an ADC. An interpolating filter is used to generate second digitized samples which are estimates of samples obtainable by sampling the received analog signal at a second sample rate lower... Agent: Stmicroelectronics Inc. C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, PC

20070037510 - Receiver with improved sample granularity: A receive path in a receiver including circuitry for deriving a first stream of first digitized samples from a received analog signal at a first sampling rate, and at least one interpolating filter in parallel with the first stream of first digitized samples for generating at least a second stream... Agent: Stmicroelectronics Inc. C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, PC

20070037512 - Device and method to locally fill gaps in spotbeam satellite systems with frequency re-use: Systems and methods for transmitting and receiving diverse signals across regions using a minimum of frequency capacity and maintaining compatibility with the heritage system. A system of the invention comprises at least one broadcast transmitter for transmitting a broadcast signal in a first frequency band to a receiver, at least... Agent: The Directv Group Inc

20070037513 - System and method for targeted message delivery and subscription: A system, method and computer program product for product that enables users of broadcast messaging systems to more expediently and efficiently find communities, both for subscribing and for sending messages. The system, method and computer program product provides an end-user with the ability to send messages for delivery to more... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20070037514 - Satellite communications systems and methods using substantially co-located feeder link antennas: A satellite communications system includes a plurality of feeder link antennas, a primary satellite, and an auxiliary satellite. The feeder link antennas are substantially co-located relative to one another. The primary satellite is configured to receive information over a plurality of return service links from radioterminals, to communicate a first... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20070037515 - Integrated circuit device and low noise block down converter including same: A switch block 1 includes: N inputs; M outputs; N amplification sections each of which amplifies one of each pair of 2N input signals which are generated by dividing N input signals supplied to the N inputs in two; N bandwidth conversion sections each of which subjects, to frequency conversion,... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070037516 - Communication system, transmitting device, transmitting method, receiving device, and receiving method: A communication system includes a transmitting device configured to transmit data and a receiving device configured to receive the data. The transmitting device includes first and second transmission lines and a differential signal outputter configured to generate differential signals from the microwave signal corresponding to the data, and to output... Agent: William S. Frommer, Esq. Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20070037517 - Method for establishing a wireless communication link: A wireless communication link between two communication devices is established. A communication signal for contacting a second communication device is emitted from a first communication device. The communication signal is a first type of wireless data communication. Communications that are configured to transmit and receive data according to a second... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20070037518 - Positioning of mobile wireless terminal: An apparatus for determining a position of a mobile wireless station comprises means for determining the position of the mobile wireless station in accordance with a position of a first reference wireless station, a position of a second reference wireless station, a first relative angular direction between the mobile wireless... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070037519 - Apparatus and method for calibrating transmission paths in a multicarrier communication system using multiple antennas: An apparatus and method for calibrating transmission paths in a multicarrier communication system using multiple antennas are provided. In the transmission path calibrating apparatus, a calibration processor generates reference signals to estimate distortions in phase and amplitude in transmission paths, allocates the generated reference signals to subcarriers which are different... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070037520 - Eyeglasses with wireless communication features: A microphone, transmitter, speaker, receiver, and power source, all mounted to an eyeglasses frame, for sending and receiving signals wirelessly to and from a remote cell phone or other electronic device. The microphone and the transmitter can be mounted to extension arms that can be extended, pivoted, or otherwise moved... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070037521 - System and method of testing wireless component applications: A test harness system and method of functionality testing of wireless component applications is provided. The test harness system comprises at least one testlet for testing at least one target application log event and at least one event handler for validating at least one comparator against the at least one... Agent: Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP

20070037522 - System and method for adaptive programming of a remote control: A method and system for adaptively configuring a remote control includes analyzing a log of events, maintained by the remote control, which indicate how the remote control and the devices it controls are used by a user. Once the analysis is performed, the system and method can suggest alternative configurations... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070037523 - Method and apparatus for controlling reverse link transmission: A communication device and method for controlling reverse link transmissions. The device receives a broadcast transmission signal and determines a quality level of the broadcast transmission signal. It then communicates with the base station to establish how frequently reverse link transmissions will occur depending on the determined quality level. Alternatively,... Agent: Motorola Inc

20070037524 - Method of controlling mobile communication system, control device, and mobile communication system: A mobile communication system controls switching a transmission diversity system for each channel, and improves the quality of the channel. When the channel type in an uplink is a channel for transmitting voice, open loop transmission diversity is used (steps S1→S3). When the channel type in an uplink is a... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070037525 - Transmission level control method and transceiver apparatus in wireless local loop system: A transmission level control method in a wireless local loop system capable of suppressing occurrence of an unnecessarily high transmission level, comprises a step of generating a required reception level corresponding to a classification of data, a step of detecting the reception level of data at a receiver side transceiver... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070037526 - System and method of automatically turning wireless radio on/off: A system and method of automatically turning a PAN (personal area network) radio, such as a Bluetooth radio, on and off in a wireless device is described. The wireless device is coupled to an audio peripheral through a wireless PAN connection. In one embodiment, if the wireless PAN connection becomes... Agent: Smart & Biggar P.o. Box 2999, Station D

20070037527 - Equal duty cycle frequency divider: The invention relates to a frequency divider (1), in particular for radio frequency (RF) applications, wherein the division ratio can be expressed by an—preferably odd numbered—integer divisor. The frequency divider (1) comprises an input circuit (10), which receives an input signal (5) as well as a first output signal (25).... Agent: Tarolli, Sundheim, Covell & Tummino L.L.P.

20070037529 - Radio tag communication apparatus: A radio tag communication apparatus having a broad communicable range and a simple arrangement, is provided. Since there are provided a transmission antenna selection control portion for selecting a single transmission-reception antenna element to transmit a transmission signal, from a plurality of transmission-reception antenna elements, and a reception signal synthesizing... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070037528 - Wireless communication device using adaptive beamforming: A method and apparatus is disclosed herein for wireless communication with adaptive beamforming. In one embodiment, the apparatus comprises a processor, a radio frequency (RF) transmitter having a digitally controlled phased array antenna coupled to and controlled by the processor to transmit content using adaptive beamforming, and an interface to... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070037530 - Configurable multi-mode modulation system and transmitter: A multi-mode transmitter architecture is configurable for multiple modulation modes using either polar or polar-lite modulation. Multiplexed signal paths and reconfigurable components are controlled for performance in GMSK and EDGE burst modes. Polar-lite EDGE modulation is programmed by setting a multiplexer coupling a first amplitude modulated signal path with a... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20070037531 - Downstream adaptive modulation in broadband communications system: A downstream adaptive modulation system and method. The downstream adaptive modulation system comprises a wireless access termination system and one or more wireless modems. The wireless access termination system includes a plurality of queues and a parser. The parser parses data traffic onto the plurality of queues. Each queue is... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox PLLC

20070037532 - Radio frequency excitation arrangement including a limiting circuit: Disclosed is a method for limiting the voltage applied to a component in a radio frequency path (RF path) of a radio frequency excitation system. According to the method, a radio frequency signal (RF signal) is tapped at a first random point of the RF path, and energy is withdrawn... Agent: J, Peter Fasse Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070037533 - Radio transmitter: A radio transmitter includes a transmitter circuit which produces a signal at a first frequency, and has digital divider circuitry, for dividing the first frequency to produce a signal at a second frequency. The noise performance of the digital divider is adjusted, depending upon the transmitter output power. Specifically, the... Agent: Jenkens & Gilchrist, PC

20070037534 - System and method for radio station preference translational mapping: A user's media preferences can be obtained and stored for later use in setting up a currently-available media device. The media device inputs are programmed based on the media device's capabilities and the available media sources for the particular geographic area in which the user is currently located. Media device... Agent: Van Leeuwen & Van Leeuwen

20070037535 - Synchronization method and apparatus for polar modulation signals: Signals under test that are modulated signals are amplitude-demodulated and amplitude-demodulated signals that are the amplitude component of the signals under test are generated; the signals under test are phase demodulated and phase-demodulated signals that are the phase component of the signals under test are generated; reference amplitude signals and... Agent: Paul D. Greeley Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L..l.p.

20070037536 - System, method and program for controlling mute function on telephone: System, method and program for controlling a mute function on a telephone device. While the mute function is active, sound reaching a telephone or other communication device is sensed, and a determination is made if the sound includes a word. If so, an alarm is activated to alert a user... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20070037537 - Radio wave reception device, radio wave clock, and repeater: A received low-frequency standard radio wave, which is an amplitude modulation signal, is converted to an intermediate frequency signal Sa, and is output to a detection circuit and an AGC circuit. The detection circuit and AGC circuit generates an RF control signal Sf1 and IF control signal Sf2 from the... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070037538 - Technique for reducing multipath interference in an fm receiver: A technique for reducing multipath distortion in an FM receiver, with a plurality of switchable antennas, provides a fast distortion detector that monitors a received signal for significant distortion events of less than about 15 microseconds in duration. In response to a multipath event, the output of the fast distortion... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20070037539 - Method of suppressing co-channel interference in a wireless communication system: A method of suppressing co-channel interference in a wireless communication system, which computes the power intensities of coherent signals in different spatial orientations based on a result generated when the preamble of a main signal to be received by a wireless receiver is orthogonal to the preambles of interference signals,... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070037540 - Joint space-time optimum filters (jstof) using singular value decompositions (svd): A filter for reducing co-channel interference within a communications receiver may include a multi-channel, space-time filter circuit that filters n signal parts that have been split from a communications signal by jointly estimating space-time filter weights and multi-channel impulse responses (CIRs) based upon a singular value decomposition (SVD). The filter... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20070037541 - Wireless communications device including a joint space-time optimum filter (jstof) using cholesky and eigenvalue decompositions: A wireless communications device may include a wireless transmitter and a wireless receiver. The wireless receiver may include a filter for reducing co-channel interference and may include a multi-channel, space-time filter circuit that filters n signal parts that have been split from a communications signal by jointly estimating space-time filter... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20070037542 - Combined low-if/direct down conversion baseband architecture for 3g gsm/wcdma receivers: A radio receiver for receiving signals of at least two different communication standards, including a narrow band signal having a narrow bandwidth and a wide band signal having a wide bandwidth, is provided. The receiver comprises a shared radio frequency (RF) front-end that receives the wide band signal during at... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070037543 - Multistage frequency conversion: A receiver for frequency down converting a radio frequency signal (10) using a multistage frequency (down) conversion. The radio frequency signal (10) having a center frequency that is comprised in one of at least two frequency bands, comprises oscillating means (20) for generating a first mixing signal (11) having a... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070037544 - Integrated rf circuits: An on-chip response adjuster is based on an on-purpose generated and dominant transfer pole or zero of a signal response so as to provide a process-stable phase behavior of the circuitry. The signal response is defined directly by a passive frequency variant component (Lfold) and by transistor operation point, e.g.... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070037545 - Mixer for homodyne rf receiver: A mixer of a homodyne RF receiver made from a CMOS process is provided. The mixer comprises a gain stage, a switch stage and a load stage. The gain stage receives a differential-typed RF signal and generating a first gained signal. The switch stage mixes the first gained signal and... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070037546 - Superheterodyne receiver having at least one downconversion stage empolying a single image reject filter stage and both low-side injection and high-side injection of a local oscillator signal: A multi-channel superheterodyne receiver employs a low intermediate frequency (IF) and both high-side injection and low-side injection of a selected local oscillator (LO) signal into the mixer in order to position image frequencies outside the passband of a single image reject filter. Any channel that falls within a used portion... Agent: Angus C. Fox, Iii

20070037547 - Changing an operation state and recovering a network of a wlan device: Access to a wireless local area network (WLAN) is controlled by identifying a D3 system event. The wireless local area network device associated with the D3 system event is removed and the removal of the wireless local area network device is reported to a wireless local area network device manager.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070037548 - Method and system for reducing power consumption of a wireless transmit/receive unit: A method and system for reducing power consumption of a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU), (i.e., mobile station), are disclosed. A first WTRU measures a predetermined parameter and determines whether the measured predetermined parameter exceeds a threshold. If so, the first WTRU sends a sleep frame to a second WTRU. The... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070037549 - Apparatus and method for providing emergency broadcast information via a media playing device: An apparatus and method for providing emergency broadcast information via a media playing device, including a receiver for receiving an emergency broadcast transmission, wherein the emergency broadcast transmission contains at least one of emergency broadcast information and an emergency broadcast message, media playing equipment for providing the at least one... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20070037551 - Hands-free installation for mobile telephones and control unit therefor: A hands-free installation for mobile telephones, having a holder (2) which has a contact unit and which uses a contact unit to set up a connection to a mobile telephone and which is connected to a central device to which external devices can be connected allows convenient handling without the... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson & Cook, P.C.

20070037550 - System and process for switching between cell phone and landline services: A system and a method for determining which type of telephone communication service to use. The system can include at least one base station, and at least one telephone communication system in communication with the base station. There can also be at least one computer which is in communication with... Agent: William Collard Collard & Roe, P.C.

20070037554 - Communication and proximity authorization systems: A proximity service unit for providing at least one predetermined service for use with multiple types of wireless devices. The proximity service unit includes a multiple channel wireless transceiver, a proximity unit validation assembly, and a legacy activation unit. The multiple channel wireless transceiver receives at least two signal types,... Agent: Dunlap, Codding & Rogers P.C.

20070037552 - Method and system for performing two factor mutual authentication: A method and system for performing a secure transaction are disclosed. A service provider system may receive an account identifier and a one-time passcode from a user system via a communication network. The service provider system may determine whether the one-time passcode is valid. If the one-time passcode is valid,... Agent: Pepper Hamilton LLP One Mellon Center

20070037553 - Methods and apparatus for optimizations in 3gpp2 networks using mobile ipv6: Methods and apparatus are disclosed for reducing latency in a Mobile IP environment. These embodiments are particularly applicable in a 3GPP2 architecture using Mobile IPv6. Each of the features disclosed may be implemented separately or in combination with one another, and include replay protection, duplicate address detection, and updating state... Agent: Beyer Weaver & Thomas, LLP

20070037555 - Method, system and terminal apparatus for enabling content to be reproduced in multiple terminals: Disclosed are a method, a system and a terminal apparatus for reproducing content purchased by a user in a plurality of terminals. To this end, a Right Object (RO) is received through an authentication process for content and a service registration process, and is stored in a User Identity Module... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070037556 - Wireless communication system for mobile vessels: A system for delivering multimedia information between at least one mobile vessel and at least one multimedia content center includes at least one media server, wireless access router, and client device. The media server is placed in the multimedia content center for providing or storing the multimedia information. The wireless... Agent: Howard Chen, Esq. Preston Gates & Ellis LLP

20070037557 - Method and system for multimedia messaging service: The invention allows a portion of a multimedia message, usually the beginning part of the message to be delivered to and stored on a mobile terminal beforehand. When a user wants to view the message, the portion of the message stored locally will be played back immediately, while at the... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070037558 - Mobile communication devices, systems, and methods for dynamic update of map data: A mobile communication device comprises a communication unit and a processor. The communication unit initiates a wireless communication channel within a range. The processor coupled to the communication unit automatically determines if a server offering point of interest (POI) data exists in the range. If so, the communication unit initiates... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070037559 - Proximity triggered communication system: A system for broadcasting a sound and/or visual concerning a subject to a person upon detecting a presence in the vicinity of a design indicative of the subject. The system includes a sensor proximal to the design. When the sensor detects a person or object proximal the design, a sound... Agent: Rader, Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070037560 - Redirection method for a mobile terminal and system using the same: A redirection method for a mobile terminal and a system using the same are provided. The redirection method and system include a first mobile terminal, wherein terminal information including the telephone number of the first mobile terminal is stored in at least one redirection terminal designated by a user and... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070037562 - Method and system for call management within a cellular telephone group subscription: A unique telephone number is assigned to each member within a cellular telephone group subscription and one or more ancillary unique telephone numbers are assigned to subsets of members within the cellular telephone group subscription such that a call directed to an ancillary unique telephone number may be answered by... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20070037563 - Method and system for downloading data to mobile terminals and for implementing data sharing between mobile terminals: The invention discloses a method and system for downloading data to mobile terminals, a mobile terminal that utilizes the method, and a method and a system for implementing data sharing between mobile terminals. The method for data downloading includes: dividing data to be downloaded into multiple data task segments by... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070037561 - Method for intelligently dialing contact numbers for a person using user-defined smart rules: Methods for establishing communication with a person using a communication device such as a cell phone are disclosed. The communication device has two or more contact numbers for establishing communication with a particular the person (e.g., work, home or cell), such as might be programmed into a the cell phone's... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070037564 - Radio communication method and radio communication terminal accommodating apparatus: A technique capable of improving the communication throughput while maintaining the interchangeability with a radio communication system or radio communication method employing carrier sense in a conventional multiple access system is disclosed and, on the basis of this technique, a radio communication terminal accommodating apparatus determines the allocation order of... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20070037565 - Remote site telecom equipment communication: The present invention provides for a system, method and apparatus for monitoring telecommunication components. The invention provides a switch placed at a remote location, wherein the switch includes a converter that converts power from a first voltage to a second voltage, a plurality of communication lines for a connection to... Agent: Paul S Madan Madan, Mossman & Sriram, PC

20070037566 - Prohibiting radio frequency transmissions in a restricted environment: According to an embodiment is a system that selectively permits or denies access to a restricted environment. Access can be based at least in part on the status of wireless transmitters of a mobile device, the status is one of active or inactive wireless communication. The system can automatically inactivate... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070037569 - Data network computing device call processing: A telecommunications service node is connected to a data network using a packet data protocol and a telephone network using a circuit switched protocol. The service node is also connected to a wireless roaming network using the IS-41 signaling protocol. The service node stores status information, including location and registration... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070037567 - Information transmission method and apparatus: A method and an apparatus are provided for transmitting information between a monitor and a remote computer. The monitor comprises a sensor coupled to a memory for logging data output by the sensor over time. The information transmission method includes the steps of interfacing the monitor to a base station... Agent: Saliwanchik Lloyd & Saliwanchik A Professional Association

20070037568 - Networked wireless devices for local tracking and interaction: The present invention provides one or more powered wireless transceivers and/or one or more passive wireless transceivers networked to one another, a method for making same and the method of using these devices for locating, tracking and identifying each other, the products in which they are implemented and/or the person,... Agent: Mathews, Shepherd, Mckay, & Bruneau, P.A.

20070037570 - Embedded wireless benchmarking systems and methods: Systems and methods for measuring the performance of a provider of communications service are described. A plurality of mobile communications devices measure average power received, signal to noise ratio, voice quality, blocked and dropped calls, or any combinations of such measurements. The device may also receive a set of data... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070037571 - Method and system for remote call forwarding of telephone calls from an ip connection: A subscriber to a remote call forwarding feature on a wire-line telephone line associated with a PBX (101) or central office (402), hereinafter, a “user”, can enable that feature by entering a feature code from an IP terminal (112, 412). The user enters a feature code from his/her IP terminal... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 006004

20070037572 - Data transmission system: Disclosed is a data transmission system to transmit digital data through a wireless transmission path, including: a first device including a communication condition detecting section, a data supplying section, a bit-rate converting section, a transmission buffer, a transmission communicating section and a channel switching section; and a second device including... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070037574 - Method and apparatus of a location-based network service for mutual social notification: A method and apparatus for a location-based network service and notification system in which registered users are notified of mutual social interest is presented. Users subscribed in a community register in a network location, either by selecting from a stored catalog of locations a fixed network that corresponds to their... Agent: Fox Rothschild LLP

20070037573 - Method for setup and controlling service connection: A method of establishing connection between a first mobile station (MS) and a second MS in a mobile communication system is disclosed. More specifically, the method includes transmitting to at least one base station (BS) a service message which includes information of at least one service type supported by the... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070037575 - Mobile communication terminal for service type signalling: A mobile communication terminal operatively coupled to at least two mobile radio communication systems in respectively associated mobile radio networks, each of which provides a user of the communication terminal with a number of services of different type. The user may thus effect efficient management of the services provided for... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLC

20070037577 - Apparatus, method and computer program product providing inclusion of local area information in broadcast messages and maintenance of radio access network black list: A method includes receiving location area-related information, associating the location area-related information with a neighbor cell information to determine if a cell belongs to a forbidden location area, and avoiding selection of the cell if the cell is determined to belong to the forbidden location area. Embodiments described include a... Agent: Harrington & Smith, LLP

20070037576 - Method and apparatus for decreasing latencies during handover: A method and apparatus for handing over a mobile station (106) from a serving base station (104a) to a target base station (104b) within a wireless communication system (100) is described. A session is established between the mobile station and the serving base station and it is determined that the... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070037578 - Method and system for dynamically modifying a dial plan for a wireless dual-mode handset: A dual mode device detects when its presence within a home wireless LAN. The dual mode device sends a message containing the BSSID of the HWLAN to an application on a WWC server, which associates the BSSID with the subscriber's identity in a dynamic database. When a call is dialed... Agent: Arris International, Inc

20070037580 - Design and construction of wireless systems: In the design and/or construction of a wireless communication system, a parameter optimization determination is performed. Such determination is accomplished by first clustering parameters with strong interdependence. In a second operations a subset of the clustered parameters are removed from consideration by imposing constraints on the system and/or on the... Agent: Bruce S. Schneider

20070037579 - Method, system and computer program product for determining the cell area of a base station by taking into account pixel of territory specific quantity of traffic, and network planned using this method: A method for planning a telecommunication network for radio apparatuses includes a plurality of cells distributed over a geographical area, each of which has a set of elementary areas of territory called pixels adapted to receive a radio signal irradiated by a fixed radio base station in which for each... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070037581 - Mobile communication system and access control method: When the radio control station (2) recognizes that the communication line is in the congested state and receives a line connection request from the mobile station (5), the control station (2) transmits a control signal for refusing the line connection request received to the mobile station (5) without performing control... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070037582 - Locating system and method: A mobile rover has a navigation receiver receiving radio positioning data from radio positioning entities. The mobile rover can report its position to a mobile controller unit or another entity so that the location of the mobile unit can be tracked based on the radio positioning data received by the... Agent: Lawrence S. Cohen

20070037583 - Location recognition system using stereophonic sound, transmitter and receiver therein, and method thereof: A location recognition system and method using stereophonic sound, the system having a transmitter and a receiver. The transmitter uses the stereophonic sound and transmits location tracking information of an object. The transmitter includes a sound detector which detects a sound of the object and converts the detected sound to... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070037584 - Method for triggering handover of mobile terminal and system thereof: A mobile terminal and method for performing handover, are discussed. According to an embodiment, the method includes calculating a distance value between a mobile terminal and each of a plurality of neighbor base stations based on power values of the plurality of neighbor base stations; and transmitting information of a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070037585 - Periodic positioning method in mobile communications system: A positioning method in a SUPL based position information system, and more particularly, a method for performing periodic positioning capable of processing a periodic positioning request by a location server or a periodic positioning request by a mobile communications terminal when the location server and the terminal respectively manage a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070037586 - System and method for locating a mobile terminal using secure user plane location: Disclosed is a method for determining the location of a targeted mobile set using SUPL (Secure User Plane Location) in a wireless communications network, including sending a target set location initiation message to the targeted mobile set in response to a request message, causing a home positioning server to exchange... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070037587 - Locating system and method: A mobile rover has a navigation receiver receiving radio positioning data from radio positioning entities. The mobile rover can report its position to a mobile controller unit or another entity so that the location of the mobile unit can be tracked based on the radio positioning data received by the... Agent: Lawrence S. Cohen

20070037588 - Locating system and method: A mobile rover has a navigation receiver receiving radio positioning data from radio positioning entities. The mobile rover can report its position to a mobile controller unit or another entity so that the location of the mobile unit can be tracked based on the radio positioning data received by the... Agent: Lawrence S. Cohen

20070037589 - Including a hashed service identifier in a paging message for a service group call: A service provided to wireless stations through a telecommunication network is identified by a unique service identifier stored in the telecommunication network and in at least one subscriber station among the wireless stations. The method comprises the steps of: determining a paging identifier in the telecommunication network and at said... Agent: Piper Rudnick

20070037590 - Method and apparatus for providing background effect to message in mobile communication terminal: Disclosed are a method for providing a background effect to a received message in a mobile communication terminal and an apparatus thereof. The method includes parsing a received message and checking whether a specific character is contained in the received message; and when the specific character is contained in the... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070037591 - Method for automatically recognizing approval number for electronic commerce through sms message in dmb terminal: Disclosed is a method for automatically recognizing an approval number for performing an electronic commerce transaction through a short messaging service (SMS) message in a digital multimedia broadcasting (DMB) terminal, the method including the steps of: accessing, by the DMB terminal, a home page for electronic commerce through a web-browsable... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20070037592 - System and method for reducing the size of an electronic message on a mobile communication device: A method includes receiving a text message and identifying address card information within the message. A reduced version of the message is displayed by replacing the address card information of the message with an address card indicia. The receiving, identifying and displaying steps are performed by an electronic communication device.... Agent: Joseph M. Sauer, Esq. Jones Day

20070037593 - Architectural model of a radio base station: The present invention relates to an architectural model of a radio network unit, e.g. a Radio Base Station, that separates functionality in such a way that it is possible to easily adapt the unit to various requirements and conditions. The radio network unit comprises an internal RBS-interface that subdivides the... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070037594 - Method for synchronization in a mobile radio terminal: A method for synchronizing measurements in a mobile communication apparatus having a first active radio access means (100) adapted to communicate according to a first radio access technology (RAT) and at least a second passive radio access means (200) adapted to communicate according to a second RAT. A time reference... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070037595 - Wlan operating on multiple adjacent bands: A method for communication includes deploying a plurality of access points, which have respective coverage areas and are configured to operate on a common frequency channel, in a service region of a wireless local area network (WLAN), so that the coverage areas of the access points overlap. A first access... Agent: Welsh & Katz, Ltd

20070037597 - Architecture and implementation of closed user groups and limiting mobility in wireless networks: A system for providing advanced voice services (AVS) in wireless communications systems includes a Real-Time Exchange (RTX) that interfaces to a wireless communications network to provide the AVS therein, wherein the AVS comprise Closed User Groups and Limiting Mobility. The Closed User Groups allow a group of users to make... Agent: Gates & Cooper LLP Howard Hughes Center

20070037598 - Brew platform enabling advanced voice services (avs) including push-to-talk, push-to-conference and push-to-message on wireless handsets and networks: A client application that provides advanced voice services (AVS), such as Push-to-Talk (P2T), Push-to-Conference (P2C), Upgrade to Conference (upgrade from P2T to P2C), Push-to-Message (P2M) and group SMS (Short Message Service), on wireless handsets and networks using a Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless (BREW™), which is an open architecture that... Agent: Gates & Cooper LLP Howard Hughes Center

20070037596 - Method and system for providing interoperable communications with location information: A method for providing interoperable communications with location information includes receiving communications from a plurality of virtual talk groups. Each virtual talk group comprises a plurality of endpoints of different communication networks. The method includes receiving from a first mobile endpoint of a first virtual talk group of the plurality... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070037599 - Broadcast dispatch chatroom: A method and system for conducting a dispatch multi-party communication session is disclosed. In accordance with an embodiment of a method of the present invention, the method includes establishing a dispatch multi-party communication session in a dispatch network, conducting a first portion of the session in a broadcast mode, and... Agent: Sprint Nextel Corporation

20070037600 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, recording medium, and program: This invention relates to an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, a recording medium, and a program for transmitting an RTS frame at full power and data at low power. If it is found in step S1 that data is to be transmitted, then an RTS frame is transmitted... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070037601 - Efficient cell measurements during transmission gaps in a compressed mode: A terminal obtains a monitored set containing GSM neighbor cells and/or UMTS neighbor cells. The terminal operates in a compressed mode and obtains from a UMTS network at least two transmission gap pattern sequences for different measurement purposes, e.g., for “GSM carrier RSSI measurements” (GAP1), “GSM initial BSIC identification” (GAP2),... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070037602 - Wireless communication device, controlling method and program therefor: To make is possible to perform communication adapted to changes in a communication environment, a wireless communication device comprises a wireless communication unit for performing communication with another communication device through a wireless communication network, a communication quality evaluation unit for generating an evaluation value with regards to a communication... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070037603 - Method and apparatus for simultaneous communication utilizing multiple wireless communication systems: A wireless communication method, apparatus, and system for simultaneous communication of a wide area network with a wireless local area network. The system having the wide area network configured to transmit control signals, the wireless local area network configured to transmit data signals, and a mobile station configured to receive... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070037604 - Mobile terminal having display unit separable from main unit and method thereof: A mobile terminal that has a display unit separable from a main unit and a method thereof are provided. The main unit includes a first separation sensor for sensing separation of the display unit; a radio frequency (RF) transmission unit for wirelessly transmitting data to be output to the display... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070037605 - Methods and apparatus for controlling cellular and portable phones: A system for controlling the magnitude or timing of the alert signal (e.g. ringing) generated to notify the user of a portable (e.g. cellular) telephone of an incoming phone call. Data values that indicate the status of the telephone are processed to control the character of the alert signals. These... Agent: Charles G. Call

20070037606 - Transmitter of wireless microphone, receiver for wireless microphone, portable information communication device, and wireless microphone communication system: A wireless microphone communication system 1 comprises a transmitter 91b of a wireless microphone and a receiver 11 for the wireless microphone. The transmitter 91b of the wireless microphone includes an infrared interface 91c, a control portion 91d, and a function control portion 91e that controls a function of the... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20070037607 - Hands-free communication system for use in automotive vehicle: A hands-free system, through which a driver communicates without using hands with an on-board mobile phone such as a cell phone, is mounted on an automotive vehicle. Plural speakers including a center speaker installed in an instrument panel and door speakers each installed in each door are mounted on the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070037608 - Arrangement comprising a mobile telephone and an auxiliary memory: Assembly comprising a mobile telephone supplied by a self-contained power source, an auxiliary memory and a charger arranged to charge the power source, the said telephone being provided with a memory arranged to store therein data of the operator and data introduced by an owner of the telephone. The loading... Agent: Jacobson Holman PLLC

20070037610 - Methods and apparatus for conserving battery power in a cellular or portable telephone: A cellular telephone automatically places itself in a sleep mode in which one or more components are de-eneragized to conserve battery power whenever sensed status variables indicated that the telephone will not or cannot be used. The user can schedule time periods during which the phone will be in sleep... Agent: Charles G. Call

20070037609 - Reducing power consumption of wi-fi enabled mobile devices: A system and method for maximizing the standby time of mobile communication devices that have WiFi or other high energy-consuming network interfaces, by predicting in real time actionable silent periods (ASPs) of the interface and shutting the interface down during these ASPs. Standby times are significantly increased, resulting in longer... Agent: Watchstone P+d, PLC

20070037612 - Digital television with built-in telephone function: A digital television with a built-in telephone function and a call transmitting and receiving method are provided as a user interface. The digital television includes a telephone module for receiving information including calls, text messages, and fax data. A remote control with a telephone handset function transmits a signal to... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070037611 - Electronic device, input device, and portable electronic device using the same: An object of the present invention is to provide an electronic device that can be operated as imagined while checking display contents because the display contents on a displaying unit and an operation applied to an operating unit are linked together. An electronic device of the present invention includes a... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070037614 - Method and apparatus for rfid-triggered personal reminders: A portable computing device is configured to store personal reminders. Each personal reminder includes reminder content and a trigger establishment associated with the reminder content. An RFID scanner is included as an integral or peripheral component, and the RFID scanner is configured to detect and read data from RFID chips... Agent: Sinsheimer Juhnke Lebens & Mcivor, LLP

20070037613 - Method and apparatus for searching for a directory entry in a mobile communication terminal phone book: A method and apparatus for searching for a desired directory entry in phone book data of a mobile communication terminal is disclosed. A terminal phone book directory has one or more data entry fields such as hot-key, name, and phone number. Using the termnal keypad, the user enters a sequence... Agent: Jonathan Y. Kang, Esq. Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka, P.C.

20070037615 - Wireless communication headset with rf module for accessory speaker and system utilizing same: A wireless communication headset for use with an electronic device comprises a first headset housing a first speaker, a first module providing communication over a first protocol with the electronic device, and a circuit connecting the first speaker so as to receive signals from the first module. A second module... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20070037617 - Cellular phone: A plurality of operation portions are arranged at a surface on a sub-display side of a cellular phone with a camera so that various kinds of setting, selection and control can be performed without opening the cellular phone in its folded state, and the cellular phone can achieve improved operability... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070037616 - Hinge and mobile phone with the hinge: A mobile phone has a cover with a first bearing extending parallel with the cover, a body with a second bearing at a corner thereof and extending perpendicular thereto, and a hinge rotationally coupling the cover and the body. The hinge includes a crankshaft that has a transverse shaft and... Agent: Lin & Associates Intellectual Property

20070037618 - Mobile terminal having an additional keypad: Disclosed is a mobile terminal including a terminal body; a display portion movably mounted on the terminal body; and a keyboard portion provided to be slidable on the bottom of the terminal body and selectively exposing an auxiliary keypad. Also, disclosed is a mobile terminal including a body portion; a... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20070037619 - Method for controlling antennas of mobile terminal device and such a mobile terminal device: A method for controlling antennas of a mobile terminal device such as a laptop PC and a handheld PC without degrading communication speed or quality and a mobile terminal device having such control means are provided. The method comprises determining the usage of the mobile terminal device, determining an antenna... Agent: Ference & Associates

20070032189 - Apparatus and method for wirelessly transmitting image signal to outside: An apparatus for receiving an image signal for reproduction from a multimedia device, which includes an interface for outputting the image signal for reproduction to the outside, and wirelessly transmitting the image signal to the outside includes: an interface unit, which is combined with the multimedia device via the interface... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070032190 - Broad distribution bi-directional user terminal at configurable broadcast frequencies: The invention proposes an upgradable product capable of covering two sub-bands. An outdoor unit comprises, on the uplink, a switchable oscillator coupled to a waveguide featuring a removable cover enabling the said waveguide to be converted into a band rejector filter.... Agent: Thomson Licensing Inc.

20070032191 - Method and apparatus for selectively operating satellites in tundra orbits: A satellite system provides geosynchronous satellites in elliptical orbits in respective elliptical orbital planes separated by 120 degrees. The satellites traverse a common figure-eight ground track comprising northern and southern loops. The satellites are controllably switched to operate the satellite currently traversing the northern loop to deliver a selected signal... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070032192 - Frequency translating repeater with low cost high performance local oscillator architecture: A frequency translating repeater (120) for use in a time division duplex (TDD) radio protocol communications system includes local oscillator (LO) circuits (210, 310, and 410) to facilitate repeating by providing isolation, reduced phase noise, reduced pulling, and the like. Tunable LOs (441, 442) can be directly coupled to down-converters... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20070032193 - Information acquisition device, information providing device, and information providing system: An information acquisition device for acquiring digital Information includes: a first transmission unit (14) having directivity and transmitting by wireless an information request signal to be transmitted in a direction of the directivity; an information addition unit (13) adding at least one piece of address information to the information request... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20070032195 - Security apparatus and method during bluetooth pairing: A BLUETOOTH device is provided wherein the output RF transmission power level during pairing is purposefully reduced from otherwise conventional or normal communication levels to a low power level, greatly reducing the range of possible interception. Security can be improved even more by further reducing the transmit power even below... Agent: Manelli Denison & Selter PLLC

20070032194 - Updating presence in a wireless communications device: A wireless communications device that sends and receives presence status information is configured to detect when it is proximate a predefined zone. A receiver in the wireless communications device receives presence information from a transmitter associated with the predefined zone. The presence information defines a new presence status for the... Agent: Coats & Bennett/sony Ericsson

20070032196 - Channel quality predictor and method of estimating a channel condition in a wireless communications network: In one embodiment of the method, a channel quality metric for a first subframe is estimated based at least in part on a channel quality metric for a previous subframe, and a channel quality metric for a second subframe is estimated based at least in part on the channel quality... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070032197 - Transmission power control method and apparatus for mobile communication system: A method and apparatus for controlling the power of a signal transmitted between a base station and a mobile terminal which constitute a mobile communication system. At least one of the base station and the mobile terminal has functions to compare a predetermined reference value and a necessary transmission power... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070032199 - Apparatus and method for receiving channel quality information in a mobile communication system: An apparatus is provided for receiving channel quality information (CQI) in a mobile communication system in which a mobile station feeds back downlink CQI over a CQI transmission channel. In the apparatus, a power correlation estimator correlating code values mapped to tiles, wherein the CQI transmission channel includes a plurality... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070032198 - Transmitter, receiver, wireless system, control method, control program, and computer-readable recording medium containing the program: A central wireless microcomputer of a central wireless unit (transmitter) constituting a wireless AV system identifies a content type of video and audio data to be transmitted, according to EPG, and sets a transmission rate of the video and audio data to be transmitted, according to a detected communication condition.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070032200 - Providing optimal uplink data rates to mobile stations when mobile networks send parameters controlling the data rates: The uplink data rate is dynamically adjusted in a mobile station according to the mobile station's ability to meet QoS (quality of service) requirements of applications executing on the mobile station. In an embodiment, the transition probabilities received from a mobile network are first compensated according to the ability to... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070032201 - Temperature sensor insensitive to device offsets with independent adjustment of slope and reference temperature: A radio transceiver includes circuitry that enables received RF signals to be down-converted to baseband frequencies and baseband signals to be up-converted to RF signals prior to transmission without requiring conversion to an intermediate frequency. The circuitry includes a temperature sensing module that produce accurate voltage level readings may be... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070032202 - Cellular phone: A plurality of operation portions are arranged at a surface on a sub-display side of a cellular phone with a camera so that various kinds of setting, selection and control can be performed without opening the cellular phone in its folded state, and the cellular phone can achieve improved operability... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070032203 - Cellular phone: A plurality of operation portions are arranged at a surface on a sub-display side of a cellular phone with a camera so that various kinds of setting, selection and control can be performed without opening the cellular phone in its folded state, and the cellular phone can achieve improved operability... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070032204 - Cellular phone: A plurality of operation portions are arranged at a surface on a sub-display side of a cellular phone with a camera so that various kinds of setting, selection and control can be performed without opening the cellular phone in its folded state, and the cellular phone can achieve improved operability... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070032205 - Cellular phone: A plurality of operation portions are arranged at a surface on a sub-display side of a cellular phone with a camera so that various kinds of setting, selection and control can be performed without opening the cellular phone in its folded state, and the cellular phone can achieve improved operability... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070032206 - Spatial multiplexing detection apparatus and method in mimo system: Provided are a spatial multiplexing apparatus and method in a Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) system. The spatial multiplexing detection method includes estimating channels of a received signal, and sorting the estimated channels in descending order according to a scheme; generating a subsystem of a minimum unit by nulling an... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070032207 - Wiring diagram with wire colors: A computerized method and apparatus for displaying in an automotive scan tool a wiring diagram of a vehicle. The method comprises generating a wiring diagram image corresponding to a vehicle component and a vehicle module having at least one wire therebetween. The method further includes controlling a display device so... Agent: Baker & Hostetler LLP

20070032208 - Apparatus and method for amplifying multi-mode power using pre-distorter: A method and an apparatus for amplifying power in a communication system is disclosed that includes a detection module which detects a power level of a predetermined signal selected from among an input signal and an output signal of a power amplifier and then transmits an operation mode control signal... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070032209 - Apparatus, system, and method for measuring power delivered to a load: Apparatus, system, and method including a circuit including an element having an electrical impedance, an input node to receive a signal, and an output node to couple to a load; a sensing circuit coupled to the input node and the output node to sense a differential voltage between the input... Agent: Tyco Electronics Corporation

20070032210 - Center frequency control of an integrated phase rotator band-pass filter using vco coarse trim bits: A phase rotator for a Cartesian feedback power amplifier in a transmitter final stage contains an integrated voltage controlled tunable resonant circuit accomplishing band-pass filtering at a center frequency selected by local oscillator (LO) coarse trim control signals. The voltage controlled tunable resonant circuit attenuates input signal harmonic levels at... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20070032211 - Radar detection apparatus and method thereof: A wireless network device includes a signal receiving module that receives an RF signal, and a signal processing module that includes an automatic gain control (AGC) module and that generates control signals when a gain of the AGC module changes based on the RF signal. The network device includes a... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce P.L.C

20070032212 - Radio wave reception device, radio wave clock, and repeater: A received low-frequency standard radio wave, which is an amplitude modulation signal, is converted to an intermediate frequency signal Sa, and is output to a detection circuit and an AGC circuit. The detection circuit and AGC circuit generates an RF control signal Sf1 and IF control signal Sf2 from the... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070032213 - Method and apparatus for automatic frequency correction: The present invention is related to a method and apparatus for automatic frequency correction of a local oscillator. The apparatus receives a carrier signal. The carrier signal includes a code sequence known to the apparatus. The apparatus downconverts the carrier signal to a baseband signal using the local oscillator. The... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070032214 - Radio wave reception device and radio wave clock: A received low-frequency standard radio wave, which is an amplitude modulation signal, is converted to an intermediate frequency signal Sa, and is output to a detection circuit and an AGC circuit. The detection circuit and AGC circuit generates an RF control signal Sf1 and IF control signal Sf2 from the... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070032215 - Circuit current generation apparatus and method thereof, and singal processing apparatus: A semiconductor integrated circuit for use in a receiver can reduce fluctuations in characteristics caused by fluctuations in current to thereby reduce dissipation power. A bias current detection circuit and a current control circuit are provided to decrease a current of a high-frequency circuit if a bias current is large... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20070032216 - Low noise amplifier (lna) gain switch circuit: A circuit is formed to steer current in and out of an inductive load in a manner that enables an amplifier to provide a plurality of gain steps without modifying an LC time constant for the circuit and, therefore, without modifying the tuning or frequency of oscillation for the circuit.... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070032217 - Data signal system: A demodulation system for Radio Data System (RDS) signals in a receiver includes a quadrature mixer (303) configured to convert a RDS signal at an input frequency directly to a base band RDS signal, a single filter (305) configured to filter the base band RDS signal to provide a RDS... Agent: Law Office Of Charles W. Bethards, LLP

20070032220 - Emergency location transceivers (elt): Emergency Location Transceivers (ELT) and communication transceivers (transmitters and receivers) for reception and demodulation of location finder signals, Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite signals and non GPS satellite location finder and other location finder signals. The received location finder signals are demodulated to location finder baseband signals. Baseband signal processors... Agent: Kamilo Feher

20070032218 - Notice method for emergent dispatch using mobile communication device: The present invention relates to a notice method for emergent dispatch using a mobile communication device, and in particular to a notice method for emergent dispatch in which a mobilization service company is capable of accurately mobilizing to a customer's position when a customer who stays at a certain place... Agent: Park Law Firm

20070032219 - Supporting emergency calls on a wireless local area network: Several methods are provided for communicating emergency call capability information between a station and an access point (AP) in a wireless local area network. The methods include advertising by the AP of its emergency call capabilities and announcing by the station of its emergency call capabilities. The AP can advertise... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070032221 - System, method, and computer readable medium for providing secure access between devices: A system, method, and computer readable medium for providing secure access between devices comprises generating a new and unique access code by a cell phone, providing the new and unique access code by the cell phone to at least one of: a user of a further device, and the further... Agent: Alcatel Usa Intellectual Property Department

20070032222 - Methods, systems, and products for interactive voice response: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for administering a personal interactive voice response service. A personalized greeting is retrieved that is associated with a calling party and with a called party. The calling party's response to the greeting is received, and stored information is retrieved that is associated with the... Agent: Scott P. Zimmerman, PLLC

20070032223 - Methods and devices for sms dialing assistance: A device (102) and method for processing a text message, such as a Short Message Service (SMS) message, Enhanced Message Service (EMS) message, Multimedia Message Service (MMS) message, or some other format message, to generate control information usable for another communication. The method includes receiving a message readable by the... Agent: Motorola Inc

20070032226 - Automatic telephone service forwarding device: An automatic telephone service forwarding device including a base or enclosure defining a socket for receiving a wireless telephone. Upon detecting the presence of the wireless telephone in the socket, the device automatically forwards telephone service for the wireless telephone to a previously-stored forwarding directory number, typically the directory number... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Bellsouth

20070032224 - Mobile communication device with interrogator to interact with tags: A mobile communication device interrogates a tag on nearby communication-type equipment and in cooperation with a remote server causes a communication to be forwarded to the equipment. The mobile communication device may also interrogate a nearby tag and receive information from a remote server concerning a nearby object or activity.... Agent: Mcgrath, Geissler, Olds & Richardson, PLLC

20070032225 - Realtime, location-based cell phone enhancements, uses, and applications: Enhancements of and to cell phone operations are based in whole or in part on determining the location of the cell phone. Systems and methods select and determine locations or areas of importance or relevance, and based on that information and other programmed factors affect or alter the operations of... Agent: Douglas W Rudy Law Offices Of Douglas W. Rudy, LLC

20070032228 - Methods and systems for handling software operations associated with startup and shutdown of handheld devices: Systems and methods for improving software operations on startup. A system and method can provide for the storage of volatile memory contents of an application upon shutdown of a mobile device, and restoration of the contents upon startup.... Agent: Stephen D. Scanlon

20070032227 - Mobile-phone repairing system: A mobile-phone repairing system includes a server; a lost registration terminal for receiving a report based on a specific identification when a mobile phone is stolen or gets lost such that an IMEI of the lost mobile phone is transmitted to the server for storing thereat; a mobile-phone repairing terminal... Agent: Bruce H. Troxell

20070032229 - Systems, devices and methods for providing a reward based upon use of a mobile communications device: The disclosed embodiments provide systems, devices and methods for providing a reward to a user of a mobile communications device. The described embodiments, for example, may include a mobile communications device that exchanges query data and response data with a computer system over a communications network. The computer system includes... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070032230 - Method and apparatus for relaying calls: When a first communication unit (204) receives a request from a second communication unit (102) (over an ad hoc network) to relay a call, the first communication unit will start a data call (e.g., voice over IP call) over the cellular link using the cellular phone's data capability. Since, for... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070032231 - Telephone, telephone directory data checking method, and telephone directory data checking program: A telephone directory data checking unit detects repeatedly registered telephone directory data by checking caller information about a received voice communication or transmitter information about received e-mail with all telephone directory data registered in the telephone directory, and stores information for identification of telephone directory data having the checking result... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070032232 - Method and database for performing a permission status check on a mobile equipment: A method and a central subscriber database are provided for performing a permission status check in a mobile network. A mobile station is identified using subscription related identification data and equipment based identification data. When a determination is made that current subscription related identification data and current equipment based identification... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070032233 - Mobile communication network system and location registration method: The mobile communication network system having a plurality of mobile communication systems each including a base station performing wireless communications with a mobile station, comprises a storage unit storing location information of the mobile station, an acquisition unit acquiring, when receiving a location registering request from the mobile station, a... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070032234 - Method for performing rr-level registration in a wireless communication system: Techniques to reduce the amount of registration required by a mobile station in a wireless communication system, especially if the registration zones are defined to be small areas. In one scheme, a mobile station registers (e.g., at RR-level) with a network entity (e.g., a base station) each time it enters... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070032235 - Telecommunications system and method for supporting mobility of mobile telecommunications terminals in such a system: A method for supporting mobility of at least one mobile telecommunications terminal (5.1-5.3) in operative connection with a telecommunications network (2) having a plurality of telecommunications resources (3.1-3.6) accessible via a plurality of access networks (4.1-4.3) and associated access technologies (4.1a,b-4.3a,b) in operative connection with the telecommunications network (2), wherein... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070032237 - Apparatus and method for performing handoff in a communication system: A method is provided for performing handoff in a communication system including a serving base station (BS) in communication with a mobile station (MS), at least one neighbor BS using a communication scheme different from a communication scheme of the serving BS, and the MS capable of communicating with the... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070032239 - Method and apparatus for handoff between a wireless local area network (wlan) and a universal mobile telecommunication system (umts): Apparatus and method for providing an automatic handoff process of a dual-mode user equipment (UE) from either a wireless local area network (WLAN) to a universal mobile telecommunications system (UMTS) or from a UMTS to a WLAN. Handoffs may be initiated by the UE, based upon user preference, signal quality,... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070032238 - Method and system for performing handover between multiple modes using a single wireless receiver: A method for performing handover between multiple modes for a mobile station is provided. The method includes operating the mobile station in a first mode. A handover from the first mode to a second mode is performed using a single wireless receiver. The mobile station operates in the second mode... Agent: Docket Clerk

20070032236 - Performing mobile terminal handover in response to user input: A method for handover in a mobile terminal includes detecting whether a manual instruction for handover of the mobile terminal from a first communication network to another communication network is inputted by a user. After detecting the manual instruction, a registration is made with a second communication network when the... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070032240 - Realtime, interactive and geographically defined computerized personal matching systems and methods: A system and method of interactive and live computerized matching in which a first user is provided with a personal data device including a wireless communication system. A secure network is configured to include a server programmed with a personal characteristic database and a database searching algorithm, and a wireless... Agent: Douglas W Rudy Law Offices Of Douglas W. Rudy, LLC

20070032241 - Radio communication systems: A communications system including a plurality of base station transceivers linked by some means over which the base station transceivers communicate, a plurality of mobile transceivers adapted to communicate via the base station transceivers using macrodiversity, and wherein the mobile transceivers are further adapted to control allocation of system resorces... Agent: Dann, Dorfman, Herrell & Skillman

20070032242 - Methods and apparatus for extrapolating person and device counts: Methods and apparatus for providing statistics on the number, distribution and/or flow of people or devices in a geographic region based on active wireless device counts are described. Wireless devices may be of different types e.g., cell phones, PDAs, etc. Wireless communications centers report the number and type of active... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20070032246 - Air based emergency monitor, multimode communication, control and position finder system: Air based emergency monitor, multimode communication, control and position finder system with a receiver having multiple inputs for reception and demodulation of position finder signals to position finder baseband signals. One or more cameras or microphones or data signal generation devices, storage devices, and processors for recording or storing and... Agent: Kamilo Feher

20070032247 - Automated concierge system and method: A method and system for providing automated concierge services to end users communicates with users over network devices, such as telephones and wireless devices, and utilizes third party network location-based service (LBS) applications, such as Internet/Web locators, to obtain location information based on user requests. On receipt of a request... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20070032244 - Group-centric location tagging for mobile devices: An annotation is manually and/or automatically correlated with a location and selectively distributed to participants of an associated user network. Thus, network participants possessing a common bond can obtain “trusted” information regarding specific locations. This allows a network participant to locate resources such as friends, restaurants, hotels, and/or entertainment sites,... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070032245 - Intelligent transportation system and method: An intelligent transportation system and method employing ad-hoc multihopping wireless network technology. The system and method are capable of communicating travel condition information between vehicles (200), and employ a plurality of nodes (250), each adapted for communication in the multihopping network (100), and each being further adapted for deployment on... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20070032249 - Location services for and about mobile nodes: IP-based Location Services (IP-LCS) is a valuable application that may be supported by a majority of cellular phones in the future. Services offered by such applications can be closely coupled to the location of the user. IP-LCS may be designed to permit a location based application resident on a mobile... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070032243 - Treatment of a location request by a first location request treatment device (a gateway mobile location centre) in a home register (hlr) for retransmission to a second location request treatment device: The invention relates to the efficient treatment of location requests by a home register and GMLCs of various versions by means of a method for treating a location request relating to a subscriber in a mobile radio network. Once a request (SRI) from a first location request treatment device (GMLC-R5)... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070032248 - Wireless terminal position detecting method and system therefor: In any indoor location, whenever operating a wireless terminal position detecting system comprising a transferable wireless terminal, a plurality of base stations individually allowing a connection from said wireless terminal, and a plurality of wireless receiving stations individually receiving wireless signal from said terminal and base stations, there is a... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20070032250 - Location finder, tracker, communication and remote control system: A radio frequency identification (RFID) device, locator, wired and/or wireless communicator system comprising one or more than one antennas for receiving Radio Frequency (RF) signals from one or more RFID and or location determining and/or communication transmitters. The system has one or more receivers and demodulators for reception and demodulation... Agent: Kamilo Feher

20070032252 - Method and device for remote controlling a wireless communication device utilizing a text message: A method for remote controlling a wireless communication device by a message includes the following steps: the wireless communication device receives a message; and the wireless communication device executes a corresponding operation according to the data stored in the TP-User-Data (TP-UD) field or the data stored in the TP-Protocol-Identifier (TP-PID)... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070032251 - Method and system for reporting a short message capability via an ip multimedia subsystem: A method and system for reporting short message (SM) capability over an IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) using a session initiation protocol (SIP) are disclosed. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) registers with a core network and sends a message indicating its SM capability via the IMS to the core network. The... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070032253 - Multisided synchronization of execution in a wireless test environment: Methods, devices and systems for synchronizing the execution of tests between or among multi-sided test components in a wireless environment are described. Multiple flows are initiated substantially simultaneously. Execution is then paused in at least one of the flows. The paused flow sends a request for permission to resume execution... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20070032254 - System and method for providing efficient spectrum usage of wireless devices in unlicensed bands: A system for managing spectrum usage of co-operating wireless devices. The system comprises a plurality of co-operating wireless devices, each co-operating wireless device capable of sensing spectrum usage where the co-operating wireless device operates and of generating spectrum usage information; and a spectrum access controller communicatively coupled to each of... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.l.p

20070032255 - Method for providing multi-level access services in common access channel: The present invention relates to a method for performing a ranging operation according to the priority order in a mobile communication system using a BWA (Broadcast Wireless Access) scheme. The method according to the invention for performing a range operation by a subscriber terminal in a mobile communication system using... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese

20070032257 - Dsch power control method for wcdma: In the DSCH power control method for mobile communication system according to the present invention, the cell transmitting DSCH receives a signal from an UE, determines whether a cell transmitting DSCH to be set as primary or non-primary based on the received signal, and controls DSCH transmit power according to... Agent: Fleshner & Kim, LLP

20070032256 - Systems and methods to transmit information among a plurality of physical upstream channels: A communication system includes a supervisory node (e.g., a headend) and one or more remote nodes (e.g., cable modems). The supervisory node or a remote node monitors a characteristic associated with the communication system. Remote node transmits an upstream communication among a plurality of physical upstream channels based on the... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox PLLC

20070032258 - Communication portable terminal device: It is an object of the invention to emit a light in order to brighten a large area by a single light source. The invention provides a communication portable terminal device including a single LED (51) disposed in an upper housing (1) and a light emitting panel (4) disposed on... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070032261 - Context awareness for a mobile communication device: A system and method recognize a context or environment, within which a mobile communication device is resides, without necessarily knowing the actual location of the mobile communication device. The system and method establish one or more communication rules for the mobile communication device based upon the recognized context.... Agent: Mcgrath, Geissler, Olds & Richardson, PLLC

20070032259 - Method and apparatus for voice amplitude feedback in a communications device: A mobile telecommunication device can include voice signal monitoring. A characteristic of a signal produced in the telecommunication device can be monitored that is directly or indirectly indicative of a volume of a user's voice spoken into the device. A comparator can be provided for comparing the characteristic or characteristics... Agent: Sacco & Associates, Pa

20070032262 - Mobile communication terminal, computer-readable recording medium, and computer data signal: Upon detection to connection to a cradle, a control section of a mobile communication terminal accesses a storage section to determine whether setting information indicating operation settings of various functions is stored therein. When setting information is stored therein, the control section turns on power of the mobile communication terminal... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20070032260 - Mobile terminal having camera: A mobile terminal which includes a terminal body, a main printed circuit board (PCB) embedded in the terminal body, and a support member fixed to the main PCB and having a camera and a sub-PCB mounted thereto.... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070032263 - Portable information terminal equipment: Portable information terminal equipment having a function to perform the informing process at the time of reception in cooperation with a connecting section driving mechanism as well as a function to enable the open/close movement of the upper and lower units through one-touch operation making use of the connecting section... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070032265 - Communication system, method, and dual mode terminal having a communication module controlled by message: A dual mode terminal having a communication module controlled by a message, communication system for communicating with a dual mode terminal, and method for controlling a dual mode terminal are disclosed. In a dual mode terminal capable of communicating with a cellular network and a supplementary service network, and wherein... Agent: Jonathan Y. Kang, Esq. Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka, P.C.

20070032264 - Controlling input and output in a multi-mode wireless processing system: A system and method of controlling input and output in a multi-mode wireless processing system. The method can include receiving an instruction for communication in a multi-mode wireless processing system; and determining from a field in the received instruction whether a designated processing unit generates output data or receives input... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20070032266 - Gps and non gps position finder, emergency, mimo, spread spectrum, cdma, gsm and ofdm: Global Positioning System (GPS) and non GPS position finder, emergency, multiple input multiple output (MIMO), multimode, spread spectrum, code division multiple access (CDMA), Global Mobile System or Global System Mobile (GSM) and orthogonal frequency division multiplex (OFDM) communication systems. Position finder and emergency communication multiple input multiple output (MIMO) system... Agent: Kamilo Feher

20070032267 - Contact-centric user-interface features for computing devices: Embodiments described herein provide a system, method and technique for operating a communication device. According to an embodiment, information contained in a contact record is displayed, where the information includes a plurality of entries. Each entry is associated with one of a plurality of communication types and includes an identifier... Agent: Shemwell Mahamedi LLP

20070032268 - Communications device and card: A communications device includes a transceiver for sending and receiving wireless signals, a screen for displaying one or more text and graphics, one or more input structures for inputting information, and a removable smart card having one or more card engines and one or more data stores, the data stores... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070032269 - Voice-controlled wireless communications system and method: A wireless communication system has a central computer, one or more wireless access points and one or more personal badges that communicate wirelessly with the one or more wireless access points. The badges provide the user with a communications device that permits the user to initiate telephone calls and conferences,... Agent: Dla Piper Rudnick Gray Cary Us, LLP

20070032270 - Vibratory data communication between devices: A device and method for communicating data from or to a device using vibrations from another device. One of the devices includes a vibrator and the other device includes a sensor for detecting vibrations. The devices are placed in physical contact either directly or through an intermediate medium, such that... Agent: Ridout & Maybee Suite 2400

20070032271 - Wireless communication device having electromagnetic compatibility for hearing aid devices: A wireless communication device for minimizing electromagnetic interference with hearing aid devices. The wireless communication device comprises a lower housing (112, 312, 412, 512, 612) and an upper housing (114, 314, 414, 514, 514) adjacent to the lower housing. The lower housing (112, 312, 412, 512, 612) supports a wireless... Agent: Motorola Inc

20070032272 - Wireless network device with a signal detection function and switching method for the same: A wireless network device has a signal detection function and a switching method for the same. A wireless network signal detection module is installed in the wireless network device, and is switched to a wireless network interface card mode or a wireless network signal detection mode after the voltage regulator... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20070032273 - Accessory of a portable electronic device: An accessory utilized in a portable electronic device includes: a housing; a connecting port placed on the housing, for electrically connecting an output port of the portable electronic device in order to receive an audio signal output by the portable electronic device; an audio signal outputting module placed inside the... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070032274 - Wireless battery charging of electronic devices such as wireless headsets/headphones: This disclosure relates to wireless battery charging of electronic devices such as wireless headsets/headphones. In one embodiment, an electronic device is provided comprising a speaker comprising a coil, and the coil is operative both to cause the speaker to produce sound and to receive energy transferred to the coil via... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070032276 - Foldable cellular telephone: A cellular phone includes a first case and a second case, which are connected in a foldable manner through a hinge. When the cellular phone is in a folded state, a second display unit displays an image with the side (upper side) closer to the hinge as the upper side.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070032277 - Foldable cellular telephone: A cellular phone includes a first case and a second case, which are connected in a foldable manner through a hinge. When the cellular phone is in a folded state, a second display unit displays an image with the side (upper side) closer to the hinge as the upper side.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070032275 - Internal optical fiber hinge system for a consumer electronic device: A hinge system for a consumer electronic device such as a phone or camcorder comprising a hinge for: flipping portions of the device open or closed, sliding one portion of the device relative to another, and/or twisting one portion of the device relative to the other. The hinge system comprises... Agent: Patzik, Frank & Samotny Ltd.

20070032278 - Sliding opening and closing device and a portalbe terminal having the same: Disclosed are a sliding opening and closing device and a portable terminal having the same. According to the first embodiment of the present invention, a slide plate is linked to a main plate to be slidable in one direction. Also, the main plate supports an elastic part so as to... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20070026790 - Portable digital terrestrial television device comprising a device for receiving a low power digital signal: A portable digital terrestrial television device comprises a portable digital terrestrial television apparatus and means for receiving a low power digital signal. The reception means (30, 31) comprise two antennae for receiving the digital signal, the relative disposition of the antennae being adapted to reduce the coupling between said antennae,... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20070026791 - Method and apparatus for interactive audience participation at a live entertainment event: The present invention relates to a method for providing interactive audience participation at live entertainment events. The method includes providing audience members with an interactive device that presents a promotional message and includes a user interface, broadcasting audio programming to the audience member through the interactive device, querying the audience... Agent: Ernest D. Buff Ernest D. Buff And Associates, LLC.

20070026792 - Method and apparatus for providing reference frequency aiding among peers operating in a direct communication mode: A mobile communication device (202) and peer mobile communication devices (204, 206) are capable of direct voice and data communication. The mobile communication device has a reference oscillator (104) which is used for generating operating frequencies, and is subject to frequency errors resulting from manufacturing tolerances, heat, and other error... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20070026793 - Method and system for audio repeating among portable communication devices: An audio repeater mode method (100) uses a primary wireless device (12) and at least one secondary wireless device (14 and 16) among a plurality of secondary devices (14, 16, 17, and 18) to selectively choose and control (102) one or more secondary wireless devices. The primary device measures (106)... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070026794 - Method for managing hidden stations in a centrally controlled network: The embodiments of the present invention provide methods, devices, and systems enabling a central coordinator to manage hidden stations via a proxy central coordinator.... Agent: Michael Blaine Brooks, PC

20070026795 - Return link design for psd limited mobile satellite communication systems: A system and method for managing access to a satellite-based transponder by a plurality of aircraft each having a mobile radio frequency (RF) system. The system employs a ground-based, central control system for managing access to the satellite-based transponder so that the aggregate power spectral density (PSD) of the RF... Agent: Ernest Caravalho

20070026796 - Buried radio device: An underground space structure of a buried radio device includes an underground space, a metallic cover on the underground space, and an emission surface having a ring area including a structure material with transmission of electrical waves surrounding the cover. An underground radio device includes an underground antenna arranged apart... Agent: Venable LLP

20070026798 - Message notification device: A device and method for notifying a user of a mobile communication device that a communication has been received from a wireless macro network are provided. The message notification device communicates with the mobile communication device through a short-range wireless communication link, and can be worn on the body of... Agent: Sprint Nextel Corporation

20070026801 - Method for the exchange of data: A method for exchange of data between a mobile communications unit carried by a user and at least one of a first communications unit, a second communications unit and a computer unit positioned at different locations in an environment such as a building. When the first communications unit and the... Agent: Butzel Long

20070026802 - Method of guiding a user in an environment, particularly in a building: A method of guiding a user in an environment particularly in a building, utilizes at least one first communications unit communicating data to a mobile second communications unit carried by the user. The first communications unit transmits a contact signal within a predetermined range for establishing contact with the second... Agent: Butzel Long

20070026797 - Secure communication initiation: The communication control device includes a dedicated contact surface, a control unit and a wireless communication unit. Upon contact between a dedicated contact surface of one communication control device and a dedicated contact surface of another communication control device, the two control units initiate establishing a secure communication session. This... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20070026800 - System and method for switching among available media source for content displayed by a projector: A system for switching among available media sources for content displayed by a projector includes a projector, a connecting device, and a plurality of computers. The projector is able to display content from each of the computers. Each computer is enabled for wireless communication. The contents of each computer may... Agent: Morris Manning Martin LLP

20070026799 - Wireless media device cradle: Disclosed are devices, systems and methods for integrating a media device with a network. A media device may be connected to a cradle device to receive updates of digital content. The cradle device may be coupled to a wireless link to receive content data and/or signals.... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group

20070026804 - Communication system, communication apparatus and method, and program: A communication system equipped with a communication apparatus for transmitting a transmission signal to another communication apparatus via a communication medium, includes: transmission means for transmitting the transmission signal to the other communication apparatus via the communication medium; detection means for detecting a propagation signal propagated through the communication medium... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070026803 - Method and apparatus for link adaptation: A method and apparatus for providing a link quality report in a wireless communication system supporting link adaptation. An input signal carrying data blocks in one or several transmission intervals of a reporting interval is received by a receiver of the apparatus. A quality measurement unit provides a link quality... Agent: Potomac Patent Group, PLLC

20070026805 - Wireless base station for reducing interference from a control signal emitted by another wireless base station: A signal processing unit 50 in a wireless base station forms an omni-directional pattern to intermittently transmit a control signal, forms an antenna array pattern to receive a control signal from a mobile station, and further transmits a link channel allocation using either an omni-directional pattern or an antenna array... Agent: Arent Fox PLLC

20070026806 - Administration terminal, communication terminal, wireless communication system, and wireless communication method: An administration terminal, a communication terminal, a wireless communication system, and a wireless communication method, in which frames can be transmitted/received in excellent communication quality by avoiding interference when an administration terminal and a communication terminal suffer from interference with electronic devices that use the same frequency. Between the administration... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20070026807 - Coverage enhancement using dynamic antennas: Mechanisms for wireless local area network coverage enhancement using dynamic antennas are provided. The dynamic antennas may be used, for example, in an antenna apparatus of an access point. The access point maps a plurality of virtual access points (VAPs), each VAP corresponding to at least one of a plurality... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20070026809 - Built in loop back self test in design or on test board for transceivers: In a method and system for testing a transceiver communication device operating in a test mode, a transmitter output signal generated by a transmitter is adjusted and provided as a loop back to a receiver. The adjustment includes shifting a frequency and attenuating amplitude of the transmitter output signal to... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070026810 - Channel quality indicator for time, frequency and spatial channel in terrestrial radio access network: A wireless communication terminal that communicates on a plurality of sub-carriers divided into a plurality of frequency bands, wherein each frequency band includes at least one sub-carrier. The terminal measures (310) a channel quality indicator (CQI) for a plurality of frequency bands, identifies (320) a subset of frequency bands for... Agent: Motorola Inc

20070026811 - Method of identifying a radio link: The invention relates to a Method of identifying a radio link 1,1′,1″ of a terminal device 2 to a wireless communication system (3). The method comprises first step of determining values of parameters of n≧2 radio links, whereby the parameters of each radio link are suitable to quantify at least... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070026808 - Channel quality indicator for time, frequency and spatial channel in terrestrial radio access network: A wireless communication terminal (200) that communicates on a plurality of sub-carriers divided into a plurality of frequency bands, wherein each frequency band includes at least one sub-carrier. The terminal successively generates channel quality indicator (CQI) measurement information reports based on CQI measurements, wherein each report includes non-differential channel quality... Agent: Motorola Inc

20070026813 - Apparatus and method for adaptive channel quality feedback in a multicarrier wireless network: A subscriber station for use in a wireless network capable of communicating according to a multicarrier protocol. The subscriber station determines a total average signal level across N subbands, where each of subband comprises a plurality of subcarriers. The subscriber station also determines a first average signal level within a... Agent: Docket Clerk

20070026812 - Power level control for rf transmitters: A digital power level control is presented for an RF broadcast transmitter. This control includes an RF high power amplifier that receives an RF signal from an exciter and provides therefrom an amplified RF output. An adjustable attenuator is interposed between the exciter and the power amplifier for adjusting the... Agent: Tarolli, Sundheim, Covell & Tummino L.L.P.

20070026814 - Fast switching, dual frequency phase locked loop: A fast switching, dual frequency phase locked loop comprising dual phase/frequency detectors, dual charge pumps, a pair of loop filters, and a low leakage voltage controlled oscillator. Each phase/frequency detector and associated tuning ports of the voltage controlled oscillator can be activated and deactivated separately without disturbing the charge on... Agent: Law Office Of Gregory C. Ranieri/agere Systems Inc

20070026815 - Over-current protection in linear regulators: An integrated circuit radio transceiver and method therefor includes a linear regulator an output transistor for producing a current into an output node of the regulator wherein an amplification block is operable to produce a bias signal to a gate terminal of the output transistor to operably bias the output... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070026816 - High frequency synthesizer circuits and methods: Embodiments of the present invention include a frequency synthesizer comprising a first plurality of dividers receiving a first signal having a first frequency and generating a first plurality of divided signals and a frequency combination network including a plurality of mixers, the frequency combination network receiving one or more of... Agent: Chad R. Walsh Fountainhead Law Group

20070026817 - Antenna duplexer: An antenna duplexer of the present invention includes a first transmission/reception circuit for transmitting/receiving a GSM signal, and a second transmission/reception circuit for transmitting/receiving DCS and W-CDMA signals, which are connected in parallel via a diplexer. A third trap circuit including an inductor and a capacitor for forming a series... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070026818 - Signal detection arrangement: Described is an arrangement including a receiver and an enveloped detection arrangement. The receiver receives radio frequency signals generated according to a predetermined wireless communication protocol. The envelope detection arrangement screens the radio frequency signals for a predetermined signal which utilizes the predetermined wireless communication protocol and has a predetermined... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20070026819 - Space-time communications determination: Apparatus and systems, a well as methods and articles, may operate to determine whether to communicate using a space-time communications technique responsive to an indication derived from processing a short time sequence.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070026820 - Techniques to decrease signal amplitude peak-to-average ratio in a wireless communications system: Techniques to reduce signal amplitude peak-to-average ratio (PAR) in a wireless communications system are described. The apparatus may include a signal conditioning module to receive a baseband signal. The signal conditioning module may split the baseband signal along multiple paths, delay one or more of the paths, and combine the... Agent: Tyco Electronics Corporation

20070026821 - Systems and methods of rf power transmission, modulation, and amplification, including multiple input single output (miso) amplifiers: Methods and systems for vector combining power amplification are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a plurality of signals are individually amplified, then summed to form a desired time-varying complex envelope signal. Phase and/or frequency characteristics of one or more of the signals are controlled to provide the desired phase, frequency,... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox PLLC

20070026822 - Systems and methods of rf power transmission, modulation, and amplification, including multiple input single output (miso) amplifiers: Methods and systems for vector combining power amplification are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a plurality of signals are individually amplified, then summed to form a desired time-varying complex envelope signal. Phase and/or frequency characteristics of one or more of the signals are controlled to provide the desired phase, frequency,... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox PLLC

20070026823 - Amplifier arrangement, polar transmitter having the amplifier arrangement and method for amplifying signals: An amplifier arrangement contains a first signal input for supplying a carrier signal, a second signal input for supplying an amplitude modulation word and an amplifier stage. The amplifier stage is connected to a reference potential connection and, by means of a control connection via a means for DC signal... Agent: Eschweiler & Associates, LLC National City Bank Building

20070026824 - Electronic component for amplifying high frequency and radio communication system: A high-frequency power module as a component of a radio communication system capable of performing communications in two frequency bands such as GSM and DCS and has a first transistor for output detection for receiving a signal which is the same as an input signal of a first power amplification... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070026826 - Nfc device: An NFC device (100) configured at least in part as an integrated circuit, said integrated circuit comprising a controller (107) and a plurality of capacitors (112 to 118), said controller (107) being operable to control one or more of said plurality of capacitors (112 to 118) thereby to vary an... Agent: Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky & Popeo

20070026825 - Nfc device and apparatus: An NFC device comprises a modulationdepth detector (114) capable of detecting a plurality of different modulation depths, said detector responsive to receipt of a signal (105, 106) by said NFC device to determine which modulation depth of said plurality of different modulation depths has been used to modulate said signal... Agent: Brian P. Hopkins Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky And Popeo PC

20070026827 - Wireless communication equipment and wireless communication method: If it is judged by a signal from a first signal processing unit that a signal of a first communication system is not received and it is judged by a signal from a second signal processing unit that a signal of a second communication system is received, wireless communication is... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20070026828 - Broadcast receiving apparatus and display control method: By calculating a channel selection frequency on the basis of a channel selection time list in a memory, a control section automatically judges a zapping operation by a user, and performs display of a program list in which all programs being broadcasted are listed.... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20070026829 - Automatic gain controllers and methods for controlling voltage of control gain amplifiers: An automatic gain controller includes a voltage control gain amplifier amplifying input signals in response to a control voltage and producing output signals. A level detector detects peak and bottom levels of the output signals of the voltage control gain amplifier, and an analog-digital converter (ADC) converts the detected peak... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070026831 - Apparatus and method to provide a local oscillator signal: An apparatus provides a local oscillator signal based on a selected channel of an RF input signal. For example, the apparatus can set a frequency of the local oscillator signal based on the selected channel. Digital circuitry can be used to generate the local oscillator signal. For instance, the digital... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox PLLC

20070026830 - Spectrum analyzer and method for correcting frequency errors: A spectrum analyzer corrects for internal frequency errors in a reference oscillator using a timing control signal. The reference oscillator provides a reference signal at a reference frequency. An error detection circuit determines an error in the reference frequency using the timing control signal and produces an error correction signal... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20070026832 - Radio wave receiving apparatus, radio wave receiving circuit and radio wave timepiece: In the radio-wave receiving apparatus according to the invention, a signal received by a receiving antenna is amplified and the amplified received signal is input into a multi-stage frequency conversion circuit including a plurality of basic circuits connected in series. The multi-stage frequency conversion circuit converts the frequency of the... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070026833 - Method, apparatus and computer program product providing widely linear interference cancellation for multi-carrier systems: A method is provided. The method includes: receiving a multi-carrier signal that includes a plurality of subcarriers; and performing widely linear (WL) processing on the received signal.... Agent: Harrington & Smith, LLP

20070026834 - High frequency semiconductor integrated circuit device, wireless electric unit and wireless communication system: A transmission oscillator of differential output configuration is incorporated into a high frequency IC. Further, an equivalent impedance having an impedance equivalent to the impedance connected with a regular output terminal is provided. Or, a dummy external terminal for outputting transmit signals in opposite phase is provided. One of the... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070026835 - Multiplier and radio communication apparatus using the same: A multiplier includes a first input terminal which receives a modulated signal, three second input terminals which receive first, second, and third local signals respectively, the first, second, and third local signals having a phase difference of 120° from one another, a multiplication unit configured to multiply the modulated signal... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070026836 - Method and apparatus for selectively blocking radio frequency (rf) signals in a radio frequency (rf) switching circuit: An RF switching circuit that incorporates a film bulk acoustic resonator (FBAR) device and one or more capacitors that are used to vary the capacitance of the FBAR device to change the frequency range that is blocked by the FBAR device. When the RF switching circuit is in a first... Agent: Avago Technologies, Ltd.

20070026837 - Mimo radio interfaces: A receiver front end includes a plurality of in-phase and quadrature phase receive processing blocks operable at first and second frequency bands and further includes a plurality of filtering and amplification blocks disposed within a corresponding ingoing signal path, a plurality of received signal strength indicator (RSSI) blocks coupled to... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070026838 - Power amplifier with vswr detection and correction feature: A radio frequency (“RF”) power amplifier circuit as described herein is configured to detect and measure an output load mismatch and to adjust the operating characteristics of the RF power amplifier to reduce output signal distortion. The circuit includes a directional RF signal coupler that obtains a coupled reflected RF... Agent: Ingrassia, Fisher & Lorenz, P.C.

20070026839 - Bi-modal rf architecture for low power devices: A wireless receiver is provided that includes a component and a power control logic 80. The component is operable to receive a wireless signal and process the wireless signal in at least one of a first mode and a second mode. The first mode uses less power than the second... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070026840 - Information processing terminal system and transmission/reception method using the same: An information processing terminal system includes an information processing terminal (6); and a transmitting and receiving unit (5) which is attached to the information processing terminal. The transmitting and receiving unit (5) converts a reception wave signal from a network into a reception analog baseband signal. The transmitting and receiving... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070026841 - Apparatus and method for automatic characteristic configuration in digitized radio systems: In structure of selected category of broadcast signals, one channel includes the category of program material transmitted by the station. When the signals having this category designation are applied to the receiver unit, the receiver unit can identify these program categories and, using parameters designated for each category of program... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070026842 - Method of configuring a tracking device: A method of configuring a tracking device including accessing a tracking device management system comprising a tracking system server and a database with a terminal through a management system communication interface. A desired configuration option is selected from a plurality of configuration options provided by the tracking system server and... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri, L.L.P.

20070026843 - Wireless network apparatus and authentication method of the same: A wireless network apparatus including an authentication information storage unit to store first authentication information for network communication, an authentication information converting unit to generate second authentication information by converting the stored first authentication information according to an predetermined authentication method, a nonvolatile storage unit to store the generated second... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070026844 - Sound outputting apparatus and sound outputting method: A controller of a handy terminal such as a cellular phone determines whether a headphone is connected or not when discriminating that reproduction output of sound data ends. With the headphone connected, the controller stores an end time in a time memory. When reproduction output of sound data is necessary,... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20070026845 - Communication apparatus and method: A communication apparatus and method configured to allow content, for which a communication range is limited, to be transmitted properly. A control section has communication suitability determination flags corresponding to terminals available of communicating, and sets 1 for a communication suitability determination flag corresponding to a terminal if the terminal... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070026846 - Radio system with configurable links: A system comprising radio devices (10a, 10b), and methods of configuring radio links between said devices, is described. The devices are physically attachable/detachable from a host apparatus (12a, 12b). The device provides a host apparatus with a radio link (20) to another host apparatus also containing an appropriately configured device.... Agent: Philips Electronics North America Corporation Intellectual Property & Standards

20070026847 - Technique for displaying information ancillary to a location of an entity in a communication network: A technique for displaying information ancillary to an entity's location. A request for information ancillary to the location of a communication unit in a communication network is generated by the communication unit wherein the request contains a location of the communication unit as well as specifies the information ancillary to... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20070026848 - Method and system for forwarding calls placed to a telecommunications destination: The present invention provides a method for forwarding calls placed to a primary destination comprising receiving at least one call forwarding profiles, each call forwarding profile having a predefined duration and at least one call forwarding destination, receiving an instruction to activate one call forwarding profile to an activated profile... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP

20070026850 - Managing features available on a portable communication device based on a travel speed detected by the portable communication device: A portable communication device detects a current speed of travel of the portable communication device independent of any vehicle temporarily transporting the portable communication device. A speed based setting controller of the portable communication device compares the current speed to at least one threshold value set at the portable communication... Agent: Ibm Corp (ap) C/o Amy Pattillo

20070026851 - Methods and apparatus for controlling applications of a mobile device by using a pivoting input switch: A mobile device includes at least one application and a user-controllable pivoting input switch. This application has a number of selectable items. This switch has a number of operational modes. Several of these operational modes direct the operation of the application to determine a current item according to an order.... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20070026849 - System for accessing multimedia files from a mobile terminal: The system enables a user of mobile terminal (T1) to store and access to numerous multimedia files with no limit on size relative to the capacities of his mobile terminal. A sorting centre or a web server (CTM, SW) detects a multimedia file (FM) in a message (MT2) transmitted by... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Berner, LLP

20070026852 - Multimedia telephone system: A multi-media telephone system capable of presenting multi-media content to users defined by structured script files incorporating markup tags, such as HTML, XML, SMIL or VoiceXML tags. The script files form “homepage” presentations displayed on the telephone stationset. The script files may be transmitted from called parties to calling parties... Agent: Charles G. Call

20070026853 - Multi-mvno wireless service: Systems and methods for determining an optimal range of frequencies of electromagnetic waves are described. In some embodiments, mobile voice communications devices measure average power received from certain ranges of such frequencies, each range associated with a communications service provider. A cost may be associated with each range. An optimal... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070026854 - System and method for service quality management for wireless devices: A system and method for detecting and recording events related to the quality of service experienced by a wireless device in a wireless network. In one example, these events may be detected and recorded by the wireless device, without support from the network. Performance monitoring tests may be initiated by... Agent: Lowrie, Lando & Anastasi

20070026855 - Mobile electronic device and methods for providing information to a mobile electronic device using a web service: A mobile electronic device and methods for providing information to a mobile electronic device using a web service are disclosed. In one implementation, a mobile electronic device is provided that comprises a request processing component for receiving an information request, a wireless interface for coupling the mobile electronic device to... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070026858 - Cellular phone terminal having built-in wireless lan, cellular phone system and personal information protection method therefor: Disclosed are a cellular phone terminal having built-in wireless LAN, a cellular phone system and a privacy protection method therefor that enable to prevent leakage of private information (or privacy) of the user of the cellular phone terminal from the communication data when conducting a search for wireless LAN base... Agent: Paul J. Esatto, Jr. Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser

20070026857 - Method and apparatus for enabling and rewarding wireless resource sharing: A method and apparatus determines whether a wireless apparatus (106a) that is operative to communicate over both a wireless wide area network (104) and a wireless local area network (102), will allow shared use of its short range wireless resources, such as LAN radio frequency bandwidth, optical bandwidth or other... Agent: Motorola Inc

20070026856 - Transmitting a communication from a wireless access point indicating hidden networks: A wireless access point may be configured to advertise, to mobile user devices, multiple wireless networks available through the wireless access point. For example, service set identifiers (SSIDs) may be specified within an information element (IE) of a communication such as, for example, an 802.11 beacon, broadcasted to mobile user... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070026859 - Mobile phone: When acquiring a PRL, a mobile phone judges whether the newly acquired PRL contains a base station satisfying a selection condition specifying (i) a communication mode, (ii) whether a base station available via a roaming service is selectable, and (iii) a data communication mode. On judging that such a base... Agent: Armstrong, Kratz, Quintos, Hanson & Brooks, LLP

20070026862 - Communication environment switchover: Communication environment switchover may be provided. A received signal strength level may be determined corresponding to a signal sent from a first device and received at a second device. The received signal strength level may be measured at the second device. In addition, the first device may be re-provisioned. For... Agent: Merchant & Gould Bellsouth Corporation

20070026861 - Method of triggering a handover: A method of triggering a decision of a wireless communication system on a handover and/or of triggering a handover by means of at least one trigger signal. Using a generic algorithm for triggering handover trigger signals. The algorithm uses generic parameters representing at least an aspect of the quality of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070026860 - Mobile communication terminal and communication control method: A mobile communication terminal includes a first communication section which receives a signal transmitted of a first communication system in a first cycle, a second communication section which receives a signal of a second communication system in a cycle, a reception-halt control section which controls so that the first communication... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20070026863 - Method and apparatus to facilitate scanning in a wireless local area network: A wireless two-way communications apparatus (700) having a radio resource manager (706) is configured and arranged to effect one or more modes of operation (203, 204, 206, and 207) as a function, at least in part, of whether the apparatus is presently operating in a power saving mode of operation... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070026865 - Mobile communication system, radio base station and radio mobile station: Each radio base station (11, 21) evaluates whether a radio environment between itself and a mobile station is an environment in which diversity gain is obtained or an environment in which diversity gain is not obtained and interference will be impressed upon communication with another radio base station, allows the... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070026864 - Systems and methods for handovers between base radios: A system and method for reducing power consumption and interference in a communications system that has multiple base radios. A base radio controller assigns priorities to the base radios in the system. When higher priority base radios have excess capacity, intracell handovers are used to consolidate communications from lower priority... Agent: Sprint Nextel Corporation

20070026866 - Mobile node, method and computer program product for handing off from one type of network to another type of network: A mobile node includes first and second communication interfaces for connecting to first and second types of networks, respectively. The mobile node also includes a processor capable of connecting to a first type of network via the first communication interface. The processor can monitor location information from the first type... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070026867 - Satellite communications apparatus and methods using asymmetrical forward and return link frequency reuse: Communications are conducted between a space-based component of the wireless communications system and radioterminals using a plurality of forward link cells and a plurality of return link cells, the return link cells having a greater number of cells per frequency reuse cluster than the forward link cells. At least some... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20070026868 - Licensed/unlicensed frequency management in a wireless wide-area network: A system and method for managing licensed and unlicensed frequency bands in a wireless wide-area network includes establishing the available channels of a licensed band and unlicensed band of frequencies. Data traffic is prioritized for assigning channels. Higher priority data traffic is assigned to the licensed frequency band and lower... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070026870 - Location determination using rf fingerprinting: A method for determining the location of a mobile unit (mobile unit) in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The illustrative embodiment provides a computationally-efficient technique for reducing the number of possible positions that have to be analyzed. In particular, the illustrative embodiment eliminates possible positions for the mobile unit... Agent: Demont & Breyer, LLC

20070026872 - Method for determining a relative position of a mobile unit by comparing scans of an environment and mobile unit: In the method for determining a relative position of a mobile unit by comparing scans of an environment, scans of an environment of the mobile unit are recorded continuously by a distance sensor and stored in a memory. Furthermore the processing unit compares a first scan with a second scan,... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070026869 - Methods, devices and computer program products for operating mobile devices responsive to user input through movement thereof: A mobile device having first and second modes of operation is operated responsive to detection of a predefined localized movement of a housing of the mobile device using a sensor associated therewith. The detected predefined localized movement is associated with first and second functions of the mobile device responsive to... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20070026871 - Wireless network with adaptive autonomous location push: A method of providing location-based services includes transmitting a first location criterion from a wireless network server to a wireless device. The method also includes evaluating whether a physical location of the wireless device satisfies the first location criterion. The process of evaluating is performed in part using the wireless... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20070026873 - Wireless communications system including a wireless device locator and related methods: A wireless communications system may include a plurality of wireless communications devices and a wireless device locator. More particularly, the wireless device locator may include at least one antenna and a transceiver connected thereto, and a controller for cooperating with the transceiver for transmitting a plurality of location finding signals... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20070026874 - [life saving system]: Disclosed is a life saving system, which includes an end-user unit carried on the lifejacket of the user in an aircraft or ship for providing a radio coordinates data of the end-user unit upon an accident subject to the operation of a global position signal receiver module and a starter,... Agent: Jia-chiou Liang

20070026875 - Message proxy notifying method and device: In a method and a device by which a service user can receive an event notifying message without disclosing contact information to an event notifier, a combination of a message ID acquired from a message receiver having received from a proxy request device an offering of the message ID using... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070026876 - Method and system for providing telematics unit information: A method for providing telematics unit information includes generating an awareness message at a telematics unit, the awareness message including a subscriber status wherein the subscriber status includes location and state information, assigning a current value to the subscriber status, and sending the awareness message with the current value from... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20070026877 - Method and system for origination signaling in a wireless network: A method for origination signaling in a wireless network is provided. The method includes receiving a delayed feature request at an input device. The delayed feature request is directly provided from the input device to an override chip. An invitation message that is operable to request establishment of a delayed... Agent: Docket Clerk

20070026878 - Personal short codes for sms: Personal short codes facilitate the establishment of unique, personalized codes for accessing network services and personalized distribution lists. Users can create individualized lists of personal short codes for desired network services. Services can reside within or outside of the wireless network. Messages having personal short codes can incorporate text routing... Agent: Woodcock & Washburn LLP

20070026879 - System and method for blocking the use of a service in a telecommunication system: A method and system for controlling the use of a short message service in a telecommunication system that includes a telecommunication network, a terminal device by which a subscriber is connected to the network, a mobile services switching center connected to the network, a gateway connected to the network, a... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group

20070026880 - Wireless communication method and wireless communication apparatus: A beacon slot position control section (205) of a radio communication apparatus constituting a radio network system which detects whether empty beacon slots are present in a beacon period. When an empty beacon slot is present before the period in which the radio communication apparatus transmits a beacon, a movable... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20070026881 - Fast acquisition of a communication link in a mobile communication system: A system and method for fast acquisition of a communication link in a wireless broadband communication system between a mobile station and a base station includes a scheduler (100) that is informed (102) of the processing capabilities of the mobile station, preferably in an optional message field. The scheduler determines... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070026882 - System and method for automatic user availability setting: At least one condition concerning a first user (102) within a communication network is obtained. Presence information of a second user (114) within the communication network is determined based upon the at least one condition of the first user (102). The presence information of the second user is then projected... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070026883 - System and method for re-invitation to push-to-talk over cellular group session: A system and method for re-invitation to a PoC group session are provided. Processes of determining non-participating group members when the group session is initiated, obtaining information about the non-participating group members, and re-inviting the non-participating group members to a corresponding ongoing group session, are performed for all non-participating group... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070026884 - Controlling usage capacity in a radio access network: In a radio access network, techniques for controlling relative usages, by different groups of access terminals in communication with a radio access network, of available power handling capacity of the radio access network, based on information about usages by different groups of access terminals in communication with the radio access... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070026885 - Method and apparatus for deriving a combined transmit power control command during handover: A method and apparatus for deriving a combined transmit power control (TPC) command during handover are disclosed. During handover, a combined TPC command is generated from two or more TPC commands. The combined TPC command is set to −1 for decrease of the transmit power if a soft symbol of... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070026886 - Method and system for planning the power of carriers in a cellular telecommunications network: A system allowing reuse of one same frequency on all the cells of a network. It includes means storing data characteristic of the network and a computing module provided with means to associate carriers of a transmitter with service areas to distribute the traffic to be handled in the sector... Agent: Perman & Green

20070026887 - Method for transferring information related to at least a mobile terminal in a mobile telecommunication network: s

20070026888 - Mobile communication device provided with a locking mechanism: A mobile communication device includes a covering lid assembled to on a main body. The lid has a reception room and a pivot seat seated in the reception room. A slide button is mounted on the lid and is exposed from the reception room. An urging member is attached to... Agent: Bruce H. Troxell

20070026889 - Portable wireless terminal apparatus: An operation-mode control unit controls switching of an operation mode of a portable wireless terminal apparatus between a normal mode and an alarm mode. An alarm-data sending unit sends data pertaining to a situation of a user to a predetermined destination as alarm data, when the operation mode is switched... Agent: Edward A. Pennington Swidler Berlin LLP

20070026890 - Private branch exchange: When an exchange detects that a wireless base station is connected to an extension interface, the exchange outputs a sync signal to a communication channel of the extension interface. Based on the sync signal received through the communication channel, the wireless base station outputs a radio signal so as to... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20070026891 - System and method for obtaining information from a wireless modem: Systems and methods for obtaining information from a wireless modem are provided. An information requesting device can send an information request to the wireless modem. The wireless modem authenticates the information request, obtains the requested information and provides the obtained information to the information requesting device. The information can be... Agent: Sprint Nextel Corporation

20070026892 - Circuit arrangement that functions as an interface between a sim card and gsm modem: The present disclosure relates to a circuit arrangement and a method for defining the signal direction in a data line between the interfaces of a SIM card and a GSM modem, without a control signal for the direction of data and without remote access. According to the disclosure, the transmission... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLC

20070026893 - Mobile radio communication apparatus: A mobile radio communication device can automatically initialize the mode of a SAM card (or the SAM function area of an IC card) after executing radio communication with an external radio communication apparatus. The mobile radio communication device transmits/receives data to/from an external radio communication apparatus located in an area... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070026894 - Multiple processor communication circuit cards and communication devices that employ such cards: Multiprocessor circuit cards and communication devices that employ such cards are described herein. In some instances, the multiprocessor circuit cards may be subscriber identity module (SIM) cards and the communication devices may be wireless mobile telephones that are compliant with a communication standard such as ISO/IEC, 3GPP, GSM consortium or... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C. Pacwest Center, Suite 1900

20070026896 - Apparatus and method for receiving data signals of two adjacent frequency allocations in cellular environments: Provided is an apparatus and method for simultaneously receiving data signals of two adjacent frequency allocation (FA) in a cellular environment. When there is another base station using an adjacent FA to an FA of the base station, a subcarrier mapper maps control information to subcarriers of predetermined sections such... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070026895 - Modular base station components for use in wireless communication systems: A wireless communication system (20) includes a base station (22) that is capable of communicating with a plurality of mobile stations (24). The base station includes a modular device (50) that allows flexibility in locating the various operative electronic components (52, 54, 56, 58) of the base station. Disclosed examples... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds, P.C.

20070026899 - Fault-tolerant amplifier matrix: An amplifier matrix (112) has a plurality of inter-coupled matrix clusters (201), and a controller (106). The controller is programmed to detect (304) a fault in an amplification path of one of the matrix clusters, and update (316) vector relationships in the matrix clusters to minimize inter-sector isolation at the... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070026900 - Method and apparatus for improving the directivity of an antenna: A receive system, including special integrated circuits, for providing enhanced directivity in the form of a narrowed receive beam and a relatively small antenna with performance comparable to a much larger antenna at similar frequencies. Received signals are converted to digital values and stored in a manner which enables subsequent... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070026897 - System and method for use in wireless communication employing antenna network: A system and method for use in wireless communication includes connecting a communication circuit to an antenna network. The network includes multiple antennas, each antenna optimized for operation in one of multiple designated frequency bands.... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C. / Lear Corporation

20070026898 - System and method for use in wireless communication employing multiple antennas: A system and method for use in wireless communication includes selectively connecting a communication circuit to at least one of multiple antennas. Each antenna is optimized for operation in one of multiple designated frequency bands.... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C. / Lear Corporation

20070026902 - Broadcast information transmitting apparatus and method for a mobile communication terminal: A mobile communication terminal comprises a display for displaying broadcast content; a controller for extracting broadcast information about broadcast content displayed on the display unit and for storing the broadcast information in a first message; and a transceiver for transmitting the first message to a second mobile communication terminal, such... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070026901 - Mobile communications terminal and method therefor: A method for adapting viewing of information on a display of a mobile communication apparatus, and a such mobile communication apparatus is disclosed. The invention relates to determining a movement pattern of the mobile communication apparatus; selecting a viewing mode among a plurality of viewing modes in dependence on the... Agent: Perman & Green

20070026903 - High efficiency audio transducer: A transducer (1) for producing sound in response to an electrical signal comprises an actuator (2) with a magnet (4) and a coil (5), and a vibration surface (3), for example a loudspeaker cone. The actuator and the vibration surface are mechanically coupled. The transducer (1) is designed to operate... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070026904 - Handsfree device: A handsfree device in communication with a remote communication device by one of wireless communication and wired communication for establishing a handsfree call includes a call interruption detection unit for detecting a call interruption by a second call while the remote communication device is involved in a first call and... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070026905 - Acoustic path for a wireless communications device: A printed circuit board for a wireless communications device includes an acoustic path, and acoustically couples microphone circuitry mounted to a surface of the printed circuit board to an exterior of the wireless communications device. A portion of the acoustic path is integrally formed with the printed circuit board and... Agent: Coats & Bennett/sony Ericsson

20070026907 - Hinge guide apparatus of swing-type portable terminal: A hinge guide apparatus of a swing-type portable terminal which can prevent deflection of a hinge module when the battery pack of the portable terminal is attached or detached is provided. The swing-type portable terminal having a body housing to and from which a battery pack is attached and detached,... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070026906 - Portable wireless communications device including pickpocket notification and related methods: A portable wireless communications device to be carried by a holster includes a portable housing carrying a wireless transceiver, a holster sensor, a local alert indicator, a user authentication input device, and a controller. The controller may store data and is connected to the wireless transceiver, the holster sensor, the... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20070026908 - Earphone device with separable wireless transmission module: An earphone device includes an earphone module provided with a first connector, and a wireless transmission module provided with a second connector for mating electrically and removably with the first connector such that the earphone module and the wireless transmission module are interconnected electrically and form a single unit for... Agent: Banner & Witcoff

20070026909 - Slim portable terminal: An ultra-slim portable terminal is disclosed. The ultra-slim portable terminal includes a body having a first portion and a second portion. An auxiliary display unit which is always exposed to the outside is provided on the upper surface of the first portion of the body, and the second portion of... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.