Telecommunications inventions 03/07

20070072544 - Accident broadcasting guidance system for providing accident broadcasting guidance service and method: Disclosed is a method for providing an accident broadcasting guidance service of an accident broadcasting guidance system connected to mobile communication terminals. The method includes when an accident has occurred, generating a view-recommendation message of an accident broadcasting sent from a broadcasting station; and transmitting the view-recommendation message to mobile... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070072542 - Communication system comprising a wireless communication network, a radio broadcasting network and a wireless device which can receive signals from both networks: The present invention relates to a communication system comprising wireless telecommunication network, a radio broadcasting network and a wireless telecommunication device, which can receive signals from both of said wireless telecommunication network and radio broadcasting network, said telecommunication network providing position of said wireless device. The communication system comprises means,... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070072543 - Enhanced signaling of pre-configured interaction message in service guide: Provided are apparatuses and methods for transmitting and receiving ESG fragments associated with an event or program. The event or program may have an interaction service component in which a subscriber can interact with the program in real-time. The program content information, such as audio and video data associated with... Agent: Banner & Witcoff

20070072545 - Space-based network architectures for satellite radiotelephone systems: A space-based network for a satellite radiotelephone system includes at least one receive-only satellite and at least one transmit satellite. The transmit satellite can be a transmit-only satellite or a transmit and receive satellite. The receive-only satellite(s) are configured to receive wireless communications from a radiotelephone at a location over... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20070072546 - Satellite communication system: A satellite communication system and related method for collecting data in space and transmitting it to a processing center on the earth. The communication system includes at least one satellite orbiting the earth that has a device for collecting the data. The satellite transmits the data to a plurality of... Agent: Warn Hoffmann Miller & Lalone PC Northrop Grumman Corporation

20070072547 - Wireless system for automatic ordering of maintenance parts for equipment: A wireless equipment management system is provided which automatically orders parts in connection with equipment maintenance schedules generated using sensors remotely located with the equipment. The system additionally uses diagnostic software to analyze fault conditions within the equipment using the sensors, and parts are automatically ordered in conjunction with equipment... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070072548 - Apparatus and method to provide multiple wireless communication paths to and from remotely located equipment: A controller may be provided to monitor and record various activities associated with remotely located equipment, e.g. a vending machine or a service vehicle. The controller may also be operable to communicate over multiple wireless communication paths with remotely located equipment, handheld devices and/or a network operations center over multiple... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P. Patent Department

20070072551 - Communication method, receiver and base station: A multi-user receiver which uses at least two antenna elements and in which the influence of interference is reduced, the receiver comprises: means (200) for pre-filtering a wideband antenna signal, the pre-filtering means being determined on the basis of a spatial covariance matrix estimate, which spatial covariance matrix estimate is... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070072550 - Method and apparatus for mitigating multiuser access interference: A method of mitigating interference in a multiple access interference wireless communication system is disclosed. More specifically, the method comprises receiving at least one signal from at least one transmitting end, constructing a group of first signal signatures based on a predetermined number of received signals and at least one... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070072549 - Method for reducing electromagnetic emissions in a multiple micro-controller device: A method for reducing electromagnetic emissions in an electronic device having a multiple micro-controllers includes identifying the number of micro-controllers installed in the electronic device. An operating frequency range of the electronic device is determined based on the operating frequency range of each micro-controller. A frequency spacing for each micro-controller... Agent: Clifford P. Kelly Alix, Yale & Ristas, LLP

20070072552 - Determination of a channel estimate of a transmission channel: A method of determining a channel estimate of a first transmission channel in a communications system. The method comprises deriving a first set of channel estimates from symbols received through said first transmission channel; deriving a second set of channel estimates from symbols received through a second transmission channel in... Agent: Potomac Patent Group, PLLC

20070072553 - Safety features for portable electronic device: A portable electronic device includes a safety feature configured to prevent at least some forms of use of the device when the user is traveling beyond a speed threshold. The device may detect its linear speed, compare that speed to a threshold, and provide a response or blocking function upon... Agent: Frost Brown Todd, LLC

20070072554 - System and method for automatic roaming in land mobile radio systems: A system and method for automatic roaming in land mobile radio (LMR) systems are provided. The method includes determining a signal quality value for each of a plurality of communication channels in the LMR system and determining if a signal quality level of a current communication channel is below a... Agent: Brian C. Oakes Tyco Electronics

20070072555 - Automatic cable loss compensation: Method and apparatus are provided for compensation of an RF link between a transmitter and amplifier of a communication system. The apparatus comprises a signal source coupled to the transmitter for providing an RF test signal of a first magnitude to the RF link, a test signal measuring apparatus at... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070072556 - Variable gain frequency multiplier: A variable gain frequency multiplier comprises a multiplier circuit and a control circuit configured to receive a power control signal, the power control signal being proportional to a power output signal.... Agent: Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha, LLC

20070072557 - Wireless microphone device having built-in memory element: A wireless microphone device having a built-in memory element is provided herein. The wireless microphone device mainly contains a memory element for storing digital audio information. The stored audio information is retrieved and processed by a decoder element of the wireless microphone device, and then sent out via radio frequency... Agent: Leong C Lei

20070072558 - Digital variable gain mixer: A method includes controlling a mixer gain to provide a range of selected power output levels from the mixer using a first control scheme for a low portion of the range and using a second control scheme for a high portion of the range. Using the selected mixer gain, incoming... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20070072561 - Method and apparatus for signal power loss reduction in rf communication systems: Multiple power amplifiers in an RF front end are coupled to multiple antennas without diversity switching between the PAs and antennas. Diversity switches direct signals to broadcast by a selected antenna to a PA coupled to the selected antenna. Multiple LNAs are similarly coupled to the diverse antennas. Having one... Agent: Bever Hoffman & Harms, LLP

20070072560 - Site diversity operating method and program: In a site diversity operating method in which a channel is divided into a plurality of slots by time division multiple access, and voice and data are transmitted between controlling stations and controlled stations via a plurality of sites through the slots whereby controlled stations are controlled based on instructions... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070072559 - Transmitter delay and phase adjustment: A transmitter, including at least two transmitter units, each transmitter unit being configured to input an instance of a digital transmit signal, to convert the digital transmit signal to an analog radio signal, and to amplify the analog radio signal. The transmitter is configured to determine a timing difference between... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070072562 - Wireless communication module, wireless communication apparatus having wireless communication module, and control method thereof: A wireless communication apparatus including: an antenna; a signal processor which processes and converts a radio frequency (RF) signal received from the antenna into a baseband signal; an antenna connector which interconnects the antenna and the signal processor; a connection check part which checks whether the antenna is connected properly... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070072564 - Rendering subject identification on protected messages lacking such identification: Rendering subject information for a protected message received and stored at an electronic communications device, wherein the message is initially received by the electronic communications device without subject information. Selected information is extracted from the protected message and stored on the electronic communications device as subject information for the protected... Agent: Ridout & Maybee Suite 2400

20070072563 - Server selection in a wireless communications network: Disclosed is a method and system for selecting a server base station based on reverse link signal strength measurements. The method and system involve receiving, at a network controller or a server base station, signal strength measurement indications from a set of base stations for a reverse link signal transmitted... Agent: Lucent Technologies Inc. Docket Administrator - Room 3j-219

20070072566 - Data transmission system, data transmitter and data receiver used in the data transmission system: In a data transmission system, a transmitter adds control data to transmission data, and modulates the resultant signal by a predetermined modulation method, and sends the result in a wireless manner. A receiver detects a reception power intensity by use of the control data contained in the transmitted signal. A... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070072565 - System and method for reducing power consumed by a wireless communication device: A system and method are provided for facilitating reduced power consumption when communicating between a wireless communication device and a wireless communication controller. A power management controller comprising a power saving detection unit and a power level controller is provided. The power savings detector detects when power savings can be... Agent: Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP

20070072567 - Radio-frequency communication device: A radio-frequency communication device arranged to transmit a transmitted signal from a transmitter antenna device toward a communication object, and to receive through a receiver antenna device a reply signal transmitted from the communication object, for radio communication with the communication object, the radio-frequency communication device including a transfer-function calculating... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070072568 - High speed receiver: In one embodiment, a receiver includes a voltage margin controller, a set of first components coupled to the voltage margin control, and a set of offset compensation controllers coupled to the set of first components.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070072569 - Linear voltage controlled variable attenuator with linear db/v gain slope: A variable attenuator and method of attenuating a signal is presented. The variable attenuator contains an input that receives an input signal to be attenuated. A voltage divider between a resistor and parallel MOSFETs provides the attenuated input signal. The MOSFETs have different sizes and have gates that are connected... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070072570 - Transmission antenna diversity: In mobile communications systems transmission antenna diversity is used e.g. to compensate for fading caused to the signal on the radio path. It is known to make the choice of transmission antenna jointly for all subscriber connections, but it is not hereby possible to offer the optimum transmission antenna to... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070072571 - Dc offset cancellation circuit for a receiver: Techniques for cancelling DC offset are described. A DC offset cancellation circuit in a receiver cancels DC offsets caused by leaked LO (local oscillator) signals from a LO signal generator. The receiver first calibrates itself by using the DC offset cancellation circuit during a transmit mode. During the calibration, the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070072572 - Radio frequency signal receiver for controlling bias current and method for controlling bias current: A radio frequency (RF) signal receiver for controlling a bias current and a method for controlling a bias current are provided. The RF signal receiver includes an antenna which receives an RF signal and an RF signal processing module which processes the received RF signal. The RF signal processing module... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070072573 - Pulse modulation circuitry: A resistor 8 for dividing a voltage applied to an anti-parallel diode pair 5 for mixing a DC pulsed signal and a local oscillation signal LO is disposed in pulse modulation circuitry. Therefore, the ratio of the output power of an RF pulsed signal outputted to an RF pulse output... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070072574 - Receiver and methods for use therewith: A receiver includes a mixing module for mixing an input signal by at least one mixing sequence to produce a mixed signal. The mixed signal is filtered to produce a first filtered signal. A first downsampler downsamples the first filtered signal to produce a first decimated signal, wherein the decimation... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070072575 - Direct conversion receiver having a subharmonic mixer: A differential radio frequency (RF) receiver includes a fully differential direct conversion receive chain, a subharmonic mixer in the receive chain, the subharmonic mixer configured to receive a differential radio frequency (RF) input signal and a local oscillator (LO) signal that is phase-shifted by a nominal 45 degrees, and a... Agent: Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha, LLC

20070072576 - Passive mixer: A passive mixer for converting a radio frequency (RF) signal to an intermediary frequency (IF) signal or vice versa. The mixer comprises a voltage controlled mixing means for mixing a local oscillator signal with either an RF or IF signal. A bootstrapping technique is used for feeding back a low... Agent: Potomac Patent Group, PLLC

20070072577 - Single chip gsm/edge transceiver architecture with closed loop power control: A single chip GSM/EDGE transceiver comprises a fully differential receive chain, a subharmonic mixer in the receive chain, the subharmonic mixer configured to receive a radio frequency (RF) input signal and a local oscillator (LO) signal that is phase-shifted by a nominal 45 degrees, and a synthesizer having a voltage... Agent: Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha, LLC

20070072578 - Method and apparatus for saving power by controlling listening periods in wireless telecommunication device having a plurality for power-saving modes: A method and apparatus for reducing power consumption by controlling listening periods in a wireless telecommunications device having a plurality of power-saving modes are provided. The method includes: setting a first power-saving mode and a second power-saving mode, each of the first and second power-saving modes having a power-saving mode... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070072579 - Datacast services: Service component files are received at an input (11) from one or more service operators. An encapsulation and multiplexing system (12) organises service components (20-23, see FIG. 2) relating to a service sequentially in a burst. In a burst, the service components include content data of different data types. A... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20070072580 - Smart wireless switch: One or more aspects of the present invention relate to a wireless switch component and an associated control module component that facilitate wireless control over a load device. The load device is operatively coupled to the control module component and is selectively activated thereby in accordance with a wireless control... Agent: Eschweiler & Associates, LLC National City Bank Building

20070072581 - Method and apparatus for marking of emergency image data: A method and apparatus is provided for recording and preserving information in an emergency situation. A portable communication device (120) automatically activates (310) its recording device (228) thereof, which includes a still or video camera (232), to record emergency data in response to detecting an emergency input (302) and provides... Agent: Motorola Inc

20070072583 - Emergency reporting system: Provided is an emergency locator system adapted for GPS-enabled wireless devices. Global Positioning System (GPS) technology is and Location Based Services (LBS) are used to determine the exact location of a user and communicate information relating to the emergency status of that location. The user initiates the locator application via... Agent: Smith Hopen, Pa

20070072582 - Radio frequency scan: It is provided a method for performing a radio frequency scan in a portable electronic device. The location of the portable electronic device is determined. It is defined a search area dependent on the location of the portable electronic device. The portable electronic device receives radio signals from a plurality... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070072585 - Apparatus and method for credit based management of telecommunication activity: The present invention provides an apparatus for credit based management of a telecommunication system. One embodiment of the apparatus includes an interface for communicating credit information on a particular subscriber and for receiving call records for the particular subscriber that are derived from a switch which establishes connections between telecommunication... Agent: Foley Hoag, LLP Patent Group, World Trade Center West

20070072584 - Cellular telephone credit management: A system and method are provided for controlling a cellular telephone account User Terminal (UT). The method includes: registering a UT with an account in a cellular telephone network; uploading a credit for cellular telephone network services to the UT from a second party; and, converting the credit to an... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070072586 - Method and computer-readable medium having a program for managing billing for a telecommunications campus: Method and computer-readable medium for managing billing for calls within a user's telecommunications campus. According to the method and computer-readable medium for managing billing for calls within a user's campus, users can make unlimited calls within the campus by determining whether a call from a user begins in a predetermined... Agent: Sprint Nextel Corporation

20070072587 - Tracking roaming cellular telephony calls for anti-fraud and other purposes: An anti-fraud system for controlling fraudulent activity at a cellular telephone roaming networks. The system comprises a fraud management unit that is configured to monitor telephony activity on the network, detect fraudulent patterns within the activity and take action to manage detected fraudulent activity. The system further comprises a roaming... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan Prtsi, Inc.

20070072588 - System and method for reconciling email messages between a mobile wireless communications device and electronic mailbox: A system for reconciling electronic mail (email) messages between a mobile wireless communications device and an electronic mailbox on an email server, which is operative for forwarding user email messages from the electronic mailbox at an email service provider to a mobile wireless communications device. An email reconciliation module, such... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20070072591 - Enhanced directory assistance system and method including location search functions: A method for sending a targeted advertising campaign to a plurality of mobile phone devices, comprises the step of receiving geographic information relating to geographic location of mobile phone devices, wherein the information is collected from a plurality of corresponding mobile service providers. The method includes the step of maintaining... Agent: Sofer & Haroun LLP.

20070072590 - System and method for providing wireless services to aircraft passengers: A wireless communications system and method for use with aircraft includes an airline network and an aircraft communications system. The airline network includes a reservation system having a database storing passenger and flight information, an interface to an external network and a home location register. The reservation system includes logic... Agent: Sprint Nextel Corporation

20070072589 - System and method for provisioning a mobile wireless communications device to display account or device-specific characteristics: A system of provisioning a mobile wireless communications device to display account or device specific characteristics includes a database for storing a plurality of display characteristics for different wireless carriers, electronic mail (email) service providers, and device types. A configuration module accesses the database and uploads the display characteristics of... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20070072592 - Method of receiving a call and wireless terminal implementing the same: Disclosed is a method and wireless terminal for receiving a call. Voice data received through an automatic response for a received call are converted into text data, and the converted text data are displayed. The user easily checks received calls when it is difficult to make communication with a caller.... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070072593 - Call prioritizing systems and methods: Systems and methods allow a mobile wireless communication device user to designate a priority level of the contacts in a contact list. During an existing call, incoming higher priority calls can be handled differently than lower priority calls. For example, higher priority calls can be automatically answered, without any need... Agent: Kyocera Wireless Corp.

20070072596 - Caller identification queue for wireless telephones: A method and system are provided for collecting and storing caller identification information associated with a calling party directed to an out of service wireless telephone. When calls are made to a wireless telephone, a determination is made as to whether the telephone is registered for service, that is, whether... Agent: Attention Of D. Kent Stier Merchant & Gould P.C.

20070072594 - Method and apparatus for enhanced distributed indication of voip telephone calls: A telecommunications system includes a wireless network; a telephony client operably coupled to the network; and an indication device operably coupled to the network and configured to receive an audio file from the telephony client indicative of an incoming telephone call. In certain embodiments, the audio file comprises calling party... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070072595 - Mobile communication device with network selection and method for same: A network selection method automatically selects a communication network for a multi-mode mobile communication device, which has operability in two or more communication networks. Plural of digit map strings and a network priority setting are provided and stored in the mobile communication device. An input phone number is compared with... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070072597 - Feature sharing: According to one aspect of the present invention, there is provided a mobile telephone operable to use a feature of a second mobile telephone comprising a share module for obtaining details of one or more features on the second mobile telephone which are available for use by the mobile telephone... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070072598 - Controlling wireless communication devices with media recording capabilities: A wireless communication system (20) includes the capability of controlling when a media recording device such as a camera (32) associated with a mobile station (30) may be used. In a disclosed example, if the mobile station (30) is in a restricted area where audio recordings, photographs or video are... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds, P.C.

20070072599 - Device manufacturing using the device's embedded wireless technology: Embodiments describe manufacturing, programming, testing, and servicing of wireless computing devices utilizing the embedded wireless technology in the device. According to an aspect is a method for efficient batch processing of a plurality of devices. The method includes sending data to a plurality of wireless devices though a wireless communication.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070072601 - Method and apparatus for providing information during a call and a mobile device including the same: An apparatus and a method for providing information during a call by delivering the current state and changes of state of a mobile device by tactile information, and which does not interfere with the phone conversation. The apparatus for providing information during a call comprises an information-sensing unit sensing at... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070072600 - Method and system for reporting link state in a communication system: Disclosed is a method and system for link state report in order to select an optimum route in a wireless communication system which includes a mobile station, a base station for providing a service to the mobile station, and one or more relay stations for relaying information between the base... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070072602 - Automated reply to voice call: Some embodiments provide reception of a voice call and associated caller information, presentation of one or more selectable predetermined responses to the voice call, reception of a selection of one of the predetermined responses, and transmission of the selected predetermined response using the caller information. According to some embodiments, the... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070072603 - Method and apparatus for providing wideband services using medium and low earth orbit satellites: A method and apparatus for mitigating communications interference between satellite communications systems in different orbits is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of evaluating a geometrical relationship between a second ground station and the satellites in the second satellite constellation, and directing communications between the second ground station and the... Agent: The Directv Group Inc

20070072604 - Method and system for a wireless multi-hop relay network: A Point to Multipoint (PMP) multi-hop relay network includes a base station, one or more relay stations and one or more subscriber stations. Active service flows in a PMP multi-hop relay network have a 16-bit connection identifier (CID). A CID defines the connection that a packet is servicing. Before traffic... Agent: Smart & Biggar P.o. Box 2999, Station D

20070072605 - Seamless mobility management with service detail records: A method for enhancing mobility of a subscriber in a telecommunications environment. The method includes deploying with a first network operator a service that is accessible by a subscriber via a first network. The method continues with creating a service detail record containing information related to an identity of the... Agent: Hogan & Hartson LLP

20070072606 - Method and system for mitigating interference from analog tv in a dvb-h system: Certain embodiments of mitigating interference from analog TV in a DVB-H system may include receiving feedback information from at least one mobile terminal that receives digital broadcast television signals and interfering analog broadcast television signals. The feedback information may comprise channel estimates. Subsequently transmitted digital broadcast television signals may be... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070072607 - Cellular telephone service management: A system and method are provided for the management of user terminal (UT) cellular network services. The method includes: registering a UT in a cellular telephone network; accessing a management server; receiving UT-specific management instructions for cellular network services; and, requesting cellular network services for the UT in response to... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070072610 - cellular/wlan hybrid-terminal handover techniques: Real-time handover decision techniques are provided which can utilize prior known system behavior in making a handover decision to avoid averaging delay and hysteresis delay.... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C.

20070072609 - Cellular/wlan hybrid-terminal handover techniques: Real-time handover decision techniques are provided which can utilize prior known system behavior in making a handover decision to avoid averaging delay and hysteresis delay.... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C.

20070072614 - Handover control in radio communication system: A handover control method and a radio communication system comprising a mobile station and one or more base stations are provided. The mobile station receives transmissions from one or more base stations, and measures the signal strength of each received base station transmission. The base stations determine radio resource management... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070072615 - Handover execution and communication resumption in wireless access system: Handover execution and communication resumption in a wireless access system is provided. Performing a handover includes communicating with a serving base station through a first communication link and receiving from the serving base station, handover information associated with at least one candidate target base station. The method also includes transmitting... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070072612 - Hsdpa wireless communication system: A wireless (radio) communication system having a high-speed packet communication function, which is based on an HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access) system, the wireless communication system including a base station control device, the base station control device including a unit receiving from a handover source base station, when handover... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070072611 - Information for media independent handover: At least data link information generated at a medium access control layer or physical link information generated at a physical layer is used to send information to a media independent handover layer.... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070072608 - Mobile communication method and mobile communication apparatus: A mobile communication apparatus includes a registration request part (47) requesting a correspondent node to make location registration, a BU list memory (45) keeping a list of the correspondent nodes which have made the location registration, a handover detection part (41) detecting the start of a handover, and a registration... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20070072613 - Wireless communication device and method for communicating in site selection diversity mode: A wireless communication device receives CDMA signals and communicates with remote base stations in site selection diversity transmit (SSDT) mode. During communications with a primary base station, communication state parameters, such as signal to interference ratio (SIR) target values and carrier frequency estimates, are maintained for other base stations of... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070072616 - Preventing cellphone usage when driving: A method for preventing cellular phone usage while driving. In one embodiment a GPS system incorporated into the workings of the cellular phone is used to detect that the phone is in motion, and that the rate of movement exceeds some preset value indicating that the phone is in a... Agent: Cyrus Irani

20070072617 - Pushback methods and apparatus for use in communicating messages to mobile communication devices: One illustrative method for use by a host server in pushing messages to a mobile communication device involves the steps of causing a message to be sent to a relay network for delivery to the mobile communication device through one of a plurality of wireless communication networks which are communicatively... Agent: John J. Oskorep, Esq. One Magnificent Mile Center

20070072618 - Methods and apparatus for allocating resources in a distributed environment based on network assessment: Methods and apparatus are provided for allocating resources in a distributed environment, such as a packet network, based on a network assessment. One or more resources are allocated to a request in a distributed environment by identifying one or more potential resources to handle the request; obtaining a network connection... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20070072623 - Gps application using network assistance: A Global Positioning System (GPS) system comprises a user end, a mobile terminal, a positioning server, a GPS application server, and a base station network. The mobile terminal has a GPS receiver to receive GPS information from a plurality of GPS satellites. The positioning server is coupled to the user... Agent: Wagner, Murabito & Hao LLP

20070072622 - Information processing device and method, program, and recording medium: An information processing device for transmitting information to be provided to a user to a terminal held by the user, including: current position obtaining means for obtaining the current position of the user of the terminal, based on information transmitted from a signal processing device capable of communicating with the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070072619 - Method and system for generating automated location indicating responses: A method and system for generating an automated location-indicating response to a call is useful for identifying a present location of a callee mobile device. The method includes receiving a call, transmitted from a caller device, at a callee mobile device (step 305). An automated response to the call is... Agent: Motorola Inc

20070072624 - Mobile access network server: A mobile access network server for supporting location position services comprising: receiving means arranged to receive at least one location request message; and transmitting means arranged to transmit a first message to a location server based on the received location request message and to transmit a second message to at... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20070072621 - Position location using transmitters with timing offset: Systems and methods are provided for determining position location information in a wireless network. In one embodiment, timing offset information is communicated between multiple transmitters and one or more receivers. Such information enables accurate position or location determinations to be made that account for timing differences throughout the network. In... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070072625 - Remote method for wireless transmission of location data: A method to remotely determine a location of a mobile unit without intervention by a user of the mobile unit is provided. The mobile unit may receive a location query, download location data from a GPS, and transmit the location data via a wireless telecommunications network. For example, a call... Agent: Stoel Rives LLP

20070072626 - System and method for aggregating information to determine a user's location: Provided is a system and method that acquires and aggregates information to determine the location of a user. Information from multiple sources is collected and evaluated. Location sources include mobile electronic devices such as mobile telephones, cell phones, hand-held computers, personal digital assistants, pagers, Global Positioning System (GPS) devices, and... Agent: Greg Goshorn, P.C.

20070072620 - System and method for recovering a lost or stolen wireless device: A user may locate a missing wireless device through a location server storing user-associated location information. A wireless device includes a client location application adapted to determine a current geographic location and transmit location data to a location server, a power source, and a power management application adapted to detect... Agent: Sprint Nextel Corporation

20070072628 - Apparatus and method for providing relay station type information in a multi-hop relay broadband wireless access communication system: An apparatus and method for transmitting relay station (RS) type information in a multi-hop relay cellular communication system are provided. In the RS type information providing method, an RS transmits a message including information about RS's type to an MS. The MS acquires the RS type information from the message... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070072627 - Method for dual-mode access terminal to respond to 1x paging in hrpd network: A method for a dual-mode terminal in a HRPD network to respond to 1× paging, the method comprising steps of: after a MS/AT turns to the HRPD network and informs a MSC of the related information via PCF, the MSC sending a 1× service arrive notification message to the MS/AT... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070072629 - Mobile terminal for managing schedule and method therefor: A mobile terminal for managing a schedule and a method therefor are discussed. According to an embodiment, the mobile terminal includes a storage unit to store schedule notification information including at least one notification time information assigned to each of a plurality of priority levels, and a control unit to... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070072632 - Communication network terminal supporting a plurality of applications: A terminal for a communication network, the terminal being capable of supporting a plurality of applications and communicating user messages. The terminal is configured to receive user messages having data and a header relating to one of the applications and address the data to a respective application according to the... Agent: Perman & Green

20070072631 - Method and apparatus of gauging message freshness in terms of context: A wireless communication device (200) capable of gauging message freshness from the context of a receiver of a message response can include a transceiver (202) and a processor (206) coupled to the transceiver. The transceiver can be programmed to determine (312) if a message response is stale from the context... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070072630 - Method of providing sms callback: The invention discloses a method of connecting two or more phone lines in a cross-country connection through a rented device (44). The device may be a mobile phone or a SIM card. An SMS message (42) is sent from the rented device (44) to a service provider (47) bearing the... Agent: Michael J Mcgovern Quarles & Brady

20070072634 - Mobile communication device with audio recorder: A mobile communication device that has self-contained audio recorder and playback circuitry therein.... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP/ Bellsouth I.p. Corp

20070072633 - Mobile communication terminal and message display method therein: A method is provided for displaying a message in a mobile communication terminal. According to one example, the method includes the steps of receiving a first message, displaying the first message on a first display of the terminal, and displaying a message preparation window on a second display of the... Agent: Workman Nydegger (f/k/a Workman Nydegger & Seeley)

20070072635 - Integrity protection count synchronization method: An integrity protection count synchronization method (200) initiates (210) a new connection when a user equipment (UE) is already in connected mode with a network. If new security keys are pending, the UE sends (250) a START value of zero in an initial direct transfer message. If no new security... Agent: Motorola Inc

20070072636 - Synchronization of media access control (mac) superframes: A device and method for of synchronizing a MAC superframe of a wireless device is disclosed. The wireless device can be located within a chain of a plurality of other wireless devices. The method includes receiving beacons from at least one other device during a superframe of the wireless device,... Agent: Tzero Patent Department

20070072637 - System and method for group session communication: The present invention is directed to a system and method for distributing voice data information as presence information to all members participating in the group session communication when the presence status of participants has changed. A call control server accepts a request from one of group members for joining or... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson & Cook, P.C.

20070072638 - Protocol extension for a high density network: A set of new information elements are defined that are to be used between an access point and a client that allow an access point to advertise its capabilities, configuration, and/or parameters allowing the client to tune to the parameters prior to, during, or after associating with the access point.... Agent: Tucker, Ellis & West LLP

20070072640 - Electrically adaptive mechanical connection for electronic devices: An electronic device, like a mobile telephone, has a first section and a second section. The first section and second section are coupled together by a mechanical connection, for example a hinge, swivel or sliding connector. Electronic components in the first section are coupled to electronic components in the second... Agent: Motorola Inc

20070072639 - Flight recorder wireless interface: Methods and systems for wirelessly offloading data recorded on a flight recorder. In one embodiment, a method of offloading data recorded on a flight recorder includes determining whether to enable a wireless transmitter and wirelessly transmitting previously stored data on the flight recorder via the wireless transmitter according to the... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070072641 - Methods and apparatus for mobile equipment depersonalization: A method and apparatus for unlocking a mobile station operating in a limited service state, the method having the steps of: storing one or more predetermined contacts on the mobile station, and allowing, while said mobile station is operating in the limited service state, the mobile station to communicate with... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20070072642 - Mobile communication terminal and method: A method is presented for initiating communication in a mobile terminal capable of providing at least a first mode of communication and a second mode of communication, the mobile terminal comprising a communication initiation element. The method involves the steps of detecting a user actuation of the communication initiation element,... Agent: Perman & Green

20070072643 - Evaluating lost communication links with mobile stations: A wireless communication system (20) includes an ability to discern whether an end of a communication link between a mobile station (22) and a base station (26) corresponds to the mobile station (22) tuning away from a first service to a second, different service. In a disclosed example, a radio... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds, P.C.

20070072645 - Capacity allocation in a wireless communication system: A wireless communication system (20) includes a capacity allocation module (35) that adjusts an allocation of an authorized total capacity among a plurality of base stations (22, 24, 26). A disclosed example includes determining a peak capacity requirement for a plurality of base stations at any given time. An authorized... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds, P.C.

20070072646 - Wireless base station and communication method therefor: In a wireless base station comprising a center unit, and a remote unit provided with an array antenna and connected to the center unit through an optical fiber, the center unit outputs to the optical fiber a transmission signal in a base band state prior to array processing, the remote... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070072644 - Wireless communication base station with current limiting capability: A wireless communication system base station (20) includes a base station transceiver (26) that has at least one operative component (32) for facilitating wireless communications. A current limiting device (36) includes at least one field effect transistor for selectively controlling current flow to a capacitive stability device (34) associated with... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds, P.C.

20070072647 - Multi-tap keyboard user interface: There is provided a multi-tap keyboard user interface with auditory feedback. In one embodiment, there is provided a method for controlling operation of a mobile device having a plurality of input devices, comprising associating groups of one or more keys of the input devices to define at least one input... Agent: Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP

20070072648 - Method and apparatus for identifying a calling party: A subscriber uploads to a hosted Web site an image of himself that has been taken, for example, by the internal camera of his mobile terminal. Through interaction with the Web site, the subscriber is able to manipulate that image by animating certain facial features and/or selecting different static or... Agent: Lucent Technologies Inc. Docket Administrator - Room 3j-219

20070072649 - Multi-functional bluetooth headset: Provided is multi-functional Bluetooth® headset for performing short-range wireless communications with a portable terminal and transferring data with a PC. In the multi-functional Bluetooth® headset, a body is formed into a shape, a speaker is installed at an position of the body, and a microphone is spaced from the speaker... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070072650 - Handsfree device: A handsfree device replaces a non-displayable character code in a registration name of each data entry in telephone number data with a space code in the course of reception from a mobile communication device. The registration name entirely replaced with the space code is stored in a memory medium as... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070072651 - Information terminal controller and information terminal control method: An information terminal controller and an information terminal control method for controlling usually wireless information terminals allows easy registration of these terminals as respective control objects for a plurality of functions of the terminals. List registration part judges whether the information terminal detected by information terminal detecting part has plural... Agent: Young & Basile, P.C.

20070072652 - Controlling power output of a transceiver: In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for transmitting radio frequency (RF) data of a first slot via an RF signal path from a transceiver to a power amplifier, squelching the RF signal path during a predetermined portion of an inter-slot period, and transmitting RF data of a... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20070072653 - System and method for improving battery life of a mobile station: At least one Radio Frequency (RF) operating condition associated with a mobile station (102) is obtained. The RF operating condition is compared to an optimum value. When the RF operating condition is substantially different from the optimum value, the paging cycle is adjusted in order to conserve power in a... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070072655 - Hat cell phone or wireless device for hands-free user-safe operation: A cellphone or wireless phone device has separate components which are carried or mounted in corresponding parts of a hat, cap, or other headgear worn by the user. The cellphone microphone or voice pickup component, preferably as a unidirectional device, may be carried in the forward brim of a hat... Agent: Evelyn M. Sommer Suite 825

20070072654 - Multi speaker two part electronics device: A multi-speaker two part electronics device (100) with a first housing portion (110) with a first speaker. A first ear mount (255) is attached to the first housing portion (110), the first ear mount (225) being shaped to mount the first housing portion (110) to an ear of a user.... Agent: Motorola Inc

20070072658 - Clam type mobile phone: A clam type mobile phone includes a base, a motherboard, a hinge seat, a display device and a vibrator. The motherboard is configured in the base. The hinge seat is mounted on one side of the base. The display device is mounted on the hinge seat. The hinge seat enables... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070072656 - Foldable electronic device: A foldable electronic device includes a first body, a second body, a magnetism sensing element and a rotation element. The second body is pivoted on one side of the first body. The magnetism sensing element is disposed inside the first body. The rotation element is disposed inside the second body... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070072659 - Mobile communication terminal: A mobile communication terminal is provided that can be opened or closed when the mobile communication terminal is shaken in one direction. By simply shaking the mobile communication terminal held in hand to move a weight pendulum, a second body of the terminal can be opened and closed with respect... Agent: Jonathany Y. Kang. Esq. Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070072657 - Portable terminal foldable to form a triangular prism: A portable terminal is provided. The portable terminal includes first, second and third housings. The second housing is rotatably engaged with one portion of the first housing. The third housing has one end engaged to linearly move closely beneath the rear surface of the second housing and the other end... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070066217 - Portable cellular phone: Music data stored in a data card 101 is input into a portable cellular phone 110, and also a plurality of pieces of application software (131, 133) suitable for a music data format defined in connection with the music data is selected by a user and downloaded from a remote... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070066219 - Recovery system with de-queue logic: A recovery system with repeating communication capabilities. The system includes a station configured to send an activation message, at least a first “primary” remote transmitting unit responsive to the station and configured to transmit the activation message and at least a one “secondary” remote transmitting unit. That unit includes a... Agent: Iandiorio & Teska

20070066218 - Recovery system with repeating communication capabilities: A recovery system and method with repeating communication functionality includes a station configured to send a first message and at least a first remote transmitting unit responsive to the central station and configured to transmit a second message to a locating unit. At least a second remote transmitting unit includes... Agent: Iandiorio & Teska

20070066220 - Non-frequency translating repeater with downlink detection for uplink and downlink synchronization: A non-frequency translating repeater (110, 210, 300) for use in a time division duplex (TDD) radio protocol communications system includes detection retransmission and automatic gain control. Detection is performed by detectors (309, 310) and a processor (313). Detection can be overridden by processor (313) using logic elements (314). Antennae (220,... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20070066224 - High efficiency rf amplifier and envelope modulator: An RFID reader, comprising a high-efficiency Class-C power amplifier having an input, an output, and a supply voltage, a modulator coupled to the supply voltage of the Class-C power amplifier, and an RF carrier signal coupled to the input of the Class-C power amplifier. The modulator changes the supply voltage... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20070066221 - Method and apparatus for activating and managing voip phone with rfid: An apparatus equipped with Radio Frequency Identity (RFID) reader and LAN/WAN access reads an RFID tag attached to a Video and Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) phone. The apparatus retrieves phone information, including such information as an Ethernet Media Access Control (MAC) address from the RFID tag and requests that... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20070066222 - Methods, electronic devices, and computer program products for coordinating bluetooth and wireless local area network communication: An electronic device may be operated by providing Bluetooth communication duty cycle information to a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) module. A determination is made, based on the Bluetooth communication duty cycle information, if there is sufficient time during a current Bluetooth inactive communication interval to complete a WLAN communication.... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20070066223 - Power control loop and lo generation method: A method for use in a RFID reader, the method comprising providing an output signal from an amplifier of a transmitter, attenuating the output signal via a step attenuator, detecting and comparing the attenuated output signal to a reference value, and adjusting power to the amplifier until the attenuated output... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20070066225 - Double search algorithm of user group selection for multiuser mimo downlink transmission: A method and system for a double search algorithm of user group selection for multiuser MIMO downlink transmission are provided. The use of optimal brute-force user group selection may require high computational expense. A first search operation may be based on a first user having a channel gain greater than... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070066226 - Apparatus and method for interference cancellation in wireless mobile stations operating concurrently on two or more air interfaces: An apparatus and method for interference cancellation in wireless mobile stations operating concurrently in two or more wireless modes.... Agent: Docket Clerk

20070066227 - Method and apparatus for adaptive activation or deactivation of the coordination of the radio activities of two mobile-radio transmitting and/or receiving devices: The method is based on the capability for coordination of the radio activities of two mobile radio transmitting and/or receiving devices (3, 4). In the case of the method, a value of at least one characteristic variable (PRSSI,BT, N; 15, 16, 17) is first of all determined, which is characteristic... Agent: Baker Botts, L.L.P.

20070066233 - Antenna aiming system and method for broadband wireless access: A system and method are provided for automatically aiming an antenna to communicate with a remote broadband wireless communication device.... Agent: Baker & Daniels LLP

20070066234 - Method and apparatus for high throughput multiple radio sectorized wireless cell: Methods and apparatus for high throughput wireless cells, capable of functioning as access points, are described. The wireless cells may be equipped with multiple radios to increase the amount of throughput available through a single wireless cell. Multiple antennas attached to the radios through RF switches may enable the wireless... Agent: Letham Patent Group LLC

20070066230 - Method and system for a range reduction scheme for user selection in a multiuser mimo downlink transmission: Various aspects of a method and a system for a range reduction scheme for user selection in a multiuser MIMO downlink transmission are presented. Aspects of a system for range reduction may comprise a range reduction processor that determines a plurality of channel measurements corresponding to a plurality of signals.... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070066229 - Method and system for finding a threshold for semi-orthogonal user group selection in multiuser mimo downlink transmission: Various aspects of a method and a system for finding a threshold for semi-orthogonal user group selection in multiuser MIMO downlink transmission are presented. Aspects of a system for semi-orthogonal user group selection may include a processor that computes an orthogonality measurement between one of a plurality of signals and... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070066228 - Operating multi-service receiver in non-interfering manner: A method for operating a receiver and a device are provided. The device comprises a first and a second antenna, a receiver operationally coupled to the first antenna and a transceiver operationally coupled to the second antenna. The receiver receives information in bursts on a first band of radio frequencies.... Agent: Hollingsworth & Funk, LLC

20070066232 - Pilot grouping and route protocols in multi-carrier communication systems: Embodiments disclosed herein relate to methods and systems for pilot grouping, route protocols, and scheduling in multi-carrier communication systems. In an embodiment, an access terminal may group a plurality of pilot signals characterized by different frequencies into one or more pilot groups, each pilot grouping being identified by a plurality... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070066231 - Transfer of calibrated time information in a mobile terminal: A method of and system for calibrating un-calibrated time information within a mobile terminal 101 is disclosed. The terminal has a receiver 203 capable of receiving signals from which calibrated time information carried by a calibrated system (a satellite positioning system) can be extracted, and a receiver 200 capable of... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070066235 - Method and apparatus for high rate packet data transmission: In a data communication system capable of variable rate transmission, high rate packet data transmission improves utilization of the forward link and decreases the transmission delay. Data transmission on the forward link is time multiplexed and the base station transmits at the highest data rate supported by the forward link... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070066236 - Calibrating a communication link using frequency ramps: A method for calibrating a communication link that uses frequency ramps to locate the frequency response of a receiver. A method for calibrating according to the present teachings includes generating a transmit signal that includes a series of frequency ramps and determining a timing of gain peaks in a receiver... Agent: Avago Technologies, Ltd.

20070066239 - Communication system: The present application relates to a wireless communication system and related methods and apparatuses for transmitting a signal from a source apparatus to a destination apparatus, via at least one intermediate apparatus. In particular, the present invention relates to techniques which seek to improve the throughput of data in multi-hop... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070066240 - Communication system: The present application relates to a wireless communication system and related methods and apparatuses for transmitting a signal from a source apparatus to a destination apparatus, via at least one intermediate apparatus. In particular, the present invention relates to techniques which seek to improve the throughput of data in multi-hop... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070066241 - Communication system: The present application relates to a wireless communication system and related methods and apparatuses for transmitting a signal from a source apparatus to a destination apparatus, via at least one intermediate apparatus. In particular, the present invention relates to techniques which seek to improve the throughput of data in multi-hop... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070066238 - Double search user group selection scheme with range reduction for fdd multiuser mimo downlink transmission with finite-rate channel state information feedback: Aspects of a double search user group selection scheme with range reduction for FDD multiuser MIMO downlink transmission with finite-rate channel state information feedback are provided. The method may comprise maximizing system capacity using feedback information for a plurality of signals in a frequency division duplex system to reduce a... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070066237 - Method and system for greedy user group selection with range reduction for fdd multiuser mimo downlink transmission with finite-rate channel state information feedback: Aspects of a greedy search user group selection scheme with range reduction for FDD multiuser MIMO downlink transmission with finite-rate channel state information feedback are provided. The method may comprise receiving feedback information via a communication channel for a plurality of users in a frequency division duplex system. The system... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070066242 - System and method for allocating mcs level in a broadband wireless access communication system: A method is provided for transmitting data based on an Adaptive Modulation and Coding (AMC) technique in a Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) communication system. The method includes: measuring a channel quality information (CQI) difference for each of mobile stations (MSs) according to channel information fed back from the MSs; estimating... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070066244 - Method and system for assigning a receiving antenna: Method, system and apparatus for receiving antenna selection, comprising a receiving step, a determining step, an estimating step, and an assigning step. The receiving step involves receiving data and second data associated with a first antenna and a second antenna. It follows the determining step determining first and second throughputs... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070066245 - Multiband or multimode front end antenna switch: A multi-band communication device with a front end antenna switch module having a reduced number of control inputs is disclosed. Control over an antenna switch modules occurs via control inputs from a controller or processor to enable operation over multiple bands or under numerous different standards. In one embodiment an... Agent: Weide & Miller, Ltd.

20070066243 - Rf circuit module: An RF circuit module includes a laminated dielectric substrate defining an RF circuit module and including an upper layer and a lower layer. An IC and an RF filter are disposed in the upper layer, and a power amplifier and an antenna switch are disposed in the lower layer. The... Agent: Murata Manufacturing Company, Ltd. C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20070066246 - Transceiver assembly: A transceiver assembly including an antenna input/output transition, a transmit module, a receive module, and a diplexer. The diplexer has opposing planar surfaces and the transmit module, receive module and antenna input/output transition are placed on the same planar surface of the diplexer.... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070066248 - Dustproof and pluggable transceiver: A dustproof and pluggable transceiver includes a transceiver body, a first cover and a first rebounding member. The transceiver body on which the first cover is pivoted has a first opening, and the first rebounding member has a first end coupled with the transceiver body and a second end coupled... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070066247 - Hand-held make-up mirror: A make-up mirror is attached to a basic structure of a cell phone. The mirror is a one-way see-through mirror and attached over the data display screen of the cell phone. When the cell phone is turned ‘on’, the one-way mirror allows the displayed data to appear there through. When... Agent: Kiersten Mooney

20070066249 - Programmable baseband filters supporting auto-calibration for a mobile digital cellular television environment: Methods and systems for programmable baseband filters supporting auto-calibration in a mobile digital cellular television environment are provided. Aspects of the method may include generating within a single-chip multi-band RF receiver, at least one control signal based on signal strength of a baseband frequency signal generated within the single-chip multi-band... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070066250 - Electronic parts for high frequency power amplifier and wireless communication device: The present invention provides electronic parts for amplifying high frequency power capable of expanding a dynamic range of an output power detection circuit, obtaining a continuous detection output having no inflexion point from a low region of output power to its high region and thereby improving controllability of the output... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070066251 - Systems and methods of rf power transmission, modulation, and amplification, including cartesian-polar-cartesian-polar (cpcp) embodiments: 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

20070066252 - 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

20070066253 - 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

20070066254 - Analog signal processing circuit and communication device therewith: An analog signal processing circuit including: a frequency conversion unit for receiving a plurality of radio frequency signals having different center frequencies or a plurality of radio frequency signals having the same center frequencies but different amplitude-characteristics or phase-characteristics and converting the frequencies of the signals; a frequency selection unit... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070066256 - Apparatus and method for receiving multi band signals in a mobile communication system: An apparatus and method for receiving multi band signals in a mobile communication terminal are disclosed. The apparatus includes a tunable band pass filter for selecting a band signal among Radio Frequency (RF) band signals received through an antenna using switched capacitors and a tunable switching low noise amplifier for... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070066255 - Network device for receiving a plurality of signals of different bands: A network device (10) includes a communication slot (100), a first signal processing circuit (300), a second signal processing circuit (400), and a central processing unit (200). The communication slot is used for receiving signals of different bands. The first signal processing circuit is connected to the communication slot, and... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070066257 - Wireless communication system: A wireless communication system includes: wireless IC chips used for identifying objects; a transceiver for transmitting and receiving information to/from the wireless IC chips by radio waves; and a radio wave direction unit for directing the traveling directions of the radio waves from the transceiver toward the wireless IC chips.... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070066258 - Method to improve cmfb phase margin of variable-output-bandwidth mixer: An improved method and apparatus for using common mode feedback to maintain a predetermined DC level for an intermediate frequency output signal. A common mode feedback capacitor-select switch module is operable to use a bandwidth control signal from a radio interface of a wireless device to selectively connect a plurality... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070066259 - Automatic gain control and low power start-of-packet detection for a wireless lan receiver: A digital AGC system for burst operation, particularly suited for receiving packets in a wireless local area network. One embodiment includes a log detector that provides a signal strength measure, called the received signal strength indication (RSSI) over a wide dynamic range. The AGC system includes estimating the power in... Agent: Dov Rosenfeld

20070066260 - Method and apparatus for compensating dc level in an adaptve radio receiver: A radio frequency receiver 30, 32, includes a first component block 12, 16, 18, 20; a second compensating component block 22, 22a-22b, 34; and control circuitry 26 operable for controlling the state (e.g., load, bias, gain) of the first component block. When the control circuitry 26 causes a change in... Agent: Harrington & Smith, LLP

20070066261 - Method and system for a fractional-n synthesizer for a mobile digital cellular television environment: Aspects of a method and system for a fractional-N synthesizer for a mobile digital cellular television environment are presented. Aspects of the system may include circuitry, within a phase locked loop, that enables determination of a division number at a time instant within a division cycle. A local oscillator signal... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070066262 - Frequency synthesizer architecture for multi-band ultra-wideband system: The present invention provides a frequency synthesizer for a wireless communication system. The synthesizer includes an oscillator that generates an electronic signal as well as frequency dividers, frequency selectors and mixers. The signal generated by the oscillator is sequentially divided by the frequency dividers to produce a first group of... Agent: Carstens & Cahoon, LLP

20070066263 - Digital signal receiver with a built-in antenna: An antenna unit, a receiver, and an interface controller are positioned in a case. The antenna unit is for receiving digital television signals and digital broadcasting signals. The receiver is coupled to the antenna unit and includes at lease a tuner for processing signals from the antenna unit. The interface... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070066264 - Receiver and a method of attenuating a disturbance signal by a trap circuit having its resonance frequency adjustable: A receiver for receiving a radio frequency signal includes an attenuator for attenuating a disturbance signal such as an image signal which causes disturbance to a received frequency of the radio frequency signal, on the basis of set information of the received frequency. The attenuator includes a trap circuit for... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20070066265 - Method to adjustably convert a first data signal having a first time domain to a second data signal having a second time domain: The present invention provides a method to adjustably sample a first digitized signal having a first data rate to produce a second digitized signal having a second data rate. This involves processing the second digitized signal to produce an output signal having a timing component contained therein. An error sensing... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070066266 - Noise filter circuit: Provided is a noise filter circuit capable of outputting only a normal signal pulse in synchronization with a clock signal without passing the noise pulse on to a subsequent stage, even if a noise pulse having a width that is larger than a delay time is inputted. The noise filter... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070066267 - System and method for frequency translation using an image reject mixer: Frequency translation, such as frequency up conversion of a video baseband or intermediate frequency to a desired frequency division broadcast channel, is provided utilizing a single sideband or image reject mixer and filtering having relaxed selectivity requirements. According to a preferred embodiment, a first single sideband mixer accepts an input... Agent: Dallas Office Of Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.

20070066268 - Systems, methods, and apparatus for frequency control: A receiver according to one embodiment includes a frequency control unit configured to receive a stream of samples including a plurality of received instances of a transmitted signal. The frequency control unit is configured to output a first correction signal (e.g. indicating a rotation) that is based on more than... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070066269 - Balanced circuit arrangement and method for linearizing such an arrangement: The present invention relates to a balanced circuit arrangement and methods for linearizing and calibrating such a circuit arrangement, wherein linearization is obtained by introducing a load imbalance between the output branches of the balanced circuit arrangement. Thus, a controllable extraneous imbalance is created between the output loads of the... Agent: Harrington & Smith, LLP

20070066270 - Method and system for providing supplementary services for a wireless access network: A method and system for providing supplementary services for a wireless access network includes downloading supplementary service triggers from a call agent to a mobility control function (MCF) for a wireless access network. Wireless-specific signaling of the wireless access network is communicated to the MCF. The MCF detects events associated... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070066271 - Method and system for a programmable biasing mechanism for a mobile digital television environment: Certain aspects of a method and system for programmable biasing mechanism for a mobile digital television environment are disclosed. Aspects of one method may include controlling a bias of components within each of a plurality of radio frequency (RF) front-ends that comprise low noise amplifiers (LNAs) integrated within a single... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070066272 - Method and system for multi-band direct conversion cmos mobile television tuner: Aspects of a method and system for a multi-band direct conversion CMOS mobile television tuner are provided. A single-chip multi-band RF receiver in a mobile terminal comprising UHF and L-band front-ends receives and amplifies an RF signal utilizing an LNA integrated into the front-end that corresponds to the type of... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070066273 - Wireless terminal methods and apparatus for use in a wireless communications system that uses a multi-mode base station: Wireless terminal for use with a multi-mode base station that supports a transmit standby mode and an active mode is described. Transmit standby mode of base station operation is a low power/low interference level of operation as compared to active mode. In transmit standby mode at least some of the... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20070066274 - Antenna integrated speaker assembly, manufacturing method thereof, and wireless communication device having the same: An antenna integrated speaker assembly, a manufacturing method thereof, and a wireless communication device having the same. The antenna integrated speaker assembly comprises a speaker unit for outputting sound corresponding to an electric signal of a controller; and an antenna unit formed at the speaker unit, for transceiving an electric... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070066275 - Multiple-processor wireless mobile communication device: A wireless mobile communication device includes a first processor configured to execute a software application and a second processor configured to manage wireless communication over a wireless network. The processors are located in the same communication device and configured for one of the processors to send data to the other... Agent: Joseph M. Sauer, Esq. Jones Day

20070066276 - System for transmitting an emergency call: An emergency call system transmits an emergency call with emergency information from a vehicle using a communication system. The emergency call system includes an emergency call device that connects with an emergency assistance center during an emergency. The emergency call device may be automatically or manually triggered to transmit data... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070066277 - Method for obtaining location information for emergency services in wireless multimedia networks: In accordance with the teachings of the present invention, a method and apparatus for obtaining end-user location information for emergency services within a multimedia network is presented. The multimedia network may include a network implementing the Session Initiation Protocol, H.323, etc. In one embodiment, a Location Application Server (LAS) in... Agent: Docket Clerk

20070066278 - Mobile communication terminal including rfid reader and transception method thereof: A mobile communication terminal including a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) reader includes a base band unit for controlling communications, a Radio Frequency (RF) unit for transceiving a signal representing voice and data communications with an external mobile communication terminal, and an RFID unit for transceiving an RFID signal with a... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20070066279 - Bill per card print: A method of printing content on a print medium and charging using a mobile telecommunications device, comprising the steps of: identifying the content on the mobile telecommunications device; printing, using a printer module of the mobile telecommunications device, the content on the print medium; and transmitting, using the mobile telecommunications... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070066280 - Connection management system, method and program: A connection management system for efficiently managing registration data used to authorize communication between a wireless communication device and a wireless terminal in a secure manner. A wireless terminal registration server includes a wireless terminal data storage unit that stores a MAC address for which connection is permitted. An access.