Telecommunications inventions 11/07

20070275654 - Broadcast information managing system, method of managing broadcast information, and receiving apparatus, mobile terminal apparatus and a recording medium used in broadcast information managing system: A receiving apparatus extracts a bookmark of a data broadcast when a bookmark acquisition switch is turned on while receiving the data broadcast for discriminating program information and content data, and records the bookmark on a memory card. When content data is recorded on the memory card, the receiving apparatus... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070275656 - Retransmission apparatus and method in wireless relay communication system: Apparatus and method for performing Automatic Retransmission reQuest (ARQ) in a wireless relay communication system are provided, which include performing ARQ with the base station (BS), transmitting data successfully received from the BS to mobile station (MS), and retransmitting corresponding data to the MS when a retransmission indication message is... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070275657 - Retransmission apparatus and method in wireless relay communication system: An apparatus and method for performing Automatic Retransmission reQuest (ARQ) of a Relay Station (RS) in a wireless communication system using a relay scheme are provided. The method includes receiving data from a transmitter and transmitting the received data to one or more receivers; and receiving Acknowledgment (ACK)/Negative-Acknowledgment (NACK) information... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070275659 - Aggregate batch polling method for return link communications between a platform and a base station: Implementations are described that use a control center to maintain a list of registered mobile platforms that are pre-authorized to make use of the satellite-based transponder to transmit and receive data content to and from the base transceiver. The control center may cause the base transceiver to transmit at least... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20070275660 - Information processing apparatus: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes an antenna element, a first wireless communication module including a printed circuit board and a wireless communication circuit which is provided on the printed circuit board, and a second wireless communication module. A diplexer is provided on the printed circuit board... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070275662 - Method and system for changing priority of slave frames in multiwire coexistence: Methods and systems for changing priority of slave frames in multiwire coexistence are disclosed. Aspects of one method may include communicating a high priority to the collocated WLAN device after a Bluetooth frame has started, the Bluetooth device may deassert a signal to a collocated WLAN device that indicates Bluetooth... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070275664 - Method and system for improving wireless link performance: A system to enhance the performance of bi-directional wireless devices while operating within regulatory parameters utilizes at least two units. Each unit receives a signal from a transceiver. The signal may either be a transmit or receive signal and is sampled using a directional coupler and a power detector. A... Agent: Patwrite LLC

20070275666 - Apparatus and method for detecting channel quality in a mobile communication system: An apparatus and method for detecting channel quality in a mobile communication system are provided. The method includes detecting a channel quality of a first channel quality detection period using a reference value of a reference signal; determining whether a reference value can be measured in a second channel quality... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070275665 - Method and apparatus for generating channel quality information for wireless communication: A method and apparatus for generating channel quality information, such as may be used for transmit link adaptation, provide different operating modes, such as a first mode that may be used when propagation channel estimates are not reliable, and a second mode that may be used when the propagation channel... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20070275667 - Parallel test of portable wireless multimedia devices: A single box tester allows for simultaneous testing of digital video and digital communications capabilities of a device under test. An arbitrary waveform generator is used to generate a test signal suitable for testing DTV receivers operating using standards such as DVB-H or T-DMB, while simultaneously a test signal generator... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20070275673 - Signal transmitting and receiving apparatus capable of preventing the receiving end from saturating: The present invention provides a signal emitting and receiving circuit and the operating method thereof. The circuit includes a signal receiving unit, a first signal generator and a second signal generator. The signal receiving unit receives a first signal and a second signal. The first signal generator generates the first... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070275655 - Terminal for relaying data signal: A terminal includes a wireless module for relaying a data signal, a sub-module for relaying the data signal, and a switch which connects the wireless module and the sub-module in parallel, and selects the wireless module or the sub-module to relay the data signal in response to a control signal... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20070275658 - Global navigation satellite system: Each of a first and a second navigation satellite system (NSS) are adapted to operate according to a first and a second specification, respectively, and each includes a first and a second plurality of satellite vehicles (SV), respectively. Each of the first and the second plurality of SVs are adapted... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070275661 - Terminal device, communication system, and method for activating terminal device: According to one embodiment, there is provided a terminal device including: a wireless communication unit that communicates with a base station through a first communication channel; a network controller that communicates with a computer via the base station through a second communication channel; and a power controller that starts a... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP Eric S. Cherry - Docketing Supervisor

20070275663 - Cdma signal generator using an awgn generator and a saw filter: There is provided a CDMA generator using an AWGN generator and a SAW filter. The CDMA generator according to the present invention comprises (1) an additive white Gaussian noise generator for generating a first broad band noise in an RF receiving band, (2) a first signal generator for generating a... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20070275668 - Method for transmitting data in a mimo telecommunication system offering a high diversity as perceived from a receiver end: The present invention relates to a method for transmitting data between a transmitter provided with at least two transmitting antennas (ta1, ta2 . . . taNt) and a receiver. The method according to the invention further includes a symbol spreading step in the course of which components Zij (for i=I... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070275669 - Method, apparatus and signal for, transmitting/receiving information comprising primary and secondary messages in a same transmission: Transmitters (116) for transmitting information and receivers (126) for receiving the information are defined by the information comprising a primary message and a secondary message combined in a same transmission or a same reception, which primary and secondary messages comprise communication protocol signaling messages, to avoid that a protocol conversion... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070275671 - Data transceiver and data reception method thereof in a mobile communication system: A data transceiver and a data reception method for reducing power consumption in a mobile communication system are provided. The data transceiver includes a transmitter which transmits a plurality of data frames during a predetermined transmission period; and a receiver which receives data frames in the predetermined transmission period, if... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070275670 - System and apparatus for distributed sound collection and event triggering: Provided is a computer implemented method, apparatus and computer usable program code for sending alerts. A distributed sensor receives a sound and determines whether the sound matches a preset criterion. If so, the distributed sensor transmits an event to a central portal device.... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070275672 - Transceiver: A transceiver comprising a first frequency signal generator for generating a reception frequency signal, and a second frequency signal generator for generating a transmission frequency signal. The first frequency signal generator is coupled to the second frequency signal generator to supply the reception frequency signal to the second frequency signal... Agent: Infineon Technologies Ag Patent Department

20070275674 - Compensation of i-q imbalance in digital transceivers: A transceiver includes a switching unit configurable for isolating an input of a receiver from an output of a transmitter during a local calibration mode. A known signal present at the output at a first power level during the calibration mode will also be present at the input at a... Agent: Dla Piper US LLP

20070275675 - Integrated multimode radio and components thereof: An integrated multimode radio includes a multimode receiver and a multimode transmitter. The multimode receiver includes a shared receiver front-end, a receiver multiplexor, and a plurality of receiver IF stages. The multimode transmitter includes a shared transmitter front-end, a transmitter multiplexor, and a plurality of transmitter IF stages.... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070275676 - Dac based switching power amplifier: A power amplifier for use in a transmitter includes a first transistor having an input, a first node and a second node, a second transistor having an input, a first node and a second node and a digital to analog conversion module. The input of the first transistor is operably... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070275677 - Battery life improvement for wireless devices through activity report combining: Various embodiments are disclosed relating to wireless systems, and also relating to battery life improvement for wireless devices through activity report combining. According to an example embodiment, a method is provided. The method may include determining a reporting period, detecting user activity at each of a plurality of detection points... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP

20070275678 - Method and apparatus for leveling an increasing or decreasing slope of an am modulated receiving signal: A method and an apparatus for leveling an increasing or decreasing slope of an AM modulated receiving signal attenuate the AM modulated receiving signal with an attenuation curve with a stepwise slope corresponding to the increasing or decreasing slope of said AM modulated receiving signal, filters the attenuated AM modulated... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20070275679 - Radio receiver for aviation communications and navigation: A radio receiver is provided that includes a front-end circuit operable to receive radio signals transmitted across a frequency band and generate an analog signal corresponding to a plurality of channels within the frequency band. Also included is an analog to digital converter operable to convert the analog signal to... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070275680 - Tuner, digital demodulating apparatus, controlling method of the apparatus, computer program product for the apparatus, recording medium recording thereon the product, and digital receiver: A digital demodulating apparatus comprises a tuner constituted by circuit elements to perform channel select processing to a signal; a demodulator that performs demodulation processing to a signal output from the tuner; a power supply unit that supplies a normal power to each circuit element, and supplies to the circuit... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070275682 - Digital broadcast reception apparatus and reception method: A reception apparatus comprises a counter for counting a passage of a predetermined time in a standby mode other than a regular reception mode in which all circuits constituting the reception apparatus operate; and an emergency broadcast state detection unit for judging whether or not a digital broadcast is in... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070275681 - Radio base station receiver and program: A resource allocation control unit is provided between the despreading process unit and the channel decoding process unit of a radio base station receiver, and a resource for a channel decoding process is allocated only when there is actually user communication data in a communication service that is not of... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070275683 - System and method for multi-radio control: A system and method for multi-radio control unifies disparate radio technologies and communication protocols and abstracts them such that a user of a personal electronic device having a plurality of disparate radios is not required to know or understand the radio technology needed to connect to a remote wireless device... Agent: Stites & Harbison, PLLC

20070275684 - Mixer having frequency selection function: A mixer which has an enhanced frequency selection characteristic and generates no pass loss is realized without using an operation control signal having a frequency higher than a sampling frequency. Provided are a time control section 102 for supplying control signals, a first switched capacitor circuit 100 for outputting a... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070275685 - Method and apparatus for squelch gating a receiving signal: A method and an apparatus for squelch gating a receiving signal depending on the level of phase noise in said receiving signal determines sampled amplitudes and sampled phases of said receiving signal, determines sampled phase noise by differentiating subsequent sampled phases, determines a squelch signal by rectifying and averaging said... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20070275686 - Agc system and method for broadband tuners: A system for providing automatic gain control (AGC) comprises a signal path with an RF input, a plurality of power detectors in communication with the signal path, each of the power detectors operable to measure a total broadband power level of a signal in the signal path, each of the... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.l.p

20070275687 - Integrated circuit for transmitting and/or receiving signals: An integrated circuit for transmitting and/or receiving signals includes a differential antenna terminal for coupling to an antenna, a processing circuit for processing differential signals, and first differential lines coupling the differential antenna terminal to a differential input and/or output of the processing circuit.... Agent: Eschweiler & Associates LLC

20070275689 - Method for dimensioning hardware components for base stations of cdma communication networks: The invention relates to a method for dimensioning hardware components for base stations of CDMA communication networks, especially hardware components of a UMTS base Station (node B). The number of hardware components, that is Channel elements (CE) and modems (M), required for the individual base stations in order to maintain... Agent: Baker & Daniels LLP 111 E. Wayne Street

20070275688 - Method of transmitting multimedia message in various service environments: Disclosed herein is a method of transmitting a multimedia message in a mobile communication system, which allows a receiving terminal to access an MMS server suitable for its specification and receive a stored multimedia message, even when a single MMS server is not equipped with all types of media conversion... Agent: Andrus, Sceales, Starke & Sawall

20070275691 - Orientation based message retrieving: A user interface for mobile devices, which is suitable for retrieving messages and services by pointing a specific point. The device must be equipped with a positioning system and orientation sensors for determining the pointing direction. Then, the direction is sent to a server which determines if there are any... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070275690 - System and method for emergency notification content delivery: A method for disseminating emergency notification content from an emergency originating source. The method comprising: delivering the emergency notification content from the emergency originating source to at least one transmitting party; selecting a subset of users from among a set of users for dissemination of the emergency notification content based... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20070275692 - Method and system for enabling a mobile user to manage calls: A method includes provisioning a mobile user with usage minutes for usage calls. The method includes determining whether the mobile user and a telephone user either belong to the same provider or different providers after a call between the users is initiated. The call is designated as a usage call... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20070275693 - Method for determining use charges for a field device of automation technology: A method for determining use charges for a field device of automation technology, according to which measured values are transmitted to a customer via a public communication network (K) as digital/analog signals, and the transmission of the signals in the public communication network (K) is monitored by a switching unit... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070275694 - Controlling communications performed by an information processing apparatus: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques controlling communication performed by a communication device in an information processing apparatus having an input device. An operation received by the input device is detected. A communication request directed to the communication device from a task executed by a... Agent: Mollborn Patents Attn: Ibm

20070275695 - Method and apparatus for finding a rendering of a work: A method and apparatus are for finding a rendering of a work that a user desires to have presented. The method includes performing an internal search within a preferred storage device for one or more acceptable digital renderings of the work, performing a user network search for one or more... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070275696 - Method and apparatus for peer-to-peer instant messaging: The invention proposes a method of peer-to-peer instant messaging and the mobile terminal thereof, which could make the mobile terminal to establish and maintain a list of friend users and update the connection status of the friend users timely. The method of peer-to-peer instant messaging includes following steps: receiving the... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20070275702 - Communication system and voice over internet protocol apparatus and data communication method: A communication system includes a first Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) apparatus which receives transmitting data including destination information related to a receiving wireless communication apparatus from a transmitting wireless communication apparatus through short-range communication, and transmits the transmitting data through VoIP communication; a second VoIP apparatus which receives the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070275704 - Communication system, communication apparatus, and operation control method: Disclosed herein is a communication system including a signal output apparatus for outputting a stream signal, and first and second communication apparatuses for performing wireless communication. The first communication apparatus includes, a communication processing section configured to perform wireless communication of the stream signal over a stream line with the... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070275703 - Mobile communication terminal and method of processing key signal: A mobile communication terminal and method of processing a key signal thereof are provided, by which both a function of a touch type key button and a function of a touch wheel may be performed in one area on a touch panel. The present invention includes recognizing a touch on... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070275700 - Optimization of calendar, itinerary, route plan, and pim efficiencies according to assimilated wireless service availability conditions: A system, method of providing a service, and computer-readable medium encoded with software for automatic optimization in real-time of one or more events in an electronic agenda, an electronic itinerary, an electronic calendar, or an electronic route plan, by allowing the user to indicate if a wireless service is needed... Agent: Ibm Corporation (rhf)

20070275697 - Method and apparatus for avoiding call disturbances and facilitating urgent calls based on a caller's decision: A telecommunication system and method for notifying a calling party, via a Preventive Disturbance Announcement (PDA), that a called party is in an area where the called party would prefer not to be disturbed with non-urgent calls. The calling party is then given the opportunity to either talk to the... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070275698 - Method and apparatus for dynamic voice response messages: A computing device implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product to generate dynamic voice response messages in a mobile computing device. In response to receiving an incoming call from a caller, the process displays a list of response messages in a set of response messages. In response to receiving a... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070275699 - Methods, computer networks, and computer program products that facilitate providing broadband services wirelessly to third party users via a mesh network of customer premise equipment: Methods, computer networks, and computer program products that facilitate providing broadband service wirelessly to third party users via a mesh network of customer premise equipment are provided. A mesh network of customer premise equipment is connected to the central office of a broadband service provider. Each customer premise equipment includes... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20070275701 - Network access point detection and use: A system and method of network point of access detection and use is disclosed. In accordance with such system and method, suitability of a given wireless network for access and use can be determined. Such system and method are fully-configurable and incrementally-updatable using configuration information. The configuration information, which can... Agent: Greenberg Traurig LLP (la)

20070275705 - Systems and methods for managing content for mobile devices: Systems and methods of retrieving information from a web site accessible to mobile devices are disclosed. The web site has a first content set restricted to a first mobile device and a second content set restricted to a second different mobile device. The system includes a crawler running on a... Agent: Bereskin And Parr

20070275706 - Communication terminal device: According to an embodiment of the invention, a communication terminal device comprises: a communication unit configured to communicate with a mobile communication terminal device through a network; a memory configured to store a first data representing a position of the communication terminal device; a distance calculation unit configured to calculate... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070275707 - Method and system for setting tracking area in a wireless communication system: Provided are a method and a system for setting a tracking area for an Mobile Station (MS) in a wireless communication system, in which the MS estimates its velocity, compares the estimated velocity with at least one velocity threshold, and updates the level of a current tracking area according to... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070275708 - Method and apparatus for improved personal communication devices and systems: A message originator sends a picture or video message to a message center along with caller identifying information. The message is stored in a memory and transmitted to a wireless picture phone, PDA or portable computing device, or stored at the message center in a memory or hard disk drive... Agent: Robert K. Tendler

20070275709 - Unauthorized device-use prevention system and device: Disclosed is a system including a device which has a short-range wireless communication section in a device body and an attachment unit, removably mounted on or connected to the device body, for performing weak, short-range wireless communication between the device and the attachment unit. When it is detected that the... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070275711 - Automatic credit and reconnect of dropped calls: An apparatus and method are provided for receiving a message that a mobile communications device has experienced a dropped call, and updating an account of a user of the mobile communications device to provide a credit for the dropped call upon receipt of the message. The message is received without... Agent: Patti , Hewitt & Arezina LLC

20070275710 - method for handling service failures: A method for handling service failures for in a communications network comprising a user equipment, a first network element and a serving network element, the method comprising the following steps. Receiving at the first network element a first message from the user equipment. Transmitting the first message from the first... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070275712 - Method and a device for reporting the number of correctly decoded transport blocks in a wireless system: A method and a device for reporting the number of correctly decoded transport blocks in a wireless system. The maximum number of correctly decoded transport blocks within a reporting period is determined. Then the actual number of correctly decoded transport blocks is determined and cultivated into an indication thereof on... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20070275713 - Optimising resource usage in a packet switched network: A method of optimising the bandwidth usage on a Real-Time Protocol (RTP) managed link transporting media between User Equipment (UE) and a Media Resource Function (MRF) of a cellular telecommunications network. The method comprises sampling, at one of the User Equipment and the Media Resource Function, the rate of packet... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070275714 - Mobile terminal and method of visual data processing: A mobile terminal and visual data processing method are provided which an image photographing function is performed while maintaining visual communication between a first and second terminal. The present invention includes a camera, a communication unit performing visual communication with another terminal, a storage unit storing at least one image,... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070275715 - Home network system and method for remotely installing home services in the same: A home network system and a method for installing home services in the home network system are provided. The home network system includes a service distribution management system that remotely manages a plurality of home gateways installed in homes of service users and services installed on the plurality of home... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070275716 - System and method for authentication in a communication system: An authentication system and method in a communication system are provided. The authentication system includes an authenticator for receiving from a first Foreign Agent (FA) a location change notification notifying that an Mobile Station (MS) has moved to the service area of the first FA, after the MS completes initial... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070275717 - Network selection by wireless terminals: Techniques for efficiently performing network selection using information stored at a terminal are described herein. The terminal may store coverage information for previously detected wireless networks, cell information for previously detected cells in wireless networks, usage information for previously accessed wireless networks, availability information for previously detected wireless networks, almanac... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070275718 - Detection of cloned identifiers in communication systems: According to one aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method, in a communication system having a plurality of communication devices each having a first and second identifier associated therewith at the time of a connection attempt to the network, of identifying when one of the identifiers has... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070275720 - Cellular phone system, cellular phone terminal, private information protection method, private information protection program and program recorded medium: A cellular phone terminal 103 can be connected to both of a wireless cellular phone base station 104 that is a public network and a wireless LAN access pint 101 that is a private wireless network to be used by particular users. When the cellular phone terminal 103 enters a... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070275719 - Method for selecting system in a mobile terminal: A method for selecting a system in a mobile terminal is disclosed. The method includes upon power-up of the mobile terminal, reading system information included in a Most Recently Used (MRU) table from memory, and registering the system information in a variable area of a system search table; reading system... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070275726 - Apparatus and method for controlling layer 3 handover of mobile node: A system and method for controlling layer 3 (L3) handover of a mobile node. A mobile Internet protocol (MIP) network includes a plurality of mobile nodes adapted to provide data service to a plurality of users, and a plurality of routers and a handover control system, the plurality of routers... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20070275725 - Handover method and mobile terminal for wireless communication service: A method of determining whether or not the terminal handover is executed in accordance with the communication capability available between the wireless communication terminals, wherein the communication capability is measured when each handover request is generated, when one wireless communication system currently in use is changed to another, and regularly... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith Hazel & Thomas LLP

20070275724 - Network selection: A network selection for easily selecting a network according to its status is disclosed. A wireless base station control device selects a network based on a wireless base station and a type of information to be transmitted on the network among networks provided between the wireless base station and the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070275723 - Method and apparatus for performing uplink timing synchronization procedure upon handover in a mobile communication system: An efficient uplink timing synchronization procedure performed with a target cell upon handover of a User Equipment (UE) in active mode in a mobile communication system is provided, in which a cell transmitter signals to the UE that the uplink timing synchronization procedure is not required in the target cell,... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070275722 - Method and apparatus for providing adjusted handoff parameters based on receiver classification: A mobile station (201) having an improved receiver capability over legacy mobile stations may detect additional base stations (205, 209) for the candidate list (219). The mobile station (201) provides a receiver capability indication to the network via a message such as an origination message, a page response message, a... Agent: Motorola Inc

20070275721 - Method of providing a hard handoff between mscs during an alerting state: A method of providing a hard handoff between Mobile Switching Centers (MSCs) during an alerting state. A Base Station Controller (BSC) requests a handoff to an MSC in case a Mobile Station (MS) transmits a Pilot Strength Measurement Message (PSMM) during an alerting state and a condition for a hard... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20070275727 - Apparatus and method for performing uplink power control in broadband wireless access system: An apparatus and method for uplink (UL) power control in a broadband wireless access (BWA) communication system are provided. In a communication method for a base station (BS), the channel gain, noise power and speed of each MS are determined, and the maximum allowable power of each mobile station (MS)... Agent: Stimson, Shin & Associates, LLP

20070275728 - Scheduling mode dependent data transmissions: The present invention relates to a method for transmitting data from a mobile terminal to a radio access network of a mobile communication system, the mobile terminal comprising a medium access control entity and to a mobile terminal. In order to enhance data transmission dependent on the scheduling mode, the... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20070275729 - Interference control in a communication system: A method of allocating resources to cells of a cellular communication system comprising the steps of determining a load in at least one of the cells; selecting a resource reuse pattern from a set of resource reuse patterns based on the determined load; allocating resources in accordance with the selected... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20070275732 - Dynamic selection of user plane or control plane or control plane for location determination: A method and system for dynamic selection of user plane or control plane signaling for mobile station location determination. A positioning system receives a request for the location of a mobile station and then makes a determination, based on one or more factors, of whether to employ user plane signaling... Agent: Sprint

20070275731 - Electronic toll system for traffic routes, and method for the operation thereof: The invention relates to an electronic toll system for traffic routes, said system being designed on the basis of commercial GSMIUMTS mobile telephones or comparable appliances such as a PDA, car phones etc., with a GSM function, and to a method for the operation thereof. In each mobile radio network,... Agent: Norris, Mclaughlin & Marcus

20070275730 - Method for determining the local position of at least one mobile radio communication device based on predetermined local positions of adjacent radio communication devices, associated radio communication device and radio communication system: A method determines the local position of at least one mobile radio communication device which is to be locates, in at least one radio cell of a radio communication system. At least one remote mobile radio communication device is located in the same radio cell or in another radio cell... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070275733 - Method for providing certain information: The invention provides a method for providing certain information to a network entity from a further network entity with transmitting a request for the certain information from the network entity via a communication network to the further network entity and transmitting time information from the further network entity to the... Agent: Jacob Eisenberg C/o Tom Tom

20070275734 - System and method to obtain signal acquisition assistance data: Signal acquisition assistance data is obtained for receiving devices such as wireless position assisted location devices seeking signals from any source, such as satellite vehicles and base stations. The data may be obtained from previously acquired data, based upon evaluation of changes in parameters such as time and location that... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070275735 - Map information communicated via a wireless system: A mobile device comprises host logic and a first transceiver coupled to the host logic. The first transceiver is adapted to wirelessly communicate with a second transceiver. The second transceiver is positioned at a fixed location and comprises location information indicative of such fixed location and map information. The first... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070275736 - Method for providing idle screen layer endowed with visual effect and method for providing idle screen by using the same: A method for displaying an idle screen, which is varied depending on a specific condition of a mobile communication terminal, for better graphic impressions. When the user of the mobile communication terminal travels between countries, when a border crossing is detected, a landmark image of a corresponding country is displayed... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070275737 - Communication terminal apparatus, communication method, and recording medium: A communication processing unit includes communication processing units which use different communication manners. A user interface unit receives input of information indicating a calling destination from a user. An information storage unit stores a person to contact and plural phone numbers of that person in association. When a person to... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20070275741 - Methods and systems for identifying suspected virus affected mobile stations: Methods and systems are presented for identifying suspected virus affected mobile stations in a wireless network, in which short message origination requests from mobile stations are received and analyzed to determine whether a mobile station is suspected of being affected by a virus, and the mobile station is notified if... Agent: Fay Sharpe/lucent

20070275744 - Reply message of a mobile terminal: A method of acknowledging receipt of a mobile terminal and a mobile terminal for performing the same is provided. The method includes receiving a multimedia message, reproducing multimedia contents related to the multimedia message, and sending a reply message indicating whether a complete multimedia message was reproduced, the determination of... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070275743 - System and method for emergency notification: A service that leverages established wireless messaging paradigms such as, possibly inter alia, Short Message Service, Multimedia Message Service, and IP Multimedia Subsystem to yield an infrastructure that synergistically provides, possibly inter alia, (1) a full-featured alternative (e.g., non-voice telephone call) emergency notification, reporting, etc. channel that (2) works across... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC

20070275739 - Method and system for authorising short message service messages: Short message service (SMS) messages are sent by a sender (501) to a recipient (502) over a communications network (503). An SMS message is received (401) from the sender. An automatic verification request is sent (402) to the sender requesting a verification response, with the verification request being sent before... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070275742 - Method and system for data transmission of multimedia broadcast/multicast service: A method for transmitting Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service (MBMS) data, comprising: sending, by a Broadcast/Multicast-Service Center (BM-SC), a Session Start Request with information of an MBMS service area to a Base Station Controller/Radio Network Controller (BSC/RNC) through a Gateway GPRS Support Node (GGSN) and a Serving GPRS Support Nodes (SGSN) of... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070275738 - Mobile messaging short code translation and routing system and method: Provided herein is a system, method and product for performing address translation and routing of short codes. The embodiment described herein primarily supports the wireless and standardized SMS; however, one skilled in the art can readily appreciate that the present invention can also be applied to any mobile messaging technology,... Agent: Goodwin Procter

20070275740 - Personalized multimedia messaging system: A method for providing a personalized multimedia messaging service, wherein the method includes obtaining an MMS message (800). Recipient according to preferences of the at least one targeted recipient (900), thereby producing a personalized MMS message (910), and transmitting the personalized MMS message to the at least one targeted recipient... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20070275745 - System and method for management of mobile device communication: A system and method for managing mobile device communication in an enterprise includes a device management agent and a synchronization agent in the mobile device. Information about the status of the mobile device is collected by the device management agent and the synchronization agent communicates the status information to the... Agent: Dimock Stratton LLP

20070275746 - Multi-function wireless terminal: Time intervals are allocated within the time frames for communication between the BS and the wireless terminal over the first connection, such that the allocated time intervals are interleaved with and do not overlap the allocated time slots. The first and second communication sessions are concurrently conducted in the allocated... Agent: Abelman, Prayne & Schwab

20070275747 - Push-to-talk interworking: A method and system for operating a push-to-talk communication between a PoC-group consisting of at least of one member of a first communication network and a PoC-group consisting of at least of one member of a second communication network, using a PoC application server in each communication network. Members of... Agent: The Maxham Firm

20070275748 - Adaptive power management methods and systems for wireless networks: Adaptive power management methods and systems for a first station and a second station in a wireless network. Each station operating in the power-saving (PS) mode adaptively determines a “listen interval” (LI) according to residual power state, quality-of-service requirements, or other considerations. The LI is composed of a “normal beacon... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070275752 - Mobile phone: An image projection mechanism of a mobile phone has a light source section for image projection, a light modulator and a projection lens. The light source section has an LED device including an LED element having a luminous wavelength in a red color region, an LED element having a luminous... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070275753 - Dual-mode keypad for a mobile device: In accordance with the teachings described herein, systems and methods are provided for implementing a dual-mode keypad for a mobile device. The keypad may operate in a telephony mode and a text-entry mode. The keypad may include a plurality of dual-mode keys that each include an associated telephony character and... Agent: Joseph M. Sauer Jones Day Reavis & Pogue

20070275751 - Faceplate having keys for mobile phone: The present invention provides a faceplate having keys. The keys are defined between protrusions under a film. By pressing down a key, a contact is pushed to be in touch with a circuit board to control the circuit board. Consequently, the faceplate is easily assembled and has a reduced production... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20070275749 - Method for data reception in a multi-function receiving device: A data receiving device (2a) is arranged to run a media guide application through which a user may access a service provided over broadcast network (3). Should reception of the service be interrupted, for example, by an incoming telephone call over telecommunications network (4), the data receiving device (2a) operates... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070275750 - Position data communication device: The objective of the present invention is to provide accurate position data of a cellular phone utilizing illuminative light based radio communication. In FIG. 1, an emergency light or guided light (illuminating device) (10) on for 24 hours, for example, emits a visible light (illuminative light) modulated based on information... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070275754 - Portable personal server device with biometric user authentication: A portable personal server connectable through a network with a PC connected with an external network that permits communication with the PC only when user's fingerprint information read out by means of a fingerprint authentication unit matches registered information. In order to communicate through the network, the portable personal server... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20070275756 - Apparatus and method for transmitting/receiving data using multi-channel of wireless lan in a mobile communication terminal: The present invention relates to a mobile communication terminal having a wireless LAN module. The wireless LAN module checks if used channel information exists. A mobile communication module transmits an idle channel information list. A channel list manager transmits the idle channel information list using the used channel information checked... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070275755 - Mobile wireless console: A mobile wireless console which senses three dimensional motion in a mobile terminal to wirelessly transmit a sensing signal of the three dimensional motion to an electronic device such as a computer. In the console, an inputter allows communication mode and motion mode to be inputted. A controller controls execution... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20070275757 - Multitasking method and mobile terminal enabled with the same: A multitasking method and mobile terminal enabled with the multitasking method are provided for executing, while a function is running, another function. The multitasking-enabled mobile terminal includes an input unit for receiving a user command; a decision unit for determining, if a command for activating an additional function is input... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070275759 - Memory card removal guard: A mobile device powered by a battery is provided having a guard member for preventing a memory card from being removed from the mobile device when a battery is inserted in the device. The battery is removably received in a battery compartment and the memory card is removably received in... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070275758 - Mobile telephone and a method of operating the mobile telephone: A mobile telephone having two cards, where it is desired to maintain a first card in its operative position and maintain a predetermined activity or functionality when removing or replacing the second card. If the first card is to be removed, however, the predetermined activity of functionality is inactivated. The... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20070275760 - Hdspa flow control, control frames rtt measurement: A radio base station (104) is described herein that measures a round-trip-time (RTT) which is the time it takes an uplink (UL) control frame (109a) to travel to a radio network controller (102)) and a downlink (DL) control frame (109b) to travel back from the radio network controller (102). If... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070275761 - Dynamic cell control through antenna radiation pattern synthesis: A method for cell control in a wireless network is disclosed, which comprises providing a base transceiver station (BTS) with a plurality of antennas receiving a plurality of feed signals, respectively, varying one or more parameters of the plurality of feed signals according to a plurality of predetermined criteria for... Agent: L. Howard Chen Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis, LLP

20070275763 - Display unit with lens assembly enclosure: A display unit (102) of a communication device (100) with a lens assembly enclosure is provided. The display unit includes a first lens (202) and a second lens (204) that encapsulates a display assembly (206). The first lens (202) and the second lens (204) mate to define an integral module... Agent: Motorola Inc

20070275765 - Mobile communication devices: Mobile communication devices are provided. A mobile communication device comprises a main surface and a touch screen acting as the only input interface on the main surface. When the mobile communication device is in a communication mode, the touch screen displays a first image through which users input data and... Agent: Quintero Law Office, PC

20070275764 - Mobile communication terminal and method of controlling: A mobile communication terminal and a method of controlling the same are disclosed. The mobile communication terminal including a backlight unit comprising a plurality of backlight groups, each backlight group comprising one or more backlight sources, a switch unit configured to selectively turn the backlight groups on or off to... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070275766 - Mobile communication terminal displaying background screen and display method thereof: A mobile communication terminal for displaying supplementary information on a background screen includes a communication unit, a storage unit for storing cumulative transmissions and receptions of calls and messages corresponding to supplementary information, a cumulative number rank determiner for comparing the cumulative transmissions and receptions of calls and messages and... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070275762 - Mobile telecommunications apparatus for receiving and displaying more than one service: Mobile telecommunications apparatus (UE1) has a receiver (91) for receiving concurrently a plurality of broadcast services containing image data content, and a display device (20) with a display area operable to display an image corresponding to the content of at least one of the services in a first mode in... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070275767 - Temporary modification of a user profile in an electronic device: A method for temporarily modifying a user profile includes maintaining a first user profile setting, receiving a second user profile setting associated with a period of time, and utilizing the second user profile setting during the period of time, otherwise utilizing the first user profile setting.... Agent: Geoffrey Dekleine Perry + Partners

20070275768 - System and method of wireless proximity awareness: The present application provides a system for proximity awareness for mobile data communication on an electronic communication device comprising a client application on an electronic communication device communicating across a wireless network, and an awareness server that includes a plurality of server objects that monitor multiple devices on a wireless... Agent: Patent Group 2n Jones Day

20070275769 - Speaker module design: A speaker module and a mobile device having the speaker module are provided herein. The speaker module includes a speaker unit and a speaker box. The speaker box has a wall defining an aperture receiving the speaker unit therein. The speaker box has a first speaker chamber, a second speaker... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20070275770 - Hands-free accessory for mobile telephone: A hands-free unit mounts to the sun visor in a vehicle and communicates with a remote hands-free unit. The hands-free unit includes a solar panel that is pivotally attached to a hands-free unit. The solar panel moves between a storage position in which the solar panel lies flat against the... Agent: Coats & Bennett/sony Ericsson

20070275773 - Mobile communication device and method for controlling the same: A mobile communication device is provided. The mobile communication device includes a first body including a display, a second body foldably connected to the first body, a slider body slidably connected to the second body, the slider body having at least one key that is exposed when the slider body... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070275772 - Mobile phone having decoration cover used as key input means: A mobile terminal has a decoration cover that may be used as an input key. The mobile phone includes an opening formed on a lateral side of a main body of the mobile phone. A switch contact member is provided on the rear surface of the decoration cover. The switch... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20070275771 - Mobile phone keypad design: A mobile phone keypad design includes a keypad and a joystick. The keypad includes multiple keys. The joystick is disposed between several neighboring keys in the keypad. When the joystick is tilted, a corresponding signal is output.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070275774 - Flexible gaskets for wireless terminals with sliding members: Gaskets and wireless terminals with gaskets for sealing a space between sliding members in wireless terminals. The wireless terminals include: (a) a first member; (b) a second member overlying the first member, wherein at least one of the first and second members is configured to slide between open and closed... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20070270096 - Wireless communications system, network relay unit and communication method: This invention provides a wireless communications system including: a first sensor unit for obtaining environmental information; a first network relay unit capable of communicating by wireless with the first sensor unit; a second network relay unit capable of communicating by wireless with the first network relay unit; and a second... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070270097 - Method and system for communicating within a wireless communication network: A method and system for communicating within a wireless communication network (200) is provided. The communication between Portable Subscriber Units (PSUs) (104 and 106) by using a Vehicular Repeater (110) over a conventional communication link (102) is attempted (404). If the conventional communication link attempt fails (406), the communication is... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20070270098 - Method and apparatus for reception of long range signals in bluetooth: The invention of a method and an apparatus for reception of long transmission range Bluetooth signals impaired by multipath are disclosed. The new reception method and apparatus proposed allows to increase the transmission range for data transmission in Bluetooth. The invention proposes the use of a new FDE adapted to... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070270099 - Method and system for transmitting selective local information: System for transmitting selective local information including information bases suitable for communicating information to mobiles via a short-range radio link The system further comprises configuration bases suitable for establishing a very short-range radio link with the mobiles and for storing, in a memory accessible to the information bases, an address... Agent: Miller, Matthias & Hull

20070270102 - Distributed coordination of a clear channel assessment (cca) threshold: Embodiments of distributed coordination of a clear channel assessment threshold are presented herein.... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC C/o Portfolioip

20070270103 - Method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving uncompressed audio/video data: A method and apparatus of transmitting uncompressed audio and/or video (AV) data are provided. The method includes transmitting the uncompressed AV data; determining whether an error occurs in the uncompressed AV data during the transmission; and if it is determined that the error occurs in the uncompressed AV data, retransmitting... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070270107 - Multi-position device: A multi-position device has first and second body elements configured for sliding engagement and constrained movement with respect to one another along a common plane in X, Y and XY coordinate directions for positioning the body elements in multiple different fixed positions relative to one another and for accessing one... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070270101 - Correction method for a metric measurement of the quality of transmission in a communication system and device implementing the method: The invention proposes a study of how the inaccurate knowledge of the propagation conditions and interferences and noise, affecting the received signal of a radio transmission, affects the reception and a measurement model used to estimate the quality of the transmission, in a digital radio signal receiver. Actual means to... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070270100 - Method and apparatus for estimating reverse link loading in a wireless communication system: Method and apparatus for estimating reverse link loading in a wireless communication system. The reverse link interference is measured and reverse link receiver noise is measured. The reverse link interference is compared to the reverse link receiver noise, for example, by dividing the interference power by the receiver noise power.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070270105 - High-frequency switch: A high-frequency switch is constructed by connecting a first diode and a second diode that function as switching elements, inductors, capacitors, and resistors. One end of the resistor is connected between the first diode and the second diode, and the other end of the resistor is connected to the ground.... Agent: Murata Manufacturing Company, Ltd. C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20070270104 - Method for a session initiation protocol push-to-talk terminal to indicate answer operating mode to an internet protocol push-to-talk network server: A push-to-talk communication device including an operating answer mode indicates that operating answer mode to a Session Initiation Protocol/Internet Protocol based push-to-talk network server. The method includes employing as the operating answer mode of the push-to-talk communication device one of an automatic-answer mode, an always-automatic-answer mode and a manual-answer mode.... Agent: Research In Motion, Ltd

20070270106 - Wireless communication terminal and mobile type wireless communication terminal: A wireless communication terminal includes first and second case members coupled together by a coupling portion so that the positional relation therebetween can be changed, an external wireless communication antenna provided at the first case member, an external wireless communication control portion mainly controlling external wireless communication carried out through... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070270108 - Method of reducing overhead for multi-input, multi-output transmission system: A method of transmitting data in a multi input, multi output (MIMO) system is disclosed. More specifically, the method includes selecting a primary antenna, based on satisfying at least one specified criteria, for transmitting a preamble, and transmitting the preamble via the primary antenna... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070270109 - Tri-state chopper for frequency conversion: A tri-state chopper (TSC) circuit and method is disclosed. The tri-state chopper (TSC) circuit receives an input signal and a ternary signal and generates an output signal, wherein: the output signal tracks the input signal in both magnitude and sign when the ternary signal is in a first state; the... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070270110 - Analog front end for a wireless device: A novel amplifier for a wireless device is disclosed. The system employing the preferred embodiment can deliver a radio signal with output power up to 500 mW for 64QAM (48 Mb/s bit rate) modulation and a radio signal up to 700 mW for 16QAM (36 Mb/s bit rate) modulation with... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20070270111 - Dual power mode transmitter: A dual power mode transmitter is provided to save power when the transmitter switches from normal operating mode to low power operating mode. The dual power mode transmitter achieves power savings by controlling the amount of current draw in the input stage. Alternatively, the transmitter saves power by regulating the... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070270112 - Apparatus and method for cooperative maximum ratio transmission in a broadband wireless access communication system: An apparatus and method for cooperative maximal ratio transmission in a BWA communication system are provided, in which a BS transmits a signal directed to a user terminal to an RS in a first time slot, the RS transmits the signal received from the BS to the user terminal in... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070270113 - Apparatus and method for frequency reuse to avoid interference between relay station and mobile station in multi-hop relay system: An apparatus and method is disclosed for frequency reuse to avoid interference between a Relay Station (RS) and a Mobile Station (MS) in a multi-hop relay system. The method includes measuring a preamble signal strength of a serving RS, measuring a preamble signal strength of a neighboring RS, and computing... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070270114 - Apparatus and system for adjusting settings of a power system device using a magnetically coupled actuator: A system is provided for adjusting settings of a power system device. In one embodiment, the setting adjusted is an identification setting of the power system device. The system generally includes an actuator having a select arrangement of magnets. A magnetic field sensor is provided for sensing the select arrangement... Agent: Cook, Alex, Mcfarron, Manzo, Cummings & Mehler Ltd

20070270115 - Mobile wireless communications device having low-if receiver circuitry that adapts to radio environment: A mobile wireless communications device, system and associated method includes a housing and circuit board that includes radio frequency (RF) circuitry and processor operative with each other. The RF circuitry includes a low-IF receiver circuit that is operative for maintaining an interferer signal at a same frequency side as a... Agent: Research In Motion, Ltd

20070270116 - Extended range rms-dc converter: Described herein is technology for, among other things, reducing offset errors in RMS-to-DC converters. The technology involves generating first and second feedback signals with first and second feedback paths respectively. A multiplier is then employed to receive first and second signals and provide a third signal based on multiplying the... Agent: Wagner, Murabito & Hao LLP Third Floor

20070270117 - Direct conversion tv tuner and method thereof: A direct conversion method is disclosed. The method comprises: amplifying the input signal to generate an amplified signal; down-converting the amplified signal into two intermediate signals using a first set of ternary signals and a second set of ternary signals, respectively; filtering the first intermediate signal to generate a third... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070270118 - System and method for increased battery saving during idle mode in a wireless communication system: A method and information processing system for wirelessly transmitting at least one of a downlink channel descriptor and an uplink channel descriptor for reception by at least one wireless device (104). The method comprises selecting at least one transmission time for transmitting a pointer that indicates a transmission time for... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070270119 - Power efficient wireless network detection: A wireless network system can be provided with a one-way communication link for communicating a beacon signal between beacon circuitries of two electronic devices. According to information stored in the beacon signal, the device that receives the beacon signal can activate a primary communication circuitry to enable communication of primary... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP Patent Docketing 39/361

20070270120 - Mobile event triggering function for transit management system using traffic signal priority: A traffic signal control method and system reduces the delay time of a transit vehicle at an intersection by incorporating an automatic vehicle location (AVL) system to trigger a traffic signal priority (TSP) strategy with a chain of mobile events to determine the correct timing, location, conditions, and/or other mobile... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070270121 - Method and system for establishing a channel for a wireless video area network: A method and system for establishing a channel in a wireless video area network, is provided. Establishing a channel involves scanning available high-rate and low-rate channels, selecting a channel from the available channels with minimal interference with other networks, determining if the selected channel remains available for a listening period,... Agent: Kenneth L. Sherman, Esq. Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman, LLP

20070270122 - Apparatus, system, and method for disabling a mobile communicator: Provided is a mobile communicator apparatus comprising a locational tracking unit and a disabling circuit. The locational tracking unit determines the location of the mobile communicator. The disabling circuit is configured to change the state of the mobile communicator from an enabled state, wherein the audible receiving and transmitting functions... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20070270123 - Allocation of internet protocol (ip) multimedia subsystem (ims) charges: This invention relates to methods and apparatus for providing customized cost allocations for telecommunications session in an Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) network. A Home Subscriber Service stores data describing the policies and rules for allocating charges requested by a particular customer. The charge message sent to charge control system... Agent: Werner Ulrich

20070270124 - Systems and methods for adding credit to a wireless telecommunications account: Systems and methods for adding credit to a wireless telecommunications account. A financial transaction system may receive a request for a wireless telecommunication credit transfer. This request may come from any entity desiring the transfer wireless telecommunication credit. The financial transaction system may also receive, from the funding user, an... Agent: Troutman Sanders LLP

20070270125 - Systems and methods for automatic generation, registration and mobile phone billing of a pod using third party web page content: The systems and methods described herein generally relate to a method and system for automatically generating an application pod for a third party through which the third party's content is offered for access, purchase and use by mobile phone users within a community network. More specifically, the systems and methods... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP Patent Department

20070270126 - Authentication of a digital voice conversation: Generally described, the present invention relates to a method and system that provides the ability to digitally sign or authenticate a digital conversation and provides the ability to enable another entity to act on someone's behalf. More specifically, in some instances, digital conversations may be stored (e.g., for legal and/or... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20070270127 - Method and radio communication network for detecting the presence of fraudulent subscriber identity modules: A method for detecting the presence of fraudulent Subscriber Identity Modules in a network for cellular communications comprising the steps of: at a first Service Node, receiving a registration request by a first User Equipment comprising a Subscriber Identity Module for defining an identity of a subscriber; initiating a checking... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070270128 - User equipment, authentication system, authentication method, authentication program and recording medium: Spoofing is prevented in an authentication technique using a portable terminal and the like. A portable telephone includes an authentication unit for performing personal authentication of the user, a moving distance calculating unit for calculating a linear moving distance the portable telephone has moved from a position of the portable... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20070270129 - Method and system for using a mobile terminal as a location-based reminder: Methods and systems for using a mobile terminal as a location-based reminder are disclosed. Aspects of one method may include a mobile terminal receiving a wireless signal comprising network identifying information, which may be, for example, a wireless network identifier string. The wireless network identifier string may be, for example,... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070270131 - Patentmultiband-multimode mobile communication terminal and its multitasking method: An MB-MM mobile communication terminal having multiple multimedia functions is disclosed. In one embodiment, the MB-MM mobile terminal includes a first modem having a first codec unit, and a second modem having a second codec unit. The first modem controls the first codec unit to process data and outputs a... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070270130 - System for creating separate data serving spaces for each mobile carrier in a plurality of mobile carriers: A system is described for creating a separate data serving space for each mobile carrier in a plurality of mobile carriers. The system may include a processor, a memory and an interface. The memory may store a keyword, a plurality of mobile data items corresponding to the keyword and a... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Yahoo! Overture

20070270132 - Auctioning of message delivery opportunities in a location-based services system: Location-based services are provided in a communication system comprising at least a portion of at least one wireless network. In one aspect of the invention, one or more interested parties are permitted to bid on available opportunities for delivery of messages to mobile user devices, and delivery of at least... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20070270133 - Mobile-initiated location measurement: Location-based services are provided in a communication system comprising at least a portion of at least one wireless network. In one aspect of the invention, profile information is obtained for users associated with respective mobile user devices, and location information is obtained for the mobile user devices. At least one... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20070270134 - Method for operating ad hoc communication network and corresponding device: A user leaving an ad-hoc network is detected and a corresponding sequence of commands are executed independently of surrounding conditions. A user who joins the network transmits an execute-on-leave script to one or several users. The execute-on-leave script includes the commands that have to be executed when the user leaves... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070270135 - Method and device for selecting a carrier for wireless communication for a mobile electronic online game terminal device: The present invention relates to a method for operating mobile terminal devices and to mobile terminal devices having the capability of communicating via different radio communication connections. The invention relates to the selection of radio transmission channels especially in the field of mobile online gaming. The invention provides a method... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070270136 - Network-extensible reconfigurable media appliance: Extensible reconfigurable media appliance for security and entertainment captures images digitally for storage. Digital effects and filters are applied to incoming video stream on-the-fly or to video data stored in memory. Digital effects and filters are dynamically stored, modified, updated or deleted, providing extensible reconfigurable effects studio. Digital media appliance... Agent: Fernandez & Associates LLP

20070270137 - System and method for publishing electronic content between wireless and wired networks: A system and method for automatically publishing electronic content from a wireless network (i.e., a wireless device) to a wired network, and vice versa. The system and method allows a user to create a publish electronic content (e.g., a video clip) across wired and wireless networks, from a mobile device,... Agent: Patent Docket Administrator Lowenstein Sandler PC

20070270138 - Method, apparatus and computer program product for controlling access by a user's portable device to a facility directory: Controlling access to a facility includes sending a program and profile for facility services to a user's portable device. The services have telephones connected via a local area network (“LAN”), so a call originating on the LAN to such a telephone may be completed on the LAN without accessing a... Agent: Ibm Austin (anthony England) C/o Law Office Of Anthony England

20070270139 - Mobile peer-to-peer networks: Mobile terminals may connect to one another of dynamically formed local networks to exchange certain files, such as bandwidth intensive files. Licensing or payment information for these files may be exchanged via a wide-area network, such as the cellular network to which the mobile terminals normally connect. In one embodiment,... Agent: Harrity Snyder, L.L.P.

20070270140 - Method and system for signaling release cause indication in a umts network: A method and system for processing signaling release indication cause between user equipment and a wireless network, the method comprising the steps of: monitoring, at the user equipment, whether a signaling connection release indication should be sent to the wireless network; appending, at the user equipment, a cause for the... Agent: Docket Clerk

20070270141 - Providing to sender of message an identifier of service provider associated with recipient of the message: An apparatus in one example comprises a gateway component that provides an identifier of a service provider to a sender of a message through employment of a user address associated with the recipient of the message.... Agent: Patti , Hewitt & Arezina LLC

20070270142 - System and method for facilitating accelerated network selection in a radio network environment: A scheme for facilitating accelerated network selection by a wireless user equipment (UE) device. In one exemplary embodiment, the wireless UE device includes means for manipulating a search sequence order relating to a system acquisition database structure that is associated with the wireless UE device, the manipulation based at least... Agent: Danamraj & Emanuelson, P.C.

20070270143 - Mobile communication system, radio base station, operation control method and program thereof: To obtain a mobile communication system that can perform handover without causing instantaneous interruption and packet loss and without lowering the performance of the entire network when a mobile communication system is realized by the IP network. During handover of a MN from a handover source cell to a handover... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070270144 - Mobile communication system, switching center server and additional service providing method used for the same: The present invention provides a mobile communication system including an IP (Internet Protocol) core network, a mobile communication network, a switching center server and a mobile terminal, wherein a plurality of services in each of the IP network and the mobile communication network are provided for the mobile terminal.... Agent: Paul J. Esatto, Jr. Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser

20070270147 - Apparatus and method for scanning a home public land mobile network in a mobile communication terminal: Provided are an apparatus and a method for scanning a Home Public Land Mobile Network (Home PLMN) in a mobile communication terminal that includes the operations of determining an operation mode of the mobile communication terminal, if a Home PLMN scanning timer expires, and setting a flag to indicate that... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070270148 - Candidate serving cell-determining method of a mobile subscriber: A candidate serving cell-determining method of a mobile subscriber in cell reselection tasks is disclosed. The mobile subscriber communicates with a mobile network by a serving cell, in which the mobile network comprises a plurality of neighbor cells including the serving cell. The candidate serving cell-determining method comprising the steps... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20070270149 - Handover control between base stations in a multi-hop mobile communication network: A handover control method carried out at a mobile station for switching a destination base station in a multi-hop network includes a reception step of receiving a communication signal and information of neighboring base stations used to identify a base station existing in the surrounding area of the base station... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070270146 - Communication method and communication system: A communication connection apparatus (BS) 200 provided in a communication system accumulates data transmitted from the communication control apparatus (BSC) 300. In a state in which a DSC signal from a communication terminal (AT) 100 designates the own BS, when a DRC indication from the AT 100 is switched from... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070270145 - Systems and methods for seamlessly roaming between a wireless wide area network and a wireless local area network: The present invention takes the advantage of the WLAN resources in hotspots for voice and data connections and enables seamless handover between WWAN and WLAN and vice versa. This allows two users in the hotspots to communicate with each other by making a voice over IP (VoIP) or video call,... Agent: Philips Electronics North America Corporation

20070270150 - Method for determining the damped natural frequencies of a dynamic system: The present invention is a novel device, system, and method for determining the damped natural frequencies of a dynamic system whose characteristics are available in the form of a “frequency response function” FRF. According to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, the method identifies the dampened natural frequencies associated... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070270151 - Controlling transmit power of picocell base units: A transmit power control technique within a wireless communication system includes adjusting a transmit power used by a picocell base station unit based upon a position of the picocell within a macrocell. When a picocell base station unit is located relatively close to a macro