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 - Communications device methods and apparatus including ergonomic key layout and intuitive user interface: A portable communications device, e.g., a cell phone with a simplified user interface and easy to use keys is described. For many input/selection opportunities the user is presented with at most 4 options. This allows navigation between applications, pages and selection of actions corresponding to pages to be supported using... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20070087778 - Information-processing system: An information-processing system comprises an information-processing device including a plurality of communication interfaces, a first storing system configured to store first setting values to be configured for each of the plurality of communication interfaces and second setting values configurable in common for the plurality of communication interfaces for each of... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070087775 - Simplified intuitive cell phone user interface: A portable communications device, e.g., a cell phone with a simplified user interface and easy to use keys is described. The user interface supports book type and circular type applications. Book interface type applications are applications in which a user is stopped from moving beyond the last page when a... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20070087779 - Audio management in a dual processor environment: In a dual processor mobile device one processor is a radio processor and one processor is an application processor, the mobile device further including a polyphonic audio chip, a method and apparatus for audio control, the method having the steps of: connecting the polyphonic audio chip between the controller and... Agent: Moffat & Co

20070087780 - an adaptive wireless headset system: The present invention is directed to a method for pairing a wireless headset and a dongle. The method includes the step of inserting a headset battery into the wireless headset. The headset is configured to retrieve a headset identification key in response to the headset battery insertion. A dongle battery... Agent: Bond, Schoeneck & King, PLLC

20070087781 - Video services delivered to a cellular handset: The provision of various video based services and the playback of the video content associated with such services is delivered over a wireless network and controlled by the provision of various control functions that can be actuated by the user. The controlled playback can be implemented on a system level,... Agent: Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha, LLC

20070087784 - Acoustic system: In addition to output the mid-high range audio sound from the speakers of the main unit, the present invention can output the low range audio sound according to the audio signal transmitted from the main unit through the DC power supply transmission cable from the sub-woofer unit of the AC... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070087783 - Data storage methods and systems for use on a mobile device: Systems and methods for operating upon a mobile communications device. A system and method can be used with data operations with respect to the mobile communications device's memory, wherein the memory has sectors. Data structures are used with the data operations to determine whether a sector contains valid data or... Agent: Stephen D. Scanlon

20070087782 - Wireless device with dynamic fragmentation threshold adjustment: A wireless communication device comprises an input/output terminal configured to communicate data with a processor. A memory (112) is configured to store parameters relevant to a wireless communication protocol. A modem (110) is coupled to the input/output terminal and the memory (112) and configured to operate a wireless protocol over... Agent: Philips Electronics North America Corporation Intellectual Property & Standards

20070087786 - Mobile terminal apparatus: At a mobile terminal apparatus provided with a non-contact IC, flexible communication is carried out between the external reader/writer , non-contact IC and the internal application manager controller, and a program designated in the form of a push from the external reader/writer is activated and executed in a smooth manner... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070087785 - Mobile terminal device and receiver sensitivity informing method: A mobile terminal device and receiver sensitivity informing method for suitably receiving an electromagnetic wave from an external reader/writer to enable a user to use service promptly and reliably. In a mobile terminal device 1 that performs communication with an external R/W 2 in a noncontact matter, when an IC... Agent: Michaud-duffy Group LLP

20070087787 - Antenna and signal-receiving apparatus using the same: An antenna achieves effective diversity reception in even a small sized wireless signal-receiving apparatus, improvement in the sensitivity of the antenna, and implementation of a small size, a lower power consumption, and a low price of the antenna. The antenna has antenna elements that are positioned at a smaller distance... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070087788 - Automatic antenna selection for mesh backhaul network nodes: Methods and devices related to wireless networking. A wireless device has multiple directional antennas and multiple backhaul radio modules which provide point to point wireless links with other wireless devices. Each radio module can use any one of the available directional antennas to link to one other routing device. Antennas... Agent: Cassan Maclean

20070087789 - Mobile communication terminal having function of displaying communication state and method thereof: A mobile communication terminal having a function of displaying a communication state and a method thereof are disclosed. The method of displaying a communication state in a case of a multiparty call using a mobile communication terminal having a plurality of display units includes displaying information on one calling party... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070087791 - System for substantially simultaneous alerts: Provided, inter alia, is a system for generating substantially simultaneous alerts, in which a plurality of user devices is accessible via at least one publicly available network. Each such user device has installed on it an alert-based client. A server is configured to download identical alert information, including a message... Agent: Joseph Swan, A Professional Corporation

20070087790 - Wearable notification: Methods and apparatus for wearable notification are disclosed. In one example embodiment, a method includes communicating a trigger data to a wearable device when processing an incoming signal, automatically generating a response on the wearable devise based on the trigger data, and remotely programming at least one parameter associated with... Agent: Raj Abhyanker, LLP C/o Portfolioip

20070087792 - Portable electronic device: A portable electronic device, including a user-operable input device on a first face of a first housing portion, a display on a first face of a second housing portion, and a digital camera lens, the second housing portion being configured for a pivotal movement in relation to the first housing... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20070087793 - Foldable portable terminal: A foldable portable terminal of the present invention includes a body cabinet 1 provided with a microphone 14 and a cover cabinet 2 provided with first and second speakers 41, 42, openably/closably coupled to each other. Any one or both of the cabinets are provided with closing means for closing... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070087794 - Multi function mobile unit for objects and devices: The present invention allows multiple devices to be merged into one completed mobile unit. Using “like Velcro” material, user can easily attach and detach a device from the mobile unit. This flexibility allows user to use the selected device individually or as part of the completed mobile unit. For example... Agent: Christopher Choi

20070082602 - Broadcasting system and method for providing broadcasting service in a weak electric field area: Provided is a broadcasting system and method for providing a broadcasting service in a weak electric field area. The broadcasting system includes a Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (DMB) terminal for if a broadcasting replay request is input during a DMB service, transmitting a replay request message to a streaming server, and... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070082603 - Triple band combining approach to satellite signal distribution: A method, apparatus and system for combining signals in a satellite delivery system is disclosed. A system in accordance with the present invention comprises a first set of satellite signals broadcast in a first frequency band, wherein the first set of satellite signals is downconverted to a first intermediate frequency... Agent: The Directv Group Inc

20070082604 - Automatic selection of the transmission standard in mobile television receivers: In a radio system for transmitting information channels A1, A2, A3 to radio receivers, the information channels A1, A2, A3 are transmitted in parallel over a number of data channels, each using different transmission standards. A radio receiver selects a transmission standard based on the type of its energy supply.... Agent: Baker Botts, L.L.P.

20070082605 - Audio block: An accessory device for a mobile telecommunications terminal is disclosed, wherein the mobile telecommunications terminal comprises means for media processing and means for connecting to the accessory device. The accessory device comprises circuitry adapted to provide media transferring capabilities, a memory comprising at least one pre-stored parameter value related to... Agent: Banner & Witcoff

20070082607 - Digital broadcast system and method for a mobile terminal: A mobile communication terminal is provided comprising a receiver for receiving broadcast content over a first broadcast channel; and a controller for controlling reproduction of the broadcast content on a display of the mobile terminal. In response to detecting a first event, the controller receives a first request to delay... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070082608 - Digital multimedia broadcasting system and data processing apparatus and method of broadcasting terminal: Provided is an apparatus for processing data of a broadcasting terminal. The apparatus includes: an element for receiving broadcasting website service contained in digital multimedia broadcasting; an element for storing a received webpage file; an element for analyzing the received webpage file and providing the analyzed webpage file to a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070082606 - Method for transmitting data relating to a service in a radio communication system and base station: Messages relating to a multimedia broadcast/multicast service are transmitted in a radio communication system, where subscriber stations are informed by a service-dedicated paging display channel prior to the transmission of useful information as a service which is provided for several subscribers.... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070082609 - Satellites and signal distribution methods and off-set pattern for sending signals: The invention relates to methods, systems, and satellites that employ an off-set pattern of spot-beams to transmit signals or television signals over a desired area of the earth. In one example, a heavily populated metropolitan area in the continental United States is covered by at least two patterns of spot-beams,... Agent: Wiley Rein LLP

20070082610 - Dynamic current sharing in ka/ku lnb design: A method, apparatus and system providing power to Low Noise Block Amplifiers (LNBs) in a satellite signal receiving system wherein at least one receiver provides power to the LNBs. A system in accordance with the present invention comprises a first stage of power regulation, coupled to the at least one... Agent: The Directv Group Inc

20070082611 - Wireless communication over a transducer device: One aspect of the present invention is generally directed towards a system and method of tuning a transducer for transmitting and receiving a wireless signal. In an illustrative embodiment, a single transducer is coupled to a first or second circuit for either transmitting or receiving, respectively. Generally, electrical characteristics of... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20070082612 - Listening assistance function in phone terminals: The specification and drawings present a new method, apparatus and software product for listening assistance to a user of a phone terminal with a headset or a hearing aid for selective listening of a local acoustic source in a noisy environment by said user utilizing a combination of said phone... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070082615 - Method and system for audio signal processing for bluetooth wireless headsets using a hardware accelerator: Aspects of a method and a system for audio signal processing for Bluetooth wireless headsets using a hardware accelerator are presented. Aspects of a method for processing a signal may include configuring circuitry within a single chip to establish at least one of a plurality of data paths for processing... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070082614 - Personal security aware subscription service framework: A personal safety monitoring system (100) can include a safety monitoring device or vehicle monitoring device (120) operatively coupled to a first short range transceiver (122) for monitoring operational safety parameters of a vehicle (118). The system can further include a wireless communication device (101) such as a cellular phone... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070082613 - System and method for a rfid transponder file system: A system and method for representing on a user interface a plurality of transponders in a file system of a computing device, the user interface provided by the device, the device configured for communicating with the transponders when present in an electromagnetic spectrum in communication range of the device. The... Agent: Ralph A. Dowell Of Dowell & Dowell P.C.

20070082616 - Interference-based routing in a wireless network: A wireless network comprising nodes uses measurement or prediction of interference at the nodes to select a route for a message through the network that results in acceptable amounts of interference. The interference may be caused to the message by other traffic carried by the network or by other networks,... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070082617 - Transceiver with isolation-filter compensation and method therefor: A transceiver (10) includes an RF transmitter (12) and an RF receiver (14) coupled together through a duplexer (30). An RF transmit signal (20) passes through the duplexer (30) from the transmitter (12) toward an antenna (18), and an RF receive signal (44) passes through the duplexer (30) from the... Agent: Meschkow & Gresham, P.L.C

20070082618 - Multipurpose vehicle internal rearview mirror: A vehicle internal rearview mirror is disclosed to include a casing with a semi-transparent mirror, indicator units mounted in the casing, a data storage device stored with digital format music files, a music player, which is mounted inside the casing, having a digital music file decoder that fetches and decodes... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070082621 - Apparatus and method for managing connection identifiers in multi-hop relay broadband wireless access system: Provided are an apparatus and method for managing connection identifiers (CIDs) in a multi-hop relay Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) system. An apparatus is provided for a Relay Station (RS) in a multi-hop relay cellular communication system. The apparatus includes a database, a controller, and a transmitter. The database is used... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070082619 - Method and apparatus for controlling downlink transmission power for ofdma based evolved utra: A method and apparatus for controlling downlink transmission power of signals transmitted from a serving base station to a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) in a packet-switched data based system. The WTRU receives downlink pilot signals from the serving base station and a plurality of neighbor interfering cells. The WTRU measures... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070082620 - Method and apparatus for controlling uplink transmission power for ofdma based evolved utra: A method and apparatus for controlling uplink transmission power control of signals transmitted from a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) to a serving base station in a packet-switched data based system having a plurality of neighbor cells. The path loss of neighbor interfering cells is measured by the WTRU and uplink... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070082622 - Interoperability improvement between receivers and transmitters in a mobile station: A mobile station is disclosed that includes a first antenna, at least one second antenna, and a receiver coupled to the first antenna. The receiver includes first control logic configured to generate a notification of the receiver being able to receive a reception frequency band and includes a transmitter coupled... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20070082623 - Mimo transmitter and receiver for low-scattering environments: A transmitter (Tx1, Tx2) is arranged for simultaneously transmitting at least a first (s′1) and a second (S′2) signal. The first signal (s′1) is modulated according to a first modulation constellation and the second signal (s′2) is modulated according to a second modulation constellation. The transmitter is arranged to pre-code... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070082624 - System and method for transmitting/receiving signal in mobile communication system using multiple input multiple output scheme: Disclosed is a mobile communication system using a Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) scheme. A transmitter of the mobile communication system, generates a unitary space-time matrix to correspond to a codeword if the codeword to be transmitted in a first time interval is input, multiplies the unitary space-time matrix by... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm

20070082625 - Transmitter and transmitting method in multiple transmitting antenna communication system: A transmitter and a transmitting method for forming a pseudo common beam using a plurality of antennas in a smart antenna communication system are provided, in which beams for tones of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) signals transmitted through a plurality of antennas are rotated at different phases around a... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070082626 - Integrated circuit device and electronic instrument: An integrated circuit device includes an I/O circuit which buffers and outputs an input signal D from a pad when an enable signal ENB is set at a second voltage level, a circuit block to which an output signal from the I/O circuit is input, and a malfunction prevention circuit... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070082627 - Dual logarithmic amplifier phase-magnitude detector: A power generation system including a RF power generator which provides a RF output power. The power distribution system includes a phase-magnitude detector module having a dual logarithmic amplifier phase-magnitude detector. The dual logarithmic amplifier phase-magnitude detector receives current and voltage signals. The dual logarithmic amplifier phase-magnitude detector generates a... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070082628 - Systems and methods of rf power transmission, modulation, and amplification, including multiple input single output (miso) amplifier 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.

20070082630 - Radio frequency power amplifier circuit and method: A method (200) and circuit (100) for substantially maintaining an amplified constant envelope modulation signal at a constant pre-defined amplitude. The circuit (100) comprises a constant envelope modulation providing circuitry (104), a power amplifier (102), a power amplifier driver (106), a coupler (108) and a feedback circuit (110). In operation... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070082629 - Reception apparatus and reception method: A reception apparatus capable of preventing saturation and sensitivity degradation of a receiver when base transceiver station transmit power control is performed and calibrating offset voltage without increasing the amount of current consumption. In this apparatus, a gain setting section (109) estimates reception field intensity of each time slot in... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20070082631 - Method for reducing the 2nd order intermodulation level of a transconductor, and corresponding transconductor: A transconducting device includes at least one transistor having a control electrode for receiving an input signal whose frequency spectrum contains two different frequencies, an output electrode for delivering an output signal, and a third electrode. The transconducting device further includes a voltage source for delivering a DC reference voltage,... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20070082632 - Wireless device and method for radio control: A method of radio control, adapted in a wireless device that includes a cognitive radio and a free radio. First, the cognitive radio scans within vicinity or range to receive frames sent from or to the free radio, for retrieving therefrom network information of on-air frames indicative of past operational... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070082633 - Avoidance of wireless devices: Avoiding a frequency spectrum in a wireless medium is disclosed. An identification of the frequency spectrum in the wireless medium to avoid is obtained. A set of subcarriers to suppress based at least on part on the frequency spectrum to avoid is determined. Information is reallocated in response to the... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP

20070082634 - Accessory identification algorithm for system connector: In some embodiments, a method is provided for identifying a communication interface of an electronic unit attached to a connector of an electronic device. A voltage pulse is generated in the device on a pin of the connector. The voltage on the pin is measured, as it is affected by... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20070082635 - Tri-stating a phase locked loop to conserve power: In a system with an intermittently operating radio, the frequency of which is controlled by a Phase Locked Loop (PLL), a method and system for reducing the power consumed by the PLL by tri-stating the control capacitor in the PLL after the PLL has stabilized at a design frequency. After... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20070082636 - Method and apparatus for searching, saving, and storing radio programs and broadcast frequencies and for the payments of music downloaded from a digital radio receiver: A novel method and apparatus for searching, saving and storing broadcast identification codes and broadcast frequencies for the improved delivery of radio content to listeners, and an automatic payment system that allows a digital radio receiver interface to utilize prepaid memory storage devices to provide payment for downloading music directly... Agent: Joseph S. Beckman

20070082637 - Multi-tuner system, single package dual tuning system and receiver and television using the same: A multi-tuner system includes a first conversion tuner that converts a first RF signal among a plurality of RF signals received from an antenna into a first IF signal using a first conversion mode, the first RF signal corresponding to a first selected channel; and a second conversion tuner that... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Berner, LLP

20070082638 - Adaptive narrowband interference canceller for broadband systems: An interference canceller for canceling narrowband interference from a received broadband signal takes advantage of the fact that the correlation time for the narrowband interference signal will be significantly greater than the correlation time for the desirable broadband signal. The interference canceller operates by creating a replica of the narrowband... Agent: Intellectual Property Law Office Of Joel Voelzke

20070082639 - Systems and method for a highly integrated, multi-mode tuner: A method for adjusting the signal to noise ratio of a receiver comprises measuring the peak power for an RF signal and determining, based on the measured peak power, whether the RF signal power is within a desired operating range. The method further includes adjusting an RF attenuation for the... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP Patent Department

20070082640 - Signal generation apparatus, frequency converting apparatus, and receiver: A signal generation apparatus, a frequency converting apparatus and a receiver, in which the signal generation apparatus includes an oscillator, a duty cycle adjusting circuit, and a signal generation circuit. The oscillator generates differential signals. The duty cycle adjusting circuit adjusts duty cycles of differential output signals, in response to... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20070082641 - Single chip radio receiver with decoder and controllable baseband filter: A single chip receiver is disclosed herein. The chip only requires an external antenna for operation. A decoder is formed on chip for performing logical operations on demodulated digital data. A baseband filter is controlled by external control signals to have one of a plurality of discrete frequency response bandwidths... Agent: Patent Law Group LLP

20070082642 - Filter and composite filter, filter assembly, integrated circuit chip and electronic device which contain same, and frequency characteristic changing method therefor: A dual-mode acoustic wave resonator (7a) having a resonance mode inter-coupler (6) is disposed across narrow voids (4, 5) from an input electrode (2) and an output electrode (3). They are supported for vibrations on a substrate by conductive posts (27, 28, 29) and a power supply pad (3). Opposing... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070082643 - Adaptable dc offset correction: Methods and systems for adaptable DC offset correction are provided. In one embodiment, an adaptable DC offset correction system comprises means for evaluating an incoming baseband signal to determine an appropriate DC offset removal scheme; means for removing DC offset from the incoming baseband signal based on the appropriate DC... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070082644 - Single local oscillator sharing in multi-band ka-band lnbs: A method, apparatus and system for sharing a local oscillator in a satellite signal delivery system is disclosed. A system in accordance with the present invention comprises a first set of satellite signals broadcast in a first frequency band, wherein the first set of satellite signals is downconverted to a... Agent: The Directv Group Inc

20070082645 - Location signaling for large-scale, end-to-end, quality-of-service monitoring of mobile telecommunication networks: A method, network, and device for measuring and analyzing packet-switched traffic in a packet-switched radio telecommunication network. When cell-level location information for a mobile station (1) changes due to a handover, the location information is transmitted toward a packet core network (9) by adding the information to userplane packet headers... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070082646 - Multimode communication device with shared signal path programmable filter: A multimode communication device with a shared signal path programmable filter and a method for utilizing a shared signal path programmable filter in a multimode communication device. Various aspects of the present invention comprise a first module adapted to receive a first communication signal (e.g., corresponding to a first communication... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070082647 - Mobile communication device with low power signal detector: A mobile communication device comprising a low power signal detector and a manner of utilizing a low power signal detector in a mobile communication device. Various aspects of the present invention may comprise a first module adapted to receive a communication signal. A second module may be adapted to operate... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070082648 - Powering down inphase or quadrature related components: Operating a signal processor is disclosed. A first signal processor and a second signal processor are simultaneously operating. The first signal processor is associated with processing a first component of a signal received via a wireless medium, and the second signal processor is associated with processing a second component of... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP

20070082649 - Power line communication and ac power outlet apparatus and method: In a specific embodiment, the present invention includes a power line communication apparatus, e.g., portable or secured. The apparatus has an enclosure having a mounting member and a face region. The mounting member has a first side and a second side. The apparatus has a powerline module coupled to the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070082650 - Automatic location identification (ali) service requests steering, connection sharing and protocol translation: An ALI/ESME steering gateway bridges the nationwide ALI/ESME network notes (or PSAPs) with the GMLC/MPCs of various different XPC networks. The steering gateway provides a unified interface between the PSAP/ALI network and positioning centers (GMLC/MPC/VPCs). Using the steering gateway, an E911 service provider accesses positioning centers (GMLC/MPC/VPC) of any XPC... Agent: Manelli Denison & Selter PLLC

20070082651 - Multi-site personal emergency telephone system method and device: A method and continually wearable device for one-button emergency calling, direct to the local emergency responder, from anywhere worldwide where the user is within cordless phone range of their extensive, personally-tailored network of secure, pre-authorizing landline base units. In the U.S., the local emergency responder instantly receives the users' callback... Agent: Marion Alice Loizeaux

20070082652 - Portable communications device: A portable communications device (1) for wearing by a person and for use in conjunction with a Bluetooth enabled mobile phone (3) for communicating a signal indicative of the existence of an emergency to a base station comprises a pendant shaped housing (5) within which is located a first interface... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070082653 - System and method for managing emergency situations through a mobile terminal: A system is described, and the corresponding method, for the management of emergency situations by means of a mobile terminal (1) with an electronic, board (2), apt to implement access functions to a mobile phone network and comprising memory areas (23), containing personal data of the owner of said electronic... Agent: Neil A. Steinberg

20070082655 - Methods and apparatus of over-the-air programming of a wireless unit: Methods and apparatus for secure over-the-air (OTA) programming, and particularly, activation, of a wireless unit in a particular communications system. The unit stores a stored key having been generated by using a key algorithm (K-algorithm) with an identifier associated with the unit as an input to the K-algorithm. The unit... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP/ Bellsouth I.p. Corp

20070082654 - System to extend service, expand access and protect user data across wireless networks: A system, method and apparatus for more easily managing secure access to local area net works, so that a member of a community of trusted users is able to have secure, accountable access to the Internet from either their own, home, wireless access point or while roaming via other community-affiliated... Agent: Synnestvedt Lechner & Woodbridge LLP

20070082656 - Method and system for filtered pre-authentication and roaming: A system and method to manage the pre-authentication service by providing a network-centric, managed list of neighboring/logical access points from which a wireless station should pre-authenticate. An access point is provided with a pre-authentication table. When a wireless station associates with the access point, the access point transmits the pre-authentication... Agent: Tucker, Ellis & West LLP

20070082657 - Method and system for notifying service information to wireless terminal: A method and system for notifying service information to a wireless terminal are provided. More exact service information is provided to the wireless terminal when employing synchronization markup language (SyncML) device management (DM). The wireless terminal communicates with a server. The sever notifies the wireless terminal of information to be... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070082658 - Vehicle on-board unit: A vehicle on-board unit basically comprises a short range wireless communication section, a voice message download section, a voice message storing section, a notification timing setting section and a notification section. The short range wireless communication section is configured to communicate with a roadside unit located within a prescribed communication... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20070082661 - Method and apparatus for configuration of modular devices: A method and apparatus is provided for configuring a wireless communication module (220) for optimal performance with a portable communication handset (210). When coupling of a portable electronic handset (210) and a wireless communication module (220) is detected (602, 702) the portable electronic handset (210) uploads configuration information (604, 606,... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C.

20070082659 - Method and device for automatically connecting a mobile terminal device to a cellular network server by means of an interchangeable memory: The invention relates to a method for automatically connecting a mobile terminal device to a remote cellular network server, said mobile terminal device having an interface for connecting an interchangeable memory and having a cellular network interface, wherein a network address of said server can be retrieved, comprising the steps... Agent: Hollingsworth & Funk

20070082660 - Method and system for network-aware applications: The invention concerns a method (300) and communication device (100) for network-aware applications. The method can include the steps of—in the communications device—switching (314) to a communications network (110, 120, 130), determining (316) an identity of the communications network and in response to determining the identity of the communications network,... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20070082662 - System and method for controlling the use of a wireless device: Preferred embodiments of the present invention provide for enabling a user to select telephone numbers to which a wireless device may place calls and from which the wireless device may receive calls. One preferred embodiment of the present invention includes software for use on a general purpose computer allowing the... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP/ Bellsouth I.p. Corp

20070082663 - Mobile handset call testing system and method: A mobile handset call testing system and method. Mobile wireless handsets are tested under the control of a controller. The controller causes an autodialler to dial a call request on a transmitting handset. The call request is received by a wireless network and communicated to a receiving handset. RF sensors... Agent: Edwards & Angell, LLP

20070082664 - Device and method to enhance call center support for mobile communications devices: Introduced is a method for providing call center support to a mobile communications device. In one embodiment the method includes (1) establishing voice and data connectivity between a mobile communications device having a visual display and a call center communications device having a visual display; and (2) causing an entirety... Agent: Hitt Gaines, PC Agere Systems Inc.

20070082665 - Handsfree device for a mobile telephone: A handsfree device for conducting a telephone call which can be established by means of a mobile telephone, comprising a controller which is connected to a microphone and a loudspeaker, and with a communication link to a receiver which can be deposited in a holder with an electrical connection, wherein... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson & Cook, P.C.

20070082666 - Process for migrating a mobile station identity from a mobile identification number to an international mobile station identity: A method is provided for controllably migrating a wireless network from MIN based operation to IMSI based operation. The method comprises implementing changes that affect inter-network operations during a first phase of the migration. Remaining changes, including changes that affect intra-network operations are implemented during a second phase of the... Agent: Williams, Morgan & Amerson

20070082667 - Process for migrating a mobile station identity from a mobile identification number to an international mobile station identity: A method is provided for controllably migrating a wireless network from MIN based operation to IMSI based operation. The method comprises implementing changes that affect inter-network operations during a first phase of the migration. Remaining changes, including changes that affect intra-network operations are implemented during a second phase of the... Agent: Williams, Morgan & Amerson

20070082668 - System for automatic selection of profile based on location: Systems for automatically selecting a user's profile based on location include a device adapted to being tracked by location and a database that includes a user's preferences for routing calls. The user's calls are routed to the user based on the user's call routing preferences and the location of the... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP/ Bellsouth I.p. Corp

20070082669 - Efficient sharing of mobile equipment identifiers: In a mobile communication network, the base station is configured to query the mobile station for its mobile equipment identifier if not provided by the mobile switching center before traffic channel setup. The base station may send the mobile equipment identifier to the mobile switching center during call setup.... Agent: Coats & Bennett/ericsson Wireless Comm's., Inc.

20070082670 - Method for migrating a mobile station identity from a mobile identification number to an international mobile station identity: In one aspect of the instant invention, a method is provided for controlling international roaming in a communications system. The method comprises storing a 15-digit universal identifier in a mobile device in two locations ordinarily used to store a 15-digit MIN-based-IMSI and a 15-digit true IMSI. The universal identifier is... Agent: Williams, Morgan & Amerson

20070082671 - Method and system for handover between wireless local area network and wireless wide area network: A method to be performed by a user terminal with WWAN and WLAN interfaces, comprising steps of: communicating via the WWAN interface; inspecting whether its WLAN interface is available; entering into a WWAN-to WLAN state from a WWAN active state if its WLAN interface is available; said user terminal provides... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070082672 - Radio transmission system for high-speed moving object: A high-speed moving object (100) includes: a first communication unit (101) which transmits image data captured by an image capturing unit (103) over radio wave of the first frequency (f1); and a second communication unit (102) which transmits the image data over radio wave of the second frequency (f2) in... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070082673 - Autonomous mode for a plurality of nested mobile networks: A method for enabling autonomous mode routing between mobile entities in a plurality of nested mobile networks includes the steps of: announcing (305) a root mobile entity address; in response to the announcing, receiving (310) a registration request comprising routing information from each mobile entity in at least a portion... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070082674 - Adaptive broadband platforms and methods of operation: A subscriber platform for broadband communication, according to various aspects of the present invention, includes an antenna, a plurality of transceivers, and a processor. The antenna supports communication via a plurality of directional beams. The plurality of frequency agile transceivers operate simultaneously, each transceiver being coupled to the antenna for... Agent: Bachand Law Office

20070082675 - Method for controlling traffic between a base station and a radio network controller and related equipments: Method for controlling traffic over an interface between a base station and a radio network controller of a radiocommunication system, the base station being arranged for receiving information from terminals over radio channels and for forwarding said information to the radio network controller over said interface through at least one... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20070082677 - Automated configuration of rf wlans via selected sensors: In a wireless LAN (WLAN), methods, apparatuses and systems directed to facilitating configuration of a wireless network is provided. According to one implementation of the present invention, sensors are used to collect data associated with locations and other properties of access points of the wireless network. The collected data can... Agent: Law Office Of Mark J. Spolyar

20070082683 - Call service providing system, method thereof, and mobile terminal paging method: The present invention discloses a system for providing a call service for a mobile terminal to an application server. The system includes a location server that manages a location of the mobile terminal in an idle state by a paging group identifier. A paging controller detects a state and a... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm

20070082682 - Location service providing system and method: A location service providing system and method the system includes target SUPL (Secure User Plane for Location) Enabled Terminal (SET) determines and stores a positioning method in an initialization stage of a location service according to a triggered location service request, determines in a location calculation process whether the stored... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm

20070082681 - Location service-providing system and deferred location request service-providing method using previously computed location in location service-providing system: A location service-providing system and a method for providing a deferred location request service by using previously computed position estimates. In the system and the method, if an H-SLP transmits an SUPL INIT message including location information to a target SUPL Enabled Terminal (SET) according to a location service request... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070082676 - Method and system to locate a mobile device automatically initiated by the mobile device: The user of a mobile device such as a cellular telephone can locate a lost or misplaced telephone by remotely adjusting the volume of the ring tone such that it is audible enough to for the user to hear it. The user will be able to call his/her own device.... Agent: Ibm Corporation C/o Darcell Walker, Attorney At Law

20070082680 - Presence and geographic location notification based on a delegation model: A user of an instant messaging system may store names of other users of the instant messaging system on a participant list (which may be referred to as a “buddy list”), and the names may be categorized into one or more groups. Similarly, a user of a mobile device, such... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070082679 - Telematics transport gateway and operating method thereof: Provided are a telematics transport gateway and an operating method thereof. The telematics transport gateway, includes: a message transporting/receiving unit for receiving service request messages, transmitting the service request messages to a service providing server, receiving a service response message and transporting the service response message to the telematics terminal;... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070082678 - Vehicletalk: A vehicle and system for providing a communication link among a plurality of mobile vehicles comprises a broadband RF transceiver with antenna, a GPS receiver, an audio-visual interface, and a microprocessor with associated memory, whereby said microprocessor generates a communication by constructing data packets from a plurality of data fields,... Agent: Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff LLP Attn:IPDepartment Docket Clerk

20070082684 - Method of obtaining a higher location precision of a wireless communication device: A method and apparatus for reducing the number of base stations used for paging a mobile station by obtaining a higher location precision of the mobile station by providing a first location update at a first location register from a wireless communication device (515, 520); sending a second location update... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070082685 - Paging system: A radio network controller that serves to reduce the amount of processes for searching for a common ID in a paging procedure when performing a paging processing for simultaneously calling a mobile station. A search-not-required flag indicating whether or not a search for the common ID is required is added... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070082686 - Techniques for combining voice with wireless text short message services: Combining speech with existing text wireless Short Message Service (SMS) to create a multimodal SMS service. A user of standard SMS text service is provided with a link within each message that allows adding or retrieval of a voice message associated with an SMS text message. A speech server in... Agent: Ashok Tankha Of Counsel, Lipton, Weinberger & Husick

20070082688 - Method and apparatus for detecting adverse channel conditions and conserving power: A wireless device detects for an adverse channel condition, which may be (1) a frequent out of service (FOOS) condition indicative of frequent in and out of service or (2) an unbalanced forward/reverse link condition indicative of unbalanced coverage for the forward and reverse links. A FOOS condition may be... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070082687 - Station selecting transmitter: Transmitting a wireless signal from a transmitter to a receiver includes receiving an indication that a signal transmission is desired, in response to the indication, automatically searching an available frequency range for a station meeting an ambient signal strength criteria, and transmitting the wireless signal to the receiver at the... Agent: Microsoft Corporation Attn: Patent Group Docketing Department

20070082689 - Alert notification network: A network server is presented operable to communicate time-critical information over a wireless communications system, comprising a location manager, an alert notification manager, and a message delivery notification manager. The communications system is a push-to-talk over cellular system, including a wireless carrier core IP network, which may connected to a... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20070082690 - Group call service using broadcast radio bearer: A system and method for to establish a wireless group call from one of a plurality of communication units to others communication units includes a first step of receiving, from a requesting communication unit a request for a group call with other communication units of the group. A next step... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070082692 - Apparatus, method and computer program product providing common pilot channel for soft frequency reuse: A method for operating a wireless communication system in a cell includes allocating a first plurality of pilot resources to a first frequency sub-band comprising a plurality of high power sub-carriers, allocating a second plurality of pilot resources to a second frequency sub-band comprising a plurality of low power sub-carriers,... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20070082691 - System, method and device of radar detection: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, apparatus and system of radar detection. The method, according to some demonstrative embodiments of the invention, may include comparing an energy level of signals received over a wireless communication channel to a threshold; during operation of a processor, if the energy level... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20070082693 - Communication apparatus having foldable and turnable housing members: A communication apparatus has a first housing member (100) and a second housing member (200), which are mechanically interconnected so that said first housing member is foldable as well as turnable with respect to said second housing member so as to assume different operating positions. The communication apparatus has a... Agent: Banner & Witcoff

20070082696 - Methods and apparatus for configuring a pilot symbol in a wireless communication system: Methods and apparatus for constructing a pilot symbol for a communication frame transmitted in a wireless communication system, such as an OFDM system, are disclosed. In particular, the methods and apparatus generate at least one pseudo-random noise sequence having at least a predetermined length, where the at least one pseudo-random... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070082695 - Portable communication apparatus: A portable communication apparatus in which an LCD can slide and stand at a desired angle is provided. To this end, the portable communication apparatus includes a first housing extending in a longitudinal direction and a second housing that slides substantially perpendicularly to the longitudinal direction and rotates while facing... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070082694 - Wireless communication system with signal received confirmation: A wireless communication system, which includes more than one transceiver. Each transceiver having a signal status interface along with a call actuation interface which is adapted to initiate a signal. Upon receiving a signal from a signal originating transceiver, the processor controller is programmed to communicate an alert to facilities... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20070082698 - Carrier search methods and related devices: The present invention relates to a carrier search method and a related device, and in particular relates to a carrier search method and a related device excluding overlapping bands from being searched in active mode to reduce the power consumption. A carrier search method is utilized in a mobile station.... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070082697 - System and method of handset configuration between cellular and private wireless network modes: A switchable configuration system and method for switchably configuring a handset between private wireless network and cellular modes is provided. The switchable configuration system comprises a cellular module adapted to operate the handset in a cellular mode, a private wireless network module adapted to operate the handset in a private... Agent: Brij K. Agarwal Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellot, LLC

20070082699 - Multimode mobile communication device with configuration update capability: A system and method in a multimode mobile communication device for providing communication configuration update capability. Various aspects of the present invention may comprise establishing a first communication link characterized by a first communication mode of a plurality of communication modes in which the multimode communication device is capable of... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070082700 - Method of using mobile communications devices for monitoring purposes and a system for implementation thereof: Introduced is a method for using mobile communications devices for monitoring purposes. In one embodiment the method includes (1) a first mobile communications device to transmit a control signal to a second mobile communications device directing the second mobile communications device to capture an image with its camera and transmit... Agent: Hitt Gaines, PC Agere Systems Inc.

20070082702 - Mobile communication terminal: It is presented a method for synchronizing theme parameters between a mobile terminal and a personal computer. The method comprises the steps of: detecting that a connection exists between the mobile terminal and the personal computer; sending a signal from the mobile terminal, the signal comprising at least one theme... Agent: Perman & Green

20070082701 - System for interfacing with an audio player, and method of manufacturing same: A system for interfacing with an audio player comprises a housing (110, 410) containing a first connector (111, 411), a transmission device (120, 420) including a second connector (121, 421) capable of removable engagement with the first connector, a power interface (130, 430) electrically coupled to the housing, and an... Agent: Kenneth A. Nelson Bryan Cave LLP

20070082703 - Method and system for providing wireless identification: A mobile communication device (1) containing a SIM card (2) with a SIM chip (3) is enhanced with a RF-ID tag (4). Providing the possibility to combine the secure identification means of the RF-ID tag with the communication functions of the mobile device with the SIM chip, without the need... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20070082705 - Mobile communication apparatus having anti-theft and auto-notification functions: A mobile communication apparatus comprises a first SIM card, an anti-theft control circuit, a transmission control circuit, and a security module. The first SIM card is engaged with the mobile communication apparatus and has corresponding first identification information. The anti-theft control circuit has a SIM-card-detection module and an information management... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070082704 - Radio communication system, mobile terminal device, server device, memory card and computer-readable program: A radio communication system includes a mobile terminal device to which a memory card is attached and a server device. The server device and the memory card transfer information to each other through the mobile terminal device by radio communication. This is achieved in the following manner. When receiving a... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070082706 - System and method for selecting a user speech profile for a device in a vehicle: A system for selecting a user speech profile for a device in a vehicle includes a control module having a speech recognition system and a memory. The speech recognition system is configured to process audio signals and includes a speaker enrollment function configured to create a user speech profile for... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20070082707 - Tile space user interface for mobile devices: The subject disclosure pertains to systems and methods for providing an improved user interface for mobile devices. Data and services available through the mobile device can be represented as a set of tiles maintained in a display space. The tiles provide a snapshot of the current state of content available... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070082708 - Device, system, and method for informing users of functions and characters associated with telephone keys: System and method for informing a user of functions or characters associated with keys on a mobile communications device includes a keyboard operable to input DTMF codes and a display screen operable to display information. The display screen is also operable to display a virtual representation of at least a... Agent: Novak Druce & Quigg, LLP (rim Prosecution)

20070082709 - Communication terminal: The control circuit 11 causes display of messages received through the communication unit 1 in the display unit 14 in list form. A cursor for making selections from the messages displayed in list form has different patterns. The control circuit 11 associates the cursor patterns with message types. In another... Agent: Patent Administrator Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070082710 - Method and apparatus for batch-processing of commands through pattern recognition of panel input in a mobile communication terminal: A method and apparatus for batch-processing of commands through recognition of a panel input pattern in a mobile communication terminal is disclosed. The method includes defining a gesture mapping at least one existing pattern to a command. Upon detecting a pattern input, analyzing the pattern and determining whether the pattern... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070082711 - Method and apparatus for creating and wirelessly communicating original multimedia content: Original multimedia content is created within and communicated by a wireless communication device (10) that includes a transmitter (30), a content memory (90) storing a plurality of content files (100), and a user interface (60). Emergency content is stored within the content memory (90) and at least some of the... Agent: Motorola Inc

20070082712 - Mobile phone apparatus: A mobile phone apparatus is provided which can register the settings for a ringing operation when receiving a telephone call depending on the situation. The mobile phone apparatus includes: a communication unit 1 which carries out transmission and receipt of data via a communication network; an output unit 2 for... Agent: Armstrong, Kratz, Quintos, Hanson & Brooks, LLP

20070082713 - Dial system for a steering wheel of an automobile: A dial system for steering wheel of an automobile is divided into two portions electrically connected by a cable and each includes a first casing and a dial set received in the first housing. The dial set includes a number button partially extending the first housing for being operated. A... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz, LLP

20070082716 - Mobile communication device with low power receiver for signal detection: A mobile communication device with a low power receiver for signal detection and a method for utilizing a low power receiver for signal detection in a mobile communication device. Various aspects of the present invention comprise a first receiver module adapted to operate in a sleep mode. The first receiver... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070082714 - System and method for power conservation in a wireless device: Described is a system and method for power conservation in a wireless device. The method includes switching, by a wireless computing unit, from a first communication mode to a second communication mode at a predefined time interval. The unit receives wireless signals only when in the second communication mode, and... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20070082715 - System and method providing low power operation in a multimode communication device: A system and method providing low-power operation in a multimode communication device. Various aspects of the present invention may, for example, include at least one radio module that is adapted to communicate in a plurality of communication modes. The at least one radio module may also be adapted to operate... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070082717 - Dual prompting device and method for mobile phone: A dual prompting device for incoming call of a mobile phone is provided. When a mobile phone receives an incoming signal, prompting ring or music of an incoming call not only can be sent out by a mobile phone's own speaker but also can be sent out by an externally... Agent: Apex Juris, PLLC Tracy M Heims

20070082718 - Curved sliding-type portable communication apparatus and sliding device thereof: A curved sliding-type portable communication apparatus and a sliding device thereof are provided. The sliding-type portable communication apparatus includes a main body which includes a plurality of first keys on its top surface and a slider which includes a display device on its top surface, is given a closing force... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070077881 - Method and system for transmitting/receiving multimedia contents via a radiocommunication network: A method for transmitting/receiving multimedia contents via a radiocommunication network includes a first step of a first server transmitting an identifier specific to a multimedia content over a dedicated point-to-point transmission channel to all terminals registered with the first server as interested in the content, a second step of the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070077882 - Method and apparatus for providing digital media player with portable digital radio broadcast system receiver or integrated antenna and docking system: A portable media player for receiving and storing a satellite digital audio radio service (SDARS) content stream is provided. Also provided are associated devices such as an integrated antenna and docking station, an SDARS receiver module for detachable connection to a player, digital transceiver circuits for connecting an SDARS receiver... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070077883 - Pager and mobile communication system and method: A paging and mobile communications system and method is disclosed whereby entertainment, news, and other timely information may be delivered to a service recipient through a pager while the service recipient is waiting for service. A master unit delivers information to base units associated with each service provider subscribing to... Agent: J. Charles Dougherty Wright, Lindsey & Jennings LLP

20070077884 - Communications apparatus and method: A method of reusing frequency bands between base stations of a terrestrial mobile communications network and a satellite communications network, comprising allocating the frequency bands using integrated resource management and other mitigation techniques in a such a way as to minimise interference between both the systems, thus making optimum usage... Agent: Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP

20070077887 - Coordination operation method and mobile communication terminal: An engine processor program, stored in a non-volatile storage region 37 of a storage section 35 connected to a host processor 31 of a host section 30, for execution in an engine processor 41 of an engine section 40, is transmitted from the host section 30 to the engine section... Agent: Armstrong, Kratz, Quintos, Hanson & Brooks, LLP

20070077886 - Interleaver and deinterleaver for use in a diversity transmission communication system: Apparatuses for a transmitter and a receiver which enhance the performance of a system utilizing interleaving and transmit diversity by reodering the sequence of symbols transmitted along the different transmission channels. This enhancement is accomplished by providing different shuffling functions in conjunction with the interleavers and deinterleavers used with different... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070077885 - System and method for adapting system parameters in radio based communications systems: A method for adapting at least one system parameter (φi) defining a connection (C) between a transmitter unit (2) and a receiver unit (3, 4) in a radio based communications system (1), wherein an adaptation frequency (ν) at which the system parameter(φi) is adapted is dependent on at least one... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070077888 - Reflective communication using radio-frequency devices: The present invention relates to a reflective communication system that allows information from wireless communication devices, such as radio-frequency identification devices (RFID), to be reflectively communicated to a receiver in lieu of using a separate communication system. A transmitter transmits a communication signal, having a carrier frequency, to the wireless... Agent: Christensen O'connor Johnson Kindness PLLC

20070077889 - Resource location through location history: A system and method are disclosed for locating resources available to portable electronic devices which are enabled for short range wireless communications. The system and method include creating and accessing a resource and access location history database accessible via the portable electronic device.... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20070077891 - Apparatus and method treating received communication signals: An apparatus treating communication signals in a communication environment includes: (a) a plurality of processing elements coupled for effecting the treating; (b) a first subset of processing elements of the plurality of processing elements cooperating to effect a first the treating of the communication signals communicated in a first communication... Agent: Law Office Of Donald D. Mondul C/o Portfolioip

20070077892 - Method of detecting interference in a communication signal: A method of detecting at least a radar signal in an incoming signal received by a wireless communication system, comprising the steps of obtaining a measurement of said incoming signal during a measurement duration proportional to a known pulse duration of a known radar signal, performing a first comparison between... Agent: Graybeal Jackson Haley LLP

20070077890 - Method of estimating inter-modulation distortion: In the method, positions of a plurality of transmitting sources within a proximity of a base station are determined. A received signal spectrum of signals received at the base station from the plurality of transmitting sources are simulated. Inter-modulation distortion products are estimated based on the simulated signal spectrum. The... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070077893 - Communication terminal and communication method: An object of the present invention is to provide a communication terminal and a communication method that can reduce power consumption while securing a communication state by a first communication means or a second communication means. A mobile device includes a radio communication part that communicates and connects with a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070077894 - Automatic gain control with two power detectors: A receiver (100) adjusts its overall gain based on the detected power level of an incoming signal. The receiver is built with two detectors (D1, D2) which operate with different detecting ranges within the dynamic range of the incoming signal. If the actual power level of the incoming signal falls... Agent: Philips Electronics North America Corporation Intellectual Property & Standards

20070077897 - Diversity apparatus using leakage transmission path: A diversity apparatus includes a transceiver, a phase shifter which switches phases of a carrier wave transmitted from the transceiver, and a leakage transmission path which transmits the carrier wave output from the phase shifter. The transceiver switches a phase of the phase shifter depending on a receiving level.... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070077895 - Switch circuitry and access point: A switch circuitry corresponds with a plurality of antennae. The switch circuitry includes a first switch module, a second switch module, and a third switch module. In this case, the first switch module, the second switch module, and the third switch module have a plurality of control leads, a plurality... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070077896 - Transceiver redundancy in an electronic toll collection system: An electronic toll collection system wherein the reader includes a switching network and a plurality of transceivers operating under the control of a controller. The reader further includes failure detection circuitry for determining whether any of the transceivers have failed based upon the RF outputs of the transceivers. If the... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20070077898 - Multi-band handset architecture: Architectures for a class of multi-band handsets are described. These architectures separate linearity requirements from isolation requirements and reduce the number of throws on switches requiring linearity through the use of distributed switching, filter structure placement between the switch functions, not sharing a power amplifier between frequency bands that have... Agent: Avago Technologies, Ltd.

20070077900 - Chirped grating finger navigation: One embodiment of the invention is a user input system for a hand held computing device that comprises a movable piece with a reflective side, an optical cavity adjacent to said movable piece, a light emitting source positioned within the cavity such that emitted light is incident on to the... Agent: Avago Technologies, Ltd.

20070077899 - Wireless network access point and sensor: A wireless network access point with an integrated sensor to sense and receive input unrelated to control of or data transmitted via the wireless network access point.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070077901 - Apparatus and method for controlling output power of mobile terminal: An apparatus for controlling output power of a mobile terminal which includes a power detector that detects a power level of a signal received from a base station, and a controller that determines a reference power value, based on the detected power level of the signal received from the base... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070077902 - Oscillation control device and synchronization system: An oscillation control device for controlling a frequency of an oscillator located at the remote site from a standard laboratory having a standard oscillator. The control device includes: a comparison section to compare a frequency of the frequency signal synchronized with a radio signal produced by a signal processing section... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070077903 - Network service for modularly constructing a software defined radio: Systems and methods are provided that disclose a network service for modularly constructing a software defined radio (“SDR”). A server system provides an SDR kernel (i.e., a potentially platform-neutral definition of digital signal processing functionality and control operations necessary to implement the core portion of a software defined radio implementing... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070077904 - Gain insensitive high-pass vga: An integrated circuit radio transceiver and method therefor includes a high-pass variable gain amplifier (HPVGA) operably disposed within one of the transmitter and the receiver front ends operable to provide a linear variable gain and a substantially constant high-pass frequency corner that does not vary with changes in gain level... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070077905 - Quadrature voltage controlled oscillator: In a quadrature voltage controlled oscillator, a first oscillator includes a first resonant circuit for generating a preset first resonant frequency and a first pair of cross-coupled transistors for supplying energy to the first resonant frequency to generate first and second signals having a phase difference of 180°. A second... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Berner, LLP

20070077908 - Fully integrated tuner architecture: An integrated receiver with channel selection and image rejection substantially implemented on a single CMOS integrated circuit is described. A receiver front end provides programable attenuation and a programable gain low noise amplifier. Frequency conversion circuitry advantageously uses LC filters integrated onto the substrate in conjunction with image reject mixers... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070077907 - Linearized and balanced mixer apparatus and signal mixing method: Method and apparatus are provided for linearized balanced signal mixing. A signal mixing circuit (10) for translating a radio frequency (RF) signal is provided comprising an input amplifier (12), a mixer network (14), and an output buffer amplifier (18). The input amplifier (12) is configured to produce an amplified RF... Agent: Ingrassia, Fisher & Lorenz, P.C.

20070077906 - Superconducting digital mixer: Digital mixers which permit mixing of asynchronous signals is constructed of Rapid Single Flux Quantum (RSFQ) logic elements. The logic elements may include an RSFQ non-destructive readout cell (NDRO), an RSFQ D flip-flop, an RSFQ XOR circuit, and an RSFQ T flip-flop. A binary tree arrangement of T flip-flops can... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20070077909 - Reducing flicker noise in two-stage amplifiers: A multi-stage amplifier includes first and second amplification stages and a loading stage, all of which generate flicker noise. A degeneration block is operably disposed between circuit common and the loading stage wherein the degeneration block is operable to reduce flicker noise generated by at least one of the loading... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070077910 - Digital broadcast receiving unit: It is an object of the invention to provide a digital broadcast receiving unit capable of restraining the influence of a noise generated in a digital signal processing circuit to be exerted upon a turner unit, and of arranging a digital signal processing circuit board close to the tuner unit... Agent: Flynn Thiel Boutell & Tanis, P.C.

20070077911 - Method and apparatus to facilitate transferring prepaid units between accounts: At least one network element as comprises a part of a communication system maintains (11) a prepaid units account on behalf of each of a plurality of communication system users, wherein the prepaid units correspond to at least one prepaid data communication service. Upon receiving (12) a message from a... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin And Flannery

20070077912 - Method enabling detection of stolen mobile communication devices and systems thereof: A method enabling the detection of stolen mobile communication devices by configuring a Centralized Equipment Identification Register (C-EIR) (120), identifying the Equipment Identification Numbers of stolen mobile communication devices, storing the Equipment Identification Numbers of stolen mobile communication devices in a repository (380) and enabling third party retrieval of the... Agent: Workman Nydegger (f/k/a Workman Nydegger & Seeley)

20070077913 - Mobile communication terminal, control method thereof, and method for controlling mobile communication service: A mobile communication method including a transmitting at a first terminal, a message including a control command for controlling a service of a second terminal to a network, and controlling the service of the second terminal according to the control command.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070077917 - Apparatus for securely transmitting/receiving contents in mobile communication network and method thereof: A mobile terminal including a transceiver configured to transmit and receive signals to and from another mobile terminal, a security parameter module configured to set a security parameter in data to be transmitted to the another mobile terminal and to detect whether or not the security parameter is set in... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070077914 - Data session authentication credentials update for a wireless communication device: A method (200) and an apparatus (300) in a wireless portable communication device (102) for maintaining appropriate authentication credentials required for a common data application in a current service network are provided. A method (400) in a wireless communication network (106) for providing current authentication credentials required for the common... Agent: John J. Oskorep, Esq. One Magnificent Mile Center

20070077915 - Method and apparatus for module authentication: A method and apparatus for modular authentication of a wireless communication device (120) including a portable communication device (210) and a wireless communication module (220) coupleable thereto is disclosed. When the wireless communication module (220) receives information (706) from the portable communication device (210), it determines whether the information received... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C.

20070077916 - User authentication system and user authentication method: A user authentication system includes a user terminal, a mobile phone, a password issuing unit, and a service providing unit. When the service providing unit receives user's data on user identification information from the user terminal, if the received data on the user identification information is registered in advance, the... Agent: Armstrong, Kratz, Quintos, Hanson & Brooks, LLP

20070077920 - Methods, systems and computer program products for aggregating communications and media data: Computer implemented methods of coordinated control of a plurality of different services for a user include associating data records from each of the different services to provide an aggregated database. The different services include a communications service of the user, a media service of the user and a calendar of... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20070077921 - Pushing podcasts to mobile devices: The present invention relates to a system and method for pushing podcasts to mobile devices, such as cellular phones, from a remote subscription management system. A subscription management system is described that is adapted to retrieve episodes from one or more remote computing devices and transmit retrieved episodes to a... Agent: James J. Decarlo Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20070077918 - System and method for providing customized ring back tones using a gateway switching node: A system and method for providing Custom Ring Back Tones (CRBTs) to calling party terminals calling called party wireless terminals in a wireless communications network is provided. A Gateway Switching Node connected provides a centralized interface between the PSTN and the switching nodes serving the called party terminals. The Gateway... Agent: Fay Sharpe/lucent

20070077919 - Voice tagging of automated menu location: A method is provided for efficiently accessing information 418, 510 from an automated menu based system 314 using a wireless communications device 102 and deploying services by utilizing the PTT contact list. Having a formatted PTT contact which connects to a voice portal or directly to the desired content from... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C.

20070077922 - Method and system for providing message broadcast service using open application program interface: A system and method for providing a message broadcast service using an open API is provided, which allows a third party information provider to easily broadcast messages to the general public in a specific service area using a Cell Broadcast Service (CBS) of a mobile communication system. A message broadcast... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070077923 - Caller information providing apparatus and transmitting method in mobile communication network: A caller information providing system and caller information transmitting method in a mobile radio communication network is disclosed. When a call comes in, the present invention provides a user at the terminating mobile station a picture information of a caller or caller information including a picture information, audio information, and/or... Agent: Fleshner & Kim, LLP

20070077925 - Mobile terminal with data delete function: To prevent information leakage due to the loss of a mobile terminal, when various delete conditions that are set in advance in the mobile terminal are satisfied, data is deleted by control performed by the mobile terminal itself. By allowing the mobile terminal to perform control of deleting data instead... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070077924 - System and method to locate mobile devices having inaudible settings: The user of a mobile device such as a cellular telephone can locate a lost or misplaced telephone by remotely adjusting the volume of the ring tone such that it is audible enough to for the user to hear it. The user will be able to call his/her own device.... Agent: Ibm Corporation C/o Darcell Walker, Attorney At Law

20070077926 - Method and system to reconfigure a network to improve network lifetime using most reliable communication links: A method and system of enhancing an operational lifetime of a wireless network is provided, which includes monitoring a link quality between node elements of the wireless network, periodically collecting information regarding the link quality between node elements of the wireless network, and reconfiguring a network topology of the wireless... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070077927 - Method of system access to a wireless network: A method of system access from a wireless device to a wireless network, the network having a plurality of base stations includes the steps of: selecting at least one reverse link cost metric from a list of predetermined reverse link cost metrics; determining a reverse link cost according to the... Agent: Joseph M. Sauer, Esq. Jones Day

20070077928 - Handoff system and method in communication system with smart antenna: Disclosed are a handoff system and a handoff method in a communication system with a smart antenna. In a method for performing handoff in a communication system including BSs which have different antenna structures, neighbor BS information including antennas structure information of neighbor BSs is received from a serving BS,... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm

20070077931 - Method and apparatus for wireless network protection against malicious transmissions: A method and apparatus are provided for protecting a wireless network from malicious code transmitted from a user terminal. Traffic from user terminals which flows over the air-interface is filtered and evaluated according to a set of rules imposed by the network, or specified by the user, or both. If... Agent: Lucent Technologies Inc. Docket Administrator - Room 3j-219

20070077929 - Method for implementing macro-diversity management by using intelligent vbs: The present application discloses a method for implementing macro-diversity management by using intelligent VBS the size of a cell cluster is intelligently adjusted by using a mobile server, and the macro-diversity of the cell cluster is performed by dynamically selecting a parent base station. Specifically, according to load condition of... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20070077930 - Network and a network element and method of operation therefor: The invention relates to a network (100). A first network element (103) communicates a physical characteristic message comprising information related to at least one physical characteristic of the first network element (103). The physical characteristic message may for example include information related to the size, shape, color etc. of the... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070077932 - System and method for managing incoming call in dual mode phone: A method for managing incoming calls for a dual mode phone, comprising steps of: receiving an incoming call from a terminal; processing the incoming call and generating a prompt message to notify a user of the dual mode phone of the incoming call; determining whether the user accepts the incoming... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070077933 - Method for minimizing expenditures associated with optimized backhaul networks: The invention includes a method for determining an expenditure associated with a network. A method includes obtaining network information associated with a portion of a network, categorizing each of a respective plurality of cells as one of an aggregated cell and a non-aggregated cell, determining an aggregating node configuration for... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/ Lucent Technologies, Inc

20070077934 - Dynamic reuse partitioning and subchannel allocation scheme in multicell ofdma downlink systems: The reuse partitioning problem for a cellular orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) system with dynamic subcarrier allocation is considered. One objective is to allocate the network resources in an efficient way in order to maximize the system's total throughput under individual user's quality-of-service (QoS) constraint. A suboptimal two-step approach... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070077935 - Method for detecting a signal propagation time between a mobile radio terminal and a base station: A method for detecting a signal propagation time between a mobile radio terminal and a base station in a mobile radio network in a mobile radio terminal, particularly for the purpose of localizing the mobile radio terminal inserts a propagation time detection information item into a channel request message in... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20070077936 - Wireless base station and wireless communication system: A setting unit sets a specified time serving as a clear-to-send time, during which a two-way frame transmission is possible between a local wireless base station and a wireless terminal station accommodated in the wireless base station, and as a wireless-channel reservation time used for a frame transmission between the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070077937 - Method and system for performing call admission control in a communication system: A method and system for performing call admission control (CAC) in a communication system. The method comprises determining whether traffic of at least one call-type is overloaded in a predetermined measuring window. The method further comprises reallocated the resources of each call-type in response to determining whether traffic of at... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070077938 - Providing overload control in relatively high-speed wireless data networks: The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for controlling a radio frequency resource between a first and a second wireless unit and a base station to provide overload control of the radio frequency resource based on an estimate thereof. For example, when feedback information is unavailable for the... Agent: Williams, Morgan & Amerson

20070077940 - direction locator for cellular telephone: A direction locator for cellular telephone and to a method for using it. More specifically, a compass free and GPS free cellular telephone, having means to direct its user in the direction of predetermined sites on the globes. Also, a method for indicating the direction, to means for such cellular... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070077941 - Localization identification system for wireless devices: Wireless devices, systems and approaches or methods having the capability of determining the location of a given wireless device. An example system includes a wireless device that generates at least one pulse as a part of an output signal, and the at least one pulse is captured by anchor devices... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070077939 - Location information notifying system and method, terminal location determining apparatus, and privacy check apparatus: A terminal (101) sends a location request message to a terminal location determining apparatus (103) of a mobile unit network (100) so as to notify information of the location of the terminal to a server (102). The terminal location determining apparatus (103) determines, based on privacy information of the user... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070077942 - Location-based addressing: A system and method for performing location dependent addressing is provided suitable for use in GSM-R systems. A quadtree is used to store jurisdiction information as a function of location, for example GPS location. When a call is received that contains location information, it is processed by looking up the... Agent: Ralph A. Dowell Of Dowell & Dowell P.C.

20070077944 - Method and system for providing a plurality of localized services information to a mobile device: A system and method for providing localized information services to a user of a wireless device. The system and method include a locator that locates the wireless device, a service request receiver, wherein the service request requests a ranking of responsive services based on at least three factors, and wherein... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20070077943 - System and method for automated tracking of assets using location measurements and ad-hoc routing algorithms: A system and method for automated visual tracking of assets (302), such as personnel or vehicles, using location measurements and ad-hoc routing algorithms employed in a wireless multihopping communication network (100). The system and method comprise a plurality of imaging devices (300) that are deployed about an area and provide... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20070077945 - Dynamic location almanac for wireless base stations: A system and method of dynamically updating an almanac of base stations with wireless phones that are controlled by end users. First, second, and third location information are received respectfully from a first, second, and third wireless phones. A position of each wireless device is known. The distance between each... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070077946 - Cell-specific paging strategy to optimize paging channel usage: A method is provided for paging a mobile station (40) served by a wireless telecommunications network (A). The method includes: remembering a last known location of the mobile station (40); selecting a paging strategy based upon the last known location of the mobile station (40), the paging strategy defining a... Agent: Fay Sharpe/lucent

20070077947 - Method for paging in a wireless network based on quality of service: A method is provided for locating an access terminal using paging. The method comprises selecting one of a first and second paging scheme based on a quality of service associated with the access terminal. That is, a resource intensive paging scheme may be employed to locate access terminals that have... Agent: Williams, Morgan & Amerson

20070077948 - Non-circular paging areas: In a radio access network, techniques for defining a non-circular paging area in which an access terminal is to be paged based on distance-based location updating information for a sector of the network.... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070077950 - Method and apparatus for adding contents to message in a mobile communication terminal: A method and an apparatus for adding contents to a message body in a mobile communication terminal is provided. When writing a message, a check is made whether a contents adding key is inputted. A contents box corresponding to the contents adding key is displayed, and a check is made... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070077949 - Shortcut for establishing a communication channel with a remote device over a network: Two-way communication between a general purpose computing device, such as a PC, and a mobile terminal, such as a cell phone. The general device executes a conversation user interface through which a user enters a message. The message is sent to an intermediary communication service, such as a portal server,... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20070077952 - Method and system for link adaptation in a wireless multi-carrier communication system: A method and system for link adaptation between a wireless multi-carrier access point (102) and a wireless multi-carrier communication device (104) is described. The wireless multi-carrier access point obtains a set of available LEP methods from the wireless multi-carrier communication device. The wireless multi-carrier access point selects an LEP method... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070077951 - Method and system for providing an energy efficient exchange of information in wireless networks: A method and system to synchronize a first device and a second device includes generating a first tone by the first device, the first tone one of including an identity of the second device and generated at a predefined time, receiving the first tone by the second device, setting a... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070077953 - Training-while-working data communications: A data communication transceiver, such as a PCM or xDSL modem, is operable in a training-while-working mode in which it both trains and communicates user data. In some embodiments, upon initiation of a data communication session, the transceiver operates in a startup training mode in which partial training occurs that... Agent: Mendelsohn & Associates, P.C.

20070077957 - Apparatus, method and computer program product providing hs-dsch power estimate: d

20070077954 - Method of power control and acknowledgement control for f-ackch: The present invention provides a power control method of a forward-acknowledgement channel and acknowledgement control method thereof, by which acknowledgement or non-acknowledgement information for a boost mode operation used for a quality of service (Qos) can be efficiently received. The present invention includes the steps of receiving packet transmission information... Agent: Fleshner & Kim, LLP

20070077956 - Open-loop power adjustment for cqi repointing based on rl quality indicators: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate performing scalable transmission power offsets for an access terminal to ensure that a listening base station can hear a signal transmitted from the access terminal. The power offset is generated as a function of a reverse link channel quality indicator feedback loop to... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070077955 - Techniques to transmit data rate control signals for multi-carrier wireless systems: Various embodiments are disclosed relating to techniques to transmit data rate control signals for multicarrier wireless systems. According to an example embodiment, a wireless apparatus may be adapted to transmit at least a first data rate control (DRC) value via an in-phase channel and at least a second DRC value... Agent: Brake Hughes PLC C/o Portfolioip

20070077959 - Electronic locator: This provides a system to emit a plurality of electronic signals, sent by a person(s) trapped by some disaster, such as collapse of building, earthquake, flood, etc. The plurality of signals provides a better chance that rescuers will receive at least one signal.... Agent: James J. Ralarbate

20070077958 - Mobile communication device and accessory therefore: A system includes a mobile communication device and an accessory device that is connectable to the communication device. The communication device is configured to identify whether the accessory device is a certified device when the accessory device is connected to the communication device. The communication device is configured to enable... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20070077961 - 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

20070077960 - Mobile device power management: The disclosure is directed to a mobile communication device, and method for controlling power saving features at the mobile device. A processor in the mobile device may be used to establish a network connection with a server in a first network. The mobile device may also include a transceiver that... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070077962 - Method of sharing at least one functional block in a communication system: A communication system (10) has an audio receiver path (12), and a digital transceiver path (14), wherein both paths (12, 14) are integrated on a single integrated circuit. The audio receiver path (12) has a concealment device (16), and the communication system (10) also has at least one functional block... Agent: Baker Botts, L.L.P.

20070077964 - Method and mobile device for operating in different data transfer modes: Various embodiments are described for data communication between a host device and a mobile communication device having two processors. In a first mode of operation, data communication occurs between the host device and a main processor of the mobile device. In a second mode of operation, data communication occurs between... Agent: Bereskin And Parr

20070077963 - Network call director telephone: A network call director telephone includes a dome shaped housing inside which is an electronic circuit, an actuating switch and a microphone, outside which is an insertion groove, a plurality of air vents, a through hole for connecting external earphone or loud-speaker, a first cord connected a handset which has... Agent: An-mih Hu

20070077965 - Portable docking station for cell phone: A docking station for a music-enabled cell phone has a cradle for holding the cell phone and a cable connector with stereo headset plug at one end and a pair of audio connectors, e.g., RCA connectors, at the other end. The cable may be incorporated into the cradle. The receptacle... Agent: Bernhard P. Molldrem, Jr.

20070077966 - Subscriber identity apparatus, communication terminal and communication system and method: The present invention proposes a wireless subscriber identity module, a communication terminal using the subscriber identity module, a method for attaching the subscriber identity apparatus to the communication terminal and a method for controlling the communication by using the communication terminal. The subscriber identity apparatus includes: a subscriber identity module,... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20070077967 - Basestation maintenance systems and method: A method and system for maintaining a basestation system is provided. The basestation includes a tower and basestation circuitry placed in the tower. The system includes a translator for translating at least a portion of the basestation circuitry between a first position of the tower and a second position of... Agent: Stephen B. Salai, Esq. Harter, Secrest & Emery LLP

20070077968 - Increasing the range of access point cells for a given throughput in a downlink of a wireless local area network: The present invention provides a method and an apparatus may increase or extend the range of wireless communication cells for a given throughput in a downlink of a wireless communication system. When transmitting data in a downlink of a plurality of access point cells in a wireless local area network... Agent: Williams, Morgan & Amerson

20070077969 - Maximum likelihood detection for mimo receivers: Maximum likelihood detection of signals in a MIMO receiver. A system transformation is obtained by selecting a weighting matrix that when linearly transforming a channel utilized for wireless communication, results in a particular transformed triangular matrix. The weighting matrix is then used to provide a transformed vector for a received... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070077970 - Method of displaying information bar in a mobile communication terminal: An information bar displaying method in a mobile communication terminal is provided. Upon detection of activating of the mobile communication terminal, an information bar representing a user-preset initial information group is displayed on an idle mode screen. Upon detection of input of a first key for movement between information groups,... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070077971 - Hinge assembly for a foldable electronic device: A hinge assembly (100) includes a sleeve (10), a first magnetic member (20), a second magnetic member (20), and a locking member (40). The sleeve is hollow with an open end. The first magnetic member has a first face (242) and a second face (444) at a first end (232)... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070077972 - Hinge assembly for a foldable electronic device: A hinge assembly (100) includes a first magnetic member (10), and a second magnetic member (20). The first magnetic member is a hollow tube with an open end. The first magnetic member has a first face (162) and a second face (164) at a first end (122) thereof The first... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070077973 - Electronic device with high efficiency and wide bandwidth internal antenna: An electronic device includes a circuit board and an antenna. The circuit board has opposite first and second edges. The antenna includes a grounding element, a substrate, feeding and grounding ports, and first and second radiating elements. The grounding element is formed on the circuit board. The substrate has opposite... Agent: Davidson Berquist Jackson & Gowdey LLP