Telecommunications inventions 04/07

20070093198 - Method and system for rapidly setting up a communication between a disk drvie and a plurality of communicating objects: The invention concerns a method and a system for rapidly establishing a communication, particularly a Bluetooth type communication, between at least one reader and a plurality of communicating objects. Each communicating object and said reader have a communication protocol. Each communicating object has a communication address. The method comprises: the... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski, LLP

20070093200 - Communications device for communicating between a vehicle and a call center: A vehicle-based communications device acquires identification information, such as a phone number, from a cellular phone located within the vehicle and transmits that information to a call center where it is processed and stored so that the call center can subsequently establish a voice link with the cellular phone. The... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20070093199 - Mobile device control of mobile television broadcast signals to multiple destinations: A portable mobile communications device for controlling the destination of mobile TV programs broadcast by a mobile TV service provider includes a mobile TV device, a processor running a mobile TV redirect application communicable with the mobile TV service provider, and a user interface for controlling the mobile TV device... Agent: Moore And Van Allen PLLC For Semc

20070093201 - Wireless local access network system detection and selection: Method and apparatus for detection and selection of Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) service. A cellular network may provide an advertisement for a WLAN, such as in an overhead signaling message. The advertisement may identify the Access Point(s) by an Extended Service Set Identifier (ESSID). The remote station may then... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070093203 - Digital tv and control method of the same: A digital broadcasting receiving apparatus which receives broadcasting signals corresponding to a plurality of channels, the digital broadcasting receiving apparatus including: a first tuner that tunes one of the broadcasting signals; and a controller that controls the first tuner to successively tune the broadcasting signals for each channel, captures image... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070093202 - Roaming service method in a mobile broadcasting system, and system thereof: A roaming service method in a mobile broadcasting system and a system thereof are provided. A terminal receives a service guide from a corresponding visited service provider (Visited SP) when the terminal moves to a roaming area. The terminal transmits a roaming request message for requesting a purchase item allowable... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070093204 - Control system: A system for sending uplink control signals to antennas and receiving downlink signals therefrom, where the uplink signals may be used to control antenna position and operate antenna switches and the like, and the downlink signals may indicate antenna position, the uplink signals being in the form of digital signals... Agent: Alun L. Palmer, Patent Agent

20070093207 - Method and apparatus for automatic bluetooth connection in a mobile communication terminal: A method of automatically connecting to a peripheral Bluetooth device and service in a mobile communication terminal having a Bluetooth module is provided. Upon input of a key, it is determined whether the key includes a Bluetooth mode key. If the key includes the Bluetooth mode key, the terminal transitions... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070093206 - Method and system for an efficient implementation of the bluetooth® subband codec (sbc): Certain aspects of a method and system for implementing a codec may comprise at least one of inverse discrete cosine transforming windowed data corresponding to a plurality of input audio samples during encoding by a Bluetooth subband codec and discrete cosine transforming shifted subband samples during decoding by the Bluetooth... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070093205 - Wireless networking communication system and communicating method for voip: A wireless networking communication system is disclosed. The wireless networking communication system includes a wireless communicating gateway connected to a personal computer, which in turn connects with a network, and a handheld communicating device in communication with a first communicating transceiver. The wireless communicating gateway includes the first communicating transceiver,... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070093209 - Four way handshake for robust channel estimation and rate prediction: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate enabling communication over a time varying channel with time varying interference. According to various aspects, systems and methods are described that facilitate selecting appropriate channels and identifying rates that yield optimal capacity for the selected channels. Such systems and/or methods can evaluate a... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070093208 - Method and system for providing interference avoidance and network coexistence in wireless systems: A method for providing interference avoidance in a network, the method including sampling each frequency of a communication channel available to the network, collecting samples at a certain location of the network, choosing at least one of a suitable frequency and a unique network identifier based on the collected samples,... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070093210 - Methods and apparatus for mitigating the effects of solar noise and the like on a wireless communication system: Techniques for reducing or eliminating effects of noise on a wireless communication system are provided. In one aspect of the invention, the technique comprises monitoring noise attributable to an interference source that may affect one or more components of the wireless communication system. The interference source being monitored is distant... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20070093211 - Method and tester for determining an error rate of a mobile-telephone device, especially for usf-bler: A method and apparatus for determining an error rate is described, in which a transmission block having an allocation signal is received by a mobile communications device that is to be tested. The device checks whether it has been allocated the following transmission block by the received allocation signal. If... Agent: Ditthavong & Carlson

20070093213 - Method and system for electromagnetic field evaluation: The field received starting at least one source of electromagnetic field in a determined position of the territory covered by a communication network has a plurality of field sources estimated on the basis of a propagation model. The model in question is modified, for example, in parametric fashion according to... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070093212 - Radio wave propagation characteristic estimation system, and its method and program: In a three-dimensional area including a plurality of contents, a transmission source and the investigation object area to be investigated as to the propagation environment of radio waves emitted from the transmission source are provided. When estimating a radio wave propagation environment in the investigation object area, a general radio... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070093214 - Mobile wireless communications device providing enhanced file management and related methods: A mobile wireless communications device is switchable between a plurality of wireless communications operating modes and may include an antenna, a wireless transceiver connected to the antenna, a first memory for storing a respective compressed file for each of the plurality of wireless communications operating modes, and a second memory... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20070093215 - Automatically managing rental vehicles: In some embodiments, a method for managing rental vehicles includes associating a mobile device with a rental vehicle. The mobile device is operable to wirelessly receive vehicle information from the associated rental vehicle. Vehicle information is wirelessly received from the mobile device in response to a customer returning the mobile... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070093216 - Radio apparatus and communication system using the same: A control unit produces a packet signal formed by a plurality of streams. While using as a reference a first known signal assigned to one of the plurality of streams and performing a cyclic timing shift within the first known signal on a first known signal assigned to another stream,... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070093217 - Fm modulator: Provided is an FM modulator capable of measuring an f-V characteristic of a voltage controlled oscillator in a reduced time period. Therefore, a characteristic measurement time control section 110 notifies a correction section 108 of a time at which a measurement of the f-V characteristic of a voltage controlled oscillator... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070093218 - Rf circuit arrangement for modulation of an rf carrier signal: An HF circuit arrangement is provided for amplitude and phase modulation of an HF carrier signal, including an oscillator for providing the HF carrier signal, an amplifier for amplifying the HF signal emitted by the oscillator, a phase control circuit for suppressing phase errors in an output signal of the... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20070093219 - Mobile communication terminal: An object of the invention is to make it possible to maintain the communication quality good without reducing the transmission power of an antenna if a part of a human body comes in contact with or is brought close to the antenna. A transmitter 21 of a mobile communication terminal... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070093220 - Driving voltage control module: Provided is a driving voltage control module capable of minimizing current consumption and time taken to return from a standby state to a normal state by controlling driving voltages for electronic circuits and systems for communication when a mobile communication transceiving circuit or a communication system is in a standby... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070093221 - Audio muting circuit and audio muting method: In an audio muting circuit, a mute signal generation circuit provides a mute signal in the form of a continuous pulsed signal at a predetermined frequency (48 kHz for example) higher than an audible frequency range (20 Hz to 20 kHz) for a predetermined period in which the mute signal... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20070093222 - Audio muting circuit and audio muting method: In an audio muting circuit, after a short delay from a first time at which a first mute signal generation circuit causes a first mute signal to fall from “H” level to “L” level, a second mute signal generation circuit causes a second mute signal to fall from “H” level... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20070093223 - Am receiver: To attain the object of providing an AM receiver capable of accurately recognizing an antenna input level, a DC voltage which indicates the status of RFAGC performance is outputted from an analog RF circuit block at the time of the RFAGC performance. Then the DC voltage is subjected to analog-to-digital... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20070093224 - Method and apparatus for calibrating filtering of a transceiver: A method and apparatus of calibrating filtering of receive and transmit signals is disclosed. The method of calibrating filtering of a received signal includes injecting an LO signal. The injected LO signal is filtered by a tunable filter. The filtered signal is frequency down-converted with an equivalent LO signal. The... Agent: Tzero Patent Dept

20070093225 - Semiconductor integrated circuit device and wireless communication system: As the gain control amplifiers for amplifying the reception signal, the step amplifiers are used. Two sets of these step amplifiers are provided and are then controlled to be used alternately. When switching of the gain occurs, after the gain is switched with the step amplifier not operated and offset... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070093226 - Precisely timed execution of a measurement or control action and synchronization of several such actions: The invention relates to a method for a particularly precise execution of a measurement or control action and to a corresponding controller (9). A temporally periodic synchronization signal (S, S′ ) generated by a receiver (9) based on a timing reference signal (Z) is divided by a switching frequency (F)... Agent: Henry M Feiereisen, LLC

20070093227 - Frequency shifting of wcdma carriers for variable carrier separation: The invention relates to a method and a device for processing an electromagnetic signal comprising first and second carriers at first and second carrier frequencies. The method comprises splitting the signal into first and second branches, a first shifting of the frequency of the signal in each of the branches... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070093228 - Method and system for image rejection by using post mixer i/q equalization: The invention provides a system and method for tuning broadband signals by using post mixer I/Q equalization. An Image Rejection Mixer (IRM) is used for mixing Radio Frequency (RF) signals and rejecting image signals from the desired RF signals. The IRM includes an I/Q mixer and a filter. The I... Agent: Lawrence Edelman The Law Office Of Lawrence Edelman

20070093229 - Complex rf device and method for manufacturing the same: A complex RF device is provided which is composed of two RF circuits stacked vertically. The complex RF device comprises a substrate, a second RF circuit provided on the substrate, and a first RF circuit which is provided on the second RF circuit and does not require a substrate. The... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070093230 - Multi-band low noise amplifier: A multi-band low noise amplifier capable of operating in a plurality of band modes includes a plurality of input amplifiers respectively corresponding to the plurality of band modes and a single output amplifier. Each input amplifier includes a receiving port for receiving a corresponding input signal in one of the... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070093231 - Method for maintaining wireless network response time while saving wireless adapter power: To reduce the power consumption of a wireless communication hardware device, power conservation scheduling algorithms can be implemented. Reoccurring events, including DTIM intervals and listen intervals can be scheduled as awake times. Similarly expected response intervals can be scheduled as awake times based on information, such as round trip time,... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070093232 - Management of an alert signal for a telecommunications device: A mobile communication device alert signal may be remotely controlled by transmitting an alert control signal to the mobile communication device when the mobile communication device is within a predefined area, the alert control signal to indicate to the mobile communication device to invoke a control procedure for its alert... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20070093233 - System and method for dynamic billing: A method and system for performing dynamic billing operations includes receiving a request message from a mobile subscriber, routing the request message for processing, performing one or more activities in accordance with the request message (included in which are various dynamic billing operations), and returning one or more response messages... Agent: Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP

20070093234 - Identify theft protection and notification system: An information monitoring and alert system is provided which registers subscribers and verifiers with a central alert system. The alert system provides an interface for the verifiers to submit queries relating to identification information. Information in this query is compared to the stored data submitted by the subscriber during registration... Agent: Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

20070093235 - Method and apparatus for calendar call functionality: The user selects a call number from a call number list. Once the entry is selected, the menu for the list management presents a “schedule call” option to the user. Selecting the “schedule call” option launches the interface application module between the call number list and the calendar functionality of... Agent: Moore And Van Allen PLLC For Semc

20070093236 - E-mail sending system, method and mobile device: A method automatically selecting an appropriate wireless network to send an e-mail is provided. The method includes the steps of: obtaining a priority identifier of an e-mail that is ready to be sent; identifying the obtained priority identifier and generating an associated path selection signal; and sending the e-mail through... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070093237 - Locating and identifying a person using a mobile device: A mobile device communicates wirelessly with a smart card reader to obtain-identification of a person whose smart card is coupled to the smart card reader. The mobile device transmits the identification to a server via a network. The mobile device also transmits information about its location to the server. The... Agent: Integral Intellectual Property Inc.

20070093238 - System for video conference, proxy server and method thereof: A system for video conference, proxy and method thereof are provided. The system includes a first mobile device with video service, configured to capture a first image; a second mobile device with video service, connected to the first mobile device by using a first network protocol; a first computer with... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20070093239 - Coordinated distribution and playback of multimedia programs: Methods of coordinating playback of a multimedia program by a plurality of subscriber mobile terminals include providing a multimedia program to the plurality of subscriber mobile terminals, and providing a command to the plurality of subscriber mobile terminals, after providing the multimedia program, to control the playback of the provided... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20070093240 - File transferring system and method: A file transferring method is provided. The method includes the steps of: receiving a send request for a selection of one or more media files from a first cell phone, wherein the send request comprises an identification (ID) or a title of each media file selected, and a recipient cell... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070093241 - Mobile communication terminal for providing contents and method thereof: A mobile communication terminal for providing contents to a user, comprises a transceiver for receiving one or more contents set as default and one or more new contents from a server; a display unit for displaying the contents set as default and the new contents; a controller for controlling the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070093243 - Device management system: A device management system enables management of firmware, provisioning, and configuration information updates to of a plurality of mobile electronic devices via a wireless communication network. A user self-care interface allows subscribers to interact with the device management system to identify problems in the mobile electronic devices, and to schedule... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070093242 - Method and system of creating customized ringtones: A system for customizing ringtones. The system including a server configured to facilitate generating a customized ringtone based on a sample recording. The system including a phone configured to display a user interface as a function of customization signals received from the server. The customization signals being related to customization... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20070093244 - Accessing telecommunication devices using mobile telephone numbers: A telecommunications system includes an infosphere having a mobile telephone. A first telecommunications device may request to be added to the infosphere by sending a request to a registry server. In response to the request, the registry server adds the first telecommunications device to the infosphere by creating a network... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070093245 - Methods and systems for implementation of the calling name delivery service feature through use of a location register in a network element in a wireless network: Methods and systems for providing for calling party name and/or other information corresponding to a wireless unit to be stored in association with an identifier of the wireless unit in a location register such as the home location register (HLR) in a network element of a wireless network. The network... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20070093246 - Method and system for providing information to a home system regarding a wireless unit roaming in a visited system: Methods and systems to provide a home system with information about a wireless unit roaming in a visited system based on information the wireless unit provides to the visited system. A mobile switching center (MSC-V) of the visited system receives the information from the wireless unit and routes a message... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20070093247 - Monitoring of vehicle conditions utilizing cellular broadcasts: This document describes, among other things, a systems and methods for monitoring vehicle conditions via cellular networks.... Agent: Watchstone P + D

20070093251 - Method and apparatus for automatically terminating a call: Systems and techniques for automatically terminating a call in a communications system involve a first subscriber unit originating a call to a second subscriber unit and terminating the call when the second subscriber unit rings.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070093248 - Method and system for information transfer mechanism selection in mobile telephony: The invention relates to a method for providing a mobile telephony application to a mobile communication device (15) in communication with a first network (10), comprising the step of transferring information related to the mobile telephony application. The method comprises the further steps of retrieving data on information transfer mechanism... Agent: Charles Berman Greenburg Traurig

20070093250 - Method and system for routing toll-free calls to wireless devices: A method, computer readable medium and system for routing toll-free calls to wireless devices. One aspect of the invention provides a method, computer readable medium and system for receiving a non-translated telephone call at a wireless carrier including determining a serial number associated with the call based solely on a... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20070093249 - Ss7 link failover communications over existing cellular networks: A method of providing a telecommunication system, including transferring data over a standard link between a first and a second telecommunication device in a telecommunication network and establishing a wireless cellular link to transfer the data between the first and second telecommunication devices when the data transfer over the standard... Agent: Paul S Madan Madan, Mossman & Sriram, PC

20070093252 - Apparatus and method for operating frequency resources in a mobile communication system: A frequency resource operating apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving data at a different hopping pattern speed according to a CSI in a BWA communication system are provided. In a method of transmitting and receiving data using CSI in a mobile communication system, a BS sets the CSI of... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm

20070093253 - Synchronization channel scheme for super 3g: An apparatus and method operable to enable the use of synchronization (SCH) and broadcast channel (BCH) signals with a bandwidth (BW) equal to the minimum possible BW for the system, for example 1.25 MHz. The present invention increases the speed of the initial cell search. In addition, the repetition of... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070093254 - Apparatus, system, and method for autonomously managing reverse link communication resources in a distributed communication system: An apparatus, system, and method efficiently manage reverse link communication in a communication system having geographically distributed base stations. A base station functioning to at least one mobile station as a non-serving active base station estimates an expected coupled load due to the at least one mobile based on a... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated Patent Department

20070093255 - Communications from hypertext documents: Efficient and effective communications are initiated from the selection, at a first user device, of a link in a resource. Based on this selection, a communications request is transmitted to a server. In addition, identification information of a second user device (such as a telephone number or an Internet Protocol... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070093256 - Method for transmitting message of mobile terminal: A method for transmitting a message from a mobile terminal in a mobile communication system The method includes displaying a list of messages attempted to be transmitted, selecting a message from the list of transmitted messages that was unsuccessfully transmitted, and displaying detailed information about the selected message that was... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070093257 - Aggregating location accuracy data to estimate accuracy of a wireless locating system: Location determination accuracy in a mobile telecommunications environment can be estimated based on location determination accuracy data for multiple empirical test calls in a geographic region. A location of a wireless station for each test call is determined using one of multiple wireless locating techniques, and an approximate ratio of... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070093258 - Dynamic resource matching system: A method, apparatus, and system are provided for implementing resource and/or location-based matching services between a wireless terminal (e.g., mobile phone) user and one or more resources. A novel infrastructure supports resource and/or location based matching services over a wireless network. A back-end system includes a database, server, and match... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070093260 - Method and system for customizing distributed short message routing: Short messages are formatted as control messages in a communication network but do not control the communication network. Techniques for dynamically distributing short messages include remotely reprogramming a control node that processes control messages for the communications network to change processing of short messages without further involvement by a vendor... Agent: Eugene Molinelli Evans & Molinelli PLLC

20070093259 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for secured access to list server information via sms messaging: A method of providing secure communications can be provided by receiving information in an SMS message from a wireless terminal pre-authorized subscriber at a list server on a private network administered by an organization including the pre-authorized subscriber.... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20070093261 - Iterative interference cancellation system and method: A system and method for Interference Cancellation (IC). One aspect relates to iterative interference cancellation with iterative finger delay adaptation. The interference cancellation method comprises receiving multi-paths of a signal; and performing iterative interference cancellation to remove multi-path interference, wherein the performing iterative IC comprises estimating a Signal-to-Interference-plus-Noise Ratio (SINR)... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070093262 - Transmitting data on an uplink associated with multiple mobile stations in a spread spectrum cellular system: The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for transmitting data on an uplink by selectively using multiple access modes to multiplex a transmission based on at least two different transmit formats. A method of wireless communication between at least one mobile station and a base station sector in... Agent: Williams, Morgan & Amerson

20070093263 - Apparatus and method for managing a preference channel in a mobile broadcast system: An apparatus and method for managing a preference channel are provided which can reduce a delay time when a channel change is made between preference channels, by storing a preference channel directly selected by a mobile terminal user in a mobile broadcast system. A mobile terminal receives and demultiplexes multiplexed... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070093264 - Internet protocol multimedia subsystem enabled cellular phone accessory device: A cellular phone accessory device (47) combined with an IMS client (31) is implemented to provide real time interactive multimedia applications to low end phones (36) and middle range phones (40) without having to re-engineer said phones. Said device behaves as a cellular phone accessory and IMS client that is... Agent: Sudharshan Srinivasan

20070093265 - System and method for transmitting and receiving data using a mobile terminal and multi function peripheral used in the same system: A system and method for transmitting and receiving data using a mobile terminal, and a multifunction peripheral in the same system. A transmitter informs a mobile terminal that there is data to transmit, and the mobile terminal searches a printer to print the data and receives printer information about the... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070093266 - Mobile communication terminal having a radio frequency calibration data recovering function and a method of backing up and restoring calibration data: A mobile communication terminal, and a method of backing up and restoring calibration data thereof disclosed, thereby enabling a terminal to repair damage to radio frequency calibration data. The present invention includes a radio frequency calibration data checking unit comparing a checksum value of radio frequency calibration data stored in... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070093267 - Base station apparatus and radio communication parameter setting method: To automatically set up temporarily the parameters required for radio communication, based on the parameters acquired from another base station apparatus existing in the neighborhood. A pair of base station identifier and down scrambling code reported from a base station apparatus in the neighborhood is acquired. The non-overlapping down scrambling... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070093268 - Base station apparatus, mobile station apparatus, and radio communication parameter updating method: To provide a base station apparatus that can automatically update the parameters required for radio communication. A pair of identifier for identifying the self station and radio communication parameter is notified to another base station existing in the neighborhood of the self station, and the path loss value between another... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070093274 - Apparatus and method for a system architecture for multiple antenna wireless communication systems using round robin channel estimation and transmit beam forming algorithms: A multiple antenna wireless system including a transmitter and a receiver comprises a reconfigurable large antenna array having a plurality of antennas. A plurality of RF chains in the transmitter is coupled to the reconfigurable large antenna array. A pilot assisted round robin channel estimation means tracks the fading channel;... Agent: Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman, LLP

20070093269 - Beamforming using subset of antenna array: A radio communication system including multiple antenna elements divided into subgroups of at least two antenna elements, and multiple line cards operable to employ spatial processing techniques. Each line card is coupled to a subgroup such that the line card may transmit and receive signals using the subgroup. A base... Agent: Winston Ip

20070093273 - Distributed base station, communication system, and signal transmission method thereof: The present invention discloses a distributed base station serving mobile stations, which comprises multiple antenna-RF processing units and a central processing unit remotely connected with said multiple antenna-RF processing units. Each of the antenna-RF processing units has an antenna array formed by multiple antennas. Said central processing unit comprises: an... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070093272 - Method and apparatus for collecting information for use in a smart antenna system: A method of obtaining information for use in a smart antenna system is provided. The method includes monitoring an interface between a base station controller and a base station transceiver to receive signaling information being communicated via the interface. The method further includes extracting from the signaling information a subset... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group, LLP

20070093271 - Smart antenna system and method: A smart antenna apparatus including a receiving system, one or more beam analysis modules, a control channel monitoring module, a processing system, and a receiving beam switch is provided. The receiving system is operable to receive a plurality of uplink beams, each including traffic signals transmitted by a mobile station.... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group, LLP

20070093270 - Systems and methods for managing antenna use: In one embodiment, a method for controlling antenna use in a computing device comprises determining which wireless transceiving devices are active, and if multiple wireless transceiving devices are active, disabling transmission/reception diversity such that each wireless transceiving device may only use one respective antenna.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070093275 - Displaying mobile television signals on a secondary display device: The present invention provides a method of displaying, on a secondary display device, a channel of a mobile television broadcast comprised of multiple channels of content data that was sent to a primary portable mobile communications device. A mobile television broadcast is received by a mobile television receiver in the... Agent: Moore And Van Allen PLLC For Semc

20070093278 - Method and device for displaying good reception-sensitivity information in broadcast receiver: A method and a device for displaying good reception-sensitivity information in a broadcast receiver. The method includes: detecting location information of the broadcast receiver and a reception sensitivity of a broadcast signal transmitted from a base station; transmitting the detected location information and reception sensitivity to a region information management... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070093276 - Method for displaying digital broadcasting channel information in wireless terminal: A method is disclosed displaying digital broadcasting channel information in a wireless terminal. The method for displaying digital broadcasting channel information in a folder-type wireless terminal including a main body and a sub-body installed on the main body in such a manner that the sub-body is movable between opened and... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070093277 - Updating a static image from an accessory to an electronic device to provide user feedback during interaction with the accessory: An accessory for a portable device can include a number of selectable operational states. In order to convey information about the current operational state to a user, the accessory can be configured to generate a state signal that is directed to the primary device for the accessory. The state signal... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070093279 - Wireless headset system for the automobile: A wireless headset system (and method) for connection to a gateway such as a mobile cellular phone that includes a dock assembly and a wireless headset. The dock assembly includes a presence sensor, a first docking connector, and a circuit for sending a connection signal to the first docking connector... Agent: Dla Piper Rudnick Gray Cary Us, LLP

20070093280 - Mobile power distribution system and method thereof: A self contained mobile power conversion station including a mobile support platform for moving the station from a first location to a second location. A plurality of solid state power converters are mounted to the mobile support platform and have an input for receiving raw electrical power and an output... Agent: Northern Power Systems, Inc.

20070093281 - Mobile terminal: A mobile terminal having a slidable and rotatable cover. In one example embodiment, a mobile terminal includes a main body and a cover coupled to the main body. The cover is configured to slide along a longitudinal axis of the main body and to rotate with respect to the main... Agent: Workman Nydegger (f/k/a Workman Nydegger & Seeley)

20070093282 - Apparatus, system, and method for transmission antenna switching in a portable communication device: An apparatus, system, and method manage a transmission antenna system by measuring an antenna performance indicator of an alternate antenna configuration during a reduced data rate transmission. After an antenna performance indicator is measured in a current (first) antenna system configuration, the antenna system is configured to an alternate (second)... Agent: Kyocera Wireless Corp.

20070087684 - Method and apparatus for displaying receptibility of broadcasting service: Provided are a method and apparatus for displaying the receptibility of a plurality of broadcasting services included in a single broadcasting channel as well as the receptibility of a digital broadcasting signal of a broadcasting channel. The method includes: receiving a plurality of broadcasting service bit streams included in a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070087682 - Proximity based wireless network: A wireless communication method consistent with certain embodiments involves, at a first portable wireless device (PWD), receiving a beacon indicating that the first PWD has entered a wireless network's communication range; the first PWD responding to the beacon with a request for authorization on wireless network; receiving authorization for the... Agent: Miller Patent Services

20070087683 - Wireless transmission system and method: A wireless transmission system is provided. The system includes a wireless transmission apparatus for sending radio signals in a selected frequency and a wireless reception apparatus for receiving the radio signals in the selected frequency and playing audio signals corresponding to the radio signals. The wireless transmission apparatus includes a... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070087685 - Satellite receiver: There are a first stopper and a second stopper positioned on a main body of a satellite receiver. A cover having a block is coupled with the main body of the satellite receiver. The block of the cover is capable of sliding between the first stopper and the second stopper... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070087686 - Audio playback device and method of its operation: The invention relates to mobile audio playback devices and methods of its operation for enhanced music and sound experience for mobile devices. To provide stereo and surround sound, the present invention provides an audio playback device with a receiving means for receiving multi-channel audio data, obtaining means connected to the... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070087687 - Method and device for transmitting broadcasting service: A method and a device are provided for transmitting a broadcasting service in which a broadcasting service from a broadcasting station received by a broadcasting receiver is transmitted to one or more external terminals. The method includes: detecting format conversion information indicating a format that the broadcasting service is to... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070087688 - Preset recording method through service linking in dmb terminal: A preset recording method through service linking according to movement from a first broadcasting area to a second broadcasting area in a terrestrial DMB terminal is provided. A preset recording for a predetermined broadcast program is checked to see if a current time is equal to a recording start time... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20070087689 - System and method of operation for network overlay geolocation system with repeaters using am golay hadamard signatures: A novel system and method for a network overlay geolocation system operating in a host wireless communication system with repeaters is disclosed. Embodiments of the novel system and method enable a wireless communication system to determine if signals being received by system receivers arrive directly from a target mobile appliance... Agent: Duane Morris

20070087690 - Additional aggregate radiated power control for multi-band/multi-mode satellite radiotelephone communications systems and methods: An Ancillary Terrestrial Network (ATN) includes at least one Ancillary Terrestrial Component (ATC) that is configured to provide wireless communications using frequencies of a satellite frequency band. The ATN provides communications based on a GSM, cdma2000 and/or W-CDMA air interface, under a constrained capacity measure. The capacity measure of the... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20070087691 - Apparatus and method for supporting multi-link in multi-hop relay cellular network: A framing method of fixing a training signal and a control channel for multi-link (direct link and relay link) synchronization in a multi-hop relay cellular network, and a transmitting/receiving apparatus for supporting the framing method. A base station (BS) transmits BS downlink (DL) subframe sequentially including a preamble, control information,... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070087692 - Baseband controller in a wireless local area network: A baseband controller includes a microsequencer with special hardware resources circuitry and a configuration that supports real-time Bluetooth functionality for an upper limit of Bluetooth slave devices. The microsequencer includes a 72-bit correlator that may also be used as an accumulator, wherein the topology provides that the correlator can communicate... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070087693 - Common announcement signaling format: A licensed wireless device may generate a Direct Sequence (DS) coded signal to provide an announcement signal with an expanded footprint that declares ownership of a licensed band to unlicensed wireless devices. The coded announcement signal may be overlaid on an active signal, transmitted on a channel that is separate... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20070087694 - Method and system for collaborated beamforming for reducing interference: A method is disclosed for reducing interferences in a wireless communication system. First, in one or more cells, a plurality of frequency-time frames are generated each having at least one predetermined frequency-time open window unused for desired wireless communications. The interference information is derived from the predetermined open windows of... Agent: L. Howard Chen, Esq. Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP

20070087695 - Mobile directional antenna: In one aspect, adjusting a directional antenna from a first state to a second state to improve a network operation of the directional antenna relative to a mobile node to at least partially compensate for motion of the mobile node. In another aspect, identifying a network operational characteristic; determining a... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20070087696 - System and method for using an ad hoc surrogate device for reporting a service adnormality: A system and method for using an ad hoc surrogate device (103, 103′) for reporting a service abnormality where the surrogate mobile device operates on a second communications system, such as a cellular telephone system, to collect and deliver diagnostic or other service abnormality information from a first communications system... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20070087697 - Detection of lightning: A lightning detector for lightning detection and a lightning detection method, wherein the lightning detector includes a Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) digital broadcasting system receiver having an analog front-end and a digital base-band; wherein with the analog front-end DRM receiver the radio signal from lightning can be detected when a... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20070087698 - Quick paging method in a shadow area: A quick paging method for improving a standby time of a mobile terminal in a shadow area or a handoff region where the mobile terminal receives a pilot signal from a base station over a pilot channel and a quick paging signal from the base station over a quick paging... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm

20070087699 - System and method for transmitting a signal between integrated circuits: A method for transmitting a signal between ICs is provided. The method provides an apparatus, a first IC, and a second IC. The apparatus is configured with an enclosure. The first IC is configured with an IR emitter. The second IC is configured an IR receiver. The first IC encodes... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070087701 - Communication method, transmission apparatus and reception apparatus: A communication apparatus transmits and receives modulated signals of independent channels. The communication apparatus includes a plurality of antennas configured to transmit and receive the modulated signals. A divider is configured to divide information determined based on power of an eigenvalue of a channel matrix generated using the modulated signals... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070087700 - Radio base station, communications program and communications method: A radio base station of the present invention includes a vacant channel quantity monitor and a channel controller. The vacant channel quantity monitor monitors whether or not the number of vacant channels, which is the number of channels not in use, reaches a predetermined threshold value. The channel controller releases... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070087702 - Radio transmission apparatus and radio transmission method: According to the present invention, there is disclosed a radio transmitter comprising: a signal processing section which outputs a control signal for designating one of first and second communication systems and a base band signal; a frequency synthesizer for outputting an LO signal corresponding to the control signal; a quadrature... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070087703 - Method and apparatus for suppressing power frequency common mode interference: A method and an apparatus for suppressing power frequency common mode interference which are used in a bioelectrical signal measuring system comprising a common mode interference signal extracting circuit and a driving circuit connected to the extracting circuit are provided. The driving circuit changes a phase of a common mode... Agent: Alix Yale & Ristas LLP

20070087704 - Predistorter for use in a wireless transmitter: A wireless radio frequency (RF) transmitter includes a power amplifier and a predistorter for injecting a distortion signal into an RF signal prior to amplification for use in linearizing the power amplifier; wherein the predistorter includes a phase shifter operating at less than twice a carrier frequency of the RF... Agent: Joseph J. Laks, Vice President Thomson Licensing LLC

20070087705 - Clipping circuit and radio transmitter using the same: A clipping circuit to limit amplitude of an orthogonal baseband signal includes a 16-gonal clipping circuit almost equivalent to a circular clipping circuit. The 16-gonal clipping circuit includes plural stages of series-connected units each including a rectangular clipping circuit and a phase rotating module. To compensate for variation in the... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070087707 - Method and apparatus for controlling power of a transmitted signal: In the method and apparatus of controlling power of a transmitted communication signal, a communication signal is amplified and transmitted. At least one parameter on the transmitted signal is received, and a measure of interference with the transmitted signal is determined based on the received parameter. An average power level... Agent: Hitt Gaines, PC Agere Systems Inc.

20070087706 - Output impedance insensitive power amplifier architecture: An apparatus and method for adapting a power amplifier to a variable load includes comparing the actual output power to the expected output power, modifying a drive signal to the power amplifier, measuring the value of at least one electrical parameter, determining the difference between the measured value and a... Agent: Avago Technologies, Ltd.

20070087708 - Systems and methods of rf power transmission, modulation, and amplification, including direct cartesian 2-branch 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 P.l.l.c.

20070087709 - 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 P.l.l.c.

20070087710 - Dual-band mixer and its design flow: In the dual-band mixer of this invention, a current combined load is presented and is shared by two separate working frequency bands. In the invented dual-band mixer, a switch is provided to connect and disconnect an adjust capacitor series to the load inductors. By determining the capacitance of respective capacitors... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070087711 - Multiple band transceiver: A frequency translation apparatus provides selective frequency translation of an input signal with reduced distortion effects. The frequency translation apparatus includes a plurality of mixers. Each mixer is coupled to the input signal and to a corresponding local oscillator (LO) signal. The frequency translation apparatus further includes a plurality of... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070087712 - Nxm crosspoint switch with band translation: An N×M crosspoint switch allows a signal from any one of the N inputs to be routed to one or more of the M crosspoint switch outputs. The switches within the crosspoint switch can be configured as voltage mode or current mode switches. In voltage mode switching an input to... Agent: Clifford B. Perry

20070087713 - Method and system for balancing load across carrier seams in a multi-band system: A method and system for balancing load across a carrier seam (108) is disclosed. The method includes generating a candidate carrier list (210) at a communication device (106). The candidate carrier list comprises carriers from at least two bands in a region of the multi-band cellular network. The method further... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070087714 - Method and apparatus for selection of design parameters for double conversion tuner to prevent radiated immunity degradation: A double conversion tuner system is disclosed that avoids the problem of degraded performance as a result of radiated interferers. Several selection criteria are described for specifying the parameters of the tuner, including the nominal first or high intermediate frequency, a first local oscillator signal for each desired channel, a... Agent: General Instrument Corporation Dba The Connected Home Solutions Business Of Motorola, Inc.

20070087715 - Impulse waveform generating apparatus: An impulse waveform generating apparatus comprises an oscillator for generating a reference signal having a center frequency in a frequency band of an impulse to generate, a timing matching circuit for shifting a phase of the reference signal by 90 degrees, a frequency demultiplier for dividing a frequency of the... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20070087716 - Wireless communication system: A wireless communication system, which is provided with a PLL circuit having a plurality of oscillators and is capable of processing two or more transmit and receive signal different in frequency band from one another according to the switching between the oscillators, has a reset means which resets a voltage... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070087717 - Radio receiver: A radio receiver includes a down-converter 110 for receiving a radio multiplexed signal containing a first signal and a second signal, multiplying the first signal and the second signal by a mixer 104 to thereby down-convert the radio multiplexed signal and generate an intermediate frequency signal 5e. The mixer 104... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070087718 - Cordless communication apparatus: Whether the reception electric field level of the antenna #1 is higher than the predetermined level is judged. If the reception electric field level of the antenna #1 is not higher than the predetermined level, the communication mode is to be set to the multi-slot mode, and then whether the... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070087719 - Rf power extracting circuit and related techniques: In one aspect, the invention is a far-field power extraction circuit which includes an integrated antenna and impedance matching portion and a rectifier portion. The antenna and impedance matching portion includes an antenna configured to be responsive to a propagating electromagnetic signal and which provides a resonant response at a... Agent: Daly, Crowley, Mofford & Durkee, LLP

20070087720 - Downconverting mixer: A downconverter is provided. The downconverter includes a I mixer and a Q mixer. Each mixer includes a transconductance stage and a mixer core stage. The outputs of the transconductance stages of the mixers are shorted together, and a resistors are arranged in series with an input of the mixer... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070087721 - Subharmonic mixer capable of reducing noise and enhancing gain and linearlty: A subharmonic mixer, including an amplification unit for amplifying an input signal using at least one pair of amplification devices connected in parallel and a mixing unit for mixing the amplified signal with local oscillation signals from local oscillators is provided. The mixing unit performs switching over the amplification devices... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070087722 - Power supply apparatus and power line communication apparatus: A power supply apparatus has a coupled transformer that inputs and outputs a communication signal and a capacitor that has high impedance to a commercial power supply frequency and low impedance to a communication signal frequency. The capacitor is connected between a primary winding of the coupled transformer and a... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20070087723 - System and method for energy efficient signal detection in a wireless network device: An incoming signal, such as a data frame, is detected in a RF stage (302) of a wireless station (300). This allows the baseband stage (304) to be in a low power or off state until an incoming signal is detected. By detecting an incoming signal in the RF stage... Agent: Philips Electronics North America Corporation Intellectual Property & Standards

20070087724 - Apparatus for allocating transmission period in a wireless communication system: An apparatus is provided for allocating a transmission period in a wireless network system. An access point (AP) transmits a PSMP frame indicating a downlink period and an uplink period allocated to each station (STA), and at least one sub PSMP frame indicating an allocated downlink period for at least... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm

20070087725 - Apparatus, system, and method for secure storage bay for an electronic handheld device: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for secure storage of an electronic handheld device. The apparatus may include a retractable tray having a surface for receiving the electronic handheld device, an electrical connector within the retractable tray for making electrical connection with the electronic handheld device, and the retractable... Agent: Brian C. Kunzler

20070087726 - System and method for providing emergency notification services via enhanced directory assistance: An enhanced directory assistance system includes a database for storing at least one subscriber emergency profile. The subscriber emergency profile has one or more instructions to be carried out in the case of an emergency and also has an identifier for identifying a mobile device of a corresponding subscriber. An... Agent: Sofer & Haroun LLP.

20070087727 - Method and apparatus for generating service billing records for a wireless client: A method and apparatus for generating service billing records for a wireless client. According to one embodiment of the invention, a service status of the wireless client is obtained (706) for authentication upon receiving (704) an authentication request from a wireless client. When the wireless client has been, in fact,... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070087728 - Method and apparatus for lock control of mobile terminal device, computer product: Specific information that can be stored in a mobile terminal device, changes over time, cannot be altered when a lock operation is requested, and can be acquired by an owner, such as a last-dialed telephone number, is managed as owner-specific authentication information, and, when an e-mail requesting a lock operation... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070087729 - Apparatus, system and method for forwarding data sent to a wireless device to another address: An apparatus for forwarding data sent to a wireless device having a first address to a second address. The apparatus includes a server in communication with a wireless network and an external network. The server includes a processor. The processor includes a data forwarding module for forwarding the data to... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP/ Bellsouth I.p. Corp

20070087730 - Protocol converter: The invention provides a system, method and apparatus for connecting a target telephone with Voice Mail System in a network comprising Centrex or other TDM telephones and VoIP (or SIP) type telephones. The invention provides a system for the connection of a target telephone with a Voice Mail System in... Agent: Paul S Madan Madan, Mossman & Sriram, PC

20070087731 - Method of enabling a wireless information device to access the presence information of several entities: The method allows a user to define groups of entities that will be queried automatically for Presence information by his wireless information device. The user, once he has selected the group to be queried, need do no more than select at one time a ‘Pinging’ function using an on-screen dialog... Agent: Synnestvedt Lechner & Woodbridge LLP

20070087732 - Wireless electronic coupon delivery system for use by mobile communication devices: A wireless network and a process for delivering electronic coupons over the wireless network. Targeted coupons based on profile information submitted by a wireless network user may be transmitted to and then selected by the user. Information enabling a store to clear the coupons at checkout may be sent over... Agent: Michael P. Mazza, LLC

20070087735 - Extensible human machine interface (hmi) plugin architecture for radio software system and related method: A software-defined radio includes an executable radio software system operable with a radio circuit and conforming to the software communications architecture (SCA) specification and defining an operating environment that allows a waveform application to operate with a radio circuit for transmitting and receiving voice and data. An extensible Human-Machine Interface... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20070087733 - Method and system for providing a telematics readiness mode: A method and system for providing a telematics readiness mode including receiving a first readiness mode input at a telematics unit, initiating a readiness mode responsive to the received first readiness mode input, receiving a second readiness mode input at the telematics unit while in the readiness mode, and determining... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20070087736 - System and method for locating a misplaced cellular telephone: A system and method for locating a misplaced cellular telephone including sending a signal to the misplaced cellular telephone. The signal directs the misplaced cellular telephone to transition from an inaudible mode to a loud ring mode and, in turn, ring to enable the ready location of the misplaced cellular... Agent: Edwards & Angell, LLP

20070087734 - Time of day synchronization and distribution within a multiprocessor embedded system and related methods: A software-defined radio includes a pair of radio subsystems such as a red (command) and black (data) radio subsystem having an operating environment conforming to the Software Communications Architecture (SCA) specification, for example, as used for Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS). A clock is read by at least one of... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20070087737 - Method and system for self-terminating a media service due to an out-of-coverage condition: A method and mobile device that self-terminates a media service if an out-of-coverage condition is detected. The media service operates on top of a connectionless peer-to-peer packet-based transport protocol. The out-of-coverage condition may relate to the mobile device itself or to a remote mobile device engaged in the media service.... Agent: Ridout & Maybee Suite 2400

20070087738 - Communications network extension via the spontaneous generation of new cells: The invention is a cellphone base station transceiver capable of spontaneously and substantially automatically creating a new cell in a communication network. This new cell provides an indivival-Point-Of-Connect, which will be referred to as iPOC, for cell phone users that address many of these and other problems. The iPOC system,... Agent: William Melkesetian

20070087740 - Wireless communications network and method of determining adjacency of sites in a wireless communications network: A wireless communications network (100) comprising a plurality of sites, each of which is served by a base transceiver station (102, 106, 110, 114, 118, 122, 126, 130). The base transceiver stations (102, 106, 110, 114, 118, 122, 126, 130) are connected with other elements of infrastructure (134-142) and at... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20070087739 - Wireless local loop base station controller and a method for performing call processing using the same: A wireless local loop (WLL) base station controller includes a call control processor adapted to perform call control according to an internetworking operation system (IOS) protocol and to manage information generated during call processing. The WLL controller further includes a common channel signaling processor adapted to process and manage messages... Agent: Fleshner & Kim, LLP

20070087741 - Diagnostic device having wireless communication capabilities: This disclosure relates to a wireless diagnostic device, such as a network probe or a blade, with wireless communication capabilities. In one example embodiment, a network probe includes a processor, a memory in communication with the processor, a buffer in communication with the processor, and a first wireless transceiver in... Agent: Workman Nydegger (f/k/a Workman Nydegger & Seeley)

20070087742 - Wireless frequency re-use determination systems and methods: A method of measuring frequency interference between adjacent cell sites in a wireless telecommunications system. The method includes selecting a frequency in a cell site to be used as a beacon frequency. The method also includes activating the beacon frequency in the cell site and recording, at a telecommunications switch,... Agent: Withers & Keys For Bell South

20070087743 - Portable communications device coupled to first network by way of second network: A portable communications device (PCD) is coupled to a first network by way of a second network. The PCD is normally in radio communication with the first network, and is coupled to the first network by way of the second network when the PCD is out of radio communication with... Agent: Withers & Keys For Bell South

20070087744 - Method for reducing the time delay in a telephone system: A method of switching a speech channel in a mobile telephone system comprising an interface between a Base Station System (BSS) (1) communicating with a Mobile Switching Center (MSC) (5) via a transmission connection (3), where the speech channels of an originating subscriber (8) and a dialled-up subscriber (9), both... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20070087746 - Method and system for providing information to a home system regarding a wireless unit roaming in a visited system: Methods and systems to provide a home system with information about a wireless unit roaming in a visited system based on information the wireless unit provides to the visited system. A mobile switching center (MSC-V) of the visited system receives the information from the wireless unit and routes a message... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20070087747 - Method and system for providing information to a home system regarding a wireless unit roaming in a visited system: Methods and systems to provide a home system with information about a wireless unit roaming in a visited system based on information the wireless unit provides to the visited system. A mobile switching center (MSC-V) of the visited system receives the information from the wireless unit and routes a message... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20070087745 - Pro-active access handling in a multi-access network environment: Providing access for a mobile node to a communication network comprising multiple access networks operating according to different access technologies, wherein said communication network is configured to communicate by means of different access technologies with said mobile node, comprising, upon an access request of the mobile node at a first... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070087748 - Method and system for seamless handover between wlan and wwan: A communication method for a mobile terminal to perform seamless handover between a WWAN and a WLAN, comprising steps of: receiving a registration message sent by said mobile terminal when it enters said WLAN, wherein said registration message at least contains a WLAN address that said mobile terminal acquires when... Agent: Philips Electronics North America Corporation Intellectual Property & Standards

20070087752 - Method for determining if a first cell managed by a first base station is neighbour of a second cell managed by a second base station: The present invention concerns a method for determining if a first cell managed by a first base station is neighbour of a second cell managed by a second base station, the cells being cells of wireless cellular network, the wireless cellular network comprising a telecommunication network enabling the transfer of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070087751 - Method for determining if a handover procedure of a mobile terminal has to be executed: The present invention concerns a method for determining if a handover procedure of a mobile terminal has to be executed from a first base station which serves the mobile terminal to a second base station which is expected to serve the mobile terminal, the mobile terminal being in communication with... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070087749 - Method, system, apparatus and computer program product for placing pilots in a multicarrier mimo system: A method, system, apparatus and computer program product are provided for placing pilot symbols in an OFDM system using sets of multidimensional points having a structure that is derived from discernible expansions of generalized orthogonal designs. These sets of multidimensional points may be used to form pilot symbols on a... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070087750 - Radio communication system: A radio communication system includes a line controller, a plurality of base stations connected to the line controller and a plurality of mobile stations connected to each of the plurality of base stations by radio communication line having control channel and communication channel, and each of the plurality of base... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070087754 - Method and system for international dialing over a cdma air interface: A telecommunications system is described that includes a first interface configured to receive a first call message according to a CDMA air interface format. This system also includes a message translator configured to determine if the first call message includes an indicator associated with an international telephone call and, if... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070087753 - Method for providing international calling services: A method for providing international calling services is disclosed. The method begins by preparing a mobile device for communication with a first network. In some cases, this would include registering the mobile device with the first network. The mobile device is then exported to a foreign service provider located in... Agent: Plumsea Law Group, LLC

20070087755 - Method for deployment scheduling for mobile communication network: A method for deployment scheduling for a mobile communication network is disclosed. The mobile network is to be changed from a first network plan to a second network plan, and both the first and second network plans include a plurality of BSC (base station controller) areas and location areas. The... Agent: Chiou, Ta-gang

20070087756 - Multifactorial optimization system and method: A method for providing unequal allocation of rights among agents while operating according to fair principles, comprising assigning a hierarchal rank to each agent; providing a synthetic economic value to a first set of agents at the a high level of the hierarchy; allocating portions of the synthetic economic value... Agent: Milde & Hoffberg, LLP

20070087757 - Method and system for balancing load in a multi-band system: A method and system for balancing load in a multi-band cellular network (100) is disclosed. The method includes generating a candidate carrier list (208) at a communication device (108). The candidate carrier list comprises carriers from at least two bands in the multi-band cellular network. The method further includes selecting... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070087759 - Ad-hoc communication network and method: A method of controlling location information of subscribers (210, 212, 222) in a wireless, ad-hoc communications network (200). The network (200) comprises a plurality of nodes (204, 216, 226), wherein at least portion of said nodes are provided with Home Location Registers (HLRs) (206, 218, 228) and each of said... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20070087758 - Method of forming directional wireless networks using in-band channels: The present invention is directed to a method of forming a mobile network using Phased Array Antennas. Mobile nodes search for nodes with which to form a network by either transmitting low level announcement signals on a wide spoiled beam directional antenna at progressively increasing power levels, or by receiving... Agent: Mcnees Wallace & Nurick LLC

20070087760 - Method, system, and apparatus for detecting a position of a terminal in a network: A method, system, and apparatus are provided for detecting a position of a terminal in a network accurately without a GPS receiver. In one example, a method for locating a position of a terminal includes calculating a position of a base station; detecting a clock time difference between the base... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20070087761 - Client assisted location data acquisition scheme: A system and method for locating a wireless client using trusted wireless detectors is described. Sniffers may sense signal strength information and transmit the information to a database. The database may store signal strength-based location information. Information from the database may then be used to determine the location of a... Agent: Banner & Witcoff

20070087762 - Method of providing access to presence related information: Presence information for a user is stored and made accessible using a conventional client server or peer to peer Presence model. The identity of any entity that requests or accesses this Presence information is however legged and then automatically provided to a wireless information device operated by the user. This... Agent: Synnestvedt Lechner & Woodbridge LLP

20070087763 - Location aware wireless security: A secure wireless network system includes one or more wireless receivers that receive communications from wireless devices. The wireless receivers, or access points, include sensors that detect the location of a wireless device sending communications to the wireless receiver. A controller rejects access to the wireless network by a wireless... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070087764 - Geographical network initiated wireless device feature control: A method, apparatus and system for applying feature controls to features on a wireless device while the mobile is in a geographic area is provided. The wireless device receives instructions from a wireless network indicating which feature controls to apply. The wireless device determines that its position is within the... Agent: Moffat & Co

20070087766 - Method, device, software and graphical user interface for forwarding messages between message handling services: In one aspect, a computing device such as a wireless mobile communication device may receive a first type of message (e.g. an e-mail message) over a first message handling service. The device may further receive an indication, e.g. from a user interacting with the device, that the message should be... Agent: Smart And Biggar

20070087765 - Methods and apparatus for updating a communications device using sms messages: Method and apparatus for using text messages, e.g., SMS messages, to trigger a device update and/or to update a communications device, e.g., cell phone, are described. The cell phone can be updated/programmed from a remote device. The updating can use SMS messages to accomplish the update. An SMS message may... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20070087767 - Techniques to manage paging operations for idle mode mobile stations: A paging controller to compute idle mode parameters associated with a first mobile station of at least one set of mobile stations located in a first paging group. The at least one set of mobile stations including the first mobile station and at least a second mobile station. The paging... Agent: Kacvinsky LLC C/o Intellevate

20070087769 - Group call server, group call system, terminal, and group call control method: An object of the present invention is to be able to rejoin a group call by spontaneous operation from the terminal side at an optional timing. The group call server provides a plurality of mobile communications terminals with a function of a group call between the terminals through a communications... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070087768 - Method and apparatus for transmitting media data: Media data from a first communication session and media data from a second communication session are received by a unit in the communication network and are combined therein to form at least one combined media data stream which contains the media data from the two communication sessions. The combined media... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070087772 - Method for uplink scheduling in a wireless mobile communication system: A method is provided for uplink scheduling for a mobile station (MS) in a base station (BS) in a wireless mobile communication system in which the MS sends channel quality information to the BS. At least two logical regions are set to control transmission power of the MS and the... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm

20070087770 - Methods and apparatuses for transmission power control in a wireless communication system: The invention includes methods for transmission power control in a wireless communication system. The method includes receiving at least one input parameter indicative of a transmission power level, generating a control parameter based on the at least one parameter and regulating an output transmission power level of a wireless terminal... Agent: Tyco Technology Resources

20070087773 - Mobile device positioning system and method of operating the same: A mobile device positioning system and a method of operating the same are provided that can reduce the power consumption of the mobile device. The position-information transmitting apparatus of the mobile device includes a data-receiving module receiving positioning data from a mobile device, a moving-speed calculation module calculating a moving... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070087771 - Test access point having wireless communication capabilities: This disclosure relates to a network test access point (“TAP”) with wireless communication capabilities. In one example embodiment, a network TAP includes an input port configured for communication with a data line and an output port configured for communication with a data line. The output port is at least indirectly... Agent: Workman Nydegger (f/k/a Workman Nydegger & Seeley)

20070087776 - Analog front-end circuit: An analog front-end circuit transmits and receives data between a baseband circuit and a radio unit. An analog-to-digital converter converts an analog received signal output from the radio unit into a digital signal. An interpolator interpolates an output signal of the analog-to-digital converter by up-sampling the output. A ΣΔ modulator... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070087777 - Audio communication device and audio communication method: An audio communication apparatus including a communication unit configured to communicate with an external device, an input unit configured to input an operating signal for operating the external device; a microphone configured to collect sound, a speaker configured to output sound, and a control unit configured to transmit the sound... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070087774 -