Telecommunications inventions 07/08

20080182508 - Audio visual player apparatus and system and method of content distribution using the same: A system is presented providing content to a plurality of handheld devices (including musical selections). The devices can access a server over the Internet via a WIFI or other similar wireless interconnection and can download songs requested by a user from the server or from other users using, e.g., a... Agent: Gottlieb Rackman & Reisman PC

20080182509 - Audio visual player apparatus and system and method of content distribution using the same: A system is presented providing content to a plurality of handheld devices (including musical selections). The devices can access a server over the Internet via a WIFI or other similar wireless interconnection and can download songs requested by a user from the server or from other users using, e.g., a... Agent: Gottlieb Rackman & Reisman PC

20080182510 - Audio visual player apparatus and system and method of content distribution using the same: A system is presented providing content to a plurality of handheld devices (including musical selections). The devices can access a server over the Internet via a WIFI or other similar wireless interconnection and can download songs requested by a user from the server or from other users using, e.g., a... Agent: Gottlieb Rackman & Reisman PC

20080182511 - Method and apparatus for forward link gain control in a power controlled repeater: A power controlled repeater is disclosed for use in a wireless communication system to control the forward link gain. The power controlled repeater includes a forward link for communications from a base station to a mobile station. In addition, the power controlled repeater includes a reverse link for communications from... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080182512 - Apparatus for and method of selecting between antennas for wireless communication: A communication device comprising at least first and second antennas wherein a quality of communication between the communication device 2 and a further device 20 is assessed when using the at least first and second antennas 8, 10, 12 so as to select one of the at least first and... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080182515 - Bluetooth device and bandwidth managing method thereof: A Bluetooth device and a bandwidth managing method thereof are disclosed. The Bluetooth device is connected to a remote device by establishing a synchronous connection oriented (SCO) channel. The intensity of the sound signal is monitored. If the intensity of the sound signal is larger than the default value, the... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080182513 - High frequency communications: If the first device has capability to communicate in the 60 GHz range, the first device may use a 60 GHz transceiver to communicate through the first antenna a request to communicate with the second device. At the first antenna of the first device, a notification may be received from... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (microsoft)

20080182516 - Information processing apparatus and controlling method of the same: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus, includes a changing unit which, if a command transmitted from a short-distance wireless communications terminal by pushing down a volume control button is received in a standby status in which the short-distance wireless communications terminal makes no connection with the Internet Protocol... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080182514 - Portable terminal device: The present invention offers a portable terminal device in which, the jitter control unit controls the transmission buffer unit in such a manner as not to output the audio data buffered in the transmission buffer unit to the Bluetooth communication unit when the main control unit determines that the content... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080182517 - Hearing apparatus including transponder detection and corresponding control method: The object of the invention is to enable a hearing apparatus and more particularly a hearing device to be controlled automatically in a more reliable manner by means of an external device. For that purpose there is provided in the hearing apparatus a transponder detection unit for detecting a transponder... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080182518 - Multimedia switching system: A multimedia switching system includes a dongle and multiple receivers; the dongle and each receiver contains a Bluetooth wireless transmission module; the dongle is connected to a computer; a multimedia installation is externally connected to each receiver; any receiver while picking up a trigger signal sends a signal requesting connection... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080182519 - Method and system for robust single sideband lo generation: Methods and systems for robust single sideband LO generation are disclosed. Aspects of one method may include generating LO output signals where a VCO may generate a signal that may be used to generate a first pair of signals and a second pair of signals. The first pair of signals,... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080182520 - Remote low noise amplifier for a reception system and communication device and methods for use therewith: A reception system includes an antenna that receives and inbound RF signal. An antenna interface includes a low noise amplifier that generates an amplified received signal, based on the inbound RF signal. A transmission path coupled carries the amplified received signal to an integrated circuit, that includes a RF receiver... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080182521 - Wireless signal detection using a tranformed lattice boundary: In at least some embodiments, a wireless communication system includes a transmitter that transmits a signal over a communication channel. The system also includes a receiver that receives the signal as an output of the communication channel. The receiver establishes a boundary for a transformed lattice and eliminates candidates outside... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080182522 - Methods and apparatus for analyzing transmission lines with decoupling of connectors and other circuit elements: Methods and apparatus are provided for analyzing transmission lines with decoupling of connectors and other circuit elements. According to one aspect of the invention, circuits with one or more parasitic elements are analyzed by partitioning at least one of the parasitic elements in a transverse manner; identifying a plurality of... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080182523 - Radio: A radio has a test signal generating portion, an orthogonal modulator for, provided with a first electric signal of a first frequency, transforming the test signal at the first frequency and outputting it as a modulated signal, a first amplifier for amplifying the modulated signal, a second amplifier, capable of... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080182524 - Method and circuit arragement for operating multi-channel transmit/recieve antenna devices: Methods and circuit arrangements for operating a multi-channel transmit/receive antenna device or arrangement, comprising a power monitoring unit, especially for use in a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system are disclosed. These methods and circuit arrangements are especially provided for ensuring that a specific absorption rate of a patient is not... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080182525 - On-chip inductor, integrated circuit and methods for use therewith: An on-chip inductor includes a first turn on a first dielectric layer and a via, coupled to the first turn. A second turn on a second dielectric layer, is coupled to the first dielectric layer and via. The first dielectric layer includes at least one removed dielectric section where a... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080182526 - Adaptive radio transceiver with an antenna matching circuit: An exemplary embodiment of the present invention described and shown in the specification and drawings is a transceiver with a receiver, a transmitter, a local oscillator (LO) generator, a controller, and a self-testing unit. All of these components can be packaged for integration into a single IC including components such... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080182527 - Information processing apparatus: An information processing apparatus includes: an antenna for wireless communication; a wireless communication module to which a signal received from the antenna is input and which outputs a transmission signal to the antenna; a cable connecting the antenna and the wireless communication module to transmit the received signal and the... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080182528 - Methods and apparatus for driving radio frequency transmitter placement via an enhanced coverage metric: Systems and methods are provided for improving the placement of RF devices each having a position and a coverage area within an environment. The system operates by identifying a gap in the environment that is outside the coverage areas of the RF. A size of the gap and a relative... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C.

20080182529 - Rds/rbds compatible fm transmitter: A data generating unit sets a predetermined value to a data item, which can be made as a reference for tuning at a receiver, so as to generate data of RDS/RBDS format. A frequency modulator modulates the frequency of the data of the RDS/RBDS format generated by the data generating... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080182530 - Power amplifier efficiency using error estimate and data rate: A method of adjusting a power amplifier may include producing a power measure of an output signal of the power amplifier and estimating an estimated transmission error of the output signal from the power measure. The estimated transmission error may be compared with a maximum error that is associated with... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080182531 - System and method for configuring a wireless module power limit: A system for configuring a wireless module power limit comprises a wireless module having a control module configured to automatically select a power limit setting from one of a plurality of power limit settings to set a maximum output power level for the wireless module to enable an antenna coupled... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080182532 - Radio transmitting apparatus and radio transmission method: A radio transmitting apparatus that has a plurality of antennas and changes the number of modulated signals transmitted simultaneously according to the propagation environment and so forth. A transmission power changing section 12 of a radio transmitting apparatus of the present invention adjusts the pilot symbol signal level so as... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC

20080182533 - Method for determining region where broadcasting receiver is located: The invention discloses a method for determining a region where a broadcasting receiver is located by detecting the signal strength of a plurality of channels. When a user takes the broadcasting receiver from region A to region B, the broadcasting receiver provides a list of regions including region B when... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080182534 - Adaptable rf audio receiver and method for adapting processing of rf audio signals: An adjustable RF audio receiver and method are provided. The adjustable RF audio receiver includes an RF antenna configured to receive RF audio signals, and a tuner coupled to the RF antenna and configured to decode received RF audio signals. The adjustable RF audio receiver further includes signal processing circuitry... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20080182535 - Rf filter and digital broadcast receiving tuner and rf signal processing device using rf filter: A radio frequency (RF) filter is provided which includes a band pass filter unit and an amplifying unit. If a signal having a frequency in a first band is input, the RF filter performs band pass filtering, and if a signal having a frequency in a second band is input,... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080182536 - Method and apparatus to adjust thresholds of transmission envelope detector: Methods of controlling threshold voltages of a transmission envelope detector are provided. The methods include comparing a voltage of an input signal initially input with a threshold voltage of the transmission envelope detector and increasing the threshold voltage when the voltage of the input signal is higher than the threshold... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080182537 - Automatic iip2 calibration architecture: An integrated automatic IIP2 calibration architecture for wireless transceivers is disclosed. The architecture enables a wireless transceiver to generate a test radio frequency (RF) signal having a second order tone with minimal additional circuitry. In particular, the test RF signal is generated using a combination of native transceiver circuits and... Agent: Eaton Peabody Patent Group, LLC

20080182538 - Mobile communication apparatus: A transceiver suitable for larger scale of integration employs direct conversion reception for reducing the number of filters. Also, the number of VCOs is reduced by utilizing dividers to supply a receiver and a transmitter with locally oscillated signals at an RF band. Dividers each having a fixed division ratio... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080182539 - Electronic apparatus: An electronic apparatus includes: a first molded body; a second molded body which composes housing with the first molded body; a first conductive pattern provided in the housing; a second conductive pattern provided on an outer surface of the housing; and a first conductive member. The first conductive member passes... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080182540 - Rf reception system and integrated circuit with programmable filter and methods for use therewith: An integrated circuit includes an on-chip antenna interface, coupled to an off-chip antenna interface having at least one off-chip filter component that forms a programmable filter with the at least one off-chip filter component. The programmable filter is programmable based on a control signal. An RF receiver generates inbound data... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080182541 - Radio frequency management system: A radio frequency management device includes a microprocessor, output devices connected in parallel to the microprocessor, reading units respectively connected to the output devices, each reading unit comprising an antenna coil, a blocking coil, a radio frequency driver module for driving the antenna coil, and a blocking driver module for... Agent: Pai Patent & Trademark Law Firm

20080182542 - Method and apparatus for determining scaling factor in a communication system: A method for determining a scaling factor in a communication system. The method includes calculating an average power for each of an input signal and an output signal of a channel predictor; calculating a noise variance using the calculated average power; normalizing the noise variance with an average power of... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080182543 - Method for receiving signal in communication system and system therefor: Disclosed is a method for receiving a signal by a receiver in a communication system, the method includes receiving a signal; estimating a first noise value by using a reference signal included in the received signal; estimating a second noise value by using at least one subcarrier which has been... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080182544 - Methods and systems for down-converting a signal using a complementary transistor structure: Methods, systems, and apparatuses for down-converting an electromagnetic (EM) signal by aliasing the EM signal are described herein. Briefly stated, such methods, systems, and apparatuses operate by receiving an EM signal and an aliasing signal having an aliasing rate. The EM signal is aliased according to the aliasing signal to... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080182545 - Limiting the power consumption of a wireless electronic system: In at least some disclosed embodiments, a wireless electronic system includes a decoder module coupled to a processor. The decoder module is configured to send a signal to the processor based on a less than completely acquired burst of data. The less than completely acquired burst of data is part... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080182546 - Mobile phone capable of making internet calls, system and method using the same: The invention relates to mobile phone capable of making internet calls, a system and a method for making internet calls via a computer by the same. The system includes a computer installed with communication software and a mobile phone capable of making internet calls. Moreover, via the system, the method... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080182547 - User worn wireless alarm: A wireless transceiver worn about the hand, the transceiver adapted to initiate an outbound telephone call on a compatible mobile telephone responsive to actuating a button on the transceiver for a predetermined interval, the outbound telephone call is placed to a predetermined emergency telephone number, the transceiver transmitting audio to... Agent: Smith Hopen, Pa

20080182548 - Contextual based identity: Systems and methods for communicating according to contextual identity are disclosed. Embodiments of the present invention provide identity management which may dynamically select appropriate identities or communication channels for communication between network users. More specifically, embodiments of the present invention may automatically select an appropriate identity from a plurality of... Agent: SprinkleIPLaw Group

20080182549 - Method of configuring an adaptive module for an offline charging system: In an example method of configuring an adaptive module for an offline charging system, a selection is received which selects one of a plurality of charging functions. In an example, the selection is received in response to a user prompt. In another example, the plurality of charging functions includes a... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080182550 - Value added transaction gateway for video clips: Users are allowed to download information from a cellular network, but are charged for the download. A part of the charge for the download goes to the creator of the information and download. A device determines how many downloads each user-created item has received. Also, a list is provided which... Agent: Law Office Of Scott C Harris

20080182551 - System and method for enhanced transaction payment: An infrastructure that leverages established wireless messaging paradigms (such as, possibly inter alia, Short Message Service, Multimedia Message Service, Wireless Application Protocol, IP Multimedia Subsystem, etc.) to provide, in new and creative ways, an enhanced level of security for the payment element or portion of a transaction—for example, a transaction... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC

20080182552 - Methods and arrangements to indicate a charge for a call: Methods and arrangements to indicate a charge for a call are described herein. Embodiments may comprise hardware and/or code within a cellular phone to process data related to charges for a call to indicate the charges to the user. In some embodiments, the charges may be presented in the form... Agent: Ibm Corporation (jss) C/o Schubert Osterrieder & Nickelson PLLC

20080182553 - Over-the-air pre-paid wireless system and method: An over the air (OTA) Prepaid system, and a corresponding method, allows wireless connectivity when a wireless network would typically reject a user, such as when the user's profile cannot be validated. In wireless networks, unrecognized users are denied service due to the inability of the network to collect funds... Agent: Andrews Kurth LLP

20080182554 - Burglarproof mechanism for portable phone: A burglarproof mechanism for a portable phone is described. A portable phone is provided with a matched hand-free wireless earphone. A periodical communication established between the portable phone and the matched hand-free wireless earphone. The portable phone and the hand-free wireless earphone are provided with a warning action. When the... Agent: Joe Mckinney Muncy

20080182555 - Communication system: A method of updating a data record stored in a data store with information supplied by at least one of a plurality of users of a communication network includes storing a communication identifier in association with the data record; providing information to update the data record from a user together... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20080182557 - Information processing apparatus, status change system and program for the same: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes an authenticating unit which authenticates a cellular telephone includes a short-distance wireless communications unit, via the short-distance wireless communications unit, a detecting unit which detects whether or not the cellular telephone authenticated by the authenticating unit is in a predetermined range... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080182556 - Systems and methods for filtering cellular telephone messages: Systems and methods for filtering cellular messages to prevent receipt of certain messages are described. In one aspect, a computing device detects an incoming cellular telephone message for delivery to a receiver. The device filters the message by determining source identification information for the incoming cellular telephone message. The device... Agent: Patton Boggs LLP

20080182558 - Contents management method and apparatus: A contents management method and system, the contents management method including: generating contents; and transmitting the generated contents to a Web server, wherein the Web server receives the contents, stores the contents, manages the contents, and maintains a list of the contents so that the contents are easily accessible by... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080182559 - Mobile content delivery system: A mobile content delivery system that optimizes the delivery of especially bandwidth-consuming content (or the flow of any peak-hour data traffic) in a way that best utilizes the free capacity in the radio network, thus enabling considerably more efficient usage of the radio capacity. It also allows new services and... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20080182560 - Messaging method and server: A messaging server receives a request from a first communication device to send a video message to a second communication device. The server transmits a video message initiation to the first communication device and receives a live feed video signal from the first communication device in response. The server stores... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20080182563 - Method and system for social networking over mobile devices using profiles: A method and system that enables subscribers of any mobile network operator to exchange free or premium profiles, content, and services, and to receive (or share with others, such as publishers and developers) revenue resulting from transactions, preferably over a social network. In one embodiment, members of the service create... Agent: Law Office Of David H. Judson

20080182562 - Method permitting the monitoring of a non-real time data connection context of a user of a cellular mobile radio network: An efficient monitoring of non-real time data connection contexts is simply and efficiently achieved by a method permitting the monitoring of a non-real time data connection context of a user of a cellular mobile radio network for an interruption, characterized in that a signaling context for the user is established... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080182564 - Methods and systems for targeted delivery of information based on current location of wireless device: Methods and apparatus are disclosed for delivering targeted information to a mobile wireless device based on proximity of the wireless device to a given destination location. The information may include travel or routing information directing the user of the mobile device to the destination location, and other information concerning the... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20080182561 - System for transmitting media contents to mobile terminal having two-dimensional code reader and method thereof: A technique is provided for receiving contents using a mobile terminal provided with a digital camera and a technique of two-dimensional code. First, one or more two-dimensional code pattern areas are formed on a medium, and a user obtains image data by capturing a corresponding two-dimensional code pattern area using... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti PC

20080182565 - Call forwarding methods and apparatus for mobile communication devices which operate in wwans and wlans: Methods and apparatus for use by a mobile communication device in facilitating voice calls through a wireless local area network (WLAN) and a wireless wide area network (WWAN) are disclosed. When switching communication operations from a WLAN coverage region of the WLAN to a WWAN coverage region of the WWAN,... Agent: John J. Oskorep, Esq. One Magnificent Mile Center

20080182566 - Device and method for providing and displaying animated sms messages: A device and method of creating and displaying a short message service (SMS) message capable of attaching and displaying animated characteristics is disclosed. To create an animated SMS message the user responds to input prompts asking for: a mobile identification number that identifies the receiving party, an animation flag that... Agent: Williams Mullen

20080182568 - Method and apparatus for managing communication history: A method and apparatus for managing a communication history data according to a communication mate in a mobile terminal are provided. When a received or transmitted signal is sensed, a communication mate of the received or transmitted signal is detected. Communication history data containing the detected communication mate is generated,... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20080182567 - Sleep mode control for real-time services in broadband wireless access communication systems: Consideration of Quality of Service is taken into account during the establishment of a sleep cycle in a mobile station providing real-time services. Upon the mobile station's identification of a need for a real-time service to enter into sleep mode, a request conveying that need is sent to the base... Agent: Stmicroelectronics, Inc.

20080182569 - Processing of interactive screens for a wireless device: A method for processing interactive screens for a wireless device is provided. The method includes receiving, from the wireless device, a download request for content. The method further includes determining whether the wireless device has an interactive screen associated with the content. If it is determined that the wireless device... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080182570 - Device and method for automated functionality-based selective establishing of wireless data communication connections: An electronic device and a method for automated functionality-based selective establishing of wireless data communication connections are provided. The device comprises at least a wireless data communication interface and an identification device. The wireless data communication interface is adapted for wireless data communication with a counterpart device, which is equipped... Agent: Erin M. Nichols Hollingsworth & Funk

20080182571 - Method and apparatus for reducing call setup delay by adjusting sib7 and sib14 scheduling frequency: An apparatus and method for reducing call setup time of a wireless communication device including measuring paging intensity, and adjusting SIB7 or SIB14 repetition period based on the measured paging intensity to reduce call setup time. In one aspect, a paging intensity threshold is determined based on the measured paging... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080182572 - Apparatus and methods for mobility management in hybrid terrestrial-satellite mobile communications systems: Communications between a terminal and a terrestrial base station are established. The terrestrial base station receives a request to monitor a satellite base station from the terminal. The terrestrial base station grants the request and receives monitoring information for the satellite base station corresponding to the request. Granting of the... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20080182573 - System for managing mobile internet protocol addresses in an airborne wireless cellular network: The Aircraft Mobile IP Address System provides wireless communication services to passengers who are located onboard an aircraft by storing data indicative of the individually identified wireless devices located onboard the aircraft. The System assigns a single IP address to each Point-to-Point Protocol link which connects the aircraft network to... Agent: Patton Boggs LLP

20080182574 - Ultra-wideband mode selection: A device that uses Ultra-Wideband modulation techniques is operated in a low duty cycle mode in which an amount of time during which the device is permitted to transmit a signal is limited. In response to ascertaining that a high-throughput service is to be performed, the device operates in a... Agent: Potomac Patent Group PLLC

20080182575 - Ims reliability mechanisms: A method and information processing system provide reliability in an IP multimedia subsystem network. The method includes monitoring a S-CSCF (210) for its availability. The method also includes determining, based on the monitoring, that the S-CSCF (210) is unavailable. A wireless device (106) registered with the S-CSCF (210) is notified... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080182576 - Message ordering for network based mobility management systems: The claimed subject matter relates to systems and methods for processing messages in a wireless communications environment. In an aspect, a communications method is provided. The method includes initiating a registration with a network domain node and generating sequence information with respect to the registration. The sequence information is then... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080182577 - Method and apparatus for reducing call setup delay by improved sib7 and sib14 scheduling: An apparatus and method for reducing call setup time of a wireless communication device including determining empty slots on a Common Control Channel where no SIB blocks or MIB blocks are scheduled therein and scheduling SIB7 or SIB 14 blocks in the empty slots to reduce call setup time. In... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080182578 - Method and apparatus for distinguishing priority service from emlpp enhancement: The foregoing roaming scenarios are summarized in the Table given below. In accordance with the teachings of the present invention, a method and apparatus is presented for distinguishing between priority services. A new parameter is defined in an update location message. The new parameter enables an MSC/VLR to recognize and... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080182579 - Methods and systems for handover process in wireless communication networks: A method for performing a handover process in a wireless communication system, the method comprising allocating a communication channel to a first infrastructure station in the wireless communication system, reserving a signature corresponding to the communication channel for the first infrastructure station, the signature enabling a user equipment attached to... Agent: Akin Gump LLP - Silicon Valley

20080182580 - Method of creating and utilizing diversity in a multiple carrier communciation system: In many cellular systems, reusing spectrum bandwidth, creates problems in boundary regions between the cells and sectors where the signal strength received from adjacent base stations or adjacent sector transmissions of a single base station may be nearly equivalent. The invention creates a new type of diversity, referred to as... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080182581 - Mobile communication system and soft handover method used for the same: A base transceiver station of a soft handover destination node does not perform control by using Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request, and a base transceiver station of a soft handover origin node sends data to a mobile node according to control performed by using Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request when the soft... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20080182582 - Frequency synchronization in wireless communication systems: The present invention provides a method of wireless communication over a communication link including at least one carrier that comprises a plurality of sub-carriers. The method includes modifying at least one frequency of at least one uplink sub-carrier in response to a signal indicating a modification of the frequency.... Agent: Mark W. Sincell Williams, Morgan & Amerson, P.C.

20080182583 - Methods and apparatus for determining optimal rf transmitter placement via a coverage metric: Systems and methods are provided for optimizing the placement of RF components within an environment. The system operates by defining a spatial model associated with the environment, determining a first placement location of the RF device within the spatial model, determining a coverage area associated with the RF device, identifying... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C.

20080182584 - Methods and apparatus for determining rf transmitter placement via local coverage optimization: Systems and methods are provided for optimizing the placement of RF components within an environment. The system operates by defining a spatial model associated with the environment, determining a first placement location of the RF device within the spatial model, defining a localized reference area, determining a coverage area associated... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C.

20080182585 - Demodulation of a subset of available link assignment blocks: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate assigning indices to link assignment blocks (LABs) communicated via a downlink. Indices in a first subset are allocated to shared LABs, which are decoded by a plurality of access terminals. Indices in a second subset are assigned to unshared LABs, which are each... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080182586 - Methods and devices for attracting groups based upon mobile communications device location: Individuals carrying a mobile communications device may send and/or receive attractor signals that specify where pre-defined groups are meeting at large gathering such as sporting events or concerts. The groups may be open to the public or may be private. The attractor signals are sent to those mobile communications devices... Agent: Withers & Keys For Bell South

20080182587 - Attractions network and mobile devices for use in such network: A mobile device network including a network server and a plurality of mobile devices. Each of the mobile devices includes an audio and/or video (A/V) capture section for obtaining an A/V file, a positioning section for ascertaining a geographic location of the mobile device, and a network transmitter for transmitting... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080182588 - Advertisements for mobile communications devices via pre-positioned advertisement components: Mobile communications devices output advertisements such as by visually displaying them in accordance with an advertisement recipe. The advertisement recipe specifies advertisement components to include in the constructed advertisement and a configuration of those advertisement components. The mobile communications device stores a plurality of advertisement components in advance of receiving... Agent: Withers & Keys For Bell South

20080182592 - Method and apparatus for securing location information and access control using the location information: A method and apparatus for securing location information and access control using the location information are disclosed. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) includes a location sensing entity and a subscriber identity module (SIM). The location sensing entity generates location information of the WTRU and the location information is embedded in... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080182589 - Method and system of providing instant location service: An approach is disclosed for providing an instant location service. At a wireless device of a first user, mapping information of a second user is received over a wireless network. The mapping information specifies position of the second user within a prescribed proximity of the wireless device. The first user... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080182590 - Methods, systems and computer program products for providing information using an advertising message with a dynamic field: Methods, systems and computer program products for updating information for an identified location on a mobile device are provided. A broadcast advertising message is provided to a mobile device. The advertising message identifies a location and includes a dynamic field configured to provide updated information about the identified location. When... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20080182591 - Mobile proximity-based notifications: Described are methods and apparatuses, including computer program products, for mobile proximity-based notifications. The method includes receiving, by a mobile first device in proximity with a second device, an identifier wirelessly transmitted by the second device. The identifier is associated with a user of the second device. The method also... Agent: Proskauer Rose LLP

20080182593 - System and method for asset location in wireless networks: Described is a system and method for tracking an asset. The system may include a plurality of wireless access points and a computing arrangement communicating with the access points. The arrangement determines a location area of the device as a function of first data and a location of each of... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20080182595 - Apparatus, and associated method, for paging an access terminal in a radio communication system: An apparatus, and an associated method for paging an access terminal to alert the access terminal of a pending communication. A paging message is generated that includes both a partial identifier and a paging indicator bit. The paging message further includes a field that identifies the length of the partial... Agent: Research In Motion Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20080182594 - Fast state transition for a ue with reconfiguration over paging: Techniques to support fast state transition by a user equipment (UE) are described. The UE may operate in a first state (e.g., a CELL_PCH state) in which the UE does not transmit or receive user data. The UE may receive a paging message carrying first configuration information. The UE may... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080182596 - Method and apparatus for paging group handling: A method and apparatus for paging group handling includes grouping wireless transmit/receive units (WTRUs) into a paging group. The paging group is assigned a paging occasion, and an existence of a page is indicated to the WTRUs.... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080182597 - Wireless transmitter and receiver for telephone and method of using the same: The present invention provides for the addition of multiple telephone handsets and/or similar peripherals wirelessly connected to the transmitter base of a cordless telephone system. A cordless telephone transmitter and at least one wireless receiver peripheral providing cordless telephone access to an existing telephone network is presented. The present invention... Agent: Law Offices Of Charles L. Thoeming Bielen, Lampe & Thoeming, P.A.

20080182604 - Communications apparatus, server apparatus, and information processing system: According to an aspect of the invention, a communications apparatus for transmitting one or more items of information to a processing system which performs predetermined processes using the information comprises: a storage part storing the items of information; a transmission designation part designating the transmission; a transmission part waiting and... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080182599 - Method and apparatus for user input: A method including activating an application, determining if data or at least a portion of a message is present and displaying candidate selections related to the data or at least a portion of the message that are available to the user for selection where the candidate selections supplement a user... Agent: Perman & Green

20080182598 - Method of e-mailing a map location using predefined context-sensitive messages: A wireless communications device generates a message from a map application to enable a recipient of the message to view a location on a map. After a user selects a location to be sent to the recipient, the map application determines location information associated with the location and generates the... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP

20080182600 - Method of messages transmission and computer-readable medium thereof: A efficient and quick method and a computer-readable medium of sending messages. The method of sending a message comprises providing a shortcut with a corresponding message and recipient address, receiving a shortcut entry, determining whether the shortcut entry matches the shortcut, and sending the corresponding message to the corresponding recipient... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080182601 - Method of processing message in mobile terminal: A method of processing a message in a mobile terminal is provided, as well as a method of displaying a message. The method includes displaying a list of stored messages, selecting a plurality of individual messages from the displayed message list, combining the plurality of selected messages into a combined... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20080182603 - Systems and methods for distributing messages to mobile devices: A system and method for delivering messages and/or multimedia content using a short message services (SMS) telecommunication network. Mobile devices are coupled to the telecommunication network. A sender may distribute the message using a mobile device to a recipient on another telecommunication network. In one embodiment, a message is requested... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20080182602 - Text messaging with a mobile terminal: A text messaging apparatus and method for a mobile terminal includes: transmitting a text message having a context identification number from a first mobile terminal to a second mobile terminal; receiving a response text message from the second mobile terminal in response to the text message, the response text message... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20080182605 - Cognitive wireless communication system: To prevent a hung-up of communications due to changes in a radio wave condition resulting from frequent displacement of the terminals and changes in a number of the terminals, and to realize switching of the radio systems adapting to the radio condition. A radio communication system comprising: a base station... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20080182606 - System and method of communications: The present invention relates to a system and method of providing communications for a mobile vehicle, comprising: a) providing the vehicle with the ability to communicate using a number of different communications methods; b) establishing a list of parameters, said list of parameters defining a set of criteria for determining... Agent: Dinesh Agarwal, P.C.

20080182609 - Backoff mechanism in random access channel: A method to determine a back-off adjustment and transmission power adjustment in a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU), the method including determining a problem in signal reception and adjusting a back-off and a transmission power based on a plurality of measurement results. The measurement results include common pilot channel received signal... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080182607 - Characterizing transmission of access nodes within a wireless network: A method of characterizing transmission of a node of a wireless network is disclosed. The method includes determining a neighbor function based on how many neighboring nodes are affected by a neighbor function based on how many neighboring nodes are affected by signals transmitted from the node at varying power... Agent: Tropos Networks

20080182611 - Method of allocating transmission power based on symbol error rate for orthogonal space-time block codes in a distributed wireless communication system: Disclosed is a device for allocating transmission power using a symbol error rate (SER) for orthogonal space-time block codes (OSTBC) in a wireless communication system. The device includes: a plurality of antennas, which are distributed geographically and independently linked to a central processing unit; a receiver to select an optimum... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20080182610 - Method of controlling entry of terminals in wireless communication networks: To perform a network entry of a terminal to a wireless network including a base station, wherein the terminal has a maximum power capability, at least one attempt is performed by the terminal to establish communication with the base station with a power level within a terminal admitted power range.... Agent: Siemens Schweiz Ag I-47, Intellectual Property

20080182608 - Transmit power management for a communication device and method for use therewith: A voice data and RF integrated circuit (IC) includes a memory module that stores a least one application as a plurality of operational instructions, the at least one application having a plurality of power modes that each correspond to one of a plurality of use characteristics. A processing module executes... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080182612 - Radio communication system and base station: A radio communication system includes a grouping unit for grouping a plurality of base stations into a plurality of groups (Soft Handoff Groups) and a determining unit for selecting base stations belonging to one and the same group selected from the groups produced by the grouping unit and for determining... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080182613 - Rf bus access protocol and transceiver: A method for accessing an RF begins by determining whether information is to be transmitted via the RF bus. The method continues by determining whether the RF bus is available when the information is to be transmitted via the RF bus. The method continues by securing access to the RF... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080182615 - Methods and applications for supporting radio access system selection by multi-mode mobile stations: Methods are provided for a multi-mode mobile station to perform multi-mode system selection using a multi-mode system selection algorithm as a function of multi-mode overlay information. The multi-mode overlay information includes a plurality of associations, each association being between a respective set of systems that serve at least a common... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20080182614 - Methods and systems for configuring multi-mode mobile stations: Devices and methods are provided for configuring multi-mode mobile stations. When the number of data sessions available to a multi-mode mobile station changes, the multi-mode mobile station sends information to configuration server sufficient to determine the capability of the network and identify the multi-mode mobile station. The number of data... Agent: Smart & Biggar P.o. Box 2999, Station D

20080182617 - Multiband mobile communication apparatus: Disclosed is a communication apparatus having a small-scale circuit used for modulation. A common transmission image rejection mixer (56) supplies transmission modulation frequencies to a plurality of quadrature modulators (23) (G, D, P, W). Accordingly, it is unnecessary to prepare the transmission image rejection mixer (56) for transmission signal types,... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20080182616 - Multiple network access system and method: Methods and devices for operating a wireless communication device that can communicate with at least two different wireless networks using a single radio frequency modem are described. The communication device attaches to a first wireless network through the radio frequency (RF) modem, and then detaches from the first wireless network... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20080182618 - Configurable serial memory interface: Disclosed is a system and method for accessing a removable memory source inserted into a mobile communications device to increase performance of the mobile communications device. A configurable serial interface for a mobile communications device is provide to access audio information (e.g., audio files) stored on a removable memory device.... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080182620 - Hand held mobile communication device and method for managing printed documents: A hand held mobile communication device includes a housing, a scanner disposed on one surface of the housing and a display provided on an opposed surface of the housing, whereby an image being scanned by the scanner is displayed on the display. A second housing may be provided and attached... Agent: James Ray & Associates

20080182619 - Methods and apparatuses for programming user-defined information into electronic devices: A device for programming user-defined information into an electronic device is provided. The programmer allows a user to program customized information, such as user-selected audio, video, or Internet access information into his or her programmable device. Such electronic devices include wireless telephones, pagers, and personal digital assistants. The programmer allows... Agent: Kaliko & Yeager, L.L.C.

20080182622 - Method and apparatus for implementing a sim card onboard a pc card: A method and device for providing wireless communication having a SIM card coupled to a Peripheral Component Interconnect (“PCI”) Card is disclosed. In one embodiment, the device includes a printed circuit board (“PCB”), a flex-circuit and a subscriber identity module (“SIM”) socket. The PCB further contains multiple input and output... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20080182623 - Mobile terminal apparatus and wireless communication method using the same: The present invention relates to a mobile terminal apparatus and a wireless communication method using the same, wherein any one of communication modules is selected according to the type of a smart card so that wireless data communication can be used through the selected communication module. In the present invention,... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080182621 - Sim application toolkit application to track phone usage and location: A portable communication device includes a subscriber identity module (SIM) card having a memory and a processor, a device-activity SIM application toolkit (SAT) application stored on the memory. When the device-activity SAT application is accessed by the processor and executed, the device-activity SAT application causes the SIM card to interface... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080182624 - Mobile tower system: This invention discloses a mobile tower system in which a telescoping tower may be with a plurality of tower structures may be extended to a height much greater than its contracted length. The tower may be transported horizontal, rotated to a vertical position and then the individual tower structures extended... Agent: Wells St. John P.s.

20080182625 - Rf transeiver system with antenna configuration control and methods for use therewith: An RF transceiver system includes a configurable antenna system that includes an antenna control module that is capable of controlling the configurable antenna system, in response to a control signal, to each of a plurality of antenna configurations. An RF receiver receives a received signal from the configurable antenna system... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080182626 - Computer product, process execution device, and method of process executing: A computer-readable recording medium which stores therein a computer program that causes a computer to implement a method for executing processing depending on the areas directed by a user by means of pressing or touching in an input key comprising a plurality of areas, the computer program causes the computer... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080182627 - Phone availability indication: A communication device is provided that may include a motion detector. The motion detector in the communication device may detect motion and transmit a signal in response to the detected motion. Other communication devices may receive a transmitted presence information signal and display information indicating that a user of a... Agent: Harrity Snyder, L.L.P.

20080182628 - System and method for previewing themes: A method and application for previewing themes for a mobile device are provided. Theme files comprising theme preview files are stored on the mobile device for each theme that can be activated. The theme preview files comprise an image representing the appearance of the theme when activated. The images may... Agent: Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

20080182629 - Portable terminal device: A portable terminal device, which closes AV incoming call notification sound ringing at a headset when incoming call notification sound ringing processing through an AV profile competes with incoming call notification sound processing through a hands-free profile between a cellular phone and a headset, and when an in-band notification mode... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080182630 - Linked shell: An apparatus and method is provided for controlling a display device for displaying a user interface associated with an application. A processor for controlling peripheral devices and/or the display may be selected based on characteristics of a requested function to be performed. For example, a processor may be selected with... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080182633 - Electronic device and case for the same: An electronic device has a case that is formed by combining first and second members respectively having first and second engaging portions formed along an outer circumferential portion thereof such that the first and second members make contact with each other. The electronic device includes a corner engaging member having... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080182632 - Method and apparatus for controlling bar-type mobile terminal having dual display unit: A method and apparatus for controlling a bar-type mobile terminal are provided. The method for controlling a bar-type mobile terminal having a first speaker and a first input unit on one side and a second speaker and a second input unit on the other side of the mobile terminal includes... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080182631 - Tool-less snap-in modular replaceable keypad for wireless communication device and method of assembling same: A wireless communication device includes a wireless communication device housing member, and a modular keypad removably attachable to the wireless communication device housing member without use of a separate tool.... Agent: Kyocera Wireless Corp.

20080182634 - Magnetic levitation sliding structure: A magnetic levitation sliding structure including a first slide member, and a first magnetic portion which is disposed in the first slide member to extend along the lengthwise direction of the first slide member and has magnetic poles arranged perpendicular to the lengthwise direction of the first slide member with... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Attn: Patent Docket Dept.

20080176507 - Tracking locally broadcast electronic works: A method, system, and program for tracking locally broadcast electronic works are provided. According to one aspect of the invention, a sending player locally broadcasts an electronic work. In particular, the local broadcast may be a wireless broadcast creating an ad-hoc radio system. At least one recipient player receives the... Agent: Ibm Corp (ap) C/o Amy Pattillo

20080176508 - Wireless communication device: A device peripheral is disclosed. The device peripheral comprises a controller having a plurality of converters, a transceiver controllable by the controller for performing a signaling operation, the signaling operation being one of receiving reception signals, transmitting transmission signals and simultaneously receiving the reception signals and transmitting the transmission signals,... Agent: Conley Rose, P.c. David A. Rose

20080176509 - Wireless transmission apparatus and related wireless transmission method: A wireless transmission method for broadcasting packets to a plurality of receiving devices includes: broadcasting a plurality of packets to the receiving devices, receiving signals transmitted from the receiving devices, generating a plurality of estimation results according to the signals transmitted from the receiving devices where each of the estimation... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080176510 - System, method and computer program product for receiving data from a satellite radio network: A system, method and computer program product are disclosed for receiving data from a satellite radio network in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention. In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, a datagram broadcast via a satellite radio network is received utilizing a receiver. The datagram... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.l.p

20080176512 - Wireless sharing of audio files and information for streamlined purchasing: A system and method are disclosed for capturing information associated with wireless audio sounds among a plurality of users. When a user encounters audio sound files of interest, the user can capture information regarding the audio sounds, such as title, artist, collection, genre, year, encoding rate, size, playlist, a unique... Agent: Conley Rose, P.c. David A. Rose

20080176511 - Wireless sharing of audio files and related information: A system and method are disclosed for wireless sharing of audio sounds among a plurality of users. A user of the present invention can communicate his or her audio sounds to other users, who can receive the audio sounds wirelessly and choose to rebroadcast them. Along with the audio sound... Agent: Conley Rose, P.c. David A. Rose

20080176513 - Adaptive echo cancellation for an on-frequency rf repeater using a weighted power spectrum: A wireless repeater includes an input antenna for receiving an input signal, an output antenna for outputting an amplified signal, and an amplifier for amplifying the received input signal and providing the output amplified signal to the output antenna. Radiated coupling between the input and output antennas causes echoes to... Agent: Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman, LLP

20080176516 - Apparatus and method for data transmission using bluetooth signal strength in portable communication system: Provided are an apparatus and a method for transmitting data to a plurality of other terminals through an Object Push Profile (OPP) service in a Bluetooth-enabled portable terminal. The method includes displaying a list of transmittable data items and detecting whether one or more data items to be transmitted are... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080176514 - Method and system for using user equipment to compose an ad-hoc mosaic: An application that runs on a User Equipment (UE) in one of three main modes: (1) listener, (2) proxy, or (3) controller, and defaults to listener mode. A UE is adapted to be placed by a user into controller mode, which causes the application to scan the area covered by... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080176515 - Wireless hotspot detection system and method: A wireless hotspot detection system comprises a hotspot detection module configured to detect a wireless hotspot and activate a wireless module in response to the detection of the wireless hotspot.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080176517 - Error filter to differentiate between reverse link and forward link video data errors: One technique for implementing error control in response to a video data error comprises receiving an indication of a video data error from a video decoder, determining whether the video data error occurred on a reverse link of a wireless network between a video encoder and a network device, and... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080176518 - Software defined radio base station and configuration method: The present invention relates to a method for configuring a base station (10) of a mobile communication network over a software defined radio module (12), that base station (10) serving at least one mobile terminal (20, 30, 40) over an air interface (52, 53, 54) served by that software defined... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080176519 - Method and apparatus for measuring interference in wireless stations: Metrics for estimating RF interference may be derived from measurements of idle channel noise, channel utilization, medium access delay, STA throughput, BSS throughput, and frame error rate. Further, metrics may be derived from the prior list of directly measured items in combination, as ratios and by rate of change analysis.... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.c. Dept. Icc

20080176520 - Electronic device having diagnostic mechanism: A visible diagnostic component for an electronic device having a form factor is described. The electronic component comprises a hardware interface component and a processor. The hardware interface component is configured to physically interface with a computer hardware interface associated with a computing device having an operating system. The processor... Agent: Kyocera Wireless Corp.

20080176521 - Method and system for power saving in wireless communications: A method and a system for wireless communication is provided which involves maintaining a data communication module in a power saving mode, detecting channel reservation for communication on a wireless data channel during one or more reserved time periods, and upon successful data channel reservation, transitioning the data communication module... Agent: Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman, LLP

20080176522 - Radio base station apparatus, radio terminal apparatus, mobile communication system, and reception operation control program: In response to a connection request from a terminal, a base station provides a signal indicating a reception operation adapted to a transmission operation of the base station to the terminal. Based on the indicating signal, the terminal selects and performs the optimum reception operation. The terminal also provides its... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080176523 - Wireless transceiver with reduced transmit emissions: Methods and apparatus for reducing transmit emissions are described herein. The transmit out of band emissions in an adjacent band can be reduced while complying with existing wireless communication standards through utilization of one or more of reduced transmit bandwidth, transmit operating band offset, and channel index remapping. The transceiver... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080176524 - Fm transmitter device: An FM transmitter device having an audio signal processing compression unit for logarithmically compressing an audio signal, an FM broadband transmission single chip IC receiving as inputs a modulated signal from the audio signal processing compression unit and a channel frequency setting signal C, operating upon receipt of a reference... Agent: Kratz, Quintos & Hanson, LLP

20080176525 - Dynamic regulation of power consumption of a high-speed communication system: A method for dynamically regulating the power consumption of a high-speed integrated circuit which includes a multiplicity of processing blocks. A first metric and a second metric, which are respectively related to a first performance parameter and a second performance parameter of the integrated circuit, are defined. The first metric... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080176526 - Rf radio and method for monitoring warning alert data: An RF radio and a method of monitoring warning alert data is provided. The RF radio includes a radio receiver for receiving broadcast radio wave signals, and a tuner adjustable for selecting radio wave signal channels within AM and FM radio bands and radio wave signal channels within a weather... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20080176527 - Radio-frequency tuner with differential converter: The selector selectively couples one of the first and the second input path to an input of the mixer. The mixer downconverts a selected on of the differential input signals received from the selector. The filter attenuates a portion of the downconverted input signal outside a passband associated with the... Agent: Baker Botts L.l.p.

20080176528 - Controlling display in mobile terminal: The present invention relates to controlling a display in a mobile terminal including a touch screen having a display area that operates as a touch input area. The present invention includes displaying data information on the display area, wherein the data information is distinguished with graphic icons, and displaying a... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080176529 - Superregenerative system: Methods and apparatuses for superregenerative system are disclosed, including an oscillator circuit for a superregenerative receiver. The oscillator circuit includes an RF oscillator, incorporating a self-biased transistor and a positive feedback circuit; and an external quench oscillator, for providing a quench signal to the RF oscillator; wherein the quench signal... Agent: Troutman Sanders LLP

20080176530 - Two-channel method for continuously determining at least one output signal from changing input signals: There is described a two-channel method for determining at least one output signal from variable input signals of sent by a transmitter, using two independent channels and consisting in alternately guiding the in put signals to said channels, wherein a multiplexer is used for switching said channels. A microprocessor contained... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080176532 - Method and a system for minimizing roaming cost in a mobile communication network: The present invention deals with a method and system for routing a call in a mobile communication network. The method comprises receiving a message by a caller prevailing network corresponding to a caller from a callee home network corresponding to a callee, if the callee is roaming. The message is... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, Llc

20080176531 - Wireless communcation system and charge control method: When a wireless line between a spot base station device and a wireless communication terminal is connected, a charging device starts charging according to a charging plan set for the spot base station device instead of according to a charging plan uniformly set by a carrier so that the charging... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20080176533 - Secured authentication method for providing services on a data transmisson network: The invention relates to a method for accessing to a network service by means of a user's terminal (30) involving an application phase which consists in generating a container (TOKEN) containing a first authentication data set (X0, X1, X2 X3) for accessing to a service and a second useful data... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080176534 - Method and apparatus for providing advertisement in mobile terminal, and system therefor: Provided is a system for providing a silent advertisement that includes a multimedia message server for generating a multimedia message containing at least one piece of silent advertisement data and transmitting the multimedia message to an arbitrary mobile terminal, and the mobile terminal for receiving the multimedia message, detecting and... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080176541 - Customer service messaging, such as on mobile devices: A mobile device and corresponding service provider are configured to provide a user of the mobile device with access to one or more instant messaging help entities, from the mobile device. The one or more instant messaging help entities may be associated with the corresponding service provider or with a... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080176536 - Enterprise web service data to mobile device synchronization: A Mobile Enterprise Platform utilizes a web based service that synchronizes enterprise data between a plurality of disparate mobile devices and a plurality of backend enterprise resources. The Mobile Enterprise Platform creates a web service synchronization source instance using Hypertext Transfer Protocol (“HTTP”) for each application or database present on... Agent: Hogan & Hartson LLP

20080176539 - Method and system to control movable entities: A method to wirelessly control an entity having an attached transponder is disclosed. A geographical zone is defined. The geographical zone can be defined by allowing a user to define and load to a transponder a plurality of waypoints, each waypoint defined by a geographical coordinate and a radius originating... Agent: Greenberg Traurig LLP (la)

20080176540 - Portable device with intermittent communications: A portable wireless communications subscriber audio and/or video player apparatus and system and method for selecting, requesting, downloading, and playing audio and/or video data content files from an Internet-based database server. The wireless link is preferably implemented in accordance with the WiFi protocol, which allows connectivity to the Internet by... Agent: Gottlieb Rackman & Reisman Pc

20080176538 - Service profile handling in the ims: A Home Subscriber Server for handling IP Multimedia Subsystem subscriptions comprises means for maintaining associations between public user identities and Service Profiles, where two or more public user identities can be associated with a common Service Profile, and means for identifying to a network node all public user identities that... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080176537 - System and method for communicating vehicular information with a remote location: A system and method for communicating vehicular information with remote locations may include communicating data from a wireless interface of a vehicle with a locally positioned wireless device. The wireless device may be configured to enable a user to communicate with other users of wireless devices. Receipt of the internal... Agent: Patton Boggs, LLP

20080176535 - Systems and methods for mobile virtual network operator mobile to mobile service: Call rating systems and methods using a mobile to mobile database with operator prefixes and a rating key table in which network operators subscribed to by mobile to mobile calling and called parties are identified by database queries and a rating key is obtained according to the prefixes to rate... Agent: Fay Sharpe/lucent

20080176543 - System and method for optimisation of media objects: A system and method for optimisation of media objects for delivery to one of a plurality of mobile communication devices of different types and rendering thereon. In particular, the media objects are optimised according to the mobile device's characteristics to ensure efficient delivery and optimal rendering thereon. For this purpose,... Agent: Boyle Fredrickson S.c.

20080176542 - Wireless landmark-based content delivery: A technique configures a network to perform operations based on a wireless device being within or near a particular physical environment. A wireless signal source identifier (e.g., a cell site identifier) serves as a wireless landmark for the particular physical environment. When the network detects the wireless landmark (i.e., the... Agent: Zagorin O'brien Graham LLP (037)

20080176544 - Methods and apparatus for generating mobile internet pages for viewing by mobile communication devices: A mobile internet page computer system for generating mobile internet pages for viewing by mobile communication devices preferably configured for each device, the system comprising a memory, a processor, an input for receiving a request for one or more mobile internet pages from mobile telephones, a plurality of data chunks... Agent: Law Office Of James Trosino

20080176546 - Application programming interface (api) for a receiver in a wireless communications device: An apparatus is configured to receive a signal in accordance with a protocol stack comprising a physical layer, MAC layer, control layer and stream layer. The apparatus includes a receiver stack processing system configured to provide the control and stream layers, a media processing system configured to provide the physical... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080176547 - Method and apparatus for image distribution using a cellular phone: A method and apparatus for controlling the distribution, including printing, of digital images using a wireless enhanced, digital imaging device, such as a cellular phone equipped with a digital camera. A picture created using the digital camera is uploaded to a remote server. Arrival of the digital image, activates the... Agent: Synnestvedt & Lechner, LLP

20080176545 - Methods and apparatus for associating mapping functionality and information in contact lists of mobile communication devices: In one illustrative example, a method of providing mapping functionality in a contact list of a mobile communication device comprises the acts of providing a contact list organizer function in the mobile device for use in organizing a plurality of contacts of a contact book or list; identifying, through a... Agent: John J. Oskorep, Esq. One Magnificent Mile Center

20080176548 - Method, system and apparatus for a dual mode mobile device: The present invention provides a dual mode mobile device that can use both cellular-based and IP-based applications with single application program interface and without having separate and distinct subsystems for each communications mode. The device may also include a power management module that considerably reduces the power consumption of the... Agent: Chalker Flores, LLP

20080176549 - Telecommunications subscriber profile management system: A telecommunications subscriber profile management method for a telecommunications subscriber profile management system including a customer service representative (“CSR”) terminal. The terminal presents subscriber profile data in a common user interface format. The terminal receives input in a common format, the input representing commands for management of said subscriber profile... Agent: Patent Administrator Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080176550 - User interface technique for selection and activation of wireless services from among multiple transport carriers: A method and device are provided for handling network activation between a computer and a carrier. In one example, the method involves receiving a command to initiate network activation procedures. The network activation status of the computer is then determined. If the computer is network enabled, a request is sent... Agent: Berry & Associates P.c.

20080176551 - Mobile terminal and method of receiving radio waveform at the same: A mobile terminal for judging by receiving a radio waveform sent from a particular base station whether or not the mobile terminal is located in a service area provided by the base station includes a signal receiver searching the base station by receiving the radio waveform from the base station,... Agent: Junichi Mimura Oki America Inc.

20080176552 - Access network selection method: An access network selection method in a communications network having access networks is disclosed that includes notifying devices in calling-side and called-side networks of the identifiers of currently available access networks and user preferences; making a list of candidates for an access network to be assigned to the called-side terminal,... Agent: Hanify & King Professional Corporation

20080176553 - Method and system for determining deterioration in the quality of a mobile telephony network: A method for determining deteriorations in the quality of a mobile or fixed telephony network on a day D (or at any other frequency, for example hour or minute) by implementing one or more items of special equipment in the network, wherein the method implements at least one measurement means... Agent: Perman & Green

20080176554 - Wireless data delivery management system and method: A management system includes a base station controller that uses performance metrics received from one or more associated base stations and/or from other user devices along with service delivery rules to determine when portions of data of a first data transfer are to be sent and/or at what rate the... Agent: Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP/seattle

20080176555 - Communication system, server equipment and terminal equipment: A server equipment forwards received audio data to multiple terminal equipments; judges good or bad of a communication status between the respective terminal equipments; and transmits communication status data indicating good or bad of the communication status to each of the multiple terminal equipments, while a terminal equipment reproduces voice... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080176556 - Method and apparatus of performing frequency transitions in user equipment: A method and apparatus adapted to permit an internal handover from 1900 MHz to 900 MHz under controlled circumstances. Using the method of the present invention, the amount of time needed to disconnect a call of a user equipment (UE) under test, remove the 1800 MHz cell and setup a... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080176557 - Radio communication system for providing both voice and data communication services over radio communication channels and a method for use in a radio communication system: A radio communication system including a system computer connected to a radio communication device including a radio communication antenna and an audio management system via a data bus. The audio management system is connected to a user communication device. The system computer is arranged to switch between a data communication... Agent: Venable LLP

20080176558 - System and method for prompting an incoming call: The present invention relates to a communication system. The communication system includes a handheld communication device embedding a primary communication module therein, and a secondary communication apparatus. The primary communication module is configured for communicating with the secondary communication apparatus in a predetermined area. When a user of the handheld... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080176559 - Seamless roaming for a service within ip datacasting over a digital broadband broadcast network: Methods, apparatuses, and computer media are provided for supporting roaming between platforms which allow for continuous delivery of the same content. A mobile terminal receives digital content from a current signal for a selected service from a current platform. The mobile terminal obtains platform information about another platform that provides... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20080176560 - Flexible mobility framwork for heterogeneous roaming in next generation wireless networks: A system and method for mobility support of a mobile node having a home network in a heterogeneous roaming environment is presented. The method comprises the steps of authenticating the mobile node in a visited network and obtaining an address for the mobile node in the visited network, establishing a... Agent: Telcordia Technologies, Inc.

20080176561 - Method and system for device discovery in wireless communication: The present invention provides a method and a system for device discovery in wireless communication. One implementation involves scanning one or more wireless channels to discover a partner wireless station for a new transmission, by detecting peak energy and beacons on each scanned channel. If a beacon is not detected,... Agent: Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman, LLP

20080176562 - Systems and methods for instant messaging using a control device: A method for instant messaging using a control device is described. A user is authenticated with an instant messenger server. A message is received. The received message includes message data from the instant messenger server. It is determined whether the message should be forwarded to the control device. If it... Agent: Madson & Austin

20080176563 - Service registering apparatus and method using cell reselection procedure in portable terminal: An apparatus and method for performing a service registration through a cell reselection procedure in case of a service registration failure in a portable terminal are provided. The apparatus includes a service registration manager for acquiring cell reselection parameters of a cell to be reselected and a serving cell, and... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080176571 - Apparatus and method for deciding handover in portable terminal: An apparatus and method for deciding a handover in a dual mode portable terminal supporting a cellular network and an unlicensed ISM (Industrial, Scientific and Medical) band network based on a Carrier Sensing Multiple Access with Collision Avoidance (CSMA/CA) scheme is provided. The method includes checking for an available throughput... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080176564 - Apparatus, method and computer program product providing inter-rat measurement control based on connection data rate: A method, computer program product and a wireless network node operate to determine in a wireless communication network a current communication requirement of a user equipment that is communicating using a first type of radio access technology; and to instruct the user equipment to measure and report information associated with... Agent: Harrington & Smith, Pc

20080176565 - Apparatus, method and computer program product providing rat priority list for multi-rat mobile devices: A method, computer program product and a wireless network node operate to determine a content of a multi-radio access technology priority list that includes n entries (n>1) prioritized from a highest priority radio access technology to a lowest priority radio access technology, where an entry for the highest priority radio... Agent: Harrington & Smith, Pc

20080176569 - Handoff method between heterogeneous networks and system thereof: A method and system for performing handoff between a source system and a target system are provided. The target system has a different network access standard from that of the source system. An access terminal, connected to the source system, transmits a request message including an identifier of the access... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080176566 - Handover control system, method for the same, and mobile communication system and radio base station using the same: m

20080176568 - Inter-technology handoff: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate effectuating inter-technology handoffs utilizing pilots. A sector can utilize a first technology to communicate on a first bandwidth. Further, to indicate presence of the first technology, the sector can transmit a pilot on a second bandwidth (e.g., where the second bandwidth can be... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080176570 - Method for determining if a call, in which a mobile terminal located in a cell of a base station of a wireless communication network is involved, has to go through a base station: s

20080176567 - Prioritized query: According to some of the preferred embodiments, a solution framework is employed that includes defining of a mechanism to run multiple queries in a single message exchange along with a priority on a per-query basis, In some embodiments, a system for facilitating handover of a mobile device across heterogeneous access... Agent: Watchstone P+d, Plc

20080176572 - Method of handoff: A method of handoff of user equipment is provided. A code is generated in a mobility management entity. A handoff message is sent from a base station to a user plane function, said message including said code. The handoff message is verified in said user plane function using said code.... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080176573 - Conversion of voice-over-ip media control messaging into mobile control channel signaling using a voice-over ip gateway: A gateway serving as an interface between a mobile network and a wireless network can be configured to send a signal strength indicator to the mobile network thereby causing the mobile network to recognize the gateway as a valid path for handing off a call. The wireless network can be... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080176574 - Mobile communication system, user equipment in mobile communication system, control program thereof, and transmission power control method in mobile communication system: In a W-CDMA wireless system, when communication is performed by using a StandAlone-DCCH, adequate transmission power control is performed depending on change in a communication status. In a W-CDMA wireless system 1, a reception quality of a common channel is measured, and if a StandAlone-DCCH state has occurred, transmission power... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080176576 - Fast indication of uplink voice activity: A mobile station operating in extended uplink TBF mode detects renewed data activity. Upon receiving an allocation of an uplink transmission opportunity, the mobile station determines whether a data block corresponding to the renewed data activity is ready for transmission. If the data block is not ready for transmission, a... Agent: Coats & Bennett, Pllc

20080176575 - Transmit power dependent reduced emissions from a wireless transceiver: Methods and apparatus for reducing out of band emissions through selective resource allocation, transmit power control, or a combination thereof. A resource controller, such as a base station, can allocate uplink resources to a requesting subscriber station based in part on an expected transmit power. The base station can allocate... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080176577 - Tiling allocations for wireless communication: Allocations for access in a wireless system may be tiled onto a subframe having a first dimension and a second dimension. In an exemplary embodiment, allocations are distributed along the first dimension while the second dimension is locked, and the allocations are distributed along the second dimension while the first... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080176580 - Cellular telephone tracking system employing a gps: A system for tracking a mobile telephone having a GPS receiver, the mobile telephone receiving instruction to transmit to a cellular tower its position and identification. The system including a server for receiving a signal from a cellular tower and from a client. The system includes a sub-system for receiving... Agent: The Weintraub Group

20080176579 - Scanning cell-dependent groups of profiles of wireless local area networks: A wireless device capable of wireless local area network (WLAN) communications and cellular network communications stores profiles of wireless local area networks. The device identifies in which cell of a cellular network the device is currently located, and then scans more frequently for wireless local area networks matching profiles to... Agent: Integral Intellectual Property Inc.

20080176578 - Using rfid and sensored zones to geographically control cellular phone audio profiles: A system and method for automatically controlling and adjusting the audio profile of pervasive devices, like cellular phones, within controlled zones. The system and method utilizes RFID and sensors to geographically control and adjust the audio profiles based on set criteria, such as default settings and hierarchy. The audio profiles... Agent: Cahn & Samuels, LLP

20080176581 - Actively scanning according to wlan regulatory domain without first passively scanning: A wireless local area network (WLAN) client device determines the WLAN regulatory domain in which it is currently located by using information received via a non-WLAN wireless interface. Once the regulatory domain has been determined, a WLAN client device operating in the 2.4 GHz band, for example, an IEEE 802.11b/g... Agent: Integral Intellectual Property Inc.

20080176582 - Providing location based services for mobile devices: Systems and methods are provided that allow the delivery of location based services within a communication network. The location information can be retrieved using information from the mobile node when the mobile node registers in the network. The location information can then be cached or stored in one or more... Agent: Wilmerhale/new York

20080176583 - Method and system for selecting and providing a relevant subset of wi-fi location information to a mobile client device so the client device may estimate its position with efficient utilization of resources: A method of providing a relevant subset of information to a client device is based in part on scanning for Wi-Fi access points within range of the client device, using a Wi-Fi database that covers a large target region to retrieve information about these access points, using this information to... Agent: Wilmerhale/boston

20080176585 - Method of displaying contact information: A method of displaying contact method on a mobile device includes storing a plurality of contact records on a mobile device. At least one record contains information corresponding to the geographic location of at least one of the contacts. The geographic location of the mobile device is determined and compared... Agent: Technology, Patents And Licensing, Inc.

20080176584 - Wireless landmark-based operation of a wireless device: A technique configures a wireless device to perform operations based on the wireless device being within or near a particular physical environment. A wireless signal source identifier (e.g., a cell site identifier) serves as a wireless landmark for the particular physical environment. When the wireless device detects the wireless landmark,... Agent: Zagorin O'brien Graham LLP (037)

20080176590 - Method and apparatus for receiving multimedia message service messages: A method for a communication device, receiving MMS messages, receives an SMS message from a system service terminal. When the received SMS message is determined as a notification message related to an MMS message, the values of a first flag and a second flag are detected. When both the first... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080176588 - Method and system for offloading mobile-originating short message traffic: A method for managing mobile-originating short messages in a mobile communications network is provided. A request for short message service is identified in a plurality of data link connections. A subscriber is identified for the request for short message service. A radio resource is monitored for the subscriber. Short messages... Agent: David M. O'dell Attorney For Applicants

20080176589 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for routing a short message service (sms) message from a 2g network to a session initiation protocol (sip)-based network: Methods, systems, and computer program products for routing a short message service (SMS) message from a 2G network to a dual mode 2G/session initiation protocol (SIP) device are disclosed. According to one method, at a communications signaling message routing node, a 2G mobility location information query message for obtaining a... Agent: Jenkins, Wilson, Taylor & Hunt, P. A.

20080176587 - System and a method for sending digital content to a mobile device: A method for sending digital content to a mobile device comprises: 1) providing a client application capable of designating an address of the mobile device and digital content appearing in a display of a hosting computing unit, 2) acquiring the address and the digital content via a computer network connected... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan Prtsi, Inc.

20080176586 - System and method for effectuating remote control of a network node by a user equipment (ue) device: In one embodiment, a scheme is disclosed for effectuating remote control of a network node by a user equipment (UE) device. A message relating to a service feature is constructed and wrapped in a wrapper, which is then transmitted to the network node via an out-of-band control channel for invoking... Agent: Research In Motion Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20080176591 - Mobile communication apparatus: A mobile communication apparatus on the receiving side receives and stores data being transmitted over the period of a plurality of processing time units, from the mobile communication apparatus on the transmitting side. At the time of retransmission of the data concerned, the mobile communication apparatus includes a retransmission control... Agent: Hanify & King Professional Corporation

20080176592 - Radio terminal unit, radio communication system and communication control method: A radio terminal unit and a radio communication system, enabling power savings, the improvement of the quality of real-time communication such as voice communication, and the reduction of transmission delays which often occur when a plurality of radio terminal units are connected to one radio base station. A radio terminal... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080176594 - Apparatus for controlling radiation power in dual mode mobile terminal and method thereof: An apparatus and a method for controlling radiation power of a mobile terminal in a call waiting state, having two antennas for supporting dual mode communication. The method for controlling radiation power of a mobile terminal includes receiving a call from a second communication network while communicating with a first... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080176593 - Dynamic power allocation for unicast-multicast superposition in wireless broadcasting: The present invention provides a method for supplying unicast and multicast transmissions to a plurality of mobile devices in a wireless system. The method comprises supplying a multicast signal using a first portion of total available power, wherein the first portion of total available power is a function of a... Agent: Williams, Morgan & Amerson

20080176596 - Communication apparatus, phone set, communication system, communication method and communication program: In the present invention, there is provided a communication apparatus including: a first communication section for a communication through a first communication path; a second communication section for a communication through a second communication path; a communication-path determination section to determine whether a present communication path currently being used is... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.c.

20080176597 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for routing a call from a 2g network to a dual mode 2g/session initiation protocol (sip) device: Methods, systems, and computer program products for routing a call from a 2G network to a dual mode 2G/session initiation protocol (SIP) device are disclosed. According to one method, a 2G mobility location information query message requesting mobility location information for delivering a call to a dual mode 2G/SIP device... Agent: Jenkins, Wilson, Taylor & Hunt, P. A.

20080176595 - Mobile communication device having multiple independent optimized physical layers: A system and method in a mobile communication device for providing and/or utilizing multiple independent optimized physical layers to provide communication services. As a non-limiting example, a mobile communication device may comprising a first PHY layer comprising first circuitry operable to provide any of at least a first plurality of... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080176598 - Mobile communication terminal and focusing method using the same: The present invention relates to a mobile communication terminal and a focusing method using the same. The mobile communication terminal includes an input unit for generating one or more input signals, a camera unit for capturing an image of a subject, a display unit having the image of the subject... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080176599 - Mobile communication terminal and method of storing image thereof: A method of operating a mobile communication terminal, the method including photographing an image and interconnecting the photographed image with an input number such that when the number is input into the mobile communication terminal, the photographed image is automatically displayed on the mobile communication terminal.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080176600 - Systems and methods for maintaining data integrity of removable media of an electronic device: The described embodiments relate generally to methods, systems and devices for maintaining data integrity of a removable media card of a handheld electronic device, particularly when such media card is removed from such device.... Agent: Bereskin And Parr

20080176601 - Radio base station apparatus, radio terminal apparatus, mobile communication system, and reception operation control program: In response to a connection request from a terminal, a base station provides a signal indicating a reception operation adapted to a transmission operation of the base station to the terminal. Based on the indicating signal, the terminal selects and performs the optimum reception operation. The terminal also provides its... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080176602 - Mobile communication terminal, method of generating group picture in phonebook thereof and method of performing communication event using group picture: A mobile communication terminal for providing a group picture of a group in a phonebook, a method of generating the group picture in the phonebook of the mobile communication terminal and a method of performing a communication event using the group picture are provided. The method of generating a group... Agent: Jefferson Ip Law, LLP

20080176606 - Content search method and mobile terminal: A content search method and a terminal using the same are provided. The method for displaying content in the mobile terminal includes displaying a content list including a plurality of different content files, receiving a request from a user, and displaying responsive to the request one of the plurality of... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080176604 - Mobile communication device and method of controlling operation of the mobile communication device: A mobile communication device and a method of controlling an operation of the mobile communication device are provided. According to an embodiment, the method includes displaying an image on at least a portion of the touch screen; if a first touch input to the touch screen is detected, displaying a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080176605 - Mobile terminal: The present invention relates to a mobile terminal. The mobile terminal comprises a first body, a first key button part disposed on a front surface of the first body, a second body rotatable connected to the first body such that the second body is rotatable about a longitudinal axis of... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080176603 - Portable electronic device: The present invention discloses a portable electronic device including a main body, a recess at an end of the main body for containing at least one first display module, and at least one connecting member between the recess and the first display module. An end of the connecting member is... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, Pllc

20080176607 - Rotation hinge apparatus for a portable terminal, dual hinge apparatus having the same, swing-type portable terminal, and sliding/rotation-type portable terminal: A rotation hinge apparatus of a portable terminal including a body housing, a folder including a liquid crystal display section and rotated in the body housing about first and second axes, and a connection member rotatably connecting the folder about the first and second hinge axes includes a base member;... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080176608 - System and method for optimizing power supplies in a wireless transceiver: Different components in a wireless transceiver are powered using different power supplies. For example, one or more first tasks in the wireless transceiver can be powered with a Galvanic cell, and one or more second tasks in the wireless transceiver can be powered with a fuel cell. The one or... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080176609 - Mobile terminal: A mobile terminal including a terminal case, a microphone located within the terminal case, and a sound guide unit, is provided. The terminal case includes a first case member, a second case member, and a frame member located between the first case member and the second case member. The frame... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080176610 - Foldable mobile electronic device: A foldable mobile electronic device includes a body, a top cover and a hinge. The body includes a first sliding mechanism. The top cover includes a second sliding mechanism moving between a first position and a second position relative to the body. The hinge includes a first protrusion and a... Agent: Quintero Law Office, Pc

20080176611 - Garment securable mobile device: A mobile device for securing to a garment of a user thereof. Such a garment securable mobile device may be of a clamshell configuration with mating portions hinged to one another such that when closed toward one another a garment space is defined therebetween. A portion of a garment may... Agent: William F. Ryann

20080171510 - Positioning device, electronic instrument, and filter passband changing method: An RF receiver circuit section extracts a signal including the frequency band of a GPS satellite signal by causing a signal received from a GPS satellite to pass through a filter section that includes a plurality of filters having different passbands, and outputs the extracted signal to a baseband process... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20080171511 - Communication system and mobile communication terminal: A communication system includes: a plurality of mobile communication terminals; a server device; and a plurality of relay devices performing a relay between the plurality of mobile communication terminals and the server device. The mobile communication terminals include: a communication unit transmitting and receiving a long wave wirelessly, and a... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080171512 - Methods and systems for wireless communication by magnetic induction: Disclosed are embodiments of methods and systems for wireless data transmission by magnetic induction. In one embodiment, a network of magnetic induction units is provided. The units may be configured to transmit a data signal by modulation of a time-varying magnetic field. One or more units may also be configured... Agent: Utah State University

20080171513 - Bluetooth wireless phone with touchpad: A Bluetooth wireless phone includes a Bluetooth communication module, a micro controller unit (MCU) and a touchpad. The Bluetooth communication module includes a Bluetooth transceiver device and a Bluetooth operating unit. A signal connection is performed between the Bluetooth transceiver device and electronic equipment having the ability of sending and... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080171514 - Method for operating a service by a host system with a human-machine interface, the host system and the mobile electronic device and host system package: The invention relates to a method for operating a service in an environment outside a mobile electronic device. The service is able to be operated by means of a host system with a human-machine interface adapted to the environment. The mobile device is brought into communication with the host system... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080171515 - Apparatus and method for estimating frequency offset in wireless communication system: An apparatus and method for estimating frequency offset in a mobile terminal are provided. The method includes collecting information on the locations of a base station and the mobile terminal; calculating a moving speed of the mobile terminal using the collected location information; and estimating the frequency offset using the... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080171516 - Wireless communication apparatus and antenna directivity/radio resource assigning method: A wireless communication apparatus is provided that is capable of achieving both the suppression of interference between base stations and the capability to track mobile stations that are moving at a high speed. A moving speed estimating unit estimates the moving speed of each mobile station based on reception signals.... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080171518 - Method and system for determining the amplitude and/or phase of the output signal for a transmission body depending on the amplitude of the input signal: A method and a system for determining the amplitude and/or the phase of the output signal of a transmission link dependent upon the amplitude of the input signal (AM-AM and/or AM-PM characteristic) impresses a test signal (s(t)) on the transmission link (14), measures the response signal (e(t)) resulting from the... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20080171517 - Radio signal analysis: In some embodiments, a radio transmitter assembly comprises a test signal generator module to generate a first instance of a test signal, the test signal comprising a code, a test signal receiver module which receives the code, a signal combiner to combine the first instance of the test signal with... Agent: Caven & Aghevli C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080171519 - Mote networks having directional antennas: A mote network having and/or using one or more directional antennas.... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20080171520 - Method and apparatus for adaptive channel utilisation: A transceiver with an adaptable filter and a method of controlling the settings of the filter to adapt to local channel assignments and usage are provided. The adaptable filter is connected in at least one of the transmitter path and the receiver path of the transceiver to separate signals from... Agent: Smart & Biggar P.o. Box 2999, Station D

20080171521 - Method and device for transferring single-ended signal with interference-resistance: The invention provides a method of transferring single ended signal with interference-resistance. The transmission of the single ended signal includes an input device and an output device. The output device has its signal output terminal connected with a signal input terminal of the input device. A signal floating isolation circuit... Agent: GlobalIPServices

20080171522 - Wireless communication unit, linearised transmitter circuit and method of linearising therein: A wireless communication unit includes a linearised transmitter having a forward path and a feedback path, respectively comprising at least one up-mixer and down-mixer, and forming two loops in quadrature. A phase training signal is applied to the at least one down-mixer in the feedback path in an open loop... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080171523 - Power amplifier bias control: A power amplifier circuit for a mobile terminal controls the bias voltage depending on the modulation of the input signal. The power amplifier circuit includes a power amplifier control circuit configured to control power amplifier bias for a first input signal modulation using calibrated bias control values corresponding to a... Agent: Coats & Bennett/sony Ericsson

20080171524 - Receiver having tunable amplifier with integrated tracking filter: A receiver is disclosed. The receiver includes: a tunable low noise amplifier (LNA), the tunable LNA comprising: a plurality of LNAs for receiving and amplifying a plurality of frequency bands respectively; a plurality of first switches respectively coupled to the plurality of LNAs; a plurality of LC loads, respectively coupled... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080171525 - High-frequency receiver and adjacent interference wave reducing method: A high-frequency receiver alleviates an influence of adjacent interference waves in a location where an identical set of broadcast channels can be received with different broadcast waves which are broadcast or relayed in frequency bands different from one another by satellites and ground repeater(s). The I and Q signals are... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080171526 - Noise removal apparatus: An object of the present invention is to provide a noise removal apparatus, of a simplified configuration, capable of removing a noise. A band separation section 351 separates an inputted digital signal into a digital signal D1 and a digital signal D2 by using, as a boundary, the center frequency... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080171527 - Method and apparatus for optimizing signal processing: An booster/amplifier receives a plurality of RF signals, including a subject RF signal. A location-based signal spectrum is determined by performing either a frequency scan or an information lookup operation. An initial filter bandwidth for the booster/amplifier is set based at least in part on the determined signal spectrum and... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080171528 - Highly configurable radio frequency (rf) module: The disclosed embodiments relate to a communication device (200) that implements a subset of feature choices selected from a complete set of feature choices. An exemplary embodiment comprises at least one common hardware component (210) common to any subset of feature choices, and a base (102) that is adapted to... Agent: Panasonic Automotive System Company Of America

20080171530 - Apparatus and method for media data classification in mobile communication system: A media data classification is provided. A Serving GPRS Supporting Node (SGSN) for indicating an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) data flow in a mobile communication system includes a communication module for communicating with other nodes; and a media flow manager for communicating with the other nodes through the communication module,... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20080171529 - Control of prepaid balance status notification: This invention relates to an enhanced method and apparatus for providing notification to a telecommunications customer using prepaid service that his/her prepaid balance is below a pre-specified threshold. The number of notifications is limited to a specified number within a specified interval. Advantageously, the customer is spared the nuisance o... Agent: Werner Ulrich

20080171531 - Method for the location-dependent and/or distance-dependent billing of communications services in a mobile communications network: A method for the location-dependent and/or distance-dependent charging of telecommunication services in a mobile communication network, where the network includes several radio cells, each of which covers a certain service area and is supplied with radio signals by at least one associated base transceiver station. An individual, guaranteed subscriber area... Agent: The Maxham Firm

20080171532 - System and method for using a temporary electronic serial number for over-the-air activation of a mobile device: A system and method for activating a subscriber identification module (SIM) based mobile device in a PCS/ANSI type wireless network. The method comprises pre-programming the SIM card of the mobile device with temporary activation identifiers, such as an international mobile station identity (IMSI) and/or a mobile identification number (MIN), and... Agent: Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP/seattle

20080171533 - System, method, and gateway for interfacing public safety and security (pss) systems and cellular communication systems: A gateway, system, and method for providing seamless communications to Public Safety and Security (PSS) users operating between a PSS communication network and a cellular communication network irrespective of access technology or switching method. The gateway includes a presence and identity mapping unit for mapping a PSS user identity utilized... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080171534 - Authentication in communication networks: Disclosed is a method including receiving an authentication bootstrapping request related to a subscriber, requesting authentication information of said subscriber from a subscriber database, requesting security settings of said subscriber from a security setting database, receiving a response at least from one of the subscriber database and the security setting... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080171537 - Method of providing voice stock information via mobile apparatus: In a method of providing voice stock information via mobile apparatus, character codes of real-time stock information are translated into sound codes and transmitted to a mobile apparatus adapted to receive real-time stock information, so that stock information may be broadcasted at the mobile apparatus in voice. The method uses... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080171536 - System and method for broadcasting an alert: A mobile radio terminal includes a radio circuit for communicating with a communications network so as to receive at least one of telephone calls or messages. The mobile radio terminal also includes a broadcast transmitter controlled to broadcast a signal corresponding to an alert sound when at least one of... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080171535 - System and method for providing a preview of message content on a mobile device: Embodiments of a system and method for providing a preview of the content of messages (e.g. electronic mail messages) to users of mobile devices. A portion of the message body of a message associated with a user-identified list entry of a message list is shown in an area of a... Agent: Bereskin And Parr

20080171539 - Mobile communication terminal and method: It is presented a method for providing a user interface of a mobile communication terminal including a motion sensitive sensor, a keypad and a display, the mobile communication terminal being capable of being in at least an active mode and a key-lock mode, the method including: detecting, using the motion... Agent: Perman & Green

20080171538 - Mobile communications system: A base station allows a downlink signal to include not only a base station ID number indicating the base station but also an identification signal for specific use indicating that the base station is for specific use and sends the downlink signal. The terminal includes a memory (25) that stores... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080171541 - Arrangements in ip multimedia subsystem (ims): The present invention relates to arrangements adapted for implementation in a Session Initiated Protocol, SIP, provider domain in IP multimedia Subsystem, IMS, for managing SIP user identities wherein each SIP user is identified by a SIP URI. In one aspect of the present invention the arrangement comprises a database adapted... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080171540 - Frequency mixer using current feedback amplifiers: A frequency mixer includes a semiconductor substrate. An input current feedback amplifier is formed on the semiconductor substrate and receives a radio frequency (RF) signal and a local oscillator (LO) signal. An inverting current feedback amplifier is formed on the semiconductor substrate and connected to the input current feedback amplifier... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist

20080171542 - Automated tagging of targeted media resources: The present disclosure provides systems and methods for tagging or identifying bad, faulty or objectionable media resource files in real time, as the media is playing, by users who are exposed to the media. The tagging is simple to use and easy to remember, allowing for increased use of the... Agent: Moazzam & Associates, LLC Matters For Cingular Wireless Ii, LLC

20080171543 - Apparatus, and associated method, for selecting whether to reject as invalid a data segment received at a communication station: Apparatus, and an associated method, for determining whether to accept as valid a data segment, such as a radio block communicated pursuant to an EDGE communication session. A bit error rate measurer measures the bit error rate of a header part of a received radio block. The measured bit error... Agent: Research In Motion Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20080171544 - Method and system for inter-network mobile number portability: A method for inter-network communication between a first user and a second user. The method includes receiving a first request for a location associated with the second user from a first switching system for a first network. The method processes information associated with the first request and determines a network... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080171545 - Method of registering location of mobile-communication system and device therefor: In a mobile-communication system including a base-transceiver station (BTS), a visitor-location register (VLR), and controllers for controlling a mobile station (MS), the controllers including at least one mobile-switching center (MSC) each controlling at least one radio-network controller (RNC), when a location-registration request is transmitted from the MS, it is determined... Agent: Hanify & King Professional Corporation

20080171546 - Communication method and apparatus in cognitive radio environment: Aspects of the present invention relate to a communication method and apparatus in a cognitive radio (CR) environment, the method including: receiving an uplink signal that is repeatedly transmitted via at least one candidate channel that is not being used; determining whether the receiving of the uplink signal is due... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080171547 - Mobile communicaton controlling apparatus and inter-frequency handover control method: A mobile communication controlling apparatus for controlling inter-frequency handover includes a required quality identifying unit configured to identify a quality required for data addressed to a mobile station, a transmission rate control unit configured to control a data transmission rate of a higher layer based on the identification result supplied... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080171548 - Configuring a base station to act as a regional mobility agent: Described herein are mechanisms and methods that facilitate utilizing a base station as a regional mobility agent (e.g., regional home agent, regional foreign agent, and/or the like). Thus, a base station can have functionality embedded therein that enables the base station to create tunnels with other base stations and selectively... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080171549 - Multi-way messaging with forwarding: Systems and methods are disclosed which allow for enhanced SMS forwarding by providing a technique for seamless two-way messaging between a source party and a redirected destination. An advantage of the present technique lies in the ability to replace any routing information (originating/destination addresses) between devices owned by the mobile... Agent: Moazzam & Associates, LLC Matters For Cingular Wireless Ii, LLC

20080171550 - System and method for using an adaptive hybrid coordination function (hcf) in an 802.11e wireless lan: A system comprises a network congestion monitoring module for monitoring a congestion-related metric of a wireless medium, the congestion-related metric being based on traffic class, e.g., average contention window; a contention-period/contention-free-period (CP/CFP) adaptation module coupled to the network congestion monitoring module for generating CP/CFP information, e.g., CP/CFP duration information and/or... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20080171552 - Communication method and apparatus for distributed network system where cognitive radio technology is applied: destination node, second adjacent channel information of the at least one second neighbor node to the destination node using a pulse signal according to a request of the destination node; and exchanging data between the source node and the destination node using a channel that is not currently used, according... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080171551 - Reuse pattern network scheduling using load levels: One or more stations are sorted based on respective load levels, and a reuse pattern is generated, based on the sorted load levels and mapped interference levels, including one or more reuse sets of stations capable of sharing a transmission resource. The stations within each reuse set are listed in... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080171553 - Systems and methods for channel selection management in a wireless communication network: A system for channel selection management in a wireless communication network. The system includes a memory module configured to store at least one channel condition related to at least one infrastructure station among a plurality of infrastructure stations in the wireless communication network, wherein each of the plurality of infrastructure... Agent: Akin Gump LLP - Silicon Valley

20080171554 - Node b and rnc actions during a serving hsdpa cell change: A system and method in accordance with the present invention reduce the amount of data that is stalled in a source Node B after a serving HS-DSCH cell change in a communication system that includes a serving RNC and at least one Node B. In a first embodiment, the RNC... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080171556 - Database update systems: In one arrangement, a method of operating a mobile user terminal in a communications system includes monitoring received broadcast signals and deriving first identification data of fixed wireless nodes from the received broadcast signals. The method includes using data derived from a stored database in combination with the derived first... Agent: Bainwood Huang & Associates LLC

20080171555 - Location-based text messaging: A method and device is provided for transmitting location-based text messages between electronic devices. A mobile electronic device can determine a device's location, create a map of that location, create a text message, embed the map in the text message and transmit the text message to a recipient. The device... Agent: Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP (formerly Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham)

20080171558 - Location-based service method and system using location data included in image data: The present invention relates to a location-based service method and system using location data included in image data, particularly to a method and a system of providing the location-based service with photos taken by a camera phone, using location information at the shooting time. The location-based service method according to... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080171557 - Method, system and module for locating a telecommunications terminal: A system for locating a communications terminal (10). The system comprises a location hybridization module (14) which comprises: a spatial filter (142); a temporal filter (141) for the geographical location adapted to compare a time corresponding to the age of the latest geographical location with a first predetermined maximum time... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20080171559 - Location-based alerting: One embodiment of the present is a method of using location information to transmit alerting information to a communications device. Such a method comprises receiving location information regarding a communications device; selecting alerting information based on the location of the communications device; and transmitting to the communications device information pertaining... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP/ At&t Delaware Intellectual Property, Inc.

20080171560 - System and related circuits and methods for detecting and locating illicit cellular telephone use within a facility: A system for detecting and locating illicit cellular telephone use within a facility includes an array of radio frequency (RF) receivers, each receiver being placed in a predetermined location in the facility, and a central server, the receivers being in electrical communication with the central server. The server commands a... Agent: Bodner & O'rourke, LLP

20080171561 - Apparatus for and method of radio link establishment between two communication devices: A novel and useful apparatus for and method of automatically establishing a secondary communications link (e.g., short range wireless connection such as WLAN, Bluetooth, etc.) between two communications devices utilizing an already established primary communications connection (e.g., cellular phone connection). The invention eliminates the need for both sides of a... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080171564 - Apparatus, method, and terminal apparatus for maintaining connection: The resource controlling unit controls a resource usage state. The receiving unit receives from a first terminal a first message containing a first condition for maintaining a connection that is used to transfer a message exchanged between the first terminal and the second terminal. Based on the first condition contained... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080171563 - Method of changing standby order of waiting mobile terminals in mobile terminal: A method for changing a standby order of waiting mobile terminals includes displaying a standby order of a plurality of mobile terminals according to an audiovisual communication request order when a first mobile terminal receives requests for audiovisual communication from the plurality of mobile terminals while the first mobile terminal... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20080171562 - System and method to access and download data from a mobile device using a cellular network: A method and system for accessing and downloading data stored on a first mobile device by a second device over a cellular network is provided. First, a request is received from the second device for access to data on the first device. The request is then transmitted to the first... Agent: Weinick & Associates, LLC

20080171565 - Apparatus and method for joint power control in a wireless communication system: An apparatus and a method for joint power control in a wireless communication system are provided, in which customer premise equipments to be serviced are selected by scheduling, upon receipt of service requests from the customer premise equipments, the interference level of each of the selected customer premise equipments that... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080171566 - Transmission rate control method and radio base station: To prevent consecutive transmission of a relative transmission rate control channel (RGCH) including a “Down” command and minimize deterioration in the service quality due to “Down” commands from non-serving cells, a transmission rate control method controls, at a mobile station, a transmission rate of uplink user data by using a... Agent: Mots Law, PLLC

20080171567 - Techniques to increase coverage of push-to-talk wireless networks: Various example embodiments are disclosed relating to wireless networks, such as relating to techniques to improve coverage of push-to-talk wireless networks or services. In an example embodiment, a technique may include forwarding data to a remote push-to-talk (PTT) wireless network via an intermediary device of an intermediary wireless network if... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP

20080171568 - Apparatus and method for saving power in dual mode portable terminal: Provided is an apparatus and method for saving power in a dual mode portable terminal that concurrently supports a cellular network and an unlicensed band network. The method includes, upon disassociating from an in-association Access Point (AP) of an unlicensed band network, measuring a Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) from... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080171569 - Redundant wireless base stations: A wireless network includes a wireless subscriber station radio-linked to a set of redundant wireless base stations, the set including a primary wireless base station connected to a secondary base station by a link, the link enabling sending and receiving baseband radio data to and from a radio or to... Agent: Holland & Knight LLP

20080171570 - Wireless communications system implementing a plurality of wireless communications schemes with handover capability: A wireless communications system includes: a first communications processing section for implementing a dedicated communications function that is only for the first wireless communications scheme; a second communications processing section for implementing a dedicated communications function that is only for the second wireless communications scheme; a shared transceiver section shared... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080171572 - Mobile terminal having rotating input device: A mobile terminal includes a display located on a front side of the terminal and an input device located on a rear side of the terminal and having a rotatable wheel.... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080171571 - Portable electronic appliance with a camera and an optical deflection device: A portable electronic device is configured in particular as a mobile telephone having a first housing element with a second side. A linking device links the housing elements in such a way that they are movable in relation to each other, the first side facing the second side in at... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080171573 - Personalized service method using user history in mobile terminal and system using the method: A personalized service method using a user history in a mobile terminal is provided. The personalized service method using the user history in the mobile terminal includes: checking at least one of event information and context information which occurred due to a user; checking a user's location, a user's condition,... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080171575 - Application module for a personal communication device: A communication device includes a processing part attached to a surface of the communication device for receiving first and second signals from the communication device and including a plurality of first contacts on a surface thereof, and a storage part mounted on the processing part and connected to the plurality... Agent: Seyfarth Shaw, LLP

20080171574 - Cell phone based animal sound imitation: A cell phone based sound producing device is a sound producing device that takes advantage of the likelihood that a user is already carrying a cell phone and does not need to also carry an electronic sound producing device. Another advantage is that cell phones are designed to communicate across... Agent: Ortiz & Lopez, PLLC

20080171576 - System and method for identifying a mobile device: A system and method identifies a mobile unit in a cradle. The method comprises deactivating power to the cradle. The cradle is capable of recharging the mobile unit. After the cradle is deactivated, the method comprises determining one of (a) if a signal is received from the mobile unit indicating... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20080171577 - External memories architecture to enable software partition and customization for mobile terminals with insertable communications cards: A dual memory architecture for software partition on mobile terminals incorporates a mobile information device (MID) handset having a first memory; a plurality of host peripherals; and a card interface. A miniaturized form factor card (mobile card) incorporating wireless communications components is received in the card interface and includes a... Agent: Utstarcom, Inc. C/o Laura Weiss, Paralegal

20080171578 - Methods and apparatus for use in transferring user data between two different mobile communication devices using a removable memory card: Methods and apparatus for use in transferring user data from a first (“source”) mobile communication device to a second (“target”) mobile communication device using a removable memory card are disclosed. The source and target devices may be possessed and/or owned by the same end user. The source device is initially... Agent: John J. Oskorep, Esq. One Magnificent Mile Center

20080171579 - Cellular phone with signal learning capability: A cellular phone which includes a transmitter and receiver (such as a transceiver), an antenna associated with the transceiver, a processor which is operably connected to the transceiver and in communication with memory, and a user interface which is in communication with the processor. The user interface is operable to... Agent: Trexler, Bushnell, Giangiorgi, Blackstone & Marr, Ltd.

20080171580 - Mobile communication terminal, method of interconnecting specific content to abbreviated number thereof and method of playing abbreviated number interconnected content thereof: A method of operating a mobile communication terminal. The method includes receiving a signal corresponding to a number to be interconnected with a folder stored on the mobile communication terminal, and interconnecting the folder with the selected number such that when the number is entered on the terminal in a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080171581 - Portable terminal having optical transmitter/receiver: In a folder type or a swing type terminal including a pair of housings or triple housings for attaining composite opening/closing operation, information transmission with a higher speed and larger capacity is available using optical devices for establishing communication lines between circuit devices in the housings. Also, a stable maintenance... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20080166962 - Method and device for providing active security to a contact-free electronic device: The invention concerns a scrambling electronic device adapted to be magnetically coupled with an inductive element (L3) of a contact-free external communication station (LEC). The scrambling device comprises active scrambling means (DB) adapted, in response to the magnetic field radiated by the external communication station (LEC), to generate a charge... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080166963 - System and method for interactive broadcasting: A method of interactive broadcasting may include transmitting a broadcast with a broadcast transceiver associated with a broadcast transmitting electronic device. The broadcast is intended for reception by one or more broadcast receiving electronic devices. A message may be received from one of the broadcast receiving electronic devices and the... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080166964 - Wireless transmission arrangement: A wireless transmission arrangement includes the steps of: using a wireless transmission device between an external host and an external monitor to receive a wireless signal from the external host, decoding the wireless signal and converting the decoded wireless signal into a monitor readable signal by means of a processing... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080166965 - Wirelessly powered specialty lighting, motion, sound: Disclosed is a system for wirelessly powering an item. A source is configured to send wireless power. A target is configured to receive the wireless power and convert the wireless power to a useable power. A component is connected to and configured to receive the useable power from the target.... Agent: Ansel M. Schwartz Suite 304

20080166968 - Apparatuses and methods that facilitate the transfer of power and information among electrical devices: The present invention is directed to apparatuses, systems, methods, and computer readable media that can facilitate the transfer of power between at least two electrical devices. At least one of the electrical devices is preferably a battery operated device. The present invention may also be used to facilitate the transfer... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20080166967 - Power efficient high speed communication systems and methods: Systems and methods for utilizing multiple wireless communication protocols are provided. In one embodiment, the portable device includes circuitry for providing wireless communications utilizing a low power, relatively slow communications protocol, such as Bluetooth, to establish a communications path between two wireless devices. When high speed communications are preferred, the... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20080166966 - Wireless communication apparatus and communication control method: A wireless communication apparatus for performing wireless communication with another communication apparatus comprises: a contact sensor 101 operable to detect physical contact with the another communication apparatus; a short-range communication unit 102 operable to transmit management information required for a session of the wireless communication to the another communication apparatus,... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080166970 - Method and apparatus for handling reset in a wireless communications system: A method for handing reset in a first communications device of a wireless communications system is disclosed. The first communications device includes a first transmitter and a receiver. The method includes receiving a packet from a second communications device by the receiver, triggering a reset procedure by the receiver when... Agent: Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP

20080166969 - Method and apparatus for utilizing other sector interference (osi) indication: Techniques for mitigating interference in a wireless communication system are described. In one design, a sector may determine multiple fast other sector interference (OSI) indications for multiple subzones, with each subzone corresponding to a different portion of the system bandwidth. At least one report may be generated for the multiple... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080166971 - Communication environment learning apparatus and communication environment learning method: Position detection means (11), time detection means (12), weather detection means (13), and transmission rate detection means (14) detect the current position, the current time, the weather, and the valid data transmission rate of a mobile reception device (3). According to the detection results, communication environment information is generated. The... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080166973 - Locally adjusted radio frequency coverage maps in wireless networks: In one embodiment, a method for adjusting a radio-frequency coverage map. The method includes receiving calibration data comprising observed received signal strength values at one or more calibration points corresponding to a radio frequency transmitter, and identifying an applicable coverage map, where the coverage map provides, for the radio frequency... Agent: Law Office Of Mark J. Spolyar

20080166974 - Space-time-frequency sensing of rf spectrum in cognitive radios: A method detects unused frequency bands in a cognitive radio network. Multiple frequency bands for RF signals are sensed using an antenna array including a plurality of elements coupled to a receive RF chain, in which the plurality of elements are individually controllable. For each frequency band, multiple spatial directions... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20080166972 - Real-time rsl monitoring in a web-based application: A system and method for monitoring an attribute of a received signal in a wireless network having plural radios wherein one of the radios includes a monitoring module operatively connected to a second network. An attribute of one radio is monitored substantially continuously at the monitoring module. A display device... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20080166975 - Apparatus and method for cooperative transmission in multi-antenna relay wireless communication system: An apparatus and method for cooperative transmission in a multi-antenna relay wireless communication system are provided. A receiving end includes an estimator, a reader, a feedback unit and a detector. According to the present invention, the receiving end receives the signal from both the transmitting end and the relay station.... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080166977 - Method for adaptive interleaving in a wireless communication system with feedback: The present invention pertains to a transmitter that can exploit feedback to help it organize information which is subsequently sent to a receiver. More specifically, the transmitter receives a feedback signal from the receiver and then uses data about a channel in the feedback signal to adapt at least one... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080166976 - Reverse link power control: In one embodiment, a reverse link transmission power for a user equipment is determined based on a first path loss and a second path loss. The first path loss is path loss between a serving station and the user equipment, and the serving station serves the communication needs of the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080166978 - Method and circuit for estimating in-phase/quadrature signal amplitude imbalance: A circuit (100) comprising an antenna (105) for receiving a carrier signal modulated by a data signal, a direct conversion receiver (180) for receiving the modulated carrier signal, a signal generator circuit (140, 145, 150) arranged to generate a mixing signal having a frequency substantially the same as the carrier... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080166979 - System and method for controlling control unit drive frequency: The invention relates to an electronics system with a radio and a electronic control unit (ECU). There is a need for preventing an electronics system from interfering with operation of the radio. The system includes a communication link communicating a tuned frequency message from the radio to the ECU. The... Agent: Deere & Company

20080166981 - Compact low loss high frequency switch with improved linearity performance: A switch element includes a switch device having a drain, a source and a plurality of gates, and at least one additional interconnect located between the plurality of gates, the additional interconnect operative to establish a constant potential between the at least two gates.... Agent: Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha, LLC

20080166980 - High-frequency circuit, high-frequency device, and communication apparatus: A high-frequency circuit comprising a switch circuit connected to an antenna terminal, first and second diplexer circuits connected to the switch circuit, first and second power amplifier circuits connected to the first diplexer circuit, first and second bandpass filter circuits connected to the first and second power amplifier circuits, a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080166982 - Method and device for controlling bilateral communication system and radio transmission: h

20080166983 - Method, apparatus and system for bearing voice data: A method for bearing voice data includes: a) a calling MSCe and the called MSCe determining that a calling MS and a called MS support the same voice coding and decoding type and that a call is a point-to-point call; b) the calling MSCe and the called MSCe sending Bearer... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080166984 - Multiband or multimode receiver with shared bias circuit: A multi-band communication device with a front end antenna switch module and shared bias circuit is disclosed. Control inputs determine signal routing and amplifier biasing in response to the communication device's mode or band of operation. A received signal is routed to an active path, which corresponds to the band... Agent: Weide & Miller, Ltd.

20080166985 - I/q calibration for walking-if architectures: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate calibration techniques for a station in a wireless communication system that can be utilized to provide joint estimates for distortion introduced by in-phase and quadrature (I/Q) imbalance and mixing-product modulated images.... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin LLP

20080166986 - Frequency synthesizer for integrated circuit radios: An integrated circuit radio transceiver and method therefor includes capacitive loop filter with selectable capacitive elements that are operable to adjust a signal level provided to a voltage controlled oscillator to control a frequency of an output signal of the oscillator. A plurality of switches are controlled by logic to... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080166987 - Method and device for processing signals received by a receiver of radiophonic signals and car radio comprising such a device: A method for processing signals received (30) by a sound programme signal receiver includes a step (42, 44) of adjusting at least one parameter for processing small audio signals obtained from the received signals. It further includes a prior step of dividing a space representing a quality of reception of... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080166988 - Dual antenna system having one phase lock loop: Circuits, systems, and methods are disclosed for controlling multiple antenna receive paths in a wireless communication device. In some embodiments, the circuit may include a pair of receiving antennas, a first receive path including a VCO coupled to receive a PLL signal and a first mixer coupled to receive a... Agent: Marvell/finnegan Henderson LLP C/o Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garnett Et. Al.

20080166989 - System and method for conditionally attempting an emergency call setup: A system and method is provided for a communications device to conditionally attempt an emergency call setup. The communications device maintains at least one condition for attempting emergency call setups. Upon receiving a message prompting an emergency call setup, the communications device attempts the emergency call setup only if any... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20080166990 - Telephone directory assistance system: A communication system providing users with assistance in day to day activities using a unique communication device to automatically communicate with a predetermined remotely located entity. The remotely located entity is a service provider for a communication system for allowing a user to store contact information related to their personal... Agent: Michael I Kroll

20080166991 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method and program product: According to one embodiment of the invention, there is provided an information processing apparatus including: an acquisition unit configured to acquire a positional information of the information processing apparatus; a first setting unit configured to set a predetermined positional information among the positional information acquired by the acquisition unit to... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080166992 - Mobile emergency alert system: A health-related emergency mobile alert system to facilitate communication, care and intervention during critical events. The system communicates with medical monitors, which measure and collect a subject's physiological data and vital signs information. A service provider maintains a database with the subject's medical records and an emergency contact list. When... Agent: Holland & Knight LLP

20080166993 - Method and system for mobile device activation: Methods, systems and graphical user interfaces that facilitate activation of mobile devices, such as communication devices or multi-function devices, via computers are disclosed. According to one embodiment, activation of a mobile device with respect to a wireless service provider can be performed by users through use of a computer (e.g.,... Agent: Technology & Innovation Law Group, PC

20080166998 - Method and apparatus to manage mobile payment account settlement: A transaction operations server receives multiple transactions of the mobile communication device. One transaction adds a first amount of money to the stored value represented by data on the mobile communication device, and another transaction subtracts a second amount of money. The amounts of money are in different data types... Agent: Macronix C/o Haynes Beffel & Wolfeld LLP

20080166994 - Methods and apparatus to implement an internet multimedia sub-system (ims) terminal: Methods and apparatus to implement an Internet multimedia sub-system (IMS) terminal are disclosed. A disclosed example apparatus comprises a first interface configured to receive a user identification from a user, a second interface configured to receive billing information from the user, and a session manager to identify IMS service provider... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20080166999 - Methods and systems of implementing call-cost features on a mobile device: A method of providing cost information associated with one or more contact numbers in an address book may include receiving cost information, storing the cost information, mapping at least a portion of the cost information to one or more contact numbers using one or more pre-defined rules and transmitting the... Agent: Pepper Hamilton LLP

20080166995 - System and method of managing contactless payment transactions using a mobile communication device as a stored value device: A method handling payment transactions in a system using mobile communication devices as stored value devices is disclosed. A transaction operations server receives multiple records of the transaction from the stored value device—one via a communication channel through the telecommunication provider network, and another via an independent communication channel. The... Agent: Macronix C/o Haynes Beffel & Wolfeld LLP

20080166996 - System and method of managing contactless payment transactions using a mobile communication device as a stored value device: A method handling payment transactions in a system using mobile communication devices as stored value devices is disclosed. A transaction operations server receives multiple records of the transaction from the stored value device—one via a communication channel through the telecommunication provider network, and another via an independent communication channel. The... Agent: Macronix C/o Haynes Beffel & Wolfeld LLP

20080166997 - System and method of managing contactless payment transactions using a mobile communication device as a stored value device: A method handling payment transactions in a system using mobile communication devices as stored value devices is disclosed. A transaction operations server receives multiple records of the transaction from the stored value device—one via a communication channel through the telecommunication provider network, and another via an independent communication channel. The... Agent: Macronix C/o Haynes Beffel & Wolfeld LLP

20080167000 - Mobile phone payment process including threshold indicator: System, methods, and apparatus provide account balance alerts for a mobile phone used to initiate a transaction when an account balance is close to a credit limit or close to zero or a minimum balance amount. When a consumer uses an account associated with a mobile phone to make a... Agent: Townsend And Townsend Crew LLP

20080167003 - Method and apparatus for base station self-configuration: Disclosed is method and apparatus for operation of a base station in wireless communications, including self-configuration of the base station for secure and authenticated communications with other base stations.... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080167002 - Method and system for remote controlling operation of mobile telecommunication terminal: Disclosed is a method for remotely controlling an operation of a mobile telecommunication terminal in preparation for a case of loss or theft of the mobile telecommunication terminal, which includes the steps of: (a) monitoring whether a lock setup instruction to enter the lock setup mode is received from the... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080167001 - Open virtual secure crosscheck-link communication channel: The invention regards a data and mobile telephony telecommunication open secure cross-link channel (10) system adapted to provide a further level of coding to access code data regarding security data to enter servers (26) for services, money and commerce transactions. A crosscheck is performed in a gateway (12), checking if... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080167004 - System and method of accessing and recording messages at coordinate way points: The present invention is essentially a method and system for leaving and retrieving messages at specific coordinate way points within a commercial mobile radio service (CMRS) provider network. Users carry or transport interface devices for communicating over the network and are able to record and view messages at specific coordinate... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080167006 - Communication device: A communication device includes a notifying unit and a mode-controlling unit. When an incoming message or call is received by the communication device, the notifying unit generates a first notification signal or a second notification signal. The mode-controlling unit continuously detects the motion or the surrounding condition of a user,... Agent: Madson & Austin

20080167005 - Method and system for handling potentially contentious situations upon receipt of an automatically connecting sms message: The invention enhances mobile device software such that upon receipt of a specially formatted SMS message, the software can automatically dial a telephone number that was specified in the message after a configurable timed interval. A further enhancement comprises improvements to the integration between collaboration software (such as Lotus Notes)... Agent: Ibm Corporation C/o Darcell Walker, Attorney At Law

20080167015 - Community interaction using mobile communication devices: Techniques are provided for delivering content to mobile communication devices related to interactions of members with a user community. The method involves detecting a communication session involving a mobile communication device; determining one or more context parameters associated with the communication session; and delivering content related to the context parameters... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC

20080167007 - Voicemail systems and methods: Systems, methods and computer readable media for providing or managing or using voicemails are described. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, at a first data processing system, data representing an expiration time of a voicemail left for a user of the first data processing system and storing the data... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080167008 - Voicemail systems and methods: Systems, methods and Computer readable media for providing or managing or using voicemails are described. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, at a first data processing system, data representing an expiration time of a voicemail left for a user of the first data processing system and storing the data... Agent: Apple Computer, Inc./blakely

20080167009 - Voicemail systems and methods: Systems, methods and computer readable media for providing or managing or using voicemails are described. In one embodiment a method includes receiving, at a first data processing system, data representing an expiration time of a voicemail left for a user of the first data processing system and storing the data... Agent: Apple Computer, Inc./blakely

20080167010 - Voicemail systems and methods: Systems, methods and computer readable media for providing or managing or using voicemails are described. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, at a first data processing system, data representing an expiration time of a voicemail left for a user of the first data processing system and storing the data... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080167011 - Voicemail systems and methods: Systems, methods and machine readable media for processing voicemails are described. In one embodiment, a method includes presenting, on a first data processing system, a first user interface which is capable of presenting data representing a plurality of voicemails and receiving from the first user interface a selection for playback... Agent: Apple Computer, Inc./blakely

20080167012 - Voicemail systems and methods: Systems, methods and machine readable media for processing voicemails are described. In one embodiment, a method includes presenting, on a first data processing system, a first user interface which is capable of presenting data representing a plurality of voicemails and receiving from the first user interface a selection for playback... Agent: Apple Computer, Inc./blakely

20080167013 - Voicemail systems and methods: Systems, methods and machine readable media for processing voicemails are described. In one embodiment, a method includes presenting, on a first data processing system, a first user interface which is capable of presenting data representing a plurality of voicemails and receiving from the first user interface a selection for playback... Agent: Apple Computer, Inc./blakely

20080167014 - Voicemail systems and methods: Systems, methods and machine (e.g. computer) readable media for providing or managing or using voicemails are described. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving at least notifications of voicemails at a mobile data processing system and storing a data structure at the mobile data processing system for deleted voicemails. In... Agent: Apple Computer, Inc./blakely

20080167017 - Mobile payment management: A method for managing mobile payments in a mobile phone. The method includes receiving data associated with a plurality of issuer specific payment services at a mobile phone, selecting one of the issuer specific payment services, and conducting a transaction using the phone.... Agent: Townsend And Townsend Crew LLP

20080167016 - Scenario based content delivery: Systems and methods are disclosed for providing pertinent multimedia content to mobile subscribers based on dynamically created profiles. Users are provided information relevant to their interests based on dynamic profiles developed as a result of prior patterns of use, interest and behavior. Such profile generation is automated without need for... Agent: Moazzam & Associates, LLC Matters For Cingular Wireless Ii, LLC

20080167020 - Methods and systems of accessing contact information on a mobile device: In an embodiment, a method of accessing contact information on a mobile device may include caching contact information prior to powering off a mobile device, storing the cached contact information on the mobile device and displaying the cached contact information on a display screen of the mobile device when a... Agent: Pepper Hamilton LLP

20080167019 - Methods and systems of providing status message calling features: In an embodiment, a method of providing a status message may include receiving, from a mobile device one or more status messages, wherein each status message corresponds to one or more contacts in an address book, storing the status messages and corresponding one or more contacts, transmitting one of the... Agent: Pepper Hamilton LLP

20080167018 - Wireless telecommunications location based services scheme selection: An intelligent system for choosing selection schemes to be tried in a predetermined order for determining the location of a wireless mobile client, including retrieving a last known position record from a cache, checking serving network capability, choosing an initial selection scheme according to parameters including at least the required... Agent: Manelli Denison & Selter PLLC

20080167022 - Method, device and system for displaying caller identification information: Provided are a method, a device, and a system for displaying at least one character for identifying a caller, together with the caller's phone number, on a recipient's mobile phone when an incoming call is received. The system includes a caller's mobile phone for allowing the caller to input a... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080167021 - Mobile terminal: When a remote device returns an address in response to a search signal, a control unit searches a phone book memory based on this address, reads the user name of the corresponding remote device, and displays it on a display unit. On the other hand, when the phone book memory... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080167024 - Method and system for the prevention of unwanted wireless telecommunications: A method and system for filtering unwanted wireless telecommunications includes structure and steps/function for monitoring traffic associated with roaming subscribers, the traffic being carried via inter-network Internet Protocol links. Structure and steps/function are also provided for intercepting a send-routing-information message from an originating node within the traffic, and initiating a... Agent: Patent Administrator Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080167023 - Redirecting of calls to avoid network interworking between fixed network and radio communications network: The invention concerns the field of call redirecting and enables a second subscriber (B) to keep incoming calls, which originate, e.g. from a fixed network connection of a first subscriber (A) but are destined for a radio network connection of the second subscriber (B), in the fixed network so that... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080167026 - Method for processing measurement control messages and mobile radio communications terminal: In the event that a criterion according to a measurement job for at least one mobile radio cell is fulfilled, at least one indication of the mobile radio cell is stored. Upon receipt of a new measurement control message, by means of which a change in the measurement instruction is... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080167025 - Techniques for database updates: Techniques for updating databases stored on mobile devices.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080167027 - Graphical user interface and method for mobile device activation: Methods, systems and graphical user interfaces that facilitate activation of mobile devices, such as communication devices or multi-function devices, via computers are disclosed. According to one embodiment, activation of a mobile device with respect to a wireless service provider can be performed by users through use of a computer (e.g.,... Agent: Technology & Innovation Law Group, PC

20080167028 - Personal communications processing system: Systems and methods for processing personal communications wherein one embodiment comprises a communication processing system which has a data processing system that receives communications from a user. The data processing system authenticates the received communications, selects one of a plurality of actions for processing the communication item, and processes the... Agent: Law Offices Of Mark L. Berrier

20080167029 - Adaptive cell id detection in a cellular communications system: A cell identifier is indicated in a signal to be transmitted in a cellular communication system by selecting one of a number, M, of codes, wherein each of the codes has a length N of code symbols, and wherein the selected code is associated with the cell identifier. The selected... Agent: Potomac Patent Group PLLC

20080167030 - Channel impulse response extraction for mobile terminals: Finding a channel impulse response estimation window in a current cell for at least one mobile terminal in a neighboring cell is disclosed. This can serve to mitigate interference caused by mobile terminals in neighboring cells in and among communications ongoing in a current cell. In one example, a method... Agent: William J. Cooper, Esq. Eschweiler & Associates, LLC

20080167031 - Satellite receiver having bluetooth or other short-range wireless interface: A subscriber satellite broadcast receiver is provided. The receiver includes a tuner/demodulator for transforming satellite broadcast signals to a digital data stream, a decoder for decoding the digital data stream into a format suitable for display on a display device and a processor operatively coupled to the tuner/demodulator and the... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20080167032 - Mobile satellite service via 3gpp generic radio access network: A system and method adapted to support a satellite component as generic access in the terrestrial mobile networks. The present invention uses the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) baseline standard, 3GPP Generic Access Network (GAN) to support a Mobile Satellite Service (MSS) satellite component at the physical, Radio Link Control... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080167033 - Method and apparatus for cost-based network selection: A method and apparatus taught herein supports cost-based network selection for wireless communication devices while roaming, such as for cellular phones or other mobile stations. In at least one embodiment, processing circuit(s) in the wireless communication device are configured to maintain a service usage profile and one or more service... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20080167034 - Method of controlling the roaming of terminal users in ngn network system: The present invention relates to a method of controlling the roam of a terminal user in the NGN network system, including: dividing the network into regions in accordance with IP address field and defining the roam type and service attribute of each IP address field when the terminal user roams... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz, LLP

20080167035 - Apparatus, and associated method, for providing an instance indentifier to a network database node of a mobile network: Apparatus, and an associated method, for an IMS (IP multimedia subsystem) mobile network to transfer an IMEI or IMEISV to an equipment ID register. A SIP, or other IP-based, message including the IMEI or IMEISV of a user equipment is converted by a protocol converter embodied at an application server... Agent: Research In Motion Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20080167037 - Method and apparatus for reducing latency during wireless connectivity changes: A wireless access point (102) detects an indicia of a change in wireless connectivity of a mobile station (101) with respect to itself and another wireless access point (103). The wireless access point then automatically effects at least one of establishing a communication between itself and the second wireless access... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080167038 - Method and terminal for short range wireless communication: In a short distance wireless communication method, an originating communication terminal establishes a Personal Area Network based on a beacon, a receiving communication terminal connects to the Personal Area Network established by the originating communication terminal, and a short distance wireless communication between the originating communication terminal and receiving communication... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080167036 - Mobile device activation: Methods, systems and apparatus that facilitate activation of mobile devices, such as communication devices or multi-function devices, via a computer are disclosed. According to one aspect of the invention, a mobile device can be forced into a limited service mode until properly activated with a service provider for a wireless... Agent: Technology & Innovation Law Group, PC

20080167039 - Methods and systems of providing local access number calling features: In an embodiments a method of providing a local access number to a subscriber may include receiving subscriber locale information indicating a location of a subscriber, mapping the subscriber locale information to one or more local access numbers, identifying, from the one or more local access numbers, a local access... Agent: Pepper Hamilton LLP

20080167040 - Control resource mapping for a wireless communication system: Techniques for sending control information in a wireless communication system are described. A control segment may include L≧1 tiles, and each tile may include a number of transmission units. A number of control resources may be defined and mapped to the transmission units for the control segment. For symmetric mapping,... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080167043 - Hard handover method, controller and communication system: The invention is related to a controller of a communication system, the controller comprising: means for determining user terminal time delay between delivery and acknowledgement of a transmission; means for conveying the user terminal time delay; means for calculating switching time delay; and means for transferring user terminal data conveyance... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080167041 - Method and apparatus for handover using a candidate set: A method for handover using a handover (HO) candidate set includes receiving measurement statistic parameters. Statistics in a serving cell and potential target cells are measured. An HO candidate set is generated based upon the measured statistics in the serving cell and potential target cells, and the measured statistics are... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080167042 - Radio resource connection (rrc) establishment for wireless systems: Methods and systems for re-establishing radio contact include, for example, a method for performing a wireless handoff for user equipment (UE) as the UE performs a handoff from a source extended Node-B (e-NB) to a target e-NB is disclosed. The method includes detecting a radio link failure (RLF) between the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080167044 - Mobile station, radio communication establishing method and its radio communication system: In a mobile station, a radio section is adapted to communicate with a plurality of base stations, and a control section is connected to the radio section. The control section is adapted to search for cells of the base stations to obtain broadcast information of radio signals of the base... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080167045 - Service handover control apparatus using an end-to-end service handover and method using the apparatus: A service handover control apparatus and a method using the apparatus are provided. The service handover control apparatus includes a service handover management unit collecting information associated with a transmitting terminal and a wireless access network, which operate based on an Internet Protocol multimedia subsystem (IMS), and outputting a control... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20080167046 - Method of mobile terminal for handover/switch among different wireless communication networks in a heterogeneous network environment: A method of mobile terminal for handover/switch among different wireless communication networks in a heterogeneous network environment is provided. The presented method can optimize battery life by switching off the radio functionality or signal detector when it is not required, based on the movement information, ex. velocity, of the mobile... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20080167047 - Cell selection in soft handover using user equipments' buffer occupancies as occupancies as a selection criterion: Soft handover techniques are disclosed for use in a system comprising a base station and a plurality of user equipments. The amount of data in the data buffer of each of the user equipments is determined, the amount of data in the data buffers is compared to obtain a relative... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080167048 - Method, device and network for base station controller multi-homing in cdma2000: A method, device and system for implementing Base Station Controller (BSC) multi-homing in CDMA2000 are disclosed. Using the method, a BSC can be controlled to be homed to various Mobile Switching Centers (MSCs) based on the mapping relationships between mobile subscribers and MSCs. A plurality of MSC interfacing units for... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20080167049 - Wireless location using signal fingerprinting and other location estimators: A wireless location system is disclosed. Locations of mobile stations (MS) may be determined using one or more MS locating technologies based on, e.g.: computed offsets from terrestrial base stations; satellite transmissions; indoor antennas; low range base stations; and in particular, signal pattern recognition for associating wireless signal characteristics with... Agent: Dennis Dupray

20080167050 - Method and system for managing user preferences for one or more software applications runing on a mobile computing device: A computer-based method and system for managing user preferences for one or more software applications running on a mobile computing device comprises the steps of: using the mobile computing device to receive data concerning a location of the mobile computing device; using the mobile computing device to receive data about... Agent: Stites & Harbison, PLLC

20080167051 - Navigation system: The present invention relates to a method of determining the location of a target. The method includes initializing a set of base stations to determine their location relative to each other. At the target, the time of arrival of at least one signal from each of the plurality of base... Agent: Dobrusin & Thennisch PC

20080167052 - Location assisted cell search and emergency call optimization: Current position information for a user equipment is obtained and is used to assist in cell search and to optimize calls requiring precision positioning made by the user equipment. The position information can be normalized to provide quicker lookup during cell search.... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080167053 - Method for carrying out mobile communication by marking image objects, and mobile unit and communications device: A method carries out mobile communication between a mobile unit and a communications device, which exchange voice messages using a telecommunications protocol. During the method, at least one image can be generated by the mobile unit. In the event that at least one image is generated by the mobile unit,... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080167055 - Apparatus, and associated method, for paging an access terminal in a radio communication system: An apparatus, and an associated methodology for a communication system in which an access terminal is paged by a page sent on a paging channel. Hashes are generated by a hash generator at an access network to identify where in the paging message that page indications are to be positioned.... Agent: Research In Motion Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20080167054 - Method and system for performing cell update and routing area update procedures while a wireless transmit/receive unit is in an idle state: A method and system for performing cell update and routing area (RA) update procedures while a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) is in an idle state in a third generation (3G) long term evolution (LTE) wireless communication system. When the WTRU receives a page message or has data to transmit while... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080167057 - Broadcasting system and data transmission method: A terminal device (30a) transmits image data to an image server (10) (S603). The image server generates the identification information of the image data. A PTT server (20) distributes the generated identification information to all terminal devices (30a -30n). If the terminal device does not hold the distributed identification information,... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080167060 - Distribution of lottery tickets through mobile devices: A system and method having a first software module of a server recorded on a computer-readable medium programmed to receive a request for information from a user. The user requests a purchase of a lottery ticket, information on lottery laws and regulations, and lottery winnings distribution information using at least... Agent: Celltrust Corporation

20080167059 - Message composition method: A message composition method for a mobile terminal is disclosed for facilitating composition of messages having different contents by selectively combining various types of data stored in the mobile terminal. The message composition method of the present invention includes presenting a set of raw data items representing data files in... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20080167058 - Method and mobile communication terminal for providing function of integration management of short message service: Disclosed is a mobile communication terminal having a function for integrated management of SMS messages, which including the steps of: (a) allowing a user to input a text message through a text message editor and select one or more options for message transmission in order to input option data and... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080167056 - Method and system for automatically connecting to conference calls: The invention enhances mobile device software such that upon receipt of a specially formatted SMS message, the software can automatically dial a telephone number that was specified in the message after a configurable timed interval. A further enhancement comprises improvements to the integration between collaboration software (such as Lotus Notes)... Agent: Ibm Corporation C/o Darcell Walker, Attorney At Law

20080167061 - Apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving signal and subcarrier allocation structure therefor in a multi-user multi-antenna communication system: An apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving a signal and a subcarrier allocation structure therefor in a multi-user multi-antenna communication system are provided, in which a transmitter calculates receive filters for each of a plurality of receivers or for a plurality of antennas in a receiver, determines the index... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080167062 - System and method for interrupting a transmitting communication unit in a communication system: A system and method for interrupting a transmitting communication unit in a communication system. When a call is first initiated, the call is assigned to a communication channel and broadcast from a base site using the assigned communication channel. If it is determined that a transmitting communication unit should be... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080167063 - Interference mitigation mechanism to enable spatial reuse in uwb networks: Mechanism to mitigate signal interference in ultra wide band (UWB) networks based on spatial reuse of the signal spectrum. Efficient media access control (MAC) in wireless networks is challenging because wireless devices may be affected by signal interference during spatial multiplexing. Wireless ad-hop (multi-hop) networks exploit the limited system bandwidth... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080167064 - Method and system for decentralized power control of a multi-antenna access point using game theory: Power control for uplink channels with non-cooperative and rational mobile stations (MS) provided using game theory. As a game leader, a multi-antenna access point (AP) determines the network parameters (bandwidth and the number of receiving antennas) for the power control game played between the mobile stations (MSs) (follower), so as... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080167065 - Method employed by a base station for controlling initial power ramp-up using short codes: A base station for controlling transmission power during the establishment of a communication channel utilizes the reception of a short code during initial power ramp-up. The short code is a sequence for detection by the base station which has a much shorter period than a conventional access code. The ramp-up... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080167066 - Mobile communication terminal and data synchronization method: A mobile terminal includes a transceiver unit for receiving a synchronization request message from a wireless network entity, a memory unit for storing first user data, a display unit for displaying a synchronization indicator to indicate a need for synchronization of the user data stored in the memory unit, and... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080167067 - Method for mode selection in a multi-mode mobile phone and apparatus thereof: A method for mode selection in a multi-mode mobile phone includes the following steps: Firstly, a phone number is selected from a phone book of the multi-mode mobile phone. Then, whether the phone number is set to correspond to a predetermined communication system information is determined. The phone number is... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080167069 - Dual mode wireless data communications: A dual mode mobile unit is arranged to communicate in either a first or second data communications standard, such as combined Bluetooth and 802.11 operation. An interface unit converts received Bluetooth or 802.11 format signals into 802.11 frame format data signals to be provided to a digital signal processor which... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20080167068 - Method and apparatus for integrated communication services provisioning for health care community: A method and apparatus is disclosed for providing an integrated communication services (ICS) network that permits wireless and wireline data subscribers to share information on a hospital campus using wireless or wireline local area networks, or to seamlessly tap into the facility's central database while in transit away from the... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080167070 - Target use video limit enforcement on wireless communication device: Method and system for receiving an advance decision from a wireless communication device user to terminate a video sequence captured by the user at a limit length of a target use for the video sequence and enforcing the advance decision upon reaching the limit length. The method and system relieve... Agent: Sharp Laboratories Of America, Inc.

20080167071 - User programmable switch: The various methods and devices described herein relate to devices which, in at least certain embodiments, may include at least one mechanical switch for user to select a user profile interface setting and at least one processor for causing the device to respond to the mechanical switch. The mechanical switch... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080167072 - System and method for providing telephone service access via a gateway telephone: The present invention is a method for providing telephone service. The method includes receiving a request at a first telephone from a second telephone to access the first telephone's telephone service in response to the second telephone's inability to access the second telephone's telephone service. The method further includes granting... Agent: Ibm Corporation (swp)

20080167073 - Wireless portable device with reduced rf signal interference: A handheld device may include one or more antennas and a connector both disposed at a base of the handheld device. The connector may have a shell comprising a conductive material. The connector shell may include at least one opening in a portion of the conductive material to reduce electromagnetic... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080167074 - Device and method for automatically selecting one of a set of sim card readers comprised by a communications device for setting up an outgoing call: It is disclosed that a communications device (1) comprising two or more SIM card readers (13, 14) comprises an algorithm for automatically selecting which SIM card reader to use for setting up an outgoing call. Optionally the communications device (1) can comprise a telephone list in which for each telephone... Agent: Michaelson & Associates

20080167075 - Method and system for control channel beamforming: A system and method for managing control information in a wireless communications system. The method comprises broadcasting a predetermined number of preambles through beamforming from a base station, detecting, by a subscriber station, a predetermined frame associated with one selected preamble that has the highest power level, and identifying one... Agent: L. Howard Chen Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis, LLP

20080167077 - System for cellular radio coverage and an antenna for such a system: The invention discloses a system (200) for cellular mobile telephony, comprising a base station antenna (500, 600, 700) and a plurality of cells (203, 310, 320, 330). Each cell has an area defined by an azimuth (α1, a2) and a range (R0 R′), and the first (310) and second (320)... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080167076 - Tower top amplifier directly and detachably attached to antenna: Disclosed is a tower top amplifier directly and detachably attached and electrically connected to an antenna of a base station for mobile communication. The tower top amplifier includes a tower top amplifying unit (20) connected to an antenna unit (10), and a connecting unit (30) provided on one surface of... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20080167082 - Incorporated indicating arrangement for a mobile device and related methods: Described are an incorporated indicating arrangement for a mobile device and related methods. The mobile device comprises a housing and a processor situated in the housing. The mobile device further comprises a display arrangement disposed at least partially on a periphery of the housing. The display arrangement performs at least... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20080167081 - Keyless touch-screen cellular telephone: A touch screen cellular telephone that includes a keyless touch screen display coupled to a wireless radio communication system contained therein. The touch screen display includes a plurality of touch screen contact areas for activation and non-active touch screen areas for display, wherein the touch screen display provides icon images... Agent: U.p. Peter Eng.

20080167084 - Method and device for displaying information in mobile communication terminal: A method of displaying information in a mobile communication terminal includes receiving a message, determining whether contact information corresponding to the message is stored in a phone book, and displaying the received message using a font corresponding to the contact information if the contact information is stored in the phone... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20080167083 - Method, device, and graphical user interface for location-based dialing: A portable communications device receives from a user a first sequence of symbols that includes a phone number that corresponds to a destination number for a call. If the first sequence of symbols includes a predefined universal international access code symbol followed by the phone number, the device sends an... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP/ Apple Inc.

20080167078 - Methods of dynamically changing information provided on a display of a cellular telephone and related cellular telephones: Methods of displaying information on a display of a cellular telephone are provided in which information from at least a first of a plurality of standby screen applications is displayed on the display of the cellular telephone while the cellular telephone is in a standby mode. A second of the... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20080167085 - Mobile communication terminal having a light guide plate for indicating receipt of a signal: Disclosed is a mobile communication terminal having a light guide plate for indicating the receipt of a signal. This mobile communication terminal comprises an upper frame. A light guide plate is mounted in the upper frame. The light guide plate has an opening corresponding to a region of an image... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20080167080 - Mobile phone: An improved portable mobile phone is disclosed wherein the mobile phone comprises two modules and the mobile phone can function properly when the two modules are physically connected as well as when the two modules are detached, and wherein the mobile phone has two modes of operation, one of which... Agent: Wang Su

20080167086 - Portable terminal for providing visual and acoustic convenience and rotary type hinge apparatus therefor: A rotary-type hinge apparatus for a folder-type portable terminal is provided. For a portable terminal including a main body, a folder, a connection member for coupling the main body with the folder, and a hinge apparatus for rotatably coupling the connection member to the main body, a rotary-type hinge apparatus... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20080167079 - Winner notification system: The present invention allows a purchaser or client to download proprietary software onto a mobile and/or handheld device for a nominal fee. This software enables the device to read information automatically from one or more tickets or entry receipts for a random drawing or other lottery-style game. Facilitated by the... Agent: Brook W. Garrettson

20080167087 - Wireless communication headset with wired and wireless modes: A wireless communication headset having both wired and wireless modes is provided. The wireless headset can include a headset connector assembly that can be coupled to a cable connector of a cable, which can in turn be connected to a telephone. When the wireless headset is coupled to the telephone,... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20080167088 - Apparatuses and methods that facilitate the transfer of power and information among electrical devices: The present invention is directed to apparatuses, systems, methods, and computer readable media that can facilitate the transfer of power between at least two electrical devices. At least one of the electrical devices is preferably a battery operated device. The present invention may also be used to facilitate the transfer... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20080167089 - Method and system for the support of a long drx in an lte_active state in a wireless network: A method of DRX signaling in a long-term evolution infrastructure between an evolved node B (eNB) and user equipment (UE), the method having the steps of providing a DRX value in a header of a medium access control protocol data unit (MAC-PDU); acknowledging the MAC-PDU; and activating, deactivating or reconfiguring... Agent: Research In Motion Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20080167090 - Method for efficient assessment of communication service levels in a mobile station having multiple communication interfaces: A method of providing communication services for a mobile station having a plurality of communication interfaces is disclosed. Each communication interface has an active power mode and an inactive power mode. The power consumption of a communication interface in the active power mode is greater than in the inactive power... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080167091 - Electronic devices with improved switch assembly constructions: Electronic devices are provided with housings that can have smoother profiles and with switch assembly input components with knobs that can move along tracks in directions at least partially offset from the directions of anticipated resistive forces. The housings can include switch assembly input components with knobs that may move... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20080167092 - Microphone techniques: Among other features, a boom microphone has a microphone connector; an earcup module includes an earcup connector jack to connect to a headphone and a boom lead-in to receive the microphone connector; and a control module communicates voice signals wirelessly between (a) the boom microphone and headphone and (b) a... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080167094 - Folded flex assembly for personal media device: Systems and methods are provided for media devices including a housing, a frame disposed adjacent to the housing, a support panel that is integrated with the frame, and a flexible circuit that is disposed adjacent to the support panel such that the support panel provides support for the flexible circuit.... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20080167095 - Folder-type portable communication device having flexible display unit: A portable communication device includes a main housing, a folding housing coupled to the main housing by a hinge unit to rotate about a hinge axis, and a flexible display unit that is drawn out from the main housing to open its display screen when the folding housing unfolds.... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20080167093 - Portable wireless apparatus: A portable wireless apparatus (100) having a two-axis hinge portion includes a first antenna (102) which is suitable for a talking state and a second antenna (104) which is suitable for a waiting state. The first antenna (102) or the second antenna (104) is selected based on a result of... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20080167097 - Mobile phone: A mobile phone having many key pads slidingly moving and rotating to open/close is provided. The mobile phone includes a first housing having a liquid crystal display, a second housing having a first key pad and rotating the first housing about a first hinge axis while confronting the first housing,... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20080167096 - Mobile phone with a slide cover: A mobile phone includes a housing, a first module installed on the housing, a second module installed on the housing, and a sliding cover slidably installed on the housing. When the sliding cover slides to a first position, the sliding cover substantially covers the first module and the second module... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080167098 - Slide-type portable communication apparatus: A portable communication apparatus includes a first unit having at least a display section and a second unit having at least a main operation section, which are coupled by a slide coupling and are freely slidable in a longitudinal direction between a retracted state and an extended state. The first... Agent: Mcginn & Gibb, PLLC,

20080167099 - Skin having enameled metal structure for mobile device: A mobile device has a skin with an enameled metal structure. With the skin, the surface of the mobile device is prevented from scrape and corrosion with ease of cleaning. Moreover, China-chic beauty and feel are obtained with the skin, which is contrasting to a normal appearance of a common... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20080160906 - Discrete media transfer progress status indication: A method and information processing system provide discrete media transfer status information. The method includes receiving a discrete media transfer request (904) from a wireless device (104) including discrete media. A request for discrete media transfer status information is received. A request (912) for discrete media transfer status information is... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080160907 - Propagation of data throughout an area using distributed transponders and scanners with relative movement: A method is provided for propagating data among multiple locations in an area. The method includes using a plurality of transponders distributed throughout the area, each able to receive, store, and transmit data. The method further includes using scanners moving relative to the transponders, and able to transfer data to... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080160909 - Apparatus and methods for playing digital content and displaying same: A system is presented providing content to a plurality of handheld devices (including musical selections). The devices can access a server over the Internet via a WIFI or other similar wireless interconnection and can download songs requested by a user from the server or from other users using, e.g., a... Agent: Gottlieb Rackman & Reisman Pc

20080160908 - Audio visual player apparatus and system and method of content distribution using the same: A system is presented providing content to a plurality of handheld devices (including musical selections). The devices can access a server over the Internet via a WIFI or other similar wireless interconnection and can download songs requested by a user from the server or from other users using, e,g, a... Agent: Gottlieb Rackman & Reisman Pc

20080160910 - Device for accessing a digital media service: A portable wireless communications subscriber audio and/or video player apparatus and system and method for selecting, requesting, downloading, and playing audio and/or video data content files from an Internet-based database server. The wireless link is preferably implemented in accordance with the WiFi protocol, which allows connectivity to the Internet by... Agent: Gottlieb Rackman & Reisman Pc

20080160911 - P2p-based broadcast system and method using the same: The present invention is to disclose a peer-to-peer based broadcast system for broadcasting video contents, comprising at least one video head-end means for receiving a plurality of original video contents, said video head-end means comprising a splitter to split each original video content into a plurality of video files for... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20080160912 - Apparatus and method for collaborative hybrid automatic repeat request (harq) in broadband wireless communication using relay station: A collaborative Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) in a broadband wireless communication system using a relay station is provided. A transmitting end includes a distance estimator for estimating a distance to a relay station; a controller for determining whether to execute a collaborative HARQ using the estimated distance to the... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080160913 - Continental size single frequency network: A single frequency network [100] includes a main central site [200] and a remote site [300]. The main central site [200] (a) generates a digital symbol based on an input source, (b) receives external reference information from a common source, (c) stores the digital symbol in a local memory buffer... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin And Flannery

20080160914 - Secure pairing of networked devices: In one embodiment, a secure communication is initiated between two devices by generating a pairing message from a predetermined static identification on the first device, transmitting the pairing message to the second device, generating a pairing identification from the static identification, and initiating a secure communication between the first and... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080160915 - Far-end crosstalk (fext) canceller: A novel and useful mechanism for the detection, estimation and correction of far-end cross talk (FEXT) caused by transmissions over adjacent wire pairs or cables. The detection, estimation and correction technique of the invention can be used to identify and compensate for FEXT impairments in Ethernet and DSL systems. The... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080160916 - Interference detection, identification, extraction and reporting: An adaptive notch filter (ANF) module selectively filters a received wideband communication signal to eliminate narrowband interference that lies within the frequency spectrum of the wideband communication signal. To determine the presence of narrowband interference, the ANF module scans various known narrowband channels that lie within the frequency spectrum of... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20080160918 - Measurement method and apparatus of user equipment having variable measurement period in a mobile communication system: A method and apparatus for performing measurement by a User Equipment (UE) in a mobile communication system are provided. The UE has a Discontinuous Reception (DRX) mode for discontinuously receiving data and a continuous reception mode for continuously receiving data. The mobile communication system also has a serving cell where... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080160917 - Methods for channel quality prediction error calculation and transmission power adjustment in a wireless network: One embodiment includes determining a channel quality prediction error indicative a channel quality for a first time interval. The first time interval includes of a plurality of subframes, and the channel quality prediction error is calculated based on a first channel quality indicator associated with a first sub-frame and a... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080160919 - Radio access point testing method and testing apparatus: The normality verification and radio characteristics test of a radio communication system are executed. RF-SWs (radio-frequency coaxial switches) change-over the paths of signals which are transmitted to and received from an access terminal function portion included in an access point. RF-SWs connect the access terminal function portion 122 with a... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.c.

20080160920 - Device for reducing wireless interference: A method, apparatus, and system in which a receiver circuit includes an RF power detector, a suppression filter having a band rejection frequency range targeted to suppress interference between a transmitter and the receiver circuit when enabled, and a filter logic to enable and disable the suppression filter while the... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080160921 - Method and system for mitigating interference in communication system: A method and system for mitigating interference in a communication system, comprising at least one base station and at least one terminal, are disclosed. The base stations and terminals communicate through a channel existing between them, and the channels include at least a first signal channel and a second signal... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, Llc

20080160922 - Method, system and apparatus for transmit diversity control: A method, apparatus and system for modifying a transmit diversity signal by receiving at least one input parameter, collecting at least one interval of feedback data, computing a transmit diversity parameter, and modifying a transmit diversity signal based on the computed parameter. In some embodiments of the invention, the diversity... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20080160923 - Signal transmission system for driving a power semiconductor switch, and a converter having such a signal transmission system: A signal transmission system is used to drive at least one power semiconductor switch (S1, S2, . . . , Sn) from a controller (11). The controller (11) can transmit at least one control signal to at least one modulator (M1, M2, . . . , Mn) using at least... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney Pc

20080160925 - Collision avoidance for communications within a device: A radio transceiver device includes circuitry for radiating electromagnetic signals at a very high radio frequency both through space, as well as through wave guides that are formed within a substrate material. In one embodiment, the substrate comprises a dielectric substrate formed within a board, for example, a printed circuit... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080160924 - Frequency division multiple access communications within a device: A radio transceiver device includes circuitry for radiating electromagnetic signals at a very high radio frequency both through space, as well as through wave guides that are formed within a substrate material. In one embodiment, the substrate comprises a dielectric substrate formed within a board, for example, a printed circuit... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080160926 - Mesh network within a device: A radio transceiver device includes circuitry for radiating electromagnetic signals at a very high radio frequency both through space, as well as through wave guides that are formed within a substrate material. In one embodiment, the substrate comprises a dielectric substrate formed within a board, for example, a printed circuit... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080160927 - Method and system for stable throughput of cognitive radio: In one embodiment, a cognitive radio system includes a first transmitter in communication with a first receiver via a wireless channel. The first transmitter receives a plurality of first packets, and transmits the first packets to the first receiver via the channel. A second transmitter in communication with a second... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080160928 - Apparatus for and method of automatic radio link establishment: A novel and useful mechanism for automatically establishing a radio link between a communications device and a commercially available FM radio receiver, thereby eliminating the need to manually configure both the target FM radio receiver and the FM transmitter to a suitable FM station. The mechanism scans the RF spectrum... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080160929 - Front end module and fabricating method thereof: Provided are a front end module (FEM) of a mobile communication terminal and a method of fabricating the FEM. The FEM includes a multiband RF switching unit mounted on a substrate, and a wire having one end connected to a bonding pad of an input end of an antenna and... Agent: Saliwanchik Lloyd & Saliwanchik A Professional Association

20080160930 - Positioning: A system, including: an electrical network fitted to a building, for distributing electrical power within the building to make the building operational, the network comprising a plurality of nodes for outputting the electrical power each node comprising a receptacle for receiving a lighting element; and a plurality of radio devices,... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20080160931 - Integrated circuit/printed circuit board substrate structure and communications: A radio transceiver device includes circuitry for radiating electromagnetic signals at a very high radio frequency both through space, as well as through wave guides that are formed within a substrate material. In one embodiment, the substrate comprises a dielectric substrate formed within a board, for example, a printed circuit... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080160932 - Pulse transmitters having multiple outputs in phase relationship and methods of operation: A transmitter provides a plurality of output signals. The transmitter includes a processor, a modulator, a first circuit, and a second circuit. The modulator provides a modulated signal responsive to the processor. The modulated signal includes an amplitude modulated radio frequency for transmitting a pulse. The first circuit provides a... Agent: Squire Sanders & Dempsey LLP

20080160933 - Method and apparatus for generating constant envelope modulation using a quadrature transmitter: A multi-mode communication device (100) uses a quadrature transmitter (102) for transmitting both amplitude and constant envelope angle-modulated signals. For angle modulation, a separate feedback path is used from that used for amplitude modulated signal transmission. An FM receiver (136) is used to produce error signals (214, 216) used in... Agent: Motorola, Inc

20080160934 - Polar modulation transmission apparatus: A polar modulation transmission apparatus is disclosed, which reduces the circuit scale by removing isolators and which reduces the heat loss of a power amplifier. In this apparatus, current detecting section 130 detects current value Icc of current flowing from power supply voltage section 120 to power amplifier 180, and... Agent: Dickinson Wright Pllc

20080160935 - Iq-modulator pre-distortion: An IQ-modulator pre-distorter includes means for pre-distorting each IQ-vector by a 2-dimensional linear transformation that depends on the value of the IQ-vector to be pre-distorted. The transformation is based on polynomials in the I- and Q-components. In a preferred embodiment the transformation is based on a 2×2 dimensional lookup table... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080160936 - Computer apparatus and low power-consuming detection device of wireless transmission ability: A computer apparatus comprises a CPU, power supply unit, and low power-consuming detection device for wireless transmission ability. The power supply unit supplies a detection-device power as a detection event is triggered ; and a system power to the CPU as a power-on event is triggered. The detection device detects... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080160937 - Wireless sensing systems and control methodologies: A method of operating a wireless sensing system includes activating a sensor to generate an output. A transmitter is activated, and is in electrical communication with the sensor to receive the sensor output signal. The sensor output signal is transmitted by the transmitter to a receiver. The transmitter is then... Agent: Dickinson Wright Pllc

20080160938 - Ubiquitous home network system: A system for processing data in a ubiquitous home network is provided. The system uses RF signals based on combination of the remote-controller and the ubiquitous sensor network (USN) technologies and integrally controls a plurality of control targets. Although the remote-controller is spaced relatively far apart from the control targets,... Agent: Jefferson Ip Law, LLP

20080160939 - Boosted-bias tunable filter with dynamic calibration: In a signal communication device, a frequency-selective filter has at least one component that is biased by a control signal to establish a center frequency of the frequency-selective filter. A closed-loop bias generator is provided to generate the control signal and to adjust the control signal based, at least in... Agent: Shemwell Mahamedi LLP

20080160941 - Assembly, and associated method, for providing follow up information regarding received content: An assembly, and an associated methodology, for providing a listener of content, such as songs played out at a radio receiver of an automotive vehicle, with follow up information related to the content. The listener actuates a user actuator. In response to actuation of the user actuator, a signal is... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080160940 - Radio advertisement based on rds: A mobile station capable of receiving FM broadcasts including RDS information and having means for communicating with a server (205) where the mobile station comprises means (150, 110, 130, 165, 170, 175) for communicating a trigger message based on RDS information from the currently tuned FM broadcast radio station to... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080160942 - Communication common carrier selecting method and mobile comunication terminal: In a mobile communication terminal device 1: a storage means 23 has first through fifth registration regions; a business with which communication can be established extraction means 21a analyzes information carried by a radio wave which is received at the current position and extracts communication businesses with which communication can... Agent: Kratz, Quintos & Hanson, LLP

20080160943 - Method and apparatus to post-process an audio signal: A method and apparatus to post process an audio signal. The method includes selecting one of a plurality of audio signal processing modes classified based on at least one of timbre, sound intensity, and rhythm of the audio signal, and modifying at least one of the timbre, the sound intensity,... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080160944 - Common-spectrum transmission method for audio and video signals and system therof: Embodiments of the present invention relate to a common-spectrum transmission method for audio and video signals and a system thereof. The method comprises: a step A of performing a first frequency mixing process to a modulated carrier signal f0 of audio and video signals and a local oscillation signal f1... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group Pllc

20080160945 - Automatic gain controller for rf transceiver: The present invention comprises an automatic gain controller for an RF transceiver that comprises a digital engine that selects a gain level responsive to a signal power level of a signal of interest received by the RF transceiver. The digital engine is configured to select the gain level from a... Agent: Howison & Arnott, L.l.p

20080160946 - Systems and methods for reducing broadband image noise through a programmable bandwidth rf variable gain attenuator: Systems for suppressing image noise are provided. In this regard, one embodiment includes a system for suppressing image noise comprising a low noise amplifier (LNA) configured to amplify a received RF signal, an RF variable gain attenuator with an image rejection filter with programmable bandwidth configured to suppress image noise... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080160947 - Mechanism for controlling amplifier gain in a radio receiver: A radio receiver such as a frequency modulation (FM) receiver, for example, includes a radio frequency (RF) amplifier having an adjustable gain output. The RF amplifier may be configured to receive and amplify an incoming RF signal. The receiver also includes an intermediate frequency (IF) amplifier having an adjustable gain... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.c.

20080160948 - Broadcasting receiving apparatus and method thereof: Provided are a broadcasting receiving apparatus and a broadcasting receiving method using the same. The broad-casting receiving apparatus including: a low noise amplifying unit low- noise-amplifying an RF signal received from an antenna; an RF attenuating unit attenuating the received RF signal to output the attenuated RF signal; a supply... Agent: Saliwanchik Lloyd & Saliwanchik A Professional Association

20080160949 - Mixer having filtering module to filter out low-frequency components to minimize noise: A mixer for down-converting an input signal to an output signal is disclosed. The mixer includes an amplifying circuit and a down-converting circuit. The amplifying circuit is utilized for amplifying the input signal to generate an amplified signal. The down-converting circuit includes a filtering module, a loading module, and a... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080160950 - Communication device, mixer and method thereof: An IQ mixer and a method thereof. The IQ mixer comprises a pair of Gilbert cells and a degeneration inductor. Each pair of Gilbert cells comprises a pair of first current generators and a pair of switching networks. The pair of first current generators converts an RF signal pair to... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080160951 - Methods for reducing power consumption at transmitters and receivers: Whether to process a control channel corresponding to a data channel carrying transmitted data based on a re-transmission indicator and a threshold value is determined at the receiver. The re-transmission indicator indicates a number of times the transmitted data has been transmitted. Control information received on the control channel is... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080160952 - Emergency wireless location system including a location determining receiver: A wireless location system may include geolocation of a wireless device connected to Voice-over-Internet-Protocol (VoIP) adapter. The VoIP adapter may include a wireless transceiver or a wireless location determining receiver that facilitates the location of a wireless device connected to the VoIP adapter. The wireless transceiver or the location determining... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20080160953 - Emergency wireless location system including a wireless transceiver: A wireless location system may include geolocation of a wireless device connected to Voice-over-Internet-Protocol (VoIP) adapter. The VoIP adapter may include a wireless transceiver or a wireless location determining receiver that facilitates the location of a wireless device connected to the VoIP adapter. The wireless transceiver or the location determining... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20080160954 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for performing prepaid account balance screening: Methods, systems, and computer program products for performing prepaid account balance screening are disclosed. According to one aspect, the subject matter described herein includes a method for performing prepaid account balance screening. The method includes receiving, at a network entity for processing network signaling messages, a signaling message containing information... Agent: Jenkins, Wilson, Taylor & Hunt, P. A.

20080160955 - Method and apparatus for improved billing for converged wireless networks: The invention includes a method and apparatus for computing a bill for a wireless subscriber communicating using a converged wireless network. The method includes obtaining service usage information for communications by the wireless subscriber using a wide-area wireless network, obtaining service usage information for communications by the wireless subscriber using... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/ Lucent Technologies, Inc

20080160956 - Method and system for delivering and/or displaying targeted content to a mobile handheld device: A method and system for delivering and displaying content on a mobile handheld device with voice telephony capability. Content is received from or on behalf of a content provider. For each individual one of a plurality of mobile handheld devices, content appropriate for each device is determined. The content determined... Agent: Dla Piper Us LLP

20080160957 - Information providing system, mobile terminal, wireless access point and charging server used in the system, and information providing method: There are provided an information providing system that enables a mobile terminal, when it is located within a communicable area of a wireless access point, to easily acquire information content related to the communicable area, a mobile terminal, a wireless access point, a charging server and an information providing method.... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20080160958 - Application access control in a mobile environment: A system and method are described whereby a mobile device controls access to mobile applications based on access conditions associated with a current access network. To prevent mobile applications from running when the access conditions are not suitable, the mobile device includes a policy database used to store a list... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080160961 - Message receiving method, authentication server, application server, and mobile terminal: In an authentication server, when a mobile terminal is connected with a mobile network constructed by an IP network, a network-connection authentication of the mobile terminal is performed. A setup of a path from the mobile terminal to a home agent according to a mobile IP is performed after the... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080160959 - Method for roaming user to establish security association with visited network application server: The present invention provides a method for a roaming user to establish security association with the application server in the visited network. When receiving the service request from the roaming user, the application server in the visited network establishes security association with the roaming user by making use of the... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080160960 - Remote processing device management: In various embodiments, a first processing device may detect an occurrence of an event associated with an alert message. The alert message may include at least one selectable item and may be generated by the first processing device and transmitted to a second processing device. The second processing device may... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080160962 - Method of scheduling message delivery in a wireless communication system: In one embodiment, a network element of the wireless communication system receives a request from a scheduling party. The request is for scheduling message delivery to a destination party. Message delivery parameters are obtained in response to the request. The message delivery parameters may include a date of delivery and... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080160963 - Method of modifying ring tone: In an example embodiment, the method includes receiving a service request from a first user in association with a call request. The call request requests call origination to a second user, and the service request requests that a voice message of the first user be played by a communication device... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080160964 - System and method for transmitting and display of visual messages on screens of connected mobile devices: A method for conveying a message to a user of a mobile device. The mobile device includes a display and memory. Message content is transferred from a server attached to the mobile device over a mobile network. Metadata is also transferred from the server. The metadata includes instructions for displaying... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan Prtsi

20080160965 - Method of performing communication in mobile terminal: A method of performing communication in a mobile terminal includes performing data communication, determining whether a release order message received while data communication is being performed indicates that there is a voice communication request, allocating a traffic channel for voice communication if the release order message indicates that there is... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, Plc

20080160970 - Method and computer program product for premium mobile service for discovery, payment, personalization and access of mobile content: A method and computer program product for providing mobile content to a user of a mobile device. The mobile content is offered by a mobile content provider. Further, a launcher is provided and is installed on the mobile device. The launcher dynamically provides identity information associated with the user, context... Agent: William L. Botjer

20080160968 - Method, system, and computer program product for delivering smart services: A method, system, and computer program product are described for delivering smart services. According to an exemplary embodiment, a method for delivering smart services includes receiving a request to determine an availability of a service subscriber for responding to an event associated with a service. The service is defined in... Agent: Scenera Research, Llc

20080160971 - Remote control system and method for portable terminals: Provided are a remote control system and method for controlling portable terminals. The remote control system includes a control terminal which is a portable terminal that performs a remote control operation, a target terminal which is a portable terminal that is subject to the remote control operation performed by the... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080160966 - Service zones for providing location-based services in a wireless network: Systems and methods are provided for defining a plurality of services zones within a wireless network and providing common content to users located within a particular service zone. The method comprises defining a plurality of service zones within the wireless network. The service zones are defined for providing location-based services... Agent: Duft Bornsen & Fishman, LLP

20080160969 - System and method for delivery data between a data provider and a mobil telephone network subscriber: The invention relates to a switching system and a switching method for a mobile radio network. Data is switched and adapted to the technical specifications of a mobile station according to a profile. The adapted data is transmitted to the mobile station upon request through the mobile radio network.... Agent: Silber & Fridman

20080160967 - Tag ticker display on a mobile device: A method of providing a link to mobile content on a mobile device includes receiving a plurality of tags at the mobile device, each tag having at least one piece of mobile content associated therewith. The mobile content is in a format suitable for transmission over a wireless communication network.... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080160973 - Apparatus for and method of detecting loss of signal in a radio frequency cable: A novel apparatus and method of detecting loss of signal events in RF cable. The loss of signal may be caused malicious cable cuts, inadvertent disconnects, loss of signal from the cable head-end or for any other reason. The invention is particular applicable to use in cable modems which provide... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080160972 - Mobility based service in wireless environment: A system and method are described for providing proximity-based Internet server access in mobile network environments such as cellular environments to reduce latency and enhance customer satisfaction. In an embodiment of the invention, a Mobile Positioning Center (MPC) caches location information regarding the mobile device. When the mobile device later... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080160975 - Method, apparatus and system for processing broadcasting application in digital broadcasting: Disclosed is a method, apparatus and system for processing a broadcast application in digital broadcasting. The system includes a digital broadcasting server for generating guide data, including content genre information corresponding to respective programs, and transmitting the guide data and digital broadcasting data corresponding to the respective programs; and a... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080160974 - Transferring task completion to another device: A mobile communication device is adapted to identify a task for postponed transfer to a computing device over a local communication link. A similar transfer task function is established on the computing device for receiving the identified task and any required related data. The user is provided with the ability... Agent: Perman & Green

20080160977 - Teleconference group formation using context information: Teleconferencing and, in particular, distributed teleconferencing may use methods and systems for location grouping to reduce feedback and other audio anomalies. Terminals and users connected to the same teleconference and in the same location might not need to receive audio signals from the other terminals and users in the same... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20080160976 - Teleconferencing configuration based on proximity information: Teleconferencing systems may adapt to changes associated with participating terminals by monitoring characteristics of the terminals and modifying audio streams in accordance with detected changes. A terminal moving from a location shared with one or more other participating terminals may be detected in a variety of ways. In response to... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20080160981 - Apparatus and method for implementing detection of system information changes in universal mobile telecommunications systems: In a mobile telecommunications system comprising a network of a plurality of cells and at least one user equipment device, the user equipment is arranged, when the user equipment re-configures itself to enter a new state or performs cell reselection, to read broadcast system information and, when the broadcast system... Agent: Research In Motion Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20080160979 - Apparatus, method, and computer program product for controlling output volume: A mobile terminal is provided that includes a communications unit configured to receive data via a wireless link. The mobile terminal also includes an audio output unit configured to receive audio data and output the audio data as sound having an output volume. A processor in communication with the communications... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080160978 - Apparatus, method, and computer program product for outputting data: A mobile terminal, such as a mobile data device, is provided. The mobile terminal includes an audio device and a display device configured to output, perhaps selectively, respective audio and visual representations of data. The mobile terminal also includes an interface for detecting and generating an indication of an external... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080160980 - Method and apparatus for determining a group call wait time: A user initiates a group call from an initiating communication device to a plurality of group call recipients' communication devices. Then, a processor circuit determines a wait time for commencing communication of the group call according to a predetermined function. The predetermined function is based least in part on status... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080160982 - Method for selecting a preferable wireless communications service provider in a multi-service provider environment: A communication device locates a preferable wireless service provider in a multi-service provider environment using a frequency or frequency band search schedule. Initially, the communication device registers with a less preferred service provider in a first frequency. While remaining registered with the less preferred service provider, the device examines several... Agent: Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP/seattle

20080160983 - Distributing mobile-device applications: The present invention provides an “update forwarder” function to facilitate downloading applications to mobile devices. The update forwarder receives updates on its “network side” from one or more device management servers, stores the updates, and then delivers them from its “device side” to one or more mobile devices. By using... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080160984 - Method and apparatus for altering mobile device behavior based on rfid tag discovery: A communication system is provided that comprises a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) network coupled to a service provider network. An RFID reader of the RFID network detects an RFID tag associated with a mobile station when the mobile station is present in, or proximate to, a controlled area. The RFID... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080160985 - Location based dialing over wireless media: In one embodiment, a first endpoint initiates a voice communication with an undetermined second endpoint. A second endpoint is selected that is within a predetermined proximity of a location and voice communication between the first s endpoint and the second endpoint is initiated. The second endpoint may be selected based... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20080160986 - Method for mobile communication service using dedicated frequency and apparatus thereof: A method and device for mobile communication service using a dedicated frequency is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method for providing mobile communication service, in which a dedicated frequency conversion unit utilizes a dedicated frequency in a predetermined area may comprise i) receiving a signal of the dedicated frequency transmitted... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080160987 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for silence insertion descriptor (sid) conversion: Methods, systems, and computer program products for silence insertion descriptor (SID) conversion are disclosed. According to one aspect, the subject matter described herein includes a method for silence insertion descriptor (SID) conversion. The method includes receiving a wireless frame, the frame identifying a first node as a frame source and... Agent: Jenkins, Wilson, Taylor & Hunt, P. A.

20080160988 - Orthogonal code noise simulator for high speed downlink packet access: Disclosed is a system and method for testing mobile communications in a High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) mobile communications network by generating one or more virtual users. Specifically, a high speed downlink shared channel is scheduled for a user (e.g., a real user or a virtual user) in a... Agent: Weinick & Associates, Llc

20080160989 - Cellular wireless communiction device and method for managing the receipt of a handover command: The present invention provides a cellular wireless communication system, a cellular wireless communication device and a method for managing the receipt of a handover command, where in instances that the synchronization of the target base station of a handover command has been relatively recently lost, the mobile station will not... Agent: Motorola Inc

20080160990 - System, method and apparatus for identification of power control using reverse rate indication: A method, system and apparatus for determining power control signals, for example, power control bits received by a mobile station. Some applications requiring power control information may not have access to the baseband processor, which may decode the relevant information sent by the base station. According to embodiments of the... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20080160991 - Voice continuity among user terminals: The present invention moves service control, including call control, for a user element from any number of subsystems to a multimedia subsystem (MS). Call control for originating or terminating a call in any subsystem as well as transferring the call between user elements is anchored at a continuity control function... Agent: Withrow & Terranova, P.l.l.c.

20080160993 - Communications systems and methods including emission detection: A system for communications on an extraterrestrial body may include a space-based component and an ancillary extraterrestrial component on the extraterrestrial body. The space-based component may be configured to provide wireless communications with a plurality of radioterminals located on the extraterrestrial body over a satellite frequency band wherein the space-based... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.a.

20080160992 - Handset transmit antenna diversity in mobile satellite systems: A wireless communication device (WCD) used as a satellite telephone is provided with multiple antennas for communicating with its satellites. If signal quality is determined to be poor, then an evaluation is made as to whether switching antennas will result in an improvement in the communication link between the WCD... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080160994 - Mobile access: The disclosure relates to accessing a communication system. In accordance with the disclosed method a communication device communicating in a first access system based on an address is transferred to a second access system. The communication device sends an indication that the same address is to be used in the... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080160995 - Device for controlling access of subscriber terminals of a cs domain to services of an ims communication network: The invention concerns a device (D) dedicated to controlling access of a terminal (UE), connected to a CS domain of a mobile network comprising a MSC center (VMSC) running CS communications, to a IMS network services of which its user is a subscriber. Said device (D) comprises: i) a GMSC... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080160997 - International automatic roaming service method: A method which can allow subscribers to select an international telephone service provider and appropriately provide a wireless communication service to a mobile station subscribed to a foreign wireless communication system is disclosed. The method includes the steps of: a) storing information as to whether the international roaming mobile station... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20080160996 - Method of session processing in an ims and interrogating-call state control function: A method of session processing in the Internet Protocol (IP) Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) comprises: Interrogating-Call State Control Function (I-CSCF) accessing the Home Subscriber Server (HSS) to query the registration location of the called user, the I-CSCF sending the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) request to the Serving-Call State Control Function (S-CSCF)... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20080161000 - Apparatus, method and computer program product providing faster handover in mobile wimax system: Herein there is a method for reducing handover latency on a wireless communication system, which includes receiving a handover request at a target base station; and prior to receiving a handover confirm message at the target base station, sending information descriptive of a mobile station handover resource allocation towards the... Agent: Harrington & Smith, Pc

20080160999 - Handover of a mobile station: The invention relates to a method for supporting a handover of a mobile station 1 from a first radio access unit 3, 8 of a wireless communication network 2 to a second radio access unit 4, 9 of a wireless communication network 2. In order to improve a context transfer... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20080161001 - Method and apparatus for effecting handoff between different cellular communications systems: A method of effecting handoff of a mobile station from a first base station in a first cellular communications system controlled by a first mobile switching control station to a second base station in a second, different cellular system controlled by a second mobile switching control station is described. The... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080160998 - Method and apparatus for handoff in a wireless network: In response to a determination that a received pilot signal identification is not present in a current neighbor list of a mobile station, a network controller identifies one of a plurality of sectors associated with the missing pilot signal identification that is a most likely handoff candidate. In one embodiment,... Agent: Weinick & Associates, Llc

20080161002 - Distributed multi-radio transmission diversity: A method of communicating provides multi-radio transmission diversity (MRTD). A base station receives downlink measurement reports from a mobile station regarding each of a plurality of downlinks between the mobile station and a plurality of base stations. The base station determines which of the base stations will transmit a selected... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds, P.c./alcatel-lucent

20080161003 - Method of determining when a mobile station is ready to be served during a handoff in a wireless communications network: A method of determining handoff of a user equipment (UE) to a transferee serving station from a transferor serving station at the transferee serving station is provided. The transferee serving station (e.g., a Node B) measures an energy level in a first portion of an uplink channel (e.g., an uplink... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080161004 - Allocating memory to low usage packet data sessions in a wireless communication system: The present invention provides a method involving at least one mobile unit having at least one first session with a base station router. The method includes determining at least one activity level associated with said at least one first session and allocating memory to the at least one first session... Agent: Williams, Morgan & Amerson

20080161005 - Radio propagation estimating method and radio propagation estimating apparatus: A radio propagation path from a transmitting point to a receiving point is estimated accurately with a relatively small amount of calculation. A predetermined-size receiving area including the receiving point is set, radio propagation paths from the transmitting point to the receiving area is estimated by a ray launching method,... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080161006 - Simulating a mobile network with shared access channels: A method for simulating a mobile telephone network with shared-access channels. The simulation method includes the steps of simulating at least a first and a second configuration of the mobile telephone network that are statistically independent one from the other. Each one of the steps of simulating includes at least... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080161008 - Method and system for identification of a communication device in a wireless communication network: According to some embodiments of the invention, the device itself may carry out the allocation, according to a predefined algorithm. At least one list of identifiers may be stored at the device. The communication device may enable, for example, randomly allocating of the identifier to be used, where the communication... Agent: Fleit Kain Gibbons Gutman Bongini & Bianco

20080161007 - Vacating low usage packet data sessions in a wireless communication system: The present invention provides a method involving at least one mobile unit having at least one first session with a base station router. The method includes vacating at least one first session associated with the at least one mobile unit.... Agent: Mark W. Sincell Williams, Morgan & Amerson, P.c.

20080161009 - Method and system for collecting and reporting interference source information: Method, and system for collecting and reporting interference source information, the method includes: each terminal receives broadcast message containing NBS identification information sent by NBS when initializing, terminals which can demodulate and check accurately contain the broadcast message and receiving time information in interfered reporting message and send the interfered... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20080161010 - Wireless communication control device and wireless device: During interactive radio wave transmission between two radio devices, at least one of the radio devices transmits a radio wave containing power control information for controlling the transmission power of the radio wave transmitted from the other radio device according to the radio wave received from the other radio device.... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080161014 - Device for locating a mobile terminal by means of corrected time-stamping signals from base stations of an asynchronous mobile network: The inventive device is used for locating one or several mobile terminals (UE1, UE2, UE3) situated in cells (C1, C2, C3) of an asynchronous mobile communications network (R) controlled by the base stations (BTS1, BTS2, BTS3), wherein said network comprises an assistance server (SA) storing time offsets of clocks of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080161012 - Inter-working location gateway for heterogeneous networks: A system and method are described for providing and using an inter-working location gateway (IWLG) that allows a trusted/non-trusted user plane mobile node to successfully utilize user location services while data roaming. In an embodiment, once the mobile node establishes a data connection while roaming, the mobile node uses IP... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080161011 - Method enabling indoor local positioning and movement tracking in wifi capable mobile terminals: A method, apparatus, and electronic device for determining a location of a mobile device are disclosed. A receiver may asynchronously receive an access signal from at least three access points of a wireless local area network with the mobile device. A processor may measure an access signal strength for the... Agent: Prass & Irving LLP

20080161013 - Pico cell system access using cellular communications network: A network device sends information on at least one cell of second cell layer of a second technology access network, the at least one cell of second cell layer being located in an area of a cell of first cell layer of a first technology access network, wherein the information... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.l.p.

20080161015 - Robust, efficient, localization system: Replica correlation processing, and associated representative signal-data reduction and reconstruction techniques, are used to detect signals of interest and obtain robust measures of received-signal parameters, such as time differences of signal arrival and directional angles of arrival, that can be used to estimate the location of a cellularized-communications signal source.... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20080161016 - Synthetic aperture for locating mobile transmitters: The present invention provides a module for locating a mobile device. In one embodiment, the module is configured to determine a location of a mobile device based on phase-sensitive measurements of wireless signals transmitted by the mobile device. Correspondingly, the module is configured to determine the location based on the... Agent: Hitt Gaines, Pc Alcatel-lucent

20080161017 - Mobile apparatus, geographical information system and method of acquiring geographical information: A mobile apparatus, a geographical information system and a method of acquiring geographical information are disclosed. The geographical information system is used for acquiring geographical information of a geographical object. The system at least includes a geographical object message and a mobile apparatus. The geographical object message is provided by... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080161018 - System for dynamically pushing information to a user utilizing global positioning system: A method for transmitting advertisements includes receiving information regarding location of a user, and user profile or user demographic information; and transmitting a targeted advertisement to the user, the targeted advertisement is selected from a set of advertisements as a function of the location of the user, and the user... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080161019 - Method and system for monitoring a location: A method and system for monitoring a location via a called telephony communication device is disclosed. The method at the called telephony communication device includes receiving (304) a request from a calling telephony communication device. Further, the method includes determining (306) whether the received request is for monitoring the location.... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20080161020 - Methods and devices for sharing location information in a calendar: Disclosed are a device and a method of an AGPS enabled mobile first communication device having a memory with a calendar or other type of organizer. The method may include saving a waypoint in memory, the waypoint having coordinates ascertained according to an AGPS capability of the first communication device,... Agent: Motorola Inc

20080161021 - System and method for transmitting a sequence of pages in a communication system: A system and method for transmitting a series of pages in a communication system. The system includes a paging console for placing a plurality of pages in a queue for transmission to one or more targets devices. Each page includes a Dependent-Upon (DU) field that indicates whether the page is... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080161022 - System and method to conduct idle mode paging channel monitoring within a cellular wireless network: A method and system to determine when a wireless terminal has been paged by a servicing base station. An encoded paging burst is received on a paging channel and then decoded to produce a decoded paging burst. The decoded paging burst is processed to determine if it is a null... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080161024 - Cordless communication system: A cordless communication system includes a base unit and a handset. The base unit is connectable to a communication line. The handset includes a handset wireless communicating unit, a handset communicating unit, a handset switching unit, and a handset starting unit. The handset wireless communicating unit implements wireless communications with... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20080161023 - Decorative wireless earphone device: A decorative wireless earphone is a single piece integrated with a necklace, a microphone, a main unit and an earpiece. The main unit has a shape of pendant and the earplug is hidden behind the ornamental part. The lead wire is received in the necklace. The distance between the microphone... Agent: Bruce H. Troxell

20080161025 - Communication device performing communication according to two communication methods: A communication device includes a CPU, a wireless LAN communication controller, and a digital cordless communication controller. The wireless LAN communication controller is capable of communicating wirelessly with the access point according to a data communication method. The digital cordless communication controller is also capable of communicating wirelessly with the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080161027 - Active messaging that triggers future reminders: A method of providing an appointment reminder includes: creating an appointment reminder message; sending the appoint reminder message from a first device of a first party to a second device of a second party; receiving the appointment reminder message at the second device at a first point in time; storing... Agent: Fay Sharpe/lucent

20080161026 - Expandable text messaging service protocol for use with a two-way radio transceiver: An expandable text messaging service protocol for use with a two-way radio transceiver includes an extension bit field for creating an expandable header for controlling the overall size of data packets used for communicating message traffic. The protocol further includes a control bit field for designing the message as a... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080161028 - Methods, systems and computer program products for a redundant, geographically diverse, and independently scalable message service (ms) content store: The subject matter described herein includes methods, systems and computer program products for a redundant, geographically diverse, and independently scalable message service (MS) content store system. According to one aspect, the system includes a content store function (CSF) including at least one content store (CS) configured to store message service... Agent: Jenkins, Wilson, Taylor & Hunt, P. A.

20080161030 - Apparatus, methods and computer program products providing pattern masking and traffic rule matrix scheduling for multiradio control: Disclosed herein are apparatus, methods and computer program products for implementing pattern masking scheduling in a multiradio terminal having multiradio control. When a message to be carried by a modem is configured by a multiradio controller, it is given a priority and connection properties (such as, for example, frequency band,... Agent: Harrington & Smith, Pc

20080161029 - System and method for managing communication channel assignments for different types of communication units in a communication system: System and method for efficiently managing communication channel assignments within talkgroups having dual mode communication units capable of operating on a first communication channel type and on a second communication channel type, and single mode communication units capable of operating only on the first communication channel type. If, at a... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080161031 - Coordination of transmissions in wireless communications devices: Techniques involving network access are disclosed. For instance, an apparatus may include first and second transceivers, a first control module, and a second control module. Each transceiver may send one or more wireless transmissions, which are scheduled by the control modules. For example, the first control module may schedule transmissions... Agent: Kacvinsky Llc C/o Intellevate

20080161032 - Method of digital trunked communication system fast call setup: The present invention discloses a method of fast call setup in digital trunking communication system, including: the terminal user initiating a PTT call; the base station receiving said PTT call request, assigning channel resource for the call, establishing forward service channel according to the distribution of channel, transmitting an empty... Agent: Darby & Darby P.c.

20080161033 - Method and appartus for adjustments for delta-based power control in wireless communication systems: Systems and methodologies are described that provide techniques for performing adjustments for delta-based power control and interference management in a wireless communication system. A terminal can utilize one or more delta-based power control techniques described herein upon engaging in a reverse link transmission after a predetermined period of silence or... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080161035 - Communication apparatus: A communication apparatus, includes unit extracting a reception key feature of a temporal change in received power in each frequency band contained in a received signal, unit storing, in correspondence with one another, a system name of a system which uses the frequency band, event information indicating that a communication... Agent: Charles N.j. Ruggiero, Esq. Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.l.p.

20080161034 - Mobile phone, state switching method for use in mobile phone, and transmitter: A state switching method includes the steps of: receiving a state switching instruction signal for instructing a local terminal to switch to at least one of two or more states; determining whether to switch the local terminal to the state specified by the above-mentioned state switching instruction signal on the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080161038 - Intelligent mobile phone module: An intelligent mobile phone module is described. The intelligent mobile phone includes a main antenna, an assistant antenna, a switch, an RTR6275 chipset, a triplexer, and an RFR6500 chipset. The main antenna can receive and transmit quad-band GSM signals, CELL850 signals and PCS1900 signals. The assistant antenna can assist to... Agent: Joe Mckinney Muncy

20080161037 - Method and apparatus for concurrent wimax and gsm operation: Concurrent WIMAX and GSM operation is facilitated in a user device by coordinating for WiMAX absence periods during WiMAX frames that may conflict with corresponding GSM frames.... Agent: The Law Offices Of John C. Scott, Llc C/o Intellevele, Llc

20080161036 - Network access across wireless technologies: Techniques for accessing wireless networks are disclosed. For instance, an apparatus may include a control module to broadcast messages for transmission within a coverage area of a first type of a wireless communications network. In addition, the apparatus may include a storage medium that stores access parameters for wireless network(s)... Agent: Kacvinsky Llc C/o Intellevate

20080161039 - Dual band/dual mode mobile communication terminal and control method thereof: The present invention relates to a dual band/dual mode mobile communication terminal, which can perform stable roaming between synchronous and asynchronous mobile communication networks. The mobile communication terminal of the present invention includes an antenna (410), an asynchronous RF device (420), a synchronous RF device (430), and a common module... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080161042 - Dual mode mobile handset and call processing method thereof: A dual mobile handset supporting CDMA and GSM communication and call processing method for the dual mode mobile handset, implemented to receive CDMA and GSM calls and process CDMA and GSM signals using different applications, thereby adaptively receiving the CDMA and GSM calls, are provided. The dual mode mobile handset... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080161041 - Multiradio synchronization and scheduling control: A method, device, component and computer program product are described for controlling radios/modems in a multiradio device so as not to interfere with one another. A first set of timeslots for a first modem of the device is mapped to a master clock. A second set of timeslots for a... Agent: Harrington & Smith, Pc

20080161040 - Systems and methods for configuring and operating a cellular telephone as a cordless telephone handset: The present disclosure describes systems and methods for configuring and operating a cellular telephone as a cordless telephone handset. Some illustrative embodiments may include a communications device that includes a cellular telephone radio frequency (RF) transceiver, a radio frequency identification (RFID) transceiver; and control logic coupled to the cellular telephone... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080161043 - Waveform multimode wired and wireless communication: Waveform processed modulated and demodulated multimode wireless and wired communication systems used in cellular systems and in wireless networks. Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite signals used in multimode wireless and cellular systems. Modulation, transmission reception and demodulation of Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) and of spread spectrum signals in combination... Agent: Kamilo Feher

20080161044 - Image capture reporting based on content-associated wireless identification: An electronic device. The device comprises circuitry for capturing data representing an image and circuitry for detecting a wireless signal associated with an object. The device also comprises circuitry, responsive to the detecting circuitry, for storing image data from said circuitry for capturing and associating and storing, with same image... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080161045 - Method, apparatus and computer program product for providing a link to contacts on the idle screen: An apparatus for providing a link to contacts on an idle screen may include a processing element. The processing element may be configured to provide an identifier associated with a particular contact for display on an idle screen. In response to receipt of a selection of the identifier, the processing... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080161046 - Mobile telecommunications device having dual drive shafts: A mobile telecommunications device comprising: a printhead for printing upon print media; a first drive shaft for feeding the print media past the printhead; and a second drive shaft for passing the print media past the printhead once disengaged from the first drive shaft whilst the printhead continues to print... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080161047 - System and method for radio frequency communication with a personal digital assistant in a vehicle: A system for communicating information is described. The system comprises a radio frequency (RF) transceiver coupled to a vehicle. The transceiver is configured to communicate with a personal digital assistant (PDA) located external to the transceiver using wireless RF signals to transmit information between the transceiver and the PDA.... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080161048 - Wireless handheld communication device: A wireless handheld communication device is described. A main body has a first interfering portion in inner walls thereof. A keyboard structure has a frame and a flexible body, wherein the plastic frame has a second interfering portion for engaging with the first interfering portion so as to fix the... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080161052 - Information processing terminal, data selection processing method, and program: There is provided an information processing terminal that has a plurality of data communication portions that receive data from a read/write unit by a non-contact method. The information processing terminal includes a data processing portion that selects and processes one of the data received by a first data communication portion... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20080161050 - Method for configuring a wireless communication device to operate in a wireless communication system through automatic sim pairing and associated wireless communication device: A wireless communication device performs a method for automatically configuring itself to operate in a wireless communication system managed by a system controller. The wireless device includes an internal memory device containing a first memory identifier associated with a first removable memory device and a first user identifier associated with... Agent: Brinkley, Morgan, Solomon, Tatum, Etal.

20080161049 - Methods and systems for sim-based radio technology modules and non-sim-based radio technology modules: A device is provided, the device having a processor and a Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) card interface coupled to the processor. The device further comprises a radio technology interface coupled to the processor, the radio technology interface being compatible with a SIM-based radio technology module and a non-SIM-based radio technology... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080161051 - Module for data transmission and peripheral device for holding the module: The invention relates to a data transmission module which comprises a first central processing unit CPU1 (1), a first memory unit (3) interacting with the CPU1 (1) and comprising a multi-layer operating system (SI, 52, S3), a transceiver (2) for the wireless data exchange with a network comprising a plurality... Agent: Kanesaka Berner And Partners LLP

20080161053 - Portable communication device with dual configuration storage and the method for the same: The present invention discloses a portable communication device with a dual configuration storage unit comprising a master storage unit and a backup storage unit. A flash memory is utilized therein as a storage medium. Because the flash memory is easily corrupted and may have bad blocks situations, the dual configuration... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080161054 - Node selection function for multipoint radio network configurations: An apparatus is configured to be operably connected to an access network controller device as well as to a pool of network elements which all comprise the same radio network configuration. The apparatus further comprises a selection functionality configured to select and connect one or more of the network elements... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.l.p.

20080161055 - Base station architecture using decentralized duplexers: Disclosed is a base station comprising an antenna and a plurality of integrated transceiver modules. Each integrated transceiver module includes a radio and a decentral duplexer connected to the radio and the antenna for transmission of and reception of communication signals. The integrated transceiver module therefore modularizes the base station... Agent: Weinick & Associates, Llc

20080161056 - Method and apparatus for monitoring information for use in a smart antenna system: A method of obtaining information for use in a smart antenna system is provided. The method includes monitoring an interface between a base station controller and a base station transceiver to receive signaling information being communicated via the interface. The method further includes extracting from the signaling information a subset... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20080161057 - Voice conversion in ring tones and other features for a communication device: A voice conversion processing framework is operatively associated with the central processing unit (CPU) and audio processor of a communication device to convert default voice presentations generated by, for example text readers, ring tone applications and the like, to target voice presentations based on selected target voice files stored in... Agent: Perman & Green

20080161058 - Method and mobile communication terminal for providing function of hyperlink telephone number including short message service: Disclosed are a mobile communication terminal and a method for detecting and extracting a phone number included in an SMS message and activating a hyperlink function on the extracted phone number to initiate an outgoing call to the phone number or store it in a phonebook of the mobile communication... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080161060 - Information processing apparatus: In a mobile phone applicable to an information processing apparatus, an illumination sensor detects a state of the mobile phone and generates a detection signal, a main controller determines whether or not the generated detection signal is larger than a predetermined reference value and allocates predetermined functions of operation to... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, Pc

20080161059 - Intelligent phone book: A method including detecting a time and day that communications are made to a contact, recording the time and day communications are made for a respective communication type and presenting the contact information to a user depending on the use pattern of the contact information and the time and day... Agent: Perman & Green

20080161061 - Mobile terminal having dual display unit and method of controlling dual speaker and dual microphone thereof: A mobile terminal having a dual display unit, a dual speaker and a dual microphone, and a method of controlling the dual speaker and the dual microphone thereof are provided. The method of controlling a dual speaker and a dual microphone of a mobile terminal having a dual display unit... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080161062 - Method and apparatus for the selective use of imperceptible invites: A communication device [400] includes a transceiver [405] to receive and transmit data. A message detection element [410] detects at least a first message and a second message in the data received by the transceiver [405]. A processor [400] modifies a state of the communication device [400] based on the... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080161063 - Methods and devices for adaptive ringtone generation: Disclosed are methods and devices for adapting a ringtone in accordance with ambient noise. In one embodiment a method includes processing an ambient noise signal to determine an ambient noise volume. When there is an incoming communication and it is determined that the ambient noise has a low ambient noise... Agent: Motorola Inc

20080161064 - Methods and devices for adaptive ringtone generation: Disclosed are methods and devices for adapting a ringtone in accordance with ambient noise. In one embodiment a method includes processing an ambient noise signal to determine an ambient noise volume. When there is an incoming communication and it is determined that the ambient noise has a low ambient noise... Agent: Motorola Inc

20080161065 - Mobile communication terminal for providing tactile interface: A mobile terminal for use in a wireless communication and method therein is provided. The mobile terminal includes a terminal body configured to house a mobile communication module to engage in the wireless communication, a touch input device disposed in the terminal body, the touch input device including a touch... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080161067 - Method and apparatus for wireless dialing: A wireless headset includes a first transceiver configured to establish a first wireless connection with the cellular-capable device, and a second transceiver configured to establish a second wireless connection with a wireless dialer. In one embodiment, the wireless headset receives user communication data transmitted over the second wireless connection from... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080161066 - System and method for wireless communication: A wireless communication system includes a cellular-capable device, a wireless headset and a wireless dialer. The wireless dialer is usable to establish a first wireless connection with the wireless headset, while the wireless headset is configured to establish a separate second wireless connection with a cellular-capable device. In one embodiment,... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080161068 - Device, method and system for implementing an echo control on hand-free phones: First of all, local speech signals on a sending channel as well as remote speech signals on a receiving channel are sampled. Then call status of a current network is determined based on energy of the obtained remote and local speech signals samples. Finally, a corresponding echo control treatment to... Agent: Troxell Law Office Pllc

20080161070 - Apparatus and method for current control in mobile terminal: An apparatus and method for current control in a mobile terminal are provided. The apparatus includes a monitoring unit for measuring a total required current amount that is the sum of current amounts required by respective components of the mobile terminal and detecting whether the total required current amount is... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080161069 - Portable communication apparatus and a battery pack: A battery pack has a case for storing a battery can, and a metal plane made of a conductive material and connected to the battery can in high frequency is provided on the outer circumference plane of the case. A mounting recessed part for removably mounting the battery pack is... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080161071 - Apparatus for and method of managing peak current consumption of multiple subsystems in a mobile handset: A novel and useful mechanism for regulating and managing the peak current consumption of the subsystems in a mobile handset device. The mechanism of the present invention is operative to limit the current consumption at any point in time to a predetermined level that is within the current handling capability... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080161072 - Methods and apparatus to manage power consumption in wireless devices: Methods and apparatus to manage power consumption in wireless devices are disclosed. A disclosed example apparatus comprises a motion detector to detect motion, and a wireless modem to perform a background scan when motion is detected.... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080161073 - Radio frequency integrated circuit: Embodiments of an RFIC and methods for same and mobile terminals can internally reduce an input voltage to provide a prescribed voltage to a radio frequency transceiver. Embodiments of an RFIC can have a high efficiency and/or a low noise. In one embodiment, a device can include a PMIC and... Agent: Muir Patent Consulting, Pllc

20080161074 - Mobile device having a hinge portion with which a hardware accessory is coupleable: A mobile device comprising a first casing portion, a second casing portion comprising circuitry, first and second separated pivotable hinge portions connecting the first and second casing portions to allow the first casing portion to be hingedly openable and closable with respect to the second casing portion, and a fixed... Agent: Century Ip Group, Inc. [main]

20080161075 - Slide-up opening and closing mechanism for portable terminal: Disclosed herein is a slide-up opening and closing apparatus for a communications terminal. The apparatus includes a slider unit, a slider assembly and an angular positioning member in order to open a slider body with respect to a main body. With the apparatus, the slider body can be opened with... Agent: Harness, Dickey, & Pierce, P.l.c

20080161076 - Case for communication terminal and communication terminal using the same: A case for a communication terminal and a communication terminal using the case are provided. The case includes a coupling unit configured to electrically couple the communication terminal and the case, and an extension device formed in the case and configured to extend a communication performance of the communication terminal... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch