Telecommunications inventions 08/08

20080207113 - Noise-generating device and method: The invention relates to the field of devices intended to generate a noise of high amplitude having specific spectral characteristics. It concerns a transmission device mainly comprising a transducer, means for synthesizing a digital noise sequence x′(n) and power sources. According to the invention, the device also comprises means such... Agent: Lowe Hauptman & Berner, LLP

20080207114 - Communications methods, methods of forming a reader, wireless communications readers, and wireless communications systems: Communications methods, methods of forming a reader, wireless communications readers, and wireless communications systems are described in some embodiments. In one embodiment, a communications method includes associating a plurality of remote communications devices with a plurality of objects located within a wireless communications range of a reader having a first... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP (sv) Ip Docketing

20080207116 - Navigation device and method using a personal area network: A method and a navigation device are disclosed for . . . . The navigation device includes a memory to store at least one document; an input device to select at least one document stored in memory; and a network interface to identify at least one other device. The selected... Agent: Tomtom International B.v.

20080207115 - System and method for playing audio file according to received location information: A system and method for playing an audio file, and for providing a user with information on the other party's location by playing an audio file are disclosed. The system is provided with a first audio player and a second audio player, and each audio player is provided with a... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080207117 - Apparatus and method for selecting a relay mode in a multihop relay broadband wireless communication system: An apparatus and a method for selecting one of a plurality of relay modes in a wireless communication system are provided. The method includes checking a channel state between a Mobile Station (MS) and each of at least one Relay Station (RS), selecting the relay mode for supporting a relay... Agent: Jefferson Ip Law, LLP

20080207118 - Uplink frequency multiplexing system: A satellite-borne transponder for two or more uplink service areas, includes uplink antennae, a low noise amplifier and a converter for each uplink antenna, input filters, amplification chains, each amplification chain including a channel amplifier, a high power amplifier, and an output filter, and a downlink antenna for an associated... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080207119 - Waveform modulated wireless rural area network (wran) systems and modulation and multiple access techniques for wireless communication systems: A method and system for transmitting data in a wireless network. The method includes generating a plurality of waveforms corresponding to a plurality of frequency subbands for a predetermined frequency band. The predetermined frequency band is divided into a plurality of groups of subbands, and the plurality of groups of... Agent: Slater & Matsil, L.l.p.

20080207122 - Apparatus and method for determining an uplink transmission format in a broadband wireless communication system: An apparatus and method in a broadband wireless communication system are provided. The apparatus includes a Base Station (BS) which includes a manager for increasing a set point associated with a Mobile Station (MS) if an error is detected in a burst received from the MS, a detector for incrementing... Agent: Jefferson Ip Law, LLP

20080207121 - Mote networks having directional antennas: A mote network having and/or using one or more directional antennas.... Agent: Searete Llc Clarence T. Tegreene

20080207120 - Wireless data transmission methods, devices, and systems: Method and system for creating a radio block header that identifies a selected data block, a first compression scheme to compress a first encoded instance of the selected data block, and a second compression scheme to compress a second encoded instance of the selected data block, wherein the second compression... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/intel

20080207123 - Configurable means to provide wireless module customization: A wireless system, including a wireless system transmitter having a transmitter configuration device storing transmitter configuration data, and at least one wireless system receiver having a receiver configuration device storing receiver configuration data. The transmitter and receiver configuration devices include a subscriber identity module (SIM) card, a smart card, a... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, Llc

20080207127 - Medical communication system and its communication method: A medical communication system is provided with a scope 10 including an image pickup element, and a processor 13 including an image processing section which performs image processing on an image signal obtained by the image pickup element. The processor 13 further includes a communication control section which controls communication... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, Pc

20080207125 - Method and apparatus to facilitate conforming a wireless personal communications device to a local social standard: A wireless transmitter (201) transmits (102) a message intended for at least one wireless personal communications device (202). That message comprises content (203) configured and arranged to at least attempt to prompt a particular operability configuration for the wireless personal communications device that conforms to social standards as correspond to... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin And Flannery

20080207126 - Method and system for dynamically changing poll timing based on bluetooth activity: Methods and systems for dynamically changing poll timing based on Bluetooth activity are disclosed. Aspects of one method may include determining synchronous Bluetooth activity between a Bluetooth master device and at least one Bluetooth slave device. The synchronous Bluetooth activity may comprise, for example, transmission of packets by the Bluetooth... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080207128 - Method, device and system for controlling application launching in a mobile terminal device: The present invention generally discloses methods, devices and systems for controlling application launching by means of a dedicated application launching table. According to a first aspect of the present invention a method for controlling launching of an application in a first mobile terminal device is provided. Said first mobile device... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.l.p.

20080207124 - Mobile device with near field communication module and secure chip: A mobile device provided with a secure chip and a short-range wireless RF communication module, which can be used for contactless transactions with external short-range wireless RF communication devices, for example at a point of sales. The mobile device is provided with user selectable activity levels of the secure chip... Agent: Perman & Green

20080207129 - Apparatus for discovering devices in a wireless network: A Bluetooth-enabled computing device includes a user interface for displaying a prompt to specify a descriptive identifier for a network device prior to performance of a Bluetooth Device Discovery Routine, the descriptive identifier being different from Bluetooth Device Discovery Routine Identifiers. A system memory has entries including descriptive identifiers, each... Agent: 3com Corporation

20080207131 - Apparatus, method and computer program product providing enhanced cognitive radio channel selection: In a cognitive radio system, a complexity to be used for a receiver of a cognitive radio is determined, and a connection between an access node and the receiver is changed to a connection having a corresponding complexity. In one embodiment the cognitive radio itself determines the complexity and changes... Agent: Harrington & Smith, Pc

20080207130 - Communication apparatus and communication system: A communication apparatus including a first communicator which communicates with a first other communication apparatus by using a plurality of frequency channels defined within a frequency band such that the frequency channels are switched from one to another, a detector which detects, with respect to each of the frequency channels,... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20080207132 - Communication apparatus and communication system: There is disclosed a communication apparatus which wirelessly communicates information with a first other communication apparatus by a first communication method and using a second frequency band which is at least partially overlapping a first frequency band usable according to the first communication method. The communication apparatus includes a first... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20080207133 - Method of controlling beam weight detection and receiver: A receiver in a wireless communication system including a transmitter that multiplies a plurality of transmission signals with a plurality of beam weights to transmit the transmission signal through a plurality of antennas. Also included is a receiver that receives the transmission signals, detects a specific beam weight of which... Agent: Hanify & King Professional Corporation

20080207134 - Mobile equipment based filtering for packet radio service (prs): A method for operating a mobile equipment (ME 10) in a wireless network (12) includes receiving from a wireless network a parameter that is indicative of a signal quality experienced by the ME, such as by determining a speed of the ME; calculating in the ME an indication of link... Agent: Harrington & Smith, Pc

20080207135 - Cqi feedback for ofdma systems: Embodiments of a feedback generator and decoder and methods of operating the feedback generator and decoder are presented. In one embodiment, the feedback generator includes a CQI compression module configured to provide a compressed CQI for the user equipment corresponding to at least one sub-band, where a sub-band is composed... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080207136 - High dynamic range tranceiver for cognitive radio: Embodiments of cognitive radio technology can recover and utilize underutilized portions of statically-allocated radio-frequency spectrum. A plurality of sensing methods can be employed. Transmission power control can be responsive to adjacent channel measurements. Digital pre-distortion techniques can enhance performance. Embodiments of a high DNR transceiver architecture can be employed.... Agent: West & Associates, A Pc

20080207137 - Seamlessly switching among unicast, multicast, and broadcast mobile media content: In embodiments, the present invention provides a method and system for switching between broadcast and unicast content on a mobile device. The method and system involves making unicast content available to the mobile device, making broadcast content available to the mobile device; and providing an application on the mobile device... Agent: John J. Brooks, Iii

20080207138 - Phase detector: A phase detector includes a plurality of phase detectors located in a phase correction loop, each phase detector configured to receive as input a radio frequency (RF) input signal and an RF reference signal, each of the plurality of phase detectors also configured to provide a signal representing a different... Agent: Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha, Llc

20080207140 - Integrated circuit with contemporaneous transmission and reception of realtime and non-realtime data and methods for use therewith: A voice data and RF integrated circuit (IC) includes an RF transmitter that generates a transmit signal contemporaneously containing both outbound realtime data and outbound non-realtime data. The integrated circuit optionally includes an RF receiver that contemporaneously generates both outbound realtime data and outbound non-realtime data from a received signal.... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080207141 - Method and device for transmitting a sequence of transmission bursts: Methods and device for transmitting a sequence of transmission bursts in a wireless device. The method includes transmitting a sequence of transmission bursts according to a transmission schedule. The method is characterized by: receiving, at a radio frequency integrated circuit, prior to a transmission of at least one transmission burst... Agent: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. Law Department

20080207139 - Method and system for a multisystem polar transmitter: Aspects of a method and system for a Multisystem Polar Transmitter may include a single integrated circuit comprising one or more Direct Digital Frequency Synthesizer (DDFS). The single integrated circuit may generate a plurality of signals compliant with at least a first wireless protocol and a second wireless protocol. At... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080207142 - Amplitude modulation apparatus, amplitude limiting method, and computer-readable program: The present invention relates to an amplitude modulation apparatus, an amplitude limiting method, and a transmission apparatus for performing amplitude limitation on an orthogonally modulated signal. The amplitude modulation apparatus, the amplitude limiting method, and the transmission apparatus enable peak value suppression of a transmission wave with a simple structure.... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080207143 - Radio communications using scheduled power amplifier backoff: Radio transmissions to multiple radio terminals are improved using scheduled backoff of a multi-signal power amplifier. A radio channel quality associated with each of the radio terminals is determined. First signals for first radio terminals associated with a better channel quality are amplified by a power amplifier during a first... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, Pc

20080207144 - Method and system for improving efficiency over power control for linear and class ab power amplifiers: Aspects of a system for improving efficiency over power control for linear and class AB power amplifiers may include a current source circuit that enables determination of a bias current level for a PA circuit within an IC die based on an amplitude of an input modulation signal. The PA... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080207145 - Transmitter: Briefly, a transmitter that includes first and second fractional N synthesizers that may generate outphased modulated signals. First and second sigma-delta modulators may control the modulation of the first and second fractional N synthesizers.... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.c.

20080207146 - High dynamic range receiver: The invention relates to an adjustment method, especially for adjusting optical or fibre optical components. Said method involves locally heating, in a defined manner, at least one first partial region of an adjustment region (106, 114) of an actuator (100, 200, 400), in such a way that compressive strains appear... Agent: Conley Rose, P.c. David A. Rose

20080207147 - Radio transmitter front-end with amplitude and phase correction and methods for use therewith: A radio transmitter front-end for use in a voice data and RF integrated circuit (IC) includes a phase correction module that produces a phase adjusted signal in response to a phase modulated signal and at least one phase correction signal. An amplitude correction module produces an amplitude adjusted signal in... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080207148 - Voice, data and rf integrated circuit with multiple modulation modes and methods for use therewith: A voice data and RF integrated circuit (IC) includes a driver that generates an RF signal to a power amplifier module from an up-converted signal. A modulation controller provides a first modulation signal to the driver for modulating the up-converted signal when a modulation control signal has a first value... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080207149 - Systems and methods for determining a location for a communication facility: A computer-based program performs calculations to analyze, vary, test, manage, and/or improve the performance of channels and/or frequencies in the communication spectrum. The program varies parameters of a point of communication, such as the location, transmission power, channel frequency, antenna height, and the like, alone or in combination, to measure,... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080207150 - Preamble based uplink power control for lte: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate utilizing power control preambles with closed loop power control techniques in a wireless communication environment. An uplink grant can be transferred over a downlink (e.g., a first uplink grant after uplink inactivity), and a power control preamble can be sent over an uplink... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080207151 - Apparatus, methods and computer program products providing selective diversity operation and adjustment of transport format for a multiple-receiver unit: In one exemplary embodiment, method including: receiving a first wireless communication with at least a first and second receiver utilizing a diversity method; and, in response to determining that simultaneous reception of a second wireless communication is desired, signaling that at least the second receiver is to be unavailable for... Agent: Harrington & Smith, Pc

20080207152 - Dual-mode system and method for receiving wireless signals: A wireless receiver (100) is provided, comprising: a non-coherent signal detector (130) configured to receive an incoming signal and perform a non-coherent signal analysis in response to a first control signal; a coherent signal detector (140) configured to receive the incoming signal and perform a coherent signal analysis to extract... Agent: Posz Law Group, Plc

20080207153 - Tuner: Provided is a tuner, which comprises: an amplifier for amplifying received signals; a synchronization processor for mixing the received signals with oscillating frequency signals to output intermediate frequency signals of a selected channel; an intermediate frequency signal processor for filtering and amplifying the intermediate frequency signals; a demodulator for demodulating... Agent: Saliwanchik Lloyd & Saliwanchik A Professional Association

20080207154 - Integrated circuit and method for reception of radio frequency signals: at least one control interface connected with at least one of the low noise amplifier, the attenuator unit, and the gain flattening unit on each amplifying path and adapted for communication with a digital processing unit to control operation of the at least one of the low noise amplifier, the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080207156 - Detect-and-avoid method and architecture for ultra-wideband system: A method and system for detecting the presence of narrowband transmitters utilizing frequencies also utilized by wider band communication systems. In some embodiments an ultrawideband transceiver detects signals at specific frequencies within a spectrum of frequencies, and analyzes the signals to determine if the signals indicate transmissions by a narrowband... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080207155 - Receiver system: A receiver system includes an antenna to receive a high-frequency signal; a first band pass filter circuit to eliminate unnecessary frequency components from the high-frequency signal; a low-noise amplifier to amplify signal output from the first band pass filter circuit; a local oscillator to produce a local oscillation signal; a... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080207157 - Low intermediate frequency receiver and the same method thereof: The present invention provides a low intermediate frequency receiver for receiving radio frequency signal and provides the sampling method thereof. The low intermediate frequency receiver firstly samples the radio frequency signal so as to convert it into digital signal of non-zero frequency domain. Secondly it compensates the digital signal of... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20080207158 - Terminal apparatus: A low cost, a low power consumption and a small size are three very important factors for a mobile communication terminal. A great problem is posed by the conventional technique using a DSP and a CPU independent of each other which requires two external memory systems. Also, two peripheral units... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080207159 - Radio frequency circuit with integrated on-chip radio frequency inductive signal coupler: A radio frequency (RF) circuit (100) as disclosed herein is fabricated on a substrate (204, 304) using integrated passive device (IPD) process technology. The RF circuit (100) includes an RF inductor (200, 300) and an integrated inductive RF coupler (202, 302) located proximate to the RF inductor (200, 300). The... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.c. (fs)

20080207160 - Discrete signal processing device and processing method: A signal processing device and a signal processing method are provided which can reproduce a smooth signal in the reproduction of a discrete signal having a non-uniform sample point interval. The device includes a coefficient calculation unit 4 that inputs a sample point signal E2 representative of the time of... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.c.

20080207161 - Method and apparatus to facilitate hotlining in a communication system: Various embodiments are described for facilitating hotlining in communication systems. A device (101) is informed by a device manager (131) that it is being hotlined and is provided certain hotlining state information. This information may enable devices with different types of user interfaces (browsers, automated clients, handsets, etc.) to trigger... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080207163 - Emergency call apparatus for vehicle: In an in-vehicle emergency call apparatus, after a vehicle battery starts electric discharge, electric currents flowing in from the vehicle battery are integrated to calculate a consumed electric current integrated value. When the consumed electric current integrated value reaches a specified value, a position information transmission operation may be performed.... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080207162 - Notification method, notification system, and recording medium having notification program: A notification method performed by a computer that includes a helper-information management table having recorded thereon positional information designating locations of helpers in accordance with helper terminal devices owned by said helpers, and a juvenile-information management table having recorded thereon mobile-terminal identification information and facial photos of juveniles, said mobile-terminal... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080207164 - Traffic shaping of cellular service consumption through modification of consumer behavior encouraged by cell-based pricing advantages: Changes in wireless service user behavior are encouraged and produced to shape utilization patterns among cells within a rate plan region by using shaping rules which define potential discounts from a standard charge rate under certain cell-specific utilization conditions, analyzing the shaping rules and utilization statistics of a cell upon... Agent: Robert H. Frantz

20080207165 - Limiting use of electronic equipment features based on location...: A method and apparatus for limiting the use of one or more features and/or applications provided in electronic equipment based on identification information and location information associated with the electronic equipment is disclosed. Upon initiation of an application and/or feature, a request is made to a remote server. The request... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080207168 - Fast update message authentication with key derivation in mobile ip systems: The present invention performs a Binding Update or a Location Update message authentication independently and terminal-specifically in a home SAE gateway. A key, which is derived in a home AAA server from an initially set long term key, is given to a visited network for encrypting the update messages in... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.l.p.

20080207170 - Femtocell integration into the macro network: Some embodiments of the invention provide a communication system that includes a first communication network, a second communication network, and a core network. The second communication network includes a network controller and a group of two or more access areas that are communicatively coupled to the core network by the... Agent: Adeli & Tollen, LLP

20080207166 - Method and apparatus for providing a data protocol voice enabled subscription lock for a wireless communication device: A method and system for restricting at least partial usage of a wireless communication device (100), like a mobile telephone, includes attempting to establish a communication channel (105) across a data network, such as non-IMS VoIP communication channel over a wide area network (103) like the Internet. Where the device... Agent: Philip H. Burrus, Iv

20080207169 - Mobile terminal and method for preventing illegitimate change of identification number of the same: The present invention relates to a mobile terminal and a method for preventing illegitimate change of an identification number of the mobile terminal. The method includes receiving, if change of an identification number is requested, and storing new authentication information and encoding the authentication information; determining whether a previously stored... Agent: Cha & Reiter, Llc

20080207172 - Service verifying system, authentication requesting terminal, service utilizing terminal, and service providing method: An object is to provide a service providing method capable of curbing rise of cost A service providing method according to the present invention is one for providing services A and B, which authenticates a user of an authentication requesting terminal in order to make service A available to the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080207167 - System and method for remotely managing wireless devices: A system and method for providing wireless services. One or more wireless identifiers are stored in an authentication space of a server associated with a wireless service provider. The authentication space is associated with an enterprise. A remote client is granted access to the authentication space to allow the enterprise... Agent: Patton Boggs, LLP

20080207171 - Wireless communication techniques for controlling access granted by a security device: Wireless communication techniques are useful for controlling access granted by a security device (22). In a disclosed example, a communication portion (24) comprises a residential gateway that is capable of communicating with a mobile station (30) over a local network (32). The communication portion (24) is also capable of communicating... Agent: Docket Administrator Lucent Technologies Inc.

20080207173 - Automatically generated messages based on determined phone state: A method performed by a mobile terminal may include storing a plurality of text messages in a mobile terminal, determining a state of the mobile terminal; and selecting and displaying one of the plurality of stored text messages based on the determined state of the mobile terminal.... Agent: Harrity Snyder, L.l.p.

20080207174 - Method and device for handling telephone calls directed to non-reachable mobile phones: A method for handling telephone calls directed to a non-reachable mobile phone, and for handling data pertaining to them, wherein: I—provided the call diversion service to a different number, or the answering service, have not been enabled, the phone call is routed towards a phone call data management and storage... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080207175 - Communication notification setting method: A communication notification setting method applied to a communication device having at least one multimedia file includes the following steps. First, a notification setting command received so as to, in response, display a communication prompt setting frame, which includes a file selecting field and a play parameter selecting field. Then,... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080207177 - Method and apparatus providing voice mail service for half duplex wireless communication systems: A software and hardware implementation of a Half Duplex Voice Mail Server (HD-VMS), which provides subscription-based voice mail services for users in half duplex wireless networks. The user subscribes to the service and is provided with a voice mail box which records caller voice messages for the user when the... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080207176 - Visual voicemail management: A voicemail message management system and method are provided. A list of voicemail messages is displayed on a screen such as a cellular telephone screen. Indicators specify whether messages are new, urgent, saved, not yet heard, and the like. Other attributes can also be displayed, including for example indications as... Agent: Demont & Breyer, Llc

20080207178 - Apparatus and method for restricting access to data: An apparatus and method for restricting access to data are provided. According to one aspect, an interface device for providing communications between a communications network and a device comprises an input, logic, and an output. The input receives data in a first format from the communications network. The logic receives... Agent: Hope Baldauff Hartman, Llc

20080207179 - Apparatus and method for testing communication capabilities of networks and devices: An apparatus and method for testing communication capabilities of networks and devices are provided. According to one aspect, an interface device for providing communications between a first and a second device comprises an input, logic, and an output. The input of the interface device receives data in a first format... Agent: Hope Baldauff Hartman, Llc

20080207182 - Encoding and transcoding for mobile media: In embodiments, the present invention provides a method and system for encoding content for mobile media distribution determining an encoding format based on one or more of a consumption profile, a content profile, an ingestion profile, a network profile, a mobile device profile, a delivery profile, and a user profile,... Agent: John J. Brooks, Iii

20080207180 - Method and apparatus for locating a mobile communications device: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product for locating a mobile communications device. The process authenticates the communication according to a set of instructions in response to receiving the communication from a user. In response to authenticating the communication, the process activates a signal generator for the mobile... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20080207181 - Method and system for applying value added services on messages sent to a subscriber without affecting the subscriber's mobile communication: The present invention provides a method of applying one or more value added services (VAS) on messages sent to a subscriber without affecting the subscriber's mobile communication. The method includes receiving an activation request from the subscriber for activating one or more VAS, at a signaling gateway (SG). The method... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20080207183 - Interactive advisory system for prioritizing content: A method for passing content to at least one communicator device. The user of a communicator device registers with at least one service provider for delivering a plurality of different types of content to be passed to the at least one communicator device. A user defined priority is assigned to... Agent: Dunlap Codding & Rogers, P.c.

20080207184 - Events on multiple phones: A method and device for distributing an event to more than one electronic device comprising receiving the event on a first electronic device, determining whether the first electronic device is connected to at least one other electronic device, and forwarding the event to the at least one other electronic device... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080207185 - Method for providing device ids in a mobile radio device which identify said mobile radio device in a mobile radio network: The invention relates to a method for providing device IDs in a mobile radio device (10; 30; 60) which identify said mobile radio device (10; 30; 60) in a mobile radio network (50). Said method comprises the following steps: several device IDs (21-1, 21-2, 21-3) are managed with the aid... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080207188 - Method of displaying menu in a mobile communication terminal: A method of displaying a menu in a mobile communication terminal and a mobile communication terminal are provided. The method of displaying a menu in a mobile communication terminal comprises displaying a standby screen in a display of the mobile communication terminal, selecting one of a plurality of specific directions... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080207187 - Multimode mobile terminal with automatic selection of interface of radio access network during a service session: The invention concerns a radio communication mobile terminal (MS) comprising: i) an operating system (OS), ii) at least one internal application (IA1) for exchanging data with a at last one external application (EA) implanted in a network equipment (SE); iii) at least two network interfaces (NI1, NI2) connected to the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080207186 - Radio control method and radio control apparatus: A radio control method is arranged to use a mobile station 10, an active set 20 to perform radio communication with the mobile station 10, and a radio control apparatus 30 for controlling the radio communication between the mobile station 10 and the active set 20, and the radio control... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080207189 - Remote control interface: Remote control interfaces (4) are provided with first sub-interfaces (6) comprising converters (61) for generating drive-line-scan-line interactions in response to data signals, and generators (62) for generating command signals in response to the drive-linescan-line interactions. Such remote control interfaces (4) do not make direct and complete translations, but convert arriving... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080207194 - Apparatus and method for beamforming using sector common antenna in wireless communication system: An apparatus and method for beamforming in a wireless communication system are provided. The base station apparatus includes a calculator, a plurality of formers, and a plurality of adders. The calculator calculates a beam coefficient considering interference to a neighbor sector to be applied to transmission signals to mobile stations.... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080207193 - Apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving control information in multi-hop relay broadband wireless communication system: An apparatus and method for transmitting control information to a Relay Station (RS) in a multi-hop relay broadband wireless communication system is disclosed. The apparatus includes a generator, a controller, and a communication unit. The generator generates control information to be transmitted to a lower RS. The controller controls and... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080207192 - Prioritized common subframe to provide better service to the overlapping areas in a community: A subframe structure for a wireless community uses a master common subframe and second master common subframe method to give BSs different priorities to serve overlapping areas in common subframes. The subframe structure and corresponding method can increase overlapping cells' capacity and reduce interference.... Agent: Stmicroelectronics, Inc.

20080207191 - System and method for reshaping customer areas of a telecommunications carrier: A system and method for changing area boundaries that encompass customers serviced by a telecommunications carrier may include an electronic display configured to display graphical images and a storage unit configured to store information associated with the customers serviced by a telecommunications carrier and area boundaries. A processing unit may... Agent: Patton Boggs, LLP

20080207190 - Systems and methods to confirm initiation of a callback: Methods and apparatuses to initiate callback with confirmation. In one embodiment, a method includes: receiving a reference (e.g., a callback phone number) in a request for a connection to a destination; providing a code via the reference in response to the request; receiving a code to confirm the request; determining... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP (sv) Ip Docketing

20080207195 - Network oriented control system for self-configuration and self-optimization measurements: Measurement reports are received from a plurality of user equipments UEs. A local database that indicates measurement report status of the plurality of user equipments is dynamically updated based on the received measurement reports, and a request for a next measurement report is restricted to a limited number of the... Agent: Harrington & Smith, Pc

20080207196 - Evaluation of random access preamble codes: The present invention relates to methods and arrangements for gathering statistics relating to random access operation in a cell of a cellular radio communication network and supervising such random access operation. Statistics are gathered (301), per random access preamble code, relating to random access detections associated with one or more... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080207197 - Apparatus, method, and computer-readable medium for interfacing devices with communications networks: An apparatus, method, and computer-readable medium for interfacing devices with communications networks are provided. According to one aspect, an interface device for providing communications between a first communications network and a device associated with a second communications network comprises one or more inputs, one or more outputs, and logic. The... Agent: Hope Baldauff Hartman, Llc

20080207198 - Device and method for assessing the quality of a mobile phone or mobile phone network: The problem to be solved by the present invention is to provide a system that allows a realistic quality assessment of a mobile phone and/or mobile phone network. For this purpose, imaging optics are used to project the image from at least part of the phone display onto a camera.... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20080207199 - Method for saving files in mobile communication terminal: A method for saving files in a mobile communication terminal includes: if an externally pluggable memory is detected, determining whether a count corresponding to the memory is present in the mobile communication terminal; if a count corresponding to the memory is present, checking whether a file save command is input... Agent: Cha & Reiter, Llc

20080207200 - Cellular communication system with high speed content distribution: A communication system and method that combines with direct high data rate links at least one content distribution networks with a number of base stations of at least one cellular communication networks. In preferred embodiments the high data rate direct communication links between the content distribution networks and the base... Agent: Trex Enterprises Corp.

20080207201 - Hierarchical service list: The present invention related to communicating between a network and user equipment in a wireless communication system. The invention includes receiving communications on a first frequency, receiving information on the first frequency, wherein the information indicates at least one transmission frequency having no associated uplink service, and determining not to... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080207202 - Apparatus and method for providing a user interface for facilitating communications between devices: An apparatus and method for providing a user interface for facilitating communications between devices are provided. According to one aspect, an interface device provides communications between a first device and a second device. The interface device has an input for receiving data in a first format from the first device.... Agent: Hope Baldauff Hartman, Llc

20080207203 - Enrollment and registration of a device in a mobile commerce system: Methods, systems, and machine-readable media are disclosed for registering a mobile device for use in a mobile commerce system. According to one embodiment, a method of registering a mobile device for use in a mobile commerce system can comprise receiving at a service provider system a registration request from a... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080207204 - Radio frequency architecture for spectrum access networks: Radio frequency (RF) architectures for spectrum access networks are provided. Embodiments of the invention generally provide a radio frequency (RF) architecture for customer premise equipment (CPE) for use in, for example, IEEE 802.22 wireless regional area networks (WRANs). In some embodiments, the CPE RF architecture includes two receive chains with... Agent: Stmicroelectronics, Inc.

20080207206 - Media independent pre-authentication supporting fast-handoff in proxy mipv6 environment: This document describes a proactive mechanism to provide fast-handover involving PMIPv6. In particular, it describes how one can achieve fast handoff for PMIPv6 using Media-independent Pre-Authentication (MPA) technique. It discusses the need for a fast-handoff for PMIPv6 environment. It then describes how MPA techniques could be used during different steps... Agent: Watchstone P+d, Plc

20080207205 - Method of hand-over in the mixed network of asynchronous communication network and synchronous communication network: In the present invention, as a mobile communication terminal, which is using service in the area of an asynchronous mobile communication system, detects signals from a synchronous mobile communication system, the mobile communication terminal repeatedly performs a process of examining whether, in a predetermined time, signals from the asynchronous mobile... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080207207 - Self configuring and optimization of cell neighbors in wireless telecommunications networks: The present invention relates to a cellular communications network and in particular to the problem of identifying cells for neighbor lists, or handover candidates when the cells are identified by a limited number of non-unique identities. The present invention includes a method for a radio base station, wherein the base... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080207208 - Apparatus, and associated method, for transposing short codes used to direct a call to a service center during operation of a mobile communication: Apparatus (58), and an associated method, for facilitating delivery of network-specific dialing codes to a mobile node (12). When a mobile node (12) is registered to a network part (18) of the network infrastructure of a radio communication system (10), a request (62) is generated by the mobile node (12),... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080207210 - Apparatus and method for frequency planning for a cellular communication system: The invention relates to frequency planning in a cellular communication system, such as a GSM cellular communication system. An apparatus for frequency planning comprises an interference matrix processor (201) which generates an interference matrix comprising interference relationships between different cells. For example, carrier to interference or interference penalty values for... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080207209 - Cellular mobile radio communication system: A method of autonomously generating neighboring cell information in a cellular mobile radio communication system including: transmitting, by a first base station, a measurement radio signal through a radio channel for radio field intensity measurement; measuring a radio field intensity of the measurement radio signal received from the first base... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080207211 - Method and apparatus for indicating preferred layer information in multimedia broadcast/multicast service (mbms): A method is disclosed for transferring preferred frequency information in a mobile communication system which establishes a preferred frequency layer and a non-preferred frequency layer for a Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service (MBMS) service. The method involves the steps of determining at least one preferred frequency of the MBMS service when a... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.l.p.

20080207214 - Apparatus and method for allocating uplink radio resource in wideband wireless communication system: An apparatus and method for UpLink (UL) radio resource allocation in a wideband wireless communication system are provided. In a method of operating a Relay Station (RS) for UpLink (UL) radio resource allocation in a wideband wireless communication system, the method includes relaying to a Base Station (BS) a resource... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080207213 - Braodcast method in a mobile communcation system: A broadcast method in a mobile communication system is disclosed. When the same information is broadcast to a plurality of cells, broadcast is carried out in a radio base station device.... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20080207212 - Method, system and communication unit for requesting a communication resource: A method for obtaining access to a physical uplink shared channel by a mobile station is provided. The method includes transmitting, by a mobile station, a physical uplink shared channel capacity request over the uplink dedicated channel to a base station. The method further includes receiving a physical uplink shared... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080207215 - Fair channel use in a wireless area network: Fair usage of working channels in a wireless network is disclosed. A base station associated with a cell within a wireless community monitors the congestion of the working channel of neighboring communities. Upon determining that the congestion of the working channel of a neighboring community is less than that of... Agent: Stmicroelectronics, Inc.

20080207216 - Transmission speed control method, mobile station, and radio line control station: The present invention relates to a transmission rate control method for controlling a transmission rate of user data to be transmitted via an uplink by a mobile station. When a serving cell, which performs a scheduling control in an uplink of the mobile station, is configured to transmit, to the... Agent: Mots Law, Pllc

20080207222 - Estimating whether or not a wireless terminal is in a geographic zone using pattern classification: A method and apparatus are disclosed for estimating whether or not a wireless terminal is in a geographic zone. The illustrative embodiment employs a pattern classifier that is trained on traits of electromagnetic signals at various locations. A computer-executable program is then generated based on the trained pattern classifier, and... Agent: Demont & Breyer, Llc

20080207219 - Estimating whether or not a wireless terminal is in a zone using radio navigation: A method for estimating whether or not a wireless terminal is in a zone is described. The method is based on the following observation: when a wireless terminal is at a particular location, the values of the traits of the ambient electromagnetic signals that vary with location represent a “fingerprint”... Agent: Demont & Breyer, Llc

20080207217 - Handling location determinations in a telecommunications network to reduce subscriber-experienced latency while conserving network resources: The present solution can include a method for handling requests to determine the locations of mobile devices in a subscriber network, such as an IMS based network. The last known location and last time of location update can be stored for each mobile device. A request for a specific mobile... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.a.

20080207218 - Methods and systems for location-based management of wireless devices: Method and apparatus are for monitoring the location of a wireless device and taking supervisory action in response to that location. Location information obtained from a user's wireless device, or otherwise concerning the present location of the user, is monitored and compared with one or more locations previously approved for... Agent: Roger T. Frost Merchant & Gould, Pc

20080207220 - Methods, systems, and products for identity verification: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for identification verification. Location information is acquired. The location information is compared to historical location information. When the location information favorably compares to the historical location information, then an identity associated with the location information is verified.... Agent: Scott P. Zimmerman, Pllc

20080207221 - Prequalification of potential wireless customers: An apparatus and method of pre-qualifying a potential customer of a wireless network is disclosed. The prequalification includes obtaining a location input by the potential customer, and accessing a wireless network performance database. An expected level of wireless connection performance of the potential customer is estimated based upon the location... Agent: Tropos Networks

20080207223 - Providing location information of a user equipment: In a communication system, a method for providing a location service with geographical location information associated with a user equipment capable of communicating with the communication system is disclosed. The method includes the steps of: storing connection information identifying a connection of the user equipment in the communication system; and... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.l.p.

20080207224 - Method for updating location information on a wireless device: A method is provided for updating a position of a mobile device coupled to a wireless communication network via one of a plurality of base stations. The method comprising the following steps. A position of the mobile device is determined. The mobile device then waits for a predefined trigger notification... Agent: Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP

20080207225 - Method and apparatus for managing delivery of information in a wireless communication network: A method and apparatus for managing delivery of information in a wireless network (100) includes bearer plane information handlers (110, 111), each of which maintains a database of paging controller associations (200). Each paging controller association is an association of an idle mobile device to a last known paging controller... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080207226 - Positioning system, positioning method, and positioning program: An object of the present invention is to implement accurate positioning of a mobile communication terminal even in an environment in which delay waves are included in radio waves arriving at the mobile communication terminal from radio wave sources. A positioning server 10 forming a positioning system for estimating a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080207228 - Method and apparatus for reducing call setup delay by including interference information in paging message: An apparatus and method for reducing call setup time of a wireless communication device including determining an uplink interference information, including the uplink interference information in a paging message to be sent on a Common Control Channel and sending the paging message on the Common Control Channel. In one aspect,... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080207227 - Method and system for determining a paging zone in a wireless network: A method of paging a mobile terminal in a radio access network wherein the last known location of a mobile terminal is stored. A location message (also called a Route Update message) is sent from a terminal and received at a sector in the network, identifying the location of the... Agent: Borden Ladner Gervais LLP Anne Kinsman

20080207230 - Multi-mode communication system and method thereof: The present invention relates to a multi-mode communication system and a method thereof. The multi-mode communication system uses a first mode among a plurality communication modes for accessing a first mobility control entity (MCE) among a plurality of MCEs, and communicates data with the first MCE. The multi-mode communication system... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080207229 - Paging over a high-speed downlink shared channel: An apparatus and methods are provided for paging in a HSDPA connected mode CELL_PCH or URA_PCH state. Preferably, a WTRU is configured to select various PICH information that is broadcast by a base station. The WTRU is preferably configured to receive paging messages, based on the selected PICH information. In... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.c. Dept. Icc

20080207231 - Communication apparatus and communication system: There is disclosed a communication apparatus including a first communication portion, a second communication portion, a speech detecting portion, and a communication control portion. The first communication portion wirelessly sends and receives audio data to and from a first other communication apparatus by using a frequency channel within a frequency... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20080207232 - Device, method, and computer program product for providing enhanced blogging features on a mobile phone: There is described a method, device and computer program product for updating a blog web-site using a portable mobile communications device equipped with one or more data generating sensors. This includes acquiring sensor data from the sensors and creating a blog entry containing the acquired sensor data. The blog entry... Agent: Moore And Van Allen Pllc For Semc

20080207234 - Marketing messages in mobile commerce: Methods, systems, and machine-readable media are disclosed for providing marketing messages to a mobile device. According to one embodiment, a method of providing one or more marketing messages to a mobile device in a mobile commerce system can comprise receiving at a mobile wallet server a set of information from... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080207233 - Method and system for centralized storage of media and for communication of such media activated by real-time messaging: An apparatus and methodology are provided that initiates on-demand communication of media content in response to receipt of text-based messages. The text-based messages can have a plurality of diverse messaging formats. Each text-based message encapsulates text conforming to a predefined syntax that includes a content text field representing an identifier... Agent: Gordon & Jacobson, P.c.

20080207235 - Method for servicing short message service message receiving confirmation, mobile communication terminal and service system for the performing the same: The present invention provides a method of providing an SMS message reception confirmation service that enables a sending party to confirm whether a receiving party has checked a transmitted SMS message, and provides a mobile terminal and a service system for performing the same. A sending terminal provides a message... Agent: Daly, Crowley, Mofford & Durkee, LLP

20080207236 - Network-based archiving for threaded mobile text messages: A network device, method, and mobile device are directed towards enabling a mobile device user to archive a text message threaded conversation with another conversation participant. text messages sent from the mobile device may be replicated by a server component, whether the text message is a reply message or an... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Darby & Darby P.c.

20080207237 - Communication in phase shifted driven power converters: A communication system comprises a plurality of communication modules (M1, . . . , MN) for phase shifted driving of a corresponding plurality of power converters (1, . . . , 3). The communication modules (M1, . . . , MN) are interconnected in a chain to exchange information for... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080207238 - Transmission over a multiple input multiple output broadcast channel (mimo-bc): A Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) communication system 1 has a transmitter for transmitting signals over a MIMO Broadcast Channel (MIMO-BC) 6. Data for communication to respective receivers 41, 4K-1, 4K is encoded by encoding stages 101, . . . , 10K-1, 10K in a selected order by selecting codewords... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080207239 - Transmitter apparatus, mobile communication system, base station and communication enable signal transmitter apparatus: The non-priority communication transmitter apparatuses 10B and 30B comprise signal transmitter units 16 and 17 configured to be enabled to transmit, to the non-priority communication receiver apparatuses 10B and 30B, a signal by using a frequency channel of a second frequency band, when the non-priority communication transmitter apparatuses 10B and... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080207240 - Auto-calibrating receiver and methods for use therewith: A voice, data and RF integrated circuit includes a processing module that generates at least one control signal that indicates a receive calibration mode. An RF transmitter generates a transmit signal that includes a first calibration signal when the at least one control signal indicates the receive calibration mode. An... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080207242 - Audio nickname tag: A system receives an audio nickname tag related to a push-to-talk (PTT) user, and associates the audio nickname tag with the PTT user.... Agent: Harrity Snyder, L.l.p.

20080207241 - Method and system for distributing talk group activity among multiple vehicle repeaters: A system (100) and method (200) for providing a multiple channel site for supporting talk group activity is provided. The method includes determining (202) an arrival time (141) of a plurality of Vehicular Repeater System (VRS) (101-103) to a vicinity (140), identifying (204) talk group activity among the plurality of... Agent: Motorola, Inc

20080207248 - Adaptive transmission power control for cognitive radio: Embodiments of cognitive radio technology can recover and utilize under-utilized portions of statically-allocated radio-frequency spectrum. A plurality of sensing methods can be employed. Transmission power control can be responsive to adjacent channel measurements. Digital pre-distortion techniques can enhance performance. Embodiments of a high DNR transceiver architecture can be employed.... Agent: West & Associates, A Pc

20080207249 - Apparatus and method for controlling power in a wireless mobile communication system: An apparatus and method for controlling power in a wireless mobile communication system are provided. The apparatus and method efficiently adjusts a threshold value in order to control closed-loop power through an outer-loop power control in a wireless mobile communication system. Accordingly, it is possible to increase cell capacity while... Agent: Jefferson Ip Law, LLP

20080207250 - Apparatus and method for reverse power control in mobile communication system: An uplink power control method of a base station (BS) in a m obile communication system is provided. The method includes rece iving a signal from a terminal; calculating an RSQI value using t he signal and previous power control information; comparing the R SQI with a threshold; determining power... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080207247 - Method and apparatus for power control during dtx operation: Techniques for performing power control during discontinuous transmission (DTX) operation are described. A UE transmits on the uplink during a transmission burst and receives TPC commands generated by a Node B based on the uplink transmission. The UE may receive two TPC commands at the end of the transmission burst... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080207251 - Method and arrangement for power control: A method for setting a power control level (600) in a wireless communication system. The method includes the steps of obtaining (620) transmission information from a wireless subscriber unit, and modifying a power control level and/or a communication channel format (660) in response to said transmission information. Preferably, the transmission... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080207244 - Method for the transmission of messages and a correspondingly equipped motor vehicle: To provide a method for the transmission of messages between mobile nodes (A, B, C) in an ad hoc network that will ensure reliable transmission of relevant information even with a large number of nodes (A, B, C), it is proposed that a signal strength and a repetition frequency be... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080207245 - Mobile communications system, base station control apparatus, and mobile terminal: A mobile communications system in which plural possible values for a maximum number of non-serving base stations which can be selected by a base station control apparatus are made available, and the maximum number is set up among the plural possible values for the maximum number of non-serving base station... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080207246 - Systems and methods for maintaining a transmission during a channel fade: A method for maintaining a transmission during a channel fade is described. Data is transmitted on a first traffic channel associated with a first signal. A second signal with a signal strength that is greater than the signal strength of the first signal is detected. A transmitter is disabled if... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080207243 - Transmission power control method, mobile station, radio base station, and radio line control station: The present invention relates to a transmission power control method which controls a transmission power of uplink user data for transmitting an uplink user data from a mobile station to a radio base station. The transmission power control method according to the present invention includes: transmitting, from the mobile station... Agent: Mots Law, Pllc

20080207256 - Concurrent impedance matching of a wireless transceiver: A system and method of concurrent impedance matching of a wireless transceiver is disclosed. In one embodiment, an impedance matching circuit of a wireless transceiver includes a low noise amplifier (LNA) circuit to amplify an input signal to the wireless transceiver during a reception mode of the wireless transceiver, a... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080207255 - Mobile communication apparatus with multimedia audio/video functions: A mobile communication apparatus with multimedia audio/video functions includes an upper casing, a lower casing movably connected to a backside of the upper casing, and an audio/video capturing module mounted on one end of the upper casing. The upper and lower casings are engaged with each other, and the audio/video... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, Pllc

20080207252 - Mobile telephone with direct memory access: A mobile telephone includes call circuitry to establish a call over a communications network and a processing device that executes logical instructions. The mobile telephone also includes a memory assembly. The memory assembly includes a nonvolatile memory, a volatile memory and a logic circuit. The logic circuit has a direct... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080207254 - Multimodal adaptive user interface for a portable electronic device: A multimodal electronic device (100) includes a shutter enabled dynamic keypad for presenting one of a plurality of keypad configurations to a user. Each keypad configuration, which is presented by an optical shutter (204) that opens or closes windows or shutters that are geometrically configured as alphanumeric or device keys... Agent: Philip H. Burrus, Iv

20080207253 - Multiradio management through quality level control: A system for managing the operation of a plurality of radio modules integrated within the same wireless communication device. In at least one embodiment of the present invention, a control strategy may be employed to regulate the quality level of a signal delivered by a codec in order to balance... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.l.p.

20080207257 - Apparatus, and associated method, for facilitating communication connection between a mobile station and a communication network: Apparatus, and an associated method, for forming a communication connection between a mobile station and a communication network. The communication network is of either of two protocol versions, such as a UMA-compliant network and a GAN-compliant network. A network access identifier is formed at the mobile station of a format... Agent: Research In Motion Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20080207259 - Dual rf transceiver system with interference cancellation and methods for use therewith: A voice, data and RF integrated circuit (IC) includes a first radio frequency (RF) receiver section coupled to receive a first inbound RF signal over a first range of frequencies and generate a first amplified RF signal, wherein the first inbound RF signal includes a desired RF signal and an... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080207258 - Multimode transmitter with digital up conversion and methods for use therewith: A voice, data and RF integrated circuit (IC) includes a transmitter processing module, coupled to receive outbound data and to produce processed data in accordance with a selected one of a plurality of protocols and that generates a control signal based on the selected on of the plurality of protocols.... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080207261 - Panoramic scene capture using a mobile wireless device: A device accessible via a wireless service network includes logic to receive digital frames from a wireless communication device, to identify digital frames that are suitable tiles for a digital panorama, to create a digital panorama from the identified frames, and to associate the panorama with one or more locations... Agent: Fsp Llc

20080207262 - Portable terminal apparatus: A portable terminal apparatus is provided that enables a mobile TV reception function to be added easily even to a main CPU that does not have a dedicated mobile TV interface. There are provided a cellular baseband LSI 110 that performs overall control of a portable terminal apparatus 100 and... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080207260 - Private mobility management enhancements: A method and apparatus described herein uses a mobility server to supplement the mobility management operations of a conventional mobile switching circuit (MSC). The mobility server receives mobility messages from a wireless terminal, and updates a location register associated with the MSC responsive to the received mobility messages. According to... Agent: Coats & Bennett, Pllc

20080207263 - Temporary notification profile switching on an electronic device: Automated switching of notification profiles is provided on a mobile electronic device having a plurality of different notification profiles each specifying event notification behavior for the mobile electronic device. The device switches to a first notification profile to specify event notification behavior for the mobile electronic device, the first notification... Agent: Ridout & Maybee Suite 2400

20080207266 - Communication control apparatus, communication control method, mobile communication terminal, and data reception method: Data is transmitted through a plurality of types of communication networks to a mobile communication terminal while a handover of the mobile communication terminal is handled. A communication control apparatus 10 is adapted to control data communication to a cell phone 50 connectable to a plurality of types of communication... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080207264 - Method and system for automatic audio accessory use position detection and audio adjustment: A method (500) and system (100) of sensing the position of an audio accessory (102) having at least a microphone (103) can include a sensor (104 and/or 106) for detecting one among a plurality of positions of the audio accessory and a processor (118) programmed to equalize an audio input... Agent: Motorola, Inc

20080207267 - System for data transmission between a machine and/or installation and a service unit: The invention relates to a machine and/or an installation (6) and to a service unit, with the machine and/or the installation (6) having a control device (1) and a mobile radio unit (4), with the control device (1) being connected to a mobile radio unit (4) for transmission of data,... Agent: Henry M Feiereisen, Llc Henry M Feiereisen

20080207265 - Wireless microphone based communications system: A communications system includes wireless microphones including a controller, a codec, a communications module, and an antenna; a wireless transceiver including a controller for setting an operating frequency and an ID thereof and an operating frequency and an ID of each microphone, a codec, a communications module, and an antenna;... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, Pllc

20080207268 - Apparatus for a removable wireless module with storage memory: the cartridge which contains wireless components and the shell which contains non-wireless components. The cartridge further includes storage memory that is accessible to the shell via a removable interface. The shell may use the storage memory on the cartridge to store user data. The user data may be the primary... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20080207269 - Basestation for cellular communications system: A basestation for a cellular communications system includes back-to-back software stacks for terminating messages from a mobile station intended for the core network, and for recreating the messages in a form suitable for transmission to the core network, and further for terminating messages from the core network intended for a... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20080207270 - Method for generating downlink beamforming weighting vectors: Techniques are provided for generating downlink beamforming weighting vectors by using channel information about one or more uplink sub-channels in a wireless communications network in the case of frequency mismatch between downlink channels and uplink channels for a specific user. The method comprises calculating an average channel covariance matrix of... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, Llc

20080207274 - Method and apparatus for displaying event of mobile terminal: An event display apparatus and method of a mobile terminal are disclosed. The event display method of a mobile terminal includes: detecting events in the mobile terminal; displaying time graphics on a screen; and positioning the detected events on the time graph according to their types. Various scattered events in... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080207271 - Methods and devices for abridged contact list creation based on communication history: Disclosed are methods and mobile communication devices for providing a history of communications with a contact according to at least one of a plurality of communication types. The communication types can include, for example, outgoing and incoming telephone calls, messaging service messages and voicemail box messages. A disclosed method can... Agent: Motorola Inc

20080207272 - Pivoting mobile terminal: A mobile terminal having a two part housing enabling a first part of the housing to slide laterally and longitudinally and to pivot relative to the second part of the housing. This enables the terminal to assume at least eight configurations. With such variety of configurations, the housing may change... Agent: Moore And Van Allen Pllc For Semc

20080207273 - Sliding-type mobile phone with a supplemental display secreen: A sliding-type mobile device is provided. The sliding-type mobile device includes a base, a first display screen disposed on the base, a sliding section disposed above the base and mechanically coupled to the base such that the sliding section moves relative to the base, a second display screen disposed on... Agent: Jefferson Ip Law, LLP

20080207275 - Eyeglasses having a bluetooth wireless earphone which plays mp3 music: A pair of eyeglasses having a Bluetooth wireless earphone which plays MP3 music is provided with a Bluetooth wireless earphone or a Bluetooth earphone with a built-in MP3 player which is fixed on a stand of an eyeglass frame by absorption with magnets, locking with locking buttons, or clipping with... Agent: Pro-techtor International Services

20080207276 - Adjustable cell phone charger holder: A adjustable cell phone charger holder that is fully functional and portable between vehicles. A hollow, fabricated flexible tubular-shaped body is oriented like a snake, with two openings one on each end. Attached to it's lower opening is a cell phone charger power adapter cord, in which the cell phone... Agent: David C. Burrell Iii

20080207277 - Cordless telephone apparatus: A cordless telephone apparatus includes: a battery which is rechargeable with a direct current based on an electric energy supplied from an outside of the cordless telephone apparatus; a constant current circuit which limits the direct current charged into the battery to a constant current; a voltage-dividing resistor which divides... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080207278 - Mobile platform tracking in wireless networks: A mobile station in a wireless network provides a presence indication when in a power saving state. The presence indication is sent periodically, and the period is dependent on whether the mobile station is stationary or in motion. The period may also be dependent on an asset protection level of... Agent: Lemoine Patent Services, Pllc C/o Intellevate

20080207281 - Electronic apparatus: Provided is an electronic apparatus including a casing, a first jog dial, and a pressing operation detection unit. The casing includes a first surface and a second surface. The first jog dial is exposed from the first surface and the second surface, is capable of rotating around a first axis... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.c.

20080207279 - Holding apparatus for accommodation a mobile telephone: The invention relates to a holding device provided with a receiving system for receiving a mobile telephone (30, 30′), said holding device comprising a housing (1). The receiving system is formed by at least two lateral jaws (3) projecting from a rear wall of the housing (1), at least one... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson & Cook, P.c.

20080207280 - Opening and closing device for cellular phone: Disclosed herein is an apparatus for opening and closing a portable terminal. The apparatus includes a second cam, which has an upper rib to be latched with the upper portion of the housing and a lower rib to be latched with the bottom of the housing, thereby providing structural stability.... Agent: Harness, Dickey, & Pierce, P.l.c

20080207282 - Mobile communication device: A mobile communication device (1, 10) comprises shielding components that provide electromagnetic shielding or attenuation between a first area (A) and a second area (B, B1, B2) within and/or external of the communication device (1, 10). In said first area (A) an antenna (4) and at least one ferrite (6)... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20080207283 - Portable electronic device and portable telephone: A portable electronic device includes a cover, and a casing engaged with the cover to form a space between the cover and the casing. The portable electronic device also includes a first mounting substrate in the space and an electroacoustic transducer between the first mounting substrate and the casing. The... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20080207284 - Sliding mechanism with undulating spring for use in handheld electronic devices: Disclosed is a handheld electronic device including a sliding mechanism configured to interconnect a first body and a second body such that the first and second bodies are slidable with reference to the other. The sliding mechanism includes a first sliding member configured to be secured to the first body... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080207285 - Mobile wireless communications device with human interface diversity antenna and related methods: A mobile wireless communications device may include a portable handheld housing, and a wireless transceiver carried by the housing. A pair of an antennas are positioned in side-by-side relation preferably in the upper portion of the portable handheld housing. A human interface diversity controller is connected to the wireless transceiver... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.a.

20080200114 - Terrestrial transmitting station for transmitting a terrestrial broadcast signal, satellite-aided broadcast system and receiver for a satellite-aided broadcast system: A terrestrial transmitting station for sending out a terrestrial broadcast signal includes a first receiver for receiving a signal to obtain a satellite receive signal, a second receiver for receiving a local signal to obtain a local receive signal and a signal combiner for combining the first receive signal with... Agent: Schoppe, Zimmerman , Stockeller & Zinkler

20080200115 - Communication terminal device, communication method and electronic mail server: A communication terminal device includes a connection establishing unit which establishes a connection by a call control protocol with a destination device designated by an IP telephone number, a communication protocol requesting unit which request a presentation of a plurality of communication protocols which can be supported by the destination... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080200117 - Method and system for improving uplink performance: The present invention is directed to improvements for distributed antenna systems and more particularly to methods and systems for improving uplink communications. In one embodiment, Aggregation Point Noise Blocking provides for blocking or filtering the noise contributed by one or more of the branches coupled to an aggregation point that... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky And Popeo, P.c Attn: Patent Intake Customer No. 30623

20080200116 - Multi beam repeater antenna for increased coverage: The invention discloses a repeater antenna for use in telecommunications systems on the microwave range, intended to connect a first radio unit at a first site to a second radio unit at a second site (A). The repeater antenna has at least a first and a second antenna element and... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080200118 - Communication system and communication method: A communication system and a communication method for permitting a user of a cell-phone to receive data in a non-service area via an MFP. When the communication condition between a base station and a cell-phone becomes bad, the base station sends a map showing the current position of the cell-phone... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080200119 - Power reception control device, power transmission control device, non-contact power transmission system, power reception device, power transmission device, and electronic instrument: A power-receiving-side control circuit of a power reception device performs intermittent load modulation by causing an NMOS transistor to be turned ON/OFF during normal power transmission. A power-transmission-side control circuit included in a power transmission control device of a power transmission device monitors, an intermittent change in the load of... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080200122 - In-building radio frequency communications system with automatic failover recovery: An improved in-building radio frequency communications system with automatic failover recovery comprising a primary external antenna and one ancillary external antenna, each antenna directed to a primary transmission tower and to an ancillary transmission tower, respectively, and a diversity site donor system capable of monitoring the strength and/or quality of... Agent: Anthony D. Pellegrini Rudman & Winchell, LLC

20080200120 - Managing low-power wireless mediums in multiradio devices: A system for optimizing the operation of a plurality of radio modules incorporated within a wireless communication device (WCD) connected as a slave on a low-power wireless network, wherein a low-power device is acting as the master of the wireless network. The timing of communication between master and slave may... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20080200121 - Vehicle-to-roadside and vehicle-to-vehicle communication system, communication method, and communication control program thereof: To resolve the problems of the vehicle-to-roadside communication and the vehicle-to-vehicle communication, and to enhance the safety of the road traffic and the convenience of the user by expanding the communication providing area and further stabilizing the communication. A vehicle-to-roadside and vehicle-to-vehicle communication system including a plurality of roadside communication... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20080200123 - Mobile phone, wireless transmission system, and related method capable of auto-adjusting call alarms: A mobile phone capable of auto-adjusting call alarms collocates with a wireless transmission device that is separated from the mobile phone and can be carried by a user. The mobile phone includes a receiving device and a processing unit. The receiving device is used for receiving signals transmitted from the... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080200124 - Radio coexistence mechanism for variable data rate radio links: A device has a radio transmitter for a first radio link such as a Bluetooth link, having a coexistence controller arranged to communicate with a co-located other radio transmitter for another radio link, to enable both radio links to use potentially conflicting transmission frequencies. A link monitor monitors the first... Agent: Stmicroelectronics Inc. C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080200125 - Radio broadcasting device: The invention relates to a radio broadcasting device for transmitting data from a portable entertainment device, such as a CD player, cassette player or MP3 player, to a neighboring radio receiver, for example in a car audio system. The radio broadcasting device is adapted to transmit data at a first... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080200126 - Transmitter: In a transmitter that suppresses the peak level of a multi-carrier signal produced by synthesizing a plurality of carrier signals, high signal quality is maintained for any transmission signal pattern, for example. In a peak power suppression means shown in the drawings, suppression signal generation means 7 to 18 generate... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20080200127 - Impulse noise correction: A method of detecting an impulse noise component for a data transmission signal in a mobile environment includes receiving over a communication channel a demodulated signal having an input signal level subject to a fading condition where the input signal level varies without the presence of the impulse noise component;... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080200128 - Twisted pair communication system, apparatus and method thereof: m

20080200129 - Method and apparatus for determining modulation levels that are supported on a channel: A logical channel is configured to match a modulation profile of an active channel. A network element is assigned to the logical channel and a ping request is sent to the network element. A response from the network element is measured, such as measuring the MER. The modulation profile is... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20080200131 - Chip package with transceiver front-end: Various embodiments describe a chip package having a transceiver front-end. The transceiver front-end may be coupled to a communication processor on a die disposed on the chip package. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C.

20080200130 - System and method for wireless transmission: A system and a method for wireless transmission are disclosed. The system includes an electronic apparatus, a box and a transformer. The electronic apparatus has a transceiver for receiving a first signal based on a predetermined wireless communication protocol. The box includes a plurality of receiving units, and the receiving... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080200132 - Method for producing layout of semiconductor integrated circuit with radio frequency devices: A method for producing an IC layout with radio frequency devices is provided. The method has following steps. Type information of at least one RF device is inputted, and at least one RF parameter corresponding to the RF device is inputted as well. A frequency response result is then generated... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20080200133 - Radio transmission apparatus having peak suppression function: A radio transmission apparatus executing peak suppression processing to an input signal in at least two stages, includes a first peak detector detecting a first peak, a maximum peak among peaks exceeding a first threshold, for a plurality of envelopes included in a predetermined input signal section; a second peak... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080200134 - Transmitter circuit: A transmitter circuit. One embodiment provides for emitting electromagnetic waves. The circuit has a transmitting device for outputting a transmission signal, an antenna device for emitting the transmission signal in the form of an electromagnetic wave, and a matching device which is electrically connected to the transmitting device and to... Agent: Dicke, Billig & Czaja

20080200135 - mixer with self-calibrating carrier leakage mechanism: An embodiment of a mixer with carrier leakage self-calibrating is disclosed. The mixer comprises a double balanced mixer, a gm stage comprising a first processing unit and a second processing unit, a current duplicating circuit, a capacitor, a controller and a current compensation unit. The current duplicating circuit selects the... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080200136 - Methods and apparatus for baseband digital spectrum translation (bdst): A method for transmitting and receiving digitally modulated wireless signals using an analog FM transceiver is provided. The analog FM transceiver has a transmit speech audio frequency band, a receive speech audio frequency band substantially equal to the transmit speech audio frequency band, a subaudible frequency band, a direct microphone... Agent: Brian C. Oakes Tyco Electronics Corporation

20080200137 - Program diversity: A method for receiving high frequency signals, wherein several receiver antennas receive said signals and transmit the signals of one antenna to a receiver, representing a selectable program content. It is possible to select at least one other antenna which received signals with the same program content but with better... Agent: K.f. Ross P.C.

20080200138 - Interference variance estimation for signal detection: The present invention relates to a method, apparatus, and computer program product, wherein a level of a first signal received via first channel is determined. Additionally, a moving average of a plurality of determined levels of the first signal is obtained, and the moving average is subtracted from the determined... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080200139 - Gain adjusting apparatus, storage apparatus, and gain adjusting method: A total gain candidate determining unit determines candidates suitable as a total gain Kt in an AGC feedback loop including an equalizer, an A/D converter, and an FIR filter. For each candidate for the total gain Kt, a gain setting unit sets a corresponding gain Kp in a preamplifier 10,... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080200140 - Base station receiving circuit: The present invention includes: gain controlling and amplifying means for amplifying a signal received from a mobile station and for outputting the amplified received signal; reception quality measuring means for measuring reception quality of the received signal output from the gain controlling and amplifying means; scheduling means for performing scheduling... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20080200141 - Receiver: A compact receiver which is easy in adjustment of a reference signal level is provided. A receiver having an antenna for receiving a wireless signal, a single pole single through switch which passes a signal received via the aforesaid antenna and outputs the signal when a first control signal is... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20080200142 - Emergency number selection for mobile communications device: Automatically selecting an emergency number for use by a mobile communications device enabled for Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) communications, including: receiving at the mobile communications device a geographic indicator in a beacon frame transmitted from a wireless access point of a wireless local area network that is connected to... Agent: Ridout & Maybee Suite 2400

20080200143 - Systems and methods for location management and emergency support for a voice over internet protocol device: Example systems and methods to manage location information for emergency services support of an internet protocol (“IP”) communication device are disclosed. A disclosed example method involves storing first and second geographic location information in a first list of geographic location information associated with an internet protocol device. The first list... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20080200144 - System and method for providing alerts over a network: The present disclosure provides system and methods for providing real time alerts over a network. In one respect, transactional data including a card identifier is received by a transaction processor. At least one alert corresponding to the received transactional data may be determined and may be forwarded to a mobile... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P. Patent Department

20080200145 - Systems and methods for session records correlation: A billing mediation system for use within a communications network that correlates session records pertaining to usage of network resources is disclosed. The billing mediation system includes a record receiver, a record correlator, a look ahead cache, a set of buffers, and a session records database. The set of buffers... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080200146 - Cell access restriction and wtru access class optimization in lte system information: A method and apparatus for cell access restriction, wherein a new access class (AC) definition including a WTRU barred-bit assignment is assigned during cell subscription. A cell access restriction information element (IE) is then broadcast when an operator is restricting access to a cell. The WTRU then can determine whether... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080200147 - Authentication of mobile communication networks: A mobile station is adapted to communicate with a core network portion of a mobile communications network via an unlicensed radio access network. The mobile station has a SIM card adapted to generate a unique response word using at least a key unique to the mobile station and a fixed... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080200148 - Method and system for providing network access and services using access codes: An embodiment of the present invention is directed to an authorization and access control system for a venue or a geographic region comprising a plurality of venues. The authorization and access control system provides one or more computing devices selective access to one or more networks and/or services available in... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080200149 - Non-visual inbox summary for mobile communication devices: A mobile communication device is operable to receive and store messages in a defined message inbox. A user input device is provided to permit a user of the device to make a message inbox status query. In answer to the query, the device provides a non-visual response communicating one or... Agent: Dimock Stratton LLP

20080200150 - Preventing wireless message delivery outside of specified times: A wireless messaging system includes a message controller and a delivery controller. The message controller provides a message to be delivered, and the delivery controller handles transmission of the message to a wireless device. To prevent delivery of a message after a desired expiry time or when a delivery window... Agent: Zagorin O'brien Graham LLP (037)

20080200151 - Methods, systems and devices for providing voice mail caller identification for display on a telephone: Caller identification information is transmitted from a voice mail server to a telephone in response to receiving a voice mail message for the telephone at the voice mail server, and independent of receiving a request from the telephone to access the voice mail server. Caller identification information for the voice... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20080200152 - Methods, systems, and products for notifications: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for providing voicemail notifications. A first notification is received that indicates a caller has recorded a voicemail. In response to the first notification, the caller's communication log is updated to indicate that the voicemail was recorded. A second notification is received that indicates the... Agent: Scott P. Zimmerman, PLLC

20080200153 - Apparatuses, methods and systems for code triggered information querying and serving on mobile devices based on profiles: The disclosure details the implementation of apparatuses, methods, and systems for code triggered information querying and serving on mobile devices based on profiles. Information and/or advertisement providers may use a code triggered information server to serve context, demographic, and behavior targeted information to users via mobile devices. Users, in turn,... Agent: Chadbourne & Parke LLP

20080200155 - Method and system for using location-based services for mobile terminals: A system and method is provided for using location-based services (LBS) for mobile terminals of a mobile telephony network, a user dispatching an information request via the mobile terminal for information matched to the location of the user; the user dispatching the information request as an USSD code which belongs... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080200154 - Mobile media pause and resume: In embodiments, the present invention provides a method and system for managing playback of content delivered to a mobile device with a pause and resume functionality. The method and system including receiving delivered content on a mobile device, initiating playback of the delivered content, pausing playback of the content being... Agent: John J. Brooks, Iii

20080200156 - Methods and apparatus to provide medical information using a communication system: Methods and apparatus to provide medical information using a communication system are disclosed. An example method includes receiving a caller ID number and providing access to personal medical information based on the caller ID number.... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20080200157 - Joining a session in a communication network supporting multimedia group calls: An apparatus and method for establishing a session in a communication network supporting multimedia group calls. A first step (202) includes determining streams for a multimedia group call by the service entity. A next step (204) includes providing an indicator of the resources required for at least one stream of... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080200158 - Method and apparatus for using sequential group call initiations to avoid wasting resources and battery life within a group call: A system [100] includes a target set of communication devices [105] for a group call. An originator communication device [102] transmits a group call initiation for the group call. A communication and processing device [125] sequentially invites the target set of communication devices in response to detecting at least one... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080200159 - Teleconferencing and call multiplexing with multiple external audio devices coupled to a single mobile telephone: Various methods for using external audio devices with a single mobile telephone are proposed, where the external audio devices have audio input functionality and audio output functionality. To support conferencing, audio data of a single telephone call involving the mobile telephone is communicated with two or more external audio devices.... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080200160 - Apparatuses, methods and systems for ambiguous code-triggered information querying and serving on mobile devices: The disclosure details the implementation of apparatuses, methods, and systems for ambiguous code triggered information querying and serving on mobile devices. Information and/or advertisement providers may use a code triggered information server to serve context, demographic, and behavior targeted information to users via mobile devices. Users, in turn, trigger the... Agent: Chadbourne & Parke LLP

20080200161 - Providing relevant non- requested content to a mobile device: A system and method are directed towards providing non-requested content to a mobile terminal based on characteristics of, and tracked usage of the mobile terminal to request content through an online portal service, which provides access to content in multiple subject areas. A mobile user profile is created from the... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20080200162 - Interoperability between different types of wireless networks for push to talk group calls: An exemplary gateway apparatus provides push-to-talk (PTT) communications between users in one network with users in another network where the networks utilize different communication protocols. It includes two protocol modules that interface with the two networks, respectively. The protocol modules are capable of receiving and transmitting messages compatible with the... Agent: Patti , Hewitt & Arezina LLC

20080200163 - Mobile communication apparatus, method and computer readable medium thereof capable of determining whether to keep searching for available base stations: A positioning module positions the location of the mobile communication apparatus. A determination module stores a map and determines whether the location of the mobile communication apparatus is within one of the effective communication ranges of the available base stations based on the map. A processing module ceases searching for... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20080200164 - Method and apparatus for speech quality assessment in a cellular communication system: The invention relates to an apparatus and method for speech quality assessment in a cellular communication system. The apparatus (113) comprises a second receiver (117) which receives encoded speech data for a speech segment from a remote speech source over an air interface voice channel (111) of the cellular communication... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080200167 - Methods and apparatuses for integration of broadcast transmission with access infrastructure of a public network for mobile communications: A telecommunications network for mobile users includes a user subsystem and a transport subsystem connected to an access subsystem. The access subsystem provides a user access communications interface and a transport access communications interface for exchange of information among the subsystems. The access subsystem is identified with a coverage area... Agent: Levine & Mandelbaum

20080200165 - Mobile communication device employment of cellular service and personal radio service: A mobile communication device of an apparatus in one example is configured for communication through employment of a cellular service and a personal radio service.... Agent: Patti , Hewitt & Arezina LLC

20080200166 - System and method for managing radio systems: A system and method for switching between radio systems of a wireless device. The wireless device may include a first radio, a second radio, and a third radio. The radios may be configured to communicate using a first, a second, and a third communications protocol, respectively. Circuitry in communication with... Agent: Patton Boggs, LLP

20080200168 - Method and system for seamless data roaming across multiple operator bearers: A system and method for seamless data roaming across multiple operator bearers is provided. The system allows a client device to seamlessly select most preferred available operator bearer without losing a data session. It also allows the server to control dynamically both the operator preference list on the client and... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20080200169 - Method of scanning for a network using a preferred radio access technology: A method of scanning for a network using a preferred radio access technology is useful for improving wireless communication network efficiency and conserving battery power at network nodes. The method includes camping on the network using a current radio access technology, where the current radio access technology is assigned a... Agent: Motorola Inc

20080200170 - Method for requesting an unregistered ue to perform registration in the ims: The method for requesting an Internet Multimedia Sub-system (IMS) unregistered User Equipment (UE) to perform IMS registration including initiating an IMS domain session or sending an IMS relevant signaling to a called subscriber by a UE A; informing the UE A information that the called subscriber has not registered with... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080200173 - Method and arrangement for controlling cell change and a terminal of a cellular system: The invention relates to an improved method and arrangement for controlling a cell change performed by a terminal of a cellular radio system. In particular the invention relates to a cell change in a situation where the terminal is connected to a special service provided by its current cell, e.g.... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080200172 - Method and device for transferring an ongoing communication in which a mobile terminal is involved between a first and a second base stations and wherein one of the base stations is located in a moving conveyance: e

20080200171 - Wireless communication system transmitting neighboring cell information: A wireless communication system in which neighbouring cell information is transmitted by the network to a mobile station is disclosed, wherein the neighbouring cell information includes sets of parameters, each set of parameters being applicable to several neighbouring cells. The neighbouring cell information may also include applicability information which specifies... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080200174 - Method and apparatus for automatically sending a captured image to a phone call participant: A method for automatically sending a captured data to a phone call participant using a communication device having a data capture apparatus, includes initiating a communication session to a participant, such as a phone call; initiating a data capture event during the communication session, such as capturing an image; and... Agent: Scenera Research, LLC

20080200175 - Method for optimizing the positioning of high sensitivity receiver front-ends in a mobile telephony network and related mobile telephony network: The present invention relates to a method for optimizing the positioning of high sensitivity receiver front-ends 5 in a mobile telephony network 1 of the CDMA type comprising a plurality of cells 2. The method comprises the following steps: defining a first and a second cell indicator Vcell, V2; defining... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080200176 - Method for providing wireless communication services and network and system for delivering same: The present invention is directed to an improved network and system for a wireless communication system. The improved business method, operations method, network and system of the present invention includes the steps of delivering cellular services to the mass market, reducing peak capacity, increasing overall capacity utilization, improving capital utilization,... Agent: Edward F. Behm, Jr., Esq. Reed Smith LLP

20080200177 - Performance in mobile communications systems: In third generation mobile communications networks, e.g. CDMA systems, a mobile station intending to access a base station transmits a request for access to a base station and waits for a response in the form of an indicator signal. Both detecting a signal as an acknowledgement message without one being... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080200178 - Method for transmitting data and cellular system using the same: A cellular system where, in each of a plurality of cells, a base station transmits the same data to a plurality of mobile stations at a predetermined transmission rate, comprises an adjusting portion for adjusting a resource used for data transmission to make a resource consumption level equal to a... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20080200179 - Method and apparatus for enhancing system efficiency in a wireless communications system: A method for enhancing system efficiency in a wireless communications system includes allocating a plurality of common H-RNTIs to a plurality of UEs groups each comprising zero or at least one UE, and each UE of a UE group maintaining, acquiring, or being assigned, configured, or signalled a common H-RNTI... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080200182 - Location positioning method in handover between networks: Disclosed is a location information system based upon a SUPL (Secure User Plane Location) architecture, and more particularly, to a location positioning method and terminal based on an area event in handover between networks. The method according to one embodiment includes: if a network is changed or if a terminal... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080200183 - Method and system for emitting in a destination area of a moving conveyance, signals emitted by a telecommunication device in an area located in the moving conveyance: s

20080200184 - Method for angle of arrival determination on frequency hopping air interfaces: A method for calibrating an antenna and signal processing system enabling angle of arrival (AOA) determination for a frequency hopping signal, in which a calibration coefficient is determined in response to one or more calibration signals injected into the system at one or more of the frequencies in the hopping... Agent: Duane Morris LLP

20080200181 - Self-configuring wireless network location system: Wireless adapters are installed on one or more general purpose computing devices and are connected via a network in an enterprise environment. The adapters are densely deployed at known locations throughout the environment and are configured as air monitors. The air monitors monitor signals transmitted by one or more transceiver... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080200180 - Using location information to set radio transmitter characteristics for regulatory compliance: A method of dynamically adjusting a wireless transceiver may include acquiring a geographical location of the wireless transceiver and determining transmission characteristics that are compliant with wireless regulations covering the geographical location. The wireless transceiver may be adjusted to conform to the transmission characteristics, and data may be transmitted with... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080200186 - Determining geographical position in ipv6 networks: A computer-readable medium, device and system for responding to a request for a geographically-based service are provided. A request for a geographically-based service is received. The received request indicates that a geographical position of a target node and a radius associated with a maximum distance from the geographical position is... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080200185 - System and method for location transparency: A service that augments a key element of Unified Messaging and Unified Communications initiatives—i.e., Mobile Subscriber Location Awareness—to enhance substantially the value, usefulness, etc. of the presence awareness, place shifting, etc. components of such initiatives. The service may optionally leverage the capabilities of a centrally-located, full-featured Messaging Inter-Carrier Vendor.... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC

20080200187 - System and method for estimating cell center position for cell id based positioning: Systems and methods for estimating a cell center location in a wireless communication system having all interface to a satellite positioning system (“SPS”) such as for example, a Geosynchronous Positioning System (“GPS”). The wireless communication system provides service to mobile stations within a cell, each mobile station includes a SPS... Agent: The Eclipse Group

20080200188 - Base-station-controlled paging in mobile radio systems: This invention relates to a method for paging a mobile station (6-1 . . . 6-3) in a mobile radio system (1a; 1b) that comprises a plurality of base stations (3a-1, 3a-2; 3b-1, 3b-2; 3-1 . . . 3-3) each serving at least one cell (80-1 . . . 80-3)... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20080200189 - Tracking a group of mobile terminals: A method performed by a mobile terminal may include identifying a group of mobile terminals, generating a message that includes a link to a map showing a position each of the mobile terminals in the group and transmitting the message to each of the plurality of mobile terminals in the... Agent: Harrity Snyder, L.L.P.

20080200190 - Apparatus and method for transforming a wireless access protocol (wap) push message to a formatted packet for a multimedia messaging service: A method includes intercepting a Wireless Access Protocol (WAP) push message and accessing a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) associated with the WAP push message to access a resource. Content from the resource is received via a WAP session. The content is packaged as a Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) packet. The... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20080200193 - Method and apparatus for sending message using information search input field: A method and apparatus for transmitting a message, which can determine whether a text is a search term or a message expression when a sender inputs a text into an information query input field, and transmit a message to a receiver when the text is determined as the message expression,... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080200192 - Methods and apparatus for use in forwarding short messages for mobile communication devices: In one illustrative example, when a message forwarding function is enabled for a mobile communication device which operates in a wireless communication network, an address (e.g. an MSISDN) of the mobile device is assigned to “virtual mobile equipment” in the wireless network. The equipment registers with the wireless network with... Agent: Research In Motion Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20080200194 - System and method for transforming and transmitting data between terminals: The invention discloses a system for transforming and transmitting data. The system according to the invention includes a platform, a first terminal, a second terminal, and a transforming module. The platform is capable of providing multimedia data and a text input interface. The first terminal connects to the platform and... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080200191 - System for cartoon creation and distribution to mobile devices: A system for creating cartoons for mobile devices facilitates the creation and dissemination of cartoons to a plurality of mobile devices and computers. A cartoon can comprise of multiple panels, and each panel, in addition to graphics and text, can have an ordered set of audio (voice, music, etc.) provided,... Agent: Bindu Rama Rao

20080200195 - Multi-mode control station, radio communication system, radio station, and radio communication control method: The overall throughput of the radio communication traffic in a radio communication area in a radio communication environment where a plurality of types of radio communication systems are mixedly used in a neighboring radio communication area is improved. When a multi-mode control station (101) performs communication with a terminal station... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC

20080200196 - Transmission of prioritized information in the proximity of reference signals: Transmission of information in a wireless network is performed by allocating a channel from a transmitter to a receiver. The channel has at least one time slot with each time slot having a plurality of symbols. Each slot contains at least one reference symbol (RS). As information becomes available for... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080200197 - Method for operating a radio communications system: A data service is provided in which a network-side radio station emits data, which can be received by at least one subscriber's station without a logical connection being set up between the subscriber's station and the network-side radio station. Radio parameters for emitting the data are set according to features... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080200198 - Method and apparatus for registration of location information of wireless devices in a wireless communication network supporting multicast calls: An apparatus and method for transmitting push-to-talk (PTT) communications through multicast channels to a plurality of wireless devices. The PTT server uses the unicast approach to deliver the PTT communication to a group of PTT clients when it does not have the location information of the PTT clients in the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080200203 - Apparatus and method for uplink power control of wireless communications: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate employing periodic closed loop power control corrections in a wireless communication environment. A periodic power control command can be sent over a downlink to control and/or correct an uplink power level employed by an access terminal. Each periodic power control command can be... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080200201 - Method and arrangement for allocating power in a communication network: In a method of allocating power to a channel in a communication system a given transport block size is compared (S1) to a maximum allowed transport block size for the channel, and power is allocated (S3) to said channel based on at least the comparison to improve the user perceived... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080200199 - Method and arrangement for setting the transmission of a mobile communication device: In a method for setting the transmitted power of a mobile communication device, particularly for a UMTS, a transmitted power that is being asked for at the time is to be set with great accuracy and a good signal-to-noise ratio. The digital signals I, A difference between a measurement of... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20080200202 - Power control with link imbalance on downlink and uplink: Techniques for controlling transmit power are described. Due to link imbalance, a downlink (DL) serving cell may have the best downlink for a UE, and an uplink (UL) serving cell may have the best uplink for the UE. In one design of UL power control, the UE receives first and... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080200204 - Systems and methods for back-off and clipping control in wireless communication systems: Systems and methods for controlling transmission power are provided. The systems and methods vary the power of a signal provided to a power amplifier based upon the location of a frequency or frequencies of signals to be transmitted within the transmission frequency band, the location of a hop region within... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080200200 - Transmission power control method and mobile station: The present invention enables to reduce deterioration in the radio network capacity on the E-DPCCH, by using the transmission power offset as small as possible while satisfying a quality of the E-DPCCH in a conventional mobile communication system using “EUL”. The present invention relates to a transmission power control method... Agent: Mots Law, PLLC

20080200206 - Method and device for initializing a booting procedure of a mobile device: A method of initializing a booting procedure of a mobile platform having a certain NAND flash memory. The method comprises sending (304) an initial read command sequence to the NAND flash memory and detecting (305) if the NAND flash memory is responsive to the read command sequence. If the NAND... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080200205 - System and method for interacting with objects via a camera enhanced mobile device: Embodiments of the present invention enable an image based controller to control and manipulate objects with simple point-and-capture operations via images captured by a camera enhanced mobile device. Powered by this technology, a user is able to complete many complicated control tasks via guided control of objects without utilizing laser... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20080200207 - Contextual auto-replication in short range wireless networks: Previously cached data that includes contextual information is transferred between wireless devices. A first wireless device that is highly mobile is arranged to receive data from an external data source for storage on the first wireless device. The first wireless device subsequently travels to another locale where a second wireless... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20080200209 - Portable memory automobile ignition system: A portable memory device consisting of a cell phone used in substitution of an automobile key and interfaced with an automobile onboard computer and ignition system. The portable memory device contains data that, when read by the onboard computer, enables the ignition system. The portable memory device is read and... Agent: Carstens & Cahoon, LLP

20080200208 - Radio accessory for a mobile device: A system for enhancing functionality of a mobile device comprising: the mobile device, wherein the mobile device includes: a radio subsystem; a processor adapted to interact with the radio subsystem; a user interface; a short range communications system; and a battery adapted to power the mobile device; and an accessory... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20080200210 - Mobile communication device and battery recharge method thereof: A mobile communication device includes an antenna, a SIM (subscriber identity module) card, and a battery. The antenna receives a control signal from an external device. The SIM card rectifies a charging signal of the control signal received by the antenna. The battery is charged with the rectified charging signal.... Agent: Frank Chau. Esq. F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080200211 - System and method for forming cell by using distributed antennas in wimax mobile communication system: A system and a method for forming a cell by using distributed antennas in a World interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) mobile communication system supporting a broadband wireless access communication system. A virtual cell is formed with a specific Mobile Station (MS) as a central part of the virtual cell... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20080200212 - Common graphical user interface for mobile and fixed communication devices: A cordless telephone including a base unit configured to connect to a public switched telephone nework via an end-premise line of a customer of a telecommunications provider. A cordless handset, including an interface to dial a telephone number and a display configured to display a graphical user interface, may communicate... Agent: Patton Boggs, LLP

20080200213 - Mobile telephone with improved man machine interface: The present invention envisages a GSM mobile telephone in which a line of icons is displayed on a display. As a user navigates through the displayed line of icons, the positions of the icons alter so that the selectable icon moves to the head of the line. This approach makes... Agent: Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP

20080200214 - Mobile telephone with improved man machine interface: The present invention envisages a GSM mobile telephone in which a line of icons is displayed on a display. As a user navigates through the displayed line of icons, the positions of the icons alter so that the selectable icon moves to the head of the line. This approach makes... Agent: Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP

20080200215 - Mobile telephone with man machine interface: The present invention envisages a GSM mobile telephone in which a line of icons is displayed on a display. As a user navigates through the displayed line of icons, the positions of the icons alter so that the selectable icon moves to the head of the line. This approach makes... Agent: Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP

20080200216 - Car-mounted wireless handfree system for cellular phones and method of use with full size handset, keypad, display, and speaker phone: I have invented a Bluetooth-enabled transfer connection device for wirelessly connecting a cellular phone with a car-mounted car-kit comprising a junction box, a power source, a hang up cup to rest the device, a full size corded handset with a full size keypad and full size visual caller identification display,... Agent: Esther E. Schwartz

20080200217 - Hands-free installation: A hands-free installation for a mobile telephone comprises a housing and an electrical communication device, located in the housing, for communicating with the mobile telephone. In addition, the communication device has a microphone connected to it. According to the invention, the housing comprises a mounting apparatus for detachable connection to... Agent: Rankin, Hill & Clark LLP

20080200218 - Device and method for quality testing using a battery operated mobile phone: In order to mount a mobile phone in a test device, the current between the battery unit and the phone unit is fed through a switch unit. The switch unit contains at least one switch for interrupting the current, e.g. for resetting the mobile phone after malfunction.... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20080200219 - Charger, electronic instrument, and charging system: A charger and an electronic instrument include a planar air-core coil, a magnetic sheet disposed on a side of the planar air-core coil that is opposite to a transmission side, and a housing disposed at a position that faces the transmission side of the planar air-core coil. The housing includes... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080200220 - Methods and devices for limiting battery power consumption in a wireless communication device: Systems, methods and apparatus are provided for limiting power consumption in a wireless communication device. The described aspects provide for power limiting thresholds to reserve power for, or limit power usage by, one or more predetermined applications executable by the wireless communications device. The described aspects are highly user-configurable, allowing... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080200221 - Mobile communication device holder: A device for holding at least one mobile communication device includes a rear wall and a pair of side walls connected to the rear wall. A base extends between the side walls for supporting a lower end of at least one mobile communication device. A partition is movably coupled to... Agent: Harshaw Research, Inc.

20080200222 - Slide module and mobile terminal having the same: A slide module includes a first slide member configured to slide upwardly and downwardly, a second slide member slidably mounted to the first slide member, an elastic force unit disposed between the first slide member and the second slide member, and having a plurality of elastic members mounted between a... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080194197 - Changing time intervals of the ocurrence of audio information from local and remote sites: A method of processing audio information for broadcast to an audience can include changing first audio information from occurring in a first time interval to occurring in a second time interval to provide time-changed audio information. The time-changed audio information can be combined with second audio information that is responsive... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080194196 - System and method for sharing media data: System and method for sharing media, the method comprising the steps of: establishing a connection (106) between a first radio communication terminal (101) 5 and a media presentation device (102); receiving a wireless signal (109), including media data, in the first radio communication terminal from a second radio communication terminal... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080194198 - Data transfer circuit, data transfer apparatus, data transfer method, and control program: In a data transfer circuit, particular data information specifying, from among received data, particular data which circulates over a network within a certain time is stored in a particular data information storing portion, and the particular data information corresponding to the received data is retrieved from the particular data information... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080194199 - Combined open and closed loop power control in a communications satellite: In a telecommunication network where a wireless path is provided between a transmitter and a receiver via a satellite relay forming a multi-hop relayed signal path, a method and system are provided for furnishing adequate signal at a user terminal, which may be in motion, along the propagation path, the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP Viasat, Inc (client #017018)

20080194200 - Wireless communicators: A near field communicator has a driver (6) to supply a drive signal to drive an antenna (10) to generate a magnetic field. A magnetic field sensor (18) is located so as to be within a magnetic field generated by the antenna (6) to sense a magnetic field characteristic. A... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080194203 - Apparatus and method for bluetooth connection in a portable communication system: A mobile communication system and method for supporting an automatic Bluetooth connection are provided. The system includes a portable terminal and a Bluetooth device. When a coupling with a connection terminal of the Bluetooth device is detected, the portable terminal enables a Bluetooth function of the portable terminal, performs a... Agent: Jefferson Ip Law, LLP

20080194201 - Control of a short-range wireless terminal: The invention relates to a method for controlling the operation of a short-range wireless terminal capable of operating in a first beacon-based network and in a second beacon-based network, and having an active state and a power save state in the first beacon-based network. For seamless operation in the two... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.l.p.

20080194202 - Real time reproduction method of file being received according to non real time transfer protocol and a video apparatus thereof: Provided are a real time reproduction method of a file being received according to a non real time transfer protocol and a video apparatus thereof. The video apparatus includes a communication module which is connected to an external device to communicate with the external device; a buffer which stores data... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080194204 - Enhanced connection acquisition using an array antenna: An array antenna is utilized to enhance the adaptive acquisition capability of a communication connection with one or more wireless subscribers. Subscribers who are located outside the omnidirectional range of the array antenna are acquired by using adaptive beamforming techniques to create an acquisition beam dedicated to acquiring new connections... Agent: Hope Baldauff Hartman, Llc

20080194206 - Radio-frequency circuit: A radio-frequency circuit has a signal processing unit for processing a symmetrical input signal, two signal inputs for receiving the symmetrical input signal, a connection which is used as a ground point for the symmetrical signal, and a line which connects the signal inputs and has a length which essentially... Agent: Baker Botts, L.l.p.

20080194207 - System and method for estimating the multi-path delays in a signal using a spatially blind antenna array: A method is described that enables a system to estimate the individual times of arrival of multi-path signals components in a received signal while blind to the particular angular response characteristics of an antenna array. Additionally, a system is described that estimates the impulse response of the modulation channel. The... Agent: Duane Morris LLP

20080194205 - Radio communication terminal apparatus, display method in radio communication terminal apparatus and radio communication network system: A radio communication terminal apparatus has a measuring part configured to measure radio field intensities of radio communication with other plurality of radio communication terminal apparatuses of a plurality of radio communication terminal apparatuses; a storing part configured to store measurement values of radio field intensities of radio communication with... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080194208 - Apparatus, method, and computer-readable medium for communicating between and controlling network devices: An apparatus, method, and computer-readable medium for communicating between and controlling network devices are provided. According to one aspect, an interface device for providing communications between a first device and a second device comprises first, second, and third interfaces and logic. The first interface is for receiving a request for... Agent: Hope Baldauff Hartman, Llc

20080194210 - Radio frequency transceiver devices, systems, methods and computer program products for controlling quiescent-mode power consumption: Radio frequency transceiver devices configured to communicate with a plurality of peer devices within a defined proximity of the radio frequency transceiver devices are provided. The radio frequency transceiver device includes a transceiver configured to transmit instructions to a subset of the plurality of peer devices within the defined proximity... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20080194209 - Wireless headphones and data transmission method: There is provided a wireless headphone unit having at least one electroacoustic transducer and a transmitting/receiving unit for wirelessly receiving first signals which contain audio signals to be reproduced on the electroacoustic transducer and a network identification unit for storing the network identification of the wireless headphone unit, wherein the... Agent: Reed Smith, LLP Attn: Patent Records Department

20080194211 - Wireless communication system, wireless communication method, and communication apparatus: A wireless communication system includes plural wireless communication apparatuses. Each wireless communication apparatus includes a transmitter 10 including a spread unit 14 for spreading a transmission sequence to be transmitted with a predetermined spread sequence, a pseudo periodic sequence generating unit 13 for generating a periodic sequence in which the... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080194213 - Device and method for synthesizing transmission frequency in wireless terminal: A device and method for synthesizing a transmission frequency (a Tx frequency) in a wireless terminal are provided, which are designed for stably operating a Phase Locked Loop (PLL) in order to synthesize a Tx frequency for a certain channel. The device includes a Radio Frequency (RF) transceiver for operating... Agent: Jefferson Ip Law, LLP

20080194214 - Transmitting-receiving circuit for overlapping transmitting and receiving channels: The invention relates to an improved transmitting-receiving circuit for overlapping transmitting and receiving channels comprising two 3-gate circuits (15a, 15b), wherein two transmitting paths (11a, 11b) are associated to a transmitting input (1), two receiving paths, (25a, 25b) are associated to a receiving output (3) and two antenna paths (21a,... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, Pc

20080194212 - Voice, data and rf integrated circuit with on-chip transmit/receive switch and methods for use therewith: A voice, data and RF integrated circuit (IC) includes an RF transmitter that generates a transmit signal from outbound data. An RF receiver that generates inbound data from a received signal. A processing module generates a control signal to select either a receive mode or a transmit mode for the... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080194215 - Method and system for reliably sending data based on data size and temperature margin: A mobile device (102) and method (200) is provided for reliably sending data at an increased power level which exceeds a nominal transmitter rating. The method can include determining (220) a data size of the data, determining (230) a data rate of the mobile device, calculating (240) a transmission time... Agent: Motorola, Inc

20080194216 - Voice, data and rf integrated circuit with off-chip power amplifier and methods for use therewith: A voice data and RF integrated circuit (IC) includes an RF transmitter, that generates an RF signal to a power amplifier module. A memory module stores a least one application as a plurality of operational instructions, the at least one application having a plurality of modes that each correspond to... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080194217 - System and method for providing automatic tuning of a radio receiver and for providing automatic control of a cd/tape player: A sound system with a radio receiver having the ability to automatically tune to a new radio station if (a) the current radio station is broadcasting a song, program or other content that the user dislikes and/or (b) one of one or more predetermined radio stations is broadcasting content that... Agent: Concert Technology And Withrow & Terranova

20080194218 - Method and apparatus for automatic fine tuning based on sync detection: The method according to the invention for adjusting the tuning of a receiver circuit for receiving modulated a high frequency signal within a frequency range, the high frequency signal comprising a sync signal, uses the steps of shifting a frequency of a local oscillator within the frequency range and looking... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing Llc

20080194219 - Fm receiver with digitally controlled antenna tuning circuitry: An FM receiver including an FM antenna that receives continuous wavelength signals, where the FM receiver is coupled to the FM antenna and operable to alter a center frequency of a gain profile of the FM antenna. The FM receiver includes a low noise amplifier module that is coupled to... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080194220 - Fm receiver: An FM receiver that is suitable for reducing a transmission bandwidth WF of a bandpass filter to remove adjacent-channel interference, and increasing WF to prevent audio distortion. A detection output signal SOUT is inputted to an HPF 122 when a reception electric field strength signal SM-DC indicates an intermediate or... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080194221 - Radio receiving apparatus: The radio receiving apparatus including an adaptive receive filter capable of detecting an interference wave and out-of-band noise level correctly and improving reception performance. Adaptive receive filter section 200 of radio receiving apparatus 100 has filtering section 207 that is configured with a plurality of filters, received signal power measuring... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080194222 - Mixing apparatus and method: A mixing apparatus and related methods are provided. The mixing apparatus can filter out unwanted harmonic orders according to demands, to thereby increase circuit attribute performance. Regardless of the type of mixing circuit used for the mixing apparatus, the harmonic interfering phenomenon can be substantially improved.... Agent: Joe Mckinney Muncy

20080194224 - Emergency broadcast message support in wireless communication networks: A wireless communication network infrastructure entity (110) transmits a message, for example, a system parameters message, on a common signaling channel for reception by wireless terminals (102) in the network. The network entity also transmits an emergency broadcast message, for example, an SMS data burst overhead message transmitted on a... Agent: Motorola Inc

20080194223 - System and method for processing meid data: A system, method, computer readable medium, and computer program for processing wireless communication device identification numbers such as MEID numbers 10 in any standard representation (such as decimal or hexadecimal) and converting the wireless communication device identification number 140 to all commonly used forms and representations. This capability ensures older... Agent: Woodard, Emhardt, Moriarty, Mcnett & Henry LLP

20080194225 - Apparatus and method for providing emergency and alarm communications: An apparatus and method for establishing emergency and alarm communications between devices via an interface device are provided. According to one aspect, an interface device comprises an input, an output, and logic. The input receives data in a first format from the first device. The logic detects whether the data... Agent: Hope Baldauff Hartman, Llc

20080194226 - Method and apparatus for providing location services for a distributed network: A method and system for providing E911 services for a distributed antenna system uses a lookup table including round trip delay (RTD) ranges for a number of nodes of the distributed antenna system to determine a serving node for an E911 call. The method and system disclosed herein, may calculate... Agent: Sachnoff & Weaver, Ltd.

20080194227 - Remotely activatable locator system and method: A method for locating an entity attached to a locator device. The method comprises of receiving, at the locator device, a message over a cellular network; and responsive to receiving the message, automatically initiating a call over the cellular network to enable a party answering the call to determine a... Agent: Munsch, Hardt, Kopf & Harr, P.c. Intellectual Property Docket Clerk

20080194229 - Method for wireless access to the internet for pre-paid users: Wireless access to the internet for the pre-paid customer includes when wireless user terminal logs on the internet through wireless communication network, the user account and password information is sent to the wireless communication network, and the user account, password and the information of the pre-paid money are preserved in... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080194228 - Systems and methods for billing for a network enabled application through a network platform regardless of whether the network enabled application is hosted by the platform: A platform for supporting network enabled applications enables billing for microtransactions associated with the applications using the users wireless network carriers. The platform also enables access to billing for third party network enabled applications by wrapping the third party network enabled applications in code that allows the third party network... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP Patent Department

20080194230 - Method for charge display for sip connections on several terminals: The aim of the invention is the calculation in real time of applicable charges by a SIP application server during a SIP connection in a SIP-based voice network and transmission thereof to the A-side SIP user terminal and also to at least one further SIP user terminal. Said aim is... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080194235 - Forbidden tracking area optimization for private/home networks: Access verification is adaptively done using an identifier of a first or a second length, by comparing a field of a node address that has the determined first or second length against a locally stored access list. At least the compared field of the node address is either added to... Agent: Harrington & Smith, Pc

20080194231 - Method for providing contents in a mobile communication system and apparatus thereof: Disclosed is a method for providing contents in a mobile communication system and apparatus thereof. The apparatus comprises a contents provider access unit for responding to an inquiry request related to a service provision using contents providing terminal connected through a communication network and managing a rule related to the... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080194232 - Network adapted to manage different mobile telephony services: A mobile network is adapted to provide a first mobile telephony service to a first group of subscribers and a second mobile telephony service to a second group of subscribers. The mobile network includes a home location register; at least one switching equipment cooperating with the home location register for... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080194234 - System and method of establishing a telephone connection: A system and method of establishing a telephone connection between an A-subscriber device and a B-subscriber device in a telephone system is disclosed. The method involves receiving a first approval signal from a first approval device before establishing the telephone connection. The first approval signal signals the approval of a... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.a.

20080194233 - Systems and methods for context-aware service subscription management: Systems and methods for context-aware service subscription management are provided. In an embodiment a context-aware service subscription management system includes a policy decision module that makes a decision whether the requested service will be provided based on policy rules, subscription profiles and the context of the request for the service.... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080194236 - System and method for mass notification: A system in which users can access a website to sign up and select from a variety of alert options, targeted messages can then be sent to them from our software via text messages on their cellular phone. The user's information is input into a database that is used by... Agent: Ipadvisors

20080194237 - Distributed electronic phonebook: A method for providing an electronic phonebook to a phone includes providing a software application to the phone for accessing the electronic phonebook, providing an electronic phonebook database accessible using the software application, wherein the software application provides for displaying phonebook information from the phonebook database to a user of... Agent: Mckee, Voorhees & Sease, P.L.C

20080194238 - Wireless terminal having information exchange facility, information exchange system and method using the wireless terminal: A wireless terminal having data exchange function, and data exchange system and method using the same are disclosed. The improved terminal comprises a communication unit which communicates with another terminal; a memory which stores a data including a recognition data of a terminal; and a controller which requests a desired... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080194239 - Methods and systems for monitoring computer systems using wireless devices: Methods and systems for providing information regarding monitored computer systems to wireless devices are provided. Information may be requested by a wireless device and displayed on the wireless device in a browser. The web server application may detect the wireless device, and may also then specially format the response, including... Agent: Hope Baldauff Hartman, Llc

20080194240 - Geographical web browser, methods, apparatus and systems: A geographical web browser allows a user to navigate a network application such as the Word Wide Web by physically navigating in geographical coordinates. For example, a geographical web browser is implemented in a mobile unit such as a dashboard computer. The mobile unit includes one or more transducers such... Agent: Eric M. Dowling Interlink 731

20080194241 - Prevention of unsolicited messages: A method for gathering information relating to unsolicited messages. The method comprises deleting in a handheld communication device (1, 100, 200) message information associated with an unsolicited message. In response to deleting the message, information data, which is associated with the deleted message information or the unsolicited message, is forwarded... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080194243 - Method and apparatus for detecting contention during random access procedure in a mobile communication system: A method and apparatus for detecting contention in an RA procedure in a mobile communication system is provided in which an L2/L3 message is received from a UE in uplink resources allocated to the UE by an RA preamble response message that was transmitted for an RA procedure initiated by... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080194242 - Method and system for providing interactive annunciator for mobile communication terminal: Disclosed is a method and a system for providing interactive annunciators for a mobile communication terminal so that a focus can be moved between the annunciators on the upper end of an LCD display module for displaying information regarding the condition of the mobile communication terminal and, when one of... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080194244 - Method, system and apparatus for backuping ha/map in mobile ipv6 network: The disclosure provides a method, system and apparatus for backuping HA/MAP in mobile IPv6 network. In the disclosure, at least two HAs/MAPs form a redundant backup group. The at least two HAs/MAPs elect an active HA/MAP and a standby HA/MAP via the VRRP. When the active HA/MAP interacts the signaling... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20080194245 - Method and apparatus for indicating to a wireless network the operational mode of a wireless communicator: A method for communicating on a wireless network includes receiving a mode signal from a network node. The mode signal represents an operational mode of the network node. The operational mode is defined by selecting from among a plurality of services at least one service whose reception over the wireless... Agent: Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP/seattle

20080194246 - Apparatus and method for providing a rapidly deployable wireless network: The invention includes apparatus and method for providing a rapidly deployable wireless network. An apparatus includes means for providing radio access network (RAN) functions, means for providing at least one core (CORE) networking function, and means for providing at least one service. The RAN functions include at least one air... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/ Lucent Technologies, Inc

20080194247 - Communication systems: According to one aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method, during a first communication on a first communication system, of establishing a second communication on a second communication system, comprising inviting a predetermined user to the first communication, the invitation of the predetermined user causing the establishment... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080194248 - Method and apparatus for enhancing transmission efficiency in a wireless communications system: A method for enhancing transmission efficiency in a wireless communications system includes a first protocol entity of the wireless communications system always performing a duplication avoidance and reordering, called DAR hereinafter, function on a logic channel, without referring to a configuration of the DAR function by an upper-layer protocol entity.... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080194249 - Mobile communication system and method thereof for service redirection between asynchronous network and synchronous network: The present invention relates to a mobile communication service system and a method thereof for redirecting services between an asynchronous network and a synchronous network, performing the redirection of the services from a mobile communication service system based on the asynchronous network to a mobile communication service system based on... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080194250 - Monitoring apparatus and method in a mobile communication system: A monitoring apparatus and method in a mobile communication system are provided. A WGW receives information relating to a monitored subscriber from a WSS, establishes a monitoring path between the monitored subscriber and a monitoring server, upon request from the WSS, begins to monitor the monitored subscriber upon receipt of... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.l.p.

20080194251 - Apparatus and method for providing communications and connection-oriented services to devices: An apparatus and method for providing communications and connection-oriented services to devices are provided. According to one aspect, an interface device for providing communications between a first device and a second comprises an input, logic, and an output. The input of the interface device receives data in a first format... Agent: Hope Baldauff Hartman, Llc

20080194252 - Method and apparatus for targeted paging in a multi-cell wireless communication system: A method and communication system is provided for optimizing paging of a mobile communication device in cells of a multi-cell communication system. The communication system includes the cells, a network controller, and the mobile communication device. Each of the cells has a base station located therein for transmitting and receiving... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.c. (mot)

20080194255 - Apparatus and method for differentiating services in multimedia networks to roaming subscribers: The present invention is aimed to the provision of a mechanism whereby roaming users can specify whether they prefer to dial numbers belonging to the home network in local format or in international format from the visited network where they are roaming so that the treatment of restrictions based on... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080194253 - Search method of a roaming service: A search method of a roaming service for registering a mobile station to a network service includes searching for a home public land mobile network (HPLMN) when the mobile station is first switched on or recovering from lack of service, or sorting an available public land mobile network (PLMN) list,... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080194254 - Telecommunications system and method: A roaming home location server is arranged to receive signalling data communicated between a home location server of a first home mobile radio network and a visitor location server of a second visited mobile network. The signalling data is associated with informing the home location server of the location of... Agent: Haverstock & Owens LLP

20080194256 - Apparatus, and associated method, for synchronizing a mobile station with a radio network: Apparatus, and an associated method, for facilitating synchronization of a mobile station with a radio network in a GSM/EDGE-compatible, cellular communication system. The FCCH is monitored to obtain positional and frequency offset information. Once obtained, the information is used to obtain SCH burst information broadcast upon an SCH. Monitoring of... Agent: Research In Motion Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20080194257 - Method of accessing base station by subscriber station under the condition of multiple base stations: A method of accessing base station (BS) by subscriber station (SS) includes: after scanning signals of certain BS, SS starts ranging procedure and sends ranging request to the BS; the BS checks whether the SS belongs to the BS, if not belonging to the BS, then sends terminating ranging response... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20080194260 - Methods and apparatuses to connect users of mobile devices to advertisers: Methods and apparatuses to connect a user of a telephony device to a selected one of service providers of a predefined category. One embodiment includes: providing a user interface element on a dial interface of a telephonic device to represent a communication reference associated with a pre-defined category of services;... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP (sv) Ip Docketing

20080194259 - Methods and procedures for high speed ue access: A terminal random access procedure is improved by allowing a mobile terminal to correctly map signature indexes onto cyclic shifted Zadoff-Chu (ZC) sequences when the deployed cells support a high-speed mobility by informing a mobile terminal whether a cell supports high-speed mobility.... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080194258 - Surrogate registration in internet protocol multimedia subsystem for users indirectly coupled via an end point: An exemplary method implemented by nodes in a telecommunication network includes associating a plurality of public user identities (PUIDs) into groups where each PUID represents a user served by a group of related endpoints, such as a private branch exchange (PBX). The groups are stored at the first node. Each... Agent: Patti , Hewitt & Arezina Llc

20080194261 - Device and method for enabling the reception, by a mobile terminal located in a moving conveyance, of signals transferred in at least a first and a second cells of a wireless cellular telecommunication network: The present invention concerns a device for enabling the reception, by a mobile terminal located in a moving conveyance, of signals transferred in at least a first and a second cells of a wireless cellular telecommunication network composed of plural base stations, the moving conveyance moving from a first area... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080194262 - Apparatus and method for handover between a heterogeneous communication system and a broadband wireless communication system: An apparatus and a method for handover between a broadband wireless communication system and a heterogeneous communication system are provided. An operating method of a base station for the handover between a broadband wireless communication system and a and a heterogeneous communication system includes when a terminal enters a border... Agent: Jefferson Ip Law, LLP

20080194263 - Transmission speed control method, wireless base station and wireless circuit control station: The present invention relates to a transmission rate control method for controlling a transmission rate of user data transmitted from a mobile station to a radio base station, including: notifying, from a radio network controller to the radio base station, a transmission rate difference or a transmission rate ratio between... Agent: Mots Law, Pllc

20080194264 - Method for selecting a mobile radio area, mobile radio communication device, method for transmitting signals into a mobile radio area, and mobile radio network unit: A method for selecting a mobile radio area includes a mobile radio communication device, which is in a state without having a signaling communication connection and a data communication connection with a mobile radio network unit in a first mobile radio area, leaving the first mobile radio area. The mobile... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080194265 - Arrangements in a mobile telecommunications network: The present invention relates to a method and arrangements for providing an estimation of a cell radius in a mobile telecommunications network. The arrangement comprises means for estimating the path loss by using an arbitrarily path loss estimation method wherein a at least a pre-defined cell radius is used as... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, Pc

20080194266 - Method and apparatus for radio resource control profile creation in a umts network: A method for creating a radio resource control profile for a radio resource allocation or a state-transition profile having the steps of: receiving a parameter associated with a user equipment (UE); associating the parameter with the radio resource control profile for the radio resource allocation or the state-transition profile; and... Agent: Moffat & Co

20080194267 - Method of assigning carrier for mitigating inter-cell interference in fixed relay based communication system: A method of assigning a carrier for mitigating inter-cell interference in a fixed relay based communication system is provided. In a normal mode, the method includes defining at least one sector group by grouping cells at least two tiers away from each other; selecting a single sector group; and assigning,... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080194268 - Location stamping and logging of electronic events and habitat generation: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media provide for the detection, location stamping, and logging of electronic events and subsequent generation of habitat information. According to implementations, electronic events are detected and location stamped. Associated descriptions and other data corresponding to the electronic events is retrieved and stored along with the geographic... Agent: Hope Baldauff Hartman, Llc

20080194269 - System and method of informing users of changes in geographically bound rules: A system, method, and program product are provided that inform users of changes in geographically bound rules. This is performed by receiving, via a GPS device, a first geographic location. Identifying, based on the received first geographic location, a first geographic region, and retrieving a first set of geographically bound... Agent: Ibm Corporation- Austin (jvl) C/o Van Leeuwen & Van Leeuwen

20080194270 - Tagging data utilizing nearby device information: Data is automatically tagged utilizing information associated with nearby individuals, among other things. Location-based technology is leveraged to enable identification of individuals and associated devices within a distance of a data capture device. User information is acquired from proximate devices directly or indirectly before, during or after data recording. This... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080194271 - System and method for paging and locating update in a network: Mobile station information is exchanged between a plurality of distributed mobility agents (106, 108). The exchange is initiated by a mobility agent (106) associated with a last known network access point (110) that has communicated with the mobile station (114). The mobile station (114) is paged from at least one... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080194274 - Location information management system, location information management server, and location information management method: A location information management system includes at least one mobile terminal, a plurality of relay stations, and a location information management server. The location information management server multicasts a message for inquiring a location of a predetermined mobile terminal to the plurality of relay stations when location information of the... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20080194272 - Neighborhood level information delivery: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for location-based information delivery. One system described herein includes a matching server operative to identify a geographic area in which an informational message should be transmitted to subscriber devices located within the area. The geographic area may be a statically defined fixed geographic... Agent: Hope Baldauff Hartman, Llc

20080194273 - Use of previously-calculated position fix for location based query: A computing device is provided for responding to a location-based query. The computing device receives the query, determines that a current position fix is unavailable, retrieves from memory a previously-calculated position fix calculated before receipt of the location-based query, and provides a response to the query based on the previously-calculated... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080194275 - System and method for providing dynamic location information: A system and method for providing the dynamic geographic location of a computing device to location aware applications. This system and method enables the location aware applications to enhance the user experience by taking the dynamic geographic location of a user into account in its operations. Location providers associated with... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20080194276 - Method and system for a hosted mobile management service architecture: A hosted mobile management service is provided for enabling a user to access a centralized account through a web browser on a terminal in order to manage the user's media information, such as digital music and photos. Any modifications made by user through the web browser are transparently sent to... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.l.p.

20080194277 - Multimedia message center, terminal and method for multimedia message: A method for processing the multimedia message, MM, includes: notifying, by the a multimedia message center, MMC, the home MMC of a recipient terminal, to receive the MM; requesting, by the recipient terminal according to the notification, to acquire the MM from the home MMC of the recipient terminal; sending,... Agent: Darby & Darby P.c.

20080194278 - Wireless communication system: A wireless communication system is disclosed herein. The wireless communication system may include transmitter units and a receiver. In one embodiment, each transmitter has an address and logic programmed to perform the steps of receiving a user selection and, responsive to the receiving, repeatedly transmitting a wireless selection signal until... Agent: Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff LLP Attn: Ip Department Docket Clerk

20080194279 - Method for push-to-talk pre-emption: Push-to-talk private call pre-emption may be applied in an application-to-person context or on a person-to-person context. A PTT subscriber may send a PTT server a pre-emption request indicating a desire to interrupt the application voice stream or another PTT subscriber, respectively. In an application-to-person context, the PTT server may revoke... Agent: Sprint Nextel Corporation

20080194284 - Apparatus and method for power allocation in mobile communication system: An apparatus and method for power allocation in a mobile communication system are provided. A transmitting method includes allocating a certain fraction of total power to a common control channel; allocating available power corresponding to the remaining fraction of the total power to remaining control channels except for the common... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080194283 - Method and apparatus for improving signaling reliability in wireless communications: Techniques for sending signaling at different power levels in different operating modes are described. In one design, a UE may send signaling at a first power level in a first operating mode and may send the signaling at a second power level in a second operating mode. The UE may... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080194280 - Method and apparatus relating to power control: The present invention pertains to power control in cellular networks (1). A power control algorithm (201) is operated to control transmission powers on radio links (downlinks and/or uplinks). An information collector (203; 127) is adapted to collect power distribution information indicating how the transmission powers of a selected plurality of... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080194282 - Method for controlling communication of radio terminal, and radio terminal: There are provided a method for controlling communication of a radio terminal with a radio base station at transmission power granted by the radio base station at a request of the radio terminal to the radio base station. The radio terminal, allocates, during communication through an uplink data channel (E-DPDCH)... Agent: Hanify & King Professional Corporation

20080194285 - Power control method and device: The present invention proposes a method for controlling a power used for transmitting data between a terminal device (TD) and a transceiver device (BTS) of a communication system, said method comprising the steps of monitoring (S2) during a predetermined time unit the power used in a transmission between said terminal... Agent: Harrington & Smith, Pc

20080194281 - Power control method for base station: A downlink power control method for base station, includes following steps: according to the received power control command, base station obtains the transmission power of each terminal occupying code channel; according to the transmission power of each terminal occupying code channel, determines the allowable minimum code channel power of each... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20080194286 - Systems and methods for performing outer loop power control in wireless communication systems: Systems and methods for controlling the power level for a mobile station during periods when no data is being transmitted by the mobile station. In one embodiment, data is intermittently transmitted from a mobile station to a base station on a reverse-link traffic channel. When data is being transmitted on... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080194287 - Method and appratus for cell change order: A method and apparatus for cell change order including issuing or receiving a cell change order message to find a target cell in a network with no compressed mode measurement, performing a power scan on the network to find a suitable cell if the target cell is not found, and... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080194288 - Integrated circuit including packet network transceivers and fm receiver with fm antenna control: An integrated circuit and/or device is provided that supports wireless communications. The integrated circuit includes wireless communication circuitry, frequency modulated (FM) receiver circuitry, and FM antenna control circuitry. The communication circuitry is coupled to convert an inbound radio frequency (RF) signal into an inbound data signal and to convert an... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080194291 - Device and method for remotely operating keyless entry systems: A mobile communication device for remotely operating a keyless entry system includes a processor for generating at least one coded signal based on a predetermined code and a predetermined frequency entered by a user and a transmitter coupled to the processor for transmitting the generated coded signal. The at least... Agent: James Ray & Associates

20080194292 - Portable communication device: A communication module is mounted in a user-carried portable telephone, so that the portable telephone and the communication module cooperate. When a user performs a vehicle wheel physical state request operation, a wheel physical state request signal is transmitted to a wheel physical state transmitter, so that wheel physical state... Agent: Posz Law Group, Plc

20080194290 - Portable electronic device having a rotary camera unit: c

20080194289 - Wireless control apparatus for web phones: A wireless control apparatus for web phones includes a control base and a Bluetooth controller. The control base carries software for a web phone system. The Bluetooth controller is detachably plugged into the control base. A web device reads the software to perform the web phone system while the control... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, Pllc

20080194293 - System and method for sending local information from a wireless browser to a web server: A system and method for using a wireless browser to send local information from a wireless handset to a Web server. A service request received from a handset user includes the type of local information needed to carry out the request as well as the URL address of the server.... Agent: Fish & Richardson, Pc

20080194295 - Method of providing universal platform for application program of communication terminals: A method of providing a universal platform for an application program for use in a communication terminal is disclosed. Meanwhile, the method of providing a universal platform for an application program of communication terminals, includes the steps of: a) storing a virtual machine and an application program in a combo... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, Pllc

20080194296 - System and method for securely managing data stored on mobile devices, such as enterprise mobility data: A system and method for managing data stored on mobile devices is described. In some cases, the system stores data, such as data under enterprise mobility management, within a secured memory location of a SIM card. In some cases, the system may request validation credentials before providing access to data... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20080194294 - Telecommunication device and baseband processor for this device: The telecommunication device (6) comprises: a housing (12), a Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) card holder (28) within the housing, and a printed circuit board (14) having a baseband processor and a first radio transceiver (16) to receive and transmit a plurality of telephone calls, a second radio transceiver (30) adapted... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20080194297 - Sir determining apparatus and wireless communication apparatus: It is an object of the present invention to realize a SIR detection device and a radio communication device capable of detecting the value of a ratio of a signal component to an interference component (SIR: Signal to Interference Ratio) indicating the power ratio of a signal component to an... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080194298 - Enabling user interface elements based on short range wireless devices: A system and method for enabling user interface elements to be displayed on a display device is disclosed. The technology includes a method for enabling user interface elements to be displayed on a display device. The method includes accessing location information corresponding to a first short range wireless device coupled... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080194299 - Portable terminal: The portable terminal includes a body housing, a cover housing, an image display device, and a functional keypad. The cover housing is coupled to the body housing so that the cover housing moves from a state in which the cover housing is folded to face the body housing and to... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, Plc

20080194300 - Inductive powering for a mobile communication device and method for use therewith: A voice data and RF integrated circuit (IC) receives at least one power status signal indicating an inductive power status of an off-chip inductive power module, the inductive power status including an inductive power ready state, and the at least one power status signal further indicating a battery power status... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080194301 - Voice activated dialing for wireless headsets: A wearable wireless telecommunications headset may include at least a microphone, a speaker, a transceiver, a processor and a memory. The headset processes audio commands from a user, recognizing the commands and executing them appropriately. The headset communicates with multiple communication devices, answering incoming communications from any devices in range... Agent: Hope Baldauff Hartman, Llc

20080194302 - Mobile phone with an antenna structure having improved performance: A mobile phone with a FM antenna structure having improved FM performance in a mobile phone. The mobile phone includes a printed FM antenna having a planar structure less than a planar area of the mobile phone, a conductive layer providing a ground plane to the printed FM antenna, the... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080194303 - Mobile terminal device: According to an aspect of an embodiment, a mobile terminal device includes a lower casing, an upper casing, and an intermediate casing, an intermediate casing connected to the lower casing by a hinge structure which enables the intermediate casing to rotate about an axis, the intermediate casing supporting a back... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080194304 - Hinge mechanism and mobile terminal: An object of the invention is to provide the hinge device which can semi-automatically open/close a cover during a sliding motion in one direction from a middle position, and further, can allow the sliding motion in a reverse direction from the middle position, and a mobile terminal. A hinge mechanism... Agent: Osha Liang L.l.p.

20080188177 - Method and system for identifying a relay mobile station in a wireless communication network: A method of identifying a relay mobile station in a wireless communication network. The method includes applying an elimination process to candidate relay mobile stations, calculating a Figure of Merit (FOM) for each remaining candidate relay mobile station based on one or more parameters, and selecting the relay mobile station... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080188178 - Method for ensuring a secure nfc functionality of a wireless mobile communication device and wireless mobile communication device having a secure nfc functionality: The invention provides a method for ensuring a secure NFC functionality of a wireless mobile communication device comprising the steps of detecting the charge state of a first energy source (1) which supplies the voltage for operating the wireless mobile communication device (S1); switching off the first energy source and... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20080188181 - Apparatus and method for providing hands-free and lcd display function of mobile communication terminal using zigbee: The hands-free function provision apparatus for use in the mobile communication terminal using the ZigBee protocol includes: a mobile communication terminal for performing transmission/reception of a voice signal via a base station; a ZigBee coordinator for transmitting or receiving a predetermined display signal and a call control signal for establishing... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080188179 - Bluetooth earphone and ear-hook device thereof: A Bluetooth earphone and an ear-hook device thereof are provided. The Bluetooth earphone includes an earphone body and an ear-hook device. The ear-hook device includes a hinge assembly and an ear hook. The hinge assembly is rotatably disposed on the earphone body. The ear hook is rotatably disposed on the... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080188180 - Communication system and a personal communication proxy: The communication system has service providers arranged to receive service requests. In order to obtain a user friendly solution the system further has a service gateway that has a data storage configured to route a received service request to one of the service providers based on information included in the... Agent: Fasth Law Offices (rolf Fasth)

20080188182 - Entertainment system including selectable ir receive and transmit codes and day/night picture modes: An entertainment system for a vehicle, including a media player and a control panel having an option that allows a user to select either a first communication mode or a second communication mode, wherein the first communication mode sets the entertainment system to respond to a transmitted first set of... Agent: Frank Chau, Esq. F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080188184 - Adaptive modulation control system and wireless communication apparatus: An adaptive modulation control apparatus for adaptively selecting a modulation parameter from among a plurality of modulation parameters determined based on a plurality of modulation schemes, coding rates of error correction or a combination thereof corresponding to a propagation path state is provided with a reception state measuring section (2)... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080188185 - Method, apparatus and system for crosstalk test on multi-subscriber communication lines: A method, apparatus, and system for crosstalk test on multi-subscriber communication lines. The core of the invention is: loading a group of orthogonal spread spectrum codes to the transmitting side of each line, and testing the crosstalk of xSDL lines based on the received signal vector at the receiving side... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20080188183 - Apparatus, and associated method, for operating upon received data at a receiving station capable of diversity operation: Apparatus, and an associated method, for a receiving station, such as the receive part of a mobile station, that has diversity antennas. The receiving station includes both legacy demodulators and a diversity demodulator. Calculations are made to determine signal indicia associated with the signal energy detected at the diversity antennas.... Agent: Research In Motion Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20080188186 - Apparatus and method for transmitting channel sounding signal in wireless communication system: Provided is an apparatus and method for transmitting a channel sounding signal from a user terminal in a multiple antenna system. In the method, a channel for each of a plurality of antennas is estimated. The receiving signal power of each of the antennas is calculated using the channel information... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080188187 - Providing a power state alter signal to a device based upon a position signal corresponding to the mobile device: A system and method for providing a power state alter signal to a device based upon a position signal corresponding to the mobile device is disclosed. The technology initially accesses a position based rule. The position based rule is then compared to a position signal. A power alerting signal is... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080188188 - Large scale analysis of push-to-talk traffic: To provide a solution for efficient and large-scale characterization of push-to-talk service performance in a mobile communication environment there is described a method and apparatus for passive evaluation of push-to-talk traffic in a communication network. After capturing (S10) data transactions in the communication network there follows a step of extracting... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080188189 - Polar modulation transmission apparatus and transmission power control method: As explained above, according to embodiments of the present invention, by providing averaging section 111 that detects an average power value of amplitude component signals, and controlling transmission power based on the amount of drift in the average output power value of PA 103 and the amount of drift in... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC

20080188190 - Multi-rank beamforming precoding apparatus and method: A multi-rank beamforming (MRBF) scheme in which the downlink channel is estimated and an optimal precoding matrix to be used by the MRBF transmitter is determined accordingly. The optimal precoding matrix is selected from a codebook of matrices having a recursive structure which allows for efficient computation of the optimal... Agent: Brosemer, Kolefas & Associates, LLC (necl)

20080188191 - Network monitoring system: The use of a configuration having monitoring equipment at every network termination, in conjunction with the application of measurements only across those paths where required, allows an improvement over prior art systems in the frequency and accuracy of measurements, and the rate at which measurement data can be collected and... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080188192 - Apparatus and method for selecting transmission mode in multi-antenna system: An apparatus and a method for selecting a transmission mode in a multi-antenna system are provided. The method includes checking a channel characteristic of a transmitting end using a signal received over at least two antennas; and determining a multi-antenna transmission mode according to the channel characteristic. Accordingly, the loss... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080188193 - Radio station preference translational mapping: A user's media preferences can be obtained and stored for later use in setting up a currently-available media device. The media device inputs are programmed based on the media device's capabilities and the available media sources for the particular geographic area in which the user is currently located. Media device... Agent: Ibm Corporation - Rsw (jvl) C/o Van Leeuwen & Van Leeuwen

20080188194 - Service quality indication on a wireless device: A wireless device determines signal quality for a wireless signal according to both the received signal strength of the received wireless signal and the signal to interference ratio of the received wireless signal. The wireless device provides a signal quality indication corresponding to the determined signal quality to a user... Agent: Zagorin O'brien Graham LLP (037)

20080188195 - Lna gain adjustment in an rf receiver to compensate for intermodulation interference: A Radio Frequency (RF) receiver includes a low noise amplifier (LNA) and a mixer coupled to the output of the LNA. The gain of the LNA is adjusted to maximize signal-to-noise ratio of the mixer and to force the mixer to operate well within its linear region when an intermodulation... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080188196 - Adapter for the rf front end processor chip: An adapter for RF front end processor chip wherein the RF front end processor chip includes a low noise amplifier which is used to receive a RF filter signal so as to generate a first signal. An adapter is used to receive a first signal so as to induce and... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080188197 - Modular system for connecting multiple customer premises voice and data communications devices to a t1 data line: An integrated system concurrently connects voice and data communications devices used by small and medium sized businesses to a network T1 data line terminating at the customer premises. A system chassis includes multiple slots and backplane connectors for removably receiving a bank controller unit (BCU), power service unit (PSU), and... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080188198 - System and method for providing medical and contact information during an emergency call: A system and method for providing medical, contact and location information of a subscriber initiating an emergency call, directly to the nearest Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) at the time of the receipt of the emergency call. Upon the initiation of an emergency call, the existing infrastructure equipment of a... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080188199 - Method and system for rating notification: A method and system for generating rating notification to a user in a communications system, wherein a tariff structure is traversed, and during the traversing, one or more notification requests are detected for intermediate conditions. One or more notifications resulting from the one or more notification requests are sent to... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080188200 - Security key generation for wireless communications: Generating and re-generating security keys for wireless communication over a Radio Access Network efficiently without having to synchronize sequence numbers. In response to a predetermined event, at least one security key is generated for use in wireless communication between a mobile station and an access network element by utilizing a... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080188201 - Mobile phone: According to an aspect of the invention, there is provided a mobile phone including an age acquisition unit configured to acquire an information concerning an age; an age limit acquirement unit configured to acquire an age limit attribute value indicating an age limit is added to a predetermined application program;... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080188202 - Apparatus and method for synchronizing phonebook data with messages in portable terminal: Provided is an apparatus and method for synchronizing phonebook data with messages in a portable terminal. The method includes setting a synchronization mode for synchronizing the phonebook data with the sent/received messages; detecting, from among the sent/received messages, a message corresponding to a specific phone number of a phonebook when... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080188203 - Method and apparatus for sender controllable modalities: A method and apparatus (110) for sender controllable modalities includes the step of generating a communication command (108). The method and apparatus further includes generating a priority command (110) wherein the priority command includes a modality alert command. The priority command (108) may be any suitable command indicating a level... Agent: Motorola Inc. C/o Vedder Price P.C.

20080188204 - System and method for processing a voicemail message: A method of processing a voicemail message includes examining the voicemail message for the presence of spoken number values and converting identified spoken numbers to alphanumeric characters. In one embodiment, the examining includes analyzing the identified spoken numbers to identify a series of spoken numbers, the series of spoken numbers... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080188207 - Apparatus and method for providing service in mobile communication system: Apparatus and method for providing service in mobile communication system in which a subscriber presets his profile information and desired person's information in his mobile terminal which is portable and can support mobility so as to allow the exchange of association information by retrieving a person with who the subscriber... Agent: Saltamar Innovations

20080188206 - Method for selecting a priority for wireless technologies via graphical representation: Methods and systems are disclosed for selecting performance settings for one or more wireless technologies, presenting a graphical representation of the relative performance of the wireless technologies for each performance setting, and allowing a selection of at least one of the performance settings. The performance settings can be associated with... Agent: O'keefe, Egan, Peterman & Enders, L.L.P.

20080188205 - Portable communication devices and context dependent messaging: A method for sending a message from a first device to a second communication device via a network includes determining and downloading a background media part via the network to the first device. The background media part may be based on the current status of the first device and may... Agent: Harrity Snyder, L.L.P.

20080188208 - Volume control process of a mobile device: The present invention discloses a volume control process of a mobile device to resolve issue of using the same volume between the speech state and the ring state in a traditional mobile device. Speaker volume output of the mobile device in the ring state and the speech state is set... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080188209 - Communicating and storing information associated with media broadcasts: An accessory communicates with a portable media device (“PMD”) to store tags associated with broadcasts in a file maintained in a storage medium of the accessory, where the tags contain information descriptive of a subset of the broadcast content. In one embodiment, the accessory sends commands to the PMD to... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080188210 - Mobile terminal and world time display method thereof: A mobile terminal and its world time display method are disclosed. The mobile terminal executes a world time display function according to the occurrence of an event. A particular area is selectively received according to the executed world time display function, and time information and representative information of the selected... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080188211 - Method for informing a subscriber of a mobile telephony network about missed calls: A method for informing a subscriber of a mobile telephony network about incoming calls while the mobile telephone of the subscriber is switched off or is not connected to the mobile telephony network. The notification takes place via the mobile telephone of the subscriber as soon as the mobile telephone... Agent: The Maxham Firm

20080188212 - Method and system for managing user equipment functionality: A system for managing functionality of a user equipment (UE) in a specified area. If the operator providing the network determines a requirement of disabling a UE function in the specified area, the network configures a UE function indication according to the requirement and sends the UE function indication via... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080188213 - System and method for searching a database of television schedule information: Compressed codes of as few as 1 to 8 digits, which are decoded by a decoder to convert the compressed code into channel, date, time and length information, identify single TV programs or a category of programs and are stored at a central location accessible over telephone lines through pay-per-use,... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20080188214 - Methods and apparatus for providing information indicative of traffic delay of a wireless link: Embodiments of methods and apparatus for providing information indicative of traffic delay of a wireless link are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C.

20080188216 - System and method for mobile network tuning field measurement: A system for measuring the performance of a mobile network includes a field measurement device, a server and a built-in command set. The field measurement device continuously scans an assigned frequency of the mobile network to collect measurement data. The server remotely controls the field measurement device by sending the... Agent: Pai Patent & Trademark Law Firm

20080188215 - Transmission of special neighbor cell lists: A “special neighbor” cell list is broadcast or sent in a dedicated message to mobile radios in a cellular radio communications system. Mobile radios detect the broadcast signal or dedicated message from a serving cell currently serving the mobile radio. Before performing measurements associated with another cell, before sending signals... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080188217 - Electronic driver logging system and method: A system for logging performance of a driver operating a vehicle that has a vehicle information system from which least one vehicle operating parameter may be obtained. The vehicle operating parameter collected through the vehicle information system and operator information collected from a portable device are wirelessly communicated to a... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

20080188218 - Alternative wireless telephone roaming using prepaid services: A method and system are provided for registering and operating a wireless telephone in a roaming service area in which the wireless telephone is not registered for roaming services. When a wireless telephone is operated in a such a roaming service area, the roaming service provider whose services the wireless... Agent: Merchant & Gould Bellsouth Corporation

20080188220 - Method and apparatus for cell update while in an enhanced cell_fach state: A method and apparatus for cell update while in a Cell_FACH state are disclosed. After selecting a target cell, system information is read from the target cell including high speed downlink shared channel (HS-DSCH) common system information. A radio network temporary identity (RNTI) received in a source cell is cleared... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080188219 - Use of dedicated rach signatures: A method and apparatus for using dedicated signatures for an initial access procedure is provided for different cases in order to prevent contention due to several users sending the same signature. The present invention is applicable to a RACH initial access procedure performed when synchronizing uplink timing either periodically or... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080188221 - Terminal state control system: When a terminal enters a cell of a personal-use base station (NBTS) arranged in a certain location area, the terminal receives a location area identifier having a number that is different from an identifier of the location area, and transmits a location updating request with the reception of the location... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080188224 - Method and apparatus for controlling a handover between utra r6 cells and r7 cells: A method and apparatus for controlling an optimization of handover procedures between universal terrestrial radio access (UTRA) release 6 (R6) cells and UTRA release 7 (R7) cells are disclosed. When a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) is moving between an R6 cell and an R7 cell, or between R7 cells, a... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080188223 - Method, a system and a network element for performing a handover of a mobile equipment: A method, a system and a network element for performing a handover of a mobile equipment from a source network to a target network in a mobile telecommunication system, wherein data, which may be transferred via the source network to the mobile equipment when it is linked to the source... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080188222 - Wireless communication system, terminal device and base station for wireless communication system, and channel scheduling method thereof: The present invention relates to a method of setting a traffic stream of a wireless communication considering terminal state information. The present invention provides a wireless communication system, comprising a base station for controlling a wireless communication and a terminal device connected to the base station to transmit and receive... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080188225 - Performing handover and network connection in wireless communication system: The present invention relates to performing handover in a wireless communication system including informing a serving base station of a start of a handover operation to a target base station when bandwidth is allocated by serving base station during a particular time period, requesting cancellation of the handover operation from... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080188226 - Telecommunication system and operating method: A telecommunication system includes a first cell and a second cell overlapping one another in an overlap region, a first base station in the first cell, a second base station in the second cell, a first relay station configured to provide a multi-hop relay function between the first base station... Agent: Akin Gump LLP - Silicon Valley

20080188227 - Methods and systems of processing mobile calls: A method of optimizing call dialing may include receiving a first call including one or more of a session identification number, a contact identification number, a contact name and a direct inward dialing number, determining a caller provider and a callee provider based on the first call, determining cost information... Agent: Pepper Hamilton LLP

20080188228 - Bandwidth-based cell selection in a cellular network: A method of cell selection in a wireless cellular network having a plurality of radio system cells involves determining a bandwidth indication for data communication through each of a serving cell and at least one neighbouring cell to the serving cell. The bandwidth indication comprises an indication of the capacity... Agent: Heenan Blaikie LLP

20080188232 - Apparatus and method for uplink scheduling in a broadband wireless communication system: An apparatus and method for uplink scheduling in a broadband wireless communication system are provided, in which channel conditions are divided into at least two areas, an area corresponding to channel information of a CSM mobile station received from the CSM mobile station is determined, resources of a first pilot... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080188233 - Control channel constraints in wireless communications: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate defining control channels and resource identifiers related thereto as well as constraints for utilizing the control channels. A minimum number of required control reports for a set of resource indices can be specified as a constraint to provide a mobile device flexibility with... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080188230 - Method and apparatus for allocating radio resource in wireless sensor network: A method and apparatus for allocating a radio resource in a wireless sensor network are provided, in which a signal requesting a radio resource allocation is received from any one of sensors included in the wireless sensor network, an amount of remaining energy is compared with respect to each zone... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20080188231 - Radio resource management in multihop relay networks: The embodiments balance wireless communication bandwidth capacity in a channel one or more cascading wireless communication links in a wireless communication cell, and manage the wireless communication bandwidth capacity in the channel across two or more virtual cells within the wireless communication cell.... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080188229 - Variable delay transmit diversity: A system for transmitting a signal via diversity antennas includes at least one delay element for generating at least one delayed replica of the signal subject to a given delay, the signal and the at least one delayed replica being adapted to be transmitted via the diversity antennas, and a... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080188234 - Enabling resource partitioning for wireless communication systems: Enabling resource partitioning in a wireless communication is provided. A terminal can measure channel quality and other information in a wireless communication environment and prepare a VCQI report. The report can be transmitted to a serving base station and/or non-serving base stations. The report information can be utilized by the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080188235 - Apparatus and method for controlling an uplink load in a broadband wireless communication system: An apparatus and method for controlling an UpLink (UL) load in a broadband wireless communication system are provided. The apparatus includes a determining unit for determining a resource amount to be allocated to each of a plurality of Mobile Stations (MSs) and a Modulation and Coding Scheme (MCS) level to... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20080188240 - Cellular and internet mobile systems and networks: Method, system and process for receiving, processing and transmitting signals, including the steps of: receiving a Global Positioning System (GPS) signal for generating from said signal a processed location finder signal and processing and filtering an input signal into a processed and filtered code division multiple access (CDMA) processed cross-correlated... Agent: Kamilo Feher

20080188238 - Method and system for location management and location information providing system: In an information providing system, a user inputs desired mobile ID number to a client terminal. The client terminal transmits a request for location information on the mobile station including the mobile ID number to a location server via a location information server. The location server transmits a request for... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080188236 - System and method for generating a location estimate using non-uniform grid points: The location of a wireless mobile device may be estimated using, at least in part, one or more pre-existing Network Measurement Reports (“NMRs”) which include calibration data for a number of locations within a geographic region. The calibration data for these locations is gathered and analyzed so that particular grid... Agent: Duane Morris LLP

20080188237 - System and method for generating a location estimate using uniform and non-uniform grid points: The location of a wireless mobile device may be estimated using, at least in part, one or more pre-existing Network Measurement Reports (“NMRs”) which include calibration data for a number of locations within a geographic region. The calibration data for these locations is gathered and analyzed so that particular grid... Agent: Duane Morris LLP

20080188239 - System and method for generating non-uniform grid points from calibration data: The location of a wireless mobile device may be estimated using, at least in part, one or more pre-existing Network Measurement Reports (“NMRs”) which include calibration data for a number of locations within a geographic region. The calibration data for these locations is gathered and analyzed so that particular grid... Agent: Duane Morris LLP

20080188241 - Alert service method for specific location information of mobile terminal and managing apparatus and mobile terminal for the same: An alert service method includes the steps of: receiving specific zone information and information of a target mobile terminal that is a target of alert setting; downloading an alert condition to the target mobile terminal, the alert condition being an alert generating condition for informing that the target mobile terminal... Agent: Jones Day

20080188242 - System and method for optimizing location estimate of mobile unit: The location of a wireless mobile device may be estimated using, at least in part, one or more pre-existing Network Measurement Reports (“NMRs”) which include calibration data for a number of locations within a geographic region. The calibration data for these locations is gathered and analyzed so that particular grid... Agent: Duane Morris LLP

20080188243 - Location of basestation: A basestation for a cellular communication system is intended for purchase and deployment by a customer, rather than by the network operator. After installation, the position of the basestation is determined by detecting signals transmitted by neighbouring basestations. By detecting a position relative to multiple neighbouring basestations, the location of... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20080188244 - System and method for predicting location accuracy of a mobile unit: The location of a wireless mobile device may be estimated using, at least in part, one or more pre-existing Network Measurement Reports (“NMRs”) which include calibration data for a number of locations within a geographic region. The calibration data for these locations is gathered and analyzed so that particular calibration... Agent: Duane Morris LLP

20080188245 - System and method to obtain calibration data using estimation techniques: A system and method of determining calibration data at non-calibrated location points is disclosed. A mobile station may be geo-located at most locations, if not all locations, within communication range of one or more serving and/or neighboring base stations of a mobile network. Calibration data may be collected and stored... Agent: Duane Morris LLP

20080188246 - System and method for providing routing, mapping, and relative position information to users of a communication network: The present invention is directed to a system and method for providing real-time position information of one party to another party by utilizing a conventional telecommunication network system such as the convention telephone network, a mobile telecommunications network, a computer network, or the Internet. More specifically, the preferred embodiments of... Agent: Morrison & Foerster, LLP

20080188248 - Apparatus, and associated method, for paging an access terminal in a radio communication system using optimal decorrelate values: The present invention relates generally to a manner by which to page an access terminal of a radio communication system to alert the access terminal of a pending call, or other communication. More particularly, the present invention relates to apparatus, and an associated method, that provides for the generation, sending,... Agent: Research In Motion Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20080188247 - Hierarchical organization of paging groups: Paging group identifiers are associated with groups of user equipment (UEs) in a hierarchical manner. A controller, such as a scheduler in an enhanced Node B, may address the groups of UEs using group identifiers over control channels. The controller may select a group identifier for a group of UEs... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080188250 - Delivering a radio phone short messaging service message format within an application layer internet protocol message: A method and apparatus wirelessly transmits messages from a first messaging service such as the Short Messaging Service (SMS) on a on a second messaging service such as a channel established by the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP). An original text message is encoded into a Short Messaging Service format of... Agent: Utstarcom, Inc.

20080188251 - Method and system for transmission and display of rich-media alerts: There is provided a method and system of generating a rich-media message using a short message service (SMS) message. In one aspect, the method comprises encoding data and rich-media content information to generate an encoded rich-media message, and formatting the encoded rich-media message into a rich-media SMS message. In one... Agent: Disney Enterprises C/o Farjami & Farjami LLP

20080188249 - Telecommunications services apparatus and methods: A text message sent from a portal a computer (1) with a data card, or from a mobile telephone (2), passes through a base station controller (3), then via either a mobile switching centre (5) or a serving GPRS support node (4), to an SMS router (6). The SMS router... Agent: Renner Otto Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080188252 - Transmission of authorization information: The present invention relates to a method for utilizing a mobile station for the transmission of authorization information requiring verification in a telecommunication network comprising the mobile station. In the method, the information to be verified is transmitted to the mobile station, the authorization information transmitted is presented on the... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080188253 - Method and system for wireless design subject to interference constraints: A wireless communication system experience interference from other wireless communication networks. A method for designing wireless communication systems subject to interference is proposed based on a realistic interference model which accounts for the propagation effects introduced by the wireless environment (such as path loss, shadowing, and multipath fading), and for... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080188254 - Mobile communication terminal, method for registering location thereof and computer program product: A mobile communication terminal includes a measuring portion measuring intensity of received radio waves that are radio waves received from base stations, a selecting portion selecting one of the base stations to which a request for location registration of the mobile communication terminal should be sent, and a requesting portion... Agent: Hanify & King Professional Corporation

20080188255 - Method and system for the distribution of data to the fixed ip network environment by means of a media distribution function: A method and a system for distributing data (media distribution function, MDF). Interfaces to the fixed IP network environment are provided, user data and signal data being transmitted via a network element which is designated specifically for this purpose.... Agent: The Maxham Firm

20080188259 - Cqi reporting for mimo transmissionin a wireless communication system: Techniques for determining and reporting channel quality indicator (CQI) information are described. A user equipment (UE) may determine a transmit power per channelization code, POVSF, based on the available transmit power and a designated number of channelization codes, e.g., by uniformly distributing the available transmit power across all transport blocks... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080188260 - Method and apparatus for uplink power control in a communication system: A communication system optimizes cell edge performance and spectral efficiency by a first step of measuring, by the Node B, at least one system performance metric. A next step includes sending, by the Node B, an indicator for the at least one system performance metric measurement. A next step includes... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080188257 - Method and system for securely communicating information using multiple rf carriers: Amplitude modulation of multiple carriers provides a pulse width modulated train resulting in a novel and effective communication mechanism to overcome difficulties in certain RF applications, particularly in the area of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID). A novel conceptual pulse is formed and developed using a set of RF frequencies, such... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20080188256 - Power allocation in a wireless communication system: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate allocating power levels in a wireless communication network. A metric based upon spectral efficiency can be employed in connection with optimizing power allocation. Further, power for transmitters to utilize can be assigned as a function of time. Moreover, a single sub-carrier network and/or... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080188258 - Transmission power control method, radio base station, and radio network control station: The present invention enables to reduce deterioration in an uplink capacity due to a transmission power of an B-DPCCH, by setting, at the radio network controller, a suitable transmission power offset depending on a situation. A transmission power control method according to the present invention includes: measuring, at the radio... Agent: Mots Law, PLLC

20080188261 - Mediated social network: An extension of electronically-defined social networks to include geographic location information of the user is provided. The geographic location information is integrated with user preferences to enable user-to-user contacts and/or the provision of general or specific user information mediated by the social network. In some embodiments, users may create a... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080188262 - Mobile telephone with camera: A mobile telephone with a camera, a casing, a display and a keypad for entering manual commands is disclosed. The camera is permanently attached to at least a part of the keypad in a subcomponent of the casing, wherein the subcomponent within a chassis of the casing is designed in... Agent: Bell, Boyd, & Lloyd LLP

20080188263 - Device including a physical interface, memory module and wireless module: A device comprises a physical interface, a memory module and a wireless module. The memory module comprises a first memory interface, a second memory interface and a storage component. The physical interface is connected to the first memory interface and arranged to support access to the storage component and the... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20080188265 - Access point power control: There is described a method of controlling a basestation in a cellular wireless communications network, the method comprising, within the basestation, autonomously and dynamically adapting a maximum value for a total transmit power of the basestation, such that interference between the basestation and other access points in the vicinity is... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20080188264 - Base station apparatus: A base station apparatus wherein the increase of amount of control signals to be used for upstream line data transmission can be minimized to reserve the amount of possible transmission of data signals in addition to the control signals. In the apparatus, an ACK signal grouping part (108) uses a... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC

20080188266 - Basestation measurement modes: A basestation for a cellular communications network is intended to provide coverage over a small area, which may be within an area that already has cellular coverage from one or more existing basestations. The basestation is therefore able to detect signals transmitted from the other basestations, in order to make... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20080188268 - Mobile communication terminal and method of operating the same: A mobile communication terminal including at least one side key, a display unit including a touch screen and a controller configured to display on the display unit an interface screen when the at least one side key is manipulated, said interface screen including selectable items for setting at least one... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080188267 - Mobile communication terminal with touch screen and information inputing method using the same: A mobile terminal communication method, which includes activating a touch screen of the mobile terminal, entering into an inactive touch screen mode preventing information from being entered on the touch screen of the mobile terminal while a function is executed on the terminal, receiving an input signal through a specified... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080188269 - Portable terminal with rotatable display: A portable terminal is disclosed. The portable terminal includes a first housing having a face in which a mounting unit is formed and a second housing combined with the mounting unit in order to rotate while facing the first housing, in which upon 90° clockwise or counterclockwise rotation of the... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080188270 - Portable handsfree for a mobile terminal: A portable handsfree for cable-connection to a mobile terminal is provided. The portable handsfree comprises a cable for connecting the portable handsfree to a mobile telephone at a first end of the portable handsfree and to a computer at another end of the portable handsfree such that data transmission between... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080188271 - Communicating road noise control system, in-vehicle road noise controller, and server: Road noise is reduced without locally storing noise spectrum patterns for determination or without detecting the present position of a vehicle from the device. An in-vehicle hands-free device causes a cellular phone to detect the present position of the vehicle and transmit the position to a server. The server determines... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080188272 - Information terminal: An information terminal having a key operation guidance function for assisting a user to perform an operation required for execution of a function set in a mobile phone terminal 100, including a key input portion 10 having a plurality of keys capable of emitting light independently of one another, and... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20080188273 - Apparatus and method for automatic sound control and portable terminal using the same: An apparatus and method for automatic sound control and a portable terminal using the same are disclosed. The automatic sound control method includes detecting a change in an operation of a portable terminal upon reproduction of an audio file, correcting an audio file according to the change in the operation... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20080188274 - Slidable mobile phone: A slidable mobile phone includes a main body, a sliding cover and a positioning device. The main body includes a first combining component and an upper casing. The sliding cover includes a second combining component and a lower casing. A first sliding part is provided on the first combining component,... Agent: Quintero Law Office, PC