Telecommunications inventions 02/08

20080051026 - Apparatus and method for supporting interactive broadcasting service in broadband wireless access (bwa) system: An apparatus and method for providing an interactive broadcasting service in a Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) system are provided. The method includes receiving content attributes, including a terminal interaction request time index information, and corresponding contents from a content provider; after transmitting the contents to a terminal, sending a burst... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080051025 - Broadcast anchor availability indication: A multicast status availability indication from an anchor (24) is provided to a plurality of base nodes (22) that are part of a multicast group serviced by the anchor (24). The availability status indication in one example is sent autonomously by the anchor (24) independent of any inquiry or attempted... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds, P.C.

20080051027 - Wireless set-top box, wireless display apparatus, wireless video system, and control method thereof: A wireless set-top box, includes: a plurality of module units; a power source unit which supplies driving power to the plurality of module units; a plurality of wireless interface units each of which wirelessly transmits audio/video data inputted from a respective module unit and first control data to a plurality... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080051029 - Phone-based broadcast audio identification: Various aspects can be implemented to identify broadcast audio streams. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a plurality of broadcast streams, each from a corresponding broadcast source and generating a first broadcast audio identifier based on a first broadcast stream of the plurality of broadcast streams. The method also... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20080051031 - Providing service to clients using wireless communication: When a function as an access point to a network is provided to a client using communication means for conducting wireless communication with the client according to a predetermined protocol, a client that exists within a range in which communication is possible is detected by sending a predetermined broadcast packet... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080051032 - Data reception apparatus, data reception method, and program for data reception: The data reception apparatus includes a main processing unit that waits in a standby state so as to be able to receive the connection signal that is transmitted in a first communication mode, and further receives, after reception of the connection signal, the data signal that is transmitted in a... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080051033 - Wireless communications with visually- identified targets: A mechanism for initiating contact with someone, via a telecommunications system, who is in the admirer's proximity, but whose identity or telecommunications address (e.g., telephone number, e-mail address, etc.) is unknown. The illustrative embodiments enable the user to use what information he does know about the admired person—the admiring person's... Agent: Charles Hymes

20080051034 - Data transmitting apparatus, data transmitting method, and program thereof: A data transmitting apparatus for transmitting data to a communication recipient by one-way communication includes a data transmitting unit transmitting data to the communication recipient by the one-way communication of a predetermined communication format; a data selecting unit allowing a user to select the data to be transmitted by the... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080051035 - Method for automatically switching scene mode and portable terminal using the same: A method for automatically switching scene mode and a portable terminal are disclosed, the method comprises steps of setting life cycle and subsequent scene mode for each scene mode; judging whether the life cycle of current scene mode has ended; and switching the current scene mode to a subsequent scene... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080051039 - Film bulkacoustic wave resonator and method for manufacturing the same: A film bulk acoustic wave resonator including a piezoelectric body 1, and a first electrode 2 and a second electrode 3 that are provided respectively on the main surfaces of the piezoelectric body, the piezoelectric body being applied an electric field through the first and the second electrodes so as... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson P.C.

20080051041 - Hybrid portrait-landscape handheld device with trackball navigation and qwerty hide-away keyboard: A device is disclosed for use in two different orientations. In one orientation, the keyboard is exposed to the user. This orientation is named the landscape orientation because the device will be positioned such that its width is larger than its height. The user would opt for the landscape orientation... Agent: Novak Druce & Quigg, LLP (rim Prosecution)

20080051028 - Method and apparatus for uplink power control in communication system: Disclosed is a method for uplink power control in a communication system that includes determining a power control offset for controlling power for traffic to be transmitted by a subscriber station, according to whether a Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) is applied to the traffic, and transmitting the power control... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080051030 - Transceiver suitable for data communications between wearable computers: In a transceiver for inducing electric fields based on data to be transmitted in an electric field propagating medium and carrying out transmission and reception of data by using induced electric fields, having a transmission electrode and a transmission circuit, a transmission side switch is provided to disconnect the transmission... Agent: John S. Pratt, Esq Kilpatrick Stockton, LLP

20080051036 - Method and system for providing a routing protcol for wireless networks: A method and system for providing a network protocol for utility services are disclosed are disclosed. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method determines whether a measured real signal strength differs from a an accepted real signal strength by a configurable control limit parameter. In the event the measured real signal... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080051037 - Base station and method for selecting best transmit antenna(s) for signaling control channel information: A base station is described herein which implements a method that uses different aspects of reported channel quality information (CQI) measurements to help select the “best” transmit antenna(s) on which to transmit control channel information to mobile terminal(s). The base station can also transmit a format indicator to communicate the... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080051038 - Radio loop-back: A radio having a transmitter, a receiver, and a loop-back circuit is provided. The loop-back circuit, when engaged, feeds a transmission from the transmitter to the receiver. According to an embodiment of the invention, the loop-back circuit utilises at least one electronic component that is also used by the transmitter... Agent: Smart & Biggar P.o. Box 2999, Station D

20080051040 - System of communication using microwave signals over wireline networks: The present invention provides a system for wide-range microwave communications over wireline networks. In an exemplary embodiment, a wide-range transceiver is made having pre-calibrated modular units including an IF radio processing card, an RF transmitter module, and an RF receiver module. Calibration factors are loaded into a memory (e.g., EEPROM)... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20080051042 - Adaptive predistortion for controlling an open loop power amplifier: An adaptive predistortion system for controlling an open loop power amplifier includes a transmitter, a receiver, a phase and amplitude determination element configured to determine amplitude and phase characteristics of an output signal generated in the transmitter, the signal representing transmitter characteristics, an amplitude resampling element configured to generate an... Agent: Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha, LLC

20080051043 - Rf power transmission network and method: Disclosed is an RF power transmission network. The network includes at least one RF power transmitter, at least one power tapping component, and at least one load. The at least one RF power transmitter, the at least one power tapping component, and the at least one load are connected in... Agent: Ansel M. Schwartz

20080051044 - Transmission power amplifier apparatus for combining power-amplified constant amplitude signals each having controlled constant amplitude value and phase: In a transmission power amplifier apparatus, a signal calculator divides an input signal into a plurality of N constant amplitude signals having a substantially identical predetermined constant amplitude value and having predetermined phases different from each other, and N power amplifiers amplify electric powers of the N constant amplitude signals... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080051045 - Method and apparatus for controlling gain of transmit antenna in a communication system: An apparatus for controlling a gain of transmit antennas in a communication system. The transmit antenna gain control apparatus includes a controller for determining a gain of multiple transmit antennas on a basis of a transmit antenna having a minimum currently unused residual power among currently unused residual powers of... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080051046 - Diversity receiver: A diversity receiver includes a plurality of antennas to receive radio frequency signals. A plurality of receiver circuits are each coupled to a respective one of the plurality of antennas to process the received radio frequency signals, and a channel estimator is coupled to at least one of the receiver... Agent: Eschweiler & Associates LLC

20080051047 - Radio receiver system and method of injecting audio content: A system and method of injecting audio content into a radio system is provided. The method includes the steps of receiving in a radio receiver a first RF signal from an antenna and processing the signal at a select frequency within a radio frequency band. The method also includes the... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20080051048 - System and method for updating information using limited bandwidth: A system and method detects an amount of data attributed to a device including reports sent to the device, and reduces the amount of data being used to provide reports to the device if the amount of data attributed to the device exceeds an amount assigned to the device. Data... Agent: Innovation Partners

20080051049 - Reception circuit and receiver: A reception circuit receives a digital modulated high frequency signal and is equipped with a plurality of reception systems for receiving the same reception frequency. At least two reception systems share a voltage controlled oscillator of a frequency converting portion that performs frequency conversion of a signal based on the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080051050 - Receiver and amplification-gain controlling device thereof: The receiver comprises a variable gain amplification unit, a mixing unit, a filtering unit, and three compensation unit. Each compensation unit detects powers of the signal amplified in the variable gain amplification unit, the signal down-converted in the mixing unit and the signal filtered in the filtering unit. A gain... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080051051 - Local oscillator apparatus and method: A direct conversion satellite tuner is fully integrated on a common substrate. The integrated tuner receives an RF signal having a plurality of channels and down-converts a selected channel directly to baseband for further processing. The integrated tuner includes on-chip local oscillator generation, tunable baseband filters, and DC Offset cancellation.... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080051052 - Radio communication system and radio communication method: This object is to conclude an agreement for making an insertion interval of a pilot signal variable between radio communication apparatuses and improve a throughput of a communication. A pilot signal insertion interval acquiring unit 3 acquires the insertion interval of the pilot signal (known reference signal) which is optimal... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20080051053 - Dynamic, low if, image interference avoidance receiver: A dynamic low IF image interference avoidance receiver shifts the local oscillator frequency to avoid image interference and shifts the center frequency of the band pass filter to track the frequency shift of the local oscillator or uses two local oscillators, a first to shift frequency and separate the desired... Agent: Iandiorio & Teska Intellectual Property Law Attorneys

20080051054 - Integrated millimeter-wave quadrature generator: An off-chip signal is provided to a differential branch-line directional coupler implemented entirely on-chip. The coupler produces differential quadrature signals, which are then buffered and applied to a quadrature mixer. The coupler is implemented entirely on-chip using microstrip transmission lines. The coupler is made up of a plurality of rings... Agent: Anne Vachon Dougherty

20080051056 - Wireless communications system: One end of a balanced line is connected to a base station. A transmitting and receiving antenna is connected to the other end of the balanced line. The balanced line not only transmits a signal sent from the base station to the transmitting and receiving antenna and at the same... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080051055 - Frequency conversion circuit: A frequency conversion circuit comprises an input stage composed of one or more transistors, the input stage outputting a current corresponding to a voltage-type RF signal which is input to the gate of the transistor; a frequency conversion stage receiving an LO signal, causing the output RF signal to transit... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080051057 - A method and system for processing emergency calls on a wireless communication device with a low battery: A method and system for processing emergency calls on a wireless communication device with a low battery is provided. The wireless communication device is operatively connected to a subscriber identity module (SIM) card. The wireless communication device is also operatively connected to a battery for powering the device and has... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP

20080051058 - Wireless network location-based reference information: The present invention provides a ‘411xx’ value added service to wireless users. The disclosed ‘411xx’ service allows a mobile user who may be unfamiliar with their current geographic location to nevertheless obtain quick, accurate, and current information relating to the geographic area, e.g., different services in their current location, stores,... Agent: Manelli Denison & Selter PLLC

20080051059 - Method and system for adapting a wireless mobile communication device for wireless transactions: A method for configuring a mobile communication device to perform transactions using a second communication channel that is different from a first communication channel through which the mobile communication device sends voice data. The method includes attaching a secure element to the mobile communication device. The secure element includes a... Agent: Sawyer Law Group LLP

20080051062 - Apparatus and method for downloading sim data in mobile communication system: Provided are an apparatus and a method for downloading Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) data in a mobile communication system, which includes an authentication server that stores authentication information and a list of registered networks; a service provider server that stores SIM data and transmits the SIM data in response to... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080051061 - Authentication system and authentication method for performing authentication of wireless terminal: An authentication system for performing authentication of a wireless terminal is a system that issues an authentication request to an authentication server connected to a communication network and includes a wireless base station and an authentication server. The wireless base station includes: an authentication information acquisition means for acquiring authentication... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080051060 - Method for fast roaming in a wireless network: A roaming service method for a fast and secure wireless network is provided. In an embodiment of the present invention, an AP, which an STA associates with, transmits proactive keys needed for roaming to neighbor APs of the AP. When the STA moves to one of the neighbor APs, a... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080051063 - Communication terminal with camera: A communication terminal with a camera includes a communicator for processing the sending and receiving of mail messages, a designator for designating any one of the mail messages received by the communicator as a browsing mail message, and a determiner for determining whether there is an image related to the... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080051065 - Apparatus and method for displaying instant message in mobile terminal: Provided is an apparatus and method for displaying an instant message in a mobile terminal. The apparatus includes an input unit for receiving a character string composing the instant message; a converter for converting the instant message into XML; a message processor for, upon receipt of a character string set... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080051064 - Method for assigning tasks to providers using instant messaging notifications: A method and system for correlating a work request to a provider based on content of the work request and delegating the work request to the provider using an instant message (IM) service. An instant message service including those offered by existing IM service providers is used to notify a... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080051066 - Digital personal assistant and automated response system: Systems, apparatus and methods are described that provide abstractions, automation, personalization, tools and delivery systems useful in the publication, sharing, viewing, communication, transmission and reception of information on telephone networks. The invention provides systems, apparatus and methods for conducting transactions on telephone networks, for automated, customized, integrated and bimodal responses... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20080051067 - Voice message transmission system, transmission result notification system, and methods thereof: Disclosed are a voice message transmission system, transmission result notification system and methods thereof. A transmission terminal records a voice message and receiving terminal information. An IP server recognizes the record of a voice message and generates a communication path to the receiving terminal corresponding to the receiving terminal information.... Agent: Anderson, Kill & Olick, P.C.

20080051068 - Method and apparatus for presenting ring back tones: A method and apparatus for presenting ring back tones is disclosed. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a network management system (NMS) having a tracking element that tracks an approximate location of a subscriber, a detection element that detects the subscriber roaming from... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080051069 - Method and system for managing trial service subscriptions for a mobile communications device: A method and system for managing trial service subscriptions for a user of a mobile communications device in a communications network. The system and method provide the capability to allocate one or more trial services to the mobile communications device of a new user. A new user includes a subscriber... Agent: Bennett Jones LLP

20080051071 - System and method for sending mobile media content to another mobile device user: Techniques are provided that extend the capabilities of mobile phone devices to automatically assign media content items to “contacts” list entries. Thus, if a mobile device user indicates the desire to purchase a media content item to be assigned to or associated with another mobile device user (e.g., an entry... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC

20080051070 - Method and apparatus for alternate content recording and reporting for mobile devices: Use of alternate digital content in connection with mobile devices is recorded and reported. An exemplary embodiment comprises an alternate content reporter module on the mobile device that works alongside an alternate content scheduler and a micro-splicer. The alternate content reporter also comprises a mobile network interface for interaction with... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20080051072 - Data privacy on wireless communication terminal: A wireless communication terminal in which items are stored that have been generated or received during use of the terminal is provided with a system for restricting access to private or sensitive information by unauthorized users in a user-friendly way that does not require entry of a password.... Agent: Perman & Green

20080051073 - External request type function control system, terminal device, external request type function control method, and external request type function control program: A function control information transmitter 30 transmits function control information 40 for controlling the function of a terminal device 10 such as a mobile telephone. When the terminal device (mobile telephone 10) receives the function control information 40 from the function control information transmitter 30, the terminal device analyzes the... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080051074 - Making a call from an address list or a call history list: A method and apparatus of managing a phone device of a personal digital assistant (PDA) is provided. In one example of the present invention, the PDA retrieves a call history list from a stored memory location, the call history list including a call history list record. The PDA then displays... Agent: Berry & Associates P.C.

20080051075 - Method and apparatus for reconfiguring a remote device: A system (100) for reconfiguring a remote device (102) (e.g., a client device) that includes at least one processor (200) and reconfigurable logic (202) that is operatively coupled to the processor (200), employs for example, a network element that serves as a remote profile server (104) for the remote device... Agent: Vedder Price/freescale

20080051076 - System and method for mobile device application management: A system for managing mobile electronic devices in a network, including a plurality of mobile electronic devices, a directory service including user data pertaining to one or more users of the plurality of mobile electronic devices, and a device manager for receiving the user data and determining a group of... Agent: St. Onge Steward Johnston & Reens LLC

20080051077 - Method and system for handling a faulty registration for a mobile communications device: A method and system for handling a faulty registration for a subscriber with a mobile communication device in a communications network. A faulty registration comprises a registration missing identification information or having a field that is missing an identifier or other form of information. The method and system comprise selecting... Agent: Bennett Jones LLP

20080051078 - Method for reporting scan result in mobile communication system and mobile terminal and mobile communication system using the same: A method for reporting a scan result in a mobile communication system, which includes scanning, via a mobile terminal, neighboring base stations during a period determined by the mobile terminal, transmitting a first message to a serving base station to notify the serving base station that a scanning result acquired... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080051079 - Differentiated access to a data item store: A portable electronic device includes an interface unit for connection to a removable storage medium; at least one data item store; a group of application handling units, at least one application handling unit in the group of application handling units providing an application handling user data; at least one access... Agent: Harrity Snyder, L.L.P.

20080051080 - Ground-based beamforming for satellite communications systems: Methods, systems and apparatus for ground-based beamforming of a satellite communications payload (200) within a satellite communications network (100). An embodiment of the invention comprises a satellite (11) communicatively coupled to at least one gateway (12) via a feeder link (13) and further coupled to a plurality of user terminals... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080051081 - Profile tracker for portable communication device: A portable communication device is equipped with profile tracking functionality. A method of generating a profile for the user of the portable communication device includes tracking user activities and user preferences based on the user's use of the portable communication device. The tracked user activities and user preferences are indexed... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080051082 - Wireless mobile call location and delivery for non-geographic numbers using a wireline ssp+scp/wireless hlr interface: A system and method is provided for establishing a call to a wireless directory number (982) which is either a non-geographic directory number or a non-dialable directory number. A call is initiated from a wireline telephone (155) to a geographic-based local access directory number (994, 996). An originating switching node... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080051083 - System and method for transferring a device between mobile carriers: There is disclosed a system and method for transferring a mobile handheld device between mobile carriers. In an embodiment, a system for transferring a handheld device between mobile carriers comprises a provisioning system for receiving from a first mobile carrier a request to register the device on the first mobile... Agent: Fasken Martineau Dumoulin LLP

20080051084 - Telecommunications system and method for early transmission of data: In a telecommunications system, such as E-UTRAN, a User Equipment 6 is connected to a base station eNB 8 by an early radio bearer, which is established using preset values stored at the UE 6 and at the eNB 8. This enables data to be transferred over the radio link... Agent: Lucent Technologies Inc. Docket Administrator - Room 3j-219

20080051085 - Multi-mode handheld apparatus: A multi-mode handset apparatus may incorporate a radio element that is operative in accordance with a plurality of communication standards. A coexistence engine may arbitrate access to resources of the radio element by media access controllers and baseband components.... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080051091 - Apparatus, method and computer program product providing enhanced robustness of handover in e-utran with paging of the active ue: In a non-limiting aspect thereof, the exemplary embodiments of this invention provide a method that includes starting a timer in a base station after sending a handover information message, and stopping the timer upon a condition, including either receiving an expected handover related message, or expiration of a maximum allowed... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080051090 - Radio communication apparatus and method: A radio communication apparatus which communicates with a radio terminal device, the apparatus belonging to a first group, the device performing handoff between apparatuses which belong to the first group, the apparatus includes unit selecting one block from frequency blocks obtained by dividing a specified frequency band, the frequency blocks... Agent: Charles N.j. Ruggiero, Esq. Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.L.P.

20080051089 - Control device, handover control method and mobile communication system: An object of the present invention is to avoid packet loss and implement a seamless handover by minimizing the handover latency when a handover is implemented by a multihomed moving network (MN) or a mobile host (MH). The present invention is a mobile communication system that is constituted comprising an... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080051088 - Facilitating use of a restricted base tranceiver station: Facilitating use of a restricted base transceiver station is disclosed. To a first set of subscribers associated with a mobile network operator, access to a mobile network is provided via base transceiver stations associated with a first mobile network identifier associated with the mobile network operator but not via base... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP

20080051087 - Method of communicating neighbor base station information: A method uses inter-base station control messages to provide neighbor base station information to mobile subscriber stations in a mobile communication system. The method includes obtaining, at a serving base station, physical channel information of neighbor base stations over a backbone network via, either directly or via a server; periodically... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080051086 - System and method for handoff between base stations: A system and method for handoff are provided. A mobile station performs a make-before-break handoff of a control channel between a serving and target base station and a break-before-make handoff of a traffic channel between the serving and target base stations. The traffic channel handoff is performed after the control... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080051092 - Method and apparatus of performing handover in mobile node, information server, and method of transmitting handover information from information server to mobile node: A method and apparatus of performing handover in a mobile node using an intrinsic value of a point of attachment (PoA), a method of transmitting handover information to the mobile node, and an information server. The method of performing handover in a mobile node includes determining an intrinsic value of... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080051093 - Characterization of cellular telecommunications network area: A system, a computer program product and a method of characterizing a cellular telecommunications network area are disclosed. The method comprises: receiving (606) measurement data characterizing measured cell quality of a plurality of radio cells in a plurality of spatiotemporal coordinate points; selecting (608) a plurality of sub-areas within a... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080051094 - System and method for facilitating communications: Systems and methods applicable, for instance, in facilitating communications. A wireless node and/or other computer might, for example, have connectivity via a network, and/or might search for networks. The wireless node and/or other computer might, for instance, request that communications be diverted to one or more telephone numbers associated with... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20080051095 - Receiving apparatus and method in broadband wireless access system: Provided is an apparatus and method for enhancing a demodulation performance of a receiver in a Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) system. A receiving apparatus in a broadband wireless communication system includes an estimator, a first calculator, and a second calculator. The estimator estimates a desired signal. The first calculator calculates... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080051096 - Method for adaptively controlling other cell interference: Disclosed is a method of controlling a transmit power constraint at a mobile station using a pilot power ratio (PPR) or other measurement of relative received powers (or signal strengths) between a neighbor cell transmission and a serving cell transmission such that other-cell interference produced by the mobile station may... Agent: Lucent Technologies Inc. Docket Administrator

20080051097 - Method of determining channel to be used in wireless network, wireless communication method, and apparatus for the same: There is provided a wireless communication method, the method including selecting first and second channels that apply different data transmission capabilities, respectively, and transmitting and receiving data using the selected first and second channels.... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080051098 - Method for transmitting fast scheduling request messages in scheduled packet data systems: Disclosed is a method of allocating resources in a packet data system to a User Equipment (UE) with an active data session, such as a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) call, using dedicated resources to transmit scheduling requests, thereby reducing latency which may occur as a result of collisions associated... Agent: Lucent Technologies Inc. Docket Administrator

20080051099 - Common signaling method and apparatus: A common signaling method are apparatus are provided. In one embodiment, a method is provided that enables communication in under-utilized radio frequencies by receiving a master beacon, scanning radio frequencies included in the master beacon, and establishing communications using an unoccupied radio frequency from one of the listed radio frequencies.... Agent: Pulse-link, Inc.

20080051100 - Network acquisition for wireless clients: In one embodiment, a method for facilitating access to a wireless network. A wireless client is operable to determine its current location, select a wireless network based on the location, and connect to the wireless network utilizing network information associated with the location.... Agent: Law Office Of Mark J. Spolyar

20080051102 - Position measurement system and portable terminal: A first portable terminal receives a GPS signal transmitted from a satellite via radio waves with a signal reception means, and a short distance wireless communication means transfers this received signal to a second portable terminal. Furthermore, upon receipt of this signal transferred from the first portable terminal, the second... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080051101 - Disguised power-off method for a mobile communication terminal: The present invention relates to a method of determining the location of a mobile terminal using disguised power-off, wherein if a mobile terminal is powered off in a state where a mobile communication service subscriber does not intend to do so, only the location indication function of the mobile terminal... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080051104 - Locating system and method: A method and system in which a mobile controller can show on a display a bearing line to a rover. It is done using a radio positioning system such as GPS or other satellite positioning system to find the relative position of the controller and the rover plus means such... Agent: Lawrence S. Cohen, Attorney

20080051105 - Method and apparatus for updating the location of a mobile device within a wireless communication network: A location reporting paging communication system comprising space satellites, ground stations and a remote receiving unit adapted to resolve a global position from signals transmitted from a communication transmitter. The subscriber in possession of the remote receiving unit updates the paging network with global positioning information. A caller paging a... Agent: Mundi Fomukong

20080051103 - Method for locating mobile units based on received signal strength ratio: Location of mobile units in a wireless local area network is based on use of signal strength ratios and other criteria. In one embodiment absolute value of signal strength is used to derive a second value of location. The second value may be used as the location if the system... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20080051107 - Authorized location reporting mobile communication system: A location reporting paging communication system comprising space satellites, ground stations and a remote receiving unit adapted to resolve a global position from signals transmitted from a communication transmitter. The subscriber in possession of the remote receiving unit updates the paging network with global positioning information. A caller paging a... Agent: Mundi Fomukong

20080051106 - System and method of telephonic dialing simulation: A multiple mode, personal, wireless communications system exists within a radiotelephone network serving general customers and provides additional services to a select group of customers. The system uses handsets which automatically switch between a standard cellular radiotelephone mode of operation and an enhanced cordless mode when the handsets are within... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080051108 - Updating a time clock of a wireless communication device based on time zone: A geographic-based communications service system has a mobile unit for transmitting/receiving information, and access points connected to a network. The access points are arranged in a known geographic locations and transmit and receive information from the mobile unit. When one of the access points detects the presence of the mobile... Agent: B. Noel Kivlin Conley, Rose & Tayon, P.C.

20080051110 - Apparatus, and associated method, for dynamically configuring a page message used to page an access terminal in a radio communication system: Apparatus, and an associated method, for paging an access terminal in a radio communication system. Dynamic configuration and reconfiguration of a quick page message is provided. Its configuration is dependent upon paging load in the system. Hash values are selected and used pursuant to the configuration, and use, of the... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080051111 - Apparatus, and associated method, for dynamically configuring a page message used to page an access terminal in a radio communication system: Apparatus, and an associated method, for paging an access terminal in a radio communication system. Dynamic configuration and reconfiguration of a quick page message is provided. Its configuration is dependent upon paging load in the system. Hash values are selected and used pursuant to the configuration, and use, of the... Agent: Research In Motion, Ltd

20080051112 - Apparatus, and associated method, for dynamically configuring a page message used to page an access terminal in a radio communication system: Apparatus, and an associated method, for paging an access terminal in a radio communication system. Dynamic configuration and reconfiguration of a quick page message is provided. Its configuration is dependent upon paging load in the system. Hash values are selected and used pursuant to the configuration, and use, of the... Agent: Research In Motion, Ltd

20080051113 - Apparatus, and associated method, for dynamically configuring a page message used to page an access terminal in a radio communication system: Apparatus, and an associated method, for paging an access terminal in a radio communication system. Dynamic configuration and reconfiguration of a quick page message is provided. Its configuration is dependent upon paging load in the system. Hash values are selected and used pursuant to the configuration, and use, of the... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080051114 - Apparatus, and associated method, for dynamically configuring a page message used to page an access terminal in a radio communication system: Apparatus, and an associated method, for paging an access terminal in a radio communication system. Dynamic configuration and reconfiguration of a quick page message is provided. Its configuration is dependent upon paging load in the system. Hash values are selected and used pursuant to the configuration, and use, of the... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080051115 - Apparatus, and associated method, for dynamically configuring a page message used to page an access terminal in a radio communication system: Apparatus, and an associated method, for paging an access terminal in a radio communication system. Dynamic configuration and reconfiguration of a quick page message is provided. Its configuration is dependent upon paging load in the system. Hash values are selected and used pursuant to the configuration, and use, of the... Agent: Research In Motion, Ltd

20080051116 - Apparatus, and associated method, for dynamically configuring a page message used to page an access terminal in a radio communication system: Apparatus, and an associated method, for paging an access terminal in a radio communication system. Dynamic configuration and reconfiguration of a quick page message is provided. Its configuration is dependent upon paging load in the system. Hash values are selected and used pursuant to the configuration, and use, of the... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080051109 - Apparatus, and associated method, for setting the number of page indications per page to be included in a quick page message: Apparatus, and an associated method, for paging an access terminal in a radio communication system. A page indication count setter selects the page indication count, i.e., the number of page indications per page, to be included in a quick page message. The set page indication count is dependent upon communication... Agent: Research In Motion, Ltd

20080051117 - Integration of secure identification logic into cell phone: Presented herein are systems and methods for integrating secure identification logic into cell phones. A registration is received, wherein said registration includes an identifier identifying a mobile terminal. Information is transmitted to the mobile terminal, wherein a password is a function of the information.... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080051121 - Device and method for realizing short message notification service for missing calls: A missing-call short message notification device includes: a main control module for controlling and scheduling other modules; a relay signaling processing module for receiving information sent by the switching device and sending information to the switching device; a short message constructing module for constructing a missing-call short message; a short... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080051122 - Method and system for transmitting data between a server and a mobile communication device using short message service (sms): A method for transmitting data between a wireless communication and a remote server. The method includes running a mobile application on the wireless communication device, in which the mobile application is a rich client application. The method further includes transmitting data associated with the mobile application between the wireless communication... Agent: Sawyer Law Group LLP

20080051118 - Method for message exchanging service between residential device and mobile terminal: The present invention relates to a method for a message exchange service, especially to a service method for transmitting/receiving an SMS (Short Message Service) or MMS (Multimedia Message Service) information from a mobile terminal to a residential device, or from a residential device to a mobile terminal, characterized by including... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080051120 - Mobile device for sending text messages: A mobile device includes a display device, a modem interface to communicate with a network, an input interface to receive data, and processing logic responsive to the input interface. The mobile device also includes a memory accessible to the processing logic. The memory includes a plurality of instructions executable by... Agent: Toler Law Group

20080051119 - Transaction proxy in a telecommunications or messaging system and related methods: Methods and related apparatus are described of operating a transaction proxy to act as a conduit for a structured transaction, such as TCAP structured dialog between a first transaction peer, for instance an SMSC, and a second transaction peer, for instance an MSC. The method comprises the steps of: receiving... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080051123 - Telecommunication system and transmission method: At the time of carrying out a DHO, a DHO execution unit encodes data to be transmitted and interleaves it, followed by dividing it into segment data and sending out from respective transmission paths. When receiving data, the unit receives pieces of segment data from the respective transmission paths, combines... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080051124 - Determining which channels are accessible by a communication device in a push-to-talk communication network: A method of and system to determine which channels are accessible by a communication device in a push-to-talk communication network are disclosed. The method may comprise sending an identifying network connectivity message to the communication device across a particular network channel, the identifying network connectivity message including an identification code.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080051125 - Adaptive selection of transmission parameters for reference signals: An embodiment of the present invention uses estimates of delay spreads of transmissions from user equipments (UEs) to a NodeB to determine a set of transmission parameters for the UEs reference signals. In an exemplary embodiment, the transmission parameters for reference signals include cyclic shifts. Thus, embodiments include a set... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080051127 - Method and apparatus for controlling power of uplink physical channel: A method for controlling power of an uplink physical channel includes: computing a relative gain factor in a compressed mode; correcting the relative gain factor to obtain a corrected relative gain factor; generating a gain factor in the compressed mode according to the corrected relative gain factor; controlling power of... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080051126 - Method for allocating transmit power in a wireless communication system: Disclosed is a method of setting reverse link traffic and pilot transmit powers in a wireless communications system based on traffic channel activity in order to lower average total transmit power on the reverse link and optimize reverse link capacity. As traffic channel activity decreases, the traffic transmit power relative... Agent: Lucent Technologies Inc. Docket Administrator

20080051128 - Communication device, communication method, and communication program: Upon reception of a telephone transmission request from a data processing unit 230, a transmission request processing unit 250 decides the transmission method of a communication processing unit 240 according to a data ID of the data being referenced by the data processing unit 230 and transmission judgment information stored... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080051129 - Radio communication device: There are provided a plurality of systems of reconfigurable radio processing unit (102) whose function and performance can be modified. A control unit (104) collects quality information on the communication link in communication methods received at respective radio processing systems (102a, 102b). According to this, the control unit (104) selects... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20080051132 - Dual standby mobile communication terminal and system access method for the same: Disclosed is a mobile communication terminal and system access method for supporting a dual-standby mode, that can access at least two radio communication systems for receiving a system access request signal and attempting, when the system access request signal is received, to access a system of a preset system preference... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080051131 - Method and system for transporting fm data over a bluetooth hci link: Certain aspects of a method and system for transporting FM data over a Bluetooth HCI link may comprise processing FM signals in a single chip that comprises integrated Bluetooth and FM radios. The processed signals may be communicated to a host communicatively coupled via the HCI. The processed signals may... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080051130 - Software architecture for dual mode phone and method of use: Alternative software architectures for a dual mode wireless communication device and methods of use are provided for efficient and effective use of the processor and memory capabilities of first and second air interface processors on a dual mode wireless communication device. The alternative architectures efficiently distribute a plurality of operational... Agent: Kyocera Wireless Corp.

20080051133 - System and method of telephonic dialing simulation: A multiple mode, personal, wireless communications system exists within a radiotelephone network serving general customers and provides additional services to a select group of customers. The system uses handsets which automatically switch between a standard cellular radiotelephone mode of operation and an enhanced cordless mode when the handsets are within... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080051134 - Reconfigurable wireless transceiver: A reconfigurable wireless transceiver and method of use are disclosed. As one example, a reconfigurable wireless transceiver is disclosed, which includes a transmitter unit, a plurality of receiver units, and a processing unit coupled to the plurality of receiver units. A first receiver unit of the plurality of receiver units... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20080051136 - Method terminal and method for reproducing button sound thereof: A mobile terminal for reproducing music contents according to a keypad input and a method for reproducing a button sound of the mobile terminal are discussed. According to an embodiment, the mobile terminal includes: an input unit including one or more buttons; a memory that stores music contents corresponding to... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080051137 - Voip apparatus embedded in mobile communication equipment: The invention is to provide a VoIP apparatus embedded in a mobile communication equipment. The VoIP apparatus according to the invention includes a converting module. In particular, the converting module is used for converting voltage levels and interfaces between the communication module in the mobile communication equipment and the VoIP... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20080051135 - Combination camera/projector system: A combination camera/projection system includes an image forming device, a light source, a projection lens, a detector array such as a CCD, and a beam splitter such as a polarizing beam splitter (PBS) disposed to direct light from the light source to the image forming device, and from the image... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20080051138 - Cellular telephone personal digital assistant, and pager unit with capability of short range radio frequency transmissions: A cellular telephone system, including a cellular telephone transceiver unit, an ear piece which receives the voice vibrations of a user, and a wireless linkage operatively connecting the ear piece to the cellular telephone transceiver unit, allows a user to be in a hands-free mode when using a cellular telephone.... Agent: Mckee, Voorhees & Sease, P.L.C

20080051140 - Managing call control in computer telephone interface (cti) system: A method and apparatus to manage call control in a Computer Telephone Interface (CTI) system includes: a computer terminal to generate a call control message including call control identification information using a CTI application program in response to a call control command from a user, and transmitting the generated call... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20080051139 - Dockable cellular phone: A system that permits a cell phone user to insert a cell phone, which has a PCMCIA compliant connector, directly into a computer's PC card socket. The cell phone is hinged about a first component and a second component. The first component includes a keypad appropriate for dialing up an... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080051141 - System and method for bundling information: A message status synchronization scheme. In one embodiment, a method may comprise: automatically detecting arrival of a message at a messaging server from a sender for a user having a mail address thereat, the message being displayable on a computer for the user with a status indicator icon associated therewith;... Agent: Research In Motion, Ltd

20080051143 - Smart card operating system and method: The present invention relates to the smart card field, and more specifically to a smart card operating system and method, to avoid the failure of non-contact communication of the smart card operating system resulting from its inability to obtain the information of access to the non-contact field in the prior... Agent: Marjama Muldoon Blasiak & Sullivan LLP

20080051142 - Subscriber identity module: The invention relates to a subscriber identity module for a mobile communication terminal, comprising a processing device, a memory device, an I/O device and a wireless communication device, in particular an interrogatable transponder such as an RFID transponder. The RFID transponder is operatively controllable by said processing device, and comprises... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080051144 - Apparatus, and associated method, for paging an access terminal in a radio communication system: Apparatus, and an associated method, for paging an access terminal in a radio communication system. A message generator generates a quick paging message formed of page indication locations. Page indication values are populated in selected page indication locations of the message. A hash generator generates hash values that are determinative... Agent: Research In Motion, Ltd

20080051147 - Apparatus and method for allocating resource to mobile station connected to relay station in broadband wireless communication system: An apparatus and method for allocating a resource to a Mobile Station (MS) connected to a Relay Station (RS) in a broadband wireless communication system are provided. In the broadband wires communication system, a Base Station (BS) includes a transmitter for transmitting a pilot signal transmission request message to an... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20080051145 - Method for computing beamforming weighting vectors with collaborated uplink sounding: The present invention discloses a method for computing beamforming weighting vectors with collaborated uplink sounding in a wireless communications network. The method comprises selecting a designated uplink sounding region and a signal sequence from a set of orthogonal signal sequences; exchanging collaborated uplink sounding information between a base transceiver station... Agent: L. Howard Chen Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis, LLP

20080051146 - Base unit for communicating with a cellular telephone: Disclosed herein is a telecommunication system to be used with a cellular telephone network at a fixed location, including a portable cellular handset, a base unit having a recess for the portable cellular handset, a processor included in the base unit for processing information from the portable cellular handset, a... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080051148 - Radio base station apparatus, radio terminal apparatus, mobile communication system, and reception operation control program: In response to a connection request from a terminal, a base station provides a signal indicating a reception operation adapted to a transmission operation of the base station to the terminal. Based on the indicating signal, the terminal selects and performs the optimum reception operation. The terminal also provides its... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080051149 - Method and system for antenna selection in wireless networks: A method and system selects a subset of antennas from a set of antennas to transmit user data in a wireless communication system. The user data is transmitted during a first transmission time intervals (TTI) using a first subset of antennas. Pilot tones are transmitted during a second TTI using... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20080051150 - Wireless communication apparatus and wireless communication method: A wireless communication apparatus on the base station transmits beamformed multi-beam data to a wireless communication apparatus on the mobile station side using a multiple antennas. To obtain an expected directivity without gain reduction under the existence of phase variation in transmission circuits, the wireless communication apparatus on the base... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080051151 - Phone number replace code system and method: A processor-implemented method of placing telephone calls includes determining if a phone call initiated to a phone number has connected. If the phone call did not connect, then the processor determines if the phone number has an associated replace code for any subset of the phone number. If a replace... Agent: Paul E. Franz, Esq. Jones Day - North Point

20080051152 - Method for displaying information in mobile terminal: Provided is a method for displaying information in a mobile terminal having an Electro-Luminescence (EL) region. The method includes determining whether a request for setting an item to be displayed on the EL region is input in a state in which the mobile terminal is in an EL display mode;... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080051153 - Mobile communication terminal having wide display unit and method of controlling wide display unit: A mobile communication terminal having a wide display unit and a method of controlling a wide display unit are provided. The method of controlling a wide display unit having a standard area and an extension area in a mobile communication terminal includes displaying data in the standard area and user's... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080051154 - Alert sleep and wakeup for a mobile station: A mobile station (200) that includes a transceiver (210) that receives an alert request (105) and a controller (205). Responsive to the alert request, the controller can enter the mobile station into an alert active mode in which an alert signal is generated on the mobile station. Responsive to not... Agent: Cuenot & Forsythe, L.L.C.

20080051155 - Attachable speaker apparatus and audio reproducing system having the same: A speaker apparatus includes a speaker, a connection plug detachably and electrically connected to an earphone jack of the portable terminal, an amplifying block for amplifying an audio signal to output the amplified audio signal through the speaker, a RF modulation block for modulating the audio signal into an RF... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080051156 - Hands-free apparatus: A connection of a hands-free apparatus to a cellular phone is established through a hands-free profile, and the connection of the hands-free apparatus to the cellular phone through the hands-free profile is switched from the cellular phone to another cellular phone when a data communication is triggered. Then, the hands-free... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080051157 - Noise suppression circuit for mobile phone: A noise suppression circuit and method for a mobile phone is disclosed that includes a codec for decoding a received audio signal; a speaker for reproducing the audio signal; and a low-pass filter, which includes: a resistor; and a varactor and a capacitor connected in parallel to ground. Characteristics of... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080051158 - Galvanic isolation integrated in a signal channel: A communication link between two isolated electrical devices provides for adjustable impedances coupled to the communication link signal paths to balance the signal paths and improve CMRR. The communication link may be a bidirectional capacitively coupled differential signal line to improve noise rejection. The capacitance may be realized as portions... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080051161 - Dual slide portable terminal: A dual slide portable terminal includes a first housing having a surface with a display arranged thereon and a rear surface; a second housing having a surface; and a dual slide coupling mechanism coupling the first and second housings to each other. The coupling mechanism includes: a first translation mechanism... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080051160 - Holder, electrical supply, and rf transmitter unit for electronic devices: A holder, electrical supply, and optional radio frequency transmitter unit to hold, supply power to, and receive a data signal from an operating electronic device when the device (e.g., MP3 player) is held in the unit is disclosed. Electrical power enters the unit's power acquisition portion (e.g., cigarette lighter adapter)... Agent: Stephen P. Gilbert, Esq. Bryan Cave LLP

20080051159 - Portable radio: A mobile radio 10 includes an upper circuit board 17 housed in an upper cabinet 11 and connected to a liquid crystal display element 16, a lower circuit board 24 housed in a lower cabinet 12, upper and lower connectors 18 and 25 provided on the upper and lower circuit... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20080051162 - Mobile phone having dual connection member and hinge device thereof: A dual connection member allowing a liquid crystal display unit and a keypad of a mobile phone to rotate and a hinge device thereof are provided. The dual connection member may be used in a mobile phone wherein the mobile phone includes a first housing, a second housing and a... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20080051163 - Driving apparatus using magnetic substance for sliding type portable wireless terminal: A driving apparatus enables a sliding-type portable wireless terminal to be opened or closed with reduced noise and through multiple stages of opening. The portable wireless terminal may have various functions corresponding to each of the multiple stages. The driving apparatus comprises: a main body; a sub body sliding in... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20080051164 - Mobile terminal: A mobile terminal having a first body including a front surface, a rear surface, and a pair of side surfaces connecting the front surface to the rear surface, the pair of side surfaces extending in a longitudinal direction of the first body, a display located at the front surface of... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080051165 - Rf power control using proximity sensor: A communication device (100) that includes a transceiver (210), a sensor (230) that detects proximity of the communication device with respect to a user (105), and a controller (205) that selectively changes at least one operating parameter of the transceiver when the sensor detects that the communication device is proximate... Agent: Cuenot & Forsythe, L.L.C.

20080051166 - Head set device: A head set device includes an antenna housing, a speaker housing connected to the antenna housing while protruding from one face of the antenna housing, and a hinge device for rotatably combining the speaker housing to the antenna housing. The speaker housing rotates with respect to a rotation axis that... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20080045139 - System and method for reusing wireless resources in a wireless network: A method for reusing wireless resources in a wireless network, includes determining the probability of a first communication with a first relay station experiencing interference from a second relay station. The method also includes, upon determining that the probability of experiencing interference from the second relay station is greater than... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080045140 - Audio system employing multiple mobile devices in concert: An audio reproduction system includes a plurality of mobile devices, such as mobiles phones. Each of the mobile devices includes a loudspeaker, memory for storing audio data, and instructions, stored in memory, for prompting the plurality of mobile devices to each output at least a portion of an audio data... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20080045142 - Data sharing system and method for handheld terminals over mobile communication network: A remote control-based data sharing system and method for handheld terminals over a communication network are provided. The data sharing system includes a master terminal that transmits a control assignment request and displays a screen image received in response to the control assignment request; a slave terminal that selectively assigns... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20080045143 - Radio communications system and radio communications control method: A radio communications system having a radio base station and a radio relay station is disclosed. A terminal performs radio communications through a link with the radio base station or a link with the radio base station via the radio relay station. The radio base station includes an antenna gain... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080045141 - Relay station, base station and communication system: The present invention utilizes a relay station operable to receive, from a base station, a first signal to control transmitting operation of a mobile station and operable to receive a second signal transmitted from said mobile station in accordance with the first signal. The relay station comprises a control unit... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080045144 - Wireless communication device and method: Wireless communication device and method whereby, even in cases where relay stations that transmit control information to terminals and relay stations that do not transmit control information coexist in the same system, the terminals are prevented from interfering with one another's communications. A non-controlling relay station transmits only data, and... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080045145 - Radio relay communication method, radio base station, and radio relay station in radio communication system: For that purpose, time lag information related to a relay delay due to relay processing in the radio relay station is set to the radio base, the receiving timing of the mobile station is determined based on the time lag information, and the transmit timing of the radio base station... Agent: Myers Wolin, LLC

20080045147 - Radio terminal, relay station, radio base station and communication method: The present invention utilizes a communication method including acquiring, with a radio base station, reception quality of the received signal received via no relay station from a radio base station measured with a radio terminal and reception quality received via a relay station from the radio base station and selecting... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080045148 - Relay station, radio base station and communication method: A relay station comprising a control unit is used in order to control a transmission processing device and a reception processing device to eliminate overlap of the receiving period to receive a radio signal from the radio base station and the transmitting period to transmit a radio signal to a... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080045149 - Wireless architecture for a traditional wire-based protocol: Embodiments are described in connection with transferring data traditionally communicated through a wired link over a high-speed wireless link. The disclosed embodiments provide the wired and/or wireless data communication with minimal changes on the existing wired architecture. According to an embodiment is an apparatus for communicating wirelessly over a traditional... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080045151 - Communication system: A communication system capable of communicating control information without decreasing the bandwidth available to users. A coder encodes a primary signal to generate encoded data such that the polarity of the encoded data alternates between positive and negative polarities. A polarity-reversed data generator reverses the polarity of part of the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080045152 - System and method for reducing signal interference between bluetooth and wlan communications: Methods and systems are disclosed for reducing signal interference between Bluetooth (BT) and WLAN (e.g. WiFi) communications in an information handling system. The WLAN receiver has configurable front-end filter circuitry. Based upon information concerning the BT frequency region for current BT communications, the WLAN receiver can adjust or set its... Agent: O'keefe, Egan, Peterman & Enders LLP

20080045154 - Method and apparatus for beam-formed multiple input multiple output wireless communications: There is provided a system and method of transmitting wireless data. The data signal has a multipath effected upon it and the effected multipath is used to decode the received signal. This is achieved by either passing the signal through a multipath filter prior to transmission or by producing a... Agent: Mcguinness & Manaras LLP

20080045155 - Apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving broadcasting guide information using user information: An apparatus and a method for transmitting differentiated available broadcasting guide information to users based on user information are provided. The method includes connecting to the mobile terminal through a bi-directional channel in response to a request from the mobile terminal, determining if a request for available service guide information... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20080045157 - Fault detecting device and fault detecting method for base station and for mobile terminal: The fault detecting device for a base station including a plurality of baseband processing units each executing signal processing of a set call allocated thereto, comprises a plurality of monitoring units, provided in each of the plurality of baseband processing units, counting a cumulative call count and an abnormal call... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080045158 - Method and system for transmitting a beacon signal in a wireless network: A method for transmitting a beacon signal to facilitate quick beacon detection and protect a low-power device in a wireless network is provided. The method includes spreading each symbol of a beacon message with a fixed-length pseudorandom (PN) code to generate a beacon signal. The beacon signal is transmitted without... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080045156 - Mobile handset with air pollution meter and system: A mobile telecommunications handset is provided. The mobile telecommunications handset includes a component operable to measure a level of an air pollutant and a transceiver operable for a user to send and receive communications wirelessly.... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C.

20080045163 - Methods and apparatus for conditioning low-magnitude events in communications signals: Methods and apparatus for conditioning low-magnitude events in electrical signals. According to an exemplary method, a low-magnitude event occurring in a signal trajectory of a received electrical signal is analyzed. The low-magnitude event is defined by a data point on a signal trajectory having a magnitude that is less than... Agent: Patent Law Professionals

20080045138 - Context information communications via a mobile device: Context information communications allow a user to capture one or more locations and associated context information during a “journey”. Locations may be captured as GPS data or other position data. Context information may include images, video, audio, text, and other context information. The resulting context and locations can be saved... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080045146 - Systems and methods for establishing modular and flexible satellite communications networks: A system and method of building a satellite communications network provides a customer-driven, modular and flexible approach to providing satellite communications services. The satellite network provider carves out a solution for a customer problem from a design space constrained by satellite size, lifetime and payload given a set of specifications... Agent: White & Case LLP Patent Department

20080045150 - Reflective communication using radio-frequency devices: The present invention relates to a reflective communication system that allows information from wireless communication devices, such as radio-frequency identification devices (RFID), to be reflectively communicated to a receiver in lieu of using a separate communication system. A transmitter transmits a communication signal, having a carrier frequency, to the wireless... Agent: Christensen O'connor Johnson Kindness PLLC

20080045153 - Method and apparatus for providing beamforming feedback in wireless communication systems: Techniques for quickly sending feedback information for beamforming are described. A transmitter/initiator sends a first frame comprising training symbols. A receiver/responder receives the first frame, determines the amount of time to generate feedback information, and determines the amount of time to send the feedback information. The receiver then determines the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080045159 - Communication apparatus and communication method: In the power save mode of an IEEE 802.11 adhoc network, a packet loss occurs unless the power save state of a receiving side is detected, failing in communication. However, there is no explicit notification on joining/leaving in/from a network, and it is difficult to detect and manage the state... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080045160 - Method and apparatus for power control in a mobile radio system: A telecommunications system for improving quality of service (QoS) to users via the implementation of an extended outer loop power control algorithm. A radio resource manager (RRM) operates to determine the number of chapels allotted to users within a network at a certain time. The RRM implements the extended outer... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080045162 - Adaptive radio transceiver: An exemplary embodiment of the present invention described and shown in the specification and drawings is a transceiver with a receiver, a transmitter, a local oscillator (LO) generator, a controller, and a self-testing unit. All of these components can be packaged for integration into a single IC including components such... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080045161 - Waveform encoding for wireless applications: Processing may be performed by a first device on behalf of a second device to offload processing from the second device. In some aspects a device from which processing has been offloaded may be advantageously adapted to consume less power, have a smaller size, and have less complexity. Offloaded processing... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080045164 - Transmission rate control method, mobile station, and wireless line control station: The present invention relates to a transmission rate control method for controlling a transmission rate of user data to be transmitted via an uplink by a mobile station. A mobile station acquires a function of the transmission rate of the user data and a time from a radio network controller... Agent: Ndq&m Watchstone LLP

20080045165 - Method and apparatus for controlling a tx power amplifier: A method and an apparatus for controlling a TX power amplifier are provided in the present invention. The invention is applied for generating a power control curve in a power variation area to control the power variation for signal transmission when the TX power amplifier transmits the data during two... Agent: The Law Offices Of Andrew D. Fortney, Ph.d., P.C.

20080045166 - Method apparatus comprising integrated circuit and method of powering down such circuit: The present invention relates to a mobile apparatus comprising an integrated circuit to operate predefined functions, which integrated circuit is susceptible to be set in a standby operating mode wherein which said circuit can resume operation within a predefined delay. The circuit comprises configuration sequential logic having defined states that... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20080045167 - Radio broadcast reciever, automatic tuning device for radio broadcast and method for receiving radio broadcast: A radio broadcast receiver includes: a frequency conversion circuit for receiving a radio broadcast wave and for outputting a reception signal; a detection circuit for detecting the reception signal of an analog radio broadcast wave and for outputting a detection signal; an automatic tuning device for searching a broadcast frequency;... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20080045168 - Activation of the reception readiness of an in-vehicle network: The subject matter of the invention is a process and a system for wireless transmission of infotainment components between an in-vehicle network in a vehicle and a network external to the vehicle, the in-vehicle network having a reception readiness state and an idle state and by way of a remote... Agent: Stevens Davis Miller & Mosher, LLP

20080045170 - Favorite artist/song title feature (\"fast\"): A method of selecting a favorite artist/song title from a plurality of programs being transmitted from one or more remote locations and includes the step of storing a designator for the favorite artist/song title. A plurality of channels are scanned to determine if the favorite artist/song title is currently playing... Agent: Stephen Howley

20080045169 - Method and system for radio configuration: A system (100) and method (400) for radio configuring is provided. The method can include connecting (402) a non-volatile memory storage device (120) to a first radio (110) having a first radio configuration (112), saving (404) a list of radio configurable parameters (300) in the first radio to the non-volatile... Agent: Motorola, Inc

20080045171 - Hold function control method and apparatus for mobile terminal: A method and apparatus for hold function control in a mobile terminal are disclosed. The hold function control apparatus includes a controller including a general purpose input/output (GPIO) port, a constant voltage power unit for supplying a preset constant voltage, and a hold key for generating a voltage change at... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20080045173 - Apparatus and method for schedule management in mobile terminal: An apparatus and a method for managing schedule information in a mobile terminal are provided. The method includes converting, if the location of the mobile terminal changes, an execution time of a schedule to a local time of a city in which the mobile terminal is located and notifying, if... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20080045172 - Context-aware code provisioning for mobile devices: A simplification of the process of deploying public services for mobile users Particular refinements in this vein involve the dynamic configuration of client software using available context information and the optimization of software provisioning based on historical usage information, which includes services accessed together with the location and time of... Agent: Ference & Associates LLC

20080045174 - System and method for implementing a multi-radio wireless network: A system for implementing a multi-radio wireless network includes a plurality of endpoints wirelessly coupled to a relay station. The system also includes a base station wirelessly coupled to the relay station. The relay station includes a first radio operable to use a first channel to communicate with the base... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080045175 - Ultra wide band device and detect-and-avoid method thereof: An ultra wide band (UWB) device and a detect and avoid (DAA) method thereof are provided. The UWB device includes a detect and avoid (DAA) module block which detects a strength of radio signals received in a plurality of channels and determines communicability of the channels; a multitone generation block... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080045176 - Intelligent redialing with presence information: Discloses a system and method for producing a status alert indicating a user contact is now online on a communications device operable with a soft phone application running on an internet interface device in communication with at least one messaging service provider. The communications device has a telephone style handset... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20080045177 - System and method for configuring wireless communication devices: System and method for configuring wireless communication devices. According to an embodiment, the present invention provides a system for customizing. The system includes a user interface for displaying information. The system includes a user input for receiving one or more user input. Additionally, the system includes a memory that has... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080045178 - Location update operations for idle mode terminals with a plurality of wireless communication interfaces: Embodiments of the present invention provide location update operations for idle mode terminals with a plurality of wireless communication interfaces. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C.

20080045179 - Airtime contact manager: A method and apparatus for monitoring contact usage and activity of a wireless communication device, including a wireless telephone and a PDA device. The method and apparatus provide for detecting and monitoring each communication from selected contacts and displaying the usage information associated with the contact. Contact usage information is... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080045180 - Data transmitting method and apparatus applying wireless protected access to a wireless distribution system: A data transmitting method of a wireless distribution system (WDS) applying an access point (AP) of a master to encrypt/decrypt data through a wireless protected access (WPA) includes the following steps. First, a second AP is selected as a peer repeater through a user interface of a first AP and... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080045181 - Communication system, wireless-communication device, and control method therefor: A wireless-communication device performing mutual authentication between the wireless-communication device and a different wireless-communication device by using an authentication server includes a communication-setting-data-retention unit retaining communication-setting data including a first metric corresponding to the path to the authentication server, as a self-authentication-server metric, a signal-reception unit receiving a predetermined signal... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080045183 - Cell phone with selective transmission of a slam or other sound: A cell phone is equipped to selectively send a prerecorded sound such as a telephone handset being slammed down on its cradle to a connected cell phone by an activation key, and thereafter disconnect the call.... Agent: John R. Benefiel

20080045182 - Method of and apparatus for communicating user related information using a wireless information device: A mobile telephone which can supply or post ‘pre-answer’ information which the device owner considers of relevance to a potential call recipient. This information enables a potential call recipient to be given useful information about a potential call before actually answering that call. The information is dynamic, unlike Caller ID... Agent: Synnestvedt Lechner & Woodbridge LLP

20080045185 - Method and apparatus for reporting reception ratio of streaming service by terminal in a mobile broadcasting system, and system thereof: A system for reporting a reception ratio of a broadcast service in a broadcasting system. A network entity sends a reception ratio report indication message indicating at least one measurement type of a reception ratio for a broadcast streaming service. A terminal receives the reception ratio report indication message, and... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080045184 - Method of and apparatus for communicating user related information using a wireless information device: A mobile telephone which can supply or post ‘pre-answer’ information which the device owner considers of relevance to a potential call recipient. This information enables a potential call recipient to be given useful information about a potential call before actually answering that call. The information is dynamic, unlike Caller ID... Agent: Synnestvedt Lechner & Woodbridge LLP

20080045186 - User-controlled telecommunications systems: Disclosed are systems and methods that enable an end user to control the parameters, behavior, and identity of network communications regardless of the limitations placed upon these controls by the end user's communications device or communications service provider. An intermediate media proxy resides on a telecommunications network and accepts inbound... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20080045188 - Image signal transmitting/receiving apparatus and method: The present invention relates to an image signal transmitting/receiving apparatus and method for selectively performing transmission and display of a main image signal. The present invention transmits and display an sub-image signal instead of the received main image signal in case that the cut-off mode with respect to the main... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20080045187 - Method and a device for associating a terminal with a user account: The association device obtained from an association request issued by a terminal both an identifier of said terminal and the address of a gateway via which the terminal is connected to the network. The device also obtains a second gateway address from the source address of an access request issued... Agent: Cohen Pontani Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20080045189 - Method of sharing information in mobile terminal using local wireless communication: A method of sharing information between mobile terminals using a local wireless communication network is disclosed. The method includes setting information stored in a first mobile terminal with one of at least two security levels; if registration is requested by a second mobile terminal, registering an identifier of the second... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080045191 - Mobile communication terminal, information acquisition method, and information acquisition program: There is provided a mobile communication terminal including an information storage unit having registered therein a plurality of registration names and position specification information data with which at least a position can be specified which are correlated respectively; an instruction input unit for acquiring instruction input from a user; an... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080045190 - System and method of live data search on a mobile device: A method of communicating from a mobile device using a computer program is provided. The method includes communicating a keystroke to a remote server via a network upon detecting the keystroke in a text input area of a user-interface page; receiving data from the remote server via the network in... Agent: Winston & Strawn LLP Patent Department

20080045192 - Method, system and management center server for providing mobile service: A method and a system for providing mobile service are disclosed. In the method, a management center server saves a group service subscription index; a service processing server receives a service message from a service application server, and sends a subscription verifying request containing the service ID and group ID... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080045194 - System and method for pushing information between a host system and a mobile data communication device: A scheme for redirecting messages with an appropriate tag line. In one embodiment, a method comprises one or more of the following: receiving a notification that a message is available for redirection, the message comprising an e-mail originated from a user's mobile data communication device; obtaining a user ID related... Agent: Research In Motion, Ltd

20080045193 - System and method for pushing information from a host system to a mobile data communication device: A scheme for redirecting e-mail messages and message attachments to a user of a mobile data communication device that is associated with a host system and communicates therewith via a wireless gateway, the system comprising: a structure for automatically detecting arrival of a data item at the host system from... Agent: Research In Motion, Ltd

20080045196 - Interrogate-response communication system with privacy indication: A method of and apparatus for obtaining information about a product or service offering having an associated receiver responsive to an information request or query. The method comprise providing a portable subscriber device linked with a communication network, presenting at least one selectable query for information to a subscriber via... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080045195 - 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, on digital wireless communication devices, such as digital cellular telephones, comprising the steps of creating at least one visual advertising message in the form of an information file for display on a digital wireless communication device, valuating... Agent: Brooks, Cameron & Huebsch, PLLC Suite 500

20080045197 - System for providing traffic information: A system for providing traffic information to a plurality of mobile users connected to a network. The system comprises a plurality of traffic monitors, each comprising at least a traffic detector and a transmitter, the traffic detector generating a signal in response to vehicular traffic and the transmitter transmitting the... Agent: Chernoff, Vilhauer, Mcclung & Stenzel

20080045199 - Mobile communication terminal and text-to-speech method: A mobile communication terminal and text-to-speech method. The mobile communication terminal includes a display unit for displaying at least one object on a screen; a controller for identifying a depth of an activated object on the screen and finding a speech data set mapped to the identified depth; a speech... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20080045198 - Text transcriptions for voice communications: A method and system for converting a voice communication to a text transcription. The method comprises receiving by a computing system in a control command center, a first transmission identifier from a vehicle. The first transmission identifier identifies the vehicle. The computing system receives voice communication data for the vehicle... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080045200 - Notification mechanisms in a wireless device: A panel has been provided to a wireless device that turns off all RF capability of the wireless device (including, but not limited to notifications, wireless web clipping, instant messaging, email sending/receiving, phone calls, etc.). The panel is brought up on a screen of the wireless device by pressing a... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20080045202 - Remote control method through wireless transmission: A remote control method through wireless transmission is provided. The method includes the following steps: (A) a portable computer determines whether a wireless signal outputted from a mobile apparatus having a wireless transmission module is received; (B) if the portable computer receives the wireless signal, the portable computer searches whether... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080045201 - Remote feature control of a mobile device: One mobile device in a group of mobile devices, such as a “family plan” or a “business plan”, is identified as a master phone. The master phone issues messages, such as special SMS messages, to the other mobile devices in the group. These special SMS messages are operative to control... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080045204 - Communication network control system, radio communication appartus, and communication network control method: The present invention can provide a radio communication apparatus comprising an antenna which receives a restriction signal from a radio base station, a reception circuit which decodes the restriction signal received by said antenna, and a control circuit which controls the radio communication apparatus, in which the control circuit can... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson & Cook, P.C.

20080045205 - Method and apparatus for constructing database in mobile communication terminal: A method of constructing a database in a mobile communication terminal includes analyzing one of a file attribute and a database field type of the received file when the file is received, determining whether the analyzed one of the file attribute and the database field type is identical to a... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20080045203 - Communication platform and method for packet communication between a service provider and a radio communication device: The present invention relates to a communication platform for packet communication between at least one service provider in a first network and a radio communication device in a second network, the second network comprises a first network node provided to, at least partly, handle communication between the radio communication device... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20080045206 - Radio base station equipment: For each of a plurality of call processing control units constituting the radio base station equipment, an initiation condition minimally necessary for restarting call processing is set. A maintenance supervision and control unit in the base station decides whether each call processing control unit satisfies the above initiation condition. Even... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080045207 - Mode switching method for mobile terminal: A mode switching method and a mobile terminal operating with the mode switching method capable of switching an operation mode in accordance with a geographic placement attitude of the mobile terminal are disclosed. A mobile terminal includes a placement attitude detection unit for capturing a placement attitude of the mobile... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080045208 - Method for implementing terminal roaming and managing in the soft switch-based next generation network: A method for implementing terminal roam and roam management in the soft switch-based Next Generation Network, comprises: a user terminal moving on the IP network, when its IP address changing, the user terminal registering at a soft switch controlling device again, the user terminal attaining an allocated IP address of... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20080045209 - Method and system for implementing multimedia ring back tone service: A method for implementing a multimedia RBT service includes: receiving, by an calling MSC server, a call request from a calling party; performing a first media capability negotiation between a calling party and an MRS, after detecting a response of a called party; and instructing the MRS to play a... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080045211 - Apparatus and method for providing service status information based on access class restriction list in mobile communication system: An apparatus and method for providing service status information based on an access class restriction list in a mobile communication system. The method includes checking whether there is same information between the access class restriction list included in system information blocks that a user equipment receives from a network and... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080045210 - Shared scanning in distributed networks: Various embodiments are described relating to sharing scanning operations among nodes in a wireless network, such as a WiMedia ultra-wideband (UWB) network. In an example embodiment, a message may be sent from a first node to one or more other nodes in a wireless network indicating that the first node... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP

20080045212 - Method of controlling data transmission in a wireless relay system, and the relay system implementing the method: A data transmission method in a wireless relay system, and a method of selecting an optimal transmission mode based on a channel capacity of an individual link that is measured by a mobile station. The data transmission method includes: transmitting a first ratio of first partial data of the data... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080045213 - Communications: In a communications system a message is sent from a mobile terminal to a radio access network on a common transport channel, the message comprising information associated with one or more access entities of the radio access network. The information which is sent to the radio access network is based... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080045214 - Method for authenticating user terminal in ip multimedia sub-system: A method for authenticating user terminal in IMS network, the method includes: with regard to user request, Service-Call Session Control Function (S-CSCF) entity creates the authentication challenge utilizing Digest Authentication Algorithm, and sends the authentication challenge to user terminal through Proxy-Call Session Control Function (P-CSCF) entity; the user terminal creates... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080045215 - System and method for adjusting connection parameters in a wireless network: A method for adjusting connection parameters in a wireless network includes establishing a first wireless connection with a base station using a first channel and establishing a second wireless connection with an endpoint using a second channel. The method also includes receiving via the first wireless connection using the first... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080045216 - System and method for redirecting message attachments between a host system and a mobile data communication device: A scheme for redirecting e-mail messages and message attachments from a mail system to a mobile data communication device. In one embodiment, a method comprises one or more of the following: automatically detecting a data item including an e-mail message and a message attachment by a redirector component associated with... Agent: Research In Motion, Ltd

20080045217 - Wireless communication system: A wireless communication system which enables fast handovers by eliminating a time lag that occurs during handover process. A new base station recognizes lower layer link switching timing of a mobile station, then adjusts the output timing of a packet transmission initiation message, which triggers packet transmission, so that when... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080045219 - Wireless communication method and apparatus for recovering data following a serving cell change based on a radio link control intelligence mode in effect: A wireless communication method and apparatus for recovering data following a serving cell change are disclosed. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) includes a status prohibit timer that delays the transmission of normal status reports that indicate the status of data, (i.e., PDUs), that was successfully received and/or not successfully received... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080045218 - Wireless communication terminal and its control method: In the prior art, the initialization process for communication between a wireless communication terminal and a base station is executed by activating the wireless communication terminal with a built-in battery. As a result, the problem is posed that a great amount of power is consumed during the initialization process and... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20080045220 - Wireless network control system, wireless network control apparatus, and base station: A corresponding table between a number of a cell and a main base station (102) accommodating the cell is prepared in a node (wireless network control apparatus (101) or main base station (102)) within a radio access network. When a terminal (104) is moved and enters an overlapped area of... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080045221 - Method of treating handover in a bridge-based radio access station backbone network: A method of treating a handover in a bridge-based radio access station backbone network including a plurality of base station bridges each including a two-tiered switch connected with a plurality of radio access stations, a plurality of SCBs (Site Core Bridges) each composed of two-tiered switch for constituting the core... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20080045222 - Method and system for controlling the operation of movable wireless networks: The invention can provide a movable wireless network that is capable of operating in a multiple network environment. The movable wireless network has a coverage area and includes a detector that detects a network event when the coverage area of the movable wireless network overlaps with a coverage area of... Agent: Powell Goldstein, LLP

20080045223 - Communication control method, radio base station, and radio control station: A communication control method includes the step of restricting the number of communication channels used dedicatedly by each of mobile stations or a resource of communication channels used dedicatedly by each of the mobile stations when both communication channel shared by the mobile stations and communication channels used dedicatedly by... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080045224 - Multi-cell coordination for multimedia broadcast multicast services in a wireless communication system: The present invention is related to a method and system for multi-cell coordination for multimedia broadcast multicast services (MBMS) in a wireless communication system. An MBMS multi-cell coordination unit is provided to coordinate a plurality of evolved Node-Bs (eNodeBs) for transmission of MBMS data synchronously in multiple cells of the... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080045225 - Method and apparatus in a cellular telecommunications system: e

20080045226 - Method for allocating channel processing resources and centralized base stations for implementing the same: The present invention provides a method of allocating channel processing resources of radio links one by one in a centralized base station, comprising the step of: allocating channel resources with a radio link as a unit, according to resource allocation requirements of a wireless communication system in which said centralized... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080045227 - Method for allocating radio channels and base station apparatus utilizing the same: A base station apparatus includes a measurement unit, a derivation unit and an allocation unit. A base station apparatus allocates at least one subcarrier block, in a frequency band containing a plurality of subcarrier blocks composed of a plurality of subcarriers, to a terminal apparatus. The measurement unit measures an... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.C.

20080045228 - Sending and reducing uplink feedback signaling for transmission of mbms data: The present invention is related to a method and system for sending and reducing uplink feedback signaling by a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) related to transmission of multimedia broadcast multicast service (MBMS) data over a high speed downlink packet access (HSDPA) channel. A Node B may pre-allocate a time/frequency region... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080045229 - Using a single logical base transceiver to serve multiple physical locations: Using a single logical base transceiver to serve multiple physical locations is disclosed. A call traffic associated with a call associated at a mobile network with an assigned timeslot of a logical base transceiver is received. A timeslot with which the call traffic is associated is remapped from the assigned... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP

20080045231 - Communication system, communication method, mobile station and base station used for the same: The present invention provides a CQI informing method that, in a mobile station of a mobile communication system, can reduce the usage rate of wireless resources required when a CQI value of each of a plurality of partial bands RBs (Resource Block), into which a system band is divided, is... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080045230 - Enhanced load based wireless call admission control: In one embodiment, a method includes monitoring utilization of an access medium relative to one or more access classes, receiving a QoS request. The QoS request identifies an access class. The method further includes computing a first allocation of an access medium for the QoS request and approving the QoS... Agent: Law Office Of Mark J. Spolyar

20080045234 - Machine for providing a dynamic data base of geographic location information for a plurality of wireless devices and process for making same: For a wireless network, a tuning system in which mobile phones using the network are routinely located. With the location of the mobile phones identified, load adjustments for the system are easily accomplished so that the wireless network is not subject to an overload situation. Ideally the location of the... Agent: Mark E. Ogram

20080045236 - Methods and apparatus for gathering and delivering contextual messages in a mobile communication system: Methods and apparatus for delivering personalized (e.g., contextual) messages to a user that meets certain geographic, affiliation/metadata, timing, and/or or other criteria. These messages are geographically and logically persistent, and can be left by members of the user's social or “buddy” network, individuals, institutions, the user's service provider(s), or even... Agent: Gazdzinski & Associates

20080045232 - Personal location code broker: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for identifying a request to locate a user. The request identifies a network operator-independent personal location code (PLC) for the user. Identifying a first device associated with the user based on the PLC. The first device is associated with a first network operator.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080045235 - System and method for single sensor geolocation: A system and method for determining a position of a wireless mobile device. The method comprising the steps of providing one base station in communication with the mobile device, providing a sensor spaced apart a known distance from the base station, and determining the range between the mobile device and... Agent: Duane Morris LLP

20080045233 - Wifi geolocation from carrier-managed system geolocation of a dual mode device: In one embodiment, a carrier-managed system such as the cellular network or the Global Positioning System (GPS), is leveraged to directly determine or triangulate geographic locations of the dual mode device and then the access point. Advantageously, a service provider may constantly and automatically update its database with the geolocation... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080045238 - Communication systems: A wireless transmission method for use in a wireless communication system is provided. The system includes at least two communication apparatuses which may experience relative movement therebetween. One such communication apparatus is a source apparatus that is operable to transmit information to the destination apparatus, which is the other communication... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080045240 - High-rate proximity detection with the ability to provide notification: Techniques are presented for identifying mobile devices within a coverage legion of a wireless station Positions for mobile devices, if any, within the coverage region are determined. It is then determined whether the positions are within one or more defined areas, called “notification areas” herein. Additionally, selected mobile devices within... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080045241 - Method and apparatus for geographic-based communications service: A geographic-based communications service system has a mobile unit for transmitting/receiving information, and access points connected to a network. The access points are arranged in a known geographic locations and transmit and receive information from the mobile unit. When one of the access points detects the presence of the mobile... Agent: B. Noel Kivlin Conely Rose & Tayon, P.C.

20080045239 - Method and system for providing location information: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and system for providing location information. When a call is initiated, the call is connected to the ring back tone device when there is a subscription record of ring back tone location service corresponding to a user of the call; the ring... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080045237 - Method and system for secure user plane location: A method of Secure User Plane Location includes: receiving, by a home SUPL Location Platform (H-SLP) of a target SUPL Enabled Terminal (target SET), a positioning request of the target SET from an SUPL Agent; positioning, by the H-SLP, the target SET and obtaining a position estimate of the target... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080045242 - System for providing traffic information: A system for providing traffic information to a plurality of mobile users connected to a network. The system comprises a plurality of traffic monitors, each comprising at least a traffic detector and a transmitter, the traffic detector generating a signal in response to vehicular traffic and the transmitter transmitting the... Agent: Chernoff, Vilhauer, Mcclung & Stenzel

20080045243 - Mobile location and map acquisition: Providing a map and/or directions to a visitor to a facility may include and/or involve a wireless communication device signaling its presence at a location in a facility, and communicating to the wireless communication device a map of the facility indicating the location. This may include and/or involve communicating to... Agent: Fsp LLC

20080045244 - Radio base station apparatus: A radio base station apparatus includes a plurality of call processing controllers for call processing control, a supervision controller supervising the call processing controllers, and a system data memory storing system data necessary for restarting. Each call processing controller includes a plurality of function portions and a memory storing data... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080045245 - Locating people and routes on a digital map: Generating a map may include and/or involve detecting a location of a mobile wireless device associated with a first person, communicating information about the location of the wireless device to a network location where the information is applied to identify the location on a map, and communicating the map via... Agent: Fsp LLC

20080045248 - Associating a label with a queued message at a mobile device: Responsive to the sensing of an occurrence of an event, an action may be executed according to which a message is generated. The message may be generated with a format that is based on an application definition document. According to the application definition document, a label may be generated for... Agent: Smart And Biggar

20080045246 - Messaging system and method: The invention relates to a system and method of managing SMS messages in a first mobile operator network, said network comprising a plurality of subscribers and a Short Message Service Centre (SMSC) The invention can be implemented by carrying out the steps of starting a delivery attempt of the SMS... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20080045252 - Method for displaying background picture of sms message in terminal including sms function and terminal thereof: Disclosed are a method for displaying a background picture of a Short Message Service (SMS) message and a terminal thereof. The method includes extracting a telephone number of a sender of the SMS message from the received SMS message and checking whether the extracted telephone number of the sender is... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080045249 - Mobile terminal and method for sending short text message on mobile terminal: Provided are a mobile terminal and a method for sending a short message on the mobile terminal. The method for sending the short message includes setting original and correct character strings required in an address book, each correct character string corresponding to recipients; inputting one short message for the recipients... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080045251 - System and method for providing notification message in dvb-h system: Disclosed is a system and a method for providing a terminal with a notification message reporting changes of a system and of a service in the middle of a Digital Video Broadcasting-Handheld (DVB-H) broadcasting service. The system inserts channel information related to the transmission of the notification message into Electronic... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080045250 - System and method for routing short message service special number messages to local special number answering points: A system and method that overrides the initial destination number of an SMS message based on the destination number in the message itself. The communications device, a serving MSC or STP checks the destination address and overwrites the default SMSC address with a local special number service center address when... Agent: Michelle A. Zarinelli C/o West Corporation

20080045247 - Telecommunications services apparatus and methods: A mobile telephone terminal includes means responsive to alphanumeric dialling to transmit information representative of a desired connection to a mobile telephone network. Upon entry of an alphanumeric string followed by a confirmatory action by the user, the alphanumeric string is sent to the network so as to automatically initiate... Agent: Renner Otto Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080045253 - System and method for pushing information from a host system to a mobile data communication device: A scheme for synchronizing message folders between a messaging system and a mobile communication device. An embodiment comprises one or more of the following: upon establishment of a communication link between the messaging system and the mobile communication device, retrieving and tagging a source folder structure from a data store... Agent: Research In Motion, Ltd

20080045254 - Method and apparatus for maximizing resource utilization of base stations in a communication network: A method for allocating at least one resource of one or more base stations in a communication network (200) is provided. The method includes connecting (404) a set of base stations to one or more Common Public Radio Interface (CPRI) switches (102) in the communication network. The method also includes... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080045255 - Method of transmitting scheduling information by a wireless communication device and a wireless communication device: A method of transmitting scheduling information by a wireless communication device (200) to a network (112) for allocation of resources to the wireless communication device, comprises the steps of transmitting (500) to the network first scheduling information (SI1) relating to a first resource requirement and re-transmitting (516) the first scheduling... Agent: Motorola Inc

20080045256 - Eyes-free push-to-talk communication: A push-to-talk feature on a mobile handset is initiated by speaking a recipient's name as the first part of an initial message. A speech recognition device located in the handset or in a push-to-talk server may recognize the recipient's name, determine the proper addressing for the message, establish a push-to-talk... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080045257 - Hands-free mode for a half-duplex communications system: A half-duplex communication system is embodied in a push-to-talk cellular system such as a GPRS system. The system includes two or more terminals (10) one or more of which can operate in a hands-free mode. When in hands-free mode, a terminal (10) is offered the right-to-speak by the system without... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080045258 - Ptt/pts signaling in an internet protocol network: Conveying Push-To-Talk and Push-To-Signal (PTT/PTS) information over an IP network through signaling bits defined in and propagated with the Real-Time Protocol (RTP) stream allows the PTT/PTS information to remain synchronized with the voice packets of the stream. The maintenance of synchronization of PTT/PTS signals and voice packets eliminates problems arising... Agent: Hiscock & Barclay, LLP

20080045259 - Cellular uplink power control with inter-nodeb power control information exchange: Uplink power control in a wireless cellular system is determined in a closed loop manner. Signal strength from a user equipment (UE) is measured at both the base station serving the UE and at neighboring base stations that are not serving the UE. A local power control suggestion is computed... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080045260 - Power settings for the sounding reference signal and the scheduled transmission in multi-channel scheduled systems: Scheduled transmissions in a multi-channel scheduled communication system include both sounding reference signal and data transmission in sub-frames. The sounding reference signal is transmitted from a user equipment device to a base station with a power level that is either open loop controlled or closed loop controlled by the base... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080045261 - Cdma communication system and its transmission power control method: An uplink channel transmission power control method is provided for a CDMA mobile communication system performing one way communication. A base station measures the received level of data transmitted from each mobile terminal at each channel, and generates a transmission power control signal of each uplink traffic channel. The generated... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080045262 - Method and apparatus for providing service-based cell reselection: An approach is provided for cell selection or reselection in a multi-radio network environment involving at least two different radio access technologies. A service preference information which indicates service preferences for different radio access technologies can be set at a network element and be sent to at least one terminal... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.C.

20080045263 - Wireless communication system, apparatus for suppporting data flow and methods therefor: An apparatus for use in allocating resource in a wireless communication system employing transfer communication protocol (TCP) based data transfer between a network and a wireless subscriber communication unit comprises a scheduler (428) located in the network, wherein the scheduler buffers a TCP data segment for downlink (DL) transmission. A... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080045264 - Method and system for a mobile architecture that supports a cellular or wireless network and broadcast utilizing an integrated single chip cellular and broadcast silicon solution: In an RF communication system, aspects for supporting cellular or wireless network and broadcast utilizing an integrated single chip cellular and broadcast silicon solution may include communicating data, within a mobile terminal, between a single baseband processor integrated circuit (BBPIC) and a plurality of receiver front ends via a channel... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080045265 - Advanced voice and data operations in a dual-mode mobile data communication device: A system and method for integrating voice and data operations into a single mobile device capable of simultaneously performing data and voice actions. The mobile device working in a network capable of exchanging both cell phone calls and data items to the mobile device. By wearing an earphone or an... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080045268 - System and method for bundling information: A message status synchronization scheme. In one embodiment, a method may comprise: automatically detecting arrival of a message at a messaging server for a user having a mail address thereat, the message being displayable on a computer for the user with a status indicator icon associated therewith; processing at least... Agent: Research In Motion, Ltd

20080045266 - System and method for pushing information from a host system to a mobile data communication device: A scheme for redirecting e-mail messages and message attachments to a user of a mobile data communication device that is associated with a host system and communicates therewith via a wireless gateway. In embodiment, a method comprises, among others, determining occurrence of a trigger event configured with respect to a... Agent: Research In Motion, Ltd

20080045267 - System and method for pushing information from a host system to a mobile data communication device in a wireless data network: A scheme for redirecting data to a mobile communication device from a messaging server. One embodiment comprises one or more of the following: receiving a connection request command from a store-and-forward server associated with a wireless packet data network; transmitting an address request to the store-and-forward server in response to... Agent: Research In Motion, Ltd

20080045270 - Radio base station: A radio base station for transmitting data to a plurality of radio terminals via a relay station for transmitting a first data unit by applying the common radio communication scheme to the first data unit including data to a plurality of said radio terminals, having a control unit for controlling... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080045272 - Dynamic resource allocation, scheduling and signaling for variable data rate service in lte: A method and apparatus are provided for dynamic resource allocation, scheduling and signaling for variable data real time services (RTS) in long term evolution (LTE) systems. Preferably, changes in data rate for uplink RTS traffic are reported to an evolved Node B (eNB) by a UE using layer 1, 2... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080045269 - System and method for prolonging wireless data product's life: Digital upgrade system and method for translating analog commands and digital commands in wireless customer services premises equipment (CPE). The digital upgrade system receives a command from a CPE Host and translates the command from analog to digital in order to broadcast it over a wireless digital network to be... Agent: King & Spalding LLP

20080045271 - Transmit power control: The invention discloses transmit power control that easily controls transmit power for transmitting a signal to a mobile terminal so that the transmit power has an optimal value. When there is a succession of transmit power control information transmitted from a mobile terminal to the radio base station, that includes... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080045273 - Mobile telephone message display scheduling device and scheduling method: A display scheduling device and a display method of a mobile telephone light emitting diode display system characterized wherein the display scheduling device includes a priority level grouping unit, a display queue unit, a timing queue unit, and a scheduling program unit. The scheduling program unit refers to mobile telephone... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080045274 - Wireless communications system and method: A system for communicating information facilitates wireless communication between electronic devices. The system includes a transceiver provided in a vehicle. The transceiver communicates with an electronic device located external to the transceiver using a Bluetooth communications standard.... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080045275 - Mobile phone with dual power supplies: A mobile phone with dual power supplies includes a communication unit executing communication function and a multimedia unit executing multimedia function. The mobile phone further includes a first battery supplying power for the operation of the communication unit and a second battery supplying power for the operation of the multimedia... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080045276 - Coordination method and communication terminal: Whenever, there occurs a predetermined event which occurs periodically, a host section which includes a host processor 31, makes a judgment of whether or not it is an engine-mode state in which an engine section 40 is executing an engine application, and whether or not it is estimated that the... Agent: Kratz, Quintos & Hanson, LLP

20080045277 - Method and system for coordinating necessary radio transmission events with unrelated opportunistic events to optimize battery life and network resources: A method and apparatus for sending an event from user equipment operating in a mobile network, the method comprising the steps of: monitoring whether an unrelated opportunistic event has occurred; and sending said event with said unrelated opportunistic event.... Agent: Moffat & Co

20080045278 - Externally connected glucometer for a communication device: A measurement apparatus for a communication device includes a body with a measuring unit and a penetrable slit, the body extending in a first direction; a flange protruding from the body; and a connector protruding in the first direction from the flange for outputting a measurement data.... Agent: Seyfarth Shaw, LLP

20080045280 - Methods and apparatus for controlling a mobile device by using a pivoting input switch: A mobile device that performs at least one computing application and at least one phone application. This mobile device includes a user-controllable pivoting input switch. This switch has a number of operational modes. Several of these operational modes direct the operation of the computing application. In additional, several operational modes... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20080045279 - Mobile information terminal: The mobile information terminal comprises a first casing having an operation unit on the surface, a second casing having a display unit on the surface, and a joint mechanism. This joint mechanism joints the first casing and the second casing in an openable manner, and joints the first casing and... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080045282 - Handheld electronic apparatus with multiple operational configurations: A handheld electronic apparatus with multiple operational configurations is provided. The handheld electronic apparatus includes a first body, a second body, a straight track, and a curved track. The second body overlaps the first body. The straight track is sandwiched in between the first body and the second body. The... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080045281 - Sliding mechanism for slide-type portable electronic device: A sliding mechanism (100) for a portable electronic device (500) includes a first sliding member (10), a second sliding member (20), and at least one cushion (30). The first sliding member has a first body (11). At least one guiding rail (12) is formed on the first body. The second... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20080039008 - Methods and apparatus for providing service notifications in a network environment: Methods and apparatus for providing service notifications in a network environment. In an aspect, a method is provided that operates to provide a notification system. The method includes obtaining notification information, determining a response factor, generating a notification message comprising selected notification information, wherein the notification message is generated to... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080039007 - Multifunctional ultra wideband wireless transmission system: A multifunctional ultra wideband wireless transmission system having a base station and an ultra wideband wireless transceiver, wherein the base station having a means of wireless ultra wideband transmission provides a plurality of communication interfaces connecting to a plurality of peripheral devices of various interfaces, for example but not limited... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC Suite 1404

20080039010 - Mobile audio content delivery system: The present invention provides the delivery of mobile-capable audio entertainment content. More particularly, the present invention relates to the electronic and mobile delivery of various media content, such as print periodicals and print news articles, by converting them into audio format and enabling such content along with other audio content... Agent: Accenture, LLP C/o Hogan & Hartson, LLP (ipgroup)

20080039009 - Variable configuration apparatus: A variable configuration apparatus has components or sub-systems. At least some components (200 and 201) have mechanical coupling elements (101 and 102 and 103) that enable the configuration of the apparatus to be varied by changing at least one of the relative orientation and position of those components or subsystems.... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080039012 - Wireless repeater with signal strength indicator: A wireless repeater includes a directional donor antenna and a display that can be used to indicate the downlink signal strength experienced by the wireless repeater. When placed in a signal strength test mode, the wireless repeater shuts down or attenuates the gain of the uplink channel to a nominal,... Agent: Mehrman Law Office, P.C.

20080039014 - Wireless communication system, apparatus, and method for transmitting information to describe network topology: A wireless communication system, an apparatus, and a method for transmitting information to describe network topology of the wireless communication system in a mobile multi-hop relay standard are disclosed. The system can either be a two-hop relay station system or a multi-hop relay station system. The apparatus can use a... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20080039018 - Method and apparatus for automatic connection between mobile communication terminal and bluetooth handsfree device: Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for causing a vehicle Bluetooth handsfree device to be automatically connected to a mobile communication terminal. When the Bluetooth handsfree device is powered up, paging is performed for all mobile communication terminals registered in a handsfree user list stored in the Bluetooth handsfree... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080039016 - Method and system for positioning a relay in a wide area communication network: A method and system for positioning a relay in a wide area communication network can enable improved operating efficiency of the network. The method includes processing a plurality of requests, received from a plurality of wireless communication devices, for connections to the network, where each device in the plurality of... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20080039021 - Speech-based notification on a handheld device: A method for generating a speech-based notification on a handheld electronic device comprises detecting a triggering event, determining that a non-speech based notification of the triggering event may not be discernible, and providing a speech-based notification of the triggering event. An improved handheld electronic device implementing the method is also... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20080039025 - Multi-mode transceiver having tunable harmonic termination circuit and method therefor: A transceiver includes a harmonic termination circuit that receives a tunable harmonic voltage from a power amplifier control. The harmonic termination circuit includes a variable capacitor that is capable of adjusting its capacitance in response to the tunable harmonic termination voltage to achieve at least two modes of operation. The... Agent: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. Law Department

20080039027 - Method and apparatus for producing a local oscillator signal: Methods and apparatus for providing a local oscillator (LO) signal are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a circuit for providing the LO signal. The circuit includes a voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) that is configured to operate at a first supply voltage. The VCO is also configured to produce a VCO... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP C/o Intellevate

20080039029 - Method and system for synchronizing at least two media streams within one push-to-talk-over-cellular session: A service providing receiving client receives at least one first message containing first media and at least one second message containing second media. The first message contains first relative time information, e.g. an RTP timestamp and the second message contains second relative time information (another RTP timestamp). The first relative... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080039011 - Apparatus and method for providing relay service in multi-hop relay broadband wireless access communication system: Provided is an apparatus and method for providing a synchronous relay service in a multi-hop relay BWA communication system. In the method, a BS-MS link subframe and an RS-MS link subframe are configured for a first section of a subframe in an ith frame. At least one of a BS-RS... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080039013 - Apparatus and method for generating synchronization channel for relay station in wireless communication system: An apparatus and method for generating an RS SCH in a wireless communication system are provided, in which a base station checks a BS SCH sequence and a mask sequence, and generates an RS SCH sequence by XOR-operating the BS SCH sequence and the mask sequence.... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080039015 - Mobile device and radio interface arrangement method: A transmitter/receiver 101 on a mobile body 10 utilizes a plurality of antennas 100. It is assumed that a plurality of the antennas 100 are distributed and arranged in a moving direction of the mobile body, and the antennas at both ends are away from each other at an extent... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20080039017 - Mobile communication terminal and method for inputting/outputting voice during playback of music data by using bluetooth: A mobile communication terminal and a voice input/output method for inputting/outputting voice during playback of music data by using a Bluetooth communication scheme are disclosed. The method includes connecting to a headset via a simplex channel according to the Bluetooth communication scheme when music data is played; determining if a... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080039019 - Mobile computing and communication: An application development platform enables applications to be created easily for, e.g., mobile devices that have short-range wireless communication capability. The development platform exposes a carefully chosen core set of services through an API. Each of the applications can broadcast its services to local and remote devices. Message delivery between... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080039020 - Mobile computing and communication: An application development platform enables applications to be created easily for, e.g., mobile devices that have short-range wireless communication capability. The development platform exposes a carefully chosen core set of services through an API. Each of the applications can broadcast its services to local and remote devices. Message delivery between... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080039022 - Method and apparatus for regulating base station ack/nak message transmit power in a wireless communication system: A base station (BS) (110) in a wireless network (100) establishes power levels for transmitting messages acknowledging receipt of packet data from a mobile communications device (MCD) (114). In one implementation, the BS infers whether the MCD received a given acknowledgement message by considering whether (306, 316) the next communication... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080039024 - Amplifying circuit, radio communication circuit, radio base station device and radio terminal device: An amplifying circuit which can provide an output signal having less distortion at high power efficiency without increasing the circuit scale and the sizes of the entire device. The amplifying circuit (100) generates two constant envelope signals from an OFDM signal inputted to an S/P converting section (131), and after... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20080039023 - Tag frequency control: A communication system comprising one or more transceiver units of a first type and one or more transceiver units of a second type capable of communicating with the transceiver units of the first type; each transceiver unit of the first type comprising: a frequency comparison unit for comparing the frequency... Agent: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

20080039026 - Method for performing a frequency correction of a wireless device: A method of performing a frequency correction of a radio module. Multiple samples of frequency data during a quiescent portion of the base station transmission is taken to estimate the amount of frequency correction needed. An embodiment applies the frequency data to a median filter to eliminate invalid data. Next,... Agent: Murabito, Hao & Barnes LLP

20080039028 - Information processing apparatus and method, program and recording medium: An information processing apparatus executes processing based on received information conforming to IEEE 802.11n, and includes: an incident angle measuring unit acquiring a received signal and measuring an incident angle of the received signal's radio wave; a reliability estimating unit estimating reliability of a measurement result of the incident angle,... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080039030 - Apparatus and method for transmit diversity and beamforming in a wireless network: A base station for use in a wireless network communicating with a plurality of subscriber stations. The base station transmits in a downlink channel to a first subscriber station using a plurality of transmit antennas. The base station transmits to the first subscriber station using either a transmit diversity scheme... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080039031 - Transmitter non-data-related direct current (dc) offset cancellation scheme: The present invention provides a transmitter architecture operable to cancel non-data-related direct current (DC) components therein. One method to cancel transmitter non-data-related DC offsets includes generating a baseband digital null signal. Then the digital null signal is converted to a pair of differential analog voltage null signals. The pair of... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080039032 - Traffic monitoring: Embodiments of the invention include a method comprising monitoring a traffic pattern relating to a terminal, and regulating states of the terminal according to the monitored traffic pattern. Other embodiments relate to associated apparatus, communication systems, network elements and computer program products.... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080039033 - Method and apparatus for controlling a tx power amplifier: A method and an apparatus for controlling a TX power amplifier are provided in the present invention. The invention is applied for generating a power control curve in a power variation area to control the power variation for signal transmission when the TX power amplifier transmits the data during two... Agent: The Law Offices Of Andrew D. Fortney, Ph.d., P.C.

20080039034 - Audio control apparatus, audio system, and navigation apparatus: According to a user's recording instruction, a navigation apparatus acquires reception data (music information and identification information) from a satellite digital radio apparatus on a tune basis and records the data on a hard disk. After the recording is complete, the navigation apparatus uses a size of the reception data... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20080039035 - Antenna based listen-before-talk apparatus, system and method: An embodiment of the present invention provides an apparatus, comprising an antenna capable of taking listen-before-talk (LBT) measurements. The antenna may further comprise an active peak/envelope detector, a comparator, and a bias-tee for extracting DC off of a coaxial feed feeding the antenna. In an embodiment of the present invention,... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080039036 - Broadcasting receiving apparatus and control method thereof: A broadcasting receiving apparatus includes a first receiving unit and a second receiving unit that receive a broadcasting signal including channel information, a storing unit, and a controller that verifies whether there exists a broadcasting signal which is receivable through the first receiving unit according to a user's instruction, stores... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20080039037 - Method, apparatus and system for terrestrial dmb service: A method, apparatus and system for Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (DMB) service are provided. A DMB receiving terminal identifies a channel service area in which the DMB receiving terminal is currently located based on an identified current location, and configures a channel information list by searching only a frequency band corresponding... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080039039 - Datalink throughput reduction via energy detection: A geolocation system (10) includes an emitter (12), a plurality of collection nodes (14,16,18), and a control station (20). Each collection node includes a receiver (24) that is operable to receive signals transmitted from the emitter (12), generate a reduced data stream that includes only signal data, and communicate the... Agent: Hovey Williams LLP

20080039038 - Method of predicting transmission speed adaptations: The present invention provides a method of predicting at least one transmission rate adaptation associated with at least one mobile unit based on at least one signal-to-noise ratio for at least one transmission associated with the at least one mobile unit.... Agent: Mark W. Sincell Williams, Morgan & Amerson, P.C.

20080039040 - Wireless signal strength notification system and method: A dual or multi-mode wireless communication device has a first microprocessor for a first type of wireless signal, such as an IEEE 802.11 (“WiFi”) signal, and a second microprocessor for a second type of wireless signal, such as a cellular network signal. The received signal strength of the first type... Agent: Kyocera Wireless Corp.

20080039041 - Method and apparatus for reducing inter-modulation: A method and apparatus for reducing inter-modulation within a wireless communications device (100) is provided herein. During operation a wireless communications device will perform frequency analysis on a received signal (125) to determine if any undesirable IM products exist. If undesirable IM products exist, the incoming signal is attenuated by... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080039042 - Techniques for controlling operation of control loops in a receiver: Techniques for controlling operation of control loops in a receiver are described. The operation of at least one control loop is modified in conjunction with a change in operating state, which may correspond to a change in linearity state, gain state, operating frequency, antenna configuration, etc. A change in linearity... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080039043 - Mobile telephone device: There is disclosed a mobile telephone device capable of getting a high reception sensitivity whatever the use state is. In this device, a loop element (104) is arranged in the vicinity of a hinge unit (103) of an upper case (101). The loop element (104) is connected via a matching... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20080039044 - Radio frequency signal transceiver device capable of enhancing transmission and reception performance of mobile communication device: A radio-frequency signal receiver capable of enhancing reception performance includes an antenna for receiving radio-frequency signals, a first switch having an end coupled to the antenna, a filter coupled to the first switch, a second switch having an end coupled to the first switch and an end coupled to the... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080039045 - Intermodulation distortion detection and mitigation: Techniques for detecting and mitigating intermodulation distortion (IMD) are described. A device (e.g., a cellular phone) obtains digital intermodulation distortion and digitally determines intermodulation distortion in an input signal based on the digital intermodulation distortion. The device may correlate the digital intermodulation distortion with the input signal and determine intermodulation... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080039046 - Receiver and transmitter for a network having a non-centralized medium access control: A receiver includes a receiving unit for scanning a dedicated signaling channel for the presence of an announcement signal. The announcement signal indicates a transmitter willing to access a transmission medium. The receiving unit is further operative to receive a data signal from a further transmitter on a dedicated traffic... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

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20080039048 - Emergency service provision for a supervised wireless device: A system and method for permitting communication with a supervised wireless device upon which incoming call restrictions have been placed in the event an emergency service provider attempts to communicate with the supervised wireless device. The emergency service provider, such as a 911 call center, can communicate with a supervised... Agent: Weingarten, Schurgin, Gagnebin & Lebovici LLP

20080039050 - Methods and devices for automatic display of prepay information: Described are methods of a mobile communication device for processing a balance information message from a service provider in response to a balance information query. A method includes obtaining a service provider identity from a SIM, determining a format of a balance information message and identifying a balance information message... Agent: Motorola Inc

20080039049 - Service system for free using of mobile contents: Disclosed herein is a free information usage certificate service system which is capable of distributing free information usage certificates to customers to enable the customers to use mobile contents from at least one associated mobile contents provider free of charge using the free information usage certificates. A portion of the... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080039051 - Method for playing audio files on a portable electronic device: A method for playing an audio file on a portable electronic device includes receiving the audio file as an email attachment, sending a first request from an attachment viewer of the portable electronic device to an attachment server in order to determine a file type of the email attachment, building... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20080039052 - Digital message processing system: The invention comprises a wireless apparatus and system for automatic processing of digital “messages” to a remote system at a predefined destination address. Initial transmission occurs via a wireless network, and the apparatus process allows the simultaneous capture of new messages while transmissions are occurring. The destination address may correspond... Agent: Andrew T Knowles

20080039053 - Information dissemination systems and methods for use in a controlled environment facility: Embodiments are provided for managing notification of residents of a controlled-environment facility of pending messages awaiting retrieval by such residents. In one embodiment, a messaging system is provided in which a party external to the controlled-environment facility may record a message intended for a resident of the controlled-environment facility. A... Agent: Slater & Matsil, L.L.P.

20080039054 - Mobile communication terminal and a method for placing a call: A mobile communication terminal having a phonebook replays a stored message when an entry of the phonebook is selected using a speed dial number and the stored message is associated with the selected phonebook entry. The message may be the spoken name of the person associated with the selected phonebook... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080039057 - Application-layer combining of multimedia streams delivered over multiple radio access networks and delivery modes: The provisioning of a service, such as a multimedia service, over different networks is described. Transmission of first and second data streams is established in first and second transmission modes over first and second networks. The first and second data streams carry the same content, and the first and second... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080039055 - Configurable protocol engine: A configurable protocol engine (CPE) capable of constructing (110) a desired protocol structure (112) according to the received configuration information. In addition, the CPE schedules the processing of received service primitives according to the priority levels thereof. The configuration information may include service requirements (102), indications of hardware and software... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080039056 - System and method for interaction of a mobile station with an interactive voice response system: A communication session is established between a mobile station (102) and an interactive voice response (IVR) system (106). One or more menu options in a speech form are received at the mobile station (102). The mobile station (102) converts these menu options from the speech form to a displayable form.... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080039058 - Systems and methods for temporary media file storage on a wireless communication device: Methods, devices, computer program products, processors and wireless networks are presented that provide for temporary storage of media content on a wireless communication device. According to aspects, when a wireless communication device requests media content from a media content service but is unable to receive the media due to insufficient... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080039059 - Systems and methods for locating cellular phones and security measures for the same: Systems and methods for locating a cellular phone are provided. More particularly, systems and methods for providing the location of a requested user's cellular phone from a requesting user's device (e.g., a second cellular phone) based on access rights defined by the requested user. Location descriptions may be provided at... Agent: Jeffrey D. Mullen

20080039060 - Plug-in module frame and module therefore: A plug-in module frame has sockets (2) with at least one signal contact (7, 16) each for passing an information signal between the plug-in module frame (1) and a plug-in module (3) mounted at one of the sockets (2). A protocol converter (9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 17) having... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20080039061 - Automatic telephone service forwarding device: An automatic telephone service forwarding device including a base or enclosure defining a socket for receiving a wireless telephone. Upon detecting the presence of the wireless telephone in the socket, the device automatically forwards telephone service for the wireless telephone to a previously-stored forwarding directory number, typically the directory number... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Bellsouth

20080039062 - Method and apparatus for accessing a common database from a mobile device and a computing device: The present invention has been made in consideration of thin devices efficiently communicating ideas and transactions into data networks by using other devices with full functional user interface in the networks. According to one aspect of the present invention, the thin device exclusively controls the authentication of a rendezvous that... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20080039063 - Image display system, image display device of image display system, mobile terminal device, connection establishment method of image display system: An image display system is disclosed. The image display system includes an image display device forming an image and a mobile terminal device supplying image information to the image display device over a predetermined network, wherein the image display device includes: a storage unit which stores connection information for connecting... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080039068 - Incoming-call management method of a mobile telecommunication device: An incoming-call management method of mobile telecommunication devices is provided. The method includes offering options for telephone holder and caller, and controls the procedure according to the telephone holder's setting and caller's decisions.... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080039064 - Local calling area determination in wireless networks: Systems and methods are disclosed that determine whether incoming calls are in a home local calling area (LCA) in a wireless network. One embodiment comprises an LCA determination system that includes a processing system and a mapping data structure. The mapping data structure includes a plurality of entries that map... Agent: Duft Bornsen & Fishman, LLP

20080039067 - System and method for improving the robustness of spatial division multiple access via nulling: The present invention discloses a base transceiver station (BTS) equipped with a plurality of antennas for improving the robustness of spatial division multiple access via nullng. The BTS comprises of a first matrix module receiving a plurality of signals from one or more customer premises equipments (CPEs) through the plurality... Agent: L. Howard Chen Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis, LLP

20080039065 - Data transmission in a communication session: The data are transmitted, within a communication session, where the participating communication terminals are registered in different communication networks, with the use of a data distribution unit additionally provided in a communication network in which the controlling server unit is not provided, such that between the communication networks only a... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080039066 - Wireless communication methods and apparatus supporting synchronization: Peer to peer communication timing, e.g., for an ad hoc network, is referenced with respect to an external broadcast signal from a terrestrial or satellite based transmitter. Wireless terminals, seeking to communicate via peer to peer communications, receive the reference broadcast signal, and set their internal timing structure with respect... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080039070 - Remote mobile testing probe: A system for testing communications between an application executed on a mobile terminal and a server seated on a remote network includes a probe concentrator for receiving a communication from the mobile terminal and transmitting the communication to a remote probe, the remote probe configured to transmit the communication to... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20080039069 - System and method of intelligent agent management using an agent interface for use in vehicle diagnostics: A system and method of intelligent agent management using an agent interface within a vehicle intelligent agent system is provided. The system includes a host system, and a local system in communication with the host system via a communications means. The system includes an intelligent agent that carries instructions or... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Sprinkle,anderson & Citkowski, P.c

20080039071 - Method of generating a test routine: A test routine is generated for testing services to be provided over a mobile telecommunications network. Items of profile data, in the form of answers to questions such as Boolean values and such like, for a mobile device are retrieved from a database 1 (step S1). The PC 3 reads... Agent: Needle & Rosenberg, P.C.

20080039073 - Graphical display: A device may include logic to play songs. The device may also include a two level display. A first level of the display may display information to a user of the device, where the information is not associated with a song. A second level of the display may display graphical... Agent: Harrity Snyder, L.L.P.

20080039072 - Mobile radio terminal with headset assembly having multi-function user input button and method: A method of controlling a mobile radio terminal includes assigning a non-call related function to a call answer button of a headset assembly that is operatively interfaced with the mobile radio terminal. In response to a detection of a depression of the button when no incoming call is received and... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080039074 - System and process for global dialing using a mobile device: The present invention integrates a large selection of calling card-like features into one user friendly package. What is disclosed is a system and process for enabling PSTN-network enabled mobile communication devices to connect to international, domestic and Internet-based parties. The present invention permits voice calls all over the globe, and... Agent: Dergosits & Noah LLP

20080039075 - Method and apparatus for supporting mobility in dvb-h cbms system: Disclosed is a DVB-H CBMS system by which a user can continue to view a program being in service even when the transport stream or IP platform changes while the user views the program. In the DVB-H CBMS system, the system transmits service mapping information according to transport streams or... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080039076 - System and method of transmitting data from an aircraft: A system and method of transmitting data from an aircraft includes a PC card that acquires aircraft data and transmits the aircraft data over a radio frequency communications signal into the skin of the aircraft, which radiates the radio frequency communications signal to a location remote from the aircraft.... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist

20080039078 - Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving electronic service guide for roaming user in a digital broadcasting system: A method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving an Electronic Service Guide (ESG) for roaming users in a Convergence of Broadcasting and Mobile Service (CBMS) system. A network entity generates a normal ESG indicating services available for local users in a network, and a special ESG indicating services available for... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080039077 - Method for a mobile station to roam among networks of different criteria: The present invention provides a method for a mobile station to roam among networks of different criteria. It includes: recording user information in number portability database, when a mobile station processes location registration, the home location register of the current roaming network processes an inter-network number portability request, then returns... Agent: Walker & Jocke, L.p.a.

20080039079 - Roaming in a communications network: Communicating over a network may include a mobile proxy device to receive a request for a home agent from a mobile device. The mobile proxy device can assign a home agent to the mobile device and send a reply including a home-address associated with the assigned home agent to the... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20080039080 - Enterprise mobility user: In one embodiment, an enterprise network is provided that includes a mobility agent 150 associated with a switch/server 100 or 104. The mobility agent creates a visitor application record 172 associated with a second communication device 140b. The visitor application record is associated with a first subscriber. A second subscriber... Agent: Sheridan Ross P.C.

20080039081 - Method for implementing ip multimedia subsystem registration: A method for implementing an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) registration, includes: a Home Subscriber Server (HSS) recording a current registration state of a User Equipment (UE) in response to receiving a Multimedia Authentication Request (MAR) initiated by a Service Call Session Control Function (S-CSCF) selected for the UE when a... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080039082 - Apparatus and method for selecting a cell in a mobile communication terminal: An apparatus and a method of cell selection/reselection or Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN) selection of a mobile communication terminal are provided. The method includes sorting observed cells according to the intensity of signals being received from the cells; checking a control information of an (i)th cell of the sorted... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080039083 - Method for acquiring system information by a mobile station in a mobile radiocommunication system:

20080039084 - Method for uplink spectrum monitoring for sparse overlay tdma systems: Spectrum monitoring measurements are made by microcell base stations in a layered cellular network, while not serving calls or engaged in processing calls. The microcell base station transmits a first control message from to a microcell mobile station, to increase the duration for the mobile station to reside in the... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20080039086 - Generic access to the iu interface: Some embodiments provide a method of registering a user equipment (UE) in a communication system that includes a licensed wireless communication system and a generic access network (GAN) that has a generic access network controller (GANC). The method sends a register request message from the UE to the GANC that... Agent: Adeli & Tollen, LLP

20080039085 - System and method for carrying trusted network provided access network information in session initiation protocol: Methods, computer code products and systems for authenticating user equipment for access to a trusted network can include receiving a user identity uniquely identifying the user equipment. A proxying entity in the trusted network can generate a network-trusted header including the user identity and forward it to a serving entity... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080039087 - Generic access to the iu interface: Some embodiments provide a communication system that includes a first licensed wireless communication system, a second generic access network (GAN) that includes a generic access network controller (GANC). The GANC is communicatively coupled to the first communication system through a universal mobile telecommunication system (UMTS) terrestrial radio access network (UTRAN)... Agent: Adeli & Tollen, LLP

20080039093 - Cell reselection apparatus and method of wireless communication system: An apparatus and method for cell reselection of a wireless communication system are provided. The cell reselection method for use in a mobile station of the wireless communication system includes checking and storing information about the mobile station's supported networks, the information being contained in a message received from a... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080039092 - Handover procedures in a wireless communications system: Various techniques for handing over a wireless terminal from a serving node to a target node in a radio access network is disclosed. transferring a session in a cluster are disclosed. These techniques include exchanging messages between a wireless terminal and with a serving node to support a handover to... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080039088 - Radio communication terminal and communication method: A radio communication terminal according to the present invention includes: a transmitter-receiver configured to transmit voice and image data to a destination communication terminal, and to receive the voice and image data from the destination communication terminal; a connection processor configured to control a handoff between communication modes of which... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20080039089 - System and method for providing dynamically configurable wireless communication network: A system and method of providing wireless communications services within a first geographical area using a network comprising a group of cells, wherein a plurality of the cells have overlapping coverage areas is provided. In one embodiment, the method includes storing rules for transferring user device communications between cells; establishing... Agent: Capital Legal Group, LLC

20080039091 - Communication relay apparatus, wireless terminal and computer program: In order to continue a communication by performing a handover across or between different communication systems, improvement in redundancy of a communication route and a delay time difference before and after switching the communication system is intended. A bicast entity 21 includes, when a wireless terminal 10 makes a connection... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080039094 - Method and apparatus for setting up radio resource control connection: A method and apparatus for establishing an RRC connection are provided, in which a UE compares the strength of a signal received from a serving cell with a threshold, upon receipt of a request for RRC connection establishment, transmits an RRC connection request message to a RAN, measures the strengths... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080039090 - Method for handover between frequency allocation in broadband wireless access system: A handover control method in a broadband wireless access system is disclosed. In a broadband wireless access system supporting multiple frequency allocations, in which a serving base station controls a handover, the present invention includes the steps of receiving from a mobile subscriber station a handover request message including an... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080039095 - System and method for fast network re-entry in a broadband wireless access communication system: A system and method for fast network re-entry in a broadband wireless access communication system. A mobile station transmits a first message requiring fast network re-entry to a base station and performs the fast network re-entry together with the base station when receiving a second message approving the fast network... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080039096 - Apparatus, method and computer program product providing secure distributed ho signaling for 3.9g with secure u-plane location update from source enb: Apparatus, methods and computer program products provide steps and operations to enable user equipment in a wireless telecommunications network to generate a signed message containing user plane location update content that a user plane entity can trust and use to perform tunnel switching, and a source base station can use... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080039098 - Methods and apparatus to schedule uplink transmissions in wireless communication systems: Methods and apparatus to schedule uplink transmissions in wireless communication systems, such as cellular communication systems, are disclosed. A disclosed example method comprises measuring channel conditions for a plurality of equipment devices at a base transceiver station of a wireless communication system, dividing an operating bandwidth of the base transceiver... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080039099 - Apparatus and method for determining soft or softer handoff in mobile communication system: Apparatus and method for determining soft or softer handoff are described. The present invention includes the steps of comparing sectors in an active set to set values corresponding to the soft or softer handoff for the sectors, respectively in a base station, transmitting a first parameter for selecting cell switching... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080039097 - Intelligent ip services edge with dynamic qos to individually and collectively enhance subscribers quality of experience (qoe) in wireless broadband networks: In cellular and broadband wireless networks, specific nodes are assigned to handle functions such as radio resource management (BSC/BTS), session management (PDSN/GGSN/Access Gateways) and service switching (MSC, CSCFs). The function to guarantee Quality of Service, or QOS, is typically associated with the service being implemented and assigned to the one... Agent: Seshadri Sathyanarayan

20080039101 - Method and apparatus for communication by a secondary user of spectrum: A method and apparatus is provided for allowing communication of a secondary communication device over spectrum allocated to a primary user. During operation a node wishing to communicate will determine a route to a destination device that will cause a least amount of interference to a primary communication system. Communication... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080039100 - Mobile communication terminal and method therefore: Control of setup of international calls in a mobile communication terminal is performed. The terminal is connected to a first mobile communication network that is operated by a first operator, and the method includes detecting a request to setup an international call, the request including a first symbol sequence including... Agent: Perman & Green

20080039102 - Hotspot communication limiter: An embodiment is directed to a method for limiting network communications. The method is implemented at a device through which communications can be routed between client devices and the internet. The method includes receiving a routable communication. A communication type for the routable communication is identified. The communication type may... Agent: Jack H. Mckinney Ormiston & Mckinney

20080039104 - Method and system for routing control: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method for routing control applied to a communication system including a CS domain and an IMS and in which a Routing Policy Decision-making Point (RPDP) is set; and the method includes: initiating a routing query to the RPDP by an interrogation network unit... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080039103 - Wireless market place for multiple access internet portal: Multiple access internet portals with wireless market place systems are provided. A representative system, among others, includes a wireless internet server and a wireless market place system. The wireless internet server routes internet content from a content provider to a plurality of platform gateways, while the wireless market place system... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP/ At&t Delaware Intellectual Property, Inc.

20080039105 - Method and apparatus for determining appropriate channels for communication: During operation of a secondary communication system, cells (106) are formed by a plurality of localized nodes (104) to alert other nodes within the cell of frequencies which must be protected or otherwise avoided. All nodes within the cell monitor a differing subset of all frequencies available, and share information... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080039108 - Allocation of radio resources in a cdma2000 cellular system: A CDNMA data transmission system and method for periodically allocating channels to subscriber units, wherein prior to the beginning of any period all active subscriber units are identified that are in communication with the transmitter and for which there are data, exceeding a given minimal quantity, stored in a buffer.... Agent: Jon Eastman

20080039107 - Preambles in ofdma system: The present invention provides a preamble that is inserted into an OFDMA frame and has a common sequence for all the base stations participating in a transmission. The subscriber station performs fine synchronization using the common sequence on the common preamble, and the resulting peaks will provide the locations of... Agent: Smart & Biggar P.o. Box 2999, Station D

20080039106 - Reestablishing wireless communication between a radio access network and a mobile station: The present invention relates to a method for reestablishing wireless communication between a radio access network (RAN1) and a mobile station (MS1), an apparatus (RNC1) used for implementing the method as well as a radio access network (RAN1) including such an apparatus. A downlink radio failure affecting a first set... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080039109 - Signaling connection admission control in a wireless network: A method for admission control of control plane signaling requests includes receiving a signaling request. Upon receipt of the signaling connection request, a first determination is performed to determine whether to provide admission to common resources. When the first determination is negative, a second determination is performed to determine whether... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080039110 - Method for dynamic resource allocation in mobile communication system: A method for dynamic resource allocation in a mobile communication system is provided. The resource allocation method includes allocating a resource to a mobile station by selectively using a first resource allocation scheme or a second resource allocation scheme, determining information fields corresponding to a used resource allocation scheme and... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20080039112 - Method and apparatus for dedicated resource request using congestion information in mobile communication system: A method and apparatus for a dedicated resource request using congestion information in a mobile communication system. The method includes determining a dedicated resource state of a cell connected to a mobile terminal using system information from the cell, when the mobile terminal requests a dedicated resource, selecting or reselecting,... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080039111 - Methods and apparatus for use of data object popularity measurements for improved quality of service perception in wireless broadcast systems: Systems, methods, device and apparatus are provided that allocate broadcast delivery capacity based oil popularity measurements associated with broadcasted data objects. By allocating broadcast delivery capacity based on popularity measurements, Quality of Service (QoS) perception can be improved by decreasing the number of reception failures, decreasing the data object access... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080039114 - Cell id based positioning from cell intersections: Systems and methods are described for determining location of wireless devices using signal strength of signals detected by the wireless devices. The strength of signals received from identifiable sources is typically compared to reference signal strength measurements collected or estimated at known locations. Information identifying the source of the signals... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20080039113 - Derivation of a propagation specification from a predicted utility of information in a network: A method of transmitting data includes determining how much data is desired to be transmitted from a data source. A utility function is used to determine a pattern of microutilities to be associated with data samples from the data source. The pattern of microutilities specifies a pattern of data delivery... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C. - Xerox

20080039118 - Method for interworking between access control router and position determination entity in position recognition system based on portable internet and system therefor: Disclosed is a method for interworking between an ACR and a PDE in a position recognition system based on a portable Internet and a system therefor. A scheme for TCP/IP-based socket connection between the PDE and the ACR is defined. A data packet transmitted and received between the PDE and... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080039115 - Cellphone presence and locating system using a sim card transmitter: A cellphone Presence and Locating system includes antenna(s) with associated receiver(s) extracting user information, presence and location data from a plurality of mobile cellphones with a Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) card containing a low duty cycle transmitter. The transmitter communicates with the SIM processor and extracts user and configuration information.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080039116 - Method and apparatus for compensating an oscillator in a location-enabled wireless device: A method and apparatus for compensating an oscillator in a location-enabled wireless device is described. In an example, a mobile device includes a wireless receiver for receiving wireless signals and a GPS receiver for receiving GPS signals. The mobile device also includes an oscillator having an associated temperature model. A... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080039117 - Method and apparatus for processing position information in a mobile device: Method and apparatus for processing position information in a mobile device is described. In one example, a request for a position to be computed within a predefined period of time is received. A plurality of positions is calculated within the predefined period of time. At least one of the plurality... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080039119 - Radiolocation in a wireless network using time difference of arrival: A method and an apparatus for radiolocation using time differences of arrival. The method includes receiving transmit timestamps from a set of wireless stations of a wireless network. Each station transmits at least once. The transmit timestamp uses a local timestamping clock to indicate when a station transmitted a packet.... Agent: Dov Rosenfeld

20080039120 - Visual inputs for navigation: An interface is provided to a mobile navigation system in which an optical image of a point-of-interest acquired by cellular telephone devices is an input to the system. Textual and optionally other location information is extracted from the image, and used by the navigation system to identify coordinates and vectors... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080039121 - Methods and systems for establishing relationships between mobile communication device users: A method of establishing a community including a first mobile communication device user and a second mobile communication device user is disclosed. The method includes receiving a first message from the first mobile communication device user and receiving a second message from the second mobile communication device user. The method... Agent: Michael Toback

20080039122 - Methods and systems for 1.7 way short message service: A method and system are disclosed in which a Mobile Terminated SMS (Short Message Service) wireless message generated by a Computer Application containing an embedded response menu can be sent to a Mobile Handset and in which a Mobile Originated response from the Mobile Handset can be uniquely re-associated with... Agent: Haynes Beffel & Wolfeld LLP

20080039123 - Mobile communication system and method for sending group schedule using mobile terminal: Disclosed are a method and a mobile communication system for sharing at least one schedule between the members of a group. A user can first register one or more groups and members of each group, which will receive a group schedule, and store schedules in relation to corresponding groups in... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080039124 - Apparatus, a method, and a system for animating a virtual scene: A method for animating a virtual scene that comprises managing a virtual scene comprising at least one virtual object, receiving a text message via a wireless communication network, identifying a pattern indicative of an animation sequence in said text message, and applying a non-facial animation on said at least one... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan Prtsi, Inc.

20080039125 - Collaborative mobile ad hoc network infrastructure: A system for providing collaboration among a plurality of devices in a mobile ad hoc network is disclosed. The system consists of a module within each of the devices that is operable to perform login, synchronization, data loss recovery, and conflict avoidance and resolution functions.... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C.

20080039126 - Dot-tag visibility ip protocol: The system employs full transceivers, each having peer-to-peer, client/server, and IP networking capabilities, and and covering open-area ranges of up to 100 feet. The system uses Low Frequency for data communications so it can achieve both low cost (less costly than many RF-ID tags) and long battery life (10-15 years).... Agent: Marina Larson & Associates, LLC

20080039127 - Use of media timestamp to indicate delays in push-to-talk over cellular group calls: A method to indicate delays in a push-to-talk over cellular (PoC) group call may include offsetting a timestamp in a data stream being transmitted to a late listener to indicate a delay from when the data stream was transmitted to a first listener. The data stream includes data convertible to... Agent: Moore And Van Allen PLLC For Semc

20080039131 - Method and apparatus for interference limitation in uplink communication in a cellular communication system: The invention relates to a method for uplink transmission interference limitation in a wireless communications system comprising a mobile network arranged in a radio cell configuration, each cell comprising a serving base station providing communications service to at least one user terminal inside the cell area, the method comprising the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080039128 - Propagation delay based transmit power control: The transmit power of a radio transmitter associated with a transmitting node communicating with a receiving node is controlled based on a propagation delay time associated with communication between the transmitting node and the receiving node. A power control loop is established for controlling a transmission power level for transmitting... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080039129 - Methods and apparatus for power control in multi-carier wireless systems: Methods and apparatus disclosed maximize the capacity of serving cells and minimize inter-cell interferences due to power emission from serving cells in a multi-carrier, multi-cell communication system. The control methods and apparatus take into account various factors such as cell configuration, frequency reuse, geometry and path-loss information, transmission priority, subchannel... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20080039130 - Power- and bandwidth-adaptive in-home wireless communications system with power-grid-powered agents and battery-powered clients: A radio link management system for a home or office substantially (i) an ad hoc network of agents wirelessly communicating among themselves, while (iii) clients wirelessly communicate with proximate agents. Control of the network may be centralized as network controller integrated with an agent, or may be distributed upon the... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20080039132 - Dual-mode terminal access to a first radiocommunication network and to a second local communications network: The disclosure relates to a dual-mode terminal for accessing to at least first radiocommunications network in a first operating mode and to at least one local communication network in a second operating mode. The dual-mode terminal includes means for detecting the presence of said terminal, at least according to location... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20080039133 - Method and system for wireless communication in multiple operating environments: A wireless communication method and system are provided. A first wireless communication numerology, e.g., OFDM operating parameters, corresponding to a first operational mode is established. A second wireless communication numerology corresponding to a second operational mode is also established. The first wireless communication numerology is different than the second wireless... Agent: Christopher & Weisberg, P.A.

20080039134 - Mobile device, and access control method: A mobile device (10) has a noncontact IC (11). Three storage areas are preliminarily formed in the noncontact IC (11). When the mobile device (10) receives an application from a content server (20), a storage area (1) is assigned as a data area dedicated to this application. After that, the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080039135 - Broadcast communication system for mobile phone: The objective of the present invention is to provide a broadcast communication system for mobile phone, the system capable of switching the broadcast image to the camera image selected from the mobile terminal side for a certain time interval. The system comprises: a broadcast unit 24 capable of broadcasting interactive... Agent: Berenato, White & Stavish, LLC

20080039136 - Networking of bluetooth system: The present invention relates to networking a Bluetooth system. The present invention includes receiving a Bluetooth signal from at least one Bluetooth device, searching for the at least one Bluetooth device, transmitting a pairable mode message to the at least one Bluetooth device for changing a current mode of the... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080039139 - Method for sharing credentials: A method for sharing credentials between a first appliance, having a credentials module, and a second appliance, the method including the steps of: selectively operating the first appliance for communicating with the credentials module, thereby enabling phone calls to be made and received; physically engaging the first appliance with the... Agent: Mark M. Friedman

20080039138 - System for sharing credentials: A primary appliance, reversibly engageable with a secondary appliance for sharing credentials, including: a credentials module configured to enable the primary appliance to make/receive phone calls; and an interface with the secondary appliance, the interface including: a physical interface for physically reversibly engaging the primary appliance and the secondary appliance;... Agent: Mark M. Friedman

20080039137 - Circuit board with adaptive, electromagnetic coupler: The invention relates to a circuit board such as an SIM card for use in an apparatus such as a mobile telephone. The circuit board comprises an adaptive electromagnetic coupler, and is arranged to find the different resonance modes for the surrounding metallic structure of the apparatus, which may be... Agent: Christian D. Abel

20080039140 - System and method for secure biometric identification: A system and method for secure biometric identification. The inventive system includes a mobile unit and a server. The mobile unit is adapted to receive biometric input and provide a first signal in response thereto. In the illustrative implementation, the mobile unit is a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) and the... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080039141 - Changing the scrambling code of a base station for wireless telecommunications: s

20080039142 - Method for determining characteristics of an antenna path in a base station in a wireless communications network, a base station and a network: A W-CDMA base station 2 includes a probe 16 for detecting the receive signal power. The output of the probe 16 is applied to a processor 23, which, in conjunction with a comparator 25, determines the minimum receive signal level. This represents the thermal noise level and is used to... Agent: Lucent Technologies Inc. Docket Administrator - Room 3j-219

20080039143 - Mobile communications system and communication branch establishing method: A disclosed mobile radio communications system comprises an exchange station; first and second radio base stations configured to radio-communicate with a mobile station and configured to relay data from the mobile station; first and second radio control stations configured to wire-communicate with the first and second radio base stations, respectively,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080039144 - System, method, and device for providing communications using a distributed mobile architecture: A device for providing a communication path between two or more wireless telephones via one or more wireless transceivers is disclosed. The device includes a housing that includes a mobile switching center module and includes a base station controller module. Further, in another particular embodiment, the mobile switching center module... Agent: Toler Law Group

20080039145 - Wireless base station apparatus and wireless communication control method: A wireless base station apparatus (100) used in a wireless communications system includes a statistical processing unit (140) that performs statistical processing on downlink radio quality information reported from a wireless communications terminal device; a radio quality information offsetting unit (160) that adjusts the statistically processed downlink radio quality information... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080039146 - Method and system for improving robustness of interference nulling for antenna arrays: The present invention discloses a method and system for improving the robustness of interference nulling for antenna arrays in a wireless communication network. The method is comprised of generating a first interference spatial signature from an interference signal matrix received by the antenna array, deriving a second interference spatial signature... Agent: L. Howard Chen Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis, LLP

20080039147 - Cancellation system for frequency reuse in microwave communications: Substantial improvements in frequency reuse in microwave communications systems is achieved by canceling co-channel interference and transmitter leakage. Interferometric beam-narrowing reduces beamwidth without reducing peak magnitude of the beam pattern. Frequency-dependent beam-shaping compensates for frequency-dependent distortions of the beam pattern thereby improving bandwidth. A spatial demultiplexing technique utilizes spatial gain... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20080039148 - Method and system for improved beacon acquisition performance with time slot and antenna sector reuse: A wireless multi-cell communication system, such as a time division duplex (TDD) system, includes at least one wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) and a plurality of base stations which broadcast beacon signals into a plurality of sectors of a cell of the system. Beacon channel acquisition performance is enhanced by reducing... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080039149 - Key for a portable terminal: Provided is a key for a portable terminal. The key includes a metallic case including a plated layer exposed to the outside of the portable terminal and an electro-forming layer formed on the inner side of the plated layer and a synthetic resin layer formed on the inner side of... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080039151 - Portable communication terminal having display unit using panel-type waveguide: Disclosed is a portable communication terminal having a display unit using a panel-type waveguide. The portable communication terminal includes a body having an optical unit; a panel-type waveguide having a display unit mounted on the body while facing the body, displaying a source image emitted by the optical unit; and... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080039150 - Video communication method, video communication system and integrated media resource server: The present invention discloses a video communication method and system, wherein, during an audio conversation between a calling party and a called party, an IMRS (Integrated Media Resource Server) plays a video to the calling party or the called party; or when a calling party initiates a video phone call... Agent: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP

20080039152 - Portable terminal: A portable terminal includes an output device configured to output a ringing tone, a vibrator configured to generate vibration, and a first controller configured to detect a missed call indicating that an incoming call response operation is not performed, and a second controller coupled to the first controller. The second... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080039153 - Hands-free apparatus: A hands-free apparatus determines whether there is an incoming call, and then determines whether the incoming call is to be answered by switching from a current call or to be rejected. When the incoming call is determined to be answered, the current call in a hands-free communication is put on... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080039154 - Communication apparatus and method for controlling the same: The present invention relates to a communication apparatus and a method for controlling the same, which controls an operation mode of a communication unit in a portable terminal capable of supporting the portable Internet (Wibro). In the present invention, when the communication unit of the portable terminal that provides the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080039155 - Mobile communications device with rotatable screen and qwerty keypad: Disclosed is a mobile communication device. The mobile communication device includes a first body section having a keypad arranged on a first upper surface thereof; and a second body section connected to the first body section and having a display screen arranged on an upper surface thereof, the second body... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080039156 - Mobile phone for multimedia with a self-cradling function: A mobile phone for multimedia with a self-cradling function. The mobile phone includes a data output device; a data input device rotatably connected to the data output device about a hinge axis, the top and bottom surfaces of the data input device being reversed upside down according to rotation of... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080039157 - Key input device for a portable communications apparatus and a sliding module therefor: A key input device for a portable communications apparatus having a main body housing and a sliding body housing mounted on the main body housing to be slid along first and second directions perpendicular to each other. The key input device includes a first key array arranged on the main... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080039158 - Dual-axis rotation folder-type mobile communication terminal and hinge device thereof: Provided is a dual-axis rotation folder-type mobile communication terminal including a main body, a folder rotatable about a first hinge axis having two positions respectively in a latitudinal direction and a longitudinal direction of the main body to open and close a top face of the main body, and a... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080039159 - Mobile terminal: A mobile terminal having a housing, a circuitry supporting substrate located in the housing, the circuitry supporting substrate having an opening formed within the circuitry supporting substrate, and a camera extending into the opening of the circuitry supporting substrate.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080039160 - Wireless communications interface for a portable electronic device: A portable electronic device comprises an interface configured to, in response to detecting releasable engagement of an external antenna to the electronic device, switch from using an internal antenna to the external antenna for the wireless communications.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080039161 - Casing device for mobile handset: A casing device for mobile handsets is provided. The casing device is made of a fine ceramics material molded into a single piece. The casing device has fastening elements so as to be joined to the body of a mobile handset. A plastic film can be coated or adhered to... Agent: Leong C Lei

20080039162 - Sidetone generation for a wireless system that uses time domain isolation: A technique includes providing a sidetone path to generate sidetone content in response to audio data and disabling at least part of the sidetone path during an active mode of a radio. The technique includes storing the sidetone content in an outgoing audio buffer that is operational during the active... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20080032624 - Control element for simplex hf to vhf/uhf cross-band system with transmission breakthrough: The device and method disclosed deals with the operation of a cross-band simplex radio frequency communications system. In a system having a first band receiver on a first radio frequency band for receiving and demodulating a first received signal, and a second band transmitter using a second radio frequency band... Agent: Klauber & Jackson

20080032625 - Deviating from a transmission map to communicate in a wireless network: Direct communication between devices in a wireless network without going through a base station is described herein. Such communication may be possible by deviating from a transmission map to be broadcasted by the base station of the wireless network.... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C.

20080032626 - Portable electronic apparatus with near field communication (nfc) application and method of operating the portable electronic apparatus: A portable electronic apparatus with NFC application and the method of operating the portable electronic apparatus are disclosed. The portable electronic apparatus includes an application module, an active NFC device, a passive NFC device, and a power supply unit. The application module is utilized for performing a main function of... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080032629 - Bluetooth internet phone and wireless apparatus thereof: A Bluetooth internet phone includes a Bluetooth wireless apparatus and a computing machine which is cooperated with the Bluetooth wireless apparatus and is connected with Internet. The computing machine includes a Bluetooth communicating module and a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) module. The Bluetooth wireless apparatus includes a Bluetooth transceiver... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080032627 - Bluetooth wireless communication system for transmitting image data in real time: A Bluetooth wireless communication system for transmitting image data in real time includes a host for receiving real-time image data and reproducing image, an image module for transforming image into electronic image data and sending electronic image data to the host, a first Bluetooth module physically connected to the host... Agent: Wpat, PC Intellectual Property Attorneys

20080032628 - Method and apparatus for detecting trends in received signal strength: The present invention provides a new and unique method and apparatus for detecting in a short-range communication device, such as a WLAN station (STA), the trend in WLAN signal strength based on one or more characteristics, e.g. received signal strength values and current time of their observation, by fitting a... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20080032632 - Apparatus and method for canceling interference in a wireless communication system: An apparatus and method for canceling interference from other MSs in an space-division wireless communication system are provided. The apparatus and method include a subframe for transmitting control information from a BS to MSs which is configured in a first region of the frame, and a subframe for transmitting and... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20080032631 - Method for the digital compensation of nonlinearities in a communication system and receiver device:

20080032633 - On demand antenna feedback: A feedback method in which a notification is received that a transmitting device has scheduled a transmission of data to the receiving device. Antenna feedback is generated in response to receipt of the notification. The antenna feedback is sent to the transmitting device. A mobile device includes a wireless network... Agent: Motorola Inc

20080032635 - Radio frequency matching control apparatus and method for portable communication terminal: A radio frequency (RF) matching control apparatus and method for a portable communication terminal is provided. An RF matching control apparatus for a portable communication terminal according to the present invention includes matching circuitry for performing RF matching on an RF signal input through an input line connected to an... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080032634 - System and method for low delay corrective feedback power amplifier control: A system for controlling the power output of a power amplifier includes a power amplifier through which a transmit signal having an amplitude-modulated (AM) component and a phase-modulated (PM) component is passed and amplified, the power amplifier comprising a forward path, a feedback signal comprising a portion of the output... Agent: Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha, LLC

20080032636 - Half-duplex communication system: First and second transceivers are provided for half-duplex communication via a plurality of communication channels, for example by means of antenna diversity. The first transceiver comprises a receiver and transmitter together with a switching arrangement for selecting between two or more channels, for example in the form of antennae disposed... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20080032637 - Handheld mobile communication device with moveable display/cover member: Handheld mobile communication devices according to the disclosure have a closed position, in which the display member of the device covers at least a portion of the keys of on the keypad member of the device, and an open position, in which the keys are accessible and the device is... Agent: Novak Druce & Quigg, LLP (rim Prosecution)

20080032638 - Wearable communication device with contoured back: An improved PDA-like portable electronic communication device includes a housing having a display screen on the front and a mounting surface that is contoured to generally conform to the shape of a user's forearm. In this way, the communication device can be comfortably and securely worn on a user's forearm... Agent: Gardner Groff Greenwald & Villanueva. PC

20080032622 - Mobile station and interface adapted for feature extraction from an input media sample: A mobile station has a processor and a user input mechanism such as a button that is operable to cause the processor to extract at least one feature from a digital media sample. The feature, such as a spectral centroid, is descriptive of an identity of a content of the... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080032623 - System method for selecting repeaters: A method is described for selecting repeaters comprising: transmitting a first signal from a first node to a second node; measuring signal strength of the first signal at the second node; transmitting a second signal from the second node to the first node; measuring signal strength of the second signal... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080032630 - Uplink channel estimation using a signaling channel: Techniques for efficiently deriving uplink channel estimates without consuming much additional uplink resources are described. A user equipment (UE) may send a request for uplink resources on a request channel (REQCH) whenever the UE desires to transmit data on the uplink. The UE may send the REQCH on a set... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080032639 - Phase shifter: A phase shifter includes a plurality of variable gain elements, each variable gain element configured to receive one of a plurality of input signals, each input signal having a phase that is shifted with respect to each other input signal; and a control signal supplied to each variable gain element,... Agent: Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha, LLC

20080032640 - Spectrum spreading circuit: A spectrum spreading circuit, includes a control portion that repeats a sequence in which the control portion generates a designation signal for designating all of plural frequencies in prescribed order by selecting a next frequency from the frequencies which have not been selected, and a signal generating portion that sequentially... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20080032641 - Apparatus and method for attenuating leakage signal of transmitter in communication system: An apparatus and method for attenuating a leakage signal of a transmitter in a communication system is provided. The apparatus includes a local oscillator, a mixer, and a leakage signal attenuator. The local oscillator outputs a reference frequency signal. The mixer adds the reference frequency signal to an IF signal... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20080032642 - Adaptive predistorter coupled to a nonlinear element: In one embodiment, a circuit comprises an adaptive predistorter and a nonlinear element coupled to an output of the predistorter. The predistorter is operative to predistort an input signal according to predistortion control parameters at a given sampling rate. The circuit further comprises an identification unit and a translation unit.... Agent: Eschweiler & Associates, LLC National City Bank Building

20080032645 - Apparatus and method for transmitting data in a communication system: An apparatus and method for transmitting data in a communication system are provided. The method for transmitting the data includes determining data to be transmitted over a power boosting zone, generating a power boosting zone used for power-boosting and transmitting the data, allocating the data to the generated power boosting... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20080032644 - Automatic linear transmitter spectral optimization using transistor bias adjustment: A system for spectral optimization of a transmitter includes a signal generating device configured to generate an analog transmitter signal. An amplifier is coupled to the signal generating device and is configured to amplify the analog transmitter signal. An A/D converter is coupled to the amplifier and is configured to... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080032643 - Methods and apparatus for providing input voltages to power amplifiers: A method and apparatus for providing input voltages to power amplifiers (PAs) is disclosed. For one embodiment, a multiple-mode device having a corresponding PA for each mode is provided with a voltage adjustment mechanism that adjusts the output voltage from the switcher based upon the PA that is currently in... Agent: Robert E. Krebs Thelen Reid & Priest LLP

20080032646 - Circuits: A double balanced mixer has a DC detection circuit connected to receive the output of the mixer core. The detected level is applied to adjust the duty cycle of the transistors of the mixer core. In one example, this adjusting level is added to the local oscillator signals that are... Agent: Stout, Uxa, Buyan & Mullins LLP

20080032647 - Broadcast signal interface device and method thereof: Provided are a broadcast signal interface unit and method for converting program content and ancillary data of a first broadcast type into a broadcast channel of a second broadcast signal type. The broadcast channel of the second broadcast signal type is provided to one or more broadcast receivers of the... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20080032648 - Ultra wide band, differential input/output, high frequency active combiner in an integrated circuit: A wideband combiner includes a core amplifier for receiving first and second pairs of differential input signals and providing a single pair of differential output signals. The pair of differential output signals are a combination of the first and second pair of differential input signals and a signal gain is... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20080032649 - Frequency modulation circuit, transmitter, and communication apparatus: A bandpass type delta sigma modulation section 15 performs delta sigma modulation on an inputted modulation signal such that quantization noise is reduced in a frequency band which requires low noise. An LPF 16 removes a noise component in a high frequency region from the signal on which the delta... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080032650 - Integrated bluetooth-fm \"xrblue\" adapter: “xrBlue” adapter is a integrated Bluetooth-FM adapter that plugs into a car cigarette lighter socket, enabling in-car cable-free hands-free Bluetooth for every kind of Bluetooth-enabled devices including cell phone, MP3 player, iPod, navigation system etc. The “xrBlue” adapter comprises of five components: Bluetooth module to automatically detect and establish communication... Agent: Charles Morton

20080032651 - Relay for multi-carrier wireless communications system: A relay, for use in an indoor multi-carrier radio frequency wireless communications system, stores multiple predetermined phase adjustment profiles. The best of the stored phase adjustment profiles is selected by a receiver, which sends a message to the relay, indicating the profile to be used. The selected stored phase adjustment... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080032652 - Phase detection apparatus and method, phase locked loop circuit and control method thereof, and signal reproducing apparatus and method: A phase detection apparatus and method, a PLL circuit and a control method thereof, and a signal reproducing apparatus and method which can provide anti-noise and anti-ISI characteristics while reducing the scale of hardware used in an optical disc reproducing system having high-ISI conditions include a pulse forming unit to... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080032653 - Variable attenuator and integrated circuit: In a variable attenuator attenuating a signal inputted to an input terminal from a plurality of transmission lines connected in series between the input terminal and an output terminal and outputting the signal from the output terminal, first and second resistance elements to improve an input/output characteristic are connected in... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20080032654 - Diversity switching: A comparative quality factor may be based on quantities indicative of signal and noise received at multiple antennas and may be used to control switching in a switched diversity system.... Agent: Venable LLP

20080032655 - Wireless apparatus using the same carrier wave for transmission and reception: A wireless apparatus using the same carrier wave for transmission and reception is configured to store/hold, in a sample-hold circuit SH, a DC component generated by an interference wave, such as a carrier leakage, overlapped on a baseband signal demodulated by a demodulator DEM within a reception circuit of the... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080032656 - Controllable power operational transconductance amplifier: Controllable operational transconductance power amplifier (controllable power OTA) including an input stage receiving a differential input signal (OVin) and deriving therefrom first (i1) and second (i2) low power current signals being coupled to first (ccs1) and second (ccs2) current controlled output current sources being arranged in class B push pull... Agent: Robert M. Mcdermott, Esq.

20080032657 - Mixer-system with gain-blocks and switches: Mixer-systems comprising gain-blocks (1-4) and switches (5-8) have a flexibility depending upon their configuration (insight) and are made more flexible (basic idea) by supplying data input signals to the gain-blocks (1-4) and oscillation signals to the switches (5-6) for switching couplings between the gain-blocks (1-4). A switch (5-6) comprises a... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20080032658 - Analog front end device: The invention discloses an analog front end device comprising a band-gap voltage reference circuit and at least one conversion circuit, wherein the conversion circuit includes a clamper, an input buffer, a low-pass filter, a high frequency gain unit and an analog to digital converter. The analog front end device utilize... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080032659 - Sub-harmonic mixer and down converter with the same: A sub-harmonic mixer and a down converter with the sub-harmonic mixer are provided. The sub-harmonic mixer includes a differential amplifying unit, a current buffer unit, and a switching unit. The differential amplifying unit is used to amplify a radio frequency (RF) signal and employs a first resonance circuit to force... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20080032660 - Systems and methods for dc offset correction in a direct conversion rf receiver: Systems and methods for DC offset correction in analog and digital direct conversion RF receivers. A time derivate and subsequent integration of in-phase and quadrature phase signal path components is performed to effectively remove DC offset from the resultant down converted baseband signal.... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20080032661 - Circuit with q-enhancement cell having programmable bias current slope: Various embodiments are disclosed relating to Q-enhancement cells. According to an example embodiment, a circuit may include an inductor with a quality factor (Q), and a Q-enhancement cell coupled to the inductor. The Q-enhancement cell may include a current source having a variable bias current slope. Stability may, for example,... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP C/o Intellevate

20080032662 - Dynamic warm-up time for a wireless device in idle mode: Techniques for dynamically selecting warm-up time for a wireless device operating in the idle mode are described. At each active interval, conditions affecting warm-up of the wireless device at a next active interval are determined. The conditions may pertain to channel conditions, operating conditions, and/or hardware configuration. A warm-up time... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080032663 - Vehicle audio integrator: An audio integrator monitors the outputs of a plurality of audio sources, and a controller prioritizes the audio sources. An active audio detection circuit determines when one or more of the audio sources become active. When the two or more audio sources are active simultaneously, the controller directs the highest... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080032664 - Handheld apparatus with detachable audio device: The present invention relates to a handheld apparatus with a detachable audio device. By making the audio device of the handheld apparatus a detachable audio device, the handheld apparatus connects to the audio device through a card slot to make the audio device detachable from the card slot for being... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080032665 - Systems and methods for indicating presence for an online service with a mobile telecommunications device based on movement: A mobile telecommunications device is disclosed. The mobile telecommunications device may be configured for use with an online service provider. The mobile telecommunications device may include a processor. The mobile telecommunications device may include memory in electronic communication with the processor. Instructions may be stored in the memory for setting... Agent: Madson & Austin

20080032666 - Location based notification services: The subject disclosure pertains to systems and methods for facilitating provision of location based alerts or notifications to a plurality of mobile devices. An alert system can manage a set of accounts corresponding to the plurality of mobile devices. User accounts can include permissions controlling access to location information for... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080032667 - Mobile communication terminal, information providing system, program, and computer readable recording medium: Information that is no longer valid due to the passage of time is not provided to a user. When a stock price information server acquires updated stock price information from a securities market network, a message that instructs that a predetermined application be started up and to which a term... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20080032669 - Cryptographic techniques for a communications network: Techniques are described for enabling authentication and/or key agreement between communications network stations and service networks. The techniques described include the negotiation and use of a cryptographic primitive shared between a service network and a home environment of a station. The techniques described also feature a key usage indicator, such... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080032668 - Telecommunication terminal comprising two execution spaces: The inventLion relates to a user interface-equppedi computing device comprising mneans for implementing a series of applicatiorm, said means including two execution spaces. According to the invention. the applications of the second execution space (100, P1, 200, P2) have a level of security specifically htigher than that of the applications... Agent: Blakely, Sokoloff, Taylor & Zafman

20080032670 - Mobile communication device: The present invention aims at offering a mobile communication device allowing the user to identify the sender when the user selects or opens a mail in a mail list by outputting an image and music that have been registered to the address book. Accordingly, when a mail is selected in... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080032673 - Method and apparatus for selective and automatic two-way beaming of related information to and from personal information management systems: A method and system of automating two-way beaming of information from one handheld electronic device to another handheld electronic device. Specifically, the present invention discloses a method and system for selectively transmitting business cards, calendar appointments or executable programs from one device to a requesting device. The receiver makes the... Agent: Berry & Associates P.C.

20080032672 - Method for transmitting a message from a portable communication device to a separate terminal, and associated portable device and terminal: The disclosure relates to a method for transmitting a message from a portable communication device to a separate terminal including a step of recording at the portable communication device a voice message, and a step of generating, at the portable communication device, a multimedia file including at least the voice... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080032671 - Systems and methods for controlling a level of interference to a wireless receiver responsive to an activity factor associated with a wireless transmitter: A level of interference to a wireless receiver may be controlled by determining a set of frequencies to be assigned to a wireless transmitter, responsive to an activity factor associated with the wireless transmitter, other than a transmission power level of the wireless transmitter. The set of frequencies is then... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20080032674 - Reply voice message transmission system and method thereof: Disclosed is reply voice message transmission system and method thereof for transmitting a reply voice message showing whether a voice message from a sender is received by receiver's pressing a predetermined key in a mobile phone in the course of or after hearing the voice message from the sender, in... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080032675 - Method and mobile terminal for outputting automatic response message with implementation of schedule management function: Disclosed are a method and a mobile terminal for outputting an automatic response message informing a caller of a user's (i.e. recipient's) current schedule when the user is unable to answer an incoming call. The method includes receiving an incoming call, determining whether an automatic response key is pressed to... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080032678 - Context based marketing: A method and system for sending marketing and advertising material to users based on context of the users. The users provide data pertaining to them to a publisher. The publisher has at least one subscriber who intends to send its marketing and advertising material to the users. The publisher sends... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080032677 - Methods and apparatus for mobile terminal-based radio resource management and wireless network optimization: Methods, devices, processors and computer program products for mobile terminal-based Radio Resource Management (RRM) and network optimization. The mobile terminal measures or otherwise obtains radio condition measurements (such as received power, interference, mobile transmit power and the like) and/or geographical location measurements. The radio condition measurements and/or location measurements are... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080032676 - Mobile electronic device with telephone and music function: A mobile electronic device with a phone function and a music player function. The device includes a recording medium containing a plurality of songs, a music player operable to play songs, an incoming call detection unit, and a ringing tone selection unit for selecting a previously played song as the... Agent: Perman & Green

20080032679 - Method and means for controlling the availability of mobile agents in a call centre environment: Method and apparatus for controlling the ability of mobile agents to receive customer service calls to their mobile phone from a call center. A mobile station is installed with a client application featuring an agent profile and call processing rules that are updated from the call center. The mobile agent... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080032681 - Click-hold operations of mobile device input keys: The invention described herein executes different functions on a mobile device based on different actuation times associated with input key or control. According to one embodiment, the mobile device outputs different alphanumeric characters based on different actuation times associated with an alphanumeric input key. According to another exemplary embodiment, the... Agent: Coats & Bennett/sony Ericsson

20080032680 - Movement activated key guard: A user is prevented from accidentally activating a mobile telephone (101). By detecting a change of state of motion of the telephone, followed by determining an absence of user-induced activity in the telephone and, depending on the detected change of state of motion and depending on the determined absence of... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20080032682 - Transferable device with alterable usage functionality: A method and device for providing a transferable device with alterable usage functionality includes but is not limited to a method including receiving a request from a user to alter one or more functions of the mobile device, responding to the request from the user by activating a first mode,... Agent: Anderson Law Group, PLLC

20080032683 - Method and mobile terminal for expediently editing telephone number: Disclosed is a mobile terminal having an expedient telephone number editing and dialing function. When a user presses a SEND key during the display of a telephone number detected from a phonebook, the mobile terminal detects a SEND key input pattern and processes the telephone number according to the SEND... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080032684 - Radio communication control device, radio communication control system, and radio communication control method: A radio communication control device includes a radio parameter update determination portion, a transmission power value change portion and a radio parameter update portion. The radio parameter update determination portion determines whether or not to update a radio parameter relating to at least one of a communication frequency and transmission... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080032685 - Method and system for communicating between a communications source and a mobile platform: A mobile platform is equipped with a broadcast signal receiver to receive a broadcast signal and with a two-way wireless communications device. Messages within the broadcast signal are received. Other messages between the communications source and the mobile platform are wirelessly communicated via the two-way wireless communications device.... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20080032686 - Method and device for making awareness of occurence of a supplementary service: A method for making awareness of occurrence of a supplementary service, a Voice Call Continuity service control entity and a media gateway control entity are disclosed. With the method, a Voice Call Continuity service control entity and/or a user may make awareness of the occurrence of a supplementary service in... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080032687 - Method and system for enhanced management of missed phone calls: The present invention is a method of managing missed calls providing a calling party, who initiates a call that is not pick-up by a called party (i.e., intended recipient), the autonomy to retain or delete telephone number of calling party in phone registered on the called party phone as caller... Agent: Hoffman Warnick & Dalessandro LLC

20080032688 - User-initiated communications during multimedia content playback on a mobile communications device: A multimedia display process executing in a mobile device traps user input signals to allow switching from display of multimedia to another task without requiring manual termination of the multimedia display process by the user.... Agent: James D Ivey Tribute Tower

20080032689 - Mobile phone and forwarding program: A mobile phone has: a close-range communication control section that performs close-range wireless communication with other mobile phones; a forwarding destination storage section that stores a forwarding destination list in which phone numbers of telephones capable of accepting forwarding are recorded; and a close-range wireless communication monitoring section that causes... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080032690 - Methods and systems for configuring satellite antenna cell patterns in response to terrestrial use of satellite frequencies: Space-based wireless radiotelephone communications are provided in a satellite footprint over a satellite radiotelephone frequency band. The satellite footprint is divided into satellite cells in which satellite radiotelephone frequencies of the satellite radiotelephone frequency band are spatially reused. At least one of the satellite radiotelephone frequencies that is assigned to... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20080032692 - Managing protocol information used in exchanging communications: A method and apparatus for managing protocol information used in exchanging communications is provided. One or more protocol profiles are stored. Each of the protocol profiles is associated with a protocol. One or more transaction profiles are stored. Each of the transaction profiles identifies a combination of protocol profiles. One... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP And Sun Microsystems, Inc.

20080032691 - Technique for managing sessions with entities in a communication network: A technique for managing sessions in a communication network that does not subscribe to registration events immediately after an entity in the network is registered but rather delays subscribing to these events until a time that such notification would be normally used, such as after a revocable session has been... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20080032694 - Cell reselection apparatus and method in multi mode mobile terminal: Provided is a cell reselection apparatus and method in a multi mode mobile terminal supporting at least two network access schemes different from each other. The method includes calculating a cell reselection criterion value for each of a serving cell and neighbor cells; subtracting a predetermined value from the cell... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080032693 - Seamless handoff system and method: A multicellular communications system where transmission between a roving subscriber and multiple base station transceivers is maintained throughout the territory. Each mobile subscriber unit has global code seeds for the entire communications system or an updated neighbor list and continuously searches to access available cell base stations while maintaining a... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080032695 - Method and system for maintaining session continuity: A method and a system for maintaining session continuity, in which the system includes: a Handover Source Function (HOSF), a Handover Destination Function (HODF), a Handover Anchor Function-Control Plane (HOAF-CP) and a Handover Anchor Function-User Plane (HOAF-UP). The method includes: a first user establishing a connection through the HOSF with... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080032696 - Apparatus and method for storing hand over information: Handover in a mobile communication system, and more particularly, an apparatus and method that can broadcast handover information to a particular region using beamforming is provided. An apparatus for storing handover information in a mobile communication system includes: an estimation unit to estimate a direction of arrival (DOA) of a... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080032697 - Method for operating a radio communications system with subscriber stations serving as routing nodes, a routing method and a corresponding subscriber station: The method for operating a radio communications system, which provides for the routing of data of connections via subscriber stations, which occasionally perform the function of routing nodes, provides that one of the subscriber stations indicates, to a routing unit of the radio communications system, its readiness to take on... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080032698 - Method and arrangement in a telecommunication system: A method and user equipment in a mobile telecommunications system for conducting a multimedia broadcast/multicast service (MBMS) session. An MBMS-uplink channel is introduced for transmitting from the user equipment, MBMS participation requests prior to the session and acknowledgment messages when MBMS messages are received. Relevant charging information is collected from... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080032699 - Resource allocating apparatus and method for simplex communication in wideband wireless communication system: A resource allocating apparatus and a method for a Push-To-Talk (PTT) service in a wideband wireless communication system are provided. The method includes, when a Floor Grant message is received from a PTT server, allocating an uplink resource to a corresponding terminal and when a Floor Release message is received... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20080032700 - Method for measuring radio channel quality and related equipment: The present invention relates to a method for measuring radio channel quality in a radio communication system. In the method a modulated signal is received over a communication channel. The modulated signal has been modulated by using modulation parameters. A decoder decodes (305) the modulated signal and forms decoded data.... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20080032701 - Handphone holder: A handphone holder is disclosed. The holder comprises a main body and a housing having a shape of a pet, characterized in that the main body contains a power source, an actuating section, a sensor section and an anti-theft section, wherein the actuating section is provided with a control unit... Agent: Leong C Lei

20080032703 - Location based notification services: The subject disclosure pertains to systems and methods for facilitating provision of location based alerts or notifications to a plurality of mobile devices. An alert system can manage a set of accounts corresponding to the plurality of mobile devices. User accounts can include permissions controlling access to location information for... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080032702 - Personal location code: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for receiving a request from a requester to locate a user. The request identifies a personal location code (PLC) for the user. It is determined if the request is allowed based on the PLC. If the request is allowed, the current location of... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080032705 - Systems and methods for determining location of devices within a wireless network: Systems and methods for determining a location of a device with a wireless network. Characteristics of signals received from the device at a plurality of nodes are measured. Based upon the measurements, estimates of the range from the device to the nodes are made. Then, based upon the estimated ranges,... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20080032704 - Systems and methods for handling calls in a wireless enabled pbx system using mobile switching protocols: Methods of routing an incoming call to a mobile telephone received at a wireless enabled private branch exchange (PBX) include issuing a location request query to an element of a wireless communications network to which the mobile telephone may be subscribed, receiving a location request response from the element indicative... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20080032706 - System and/or method for providing information updates to a location server: The subject matter disclosed herein relates to a system and method for acquiring signal received from satellite vehicles (SVs) in a satellite navigation system. In one example, although claimed subject matter is not so limited, information processed in acquiring a signal from a first SV may be used in acquiring... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080032709 - Line-of-sight (los) or non-los (nlos) identification method using multipath channel statistics: Non-line-of-sight (NLOS) identification and mitigation are carried out in a wireless positioning system based on channel statistics derived from multipath components of a received signal. The statistics may be based on the kurtosis, the mean excess delay spread, or the root mean square delay spread. The results are justified using... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080032707 - Mobile phone signal strength indicator: A system and method for operating a wireless mobile communications network. A status parameter selected from signal strength and analog roam status of a wireless mobile device is provided to a second communication device in communication with the network. The communication device may select the identity of the wireless mobile... Agent: Streets & Steele

20080032708 - Method for estimating jointly time-of-arrival of signals and terminal location: A method that estimates jointly and iteratively the first arriving path of a received signal and a mobile terminal location uses a residual location error. The method may include setting a ranging threshold to reduce residual location error. The method iteratively estimates the first arriving path of the received signals... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080032710 - Weighted least square localization method exploiting multipath channel statisticsfor non-line-of-sight mitigation: A method mitigates NLOS conditions based on weighted least squares (WLS) technique, in which the weights are derived from multipath components (MPCs) of the received signals. The weighting methodology can be used with both linear and non-linear least squares models, as well as different other NLOS mitigation schemes, such as... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080032711 - System for accessing information and for communication in a vehicle having a plurality of coupled units: A system and method for accessing information and for communication in a high-speed vehicle having a plurality of coupled units, including at least one server unit that is provided in one unit of the vehicle and is set up for making information available and for communication, a plurality of radio... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080032712 - Determining movement context of a mobile user terminal in a wireless telecommunications network: A method is provided of determining the movement context of a mobile user terminal in a wireless telecommunications network by the steps of: determining a time at which transfer to a first cell occurs, determining a time at which transfer from said first cell first subsequently occurs, determining the difference... Agent: Lucent Technologies Inc. Docket Administrator

20080032714 - System and method for responding to a page during a communication restriction: A system and method is provided for a wireless device to respond to a page despite its access class being barred while in an idle mode. The wireless device determines whether the page should be responded to notwithstanding a communication restriction. If the page should be responded to notwithstanding a... Agent: Research In Motion, Ltd

20080032713 - Wireless paging method: A wireless network component comprising: a processor configured to implement steps including: receiving a request to establish communications with a wireless terminal, generating a paging list comprising a plurality of cells using a location data for a wireless terminal, and paging the wireless terminal using the cells in the paging... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C.

20080032715 - Method for issuing paging messages, and msc/vlr: The embodiments of the present invention disclose a method for issuing paging messages and an MSC/VLR, the method includes: determining types of networks terminating the process. if the MS only accesses a 2G network; issuing, by the MSC/VLR, paging messages on an RNC, and terminating the process, if the MS... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080032716 - Method and apparatus for selectively establishing communication with one of plural devices associated with a single telephone number: A system for (and a method of) selectively establishing communication with one of plural devices associated with a single telephone number is provided. In a preferred embodiment, the system includes a wireless connect unit connected between an enterprise private branch exchange (PBX) network and a public switched telephone network. The... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080032721 - Method and system for communicating information to a user of a mobile platform via broadcast services: A mobile platform is equipped with a transceiver to receive a broadcast message and to execute two-way wireless communications. The mobile platform is also equipped with an electronic memory storage device, a processor, and a human-machine interface. A first message is formed at the communications source, broadcasted, and received at... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20080032718 - Method and system to enable communication through sms communication channel: The present invention provides a method and system to provide network aware applications on a mobile device that can communicate using existing SMS communication channels without resorting to other IP based communication channels that are costlier and are not available on many of the networks.... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080032722 - Method for receiving messages and mobile station using the same: A method for receiving messages includes the following steps. First, a base station broadcasts a scheduling message, which has an updated bit in a scheduling period. Next, the base station broadcasts a plurality of broadcasting messages. Finally, a mobile station receives the scheduling message and determines to receive the broadcasting... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20080032719 - Centralized establishment-based tracking and messaging service: A system is provided to track customer patronage within each of a plurality of physical establishments such as restaurants, bars, and retail stores, and enable real-time establishment-specific messages to be sent directly to the portable computing devices of current and prior patrons. A centralized server that is configured to receive... Agent: Sinsheimer Juhnke Lebens & Mcivor, LLP

20080032717 - Message transmission system and message transmission method: A message transmission system includes a registration accepting part for accepting a membership number, a subscriber telephone number, and a subscribed service ID; a subscriber information storage for storing membership numbers, subscriber telephone numbers, and subscribed service IDs in association with each other; a transmission request receiver for receiving a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080032720 - Mixed-mode interaction: A user of a wireless device, such as a mobile phone, can make purchases or obtain information via a network, such as the Internet, using both voice and non-verbal methods. Users can submit voice queries and receive non-verbal replies, submit non-verbal queries and receive voice replies, or perform similar operations... Agent: Law Office Of David H. Judson

20080032723 - Social musical media rating system and method for localized establishments: A method and system are provided for enabling users in shared physical places to collaboratively rate the music playing within such places by using portable computing devices on their person. In one embodiment, the portable computing devices are mobile phones and each user may independently rate a currently playing musical... Agent: Sinsheimer Juhnke Lebens & Mcivor, LLP

20080032724 - Remote monitoring and calibration of system reference clock using network timing reference: A system and method for calibrating a local radio reference clock for a radio operating in a radio network having a network reference clock. The method comprises determining at the radio an offset between the local clock and the network clock, placing the local clock in a calibration mode, and... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20080032726 - Mobile communication system, base station, terminal device, and transmission control method: A mobile communication system in which, when transmission is performed from a base station to a terminal device, a modulation scheme is designated, from among at least two modulation schemes with different modulation levels, on the basis of reception quality at the terminal to perform transmission from the base station.... Agent: Myers Wolin, LLC

20080032725 - Transfer rate control method, transmission power control method, transmission power ratio control method, mobile communication system, mobile station, and radio base station: The present invention relates to a transmission rate control method of controlling a transmission rate of uplink user data to be transmitted from a mobile station to a radio base station. The method includes: starting to transmit at the mobile station, the uplink user data at an initial transmission rate... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080032727 - Enhanced coverage hole detection in wireless networks: Methods, apparatuses and systems directed to identifying coverage holes in wireless networks. According to one implementation of the present invention, the wireless network infrastructure analyzes signal strength data to detect potential coverage holes associated with one or more wireless clients and validates the potential coverage holes based on observed coverage... Agent: Law Office Of Mark J. Spolyar

20080032728 - Systems, methods and devices for communicating among multiple users: An embodiment relates generally to a method of communicating among multiple users. The method includes establishing a first push-to-talk over cellular (“POC”) connection between a first terminal device having a client port and a second terminal device. The first terminal device then receives a second POC connection attempt notification at... Agent: Mh2 Technology Law Group, LLP

20080032729 - Method for managing communication resource assignment and resource assignment policy system: A method for managing communication resource assignment includes: determining a resource assignment policy based on information for requesting resource assignment policy in a session setup request for a multiparty communication service from a User Equipment, and assigning, according to the resource assignment policy, communication resources; A method for managing communication... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080032730 - Method and apparatus to compute a noise power estimate in a wcdma network: Method and apparatus for computing a noise power estimate in a wideband CDMA (WCDMA) network are disclosed and may include calculating a noise power estimate for a downlink channel based on an orthogonal sequence generated for a transmitted signal. The orthogonal sequence may be generated based on a slot number... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080032732 - Method and system for optimal allocation of uplink transmission power in communication networks: A method for determining transmission power for a user in a network. The method includes receiving a plurality of interference indicators by a user which is associated with a sector. The plurality of interference indicators corresponds to a plurality of sectors respectively each associated with one of a plurality of... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080032731 - Subcarrier group based power control for ofdma systems: A system and method of wireless communication power control is provided which allows for adjusting power levels without requiring high bandwidth for control. Embodiments allocate subcarriers into unequal power groups, each group having a consistent subcarrier power level. Using interference parameter information from a user, a subcarrier is assigned from... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.l.p

20080032733 - Techniques to control power by controlling agreggate traffic in a channel: Particular embodiments provide techniques for controlling power in a channel. The power being consumed in a channel may not always be fully used. For example, bursty or Aloha traffic may limit the power being used to transmit data in a channel. Thus, particular embodiments allow transceivers to increase the power... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20080032734 - Apparatus and method for controlling reverse link interference among access terminals in wireless communications: In a wireless communication system, an apparatus and a method are provided for controlling reverse link interference among access terminals that are power controlled by a sector of a base station. In an embodiment, the maximum effective noise power spectral density is used as a parameter for controlling the level... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080032735 - Apparatus, and associated method, for performing cell selection in a packet radio communication system: Cell selection apparatus, and an associated methodology, for a radio communication system. Cell selection is made in a manner to distribute loading amongst cells of a radio communication system. Determinations are made of available cells, that is, cells whose base transceiver stations broadcast signals of characteristics at least as good... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080032736 - Network identity and timezone (nitz) functionality for non-3gpp devices: A system that provisions a multimode mobile or converged device with local time information and network provider identification when the multimode mobile device is operating within the purview of a wireless local area network (WLAN). The system includes components that receive protocol data and that extract network provider identification from... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080032737 - Wireless presentation apparatus: A presentation apparatus includes a power management module, a storage unit, an amplifier amplifying an audio signal based on an audio control signal, a socket receiving the amplified audio signal from the amplifier, a detection circuit, a plurality of buttons, a wireless receiver/transmitter and a processing chip which connects with... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080032738 - Portable wireless network: Techniques to create a portable wireless network are described. A mobile computing device may comprise a first transceiver to communicate with a fixed wireless device, and a second transceiver to communicate with multiple wireless devices. The mobile computing device may also include a network access management module to manage communications... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080032739 - Management of digital media using portable wireless devices in a client-server network: A system and method for the management of digital media using portable wireless devices in a client-server network is provided. The system includes methodologies for managing, with minimal user interaction, digital media content (such as audio, image, video, graphics, text, etc.) generated by users of portable wireless devices (such as... Agent: Dla Piper US LLP

20080032740 - Method and apparatus for performing acquisition power save mode for wireless communication systems: Techniques to efficiently attempt acquisition of a packet data system (e.g., an IS-856 system). If a terminal has acquired one or more channels in a voice/data system (e.g., an IS-2000 system), then it can attempt acquisition on channels in the packet data system that are co-located with the acquired channels... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080032742 - Event sharing: An apparatus for use with a mobile communication device, the mobile communication device being configured to provide events, the apparatus including a memory including computer readable instructions, and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to execute, using the computer readable instructions stored in the memory, a primary application... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky And Popeo, P.C.

20080032743 - Method for performing communication function in wireless terminal: A method for performing a communication function after a Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) card is withdrawn from a wireless terminal is provided. The method includes, if the SIM card is inserted into the wireless terminal, copying information stored in the SIM card into a memory of the wireless terminal; and... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080032741 - Programmable functionalities for mobile consumer communications devices with identification-modules: Many mobile consumer communications devices, such as cellular telephones, PDAs, laptop computers and the like, require an identification module to engage a wireless communications network. An arrangement with an identification module adaptor connected to a housing holding an identification module and a programmable processing unit adds functionality to the mobile... Agent: James E. Eakin

20080032744 - Apparatus and method for broadcast pilot transmission in a wireless communication network: A base station that communicates with subscriber stations in an OFDM wireless network. The base station transmits broadcast data and unicast data to the subscriber stations from a plurality of antennas using multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO) techniques. The base station transmits a first broadcast pilot signal from a first antenna orthogonally... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080032746 - Method, apparatus and system for implementing multi-user virtual multiple-input multiple-output: A method and system for implementing multi-user virtual multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) techniques for wireless transmit/receive units (WTRUs) having one or more antennas are disclosed. The system includes a base station and at least one WTRU having at least two antennas. The number of antennas of the base station is not... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080032745 - Apparatus for using a wireless communication base station in common: A wireless communication base station sharing apparatus for sharing one antenna between a main system and a subsystem is provided. In the wireless communication base station sharing apparatus, a first signal combiner/distributor is connected to a transmission/reception signal line of a main system duplexer through a first port, distributes a... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20080032747 - Outgoing call handling system and method: A cellular system for handling outgoing calls from a mobile station (1) including a network element (8) being capable of recognizing voiced commands and names, and has in memory a database of telephone numbers corresponding to an array of names; The mobile station (1) connects to the network element (8)... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP/ At&t Delaware Intellectual Property, Inc.

20080032751 - Method and mobile terminal for rapidly searching for messages received from or sent to same phone number: Disclosed are a method and a mobile terminal for easily and rapidly searching for messages received from or sent to the same phone number of a currently displayed message. The method includes a first step of detecting whether a user inputs a key to select a previous or next message... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080032750 - Method for adjusting a ring tone volume and mobile communication terminal using the same: Disclosed is a method for adjusting a ring tone volume in a mobile communication terminal. The method implements a function by which a user can directly adjust the ring tone volume in a mobile communication terminal in consideration of circumstances. To this end, the present invention includes a user interface... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080032748 - Mobile terminal and event processing method: Provided is a mobile terminal having a sensor detecting movement thereof and an event processing method. The mobile terminal includes: a placement attitude detector for monitoring, in response to detection of an event, movement of the mobile terminal for a preset time duration to identify a placement attitude of the... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080032749 - Dialing screen method and layer structure for a mobile terminal: A method for providing a dialing screen which visually changes depending on status information providable through a mobile terminal. Particularly, the dialing screen displays status information including network status information, time-zone information of a transmitting side or receiving side, etc., which can be provided through the mobile terminal, with graphic... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20080032753 - Headset having remote control for multimedia playback device: A headset having remote controls for a multimedia playback device is provided. The headset is electrically connected to an audio playback device and includes a jack plug for coupling the headset to the audio playback device; a body having a left and a right speaker unit and a microphone that... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080032752 - Information processing apparatus: In a cellular phone applicable as an information processing apparatus of the invention, an audio data transfer control unit controls streaming transfer of encoded audio data to a headset through wireless communication, and a hands-free control unit controls hands-free communication with the headset through wireless communication. Furthermore, a transmitting/receiving unit... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080032754 - Method for reducing power consumption of mobile terminal and mobile terminal using thereof: A method of reducing power consumption of a mobile terminal is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes i) detecting a residual capacity value of a battery, ii) comparing the detected residual capacity value of the battery with a preset reference value, iii) converting and establishing into a graphic user... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080032755 - Interchangeable display modules for portable handheld devices: A handheld computing device featuring interchangeable display units is disclosed. The handheld computing device includes a processing unit and a visual display unit detachable from the processing unit. The processing unit and the detachable visual display unit include communication ports capable of communicating with each other. The processing unit further... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080032756 - Wireless device, antenna switch, and method of receiving signal: A flip-open type mobile wireless device able to receive a signal of the same polarized wave both in an open state and a closed state of a movable part including an antenna with respect to a fixed part, provided in the antenna with a first feeding point and a second... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080032757 - Wireless communication apparatus and method of wireless communication: One of objects of a wireless communication apparatus according to the present invention is to realize stable communication regardless of received signal strength indication and information amount. The wireless communication apparatus for communicating in an autonomous distributed wireless network includes a detection unit which generates a detection signal by detecting... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080032758 - Handheld device protective case: A protective cover for handheld devices. The protective cover containing a hardened plastic protective inner layer and a soft outer layer. The protective cover containing at least one cavity for mounting the associated segment of the handheld device therein and at least one fitted notch to secure the piece to... Agent: Kleinberg & Lerner, LLP