Telecommunications inventions 08/07

20070202801 - System and method for synchronization of a plurality of devices in a wireless sensor arrangement: Two or more wirelessly networked devices for control or data acquisition functions for real-time application are provided with a error corrected synchronization and data collection process. A single start device transmits a start message, followed by each stop device acknowledging that start message. If one or more stop devices fails... Agent: Robert H Frantz

20070202809 - Methods and apparatus for overlapping mimo antenna physical sectors: Methods and apparatus for positioning antennas of a first wireless cell to form MIMO physical sectors and MIMO virtual sectors. Selecting a MIMO virtual sector for communication responsive to throughput, data throughput, signal-to-noise ratio, signal error rate, data error rate, retransmission requests, interference, rejection of multipath signals, transmission rate, and... Agent: Letham Law Firm, LLC

20070202816 - Systems, methods and transceivers for wireless communications over discontiguous spectrum segments: Methods of transmitting a plurality of communications signals over a plurality of discontiguous bandwidth segments in a frequency band include defining a plurality (NFFT) of orthogonal subcarriers across the frequency band, defining a plurality (N) of available physical subcarriers from among the orthogonal subcarriers. The available physical subcarriers are distributed... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20070202800 - Ethernet digital storage (eds) card and satellite transmission system: An Ethernet Digital Storage (EDS) Card and satellite transmission system is provided for receiving, storing, and transmitting files including video, audio, text, and multimedia files, especially files received via satellite transmission. In a preferred embodiment, a satellite system includes a receiver using the EDS Card. A data stream is received... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070202803 - Communication terminal device and communciation relay method: There is provided a mobile station device in a multi-hop system capable of realizing relay of communication of another station while suppressing increase of power consumption of the local station. In this device, at timing t1, a mobile station MS2 transmits data S2 destined to a base station BS1, to... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20070202802 - Method and arrangements for wireless communication between a vehicle and a terrestrial communication system: The invention relates to mobile communication systems using wireless network cells inside a vehicle, such as an aircraft, other airborne vessel, ship or train while aboard, and using satellite communications between the cells inside the vehicle and the terrestrial communication system. According to the invention there is an emulator functionality... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20070202804 - Satellite signal relay and receiver: An apparatus, system, and method are provided for terrestrially retransmitting and receiving a satellite-transmitted television signal within a building. The system includes a relay stage with an input for receiving a satellite-transmitted television signal, an amplifier, and a filter, wherein the relay stage retransmits a portion of the signal in,... Agent: Fleit, Kain, Gibbons, Gutman, Bongini & Bianco P.l.

20070202807 - Bluetooth® system and bluetooth® bonding process: Disclosed are a method and a system for Bluetooth communication. In the Bluetooth system, a Bluetooth device includes: a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) reader for reading out RFID information from the RFID Tag within an effective transmission and receiving range and outputting the RFID information; a control unit for activating... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070202806 - Method and apparatus for secured communication between bluetooth® devices: Provided is a method and apparatus for secured communication between Bluetooth devices. A temporary Bluetooth Device Address (BD_ADDR) is generated and set if a Bluetooth communication request is generated in a secured mode and Bluetooth communication is performed using the temporary BD_ADDR; when the Bluetooth communication is terminated, the temporary... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070202808 - Method for searching for devices for bluetooth communication in wireless terminal: A method for searching for devices for Bluetooth communication in a wireless terminal, by which Bluetooth communication can be easily carried out through various search options. The method includes displaying search options if a search is selected for a Bluetooth communication, displaying search keywords corresponding to a search option if... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070202805 - System and method for integrating devices into a wireless network: A split architecture wireless access point (SAAP) extends a traditional wireless access point (TRAP) network by selectively interfacing or isolating a SAAP network with a deployed TRAP of the TRAP wireless network. The SAAP has a split architecture that interfaces with the TRAP as a client of the TRAP network... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20070202810 - Radio base station apparatus for temporarily holding received signal in buffer: A radio base station is disclosed for efficiently utilizing resources by once holding a call not in a diversity hand-over state in a data buffer in a radio communications system having a diversity hand-over function. A shared resource unit has a processing device, as a shared resource, for processing the... Agent: Max Moskowitz Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20070202811 - System for determining and displaying coverage regionsof an rfid reader/integrator: A 3-D verification system determines the volume effectively covered by a reader/integrator of RFID tags. This system is useful for displaying the distortions and the holes in an RF coverage region that exist within its volume. It also determines and displays how the coverage region changes as a function of... Agent: Gottlieb Rackman & Reisman PC

20070202812 - Tranceiver circuit for compensating iq mismatch and carrier leakage and method for controlling the same: Embodiments of methods, transceiver circuits, and systems can compensate an IQ mismatch (e.g., Tx or Rx) or a carrier leakage using a plurality of local oscillators. One embodiment of a transceiver can include a first up-conversion IQ mixer, a second up-conversion IQ mixer, a first down-conversion IQ mixer with an... Agent: The Fleshner Group, PLLC

20070202813 - Wireless communication semiconductor integrated circuit device and wireless communication system: A receiving circuit of a direct conversion system which includes a differential amplifier circuit which amplifies a received signal, a mixer which combines the amplified received signal and an oscillation signal having a predetermined frequency to perform frequency conversion, and a high gain amplifier circuit in which programmable gain amplifiers... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070202814 - Wireless communication semiconductor integrated circuit device and wireless communication system: A receiving circuit of a direct conversion system which includes a differential amplifier circuit which amplifies a received signal, a mixer which combines the amplified received signal and an oscillation signal having a predetermined frequency to perform frequency conversion, and a high gain amplifier circuit in which programmable gain amplifiers... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070202815 - Up/down conversion circuitry for radio transceiver: A multi-channel RF receiver uses an image rejection mixer (e.g. double quadrature mixer) in the IF down conversion stage for image side band rejection (whereby use of an IF narrow band filter for image rejection may be omitted if desired) and comprises a simplified frequency synthesizer which generates both a... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20070202817 - Predicting future changes to strengths of paths in mimo systems: According to one embodiment of the invention, a system and a method for maintaining a first history of strength of a first transmission path between a first wireless node and a second wireless node in a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) communication system, maintaining a second history of strength of... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070202818 - Radio transmission device: To obtain maximum throughput in accordance with characteristics of a propagation path, a radio transmission device having a plurality of transmitting antennas (18a, 18b) for transmitting a transmission signal in units of sub-carriers by performing spatial multiplexing or without performing spatial multiplexing is provided that includes a sub-carrier modulation part... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070202819 - Systems and methods of rf power transmission, modulation, and amplification, including a cartesian 4-branch embodiment: Methods and systems for vector combining power amplification are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a plurality of signals are individually amplified, then summed to form a desired time-varying complex envelope signal. Phase and/or frequency characteristics of one or more of the signals are controlled to provide the desired phase, frequency,... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070202820 - Method for determining a value of the transmission power for a signal that is to be transmitted from a transmitter station to a receiver station and associated device: A method determines a value of the transmission power for a signal that is to be transmitted from a transmitter station to a receiver station. According to said method, for a first value of the transmission power, the transmitter station estimates the position of a prospective first value of the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070202821 - Method and apparatus for minimizing noise in a transmitter: A transmitter (200) includes a plurality of amplifier “n” stages (202, 204, 206) providing predetermined gain stages and a plurality of filters (208, 210). Each filter (208, 210) is distributed between each gain stage (202, 204) (204, 206) so as to reject far out noise in accordance with the gain... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20070202822 - Receiver and broadcast receiving method: If a sub broadcast is unavailable so a reception means receives the main broadcast instead of the sub broadcast, reception of the sub broadcast is booked. When the sub broadcast is booked and the sub broadcast becomes available, the reception means automatically receives the sub broadcast booked instead of the... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (general) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20070202823 - Neural network adaptive pulsed noise blanker: An apparatus for generating control signals for a noise blanker switch comprises a noise replica generator, a neural network processor coupled to the noise replica generator and a pulse function generator coupled to the neural network processor. The noise replica generator is configured to generate a pulsed noise replica from... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070202824 - Systems and methods for improving channel estimation: A method for improving channel estimation in a wireless communication system is disclosed. A wireless signal that includes a plurality of multipath components is received. N channel estimates are then obtained, where N is any positive integer greater than one. Each channel estimate of the N channel estimates corresponds to... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070202825 - Receiving circuit and method for compensating iq mismatch: Embodiments of methods receiving circuits and apparatuses compensate for an IQ mismatch using a test signal positioned in a guard band. One embodiment of a method can include converting a sum of a received signal and a test signal positioned in a guard band to a first signal and a... Agent: The Fleshner Group, PLLC

20070202826 - Repeater rise-over-thermal (rot) value calibration: An RF switch is used in the signal path to an amplifier, for example between a receiving antenna and an amplifier. The switch is used to alternately connect the amplifier between a normal signal source for the amplifier and a fixed load for calibration. The power difference between the two... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070202827 - Wireless data communications using fifo for synchronization memory: A microprocessor system architecture is disclosed which allows for the selective execution of programmed ROM microcode or, alternatively, RAM microcode if there has been a correction or update made to the ROM microcode originally programmed into the system. Patched or updated RAM microcode is utilized or executed only to the... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070202828 - Filter and method for filtering the switching noise in a pulse-width-modulated transmit signal: Analogue filter for filtering out a high-frequency switching noise in a pulse-width-modulated transmit signal, which is fed into a line by a line driver by means of a transformer, wherein at least one capacitor is connected in parallel to a secondary winding of the transformer and, together with a stray... Agent: Jenkins, Wilson, Taylor & Hunt, P. A.

20070202829 - Receiver for narrowband interference cancellation: A receiver is suitable for use in a wireless communications system, which is subject to interference from interfering signals having much narrower bandwidths than the wanted signal. In the receiver, an interfering signal is detected in the frequency domain and moreover, the cancellation also takes place in the frequency domain.... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070202830 - Spurious tone suppressor and method of operation thereof: The present invention provides a spurious tone suppressor for use with a power supply system. In one embodiment, the spurious tone suppressor includes an error signal generator configured to provide a spur error signal proportional to a spur signal associated with the power supply system. Additionally, the spurious tone suppressor... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070202831 - Signal processing circuit and method for processing an hf input signal: A signal processing circuit and a method for processing an HF input signal are described, having an HF receiver for generating an IF signal on an intermediate frequency from an HF input signal, a frequency divider for generating a signal from the IF signal or a signal derived from the... Agent: Baker Botts, L.L.P.

20070202832 - 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.

20070202833 - Mobile device with cell array: A mobile terminal having one or more of the following modes: a standby mode, talk mode, send/receive mode, and read/write mode, includes a cell array being capable of providing a cell array power and a backup battery being capable of providing battery power. The mobile terminal has a power management... Agent: Adam K. Sacharoff Much Shelist Freed Denenberg Ament&rubenstein,pc

20070202835 - Power saving method for a wireless communication apparatus: Disclosed is a power saving method for a wireless communication apparatus that operates in a sleep mode during a predetermined duration by exchanging Media Access Control (MAC) messages with a base station in order to reduce power consumption when there is no transmission/reception data. According to the power saving method,... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070202836 - Processes and apparatus for battery compensation: Systems, processes and apparatus are described through which signals are received from a controller, where the signals include a power ON signal. A time measurement element is started responsive to the power ON signal to assess a current duration of operation of the system. An existing cumulative record of system... Agent: Ramirez & Smith

20070202837 - Communication system and server apparatus and terminal apparatus: According to one embodiment, a communication system includes a first terminal to be connected to a first communication network, assigned a terminal ID and driven by power supplied from a battery, a server apparatus to be connected to a second communication network differing from the first network, to periodically confirm... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070202838 - System and method for locating a wireless device: Described is a system and method for locating a wireless device. The method comprising receiving a first wireless signal including first location data. The first location data corresponds to a first location of a wireless device as determined by a first wireless communication system. Receiving a second wireless signal including... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20070202839 - System and method for data transmission over a power line of a switch mode power supply by frequency modulating the switch frequency thereof: A method of transmitting data over a power line of a switch mode power supply system comprises the steps of: encoding a switch frequency of the switch mode power supply with the data; generating a ripple voltage at the encoded switch frequency by the switch mode power supply; conducting the... Agent: Calfee Halter & Griswold, LLP

20070202841 - Generation of consistent haptic effects: A system generates a consistent haptic effect in a handset that includes an actuator. The system determines performance data for the actuator, and generates haptic effect controller parameters from the performance data by comparing the performance data with reference performance data derived from a reference actuator. The system then stores... Agent: Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC

20070202843 - Method and system for data partitioning and encoding for transmission of uncompressed video over wireless communication channels: A method of transmitting uncompressed video over a wireless channel by inputting a frame of pixel information, partitioning spatially correlated (neighboring) pixels into different packets, generating error detection data for each packet and appending the error detection data to each packet, encoding the pixel data, and transmitting the packets separately... Agent: Kenneth L. Sherman, Esq. Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman, LLP

20070202842 - Method and system for partitioning and encoding of uncompressed video for transmission over wireless medium: A method and system for transmitting uncompressed video over a wireless channel by inputting a frame of pixel information, partitioning spatially correlated pixels into different packets, and transmitting the packets separately over a wireless channel. For robust transmission, error detection data can be generated for each packet and appended to... Agent: Kenneth L. Sherman, Esq. Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman, LLP

20070202840 - Mobile radio terminal and second subscription: An electronic equipment for implementing at least a first service provided by a first service provider and a second service provided by a second service provider different from the first service provider includes a first service manger for regulating the electronic equipment with respect to the first service, wherein the... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20070202844 - System for providing location-based services in a wireless network, such as locating individuals and coordinating meetings: A system for providing wireless telecommunications services to mobile devices includes structure and functionality to obtain a request from a first mobile device for a meeting with a person associated with a second mobile device. The system automatically determines locations of the first and second mobile devices, and automatically provides... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20070202845 - Business method for providing wireless communication services and network and system for delivering same: The present invention is directed to an improved business method for a wireless communication system. The improved business method, operations method, network and system of the present invention includes the steps of delivering cellular services to the mass market, reducing peak capacity, increasing overall capacity utilization, improving capital utilization, providing... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20070202846 - Providing a rebate to a user of a telecommunication plan: Systems and methods for processing rebates for a telecommunication subscriber are disclosed herein. Call detail records, related to telecommunication service activity by the telecommunication subscriber, are obtained for a previous billing period. Based on the call detail records, the service cost under a current rate plan is calculated and hypothetical... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070202848 - Authentication vector generating device, subscriber authentication module, mobile communication system, and authentication vector generation method: HLR of a mobile communication network based on IMT-2000 has a stop information addition part instructing a RAND field of an authentication vector used for authentication of USIM to cause part or all of functions in the subscriber authentication module to stop. The USIM mounted in a mobile terminal has... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070202847 - System, method, and device for providing communications using a distributed mobile architecture: An authentication, authorization, and accounting module of a first distributed mobile architecture system is disclosed and includes a destination preference register. The destination preference register includes a preferred call path for calls to be routed outside of a distributed mobile architecture network that is accessible to the first distributed mobile... Agent: Toler Schaffer, LLP

20070202850 - Cost estimation in messaging application for a mobile communication device: A messaging application for a mobile communication device comprises an integrated message composer for creating messages of two or more different types, and a cost estimation function for estimating the cost of messages based on the message type and cost data stored in memory and for providing the estimated cost... Agent: Coats & Bennett/sony Ericsson

20070202849 - System and method for concatenating short audio messages: This invention relates to a system (100) and method (150) for concatenating audio data packages and for transmitting the concatenated audio data packages between terminals (102; 104) connected in a network (108). This invention further relates to a terminal (10) continuously displaying progress of recordation (32) of each audio data... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070202852 - Input method and arrangement for portable electronic device: The present invention is to provide an input method and arrangement for a portable electronic device installed with a software for showing a virtual disk on a screen on a phone body of the portable electronic device, wherein the virtual disk includes a plurality of fixed marks along its periphery... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070202858 - Mobile device capable of dynamically adjusting volume and related method: A mobile device includes at least a speaker, a range detection unit for detecting a distance between the mobile device and a user, and a volume adjustment unit electrically connected to the range detection unit for dynamically adjusting volume of the speaker according to a result of the range detection... Agent: Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP

20070202857 - Vehicle maintenance system: A vehicle maintenance system comprises: at least one customer's terminal; at least one dealer's terminal; a customer vehicle terminal associated with the customer's terminal; and a maintenance center terminal including a control server, all terminals mutually connected via a communication network to exchange maintenance-related information among the terminals. Accordingly, maintenance-related... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070202853 - Apparatus and method for connecting call in mobile communication terminal: Provided are an apparatus and method for connecting a call in a mobile communication terminal while observing calling time etiquette. When a user dials a phone number, the number is checked, and a local time of a call recipient of the number is calculated. A Checking whether the calculated local... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070202851 - Area watcher for wireless network: Dynamic and current information is provided regarding a wireless device's entry into or exit from a geographically defined “watched” area. An area watcher application monitors preconfigured wireless devices entry/exit into preconfigured watched areas. The watched areas may watch for any/all subscribers, or for select, preconfigured subscribers listed in an appropriate... Agent: Manelli Denison & Selter PLLC

20070202856 - Automatic quality of service based resource allocation: A system and method for providing quality-of-service based network resource allocation and utilization in a dynamic network environment. For example, a wireless communication network may comprise a first system and a second system. The first system may provide a current service to a user at a current quality level. The... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070202860 - Portable communication terminal and method of transmission of electronic mail: A portable communication terminal includes a non-contact IC card. The non-contact IC card receives, from a passage verification apparatus, information indicating a passage of the non-contact IC card through the passage verification apparatus including a gate for verifying a passage; a passage detection device receives the information on the passage... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070202855 - Portable device and special character input method thereof: A portable device and a special character input method for the portable device. The portable device includes a controller for controlling display of more than one special character groups simultaneously, each special character group having a plurality of special characters, and a display for displaying the special character groups simultaneously... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070202854 - Terminal apparatus and method for providing media transmission time information in a poc system and poc system for the same: Disclosed is a terminal apparatus and a method for providing media transmission time information in a Push-to-talk over Cellular (PoC) system. The method includes receiving a media burst granted message in response to a media burst request message, and confirming media transmission time information in the received media burst granted... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070202859 - User configurable system that minimizes wireless network airtime: A system for remote monitoring and control of remotely located equipment that minimizes wireless airtime includes an interface device coupled with the remote equipment. The interface device selectively communicates over a wireless network with a central server and/or a user device. Wireless communication with the interface device is field configurable... Agent: Indianapolis Office 27879 Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070202861 - Construction machine management apparatus and construction machines management system: Assessment information needed to calculate a used vehicle assessment value of a hydraulic excavator 10 is input to a portable telephone 20 and is then transmitted from the portable telephone 20. The transmitted assessment information is received at a manufacturer's base station 40 at a remote location. The used vehicle... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070202862 - Method and arrangement for redirecting data to be transferred to a mobile station: A method and arrangement are shown for diverting phone calls, especially in mobile networks. In the method for transmitting data from a receiving first mobile station, from which there is defined a call divert command to a second mobile station, to the second mobile station, there is identified the first... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070202863 - System and method for establishing communication between wireless devices: A method of communication is disclosed and includes attempting to establish a connection with a destination wireless device. The method also includes determining that the destination wireless device does not include required software. Additionally, the method includes transmitting an indication to the destination wireless device that required software is necessary... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070202865 - Mobile wireless communication terminal and communication control method: In order to improve the efficiency of the data communication between mobile wireless communication terminals having a communication means mainly used for the wireless communication between the mobile wireless communication terminals and a wireless communication means mainly with a base station, a following terminal is used. Namely, it includes: a... Agent: Patrick G. Burns Greer, Burns & Crain, Ltd.

20070202864 - Remote control device, communication network system and remote control method: A remote control device remotely controls a communication terminal including a first communication portion performing radio communication by a first communication system and a second communication portion performing radio communication by a second communication system. The remote control device includes a determination portion and a terminal power supply control portion.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070202866 - Mobile communication system and method of handover to small radio base station of the same: An object of the present invention is to provide a mobile communication system which ensures that hand-over to a small base station, for a specific user provided with a service by the small base station, will always be performed even when the small base station is being used by a... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20070202867 - Facilitating reuse of frequencies by unlicensed cognitive devices: A wireless device incorporates decentralized spectrum management to dynamically control a power level for each channel in a transmission spectrum. The decentralized spectrum management uses a common reference signal received from a TV station to select a channel and coordinate the transmitter power to mitigate interference. The decentralized spectrum management... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20070202868 - Test system for remotely testing switches within a telecommunications network: A system for centrally and remotely testing cellular and conventional telecommunications network wherein a controller located at a remote location provides instructions to Remote Call Processor (RCP) to thereby prompt the RCPs to establish a communication link from the RCP through a switch to a destination device whereby audio from... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20070202869 - Mobile communication device: A mobile communication device (1000) includes a CPU (1300), a first antenna (1110), a first front-end circuit (1120), a second antenna (1210), and a second front-end circuit (1220). The first antenna transmits and receives first signals. The first front-end circuit, located between the first antenna and the CPU, includes a... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070202872 - Gateway apparatus and resource allocating method: According to one embodiment, a gateway apparatus includes a pool which retains the plurality of media gateway channel resources in each of a plurality of resource groups constituted by dividing the plurality of media gateway channel resources in accordance with necessity levels thereof, a memory which stores a group table... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070202871 - Method of paging a mobile terminal: In a wireless network which comprises a first plurality of base stations and a second plurality of access network gateways, there is provided a method for tracking and/or paging a mobile terminal, wherein the method comprises the steps of: providing a mobile terminal located within the wireless network, and wherein... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20070202870 - Providing call information of a child in wireless networks: Wireless networks and associated methods are disclosed that provide a child call log service. A communication network of the invention comprises a network node and a child call log system. The network node serves calls for a mobile device of a child, and records call information for the calls of... Agent: Duft Bornsen & Fishman, LLP

20070202874 - Method of roaming in broadcast service and system and terminal thereof: A method, system, and terminal for handling or processing roaming errors between networks that can support broadcast services is provided. When a roaming service between networks is requested, if a user authentication request is unsuccessful due to non-matching identification information between the networks, a corresponding error message is delivered to... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070202873 - Optimal home agent allocation: Particular embodiments provide an optimal allocation of a bearer manager or home agent. In one embodiment, a message is received from a mobile node requesting access to a visiting network that is different from a home network for the mobile node. An authentication request is sent to the home network... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20070202875 - Method for a radiotelephone to search for access technologies in a network: A method for a radiotelephone to search for a high priority, home, or home-equivalent public land mobile network (PLMN) includes a first step of registering and camping (300) the radiotelephone on a cell of visited PLMN. A next step includes uniquely identifying (302) the cell. A next step includes searching... Agent: Motorola Inc

20070202876 - Method of providing context information for a mobile device: A method of providing context information regarding a mobile station includes using cell transitions as an input to a context determining algorithm. A disclosed example includes Bloom filter theory that utilizes a key based upon an indication of the cells involved in the transition and a selected number of hash... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds, P.C.

20070202878 - Apparatus and method for managing delay for tcp/ip communications in a mobile communication system: An apparatus and method for managing a packet transmission delay for TCP/IP-based communications in a mobile communication system are provided, in which a BSC imposes no delay on a packet directed to an MS or a packet transmitted from the MS and sends the packet to the MS or corresponding... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070202879 - Method and apparatus for managing routing area in mobile communication system: A method and apparatus is provided for reducing a signaling overhead in routing area update performed by a mobile station in a mobile communication system. The method includes grouping cells of the mobile communication system into predetermined cell groups by the network entity, wherein each of the predetermined cell groups... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070202877 - Transmission of filtering/filtered information over the iur interface: In a radio access network, a drift radio network controller (DRNC) [262] transmits to a serving radio network controller (SRNC) [261] either (1) a filtering rule for a candidate cell [so that the serving radio network controller (SRNC) can generate a measurement list for a user equipment unit having a... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070202880 - Method of estimating location of terminal in switched-beamforming based wireless communication system: A terminal location estimation method in a wireless communication system in which an access point (AP) provides an access service to a plurality of terminals includes defining a plurality of beam spaces around the AP through space multiplexing; scheduling the beam spaces according to a predetermined pattern; simultaneously forming a... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070202881 - Data processing: In a system and method for automatically handling an incoming inquiry related to an object item. Object data relating to the object item is stored in a database, and an inquiry telephone number to which the inquiry is made is linked to the object item in the database. The inquiry... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070202882 - Method and system for ranging in communication system: A method is provided a ranging method in a communication system. The method includes measuring the state of a channel between an Mobile Station (MS) and a Base Station (BS) when recognizing a need for ranging with the BS after acquiring synchronization with the BS; setting a channel state information... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070202883 - Multi-wireless protocol advertising: A communication technique includes broadcasting a signal that indicates at least a plurality of protocols supported by the device that broadcasts the signal. In a disclosed example, the device that broadcasts the signal is also capable of receiving broadcast signals from other devices. In one example, the broadcasting device is... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds, P.C.

20070202884 - System, apparatus and method for transmitting event information from a remote terminal to subscribers over a network: A system, apparatus and method for transmitting event information from a remote terminal to subscribers over a network. Remote terminal events, such as a missed call or and SMS messages etc. are routed to a secondary terminal when the subscriber is logged into his or her remote terminal account via... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070202886 - Location-specific broadcast messaging: An SMS CBS message includes location information that defines a relevant geographic area. A receiving device that is location aware is configured to receive the SMS CBS message and announce the message if the receiving device is within the relevant geographic area.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070202887 - Determining physical location based upon received signals: The subject disclosure pertains to systems and methods for determining locations of mobile devices. In particular, a set of regions is defined based upon the relative strength of signals received from one or more base stations within the region. Each region has associated location information (e.g., latitude and longitude). The... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070202889 - Method for puncturing a low density parity check code: Provided is a method for puncturing a Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) code that is expressed in a factor graph configured by a bit node and a check node connected to an edge and is decoded by a parity check matrix with an information region and a parity region. A... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070202885 - Method for sparse network deployment accuracy enhancements: A method for use in a wireless communication system with a network overlay geolocation system having a sparse deployment network in which base stations of the wireless communication system may or may not have a co-located wireless location sensors (WLS). The method enables detection and measurement of a target mobile's... Agent: Duane Morris

20070202888 - Methods and systems for estimating a user position in a wlan positioning system based on user assigned access point locations: A method of estimating a location of a WLAN-enabled user-device in a WLAN-based positioning system is provided. The WLAN-enabled device receives signals transmitted by WLAN-enabled access points in range of the WLAN-enabled user-device so that observed WLAN-enabled access points identify themselves. The method includes accessing a master database that associates... Agent: Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale And Dorr LLP

20070202890 - Video, voice and location finder wireless communication system: A wireless system for receiving, processing and transmitting video, voice and location finder signals and for providing filtered cross-correlated in-phase and quadrature phase baseband signals and non-quadrature baseband signals for transmission. The cross-correlated in-phase and quadrature phase baseband signals include applications in Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) and or Code... Agent: Kamilo Feher

20070202892 - Method for transferring a paging request message for a mobile terminal: The present invention concerns a method for transferring a paging request message for a mobile terminal of a wireless telecommunication network composed of at least a first node which has at least managed a cell selected by the mobile terminal, the first node transferring signals in the cell. The method... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070202891 - Methods for reducing paging load in generic access networks: Methods for reducing paging load when a Mobile Station (MS) switches between a cell providing access according to a first radio access technology (RAT) and a cell providing access according to General Access Network (GAN) radio access technology, wherein different radio resource (RR) entities in the MS are associated with... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070202894 - Replying to an sms broadcast message: A method includes receiving a broadcast message at a receiver device. The message includes identification information identifying a message-type associated with the message, reply-to information, and user information. The method further includes determining the received message is a broadcast message based on the message-type of the message and determining the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070202898 - Apparatus and method for supporting multimedia service in mobile terminal: An apparatus and a method for supporting a multimedia service which is capable of collecting opinions on a certain subject by receiving an opinion message in response to an opinion request message attached a plurality of images transmitted together with check widgets is provided. The method includes preparing at least... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070202899 - Permission based text messaging: A system and method for narrowcasting text messages to a plurality of cellular phones. The system and method allow a potential user to opt in to receive the text messages the user wants to receive. The potential user can opt in through a computer network based web page. Once the... Agent: Mark Manley University Of Central Missouri

20070202893 - Radio repeater: A radio repeater (8) operates in a radio communication system (1) (such as a Bluetooth® communication system) including a mobile telephone (2) and a personal digital assistant (PDA) (3) each having a (Bluetooth®) transceiver (5,6). The repeater (8) is housed in a headset (7) incorporating an earpiece and microphone (not... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070202895 - Sms notification of called party availability: Methods and systems are presented for notifying a previously unsuccessful mobile calling party of a mobile called party's availability, in which a home location register causes an announcement to be sent to the unsuccessful calling party indicating that the called party is currently unavailable and that the calling party will... Agent: Richard J. Minnich, Esq. Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & Mckee, LLP

20070202896 - System for transmitting/receiving short messages (sms) between mobile terminals and remote servers: It allows bidirectional sending of short messages (SMS) between a remote server and a user of a mobile terminal (5), which communicates with a short message service center (SMSC) (4) through a mobile telephony network (6). The mobile terminals (5) include first translating means for translating the received SMS into... Agent: Klauber & Jackson

20070202897 - Wireless internet gateway: A wireless Internet gateway which bridges the gap between the Internet and wireless devices, e.g., via a short message service center (SMSC). The disclosed wireless Internet gateway provides a portal to SMPP, HTTP, TNPP, or other protocol messages using Java Remote Method Invocation (RMI) techniques. Application servers (e.g., in communication... Agent: Manelli Denison & Selter PLLC 7th Floor

20070202900 - Method and apparatus for interactive audience participation at a live entertainment event: A method and system provide interactive participation during activity occurring at a college campus venue. Enjoyment for a plurality of enrolled participants is enhanced. Participants employ wireless interactive devices that present a promotional message and include user input and output interfaces. Participants are queried, and enter answers via the user... Agent: Ernest D. Buff Ernest D. Buff And Associates, LLC.

20070202901 - Method of controlling interference from a transmitter in one communication system to a receiver in another communication system: A method of controlling interference from a transmitter (4) in one communication system to a receiver (1) in another communication system, the method comprising transmitting a beacon (3) beacon from a beacon transmitter associated with the receiver representative of a frequency at which the receiver is trying to receive; listening... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070202903 - Time and frequency synchronization method for ofdma uplink receivers and base stations: A method, and components for performing such method, is provided for synchronizing multiple user signals in a multi-user communication system. An interference matrix is generated based on time delay and frequency offset information for the active users accessing an OFDMA uplink receiver. User signals are received from the active users... Agent: Stmicroelectronics, Inc.

20070202902 - Dedicated synchronization signal for ofdma system: A mobile node, method, apparatus and system for neighbor cell identification and measurements in a wireless network. A first synchronization signal is provided a first base station, wherein the received first synchronization signal is on a predetermined frequency of a transmission bandwidth. Initial synchronization is performed. A second synchronization signal... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070202904 - Scheduling method and base station apparatus: A scheduling method and base station apparatus capable of maintaining an upstream line transfer rate in a local cell, while suppressing an adverse affection, which would otherwise be caused by interference, on another cell, that is, the reduction of an upstream line transfer rate in the other cell. In the... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20070202909 - Method for push-to-talk over mobile communication devices: A method makes it possible to establish PTT connections among mobile communication devices that belong to different service groups of different servers. The mobile communication devices are capable of directly transmitting signals and data to each other in a peer-to-peer manner according to session initiation protocol (SIP). The permission to... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070202907 - Method and system for providing interoperable communications with congestion management: A method for providing interoperable communications with congestion management includes facilitating communications of a plurality of virtual talk groups. Each virtual talk group comprises a plurality of endpoints of different communication networks communicating using a respective communication channel. The method includes detecting, for a first virtual talk group of the... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070202908 - Method and system for providing interoperable communications with dynamic event area allocation: A method for providing interoperable communications with dynamic event area allocation includes facilitating communications of a plurality of virtual talk groups, each virtual talk group including a plurality of endpoints of different communication networks communicating using a respective communication protocol. The method includes receiving notice of an event comprising an... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070202905 - Method for providing enhanced floor control for group calls between a dispatch communications network and a cellular telephone communications network: A method for providing enhanced floor control (500) between a dispatch communications network and a cellular telephone communications network includes transmitting a transmit delay message (517) by a network control entity (505) to a communications device (501) in the cellular telephone network when a talk reservation request (515) has first... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20070202906 - Prepackaging call messages for each target interation in setting up a push-to-talk call: Systems and methods are provided for setting up a push-to-talk group call in a wireless communications system 100. The call setup information in a call message 400 is established as potential targets 108-114 are identified on a wireless device 106 to reduce call setup time and overall system latency.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070202910 - System and method for providing communication resources to wireless dispatch priority users: A wireless push-to-talk (PIT) communication system 100 assigns a special dispatch priority to for emergency communications to and from police, fire dept. or communications to other emergency personnel. A communication which has been assigned dispatch priority takes precedence over all other non-dispatch priority communications for initially completing the call and... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070202913 - Base station and radio communication method: There is provided with a base station which carries out radio communication with mobile stations, including: a frame generation section configured to successively generate time frames to be transmitted to the mobile stations; a storage configured to store transmit power information specifying transmission power to be applied for each of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070202911 - System and method for energy efficient signal detection in a wireless network device: An incoming signal, such as a data frame, is detected in a RF stage (302) of a wireless station (300). This allows the baseband stage (304) to be in a low power or off state until an incoming signal is detected. By detecting an incoming signal in the RF stage... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20070202912 - Transmission line power supply for energy efficient circuits: A transmission line supplies an alternating supply voltage to electronic circuits of a system. Energy is recycled using the transmission line. Energy from one circuit is discharged and stored in transmission, and this energy may be used subsequently to charge another circuit. The invention will materially contribute to the more... Agent: Aka Chan LLP

20070202916 - Mobile communication terminal supporting tty device for hard-of-hearing or speech-disabled person and communication method thereof: A mobile communication terminal supporting a teletypewriter (TTY) device for a hard-of-hearing or speech-disabled user is provided. The mobile communication terminal includes: a controller activating a vocoder corresponding to a TTY mode selected by a user; a vocoder encoding a Baudot tone received from the TTY device into a voice... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070202915 - Mobile communication device providing communication pathway determination assistance: A system and method in a mobile communication device for providing assistance to a user in determining a communication pathway. A mobile communication device may comprise a communication interface module adapted to communicate over at least a first plurality of communication pathways. At least one module may be adapted to... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070202914 - Wireless telephone handset with internet browsing capability: A wireless handset having the capability of browsing full Internet web pages is disclosed. The handset includes a position sensing device, such as an optical sensor or a mouse ball and rollers, at its bottom surface. In an Internet browsing operating mode, a portion of a web page is displayed... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070202917 - Display and speaker module: A flat panel display and speaker module (2) for a mobile communication device (1) is provided comprising a flat panel speaker integrated with a flexible liquid crystal display. At least one actuator (28, 29) is glued to a plastic substrate (21, 22) of the flexible display and applies a force... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070202918 - Apparatus and method for testing and analyzing base station with smart antenna, and protocol structure: Disclosed is a downlink signal configuring method and device, and synchronization and cell search method and device using the same in a mobile communication system. A downlink frame has plural symbols into which pilot subcarriers are distributively arranged with respect to time and frequency axes. Initial symbol synchronization and initial... Agent: Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP

20070202920 - Low noise figure radiofrequency device: A RF device such as a tower mounted amplifier (TMA), mast-head amplifier (MHA), or Tower Mounted Boosters (TMB) includes a housing having a plurality of cavities and an input and an output, the input being coupled to the antenna and the output being coupled to a base station. The housing... Agent: VistaIPLaw Group LLP

20070202921 - Method for performing measurements for handoff of a mobile unit operating with a switched beam antenna in a wireless communication system, and corresponding system: Measurements for handoff are made by a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) operating with a switched beam antenna in a wireless communication system. The switched beam antenna is a smart antenna generating a plurality of directional beams and an omni-directional beam. The WTRU measures signals from a plurality of cells with... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20070202919 - Separating mixed signals in a cellular environment: Separating mixed signals includes receiving the mixed signals from signal sources transmitting from a number of cells. A signal source is operable to transmit a source signal, and a mixed signal comprises at least a subset of the source signals. A complex mixing matrix is established from the mixed signals.... Agent: Baker Botts LLP

20070202924 - Method and apparatus for activating features in a mobile communication system: The invention relates to a method for activating different features in a mobile communication system, by implementing at least one hot key and a plurality of features; when one or more of said at least one hot key is triggered, a special feature corresponding to the triggered hot key would... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070202922 - Method and system for distributing data to mobile devices: A method and system for distributing mobile applications includes receiving, processing and displaying advertisements on mobile terminals. Data is visualized on a display area of a mobile terminal that receives process data including an executable process. The mobile terminal receives a visualization request from the process; selects data in accordance... Agent: David E. Huang, Esq. Bainwood Huang & Associates LLC

20070202923 - System and method for transferring media content between a portable device and a video display: A system and method for operating a portable device, includes but is not limited to a method including identifying one or more entities capable of displaying media content available to and/or stored on the portable device, storing one or more user-controlled parameters of the media content on the portable device... Agent: Anderson Law Group, PLLC

20070202927 - Automated search and rescue call generation to mobile phones in a defined geographic disaster area: An apparatus and method are provided that receives locations of mobile phones in an area under a pending or current disaster/evacuation notice, and automatically generates calls to the mobile phones. Upon contacting the mobile phone user, automated voice inquires verify the location of the mobile phone user and determine the... Agent: Patti , Hewitt & Arezina LLC

20070202928 - Method and apparatus for user equipment (ue) channel acquisition in the presence of large frequency uncertainty in wcdma signals: Aspects of a method and apparatus for user equipment (UE) channel acquisition in the presence of large frequency uncertainty in wideband code division multiple access (WCDMA) signals are provided. An efficient time-frequency domain search that may be utilized in cell communications may be performed by devising criteria that eliminates the... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070202926 - Method for routing audio in a mobile communication device and mobile communication device using same: A mobile communication device (100) has a plurality of associated ringers for alerting a user to the occurrence of an incoming call (310). The mobile communication device rings a first ringer (312) for a predetermined number of rings or for a predetermined duration. If the call is not answered while... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20070202925 - System and method of displaying incoming communication alerts at a wireless device: A method of providing an alert of an incoming communication is disclosed and includes receiving an incoming communication at a wireless device and determining whether the wireless device has access to a photograph that is associated with an identified source of the incoming communication. Further, the method includes displaying the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070202929 - Portable telephone: A portable telephone includes: a voice input section; a voice output section; an interface required to connect the portable telephone to an external device for making a handsfree phone call; and a control section, wherein when a failure occurs in the connection between the portable telephone and the external device... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20070202930 - Method and system for testing embedded echo canceller in wireless network: An embedded echo canceller in a wireless network is tested by routing traffic signals through the echo canceller and measuring input and output signals of the echo canceller as it operates to remove echo signals from the traffic signals. To test the operation of the echo canceller in regards to... Agent: Mccormick, Paulding & Huber LLP

20070202931 - Data communications enabled by wire free power transfer: A system and method is provided for enabling data transfer over the same electrical routing network utilized by the mobile device to obtain electric power from an external power source. The system includes a contact base connected to a power supply, and mobile device adapters. The contact base is a... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP (sv)IPDocketing

20070202932 - System and method for reducing standby power consumption: The disclosed embodiments relate to a system and method for reducing standby power consumption in an electronic device. There is provided an electronic device (10) comprising receiver circuitry (16), and power supply control circuitry (18) coupled in series with the receiver circuitry (16), wherein a ground connection of the receiver... Agent: Joseph J. Laks, Vice President Thomson Licensing LLC

20070202933 - Display window cover assemblies and electronic devices and methods using the same: An electronic device has a display window and includes a composite display window cover assembly and a display device. The composite display window cover assembly is disposed in the display window. The composite display window cover assembly includes a glass panel and a plastic panel secured to the glass panel.... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20070202934 - Mobile communication device having removable headset: Provided is a mobile communication device having a removable headset. The removable headset is mounted in a housing of the mobile communication device, and performs wireless communication with the housing when removed from the housing and provides a receiving unit when mounted in the housing. The headset is easy to... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070202935 - Mobile terminal: A mobile phone is provided that includes a first body, a second body slidably connected to the first body, and an input device formed in the second body. The input device includes a roller member rotatably supported in the second body, the roller member defining a rotational axis, and at... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070197165 - Doppler compensation control for radio transmission: A Doppler compensation method is used for radio transmission between a mobile body possibly but not exclusively a train and some base station, both mobile body and base station comprise respectively a transceiver connected to an antenna for the radio transmission. The method comprises the step of determining the direction... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070197167 - Spatial diversity receiving device and input channel switching method: The invention relates to a spatial diversity receiving device and an input channel switching method. The device comprises a main control circuit and at least one receiving channel including a RF selective switch, wherein the circuit controls the switch, so as to select one of the plurality of input signals... Agent: Leopold Presser Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser

20070197160 - Music share: The present invention details a low cost novel apparatus and method of coordinated broadcasting of music among connected peer listeners in a wireless ad-hoc networking environment. One or more receiver/listeners and one or more broadcasting/listeners equipped with a portable music player in local proximity, can use short-range wireless transmission to... Agent: Kristyn K. Heath

20070197161 - Cellular wide-area radio communications system with relay-enhanced cells: In a cellular wide-area radio communications system, comprising a plurality of base stations; a plurality of relay stations; and a plurality of mobile stations; wherein each of the relay stations is associated with at least one of the base stations, each of the mobile stations is associated with at least... Agent: Klaus J. Bach

20070197162 - Communication relay apparatus, communication relay method, and computer product: A communication relay apparatus that relays a wireless communication for a communication device includes a wireless transmitting unit and a wireless receiving unit. the wireless transmitting unit transmits data to the communication device via a transmission antenna. The wireless receiving unit receives data from the communication device via a reception... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070197163 - Combination modes for network connection management: A network connection establishment protocol is made more secure by directly associating a non-discoverable mode with a non-pairable mode in a combined non-discoverable/non-pairable mode. Advantageously, rather that allowing incoming pairing requests even when a device is non-discoverable, the device in the closed mode rejects all pairing requests. Responsive to specific... Agent: Smart And Biggar

20070197164 - Method and device for automatic bluetooth pairing: Described are a method and a Bluetooth device that upon powering up (202), the device automatically enters (306) discoverable mode without user intervention when its paired device list is empty (304). Also described is emptying (206) the paired device list. Further described is a method and Bluetooth device having one... Agent: Motorola Inc

20070197166 - Receiver apparatus, receiving method, and wireless communication system: A receiving apparatus, a receiving method, and a radio communications system are disclosed. The receiving apparatus is for receiving CDMA signals transmitted by M antennas and received by N antennas, where M and N are positive integers. The receiving apparatus includes a multipath receiving signal demodulating unit for primary demodulation... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070197168 - Measurement apparatus, test apparatus, and measurement method: A signal whose voltage level fluctuates with respect to a high voltage is measured with favorable accuracy. Provided is a measurement apparatus for measuring a fluctuation of a voltage level of an input signal with respect to a reference voltage, where the voltage level of the input signal fluctuates with... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20070197169 - Systems and methods for transmitter and channel characterization: A system and method for characterizing components for generating or communicating signals. A predefined test signal, such as a repeating sequence of symbols, or a pseudo-random binary sequence, is generated by a signal transmitter. A reference waveform is generated from the test signal. An acquired waveform is generated by collecting... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20070197170 - Transceiver arrangement and method for processing a signal: A transceiver arrangement includes a first receive path with a first connection and a first receive amplifier, and a second receive path with a second connection, a second receive amplifier, and a frequency conversion device. A controllable coupling device is configured to couple an output of the first receive amplifier... Agent: Eschweiler & Associates, LLC National City Bank Building

20070197171 - Communication terminal unit capable of receiving a message and method for identifying a message sender in the same: A communication terminal unit capable of identifying a message sender by comparing a source address attached to a received message with an address registered in a memory of the unit in advance, which can identify the message sender even if the source address has an error by regarding the erroneous... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070197172 - System and method for compensating for modulation induced frequency shift during transmission of a radio frequency signal: A method for compensating for frequency shifts during transmission of an RF control signal includes receiving a request to enter a transmission mode from a user. A carrier signal having a frequency is generated and the frequency of the carrier signal is measured. The measured frequency of the carrier signal... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20070197173 - Iterative multi-stage detection technique for a diversity receiver having multiple antenna elements: An iterative multistage detection system and method for orthogonally multiplexing K channels onto a signal processing chain using N orthogonal sequences of length N. The K channels include a first set of N channels and a second set of M channels (the M channels being separate and distinct from the... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070197174 - Method and apparatus for reception of mobile broadcast: An apparatus for reception of a mobile broadcast is disclosed. The apparatus includes a mobile broadcast reception unit for receiving a broadcast signal transmitted through a mobile broadcasting network, demodulating the broadcast signal into a baseband signal, and outputting the baseband signal; and a wireless Internet broadcast reception unit for... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20070197175 - Method for displaying task executed on mobile communication terminal: The present invention is related to a mobile communication terminal capable of displaying a task executed thereon. The mobile communication terminal includes a first display for initially displaying one or more tasks simultaneously being executed on the mobile communication terminal, a second display for subsequently displaying the one or more... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070197176 - Fm signal demodulation method and device thereof: An FM signal demodulating method and a device thereof are provided, for easily changing the sensitivity, as an FM signal demodulator, preventing the change in response speed due to the change of the sensitivity and using differentiation without waveform distortion. Reference signals with phases different from each other by 90... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070197177 - Squelch detecting circuit: The present invention provides a squelch detecting circuit capable of high-speed transfer while using a reduced number of high-speed operating operational amplifiers to reduce power consumption and the cost of parts. Input differential signals inputted to a differential amplification circuit are amplified and the amplified signal is outputted to a... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070197179 - Optimally adaptive receiver: An improved radio frequency receiver and method enabling the dynamic range of a radio frequency receiver to be extended are disclosed. In the receiver system, the effective received channel power is a combination of the wanted signal level, the noise floor and any in band spurious signals generated from blocking... Agent: Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman, LLP

20070197178 - Automatic gain control system for receivers in wireless communications: An AGC system in a receiver adjusts the front-end gain not only based on the received sector power level, but also based on the strength of the present interference. When there is no presence of strong electromagnetic interference, the front-end gain of the receiver is set at a high level... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070197180 - Adaptive impedance matching module (aimm) control architectures: An embodiment of the present invention an apparatus, comprising an adaptive impedance matching module (AIMM) adapted to minimize the magnitude of an input reflection coefficient seen at an RFin port under boundary conditions of a variable load impedance ZL, a tuner connected to the AIMM and including a plurality of... Agent: James S. Finn C/o William Tucker

20070197181 - Apparatus and method of switching intervals: The present invention provides a way of hysteretic switching for efficiently reducing the heavy switching between two adjacent coarse intervals. The present invention disposes a number of fine intervals to cover a range which is larger than the length of one coarse interval. Each coarse interval comprises some extra fine... Agent: Madson & Austin Gateway Tower West

20070197182 - Radio equipment: A radio equipment, wherein an attenuator (10) is inserted between antennas (91, 92) and a radio module (2), and output and input sensitivities are raised and lowered simultaneously so as to keep the balance of a radio covering range with an input receiver coverage at a constant, and the antenna... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070197183 - Transceiver development in vhf/uhf/gsm/gps/bluetooth/cordless telephones: A digital communication circuit can be implemented can be implemented in a CMOS, or other IC structure. The digital circuit can utilize negative frequency removers or image frequency removers in the digital domain. The circuit can include mixers, switches, a complex filter, a low noise amplifier and summers. The image... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20070197184 - Method and apparatus for minimizing harmonic interference in synchronous radio receivers by apodization: A method and apparatus for minimizing harmonic interference in a radio receiver is presented. A received radio signal is periodically switched to an integrator as a positive signal, periodically switched to the integrator as a negative signal, and the integrator is periodically switched to ground to block the received signal... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20070197185 - System and method for reducing odd harmonic mixing in broadband tuners: The invention provides a broadband tuner with a reduced odd harmonic mixing and a method for reducing odd harmonic mixing in the broadband tuner. The broadband tuner includes an arrangement of one or more filters, a plurality of mixers and one or more adders. The plurality of mixers mix a... Agent: William L Botjer

20070197186 - Power management: According to an embodiment of the invention the timing of one or more local communication windows can be defined using equations such that one or more local communication windows for two or more devices overlap. For example the periods between two consecutive local communication windows can be defined using a... Agent: Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP

20070197187 - On-vehicle audiovideo systems: An on-vehicle audio/video system is provided which comprises a controller, a data source and a playing device, wherein the controller comprises at least a first transmitter, and the data source comprises at least a first receiver, a first micro-controller and a second transmitter. The controller comprises at least a first... Agent: Dla Piper US LLP Attn: Patent Group

20070197189 - Automated account mapping in a wireless subscriber billing system: Systems and methods for automated account mapping in a wireless subscriber billing system are disclosed. An external ID associated with a wireless client device is captured from a billable event communicated between a wireless client device and a wireless subscriber billing system. Then, the external ID is associated with a... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070197188 - Prepay accounts for applications, services and content for communication devices: A system and method for managing a billing account including a client device, a transceiver, logic configured to establish at least one primary account wherein the at least one primary account represents periodic fees that are charged to the billing account on a periodic basis; and logic configured to establish... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070197190 - Access point and method for identifying communicable statuses for the same: An access point (100), for determining whether the access point and a plurality of other access points within the scope of the access point support the same pre-shared key (PSK), includes a dummy module (110) and a dummy mobile station (120). The dummy mobile station is produced by the dummy... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070197191 - Method for checking a configuration of a wireless communication device and related device: A method for checking a wireless communication device includes detecting whether the configuration of the wireless communication device conforms to a predetermined rule when a status of the wireless communication device conforms to a predetermined status, and executing a corresponding procedure when the configuration of the wireless communication device does... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070197192 - Method for executing electronic transactions using a mobile communication device: A method for executing an electronic transaction includes a mobile communication device reading a finance transaction card; inputting a security code into the mobile communication device for transmitting the security code to a service end; when the security code matches a predetermined code, the mobile communication device delivers a set... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070197194 - Cellular phone unit, control system of vehicle-mounted device, control method of cellular phone unit, control method of vehicle-mounted device, control program of cellular phone unit, control program of vehicle-mounted device, and recording medium recordi: A cellular phone unit (1) is provided with ID information input means for accepting an input of user ID information, ID judging means for judging whether or not the inputted user ID information is identical to pre-registered ID information, authentication information transmission permitting means for deciding whether or not to... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070197193 - Mobile terminal and a method for implementing the guardianship function: A mobile terminal with a guardianship function, includes: a first module, configured for collecting data related to use of the mobile terminal; a second module, configured for determining the use of the mobile terminal by analyzing the data collected by the first module; and a third module, configured for sending... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20070197196 - Apparatus, and associated method, for facilitating delivery and processing of push content: Apparatus, and an associated method, for facilitating delivery and processing of asynchronous push content communicated to a mobile station of a radio communication system. Replace outdated and background processing attributes are defined and operated upon the communicated content. Use of the replace outdated attribute avoids display of other than most-recent... Agent: Docket Clerk

20070197195 - Information notification controller, information notification system, and program: It is an object of the present invention to provide an information notification controller and an information notification control method that can provide information suited to users. It provides an information notification controller comprising a notification information reception unit 101 receiving first notification information; a notification information analysis unit 102... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070197199 - Providing different push-to-all (pta) services using one session: In a system and method of providing different Push-To-All (PTA) services using one session, when a PTA terminal intends to receive a Message Session Relay Protocol (MSRP) service while performing a Push-To-Talk (PTT) service or a Push-To-Video (PTV) service through a previously established PTA session, the PTA terminal requests the... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell Suite 300

20070197198 - Push-to-all (pta) service system and method of providing additional information: A Push-To-All (PTA) service system and method provides additional information. A PTA server provided with the additional information of a PTA terminal having the floor in a session from the corresponding PTA terminal through a TBCP_REQUEST message provides the additional information to other PTA terminals participating in the session through... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell Suite 300

20070197197 - Apparatus and methods for managing time sensitive application privileges on a wireless device: Apparatus and methods for managing time sensitive application privileges on a wireless device include a computer platform operable to execute an application having a time sensitivity requirement. A time retrieval service resident on the computer platform is operable to retrieve a date/time result, which may be associated with a confidence...