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Telecommunications inventions 10/07

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20070249283 - System and method for estimation and compensation of radiated feedback coupling in a high gain repeater: A system and method of compensating for the effects of the antenna coupling in on-frequency repeaters, whose input and output signals are the same frequency, are disclosed. The repeater is implemented with internal digitally determined compensation that reduces the effect of the antenna coupling, allowing the forward gain of the... Agent: Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman, LLP

20070249289 - Radio transmission apparatus and control apparatus for events rooms as well as corresponding method: Radio systems for supplying hearing apparatus in events rooms are of a more convenient design. To this end a radio transmission apparatus is provided for transmission of speech signals in an events room. It possesses a receive device for receiving at least one control signal and a switching device for... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070249292 - Transceiver: A transceiver capable of processing signals having wavelengths of less than 1 millimeter and/or more than 1 millimeter comprising a mixer/filter circuit coupled to an IF filter where said mixer/filter circuit is positioned within a mixer block to receive incoming signals guided into one or more feed horn openings of... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20070249291 - Wireless handoffs between multiple networks: The disclosure is directed to an access terminal, and method for selecting an access point for handing off the access terminal. The access terminal may include a processor. The processor may be configured to access a list access points and select one of the access points on the list based... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070249293 - System and method for self calibrating voltage-controlled oscillator: A system and a method for self calibrating a voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO). In the system, a mode controller generates a control signal for each of an automatic band selection mode, an automatic gain tuning mode, and a phase-locking mode, from a frequency comparison result between a reference clock signal and... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070249281 - Method and system for providing broadcast captions: A method and system for providing broadcast captions is disclosed which includes a tuner for receiving a broadcast signal, a decoder for stripping text data relating to the captions from the broadcast signal, and a transmission server for transmitting the captions to the device for display on the device. The... Agent: Senniger Powers

20070249282 - Method and apparatus for delivering multimedia multicast services over wireless communication systems: A method is provided for delivery of Multimedia Broadcast and Multicast Service (MBMS) over wireless systems. The method optimizes the number of paging messages sent over the air interface in order to enhance the overall system capacity. MBMS active Mobile Station User Equipments (UEs) track their locations to the granularity... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070249284 - Mover, information center, and mobile communication system: A mover such as a vehicle acquires the information, which has been updated by broadcasting/communication during an engine stall or in an unreceivable state, after the engine start or the recovery of reception. The engine stall period and the unreceivable state continuation period of the mover are monitored and are... Agent: Carrier Blackman And Associates

20070249285 - Receiving system: To realize a receiving system that can excellently receive radio signals before and after a body insertable device, which is a radio signal source, is inserted into a subject, the receiving system has a first receiving antenna (1), a second receiving antenna (2), and a receiving apparatus (3). The first... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20070249286 - Automated bonding for wireless devices: A method and apparatus for managing the establishment of a wireless connection between an instrument host and a non-fixed device is provided. The method comprises acquiring the non-fixed medical device address over a fixed wire by replacing the traditional wireless searching mechanism. The method also comprises providing an authentication mechanism... Agent: Advanced Medical Optics, Inc. Legal Department

20070249288 - Distance-based security: Various operations may be performed based on distance-related functions associated with two or more devices. For example, one or more distance-based functions may be used to control whether a device is allowed to request another device to perform one or more functions. Similarly, one or more distance-based functions may be... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070249287 - Methods and apparatus for selecting between a plurality of dictionaries: A plurality of report dictionaries, e.g., uplink transmission backlog request report dictionaries, are supported in a wireless communications system. Each report dictionary provides bit mapping definition information corresponding to a set of fixed bit size request reports. Different report dictionaries are structured to accommodate different reporting conditions, needs, and/or requirements.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070249290 - Adaptive pre-distortion: A device may include an amplifier to receive an input signal, amplify the input signal to produce an output signal, and send the output signal to a destination. The device may include a processing module to process feedback information related to the input signal and the output signal to generate... Agent: Harrity Snyder, L.L.P.

20070249294 - Transmit-receive switch for ultrawideband and method for isolating transmitting and receiving signal thereof: A transmit-receive switch for ultrawideband and a method for isolating transmitting and receiving signal thereof are provided. The transmit-receive switch includes a first switch, a second switch, and an inductor. The first switch has a first end coupled to a signal transmitting end, a second end coupled to a signal... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070249295 - Telephone set, communication adaptor, home appliance control method, and program recording medium: The invention relates to a telephone set comprises a connection means to execute a connecting process for enabling transmission and reception of an information signal to and from a home appliance such as a general audio device remote-controllable by radio communication; a control means for generating, upon arrival of an... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070249296 - Reduced complexity beam-steered mimo ofdm system: Techniques for transmitting data using channel information for a subset of all subcarriers used for data transmission are described. A transmitter station receives channel information for at least one subcarrier that is a subset of multiple subcarriers used for data transmission. The channel information may include at least one transmit... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070249297 - Transmitter and semiconductor integrated circuit for communication: A transmitter adopting a polar loop system including a phase control loop for controlling the phase of a carrier signal outputted from a transmitting oscillator and an amplitude control loop for controlling the amplitude of a transmitting output signal outputted from a power amplification circuit, and designed to be capable... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070249298 - Communication apparatus based on multi-carrier modulation system: A communication apparatus based on the multi-carrier modulation system may be included in a mobile station or a base station for simultaneous transmission and reception with a simplified structure between the mobile station and base station using in common the same frequency band. A communication apparatus based on a multi-carrier... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070249299 - Systems and methods of rf power transmission, modulation, and amplification, including architectural embodiments of same: 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.

20070249300 - Systems and methods of rf tower transmission, modulation, and amplification, including embodiments for compensating for waveform distortion: 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.

20070249301 - Systems and methods of rf power transmission, modulation, and amplification, including architectural embodiments of same: 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.

20070249302 - Systems and methods of rf power transmission, modulation, and amplification, including architectural embodiments of same: 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.

20070249303 - Low noise cmos transmitter circuit with high range of gain: A CMOS automatic gain control (AGC) circuit that receives an analog control voltage and generates a temperature compensated gain voltage to linearly control the gain of a variable gain circuit operating in the sub-threshold region. A PTAT circuit having a resistor network coupled to a current mirror circuit operating in... Agent: Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

20070249304 - Radio frequency power amplifier and method using a controlled supply: A radio frequency power amplifier includes a feedback control system coupled to an input signal and a first feedback signal and configured to provide an output; a controlled supply configured to provide power that is controlled in accordance with a signal; and a radio frequency gain stage powered from the... Agent: Law Offices Of Charles W. Bethards, LLP

20070249305 - Station control method and station using the same: An apparatus is provided, for reducing power consumption in a system operating in a power saving mode, comprising a controller, an oscillator circuit and a voltage regulator. The controller provides a first control signal and a second control signal. The oscillator circuit, connected to the controller, wherein the controller controls... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070249306 - Intermediate-frequency type radio signal receiver: A radio signal receiver includes an input for receiving an input signal having an input carrier frequency modulated by a payload signal to be detected. A frequency converter changes the carrier frequency of the input signal and produce an intermediate signal that is an image of the input signal, and... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20070249307 - Client module, multimedia server and methods for use therewith: An encoded signal is modulated to produce a first radio frequency (RF) signal that is transmitted to a client module over a first transceiver channel when a first transceiver module is in a transceive mode. A channel scan is performed when the first transceiver module is in a scan mode.... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070249308 - Method and apparatus for uplink coverage improvement: A method and apparatus for an uplink signal processing system that includes converting a plurality of received RF signals which can be grouped by common diversity characteristics into the digital domain, and performing signal processing on the signals to maximize the signal to noise ratio, when the signals common to... Agent: Lawrence G. Kurland, Esq. Bryan Cave LLP

20070249309 - Diversity receiver: A diversity receiver includes first and second reception circuits using a superheterodyne principle. At stationary reception, reception of the audio signals and the data employing a phase diversity reception system is performed such that the signals received by the first reception antenna are supplied to the first reception circuit, the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070249310 - Radio frequency power detector: RF power detector employing an envelope amplifier circuit and a current mirror circuit. The output of the current mirror circuit supplies a bias voltage for biasing the output of the envelope amplifier circuit. Furthermore, the output of the envelope amplifier circuit is fed back to the output of the current... Agent: Dla Piper US LLP

20070249311 - Variable attenuation of broadband differential signals using pin diodes: Disclosed herein is a system for the variable attenuation of broadband differential signals. An exemplary system of variable attenuation of broadband differential signals includes attenuation devices arranged such that an attenuation device on the positive side of the differential signal has a corresponding attenuation device on the negative side of... Agent: Scientific-atlanta, Inc. Intellectual Property Department

20070249313 - Multi-band antenna: A multi-band antenna is adapted to operate in a first frequency band and a second frequency band which is higher than the first frequency band. A first antenna element is adapted to operate in the first frequency band, and has a first end which is electrically connected to the power... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070249312 - Rf receiver system having switched antenna diversity module: An RF receiver system is provided having a plurality of selectable antennas. The system includes a receiver for receiving RF signals from one of the plurality of antennas at a time. The receiver includes processing circuitry for processing the RF signals and generating a control signal to control selection of... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20070249314 - Adjusting parameters associated with transmitter leakage: An apparatus comprises a transmitter, a receiver, an antenna and a signal cancellation circuit. The transmitter is configured to send a transmitter signal associated with a frequency. The receiver is associated with the frequency. The antenna is coupled to the transmitter and the receiver. The signal cancellation circuit is coupled... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070249315 - Technique for reducing interference to radio operations on a computing device: During a telephony session, a determination is made on a mobile computing device that one or more designated conditions exist by which radio interference generated from the mobile computing device is to be reduced. In response, a power state of a set of one or more components of the mobile... Agent: Shemwell Mahamedi LLP

20070249316 - Automatic location-based resource management for network devices: A system and method for automatically managing resource usage of a network device based on device location. In an illustrative embodiment, the system includes a first module that is coupled to a network device. The first module provides position information associated with the network device. A controller communicates with the... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20070249318 - Methods and systems for providing wireless communications through a utility pole mounted antenna: Systems and methods are disclosed for providing wireless communications through, for example, a utility pole mounted antenna. The disclosed systems and methods may include receiving first data from a wire line network at a transceiver placed at a location on the wire line network. The location may be a place... Agent: Merchant & Gould P.C.

20070249317 - Methods and systems for providing wireless network communications: Systems and methods are disclosed for providing wireless network communications. The disclosed systems and methods may include receiving first data from a wire line network at a transceiver placed at a location on the wire line network. The location may comprise a place where the wire line network is present,... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20070249319 - Power distribution communication system employing gateway including wired and wireless communication interfaces: A power distribution communication system includes a plurality of network protectors, a plurality of sensors or devices, a plurality of wirelessly communicating user interfaces, and a gateway. The gateway includes a wired communication network interface structured to communicate with at least one of the network protectors, the sensors or the... Agent: Martin J. Moran, Esq. Eaton Electrical, Inc.

20070249320 - System and method for deploying application programs: A communication system includes a development sector for registering a plurality of wireless devices, a business sector for controlling utilization of an application program and for receiving application data, a service sector for deploying the application program and for providing the application data to the business sector in accordance with... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (main)

20070249321 - System for a wireless intelligent services engine: A system that integrates the services offered by providers in the wireless communication industry. The system provides a seamless, efficient and realtime way to connect wireless communication services with other associated services, such as billing and rating engines. Additionally, the system is fully customizable and applicable with general industry standards.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070249322 - Network support for handset data protection: An apparatus in one example has: a telecommunication network operatively coupled to at least one mobile terminal; a handset data transfer module in the at least one mobile terminal; a mobile handset protection application server in the telecommunication network; and an emergency storage location operatively coupled to the mobile handset... Agent: Patti , Hewitt & Arezina LLC

20070249324 - Dynamic authentication in secured wireless networks: Systems and methods for authentication using paired dynamic secrets in secured wireless networks are provided. Each authenticated user is assigned a random secret generated so as to be unique to the user. The secret is associated with a wireless interface belonging to the user, so that no other wireless interface... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20070249323 - Simplified dual mode wireless device authentication apparatus and method: Provisioned wireless service (PWS) authentication apparatus and method simplifies determination of PWS authentication state by dual mode access point (DMAP) receiving an identifying credential from supplicant dual mode mobile station (DMMS) within predefined authentication period and comparing with authentication credential. DMMS is provisioned PWS upon authentication. DMAP having multiple BSSID... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070249325 - Temporary messaging address system and method: A messaging system is disclosed. The system includes a communications network including a wireless access point, a messaging server coupled to the communications network, and a mobile device in communication with the communications network via an access point. The mobile device has a mobile ID associated with the device, and... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20070249327 - Apparatus, method and computer program product providing location-enhanced contact list: A device includes an interface to a communications network; at least one data processor; at least one memory coupled to the at least one data processor, the at least one memory storing a contact list; and a user interface coupled to the at least one data processor. The data processor... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20070249328 - Method and apparatus for session negotiation in a mobile communication system and system thereof: Provided is a method and apparatus in a mobile communication system, which can achieve efficient session negotiation when an Access Terminal (AT) and an Access Network Transceiver System (ANTS) of the mobile communication system have different parameters for a session setup therebetween. The method includes selecting a configuration attribute from... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070249326 - Method and system for personalizing a call set-up period: A method of personalizing a call set-up of a mobile radio terminal includes acquiring contact information associated with a callable device. The contact information includes call set-up audio data corresponding to audio content selected by a user of the device. The contact information is stored as an entry in a... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20070249329 - Method of providing route update messages and paging access terminals: The present invention provides a method for providing route update messages and paging access terminals. One embodiment of the method includes storing information indicative of at least one sector. The sector(s) are determined based on geographic information indicative of a route associated with an access terminal. Another embodiment of the... Agent: Mark W. Sincell Williams, Morgan & Amerson, P.C.

20070249330 - Method for advertising on digital cellular telephones and reducing costs to the end user: The present invention relates to a method for displaying messages, such as advertisements, consumer promotions, and customer service announcements, on digital wireless communication devices, such as digital cellular telephones, comprising the steps of creating at least one visual advertising message, or other desirable information, in the form of an information... Agent: Brooks, Cameron & Huebsch, PLLC

20070249331 - Control of peripheral devices in a short-range wireless communication system: The invention relates to a mechanism for using services provided by a network in an environment including user-operated short-range wireless terminals and short-range wireless peripheral devices, such as wireless storage units, controllable by the user-operated terminals. A wireless peripheral device is informed that a network providing services is to be... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070249336 - Telephone system integrated with an electronic device: A telephone system integrated with an electronic device includes a mobile end and a base end. The mobile end includes a phone unit for generating voice data, a remote control unit for generating a control signal, and a first wireless communication unit coupled to the phone unit and the remote... Agent: Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP

20070249333 - Apparatus and method for providing poc service in wireless communication system supporting bcast service: an Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for providing a PoC service in a radio communication system supporting a BCAST service. For the PoC service in the radio communication system supporting the BCAST service, a first terminal joining the PoC service through the BCAST service transmits user data for... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070249334 - Decoupling radio resource management from an access gateway: Particular embodiments provide an access gateway that facilitates communication between a plurality of access technologies. The access gateway facilitates data communication with an access terminal through a bearer path. A radio resource manager is configured to provide radio resource management functions for the communications. The radio resource manager is decoupled... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20070249335 - Mobile terminal having multimedia reproduction controls: A slider-type mobile terminal has multimedia reproduction controls disposed along one edge of a fixed body that are exposed when the slider body is closed. Alternatively, the multimedia display disposed on the slider body, has a touch screen for displaying the multimedia reproduction controls. Terminal controls are disposed on the... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070249332 - Service class control system, service class control device, terminal device, service class control method, and program: There is provided a service class control system and the like for facilitating modification of a service class of a terminal device or disabling unauthorized modification of the service class. A service class management server (1) contains service class data for specifying a range of service provided by the user... Agent: Eric Robinson

20070249337 - Fixed wireless telephone device: Methods and apparatus are disclosed for establishing a fixed wireless telephone service. A fixed wireless device includes a wireless device for establishing wireless connections to a wireless communications network that interfaces with a public switched telephone network. The fixed wireless device includes a connection that provides telephone service for an... Agent: Attention Of D. Kent Stier Merchant & Gould P.C.

20070249339 - Mobile communication system for matching resource amount of core network bearer and resource amount of visited network bearer: A visited policy controlling device decides the amount of a visited network bearer resource that is provided by a visited user plane device for an end-to-end service based on the amount of a bearer service resource requested to be used in the end-to-end service. A home policy controlling device decides... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070249340 - Cellular network resource control method and apparatus: A cellular radio access network comprising a plurality of radio transceivers geographically spaced so that neighbouring transceivers provide overlapping radio coverage for mobile user terminals, and a radio transceiver controller geographically spaced from and coupled to said plurality of radio transceivers, the controller being arranged to control each radio transceiver... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070249338 - Method and apparatus for steering of roaming: A system and method for implementing steering of roaming (SOR) services in wireless networks is disclosed. The SOR platform operates on messages transmitted by a home location register (HLR), intercepting them and denying use of a visited network unless it is the preferred visited network of a home network.... Agent: Kaplan Gilman Gibson & Dernier L.L.P.

20070249341 - Synchronized, semi-dynamic frequency hopping method for wran and other wireless networks: A method for creating and maintaining semi-dynamic frequency hopping communities. Each community is a set of neighboring cells, such as wireless regional area networks (WRANs) according to IEEE 802.22, that follow a protocol defining coordinated frequency hopping operations, e.g., hopping is performed by community members according to a leader-defined hopping... Agent: Stmicroelectronics, Inc.

20070249344 - Base station and communications method: A base station that communicates with a mobile station includes: a storing unit for storing a predetermined number of base station information, each including a base station ID for discriminating a specific base station and parameter information for radio communications set for the specific base station; an acquisition unit for... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070249345 - Device, control method of the device, and program for causing computer to execute the control method: A device capable of flexibly changing a protocol for use for event communication in consideration of communication load applied to an event providing apparatus. The device receives an event registration request transmitted from a client apparatus, and based on the received event registration request, notifies a generated event to the... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070249343 - Method and system of communications: The present invention relates to cellular mobile radio systems, and more especially it relates to reduction of communications latency. Particularly, it relates to transmissions of (positive or negative) acknowledgments. Queuing or redundancy is reduced by means of signaling comprising information on the positive or negative acknowledgements.... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070249342 - Method, system and application service entity for authenticating user equipment: The embodiments of the present invention provide methods, a system and an application service entity for authenticating User Equipment (UE). The method is applicable to a situation that the UE accesses an application service entity of an Early IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS), and includes: receiving a Hyper Text Transfer Protocol... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070249346 - Set up for streaming media: A method, microprocessor, computer program product, terminal and network device are configured to include sending, to a first wireless communication terminal, data indicative of first information relating to one or more parameters supported by a second wireless communication terminal for receiving and/or transmitting a media stream, and receiving, at the... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070249348 - Apparatus and method of handover for mobile node: Provided are an efficient handover apparatus and method in a mobile node. In the method in which a handover is performed in a mobile node which establishes a data communication through a point of attachment (PoA), the method including receiving information regarding capabilities of a new PoA; determining whether Internet... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070249349 - Apparatus and method of handover for mobile node: Provided are an efficient handover apparatus and method in a mobile node. In the method in which a handover is performed in a mobile node which establishes a data communication through a point of attachment (PoA), the method including receiving information regarding capabilities of a new PoA; determining whether Internet... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070249350 - Apparatus and method for canceling neighbor cell interference in broadband wireless communication system: Disclosed are an apparatus and method for canceling a neighbor cell interference in a broadband wireless communication system.... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070249347 - Handover or location update for optimization for relay stations in a wireless network: Various embodiments are disclosed relating to the optimization of relay station handovers and location update in a wireless network. According to an example embodiment, a request to handover a plurality of mobile stations from a first base station to a second base station may be sent. An identifier associated with... Agent: Brake Hughes PLC C/o Portfolioip

20070249354 - Method and apparatus for determining reconnection time point for packet service: Disclosed is a method and apparatus for determining a reconnection time point for a packet service according to a handover environment during the packet service. To this end, a multi-mode terminal checks the service quality of a network, and performs reconnection for a packet service by determining a current time... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070249352 - System and method for optimizing authentication procedure during inter access system handovers: Disclosed is a method and system of deriving new keys for accessing a new system. The method enables an optimized authentication procedure during handover form an existing system to a new system by using the existing system access keys. The user equipment that is accessing the new system receives a... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070249353 - System and method for selecting a serving base station according to a drop of a mobile subscriber station in a broadband wireless access communication system: Disclosed are a system and a method for selecting a new serving base station when a drop occurs in a mobile subscriber station in a broadband wireless access communication system including the mobile subscriber station, a serving base station communicating with the mobile subscriber station, and a plurality of neighbor... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070249351 - Trasmitting/receiving apparatus and method in a mobile communication system: A handover method and apparatus in a communication system are provided. The method includes an MS sending to a serving BS a bandwidth allocating request message for sending a MOB_MSHO-REQ message requesting a handover; activating a timer set to a bandwidth allocation waiting time in relation to the bandwidth allocating... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070249355 - System and method for handover to minimize service delay due to ping pong effect in bwa communication system: Disclosed is a method for recognizing by a Mobile Subscriber Station (MSS) whether a serving Base Station (BS) retains connection information in a mobile communication system including the serving BS for providing a service to the MSS and a target BS adjacent to the serving BS. The method includes the... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070249356 - Cellular communication network resource release system: The resource release system minimizes the time that the Mobile Switching Centers in a call initiation process commit resources after the call is terminated. This is accomplished by propagating a Call Release message through the cellular network from the Originating Mobile Switching Center to the Serving Mobile Switching Center as... Agent: Lucent Technologies, Inc. C/o Patton Boggs LLP

20070249357 - Method for switching between two telephone services: When two terminals (T1, T2) communicate with each other via a first service via a network, switching from the first telephone service to a second telephone service enables the two terminals (T1, T2) to continue to communicate with each other via the second telephone service. In order to carry out... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20070249358 - System and method for frequency re-use in a sectorized cell pattern in a wireless communication system: The present invention relates to a system and method for frequency re-use in a wireless communication system. More particularly, the inventive system and method provides for maximum coverage of a service area with a pattern of cells each having a sectorized hub antenna pattern where only a limited number of... Agent: Duane Morris LLP

20070249359 - Method and system for resource management in communication networks, related network and computer program product therefor: A method for providing, in a communication network including at least a first and a second set of resources, a service to users of at least a first and a second type. The users of the first type are in a condition to be provided said service only by means... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070249360 - Methods and aparatus related to determining, communicating, and/or using delay information in a wireless communications system: Methods and apparatus related to determining, communicating, and/or using delay information are described. A wireless terminal determines delay information corresponding to queued information that it intends to transmit. The delay information includes a maximum queuing delay indicting a maximum amount of time data to be transmitted has been waiting to... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070249361 - Dynamic allocation of radio resources: Radio resources are allocated to communication between a mobile station and a base station. The available set of radio resources may comprise radio resources primarily assigned to a neighboring cell if the 5 mobile station experience an instantaneous low level of co-channel interference from such neighboring cells. The existence of... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070249362 - Method and configuring parameters of gprs-type communication devices over a cellular phone network, and corresponding communications system: A method for remotely configuring parameters of GPRS-type communication devices (2, 3) within a communications system in which data are exchanged between said GPRS-type communication devices (2, 3) and a central communications system (1) over a cellular phone network (6). According to the invention, configuration parameters (Pn) are first set... Agent: Sofer & Haroun LLP.

20070249363 - Queuing far/far service requests in wireless network: A technique for coordinating the operation of subscriber units such as in a wireless communications system so that high-probability-of-interference communications do not take place at the same time in adjacent cell sites. A base station becomes aware of expected periods or time slots of high relatively expected interference from remote... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070249365 - Device, method and computer program for connecting a mobile device to a wireless network: A solution for a mobile communications device, for controlling connection to a communications network. The invention involves positioning of the mobile device based on received positioning information signals, and comparison of a determined current position for the device with stored position data. If the determined position matches stored position data,... Agent: Albihns Stockholm Ab

20070249366 - Method and apparatus for wlan location services: Methods, apparatuses and systems directed to providing location services in a wireless network. According to one implementation of the present invention, the wireless network infrastructure provides high-accuracy location information via location services to wireless clients. In one embodiment, during an advertisement phase, a location server provides a list of available... Agent: Law Office Of Mark J. Spolyar

20070249364 - Precision level management for location reporting: A mobile device provides its location information to contacts of a user of the mobile device. A contact has a particular precision level assigned thereto from a set of two or more precision levels. The assignment of precision levels to contacts is according to one or more criteria. The mobile... Agent: Integral Intellectual Property Inc.

20070249367 - Information receiving terminal and infomation distibuting system: A distance between positional information added to contents and a current position detected in an information receiving terminal is calculated, and based on the calculated distance, a method for outputting the contents is controlled. Thus, since the method for outputting the contents can be changed by a positional relationship between... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070249369 - System and methods for dialing code initiated mobile search: A system, method and apparatus for delivering Web content to a mobile telephone or related device by using a dialing code is provided. In an exemplary embodiment, a user who dials a telephone number, or other dialing code, and subsequently receives content sent to the user's mobile handset. In another... Agent: Heller Ehrman LLP

20070249368 - Shared geo-located objects: A method of reviewing geo-coded information at a geographic information system is disclosed. The method may include receiving information identifying a geo-located object from a submitter of the object, receiving information identifying the location of the geo-located object from the submitter, and receiving a request from a user of the... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070249376 - Information processing device, information processing method, control program for realizing information processing method by computer, and computer readable recording medium with control program recorded thereon: Sending of an electronic mail while associating an information processing device with a mobile information terminal conventionally imposes a troublesome operation on a user. An information processing device (100, 102) of the present invention can communicate with a mobile information terminal (1004) and includes a terminal detection unit (205, 512)... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070249374 - Method for controlling delivery of short messages in wireless network: In a method for controlling the delivery of short text messages or other messages in a wireless network, a source terminal transmits a message to a recipient wireless unit over the network's short messaging service (“SMS”). The message includes a message identifier, a communication identifier of the recipient wireless unit,... Agent: Mccormick, Paulding & Huber LLP

20070249379 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for transferring a message service payload between messaging entities: The subject matter described herein includes methods, systems, and computer program products for transferring a message service payload between messaging entities. According to one aspect, the subject matter described herein includes a method for intelligently processing a message service payload being transmitted between messaging entities. A messaging service message comprising... Agent: Jenkins, Wilson, Taylor & Hunt, P. A.

20070249371 - Call processing system, communicatin server, communication terminal, and call processing method: When a communication terminal calls a communication terminal, a content server acquires, based on a call signal addressed from the communication terminal to the communication terminal, a call-reception end identifier of the communication terminal. The content server then refers, based on the acquired call-reception end identifier, to table data, then... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070249372 - Electronic message exchange over multiple wireless communication networks with a single device: Electronic messages such as pages are exchanged between a user device and a message service using one of multiple wireless communication networks. The wireless communication networks may include mobile and/or fixed wireless networks. The user device registers with the message service through at least one of the wireless communications networks.... Agent: Withers & Keys For Bell South

20070249375 - Method and system for phone-number discovery and phone-number authentication for mobile communications devices: Embodiments of the present invention are directed to methods and systems by which a client application program running on a mobile communications device can determine the telephone number associated with the mobile communications device and communicate the telephone number to a remote computing entity in a secure and verifiable fashion.... Agent: Olympic Patent Works PLLC

20070249373 - Method and system for receiving data on a portable device: Disclosed are a method of and a system for receiving data on a portable device. The method comprises the steps of providing a portable device having a data modem with active and dormant stages, and a short message service (SMS) capability; receiving a pre-defined SMS message and in response thereto,... Agent: Steven Fischman, Esq. Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser

20070249377 - Method for creating a peer-to-peer immediate messaging solution without using an instant messaging server: A messaging method in a system including a wireless network, a routing server, and a plurality of mobile stations. A first mobile station has first communications applications and a first PIN and a second mobile station has second communications applications and a second PIN. The method includes sending an invitation... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20070249370 - Method of effecting access to services in a telecommunication network: A method of effecting access to services in a telecommunication network is the fact that the service can be accessed from the user's terminal identically and simultaneously with the use of two complementary interfaces: a voice and a text terminal with the use of USSD commands, where the service is... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20070249378 - System and method for sms text routing: A system and method enables a user to enter a single address or number into a mobile device and thereby request many types of information based on simple keywords. When the information is requested using a mobile-originated SMS message, the user thereafter receives the requested information by a mobile terminated... Agent: Zagorin O'brien Graham LLP (037)

20070249380 - Apparatus and method for broadcasting data: Disclose is a synchronized wireless communication network (100) operating in single frequency network mode comprising a first base station (502) broadcasting, on a first channel, broadcast data and a common sequence (508) that is generated from a first channel identifier, and wherein the first base station transmits data on a... Agent: Motorola Inc

20070249381 - Apparatus and method for conversational-style push-to-talk: Methods for providing a conversational-style user experience in a simplex based session over a real-time communication network are presented, the method including: establishing the simplex based session between a first UE and a second UE by the real-time communication network; and while receiving a first media stream from the first... Agent: Kali Law Group, P. C

20070249384 - Communication apparatus and transmission power control method thereof: In a communication apparatus having a transmission-power control function of controlling transmission power, the operation state of the communication apparatus is determined. If the communication apparatus is determined as a data-transmitting side, control is done to validate the transmission-power control function. If the communication apparatus is determined as a data-receiving... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070249382 - Rfic transmit power control: An RFIC transmitter includes a digital transmit processing module, a digital to analog converter, a filter and gain module, an up-conversion module, a power amplifier, and a transmit signal strength module. The transmit signal strength module is coupled to generate a gain adjust signal based on a measure of transmit... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070249383 - Wireless interface and method for enhanced functionality: A portable end device, such as a bar code scanner, may be equipped with auxiliary interfaces. The auxiliary interfaces may be easily added to the end device as a replaceable cover, such as a replaceable battery door. A signal path conducts signals to and from the replaceable cover. One auxiliary... Agent: Graybeal Jackson Haley LLP Agent For Applicant

20070249386 - Client device characterization of other client device transmissions and reporting of signal qualities to access point(s): A wireless network in a communication infrastructure has a packet switched backbone network and includes a plurality of access points and services at least one client device. The access points communicatively couple to the packet switched backbone network and each include access point processing circuitry and access point wireless transceiver... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070249385 - Information terminal device: To provide an information terminal device contributing to prevention of an operation not intended by a user. A communication management unit (512) of an SVG processing unit (510) displays an image (confirmation image) for requesting a user to perform a confirmation input to confirm whether to be connected to the... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070249388 - Systems and methods of rf power transmission, modulation, and amplification, including architectural embodiments of same: 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.

20070249389 - Cellular phone device: A cellular phone device is provided that improves the usability for the user when photographing a self-portrait while protecting an imaging unit from being soiled and damaged, by covering imaging unit with the following structure. That is, the phone device has a first casing, a second casing, and a third... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20070249392 - Channel reciprocity matrix determination in a wireless mimo communication system: Operating a wireless MIMO system to determine forward and reverse channel reciprocity matrices relating a first wireless MIMO device and a second wireless MIMO device of the wireless MIMO system includes, during each of a plurality of time intervals, determining a forward composite channel estimates and a reverse composite channel... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070249387 - Method and apparatus for exchanging content over distinct wireless access technologies: An apparatus and method are disclosed for exchanging content over distinct wireless access technologies. An apparatus that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a multimode access network server (MANS) (102) having a controller that manages operations of a communications interface that communicates with multimode communication devices... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070249391 - Method and system for cellular network services and an intelligent integrated broadcast television downlink having intelligent service control with feedback: In an RF communication system, aspects for cellular network and intelligent integrated broadcast television downlink with intelligent service control with feedback may comprise a mobile terminal (MT) generating a request for media comprising a specified quality of service (QoS) to be delivered to the mobile terminal. The request may be... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070249390 - Wireless communication components and methods for multiple system communications: A method and a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) for communication in a first and a different second type of wireless networks. The WTRU includes respective components configured for wireless communication of user data with the respective first and second type of wireless networks and an upper layer application processing component... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070249393 - Radiocommunications device capable of operating according to two standards: The disclosure relates to a radiocommunications device capable of operating on at least two emission frequency bands and at least two reception frequency bands, comprising first means for carrying out communications according to a first predetermined standard. The device also comprises second means for carrying out communications according to a... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20070249397 - Modular input device and portable handset and remote control provided with the same: Disclosed is a modular input device comprising a manipulator movable in random directions, a sensor chip for detecting displacement of the manipulator, an elastic member for returning the displaced manipulator to its originally set position, a direction manipulator operating independently from the manipulator for providing manipulation space for the manipulator... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070249396 - Electronic device: A portable telephone device with incorporated projector 10 starts projection by a projection module 6 when a relative angle θ is set to a projection attitude of 80° and three seconds elapses. If a setting is made for performing vibration correction processing, then a camera unit 200 is commanded to... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070249394 - Hinge module for three-step open type portable terminal and portable terminal having the same: Disclosed is a hinge module for a three-step open type portable terminal and a portable terminal having the same, in which a body of the portable terminal is divided into three body sections and semi-automatically slides. The portable terminal includes a hinge module, which couples the upper body to the... Agent: Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP (formerly Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham)

20070249395 - Mobile terminal device: To provide a mobile terminal device which enables a user to view the television broadcast while the television broadcast is being displayed or the television broadcast is start to be displayed even in the case where the remaining amount of battery is small, and which can perform an action which... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070249398 - Semiconductor integrated circuit and non-contact electronic device using the same: Depending on the power supplied to the non-contact electronic device, the voltage suppression characteristic of the regulator function mounted in a power supply circuit is changed. When the power supplied to the non-contact electronic device is small, the voltage change amount of the voltage between antenna terminals for the current... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20070249399 - Cryogenic vacuum rf feedthrough device: A cryogenic vacuum rf feedthrough device comprising: 1) a probe for insertion into a particle beam; 2) a coaxial cable comprising an inner conductor and an outer conductor, a dielectric/insulating layer surrounding the inner conductor, the latter being connected to the probe for the transmission of higher mode rf energy... Agent: Auzville Jackson, Jr.

20070249400 - Base station and mobile station in mobile communication system and direction detecting method: A base station communicates with a mobile station in a mobile communication system. The base station includes a directivity control unit that controls transmission of a first antenna beam encoded for identification by using a first code, and a second antenna beam encoded for identification by using a second code... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070249404 - Method and apparatus for adaptive beamforming in an antenna array system for wireless communications: A novel system for performing adaptive beamforming in a slow frequency hopping environment is disclosed. The presence of slow frequency hopping means that conventional mechanisms of using beamforming weights from previous time slots are inapplicable. The inventive system calculates a series of beamforming weights from an estimate of the spatial... Agent: Lawrence G. Kurland, Esq. Bryan Cave LLP

20070249403 - Method and apparatus for wi-fi capacity enhancement: A novel system is disclosed for WLAN applications. The inventive system mitigates the problem of interference by overlaying an omni-directional pattern with a plurality of directional beams, where each beam covers only part of the serving area defined by the omni-directional pattern. After an initial communication from the subscriber stations... Agent: Lawrence G. Kurland, Esq. Bryan Cave LLP

20070249401 - Method for transmitting data in a communication system: A method is provided a method for transmitting data in a MIMO communication system. The method includes receiving feedback information including channel quality information of transmission antennas from terminals; selecting one of a multi-user mode and a single user mode according to the channel quality information; extracting information for the... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070249402 - Orthogonal resource reuse with sdma beams: A wireless communication system can implement beamforming across multiple omni-directional antennas to create beams at different spatial directions. The communication system can arrange the beams in sets, with each set arranged to provide substantially complete coverage over a predetermined coverage area. The communication system can arrange the multiple SDMA beam... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070249405 - Reducing the effect of signal interference in null areas caused by overlapping antenna patterns: A wireless communication system for transmitting and receiving wireless communications using at least one beam is disclosed. The system comprises a plurality of WTRUs, at least one beam-forming antenna, and at least one radio network controller (RNC). The antenna is capable of beam-forming and beams emanating from the antenna may... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070249406 - Method and system for retrieving information: System and method for receiving information in a communication terminal during a voice conversation session with a remote communication terminal. After initiating the voice conversation between a first and a second communication terminal, audio signals of the voice conversation are passed to a speech recognition engine to identify a keyword... Agent: Albihns Stockholm Ab

20070249409 - Device and method for inputting keys in a wireless portable terminal: A device and method for inputting keys in a portable terminal, where a key used for performing functions of the portable terminal can be easily input. The device includes a key input unit including keys that have at least two regions on each key wherein data are arranged on each... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070249407 - Mobile terminal for changing position of display unit in horizontal or vertical direction: The present invention discloses a mobile terminal including: a first casing having a key input unit with a plurality of keys; a second casing having a display unit for displaying characters and images; a connecting member having its one end hinge-connected to the first casing to overlap with the first... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070249408 - Target/site location acquisition device: There is provided a portable target/site location acquisition device including a grippable housing, a display attached to the housing, an optical sight affixed about the housing to be viewable from the same direction as the display, a display and data controller for effecting display of SVGA data, and a manipulatable... Agent: Stetina Brunda Garred & Brucker

20070249410 - Techniques for tracking communication frequency across communication modalities: In on embodiment, techniques for providing alerts to a user when a communication frequency pattern between a user and a contact has not occurred during a pre-determined amount of time are provided. Communication records between the contact and the user can be analyzed to determine if the communication frequency pattern... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20070249411 - No-cable stereo handsfree accessory: A handsfree accessory for a mobile communication device is provided. The handsfree accessory includes first and second earpieces each having a respective audio transducer, a microphone, and a transceiver. The transceiver is operatively coupled to the respective audio transducers and the microphone, and provides for wireless communication between the handsfree... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20070249412 - Handset holder for a vehicle: A handset holder for a vehicle is used to hold a handset and an antenna. The fixed stand comprises a base body, a pipework, and an attaching device. The base body has a surface for receiving the handset. The pipework is a hollow structure and one end thereof is connected... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070249413 - Portable terminal with sliding module: A portable terminal having a sliding module includes a first housing; a second housing coupled to the first housing while facing the first housing; and a sliding module interposed between the first and second housings, for connecting the first housing to the second housing so that the first housing linearly... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

  
10/18/2007 > patent applications in patent subcategories.

20070243830 - Transceiver for wireless transmission of field device signals: A transceiver for wirelessly transmitting process variables with a radio interface and a field device interface is provided. The transceiver has two operating states. The transceiver is designed to receive a field device signal at the field device interface and relay the field device signal via the radio interface in... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20070243834 - Oscillation controlling apparatus, recording medium having program recorded thereon, and channel selecting apparatus: An oscillation controlling apparatus for controlling an oscillation frequency of an oscillation circuit to be a target frequency comprises a variable range dividing unit configured to dividing a variable range of a control signal into a plurality of portions, the control signal increasing or decreasing the oscillation frequency of the... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20070243821 - Destributed caching and redistribution system and method in a wireless data network: A distributed caching and redistribution system, method, and mobile client for caching and redistributing data content in a wireless data network. The system enables mobile clients to cache data content that has been distributed by means of broadcast or multicast, and to redistribute the content from the cache to other... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070243822 - Satellite communication system employing a combination of time division multiplexing and non-orthogonal pseudorandom noise codes and time slots: An improved satellite communication system is provided comprising at least one satellite wherein each satellite provides multiple beams, a plurality of UTs, and at least one gateway connected to a PSTN and communicating with said at least one UT or with a constellation, wherein each of the UTs within a... Agent: Karambelas & Associates

20070243823 - Booster: A booster capable of preventing itself from adversely influencing a base station. This booster comprises a plurality of downstream signal amplifying parts (111-1 to 111-4) and a plurality of upstream signal amplifying parts (112-1 to 112-4). A received signal analyzing part (116) analyzes the perch channel information of a signal... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20070243824 - Mobile telephone network for communication between two communication sets: The invention relates to a local communication network between a mobile telephone and a fixed-line telephone through a relay antenna and a connection for data transmission, connecting the antenna to a fixed radio-frequency station. The transmission connection is a wireless transmission connection at a radio frequency.... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20070243828 - Data unit receiver and sender control method: A method is described for controlling a data unit receiver or a data unit sender. The data unit receiver or sender comprise a gap response procedure for responding to gaps in the sequence of data units received at the receiver. A reordering detection procedure S12 is provided for detecting a... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070243829 - Measuring apparatus and area quality measuring method: A measuring apparatus for measuring service quality in an area in a communication system, in which a plurality of base stations use one frequency band for transmitting downlink signals, includes: a receiver configured to receive constant power signals that are the downlink signals transmitted by the base stations through constant... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070243827 - Method and system for retrieving information from wireless sensor nodes: A system supporting data retrieval from a plurality of wireless sensor nodes is defined. The system includes the plurality of wireless sensor nodes and a data retrieval device. The plurality of wireless sensor nodes include a transceiver receiving a first signal and transmitting a second signal. The second signal includes... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20070243825 - Method for testing embedded wireless transceiver with minimal interaction between wireless transceiver and host processor during testing: A method for testing a wireless transceiver embedded within a wireless data communication system that also includes a host processor with minimal interaction between the wireless transceiver and the host processor during such testing. The wireless signal interface between the wireless data communication system and external test equipment is used... Agent: Vedder Price Kaufman & Kammholz

20070243826 - Testing apparatus and method for a multi-paths simulating system: An innovative testing apparatus and method for a multi-paths simulating system is proposed. The testing apparatus comprises a shielded chamber to avoid the external electromagnetic interference and other unexpected transmission paths. The multi-paths simulating system is utilized by attenuators for simulating a communication effects in a MIMO channel propagation environment.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070243831 - Wireless communication system: A transmitting apparatus forms a plurality of transmission beams by using a plurality of antennas. Transmission beams, the correlation of which is low and the reception quality of which is high, are selected. First data stream is transmitted by using one of the selected transmission beam, and second data stream... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070243832 - Multimode/multiband mobile station and method for operating the same: A multimode/multiband mobile station and a method for operating the same are provided. A transmission module transmits multimode/multiband signals through transmitters. A reception module receives radio signals for different services of the same frequency band among multimode/multiband signals through receivers for the same frequency band, and receives radio signals of... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070243833 - Radio communication apparatus, radio communication method, antenna apparatus and first duplexer: Radio communication apparatus comprising an antenna, a transmitting circuit of outputting a transmitting signal in a first frequency band. A duplexer connected to the antenna and having a single-phase input terminal and a balanced output terminal, conveying the transmitting signal inputted to the single-phase input terminal to the antenna. The... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20070243835 - Enhanced push-to-talk button integrating haptic response: A mobile station (100) that includes a push-to-talk (PTT) button (150) and a haptic response system directly connected to the PTT button. The haptic response system can include a positional actuator (170) and a haptic controller (160) operatively coupled to the positional actuator. The haptic response system also can include... Agent: Cuenot & Forsythe, L.L.C.

20070243836 - Dual output digital exciter: Systems and methods are provided for generating dual outputs in a digital exciter system. A first signal path produces one of a frequency modulated audio signal, a digital information signal, and a signal comprising both frequency modulated audio and digital information. A second signal path produces one of a frequency... Agent: Tarolli, Sundheim, Covell & Tummino L.L.P.

20070243837 - Pilot modulation error ratio for evaluation of transmitter performance: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate monitoring transmitter performance in a wireless communication environment. A metric or metrics associated with one or more pilot symbols can be generated and used to evaluate performance. To generate pilot metrics, a signal analyzer can be used to sample the output of a... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070243838 - Systems, methods and devices for dual closed loop modulation controller for nonlinear rf amplifier: In accordance with various exemplary embodiments of the present invention, systems, methods and devices are configured to facilitate RF envelope amplitude control. For example, a RF envelope amplitude control system comprises: a RF amplifier, wherein the RF amplifier is associated with a feedback device that is configured to create a... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (main)

20070243839 - Method and system for communications with reduced complexity receivers: The invention provides a new method and system for low complexity, low cost, small component size, and low power communications. The system provides a digital sub-sampling receiver for multiple-antenna wireless receivers, with reduced number of analog RF/IF chains (or one chain) after a fixed number of receive antennas. The system... Agent: Zoran Kostic

20070243840 - Duty-to-voltage amplifier, fm receiver and method for amplifying a peak of a multiplexed signal: A FM receiver comprises an IF filter, a demodulator and a decoder. The IF filter generates an RSSI and a FM modulated signal in response to a FM signal. The demodulator comprises a duty-to-voltage amplifier for amplifying a peak of a MPX signal. The duty-to-voltage amplifier comprises a current source,... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20070243841 - Method and system for noise floor calibration and receive signal strength detection: A system for detecting the level of the noise floor due to circuit noise as seen at the ADC for a wireless receiver. The system measures power after digitizing and filtering, and subtracts off any variable gain used in the analog front end to determine differentially the size of the... Agent: Bever Hoffman & Harms, LLP

20070243842 - System and method for adaptively controlling receiver gain switch points: Accordingly, a system and method are provided for adaptively controlling amplification in a wireless communications device receiver. The method comprises: receiving a signal with a variable signal strength; amplifying the received signal in response to the signal strength, to supply an amplified signal. More specifically, amplifying the received signal in... Agent: Kyocera Wireless Corp.

20070243843 - Automatic gain control circuit: An automatic gain control circuit is disclosed. The automatic gain control circuit receives a radio frequency signal at an input. The input passes the radio frequency signal to a first gain loop having a changeable gain. A low pass filter filters the radio frequency signal. In a second gain loop,... Agent: Bromberg & Sunstein LLP

20070243844 - Flexible optical illumination system: A flexible optical illumination system may be used to illuminate components or areas of an electronic device such as mobile and portable communication devices. The flexible lightguide may manipulate and channel light selectively throughout an electronic assembly providing illumination for selective areas or an entire device. The lightguide may further... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20070243845 - Hybrid balun apparatus and receiver comprising the same: The present invention relates to a hybrid balun apparatus and a receiver thereof. The hybrid balun apparatus comprises a passive unit, a first active unit, and a second active unit. The passive unit receives an input signal, and outputs an in-phase signal having an identical phase compared to the input... Agent: Wolf, Block, Shorr And Solis-cohen LLP

20070243846 - Signal processing circuit and signal processing method: An objective of this invention is to obtain a signal processing circuit and a signal processing method that reduce temperature-induced distortion when inputting a signal to a mixer and changing the frequency of the signal to a desired frequency. If a sensing result from a temperature sensor 133 is lower... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070243847 - Passive subharmonic mixer: Embodiments feature a circuit that includes a first set of differential switches to generate a first mixer output. The first set includes source terminals, a differential input terminal, gate terminals, and first mixer output terminals. For the first set, the source terminals are coupled to the differential input terminal and... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070243848 - Rf transceiver with compact stacker mixer design for multiple frequency conversion: A single chip radio transceiver includes circuitry that enables received wideband RF signals to be down-converted to baseband frequencies and baseband signals to be up-converted to wideband RF signals prior to transmission without requiring conversion to an intermediate frequency. The circuitry includes a low noise amplifier, automatic frequency control circuitry... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070243849 - High-frequency switching device with reduced harmonics: According to one exemplary embodiment, a low harmonic switching device includes a first switching block including a first multi-gate FET, where the first switching block is coupled to a first input and a shared output of the low harmonic switching device. A first capacitor is coupled between a first gate... Agent: Farjami & Farjami LLP

20070243850 - Mobile terminal: In a mobile terminal having an automatic startup mode of a television signal receiving function using a timer, startup is properly controlled in consideration of remaining battery capacity to thereby prevent an occurrence of unexpected lack of battery capacity. In a state where an alarm mode using a television broadcast... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070243851 - Methods and systems for utilizing backscattering techniques in wireless applications: Embodiments of the present invention include methods and systems for utilizing backscattering techniques in wireless applications. In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method of wirelessly controlling a device comprising, in a first electronic device, generating a first command, modulating the first command, and transmitting the modulated first command... Agent: Chad R. Walsh Fountainhead Law Group

20070243852 - Virtual batteries for wireless communication device: The present invention provides virtual batteries for a wireless communication device. Generally speaking, a virtual battery is a logical construct on a wireless communication device that powers a defined set of wireless communication device applications and has a defined power budget from one or more physical batteries on the device.... Agent: Sharp Laboratories Of America, Inc.

20070243853 - System and method of providing information access on a portable device: A system and method of providing information stored in a memory is provided. The system comprises an information repository for storing information and an access module for providing access to the information in response to a predetermined operation performed on a man-machine interface. The method includes the steps of storing... Agent: Brij K. Agarwal Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC

20070243854 - Information processing apparatus, vehicle control system and information processing method: A physical condition of a vehicle occupant is monitored; the vehicle occupant's physical condition information is transmitted to the center by the vehicle when an urgent message is transmitted to the center; and the center determines whether or not an urgent message is to be transmitted to a predetermined urgent... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070243855 - Personal security and tracking system: A signaling system is provided for rendering an alarm for an individual in distress combined with a locating and tracking system to thus alert and direct appropriate personnel to the needs of the individual in distress and to monitor the location of that individual. The system comprises a portable signaling... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070243856 - Prepaid security cellular telecommunications system: A cellular telecommunications system having a security feature which allows only pre-authorized users to complete cellular telephone calls. The system and method recognizes a cellular radiotelephone's pre-programmed and pre-selected telephone number and an automated number identification code (ANI). The pre-selected telephone number is reserved to the pre-paid cellular telecommunications system.... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070243857 - Pre-paid wireless interactive voice response system: A wireless communications system providing interactive voice response is disclosed. The system is menu-driven, and can accept information and requests from customers. In response to one type of request, the system can provide the customer with information regarding their current rate plan and features. In system also includes provisions that... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Bellsouth

20070243858 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for integrated notification of missed calls across multiple phone types: Methods, systems, and computer program products for integrated notification of missed calls across multiple phone types are disclosed. According to one aspect, a method may include detecting missed call occurrences between at least one calling party and a plurality of terminals of different types associated with a called subscriber. Further,... Agent: Jenkins, Wilson, Taylor & Hunt, P. A.

20070243859 - Method and apparatus for efficiently transferring data within a telecommunications network: The invention relates to a new and useful method for transferring data within a telecommunications network as well as to a mobile terminal capable of engaging to the network and of carrying out the steps of the method, which advantageously may be applied where, e.g., the data transfer from or... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070243861 - Method and module for software updating of a gateway between a network operator and a local area network: The invention concerns a method for software updating of a system comprising an operator's network and local area networks including respectively terminals equipped with a user interface, and a gateway device connected to the operator's network and setting up, upon request from the user of a terminal, an access channel... Agent: Joseph J. Laks, Vice President Thomson Licensing LLC

20070243860 - Method and system of degital content sharing among users over communications networks , related telecommunications network architecture and computer program product therefor: A method and a system for digital content sharing between individual users in a peer-to-peer fashion, wherein each user is connected to a respective local access network through a transport network. The method and system provide local network storage areas associated with each user arranged for archiving digital contents, and... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070243862 - System and method for controlling device usage: Mobile device usage may be monitored and restricted by pushing enabling/disabling events from an administrator the device. The events impose a certain set of rules that can “lock” certain features provided by the device, according to permissions and pre-established policies, for a certain period of time. Such restricted periods may... Agent: Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

20070243863 - System for using mobile communication terminal as pointer and method and medium thereof: A system for using a mobile communication terminal as a pointer and a method and medium thereof are disclosed, in which information displayed on a head mounted display (HMD) can be controlled by using the mobile communication terminal as the pointer. The system includes a head mounted display device receiving... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070243864 - Analysis of arbitrary wireless network data using matched filters: Analyzing an arbitrary data set to determine the presence or absence of a defined signature element, in order to understand an event or detect a root cause of an event in a wireless network. Signatures are generated and include signature elements. The signature elements in a given signature are associated... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20070243865 - Method for after service of mobile telephone: The invention relates to a mobile terminal, and in particular to a method for after service of a mobile terminal which is adapted to optimize the performance of the mobile terminal. The method comprises the steps of: self-diagnosing, judging if the terminal malfunctions and connecting with the A/S center in... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070243866 - Systems and methods for controlling base station sectors to reduce potential interference with low elevation satellites: Interference between satellite radioterminal communications systems may be reduced by transmitting and receiving satellite uplink frequencies in a Time Division Duplex (TDD) mode by a wireless base station in a first sector thereof, while simultaneously refraining from transmitting and receiving satellite uplink frequencies in the TDD mode by the wireless... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20070243867 - Acars messages over iridium: A system in a method are provided for sending and receiving messages between a point located on the ground and a point located on an aircraft via an Iridium Short Burst Data Service. The messages may conform to Airlines Electronic Engineering Committee (AEEC) Specification 618. The messages may be ground-to-air... Agent: Prass & Irving, LLP

20070243868 - System and method for enhanced community alarming: A service that leverages established wireless messaging paradigms such as, possibly inter alia, Short Message Service and Multimedia Message Service to allow Mobile Subscribers to use their Wireless Devices to fully interoperate with Community Alarm, and other similarly-situated, facilities. The service may optionally leverage the capabilities of a Messaging Inter-Carrier... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC

20070243869 - Method of providing alarm service upon movement out of safety zone: Disclosed herein is a method of providing alarm service upon movement out of a safety zone in a mobile communication network. The method is implemented in such a way as to acquire past location registration information for a ward's mobile terminal designated by a subscriber (guardian), the past location registration... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20070243870 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing internet protocol multimedia subsystem (ims) services in response to advanced intelligent network (ain) triggers: The subject matter described herein relates to methods, systems, and computer program products for providing Internet protocol multimedia subsystem (IMS) services in response to advanced intelligent network (AIN) triggers. According to one aspect, a method for providing an IMS service in response to an AIN trigger is provided. The method... Agent: Jenkins, Wilson, Taylor & Hunt, P. A.

20070243871 - Method and system for a handoff in a broadcast communication system: A method and system for a handoff in a broadcast communication system is disclosed. A subscriber assisted handoff is impractical in a broadcast communication system due to e.g., a high signaling load, a difficulty to synchronize the broadcast transmission. On the other hand, the small number of broadcast channels enables... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070243873 - Method for transitioning communications of a mobile subscriber station from a serving base station to a target base station: A method for transitioning communications of a mobile subscriber station from a serving base station to a target base station includes receiving from the mobile subscriber station a transition request message having an identifier which identifies the mobile subscriber station, and transmitting a transition request notification message having the identifier... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070243872 - Method of providing improved integrated communication system data service: Some embodiments provide a method and apparatus for seamlessly providing voice and data services across a licensed wireless network while accessing a second different communication network through a user equipment. The first and second communication networks include licensed wireless networks, unlicensed wireless networks, or Internet Protocol (IP) networks, to name... Agent: Adeli Law Group, A Professional Law Corporation

20070243874 - Method and system for allocating resources in a communication system: A method and system for allocating resources to prevent inter-cell interference in a multi-cellular communication system, in which an interference period is detected by comparing a data transmission period in a first cell with a data transmission period in a second cell, the interference period is divided into a plurality... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070243875 - Method and apparatus for call delivery: A method and system for forwarding calls in telecommunication networks are provided. More particularly, control of late call forwarding logic and routing is placed at the home network Gateway MSC and HLR, thus removing the home network service provider's dependency on the visited network capabilities.... Agent: Richard J. Minnich, Esq. Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & Mckee, LLP

20070243876 - Method and system for implementing a message service based on ip multimedia subsystem: Methods for implementing a message service based on IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) are disclosed in embodiments of the invention. One of the methods includes: determining a network domain of a called subscriber according to information in a message service of a calling subscriber; conducting the message service according to a... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20070243877 - Infrastructure for wireless telecommunication networks: A wireless network including a plurality of base stations operating at a public spectrum frequency, each base station capable of generating an adjustable size coverage area. Each base station utilizing dedicating channels for each user to permit avoidance of one or more sources of interference. A server supplying data to... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20070243878 - Wireless communication method: A terminal 211 measures pilot signals transmitted in directional (beam) patterns from an adjacent cell and an own cell, and estimates reception qualities with the presence (high)/absence (low) of the interference from the adjacent cell. The terminal 211 requests data rate request values (DRC1, DRC2) corresponding to the reception qualities... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070243879 - Methods and apparatus for supporting quality of service in communication systems: An access node, e.g., base station, determines a configuration of an end node, e.g., wireless terminal, intended to support a specific traffic flow and sends a configuration command to the wireless terminal. A base station may determine one or more parameters associated with classification, queue management, scheduling, and/or automatic repeat... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070243882 - Method and apparatus for locating a wireless local area network associated with a wireless wide area network: Various concepts are disclosed in connection with locating a wireless local area network associated with a wireless wide area network. These concepts involve obtaining the difference in transmission time of a marker between two transmitters in a second network, measuring the difference in arrival time of the marker between the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070243883 - Cellular phone and a base station thereof: When a receiving end is a cellular phone, the cellular phone that displays the local time at the receiving end and a base station used in this cellular phone are realized. A time recognition unit that obtains the local time at the receiving end using the time information acquired from... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070243880 - Method and system to determine and communicate the presence of a mobile device in a predefined zone: A method and system to provide a notification is described. The system may comprise a first mobile device including a positioning component to determine when the first mobile device is proximate at least one predefined zone (e.g., enters, remains within or leaves the predefined zone), and a location data compiler... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20070243881 - Systems and methods for characterizing the performance of a wireless network: Systems and methods for characterizing a performance of a wireless network. Data or metrics are collected from a device. The metrics include timing information associated with certain sectors. The timing information can be used to determine an approximate location of the device when the call or other use of the... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20070243885 - Location positioning method in handover between networks: Disclosed is a location information system based upon a SUPL(Secure User Plane Location) architecture, and more particularly, to a location positioning method based on an area event in handover between networks. The method comprises: if a network is changed or if a terminal is outside of the coverage area of... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070243884 - Location system and method for client terminals which provide location-base service to mobile terminals: In one of multiple mobile communication networks, a serving node responsible for locating mobile terminals is responsive to a registration request from a mobile terminal for storing the serving node identity in a home location database to which the mobile terminal is subscribed. In response to a location request message... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070243886 - Communication apparatus: A communication apparatus communicates with a radio communication device. The communication apparatus includes a display unit, a controller, a first receiver, a second receiver, and a transmission unit. The controller is configured to switch between a first mode and a second mode, the second mode in which the display unit... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070243887 - Platform for telephone-optimized data and voice services: Systems, apparatus and methods are described that provide abstractions, tools and delivery systems useful in the publication, sharing, viewing, communication, transmission and reception of information on telephone networks. The invention also provides systems, apparatus and methods for conducting transactions on telephone networks. The systems, methods and apparatus can be optimized... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20070243888 - Roaming queries prior to association/authentication: A mechanism to enable roaming queries prior to association/authentication while maintaining the advantages of power saving mechanisms can be implemented. The mechanism can involve requiring a mobile terminal to request the desired information a second time so that the access point may take sufficient time to obtain the desired information.... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070243889 - Method and apparatus for controlling transmission of message during handover in mobile communication terminal: A method for controlling a transmission of Short Message Service (SMS) data during a handover of a mobile communication terminal and an apparatus thereof are provided. The method includes determining whether a handover is currently being conducted, if SMS transmission is requested in a communication mode; deferring the transmission of... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070243891 - Sip2 mobile gateway: A system and method for using an IP client attached to the Public Internet, acting as a virtual mobile terminal such as a cell phone, to have full access to mobile telephony services offered by a mobile operator using a SIP2 Mobile gateway. The services include a mobile telephone number,... Agent: Ip Authority, LLC Ramraj Soundararajan

20070243890 - System and/or method for inverting call origination: The subject matter disclosed herein relates to a system and method for transmitting messages between a mobile station and a base station in a wireless communication network. In one example, a mobile station is adapted to selectively transmit an origination message in response to receipt of a page message from... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070243892 - Wireless device: In a wireless network structure which includes a wireless LAN device having a base station function (host device) which is compliant with IEEE802.11h and at least one wireless LAN device having a terminal function (slave device) which is not compliant with IEEE802.11h, the incompliant terminal transmits a probe request to... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070243893 - Method for inserting advertisement into poc and extended-poc communication system: The object of the present invention is to realize a method and a server which enable insertion of advertisement even in voice communication including multimedia communication. The server is configured as a server for managing PoC communication among multiple terminals, comprising: a right-to-speak management section for managing the right to... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070243894 - Methods and apparatus for tracking wireless terminal power information: Power control reports are communicated less frequently than the power control commands. The base station tracks the commands sent to the wireless terminal and estimates the wireless terminal's control channel transmit power. Received power control channel reports are utilized to compare the base station's estimated wireless terminal control channel transmit... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070243895 - Method of calculating c value used for uplink power control: A method of calculating a specified value when entering a second radio resource (RR) mode from a first RR mode is disclosed. More specifically, the method includes calculating a new specified value to be used in the second RR mode using a filter, an iteration index, and a last specified... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070243897 - Dual level slide mechanism for extendible device housings: An extendible mobile electronic device with a housing having a first housing element comprising a first front surface and a first rear surface and a second housing element, comprising a second front surface and a second rear surface. Said first housing element, and said second housing element are extensibly supported... Agent: Hollingsworth & Funk, LLC Suite 125

20070243896 - Dual lever slide mechanism for extendible device housings: The present invention provides an extendible mobile electronic device with a housing having a first housing element comprising a first front surface and a first rear surface and a second housing element, comprising a second front surface and a second rear surface. Said first housing element, and said second housing... Agent: Hollingsworth & Funk, LLC

20070243898 - Multi-handset cordless voice over ip telephony system: Telephony system includes base station and handsets. Base station includes radio transceiver for transmitting and receiving cordless telephone radio signals, and network connection for transmitting and receiving voice over internet protocol (VoIP) communications. Each handset includes a handset radio transceiver for transmitting and receiving cordless telephone radio signals. Base station... Agent: Ralph A. Dowell Of Dowell & Dowell P.C.

20070243899 - Systems and methods for analog transport of rf voice/data communications: Systems and methods for the analog transport of RF voice/data communications are provided. In one embodiment, a method for transporting analog multi-band RF signals is provided. The method comprises receiving a first multi-band RF signal from a first communications medium, the first multi-band RF signal including a first RF frequency... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20070243900 - Method and apparatus for broadcasting software update information to mobile phones over a wireless communications network: A local area wireless communications network includes an MCU which generally operates to manage the placement of audio and other information into frames that are transmitted to a base station which serves to convert the frames from one signal format to another signal format and broadcast the frames over a... Agent: Robert C. Schluer

20070243901 - Chip card with simultaneous contact and contact-less operations: A chip card receives and processes what-ever combination of contact data and contact-less data is available to allow multiple functionalities for the chip card. A micro-computer of the chip card is adapted to simultaneously receive and process contact data from a contact interface and contact-less data from a contact-less interface.... Agent: Law Office Of Monica H Choi

20070243902 - Configuration containing at least two radio sections and method for operating the configuration: A configuration contains at least two radio sections. Each radio section in each case has a line-connected network segment and one or more radio network access devices connected thereto in a line-connected manner. In each case mobile radio terminals can be connected by radio, and the network segments of the... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20070243903 - Method of selecting retransmission format in a wireless communication multiple antenna system: ]... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070243907 - Display control apparatus and method in a mobile terminal capable of outputting video data to an external display device: Disclosed is a display control apparatus and method in a mobile terminal capable of outputting video data to an external display device, which implements a function of using other services in the mobile terminal, separately from the service provided to the external display device connected with the mobile terminal. To... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070243906 - Mobile communication device: A mobile communication device includes a housing and a LCM (liquid crystal module). The LCM is sited on a roof section of an outer surface of the housing. The LCM can display time, incoming calls, pictures, etc. and let the mobile communication device be convenient to operate.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070243904 - Customized wallpaper to called party mobile terminal: An apparatus in one example has: an incoming call mobile switching center that receives incoming calls; a home location register that stores routing information; a serving mobile switching center that stores mobile subscriber status, location, and routing information and that supplies a temporary location directory number, the home location register... Agent: Patti , Hewitt & Arezina LLC

20070243905 - Method and apparatus for operating user interface of mobile terminal having pointing device: The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for operating user interface of a mobile terminal having a pointing device. A mobile terminal having a pointing device comprising: a pointing device generating and transmitting button and motion data by user's manipulation, a control section controlling at least a... Agent: Venable LLP

20070243908 - Method for entering silent mode and mobile communication terminal for the same: Disclosed herein is a function for controlling sound output during power on. Upon the start of its booting-up process, a mobile communication terminal determines whether a key for entering the silent mode is pressed by the user. If the corresponding key is pressed, the mobile communication terminal changes a sector... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070243909 - Programmable wireless headset system for cordless telephone: A wireless headset system includes a headset and a programming device. The programming device can be in the headset or in a base that is connectable to the headset. The headset has programmable device and a transceiver. The base has a programming device. The programming device programs the programmable device... Agent: Ancel W. Lewis, Jr.

20070243910 - Method of controlling idle mode in broadband wireless access system: A method of controlling an idle mode in a broadband wireless access system is disclosed, in which paging information is allocated to a mobile subscriber station to enter an idle mode via a base station belonging to at least two paging groups and in which the idle mode is efficiently... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070243911 - Mobile terminal: A mobile terminal 100 has a cabinet 21, a cover member which is selected from a plurality of types of cover members and attached to the cabinet 21, an illumination section illuminating outside the cabinet 21, a storage section for storing a plurality of types of illumination patterns for the... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070243913 - Mobile telephone handset with capacitive radio frequency path between first and second conductive components thereof: There is disclosed a mobile telephone handset having a casing including first and second components that slide relative to each other between a closed and an open configuration of the handset. The first and second components are interconnected by an electrically conductive connector, and facing surfaces of the first and... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20070243912 - Sliding-type hinge: A sliding-type hinge mounted in a portable apparatus includes a base, a slider, and a sliding means adapted to slide the slider on the base. The sliding means includes a first torsion spring and a second torsion spring disposed between the base and the slider. The first torsion spring has... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

  
10/11/2007 > patent applications in patent subcategories.

20070238409 - Method and system for seeking preferred broadcasting stations and media: A system and method is provided for locating media preferred by a listener among a numerous selection of stations from radio broadcasting, satellite radio broadcasting, television broadcasting and media storage devices. An algorithm tracks time and number of timed occurrences that a station having media is listened to by a... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20070238410 - Mote networks using directional antenna techniques: A mote network having and/or using one or more directional antennas.... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20070238412 - Combination conductor-antenna: A combination conductor-antenna apparatus is provided comprising a surface that defines a passage for use as a receptor for a second conductor and for use as a waveguide. The surface is at least partially formed of an electrically conductive material, thus allowing the apparatus to serve as a medium by... Agent: Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP

20070238411 - Remote user interface for bluetoothtm device: A system and method of displaying data pertaining to an accessory on a mobile device is disclosed. The accessory and the mobile device are communicable with one another using the Bluetooth™ protocol. A set of pre-defined Bluetooth queries using an extended list of AT commands that can be used by... Agent: Moore & Van Allen PLLC

20070238413 - System and method for establishing an 802.11 network connection: Methods and systems for facilitating the connection of computing devices to 802.11 networks are described.... Agent: Daryl D. Coutts

20070238414 - Apparatus and method for managing soho bts interference using antenna beam coverage based on pilot strength measurement messages: A small office/home office base transceiver station (SOHO BTS) server capable of managing interference by correlating pilot strength measurements sent by mobile devices and directing the attenuation settings for each transmit path. An array of antennas coupled to an array of transmit paths are selectively activated one at a time.... Agent: Docket Clerk

20070238415 - Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding: A novel bandwidth extension technique allows information to be encoded and decoded using a fractal self similarity model or an accurate spectral replacement model, or both. Also a multi-band temporal amplitude coding technique, useful as an enhancement to any coding/decoding technique, helps with accurate reconstruction of the temporal envelope and... Agent: The Law Offices Of Thomas L. Adams

20070238416 - System and method for automated radio frequency safety and regulatory compliance at wireless transmission sites: Maintaining information about radio transmission sites in a computer accessible database. In one aspect this is a living database consisting of hundreds of thousands of wireless sites and their unique characteristics. The database includes energy transmissions information including site specific physical locations and utilization characteristics of the sites. The System... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20070238417 - Access point multi-level transmission power and protocol control based on the exchange of characteristics: A wireless access point and multiple wireless terminals exchange utilization, status, mobility and reception characteristics. Each wireless terminal generates reception characteristics based on transmissions received from the wireless access point and from other devices in the network. In one operating mode, the characteristics gathered by the wireless devices are forwarded... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070238418 - Mobile wireless communication terminal and mobile wireless communication system: Receiving sensitivity deterioration in wireless communication due to a spurious radiation wave generated from a card reader/writer is suppressed in a case where a mobile phone terminal is provided with a contactless IC card reader/writer or a contactless IC card. The mobile phone terminal provided with the contactless IC card... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070238419 - System and method for zero intermediate frequency filtering of information communicated in wireless networks: A circuit for communicating information in a wireless network includes a filtering circuit in communication with a zero intermediate frequency (ZIF) transceiver circuit. The filtering circuit includes a first mixer in communication with an output of the ZIF transceiver circuit. The filtering circuit includes a first Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW)... Agent: Patent Administrator Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070238420 - Method and device for transmitting a signal in a multi-antenna system, signal, and method for estimating the corresponding transmission channels: A method for transmitting a digital signal via n transmit antennas, wherein n is strictly greater than 2, comprising the steps of combining with a source data vector n vectors to be transmitted respectively by each of the transmit antennas by a coding matrix <I>M</I> with a yield equal to... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20070238421 - Transmitter architecture: A technique includes digitally generating orthogonal modulated signals, each of which has spectral energy that is generally centered at an intermediate frequency. The orthogonal modulated signals are frequency translated to produce translated signals, each of which has spectral energy that is generally centered about a second frequency that is higher... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20070238422 - Built-in testing signal wireless communication apparatus and testing method thereof: A wireless communication apparatus has: a direct current generator, for generating a direct current signal and a transmitter. The transmitter includes: an oscillating signal generator for generating an oscillating signal; a mixer for mixing one of the direct current signal and the transmitting signal with the oscillating signal according to... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070238423 - Tuning circuitry in a communications device: A communications device is provided. The communications device includes a first antenna port coupled to a signal line, transmitter circuitry coupled to the signal line and configured to broadcast a radio frequency (RF) output signal across the first antenna port, tuning circuitry coupled to the signal line, and a controller... Agent: Dicke, Billig & Czaja

20070238424 - 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.

20070238425 - Method and apparatus for a signal selective rf transceiver system: Method and apparatus to dynamically configure the signal reception selectivity of a plurality of transceivers is described. In one embodiment, a transceiver includes a receiver circuit having two or more filter circuits. Each of the filter circuits is configured to pass RF signals from a different portion of an overall... Agent: Bever Hoffman & Harms, LLP

20070238426 - Device, system, and method of selectively scanning a wireless communication band: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, apparatus and system of selectively scanning a wireless communication band. In some demonstrative embodiments the method may include, for example, selectively scanning in response to a request to scan a wireless communication band, at least part of the wireless communication band based... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20070238427 - Electronic device and method therefor: An electronic device includes a radio tuner capable of receiving broadcast media contents and information about each of the broadcast media contents from a plurality of radio stations; a user communication interface configured for receiving from a user a list of desired broadcast media contents; a memory; and a processor.... Agent: Perman & Green

20070238428 - Processor for a passive ranger: A receiver includes an RF bridge and a processor coupled to the RF bridge to receive an information signal from the RF bridge. The processor includes a clock source and a processor front end. The processor front end includes first and second frequency sources, a processor down converter and an... Agent: Daniel E. Fisher

20070238429 - Squelch detector: Embodiments of a squelch detector are described herein.... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC C/o Portfolioip

20070238430 - Link performance prediction presence of co-channel interference: Embodiments of apparatuses, articles, methods, and systems for predicting one or more performance metrics for an over-the-air link in the presence of co-channel interference are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C.

20070238431 - Method and apparatus to provide variable gain in a radio receiver front end: An RF receiver front end includes a variable gain low noise amplifier and/or a variable gain mixer to provide gain variability in the receiver. This gain variability may be used during, for example, automatic gain control operations. In at least one embodiment, the variable gain LNA is a broadband device... Agent: The Law Offices Of John C. Scott, LLC C/o Portfolioip

20070238432 - Variable gain amplifier, and am-modulated signal reception circuit and detection circuit: In order to provide a variable gain amplifier of enhanced linearity and wide variable gain range, an AM-modulated signal reception circuit in which the noise of an input portion is reduced so as to improve the follow-up characteristic of an AGC circuit, and an AM-modulated signal detection circuit which produces... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20070238433 - Circuit and method for clock correction in telecommunication system: Disclosed are a low-cost circuit, a communication apparatus and a method for correcting a clock and for application to a specific radio system with low electric power consumption. The communication apparatus comprises: a frequency data storage circuit for storing frequency set values corresponding to respective channels to output a frequency... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20070238434 - Clock modulation circuits with time averaging: Embodiments of clock modulation circuits with time averaging are described herein.... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC C/o Intellevate

20070238436 - Radio reception apparatus receiving multiple radio signals different in frequency: A radio reception apparatus includes a reception portion receiving a radio signal, a local oscillation circuit outputting a first local oscillation signal, a local oscillation circuit outputting a second local oscillation signal, a mixer frequency-converting the received radio signal by multiplying the received radio signal by the first local oscillation... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070238435 - Apparatus and method for removing jammer signal in wireless communication receiver: An apparatus and method for removing a jammer signal in a wireless communication receiver, in which a frequency converter down-converts a radio frequency (RF) signal including a desired and a jammer signal into a baseband signal. A first filter removes the desired signal from an output signal of the frequency... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20070238437 - Delayed host wakeup for wireless communications device: A new and unique method or apparatus for power savings in a node, point, terminal or device in a wireless local area network (WLAN), or other suitable network, featuring one or more steps for delaying forwarding one or more data packets from a WLAN chipset to a host processor based... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070238438 - Learning mechanism to configure power save parameters for automatic power save delivery: A mechanism to configure power save parameters of a wireless client station. When data frames carrying voice, video, or other multimedia traffic are received at the client station via a wireless link, a frame rate of the received data frames is measured for a period of time. Then a power... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070238440 - Method and apparatus for a power-efficient framework to maintain data synchronization of a mobile personal computer to simulate a connected scenario: An apparatus and method for a power-efficient framework to maintain data synchronization of a mobile personal computer (MPC) are described. In one embodiment, the method includes the detection of a data synchronization wakeup event while the MPC is operating according to a sleep state. Subsequent to wakeup event, at least... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070238439 - Voice signaling traffic apparatus, systems, and methods: Embodiments of voice signaling latency reduction mechanisms are described generally herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20070238441 - Mobile phone configuration: A handheld electronic device hinge for mechanically connecting first and second rotatable body members of a handheld electronic device, said hinge comprising a first bracket and a second bracket, wherein said first bracket comprises: a first connecting member for connecting to the first rotatable body member of the handheld electronic... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20070238442 - Signaling for push-to-talk: In addition to other aspects disclosed, a data over signaling message that identifies a recipient access terminal is transmitted from a radio network controller to the sector in response to an attempt by an access terminal on a sector of a wireless network to access a service of the wireless... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070238445 - Mobile device and transmission restriction method: An MTF receives a reject signal to the effect that data transmission is restricted, the reject signal including time information that indicates a restriction time for restricting data transmission to indicate that the data transmission is to be restricted. In a TAF, a timer part times the restriction time indicated... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070238443 - Method and device for restricted access contact information datum: Disclosed are an electronic device (202) and method of an electronic device and a method of a network for transmitting, receiving and processing a user-accessible contact information data entry in a contact information storage medium (214). User-accessible contact information data, such as a telephone book entry, is transmitted by a... Agent: Motorola Inc

20070238444 - System and method for multiplexing wireless devices: A system that multiplexes a plurality of wireless devices with a wireless network, each of the wireless devices bring a common telephone number. The system assigns a predefined access time for each of said wireless devices. The system also assigns a predefined length of time during which each of said... Agent: Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP (ott)

20070238446 - Method for using an instant messenger in a mobile terminal, a device using the same and computer readable medium therefor: Provided are a mobile terminal device and method for using an instant messenger including selecting an instant messenger address previously registered to execute the instant messenger compatible with the instant messenger address, and performing instant message communication with the distant party designated by the instant messenger address.... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070238447 - System, method, mobile terminal and computer program product for providing push-to-talk chat in interactive mobile tv: An apparatus for providing an interactive service during a broadcast service includes a transmitting element and a processing element. The transmitting element is capable of communicating broadcast content of the broadcast service to a plurality of receiving terminals. The processing element is configured to at least partially control the transmitting... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070238448 - Method and system of providing landline equivalent location information over an integrated communication system: Some embodiments provide a method and apparatus for seamlessly providing the location of user equipment of a first communication network while accessing a second different communication network. The first and second communication networks may include licensed wireless networks, unlicensed wireless networks, or internet protocol (IP) networks, to name a few.... Agent: Adeli Law Group, A Professional Law Corporation

20070238449 - Service restriction apparatus and method for portable communication device: A service restriction apparatus and method for a portable phone. A utilization restriction method for a portable communication device includes determining whether a service restriction function is activated when an incoming or outgoing call request is detected; determining whether a phone number of the incoming or outgoing call is registered... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070238452 - Managing connections in a mobile telecommunications network: A method of managing a data transmission in a telecommunications network, said method comprising: monitoring the data transmission associated with a connection; saving information associated with the data transmission; and after a discontinuity in the data transmission, the connection is maintained or released based on the saved information.... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070238450 - Software activation in a mobile terminal: An activation and reporting mechanism for software in a mobile terminal allows the software to be activated by an end-user. In one implementation, a mobile terminal receives an indication that an end-user of the mobile terminal is attempting to use the software and gathers registration information from the end-user. The... Agent: Harrity Snyder, L.L.P.

20070238451 - Software activation in a mobile terminal: A method includes, in response to receiving an incoming call at a telephone, indicating acceptance of the call; determining with the telephone if the incoming call is from a party designated as a special contact; if it is, automatically rejecting the incoming call and automatically initiating a call back to... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20070238453 - System and method for delivering notification through telephone network: A system and method for delivering notification through telephone network is provided. User registers one or more trigger condition with the notification system. The notification system assigns a phone group to each of said trigger conditions and also output the mapping relation between said trigger conditions and their phone groups... Agent: Ting-mao Chang

20070238456 - Method for accurate time setting of communication device over the air and corresponding communication device: A method for accurate time setting of a communication device (2, 3) in which said communication device (2, 3) sends (A0) a request for time synchronization to a central communications unit (1) through communication data packets via a cellular telephone network (5); said central communications unit (1) sends current time... Agent: Sofer & Haroun LLP.

20070238455 - Mobile based area event handling when currently visited network doe not cover area: An area event handler informs when a target mobile enters or leaves a network covering a pre-defined target area, and re-aims an original area event request. When the event occurs, the mobile sends a location report to an initiator of the request. A PLMN list with estimated geographic coverage areas... Agent: Manelli Denison & Selter PLLC

20070238454 - Mobile device subject to a communication restriction responding to a priority call: A mobile device and associated methods are disclosed that allow a mobile device subject to a communication restriction from a wireless network to respond to a priority call. If a call in the wireless network is destined for the mobile device, then the mobile device receives a paging request message... Agent: Duft Bornsen & Fishman, LLP

20070238457 - System and method for enhancing the performance of wideband digital rf transport systems: A system and method for enhancing the performance of wideband digital RF transport systems is disclosed, which enables the transport of different bandwidth segments on a plurality of wideband channels by selecting an optimal clock sample rate for each bandwidth segment to be transported. Thus, the bandwidth segments are proportionally... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20070238458 - Network-initiated area event triggered positionning method for roaming terminal in mobile communication system: A network-initiated area event triggered positioning method for a roaming terminal in a session-based position information system is disclosed. Network-initiation of area-based positioning of a roaming terminal is discriminated according to a proxy mode and a non-proxy mode, and area-based positioning for the roaming terminal is performed in various manners... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070238459 - Routing communication based on urgency priority level: Methods, systems, devices, and computer program products route communication based on an urgency priority associated with a sender of the communication. The method involves receiving incoming communication, identifying the sender, determining an urgency priority designation associated with communication, and routing the incoming communication according to routing instructions associated with the... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20070238463 - Mobile communications system, base station apparatus, user equipment, and inter-cell handover control method for use therewith: Upon receipt of a trigger for resource allocation, User #n reception control unit 31 of target base station 3 notifies resources of User #n of radio parameters between a source base station and user equipment, received in the trigger for resource allocation, and issues a pilot symbol reception start trigger... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070238464 - Apparatus and method for performing handover in a communication system: An apparatus and method for performing a handover in a communication system are provided. For the handover, an MS determines whether a handover process with a serving BS runs normally. If the handover process is abnormal, the MS notifies a target BS of the abnormal handover process and the target... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070238462 - Harq-aware cqi reporting: The invention provides a method or system where the UE sends the CQI to the base station (Node B) based on whether a HARQ retransmission is expected. For example, if a HARQ retransmission is expected, then the UE can reduce the CQI information to sending less (or no) bits in... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070238460 - Method and device for handling user equipment in a communications network: A method and devices for handling dual mode terminals in a network comprising at least two access networks operating according to different standards. The method enables a highly efficient use of network resources as it ensures that terminals are transferred preferably to the network that matches best to the terminal... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070238461 - Mobile station moving in communications systems supporting communication of data: The present invention relates to a communications system supporting communication of data, a method and nodes therein, which comprises a number of core networks with a plurality of core network functional server nodes (core nodes) (SGSN; MSC . . . ) and a number of radio access networks, each with... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070238466 - Domain selection system and method operable in a network environment including ims: In one embodiment, a domain selection method is disclosed for operation in a network environment including a circuit-switched (CS) network and an Internet Protocol (IP) multimedia subsystem (IMS) network. At a network node disposed in the IMS network, status information related to a served user equipment (UE) device is maintained.... Agent: Research In Motion, Ltd

20070238465 - International call and data routing: Telecommunication services are provided to users. User information for a first identity of a user in a first telecommunication network is maintained. An active presence for a mobile device for the user is maintained by means of a second identity in a second telecommunication network. A presence of the user... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070238467 - System and method for routing an incoming call to a proper domain in a network environment including ims: In one embodiment, a scheme is disclosed for routing an incoming call in a network environment including a circuit-switched (CS) network and an IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) network, wherein the incoming call is being directed to a user equipment (UE) device disposed in the network environment. A network node disposed... Agent: Research In Motion, Ltd

20070238468 - System and method for selecting a domain in a network environment including ims: In one embodiment, a domain selection method is disclosed for operation in a network environment including a circuit-switched (CS) network and an Internet Protocol (IP) multimedia subsystem (IMS) network. Policy criteria information related to a subscriber is maintained in association with a network node. A proper network domain is selected... Agent: Research In Motion, Ltd

20070238469 - Radio network control device, radio network control method, and communication system: A radio network controller which includes radio resource administration means for administrating a state of the use of radio resource, rack information administration means for administrating a state of the use of resource at base band signal processing unit in base transceiver station, and control means for selecting a call... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20070238471 - Method and apparatus for storing data using dlna network: A Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) network that stores, in real time, data, such as motion pictures, still images, audio sounds, etc., collected from outside of the home into a storage device located, preferably, in the home. In particular, a data collecting device requests a device search through the home... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20070238470 - Conservation of temporary roaming numbers: A method for routing mobile station terminated calls. The method can include determining whether a mobile station (110, 110′) is within its home serving area (170) when a call (180) has been placed to the mobile station over a communications network (102). Responsive to determining that the mobile station is... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070238472 - Method and system for smart route dialling to a destination identifier using a telephone: A method, communication device and system for smart route dialling to a destination identifier using a telephone are described. In one embodiment, there is provided a method for routing a call from a communications device having at least voice capabilities, the communications device being connected to a communications network for... Agent: Ridout & Maybee Suite 2400

20070238474 - Instant text reply for mobile telephony devices: A cellphone program or service is disclosed to allow a user to set up an instant text reply for both incoming voice calls and SMS messages from other cellphone users via an SMS message (hereinafter, Instant Text Reply) stating the reason for the user's unavailability. In use, a cellphone user... Agent: Roberts, Mardula & Wertheim, LLC

20070238473 - Transferring information from a mobile cellular telephone: A mobile cellular telephone operable to automatically inform a user of the mobile cellular telephone who is remote from the mobile cellular telephone of a received, but unanswered, incoming telephone call at the mobile cellular telephone, the mobile cellular telephone including: a user interface arranged to enable the user, while... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20070238475 - Wireless communications device with priority list: An improved wireless communications device (12,14,15,16,18) and method of operating such a device (60) is disclosed. In at least some embodiments, the wireless communications device includes a transceiver (32), a memory (36) on which is stored a list of devices with which the wireless communications device can potentially communicate (26),... Agent: Motorola Inc

20070238476 - Managing page cycle periods of access terminals: In a radio access network, techniques for determining how often an aces terminal in communication with the network is to monitor a channel of the network based on trigger information received from the access terminal that is specific to one or more of the following: a state of the terminal,... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070238477 - Method and apparatus to facilitate communication resource allocation for supergroups: A network element (300) can facilitate allocating first and second communication resources (such as, but not limited to, FDMA and TDMA communication resources) in support of supergroup communications. By one approach this comprises identifying (101) communication talkgroups as are to comprise a part of the communication supergroup and then determining... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070238478 - Method and system for providing a poc box service in a poc system: A system and method of a multimedia Push-To-Talk (PTT) over Cellular (PoC) box service is provided which can reflect dynamic requests of a user using a function for interworking with a PoC server and an Extensible Markup Language (XML) Document Management Server (XDMS) in a PoC system. In a method... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070238479 - Push-to-talk handling in a dual processor environment: In a push-to-talk device having two processors where one of the processors is a radio chip and one of the processors is a microprocessor, a method and apparatus for synchronizing the microprocessor and the radio chip includes the steps of checking the status of a radio push-to-talk key on the... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20070238480 - Wireless network feedback techniques to improve power control and co-channel interference: Techniques are provided that allow power control and/or hand off operations to be performed in a wireless network in a manner that can enhance overall network throughput.... Agent: The Law Offices Of John C. Scott, LLC C/o Portfolioip

20070238481 - Self-adhesive remote-control keyboard for a portable cellular telephone: The inventive self-adhesive and sealed device having a deformable structure enables, for example, a skier provided with a portable cellular telephone (a) connected to a transmission/reception interface (b) and to an earphone/microphone set (c) to transmit or receive telephone calls without taking off his gloves and without handling the portable... Agent: Moetteli & Associates Sarl

20070238482 - Device, system and method of coordination among multiple transceivers: Some embodiments of the invention provide devices, systems and methods of coordination among multiple transceivers. For example, an apparatus in accordance with an embodiment of the invention includes: a first wireless transceiver able to operate in accordance with a first, non-scheduled, wireless communication protocol; a second wireless transceiver able to... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20070238483 - Antenna sharing techniques: Antenna sharing techniques are described. A mobile computing device may comprise an antenna, a switch to couple to the antenna, and multiple transceivers to couple to the switch. The mobile computing device may also comprise an antenna management module to couple to the switch and the transceivers. The antenna management... Agent: Kacvinsky LLC C/o Intellevate

20070238484 - Wireless peripheral with a multi-function control: A wireless peripheral described herein includes at least one multi-function control. Activation of the multi-function control controls different functions related to operation of a corresponding mobile device in different operating modes. In one non-limiting example, the wireless peripheral performs a call function responsive to activation of a multi-function control in... Agent: Coats & Bennett/sony Ericsson

20070238486 - Telephone with ability to communicate through various networks: The present invention relates to a telephone, which is adapted to a public switched telephone network (PSTN) and is capable of making a call though various communication networks. As the aforesaid PSTN telephone is configured with a plurality of wireless interface modules (WIM) that one of which is activated with... Agent: Wpat, PC

20070238485 - Module structure for expanding and enhancing functions of a sim card: A module structure for expanding and enhancing functions of a SIM card is composed of one or more than one slots and a control chip, wherein the slot is used for emplacing a subscriber identity card, and the control chip is installed with a new application interface and application service... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20070238489 - Edit menu for a mobile communication device: A mobile communication device having a user interface for invoking an text editing command is provided. The interface comprises a reduced set of commands which is accessed by actuating an input device on the mobile communication device, the reduced set of commands comprising a set of context-sensitive commands derived from... Agent: Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

20070238487 - Initiating a call from a mobile device to a number that is not hyperlinked: A method for initiating telephone calls from a mobile device which operates in a wireless communication network, including: displaying text on a visual display of the mobile device; moving a position marker on the visual display throughout the displayed text in response to a navigational input by a user to... Agent: Ridout & Maybee Suite 2400

20070238488 - Primary actions menu for a mobile communication device: A mobile communication device having a user interface for invoking a command displays a reduced set of commands accessed by actuating an input device on the mobile communication device, the reduced set of commands comprises a set of context-sensitive commands derived from a full-function set of commands associated with an... Agent: Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

20070238490 - Wireless multi-microphone system for voice communication: A wireless communication system includes a wireless terminal and a host device. The wireless terminal includes a transceiver and a processor. The transceiver of the wireless terminal transmits electrical audio signals output from a plurality of microphones over a wireless communication link for enhancement processing, such as noise-cancellation processing, echo-cancellation... Agent: Joseph P. Curtin

20070238491 - System and method for establishing wireless connections between user devices and vehicles: A system and method for a vehicle is disclosed. Memory stores user profiles for a plurality of users. Each of the user profiles includes setting inputs for vehicle components and includes a wireless connection identifier for a wireless user device. The user selects his user profile in a user interface.... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070238492 - Portable apparatus: A portable apparatus including a flat antenna apparatus is disclosed. The portable apparatus operates with a battery. The flat antenna apparatus includes an antenna element and a ground element, where the ground element is a surface of the battery.... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070238493 - Mobile station having a configurable grip: A mobile communication station including a camera and having a grip for being gripped by a user during use of the communication station, the grip having a first compact configuration and a second configuration in which the grip is expanded relative to the first configuration to improve the grip of... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070238494 - Portable electronic device: A portable electronic device including a first casing, a second casing and a carrier is provided. The first casing has a first surface having a guide slot and a slide slot. The guide slot has a first wide opening, a narrow opening and a second wide opening. The narrow opening... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070238495 - Microphone coupler for a communication device: The invention provides a communication device comprising: a cover; a printed circuit board; a microphone on the printed circuit board; an antenna located at least in part within the cover; and a RF shield can shaped to fit over the microphone about the PCB. In the device, the cover is... Agent: Mccarthy Tetrault LLP

20070238497 - Portable terminal: A portable terminal, which has an antenna disposed within a housing accommodating a circuit board, capable of securing a clearance between the antenna and parts of the circuit board, etc. within the housing without increasing the size of the housing, whereby the antenna performance can be prevented from degrading when... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070238496 - Versatile system for adaptive mobile station antenna: A system for providing an adaptive antenna system in a mobile communications device is disclosed. An array of antenna elements is provided. A sensing component is disposed along a surface of the mobile communications device, proximal to the array of antenna elements. A processor component is communicatively coupled to the... Agent: Docket Clerk

  
10/04/2007 > patent applications in patent subcategories.

20070232219 - Methods and apparatus for digital jammer detection: Methods and apparatus for digital jammer detection. In an aspect, a method is provided for detecting a jammer in a received waveform. The method includes filtering the received waveform to produce a filtered waveform and subtracting the filtered waveform from the received waveform to produce a difference waveform. The method... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070232221 - Portable electronic device, content information server, content list providing method and recording medium: A portable terminal searches a wireless base station which can communicate with the portable terminal at a current location thereof, and transmits available sector identification information for identifying the searched wireless base station to a content information server. Based on the available sector identification information and multicast detailed information on... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20070232224 - Digital broadcast receiver: In a digital broadcast receiver, program videos of digital broadcasts are switched with ease of use, and quickly displayed. A digital broadcast receiver receives digital broadcasts and processes data contained in the broadcasts to display program videos. The digital broadcast receiver includes: a tuner part having a first tuner and... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070232229 - Radio device: A device main unit transmits a bus reset pulse to an antenna unit via a cable transmitting a television reception signal, a controller of the device main unit detects a response of a presence pulse to the bus reset pulse and displays the detection result. The transmission of the bus... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070232233 - Wireless handset with bluetooth remote control and dialing functionality on voip software application, and corresponding web phone: A wireless handset includes: a Bluetooth RF module for performing wireless communication with a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) communication device having Bluetooth communication functionality; a processing circuit, coupled to the Bluetooth RF module, for remotely controlling a VoIP software application, which is embedded in the VoIP communication device, through... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070232234 - Method of wireless conversion by emulation of a non-wireless device: An adapter, for converting a non-wireless accessory into a wireless one by emulating a portable audio and/or video player (such as an MP3 player). The adapter includes a housing containing a wireless receiver, and means to transmit received signal to a compatible dock for playback, in a manner which emulates... Agent: Signalogix Inc.

20070232245 - Wireless audio signal transmitter device capable of automatic channel locking: A wireless audio signal transmitter device capable of automatically and dynamically locking a working frequency for a wireless channel thereof with respect to a wireless audio playing device and a method therefore are disclosed. In locking a wireless channel associated with a working frequency, the wireless audio signal transmitter device... Agent: Lin & Associates Intellectual Property

20070232220 - Private civil defense-themed broadcasting method: One provides (101) a plurality of private civil defense audio programs, wherein various ones of the plurality of private civil defense audio programs provide private civil defense information regarding both naturally-caused and non-naturally-caused civilly-catastrophic events. Taken in the aggregate, this private civil defense information (102) comprises information regarding various elements... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin And Flannery

20070232222 - Method and system for managing audio data: A method of managing audio data received by an accessory device from an electronic equipment over a local wireless interface link includes buffering the audio data; feeding the buffered audio data to a decoder and detecting a decoder under run. After the detection of a decoder under run, the method... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20070232225 - Mobile terminal apparatus, server apparatus and broadcast play system: Provided are a broadcast receiving section that receives a broadcast program distributed from a broadcast station, a picture play section that plays pictures of the broadcast program, and a data communication section that communicates with a server via a communication channel, where when a play of pictures of the broadcast... Agent: Michaud-duffy Group LLP

20070232223 - Systems and methods for communicating music indicia: Systems and methods for providing a menu permanently stored on a mobile device. The menu provides a ranked music indicia option to review a ranked list of music indicia over a cellular network. The menu further provides a news and reviews option to review news and reviews relating to a... Agent: Jones Day

20070232226 - Digital broadcast reception device: [Solution] A CPU displays on a screen a message of “unable to receive” when the video of the program cannot be displayed. Furthermore, the CPU extracts program information from PSI/SI which has been acquired during reception of the program, and displays on the screen a broadcast station name, a channel... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070232227 - Optimized beamforming for satellite communication: o

20070232228 - Wireless repeater with universal server base unit and modular donor antenna options: A wireless repeater that includes a universal server base unit and modular donor antenna options. The universal server base unit includes a base unit bidirectional amplifier, a server antenna, and a housing that accepts an internal donor antenna board or an internal adapter module connected to a cable port for... Agent: Mehrman Law Office, P.C.

20070232230 - Channel selection for wireless transmission from a remote device: A remote device having the ability to transmit data across a plurality of wireless channels selects the transmission channel for transmitting the data message. The remote device prioritizes the data message based on an examination of the data message relative to predetermined priority settings. Based on this prioritization and in... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070232232 - Communication apparatus: A portable terminal includes a near-field communication (NFC) device for performing information communication via near-field communication; a write button; and a read button. In order to write information stored in the portable terminal into an information providing apparatus, a user moves the portable terminal close to the information providing apparatus... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070232231 - System and method for secure wireless connection: A system and method for implementing a wireless communications link between two equipment envelopes through inductive coupling include two “U” shaped inductors. Wireless communications is achieved via mutual inductance between the two inductors. Circuitry is provided, which enables the transmitter to determine if a receiver is within communications range. When... Agent: Mark C. Comtois Duane Morris LLP

20070232235 - Coordinated transmissions in wireless networks: Overall network throughput may be increased in a wireless network through coordinated transmission between wireless network stations. A wireless network station selects beamforming information based at least in part on interference to other wireless network stations.... Agent: Lemoine Patent Services, PLLC C/o Portfolioip

20070232236 - Calibration system and method in a communications device: A radio frequency (RF) communications device is provided. The RF communications device includes transmitter circuitry configured to generate a calibration signal on a signal line coupled to an antenna port in a calibration mode of operation and an RF output signal for broadcast across the antenna port subsequent to the... Agent: Dicke, Billig & Czaja

20070232237 - Method and apparatus for automatically generating call flow test scripts: The invention comprises a method and apparatus for generating at least one test script for testing at least one service. Specifically, the method comprises obtaining information associated with at least one call flow associated with the at least one service, automatically constructing a call flow representation using the information, and... Agent: S.h. Dworetsky, At&t Corp.

20070232238 - Sub-band notification method and terminal apparatus: The present invention relates to a sub band notification method and apparatus in which a terminal notifies a base station of an optimum sub band that is determined based on radio link quality of a plurality of sub bands. The terminal apparatus measures the radio link quality of a current... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070232240 - Probing system for integrated circuit devices: The present invention discloses a probing system for integrated circuit devices, which transmits testing data between an automatic test equipment (ATE) and an integrated circuit device. The ATE includes a first transceiving module, and the integrated circuit device includes a core circuit, a built-in self-test (BIST) circuit electrically connected to... Agent: Egbert Law Offices

20070232239 - Transceiver having multiple signal processing modes of operation: A transceiver includes a processor and an analog-to-digital converter. The processor is adapted to in a transmit mode of the transceiver, generate a modulated signal in response to a first digital signal. In a receive mode of the transceiver, the processor is adapted to generate a demodulated signal in response... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20070232241 - Rf transceiver switching system: The present invention relates to transceiver systems and methods which employ shunt switches during transmit and receive operating modes. The shunt switches may be configured with various reactive networks to achieve high or low impedance states at power amplifiers or low noise amplifiers in order to reflect or transmit power... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070232242 - Push-to-talk event triggered location operation in a wireless communication device: The wireless communication device described herein includes a processor configured to detect a push-to-talk event and trigger a location operation responsive to the push-to-talk event. According to one exemplary embodiment, the processor determines a location of the wireless communication device and/or one or more remote wireless communication devices when the... Agent: Coats & Bennett/sony Ericsson

20070232243 - Mobile communication device with rotating member: The present invention is to provide a mobile communication device, which comprises a rotating member; a housing including a recessed hole having a circular opening on a surface of the housing wherein the hole is dimensioned to fit the rotating member therein with a portion of the rotating member projected... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070232244 - Method of spatial band reuse in a multi-band communication system: A method of band multiplexing communications from a plurality of devices includes a rotation being established, by each device, between or among a plurality of frequency bands for transmission. A symbol set is transmitted from each device in each of the established transmission frequency bands and one device detects respective... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20070232246 - Transmitter and power amplifying method: A transmitter includes a first limiter for performing a first clipping in which an amplitude part at a level higher than an amplitude level based on a first clipping level is cut out from an input signal to be subjected to power amplification, a second limiter for performing a second... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070232247 - High frequency module: A high frequency module includes: a line substrate having a first high-frequency signal line on a first surface thereof and a second high-frequency signal line on a second surface being a surface on the opposite side of the first surface, the second high-frequency signal line being electrically connected with the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070232249 - Impedance matching system, network analyzer having the same, and impedance matching method thereof: An impedance matching system, a network analyzer having the same, and an impedance matching method thereof are disclosed. The system includes a signal extractor to extract an output signal and an input signal having at least a portion of an electric current outputted through a load and at least a... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070232248 - Dual antenna communications device: A communications device is provided. The communications device includes first output stage circuitry configured to generate a first radio frequency (RF) output signal in response to receiving an RF input signal, a first antenna port configured to couple to a first antenna and configured receive the first RF output signal... Agent: Dicke, Billig & Czaja

20070232250 - Multi-level saturation: The claimed subject matter relates to enforcing a threshold peak to average power while reducing affects associated with saturation. This can be accomplished, for instance, by accessing a piecewise linear approximation of an ideal saturation region, wherein the ideal saturation region is based at least in part upon the threshold... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070232251 - Method and system for automatic gain control during signal acquisition: The disclosure is directed to a mobile communication device that includes automatic gain control (AGC) circuitry and operates in either a tracking mode or an acquisition mode. A received signal is sampled n times to calculate an energy estimate that is used to set the gain control values within the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070232252 - Attenuator with switch function and mobile telephone terminal device using the same: A high frequency part, which amplifies a high frequency signal outputted from an intermediate frequency part and supplies to an antenna, is equipped with a gain controller with switch function. The gain controller with switch function comprises an attenuator with switch function has a function of switching a selected band... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20070232253 - Method for active gm-c filter gain control: An integrated circuit chip include a transmitter configured for transmitting an electromagnetic signal, a receiver configured for receiving an electromagnetic signal, and an amplifier operatively coupled to the receiver. The amplifier includes a plurality of variable-gain Gm-C filter stages connected in series and configured for selectively amplifying frequency components within... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP

20070232255 - Wireless communication device and wireless communication system: One embodiment of the invention provides a wireless communication device including: a wireless communication unit that wirelessly receives first power consumption information from a device, the first power consumption information including a plurality of data pieces, each data piece indicating power consumption in the device for processing a streaming data... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070232254 - In-band power management in a communication link: A first portion of a communication link is operated in a power savings mode at the same time that a second portion of the communication link is operated in a normal operational mode. For the first portion, a refresh mode is entered from the power savings mode in which one... Agent: Zagorin O'brien Graham LLP

20070232256 - Terminal and standby operation control method: There is provided a terminal which has wireless communication unit to perform wireless communication and which operates using power supplied from an external power supply or power of a battery. The terminal includes a detection unit configured to detect whether power is supplied from the external power supply, and a... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070232257 - Noise suppressor: A noise suppressor includes a frequency division part dividing an input signal into bands and outputting band signals; an amplitude calculation part determining amplitude components of the band signals; a noise estimation part estimating an amplitude component of noise contained in the input signal and determining an estimated noise amplitude... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070232258 - Communication system and mobile wireless communication device: A communication system of the present invention includes a mobile phone 100 and an access point. The mobile phone 100 comprises an input receiving unit 110 operable to receive a predetermined emergency phone number, and a control unit 160 operable to, if the input receiving unit 110 receives the predetermined... Agent: Kratz, Quintos & Hanson, LLP

20070232259 - Mobile telephone: A mobile telephone 2 stores a telephone number and address for data communication of an emergency service in a storage unit, and has a function for acquiring position information showing its own position. If the mobile telephone 2 is outside the range of a 1× network 4 when a telephone... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070232261 - Apparatus and method for broadcasting messages to selected group(s) of users: There is disclosed a method and apparatus for transmitting a message to at least one group of users selected from a population of the users. The method comprises the steps of assigning to each member of the one group a common characteristic or indication, collecting from each member of the... Agent: Patent Docket Clerk Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, P.C.

20070232260 - Method and apparatus for generating an alert message: A method of generating an alert message, the method including the steps of: a) inputting a location identifier into a communication unit; b) transmitting the location identifier from the communication unit to a central monitoring station; c) receiving the location identifier at the central monitoring station; d) retrieving information associated... Agent: Baldwins

20070232263 - Billing system with authenticated wireless device transaction event data: An apparatus comprising a server is provided. The server is operable to gather authenticated transaction data to generate billing for wireless devices conducting transactions across a wireless network, receive transaction event data from one or more wireless devices, authenticate the transaction event data, and aggregate the authenticated transaction event data... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070232262 - Communication charge calculation system for mobile telephone communications, communication charge calculation method, information server, mobile telephone terminal and programs therefor: A mobile telephone terminal (103) notifies an information server of information on incoming data received from a gateway device (102). The information server (104) calculates the communication rate in a mobile telephone network (101) by means of a communication rate calculation equation for the calculation, from the quantity of the... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20070232264 - Method for charging for a service in a telecommunications/data network: A method for charging for a service in a telecommunications/data network, in particular UMTS mobile radio network, transactions which relate to debits being transmitted to a debiting system on network elements which implement a debiting interface, by means of an adapted transmission protocol, a hot-billing protocol which supports a termination... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20070232265 - Method of security management for wireless mobile device and apparatus for security management using the method: A method of security management of a wireless mobile device interoperating with a network switching center (NSC) is provided, and an apparatus using the method. The method includes respectively managing a traffic map by each service-level, wherein wireless mobile devices frequently communicating with other wireless mobile devices are grouped and... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070232268 - Apparatus for restricting access to application module in mobile wireless device and method of restricting access to application module using the same: Provided is an apparatus and a method of restricting an access to an application module of a mobile wireless device. The apparatus for restricting an access to an application module of a mobile wireless device according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes an access restriction unit for... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070232269 - Security device for digital contents and method of using the same: An improved security device for digital contents and a method for using the security device are provided. The improved security device and method include a transmission and reception unit for transmitting and receiving data necessary for authentication with a mobile device, and for transmitting and receiving contents of the mobile... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070232266 - Apparatus for conveying information in a portable communication device: A portable communication device (100) includes a radio (102) and RF memory key (104) that allows both RF and baseband signals to be transported over the radio antenna port. A single wire memory device (134) is embedded into RF memory key (104) along with frequency diplexing circuitry (116) to transport... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20070232270 - Personal information protecting method and mobile terminal: A personal information protecting method of this invention protects personal information saved in a software program installed on a mobile terminal or in a module insertable into and removable from the mobile terminal. The software program installed on the mobile terminal or the module inserted in the mobile terminal is... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070232271 - Proxy authentication for tethered devices: Methods and apparatus are presented herein for allowing a wireless communication device to perform a proxy authentication on behalf of a tethered device.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070232267 - System, method, and device for providing communications using a distributed mobile architecture: An authentication, authorization, and accounting module of a first distributed mobile architecture is disclosed and includes a home location register. The home location register provides information associated with one or more mobile subscribers that are registered with the first distributed mobile architecture. Also, the information within the home location register... Agent: Toler Schaffer, LLP

20070232273 - Method of providing an electronic answering function to a wireless phone: A method of providing an electronic answering function to a wireless phone includes steps of: setting time T1; receiving an incoming call signal from a transmitting end; automatically answering the incoming call signal with the wireless phone when the user does not answer within the time T1; and switching the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070232274 - Method, system, wireless communications device and computer programs for sending and receiving messages: The invention discloses a delivery concept that enables a sender of a mobile message to define a specific condition for the mobile message to be notified to the recipient. A set of context parameters defined for the electronic messaging system (e.g., short message service, multimedia message service) can be employed... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070232272 - Systems, methods, and apparatus to enable backup wireless devices: Systems, methods, and apparatus are disclosed to enable backup wireless devices. An example method disclosed herein includes receiving a first activation code from a first wireless device, comparing the first activation code associated with the first wireless device with a first activation code in a database, activating the first wireless... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20070232275 - Global bidirectional locator beacon and emergency communications system: An emergency monitoring and reporting system includes a user unit and a monitoring system. The user unit includes an input device, a user satellite communication system, and a user processor communicatively coupled to the input device and the user satellite communication system. The monitoring system includes a monitoring satellite communication... Agent: Ip Strategies

20070232281 - Wireless communication device and method of setting individual information therein: A wireless communication device, an individual information writing device, and an individual information setting method that efficiently write individual information, such as a unique identifier used for wireless communication, to each wireless device. An address writing device transmits a unique address setting communication request. A wireless device has a control... Agent: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. Law Department

20070232279 - Call center enabler: A communication device sends a message to a server requesting a list of call center telephone numbers. The communication device receives the list of call center telephone numbers from the server and provides the list to a user.... Agent: Harrity Snyder, L.L.P.

20070232278 - Free busy calendar interface: A hand-held electronic mobile device having access to a calendar database storing calendar event data identifying events scheduled for respective time slots. The mobile device includes: a controller including at least one processor, for controlling operation of the mobile device; a display coupled to the controller; a user input device... Agent: Ridout & Maybee Suite 2400

20070232276 - Method and a system for providing a certain quality of service to a mobile station in a mobile communication system: The invention bears upon a method and a system for providing a certain quality of service to a user-device within a mobile telecommunication system. Said telecommunication system comprises one or several user-registers linked to a user-device, and one or several priority-tables associated with an area covered by the telecommunication system.... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070232277 - Method and apparatus for managing mobile terminal events: The wireless terminal selectively stores incoming voice calls and text messages in a common Answer List. The incoming transmissions may be added to the Answer List manually. If the “Answer List” menu option is selected, the incoming transmission data is logged into the Answer List and that entry is deleted... Agent: Moore And Van Allen PLLC For Semc

20070232280 - Method for setting up a link with prepaging while optimizing use of resources: A method sets up a link with pre-paging to a called subscriber mobile terminal in a mobile radiotelephone network. A gateway telephone exchange sends a release instruction to the visitor subscriber database of the visited telephone exchange if the gateway telephone exchange has received from the calling mobile terminal, in... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070232282 - Method and system for service allocation in communication networks, related network and computer program product therefor: A system for controlling, in a multi-resource communication network, the delivery of services by at least one resource capable of simultaneously delivering, within a maximum joint service capacity, at least one first type of service to a first set of users and a second type of service to a second... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070232283 - Method and system for providing enhanced caller identification: A system (100) and method deliver audible caller identification information when standard Caller ID information can not be provided, even when a subscriber to the service has per line blocking. A service control point (106) detects the directory number to which a terminating attempt trigger is assigned and places this... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070232284 - Apparatus and method for restoring a conference connection to a cellular telephone: A telecommunication system has capabilities for managing conference telephone calls. Cellular telephones may be registered to the system and may be used as contact devices in setting up conference telephone calls. When a cellular telephone is participating in a conference telephone call and drops out because, e.g., of lost signal,... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070232286 - Apparatus and method for storing/calling telephone number in mobile terminal: An apparatus and method for registering a telephone number received by a mobile terminal as the latest number and enabling a new call connection to the latest number during or after a phone call are provided. The method of the call connection includes checking input information during a phone call... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070232285 - Call answering system and methods: A call answering system and methods for use on a mobile network is provided. In an illustrative implementation, a call answering system operable on the mobile network comprises a call answering engine and one or more instruction sets to instruct the call answering engine to process calls on the mobile... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070232287 - Scanner with auxiliary non-volatile memory: A radio receiver having a plurality of features programmable by a user, the data relating to the programmable features defining a set-up configuration. The radio receiver includes a housing and an auxiliary memory disposed within the housing which stores a plurality of set-up configurations. A working memory is also disposed... Agent: Trexler, Bushnell, Giangiorgi, Blackstone & Marr, Ltd.

20070232291 - Network layer test module for testing control channels and unidirectional radio bearers: A method and apparatus for testing point-to-multipoint services and other wireless communication services dependent on unidirectional radio bearers and/or unacknowledged mode operations is described herein. A wireless communication device activates a test module responsive to receiving a test activation message. During a test mode, the test module receives RLC data... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20070232288 - Service tool for wireless automation systems: A service tool accesses a building automation system to configure and confirm design of an installation, monitor and optimize functionality, commission communication protocols, diagnose, analyze and troubleshoot problems, analyze communications between components, adjust and/or reconfigure parameters, monitor, analyze and debug a building automation system, its components, and the like. The... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070232289 - System and method for measuring performance of new services in consumer devices: In a communication network architecture, a service provider monitors its customer's experience as the customer selects and uses services offered by the service provider. An agent, such as software installed on-board the customer's mobile equipment, measures parameters that are related to the services, and communicates the measured parameters to the... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20070232290 - System and method for measuring user behavior and use of mobile equipment: In a communication network architecture including mobile equipment that employs multiple functions selectable for use by the user, the functions having respective measurable parameters, a service provider monitors the user's behavior with, and use of, the mobile equipment. An agent, such as software installed on-board the mobile equipment, measures parameters... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20070232292 - Group-based applications and graphical user interface for associated electronic devices: Methods and systems are provided for managing a group of portable communication devices. In accordance with one implementation, a method is provided for initializing a portable communication device in a group of portable communication devices at a point of activation. The method includes the steps of acquiring, by an initialization... Agent: Disney Enterprises, Inc. C/o Finnegan, Henderson, LLP

20070232295 - Adaptive buffering to reduce audio truncation: A method and apparatus are provided for reducing truncation of time sensitive information such as audio in a trunked radio system having a plurality of zone controllers. The method includes the steps of receiving a call request from a calling radio or wireline console by a controlling zone controller of... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070232293 - Apparatus and method for providing interoperability between mobile radio services: A method of bridging mobile radio services includes: establishing communication with a first portable two-way radio via a first mobile radio service; receiving traffic from the first portable two-way radio via the first mobile radio service; converting the received traffic into a designated format; and, routing the traffic to a... Agent: Fay Sharpe/lucent

20070232296 - Mobile telephone network-based system for detection and location of hazardous agents: A system for detecting hazardous agents is based on cellular telephone networks. The cellular telephones in public circulation have at least one detector for detecting at least one hazardous agent and broadcast alarm packets upon detecting the hazardous agent. A computer or computer network interconnected with telephones by the cellular... Agent: Aka Chan LLP

20070232294 - Silent redial method in a wireless communication system: A method in a wireless communication device for silent redial comprising attempting to access a new system in response to a failed access attempt with a first system. The method includes determining (124) that the new system is not in the same GEO group as the first system. Receiving (126)... Agent: Motorola Inc

20070232297 - Telephone conversation resumption system, telephone conversation resumption program, telephone conversation resumption method, portable terminal and relay apparatus: In a communication network including a relay apparatus and a call control apparatus, a telephone conversation resumption system includes: a reservation unit, when a judgment unit detects communication impossibility between a portable terminal and the relay apparatus, records terminal identification data that specifies the portable terminal and an other-end terminal... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070232298 - Systems and methods for terrestrial reuse of cellular satellite frequency spectrum using different channel separation technologies in forward and reverse links: A wireless communications system includes a terrestrial network that is configured to receive wireless communications from radiotelephones over satellite band frequencies that are divided into channels that are separated by one of frequency or code (e.g., OFDMA or CDMA). The terrestrial network is also configured to transmit wireless communications to... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20070232299 - Terrestrial based high speed data communications network for in-flight aircraft: This present invention is a network for providing high speed data communications. The network includes multiple terrestrial transmission stations that are located within overlapping communications range and a mobile receiver station. The terrestrial transmission stations provide a direct high speed data communications link with the mobile receiver station according to... Agent: Bradley Arant Rose & White LLP

20070232300 - Seamless callback service for roaming users: System for automatic callback to a roaming user in response to the dialing of a destination number by the roaming user to connect the roaming user to the destination number without the expense of a mobile originated call, comprises: a roaming network based triggering unit for generating a trigger in... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan Prtsi, Inc.

20070232302 - Mobile station, system and method for use in cellular communications: A mobile station (107, 200) for use in a cellular communication system (100) includes a processor (214) operable to determine whether the mobile station should undergo cell re-selection by handover from a first base station (101) to a second base station (102), wherein the determination includes comparing a value of... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20070232301 - Roaming in wireless networks: The invention relates to a method of roaming for a first UE from a first wireless home network in a visited wireless network comprising the steps of: relocating a session having an established user plane routing which passes through both the first home network and the visited network by supplying... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070232303 - Wireless communication apparatus and wireless communication method: A wireless communication apparatus for performing wireless communication using at least one of the first channel having the first frequency band, and the second channel having the second frequency band which is wider than the first frequency band includes a channel search device which executes the first channel search for... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070232305 - Network entry method in wireless mobile communication system: A network entry method in a wireless mobile communication system is disclosed. An initial network entry method by a Mobile Station (MS) in a wireless mobile communication system includes sending a ranging request message including a Medium Access Control (MAC) address in a predetermined format to a Base Station (BS)... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070232304 - Stationary forced premature detonation of improvised explosive devices via wireless phone signaling: A precautionary measure against wireless phone-triggered Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDS) is described that forces premature detonation of the IED at a safe location, such as an unmanned checkpoint, thereby reducing the effectiveness of the IED. Embodiments of the invention provide for transmitting directionalized, low power alerting signals (e.g., paging, ringing,... Agent: Lucent Technologies Inc.

20070232306 - Method of and system for selecting a plmn for network sharing: A method for selecting a public land mobile network (PLMN) from a plurality of available PLMNs more particularly, one embodiment of the invention includes the steps of transmitting, via a mobile network, information related to the plurality of available PLMNs. The method further includes the step of receiving, at a... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070232311 - Decision mechanism for handover execution in a cellular radio communications system: A method for taking a handover decision in a cellular communications system, wherein a communications network detects a need for initiating a handover for at least one mobile device from a source cell to a selected target cell, and further calculates a virtual traffic load indicator for the source cell... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070232312 - Apparatus for supporting the handover of a telecommunication session between a licensed wireless system and an unlicensed wireless system: The invention discloses a wireless communication handset comprising licensed wireless communication signal processing circuitry and unlicensed wireless communication signal processing circuitry. The invention further discloses a control circuit connected to both the licensed wireless communication signal processing circuitry and the unlicensed wireless communication signal processing circuitry, and a computer readable... Agent: Adeli Law Group, A Professional Law Corporation

20070232314 - Channel quality signaling: A channel quality signaling method and a telecommunication system are provided. The system comprises a base station and one or more user equipment, the base station and the user equipment being configured to communicate with each other using a set of given resources. The system comprises a network element for... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070232308 - Method for multimedia broadcast multicast service linking for pmm idle mobiles: A method and arrangement in a mobile telecommunication system for initiating a Multimedia Broadcast Multimedia Service (MBMS) to a User Equipment (UE) in Packet Mobility Management-idle (PMM-idle) mode controlled by a Radio Network Controller (RNC). The RNC is connected to a Serving GPRS Support Node (SGSN). The RNC indicates to... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070232307 - Pico cell wireless local area network (wlan): A pico cell wireless LAN and pre-emptive roaming algorithm is provided to allow mobile devices in the WLAN to hand-off to another different access point quickly and efficiently. Once associated with an access point (AP), the mobile device receives information about neighboring APs that may be available for hand-off during... Agent: Docket Clerk

20070232313 - Radio base station and method of detecting overlap of radio communications parameter: Disclosed is a radio base station including: a common control channel transmission unit configured to transmit a common control channel by using radio communications parameter to be assigned to each radio base station; a transmission level determination unit configured to transmit the common control channel according to a predetermined transmission... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070232310 - Wireless broadband communications network using message diffusion architecture: A broadband terrestrial message delivery system includes a plurality of wireless communication devices (WCDs), each including a receiver and transmitter, the WCDs capable of not only receiving messages destined for a subscriber associated with a particular WCD, but further capable of acting as a relay point to move messages to... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070232309 - Wireless terminals and methods employing diverse reception path measurements in transmission gaps: A communications session, e.g., a call, is established between the wireless terminal and a base station. Reception of at least one channel over respective diverse reception paths in the wireless terminal is measured during at least one transmission gap in the communications session. The at least one transmission gap may... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20070232315 - Transmission power control method and system: A transmission power control technique allowing stable and reliable signal transmission in soft handover is disclosed. Each of the base stations involved in soft handover measures an amount of loss of the base station selection signal. When the amount of loss of the base station selection signal exceeds a threshold,... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070232316 - System and method for secure network browsing: A virtual network adapter or module intercepts an outgoing network resource request from a browser application and encrypts the request before transmitting it to a proxy server over a public network connection. In one embodiment, the proxy server decrypts the request and communicates with a target server to receive the... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070232318 - System and method for wireless resource allocation, and base station used therefor: In a mobile communication system, useless allocation of wireless resources is avoided and utilization efficiency of wireless resources is improved. A base station operating section of a base station is provided with respective functions for: measuring an RTWP which is a total receiving power; reading a format of a transport... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070232317 - Method of assigning a tracking area to mobile unit based on a location update frequency: The present invention provides a method for determining a tracking area associated with a mobile unit based on a location update frequency. The method includes determining, at a mobile unit, a tracking area associated with the mobile unit based on a location update frequency.... Agent: Williams, Morgan & Amerson

20070232323 - Automated generation of context information: A method includes determining geographic coordinates of a plurality of entities, the plurality of entities including a first set of entities that have each been associated with a respective context information item and a second set of entities that have each not been associated with a respective context information item.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070232325 - Mobile communication terminal connectable to wireless lan, communication control method performed in mobile communication terminal, and communication control program recorded on computer readable recording medium: A mobile phone performs a search operation for searching for a communicable access point when a state of being able to communicate with an access point changes to a state of being unable to communicate. When a search operation is performed, the mobile phone displays that the search operation is... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070232319 - Estimating a location of a mobile device: The approximate location of a directed cell of a cellular network is calculated based on locations in the vicinity of which mobile devices were able to detect the directed cell. A mobile device is able to estimate its own location from the approximate locations of one or more directed cells... Agent: Integral Intellectual Property Inc.

20070232320 - Method of assigning a mobile unit to a tracking area based on a location update frequency: The present invention provides a method for assigning a mobile unit to a tracking area based upon a location update frequency. The method includes selecting one of a technology-specific tracking area and a shared tracking area based on a location update frequency associated with a mobile unit.... Agent: Williams, Morgan & Amerson

20070232321 - Method of assigning a tracking area to a mobile unit based on multiple location update frequencies: The present invention provides a method for assigning a tracking area to a mobile unit based upon a plurality of location update frequencies. The method may include determining, at the mobile unit, a tracking area associated with the mobile unit based on a plurality of location update frequencies.... Agent: Williams, Morgan & Amerson

20070232324 - Mobile communication terminal capable of determining position and method of determining position in the mobile communication terminal: A mobile communication terminal capable of position determination, including: a base station information recorder recording detailed base station information corresponding to at least one base station; a base station signal receiver receiving base station signal information from a reference base station at a predetermined interval; a base station information reader... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20070232322 - Processing location information among multiple networks: Gathering location information from a first wireless network to determine whether to anchor a communication session in a second wireless network, a mobile node capable of communicating with both the first wireless network and the second wireless network, includes receiving location information from the first wireless network as the mobile... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070232326 - System and method for administration of situational location relevant deliverable content: Situational location dependent information is transmitted from a server data processing system to a receiving data processing system. The server data processing system communicates with the receiving data processing system in a manner by pushing content when appropriate. A candidate delivery event associated with a current positional attribute of the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070232327 - Wireless terminal location using apparatus and methods employing carrier diversity: Wireless terminals, e.g., mobile nodes, receive, identify, and measure broadcast signals from a plurality of cells. They determine relative transmission power relationships corresponding to the received measured signals and determine at least two channel gain ratios. A geographic area is determined corresponding to the obtained at least two channel gain... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070232328 - Method and system for transmitting data on the location of a mobile radio terminal to a receiver by means of a mobile radio network: A method and a system for transmitting data on the location of a mobile radio terminal to a receiver by means of a mobile radio network. An area that lies within the service range of the mobile radio network is defined and is subdivided into several subareas. A plurality of... Agent: The Maxham Firm

20070232329 - Location determination using historical data: Systems and methods for determining a location based on historical data are disclosed. Generally, a location determination component receives a request for information from a wireless device, where the request is associated with at least two network access points (NAPs). The location determination component determines which of the at least... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070232331 - Low layer paging indicator processing system and method for multi-layer communication equipment used in a wireless communication system: A wireless communication system implements wireless communications between a base station and a plurality of User Equipments (UEs) including paging of UEs by initially processing paging indicator information. A first embodiment involves a UE's physical layer L1 being configured for interpreting a paging indicator (PI) to activate a preset decoding... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070232330 - Method and apparatus of modifying a paging slot cycle index value: A method and apparatus of modifying a paging slot cycle index value used by a mobile station in a wireless communication system may include in a paging area, a carrier site receiving a plurality of paging request messages for the mobile station, where the carrier site utilizes at least one... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070232332 - System and method for communication service portability: A system and method for communication service portability include the ability to receive, at an access point, a registration request for a user of an endpoint and to generate, based on the received registration request, a registration request for a wireless network authorization module, the generated registration request containing information... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070232336 - Apparatus and method for automatic display control in mobile terminal: An apparatus and method for automatically controlling screens displayed on two display units installed in a mobile terminal are provided, in which, an event is identified, if an event occurs, and on and off states of the display units are controlled, if the event is identified as a control operation... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070232335 - Information terminal device and method of controlling the same: An information terminal device is disclosed that performs communication via a communication network. The information terminal device includes a short-range wireless communication unit that performs short-range wireless communication with an electronic device, a storing unit that stores information about communication via the communication network while the short-range wireless communication with... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070232337 - Method for transmitting a short message on a voice channel: An example embodiment of the present invention may be directed to a method for transmitting a short message using a voice channel. In the example embodiment, a short message may be composed using a first short message service (SMS) device for a set of intended recipients. The first SMS device... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070232334 - Mobile radio terminal apparatus: When a holder of a cellular telephone operates a specific-key, the cellular telephone composes an e-mail containing a location-name, location-information, positioning-accuracy and positioning-time and sends the e-mail to a mail-address registered in a location-notification-address-table. In addition, when the cellular telephone receives an e-mail from the address registered in the location-notification-address-table,... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070232333 - Method and system for providing work related information in a mobile environment: A method and apparatus for collecting work related information from a mobile employee. A mobile employee sends a short message by simply pressing one key on his mobile phone, the system of the present invention collects the geographic, time, work status and employee information of the mobile employee. A mobile... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070232338 - System for allocating mobile stations to a core network in an unlicensed radio access network: An unlicensed radio access network controller is proposed that is adapted to communicate with the core network portion of at least one public licensed mobile communication network. It is connected to a broadband packet switched network and is adapted to exchange messages with mobile stations communicating via an unlicensed radio... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070232339 - Method and system for performing ranging when using multiple channel communication in a wireless network: A method for performing ranging in a base station for a plurality of subscriber stations using multiple channel communication is provided. The method includes, for each subscriber station, maintaining a base station timer for each channel on which the subscriber station is operable to communicate and timely assigning a transmission... Agent: Docket Clerk

20070232341 - Base station, radio terminal and radio communication method: There is provided with a radio terminal which is assigned one or more frequency channel to carry out downlink communication with a base station, including: a reception unit configured to receive signals of a plurality of frequency channels from the base station; a quality measuring unit configured to measure communication... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070232340 - Communication support system, communication support method, communication support program, and communication terminal: In a network including a relay apparatus, a relay apparatus management part, a communication management server for controlling communication between communication terminals including a mobile communication terminal, and a messaging server, a communication support system that supports an establishment of connection between communication terminals includes a communication information acquiring part... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070232343 - Method and system for providing media stored in a poc box in a poc system: A method and system for providing desired media when a Push-To-Talk (PTT) over Cellular (PoC) User Equipment (UE) retrieves media information stored in a PoC box and requests a desired media transmission in a PoC system. In the PoC system, the PoC UE sends, to the PoC box, a request... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070232342 - Group management and graphical user interface for associated electronic devices: Methods and systems are provided for managing a group of portable communication devices. In accordance with one implementation, a computer-implemented method is provided for managing a group of portable communication devices on an individual basis or an aggregate basis, the method comprising the steps of providing a list of the... Agent: Disney Enterprises, Inc. C/o Finnegan, Henderson, LLP

20070232346 - Base station transmission control method, cellular system and base station: When performing base station selection type transmission power control, transmission of the dedicated physical control channel signal by non-transmitting base stations is halted while minimizing the impact on uplink transmission power control. This decreases downlink interference and increases downlink channel capacity. At a base station, reception quality measuring unit 506... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070232344 - Device and method for wireless reception: A wireless receiving device includes n (n is an integral number not less than 2) reception branches each capable of receiving a wireless packet containing a first signal, a second signal and a third signal in this order, the first signal including a single stream, the second signal indicating transmission... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070232345 - Portable terminal, and radio quality display method, program, and system: A mobile terminal can obtain information on locations where radio wave reception levels are high from other mobile terminals regardless of the radio wave reception level of the mobile terminal. The mobile terminal communicates with one or more other mobile terminals via a base station, and comprises a communications interface... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070232347 - Method and apparatus for indicating proximity co-presence: A mobile device adapted to provide an indication of the proximate co-presence of a buddy—another user who has agreed to be indicated as nearby—using a short-range (local) transceiver to scan for a low-level identifier associated with a compatible short-range transceiver in a mobile device operated by the buddy. The mobile... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070232348 - Method and apparatus for providing haptic feedback to non-input locations: Methods and Apparatus for providing haptic feedback to non-input locations are described. One described apparatus comprises a first surface, an input element distinct from the first surface, the input element operable to generate an input signal, and an actuator configured to provide haptic feedback to the first surface based at... Agent: Patent Department (51851) Kilpatrick Stockton LLP

20070232349 - Simultaneous dual mode operation in cellular networks: Embodiments of the present invention provide for determining whether an insufficient guard band exists in a spectrum carrying potentially interfering signals and allocating a temporary guard band to spectrally separate the two signals, thereby reducing or preventing inter-signal interference.... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070232350 - System scanning method and arrangement for mobile wireless communication devices: An exemplary method for searching one of a plurality of systems on a multi-mode device capable of communicating on a first air interface technology and a second air interface technology is disclosed. The exemplary method includes storing a default system search period for one of the air interface technologies, such... Agent: Kyocera Wireless Corp.

20070232351 - Communication system and method including dual mode capability: A system and method for a communication apparatus to provide advanced features such as dual mode capability, billing options for communication charges (for instance reverse billing), and definable accessible controls. In one embodiment, a subscriber apparatus (for instance a wireless communication apparatus) including pager (such as page phone) or radiotelephone... Agent: Law Office Of Robert E. Kasody, Professional Corporation

20070232352 - Cellular phone cordless home base unit: A cellular telephone can be integrated in a base unit, and thereby used in addition to, or in place of a land line. Viewed from another perspective, a cellular phone or other communication device can be integrated with a communication network by at least temporarily coupling it to another cellular... Agent: Rutan & Tucker, LLP. Hani Z. Sayed

20070232355 - Acoustic encoding of dynamic identification codes: Methods for identifying a remote user of a portable device by using the portable device to encode sound corresponding to the identification of the remote user. The sound is received by a microphone external to the portable device and converted to an electrical signal. The electrical signal is transmitted to... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (main)

20070232353 - Radio communication system, base transceiver station, and extension device: A plurality of base transceiver stations and at least one extension device are connected, via an IP network that uses internet protocol. The extension device shares resources of the base transceiver stations by arbitrary changing a connection relationship between the base transceiver stations and the extension devices. When a mobile... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070232354 - Subscriber identity module and mobile communications device using such module: Mobile communications device for accessing a wireless telecommunications network comprising an SIM for identifying the device in a wireless telecommunications network, the SIM comprising an International Mobile Subscriber Identity IMSI code stored therein. The IMSI code comprises a Mobile Country Code MCC, a Mobile Network Code MNC and a Mobile... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20070232357 - Electronic apparatus and communication control method: According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a device detection unit which detects an external device which is located within a wireless communication area that is covered by the electronic apparatus, a distance calculation unit which calculates a distance between the electronic apparatus and the detected external device on... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070232356 - Plagiarization-proof function for a sim card: The present invention is a plagiarization-proof function for a SIM card, wherein a telecommunication service data of a telecommunication vendor is processed with a data encryption, and is then saved on an identifiable service identification card which can be accessed for a registration data. Next, the registration data is entered... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20070232358 - Apparatus for and method of bluetooth and wimax coexistence in a mobile handset: A novel and useful apparatus for and method of Bluetooth and WiMAX coexistence. The invention provides a system approach to achieving coexistence between Bluetooth and WiMAX transceivers collocated in a mobile terminal. The coexistence mechanism of the present invention is particularly suited to operation of WiMAX in the 2.3 GHz... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070232359 - Deviation based antenna control algorithm for an access point: An access point operating in a wireless communication network includes a smart antenna for generating directional antenna beams. A method for operating the access point includes communicating with a client station using a selected directional antenna beam, with the client station initially being in a stationary position. Signal to noise... Agent: Michael W. Taylor

20070232360 - Method and device for hiding messages: Based on user configuration, a main messaging user interface screen on a messaging device either presents a list of references to messages stored on the device based on a complete index of references to the stored messages or based on a filtered index of references to the stored messages. References... Agent: Ridout & Maybee Suite 2400

20070232362 - Method of displaying object and terminal capable of implementing the same: A method of displaying an object and terminal capable of implementing the same are disclosed, by which various objects attributed to various functions provided within the terminal can be displayed to maximize facilitation and convenience of a user of the terminal. The present invention includes an object displaying step of... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070232361 - Self-cradling type portable terminal: A self-cradling type portable terminal is disclosed. The self-cradling type portable terminal includes a main body having a first display device and a second display device on its top and bottom faces and at least one cradle main body having a plurality of keys and coupled to the main body... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070232364 - Cell buoy system: A cellular communication system includes an array of buoys disposed in a body of water. Each buoy includes a completer cellular system including a cellular transmission/reception site and associated electrical equipment for processing cellular signals. Each buoy also includes a wave energy converter (WEC) responsive to waves in the body... Agent: Henry I. Schanzer

20070232363 - Communication channel establishing method, communication system, and communication apparatus: A communication channel establishing method is provided that is used in a communication system including a base station that transmits a beacon on a predetermined communication channel and a communication apparatus that receives the beacon from the base station and establishes communication with the base station using the predetermined communication... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20070232365 - Overheating and spill resistant mobile device docking cradle: A docking station for a portable electronic device comprises a device receiving recess including a device receiving bottom surface and at least one device guiding structure sized to slidingly receive therein a device to be docked in the docking station and to guide the device toward, and maintain the device... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20070232367 - Antenna compensation system and method in a communications device: A communications device is provided. The communications device includes an antenna port, transmitter circuitry configured to broadcast a radio frequency (RF) output signal across the antenna port, and a controller configured to adjust a signal level of the RF output signal in accordance with antenna compensation information. The antenna port,... Agent: Dicke, Billig & Czaja

20070232366 - Method and system for power-efficient monitoring of wireless broadcast network: The disclosure is directed to a mobile communication device that may receive wireless broadcast signals from a number of different base stations or transmitters. The device alternates its operation between a low-power mode and a higher-power mode to conserve battery power. The length of time the device remains in the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070232369 - Information processing unit: An information processing unit, such as a mobile phone, equipped with a fingerprint sensor and reconciles size reduction with operability at a high level. Adjacent to an operation panel is a V-shaped groove which contains a first slope stretching away from the operation panel and slanting downward and a second... Agent: Kratz, Quintos & Hanson, LLP

20070232368 - Slide and rotate display configurations for a handheld computing device: Apparatus, systems, and methods described herein may couple a base component associated with a portable electronic device (PED) to a display component associated with the PED such that the display component is capable of sliding and rotating relative to the base component. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070232370 - Case for a hand held device: A housing assembly for a mobile device includes a cover formed from optically transmissive material, and opaque material formed over a portion of the cover. The opaque material is arranged to define a display portion which is optically transmissive. The housing assembly further includes a frame sized to receive the... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070232371 - Radio communication apparatus: A radio communication apparatus includes a housing; a battery for driving the radio communication apparatus; an antenna provided in the housing and arranged around the battery; and a magnetic sheet arranged around the battery.... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070232372 - Mobile-phone mounted apparatus and method for carrying personal objects: A mobile phone mounted apparatus permits a user to carry personal objects, such as keys, cards, and/or paper currency. In one embodiment, the apparatus comprises a money clip that is coupled to a mobile phone, and which permits a user to carry paper currency interposed between the apparatus and a... Agent: Weiss & Moy PC

20070232373 - Wrist-worn communications apparatus with perpendicularly oriented microphone and loudspeaker: A watch of the communications apparatus is worn on a user's wrist by bands. A support member pivoted on the band is then turned so as to extend in the transverse direction of the bands. A speaker unit is provided on the support member so as to face in a... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

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