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... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070197200 - Multicast communication method in a cdma mobile communication system: A multicast communication method in a CDMA mobile communication system which is capable of reducing a transmission power in a base station system, and is capable of performing an efficient multicast operation for a large number of mobile subscribers is provided. The starting of information distribution by a multicast operation... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070197201 - Communication terminal: In a communication terminal using UIM, when a message disabling use of a content is received not by a communication terminal containing the content to disabled, but by another communication terminal containing the same content, the content stored in a storage unit of the communication terminal which has received the... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070197202 - System and method for application auto-disable/restore enhancement: A system and method for managing the deleting and reloading of software application components on a wireless device, such as a cellular telephone, personal digital assistant, pager, or other computer platform. The wireless device has one or more resident executable software applications wherein each application has one or more application... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070197203 - Method for remotely controlling a mobile communication device: A method of controlling a mobile communication device includes a first mobile communication device transmitting address data of the first mobile communication device to a second mobile communication device; the second mobile communication device transmitting a system specification of the second mobile communication device to the first mobile communication device... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070197204 - Wireless communication device and method of operating the same: A wireless communications network participant comprising: a plurality of communications subsystems, each subsystem being arranged to transmit and/or receive signals under a different telecommunications standard; means for generating a clock signal; and scheduling means for sending commands to at least one of the subsystems for its or their operation, the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070197205 - Wireless-communication-network system, communication-service providing method used in the system, program, and recording medium: User-authentication data, terminal information, and encoded information are received through infrared communication and/or communication using an IC card, a position-registration request is made to a micro radio-base station 2 on the basis of the received information, and communication performed between a mobile terminal 3 and a micro radio-base-station device is... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070197207 - Machine for improving cellular coverage and process for making the installation of the machine easy for a consumer for optimum performance: A machine and method for improving Cellular Coverage in poor coverage areas with special Circuitry and consumer feedback mechanisms that specifically improves the installation process to insure the best possible system performance, with Circuitry that mathematically analyzes and a feedback mechanism informing the consumer of the signal level from the... Agent: Robert James Carstens

20070197206 - Troubleshooting link and protocol in a wireless network: Methods, apparatuses, and systems directed to facilitating troubleshooting wireless connectivity issues in a wireless network. In accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, either a diagnostic supplicant in the wireless client or a diagnostic manager initiates a troubleshooting protocol between the diagnostic supplicant and the diagnostic manager over a... Agent: Law Office Of Mark J. Spolyar

20070197208 - Mobile station, mobile station communication control method, base station, and communication system: It aims at preferentially dealing with emergency communication etc. by a simple and effective method when emergency communication etc. is initiated. In emergency situation, at a mobile station 200, a special call part 206 is switched from a normal mode to an emergency mode, and a mobile station side communication... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070197209 - Data transmission line establishing system between mobile telephone terminals: In a network system including a radio base station to be accommodated in a mobile telephone network through an IP network, the radio base station, when receiving a calling request from a calling terminal, specifies a called terminal of the calling request. If the called terminal can receive the calling... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070197210 - Reducing the peak-to-average power ratio of a signal: Reducing the peak-to-average power ratio of a signal comprises receiving the input signal, where the input signal is associated with at least one unacceptable frequency range. The input signal is clipped about an amplitude range to yield a clipped signal and clipped information, where the clipped information represents intermodulation products.... Agent: Baker Botts LLP

20070197211 - Method and apparatus for determining a system in a mobile terminal: A system determination method and apparatus are provided which can again acquire a system in a shortened time when a mobile terminal has lost an acquired system in a weak electric field area. When power is applied, the terminal reads system information of an acquisition table of a preferred roaming... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070197215 - Apparatus and method for identification of locations within a cellular network subject to loss of roaming users to competing cellular networks: Apparatus for identification of locations within a cellular network subject to loss of roaming users, comprises a monitoring unit for monitoring International controlling signaling of the cellular network, a register for registering cancel signals associated with roaming cellular telephones leaving the cellular network, and a query unit, for responding to... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan Prtsi, Inc.

20070197214 - Encapsulation techniques for handling information services messages for wireless networks: Various embodiments are described relating to encapsulation techniques or handling information services messages for wireless networks. One embodiment comprises generating at a first wireless node a request to transmit a message of a first communications specification to a second wireless node that is not authenticated nor associated with the first... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP

20070197217 - Gps-based traffic monitoring system: A cellular phone comprises a cellular phone control module that controls the cellular phone, a global positioning system (GPS) selectively generates vector and location data, and a transmitter. The cellular phone control module selectively wirelessly transmits the vector and location data using the transmitter when at least one of the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce P.L.C

20070197216 - Method for locking terminal home: A method for locking a terminal home, which may ensure that in a preferential activity of the network operator, a gift, discounted or rented terminal may be used when it is limited in a designated area or network, so that “sales across regions” in the prior art may be prevented.... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070197213 - Optimal voicemail deposit for roaming cellular telephony: Apparatus and method for management of optimal voicemail deposit to the voicemail of a currently roaming mobile telephony user during late call forwarding, is located at the user's home network and includes a disconnection unit for disconnecting an international link upon detection of late call forwarding; a triggering unit that... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan Prtsi, Inc.

20070197212 - System and method for mobile terminated call blocking: A system comprises a database operable to mobile terminated call blocking rules, and a mobile terminated call blocking module operable to receive data associated with a mobile terminated call attempt, determine whether the mobile terminated call attempt should be blocked by accessing the database, and block the mobile terminated call... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20070197218 - Channel acquisition: A method for establishing a radio communication channel by means of a first air interface between a first device and a second device, the method comprising: transmitting from one of the devices to the other by means of a second air interface information that at least partially identifies the channel;... Agent: Novak Druce Deluca & Quigg, LLP

20070197219 - Verifying availability of idle-mode mobile subscriber station in wireless access system: A method of verifying availability of a mobile subscriber station that is in an idle-mode includes requesting to a base station by the mobile subscriber station to enter an idle-mode, wherein the base station is associated with a paging group comprising a plurality of base stations, and receiving from the... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070197220 - Apparatus, and associated method, for providing inner-cell registration of access terminal in a radio communication system: Apparatus, and an associated method, for controlling generation of a registration message by an access terminal to register the access terminal with an access network. A configuration message broadcast by an access network station indicates if the network station is inner-cell-enabled capable and includes a value of a selected threshold,... Agent: Research In Motion, Ltd

20070197221 - Handoff system and method for dual mode terminal: In a handoff system and method for a dual mode terminal, the handoff system includes: a dual mode terminal which receives a message containing location information of a router of a second network while performing handoff from a first network to the second network, and which transmits a registration request... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell Suite 300

20070197223 - Apparatus and method for transmitting/receiving forward rate control information in mobile communication system: An apparatus and method for transmitting/receiving forward rate control information in a mobile communication system. The method of transmitting forward rate control information in a terminal of a mobile communication system in which an Access Node (AN) provides a sector cover corresponding to each of active sectors for the terminal... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070197222 - Arrangements and method for handling macro diversity in a universal mobile telecommunications system: The present invention relates to methods and arrangements for providing macro diversity, also referred to as diversity handover, DHO, related instructions to a node, e.g. a Node B, that is a part of a DHO connection in a mobile telecommunication network wherein the macro diversity functionality is distributed to a... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070197226 - Authenticating a removable user identity module to an internet protocol multimedia subsystem (ims): The present invention provides a method that may include accessing a first address and an identifier provided by a mobile unit, providing the identifier, receiving a second address associated with the identifier in response to providing the identifier, and authenticating the mobile unit based on the first and second addresses.... Agent: Williams, Morgan & Amerson

20070197224 - Client server outgoing call management system: The present invention provides a communication system and methods comprising a mobile terminal originating a service call to a communication server, instructing the communication server to take specific actions. When the user of the mobile terminal dials out a destination number, adapted software or hardware logic on the mobile terminal... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20070197225 - Signal source data input for radio frequency planning: A method includes displaying a reference polar coordinate system on a display screen, and displaying a radiation pattern image on the display screen in juxtaposition with the displayed reference polar coordinate system. In another aspect, an angled line is drawn on a display screen to represent the proposed layout of... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070197227 - System and method for enabling combinational services in wireless networks by using a service delivery platform: Under one aspect, a method of providing combinational services to a user endpoint includes providing a radio access network in communication with the user endpoint; providing a circuit-switched (CS) network in communication with the radio access network, the CS network comprising at least one mobile switching center (MSC) capable of... Agent: Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale And Dorr LLP

20070197228 - System and method for improved mobile connectivity via a content management platform: A platform for providing mobile services maintains a network module for communicating with at least one mobile network and an MVNO module for communication with at least two MVNO service providers. When a user contacts the platform and receives mobile services including MVNO services from at least two different MVNO... Agent: Sofer & Haroun LLP.

20070197232 - Wireless communication device and medium processing apparatus: A wireless communication device according to embodiments includes a position detection unit configured to detect the position of the wireless communication medium in a moving path, and a control unit configured to control communication based on the detection signal from the position detection unit.... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070197230 - Communication system, method of communication between and among vehicles and vehicle comprising such a communication system: In order to provide a communication system (100) as well as a vehicle comprising such a communication system (100) for communication between and among vehicles (10, 12, 14, 16, 18) and a method for communication between and among vehicles (10, 12, 14, 16, 18) moving in any different directions within... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20070197229 - System and methods for direction finding using a handheld device: A system for indicating the relative direction of a target object or location as determined from the current position of a wireless communication device. The system employs Direction of Arrival determination using an antenna array for indicating the direction of a target device and includes facilities to activate a location-indicating... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070197231 - Transmission of wireless messages of current vehicle location and estimated arrival time to requestors: A wireless communication device disposed on a moving vehicle. The wireless communication device further includes a geographic location determination processor for determining a geographic location on a city map. The wireless communication device further receives a vehicle location and arrival schedule request for sending a message to a passenger waiting... Agent: Bo-in Lin

20070197233 - Method of location-oriented call screening for communication apparatus: A method for location-oriented call screening on incoming calls by a communication apparatus comprises the steps of recording at least one piece of location information; extracting a piece of current site information; receiving an incoming call signal; determining whether said current site information matches at least one piece of said... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070197234 - 1x and 1xev-do hybrid call setup: Systems and methods for hybrid call setup in a wireless communication system are disclosed. A page is sent on a first network informing a target device of a pending communication on a second network. The page also informs the target device a short data burst (SDB) will be sent on... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070197238 - Communication system, communication apparatus and method for setting communication parameters of the apparatus: A wireless terminal which newly joins a wireless communication system transmits a message containing its identification data to an access point in the wireless communication system at a communication parameter setting start. Upon receiving the message, the access point determines whether or not the wireless terminal has been registered. If... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070197239 - Global wireless unified messaging system and method: Disclosed herein is a method for providing global wireless unified messaging including receiving a registration of a wireless device corresponding to a user, associating a event with the user, receiving an alert relating to the event, and transmitting a event alert to the wireless device responsive to the alert.... Agent: Troutman Sanders LLP

20070197236 - Method for controlling wireless appliances using short message service, home network system and mobile terminal: Disclosed are a system and method for controlling home appliances using a short message service. When receiving a short message including an access code from a mobile terminal, the home server checks the status of the connected home appliances and sends a short message including control codes corresponding to the... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070197235 - 1x and 1xev-do hybrid call setup: The present invention discloses a Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast service (MBMS) session start method and a system thereof. The MBMS session start method includes the steps of: an MBMS Center (BM-SC) initiating a session start request message via a GGSN to an SGSN; receiving the MBMS session start request message, the SGSN... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070197240 - Apparatus and method for controlling packet service in mobile communication terminal: Provided are an apparatus and method for a packet network register in a mobile communication terminal. The method includes demodulating an incoming broadcasting message; determining a packet network resource state according to specific information contained in the demodulated broadcasting message; determining whether a packet network register is required according to... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070197237 - Apparatus and method to provision access point credentials into mobile stations: Some embodiments provide a method that sends information about a wireless communication system access point to a server. The method receives the access point information at the mobile station from the server. The method enables the mobile station to access the wireless communication system through the access point by using... Agent: Adeli Law Group, A Professional Law Corporation

20070197241 - Use of timing and synchronization of an orthogonal frequency division multiplex in combined satellite-terrestrial network: A system and a method of communicating a data signal in a network of geographically spread out transceivers including a plurality of transmitters. At least one of the transmitters is on a satellite. The plurality of transmitters communicate wirelessly with a receiver. Each of the plurality of transmitters transmits a... Agent: Dla Piper US LLP

20070197242 - Mobile terminal capable of receiving broadcasting and operating method thereof: A mobile terminal which reduces power loss, has improved characteristics for operating in a strong electric field area, and is capable of receiving broadcasting signals such as digital multimedia broadcasting (DMB) signals, includes an antenna module which operates as either a passive antenna or an active antenna, and a control... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070197243 - Method and arrangement for detecting a radio coverage: A method and arrangement for detecting a radio coverage in a synchronous multicellular mobile radio system having a multitude of synchronous base stations that are connected to an evaluating unit are provided. All base stations are operated in succession in a measuring operating mod. A respective field intensity of base... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070197245 - Apparatus for setting communication channels adaptively to a radio wave environment to improve the degree of freedom of deployment and a method therefor: A wireless LAN includes two interfaces with a transmitter-receiver function and a channel controller. One of the two interfaces employs one communication channel to search for a communication channel being used by a destination communication unit. The channel controller determines a surrounding radio wave condition based on the communication channel... Agent: Venable LLP

20070197244 - Method of allocating links in a 1x evdo system: The present invention is directed to a method of allocating links in a base station of a 1×EVDO (EVolution Data Only) system. Conventionally, since a 1×EVDO system sequentially allocates a link to a user who requested a call setup irrespective of the link status, some of the allocated links may... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20070197246 - Delayed response to an access probe: Apparatuses and methodologies are described that mitigate signal pollution in a wireless communication system. According to one aspect, user devices can request signals for use in access point selection. Access points can be selected based upon the received strength of their signals. In one aspect, access points can delay the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070197247 - Method and apparatus for interactive participation at a live entertainment event: A method and apparatus provide interactive participation at live entertainment events. Enjoyment for a plurality of 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 wagers via the user input interface. The wagers are... Agent: Ernest D. Buff Ernest D. Buff And Associates, LLC.

20070197249 - Apparatus and method for selectively initiating a data call for a group communication in wireless communication networks: Apparatus and method for selectively enabling an early push-to-talk (PTT) call set up request in a wireless communications network. When a user activates a directory application on a wireless device, the wireless device checks for network information received from a base station. If the network information indicates that the network... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070197250 - System and method for creating an ad hoc group in a push-to-talk system: A system and method for creating an ad hoc communications group in a push-to-talk (PTT) system. A user may create an ad hoc group for a PTT communications by selecting members from different sources in a wireless communications device. The user may select members from a caller identification list, a... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070197248 - System and method for multiple simultaneous communication groups in a wireless system: A system and method enable a wireless device to support simultaneously multiple push-to-talk (PTT) communications and interrupt certain PTT communication with higher priority ones. A user subscribes to multiple PTT communication groups and designates one of the groups as the primary group. The wireless device receives and plays PTT communications... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070197251 - Methods of reverse link power control: Methods of reverse link power control are provided. In a first example reverse link power control process, a signal-to-interference+noise (SINR) is measured for a plurality of mobile stations. A power control adjustment is determined for each of the mobile stations based on the measured SINR for the mobile station and... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070197252 - Power control apparatus for wireless telecommunication system: In a wireless telecommunication system, a power control apparatus performs a data telecommunication with a control target apparatus and receives data arrival acknowledgement information transmitted therefrom in a data retransmission layer. Then it judges a reception quality of the control target apparatus by using the received data arrival acknowledgement information... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070197253 - Power control apparatus for wireless telecommunication system: A power control apparatus performs data telecommunication with a mobile station and receives data quality information transmitted therefrom in a wireless telecommunication system. Then it judges a reception quality of the mobile station by using the received data quality information and changes a target power quality which is set up... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070197254 - Serving sector directed power control: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate serving sector directed transmit power control in a wireless communication environment. Under certain conditions, an access point can have better data with which to determine appropriate power levels than an individual terminal. Accordingly, an access point can transmit power control information to one... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070197256 - Method and device for providing multiple communication protocols with a single transceiver: A wireless communication device and the method thereof are disclosed. The wireless communication device in accordance with the present invention includes an integrated protocol layer supporting a first communication protocol and a second communication protocol; a single transceiver operative to transmit and receive signals of said first and said second... Agent: Jenny Chen

20070197257 - Method, apparatus, and program for automated property adjustment in a cellular network: A mechanism is provided for detecting when a wireless device is entering a quiet zone. An out-of-range condition is created in an entryway to a quiet zone. When a wireless device is in a transition zone, the device transmits a re-scan message with a unit identification in an attempt to... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070197255 - System and method for switching operating modes of a mobile station: When operating a mobile station in an Enhanced General Packet Radio Service (EGPRS)-compliant mode of operation, a first performance of the mobile station (110) in the EGPRS-compliant mode of operation is evaluated based upon received operating parameters. A second performance of the mobile station (110) in a General Packet Radio... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070197258 - Signal transmission apparatus: Up and down signal levels in a wireless base station and a forward base station can be automatically adjusted into predetermined levels respectively with a simple configuration. In an interface portion 12, a pilot signal P of a predetermined level is generated by a pilot signal generator 120, and multiplexed... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070197259 - Mobile phone with camera: A mobile telephone with a camera function has an optimum shooting posture and optimum storage ability. The mobile telephone has a first housing and a second housing which are so connected by a hinge to enable longitudinal folding. A main display section has an operation section containing a set of... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070197260 - Interface for mobile devices and methods: Apparatus and methods for providing a common interface for multiple applications and/or functions in a mobile communication device (MCD). In one exemplary embodiment, this common interface is provided by including one or more micro-servers within the MCD and capable of receiving and processing information from other functions, both internal and... Agent: Gazdzinski & Associates

20070197261 - Mobile telephone all in one remote key or software regulating card for radio bicycle locks, cars, houses, and rfid tags, with authorisation and payment function: The “All In One Remote Keys” (AIORK) for (GSM, UMTS, W-LAN, Bluetooth, RFID-transceiver) mobile phones and/or extension kits is a universal key for all kind of locks, gates or entrances and it has a direct payment- and clearing function for electronic (Bluetooth, WLan, GSM and esp. NFC RFID-) cash payments... Agent: Breiner & Breiner, L.L.C.

20070197262 - Plug-in network appliance: A plug-in network appliance is disclosed. In one aspect, a network appliance performs a bridge between two wireless communication formats. In another aspect, a network appliance is deployed to perform position location services. In another aspect, a mesh network comprising one or more network appliances is deployed. A mesh network... Agent: Clause Eight Intellectual Property Services

20070197263 - Handsfree kit for a mobile telephone: A handsfree kit for a mobile telephone uses RDS signals for transferring calls to the loudspeaker of a car radio, as a circuit comprising an RDS generating circuit has an antenna output for connection to the antenna input of the car radio, said circuit having an antenna input which is... Agent: Altera Law Group, LLC

20070197264 - Cradle, receiving terminal and receiving method: When a portable receiving terminal is mounted on a cradle in an automobile, the satellite broadcasted contents is received by use of external antennas connected to the cradle, in place of built-in antennas contained in the portable receiving terminal. Accordingly, by use of the portable receiving terminal of the present... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070197265 - Level shifters and level shifting methods for suppressing current flow and generating fixed output values: A level shifter includes a level shifting circuit which receives input signal from a function block and changes the voltage level of the input signal, to output an output signal; a current blocking circuit, which suppresses current flowing to the level shifting circuit in an input suppression mode in which... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070197266 - Automatic dialing through wireless headset: An automatic dialing method through a wireless headset is provided, which contains two modules: a headset module implemented in the wireless headset; and a master module implemented in a communication device. When the wireless headset and the communication device are idle, a user triggers the headset module by activating a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070197267 - Mobile communication devices with internal antennas: A mobile communication device comprises an internal antenna device for receiving low-band signals of operating frequency band below 1 GHz, and the internal antenna device can be connected in series or parallel with an external antenna such as an earphone. The mobile communication device of the invention uses the internal... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070197269 - Folder type mobile terminal and operation control method for the same: The folder type mobile terminal is operated in a horizontal mode or vertical mode depending on a display state of a display unit of which a length and height are different, and includes a digital broadcast processor for receiving and processing digital broadcast data in a broadcast reception mode, a... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070197268 - Hinge mechanism and electronic incorporating the same, and assembling method thereof: A conventional horizontal axis portion is divided into two to have a triaxial structure including a vertical axis portion. Fixing these portions by a hinge main body enables stress and moment applied to each part to be reduced, resulting in realizing down-sizing of a biaxial hinge as a whole.... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070197270 - Sliding type mobile terminal: A mobile terminal having a first body, a second body slidably attached to the first body, and means for connecting the first body to the second body and allowing the second body to be moved between a closed position and an open position such that an overall thickness of the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070197271 - Holding device for a cellular phone: Disclosed is a holding device for a cellularphone (100), comprising a holding surface (215), a top holding rail (220, 435) that is spaced apart from the holding surface (215), and a pressing unit (300, 450). Said pressing unit (300) encompasses an elastic pressing element (340) which can apply a holding... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070190931 - Apparatus for playing back audio files and method of navigating through audio files using the apparatus: A method of navigating through audio files and an apparatus for playing back audio files using the method are provided. The apparatus for playing back audio files includes an input module which receives from a user a command to switch the apparatus to a navigation mode, a storage module which... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070190930 - In-cab educational services distribution system: The present invention is directed to an apparatus and method for providing access to educational and training services to truck drivers in the cabs of their trucks. The apparatus includes an in-vehicle communications system that combines Wi-Fi, cellular, IP radio and satellite communications systems for sending data to and from... Agent: Luedeka, Neely & Graham

20070190932 - Method and system for detecting messages using enhanced distributed signaling: The present invention discloses a method and system for detecting messages using enhanced distributed signaling in a wireless communication network that offers transmission diversity to improve the throughput of participating wireless stations.... Agent: L. Howard Chen Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis, LLP

20070190940 - System and method for human body communication: A human body communication system. The human body communication system includes a controlled device measuring a capacitance that corresponds to the distance to a human body, and transmitting information on the measured capacitance through a wireless medium; and a control device receiving the information, and then, based on the information,... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070190942 - Transmit announcement indication: Systems and methods for transmission announcement indication are disclosed. A transmission announcement indication is provided for use inside a communications frame addressed to a destination as an indication that another transmission for that same destination will follow.... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070190928 - Providing content to a device: Providing content to a device. Content stored on a device can be examined or searched based on the programming of channels that are available to the device over various networks. The content can be searched using other rules related to user preferences or content characteristics. Based on the results of... Agent: Workman Nydegger (f/k/a Workman Nydegger & Seeley)

20070190929 - Portable terminal: A portable terminal having a display unit and a slot on which an external memory is mounted detachably, includes an internal memory configured to store contents, a play list including information indicating the contents and information indicating contents stored in the external memory, and location information indicating whether or not... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070190934 - Apparatus and method for selecting relay mode of relay station in multihop relay broadband wireless communication system: A method for selecting a relay mode depending on channel status of relay links in a multihop relay broadband wireless communication system and a Relay Station (RS) apparatus for supporting the method. When signals are received from a Base Station (BS) and a Mobile Station (MS), channel status values (e.g.,... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070190933 - Bandwidth efficient harq scheme in relay network: The present invention provides an enhanced H-ARQ scheme that optimizes bandwidth utilization and spectrum efficiency. When an H-ARQ attempt is unsuccessful due to loss or error over a hop between the BS and MS/SS, then only the first node in the hop chain that fails to decode the packet transmits... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070190935 - Telecommunications chassis, module, and bridging repeater circuitry: A telecommunications chassis, module, and repeater circuit for use with signals having data rates including STM-1 (155.52 megabits per second) are disclosed. The chassis provides structures for establishing shielding and heat dissipation for the circuitry modules it contains including an outer and an inner Faraday box with an integrated ventilation... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20070190937 - Communication device, data processing device, near field communication device, and method and program for communication: A communication device for performing near field communication, includes: a near field communication device having a near field communication section for performing near field communication in either one of an active mode and a passive mode, and an interface section for supplying the near field communication section with data from... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070190936 - Mobile phone having infrared communication function: The infrared communication unit of the mobile phone receives a first data series transmitted from the other-party mobile phone by infrared communication, and, when transmitting a second data series by infrared communication, the controller of the mobile phone controls the infrared communication unit so as to transmit the second data... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070190938 - System and method for establishing a connection between wireless devices: A system and method according to the present invention allow two or more peer-to-peer wireless devices to automatically connect to each other with no knowledge or pre-configuration of client/server roles. According to a first aspect of the present invention, a wireless device performs inquiries at a random interval, and performs... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070190939 - Means for provisioning and managing mobile device configuration over a near-field communication link: A device provisioning and/or configuration system and method are provided. The system employs a near field communication (NFC) channel in an active and/or passive mode as a channel for provisioning and/or managing mobile device(s) (e.g., with content and/or setting(s)) by a server. The device can be any device that can... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070190943 - Package tracking and notification system for a mail and parcel center: A package tracking system (10) for a mail and parcel center (12) having multiple client mailboxes (18) includes a data entry device (56). The data entry device (56) receives package information associated with a client mailbox (18) upon arrival of a package (54) to the mail facility (12). A processor... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC

20070190941 - Transmission of data for marketing purposes: Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, advertisement communications may be accessed via a telecommunication device.... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group, LLP

20070190945 - Apparatus and method for receiving a signal in a communication system: An apparatus and method for receiving a signal in a communication system are provided. Information related to a first modulation scheme applied to a frequency domain in a serving base station is received from the serving base station. Information related to a second modulation scheme applied to the frequency domain... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070190944 - Method and system for automatic presence and ambient noise detection for a wireless communication device: A system for automatic presence and ambient noise detection for a client device. An incoming message from a caller is received and in response to receiving the incoming message from the caller, a client device state is detected based on a callee situation as dynamically detected by using the client... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070190946 - System and method for intermodulation distortion cancellation: A linearizer for reducing intermodulation distortion in a non-linear device. The novel linearizer includes an input port for receiving a signal from the device and a circuit for effecting gain expansion on the signal that counteracts a gain compression of the device. In an illustrative embodiment, the circuit includes a... Agent: Leonard A. Alkov, Esq. Raytheon Company

20070190947 - Method of establishing communication link, and computer product: A radio device from which communication is started transmits a confirmation signal to a counterpart, and if an acknowledgement signal is not returned from the counterpart, switches a communication mode to another communication mode. This operation is repeated until the acknowledgement signal is returned from the counterpart. Thus, the communication... Agent: Arent Fox PLLC

20070190948 - Radio frequency module: A radio frequency (RF) module cooperates with an antenna and a digital signal processing (DSP) module. The DSP module outputs a first digital signal to the RF module, and the antenna outputs a second RF signal to the RF module. The RF module comprises a digital analog hybrid signal processing... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070190949 - Transmitter power amplifier ramping method: A method for reducing frequency glitches in a digital transceiver due to power amplifier input impedance variations. According to the method, the power amplifier is switched on after the end of a prior packet reception period and before a new packet transmission begins. Instead of ramping the power amplifier gain,... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070190950 - Method of configuring voice and data communication over a voice channel: A method for configuring voice and data communication over a voice channel of a wireless telecommunications network that includes an onboard vehicle communications system, a cell tower, a base station, a Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) and a remote call center. Initially, a component on the network side, such as... Agent: General Motors Corporation C/o Reising, Ethington, Barnes, Kisselle, P.C.

20070190951 - Data transmission method, transceiver and telecommunication system: A transceiver and a method of controlling data transmission in a radio system, the method comprising transmitting packets from a first transceiver to a second transceiver, each packet having a given quality of service value. The first transceiver selects a stream of two or more available streams realized with a... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070190952 - Linearization of a transmit amplifier: A novel apparatus and method of linearization of a digitally controlled pre-power amplifier (DPA) and RF power amplifier (PA). The mechanism is operative to perform predistortion calibration to compensate for nonlinearities in the DPA and PA circuits. A predistortion look up table (LUT) stores measured distortion compensation data that is... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070190953 - Method of generating uwb pulses: A method produces UWB pulses (73, 75) using a differentiated clock signal as a pulse input (71, 72), and a data signal to modulate the pulse input. The mixed signal is then differentiated a second time to produce high frequency broad band UWB signals. A differentiating system which comprises a... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070190954 - High-frequency circuit and high-frequency device: A high-frequency circuit for branching high-frequency signals for pluralities of communications systems of different frequencies, which comprises a lowpass filter circuit disposed between first and second ports and/or a highpass filter circuit disposed between the first port and a fourth port; and a matching circuit and a bandpass filter circuit... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070190955 - Band-pass filter: A band-pass filter (10) is provided. The band-pass filter includes an input line (100), an output line (120), a first coupling line (140), a second coupling line (160) and a resonator (180). The input line is used for inputting electromagnetic signals. The output line is used for outputting electromagnetic signals.... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070190956 - Wireless unit status notification system for communication network: A status notification system is implemented on a wireless network. In a standard manner, a network user initiates a communication to a “recipient” unit at the user's “source” wireless unit. If the call is unanswered, information relating to the status of the recipient unit is obtained and transmitted for display... Agent: Mccormick, Paulding & Huber LLP

20070190957 - Dc removal techniques for wireless networking: A wireless communication device (WCD) performs DC removal on a received signal using a coarse DC removal unit that removes relatively large DC components and a fine DC removal loop that removes residual DC components. The coarse DC removal unit can be implemented in a receiver, and the fine DC... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070190958 - Receiver architecture for wireless transceiver: Various embodiments are disclosed relating to a wireless transceiver. In an example embodiment, a wireless transceiver may include a transmitter adapted to output a signal at an image frequency (e.g., a simulated image) for a channel during a first mode (e.g., calibration mode) of operation. The wireless transceiver also includes... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP

20070190959 - Apparatus and method for frequency conversion with minimized intermodulation distortion: A frequency conversion unit includes a local oscillator, a phase compensator, and a mixer. The local oscillator generates differential original oscillating signals. The phase compensator generates differential compensated oscillating signals mixed with differential received signals by the mixer to generate differential baseband signals. The respective duty cycles of the compensated... Agent: Law Office Of Monica H Choi

20070190960 - Direct conversion receiver: In a direct conversion receiver, to cancel a DC offset generated in the baseband processing block, negative feedback arrangements comprising a gain control amplifier and a low-pass filter are respectively attached to the I and Q signal branches of the baseband block following mixer outputs. The gain control amplifier in... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20070190962 - Rf module and manufacturing the same: A technology is provided so that RF modules used for cellular phones etc. can be reduced in size. Over a wiring board constituting an RF module, there are provided a first semiconductor chip in which an amplifier circuit is formed and a second semiconductor chip in which a control circuit... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070190961 - Semiconductor integrated circuit and semiconductor integrated circuit for radio communication: In a signal receiving circuit of a direct conversion system applied with a semiconductor integrated circuit for radio communication having a PLL requiring a clock signal, an LNA requiring low-noise receiving characteristics, and others, a variable coupling line is provided between clock signal buffers and at an input stage of... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070190964 - Low-power mode clock management for wireless communication devices: A power management scheme for a wireless communications device substantially implemented on a single CMOS integrated circuit is described. The present invention provides a method and apparatus for generating first and second clock signals for a wireless communication device, with the first and second clock signals corresponding first and second... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070190963 - Reduced paging cycles in a wireless communication system: Systems and methods for reducing paging cycles in a wireless communication system are disclosed. An extended suspend time can be set in a close connection message. A low power state can be initiated on a wireless device. Then, the wireless device can periodically wake from the low power state to... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070190965 - Reduced time packet transmission in a wireless communications system: System and method for reducing acquisition time of packets in a FDD system, such as a spread-spectrum or OFDM system. A remote unit transmits a multi-tone packet. The multi-tone packet has a plurality of tones with each tone having a different power level, and at a different frequency, from other... Agent: David Newman Chartered

20070190967 - Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving common channel in a cellular wireless communication system supporting scalable bandwidth: A method is provided for transmitting a common channel in a cellular communication system that supports a scalable system bandwidth and uses multiple access technology. The transmission method includes determining a system bandwidth of a cell by comparing a reception bandwidth of User Equipments (UEs) located in the cell with... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070190966 - Remotely configurable wireless intercom system for an establishment: A remotely configurable wireless intercom system and method for an establishment having a staff. A base station is connectable to a wide area communication network. A plurality of headsets are in two-way wireless communication with the base station. Wireless communication between each of the plurality of headsets and the base... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20070190969 - Communication module for facilitating monitoring an existing alarm system via a cellular telephone network: A communication module for facilitating monitoring an existing alarm system via a cellular telephone network. A microphone receives a specific sound from the existing alarm system, and in response thereto, generates electrical signals. A programmable alarm sound recognition circuitry is in electrical communication with the microphone and recognizes the electrical... Agent: Richard L. Miller

20070190968 - Enhanced e911 network access for call centers: An emergency call (e.g., a 911 call, an alarm company call) forwarded by a telematics call center is routed over the switched PSTN to a Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) call server, where the switched call is converted to a session initiating protocol (SIP) packetized IP call for presentation to... Agent: Manelli Denison & Selter PLLC 7th Floor

20070190970 - Remote biometric/positional feedback system: A system for gathering and communicating information relative to a person includes sensors associated with the person for sensing characteristics relative to movement of a person over a time period, and a communication arrangement for communicating data representative of the one or more characteristics during the time period to a... Agent: Boyle Fredrickson Newholm Stein & Gratz, S.c.

20070190971 - Method for call charge transfer between mobile communication terminals: A mobile terminal and method for transferring call charges between mobile terminals are disclosed. To transfer call-related charges between mobile terminals, the mobile terminal and call charge transfer method place a call by a calling mobile terminal to a called mobile terminal to establish a call connection for conversation, transmit... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070190972 - Method and system for implementing wireless intelligent services: A method for implementing wireless intelligent services includes: receiving a call and triggering an intelligent service corresponding to the call at a Service Control Point (SCP); receiving a processing result of the intelligent service from the SCP; routing the call to a called party according to the processing result; receiving... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070190973 - Base station, wireless communication systems, base station control programs and base station control methods: A base station has a wireless unit configured to perform wireless communication with a wireless terminal by using a predetermined protocol, and a control unit configured to select one of a plurality of security parameter sets relating to authentication schemes and encryption schemes used for the wireless communication with the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070190977 - Apparatus and methods for secure architectures in wireless networks: Apparatus, methods, computer readable media and processors may provide a secure architecture within which a client application on a wireless device may, in some aspects, exchange information securely with resident device resources, and in other aspects, with a remote server over a wireless network.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070190975 - Authentication method and device in a telecommunication network using a portable device: This A method of authenticating the user (U) of a terminal (2) connected to an Internet type network. A communications channel is set up in a secure mobile telephony network (GSM) between mobile equipment (3) of the user (U) situated close to the terminal (2) and an authentication unit (1).... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20070190974 - Interacting method for ue fast selecting mobile communication network to access in a wlan interworking network: The present invention discloses an interacting method for WLAN UE fast selecting an optimal mobile communication network to access in WLAN, first a WLAN UE judges whether the identity information of the WLAN AN exists in the WLAN identity information stored when mobile connection with the WLAN AN is established,... Agent: Baker & Hostetler LLP

20070190976 - Member authentication system: A user calls a specific number of an authentication center (member authentication device) from a mobile terminal in a state of caller line identity presentation and hangs up the mobile terminal after one ring. The authentication center can recognize the number of the mobile terminal of the caller in spite... Agent: Burr & Brown

20070190978 - System and methodology for extending enterprise messaging systems to mobile devices: A system and methodology for extending enterprise messaging systems to mobile devices is described. In one embodiment, for example, a system for messaging between applications is described that comprises: a database at a mobile device for receiving a message from an application at the mobile device for transmission to a... Agent: John A. Smart

20070190986 - Mobile phone and call processing method of mobile phone: The present invention provides a mobile phone including a memory unit for storing at least one phone number, search information representing specific search conditions corresponding to the phone number, and a plurality of recorded data; and a control unit for extracting search information corresponding to the phone number of a... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070190983 - Personalization content sharing system and method: A method includes enabling a user to define his/her buddies from among members of a community and enabling the user to select media content to be played on devices of his/her buddies. Another method includes providing media content chosen by a first user to be played by a media player... Agent: Daniel J Swirsky

20070190979 - Information terminal, and event notifying method: An information terminal of the present invention aims at informing the user of an occurrence of an event during the reproduction of contents without an unexpected feeling. An information terminal of the present invention, includes a contents reproducing unit 10 for reproducing contents, a contents reproducing unit 20 for informing... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070190984 - Instant messaging interworking in an advanced voice services (avs) framework for wireless communications systems: A real-time exchange (RTX) interfaces to a wireless communications system to provide enhanced features for advanced voice services (AVS), which include instant messaging interworking.... Agent: Gates & Cooper LLP Howard Hughes Center

20070190980 - Method for managing subscribers on a cellular network: A method for managing the assignment of addresses in a cellular network is described. Messages are sent to connected, but inactive, subscribers causing them to disconnect and then to reconnect. This occurs without the user knowing of the disconnection.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070190988 - Mobile communications system, mobile communications network controller, mobile communications terminal, and method of controlling mobile communications network: A mobile communications system of the present invention obtains in advance information on communications environments in a mobile communications system and provides users with the information on communications environments. The mobile communications system also predicts the movement of users and provides seamless services based on the predictions. A mobile communications... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070190989 - Mobile communications system, mobile communications network controller, mobile communications terminal, and method of controlling mobile communications network: A mobile communications system of the present invention obtains in advance information on communications environments in a mobile communications system and provides users with the information on communications environments. The mobile communications system also predicts the movement of users and provides seamless services based on the predictions. A mobile communications... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070190985 - Multimedia message system and method for sending multimedia message: The present invention discloses a multimedia message system, which includes: a terminal; a Multimedia Message Service Center (MMSC), which serves to receive, store and send multimedia messages; and a Multimedia Message Service Gateway (MMSG) connecting with at least one MMSC and the terminal belonging to the MMSG respectively, which serves... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070190981 - Phonebook management for a mobile terminal: The present invention relates to a telecommunication system and methods for searching for a personal phone number or contact information, or both, using a mobile terminal. A communication server gathers in its coupled central address database phone numbers and contact information from different sources. All the numbers dialed-out by the... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20070190982 - Voice amplification apparatus: A communication apparatus comprising an audio input device adapted to capture a first audio sample, where the first audio sample comprises a noise component. The apparatus further comprises signal processing logic coupled to the audio input device. If the intensity of the noise component is equal to or greater than... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070190987 - Voicemail short message service method and means and a subscriber terminal: The invention relates to a voicemail short messaging method (10, 20, 30) and means and a subscriber terminal (500). In particular it concerns a method and means for instantaneous packet switched voicemail between Internet compatible computers, personal digital assistants, telephones and mobile stations. In particular the inventive subscriber terminal (500)... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070190990 - Configuring service data using a mobile unit: The present invention provides a method for managing service data over an air interface. The method includes receiving, from a mobile unit, a request associated with information indicative of service data associated with the mobile unit and providing the request associated with the information indicative of the service data associated... Agent: Williams, Morgan & Amerson

20070190991 - Method for automatically restoring the default alert setting of a cellular telephone: The invention provides a method for temporarily changing an alert type of a cell phone to a desired alternative alert type and restoring the alert type after the expiration of a time interval established by the user of the cell phone. The method comprises the steps of: receiving user input... Agent: Steven M. Crosby

20070190992 - System and method for routing a call to a landline communication unit or a wireless communication unit: Methods and Systems are provided for routing a call to a landline communication unit or a wireless communication unit based on the availability of the wireless communication unit. A call placed to a landline communication unit is routed to the wireless communication unit if the wireless communication unit is determined... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070190994 - Software defined radio: Reconfigurable units each include a hardware circuit having one part of a radio procedure function and a reconfigurable circuit having another part of the radio procedure function. An extension interface unit includes a switch circuit having a changeable connection specification to interconnect the reconfigurable units. A memory unit stores logic... Agent: Arent Fox PLLC

20070190993 - User-assisted programmable appliance control: A universal remote control interacts with a user to assist in training to one or more appliances. If the appliance is activated by a rolling code activation signal, a sequence of different rolling code activation signals is transmitted until the user indicates a successful transmission. If the appliance is activated... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C. / Lear Corporation

20070190995 - Remote control of a mobile device: A method for remotely controlling a mobile device, comprising the steps of parsing a message delivered to a wireless device, obtaining a command included in the message, such command indicating a function of the wireless device, and performing the function indicated by the command. The command may cause the wireless... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070190996 - Method and apparatus for improving wireless network reliability: The invention includes a method and apparatus for reconfiguring a first base station element to attempt to serve at least a portion of the plurality of wireless terminals served by a second base station element in response to detection of a failure condition at a second base station element that... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/ Lucent Technologies, Inc

20070190997 - Mobile communication system, mobile station, and radio control device: It is an object of this invention to select an information receiving method at a mobile station (MS) so as to avoid an increase in the transmission power of a base transceiver station (BTS) or redundancy or loss of received information at the mobile station (MS) in broadcast communication or... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070190998 - Transmitting apparatus and method for maintaining learned information: A protocol converting unit stores identification information for identifying a transfer path for data in a second network and a transmission source address specified in a packet in a corresponding manner. A failure detecting unit detects a transfer path in which a failure has occurred in the second network. A... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070190999 - Method for displaying information regarding the condition of a portable terminal: Disclosed is a method for displaying condition information of a portable terminal, the method including determining if a signal requesting output of the condition information is detected while an application is run by the portable terminal; checking a predetermined output type of condition information when the signal requesting output of... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070191001 - Using standard cellular handsets with a general access network: Mobile communication is disclosed. A standard cellular mobile station at is communicated with at least in part via a standard cellular air link. A mobile communication between the standard cellular mobile station and a core mobile network is relayed via a generic access network. In some embodiments, translation between the... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP

20070191002 - Cell phone peripheral device, communication terminal and method for a cell phone peripheral device communicating with a cell phone: A cell phone peripheral device comprises a communication unit, for short-distance wireless communicating between said cell phone peripheral device and the cell phone; a processing unit, for receiving information from said communication unit, processing the information to obtain and analyze data information; a display unit, for receiving and displaying said... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070191000 - Pagers over a wireless network: A paging system is operated over a conventional wireless network of the type that provides wireless information to users. The pagers are addressed over IP so that every pager that is within the range of a wireless node can receive the page. That way, the page can be delivered over... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20070191003 - Virtual network solution for sms message exchange between gsm and ansi (tia/eia 41) networks: Systems and methods for exchanging a short message service (SMS) message between networks operating in accordance with different standards. An intermediary system operates between a first network operating in accordance with a first standard and a second network operating in accordance with a second standard. A routing information request for... Agent: Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP

20070191004 - Call controlling apparatus, call controlling method, and computer program: An I-CSCF and an S-CSCF are included in a single call controlling apparatus. A message from a terminal directed to one of a plurality of degenerate-call controlling apparatuses. The I-CSCF in that apparatus receives the message and forwards the message to an S-CSCF that serves as the storing destination, which... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070191005 - Technique for using the same wireless frequency channel in overlapping or adjacent coverage areas: One aspect of the invention provides a system, apparatus and method that allow a wireless communication device to intelligently search for and select a communication cell based on a system identifier (SID) and network identifier (NID) order of preference rather than just pilot signal strength. Generally, a mobile device scans... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070191006 - Automatic network selection methods and apparatus using a steered plmn: Methods and apparatus for automatically selecting a wireless communication network by user equipment using a “steered” PLMN are disclosed. A home network identification, a list of prioritized roaming network identifications, and a steered network identification are stored in memory (e.g. a SIM or USIM) of the user equipment. In an... Agent: Research In Motion, Ltd

20070191008 - Local transmission for content sharing: A personal media device transmits media content to one or more nearby personal media devices so that users can dynamically and easily share content. The method includes, on a first media player device having or having access to selected media content, playing the selected media content such that it can... Agent: Workman Nydegger (f/k/a Workman Nydegger & Seeley)

20070191007 - Method and system for a processor that handles a plurality of wireless access communication protocols: Certain aspects of a method and system for handling signals in a communication system are disclosed. Aspects of one method may include processing, within a single chip, any one of a plurality of wireless access communication protocols by any one of a plurality of on-chip baseband processors. None of the... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070191012 - Data stream transmitting and receiving method and apparatus for guaranteeing qos: A data stream transmitting and receiving method and apparatus guaranteeing quality of service (QoS), in which the data stream transmitting method includes obtaining information regarding a link characteristic change of a mobile node, which occurs due to a handover of the mobile node between heterogeneous links, and transmitting the data... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070191010 - Apparatus and method for connecting call in mobile terminal: Provided is an apparatus and method for preventing successive failures in a call connection in a mobile communication terminal. When a call connection is attempted, a cell with the highest RX power is selected among cells and an RRC Connection Request message is transmitted from the mobile terminal to a... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070191011 - Caller line identification in mobile number portability: A system, method, and computer product are provided for facilitating mobile number portability. The method includes receiving a registration message at a signaling gateway (SG) for an International Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI) associated with a subscriber ported-in in a first network. The method further includes replacing at the SG, a... Agent: Arent Fox PLLC

20070191009 - Method for performing a handover in a communication system: Disclosed is a method for performing a handover in a communication system, comprising causing the MS to receive a ranging code including the information on a handover bandwidth request ranging code from a serving BS, the handover bandwidth request ranging code being used for the MS to get an uplink... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070191014 - Authentication mechanism for unlicensed mobile access: Unlicensed Mobile Access (UMA) authentication techniques are provided. These techniques may use existing authentication mechanisms, such as a Cellular Authentication and Voice Encryption (CAVE) algorithm-based or Message Digest 5 (MD5) algorithm-based authentication mechanism.... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070191013 - Methods of and apparatuses for cell-differentiated handover in a mobile communications systems: The present invention relates to handover procedures in a cellular communications system (1). The cells (10-70) of the system (1) are divided into multiple handover-related classes based on their respective radio coverage characteristics. Each such cell class is then associated with a unique handover parameter or a unique set of... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070191017 - Apparatus and method for simultaneously receiving two neighboring frequency assignments in a cellular system: An apparatus and method for allocating a frequency band to an MS in a cellular system with a frequency reuse factor of N are provided, in which a frequency allocator determines whether the MS receives data simultaneously from two BSs using neighboring FAs and allocates a frequency band to the... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070191015 - Method and system for transmitting/receiving data in a communication system: A method is provided for transmitting/receiving data in a communication system. The method includes determining, when data to be transmitted to at least one Mobile Station (MS) is generated, a region where an MS that receive the generated data among the at least one MS is located, allocating resources of... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070191016 - Wireless base station neighbor discovery in a communication system, such as a system employing a short-range frequency hopping scheme: Disclosed embodiments include a method performed by a network access point, such as a short-range wireless communications switch or Bluetooth base station unit, to provide a neighbor list for neighboring short-range wireless communications switches or network access points in a communications network. The method includes, at the short-range wireless switch,... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20070191018 - Wideband code division multiple access user equipment for receiving multimedia broadcast/multicast service: A wideband code division multiple access (W-CDMA) user equipment (UE) for receiving a multimedia broadcast/multicast service (MBMS). The UE comprises an MBMS receiver configured to receive data of an MBMS service over one of a secondary common control physical channel (S-CCPCH) or a dedicated channel. After the reception of the... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070191019 - Mbms dual receiver: A method for communicating between a network and a dual receiver UE includes receiving first signaling from a first network node at a first frequency, and receiving second signaling via a PtM control channel from a second network node at a second frequency. The method further includes receiving a request... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070191020 - Mbms dual receiver: A method for communicating between a network and a dual receiver UE includes receiving first signaling from a first network node at a first frequency, and receiving second signaling via a PtM control channel from a second network node at a second frequency. The method further includes receiving a request... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070191022 - Method and a system for location estimation using location estimated: In a system for location estimation, information necessary for location estimation is acquired from a wireless signal. The first estimated location of each of target terminals is found out on the basis of the acquired information necessary for location estimation, and the locations of reference terminals. The second estimated location... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070191021 - Apparatus and methods for information handling system with flexible communication capabilities: An information handling system includes a communication apparatus. The communication apparatus includes a wireless device. The wireless device uses, and may be operated according to, a set of operating parameters derived from information about a geographic location.... Agent: O'keefe, Egan, Peterman & Enders LLP

20070191025 - Locating device and system: A device, method and system for locating and/or monitoring a person or thing. The system may include a locating device for determining global position, a remote device for initiating a location or monitoring request and a central controller for communicating with each of the locating device and the remote device.... Agent: Finch & Nguyen PLLC

20070191024 - Apparatus and method for transmitting/receiving data in a communication system: A method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving data in a communication system are provided, in which an MCS level is determined for data, a codeword including the data and a parity is generated by encoding the data using the determined MCS level, code symbols are generated from the codeword using IR... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070191023 - Method and apparatus for synthesizing presence information: A method and apparatus are disclosed for synthesizing presence information. An apparatus that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a presence services system (PSS) (102) can have a controller (104) that manages operations of a communications interface (110). The controller can be programmed to monitor (302-304)... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070191028 - Dynamic interconnection of mobile devices: A method and apparatus for connecting two wireless devices to share information is disclosed. To connect the wireless devices the users communicate to each other a desire to connect their devices. Following this communication the users electronically identify each device, initiate and propose the connection. Once the connection has been... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20070191026 - Apparatus and methods for exchanging location-based information: The disclosed embodiments provide apparatus and methods for exchanging location-based information between a wireless communications device and a computer system. In one embodiment, the location-based information may include a layout of a physical location corresponding to a geographic position associated with the wireless communications device. In another embodiment, the location-based... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070191027 - Method for identifying appropriate public safety answering points: A method for identifying an appropriate public safety answering point for a mobile unit includes establishing communication between a telematics service provider and the mobile unit. Mobile unit data is received at the telematics service provider. The data includes at least the speed of the mobile unit. The telematics service... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20070191029 - Intelligent reverse geocoding: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for obtaining location information from a location source. A geographic reference point is determined based on accuracy of the location information. The geographic reference point is incorporated into a location result.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070191030 - Method and apparatus for enhancing wireless data network telephony including a personal router in a client: A data network telephony (DNT) wireless communication system has a base station connected to a DNT-capable data network and to a plurality of wireless transceivers, each transceiver transmitting to a distinct area, the base station adapted to operate the transceivers by a two-way, narrow-band, multiple-channel, real-time duplex radio protocol, and... Agent: Central Coast Patent Agency, Inc

20070191031 - Protocols for communication between paging controllers and paging agents during idle mode paging operations in a wireless network: Protocols are provided to support communication between paging controllers and paging agents in a wireless network that implements idle mode paging.... Agent: The Law Offices Of John C. Scott, LLC C/o Portfolioip

20070191040 - Measuring media distribution and impact in a mobile communication network: A system and method for measuring media distribution and impact in a mobile communication network wherein media content is associated with messages being forwarded in the network. Media content distribution data can be measured and collected by tagging the media content at or near its point of origin and by... Agent: Vincent Patent Agency

20070191037 - Method for writing a character message in a mobile telecommunication handset and mobile telecommunication handset capable of writing a character message: A method for writing a character message in a mobile telecommunication handset, including writing a message, inputting a page divider transferring a current page to a next page at any area of the current page on which the message is being written, displaying page information on the message, transmitting the... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070191034 - Method, device and system for mobile information services: In a method of mobile information services, a mobile information service device is connected to a remote information server and a telecommunications service provider so as to timely provide information to a hand-held mobile communications device. In the method, the mobile information service device searches the information server according to... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20070191036 - Charged particle beam device: A charged particle beam device (10) is provided, including a computer operable in response to commands entered by a user of the device to control the device, wherein the device further includes an interface (24) operable to cause data from the computer in the form of short message service (SMS)... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20070191035 - Method for processing a message: A method of processing a message in a short message service in which a router or alternatively a gateway makes a first attempt to deliver the message, the deliver attempt failing the router or gateway sends the message and other supporting information to a service center that can store the... Agent: Vincent Patent Agency

20070191039 - Method for replying to message in wireless portable terminal: A method for replying to a message in a wireless portable terminal is disclosed that makes it possible to provide various types of reply information in the message mode, and to prevent the abuse of reply information. In such a method, reply information is input utilizing a character set in... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070191038 - Method for transmitting message in a wireless terminal: Disclosed is a method for transmitting a message in a wireless terminal, the method including if transmission of a message created in a message mode of the wireless terminal is selected, performing the message transmission; and if a closing operation of the wireless terminal is performed during the message transmission,... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070191032 - Mobile micro-band information distribution: Methods and systems for providing information to mass localized mobile users over a limited bandwidth are described. Short text messaging system messages, e.g., SMS, may be used to transmit coded data between mobile terminals and content providers, while a client application resident on each mobile terminal can decode the messages... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 005222

20070191033 - Scalable wireless messaging system: t

20070191041 - Frequency allocation: Methods and systems for allocating mobiles among multiple frequency channels in a mobile communications system are disclosed.... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070191042 - Dual mac arbitration: A wireless network device includes a first media access controller (MAC) that generates a first output signal, a second MAC that generates a second output signal, and a communication channel. The communication channel includes a baseband processor in communication with a radio frequency transmitter and selectively transmits one of the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce P.L.C

20070191053 - Mobile station apparatus and transmission power control method for the same apparatus: The present invention relates to a mobile station apparatus and a transmission power control method for the same apparatus, capable of improving the decision accuracy in a mobile station with respect to a TPC command from a base station to the mobile station and of maintaining the optimum transmission power.... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070191052 - Automatic power save delivery (apsd) compatible with 802.11n frame aggregation and block acknowledgement: A mechanism to create Automatic Power Save Delivery (APSD) compatible with 802.11n frame aggregation and block acknowledgement (ack) mechanisms is provided. Various methods of using block acknowledgments are provided. Additionally, bit handling for defining an unscheduled APSD (U-APSD) service period and ending it is explained. A method of aggregating a... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070191046 - Method and apparatus for processing transmit power control (tpc) commands in a wideband cdma (wcdma) network: Method and apparatus for processing transmit power control (TPC) commands in a wideband CDMA (WCDMA) network are disclosed and may include calculating a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of a downlink dedicated physical channel (DPCH) based on a plurality of transmit power control (TPC) bits received via the downlink DPCH. A value... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070191047 - Method and apparatus for processing transmit power control (tpc) commands in a wideband cdma (wcdma) network based on a sign metric: Method and apparatus for processing transmit power control (TPC) commands in a wideband CDMA (WCDMA) network based on a sign metric are disclosed and may include calculating a sign metric of a downlink dedicated physical channel (DPCH) based on a plurality of TPC bits received via the downlink DPCH. A... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070191049 - Method and apparatus of neighbor cell management for reducing power consumption in a mobile communication terminal: An apparatus and a method of neighbor cell management for reducing power consumption in a mobile communication terminal. The method includes determining whether battery power reduces to a threshold value, checking if a number of neighbor cells in a neighbor cell list is equal to or greater than a predetermined... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070191048 - Method and system for determining synchronization status in a wide band cdma network: A method and system for determining synchronization status in a wide band CDMA (WCDMA) network may comprise calculating a signal to noise ratio (SNR) of a downlink dedicated physical channel (DPCH) based on a plurality of transmit power control (TPC) bits received via the downlink dedicated physical channel (DPCH), wherein... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070191045 - Method and system for synchronization procedures in a wide band cdma network based on a sign metric: A method and system for synchronization procedures in a wide band CDMA (W-CDMA) network based on a sign metric may include calculating a sign metric of a downlink dedicated physical channel (DPCH) based on a plurality of transmit power control (TPC) bits received via the downlink dedicated physical channel, wherein... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070191044 - Method for adjusting forward link power control parameters based on forward link quality feedback in wireless network: A system is implemented on a wireless network for adjusting a forward link power control parameter based on forward link feedback. A wireless unit is in communication with several base stations during soft handoff, and provides feedback relating to forward link quality, e.g., forward link pilot signal strength or traffic... Agent: Mccormick, Paulding & Huber LLP

20070191043 - Method of secure wlan communication: Some demonstrative embodiments of the invention include a method device and/or system of secure communication in a wireless network using a spatial division multiple access transmission scheme. The method, according to some demonstrative embodiments may include allocating transmission power to N channels to be transmitted to one or more destination... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20070191051 - Power efficient wireless transmission: A solution for power efficient transmission in a wireless telecommunication system is provided. The telecommunication system utilizes a time slot based data transmission scheme. According to the provided solution, at least a portion of time slots is allocated to a broadcast control channel on a given frequency and to at... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070191050 - System and method for power control in a wireless communication system: A system and method for power control in consideration of uplink channel quality information in a wireless communication system are disclosed. The method includes measuring first channel quality information from a signal received from a base station and transmitting the first channel quality information to the base station; receiving a... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070191054 - Method for controlling a flow of information between secondary agents and a mobile device in a wireless communications system: In one aspect of the present invention, a method for controlling a communications session with a mobile device is provided. The method comprises selecting a plurality of base stations, where at least a portion of the base stations are adapted to operate as a secondary agent, and wherein the secondary... Agent: Williams, Morgan & Amerson

20070191055 - Circuit with reduced insertion loss and component comprising one such circuit: An electrical circuit has at least two parallel signal paths connected to one another on the antenna side and for which a band reject filter corresponding to the transmission range is implemented in a second signal path for frequency-selective improvement of insertion loss in the transmission range of a first... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070191056 - Controlling alternative communication pathway utilization in a mobile communication device: A system and method for controlling alternative communication pathway utilization in a mobile communication device. Various aspects of the present invention may comprise at least one communication interface module that is adapted to communicate over at least a first communication network (e.g., a telephone communication network) and a second communication... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070191061 - Apparatus for switching sim cards disposed in communication equipment: The invention provides an apparatus for switching from a first Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) card with a set of first contact points to a second SIM card with a set of second contact points. The first SIM card and the second SIM card are both disposed inside a communication equipment.... Agent: Hoffman Warnick & D'alessandro, LLC

20070191060 - Method and device for distinguishing selected line information among multi line information providing alternate line service: A device and method for distinguishing selected line information among multi line information providing ALS (alternate line service). The device includes an SIM (subscriber identity module) for storing the selected line information among the multi line information providing the ALS service, in a file for storing support information of a... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070191058 - A method and device for storing and accessing personal information: Basic personal data of an individual is stored as different data files based on content or intended use. The selection of personal data for inclusion in a data file may be performed in accordance with service provider requests or by the end user, preferably with the assistance of templates. Each... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070191059 - Mobile telecommunication unit configurable to connect to a supplementary module: A mobile telephone unit has a cavity for receiving a supplementary module, which is enabled to store and decompress media data files, especially audio data files in the MP3 format. The mobile telephone unit includes a data transfer port for connection directly to a corresponding data transfer port of the... Agent: Creative Labs, Inc. Legal Department

20070191057 - Wireless communication terminal synchronization method, wireless communication system, wireless communication terminal, and server: In the case-where a single user selectively uses plural wireless communication terminals by mounting and demounting a subscriber identification card thereon and therefrom, user convenience in such selective use of the plural terminals can be enhanced by synchronizing user data among those plural terminals. For this purpose, at least updated... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070191062 - Apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving signals in a wireless communication system: An apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving signals in a wireless communication system with at least two antenna are provided, in which a first antenna transmits a transmission signal, a second antenna receives a reception signal, a transmitter sends the transmission signal through the first antenna and a receiver... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070191063 - Method, system and components for facilitating wireless communication in a sectored service area: Network Allocation Vector (NAV) and “beam access control” (BAC) techniques are provided to address data collision problems in WLANs wherein APs provide wireless network access in a service area defined by multiple sectors via use of a switchable antenna system or the like. Preferably, every time the AP visits a... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070191067 - Adaptive beamforming systems and methods for communication systems: A wireless communication system including receiving and base stations. The receiving station includes a detector that measures a downlink channel correlation matrix for multiple antennas of the base station, computes an antenna weight increment vector normal to a previous antenna weight vector rendering positive a directional derivative of total received... Agent: Slater & Matsil, L.L.P.

20070191066 - Structured codebook and successive beamforming for multiple-antenna systems: A quantized multi-rank beamforming scheme for multiple-antenna systems such as a multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) wireless downlink. User equipment (UE) estimates downlink channel and transmit power and determines rank and power allocations. A quantized beamforming matrix is then determined by the UE using successive beamforming. The UE also determines channel quality indices... Agent: Brosemer, Kolefas & Associates, LLC (necl)

20070191065 - Apparatus and method for communicating data in hybrid diversity mode in broadband wireless communication system: Provided is an apparatus and method for communicating data in a hybrid diversity mode in a broadband wireless communication system. In a method for transmitting data to a subscriber station (SS) in the broadband wireless communication system, null subbands are determined using feedback information received from the SS. TX data... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070191064 - Method device base station and site for reducing the number of feeders in an antenna diversity diversity system: A method, device and system for reducing the number of feeders (2, 3) between a radio base station (1) and an antenna diversity arrangement (10, 11, 12, 13) at which RF signals of the same frequency are received. In a tower mounted amplifier (45) individual RF signals from some or... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070191068 - Wireless lan technologies for reducing interference between or among wireless lan access points: A wireless LAN technology for reducing interference between (or among) wireless LAN access points is provided. A wireless LAN access point is provided with a directional antenna, an interference detector detecting interference effected by another wireless LAN access point on the directional antenna, and a direction adjusting mechanism adjusting a... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070191070 - Reconfigurable mobile device interfaces supporting authenticated high-quality video, audio, tv and multimedia services: A method and apparatus for reconfiguring the audio and video interfaces of mobile devices is described. A system for configuring various surfaces of a mobile device for performing additional functions such utilizing the front and reverse side of a mobile device with reconfigurable larger displays for enhancing the visual experience... Agent: Courtney Staniford & Gregory LLP

20070191069 - Radio communication terminal device and radio communication function control method: There are provided a radio communication terminal device and a radio communication function control method enabling a user to perform off-operation of only the mobile telephone function when the user is in a radio LAN area. In the device and the method, a radio dual terminal (100) is a radio... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20070191071 - Method for isofrequency transmission of a digital signal with echo suppression and corresponding retransmission device: The disclosure relates to a method for isofrequency retransmission of at least one digital signal, including receiving said source signal on a receiving antenna; retransmitting said signal received to a transmitting antenna, a coupling occurring between said transmitting and receiving antennas; extracting at least one coupling echo from said signal... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20070191073 - Adjust switching rate of a power supply to mitigate interference: A method for mitigating interference from a switched-mode power supply begins by comparing a channel of interest of a plurality of channels with a switching rate of a switch-mode power supply. The method continues when the channel of interest compares unfavorably to the switching rate by adjusting the switching rate... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070191075 - Implementation of an rf power transmitter and network: Disclosed is a power transmission system for wirelessly powering a power harvesting device. The system comprises at least one RF power transmitter. The system includes an AC power grid, or a DC grid to which the transmitter is electrically connected. Also disclosed is an adjustable RF power transmitter for powering... Agent: Ansel M. Schwartz Attorney At Law

20070191074 - Power transmission network and method: A network for power transmission to a receiver which converts the power into current includes a first node for transmitting power with circularly polarized waves in a first area. The network includes a second node for transmitting power with circularly polarized waves in a second area. Alternatively, elliptically polarized waves... Agent: Ansel M. Schwartz Attorney At Law

20070191072 - Wireless communication device with circuit for unconnecting data input and method thereof: A mobile terminal for unconnecting data input to its processor or other circuits based on power input and a method thereof is disclosed. In one embodiment, the mobile terminal includes a processor; a transceiver configured to receive data from an external device and to transmit the data to the processor;... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070191076 - Adaptive power management for a nod of a mobile telecommunications network: A telecommunication apparatus, e.g. a radio base station in a mobile telecommunications network, comprises a plurality of traffic handling units and a plurality of power supply units powering the traffic handling units. Control means are provided for determining a power budget based on a power criterion. The control means activate... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070191077 - Self-cradling type portable communication terminal: The portable communication terminal includes a body, a folder, a first hinge unit mounted on an upper surface of the body to rotatably connect the folder to the body, for providing a semi-automatic opening and closing force, a rotatable socket mounted on a bottom surface of the body, having a... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070191078 - Mobile communication device: Disclosed herein is a mobile communication device that includes a first device body having an Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) and being elongate in a lengthwise direction thereof; a second device body rotatably connected to the first device body by a hinge provided to a widthwise edge of the first device... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070191079 - Protective mask of mobile phone: The present invention relates to a protective mask of mobile phone comprising an upper cover body and a lower cover body. The upper and lower cover bodies can be joined with a front and a tear phone housings of a mobile phone, respectively, to effectively prevent abrasion of the mobile... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20070184777 - Method of and system for determining the presence of mobile unit in service area in mobile communication network: An object of the present invention is to provide a system for determining whether or not a mobile unit is present in the service area of a repeater through a simple system. A method of determining the presence of a mobile unit in a service area in a mobile communication... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070184778 - System and method for communication utilizing time division duplexing: An integrated communication system includes a satellite portion and a terrestrial portion. A plurality of timeslots are allocated for transmission and reception of data by the various components of the satellite portion and terrestrial portion. The allocation of timeslots to the satellite portion and the terrestrial portion may be predetermined... Agent: Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP

20070184780 - Communication method, communication device, and computer program: In order to solve a problem of an accumulation on the transmission side, a delay on the reception side, and the like at the time of transmission in a communication system such as a wireless LAN system, each communication station in a network transmits a beacon in which information with... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070184779 - Wireless communication device and method for searching for wireless communication device: Provided is a method of searching for a wireless communication device. The method includes outputting a search signal in multiple output directions; and if a response signal for the search signal is received, mapping an identifier of a wireless communication device having transmitted the response signal and information about an... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070184781 - Protective cover assembly for portable electronic device: Disclosed is a customizable protective covering for a portable electronic device. The protective covering includes a main sleeve portion which is inserted over the electronic device and which contains apertures therein to allow continued access to portions of the electronic device. A groove is formed around the perimeter of the... Agent: Workman Nydegger (f/k/a Workman Nydegger & Seeley)

20070184782 - Baseband transmitter self-jamming and intermodulation cancellation device: Some embodiments provide a method, system, and apparatus for interference cancellation at the baseband of a receiver. A wireless communication device, having a transmitter and receiver, is provided with an adaptive circuit that cancels interference caused by transmit signals (or other signals) leaked or bled onto the receiver at baseband... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070184783 - Positioning method and apparatus: In a GPS or GSM system using DSSS signals, accurate and robust time-of-flight signal processing is achieved by selection of leading-edge or correlation techniques based on a variety of tests and environmental conditions.... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070184784 - 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 measuring a reception condition of a specific signal transmitted from the transmitter, obtaining control signals which indicate a changing in... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070184785 - Radio communicator: A radio communicator including a first antenna configured to emit radio signal as a first linear polarized wave; a second antenna arranged perpendicular to the first antenna and configured to emit radio signal as a second linear polarized wave; a receiver configured to monitor a radio wave condition in the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070184786 - Portable communication terminal for games with foldable keypad: Provided is a portable communication terminal for games with a foldable keypad. The portable communication terminal includes a main body, a foldable keypad, and a hinge unit. The main body includes a display unit, a first keypad, and a first speaker device that are exposed at all times on its... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070184787 - Selecting modulation and amplification in a transmitter: A transmitter for transmitting signals, comprising: a modulator for modulating a data signal, the modulator being capable of modulating the data signal according to any of two or more modulation schemes to form a modulated signal; an amplification arrangement for amplifying the modulated signal with any of two or more... Agent: Novak Druce & Quigg, LLP

20070184788 - Transmission device, electric field communication transceiver, and electric field communication system: There is provided a transmission means (3) configured to transmit a modulated signal obtained by modulating data, a transmission electrode (8) that induces an electric field based on the modulated signal in an electric field transmission medium (20), a first reactance means (2) that is provided between the electric field... Agent: John S. Pratt, Esq Kilpatrick Stockton, LLP

20070184789 - 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 wide band pass as well as narrow band pass filters for each of I- and Q-channels, root mean square detectors and dividers connected to... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20070184792 - Rf power amplifier controller circuit: A power amplifier controller circuit controls a power amplifier based upon an amplitude correction signal indicating the amplitude difference between the amplitude of the input signal and an attenuated amplitude of the output signal. The power amplifier controller circuit comprises an amplitude control loop and a phase control loop. The... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20070184793 - Rf power amplifier controller circuit with compensation for output impedance mismatch: A power amplifier controller circuit controls a power amplifier based upon an amplitude correction signal indicating the amplitude difference between the amplitude of the input signal and an attenuated amplitude of the output signal. The power amplifier controller circuit comprises an amplitude control loop and a phase control loop. The... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20070184796 - Amplifier compression controller circuit: A power amplifier controller circuit controls a power amplifier based upon an amplitude correction signal indicating the amplitude difference between the amplitude of the input signal and an attenuated amplitude of the output signal. The power amplifier controller circuit comprises an amplitude control loop and a phase control loop. The... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20070184795 - Amplitude error de-glitching circuit and method of operating: A power amplifier controller circuit controls a power amplifier based upon an amplitude correction signal indicating the amplitude difference between the amplitude of the input signal and an attenuated amplitude of the output signal. The power amplifier controller circuit comprises an amplitude control loop and a phase control loop. The... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20070184797 - Apparatus for radio telecommunication system and method of building up output power: A polar loop based radio telecommunication apparatus which has a phase control loop for controlling the phase of a carrier outputted from an oscillator for transmitter, and an amplitude control loop for controlling the amplitude of a transmission output signal outputted from a power amplifier circuit, wherein precharge means is... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070184790 - Control of a power amplifier for reducing power consumption in a transceiver: A technique for controlling a transceiver apparatus is useful for reducing power consumption, and may be particularly applicable to mobile transceivers which employ a battery power supply. According to an exemplary embodiment, the transceiver apparatus includes a power amplifier for amplifying a transmission signal. A controller controls the power amplifier... Agent: Joseph J. Laks, Vice President Thomson Licensing LLC

20070184791 - Power amplifier controller circuit: A power amplifier controller circuit controls a power amplifier based upon an amplitude correction signal indicating the amplitude difference between the amplitude of the input signal and an attenuated amplitude of the output signal. The power amplifier controller circuit comprises an amplitude control loop and a phase control loop. The... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20070184794 - Rf power amplifier controller circuit including calibrated phase control loop: An RF power amplifier system comprises an amplitude control loop and a phase control loop. The amplitude control loop adjusts the supply voltage to the power amplifier based upon the amplitude correction signal indicating the amplitude difference between the amplitude of the input signal and an attenuated amplitude of the... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20070184798 - Dual-function wireless data terminal: Apparatus for communication includes at least one RF receiver circuit, which is coupled to receive and downconvert first and second RF signals that are transmitted respectively over different, first and second wireless networks in accordance with different, first and second network protocols, so as to output first and second downconverted... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20070184799 - Separation of am cochannel signals in an overloaded signal environment: Multiple cochannel AM signals received in an overloaded signal environment may be separated using RF data through a method of iterative projections.... Agent: O'keefe, Egan, Peterman & Enders LLP

20070184800 - Radio network for protecting electronic devices from electromagnetic radiation of a mobile station: A radio network comprises a first device (2) with a transmitter (3), whereby a second device (4) is to be protected from electromagnetic radiation of the transmitter (3) and at least one of the devices (2, 4) is mobile. One of the devices (2, 4) has a wireless interrogation system... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070184802 - Antenna selection system and method: A system and method for wireless communication. The system can include a transmitter that transmits a data signal having a time period without data transmission. The system can also include a receiver including a first antenna, a second antenna, a switch that activates one of the first antenna and the... Agent: Andrus, Sceales, Starke & Sawall, LLP

20070184801 - Radio reception apparatus and radio reception method: A radio reception apparatus is a radio reception apparatus for demodulating a multicarrier signal modulated according to multicarrier modulation. It includes a plurality of antenna sections, each for receiving a multicarrier signal, a plurality of carrier selection sections, each of the carrier selection sections selecting at least one subcarrier signal... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070184804 - Method and device for cancelling interferences: The invention is a device and a method for cancelling interferences between signals with frequency proximity, inherent to the co-location of multi-standard terminals, in a communication system. The interfering signal is sampled either on the interfering signal or on the disturbed signal then phase shifted and attenuated according to the... Agent: Joseph J. Laks, Vice President Thomson Licensing LLC

20070184803 - Method and apparatus for dc offset calibration: A variable amplifier with adjustable current to correct for DC offset. The variable amplifier includes a zero function, allowing for zeroing of some amplifiers in an amplifier chain during correction for DC offset of another amplifier in an amplifier chain. In some embodiments selectable current injection is provided to an... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070184805 - Portable audio device having reduced sensitivity to rf interference and related methods: A portable audio device having reduced sensitivity to RF interference over a predetermined frequency range from an adjacent mobile wireless communications device may include a portable housing, a battery carried thereby, a recharging power input connected to the battery, a digital signal input, and an audio analog signal output. A... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20070184806 - System and method to perform adaptive channel filtering on a radio frequency burst in a cellular: A method to perform adaptive channel filtering on a Radio Frequency (RF) bursts in a cellular wireless communication system. This method first filters an input signal with a first stage filter having a first bandwidth to produce a first stage output signal. Then the first stage output signal is filtered... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070184807 - Mobile communication system: A mobile communication system for transmitting broadcast data or multicast data includes a plurality of base stations forming a multicast or broadcast zone, the plurality of base stations transmitting a same multicast or broadcast data. Each of the plurality of base stations includes a first controller for determining a base... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070184808 - Method and device for transmitting speech signals via a data telecommunications network: In the case of a device for transmission of telephone signals via a data telecommunications network (2) the analogue signals of a telephone terminal are converted to digital signals for transmission via the data telecommunications network (2) and/or, vice versa, digital signals from the data telecommunications network (2) are converted... Agent: Maginot, Moore & Beck LLP Chase Tower

20070184809 - Power save system and method: According to various embodiments of the invention a device can announce broadcast traffic in a global access period. Thus, a destination can change its local communication window every global access period. By announcing a local communication window during a global access period it can be more likely that a source... Agent: Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP

20070184810 - Unmanned lighter-than-air-safe termination and recovery methods: Innovative new methods in connection with lighter-than-air free floating platforms, of facilitating legal transmitter operation, platform flight termination when appropriate, environmentally acceptable landing, and recovery of these devices are provided. Especially, termination of radio transmissions and flight related to regional, governmental and international border requirements, regulations and laws. The new... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070184811 - Adaptive receiver for wireless communication device: In general, the disclosure is directed to techniques for combining a high performance receiver and a low power receiver within a wireless communication device (WCD) to reduce power consumption. Upon receiving a signal from a base station, a controller within the WCD detects one or more channel conditions of a... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070184812 - Cell phone dispensers: A wireless device according to the present disclosure may accommodate one or more dispensers and or receptacles for personal care items. A wireless device may also include one or more accessories to enable the use of personal care products such as a mirror and or one or more lights. A... Agent: Crockett & Crockett

20070184813 - Multi-band multi-standard transceiver circuit for wireless communication mobile-and base-stations: A transceiver circuit for transmission and reception of multi-standard, multi-band radio signals, said transceiver circuit having a modular design comprising exchangeable and removable modules with dedicated functionalities and well defined interfaces between said modules, the transceiver circuit being configurable via software, depending on the functionalities to be fulfilled by said... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070184814 - Radio interoperability system: Various governmental agencies each utilize one of four currently available radio frequency bands to facilitate intra-agency communications. Each of the radio frequency bands includes a mutual-aid channel. In the practice of the present invention whenever a state of emergency involving a particular agency is determined, the agency is directed to... Agent: Michael A. O'neil, P.C.

20070184815 - Method and system for location-dependent billing for services: A method for location-dependent billing for a service available to a user with a mobile terminal having an identification module. Via a wireless interface of the identification module, a local communication connection is set up to at least one external location tag with a corresponding wireless interface. The method includes... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070184817 - Location-based transaction authentication of wireless terminal: A wireless terminal implements location-based transaction authentication and includes a wireless interface, a user interface, a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver, and a processing unit. The wireless terminal receives a transaction request from the user, accesses a servicing network via the wireless interface, sends a transaction initiation request to the... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070184818 - Method and system for enhanced security using location based wireless authentication: A method and system for enhancing security using location-based wireless authentication for a mobile device, the method comprising the steps of: sending from the mobile device to a base station a message, the message having a unique identifier associated with the mobile device; appending, at the base station, a location... Agent: Moffat & Co

20070184819 - System, method and apparatus for federated single sign-on services: The advent of new and sophisticated web services provided by Service Providers to users, services that individually require authentication of user and authorization of access, brings the needs for a new service to facilitate such authentication and access, a service referred to as Single Sign-On (SSO). The basic principle behind... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070184816 - Wireless connection system and wireless connection method: A wireless connection system having at least one host device and at least one client device is disclosed. The client device is brought close to the host device, near field wireless communications are performed and an authentication process of authenticating the client device is performed with connection setting information through... Agent: Robert J. Depke Lewis T. Steadman

20070184821 - Business process for disseminating pilot weather data by voice: A computer-implemented method and system is provided for delivering immediate (up to the minute) aviation weather information. A pilot makes a call to a single toll free number and specifies the location he wants to receive weather from. The system and method disambiguates the location and then checks to see... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070184820 - System and method for delivering content: A system for implementing a method for selection, delivery and display of precisely targeted advertisements to mobile phones or devices operates on computers that serve the content and on the mobiles phones and devices. Many people use their mobile phones to browse information, the providers of which desire to display... Agent: Lowrie, Lando & Anastasi

20070184822 - Method for transmitting the identity of a calling subscriber to a called subscriber in a mobile communication system: The invention relates to a method and a mobile communication system for transmitting the identity of a calling subscriber to a called subscriber in a mobile communication system comprising a home location register for permanent storage of subscriber data on mobile stations registered in the network, and at least one... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070184823 - Communications network capable of determining sim card changes in electronic devices: A communication network comprising a carrier network with a service coordinator is capable of acting upon SIM card change information detected by an agent located in the electronic devices used in the communication network. In general, the agent in electronic devices facilitates the determination of SIM Card changes in the... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070184825 - Method and system for selecting a visited network to be used by a user equipment in a wireless communication system: Preference of a home public land mobile network (HPLMN) is applied when a roaming user equipment (UE) selects a visited public land mobile network (VPLMN). The roaming UE sends an available VPLMN list to the HPLMN. A control message of a non-access stratum (NAS) or an application can be used... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070184826 - Method for relaying in a cellular network and cellular mobile communication system supporting the same: A method is disclosed for relaying data between a Base Station (BS) and a Mobile Station (MS) through a relay station in a cellular network. In the data relay method, the relay station receives data from the BS and the MS, performs network coding on first data received from the... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070184824 - Unlicensed-radio access networks in mobile cellular communication networks: An unlicensed-radio access network is connected to a core network portion of a licensed cellular mobile network and includes a broadband network (302) with a plurality of access points (301) each defining a mini-cell and adapted to communicate with mobile stations located within a mini-cell over an unlicensed-radio interface. An... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070184827 - System and method of determining standby time for mobile stations: A method and system for determining standby time for a mobile station uses a battery simulator, a base station emulator, a computer to control the test equipment and MSUT for testing a mobile station. The computer includes a module for determining a radio off battery voltage, a module for deriving... Agent: Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP

20070184829 - Communication terminal, fixed-line phone, and computer readable medium: A communication terminal includes a communication interface configured to exchange data via a communication network, a memory, a first table stored in the memory and configured to store identifiers of communication terminals which are senders of received data, a second table stored in the memory and configured to store identifiers... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070184830 - Anonymous electronic transactions: Techniques are disclosed for protecting privacy of parties to electronic transactions, such as transactions conducted through a GSM network. An anonymity service provider receives orders directed from its subscriber to a recipient for goods or services, along with information about its subscriber. The anonymity service provider relays the order to... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20070184828 - Robust topology wireless communication using broadband access points: The invention provides a method and system for robust topology wireless communication using access points. A wireless communication system includes a communication cell having a base station controller and at least one set of customer premises equipment. The customer premises equipment is disposed within a sector of the cell, and... Agent: Swernofsky Law Group PC

20070184831 - Communication system: A communication system for allowing communication efficiency to be improved for at least a part of stations in a LAN wherein the plurality of stations are installed in a movable body. A communication system comprising a plurality of access points (1,2,3 . . . ) located along a predetermined path;... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070184833 - Method and system for user roaming and service roaming in a digital broadcasting system: A method and apparatus for receiving user roaming and service roaming services from a foreign network in a terminal that has moved from a home network to the foreign network in a digital broadcasting system are provided, in which the terminal receives an ESG from a foreign service provider after... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070184832 - Secure identification of roaming rights prior to authentication/association: A mechanism to enable secure identification of roaming rights prior to authentication/association is provided. The mechanism may include using a Roaming ID, and may also include the use of wild cards and group IDs to reduce the length of transmissions. The mechanism may further employ public key infrastructure and puzzles... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070184835 - Scanning for network connections with variable scan rate: A wireless communication terminal includes a radio frequency (RF) transceiver and a baseband processing circuit, which is arranged to detect an indication of a rate of movement of the terminal. The baseband processing circuit is coupled to cause the RF transceiver to scan periodically for access points that are available... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20070184834 - Method and apparatus for controlling measuring frequency of forbidden registration area in a mobile communication system: A method and apparatus for controlling measuring the frequency of a new cell within a forbidden registration area when a User Equipment (UE) enters into the new cell in a mobile communication system are provided. If the UE recognizes the new registration area as forbidden, the UE does not measure... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070184836 - System for improving overall battery life of a gsm communication device: Disclosed is a system for improving the overall battery life of a GSM device according to an optimization mechanism for suspending neighbor-cell scanning in a GSM wireless communication system, the system having a wireless device including: (a) a Central Processing Unit (CPU) executing software programs intended to comply with GSM... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070184837 - Device registration in a wireless multi-hop ad-hoc network: A wireless multi-hop ad-hoc network in which a wireless communication device is enabled to register with a multi-hop network in a secure and easy-to-use way. In one implementation a user's wireless communication device is registered before allowing the device to enter a wireless multi-hop ad-hoc network and the device participates... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070184839 - Mobile communication system for performing hand-off based on communication resources in base stations: Each mobile station is accommodated in a base station through a radio transmission path. A base station control device controls each base station. A mobile station is accommodated in a first base station. Each of the base stations notifies the mobile station of the condition of the communication resources of... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070184838 - Mobile communications cell changing procedure: A method of changing the serving cell in a cellular communications network is provided. A radio communications link is established between a serving network node of a serving cell and a mobile terminal. The mobile terminal sends radio measurement reports for cells other than the serving cell. Once a predetermined... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070184840 - Uplink radio access network with uplink scheduling: A radio access network comprises a serving radio network controller (S-RNC). The S-RNC receives successfully received medium access control (MAC) packet data units (PDUs), discards duplicates of MAC PDUs, reorders the non-discarded MAC PDUs based on serial numbers of the MAC PDUs and delivers the MAC PDUs to a radio... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070184841 - Optical distributed network system using multi input multi output: Provided is a system for communicating between a base station transceiver subsystem and radio access units in a wireless communication system. The system includes a data path switch for switching a signal received from a base station controller, to a predetermined picocell, a micro cell HD controller and a picocell... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20070184842 - Apparatus, method, and computer program product providing persistent uplink and downlink resource allocation: Apparatus, methods, computer program products, systems and circuits are provided that allow for persistent uplink and downlink resource allocations. A method includes: allocating resources to a user equipment for a data flow over a plurality of time intervals with a single signaling event at a wireless network radio network layer;... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20070184850 - Apparatus and method for determining a current position of a mobile device: An apparatus for determining a current position of a mobile device in an environment in which at least one transmitter is disposed includes a means for providing a cartographic map of the environment, the cartographic map including field strength reference values at reference points, a means for determining a field... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20070184847 - Method and a system for safe pairing of wireless communication devices: The present invention relates to a method and a system for safe pairing of wireless communication medical devices in a situation when multiple servers are within the reach of a client by determining and indicating the number of wireless medical devices responding to a node query broadcast and accordingly establishing... Agent: Novo Nordisk, Inc. Patent Department

20070184852 - Method and system for location of objects within a specified geographic area: A method and system for determining the location of objects within a geographic area is disclosed. In one embodiment, the system includes a plurality of portable transceiver devices each coupled to a respective object located within the geographic area; a plurality of stationary transceiver devices fixed at predetermined locations within... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070184853 - Method for controlling the weighting of a data signal in the at least two antenna elements of a radio connection unit, radio connection unit, module and communications system: The invention relates to a method for controlling the weighting of a data signal in the at least two antenna elements of a first radio connection unit of a radio communications system, which data signal is to be distributed for parallel transmission to a second radio connection unit to at... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070184848 - Method of configuring a mobile terminal as a function of its geograhical position and terminal for implementing that method: e

20070184851 - Methods and apparatus for location synthesis in a wireless network environment: In one aspect, a software application for location determination of a mobile device connected to at least one network is provided. The software application comprises a first input to receive first location information indicative of a first possible location of the mobile device, the first location information obtained from a... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070184845 - Providing geographic context for applications and services on a wide area network: Embodiments of a method and system for providing geographic context for services delivered over a network, without user intervention, are described. In one embodiment, the geographic location of an access point on a wireless network, or a reference to the geographic location, is stored in the access point. The information... Agent: Courtney Staniford & Gregory LLP

20070184854 - Providing location information in a visited network: A method for establishing a media for communications in association with a location information service provided in association with a communication system is disclosed. In the method a user equipment is provided with information enabling the user equipment to communicate on a user plane connection with at least one location... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070184843 - Self surveying radio location method: A method of determining the position of a plurality of a radio transmitter units relative to a master unit is disclosed in which a control signal is provided from the master unit commanding each of the radio transmitter units to transmit a test signal and the remaining units to receive.... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20070184844 - System and method for brokering mobile service providers: The present invention comprises a method and system for dispatching a plurality of mobile service providers among a plurality of users (stationary) based on proximity of a user to a particular mobile service provider. One or more representations of proximity will be presented to a user on a map (radar... Agent: Foothill Law Group

20070184846 - System and method for managing communications with mobile platforms operating within a predefined geographic area: A system and method for providing communications within an airfield between an aircraft component located upon an aircraft and an airport data network. A control computer is used to select an optimal antenna substation from a plurality of antenna substations disposed about the airfield for the aircraft component to communicate... Agent: Harness Dickey & Pierce, PLC

20070184849 - Systems and methods for satellite forward link transmit diversity using orthagonal space coding: Methods of transmitting communications signals from a satellite to a wireless terminal include determining a location of the wireless terminal, selecting a plurality of antenna feed elements at the satellite in response to the determined location of the wireless terminal, block coding a plurality of symbols into a number of... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20070184855 - Visual representation of contact location: A method for visually representing information on a display of a portable electronic device includes receiving location coordinates from at least one other portable electronic device, plotting a visual identifier on a map and displaying the map on the display of the portable electronic device. The position of the visual... Agent: Lesley M. Morrison Perry + Partners

20070184856 - Choice-based short messaging service in wireless networks and devices therefor: A method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving choice-based short messages are disclosed.... Agent: Volentine & Whitt PLLC

20070184860 - Mechanism for controlling a transmission of data messages to user equipment by an external gateway: A mechanism for controlling a transmission of data messages in a communication network, including executing a registration procedure, sending a request message including registration information from a message gateway entity to a home subscriber database by using a Mobile Application Part signaling, wherein the request message further comprises information elements... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070184858 - Method of attaching mobile communication tasks to a subscriber information module card and mobile communication device incorporating the same: A method of selecting a set of communication parameters on a mobile communication device and a mobile communication device in which the method may be carried out. In one embodiment, the method includes: (1) providing at least two sets of communication parameters, (2) selecting a communication task to be executed... Agent: Hitt Gaines, PC Lsi Corporation

20070184859 - Method of managing messages which have been sent by a electronic device: The Figures illustrate a method of managing messages which have been sent by an electronic device including sending a message from the device; determining, within the device, whether the message has been delivered within a predetermined time; and if the message has not been delivered within the predetermined time controlling... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20070184857 - System and method for providing messages to a mobile device: The present invention is directed to a system and method in which data messages, which otherwise would be displayed on the screen of a mobile device are delivered in audible format. The message itself, in one embodiment does not contain the audible message, but rather the message triggers the retrieval... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.l.p

20070184861 - Triggering email/pim events based on sms headers and content: A message composed by a user using a computer is stored in a computer-readable medium. The message is associated with a distribution list of one or more intended recipients of the message, and an identifier is associated with the message. An SMS message is received in an inbox of the... Agent: Toler Schaffer, LLP

20070184862 - Estimating time delays in a simulcast communication system: A method for facilitating an equalization of a simulcast signal comprising: (a) receiving a simulcast signal comprising known data simulcast from at least two different sites; (b) generating a number of simulated simulcast signals, each simulated simulcast signal being based on at least two sites transmitting said known data with... Agent: Tyco Technology Resources

20070184864 - Making time-of-flight measurements in master/slave and ad hoc networks by eaves-dropping on messages: Method for obtaining range and/or positional information of electronic devices typically rely on a device (A) re-questing that another device (B) supplies a reply message (22), which contains some timing information (T2, T3) on the signals received and sent. Problems that arise in such networks comprise: firstly, some devices (C)... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070184863 - Radio base station apparatus and transmission power control method: Radio base station apparatus 100 of the present invention monitors total transmission power which is the sum of transmission power for all mobile station terminals 200-203 connected for communication, reduces the upper limit of transmission power for the lowest prioritized mobile station terminal by a predetermined amount when the total... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20070184865 - Apparatus, method and computer program product providing fast and reliable uplink synchronization using dedicated resources for user equipment in need of synchronization: A method includes determining if a user equipment has a need to establish uplink synchronization with a base station. In response to determining that the user equipment has the need to establish uplink synchronization with the base station, a determination is made if uplink resources are available on a non-contention-based... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20070184866 - Method and apparatus for decoding paging message in wireless communication system: A method and mobile device for decoding a paging message transmitted as multiple bursts in a wireless communication system are provided. In the method, only the first burst among four bursts of a transmitted paging message is received and equalized. The equalized first burst is compared (e.g., by computing correlation)... Agent: Frank Chau, Esq. F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20070184868 - Apparatus, and associated method, for notifying, delivering, and deleting media bursts communicated in a push-to-talk over cellular communication system: Apparatus, and an associated method, for a PoC (Push-to-Talk over Cellular)-capable communication system. A user equipment PoC box is provided, and a corresponding network PoC box is also provided. A transport mechanism is defined and provided by which to communicate a PoC media burst that is delivered to a PoC... Agent: Research In Motion, Ltd

20070184867 - Establishing pt session using pt box: A Push-To (PT) service of Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) based session services, and particularly, the method and system that even if a target PT client terminal is in the unregistered state to the SIP/IP core and a PT server has not received ‘PT service setting’ from the target PT client... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070184871 - Channel switching method for using high speed wireless channel: A wireless control station connected with a wireless base station which communicates with a mobile station by using a plurality of wireless channels including at least a first wireless channel and a second wireless channel. The wireless control station includes a calculating unit for calculating channel quality of the first... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070184869 - Dynamic rs coverage in multi-hop cellular networks: For use in a wireless network, a controller for relay stations. The relay station increases cell coverage and user data rates while employing power consumption saving techniques. The relay station compares a threshold power setting with a current power setting. If the threshold power setting is greater than the current... Agent: Docket Clerk

20070184870 - Power save system and method: According to an embodiment of the invention, a system and method to provide alignment of hibernation and active cycles is provided. When one device receives a beacon from one of its neighbors it can be implemented to check for the neighboring device's global cycle start countdown value and to compare... Agent: Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP

20070184872 - Communication apparatus: The mobile communication apparatus informs occurrence of a missed event with a vibrator 54 in response to the detection of a second state that a case separates from the other case in the apparatus. For example, the missed event can be that the apparatus has a missing incoming call, that... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20070184873 - Dual-mode phone and power management method thereof: A dual-mode phone wirelessly communicated with a network device is provided. The dual-mode phone comprises a detecting module, a radio frequency (RF) module, and a processing module. The detecting module is for detecting a setting of the dual-mode phone. The RF module is for establishing connection between the dual-mode phone... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070184874 - Electronic apparatus and wireless communication terminal: In an electronic apparatus which is equipped with a first transmission unit for performing a first communication by an electromagnetic wave; a second transmission unit for performing a second communication by an electromagnetic wave; and a reception unit for receiving a signal transmitted from the second transmission unit, the electronic... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070184875 - Multimedia client/server system, client module, multimedia server, radio receiver and methods for use therewith: A radio receiver includes a first receiver module for converting a first radio frequency (RF) signal at a first carrier frequency into a first baseband signal. A second receiver module converts a second RF signal at a second carrier frequency into a second baseband signal. A recombination module combines the... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070184876 - System for combining output signals of two base stations: A transmitter unit which is disposed between the first base station and the antenna arrangement contains a device for aggregate signal forming, a D/A converter and a transmission power amplifier. The first base station is connected on the output side to the device for aggregate signal forming such that a... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070184877 - Mobile terminal key input device and method: A mobile terminal keypad is provided having a plurality of key switches on the keypad that provides a first signal or a second signal according to the pressure applied to the key switch. In each of the plurality of key switches, a plate is provided to sequentially contact with a... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070184878 - Text inputting: More convenient text inputting can be achieved by receiving text entries from a user via a keypad in a particular text input mode, activating a different text input mode via a text input mode converter operated by the user, and receiving text entries from the user via the keypad in... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070184879 - Relay device for mobile device: A relay device including print means that is value-added means is mounted to a mounting recessed portion of a battery charger, and a mobile phone that is a mobile device is mounted to a mounting recessed portion of the relay device. Thus electric power can be supplied to the secondary... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070184880 - Wireless user input device providing host link indication: A wireless interface device services communications between a wirelessly enabled host and at least one user input device. The wireless interface device includes a wireless interface unit, a processing unit, an input/output unit, and may include a power management unit. The wireless interface unit wirelessly interfaces with the wirelessly enabled... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070184881 - Headset terminal with speech functionality: A headset terminal for speech applications includes a headband assembly, an earcup assembly and a power source assembly. Processing circuitry is positioned in at least one of the earcup assembly and the power source assembly and includes speech processing circuitry for recognizing and synthesizing speech. A radio communicates with a... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, LLP

20070184882 - Portable communication terminal for games: Provided is a portable communication terminal that is convenient for use in a game mode. The portable communication terminal includes a main body housing including at least one key, a sliding housing including a display unit, sliding perpendicularly to the longitudinal direction of the main body housing while facing the... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070184883 - Transmitting device, receiving device, communications device, wireless communications system, data transmission method, data reception method, computer program, and computer-readable storage medium containing computer program: A worker selects at least one antenna in each of a video transmitter unit (20) and a display unit (30) with a remote controller (80). A selection signal, transmitted from the remote controller (80), feeds to light receiving means (69), (78) and passed on to microcomputers (67), (75). The microcomputers... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070178834 - Systems and methods for communicating with satellites via non-compliant antennas: A system and method allow end users the ability to operate using non-compliant antennas. A coordination database may be continually updated with respect to geographic coordinates, time planning, frequency and orbital positions. Further, the system and method may utilize a tool for easily calculating interference resulting from the use of... Agent: White & Case LLP Patent Department

20070178833 - Systems and methods for satellite communications with mobile terrestrial terminals: A system of satellite communications provides high throughput data transmission rates for mobile terrestrial terminals. The system may allow point to point communication between two terrestrial terminals. Further, the system may allow point to multipoint communication from an initiating terrestrial terminal to a plurality of target terrestrial terminals. Still further,... Agent: White & Case LLP Patent Department

20070178835 - Connection device: This connection device includes a single first port to which a transmitter is connected via a bidirectional type cable, and a plurality of second ports to which a plurality of receivers are connected via respective bidirectional type cables. Moreover this connection device includes a transmission control unit which, along with... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070178836 - Fixed frequency transmitter and disposable receiver system for use in sporting events: A system for transmitting a fixed frequency radio signal to a hands-free earpiece unit to provide audio information of an event to a user. A transmitter receives an airwave broadcast signal and conditions the airwave broadcast signal into a single frequency signal. The transmitter transmits the single conditioned frequency signal... Agent: Bush Intellectual Property Law Group, LLC

20070178838 - Communication apparatus and system for communication: A communication apparatus uses a short range communication function for displaying a decrease of remaining battery power of a cellular phone that is in communication with the communication apparatus based on a report from the cellular phone when the remaining battery power decreases to a predetermined threshold.... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070178840 - Base station apparatus, wireless communication system and frequency assignment method: A frequency band FC assigned to a first wireless communication system and the frequency bands F1, . . . , Fm assigned to a second wireless communication system are set up for a base station apparatus 100. The base station apparatus 100 periodically performs a frequency detection process A to... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070178847 - Information radio transmission system: An information radio transmission system is provided that enables provision of correct control information on the transmitting side irrespective of the error volume when an error occurs in communication data. Error volume measuring data string storage units that store an error volume measuring data string are provided in both a... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070178848 - Generation of wideband frequencies in integrated frequency synthesizer: An automatic frequency controller (AFC) is integrated within an one-chip transceiver for controlling both a receiver oscillator and a transmission oscillator. The AFC inputs at least one mode signal indicating one of a reception mode and a transmission mode. The AFC controls the receiver oscillator for the reception mode and... Agent: Law Office Of Monica H Choi

20070178829 - Broadcast signal receiving system: Disclosed is a broadcast signal receiving system including: an antenna, a transmitter connected to the antenna, and a receiver connected to the transmitter in a wireless manner, wherein the transmitter comprises encoding member to encode a broadcast signal which is output from the antenna, modulating member to modulate a wavelength... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070178828 - Integrated mobile communication and broadcast program reproduction device: A method for controlling operation of an integrated mobile communication and broadcast program reproduction device and of operating the device includes monitoring an occurrence of a trigger event at the device; and upon occurrence of the trigger event, recording a broadcast program signal received by the device. An integrated mobile... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070178830 - Storage and playback device and method for using the same: A storage and playback device is capable of being detachably coupled to an output device, such as speakers of an automobile. The device includes a wireless transceiver to receive compressed digital content automatically from a computer system via a wireless local area network based on user defined preferences input into... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20070178831 - Mobile communication system, transmitting station, receiving station, relay station, communication path determining method, and communication path determining program: Provided is a mobile communication system capable of determining a communication path to implement fast communication by multihop connection. A mobile communication system (1) comprises a mobile station (10), at least one relay station (30), and a base station (20) and implements packet transmission from the mobile station (10) to... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070178832 - Mobile communication system with moving base station: A mobile communication system employs moving base stations moving in the direction of flow of traffic moving along a roadway. The moving base station communicates with fixed radio ports connected to a gateway office. A plurality of moving base stations are spaced apart on a closed loop and move with... Agent: Charles D. Gavrilovich, Jr., Gavrilovich, Dodd & Lindsey, LLP

20070178837 - Wireless communication apparatus and distance measuring method: Proposed is a technique for implementing data communication and distance measurement even in a case where data communication and distance measurement share the physical layer. A wireless communication apparatus includes a radio unit and a distance measuring unit. The radio unit performs communication using a frame that includes at least... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20070178839 - Antenna assignment system and method: This specification describes, in part, a technique for dynamic assignment of multiple antennas to different radio subsystems in a wireless device. The technique may include using an adaptive algorithm to allocate antennas to different radio subsystems as a function of, for example, application requirements, power requirements, and/or channel/network conditions. The... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20070178841 - Apparatus and methods for concurrent wireless network analysis: Methods and apparatus for simultaneous wireless network analysis are described. The apparatus may include a plurality of wireless receivers and a discriminator/analyzer module to identify data items being transmitted over one or more communications channels received by the plurality of wireless receivers. The method may comprise receiving a plurality of... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070178843 - Automated testing of a handheld device over a network: Described are methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for automated testing of a handheld device over a network. A first predefined test is executed on a handheld device to generate a first element with a first predefined value for a first parameter associated with the first element and the... Agent: Proskauer Rose LLP

20070178845 - Method and system for detecting an rf transmitter or transmitter type using a network of programmable rf receivers: One or more of the programmable RF receivers or other devices in the network may be programmed to determine whether one or more defining characteristics associated with a particular RF transmitter or transmitter type are present in RF data. The one or more defining characteristics are used to detect the... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20070178844 - Method and system for identifying signal frequencies emitted at a known location using geographically distributed rf sensors: A network of three or more RF sensors acquires RF data in terms of power versus frequency data or energy versus frequency data. An expected power or energy difference between RF sensors in each pair of RF sensors is calculated based on the known location. The observed power or energy... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20070178842 - Method and system for synchronizing geographically distributed rf sensors using a pair of rf triggering devices: RF sensors acquire and store RF data in memory. One RF sensor generates a trigger signal when the RF sensor detects a feature of interest in its acquired RF data. The detecting RF sensor wirelessly transmits the trigger signal to the non-detecting RF sensor. The non-detecting RF sensor reads the... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20070178846 - Method and system for detecting an rf signal: A number of RF receivers are connected in a network. The network is used to transmit communications, data, or both to and from the RF receivers and to synchronize the RF receivers to a common time. Digitized RF data is time-stamped and stored in memory. A trigger circuit in one... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20070178849 - Impedance matched lane reversal switching system: An impedance matched lane reversal switching system including first and second transceiver pairs, each of the pairs including a transmitter connected to a receiver, the output of the transmitter connected to the input of the receiver and to a node, the node of each pair interconnected with a transmission line... Agent: Iandiorio & Teska

20070178850 - Radio frequency signal coupling system: A radio frequency (RF) signal coupler for cooperative engagement with a shunt device and for cooperative engagement with an RF modem. The shunt device has a high voltage terminal connected to an electrical cable of the power network and a low voltage terminal. The coupler comprises a signal lead connected... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070178851 - Method and apparatus to indicate communication is wanted or waiting: An integrated communication system comprises a first communication device connected to a second communication device using a data link. When the first communication device is out of network, a dispatch center can indicate to the use a communication is waiting or wanted by sending a communication request signal to the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070178852 - Communication device: A communication device including cell phone which functions as a satellite phone, a pager and a television. The cell phone is equipped with a full alphabetic keyboard having three sections that fold up and attach to the back of the cell phone. The keyboard is connected to the bottom of... Agent: Galasso & Associates, Lp

20070178853 - Multicarrier signal transmission apparatus and multicarrier signal transmission method: A multicarrier signal transmission apparatus provided with a hard clip suppression unit for hard clipping a peak part of a multicarrier signal, a low pass filter for filtering the signal hard clipped by the hard clip suppression unit, and a peak suppression unit for suppressing the peak part of the... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070178854 - Variable power adaptive transmitter: A circuit comprises an analog output module that receives a bias signal and a control signal. A delay module receives a first signal and that generates a delayed first signal. A control module receives the delayed first signal and generates the control signal based thereon. An envelope generating module receives... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce P.L.C

20070178855 - Large scale bi-directional user terminal with configurable transmission frequencies: The invention proposes an upgradeable product enabling a single circuit to be produced and very easily configured in the factory for a lower production cost. The minimisation of the industrialisation costs is achieved by an increase of production volumes. An outdoor unit of a reception terminal including a return channel,... Agent: Joseph J. Laks, Vice President Thomson Licensing LLC

20070178858 - Apparatus and method for transmitting a signal in a communication system: A method is provided for transmitting a signal in a signal transmission apparatus of a communication system. Upon receiving a signal, the signal transmission apparatus determines a mode of the received signal, in which a power amplifier should amplify the signal; generates a mode control signal corresponding to a single... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070178856 - Method and apparatus for controlling a supply voltage to a power amplifier: A supply voltage to a power amplifier is controlled. A signal at a single point in a power amplifier is detected. A signal parameter is determined for the detected signal. The signal parameter is compared to at least one predetermined limit. This comparison result is used to determine whether to... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070178857 - Method and apparatus for high efficiency rectification for various loads: An apparatus for converting power includes at least one impedance matching network which receives an electrical signal. The apparatus includes at least one AC to DC converter in communication with the impedance matching network. Also disclosed is a method for powering a load and an apparatus for converting power and... Agent: Ansel M. Schwartz Attorney At Law

20070178859 - Systems and methods of rf power transmission, modulation, and amplification, including cartesian 4-branch embodiments: Methods and systems for vector combining power amplification are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a plurality of signals are individually amplified, then summed to form a desired time-varying complex envelope signal. Phase and/or frequency characteristics of one or more of the signals are controlled to provide the desired phase, frequency,... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070178860 - Variable power adaptive transmitter: A circuit comprises a delay module that receives a digital transmit signal and that generates a delayed transmit signal. A first digital to analog converter converts the delayed transmit signal to an analog transmit signal. An analog output circuit amplifies the analog transmit signal. An envelope generating module generates an... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce P.L.C

20070178861 - Radio scanner for sporting events: A scanner for monitoring signals at one or more frequencies having a processor for performing various functionalities of the scanner in accordance with a set of instructions including a menu of selectable menu items; a display for displaying the menu items; and at least one variable selector operatively coupled to... Agent: Dykema Gossett PLLC

20070178862 - Weight training for antenna array beam patterns in fdd/tdma terminals: A method for weight training for beamforming in handset terminals deployed in a system employing Frequency Division Duplexing and Time-Division Multiple Access (FDD/TDMA). Generally there is signal in time slots that are not destined for a certain terminal. During this time the receiver scans a beam around the terminal and... Agent: Patentry

20070178863 - Am/fm tuner saw filter-less architecture using am frequency band up-conversion: A receiver for AM and FM broadcast signals is disclosed. FM signals are received from an FM antenna and then processed by receive path circuitry or an FM tuner integrated circuit (IC) to produce audio output signals, such as digital audio output signals. The AM signals are received by an... Agent: O'keefe, Egan, Peterman & Enders LLP

20070178865 - Content depot: A system and method for delivery and management of live and pre-produced broadcasts is disclosed. Programming can be distributed in real time over a delivery medium (e.g., satellite). Stations can streamline program management using a depot. The depot may centralize storage and program retrieval. The depot can be of the... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070178864 - Electronic subsystem assembly including radio frequency interface: An electronic subsystem assembly including a subsystem circuit, a contact interface, a memory circuit, and a radio frequency interface. The subsystem circuit is configured to provide a system function. The contact interface is configured to receive input signals and output signals. The memory circuit is configured to receive the input... Agent: Dicke, Billig & Czaja

20070178866 - Receiver and integrated am-fm/iq demodulators for gigabit-rate data detection: This disclosure addresses providing gigabit-rate data transmission over wireless radio links, using carrier frequencies in the millimeter-wave range (>30 GHz). More specifically, a circuit for detection of amplitude-shift keyed (ASK) or other amplitude modulations (AM) which can be easily incorporated into an integrated circuit receiver system is described, making the... Agent: Ference & Associates LLC

20070178867 - Enhancing signals in a two-way radio system: Embodiments of the present invention can be used to enhance signals in a peer-to-peer radio system, such as a two-way radio system. In one embodiment, the invention includes receiving a communications signal on a channel from a remote radio at a radio using a plurality of antenna elements, such as... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group, LLP

20070178868 - Telephone system having reduced sensitivity to rf interference and related methods: A telephone to be connected to a wireline having reduced sensitivity to RF interference over a predetermined frequency range from an adjacent mobile wireless communications device may include a transmit amplifier, a receive amplifier, an audio input transducer connected to the transmit amplifier, and an audio output transducer connected to... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20070178869 - Multi-frequency synthesizing apparatus and method for multi-band rf receiver: A frequency synthesizing apparatus and method for a multi-band radio frequency (RF) receiver is provided. The frequency synthesizing apparatus includes a simple circuit configuration with a single SSB mixer and thus, may synthesize six high frequency signals. Signals to be inputted into the SSB mixer include a first signal and... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070178870 - Chopped intermediate frequency wireless receive: A chopped intermediate frequency (IF) wireless receiver is disclosed. The wireless receiver includes a local oscillator (LO), a first and a second mixers, an LO frequency control module, an IF filter, a digital down converter and a down conversion controller. The LO provides a local oscillating signal to the first... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20070178871 - Communication system, converter for use therein and method of signalling: A communication system comprises first and second devices (2,3) having respective housings (5,6); a data trans-mission line (8) for transmitting data between the devices in a reflective signalling format; and conversion means (4) connectable to the line externally of the housings (5,6) for converting data between a reflective signalling format... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070178872 - Image rejection curcuit: In order to provide an image rejection circuit that can reject an image signal without being affected by manufacturing variations in circuit elements such as resistors, condensers, or the like, an image rejection circuit is provided which comprises a first mixer unit 2 for mixing a signal received by a... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20070178873 - Tuner module for radio receiver: The present invention is applied to a tuner module comprising a circuit as a constituent component for tuning at the time of radio signal reception and a metal case made of aluminum and receiving the circuit. The circuit includes at least one IC component. In the metal case, a heat... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070178876 - Applications and/or situation responsive utilization of silent periods: A mobile apparatus is disclosed that includes: a plurality of network interfaces; a processor; the mobile being configured to monitor applications running on it, including real time or non real time nature of said applications; the mobile being configured to monitor its operating situation, including moving or non moving status;... Agent: Watchstone P+d, PLC

20070178874 - Communication terminal and communication method thereof: It is a communication terminal including an EVDO radio control portion 1172 adapted to perform a radio communication control operation according to an EVDO communication system. When a data link is released by issuing a power-supply-off instruction during an EVDO communication, the EVDO radio communication portion 1172 is not caused... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20070178875 - Systems, methods, and apparatus for activity control in a wireless communications device: Embodiments include methods of activity control in which a time of initiation of an active period of a discontinuous reception (DRX) cycle is based on a value calculated with respect to a wireless signal received during an active period of a previous DRX cycle.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070178877 - Integrated receiver and power adapter: Embodiments of the present invention provide an integrated receiver and power adapter (10). The adapter (10) generally includes a coupling element (12) operable to couple with a power source (S), a receiver (14) operable to wirelessly receive information, a housing (16) operable to house the receiver (14), and a connection... Agent: Garmin Ltd. C/o Garmin International, Inc.

20070178878 - Method for simplifying the process of transmitting message: The present invention discloses a method for messages transmission in a simplified way, UE transmitting the messages to the network through the lower layer, the method includes following steps: if the lower layer indicates the message has been transmitted successfully, then starting timer, otherwise, ending the current procedure; if the... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20070178879 - Alarm system: A monitored alarm system that has an alarm unit and a remote monitoring station. The alarm unit is arranged to contact the monitoring station via a telephone call when an alarm event or other circumstances occur. The monitoring station is arranged to leave said telephone call unanswered whilst logging the... Agent: Patzik, Frank & Samotny Ltd.

20070178880 - Method and relay station for aggregating service connection identifiers in ieee802.16: In a method and a RS (Relay Station) for aggregating service connection identifiers in IEEE 802.16, the RS receives 1st QoS from 1st MS (Mobile subscriber Station), and stores 1st SFID/CID between BS (Base Station)-RS corresponding to 2nd SFID/CID between the RS-MS in table information. The RS receives DSA-REQ including... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070178881 - Remotely controlling access to subscriber data over a wireless network for a mobile device: A method and apparatus for using messaging to remotely control access over a network to a subscriber data associated with a mobile device that may be stolen or lost is provided. The method of wireless communication over a network with a mobile device having access to data associated with a... Agent: Williams, Morgan & Amerson

20070178883 - Authentication and verification services for third party vendors using mobile devices: A method to provide authentication services to third party vendors by a service provider hosting an authentication, authorization and accounting (AAA) server or a similar device that can authenticate users for some other service. This method enables easy and substantially error-free end-user authentication, which forms the basis for enabling electronic... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/ Lucent Technologies, Inc

20070178886 - Authentication method and related method for transmitting information: An authentication method and a method for transmitting authentication information, and the method for transmitting authentication information includes: an MS and a network agree in advance one or more agreed operations to be performed when the network determines that the SQNMS is an agreed value; the MS generating an authentication... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070178882 - Method for secure authentication of mobile devices: A method for authenticating a mobile device is provided. The method includes receiving a communication request from the mobile device. The mobile device is operable to exchange data over a primary channel. Authentication data is received from the mobile device over a second channel. The secondary channel is a short-range... Agent: Williams, Morgan & Amerson

20070178884 - Remote provisioning of privacy settings in a home multimedia network: An arrangement is provided for remotely provisioning a commonly-utilized PIN from a wide area network (“WAN”) to one or more terminals to thereby enable content to be securely shared over a local area network (“LAN”). The LAN and WAN share portions of a common network infrastructure, but operate at different... Agent: General Instrument Corporation Dba The Connected Home Solutions Business Of Motorola, Inc.

20070178885 - Two-phase sim authentication: A method for challenge-based authentication of a communication entity to an access network. The access network uses a password-based communication protocol. The method comprises a) pre-supplying to the communication entity a challenge, thereby allowing the communication entity to provide a challenge response, b) supplying to the communication entity a password... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan Prtsi, Inc.

20070178887 - Systems and methods for downloading information to a mobile device: Devices, systems and processes for accessing and management of voice and other messages. Such devices, systems and processes employ an interface which allows the user to access and manage messages on his or her user device and, furthermore, automatically to access and manage messages on remote devices via radio frequency... Agent: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

20070178888 - Methods and apparatus for re-establishing communication for a wireless communication device after a communication loss in a wireless communication network: Several related methods and apparatus for re-establishing communication for a wireless communication device after a communication loss between the wireless device and a wireless communication network are disclosed. In one illustrative example, the wireless network broadcasts identifiers of wireless devices associated with communication losses in the wireless network over a... Agent: John J. Oskorep, Esq. One Magnificent Mile Center

20070178889 - Advertising on mobile devices: Devices, computer readable media, and systems including program instructions are provided for advertising on mobile phones. A device embodiment includes a mobile phone with program instructions executable to display a single stream of advertising formed from a number of advertising channels, receive a change input for a particular change to... Agent: Brooks & Cameron, PLLC Suite 500

20070178890 - Mobile phone with automatic recording function: A mobile phone handset with built-in automatic voice recorder. The voice recorder is a digital voice recording device using a solid state nonvolatile memory as a storage medium. The voice recorder is controlled by a controller for activating and stopping voice recording. The controller automatically activates the voice recorder for... Agent: Hdsl

20070178891 - Remote control of electronic devices: A controlling device (e.g., a telephony device) can remotely control various tasks associated with a controlled device (e.g., a personal computer), including the navigation of user interfaces associated with applications or an operating system associated with the controlled device. A task can be controlled at the controlled device by mapping... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070178892 - Mobile communication system: A method of transmitting broadcast data or multicast data in a mobile communication system includes forming a multicast or broadcast zone by selecting a plurality of base stations, the plurality of base stations transmitting a same multicast or broadcast data, and at each of the plurality of base stations determining... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070178893 - Mobile communication system: A mobile communication method for transmitting broadcast data or multicast data from a base station forming a multicast or broadcast zone in a mobile communication system by determining a base station among a plurality of base stations and performing the transmission of the broadcast data or the multicast data from... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070178894 - Method and apparatus for rerouting terminations for calea targets through a predetermined surveilling msc: A system and method is provided for surveilling call terminations to a roaming mobile in a wireless telecommunications network in which Location Request Queries (LRQs) for the target mobile can be sent from any MSC in the network. The system and method include forcing the path of the target mobile's... Agent: Richard J. Minnich, Esq. Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & Mckee, LLP

20070178895 - Method, network entity, system, mobile device and computer program product for automatic provisioning of a service: A method, system, network entity and computer program product are provided for automatically provisioning a service in the instance where a need for provisioning of the service arises. In particular, a provisioning system is configured to automatically provision a service for a mobile device as a result of there being... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070178896 - Mobile terminal for automatically managing country code and method for storing/finding phone number using the same: A mobile terminal for providing a mobile service and a method for storing and finding a phone number using the mobile terminal. The mobile terminal stores and manages country code information, a mobile service subscriber's registration information, and mobile service usage history information; automatically generates a country code of a... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070178898 - Scanning neighboring base stations in wireless access system: Scanning neighboring base stations in a wireless access system is provided. In one embodiment, a method of scanning neighboring base stations for assessing channel quality includes receiving from a serving base station information associated with at least one neighboring base station, and transmitting a scanning request message from a mobile... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070178897 - Wireless device that receives data and scans for another access point: A wireless device comprises a plurality of receivers and logic coupled to the receivers. The logic causes at least one receiver to receive data communications from an access point while at least one other receiver concurrently scans for another access point.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070178900 - Auto sensing home base station for mobile telephone with remote answering capabilities: The present invention discloses in one embodiment a mobile telephone capable of communicating with a home base station through radio signals. The mobile telephone registers with a home base station before beginning to communicate with the home base station. The home base station is capable of sensing the presence of... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP/ Bellsouth I.p. Corp

20070178899 - Mobile device capable of registering with multiple servers: A system and a method are provided for managing network activation with a carrier and registration with a service provider. In one example, the method determines a network activation status. If the network is not activated, a utility is used to perform the activation. Further, the status of registration with... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20070178901 - Distributed base station controller: A wireless cellular telecommunication system with an internet protocol network is provided. The wireless cellular telecommunication system comprises one or more base transceiver stations. The base transceiver stations can selectively provide a radio resource management processing. The radio resource management processing can provide a means for performing an inter-base transceiver... Agent: Sacco & Associates, Pa

20070178902 - Method of managing use of channelization codes during soft handoff: In one embodiment of managing the use of channelization codes during soft handoff of a mobile station from a transferring network station to a candidate network station, a determination is made as to whether a field associated with an existing channelization code used by the candidate network station is unused... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070178904 - Call system: Provided is a technology by which a relay node relaying communications of a terminal detects a movement of the terminal and updates, as triggered by this movement of the terminal, information of a call processing device, thereby shortening a (period of) status in which a location of the terminal remains... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070178905 - Method of call transfer between wireless local area networks connected to a mobile network, and associated management device: A method is dedicated to call transfer between first and second WLAN using a wireless access technology and respective first and second secure gateways connected to a core network of a network offering packet-switched services. This method consists in, when a call has been set up between a mobile communication... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070178903 - Systems and methods for wireless location based services: Systems and methods for providing location based services are provided. Location based services can include establishing a call between mobile stations when the mobile stations are within a predetermined distance from each other. The location based services can also include providing an originating mobile station with a relative distance to... Agent: Sprint Nextel Corporation

20070178906 - Sharing load method in wireless cellular overlap area: An embodiment of the present invention provides a method for implementing load sharing in an overlap area of wireless cellular networks wherein the overlap area of the wireless cellular networks includes at least two networks. The method includes: obtaining load indication information of a network within the overlap area: transmitting... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070178911 - Automatic generation of signal strength map for location determination of mobile devices: The present invention provides a mobile device and a method for generating and maintaining a signal strength database that provides an assignment between a location within a building and corresponding signal strengths of signals that are emitted by a plurality of access points of a wireless data communication network. The... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070178910 - Device for use in mobile terminals attached to a mobile communication network for processing data providing information on passenger transport means: A device (D) for use in mobile communication terminals (T1-T3) attached to a mobile communication network (R) is dedicated to processing data providing information relating to passenger transport means (V21-V22). The device (D) comprises i) interface means (l1) adapted to exchange inquiries and response messages with mobile terminals and ii)... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070178909 - Method and apparatus for enhanced privacy while tracking mobile workers: A wireless communication device transmits location information associated with a mobile worker at a first interval when the worker is assigned to a work task. When the worker is not working on the work task, the wireless communication device does not transmit location information, or transmits the location information less... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070178908 - Method and apparatus for interlocking communication and tracking applications in a wireless communication device: A wireless communication device transmits location information associated with a mobile worker, and provides an option to the mobile worker to disable such location transmissions. The use of the location transmission function is enhanced by interlocking the location tracking function with one or more other functions of the wireless communication... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070178907 - System and method for locating mobile devices: A system, device and method for receiving location information for one of a wireless infrastructure device (“WID”) and a mobile device, wherein the WID is a parent of the mobile device and the mobile device is a child of the WID. Data corresponding to the other one of the WID... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20070178912 - System and method for enhancing user experience in a wide-area facility having a distributed, bounded environment: A system for supporting customer use of a wide-area facility which is under a common management or ownership includes a plurality of transceiver bases distributed throughout the wide-area facility which is under common management or ownership; a system controller in communication with the transceiver bases; and at least one wireless... Agent: Steven L. Nichols Rader, Fishman & Graver PLLC

20070178913 - Method, apparatus and computer program product for self-learning location method selection logic: A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided that enable a method for providing location information to be selected based upon a determination, such as a minimization, of the consumption of location server resources that will be consumed by the method. The method, apparatus and computer program product may... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070178914 - Determining the network location of a user device based on transmitter fingerprints: Reliably identifying an AP through which a user device is accessing one or more networks, and reliably determining the current network location of the user device. An AP and network location may be reliably identified using a set of transmitter fingerprints unique to the AP or network location, respectively. In... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070178915 - System and method for locating a phone user: Systems and methods for locating a user of a wired or wireless communication device allow a communication device to respond to a location request with its current location or a default location. A request for the location of a target wireless communication device is sent to the network where the... Agent: Kyocera Wireless Corp.

20070178916 - Method and system for efficient distribution of multicast services in a mobile network: An acknowledged MBMS service in which a procedure for providing retransmissions of incorrectly received data blocks is performed, together with an outer coding of the data blocks to be transmitted to the MBMS MSs. A sequence of data blocks carrying information related to the MBMS service is encoded at a... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070178917 - Methods of receiving signaling information in a communication network supporting a broadcast-multicast service: In a method of receiving signaling information in a communication network supporting a broadcast-multicast service, a first channel containing at least one indicator related to signaling information for a broadcast-multicast service is decoded to determine whether to monitor a second channel for the signaling information.... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070178919 - Apparatus and method for improving short message service dependability: An apparatus and a method for improving short message service dependability by reducing the risk of an SM being loss due to failure in a network having both an SMS routers and an SMSC and in which forward and store delivery or Early-Ack is enabled in the router. Alternative apparatus... Agent: Osha Liang LLP / Vincent

20070178920 - Communication system capable of remotely controlling a multimedia device: A system capable of remotely controlling a multimedia device through the Internet includes a remote control device including a first network module electrically connected to the Internet, a local device including a second network module electrically connected to the Internet, a database for storing settings data of the local device,... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070178918 - International messaging system and method for operating the system: An international messaging system for transmitting a short message between communication terminals located in respectively different countries and a method for operating the system, and more particularly, an international messaging system which can transmit a short message between communication terminals supporting different character systems of respectively different countries, and a... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070178921 - Method and system for synchronizing a network of rf devices: A network of RF devices is connected to a central processing device and a common network clock. The central processing device and the RF devices exchange timing information in order to synchronize the network of RF devices to a common time defined by the common network clock.... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20070178922 - Area estimation system and area estimation method: An area estimation system includes: a radio signal transmitting unit configured to transmit a radio signal to certain radio signal receiving terminal; a radio signal capturing unit configured to capture the radio signal transmitted from the radio signal transmitting unit, to obtain an RSSI for indicating a strength of the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070178923 - Portable terminal, portable telephone and master slave portable telephone system using the portable terminal: The invention relates to a portable terminal such as a portable telephone terminal and so forth for effecting communication, information processing and so forth, and to provide the portable terminal and a master slave portable telephone system capable of rendering a transmission and/or reception mode of information to be multi-functional... Agent: Arent Fox PLLC

20070178924 - Apparatus for notifying a mobile user of a push-to-talk communication call in a mobile communication system and method therefor: A method and apparatus for notifying a mobile user of a push-to-talk (PTT) communication call signal in a mobile communication system are provided in which a caller's mobile terminal transmits the PTT communication call signal, including identifying information of a receiver's mobile terminal, through a PTT server to a receiver's... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070178925 - System and method for providing ptt service according to user state: In a system and method for providing Push To Talk (PTT) service according to a state of the user, when a PTT terminal user is absent, in conference or busy, the PTT system converts the PTT voice message directed to the PTT terminal to a text message, and displays it... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20070178926 - Ensuring eas performance in audio signal encoding: An encoding system for encoding a first ancillary code in media data and monitoring for reception of a second ancillary code that has a higher priority than the first ancillary code, such that upon detection of the higher priority ancillary code the encoding system modifies a characteristic and/or characteristics of... Agent: Patent Docket Clerk Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, P.C.

20070178930 - Method and apparatus for uplink resource allocation in a frequency division multiple access communication system: To address the need for a resource allocation scheme that results in a better tradeoff between the cell-edge performance and the overall spectral efficiency, a communication system is provided that allocates uplink transmit power to user equipment (UEs) based on a fractional power control scheme. In another embodiment, since the... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070178929 - Mobile communication terminal and method capable of quickly connecting with base station using efficient transmission power control: A mobile communication terminal and a method which is capable of quickly connecting with base station by efficiently controlling a transmission power are provided. The mobile communication terminal reads a recent power value of a transmitter which successfully connected to a base station from a nonvolatile memory, and tries to... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20070178931 - Cdma mobile communication system in which updating of a reference value for controlling closed-loop transmission power is realized in a base transceiver station: A CDMA mobile communication system is disclosed in which a reference value, an uplink signal SIR value, which is used in a closed-loop transmission power control is updated in base transceiver stations. The uplink signal target SIR value is updated independently at base transceiver stations and not at the base... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

20070178927 - Centralized medium access control algorithm for cdma reverse link: A novel MAC algorithm is disclosed having various features for a modern CDMA interference-shared reverse link, including (a) link quality assurance, (b) individual congestion control, (c) variable data rate transition policy, and/or (d) reverse link partitioning. Link quality assurance is provided by monitoring transmission feedback information (ACK/NACK) to indirectly determine... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070178928 - Radio communication system: A frame format is generated which can constrain the PAPR at a lower level without limitation in code selections in a radio communication system. The radio communication system with each radio channel constituted by a control channel and a data channel divides a plurality of the radio channels in a... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070178932 - Fast hard handover scheme and mobile station and base station supporting such scheme: The present invention relates to a method, mobile station and base station in a soft handover cellular communications system. A problem addressed is the complexity imposed by a soft handover combination node in the network for combining packets received from one mobile station over parallel diversity links. The combination node... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070178933 - Wireless communication network selection: The invention relates to setting up of a communication link from a mobile device to a wireless network. In a scenario where a number of different networks are accessible, the network once selected for connection is stored as a preferred selection, and is thereafter automatically selected for a subsequent scenario... Agent: Albihns Stockholm Ab

20070178934 - Mobile phone with automatic recording function: A mobile phone with automatic recording function includes a voice recorder realized by a digital voice recording device. The voice recorder uses a solid state nonvolatile memory as a storage medium. The voice recorder is controlled by a controller for activating and stopping voice recording. The controller automatically activates the... Agent: Hdsl

20070178935 - Apparatus and method for changing operation mode of dual mode terminal: Disclosed are an apparatus and a method for changing an operation mode of a dual mode terminal by synchronizing a radio frequency identification (RFID) system with a terminal RFID reader and/or a terminal TFID tag. The RFID system includes an RFID tag and/or an RFID reader is installed in a... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070178936 - Hand-held portable device with wireless data transfer module: The portable device comprises a processing unit embedded in the portable device and a RF module coupled to the processing unit for communication. A display and an input unit are coupled to the processing unit. A non-volatile memory is coupled to the processing unit to store data; and a computer... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070178938 - Method, apparatus and sytem for partitioning and bundling access to network services and applications: A method (30) and apparatus (10) for bundling and partitioning access rights to network services and applications. The method includes providing communication devices and paired smart cards that are configured to access network services and applications when a smart card paired with a communication device is inserted in or coupled... Agent: General Instrument Corporation Dba The Connected Home Solutions Business Of Motorola, Inc.

20070178937 - Mobile terminal with reduced components: The invention relates to a mobile terminal (20, 30) having a first processing unit (7), a first memory device (21) and SIM card chip (23) including a second memory device (22), the second memory device (22) is reprogrammable. To provide a low price mobile terminal having reduced components and costs... Agent: Philips Electronics North America Corporation Intellectual Property & Standards

20070178939 - Method for reducing radio interference between wireless access points: A system and method are disclosed for reducing radio interference between wireless access points. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a network management system (NMS) (102) having a controller (103) that manages operations of a plurality of wireless access points (WAPs) (108) by... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070178940 - Method for transferring signals by a base station of a wireless telecommunication network: The present invention concerns a base station of a wireless telecommunication network, the base station comprising antennas and means for directing the signals transferred by the antennas into plural first sectors, at least one first sector being juxtaposed to two other first sectors through respective frontiers. The base station further... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070178941 - Mobile communication apparatus having text presentation capability: A mobile communication apparatus for presenting text is provided. The mobile communication apparatus includes a first case and a second case movably connected to each other by a connection, the first case having a first face and a second face being back-to-back to each other, and includes a detector for... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070178942 - Method for abruptly stopping a linear vibration motor in portable communication device: A method is provided for abruptly stopping a vibration motor providing tactile feedback (406) to the user of a portable communication device (100). The method comprises providing a drive waveform (401) including an attack signal (402), and a stop signal (411) out of phase with the attack signal (402), to... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C.

20070178943 - Circuit board for mobile communication terminal having ultrasonic wave speaker system: Disclosed is a mobile communication terminal board having an ultrasonic speaker system which can be used without any separate additional device during a viewing of a sky-wave broadcast or during a video calling and which can be free from an echo phenomenon. The mobile communication terminal board includes a baseband... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070178944 - On-vehicle handsfree system and mobile terminal thereof: A handsfree video phone system includes a video phone terminal and a car device in which a microphone, a speaker, and a camera are connected with an instrument panel via a cable. The video phone terminal is connected with the instrument panel via a wireless communication medium. When the video... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070178945 - Method and system for powering an electronic device via a wireless link: A method and system for providing power to a chargeable device via radio frequency link are provided. In one aspect, a method of providing power to a chargeable device via radio frequency link comprises generating a substantially unmodulated signal. The method further comprises radiating a substantially unmodulated radio frequency (RF)... Agent: Gazdzinski & Associates

20070178946 - Event sequencer used for controlling the sequence and timing of events in software defined radio: A software defined radio has a radio circuit and executable radio software system operable with the radio circuit, and defining an operating environment that allows a waveform application to operate with the radio circuit for transmitting and receiving voice and data. A processor, such as a Field Programmable Gate Array... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20070178947 - Headset with remote control: A headset phone for use with an audio system. A conventional 4-tap, combo phone connector is provided that has a sleeve tap, a tip tap, a first ring tap, and a second ring tap. A first speaker element is connected across the sleeve and tip taps and a second speaker... Agent: Intellectual Property Law Offices

20070178948 - Mobile phone assembly: A mobile phone (50) having a one base part (10) integrated of a hard body part (11), a phone window (4) and a soft middle part (12), which is connecting the mentioned parts (4, 11) and that the phone window (4) is foldable against the hard body part (11) along... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070178949 - Mobile terminal: A mobile terminal able to emit an information sound outwardly even in a case where it is set down in a closed state, in particular a mobile phone including a first housing having a projecting part at one end and having a second housing having a recess in which the... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20070178950 - Wearable multimodal computing device with hands-free push to talk: A wearable computing system can comprise a device attachment mechanism and a push to talk actuator. The device attachment mechanism can include a device coupler and a body affixer. The device coupler can detachably couple a portable computing device to the device attachment mechanism. The body affixer can detachably affix... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A.