Telecommunications inventions 07/07

20070173196 - Built-in low power fm/vhf transmitter for use of transmitting stored or streamed voice, music of video signals to entertainment systems wirelessly: A built in FM Transmitter and/or VHF Transmitter, referred to as “transmitter”, for cellular, portable, or other wireless communication devices, referred to as “cell phone”, establishing stored voice, music or video over home or automobile entertainment centers, referred to as “entertainment centers”. The cellular or portable phone would have music... Agent: Daniel Gallic

20070173209 - Radio frequency signal transmission/reception apparatus and radio frequency signal trasmission/reception method: A radio frequency (RF) signal transmission/reception apparatus and an RF signal transmission/reception method are disclosed. The RF signal transmission/reception apparatus is adapted to perform a transmission/reception duplex function using a bi-directional mixer at the IF band or baseband, not at the RF band. When a reception signal of the RF... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070173194 - Method and system for signaling neighboring signals in tps bits: Provided are apparatuses and methods for detecting neighboring cells in a communication network based on Transmission Parameter Signaling (TPS) bits received in a signaling frame. In one example, a signaling frame contains a field of TPS bits that indicate a type of the signaling frame. The type of the signaling... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20070173195 - Simultaneous two-way transmission of information signals in the same frequency band: This invention provides designs for communication systems that use adaptive filters in circuits whose purpose is to enable two-way transmission of information signals in the same frequency band at the same time over twisted pair channels, coaxial cable channels, fiber optic channels, or wireless channels. The methodology allows two-way DSL... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20070173197 - An integrated device using bluetooth technology: This invention comprises an integrated device using bluetooth transmission technology. It is composed of a case having a compartment for a music player and a compartment for an audio dongle with the audio input located on the audio dongle and a bluetooth transmitter and receiver located inside. Each of the... Agent: Jack Shore Much Shelist Freed Denenberg Ament&rubenstein,pc

20070173198 - Method and system for allocating resource in a communication system: A method for allocating resource in a communication system. The resource allocation method includes dividing a data transmission region into a first region and a second region; allocating resource of the first region when a first Mobile Station (MS) among MSs is an MS located in a non-interference region; and... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070173201 - Method and apparatus for generating a correction term: A method and apparatus for generating a correction term is disclosed. A plurality of data packets are received from a transmitter. An acknowledgement (ACK) signal is generated for each data packet in which an error does not exist, and a negative-acknowledgement (NACK) signal is generated for each data packet in... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070173200 - Method of selecting one of dual antennas: A wireless headphone assembly has left and right speakers attached to ends of a headphone body, and at least two antennas, e.g., one located at each speaker. Reception can be improved by selecting a “best” one of the antennas based on a quality metric.... Agent: Rogitz & Associates

20070173199 - Systems and methods for wireless intrusion detection using spectral analysis: Systems and methods for using wireless radios for spectral analysis. Systems and methods include using wireless radios that are included in wireless devices communicating on the wireless network to perform a spectral scan of frequencies on a wireless network.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070173202 - Apparatus and method for frequency shifting of a wireless signal and systems using frequency shifting: Systems, methods and apparatus for improving the coverage of a wireless network based on frequency shifting scheme. A wireless signal in a frequency band is shifted to another distinct band, and carried in the shifted band, using wired or wireless mediums to another location, wherein the wireless signal is shifted... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20070173203 - Frequency offset compensation for communication systems: In communications between a pair of stations using modulated carrier signals, a first station estimates the carrier frequency offset with respect to the second station and transmits signals that are responsive to the estimated carrier frequency offset. The first station may adjust the carrier frequency of the signals it transmits... Agent: Mendelsohn & Associates, P.C.

20070173204 - Radio channel control method and receiving apparatus: A base station used in a radio communication system includes a transmitting unit operable to transmit a signal to a receiver and a receiving unit operable to receive control signals indicating a changing in transmission power and another transmission parameter of the base station from the receiver which generates the... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070173205 - Radio channel control method and receiving apparatus: A base station used in a radio communication system includes a transmitting unit operable to transmit a signal to a receiver and a controller operable to control a modulation or coding of a radio channel according to a decision made by using information which indicates increment or decrement of reception... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070173206 - Radio channel control method and receiving apparatus: A radio channel control method for controlling, in a radio communication system having a transmitter and a receiver, a radio channel from the transmitter toward the receiver. The method includes receiving a signal transmitted from the transmitter by the receiver, measuring reception quality of the signal, generating information which indicates... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070173207 - Techniques to decrease fractional spurs for wireless transceivers: Various embodiments are disclosed relating to techniques to reduce spurs in wireless transceivers. In an example embodiment, a first fractional-N divide ratio for a first frequency synthesizer may be set based on a selected channel. A second fractional-N divide ratio for a second frequency synthesizer may be set to a... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP

20070173208 - Mobile station device and transmission antenna selection method in the mobile station device: A mobile station apparatus enabling increases in communication system capacity when uplink high-speed packet communication is performed and the like. The mobile station having a plurality of antennas, antenna 1 and antenna 2, compares the reception power of a signal r21 received in antenna 1 with the reception power of... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20070173210 - Signal processing apparatus: Provided is a signal processing apparatus. The apparatus comprises a first signal separating unit and a second signal separating unit. The first signal separating unit receives first reception signals via an antenna, allows first transmission signals to be transmitted via the antenna, and blocks second reception signals. The second signal... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070173211 - Optical communication device: In one of many possible embodiments, an apparatus is provided that includes a main body; and a plurality of visual indicators coupled to said main body, said visual indicators including at least one directional command indicator.... Agent: Steven L. Nichols Rader, Fishman & Graver PLLC

20070173212 - Remote control system and related method and apparatus: The invention provides for an audio system 10 comprising an audio signal generating means (12) for output of an audio signal (24), and a remote control device (14) for control of the audio signal generating means (12), the audio signal generating means (12) including means for including an identification signal... Agent: Philips Electronics North America Corporation Intellectual Property & Standards

20070173213 - Cartesian loop transmitter and method of adjusting an output level of such transmitter: In accordance with the present invention there is those provided a Cartesian loop transmitter having an isolator eliminator circuitry comprising a set of low pass and band pass filters for each of an I- and Q-channels, root mean square detectors and a divider connected to a comparator are received by... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20070173214 - Wireless autonomous device system: A method of powering a wireless autonomous device having energy harvesting circuitry, on-board electronic circuitry, and RF transmitter circuitry using an RF transmitting profile that includes a plurality of RF pulses. That same profile may also be used to simultaneously communicate information to the wireless autonomous device in a number... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20070173215 - Detection of an in-band reset: Methods and apparatuses for detecting an in-band reset using digital circuitry.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070173216 - Method and circuit for squelch detection in serial communications: A method, algorithm, architecture, circuits, and/or systems for squelch detection in serial communications are disclosed. In one embodiment, a squelch detector can include: (i) a first comparator having first and second inputs configured to receive a differential signal, and a third input configured to receive a signal substantially derived from... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20070173217 - Digital qp detecting apparatus, spectrum analyzer having the same, and digital qp detecting method: A QP detection unit includes digital circuit elements. There is provided a digital QP detector which detects an electric power signal Vi, which is an input signal, and outputs a detection signal Vo. The digital QP detector includes a register which records input digital data, a first multiplier which multiplies... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070173219 - Phase locked loop and method thereof: A phase locked loop and method thereof are provided. The example phase locked loop may include a loop filter filtering a charge pump output signal to generate a voltage signal and a voltage-controlled oscillator configured to operate in a given one of a plurality of frequency zones, the given frequency... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070173218 - Offset local oscillator without using frequency divider: A local oscillator without a frequency divider is provided. The local oscillator includes a quadrature voltage controlled oscillator generating I and Q signals having a frequency which is one-third of a local oscillation frequency, and a differential second-harmonic signal having a frequency which is two-thirds of the local oscillation frequency,... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20070173220 - Second-order intermodulation distortion compensating circuit: A second-order intermodulation distortion (IMD2) compensating circuit that detects a variation of DC level of a voltage pair of a mixer load and adjusts the variation of the DC level of the voltage pair. The second-order intermodulation distortion compensating circuit also calibrates a mismatch of a mixer as well as... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20070173221 - Mobile communication terminal and method for controlling broadcast program: A mobile communication terminal and method of controlling a broadcast program are disclosed, by which the inability to view or record a reserved broadcast program is prevented and by which information related to the availability of a reserved broadcast program for viewing or recording with reference to a battery capacity... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070173222 - Intelligent network interface: The present invention provides methods and apparatus for interconnecting disparate communications systems. A call request that originates from a communications network is directed to a network interface. The network interface consequently redirects the call request to a communications entity, such as a radio or a cellular radio system that serves... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20070173224 - Methods and apparatus for use in communicating short messages of the emergency type from mobile communication devices: Methods and apparatus for use by mobile communication devices for communicating short messages of the emergency type via wireless communication networks are disclosed. In one illustrative example, a first message center address associated with a home message center and a second message center address associated with an emergency message center... Agent: Research In Motion, Ltd

20070173225 - Methods, user terminals, computer program products, and components for providing communications in emergency situations: A method for providing communications services in a network can include adjusting a mode of communication for devices operating in the network based on emergency state information. Related user terminals, computer program products, and components are also disclosed.... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20070173223 - Real-time e911 location information in a consumer voip solution: An apparatus in one example has: a VOIP telecommunications network; a VOIP telecommunication device operatively coupled to the VOIP telecommunications network; and the VOIP telecommunication device having a detector that recognizes a predetermined pattern in a data stream from the VoIP telecommunication device, and a call processor that initiates a... Agent: Carmen B. Patti & Associates, LLC

20070173226 - Converged service control for ims networks and legacy networks: Systems and methods are disclosed to provide converged service control and converged charging in legacy networks and IMS networks. A converged service control system of the invention includes a protocol interface and a service controller. The protocol interface receives call messages from the legacy networks and the IMS networks, and... Agent: Duft Bornsen & Fishman, LLP

20070173228 - Apparatus and method of handling simultaneous universal terrestrial radio access network radio resource control procedures which change the security configuration in a universal mobile telecommunications system user equipment: The details of an apparatus and method of handling simultaneous universal terrestrial radio access network radio resource control procedures which change the security configuration in a universal mobile telecommunications system user equipment are disclosed herein. According to one aspect of the present application, there is provided a user equipment apparatus... Agent: Research In Motion, Ltd

20070173227 - Headset: A communication unit, e.g. a headset, constructed as a slave station which may be coupled to a plurality of master stations, e.g. a mobile telephone, via a short-ranged communications connection, such as of the Bluetooth type or the DECT type, and has a plurality of address fields in which one... Agent: Altera Law Group, LLC

20070173229 - Authentication method: A method for network equipment to generate authentication information in the mobile communication system, at least includes the following process: set security key corresponding to mobile terminal in network equipment; and network equipment generates authentication information corresponding to mobile terminal based on said security key and a random number. And,... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20070173231 - Multimedia data transfer for a personal communication device: In a portable multimedia device, data is passed between a sender and receiver unit by way of voice channel only. Multimedia data is vocalized and then forwarded to a receiver unit by way of the voice channel without the use of a backend server. Once received at the receiver unit,... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20070173230 - Wireless communication unit and a method of operation thereof: A wireless communication unit for use in a digital radio communication system comprising means for signal transmission, means for signal reception, a vocoder, a digital-to-analog converter and a microprocessor. The wireless communication unit further comprises a means for storing messages. The microprocessor, when activated, is adapted to stop playing a... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20070173232 - Incoming call notification device: An incoming call notification device includes a first connecting unit for the connection with a portable media player; a second connecting device for communicating with the communication device and receiving an incoming call signal; an interrupting module for sending an interruption signal to the portable media player to interrupt the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070173233 - Methods and apparatus for reliable voicemail message deletion alerts at mobile communication devices: In one illustrative method of processing voicemail information at a mobile communication device, a first voicemail notification message corresponding to a voicemail message associated with a voicemail system is received through a wireless transceiver of the mobile device. The first voicemail notification message includes a first voicemail message time expiration... Agent: John J. Oskorep, Esq. One Magnificent Mile Center

20070173236 - Methods for marketing digital content to mobile communication device users: Systems and methods are provided for allowing mobile device users to select digital content for use or to recommend to other mobile device users to facilitate marketing of digital content among mobile device users. In addition, systems and methods are provided to facilitate sharing of mobile device user's ratings of... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC

20070173234 - Method and device for communication mode processing of a mobile communication terminal: The present invention relates to the field of telecommunication and concerns a method and a device that prevent a multimedia mobile terminal, capable of utilizing videophone calls, from transmitting or receiving a videophone call in a certain situation.... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070173237 - Method and system for enhancing voice calls, such as enhancing voice calls with data services: A method and system for enhancing voice calls is described. In some examples, the system receives a dialed number from a user associated with a voice call, determines that the voice call is associated with a party capable of providing data services to the user, and provides data services to... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20070173235 - System and/or method for interactive merchandising of digital content: Embodiments of methods, devices and/or systems for interactive merchandising of digital content are described.... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group, LLP

20070173238 - Method and application for arranging a conference call in a cellular network and a mobile terminal operating in a cellular network: The invention relates to a method for arranging a conference call with mobile terminals operating in a cellular network. At first, a group of the participants of the conference call is formed either by selecting the participants from a list saved in the memory of the mobile terminal in by... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20070173239 - Method for controlling communication service in a telecommunication and communitator associated therewith: A mobile first terminal (1) has a call in progress with a second terminal (2) under a first communications service via a base station (10) of the access network of a first subsystem. A condition for transferring the call to a base station (20) of the radio access network of... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20070173241 - Transmission of database records between mobile communication terminals: A method for transmitting a phone number stored in a first mobile communication terminal to a second mobile communication terminal is provided. The method comprises selecting a phone number stored in a database in the first mobile communication terminal, by way of interacting with a user interface of the first... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070173240 - Handwriting style data input via keys: The subject disclosure pertains to an input system and method. Patterns can be received with respect to one or more keys. Based in part on selected keys, a pattern can be identified or inferred. Accordingly, a user is able to gesture over or with respect to a keypad to input... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070173242 - Event reminder method: A method is performed by first and second mobile wireless communication devices used respectively by first and second users. In the method, a first user selects, on the first device, a first task for the first user to perform. The first device sends to the second device a request to... Agent: David B. Cochran, Esq. Jones Day

20070173244 - A method for establishing a service connection: The present invention provides a method for establishing a service connection, comprising: before initiating a service request, UE will select a cell that can provide the said service; if a cell that can provide the said service is selected, UE will send a service request to the network in the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070173243 - Method for communicating by means of a plurality of network-side transmission antennas: A method communicates through a radio communications system having network side devices and radio stations. A message from the radio station is received by the network side antennas. Subsequently, a useful data message is transmitted to the radio station by transmitting network side antennas. The transmitting network side antennas received... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070173245 - Mobile communication system: A method of transmitting a multicast or broadcast data from a plurality of base stations forming a multicast zone, which is included in a service area of a mobile communications system includes performing at a base station among a plurality of base stations a transmission of multicast or broadcast data... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070173246 - Mobile communication system: A mobile communication system for transmitting broadcast data or multicast data including a plurality of base stations forming a multicast zone, which is included in a service area of the mobile communications system, the plurality of base stations transmitting a same multicast or broadcast data. Each of the plurality of... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070173247 - Mobile communication system: A mobile communication system for transmitting broadcast data or multicast data from a base station forming a multicast or broadcast zone includes a first controller for determining a base station among a plurality of base stations and a second controller for performing the transmission of the broadcast data or the... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070173250 - Apparatus and method for preventing call from being dropped in mobile communication system: Disclosed is an apparatus for preventing a call from being dropped in a mobile communication system, including a Mobile Station (MS) for reporting a temporal reception-impossible mode to a network if the MS enters a temporal reception-impossible state in a state where a call has been connected, and maintaining a... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070173249 - Mobile communication apparatus having capability of housing temperature control: A mobile communication apparatus capable of controlling housing temperature is provided. The mobile communication apparatus includes a first and a second modules, an operating mode manager for managing a plurality of modes based on a combination of whether the first and the second modules each are supplied with power, and... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070173248 - System and method for analyzing a wireless connection: Described is a system and method for analyzing a wireless connection. The method comprises receiving input data corresponding to communications between a mobile unit and a first access point. The input data is classified into at least one of a first plurality of sets, each set corresponding to a range... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20070173251 - Validation of mobile stations in unlicensed radio access networks: An unlicensed-radio access network includes an access controller (303) adapted to communicate with the core network portion of a public mobile communication network (20) and connected to a broadband packet-switched network (302). The access controller receives messages from mobile stations via the broadband packet-switched network. The access controller comprises a... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070173252 - Inbound traffic redirection system: A system for controlling traffic of an inbound roaming mobile station between a first Visiting Public Mobile Network (VPMN), a second VPMN and a Home Public Mobile Network (HPMN) is provided. The system includes a detection unit for detecting a possible change in registration of the inbound roaming mobile station... Agent: Arent Fox PLLC

20070173253 - Handling method after updating of privacy profile of target user equipment: The present invention discloses a handling method after updating of privacy profile of a target user equipment (UE). When the location service (LCS) system is aware that the privacy profile of a target UE was updated, for every outstanding Location Request against that UE, the location service (LCS) system perform... Agent: Baker & Hostetler LLP

20070173254 - Methods, devices and systems relating to reselecting cells in a cellular wireless communications system: Cell reselection comprises monitoring a first indicator indicative of a signaling level of the serving cell, and monitoring second indicators, each indicative of a signaling level of one of plural potential target cells. A timer associated with a potential target cell is initiated when the respective second indicator indicates that... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070173255 - Methods, devices and systems relating to reselecting cells in a cellular wireless communications system: Signals of different cells in a cellular wireless communications system are observed during associated intervals to predict a signal behavior in future. A target cell is selected by observing over time signal characteristics of potential target cells. Thereafter a target cell is selected by using the observed characteristics to predict... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070173256 - Methods and apparatus for performing handoffs in a multi-carrier wireless communications system: A mobile communications device initiates a handoff from its current base station (BS) sector network attachment point to a new BS sector. The mobile sends a handoff request over its current wireless link to the current BS sector, which forwards the request to the new BS sector, e.g., via a... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070173257 - Method, base station, and communication network supporting high-speed uplink packet access (hsupa) with soft handover mechanisms: m

20070173258 - System and method for adaptive assignment of unique words in a communication system: A method and system for assigning unique words in an SDMA (spatial division multiple access) communication system is provided. A network management system logically arranges cell stations into clusters of stations, and monitors for a heavy traffic condition. Responsive to determining that a heavy traffic condition exists, the network management... Agent: Kyocera Wireless Corp.

20070173259 - Autonomous cell shaping method: A newly-installed wireless base station collects, in an on-demand manner, cell setting information that includes position information, transmission power information, and radio frequency information from one or more neighboring base stations without using radio wave information, and determines its own radio frequency and transmission power level based on the cell... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070173262 - Method and system for providing channel assignment information used to support uplink and downlink channels: A method and wireless communication system for providing channel assignment information used to support an uplink (UL) channel and a downlink (DL) channel. The system includes at least one Node-B and at least one wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU). The WTRU communicates with the Node-B via a common control channel, the... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070173261 - Predetermined transmission mode sequence and feedback reduction technique: A system for using a predetermined sequence of transmission modes together with power sequencing in order to reduce signaling while improving SNIR levels. Each sequence comprises a vector of transmission modes, where each mode can include a signal constellation, a concatenated channel coding type and rate and, for multiple-input multiple-output... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20070173260 - Wireless communication network scheduling: A method in a wireless communication network infrastructure scheduling entity, including allocating a radio resource to a schedulable wireless communication entity in the wireless communication network, the radio resource allocated based on a maximum power available to the schedulable wireless communication entity for the radio resource allocated, the radio resource... Agent: Motorola Inc

20070173265 - Method and apparatus for setting the boundaries of virtual operations: A wireless communications device with positioning capabilities is used to mark a boundary of a virtual operations area, and used to mark one or more obstacles within the boundary. Virtual operations may be conducted by users having a wireless communications device, and the wireless communications device generates an alert when... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070173263 - Method and system for collecting and surveying radio communications from a specific protected area of operations in or around a compound: Sensitive operations areas need accurate, efficient, and effective tools to monitor any suspicious transmissions from specified sub-areas. These specific areas to be monitored can be as small as an individual room in a building. A fundamental change in RF detection and monitoring efficiency is needed for the modem organization to... Agent: Karl M. Steins Steins & Associates

20070173264 - Method for processing requests for location: The present invention discloses a method for processing requests for location, which comprises: A target UE sending a request for location to the Location Service (LCS) system and asking the LCS system to provide a requestor with the location information of the target UE; the LCS system positioning the target... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070173266 - Portable communications device and method: A device and method of providing wireless communications is provided. In one embodiment, the method includes storing location criteria in a memory, determining a location of the device, determining whether a location of the device substantially corresponds to the location criteria, and wirelessly transmitting a notification via the wireless data... Agent: Melvin L. Barnes, Jr.

20070173268 - System of interoperability between mms messages and sms/ems messages and an associated exchange method: A message system is associated with a message domain which includes a mobile radio network, a message server conforming to a first standard referred to as the Enhanced Message Service and/or Short Message Service standard and/or a message server conforming to a second standard referred to as the Multimedia Message... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070173267 - Text messaging conversation user interface functionality: A computer readable medium, method and user device for a user interface functionality for SMS and SMS-like message conversations is provided. A group of individual SMS messages is treated as a single entity by the SMS conversation UI, the SMS conversation history UI saves space by including the SMS editor... Agent: Smart & Biggar P.o. Box 2999, Station D

20070173269 - Apparatus and method for use in the multicast of traffic data in wireless multiple access communications systems: In a wireless communications system, multicast messages are transported to groups of wireless terminals by employing a common control channel to transmit a multicast paging message indicating that multicast traffic data is to be transmitted to a particular group of wireless terminals. In an embodiment of the invention, the essential... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20070173270 - Managing master and slave devices in a communications network: Systems and methods are provided for communication between master and slave devices on a network, such as a piconet or Bluetooth network. A master notifies the slave of a change in the link supervision timeout associated with the piconet. The slave stores the new link supervision timeout value and uses... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20070173271 - Radio channel allocation and link adaption in cellular telecommunication system: A network element, a terminal and a method of allocating a radio channel to a connection between a terminal and a base station in a telecommunication system are provided. The number and properties of potential interferers in a plurality of available radio channels are determined, and channel allocation is performed... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070173272 - Method and apparatus for receiving site selection diversity transmit (ssdt) signal in a wideband code division multiple access (wcdma) system: Disclosed is a UE and a method to operate the UE in the Site Selection Diversity Transmit mode. The method includes detecting a case where no base station is transmitting to the UE; inserting predetermined values into a received signal; and decoding the predetermined values. The predetermined values preferably correspond... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20070173273 - System and method for forming ad-hoc location-based multicast group: A system, method, and media for providing group communication services to an ad-hoc group formed according to vicinity with other users of communication devices in a communication system. Communicating among a communication group of a plurality of wireless communication devices in a communication system includes forming the communication group including... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070173279 - Transmission power control technique and wireless communications system using the same: A transmission power control method that reduces the possibility of going out of synchronization is presented. In a reduced power mode, a target SIR is set equal to or higher than SIR_reduced where deemed appropriate, whereby frequent issues of Out-of-sync and the probability of generation of RL_Failure are suppressed. To... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070173281 - Adjustment of target signal-to-interference in outer loop power control for wireless communication systems: A method for outer loop power control which compensates for changing channel conditions. A target metric, preferably target signal-to-interference ratio (SIR), is adjusted with differing step up and step down levels to converge on a relatively low steady state level of step up and step down target metric adjustments. The... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070173278 - Fast power control step-size adaptation: A mobile terminal for communicating with a network entity includes a RF module for communicating with the network entity, a display for displaying information to a user, a memory for storing data relating to operation of the mobile terminal, and a processor. The processor may be configured to adjust power... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070173275 - Method of reverse link dynamic power control in a wireless communication system using per-flow quality feedback for multi-flow data traffic: A closed loop power control based on receiving a continuous quality feedback is described. A main reverse link (RL) pilot is controlled by the quality feedback of a substantially continuous delay sensitive traffic stream, such as Voice-over-IP (VoIP), when such a stream is enabled. When such a stream is not... Agent: Lucent Technologies Inc. Docket Administrator-room 3j-219

20070173276 - Power control in schedulable wireless communication terminal: A wireless communication entity schedulable in a wireless communication network, including a controller (603) communicably coupled to a power amplifier (608), wherein the controller varies a maximum transmit power of the wireless communication entity based on the radio resource assignment information receiver by the radio receiver.... Agent: Motorola Inc

20070173274 - Power control method for a reverse data service: An external circuit power control method for a reverse data service is provided. The system efficiency can be improved in a reverse data service at 144 Kbps by adopting an optimized reverse channel external circuit power control algorithm. The power control method of the present invention applies a new outer... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20070173277 - Power control with signal quality estimation for smart antenna communications systems: A method for power control with signal quality estimation for smart antenna communication systems is described. The method, for example, starts with a transmit power assignment. Receive weight vector determination is carried out with this assigned transmit power, and the new weights used. An estimate of the resulting received signal... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070173280 - Transmission power control apparatus and control method thereof: A receiving side compares measured quality of received data with target quality and performs variable control of a target SIR, as well as, compares that target SIR with measured SIR and transmits transmission-power information (TPC information) that is created based on the comparison result to a transmitting side, then the... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070173282 - High frequency receiver, integrated circuit used therefor, portable equipment using them, transmitter used therefor, and manufacturing method thereof: A high frequency receiver capable of stably canceling interference by a transmission signal even if a transmission signal input from a TV antenna is changed. Phase shifter (212) for changing a phase of an interfering distributed transmission signal, detector (216) for detecting a level of a transmission signal included in... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070173284 - Method of processing radio frequency signal in mobile terminal, and mobile communication system and mobile terminal using the same: A mobile terminal adapted to process a received call signal or message signal by mapping a response mode corresponding to present user status information and a method thereof are provided. The method includes confirming user status information in the mobile terminal according to the received radio frequency signal, mapping a... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070173283 - Mobility middleware architecture for multiple radio access technology apparatus: A multiple radio access technology (RAT) apparatus with mobility middleware provides a user with access to various RAT networks, such as a frequency division duplex (FDD) network and a wireless local area network (WLAN). In one embodiment, the apparatus is a dual mode FDD/WLAN converged wireless communication handset which includes... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070173285 - Cellular phone line replacement adapter: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for automated processing and routing of data messages or packets, via a cellular network, from analog or digital data devices where said routing is accomplished without the need for call origination on the cellular network. The present invention may consist of... Agent: Malin Haley And Dimaggio, Pa

20070173286 - Distribution of shared local oscillation to multiple rf intefaces of a wireless device: A Radio Frequency (RF) transceiver Integrated Circuit (IC) includes a plurality -of RF transceivers, local oscillation generation circuitry that produces a local oscillation, and local oscillation distribution circuitry. The local oscillation distribution circuitry couples to the local oscillation generation circuitry and includes a plurality of local oscillation repeater circuits. Each... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070173287 - Wireless handset and methods for use therewith: A wireless handset includes a long range wireless transceiver for selectively providing an inbound communication and an outbound communication through a wireless telephone network. A battery monitor module monitors a remaining power of a battery and produces a control signal when the remaining power compares unfavorably to a reserve power... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070173288 - Method and apparatus for reducing combiner loss in a multi-sector, omni-base station: An omni-radio base station with multiple sector antenna units uses frequency division of sector signals to achieve increased coverage or capacity at reduced cost. Each sector antenna unit has an antenna for receiving a carrier signal associated with an antenna frequency in an available frequency band. At least one of... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070173289 - Method and related apparatus for eliminating an audio signal component from a received signal having a voice component: Audio signal processing includes encoding a first audio signal into a second audio signal according to a first code, outputting the first audio signal and the second audio signal from a speaker, and receiving a received signal with a microphone. The received signal includes a voice signal, third audio signal,... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070173292 - Foldable cellular telephone: A cellular phone includes a first case and a second case, which are connected in a foldable manner through a hinge. When the cellular phone is in a folded state, a second display unit displays an image with the side (upper side) closer to the hinge as the upper side.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070173291 - Information communication terminal, information processing method and information processing program: Disclosed herein is an information communication terminal including: a light emitting section configured to emit light in accordance with an operation carried out by said information communication terminal; a state detection section configured to detect an operating state of said information communication terminal; and a control section configured to execute... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070173290 - Mobile communication terminal and method therefore: Method in a mobile communications device, said communications device comprising a display unit, and on which mobile communications device one or more user applications are running under supervision of an operating system of the mobile communications device, the method comprising: selecting one of said applications, wherein the selected application is... Agent: Perman & Green

20070173294 - A multi-functional bluetooth loudspeaker: This invention comprises a multi-functional loudspeaker including a loudspeaker body and a bluetooth transmission and reception device. It further includes at least one media player or a series of functional port(s), such as a DVD player, a three-in-one card reader, a FM/RDS radio receiver, a USB port, audio/visual outputs and... Agent: Jack Shore Much Shelist Freed Denenberg Ament&rubenstein,pc

20070173293 - Mobile phone hand-free extension device: A hand-free extension device to support a mobile phone capable of networking with a personal area network (PAN) includes a PAN wireless transceiver having a processor and a cellular audio signal output; and a sound source selecting switch coupled to the cellular audio signal and to a car stereo audio... Agent: Tran & Associates

20070173295 - Device and method for augmenting cellular telephone audio signals: A system and method is described for augmenting cellular telephone signals for a cellular telephone. In an exemplary embodiment, a cellular battery is equipped with a sound generating device that stores one or more audio signals that are activated upon receipt of a telephone call. Optionally, the battery may store... Agent: Withers & Keys For Bell South

20070173297 - Apparatus and method for controlling keypad backlight of mobile phone: The present invention controls the keypad backlight of the mobile phone so as to avoid the waste of battery power, resulting in increases of the operation use time and user convenience. The method for controlling keypad backlight of a mobile terminal according to the present invention includes determining whether or... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070173296 - Communication apparatus having power-saving communication function, and communication method: A communication apparatus which starts communication using a power-saving function changes, with its communication counterpart, a key for a confidential mode and performs power-saving communication. When terminating the power-saving function, the communication apparatus returns, with its communication counterpart, the key for the confidential mode to the original one. Then, after... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070173299 - Foldable cellular telephone: A cellular phone includes a first case and a second case, which are connected in a foldable manner through a hinge. When the cellular phone is in a folded state, a second display unit displays an image with the side (upper side) closer to the hinge as the upper side.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070173298 - Keypad assembly: A keypad assembly is mounted on a substrate of a cellular phone and has a metal sheet, a base sheet and a template. The metal sheet has a bottom and a top. The base sheet is mounted on the bottom of the metal sheet. The template is mounted on the... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070173300 - Wireless headphones with dual antennas: A wireless headphone assembly has left and right speakers attached to ends of a headphone body, and at least two antennas, e.g., one located at each speaker. Since multiple antennas are used, reception can be improved using one of several approaches, e.g., simple selection of the “best” antenna, multiplexing antenna... Agent: Rogitz & Associates

20070173301 - Specific absorption rate reducer, mobile terminal using the same and method therefor: A mobile terminal and a specific absorption rate reducer method are provided, in which a printed circuit board (PCB) is installed in a main-body, a liquid crystal display (LCD) module is installed in a sub-body, a hinge connects the main-body and the sub-body rotatively and generates a current in the... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070173302 - Radiative focal area antenna transmission coupling arrangement: The present invention comprises a docking system for connecting a portable communication device to a further signal transmission line. The docking system may be arranged within a workstation such as a desk or a tray. The system may also envelope a room in a building or be located in a... Agent: Donald N. Halgren

20070173303 - Self-installable switchable antenna: A system, method, and apparatus for selecting a set of antennas, for use during operation of a radio system, from a plurality of antennas. The system, method and apparatus may include selecting one antenna that is part of an array of antennas. Then measuring characteristics of radio signals received at... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20070167140 - Method and apparatus for distributing beacon information: A method and apparatus for distributing beacon information includes a first WTRU modifying a physical layer convergence protocol (PLCP) header in a physical protocol data unit (PHY PDU) frame to include beacon information. The first WTRU transmits the modified PLCP header to a second WTRU. The second WTRU receives the... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070167131 - Display apparatus, wireless transmitting and receiving system, display method, display control program, and recording medium: A display apparatus of the present invention has been made so that: in cases where a video signal cannot be normally received, the display apparatus allows a display by which one can recognize whether or not a jamming electric wave in an operation frequency band used for wireless communication makes... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070167132 - Systems and methods for collecting and processing satellite communications network usage information: A system and method provide the ability to collect, store and transmit information statements concerning satellite communication system use. The satellite system may collect billing information, such as roaming data, network use in terms of both total time and total bandwidth and functionality utilized on a user by user basis.... Agent: White & Case LLP Patent Department

20070167133 - Ultrasound communication system and related methods: Embodiments of the present invention beneficially provide an ultrasound communication system and methods of ultrasound communication for diagnostics and prognostics of structures. For example, ultrasound transmitters are connected to a metal or composite structure and modulated to produce Lamb waves that travel to an ultrasound receiver. The ultrasound transmitters can... Agent: Bracewell & Giuliani LLP

20070167136 - Automatic detection and notification of proximity of persons of interest: A computing device is configured to monitor a local vicinity around a user and detect identification devices located in the vicinity. When an identification device is detected, data is read from the device and a person associated with the device is identified. One or more user applications are searched to... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070167137 - Communication device, and method and computer program for information processing thereof: A communication device relates a plurality of identification information to specifying information included in the identification information and manages them, and thereby enhances easiness of identifying and specifying of a device of the other party and usability of a connection with the device of the other party. The communication device... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070167138 - Garage door opener communications gateway module for enabling communications among vehicles, house devices, and telecommunications networks: A garage door opener (GDO) communications gateway module includes a receiver for receiving garage door signals and a transmitter for transmitting control signals to a GDO operable for opening and closing a garage door of a garage of a house. The transmitter transmits a control signal to the GDO to... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C. / Lear Corporation

20070167134 - Method of managing a plurality of electronic microcircuit chip readers and equipments for implementing said method: Method and system for coordinated management of a plurality of contactless radio-frequency readers of chips incorporating electronic microcircuits. The method includes transmitting, in a first time interval, transmit operations composed of command instructions from each of the plurality of readers to the electronic microcircuits of the chips associated with each... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070167135 - Rf communication system and method: The present invention relates to an RF communication system and method for control of user devices via wireless RF communication. In order to provide a flexible use and a number of different applications and, in particular, in order to avoid the need for training user devices beforehand and the need... Agent: Philips Electronics North America Corporation Intellectual Property & Standards

20070167139 - Information access system and active-type contactless information storage device: In an information access system, an active contactless information storage device senses a carrier of an RF signal at a first frequency in first predetermined periods occurring in a predetermined cycle and senses a carrier of an RF signal at a second frequency in second predetermined periods occurring in the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070167141 - Radio communication system: A radio communication system has a memory for storing a channel number specifying a transceiving channel, one of a plurality of group codes allocated to each transceiving channel, an ID code which is unique to the radio communication system, and names of other radio communication systems, and a control unit... Agent: Intellectual Property / Technology Law

20070167142 - Mobile phone for controlling diversity: Disclosed is a mobile phone for selectively performing transmission/receipt diversity when radio frequency signals are transmitted and received. The mobile phone includes control means for controlling transmission/receipt of the radio frequency signal and controlling transmission/receipt diversity; receipt adjusting means for controlling receipt of the radio frequency signal and controlling receipt... Agent: Paul D. Greeley Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.L.P.

20070167143 - Receiver and electronic device using the same: A receiver and an electronic device are provided that suppress deterioration of the signal waveform of a symbol. The receiver has filter (12) that sends out an output signal having a symbol at an arbitrary time interval; and intermittent operation part (13) that controls filter (12) intermittently at an arbitrary... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070167144 - Communication apparatus and communication method: A communication apparatus 100 is equipped with, as plural communication sections capable of communicating with another communication apparatus over different transmission lines, a powerline communication section which performs a wired transmission using a powerline PL and a wireless communication section which performs a wireless transmission. The communication apparatus 100 causes... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20070167146 - E911 behavior with gsrm in a wireless communication device: A wireless communications device attempts to originate an emergency E911 call on a first system. If the system sends a global service redirection message (GSRM), including a redirect list, then the device scans alternate systems from the redirect list. if the redirect systems are not available, the device and again... Agent: Kyocera Wireless Corp.

20070167145 - Method for providing a system with position information from a mobile unit: The invention relates to a method for providing a system that is operated by a first party, with position information from a mobile unit provided with a unique identity that belongs to a second party. The first party provides a service that is dependent of the position of the mobile... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20070167147 - Method and apparatus for communicating emergency information using wireless devices: A method and apparatus for providing emergency notification by a wireless mobile device in response to triggering a sensor. A detection system, which may be located within a vehicle, comprises one or more sensors configured to sense an emergency event and transmit a message via a wireless link regarding the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070167148 - Mobile communication terminal and computer program thereof, ic card and computer program thereof, and mobile communication terminal system: A mobile communication terminal includes a communication unit, a wireless communication unit, a contents acquisition unit, a contents storage unit, a verification unit, and an output permission determination unit. The communication unit communicates with an IC card. The wireless communication unit provides wireless communication using user information stored in the... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20070167149 - System and method for communicating with a network access node: A system and method for crediting an account of a network access node includes receiving a data signal at a network access node, forwarding the data signal wirelessly to a network user node, and providing account crediting information to an accounting system. The account crediting information represents a credit to... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20070167150 - System and method for providing wireless communications services: A method for providing wireless communications services including setting a given rate associated with a given period of time for the wireless communications services in a service area for at least one subscriber. Unlimited use of the wireless communications are enabled for the at least one subscriber within the service... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20070167151 - System and method wireless messaging 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. In another embodiment, a receive... Agent: John J. Oskorep, Esq. One Magnificent Mile Center

20070167153 - Apparatus and method for providing incoming and outgoing call information in a mobile communication terminal: An apparatus and method for providing incoming and outgoing call information in a mobile communication terminal. A display unit displays detailed incoming/outgoing call information integrated for a particular phone number. A memory stores an incoming/outgoing call list according to an incoming/outgoing event. A controller controls an operation for adding the... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070167152 - Mobile communication terminal and operation control method thereof: The present invention relates to a mobile communication terminal and operation control method thereof: A mobile communication terminal according to the present invention comprises: an input unit having at least one searching keys specified for a section search of multimedia data; and a controller allocating the searching keys to predetermined... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070167154 - Position data interpolation method, position detecting sensor and position measuring device: A position data interpolation method, comprising: a step of continuously taking digital images of scenes in the surrounding in a process of moving from a first point, which is a known point, via a second point, which is a known point, to a third point, which is an unknown point;... Agent: Nields & Lemack

20070167155 - Tester and test system for wireless device: A tester for a wireless device includes a memory for storing a communication command program that makes the tester to transmit a communication command signal to the wireless device so that a test corresponding to the communication command signal is performed in the wireless device, wherein the communication command program... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20070167156 - System and method for communicating over a data network or the pstn using a hybrid cordless telephone device: A hybrid cordless telephone system allows a user to place or receive a call over either a data network or a PSTN network. In one aspect, a system router and PSTN unit are coupled with a communications manager to avoid extensive redesign of router components and PSTN components while providing... Agent: Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP

20070167157 - System and method for communicating over a data network or the pstn using a hybrid cordless telephone service: A hybrid cordless telephone system allows a user to place or receive a call over either a data network or a PSTN network. In one aspect, a system router and PSTN unit are coupled with a communications manager to avoid extensive redesign of router components and PSTN components while providing... Agent: Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP

20070167158 - Method and system to enable roaming on demand in wireless communication networks: A method and system for enabling a first communication device to communicate with a second communication device. The first communication device is in a first network. The second communication device is in a second network. The second communication device has network connectivity only in its home network. When a first... Agent: William L. Botjer

20070167160 - Radio communications system, and base station apparatus and mobile radio terminal apparatus employed in the system: The present invention relates to a system conducting multi-carrier communications between a base station and a plurality of mobile terminals. When a transmission format of an individual information channel transmitted from the base station to the mobile terminals is output over a control channel from the base station to the... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070167159 - Broadcast-centric cellular communication system, method, and mobile station: A broadcast-centric cellular communication system improves broadcast channel performance by exploiting the benefits of macro-diversity in a cellular communication system having a plurality of base stations that transmit signals within a plurality of associated cells. The system constructs an identical paging signal at the plurality of base stations, and controls... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070167162 - Multi-functional communication terminal device and communication relay device for use in noise environment: Disclosed herein is a multi-functional communication terminal device and communication relay device for use in a noise environment. To this end, the present invention provides a multi-functional communication terminal device for use in a noise environment, comprising: a cellular phone which is hand-carried by each individual worker within a company;... Agent: Vidas, Arrett & Steinkraus, P.A.

20070167161 - Remote sim card replacement and activation process: A data processing device including a microcontroller and configured to communicate with at least one remote system distributed on a network. The data processing device and the remote system are adapted to store a plurality of parameters identifying a user account belonging to a subscriber. The data processing device comprises... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20070167164 - Hard handover method and controller: The invention is related to a controller of a communication system that includes a module for exchanging messages indicating a traffic channel change between communication system units before hard handover, a module for changing a downlink traffic channel, a module for detecting a communication system unit on a handover target... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070167163 - Receiver status message management during handoff: Described herein are mechanismns and methods that facilitate generation of receiver status message (e.g., acknowledgments and/or negative acknowledgments) before, during, and after a handoff of an access terminal (user equipment) from a first transceiver module to a second transceiver module. A network module can generate receiver status messages during a... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070167165 - Handover methods and apparatus for mobile communication devices: A mobile communication device assists in a handover procedure between a first base station and a second base station using reliable and efficient techniques. The mobile device has a wireless transceiver and one or more processors coupled to the wireless transceiver. In one illustrative example, the one or more processors... Agent: John J. Oskorep, Esq. One Magnificent Mile Center

20070167166 - Advanced intelligent single telephone number routing: A method for location-based communications routing includes determining a location of a requesting party in accordance with an originating communications address of the requesting party. The method also includes determining whether the location of the requesting party is in a first subscriber service area and, when the location of the... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070167167 - Network-based system for rerouting phone calls from phone networks to voip clients for roamers and subscribers who do not answer: A system, method, computer product and service are provided which, when a subscriber's VoIP client is online and the subscriber's non-VoIP wireless or fixed line number is called, will automatically route the call over IP to the subscriber's VoIP client. This routing may be performed by the subscriber's wireless or... Agent: Arent Fox PLLC

20070167170 - Method and device for determining location-enhanced presence information for entities subscribed to a communications system: System and method for determining location-enhanced presence information for a particular entity subscribed to a communications system. Location information indicative of a current location for the particular entity is obtained, as well as presence information indicative of a current activity status of the particular entity within the communications system. A... Agent: Fetherstonhaugh - Smart & Biggar

20070167172 - Providing congestion and travel information to users: Processing link information related to traffic and travel information, in which link information is received including a link identification value associated with a particular link, a link identifier component enabling a determination of a link system to be employed in identifying the particular link referenced by the received traffic information,... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070167171 - Determining the location of a device having two communications connections: Wireless devices connected to a network backbone may be physically located by establishing communications between an unknown device and one or more known devices. Through distance estimation and/or directional estimation, the physical location of a network device may be determined by triangulation. In some instances, the new device may passively... Agent: Mediacell Licensing Corp

20070167169 - Positioning systems: The invention provides a method for installing a positioning system, the positioning system comprising two or more base stations (BS1 to BS4), and comprises the steps of; collocating the base stations (BS1 to BS4); quantifying any lack of synchronisation between the clocks of the base stations; relocating one or more... Agent: Philips Electronics North America Corporation Intellectual Property & Standards

20070167168 - Worker-in-charge command system and worker-in-charge command method: A central processing unit (11) in a call center receives a work request (for example, repair of a home electric appliance) of a client, allocates a worker in charge satisfying a predetermined condition based on the work contents for the received work request, and determines articles needed for the work.... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070167173 - Generating and dynamically updating databases of wifi hotspots locations and performance metrics via location mappers: A method, system, and computer program product for efficiently generating a substantially accurate list of available hotspots in geographic locations. A computer system configured with a hotspot location utility operates as a Provider. The Provider receives from a mobile device a hotspot operability/ayailability transmission (HOT), which includes an identification of... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20070167174 - On-device mapping of wifi hotspots via direct connection of wifi-enabled and gps-enabled mobile devices: A WIFI-enabled and GPS-enabled user device executes a hotspot location utility, which enables the device to detect WIFI hotspots and update a locally-stored hotspot location database (LHLD) containing geographically-mapped hotspots. When a hotspot is detected, the device accesses the hotspot, retrieves identification information and usage terms from the hotspot, and... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20070167175 - Wireless virtual-network systems and methods to operate the same: Wireless virtual-network systems and methods to operate the same are disclosed. An example method comprises receiving a positioning system signal identifying a location of a mobile device, determining a service zone for the mobile device by comparing the location to a database identifying geographic locations of service zones, and determining... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070167178 - Short message service (sms) parser: A short message service parser is disclosed. The short message service parser is typically a computer server programmed by computer software. The short message service parser has the ability to handle different short message service messages from different senders and process, analyze, parse, and reformat the messages. The messages are... Agent: Mr. Walter J. Tencza Jr.

20070167176 - Management of the divert facility of a communication device: The invention relates to a method for managing, in a data communication network, communication addressed to a wireless communication device. The wireless communication devices communicating in the data communication network are equipped with at least one identifier (IMSI1-IMSI3) and in which, the communication device is equipped with a control feature... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20070167177 - Terminal status discovery in secure user plane location positioning procedure: Upon receiving a location request for a mobile terminal, the status of the mobile terminal is discovered before initiating a SUPL positioning procedure. For this purpose, status information is retrieved from a database or location register outside SUPL and it is determined from the status information whether a SUPL session... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070167179 - Ubiquitous connectivity and control system for remote locations: A thermostat control system for monitoring and controlling environmental characteristics of a building includes a base station unit and a remote access unit continuously interfacing through instant wireless private direct connectivity. The system also includes a plurality of sensors that measure the environmental characteristics and provide the thermostat unit with... Agent: Ishman Law Firm P.C.

20070167180 - Broadcast-centric cellular communication system: A broadcast-centric cellular communication system improves broadcast channel performance by exploiting the benefits of macro-diversity in a cellular communication system having a plurality of base stations that transmit signals within a plurality of associated cells. System-specific control information common to all cells is synchronously and simultaneously broadcast from multiple base... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070167181 - Mobile station for operating in a broadcast-centric cellular communication system: A mobile station for operating in a broadcast-centric cellular communication system. The system improves broadcast channel performance by exploiting the benefits of macro-diversity in a cellular communication system having a plurality of base stations that transmit signals within a plurality of associated cells. System-specific control information common to all cells... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070167182 - System, apparatus, and method for dynamically configuring application access point settings: Systems, apparatuses, computer program products, and methods for dynamically customizing and/or configuring applications on devices. Current access point information associated with the terminal is transmitted from the terminal. In response to providing this current access point information, the terminal receives updated access point information via the network. The terminal is... Agent: Hollingsworth & Funk, LLC

20070167184 - Method and device for dynamic adjustment of network operating voltage: The present invention is to provide a method and device of dynamically adjusting the operating voltage of a network integrated circuit including the steps of detecting and ranking the signal-to-noise ratio of N ports to single out a port for arbitration, dynamically controlling the operating voltage according to the signal-to-noise... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070167183 - Method of reverse link dynamic power control in a wireless communication system using quality feedback from a delay-sensitive traffic stream or overhead channel: A closed loop power control based on receiving a continuous quality feedback is described. A main reverse link (RL) pilot is controlled by the quality feedback of a substantially continuous delay-sensitive traffic stream, such as Voice-over-IP (VoIP), when such a stream is enabled. When such a stream is not enabled,... Agent: Lucent Technologies Inc. Docket Administrator-room 3j-219

20070167186 - Apparatus, system and method of providing auto-dimming and state transition signal functionality to telephone systems: An apparatus, system and method of providing auto-dimming and state transition signal functionality to a telephone system are provided. Generally, when the telephone system is in use, it will have an illuminated screen that may distract others. Because of this, when the telephone system is entering a state that does... Agent: Ibm Corporation (ve) C/o Volel Emile

20070167185 - Handsfree car mounting kit: A handsfree car mounting kit for a mobile telephone (6) coupled to a head-set (4) via a Bluetooth radio module consists of a passive communications unit (1), which has a loudspeaker and a microphone (5), optionally coupled to an amplifier, arranged in a cabinet which has a bearing or a... Agent: Altera Law Group, LLC

20070167187 - Wireless multimedia handset: A wireless multimedia handset can include one or more of wireless system support, a platform to handset features, and multiple features. The multiple features may include, by way of example but not limitation, multiple-antennae, multimedia storage with advanced search capability, a high fidelity sound system, peer-to-peer networking capability, seamless handoff... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20070167188 - A system and a device for mobile radio communication: The present invention relates to a telephone service device and a system comprising a telephone service device for providing telephone services to a television apparatus (10). The technical field of this invention will be a convenient solution how to use an ordinary TV apparatus, normally in the home environment, as... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070167189 - Specification safety cap with mp3 play function: A safety cap with MP3 play function includes a safety cap, a MP3 play device, a card read device, an audio output device, a power supply system and a tact switch. The MP3 play device is mounted inside the safety cap. The card read device is mounted inside the safety... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070167190 - Component-based mobile device: A component-based mobile device includes a server component for performing voice and data communication functions and a user interface (UI) unit for performing input/output functions. The server component is a larger unit with a larger server battery and more processing power and includes a engagement portion. The UI unit has... Agent: Bereskin And Parr

20070167191 - Method and arrangement for minimizing intracell interference in a data transmission system: The invention refers to an arrangement and a method for minimizing intracell and/or intercell interference for a data transmission system comprising a scheduler (2). A first base station (BS) receives information from user equipments (UE1-UE4) in a first cell (1), by means of a first antenna system (Rx, Tx). The... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070167192 - Singular value decomposition beamforming for a multiple-input-multiple-output communication system: For one embodiment, a MIMO (Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output) communication system where a first sequence of beamformed signals is transmitted, a beamformed channel is observed in response to transmission of the first sequence of beamformed signals, a QR decomposition of the observed beamformed channel is performed to provide a unitary matrix, and a... Agent: Intellevate 900 Second Avenue South

20070167193 - Portable wireless terminal: A portable wireless terminal has a GPS receiver which obtains the position information of the portable wireless terminal from a GPS satellite, a display which displays an image, a storage device which stores an image database in which common coordinates are defined in each of the portable wireless terminals without... Agent: Intellectual Property / Technology Law

20070167194 - Plural wirelessly connected devices with user alarm if wireless connection is lost or endangered: A portable wireless user communication device is wirelessly coupled to a second device over a monitored link. If the link is lost or endangered, then a user alarm is activated at the portable wireless user device and/or at the second device to which it is linked (which may also be... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070167195 - Communication system, method for extending stand-by time, and computer readable medium therefor: A communication system, a method for extending stand-by time, and a computer readable medium therefor are provided. The communication system includes a mobile communication apparatus and a core network. The method and the computer readable medium therefor perform the following steps. When the mobile communication apparatus is in a low... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20070167197 - Portable electronic device: In a foldable cellular phone, a cross key is provided on an operating surface of a second casing and a side right-and-left key having the same function as two direction keys of the cross key is provided on one side surface of the second casing. Further, a side up-and-down key... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20070167198 - Audio system for portable device: An audio system includes an enclosure having a transducer. The transducer creates a vibration in the enclosure in response to being driven by an audio signal having a frequency range. A cradle assembly mechanically couples a portable device to the enclosure through an isolator. A portion of the vibration is... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070167196 - Mobile communication device and method for controlling mobile communication device: An openable/closable mobile phone has a function of locking external keys disposed on an external surface of a main body of the mobile phone, whereby the lock function can be temporarily cancelled without opening the main body. A user holds down a side key (203) provided on a main body... Agent: Armstrong, Kratz, Quintos, Hanson & Brooks, LLP

20070167199 - Apparatus and method for sensing folder rotation status in a portable terminal: An apparatus and a method for sensing rotation angle of a folder in a portable terminal are provided. In the apparatus and method, a first motion sensor measures a roll, which is an up/down rotation an