Telecommunications inventions 06/07

20070149111 - Modular receiving unit: A receiving unit 28 includes a tuner circuit board 104 that receives a satellite signal. The tuner circuit board 104 demodulates and decodes the satellite signal to form a second signal. The second signal is provided to a processor board 112 that is separated from the tuner and formats the... Agent: The Directv Group Inc

20070149129 - Methods and apparatus for communicating transmission backlog information: Methods and apparatus for communicating transmission backlog information are described. Reporting control factors are utilized to expand reporting possibilities for a fixed bit size request report. At least one report control factor is determined as a function of channel quality information, power information, device capability information, and/or quality of service... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070149128 - Methods and apparatus for reporting and/or using control information: A wireless communications system supports wireless connections between base station sector attachment points and wireless terminals. Individual wireless connections correspond to one of a downlink-macrodiversity mode of operation and a downlink non-macrodiversity mode of operation. A wireless terminal has, for each of its current connections, a base station assigned dedicated... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070149137 - Methods and apparatus for communicating control information: In a first mode of dedicated control channel (DCCH) operation, a wireless terminal is allocated more segments than in a second mode. The wireless terminal uses different information bit to modulation symbol mapping in the different modes. On a per DCCH segment basis, the same number of modulation symbols are... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070149138 - Methods and apparatus for communicating information utilizing a plurality of dictionaries: Methods and apparatus for communicating information using a plurality of report dictionaries are described. A plurality of request dictionaries are implemented for a wireless terminal to use for multi-bit uplink transmission backlog request reports communicated via the dedicated control channel. Each dictionary defines a different bit mapping interpretation for a... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070149140 - Communication apparatus and electric power control method: Communication apparatuses each having a power consumption control function acquires information of a communication partner apparatus to determine on the basis of the acquired information whether to use the control function of itself or to use that of the communication partner apparatus for controlling power consumption in a wireless communication... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070149146 - Apparatus for automatically matching frequency of antenna in wireless terminal and method of using the same: An apparatus and method for automatically matching a frequency of an antenna in a wireless terminal are provided. The apparatus includes a duplexer for classifying frequencies transmitted/received through the antenna of the wireless terminal, transmitting the reception frequency received in the antenna to an automatic matching module, and transmitting a... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070149114 - Capture, storage and retrieval of broadcast information while on-the-go: A system and method for allowing a listener to selectively capture and record information encoded within a radio or television broadcast signal and later use said information in order to obtain product/retail information related to the broadcast. The system and method comprising a remote server having a memory/database for storing... Agent: Carr & Associates

20070149115 - Content delivery system and method: An audio system and method are disclosed. A method incorporating teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, making a user interface available to a user. In practice, the user may indicate a desire to download a content file by selecting a link on the user interface page, which... Agent: Affinity Labs, LLC

20070149116 - Content delivery system and method: A content delivery system and method are disclosed. A system incorporating teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a personal computer having a storage device. The personal computer may have a software application saved on the storage device. In practice, the application may be capable of directing the... Agent: Affinity Labs, LLC

20070149112 - Receiver device, network device, system, and method for am (amplitude modulation) and/or fm (frequency modulation) reception: A receiver device has a receiver having one or more tuners for demodulating one or more AM (Amplitude Modulation) and/or FM (Frequency Modulation) radio frequency broadcast audio signals. One or more signal processing devices convert demodulated signals into respective data streams each having a respective streamed media audio format. Each... Agent: Jacques Latour

20070149113 - Signal presence detection: A signal receiver where the presence of a signal is determined by integrating the magnitude of the signal, and determining the value of the slope of the integrator output as a function of integration time. The slope value is compared with a first threshold value corresponding to the presence of... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070149118 - Method and system for selecting a relay station in a communication system using a multihop relay scheme: A method and apparatus for selecting a Relay Station (RS) for a Mobile Station (MS) of a communication system are provided. The communication system is provided with the MS, a serving Base Station (BS) for providing the MS with a service and RSs for relaying signals of the MS and... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070149117 - Signal transmitting/receiving method for increasing transmission efficiency in a wireless communication system using multiple antennas and system thereof: A method and system for transmitting and receiving signals to increase transmission efficiency in a wireless communication system using multiple antennas are provided. A relay node receives a first signal from a Base Station (BS) according to a first signal scheme and a second signal from a Mobile Station (MS)... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070149119 - Apparatus and method for controlling switch of satellite transponder for multibeam communication: Provided are an apparatus for controlling a switch of a satellite transponder for multibeam communication, and a method thereof. The apparatus and method can increase output efficiency of communicated satellite electric wave signals and reuse frequencies in one-to-one earth station communication or a one-to-multi earth station communication. The apparatus includes:... Agent: Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP

20070149120 - System and method for establishing and maintaining communications across disparate networks: A system for establishing and maintaining communications across disparate networks comprises a satellite dish and control unit comprising a network management server and a satellite data conversion component. The control unit may further comprise an application server and a satellite dish alignment component. The system may further comprise at least... Agent: Wildman Harrold Allen & Dixon

20070149121 - Command, control and communications with intelligent antennas: A system and method to provide a means of communication, command and control between a mobile antenna and a satellite receiver that allows the receiver to send tuning information to the antenna and the antenna to provide feedback to the receiver when a signal has been acquired. The antenna and... Agent: The Directv Group Inc

20070149125 - Communication system and method: An ultra-wideband communication system 101 comprises a first device 103, such as a host device or server, which communicates with a second device 105, such as a portable device. The first device 103 comprises a memory 107 for storing data, for example a movie, that is to be downloaded to... Agent: Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP

20070149122 - Method and apparatus for self-assigning addresses: A method and apparatus for an electronic device 101 operating in a piconet 100 to assign itself a unique identifier 112 is provided. Once the device 101 assigns itself the unique identifier 112, which may be temporary in nature, the device 101 may use the temporary identifier 112 to identify... Agent: Motorola Inc

20070149123 - Multiple radio usage in a wireless communications device: An apparatus has multiple radio modules, a connection identifier resolution module, and a host controller. Each of the radio modules communicates over a wireless connection and assigns an identifier (e.g., a Bluetooth connection handle) to its corresponding wireless connection. The connection identifier resolution module identifies two or more conflicting connection... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, LLP

20070149124 - Wireless communication device: A wireless communication device for effecting wireless communication using a short-range wireless communication method having a ranging function, which carries out wireless connection establishment/disconnection control using ranging information. For example, the wireless communication device determines the range to another wireless communication device within wireless communication range, and if it finds... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070149126 - Methods and apparatus for generating, communicating, and/or using information relating to self-noise: A wireless terminal measures the received power of a tone corresponding to an intention base station null output, measures the received power of pilot signals, and determines a signal to noise ratio of the received pilot signal. The wireless terminal calculates a downlink signal to noise ratio saturation level representative... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20070149127 - Systems and methods for controlling a level of interference to a wireless receiver responsive to a power level associated with a wireless transmitter: A level of interference to a wireless receiver may be controlled by determining a set of frequencies to be assigned to a wireless transmitter, responsive to a power level associated with the wireless transmitter. The set of frequencies is then assigned to the wireless transmitter. Related systems, methods and devices... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20070149130 - Apparatus and method for monitoring a trunked radio communications system: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for monitoring a trunked radio communications system by using some type of radio scanning receiver that is not designed for that purpose. In addition, the invention provides a method for automatically determining the polarity of the received control channel data. Further, the... Agent: Rubinstein Law Group, Professional Corp David B Dort

20070149133 - Method for determining the status of a wireless network communication device: The present invention discloses a method for determining the working status of a wireless network communication device. The method includes determining the probe request or broadcast packet or any wireless packet with its destination address equal to this AP address, and then determining whether extending the time interval of signal... Agent: Kusner & Jaffe Highland Place Suite 310

20070149131 - Methods and apparatus related to custom control channel reporting formats: Methods and apparatus related to control information reporting over wireless communication channels are described. Various embodiments include communicating control information format definition information over a wireless link. For example, in some embodiments, a base station downloads control information reporting format definition information, e.g., corresponding to a new release or a... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20070149132 - Methods and apparatus related to selecting control channel reporting formats: Methods and apparatus related to the implementation and selection of alterative control information reporting formats are described. A control information reporting format, corresponding to a connection between a wireless terminal and a base station, e.g., for an uplink dedicated control channel, is selected, as a function of at least one... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20070149134 - Mobile equipment based filtering for packet radio service: A method for operating a mobile equipment (ME 10) in a wireless network (12), the method having steps of (A) determining a parameter that is indicative of a signal quality experienced by the ME, such as by determining a speed of the ME; (B) calculating in the ME an indication... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20070149135 - Information transfer method and system: A multiple path information transfer system in a cellular radio network includes several receivers (BS-1, . . . , BS-N) for receiving radio signals representing digital information from at least one signal source. From each received radio signal a corresponding digitized baseband signal that contains soft information is extracted. Compressing... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070149136 - Wireless communication method and wireless communication device: An AA communication method using an AA communication device including a plurality of AA communication units includes: receiving a signal transmitted from a receiving terminal in each AA communication unit of UN-A and UN-BF, and measuring a receive level of the signal transmitted from the receiving terminal for each communication... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070149139 - Wireless network system with energy management: A wireless network system with energy management is provided wherein the nodes of the networks can activate certain software and/or hardware functionalities upon the detection of an event. The network system generally comprises a plurality of wireless nodes adapted to communicate with each other, directly or through other nodes, via... Agent: Brouillette & Partners

20070149141 - Method for operating a transmitting device and working transmitting device: Disclosed are a transmitting device and a method for operating the transmitting device. The device includes long wave antennas, a multiplexer for activating an antenna, a power amplifier connected to a group of antennas and control unit for regulating the transmitter current.... Agent: Continental Teves, Inc.

20070149142 - Clock deskewing method, apparatus, and system: An integrated circuit includes clock deskew circuitry. The deskew circuitry includes a loop circuit to align an input clock signal with an output clock signal, and also aligns transmitted data with the output clock signal.... Agent: Lemoine Patent Services, PLLC C/o Portfolioip

20070149143 - Local oscillation frequency generation apparatus and wireless transceiver having the same: A multiple local oscillation frequency generation apparatus which can generate local oscillation frequencies in at least two frequency bands and a wireless transceiver having the multiple local oscillation frequency generation apparatus are provided. The local oscillation frequency generation apparatus includes: an oscillation unit which comprises a plurality of VCOs that... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070149144 - Pll frequency generator: A PLL frequency generator is disclosed for generating an output signal with a settable target frequency, comprising a) a voltage-controlled oscillator for generating the output signal depending on a control voltage, b) a switchable frequency divider, which is connected to the voltage-controlled oscillator and is designed to derive a frequency-divided... Agent: Mcgrath, Geissler, Olds & Richardson, PLLC

20070149145 - Apparatus, system, and method for managing an antenna network during a half duplex call: An apparatus, system, and method dynamically adjust an antenna network frequency response in accordance with an operation mode of a half duplex call. One of a plurality of antenna network configurations is selected based at least partly on the half duplex operation mode which comprises a talk mode and a... Agent: Kyocera Wireless Corp.

20070149147 - Radio communications apparatus: A bit error rate of the reception signal is detected on the reception side, such that an n optimal modulation method and LO output power are determined in accordance with this bit error rate, and an LO output changing instruction is sent to an image signal rejection mixer on the... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070149148 - Phase modulation apparatus and wireless communication apparatus: A two-point modulation type phase apparatus and a wireless communication apparatus capable of achieving a reduction in circuit scale and low power consumption while maintaining modulation precision. It is possible to provide a D/A converter (150) that converts the inputted digital baseband signal to an analog signal, an adder (110)... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20070149149 - Mobile terminal apparatus and channel compensation method of the same: A mobile terminal apparatus includes a channel compensation processor configured to carry out a channel compensation process on a first channel reception signal using a channel estimation value obtained for the first channel based on a plurality of known signals received from a base station; and a channel re-compensation processor... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070149150 - Communication terminal and transmission power control method: A communication system includes a gaming device, a wireless controller, a handheld gaming device and a personal computer. The gaming device is provided with a first wireless communication module, a second wireless communication module, a controller, an application processor and an output unit, which are accommodated in a housing. The... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070149151 - Linc power transmitter: A linear amplification with nonlinear components (LINC) power transmitter is provided. The LINC power transmitter includes a digital signal processing unit which controls the LINC power transmitter; a frequency modulation unit which modulates or converts a digital signal output from the digital signal processing unit into a radio-frequency (RF) signal;... Agent: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

20070149152 - Wireless transmitters with temperature gain compensation: A wireless transmitter with temperature gain compensation includes a temperature sensor, a mixer, a power amplifier, a matching circuit, and an antenna. The mixer includes a mixer circuit and a gain compensation circuit. The gain compensation circuit includes a plurality of compensation units in parallel. Each compensation unit includes a... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070149153 - Display apparatus and control method thereof: A display apparatus includes a channel tuning unit for receiving a broadcasting signal; a user interface(UI) for a user to select a simple search function and/or a full search function for automatic channel search; a memory; and a controller for controlling the channel tuning unit to sequentially tune center frequency... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070149154 - Technique for determining a tuning frequency of an audio receiver: A technique for determining a tuning frequency of an audio receiver includes interrupting a received radio frequency (RF) signal at an input of the audio receiver. Next, a modulated audio signal is injected into the input of the audio receiver. Then, it is determined whether the demodulated audio signal is... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20070149155 - System and method for detecting narrow bandwidth signal content to determine channel occupancy: A system and method for detecting the presence of a signal on a channel mixes signals received with an antenna with a local signal having a controllable frequency within a band of frequencies defined by the channel. The local signal is produced with a sequentially adjusted frequency within the channel.... Agent: Kinney & Lange, P.A.

20070149156 - Information processing apparatus and control method thereof: According to one embodiment, location information of own apparatus of a personal computer, location information of a serer capable of making communications with the personal computer, and bearing information are received, a direction of the own apparatus to the server is discriminated by using the received location information of own... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070149157 - Method and apparatus for transmitting signals using multiple antennas in a wireless communication system: A method and apparatus for transmitting a signal through multiple antennas in a wireless communication system. Channels from a Mobile Station (MS) are estimated. Channel variation and an electromagnetic wave of the estimated channels are measured and a polarization phase of the measured electromagnetic wave is measured. The channel variation... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070149158 - System and method for optimized receiver performance in a low intermediate frequency architecture for edge: The present disclosure relates generally to systems and methods for optimized receiver performance in a low intermediate frequency (IF) architecture for EDGE (Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution). In one example, a method includes mixing a received analog signal with a local oscillator signal to create a mixed signal having... Agent: Timothy F. Bliss

20070149159 - Filter circuit and radio communication system comprising filter: In a filter circuit, resonators is connected in parallel between input and output terminal, an input signal is input through the input terminal and supplied to the resonators. Signal generators are connected to the resonators to control the resonators. The signal generators are controlled by a control unit so that... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070149160 - Frequency conversion in a receiver: A method for frequency conversion in a receiver. A signal having a radio frequency and carrying information on a selected channel is received and converted from the radio frequency to a first variable intermediate frequency determined by the selected channel. The signal is further converted from the first variable intermediate... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070149161 - Data carrier with modification means for modifying the load period: In a data carrier (1), there are provided modification means (19) for modifying, as a function of the distance between the data carrier (1) and the base station (4), the ratio of the duration of a load period (TB) to the duration of an off-load period (TE), at which ratio... Agent: Philips Electronics North America Corporation Intellectual Property & Standards

20070149162 - Pulse transmission method: Disclosed is a transmitter for transmitting power wirelessly to a receiver to power a load comprises a pulse generator for producing pulses of power. The transmitter comprises a power sensor which can sense when other transmitters are transmitting in order for the generator to transmit the pulses at the appropriate... Agent: Ansel M. Schwartz Attorney At Law

20070149163 - Information processing apparatus: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes an internal receiving unit which is connected to an antenna terminal, a communicating unit which executes communication with an external receiver, a first determining unit which determines whether or not an antenna is connected to the antenna terminal, a second determining... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070149165 - Board layout structure of digital broadcast receiving portion: The invention provides a board layout structure of a digital broadcast receiving portion, wherein mutual positional relation between a digital signal demodulation unit and a digital tuner is interchangeable between right and left. An IF input terminal of a digital signal demodulation unit is placed at a center of a... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070149164 - Intermediate modulator for wireless communication devices: A device facilitating transmission of audio content to an audio device such as an FM or AM radio, through a wireless communication device, such as a cell phone. The wireless communication device downloads the content from a remote depository and provides the content to a bridge comprising a FM or... Agent: James Alan Franklin

20070149166 - Voice call continuity for emergency calls: An enhanced Voice Call Continuity (VCC) application server and a method are described herein that: (1) assists in establishing an emergency call between a VCC capable User Equipment (UE) (which is located within an IMS network) and a Public Safety Access Point (PSAP); (2) assists in transitioning the emergency call... Agent: Ericsson Canada Inc. Patent Department

20070149167 - Method and apparatus for providing emergency information to a mobile receiving device: A mobile wireless system (10) includes a transmitter such as a satellite (18) that broadcasts wireless signals such as boundaries for specific areas to a mobile receiving device (22). Mobile receiving device (22) may include an antenna (26) and a mobile receiving device (28). A locating receiver (50) is used... Agent: The Directv Group Inc

20070149168 - Billing system for usage fees in a content distribution system: Embodiments of a content distribution and billing system for wireless communication networks are described. A wireless service provider provides network service to users of mobile communication devices. One or more third party content providers serve content data to the mobile communication devices. Content data is downloaded to the mobile communication... Agent: Courtney Staniford & Gregory LLP

20070149169 - Communication control apparatus, method of controlling sender terminal number, and computer product: A transmission-request control unit controls a first transmission request in which a third communication terminal is designated as a receiver with a terminal number of a first communication terminal as a sender terminal number, and controls a second transmission request including the first transmission request and a transmission request in... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070149172 - Method and system for rapid channel acquisition across heterogeneous radio access technologies: A system and method for accommodating a rapid transition between heterogeneous radio access technologies is provided. A local network 105 having a controller 114 and a plurality of access points 106,107,108,109,110,111 receives information 117 from a communication device 101 relating to the network 116 it is exiting. During the transition... Agent: Motorola Inc

20070149170 - Sim authentication for access to a computer/media network: A method of authenticating a portable mobile communications device for use on a computer/media network using SIM data associated with the portable mobile communications device is described. The method comprises sending SIM data from the portable mobile communications device to a mobile service provider authentication server on the mobile service... Agent: Moore And Van Allen PLLC For Semc

20070149173 - Wireless data service apparatus and method in broadcast mobile communication system: A system for broadcasting wireless data service in a mobile communication system includes sending a request call for a wireless data service from a mobile terminal to a mobile switching center, identifying whether the terminal is registered in the mobile switching center, transmitting authentication code information indicating that the terminal... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070149171 - Wireless mobile communication system: The present invention provides a communication system using an authentication mechanism to authenticate a user by a password entered and transferred through hubs and gateways and a wireless network and so money is saved and multi-way communications are obtained... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20070149175 - Environment aware message delivery: The invention provides environment aware messages delivery systems, apparatus and methods. In example embodiments the system and method automatically deliver messages to the user based on the environment around the user. In the system and method, a portable message redirection agent cooperates with a message delivery service manager in the... Agent: Louis Paul Herzberg

20070149174 - Service trial system and method for individuals and communities: Mobile wireless devices include a Service Trial Client that establishes a link to a Service Trial Server to set up temporary trials of online services. The Service Trial Client and Service Trial Server enable a service provider to attract potential customers with free trial subscriptions to an online service for... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070149176 - Method and system to communicate a voice mail indication in a loosely coupled environment: A system (100) and method (400) is provided for email notification for use with a mobile device roaming in a loosely coupled network. The method can include receiving (402) a voice mail on a first network, generating (404) a voice mail indication, and sending (416) the voice mail indication through... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070149178 - Method for transfer of user identity between cdma wireless communication devices: A method is provided for transferring user identities between one CDMA wireless communication device (120) and another in a wireless CDMA communication system (100) having a network system controller (140). The network controller (140) receives an activation command from a wireless communication device (120), the activation command including identification information... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C.

20070149177 - Mobile terminal: A mobile terminal capable of setting easily the contents executably is provided. A directory file acquiring portion 19 detects that a removable medium 100 is fitted and then reads data recorded therein, and a directory name concurrence deciding/each content setting portion 20 decides whether or not a directory having a... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070149180 - Multiple input, multiple output wireless communication system, associated methods and data structures: Embodiments of multiple input multiple output wireless communication systems, associated methods and data structures are generally described herein.... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20070149179 - Communication terminal allowing placing restrictions on disclosure of information, method implemented by communication terminal of placing restrictions on disclosure of information, and program therefor: There is provided a communication terminal for preventing an owner of a destination communication terminal from divulging personal information to a third party. When an owner of a communication terminal (11) passes to a destination communication terminal (12) his or her personal information on which he or she desires to... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070149181 - Multiple input, multiple output wireless communication system, associated methods and data structures: Embodiments of multiple input multiple output wireless communication systems, associated methods and data structures are generally described herein.... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20070149182 - Method and system for forwarding telephone calls towards a cellular phone: A method and a related system for forwarding a telephone call from a caller intended to be directed to a first, fixed, telephony number to a second, mobile, telephone number in order to render an intended responder associated with the mobile telephony number reachable at a mobile phone instead that... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070149183 - Mobile terminals, methods and computer program products incorporating podcast link activation control: A mobile terminal includes a processor operatively associated with a radio communications circuit and configured to store a podcast including an embedded link to content outside of the mobile terminal. The processor is further configured to control activation of the embedded link responsive to a communications status of the mobile... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20070149184 - System and method for real-time management of mobile resources: A system and method are disclosed for real-time management of mobile resources. The management system includes an on board system, a processor, and a data center. The on board system is provided with the mobile resource to be managed and includes a number of sensors to monitor various conditions. Each... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070149185 - Method and system of processing an incoming call failure: A method of processing an incoming call failure includes receiving a notification of an incoming voice call from a mobile switching center (MSC) during a data service; transmitting the notification of the incoming voice call to a mobile station (MS) and receiving an acceptance notification of the incoming voice call... Agent: Charles N.j. Ruggiero Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.L.P.

20070149186 - Method and system for simulation and management of the resources of a mobile telephone network: A method and a system for simulating and optimising the operating resources available in a coverage area of a mobile telephone network implemented by processing resources of at least one resource optimisation system and, can include definition, by an event-management module of the optimisation system, of a variation, called a... Agent: Perman & Green

20070149187 - System, apparatus and method of allocating medium access blocks: Briefly, a wireless system and a method of dynamically allocating one or more medium access blocks of a first communication network within one or more medium access blocks of a second wireless communication network, wherein the first wireless communication network operates according to a first wireless medium access scheme and... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20070149188 - Cordless telephone system and method of connecting the same with interrupting caller: A cordless telephone system includes a base unit having a first handset, a second handset, an interruption replying unit, and a switching unit. A first multiple-party call is implemented between a first caller on the first handset, a second caller on the second handset, and an external caller on the... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070149189 - Gateway for remote control and system and method for implementing remote control: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a gateway for remote control and system as well as a method for implementing remote control. The user side calls a telephone number to which the gateway for remote control corresponds, and the gateway for remote control puts through the call and controls a... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20070149190 - Roaming system, mobile communication system, and mobile communication control method: There is provided a system for judging validity of a radio terminal according to identification information on the radio terminal and providing a service. A radio network is divided into a plurality of zones. For each of the zones, there is arranged a server for storing in a particular zone,... Agent: Eric Robinson

20070149191 - Method for handling periodic plmn search in rrc connected mode in umts system: A method of performing a periodic public land mobile network (PLMN) search for a mobile station in a CELL_PCH state of radio resource control (RRC) connected mode in a universal mobile telecommunications system (UMTS) is described. The method includes providing a mobile station operating in the CELL_PCH state camping on... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070149192 - Idle state terminal location information update device and method: A device and method for updating location information of an idle state terminal in a communication system supporting an idle state of a terminal are provided. In the method, an expectation time for updating the location information is calculated according to a moving speed of the terminal, when a state... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070149193 - Wireless mobile communication device with service selection logic: A wireless device capable of acquiring service from multiple wireless entities operating according to at least two different wireless communication standards. In a specific non-limiting example, the wireless communication standards provide different service attributes to the user of the wireless device. For example, each standard can be adapted to provide... Agent: Fetherstonhaugh - Smart & Biggar

20070149195 - Apparatus and method for providing seamless handover: A method and apparatus to provide a handover includes an input unit which receives information on a handover mode and a handover priority corresponding to a plurality of wireless networks, a signal-intensity-measuring unit which measures a signal intensity of a wireless network where a current communication is performed out of... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070149194 - Communications device control information reporting related methods and apparatus: An initial reporting structure for an uplink dedicated control channel is used by a wireless terminal following a transition into a state of wireless terminal operation or action which makes it desirable to provide a base station with an initial set of control information which can be used to support... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20070149196 - Handover reestablishment method of communication system: A handover reestablishment method capable of effectively re-accessing the serving base station when the mobile terminal fails ranging while moving to the target cell and performs ranging through the handover process, or when the direction of the mobile terminal is changed and thus, the mobile terminal enters into the serving... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070149197 - Method and apparatus for managing association of base station: In order for a mobile station to manage association of a base station, it is determined whether the base station satisfies Carrier to Interference Noise Ratio (CINR) condition of the mobile station. In addition, a moving probability value of the mobile station into a base station that satisfies the condition... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070149198 - Method and apparatus for measuring amount of user traffic of handover terminals in wireless communication system: A user traffic amount measuring device in a mobile communication system may measure and analyze an amount of traffic used in a second base station by a mobile station performing a handover from a first base station to the second base station. In this case, without changing a configuration of... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070149199 - Mobile communications system: A base station device 31 provided in a general cell 41 is accommodated in a base station controller 21, and a base station device 32 provided in a general cell 42 is accommodated in a base station controller 22. A base station device 33 provided in a boundary cell 43... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070149200 - System, apparatus and method of hand over in wireless communication system: Briefly, a wireless communication device, a wireless communication system and a method of roaming from a first base station to a second base station. The method includes generating first and second contexts, wherein the first context is used with an authentication key of the first base station and wherein the... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20070149201 - Method of adjusting a power level of communications over a channel in a wireless communications network: A method of adjusting a power level of communications over a channel in a wireless communications network. In the method, a determination (e.g., by a radio network controller (RNC)) is made regarding a number of base stations actively communicating with a mobile station. For example, the determination may indicate whether... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070149203 - Method and system for wireless priority call processing: A method and system for processing calls in a wireless network having a priority call system are provided. The system includes receiving means for receiving a message with an ordered resource list, first determining means for determining what resources are available for the mobile station, second determining means for determining... Agent: Richard J. Minnich, Esq. Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & Mckee, LLP

20070149202 - Processing calls from wireless handsets to toll-free telephone numbers: In an exemplary method, a call origination request containing a toll-free telephone number of the called party is received from a wireless handset supported by a mobility service provider at a switching node of the telecommunication network. A determination is made if the called party has agreed to pay for... Agent: Carmen B. Patti & Associates, LLC

20070149205 - Mobile communications system: A base station device 31 provided in a general cell 41 is accommodated in a base station controller 21, and a base station device 32 provided in a general cell 42 is accommodated in a base station controller 22. A base station device 33 provided in a boundary cell 43... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070149204 - Systems and methods for three dimensional antenna selection and power control in an ad-hoc wireless network: A system (105) determines a power level for transmitting to a neighboring node in a wireless network. The system (105) receives a message indicating a three-dimensional position and orientation of the neighboring node and a type of directional antenna of the neighboring node that transmitted the message. The system (105)... Agent: Fish & NeaveIPGroup Ropes & Gray LLP

20070149206 - Method and system for adjusting uplink transmission timing for long term evolution handover: A method and system for adjusting uplink transmission timing when sending an initial transmission to a target cell/Node-B of an evolved universal terrestrial radio access network (E-UTRAN) immediately after handover from a source cell/Node-B of the E-UTRAN. In one embodiment, a user equipment (UE) autonomously computes and applies a timing... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070149207 - Dynamically managing and reconfiguring wireless mesh networks: A wireless network with multiple subscriber systems in a lobe pool may operate by determining a state of the wireless network, identifying a new condition, the new condition including a new demand condition or a new network health condition, determining whether the new condition has a threshold impact on operations... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070149212 - Providing location-based services via wireless networks: Location-based services can be provided by broadcasting location-based information within wireless network zones. A system for providing location-based services within an ad-hoc wireless network zone can include an information server for providing the location-based services by broadcasting location-based information, where the broadcast location-based information is received by a client wireless... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20070149211 - Apparatus, system, and method for location information management in a portable communication device: An apparatus, system, and method for managing geographical location information of a portable communication device by determining and storing the geographic location information while registered on a cellular communication system in response to detecting an available wireless local area network (WLAN) system. When the portable communication device is communicating on... Agent: Kyocera Wireless Corp.

20070149208 - Location based services for mobile communication terminals: The present inventions relate to methods for providing services in dependence on the geographical location of mobile terminals in a cellular network. The inventions relate further to mobile communication terminals for use with a cellular network that are able to receive or provide services in dependence of their geographical position... Agent: Perman & Green

20070149216 - Location determination techniques: A method for estimating a target object properties, including location, in an environment. A topology model indicates permissible locations and transitions and a data model models a location-dependent physical quantity which is observed by the target object's sensing device. Motion models model specific target object types, obeying the permissible locations... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070149210 - Location-based services in wireless networks: Wireless networks, mobile devices, and associated methods are disclosed that provide a location-based service to a requesting mobile subscriber. The location-based service allows a requesting mobile subscriber to identify other mobile subscribers in a geographic area, such as in the proximity of the user or another designated area. To implement... Agent: Duft Bornsen & Fishman, LLP

20070149213 - Method and apparatus for supporting location services with roaming: Techniques for supporting location services with roaming are described. A mobile station interacts with a home mobile positioning center (H-MPC) in a home network for location services even when roaming. The mobile station communicates with a visited network for a data session and receives a request for its location. The... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070149217 - Method for tracking users in a communication network: In a method of tracking a user in a communication network supporting a broadcast-multicast service, the network classifies groups of users into tracking areas. Movement of a user may be tracked as the user crosses a boundary between two tracking areas in the network. The method may enable a balance... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070149215 - Positioning technique: A technique for positioning a target object in a wireless communication environment. A data model models several sample points. Each sample point includes a location and a set of expected signal values therein. A set of relevance indicators indicates one or more sets of relevant sample points, which are subsets... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070149214 - System, apparatus, and methods for location managed message processing: Location-based messaging in which a location-aware device receives a transmitted message and processes at least a portion of the message content using at least one criterion that is based on the device's location.... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070149209 - Wide area differential satellite positioning with local area updates: Wide area corrections are used substantially continuously. Local area corrections are used once or sparsely. For example, an initial position is determined with local area corrections. Wide area corrections are subsequently used. The initial position information is used in the wide area position determination to limit or avoid delay for... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070149219 - Method and apparatus for controlling a mobile device beyond an area of interest boundary: A mobile wireless system (10) includes a transmitter such as a satellite (18) that broadcasts wireless signals such as boundaries for specific areas to a mobile receiving device (22). Mobile receiving device (22) may include an antenna (26) and a mobile receiving device (28). A locating receiver (50) is used... Agent: The Directv Group Inc

20070149218 - Method and apparatus for conveying regions for controlling a mobile device based upon location: A mobile wireless system (10) includes a transmitter such as a satellite (18) that broadcasts wireless signals such as boundaries for specific areas to a mobile receiving device (22). Mobile receiving device (22) may include an antenna (26) and a mobile receiving device (28). A locating receiver (50) is used... Agent: The Directv Group Inc

20070149221 - Dual event slotted paging: A novel and improved method and system for paging a cellular telephone or other wireless terminal using two paging channels that reduces standby mode power consumption described. In one embodiment of the invention, a minimally encoded quick paging channel is established over which short, quick page messages are transmitted during... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070149220 - Network communication system wherein multiple controllers communicate with nodes and exchange data transmitted so that one node contacting a first controller can communicate with another node contacting a second controller in the network: A communication system is provided for communication between network nodes and multiple communication controllers. The communication method provides for request timeslot management, assigning request timeslots to individual nodes. In the network, when an individual node has data to transmit, the node transmits a request signal to a communication controller over... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070149222 - Methods, application server, and terminal for directive person identification and communication: Methods, server, and terminal are provided for allowing an initiating party to “finger-point” another party targeted for communication using an electronic terminal and as a consequence of such “finger-pointing”, to retrieve at least an indication of the identity of a mobile terminal of the targeted party to establish a communication... Agent: Alex Nicolaescu Ericsson Canada Inc.

20070149225 - Method and system for authenticating short message calling party: A method for authenticating a Short Message (SM) calling party, including: if a Signal Relay Function for support of Mobile Number Portability (MNP-SRF) module detects a calling party number carried in an SM belongs to its serving network after receiving a Mobile Originated (MO) SM, the MNP_SRF module adds an... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20070149224 - Method and system for delivering multimedia messages and multimedia message service center: A method for delivering multimedia messages includes: submitting a multimedia message containing address information of a receiving party to an MMSC by an initiating party; sending a PUSH notification by the MMSC to a short message system with an interface protocol supported by the short message system; obtaining routing information... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070149223 - Unified addressing: An outgoing message composed on a mobile wireless communication device may be recognized as including a Short Messaging Service (SMS) destination address in an addressing field. The outgoing message may then be processed to create a SMS message payload. The SMS message payload may then be passed to a SMS... Agent: Smart And Biggar

20070149226 - Controlling reconfiguration in a cellular communication system: In a cellular communication system, for example UMTS using WCDMA, a configuration of radio links is controlled. In a mobile unit, and in a base station, a synchronization counter indicates time codes (CFN) for synchronization of configuration changes across the system. Messages are exchanged between a network controller, the base... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070149228 - Methods and apparatus for flexible reporting of control information: Reporting methods well suited for reporting control information in a wireless system are described. A wireless terminal reports information to a serving base station, e.g., a base station attachment point, according to a reporting schedule. The reporting schedule includes a plurality of different types of fixed type information reports which... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20070149227 - Methods and apparatus of implementing and/or using a dedicated control channel: Wireless terminals and base stations support multiple modes of dedicated control channel operation wherein wireless terminals are allocated different amounts of dedicated uplink resources for reporting control information. A set of dedicated control channel segments is utilized by a wireless terminal to communicate uplink control information reports to its serving... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20070149229 - Apparatus, method and computer program product providing optimized coding performance with power sequences: A method, computer program product and electronic device are provided. The method includes the steps of: prioritizing data for each link into higher priority data and lower priority data for that link; and selectively transmitting a first signal on a first sub-band and a second signal on a second sub-band.... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20070149230 - Method for dynamically selecting a channel in a wireless local area network: Disclosed is a method of dynamical frequency selecting for a basic service set established by a main wireless device in a wireless local area network. The method comprises steps of a determining step for determining whether a new channel to be used by said BSS is needed; a scanning step... Agent: Joseph J. Laks, Vice President Thomson Licensing LLC

20070149231 - Method of operating a multi-camp mobile communication device while engaged in a call and receiving a dispatch call: A multi-camp mobile communication device (100) includes a first radio modem (102) and a second radio modem (104). Each modem is designed to communicate with a respective communication system (110, 112). Upon engaging in an interconnect call (204) over the first modem with the first communication system, the multi-camp mobile... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20070149233 - System and method for determining downlink signaling power in a radio communication network: A system and method for determining a downlink transmit power level for a downlink signaling channel such as the E-DCH HARQ Indicator Channel (E-HICH) in a cellular radio communication network, wherein the transmit power level is calculated to achieve a desired signaling message error rate. The base station determines a... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070149239 - Determining an inter-slot power level: Methods for determining an inter-slot power level are disclosed. In one example embodiment, the inter-slot is positioned between first and second timeslots capable of transmitting modulated signals. A first timeslot power level and a second timeslot power level are first acquired. A power level of the inter-slot is then determined... Agent: Workman Nydegger (f/k/a Workman Nydegger & Seeley)

20070149232 - Information transmission with energy budget management: A receiver-specific regulation of the transmission energy of a symbol to be transmitted is effected by adaptation of the symbol duration or by adaptation of the number of bits transmitted with the symbol or by both measures in combination, in each case using a respective predetermined transmission power. As a... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson

20070149235 - Method and apparatus for determining output transmit power for an access channel in a wireless communication network: A wireless device stores historical information for a prior access attempt and uses this information to lower the output transmit power for a current access attempt on an access channel. The historical information may include RF conditions for the prior access attempt, the performance for the prior access attempt, and... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070149237 - Method for switching between predefined transmit power classes on a mobile telecommunications device: In a method of controlling power level of transmit signals from a wireless communication device that is communicating with a plurality of wireless ad-hoc network nodes as part of an ad-hoc network, a value of a usage parameter of a communication between the wireless device and a first wireless ad-hoc... Agent: Motorola Inc

20070149238 - Methods and apparatus for communicating and/or using transmission power information: A wireless terminal determines the transmission power used for its dedicated control channel at a point in time, and generates a power report indicating a ratio of a maximum wireless terminal transmit power to the transmit power of the dedicated control channel at the point in time. The power report... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20070149234 - System, apparatus and method of estimating quality of signal: Briefly, an apparatus and a method of determining a quality indicator of a second received signal based on a characteristic of a first received signal. The apparatus is able to receive over a down channel of a wireless communication system a first signal having a predetermined bit sequence and second... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20070149236 - Transmit power allocation in a distributed mimo system: Allocate power so as to maximise the throughput of each user of a multi-user MIMO group, with the constraint that over time all users in the group have equal throughput. This differs from equal capacity per slot in that each user may be assigned multiple slots as well as unequal... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20070149240 - Automatically establishing location groups: A method of establishing a location group includes using a cellular network cell (22, 24, 26) identifier and at least one other beacon (30, 32) concurrently detected by a mobile station (20). The location group includes an indication of the concurrently detected cell (22, 24, 26) identifier and at least... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds, P.C.

20070149241 - Arrangement comprising communication means that can be activated: An arrangement (1) comprises first communication means (COM1) for contactless communication with a cell communication station (Z1, Z2, Z3) within a cell communication range (ZA1, ZA2, ZA3) of a cellular communication system, and second communication means (COM2) which are designed, independently of the first communication means (COM1), for contactless communication... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070149242 - Method and apparatus for canceling neighbor cell interference signals in an orthogonal frequency division multiple access system: A method and apparatus are provided where a neighbor cell interference signal is canceled upon receiving a signal transmitted from a serving base station (BS) in a receiver of an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) system. The interference signals are detected from signals received from neighbor BSs and a... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070149243 - System and method for routing special number calls from a dual-mode wireless communications device operating in the unlicensed mode: A system and method that routes special number calls from a calling dual-mode wireless communications device when operating in an unlicensed network to a special number answering point based on one or more parameters. In accordance with one aspect of this invention, the parameter comprises the location of the access... Agent: Michelle A. Zarinelli C/o West Corporation

20070149244 - Power-save system and method: A method of saving power in a mobile communication terminal capable of connection to an external device for communicating data is provided. The method comprises connecting an input port of the mobile communication system to an output port of the external device, switching the mobile communication terminal to a first... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070149245 - Full-duplex radio speaker system and associated method: A speaker assembly, and an associated method, is operable in conjunction with operation of a content capable mobile station, such as a mobile station that stores and plays out MP3-formatted files. A Bluetooth™, or other, transceiver of the speaker assembly communicates with a corresponding transceiver of the mobile station. When... Agent: Robert H. Kelly Scheef & Stone, L.L.P.

20070149246 - Wireless multi-user audio system: Various methods and devices are provided for a wireless audio system for a number of users. The system includes a base unit that is adapted to removably store, recharge and communicate with personal microphone modules and table-top microphones. The system also includes a plurality of personal microphone modules that each... Agent: Nutter Mcclennen & Fish LLP

20070149247 - Intermediate bridge: A device facilitating transmission of audio and video content to an in-vehicle entertainment system through a wireless communication device, such as a cell phone. The wireless communication device is configured to download the content from a depository and either directly or through a bridge provides the content to the entertainment... Agent: James Alan Franklin

20070149248 - Radio modem terminal for mobile communication: Disclosed is a radio modem terminal for mobile communication, comprising a main body having a functional unit for voice communication; a power supply unit hinged at one side of the main body; and a display unit disposed between the power supply unit and the main body, and also hinged with... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070149249 - Method and apparatus for efficient configuration of hybrid sub-carrier allocation: In an orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) system including at least one base station and at least one wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU), sub-carriers are allocated for data transmissions to multiple access WTRUs, where sub-carriers are allocated according to a consecutive sub-carrier allocation (CSA) type and a distributed sub-carrier allocation... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070149250 - Antenna system and method for configuring a radiating pattern: The radiation characteristics of an antenna are made configurable including in the antenna a plurality of radiating elements and associating to each of said radiating elements a respective chain for processing the signal in transmission and/or reception with a module for weighting digital signals capable of applying to a digital... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070149251 - Signal calibration apparatus in a smart antenna system: A signal calibration apparatus in a smart antenna system is provided. In the signal calibration apparatus, a beamformer and calibrator sends a calibration signal through each of N transmitters, extracts the calibration signal from a signal received from a calibration receiver, and calibrates a transmission signal in a transmission path... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070149252 - Account information display for portable communication device: A portable communication device includes a display and a processor coupled to the display. The processor is configured to automatically and repeatedly present an updated account usage metric for an account associated with usage of the portable communication device. In some embodiments, the presented account usage metric is an account... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP/ Apple Computer Inc.

20070149253 - External megaphone system of the mobile phone: An external megaphone system of the mobile phone for broadcasting an incoming call sound signal of the mobile phone is provided. The mobile phone has a body with a sound interface and a built-in megaphone provided therein. When the external megaphone device is inserted into the sound output hole (not... Agent: Apex Juris, PLLC Tracy M Heims

20070149255 - System for backing up information of a handheld electronic device and method thereof: In a system for backing up information of a handheld electronic device and method thereof, a handheld electronic device includes a charging circuit for receiving a current, a battery for supplying electric power, a transmission interface for transmitting a signal, a first memory for storing user information and a software... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070149254 - Method and apparatus for operating a mobile communication device coupled with an external power supply for charging a battery of the mobile communication device: A mobile communication device 100 has a digital subsystem (110) and a radio frequency subsystem (108), and is powered by a battery (102) which is charged via a charge control circuit (106) using an external power supply (104) connected to the mobile communication device in a single path configuration. The... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20070149256 - Method of hibernating and pre-booting a mobile communication device to reduce apparent start up time: A mobile communication device (100) includes a volatile memory (110) and a non-volatile memory (112). Instruction code for operating the mobile communication device is permanently stored in the non-volatile memory, and copied to the volatile memory for execution. The mobile communication device enters a hibernate mode which involves shutting down... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20070149257 - Novel design for a wireless network device: The invention is a device, and a method of operating the device, for use in a wireless network, where the device may have to run on battery power, or other limited energy sources. The device saves battery power by employing two wireless radios. The primary radio is a fully featured... Agent: Mark Rodgers

20070149258 - Power supplying apparatus, power line communication apparatus, power line communication system, and power supplying method: A power line communication modem within a network camera outputs a communication signal to an AC adaptor. Then, a signal superimposition and separation circuit of the AC adaptor separates a received communication signal from a DC voltage and an amplifier of the AC adaptor amplifies a signal level of the... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20070149259 - Devices and methods for acoustic usability: Disclosed is a mobile communication device and a method including a first housing including a first side and a second side, a display coupled to the first side of the first housing and a second housing movably coupled to the first housing, the second housing being coupled against the second... Agent: Motorola Inc

20070149260 - Hinge, and opening/closing type portable terminal device having the same: The present invention aims to reduce a size of a hinge portion and a device in an opening/closing mobile terminal device in which first and second housing members are opened/closed and turned on hinges. In the present invention, a second turning shaft (123) is provided to intersect with the first... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070149261 - Wireless stereo headset: Systems and methods for a wireless stereo headset are disclosed. The system generally includes a first headset component and a second headset component. Both the first headset component and the second headset component may be wireless devices.... Agent: Plantronics, Inc.

20070149263 - Clamshell-type mobile phone with camera: A mobile phone having a clamshell type housing includes a first part, a second part linked rotating to the first part through a hinge so that the mobile phone can be in a closed position or in an open position, a first display which is accessible to a user when... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070149262 - Two step activation of phone: The present invention relates to a communication apparatus having a first housing member pivotally coupled to a second housing member, a controller operable in a plurality of operation states, and a detector associated with the first and second housing members and connected to the controller. The detector is adapted to... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20070149264 - Buckle phone: A buckle-phone coupled with a belt, comprising: a mobile phone bent in the length direction of the belt to correspond to a user's waist size; a mobile phone support bent to correspond to the mobile phone and including a mobile phone accommodating section for attachably and detachably supporting the mobile... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070141980 - Digital broadcasting reception apparatus and method for displaying broadcasting channel information using the same: A method for displaying broadcasting channel information in a digital broadcasting reception apparatus includes receiving and storing digital broadcasting program guidance data including image information for digital broadcasting programs; generating a broadcasting program list including image information for digital broadcasting programs according to channels when a request for broadcasting channel... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070141976 - Analyzing system, analyzing method using the same, and system for collecting survey results for use in anlysis: A surveyor carries a terminal device 200 and travels to a survey point preliminarily instructed. The surveyor obtains survey position information by using a GPS unit in the terminal device 200 at the survey point. The surveyor also photographs an object of a survey by using a camera in the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070141977 - Text brochure and media system and method: A method and device for providing brochures to interested parties using cellular communication devices such as cellular telephones, cellular enabled digital devices and the like. An access number which may be contacted by a cellular communication device is provided in an advertisement of an item, the access number being a... Agent: Barber Legal

20070141979 - Automatic frequency changing modulator: Disclosed herein is an automatic frequency changing modulator system that determines the frequency to which a destination radio is currently tuned, sets itself to that frequency, and transmits an audio signal to a user listening to that frequency. The automatic frequency changing modulator system includes a microphone and a radio... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070141978 - Content transmission device: A content transmission device receives broadcast data composed of a plurality of contents from another broadcasting station, converts the broadcast data to own-station broadcast data, and transmits the converted broadcast data. The content transmission device stores a plurality processing models, each having corresponding identity information, composition information indicating content scheduled... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (matsushita)

20070141981 - Digital multimedia broadcast receiving device executing function of sleep reservation, and sleep reservation method thereof: Provided is a device for receiving a digital multimedia broadcast, and a sleep reservation method thereof. The device includes an external instrument interface unit for receiving and converting a broadcast signal into a signal reproducible in an external instrument, and transmitting the converted signal to the external instrument; a key... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070141982 - Signal distribution system cascadable agc device and method: A cascadable AGC amplifier in a signal distribution system includes a low noise cascadable amplifier having a through path and a cascadable output. The cascadable amplifier is also configured to provide AGC over a predetermined input power range. The cascadable AGC amplifier can be configured to provide gain or attenuation.... Agent: Clifford B. Perry

20070141983 - Clock-free activation circuit: A circuit for recovering data from an incoming data stream according to one embodiment includes a capacitor and a substantially constant current source for charging the capacitor. A subcircuit generates a signal causing the capacitor to discharge upon detecting a first type of transition in the incoming data stream, the... Agent: Zilka-kotab, PC

20070141987 - Distributed bluetooth system: Bluetooth standard provides the applications with different profiles which allow for example only a specific number of devices operable in one network using the same profile. Without changing the Bluetooth standards the described apparatus and method provide a solution to allow wireless devices to receive data addressed to other wireless... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20070141988 - Mechanism to convey discovery information in a wireless network: Discovery of services between devices is provided prior to establishing a connection between devices, including wireless-enabled devices or devices that are communicatively coupled to wireless access points or other wireless communication devices. Discovering services prior to establishing a connection may facilitate finding a desired service. The services that may be... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070141985 - Method for closing a communication link: A system for controlling the operation of a remote device via wireless communication. The remote device includes resources for communication via at least two different short-range wireless mediums with different operational ranges. The sensing of a scanning communication signal from a first wireless medium may trigger the disconnection of the... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070141989 - Proximity facilitate device pairing: A portable communication device includes logic to detect another device in wireless proximity, and to determine if a phone number for contacting the other device is stored by the portable communication device. If a phone number for contacting the other device is stored by the portable communication device, the portable... Agent: Fsp LLC

20070141984 - Proximity service discovery in wireless networks: Discovery of services between devices is provided prior to establishing a connection between devices, including wireless-enabled devices or devices that are communicatively coupled to wireless access points. Discovering services prior to establishing a connection may facilitate finding a desired service. The services that may be discovered may be, for example,... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070141986 - Proximity service discovery in wireless networks: Discovery of services between devices is provided prior to establishing a connection between devices, including wireless-enabled devices or devices that are communicatively coupled to wireless access points or other wireless communication devices. Discovering services prior to establishing a connection may facilitate finding a desired service. The services that may be... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070141991 - Apparatus and method for performing arq in multi-hop relay cellular network: Provided is an apparatus and method for performing an ARQ operation for a uplink (UL) signal in a multi-hop relay cellular network. Upon receipt of a UL signal from a mobile station (MS), it is determined if there is an error in the received UL signal. If there is an... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070141992 - Interference mitigation by adjustment of interconnect transmission characteristics: Interference within a wireless apparatus is mitigated by adjusting one or more transmission characteristics associated with an interconnect of the apparatus. In at least one embodiment, the interconnect is a PCI Express interconnect.... Agent: The Law Offices Of John C. Scott, LLC C/o Intellevele

20070141990 - Method and system for adaptive multi rate (amr) and measurements downlink adaptation: Various aspects of a method and system for adaptive multi rate and measurements adaptation may include a processor that enables computation of at least one signal level measurement for at least one received signal. The processor may enable cancelling of interfering signals received in addition to the received signal based... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070141993 - More economical resource application on the user interaction within a speech dialogue system in a packet network by means of a simplifying processing of signalling information: According to the invention, the type of transmission of signaling information, for a user-interaction with a speech dialogue system in a packet network, is determined with relation to a simplifying processing for DTMF signaling information. A speech dialogue system without special hardware for the processing of DTMF in-band signaling is... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070141996 - Distributed automatic gain control system: A wireless distribution system includes a number of remote units distributed in a coverage area to receive wireless signals and to provide the signals through the distribution system to input ports of a node where the signals are combined, a number of input power monitors operatively connected to one or... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20070141994 - Efficient channel quality reporting and link adaptation for multi-carrier broadband wireless communication: Multi-carrier broadband wireless communication can be supported by providing identification information that identifies a group of carrier frequencies that an intended recipient of a transmission has selected for use in the transmission. A modulation and coding scheme for use in transmitting on the selected group of carrier frequencies is selected... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070141995 - Method for controlling interference in a wireless mobile communication system: Disclosed is a method for controlling interference signals by a base station in a wireless mobile communication system, the method including classifying a plurality of mobile stations into first and second mobile station groups including the mobile stations having good channel conditions and the mobile stations having poor channel conditions,... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070141997 - Radio frequency identification (rfid) antenna integration techniques in mobile devices: Methods, systems, and apparatuses for mobile devices and antenna thereof, are described herein. A mobile device include RFID reader functionality, and functionality for communicating with one or more wireless networks. A single antenna of the mobile device accommodates the network communication functionality and the RFID reader functionality. The communications network... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070141998 - Reconfigurable topology for receiver front ends: The method and apparatus of the present invention provide for a configurable radio front end topology that allows selectable operation in a single balanced mode and in a double balanced mode of operation. Logic associated with a baseband processor determines whether to operate in a single or double balanced mode... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070141999 - Method of controlling an onboard power supply system for a motor vehicle: A method is provided for controlling an onboard power supply system for a motor vehicle having a multi-voltage generator which supplies at least a first and a second partial power supply system having in each case several electric consuming devices, the first and the second partial power supply system having... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070142000 - Hybrid polar transmission apparatus for a radio transmission system: The invention relates to a polar transmission apparatus having a polar transformer for transformation of a baseband signal to an amplitude signal and a phase signal. The apparatus includes a frequency synthesizer for production of a radio-frequency signal from the phase signal, having a modulator for amplitude modulation of the... Agent: Eschweiler & Associates, LLC National City Bank Building

20070142001 - System and method for implementing antenna diversity: A system, communications device, method and computer program product for implementing antenna diversity may include a first switch to selectively connect a first radio section to one of a plurality of antennas and a second switch to selectively connect a second radio section to one of the plurality of antennas.... Agent: Moore And Van Allen PLLC For Semc

20070142002 - System and method providing concurrent multimode communication: A system and method providing concurrent multimode communication through multimode signal multiplexing. Various aspects of the present invention may comprise, during a first time period, transmitting a first portion of a first communication in a first communication mode in a serial wireless transmission stream. During a second time period after... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070142003 - Method and apparatus for measuring and compensating for power amplifier distortion and non-linearity: A power amplification system includes functionality for measuring and compensating for distortion and non-linearity in a power amplifier (PA). The compensation process may be performed repeatedly (or continuously) during the operational life of the PA to adapt to changing gain characteristics of the PA.... Agent: The Law Offices Of John C. Scott, LLC C/o Portfolloip

20070142004 - Radio communication apparatus and method: A multi-input multi-output (MIMO) radio communication apparatus and method are provided. The MIMO apparatus includes a plurality of reception antennas each having a plurality of antenna patterns; a channel matrix estimation unit for estimating a channel matrix between a plurality of transmission antennas and the plurality of reception antennas; a... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070142005 - Method and apparatus for modulation path delay mismatch compensation in a polar modulation transmitter: A polar modulation transmitter offers a split architecture for determining amplitude modulation path delay of the transmitter and comprises a split supply modulation circuit and a split power amplifier circuit. The split supply modulation circuit includes a common supply input and is configured to receive a common amplitude-modulation signal at... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20070142006 - Wide dynamic range power detection scheme: Power detection system and method provide for a wide dynamic range power detection. The system may incorporate a coupler to sample a transmitted or received power. Such sampled power is then directed to a detector configured to generate a voltage from its rectified current. Such voltage after optional filtering and... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20070142007 - Control method for producing a ramp of output power and transmitter utilizing the same: A transmitter controlling output power to generate a ramp and a method thereof. The transmitter comprises a baseband module, a transmitter module, and a power amplifier. The baseband module receives a power control level, determines a scaling factor according to the power control level, determines a difference between an upper... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070142008 - System and method for receiving and processing telemetry: A system and method for receiving and processing telemetry data are disclosed, which translates received telemetry data into a high performance, universal serial bus format that significantly broadens the range of telemetry hardware that can be used. For example, a system for receiving and processing telemetry data is disclosed, which... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070142009 - Systems and methods for antenna diversity combining for satellite radio signals: Systems and methods are presented for digital antenna diversity combining. In exemplary embodiments of the present invention, at least two antenna signal paths can be communicably connected to a receiver. Each antenna signal path can be provided with an RF tuner communicably connected to a demodulator, which can estimate the... Agent: Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP Intellectual Property Department

20070142010 - Adaptive modulator and method of operating same: Disclosed herein is a modulator module that uses a radio receiver to search the broadcast band for an unoccupied area (ie., unutilized spectrum) where a modulator can transmit without interference. Additionally, it automatically adjusts the modulator and car radio to the same frequency within one of the unoccupied areas to... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070142011 - Dual tuner diversity for background processing and to reduce multipath distortion: A receiver system with dual tuner diversity for background processing and for reducing multipath distortion. The receiver system provides a plurality of antennas with a dual tuner design. One tuner may be used solely for background processing of a received signal while the other tuner may be simultaneously used to... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20070142012 - Wireless communication receiver: A wireless communication receiver that is able to lessen the effect of noise that accompanies gain change by programmable gain amplifiers. The receiver includes an AGC controller which controls the timing at which the programmable gain amplifiers make gain change, using a terminal counter and a sequencer. The receiver prevents... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070142013 - Dynamic pre-selector for a gps receiver: A GPS receiver circuit (300) for reducing insertion loss. The receiver circuit (300) includes a switch (304) for diverting input signals between a filtered pathway (312) and a short circuit pathway (310) to an amplifier (314). The amplifier (314) output feeds an automatic gain controller (316) that senses a noise... Agent: Fleit, Kain, Gibbons, Gutman, Bongini & Bianco P.l.

20070142014 - Devices, methods, and computer program products for controlling power transfer to an antenna in a wireless mobile terminal: A wireless mobile terminal includes an antenna, a power amplifier coupled to the antenna, a power detector coupled to an output of the power amplifier, a phase shifter coupled between the output of the power amplifier and the antenna, and a controller coupled to the phase shifter. The power detector... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20070142015 - Apparatus for voltage level temperature compensation: An apparatus is provided for improved temperature compensation of received RF signals. An RF receiver includes receiver circuitry which receives an RF signal and demodulates it to generate an output signal. Temperature compensation circuitry is coupled to the receiver circuitry and includes a diode having diode temperature characteristics. The temperature... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070142016 - System and method for providing distributed gain: A system for filtering a signal includes a plurality of filter modules coupled in series. Each filter module includes a filter and a variable gain element. Each filter is capable of. receiving an input signal, attenuating a portion of the input signal that is outside a passband associated with the... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070142017 - Mixer circuit: A mixer circuit is configured using a CMOS transistor (800), comprising a p-channel transistor (840A) and an n-channel transistor (840B) in which semiconductor substrates (810A, 810) with at least two crystal planes and a gate insulator (820A) formed on at least two of the crystal planes on the semiconductor substrate... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070142018 - Low noise mixer: Disclosed is a mixer comprising: a switching circuit, having a first pair of differential signal nodes and a second pair of differential signal nodes, for switching according to a local oscillation signal; an amplifying stage circuit, for receiving an input signal and amplifying the input signal; a load circuit, for... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070142019 - Mixer circuit and method: A method of providing an input signal to a mixer circuit comprises coupling an output signal from a low-noise amplifier circuit to a mixer input of the mixer circuit via an AC coupling circuit, comprising an inductive of capacitive coupling circuit. For capacitive coupling configurations, a coupling capacitor is configured... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20070142021 - Battery modem using short range wireless technology: The present invention is directed to a battery modem using Short Range Wireless technology. A battery modem using a short range wireless technology in a data communication apparatus capable of performing wired/wireless data communication depending on whether a battery is mounted therein, wherein the battery modem detects base band communication... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070142020 - Wake up device for communications system: The present invention teaches a communications system comprising a first communications device for receiving data and a wake up signal. The first communications device comprises an active mode of operation and a sleep mode of operation for reducing power consumption. Further, the system comprises means for switching the first communications... Agent: Wells St. John P.s.

20070142022 - Programmable multimedia controller with programmable services: An integrated multimedia, entertainment, communications and control system. The system is based on a general purpose computer and is capable of interfacing with, controlling or managing a wide variety of audio, video, telecommunications, data communications or other devices. The system includes a programming environment for creating services or user experiences... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20070142023 - Telephone having power frequency carrier: The present invention provides a telephone capable of a communication through power line.... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20070142025 - Personal portable integrator for music player and mobile phone: A personal portable integrator is used to integrate the services of an arbitrary audio delivery device such as an MP3, CD, DVD, radio, or other media player, with the services of an arbitrary two-way communication device such as a mobile phone, or a two-way radio such as a walkie-talkie, citizen... Agent: Workman Nydegger (f/k/a Workman Nydegger & Seeley)

20070142024 - Wireless adaptor for facilitating hands-free wireless communication functionality: Described herein are embodiments that facilitate: hands-free wireless communication capability for new and existing vehicles, wireless transfer of content from a content source to a content player, or both. In one embodiment, there is provided a wireless adaptor that includes a first wireless interface operable to wirelessly access a wireless... Agent: General Instrument Corporation Dba The Connected Home Solutions Business Of Motorola, Inc.

20070142026 - Method, device and system for transmitting an emergency call: This invention relates to a method and an emergency call device for transmitting an emergency call including emergency information from a vehicle using a mobile communication system. Further this invention is related to an emergency call system comprising the emergency call device and an emergency call assistance center. To provide... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070142028 - System and method for initiating an emergency call from a device to an emergency call processing system: A method for dynamically building and maintaining call priority information for use in emergency calls from a client device to an emergency call center is provided. The method provides a plurality of communication connections operable on at least one communication system, and each of the plurality of communication link comprises... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070142027 - System for providing emergency voice mail service: The system for providing emergency voice mail service includes two components: a first component that informs a calling party that emergency voice mail service has been activated due to an interruption in telephone service provided by the affected local exchange(s), and a second component that provides emergency voice mail service... Agent: Patton Boggs LLP

20070142029 - Message management: The invention enables efficient management of messages in a communication system. A messaging center (100) generates, in response to reception of a request message from a first user (200) and intended to a second user (300), transaction information. This information is stored in a database (180) together with an identifier... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070142030 - Systems and methods for wireless vulnerability analysis: Security vulnerability assessment for wireless networks is provided. Systems and methods for security vulnerability assessment simulate an attack upon the wireless network, capture the response from the wireless network, and identify a vulnerability associated with the wireless network after analyzing the response from the wireless network.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070142031 - Dynamic authentication configuration in a network: A method of dynamic authentication configuration that adjust authentication configuration according to traffic patterns within a system, such as a cellular communications network. In a network, mobile devices are authenticated based on various events, such as an attach, location update, originated call, etc. According to a first embodiment, one or... Agent: Bo Lee

20070142033 - Method for acquiring services on a multiplicity of devices: A system and method are disclosed for acquiring services on a multiplicity of devices. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a service management center (SMC) (100) that has a plurality of service centers (102-110) for supplying services to a corresponding plurality of devices... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070142032 - System and method of authenticating login credentials in a wireless communication system: A wireless communication system, comprising a host service, a wireless router system coupled to the host service, a wireless network coupling the wireless router system and a wireless mobile communication device (“mobile device”), adaptively delivers data to the mobile device in the wireless communication system. Before logging off a session... Agent: John J. Oskorep, Esq. One Magnificent Mile Center

20070142034 - System and method for provisioning a mobile wireless communications device to display account or device-specific characteristics: A system of provisioning a mobile wireless communications device to display account or device specific characteristics includes a database for storing a plurality of display characteristics for different wireless carriers, electronic mail (email) service providers, device types, and source mailbox mail domains. A configuration module accesses the database and uploads... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20070142040 - Audio broadcast in a network: A wireless communication apparatus and method are provided for operation in a communication network. The wireless communication apparatus comprises a receiver unit operative to receive control data and audio data from an audio gateway; a control unit operative to use the control data to provide a connection between the wireless... Agent: Harrity Snyder, L.L.P.

20070142039 - Content access control system for a mobile communication network: The content access control system has a content permissions field in the Home Location Register database for each mobile subscriber. The content permissions data are managed by a content manager who has content access responsibility for the mobile subscriber pursuant to an existing management relationship, such as parent-child or employer-employee.... Agent: Patton Boggs LLP

20070142037 - Method and system for wireless signaling of vehicular traffic: A method, a system, and an apparatus are provided for wireless communication of a traffic signal over a network. A message comprising data related to the traffic signal is received. Thereafter, the forwardability of the message is detemined. If forwardable, the message is forwarded. The validity of the message is... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20070142035 - Method for recognizing name card by mobile phone having camera: The present invention relates to a method for recognizing a name card by a mobile phone having a camera. There is a lot of inconveniences to manually input contents into a name card in a conventional art. The present invention discloses a method for recognizing the contents of a name... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20070142036 - Provision of content in mobile environments: A method for providing content to a remotely located electronic device, which may be connectable to the Internet, by accessing content on a device (e.g. an Internet server) located near a mobile intermediate device by using the mobile intermediate device (another Internet server) as a “through conduit.” The intermediate device... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20070142038 - Service provisioning: Systems, methods, and devices are provided for providing dynamic service provisioning. One method embodiment includes initiating a request for a non subscription service that is provided by a wireless service provider, receiving the request to a subscription database, and providing an option to receive the non subscription service as a... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070142041 - Configuring a mobile telephone: A method for controlling the communication functionality of a mobile phone in which configuration data is provided (104) and received (108). Voice calls using the mobile phone are controlled (110) by impeding or limiting the ability to conduct such calls to encourage use of alternative communication such as SMS text... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070142042 - Emotional communication between portable equipments: The present invention relates to a possibility of communicating emotional information between a first and a second portable equipment. A first portable equipment for communication in a wireless communication system comprises an input portion adapted to receive information input by a user, an editing portion adapted to edit settings of... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20070142045 - Beam wobbling for increased downlink coverage and capacity: A method and apparatus for reducing signal interference within a cellular radio system to increase both coverage and capacity. The method and apparatus include altering the direction of beams within cell sectors is among discrete angular positions according to a predetermined, cyclic pattern. The predetermined, cyclic pattern varies in a... Agent: Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

20070142044 - Communications system and method: A mobile network comprises remote base transceiver station (BTS) nodes (3, 4) linked with a central base station controller (BSC) node (9). The latter is in turn linked with a mobile switching centre (MSC, 10), a visitor location register (VLR, 11), and a home location register (HLR, 8). Mobile stations... Agent: Jacobson Holman PLLC

20070142043 - Method and devices for routing a message to a network server in a server pool: Method, devices and computer programs for routing a message to a first network server (MSC1) in a server pool (CNSP) of a mobile communication system are disclosed. The mobile communication system comprises a controller (BSC2) of an access network (AN) connectable to the first network server (MSC1) and at least... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070142046 - Method and system for acquiring a carrier system by a terminal device: A method in a terminal device (102) for acquiring a carrier system identified in an preferred roaming list (PRL) is disclosed. The method includes acquiring (202) a first carrier system from a first scan list, rearranging (204) the first scan list using a hashing algorithm to form a second scan... Agent: Motorola Inc

20070142047 - Method and apparatus for managing incoming calls using different voice services on a multi-mode wireless device: A device and method for receiving communications associated with a second communication service while actively communicating using a first communication service is disclosed. The method includes receiving an incoming call associated with a second communication service at a wireless device (104). The second communication service is either different than the... Agent: Fleit, Kain, Gibbons, Gutman, Bongini & Bianco P.l.

20070142049 - Apparatus and method for an emergency call in a mobile communication terminal: An apparatus and a method for cell search for transmitting an emergency call in a dual mode terminal supporting a Global System for Mobile communication (GSM) and a Universal Mobile Telecommunication System (UMTS) are provided. A cell search for transmitting the emergency call is performed for all networks even though... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070142048 - Methods and apparatus for determining and/or communicating parameter switching point information in wireless communications systems including wireless terminals supporting multiple wireless connections: Methods and apparatus for indicating parameter change points with respect to multiple connections (wireless links) by transmitting a single message, e.g., over one of the connections, is described. A base station corresponding to at least one connection, considers the approximate timing relationship between the connections, selects one of the connections,... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20070142051 - Method and apparatus for handover in digital broadcasting system: Disclosed is a method and an apparatus for supporting smooth and seamless handover of a terminal receiving digital broadcasting in a digital broadcasting system. A handover method by a network node includes the steps of receiving a handover proposal message from a terminal, the handover proposal message containing a time... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070142050 - Method and system for handover in cellular wireless using route programming and training processes: A method and system for managing handover where a database that receives location information about a moving object includes information regarding which base station is used in a current radio link connection and which base stations were used from historic radio link connections. Using the base station radio link history... Agent: Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

20070142052 - Mobile services control platform providing a message forwarding service: A mobile services control platform supports enhanced services for SMS or MMS message forwarding. The service allows a subscriber to receive SMS (Short Message Service) directed to his or her mobile number across a range of devices, depending on the context, the device, and the network the user is connected... Agent: Law Office Of David H. Judson

20070142053 - System and method for creating a wireless picocell: A system and method are provided for creating a picocell service alternate to a wireless network service. The method comprises: detecting a multiple access (MA) wireless communications network, such is a terrestrial or satellite network; and, generating a first picocell in response to detecting the MA wireless network. Typically, the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070142054 - Method and system for managing a call setup between a mobile station and a communication infrastructure: A method and system for managing a call setup between a mobile station (102) and a communication infrastructure (104) is provided. The method includes the detection (202) of a call setup failure by the mobile station, based on non-receipt of a next expected message sent by the communication infrastructure. The... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070142055 - Method, mobile device and computer program product for automatically fetching local area radio channels: A method, mobile device and computer program product are provided for automatically determining the frequencies of one or more radio stations available in the location in which a user (and, therefore, his or her mobile device) is located and presetting those frequencies to the mobile device. In addition, a means... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070142058 - Communication terminal, mobile communication system, and communication control method: A communication terminal includes a first wireless communication unit that communicates with a base station; a second wireless communication unit that communicates with another communication terminal including an equivalent of the first wireless communication unit; a temperature measurement unit; and a control unit that selects one of the first wireless... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20070142057 - Dynamic cell reconfiguring method and cellular network system to which the method is applied: A cell configuration can be easily and dynamically changed with less equipment correspondingly to a communication environment by a dynamic cell reconfiguring method in a cellular network system including an antenna that has a plurality of sector antennas disposed correspondingly to a cell and a plurality of base station equipment... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070142056 - Wireless communication system capacity control facilitation method and apparatus: System capacity control in a wireless communication system can be facilitated with respect to a mobile to mobile communication. Such facilitation can comprise adjusting (103) a quality of service for at least one leg of that mobile to mobile communication. More particularly, this facilitation can comprise obtaining information (101) regarding... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070142060 - Surveying wireless device users by location: The present invention is a system and method for conducting survey using wireless devices. The system architecture of the present invention comprises a location server and a location system. The location server can receive a survey request from a subscriber, delineate a survey area for the survey, broadcast a query... Agent: Murrell W. Blackburn Merchant & Gould LLC

20070142059 - User plane location architecture with mobile server for location based services: A “user plane” location system for implementing a location based service (“LBS”) such as enterprise fleet tracking includes a number of GPS-enabled wireless mobile units in communication with a wireless network. Location data is periodically transmitted from various “client” mobile units to a “server” mobile unit. The location data relates... Agent: Mccormick, Paulding & Huber LLP

20070142061 - Method and apparatus for determining the location of a node in a wireless network: A method and apparatus for determining the location of a node within a communication system is provided herein. During operation, located nodes (105) having known locations are utilized to locate “blind” nodes (200) whose location is to be determined. More particularly, a blind node (200) wishing to determine its location... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070142063 - Positioning method and system: A positioning method and system is proposed, which is used to select an appropriate positioning mode in order to acquire positioning server information according to actual environment and usage requirements of a mobile terminal equipment, the system includes a setting module, a reading module and a calling module. The method... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070142062 - Satellite simulation model system based on interface standard model: A satellite simulation model system based on an interface standard model is disclosed. The system includes a satellite subsystem standard model for simulating operations of physical satellite subsystems; a flight software module for generating a control signal changing operation state of the satellite subsystem standard model; an interface standard model... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070142064 - Method and apparatus for assigning backhaul methods: A method and apparatus is provided for determining which of a plurality of backhaul methods is assigned to a portion of a wireless communication by monitoring at least one quality metric relating to the communication. Then, a backhaul method is assigned according to a predetermined function of the quality metric(s)... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070142065 - Device and method for determining where crowds exist: A portable communication device includes an application program for determining crowdedness of a desired location. The portable communication device executes the application program to communicate within a wireless communication system for requesting mobile critical mass information for at least one desired location. The mobile critical mass information for the at... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20070142066 - Dual event slotted paging: A novel and improved method and system for paging a cellular telephone or other wireless terminal using two paging channels that reduces standby mode power consumption described. In one embodiment of the invention, a minimally encoded quick paging channel is established over which short, quick page messages are transmitted during... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070142067 - Resource allocation based on interference mitigation in a wireless communication system: The present invention provides a method involving at least one base station and at least one mobile unit. The method includes determining, based on an interference mitigation pattern, a plurality of transmission powers associated with a corresponding plurality of subcarriers available to said at least one base station. The method... Agent: Williams, Morgan & Amerson

20070142070 - Communication system: Common channel resources can be controlled in the uplink of a communication system. The control of the common channel resources can be dependent upon the quality requirements associated with a radio access for use on the up-link common channel relative to a predetermined quality threshold.... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070142069 - Method and system for decoding sacch control channels in gsm-based systems with partial combining: Methods and systems for signal processing are disclosed herein and may include storing bit sequences for a plurality of previously received control channels. A bit sequence for a currently received control channel may be correlated with at least one of the bit sequences for the plurality of previously received control... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070142068 - Mobile-object terminal device, mobile-object-function restriction system and method, and record medium: A mobile-object-function restriction system executes function restriction in a function-limited area, gives benefit in compensation for the executed function restriction, and releases the function restriction in emergency. In the system, a transmitting device (200) transmits, to a mobile-object terminal device (100), mobile-object information including function restriction information, emergency information for... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070142071 - Method and apparatus for facilitating establishment of a communication resource: A core network element (102) is configured to facilitate establishment of a first type of wireless communication resource, such as a dedicated channel, to facilitate communication with first communication target. The core network element detects a first message using a second type of wireless communication resource, such as a common... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070142073 - System and method for initiating push-to-talk sessions between outside services and user equipment: Methods of establishing a push-to-talk (PTT) session between a user equipment that is part of a push-to-talk over cellular (PoC) system and an outside service are presented including: subscribing to an outside service by the user equipment; for a user initiated request, sending a request to establish the PTT session... Agent: Stevens Law Group

20070142072 - Two way radio: A two way radio includes a first push to talk button and a second push to talk button. The first push to talk button is configured to cause transmission of a first signal on a first channel. The second push to talk button is configured to cause transmission of a... Agent: Kramer & Amado, P.C.

20070142074 - Method and apparatus for reverse link transmit beam-forming: A method and system for reverse link transmit beam-forming. One method comprises using a plurality of antennas at an access terminal to wirelessly transmit signals to one or more base stations; receiving an input indicating a reverse link signal quality at the one or more base stations; and adjusting at... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070142075 - Method for controlling transmission power on a radio channel: A method for controlling the transmission power on a radio channel arranged for transmitting signals carrying elements of information arranged in successive timeslots from a first station to a second station, the radio channel including a data channel and a substantially permanent control channel, the transmission power in a timeslot... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20070142076 - Alarm and messaging communications system having wireless network gateway: A wireless network gateway in an alarm system is disclosed. The alarm system includes a wireless network providing wireless communication for a plurality of wireless communications devices and includes a system server providing Web, alarm and messaging services. A wireless network gateway of the invention may include a translation module... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070142077 - Hand-held device combining controller unit and mobile phone: A hand-held device combining mobile phone and controller unit, which comprises a telephone body, a cross-shaped key, a plurality of buttons and a control interface circuitry. The cross-shaped key is disposed on the edge of the telephone body for generating direction-controlling signals. The buttons are disposed on the edge of... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070142079 - Portable computing, communication and entertainment device with central processor carried in a detachable handset: The present invention relates in general to portable processor based devices that provide computing, communication or entertainment functionality. More particularly, the present invention pertains to portable processor based devices operable while being held in its user's hand and providing communications, organizer and/or entertainment functions, such as cellular telephones, palm-sized organizers,... Agent: Hahn Loeser & Parks, LLP

20070142078 - Techniques to generate context information: Techniques to generate context information are described. An apparatus may comprise a mobile computing device. The mobile computing device may include a radio sub-system, a processing sub-system to couple to the radio sub-system, and a context information management module for execution by the processing sub-system. The context information management module... Agent: Kacvinsky LLC C/o Intellevate

20070142080 - Direct-conversion transmitter circuit and transceiver system: Disclosed is a direct conversion type transmitter or transceiver circuit suitable for a mobile communication device which corresponds to broad signal output level variable width to be required by W-CDMA, which does not necessitate any high-performance low noise VCO and RF filter, capable of reducing a number of components and... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20070142082 - Mobile tv system and method with fast channel change: To reduce latency during channel change, when a user changes the TV channel on a mobile TV device such as a wireless phone, the device leaves the power save mode and enters, for a limited timeout period, a fully energized mode in which the receiver and front end logic of... Agent: Rogitz & Associates

20070142083 - Personal electronic device with a dual core processor: A novel personal electronic device includes a processor having first (embedded) and second (non-embedded) cores including associated operating systems and functions. In one aspect, the first core performs relatively limited functions, while the second core performs relatively broader functions under control of the first core. Often the second core requires... Agent: Haynes Beffel & Wolfeld LLP

20070142081 - Wireless terminal having a flashlight: In a wireless communication terminal having a flashlight, the power consumption is decreased by means of enabling a transmitter to transmit during transmission periods, and disabling the transmitter outside the transmission periods. Moreover, a supply of voltage from a common power supply to a flashlight unit is disabled during the... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20070142084 - Apparatus and method for determining a device connected to a radio communication terminal: A radio communication device including a radio communication terminal and a chip card. The radio communication terminal includes a generation unit generating device information which specifies for at least one device if the device is coupled to the radio communication terminal, and a transmitting unit transmitting the device information to... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070142085 - Method for connecting a radiocommunication device to a data transfer device, radiocommunication and transfer devices, and corresponding connection means: The disclosure relates to a method for connecting a radiocommunication device to a data transfer device, whereby said transfer device is connected to said radiocommunication device via a housing for receiving and connecting a removable electronic card (SIM).... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20070142086 - Method of securing a mobile telephone identifier and corresponding mobile telephone: A mobile telephone handset includes: a storage support which is secured against fraudulent access and which stores the IMEI of the handset. A connector for a secure electronic module is associated with an operator. A handset operating system controls authentication of the IMEI storage support by a secure electronic module... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070142087 - Apparatus and method for power allocation in a space division multiple access system: Provided is an apparatus and method for power allocation in a Space Division Multiple Access (SDMA) system. The apparatus includes an encoder, an antenna weighting calculator, and an antenna. The antenna weighting calculator divides a transmission power of a Base Station (BS) by number of Mobile Stations (MSs), fixedly distributes... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070142088 - Electronic communications system: In order that an electronic communications system (100) equipped with: [a.1] at least one base station (10), to which [a.2] at least one LC resonant circuit (13, 16) [a2.1] with at least one antenna unit (16) in the form of a coil, and [a.2.2] at least one capacitive unit (13)... Agent: Philips Electronics North America Corporation Intellectual Property & Standards

20070142089 - Multi-user adaptive array receiver and method: An array receiver which reduces complexity and cost by exploiting multiuser information in signals received from a plurality of transmitting users preprocesses (40) samples of antenna signals ( x1, x2 . . . , xN) from the antenna elements (22/1, . . . , 22/N) to form basis signals (yO... Agent: Adams Patent & Trademark Agency

20070142094 - Customizing the display of a mobile computing device: Efficiently displaying customized data on the display of a mobile computing device. Layout files, which are created, using an XML based language, receive data from data generating applications and format the received data to a user's specification. Multiple layout files may be included in a mobile computing device, allowing a... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070142091 - Mobile computer communication interface: A system and method is provided for a mobile computer communication interface. One embodiment includes a mobile computer communication interface. The mobile computer communication interface comprises a transceiver operative to send and receive wireless communications to and from a host computer. The mobile computer communication interface may also comprise a... Agent: Tarolli, Sundheim, Covell & Tummino L.L.P.

20070142092 - Portable device including display unit and keypad unit: A portable device embodying both sliding and rotating types is described. The portable device including: a main unit; a display unit sliding and horizontally rotating on a top surface of the main unit, and having a display on its top surface; and a keypad unit sliding in an opposite direction... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20070142093 - Portable terminal, data input device of the portable terminal, and its data input supporting method and data input supporting program: It provides a portable terminal in which a user can directly operate an operation unit while looking at a display unit, in a folding state, without concentrating on the operation unit. The mobile phone is designed so that the operation body and the display body are connected at the hinge... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070142090 - Sharing information in a network: A method performed by a mobile terminal may include connecting to a network and receiving information from other mobile terminals via the network. The information may identify songs played by the other mobile terminals. The method may also include displaying information associated with a first one of the songs.... Agent: Harrity Snyder, L.L.P.

20070142095 - Car telephone system: A car telephone system having a telephone module (3) which has a telephone transmitting and receiving unit (5), can be connected to a transmitting and receiving antenna (7), can be connected to a central control bus (1) of the vehicle and can be controlled by a central controller (2) via... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson & Cook, P.C.

20070142096 - Power-saving clipping apparatus for wireless electronic devices: A power-saving clipping apparatus for wireless electronic devices aims to hold and anchor a receiver in a wireless electronic device. The clipping apparatus has a power-saving switch which is electrically connected to the wireless electronic device. The power-saving switch is actuated by the clipping apparatus to make the wireless electronic... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070142097 - Mounting device for mobile information terminal, and mobile information terminal: A mounting device includes a case that has an insertion inlet for a mobile information terminal, a connector that establishes electrical connection to the mobile information terminal inserted in the insertion inlet, and an ejection mechanism that ejects the mobile information terminal after completion of processing through the connector. After... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070142098 - System and method providing power-save operation in a multimode communication device: A system and method providing power-save operation in a multimode communication device. Various aspects of the present invention may comprise determining to communicate in a first communication mode and not in a second communication mode. In response to such determination, a first set of components associated with communicating in the... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070142099 - Apparatus and method of user interface in a mobile communication terminal: The present invention relates to a method of providing user interface in a mobile communication terminal. A function of a first menu is displayed on a display unit when a sub body is in an open position. The function is carried out when a function performing key is pressed. It... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070142100 - Speaker module for portable terminal: A speaker module for a portable terminal includes a speaker box having a predetermined size and receiving a speaker. The speaker box is installed at a predetermined location of a case frame of the portable terminal to protrude partially to the outside. The speaker box enters into the folder of... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070142102 - Mobile communication terminal having multiple keypads and main body thereof: Disclosed is are a mobile communication terminal having multiple keypads, which includes a primary keypad installed on the front side, and secondary keypads installed on the backside. In particular, the secondary keypads are installed at two opposite upper end edges of the backside of the main body so that the... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070142101 - Mobile electronic device having a rotatable keypad: A mobile electronic device (100), suitable for operation in a first configuration and a second configuration, includes a first housing (102) and a second housing (104) coupled to the first housing. The second housing includes a rotatable keypad (202). The rotatable keypad rotates when the first housing (102) and the... Agent: Motorola Inc

20070142103 - Container with multi-level shielded compartments: The present invention discloses a container or bag with several types of compartments with different forms of electromagnetic/wireless shielding. The types of compartments include a) an electromagnetic/wireless shielded compartment useful for line-of-site type shielding, b) an electromagnetic/wireless shielded compartment useful when a complete shielding enclosure is needed, and c) an... Agent: Oren Livne

20070142105 - Auto extendable antenna and method of operation: An auto extendable antenna and method of operation at a wireless communication device (100) is disclosed. The method includes monitoring a set of reception parameters during a communication session. The processor (106) of the wireless communication device monitors the set of reception parameters for the communication session. The method further... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20070142104 - Electronic device with a retractable antenna assembly: An electronic device (200) having a housing (205) with an end cap locator (210). There is a retractable elongate radio frequency radiating element (106) passing through an aperture associated with the end cap locator (210) the radiating (106) element being electrically connected to an electrical circuit provided in the housing... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070135036 - Jamming presence: A system, method, and computer readable medium to provide alternative communications during jamming in a presence system, that comprises, registering a mobile device as a presentity to a presence server in the presence system, detecting a communication jamming of the mobile device, providing information related to the detected communication jamming... Agent: Alcatel Usa Intellectual Property Department

20070135037 - Method for operating a frequency converter circuit: A frequency converter circuit has at least two outputs that are respectively connected to a load, in particular an induction coil. A first output is operated at a first switching frequency and a second output is simultaneously operated at a second switching frequency that is different from the first, in... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20070135038 - Portable a/v relay device: Disclosed is a means for receiving an Audio/Video (A/V) signal from an original A/V source and re-formatting and re-transmitting the A/V signal such that it can be displayed on a nearby portable mobile device.... Agent: Moore And Van Allen PLLC For Semc

20070135039 - Apparatus and method for transmitting signal in a communication system: A method and apparatus is provided for transmitting/receiving a signal in a base transceiver station (BTS) of a communication system. The BTS compares power of a channel quality information (CQI) signal received from a terminal with power of a CQI signal for the terminal, received from a repeater, and performs... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070135040 - Methods for effecting seamless handover and enhancing capacity in elliptical orbit satellite communications systems: Seamless handover of a communications signal from a first satellite to a second satellite is provided when the satellites are at orbital positions which coincide. Timing marks are inserted simultaneously in signals transmitted through the satellites, and signals received from the satellites compared to determine the difference in path length.... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070135041 - Mobile radio system and mobile radio channel assigning method: A mobile radio system for radio communications between a base station and a plurality of mobile stations, as well as among a plurality of mobile stations, including a mobile radio channel assignment method, where each mobile station is capable of acquiring position information of the current position of the mobile... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070135042 - System and method for the reduction of interference in an indoor communications wireless distribution system: An apparatus and its corresponding method for detecting and reducing interference elements within an indoor communication wireless system by dynamically locating the source of the interference, and by preventing the distribution of the interference via controlled attenuation of the interfering signal. The apparatus and method dynamically controls (44) the potential... Agent: Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, LLP

20070135043 - Method and system for accessible contact information on a locked electronic device: An electronic device (10 or 300) and method (400) can include a storage medium (14, 304, or 306) having at least a predetermined contact number (15) designated as an emergency contact number and a processor (302). The processor can be programmed to place the electronic device or a portion (14... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070135044 - Distributed underwater electromagnetic communication system: An extended underwater electromagnetic transducer is provided with an electrically insulated transmission line typically connected to a transmitter or receiver or transceiver system. The transmission line allows near-field communications with another transmitter or receiver or transceiver system. The transmission line provided is relatively long, the through water signal path length... Agent: Heller Ehrman LLP

20070135047 - Method and apparatus for transmitting information of image forming apparatus: A method and apparatus for transmitting information of an image forming apparatus are provided. The method includes receiving wireless headset identification information, transmitting information of an image forming apparatus to a headset corresponding to the wireless headset identification information and outputting the image forming apparatus information to a speaker of... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070135046 - Method and system for bluetooth® common signaling for non-bluetooth® data channels: Methods and systems for processing data are disclosed and may include establishing a non-Bluetooth® connection between at least two Bluetooth®-enabled devices utilizing Bluetooth® protocol. Data may be communicated between the at least two Bluetooth®-enabled devices utilizing the established non-Bluetooth® connection. Data may be received via the established non-Bluetooth® connection. The... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070135048 - Method for 3gpp-wimax interworking: The present invention provides a method for signalling interworking a standardized wireless mobile communication network [WIMAX], preferably according to the IEEE 802.16d standard, with a standardized cellular network, such as a 3GPP network. In a global service class name preferably according to the IEEE 802.16d standard a specific string is... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070135045 - Method for log management during bluetooth communication and mobile terminal device employing the same: Disclosed is a mobile terminal and method for managing a log during Bluetooth communication with a Bluetooth module in which information about a counterpart terminal connected via Bluetooth module is analyzed, the analyzed information about the counterpart terminal is stored, a task performed by the counterpart terminal is analyzed, the... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070135049 - Radio transmission apparatus, radio reception apparatus and radio transmission method: A radio transmission apparatus capable of enhancing the diversity effect. In this apparatus, phase rotation section (102) performs phase rotation processing of 40.6°=26.6°+14.0°, interleavers (106,111) perform two-time interleaving processing before IQ combining processing performed in a combining section (107) and after IQ separation processing performed in an IQ separating section... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20070135050 - Optimizing polarization of forward link: A mechanism that enables a gateway to dynamically determine which of two transmission signal polarizations is best received by a wireless communication device having a nominally linear antenna. A first pilot and second pilot signals, having different polarizations and orthogonally encoded, are transmitted to the communication device. The communication device... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070135051 - Adaptive beam forming with multi-user detection and interference reduction in satellite communication systems and methods: Satellite communications methods include receiving communications signals including co-channel interference at a space-based component from a plurality of wireless terminals in a satellite footprint over a satellite frequency band and reducing interference in the communication signals by (a) performing co-channel interference reduction on the communications signals to generate a plurality... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20070135052 - Downlink beamforming apparatus in ofdma system and transmission apparatus including the same: A downlink beamforming apparatus and a transmission apparatus including the same includes a subcarrier based user identifier for dividing subcarriers according to users, a beamforming weight buffer for storing first beamforming weights for the subcarriers by each of transmitting antennas, an interpolator for outputting second beamforming weights for each transmitting... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070135053 - Multiple access interference cancellation: Method and device for interference cancellation. A radio access unit comprises a plurality of directionally separated antenna elements (41k, K=1, 2, . . . , L) for receiving signals transmitted by a plurality of remote units. From signals received by each of the antenna elements (41k) first weighing factors (g(1)k)... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070135055 - Combination quad flat no-lead and thin small outline package: The characteristics of a radio frequency package having short path length and the characteristics of a logic or memory package may be combined so that a high input/output connection is provided together with good radio frequency performance. In some embodiments, a non-radio frequency logic or memory die may be stacked... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20070135054 - Method and system for determining the time of arrival of a direct radio signal: A method and system for determining the time of arrival of a direct radio signal. The system including a receiver (210) for receiving a plurality of signals, wherein each of the plurality of received signals has an associated time of arrival. The system further including a processor (215) adapted to... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20070135056 - System and method to monitor broadband radio frequency transport systems: A system to monitor gain in a broadband radio frequency transport system that includes a radio frequency antenna, a remote unit, and a host unit adapted to receive a signal from the remote unit over a transmission link. The remote unit includes a pilot tone generator adapted to generate at... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20070135057 - Detection and estimation of radio frequency variations: A system includes a sampling module, a counter module, and a frequency characteristic module. The sampling module samples radio frequency (RF) signals on a first channel for a first predetermined period and a second predetermined period that is subsequent to the first predetermined period. The counter module increments first and... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce P.L.C

20070135059 - Apparatus and method for acquiring channel state information in a wireless relay network: An apparatus and a method for estimating the channel state of each link in a wireless relay network having fixed RSs are provided. A source estimates a channel of a source-RS link and a channel of a source-destination link using pilot signals received from an Relay Station (RS) and a... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070135058 - Method and apparatus for transmitter calibration: A method and apparatus of calibrating a transmitter are disclosed. The method includes attenuating transmitter output signals as controlled by an output control signal, ensuring that an average power of the transmitter output signals is below a threshold level, and performing calibration of the transmitter at periods of time in... Agent: Tzero Patent Dept

20070135060 - Time based wireless access provisioning: A method and apparatus is provided for the time-based provisioning of wireless devices. A network access point monitors operation of wireless devices within a service region. When provisioning logic is activated at the network access point, the access point determines if the tracked parameter (such as power on or the... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20070135061 - Vehicle communication system: A vehicle communication system detects the presence of a passenger wearable communication device. The system receives audio signals from multiple sources inside or outside of a vehicle. The system processes the signals before routing the signals to multiple destinations. The destinations may include wearable personal communication devices, front and/or rear... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070135062 - Apparatus for automatically matching frequency of antenna in wireless terminal and method thereof: An apparatus and method for automatically matching an impedance for a frequency of an antenna in a wireless terminal. The apparatus automatically matches an impedance for a frequency of an antenna in a wireless terminal. The apparatus includes a duplexer for classifying frequencies transmitted/received through the antenna of the wireless... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070135063 - Using antenna arrays to produce omni-directional transmissions: Diversity arrays of antenna elements and phased arrays of antenna elements can be used to produce omni-directional transmissions. Communication signaling is produced based on a desired communication signal that is to be transmitted omni-directionally. In response to the communication signaling, the antenna elements cooperate to effect approximately omni-directional antenna transmission... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070135064 - Method and apparatus for reducing phase imbalance in radio frequency signals: Systems and method for reducing phase imbalance in radio frequency (RF) signals are disclosed. The phase imbalance in an RF signal may be due to phase imbalance in the local oscillator used for upconversion in a transmitter, and downconversion in a receiver. The RF signal is converted to a digital... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070135065 - Predistortion system and amplifier for addressing group delay modulation: An amplifier includes an RF power amplifier and a predistortion circuit coupled to the power amplifier. The predistortion circuit affects an input path of an RF input signal to the power amplifier. The predistortion circuit is operable for detecting a level of an input signal and generating a delay in... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, LLP

20070135066 - Wireless computer peripheral device: The present invention relates to a wireless computer peripheral device that comprises a first power detecting unit with a set first threshold value, coupled to the first power and; and a second power detecting unit with a set second threshold value, coupled to the first power, second power and the... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC One Skyline Place

20070135067 - Apparatus for configuring portable communication system using multipath power amplifier: Disclosed is an apparatus for configuring a portable communication system using a multipath amplifier that includes dividers for respective sectors which divide an input signal of a corresponding sector and provide the divided input signals to an internal amplifier for the corresponding sector of a certain number of multipath power... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070135068 - Processing received digital data signals based on a received digital data format: An integrated circuit radio receiver includes radio frequency (“RF”) front end circuitry for receiving and transmitting digital data received through a wireless interface. A baseband processor is operable to process the digital data received through the wireless interface. A first logic is operable to provide a first level of digital... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070135069 - Apparatus and method of mimo detection: An analogue multiple input, multiple output (MIMO) detector, comprises an analogue calculator circuit operable to obtain the binary elements of a joint posterior distribution of the probabilities for a transmitted symbol, given a received signal. These probabilities are passed as currents to a marginaliser circuit for each channel, which selects... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070135070 - Extended range received signal strength indicator module: An extended range received signal strength indicator module includes input lines connected to a variable gain amplifier, which passes the amplified RF signal to a polyphase, which in turn passes the filtered signal to a series of RSSI stages. Each RSSI stage includes a log amplifier and outputs an amplified... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070135071 - Automatic gain control device having variable gain control interval and method thereof: An exemplary automatic gain control device includes: a radio frequency receiver for receiving a plurality of first signals through a plurality of antennas, respectively controlling gains of the plurality of first received signals, and outputting the plurality of the first signals having the controlled gain as a plurality of second... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070135072 - Wireless communication system: A wireless communication system includes: a filter; and a semiconductor chip including a signal processing integrated circuit having an amplifier, wherein a main surface of the semiconductor chip is provided with a plurality of electrode terminals along an edge portion thereof; wherein the amplifier has a transistor including a control... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070135073 - Mixer apparatus having switchable local oscillator inputs: A mixer apparatus (60), such as an integrated circuit (IC) mixer is provided for improving the physical layout of devices containing mixers. The mixer includes a multiplier (62) with an input port (64), an output port (66), a first switchable local oscillator input port (68) and a second switchable local... Agent: General Instrument Corporation Dba The Connected Home Solutions Business Of Motorola, Inc.

20070135074 - Quadrature mixer circuits and mobile terminal using the same: Because there are different voltages at two current output terminals of a current divider, the voltages at the current input terminals of two current switch circuits are not affected mutually even with a large amplitude of local signals. Accordingly, the performance of a quadrature mixer can be enhanced by increasing... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070135075 - Down-converter and calibration method thereof: A mixer and calibration method thereof are provided. A direct conversion receiver comprises a differential loading pair utilizing at least one binary weighted resistor. The binary weighted resistor is adjustable to provide a resistance linear to a digital code, comprising a fixed resistor and an adjustable resistor cascaded to the... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070135076 - Wideband mixer with multi-standard input: A wideband mixer circuit that is flexible and reconfigurable so that several identical wideband mixer circuits may be used in lieu of several fixed narrow-band mixers. Such wideband mixer circuits can be provided in multiples within a chip such that multiple inputs are each within a wide frequency range (i.e.,... Agent: Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

20070135077 - Data input and output device, data input and output method, data transfer method, and computer program product: A data management device body is provided with a connector to be inserted into a slot for miniSD of a mobile phone terminal. Besides, the data management device body includes a virtual memory management portion that simulates a storage area for miniSD in a hard disk drive having a capacity... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070135080 - Method and apparatus for user equipment directed radio resource control in a umts network: A method and apparatus for improved battery performance of user equipment in a wireless network having multiple radio resource control (RRC) states, the method comprising the steps of: monitoring, at the user equipment, application data exchange; determining when no application on the user equipment is expected to exchange data; and... Agent: Docket Clerk

20070135078 - Passive nfc activation of short distance wireless communication: A mobile terminal includes a passive wireless receiver and a wireless transceiver. The passive wireless receiver receives a first activation signal from another mobile terminal, and transmits a second activation signal using power from the first activation signal. The wireless transceiver receives the second activation signal, and establishes a wireless... Agent: Harrity Snyder, L.L.P.

20070135081 - Precise sleep timer using a low-cost and low-accuracy clock: A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) uses an oscillator providing accuracy for synchronized communications parameters in an active mode, and operates at reduced power during a discontinuous reception (DRX) mode. A real time clock (RTC) is used as the frequency standard during the reduced power operation, and a frequency adjustment is... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070135079 - Sample-correlated bit-level synchronization: A data receiver is activated at periodic intervals to receive data transmitted by any one of a plurality of transmitters having non-overlapping times of transmission. The receiver output is processed to determine the presence of a modulation type and to achieve bit and frame synchronization. One or more messages are... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070135082 - Dynamic content stream delivery to a telecommunications terminal based on the state of the terminal's battery: A method and apparatus are disclosed for delivering a content stream to a terminal only if: (i) the terminal has a transducer (e.g., speaker, video display, etc.) that is capable of outputting the content stream's media type, and (ii) the battery of the terminal has sufficient energy to handle receiving,... Agent: Demont & Breyer, LLC

20070135083 - Mobile terminal having radio frequency identification (rfid) function: A mobile terminal is provided having an radio frequency identification (RFID) function and includes an antenna which transmits and receives a radio signal; a radio frequency identification matching circuit which changes an operating band of the antenna to a frequency band where an RFID radio signal is input and output;... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070135084 - Terminal apparatus and received data display method: Distributed data is not edited at a distributing end but is edited in a terminal apparatus, thereby reducing the cost. The terminal apparatus can quickly retrieve necessary information. In the apparatus, a cell ID extracting part (104) extracts all the cell IDs that can be currently received. A data receiving... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20070135086 - Providing detailed information on powered device in system for supplying power over communication link: A powered device (PD) configured for receiving power over a communication link, such as an Ethernet link, has a power interface controller for implementing a power supply protocol. The power interface controller acquires multiple pieces of PD information representing multiple characteristics of the PD for transferring the PD information to... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070135085 - System and method for providing access in powerline communications (plc) network: To facilitate simultaneous PLC communication using first and second PLC protocols that are different from each other, frequency bands are dynamically assigned on demand to first and second PLC home networks that use the respective first and second PLC protocols.... Agent: Rogitz & Associates

20070135087 - Wireless adaptor for facilitating hands-free wireless communication functionality: Described herein are embodiments that facilitates hands-free wireless communication capability for new and existing vehicles and wireless transfer of content from a content source to a content player, or both. In one embodiment, there is provided a wireless adaptor that includes a wireless interface operable to form a wireless proximity... Agent: General Instrument Corporation Dba The Connected Home Solutions Business Of Motorola, Inc.

20070135089 - Emergency circuit-mode call support: Techniques to support emergency circuit-mode calls are described. The techniques may be used for various 3GPP and 3GPP2 networks, various location architectures, and various types of User Equipment (UE). A UE establishes a circuit-mode call with a wireless network for emergency services. The UE interacts with a location server indicated... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070135088 - On demand/emergency telematics & communication system: The present invention provides On Demand/Emergency Telematics/Location-Based Services and or Wireless Communication utilizing a cellular device which is service-initialized with non-expiring but deplete-able prepaid airtime/credit, allowing transmission of calls, alarms, events, and or Telematics signals to a Private/Third-Party Remote Monitoring/Call Center (PRMC) in Emergencies or other times of need without... Agent: Salvatore Alessandro

20070135090 - Location determination warning: This invention relates to a method and apparatus for warning telephone and wireless customers of a localized emergency condition such as a tornado. The agency responsible for such notification sends a message to an emergency transmission unit. This unit will then cause a warning to be sent to all cellular... Agent: Werner Ulrich

20070135091 - Electronic equipment with call key lock and program for providing the same: An electronic equipment which includes one or more keys that enable a user to control operation of the electronic equipment; call circuitry that enables the electronic equipment to establish a call with a called/calling device; and key lock circuitry which, upon detecting that the call circuitry has established a call,... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20070135092 - Method and apparatus for authenticating a mobile phone accessory: The mobile phone and the accessory communicate over a first line. The mobile phone computes or determines a challenge communication, and transmits the challenge communication over the first line to the accessory. The accessory receives the challenge communication, and computes a response communication based on the challenge communication, a hash... Agent: Kyocera Wireless Corp.

20070135093 - Mobile communication device having children's safe mode and method of operation thereof: A mobile communication device and a method of controlling the same to enable a children's safe mode. In one embodiment, the mobile communication device has a user input device, a user output device, a storage device configured to store digital data and a transceiver configured to communicate with a second... Agent: Hitt Gaines, PC Agere Systems Inc.

20070135094 - Mobile device controlling method, ic card unauthorized use preventing method, program for changing settings of mobile device, and program for preventing ic card from unauthorized use: A setting change method in a mobile device for receiving e-mail and program. The method and program determine whether a setting change identification for changing a setting of the mobile device exists in received e-mail and automatically open the e-mail when the setting change identification exists. The method and program... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070135096 - Interactive voice browsing server for mobile devices on wireless networks: The wireless data communication system described herein generally includes a wireless mobile computing device, a WLAN infrastructure, a server, and a database. The mobile computing device includes voice interface functionality that enables the device to receive voice signals and generate voice commands for wireless transmission to the WLAN infrastructure. The... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C.

20070135098 - Interactive voice browsing system for mobile devices on wireless networks: The wireless data communication system described herein generally includes a wireless mobile computing device, a WLAN infrastructure, a server, and a database. The mobile computing device includes voice interface functionality that enables the device to receive voice signals and generate voice commands for wireless transmission to the WLAN infrastructure. The... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C.

20070135099 - Message history display system and method: A technique for message history display includes combining message histories for multiple different messaging services. A system constructed according to the technique may include, for example, a message history database; a history aggregation engine that aggregates message logs for storage in the message history database; and a history provisioning engine... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20070135095 - Method and apparatus for electronic mailing of data utilizing a data reference: A mobile device for electronic mailing of data utilizing a data reference, the mobile device having: a communications subsystem for communicating with a wireless gateway; a user interface; a processor interacting with the user interface and the communications subsystem; an electronic mail application adapted to run on the processor; a... Agent: Moffat & Co

20070135097 - Text and voice capable mobile communication device: A method for establishing a call using a mobile terminal includes receiving a message. The method includes receiving a user input based on information in the message. The method includes accessing a communication identifier for a sending party identified in the message based on the user input. The method includes... Agent: Harrity Snyder, L.L.P.

20070135100 - Method for implementing an automatic answering service of short message in mobile network: A method for implementing a short message automatically answering service in mobile network is disclosed. An automatically answering content and a valid period for the automatically answer are pre-configured by a user. During the valid period, when a short message is sent to the user, the short message center may... Agent: Baker & Hostetler LLP

20070135107 - Call progress tone generation in a communication system: A method of operating a wireless calling device comprises connecting to a call tone provider configured to provide call tones, transferring a plurality of call tone requests to the call tone provider, receiving a plurality of call tones from the call tone provider in response to the plurality of call... Agent: Sprint

20070135101 - Enhanced visual ivr capabilities: A multi-modal user interface method and system enabling a user of a cellular telephone being connected to a cellular network via both a voice connection and a data connection to receive a menu in both an audible manner and a visual manner, during the course of the call and substantially... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070135106 - Method, terminal, and system for establishing poc group session in poc system: A method, a terminal, and a system for establishing a Push to Talk Over Cellular (PoC) group session in a PoC network based on session initiation information, such as information regarding presence of clients to be invited or session start-up time. According to the method, Universal Resource Indicator (URI) information... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070135105 - Mobile information terminal executing application program: In order to control the resetting operation, a mobile phone is provided with a CPU capable of executing an application program, a power switch to receive an instruction for switching power between the ON state and the OFF state, and a reset detecting circuit to output a resetting signal for... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070135103 - Phonebook rating system for electronic equipment: Disclosed is electronic equipment (e.g., a communication device) and method directed to electronic equipment having an improved electronic phonebook application for rating electronic phonebook entries (e.g., contacts). The electronic equipment and method includes an electronic phonebook including a plurality of contacts having a plurality of entries including a cumulative time... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20070135104 - Terminal and control program of terminal: A terminal includes a key input unit having a key section and an output unit outputting information inputted by the key input unit. The terminal includes a touch detection unit which detects a touch of an object to the key section and detects a moving distance that the object moves... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070135102 - Wireless telephone for receiving a media stream while placing a call: A method using a wireless telephone (102) for placing a call is provided. The method includes receiving (202) a media stream over a first channel (110). The method also includes rendering (204) the media stream on the wireless telephone. Moreover, the method opens (206) a second channel (116) for a... Agent: General Instrument Corporation Dba The Connected Home Solutions Business Of Motorola, Inc.

20070135108 - Apparatus and method for selecting geographical area information at a weather band, or other, radio device: Apparatus, and an associated method, for a weather band radio that annunciates anomaly conditions. The radio has a set-up mode permitting a user to enter a home geographical area and also associated areas within a selected proximity to the home geographical area. When a National Weather Service SAME message is... Agent: Scheef & Stone, L.L.P.

20070135109 - Method for segregating billable transactions in a multimode communication device: A system and method are disclosed for segregating transactions in a multimode communication device. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a communication device (102) has a controller (206) for managing operations of a wireless transceiver (202) that supports a plurality of access technologies.... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070135111 - Layered mobile application security system: A wireless communication network (20) including mobile applications (56-62) includes a security approach that uses a combination of at least two techniques (42, 50, 54, 72). One disclosed example includes a combination of all four techniques. The combined, layered approach greatly reduces the probability that an unauthorized individual will be... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds, P.C.

20070135113 - Method and device for management of an overload in a cell of a radio communication network, corresponding uses, computer program and storage means: The invention concerns a method of managing an overload in a cell of a cellular radio communication network comprising a plurality of user equipments (UE) each of which can switch between a plurality of states including a Cell_DCH state and a Cell_FACH state. According to the invention, this kind of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070135112 - Method for configuring the functionality of a mobile multimedia or communication device: A method for configuring the functionality of a mobile multimedia or communication device. For selecting and/or activating a specific function of the device, a programming element is placed into the vicinity of said multimedia or communication device, said programming element being able to wirelessly communicate via a localized communication link... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20070135110 - Smart call list: A smart call list for a wireless mobile device (12) can include a storage medium (14 or 304) containing a call list having a plurality of contact entries (19) and a processor (302) coupled to the storage medium. The processor can monitor (902) the use of the call list according... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070135115 - Mobile radio system and mobile radio control method: A mobile station enables communication with a fixed station and other mobile stations. The mobile station includes a receiving unit receiving first timing information, second timing information and reliability information with regard to the second timing information. A selector selects a timing, to be used for communication timing with the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070135114 - Platform selection for wireless communication: A platform selection system and methods for wireless communication are provided. In an illustrative implementation, a wireless communication system maintains at least one wireless communications device operable to be in communication with one or more wireless communications platforms. Further, in the illustrative implementation, the wireless communications device can comprise a... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath Attn: Intellectual Property Group

20070135117 - Transmission circuit and communication apparatus employing the same: A small-size transmission circuit is provided which outputs a transmission signal having high linearity independently of a magnitude of an output power, and operates with high efficiency. A signal generating section generates quadrature data based on input data. A computation section compares an amplitude component of the quadrature data with... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070135116 - Wireless communication system for sending rescue message and managing method thereof: A method for sending rescue messages in a wireless communication system is provided. The wireless communication system includes a base station, a first mobile station, and a second mobile station. The base station has a communication zone, and the first mobile station is outside the communication zone. According to this... Agent: Hoffman Warnick & D'alessandro, LLC

20070135118 - Device and method for transmission of data over a telephone line: A device for the transmission of data over a telephone line provides a simple and economical interactive television service, whereby the device includes the following: a first connector for connection of a fixed line telephone to the device, an HF receiver for receiving data transmitted to the device by radio... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC

20070135119 - Reception system: An operation control unit of a reception system includes a visitor ID information DB for storing therein visitor comparison information and visitor ID information including a phone number of a receiver of a visitor; an identifying unit for identifying the visitor when visitor information obtained by a camera or the... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070135120 - Fixed cellular terminal - wireless loop system: A device that provides a gateway between a public switching telephone network and a gateway device comprises a controller interface including telephony circuitry, power circuitry, and a master cellular phone circuit. The controller is connected to at least one public switching network. The controller interface further includes a plurality of... Agent: Gross & Associates

20070135121 - User and service mobility support system and method in ubiquitous environment: A user and service mobility support system and method of in a ubiquitous environment is provided. When a user moves to a domain area capable of using various service equipment by pursuing a location of a user using a mobile communication service outdoors, the user may continuously use a service... Agent: Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP

20070135123 - Method and apparatus for flexible alerting using a packet gateway: A packet gateway (114) implements a flexible alerting feature. The packet gateway receives an incoming call for a number (202), determines a first home location register associated with the incoming call and requests location information for the incoming call from the first home location register (204). If the called number... Agent: Jenner & Block LLP

20070135122 - System and method for providing coverage to mobile stations in a network: A received signal strength indicator (RSSI) value associated with a communication is determined (202). The communication is being conducted at a first frequency band. The RSSI value is compared to a high threshold and a low threshold (203). Based upon the comparing, the transfer of the communication to a second... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070135124 - Method and system of multiple wireless hplmn: A method in one example has the steps of: registering a mobile terminal through a first RAN; receiving by a core network a first request from the mobile terminal via the first RAN and comparing a the HPLMN code of the IMSI associated with the first request with stored HPLMN... Agent: Carmen B. Patti & Associates, LLC

20070135125 - Apparatus and method for hard handover in a wireless communication system: Provided is a hard handover method in a wireless communication system. The hard handover method includes checking a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of a signal received from each of at least one neighboring base station (BS) while in communication with a serving BS, and canceling interference if the SNR of the... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070135128 - method and system for remote network identification by a mobile subscriber unit: A method (400) and system (300) of indicating receipt of a call from a caller on a shared home network can include extracting (402) information from the calling party or the calling party's network indicating an originating network, sending (406) information of the originating network to a called party, and... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070135127 - Call alerting using call relevance flags: The present invention relates to a method, portable communication device, computer program product and computer program element for sending a call relevance flag with a call for use in alerting a called party as well as a method, portable communication device, computer program product and computer program element for using... Agent: Harrity Snyder, L.L.P.

20070135129 - Method for controlling calls in a radiocommunication network: The invention proposes a method for controlling calls in a radiocommunication network arranged for routing incoming calls to radio terminals and out-going calls from radio terminals. According to the method, responsive to a command, at least some of the incoming calls intended for radio terminals located in at least one... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20070135126 - Method for reverse signalling for a transmission service which is to be used during a mobile terminated-pstn/isdn originated-call: A method for the reverse signaling of a transmission service is used during a call from a first telecommunication network. A mobile terminal is called in the supply range of a target switchboard of a digital mobile radio network from the first telecommunication network, and the information completely describing the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070135130 - Method and system for controlling a plurality of transmitters: Mobile station transmits a scheduling request message to base station to request a grant for transmitting packets in a cellular mobile communication network. Base station transmits at least a deactivation scheduling grant message to mobile station to deactivate packet transmission of mobile station. Mobile station fails to receive the first... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070135132 - Call admission control device and call admission control method: Call admission control is performed by considering whether or not a mobile station that has already performed communications and a mobile station that is newly starting communications can attain respective target transmission data rates. A new call admission judgment unit controls admission of a call from a new mobile station... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070135133 - Call admission control device and call admission control method: In a communication system which transmits a packet to a plurality of mobile stations classified into a plurality of priority classes, call admission control is realized with a priority class taken into account. When a new mobile station is starting communications, the number of mobile stations which belong to a... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070135131 - Call admission control device, and call admission control method: When n mobile stations performing communications using a shared channel and m mobile stations performing communications using a dedicated channel are used in a mixed manner, necessary radio resources to satisfy the transmission data rate aimed by a mobile station performing communications using a shared channel are calculated, the quality... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070135137 - Computerized mine production system: The system contains a central computer unit having a first database controlled by a first logic unit. At least one mobile computer unit is joined with the mobile equipment. Each of the mobile computer units has a second database controlled by a second logic unit. At least one wireless communication... Agent: Norman P. Soloway Hayes Soloway P.C.

20070135135 - Electronic equipment with content management function and program for providing same: A method and program for managing content in a portable electronic equipment with wireless communication capability and having a memory for storing content are disclosed. Content management may include receiving content and storing the content in a memory. The content may be related to a particular location and received/transmitted upon... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20070135134 - Method and apparatus for calculating a position estimate of a mobile station using network information: A method for calculating a position estimate of a mobile station (MS) includes collecting in the MS position estimate information (PEI) transmitted by a location node. At some point, the MS generates PEI parameters which include information from which the location node can be located or identified. The MS generates... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070135136 - Method and apparatus for providing location information: Information known to the mobile station, such as but not limited to location, date, time, user preferences, etc. is combined with information gained from an application in progress, such as but not limited to an Internet web page, e-mail message, photograph application, or information directly input by the user. The... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070135138 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing location based subscription services: Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing location based subscription services. The methods include receiving a geographic location of a user. The user is subscribed to an on-line community if the on-line community specifies a community location that is within a distance of the geographic location of the user,... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20070135139 - Opportunistic beamforming and scheduling of users in a communication system: In a method of improving system throughput while reducing packet delay for users of a wireless communication system, a user may be selected from a user population based on a parameter that is tracked for each user of the user population. A preferred beam for the user may be determined... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070135140 - System and method for mobile school trip guard: A mobile terminal capable of tracking a position of the mobile terminal between a first location and a second location includes a memory, a controller and a positioning sensor. The memory stores executable instructions and route parameters between the first and second locations. The controller controls operation of the mobile... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070135141 - Apparatus and method for handling messages that relate to a cell other than the currently operating cell in universal mobile telecommunications system user equipment: Apparatus and a method for handling messages that relate to a cell other than the currently operating cell in universal mobile telecommunications system user equipment are disclosed.... Agent: Docket Clerk

20070135142 - Dual event slotted paging: A novel and improved method and system for paging a cellular telephone or other wireless terminal using two paging channels that reduces standby mode power consumption described. In one embodiment of the invention, a minimally encoded quick paging channel is established over which short, quick page messages are transmitted during... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070135143 - Dual event slotted paging: A novel and improved method and system for paging a cellular telephone or other wireless terminal using two paging channels that reduces standby mode power consumption described. In one embodiment of the invention, a minimally encoded quick paging channel is established over which short, quick page messages are transmitted during... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070135144 - Apparatus, and associated method, for facilitating formation of a call connection in a radio communication system with a service center identified by a short dialing code: Apparatus, and an associated method, for facilitating call connection with a selected service center from a mobile node. A mobile node is provided with short dialing codes used in a network with which the mobile node is registered by SMS messages sent thereto, such as pursuant to registration procedures. Values... Agent: Research In Motion, Ltd

20070135145 - Method for transmitting and receiving messages and mobile terminal employing the same: A method and a terminal for transmitting a message are provided, where whether language information for a receiver has been established is checked when receiver information is input, the established language is displayed on a message input window when it is determined as a result of the check that the... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070135146 - System and method for delivering short messages on do and 1x networks: A method for delivering SMS to ATs in a first communication network providing DO and 1x interfaces and for offloading the delivery of the SMS from a second communication network including an MSC, comprising monitoring a DO control channel for pages by an AT and delivering the SMS in SIP... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070135147 - Long code mask collision mitigation on networks using pseudo esns: A cellular communications system capable of detecting long code mask collisions in the reverse link on call setup or call handoff comprises means for assigning a different carrier for the reverse link for one of the duplicate calls, for avoiding interference and dropped calls.... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070135149 - Method and system for synchronizing in a communication system: A method and system for synchronizing between base stations controlling different cells in a communication system. The method includes receiving, by a base station, a reference signal from an external system and generating a first frame number according to the received reference signal, and generating a second frame number by... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070135148 - Method for reducing apparent latency in linking a call received at a mobile communication device to a remote audio processor: A mobile communication device (100) uses a local wireless transceiver (108) to establish an asynchronous link (202) with a remote audio processor (110) which is typically operated in a low power mode and that maintains an association between the mobile communication device and remote audio processor. When the mobile communication... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20070135150 - Channel assigning method and system for radio base station group: To reduce the processing load such as channel assignment and an authentication process in a plurality of radio base stations and communication terminals, and quickly and efficiently assign channels to the communication channels. The channel assigning method by a radio base station group, includes determining assignment of a communication channel... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070135151 - Method and apparatus for cooperative diversity reception of wireless communication signals: A device, method, and system for cooperative diversity wireless communication. The method includes detecting at least one relay wireless device (106). A wireless communication link is established with the at least one relay wireless device (106). Forward link address information of a target wireless device (104) is transmitted, via the... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070135152 - Mobile communications terminal for supporting space-time hybrid automatic repeat request techniques and method thereof: A mobile communications terminal for supporting a space-time Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) schemes and a method thereof, are discussed. According to an embodiment, the mobile communications terminal includes an encoder for encoding data inputted based upon at least one preset puncturing table, and a mapper/modulator for mapping the encoded... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070135154 - Method and system for controlling transmitter power using antenna loading on a multi-antenna system: A system (100) and method (200) of controlling transmit power in a mobile wireless device (101) can include a plurality of transmitters (103, 105, 107), a plurality of antennas (102,104,116) correspondingly coupled to the plurality of transmitters, and a processor (114) coupled to the plurality of transmitters. The processor can... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070135153 - Methods and apparatus for providing a transmit signal strength message: Methods and apparatus for providing a transmit signal strength message. According to one embodiment of the invention, a transmit signal strength message is generated (212) using a first cell based, at least in part, on transmit signal power levels of the first cell and a second cell, which is then... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070135155 - Power control subsystem with a plurality of current limit values: A power control subsystem for controlling the supply of power transmitted to at least one node over communication cabling, the power control subsystem comprising: a plurality of references; a plurality of comparators, each of the comparators being associated with a particular one of the plurality of references; and a current... Agent: Powerdsine Ltd.

20070135158 - Cellular phone and mobile switching controller: In a case where a cellular phone exists outside a WOS system service area, the cellular phone receives a not-connectable signal and an audio message from a mobile switching controller. The cellular phone conducts disconnection processing with the not-connectable signal as a tuning point. Moreover, the cellular phone stores an... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070135156 - Level shifter and methods for use therewith: A level shifter includes a first level shift module for producing a shifted signal by adjusting a direct current (DC) level of an input signal by a first bias voltage having a first polarity. A second level shift module produces an output signal by adjusting a DC level of the... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070135157 - Wireless signal transceiver unit with turning mechanism for adjusting antenna direction thereof: A wireless signal transceiver unit with turning mechanism for adjusting antenna direction includes a base, a rotatable antenna assembly, and a pivot mechanism provided between the antenna assembly and the base for rotatably supporting and connecting the antenna assembly to the base. The antenna assembly includes a plate-shaped body upright... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070135159 - Service discovery in a wireless communication system: The invention relates to a method for discovering services for a wireless multimode terminal with a plurality of radio interfaces. In order to improve the efficiency of a wireless multimode terminal in terms of power consumption and user-friendliness, an indication is sent to a multimode terminal in the mobile network,... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070135160 - Method for tuning a gps antenna matching network: A system and method is provided for tuning a Global Positioning System (GPS) antenna matching circuit in a portable wireless communications device. The method includes accepting a first matching circuit tuning value, measuring satellite vehicle (SV) carrier-to-noise ratio (C/N) associated with the first tuning value and a first search time... Agent: Kyocera Wireless Corp.

20070135161 - Signaling support for antenna selection using subset lists and subset masks: A mobile phone is described herein that has control (or at least partial control) over which virtual antenna(s) in one or more base stations should be used for transmissions. In one embodiment, the mobile phone performs the following steps: (1) receives an antenna subset list (from the scheduling unit) which... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070135162 - Coexistence system and method for wireless network devices: A wireless network interface includes a component, a first sub-client module that operates using a first wireless protocol, and a second sub-client module that operates using a second wireless protocol. The first and second wireless protocols are different. The first and second sub-client modules share use of the component. A... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce P.L.C

20070135163 - Wireless earphone with retractable microphone: A wireless earphone includes a speaker, a circuit unit, a lower and an upper case enclosing the speaker and the circuit unit between them, a guiding unit mounted on a top of the upper case, and a sliding unit movably mounted on the guiding unit. The sliding unit is provided... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070135164 - Mobile communication terminal having ic card settlement function: The present invention relates to a method which supplies hard-ware to a mobile communication terminal. And it also discloses a payment method for a commercial transaction. A mobile communication terminal of the present invention includes a contactless IC chip module for handling payment in the machine itself The invention process... Agent: Seyfarth Shaw, LLP

20070135165 - Establishment of a transcoder-free operation connection: When a request is sent by a switching unit, relating to the use of at least one subset of a codec mode configuration for the establishment of a transcoder-free operation connection by a radio network controller, it is checked whether the at least one requested subset is supported by the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070135166 - Apparatus and method for channel estimation without signaling overhead: A base station is disclosed for communicating with a subscriber station in a wireless network without requiring training signaling overhead. The base station is capable of combining a pilot signal with a data symbol and transmitting the combined pilot signal and data symbol to the subscriber station. A power level... Agent: Docket Clerk

20070135169 - Feeder cable reduction: The present invention facilitates the reduction of cabling required in a base station environment. When receive diversity is employed, main and diversity antennas are used to receive common signals at different locations. The signals received at the main and diversity antennas are combined with one another in the masthead and... Agent: Withrow & Terranova, P.l.l.c.

20070135170 - Flexible sectorization in wireless communication systems: A system, apparatus and method for flexible sectorization in a wireless communication system are disclosed. For example, a system for flexible sectorization in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The system includes a base communication unit, a plurality of first communication link sector generation units coupled to the base communication... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20070135167 - Method and system for steering antenna beam: A hybrid wireless network system is disclosed. The hybrid wireless network system includes an antenna array, an analog subsystem, and a digital subsystem. The antenna array at least includes two antenna elements. In the case of using multiple antenna elements to extend link range and coverage, a coarse-fine method is... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070135171 - Method for transmitting information in a telecommunication system featuring multiple frequency bands: The present invention concerns a base station of a wireless telecommunication network, the base station comprising at least a first antenna which radiates signals in a first frequency band into a first area. The base station comprises plural second antennas which radiate signals in a second frequency band higher than... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070135172 - Point to multipoint device for communication with a plurality of telecommunications units: A point to multipoint device for use in a wireless network to provide wireless communication with a plurality of telecommunications units is described. For communication from the telecommunications units to the point to multipoint device, the point to multipoint device is operable to define a sequence of variable duration communication... Agent: Haynes Beffel & Wolfeld LLP

20070135173 - Radio device, transmission and reception directivity control method and transmission and reception directivity control program: A radio device includes an array antenna including a plurality of antennas; an adaptive array processing unit multiplying signals provided from the respective antennas of the array antenna by receive weights, and thereby extracting a signal received from desired another radio device; a switch circuit provided corresponding to at least... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070135168 - Wireless network apparatus and method of channel allocation for respective radios: A method of channel allocation for respective radios is disclosed. The method begins by scanning within sectors of a phased array for retrieval of BSSIDs belonging to each beam of a particular channel in the sectors. Then, corresponding characterizing information is recorded for every BSSID located. Next, an initial channel... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070135175 - Handsfree system: A handsfree apparatus continues disruption of a handsfree profile connection operation when a control unit detects a handset call in operation, and displays a screen that allows a user to choose one of a permission option and a rejection option of the handsfree profile connection operation for having a user... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070135174 - Mobile telephone and an accessory: An accessory for a cellular telephone has a stand for the telephone and a microphone and speaker, with the speaker and microphone of the accessory being connected to circuitry of the telephone when the telephone is on the stand, with a speaker and microphone of the telephone being disabled. The... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20070135176 - Audio privacy method and system: Provided is a method and system for audio privacy that includes receiving a first sound signal at a microphone proximal to a user's ear, generating a second sound signal based on the first sound signal and a stored filter, the second sound signal interfering with the first sound signal, and... Agent: Kaplan Gilman Gibson & Dernier L.L.P.

20070135177 - Communication terminal and additional function module thereof: A terminal main body of a communication terminal is supplied power from a battery pack through a DC signal path. The terminal main body communicates with at least one additional function module providing an additional function through a communication path connected to the DC signal path so as to provide... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070135178 - Performance and efficiency of wireless devices: A wireless input device may negotiate a predefined transmit/receive schedule with a receiving device (i.e., PC, PDA, cellular device). To conserve power, the wireless components of the input device are powered down during periods of non-transmission. The wireless input device detects intermediate user input and corresponding data according to a... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 003797 & 013797

20070135179 - System for conserving battery life in a battery operated device: An electronic tire maintenance system is provided for measuring a parameter of a device at a first location. The system includes a sensor for measuring the device parameter and generating a data signal representing the measured parameter. The system also includes a microprocessor coupled to the sensor for activating the... Agent: Jones Day

20070135182 - Cell phone device: A cell phone device having a camera, an imaging unit and a display unit, which are joined with each other. The imaging unit and the display unit may be separated and used in a separated state. A display housing includes the display unit, a speaker, and a microphone. A keypad... Agent: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. Law Department

20070135183 - Component assembly cushioning device for mobile devices: A spacer for use in a mobile device fills the space between a component assembly and a housing. The spacer includes a layer of compressible material for insertion between the component assembly and the housing. A plurality of compressible features are provided on a face of the layer. Upon insertion... Agent: Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

20070135184 - Mobile device having a protective user interface cover: A mobile device having a protective user interface cover is provided. The mobile device includes a mobile device housing having a top surface. The user interface is preferably mounted within the top surface of the mobile device, and may include a display, a keyboard, a touch screen, a touch surface,... Agent: David B. Cochran, Esq. Jones Day

20070135181 - Portable information terminal, opening/closing operation method, and display method: A portable information terminal includes a first casing having a manipulation unit at its surface, a second casing having a display unit at its surface, and a rotation link mechanism linking the first casing and the second casing such that the second casing rotates slidably with respect to the first... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070135180 - Shaped loudspeaker output in a communications handset: Loudspeaker sounds in a communications handset may be amplified in predetermined frequency ranges through positioning the loudspeaker between ported and unported spaces. In one embodiment, an empty volume of space disposed in front of the loudspeaker is included to shape the frequency response of the loudspeaker. A port connecting this... Agent: Coats & Bennett/sony Ericsson

20070135187 - Apparatus and method for providing hands-free operation of a device: In exemplary embodiments, a hands-free adapter provides hands-free operation of a device. The adapter communicates with the device, and in some embodiments, with a headset. The hands-free adapter allows a user to use voice commands so that the user does not have to handle the device. The hands-free adapter receives... Agent: Walters & Zimmerman, PLLC

20070135185 - Modular multifunction speaker and headset: A wireless communication product (10) can include an electronic host device (12) having a transceiver (13) for wide area communications and a modular peripheral device (30) having a speaker (31), a microphone (33) and a display (37) serving at least as a speaker and a display for the wireless communication... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20070135186 - Wireless earphone with retractable microphone: A wireless earphone with retractable microphone includes a sound producing set, to which a sound receiving set with a push button is retractably and slidably connected. The sound producing set internally includes a guiding mechanism having a sliding element and a limiter mounted thereto. The limiter is separably engaged with... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070135188 - Mobile terminal device: In a mobile terminal device, a movable-side case is coupled to a fixed-side case by a coupler such that the movable-side case freely overlaps the fixed-side case. The movable-side case houses electronic components including a display; and includes a box-shaped external case that is made of magnesium alloy, having side... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070135189 - Electronic device: An electronic device (100) having at least a first portion (102) and a second portion (104) is disclosed. The first portion is joined to the second portion by a mechanical connection. The electronic device (100) includes a first communication unit (106) present on the first portion (102), and a second... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070129007 - Information processing apparatus and method, information processing system, and transmission medium: When a user gets interested in some music he/she listens to somewhere, for example, in a coffee shop, the user records that music in a memory provided in a portable terminal. A processor reads the information stored in the memory and performs a predetermined process on it. The resultant information... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070129006 - Method and apparatus for communicating within a wireless music sharing cluster: A method and apparatus is disclosed for enabling communication and music transfer within a cluster of mobile audio playback devices. In one aspect, a method is disclosed for maintaining physical proximity between devices with a cluster of devices to enable audio signal transmission and communication between devices. In another aspect,... Agent: The Mcintosh Group

20070129005 - Method and apparatus for creating and managing clusters of mobile audio devices: The invention relates to a method and apparatus for controlling access of a mobile audio device to a cluster of compatible devices. More particularly, the invention pertains to a method to establish communications between a portable audio player and one or more audio players within a cluster. By way of... Agent: The Mcintosh Group

20070129003 - Method and apparatus for receiving selected broadcast programs at a mobile station: A method and apparatus for receiving common program content at a mobile station in different networks is described herein. While in a home network, the mobile station receives selected program content via a first broadcast channel. When the mobile station moves into a visited network, a mapping processor in the... Agent: Coats & Bennett/sony Ericsson

20070129004 - Music distribution system for mobile audio player devices: The present invention discloses a method for distributing music to members of a music sharing group. In one aspect, the method can include identifying a mobile audio player device that introduces a music selection to another mobile audio player device. A signal comprising the music selection, a musical identifier that... Agent: The Mcintosh Group

20070129008 - Communication node, wireless communication system and data relay method: A communication node for relaying a signal between a source node and a destination node is disclosed. The communication node includes: a relay signal generation unit configured to generate a transmit signal by reducing, from a receive signal, an interference signal from another communication node and performing a process such... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070129009 - Fault management system using satellite telemetering technology and method thereof: A fault management system using a satellite telemetering technology and a method thereof are provided. The fault management system includes: a telemetering sensing unit for collecting telemetering data from target apparatuses, which are installed at a remote location and an unattended location and managed through a satellite, in real time... Agent: Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP

20070129010 - Control system for controlling an output signal power level of a wireless transmitter: A method and system for controlling an output signal power level of a wireless transmitter can be created by detecting the signal power level of the transmitter with a detector, selectively attenuating the output signal power level with an attenuator having variable attenuation levels, and monitoring the output signal power... Agent: General Instrument Corporation Dba The Connected Home Solutions Business Of Motorola, Inc.

20070129011 - Method and apparatus for comprehensive link assessment and frequency monitoring in wireless sensor networks: Embodiments of a link assessment and frequency monitoring system for use in wireless sensor networks are described. In one embodiment, each frequency utilized by links coupling two or more nodes in the network is sampled to determine a noise measure for each frequency. A correlation measure based on the distance... Agent: Courtney Staniford & Gregory LLP

20070129012 - Portable digital devices: A system for controlling usage of a portable digital device having an audio 5 and/or image data recording or capture function. Operation of the data recording or capture function is inhibited when the portable digital device is located in a specific geographic region.... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20070129013 - Apparatus and methods for information handling system with streamlined communication setup: An information handling system includes a wireless subsystem. The wireless subsystem is configured to establish communication with a desired wireless device. The wireless subsystem uses pre-configured information about the wireless device in order to establish communication with the wireless device without an end user providing the information about the wireless... Agent: O'keefe, Egan, Peterman & Enders LLP

20070129015 - Communication control method: Group information is assigned for each communication object and communication data is transmitted by adding the group identifier, thereby realizing a communication control in accordance with the communication object. That is. when a communication device performing radio communication by constituting an ad-hoc network with a plurality of devices communicates with... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070129014 - Information synchronization: Actions from multiple devices are synchronized to generate a representation that may be used for collaboration. Synchronization may include a roll-back procedure that allows an action on the representation, which may have been performed by another device at an earlier time, to be included in the representation. Also, a non-user... Agent: Mannava & Kang, P.C.

20070129016 - Method and system for creating beamformed channels in a multi-input multi-output network: The present invention discloses a method and system for signal communication in a multi-input multi-output network. The method creates beamformed channels by calculating one or more beamforming weighting vectors corresponding to one or more antennas on the receiving wireless station based on the predetermined receiving signals. The transmitting wireless station... Agent: L. Howard Chen, Esq. Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP

20070129017 - Apparatus, method and computer program product providing automatically adjusted time periods used for event evaluation: A method includes determining a first time period during which evaluation should be performed of whether a received radio frequency signal meets at least one criterion, the first time period based at least partially on a second time period of discontinuous reception or transmission. The method also includes performing the... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20070129018 - Wireless communication system, associated methods and data structures: A codebook generation system and associated methods are generally described herein.... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20070129019 - Internet communications systems and methods using different wireless links for inbound and outbound data: A hybrid satellite communications system provides communications, particularly Internet access, to computer users. The hybrid satellite communications system includes a satellite system and a terrestrial communications system. The satellite system includes two transceivers. The first transceiver receives and transmits a first set of signals received from the terrestrial communications system... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20070129020 - Radio system: A radio system for the reception of broadcast signals is provided that includes two antennas picking up radio signals and two signal receivers receiving the radio signals, the two antennas and the two receivers operating in diversity operating modes. The radio system further includes an antenna switching unit for creating... Agent: The Eclipse Group

20070129021 - Nrd guide transceiver, download system using the same, and download memory used for the same: The invention aims at providing an NRD guide transceiver not requiring a change-over switch for transmission and reception, a download system being of a simple structure and capable of downloading large-capacity data such as video data and the like in a short time using this transceiver and a download memory... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070129022 - Method for adjusting mobile communication activity based on voicing quality: A mobile communication device (100) includes a vocoder (104) for vocoding speech (500) received at the mobile communication device. The parameters output by the vocoder are used to generate a voicing quality metric (208). The voicing quality metric is used to provide feedback to the user of the mobile communication... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20070129023 - Internet access restriction apparatus: A remote transmitter, a receiver, a cable having a first end and a second end, and a solid state switch is disclosed. A first jack is electrically connected to the cable at the first end of the cable, and a second jack is electrically connected to the cable at the... Agent: Mr. Walter J. Tencza Jr.

20070129024 - Transmitter: At least two types of amplifiers having different saturation output power values are used as a transmitting power amplifier (total number, N) each of which is mounted on N of antenna systems respectively. That is, at least one of transmitting power amplifier among N of transmitting power amplifiers has a... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070129026 - Circuit arrangement for reducing a crest factor, and method for reducing a signal dynamic range: To reduce the crest factor of a total signal, the signal dynamic range is corrected in baseband upstream of the interpolation filters. To this end, provision is made for the input of a correction device to be coupled to at least two signal sources which are designed to provide digital... Agent: Eschweiler & Associates, LLC National City Bank Building

20070129025 - Open loop polar transmitter having on-chip calibration: An on-chip calibration system comprises a transmitter, a receiver, a phase and amplitude determination element configured to determine amplitude and phase characteristics of an output signal generated in the transmitter, the signal representing transmitter characteristics, an amplitude comparison element configured to compare the signal representing transmitter characteristics with a desired... Agent: Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha, LLC

20070129027 - Method and system to improve transmitter linearization: The present invention discloses a method and system to compensate for the nonlinearity of the wireless transmitter. The method includes sending a predetermined input bit stream to the power amplifier, calculating the coefficients of the polynomial representing the response curve of the power amplifier and generating the predistortion coefficients of... Agent: L. Howard Chen, Esq. Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP

20070129028 - Radio-frequency circuit realizing stable operation: A television signal transmitter has an up-converter provided with a pre-amplifier and an impedance matching circuit subsequent to the pre-amplifier. The self-resonance frequency of an inductor included in the impedance matching circuit, which is connected in series to a signal line, is set to a parasitic oscillation frequency (5 GHz)... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20070129029 - Load compensation circuit and pre-power amplifier constructed therefrom: A novel and useful load compensation circuit and associated pre-power amplifier constructed therefrom. The load compensation circuit functions to maintain a nearly constant output impedance of the pre-power amplifier by use of a switch matrix comprising a plurality of transistors. The switch matrix is placed in parallel with the output... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070129030 - High dynamic range pre-power amplifier incorporating digital attenuator: A novel digital attenuator circuit and associated pre-power amplifier (PPA) that substantially increases the dynamic range of the amplifier. Increased dynamic range is achieved by placing a digital current attenuator circuit at the output of the pre-power amplifier so that the minimum possible current output of the transistor switch array... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070129032 - Transmission circuit and communication apparatus employing the same: A transmission circuit is provided which can output a stable transmission signal independently of the temperature characteristics of an amplitude modulating section. A signal generating section generates an amplitude signal and a phase signal. A regulator supplies a voltage which is controlled, depending on the amplitude signal, to the amplitude... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20070129031 - Transmitter and receiver gain calibration by means of feedback in a transceiver: The invention relates to gain calibration in a transceiver unit (100) having a transmitter unit and a receiver unit and a feed back coupling (165) between these. A signal level measurement unit (163) measures signal levels of a feedback signal through either the receiver unit or through a signal level... Agent: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. Law Department

20070129033 - Base station receiver capable of generating pseudo noise signals: A base station receiver increases noise factor by introducing Pseudo-Noise (PN) signals when testing an effect of a cell size by a reverse virtual call in a CDMA2000-1x system. The receiver of the present invention comprises: a Front-End Unit (FEU), an Analog Down-Converter Card Assembly (ADCA), a Digital Down-Converter Card... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20070129034 - Adaptive agc in a wireless network receiver: An apparatus, a carrier medium storing instructions to implement a method, and a method for controlling the gain of a radio receiver for receiving packets of information in a wireless network. The receiver is connected to an antenna subsystem and has receive signal path including a plurality of sections including... Agent: Dov Rosenfeld

20070129035 - Rds radio unit: The invention relates to an RDS radio unit implementing a user friendly algorithm for automatic frequency change without inconveniencing the user with interruptions. A timer is used to delay the start of searches for a better frequency. The RDS radio unit comprises: a radio tuner (2) tunable to radio frequencies;... Agent: Albihns Stockholm Ab

20070129036 - Method and apparatus to reconstruct a high frequency component: A method and apparatus to restore a high frequency component. A correlation between an input signal and previously stored noise samples is obtained and a bandwidth of the input signal is detected according to the correlation. The detected input signal bandwidth is split into a predetermined number of sub-bands. A... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070129037 - Mute processing apparatus and method: A mute processing method used in a multi-person communication system is provided. The method is capable of automatically sending mute frames when there are no sound inputs from terminals of the multi-person communication system. The method includes the steps of: collecting input signals from a microphone; obtaining a maximum amplitude... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070129038 - Low noise, low distortion radio receiver front-end: A radio receiver front-end includes a tunable antenna interface and a low noise amplifying section. The tunable antenna interface is operably coupled to receive a wide bandwidth signal from an antenna, wherein the wide bandwidth signal includes a plurality of channel signals, and wherein the tunable antenna interface is tuned... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070129039 - Compensation for holes in the read range of an rfid reader technical field: A reader and a corresponding method are provided for processing transponder data signals received from a transponder in an RFID system. The reader includes an exciter which generates excitation signals, a receiver which conditions the transponder data signals, an antenna coupled to the exciter and receiver which transmits the excitation... Agent: Rodney F. Brown

20070129040 - Phased array radar systems and subassemblies thereof: A phase shifter is fed an input signal having a frequency f. A coupler is included fed by the input signal. The coupler has a pair of output terminals for providing a pair of signals having the frequency f and having a relative phase shift difference of mπ/2 radians, where... Agent: Raytheon Company C/o Daly, Crowley, Mofford & Durkee, LLP

20070129041 - Receiver: An intermediate-frequency signal from a frequency mixer is subjected to channel selection by a band-pass filter. Then an output signal from the band-pass filter is subjected to analog-to-digital conversion by an analog-to-digital converter on a predetermined sampling frequency. An anti-aliasing filter is provided at a stage previous to the analog-to-digital... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20070129042 - Receiver: The present invention relates to a method for a digital receiver and a receiver exploiting second order statistics for adaptive co-channel interference rejection in wireless communication. It uses digitally I, in phase, and Q, quadrature, branches of a received transmitted signal as input to the receiver, a coarse synchronization and... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20070129043 - Integrated balun and coupler transformer: Integrated balun and coupler is described. In one example, a radio frequency (RF) device includes a balun and coupler. The balun includes a first winding and a second winding arranged on a magnetic core. Respective inputs of the first winding and the second winding are configured to receive a balanced... Agent: General Instrument Corporation Dba The Connected Home Solutions Business Of Motorola, Inc.

20070129044 - Power saving system: A power saving system comprises a wireless apparatus and an electronic apparatus. The wireless apparatus is used to transmit a signal to the electronic apparatus through a wireless transmission protocol. The electronic apparatus controls a power saving mode based on the signal. The power saving mode indicates that at least... Agent: Law Offices Of Lai & Associates, P.C. Ste 200

20070129045 - Multi-mode methods and devices utilizing battery power level for selection of the modes: Disclosed are a methods and devices in a battery-powered multimode wireless communication device (102) that operates pursuant to first and second communication protocols in idle and active modes. The battery power level is monitored and may drop to a predetermined threshold while operating pursuant to the first communication protocol. The... Agent: Motorola Inc

20070129047 - Coordination operation method and mobile communication terminal: As a request for using a host-connecting device is received from an engine section 40, a host section 30 makes a judgment of whether or not a current state of an engine processor of the engine section 40 is an engine-mode state of controlling actively an operation of an engine-connecting... Agent: Armstrong, Kratz, Quintos, Hanson & Brooks, LLP

20070129046 - Method of inputting function into portable terminal and button input apparatus of portable terminal using the same: A function input method for providing in advance to a user information on a function to be executed when the user presses a button to execute a specific function in a portable terminal, such as a cellular phone, and a button input apparatus using the same. The method includes: receiving... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070129051 - Method, user equipment, and system for opening an ad-hoc poc session in a poc system: A method, user equipment, and system are provided which can open an ad-hoc Push-To-Talk (PTT) over Cellular (PoC) session for a call target group whose group identifier is managed in a remote network domain when the ad-hoc PoC session is opened. A PoC client requesting session initiation sends, to a... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070129052 - Methods and system for fast session establishment for h.324 and related telecommunications terminals: A method of reducing a call set-up time for a call between a pair of H.324-like terminals includes providing a first capability for the call, processing the first capability to form a first message, establishing a bearer channel, and transmitting the first message from the first terminal to the second... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070129050 - Mobile communication terminal with display shortcut key and method of enabling the same: A mobile communication terminal with a display shortcut key and a method of enabling the same is provided. In the mobile communication terminal, when a display key button is switched on, which select a function of the display key button to be performed and a display image to be displayed... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20070129048 - Oscillator having controllable bias modes and power consumption: Disclosed is an oscillator circuit (10) for use in a local oscillator of an RF communications device (100) that communicates over an RF channel. The oscillator circuit includes an oscillator transistor coupled to a power supply voltage (Vcc) through a buffer transistor, and a biasing network having bias voltage outputs... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20070129049 - System and gateway system for managing phone numbers and user ids: In a service providing server, a transfer/re-assignment detection section detects that a transfer or re-assignment has occurred from information notified from a customer information management apparatus, and in response to this, a user ID creation section creates a user ID to identify a new user. A contract information management section... Agent: Michaud-duffy Group LLP

20070129053 - Methods, systems and apparatus for providing urgent public information: Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for distributing urgent public information. For example, one exemplary of the invention provides a method for providing an alert to a subscriber. The exemplary method comprises receiving an alert message from at least one alert source. The alert message often will be... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070129054 - Method and apparatus of a voice-response directory assistance system having a targeted advertising engine: A method and/or apparatus of a voice-response directory assistance system having a targeted advertising engine is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of a directory assistance system includes providing a greeting to a user of a mobile communication device, automatically determining a location based information of the user, determining a... Agent: Raj Abhyanker, LLP C/o Intellevate

20070129055 - System and method for providing information to a user: An information system and method provides information to an operator of an emergency response vehicle. A destination location and a current position of the motor vehicle are established. A planned route as a function of the destination location and the current position is established and communicated to at least one... Agent: Howard & Howard Attorneys, P.C.

20070129056 - Mobile phone age verification system and method for age-restricted promotions: A computer enables speedier access to age-restricted promotions by receiving registration data and an image of a photo ID from an applicant's mobile phone, thereby enabling an operator or the computer to verify that the applicant meets the age requirement. Once verified, the computer sends a URL to the mobile... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.l.p

20070129057 - Service provider subsidy lock: The present invention provides a method (300) of operating a wireless communications device, and comprising identifying a wireless network for communicating with the device in response to receiving subscriber provided network identity data (315), activating a restricted use mode restricting communications between the wireless network and the device (320), receiving... Agent: Motorola Inc

20070129058 - Memory management system and method for camera-equipped mobile communication devices: A mobile communication device and a method of memory management for the same. In one embodiment, the mobile communication device includes: (1) a camera, (2) a memory unit coupled to the camera and configured to store captured image data and (3) a transmitter coupled to the memory unit and configured... Agent: Hitt Gaines, PC Agere Systems Inc.

20070129059 - Method and apparatus for managing voicemail messages: An apparatus (100, 200) and method are disclosed for managing voicemail messages. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a voicemail system (100) having a communications interface (110) and a controller (102) for managing operations of the communications interface. The controller is programmed to... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070129060 - Voice mailbox with management support: Systems and techniques for providing telecommunications services by receiving a notification forwarded from a wireless device, the notification indicating that a voicemail message intended for a recipient associated with the wireless device was received. The voicemail message associated with the notifications is retrieved and forwarded to an alternate device associated... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP/ Bellsouth I.p. Corp

20070129062 - Broadcast content request for mobile devices: Disclosed is a method of requesting content from a mobile broadcast service provider wherein the mobile broadcast service provider maintains a variety of content offerings that can be broadcast to a portable mobile communications device. One method comprises creating a subscription profile on the portable mobile communications device that includes... Agent: Moore And Van Allen PLLC For Semc

20070129061 - Communications method and system: A communications method and system for use with push-to-talk (PTT) communications systems, where a speech recogniser is used to recognise utterance in a spoken message for transmission by a PTT communications service, and the recognized utterance are analysed to attempt to determine the intended recipient of the message. If the... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070129066 - Database for use in telephone communications: Techniques for storing data used in making announcements in telephone communications are disclosed. In an embodiment, an announcement depends on classes of services associated with telephone subscribers. The classes of services represent call types or call features such as call-forwarding unconditional, call-forwarding busy, call-forwarding no answer, etc. A first database... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070129063 - Digital information retrieval for wireless phones: A method and implementing system are provided for enabling a wireless phone to access a remote server service containing digital address and phone number database information in digital form. In an exemplary embodiment, a user is provided with the ability to retrieve and store entries from a cell or other... Agent: Ibm Corporation (rvw)

20070129068 - E-mail handling method and portable telephone and portable telephone using said handling method: A “mail” icon is selected (step 51). The e-mail processing is activated and the e-mail screen is displayed (step 52). Next, whether e-mail processing is selected or not is determined (step 53). If selected, the “e-mail list” is displayed (step 54). An e-mail is selected and the corresponding body of... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070129064 - Method and system for automated recall notification: A method and system for providing an automated recall notification including receiving a recall communication instruction at a telematics unit from a call center via a wireless connection, initiating a service call to the call center from the telematics unit based on the recall communication instruction and responsive to a... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20070129069 - Mobile telephone apparatus with remote access function for external network and remote access method for mobile communication system: In a mobile telephone apparatus, an information storing section stores information, and a control section receives a remote access request signal from an external network to access the information storing section.... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070129067 - Ring-tone system and methodology: A system, and an associated network ring-tone communication method, enabling creation and use of a personalized, user-defined communication ring-tone. The invention method includes (a) selectively placing, in an electronic ring-tone depot, digital snippet content suitable for extraction and use as at least a part of a digital communication ring-tone, (b)... Agent: Robert D. Varitz, P.C.

20070129065 - System and method for providing advertising using a communication network for mobile phones: A communication network provides telephone communications between user and client phones. An audio signal is stored as an audio file that is accessible to the communication network. The audio signal is provided to the client phone in response to it being in a hold condition. The audio signal is determined... Agent: Schmeiser Olsen & Watts

20070129070 - Portable information terminal, a control method for a portable information terminal, a program of a method of controlling a personal information terminal and a recording medium having recorded therein a program of a method of controlling a personal inform: The present invention is applied to a portable personal computer or the like having a plurality of wireless communication means, for example, so as to provide a user with appropriate wireless communication means in a situation where a plurality of wireless communication means are available. According to the present invention,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070129071 - Distributed cell balancing: A load balancing system for dynamic balancing of load between sectors of a sectored cellular base station, comprises a plurality of repeaters with local coverage in the sectors, and a switching matrix, for associating between the repeaters and the base station, and for allowing the repeaters to be switched between... Agent: Martin D Moynihan Prtsi Inc

20070129072 - Method and system for radio communications using mobile terminal moving route prediction: In a radio communication system formed by a plurality of radio base stations having respective service areas and a mobile radio terminal configured to transmit a data transmission request through one radio base station and receive requested data through at least one radio base stations, a radio control station is... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070129073 - Retrieving voice-based content in conjunction with wireless application protocol browsing: A WAP-enabled device can request text-based and/or voice based content from a WAP Server. The WAP device communicates over a conventional wireless service provider network. This network provides a connection between the WAP device and a WAP Gateway. The WAP Gateway operates as a gateway between the wireless service provider... Agent: Merchant & Gould Bellsouth Corporation

20070129074 - System, method and device for providing secondary information to a communication device: A system, method and device for providing secondary information to a communication device are disclosed. The method may include the steps of (1) receiving at least one user preference; (2) engaging in a primary communication with a first data source via a first communication channel; (3) scanning the primary communication... Agent: Hunton & Williams, LLP/ Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications (usa), Inc.

20070129075 - Method for seamless inter-frequency hard handover in radio communication system: A method for seamless inter-frequency hard handover in a radio communication system is disclosed. The method for seamless inter-frequency hard handover includes the steps of: a) at a mobile station, blocking a first uplink carrier frequency used for communication, transmitting a direct sequence spread preamble signal through a second uplink... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20070129076 - Terminal supporting peer-to-peer communication, and communication and billing methods based on the same: Provided are a terminal supporting peer-to-peer (P2P) communication, a communication method using the terminal, and a billing method based on the terminal. A transceiver of the terminal is implemented to support P2P communication with an adjacent terminal in the same cell. Thus, when short-range communication is possible, the terminal performs... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070129077 - Channel setting method in mobile communication system: The present invention relates to a mobile communication system in which variable bandwidths are set in this manner, and a base station controller for setting these variable bandwidths. A base station controller sends a value indicating a requested bandwidth required for a channel of variable bandwidth to a base station.... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070129078 - Network selection in a mobile telecommunications system: A method of operating a mobile telecommunications apparatus in a telecommunications system where the apparatus includes means for making outgoing telephone calls via the system, means for receiving a user generated input defining a call destination and routing means for selecting a preferred route to the call destination via the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070129079 - Method for the allocation and release of channels in a mobile communication system: The invention relates to a method for the allocation and release of channels in a communication system. A first session is established associated with the first mobile node via a radio node and a call control node to a conversation state. The establishment of a second session associated with a... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070129080 - Dynamic channel allocation method and dynamic channel allocation apparatus: (1) Base stations are divided into base station groups which do not mutually interfere with one another. (2) Priorities of the use of channels are set for each base station group, and each base station holds a priority table showing the priorities of the use of channels. (3) Each base... Agent: Swidler Berlin Shereff Friedman, LLP The Washington Harbour

20070129081 - Local congestion-avoidance method in wireless personal area network: A local congestion-avoidance method in a wireless personal area network includes receiving data from a plurality of sensor nodes, generating a congestion-avoidance response signal with respect to the data first received, and broadcasting the congestion-avoidance response signal to the plurality of sensor nodes. The data may include, for example, a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070129082 - Auto mapping through location based triggers: An automated map generator that can be used for creating new maps for uncharted areas, augmenting uncompleted maps, or creating maps for areas that are changing dynamically. One or more mobile devices include location based technology that operates to identify a current location for the mobile device and report that... Agent: Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha, LLC

20070129084 - Creating and recognizing user-defined locations using communication terminals: The present invention allows a communication terminal to monitor signal metrics of received signals for a defined location and create a signal signature for the defined location. The defined location may be a position, an area about a position, or a defined area. After the signal signature for the defined... Agent: Withrow & Terranova, P.l.l.c.

20070129083 - Selective enablement and disablement of a mobile communications device based upon location: A system for controlling the functionality of a mobile communications device based upon geographic location is provided. The system includes a location determining unit to determine a geographic location of the mobile communications device. The system further includes a location database in communication with the location determining unit. The location... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070129085 - System and method of operation for network overlay geolocation system with repeaters: A novel system and method for a network overlay geolocation system operating in a host wireless communication system with repeaters is disclosed. Embodiments of the novel system and method enable wireless communication system to determine if signals being received by system receivers arrive directly from a target mobile appliance or... Agent: Duane Morris

20070129086 - Method and apparatus for identifying a geographic area having undesirable wireless service: A method and apparatus for identifying a geographic area having undesirable wireless service is described. The method includes, collecting Radio frequency (RF) environment information of the wireless service. The method further includes, determining locations of a plurality of subscriber units based on the RF environment information. Further, the method includes,... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070129087 - Systems and methods for providing emergency notification: The present invention provides a system and a method for emergency notification that combines the incorporates the RDS/RDBS capability of selected FM radio stations, as well as a specialized addressable receiver with appropriate audio, visual and vibrating signaling capabilities. These elements are combined with a reliable and survivable communications channel... Agent: Patent Docket Administrator Lowenstein Sandler P.C.

20070129088 - Method and system for performing cell reselection during an information transfer: A method and a system for performing cell reselection during an information transfer between a mobile device and one or more base stations in a network are provided. The mobile device extracts the RF environment information and sends it to the base station. The base station determines the time at... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070129089 - Method for testing sms connections in mobile communication systems: The invention relates to a method for testing SMS connections in mobile communication systems, said method being characterised by an automatic exchange of at least one SMS message or SMS dialogue between a test device and at least one remote station, and by a full tabular recording of the contents... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20070129091 - Method for transmitting message in mobile network and mobile terminal: A method and mobile terminal for efficiently transmitting a message, are provided. According to an embodiment, the method includes receiving a request for transmission of a message; if there is other data being transmitted or to be transmitted, setting in the mobile terminal a priority of transmission of the requested... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070129090 - Methods of implementing an operation interface for instant messages on a portable communication device: An operation interface for instant messages (IM) on a portable communication device is provided. In method of implementing such interfaces, the contacts or IM systems are organized into groups and can be switched by using a navigator key or predefined hotkeys. In addition, a counter can be set to record... Agent: Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

20070129092 - Method for conserving energy in a multimode communication device: A system and methods (300, 400) are disclosed for conserving energy in a multimode communication device (106). A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a communication device having a multimode wireless transceiver (202) for accessing a plurality of wireless access technologies (103), and a... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070129094 - Power control apparatus and method of time division duplex (tdd) telecommunication system: Provided is a power control apparatus and method of a time division duplex (TDD) communication system. The power control apparatus includes an uplink power determiner for determining an uplink power value using a power control computation element of a current frame, which is acquired using a power control computation element... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070129093 - Power management methods and systems: Power management methods and systems for a first station and a second station in an ad-hoc network. Each station enters the normal beacon interval (NBI) every certain number of beacon intervals (BIs) for data transmission, a Listen Interval (LI). When a station switches to a power-saving mode, it first determines... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070129095 - Spread spectrum communication device and spread spectrum communication method: In a compressed mode, a spread spectrum communication device interleaves bit units across multiple frames using an interleaver, reduces the spreading factor using a framing/spreading unit, outputs the compressed mode frames at a predetermined compressed mode frame timing, and increases the average transmission power in the compressed mode at a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070129096 - Transmission power control device and method, mobile station, and communication device in mobile communication system: A transmission power control device is provided that includes: a transmission loss calculator that calculates a transmission loss in the electric wave transmission path between a mobile station and each base station; and a transmission power control information determiner that determines which transmission power control information is to be used... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070129100 - Data input device using magnetic force sensor and method for calculating three-dimensional coordinates using the same: Provided are a data input device using a magnetic force sensor and a method for calculating 3D coordinates using the same. The data input device having at least one display unit includes at least three magnetic force sensors installed in predetermined locations of the data input device at predetermined intervals;... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070129098 - Device and method for determining a user-desired mode of inputting speech: A device and method of detecting a mode of inputting speech to a wireless device includes a processor (220) communicatively coupled to a user input (218), an audio input (206), a timer (211), and a speech processor (230). The processor (220) monitors the user input (218) and, upon detection of... Agent: Fleit, Kain, Gibbons, Gutman, Bongini & Bianco P.l.

20070129102 - In-bound call directed telephone station and method of directing a telephone station based on an in-bound call: An in-bound call directed telephone station, and a method, which may be embodied in a signal-bearing medium, directs a telephone station based on an in-bound call. The inbound directed telephone station includes means for providing a handset having a call receiver and a call originator, means for providing a first... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070129097 - Information input device and electronic apparatus including the same: An information input device according to the invention includes: a printed board 10 on the upper surface of which Hall devices 13a and 13b and tact switches 12a through 12d are packaged; a pressing board 20 which has through holes 24a and 24b at positions corresponding to the positions of... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20070129099 - Mobile communication terminal with separable functional module and operation control method thereof: Provided are a mobile communication terminal with a separable functional module and an operation control method thereof. A mobile communication terminal includes a functional module providing a call function through a communication network, a main body configured such that the functional module is attachable to or detachable from the main... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070129101 - Telecommunication notebook computer: A telecommunication notebook computer functions as a mobile communication apparuatus and a notebook computer with both monitors. There is a mobile communication module configured in the computer system, which electrically configured to the system chipset, I/O system, built-in controller and other devices via the associated bus. The telecommunication notebook computer... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070129103 - Cellular phone having multiple lines: Disclosed is a mobile phone which is designed to accept with the phone housing, interface with and register two or more SIM identities on a cellular network. The mobile phone is configurable to have two or more active phone numbers, where for example one number may be a business number... Agent: Galasso & Associates, Lp

20070129104 - Wireless communication apparatus: A wireless communication apparatus is provided. The wireless communication apparatus includes wireless communication functions conforming to incompatible first and second communication standards. The wireless communication apparatus includes a first transceiver that performs a wireless communication operation conforming to the first communication standard and includes a first transmission/reception port, a second... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20070129107 - Computer apparatus, wireless network transmission system and transmission method thereof: A computer apparatus, a wireless network transmission system and its transmission method are disclosed. The computer apparatus comprises a power supplier, a first circuit architecture, a second circuit architecture and a power controller. A power is provided by the power supplier. The main functionality of the computer apparatus is provided... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070129108 - Devices, systems and methods for scenario based services and intelligent user feedback: Devices, systems and methods are provided to communicate using mobile or wireless devices having a plurality of interactive applications, wherein each application is useable interactively with other applications. Thus, a user is enabled to utilize multiple applications interactively on a single mobile device, with each application providing intelligent feedback to... Agent: Moazzam & Associates, LLC Matters For Cingular Wireless Ii, LLC

20070129109 - Method for accessing content from a computer network via a mobile phone: A method for accessing content from a computer network, the method comprising 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 a first... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070129105 - Mobile communication device provided with an ear temperature sensor: A mobile communication device provided with an ear temperature sensor comprises a mobile communication device comprising an ear temperature sensor and a measuring key installed thereon, said measuring key enabling said ear temperature sensor to detect an ear temperature, then presenting said ear temperature directly on a display of said... Agent: Pai Patent & Trademark Law Firm

20070129106 - Remote control system capable of controlling an electronic device at different modes and method thereof: A method for controlling an electronic device at different modes includes the following steps: transmitting wireless signals corresponding to a mode control code corresponding to a function mode of the electronic device by wireless communication technology; transmitting wireless signals corresponding to a function code corresponding to a function instruction of... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070129110 - Interface switch for distributed energy resources: A method and apparatus for an interface switch having an external terminal electrically connected to an AC voltage E at a frequency ω0 (for example a utility supply), and an internal terminal electrically connected to an AC voltage V at a selectable frequency ω (for example a microsource). In one... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20070129111 - Scheduling apparatus and method in smart antenna system: A scheduling apparatus and method in a smart antenna system including a user where an active nulling is to be conducted are provided, in which at least one user is selected where a normal beamforming is conducted corresponding to a certain criterion; an active nulling user comprising a low channel... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070129112 - Methods of implementing an operation interface for instant messages on a portable communication device: An operation interface for instant messages (IM) on a portable communication device is provided. In method of implementing such interfaces, the contacts or IM systems are organized and sorted. In addition, a counter can be set to record of the number of times an incoming message is received or an... Agent: Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

20070129115 - Call device, call control system, call management system, and call control method: When a controller receives an incoming call signal, the controller supplies melody information stored in a melody information storage to a sound source. The sound source starts to output a melody, represented by the melody information, from a speech speaker. When an input unit accepts a talk start command, the... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson & Cook, P.C.

20070129113 - Cell phone alerting system: Disclosed herein is an alerting/warning apparatus and method associated with a particular cell telephone alerts an individual when said owner of the cell phone is separated by a defined distance from their cell phone. Cell phones are becoming smaller and hence, are being lost more often. The solution to this... Agent: Michael E. Klicpera

20070129114 - Method and system of creating customized ringtones: Method and system of customizing ringtones. The method and system including features to facilitate synthesizing a sample recording and converting the synthesized sample recording to a customized ringtone suitable for use with a phone.... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20070129116 - On-vehicle hands-free device and system: An on-vehicle hands-free system includes an on-vehicle hands-free device that is communicable with a cell phone under both a hands-free profile and other profiles. When a stop trigger is generated by an external switch such as an accessory switch under a condition that the hands-free device is communicable under any... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070129117 - Mobile telecommunication device with front embedded battery: A mobile telecommunication device with a front embedded battery includes a casing, a keypad, a first fixing unit, a second fixing unit and a battery. The casing has a front surface and a cavity, while an open end of the cavity is exposed over the front surface. The keypad is... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070129118 - Power management for a handheld measurement system: A method and system suitable for managing the power consumption of a handheld measurement system that combines a handheld computer, measurement sled, and sensors is provided. The handheld computer performs timing operations for sensor warm up and also shutting down the sensor power during a period of user inactivity after... Agent: Philip Virga Suite 105

20070129119 - Composite-metal-composite sandwich housing structure: A composite-metal-composite sandwich structure is employed as a housing of a mobile electronic device. A metal sheet is preformed as a desired shape with nuts deposed thereon. A composite sheet is attached to each side of the metal sheet, exposing the nuts such that other components of the mobile electronic... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, P.C.

20070129120 - Mobile terminal having hinge device with lcd: A mobile terminal is provided which includes a terminal main body, a folder having a main LCD mounted thereon, and a hinge device for combining the folder with a main body and having a sub-LCD mounted thereon. While using the main LCD, a user can check the terminal state. In... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070129121 - Apparatus and method for preventing an unintentional activation of a mobile communication device: A mobile communication device and a method of operating the same to prevent unintentional activation thereof. In one embodiment, the mobile communication device includes: (1) a first body part, (2) a second body part, (3) a slider mechanism configured to slidably attach the second body part to the first body... Agent: Hitt Gaines, PC Agere Systems Inc.