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 b