Telecommunications inventions 03/08

20080076489 - Physically and electrically-separated, data-synchronized data sinks for wireless systems: Wireless systems having a plurality of physically and electrically-separated data sinks. An exemplary wireless system includes first and second data sinks having no physical or electrical connection therebetween. The first and second data sinks each include a wireless communication device, e.g., a radio frequency (RF) receiver or transceiver configured to... Agent: Plantronics, Inc.

20080076490 - Double spindle hinge and personal digital assistant having the same: The portable information terminal includes a first casing, a second casing, and a 2-axis hinge which couples the first casing and the second casing in an openable and relatively rotatable manner. The 2-axis hinge includes an opening and closing shaft part provided for the first casing, a housing which is... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20080076492 - Electronic apparatus, display control method and program therefor, and recording medium: An electronic apparatus has a fixed case unit and a movable case unit, and the rotation operability of the movable case unit is improved. The electronic apparatus having the fixed case unit and movable case unit also includes a movable arm, which is fitted openably and closably to the fixed... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080076491 - Portable terminal device: A portable terminal device, capable of receiving distribution data from a server, comprises a detection unit to detect an operation state of the portable terminal device, and a control unit configured to calculates operation state points to determine whether or not the portable terminal device is in the operation state... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080070496 - Cell phone live redundancy data back-up system: A remote cell phone back-up system which provides constant real-time redundant automatic back-up storage of all information contained in the cell phone at the wireless service provider and/or at a modular unit in a user's home or office. The remote cell phone back-up system automatically stores voice messages, missed calls,... Agent: Donald W. Meeker Patent Agent

20080070497 - System and/or method for acquisition of gnss signals: The subject matter disclosed herein relates to a system and method for acquiring signal received from space 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

20080070503 - Apparatus and method for controlling bluetooth in portable terminal: Provided are an apparatus and a method for controlling a Bluetooth in a portable terminal. The method includes receiving a Bluetooth connection request signal; determining whether a current state is a communicable state in which a Bluetooth control message can be received; if it is determined that the current state... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080070501 - Pairing of wireless devices using a wired medium: Techniques that facilitate pairing of wireless devices with other wireless devices are disclosed. According to one aspect, a pair of wireless devices can be paired for wireless data exchange using an available wired link. Advantageously, the wired link can be used to transport a pin code from one of the... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP/apple Inc.

20080070502 - Radio-over-fiber (rof) optical fiber cable system with transponder diversity and rof wireless picocellular system using same: A radio-over-fiber (RoF) optical fiber cable system with transponder diversity for a RoF wireless picocellular system that includes at least one optical fiber cable. The at least one optical fiber cable supports one or more groups of two or more transponders, wherein the transponders in a given group are arranged... Agent: Corning Cable Systems LLC

20080070505 - Portable electronic device and a method in a portable electronic device: A method in a portable communication device for displaying information includes encoding data and transmitting the encoded data to a display associated with a vehicle. The encoded data is received by a receiver associated with the display, decoded and displayed.... Agent: Harrity Snyder, L.L.P.

20080070506 - Access areas in a mobile system: A method of managing access areas in a communication system is disclosed. In the method information regarding a detected access area is received from at least one mobile device, the detected access area being an access area that is not included in a set of available access areas. Potential of... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080070508 - Activity display for multiple data channels over period of time: An activity display for multiple data channels over a period of time for a communication link provides a quasi-three-dimensional presentation having time periods and data channels as orthogonal axes and shading within each time period/data channel rectangle representing ones density for the channel during that time period. One or more... Agent: Matthew D. Rabdau Tektronix, Inc.

20080070511 - Transmitter receiver unit and electronic apparatus using same: A transmitter receiver unit of the present invention comprises a phase shifter connected between a transistor and a filter multiplexer for decreasing a reactance component of an impedance, as observed from the transistor toward the filter multiplexer, to a value close to zero in a third frequency band given as... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080070512 - Offset-frequency loop-back calibration: Embodiments of methods and means for calibrating a linearization characteristic within an RF transceiver system are provided. Such embodiments generally include extracting a portion of an output signal and frequency shifting or translating that signal by a predetermined value. The frequency shifted signal is then summed or otherwise introduced into... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC C/o Intellevate

20080070513 - Antenna apparatus: An antenna apparatus, including: a power supply pin; a circuit substrate having a first through hole through which the power supply pin passes; and an antenna element having a second through hole which faces with the first through hole and through which the power supply pin passes, the antenna element... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080070516 - Audio data streaming with auto switching between wireless headset and speakers: Systems and methods for a speaker system are disclosed. The speaker system generally includes an audio amplifier, a loudspeaker, a wireless communications module, and an electronic switch. The electronic switch receives an audio signal from an audio source and routes the audio signal to the audio amplifier or the wireless... Agent: Plantronics, Inc.

20080070517 - System and method for wirelessly transferring content to and from an aircraft: A system and method for wirelessly transferring content to and from a vehicle, in particular, an aircraft. The content includes, for example, data, voice, video and multimedia, that can be wirelessly exchanged over a wireless communication link between an aircraft and a ground station while the aircraft is at or... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Attn: Patent Docket Dept.

20080070495 - Mobile device management: The invention provides systems and methods for managing mobile devices of supported by different platforms. In some embodiments, the invention provides this management capability by utilizing one or more agents or modules native to the platforms themselves to provide interaction with individual mobile. In some embodiments, the invention provides an... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080070498 - Method and system for realizing reception of calling number by the terminal in advance: A system for realizing the reception of a incoming call number by a terminal includes a CDMA network and a HRPD network providing service support for the terminal, respectively, where an MSC in the CDMA network connects with an access network of the HRPD network via interface A1. A method... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20080070500 - Extensible robust modular electronic device without direct electrical connections for inter-module communication or control: A modular electronic device where (predominantly) sealed modules are aligned and attached/connected in pre-determined sequences, forming a robust block-like structure with extendable function: Control and/or inter-module communication are implemented without direct electrical interconnect, by non-contact means such as (magnetic, inductive, light, infrared, radio frequency, sound, ultrasound, or other non-contact means).... Agent: Robert James Rapp

20080070499 - Magnetic communication through metal barriers: A wireless magnetic through-hull communications apparatus and method which permit higher data-rate communications through materials than presently available using acoustic techniques is described. A signal source on one side of a barrier is directed into a coil driver which generates an amplified, modulated signal responsive thereto. The resulting signal is... Agent: Cochran Freund & Young LLC

20080070504 - Communication terminal device: In an embodiment of the invention, a communication terminal device, which may include a message generation circuit configured to generate an information inquiry message which specifies that another communication terminal device should transmit information about performance features of units in the physical layer or the data link layer of the... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080070507 - Arrangement for steering radiation lobe of antenna: An arrangement for steering the radiation lobe of an array antenna without turning the antenna itself. The radiators of the array antenna are located in the row, and two radiators which are equidistant from the midpoint of the row, form a radiator pair. To steer the radiation lobe, the phase... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080070509 - Closed-loop automatic channel selection: A system and method for improving radio performance through automatic channel selection utilizing a closed-channel model is disclosed. A measurement engine records maximum user throughput on a per station basis during normal traffic operation. The measurement engine further records throughput metrics based on test traffic sent to all associated stations... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20080070510 - Interference management techniques for wireless networks: Various embodiments are disclosed relating to techniques for managing interference among nodes in a wireless network. According to an example embodiment, a first measurement of a first interference activity may be determined at a first wireless node in a wireless network. A determination may be made that the first interference... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP

20080070514 - High-frequency circuit apparatus and communication apparatus using the same: A high-frequency circuit has a duplexer and a filter. The duplexer performs wave separation of send and received signals as input thereto. The filter filters the input send signal. When the send and received signals of the first modulation method are input, the send signal and the received signal of... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080070515 - High-frequency circuit apparatus and communication apparatus using the same: A high-frequency circuit has a duplexer and a filter. The duplexer performs wave separation of send and received signals as input thereto. The filter filters the input send signal. When the send and received signals of the first modulation method are input, the send signal and the received signal of... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080070518 - Mobile communication system: At a transmitting end, information data, which is data to be transmitted, is copied via a number of wireless transmission paths and then encoded. Each piece of data is then subjected to a respective different pattern of puncturing process and transmitted to a receiving end via a respective wireless transmission... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080070519 - Directional coupler and rf circuit module: A directional coupler with a high coupling per unit area and small variations in characteristic at manufacturing capable of achieving a high directivity easily and an RF circuit module provided with the directional coupler are achieved. A main-line is provided on a front surface of a multi-layer substrate, a ground... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20080070520 - Method and apparatus for improving efficiency of rf power amplifier using a power converter with an exponential transfer function: Methods and apparatuses are provided for achieving efficient power usage by a power amplifier. For example, there is provided an apparatus comprising: a processor unit providing one or more processor outputs, one of the processor outputs comprising a control voltage; and a variable gain amplifier operatively coupled to the processor... Agent: O'melveny & Myers LLP Ip&t Calendar Department La-1118

20080070521 - System and method for controlling gain of related signals: An electronic system comprises two or more receivers, each receiver having a defined range for input signals; and an automatic gain control circuit configured to adjust the gain of two or more signals and pass the two or more adjusted signals to the two or more receivers, wherein the automatic... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080070522 - Messaging system and techniques using rds/rbds: The functionality associated with an RDS/RBDS messaging system is enhanced by allowing users of the system access to a secure server which gives them the ability to manage the user address space, to compose custom and preformatted messages and to access CAP files that might contain information affecting users in... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20080070523 - Passive and active scanning in wireless network: Embodiments of techniques to perform passive and active scanning in a wireless network are presented herein.... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC C/o Intellevate

20080070527 - Device for mapping quality of service in a fixed communication network, in particular a high bit rate network: A device (D) is dedicated to mapping quality of service in a fixed communication network including communication lines connecting network equipments (Ci) to communication terminals (T) via access points to at least one service (MD). The device (D) comprises i) control means (MC1) adapted to instruct a network management equipment... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080070525 - Method and apparatus for improving sector to sector isolation in a fourier transform matrix system: A method for providing increased sector-to-sector isolation when transmitting data between a plurality of Fourier transform matrices, each having an input Fourier transform matrix (FTM), an output FTM, and a plurality of transmit paths therebetween is disclosed. The method includes applying a tone to one of the plurality of transmit... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080070526 - Method and system for distributing mobile book messages: A system and method for distributing mobile book messages includes generating, by an author, via a graphical user interface, a plurality of messages, each message in the plurality of messages comprising a summary of a section of a work of authorship. The author provides, via the graphical user interface, a... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

20080070528 - Mid-call features: A mid-call feature of a voice call server, such as an IP PBX or IP Centrex system, is accessed during a call. During the call with a mobile terminal via a mobile telephone network, a voice call signal associated with a mid-call feature from the mobile terminal is passed over... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080070524 - Slidable blue tooth earphone device: A slidable blue tooth earphone device is shown below. By pressing a button to push an oscillating stick, the oscillating stick is rotated. A first retaining portion of a body is detached from a second retaining portion of a slidable element to let a resilient element push the slidable element... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080070529 - Tuner module: An RF input portion is formed on a printed circuit board and is operable to input a high-frequency signal received by an antenna device. An electronic component is mounted on the printed circuit and is operable to process the input high-frequency signal. The RF input portion has a specific pattern... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson & Cook, P.C.

20080070530 - Signaling generation through multiplexing: The proposed apparatus and is used for signal generation by multiplexing signals such that there appears no glitches in an output signal. The present apparatus utilizes the knowledge of phase difference between input oscillator signals being multiplexed in order to provide a glitchless output signal. The apparatus comprises a first... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080070531 - Mobile terminal and a sound pressure control method: A mobile terminal and sound pressure control method using sound saturation sensing are disclosed. The mobile terminal has a target digital value of an adequate output sound pressure level at a maximum volume level. The sound pressure control method includes: determining a digital value corresponding to a maximum output sound... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080070532 - Active receiver detection and ranging: Method (500) and system (402) for actively detecting and determining a range of a remotely located radio receiver (100). The invention also provides a method and system to determine whether a remote receiver (100) is receiving a transmitted signal (418) and the minimum necessary transmitter power required to establish a... Agent: Harris Corporation C/o Darby & Darby PC

20080070533 - Method of controlling display of analog clock and mobile communication terminal using the same: A function of displaying a clock visually varying according to state information which can be provided by a mobile communication terminal is implemented. In particular, an analog clock designed to move three-dimensionally, which is formed by adding a graphical factor to state information, such as remaining power of battery and... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080070535 - Circuits and methods for signal gain control: A signal gain control circuit. A gain stage receives and amplifies an analog signal by a first gain factor adjusted by a gain adjusting signal in a periodic manner with a first period, and outputs an amplified signal. An analog to digital converter converts the amplified signal to a first... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080070534 - Method and apparatus for a single-path enhanced-algorithm digital automatic gain control integrated receiver with power management and xm interference enhancement: A single-path enhanced-algorithm digital automatic gain control (SDAGC) integrated receiver is presented. The SDAGC has a front-end RF/IF reception/processing block and associated RF/IF AGC, which outputs to a single ADC. Output from the ADC is split into two TDM and one COFDM signal pathways, each with a respective DAGC. The... Agent: Fox Rothschild LLP

20080070536 - Method and apparatus for estimating and controlling initial time slot gain in a wireless communication system: In a time-division duplex (TDD) system, a reliable initialization scheme that is applicable to an automatic gain controller (AGC) at a base station is implemented in various forms depending on the availability of certain information such as signal-to-interference ratio (SIR), spreading factors and other parameters. A more accurate estimation of... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080070537 - Duty cycle counting phase calibration scheme of an i/o interface: A method, apparatus and/or system of a duty cycle counting phase calibration scheme of an I/O interface is disclosed. In one embodiment a control unit of a communication system exchanging a multiple-phase time-interleaved data includes a first-PLL to generate a set of un-calibrated multiple-phase signals of a first-clock; a second-PLL,... Agent: Lsi Logic Corporation Ms: D-106 Legal

20080070538 - Compensating circuit for a mixer stage: A compensating circuit for a mixer stage is provided, wherein the mixer stage has an input stage to which an input signal for mixing can be applied and has, following the input stage, a switching stage for mixing a differential input signal—obtained from the input stage as a function of... Agent: Mg-ip Law, PLLC

20080070539 - Method and apparatus for calibrating a filter of a receiver: According to a disclosed method, a calibration signal is provided at a first frequency corresponding to a low frequency edge of a desired passband to an input of a filter (240). A first value is measured at an output of the filter (240). The calibration signal is provided at a... Agent: Larson Newman Abel Polansky & White, LLP

20080070540 - Rf amplifier: An RF amplifier for amplifying a composite RF signal includes a first RF signal and a second RF signal. The amplifier includes a first amplifying stage for providing a first amplified signal a second amplifying stage for providing a second amplified signal, a third amplifying stage for providing a third... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione Infineon

20080070541 - Current converter, frequency mixer, radiofrequency transmission system and method for frequency mixing: A current converter has a first amplification device, which outputs a differential current depending on a differential control signal and derives a differential feedback signal from the differential current. The current converter also has a second amplification device, which amplifies a differential input signal at its input depending on the... Agent: Eschweiler & Associates LLC

20080070542 - Power allocation in a mimo system without channel state information feedback: A telecommunication network component, comprising: a memory configured to store instructions, and a processor configured to execute the stored instructions, the instructions comprising: determining a plurality of power allocation adjustments for signals transmitted via an antenna array that promotes decision-feedback detection without using channel state information, and outputting the power... Agent: Slater & Matsil, L.L.P.

20080070545 - Apparatus and method to provide urgent call service in a communication system: An apparatus and method for providing an urgent call service in a communication system are provided. A base station receives from a mobile station a message ranging request with a Medium Access Control (MAC) address in which a priority is set. If the priority set in the MAC address is... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20080070543 - Method for the routing of multimedia communication related signaling in a communication system: The invention relates to a method for the routing of multimedia communication related signaling in a communication system. In the method a signaling message is received to a first network node. The signaling message provides an identity associated with a user. A hash key is computed from the identity. The... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080070544 - Systems and methods for informing a mobile node of the authentication requirements of a visited network: Systems and methods for a mobile node having a home network to determine an authentication policy of a visited network in a communications network using the Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) are provided. In an embodiment, the method includes a mobile node receiving an EAP Request Identity message from the visited... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080070546 - Emergency notification method and system using portable terminals: An emergency notification method and system using portable terminals are provided. The emergency notification method includes creating, by a sending portable terminal in response to detection of an emergency event, an emergency message and transmitting the created emergency message to a mobile communication system; forwarding, by the mobile communication system... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20080070547 - Method for radio transmission in a radio cell of an alarm system: A method for radio transmission in a radio cell of an alarm system uses a time slot for communication between users or with a radio cell central unit that is subdivided into a first main area and a second main area. At least two of the users send routine signals... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20080070548 - Managing method and apparatus for servicing contents provided by content provider: A managing method and an apparatus for servicing contents provided by contents provider wherein the managing apparatus according to the present invention comprises: a contents provider management module for generating an account of a contents provider based on information of the contents provider transmitted from the contents providing apparatus; a... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080070549 - Method for setting a key and a method for setting an inital security key to a mobile terminal: An embodiment of the present invention discloses a method for setting a key, which includes: setting a first security key in a mobile terminal; providing a corresponding relation between the first security key and an identity of the mobile terminal adapted to be saved on a network side; and obtaining,... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080070550 - Providing subscriber specific information across wireless networks: A Clearinghouse is configured to provision subscriber-specific information with respect to subscribers of multiple wireless networks associated with multiple carriers. Application providers can access subscriber-specific information for subscribers of the various networks via a single source, thereby expediting application development and deployment. Moreover, the reach of such wireless service applications... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20080070552 - Method for handling calls switched by private branch exchanges to a mobile communications network: In the English translation document, please replace the abstract with the following: A method and to an arrangement for handling calls switched by private branch exchanges to a mobile communications network are provided. The mobile communications network and a branch exchange communicate with a control device in such a way... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080070551 - Method and apparatus for managing message history data for a mobile communication device: A method and apparatus for managing history data of messages received from and transmitted to other users by a user of a mobile communication device is provided. Message history data is extracted from received and transmitted messages and stored such that a user of the mobile communication device may easily... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080070553 - Communication terminal device and computer program product: A communication terminal device of the present invention having a storage unit with an address book where a name information for specifying a communication partner, an identification number, and characteristic information of voice, are associated with one another, so as to allow bi-directional communication using voice, and having a recording... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080070555 - Method and apparatus for concurrent registration of voice and data subscribers: This invention provides an innovative way of providing voice and data registration of multimode (voice and data) handset subscribers at a common place. The unified subscriber data server provides a flexible mechanism to provide concurrent registration for voice and data on the same platform, to store the subscription data (for... Agent: Fay Sharpe/lucent

20080070556 - Method and apparatus for service capability modification: Methods and apparatus for modifying wireless devices represented or available capabilities and for allocating a portion of the UE's actual capabilities for simultaneously supporting a second service is disclosed. A modified capability is determined and offered to maintain the dedicated service while supporting a second service. The modified capability is... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080070557 - Method for signaling virtual multi-access platforms: Provided are apparatuses and methods for signaling and identifying platforms that carry services or channels over multiple bearers. The bearers of a platform may be one or more different technologies. The services within one bearer may be carried over another bearer belonging to the same virtual platform. Provider bound services... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20080070554 - System and method for managing communication services provided to a mobile terminal using a temporary wireless directory number: A system and method are provided for managing emergency services received by a mobile terminal having a temporary wireless directory number (TDN). The system includes an emergency call register (ECR) network and a disaster recovery call center (DRCC). The DRCC authorizes the mobile terminal to receive emergency services and provides... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080070558 - System and method for short code directory: A service that leverages established wireless messaging paradigms such as, possibly inter alia, Short Message Service, Multimedia Message Service, and IP Multimedia Subsystem to yield an infrastructure that (1) supports a comprehensive Common Short Code directory that seamlessly spans or crosses the disparate ‘islands’ of national/regional Short Code information and... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC

20080070559 - Electronic navigation system and method: The invention provides a system for providing geographic information. The system includes a base unit that receives a request from a mobile unit and provides a response to the mobile unit. The request includes a point of interest category and a traveling distance or traveling time parameter. The base unit... Agent: Navteq North America, LLC

20080070560 - Communication system and communication method: A wireless terminal in which the probability that an incoming call is accepted is greatly improved and the load on the circuit switch is lightened. Each of such wireless terminals (120) comprises a wireless LAN interface (126), a cellular wireless interface (127), and a telephone number table (1241) storing an... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20080070561 - Method and system for remotely managing mobile terminal: A method and system for remotely and wirelessly managing user settings of a mobile terminal for the functions and services by a device management server are provided. The method includes requesting a mobile terminal to transfer a configuration management object, which contains a node corresponding to a configuration parameter based... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20080070562 - Apparatus and method for operating radio access network in broadband mobile communication system: An apparatus and method for operating a radio access network in a broadband mobile communication system are provided. A 1-tier node includes a first communicator for exchanging a plurality of pieces of control information for establishing a call of a Mobile Station (MS) with a higher-tier node, and a controller... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20080070563 - Collaboratively locating disconnected clients and rogue access points in a wireless network: Methods are described for using collaboration of neighboring wireless devices to enable location of disconnected wireless devices and rogue wireless access points. A central server computes the locations of the neighboring clients and uses those locations to estimate the location of a disconnected client. These techniques may take advantage of... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080070564 - Beamforming with imperfect channel state information: Disclosed herein is a system and method for downlink beamforming that takes into account imperfect channel state information (CSI) at the transmitter when determining the steering vector used in the beamforming process. The steering vector is calculated to increase the ratio of the average power of a desired signal component... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C.

20080070565 - Method of setting radio channel of mobile radio base-station: A mobile radio base-station is movable, has a radio resource control function, and includes an Internet-protocol (IP) communication interface. A plug-and-play server manages public radio base stations and mobile radio base-stations of a mobile telephone network, and is located on an operator network connected to an IP communication network. Upon... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080070566 - Method for power efficient activation of an inactive communication interface in a mobile station having multiple communication interfaces: A method of providing communication services for a mobile station having a plurality of communication interfaces is disclosed. Each communication interface has an active power mode and an inactive power mode. In the method, a communication service level is assessed for an active first communication interface. A second communication interface... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080070567 - Portable communication device having a scent emitting compound: A portable wireless communication device comprises a housing, a transceiver within the housing, and a scented compound associated with the housing. The transceiver permits a user to communicate with one or more remote parties via a base station subsystem in a wireless communication network. The scented compound emits a scent... Agent: Coats & Bennett/sony Ericsson

20080070568 - Mobile communication system: A mobile communication system, according to the present invention includes: a cell station; and a plurality of mobile stations, which are connectable to the cell station in wireless manner. Each of the mobile stations calculates a transmission timing of link channel request for communication with the cell station in accordance... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20080070569 - Proximity order processing system: A proximity-based order processing system provides a way for a customer of a restaurant or other retail establishment to set up a default order for food or other goods or services via a web page interface. The customer is issued a portable wireless communication device, such as an active RFID... Agent: Luedeka, Neely & Graham, P.C.

20080070570 - Method and system for providing prepaid roaming support at a visited network that otherwise does not allow it: The present invention provides a method for providing wireless services to a prepaid subscriber of an HPMN in a VPMN when the prepaid subscriber attempts to register at the VPMN. The method includes detecting at a first Signal Gateway (SG) of one or more SGs, a registration attempt by the... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20080070572 - Signal comparison-based location determining method: At least one portable RF communications device in conjunction with at least two fixed-location service-area antenna stations respectively capable of RF communication with the at least one device performs the steps of: (I) using a portable device at a selected location to measure RF communications signals from the plurality of... Agent: John Alexander Galbreath

20080070571 - System and method for providing secure network access in fixed mobile converged telecommunications networks: The present disclosure relates generally to systems and methods for providing secure network access in fixed mobile converged telecommunications systems. In one example, a method includes establishing, by a fixed access device, a connection with a mobile terminal over an air interface. The fixed access device may also establish a... Agent: Timothy F. Bliss

20080070573 - Methods of mitigation of trombone routing in an ims/mmd network: The present invention advantageously provides several systems and methods for solving the trombone routing issues within an IMS/MMD network. These approaches avoid trombone routing, speed up handoff, and increase the efficiency of signaling and overall performance of an IMS/MMD network. These solutions can broadly be divided into the following categories.... Agent: Telcordia Technologies, Inc.

20080070574 - Registration of a mobile station in a mobile communications network: The current invention relates to the registration of mobile stations in a mobile communications network. It has particular relevance to handovers and roaming between base stations of an unlicensed radio access network (110) and those of a conventional cellular network (120). As the cells in an unlicensed radio access network... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080070575 - Method of administering call handover between cells in a communications system: The user terminal 10 is enabled so as to allow the user to determine if handover should be performed, and thus retain control of costs incurred in making a call. The user terminal 10 may give an alert if there is a risk of imminent handover, allowing the user to... Agent: Lucent Technologies Inc. Docket Administrator - Room 3j-219

20080070576 - Method of handoff in a wireless communication system: A method of handoff utilizing a combined signal quality measurement to trigger or initiate a handoff of a mobile station to a plurality of neighbor base stations, wherein the combined signal quality measurement corresponds to a summation of signal quality measurements associated with the plurality of neighbor base stations. The... Agent: Lucent Technologies Inc. Docket Administrator - Room 3j-219

20080070577 - Systems and methods for key management for wireless communications systems: A novel key management approach is provided for securing communication handoffs between and access terminal and two access points. This approach provides for securely handing off communications between an access terminal and access point without risking exposure a master key for the access terminal. Temporary master keys are derived for... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080070578 - Enhanced mobility support for wireless communication: Techniques for quickly and efficiently performing handover are described. A user equipment (UE) may maintain a link with a serving cell and may communicate with this cell via the established link. The UE may have a candidate set of non-serving cells that are candidates for handover. The UE may maintain... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080070579 - Method and a system for minimizing roaming cost in a mobile communication network: The present invention deals with a method and system for routing a call in a mobile communication network. The method comprises receiving a message by a caller prevailing network corresponding to a caller from a callee home network corresponding to a callee, if the callee is roaming. The message is... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, LLC

20080070580 - Method and apparatus for configuring equipment in a communication network: A base station 106 is provided that has a transceiver 202 that transmits and receives data. The transceiver is coupled to a controller 204. To configure the base station, the transceiver sends an identifier 210 that is associated with the base station together with information regarding the installation of the... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080070583 - Method and apparatus for setting serving grant in a wireless communications system: A method for setting a serving grant value in a user end of a wireless communications system includes steps of determining a maximum serving grant value when a non-serving relative grant message is received, and updating the serving grant value according to the maximum serving grant value.... Agent: Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP

20080070581 - Apparatus, method, system and software product for a multicast service on a high speed transport channel using point-to-point and point-to-multipoint transmission: An apparatus, method, and software product are for a broadcast service or a multicast service by a point to multipoint transmission, for reception by a plurality of terminals. It is then determined whether reception by some of the terminals is substandard, and in those cases the multicast service is provided... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20080070582 - Frame structure for multi-hop relay in wireless communication systems: Implementations of systems and techniques for scheduling wireless transmission of data blocks between a base station (BS) and one or more relay stations (RSs) in a wireless relay communication network.... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20080070584 - Method of selecting operating frequency for user equipment in a wireless communications system and related apparatus: In order to prevent a preferred frequency providing Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service, called MBMS hereinafter, services, from getting congestion, the present invention provides a method of selecting an operating frequency for a user equipment, called UE hereinafter, in a wireless communications system. The method includes switching the operating frequency from... Agent: Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP

20080070585 - Power allocation in a wireless communication system: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate allocating power levels in a wireless communication network. A metric based upon spectral efficiency can be employed in connection with optimizing power allocation. Further, power for transmitters to utilize can be assigned as a function of time. Moreover, a single sub-carrier network and/or... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080070586 - Method and apparatus for adjusting guard band size between two carriers by quality of service data positioning in the spectrum band: The guard band between two carriers of the same or different operators is reduced or dynamically adjusted by initiating a dynamic change request of the guard band between the two carriers to allow for flexible spectrum use by adjusting the tolerable guard band overlap. The data is distributed or positioned... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20080070587 - Method for managing radio resources and radio system: The invention relates to a radio system and a method for managing radio resources in a radio system. The method comprises receiving radio capacity information of the radio cell, receiving transport capacity information on transport network, the transport network being used for connecting the base stations of the radio network... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080070588 - Device based trigger for location push event: A software LBS trigger is initiated by a wireless device to request a set of proximate location information points relating to, e.g., points of interest, location tagged blogs, etc., based on the user's current location. The LBS trigger may be initiated when the user moves, and may include speed of... Agent: Manelli Denison & Selter PLLC

20080070589 - Transfer of position information to a mobile terminal: The invention provides a method of combining satellite positioning system signals and position information derived from such signals in a mobile terminal, when these are available at a first location, with cellular communication signals and a method, system and apparatus for determining the approximate position information for the said mobile... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20080070590 - Mobile communication network system and locking method of a mobile terminal apparatus: In a mobile communication network system for locking an operation on a cellular telephone comprised of a cellular telephone body, and an information storage medium that is inserted in the cellular telephone body and that is assigned a specific telephone number, provided are a service control apparatus that associates a... Agent: Michaud-duffy Group LLP

20080070591 - Processing decision method and mobile communication terminal: A wireless communication processing decision unit 33 acquires, from a wireless communication specific information storage unit 52, wireless communication specific information which specifies regions in which utilization of its frequency bandwidth is permitted by law. Next, registered position information which specifies the region in which this mobile communication terminal is... Agent: Kratz, Quintos & Hanson, LLP

20080070592 - Cellular telephone safety system: A system for increasing the safety of using cellular telephones stores the geographic coordinates of intersections and other traffic features of a local area in a server. The server is interfaced to the cellular telephone network. A programmable GPS enabled telephone handset determines its location upon start-up and transmits that... Agent: Berliner & Associates

20080070593 - Secure and private location sharing for location-aware mobile communication devices: Embodiments of a location sharing network manager process are described. The process is executed on a server computer coupled to a plurality of mobile communication devices over a wireless network. Each mobile device is a location-aware mobile communication device. The process determines the geographic location of a mobile communication device... Agent: Courtney Staniford & Gregory LLP

20080070599 - Combined cell phone and medical monitoring apparatus: The present invention discloses an apparatus that combines a cellular phone or other wireless device with one or more medical monitoring devices, wherein the two devices share a single housing, power source, display, memory chip and data processor. The apparatus is capable of functioning as a separate medical apparatus and... Agent: Alberto A. Leon, Esq.

20080070598 - high-capacity paging method, and associated apparatus, with further reduced probability of false page match: Apparatus, and an associated method for facilitating paging of an access terminal operable in a radio communication system. A paging message is formed that includes partial identities of access terminals that are to be paged. The partial identities are arranged into groups of partial identities. And, the groups are ordered.... Agent: Research In Motion, Ltd

20080070595 - Apparatus, and associated method, for forming a page message including a structure of partial identifiers of differing bit lengths using random or pseudorandom numbers and for using random ati: Apparatus and an associated method is provided for facilitating paging of an access terminal in a radio communication system. A page message with partial identities is generated that includes an access sequence ID. The access sequence ID is used by the access terminal when responding to a page. The access... Agent: Research In Motion, Ltd

20080070596 - Apparatus, and associated method, for paging a mobile station utilizing an enhanced mobile-terminated connection setup: Apparatus, and an associated method, for facilitating paging of an access terminal operable in a radio communication system. The access terminal detects a first page message that does not include an access sequence identifier. The access terminal responds to the first page message without waiting for detection of a second... Agent: Research In Motion, Ltd

20080070597 - Method, and associated apparatus, of integrating extraction of extra partial identity bits with quick paging techniques where multiple pages share a message field: Apparatus and an associated method for facilitating paging of an access terminal operable in a radio communication system. A paging message is formed that includes either partial identities of access terminals that are to be paged or paging indicators. Selection is made as to whether partial identities or paging indicators... Agent: Research In Motion, Ltd

20080070594 - System and method for paging group differentiation by qos set grouping: A system for assigning a subscriber device into a paging group in a wireless communication network. The system comprises a network entity that creates paging group information for the subscriber device using at least one Quality of Service (QoS) requirement, and sends the paging group information to the subscriber device.... Agent: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP

20080070600 - Apparatus, and associated method, for forming a page message including a structure of partial identifiers of differing bit lengths using random or pseudorandom numbers: Apparatus, and an associated method for facilitating paging of an access terminal operable in a radio communication system. The access terminal is identified by part of a pseudorandom, or random, number, such as a session seed. The part of the number is included in the page message when the access... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080070607 - Apparatus and method for transmitting/receiving binary data in short message system: Provided is an apparatus and method for transmitting/receiving binary data in a short message system. The short message system includes a transmitting apparatus and a receiving apparatus. The transmitting apparatus converts the binary data into conversion binary data such that the binary data is not expressed as a character string,... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080070601 - Circuit bearer control: The invention makes use of the Short Message Service (SMS) or Unstructured Supplementary Services Data (USSD) capabilities present in today's cellular networks as a means of providing call control and presence signalling and, in particular, for providing the means of effecting hand-off at least from/to the cellular domain to/from the... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20080070603 - Idle mode notification: A network component comprising a processor configured to implement a method comprising: detecting a state of a mobile station and sending a state message to a connection service network using an accounting protocol wherein the state message comprises a state data indicating the state of the mobile station is disclosed.... Agent: Slater & Matsil, L.L.P.

20080070604 - Method of managing a language information for a text input and method of inputting a text and a mobile terminal: A text input for the messaging application is performed on the basis of the language stored respective to the input or the selected contact item in the memory.... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080070605 - Music message service method and apparatus for mobile terminal: A music message service method and apparatus for a mobile terminal are disclosed. A music message transmitting method in a music message service includes: storing in a mobile terminal at least one scale information set having a plurality of musical notes, wherein the musical notes have assigned audible frequencies and... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20080070602 - Sms-compliant summary of a work created by a method for authoring mobile book messages: An SMS-compliant summary of a work created by a method for authoring mobile book messages includes a plurality of messages generated, by an author, via a graphical user interface, each message in the plurality of messages comprising a summary of a section of a work of authorship. The author provides,... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

20080070606 - Apparatus, method, system and software product involving a macrodiversity arrangement for a multicast service on a high speed transport channel: An apparatus, method, system and software product are for receiving a broadcast service or a multicast service. User equipment receives information about transmissions of data for a broadcast or multicast. The data is transmitted in non-overlapping signals from a plurality of cells. The user equipment then uses this information to... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20080070609 - Approval means to provide cell phone parental control: A method for allowing remote control of the usage of a networked wireless device including incoming communications, outgoing communications, and application launching. Controlling entities, such as parent cellular telephones or web sites, are provided with the ability to select a list of approved anytime incoming communications, or approved incoming and... Agent: Disney Enterprises C/o Farjami & Farjami LLP

20080070608 - Information inquiry to provide cell phone parental control: A method for allowing remote control of the usage of a networked wireless device including incoming communications, outgoing communications, and application launching. Controlling entities, such as parent cellular telephones or web sites, are provided with the ability to select a list of approved anytime incoming communications, or approved incoming and... Agent: Disney Enterprises C/o Farjami & Farjami LLP

20080070610 - Communication terminal device, base station device and radio communication system: There is disclosed a communication terminal device capable of eliminating collision of access request signals simultaneously transmitted from communication terminal devices in a local cell, preventing generation of interference signal in another cell adjacent to the local cell, and improving the throughput in the local cell. There is also disclosed... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20080070611 - Radio communication scheme for providing multimedia broadcast and multicast services (mbms): A radio communication scheme applicable to UMTS providing packet data services, such as multimedia broadcast and multicast services (MBMS), to one or more users by modifying (augmenting) certain existing radio communication protocols while employing a new transport channel (a point-to-multipoint DSCH), and/or by establishing new physical downlink shared channels (C-PDSCH... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080070612 - Continued transfer or streaming of a data file after loss of a local connection: A central portable communication device can display further information related to first information received in an associated local portable communication. The associated local portable communication device may receive and present the first information, and may send, in dependence of a selection made by a user, a request for displaying the... Agent: Harrity Snyder, L.L.P.

20080070613 - Method and apparatus of power control: Briefly, a wireless communication device, a wireless communication system and a method of controlling a transmission power level of a dedicated channel signal transmitted in a compress mode with an alternate scrambling code. The method includes transmitting one or more power control commands to a base station to control a... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20080070615 - Mobile user terminal, mobile communication system, base station, and communication method: A mobile user terminal (UE), which measures downlink channel quality, and which transmits downlink quality information indicating the measured downlink channel quality and an uplink pilot signal to be used for measuring uplink channel quality to a base station (BS), comprises a transmit time control unit (216), which synchronizes transmit... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080070614 - Sensor network system and sensor node: A plural-data transmission Start message is transmitted prior to transmission of plural data to an intermittent operation type wireless communications terminal, and when transmission of plural data is completed, a plural-data transmission End message is transmitted. The terminal which received the plural-data transmission Start message can change over the sleep... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20080070617 - Reset circuit and method of mobile phone: A reset circuit and method of a mobile phone is provided for resetting the mobile phone using a hardware reset key when the mobile phone is locked up or operates abnormally. A reset circuit includes a hardware reset signal generator for generating a hardware reset signal in response to an... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20080070616 - Mobile communication terminal with improved user interface: A user interface technique of a mobile communication terminal is disclosed. The mobile communication terminal includes a memory unit storing menu content that includes object files constituting multimedia of nodes in a tree-structured menu and playback control commands combining the object files to generate a playback frame and defining a... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080070618 - Cellular communications device, method and circuit: A cellular-communications device comprises a cellular-communications transceiver to communicate via a cellular-communications system; a local-communications transceiver to communicate via a local-communications system; and a switch coupled to said local-communications transceiver to switch it on when a probability value indicates, that said cellular-communications device is within a communications range of a... Agent: Infineon Technologies Ag Patent Department

20080070619 - Communication network system converging wireless mobile network and wired discontinuous mobile network and method thereof: A communication network system that converges a wireless mobile network and a wired discontinuous mobile network and the method thereof is provided herein, with the communication network system and method applicable to the wireless and wired communication technology fields. The convergent communication network includes a user equipment, an access network... Agent: Matthias Scholl

20080070620 - Method and system for mobile receiver antenna architecture for european band cellular and broadcasting services: A method for an antenna architecture that handles European band cellular and broadcast channels may be provided. The method may comprise receiving at a first radio frequency integrated circuit (RFIC) integrated within a mobile terminal, RF signals in a first cellular frequency band of a first cellular network via an... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080070623 - Control system of image photographing apparatus, as digital camera, digital video camera or the like using a mobile communication terminal, and image photographing apparatus, as digital camera, digital video camera or the like used in the system, control: The mobile communication terminal 1 and the image photographing apparatus 2 are connected through wireless communications 3 or optical communications 3, where the image data from the image photographing apparatus 2 is displayed in the display part of the mobile communication terminal 1 on a real-time basis, and various functions... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080070621 - Digital cordless phone having remote control functionality: The present invention is to provide a digital cordless phone having remote control functionality. When a telephone connection is established upon transmitting and receiving wireless telephony signals by a wireless transceiver module, an MCU receives control signals from a remote terminal via the telephone connection to control the remote control... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080070622 - Method and device for storing and displaying music file list in mobile communication terminal using hot keys: A device and method of storing and displaying a music file list in a mobile communication terminal using a hot key are provided. More particularly, a method for storing a music file list by pressing the hot key for an extended period and displaying the music file list by pressing... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20080070624 - Cellular phone: A plurality of operation portions are arranged at a surface on a sub-display side of a cellular phone with a camera so that various kinds of setting, selection and control can be performed without opening the cellular phone in its folded state, and the cellular phone can achieve improved operability... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080070625 - Method and apparatus for facilitating the rendering of human communication content: A device (200) that is presently rendering human communications content (202) via a corresponding human communication interface (203) will also passively wirelessly transmit information (103) regarding an existing native capability regarding also wirelessly transmitting the human communication content. Upon receiving (in response to that passive transmission) information (105) regarding an... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080070626 - System for remote-controlling broadcast apparatus using a pda: Provided is a system for remotely controlling a broadcasting system not only in a broadcasting room but also outside the broadcasting room. A program of controlling the broadcasting system is installed in a PDA. Signals input to the PDA by a user are transmitted using Bluetooth (or wireless LAN, infrared... Agent: Ipla P.A.

20080070627 - Integrated sim system: An integrated SIM system for use with a communication terminal is disclosed. Meanwhile, the integrated subscriber identity module (SIM) system for use with a communication terminal includes a SIM unit for allowing communication between the communication terminal and an external base station; a memory module stored with a virtual machine... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080070629 - Method and mobile communication device for resuming a functioning of a subscriber identity module: A method for resuming a functioning of a subscriber identity module of a mobile communication device (e.g., cell phone or PDA) is provided, with the subscriber identity module being provided in a phone body of the communication device. The method includes a series of steps. Particularly, when the phone body... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20080070631 - Method and system for tracking mobile communication device using instant messaging: Provided is a method for tracking any mobile electronic device which accesses wireless or wired network using Instant Messaging (IM). The mobile device, capable of instant messenger (IM) functionality, allows storage of one or more IM IDs in a separate non-volatile memory. When the mobile device is lost/stolen, and another... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080070630 - Mobile phone and information store card drawing mechanism: An information store card drawing mechanism for a mobile device includes a main body, a drawing portion disposed on the main body, a hook extending from the main body and the mobile device, and an elastic element connecting the main body and the mobile device, and a track disposed on... Agent: Quintero Law Office, PC

20080070628 - Monitor apparatus for communication terminal: A monitor apparatus for use in the communication terminal is disclosed. Meanwhile, the control method for extending services of a communication terminal, includes the steps of a) issuing a command signal; b) determining whether the command signal is an authentication command or an access command; c) passing the authentication command... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080070632 - Mobile communication terminal, mobile communication system, base station, and communication method: A mobile communication terminal (UE) comprises: a transmitting unit (213, 211) which transmits a signal via a radio resource allocated to the mobile communication terminal (UE) for the transmission of a prescribed control signal; and a signal selector unit (214) which, when upstream traffic occurs, selects a reservation request signal... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080070634 - 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

20080070633 - Wireless communications methods and systems using a remote, self-contained communications antenna unit: This invention provides wireless communications using a remote, self-contained communications antenna unit that transceives signals from a disconnected cell site and communicates these signals with a communications network. In an exemplary embodiment, the remote, self-contained communications antenna unit includes a transportation vehicle that carries a generator for power, backup batteries,... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP/ At&t Delaware Intellectual Property, Inc.

20080070636 - Method and device for dynamic input in handheld terminal: A method and device for inputting recipient information in a handheld terminal is provided. This method and device facilitates a user's ability to dynamically create and delete an input field for inputting the recipient information. An input field is displayed after creation of a message and the recipient information is... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20080070635 - Mobile communication device: A mobile communication device for receiving and transmitting wireless communication signals including a body having a border portion, a display supported by the body, a touch screen adjacent the display and defining an exterior surface of the mobile communication device such that the display is visible through the touch screen,... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080070637 - Mobile communication terminal and controlling method thereof: A mobile communication terminal and a controlling method thereof are disclosed, by which reception performance of the mobile communication terminal can be enhanced while SAR is reduced. According to an embodiment, the terminal includes a body part comprising a circuit board having radio communication parts mounted thereon and a display... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080070638 - Surface light source for emitting light from two surfaces and double-sided display device using the same: A surface light source device includes a light-emitting element which generates light, and a light guide plate which causes light emitted from the light-emitting element to be incident from an end face, causes the light to be reflected between opposite plate surfaces to guide the light along the plate surfaces... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080070639 - System and method for conserving battery power in a mobile station: In one embodiment, a mobile station including a chassis having a display, a power reducer, a proximity sensor, and a microprocessor. The power reducer controls power consumption of the display. The proximity sensor is coupled to the chassis and causes the power consumption to be reduced when the display is... Agent: Mendelsohn & Associates, P.C.

20080070640 - Mobile communication terminal and method for performing automatic incoming call notification mode change: A mobile communication terminal is disclosed that allows an incoming call notification mode to be automatically changed depending on an ambient noise signal level, thus eliminating the need to manually change the incoming call notification mode. A microphone capable of automatically changing an incoming call notification mode according to a... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080070641 - Holder for portable electronic device: The present invention is to provide a holding device comprising a holding seat adapted to support and fasten a portable electronic device and including a plurality of apertures therethrough; a base affixed to a planar surface; and a fastening assembly having one end moveably mounted on one end of the... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080070642 - Method and system for consolidating power saving classes: The invention concerns a method (200) and system (100) for consolidating PSCs. In particular, in a mixed media environment having a plurality of application connections associated with different PSCs, the method can include the steps of identifying (210) a primary application connection, defining (210) a consolidated PSC based on a... Agent: Motorola, Inc

20080070645 - Electronic device and assembly of cable and flexible print circuit thereof: An assembly of a cable and a flexible print circuit includes a flexible print circuit, a first joining element joined to the flexible print circuit and having a profile similar thereto, and at least one cable fixed to the first joining element. A gap is formed between the first joining... Agent: Quintero Law Office, PC

20080070644 - Flip-up type mobile phone: A mobile phone includes a body section including a plurality of keys provided on an upper surface thereof; a projecting section projecting on an upper end region of the upper surface of the body section to have a predetermined thickness and having a first display unit mounted to an upper... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080070643 - Hinge apparatus for portable terminal: A hinge apparatus for a portable terminal including a first housing, and a second housing rotatably connected to the first housing, includes a first connection terminal mounted on the first housing; a second connection terminal mounted on the second housing; and a connection member straightly reciprocating between the first and... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080070646 - Cellular phone: A plurality of operation portions are arranged at a surface on a sub-display side of a cellular phone with a camera so that various kinds of setting, selection and control can be performed without opening the cellular phone in its folded state, and the cellular phone can achieve improved operability... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080070647 - Cellular phone: A plurality of operation portions are arranged at a surface on a sub-display side of a cellular phone with a camera so that various kinds of setting, selection and control can be performed without opening the cellular phone in its folded state, and the cellular phone can achieve improved operability... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080070648 - Mobile telecommunication handset having touch pad: A mobile telecommunication handset includes a main body having a keypad for inputting information, a cover body having a main display unit on a first surface thereof that faces the main body when the cover body is closed over the main body, and having a sub display unit on a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080070649 - Free space optical interconnections in cellular telephone handsets: High data rate interconnections between foldable parts of a cellular telephone handset, such as the handset keypad and handset display portions, are made by free space optical data transmission between light emitting devices such as laser diodes or LEDs and photodiodes, without use of optical waveguides or cables between the... Agent: Law Offices Of Natan Epstein

20080070650 - Sliding module for double sliding-type portable communication terminal: A sliding module for a double sliding-type portable communication terminal is provided. The double sliding-type portable communication terminal includes a body housing and a sliding housing movably coupled to the body housing so as to slide on the body housing in a first direction and a second direction substantially perpendicular... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20080070651 - Headset slider mechanism: A small portable headset includes a housing (102) including a first housing member (104) and a second housing member (106), said first housing member slidingly carried on said second housing member. A spring (402) carried in said housing is biased to push said second housing member away from said first... Agent: Motorola Inc

20080064323 - Transmodulator for very small aperture terminals employing internet protocol based communications: DVB-S/S2 transmodulator for VSAT units employing IP based communication. The transmodulator is optimized for VSAT networks, enabling legacy VSAT units to benefit from the developments of the advanced DVB-S2 standard. The transmodulator appears transparent to the legacy VSAT unit that is configured to operate with the older DVB-S standard. Some... Agent: Fleit Kain Gibbons Gutman Bongini & Bianco

20080064324 - Satellite data messaging system with radio channel hyperlinking: A data messaging system includes a satellite radio receiver configured to receive a message including a message identifier and two or more filter criteria and to process the message to generate a processed message according to the message identifier and the two or more filter criteria. A telematic unit is... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20080064326 - Systems and methods for casting captions associated with a media stream to a user: A system is provided that includes a captioning computer system, a caption caster controller, a caption caster system, and a portable receiver system having an eye piece. The captioning computer system generates a caption stream associated with a radio program and transmits the caption stream to the controller. The controller... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080064327 - Constellation rotation relay system and constellation rotation relay method: Provided is a constellation rotation relay system and constellation rotation relay method which can acquire full diversity gain by performing constellation rotation for a channel matrix in a relay network when configuring a virtual MIMO channel. The constellation rotation system includes a matrix creator for creating a symbol matrix by... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20080064329 - Ranging method and apparatus in a communication system with relay station, and system thereof: A method for performing ranging by a mobile station in a communication system. The method includes transmitting a ranging sequence to a relay station; receiving an added signal of a reference sequence of the relay station and the ranging sequence, from the relay station; performing a correlation operation on each... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080064331 - Communication system: A communication system includes a transmitter including a transmission circuit unit that generates an RF signal for transmitting data and an electric-field-coupling antenna that transmits the RF signal as an electrostatic field, a receiver including an electric-field-coupling antenna and a reception circuit unit that subjects an RF signal received by... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080064332 - System and method for associating a wireless mobile communications device with a specific vehicle: A communications system may include a first transceiver and a second transceiver both mountable to a vehicle. The first transceiver may include a range substantially limited to a close proximity of the vehicle. The communications system may also include a mobile communications device. The mobile communications device may be adapted... Agent: Moore And Van Allen PLLC For Boeing

20080064336 - Mobile communication terminal for removing noise in transmitting signal and method thereof: A mobile communication terminal for removing noise in a transmitting signal and a method thereof are provided. The mobile communication terminal includes a first microphone for capturing a voice signal to be transmitted a second microphone attached to a position different from the first microphone to capture sound signals, an... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080064338 - Mote networks using directional antenna techniques: A mote network having and/or using one or more directional antennas.... Agent: Searete LLC

20080064339 - Personal protective cellular telephone with gps system: This invention relates to personal protective devices, particularly as combined with cellular telephones. In one embodiment of the invention, a cellular telephone is modified to deliver a personal protective spray, such as pepper spray, mace or dog spray. Upon activation of the spray, the cellular telephone automatically alerts law enforcement... Agent: Eugene H. Eickholt

20080064340 - Testing media content for wireless communication devices: A communications network comprises a wireless communication device, a mobile data service and an apparatus for testing media content developed for a wireless communication device. This apparatus comprises a media content composer module, a web server, and a dispatcher module. The dispatcher module is programmed to: receive a media content... Agent: Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP

20080064343 - Transmitter arrangement and method: A transmitter arrangement, a polar modulator arrangement, a polar modulation method and a polar transmitter arrangement are disclosed. A polar modulator arrangement includes a polar generator to provide a phase component and an amplitude component of a complex signal, a filtering block to filter the phase component, and a combiner... Agent: Eschweiler & Associates LLC

20080064325 - Satellite radio receiver that displays information regarding one or more channels that are not currently being listened to: A satellite radio receiver includes a display that displays information regarding one or more channels that are not currently being listened to. For a music channel, this information may include the name of the artist, the song title, time left in the song, etc. For a news channel, this information... Agent: Martin & Associates, LLC

20080064328 - Broadband communication system for mobile users in a satellite-based network: A satellite-based communications system operating at high data rates includes a plurality of satellites each having uplink and downlink antennas for transmitting and receiving a plurality of signals utilizing a plurality of spot beams to and from a plurality of coverage areas at a predetermined range of frequencies. The system... Agent: The Directv Group, Inc. Patent Docket Administration

20080064330 - Receiving apparatus and body insertable system: A receiving apparatus 3 includes a receiving circuit 22 which performs reception processing such as demodulation of radio signals received by one of receiving antennas 6a to 6h, an image processing unit 26 which reconfigures image data based on original signals obtained by the reception processing, and a timing controller... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20080064333 - System and method for specifying observed targets and subsequent communication: A system and method of facilitating communication, via a telecommunications system, among people that may perceive each other's physical presence, but may not know each other's identity or contact information (e.g., telephone number, e-mail address, etc.). A user indicates a target (another user or another user's vehicle) by specifying values... Agent: Charles Martin Hymes

20080064334 - Methods and apparatuses for communicating with wireless peripheral devices: Methods and apparatuses are disclosed for communicating with wireless peripheral devices. One method receives a communication for the wireless peripheral device. Wireless signals, such as activation, initialization, or registration signals/messages, are communicated to the wireless peripheral device utilizing more than one wireless technology standard. When the wireless peripheral device responds,... Agent: Parks Knowlton - C001

20080064335 - Radio communication system, a transmitter and a receiver: In a transmitter 2A, after an output level of a modulated signal is regulated by a first gain regulator 5A, the signal is transmitted from a first antenna 8A without delay, and after the modulated signal is delayed by a delay unit 6A and an output level of the delay... Agent: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

20080064337 - Method, device, system and software product for soft value scaling with receivers in an unsynchronized network: A method, mobile device, network device, system, and software are devised for soft value scaling with a single antenna interference cancellation (SAIC) receiver, or with an interference rejection combining (IRC) receiver, in an unsynchronized network. A signal is received having interference that is caused by a non-synchronized network. A desired... Agent: Francis J Maguire Bradford Green Building Five

20080064341 - Method of communication using microwave signals: The present invention provides a method for wide-range microwave communications. 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) in each module... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20080064342 - Swivel hinge for use in handheld device: Disclosed is a swing hinge for coupling first and second units with each other such that the first and second overlapped units can be rotated with respect to each other about an axis of rotation. The swing hinge includes a body shaped as a plate substantially perpendicular to the axis... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080064344 - Self-calibrating direct conversion transmitter with converting/steering device: A converting/steering device has a normal mode and a calibration mode. The converting/steering device includes a merged mixer/VGA and a mode controller. The merged mixer/VGA has a mixing stage and an amplifying stage. In the normal mode, the mode controller deactivates the mixing stage of the merged mixer/VGA, and the... Agent: Madson & Austin

20080064345 - Device and method of radio wave transmission: In a transmitter device of a smart entry system for a vehicle, a transmitter antenna is provided between a variable power circuit and the ground, and is controlled by a switching circuit to transmit a searching radio wave. The transmission power of the antenna, that is, a range of reach... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080064346 - Method for connecting a contactless integrated circuit to a nfc component: A method for exchanging data with an integrated circuit includes antenna connection terminals. The method includes not connecting the antenna connection terminals of the integrated circuit to an antenna, applying an alternating emulation signal at least to a first antenna connection terminal of the integrated circuit, by way of a... Agent: Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP

20080064347 - Method and apparatus for identifying unused rf channels: A wireless connection apparatus which scans radio frequency bands for local quiet unused, vacant, or unassigned frequencies which the apparatus can use, on a temporary basis, to establish a link for communicating between a portable multimedia device and a nearby RBDS/RDS configured receiver or source. The apparatus does not interfere... Agent: Lariviere, Grubman & Payne, LLP

20080064348 - Method and apparatus for identifying unused rf channels: A wireless connection apparatus which scans radio frequency bands for local quiet unused, vacant, or unassigned frequencies which the apparatus can use, on a temporary basis, to establish a link for communicating between a portable multimedia device and a nearby RBDS/RDS configured receiver or source. The apparatus does not interfere... Agent: Lariviere, Grubman & Payne, LLP

20080064349 - Ingress susceptibility on return path: The testing device of the present invention includes an RF input for connecting to a subscriber network, which has been disconnected from a communication network, for receiving ingress RF signals leaked into the subscriber network from outside sources. The device includes a signal processor for scanning the RF signals for... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20080064353 - Method and apparatus for base station directed selection of a multiple antenna configuration: A base station (214) and the mobile station (202) can arrange the multiple antenna configuration by receiving a base station parameter that is related to a preference for one of a plurality of multiple antenna configurations of the base station. The method includes sending the selected multiple antenna configuration to... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080064352 - Mobile intercom system and method thereof: A mobile intercom system and method thereof are for providing a remote wireless transmission function to transmit a visiting message. The mobile intercom system comprises an intercom apparatus, a wireless station, and a mobile communication apparatus. The visiting message is transmitted by the intercom apparatus to the wireless station, and... Agent: Law Offices Of Lai And Associates, P.C.

20080064350 - System and method for dailing a telephone number: A communication system and method for dialing a phone number by providing only a nickname. The user of a mobile terminal enters a nickname he wishes to dial to, then adapted software or hardware logic on the mobile terminal converts the nickname to a numeric code and broadcasts signals to... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20080064351 - System and method for location-based media ranking: The present invention provides a media-location ranker for use with a mobile electronic device. In one embodiment, the media-location ranker includes a media ranking unit configured to provide a media ranking of a plurality of media files. The media-location ranker also includes a location relating unit coupled to the media... Agent: Hitt Gaines, PC Lsi Corporation

20080064354 - Forward and reverse link automatic power controlled repeater and method: In an apparatus to measure a path loss between base-station and repeater, forward and reverse link automatic power controlled repeater of the present invention is comprising that a repeater control part means for controlling the repeater run and to process forward and reverse gain of the repeater using received information;... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20080064355 - Method and apparatus for efficiently applying frequency correction: In a structure having a fractional-N synthesizer driven by a voltage controlled oscillator, frequency accuracy is maintained by first using the fractional-N synthesizer to correct large frequency errors and then slowly transferring correction from the fractional-N synthesizer to the voltage controlled oscillator a little at a time.... Agent: The Law Offices Of John C. Scott, LLC C/o Intellevele

20080064356 - Method of receiving wideband signal: A multiple antenna receiver receives a wideband signal containing two or more sub-signals of interest. The receiver may be selectively configured to receive all sub-signals of interest with all antennas, or to receive different sub-signals of interest with different antennas.... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20080064357 - Noise suppresser: The noise suppresser (100) includes a field strength analysis unit (3) which analyzes change in a field strength d of a digital signal x, and a frame generation unit (1) which generates a frame made up of signal values accumulated within a range which does not exceed a predetermined threshold... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080064358 - Semiconductor device and method for making the same: A semiconductor device includes: an SOI substrate with a silicon oxide layer 123 formed on a silicon substrate 122 and a semiconductor layer formed thereon; and a MOSFET formed within the semiconductor layer, wherein a region of the silicon substrate 122 through the silicon oxide layer 123 is removed by... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080064359 - Amplifier, filter using the same, and radio communication device: An amplifier includes an amplification unit which amplify a first difference between first and second input signals, a second difference between second and third input signals and a third difference between third and first input signals by a differential mode gain, and amplify an average of the first, second and... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080064360 - Compact display unit:

20080064361 - Non-homogenous telecommunications base stations: A network reconfigurator (26) is provided for use in a telecommunications network (20) comprising a network (24) of radio base stations configured for providing radio access service to the telecommunications network for wireless stations (30). The network reconfigurator is arranged or configured, for differing service outages attributable to differing downed... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080064362 - Method for automatically connecting video communication between mobile stations during an emergency: Disclosed is a method for automatically connecting a video communication between mobile stations in an emergency, wherein a mobile station in an emergency calls another mobile station and, even if there is no response from it, the video connection can be made automatically. The method includes the steps of selecting... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20080064364 - Emergency group calling across multiple wireless networks: Emergency group calling services in a wireless network are comprised of mass outbound (MO) voice or text messages sent from an originating mobile unit to all terminating mobile units in response to a single invocation by the originating mobile unit. The emergency group calling services are invoked by transmitting a... Agent: Gates & Cooper LLP Howard Hughes Center

20080064363 - Integrated call handler and email systems and methods: Apparatuses, systems and methods are presented for handling calls. In one embodiment, an emergency call handling system capable of receiving visual information from callers and correlating the visual information to particular incidents is disclosed. To obtain visual information, a call handler may generate and send an electronic mail message to... Agent: Marsh, Fischmann & Breyfogle LLP

20080064365 - Safety alert system: A safety alert system 10 is provided which allows the user to initiate a series of telephone communications by activating a pre-programmed control hub 12 by signaling the control hub 12 from a remote activation pendant 14 carried by the user to activate the control hub 12 to begin the... Agent: Shughart Thomson & Kilroy, PC

20080064366 - Charging efficiency: A method for performing charging in a telecommunications system, comprising: storing at a subscriber information store subscription information including charging arrangement information indicative of the charging arrangement for a first communication terminal operating in the telecommunications system; providing by means of packet data interface apparatus packet data communication services to... Agent: Robert M Bauer, Esq. Lackenbach Siegel, LLP

20080064367 - System and method to enable subscriber self-activation of wireless data terminals: The present invention relates to a system and method to enable subscriber self-activation and configuration of wireless data terminals by means of an activate button provided through the User Interface (UI). This allows for operations to be performed on the device by self-care. Any wireless device, in order to access... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080064368 - Communication device and communication system: A communication device capable of preventing interference due to collision of signals of a plurality of communication devices (slaves) is provided. The communication device characterized by having a receiving part which receives a request signal by radio, a counter which starts count of a count value on reception of the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080064370 - Function lock information notification method and mobile communication terminal: If a lock request for function of an IC card function section is executed from a locking terminal via a mobile communication network, a lock request detection section 51 detects the lock request. If the lock request is detected in this manner, the function lock section 52 locks the function... Agent: Kratz, Quintos & Hanson, LLP

20080064369 - Method and system for authenticating terminal subscriber identity module in ip multimedia domain: A method for authenticating a terminal subscriber identity module in an IM domain includes: sending an AV request to an HSS by the S-CSCF; sending a request message for acquiring the AV to a home device of the UE upon receiving the AV request by the HSS; allocating an SQN... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080064371 - Providing contextual information for spoken information: Techniques are described for providing relevant information to users (e.g., information that is at least potentially of interest to the users). Relevant information for a user may be automatically determined based on a determined context of the user and/or on a request for that information from the user. For example,... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20080064372 - Voice notifying service system and service providing method for mobile terminal: A voice notifying service system and a service providing method are provided for a mobile terminal, wherein the voice notifying service system includes a mobile communication system and a mobile terminal for forming a communication channel with the mobile communication system, transmitting voice information, the voice information including a voice... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20080064373 - Method and communication system for transferring messages containing audio and/or voice information: In a method for transferring a message containing audio and/or voice information from a transmitting communication terminal (20) to a receiving communication terminal (30), said message is depending on a setting of said receiving communication terminal (30) either directly played back at said receiving communication terminal (30) or temporarily stored... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080064374 - Electronic business/personal card and method of use thereof: The present invention includes a wireless communication method and device comprising a one-to-one exchange of wireless electronic device identifications or unique profile IDs between a sending and a receiving party who are both registered users of the electronic business/personal card service and further comprising upload of the wireless electronic identifications... Agent: Reed Smith, LLP

20080064375 - Emergency calling device: An emergency services automatic dialing device enables at least one number in a list of alternate numbers to be called prior to dialing an emergency services number (e.g., 911). This enables a user of a corresponding portable transceiver to try to reach someone else (e.g., a family member) before having... Agent: Davidson Berquist Jackson & Gowdey LLP

20080064378 - Media playing on another device: A method includes initiating the playing of a user selected media clip on a buddy communication device through a community server. The method may include playing a buddy selected media clip on a user communication device. The community server brokers the media exchange. Another method includes receiving an SMS with... Agent: Daniel J Swirsky

20080064376 - Member notification method for mobile terminals using short-range wireless communication: A member notification method is disclosed for mobile terminals capable of short-range wireless communication. The member notification method includes forming a particular group of a first mobile terminal and one or more second mobile terminals; discovering, by the first mobile terminal, a second mobile terminal in a fixed-radius range using... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080064377 - Recording apparatus, control method therefor, and program: This invention can reduce the load on a recording apparatus, efficiently design the overall system, and accurately calculate a data amount recordable on a recording unit in accordance with setting change of each communication apparatus or the like. A portable remote storage transmits information on a data amount strorable in... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20080064379 - Booking method and system: The invention relates to a method and system for booking a reservation in a booking system and synchronizing bookings in several booking systems comprising at least one booking systems; at least one service provider; a mediator service; a client, and at least one client terminal device that can be a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080064380 - Providing location information: In a method in association with a communication system a request for a connection is signaled between a user equipment and another party. The requested connection is then analyzed. Subsequent to detection that location information is required in association with the requested connection, a process for determining information about the... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080064381 - Rerouting communications to provide cell phone parental control: A method for allowing remote control of the usage of a networked wireless device including incoming communications, outgoing communications, and application launching. Controlling entities, such as parent cellular telephones or web sites, are provided with the ability to select a list of approved anytime incoming communications, or approved incoming and... Agent: Disney Enterprises C/o Farjami & Farjami LLP

20080064382 - Program updating method of wireless communication terminal and wireless communication terminal using the same: A wireless communication terminal and program updating method are provided. The method downloads a binary file from a host computer to update a program. The method includes determining, if the wireless communication terminal is booted, whether the wireless communication terminal is in a binary file download mode or if the... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080064383 - System and method to provide application management on wireless data terminals by means of device management agent and dynamic link libraries: The present invention relates to a system and method of remote application management on wireless data terminals using a device management agent and dynamic link libraries provided by the application. Third party applications on a wireless device can communicate and be controlled by a remote management server via a management... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080064384 - Wireless communication apparatus, wireless communication network and software upgrading method: A base station control portion 200 selects one or plural signals from signals received by plural settable communication paths in accordance with the state of the wave. A wireless communication apparatus 110 communicates with a wireless terminal 300 and a wired communication network. When the wireless communication apparatus 110 receives... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080064386 - Uplink communication method and radio terminal in radio communication system: A radio terminal estimates a reception quality of an uplink signal at a radio base station based on a downlink signal received from the radio base station, and controls transmission timing to the radio base station of a transmission request for obtaining permission to transmit the uplink signal. Whereby, it... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080064385 - Method and system for retrieving network addresses in hybrid telecommunication network: Combinational networks may provide simultaneous connectivity over networks of different type between User Equipment of an A-party and B-party. A communication session, comprising a circuit switched call and one or more packet switched sessions, may be deployed simultaneously over different network types, in relation to the same User Equipment. The... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080064387 - Apparatus and method for automatically enabling cell phone ringing or beeping: A cellular telephone is disclosed including a device for placing the cellular telephone in an off state or an on state. The cellular telephone may include a processor, and a receiver. The processor may be programmed to change the cellular telephone from the off state to the on state in... Agent: Walter J. Tencza Jr.

20080064389 - Communication system and method for redirecting a call between multiple different operating modes: The present invention provides a communication system and a method for redirecting a call to a call destination between multiple different operating modes. An attempt to establish a communication connection with the call destination is made via a first operating mode. Upon receipt of a rejection of the attempt to... Agent: Motorola Inc

20080064388 - Softkey access to network connections: Methods and systems are provided by which a mobile device may be configured to display a list of available networks in response to a single action. In particular, some embodiments of the present invention include a softkey that may be programmed to view a menu of available wireless networks.... Agent: Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP (formerly Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham)

20080064390 - Enhanced radio link control error handling: The invention relates to a method for settling an error in a radio link control entity which processes data transmitted by a cellular network to a user equipment, comprising the following steps: the user equipment receives a message from a control entity of the cellular network, said message including data... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080064391 - Call forwarding between different types of wireless networks: Communication networks and methods are disclosed that provide call forwarding between different types of wireless networks. If a wireless device is being served by a first wireless network and a call is initiated in a second wireless network, then a common or shared subscriber server is used to provide call... Agent: Duft Bornsen & Fishman, LLP

20080064392 - Communication system: When a line for communication of audio signals between first and second portable-telephone devices through a first portable-telephone base station, a second portable-telephone base station and a portable-telephone line network has been connected, IP addresses are exchanged. The IP addresses are required for communicating image data by first and second... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20080064393 - Managing multimode roaming mobile devices: A mobile device for roaming between wireless communications networks in different geographical regions, the mobile device comprising a radio interface configured to receive network data over a wireless channel, said data relating to one or more of a plurality of access technologies available in a geographical region, a first store... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20080064394 - Roaming across different access mechanisms and network technologies: In one embodiment, a method of allowing a user to roam from one wireless network and interact with an Internet-based application is disclosed. The method comprises establishing a connection between a wireless mobile device and a first wireless network, wherein the connection allows the wireless mobile device to interact with... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20080064395 - Method and system for remotely controlling appliances: A method of remotely controlling at least one domestic appliance, remote control of such domestic appliances is triggered automatically by detecting a mobile communications terminal entering or leaving a radio reception perimeter of a control device. The control device is a home gateway or more simply a modem provided with... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20080064396 - Device registration using a wireless home entertainment hub: A method of managing a power state of devices in a home entertainment system using a wireless home entertainment hub comprises obtaining a registration of a plurality of devices, where the plurality of devices includes at least one sink device and at least one source device. A selection of one... Agent: Technology, Patents And Licensing, Inc.

20080064397 - Apparatus and method for reselecting cell in portable terminal: An apparatus and a method of a portable terminal using a high speed downlink packet data service, for reselecting a cell that supports HSDPA, are provided, which include a communication unit for receiving a broadcast message, a broadcast message reading unit for determining whether there is a cell which supports... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080064398 - Method for triggering user registration in ip multimedia subsystem: A method for triggering an IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) registration in the IMS, includes sending, by network side or a user who initiates the triggering, an IMS registration triggering indication message to a user who needs the IMS registration, to prompt the user who needs the IMS registration to initiate... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080064402 - Method and apparatus decreasing handover latency in heterogeneous networks: Provided is a method and apparatus for decreasing a handover latency time using a context exchange between a mobile terminal (MT) and a Media Independent Handover Server (MIHS). The method used by the MT for decreasing handover latency between a first network and a second network includes when a handover... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080064400 - Method for detection and recovery from wireless signal interference: Methods are disclosed for detecting and recovering from incidents of wireless signal interference that threaten to disable or disrupt wireless telephone services. Mobile units that are engaged in active calls that are compromised due to incidents of wireless signal interference are instructed to retune to an alternate channel. If the... Agent: Lucent Technologies Inc., Docket Administrator

20080064404 - Methods and device for user terminal based fast handoff: Methods and device for user terminal based fast handoff are provided. User terminal builds a neighbor group list in which possible neighbor access points (APs) are divided into one or more groups. When a handoff needs to be prepared, the user terminal performs intermittently multiple pre-break probing subphases according to... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080064399 - System and method of optimizing handoff in a mobile communication network: A system and method of optimizing handoff in a mobile communication network is disclosed. The method includes the steps of (a) making a first determination of a direction of movement of a mobile station relative to each of a plurality of access points or base stations, (b) for each of... Agent: Fortune Law Group LLP

20080064401 - Vertical handover: A vertical handover decision to perform a seamless vertical handover of a wireless apparatus from a current access network to a target access network is established. When deciding to perform the vertical handover from the current access network to the target access network it can be considered whether an intermediate... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080064405 - Interworking between radio access networks: The present invention discloses a method of interworking between different radio access networks. A radio transceiver device is capable of operating with the first radio access network and the second radio access network is attached to the first radio access network. The method comprises the steps of detecting a service... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080064403 - Method and apparatus decreasing handover latency in heterogeneous networks: When a mobile device preforms a handover from a first wireless base station to a second wireless base station, a base station controller sends a control message addressed to the second base station to notify the handover, to the first wireless base station via a wired line. The first wireless... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080064406 - Apparatus, and associated method, for facilitating communications by a mobile node in a multiple network radio communication system having interworking capability: Apparatus, and an associated method, by which to permit selection by a user of a mobile node of with which cellular communication system network that the mobile node shall communicate by way of an interworking wireless local area network. User selection is provided even when the interworking wireless local area... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080064407 - Congestion arbitration for a wireless network: The invention is a congestion arbitration function, and method of using, for a wireless network. A suitable wireless network will have at least one gateway to the internet or other outside network, and a plurality of dispersed nodes which communicate with each other and through the gateway to the outside.... Agent: Mark Rodgers

20080064408 - Derivation of optimal antenna weights during soft handover: Wireless communication method and system for improving optimal antenna weight derivation in transmit diversity mode during soft handover. The method and system use scale factors that depend on the reliability of the feedback information (FBI) detection on the uplink. Depending on FBI detections for each link, the scale factors are... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080064409 - Wireless direct routing system: A method for routing a communication to a wireless device through a wireline network includes storing a registration of a wireless device with a first mobile switching center, in response to the wireless device registering with the first mobile switching center. A request for the registration of the wireless device... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080064410 - Method for providing state information of a mobile station in a mobile communication system: A method of providing state information of a mobile station in a mobile communication system which provides a data service between the mobile station and a base station and transmits information on a maximum data rate available for the mobile station and information on the amount of data stored in... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080064412 - Mobile electronic apparatus capable of assisting car radio in tuning radio channel: The invention provides a mobile electronic apparatus capable of assisting a car radio in tuning a radio channel. The mobile electronic apparatus of the invention accesses current location information by a GPS module thereof, then according to the current location information and a look-up table, determines a channel, and finally,... Agent: Reed Smith LLP Suite 1400

20080064411 - Wireless communication terminal and method for checking wireless broadband internet service area using position detection system: A wireless mobile communication terminal and method that can check a service area using GPS are provided. The wireless communication terminal using a position detection system and a wireless communication system having at least one connection node for providing a network connection service to a plurality of wireless communication terminals... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080064413 - Monitoring using cellular phones: Method for locating a cell phone or PDA, e.g., arranged in or on a movable asset, includes obtaining information at the cell phone or PDA relating to reception of signals, transmitting the information from the cell phone or PDA to a remote facility and determining the location of the cell... Agent: Brian Roffe, Esq

20080064414 - Method and system for providing location information for emergency services: Emergency Services architecture for determining the location of a wireless caller. The architecture leverages a synchronization feature of GSM networks of the Base Station Subsystem (BSS) to enable employment of sparse networks by removing WLS (Wireless Location Sensor) equipment from selected cell sites. Thus, the location of a wireless caller... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080064416 - Apparatus, and associated method, for forming a page message including a structure of partial identifiers of differing bit lengths using random or pseudorandom numbers and for using random ati: Apparatus, and an associated method, for facilitating paging of an access terminal operable in a radio communication system. The access terminal is identified by a portion of an input number, such as a session seed, pseudorandom, or other, number. The portion of the input number is included in a paging... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080064418 - Apparatus, and associated method, for forming a page message including a structure of partial identifiers of differing bit lengths using random or pseudorandom numbers and for using random ati: Apparatus, and an associated method, for facilitating paging of an access terminal operable in a radio communication system. Access-terminal assignment is provided by which to identify an access terminal that is to be page. A first-generated number is detected, such as an access-terminal-originated number. Selection is made as to whether... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080064415 - Method, and associated apparatus, of integrating extraction of extra partial identity bits with quick paging techniques where multiple pages share a message field: Apparatus, and an associated method, for facilitating paging of an access terminal. A detector detects delivery at the access terminal of a regular paging message. The regular paging message includes portions of a plurality of identities. The regular paging message also includes at least one additional bit conveyed in the... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080064417 - Apparatus, and associated method, for paging an access terminal in a radio communication system: Apparatus, and an associated method for facilitating paging of an access terminal operable in a radio communication system. A plurality of random numbers are generated. And, for each of the random numbers, a hash value is created by applying the random number to a hash function. The hash values identify... Agent: Research In Motion, Ltd

20080064419 - Communication system: A communication system, having a base unit, which is communicably connected to an external communication device, and at least one extension unit, which is communicable with the base unit and with the other extension unit and the external communication device via the base unit, is provided. The base unit includes... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080064420 - Driver notification: A method and apparatus for copying a message sent to a vehicle and routing the copied message to the vehicle driver's mobile phone. Through a driver notification application, the copied message can contain driver identification or driver phone number information that is evaluated and confirmed for forwarding the copied message.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080064421 - Method and system for managing a short message service aggregation platform and providing advertising content to mobile communication devices: A management system for managing a short message service (SMS) aggregation platform and providing advertising content to mobile communication device customers is provided. The management system comprises a carrier connection interface, a messaging application program interface (API), user and sponsor databases, and logic. The carrier connection interface is configured to... Agent: Factor & Lake, Ltd

20080064425 - Transmission method using scalable video coding and mobile communication system using same: A mobile communication system for providing a multicast/broadcast service is disclosed. The mobile communication systems comprise a base station that encodes video data of the mobile communication system into scalable bit streams and adaptively modulates and channel codes the scalable bit streams. A mobile communication terminal receives, demodulates and channel... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20080064423 - Wireless communication apparatus with message transformation function: A wireless communication apparatus includes a voice-receiving module, a voice-text transforming module and a wireless communicating module. The voice-receiving module receives voice information. The voice-text transforming module transforms the voice information to corresponding text information. The wireless communicating module transforms the text information to at least one data packet and... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080064426 - Electronic short messaging and advertising method and means: The invention relates to an electronic short messaging and advertising method and means. In particular the invention relates to an electronic advertising method, where minimal initiative is required from the consumer. Some embodiments of the invention may also be applied to an electronic sales method. The invention may be applied... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080064424 - Messaging gateway and method: An application on a server submits the message to a gateway (1) (which it sees as a service centre). The gateway performs interaction with external applications on servers such as charging and then instead of storing transaction related information associated with this message, it packages the transaction information along with... Agent: Jacobson Holman PLLC

20080064422 - Method of distributing a message via short-range radio networks: The present invention relates to a method and a communication unit to distribute a message (100) via short-range networks by means of relaying said message (100) from one short-range network device (104, 106) to the next (107, 109). The relevance of the message (100) is checked by comparing a distribution... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080064427 - Wireless communication network, sub-system therefor and method of configuring a non-native network device employing an adapter: A sub-system for a wireless communication network includes a fob and an adapter. The fob includes a portable housing, a first wireless port structured to wirelessly communicate with a server, a second port structured to communicate with a native network device when the second port engages or is proximate to... Agent: Eaton Electrical, Inc. Technology & Quality Center

20080064428 - Radio communication system, a transmitter and a receiver: In a transmitter 2A, after an output level of a modulated signal is regulated by a first gain regulator 5A, the signal is transmitted from a first antenna 8A without delay, and after the modulated signal is delayed by a delay unit 6A and an output level of the delay... Agent: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

20080064429 - Selective service method in multicast system: A multicast service of a 3GPP Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) is disclosed. A multicast service stream identifier is provided so that each multicast area can receive different information for one service or one multicast service can be provided with different QoSs to areas. In addition, the multicast service stream... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20080064430 - Mobile communications terminal and method therefor: A method for generating a contact group is disclosed. The method includes identifying a plurality of contact items being associated with a context, defining a contact group being associated with the context, wherein the contact group includes the plurality of contact items, and generating the defined contact group. A contact... Agent: Perman & Green

20080064431 - Arrangement and method for contention-based multi-access in a wireless communication system: An arrangement, method, and access point (AP) in a wireless telecommunication network for providing a user terminal (UT) with access to the network utilizing a contention-based, multi-access uplink channel. The AP includes Nrx receive antennas, where Nrx>1, for receiving simultaneous uplink transmissions from a number of UTs, wherein the number... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080064432 - Method and apparatus for removing interference from uplink signal in time division duplex (tdd) system: A method and apparatus for removing interference from a UpLink (UL) signal in a Time Division Duplex (TDD) system are provided. The method includes determining whether a section for receiving an UpLink (UL) signal from the MS overlaps with sections for sending a DownLink (DL) signal of neighbor BSs in... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20080064433 - Direct frequency conversion demodulator and modulator-demodulator: The demodulator by direct frequency conversion comprises a vector addition device having: a first circuit (1) that furnishes, starting from a first AC signal (LO), a respective AC signal to n outputs that are not all of the same amplitude and of the same frequency, but are out of phase... Agent: Marsh, Fischmann & Breyfogle LLP

20080064434 - Mobile radio communication system, communication apparatus applied in a mobile radio communication system, and mobile radio communication method: In the mobile radio communication system where the UMTS and an another system coexist an idle slot for observing the frequency component of another system is inserted in one superframe of UMTS. The duration of this idle slot is at most half of the duration of one frame that form... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080064435 - Apparatus and method for preventing power consumption in multi-mode portable terminal: An apparatus and a method for preventing power consumption in a multi-mode portable terminal are provided. The apparatus includes a first communicator communicating with a mobile communication network; a second communicator communicating with a heterogeneous network; and a controller controlling the second communicator to scan an Access Point (AP) so... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080064436 - Diversity antenna apparatus of mobile terminal and implementation method thereof: Provided is a diversity antenna apparatus of a mobile terminal including a main antenna and a sub-antenna for performing an auxiliary function using a separate sub-antenna processing module, and an implementation method thereof. When the auxiliary function is not performed, a controller of the mobile terminal disconnects the sub-antenna from... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080064439 - Portable terminal capable of digital broadcast reception and horizontal image display method: A portable terminal capable of digital broadcast reception and a horizontal image display method for the same are disclosed. The horizontal image display method includes receiving a digital broadcast signal and extracting a video image from the received digital broadcast signal; checking whether a horizontal image display feature is enabled,... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080064437 - Mobile communication device having stereoscopic imagemaking capability: A mobile communication device (e.g., a wireless telephone) capable of making stereoscopic images. In one embodiment, the mobile communication device includes: (1) a main body, (2) first and second camera modules rotatably attached to the main body and (3) a drive structure coupled to the first and second camera modules... Agent: Hitt Gaines, PC Lsi Corporation

20080064438 - Place name picture annotation on camera phones: A method is described for providing and storing a digital picture acquired with a digital camera embodied on a mobile communication terminal comprising memory, sender and receiver connected to a base station, with a descriptive filename including information of the geographical location of where the picture was taken. This is... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080064440 - Portable communication device and method of sensing camera operation mode in the portable communication device: A portable communication device including a first housing and second housing, wherein the second housing is connected to the first housing so that it is rotatable around a first hinge axis while facing a top surface of the first housing to allow movement toward or away from the first housing.... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20080064441 - Imaging device: When sending photographic image data obtained in an electronic camera 1 via a communication interface 42 to a radio telephone line of a PDC 3, a PHS 4, etc., an RISC-CPU 11 converts the image data to data having a configuration allowing communication and further converts by software processing the... Agent: John C. Pokotylo Straub & Pokotylo

20080064442 - Identity and payment modem module for handsets: A miniaturized form factor card provides a communications system for mobile information devices having an applications processor and user interface components. A receiving frame is provided in the mobile information device and an insertable miniaturized form factor card incorporating means for RF transmission and reception and a wireless modem and... Agent: Felix L. Fischer, Attorney At Law

20080064443 - Service setting for mobile communication terminal: A method for setting a service in a mobile communication terminal including at least first and second user identity cards. The method includes selecting the first identity card to be used for mobile communication, and requesting services directed to the second identity card be forwarded to the first identity card.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080064444 - Radio communication system and method having a radio link control layer: Disclosed are a radio link control (RLC) entity and a data processing method for the RLC entity. The RLC entity includes a transmission data storing module that stores PDUs corresponding to SDUs transmitted from a first upper layer and outputs the stored PDUs by SDU units, a ciphering module that... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080064445 - Radio frequency detection system for a medical device and process: A radio frequency detection system is provided that includes at least two radio frequency detection devices, which have an antenna each with a detection range for a radio frequency identification and detect the radio frequency identification information provided in the detection range. The radio frequency detection system is designed to... Agent: Mcglew & Tuttle, PC

20080064446 - Method for safe operation of mobile phone in a car environment: A method of operating electronic equipment, wherein said electronic equipment utilizes a wireless signal to communicate, includes determining if the electronic equipment is operated within a moving vehicle based on a characteristic of the wireless signal and inhibiting operation of the electronic equipment if the electronic equipment is in a... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080064448 - Handheld electronic device: A handheld electronic device includes a display body, an input body and at least a track. The input body and the display body are overlapped with each other. The track is disposed between the display body and the input body, wherein the extending direction of the track is substantially neither... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080064447 - Method and apparatus for controlling vector graphic in mobile phone: Provided is a mobile phone including: a transceiver for receiving voice and data signals from outside; a voice processing part for demodulating the voice signal input from the transceiver and outputting the voice signal as a voice, and modulating a voice received from outside and converting the voice into a... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080064449 - Wireless communication system and charging base thereof: A wireless communication system includes a charging base, a phone, a computer host and a wireless communication module. The charging base has a charging socket, a data transmission port and a wireless communication socket. The wireless communication socket is electrically connected with the data transmission port. The phone inserts in... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080064450 - Wireless device battery conservation method and system: Generally, the present invention provides a method for detecting poor RF conditions, and entering different sleep mode levels or phases in accordance with the RF conditions to save battery power. Mobile device battery life can be conserved when the mobile device detects poor RF conditions and enters a deep sleep... Agent: Borden Ladner Gervais LLP Anne Kinsman

20080064451 - Keypad assembly for use on a contoured surface of a mobile computing device: A mobile computing device is provided that includes a housing, a display screen, and a keypad. The housing includes a front face having a portion that has a contour. The contour may be is inwardly directed and be defined by at least a first gradient direction. The display screen is... Agent: Shemwell Mahamedi LLP

20080064452 - Hinge device having a plurality of axes for a portable terminal and a connection member having the plurality of axes: A hinge having a plurality of movable axes enabling eccentric movement of an object connected to the hinge, and a connection member with a first hinge axis for enabling a first object to rotate about the first hinge axis, the connection member including a plurality of movable axes enabling eccentric... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080064453 - Mobile communication terminal for multimedia services: A mobile communication terminal for multimedia services is disclosed. The mobile communication terminal includes a keypad unit, a display unit which swings from the keypad unit while being maintained parallel with the keypad unit, thereby switching from a portrait mode to a landscape mode, and a dual hinge unit which... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080064454 - Cellular phone: A plurality of operation portions are arranged at a surface on a sub-display side of a cellular phone with a camera so that various kinds of setting, selection and control can be performed without opening the cellular phone in its folded state, and the cellular phone can achieve improved operability... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080064455 - Mobile terminal: A mobile terminal having a first body defining a holding portion, a second body slidable with respect to the first body, a display provided in one of the first and second bodies an input device provided in the other of the first and second bodies, a first circuitry supporting substrate... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080064456 - Sliding-type portable terminal: Disclosed is a sliding-type portable terminal including a first housing; a second housing coupled to the first housing so as to slide while facing the first housing; and a sliding module for slidably coupling the first and second housings to each other. The sliding module includes a sliding guide mounted... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080057856 - Satellite radio media download: This process allows Satellite Radio Customers to download video, sound, or a combination with the use of a cell phone or a wimax enabled device.... Agent: Michael J. Szanto

20080057859 - File-location coordinator and method of coordinating a location-based file: The present invention provides a file-location coordinator for use with a mobile electronic device. In one embodiment, the file-location coordinator includes a file application unit configured to create a file associated with a location of the mobile electronic device. Additionally, the file-location coordinator also includes a location attachment unit that... Agent: Hitt Gaines, PC Lsi Corporation

20080057860 - Multifunctional auxiliary audio device: The present invention relates to a multifunctional auxiliary audio device capable of integrating a mobile telephone and multimedia speakers, more particularly, to an auxiliary audio device applicable to various brands of mobile telephones for auxiliary audio functions such as charging, audio playing, handsets use and various multimedia audio playing.... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20080057857 - Wireless headset with bypass mechanism: The present invention relates to a wireless headset configured to communicate with a wireless transceiver over a wireless signal path. The wireless headset includes speakers and a microphone one or more batteries for providing power to the wireless headset; and a connector configurable to receive a bypass cord for bypassing... Agent: R.burns Israelsen Workman Nydegger

20080057858 - Wireless transceiver with retractable bypass cord: The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. The wireless communication system includes a wireless headset or handset, a wireless transceiver configured to communicate with the wireless headset or handset over a wireless audio signal path, and a retractable bypass cord integrated with the wireless transceiver that is configured... Agent: R. Burns Israelsen Workman Nydegger

20080057861 - Method and apparatus for acquiring and establishing a deployable communication system: A radio deployment pack (110) includes a plurality of radios and deployable infrastructure package within a single package. The package is created by placing an order including the selection of frequency band of operation and either stand-alone mode infrastructure, to be used when all existing infrastructure is inoperable, or expanded... Agent: Motorola, Inc

20080057862 - Ultra wide band stand-alone repeater/selector and systems: Embodiments of the present invention provide an ultra wide band stand-alone repeater/selector, and apparatuses incorporating the repeater/selector. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C.

20080057863 - Satellite optimized air interface: A method is disclosed for establishing communication links in a satellite based wireless communication system. The method includes: establishing a forward link from the satellite to at least one of a plurality of subscriber wireless communication devices (WCDs) by use of a shared frequency multi-user communication protocol; applying an error... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080057864 - Relay system and method in a communication system: A relaying method and system in a communication system having a Base Station (BS), a Mobile Station (MS) for communicating with the BS, and a Relay Station (RS) for relaying signals between the BS and the MS are provided. In the relaying method and system, the BS generates a BS... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20080057865 - Wireless terminal making attachment decisions based upon mobility: Wireless terminal making attachment decisions based upon mobility. A novel approach is presented by which a communication device, that is operable to associate with and connect with one or more types of WAPs (Wireless Access Points) (e.g., including wireless local area network access points, a WiMAX access points, or cellular... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080057868 - Auto pairing system and method for bluetooth network: An auto pairing system and method for a Bluetooth network is provided through a wired or wireless coupling. The method for pairing two devices of a short range wireless communication network includes configuring, at each device, a wired and wireless auto pairing of the devices; determining whether the devices are... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20080057867 - Smart artefact and user terminal having a short range interface and long range interface: A smart artefact (101) and user terminal (102) according to the invention have a first, short range interface (112, 121) for initiating an interactive session, and a second, long range interface (111, 124), for continuing the interactive session. The smart artefact (101) and user terminal (102) thereto also contain means... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080057869 - Interference optimized ofdm: A wireless broadband communications system that provides increased reliability in environments in which portions of the available operating frequency band are subject to interference. The system determines whether the operating frequency band is being subjected to interference. If so, then the system determines whether such interference is affecting one or... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080057872 - Method and device for binding in a building automation system: An automation component configured for wireless communication within a building automation system is disclosed. The automation component includes a wireless communications component, a processor in communications with the wireless communications component and a memory in communication with the processor, the memory configured to stored computer readable instructions which are executable... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080057873 - Method of indoor radio planning: A radio planning method and apparatus for determining the setting scheme of base stations in an indoor environment is provided. A radio signal propagation model is generated including a theoretical attenuation part and an environment affecting part. Through on-site measurements, a site radio signal propagation characteristics database is constructed combining... Agent: Anne Vachon Dougherty

20080057874 - System and method for device testing: An electronic device (120) is provided that comprises: a transceiver circuit (310) configured to send and receive signals; a memory unit (330) configured to contain testing, configuration, and calibration (TCC) code (440, 450, 460) used to define TCC functions in the device, and operational code (470) used to define operational... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20080057876 - Method for controlling handheld communication apparatus: A method for controlling handheld communication apparatus is disclosed. In the method, a first radio frequency (RF) signal is transmitted from the handheld communication apparatus to a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag, and then a second RF signal responded by the RFID tag is received by the handheld communication apparatus.... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080057877 - System and method to rapidly deploy one or more communication devices: A Rapid Deployment Pack (110) contains at least one communication device such as radio (112) that includes personal area network (PAN) module (200). PAN module (200) can operate independently from radio (112), including when radio (112) is powered off, and can receive an update file containing radio configuration information. Programming... Agent: Motorola, Inc

20080057879 - Speaker microphone connector for communicator: A RF communication system includes a speaker microphone connector connecting a communication station with a communication unit to transmit an audio signal and RF signal therebetween. The speaker microphone connector includes an audio cable, a RF cable and a tubular enclosing shelter enclosing the audio cable and the RF cable... Agent: Raymond Y. Chan

20080057866 - Method for transmitting a signal on a power line network, transmitting unit, receiving unit and system: A method for transmitting a signal on a power line network (3) and a corresponding transmitting unit (T), a receiving unit (R) and a system is presented in order to enhance the coverage and throughput of power line communication systems. It is proposed to provide a plurality of transmission channels,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080057870 - System employing wideband wireless communication with super cycle detection: A system including a digital appliance having a high data rate wideband RF transceiver operating in a microwave band for communicating digital data within quiescent periods of periodic noise and within quiescent periods within super cycle noise enclosing the periodic noise. The quiescent periods can also be used to control... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080057871 - Method and system for utilizing smart antennas in establishing a backhaul network: A method and system for utilizing smart antenna in transmission of messages between nodes are disclosed. A wireless communication system includes a plurality of nodes, and each node is capable of being connected to each other node. At least a portion of the nodes are provided with a smart antenna... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080057875 - Automatic adjustment circuit for amplitude of differential signal: An automatic adjustment circuit for amplitude of differential signal has a differential signal transceiver that transmits differential signals, an amplitude setting register in which plural setting values for setting amplitude of the differential signals are stored, an amplitude control circuit that controls the amplitude of the differential signals, a pattern... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080057878 - Parallel redundant single-electron device and method of manufacture: A method of manufacturing a parallel redundant array of single-electron devices. The method includes (a) providing a mask for diffusing a plurality of n-doped regions defined by a first set of a plurality of active regions, (b) providing a mask for disposing a plurality of polysilicon gates defined by a... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080057880 - System and method for preprocessing a signal for transmission by a power amplifier: System and method for preprocessing a signal for transmission by a power amplifier. In a preferred embodiment a multiple input multiple output processor is coupled to a plurality of power amplifiers for transmitting a signal, where the number of power amplifiers exceeds the number of antennas. The multiple input multiple... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080057881 - Bandwidth enhancement for envelope elimination and restoration transmission systems: Systems and methods for increasing bandwidth capability of an envelope elimination and restoration (EER) transmitter. A frequency response of a power supply modulator of the transmitter is approximated. An inverse response is applied to the envelope signal prior to digital-to-analog conversion (DAC) and before the signal reaches the power supply... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20080057882 - Model network of a nonlinear circuitry: A model network of a nonlinear circuitry includes one or more static nonlinear elements and a plurality of linear filters with transfer functions. A method for determining the model network includes performing an input amplitude-to-output amplitude measurement of the nonlinear circuitry and performing an input amplitude-to-output phase measurement of the... Agent: Eschweiler & Associates LLC

20080057883 - Power control for a dual mode transmitter: A circuit may be provided. The circuit may be a component of a dual mode transmitter such as a transmitter from the 802.11x family. The circuit may comprise an amplifier configured to provide amplification of a signal for transmission in either a first transmission mode or a second transmission mode,... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP C/o Intellevate

20080057884 - Programmable direct rf digitization receiver for multiple rf bands: A programmable direct RF digitization receiver for multiple RF signal bands such as GNSS bands and other wireless communication bands. The receiver has a programmable frequency provision unit. The programmable frequency provision unit provides a shared sampling frequency or respective sampling frequencies based on selected bands so that the receiver... Agent: Madson & Austin

20080057885 - Radio receiver and radio receiver front-end: A radio receiver front-end includes first and second RF receiver sections and an RF combining module. The first RF receiver section is coupled to receive an inbound RF signal and provide to a first representation of the inbound RF signal, wherein the inbound RF signal includes a desired signal component... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080057886 - Remote control, cellular, wifi, wilan, mobile communication and position finder systems: Remote control system for generating control signal for controlling a device from a distance. Processor for processing a digital signal into Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) and into cross-correlated in-phase and quadrature-phase filtered signal. Voice processor for processing a voice signal into Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexed (OFDM) or Orthogonal Frequency... Agent: Kamilo Feher

20080057887 - Method for communicating meta data: In a method for communicating meta data between a wireless content source and a sink device, vendor-specific pass-through packets of an Audio/Visual Remote Control Profile (AVRCP) header are utilized to communicate the meta data from the wireless content source to the sink device.... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20080057888 - System and method for selecting a frequency for personal-use fm transmission: A portable electronic device includes a radio frequency receiver; a radio frequency transmitter; and a processing system coupled with the receiver and transmitter. The processing system directs the receiver to scan a radio frequency spectrum for available radio channels over which the transmitter may transmit. The processing system may further... Agent: Garmin Ltd. C/o Garmin International, Inc.

20080057890 - Automated pairing of wireless accessories with host devices: Techniques that facilitate pairing of wireless accessory devices with wireless host devices are disclosed. Advantageously, the improved techniques permit pairing of wireless devices without requiring user entry of pin codes. In one embodiment, a wireless accessory device, such as a headset or earphone, can be paired with a wireless host... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP/apple Inc.

20080057889 - Integrated portable wireless transmitter and method for use: The present invention is a cell phone holder and transmitter that is compact in size and is small and light in weight whereby it is capable of being clipped onto a holder attachment in a vehicle by a mounting clip and a gooseneck with affixed clip at the end. The... Agent: Jonathan Jan

20080057891 - Identifying radio stations along a travel route that broadcast specified radio program formats: Techniques are disclosed for identifying radio stations along a travel route broadcasting programs in user-specified radio program formats without requiring positioning devices that provide real-time positioning information of a radio receiver. An exemplary method includes determining a travel route based on specified starting and ending location information. The method includes... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080057896 - Apparatus for controlling electric power of network-on-chip and method using the same: Provided are an apparatus for and a method of controlling electric power of a network-on-chip (NoC). The apparatus for controlling electric power of a network-on-chip (NoC), including: a transaction monitoring unit which monitors a transaction generated from at least one of a master and a module corresponding to the master;... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080057893 - Apparatus, system and method of establishing half duplex communication in cellular communication systems: A system, method, and cellular communication device that is configured to communicate using half duplex communication over a cellular communication system includes a controller that, in response to a user input, maintains a talk mode for a talk mode duration longer than an input duration of the user input. The... Agent: Kyocera Wireless Corp.

20080057895 - Hand-powered cell phone generator: A delicate device attaches to cell phones, which enables the user to charge up their cell phone by squeezing the handle of the generator. The mechanical force is transformed into useable direct current by a highly magnetic flywheel and a diode circuit.... Agent: Wen-yeh Hsu

20080057894 - Portable device with priority based power savings control and method thereof: A portable device includes a controller that is responsive to a remaining power capacity of the battery, and a power consumption level of the portable device and based on user prioritized functional processing capability features, dynamically controls functional processing capability features of the device. The controller provides power for a... Agent: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. C/o Vedder Price Kaufman & Kammholz, P.C.

20080057892 - Subscriber identity module having a plurality of subscriber identities: Embodiments of apparatuses, articles, methods, and systems for utilizing a subscriber identity module having a plurality of subscriber identities for communications within wireless networks are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C.

20080057897 - Rf filter adjustment based on lc variation: A system for processing a signal comprises a Radio Frequency (RF) signal tuner, one or more filters in a signal path of the RF tuner each based on Inductive/Capacitive (LC) circuitry, a variation unit operable to measure a variation of the LC circuitry, and a frequency control unit adapted to... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.l.p

20080057898 - Systems and methods for filter center frequency location: A system for implementing a tuner comprising a Radio Frequency (RF) circuit, a filter disposed in a signal path in said RF circuit, a first negative resistance unit in communication with said filter adapted to cancel one or more resistive elements in said filter, a frequency measurement unit in communication... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.l.p

20080057899 - Method and apparatus for calibrating the sideband rejection of a receiver: Methods and apparatus for calibrating In-phase and Quadrature imbalance within a receiver are described. A calibration process can inject a calibration tone to an RF or IF portion of a receiver. The receiver can frequency translate the tone to distinct I and Q calibration signals. The receiver upconverts the I... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080057900 - Decision feedback restore: An AC coupled receiver incorporates a decision feedback restore technique that is readily implemented on a monolithic integrated circuit to reduce or eliminate effects of baseline wander in a non-return-to-zero (NRZ) data receiver. In at least one embodiment of the invention, a method includes at least substantially attenuating at least... Agent: Zagorin O'brien Graham LLP

20080057901 - signal downconverter: A signal downconverter having a pair of passive double sideband mixers for receiving quadrature RF signals and mixing the same with local oscillator driving signals to provide mixed differential signals. The mixed differential signals are fed to a differential difference feedback amplifier high frequency ripples are eliminated and finally providing... Agent: GlobalIPServices, PLLC

20080057902 - Distribution of customized ringtones for mobile devices: An object of the invention is to conveniently distribute customized, caller-identifying ring tone files to specified recipients. The disclosed method includes the steps of mapping folders between a client device and a server machine, associating specified recipients with each folder, uploading the ring tone files from the client device to... Agent: Laurent F.sidon

20080057903 - Toll-free calling account recharge system and method: A calling account recharge system, method, and device are provided. The device has an associated stored-value calling account, and typically includes a selector, a communications program configured to communicate with a recharge service via a communication network, and a recharge option selectable by a user upon actuation of the selector.... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20080057904 - Automated billing and distribution platform for application providers: Systems and methods according to certain embodiments of the invention include integrating a network-enabled application with a platform having a plurality of users and a plurality of communication channels with a respective plurality of wireless network carriers. The systems and methods include providing a developer library for use by developers... Agent: Mayer & Williams PC

20080057906 - Dual authentication method in mobile networks: Disclosed is a method for safely and rapidly performing a dual authentication when a mobile node is in a ping-pong state in a mobile network based on mobile IPv6. When a mobile node is in a ping-pong state where the mobile node is moving in an overlapping coverage area of... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080057907 - Service usage control system, service usage controller, method for the same, computer readable medium for the same, and computer data signal of the same: A service usage control system has: an image processor; and a service usage controller; wherein the image processor includes: an authentication information acceptor that accepts input of authentication information; an authentication information transmitter that transmits the authentication information to the service usage controller; and an identifying information transmitter that transmits... Agent: Gauthier & Connors, LLP

20080057905 - Locking system and a method at a locking system: A locking system includes at least one electrical locking member for a door and at least one key member. Each electrical locking member is associated with a first communication member for wireless communication over short distances, and each key member includes a programmable, mobile unit including a second communication member... Agent: Wrb-ip LLP

20080057908 - Service access control interface for an unlicensed wireless communication system: Some embodiments provide a system for authorization and authentication of an unlicensed mobile access (UMA) subscriber. The system includes an UMA network controller (UNC) which is communicatively coupled to a licensed wireless communication system. The system also includes an access point (AP) that serves a wireless local area network (WLAN).... Agent: Adeli & Tollen, LLP

20080057909 - Method and apparatus for restoring phonebook in wireless terminal: A apparatus and method are provided for the management of a phonebook in a wireless terminal, the method including the steps of changing a restoration bit for a phonebook to a bit value corresponding to phonebook deletion when deletion of the phonebook is requested, and deleting the phonebook, the restoration... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20080057911 - Method and communication system for continuously recording sounding information: A method is disclosed for continuously recording surrounding information by a mobile device (11). The mobile device (11) of a user (1) continuously records surrounding information such as surrounding noises or surrounding image data and at least one file (7) is generated from the recording and sent to a remote... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20080057910 - Method for providing alerts in a mobile device and mobile device therefor: The invention relates to a method for providing alerts in a mobile device, and more particularly a method for providing a shortcut for displaying and hiding alerts by providing an event list that is shown automatically or accessible by a shortcut button. The invention also relates to a corresponding mobile... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080057912 - Apparatus and method of optimizing the selection of wireless networks: Methods and a mobile terminal capable of selecting a wireless network, the invention includes when detected to be at or near a first wireless network service area, receiving information related to the first wireless network service area from a second wireless network, activating a first wireless network module based upon... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080057918 - Method and apparatus for capturing mobile multimedia signals: A current mobile multimedia signal time slice is captured using a mobile MM receiver in response to a current mobile multimedia stream-identifying command input. The current mobile multimedia signal time slice contains at least one portion of a currently selected mobile multimedia stream. At least one anticipated mobile multimedia time... Agent: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. C/o Vedder Price Kaufman & Kammholz, P.C.

20080057915 - Method of advertising using mobile communications: A system and method is constructed to provide financing of mobile communications by sponsors in return for permitting the dissemination of advertisements before, during, or after a particular call. The system includes a location server through which communication channels can be established, mobile communication terminals inter connected for communication over... Agent: Perman & Green

20080057919 - Mobile provisioning using a service area identifier or plurality of service area identifiers: A method of provisioning a service area code of an associated public mobile network comprises determining latitude and longitude coordinate location data defining each cell of the associated public mobile network, associating a plurality of cells with one of an entity, a geographic area and a service of the associated... Agent: Powell Goldstein, LLP

20080057914 - Pseudo-remote terminal iota mobile diagnostics and electronic customer care: A system is provided that includes a portable electronic device and a customer care system. The customer care system is configured to remotely communicate with the portable electronic device. The customer care system is operable to receive an indication of content displayed on a display of the portable electronic device.... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C.

20080057916 - Real-time, interactive balance check for wireless service: Subscribers of a wireless communication services network can check their account balances in a real-time interactive environment. A subscriber requests balance information for the subscriber's account using a mobile wireless device. The request may be made using a single-key interface on the subscriber's wireless device. In response to the request,... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20080057917 - Service availability update for a user having a prepaid account at a service provider capable of providing one or more services over a communications network: A method of operating an apparatus enabled for usage by a user having a prepaid account at a service provider capable of providing one or more services over a communications network. The method involves retrieving credit status information about the prepaid account. At least for one service provided by the... Agent: Perman & Green

20080057921 - System and method for performing remote calling: A system and method for performing remote calling through a first and a second mediator system connected for communication is are provided. The system includes a first mobile communication terminal connected to the first mediator system, and a second mobile communication terminal connected to the second mediator system, wherein the... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080057913 - Systems and methods for wireless network content filtering: Systems and methods of determining the content of frames transmitted on a wireless network through comparison of captured frames to predetermined statistical patterns.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080057920 - Interactive marketing on mobile telephone: A method for awarding free minutes of cellular service or other consideration to a user of a telephone willing to view or hear advertisements or receive other information includes providing information to the user and awarding the user with free cellular service minutes or other consideration in exchange for the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080057922 - Methods of searching using captured portions of digital audio content and additional information separate therefrom and related systems and computer program products: A method of conducting a search using a mobile electronic device may include playing digital audio content at the mobile electronic device, and accepting user input at the mobile electronic device to capture a portion of the digital audio content. Search criteria may be provided wherein the search criteria is... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20080057924 - Receiving location based advertisements on a wireless communication device: 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: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080057923 - Systems and methods for managing content provided through a mobile carrier: A wireless network carrier can track and monitor third-party network-enabled applications (pods) that are accessed by, and billed to, users of the wireless network carrier through a mobile content platform, and to control access to such third-party network-enabled applications (pods) based on selectable criteria for the performance and user-based feedback... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP Patent Department

20080057925 - Speech-to-text (stt) and text-to-speech (tts) in ims applications: A device and method of presenting the payload of data received in an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) supported format based on the current status of a portable mobile communications device is disclosed. The portable mobile communications device receives data in an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) supported format. The portable mobile... Agent: Moore And Van Allen PLLC For Semc

20080057927 - Apparatus and method for managing telephone numbers based on call history in mobile communication system: An apparatus and method for managing telephone numbers based on call history in a mobile communication system. According to the method for managing telephone number management method, a user selects a telephone number. When the user selects a memo writing or editing function for the telephone number, a memo writing... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080057926 - Missed telephone call management for a portable multifunction device: In one aspect of the invention, a computer-implemented method is disclosed for use in conjunction with a portable electronic device with a touch screen display. A list of items comprising missed telephone calls is displayed. Upon detecting user selection of an item in the list, contact information is displayed for... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP/ Apple Computer Inc.

20080057928 - Data group paging service: A method for setting-up a data connection during a group voice service between several group members as a user of a mobile communication network. In a first method, functions of an IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) are used and a session initiation protocol (SIP) and a controlled data connection between an... Agent: The Maxham Firm

20080057929 - Cell phone with remote control system: A remote control system includes a mobile phone, a mobile communication network, a plurality of remote systems, and a server. The mobile phone has an antenna, a mobile communication modem, a processing unit, a system memory, a battery, a keypad, a speaker, and a display The mobile communication network comprises... Agent: Park Law Firm

20080057930 - Electronic apparatus and wireless communication control method: According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus executes wireless communication with use of any one of a plurality of wireless communication channels. The electronic apparatus includes a wireless communication module, a scan process control unit, and a device list sending unit. The scan process control unit transitions, when an application... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080057931 - Reprogramming nodes in a wireless automation system: A method for wireless communication within a building automation system is disclosed. The method includes establishing a communication connection between a wireless device and a controller, and communicating an upgrade packet to the wireless device from the controller. The method further includes executing the upgrade packet to upgrade the wireless... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080057936 - Electronic apparatus and device detection method: According to one embodiment, there is provided an electronic apparatus adapted to execute wireless communication with another device. The apparatus includes a module that executes the wireless communication, and a driver that causes the module to execute a scan process for detecting a device existing around the electronic apparatus by... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080057932 - Method and system for adaptive modification of cell boundary: A method and system for reducing interference in a cellular radio communications network. At least one parameter affecting user terminals within a cell is adjusted such that the cell boundary is modified, such that interference in the network is reduced. In alternative embodiments the at least one parameter is adjusted... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group, LLP

20080057933 - Method and system for adaptive modification of cell boundary: A method and system for reducing interference in a cellular radio communications network. At least one parameter affecting user terminals within a cell is adjusted such that the cell boundary is modified, such that interference in the network is reduced. In alternative embodiments the at least one parameter is adjusted... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group, LLP

20080057934 - Method for controlling inter-cell interference in a mobile communication system: A method for controlling inter-cell interference (ICI) in a mobile communication system by transmitting uplink control information from a base station in a home cell to a terminal of a neighboring cell based on ICI amount information measured at the base station. The ICI control method includes receiving an uplink... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20080057935 - Portable cellular phone system having automatic initialization: A portable cellular phone system is provided, wherein matched sets of algorithmically generated communication units are generated, each defining an increment of authorized communication. One set is stored on a system server, i.e. a service provider, and the pre-paid set is available for use within a portable cellular phone. The... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20080057937 - Method and apparatus to troubleshoot voice over internet protocol (volp): Embodiments of the invention provide method and apparatus to allow a subscriber to enter a pre-specified digit sequence using the phone terminal's keypad to induce a special data collection mode for the impaired call. The digit sequence is handled in a special manner to avoid inadvertent selection of options in... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080057944 - Method and apparatus for calling via selected networks: A device includes a wireless communication interface configured to couple to a plurality of networks, a processor coupled to the wireless communication interface, and a memory coupled to the processor. The memory is to store a set of executable instructions configured to manipulate the processor to determine a set of... Agent: Larson Newman Abel Polansky & White, LLP

20080057941 - Method and apparatus for controlling a display in an electronic device: A novel method and apparatus for controlling a display of an electronic device is provided. In an embodiment, the device is a portable electronic device with the combined features of wireless email and telephony. The portable electronic device also includes a camera. The device includes a trackball which can be... Agent: Perry + Currier (for Rim)

20080057938 - Method and apparatus of presenting content received at a wireless communication device: A wireless communication device includes an optical sensor, a controller, and a display. The optical sensor receives data transmitted by one or more optical transmitters that are associated with one or more businesses or buildings. The controller filters the received data based on selected user preference information stored in memory... Agent: Coats & Bennett/sony Ericsson

20080057940 - Method for operating a mobile communication device, software provided for carrying out the method, software storage medium for storing the software, and the mobile communication device: A method of operating a mobile communication device comprising the steps of displaying an array of selectable contacts on a display of the communication device; navigating through the selectable contacts; selecting one of the selectable contacts by; and by a single user command and depending on a user setting, placing... Agent: Perman & Green

20080057945 - Methods for ring tone supression informing and for informing a cellular telephone with configuration data: Methods for suppressing ring tones in cellular telephones and for informing a cellular telephone with configuration data are described. The method for informing a cellular telephone includes detecting a cellular telephone that enters a space time zone associated with the network. A property of the telephone is determined. Information is... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20080057939 - Mobile paging using a service area identifier or plurality of service area identifiers: A method of paging a registered mobile device of an associated public mobile network capable of receiving paging signals comprises determining if last registration data for the registered mobile device further comprises a service area code, if the last registration data for the mobile device comprises a service area code,... Agent: Powell Goldstein, LLP

20080057946 - Mobile terminal: In reading display information from an IC card, a mobile terminal detachably mounted with an IC card storing display information and adapted to access a server via a communication network reads or receives information representing the language type of a character string contained in the display information stored in the... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080057943 - Remote call forwarding in a wireless network from a telecommunications device inside or outside the wireless network: At least two different methods and various combinations of apparatus are disclosed for remotely actuating call forwarding when the subscriber of a wireless network does not have their mobile device with them or have access to the internet. In one method the subscriber dials a string of digits comprising a... Agent: Powell Goldstein, LLP

20080057942 - Remote control of wireless communication: One embodiment of a system for remotely controlling a wireless communication mobile phone device senses its space coordinates. GPS and other data is transmitted between several mobile phones to alert and/or update a user to the fact that their phone has reached a significant threshold location, and/or has reached a... Agent: Richard Woods

20080057947 - Personalization, diagnostics and terminal management for mobile devices in a network: A system, method, and device supporting delivery of personalized information via an electronic device of a user. Personalizations of an electronic device for a prior user are removed at activation of the device in a network. Personalizations for a user are also installed upon activation of the electronic device, according... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080057948 - Efficient search for wireless networks while minimizing page loss: Techniques to efficiently search for wireless networks while minimizing page loss are described. An available search time that excludes paging periods is determined. A search for cells in wireless networks is performed during the available search time. Pertinent information is obtained for cells acquired during the search. The pertinent information... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080057949 - Method for operating a mobile communication device and mobile communication device: A method of operating a mobile communication device, which includes at least two parts, which can be oriented with respect to one another in a first and a second position to thereby provide two different physical appearances of the mobile communication device, wherein a display region and navigation keys of... Agent: Perman & Green

20080057950 - Mobile communication system and communication holding method: A mobile terminal, to which a phone number of a private IP network and a phone number of a public network are allocated, detects whether the mobile terminal moves from a communication area of a IP wireless base station of a private IP network while the mobile terminal communicates with... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080057951 - Communication support system, information processing terminal, radiotelephone network, message server, and recording medium: A sender of a message can transmit a message to an unspecified user merely by specifying a condition of space without specifying a recipient of the message, using an information processing terminal transmitting a message not with a user address to specify a user but with an area address (a... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080057952 - Service roaming system and method: The present invention relates to service roaming. A service roaming system according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a first service operator providing a service, a first service reproduction apparatus running the service and transmitting roaming information input from a user to the first service operator, a second... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080057953 - Business method of providing a channel for delivering and distributing events based on a subscription model for service providers to enhance sales opportunities: Sales associated with service providers are increased using an opportunistic approach based on an unexpected change in a schedule or services (time, location). Windows of opportunity (time, physical location) are automatically identified, and once such a window of opportunity is detected, the people affected directly from the change of a... Agent: Ip Authority, LLC Ramraj Soundararajan

20080057955 - Mobile registration using a service area identifier or plurality of service area identifiers: A method of registering a mobile device in a mobile telecommunications network comprises the device's receiving power from a power source and transmitting a registration request signal including mobile device identification data, an associated mobile network determining a set of latitude and longitude location coordinates for the transmitting mobile device,... Agent: Powell Goldstein, LLP

20080057954 - Softer clustering of remote base antennas: A cell handoff signal processing system (200) including Base Transceiver System channel elements (204, 206) that receive multiple RF signals corresponding to a common RF signal containing user data transmitted by a wireless communications device (104). The multiple RF signals are received by antennas associated with different communications cells (230,... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080057956 - System and method for achieving wlan communications between access point and mobile device: A system and method for achieving wireless local area network (WLAN) communications between an access point and a mobile device are disclosed. In at least some embodiments, the system involves an access point that includes a first transceiver capable of sending and receiving first wireless communication signals in accordance with... Agent: Motorola Inc

20080057957 - Wireless internet activation system and method: A wireless modem device is configured for connection over a cellular carrier network to a second network. The device is initially in a non-activated mode in which the wireless modem device can only be connected to an authorization server of a cellular carrier network and cannot communicate outside the boundaries... Agent: Kyocera Wireless Corp.

20080057958 - Wireless terminal filtering options based on wireless access point attachment characteristics: Wireless terminal filtering attachment decisions based upon type(s) of available network(s). A novel approach is presented by which one or more filter parameters is applied when making decisions of which WAP (Wireless Access Point) (e.g., including wireless local area network access points, WiMAX access points, or cellular access points) is... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080057959 - Cell search control method and mobile device using the method: A cell search control that can save power consumption at a mobile device and perform an appropriate in-service area determination is provided. The mobile device according to the present invention includes: a cell search execution unit (120) for detecting a synchronization channel from a base station to perform cell search;... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080057960 - Mobile communication device: A method including providing a link to at least one selectable communication service for communications to and from a device, wherein the link to the at least one selectable communication service is displayed in at least one area of a display of the device and enabling a user to select... Agent: Perman & Green

20080057962 - Method and system for controlling a call handover between telecommunication networks: A method for controlling a call handover between telecommunication networks includes determining whether a User Equipment (UE), in communication with a first network, is engaged in a call attempt when the UE is to be transferred from the first network to a second network, if the UE is engaged in... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080057961 - Method for receiving multimedia broadcast/multicast service: A method for receiving Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service, the method including a SRNC sends a message to a UE that is in a connected state in the CS domain and in a idle state in the PS domain, the message informing the user of the UE of establishing a signaling connection... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080057963 - Mobile station apparatus and upstream line transmission rate control method: A mobile station apparatus selects an appropriate one of transmission rate instruction commands received from base station apparatuses to reduce the interference of the whole system and improve the sector throughput. In this mobile station apparatus (200), a demodulating section (210) outputs a received signal of each base station apparatus... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20080057964 - System and method for pushing information from a host system to a mobile data communication device: A scheme for redirecting data items from a messaging host system to a user's mobile device using a redirector component disposed in a wide-area data network. In one embodiment, a method comprises one or more of the following: automatically detecting receipt of a new data item from the messaging host... Agent: Research In Motion, Ltd

20080057965 - 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

20080057966 - Mobile communication terminal and method of tuning broadcast frequency in a mobile terminal: A mobile communication terminal and method of tuning a broadcast frequency in a mobile communication terminal are provided that reduces a time for performing frequency tuning when handover occurs during broadcast reception in a communication terminal. The present invention includes receiving a broadcast signal including location information, frequency link information,... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080057967 - Apparatus and method for radios occupying a common frequency region: Various embodiments for a communication control configuration and a communication control method are described for wireless communication devices having at least two radios that can potentially interfere with one another. The control schemes described herein reduce the likelihood that the two radios will interfere with one another during operation.... Agent: Bereskin And Parr

20080057969 - Method and apparatus for providing channel quality feedback in a wireless communication system: A wireless communication system that provides periodic channel quality feedback adjusts a channel condition reporting period for a subscriber station based on the multiple channel condition information reports, such as CQI messages, received from the subscriber station.... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080057972 - Method for allocating resources in a radio communication system: According to the invention, a method for allocating resources in a radio communication system is proposed wherein a frequency carrier is subdivided into a number of sub carriers. The invention is characterised in that with a single information element transmitted between a base station of the radio communication system and... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080057971 - Method for extending wireless link coverage by controlling wireless communication resource allocation: A method is provided for extending wireless link coverage in a wireless communication system. The method may include limiting a number of allocable sub-channels to a predetermined value in allocating wireless channels that include sub-channels and symbols, calculating a maximum transmission power per sub-channel based on the limited number of... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20080057968 - Wireless communication apparatus and communication control method thereof: A first wireless station transmits a calling instruction to a second wireless station via a connection-purpose channel which has been set, and when the first wireless station receives a response, the first wireless station switches the connection-purpose channel to a communication-purpose channel contained in the response data. Further, the second... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20080057970 - Handoff method for communication system using multiple wireless resources: In a wireless communications system operating according to CDMA or the like, when one terminal simultaneously performs communication using multiple wireless resources (e.g., multiple carriers), there was a problem that when it was attempted to guarantee network mobility by the same soft handoff system as in the case where communication... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20080057973 - Method and apparatus for selecting service path in relay communication system: A method and apparatus for selecting a service path of a Mobile Station (MS) in a relay communication system. The method includes periodically transmitting, by a Base Station (BS), a preamble (or pilot) signal to the MS and Relay Stations (RSs) existing within a cell; measuring, by the RSs, a... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080057975 - Consequential location derived information: The number of messages required in networks where location services are deployed may be reduced, by providing updated location information regarding particular subscribers, or even all subscribers, to subscribed or otherwise logged applications or services upon obtaining and providing location information for a different application or service. Consequential watch services... Agent: Manelli Denison & Selter PLLC

20080057974 - Method and apparatus to facilitate retrieving information from a wireless two-way communication apparatus: A user is able to remotely cause their wireless two-way communication apparatus (300) (such as a cellular telephone) to provide information as is stored at the apparatus (such as an answering machine message) to the user to enable the user to cause that information to be played back and hence... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080057977 - Voice-controlled wireless communications system and method: A wireless communication system has a central computer, one or more wireless access points and one or more personal badges that communicate wirelessly with the one or more wireless access points. The badges provide the user with a communications device that permits the user to initiate telephone calls and conferences,... Agent: Dla Piper US LLP

20080057976 - Wireless communications control in a controlled environment facility: Systems and methods which facilitate wireless communications within a controlled environment in a controlled manner are shown. Embodiments operate to recognize wireless communications terminating within a controlled environment facility and control one or more aspects of the communications. Embodiments also operate to detect wireless devices disposed within a controlled environment... Agent: Slater & Matsil, L.L.P.

20080057978 - Spatial mapping of wireless access point service area: Spatial mapping of wireless access point service area. A means is presented by which a WACN's (Wireless Access Control Node's) service area is spatially mapped providing information corresponding to coverage region(s) within the WACN's service area. This spatial mapping may be generated and stored within either communication device at either... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080057980 - Apparatus, and associated method, for configuring a page message including a set structure of partial identifiers used to page an access terminal in a radio communication system pursuant to a partial identity comparison scheme: Apparatus, and an associated method, for facilitating paging of an access terminal operable in a radio communication system. A paging message is formed, selectably including partial identities of access terminals that are to be paged by the paging message. Determination is made as to whether portions of any of the... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080057983 - Apparatus, and associated method, for configuring a page message used to page an access terminal in a radio communication system in which extra partial identity bits are extracted from the page message: Apparatus and an associated method for facilitating paging of access terminals by way of a quick page message. A determination is made of the number of additional partial identity bits, if any, that are available to be conveyed as part of a page message. In a page message with partial... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080057979 - Apparatus, and associated method, for forming a page message including a structure of partial identifiers of differing bit lengths: Apparatus, and an associated method, by which to form a quick page message for broadcast to access terminals to alert the access terminals of pending communication. The quick page message includes a structure formed of page identifier sets. During formation of the structure, a rearranger shortens the bit length of... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080057982 - High-capacity paging method, and associated apparatus, with reduced probability of false page match: Apparatus and an associated method for facilitating paging of an access terminal by an access network of a radio communication system. A quick paging message is first generated and sent to the access terminal. The quick paging message is formed of partial comparators, comprised of a first group of identity... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080057981 - Method, and associated apparatus, of integrating extraction of extra partial identity bits with quick paging techniques where multiple pages share a message field: Apparatus, and an associated method, for facilitating access terminal paging. A first non common portion of first and second identities are ordered. Once ordered, the non common portions are included in an access terminal paging message. The ordering of the non common portions are determinative of conveyance of a first... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080057984 - Method, and associated apparatus, of integrating extraction of extra partial identity bits with quick paging techniques where multiple pages share a message field: Apparatus, and an associated method, for facilitating paging of an access terminal. A detector detects delivery at the access terminal of a paging message. The paging message includes a group of identities that are ordered. The ordering is determinative of an extra identity bit conveyed with the paging message.... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080057986 - Apparatus, and associated method, for configuring a page message used to page an access terminal in a radio communication system pursuant to a partial identity comparison scheme: Apparatus, and an associated method, for facilitating paging of access terminals by way of a quick page message. A partial identity comparison scheme is utilized. Identifiers of access terminals that are to be paged in the quick page message are determined and compared. In the event that the identifiers are... Agent: Research In Motion, Ltd

20080057987 - Location message coordinator, method of coordinating a location message and a cellular system employing the same: The present invention provides a location message coordinator for use with a short message service (SMS). In one embodiment, the location message coordinator includes a sender location unit configured to determine a location of a mobile communication device. Additionally, the location message coordinator also includes a message sending unit coupled... Agent: Hitt Gaines, PC Lsi Corporation

20080057985 - Method of relaying an electronic message to a handheld electronic device beyond the coverage area of a wireless network: A method of transmitting an electronic message to a handheld electronic device that is outside the coverage area of a wireless network having at least one Access Point. The method includes: attempting to wirelessly transmit the electronic message from the network to the handheld electronic device through the wireless access... Agent: Robert A. Diaz Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC

20080057989 - Method of reporting mbms service information for user equipment in a wireless communications system and related apparatus: In order to prevent a user equipment, called UE hereinafter, from wasting unnecessary power, a method of reporting MBMS service information for the UE in a wireless communications system is provided. The method includes canceling reporting an MBMS message if there is no MBMS selected service in the UE upon... Agent: Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP

20080057988 - System and method for enhanced interaction: A service that leverages established wireless messaging paradigms such as, possibly inter alia, Short Message Service, Multimedia Message Service, and IP Multimedia Subsystem to yield an infrastructure that allows a Mobile Subscriber to seamlessly employ their Wireless Device to interact with online journals, diaries, etc. such as weblogs or blogs.... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC

20080057990 - System and method for establishing a wireless connection between wireless devices: Described is a system and method for establishing a wireless connection between wireless devices. The method comprises obtaining data of a corresponding computing device. The device conducts wireless communications using a predetermined wireless protocol. The obtained data is processed to generate a wireless address of the device and a first... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20080057991 - Methods and apparatus for reestablishing a data connection with a wireless communication network: Methods and apparatus for use in a wireless communication device for re-establishing communications with a wireless communication network are described. In one illustrative technique, a data connection is maintained with the wireless network for communicating data with use of data connection parameters (e.g. an encryption parameter). In response to a... Agent: John J. Oskorep, Esq. One Magnificent Mile Center

20080057992 - Hierarchical point-to-multipoint group communications between multiple active communication groups: A method and apparatus for facilitating group communications across multiple groups of wireless communication devices is described herein. A first wireless communication device is joined to a first group of wireless communication devices, and a second wireless communication device is joined to the first group and to a second group... Agent: Coats & Bennett/sony Ericsson

20080057993 - Method and apparatus for reducing access delay in push to talk over cellular (poc) communications: A method and apparatus for reducing access delay in push-to-talk (PTT) over Cellular (PoC) communication sessions is provided in a wireless communication device (120) including a quality level controller (230) which controls the quality level at which the transmit talkburst controller (226) provides talkbursts to transmitter circuitry (206). A processor... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C.

20080057995 - Control of receiver antenna diversity: Control of receiver antenna diversity is described in relation to apparatuses, user radio terminals, a method, and a computer program. The apparatus comprises an interface configured to obtain information on a power control procedure of a radio receiver and a processing unit configured to switch on/off a receiver antenna diversity... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080057996 - Method for inter-cell interference mitigation for a mobile communication system: A method for reducing inter-cell interference (ICI) in a mobile communication system controls transmission signal power of an uplink signal from a terminal based on signal power measurement for a signal received from a base station of a neighboring cell. A terminal receives a signal from a base station of... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20080057997 - Method for shaping spectrum of output signal, and a remote access device: A remote access device and a method for shaping the spectrum of output signal are disclosed, and the method includes: obtaining a power spectrum density of a signal transmitted by a Central Office (CO) access device at a remote access device; dividing a spectrum of an output signal of the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080057994 - Mobile station device, and upstream circuit power control method: A mobile station device for selecting a TPC command to improve the transmission quality of a packet in an upstream circuit more reliably, so that it reduces the re-transmission in the upstream circuit to improve a sector throughput. In this mobile station device, a demodulate unit (210) outputs a received... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20080058000 - Method for controlling standby operations compatible with a plurality of wireless communication systems and method for performing operations compatible with a plurality of wireless communication systems: A radio unit and a baseband processing unit perform wireless communications with a plurality of base station apparatuses compatible with a plurality of wireless communication schemes, respectively. A battery remaining amount management unit inspects a remaining amount of battery to be supplied to the radio unit and the like. A... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080057998 - Method for operating a mobile communication device and mobile communication device: A method of operating a mobile communication device, which comprises at least two parts, which can be oriented with respect to one another in at least a first and a second position to thereby provide two different physical appearances of the mobile communication device, wherein at least a region of... Agent: Perman & Green

20080058001 - Power amplifier system and mobile phone terminal using same: A power amplifier system includes a first power amplifier, a second harmonic generator, a phase shifter, and first and second adders. The first power amplifier amplifies a primary input signal. The second harmonic generator outputs a second harmonic by using a split part (signal) of the primary input signal as... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080057999 - System and method for providing a standby mode in a handheld electronic device: There is disclosed a system and method for providing a standby mode in a handheld electronic device. In an embodiment, the method comprises initiating a standby mode upon actuation of a standby key in the handheld electronic device; displaying a confirmation message of entry into the standby mode; and disabling... Agent: Fasken Martineau Dumoulin LLP

20080058002 - Electron device: A driving unit for an electronic device including a planar voice coil, a resilient member, a support section moveably attached to a plate member of the electronic device by the resilient member, and a first magnet disposed inside the planar voice coil and a second magnet disposed outside the planar... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080058004 - System and method for reassigning an uplink time slot from a circuit-switched gprs mobile device to a different packet-switched gprs mobile device: A wireless communication system (100) includes a first mobile device (110) with a circuit-switched connection using adaptive multi-rate (AMR) speech coding. This first mobile device (110) is assigned to a first time slot by a base station (130). The base station (130) also serves at least a second mobile device... Agent: Motorola Inc

20080058003 - 3g/gsm and wlan integration of telephony: A Dual mode mobile terminal (MT2) comprising a WLAN interface (WLAN_NIC) and a cellular radio interface (GSM_NIC) has been described wherein when receiving a Page Request (6) message over the cellular radio interface (GSM_NIC), indicating an incoming voice call over the cellular radio interface, or upon receiving an indication from... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080058005 - 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

20080058006 - Disabling operation of a camera on a handheld mobile communication device based upon enabling or disabling devices: A handheld communication device capable of transmitting and receiving at least voice and text communication. The device has a body assembly including a front face arranged to be directed toward an operator of the device when held in a text communicating orientation. A display screen and a text-input keyboard are... Agent: Novak Druce & Quigg, LLP (rim Prosecution)

20080058009 - Hand-held electronic device with multi-functions: The invention relates to a hand-held electronic device with multi-functions comprising a casing, a display pivotally configured on the casing and capable of being rotated in different angles, a control circuit configured in the casing, an optical projecting system configured in the casing and electrically connected to the control circuit,... Agent: Reed Smith LLP Suite 1400

20080058010 - Discreetly positionable camera housing: A camera housing positionably coupled to an electronic appliance is disclosed. Preferably, the camera housing is positionable in two discrete positions such that the camera can be positioned to face towards or away from the user. The appliance includes a recess sized to receive the camera housing. A cellular telephone... Agent: Haverstock & Owens LLP

20080058007 - Mobile communication terminal and method of control through pattern recognition: A method for controlling a mobile terminal through pattern recognition and a mobile communication terminal for the same is provided. The method includes, receiving user input via contact with a touchscreen, determining whether the user input is at least one of a function indicating pattern and an operation indicating pattern,... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080058008 - Mobile telecommunication apparatus with a built-in camera and the camera therein: An apparatus for a mobile telecommunication is provided. A mobile telecommunication apparatus having a built-in camera including: a camera body to which a lens and an image signal detector are attached; a housing for accommodating the camera body; and a connection member disposed between the camera body and the housing,... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080058011 - Apparatus, system and method for wireless transmission for use in projection display apparatus: An apparatus, a system and a method for wireless transmission for use in a projection display apparatus are disclosed. The wireless transmission apparatus comprises a wireless transmission controller, a decompression unit, an interface unit and a processor. A wireless signal is received by the wireless transmission controller. The wireless signal... Agent: Law Offices Of Lai And Associates, P.C.

20080058012 - Image processing apparatus, mobile terminal apparatus, image processing system and control method: An image processing apparatus includes a display unit adapted to display an image processing object corresponding to a predetermined image processing, a designation unit adapted to designate data specified by a terminal device when the image processing object displayed on the display unit is selected, a reception unit adapted to... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080058013 - System and method for pushing information from a host system to a mobile data communication device: A scheme for redirecting messages from a messaging system to a mobile data communication device of a user. In one embodiment, a method comprises one or more of the following: automatically detecting arrival of a new message for the user at the messaging system, the new message having a sender... Agent: Research In Motion, Ltd

20080058014 - Methods, systems and computer program products for over the air (ota) provisioning of soft cards on devices with wireless communications capabilities: Methods, systems, and computer program products for over the air provisioning of soft cards on devices with wireless communications capabilities are disclosed. According to one method, a soft card provisioning application is instantiated on a device with wireless communications capabilities. A card number for a soft card desired to be... Agent: Jenkins, Wilson, Taylor & Hunt, P. A.

20080058015 - Managing downloading in portable communicating objects for a single-unit operation during a campaign: The invention solves the problem of systematic image marking of portable communicating objects, such as smart cards or mobile terminals, involved in a campaign in a database connected to a downloading server, thereby releasing the server. Access to a communicating object targeted by the campaign is authorized for a single-unit... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080058016 - Method for accessing an additional service provided by an ic card toolkit applet: A method is for selecting at least one additional service in a mobile telephone or mobile equipment having a keyboard for dialing a number to set up a telephone communication. The at least one additional service may be provided by an Integrated Circuit (IC) Card in the mobile equipment. The... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20080058017 - Basestation for cellular communication system: A basestation in a cellular communication system corrects frequency errors in signals generated within the basestation. The frequency errors may be corrected on the basis of signals transmitted by one or more other basestation within the network. As an alternative, the basestation may request information from one or mobile devices... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20080058018 - Distributed antenna communications system and methods of implementing thereof: The present invention provides a distributed antenna communications system and methods of implementing a distributed antenna communications system. In accordance with an embodiment of the invention, a distributed antenna system comprises: a base station configured for communication with a telecommunications network; a multi-port repeater hub connected to the base station... Agent: Westberg Law Offices

20080058019 - Multi-element phased array transmitter with lo phase shifting and integrated power amplifier: A fully integrated CMOS multi-element phased-array transmitter (transmitter) includes, in part, on-chip power amplifiers (PA), with integrated output matching. The transmitter is adapted to be configured as a two-dimensional 2-by-2 array or as a one dimensional 1-by-4 array. The transmitter uses a two step up-conversion architecture with an IF frequency... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080058020 - Mobile device with display device and image acquisition unit: A mobile device (200) is comprising: a display device (102) for displaying a number of display images of a sequence of display images, during a predetermined amount of time; and an energy resource (116) for providing the display device (102) with energy, is disclosed. The mobile device (200) further comprises... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080058022 - Operation mode conversion device, mobile communication terminal having the operation mode conversion device and method for converting operation mode using the same: An operation mode conversion device, a mobile communication terminal having the same and a method for converting the operation mode are provided. According to an embodiment, a user interface element is provided with an input unit configured to generate a signal to switch a current operation mode to a selected... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080058021 - Panel of a handphone: A panel of a handphone is disclosed. The panel is characterized in that the keying pads for controlling are positioned at the upper section of the body of the phone, and the lower portion of the body is the positioned of the displaying screen, thereby in dialing, the palm of... Agent: Leong C Lei

20080058023 - Modular ear-piece/microphone (headset) operable to service voice activated commands: The present invention provides a modular headset operable to support both voice communications and voice activated commands. This may involve the use of multiple voice CODECs to process voice communications and voice activated commands. The modular headset includes both a microphone and wireless earpiece. The earpiece may further include an... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080058024 - Combined rear view mirror and telephone: A mobile telephone or cellular telephone unit and a rear view mirror housing of an automobile are combined to provide an improved telephone apparatus that enables a hands-free use by a driver while operating the vehicle, the improved telephone apparatus includes a rear view mirror housing, the housing including a... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20080058026 - Apparatus and method for controlling transmission power for mobile terminal: An apparatus and method for accurately controlling a transmission power using a variable attenuator and a power detector in a mobile terminal is disclosed. To this end, the apparatus includes at least one amplifier for amplifying a transmission signal to be transmitted via an antenna according to a control signal,... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080058025 - Wireless communication terminal and control method threrof: In a PC card communication terminal that operates supplied with power from a host device, problems such as malfunctions due to a supply voltage drop at the time of high transmission output are prevented from occurring. A baseband processor (1106) selects a transmission-power upper-limit measurement mode when a PC card... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20080058028 - Ac adaptor: A switching regulator circuit assembly housed in a case is disclosed. The assembly includes a first and a second circuit board assemblies each having a circuit board on which electronic parts are mounted and an insulator member having an electronic parts enclosing part for enclosing the electronic parts. The first... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080058027 - Method and apparatus for acquiring and establishing a deployable communication system: A communication system includes a pack of portable radios (112), a deployable infrastructure (160, 170), and a unitary package for shipping and storing the pack of portable radios and deployable infrastructure for on-site configuration of the communication system without the use of local infrastructure and without prior knowledge of communication... Agent: Motorola, Inc

20080058029 - Wireless communication device: It is an object of the present invention to facilitate charge of a battery of a wireless communication device. In addition, it is another object of the present invention to provide a wireless communication device capable of transmitting and receiving individual information without battery replacement which is required due to... Agent: Eric Robinson

20080058031 - Apparatus and method of optimizing the power saving in a handset with wlan and bluetooth™: Methods and a mobile terminal capable of selecting a wireless network from a Bluetooth network to a WLAN, the terminal includes a Bluetooth module; a WLAN module; a storage device; and a controller cooperating with the Bluetooth module, the WLAN module and the storage device such that the Bluetooth module... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080058032 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program for the same: An FET is turned ON with supply of a power Vcc to a sensor started, and a signal indicating a result of detection is inputted from the sensor to a GPI terminal of an MCU. After supply of the power Vcc to the sensor is started, the MCU enters the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080058030 - Transmitter for transmitting a transmission signal: A transmitter for transmitting a transmission signal is disclosed. The transmitter includes: a gain stage, for receiving an input signal and amplifying the input signal according to a gain to generate an amplified signal; and an output stage, coupled to the gain stage, for receiving a first reference voltage signal... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080058036 - Communication device with a dielectric substrate: An LNB converter includes a first frame made of metal and having an edge, and a second frame made of metal and having an opposite portion opposed to the edge. It also includes a dielectric substrate arranged in a space surrounded by the first frame and second frame. The dielectric... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080058034 - Handheld electronic device: A handheld electronic device which comprises a body, a sliding cover, and at least one sliding mechanism. The sliding cover is slidingly disposed on the body, and the sliding mechanism is disposed in the body. The sliding mechanism includes two fixed elements, a sliding block, and a slide. The sliding... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080058033 - Portable electronic device: A portable electronic device includes a front side and a back side. The front side includes a display. The back side includes at least one key. A function of the at least one key is displayed in the display of the front side of the portable electronic device.... Agent: Harrity Snyder, L.L.P.

20080058035 - Suppression of near-field effects in mobile handsets: Generally, the systems and methods presented herein relate to suppression of certain near field electromagnetic radiation. For example, filtering may be provided to suppress electromagnetic radiation about a speaker module of a mobile handset so as to make the handset more compatible with hearing aids. In one embodiment, a mobile... Agent: Marsh, Fischmann & Breyfogle LLP

20080058037 - Method and system of managing volume and functionality control between an audio player and wireless earphones: A method and system for providing low-noise, high-fidelity wireless Bluetooth earphones with control operation either at the earphone or the player that operate to control the volume and other functionality from either location in a seamless manner and provide probe volume control display regardless of which location is used.... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20080058038 - Portable electronic device having a hinge mechanism: A portable electronic device (100) having a hinge mechanism (106) including a hinge barrel (202) connected to a first housing portion (102) of the device. The hinge mechanism also includes a hinge actuator (302) connected to a second housing portion (104) of the device. The hinge actuator enclosed in a... Agent: Motorola Inc

20080058039 - Sliding mechanism for opening and closing of cellular phone: Disclosed is a sliding mechanism for opening and closing a cellular phone. The mechanism includes a main plate, a slider plate slidably connected to the main plate, a first block shaft-rotatably fixed to the main plate, one or more first rod member fixed to the first block, a first resilient... Agent: Harness, Dickey, & Pierce, P.l.c