Telecommunications inventions 06/08

20080153411 - Device for facilitating overlay network operation in an underlay network environment: A wireless communication server device facilitates overlay network communications in an underlay network environment. A database portion is configured to store information regarding overlay network devices within the underlay network environment. An overlay device management portion is configured to communicate with overlay devices and to provide operation information to the... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds, P.c./alcatel-lucent

20080153412 - Methods and apparatus for dial string to contact matching in a wireless communication device: Methods, devices, computer program products and systems for contact matching that is based on changing the dial string to include or delete codes. The described aspects provide for contact matching and subsequent display of contact information to occur in most instances in which a connection occurs and for no matching... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080153413 - System architecture and method for scheduled downloading services: There is provided a system for providing content through a Content Delivery/distribution Network (CDN) that includes a plurality of storage entities. A Content Requesting device (CR) generates and transmits requests for content. A Content Server (CS) receives the requests from the CR, provides notifications regarding a current location of the... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing Llc

20080153414 - Satellite communication system: A payload (108) to be mounted onto a satellite (102) can include a first steerable antenna (302) providing a downlink to and an uplink from a first user terminal; a second steerable antenna (304) providing a downlink to and an uplink from a second user terminal; a switching network (306)... Agent: Posz Law Group, Plc

20080153415 - Method and apparatus for in-building communications: A system for repeating radio signals to the outside of a structure, from transmitters operating within a structure that normally prevents radio transmissions from propagating out of the structure. A system for repeating radio signals to the inside of a structure, from transmitters operating outside a structure that normally prevents... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney Pc

20080153416 - Communication system and communication apparatus: A communication system includes the following elements: a transmitter including a transmission circuit unit configured to generate an RF signal for transmitting data and an electric-field-coupling antenna configured to transmit the RF signal as an electrostatic field; a receiver including an electric-field-coupling antenna and a reception circuit unit configured to... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080153417 - System for sensing alarms external to a wireless short range rf network and for transmitting such alarms to transceiving devices within the rf network: Short range RF networks for transmitting to a plurality of wireless RF transceiving devices within a defined area. The wireless devices within the defined area each include a short range RF device transceiver enabling the device to wirelessly communicate with a data processor controlled wireless transmission system within said defined... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20080153418 - Fm output portable music player with rds capability: A FM output portable audio player is provided for digitally coupling audio signals generated therein to be broadcast through a radio receiver system, such as an automobile radio. The audio player includes an audio signal source for generating digital audio output signals. Digital audio interface circuitry is coupled directly to... Agent: Law Offices Of Davis Chin & Associates

20080153419 - Method and apparatus for error recovery in coginitive radio systems: A method and apparatus for recovering from cognitive radio errors are disclosed. The method may include receiving stamp data relating to a cognitive radio from the cognitive radio's database, the stamp data including time, location and sensor information, comparing the received stamp data with information stored in a master database,... Agent: Prass & Irving LLP

20080153420 - Mitigating interference between wireless systems: Two separate radio frequency networks may be operated within interference distance from one another in a way which mitigates the possibility of interference. Using received signal strength indicator data, the nature of the interference may be determined without actually demodulating the interfering signal. The timing of the interfering signal and... Agent: Timothy N. Trop Trop, Pruner & Hu, P.c.

20080153421 - System and method for platform resilient voip processing: A system and method for platform resilient VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) processing in a partitioned environment. The system comprises a plurality of soft partitions. At least one soft partition is a sequestered partition. The sequestered partition including one or more core processors having a controlled, real-time operating system and... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, Llc

20080153422 - Method and system for locally controlling the distribution of an application on a shared wireless network: A method and system are provided for locally controlling the distribution of an application at an access point to a shared wireless network and of an application to a mobile node which is located using the address thereof. According to the present method and system, for the access point, the... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Attn: Patent Docket Dept.

20080153423 - System and method for assessment of wireless communication performance: A system for assessing wireless communication performance includes a first master wireless node and a number of second wireless nodes. A first schedule of the first node defines transmission and reception of a first set of test packets. A second schedule of the second nodes defines transmission and reception of... Agent: Martin J. Moran Eaton Electrical, Inc.

20080153424 - Method and system for determining a time delay between transmission & reception of an rf signal in a noisy rf environment using frequency detection: There present description is directed to a method and a system for determining a time delay between a transmission and a reception of an RF signal in a noisy environment. The method comprises: transmitting the RF signal according to a transmit frequency pattern, the transmit frequency pattern comprising at least... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP

20080153425 - Method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving data and control information through an uplink in a wireless communication system: Disclosed is a method and an apparatus for multiplexing and transmitting data and uplink control information, and receiving the data and control information in a wireless communication system. In the system multiplexing an uplink packet data channel and a control channel, a transport format of the control channel for transmission... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080153426 - System and method for controlling sleep mode operation in a communication system: A method for controlling a sleep mode operation by a mobile station (MS) in a communication system. In the sleep mode operation control method, after entering a sleep mode, the MS transitions to an awake state in a listening interval. When there is data to transmit or receive to/from a... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080153428 - Apparatus and method for transmitting/receiving feedback information in a mobile communication system using array antennas: Provided is a method for transmitting feedback information by a receiver in a mobile communication system that performs multiplexing transmission using array antennas. The method includes determining a weight set for maximizing a data rate among at least one weight set having, as its elements, multiple orthonormal weight vectors, based... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080153427 - Data processing apparatus and a method of operating data processing apparatus for setting a state of a user application: A data processing apparatus (200), comprising a processor (204), a memory (202) and a user interface (210) is described. The data processing apparatus is configured to present to a user via the user interface a plurality of options indicative of a different state a user application operative on the data... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20080153429 - Network managed compressed mode operation: A base station monitors the uplink load and sends control signals to one or more mobile terminals to selectively enable and disable compressed mode operation. The base station can divide the mobile terminals into groups and can assign different compressed mode patterns to different groups of mobile terminals so that... Agent: Coats & Bennett/sony Ericsson

20080153430 - Selecting carriers for modulating signals in a communication network: Communicating over a network of communication stations includes monitoring for reception of an electromagnetic wave that has a power above a threshold and a frequency in a predetermined frequency interval, and selecting carrier frequencies for modulating information onto signals transmitted over the network. The carrier frequencies are selected based at... Agent: Fish & Richardson Pc

20080153431 - Adaptive duplex modes in telecommunication equipment: A transceiver is operated in a cellular communications system, wherein the transceiver has a variable transmitter output power that spans a range of power levels comprising a low-power domain and a high-power domain. Operation includes determining whether the transmitter output power of the transceiver is in the low-power domain or... Agent: Potomac Patent Group Pllc

20080153432 - Method and system for conversation break-in based on user context: A method for push-to-talk (PPT) break-in in a push-over-cellular (PoC) system is provided. The method can include assessing (202) user context levels for users of mobile devices, prioritizing (204) a break-in precedence for the users based on the user context level, and granting (206) a break-in request (420) to users... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080153433 - Phase and power calibration in active antennas: A switch is particularly advantageous for calibration of signal phase between transmitters, and other uses. The switch has a first data input adapted to input a transmit signal from a first transmitter, a first data output, at least one and preferably multiple bidirectional data ports, and a control input adapted... Agent: Harrington & Smith, Pc

20080153434 - Radio base station having transmitters corresponding to a plurality of sectors, and signal transmission method for a plurality of sectors: Circuit scale and power consumption of a base station is reduced with a feature of a sector-free configuration in routing processing. The feature is realized in a base station having transmitters corresponding to a plurality of sectors, as there are a switch distributing signals corresponding to a plurality of subcarriers... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080153435 - Transmission apparatus and communication apparatus: The transmission apparatus according to the present invention can reduce transmission output noise leaking into the receiving apparatus even when the transmission apparatus is applied to wireless equipment using the W-CDMA scheme. Transmission apparatus (100) has bypass circuit (101) and bypass control circuit (103) that inputs an RF phase signal... Agent: Dickinson Wright Pllc

20080153436 - Assessing the performance of radio devices: A method of assessing the performance of a radio transmitting means of, or intended for use in, a user terminal of a mobile telecommunications network, the transmitting means having a plurality of correction factors that are adjustable for improving the performance of the transmitting means and whose values together define... Agent: Motorola Inc

20080153437 - Digital compensation for nonlinearities in a phase-locked loop of a polar transmitter: A polar transmitter includes a digital processor for producing a phase correction signal and a complex modulated digital signal including a digital phase-modulated signal. The phase correction signal is added to the digital phase-modulated signal to produce a corrected digital phase signal. The corrected digital phase signal is input to... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080153438 - Transmission device, transmission power control method, and radio communication device: At the time of high output power, a high-frequency power amplifier (5) is operated as a nonlinear amplifier, whereby power efficiency when a transmitting signal is power-amplified can be enhanced. Further, at the time of low output power, the high-frequency power amplifier (5) is operated as a linear amplifier, whereby... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20080153439 - Apparatus and method to adjust and filter current dac signals: A technique to adjust gain and DC level of current DAC signals with offset to generate a voltage signal that is used to control power level of a power amplifier. One or more current mirrors from a set of current mirrors is programmably selected to set gain of a current-to-voltage... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080153440 - Method and apparatus for receiving data using multiple antennas in a communication system: A method and apparatus for receiving data using multiple antennas in a communication system are provided. A received signal-combining scheme is determined according to the strength of an interference signal included in the signals received from the antennas. The signals received from the antennas are combined according to the determined... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080153441 - Single sideband voice signal tuning method: Method for tuning a Single Sideband receiver including processing the signal in the time domain, converting the signal to the frequency domain, processing the signal in the frequency domain, converting the modified signal from the frequency domain to a correlation domain, processing the signal in the correlation domain and analyzing... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, Pc

20080153442 - Apparatus and method for displaying multi-point communication information: An exemplary apparatus and an exemplary method for displaying multipoint communication information are provided. In the method, video information from multi-point mobile video communication terminals in a multi-point video communications are displayed in a number of windows on a display screen simultaneously. The window associated with one of the remote... Agent: Pce Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080153443 - Communication switching method in communication system: Upon detection of an environmental change in a neighborhood, a cellular phone makes selections of a communication device and a communication path, which are used for a communication. A communication packet transmitted from a communication corresponding terminal is distributed to the cellular phone that is the destination of the communication... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080153444 - Hybrid sphere decoding method and system: A hybrid sphere decoding method is disclosed. Received data is processed to obtain preliminary parameters. Mbf layers are determined to use breadth-first search and Mdf layers to use depth-first search. A search process is implemented based on the preliminary parameters, in which Mbf layers are searched using breadth-first search and... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080153445 - Heterodyne receiver: A heterodyne receiver comprising a gain controllable RF mixer (14) which has a first input connected to a first local oscillator (16) and a second input connected to an RF input. The receiver comprises a peak detector (38) which detects a peak value of an input signal at the second... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080153446 - Method for antenna verification: A method of enabling a communications receiver to verify an antenna weight previously signalled by the communications receiver to a base station, the method including the steps of: equalising (14) a channel estimate of a dedicated pilot channel by the complex conjugate of a channel estimate of a common pilot... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, Pc

20080153448 - Method of canceling noise contained in received signal: A multiplication section multiplies a signal output from a GPS antenna by a local oscillation signal generated by a local oscillation signal generation section to down-convert the signal output from the GPS antenna into an intermediate-frequency signal. A sampling circuit section samples a generated signal generated by a portable electronic... Agent: Global Ip Counselors, LLP

20080153447 - Techniques to deterministically reduce signal interference: Techniques are described that can be used to reduce interference in a desired channel by one or more other channels. A radio includes a level detect logic that is responsive to both the frequency offset and amplitude of undesired signals and sets the gain applied to received signals based on... Agent: Caven & Aghevli C/o Intellevate, Llc

20080153449 - Method for multiple-input-multiple-output system demodulation: A MMSE-based deterministic sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) method for MIMO demodulation exhibiting square root complexity in terms of constellation size. Further extensions to the method reduce the search space resulting in significant reduction in computational requirements while minimally impacting performance. As a hard decision algorithm, the methods achieve sphere decoder... Agent: Nec Laboratories America, Inc.

20080153450 - Semiconductor device: A demodulation signal is generated by provision of a demodulation signal generation circuit to the semiconductor device capable of wireless communication and by obtainment of a difference between voltages having opposite polarities by the demodulation signal generation circuit. Alternatively, a plurality of demodulation signal generation circuits and a selective circuit... Agent: Eric Robinson

20080153451 - Rf rx front end module for picocell and microcell base station transceivers: An RF Rx module adapted for direct surface mounting to the top surface of the front end of the motherboard of a picocell. The module comprises a printed circuit board having a plurality of direct surface mounted discrete electrical components defining a receive (Rx) section and path for RF signals.... Agent: Daniel J. Deneufbourg Cts Corporation

20080153452 - Dual display, dual keypad, and dual processor architecture for power conservation for wireless terminals: A mobile information device (MID) incorporates a handset having a primary applications processor, a primary display, a primary input keyboard, a second input keypad, a second display having reduced functionality from the primary display and a card interface. A miniaturized form factor card is received in the card interface which... Agent: Utstarcom, Inc. C/o Laura Weiss, Paralegal

20080153454 - Emergency service in a communication system: There are disclosed means, namely methods, apparatuses, network elements, systems and computer programs, for assigning, to a user equipment, a default bearer, and for assigning, to the user equipment, a dedicated special-purpose bearer such as an emergency bearer. According to exemplary implementations, the dedicated special-purpose bearer is assigned during network... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.l.p.

20080153453 - Method for providing emergency service in wimax networks: A method and apparatus includes a transmitting unit configured to transmit a packet to a dedicated destination internet protocol address, wherein the packet includes a request with an emergency service indication. The mobile station also includes a receiving unit configured to receive an incoming packet for an emergency service call,... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.l.p.

20080153456 - Method and apparatus for managing business cell phone usage: A process and apparatus to remotely gather data about cellphone hardware and software configurations and usage. The system uses agents which are resident on the phones and which can be remotely launched by a data collection server by sending a message to a public IP address of the phone and... Agent: Ronald Craig Fish

20080153455 - System, method and program for managing voip calls such as 911 calls from mobile devices: System, method and program product for managing VOIP calls from a mobile computing device. The mobile computing device is connected, by wire or wirelessly, to a network port device. The mobile computing device receives from the network port device information describing a geographic location of the network port device. The... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080153458 - Method and system for delivering advice of charge in a communications system: A method and system for providing pre-emptive advice of charge messages (201) to users (5b-2) of a communications system (2), via mobile terminals or fixed terminals (5b-2). Each terminal has at least one physical and at least one functional connection in the communications system (2). The pre-emptive advice of charge... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080153457 - Online charging system (ocs) controlled media policy: A method of communication comprising the steps of: requesting at least one service having a plurality of parts; determining if said at least one service can be provided taking into account credit information relating to a user; and if not providing only one or some of said plurality of parts... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.l.p.

20080153459 - Apparatus and methods for providing directional commands for a mobile computing device: Various embodiments for providing enhanced mobile messaging services are described. In one or more embodiments, a mobile computing device may send and receive messages of different types. The wireless computing device may comprise a threading engine to determine a sender of a received message and/or a recipient of a sent... Agent: Kacvinsky Llc C/o Intellevate

20080153462 - Method and apparatus for transmitting message in mobile communication terminal: Provided are a method and an apparatus for transmitting a message in a dual mode terminal which supports a mobile communication network and a wireless Internet network. If an event for transmitting the message occurs in a mode supporting the mobile communication network, it is determined whether the wireless Internet... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080153461 - Methods and apparatus for a virtual content channel structure in a broadband wireless network with location-based content: Methods and apparatus are provided for a virtual content channel structure in a broadband wireless network with location-based content Broadband content is delivered to a mobile terminal in a wireless network by receiving a request for a content channel from the mobile terminal; and translating the requested content channel to... Agent: Docket Administrator Lucent Technologies Inc.

20080153460 - Methods and apparatus for distributed multimedia content supporting user mobility: Methods and apparatus are provided for delivering content to a mobile terminal in a wireless network. A base station in a wireless network delivers content to a mobile terminal by determining if a packet from the mobile terminal contains a request for content; and delivering the content to the mobile... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080153463 - Method and system for indicating the occurrence of an event: A method and system are disclosed for indicating the occurrence of an event. According to an exemplary embodiment, a method is described for indicating the occurrence of an event. The method includes receiving an event message including an event identifier identifying an event that has occurred. The method also includes... Agent: Scenera Research, Llc

20080153464 - Methods and systems for indicating the occurrence of an event: Accordingly, methods and systems are disclosed for indicating the occurrence of an event. According to an exemplary embodiment, a method is described for indicating the occurrence of an event. The method includes receiving a notification message including an event identifier identifying an event that has occurred. The method also includes... Agent: Scenera Research, Llc

20080153465 - Voice search-enabled mobile device: Methods and devices for providing a user of a mobile communications device with mobile voice-mediated search capability. The methods and devices involve receiving an utterance from a user of the mobile device, the utterance including a search request; using the speech recognition functionality to recognize that the utterance includes a... Agent: Wilmerhale/boston

20080153466 - Device forming a shared telephone address book, associated telephone terminal and method: t

20080153468 - Method and apparatus for providing updated content data to a mobile terminal: The invention provides a method of providing content to a mobile terminal, the method comprising the steps of: receiving data at the mobile terminal; classifying the content data in accordance with classification data comprised within the content data; storing the content data within the mobile terminal; creating an access object... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080153467 - Methods and apparatus for enabling use of web content on various types of devices: A method for displaying web content on a display screen of a mobile communicator including requesting a web page by a user, downloading the web page to a server, supplying from the server to the mobile communicator for display on a display screen thereof, an adapted web page corresponding to... Agent: Abelman, Frayne & Schwab

20080153470 - Cell information providing method and cell information providing system in mobile communication system and computer program product: A providing method of cell information in a mobile communication system includes the steps of calling an area map (MG) of a user area that includes a position designated by a user and its surrounding area, obtaining attribute information indicating a communication speed per mobile unit and whether or not... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080153469 - Method and system for status of application storing by using mobile communication terminal: Disclosed is a method for executing an application by using a mobile communication terminal and storing both a parameter (application parameter) of the application being executed and a status (application status) of the application, which includes the steps of: (a) if a user of the mobile communication terminal selects the... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080153471 - Caller information providing apparatus and transmitting method in mobile communication network: A caller information providing system and caller information transmitting method in a mobile radio communication network is disclosed. When a call comes in, the present invention provides a user at the terminating mobile station a picture information of a caller or caller information including a picture information, audio information, and/or... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20080153472 - Systems and methods for a cellular phone gateway: Systems and methods for a cellular phone gateway. Exemplary embodiments include cellular gateway systems and methods, including a cellular phone, a cellular tower and a cellular gateway device disposed between the cellular phone and the cellular tower, the gateway device establishing a connection between the cellular phone and the cellular... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Ibm Research Triangle Park

20080153475 - Device and method for executing reserved function in mobile communication terminal: A device and method for executing a reserved function using time information extracted from a broadcasting data that provides a correct time in asynchronous mobile communication terminal are provided. The method of executing a reserved function in a mobile communication terminal includes: when a broadcasting function is executed, performing (1)... Agent: Cha & Reiter, Llc

20080153473 - Method and apparatus for dynamic menuing of applications in a mobile communication device: A mobile communication device (100) downloads an application file (300), which includes an application (302) and a menu parameter set (306). The mobile communication device uses custom menu categories (502), and the application is delivered using standardized categories. The mobile communication device maps the application's standardized category to one of... Agent: Motorola, Inc

20080153474 - Time and/or time-zone indicator for contacts: A wireless mobile device or other communications device has a memory and processor for executing an e-mail application that enables a user to store personal information about the user's contacts, including time-zone differential and/or current local time for each of the contacts. When the user seeks to communicate with a... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP

20080153476 - Apparatus and method for remote control in portable communication system: Provided are an apparatus and a method for a remote control in a portable communication system. The portable communication system includes a remote-controlling terminal which is connected to a remote-controlled terminal using a message necessary for a remote control function to perform a remote control function; and the remote-controlled terminal... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080153477 - Synchronous transmission of data with network remote control: In one embodiment of the invention, a mobile and/or hand-held device such as a PDA is used to control another device remotely through one or more networks, such that complementary, synchronous streams of data that are intended for observation in combination by users and/or entities, can be transmitted to each... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080153478 - Personal cellular zone with signal resolution: A method and apparatus for providing a cellular zone is disclosed. A communication link connects a cellular base station and a wireless access point. A typical communication link can be a wire-based communication network, such as the Internet, using IP telephony protocol. The wireless access point communicates with a cell... Agent: Raman N. Dewan Jackson Walker, L.l.p.

20080153480 - Integrated cellular voip for call rerouting: Integrated Cellular Voice over Internet Protocol (“VoIP”) systems (“ICV systems”) are described that redirect or reroute wireless network voice and data traffic to roaming subscribers via VoIP networks. The ICV system monitors roaming links of a first communication system. The first communication system may include a home network and a... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20080153479 - Method and system for managing communication devices: A method (200) for managing communication devices is disclosed. The method includes receiving a request by the receiver (304) from a first communication device, for placing the first communication device in an active communication session. The request comprises information corresponding to identity of the first communication device. The method (200)... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080153481 - Fixed cell communication system with reduced interference: A communication system has a high altitude communication device that has an antenna for directing beams to a fixed cell pattern with a polarity of cells. A specific pattern of cells having the same communication resource is provided. Cells having the same resource may be separated. The antenna is shaped... Agent: The Directv Group, Inc. Patent Docket Administration

20080153483 - Method for reducing the rate of registration in cdma-based mobile networks: The method for reducing the rate of registration in CDMA-based mobile networks is a method for preventing a traveling mobile device from registering within a new, or secondary, registration area, prior to physically relocating from a first, or current, registration area to the new registration area. The mobile device has... Agent: Litman Law Offices, Ltd.

20080153482 - Seamless services to a roaming user equipment: A method and emulating communication node for providing service access in a second network to a roaming user equipment (UE) registered in a first network. The emulating communication node comprises and application server (AS) and a global service interface (GSI). The AS comprises a processing module for operating the AS,... Agent: Ericsson Canada Inc. Patent Department

20080153485 - Apparatus, and associated method, for facilitating routing of data in a radio communication system having a mobile node capable of roaming movement: Apparatus, and an associated method, for providing routing information to a mobile node operable in a radio communication system. The routing information is used by the mobile node to address data messages that are to be communicated to a relay host, or other, device. The routing information that is provided... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080153484 - Quality of service improvement in mobile networks: Device, nodes and methods according to the present invention address this need and others by improving the quality of service of roaming cellular communications, particularly for the area of data transmissions. A service identifier number is transmitted by a mobile device, and received by a telecommunication system. The service identifier... Agent: Ericsson Canada Inc. Patent Department

20080153486 - Efficient plmn search order: By employing an intelligent search order, a user equipment in a mobile communication system can shorten the time needed to find a cell/public land mobile network. After a first cell has been found, the equipment can determine which frequencies it will be worthwhile to search when another search is needed... Agent: Potomac Patent Group Pllc

20080153489 - Apparatus and method for reducing signaling overhead: Provided is a method and apparatus for reducing signaling overhead. The method includes receiving information; when the received information is a signaling message, determining a Mobile Node sending the signaling message is one that newly moves into an area managed by a network apparatus; sending a binding update message to... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080153490 - Heterogeneous communication system and method for processing call in the same system: A communication system that manages heterogeneous networks including a Circuit Switched (CS) network and an Internet Protocol (IP) Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) network, and a method for processing a voice call in the communication system are provided. When a User Equipment (UE) requests the call setup by sending a Subscribe message... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080153488 - Managing subscriber information: A method includes storing subscriber data at one or more locations, and storing, at least one of the one or more locations, one or more rules for managing the subscriber data at least one of the one or more locations. The subscriber data regarding at least one of the one... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.l.p.

20080153492 - Method for realizing service activation operation and user terminal realizing the method: A method for realizing service activation operation. The method comprises: attaching the service activation information inputted by a user in service activation information field for taking each service activation operation required information in service activation message, and transmitting the information to network side, the network side identifies the initial content... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20080153491 - Method of communicating data in a wireless mobile communication system: A method of communicating data in a wireless communication system is disclosed. More specifically, a method discloses transmitting a request by a mobile subscriber station (MSS) to a network entity via a de-registration request message requesting the network entity to retain a preferred session information, and receiving a selected session... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080153487 - User defined location based zones: A method is provided for creating a custom zone in order to an improve the graphical user interface for a user of a mapping application on a mobile device. The method comprising the steps of: requesting creation of the custom zone; establishing a location of the custom zone; defining a... Agent: Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP

20080153493 - Anchor selection in distributed networks: Various embodiments are described relating to selecting anchor nodes among nodes in a wireless network. In an example embodiment, a topological arrangement of a first wireless node and one or more other wireless nodes neighboring to the first wireless node in a wireless network may be determined by the first... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP

20080153497 - Apparatus, system and method for managing wireless service to a wireless communication device: A detecting base station detects a wireless communication device by intercepting an uplink communication signal intended for an originating base station. In response to the detection of the wireless communication device, the detecting base station sends a message to the core network. The detecting base station includes a mobile communication... Agent: Kyocera Wireless Corp.

20080153496 - Data transfer system, approach notification system and data transfer method: A data transfer system includes a data conversion storage server (3) that generates data (MD1) having a size smaller than a size of data (MD0) received from a delivery server (5) by performing a specific process on the data (MD0). A base station control unit (2) is provided with a... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080153495 - Mobile communication system, handover control method, radio base station, and mobile station: A mobile communication system according to an exemplary aspect of the invention is a mobile communication system including a mobile station, a radio base station as a handover source of the mobile station, and a radio base station as a handover target of the mobile station, wherein the mobile station... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080153494 - Outer loop power control for f-dpch: The present invention relates to a method and arrangement for power control of the F-DPCH (Fractional-Dedicated Physical Control Channel) in a 3rd generation mobile telecommunication system applying HSDPA, in particular for a user equipment in soft handover. The user equipment derives the TPC command error rate R to ad just... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080153498 - Method of providing a mobility service: A method comprising running an application on user equipment; providing a mobility service; using a packet switched connection when said mobility service is unavailable; and using said mobility service when said mobility service becomes available.... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080153499 - Mobile video call response: Ring-back content is provided to a mobile video caller willing to call a recipient in a process in which: the ring-back content is stored, a first communication leg is established between an intermediate network element and the mobile video caller, a second communication leg is established between the intermediate network... Agent: Harrington & Smith, Pc

20080153500 - System and method of wireless device activity messaging: A method and system of reachability indication between a wireless device and at least one push server, the method comprising the steps of: sending device status information from the wireless device to the at least one push server; and receiving the status information at the at least one push server;... Agent: Moffat & Co

20080153502 - Method and apparatus for operating a communication station: A method for operating a communication station in a communicating environment includes: (a) monitoring the environment to ascertain whether the station is receiving an unintended sensed signal not intended for the station from at least one signal source; (b) if the station has not received a predetermined number of unintended... Agent: Law Office Of Donald D. Mondul C/o Intellevate

20080153501 - Smart antenna for common channel incremental redundancy: A system includes a base station transceiver to provide wireless service to a wireless coverage area, determine a low coverage region of the wireless coverage area, and generate incremental redundant transmissions comprising initial transmissions and subsequent transmissions to be transmitted. A smart antenna transmits the initial transmissions according to wide... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080153503 - Enhanced user and caller notifications for a multimodal phone being used in a mode other than one over which a communication attempt is made: A system and method for a dual mode device to intelligently handle incoming communications can include a mobile communication device and a notification engine. The mobile communication device can have more than one communication mode. The notification engine can perform an intelligent notification action whenever the mobile communication device is... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.a.

20080153505 - Apparatus and method for dynamically assigning orthogonal codes in a radio communication system: An apparatus, method, and system for dynamically assigning orthogonal codes to different information signals communicated between a Node B and user equipment in a cellular radio communication system in which a fixed number of codes are allocated between dedicated transport channels (DCHs) and high speed downlink shared channels (HS-DSCHs). A... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080153504 - Shorthand connection identifier with embedded subfield: A base station can communicate resource allocation to a wireless mobile station in an uplink map information element. The base station can identify destination mobile stations using a shorthand connection identifier. The base station parses the connection identifier field into a shorthand connection identifier field and an embedded subfield data... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080153506 - Channel quality information feedback techniques for a wireless system: Channel quality information feedback techniques for a wireless system are described. An apparatus may comprise a base station having base station logic to determine a channel quality indicator feedback dimension value representing a number of resource blocks for an orthogonal frequency division multiple access system to be measured by a... Agent: Kacvinsky Llc C/o Intellevate

20080153507 - Mobile station localization apparatus, systems, and methods: Embodiments herein may use first and second path loss values L1 and L2 to calculate first and second distances R1 and R2 between the MS and first and second base stations BS1 and BS2, respectively, in a wireless packet-carrying network. L1 and L2 may comprise values of a reduction in... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.a.

20080153509 - Method for locating a mobile communication device: A wireless communication network includes a number of wireless communication devices capable of sending and receiving wireless communication signals and capable of receiving geographic positioning signals from a satellite that they can use to calculate their geographic position. In the event that one wireless communication device moves into an environment... Agent: Robert C. Schluer

20080153508 - Method, system, and computer program product for providing location based services: Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing location based services are provided. Embodiments may include storing locations for a plurality of users of a telecommunication environment and contact lists of associated users for the plurality of users. Embodiments may also include providing the locations of the associated users for... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080153514 - Apparatus and method for providing real-time information in portable communication system: Provided are an apparatus and a method for identifying a position information of a portable terminal using a mobile communication network and obtaining provincial information (e.g., meteorological information, traffic information, etc.) corresponding to the identified position information through a broadband communication network in a multimode portable communication system supporting access... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080153512 - Intelligent location-based services: A method (500) for dynamically providing location-based services based, at least in part, on time (114), current detected information (116, 118), historical information (124, 126), contextual information (128), user preferences (120, 130) and/or a user input (122).... Agent: Cuenot & Forsythe, L.l.c.

20080153511 - Method of receiving a special privilege based upon attendance and participation in an event: A method of receiving at least one special privilege based upon an attendee's (101) attendance and participation in an event (100) at the geographic location and time of the event (100). The at least one special privlege is received by the attendee (101) from the event sponsor (102) as an... Agent: Motorola C/o Darby & Darby Pc

20080153513 - Mobile ad selection and filtering: The claimed subject matter relates to an architecture that can filter or organize content such as advertisements that are either received by or transmitted to a mobile device. The filtering or organizing can be based upon local attributes associated with the mobile device (e.g., location, velocity, time, a profile), as... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080153510 - Mobile terminal, system, computer program product, and method for updating a work plan: A method, a computer program product, a mobile terminal, and system are provided. For example, the method includes receiving a work plan comprising at least one work item with a mobile terminal, wherein the work item includes an initial location of at least one identification device. The method also includes... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080153515 - Route identification using short range wireless beaconing devices: A method (400, 500) of identifying a route traveled. The method can include, while traveling away from an initial location (115), detecting a unique identifier for each of a plurality of wireless communication devices (125) along the route. The method also can include presenting an indicator (210) that indicates a... Agent: Cuenot & Forsythe, L.l.c.

20080153516 - Visual positioning system and method for mobile user equipment: The disclosure provides a visual positioning system, server, and method for positioning a location of a mobile user equipment with camera. The method comprising receiving a still containing at least one visual cue, taken by camera of the mobile user equipment in the location; recognizing the visual cue contained in... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080153517 - Location information sharing method based on wired and wireless internet using location id: Location information sharing method based on wired and wireless internet using a location identification (ID). Converting a location ID entered in the content of documents through Internet terminals into a URL, which provides location ID related services to the Internet terminal. Searching a desired location information from one of plural... Agent: Dinsmore & Shohl, LLP

20080153519 - Conducting sessions initiated from non-mobile terminals: A method includes receiving a message regarding the initiation of a session from a non-mobile terminal, and making a request for subscriber profile information for the non-mobile terminal to a register that is also configured to receive requests for subscriber profile information for mobile terminals. The session is controlled on... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.l.p.

20080153527 - Inter-carrier messaging service providing phone number only experience: A phone number only messaging experience is provided in an Inter-Carrier Messaging System service. Subscriber to subscriber digital messages containing user data are routed between carrier's networks using an Inter-Carrier messaging module with appropriate MIN/carrier/carrier routing look-up capabilities. Digital messages containing user data (e.g., short messages, email, digital messages in... Agent: Manelli Denison & Selter Pllc

20080153526 - Interface for message authorizing: A unified messaging interface and associated methods that enables mobile communication device users to initiate the creation of a message for a recipient without being required to explicitly specify the type of message that is to be created. The mobile communication device supports multiple message types, such as voice, text,... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080153521 - Mdn-less sms messaging (network solution) for wireless m2m application: Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications, for various telemetry applications, such as meter reading, alarm applications or the like, utilize data communication service via a public mobile/wireless communication network, such as the short message service (SMS). However, such M2M communications may involve a large number of clients. To avoid the need to assign... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080153522 - Message transaction method and mobile communication devices to implement the same: A message transaction method includes the steps of sending a connection request, receiving the connection request, generating a ringing response signal in response to the connection request, counting an elapsed time starting from generation of the ringing response signal, sending a disconnection request, stopping of the counting of the elapsed... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080153523 - Method and system for improved delayed delivery messaging: A software program executable on a mobile telephone suitable to cause said telephone to interrogate a distant recipient telephone by means for example of JTAPI to determine whether the recipient telephone is turned on or not. In a case where it is determined that the recipient telephone is turned on,... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates Pc

20080153524 - Method of transmitting one text message to many receivers: A method of transmitting one text message to a plurality of receivers is disclosed. The method includes inputting numbers of the receivers and a text message to be transmitted, determining a type of a transmission speed of the inputted text message, and transmitting the inputted text message of the determined... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20080153525 - Method of transmitting one text message to many receivers: A method of transmitting one text message to a plurality of receivers is disclosed. The method includes inputting numbers of the receivers and a text message to be transmitted, determining a type of a transmission speed of the inputted text message, and transmitting the inputted text message of the determined... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20080153518 - System and method for dynamic mobile communication: There is provided herein a system and method for dynamically creating and/or joining multi-user text communication groups, wherein the user is not restricted to the technical limitations of standard communications protocols and wherein the user is able to create and/or join this multi-user group without a need for elaborate installation... Agent: Fellers Snider Blankenship Bailey & Tippens

20080153520 - Targeted short messaging service advertisements: The present embodiments relate to a system and/or method for adding targeted advertisements to messages. An analysis of a variety of parameters may be used to select and display a targeted advertisement to a user. The targeted advertisement is displayed in a message to the user. In one example, the... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Yahoo! Overture

20080153528 - Non-interfering multipath communication system: A non-interfering multipath communication technique establishes a base transmit and receive period for a variety of spaced apart transceiver devices of a base station and communicates between at least one field station and the base station through those transceiver devices; a period of the base station is allocated amongst the... Agent: Iandiorio & Teska

20080153529 - Voice messaging prioritization: A voice radio communication system prioritizes radio voice communications so that higher priority voice transmission is given precedence. The communication system comprises a transmitter that inserts a digital watermark into a voice communication. Software in a receiver decodes the digital watermark to determine a priority requested by the sender, and... Agent: Brosemer, Kolefas & Associates, Llc - (boeing)

20080153530 - Apparatus and method for scheduling users in a mobile communication system: An apparatus and method for scheduling users in a mobile communication system are provided, in which a Base Station (BS) calculates scheduling utility values of each Mobile Station (MS) for a plurality of cases of interference from neighbor BSs, forms a candidate MS list by selecting a predetermined number of... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080153531 - Presence engine and a method of operating a presence engine for encoding or decoding availability status into a signal representative of an audio signal: A system and a method are disclosed for a presence engine and a method of operating a presence engine for encoding or decoding availability status into a signal representative of an audio signal. The presence engine is configured to manage availability status of a user. The presence engine comprises an... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20080153536 - Base station, mobile station, communication system, and communication method: A base station communicates with plural mobile stations using a common channel common to the mobile stations, and a predetermined number of a plurality of shared channels assigned to the mobile stations. The base station includes a scheduler that acquires, for each of the mobile stations, a transmitting power ratio... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080153533 - Detecting and reporting a picocell by a mobile station: An exemplary method of communicating includes storing a locating neighbor list that corresponds to a mobile station being in a communication range of a selected picocell. Upon receiving a current neighbor list, a determination is made whether the current neighbor list corresponds to the stored, locating neighbor list. If there... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds, P.c./alcatel-lucent

20080153534 - Integrated access system of wireless and wired network: An integrated access system of a wireless and wired network is provided. The system includes a basic network and a newly-added network, wherein the newly-added network includes an access processing device combination and a terminal communication device, the access processing device combination combines with a communication device of the basic... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080153532 - Reducing power consumption in mobile terminals by changing modulation schemes: A mobile terminal reduces power consumption when operating at a high transmit power by altering a modulation scheme used for transmitting signals over an uplink to a base station. The mobile terminal receives uplink load indications from the base station and determines it current transmit power level. Based on this... Agent: Coats & Bennett/sony Ericsson

20080153535 - Reverse link traffic power control for lbc fdd: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate controlling reverse link power on a traffic channel. Assignments for reverse link communication can be yielded. Interference from mobile devices in neighboring sectors can be monitored and other sector interference (OSI) indications can be broadcasted. The OSI indications can be obtained by mobile... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080153539 - Control of electromagnetic field patterns on a wireless communication device: A wireless communication device (100, 400) that can include a first electrically conductive structural member (102), a second electrically conductive structural member (104), and at least a first electrical conductor (118) that electrically connects a first portion (120) of the first structural member to the second structural member. A distance... Agent: Cuenot & Forsythe, L.l.c.

20080153537 - Dynamically learning a user's response via user-preferred audio settings in response to different noise environments: A radio device 100 includes: a speaker 130, which outputs audio signals, a microphone 129 that detects and receives audible sounds within the surroundings of the radio device; an audio volume/characteristic adjusting mechanism 125, which selectively increases and decreases the volume level or other audio characteristics of the audio signal... Agent: Dillon & Yudell, LLP

20080153540 - Electronic equipment with content management function and program for providing same: A method and program for managing content in a portable electronic equipment with wireless communication capability and having a memory for storing content are disclosed. Content management may include receiving content and storing the content in a memory. The content may be related to a particular location and received/transmitted upon... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080153538 - Terminating device and a method of operating a terminating device configured to communicate availability status directly between terminating devices: A system and a method are disclosed for a terminating device for a communications network which comprises an application program configured to utilize an availability status of a user; a communications interface configured to receive and/or transmit data and a presence engine. The presence engine is configured to provide the... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20080153542 - Method and mobile device for operating in different data transfer modes: Various embodiments are described for data communication between a host device and a mobile communication device having two processors. In a first mode of operation, data communication occurs between the host device and a main processor of the mobile device. In a second mode of operation, data communication occurs between... Agent: Bereskin And Parr

20080153541 - Single chip wireless transceiver operable to perform voice, data and radio frequency (rf) processing: A single chip wireless transceiver operable to perform voice, data and radio frequency (RF) processing is provided. This processing may be divided between various processing modules. This single chip includes a processing module having an ARM microprocessor and a digital signal processor (DSP), an RF section, and an interface module.... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080153544 - Apparatus and method for audio output in portable terminal: An apparatus and method for outputting audio in a portable terminal are provided. The apparatus includes a communication module for transmitting/receiving a call connection request and speech signals during a call connection service; an audio processor connected to at least one audio output device, for controlling the output audio data/speech... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080153543 - Portable electronic device: Devices and methods are provided for providing a portable electronic device having a cable that functions as a carrying strap, a stylus, a data cable, and a power cable. Embodiments of the portable electronic device comprise at least one recess for storing a connector end of the cable, the stylus,... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080153545 - Assembly device for extending functions of a cellular phone: An assembly device for extending functions of a cellular phone is composed primarily of a cellular phone, a subscriber identity module (SIM) device, a registration server, and a service server, wherein the SIM device of the cellular phone can be installed without changing a SIM card through a cutting method,... Agent: Troxell Law Office Pllc Suite 1404

20080153547 - Methods and apparatus for performing a subscriber identity module (sim) initialization procedure: Methods and apparatus for performing a Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) initialization procedure are described. A terminal profile having a most recent release version format is communicated to a Subscriber Identity Module (SIM). An error from the SIM is detected in response to sending the most recent release version format of... Agent: John J. Oskorep, Esq. One Magnificent Mile Center

20080153546 - Methods and apparatuses for sim application toolkit (sat) management: An embodiment of a method for subscriber identity module (SIM) application toolkit (SAT) management, performed by a processing unit of a mobile station, is provided. A SAT shortcut to a SAT final node, or to a sub-menu including the SAT final node, is created. A value-added service (VAS) provided by... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080153548 - Method and apparatus for setting computer connecting mode in portable terminal: A method and an apparatus for setting a computer connecting mode in a portable terminal. The method includes checking a program executed by a user in the PC when the portable terminal is connected to a personal computer (PC); requesting the portable terminal to perform the connection to the PC... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080153549 - Wireless millimeter wave communication system: A lens-based millimeter wave transceiver for use in wireless communication systems operating in the E-band spectrum consistent with the FCC rules regulating the 71-76 GHz and 81-86 GHz bands. The transceiver includes a single lens adapted for transmission of millimeter radiation to form communication beams in one band of either... Agent: John R. Ross Trex Enterprises Corp.

20080153552 - Dialing screen method and layer structure for a mobile terminal: A method for providing a dialing screen which visually changes depending on status information providable through a mobile terminal. Particularly, the dialing screen (such as an alphanumeric character inputting screen) displays status information including network status information, time-zone information of a transmitting side or receiving side, etc., which can be... Agent: Cha & Reiter, Llc

20080153551 - Method for providing idle screen layer endowed with visual effect and method for providing idle screen by using the same: A method for displaying an idle screen, which is varied depending on a specific condition of a mobile communication terminal, for better graphic impressions. When the user of the mobile communication terminal travels between countries, and a border crossing is detected, a landmark image of a corresponding country is displayed... Agent: Cha & Reiter, Llc

20080153550 - Mobile communication terminal: The mobile communication terminal 20 includes application program execution managing means 211, displaying means 12, image display controlling means 213 and image conversion processing means 214. The image conversion processing means selectively executes, based on conversion-contents designating information received from the application program execution managing means, at least one drawing-type... Agent: Muirhead And Saturnelli, Llc

20080153554 - Haptic generation method and system for mobile phone: A haptic generation method and system for a mobile phone is provided. A vibration event is detected in an operation mode. A vibration code corresponding to the vibration event is retrieved from a mapping table. A control message containing the vibration code is generated, and the control message is transmitted... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080153555 - Portable terminal device: A portable terminal device capable of emitting a random ringtone, includes a call arrival processing device, in which a radio broadcast is set as one of the items of information indicating the type of ringtone in set data, and the frequency of radio broadcast signals set as a ringtone is... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, Pllc

20080153553 - Radio communication terminal and radio communication system: A radio communication terminal includes a first transmitting unit configured to transmit a beacon, a second transmitting unit configured to transmit a first notifying signal which includes information of a frequency of the beacon and a transmission timing of the beacon, a measuring unit configured to measure a reception power... Agent: Charles N. J. Ruggiero, Esq. Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.l.p.

20080153556 - Wireless ear-phone and portable terminal using the same: A wireless earphone includes: a wireless transmitting/receiving unit for transmitting/receiving a signal to/from the portable terminal according to a short wireless communication scheme; a voice detecting unit for detecting a user voice signal with being inserted into an ear of the user; a signal processing unit for converting a short... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, Pc

20080153557 - System of radiocommunication: A system of radio communication for a sports command game has players receiving/transmitting devices located in helmets of players, a coach receiving-transmitting device provided for a coach, and a digital radio line of communication connecting the players receiving/transmitting devices and the coach receiving/transmitting device with each other.... Agent: I. Zborovsky

20080153558 - Torsion coil spring and sliding type mobile terminal equipped therewith: A torsion coil panel having stretching force in a torsional direction is provided with a first and a second coil parts and a first to a third straight line parts. One end of the first coil part is continued to a first straight line part, while the other end is... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080146144 - Voice data rf gps integrated circuit: An integrated circuit (IC) includes a baseband processing module, a GPS receiver, an RF section, and an interface module. The GPS receiver module is coupled to recover a plurality of coarse/acquisition (C/A) signals and a plurality of navigation messages from a plurality of down converted GPS signals. The RF section... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080146145 - Satellite communication system and method with asymmetric feeder and service frequency bands: System and method for communicating data in a multibeam satellite system having feeder beams associated with a plurality of gateways and a plurality of service beams associated with a plurality of user subscriber terminals utilizing frequency re-use by service beams between a satellite and a plurality of subscriber terminals, wherein... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP Viasat, Inc (client #017018)

20080146146 - Apparatus and method for frequency shifting of a wireless signal and systems using frequency shifting: Systems, methods and apparatus for improving the coverage of a wireless network based on frequency shifting scheme. A wireless signal in a frequency band is shifted to another distinct band, and carried in the shifted band, using wired or wireless mediums to another location, wherein the wireless signal is shifted... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20080146147 - Methods and systems for retransmission of a broadcast signal using proximity transmitting radiator: Systems and methods for wireless transmission of a modulated audio signal to a receiver using near-field or proximity transmission are presented. In exemplary embodiments of the present invention, such systems and methods can receive a broadcast signal with a first receiver, generate an audio signal therefrom, and then use a... Agent: Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP Intellectual Property Department

20080146148 - System and method for using a single antenna for active and passive radio functions: A system and method for using a single antenna for active and passive radio functions. A wireless communication device includes a passive component that can be read using an antenna when the wireless communication device is in a low power sleep mode. When it is determined that a higher capacity... Agent: Law Office Of Duane S. Kobayashi

20080146151 - Apparatus and method for bluetooth connection in portable terminal: Provided is an apparatus and method for connecting a Bluetooth portable terminal to a Bluetooth device closest to the Bluetooth portable terminal by measuring link qualities or Received Signal Strength Indications (RSSIs) of accessible Bluetooth devices to determine the closest Bluetooth device when a Bluetooth connection event occurs in the... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080146152 - System and method for secure short-range communication: A system and method for enabling secure short-range communication. A close proximity transmitter is used that is designed with a relatively poor radiator as compared to a conventional transmitter supporting conventional transmissions such as mobile phone communications, Wi-Fi, or Bluetooth communication. The close-proximity transmitter and the conventional transmitter are selectively... Agent: Law Office Of Duane S. Kobayashi

20080146149 - Transmission of a handheld electronic device's status to another electronic device and determining a form of communication between the devices based on the status information: A method for transmitting a status of a handheld electronic device to another electronic device, that method includes initiating on the handheld electronic device a routine that employs a network to determine the status, transmitting the status from the handheld electronic device to one of the one or more networks,... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20080146150 - Wifi sip module: The present invention provides a WiFi SiP module comprising BB/MAC/RF processing unit integrating base band processor, MAC and radio frequency back end, wherein the base band processor supports IEEE 802.11a/g data rates. The MAC supports IEEE 802.11 wireless MAC protocol and IEEE 802.11 wireless security. The BB/MAC/RF processing unit includes... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080146153 - Method and apparatus for optimizing radio performance through inferred knowledge of indoor-outdoor radio status: Performance of a radio device is optimized by estimating if the device is inside a building. One or more sensors on the radio device are use to measure an environmental quantities relating to the environment of the radio device. The likelihood of the radio device being inside a building is... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080146154 - Controlling uplink power for picocell communications within a macrocell: A method of communicating in a picocell within a macrocell includes automatically setting an uplink transmit power of a mobile station to avoid uplink interference between the picocell and the macrocell. A disclosed example includes determining an allowable interference from the picocell to the macrocell. A path-loss between a mobile... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds, P.c./alcatel-lucent

20080146156 - Method and system for predictive sensing of periodic intermittent interference: A method (10 or 40) or system (200) of predictive sensing of periodic intermittent interference (PII) can include the measuring (12) of energy on a channel for an indication of PII, determining (14) if a channel is currently in a PII on-cycle, and adjusting (16) a clear channel assessment threshold... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080146155 - Method and system for reliable detection and avoidance of periodic intermittent interference: A method (10, 40, 50 or 55) or system (200) of detecting and avoiding periodic intermittent interference (PII) can include monitoring (12) for PII on a current channel which can include monitoring (14) by tracking retransmission statistics of isochronous traffic or by tracking channel probe request failures corresponding to temporal... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080146157 - A device, system and method for recording personal encounter history: Provided are exemplary embodiments including a method for creating and using a personal encounter history using a communication device. The method involves the communication device receiving the transmission of a pseudo identifier from a proximal communication device where the pseudo identifier is associated with the user of the proximal communication... Agent: Withers & Keys For Bell South

20080146158 - System, method, and device to control wireless communications: Methods and systems for controlling wireless communications are provided. A method of controlling wireless communications includes acquiring base station data at a mobile base station mimicking system. The base station data is associated with a targeted base station of a wireless communication system. The method may include mimicking signals of... Agent: Toler Law Group

20080146160 - Auto sniffing of carrier performance using reverse round trip time: A device, system, and method are directed towards employing a beacon to sniff a network metric. When a mobile device requests content from a content server, the content server obtains a beacon be a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) that encodes information about the mobile device, a network carrier, a time... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Darby & Darby P.c.

20080146159 - Fm transmission system and method: An RF transmission system comprises an RF transmitter receiving a base band media signal and generating a broadcast signal on a broadcast frequency. The broadcast frequency may be one of a plurality of transmission frequencies within a frequency band. A radio data control module periodically performs an interference detection measurement... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080146161 - System and method for diagnosing rf attributes over an rf footprint of a wireless network: A system and method for diagnosing RF attributes of signals communicated over a communication footprint including at least one base station configured to provide wireless communications to subscribers of a wireless carrier. Antennas may be fixedly positioned throughout a communications footprint of the base station(s), where the antennas are configured... Agent: Patton Boggs, LLP

20080146162 - Mobile communication terminal and transmission power controlling method: The present invention aims to make a disconnection of communications less likely to occur even in a rapidly changing wireless communication environment. To this end, a mobile communication terminal is provided. The provided terminal includes a transmission power controller configured to measure a reception SIR, and to control a transmission... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080146164 - Configurable multiple mode rfic: An integrated circuit (IC) includes a baseband processing module and a radio frequency (RF) section. The baseband processing module is coupled to convert outbound data or an outbound voice signal into at least one of amplitude modulation information, phase modulation information, and frequency modulation information. The RF section includes an... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080146163 - Diversity control of multi-mode communication devices: A method of managing antenna usage within a communication device can include determining selected transceivers of a plurality of transceivers requiring a connection with an antenna (410) and identifying diversity requirements for the selected transceivers (420). A plurality of antennas can be allocated among the selected transceivers according to the... Agent: Cuenot & Forsythe, L.l.c.

20080146165 - Dynamic frequency synthesizer programming: A system (100) and method (200) for dynamic frequency synthesizer programming is provided The method can include identifying (202) a first operating frequency (120) of a first oscillator (250), identifying a second operating frequency (121) of a second oscillator (255), and adjusting the first operating frequency if the first operating... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080146166 - Method and system for providing an interference cancellation in a wireless communication system: A system, a receiver apparatus, a transmitter apparatus and a method for inter-user interference cancellation when simultaneous transmissions from two wireless users to the same base station are repeated using the same time-frequency resource. The percentage of interference cancellation is pre-set and phase shifts of the first and repeated transmitted... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20080146167 - Rfic with cellular and rfid functionality: An integrated circuit (IC) includes a baseband processing module and a radio frequency (RF) section. The baseband processing module is coupled to convert outbound data into amplitude modulation information and phase modulation information when the IC is in a cellular data mode and to convert an outbound radio frequency identification... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080146168 - Methods of enhancing power amplifier linearity: A novel method of enhancing power amplifier linearity is disclosed. The invention is for use within a transceiver system and provides a method in the digital domain for predistorting a digital modulated signal to compensate for the non-linearity properties of the power amplifier and other components within the transmitter system.... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080146169 - Sliding type portable terminal: A sliding type portable terminal is provided. The sliding type portable terminal includes a first housing, a second housing connected with the first housing while facing the first housing and reciprocating on the first housing in a straight direction, and a guide member mounted to the first housing, the guide... Agent: Jefferson Ip Law, LLP

20080146170 - Dac module and applications thereof: A digital to analog conversion (DAC) module includes a digital to analog converter, a sample and hold circuit, and a switch module. The digital to analog converter is coupled to convert a digital signal into an analog signal. The sample and hold circuit is coupled to sample the analog signal... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080146171 - Generation of modulated radio frequency signals: RF signal generators (1) are disclosed, having an amplitude-modulated amplifier (80) whose supply voltage (70) is a signal non-linearly filtered (33) dependent on a signal (30) being representative to an envelope signal of a desired output RF signal (81). The non-linear filtering (33) is performed preferably using an envelope-dependent boundary.... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080146172 - Method and system for detecting periodic intermittent interference: A method (10, 40 or 70) or system (200) of detecting periodic intermittent interference (PII) can include indirect detection by tracking (14) retransmission statistics of isochronous traffic or alternatively tracking channel probe request failures corresponding to temporal characteristics of microwave oven interference. Such tracking can be done in a number... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080146173 - Rf transmitter front-end and applications thereof: A radio frequency (RF) transmitter front-end includes a digital to analog conversion module and a power amplifier module. The digital to analog conversion module is coupled to convert amplitude information into analog amplitude adjust signals when a first mode is active and is coupled to convert power level information into... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080146174 - Mode shift calibration in power amplifiers: Methods and apparatus for aligning output power levels of a transmitter having a power amplifier adapted to operate in first and second operational modes. According to an exemplary embodiment, the transmitter includes a power alignment circuit configured to execute a power alignment algorithm. The power alignment algorithm is operable to... Agent: Patent Law Professionals

20080146175 - Adjustable antenna interface and applications thereof: An adjustable antenna interface includes a single-ended to differential conversion circuit, an adjustable impedance matching circuit, an RF differential switch, and an input. The single-ended to differential conversion circuit converts inbound RF signals from single-ended signals to differential signals and converts outbound RF signals from differential signals to single-ended signals.... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080146176 - Multi-freqency antenna assemblies with dc switching: According to various exemplary embodiments, apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed for use with antenna systems operable for receiving first and second signals having respective first and second frequencies. In one exemplary embodiment, a controller selectively controls whether an amplifier is electrically powered via a first receiver associated with the... Agent: Anthony G. Fussner

20080146177 - Apparatus and method for transmitting tfci bits for a hard split mode in a cdma mobile communication system: An encoding method and apparatus for a DCH (Dedicated Channel) encoder and a DSCH (Downlink Shared Channel) encoder in a transmitter for a mobile communication system including the DCH encoder for encoding k bits among 10 input TFCI (Transport Format Combination Indicator) bits and the DSCH encoder for encoding remaining... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080146178 - Open wireless architecture virtualization system for wireless mobile terminal device: A virtualized Open Wireless Architecture (OWA) layer is designed between the physical transmission layer and the user application and operating system (OS) layers to provide a converged open radio transmission platform, and provide a solution to make the application and OS layers to be totally independent to the wireless transmission... Agent: Wei Lu

20080146179 - Digital signal processing system and multi-signal connector thereof: A multi-signal connector includes a first tuner, a first demodulator, a first radio frequency signal pin, a first ground signal pin and digital signal pins, and the first radio frequency signal pin transmits a first radio frequency signal. The first tuner receives the first radio frequency signal and outputs a... Agent: Joe Mckinney Muncy

20080146180 - System clock supplying device and frequency shift determining method of master oscillator: A system clock supplying device having a duplex structure formed by an own system and another system configured to generate a system clock based on output of a master oscillator in an own device, the system clock supplying device includes a frequency shift measuring determining part configured to measure frequency... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080146181 - Design structure for data communications systems: A machine-readable medium thereupon stored a design structure; the design structure includes a receiver for a data communications system. The receiver includes a data path for receiving a data signal from a data channel, the data path comprising an automatic gain control (AGC) loop; and, a signal detector for generating... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation Dept. 18g

20080146182 - Antenna selection for diversity combining: A diversity combining receiver may employ a switching architecture that permits multiple receiver chains to be coupled to multiple antennas.... Agent: Venable LLP

20080146183 - Method and system for antenna interference cancellation: A wireless communication system can comprise two or more antennas that interfere with one another via free space coupling, surface wave crosstalk, dielectric leakage, or other interference effect. The interference effect can produce an interference signal on one of the antennas. A cancellation device can suppress antenna interference by generating... Agent: King & Spalding LLP

20080146184 - Suppression of lo-related interference from tuners: A system for processing a signal comprises a tuner with a signal path that includes two or more mixers each of the mixers controlled by a respective local oscillator (LO); an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) in the signal path operable to produce a digital signal, wherein each of the local oscillators... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.l.p

20080146185 - Receiver for simulteously receiving different standards: Receivers (5) for simultaneously receiving different radio frequency signals according to different standards are provided with first frequency translating stages (1) for converting the radio frequency signals into first intermediate frequency signals and second frequency translating stages (2) for converting the first intermediate frequency signals into second intermediate frequency signals... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080146186 - On-chip baseband-to-rf interface and applications thereof: An on-chip baseband-to-RF interface includes a receive/transmit section, a control section, and a clock section. The receive/transmit section, when in a receive mode, provides the stream of inbound symbols from the RF circuit to the baseband processing module and, when in a transmit mode, provides the stream of outbound symbols... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080146187 - Semiconductor device and electronic device: This invention provides a high frequency power module which is incorporated into a mobile phone and which incorporates high frequency portion analogue signal processing ICs including low noise amplifiers which amplify an extremely weak signal therein. A semiconductor device includes a sealing body which is made of insulation resin, a... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge Pc

20080146188 - Apparatus for control of in-battery module: An apparatus (100) is provided for powering an in-battery electronic application module (118) without the use of an external on/off switch. A battery pack (102) is electrically coupled to a radio (104) via three interface contacts: power (108), ground (112) and single-wire serial data port (110). Circuitry is included within... Agent: Motorola, Inc

20080146189 - Controlling wireless communications on behalf of public service agencies: A device (34) facilitates communications on behalf of users from various public service agencies (22-32). An example device (34) is implemented at a core layer such that it is capable of interfacing with a plurality of wireless communication network elements. An example device (34) includes a database portion (36) that... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds, P.c./alcatel-lucent

20080146190 - Method and system for displaying a set of entries: A method (200) for compiling and presenting an ordered list for each of the available options for a communication device is disclosed. The method includes monitoring a frequency of employment of available options by a user of the communication device (100). Further, the method (200) includes dynamically compiling a list... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20080146191 - Accounting control method and device: In a method and device which prevent unnecessary accounting from being performed when a communication deteriorated state occurs in a mobile terminal, a communication deteriorated state is detected in a state where a location registration is performed to a mobile radio communication network, a duration of the communication deteriorated state... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080146193 - Authentication based on geo-location history: Methods and apparatus are disclosed for authenticating a user based on the geo-location history of a geo-location-enabled wireless device (e.g., a GPS-enabled wireless telecommunications terminal, a smart card, an RFID tag, etc.). In a first illustrative embodiment, a user of a geo-location-enabled wireless telecommunications terminal (e.g., a GPS-enabled cell phone,... Agent: Demont & Breyer, Llc

20080146194 - Automatic data back up and account creation: An apparatus is provided for automatically backing up user data from a client device and creating a user account. The apparatus includes interface logic for receiving user data from a client device, identification logic for receiving identification information associated with the device, and account logic for causing the creation of... Agent: Yahoo C/o Mofo Palo Alto

20080146196 - Communication apparatus, portable terminal and communication control program: A communication method, including: sending a response signal including terminal information to a portable terminal upon receiving an identification information request; accepting periodically a connection request from the portable terminal during a period not shorter than a second period and three-fold period not longer than the second period, for each... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080146195 - Sharing account information and a phone number between personal mobile phone and an in-vehicle embedded phone: A phone embedded within a vehicle for automatically using a service plan of a proximate personal mobile phone. The embedded phone includes an internal communication component that detects the presence of the personal mobile phone, and receives a mobile subscriber identification number from the detected phone. The embedded phone also... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham, Pllc

20080146192 - Supplementary services using secure media: In one particular embodiment, the secure media includes information sent using secure real-time transfer protocol (sRTP). Supplementary services may include call transfers, forwards/redirects, call hold with music on hold (MOH), call hold with no MoH, call resume, call park, call pickup, call blast etc. In a call flow, a call... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, Pc

20080146198 - Method and apparatus for notification in a cellular communication system: A notification apparatus (201) for a cellular communication system (100) comprises a call detector (209) which detects a communication initialisation involving a first subscriber (101). A notification processor (211) determines if a communication notification requirement is stored for the first subscriber (101). If so, the notification processor (211) proceeds to... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080146197 - Method and device for emitting an audible alert: A method and wireless communication device for emitting an audible alert synthesizes speech using vocal parameters of a caller or of a sender of an electronic message. A vocal parameter and a pre-defined phrase associated with an incoming communication signal are identified (block 515). Speech is then synthesized using the... Agent: Motorola Inc

20080146199 - Automated mailbox triggers and messaging: A telecommunications device and/or service are provided that enable a user of a receiving device to associate a caller of an incoming call with a response that is appropriate for the caller. The incoming call includes call data that identifies the particular caller. When received, the recipient's device processes the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080146200 - Method and system for automatic call filtering based on user selectable parameters: The present invention provides a method and system that enables telephone users to specify parameters that will be used in filtering incoming calls to the user's telephone device. The invention can use parameters known in telephone use such as call cost or roaming detection of mobile telephone device and user-defined... Agent: Ibm Corporation C/o Darcell Walker, Attorney At Law

20080146202 - Dynamic prl assignment system: A system for selectively providing an updated PRL to a remote wireless device reduces airtime requirements by determining the PRL to be loaded based on a collection of information relating to the wireless device. Depending upon the nature, connectivity and location of the device, the system loads a partial or... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080146204 - Enhanced services for mobile content on demand: The present invention enables mobile service providers to offer a variety of on-demand content and content-related enhanced services to mobile users utilizing existing mobile network infrastructure. In one embodiment, the present invention provides free preview of digital content for users of mobile devices before a call is connected, and gives... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080146201 - Event processing system: Embodiments of the invention are concerned with method and a system for event processing in a communications network, and are suited to coordinating the provision of services in response to service initiation triggers. Embodiments are particularly applicable for use in controlling operation of service nodes, each of which is arranged... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080146203 - Method and system for conversation break-in based on selection priority: A system (100) and method (200) for conversation break-in based on selection priority is provided. The method can include receiving (202) a request from a first mobile device (112) to break-in an active call (107) of a target mobile device (116), determining (204) a first priority (382) of the first... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080146205 - Management of locations of group members via mobile communications devices: The location of group members having mobile communications devices such as cellular telephones, PDAs, and the like are managed by maintaining group member location awareness among the individual group members. The location of each group member is known on the basis of the determined location of the mobile communications device... Agent: Withers & Keys For Bell South

20080146206 - Method and apparatus for routing content between mobile communication devices: A mobile communication device (12) and method (80) for routing content between the mobile communication device and one or more other mobile communication devices, including mobile communication accessory devices, based on information within or associated with the content, such as caller identification (caller ID) information, and/or based on the available... Agent: Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha Llc

20080146208 - Method and system for bypassing media gateways in wireless networks: A call processing method and system in which the use of the MGW between the RNC and the peer party is limited to only certain situations. This invention uses RFC 3267 (AMR/IETF) on the RNC. This will avoid inserting a MGW context for framing conversion only. This invention provides an... Agent: Fay Sharpe/lucent

20080146209 - Method of transferring a telephone call from one wireless network to another; and dual mode mobile telephone terminal for implementing the method: c

20080146207 - Optimizing call setup latency for geographically dense groups: A system and method for optimizing call setup latency for geographically dense groups including updating client location information using at least one application server while the client moves from one sector to another to provide a location update; identifying and updating parameters including location update information uniquely identifying a sector... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080146210 - System and method for associating items from a group with features provided by a mobile device: A computer application is provided for associating items such as contacts with features, in a mobile device. An input mechanism such as an entry box enables a user to begin entering identifying characters, which causes a sub-list of related items to be displayed in a pop-up list box. The user... Agent: Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

20080146212 - Methods and devices for mobile communication device group behavior: Mobile communications devices that are within a pre-defined group are controlled by rules specified for the group when those mobile communications devices are within a group setting. A group setting may be dictated by the location of the mobile communications devices of the group, their proximity to one another, a... Agent: Withers & Keys For Bell South

20080146211 - Second party control over mobile device usage: A mechanism is provided whereby a parent, or other second party, can monitor and/or control a child's or other first party's wireless device usage. An interface can allow the parent to set rules for the child's usage, and can specify that the parent should receive messages when a call is... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20080146213 - Apparatus and method for providing multicast and broadcast service in broadband wireless access system: An apparatus and method for providing Multicast and Broadcast Service (MBS) in a Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) system are provided. The BWA system configures one or more areas of Access Control Routers (ACRs) as one Multicast and Broadcast Service (MBS) zone. A master MBS controller (MBSC) for synchronizing the MBS... Agent: Jefferson Ip Law, LLP

20080146214 - Method and apparatus for processing control information included in data unit in a mobile communication system: A method and apparatus for processing control information included in a data unit in a mobile communication system are provided. A receiver processes control information of a first type immediately irrespective of reordering of a received data unit, when the received data unit comprises the control information of the first... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080146215 - Radio transmission apparatus and downlink transmission control method for the same: The radio transmission apparatus includes: a transmission buffer temporarily holds transmission data to be transmitted to a radio terminal through a downlink channel; a transmission parameter determiner determines a downlink transmission parameter relating to transmission quality of the downlink radio channel based on downlink channel quality information indicating reception quality... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080146217 - Automated audio stream testing: A device translates a script command related to audio streaming in a network, and generates or receives an audio stream based on the translated script to test the network.... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080146216 - Distributed voice quality testing: A device translates a script command into a test case for testing a network, receives an audio input based on the test case, performs a quality test of the audio based on the test case, and generates a result of the quality test to determine a functionality of the network.... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080146218 - Mobile communication terminal and mobile communication method: Provided is a mobile communication terminal including: a moving-state obtaining section for obtaining a moving state of the mobile communication terminal; a path search section for determining a measurement condition including any one of the number of known signals and an interval for measuring the radio signal according to the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080146219 - Satellite radio file broadcast method: A method and system for distributing files to remote receiving units such as passenger vehicles. The method includes the steps of (a) creating a file broadcast schedule that identifies a plurality of files and that includes scheduling information indicating when the files will be transmitted, (b) sending the file broadcast... Agent: General Motors Corporation C/o Reising, Ethington, Barnes, Kisselle, P.c.

20080146220 - Cs domain call terminating system, method and network device: A CS domain call terminating system, includes a routing-controlled determination module that determines a call which has been subject to routing control in accordance with information carried in a received call initiation message. The routing-controlled determination module sends routing-controlled information of the call to a subsequent call flow control module,... Agent: Darby & Darby P.c.

20080146221 - Intelligent network services in a mobile network: A method and a system in a mobile communication system including plural mobile communications ranges, each range providing basic mobile telephony services to mobile communications units operating within the mobile communications range, wherein per subscriber, ranges per service node, such as MSC, SGSN and GSMC, are defined, whereby within each... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080146222 - Method and apparatus for protecting a core network: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for protecting a core network (102) by receiving (202) a message (302, 402) containing a mobile identity of a MS (104) and dropping (210) the message (302, 402) whenever the received mobile identity does not match a stored mobile identity associated with... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080146223 - Method and system for selecting a communication network: A method and system for selecting a communication network by a wireless communication device (106) includes receiving (310) an identification parameter at the wireless communication device from a communication network which identifies the communication network. Next, the method compares (312) the identification parameter with a list at the wireless communication... Agent: Motorola Inc

20080146224 - Push-to-talk communication system and push-to-talk communication method: The communication form of each terminal which participates in PTT communication is registered in a call control server in advance. When performing PTT communication, a call control server (100a) detects the communication form of each terminal. As a result, speech data is extracted from moving image data transmitted from a... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080146226 - Establishing cell codes for picocells within a macrocell: A wireless communication system has at least one picocell within a macrocell. A method of communicating in that system includes using a set of predefined cell codes for respectively identifying macrocells. At least one predefined cell code is used for identifying all picocells within a macrocell to the macrocell. A... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds, P.c./alcatel-lucent

20080146227 - Method for collecting interference status information of subscriber station by coexistence base station: A method and a system for collecting interference status information of a subscriber station by a coexistence base station includes: during an initialization process of a neighbor base station, after a broadcast contact message containing contact information received from the neighbor base station, a subscriber station in an overlapping area... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20080146225 - Method of identifying a device by gps coordinates: A method of identifying a device based on GPS coordinates is provided. In one embodiment a device is identified by determining earth coordinates for the device. Once the earth coordinates are determined a unique device identifier is created based at least in part on the earth coordinates of the device.... Agent: Fogg & Powers Llc

20080146230 - Fast handoff for wireless devices in a wired-wireless network: A method and apparatus for handoff of a wireless client from a first network device to a second network device in a wired network are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving data from a new wireless client at the second network device and transmitting a request for a... Agent: Cindy S. Kaplan

20080146231 - Method and apparatus for handover measurement: A UE performs pilot measurements over a frequency sub-band of serving cell and adjacent cells based on pilot symbols for used in handover. UE uses channel quality measurement result to adjust frequency sub-band and periodicity of pilot measurement. In interference coordination scheme, UE is classified into cell edge or cell... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20080146229 - Method and apparatus to facilitate maintaining a substantially uninterrupted internet protocol data session portion of a handed-off call session: One detects (101) (for example, via a wireless control node (600)) the handing off of a call session for a mobile station from either a CDMA wireless environment to an 802.16(e)-compatible wireless environment or vice versa. In either case, one then maintains (102) a substantially uninterrupted Internet Protocol data session... Agent: Utstarcom, Inc. / Fetf

20080146228 - Mobile communication system and method for packet hand-over between asynchronous communication network and synchronous communication network, and mobile communication terminal therefor: Disclosed is a mobile communication system and method for packet hand-over between asynchronous communication network and synchronous communication network, and mobile communication terminal therefor for enabling a mobile phone to be connected with a synchronous network using a call re-sending message transmitted in an asynchronous network. The mobile communication system... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080146235 - Apparatus and method for handover in a communication system: A handover method and apparatus for reducing a time delay during handover in a communication system is provided. A Mobile Station (MS) transmits a serving Base Station (BS) a first message indicating that the MS will perform handover to a target BS and the first message includes information for requesting... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080146234 - Apparatus and method for providing handover information in mobile communication system: Provided is a method for performing a handover of a subscriber station having a Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (DMB) wireless communication interface and a plurality of wireless communication interfaces for a plurality of mobile communication systems. In method, wireless communication with one of the mobile communication systems is performed using the... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080146236 - Method and system for transmitting and receiving a signal in a wireless communication system: A method and system for transmitting/receiving a signal in a wireless communication system are provided, in which an mobile station determines a sequence number of a first protocol data unit being a last received protocol data unit, transmits the SN of the first protocol data unit to a serving base... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080146233 - Mobile communication apparatus, method, and computer readable medium thereof for early measuring signal of a base station: A positioning module positions a location of a mobile communication apparatus. A processor determines whether the location falls within a predetermined range, wherein the predetermined range is equal to or greater than an effective communication coverage of a neighboring base station. If the processor determines that the location is within... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.a.

20080146232 - Neighbor list provision in a communication network: Techniques for neighbor list provision in a communication network are described. From an access terminal, a query for potential access points within communication range of the access terminal is received; and neighbor list information is provided to the access terminal. The neighbor list information is associated with available access points... Agent: Fish & Richardson Pc

20080146237 - Radio network control method and device: In a radio network control method and device which avoid a congestion state by controlling a handover request when a transportable base station is moving, when location information is received from the transportable base station, enable/disable of a handover between the transportable base station and another base station is determined... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080146239 - Method and apparatus for soft handoff between base stations using different frame formats: A method of enabling soft handoff between base stations using different signaling frame formats allows soft handoff from an origination base station supporting a lower Protocol Data Unit revision format to an alternative base station supporting a higher Protocol Data Unit revision format, as well as soft handoff between an... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080146238 - Ofdm cellular communication method, system and base station: Since the OFDM communication method does not select whether plural sectors use a same terminal as a transmission destination, or always use it as a transmission destination, giving a preference to system throughput deteriorates channel quality of a terminal in a sector boundary, while increasing channel quality in sector boundaries... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.c.

20080146240 - Call admission control for wi-fi: Call admission control within a wireless network is implemented using a service controller that manages a set of access points. The call admission control (CAC) function for a given access point determines whether the access point has sufficient unused bandwidth to handle an additional call. The service controller makes this... Agent: Law Office Of David H. Judson

20080146241 - Uplink scheduling for ofdm systems: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate scheduling transmission, upon an uplink traffic channel in Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) environments. Uplink scheduling may include user selection and rate selection. Further, user selection may be based on a token mechanism that provides control over fairness of allocation to disparate users.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080146242 - Method for requesting an uplink resource allocation during a downlink data transmission: A method is provided for a user equipment device to request an uplink transmission resource allocation from a base station. The method includes determining whether there is a need for the resource allocation, providing an uplink resource request to be combined with another message if the need for the resource... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20080146244 - Mobile node, a control method thereof, and a mobile node control program: A mobile node having two or more interfaces, a control method of the mobile node, and a mobile node control program are disclosed. The mobile node includes a generating unit to generate control information for each interface, an information providing unit for providing the control information provided by each interface... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080146243 - Wireless resource management method, wireless base station, and wireless line control station: The present invention relates to a radio resource control method for controlling a radio resource for transmitting user data via an uplink by a mobile station. A radio base station reports, to a radio network controller, at a predetermined timing, a maximum allowable transmission rate of the user data, which... Agent: Mots Law, Pllc

20080146248 - Location dependent user matching: A system for matching users of mobile communications devices comprising first and second first mobile communications devices for transmitting information defining a location of the first mobile communications device and a system administrator. The system administrator matching the first and second mobile communication devices based on information defining the respective... Agent: Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff LLP Attn: Ip Department Docket Clerk

20080146246 - Method and device for determining a location of a communications device: A method to determine a location of a communications device may include measuring a time of arrival for each pulse received at a receiver. The method may also include generating a set of possible hypothetical matches between each received pulse and a transmission path between a transmitter and the receiver,... Agent: Moore And Van Allen Pllc For Boeing

20080146245 - Method for adaptive user interface in mobile devices: A system and method for providing a zone-based user interface (UI) on a mobile device are provided. The method includes defining usage zones and associating at least one user interface with each one of the defined usage zones. When the mobile device is within one of the defined usage zones,... Agent: Conley Rose, P.c.

20080146247 - Method of and system for calibrating a repeater: A method of and system for calibrating a repeater in a wireless communications system are provided. The one or more calibration parameters for the repeater are derived from (a) time measurements derived from one or more signals relayed by the repeater and received at a plurality of different measurement positions,... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080146250 - Method and system for creating and using a location safety indicator: Provided are exemplary embodiments including a method and system for electronically conveying information regarding a geographic location. While present at a geographic position, a user may want to disseminate information concerning an attribute of the location. The user may determine the geographic position with a wireless communication device and then... Agent: Withers & Keys For Bell South

20080146249 - Method of determining and providing mobile communications location information: Introduced is a method of providing a user location information with a mobile communications device. In one embodiment, the method includes (1) determining a cell location within a communications network that is in communication with the user's mobile communications device; (2) utilizing the cell location to determine a geographic location... Agent: Hitt Gaines, Pc Lsi Corporation

20080146251 - System and method for monitoring the location of individuals via the world wide web using a wireless communications network: A system is described for monitoring the geographical location of a subscriber's mobile cellular telephone, and for providing the location information to an authorized user through the world wide web. The geographical location of the subscriber's mobile cellular telephone is tracked using registration signals transmitted over the control channel by... Agent: Merchant & Gould Bellsouth Corporation

20080146253 - Systems and methods for retrieving buffered data from an access point: Systems and methods for retrieving data from an access point within a wireless communications system are described. At least one embodiment includes a method for retrieving buffered data in a wireless communication system. In accordance with some embodiments, the method comprises transmitting a paging request to a plurality of access... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080146252 - Tandem transmission of data over signaling and paging: Systems and methods for improving data delivery latency in a wireless communication system are disclosed. The method and system can include transmitting a data over signaling (DOS) message to an access terminal in a first portion of a paging zone estimated to contain the access terminal and paging the access... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080146255 - Dynamic configuration of access point names in gateways: Methods and apparatus for maintaining access point names (APNs) at a centralized location for distribution to gateway nodes are disclosed. According to one aspect of the present invention, a method for maintaining service profile information includes receiving the service profile information from a server arrangement that is substantially external to... Agent: Cisco Systems, Inc. Scientific-atlanta, Inc.

20080146259 - Method and apparatus for parent-controlled short message service: A method of processing short message service (SMS) calls for a subscriber's communication device in a communication network is provided. The method comprises: receiving an SMS request involving the communication device at a short message service center; accessing a family access control database storing family access control information received for... Agent: Fay Sharpe/lucent

20080146258 - Method and system for monitoring high availability support system: A system for monitoring the availability of support members includes an application program (heartbeat application) that runs on a handheld device and an associated program that runs on a heartbeat server. The heartbeat application collects status information of the handheld device. The handheld device periodically transmits the status information to... Agent: Sap/blakely

20080146261 - Method of providing location services in wimax network irrespective of state of mobile station: A method of providing locations services of a mobile station in a worldwide interoperability for microwave access (WiMAX) network including an access service network (ASN) is provided. For executing a paging and location update (PLU), a serving base station transmits a scanning interval allocation response message (MOB-SCN-RSP) defined in the... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20080146254 - Process for generating, sending and receiving mms-messages, a computer program and a machine readable memory media: The invention relates to a method for the generation, sending and receiving of MMS messages and the computer programme product, for the generation, sending and receiving of MMS messages which permit the sending and receiving of MMS messages from PC to PC, from PC to mobile terminal and mobile terminal... Agent: Norris, Mclaughlin & Marcus, P.a.

20080146256 - Sharing data during a voice call using a mobile communications device, and associated user interface: Mobile communication devices can share data during a voice call, which data ay include documents, media streams, and/or any other information that can be stored on or accessible to the devices. These shared data may be associated with an item currently being accessed on or viewed by one of the... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20080146257 - Tcp over sms: A system, method, and computer program product for forming and transmitting a TCP/SMS message are presented. Steps for forming a TCP message, encoding the TCP message, and wrapping the TCP message in an SMS message are disclosed.... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080146260 - Voice data rf disk drive ic: An integrated circuit (IC) includes a baseband processing module, a disk driver interface, an RF section, and an interface module. The disk drive interface is coupled to the baseband processing module and to an off-IC disk drive, wherein the disk driver interface facilitates transfers between the baseband processing module and... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080146262 - Method of estimating the distance between two radio equipments: The method comprises a phase, applied by the first equipment (A), for estimating a first time of flight between the two equipments (A, Z) corresponding to the signal transmission time to go from one equipment to the other along a propagation path, called the “strongest path”, taken by a main... Agent: Thomas Langer

20080146263 - Wireless communication system, weak radio wave communication device, mobile terminal device, base station device, and program: In a communication system environment, access points which transmit/receive information by wireless communication, a mobile terminal which moves in a utilization environment and transmits/receives information by wireless communication, and a wireless tag of a weak radio wave which transmits/receives information by wireless communication of weak transmission power smaller than the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080146264 - Mobile communication system and controller, mobile station and method for use therein:

20080146266 - Direct memory download in a voice data and rf integrated circuit and method for use therewith: A voice data and RF integrated circuit (IC) includes an RF transceiver module that produces received data based on a received RF signal and that produces a transmitted RF signal based on transmit data. A memory module includes a first read only memory (ROM) segment for storing a first plurality... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080146265 - Method and apparatus for location-based wireless connection and pairing: A method for wireless communication between a first device and a peripheral device comprises providing a storage device adapted to store communication information for the peripheral device and being readable by the first device, the storage device being spatially separated from the peripheral device. The method also comprises positioning the... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Darby & Darby P.c.

20080146267 - Access management techniques for communications devices: Techniques involving network access are disclosed. For example, an apparatus may include multiple radio modules that may each communicate according to a corresponding wireless access technology. The apparatus may further include a storage medium and an access coordination module. Multiple consolidated access profiles may be stored by the storage medium.... Agent: Kacvinsky Llc C/o Intellevate

20080146268 - Multimodal phone data session management enhancement that alleviates dual transmission problems: One aspect of the present invention can include a dual transmit mobile communication device that includes multiple modems, a modem controller, and a data session manager. The modem controller can programmatically control the modems. The data session manager can manage data sessions of the mobile communication device. The data session... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.a.

20080146271 - Radio communication apparatus: A base unit of a radio communication apparatus of the present invention includes a controller that discriminates whether or not company identifying information transmitted from a cordless handset is specific information in connecting a line in a Bluetooth (BT) communication mode, performs communication in another radio communication standard (company's own... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20080146269 - System and method for antenna resource management in non-harmonized rf spectrum: Methods and systems are disclosed for antenna resource management in a non-harmonized RF spectrum that enable sharing of antenna structures for multiple wireless applications across different frequency bands in a global market environment and the harmonization of wireless devices in a close proximity environment. Antenna resources are allocated and managed... Agent: O'keefe, Egan, Peterman & Enders LLP

20080146270 - Voice data rf wireless network ic: An integrated circuit (IC) includes at least one baseband processing module, an RF section, and an interface. The baseband processing module converts outbound voice signal into an outbound voice symbol stream; an inbound voice symbol stream into an inbound voice signal; outbound data into an outbound data symbol stream; an... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080146275 - Combination device: The invention concerns a combination device consisting of a handheld housing. In the combination device, the functionality of a dictating device and a mobile telephone are integrated. The housing is provided with a visual display unit, an acoustic output unit, an acoustic input unit, and at least one tactile input... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20080146273 - Hinge device and method for wireless communication device: A wireless communication device includes a first housing member, a second housing member, and a S hinge pivotally connecting the first housing member to the second housing member. In certain embodiments, the S hinge comprises a left tail connected at one end to a single location along a first edge... Agent: Kyocera Wireless Corp.

20080146272 - Image networks for mobile communication: A mobile communication system based on images, enabling communication between a plurality of mobile devices and servers, wherein the images have associated additional properties in the nature of voice, audio, data and other information. The system further enabling the formation of one or more image networks wherein the images are... Agent: Courtney Staniford & Gregory LLP

20080146274 - Method and apparatus for storing image file in mobile terminal: A method and apparatus for storing an image file in a mobile terminal using a file name automatically generated when an image that matches an input image file is already stored in a phone book are provided. The method includes comparing an input image file with phone book image files... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, Plc

20080146276 - Mobile phone with a stethoscope: Disclosed herein is a mobile phone with a stethoscopic function. The mobile phone with a stethoscopic function, of which the mobile phone has communication data processing functions, comprises a stethoscopic microphone which is arranged in a body of the mobile phone; and a stethoscopic system which is embedded in the... Agent: J. Bennett Mullinax, Llc

20080146277 - Personal healthcare assistant: In one embodiment, the transceiver includes diagnostic and treatment software. In another alternative embodiment, the invention may also include a variety of data devices which are connected to the cellular phone over a wired or wireless connection. In one embodiment, a healthcare provider or healthcare facility may partially or jointly... Agent: Giaccherini

20080146279 - Radio communication apparatus, communication rate setting method, and communication rate setting program recording medium: According to one embodiment, a personal computer is configured to set automatically a communication rate for AV (audio/video) data outputted to an AV communication device to one of three levels, which are high sound quality, standard sound quality, and low sound quality, according to the number of connections of communication... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080146278 - Voice-data-rf integrated circuit: A Voice-Data-RF IC includes voice and data baseband processing modules, voice and data RF sections, and an interface module. The voice baseband processing module and the voice RF section convert an outbound voice signal into an outbound RF voice signal and convert an inbound RF voice signal into an inbound... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080146282 - Apparatus and method for identifying a sim card owner: A communications terminal is provided. The terminal has a SIM card reader that allows a user to easily identify the owner of a SIM card. Owner identification data may be stored on the SIM card, and when power is first applied to the communications terminal, the owner identification data may... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20080146281 - Cellular telephone ic and applications thereof: A cellular telephone IC includes a baseband processing module, an RF section, an audio codec, a keypad interface, a memory interface, and a display interface. The baseband processing module and RF section function to convert an outbound voice signal into an outbound RF voice signal, to convert an inbound RF... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080146280 - Smart card; communication device; method for selecting a communication network to be used by a communication device; computer program product: Smart cards, a communication device, methods for selecting a communication network to be used by a communication device, and a computer program product.... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080146283 - Configurable interface for devices: A keyboard apparatus for information entry with means for dynamically configuring a legend on a key of the keyboard apparatus. The keyboard apparatus includes means for detecting a selection of the key, and means for associating the selection of the key with the legend on the key. The legend is... Agent: Courtney Staniford & Gregory LLP

20080146284 - Mini cell phone adapter and method for extending the function of a mini cell phone: A new mini cell phone and adapter are disclosed where the mini cell phone is of the type that has restricted usage. The adapter is provided so that a user may selectively restore full functioning capability to the mini cell phone upon occasions. In addition, the adapter provides for the... Agent: Christopher D. Harrington Suite 350

20080146287 - Mobile phone with anti-mosquito function: n

20080146286 - Mobile terminal providing multiple view display and multiple view display method: A mobile terminal for providing multiple views and a multiple view display method are disclosed. The mobile terminal controls a display region so as to display at least one view for a currently executed applet, and changes display parameters included in a corresponding view according to a size of the... Agent: Jefferson Ip Law, LLP

20080146288 - Portable communication apparatus: A portable communication apparatus includes arrow keys for moving a highlight bar to select one of a plurality of information items displayed on screen and an Enter key for executing a selected information item. The arrow keys and the Enter key are disposed close to each other within one area... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080146285 - Wireless communication device with additional input or output device: A wireless communication device, such as a cellular telephone 2, and a method of displaying information on such a device are disclosed. In at least one embodiment, the wireless communication device includes a primary exterior surface 6 having first and second dimensions 26, 28, and first and second secondary exterior... Agent: Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek S C

20080146289 - Automatic audio transducer adjustments based upon orientation of a mobile communication device: A solution for automatically activating different audio transducers of a mobile communication device based upon an orientation of the device. In the solution, a series of speaker/microphone assemblies can be positioned on the device, such as positioned near an earpiece and positioned near a mouthpiece. Different speaker/microphone assemblies can also... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.a.

20080146290 - Changing a mute state of a voice call from a bluetooth headset: One aspect of the present invention can include a muting method for mobile telephones. The method can include a step of selecting a multifunction selector of a headset during a communication session. A mute toggle request can result that is conveyed to a mobile communication handset. Software within the handset... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.a.

20080146291 - Personal communications systems: A hands-free device (1) for use with communications devices (3) is provided. In response to operation of a particular user input, the hands-free device (1) causes the communications device (3) with which it is associated to call a particular number. Therefore a call to a particular number can be activated... Agent: Hayes, Soloway P.c.

20080146292 - Method for information signal distribution between communication devices based on operating characteristics of a depletable power supply used by one of the devices: A method for managing information signal distribution in a communication system (100) includes transmitting a signal containing information configured according to a first media format from a first communication device (104) to a second communication device (110). At least one of the two devices (104, 110) monitors at least one... Agent: Brinkley, Morgan, Solomon, Tatum, Etal.

20080146293 - Portable terminal having reinforcement member: A portable terminal is provided. The terminal includes a reinforcement member mounted in a housing of the portable terminal, a plurality of coupling pieces, a removable cover member, and a plurality of coupling grooves corresponding to the plurality of coupling pieces, in which a battery pack mounted in the housing... Agent: Jefferson Ip Law, LLP

20080146294 - Speaker clearance arrangement for a communication device: Disclosed is an enclosure for a speaker for a communication device. The enclosure comprises: a surface; a speaker grill located in the surface, the grill having an opening therein providing an air channel to the speaker; and at least one structure located in a first region in the surface and... Agent: Mccarthy Tetrault LLP

20080146295 - Electrically released magnet locking mechanism: A hand-held portable electronic device housing latch and release system including a permanent magnet, a magnet latch plate, a spring and an electromagnetic coil. The permanent magnet is adapted to be connected to a first housing member of a hand-held portable electronic device and the magnet latch plate is adapted... Agent: Harrington & Smith, Pc

20080146296 - Electronic apparatus and enclosure therefor: An enclosure for an electronic apparatus includes an enclosure body defining an opening. The enclosure allows a panel member to cover over the opening from the outside of the enclosure body. One is allowed to design the panel member regardless of the shape of the opening. This results in a... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080146298 - Portable electronic device and method for selecting operation mode thereof: A portable electronic device includes: first and second bodies connected to be relatively movable; a position sensing unit configured to sense at least one relative position set between opened and closed positions of the first and second bodies; s and an output unit mounted on at least one of the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080146297 - Sliding-type mechanism and portable electronic device using the same: A sliding-type mechanism for use in a portable electronic device is provided. In one embodiment, the sliding-type mechanism includes a base plate, a slidable plate and a linkage module. The slidable plate is slidably connected to the base plate. The linkage module is positioned between the base plate and the... Agent: Pce Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080139109 - Portable device with combined broadcast and web radio: The invention relates to a combined broadcast and web radio in a portable device. The device is arranged to switch automatically between broadcast radio and web accessed radio in dependence of received signal strength and quality. The device comprises: a radio receiver tunable to broadcast radio frequencies; a web radio... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080139110 - Single path architecture with digital automatic gain control for sdars receivers: An SDARS receiver includes an analog front end configured to receive a composite signal. An A/D converter is coupled to the analog front end and converts the signal to a digitized signal. A digital down converter (DDC) is coupled to the A/D converter and down converts the digitized signal to... Agent: Duane Morris, LLP Ip Department

20080139112 - Intelligent personalized content delivery system for mobile devices on wireless networks: The intelligent personalized content delivery system described herein generally includes a wireless mobile device, a mobile network infrastructure, an intelligent personalized content delivery server, and content database. The mobile device transmits the user content request to mobile network infrastructure over the wireless link to the server. Once the requested content... Agent: Vern Maine & Associates

20080139111 - Time-sharing mobile information devices over the internet: The time-sharing of mobile devices over the Internet between remote users that need access to them is disclosed. Mobile devices are distributed across the globe in target geographies and networks, and users are provided with over-the-Internet access to these devices. The mobile devices are grouped in a mobile device pool.... Agent: Morrison & Foerster, LLP

20080139113 - Methods and apparatus for rlc re-transmission schemes: A method includes sending to a receiving device from a transmitting device a Radio Link Control (RLC) re-transmission scheme selected from a plurality of RLC re-transmission schemes, and using the selected and sent scheme at least at one of the receiving device and the transmitting device. In another exemplary non-limiting... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080139115 - Method and system for a compact and power efficient local oscillator generation architecture: Certain aspects of a method and system for a compact and power efficient local oscillator generation architecture in multi-standard systems may include selection of an input frequency range of operation at a voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) based on a particular wireless band of operation. An image rejection mixer may be... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080139114 - Method for determining user location based on association with seamless mobility context: A method and apparatus that determines and reports a mobile device location based on the association of the mobile device with other nearby devices rather than based on an absolute geographic location of the mobile device. Contextual information is received by the mobile device from associated devices and transmitted via... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080139120 - Method and system for monitoring module power information in a communication device: System and method for communication are disclosed and may include, in a single chip that includes one or more on-chip devices, where the one or more on-chip devices are enabled to receive wireless signals and transmit wireless signals, receiving at a first of the one or more on-chip devices, a... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080139119 - Method and system for processing signals in a high performance receive chain: Aspects of a method and system for processing signals in a high performance receive chain may include amplifying radio frequency signals in amplifier chains in a multistandard radio frequency front-end, comprising one or more shared processing stages, and combining, with substantially equal gain, a number of phase-shifted radio frequency signals... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080139117 - Power control apparatus and method for supporting seamless mobility: A power control device (18), for use with a WPAN host device (10), and a method (30) for supporting seamless mobility in transferring content between a WPAN-enabled device and the host device, such as between a Bluetooth-enabled information source and a Bluetooth-enabled host device. The host device includes a WPAN... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20080139116 - Wireless communication method, device and system for establishing a connection: A method for a user to establish a wireless connection between a wireless portable computing device and a wireless-equipped device in an industrial or electrical power or distribution plant. Actions of the method are carried out by a second computer program that provides information in a graphical user interface display... Agent: Venable LLP

20080139118 - Wireless communications circuitry with simultaneous receive capabilities for handled electronic devices: Handheld electronic devices are provided that contain wireless communications circuitry. The wireless communications circuitry has simultaneous reception functions that allow the handheld devices to simultaneously receive multiple communications signals in a single communications band. The handheld electronic devices may include cellular telephones with music player functionality or other portable devices.... Agent: G. Victor Treyz

20080139121 - Communication device for connecting a blue tooth handset to an indoor phone: A communication device for connecting a blue tooth handset to an indoor phone comprises a blue tooth handset being a wireless mobile handset and having a blue tooth transmission module; an indoor phone connected to a wired phone system; an integrating device arranged to a front end of a phone... Agent: Ching Yuan Wang

20080139122 - Rds encoder for fm transmitter: The present invention provides a FM transmitter with Radio Data System (RDS) data transmission capability. In one embodiment, an RDS circuit is implemented in firmware. The firmware is configured in one or more stages to allow the RDS system to be integrated with a variety of FM transmission systems.... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080139123 - Method and system for single chip wlan and bluetooth radios on a single cmos substrate: Aspects of a method and system for single chip WLAN and Bluetooth radios on a single CMOS substrate are presented. Aspects of the system may include a WLAN receiver circuit within a substrate of a single chip that enables reception of WLAN signals, and a Bluetooth receiver circuit within the... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080139124 - Method for pointing high-gain antennas to reduce interference in mobile networks: A method for reducing interference in a mobile network is provided. The method includes determining locations of a plurality of nodes in the mobile network; steering at least one antenna at a node in the plurality of nodes in the mobile network; estimating intensity of signals from the at least... Agent: Klein, O'neill & Singh, LLP

20080139125 - Automatic network configuration apparatus and method between short-range wireless terminals: Provided are an automatic network configuration apparatus and method between short-range wireless terminals. The apparatus includes a storing unit for storing a threshold range value for determining adjacency with an adjacent wireless terminal, a wireless environment compensation constant in a present wireless environment, and a network configuration parameter for automatic... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080139126 - Method for measuring variable bandwidth wireless channel and transmitter and receiver therefor: Provided are a method for measuring a variable bandwidth wireless channel, and a transmitter and a receiver therefor. The transmitter, includes: a pre-processing unit for performing variable over-sampling and band-limited filtering on an original sequence for measuring the wireless channel according to a pre-determined digital-to-analog (D/A) operation speed and measurement... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080139127 - Method and apparatus for signal searching: A method and corresponding apparatus for searching for a signal is presented. The apparatus may be configured to select a first bin within a range of bins characterizing an uncertainty region. The bins may represent a phase within a bandwidth of interest. The apparatus may also be configured to compare... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.c.

20080139128 - Rfic with dynamically controlled power amplifier: A radio frequency (RF) front-end includes a power amplifier module and a power amplifier control module. The power amplifier module is coupled to amplify an outbound RF signal in accordance with a control signal to produce an amplified outbound RF signal. The power amplifier control module is coupled to generate... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080139129 - Power saving in a transmitter: A transmitter comprises a power amplifier which has an amplifier power-supply input and an output to supply a transmission signal with an output power. A power supply has power supply outputs to supply a first power supply voltage and a second power supply voltage. A switching circuit is arranged between... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20080139131 - Switched impedance transformer for semiconductor circuits: A method of providing an impedance match for an integrated semiconductor circuit to other microwave elements is provided by allowing the selection of one of a plurality of impedance matching ratios between the circuit and other elements. The tunable impedance match comprises a microwave impedance transformer with at least a... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080139130 - System and method for initiating communication in a cellular network: Systems and methods are provided for a cellular network to receive and decode access probes. A wireless device transmits an access probe spread with a PN code to a cellular network. The transceiver to which the wireless device is associated with can receive and decode the access probe. Additionally, other... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20080139132 - Method and system for a linearized transmitter including a power amplifier: Various aspect of a system for a linearized transmitter including a power amplifier may include at least one transconductance amplifier that enables generation of a single analog quadrature signal. Transmitter mixers may enable generation of a plurality of upconverted RF signals in a corresponding plurality of RF processing chains based... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080139133 - Transmission rate control method and mobile station: A radio base station notifies a maximum allowable transmission rate of uplink user data to a mobile station by using a common transmission rate control channel. The mobile station increases the transmission rate of uplink user data up to the maximum allowable transmission rate by a predetermined step. When a... Agent: Mots Law, Pllc

20080139134 - Transmission rate control method, radio base station and radio network controller: The present invention provides a transmission rate control method for controlling the transmission rate of uplink user data, including the step of; a radio network controller notifies to a radio base station and a mobile station an effective period of an absolute transmission rate control channel, when a call is... Agent: Mots Law, Pllc

20080139137 - Method for creating multiple-input-multiple-output channel with beamforming using signals transmitted from single transmit antenna: The present invention discloses a method for generating a beamformed multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) channel. The method comprises receiving by a first wireless station a first plurality of signals transmitted from a first antenna on a second wireless station, deriving by the first wireless station a second plurality of signals corresponding to... Agent: L. Howard Chen Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis, LLP

20080139135 - Method, system and apparatus for the control of transmit diversity: A method, apparatus and system for modifying a transmit diversity signal comprising receiving at least one input parameter, calculating at least one virtual parameter based on the at least one input parameter, converting the at least one virtual parameter into an actual parameter, and modifying a transmit diversity signal based... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20080139136 - Multiple-input multiple-output wireless antennas: High gain, multi-pattern multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) antenna systems are disclosed. These systems provide for multiple-polarization and omnidirectional coverage using multiple radios, which may be tuned to the same frequency. The MIMO antenna systems may include multiple high-gain beams arranged (or capable of being arranged) to provide for omnidirectional coverage. These... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20080139138 - Transmission circuit: A transmission circuit capable of transmitting a modulated wave signal using polar modulation in a broad band and with low power consumption is provided. The transmission circuit generates an amplitude signal and a phase signal based on data to be transmitted, and separates the amplitude signal into a low-frequency amplitude... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.l.p.

20080139139 - Method and system for a transmitter loft cancellation scheme that maintains iq balance: Methods and systems for a transmitter LOFT cancellation scheme that maintains IQ balance are disclosed. Aspects of one method may include providing current compensation to both differential inputs of a mixer for each of I and Q channels. An initial current compensation of X units may be provided, followed by... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080139142 - Filter circuit and radio communication apparatus: There is provided with a filter circuit, including: an input terminal configured to input signals; a band stop filter configured to have a center frequency of input signals from the input terminal in a stop band and configured to reflect signals in the stop band that is included in the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080139141 - Method and system for estimating and compensating non-linear distortion in a transmitter using data signal feedback: Aspects of a method and system for estimating and compensating for non-linear distortion in a transmitter using data signal feedback are presented. Aspects of the system may include a method and system by which predistortion values, for compensating for non-linear distortion, may be computed based on feedback signals generated in... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080139140 - Signal predistortion in radio transmitter: A transmission signal to be transmitted from a radio transmitter is predistorted in order to compensate for the signal distortion caused by a power amplifier. The transmission signal and a signal modeling a power supply voltage applied to the power amplifier are compared with distortion properties of the power amplifier... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.l.p.

20080139143 - Method and system for calibrating a plurality of modules in a communication system: A method and system for calibrating a plurality of modules in a communication system is provided. The method may include selecting a plurality of modules with at least one output signal and calibrating an amplitude of each selected module to be within a specified range if the amplitude is out... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080139145 - Method and system for level detector calibration for accurate transmit power control: Methods and systems for level detector calibration are disclosed and may comprise calibrating a level detector integrated on-chip to eliminate an associated zero input offset voltage utilizing a replica bias circuit with no input ac voltage at the level detector or the replica bias circuit. The offset voltages of the... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080139144 - Method and system for mitigating a voltage standing wave ratio: Methods and systems for mitigating a voltage standing wave ratio in a transmitter are disclosed and may comprise calibrating an output power of a power amplifier integrated within a chip using a resistor that models an impedance of an antenna that is externally coupled to the amplifier while the antenna... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080139146 - Method and system for optimizing transmit power of a power amplifier using a battery voltage (vbat) monitor: Methods, systems, and machine-readable code for optimizing transmit power of a power amplifier using a Vbat monitor are disclosed and may comprise adjusting the gain of gain stages in a transmit path based on a control signal that is a function of a supply voltage signal, among other variables, derived... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080139147 - Method and apparatus for mobile internet protocol registrating or deregistrating: A method for implementing MIP registration or deregistration includes obtaining, by a physical entity in which a destination MIP Foreign Agent (FA) resides, an identity of a mobile terminal (MT ID) and address information of an anchor proxy mobile node or an authenticator; sending a message carrying the MT ID... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080139148 - Providing channel filtering in an automatic frequency control path: In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for filtering an incoming signal in a channel filter of an automatic frequency control (AFC) loop to obtain a filtered incoming signal, generating a frequency offset from the filtered incoming signal in the AFC loop, removing the frequency offset from the... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, Pc

20080139149 - Method and apparatus for receiving radio frequency signals: A frequency conversion receiver comprises a passive mixer, a Low-Noise Amplifier (LNA) and a balun. The low-noise amplifier generates an amplified single-ended signal responsive to a single-ended receiver input signal. The passive mixer generates a mixer output signal responsive to a differential mixer input signal and a four-phase local oscillator... Agent: Coats & Bennett, Pllc

20080139150 - Method and system for mitigating the effects of pulling in multiple phase locked loops in multi-standard systems: Certain aspects of a method and system for mitigating effects of pulling in multiple phase locked loops in multi-standard systems may include selecting an input frequency range of operation at a voltage controlled oscillator based on a particular wireless band of operation in a system that handles a first wireless... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080139152 - Apparatus and method for controlling voltage gain in ultra wideband receiving apparatus: Provided is an apparatus and method for controlling a voltage gain in an ultra wideband receiving apparatus. The apparatus includes a register for storing an Automatic Gain Control (AGC) value detected in a section where an AGC operation control signal is “ON”; and a voltage gain controller for generating a... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080139151 - Method and system for sharing lna circuitry in a single chip bluetooth and wireless lan system: Aspects of a method and system for sharing low noise amplifier (LNA) circuitry in a single chip Bluetooth and wireless local area network (WLAN) system are disclosed. Aspects of the system may comprise a chip with integrated WLAN and Bluetooth radios. RF signals may be received via a single antenna... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080139153 - Antenna configuration selection using outdated channel state information: Systems and methods for antenna configuration selection using weighted outdated channel state information are shown. Outdated channel state information may be used in combination with statistical channel information for estimating channel state information according to embodiments of the invention. For example, by combining channel state information, weighted by its temporal... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.l.p

20080139154 - Method and system for using a multi-rf input receiver for diversity selection: Aspects of a method and system for signal processing are disclosed and may include receiving a plurality of wireless signals via a plurality of M receive antennas. Each of M phase shifters coupled to each of the M receive antennas may be set to operate in a bypass mode or... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080139157 - Partitioned radio-frequency apparatus and associated methods: Radio-frequency (RF) apparatus includes receiver analog circuitry that receives an RF signal and provides at least one digital signal to receiver digital circuitry that functions in cooperation with the receiver analog circuitry. The receiver analog circuitry and the receiver digital circuitry are partitioned so that interference effects between the receiver... Agent: Law Offices Of Maximillian R. Peterson

20080139156 - Rf receiver with fast baseband switching: A receiver includes a plurality of RF receiver modules, a plurality of analog baseband sections, a plurality of analog to digital conversion sections, and a digital baseband processing module. The RF receiver modules convert inbound RF signals into a plurality of inbound analog signals. When the receiver is in a... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080139155 - Techniques to reduce radio frequency noise: Various embodiments to reduce radio frequency noise are described. An apparatus may comprise a mobile computing device having a radio frequency noise reduction module to disable a radio frequency noise source in response to a receive active signal from a radio receiver. Other embodiments are described and claimed.... Agent: Kacvinsky Llc C/o Intellevate

20080139158 - Method and system for a transformer-based high performance cross-coupled low noise amplifier: Aspects of a method and system for a transformer-based high performance cross-coupled low noise amplifier may include one or more circuits that integrate within a single chip, a balun with a low-noise amplifier. A DC current biasing path for the low-noise amplifier may be provided through the integrated balun. The... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080139159 - Method and system for configurable active/passive mixer and shared gm stage: Aspects of a method and system for configurable Active/Passive Mixer and Shared GM Stage may include configuring an RF mixer in frequency demodulator to operate in an active mode or a passive mode. An in-phase (I) processing path and a quadrature (Q) processing path of the RF mixer may utilize... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080139160 - Apparatus and method for tuning a band pass filter: A tunable band pass filter is provided. The tunable band pass filter includes a band pass filter and a plurality of switches coupled to the band pass filter. The band pass filter includes a plurality of transconductors and a plurality of capacitors. The tunable band pass filter can be configured... Agent: Wang Law Firm, Inc.

20080139161 - Method for compensating transmission carrier leakage and transceiving circuit embodying the same: The application discloses embodiments of methods and/or systems for compensating a transmission carrier leakage of an up-conversion mixer, a tranceiving circuit or apparatus embodying the same. One embodiment of a method can include detecting an I channel DC offset DCI0 and a Q channel DC offset DCQ0 generated by a... Agent: Muir Patent Consulting, Pllc

20080139162 - Method and system for a shared gm-stage between in-phase and quadrature channels: Aspects of a method and system for a shared GM-stage between in-phase and quadrature channels may include processing an in-phase (I) component signal for the I channel and a quadrature (Q) component signal for the Q channel via one or more shared transconductance stages in a frequency demodulator. The I... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080139163 - Semiconductor circuit for wireless receiving provided with controller circuit for controlling bias current: A constant voltage source supplies a bias current to a wireless receiver circuit. A bias current detector circuit detects the bias current, and outputs a detection result to a current controller circuit. The current controller circuit outputs the detection result of the bias current to a memory circuit. The current... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.l.p.

20080139164 - Balanced mixer with calibration of load impedances: A calibration device (CC) is coupled to a balanced circuit device (MC) comprising first and second outputs respectively provided with first (Z1) and second (Z2) load impedance means. This calibration device (CC) comprises adjusting means (ADM) arranged to adjust said first (Z1) and second (Z2) load impedance means into a... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20080139168 - Apparatus and method of explicit indication of call from emergency call centre: A method of identifying an emergency call received on a mobile device includes receiving a call from an emergency call center. In association with the call, an emergency signal is received, indicating that the call is an emergency call. Information is displayed on the mobile device to identify the emergency... Agent: David B. Cochran, Esq. Jones Day

20080139167 - Communications control method and apparatus: A communications controller is provided for empowering the user of a communications device, such as a telephone or other device, to assume control over incoming communications. Each originator of a communication is identified by unique identification information as information associated with an incoming communication. The user of a receiving communication... Agent: Beusse Wolter Sanks Mora & Maire, P. A.

20080139165 - Disaster response system for conveying a situation status and location of subscribers and for initiating preconfigured response plans: The present solution includes a method for reporting a status indicator using a mobile device during a disaster. In the method, a status indicator can be entered into a mobile communication device. The status indicator can he communicated to a disaster response system. The disaster response system can also automatically... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.a.

20080139166 - Reducing call setup delays from non-call related signaling: Methods and apparatus are provided for reducing call setup delays resulting from non-call related signaling. In session initiation protocol (SIP) messaging, SIP session setup messaging can have the same priority for placement on the airlink to a mobile phone as other non-call session setup messaging. Method and apparatus for providing... Agent: Wilmerhale/new York

20080139169 - Portable telephone: Position information is communicated with improved reliability and accuracy. A standby state in step S1 is followed by step S2 where entry of an emergency call instruction is awaited. Upon entry of an emergency call instruction (Yes), a detailed positioning notification is carried out in step S3. In step S4... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080139170 - Call management protocol for insufficient credit: A method and system for operating a telephone service are disclosed, in which callers with insufficient credit or network airtime are able to contact a call recipient. The network monitors call attempts from callers to identify call attempts from callers with insufficient credit or airtime to make a call. When... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20080139171 - Prepaid cellular phone no-charge transaction system: A no-charge transaction service method and apparatus for prepaid cellular telephones is provided which utilizes a prepaid cellular telephone in conjunction with a wireless intelligent network coupled to a prepaid cellular service provider. The user enters a short code to indicate a top-up request or other transaction request along with... Agent: Erickson & Kleypas, L.l.c.

20080139172 - System and method for conducting a subscriber communications equipment lease and usage service program: A system and method for providing a telecommunications lease and usage service program. A method may include billing a subscriber of a telecommunications carrier for leasing communications equipment, and billing the subscriber usage charges for use of the leased communications equipment. The communications equipment may be a mobile telephone. The... Agent: Patton Boggs, LLP

20080139173 - Access network system, base station device, network connection device, mobile terminal, and authentication method: A technology for providing an access network system that can reduce the load of a connection authentication of a connection to an access network, upon dividing authentication into the connection authentication of the connection to the access network and a connection authentication of a connection to an external IP network,... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20080139174 - Method, apparatus and computer program enabling the counting of devices in an authorized domain: The exemplary embodiments include a method that involves determining a logical device count for individual ones of a plurality of devices in an authorized domain; calculating a sum of the logical device counts; and comparing the sum with a maximum allowable number of devices for the authorized domain, where the... Agent: Harrington & Smith, Pc

20080139175 - Service providing apparatus, service providing program and service providing method: A service providing apparatus has a first communication unit, a connection information generator, an existence detector, an existence confirmation request receiver, a connection information transmitter, an authentication unit, and a service providing unit. The second communication unit performs wireless communication with the service receiver located in a second wireless area... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080139176 - Method and system for displaying message information in mobile communication terminal: A method and system that can display information about messages that are not stored because sufficient space to store a message does not exist in a mobile communication terminal are provided. A method of displaying message information using a message server and mobile communication terminal includes storing at least two... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, Plc

20080139177 - Providing a server agent for a mobile device with refresh: The invention enables one or more agents to gather information from at least one server on a network and automatically provide this information to an inbox on a server and then providing it to an inbox on a mobile device if a wireless connection to the mobile device is available.... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Darby & Darby P.c.

20080139178 - Privacy protection device for hands-free function: Acoording to an exemplary embodiment of the invention, when a mail is received, the mail content is analyzed by a message analysis circuit performing analysis according to a keyword set in advance and read operation of the mail of the hands-free function is controlled, thereby enabling privacy protection in the... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080139182 - Connected audio and other media objects: Media objects are transformed into active, connected objects via identifiers embedded into them or their containers. In the context of a user's playback experience, a decoding process extracts the identifier from a media object and possibly additional context information and forwards it to a server. The server, in turn, maps... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20080139183 - Managing features available on a portable communication device based on a travel speed detected by the portable communication device: A portable communication device detects a current speed of travel of the portable communication device independent of any vehicle temporarily transporting the portable communication device. A speed based setting controller of the portable communication device compares the current speed to at least one threshold value set at the portable communication... Agent: Ibm Corp (ap) C/o Amy Pattillo

20080139181 - Methods and apparatus for measuring the effectiveness of advertisements presented on a mobile navigation device: A system and method for measuring the effectiveness of an advertisement presented on a mobile navigation device is described. The information is stored on the device and then accessed by a server or the advertiser. The method involves tracking device location, presenting to the user an advertisement or point of... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP (sv3)

20080139180 - System and method for call completion on busy subscriber (ccbs) - feature in a wireless communications network: Disclosed are systems and methods that allow user-initiated call completion after receiving a busy signal to a called number. The user initiates a request, which is routed to an USSD application server (18). In certain embodiments, the USSD application server (18) may perform the following process: receiving a USSD request... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080139184 - Unstructured supplementary service data call control manager within a wireless network: A system and apparatus for call control management using the Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) protocol. The system and apparatus uses USSD messages between the wireless private network subscriber and a wireless network to provide subscribers with information about callers and routing options of the call. The subscriber can also... Agent: Myers Wolin, Llc

20080139179 - Wireless advisor support and data integration system: In one general aspect, a financial advisor support method is disclosed that includes presenting on a wireless handheld device a list of accounts of different types held by a household entity at different institutions, receiving through the wireless handheld device account selection commands for a selected account in the list... Agent: Kristofer E. Elbing

20080139185 - Transmitting an assignment through wireless transmission: A customer automatically receiving an assignment on his wireless device without the need to visit a reservation desk is provided. When the customer initially makes a reservation with a vendor, a computer records the wireless device's identification. When the customer arrives at or near the vendor's location, the system creates... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.c.

20080139186 - Establishing communications sessions: A method of establishing a communications session in a communications system is disclosed. The communications system comprises a caller terminal (103), a mobile terminal (101) associated with the caller terminal (103), a callee terminal (115) associated with a callee and session initiation means (111,113). It has become common yet frustrating... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, Pc

20080139188 - Method and arrangement for establishing a conference call: A method and arrangement for establishing a conference call from a mobile station in a call centre environment. A user may choose conference call participants from his mobile phone, and a client application in the mobile phone will communicate relevant parameters to the call centre server, which will then call... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080139187 - Session establishment in a group communication system: Systems and methods for establishing a limited group communication in a wireless communication system are disclosed. The method and system can include generating a group connection request for k respondents, where k is less than a total number of group members. Invite messages can be transmitted to the group members.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080139189 - Local media cache with leader files: An apparatus and method for providing media content to electronic equipment includes transferring media content to the electronic equipment, and using rules to determine how pre-existing media content and the cached media content are stored in memory when free memory in the electronic equipment is insufficient to store the cached... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080139190 - Method and device for inhibiting interruption of a running application by an event: The present invention proposes a methodology implementable in form of a hardware or software module for inhibiting interruption of a running application by an event according to a selected non-disturbance profile, said event occurring on a mobile device.... Agent: Hollingsworth & Funk

20080139191 - Content adaptation: A system includes a mobile device and an optimization server. The mobile device is capable of transmitting request data that includes a requested webpage and identification data. The optimization server is configured to receive response data that corresponds to the request data from a content server, to adapt the response... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080139192 - System and method for controlling the use of a wireless device: Preferred embodiments of the present invention provide for enabling a user to select telephone numbers to which a wireless device may place calls and from which the wireless device may receive calls. One preferred embodiment of the present invention includes software for use on a general purpose computer allowing the... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP/ At&t Delaware Intellectual Property, Inc.

20080139193 - Method, computer program product, and apparatus for providing communications with at least one media provider: Methods, computer program products, and apparatuses are provided for allowing a user to communicate with a set top box and a media content server through a mobile communication device, such as a cellular phone. The user may be able to request and receive a customer specific interactive programming guide through... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080139194 - Compensation for frequency adjustment in mobile communication-positioning device with shared oscillator: In a mobile communication device, a method for compensating for a frequency adjustment in an oscillator shared between a communication circuit and a positioning signal receiver is provided. In one embodiment, the method begins to receive and store a positioning signal at a first time point. When, at a second... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080139196 - Method and apparatus to separate coverage limited and co-channel limited interferences: Coverage and usage-based limitations to a wireless communications network can be estimated by monitoring network performance during a periods in which the network is relatively busy and relatively non-busy. For example, differences in distributions of bit error rates for calls in such time periods can be used to assess whether... Agent: Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP/seattle

20080139197 - Optimizing network performance for communication services: A system to optimize network performance for a use application provides a probe application (20) that is provided by a network server (122) for downloading by a mobile device (102). The probe application monitors a level of performance for various use applications provided by the network for the mobile device,... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080139195 - Remote access for mobile devices: Remote testing of a Mobile Device or Mobile Application while that device is located in a target Carrier Network is disclosed. A person, or an automated program, running the test remotely (“Remote Tester”) or (“Remote Automation Script”), does not need to be present in the target Carrier Network, and can... Agent: Morrison & Foerster, LLP

20080139198 - Radio access point testing apparatus and method of testing radio access point: A reception sensitivity is measured at a high precision. An access terminal function portion includes the transmitter part and receiver part of a communication terminal in a radio communication system. A path switch part effects switching to connect the input ends of receivers to antennas or to terminate them. The... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.c.

20080139199 - Method and system for communicating a message attachment: A method and system for transmitting electronic messages. The system includes a messaging application executing on a computer. The messaging application is operable to receive from a message sender an electronic message having an attachment associated therewith, operable to communicate the electronic message to the mobile communication device via a... Agent: Danamraj & Emanuelson, P.c.

20080139200 - Preventing self-induced interference in dual-radio device: In a wireless device that includes two different radio transceivers that communicate in two different wireless networks, wireless transmissions from one radio in the first network may be timed so that they do not coincide with wireless receptions by the other radio in the second network. A non-wireless interface between... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, Llc

20080139201 - Method for distributing data, adapted for mobile devices: A method for distributing data in a heterogeneous network. The method operates on a private mobile network, which includes a mobility server, mobile components and fixed components, on which the mobility server includes data storage units that store data on behalf of network members, at least some of such data... Agent: Haynes Beffel & Wolfeld LLP

20080139202 - Method and system for prompting roaming state of called user: A method and a system for prompting a roaming state of a called subscriber are disclosed. The method includes that a calling party initiates a call to the called subscriber to a network side (201); and after receiving the call request (202), the network side obtains roaming state information (205,... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20080139203 - Access terminal session authentication: In addition to other aspects disclosed, a radio access network authenticates the identity of an access terminal using a session identifier and another identifier (different from the session identifier). The session identifier and the other identifier are provided by the access terminal.... Agent: Fish & Richardson Pc

20080139205 - Method and apparatus for supporting handover in a communication network: Various embodiments are described to better facilitate handover, particularly unsolicited handover, in communication networks. Generally, embodiments of the present invention allow for the ASNs (access service networks) (131 and 141) that may be selected for handover by a remote unit (101) to begin receiving information related to such a handover... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080139204 - Wireless network handover apparatus, method, and computer readable medium for dynamic handover: A wireless network handover apparatus receives a request signal from a mobile apparatus and then allocates services of the base stations to the mobile apparatus according to the request signal. After allocation, the handover apparatus transmits a report signal to other base stations via a handover gateway. Therefore, services of... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.a.

20080139207 - Apparatus and method for handover in a communication system: An apparatus and method for performing a handover in a communication system are provided, in which an MS transmits a BR code to a base station, requesting a bandwidth for transmission of a handover indication message, is allocated a bandwidth for transmission of the handover indication message according to the... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080139206 - System and method for restricting mobility in wireless networks: This invention provides a method, system and apparatus for controlling mobility on a wireless network, which includes retrieving a network mobility preference, the network mobility preference indicating a level of mobility service for the mobile station, the level of mobility service indicating the extent to which the mobile station can... Agent: Christopher & Weisberg, P.a.

20080139208 - Communication system: A method of transmitting data from a node, such as a session node including any network node, located in a first network to one of a plurality of devices located in a second network, said method comprising; determining that another device connected to the node is located in the second... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.c.

20080139210 - Client device method and apparatus for routing a call: A telecommunication method, server and system that route an outbound telephone communication initiated by a wireless remote device through an enterprise communication network. The system also routes an incoming call to a device associated with an enterprise communication network to a plurality of telephony devices including wireless devices and other... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080139209 - Control of call delivery and call forwarding of telecommunication connections, especially in multi-device configurations: The invention relates to a method and a system for controlling an arrangement of a configuration comprising two or more user devices (multi-device configuration) of telecommunication user devices in a public telecommunication network. According to the invention, the supplementary services of the public telecommunication network associated with the first user... Agent: Baker & Daniels LLP 111 E. Wayne Street

20080139211 - method and system for spectrum reuse in the uplink in a wireless communication network: A method of managing communication in the wireless communication network having a plurality of Base Stations (BSs) is provided. Each BS provides communication to one or more Mobile Stations (MSs) in an associated cell. The method includes re-using at a BS, channel allocated to collocated BSs to communicate with MSs... Agent: Global Ip Services, Pllc

20080139212 - Apparatus and method for interoperation of various radio links with a piconet link in a wireless device: The various embodiments provide a mobile station having at least a first and a second radio transceivers wherein a medium access control (MAC) layer framework coordinates the transmission and reception of the at least a first and a second transceiver systems. In addition, the various embodiments employ asynchronous connectionless links... Agent: Motorola Inc

20080139214 - Methods and apparatus for allocating cell radio network temporary identity: The present invention describes that the C-RNTIs are grouped based on the random access preamble sequence, the transmission sub-frame and the transmission random access channel information used for the user equipment and detected by the base station. In such a way, the indicating information bits needed by C-RNTI allocation are... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080139213 - Power-efficient intelligent reception: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method, system, apparatus, receiver module, and computer program product which may provide a power-efficient reception. In an example embodiment, at least one spectrum available for a desired communication may be scanned, and available communication channels may be categorized based on at least... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP

20080139215 - Apparatus and method for providing data service in portable terminal: Provided are a method and an apparatus for providing a high-speed data service in a portable terminal which supports a 1X-Evolution Data Only (EVDO) system. The method includes if an access to an EVDO data service is performed, setting whether a voice service is to be used; and determining whether... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080139216 - Method of requesting resources, method of allocating resources, and apparatus thereof using bandwidth request ranging in mobile communication system: A method of requesting resources, a method of allocating resources, and an apparatus therefor by using bandwidth request ranging in a mobile communication system are provided. The method of allocating uplink resources to a subscriber station by using bandwidth request ranging in a mobile communication system includes: transmitting an uplink... Agent: Jefferson Ip Law, LLP

20080139217 - Location-based services that choose location algorithms based on number of detected wireless signal stations within range of user device: A location beacon database and server, method of building location beacon database, and location based service using same. Wi-Fi access points are located in a target geographical area to build a reference database of locations of Wi-Fi access points. At least one vehicle is deployed including at least one scanning... Agent: Wilmerhale/boston

20080139219 - Hybrid locating method and system for locating a mobile terminal in a wireless communications network: Method of hybrid location in a wireless system includes a terminal having both a satellite receiving section and a cellular receiving section operating according to at least a first and a second locating mode; a locating center having a position calculation module and a wireless communication channel between said terminal... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080139218 - Method for processing location information request initiated by a user equipment: The present invention discloses a method for processing location information request initiated by a User Equipment (UE), which comprises: a target UE requests a Central Network (CN) for location information; the CN obtains a location estimate of the target UE and sends the location estimate of the target UE to... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080139220 - Method of providing location services in wimax network: There is disclosed a method of providing location services in a worldwide interoperability for microwave access (WiMAX) network. The method includes: at a serving base station of a mobile station, receiving a location service request of the mobile station; transmitting a scanning interval allocation response message (MOB-SCN-RSP) defined in a... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20080139221 - System for providing address using geocoding application programming interface in open service platform: A system for providing an address using a geocoding application programming interface (API) in an open service platform and a method thereof are provided. The system includes an application server which performs an address service and a function of a web server, a location information server which provides location information... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080139225 - Apparatus and method for displaying a call history: The present invention relates to a mobile communication terminal. The mobile communication terminal includes a display unit; a storage unit for storing communication records and communication frequencies of each of the communication records in a particular time period; and a processing unit, configured for controlling the display unit to display... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080139222 - Presence detection and location update in premise gateways: Described herein are methods and systems operable to detect the presence of clients and communicate their location updates in separate gateway devices, wherein the clients and their functions are physically or logically separated from the gateway functions in the premise gateways, yet state changes in the clients are recognized in... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20080139223 - Software program and method for offering promotions on a phone: The present invention includes a method and software application for providing a promotion to a user on a phone. The software application resides on a user's phone and “listens” for phone numbers dialed by a user. In response to the user dialing a phone number, the software determines whether a... Agent: Tina Lessani

20080139224 - Software program and method for providing promotions on a phone: The present invention includes a method and software application for providing a promotion to a user on a phone. The software application resides on a user's phone and “listens” for phone numbers dialed by a user. In response to the user dialing a phone number, the software determines whether a... Agent: Tina Lessani

20080139226 - System and method for implementing a selective paging model for use in a multi-access environment: A system by which paging can be performed to support global reachability in a heterogeneous multi-access environment independently on a particular radio access network architecture. Various embodiments of the present invention provide methods for performing generic paging in heterogeneous multi-access networks based on incoming traffic and its characteristics, producing a... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080139229 - Cellular multiscreen system: A cellular multiscreen system forms an image which can be a frame of a video or still image, divides that image into a number of parts, and sends each part to a different cellular telephone. The cellular telephones which receives the images collectively can display the images so that one... Agent: Fish & Richardson, Pc

20080139227 - Standby scratch pad: Disclosed is a method and apparatus that allows users of portable communications devices to enter a message that includes text, symbols, numbers and/or a combination thereof and subsequently select an appropriate application for the message. For example, the user may enter a message using a user input device (e.g., a... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080139228 - Text-based initiated call bridging: A computer implemented method for establishing a phone call between parties is provided. The method includes receiving a text message at a server. Then, processing the text message at the server to identify a type of call requested in the text message and the parties to connect. Two or more... Agent: Mpg, LLP And Yahoo! Inc.

20080139230 - Unstructured supplementary service data application within a wireless network: A method is provided for handling a call communication session via a communication address associated with a private network using Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) protocol. USSD messages are used between the wireless private network subscriber and a wireless network to provide the subscriber with information about the caller, and... Agent: Myers Wolin, Llc

20080139231 - method and system for spectrum reuse in the downlink in a wireless communication network: A method and system for managing communication in a wireless communication network is provided. The wireless communication network includes a plurality of Base Stations (BS). Each BS provides communication to one or more Mobile Station (MS) in an associated cell. The method includes reusing at a BS one or more... Agent: Global Ip Services, Pllc

20080139232 - Estimation based approach to determine the retransmission timeout value for access probe retransmissions: Systems and methods for reducing latency in a group communication system including transmitting an access probe; establishing predetermined criteria relating to communication parameters; and setting a retransmission timeout value at a communication device based upon the predetermined criteria, wherein the retransmission timeout value is an amount of time the communication... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080139236 - Method and apparatus for transmitting data: An apparatus, comprises an interface (113) receiving first data scheduled for a first set of channels by a remote scheduler (107). A local scheduler (111) allocates data for a second set of channels in response to a power usage assumption of the power used by the remote scheduler (107). A... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080139235 - Method and arrangement for improved outer loop power control: A method for improved outer loop power control in a communication system, comprising collecting (S1) quality measurements for a plurality of sub-block within a received coding block; mapping (S2′) the collected sub-block level quality measurements to a block level quality measure, and adjusting (S3′) the inner loop power control requirement... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, Pc

20080139234 - Method to adjust forward transmission power control threshold in mobile communication system: The present invention relates to a method for adjusting forward transmission power control threshold in a mobile communication system, comprising the following steps of: setting in advance at the base station side an overload control threshold and an adjustment range of the power control threshold of sector forward transmission power;... Agent: Darby & Darby P.c.

20080139233 - Power control method and apparatus for wireless communication system: Open loop transmit power calculations made by a wireless communication receiving device use only the portion of the received signal power that is due to the transmitting device serving the wireless device, rather than using the total received power from all transmitting devices. In one embodiment a discernable signal trait... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.l.p

20080139237 - Wideband reference signal transmission in sc-fdma communication systems: Embodiments of the invention provide methods for transmitting reference signals (RS) from user equipments (UEs) in wireless communication systems. These RS are used, among other functions, by a serving base station to schedule data transmission from UEs and perform power and timing control of the UE signal transmissions. The RS... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080139238 - Passive filter selectivity with precise resolution for integrated circuit radios: An integrated circuit radio transceiver and method therefor includes a parallel resistive circuit that provides high resolution to resistive circuitry in a hardware efficient manner for use in a plurality of applications including active filters requiring a precise bandwidth, voltage sources that require a precise voltage output, and current sources... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080139240 - Communication device capable of operating in a plurality of communications systems: A communication device capable of operating in a first and a second communications systems includes a radio signal transceiver module, a first reception module for receiving signals from the first communications system, a first transmitting module for transmitting signals to the first communications system, a second reception module for receiving... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080139241 - Mobile radio terminal: If an outgoing call is generated, a control unit discriminates on the basis of various tables stored in a memory unit whether or not a system waiting for incoming calls is set with top priority in PRL, whether or not the outgoing call is an outgoing call of a preset... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, Pc

20080139239 - Techniques to share multimedia and enable cellular phone conference calling using ad-hoc wireless networks: An embodiment of the present invention provides an apparatus, comprising a wireless handset operable in a wireless wide area network (WWAN) and a wireless local area network (WLAN) and wherein the wireless handset is adapted to transmit and receive voice and/or data communications from at least one voice or data... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, Llc

20080139242 - Wireless communication terminal and control method: A wireless communication terminal, which performs wireless communication with base stations using each of a first communication method and a second communication method and enables to be in an idle state with both methods, having a setting section that sets a suspend time for detecting an incoming call from the... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.l.p.

20080139243 - Communications device capable of simultaneously operating in a dual-band cdma communications system and a dual-band gsm communications system: A communications device capable of simultaneously operating in a dual-band CDMA communications system having a cellular and a PCS CDMA communications systems and a dual-band GSM communications system having a GSM 900 and a GSM 1800 communications systems includes a radio signal transceiver module, a CDMA module, a GSM module,... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080139244 - Method for adding characterization data during an image capture: The invention is in the field of digital imaging. The invention relates more specifically to a method for automatically adding and finding characterization data linked to images. The method is implemented in a cellular communications network (1). The method according to the invention is used in a cellular communications network... Agent: Eastman Kodak Company Patent Legal Staff

20080139245 - Mobile terminal and schedule management method using the same: A mobile terminal and schedule management method using the same. The method includes: setting a schedule, the schedule including an alarm time, planned event time, planned event and a destination; and information about the location of the scheduled destination from a map search feature. A current location of the mobile... Agent: Cha & Reiter, Llc

20080139247 - Communication apparatus: A communication device communicates with another communication device via an information managing device. The communication device includes a transmitter unit, a storage unit, and a control unit. The transmitter unit transmits presence information to the other communication device via the information managing device. The storage unit stores a program. If... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, Pc

20080139246 - Information processing apparatus: According to an aspect of the invention, there is provided an information apparatus including: a first generation unit configured to generate an information of whether an external recording medium is inserted into the information processing apparatus; and a storage unit configured to store the information.... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, Pc

20080139249 - Automatic setup system and method of ubicell base station: A Ubicell base station includes a Ubicell base station, one or more Ubicell core network elements, and an integrated management server. The Ubicell base identifies position information thereof using a GPS module, and at a time of setup, provides environment setting information including the position information thereof. Each Ubicell core... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20080139248 - Method for dynamic uplink sounding region allocation: The present invention discloses a method for allocating an uplink sounding region dynamically to obtain downlink channel quality information (CQI) about a downlink channel. The method comprises receiving a downlink transmission request and retrieving an identification information from the downlink transmission request, searching one or more databases using the retrieved... Agent: L. Howard Chen Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis, LLP

20080139252 - Folder type mobile telephone and operating method thereof: A folder type mobile telephone and control method therefor are provided which utilize an auxiliary display unit viewable whether the folder is opened or closed. The folder type mobile telephone includes an auxiliary display unit and a main body having a main display unit. The folder type mobile telephone includes... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20080139250 - Information processing apparatus: According to an aspect of the invention, there is provided an information processing apparatus including: a first display unit configured to display on a standby screen a first indicative information indicating a first unconfirmed information having higher priority than a short-cut function of activating a predetermined function associated beforehand by... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, Pc

20080139251 - Push-to-talk over cellular system, portable terminal, server apparatus, pointer display method, and program thereof: The present invention provides a PoC portable terminal capable of performing edit and information addition on a display screen on which screen information relating to a group telephone conversation is displayed. When a push button of a key operation part 15 is pushed down, a portable terminal 1 becomes a... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, Pllc

20080139253 - Presentation of an operator indicator: In order to request the presentation of an operator indicator in a user's terminal having a first mobile terminal connected to a first cellular radiocommunications network, the operator is related to a second mobile terminal whose call number is stored in the user's terminal and is transmitted therefrom to a... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney Pc

20080139254 - Wireless telephone headset built into eyeglasses: The present invention relates to a wireless telephone headset for communicating with a wireless device, wherein the headset is built into an eyeglass frame, which includes a first temple and a second temple connected by a middle portion and the eyeglass frame has an interior and exterior portions. The headset... Agent: Hess Patent Law Firm, P.c.

20080139255 - Blue tooth hand free transmission assembly: A blue tooth hand free transmission assembly, comprises a blue tooth mobile phone having blue tooth transmission function, a blue tooth hand free transmission device capable of being connected to the blue tooth mobile phone through blue tooth protocol; and sound and data from the blue tooth mobile phone being... Agent: Ching Yuan Wang

20080139256 - Mobile station and method for providing ultra power-saving mode in mobile station: Provided are a mobile station and a method for providing an ultra power-saving mode in a mobile station. The method for providing an ultra power-saving mode in a mobile station includes: inactivating a communication function in a standby mode of the mobile station; extracting a DRX (discontinuous reception) cycle length... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080139258 - Port cover opening/closing device for portable terminal: A port cover opening/closing device for a portable terminal to open or close a plurality of port covers using a single cover dummy is disclosed. The device includes a cover opening; a first sliding cover and a second sliding cover slidably combined along the longitudinal direction of the cover opening... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080139257 - Portable electronic device incorporating rheological material: A portable electronic device (32, 50, 60, 90) and method is provided wherein the portable electronic device embodies a flexible structural form that may be made rigid for use. The portable electronic device (32, 50, 60, 90) comprises a housing (10) including a plurality of blocks (12, 82) contiguously positioned... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.c. (mot)

20080139259 - Folding type mobile terminal: A mobile terminal having a first body, a second body pivotally attached to the first body, the second body being movable between an open and a closed position, and an input device at an exterior surface of the mobile phone that is exposed when the second body is in the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080139260 - Electronic device: An electronic device comprises a first part having a first surface and a second part having a second surface confronting the first surface. The electronic device further comprises a slide module comprising a sledge part fixed on the first surface and a base part fixed on the second surface. The... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.l.p.

20080139261 - Magnetic levitation sliding structure: A magnetic levitation sliding structure is provided. The sliding structure includes a first slider member including a guide portion with a first magnet, a second slider member including a receiving portion with a channel-shaped second magnet, the receiving portion being configured to receive the guide portion so as to slide... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Attn: Patent Docket Dept.

20080139262 - Multiband frequency selective filter: A multiband frequency selective filter is assembled on a housing or an antenna module of a small portable device. The multiband frequency selective filter comprises at least two overlapped substrates. Each substrate includes a dielectric base and a conductive layer. The conductive layers respectively form unit cells. The unit cells... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080132161 - Method for end-user provision of internet multimedia subsystem services: The present invention provides a method for providing multimedia services. The method includes receiving, at an application server, a request for at least one multimedia service from a first end-user device and determining whether said at least one multimedia service is provided by a second end user device. The method... Agent: Mark W. Sincell Williams, Morgan & Amerson, P.c.

20080132162 - Apparatus, method, and computer program product for obtaining broadcast content: An apparatus is provided for obtaining broadcast content disseminated by a broadcaster with which a perceiver of content is in unilateral communication. The apparatus includes a communications unit configured to receive a message from the content perceiver, the message including time information associated with the content and source information for... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080132163 - Systems and methods for distributing information through broadcast media: There are disclosed systems, methods and processes for the distribution of information, typically digital information that is distributed actively, through broadcast media such as television and radio, displays, such as signage, etc., or passively, through displays such as signage or the like. The information can be captured from broadcasted transmissions,... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan Prtsi, Inc.

20080132165 - Small-sized radio frequency type repeater: A small-sized Integrated Radio Frequency Type Repeater includes first and second Service (transmitting) Antennas, a Junction circuit part with RF type (200) which plays the role of relay, a Shield Box (400) which protects the first and second Service Donor (receiving) Antennas (310, 320) and a Junction circuit part (200)... Agent: Flynn Thiel Boutell & Tanis, P.c.

20080132164 - System and method for extension of wireless footprint: A system and method for communicating through a host repeater. Data is received from a remote repeater communicating with a wireless device. The host repeater registers as the wireless device on a wireless network. The data is reformatted for transmission between the wireless devices and the wireless network.... Agent: Patton Boggs, LLP

20080132166 - System and method for controlling power in a communication system: A method and system for controlling power in a communication system are provided, in which an relay station calculates the capacity of a first channel between a base station and the relay station, an mobile station calculates the capacity of a second channel between the relay station and the mobile... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080132170 - Location-based services that choose location algorithms based on number of detected access points within range of user device: A location beacon database and server, method of building location beacon database, and location based service using same. Wi-Fi access points are located in a target geographical area to build a reference database of locations of Wi-Fi access points. At least one vehicle is deployed including at least one scanning... Agent: Wilmerhale/boston

20080132167 - Multimedia distribution using a near field communication capable wireless communication device: A wireless communication device includes a Near Field Communication (NFC) interface, a transceiver, and a controller. The NFC interface receives data related to multimedia content from an external NFC tag responsive to establishing an NFC link with the NFC tag. Based on the received data, the controller establishes a communication... Agent: Coats & Bennett/sony Ericsson

20080132168 - Portable communication device with detachable wireless headset: A portable communication device such a mobile phone is disclosed which may be configured to communicate using a wireless personal area network (WPAN) protocol and one or more wireless local area network (WLAN), wireless metropolitan area network (WMAN) or wireless wide area network (WWAN) protocols. The portable communication device includes... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, Llc

20080132169 - Wireless communication system and wireless communication apparatus: A wireless communication system includes a terminal and a host. The terminal includes a reflector that receives an unmodulated carrier and transmits a modulated reflected wave on which data is superimposed. The host includes a reflected wave reader that reads data from the modulated reflected wave. The host periodically transmits... Agent: Robert J. Depke Lewis T. Steadman

20080132171 - Apparatus and method for compensating for audio signal distortion in mobile terminal: A method for compensating for audio signal distortion in a mobile terminal includes generating a digital audio signal at a gain, amplifying the digital audio signal into an amplified audio signal, reproducing the amplified audio signal, determining whether the amplified audio signal is distorted on the basis of at least... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, Plc

20080132172 - Wireless communication apparatus and wireless communication method in multicarrier communication: A wireless communication apparatus capable of raising the throughput in a multicarrier communication. In the wireless communication apparatus, a subcarrier block deciding part (207) decides the number of subcarriers per subcarrier block in accordance with a fading frequency notified through a notification signal. The greater the fading frequency Δf is,... Agent: Dickinson Wright Pllc

20080132173 - Channel estimation apparatus and channel estimation method: Channel state indication signals are transmitted to communication stations via wireless channels and SINR (Signal to Interference and Noise Ratio) values of the channel state indications signals or channel environment parameters according to the SINR values are received from the communication stations as feedback signals. A channel estimation apparatus includes:... Agent: David A. Einhom, Esq. Anderson Kill & Olick, P.c.

20080132174 - Method and system for adaptive ray launching: A system (170) and method (300) for ray launching is provided. The system can include a transmitter (110) for successively launching a plurality of rays, and a receiver (120) for receiving transmission rays and reflection rays. A controller (141) can be included for selectively adjusting an angular spacing and eliminating... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080132175 - Method and system to support scalable application level communication between mobile device and a centralized application server: A method and apparatus for limiting an amount of information transmitted between user equipment and a server. The method comprises generating local information for transmission, forwarding the local information to a filter, determining a local information type, filtering the local information based upon a preset filter criterion corresponding to the... Agent: Telcordia Technologies, Inc.

20080132176 - Current consumption reduction with low power amplifier: A transceiver circuit and a method in a wireless communication network are provided, where a signal power level for a signal received at the transceiver circuit is measured and compared to a predefined threshold power level. At least two groups of power amplifiers may be used, where one group is... Agent: Harrity Snyder, L.l.p.

20080132177 - Method and system for a flexible automatic frequency control (afc) design supporting transmit diversity: Aspects of a method and system for a flexible automatic frequency control (AFC) design supporting transmit diversity are presented. Aspects of the system may include one or more circuits that enable computation of at least one frequency error value based on one or more previous computed frequency error values, current... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080132178 - Performing automatic frequency control: Embodiments may be used to control a controllable element that has a nonlinear but monotonic relationship with a control value. In such embodiments, a system may perform control by receiving an error value corresponding to an error of an output signal from the controllable element, and determining the control value... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, Pc

20080132179 - Communication terminal, and communication method for communication terminal: A communication terminal includes a base station antenna and the like, a measurement unit, a key operation unit, a memory, and a transmission control unit. The measurement unit acquires element information from a radio wave. A message is entered at the key operation unit. A plurality of types of element... Agent: Osha Liang L.l.p.

20080132180 - Lossless transmit path antenna switch circuit: A system (200) for lossless transmit path antenna switching in a transceiver using quadrature combined power amplifiers is provided. The system is comprised of a quadrature (90°) hybrid power combiner (218) having a first and a second input port (260, 264), an isolated port (266), and an output port (262).... Agent: Darby & Darby (formerly Sacco & Associates)

20080132181 - Method and system for configurable calling mode: A system (100) and method (200) for managing group call is provided. The method can include assigning (210) time windows (140) to a plurality of mobile devices (110) in a group call, and balancing PTT requests (220) among the plurality of mobile devices in accordance with the time windows to... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080132182 - Digital intermediate frequency transmitter for wireless communication: A digital intermediate frequency transmitter for a wireless communication is disclosed. In accordance with the present invention, an improvement of a modulation quality such as an EVM, a linearity and a power consumption is possible, and a main characteristic of a wireless communication transmitter may be embodied at a low... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, Llc

20080132183 - Base station, radio line control station, and radio communication method: A base station (10) according to the present invention includes: a plurality of amplifiers (15a, 15b) configured to amplify radio frequency signals; a plurality of antennas (16a, 16b) configured to transmit the RF signals amplified by the plurality of amplifiers (15a, 15b); a judging unit (123) configured to judge whether... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080132184 - Method and arrangement for mutual information based power control: In a method for power control in a telecommunication system, the transmit power is adjusted based on at least the mutual information expression or a representation thereof. According to one aspect the transmit power for a coming slot is controlled based on the previously received slots, wherein an estimated quality... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, Pc

20080132185 - Wireless communication enabled meter and network: A meter enabled for wireless communication and a wireless communication network are disclosed. A meter enabled for wireless communication comprises a metering device, a wireless communication system and an interface between the two. Meter data can be read, and the meter can be controlled via communication with a wireless network... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080132186 - Device and method for controlling radio-frequency power in wireless terminal: A device and method for controlling radio-frequency power in a wireless terminal are provided, by which radio-frequency power transmitted from the wireless terminal to a base station is flexibly controlled and transmitted. The device includes a memory that stores an RF power table including the types of power control levels,... Agent: Jefferson Ip Law, LLP

20080132187 - Personal multi-media playing device: A multi-media playing device is provided which enables personal, user-defined programming by allowing a user to select, store and retrieve media programming according to the user's personal preferences. In an exemplary embodiment, an audio playing device enables a user to define, select and refine channels by categories, such as “sports”,... Agent: Ibm Corporation (rvw)

20080132188 - Pico-cell system for wireless access having micro climatic control combined with pay telephones for data communication installations in harsh environments: A pico-cell wireless radio system, that has a pico-base transceiver station (pico-BTS), for wireless data communication within a climate controlled micro-environment is disclosed. The system fits in public phone enclosures, such as pay phone enclosures, and operates in combination with the phone system. The system uses a combination of available... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20080132189 - Mixing dac and polyphase filter architectures for a radio frequency receiver: A receiver (200) includes a mixing digital-to-analog converter (DAC) (208), a direct digital frequency synthesizer (DDFS), a transimpedance amplifier (TIA) (204) and a first polyphase filter (PPF) (202). The mixing DAC (208) includes a radio frequency (RF) transconductance section for providing an RF current signal responsive to an RF signal... Agent: Larson Newman Abel Polansky & White, LLP

20080132190 - Method and system for delay matching in a rake receiver: Certain aspects of a method and system for delay matching in a rake receiver are disclosed. Aspects of one method may include compensating for a delay associated with at least one or both of the following in a rake receiver: a control channel and a data channel, prior to individual... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080132191 - Image rejection calibration system: Image rejection calibration includes initializing the calibration mode by applying to quadrature mixers, in place of the wanted RF input, an RF source in the frequency range of the wanted RF input, sensing the power output from the poly-phase filter, developing gain adjust and phase adjust correction values in response... Agent: Iandiorio & Teska Intellectual Property Law Attorneys

20080132192 - Multi-band receiver: A multi-band receiver for converting RF signals in different bands into IF signals in digital multimedia broadcasting (DMB) or digital audio broadcasting (DAB) is provided. The multi-band receiver includes an amplification unit amplifying the at least three RF signals, a voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) generating at least three basic oscillator... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080132193 - Circuits, systems and methods for frequency translation and signal distribution: Circuits systems and methods for frequency translation and signal distribution includes a downconverter circuit having first and second inputs coupled to receive respective first and second input signals, and an output for providing a downconverted output signal. The downconverter circuit includes a mixer circuit, a first switch, and a second... Agent: Clifford B. Perry

20080132194 - Sub-harmonic mixer: A sub-harmonic mixer is provided, which includes: a mixer core having first and second transistors performing switching operations in response to a local oscillator (LO) signal and a radio frequency (RF) signal; a power source applying bias maximizing nonlinearity of a transistor included in the mixer core; an RF port... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080132195 - Interface/synchronization circuits for radio frequency receivers with mixing dac architectures: A receiver (1300) includes a mixing digital-to-analog converter (DAC) (1306), a direct digital frequency synthesizer (DDFS) (132A) and an interface (134D). The mixing DAC (1306) includes a radio frequency (RF) transconductance section (1308) and a switching section (1310). The RE transconductance section (1308) includes an input for receiving an RF... Agent: Larson Newman Abel Polansky & White, LLP

20080132196 - Method and medium for analyzing environment of device and device using the same: Provided are a method and medium for analyzing an environment of a device and a device using the same. A device may include a vibration unit to cause the device to vibrate, a sensing unit to sense vibration of the device, wherein the sensed vibration forms a vibration pattern and... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080132200 - In-vehicle emergency call apparatus: A start trigger of an emergency call occurs. In this case, an in-vehicle emergency call apparatus mounted in a vehicle does not transmit all the positional data items presently stored in a memory unit to a service center. Alternatively, the in-vehicle emergency call apparatus transmits only the newest positional data... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080132198 - Method and system for providing location information for mobile internet calling devices: A method and system for providing location information for a mobile Internet calling device are described. The method and system include receiving client information from the mobile Internet calling device coupled with a network at a location and providing the mobile Internet calling device with the location information corresponding to... Agent: Sawyer Law Group LLP

20080132199 - Portable radio device having emergency notifying function, emergency notification apparatus, and emergency notification system: A portable radio device, an emergency notification apparatus, and an emergency notification system are provided. The portable radio device 10 has an emergency button that can be operated by the user of the device 10. When the button is operated, an identification data is added to the date and time... Agent: Griffin & Szipl, Pc

20080132197 - Verification of communications network-derived location information: A system and method that tests emergency services location information and provides virtually instantaneous feed-back to a technician in the field, monitoring center or both. A location of a mobile communications device is determined by the technician via independent means and a call is placed to a special test number.... Agent: Michelle A. Zarinelli C/o West Corporation

20080132201 - Methods, devices and computer program products for tracking usage of a network by a plurality of users of a mobile phone: Methods for tracking usage of a network by a plurality of users of a mobile phone include associating a plurality of user accounts with the mobile phone, where ones of the plurality of user accounts correspond to ones of the plurality of users of the mobile phone. Usage of the... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.a.

20080132203 - System and method for assigning a personalized indicium to a mobile communications device: In one embodiment, a scheme is provided for assigning a personalized indicium to a mobile communications device which includes logic means operable to generate a temporary Personal Information Number (PIN) for transmitting in a request to a network node. Upon validating the request, a response is provided by the network... Agent: Research In Motion Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20080132202 - System and method of connection control for wireless mobile communication devices: Systems and methods of connection control for wireless mobile communication devices enabled for communication via a plurality of communication connections are provided. Connection control information associates software applications with communication connections. When a connection request specifying a requested connection is received from a software application, it is determined whether the... Agent: Patent Group 2n Jones Day

20080132205 - Method and system for device identity check: The method is for checking an identity of devices in a device management system in a mobile telecommunication network. The system has devices to be managed, a server-side device management application, a client-side device management application, databases, and an interface between the device management applications. The server-side device management application... Agent: Fasth Law Offices (rolf Fasth)

20080132207 - Service access control interface for an unlicensed wireless communication system: e

20080132204 - System and method for updating at least one attribute stored at a mobile station: A method for updating at least one attribute stored at a mobile station comprises determining a mobile station hash that is representative of a set of attributes that is currently stored at the mobile station and determining a desired hash that is representative of a set of desired attributes desired... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080132208 - System and method of deleting a call log and message log in a mobile phone: A system and method of automatically deleting logged calls and messages in a mobile phone, in order to maintain security and protect privacy. The system and method employ the operations of: selecting a log deleting management database from a menu; inputting a password; displaying types of log deleting management database... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.l.p.

20080132206 - Wireless communication system, wireless communication device, authentication method of wireless communication device, and program: There is provided a wireless communication system in which a plurality of wireless communication devices form a network in an autonomous distributed manner. Each of the plurality of wireless communication devices includes an identification information acquirer that acquires, from another wireless communication device that satisfies a predetermined condition, the identification... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080132209 - User interface methods and apparatus for processing voice call requests from a mobile station based on communication conditions: User interface methods and apparatus for processing voice call requests based on communication conditions of a mobile communication device are disclosed. The mobile communication device includes one or more processors, a wireless transceiver coupled to the one or more processors, and a user interface which includes a visual display. A... Agent: John J. Oskorep, Esq. One Magnificent Mile Center

20080132210 - Method and apparatus for enhanced identification of individual(s): The present invention provides a method (200) and apparatus (700 and 800) for identifying individuals in a crowd. The method comprises the steps of selecting an identification signal (204), sending the identification signal (206) to the electronic device (802) of an individual/individuals to be identified by using an electronic device... Agent: Motorola, Inc

20080132212 - System for customizing electronic services for delivery to a passenger in an airborne wireless cellular network: The Customized Electronic Services Delivery System provides customized electronic services to passengers who are located onboard an aircraft by storing data indicative of a plurality of electronic services that are available to passengers who are located onboard an aircraft, as well as data indicative of preferences of passengers for the... Agent: Patton Boggs LLP

20080132211 - System, method and apparatus employing tones and/or tone patterns to indicate the message type in wireless sensor networks: A system and method for operating a wireless network provides for sending a wakeup tone, periodically waking up from a sleep mode to listen for the wakeup tone, upon receiving the wakeup tone, listening for at least one second tone, the at least one second tone being one of (i)... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080132213 - Method and system for measuring and displaying current weather conditions within wireless cellular phones at the cellular phone's current location: A system and method for measuring and displaying current weather conditions on wireless cellular phones are shown. An electronic weather system collects current weather information data from sensors within wireless cellular phone using a collection program and assembles the data in the cellular phone's memory. An internal program is used... Agent: Danny Rittman

20080132214 - Geographically constrained network services: A method and system are disclosed for determining the geographic location of a user communicating on a communications network such as the Internet. In one embodiment, a provider of a product or service: (a) receives the user's phone number (or other identification for contacting the user's station), and (b) supplies... Agent: Dennis J. Dupray % Sheridan And Ross

20080132215 - User initiated invite for automatic conference participation by invitee: A mobile device, system, and method are directed towards enabling a user, virtually on the fly, to invite another user to participate in an on-line conferencing session, by providing a link that automatically enables the other user to participate in the conferencing session. In one embodiment, the conferencing session is... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Darby & Darby P.c.

20080132216 - Forwarding messages via intermediate telephones: In various embodiments, a source telephone receives message data and an identifier of a destination telephone, either from a user interface or from an origin telephone. In response to detecting that the source telephone is not located within a cell, the source telephone selects an intermediate telephone that is connected... Agent: Ibm Corporation Rochester Ip Law Dept. 917

20080132219 - Method and apparatus for preconditioning mobile devices for network and other operations: Techniques are provided for providing automated configuration of computing devices. More particularly, principles of the invention may use anticipated context to precondition a device whose operational mode is alterable via computer controllable operations. Anticipated context may be affected by any number of parameters including, but not limited to, current location,... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080132218 - Method and apparatus for starting applications: A method and apparatus for letting a user of a mobile device start an application by dialing. The number is either trapped by the mobile device, which starts an application that may connect to a server, or the server gets a signal from the mobile device, and sends back a... Agent: Gibbons P.c.

20080132217 - Systems and methods for managing services for carrier subscribers and migrating them to service bundles: There is disclosed a system and method for managing service for carrier subscribers and migrating them to service bundles. In an embodiment, the method comprises obtaining a list of existing services to which a subscriber is subscribed; comparing the list of services to available service bundles; determining if there is... Agent: Fasken Martineau Dumoulin LLP

20080132220 - Barrier operator system and method using wireless transmission devices: A system includes a wireless speech transmission device that communicates a wireless transmission of speech representing data in a first protocol via a wireless network. The speech representing data conveys substantially noise-free human speech. A wireless speech communication device receives the speech representing data in the first protocol via the... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin And Flannery

20080132221 - Alert methods and apparatus for call appointments in a calendar application based on communication conditions of a mobile station: Alert methods and apparatus for call appointments in a calendar application based on communication conditions of a mobile station are disclosed. Calendar information for an appointment in the calendar application is received and stored in memory. The calendar information is associated with a date and time of the appointment. In... Agent: John J. Oskorep, Esq. One Magnificent Mile Center

20080132224 - Generic access to the iu interface: Some embodiments provide a method of registering a user equipment (UE) in a communication system that includes a licensed wireless communication system and a generic access network (GAN) that has a generic access network controller (GANC). The method sends a register request message from the UE to the GANC that... Agent: Adeli & Tollen, LLP

20080132223 - Systems and methods for providing traffic information: A method distributing traffic information includes: receiving location and identification information from a first wireless device; calculating a speed of the first wireless device; and transmitting data selected from the group consisting of speed, location, and identification information of the first wireless device to a second wireless device.... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080132222 - Wireless communication using a picocell station having its own phone number: A communication system includes a communication device that has its own picocell station phone number. Any one of a plurality of authorized mobile stations communicates over an air interface with the communication device such that the mobile station can participate in a call or a communication session using the picocell... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds, P.c./alcatel-lucent

20080132225 - Control method for network configuration measurements: The negative impacts on a user equipment (UE) caused by the UE's support in network self-configuration and optimization is limited to an acceptable level by controlling user equipment measurements in a network to configure neighbor lists; requesting one or more measurements; the user equipment performing measurements in one or more... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20080132227 - Apparatus and method for operating a communications device in a mobile communications network: Apparatus and a method for handling discard of a service data unit in universal mobile telecommunications system user equipment. Strategies for the radio resource control entity to handle discard of a service data unit by the radio link control entity are presented.... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080132226 - Call management in a telecommunications system: A system and method of covertly monitoring a communications device, the method that includes using a separate monitoring device to monitor a monitored communications device, without any indication of the monitoring being received by the monitored communications device.... Agent: Kevin J. Mcneely, Esq.

20080132228 - Seamless call switching in a dual mode environment: Methods and apparatus for providing a seamless switching of voice calls between different wireless networks are disclosed. In one illustrative example, a mobile communication device has a processor and one or more wireless transceivers coupled to the processor. The one or more wireless transceivers include a first transceiver portion operative... Agent: John J. Oskorep, Esq. One Magnificent Mile Center

20080132229 - Multimode roaming mobile devices: A mobile device for roaming between wireless communications networks in different geographical regions is provided. The mobile device includes an interface configured to transmit and receive signals over a wireless channel according to a communication mode using one of a plurality of access technologies. The device also includes a store... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.l.p.

20080132230 - Method and apparatus for controlling discontinuous transmission and reception: A method and apparatus for controlling discontinuous transmission and reception are disclosed. A Node-B schedules an offset for discontinuous transmission (DTX) and/or discontinuous reception (DRX) for a user equipment (UE) and sends the offset to the UE. The UE then shifts the DTX and/or DRX pattern based on the received... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.c. Dept. Icc

20080132231 - Methods and systems to support mobility between wireless local area network (wlan) and wireless wide area network (wwan) domains: Methods and systems to facilitate mobility of devices between WWAN and WLAN systems/domains are described herein. A mobile station is registered with a preferred system/domain and a non-preferred system/domain and uses one or more public identities and one or more associated private identities to perform registrations over the preferred and... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080132234 - Apparatus and method for utilizing the transport layer to provide measurement opportunities for the physical layer in a multi-mode network: A Mobile station (200) comprises a data application layer (215), a transport control layer (213) using TCP or UDP, a Radio Link Control layer (RLC) (211), a Medium Access Control layer (MAC) (209), and two or more radio technology Physical Layer (PHY) components, such as PHY I (203), PHY II... Agent: Motorola Inc

20080132233 - Method for operating two radio communication systems: In a case where the radio coverage of first and the second radio communication systems, each including a plurality of radio stations, overlaps at least partially, a message containing operating instructions for organization of communication within the second radio communication system is sent from the first radio communication system to... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080132235 - Method to facilitate pre-provisioning a wireless access point with a one-time password to facilitate authorized handoffs for a given communication session: A server automatically determines a path by which a mobile device will likely move to a particular geographic destination and service times during which this particular mobile device will likely receive service with respect to this communication session at various ones of a plurality of wireless access points. This server... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080132236 - Mobile communication terminal and method for notifying handover operation: A voice interruption, which occurs during handover between mobile communication networks that are different from each other, is notified to a speaker. A mobile communication terminal, which has a function to handover between mobile communication networks that are different from each other, has a notification unit that performs a notification... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, Pllc

20080132237 - Relocation controlling apparatus in wireless communications network: A storing device stores a list composed of a plurality of pieces of identification information corresponding to a plurality of access service networks. A controlling device starts a relocation process for changing an access service network connected to a connectivity service network to an access service network at a relocation... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080132232 - Wireless communication terminal: A wireless communication terminal includes: a plurality of communication sections, each of the communication sections communicating with one of a plurality of communication systems; a threshold value setting section that sets a threshold value for each of the communication sections for determining a quality of signals received by the each... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.l.p.

20080132238 - Wireless network handover apparatus, method, and computer readable medium for dynamic handover: An apparatus for changing wireless network service receives a signal from a mobile apparatus, and transmits the signal to an apparatus for allocating wireless network service. The apparatus for allocating wireless network service allocates the base stations to the mobile apparatus according to the signal. Therefore, the base stations can... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.a.

20080132239 - Method and apparatus to enable hand-in for femtocells: Some embodiments provide a method of identifying a list of Femtocell Access Points (FAPs) for a user equipment (UE) communication session in a communication system including a first wireless communication system and a second wireless communication system. The second wireless communication system includes multiple FAPs and a Femtocell gateway (FGW)... Agent: Mani Adeli, Esq. Adeli & Tollen LLP

20080132240 - Method of transmitting data in handover between base stations in wireless communication system: The present invention relates to a method of transmitting data in a handover between base stations. When a mobile terminal performs a handover between base stations in a wireless communication system, a gateway transmits data traffic to be transmitted to a mobile terminal by using an IGMP (Internet Group Management... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080132241 - Method and apparatus to facilitate using a path to dynamically schedule wireless access point support for a given communication system: A server (502) that is participating in a communication session with a mobile device (400) determines (101) that this mobile device has need for a given amount of bandwidth in service of a given communication session while moving with respect to a plurality of wireless access points to a particular... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080132242 - Radio resource allocation and radio system: There is provided a radio system, having a receiver for receiving cell measurement data with respect to an own cell and adjacent cells of each user terminal of a plurality of cells of the radio system; a calculation unit for comparing resulting interference values of different user terminal combinations within... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.l.p.

20080132243 - Device and method for providing location information on a portable mobile communications device: A portable mobile communications device and method of providing location data of other portable mobile communications devices as icons on a map display is presented. An area of interest is shown as a map on the portable mobile communications device display. An application determines the on-line presence status of one... Agent: Moore And Van Allen Pllc For Semc

20080132245 - Method and apparatus for surreptitiously triggering the collection of data from a lost wireless communications device equipped with audio and/or video collection means: A method for locating a wireless communications device WCD (102). The method includes the step of receiving at the WCD (102) a wireless transmission comprising a first auto-location trigger signal. The WCD (102), responsive to the first auto-location trigger signal, operates in an auto-location mode. The auto-location mode includes the... Agent: Motorola C/o Darby & Darby Pc

20080132246 - Mobile control apparatus: Vehicle maintenance-related services are provided from a server over a wide area network, such as the Internet. Under one method, a server that is accessible over the wide area network through a wireless communication link is provided. Then, in a vehicle, an apparatus is provided to collect, over a data... Agent: Trimble Navigation Limited C/o Wagner Blecher

20080132244 - Subscriptionless location of wireless devices: Techniques for locating wireless devices involve a wireless device making measurements of signals transmitted by geographically distributed base stations within a wireless network. If some key site information is known about these transmitters, such as the transmitter location, transmit signal power, signal propagation, and transmit signal timing, measurements of these... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20080132248 - Combined map and positioning service for a mobile terminal device and a server for implementing the same: This invention relates to positioning a mobile terminal device at the request of a user and indicating location on a map base that is downloaded to a mobile terminal device. Particularly, the invention relates to downloading a map where the location of the mobile terminal device that requested the service... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20080132247 - System for automatically determining cell transmitter parameters to facilitate the location of wireless devices: Several techniques for locating wireless devices involve the Mobile Stations (MS) making measurements of the signals transmitted by geographically distributed base stations within a wireless network. If some key site information is known about these transmitters, such as the transmitter location, transmit signal power, signal propagation, and transmit signal timing,... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20080132249 - Local caching of map data based on carrier coverage data: A mobile computing device comprising a transceiver circuit configured to communicate with a wireless network. The mobile computing device includes a memory configured to store a wireless network coverage data and a geographic data; a location determination circuit configured to provide a location data for the mobile computing device; and... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080132250 - Position privacy in an electronic device: A privacy enhancement device for electronic device such as a cellular telephone. The privacy enhancement device may include a jammer which may produces false information, e.g. false information indicative of pseudo ranges. In addition, the navigation information used on the position detecting device may be locally stored versions of dynamically... Agent: Scott C Harris

20080132251 - Geo-tagged journal system 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

20080132252 - Network manager system 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

20080132258 - Method and apparatus for barring short messages: A method for barring short messages and a mobile device which utilizes the same are provided. The mobile device is configured to receive a plurality of short messages from a message center, and includes a storage unit for storing short messages. The method of the present invention includes the following... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.l.p. (main)

20080132253 - Method of responding to a call and mobile communication terminal for implementing the same: A method of responding to a call and mobile communication terminal implementing the same are disclosed. The present invention includes a call request receiving step of receiving a call request from a calling party, a text message preparing step of preparing a text message, and a message communication step of... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080132257 - Methods and apparaus for requesting wireless communication device performance data and providing the data in optimal file size: Methods, systems, devices and computer program products are presented for requesting wireless device performance data and providing an optimal file size for the performance data. Present aspects provide for estimating the size of requested performance data, at the time of the request, and assessing other factors, such as requesting party... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080132259 - System and method of providing access to instant messaging services via a wireless network: Systems and methods for providing access to instant messaging services are described in this application. In one aspect, embodiments of the present disclosure include a method, which may be implemented on a system, of receiving a request to access an instant messaging service from a mobile device through a first... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20080132256 - Telecommunication system and method for transferring sms messages between terminals and intelligent network services: A telecommunication system for transferring SMS messages between a first terminal and at least one second terminal or intelligent network service. The system comprises a mobile telecommunication system (5) and one or more mobile network switching nodes (2) acting as gateway between the mobile telecommunication system (5) and the remainder... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080132255 - Using sms to explicity notify called party when called party becomes available: A method in one example has the steps of: notifying a calling mobile terminal that a called mobile terminal is not available to receive a call; and notifying the called mobile terminal that an unsuccessful call attempt was made to the called mobile terminal via a mobile terminated short message... Agent: Patti , Hewitt & Arezina Llc

20080132254 - Wireless mobile image messaging: Non-verbal communications between users of wireless mobile devices are facilitated using image messages. An image message may e.g. convey information about the sender user, in particular, current information about the sender user. In one aspect, a user may select an image message category, and select an image message among the... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.c. Pacwest Center, Suite 1900

20080132261 - Methods and apparatus for channel assignment: Methods and apparatus for high throughput wireless cells and networks are described. The wireless cells may be equipped with multiple radios. Antennas may be arranged into overlapping and non-overlapping patterns. Channels may be assigned to foster servicing clients, and inter-cell communication. Attenuation may be used to decrease interference. Networks may... Agent: Letham Law Firm, Llc

20080132260 - Methods and apparatus for wireless network formation: Methods and apparatus for high throughput wireless cells and networks are described. The wireless cells may be equipped with multiple radios. Antennas may be arranged into overlapping and non-overlapping patterns. Channels may be assigned to foster servicing clients, and inter-cell communication. Attenuation may be used to decrease interference. Networks may... Agent: Letham Law Firm, Llc

20080132262 - Base station cooperation method in communication system and system for the same: A method of providing a mobile station with communication services through base station cooperation in a communication system. The method includes the steps of: receiving signals from two or more base stations; measuring a strength of each of the received signals; estimating an expected transfer rate of the mobile station;... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080132263 - Method for performing cell selection in a mobile communication system and system therefor: A method for performing cell selection in a mobile communication system and a system therefor. Upon receiving a Multimedia Broadcast and Multicast Service (MBMS) service or a unicast service, a User Equipment (UE) performs cell search separately for each frequency band in an overlapping region between an MBMS-dedicated frequency band... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080132266 - Maximum allowable transmission rate deciding method, mobile station and wireless base station: The present invention relates to a maximum allowable transmission rate determination method for determining a maximum allowable transmission rate which a mobile station establishing radio links with a first cell and a second cell can use. The maximum allowable transmission rate determination method according to the present invention includes notifying,... Agent: Mots Law, Pllc

20080132267 - Method, access point and wtru for controlling transmission power levels of uplink/downlink communication in a wireless communication system: Transmission power levels of uplink/downlink communication is controlled in a wireless communication system. A receiving station produces and provides to a transmitting station power control information based upon received signals from the transmitting station. A measured block error rate (BLERmsr) is obtained from the number of erroneous blocks in a... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.c. Dept. Icc

20080132264 - Power management for throughput enhancement in wireless ad-hoc networks: The present invention relates to power management within the context of wireless ad-hoc networks. More specifically to the effects of using different transmit powers on the average power consumption and end-to-end network throughput in a wireless ad-hoc environment. This power management approach reduces the system power consumption and thereby prolongs... Agent: Tope-mckay & Associates

20080132265 - Reducing current consumption with rx diversity circuit: A method, a mobile station, a base station and a computer program product operating in a wireless communication network is described, where an RX diversity circuit is only switched on if the current consumption caused by an increase in output power from the transmitter in order to meet a signal... Agent: Harrity Snyder, L.l.p.

20080132268 - Dynamic quality of service adaptation in packet data communications: A mobile station or other network node transmits a request to update the quality of service associated with an existing radio access bearer. In response to the request, the radio access bearer is updated without tearing down the established radio access bearer. Some applications can be associated with one or... Agent: Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP/seattle

20080132271 - Mobile wireless communications device having improved rf immunity of audio transducers to electromagnetic interference (emi): A mobile wireless communications device includes a housing and circuit board carried by the housing and having radio frequency (RF) circuitry and a processor operative with each other. Audio circuitry is carried by the circuit board and an audio transducer assembly, such as a speaker, has electrical contacts that electrically... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.a.

20080132269 - Non-intrusive in-session qos parameter modification method: Wireless network nodes are configured to transmit a request to update the quality of service associated with an existing radio access bearer. In response to the request, the radio access bearer is updated without tearing down the established radio access bearer. Some applications can be associated with one or more... Agent: Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP/seattle

20080132270 - Vehicle communication device: An example vehicle communication device includes a vehicle installed unit and a portable unit in communication with the vehicle installed unit. The portable unit communicates a message through the vehicle installed unit to a remote location, and the vehicle installed unit adds information to the message.... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds, P.c.

20080132274 - Apparatus and method for idle current saving in mobile communication terminal: Provided is an apparatus and method for idle state current saving in a mobile communication terminal. The method includes checking whether a BTS search event is generated when accessing a UMAN and being in an idle state, searching neighbor BTS information, checking whether a rove-out event is generated, identifying an... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080132272 - Built-in antenna apparatus: Disclosed is a built-in antenna apparatus comprising a plurality of antenna blocks, and an electrical connection device for connecting adjacent antenna blocks, the electrical connection device selectively connecting the antenna blocks so as to form varieties of the antenna. This enables the antenna blocks to be easily and detachably arranged... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080132273 - Operations and maintenance architecture for multiprotocol distributed system: An architecture for providing operations and maintenance functionality in an open access wireless signal distribution system. The open access system makes use of a common, shared, distributed radio frequency distribution network and associated network entities that enable a system operator to offer access to wireless infrastructure that maybe shared among... Agent: Fogg & Powers Llc

20080132275 - Communication control for device with telephonic functionality: A system and a method are disclosed for controlling voice communications through a mobile computing device. In one embodiment, a mobile computing device enabled for telephony communications establishes a telephone call to transmit voice signals and mutes the established telephone call. When ready to transmit voice signals, a control switch... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20080132276 - Portable communicator: This communicator makes it possible for the user to do telephone, facsimile, and data communication at any location. On a pen input device, a space eye 2, a telephone control system, a facsimile control system, and a data transmission system are mounted. All of them are operated by an input... Agent: Kinney & Lange, P.a.

20080132278 - Cell phone communication system locking cradle: The Locking Communication Cradle is a durable, waterproof, and dent-resistant container (typically of two-piece molded plastic construction) for a cell phone, GPS unit, speaker, battery, and/or other communication tool or piece of equipment which may be components of a larger communication system. The Locking Communication Cradle may be wall- or... Agent: Law Office Of Polly L. Oliver

20080132277 - Common circuits and user interfaces for shutters and electro-optical components: Disclosed are circuits and user interfaces of a mobile communication device that include a light source and a shutter that are driven by at least one common voltage line. Also disclosed are circuits and user interfaces of a mobile communication device that include a sensor and a shutter that are... Agent: Motorola Inc

20080132279 - Unlicensed mobile access: An apparatus, such as a removable computer device (e.g., a USB device), includes application software stored on a computer-readable medium which may be loaded to computer coupled to the device. An interface on the device is used to couple the apparatus to a computer and to pass the application software... Agent: Occhiuti Rohlicek & Tsao, LLP

20080132280 - Mobile equipment, base station apparatus and communication control method: A mobile equipment makes a connection setting by setting a connection to a base station apparatus, and after a communication with the base station apparatus is disconnected, makes a re-connect request to a base station apparatus that is capable of continuing the communication. The mobile equipment is allocated with a... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080132281 - Approach to a unified su-mimo/mu-mimo operation: An apparatus and method to dynamically schedule user devices in a wireless communication system in single-user multiple-input multiple-output (SU-MIMO) or multiple-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) modes of operation. The dynamic scheduling employs an efficient differential reporting of channel state information that reduces uplink feedback overhead, whereby a base layer value of... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080132282 - Method, system, base station, and user equipment for determining delay value of cyclic delay diversity: Methods, systems, BS and UE for determining Cyclic Delay Diversity delay value are disclosed. One method includes obtaining an optimal CDD delay value in the precoding codebook for obtaining the best channel quality on each sub-band respectively based on a result of channel estimation and feeding back to the BS... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080132284 - Mobile communication terminal and method of connecting call thereof: A mobile communication terminal and method of connecting a call thereof are discussed. The mobile communication terminal according to an embodiment includes a wireless communication unit configured to receive a call, a display unit configured to display that the call is received and to output an image for selecting either... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080132285 - Mobile communication terminal which displays screen location information and method of controlling the mobile communication terminal: A mobile communication terminal which displays screen location information and a method of controlling the mobile communication terminal are provided. When a portion of a display object is displayed on a display screen of a display module, the mobile communication terminal displays screen location information regarding the relative location of... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080132283 - Mobile station that provides feedback indicative of whether it is being properly held: A method (300) for improving a user's experience with a mobile station (100). The method can include detecting whether the mobile station is being held properly. In response to detecting that the mobile station is not being held properly, an indicator (140, 145) can be presented via a user interface... Agent: Cuenot & Forsythe, L.l.c.

20080132287 - Mobile terminal and method of displaying standby screen thereof: A standby mode screen display method for a mobile terminal capable of receiving and displaying a multimedia broadcast program and a mobile terminal thereof, includes a broadcast receiving module for receiving a multimedia broadcast program, a user input unit for inputting at least one search identifier associated with searching multimedia... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080132286 - Operation mode-driving mechanism and method for mobile terminal: Provided are an operation mode-driving mechanism and method for a mobile terminal is provided for of rapidly driving specific operation mode. The operation mode-driving method is provided for a mobile terminal including a first body having a first and a second display and a second body having a first and... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080132288 - Portable device: The present invention provides a portable device which can easily (by one action) bring the display device into a use state from a stored state when a display device is used in a vertical orientation or the display device is used in a horizontal orientation, and can make an exclusive... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080132289 - Protective devices for a mobile terminal: This invention describes a protective device and associated method for protecting (including the protection from water and dust) a mobile terminal whether or not the terminal is in use, and for providing a hands-free operation of the mobile terminal, wherein the mobile terminal can be a mobile phone, a personal... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20080132290 - Methods and devices for environmental triggering of missed message alerts: Described are methods and devices for receiving a missed message signal, detecting an ambient noise level, determining whether the ambient noise level is at least at a predetermined ambient noise threshold value based on the detected ambient noise level. When the ambient noise level is determined to be at least... Agent: Motorola Inc

20080132291 - On demand radio access technology selection: System and method for receiving a call in a wireless device. A notification message is received over a first radio access technology (RAT) that another wireless device wants to engage in the call. At least one other RAT is identified that can be utilized to connect the call. The at... Agent: Motorola Inc

20080132294 - Cell phone wireless speaker-microphone sleep modes: A hand held radio host includes circuitry for selectively providing power to radiating transceiver elements and non-radiating application elements according to a plurality of power modes of operation to achieve desired effects and in a way that saves power and extends battery life. In one embodiment of the invention, the... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080132292 - Headset with pivotal parts: The invention concerns a communication device for placement at the ear of a user. A battery and transmission part is shaped to rest behind and above the ear lobe of a user and a speaker and microphone part is arranged to extend downwards in front of the ear canal. The... Agent: Dykema Gossett Pllc

20080132293 - Wireless headset: The present disclosure relates to a device, such as a wireless headset that may include a first expanded configuration and a second collapsed configuration. When collapsed the device may be stored and charged in a host device such as a portable laptop computer or cell phone.... Agent: Grossman, Tucker, Perreault & Pfleger, Pllc

20080132295 - System and method for improved loudspeaker functionality: An electronic device comprises a microphone, a transceiver circuit, a loudspeaker, a sense element and a processing circuit. The microphone is configured to receive a first audio signal. The transceiver circuit is configured to communicate the first audio signal to a remote device and to receive a second audio signal... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080132296 - Methods and apparatus for use in controlling a scan rate for scanning operations in a mobile communication device: Methods and apparatus for use in controlling scanning operations or a scan rate based on call appointments or reminders are disclosed. In one illustrative example, one or more processors of a mobile communication device are operative to identify whether a call appointment or reminder for a communication session to be... Agent: John J. Oskorep, Esq. One Magnificent Mile Center

20080132298 - Apparatus for saving power by using location information and method thereof: An apparatus and method of saving power using location information, which can control power consumption of a mobile terminal in a sparse cell environment is provided. The power saving apparatus using location information comprises a transceiver for receiving a location information set from a base station having the stored location... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.l.p.

20080132297 - Method for reducing power consumption when receiving paging channel information at a mobile communication device: A mobile communication device (100) includes a receiver (102) which is normally shut off when the mobile communication device is idle. Upon the arrival of a paging time slot to which the mobile communication device is assigned, the mobile communication device turns on the receiver and begins receiving a composite... Agent: Motorola, Inc

20080132299 - Reconfigurable and moldable electronic device: A portable electronic device (10, 24, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100, 110, 120, 130) is provided having a base unit (12) and a plurality of add-on components (14), each encased within a moldable/conformal material (22). Each component (14) comprises component circuitry and communication circuitry for communicating with... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.c. (mot)

20080132300 - Method and apparatus for controlling operation of a portable device by movement of a flip portion of the device: A portable device has a main body portion (102) and a flip portion (104). The flip portion is moveable between a closed position (100) and an open position (200). The position of the flip portion is detected by a position detecting circuit (524, 526). When the flip portion is moved... Agent: Motorola, Inc

20080132301 - Swing hinge device of a portable terminal and dual hinge device having the same: A swing hinge device of a portable terminal that can move in a straight line or a curved direction when a folder rotates is provided. The portable terminal includes a body housing, a display unit, a folder rotating about first and second hinge axes on the body housing, and a... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080132303 - Extendible mobile device: The present invention relates to the field of mobile devices. In particularly, the present invention relates to the field of in general extendible devices, and is especially applicable to slidable devices and/or mobile/portable (electronic) devices. The extendible mobile electronic device, comprises a device housing having at least a first housing... Agent: Hollingsworth & Funk, Llc

20080132302 - Sliding electronic device assembly: A drive mechanism (101) for a portable electronic device (102), such as a mobile telephone or personal digital assistant, includes at least one wheel (113) engaging at least one track (103). In one embodiment, two tracks (103,104) are coupled to a first housing (105), while a pair of wheels (113,114)... Agent: Philip H. Burrus, Iv