Telecommunications inventions 05/07

20070123163 - Electronic device system, electronic device, display device, and communication control method of electronic device system: According to one embodiment, an electronic device includes: a detection unit which detects whether the display device is attached to the electronic device; a wireless communication unit capable of simultaneously advancing information communication via wireless communication channel with a plurality of parties containing transmission of video information to the display... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070123164 - Receiver system and method for receiving broadcasting: A receiver system equipped with a first and second reception units for receiving a satellite radio broadcasting prevents a reception unit switching operations by using signal selection data that provides satellite availability for respective operation areas. The satellite radio broadcasting reception quality in each of the respective operation areas is... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20070123168 - Information processing apparatus and information processing method: Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus including, a wireless communication block configured to execute wireless communication with a mate terminal device, an information exchange generation condition storage block configured to record a condition of information exchange with the mate terminal device, an information exchange log storage block configured to... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070123167 - Method for accessing a telecommunications service by means of an electronic address: A method is disclosed with which a telecommunication user can access a telecommunications service by means of a telecommunications terminal and an electronic address. The telecommunications user reads an electronic code (100) stored in an RFID element (1) by means of an RFID reader device (2), said electronic code (100)... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070123165 - Methods, systems and devices for assisted discovery in bluetooth enabled devices: Disclosed herein are methods, systems and devices for assisted discovery in Bluetooth enabled devices. The method described herein can include initiating a discovery procedure in a Bluetooth device (202), initiating a service discovery protocol in another Bluetooth device (204), such as a mobile communication device, sending a search request from... Agent: Motorola Inc

20070123166 - System, method and apparatus for pre-pairing bluetooth enabled devices: Disclosed are a method, system and apparatus for injecting a Bluetooth address of a Bluetooth device (202) into a mobile communication device (204) to avoid the discovery process in pairing. The method includes receiving by an intermediary device (21), Bluetooth address data associated with a Bluetooth device (202), converting the... Agent: Motorola Inc

20070123170 - Method and apparatus for interference mitigation for multi-radio systems in wireless networks: A communication network (600) includes a first communication device (102-1) and at least one other communication device (102-3), wherein the first communication device (102-1) and the at least one other communication device (102-3) are proximately located. The communication network further includes a transaction detector (625) coupled between the first communication... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20070123169 - Radio interference indicator: The present invention provides a radio interference indicator comprising a controller for processing an instruction and a radio signal receiver coupled to the controller to receive or detect a radio signal. An indicating element is coupled to the controller to indicate the level of the radio signal to allow the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070123171 - Communication of audio control signals for wireless audio headphones: A wireless audio headphone communication system has an audio input for receiving an audio signal from an audio source. A wireless transceiver receives and transmits radio frequency communications with a wireless audio headphone, the communications including an audio control signal that conforms to a wireless audio control protocol of a... Agent: Ipsolon LLP

20070123173 - Monitoring protection and control system: A monitoring protection and control system is described. It consists of at least one check point having a data carrier that has an identifier and can be queried by a noncontact method, also consisting of a control center for acquisition of the identifier of the queried data carriers, said identifier... Agent: William Collard Collard & Roe, P.C.

20070123172 - Corruption detection of digital hardware configuration: A wireless communication device (101) includes an application processor (345) that performs applications of the device and a baseband processor (327) that handles cellular communication. The baseband processor (327) monitors the application processor (345) for failures and, upon detecting a failure, reverts to a failsafe mode where a user of... Agent: Fleit, Kain, Gibbons, Gutman, Bongini & Bianco P.l.

20070123174 - Device and method for single connector access to multiple transceivers: Disclosed are communication devices that combine at least two antenna paths to a single RF connector having a single probe port for testing and connecting accessories. Prior to insertion of a probe, the transceivers are coupled to their respective antennas. When the probe is inserted into the probe port, the... Agent: Motorola Inc

20070123175 - High-frequency switch module: A FET switch enables an antenna input/output port connected to an antenna to connect to any of a port connected to a transmission signal input terminal and ports respectively connected to two reception signal output terminals by switching between the ports. After a transmission signal is input through the transmission... Agent: Murata Manufacturing Company, Ltd. C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20070123176 - Direct conversion rf front-end transceiver and its components: Provided is an RF front-end transceiver having an oscillator for outputting a resonant frequency signal whose frequency is controlled by a frequency control signal provided from a frequency synthesizer or a base band processor; a receive amplifier for amplifying and outputting a receive RF signal; a receive mixer for mixing... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070123177 - Home appliance with radio reception function: A home appliance with a radio reception function is disclosed. The home appliance includes a washing device for washing or drying clothes, and a radio module for providing the radio reception function and outputting a current washing or drying progress state of the washing device in audio form through data... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20070123178 - Cover: A cover and a surface are provided. Microorganisms are provided in said cover and surface for providing a appearance to said cover, or surface. In this respect also an ampoule is provided.... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20070123179 - Sliding type hinge device and personal portable device using the same: There is provided a slide hinge device for guiding a slide of a slide part on a main part. The slide hinge device includes: a slide hinge unit installed in the rear of the slide part, for guiding a slide of the slide part; a fixed hinge unit installed in... Agent: Charles N.j. Ruggiero Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.L.P.

20070123180 - Host with an adjustable antenna: A computer host including a casing, an antenna and an antenna holder is provided. More specifically, the antenna holder has an opening perpendicular to one side of the host and is located in the back side of the host and close to the intersection of a top, a side and... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070123181 - Antenna system for enabling diversity and mimo: An RF communication system (100) including a first antenna (110) having a first antenna element (112) and a second antenna element (114), and a second antenna (120) having a third antenna element (122) and a fourth antenna element (124). A first transmitter (150) can apply a first signal commonly to... Agent: Cuenot & Forsythe, L.L.C.

20070123182 - Local oscillator leakage cancellation in radio transmitter: The invention relates to a radio transmitter, including means for up-converting an input signal by mixing the input signal with a local oscillation signal, means for extracting an observation signal from the up-converted signal, means for switching the observation signal between an ON state allowing throughput of the observation signal... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070123183 - Apparatus and method for generating rf without harmonic interference: A transmitter capable of operating according to a first standard that does not interfere with a nearby frequency generator operating according to a second standard. The transmitter comprises an oscillator, a frequency divider, a mixer, and a filter. The oscillator is configured to output a first frequency that is outside... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070123184 - Signal processor for use with a power amplifier in a wireless circuit: A signal processor has an input terminal and an output terminal for use in a wireless transmitter, for generating a radio frequency signal suitable for transmission, either with or without further power amplification. The signal processor separates an input signal into first and second processing paths, the first processing path... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070123185 - Utilizing metadata to improve the access of entertainment content: Although current radio receivers support playback of audio from multiple sources, none support easy searching for content across these sources. There is no mechanism for locating specific content independent of the source that it is found on. The invention is to have an entertainment system which utilizes metadata to offer... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20070123186 - Radio-frequency receiver: A radio-frequency (RF) receiver includes an input terminal for receiving RF signals in a first frequency band and a second frequency band lower than the first frequency band, a first tuned filter allowing a signal of a passing frequency in the RF signal in the first frequency band to pass... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20070123187 - Integrated low-if terrestrial audio broadcast receiver and associated method: An integrated low-IF (low intermediate frequency) terrestrial broadcast receiver and associated method are disclosed that provide an advantageous and cost-efficient solution. The integrated receiver includes a mixer, local oscillator generation circuitry, low-IF conversion circuitry, and DSP circuitry. And the integrated receiver is particularly suited for small, portable devices and the... Agent: Brian W. Peterman O'keefe, Egan, Peterman & Enders, LLP

20070123188 - Method and system for measuring receiver mixer iq mismatch: Aspects for measuring receiver mixer IQ mismatch in a transceiver are described. The measuring includes providing a training signal for a receiver mixer, the training signal having periodic, uncorrelated I and Q signals. A phase mismatch in the receiver mixer is determined from IQ correlation over a unit period. A... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070123189 - Semiconductor device and operating method thereof: In an organic memory which is included in a radio chip formed from a thin film, data are written to the organic memory by a signal inputted with a wired connection, and the data is read with a signal by radio transmission. A bit line and a word line which... Agent: Eric Robinson

20070123190 - Portable communicator: This communicator makes it possible for the user to do telephone, facsimile, and data communication at any location. On a pen input device, a space eye 2, a telephone control system, a facsimile control system, and a data transmission system are mounted. All of them are operated by an input... Agent: Kinney & Lange, P.A.

20070123191 - Human-machine interface for a portable electronic device: A vehicle interface unit (220) provides a voice recognition-based human-machine interface for a portable electronic device (210) such as a portable digital assistant or a laptop computer in a vehicle. The interface unit (220) may be configured to provide run-time implementation of new PDA applications by transferring menu configuration files... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070123207 - Accessory detection to minimize interference with wireless communication: A wireless handheld device includes one or more antennas and a connector configured to couple with one or more external accessories. The handheld device further includes an accessory detector coupled to the connector and configured to detect whether an external accessory coupled to the connector may interfere with wireless communication... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070123203 - Apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving data in a mobile communication terminal: An apparatus for transmitting data from a mobile communication terminal includes an audio codec which converts a voice signal into digital voice data, a detection unit which detects a pause in the digital voice data, and a modulator/demodulator which modulates a signal with non-voice data, converts the modulated signal into... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070123192 - Audio device and method: The present invention provides a method of operating a digital audio device, the method comprising: receiving a voice call; receiving another digital audio signal which is not a voice call; mixing the two received signals; transmitting the mixed signal wirelessly to another device.... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070123196 - Communication system and alignment method of transcoder: When a terminal is moved to an area covered by a different switching node RNC of a radio access network, degradation of speech quality is prevented by returning a transcoder insertion connection to a transcoder-free-operation connection. When the terminal is moved and the switching node RNC of the radio access... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070123197 - Communication system and alignment method of transcoder: When a terminal is moved to an area covered by a different switching node RNC of a radio access network, degradation of speech quality is prevented by returning a transcoder insertion connection to a transcoder-free-operation connection. When the terminal is moved and the switching node RNC of the radio access... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070123198 - 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

20070123204 - Communication terminal apparatus and computer program: A communication terminal apparatus includes: a communication unit performing communication; a storage unit collecting and storing history information on communication; a registration unit registering at least communication address information on communicating parties and image information that represents the communicating parties; a display unit displaying images, which represent the registered communicating... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070123199 - Filter arrangement and method for filtering a signal: A filter arrangement comprises a first impedance, a second impedance and a subtractor. The first impedance comprises a first connection connected to an input of the filter arrangement and has a first resonant frequency. The second impedance comprises a first connection likewise connected to the input of the filter arrangement... Agent: Eschweiler & Associates, LLC National City Bank Building

20070123195 - Method for fast call setup in a mobile communication system: This invention presents a method for fast call setup in a mobile communication system, including the steps of radio resource control (RRC) connection setup, Non-access stratum (NAS) signaling connection setup and NAS signaling interaction, and radio access bearer (RAB) setup. User equipment (UE) sends a RRC CONNECTION REQUEST, which encapsulates... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20070123202 - Mobile communication terminal and method of indicating speakerphone mode information thereof: A mobile communication terminal and method of indicating speakerphone mode thereof are disclosed, by which a far-end user can be informed whether a speakerphone mode of the mobile communication terminal is entered. The present invention includes a radio frequency part communicating with a base station, a microphone/speaker inputting a voice... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070123206 - Mobile communication terminal, information providing system, program, and computer readable recording medium: Information that is no longer valid due to the passage of time is not provided to a user. When a stock price information server acquires updated stock price information from a securities market network, a message that instructs that a predetermined application be started up and to which a term... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20070123205 - Mobile terminal with a plurality of input units: A mobile communication terminal is provided that includes a body, a first multi-input unit and a second multi-input unit installed at opposite sides of the body, a first inner display screen and a second inner display screen that display predetermined menus and a controller configured to control the first multi-input... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070123193 - Portable terminal apparatus, computer-readable storage medium, and image display method: In response to two or more incomings-in-absence, a portable terminal apparatus displays, according to a predetermined order of priority, an image associated with the originator of an incoming-in-absence with the highest priority of the incomings-in-absence on a display screen. Also, in response to an image-canceling instruction, the apparatus cancels an... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070123200 - Radio reception system with automatic tuning: A method and apparatus for operating a radio reception system, which comprises a plurality of receivers assigned to a common output device, in which one of the receivers is designated as audio receiver and is tuned to a frequency of a radio transmitter, and outputs a signal received from the... Agent: O'shea, Getz & Kosakowski, P.C.

20070123194 - System and method providing connection point and communication profile management: A system and method providing connection point and communication profile management in a communication system. Various aspects of the present invention may provide a communication device (e.g., a multimode wireless communication device) comprising a display. One or more connection points (e.g., wireless access points or devices) may be determined, and... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070123201 - Telephony terminal: Methods and apparatus implementing a telephony terminal for connecting a telephone to a data network. In one implementation, a telephony system includes: a phone connection for connecting to a telephone; a network connection for connecting to a network; and a controller connected to said phone connection and to said network... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20070123208 - System and method for prioritizing emergency communications in a wireless network: Described is a method which includes receiving an association request from a first wireless device to establish an emergency connection via a wireless communications network. A wireless bandwidth availability required to grant the request is analyzed. When the bandwidth is unavailable, a wireless connection between a second wireless device and... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20070123210 - Communication terminal, position notification method, and communcation system: A communication terminal which communicates with a communication device includes a position detecting section which detects a current position of the communication terminal, and a control section which automatically notifies the communication device of the current position obtained from the position detecting section, in response to an instruction from the... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson & Cook, P.C.

20070123209 - Mobile station, communication system and telephone communication switching method: A mobile station such as a cellular phone, a communication system, and a telephone communication mode switching method that enable smooth switching between telephone communication using a public telephone line and telephone communication using the Internet shortly are provided. A mobile station control part is provided that determines whether a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070123211 - Telephony service in event of link failure between mobile switching center and a home location register or a service control point: A mobile switching center is configured with software instructions which allow it to continue to provide at least limited call termination and call origination services for mobile terminals in the event of a failure of a signaling link between the mobile switching center and a home location register and/or a... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20070123213 - Method for reducing load of traffic plane function: Disclosed is a method for reducing the load of Traffic Plane Function (TPF). According to the obtained indication on whether to perform charging, the TPF determines whether to perform charging operation for the service data flow using appropriate charging rules, if yes, the TPF performs the charging operation for the... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20070123212 - Pre and post-paid real time billing convergence system: A telecommunications service provider architecture integrates multiple architectures which include prepaid and post-paid processing systems. The convergent enhanced architecture provides performance, scalability, and efficiency consistent with a prepaid architecture and flexibility and configurability consistent with a post-paid system. The convergent architecture provides messaging interfaces between a telecommunications support architecture and... Agent: Accenture Chicago 28164 Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070123214 - Mobile device system and strategies for determining malicious code activity: A system (300) and mobile wireless radio security method (500) can include a transceiver (320) and a processor (302) coupled to the transceiver. The processor can be programmed to monitor (502) for abnormalities or rare activities from a mobile wireless device when attempting a transmission and to suppress (516) the... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070123215 - Method and system for improving client server transmission over fading channel with wireless location and authentication technology via electromagnetic radiation: Wireless personal area network (Zigbee, Bluetooth, UWB) and wireless identification technologies (Near Field Communication (NFC), Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)) are implemented in particular client server functions and communications. Connected with an Authentication Server, a wireless HUB authenticates user identification and provides the user with access to secure data communication with... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070123216 - Method for adapting the security settings of a communication station, communication station and identification module: A method for adapting the security settings of a communication station (12) depending on a security relevant event is disclosed, wherein the communication station (12) comprises a mobile terminal (16) with an identification module (18). In a first step, the security relevant event occurring in said communication station and/or said... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070123217 - Display of secure messages on a mobile communication device: A mobile communications device for the display of an incrementally received message includes a message viewer application for scanning the received portions of the message. On determination that the received portion of the message includes a first displayable portion of the message content, the system signals to a message server... Agent: Dimock Stratton LLP

20070123220 - Message broadcasting geo-fencing system and method: A public service message broadcast system and method for managing the submission and transmission of a broadcast agent message to at least one geographically distinct geo-fenced peer public service message broadcast system includes creating a broadcast message record by a broadcast message originator defining the broadcast message and the broadcast... Agent: Polster, Lieder, Woodruff & Lucchesi

20070123218 - Method and apparatus for telephone routing between ptn and pstn: Disclosed is a method and apparatus applicable to an interface between PSTN and PTN for telephone routing. The interface includes a branch switch, a key system, a network branch switch, and media gateway, etc. The telephone routing method and apparatus of the present invention creates, maintains, and utilizes a call-back... Agent: Lin & Associates Intellectual Property

20070123219 - System and method for item identification and purchase: A method and system for handling message-based requests for information about items, and for handling optional message-based purchases of same, includes receiving a request message from a mobile subscriber relating to an item that is of interest to the mobile subscriber, routing the request message for processing, performing one or... Agent: Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP

20070123221 - Notification management: A method and electronic apparatus is provided for managing at least one notification in an electronic apparatus. The method comprises generating the notification; and attaching to the notification at least one position attribute, which provides a geographical restriction for issuing the notification. The notification is issued when a geographical position... Agent: Harrity Snyder, L.L.P.

20070123229 - Automated billing and distribution platform for application providers: Integrating a network-enabled application with a platform having a plurality of users and a plurality of communication channels with a respective plurality of wireless network carriers, including receiving a request from a third-party provider to integrate a network-enabled application with the platform, receiving a set of registration data corresponding to... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070123234 - Caller id mobile terminal: Disclosed is a caller ID mobile terminal which allows a user to exactly identify a caller. The user can exactly recognize the caller as voices directly recorded and stored by the user by individual or voices reading nicknames entered in text ring as bell tones, and further the user can... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070123232 - Communication terminal, and dial registration method and dial registration program therefor: A communication terminal having one or more one-touch-dial buttons simplifies operations needed for registration of destination data such as phone numbers or mail addresses. A communication terminal (e.g., a cellular phone) having one or more one-touch-dial buttons includes a destination-data registration unit (e.g., a phone-directory database) that allows destination data... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070123233 - Communication terminal, and dial registration method and dial registration program therefor: A communication terminal having one or more one-touch-dial buttons simplifies operations needed for registration of destination data such as phone numbers or mail addresses. A communication terminal (e.g., a cellular phone) having one or more one-touch-dial buttons includes a destination-data registration unit (e.g., a phone-directory database) that allows destination data... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070123226 - Data service system and access control method: A data service system and a method for access control. The data service system includes a plurality of service servers, through which terminals subscribe relevant services. The system further includes a public access control unit, which is connected to the plurality of service servers, in which the public access control... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070123223 - Enhanced analogue of interactive voice response structures and functions for mobile phones and similar handheld communications devices: An integrated system and method that provides an enhanced analogue of interactive voice response structures and features for mobile phones and similar handheld communications devices, comprised of customized kernel applications, for communicating with central control servers and optional ancillary control servers with pertinent databases, auxiliary coordination applications on network-enabled computers,... Agent: Roberto S. Catalan

20070123224 - Information processing method and system for preventing leakage of information from mobile phone: This invention is to provide a technology for preventing information from being leaked from a mobile phone. For this purpose, this invention includes: receiving a request for data to select a calling destination from a first mobile phone capable of executing voice communication and data communication; identifying calling destination candidates... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070123227 - Light spot control system and method thereof: A light spot control system, using a projection light of a projection device to initiate a control of a mobile communication device, includes an I/O unit and a processing unit. The I/O unit is used to receive the projection light. The processing unit is used to provide a time value... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070123225 - Marketing method: A server implements a marketing method. The server may receive a wireless call or message originating at a given facility and return a menu of choices particular to that facility. On receiving a choice selected from said menu, the server may return one or more messages with information particular to... Agent: Smart And Biggar

20070123222 - Method and system for invoking push-to-service offerings: The push-to-service request can be invoked by a user depressing a service button (120) on the first communication unit (100) using a push-action. The VRS (220) can handle the voice request and generate a list of service offerings ranked by priority for presentation on the display. The process can include... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070123228 - Mobile communication terminal: When reproducing a multimedia file received by a receiving section, a control section controls a sound reproduction section to reproduce a sound on the basis of sound data. Further, the control section controls a display section to display an image on the basis of image data if the multimedia file... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070123231 - Mobile terminal, system and method for controlling access to an enhanced services system: A mobile terminal having restricted access to an enhanced services system includes a transceiver which transmits and receives wireless signals, a memory which stores a first preferred roaming list (PRL) listing a basic communication system and an enhanced services system, and a second PRL listing the basic communication system but... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070123230 - Telephone which enables timely input and presentation of information: A telephone includes: a reminding unit for, when judging that a user makes a call but fails to convey information to a party, reminding the user to input the information into information acceptance unit; the information acceptance unit for accepting input of the information from the user; a storage unit... Agent: Snell & Wilmer LLP (oc)

20070123235 - Apparatus and method for providing contact number recommendations to users of telephony devices: Method and apparatus for providing information services to telephony devices. In one embodiment, a telephony device transmits a request for telephone numbers related to a provided telephone number. A service provider looks up related telephone numbers and provided the related telephone numbers to the requesting telephony device. The provided telephone... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20070123237 - Method for confirming end point location of 911 calls: Certain exemplary embodiments comprise a method comprising receiving, from a user-operated telecommunications device, a user-initiated communication to a non-911 communications address. The method can comprise automatically providing a user with a current location of a user-associated telecommunications device. The method can comprise requesting, from the user, verification of the current... Agent: At&t Corp.

20070123236 - Optimized transmission of text sample format description for streaming timed text: The present invention relates to a method for transmitting formatted text from a streaming server 100 to a mobile client 101 using an RTP protocol in a mobile communication system. The formatted text comprises at least one text sample having an associated text sample format description. Further; the present invention... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20070123238 - System and method for leveraging a caller id to provide a reverse signaling pathway in a network environment: A method for providing signaling in a network environment is provided that includes receiving, at a mobile station, a new call from a mobility application, the new call including a caller ID segment associated with an existing call for the mobile station. The method further includes evaluating data included in... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070123239 - Systems and methods to direct a mobile communications device to a preferred teleconference bridge: A telecommunication system includes a processor, interfaces in communication with the public telephone network and a data network, respectively, and a memory. The memory comprises executable instructions that when executed by the processor direct the system to controllably permit access to a teleconference bridge in response to a communication from... Agent: Robert A. Blaha Smith Frohwein Tempel

20070123240 - Telecommunications interruption and disconnection apparatus and methods: Embodiments of interruption-sound devices for producing an interruption sound signal in a telecommunications transmission signal comprising a signal generating circuit and a processing circuit, in accordance with the present invention. The interruption sound signals are input into the appropriate location of the telecommunications device such that the interruptee perceives characteristic... Agent: Paul J. Fordenbacher Silicon Forest Patent Group

20070123242 - Device and method for selecting an application for a mobile handset: A memory suitable for inserting and removing from a handset, where the memory stores instructions to identify an operating system and firmware of the handset, select an application that is compatible with operating system and the firmware and install the compatible application on the handset.... Agent: Daniel J Swirsky

20070123241 - Mobile communication terminal: It is presented a method for managing content items of a mobile communication terminal. The method comprises the steps of: reading a current time, selecting at least one content item, reading a time of last access of said at least one selected content item, calculating a difference between said current... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070123244 - Declaring terminal provisioning with service guide: Provided are apparatuses and methods in a digital broadcast transmission system for transmitting terminal provisioning as a service or as an access of a service. Terminal provisioning may provide a terminal with, for example, configuration parameters, data, or applications to a terminal or group of terminals. Transmission of terminal provisioning... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20070123243 - Remote control: To realize remote control of a shared terminal that can be used in common by users, an information-providing terminal displays code information containing information that can identify the location of installation of the information-providing terminal. Remote-control terminals read the code information displayed on the information-providing terminal and transmit to the... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20070123245 - Communication system and communication terminal device: In the communication system having a first communication terminal device which performs peer-to-peer communication, and a second communication terminal device which performs communication via a communication network. The first communication terminal device includes: a relay application section which applies for communication relay via the communication network to the second communication... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070123248 - Methods and apparatuses for using mobile gps receivers to synchronize basestations in cellular networks: Methods and apparatuses for establishing time at a first basestation, and synchronizing the first basestation with other basestations in a cellular network. The method may be performed using a mobile (cellular communication) station that includes a satellite position system receiver. One method comprises determining a location of the mobile station,... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070123246 - Mobile cellular telecommunications infrastructure based multi-user applications: The present invention is directed toward the use of Point-To-MultiPoint (PTMP) display messages over a mobile cellular telecommunications infrastructure for supporting a number of multi-user applications including multi-user interactive applications in the case of interactive display messages. Exemplary applications include a consumer survey, a multi-player game, a Content on Demand... Agent: Harold L. Novick The Nath Law Group

20070123247 - Retry limits for connection rescue procedures in telecommunication system: An efficient and safe procedure to limit the number and concentration of attempts to rescue communication connections from dropping is disclosed. One embodiment limits the number of rescues per connection. Another embodiment allows a rescue only if a certain amount of time has passed since the last rescue. Yet another... Agent: Morrison & Foerster, LLP

20070123249 - Field device management: Field device management includes receiving data from a field device. The data describes current settings by which the field device is collecting geographic data. The geographic data includes geodetic data recorded from a GPS or DGPS system within the field device. Configuration instructions can be transmitted to the field device... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20070123250 - Method of monitoring performance, performance monitoring system, and network performance monitoring apparatus: A method of monitoring performance of a communications network supporting a plurality of communications devices comprises providing a number of the plurality of the communications terminals with respective software agents to make respective measurements in relation to an attribute of a communications service supported by the communications network. The number... Agent: Paul D. Greeley Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.L.P.

20070123251 - Remote internet telephony device: Remote receipt and placement of Internet Telephony communications emulates traditional POTS telephone service through a combination of software and a specialized cordless telephony device, allowing ringing and answering of inbound calls, dialing of outbound numbers, and signaling of handset status, as well as traditional telephony capabilities such as memory dialing,... Agent: Max Stul Oppenheimer

20070123252 - Systems, methods and computer program products for mobility management in hybrid satellite/terrestrial wireless communications systems: Apparatus, methods and computer program products that support inter-PLMN coordination in registration and handover operations are provided. Hysteresis is introduced in registration of radioterminals in a hybrid terrestrial/satellite mobile communications environment. Inter-PLMN handover techniques are provided, including techniques for coordination of communication of timing information and traffic channel controls.... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20070123253 - Unified directory and presence system for universal access to telecommunications services: A subscriber profile access management system for a telecommunications service provider or telecommunications operator provides technical solutions to providing a single point of access to telecommunications subscriber profile information. As the products and services offered by the service provider grow, and given the many different access mechanisms through which a... Agent: Accenture Chicago 28164 Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070123254 - Method for improving channel scanning in portable internet system and apparatus using the same: A channel scanning apparatus in a portable Internet system establishes a radio link with each of neighboring access points without disconnecting a wireless link with a serving access point and collects radio channel state information of each of the respective neighboring access points. That is, apart from a RF signal... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070123255 - Mobile internet system, mobile communication terminal thereof and operation control method thereof: A mobile internet system, mobile communication terminal thereof and method of controlling operation thereof are disclosed. According to an embodiment, the mobile internet system includes a mobile communication terminal configured to execute at least one of a scanning procedure and a ranging procedure. The mobile communication terminal first executes the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070123256 - System and method for cordless handset registration: A method and system for registering wireless devices with a base unit that is configured to communicate wirelessly with multiple wireless devices. In one example, the wireless devices are cordless handsets of cordless telephone systems. When placed in a charging cradle, an unregistered handset displays a message indicating that the... Agent: Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP

20070123261 - Method and apparatus for performing handoff in communications systems: A communication system including a closed loop power control system. Prior to allowing a handoff to a new base station, the subscriber station verifies that its reverse link signal is being received by the destination base station with sufficient energy. The determination is made based on the received reverse link... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070123260 - Method for discovering wireless network for inter-system handover, multi-mode terminal unit and inter-working service server using the method: In a wireless network discovery method according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, a) a propagation environment information message generated by using signal information received from the heterogeneous wireless networks is transmitted to the common core network, b) a wireless network discovery range generated by using the propagation... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070123257 - Mobile station handover for base stations with adaptive antenna system: Method for transferring service for a mobile station call signal from a first base transceiver station to a second base transceiver station in a wireless mobile telecommunication system, while a call is in progress. The method can include receiving at a base transceiver station an access burst from a mobile... Agent: Sacco & Associates, Pa

20070123258 - Mobile terminal autonomous handoff for unidirectional mobile communication: A method and a mobile receiver are provided for autonomous handoff at the mobile receiver in support for unidirectional transmission from fixed servers. The mobile receiver selects a broadcast server on which it then receives a designation for a downlink traffic channel which is not paired with an uplink traffic... Agent: Sandra Beauchesne Ericsson Canada Inc.

20070123259 - System and method for executing a seamless handoff in a network environment: A method for providing a handoff in a network environment is provided that includes a mobile station operable to conduct a call. The mobile station is further operable to initiate a call leg autonomously such that a generic transfer function is invoked. The mobile station leverages the generic transfer function... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070123262 - Antenna adaptation to manage the active set to manipulate soft hand-off regions: A method of managing the number of base station engaged in soft hand-off in a mobile communication system. The method involves manipulating a subscriber based directional antenna so as to control the number of base transceiver stations, pilot channels, beacon signals or other signals detected to be used in soft... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20070123263 - Distributed multi-beam wireless system: A wireless network has nodes, which can be accessed by wireless terminals via wireless access links, coupled via wireless transit links using multiple directional antenna beams. The nodes are self-organizing and self-adapting as nodes are added and as other changes occur. A new node uses beam scanning to listen for... Agent: Smart & Biggar P.o. Box 2999, Station D

20070123264 - Method, system and computer program for planning a telecommunications network: Method for planning a telecommunications network for radio equipment including a plurality of cells distributed on a geographic area, each one of which has a set of elementary territory areas (pixels) adapted to receive a radio signal radiated by a respective fixed radio base station, wherein radio equipment located in... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070123265 - Mobile terminal capable of re-selecting cell in accordance of residual amount of battery and method of operating the same: A mobile terminal and method for re-selecting a cell in accordance with a residual amount of a battery capacity so that the number of times or re-selecting a cell is reduced in accordance with the residual amount of the battery capacity. Information on a plurality of cells having different priorities... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070123267 - Handover in a cellular communication system: A cellular communication system includes first and second base stations and a user equipment. A Radio Network Controller controls a handover of the user equipment between the base stations by either forwarding data of the communication to both the first and second base stations or to only one of the... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070123266 - Method for signalling and time reduction during connection release: A method in a communication device of releasing a radio resource control (RRC) connection in a CELL_FACH or CELL_DCH state is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of receiving (202) an RRC connection release message and responding (204) to the RRC connection release message to release the RRC connection without... Agent: Motorola Inc

20070123271 - Cellular phone tracking scope: A cellular phone tracking scope tracks and visually maps the location and movement history of cellular phones in one or more cellular networks in a region of interest. The tracked cellular phones include detection and tracking of the location (latitude/longitude) of those that are not in use. With proper authorization,... Agent: Manelli Denison & Selter PLLC

20070123273 - Geographical position extension in messaging for a terminal node: The present invention provides methods and apparatus for supporting geographical-based services in a communications system. In an embodiment of the invention, a terminal node (e.g., a wireless terminal) inserts geographical information into a header portion of an IPv6 datagram. The serving network utilizes the geographical information to support a geographical-based... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20070123268 - Method for generating triggers based on the position of a terminal in a mobile communication network, related network and computer program product therefor: Triggers for the provision of location based services in a mobile communication network supporting a plurality of mobile terminals over a given territory, are generated by defining a set of target areas within the territory covered by the network, each target area being identified by respective geographic data, transforming the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070123269 - Mobile communication terminal and positional information providing method: An object is to provide a cell phone capable of achieving improvement in efficiency of communication and improvement in user's operability on the occasion of providing location information. A cell phone 10 has a data transmitter 101 for transmitting user data to a content delivery server 30, using a user... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070123272 - Mobile communications system and method for controlling transmission power: A mobile communications system, designed to enable the overall amount of power emitted to be kept down, provided with a mobile station location information generating unit for generating location information indicating a present location of a mobile station when transmitting a request for increasing the transmission power from the mobile... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070123270 - Mobile device product locator: Systems, methods, and software are described for identifying a location with a mobile communications device. According to various embodiments of the invention, an electronic image is captured via the mobile communications device. A first set of data identifying the location of the mobile communications device may be received, and the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070123274 - Wireless communications network and method of operation thereof: A wireless communications network (100) comprising a plurality of sites (102-114) each of which is served by a node (116-128), and said nodes (116-128) are connected with other elements of the network infrastructure. The network further comprises a plurality of mobile stations (130-134). At least one of said sites (102)... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20070123276 - Secure valet telephone system apparatus and method: The Invention is an apparatus and method of providing a valet telephone service. A dedicated wireless telephone is provided to a subscriber as a benefit of subscription. The dedicated wireless telephone will place calls only to and receive calls only from a service provider central computer. Incoming and outgoing calls... Agent: Robert J. Yarbrough, Attorney At Law

20070123275 - Telecommunication advertising system: An advertising/revenue generation system for use with telecommunication systems. A database can be organized or sorted on parameters relating to telecommunication, such as caller demographics, time and place of a call, and the services of the initially dialed number. Advertisers can submit advertisements to the advertising system. When a caller... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070123281 - Apparatus and method for providing short message service and multimedia messaging service over a wired telephone network: An apparatus and method for providing Short Message Service (SMS) and Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) over a wired telephone network are provided. In an Access Point (AP), an access module provides a wireless connection interface for wireless communication with a convergence terminal. A control module controls wireless communication and communications... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070123278 - Message handling in portable electronic device: The present invention is directed towards a method and a device for preparing a message in a portable electronic device such as a cellular phone. The device comprises a message type selection unit (14) providing a set of items of message types (20, 22, 24, 26, 28) that can be... Agent: Harrity Snyder, L.L.P.

20070123279 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for processing a calling party number to activate a function and/or convey information at a terminating device: A network processes a call that has a calling party number field in a signaling message that is associated therewith. The calling party number field includes a calling party number and command codes that are used to activate a function at a terminating device and/or convey information.... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20070123280 - System and method for providing mobile device services using sms communications: An enhanced services platform has an interface for receiving a communication from a user requesting a desired data. An automated response module parses the communication and retrieves the desired data. The enhanced services platform arranges the desired data into a response message that is sent to the user, where the... Agent: Sofer & Haroun LLP.

20070123277 - Telecommunications system: A telecommunications system provides a facility for communicating a Short Message Service (SMS) message to a mobile user equipment using a subscriber identity number when the mobile user equipment is communicating via an Internet Protocol network using an Internet Protocol (IP) communication being terminated on the IP network. The system... Agent: Haverstock & Owens LLP

20070123282 - Low power pulse modulation communication in mesh networks with modular sensors: A modular sensor architecture. A sensor includes multiple planes that are in electrical communication. A power plane provides a power source and a communications module that can be optical and/or electrical in nature. The power source can be upgraded using optical power delivered over an optical fiber. The sensor can... Agent: Workman Nydegger (f/k/a Workman Nydegger & Seeley)

20070123283 - System and method for obscuring unwanted ambient noise and a mobile communications device and central office equipment incorporating the same: A system for, and method of, obscuring ambient noise with a mobile communications device and central office equipment including the system and/or method. In one embodiment, the mobile communications device includes: (1) a background sound generator (2) a mixer coupled to the background sound generator, (3) a user interface coupled... Agent: Hitt Gaines, PC Agere Systems Inc.

20070123289 - Communications system having pre-defined calling groups: A communications system having a pre-defined calling group with a plurality of members is disclosed. A plurality of personal communication devices (PCDs) each have a system ID and a group ID, and each member of the group is assigned one of the PCDs. The system ID and the group ID... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070123286 - Method and apparatus for providing the status of a wireless communication device in a group network directly to other members in the group network: A method, server, and wireless communication system for directly providing user status information representing status of use of a wireless device to a user of another wireless device, each wireless device being members of a group, is disclosed. The method comprises receiving, at a first wireless device (104), user status... Agent: Fleit, Kain, Gibbons, Gutman, Bongini & Bianco P.l.

20070123287 - Method and apparatus for providing the status of a wireless communication device in a group network to other members in the group network: A method, server, and wireless communication system for providing user status information representing status of use of a first wireless device to at least a second wireless device, the first device and second device being members of a group, is disclosed. The method comprises receiving, at a server (108) for... Agent: Fleit, Kain, Gibbons, Gutman, Bongini & Bianco P.l.

20070123285 - Method and system for multiparty calling using a dual mode phone with private call: A method (100) and system (20) for multiparty communication using at least one dual mode communication device includes a dual mode radio (11) having at least a first modem (12) for operation on a first network and a second modem (13) for operation on a second network and a processor... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070123288 - Method of controlling a broadcast call: The invention concerns a method of controlling a broadcast call in a telecommunications network (30) and a broadcast call control system (2). The telecommunications network (30) comprises switching units (214 to 220) for providing telephone connections to subscribers (221 to 230) of the telecommunications network (30). First, a broadcast call... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070123284 - Method of reducing delay: The present invention relates to a method of reducing setup delay for an uplink message from a user terminal (UT) in a delay sensitive service in a radio telecommunications system, such as a push to talk service (PoC), by predicting that delay sensitive data is about to be transmitted, sending,... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070123290 - Low power transmission mode: A method for operating a mobile terminal and a mobile terminal is provided for using a low power transmission mode. The method comprises transmitting an access request to a base station; receiving from the base station a request to transmit using a low power transmission mode in response to the... Agent: Harrity Snyder, L.L.P.

20070123291 - Radio communication system: m

20070123293 - Method and device(s) encoding speech data in radio access network of radio communication system: A device receives from a base station speech data encoded with a first speech codec, transcodes the speech data into a second speech codec and transmits the speech data encoded with the second speech codec toward a base station controller used for controlling the transmission of the speech data.... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070123292 - Method and system for acquiring information about neighbor base stations and neighbor relay stations in a multi-hop relay broadband wireless access communication system: A method and system for acquiring information about neighbor base stations (BSs) and neighbor relay stations (RSs) in a multi-hop relay broadband wireless access communication system are provided. In the method, a serving BS collects information about the neighbor BSs and the neighbor RSs, generates a message including the collected... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070123297 - Method and apparatus for enabling a mobile device to subscribe and acquire services, and the mobile device: Provided is a method for enabling a mobile device to subscribe and acquire services, including the steps of: detecting available services/connections or service/location tags which are selectable by the mobile device within the short-to-medium range from the mobile device; triggering the mobile device to connect to a corresponding service/connection provider... Agent: Driggs, Hogg & Fry Co. L.p.a.

20070123295 - Mobile terminal: A mobile terminal including a main body having a display mounted thereon, and a keypad assembly including at least first and second keypads configured to be received in a stacked state within the main body. Further, the at least first and second keypads are slidably mounted with respect to each... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070123294 - Speaker device for portable terminal using antenna mounting space: Disclosed is a speaker device for a portable terminal using an antenna mounting space, which includes at least one speaker module so as to enable sound to resonate in the antenna mounting space. The speaker device includes at least one speaker module integrated with the embedded antenna module, in which... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070123296 - Telecommunication system: A telecommunication system. The telecommunication system comprises a telecommunication apparatus and an audio accessory attached thereto. The audio accessory comprises an accessory interface and an accessory controller. The accessory controller controls operation of the audio accessory according to connection status of the audio interface. The telecommunication apparatus comprises an apparatus... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070123298 - Mobile wireless communications device having buffered clock distribution network for microprocessor and rf circuits: A mobile wireless communications device includes a circuit board carried by a housing. A microprocessor, RF transceiver and circuitry are carried by the circuit board and operative with each other. Clock buffer circuitry is carried by the circuit board and connected to the RF transceiver and circuitry and microprocessor for... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20070123301 - Handwriting input device for fax application: A handwriting input device for fax application connected to either the modem of a mobile phone or a built-in radio communication module having a function equivalent to a modem, whereby a user can send the content of a handwriting image to a remote fax machine by firstly writing a digital... Agent: Yuan-heng Wu

20070123300 - Mobile communications terminal providing memo function and method thereof: A mobile communication terminal including a controller configured to activate both a speakerphone function and an additional function on the terminal when a functional key corresponding to the additional function is selected during an existing call, and an input unit configured to input information related to the additional function during... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070123299 - Multiple function handheld device: A method for enabling at least a portion of a multiple function handheld device begins by enabling at least a portion of a digital audio functionality in response to a first mode selection. The method continues by disabling wireless communication fimctionality in response to the first mode selection.... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070123304 - Interface and communication protocol for a mobile device with a smart battery: Various embodiments are described herein for a mobile communication device that utilizes a smart battery. The mobile device includes a main processor for controlling the operation of the mobile communication device. The smart battery is coupled to the main processor and provides supply power. The smart battery includes a battery... Agent: Bereskin And Parr

20070123303 - Mobile device with a smart battery: Various embodiments are described for a mobile communication device having a main processor for controlling the operation of the mobile communication device; a device memory coupled to the main processor for storing a plurality of battery information profiles; and a smart battery coupled to the main processor for providing supply... Agent: Bereskin And Parr

20070123302 - Portable composite communication terminal for transmitting/receiving and images, and operation method and communication system thereof: A method of operating a portable composite communication terminal the functions as both a portable phone and a camera. The method includes: setting a portable phone mode by turning on the portable composite communication terminal, regulating voltage supporting components of the portable phone mode, and performing a general portable phone... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070123305 - Method for securing a near field communication device of a mobile phone: A security method includes reading an international mobile subscriber identity (IMSI) number of a subscriber identity module (SIM) card and an identity number of a near field communication (NFC) card of the mobile phone; detecting if the IMSI number matches first data stored in memory of the mobile phone, detecting... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070123306 - Method for stabilizing bts using e1 trunk board duplexing of bsc: A method for stabilizing a BTS by dualizing an E1 trunk board in a BSC, wherein the method operates the E1 trunk board in a dual mode by establishing at least two E1 interfacing connections between the BTS and the BSC. This is so that the BTS continues to provide... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20070123307 - Display of secure messages on a mobile communication device: A mobile communications device for the display of an incrementally received message includes a message viewer application for scanning the received portions of the message. On determination that the received portion of the message includes a first displayable portion of the message content, the system signals to a message server... Agent: Dimock Stratton LLP

20070123310 - Function information notifying system and function information notifying method: A user terminal A inquires of a user terminal B for the terminal function information. Upon receiving a request signal from the user terminal A via a communication control section, the user terminal B checks whether the user permits transmission of the terminal function information to the user terminal A,... Agent: Michaud-duffy Group LLP

20070123308 - Method for recognizing location using built-in camera and device thereof: The present invention relates to a location recognition device for recognizing a location by a mobile terminal having a camera and a method thereof. In the above method, the location recognition device photographs a location recognition tag storing location recognition information, and measures a distance to the location recognition tag.... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070123309 - Mobile information terminal apparatus and method of controlling the same: A mobile information terminal apparatus including a first case including a display portion, a second case, and a rotary support mechanism for supporting the first case and the second case such that the first case is horizontally rotatable with respect to the second case and the first case takes at... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070123311 - Method for setting substitute ringback tone of calling party in mobile communications system: Method for setting substitute ringback tone of calling party to be identical with that of called party. A substitute ringback tone playing server 30 in the system checks whether there is a certain key input or key input stream from the calling party requesting of bringing substitute ringback tone of... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070123312 - Multi-use acoustic leak path system: The invention concerns a mobile communications unit (100) having at least one transducer (120) that can broadcast audio through a direct port (110), at least one leak port (114) for leak tolerance of the unit, in which the leak port can have a first opening (116) and a multi-use opening... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20070123313 - Speakerbox: An electro-acoustic communications unit (20) may include an acoustic driver (22) which, when operated, emits acoustic waves in two directions. A hermetically sealed container (24) attached to the acoustic driver may include a gas other than air. The gas may transport acoustic waves generated by the acoustic driver.... Agent: Harrity Snyder, L.L.P.

20070123314 - Low power mode for a multiple function handheld device: A method begins by monitoring a battery voltage. The method continues by comparing the battery voltage with a threshold voltage. The method continues, when the battery voltage compares unfavorably to the threshold voltage, by establishing the first power state. The method continues by disabling at least a portion of a... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070123316 - Battery pack authentication for a mobile device: Various embodiments are described herein for a mobile communication device that authenticates a smart battery prior to use. The mobile device includes a main processor and a device memory. The device memory stores first and second portions of security information used for authentication. The smart battery includes a battery processor... Agent: Bereskin And Parr

20070123315 - Method and system for charging a mobile phone with conventional dc batteries: The present invention is an apparatus providing electrical power from conventional DC batteries to a mobile phone. The apparatus includes a main body having at least one battery receptacle. The receptacle includes a positive terminal and an oppositely mounted negative terminal. The spacing between the terminals is at a distance... Agent: Michael L. Diaz, P.C.

20070123322 - Cellular phone apparatus with keyboard: A cellular phone has a three-stage stacked structure including a ten-key case of a lower stage, a full-key case of a middle stage and a display case of an upper stage. When the cellular phone is in call style, the ten-key case is slid in the longitudinal direction to expose... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070123320 - Key input device for portable terminal: A key input device for a portable terminal includes wheel keys capable of rotating in multiple directions and performing a switch function. The key input device including a plurality of keys having at least one wheel keys provided in a main body and rotating in multiple directions, at least one... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20070123319 - Portable terminal with dual axis hinge device: A portable terminal includes: a first housing; a second housing rotatably connected to the first housing to open or close the housings. A hinge device interconnects the first and second housings. The hinge device provides first and second hinge axes extending perpendicular to each other, wherein the hinge device limits... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070123317 - Seals for communication devices and method for assembling communication device: A seal (200) in a communication device (100) and a method (600) for assembling the communication device are disclosed. A transducer (402) is positioned on a transducer portion (202) of the seal. The seal comprises an audio port (208) and an audio tunnel (206). A display (106) is positioned on... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20070123318 - Slide type mobile terminal: A hand-held mobile terminal for use in a mobile communications network is provided. The terminal comprises a first body comprising a top portion and a bottom portion, the top of the first body comprising a user interface for allowing a user to interact with the mobile terminal to input data;... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070123321 - Telephone apparatus: Telephone apparatus in that a front cover 3 and a rear cover 4 are combined with each other to form a main body 2, and various components are provided in the main body 2, The front cover 3 includes a transmitter 5, an operating unit 6, a display unit 7,... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070123323 - Wireless headset having improved rf immunity to rf electromagnetic interference produced from a mobile wireless communications device: A wireless headset has improved immunity to RF electromagnetic interference produced from wireless communications devices. A headset body is adapted to be worn by a user and includes a microphone and earpiece. An antenna receives wireless communication signals and passes them to RF and audio circuitry mounted within the headset... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20070123325 - Method for performing digital broadcasting service in a dual-hinge type mobile terminal: Disclosed is a method for performing a digital broadcasting service in a dual-hinge type mobile terminal including a main housing and a folder, in which the folder is closed and opened with respect to the main housing in such a manner that the folder moves closely to or away from... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070123324 - Portable communication terminal: Opening/closing operation is detected at a portable communication terminal that includes an opening/closing mechanism and upon predicting the occurrence of a shock resulting from at least one of the opening operation and the closing operation, the head of a hard disk drive is retracted to a safe position so as... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070117506 - Dual mode dmb terminal capable of simultaneously receiving satellite dmb and terrestrial dmb: A dual mode Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (DMB) terminal for simultaneously receiving signals of satellite and terrestrial DMB broadcasting stations includes a satellite DMB receiver for receiving and demodulating the satellite signals, and outputting a satellite MPEG 2-TS, and another receiver for analogously processing terrestrial signals. A classification unit switches the... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20070117507 - Integrated direct conversion satellite tuner: A direct conversion satellite tuner is fully integrated on a common substrate. The integrated tuner receives an RF signal having a plurality of channels and down-converts a selected channel directly to baseband for further processing. The integrated tuner includes on-chip local oscillator generation, tunable baseband filters, and DC Offset cancellation.... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070117508 - Conference presence based music-on-hold suppression system and method: A private branch exchange (PBX) (or network hosted device) is described herein that is capable of obtaining information (e.g., in-a-conference presence state) that indicates a user is participating in a multi-party conference call which is being hosted by an external conference/collaboration bridge and is further capable of disabling a music-on-hold... Agent: Alcatel Usa Intellectual Property Department

20070117509 - Satellite communication system: A communication system has a plurality of ground stations and a plurality of satellites located in a first orbit with respect to the earth. The satellites generate a plurality of beams corresponding to a respective plurality of cell. The plurality of beams has widths that vary relative to position in... Agent: The Directv Group Inc

20070117510 - System for responsive to detection, acoustically signalling desired nearby devices and services on a wireless network: The invention relates to a distributed electronic system having at least one device G1 able to be perceived (2) and at least one device G2 capable of perception (3), which latter has an acoustic output. To enable devices of a type being looked for by a user to be more... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070117511 - Rf receiving apparatus and method for removing leakage component of received signal using local signal: A radio frequency (RF) receiver and receiving method are provided which can remove a leakage component from a received signal by using a local signal. In the RF receiver, a noise removing unit controls a gain and a phase of a local signal LOI according to a phase THETA and... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070117512 - Interference-resistant wireless audio system and the method thereof: An interference-resistant method for a wireless audio system capable of transforming an audio signal into an RF signal includes transforming the audio signal into a PCM signal, appending a first control signal to the PCM signal, and modulating the PCM signal with the first control signal into an analog base-band... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070117514 - Directional antenna configuration for tdd repeater: A wireless communication node, such as a repeater, including a frequency translating repeater, a physical layer (PHY) repeater, time divisional duplex repeater (TDD) and the like, is configured with a pair of directional patch antennae and an omni-directional antenna. The patch antennae can be selected depending on the orientation of... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20070117513 - Wireless communication system, weight control apparatus, and weight vector generation method: Signals received by a plurality of antenna elements are supplied to a beam forming circuit via a distributor. The beam forming circuit weights and combines the signals to output a reception signal corresponding to a beam having a predetermined directionality pattern. A weight used to control weighting and combining is... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070117515 - Burst processor method and apparatus: A system and method for processing a wireless burst transmission. A sensor measures the energy of the wireless burst transmission. A first amplifier is in electrical communication with the sensor. A second amplifier is in electronic communication with the sensor. The first amplifier and the second amplifier are initially enabled... Agent: Joseph R. Englander Christopher & Weisberg, P.A.

20070117516 - Method and apparatus for collecting information from a wireless device: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate remotely monitoring and/or controlling a media device that obtains broadcast and/or multicast transmission(s). According to various aspects, systems and methods are described that facilitate remotely controlling media device(s) that operate in connection with broadcast and/or multicast transmission(s) with limited or no reverse link... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070117517 - Method for dynamic frequency selection and system supporting the same in a cognitive radio wireless communication system: Dynamic frequency selection based on CR is provided. A CR BS detects an interference-free and unused frequency band. When sensing a new BS that has great signal strength and requires the frequency band during communications in the frequency band, the CR BS releases the frequency band and dynamically selects another... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070117518 - Adaptive bearer configuration for broadcast/multicast service using received response information: A method and apparatus for providing adaptive bearer configuration for MBMS delivery is disclosed. A first aspect of the present disclosure is a method of operating a wireless infrastructure entity (103) wherein a plurality of common radio resources (303) are allocated for receiving combined responses from a plurality of mobile... Agent: Motorola Inc

20070117519 - Dynamic channel quality measurement procedure implemented in a wireless digital communication system to prioritize the forwarding of downlink data: A wireless digital communication system includes a base station in communication with a plurality of user equipment mobile terminals (UEs). The system prioritizes the forwarding of blocks of downlink data to designated ones of the UEs. The system employs adaptive modulation and coding (AM&C) to achieve improved radio resource utilization... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070117520 - Communication unit: In a communication unit 100, a ground layer section 101 which is a sheet-like conductive material and a power-source layer section 102 which is a sheet-like conductive material are laid out in such a way that their one sides face each other, a voltage is applied in such a way... Agent: Howard & Howard Attorneys, P.C.

20070117521 - Method of controlling phase locked loop in mobile station, and mobile station: A method of controlling a phase locked loop in a mobile station and a mobile station of a cellular telecommunications system are provided. The mobile station comprises an integrated phase locked loop for generating output frequencies; a frequency control unit for providing a frequency control word for the phase locked... Agent: Hollingsworth & Funk, LLC

20070117522 - Multi-mode radio with interference cancellation circuit: A multi-mode wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) includes at least one antenna, first and second communication mode receivers and a first communication mode transmitter. The first and second receivers simultaneously receive signals from the antenna. The first transmitter generates and sends a first type of signal to the antenna while, at... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070117523 - Method and apparatus for signal power loss reduction in rf communication systems: Multiple power amplifiers in an RF front end are coupled to multiple antennas without diversity switching between the PAs and antennas. Diversity switches direct signals to broadcast by a selected antenna to a PA coupled to the selected antenna. Multiple LNAs are similarly coupled to the diverse antennas. Having one... Agent: Bever Hoffman & Harms, LLP

20070117524 - Quasi-circulator for antenna multi-coupler system: A multi-coupler system for isolating radio signals in a transceiver, that includes a transmitter and a receiver, to permit simultaneous transmit by the transmitter and receive by the receiver through a single antenna in the exact same or nearby frequency ranges. This is done so that in-coming receive signals, transmitted... Agent: Trex Enterprises Corp.

20070117525 - Method and apparatus for vehicle-to-vehicle multi-hop broadcast communication: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for reducing the number of packets in a vehicle-to-vehicle multi-hop broadcast communication. The method determines a position data comprising a position, a velocity and a direction of a receiving vehicle (1, 2, 3, 4), receives a position data comprising position, velocity... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070117526 - Modeling power amplifier and spreading code limits in a wireless system: Techniques are disclosed for modeling wireless system performance subject to limitations on shared system resources such as power amplifiers and spreading codes. In accordance with an aspect of the invention, a software modeling tool implemented on a computer or other processing device identifies two or more limited resources of the... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20070117527 - Method and apparatus of multiple antenna receiver: A communication method performed by a mobile terminal with multiple antenna elements, comprising steps of: receiving the corresponding Rx vector signals from multiple antenna elements; calculating the suitable weight vector corresponding to the Rx vector signal of each antenna element according to the corresponding Rx vector signals; and obtaining an... Agent: Philips Electronics North America Corporation Intellectual Property & Standards

20070117529 - Onboard reception device, and noise cancellation method for onboard reception device: This onboard reception device includes: a first receiver; a second receiver which is tuned to a second frequency which is different from a first frequency to which the first receiver is tuned, and whose reception level is low; a noise cancellation means which cancels noise included in a first demodulated... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070117528 - Rf receiving apparatus and method using dc offset free baseband signal: An RF receiver and an RF receiving method are provided using a baseband signal in which a DC offset is removed. In the RF receiver, a noise phase removing unit generates a phase controlled local signal PLOQ in which a phase of a Q signal of a local signal LOQ... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070117530 - System and method for frequency translation with harmonic suppression using mixer stages: A method for generating phase signals includes triggering a phase register to output a binary number stored in the phase register, wherein the phase register is triggered based at least in part on a voltage signal provided by a voltage controlled oscillator. The method also includes providing an input signal... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070117531 - Clock receiver circuit device, in particular for semi-conductor components: A semi-conductor component with a receiver, in particular a clock receiver circuit device, as well as a receiver, in particular a clock receiver circuit device is disclosed. The clock receiver circuit device includes a first input adapted to be connected with a first connection of a semi-conductor component, and second... Agent: Dicke, Billig & Czaja, P.l.l.c.

20070117532 - Terrestrial-digital multimedia broadcasting and digital audio broadcasting low intermediate frequency receiver: Provided is a terrestrial-digital multimedia broadcasting (T-DMB) and digital audio broadcasting (DAB) low intermediate frequency (IF) receiver. A T-DMB and DAB low IF receiver comprises a low noise amplifier (LNA), an image rejection down-conversion mixer, a low pass filter, an amplifier, a local oscillator, and a phase-locked loop. Particularly, the... Agent: Wolf, Block, Shorr And Solis-cohen LLP

20070117533 - Apparatus and method for reducing power consumption in digital broadcast receiver: An apparatus for reducing power consumption in a digital broadcast receiver is provided. An AC-to-DC converter converts input AC power into DC power that can be used in the receiver. A power control switch selectively supplies the DC power from the converter to a tuner unit and a decoder according... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070117534 - Combination measurement device and lamp: A combination measurement device and lamp includes a housing unit, a measurement device, a light source unit, and a power source unit. The measurement device is disposed in the housing unit and in proximity to an upper side surface of the housing unit, and includes a measurement body having a... Agent: Kirschstein, Ottinger, Israel & Schiffmiller, P.C.

20070117535 - Multifunctional radio: A multifunctional radio (100) includes a housing (10) and at least one speaker (16). The housing has an external interface (144) for connecting an external device. The at least one speaker is fixed in the housing. The at least one speaker is electronically adapted by the external device. The multifunctional... Agent: Morris Manning Martin LLP

20070117536 - Methods and apparatus for delivering regional parameters: System for delivering regional parameters. A method is provided for delivering regional parameters. The method includes receiving a parameter stream that includes one or more sets of regional parameters associated with one or more regions. The method also includes determining a first real-time region indicator, and selecting one or more... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070117537 - Method of managing resources in a cognitive radio communication system: A resource management method in a Cognitive Radio communication system where at least two Base Stations of heterogeneous networks provide a connection service to Mobile Stations within their service areas is provided. In the method, at least one BS having candidate resources broadcasts its candidate resource information on the downlink... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070117538 - Message broadcasting billing system and method: A system and method for billing for network usage for broadcast transmission to broadcast message receiving devices located within a broadcast target area includes validating the broadcast message record for transmission over a broadcast transmission network and generating a validated broadcast message record as a function of the validating. The... Agent: Polster, Lieder, Woodruff & Lucchesi

20070117539 - Notification of a received message in a wireless mobile communication device based upon authentication: A method (200) and an apparatus (300) for a wireless mobile communication device (102) registered in a wireless communication network (100) for providing a notification of an authenticated received message are provided. The mobile device (102) receives a message having a predefined characteristic (202), evaluates authenticity of the received message... Agent: Research In Motion, Ltd

20070117540 - Electronic equipment for a wireless communication system and method for operating an electronic equipment for a wireless communication system: The present invention relates to an electronic equipment for a wireless communication system comprising a device operable to communicate within the wireless communication system for receiving an electronic program guide information via the wireless communication system, a device for outputting the received electronic program guide information to a user, a... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20070117542 - Method for storing short data: The invention is concerned with a process for storing alphanumeric short messages that are intended for a mobile communications terminal of a mobile communications subscriber's, in such a way that these alphanumeric short messages that are sent to a mobile communications terminal are concurrently and automatically duplicated independently from their... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20070117541 - Wireless messaging system: A messaging system for selectively performing an action on information, for remote retrieval of messages, for performing action on information at different times, for selective paging, for providing a user interface for message access and having integrated audio visual messaging.... Agent: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

20070117543 - Method of providing voicemails to a wireless information device: Voicemail is received at a voicemail server and converted to an audio file format; it is then sent or streamed over a wide area network to a voice to text transcription system comprising a network of computers. One of the networked computers plays back the voice message to an operator... Agent: Synnestvedt Lechner & Woodbridge LLP

20070117544 - Method of providing voicemails to a wireless information device: Voicemail is received at a voicemail server and converted to an audio file format; it is then sent or streamed over a wide area network to a voice to text transcription system comprising a network of computers. One of the networked computers plays back the voice message to an operator... Agent: Synnestvedt Lechner & Woodbridge LLP

20070117545 - Method of providing voicemails to a wireless information device: Voicemail is received at a voicemail server and converted to an audio file format; it is then sent or streamed over a wide area network to a voice to text transcription system comprising a network of computers. One of the networked computers plays back the voice message to an operator... Agent: Synnestvedt Lechner & Woodbridge LLP

20070117546 - Method of providing voicemails to a wireless information device: Voicemail is received at a voicemail server and converted to an audio file format; it is then sent or streamed over a wide area network to a voice to text transcription system comprising a network of computers. One of the networked computers plays back the voice message to an operator... Agent: Synnestvedt Lechner & Woodbridge LLP

20070117547 - Method of providing voicemails to a wireless information device: Voicemail is received at a voicemail server and converted to an audio file format; it is then sent or streamed over a wide area network to a voice to text transcription system comprising a network of computers. One of the networked computers plays back the voice message to an operator... Agent: Synnestvedt Lechner & Woodbridge LLP

20070117548 - Means and method for controlling service progression between different domains: At present, the existing mechanisms for authorising a user of a service network operator to access a service provided by a third party service provider are valid for most of the existing services based on a request and an answer, but for transactional services, those where a service delivery implies... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070117551 - Network device using subscriber identity module: A SIM card for a phone has a first memory partition on which a phone user identity and phone network access data are stored. A service usage monitoring application is stored in a memory. The service usage monitoring application (a) logs information about a service used via the phone, (b)... Agent: Sachnoff & Weaver, Ltd.

20070117552 - Push to talk over cellular having productive use of dead time and inclusion of diverse participants: Various communications clients such as, for example, Push to Talk over Cellular (“PoC”) client applications and PoC devices provided with client applications, provide extended services such as filler information for dead time intervals, and communication of PoC session content with non-PoC subscribers and with PoC subscribers who are offline. Through... Agent: Altera Law Group, LLC

20070117550 - Sim card implemented on a processor readable medium: A SIM card for a phone has a first memory partition on which a phone user identity and phone network access data are stored. A service usage monitoring application is stored in a memory. The service usage monitoring application (a) logs information about a service used via the phone, (b)... Agent: Sachnoff & Weaver, Ltd.

20070117549 - Wireless handset and methods for use therewith: A wireless handset includes a mode selection module for placing the wireless handset in a voice record mode in response to a voice record mode signal. A vocoder module digitizes and stores a voice message as a compressed voice message file, when the wireless handset is in the voice record... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070117553 - Wireless handset and methods for use therewith: A wireless handset includes a transceiver module for receiving a first text message. A mode selection module places the wireless handset in a text playback mode in response to a text playback signal. A text to speech conversion module automatically converts text information from the first text message into a... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070117554 - Wireless handset and methods for use therewith: A wireless handset includes a long range wireless transceiver for sending and receiving wireless data to a wireless telephone network and for selectively producing a first audio stream. An audio playback module selectively produces a second audio stream from a stored audio file. A mixing module produces a mixed audio... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070117555 - Method and system to proxy phone directories: A method (300) and system (100) are disclosed to proxy mobile and network originated call sessions. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a method having the steps of simulating (302-314) a seamless phone directory, and simulating (318-344) a mobile originated call as a... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070117556 - Handset powered wireless table top conferencing system: A system and method for portable table top phone conferencing using a handset. A handset is configured to plug into a table top wireless conferencing device. Preferably, the table top conferencing device preferably includes a cradle that accepts the handset which is used to power the conferencing device. The handset... Agent: Michael Bednarek Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20070117557 - Parametric user profiling: An apparatus for behaviour monitoring on mobile computing devices and a method of operating such devices for adaptively profiling users and for optimising user profile storage requirements. The method comprising monitoring a behaviour of the user by interpreting one or more interactions between the device and the user and storing... Agent: Unilever Intellectual Property Group

20070117558 - Local area wireless airspace management: A mobile wireless device that is implemented to provide personal communications services in a wireless communications network can be integrated with hardware and/or software to manage the device at the device level (e.g., control device usage or operation at the device) at the local level. Management can be implemented to... Agent: Winston & Strawn LLP Patent Department

20070117559 - Method and system for providing digital compensation and vector calibration for a base station in a wireless network: A method for providing digital compensation and vector calibration for a base station in a wireless network is provided. The method includes performing a single process that is operable to provide simultaneously both digital compensation and vector calibration for the base station. According to one embodiment of the present disclosure,... Agent: Docket Clerk

20070117560 - Remote testing of mobile terminals: Remote testing of mobile terminals is presented. A remote testing server includes: a local data transmission connection module to couple the remote testing server with a pool of mobile terminals; a remote data transmission connection module to couple the remote testing server with remote testing clients; a management module to... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070117561 - Method and system for implementing communications between multiple subnets and msc: The present invention discloses a method and a system for implementing communications between multiple subnets covered by one physical Mobile Switching Center (MSC) and an MSC. The method includes the steps of: mapping one physical MSC to multiple logical MSCs, i.e. multiple virtual MSCs, and assigning a virtual MSC number... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070117562 - Apparatus and method for registering location of convergence terminal with multiple interfaces: An apparatus and method for registering the location of a multi-interface convergence terminal are provided. In a register for managing location registration information of a multi-interface convergence terminal, upon receipt of a message with the address of an AP using a short-range wireless communication protocol, a signaling processor requests a... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070117563 - Call setup procedure in an evolved third generation radio access network: A method and system for call setup in an evolved third generation (3G) radio access network are disclosed. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) sends its identity to a core network (CN) for call setup when the WTRU is in an RRC_disconnected state. The CN verifies the identity and sends an... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070117564 - System and method for controlling handover: A method of, apparatus for and a computer program for controlling handover of a mobile station conducting a communications session in a mobile communications network, the network including a plurality of radio access domains, the method comprising receiving a trigger indicating a requirement for handover; testing at least one possible... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070117565 - Method and an apparatus for cell planning: Measuring in a cellular telecommunication system the position of active mobile stations and the service, in terms of bit rate, they use. The first figure shows a number of users, four black dots having a voice connection with low bit rate and two users O having packet switched connection with... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070117567 - Method and system, with component kits for designing or deploying a communications network which considers frequency dependent effects: A computerized model provides a display of a physical environment in which a communications network is or will be installed. The communications network is comprised of several components, each of which are selected by the design engineer and which are represented in the display. Errors in the selection of certain... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20070117568 - Probabilistic model for a positioning technique: A model construction module for constructing a probabilistic model of a wireless environment in which a target device communicates using signals that have a measurable signal value, such as signal strength. The model construction module forms several submodels of the wireless environment. Each submodel indicates a probability distribution for signal... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070117566 - System and method for reducing a forced neighbor cell procedure: The invention concerns a method (300, 500) and system (112) for reducing a forced neighbor cell procedure. The method can include the steps of—in a mobile unit (112) on a communications channel (400, 600)—monitoring (312, 512) one or more neighbor cell parameters and performing (314, 514) a neighbor cell measurement... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20070117569 - Device, system and method of point to multipoint communication: Some embodiments of the invention provide devices, systems and methods of point to multipoint communication. For example, an apparatus in accordance with an embodiment of the invention includes a resource allocator to allocate a wireless communication channel resource to one or more stations of a wireless communication system based on... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20070117570 - Scheduling apparatus and method in a communication system: Provided is a scheduling method in a communication system. In the scheduling method, a Base Station (BS) gathers and stores its channel quality information from each of a plurality of Mobile Stations (MSs), and checks a Multi-Input Multi-Output (MIMO) scheme previously established between the BS and each MS. The BS... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070117572 - Efficient location and tracking of mobile subscribers: A method for locating and tracking devices in a mobile telephone network compries the steps of (a) receiving mobile telephone control parameters in a subscriber database; and (b) using one or more location parameter databases (LPDBs), each mapping control parameters to a geographic location and returning a location result when... Agent: Synnestvedt Lechner & Woodbridge LLP

20070117574 - Electronic apparatus, communication system, and program: When an emergency mode is set, a CPU outputs an alert from an alerting unit and notifies the current position obtained by a GPS processing unit to a predetermined destination by a communication unit. When the main power is switched off, the CPU determines whether or not the emergency mode... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20070117573 - System and method for generating geocoded data for network optimization under different network architectures and location technology conditions: A method for generating geocoded data for a wireless communication system works over a plurality of network architectures and location processes. The method identifies the presence of mobile activity in the wireless communication network and in response collects wireless communication measurement data associated with the mobile activity. Geolocation is performed... Agent: Duane Morris, LLP

20070117571 - User location retrieval for consumer electronic divices: A personal mobile device such as a mobile phone (104) stores an identifier of its location when staying in an area for sufficient time (240, 252), or in response to user input (136), and reports (124, 156, 160) the locations to a recommender system (168) of a consumer electronic (CE)... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070117575 - Method for connection re-establishment in a mobile communciation system: One object of the invention is a method for connection re-establishment in a mobile communication system, comprising: a step wherein a network entity in charge of initiating a paging procedure for a mobile station in idle mode sends a paging request carrying mobility management context information and/or service management context... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070117576 - Gps based friend location and identification system and method: A system and method for observing a personal networking event which shares the position of a number of friendly participants with other participants within a group. In one form, the position of unknown participants meeting certain criteria is also displayed to a user or one or more friendly participants. The... Agent: Daffer Mcdaniel LLP

20070117577 - Routing of a short message originated by a mobile device: Methods (200, 400) and systems (300, 500) in a wireless communication network for routing a short message to a local destination are provided. A wireless communication network (104) has a list of predefined short message destinations, receives a short message having a message destination from a wireless mobile communication device... Agent: Research In Motion, Ltd

20070117578 - Short message service system and method: Provided is a short message service (SMS) system and method, in which a SMS user can directly specify a group (for example, Internet club) of an Internet community and a messenger as a SMS receiver and collectively transmit the same message to several persons belonging to the group. The short... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070117579 - Adaptive bearer configuration for broadcast/multicast service: A method and apparatus for providing adaptive bearer configuration for MBMS delivery is disclosed. A first aspect of the present disclosure is a method of operating a wireless infrastructure entity (103) wherein a common radio resource (303) is allocated for receiving a response from at least one mobile station (109).... Agent: Motorola Inc

20070117580 - Method for allocating a frequency for a wireless audio communication: A method is provided for allocating a frequency for wireless audio communications. A request is received for a frequency for wireless audio communications. The request contains the location, the time period, the quantity of required wireless communications paths and/or the available equipment for the wireless audio communications. This request is... Agent: Reed Smith, LLP Attn: Patent Records Department

20070117581 - Systems and methods for providing push-to-talk to full-duplex voice internetworking: Systems and methods for enabling a PTT user to communicate with an FDV user on a personal PTT communication appliance are provided. The PTT user communicates with the FDV user by connecting to a PTT to FDV system associated with a PTT network and a FDV network. The PTT to... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP

20070117583 - Fast adaptive power control for a variable multirate communications system: A system and a method of controlling transmitter power in a wireless communication system in which user data is processed as a multirate signal in which the user data signal having a first rate is converted into a transmission data signal having a faster second rate for transmission. The transmission... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070117582 - Radio communication system, communication terminal apparatus, base station apparatus, and transmission power control method: The present invention relates to a radio communication system comprising base stations and mobile stations and a method for controlling transmission power in the system where the base station is able to perform multi-point transmission for transmitting the same signal to a plurality of the mobile stations. In the present... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070117584 - Method and system for internet access: Costs associated with accessing the internet from a public terminal are borne by one or more sponsors. The terminal thus sponsored may, in exchange, be limited in the internet domains it is capable of browsing. If a user wishes to browse beyond the sponsored domains, a usage charge may be... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20070117585 - Method for managing acquisition lists for wireless local area networks: An exemplary method for updating acquisition list in a wireless communication device having a first transceiver and a second transceiver is disclosed. The acquisition list associated with the second transceiver. The exemplary method comprises updating a first category of entries of the acquisition list over a wide area network via... Agent: Kyocera Wireless Corp.

20070117586 - Methods and apparatus to initiate the transmission of user data from a mobile device: A wireless handheld user device or cellphone that includes the ability to transmit to a recipient digital content that is presently being presented to a user. The device includes a component that presents video or audio, a peer-to-peer activator and a processing device coupled to the component and the peer-to-peer... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham PLLC

20070117587 - Data read/write device capable of reading sim card: A data read/write device capable of reading SIM (Subscriber Identity Module) card includes a SIM card slot, into which a SIM card is inserted and read; an internally provided SIM card connector for transmitting data of the SIM card inserted in the SIM card slot; a microprocessor for receiving and... Agent: Robert Tsao

20070117588 - Rejection of a call received over a first network while on a call over a second network: A mobile station (110) that includes a first network adapter (210) configured to communicate over a first communications network (120) and a second network adapter (220) configured to communicate over a second communications network (130). The mobile station also includes a multimodal processing module (250) that generates a busy notification... Agent: Cuenot & Forsythe, L.L.C.

20070117589 - Wireless communication system: A wireless base station uses a leaky transmission line as an antenna, and a wireless base station uses a leaky transmission line as an antenna. The leaky transmission line and the leaky transmission line are laid parallel to each other. An interval between the leakage transmission paths is set to... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070117592 - Communication system and method with gain control for signals from distributed antennas: An apparatus for gain control in a communication system is disclosed. The apparatus includes means for receiving at least one aggregate communications signal, the at least one aggregate communications signal comprising a summation of distributed communications signals, means for detecting at least a sample of a signal level of the... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20070117590 - Method and system for feedback of antenna beamforming: The disclosed systems and methods achieve improved communication by periodically sending sounding packets from a transmitter; feeding back, from a receiver, the change in beamforming estimation according to reception of the sounding packets; and utilizing the change in beamforming estimation to produce transmitter beamforming.... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070117591 - Transmission method and related base station: The invention relates to transmission from a base station to a receiver, the base station comprising first radiating means arranged for transmitting according to an antenna pattern with respect to the receiver and further comprising second radiating means arranged for transmitting according to the same antenna pattern as the first... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20070117593 - System and method for detection and notification of improper access of a wireless device: A system and method for detection and notification of an improper access of a wireless device is disclosed. The system includes a wireless device adapted to detect improper access of itself over a wireless network and transmit data representative of the improper access over a data network to a control... Agent: Sprint Nextel Corporation

20070117594 - Method and system for selective deactivation of a main display: A system (130) and method (500) of operating a main display (301) in a radio (300) can monitoring (502) a use characteristic of the radio. Such use characteristics being monitored can include use of an internal speaker or an external speaker, an open angle (303) of the radio, a type... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070117595 - Devices, methods and computer program products for providing a preferred operational mode to a wireless terminal: A device for proximity detection of a wireless terminal includes: a transmitter for transmitting signals inside an area; and a processor operable for instructing the transmitter to transmit a control signal notifying the wireless terminal of a preferred operational mode of the wireless terminal for the area.... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Bellsouth

20070117596 - Radio-frequency (rf) power portal: A system for powering a mobile device having an energy harvester which receives wireless energy and converts the energy into current includes a first portal in which wireless energy is transmitted for the energy harvester of the mobile device to receive and convert it into current when the device is... Agent: Ansel M. Schwartz

20070117598 - Battery cover latching assembly for portable electronic device: A portable electronic device (80) has a battery cover (100) and a housing (200) releasably mounted with a battery cover latching assembly (300). The battery cover has a positioning member (14). The housing has a knob hole (26). The battery cover latching assembly includes a knob (40) and a screw... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070117597 - Mechanical key lock for portable electronic devices and portable electronic devices including the same: An electronic device includes a housing and a keypad arranged on an outer surface of the housing. The housing furthermore includes a displaceable portion which is displaceable between a “locked” position in which the keypad is deactivated and an “active” position in which the keypad is activated.... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20070117600 - Flexible hinge for portable electronic device: The invention concerns a flip-type portable electronic device (100). The device can include a base portion (112), a flip portion (110) and a flexible hinge (114) that can couple the flip portion to the base portion. In one arrangement, the flexible hinge can include a plurality of interlocking links (115)... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20070117599 - Handheld computing and communication device with a multi-position keyboard-lid: A portable, digital electronic device (10) is disclosed which comprises a host unit (20), including a display (21), and a keyboard module (40) connected to the host unit (20) and including at least one group of keys (41, 42, 43). The keyboard module (40) is moveable between at least two... Agent: Hahn Loeser & Parks, LLP

20070111656 - Electronic device having movable and rotatable upper and lower housings: An electronic device includes an upper housing, a lower housing, an elastic element, and a connecting device. The upper housing includes a latching device and a groove. The lower housing includes a latching device for fastening the latching device of the upper housing. A plate portion of the connecting device... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070111657 - Broadcast program recording method, communication control device, and mobile communication device: Disclosed is a broadcast recording method, information terminal, communication device and broadcast recording system for resolving the problem of missing programs when radio wave difficulties occurs or an electronic communication is made during viewing or listening to a program. When an incoming or outgoing call is made in an information... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070111658 - Method for providing information regarding service linking between terrestrial and satellite dmb systems and method for switching services by using service linking information in dmb terminal: Disclosed is a method for providing information regarding service linking between a terrestrial DMB system and a satellite DMB system by using a service linking information provision server for creating and providing service linking information between the terrestrial DMB system and the satellite DMB system in a broadcasting having the... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20070111659 - Method of improving receive sensitivity of satellite digital multimedia broadcasting: A method of improving the receive sensitivity of satellite DMB (digital multimedia broadcasting) in a mobile communication terminal is disclosed, the method including: a) receiving the satellite DMB through a gap filler; b) checking the receive sensitivity of the satellite DMB; and c) performing a process of improving the receive... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070111660 - Mobile communication terminal capable of performing other functions while outputting dmb to external av device: Provided is a mobile communication terminal capable of receiving Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (DMB), which includes a mobile communication terminal module, a DMB module, an external broadcasting output unit, a user interface unit, and a controller. The mobile communication terminal module provides various functions of the mobile communication terminal except for... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070111661 - Integrated crosspoint switch with band translation: Multiple input signal sources in predetermined frequency bands are each applied to block frequency converters. Each block frequency converter frequency converts an input signal to one of a plurality of predetermined frequency bands. A crosspoint switch is configured to route the frequency converted input signals at one of the plurality... Agent: Clifford B. Perry

20070111662 - Method and system for rapidly setting up a communication between a disk drive and a plurality of communicating objects: The invention concerns a method and a system for rapidly establishing a Bluetooth type communication between a reader and a communicating object. The Bluetooth type communication protocol implements a radio frequency communication process on channels having specific frequencies. The specific frequencies are divided into a first subgroup of frequencies and... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski, LLP

20070111664 - Method and apparatus for canceling pilot interference in a wireless communication system: Techniques for canceling pilot interference in a wireless (e.g., CDMA) communication system. In one method, a received signal comprised of a number of signal instances, each including a pilot, is initially processed to provide data samples. Each signal instance's pilot interference may be estimated by despreading the data samples with... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070111663 - Method for analyzing the interference and supply situation in umts sub-networks: The invention relates to a method for analysing the interference and supply situation in universal mobile telecommunication system (UMTS) sub-networks. Said method enables supply assertions for each service in the considered sub-network to be determined using measured data that is recorded either during or without the traffic load of the... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20070111665 - Method and system for reducing channel interference in a frame-synchronized wireless communication system: Base stations having potentially interfering terminal stations that are geographically located on the same or similar diagonal or Line of Sight (relative to the base station) operate on a first set of time frames (e.g., “even” time frames). Similarly, base stations having potentially interfering terminal stations that are not geographically... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20070111668 - System and method for feeding back information to a user-terminal from multiple hubs: This invention discloses a method in a wireless communication network, the method comprises generating a first piece of feedback information by a first hub serving a user terminal, transmitting a second piece of feedback information to the first hub by a second hub, combining the first and second pieces of... Agent: L. Howard Chen, Esq. Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP

20070111667 - Transmission/reception apparatus and method for channel estimation using packet data control channel in fdma communication and system using the same: A transmission/reception apparatus and method are provided for channel estimation in a mobile communication system for transmitting packet data based on FDMA, and include a transmitter for transmitting signals through a pilot channel and a control channel, and a receiver for receiving the signals of the pilot channel and the... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070111669 - Method and apparatus for providing uplink signal-to-noise ratio (snr) estimation in a wireless communication system: A method and apparatus for providing uplink signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) estimation in a wireless communication system. A first signal is received over a first channel and a second signal is received over a second channel, where the second signal is received at a higher signal power level than said first... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070111670 - Device for testing an analog-to-digital converter: A device for testing an analog-to-digital converter providing a digital signal at a given sampling frequency, comprising a unit for providing a test signal to the converter, the test signal being a periodic signal comprising frequency components only at a fundamental frequency and at harmonics of the fundamental frequency, the... Agent: Plevy & Howard & Darcy P.C.

20070111666 - Techniques enabling fast transmit rates and antenna adaptation for wireless networks based on explicit feedback: An embodiment of the present invention provides an apparatus, comprising an access point in a wireless network capable of transmitting sounding packets to at least one wireless station in said wireless network, wherein said wireless station is capable of responding to said access point with information indicating the combination of... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20070111671 - Method for reduction of the power consumption of a mobile data memory; application of the method to an identification system with at least one read/write device and a mobile data memory: The invention relates to a method for reduction of the power consumption of a mobile data memory with a non-contact data transmission by means of a read/write device. According to the invention, the mobile data memory, containing at least one energy store and user, is supplied, at least during a... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070111672 - Vehicle-to-vehicle communication: Various technologies and techniques are disclosed that allow passengers in one vehicle to communicate with passengers of another vehicle. Vehicles can have a computer, transceiver, and one or more antennae that enable vehicle-to-vehicle communications. The computer allows the user to select the particular direction, such as front or back, of... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070111673 - Radio apparatus: In a radio apparatus, the band of a loop filter of a synthesizer in a blank channel searching state is narrower than the band in a communicating state. In addition, a radio wave environment is measured. A characteristic necessary for the radio apparatus is determined corresponding to the measured-radio wave... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070111675 - Communication semiconductor integrated circuit device: The invention provides a communication semiconductor integrated circuit (RF IC) that, when a transmission oscillator is incorporated into a semiconductor chip, secures the oscillation operation over a wide frequency range, prevents a deterioration of a transmission spectrum, and thereby enhances the accuracy of an oscillation frequency. The integrated circuit corrects... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070111674 - Duplexer: A duplexer includes a transmit filter of a ladder type filter, connected between a common terminal and a transmitting terminal, and a receive filter of the ladder type filter, connected between the common terminal and a receiving terminal. One or more parallel resonators in the transmit filter are grounded through... Agent: Arent Fox PLLC

20070111677 - Apparatus and method for stabilizing terminal power in a communication system: An apparatus and method are provided for stabilizing terminal power in antenna ports. A data transmission/reception method is provided for terminal power stabilization in a communication system using multiple antennas. An optimal antenna immune to absorption loss due to human body proximity is selected from among multiple antennas connected to... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070111676 - Baseband / rfic interface for high throughput mimo communications: Analog signal paths are utilized between a baseband processor and a radio front end to support high throughput communications for a multiple in multiple out radio transceiver that support communications over two or more antennas. Specifically, analog differential I and Q path communication signals are exchanged between a radio front... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070111678 - Methods and apparatus for transmitting information between a basestation and multiple mobile stations: Methods and apparatus for scheduling mobile stations (MSs) to download data to and/or to control the rate of downloading to an MS from a base station (BS) as a function of downlink channel condition information are described. Artificial channel variations, which can be measured at the MS, and feedback to... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070111679 - Method and apparatus for vector signal processing: A vector signal processor (80) can include a digital to time converter (DTC), an RF memory (RFM) or an electronically tunable transmission line (ETTL) (82), a mixer, or other phase shifter (70) for receiving an output of the DTC or the ETTL, and a controller for selectively controlling the harmonic... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20070111680 - Apparatus and method for reducing message collision between mobile stations simultaneously accessing a base station in a cdma cellular communications system: Collisions between messages simultaneously transmitted by multiple spread-spectrum transmitters are reduced by distributing the transmissions over the available resources of the receiver. Each mobile station in a CDMA system uses one or more randomization methods to distribute its transmissions. In the first randomization, the mobile station time-delays its transmissions by... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070111682 - Local oscillator leakage relocation: An indication is received to relocate leakage in a transmission signal to be transmitted. A frequency change associated with relocating the leakage in the transmission signal is obtained. The leakage in the transmission signal is relocated based at least in part on the frequency change.... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP

20070111681 - Transmit power allocation in wireless communication devices: A portable multimode wireless communication device (100) including first and second transmitters (110, 120) coupled to corresponding antennas or to a common antenna. The portable device controls (130) an output power of one or both of the first and second transmitters so that a characteristic, for example, the combined specific... Agent: Motorola Inc

20070111683 - Controllable radio frequency stage with variable gain/attenuation, in particular incorporated into the transmission chain of a cellular mobile telephone, and corresponding control method: A radio frequency stage comprises an analog multiplier cell, and an analog current routing cell coupled thereto. The analog multiplier cell includes an input for receiving an input current having a DC component and a radio frequency dynamic component, and a controllable current source for delivering a DC control current.... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20070111684 - Power control on a packet-by-packet basis in a cmos transceiver: A transceiver includes a power control circuit in the transmitter that operates on a packet-by-packet basis. The transceiver can, for each packet, set a variable gain amplifier to a first gain and use predetermined gain increments to thereafter increase gain until a gain hold event. The gain hold event can... Agent: Bever Hoffman & Harms, LLP

20070111686 - High-power amplifier apparatus for tdd wireless communication system: Provided is an HPA apparatus for a TDD wireless communication system. In the HPA apparatus, a power amplifier amplifies the power of an input signal. A gate bias controller turns on/off a gate bias of the power amplifier in accordance with a TDD control signal. A constellation error optimizer circuit... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070111685 - Parallel power amplifier and associated methods: A method and apparatus is provided for use in power amplifiers where multiple parallel power amplifiers provide various output power levels. By selectively enabling and disabling the parallel power amplifiers and combining their outputs, a desired output power can be realized, while choosing a combination of power amplifiers that provide... Agent: Johnson & Associates

20070111687 - Power consumption control methods applied to communication systems, and related devices: A power consumption control method applied to a communication system adjusts the power consumption of a portion of circuit in the communication system according to a transmission distance between the communication system and another communication system. Another power consumption control method applied to a communication system adjusts the power consumption... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070111688 - Radio receiver: A radio receiver, including: a receiver configured to receive a radio signal; a frequency converter configured to generate a baseband signal by converting frequency the radio signal; a subtractor configured to generate a differential signal by subtracting an analog signal from the baseband signal; an amplifier configured to generate an... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070111689 - Apparatus for selecting a receiver among a plurality of receivers in a diversity receiver system based upon automatic gain correction: A diversity receiver system includes a plurality of radio receivers that each provide a uniquely associated receiver output signal and a uniquely associated receiver control signal indicative of the amount of gain applied by the associated radio receiver to create the uniquely associated receiver output signal. A selection mechanism receives... Agent: Patrick J. O'shea O'shea, Getz & Kosakowski, P.C.

20070111690 - Self-structuring subsystems for glass antenna: An antenna system is disclosed. The antenna system includes a plurality of antenna elements, switching elements, and transmission feed lines disposed on a rear window glass. The plurality of switching elements are arranged with the antenna elements and transmission feed lines to, when selectively closed, electrically couple selected ones of... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20070111691 - Signal conditioning circuit, especially for a receiver arrangement for mobile radio: The invention discloses a signal conditioning circuit having a vector demodulator for breaking down a signal applied to the input into a first component and a second component. The outputs of the vector demodulator having at least one first amplifier circuit comprising a first and a second input connected thereto... Agent: Eschweiler & Associates, LLC National City Bank Building

20070111692 - Radio-frequency receiver device, radio-frequency communication device, and interrogator: A radio-frequency receiver device including a plurality of receiver antenna elements for receiving information from a desired communication object, the radio-frequency receiver device including an antenna switching portion configured to select at least one of the plurality of receiver antenna elements which receives a set of information transmitted from the... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070111693 - Balanced band-pass filter for radio receivers: A filter includes an input and an output. First and second filter stages having respective stage inputs and stage outputs are connected in cascade between the input and the output. Each filter stage includes an amplifier having an amplifier input and an amplifier output and an inner feedback loop connecting... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20070111694 - Mixer capable of detecting or controlling common mode voltage thereof: A mixer capable of detecting or controlling a common mode voltage thereof, includes at least: a mixing module for mixing a first set of differential signals and a second set of differential signals to generate at least one mixed signal; and a compensation module for compensating at least one operation... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070111696 - Harmonic elimination mixer: A mixer for the elimination of harmonic mixing in signal transmission is presented. The mixer incorporates a mixing unit and a modulation output unit. The mixing unit receives an input signal and a modulated signal, and outputs an output signal after signal mixing. The modulation output unit is for the... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070111695 - Mixer circuit: A mixer circuit of a receiving system, requiring low noise characteristics at lower frequency, includes a bypass current source (41) which is connected in parallel with an LO transistor (21) between an IF output terminal (33) and a drain terminal of an RF transistor (11), and a bypass current source... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070111697 - Configurable homodyne/heterodyne radio receiver and rfid reader employing same: The embodiments of the present invention provide a configurable homodyne/heterodyne RF receiver including first and second mixers. The configurable homodyne/heterodyne RF receiver functions as a homodyne receiver when the first and second mixers are configured to operate in parallel, and as a heterodyne receiver when the first and second mixers... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP

20070111698 - Method and apparatus for providing bearer selection and transmission parameter configuration: An approach is disclosed for providing bearer selection and transmission parameter configuration between a wireless terminal and a computing device. A request message is received from the computing device that is configured to execute a plurality of applications, wherein the request message specifies selection of a bearer channel and quality... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.C.

20070111699 - Method and apparatus for implementing enhanced hand shake protocol in microelectronic comunication systems: A method and apparatus are provided for implementing an enhanced hand shake protocol for microelectronic communication systems. A transmitter and a receiver is coupled together by a transmission link. The transmitter receives an idle input. The idle input is activated when the transmitter is not transmitting data and the transmitter... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept 917

20070111700 - Car type mp3 sound converter: The present invention provides a car type MP3 sound converter that includes a case, within which is disposed a MP3 decoder, a frequency modulation transmitter module and a printed-circuit board constructed from related control circuits, wherein the printed-circuit board is further configured with a sound input jack, a sound output... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20070111701 - System and method for anonymous tracking of individuals: Preferably, the invention comprises a system for eliciting information anonymously from a user. The system comprises a plurality of broadcasting units operable to communicate over a communication network, wherein each respective unit is provided with a unique and identifiable code that is identifiable by the user. Further, a dedicated broadcast... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20070111702 - Sms emergency system: The invention creates new technologies in the area of mobile and landline system software to prioritize certain communications traffic, in case of an emergency. The invention also creates new technologies to extract from text messages the content about local conditions, such that it can be compared with other data about... Agent: Jan Samzelius

20070111703 - Mobile station-based locator system: A mobile station-based locator system is disclosed including a GPS-enabled mobile station in communication with a E911-enabled wireless network. The mobile station may include a Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) card configured to notify a subscriber when the mobile station is near a forbidden zone using a data channel of the... Agent: Sierra Patent Group, Ltd.

20070111705 - Method for implementing roaming charging and system thereof: The present invention discloses a method for implementing roaming charging, including: a proxy CRF is configured in the PLMN; a terminal uses bearer resources or packet data services in the currently visited PLMN to provide information for selecting charging rules for the home CRF through the proxy CRF in the... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070111704 - System and method for communication record logging: A method for maintaining a log of communications initiated or received at a portable electronic device of a first party. The communications include at least one of short message service (SMS) messages, personal identification number (PIN) messages and cellular telephone calls. The method includes receiving a data record for each... Agent: Perry + Partners (for Rim)

20070111706 - Real-time interconnect billing system and method of use: A system and method of real-time interconnect billing to facilitate invoicing and reconciliation between interconnected communication and service providers. The fully customizable, scalable, and network-based system rates and monitors costs, incorporates agreements between interconnected providers, invoices, bills, and reconciles to establish an accurate and cost-effective accounting of provider revenues and... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070111707 - Method for call-theft detection: The present invention discloses systems and methods for detecting that a phone is being used by a person other than a regular user of the phone, the method including the steps of: (a) comparing a dialed phone number of an outgoing call of the phone to a plurality of reference... Agent: Dr. Mark Friedman Ltd. C/o Bill Polkinghorn

20070111708 - Method and system for leveraging an authentication on one network to obtain an authentication on another network: The present invention relates to a method and system of a method and system for leveraging a 3G authentication to obtain a 2G authentication for a mobile station (135) using a provisional authentication agent (140). The mobile station (135) first establishes a provisional authentication (210, 215) in the 2G wireless... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070111709 - Proprietary radio control head with authentication: A combination of a radio receiver with a detachable controller that determine sends either reduced or enhanced metadata about received programming to the detachable controller based upon periodic authorization. A connection from the detachable control device to the radio receiver carries commands to the radio receiver and carries only the... Agent: Fleit, Kain, Gibbons, Gutman, Bongini & Bianco P.l.

20070111712 - Advertising in yellow book for the phone: The present invention relates to apparatus, method and system for advertising on communication devices such as cellular phones. A ‘central contact information database’ containing contact information of businesses and individuals is created. The ‘central contact information database’ is saved in a ‘central server’. One or more advertisements in the form... Agent: Nitesh Ratnakar

20070111710 - Automotive mobile terminal connection system providing mobile terminal function to enable dynamic external user interface: There is provided a method and device of adapting a phone functionality matrix of an automotive mobile terminal connection device to function capabilities of a mobile terminal device connected to said automotive mobile terminal connection device, comprising the steps of receiving data containing an indication about said function capabilities supported... Agent: Hollingsworth & Funk

20070111713 - Method for accessing content from a computer network via a mobile phone using a two-step retrieval process: A method for accessing content from a computer network is provided. The method comprises the steps of: (a) capturing an image of machine-readable coded data with a mobile phone having an optical image sensor; (b) processing, on the mobile phone, the captured image to decode the machine-readable coded data into... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070111711 - Yellow book for the phone: The present invention relates to a method and system of saving contact information of local businesses into the contact list of a communication device. According to one aspect, means is provided for callers to download the contact information of local businesses from a ‘central contact information database’ saved on a... Agent: Nitesh Ratnakar

20070111714 - Methods and apparatus for recognizing home network provider of incoming wireless calls: In a cellular wireless system, a handset identifies and displays the home network provider for an incoming call. If that home network provider is different from the home network provider for the called handset, the user of that handset is notified and may decide not to accept an incoming call... Agent: Merchant & Gould P.C.

20070111715 - Signal routing for reduced power consumption in a conferencing system: A technique is provided for reducing power consumption of an internally powered console in an audio system through frequency based signal routing. A system employing the technique includes a base unit having an interface for receiving a signal representative of acoustic information. The base unit includes a filter system for... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri, L.L.P.

20070111716 - Mobile-device directed conference calling: A method for mobile-device directed conference calling comprises receiving information from a subscriber of a mobile-communication service, communicating an access number and providing executable instructions to the mobile-communication device that expose a conference service to the subscriber, wherein when the subscriber selects an option from the mobile-communication device, the mobile-communication... Agent: Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha, LLC

20070111717 - Electronic program guide for mobile tv device: A method and apparatus for operating an electronic program guide on a portable mobile communications device is presented. The portable mobile communications device is part of a larger network that is communicable with a mobile radio access network (MRAN) and capable of receiving broadcasts from a mobile television service provider.... Agent: Moore And Van Allen PLLC For Semc

20070111719 - Portable telephone set, conversation simulation method, and conversation simulation program: A portable telephone set has a function of conversation simulation with a user allows the user to easily perform pretended communication, and is provided with a scenario information storage unit storing conversation simulation scenario information using data prepared depending on an property of a conversation simulation partner and the conversation... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070111718 - Power management system for sca based software defined radio and related method: A software defined radio includes a radio circuit powered by a battery and formed as a pair of radio subsystems having radio components that draw power from the battery. An executable radio software system conforms to the Software Communications Architecture (SCA) specification and defines an operating platform environment that allows... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20070111720 - Remote control system, remote control apparatus, remote control method, program for implementing the method, and electronic appartus: A remote control system which can reliably provide desired control while saving power. A remote control apparatus is capable of carrying out two-way wireless communication with an apparatus to be controlled. A control signal corresponding to a key switch for remote control is repeatedly transmitted while the key switch is... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070111721 - Transmission of a useful data object from a switching component to a mobile station: A method for transmission of a useful data object from an exchange component to a mobile station, whereby a communication network is elected, in which the useful data object is to be transmitted and the exchange component transmits the useful data object to the mobile station when it is determined... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20070111722 - Filtered wireless communications: In accordance with the principles of the present invention, a wireless virtual phone booth is provided within a filtered wireless zone. A filtered wireless zone is provided. A geographically limited signal is contained within the filtered wireless zone. When a handset in the filtered wireless zone attempts to place a... Agent: Paul E. Schaafsma Novusip, LLC

20070111723 - System and method for providing cordless extension of communication devices: A method of providing a cordless extension system for a plurality of communication devices in a defined environment, the method comprising the steps of: detecting that a first communication device of the plurality of communication devices is placing a call in the defined environment (205); in response to detecting, automatically... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070111724 - Apparatus and method for verifying reception and execution status of telecommand in satellite control system: Provided are an apparatus and a method for verifying a reception and execution status of telecommand in a satellite control system. The inventive apparatus for informing a satellite control system of a reception and execution status of telecommand in a satellite comprises a telecommand receiver for receiving a telecommand signal... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070111725 - In-flight communications system: An in-flight communications system and method suitable for discrete use by, e.g., an Air Marshal, includes a personal digital assistant (PDA) device having wireless communications capabilities, an aircraft cabin wireless local area network (LAN) within which the PDA device can operate, a communications management unit (CMU) associated with the wireless... Agent: Honeywell International Inc. Patent Services Ab-2b

20070111726 - User profiles for mobile terminals: A roaming user profile is stored in a remote profile database accessible via a mobile communication network. The roaming user profile stores configuration information and settings for a mobile terminal. The configuration settings may relate to the user interface, customizable features of applications, and programmable functions of the mobile terminal.... Agent: Coats & Bennett/sony Ericsson

20070111728 - Method for protecting information in a mobile terminal and a mobile terminal: A mobile terminal and a method for protecting information in a mobile terminal, the method includes: sending an information protection command to a mobile terminal via current home mobile switching center of the mobile terminal; the mobile terminal receiving and decoding the command, and executing a protection operation on the... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070111727 - System and method for enhanced mobility tracking of mobile stations: A location area (102) associated with a mobile station (104) is stored at a first memory location (122). A current cell (108) associated with the mobile station (104) is stored at a second memory location (124). To address race conditions between attempts to page a mobile station and that mobile... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070111729 - Network support for mobility system capacity planning using real-time snapshot across networked mobile switching centers for roaming mobile terminals: An apparatus in one example has: a telecommunications network having a plurality of mobile switching centers each of the mobile switching centers having a respective visitor location register; a selected at least one mobile switching center of the plurality of mobile switching centers; periodic time intervals; and a respective set... Agent: Carmen B. Patti & Associates, LLC

20070111731 - Handover in a wireless local area network (wlan): In triggering a handoff by a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) from a current basic service set (BSS) in a wireless local area network (WLAN), the following are performed. A highest class of traffic service and quality of service (QoS) is determined for the highest class from a basic service set... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070111730 - Secondary station and method of operating the station: Such a secondary station is particularly suitable for decoding and acting upon power control commands included in received signals in a UMTS system, for which a very limited period of time is provided by the UMTS specification. In this application the predetermined time (t1) is the time after which signals... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070111732 - Method for determining a routing in an ad-hoc radio communications system: A method determines a routing for radio transmission between a first and a second radio station of a radio communication system, said system having a plurality of additional radio stations in addition to the first and the second radio stations. The routing passes through at least two of the additional... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070111733 - System and method for piggybacking data across an open data channel of a wireless device: A system, method, and program for transmitting data across an idle open communication channel from a wireless device. The wireless device includes a computer platform and a plurality of device resources that selectively utilize a open communication channel to communicate with other devices across the network, and each device resource... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070111734 - Wireless network control method and device, and mobile communication system: In a method and a device, and a mobile communication system by which a connection switchover between wireless network control devices can be performed with a connected base station being maintained in order to avoid a congestion when the congestion occurs in one of the wireless network control devices within... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070111735 - Hybrid localization in wireless networks: A hybrid localization method and a wireless network that performs the method are disclosed herein. In an embodiment of a hybrid localization technique, one or more sensor nodes in the network switch between different localization techniques depending on location area conditions. This technique chooses the most accurate localization technique for... Agent: Courtney Staniford & Gregory LLP

20070111736 - Method and system for controlling a valuable movable item: One embodiment in accordance with the invention can include a controller that can be coupled with a position determining component, and a motion detecting component. In one embodiment, the motion detecting component detects motion of a valuable movable item and generates a signal to the controller indicating the motion. The... Agent: Wagner Murabito & Hao LLP

20070111737 - Method and apparatus for locating a transceiver: A radio system for locating a radio transceiver configured to exchange voice or data with a plurality of base stations on a narrowband channel is described. The system includes the radio transceiver that exchanges voice or data on the narrowband channel with a base station of the plurality of base... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070111738 - Method for providing roaming using a mobile identification number based on an international mobile station identity: In one aspect of the instant invention, a method is provided for controlling roaming in a communications system. The method comprises storing a 15-digit MIN-based-IMSI in the mobile device. The 15-digit MIN-based-IMSI is comprised of a 10-digit Mobile Identification Number (MIN) and a 15-digit Home Network Identifier (HNI). Generally, the... Agent: Williams, Morgan & Amerson

20070111739 - Radio communication apparatus and radio communication method, radio communication system, recording medium, and computer program: The present invention relates to a radio communication apparatus and a radio communications method, a radio communication system, a recording medium, and a computer program in which a response signal to an inquiry is returned to a master only when instructions to perform radio communications are issued. A CPU 51... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070111740 - Scanning and decoding methods and apparatus for mobile communication devices: In one illustrative scanning and decoding method, a signal strength level of an RF signal on an RF channel is measured for a plurality of RF channels of an RF band. The act of measuring a signal strength level is repeated at least one time to obtain at least one... Agent: John J. Oskorep, Esq. One Magnificent Mile Center

20070111741 - Apparatus and method, for making measurements in universal mobile telecommunications system user equipment: A method and apparatus for taking measurements in a mobile telecommunications system is disclosed, the system comprising a network of a plurality of cells and at least one user equipment device. The user equipment device scans frequency bands to generate measurement data for signals received from cells of the network;... Agent: Docket Clerk

20070111742 - Method and apparatus to increasing system capacity in p2p enabled systems: A method for a network system to increase system capacity of P2P communication, performed by a network system, comprises: detecting the position of active P2P UEs in P2P communication mode (S30) and the position of two UEs trying to establish P2P communication; judging whether any of the two UEs falls... Agent: Philips Electronics North America Corporation Intellectual Property & Standards

20070111743 - Mobile-device directed conference call interface: A telecommunication system includes a processor, interfaces in communication with the public telephone network and a data network, respectively, and a memory. The memory comprises executable instructions that when executed by the processor direct the system to establish a conference call, confirm the identity of a moderator of the conference... Agent: Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha, LLC

20070111747 - Apparatus, system, and method for managing reverse link communication: An apparatus, system, and method efficiently manage reverse link resources by allowing a mobile station to select between transmitting a payload at a standard power level and transmitting a smaller payload at a boosted power level. The mobile station, therefore, can autonomously select a QoS (Quality of Service) level for... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070111744 - Mobile communication system, radio base station, transmission power control method used therein, and program thereof: A radio transmission rate determining part (21) of a radio base station (2), when receiving transmission data transmitted from a base station control apparatus (1), determines a radio transmission rate in accordance with transmission data size and produces rate information. A transmission power changing part (22) decides the change amount... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

20070111745 - Power control for high speed packet data transmission: A transmitting unit comprising a first unit (CM_SCHDR) receiving scheduled first data (DATA2, DATA3) for transmission on at least a first channel, a power control unit (PWR_CTRL) for the first channel responsive to a respective closed loop power regulation signal (TCP_CMD), under which at least the transmit power rate of... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070111746 - Transmit-power control for wireless mobile services: A method and system for enhancing the performance of augmented services associated with a wireless communications system through the dynamic exploitation of current measurements and operational configuration parameters to accurately and effectively control the signal power and duration transmitted by the mobile unit of interest.... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20070111751 - Communication terminal apparatus: In the present invention, an alternate base station is switched to a serving base station if second information received by receiving means under control of first control means corresponds to second information stored in storing means. The receiving means is controlled to receive first information from the serving bas station... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070111750 - Mobile communication terminal with multi orientation user interface: The invention relates to a mobile communication terminal comprising a user interface with a display and a keypad for supporting various functions. According to the invention, the orientation of the content of a hard label or a softlabel of at least one of the keys can changed so that the... Agent: Perman & Green

20070111749 - Wireless communications device with reflective interference immunity: Disclosed herein are wireless products adapted to be positioned in a normal or resting position, that also include an antenna composed of a set of elements arranged in a plane in a radially symmetrical configuration providing a reduction in the susceptibility of reflected waves having the potential to cancel or... Agent: Everett D. Robinson Parsons Behle & Latimer

20070111748 - Wireless coverage assurance method and apparatus: A method and apparatus for monitoring a wireless subscriber's perception of the quality of service (QoS) parameters of a wireless network and correlate such perception to an actual location in a coverage area within the network for assuring and improving QoS parameters.... Agent: Lucent Technologies Inc. Docket Administrator - Room 3j-219

20070111752 - Mobile station, anchor call server, and method for conducting a call: A method and a system for conducting a call between a mobile station and a callee over a first wireless network and a second wireless network are provided. A call is initiated through an anchor call server when a first wireless network services the mobile station. The call comprises a... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070111753 - Personal items network, and associated methods: A personal items network, comprising a plurality of items, each item having a wireless communications port for coupling in network with every other item, each item having a processor for determining if any other item in the network is no longer linked to the item, each item having an indicator... Agent: Lathrop & Gage Lc

20070111755 - Character agent system and method operating the same for mobile phone: A character agent system and method operating the same are provided for presenting a state of the mobile phone by means of a character agent. A character agent system of the present invention includes a memory for storing a plurality of character quotients, information on at least one state transition... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070111756 - Enhanced wireless phone: A communication system between two wireless phones in which data is stored automatically on the location of the phones, whether the phones are activated or not. This data is used by the system for load leveling by adjusting the loads of receiving towers based upon the location of the wireless... Agent: Mark E. Ogram

20070111754 - User-wearable data acquisition system including a speaker microphone that is couple to a two-way radio: A data acquisition system including at least a speaker and a microphone coupled to a two-way radio, in addition to audio recording circuitry and multi-use audio memory coupled to the microphone. The system may further include a video camera lens, an image sensor for receiving images through the camera lens,... Agent: Angus C. Fox, Iii

20070111757 - Method and apparatus for cross layer resource allocation for wireless backhaul networks: A method and apparatus is disclosed whereby the scheduling of network transmissions in a wireless backhaul network is determined using a cross-layer optimization algorithm. In a first embodiment, the algorithm assumes a good MAC layer transmit schedule has been provided and computes optimal network layer routes as well as transmit... Agent: Nec Laboratories America, Inc.

20070111758 - Radio base station apparatus, radio terminal apparatus, mobile communication system, and reception operation control program: In response to a connection request from a terminal, a base station provides a signal indicating a reception operation adapted to a transmission operation of the base station to the terminal. Based on the indicating signal, the terminal selects and performs the optimum reception operation. The terminal also provides its... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070111760 - Method and apparatus for synchronizing a smart antenna apparatus with a base station transceiver: A method of synchronizing a smart antenna apparatus with a base station transceiver includes receiving at the smart antenna apparatus control signals being communicated from a base station transceiver to one or more mobile stations via an antenna unit. The control signals are operable to be used to synchronize the... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group, LLP

20070111761 - Radio base station apparatus, radio terminal apparatus, mobile communication system, and reception operation control program: In response to a connection request from a terminal, a base station provides a signal indicating a reception operation adapted to a transmission operation of the base station to the terminal. Based on the indicating signal, the terminal selects and performs the optimum reception operation. The terminal also provides its... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070111759 - Radio communication apparatus: A radio communication apparatus includes a received beam generating section 12 for generating received beams beam0 and beam1, which are perpendicular to each other and spatially separated, by assigning weights to received signals fed from receiving antennas 11 by using received beam weights; path search sections 13 and 14 each... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070111762 - Data transfer rate display selection: A device for displaying data transfer rates on a display. The device includes a system for displaying the transfer rates in an alphanumeric mode or an alternative graphics mode; and a system for switching between displaying the transfer rates in the alphanumeric mode and the graphics mode.... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20070111763 - Conversion from note-based audio format to pcm-based audio format: A system and method for converting a note-based audio object to a Pulse Code Modulated (PCM) audio format is disclosed. An electronic communication device includes a memory containing a note-based audio object and lookup table containing trigonometric function evaluations. The note-based audio object contains note frequency information. The note-based audio... Agent: Ridout & Maybee Suite 2400

20070111764 - Power saving method for mobile communication terminal: A power saving method for a mobile telephone is disclosed that can increase the useful life of a battery charge by temporarily turning off non-essential telephone functions not required for call transmission or reception. The method determines whether the remaining capacity of the telephone battery is smaller than a predetermined... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070111765 - Portable electronic apparatus with azimuth measuring function, magnetic sensor suitable for the apparatus, and azimuth measuring method for the apparatus: A portable phone has a CPU and a magnetic sensor unit including an X-axis magnetic sensor, a Y-axis magnetic sensor, and a temperature sensor. CPU measures at first and second temperatures the influence of a magnetic field of permanent magnets upon an output Sx of the X-axis magnetic sensor and... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070105495 - Satellite navigation receiver signal processing architecture: A satellite navigation device including a flexible RF receiver is described. The receiver receives a signal that includes at least one spread-spectrum signal from a first satellite. The receiver has at least a first channel that includes at least two sub-channel circuits. Each sub-channel circuit has at least a first... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP.

20070105496 - Wide area network handset assisted content delivery system and method of using same: A wide area network assisted multimedia content delivery system (200) includes a first wide area network handset (205) and a second wide area network handset (207) having one or more transceivers (208) for exchanging information over the wide band network as well as multimedia information via an ad hoc communication.... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20070105498 - Call forwarding to wireless headset: An apparatus for routing a call between a mobile phone and a wireless headset is disclosed. The apparatus has a forwarding unit for routing the call between the mobile phone and the wireless headset via a short-range wireless communications network when said wireless headset is out of a range of... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070105500 - Method and apparatus for searching neighboring bluetooth devices in a portable terminal: Provided are a method and an apparatus for searching neighboring Bluetooth devices in a portable terminal having a Bluetooth module. In the method, addresses of searched neighboring Bluetooth devices are used to determine whether the searched neighboring Bluetooth devices are newly-searched Bluetooth devices. If the searched neighboring Bluetooth devices are... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070105499 - Method for executing program using bluetooth apparatus: The executing program method is applied to a Bluetooth dongle using a universal serial bus (USB) as its transmission interface. When the Bluetooth dongle is plugged in an electronic device, the electronic device will automatically detect the Bluetooth dongle. An application which is stored in a storage unit of the... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070105497 - Supporting a setup of a bluetooth connection: A Bluetooth™ enabled device comprises a contact database arranged for storing Bluetooth™ identifiers identifying other Bluetooth™ enabled devices. This allows setting-up a Bluetooth™ connection to another Bluetooth™ enabled device based on a Bluetooth™ identifier stored in this contact database and identifying the other Bluetooth™ enabled device. New Bluetooth™ identifiers identifying... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070105502 - Narrowband noise mitigation in location-determining signal processing: System and method for mitigating the effects of narrowband noise in a location-determining signal are provided, wherein the location-determining signal is associated with a periodic reference signal, the embodiments include identifying a set of noisy frequencies in the signal, determining a set of frequencies to be removed, and removing the... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070105501 - Robust coexistence service for mitigating wireless network interference: Described is a determination of whether interference in a wireless network has achieved a threshold level that adversely impacts communication bandwidth. If so, action is taken to mitigate the effects of the interference and thereby improve the bandwidth. The action that is taken may be in the form of at... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070105503 - Systems and methods for reducing uplink resources to provide channel performance feedback for adjustment of downlink mimo channel data rates: Systems and methods for improving the performance of a MIMO wireless communication system by reducing the amount of uplink resources that are needed to provide channel performance feedback for the adjustment of data rates on the downlink MIMO channels. In one embodiment, a method comprises encoding each of a set... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070105504 - Digital if demodulator for video applications: An integrated communications system. A substrate having a receiver disposed on the substrate for converting a received signal to an IF signal, a digital IF demodulator disposed on the substrate and coupled to the receiver for converting the IF signal to a demodulated baseband signal, and a transmitter disposed on... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070105505 - Diversity-switched front end base station transceiver system: A transceiver system for RF communications in a wireless network includes a transceiver having first and second receivers and a transmitter. The first receiver and transmitter are connected to first antenna section. The second receiver is switchable between connection to a second antenna section and connection to the first antenna... Agent: Mccormick, Paulding & Huber LLP

20070105506 - Switch circuit and high-frequency composite part: A switch circuit for selectively switching connection of an antenna side circuit with a reception circuit and a transmission circuit of two communication systems one of which has a reception frequency band partially overlapped with a transmission frequency of the other. The switch circuit includes (a) a first switch unit... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070105507 - Radio frequency remote control: A control signal is wirelessly transmitted from a first radio communication unit of a portable communication device to a second radio communication unit. The portable communication device is provided for radio communication over a first radio frequency band using a first modulation technique. The control signal is transmitted by generating... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20070105508 - Wireless communication methods, systems, and signal structures: Systems and methods for performing OFDM MIMO communications are provided. These include a frame structure; methods of combining various types of MIMO such as STTD and SM; sub-channel definitions; sub-FFT channel constructions; fast control channels; additional modulations; and group antenna transmit diversity; new incremental redundancy schemes.... Agent: Smart & Biggar P.o. Box 2999, Station D

20070105509 - Rf transmission leakage mitigator, method of mitigating an rf transmission leakage and cdma tranceiver employing the same: The present invention provides an RF transmission leakage mitigator for use with a full-duplex, wireless transceiver. In one embodiment, the RF transmission leakage mitigator includes an inversion generator configured to provide an RF transmission inversion signal of an interfering transceiver RF transmission to a receiving portion of the transceiver thereby... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070105510 - Apparatus and method for communicating an input signal in polar representation: A method and system is described wherein a signal with a lower frequency is up-converted to a higher frequency. In one embodiment, the higher frequency signal is used as a stable frequency and phase reference. In another embodiment, the invention is used as a transmitter. The up-conversion is accomplished by... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070105511 - Transmission path and method for signal processing in a transmission path: In a transmission path, an input signal is amplified in a manner dependent on a digital control word present and is processed by an arrangement for signal processing to form an output signal. A digital setting word is read out from a memory device in a manner dependent on the... Agent: Eschweiler & Associates, LLC National City Bank Building

20070105512 - Portable device with prolonged working hours and method thereof: The present invention discloses a portable device with prolonged working hours, which includes a radio frequency process module, an antenna module, and a Power Amplifier (PA) process module. The PA process module is used to transmit a radio frequency signal directly to the antenna module when output power of the... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070105513 - Radio reception device for receiving both terrestrial and satellite digital broadcasting: A radio reception device for receiving both terrestrial and satellite digital broadcasting. The device includes a reception device for a first radio communication method and a reception device for a second radio communication method. The reception device for a first radio communication method includes a first reception unit which receives... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070105514 - Low noise, high linearity tv tuner architecture with switched fixed-gain lna: A TV tuner includes a plurality of amplifiers having inputs for coupling to an antenna, a plurality of filters having inputs coupled to outputs of the plurality of amplifiers, and a first multiplexer having inputs coupled to outputs of the plurality of filters, the first multiplexer for selecting an output... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070105515 - Apparatus and method for providing automatic gain control: Signal processing apparatus (100) such as a television signal receiver provides automatic gain control (AGC) in a manner that avoids excessive tuner gain reduction and compensates for interference from both analog and digital signals. According to an exemplary embodiment, the signal processing apparatus (100) includes a tuner (10) operative to... Agent: Joseph J. Laks, Vice President Thomson Licensing LLC

20070105516 - Automatic compensation of gain versus temperature: An apparatus and method of automatically compensating gain versus temperature in a circuit of a measurement instrument that is subject to gain drift with temperature senses an ambient temperature for the circuit as a temperature voltage. The temperature voltage is scaled by a settable value representing a known temperature/gain characteristic... Agent: Thomas F. Lenihan Tektronix, Inc.

20070105517 - Programmable attenuator using digitally controlled cmos switches: A programmable attenuator includes a resistor ladder having a plurality of taps to provide a coarse gain control. Coupled to each tap is a plurality of switches. Control logic activates or deactivates individual switches in the plurality of switches to provide a fine gain control. More specifically, a set of... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070105518 - Ultra wideband and fast hopping frequency synthesizer for mb-ofdm wireless application: A frequency synthesizer with a single PLL and multiple SSB mixers is presented. The frequency synthesizer includes a single PLL outputting a reference signal that is fed to a plurality of dividers coupled in sequence. The outputs from the dividers are mixed by the SSB mixers to produce signals with... Agent: Carlton Fields, Pa

20070105519 - Adaptive intermodulation distortion filter for zero-if receivers: A zero-IF receiver includes an adaptive filter that is enabled when intermodulation distortion is detected. The adaptive filter is configured as a notch filter that is centered at the location of the second-order intermodulation distortion, which, in a zero-IF receiver, is at zero Hertz. In a preferred embodiment, the frequency... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070105520 - Method for cancelling a narrow-band interference signal: A method of canceling a narrow-band interference signal in a receiver is provided. A reference signal (ref_in) is subtracted from a received input signal (in). the phase of a result of the subtraction is calculated on the basis of an arctangent function. An unwrap function on the output signal from... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070105521 - Notch filter and apparatus for receiving and transmitting radio-frequency signals incorporating same: A notch filter suitable for attenuating certain frequencies of a radio-frequency signal includes an input for receiving the radio-frequency signal and an output for the output of a portion of the radio-frequency signal, first and second capacitive means, at least one inductor and a negative resistance circuit suitable for compensating... Agent: Hogan & Hartson LLP

20070105522 - Offset balancer, method of balancing an offset and a wireless receiver employing the balancer and the method: The present invention provides an offset balancer for use with a differential mixer employing a wireless reception and an offset quantifier configured to indicate an existing DC offset of the mixer corresponding to an existing second-order intercept point applicable to the wireless reception. In one embodiment, the offset balancer includes... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070105523 - Low noise amplifier: A low noise amplifier is assumed to comprise an MIS transistor and to amplify an input signal keeping noise at a low level, and the MIS transistor comprises a semiconductor substrate for comprising a first crystal plane as a principal plane, a semiconductor structure, formed as a part of the... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070105525 - Apparatus and methods for estimating a sleep clock frequency: Apparatus and methods for estimating the frequency of a sleep or slow clock using a fast clock, such as a temperature compensated crystal oscillator. The disclosed apparatus include an estimator having a first counter that receives sleep clock synchronized pulses issuing each cycle of the sleep clock period, yet are... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070105524 - Remotely powered wireless microphone: Various methods, apparatuses, and systems in which a remotely powered wireless microphone are described. The remotely powered wireless microphone circuit includes a resonant circuit tuned to a transmit frequency of a receiver station. The resonant circuit captures signal bursts from the receiver station. The resonant circuit includes a capacitive microphone... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070105526 - Wireless access point software system: A system and method is provided that provides a mobile communication device with the ability to quickly reestablish a communication session with another after the communication device is awaken from a sleep or idle mode. The mobile communication device is provided with a first power system for powering a central... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070105527 - Redirection of ip-connected radio base station to correct control node: Methods and apparatus enable a femto radio base station (28f), initially connected to a first or default radio network controller node (261), to be redirected/reconnected to a second or correct radio network controller node (262) for use as an active radio network controller node for the femto radio base station... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070105528 - System and method for communicating emergency data: The present invention includes a system and a method for communicating emergency data. In its various embodiments, discussed in detail below, the present invention provides an interface between at least one mobile device and at least one data center, the latter of which is preferably networked such that it can... Agent: Kevin M. Farrell Pierce Atwood

20070105529 - Cross-charging in a mobile telecommunication network: A method of reallocating charges relating to one or more connections from a first subscriber 1 of a mobile telecommunications network 1 to a second subscriber 2 of that or a different mobile telecommunications network. The method comprises temporarily linking the accounts of the two subscribers maintained in the or... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070105531 - Dynamic processing of virtual identities for mobile communications devices: Virtual identities are created, where the virtual identities correspond to the primary identity of a mobile communications device or are based on the authentication of a mobile communications device. In this way, the same mobile device can send communications from different identities (e.g., different phone numbers) and/or receive communications at... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20070105530 - Method for ensuring security of subscriber card: A method for ensuring the security of subscriber cards, includes the following steps: setting a security key in the subscriber card, and setting a verification equipment and storing the security key in the verification equipment; the subscriber card authenticating the verification equipment according to the security key before responding to... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20070105532 - Method and device for pre-saving personal data for a subscriber to a telecommunications network: In a method for saving personal data for a subscriber to a wireless communications network, the data is being memorized in a mobile communication station and saved in a network server by means of a first communication channel and in a first saving mode. A determination is made whether the... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070105533 - Delayed user notification of events in a mobile device: A sender-specified courtesy notification scheme to delay notification by a receiving device of the receipt of a data message is disclosed. A sender may specify a notification parameter defining a delay and send the parameter in association with the data message to a recipient. The recipient's receiving device evaluates the... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP

20070105534 - System and method for taking over incoming call: A system and a method for managing an incoming call are provided. The system includes a first mobile device wirelessly connected to a first answering module and a second mobile device wirelessly connected to a second answering module. The first mobile device and the second mobile device communicate with a... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (main)

20070105535 - Inter-system message delivery for sms text messages: The present Inter-System Message Delivery System increases the SMS text message delivery success rate. When a mobile subscriber station roams outside of the confines of the cell in which it is presently registered, the delivery of SMS messages to mobile subscriber stations fails, since the mobile subscriber station is not... Agent: Patton Boggs

20070105536 - Methods and apparatus for providing sms notification, advertisement and e-commerce systems for university communities: Apparatus and methods are provided for providing SMS notification, SMS advertisement, web advertisement and e-commerce systems for university communities. A messaging platform includes a web server and a database. The web server provides student, university, merchant and web advertiser interfaces for communications with students, university users, merchants and web advertisers,... Agent: Law Office Of James Trosino

20070105537 - Network support for remote caller id information: An apparatus in one example has: a home terminal and a remote terminal operatively coupled to a call control system in a telecommunication system; a storage operatively coupled to the call control system; caller ID information for a plurality of calls to the home terminal, the caller ID information stored... Agent: Carmen B. Patti & Associates, LLC

20070105539 - Mobile release message: A system for wireless communication is provided that includes a mobile switching center and a communication component, such as a base station or an access network. The mobile switching center is operable to transmit a message identifying a mobile station to be released. The communications component is operable to receive... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C.

20070105540 - Portable electronic device to detect wireless signals in a shutdown state and the detection method: A portable electronic device to detect wireless signals in a shutdown state comprises a motherboard module with an internally embedded controller (EC) and a display module with a wireless signal detector, when in a shutdown state, the portable electronic device activates the wireless signal detector via the embedded controller and... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070105538 - System and method for provisioning a third party mobile device emulator: A method and apparatus for provisioning a third party mobile device emulator from desktop provisioning software, the method having the steps of: designating a common file space between the third party mobile device emulator and the desktop provisioning software; writing files to the common file space from one of the... Agent: Moffat & Co

20070105541 - Method of control of a wireless communication unit and a wireless communication unit: A method of remote control of a wireless communication unit (300) operating in a communication network (100) having the steps of creating a message (202) to be delivered to said wireless communication unit (300) by a Content Provider (104); creating at least one instruction (204) for said wireless communication unit... Agent: Motorola Inc

20070105542 - Over-the-air download (oad) methods and apparatus for use in facilitating application programming in wireless network devices of ad hoc wireless communication networks: In one illustrative example, a wireless network device of a low data rate wireless personal area network (WPAN) or the like includes a controller, memory for storing one or more application programs, and a wireless transceiver coupled to the controller and operative for communications in the wireless network. The controller... Agent: John J. Oskorep, Esq. One Magnificent Mile Center

20070105543 - Method of performing an area update for a terminal equipment in a communication network: The present invention proposes a method of performing an area update for a terminal equipment (4A, 4) in a communication network (1, 2, 3, 5, 6), the communication network comprising at least two areas (5, 6) being defined within an access network, at least one of said areas being served... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070105545 - Color coding recent call list entries: A method (100 or 200) of color coding recent call list entries in a recent call list can include receiving or initiating (102) a call, storing a number or other indicia associated with the call as an entry in the recent call list, determining (104) if a call set up... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070105544 - Method for determining mobile terminal performance in a running wireless network: A technique for determining the performance of a mobile terminal within a communications network is disclosed. The technique receives messages associated with one or more user transactions and messages associated with mobile terminal type information. The data within the received user transaction messages is then correlated with data associated with... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070105546 - System for correcting errors in radio communication, responsive to error frequency: Errors of e.g database synchrony between a radio-connected mobile-station and a server can be especially troublesome if continued and repeated, and can quickly deplete resources in the mobile-station. This problem is addressed by keeping an error-event-count in the server; when the count exceeds a threshold, the server signals the mobile... Agent: Anthony Asquith

20070105547 - Method and arrangement for exchanging capability information in a cellular radio system: A method and an arrangement are disclosed for a mobile station of a cellular radio system to exchange capability information with the fixed parts of the cellular radio system. The mobile station receives capability information from the fixed parts of the cellular radio system and compares the received capability information... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070105548 - Integrated cellular/pcs-pots communication system: There is provided a system for integrating at least one residential Plain Old Telephone System (POTS) phone to a cellular phone network. A Subscriber Line Interface Circuit (SLIC 120) interfaces audio from the cellular phone network to the at least one residential POTS phone. A line switcher (122), connected to... Agent: Joseph J. Laks, Vice President Thomson Licensing LLC

20070105549 - Mobile communication system using private network, relay node, and radio network controller: Upon receiving a mobile communication control signaling at the time when a mobile terminal 80 makes or receives a call, VPN gateway 100, which serves as a relay node, performs reception determination in cooperation with policy server 200 serving as a bandwidth control mechanism within LAN 20 which is a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070105550 - Mobile site management system: Tasks of a contents provider are supported, and construction or change of a mobile site, which is accompanied with replacement or correction of contents, is easily executed. In a mobile site management system that manages a site of a portable terminal in a system that provides contents of the site... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070105552 - Channel scanning method of wireless communications system: A channel scanning method applied to a wireless communication system for scanning a plurality of channels to select target channels capable of establishing corresponding connections is disclosed. The channel scanning method includes scanning a plurality of channels for determining if any of the channels is capable of establishing a corresponding... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070105553 - Device and method for forming a set of cells for time difference measurements and for measuring time differences for locating a user of a mobile terminal: A method and device are provided, for locating a user of a mobile terminal, for forming a set of cells for time difference measurements for a mobile terminal camped on a first cell of a cellular network and being in idle mode, the method including the steps of: receiving a... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20070105551 - Trunking system control method: The present invention relates to a radio communication trunking system control method. According to the control method, a channel (f1), which is normally used as a control channel, is used as a telephone communication channel when a plurality of channels (f2-fn), used as telephone communication channels, are being used. For... Agent: Eric Robinson

20070105556 - Local location manager, home location manager and mobile communication system: Time required for location registration is reduced and concentration of location update signals caused when a group moves is prevented. Each mobile node and a mobile router sends a location update request to a local location manager near to the area in which it exists, so that time required for... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070105555 - System and method for identifying a wireless serving node for a mobile unit: A system and method for identifying a wireless serving node for a mobile unit include the ability to receive a wireless registration request at a control node for a wireless serving node cluster and determine a control node associated with the registration request by using an algorithm on a mobile... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070105554 - System and methods for data communications in a wireless communcation system: In one embodiment, a system and methods for configuring data communications in a wireless communications system is provided. Based on location and capabilities information received from mobile communications devices and host services, relay services control the accessibility to certain data services, either enabling access or disabling access.... Agent: John J. Oskorep, Esq. One Magnificent Mile Center

20070105558 - Apparatus and method for performing handover for multi-hop system in a broadband wireless access communication network: A handover apparatus and method for a multi-hop system in a BWA communication network are provided. In a handover system supporting multi-hop system in a BWA communication network, a BS periodically broadcasts a message with neighboring BS/RS information. When a new BS or RS needs to be added, an RS... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070105557 - Radio access node registration for multimedia broadcast multicast service: A radio network control node acts across an Iur interface as a drift radio network control node (262) for a user equipment unit (UE) in a communications system supporting a multimedia broadcast multicast service (MBMS). The drift radio network control node (262) maintains a first counter for counting a number... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070105559 - Methods for dividing base station resources: Methods for dividing resources of base stations among multiple mobile stations are provided. According to one embodiment of the invention, an overlapping group having a plurality of mobile stations that are overlapped between at least two cellular areas are generated (310) to provide a plurality of overlapping mobile stations, which... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070105560 - Communications network, in particular for telephony: A communications network, in particular for telephony, comprises at least one operator, a plurality of remote units for exchanging signals with mobile terminals and an interface unit for controlling the data traffic between the operator and the remote units. The interface unit is connected to the remote units by a... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

20070105561 - Method and apparatus for uplink resource allocation in a cellular communication system: A method for allocating radio cell resources for the uplink communication between at least one terminal and a serving base station in a mobile radio cell configuration system comprising a serving cell and at least one neighbouring cell, wherein the serving base station receives information on radio measurements performed by... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070105562 - System and method for dynamic frequency selection based on spectrum etiquette: The present disclosure relates generally to systems and methods for dynamic frequency selection based on spectrum etiquette. In one example, the method includes identifying multiple frequencies usable by a central subdivision in a wireless communication system that are not in use by neighboring subdivisions. The method may determine whether the... Agent: Timothy F. Bliss

20070105563 - Apparatus and method for controlling call admission in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing mobile communication system: A method and an apparatus for controlling call admission in an OFDM mobile communication system are provided. Upon receipt of a call admission request, it is determined whether a requested call is a handoff call or a new call and the traffic service type and QoS level of the requested... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070105564 - System and method for establishing communications between mobile stations: A page request (112) is received. When a user preference is not up-to-date, a non-acceptance message (116) is appended to a page response (114) and channel assignment is altered when the page response (114) includes the non-acceptance message (116).... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070105566 - System and method for asset location in wireless networks: A computing arrangement for determining a location of a wireless communications device includes a memory arrangement, a communication arrangement and a processor. The memory arrangement stores a location of each of at least three access points. The communication arrangement receives first data which includes at least one of first signal... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20070105565 - Third party location query for wireless networks: A location query service for use with a wireless network that tracks the location of network devices, such as a network complying with enhanced 911 standards. The service provides requestors with the locations of network users, based on the locations of the users' wireless network devices. The service receives a... Agent: Attn: Roger T. Frost, Esq. Merchant & Gould P.C.

20070105568 - Paging for a radio access network having pico base stations: Methods and apparatus provide paging control to a femto radio base station (28fj) of a radio access network (24). Paging to a femto radio base station (28fj) is controlled by maintaining a paging control database (46) of allowed user equipment units for which paging is permitted in a cell of... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070105567 - Techniques for location management and paging in a communication system: Systems and techniques to manage location management and paging operations for idle mode mobile stations are described. An apparatus may comprise a first foreign agent having a foreign agent idle mode manager to store idle mode information for an idle mobile station in a first paging area of a wireless... Agent: Kacvinsky LLC C/o Intellevate

20070105572 - Method for controlling new message alert in portable wireless terminal: Provided is a method and an apparatus for controlling a NEW MESSAGE alert in a portable wireless terminal. In a sender-side terminal, a NEW MESSAGE alert is set after a message is written. The NEW MESSAGE alert setting is designated at a header of the message. The message having the... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm

20070105569 - Short message for voice group call service: Disclosed is a method for transmitting text- and/or binary information in form of a short message in addition to voice information for a talker and at least one listener of a Voice Group Call, by sending a special, dedicated signal to all listeners and to the talker. The text- and/or... Agent: Norris, Mclaughlin & Marcus

20070105571 - System and method for providing advertisement messages: Disclosed herein are a system and method for providing advertisement messages. The system includes a message transmission condition setting unit, a Virtual Machine (VM) application provision unit, a message transmission target extraction unit, and a message transmission unit. The message transmission condition setting unit classifies message transmission conditions according to... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070105570 - System and methods for the wireless delivery of a message: Systems and methods for a wireless communication system used for transmitting and receiving information, the information not containing identification of the information's intended recipient. A method for transmitting payload information, the method comprising providing verification information scrambling a portion of the verification information and transmitting the payload information with the... Agent: John J. Oskorep, Esq. One Magnificent Mile Center

20070105575 - Flexible medium access control (mac) for ad hoc deployed wireless networks: Systems and methods are disclosed that facilitate wireless communication using resource utilization messages (RUMs), in accordance with various aspects. A RUM may be generated for a first node, such as an access point or an access terminal, to indicate that a first predetermined threshold has been met or exceeded. The... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070105574 - Interference management using resource utilization masks sent at constant psd: Systems and methods are described that facilitate evaluating conditions of nodes (e.g., access points, access terminals, etc.) in a wireless communication environment to determine a level of disadvantage for a given node relative to other nodes. A first node may receive a resource utilization message (RxRUM) and may determine a... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070105573 - Using resource utilization messages in a multi-carrier mac to achieve fairness: Systems and methods are disclosed that facilitate dynamically adjusting a number of resources, such as channels, frequencies, tones, etc., occupied by a node (e.g., an access point, and access terminal, etc.) in accordance with various aspects. A level of service experienced at the node may be determined, and a resource... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070105576 - Weighted fair sharing of a wireless channel using resource utilization masks: Systems and methods are described that facilitate data communication in a wireless communication environment. According to various aspects, a node, such as an access point or an access terminal, may determine a number of channels over which it will transmit a communication signal. The node may then select channels based... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070105577 - Wide area network handset assisted content delivery system and method of using same: A wide area network assisted multimedia content delivery system (200) includes a first wide area network handset (205) and a second wide area network handset (207) having one or more transceivers (208) for exchanging information over the wide band network as well as multimedia content via an ad hoc communication.... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20070105578 - Method and system for providing a push-to-talk communication session using a control endpoint: A method for providing a push-to-talk communication session using a control endpoint includes facilitating a push-to-talk communication session among a full duplex endpoint supporting simultaneous two-way communication and a plurality of half duplex endpoints. Communications are received from and transmitted to the full duplex endpoint along a two-way communications path.... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070105579 - Method and system for providing a proxy media service: A method for providing a push-to-talk proxy media service includes receiving a plurality of monitored push-to-talk communication streams over a high bandwidth connection and mixing the plurality of monitored push-to-talk communication streams into a mixed communication stream. The method also includes transmitting the mixed communication stream to a user endpoint... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070105580 - Method and apparatus for calculating an initial transmission power in universal mobile telecommunications system user equipment: A method and apparatus for calculating an initial transmission power in a mobile telecommunications system is disclosed, the system comprising a network of a plurality of cells and at least one user equipment device. The user equipment device receives broadcast system information, and measures a signal power. An initial transmission... Agent: Research In Motion, Ltd

20070105584 - Method and apparatus for robust handoff in wireless communication systems: A communication system that allows a soft handoff to be completed, even when the communications link between the active base station and the mobile station deteriorates before the mobile station has received the handoff direction message. The mobile station maintains a list of base stations that the mobile station is... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070105583 - Method for automatic resource restriction distribution, a base station, a mobile terminal, a resource distribution device and a mobile network therefor: The invention concerns a method for automatic resource restriction distribution for coordination of the interference between cells (C1, C2, . . . ) or sectors (S1, S2, . . . ) of a single frequency network with the frequency band being subdivided into at least two subsets (F1, F2 .... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070105582 - System and method for controlling the transmit power of a wireless module: A method (600) for controlling a transmit power of an interface module (230) is provided. The method includes generating a transmit power code at a power code generator (240) (610); receiving the transmit power code at the interface module (620); receiving control signals at the interface module (650); and generating... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20070105581 - System and method to perform stable distributed power control in a wireless network: A method to control power transmitted from a node in a wireless network. The method includes receiving one or more signals at the node from one or more other nodes of the wireless network, determining a signal-to-interference-plus noise ratio for each signal received from each of the one or more... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070105585 - Apparatus and method for constructing neighbor node list in cellular communication system: Provided is an apparatus and method for constructing a neighbor node list in a cellular communication system. In the method, an MS acquires neighbor nodes through a scanning operation in an initial network entry procedure, inserts information about the acquired neighbor nodes into a predetermined message, and transmits the predetermined... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm

20070105586 - Method and apparatus for managing neighbor cells in mobile communication terminal: A method and apparatus for managing neighbor cells of a mobile communication terminal is provided. In the method, when a neighbor cell list is received from a network, neighbor cells are scanned to select a number of neighbor cells having high received signal strength indicator (RSSI) levels. The selected neighbor... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070105587 - Architecture of future open wireless architecture (owa) radio system: Architecture of future open wireless architecture (OWA) radio system supporting full integration of multi-bands, multi-standards wireless and mobile communication technologies with computer technology based on future open architecture platforms.... Agent: Wei Lu

20070105588 - Personal area network having media player and mobile device controlling the same: A system and method are provided for controlling content played by a number of media devices. In general, the system includes a mobile device and the number of media devices. The mobile device includes a wireless communication interface for communicating with the media devices, a media database, and a control... Agent: Withrow & Terranova, P.l.l.c.

20070105590 - Communication device and method for controlling the same: A communication device comprises a first memory which stores telephone books, each including identification information and a name of a communication party, a second memory which stores communication histories, each including a communication time and identification information and a name of a communication party, a changing device which changes a... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070105589 - Software architecture for future open wireless architecture (owa) mobile terminal: A software architecture for future open wireless architecture (OWA) mobile terminal providing an open and secured software platform supporting various wireless air interfaces with multi-dimensional mobility handovers and maximized spectrum efficiency for the truly service-oriented fixed, mobile and wireless communications convergence.... Agent: Wei Lu

20070105591 - Wireless handheld input device: A wireless handheld input device is provided. The wireless handheld input device includes a microprocessor, a signal transformation module, a wireless transmission/reception module, an audio input module, an audio output module, a keyboard and a pointing touch pad. The electronic modules, the keyboard and the pointing touch pad described above... Agent: Tb05p0109us

20070105592 - Apparatus and method for providing neighbor node information in cellular communication system: An apparatus and method for providing neighbor node information in a cellular communication system. In the method, a Base Station (BS) generates and transmits a neighbor advertisement message including neighbor base station BS information and neighbor Relay Station (RS) information. A node discriminatively processes the neighbor BS information and the... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070105593 - Equalizing signal-to-interference ratios of different physical channels supporting a coded composite transport channel: A system and method for equalizing the signal-to-interference ratios (SIRs) of a plurality of physical channels supporting a coded composite transport channel CCTrCH comprises calculating new transmission powers such that not only are the SIRs of the physical channels equalized, but also the average SIR of the CCTrCH remains constant.... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070105595 - Joint scheduling and grouping for sdma systems: A joint scheduling and grouping technique for throughput maximization is disclosed for an uplink space-division multiple access (SDMA) system under proportional fairness constraints, when the receiver employs successive group decoding. We consider a slow-fading narrowband MIMO multiple access channel (MAC) in which multiple users, each equipped with multiple transmit antennas,... Agent: Brosemer, Kolefas & Associates, LLC (necl)

20070105594 - Method for the determination of an antenna weighting factor: The present disclosure relates to a method for the determination of an antenna weighing factor for base stations of a cellular radio network, wherein a radio link to a terminal can be established simultaneously via several base stations which respectively transmit in a parallel manner via several transmission paths from... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20070105597 - Method of running application and mobile communication terminal using the same: A method of running an application in a mobile communication terminal is disclosed. The method includes, if a predetermined key-value is input on a standby screen, analyzing the key-value to determine which application (or applications) to run; setting a parameter for running the application determined according to the key-value analysis... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070105596 - Real time caller information retrieval and display in dispatch calls: A method, wireless device and system retrieve and display caller information in real time by enabling a local data ID send feature on a calling wireless device (102), transmitting identification information (304) associated with the calling wireless device (102) and stored locally on the calling wireless device (102) to a... Agent: Fleit, Kain, Gibbons, Gutman, Bongini & Bianco P.l.

20070105598 - Audio headset: An audio headset (7) for 2-way communication via a separate mobile phone or similar, is supported by means of two or three pads (13-15) engaging anatomical details of the outer ear of a user. One (13) of the pads engages the Cymba Concha, and a second pad (14) engages the... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070105599 - Assembly of a wireless earphone device and a charging base: In an assembly of a wireless earphone device and a charging base, the wireless earphone device includes a controller coupled electrically to a wireless transceiver unit, an earphone speaker and an earphone microphone, and a rechargeable power supplying unit coupled electrically to the controller and an earphone connector port. The... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20070105600 - Techniques to communicate information between foreign agents and paging controllers: Systems and techniques to communicate information between foreign agents and paging controllers are described. An apparatus may comprise a foreign agent having a foreign agent idle mode manager to store at least one paging controller identifier associated with an idle mode mobile station for a subnet. The subnet may have... Agent: Kacvinsky LLC C/o Intellevate

20070105601 - Speaker unit for a communication system: A speaker unit for a communications system includes a housing having a front and a back. The front has a plurality of spaced-apart recesses. A circuit board is fitted to the back of the housing. There is a push to talk switch mounted on the circuit board. There is a... Agent: Norman M. Cameron

20070105602 - Cellular wireless unit: Antenna characteristics of a folding cellphone are adjusted to appropriate values. The cellphone includes a first casing 10a containing a first circuit member 15a, and a second casing 10b containing a second circuit member 15b. The first circuit member 15a and the second circuit member 15b are connected by a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070105603 - Method of magnifying the fonts on mobile phone screen by unfolding and carrying and device thereof: A mobile telephone screen is covered with a lens, fixed on one end and set free on the other or fixed on both ends. When the fonts don't need to be magnified, the Fresnel lens tightly sticks to the mobile telephone screen; and when need, the free end of the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070105604 - Mobile terminal with back-lighted directional keys: A mobile terminal includes a first body structured to slideably engage a second body to permit opening and closing of the mobile terminal by relative sliding motion between the first body and the second body. The first body includes a plurality of distinct optically transmissive regions. A display is positioned... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070105606 - Mobile phone with a sliding cradle for providing visual and acoustic convenience: A sliding cradle in a mobile terminal has a body housing, and a sliding and pivotable housing adapted to rest in a slanting position on the body housing after being slid on the body housing. The sliding cradle comprises a first member fastened to the body housing, a second member... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070105605 - Sliding module for portable terminal: A sliding module for a portable terminal which has a first housing and a second housing sliding on the first housing is disclosed, the sliding module slidably coupling the first and second housings. The sliding module includes a sliding plate mounted on a surface of the first housing; at least... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070099559 - Cellular phone jammer that permits cellular communication in an emergency: The present invention is related to a cellular phone jammer permitting cellular phones to be used in an emergency, and includes a cellular phone signal-obstructing apparatus and an alarm apparatus. The cellular phone signal-obstructing apparatus further has a cellular phone signal-blocking unit, a power supply unit, and a trigger unit.... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070099560 - Mobile device control of mobile television broadcast signals to alternate destinations: A portable mobile communications device for altering the destination of mobile television programs broadcast by a mobile television service provider includes a mobile television device, a processor running a mobile television redirect application communicable with the mobile television service provider, and a user interface for controlling the mobile television device... Agent: Moore And Van Allen PLLC For Semc

20070099562 - Satellite assisted radioterminal communications systems and methods: Information is transmitted from a radioterminal to a first base station via a first wireless link. A satellite is used to route the information from the first base station to a second base station via second wireless links between the satellite and the first base station and between the satellite... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20070099561 - System and method for tracking umts cell traffic: A system and method for providing cell-based statistics for messages related to the same call. The system and method can receive messages into a message coverage area, link the messages with a call with which they are associated, determine a radio link associated with the messages, create a data record... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20070099564 - Current mode interface for off-chip high speed communication: A transceiver interface for data transfer between two integrated circuits (ICs or “chips”) utilizes a current mode technique rather than conventional voltage mode differential signaling techniques. A current pulse is injected into one of two transmission wires based on a signal value to be transmitted (e.g., logic “0” or “1”)... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070099563 - Network configuring device and network configuring method: Before wiring of a physical wiring changing-over switch is switched, a communication suspension instructing unit in a controller sends a signal to instruct IT devices connected to the physical wiring changing-over switch to suspend communications for a certain period of time and hold the communication bit strings to be transmitted... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070099565 - Method of remotely estimating a rest or best lock frequency of a local station receiver using telemetry: A system includes a remote station and a local station having a receiver. The receiver operates in an unlocked state corresponding to its best lock frequency (BLF). The local station derives data indicative of a ratio of the BLF to a reference frequency of the receiver, and telemeters the data... Agent: The Johns Hopkins Universityapplied Physics Labora Office Of Patent Counsel

20070099566 - Multi-element rfid coupler: An RFID communication system comprising a near field coupler that is capable of selectively communicating with a targeted transponder positioned among a group of multiple adjacent transponders. The coupler is configured to receive communication signals from a transceiver and transmit the signals to a targeted transponder in a transponder operating... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070099568 - Method of modifying bluetooth transceiver parameters and related system: A method of updating parameters of an embedded system through an object push profile (OPP) is used to update parameters of a Bluetooth-enabled device that does not have a keyboard. By using the OPP, a vCard is sent from an initiator to the embedded system, and a resolver extracts contents... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070099567 - Methods and apparatus for providing a platform coexistence system of multiple wireless communication devices: Embodiments of methods and apparatus for providing a platform coexistence system of multiple wireless communication devices are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20070099569 - Method and apparatus for terminating undesired communications: An apparatus and method (200) are disclosed for terminating undesired communications. An apparatus that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a communications device (100) having a transceiver (102), and a controller (112) that manages operations of the transceiver. The controller is programmed to establish (202) a... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070099570 - Receiver with multi-tone wideband i/q mismatch calibration and method therefor: In one embodiment, a method provides multiple-tone wideband I/Q mismatch calibration. A plurality of calibration frequencies is selected within a channel. A calibration tone is applied to the channel at each of the plurality of calibration frequencies. An I/Q mismatch is estimated at each of the plurality of calibration frequencies.... Agent: Larson Newman Abel Polansky & White, LLP

20070099573 - Antenna array calibration for multi-input multi-output wireless communication systems: Calibration for a transmit chain of a device transmitting information to multiple devices over wireless links and receive chains of the multiple devices receiving information over one of the wireless links utilizing each of the estimates for different antennas of an access terminal as a separate estimate.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070099571 - Echo mimo: a method for optimal multiple input multiple output channel estimation and matched cooperative beamforming: A method for estimating a communication channel comprising one or more sub-channels between at least a first transceiver and at least a second transceiver is provided. The method comprises transmitting a first set of training data from the first transceiver to the second transceiver, receiving observed signals at the second... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070099574 - Electronic device capable of operating according to detection of environmental light: An electronic device includes a reflective proximity sensor for emitting light and detecting whether a wavelength of a reflective light is the same as a wavelength of the light emitted by the reflective proximity sensor, an optical sensor for sensing variation of environmental light, and a controller coupled to the... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070099575 - Transceiver and adjusting system for transceiver: A transceiver adjusting system is formed with a transceiver and a measuring device. The transceiver includes a transmitter for transmitting a radio wave wirelessly, a receiver for receiving a radio wave wirelessly from the measuring device, and a rewritable memory for storing a set value to control the electrical characteristic... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070099572 - Transmitter compensation: In some embodiments, a chip with a transmitter having a transmitter driver is provided. Also provided is a general compensation circuit coupled to the transmitter to generally compensate the transmitter driver and a specific compensation circuit coupled to the transmitter driver to specifically compensate the transmitter driver. Other embodiments are... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070099576 - Method and apparatus for base station management: An apparatus and method for determining (410) a quality of channel factor for a base transceiver station (530) of an active set and determining (420) whether the base transceiver station (530) should be assigned to a prefill set at least in part according to a predetermined function of the factor.... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070099577 - Apparatus and method for generating channel information and apparatus and method for adaptive transmission employing the same: Provided are an apparatus and method for generating channel information and apparatus and method for adaptive transmission employing the same. The channel information generation apparatus comprises an estimator for estimating current channel information of a multi-carrier received signal for each path, a short-period channel information generator for predicting channel information... Agent: Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP

20070099578 - Pre-coded diversity forward channel transmission system for wireless communications systems supporting multiple mimo transmission modes: A wireless communications system supporting multiple MIMO transmission modes supporting both diversity and directional transmissions under a plurality of different transmission modes comprises a plurality of transmit and receive antenna elements where the transmit antenna elements are arranged to provide polarization diversity. The transmitting station derives actual knowledge of the... Agent: Lawrence G. Kurland, Esq. Bryan Cave LLP

20070099579 - Circuit and method for reducing the crest factor: According to the invention, a circuit for reducing the crest factor is provided: (A) with a transmit path with a data symbol to be transmitted; (B) with a model path, which is arranged in parallel with a section of the transmit path, which exhibits a model filter to which the... Agent: Harold C Moore Maginot Moore & Beck

20070099580 - Frequency dividing circuit and multimode radio device using the same: A frequency dividing section 22 is made up of a frequency divider 19 for dividing output of a local oscillator, a frequency divider 20 for dividing output of an in-phase local oscillation signal of the frequency divider 19, and a dummy circuit 21 connected to the output terminal of a... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070099582 - Method and apparatus for signal demodulation and transmission: A transceiver comprises a transmitter and a receiver, Dual-band radio signals are simultaneously supported by the transceiver. First and second RF signals are down converted to an intermediate signal based on a first oscillation signal. The intermediate signal is then down converted to an inphase baseband signal and a quadrature... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070099581 - Variable loop bandwidth phase locked loop: An apparatus comprising a voltage controlled oscillator, a first charge pump, a second charge pump, a switch circuit and a comparator circuit. The voltage controlled oscillator may be configured to generate an output signal oscillating at a first frequency in response to a control signal. The charge pump circuit may... Agent: Lsi Logic Corporation

20070099583 - Method and arrangement for performing analog signal processing and measuring between a signal source and a load: A method and arrangement is shown for performing analog signal processing tasks like impedance matching, phase shifting, and/or signal filtering on a signal path from a signal source to a load so that a number of electrical components is smaller than that of solutions according to prior art for performing... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070099584 - Methods of antenna selection for downlink mimo-ofdm transmission over spatial correlated channels: An antenna selection technique (transmitter/receiver antenna selection) that reduces the cost of the MIMO system while maintaining high performance. A combined selection algorithm for MIMO-OFDM is provided which offers the best tradeoff between spatial correlation and instantaneous SNR. In one case, antenna selection is based on instant channel information. In... Agent: Kenneth L. Sherman, Esq. Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman, LLP

20070099585 - Multimode wireless communication device: A multimode wireless communication device includes a first circuit having a digital baseband processing module to convert outbound data into outbound digital baseband signals and to convert inbound digital baseband signals into inbound data, an analog to digital converter module to convert inbound analog baseband signals into the inbound digital... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070099586 - System and method for reducing spurious emissions in a wireless communication device including a testing apparatus: A wireless communication device is disclosed wherein isolation buffers couple to respective active circuits or stages of the device to convey test information regarding such active circuits to a test data line from which status information may be collected. The communication device operates in two modes, namely a normal operational... Agent: Mark P. Kahler

20070099587 - Apparatus and method of setting received broadcasting sound source data as functional sound of mobile phone: An apparatus and method of setting received broadcasting sound source data as a functional sound of a broadcast data receiving apparatus. The method includes receiving and decoding broadcasting data; storing sound source data included in the decoded broadcasting data in a storage unit; setting the stored sound source data as... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070099588 - Method and apparatus for receiving and/or down converting high frequency signals in multi mode/ multi band applications, using mixer and sampler: A method and apparatus to receive and down convert high frequency radio signals to low frequency or base band frequency is disclosed. A mixer used with a sampler produces a multi mode/multi band software enhanced radio receiver capable of supporting multiple air interfaces. The local oscillator of the disclosed mixer... Agent: Steven A. Nielsen Allman & Nielsen, P.c

20070099589 - Receiver input circuit: A receiver input circuit comprises an R-∞ type low-pass filter, a small-capacitance type coupling capacitor element and a parallel tuning circuit. The low-pass filter has an inductor element and a first capacitor element both connected in series, and a shunt-connected second capacitor element. The first and second capacitor elements are... Agent: Trexler, Bushnell, Giangiorgi, Blackstone & Marr, Ltd.

20070099590 - Frequency converter: The frequency characteristic of a conversion loss is kept generally constant during conversion of a high frequency received signal into an intermediate frequency signal. There is provided a frequency converter including a balanced balun (10) which branches a locally oscillated signal (Lo) into two signals which have the same amplitude... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070099591 - Power management for a battery-powered handheld audio device: A method for managing power of a battery-powered handheld audio device by receiving an indicia of signal quality for a received continuous-time radio signal. The method compares the indicia of signal quality to a signal quality threshold. Upon a favorable comparison, enacting a first analog signal conditioning setting. Upon an... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070099592 - Portable communication device and system with interchangeable accessory modules: A portable communication device and system in accordance with the exemplary embodiment comprises interchangeable accessory modules allowing different accessory devices to be used with a portable communication device assembly. The accessory modules and the portable communication device assembly form portable communication devices when the accessory modules are secured to the... Agent: Kyocera Wireless Corp.

20070099593 - Method for managing interchangeable accessory modules connected to a portable communication device: A portable communication device and system in accordance with the exemplary embodiment comprises interchangeable accessory modules allowing different accessory devices to be used with a portable communication device assembly. The accessory modules and the portable communication device assembly form portable communication devices when the accessory modules are secured to the... Agent: Kyocera Wireless Corp.

20070099594 - Computer-implemented method, system, and program product for tracking a location of a user of a wireless device in a public network environment: Under the present invention, when a wireless device user is authenticated by a provider of wireless connectivity, certain information is communicated from the wireless device to a server maintained in the location of the user. Such information includes, among other things, information identifying the location of the wireless device. This... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20070099595 - Telecommunications method and suitable system for establishing a connection with a mobile device: Telecommunications method, and system suitable therefor, for establishing a connection with a mobile device, for example a GSM mobile radio telephone, of a participant, who is located in a VPLMN, the calling mobile participant in the VPLMN preparing and sending a short message, for example a USSD message, with the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070099596 - System and method for detecting activity on a frequency band: Described is a method for detecting activity on a frequency band. A wireless signal of a predetermined radio frequency band is received. The signal is processed into a plurality of subsignals, each subsignal corresponding to a particular radio frequency channel of the band. An energy level of the corresponding subsignal... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20070099597 - Authentication in a communication network: A method of authenticating a mobile node to a communication system is provided, the communication system comprising a plurality of access nodes, the method comprising the steps of (a) generating a numerical chain comprising a series of values using a one-way coding function such that a given value within the... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070099598 - Method for enabling a base station to connect to a wireless telecommunication network: The present invention concerns a method for enabling a first base station to be included within a wireless cellular network, the wireless cellular network comprising a server, a plurality of second base stations and a telecommunication network linking the base stations and the server, the base stations managing cells. The... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070099599 - Method and system for provisioning wireless services: A method for provisioning wireless devices for use of services offered by a service provider on a wireless network, comprising: receiving at a provisioning system from a wireless device a wireless device identifier, the wireless device having a first subset of the services; identifying from the wireless device identifier a... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP

20070099600 - System and method of managing communications policy settings in a wireless network: The present invention provides a system and method of modifying policy settings in a network having a plurality of subscriber devices. An embodiment includes a plurality of base stations, each capable of wirelessly transmitting across a geographic region and a server. A cell-phone, capable of roaming between regions, is operable... Agent: Perry + Partners (for Rim)

20070099603 - Method for synchronizing at least one multimedia peripheral of a portable communication device with an audio file, and corresponding portable communication device: A method for synchronizing a number R greater than or equal to 1 of multimedia peripherals (6) of a portable communication device with an audio file (1), comprising the steps of extracting a number P greater than or equal to 1 of basic synchronization signals (SYNCi) according to a first... Agent: Sofer & Haroun LLP.

20070099601 - Method of varying the behavior of a mobile phone based on unhandled events on the mobile phone: A method of changing configurations of a mobile phone based on a status of unhandled events includes generating an unanswered factor to record a number of unhandled events received by the mobile phone; receiving an incoming event on the mobile phone, the incoming event being a received phone call or... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070099605 - Methods and apparatus for programming user-defined information into electronic devices: A device for programming user-defined information into an electronic device is provided. The programmer allows a user to program customized information, such as user-selected audio, video, or Internet access information into his or her programmable device. Such electronic devices include wireless telephones, pagers, and personal digital assistants. The programmer allows... Agent: Kaliko & Yeager, L.L.C.

20070099604 - Methods and apparatuses for programming user-defined information into electronic devices: A device for programming user-defined information into an electronic device is provided. The programmer allows a user to program customized information, such as user-selected audio, video, or Internet access information into his or her programmable device. Such electronic devices include wireless telephones, pagers, and personal digital assistants. The programmer allows... Agent: Kaliko & Yeager, L.L.C.

20070099602 - Multi-modal device capable of automated actions: A multi-modal multi-lingual mobile device that facilitates intelligently automating an action. The device can automatically synchronize a user schedule based upon a user state, intention, preference and/or limitation. The device can employ sensors to automatically detect criteria by which to automatically implement an action. Moreover, the system can interrogate a... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070099607 - Apparatus and method for detecting hook switch of a mobile communication terminal: A method for transmitting information for a Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service (MBMS) capable of receiving a specific MBMS service without any difficulty in a when a terminal subscribed to the specific MBMS service moves from an to the, in which when the terminal moves from the to the, the terminal or... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070099606 - Emulating device: A method and a corresponding device for optimising a cellular telecommunication network are provided. According to the provided method, an emulating device is connected to the cellular telecommunication network, thus creating a signalling link between the emulating device and the cellular telecommunication network. With the emulating device, functionalities of elements... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070099608 - Method and apparatus for network planning: A system and method for wireless network planning utilizing raster data, stored and manipulated in raster data planes (204-212) and vector data (522) stored and manipulated in vector data planes (528-532). The invention increases the accuracy of network planning by simultaneously utilizing vector data planes (528-532) and raster data planes... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20070099609 - Methods and systems for controlling services provided to shared plan subscribers: Methods and systems for controlled provision of communications services to shared plan subscribers, in which a shared plan defines individual restrictions for a plurality of subscribers, wherein services are selectively provided services to the shared plan subscribers based on subscriber usage and the corresponding individual restrictions defined for the shared... Agent: Fay Sharpe/lucent

20070099610 - Method of automatically backing up and restoring pims data of mobile communication terminal: A method of automatically backing up and restoring PIMS data stored in a mobile communication terminal is disclosed which allows the users of mobile communication terminals to conveniently restore previously maintained PIMS data in new mobile communication terminals without any loss of the data even when damage, loss or replacement... Agent: Madson & Austin Gateway Tower West

20070099611 - System and method for accessing mobile data devices: An intermediate system (20) for managing mobile data devices (22) is disclosed. The intermediate system (20) for accessing mobile data devices (22) and the method for implementing thereof, allows data requesters (24) on a network interconnected with a mobile network (21) to which are connected mobile data devices (22) to... Agent: Lawrence Y.d. Ho & Associates Pte Ltd

20070099612 - System and method for providing information to a portable terminal: An information providing system can include a registration terminal having a guidance information registration database which stores information groups, which are correlated with reference position information. When portable terminal position information for specifying the position of a portable terminal is received together with a transmission request for the guidance information,... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070099613 - Method and system for forwarding calls to a secondary wireless network using a multi-protocol wireless device: A multi-protocol phone call routing system (10) and method (40) can include a wireless transceiver (22) capable of operating on a primary wireless network (24) and at least one alternative wireless network (32), and a processor coupled to the wireless transceiver. The transceiver can be programmed to monitor (44 or... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070099615 - Apparatus and method for querying for rat handover system information in mobile telecommunications systems: A mobile telecommunications system comprises a network of a plurality of cells and at least one user equipment device operable to communicate in the system and to operate in a first RAT and a second RAT. The method comprises, in the user equipment device, determining whether the validity of data... Agent: Research In Motion, Ltd

20070099616 - Method and apparatus for base station synchronization: An apparatus and method for monitoring (310) at least one factor relating to a wireless communication system (100) is provided such that a synchronization signal is sent (320) to at least one base transceiver station (130) neighboring a primary base transceiver station (120) at least in part according to a... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070099618 - Method and apparatus for preventing excessive handovers in mobile communication system: Provided is a method for preventing excessive handovers in a mobile communication system. In the method, a periodic measurement report message is transmitted from a mobile terminal to a network. The network determines, on the basis of the measurement report message from the mobile terminal, whether a handover of the... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070099614 - Resource allocation during tune-away: A resource assignment method during a tune-away procedure comprises determining a first instance in time that a tune-away will initiate with respect to an access terminal, determining a second instance in time that corresponds to a latest frame boundary associated with the access terminal prior to the instance in time... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070099617 - Selection of target cell and intersystem cell reselection: In a radio system the user terminal performs measurements of at least one pilot signal. The user terminal has a packet switched connection with a GSM cell. At least one of the at least one measured pilot signals is transmitted by a UTRAN cell. The user terminal transmits measurement reports... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070099619 - Inter-frequency handoff: Embodiments are described in connection with seamless inter-frequency handoff in a wireless network. Provided is a method that includes reporting to an access network sector pilot strength information for at least one frequency member in a message specified in an active set management protocol. Information regarding at least another frequency... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070099621 - Cell transfer during mbms session with advance provision of mobile station id: A mobile station which is participating in a Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service session, and which will continue its session participation in a new cell, need not wirelessly obtain from the new cell an identifier to use for the session in the new cell. Rather, the mobile station wirelessly obtains the... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070099620 - System and method of maintaining communications policy settings in a wireless network: The present invention provides a system and method of modifying policy settings in a network having a plurality of subscriber devices. An embodiment includes a plurality of base stations, each capable of wirelessly transmitting across a geographic region and a server. A cell-phone, capable of roaming between regions, is operable... Agent: Torys LLP

20070099623 - Configuration management system and method for use in an rfid system including a multiplicity of rfid readers: A system and method that facilitates the configuration and control of components of an RFID system, taking into account how the RFID system components are associated with one or more physical locations within an environment in which the RFID system is deployed. A user provides information specifying associations between the... Agent: Weingarten, Schurgin, Gagnebin & Lebovici LLP

20070099622 - Method and apparatus for utilizing rf signals to create a site specific representation of an environment: A system and method for creating a site specific representation of an environment are disclosed. The system and method comprise sending an RF signal and receiving a reflected RF signal. Based upon determining characteristics of the reflected RF signal, characteristics of an obstruction in the environment are computed. Finally, a... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070099624 - Dynamic wireless meshing network for supporting load balance and flow control: The present invention relates to a dynamic wireless meshing network system, which applies a management frame stipulated in IEEE 802.11 standard for regulating access point (AP) to a wireless distribution system (WDS) mode and adds an information element (IE) to the management frame, enabling an AP to select another AP... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070099631 - Communication mode switching system and method for the same: The invention is related to a communication mode switching system for uses in switching communication mode based on position information in a mobile communication apparatus and a method thereof. The system includes a database, a positioning module, a communication module, and a processing module. The database is for storing communication... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070099628 - Determining relative elevation using gps and ranging: A system and method are disclosed for determining a position of a wireless communication device. A method includes determining a respective (x,y) position of two wireless communication devices, determining a distance between the two wireless communication devices, and determining a relative elevational differential between the two wireless communication devices. The... Agent: Tillman Wright, PLLC

20070099630 - External operation signal recognition system of a mobile communication terminal: Provided is an external operation signal recognition system of a mobile communication terminal which includes an external operation signal generation apparatus separate from the mobile communication terminal for generating synch and operation signals; and an external operation signal recognition apparatus for receiving the synch signal, sensing the external operation signal... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm

20070099632 - Method and system for detecting a preferred wireless network for a mobile device: A method and system for detecting a wireless network includes receiving at a mobile device a signal having data indicative of a location of the mobile device. A determination is made whether the mobile device is within the coverage area of a specified network based on the data. The mobile... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070099625 - Object location: A positioning method uses backscattered signals from a radio station (10, 20) to locate the radio station within an area, for example in a room in a building. The difference between the measured backscattered signals and the expected signals is then found, and the difference is compared with data stored... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070099627 - System and method for determining the bearing of a source location from a receiver location: The system comprises a first beatable signal source, a second beatable signal source, a phase reference signal source and a receiver. The first beatable signal source and the second beatable signal source are located at the source location; the receiver is located at the receiver location. The phase reference signal... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20070099626 - Tracking system and method: A system and method for determining and communicating the precise location of an individual and/or a motor vehicle in real-time is disclosed. As an example, a tracking system is disclosed that includes a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver, a cellular phone, and a processing unit. The GPS receiver, cellular phone... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070099629 - Using gps and ranging to determine relative elevation of an asset: A system and method are disclosed for determining a position of a wireless communication device. A method includes determining a respective (x,y) position of two wireless communication devices, determining a distance between the two wireless communication devices, and determining a relative elevational differential between the two wireless communication devices. The... Agent: Tillman Wright, PLLC

20070099633 - Method, configuration and computer program comprising program code means and computer program product for determination a selected position of a mobile communications device within a communications network: The position of a mobile communications device within a communications network (localization) is determined using communications signals of a base station that communicates with the mobile communications device using a mobile communications network. A possible area of location is determined using a non-linear communication model based on non-linear Bayesian filtering.... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070099634 - Mesh network that provides location information: An apparatus and method of providing location information in a wireless mesh access network is disclosed. The wireless mesh network includes mesh access nodes, and provides connectivity between a client device and a destination server. The method includes providing each access nodes with its own location information. At least one... Agent: Tropos Networks

20070099635 - Method and apparatus to implement efficient paging in a wireless network: Techniques are disclosed for achieving efficient paging in a wireless network. In at least one embodiment, paging is performed in a manner that achieves a balance between paging latency and paging signaling overhead.... Agent: The Law Offices Of John C. Scott, LLC C/o Intellevele

20070099636 - System and method for conducting a search using a wireless mobile device: A method and system are provided by which a wireless mobile device takes a vocally entered query and transmits it in a text message format over a wireless network to a search engine; receives search results based on the query from the search engine over the wireless network; and displays... Agent: Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP

20070099637 - Voice instant messaging between mobile and computing devices: Voice instant messaging between mobile and computing devices is described. In an embodiment, a messaging service receives a recorded voice clip from a mobile communication-enabled device via a wireless communication link. The messaging service then processes the recorded voice clip for communication via a data network to a computing-based device... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070099638 - Multi-number wireless communications system and method: A multi-number wireless communication system comprises a wireless communication device configured to initiate a telephone call using each of at least two different telephone numbers assigned thereto.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070099640 - Arbitration of resources at a wireless device among contending applications: Multiple applications sharing common resources are arbitrated such that failures resulting from unavailable resources can be avoided. Whenever an application (e.g., a data application) desires to perform an operation (e.g., PPP resynchronization) that requires the use of a shared resource (e.g., an RF receiver), a determination is made as to... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070099639 - Method of synchronization of the uplink channel of a simulcast network: A method of synchronization on the uplink channel of a Simulcast network with a plurality of fixed receivers (BS1-BS4) and a selection unit (20), comprises the following steps. All the receivers are placed in a synchronization search mode (702), in which they search for a synchronization pattern sent by the... Agent: Miller, Matthias & Hull

20070099641 - Method and apparatus for client control of wireless communications: A method, according to the various aspects of the present invention, is performed by a wireless cell for improving communication between the wireless cell and at least one wireless client, the wireless cell having at least two channels. The method includes, in any practical order, the wireless cell receiving a... Agent: Letham Patent Group LLC

20070099642 - Method and apparatus for displaying information directory in mobile communication terminal: Provided is a method and apparatus for displaying an information directory such as a phone directory in a mobile communication terminal. The method includes, when a phone number search menu selection is detected, types of performable search categories are outputted on a display unit, and a selection of one of... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070099643 - Remote control system: A method includes the steps of selecting an appliance to be controlled from a list of appliances stored in the cellular device, selecting an instruction to be communicated to the selected appliance from a list of instructions stored in the cellular device, and transmitting the instruction to a cellular interface... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20070099648 - Apparatus and method for controlling uplink load in a wireless communication system: A method is provided for controlling uplink power in a wireless communication system. The method includes receiving downlink channel information from a mobile station (MS); measuring uplink channel information of the MS; selecting channel information having a lower value from among the forward channel information and the uplink channel information;... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm

20070099647 - Apparatus and method of determining uplink priority in wireless mobile communication system: Provided is a wireless mobile communication system in which a mobile station reports a headroom value indicating the magnitude of currently used transmission power and additionally usable transmission power. An uplink scheduling method of a Base Transceiver Station (BTS) includes normalizing the headroom value according to a pre-set reference transmission... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070099644 - Method and apparatus for transmit power control in wireless data communication systems: The distance between a first Multi Band Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex (MB-OFDM) data transceiver and a second or more such transceiver is determined using known techniques. The radio frequency path loss between transceivers is estimated given said distance, using a known relationship between distance and path loss, and further accounting... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070099646 - Ranging and positioning system, ranging and positioning method, and radio communication apparatus: A system and method for performing ranging and positioning as follows by using the procedure for packet transmission and reception between a sender and a recipient. A first radio set transmits packets to a second radio set as a recipient. The second radio set returns the packets without fail after... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070099645 - Wireless communication terminal for controlling power of access probe using neighbor set list and method therefor: A wireless communication terminal having a power control function of an access probe using a neighbor set list includes a compensation value providing unit configured to provide a compensation value corresponding to the number of neighbor base stations, a control unit configured to transmit the compensation value provided from the... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20070099649 - Method and apparatus for neighbor discovery in ipv6-based mobile system: A mobile station and method for neighbor discovery are provided. The mobile station comprises a mapping table storing a connection identifier (CID) prefix and a neighbor identifier, a controller generating a CID with respect to a message that will be transmitted by referring to the mapping table, and a message... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070099651 - Hold on telephony feature: The present invention allows a communication terminal to implement a hold on feature upon receiving an incoming call. Upon receiving an incoming call, the communication terminal may initiate an incoming call alert to the user, and in response, receive a hold on instruction. Upon receiving the hold on instruction, the... Agent: Withrow & Terranova, P.l.l.c.

20070099650 - Imf cover for a portable electronic device: The present invention is directed towards a front cover for a portable electronic device as well as a portable electronic device including such a front cover. The front cover comprises a bottom layer of stiff plastic material having a first opening where at least one input key is to be... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20070099653 - Apparatus and method for responding to unlicensed network failure: An apparatus and method for responding to unlicensed network failure. A failure in a connection to an unlicensed wireless local area network controller can be detected. A wireless local area network access point connection to the unlicensed wireless local area network controller can be released. An attempt can be made... Agent: Motorola Inc

20070099652 - Cell search scheduling in a wireless cellular communication network: A method performed by a mobile communication unit (10) when operating in stand-by mode in a wireless cellular communication network. The receiver is activated in periods of relatively short duration (τ0) to receive paging indicators (21) from the serving base station (20) and to receive identifying signals from the remote... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070099654 - Broadcasting signal receiving apparatus and control method thereof: A broadcasting signal receiving apparatus and control method thereof allow a user of the broadcasting signal receiving apparatus to receive both an analog broadcasting signal and a digital broadcasting signal, and to select a desired channel. A broadcasting signal receiving apparatus includes a signal receiving unit which receives an analog... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070099655 - Method for capturing an image with an electronic handheld device: A method for capturing an image with an electronic handheld device (1) equipped with a camera unit (2) and capture means (3) for triggering an image capture, said electronic handheld device (1) further comprising power supplying means (4) connected to said camera unit, and at least one additional component (5)... Agent: Sofer & Haroun LLP.

20070099656 - Portable terminal having digital camera function: A portable terminal is provided having a digital camera function that includes a display main body having a display, a camera assembly having a camera module for focusing on a subject and photographing an image of the subject displayed on the display and a turning unit to rotatably couple the... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070099657 - System and method for collecting and presenting records in a journal on an electronic device: A device and a method of organizing journaling items from applications processed by an electronic device are provided. The method comprises: defining a journal having a parameter for storing journaling items; defining contexts for the parameter by creating a context for each record using data from an application operating on... Agent: Mccarthy Tetrault LLP

20070099658 - Systems and methods for developing, delivering and using video applications for a plurality of mobile platforms: A mobile application development platform comprises a toolset configured to streamline the development process for mobile applications. The streamline development process can enable efficiencies for the development of applications such as video streaming and uploading as well as image delivery and uploading. The development platform provides multi-language support. The development... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP Patent Department

20070099659 - Systems and methods for uploading content over a wireless network using a mobile communication device: A mobile application development platform comprises a toolset configured to streamline the development process for mobile applications. The streamline development process can enable efficiencies for the development of applications such as video streaming and uploading as well as image delivery and uploading. For example, by developing a video up loading... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP Patent Department

20070099660 - Dynamic frequency inventory and masking: A centralized wireless resource manager is leveraged to facilitate in reconciling communication conflicts between wireless devices that interact with a computing device and/or reconciling communication conflicts between a wireless device and a locale of a computing device interacting with the wireless devices. One instance allows dynamic reconciliation of a wireless... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070099663 - Electronic device and access device thereof: An electronic device comprises an access device for receiving and accessing an object. The access device comprises a substrate, a receiver and a first elastic member. The receiver for receiving the object is rotatably disposed between a reference position and a predetermined position with respect to the substrate. The first... Agent: Quintero Law Office, PC

20070099662 - Integrated smart card and battery for mobile devices: An electronic device for a mobile device and a mobile device comprising the electronic device are provided. The electronic device comprises: a battery including: a housing having a top surface, a bottom surface, and two or more side surfaces; one or more battery cells within the housing; and a battery... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP

20070099661 - Method for the provision of operator-specific performance featuresof different mobile radio network operators for a mobile radio customer: The invention relates to a method for the provision of operator-specific performance features of different mobile radio network operators for a mobile radio customer, whereby the mobile radio customer has a smart card, on which a user relationship for the mobile radio customer with a mobile radio network operator is... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20070099664 - Ps handover support indication: GERAN Cell Capability indicated in a bit of an Information Element is modified to indicate whether a neighbor GERAN cell belonging to a radio access technology (GSM) supports packet switched (PS) handover or not so that the serving radio network controller can be in possession of such information before deciding... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070099665 - Apparatus and method for improving reception performance in a smart antenna system: An apparatus and method for improving the reception performance of a Mobile Station (MS) in a multiple antenna system are provided. In an apparatus of a Base Station (BS) in the multiple antenna system, upon receipt of a request for interference cancellation for a first MS serviced by a neighbor... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070099670 - Antenna array calibration for wireless communication systems: Calibration for a transmit chain of a device transmitting information to multiple devices over wireless links includes selecting from between two or more calibration determination techniques. In certain aspects the techniques include phase only calibration and phase and amplitude calibration.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070099669 - Communication signaling using multiple frequency bands in a wireless network: Communication signals using a first and a second frequency band in a wireless network is described herein. The first frequency band may be associated with a first beamwidth while the second frequency band may be associated with a second beamwidth, the first beamwidth being wider than the second beamwidth. The... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C.

20070099668 - Communication within a wireless network using multiple frequency bands: Communication using a first and a second frequency band in a wireless network is described herein. The first frequency band may be associated with a first beamwidth while the second frequency band may be associated with a second beamwidth, the first beamwidth being wider than the second beamwidth.... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C.

20070099667 - In-building wireless enhancement system for high-rise with emergency backup mode of operation: A distributed antenna system for providing distributed signal coverage within a facility of one or more wireless networks transmitting one or more RF signals. The distributed antenna system comprises a wireless base station configured to extend coverage of the one or more wireless networks; a backbone coupled to the base... Agent: Mcafee & Taft Tenth Floor, Two Leadership Square

20070099666 - Method for determining transmit weights: The present invention relates to beamforming in a multi-carrier multi-user communication system applying an adaptive method for determining transmit weights for the various antenna beams. A set of complex transmission weights is adapted in response to appropriate feedback information on transmission quality from receiving units in order to achieve a... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070099671 - Method and system for sharing speed dial lists amongst multiple telecommunications services: A master database stores a speed dial list associated with a user of multiple telecommunications services. The database shares the speed dial list with the telecommunication services such that a single speed dial list serves all of the user's telecommunications services. The database receives speed dial list changes made through... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20070099672 - Mobile communication terminal and link management method of the same: A mobile communication terminal and a method of link management are discussed. According to an embodiment, the terminal includes a display unit for indicating a message including at least one specific data; a link manager for setting a link to the at least one specific data included in the message,... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070099673 - Communications headset: A communications headset may be worn on an ear of a user. The headset may include a housing provided with a protruding concha-engaging part and a hook. The hook has an ear-engaging part and a joint part. The joint part is connected to the housing in that it is retained... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20070099674 - Handsfree apparatus: In a vehicular navigation system, “AT command +CIEV” is received from a cellular phone by a Bluetooth communications. The received “+CIEV” is determined to identify a phoning state (or call state) of the cellular phone. A sound corresponding to the identified phoning state is outputted via a speaker in a... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070099675 - Mobile phone with camera device and internal printhead: A mobile phone includes an elongate body defining entry and exit slots between which print media can be fed. A camera device is mounted to the body and is configured to capture an image. A printer assembly is contained within the body and includes an elongate printhead assembly which extends... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070099676 - Wireless transaction enabled handheld computer system and method: A handheld computer system is disclosed. The handheld computer system includes a housing, a display supported by the housing, and a processor coupled to the display. The handheld computer system also includes a rechargeable battery configured to power the processor and the display. Further, the handheld computer system includes a... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20070099677 - Data transfer method and transceiver thereof: A data transfer method and transceiver of wireless communication. The transceiver of wireless communication comprises an antenna, and a receiving module. The antenna receives first data. The receiving module is coupled to the antenna, receives the first data, compares a source address of the first data with a desired address,... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070099678 - Power-saving method for wireless sensor network: A power saving method of the present invention is provide for a wireless sensor network including a plurality of sensor nodes each transiting between a power saving mode and a transmit/receive mode, determines whether or not there is no transmit or receive data, enters the power saving mode if there... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070099679 - Wireless near field communication control using device state or orientation: A system for automatically controlling short-range wireless applications on a wireless communication device. The device includes a control table that may be accessed when the physical state or orientation of the wireless communication device changes. A change of physical state and/or orientation would include, for example, opening or closing a... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070099682 - Environmentally-friendly mobile phone: An exemplary environmentally-friendly mobile phone includes a main body and a housing enclosing the main body therein. The housing is made of bamboo. The housing has an outer surface and a coating containing nanoparticles is formed on the outer surface thereof The environmentally-friendly multifunctional mobile phone is friendly to environment... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070099680 - Wearable caddy for a personal audio device having integrated cord storage: A wearable caddy for a personal audio device (PAD) adapted to mount at least one PAD and store excess earphone cord. The caddy comprises a front plate and a back plate joined by a plate separating member that creates a space between the plates adapted to store the excess cod... Agent: J. Gordon Thomson

20070099681 - Wearable caddy for a personal audio device having integrated cord storage: A wearable caddy for a personal audio device (PAD) adapted to mount at least one PAD and store excess earphone cord. The caddy comprises a front plate and a back plate joined by a plate separating member that creates a space between the plates adapted to store the excess cod... Agent: J. Gordon Thomson