Telecommunications inventions 09/08

20080233863 - Method and apparatus for determining the efficiency of radio publicity and/or broadcasted programs: Method and apparatus for determining the efficiency of publicity and/or broadcasted programs, according to which, when a TV converter or FM radio is operated, the frequency of the broadcast channel received at the moment is determined either directly from the TV converter or FM radio display or by extracting the... Agent: Marsteller & Associates

20080233864 - Method and system for integrated bluetooth transceiver, fm transmitter and fm receiver: An integrated circuit may enable transmission and reception of Bluetooth signals as well as FM signals. One or more clock signals may be generated via a phase-locked loop and may be utilized to enable Bluetooth transmission and reception. Bluetooth clock signals and frequency control words may be utilized by a... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080233865 - Multi-beam communication system and method: A method of flexibly allocating capacity in a satellite coverage area, comprising establishing a frequency reuse pattern of at least two interleaved sets of cells, assigning a polarization to each set of cells, such that adjacent sets of cells alternate in orthogonal polarization, flexibly assigning satellite transmit power to at... Agent: Bereskin And Parr

20080233866 - Satellite aided location tracking and data services using geosynchronous and low earth orbit satellites: A system and method for satellite aided location tracking and data services using geosynchronous (GEO) and low earth orbit (LEO) satellites. In one embodiment, a mobile terminal is designed for communication with both GEO and LEO satellites. This dual satellite functionality enables the asset tracking service to provide service across... Agent: Law Office Of Duane S. Kobayashi

20080233869 - Method and system for a single-chip fm tuning system for transmit and receive antennas: Aspects of a method and system for a single-chip FM tuning system for transmit and receive antennas may include in a frequency-modulation (FM) radio system comprising an integrated FM radio transmitter and FM radio receiver: receiving via a receive antenna for the FM radio system a radio-frequency (RF) signal transmitted... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080233867 - Method and system for sharing a single antenna for frequency modulation (fm) reception or fm transmission and near field communication (nfc): Aspects of a method and system for sharing a single antenna for frequency modulation (FM) transmission or FM reception, and near field communication (NFC) are presented. Aspects of a system may include at least one circuit that enables, via a single antenna, simultaneous transmission of an FM signal and transmission... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080233868 - Method and system for sharing a single antenna for frequency modulation (fm) transmit or fm receive, and near field communicaiton (nfc): Aspects of a method and system for sharing a single antenna for frequency modulation (FM) transmission or FM reception, and near field communication (NFC) are presented. Aspects of a system may include at least one circuit that enables, via a single antenna, transmission of an FM signal or reception of... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080233870 - Adapter and method for wireless transfer of memory card contents: The invention relates to an adapter (1) for wireless transfer of memory card contents, having a receptacle (2) for the contact piece (721) of a memory card (72) and a contact piece (3) that corresponds to that of the memory card (72), including a splitter (5) and also a transmitter... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080233871 - Method and system for bluetooth, near field communication and simultaneous fm transmission and reception functions: Methods and systems for wireless communication are disclosed and may comprise generating a first signal to enable transmission and/or reception of Bluetooth signals, and clocking direct digital frequency synthesizers (DDFSs) via the first signal to enable simultaneous transmission and reception of FM and NFC signals. The first signal may be... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080233872 - Method and system for clocking fm transmit fm receive, and near field communication functions using ddfs: Methods and systems for clocking FM transmit, FM receive and near field communication functions using DDFS are disclosed. Aspects of one method may include generating a Bluetooth signal that may comprise, for example, I and Q components, or Bluetooth local oscillator (LO) signals, for use in Bluetooth communication. One of... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080233875 - Method and system for collaborative coexistence of bluetooth and wimax: Methods and systems for collaborative coexistence of Bluetooth and WiMax are disclosed. Aspects of one method may include a packet traffic arbiter (PTA) in a mobile terminal that arbitrates among requests to transmit from one or more communication devices collocated in the mobile terminal. The communication devices may comprise, for... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080233876 - Method and system for sharing an audio processor in an integrated fm radio and bluetooth system: Aspects of a method and system for sharing an audio processor in an integrated FM and Bluetooth system are provided. In this regard, the shared audio processor may be enabled to process Bluetooth audio signals and/or FM audio signals. The shared audio processor may enable A/D conversion, D/A conversion, and/or... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080233873 - Method and system for simultaneous fm transmit and fm receive functions using an integrated bluetooth local oscillator generator (logen): Aspects of a method and system for enabling simultaneous FM transmitter and FM receiver functions using an integrated Bluetooth Local Oscillator Generator (LOGEN). A Bluetooth® LOGEN may be utilized to generate Bluetooth® signal that comprise (I) and (Q) components for use in Bluetooth® communication. The Bluetooth® LOGEN may then be... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080233874 - Method and system for using a bluetooth pll to drive fm transmit, fm receive, bluetooth, and nfc functions: Aspects of a method and system for using a Bluetooth® PLL/LO to drive FM Transmit, FM Receive, Bluetooth, and NFC functions. A Bluetooth® PLL/LO may be utilized to generate Bluetooth® signal that comprise I and Q components for use in Bluetooth® communication. The Bluetooth® signals may then be utilized by... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080233877 - Method of connecting a bluetooth headphone to bluetooth communications devices: A method of connecting a Bluetooth headphone to Bluetooth communications devices includes paring; initializing the Bluetooth headphone comprising creating a table having a first column of rfcomm channel associated with the Bluetooth communications device and a second column of instance corresponding to the rfcomm channel, setting a HS or HF... Agent: Sam Chen

20080233881 - Method and system for measuring and optimizing integrated antenna performance: Methods and systems for measuring and optimizing integrated antenna performance are disclosed and may include transmitting FM signals over a range of frequencies utilizing one or more antenna configurations. The FM transmitter may be calibrated based on a signal received by one of a plurality of wireless protocol receivers in... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080233880 - Method and system for sharing a single antenna for frequency modulation (fm) transmission, fm reception and near field communication (nfc): Aspects of a method and system for sharing a single antenna for frequency modulation (FM) transmission, FM reception and near field communication (NFC) are presented. Aspects of a system may include at least one circuit that enables, via a single antenna, simultaneous transmission of an FM signal and reception of... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080233882 - Method and system for transmitting multiple channels on fm bands: Aspects of a method and system for transmitting multiple channels on FM bands may include generating from one or more baseband signals, a plurality of radio frequency transmission signals each at a different radio frequency, wherein the one or more baseband signals comprise an in-phase signal component and/or a quadrature... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080233878 - Radio system and radio communication device: There are provided a radio system and a radio communication device capable of removing a phase noise superimposed on a reception signal and a phase noise generated in the system of a reception radio unit. In this system, a radio transmission device (101) transmits a multiplex signal multiplexed so that... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC

20080233879 - Radio system, radio transmitter, and radio receiver: A radio system having an improved phase noise characteristic and a thereby improved communication quality, a radio transmitter, and a radio receiver. In the radio system, a radio transmitter (101) transmits a multiplexed signal so multiplexed that a pilot signal transmitted at the center frequency. A radio receiver (151) comprises... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC

20080233883 - Method and system for detecting channels suitable for fm transmission in an integrated fm transmit/receive system: A method and system is provided processing channel information may include in a mobile FM radio system including an integrated FM radio transmitter and FM radio receiver, dynamically generating a list of local FM channels, ranking local FM channels in the generated list, and selecting one of the ranked local... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080233884 - Stratospheric-based communication system for mobile users using additional phased array elements for interference rejection: A communication system has a stratospheric platform with a payload controller and a phased array antenna having a plurality of main array elements for generating a plurality of communication beams and a plurality of auxiliary elements for canceling interference between the communication beams. A gateway station communicates with the stratospheric... Agent: The Directv Group, Inc. Patent Docket Administration

20080233885 - System and method for dynamically improving call connection: A method for controlling an output of a power amplifier of a portable communication device includes determining a power level of a signal received at the portable communication device, generating a receive reference signal (RXLEV) that is indicative of the power level of the signal received at the portable communication... Agent: Michael J. Tempel Smith Frohwein Tempel

20080233886 - Method for scheduling of service data in downlink, a base station, a user terminal and a communication network therefor: The invention concerns a method for scheduling of service data intended to be sent from a base station (BS1) over radio interfaces to a user terminal (UE1) by means of at least one control message sent from the base station (BS1) to the user terminal (UE1), whereby said at least... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080233887 - Classmark change message system and method: A mobile station is provided. The mobile station includes a processor programmed to promote sending a classmark change message responsive to receiving a command from a network, wherein the command requires a capability that the mobile station does not possess.... Agent: Research In Motion Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20080233890 - Method and system for auto detecting and auto switching antennas in a multi-antenna fm transmit/receive system: Methods and systems for auto detecting and auto switching antennas in a multi-antenna FM transmit/receive system are disclosed and may include detecting when an external antenna may be coupled to an external port of the wireless device and utilizing the external antenna for transmitting and/or receiving FM signals. The decoupling... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080233889 - Method and system for simultaneous fm transmission and fm reception using a shared antenna and a direct digital frequency synthesizer: Certain aspects of a method and system for simultaneous FM transmission and FM reception using a shared antenna and a direct digital frequency synthesizer (DDFS) may be disclosed. In a FM transceiver that receives FM signals at a frequency f1 and transmits FM signals at a frequency f2, aspects of... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080233888 - Multi-band antenna: An antenna comprising: (a) a conductive ground plane; and (b) a rod shaped monopole element having a conductive surface, oriented out from the ground plane and having a length selected for a first radio frequency band, the monopole element having a current suppressing element conductively attached and surrounding the surface... Agent: Dov Rosenfeld

20080233891 - Method and system for wireless communication using integrated clock generation for bluetooth and fm transmit and fm receive functions: A method and system for wireless communication using integrated clock generation for Bluetooth and FM transmit and FM receive functions may include generating a clock signal to enable transmission and/or reception of Bluetooth signals; and clocking a Direct Digital Frequency Synthesizer (DDFS) via the generated clock signal to generate one... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080233892 - Method and system for an integrated vco and local oscillator architecture for an integrated fm transmitter and fm receiver: Aspects of a method and system for an integrated local oscillator generator for an integrated FM radio are provided. In this regard, a FM radio receive path and/or a FM radio transmit path may utilize one or more signals which are a frequency scaled version of a generated signal. In... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080233893 - Wireless tranceiver configuration with self-calibration for improved out of band interferer rejection: The present wireless transceiver includes a tuneable narrow band LNA which rejects dramatically any out of band interferers. The tuneable narrow band LNA may be operable over a wide frequency band. A loopback calibration procedure is used to control the tuneable narrow band LNA so as to produce a substantially... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20080233894 - Reduction of second-order distortion caused by transmit signal leakage: This disclosure describes techniques for reducing adverse effects of TX signal leakage in a full-duplex, wireless communication system. In particular, the disclosure describes techniques for reducing adverse effects of second order distortion of TX signal leakage. To reduce or eliminate second order distortion of transmit signal leakage, a wireless device... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080233895 - Digital cb system: A digital citizen band system includes several powered tower units dispersed along a plurality of drive routes. A single tower unit receives digital voice data in one of the channels from a single registered vehicle digital citizen band box in the vicinity of the tower and broadcasts digital voice data... Agent: Ernest D. Buff Ernest D. Buff And Associates, LLC.

20080233896 - Floating cable-fed information transceiver apparatus: Taught herein is a floating cable-fed information transceiver apparatus comprising a suspended object, an information transceiving device, a carrier, a power supply and a power cable line. The information transceiving device is connected to the suspended object. The power supply is disposed inside the carrier. One end of the power... Agent: Matthias Scholl

20080233897 - Method and system for simultaneous fm transmission on a selected channel and its corresponding image frequency: Aspects of a method and system for simultaneous signal transmission on multiple selected frequencies may include generating from a single baseband signal, a plurality of radio frequency transmission signals each at a different radio frequency, wherein the single baseband signal comprises an in-phase signal component and/or a quadrature signal component.... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080233898 - System and method for a time alignment analog notch: System and method for creating a time alignment analog notch. An embodiment includes a digital power amplifier coupled to an enable signal line and to a digital control bits bus, and a matching network coupled to the digital power amplifier. The matching network to provide impedance matching and the digital... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080233899 - High-frequency circuit device: A high-frequency circuit device is provided that achieves cost reduction and reduction in power consumption and does not require an additional high-frequency amplifier even when a transmission frequency band is newly added. The high-frequency circuit device has a configuration including a transmission amplifier circuit for transmitting high-frequency power from an... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson P.C.

20080233900 - Method and system for calibration in an fm transceiver system with off-chip control: Aspects of a method and system for calibration in an FM transceiver system with off-chip control may include, in an integrated FM system comprising an FM radio transmitter, an FM radio receiver and a common local oscillator, receiving one or more control signals that control calibration of the integrated FM... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080233901 - Radio communication apparatus and peak suppression method: A radio communication apparatus enabling reduction in peak-to-average power ratio without decreasing the transmission efficiency. In this apparatus, buffer section 103 temporarily stores input data prior to peak suppression. Peak detecting section 106 detects a peak with an amplitude level not less than a threshold. Peak cut section 107 reduces... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC

20080233902 - Method and apparatus for communicating precoding or beamforming information to users in mimo wireless communication systems: Methods and apparatus for communicating precoding or beamforming information to users are disclosed. A feedback signal including a reported preceding matrix index (PMI) is received and a determination made as to the state of the feedback. Precoding rules associated with the determined state are then used to select a precoding... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080233903 - Selection of filter coefficients for tranceiver non-linearity signal cancellation: Embodiments of a method and apparatus for selecting coefficients of a non-linear filter are disclosed. The non-linear filter receives a transmit signal and generates a non-linear replica signal of a transmit DAC of a transceiver. The method include applying a plurality of periodic test pattern signals to inputs of the... Agent: Teranetics Patent Dept.

20080233904 - Timing adjustment method for wireless communication apparatus: A wireless communication device including: a transmitter including two DA converter units which convert two digital signals into analog signals; a combiner which combines the analog signals; a distributor which extracts a portion of the combined signal as a feedback signal; an AD converter which converts the feedback signal; an... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080233905 - Sleep optimization for mobile devices in a wireless network: Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, a subscriber station in sleep mode is capable of sending and/or receiving traffic during sleep mode without violating the delay requirements of best effort traffic. Moreover, a subscriber station is capable of remaining in sleep and may optionally only be awaken in... Agent: Cool Patent, P.C. C/o Intellevate

20080233906 - Frequency converter, radio receiver: Disclosed is a frequency converter including: a passive type analog multiplier configured to output a multiplication result in a current; a buffer outputting a buffering current by buffering the current of the multiplication result; and a current-voltage converter current-voltage converting the buffering current. Alternately, disclosed is a frequency converter including:... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080233907 - Method and system for determining channel spacing and configuring an fm transmitter: In a wireless communication system which may include a mobile device having an integrated FM radio transmitter and a FM radio receiver, a geographic location of the mobile device may be determined. A FM channel map may be determined based on the location and the FM radio transmitter may be... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080233908 - Method and system for transmission or reception of fm signals utilizing a ddfs clocked by an rfid pll: The DDFS may be controlled via a control word from a processor. In this regard, the control word may determine a frequency and/or phase of the signals output by the DDFS. The control word may be switched between two or more values to generate different frequencies and/or phases in different... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080233909 - Broadcast frequency detection device: By detecting the broadcast frequency of a musical composition in radio broadcasting based on on-air information and now-on-air information being broadcast contents information, the broadcast frequency of each musical composition can be displayed on a display 26 without receiving and outputting radio broadcasting. Thereby, the user can recognize that which... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080233910 - Method and system for mitigating receiver saturation during simultaneous fm transmission and reception: Aspects of a method and system for mitigating receiver saturation during simultaneous FM transmission and reception may include detecting a power of an RF signal received at an antenna. A power of one or more baseband signal components corresponding to the RF signal may be determined. A power of signals... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080233911 - Method and system for utilizing a power source as an fm antenna for an integrated fm radio: Aspects of a method and system for utilizing a power source as an FM antenna for an integrated FM radio are provided. In this regard, aspects of the invention may enable reception of FM radio signals via an external component coupled to a power port of a communication device. In... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080233912 - Method and apparatus for power reduction for interconnect links: A power reduction proposal for a receiver circuit that adheres to a plurality of defined states and masking logic to mask the output of the squelch receiver. Furthermore, the proposal utilizes and counters to count the various timeout conditions. Consequently, the squelch receiver consumes less power and can be either... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080233913 - High linearity, low noise figure, front end circuit with fine step gain control: A system, method, and electrical circuit comprises a LNA signal line path comprising a LNA and a first signal mixer operatively connected to the LNA. The circuit further comprises an attenuator signal line path comprising an attenuator and a second signal mixer operatively connected to the attenuator; a radio frequency... Agent: Gibb & Rahman, LLC

20080233914 - Method and apparatus for frequency synthesizing: A method and an apparatus for frequency synthesizing are provided for a wireless communication system. In a frequency synthesizer, a phase lock loop (PLL) circuit generates a first elemental frequency based on a reference frequency and a unity frequency. A first division module then divides the first elemental frequency to... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080233915 - Signal processing circuit: A signal processing circuit is disclosed which comprises: an attenuating unit that attenuates a demodulated signal acquired by detecting a received signal; a detecting unit that detects a first signal indicating intensity of the demodulated signal; and an attenuation rate setting unit that sets an attenuation rate of the attenuating... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20080233916 - Signaling method to support geo-location emergency services: In a method to support geo-location emergency services in a wireless network, a request message is transmitted from a source base station of one vendor to a target base station of another vendor. For example, the request message might be sent subsequent to a wireless unit initiating an emergency services... Agent: Mccormick, Paulding & Huber LLP

20080233917 - Method for implementing charging in intelligent networks: A method for implementing charging in intelligent networks is provided, including: Step a: configuring a first paid service account as an attached account to a second paid service account, and setting an interface for invoking services and interface for deducting fees for the second paid service; Step b: when the... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080233918 - Content owner verification and digital rights management for automated distribution and billing platforms: Software application providers can connect to a common platform in order to offer access to and use of their applications and/or content to a global community of mobile device users through a variety of different media. The users are automatically charged via the user's billing account with the wireless network... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP Patent Department

20080233921 - Method and system for distributing data to mobile devices: In one aspect, embodiments provide a software component for controlling movement of an advertisement image on a mobile terminal, the mobile terminal comprising a display area and a processor, the software component comprising processable instructions defining movement of the advertisement image relative to the display area, wherein the instructions are... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080233920 - Method for producing authentication information: A method in a mobile station for a communication system includes determining if a security module installed in a mobile station is able to produce authentication information for use in a predetermined authentication procedure with a communication system. If not, the method includes generating key material using the security module,... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080233919 - System and method for limiting mobile device functionality.: The present invention relates to systems and methods that employ various mechanisms to selectively disable mobile device functionality. In general, mobile devices can be utilized to store personal and/or highly sensitive information such as bank account numbers, social security numbers, credit card numbers and the like. If the mobile device... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080233923 - E-mail distribution system, and e-mail distribution method: A method and device capable of automating registration of a transmission mail address allowed for reception in a white list and reducing a user burden without an input error is provided. From a mobile unit, in respect of registration of a transmission address allowed for reception in a white list... Agent: Muirhead And Saturnelli, LLC

20080233922 - System and method for remotely monitoring equipment with the aid of at control, device, radiocommunications module and corresponding program: The invention relates to a system for remotely monitoring equipment which makes it possible to interconnect at least one server and at least one remote equipment according to a predetermined protocol. The inventive system is associated with at least one remote equipment of radiocommunications means emitting and receiving AT instructions... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20080233926 - Electronic communications device status determination: Methods and systems are provided for alerting a calling or message sending party as to whether a desired receiving wireless electronic communication device is off or out of range for sending and receiving transmissions. When a call is placed to a wireless telephone or when a message or page is... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20080233927 - Location based service provider: The disclosed method and system provide extensible or stand-alone location enable services at granularity down to a stand alone service. The various interfaces are preferably specified via DTD or schemas for communication based on XML. This collection of services enable management of mobile device locations information, and real-time services. Mobile... Agent: Pitney Bowes Inc. 35 Waterview Drive

20080233928 - Method and apparatus for prompting a cellular telephone user with instructions: A method of instructing a user how to use a wireless communication device is disclosed and may include determining whether a feature on the wireless communication device has been utilized. When it is determined that the feature has not been utilized, the method may include notifying a presence of the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080233924 - Pushing a number obtained from a directory service into a stored list on a phone: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, by a directory service, a call from a user of a mobile phone requesting a number of a communication device associated with a callee. The number is then retrieved from a database by the directory service and then dialed to connect the mobile... Agent: The Law Offices Of Bradley J. Bereznak

20080233925 - System and method for context dependent service discovery for mobile medical devices: A medical communication system (10) comprises peer devices (44, 46) which provide medical services which are used for patient monitoring, patient management or other medical procedures involving patients and/or clinicians. A mobile device (12) includes a short-range interface device (22) for discovering peer devices (44, 46) and associated peer devices... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080233929 - Information processing device for notifying a requested address information to another information processing devices: According to an aspect of an embodiment, an information processing device for communicating with another information processing devices, the information processing device comprises: a storage unit for storing a table containing address information which is either permitted or not permitted to notify the another information processing devices; a processor for... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080233931 - Location service method and system: A location service method and system, the location service method implemented by receiving an emergency positioning request with respect to a target terminal using a location service system based upon a user plane, and providing the target terminal with connection information of a network entity which is to perform the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080233930 - Optimized messaging service-based media delivery: Media can be optimized for delivery via a messaging paradigm to a plurality of mobile communications handsets. In some implementations, advertisements are coupled to the media and delivered in a single message. Such advertisements can also be optimized for the recipient mobile communications handset. Related apparatus, systems, methods, and articles... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky And Popeo, P.c Attn: Patent Intake Customer No. 64046

20080233932 - Pre-programmed subscriber response: Methods and apparatuses are disclosed herein for providing pre-programmed responses to received communications. A communication is received and identified. The communication is associated with a pre-programmed response and a response to the communication is generated using the pre-programmed response. Additionally, a context for the pre-programmed response can be established and... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080233933 - Structured conference calls: A conference call is disclosed that is partitioned into two or more topics by a host. Participants to the conference call can then inform the illustrative embodiment which topic or topics they are interested in and where they can be reached over the course of the conference call. At that... Agent: Avaya Demont & Breyer, LLC

20080233934 - Teleconferencing system with multiple channels at each location: A method is disclosed that breaks the “one line, one location” paradigm of teleconferencing in the prior art. The teleconference bridge in the illustrative embodiment is able to utilize more than one audio channel from each location, where there are multiple signal sources present in the room. As a result,... Agent: Avaya Demont & Breyer, LLC

20080233935 - Location-based call control: An architecture is presented that automatically detects a location of a user and forwards messages to a pre-configured number associated with the detected location. A location system is provided that comprises a location component and a routing component. The location component publishes presence information of a mobile device. The presence... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080233936 - Method of constructing a quickconfig message in a 1xevolution data only (1xev-do) communication network and method of reducing call and handoff failure rates in the 1xev-do network without introducing additional call setup latencies: In a method of constructing a QuickConfig message in a 1x Evolution (1XEV) data only (EV-DO) communication network for broadcast by a base station of the network to a plurality of users served thereby, a Forward Traffic Valid (FTValid) bit in a field of the QuickConfig message is set to... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080233938 - Maritime radio interference management using position and radio frequency spectral energy detection: Embodiments are directed to avoiding interference between a maritime mobile radio network and a mobile radio network provided at a fixed position relative to the maritime mobile radio network. A current geographic position of the maritime network is determined. A minimum separation distance to be maintained between the two networks... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080233940 - Method and apparatus for handling random access procedure in a wireless communications system: A method for handling a random access procedure in a user equipment, called UE hereinafter, of a wireless communications system includes sending a negative acknowledgement to a network or not sending an acknowledgement corresponding to a message 4 to request retransmission of message 4 when the message 4 is not... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080233941 - Method and apparatus for handling random access procedure in a wireless communications system: A method for handling a random access procedure in a user equipment, called UE hereinafter, of a wireless communications system includes outputting a message 3 as a scheduled transmission not including a specific field indicating whether the UE has a cell Radio Network Temporary Identifier, called C-RNTI hereinafter, or not... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080233939 - Method for enhancing data transmission efficiency for a radio resource control procedure for a wireless communications system and related apparatus: A method for enhancing data transmission efficiency for a radio resource control, hereinafter called RRC, procedure for a user equipment, also called UE, of a wireless communications system includes initiating an RRC update procedure; sending an update message corresponding to the RRC update procedure to a network terminal; reselecting a... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080233937 - Mobile communication terminal and method: It is presented a method for providing a user interface of a mobile communication terminal comprising a mode switch actuator, where the mobile communication terminal has at least two operational modes. The method comprises the: detecting an actuation of the mode switch actuator; determining a first operational mode being a... Agent: Perman & Green

20080233943 - Network management apparatus and method of selecting base station for software update: A network management apparatus inputs a plurality of work dates and time periods to update software in a base station. The apparatus obtains an n-week average of the numbers of connection calls during each of the input time periods for each day of the week, based on statistical information about... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080233942 - System and method for remotely controlling a mobile terminal: Disclosed is a system for remotely controlling a mobile terminal in a mobile communication system. The mobile terminal receives a control command through a call link and performs an operation according to the received control command. An Internet service provider including a remote control emulator transmits a mobile terminal remote... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080233944 - Method, apparatus, computer program product and system for providing dynamic assignment of session capabilities: An apparatus for providing dynamic assignment of session capabilities such as buddy list capabilities includes a processing element. The processing element may be configured to receive a message associated with a communication session with a network node, acquire service plan based capabilities associated with the network node, receive device based... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080233945 - Methods and apparatus for identifying subscriber station mobility: Methods and apparatus for identifying a subscriber station which is in motion, determining a mobility metric indicative of a level of mobility of the subscriber station and varying or updating one or more operating parameters based on the mobility metric. An apparatus can determine a measure of mobility based on... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080233947 - Mobility management (mm) and session management (sm) for sae/lte: A system and method for using Mobility Management (MM) and Session Management (SM) procedures in an SAE/LTE system. The present invention modifies several MM and SM procedures that have been defined for other 3GPP access systems (such as GERAN, UTRAN) so that they meet the requirements of LTE/SAE. While the... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080233946 - Systems and methods of wireless communication: Systems and methods for wireless communication are provided. In a particular embodiment a base station device is disclosed that includes an interface coupled to a network to communicate with a central controller and a wireless transceiver adapted to communicate wirelessly with one or more portable devices via a local area... Agent: Toler Law Group

20080233948 - Wireless communications systems: A method for controlling uplink transmissions from a user device to an access point in a wireless telecommunications system is described. Each access point defines a communications cell, and the method comprises monitoring interference in an uplink channel at an access point, performing interference control actions at the access point... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080233949 - Method for updating a monitoring list of information identifying cells transferred by a base station of a wireless telecommunication network in a cell managed by the base station: m

20080233950 - Method of deactivating high-speed downlink operation in cell_fach state for a wireless communications system and related apparatus: To avoid degrading the packet transmission performance, a method for improving a determining procedure of stopping a high speed downlink operation corresponding to a CELL_FACH state for a user equipment, also called UE, in the CELL_FACH state in a wireless communications system is provided. The method includes changing a setting... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080233951 - Wireless communication system and monitoring apparatus selectable optimum wireless communication method: In a wireless communication system including a plurality of base station controllers different in wireless communication method, each of which accommodates a plurality of base stations, a home agent apparatus connected to the base station controllers, and a monitoring apparatus connected to each of the base stations and the base... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher

20080233952 - Techniques for providing broadcast services on spot beam satellites: Techniques for providing broadcast services on spot beam satellite are provided. These techniques enable the mission of a spot beam satellite system to be changed from providing spot beam transmission to broadcast transmissions, and vice versa, without requiring that the satellite be reconfigured. Broadcast data may be encoded and transmitted... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP Viasat, Inc (client #017018)

20080233953 - Multi-modal portable communications gateway: A multi-modal portable communications gateway is disclosed. The multi-modal portable communication gateway may include a communication interface, a controller that controls the operation of the multi-modal portable communication gateway, a power supply unit that enables power to be provided to the multi-modal portable communication gateway, wherein the controller signals the... Agent: Prass & Irving, LLP

20080233955 - Method and apparatus for performing inter-system searches in idle mode: Techniques for performing searches by a user equipment (UE) are described. The UE may camp on a serving cell for a first radio access technology (RAT) (e.g., GSM) and may periodically perform searches for a second RAT (e.g., WCDMA). In an aspect, the UE may vary the rate of searches... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080233954 - Method and system for processing results derived from detecting channels suitable for fm transmission in an integrated fm transmit/receive system: A method and system is provided for enabling communication, where a FM radio system including an integrated FM radio transmitter and FM radio receiver may use an in-band FM or out of band transmitter to communicate a dynamically generated list with alternate local FM channels to an in-band or out... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080233956 - Method and system for location-based communication: A method and system for location-based communication. A selection of a source transceiver from a plurality of available transceivers associated with a source may be received. A telephony session may be initiated with the selected source transceiver. A mobile target transceiver may be geographically located. A result of the geographic... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080233957 - Profile information synchronization system, profile information synchronization method, mobile terminal device and profile information synchronization server: Profile information of mobile terminal devices of users is synchronized by transmitting profile information of a user of a mobile terminal device along with a group identification information to a profile information synchronization server, registering by the server received profile information in correspondence with received group identification information, based upon... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080233961 - Apparatus and method for performing handover in broadband wireless communication system: An apparatus and method for performing handover in a broadband wireless communication system are provided. A communication method includes broadcasting, by a Base Station (BS), a neighbor advertisement message including neighbor cell information through each Frequency Allocation (FA); analyzing the neighbor cell advertise message by a plurality of Media Access... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080233960 - Enabling down link reception of system and control information from intra-frequency neighbors without gaps in the serving cell in evolved-utra systems: Simplified communication between user equipment and a neighboring cell not the primary cell is achieved by restricting the transmission parameters, such as bandwidth, of the neighboring cell transmission and provision of a simplified secondary baseband processor in the user equipment.... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080233959 - Method and arrangement for optimizing the operational times and cell exchange performance of mobile terminals: The invention at hand involves a method and an arrangement for optimizing the operational times and cell exchange performance of mobile terminals in a mobile communication network having adjacent radio cells. The mobile terminal temporarily stores network specific characteristics for adjacent radio cells which are not suitable for cell exchange... Agent: Baker & Daniels LLP 111 E. Wayne Street

20080233958 - Methods and apparatus for mobility influenced handoff: In a wireless communication system, a mobility factor is used to influence handoff. If a subscriber station has been in a low mobility state for some period of time, the system may handoff operation from a first service type to a second service type. If the mobility factor indicates that... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080233962 - Techniques for always on always connected operation of mobile platforms using network interface cards: An embodiment of the present invention provides an apparatus, comprising a network interface (NIC) card operable in communication with a mobile platform to monitor network traffic and perform filtering to enable decreased system resource use in said mobile platform when in an Always On Always Connected (AOAC) state.... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080233963 - Apparatus, method and computer program product providing auxiliary handover command: An auxiliary handover message is sent from a target eNB to a UE being handed over from a source eNB. The auxiliary handover message includes a context identifier that is established between the source eNB and the UE, which the source eNB provides to the target eNB during context data... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080233965 - Method and system for adaptive allocation of feedback resources for cqi and transmit pre-coding: Aspects of a method and system for adaptive allocation of feedback resources for CQI and transmit pre-coding may include assigning a bandwidth and a feedback period to one or more CQI reporting units and a bandwidth and a feedback period to one or more PMI reporting units. One or more... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080233964 - Uplink control channel allocation: Various methods of allocating uplink control channels in a communication system are implemented at a resource scheduler or a user equipment (UE). In one method the scheduler reserves resources for a downlink data channel and signals a corresponding downlink data channel grant and also reserves resources for a persistent uplink... Agent: Law Office Of Charles W. Bethards, LLP

20080233966 - Resource allocation apparatus and method in an orthogonal frequency division multiple access communication system: A novel and useful method and system for resource allocation in OFDM communication systems. The mechanism reduces inter-cell interference by randomizing the inter-cell interference experienced in each cell. The mechanism effectively spreads the resource allocation in each cell in a random manner resulting in statistical-like inter-cell interference behavior. In many... Agent: Zaretsky Patent Group PC

20080233968 - Apparatus and method for downlink scheduling in a multi antenna wireless communication system: An apparatus and method for downlink scheduling in a multi antenna wireless communication system are provided. The apparatus includes a receiver for receiving channel information of at least one mobile station that is selected as an active user by a base station, a judgment unit for judging whether it feeds... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080233967 - Backhaul communication for interference management: System(s) and method(s) are provided for inter-cell interference management in a wireless communication system. A base station perform interference management by conveying and receiving load indicator messages over a backhaul communication link to disparate neighboring base stations that serve interfering mobile stations. Reporting of load indicators takes place according to... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080233969 - Call routing based on physical location of called party: A system may include a locator device to track a location of a user, store information identifying locations of a group of telephone devices, and identify one telephone device of the group of telephone devices based on the location of the one telephone device and the location of the user... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080233971 - Facilitating use of a device based on short-range wireless technology: Various devices may include a short-range wireless transmitter and/or one or more short-range wireless readers. When a first device including the transmitter is placed near a second device including the one or more readers, a relative location of the first device may be determined. Information regarding the relative location of... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080233970 - Satellite aided location tracking and data services using geosynchronous and low earth orbit satellites with global locating system: A system and method for satellite aided location tracking and data services using geosynchronous (GEO) and low earth orbit (LEO) satellites with global locating system. In one embodiment, a mobile terminal is designed for communication with both GEO and LEO satellites. This dual satellite functionality enables the asset tracking service... Agent: Law Office Of Duane S. Kobayashi

20080233972 - Wireless communication system: According to an aspect of an embodiment, a communication system comprisies: a) a mobile communication terminal; b) a first apparatus comprising: and a controller for controlling communication with the mobile communication terminal and for receiving a local information from the mobile communication terminal, c) a second apparatus comprising: a controller... Agent: Hanify & King Professional Corporation

20080233973 - Transponder subsystem for supporting location awareness in wireless networks: The present invention is related to an apparatus and method for determining the location of a communication device within a wireless network in order to provide a geolocation functionality to the communication device participating under an access protocol of a wireless local-area network (WLAN) infrastructure such as IEEE 802.11 or... Agent: Louis Paul Herzberg

20080233976 - Method and arrangement for avoiding colisions between access attempts in a mobile communication network: A method and an arrangement for avoiding collision between first access attempts of at least two mobile stations being paged in a cell of a mobile communication network, wherein a paging message in a downlink channel comprises a pre-determined access order for the mobile stations being paged, whereby a first... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080233974 - Multimedia broadcast and multicast service notification in long term evolution: Methods, devices, and systems have various user equipment (UE) for reading multimedia broadcast and multicast service (MBMS) notifications via one or more paging indicators of a Paging Indication Channel (PICH). The paging indicators of the PICH functions as MBMS notification indicators, signaling the relevant UE to read the MBMS point-to-multipoint... Agent: Michael Blaine Brooks, PC

20080233975 - Paging method and apparatus for heterogeneous wireless network system: In a heterogeneous wireless network system, a apparatus for notifying a mobile station of existence of traffic from a network to which the mobile station is not connected receives an identifier of the mobile station from the network to which the mobile station is not connected. The apparatus checks the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080233977 - Method, device and system for accessing mobile device user information: A method, device and system for accessing mobile device user information. A Personal Content Server (PCS) is used to store mobile device user information for one or more mobile device end users. The mobile device user information can be accessed and downloaded, via a communication network, to one or more... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20080233978 - Wireless handset and wireless headset with wireless transceiver: A wireless handset or wireless headset includes a Bluetooth transceiver that is coupleable to an external Bluetooth compatible device, that sends the first audio data to the external Bluetooth compatible device and that receives the second audio data from the external Bluetooth compatible device. The Bluetooth transceiver includes a first... Agent: Toler Law Group

20080233984 - Cross-carrier content upload, social network and promotional platform: Described is a system for handling multimedia content with a wireless network. The concept is a cross-carrier mobile social network and promotional platform for submitting content (e.g., photos, videos, and/or audio) taken with a camera phone to the Internet via short code. By combining mobile messaging, short codes, MMS, camera... Agent: Whitaker Law Group

20080233983 - Home network control apparatus, home network service system using home network control apparatus and control method thereof: A home network service system using an SMS service, the home network service system including: a text message processor to receive a text message; and a home network control apparatus to control a home network device according to the text message by converting a control signal corresponding to the text... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080233979 - Method for implementing a push service: This invention provides a method for implementing a Push service, which is used to solve the problems of low delivery success rate and relatively long time delay. The method includes the following steps: a Push Initiator (PI) submitting a Push message to a Push Proxy Gateway (PPG); the PPG sending... Agent: Occhiuti Rohlicek & Tsao, LLP

20080233982 - System and method for enabling short message services between wireless and wireline communication systems: A computing system configured to receive an SMS message generated by a wireless device and include an indicia of an address, such as a telephone number, associated with a destination wireline device (e.g., telephone). The computing system may be configured to access a database located on a network and to... Agent: Patton Boggs, LLP

20080233981 - System and method for using sms and tagged message to send position and travel information to server and/or to peers: The GPS position or other short information related to a wireless telephone is encapsulated in a tagged protocol such as XML and sent using short message service (SMS) to peers or Internet servers, which can parse the tagged messages and extract, e.g., position information for display on a map.... Agent: Rogitz & Associates

20080233985 - Telephone system, telephone set and portable device: A telephone system according to one aspect of the invention comprises: a portable device; and a telephone set with which the portable device can be registered as an additional device. The telephone system comprises a transmission unit configured to periodically transmit a beacon to the registered portable device, and an... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080233980 - Translation and display of text in picture: A method performed by a mobile terminal may include receiving an image that includes text, translating the text into another language and superimposing and displaying the translated text over the received image.... Agent: Harrity Snyder, L.L.P.

20080233986 - Transmission of handwriting over sms protocol: The invention provides a method of transmitting a handwriting pattern over Simple Message Service (SMS), comprising the steps of: (a) normalizing a set of points forming the handwriting pattern to produce a homogenized set of points representing the handwriting pattern; (b) compressing the homogenized set of points into a data... Agent: Lewis, Brisbois, Bisgaard & Smith LLP

20080233987 - Communication apparatus: A communication apparatus including: a main device having a rest portion and communicable with an external device; and a wireless device which is permitted to be placed on the rest portion and is communicable with the main device through a wireless communication so as to be communicable with the external... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080233988 - Method and apparatus for neighbor cell synchronization: The present invention is directed to a neighbor cell synchronization method for a mobile communication unit. The method includes selecting a neighbor cell according to a scheduling mechanism; determining a synchronization window according to a communicating mode of the mobile communication unit; and searching or decoding specific logic channels within... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080233989 - Apparatus and method for transmitting/receiving channel quality information in a communication system: An apparatus and method for transmitting/receiving a Channel Quality Information (CQI) in a communication system are provided. A Mobile Station (MS) receives first information indicating a representative MS selected from a group of MSs located within a preset range and in similar channel statuses, the group including the MS, determines... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20080233990 - Method for implementing push-to-talk over sip and multicast rtp related system: A method of implementing push-to-talk (PTT) communication between network phone clients utilizing Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and multicast RTP, includes pushing a “Talk” button on a talking client to generate a PTT invitation message (via SIP INVITE or MESSAGE), transmitting the PTT invitation message from... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080233991 - Method and apparatus for determining appropriate channels for communication: During operation of a secondary communication system 100, a device will perform spectrum sensing of certain channels (either by itself or as part of a group of nodes 104). When activity is found on a channel from a primary user, other devices will be notified that the channel is not... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080233994 - Digital modulator and method for initiating ramp power transitions in a mobile handset transmitter: A digital modulator for a portable handset using 8PSK or EDGE modulation with a direct launch transmitter is used to controllably adjust the transmit power of the portable handset. The digital modulator includes a controller coupled between a memory and an accumulator. The controller is responsive to an indication that... Agent: Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha, LLC

20080233993 - Method of controlling transmit power in wireless communication system: A method of controlling a transmit power includes determining a power control parameter of an assigned timeslot, wherein the value of the power control parameter is a default value if the assigned timeslot is assigned with no power control parameter and the value of the power control parameter is the... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080233995 - Power control for a channel with multiple formats in a communication system: Techniques to more efficiently control the transmit power for a data transmission that uses a number of formats (e.g., rates, transport formats). Different formats for a given data channel (e.g., transport channel) may require different target SNIRs to achieved a particular BLER. In one aspect, individual target BLER may be... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080233992 - Resource allocation in a communication system: Methods and corresponding systems for determining a transmit power in a mobile device include receiving, in the mobile device, a cell-wide power control parameter related to a target receive power at a serving base station. Thereafter, a transmit power is calculated in response to the cell-wide power control parameter and... Agent: Law Office Of Charles W. Bethards, LLP

20080233997 - Information processing apparatus: The present invention is capable of preferably performing the establishment of a session using a predetermined protocol. In a mobile phone device applicable to an information processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention, the CPU of a main control unit executes NAI middleware, performs connection using a... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080233996 - Method and apparatus for motion-based communication: A handheld device user may engage in motion-based communication with a target user over a wireless network. In one embodiment, a plurality of movements are associated with a plurality of corresponding communications. Upon detection of a handheld device motion, a determination may be made as to whether the handheld device... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080233998 - Wide bandwidth transceiver: The wide bandwidth transceiver includes a receiver section, a transmitter section, and a local oscillation module. The local oscillation module generates a first and a second local oscillation. The transmitter section converts an outbound baseband signal and/or a low intermediate frequency (IF) signal into a first outbound radio frequency (RF)... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080233999 - Image recognition for placing a call: A mobile station device (22) includes a camera (24) and a calling module (40) that uses information regarding images captured by the camera (24) for automatically placing a call from the mobile station device (22). An example method includes determining a number to call based on an image captured by... Agent: Docket Administrator Lucent Technologies Inc.

20080234000 - Method for playing a request on a player device: The present invention relates to a method for playing a request on a player device. The method includes the step of transmitting a pen stroke corresponding to a first one of a number of possible applications to a server. A form is then submitted to the first application. The method... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080234001 - Wireless communications methods and devices selecting configurations from multiple configurations stored in nonvolatile memory: A wireless communications device obtains a configuration identifier and selects a wireless communications configuration from among a plurality of wireless communications configurations stored in a non-volatile memory of the wireless communications device based on the configuration identifier. The wireless communications device applies the selected wireless communications configuration to configure the... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20080234003 - Apparatus and method for cancelling frequency offset interference in a broadband wireless communication system: An apparatus and method for detecting a signal in a broadband wireless communication system are provided. In a Base Station, an offset estimator estimates frequency offsets of a signal received from each of a plurality of Mobile Stations (MSs), a channel estimator estimates a channel matrix having channel coefficients of... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080234002 - Base station apparatus, communication method, and computer readable storage medium storing program thereof: The base station apparatus 10 stores apprise status data of certain data to each in-vehicle apparatus within a zone managed by the base station apparatus 10, transmits apprise status data stored in the status storage to other base station apparatuses, updates apprise status data stored in the status storage in... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080234004 - Accessing a multimedia service from a mobile terminal: To access to a multimedia service designated by a call number in a mobile terminal connected to a radio communication network, a server predefines a correspondence table comprising call numbers associated with respective service identifiers and transmit it to the mobile terminal which stores it. When a call number is... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080234005 - Method and apparatus for selective access of display data sequencing in mobile computing devices: A method and apparatus for selective control of display data sequencing in a mobile computing device is disclosed. The method may include storing a plurality of display data sequencing instruction sets in a memory of the mobile computing device, each of the display data sequencing instruction sets being usable for... Agent: Prass & Irving LLP

20080234006 - Method and mobile device for facilitating contact from within a telephone application: The described embodiments involve use of a mobile communication device in the context of facilitating contact from within a telephone application. The described embodiments are primarily concerned with enabling quick and efficient access to contact methods other than by telephone from within the telephone application. This is done by generating... Agent: Bereskin And Parr

20080234007 - Mobile communication terminal for providing backgroud picture during communication: A mobile communication terminal provides a still or motion picture as a background picture during communication to allow the terminal to perform voice communication with a counterpart terminal using a stored background picture. In the terminal, a memory stores at least one background picture, each including a picture signal corresponding... Agent: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

20080234008 - Radio-frequency telephone set: A radio-frequency telephone set including (a) a powered antenna element having a power supply portion, and (b) a substrate having a dielectric layer, a first conductive layer formed on one of opposite surfaces of the dielectric layer, and a second conductive layer formed on the other of said opposite surfaces,... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080234011 - Charging communication-adaptor for mobile device: A charging communication-adaptor has such an arrangement that, when a mobile device is attached, communication terminals of the mobile device and the charging communication-adaptor make a contact first, and then the charging terminals of the mobile device and the charging communication-adaptor make a contact.... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080234010 - Mobile phone apparatus: A mobile phone apparatus is provided. The mobile phone apparatus includes a charger for supplying power to a rechargeable battery including a connection portion and a main telephone unit. The main telephone unit includes a rechargeable battery detection unit which detects whether the connection portion of the rechargeable battery is... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20080234009 - System and devices for inductive charging of a wearable electronic device: Disclosed is a wearable electronic device including an earmount. The earmount includes an inductor configured to convert an alternating magnetic field to alternating current. The device also includes a rectifier circuit coupled to the inductor and configured to convert alternating current to direct current for trickle charging, and a rechargeable... Agent: Motorola Inc

20080234012 - Scheduling for power savings in a wireless network: In a wireless network, a wireless device may dynamically estimate how long it can remain in a sleep mode without missing out on a necessary opportunities to communicate within the network. In some embodiments, this estimate may be based on a combination of things such as the amount of data... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080234013 - Mobile phone holder, especially for mechanical vehicle: Taught is a mobile phone holder, especially for a mechanical vehicle, having a two-part body with side clamps and provided with a coupling/locking module, which has two step-shaped side clamps (10) on both of its sides. The side clamps are provided with a tooth (14) on their upper arm and... Agent: Matthias Scholl

20080234014 - Sliding-type portable terminal: A sliding-type portable terminal is provided. The portable terminal includes a first housing, a first guide member fixed to the first housing, a slide member coupled to the first guide member while facing the first guide member, the slide member being adapted to slide in a first direction under guidance... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20080234015 - Receiving device and antenna: An antenna, to be connected to a receiving device for receiving broadcast waves in first and second frequency bands, includes a core-wire-side cable for transmitting a signal or an electric power used in the receiving device, and a covered wire for covering a part of the core-wire-side cable from a... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080227383 - Digital content transmitting apparatus, digital-content control web page data transmitting apparatus, and methods of controlling operation of same: Content control information corresponding to the model of a mobile telephone that has requested a moving picture file is transmitted to this mobile telephone. When the moving picture file is requested by the mobile telephone, the model of the mobile telephone is specified by a model specifying unit. Content control... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080227385 - Propagation of messages: Authenticated propagation of adverts to multiple mobile recipient devices, each having both wireless and mobile telephony capability, employs message generation platforms each having a content creation engine, a metadata inserter and a signature generator, for the wireless broadcast of the generated messages. A client application on each recipient device controls... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080227384 - Wireless pc to audio visual link assembly for a motion video distribution system: A wireless PC-to-TV Audio/Visual (A/V) link assembly for a video content distribution system is provided. The link assembly includes a symbiotic adapter, a wireless receiver, and a remote control. The symbiot has a control circuit including a data storage media, a remote control interface, a wireless A/V transmitter for transmitting... Agent: Moetteli & Associates Sarl

20080227386 - Pilot transmission by relay stations in a multihop relay communication system: Techniques to support multihop relay in a wireless communication system are described. In an aspect, a relay station receives data and a first pilot from an upstream station, e.g., a base station or another relay station. The relay station derives a channel estimate based on the first pilot and performs... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080227387 - Los mimo beamforming: The invention discloses a point-to-point telecommunications system comprising a first transmitter which transmits information to a first receiver via electromagnetic waves. The first transmitter transmits on a number of antenna using a first frequency on at least a first and a second of said beams, and the first and second... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080227388 - Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving data using multi-user superposition coding in a wireless relay system: A method and apparatus for joint unicast using multi-user superposition coding in a wireless relay system are provided. A BS superposition-encodes first and second data messages directed to first and second MSs, respectively, scheduled at a current scheduling instant. The first and second data messages carry first and second information... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080227389 - Radio communication method, radio transmission apparatus and receiving apparatus: A radio communication method including, generating a first transmit RF signal and a second transmit RF signal from a data signal to be transmitted, each of the first and second transmit RF signals having a power spectrum in symmetric shape in the frequency domain, transmitting the first transmit RF signal... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080227391 - Apparatus and method for increased security of wireless transactions: A mobile communication device with security mechanisms is provided for enabling wireless personal information transfer with increased security. In another embodiment of the invention, a mobile communication device is used to confirm a transaction.... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080227390 - Method and system for relaying signals from a magneto-inductive system through a voice-band system: A system and method for relaying signals from a magneto-inductive system, which are normally used to communicate between magneto-inductive units using quasi-static magnetic fields, over a voice-band communication system. The magneto-inductive signals are modulated data signals having a carrier frequency typically between 300 Hz and 3 kHz. The voice-band communication... Agent: Houston Office Of Novak Druce And Quigg LLP

20080227392 - System and method for sense-areas for ad-hoc networking: A method and system are provided for electronic devices (10i, 30i, 40i, 50i, 60i) in a home network to have a sense area (310) for detecting one another. This sense area (310) eliminates participation of outsiders in a home network (100, 300, 400, 500, 600). To allow sense areas that... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080227393 - Method and system for pairing of wireless devices using physical presence: Techniques that facilitate pairing of wireless devices with other wireless devices are disclosed. Once paired, the wireless devices can exchange data in a wireless manner. According to one embodiment, a pairing process can be secured through use of physical proximity, or even physical connection, of wireless devices to be paired.... Agent: Technology & Innovation Law Group, PC

20080227394 - Receiving apparatus: A receiving apparatus is for receiving radio signals including image information transmitted by a mobile transmitting device through a plurality of receiving antennas. The receiving apparatus includes a plurality of frequency converters for outputting modulated signals obtained by converting respective radio signal received through the plurality of receiving antennas by... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20080227395 - Method for reducing an amount of feedback used in a mobile communication system: A method for feeding back a Channel Quality Indicator (CQI) in a mobile communication system is provided. The method includes determining a number of subchannels for which the MS feeds back CQIs based on a preset feedback efficiency factor, selecting the determined number of subchannels in a descending order of... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20080227396 - Communication system: A method for reducing ringing in a signal output from a filter comprising inputting a signal into a filter; filtering a first portion of the input signal to generate a filtered portion of the output signal; analyzing the filtered portion of the output signal; detecting if ringing is present in... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20080227397 - Group lmmse demodulation using noise and interference covariance matrix for reception on a cellular downlink: A method for filtering in a wireless downlink channel, where all dominant transmitting sources use inner codes from a particular set, includes the steps of estimating a channel matrix seen from a desired transmitter source in response to a pilot or preamble signal; converting the estimated channel matrix into an... Agent: Nec Laboratories America, Inc.

20080227398 - Method and apparatus for feedback overhead reduction in wireless communications: A method and apparatus for reducing feedback transmission overhead in wireless communications. Averaging, compression, or both are used to reduce a number of bits needed for transmission of channel quality information.... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080227399 - Mobile device system and mobile device: Provided is a mobile device system including a plurality of mobile devices. Each mobile device includes a status-detecting unit for detecting the status of that device, a communication unit for communicating with other mobile devices, a display unit, and a control unit. The control unit of each of the mobile... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080227400 - Methods and arrangements for noise rise estimation: A received total wideband power (61A) in a wireless communications system is measured a number of times during a time interval. Preferably, also code powers ((C/I)i) are measured, directly or indirectly. A probability distribution of a first power quantity (63A, 63B), typically total received power is estimated from the set... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080227401 - System and method for interference mitigation for wireless communication: Disclosed are systems and methods which provide interference mitigation by making alternative resources available within areas served by wireless communication links. Embodiments provide multiple channel availability in establishing wireless communication links to facilitate interference mitigation. Time domain techniques, spatial processing techniques, and/or frequency domain techniques may be implemented for spectrum... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.l.p

20080227402 - User guidance system, mobile communication terminal, and user guidance method: A user guidance system includes a communication history receiver receiving communication history information of a mobile communication terminal; a traffic information generator receiving resource state information from a base station and generating communication traffic information at the base station; a dissatisfaction calculator calculating a dissatisfaction with a recommended action to... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080227403 - Wireless communication base station device and wireless communication method allowing use of plurality of communication schemes: A wireless communication base station device uses first and second wireless communication schemes. The device includes a command transmitting section and a terminal detecting section. The command transmitting section generates a shift command for a shift from the first wireless communication scheme to the second wireless communication scheme. The command... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080227404 - Method, apparatus and system for providing feedback to a transmit diversity device: A method and system for improving closed loop feedback in transmit diversity communication. In one embodiment of the invention, a predetermined variation of one or more transmit diversity parameters is performed at the transmit diversity transmitter. The receiver compares the transmit diversity parameter values of the received signals to the... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20080227405 - Method, apparatus and system for providing transmit diversity feedback: A receiver, or base station, may calculate the signal quality improvement based on a change in a diversity control parameter, for example, a phase difference or a power ratio among two or more antennas, by comparing a received signal power level to an expected power level, assuming no change in... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20080227406 - Method and apparatus for random access channel probe initialization using transmit diversity: Embodiments of the present invention extend the benefits of mobile transmit diversity to the initialization phase of communication with a base station over a random access channel. According to a method of the invention, the transmitter may attempt to initiate communication with a receiver by varying a transmit diversity parameter,... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20080227408 - Apparatus and method for switching frequency band of antenna: An apparatus and a method for switching a frequency band of an antenna, used in an electronic device having an antenna are provided. The apparatus comprises a driving device, a switching device, and a radio frequency module. The switching device is used for adjusting the frequency band of the antenna... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080227407 - Method and apparatus for automatically adjusting reminder volume on a mobile communication device: A method and apparatus for automatically adjusting volume of an audio signal on a mobile device, comprising playing the audio signal at an initial volume, sampling the audio signal, estimating a transfer function based on an echo path characteristic between the played audio signal and sampled audio signal, selecting a... Agent: Inter-tel (delaware), Inc. A Mitel Company

20080227409 - Wireless receiver with notch filter to reduce effects of transmit signal leakage: This disclosure describes techniques for reducing adverse effects of TX signal leakage in a full-duplex, wireless communication device. The techniques make use of a notch filter to reject TX signal leakage in a signal processed in the RX path of the wireless communication device. The notch filter may be constructed... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080227410 - Bi-directional signal interface and apparatus using same: A signal interface includes a dual-drive device having a first and a second input port that receive an outgoing signal. One of the first and the second input ports also receive an incoming signal. The dual-drive device passes the incoming signal to an output port while isolating the outgoing signal... Agent: Rauschenbach Patent Law Group, LLC

20080227411 - Wireless tractor-trailer communications: Computer-readable media, systems, and methods for wirelessly communicating between a tractor and a set of trailers in a tractor-trailer environment are described. In embodiments, a tractor wireless communication device associated with a tractor is initialized and associated with a tractor initialization time. Additionally, a trailer wireless communication device associated with... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon, L.L.P. (c/o Intermec)

20080227412 - Intelligent scanning system and method for walkie-talkie devices: A method and system for scanning channels in a network for incoming audio transmissions. A device enters an intelligent scanning mode, which initiates an automatic scanning of predefined channels for incoming audio transmissions. Upon detection, the device tunes to the channel of the incoming audio transmission while continually searching channels... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20080227416 - Arrangement for controlling individual antennas of an antenna arrangement: An arrangement for controlling individual antennas of an antenna arrangement in a magnetic resonance apparatus has a device for signal division. This device is designed such that each transmission signal present at an input of the device for signal division is divided among all outputs of the device for signal... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20080227413 - Imbalanced transmission combining at radio base station: A radio base station (20) comprises an antenna (22); a first power amplifier (241) configured to receive a first carrier signal; a second power amplifier (242) configured to receive a second carrier signal; and an imbalanced combiner (30). The imbalanced combiner (30) is configured to apply a power imbalanced combined... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080227417 - Method, apparatus and system for controlling a transmit diversity device: A method of operating a transmit diversity device, wherein upon detection of a phase instability condition a power setting, such as a ratio of transmission power between different antennas, may be modified.... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20080227415 - Method, apparatus and system for phase difference adjustment in transmit diversity: A method and apparatus for using an antenna selection signal for selecting a transmit diversity parameter, including phase difference and/or power ratio between concurrently transmitting antennas.... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20080227414 - System, method and apparatus for transmit diversity control based on variations in propagation path: A method and apparatus for applications of identification of variations of propagation path to transmit diversity control. Transmit diversity parameters may be modified according to detected dynamics, which may, for example, be related to changes in actual propagation and network conditions. Such dynamics may be referred to as mobility parameters.... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20080227418 - Rf radio and method for monitoring multiple channels to acquire warning alert data: An RF radio and a method of monitoring warning alert data is provided. The RF radio includes a radio receiver for receiving broadcast radio wave signals, and a tuner adjustable for selecting radio wave signal channels within AM and FM radio bands and radio wave signal channels within a weather... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20080227419 - Retractable cell phone clip: A Retractable Cell Phone Clip wherein a retractable metal cord is pulled out of a case by a bob with a key ring connector securing unit attached to a universal cell phone string securing unit with a cell phone whereby a cell phone remains attached to the metal cord and... Agent: Karen Powell Traub

20080227420 - Multipoint voltage and current probe system: A metrology system monitors radio frequency (RF) power at a plurality of locations in a circuit. The system includes a plurality of RF sensors that generate respective analog signals based on electrical properties of the RF power, a multiplexing module that generates an output signal based on the analog signals,... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080227421 - Reducing power consumption in receivers employing conversion to intermediate frequency: A receiver to recover a signal of interest while consuming reduced power in some scenarios. The receiver contains a in-phase channel processing path and a quadrature phase channeling path for down converting an input signal to an intermediate frequency, and then recovering the signal of interest by further processing of... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080227422 - Apparatus and method for interference cancellation in multi-antenna system: An apparatus and method for interference cancellation in a multi-antenna system are provided. A transmission apparatus includes a channel identifier, a scheduler, an interference canceller, and a transmitter. The channel identifier identifies channel information of each of a plurality of receiving ends located in a service area and neighbor cell... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20080227423 - Method to enable open loop antenna transmit diversity on channels having dedicated pilots: Methods, computer-readable media, and devices are provided that support antenna diversity in a communication system. In an exemplary method, a signal is received from a first device at a second device in a first channel. A determination is made concerning whether or not transmit diversity is applied to the first... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080227424 - Methods and apparatus to perform radio frequency (rf) analog-to-digital conversion: Methods and apparatus to perform radio frequency (RF) analog-to-digital conversion are described. According to one example, a receiver includes an amplifier to amplify received analog RF signals and a mixer-free circuit for converting the received analog RF signals to digital signals.... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080227425 - Apparatus for implementing enhanced hand shake protocol in microelectronic communication systems: A method and apparatus are provided for implementing an enhanced hand shake protocol for microelectronic communication systems. A transmitter and a receiver is coupled together by a transmission link. The transmitter receives an idle input. The idle input is activated when the transmitter is not transmitting data and the transmitter... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept 917

20080227426 - Structure of a car multimedia wireless transmitting and receiving device: A multimedia wireless transmitting and receiving device includes a main device body, and a base member connected to both the main device body and a car cigarette lighter socket; the main device body has an FM transmitter for transmitting FM signals receivable by a radio of the car; the main... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080227427 - Method and system for responding to an emergency situation from a mobile communication device: A method and system for responding to an emergency situation from a mobile communication device (100) is provided. The method includes initiating (306) a call to an emergency services number using a first modem (202) of the mobile communication device. The first modem communicates with a communication system via a... Agent: Motorola, Inc

20080227428 - Method and apparatus for emergency broadcast using an emergency broadcast-multicast service: Methods, apparatus and media for receiving emergency broadcast information in a broadcast-multicast service of a communication system. The methods, apparatus and media include scheduling a broadcast of emergency broadcast information in designated control channel cycles for designated subscriber stations. The control channel cycles are transmitted with the designated control channel... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080227430 - Adding emergency numbers to a mobile address book: In one embodiment, a method and corresponding apparatus provide a user with emergency service information which is significant to the user's location. A user's address book is updated with emergency service information for at least one emergency service, the emergency service information is based on the user's location, and the... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20080227429 - Enhanced handling of duress situations: A wireless communications device can be triggered by a user in a duress situation to provide to a predetermined recipient, or to a monitoring service, a duress message containing emergency-response information, such as GPS coordinates, a photograph and/or an audio clip to facilitate an emergency response to the duress situation.... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP

20080227431 - Data processing system and method, communication system and method, and charging apparatus and method: In a communication system for serving data corresponding to a request from the user and charging the user for the data served to the user, when the user designates a result of a desired one of a plurality of different operations, a usage management unit selects a one, corresponding to... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20080227432 - Activating the unlocking of a mobile terminal: The invention concerns a method for activating unlocking of a mobile terminal (TM) to be connected to a radio communication network (RR) and co-operating with a smart card (CP), wherein an unlocking activating indicator stored in a first state in the card is periodically read by an application of the... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080227433 - Method and system for multimedia message service communication: An interactive method, a user terminal and a communication system am provided for multimedia message services. The method comprises the steps of receiving a multimedia message from a server; generating a page displaying or playing the multimedia message at a user terminal, wherein one or more controllers are embedded into... Agent: Louis Paul Herzberg

20080227435 - Apparatus and method for sending video content to a mobile device: An apparatus and method for sending video content to a mobile device is described. According to one embodiment, a computer-implemented method comprising embedding a widget in a website, the widget generating a form. The form is provided when a user visits the website so as to execute the widget. The... Agent: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLPIPProsecution Department

20080227434 - Telecommunication system used with a means for transporting passengers and cargo: A mobile terminal UE accesses a CN and utilizes the Internet via a base station Node-B. When riding an electric train, the mobile terminal UE receives a disembarkation notification and an embarkation notification from a RFID tag writer equipped on a train, and notifies the base station Node-B that the... Agent: Hanify & King Professional Corporation

20080227436 - Method and system for providing enhanced broadcast advertising: One example provides a broadcast device configured to display an advertisement for viewing by a user and a mobile client device configured to capture information relating to the advertisement from the broadcast device. The mobile client device determines whether the captured information is sufficient to allow the mobile client device... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin LLP

20080227437 - Multimedia communicator utilized to offer dedicated services: A multimedia communicator is disclosed. The multimedia communicator comprises a processing unit; and a storage device coupled to the processing unit. The multimedia communicator further includes a plurality of interfaces to allow the multimedia communicator to offer a user a plurality of services. The MMC which includes a microprocessor computing... Agent: Sawyer Law Group LLP

20080227438 - Conferencing using publish/subscribe communications: A method and system are for conferencing by exchanging conference communications between two or more participants includes publishing a conference communication to a message broker and subscribing to conference communications at a message broker. A subscription topic specifies one or more type or source of the communication. A conference communication... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080227439 - Emulation of private branch exchange behavior: An apparatus and methods are disclosed for use by organizations that have PBXs at a plurality of sites. The invention pertains to cell phone calls from an to his or her “home” private branch exchange. For example, an employee who works at the Chicago branch office might call the Chicago... Agent: Avaya Demont & Breyer, LLC

20080227440 - Methods and apparatus for discovering and updating a mobile device via user behavior: Apparatus and methods for dynamically updating a mobile device in response to a user's behavior. In one exemplary embodiment, a user interface (UI) of the device is capable of being updated based on the user's usage or other behavioral patterns. In one variant, a server and associated mobile portal are... Agent: Gazdzinski & Associates

20080227443 - Retransmission in a cellular communication system: An apparatus comprises a detection processor (203) for detecting retransmission feedback messages in response to a detection threshold. A threshold processor (207) determines the detection threshold in response to a noise estimate generated by a noise processor (209). The noise processor comprises a sub-symbol generator (211) which divides a retransmission... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080227441 - Systems and methods for a universal base station: Systems and methods for a universal base station are provided. In one embodiment, a base station for processing a plurality of communications channels for up to a plurality of network operators comprises a transceiver module communicatively coupled to up to a plurality of network operators, the transceiver module configured to... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20080227442 - Wireless communication method and apparatus for supporting reconfiguration of radio link control parameters: A variety of wireless communication methods and apparatus for supporting reconfiguration of radio link control (RLC) parameters are disclosed. A radio resource control (RRC) reconfiguration message is generated that indicates that an RLC unit in a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) or a universal terrestrial radio access network (UTRAN) should be... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080227444 - Maintaining continuity of a communication session: A system and method are provided for monitoring the quality of a communication session with a mobile device. Should the communication session degrade, rather than dropping the communication session the user of a device communicating with the mobile device is prompted to wait while an attempt is made to improve... Agent: Integral Intellectual Property Inc.

20080227445 - Paging scheme: Disclosed is a multi-access device including a communication unit including capabilities for communicating through access networks according to at least two different access technologies. The multi-access device receives a paging message at least through an access network according to one of the at least two different access technologies, selects one... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080227446 - Portable handheld satellite phone conversion module: A mobile communication device for communication and data transfer utilizing a satellite phone system including a module which replaces or supplements the battery of a satellite phone handset and includes an embedded micro-processor, a camera, a GPS unit, a compass, a mass storage device, a display screen and communication ports.... Agent: Mchale & Slavin, P.A.

20080227447 - Apparatus and method for performing cell selection to home cell or private network in a mobile communication system: An apparatus and method for performing cell selection to a Home cell or a Private network in a mobile communication system are provided, in which a User Equipment (UE) determines a candidate cell by measuring a serving cell and neighbor cells, receives an indicator indicating a Home cell or a... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080227448 - Apparatus and method for transmitting an uplink pilot using a scanning interval in a mobile communication system: An apparatus and method for transmitting an UpLink (UL) pilot using a scanning interval in a mobile communication system are provided. The method includes receiving a scanning response message including information on a UL pilot channel allocation mode from a serving Base Station (BS), measuring each DownLink (DL) channel state... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20080227449 - Pich-hs timing and operation: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate employing a paging indicator channel in connection with high speed channels in a wireless communications network. A paging indicator transmission can be sent on the paging channel to one or more mobile devices. The paging indicator indicates that additional information such as a... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080227451 - Home subscriber server configuration method and system: The present invention is to provide a home subscriber server configuration method and system that is accessible in switching to any one of plural HSS servers in a redundant configuration. Information stored in such plural HSS servers (e.g., HSS-A server 40A and HSS-B server 40B) are synchronized as identical information.... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20080227450 - Indoor call control apparatus associated with public mobile network: A public mobile terminal can use both of a public mobile communication service and an extension service while protecting an SIP message by an IP sec. An indoor call control apparatus that receives an INVITE message from the public mobile terminal has a destination determination table that determines whether the... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20080227453 - Cell reselection process for wireless communications: A method of cell reselection in a wireless communications system where parameters are transmitted by the network in system information blocks to WTRU's on the network. Parameters are either added or subtracted from an equation representing the signal power and/or quality of a cell. Parameters may be prioritized. The results... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080227454 - Handover in wireless communications: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate handing over mobile device communications in a wireless network from a source base station to a target base station without using a random access channel (RACH). In this regard, the source base station can request shared data bandwidth resources from the target base... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080227455 - Method and apparatus for optimizing neighbor list automatically in asynchronous wcdma network: A method for automatically optimizing a neighbor list for processing handover in an asynchronous WCDMA (Wide-band Code Division Multiple Access) network includes the steps of: collecting neighbor list data, call fault data, handover statistical data, base station location data and PSC information data of each base station sub-cell (or, sector)... Agent: Jones Day

20080227452 - Optimized network re-entry in a wireless communications network: A method for supporting entry of a remote unit (110) onto an access service network (ASN) (120, 122). A message (180, 182) can be received from the remote unit that includes an authenticator identifier. Contextual information associated with the remote unit can be requested from an authenticator ASN (126) corresponding... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080227456 - Techniques for reporting and simultaneous transmission mechanism to improve reliability of signaling: Methods, apparatus and computer program products perform signal quality measurements for signals from a plurality of cells served by an apparatus, and transmit indications of the signal quality measurements to the apparatus. The signal quality measurements may include CQI measurements. Transmitting may include transmitting indications of the signal quality measurements... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080227457 - Method and system for implementing terminal handover: A method and system for implementing terminal handover, the method include: receiving, by a serving handover (HO) function unit, a handover instruction from a network element on network; and implementing, by the serving HO function unit, the handover for the terminal in accordance with the handover instruction, and handing over... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20080227458 - Method and system for managing context of mobile station: A method for managing the context of the mobile station (MS) is applied in an MS handover process of a wireless access network. The function entity identification information of acting on the MS is carried in the context of the MS, and the MS addresses based on the function entity... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20080227459 - Methods and apparatus for the utilization of core based nodes for state transfer: Methods and apparatus for storing, manipulating, retrieving, and forwarding state, e.g., context and other information, used to support communications sessions with one or more end nodes, e.g., mobile devices, are described. Various features are directed to a mobile node controlling the transfer of state from a first access node to... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20080227460 - Method and system for reconfiguring private cellular networks for resolving frequency band conflicts with official government communication networks: Disclosed herein is a system and method for achieving a government-imposed re-banding of communications frequencies within the cellular telecommunications industry that provides considerable advantages over options available in the prior art. Using a bi-directional amplifier means of the present invention, cellular service providers required to shift and otherwise adjust the... Agent: Dreier LLP Susan Formicola

20080227461 - Data transmission and power control in a multihop relay communication system: Techniques for transmitting data with distributed and centralized scheduling in a multihop relay communication system are described. For distributed scheduling, a relay station may generate and send first channel quality information (CQI) to a base station and receive second CQI from a subscriber station. The relay station may receive data... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080227464 - Communication system, server, terminal, and communication control program: It provides a communication system in which a calling party calls a called party on a move and the called party performs a multimedia communication with the calling party, using the communication terminal of a business company providing a communication service. In the communication system in which the communication terminal... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080227463 - Determining location information: A method (300) of determining location information for an electronic device (100), the method (300) comprising receiving initial location information associated with the electronic device (305), determining proximate access point identifiers which identify a number of access points (225) corresponding to the initial location information (310), forwarding the proximate access... Agent: Motorola Inc

20080227465 - Method and apparatus for using historic network information for determining approximate position: Systems and techniques to determine an approximate location for a mobile device using historic location information. In an aspect, a SUPL Location Platform (SLP), which is a location server in SUPL, may receive data from SUPL Enabled Terminal (SET). The data may include the Multiple Location IDs Parameter. The real... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080227462 - Methods and apparatus for locating access device: A system obtains a plurality of locations respectively associated with a plurality of mobile devices that are in communication with the stationary access device. For each of the plurality of mobile devices, the system obtains a relative distance metric associated with that mobile device. Based on the plurality of locations... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20080227466 - Modular gps system for breathalyzer interlock: The present invention provides apparatus, systems and methods for determining positional information and transmitting that information over a cell phone network in connection with a sobriety interlock system.... Agent: Morriss Obryant Compagni, P.C.

20080227467 - Architecture for mobile advertising with location: Systems and methods are provided for mobile device advertising. The system includes a mobile device, a content provider, and an advertisement provider. A plurality of location fix technologies is executed to determine a plurality of location fixes for the mobile device, and the plurality of location fixes is stored in... Agent: Sprint

20080227469 - Gsm network-based timing advance positioning: Embodiments for locating mobile stations in a GSM cellular network are disclosed.... Agent: David Burgess

20080227468 - Location control in a mobile communications network: The present invention relates to an improved location process for determining the location of mobile stations when a GSM network is extended by other access networks, for example unlicensed radio access networks. An access network controller supporting a connection with the mobile station sends a location service entity a location... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080227471 - Method for tracking credit card fraud: A system and method for automatically comparing obtained wireless device location information from a wireless network and comparing that location with another independent source geographic location is provided. Location information is derived from two or more sources in a multiplicity of ways and a comparison is made within a Location... Agent: Heller Ehrman LLP

20080227472 - Method, apparatus and system for providing transmit diversity feedback during soft handoff: Embodiments of the present invention describe methods for increasing the amount of information available to a mobile transmit diversity transmitter during soft handoff. According to embodiments of the invention, a transmit diversity transmitter may determine substantially when it is within the range of at least two receivers. In such situations,... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20080227470 - Wireless communication system for automatically generating a received signal strength distribution map: The invention discloses a wireless communication system including first mobile devices, a second mobile device, and a system end. The system end cooperates with the second device to determine a coordinate of each of the first mobile devices. When each of the first mobile devices receives a signal from the... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20080227473 - Location sharing and tracking using mobile phones or other wireless devices: A system for exchanging GPS or other position data between wireless devices for purposes of group activities, child location monitoring, work group coordination, dispatching of employees etc. Cell phones and other wireless devices with GPS receivers have loaded therein a Buddy Watch application and a TalkControl application. The Buddy Watch... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080227474 - Base station synchronization: A method, implemented in a user equipment (UE), of maintaining base station synchronization, comprises receiving a measurement message from a radio network controller (RNC) directing the UE to measure a time difference of arrival (TDOA) between signals transmitted from a first and second base station. The UE receives a transmission... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080227475 - Wireless communication system and wireless communication method: The present invention relates to a radio communications system and a radio communications method, and an object of the invention is to readily reduce the occurrence of collisions of contention channels. In order to achieve the object, radio resources are assigned in different orders between one radio communication and another... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080227478 - Multiple frequency transmitter, receiver, and systems thereof: A method and a system include a converter configured to convert received radio frequency signals to a direct current (DC) signal to provide power to at least a portion of a receiver. A received radio frequency signal can be associated with a plurality of carrier frequencies within a specified frequency... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20080227477 - Power control method and apparatus: Power control for wireless communication may involve determining the transmit power to be used by a wireless device. A wireless device using open loop power control may select a transmit power based on an open loop power equation where a parameter of the power equation may be based on one... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080227476 - System and method for controlling power in a communication system: A method for controlling power in a communication system. A base station allocats Channel Quality Information Channels to at least one mobile station, transmits the allocated Channel Quality Information Channel information, and transmits power control information to the mobile station to which the Channel Quality Information Channel is allocated. And... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080227479 - Transmission power control method and apparatus of mobile communication terminal: A transmission power increasing section continuously transmits, from a testing instrument to a mobile communication terminal at predetermined intervals, a transmission power increasing request for increasing transmission power of the mobile communication terminal by a predetermined quantity. A block size extracting section extracts, from a predetermined second physical channel, block... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080227480 - Input device and mobile device having the same: A key button for an input device is provided. The key button includes a button unit formed of a mineral material and a button support member formed of a non-mineral material and connected to the button unit. The button unit has a perimeter and the button support member extends beyond... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080227481 - Signaling transmission and reception in wireless communication systems: Techniques for sending and receiving signaling in a wireless communication system are described. Multiple (e.g., eight) vectors of modulation symbols may be defined and may be orthogonal to one another. Multiple subscriber stations may share transmission resources and may simultaneously send different vectors of modulation symbols in the same tile.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080227485 - Apparatus and method for transceiving in portable communication system: Disclosed is an apparatus and method for transceiving in a multi mode portable communication system. The apparatus includes a first antenna, a second antenna, a first switch, and a communication unit. The first antenna is capable of transceiving a signal of a first communication mode. The second antenna is capable... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20080227483 - Consistent user interface for multi-mode mobile terminals: To provide a consistent (i.e., single-mode) user interface in each mode of operation available on a multi-mode mobile terminal, aspects of the user interface used for a second mode (e.g., the CDMA mode) are emulated by the mobile terminal when the mobile terminal is operating in a first mode (e.g.,... Agent: Ridout & Maybee Suite 2400

20080227482 - Intelligent method for dynamically switching communication modes of a dual-mode communication module: With the aid of critical conditions including remaining power of a communication module and both an available bandwidth and a credit of utilizing communication functions of said communication module, and by cooperating with available network services of said communication module, a communication network currently appropriates for said communication module to... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080227486 - Method and system for mobile receiver antenna architecture for handling various digital video broadcast channels: A method for an antenna architecture for handling various Digital Video Broadcast (DVB) channels may be provided. The method may comprise receiving, at a first circuit, a first signal within a 850 MHz band, a 1900 MHz band and/or a 2100 MHz band, wherein the first circuit is integrated within... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080227484 - Method for modifying service mode requested by a communications terminal: A method and apparatus are provided for modifying a service mode requested by a communication and/or broadcasting terminal. The terminal is connected to a communication network with a variable quality of service. The terminal executes at least the following steps, prior to transmitting at least some of its requests: selecting... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20080227487 - Multiple radios communication device and a method thereof: A wireless communication device to transmit and receive signals of two or more wireless networks is disclosed. The wireless communication device includes a first radio to transmit a first type of modulated signals in at least first and second frequency bands and a second radio to transmit a second type... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20080227488 - Txop duration adaptation for dual radio devices: Transmission opportunity (TXOP) duration is adapted for a wireless local area network (WLAN) transceiver in a dual radio wireless device based on an end of free time indication associated with a wireless wide area network (WWAN) transceiver within the same device. In this manner, the occurrence of collisions between WLAN... Agent: The Law Offices Of John C. Scott, LLC C/o Intellevele, LLC

20080227490 - Camera capable of communicating with other communication device: A camera having communication ability can switch a mode between a communication mode and a shooting mode. The camera combines features of a communication device and a digital camera. The camera comprises a communication device, an imaging device, and a switching device. The switching device switches the communication mode to... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080227489 - Method and system for providing multi-style user interface for mobile terminal: A method for providing a multi-style user interface for a mobile terminal is provided. The multi-style user interface providing method includes importing first user data of a first mobile terminal; converting the imported first user data into second user data having a format compatible with a database of a second... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080227491 - Communication unit selecting apparatus, communication unit selecting system, exchange unit and communication unit selecting program: An available communication unit extracting section which when user status information concerning the status of first user and second user is provided from an external unit during communication between a communication unit used by a first user and a communication unit used by a second user, extracts an available communication... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20080227492 - Sim card securing mechanism for mobile phone: A SIM card securing mechanism for a mobile phone is described. A phone body has several positioning holes. One side of the securing plate is pivoted in the body to allow the securing plate to swivel relatively to the phone body. The securing plate has a plurality of elastic arms... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080227493 - Electronic device system, electronic device, and processing method: The present invention provides an electronic device system which combines the mutual functions without employing the mutual relationship of the master and slave, and which is high in convenience for the user. The vehicle AV device according to an embodiment of the present invention has a PIN cable which performs... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080227494 - Method for transmitting a sound-film message from a mobile terminal to any e-mail address: In a method for transmitting an audio message from a mobile terminal, including a terminal without Internet access, to any electronic mail address, a mobile user calls from a mobile terminal to a service system of a provider of the service and establishes connection with the service system; the service... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080227498 - Low-complexity joint transmit/receive antenna selection method for mimo systems: Provided is a low-complexity transmit/receive antenna selection method for Multi-Input Multi-Output (MIMO) systems. The method includes the steps of generating a gain matrix of receive channel, calculating norm values of channel gains for each row (receive antennas) and column (transmit antennas) of the generated gain matrix of the receive channel,... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080227496 - Method and apparatus for exchanging information with a base station: A method for exchanging information with a base station includes: communicating with the base station using electromagnetic waves with a first frequency; detecting a first connection request carried in the first electromagnetic; receiving the first connection request if the first connection request is detected; and receiving information carried in the... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080227495 - Reference signaling scheme using compressed feedforward codebooks for mu-mimo systems: A multi-user MIMO downlink beamforming system with limited feed forward (200) is provided to enable preceding matrix information to be efficiently provided to a subset of user equipment devices (201.i), where zero-forcing transmit beamformers (wi) are computed at the base station (210) and assembled into a precoding matrix (W). The... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20080227497 - Transmitting device and method for transmitting signals in a wireless communication system, receiving device and method for receiving signals in a wireless communication system: A transmitting device for transmitting signals in a wireless communication system, includes at least two beam antennas, each beam antenna having a main beaming direction at a different angle and generating means for generating a number of signal streams to be transmitted within the wireless communication system, whereby the signal... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080227502 - Hand portable electronic device having a plurality of modes of operation: A hand portable electronic device having a plurality of modes of operation including a communications mode and an application mode, and having a first component and a second component, wherein the first component is movable relative to the second component between a first position and a second position and wherein... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080227500 - Interactive entertainment, social networking, and advertising system: A system includes a personal wireless mobile communication device that is configured to transmit a short-range wireless signal. The short-range wireless signal is processed by a server, and the server executes an action based on the short-range wireless signal. In an embodiment, the action executed by the server is the... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080227503 - Mobile communication device and method of controlling the same: A mobile communication device, method and computer program product for generating a first signal upon manipulation of a first input key that can be manipulated in at least two directions, generating a second signal upon manipulation of a second input key which enables at least two direction inputs, and controlling... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080227499 - Mobile terminal device and program used in mobile terminal device: A mobile terminal device provided with a plurality of keys includes: a touch pad and a touch detection interface which detect a user touching a key; a press detection interface which detects the user pressing the key; a display unit which sequentially displays characters, as candidate characters, assigned to the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080227501 - Portable terminal: A portable terminal in provided. The portable terminal includes a body having a front surface, the front surface having an upper portion and a lower portion, a display unit located in the body and visible at the front surface thereof, the display unit having a first end and a second... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080227505 - Apparatus for controlling operation in wireless terminal with removable case: An apparatus for controlling the operation of a portable terminal having a removable case is provided. The apparatus includes a plurality of display units, each of the plurality of display units disposed in at least one of a front surface and a rear surface of the portable terminal, a detecting... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20080227504 - Ceramic casing device for mobile handset: The chasing device contains a number of ceramic members closely pieced together into a three-dimensional form that houses the main body of a mobile handset tightly inside. The ceramic members can be adhered to the surface of the main body by adhesives or the ceramic members can be inlaid to... Agent: Leong C Lei

20080227506 - Mobile wireless communications device with reduced microphone noise from radio frequency communications circuitry: A mobile wireless communications device includes a housing and circuit board in the housing and having radio frequency (RF) circuitry and a power amplifier and microphone mounted thereon. An antenna is carried within the housing and operative with the RF circuitry. An RF shield surrounds and isolates the microphone from... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20080227507 - Cover for a mobile device and mobile device having same: A cover for a mobile device. The cover includes a support member, wherein at least a portion of the support member is transmissive, and a shielding layer located on the support member between the edge and the center of the support member, the shielding layer having at least one region... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080220715 - Controlling use of devices in large restricted areas: A usage specification device is used to limit the use of information signals (audio, image, data) and to limit the output of disturbing signals (speaker, flash, light, RF transmission) in several devices in a large restricted area. For example, the usage specification device may transmit a certain type of control... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080220716 - Communication system and handshake method thereof: A communication system and a handshake method thereof are provided. The communication system has a service path and comprises a BS, at least one MS, and an MS. One of the at least one RS is located within a coverage of the BS. The MS is located within a coverage... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.a.

20080220717 - Communication system and method, information processing terminal and method, and information processing device and method: The present invention relates to a communication system and method, an information processing terminal and method, and an information processing device and method which enable simple and secure restricted access. When a PDA 11 is brought close, a reader 2 of a personal computer 1 reads a device ID form... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080220718 - Bluetooth communication system for drivers of vehicules: A system is provided that enables communications between a driver of a vehicle and a person outside the vehicle, between a rider of a motorcycle and a fellow rider of the same vehicle, or between a driver of a vehicle and another driver of another vehicle. A Bluetooth communication system... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.l.p.

20080220720 - Method and system for providing area specific messaging: A system and method for precisely locating a mobile device at a precise geographical distance and messaging to communication devices carried by persons in specific areas is disclosed. The method utilizes at least two elements, a mobile device and at least one location tag. When activated, the mobile device will... Agent: Greenberg Traurig LLP (la)

20080220719 - System and method for providing multimedia content to a wireless device: The present disclosure relates generally to systems and methods for providing multimedia content to a wireless device. In one example, the method includes receiving a request from a wireless device to establish a connection to a telephone number. Multimedia content access information associated with the telephone number is identified, and... Agent: Timothy F. Bliss

20080220721 - Passive rfid elements having visual indicators: There are provided components, connectors, receptacles, cables, and systems wherein passive RFID functionality is incorporated. Also provided are passive RFID elements in general. The passive RFID elements power visual indicators based on receipt of external RF signals. Passive energy storage devices may be employed to provide electrical energy to the... Agent: Corning Cable Systems Llc

20080220722 - System and method for using a wired network to send response messages in an automation system: A system and method for sending a response message over a wired communication channel in an automation network is disclosed. The method includes the operation of defining a radio frequency (RF) network between a central controller and a plurality of automation devices. A control signal is transmitted from the central... Agent: Thorpe North & Western, LLP.

20080220723 - Coherent initial acquisition: An acquisition module includes a coherent correlator configured to receive a transmission having a pilot signal and correlate the received transmission with a local copy of the pilot signal to produce a first output, a delayed correlator configured to delay the first output and correlate the first output with the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080220724 - Apparatus and method for perceiving and reporting neighborhood object: An apparatus and method for perceiving and reporting a neighborhood object, the apparatus including: a message analysis unit to analyze information of an alive message received from the neighborhood object and to determine if the analyzed information lies within a predetermined range; a neighborhood object information control unit to update... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080220725 - Data transmission method, communication system, transceiver, transmitter and receiver: A data transmission method, a communication system, a transceiver, a transmitter and a receiver are described. In a data transmission method, a signal is transmitted between a first transceiver and a second transceiver, said signal being generated based on configuration parameters. A reconfiguration request signal is transmitted to said second... Agent: Coats & Bennett/infineon Technologies

20080220726 - Method and system for optimizing data transfer rate in a communication network: A method and base station for optimizing a data rate control value for a wireless communication device in a communication network system is provided. The method comprises receiving (304) a data rate control value from a wireless communication device. Further, the method comprises determining (306) a data transfer rate, based... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080220727 - Heating control system: A heating control system, monitoring system and predictive maintenance radio sensor system. The heating control system comprises at least one temperature transducer element having a downstream voltage transformer; an energy storage device which is electrically coupled to the at least one voltage transformer; a logic assembly coupled to the energy... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20080220728 - Ptt-enabled mobile terminal, ptt service providing system, and sender location display method: A Push-To-Talk (PTT) enabled mobile terminal, PTT service providing system, and sender location display method are disclosed. The sender location display method includes transmitting current location information of a calling PTT-enabled mobile terminal to a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) server at initiation of a PTT call by a calling PTT-enabled... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, Plc

20080220729 - Device and system for radiofrequency communication in urban or road environments: The invention relates to a device for radiofrequency communication in urban or road environments, comprising a luminaire of common use in street lighting which incorporates at least one transceiver with at least one data input and at least one data output coming from one or more antennas that operate in... Agent: Franc Roda Avila

20080220730 - Multi-channel transmitter: A radio transmission method and a radio transmitter device for radio transmission of an audio signal from an audio device to a radio receiver wherein an audio signal is received from the audio device, and an RF signal is transmitted simultaneously which is modulated with the audio signal on each... Agent: Stmicroelectronics Inc. C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.c.

20080220731 - Reverse path optical link using frequency modulation: Systems and methods of upstream communications using frequency modulation are disclosed. An exemplary method embodiment, among others, includes frequency modulating a communications signal, intensity modulating the frequency modulated signal, and applying that intensity modulated signal to a transmission medium. Also disclosed is a method of receiving the upstream signal including... Agent: Scientific-atlanta, Inc. Intellectual Property Department

20080220732 - Method for stabilising time position of an ultrabandwidth signal and a live object monitoring locator for carrying out said method: The invention relates to search and rescue service and can be used for debris active sounding. Said invention makes it possible to improve interference protection related to a temperature, the operator hands motion and trembling effecting the locator operation. The inventive method consists in forming an ultrabandwidth signal (UBW) according... Agent: Patenttm.us

20080220733 - Fast frequency range selection in ranged controlled oscillators: Methods and apparatus for fast frequency range selection in ranged controlled oscillators. An exemplary frequency range selection apparatus includes a ranged voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) configured within a frequency control loop (e.g., within a phase-locked loop (PLL)), and a range select controller. The range select controller is configured to receive... Agent: Patent Law Professionals

20080220734 - System, device and method for generating a logarithmic function according to a plurality of communication signals: The present invention discloses a log function generator module device that is adapted to receive substantially simultaneously a plurality of signals at a plurality of respective communication links. The device includes a plurality of sets of logarithmic, a plurality of substantially linear amplifiers, a plurality of negative-value-eliminator (NVE) modules, a... Agent: Fleit Gibbons Gutman Bongini & Bianco Pl

20080220735 - Frequency selective amplifier with wide-band impedance and noise matching: This disclosure is directed to a frequency-selective low noise amplifier (LNA) with wide-band impedance and noise matching. The LNAS may include a closed loop circuit that supports wideband input matching. For example, the closed loop circuit may be configure to impedance match an input signal and provide a low noise... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080220736 - Method and apparatus for spreading signal acquisition and tracking: A spreading signal acquisition and tracking method and apparatus is proposed. In accordance with the present invention, coherent integrations are performed by segments and stored for a non-coherent integration. A better freedom of the non-coherent interval selection is provided. The window of the non-coherent integration is sequentially and gradually shifted... Agent: Madson & Austin

20080220737 - Noise shaped nth order filter: A low noise nth order filter, system, and method includes a plurality of nested general immittance converters (GICs) operatively connected to one another in successive GIC stages; and a capacitor operatively connected to each of the GICs, wherein a first successive GIC stage begins at a first node located in... Agent: Gibb & Rahman, Llc

20080220738 - Wireless communication system: A wireless communication system includes: a filter; and a semiconductor chip including a signal processing integrated circuit having an amplifier, wherein a main surface of the semiconductor chip is provided with a plurality of electrode terminals along an edge portion thereof; wherein the amplifier has a transistor including a control... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.c.

20080220739 - Billing a collect call to a cellular telephone: There is provided a method for billing a collect call to a cellular telephone. The method includes (a) obtaining, from a party at a cellular telephone, consent to pay for a call, and (b) sending to the cellular telephone, a text message that contains an invoice for the call.... Agent: Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, LLP

20080220740 - Blacklisting of unlicensed mobile access (uma) users via aaa policy database: In one embodiment, while being connected to the network, a security issue may be detected and associated with the device. The device may be placed on a blacklist for the security issue. The blacklist is a list that is used to deny service for the device when it attempts to... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, Pc

20080220743 - Customization of mobile stations: A method of customizing a mobile station in a mobile telecommunications system. A portable authentication module is provided for insertion into the mobile station, the authentication module comprising a function for authenticating a subscriber in the mobile telecommunications system when the authentication module is inserted in the mobile station. The... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080220742 - Efficient techniques for error detection and authentication in wireless networks: Various example embodiments are disclosed relating to efficient techniques for error detection and authentication in wireless networks. For example, according to an example embodiment, an apparatus adapted for wireless communication in a wireless network may include a processor. The processor may be configured to transmit a message including a field... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP

20080220744 - Mobile apparatus with remote lock and control function: A mobile communication apparatus includes a remote lock and control function. More particularly, after theft or loss of the apparatus, it is possible to remotely lock the apparatus by sending a lock command, e.g. an SMS message. The apparatus may also be controlled to upload information enabling the user to... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.a.

20080220741 - Mobile device, communication system, and connection establishing method: A mobile device (100) for establishing a connection with an access point (200) includes an interface module (110), an authentication module (120), and an association module (130). The interface module receives a user authentication instruction to launch authentication. The authentication module authenticates the access point via a first service set... Agent: Pce Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080220745 - Moving notification message: A computer program product, method and a terminal for receiving and processing a notification message for notifying a second terminal of an arrival of a multimedia message addressed to a Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) of a first terminal installed in the second terminal and storing the received notification message in... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080220749 - Acquiring identity parameters by emulating base stations: A method of acquiring the identity parameters of two or more mobile devices (20), the method comprising: obtaining a list of two or more base stations (1, 2, 3); and acquiring identity parameters from the devices (20) by emulating each base station in the list. Two or more base stations... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20080220750 - Face categorization and annotation of a mobile phone contact list: A method of face categorization and annotation of a face image library includes automatically cropping a face within an acquired digital image or removing one or more non-facial items from the digital image, or both, and thereby generating a full-size face image. The full-size face image is stored with other... Agent: Fotonation Patent Legal Dept.

20080220746 - Key establishment utilizing link privacy: A system for allowing two or more wireless devices to form a secure relationship despite any other device that may be attempting to intercept information exchanged between the devices. The process may be performed automatically by the devices, yielding security information that may be used to authenticate information believed to... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.l.p.

20080220748 - Method of transmitting and receiving internet address in mobile communication terminal: A mobile terminal communication method including accessing a Web page of a specific Internet address using a web browser on a first mobile terminal, entering a message input screen on which information related to the specific Internet address is automatically displayed, and transmitting a message including the information related to... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080220747 - Scrolling mobile advertisements: A mobile device, system, and method are directed towards displaying an advertisement within a navigable view on a mobile device. In one embodiment, the navigable view employs a scrollable list. In one embodiment, a capability of the mobile device is employed to determine the mechanism for displaying of the advertisement... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Darby & Darby P.c.

20080220751 - 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

20080220752 - Portable multifunction device, method, and graphical user interface for managing communications received while in a locked state: A computer-implemented method, performed at a portable multifunction device with a display, includes: receiving a plurality of communications via a plurality of communication modalities while the device is in a locked state; and detecting an unlock interaction by the user with the device. In response to detecting the unlock interaction,... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP/ Ai

20080220753 - Mobile communication device, communication system and communication method: A mobile communication device for performing communications with a plurality of mobile communication devices via a server storing audio data transmitted from the mobile communication devices and display information associated with the audio data. The mobile communication device includes: a display information requesting unit operable to request a set of... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080220754 - Ip based lawful interception at the source: A system and method for lawful intercept of call content incorporates a control element receiving subscriber information as a lawful intercept target and issuing a media forking command to a media transfer element transmitting RTP data. The media transfer element receives the media forking command and provides duplicates of RTP... Agent: Utstarcom, Inc. C/o Laura Weiss, Paralegal

20080220756 - Method and system to provide service availability to multi-mode terminals in different access networks: Method and system to provide service availability to multi-mode terminals in different access networks is presented. In an embodiment, a computer-readable medium includes instructions that when executed, cause the computer to automatically enable first call forwarding prior to a wireless multi-mode communication terminal access change from a first communication network... Agent: Toler Law Group

20080220755 - Time of day warning for calls to roaming mobile phones: The present time of day warning system provides the subscriber with the ability to designate at least one time interval during the course of the day when the subscriber prefers not to receive calls on their mobile phone unless these incoming calls are of an urgent nature. In this system,... Agent: Patton Boggs LLP

20080220758 - Broadcast receiver and processing program thereof: When reservation information is inputted, a mobile terminal apparatus (broadcast receiver) 1 stores a mode ID for which the set flag is set at “1” and stored in a mode information memory section 1-3-1 and the inputted reservation information in the reservation information memory section 1-3-3. Subsequently, the apparatus 1... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20080220757 - Software defined radio for loading waveform components at runtime in a software communications architecture (sca) framework: A software defined radio includes a radio circuit and an executable radio software system operable with the radio circuit and conforming to the software communications architecture (SCA) specification. An operating environment is defined and includes a plurality of waveform components that are loaded when the radio circuit is initialized or... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist

20080220759 - Automatic device capabilites change notification: The present invention relates to an improved approach to mobile device capability management. Heretofore, a capability management device is provided at a mobile communication network. Upon change of a mobile device capability, a related notification is sent to the capability management device which applies a policy decision whether to track... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080220760 - Methods and systems for usage profiling associated with device specific identifiers: Methods and systems are disclosed herein for managing content, including advertising content, delivered to various network-connected devices, including screens, mobile devices, computers, televisions, radios, and the like, based on usage profiles associated with device-specific identifiers for mobile devices, short-distance wireless technologies for transmission of content and detection of proximity, and... Agent: Strategic Patents P.c..

20080220761 - Mobile terminal for remotely controlling and method of remotely controllling the same: A mobile terminal for remotely controlling and a method of remotely controlling the same that enable remote control operation of the mobile terminal by connecting a remote control device and the mobile terminal are provided. The method of remotely controlling a mobile terminal includes transmitting a key code from a... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080220765 - Control procedure for simultaneous media communications within a talk group in communication networks for public safety: A method and apparatus are provided for a set of procedures that a push-to-talk (PTT) server can use to control multiple simultaneous media streams within a talk group. The present invention provides floor control messages and protocols for identifying, transmitting, and distributing the simultaneous media streams. The invention may be... Agent: Patti , Hewitt & Arezina Llc

20080220764 - Home base station: In some aspects, a method includes determining a location of the home base station. The method also includes determining if the communication carrier has a spectrum license in the determined location. If the communication carrier does not have a spectrum license in the determined location, the method also includes leasing... Agent: Fish & Richardson Pc

20080220763 - Level of service determination for a home base station: In some aspects, a method includes characterizing a communication link established over a network between a home base station and a base station controller. The home base station is configured to send signals to one or more mobile devices and receive signals from the one or more mobile devices. The... Agent: Fish & Richardson Pc

20080220762 - Reduced scanning within a uniform period in out-of-service conditions: A method (300) and mobile device (120) for reduced scanning within a uniform period in an out-of-service condition is described herein. In one arrangement, the method can include the steps of detecting (310) the out-of-service condition, during a wake-up interval (410), waking (314) up to scan one or more channels... Agent: Motorola, Inc

20080220766 - Method for control of radio measurements in a cellular mobile radio communication system: m

20080220767 - Method, telecommunication system and telecommunication handset for wireless communication and telecommunication in a smart home environment: In order to achieve simple, user-friendly “smart home” scenarios in a telecommunications system in the context of the transmission of textual, audio, video and/or control data between a data source and a data sink, a mobile element of the telecommunications system generates control commands and transmits the latter in a... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080220768 - Vpn for home base station communications: In some aspects, a method includes establishing a virtual private network (VPN) connection between a home base station and a base station controller, the home base station and the base station controller communicatively coupled by the internet. The method also includes downloading software from the base station controller to the... Agent: Fish & Richardson Pc

20080220769 - Wake-on-wlan for stationary wireless stations: Stationary wireless network stations are woken up using Wake-on-WLAN functionality. Wake-on-WLAN is provided by paging stations in a wireless network. Paging may support mobile stations across multiple access points. Paging may also support stationary nodes with reduced overhead. Wake-on-WLAN is also provided to stationary stations in idle mode by signifying... Agent: Lemoine Patent Services, Pllc C/o Intellevate

20080220770 - Wake-on-wlan for stationary wireless stations: Stationary wireless network stations are woken up using Wake-on-WLAN functionality. Wake-on-WLAN is provided by paging stations in a wireless network. Paging may support mobile stations across multiple access points. Paging may also support stationary nodes with reduced overhead. Wake-on-WLAN is also provided to stationary stations in idle mode by signifying... Agent: Lemoine Patent Services, Pllc C/o Intellevate

20080220771 - Satellite reference terminal systems and methods: Satellite communications systems, methods, and related devices are described. A satellite communications system may include routing and switching functionality onboard the satellite. Such a system may include a satellite in communication with terminals (e.g., subscriber terminals or gateways) either directly, or via one or more other satellites through an inter-satellite... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP Viasat, Inc (client #017018)

20080220772 - System and method for wireless network selection by multi-mode devices: Systems and methods are provided for wireless network selection by multi-mode devices. A mobile device maintains an indication of any wireless network services currently provided to the mobile device. According to an embodiment of the application, the mobile device automatically scans for both GSM wireless networks and CDMA wireless networks... Agent: Smart & Biggar P.o. Box 2999, Station D

20080220773 - Apparatus, and associated method, for facilitating i-wlan plmn selection: Apparatus, and an associated method, for selecting an EHPLMN pursuant to I-WLAN PLMN selection. An EHPLMN listing is created and maintained at user equipment. Available I-WLAN PLMNs are collected and buffered. A comparator compares entries on the EHPLMN listing and the collected identities. And, I-WLAN PLMN selection is made responsive... Agent: Research In Motion Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20080220774 - Continuity of services by the use of a backup hlr: The present invention relates to the field of mobile telephony networks and more particularly to a device, a system and an associated method for ensuring continuity of telephony services on the network. The invention is based on the use, as a temporary backup for faulty HLR equipment, of HLR equipment... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080220775 - Apparatus, method, and computer-readable medium for securely providing communications between devices and networks: An apparatus, method, and computer-readable medium for securely providing communications between devices and networks are provided. According to one aspect of the invention, an interface device for providing communications between a first communications network and a device associated with a second communications network comprises an input, an output, logic, and... Agent: Hope Baldauff Hartman, Llc

20080220776 - Interface devices for facilitating communications between devices and communications networks: Interface devices for facilitating communications between devices and communications networks are provided. According to one aspect, a destination interface device for providing communications between a first device and a second device comprises one or more inputs, one or more outputs, and logic. The one or more inputs of the destination... Agent: Hope Baldauff Hartman, Llc

20080220777 - Method and device for identifying a mobile terminal in a digital cellular mobile radio network: The invention relates to a method and a simulator (1) for identifying and/or tapping a mobile terminal (7) in a digital cellular mobile radio network, in which data is transmitted according to a code multiplex method. The aim of the invention is to enable a terminal (7) to be identified... Agent: Central Coast Patent Agency, Inc

20080220782 - Balancing paging load and tracking area updates: A method for assigning a tracking area (TA) is disclosed. A mobility state of a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) is determined and the TA is assigned based on the determined mobility state. Also disclosed is a method for accessing a closed subscriber group (CSG) TA. A CSG TA identifier is... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.c. Dept. Icc

20080220779 - Configuration of a home base station: In some aspects, a method includes determining a location of the home base station. The method also includes generating a neighbor list that includes at least some cellular base stations within an operating range of the home base station. The method also includes using the neighbor list to hand-off mobile... Agent: Fish & Richardson Pc

20080220778 - Data sharing among radio access technologies: By adapting its search procedures, a user equipment in a mobile communication system can shorten the time needed to find a cell or public land mobile network. If a first cell in a first radio access technology has been found, the equipment can exclude one or more frequencies from a... Agent: Potomac Patent Group Pllc

20080220783 - Method for managing communications and related core network node: A first group of core network (CN) nodes are arranged for transmitting a change request from a source to a target radio network controller (RNC), to a CN node selected from the set of CN nodes to which the target RNC is connected. Relating to a communication in progress with... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, Pc

20080220780 - Method for the automatic calibration of location anchors: A target radio can be located and tracked by an array of anchor radios. The anchor radios are calibrated when each anchor radio transmits an anchor message that is received by the other anchor radios. The distance between anchor radios is known because their positions are known. The received signal... Agent: Attorney, Intellectual Property Honeywell International Inc.

20080220781 - Methods and arrangment for implementing an active call handover by employing a switching component: An active call handover arrangement for managing a handover between a plurality of telecommunication devices associated with a public extension number is provided. The arrangement includes a mobility server configured to manage a telecommunication session between a telecommunication device of a third-party caller and a first telecommunication device of the... Agent: Ipsg, P.c.

20080220784 - Method and apparatus for adjusting a reselection timer and cell ranking criteria, and reporting degraded signal measurement of a serving cell: Various methods for adjusting a reselection timer and cell ranking criteria are disclosed. The ranking criteria of a serving or neighbor cell, or a reselection timer in a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU), is adjusted based on how a serving cell signal measurement, (e.g., signal strength, signal quality), compares to a... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.c. Dept. Icc

20080220785 - Method of call routing and connection: A method of radio communications and routing and connection in a mobile radio system consisting of the steps of providing nodes for transmitting and receiving signals wherein the nodes are positioned in a free form fashion within a defined area, and the routing of a communication is determined based on... Agent: David M Quinlan, Pc

20080220787 - Channel aggregation: Multiple channels are aggregated. In an example embodiment, first data is transmitted on a first channel to a wireless device, and second data is simultaneously transmitted on a second channel to the wireless device. The first data and the second data are transmitted in a coordinated manner by aggregating the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080220789 - Method and related apparatus for enhancing resource utility rate in a wireless communications system: In order to reduce power and computing resource consumption in a user equipment of a wireless communications system, a method for enhancing a resource utility rate for the user equipment is provided. The method includes stopping receiving data and control signals through a first common channel and a second common... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080220791 - Method and system for transmitting and receiving common control information in a communication system: Disclosed is a method of transmitting common control information by a base station in a communication system including a first communication system and a second communication system different from each other. In the communication system, a frame for carrying the common control information includes an uplink sub-frame and a downlink... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080220786 - Methods and apparatus for adaptively selecting a channel: A system assesses channel conditions for a plurality of channels. The system maintains a history of channel information for the plurality of channels. The system enables communications on a channel from the plurality of channels, based on the channel conditions, and the history of channel information for the plurality of... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20080220788 - Multi-band channel aggregation: Multiple channels are aggregated. In an example embodiment, first data is transmitted on a first channel to a wireless device, and second data is simultaneously transmitted on a second channel to the wireless device. The first data and the second data are transmitted in a coordinated manner by aggregating the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080220790 - Radio resource management in wireless cellular networks having multihop relay stations: Radio resource management for wireless cellular networks equipped with relay stations for multi-hop packet or protocol data unit (PDU) relaying.... Agent: Fish & Richardson, Pc

20080220793 - Apparatus and method for allocating resource in wireless communication system: Provided is an apparatus and method for allocating resources in a wireless communication system. In method, whether there are one or more mobile stations periodically transmitting or receiving data of the same size, among mobile station to be provided with a service is determined if a predetermined region of a... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080220792 - Method for efficient radio resource management: An improved admission control procedure for an admission control entity (e.g., Radio Network Controller (RNC), Node B, etc.) in a network that admits a terminal (mobile station, user equipment, etc.) having a certain receiver performance. Without improperly assuming one receiver performance or referring to a reference minimum receiver performance to... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080220794 - Wireless remote location system and method: A wireless subscriber unit for a tracking and locating system and method is disclosed. The locating system provides positional information of remote locator devices in the form of images viewable by subscribers over a network.... Agent: Darby & Darby P.c.

20080220795 - Home base station position determination: In some aspects, a method includes receiving at a home base station broadcast signals from a broadcaster, the broadcast signals including at least one of audio content and visual content. The method also includes determining a location of the home base station based on the received broadcast signals and configuring... Agent: Fish & Richardson Pc

20080220796 - Wcdma device and method for discontinuous reception for power saving in idle mode and flexible monitoring of neighboring cells: A WCDMA enabled user equipment device configured to have functions collectively or selectively idle to conserve power. A discontinuous receiver is used to detect and read network messages and report the messages to the computer within the WCDMA enabled user equipment device. The computer then activates functions previously powered down... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080220798 - Mechanism to facilitate customization of real time messaging using mobile devices: A customized messaging system facilitates customization of text messaging using mobile devices. The customized messaging system converts user-defined, customized shortcuts into full text equivalents for sending and receiving messages. The present system allows a user to enter a message using key entry shortcuts for character strings or phrases that may... Agent: Sawyer Law Group LLP

20080220797 - Portable communication device and method for media-enhanced messaging: A portable communication device is equipped with a media-enhanced messaging application that facilitates generating text messages that are enhanced with media having wording or other characteristics that correspond to or match at least a portion of a text message input by a user of the portable communication device. The messaging... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080220799 - Communication system and handshake method thereof: A communication system and a handshake method thereof are provided. The communication system has a service path and comprises a BS, at least one MS, and an MS. One of the at least one RS is located within a coverage of the BS. The MS is located within a coverage... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.a.

20080220800 - Data-capable network prioritization with reduced delays in data service: In one illustrative method, a periodic location update timer value is broadcasted by a wireless communication network and received and stored in memory of a mobile station. A request for data service is transmitted by the mobile station to a wireless communication network, and the request is reattempted at least... Agent: John J. Oskorep, Esq. One Magnificent Mile Center

20080220801 - Emergency communications system: A communication system and method is provided for handling emergency situations wherein complex public safety radio systems can be used to directly communicate with normally incompatible radio systems used by organizations such as schools, hospital, and other facilities. The system includes a radio communication bridge that is selectively activated by... Agent: Sheridan Ross Pc

20080220806 - Combined open loop/closed loop method for controlling uplink power of a mobile station: A method and apparatus are disclosed comprising a combined open loop/closed loop uplink power control scheme for E-UTRA. The combined open and closed loop method for UL intra-cell PC controls the wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU) transmit power spectral density (PSD), PSDTx, (e.g. power per RB).... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.c. Dept. Icc

20080220802 - Communication terminal apparatus: A communication terminal apparatus wherein even in a case of occurrence of a compressed mode, an evaluation can be performed by a detecting function to select an appropriate TFC (TRANS Format Combination). In this communication terminal apparatus, upon occurrence of a compressed mode, a compressed mode information generating part (173)... Agent: Dickinson Wright Pllc

20080220803 - Control of signal transmission power adjustment requests: A method of controlling an electronic device (100) to request changes in the transmission power of a received signal received by the electronic device; the method comprising obtaining a received signal strength parameter value for the received signal (425); transmitting a request for an increase in transmission power (460) in... Agent: Motorola Inc

20080220805 - Power control messaging scheme: In a power control messaging scheme for wireless communication, a wireless node sends vectorized information to another wireless node that uses the information to control its transmit power. In some aspects, the vectorized information may relate to interference observed at a wireless node. In some aspects, the vectorized information may... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080220804 - System and method for controlling power in a communication system: A method for controlling power in a communication system. A base station allocates Channel Quality Information Channels (CQICHs) to at least one mobile station, transmits CQICH information for the allocated CQICHs, and transmits power control information to the mobile stations to which the CQICHs are allocated. A mobile station receives... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080220807 - Multiple radio receive chain wireless communication devices: The present invention provides architectures and methods which use multiple radio receive chains in mobile devices to boost performance of the mobile devices. While a first set of the receive chains are assigned to a serving base station, another set of receive chains are dynamically allocated to neighbor base stations... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080220808 - Communications handoff using an adaptive antenna: One implementation provides a novel station-to-station handoff using an adaptive or directional antenna. The directional antenna generates a plurality of directional search beams to search for pilot signals from new base stations. The search beams are scanned one beam at a time to obtain the relative direction of all new... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin LLP

20080220810 - Communications server for handling parallel voice and data connections and method of using the same: The present invention provides for a communications server and a method of using the same. In one embodiment the communications server, is comprised of (1) a voice channel interface configured to establish a voice channel with a mobile communication device and generate a voice to transmit menu information thereto; and... Agent: Hitt Gaines, Pc Lsi Corporation

20080220809 - Method and system for a self timer function for a camera and ...: An electronic equipment includes a camera for taking digital photographs. The electronic equipment further includes a radio circuit for establishing communication with a communications network, a camera for taking digital photographs; a display, and a control circuit. The control circuit is configured to execute image detection logic to: periodically acquire... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080220812 - Portable electronic device with movable speaker: A portable electronic device (40) includes a main body (10), a speaker (20), and a latching mechanism (30). The speaker is movable relative to the main body and has a positioning stop member (262) associated therewith. The latching mechanism is mounted in a longitudinal side of the main body and... Agent: Pce Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080220811 - System and method for obtaining location of wireless telephone from internet server: A user who loses or has stolen his wireless telephone can access an Internet server that prompts the phone to send to the server (and, hence, the user) the GPS location of the phone. Also, when a wireless telephone reaches a low voltage state, indicating the imminent loss of the... Agent: Rogitz & Associates

20080220813 - Multi-service cellular phone network access device: An access device is described herein for determining and selecting, for a cellular call received by a cellular transceiver of the access device, one of a plurality of networks to route the call to. In some embodiments, the determining and selecting may be based at least on a type of... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.c. Pacwest Center, Suite 1900

20080220816 - Apparatus and method for providing standby screen image of mobile terminal: An apparatus and a method for providing a standby screen image of a mobile terminal are disclosed to change a standby screen image in a story-telling manner according to a communication event or a usage amount of the terminal. The method for providing a standby screen image of a mobile... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080220815 - Personal communication system based on the use of mobile telephony, and device and telephone used in said system: It includes a telephone (1) with a first radiofrequency electromagnetic wave and/or microwave emitting-receiving unit (7), and is characterised in that it includes at least one independent device (2), which device (2) includes a second wave emitting unit, means for connecting said device (2) and said telephone (1) wirelessly and... Agent: Gottlieb Rackman & Reisman Pc

20080220817 - Portable terminal and portable telephone having a camera and lens cover: In a portable terminal having a photographic function for receiving photographic light from a camera subject and obtaining image data, the portable terminal comprises an optical member receiving photographic light from the camera subject, and a cover member mounted on a slidable basis. The cover member selectively opens and shuts... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080220814 - Wireless device with privacy screen: A cellular telephone including a medical device to monitor he medical or health condition of a user is provided. The cellular telephone is provided with a keypad that is movable from a first position, where a first display and keypad is exposed, to a second position where a second display... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080220818 - Base station radio apparatus, mobile unit communication system, and base station radio apparatus control method: This invention provides a base station radio apparatus, a mobile unit communication system, and a control method for a base station radio apparatus that suppress a deterioration in communication quality. Success rates can be monitored by monitoring outgoing/incoming calls and call connections, and control can be executed to detect a... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20080220819 - Dynamically reconfigurable receiver: Aspects of the disclosure describe a cellular transceiver that can include multiple diversity branch receivers that receive a transmitted signal from a base station (BS). The cellular transceiver can include 1) a windup detector that can detect a low windup condition and 2) a receiver selector that can modify a... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080220820 - Battery saving selective screen control: A method determines when a user is talking on a mobile phone by monitoring a sound level of a user's voice. If it is determined, based on the monitoring, that the mobile phone is near the user's ear, the display of the mobile phone may be turned off to save... Agent: Harrity Snyder, L.l.p.

20080220822 - Mobile terminal and method of playing a video from a website: A method for displaying video on a mobile terminal that includes a display defined by a user area and an information area includes displaying a list of videos available for playing within the user area, selecting one video from the list of videos, automatically playing and displaying the selected video... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080220821 - Portable information processing apparatus: An outer display is provided in an area exposed to the outside, of a first movable part in a closed condition where the first and second movable parts are opposed to each other. An outer operation section is provided in an area other than the exposed area of the first... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080220823 - Notifying stations for portable electronic devices and methods: Generally, the present invention provides stations for one or more portable electronic devices (PEDs) and methods for such stations. A station can support a PED, and sense when the PED would be notifying its user about a wireless signal that is received from a remote transmitter. When the station so... Agent: Kolisch Hartwell, P.c.

20080220824 - Terminal device and incoming e-mail/call notification method: An incoming mail notification unit notifies the user, of the terminal device, of the incoming e-mail when the incoming e-mail is received. A vibration number measurement unit measures the number of vibrations applied to the terminal device. A determination unit determines whether the user has switched from a walking state... Agent: Hanify & King Professional Corporation

20080220825 - Bluetooth earphone with multiple audio gateways: A multiple audio gateway Bluetooth earphone, comprising an audio signal input module, an audio signal output module, a Bluetooth module, a key-in module; and a power supply. When the Bluetooth earphone is communicating via Bluetooth wireless connection with one of the audio gateways, another audio gateway may, via the existing... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, Pllc

20080220826 - Controller and method for using a dc-dc converter in a mobile handset: A controller enables the integration of a DC-DC converter in an amplitude modulation power control loop in a mobile handset. The controller includes an input conditioner and an event sensor. The input conditioner uses a peak detector to track the output of a regulator and responds to available baseband input... Agent: Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha, Llc

20080220827 - Generator and communication device using the same: A generator disposed in an electronic device (such as a communication device) capable of vibrating is provided. The generator includes a vibrating motor, an actuating device and a weighting device. The electronic device can be vibrated or temporarily charged by the vibrating motor. The vibrating motor is driven by the... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080220828 - Methods and apparatus to reduce power consumption in a wireless device: Methods and apparatus to reduce power consumption in a wireless device are disclosed. An example method includes sensing movement of the wireless device via a sensor unit; conveying data of a first size at a first frequency from the sensor unit to a first microcontroller, wherein the first microcontroller comprises... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080220829 - Mobile terminal device, method of power saving control for mobile terminal device and computer product: A mobile terminal device having a display includes an image capturing unit capturing an image at a prescribed periodical timing; an image changing detector detecting an image change exceeding a prescribed extent between the image captured at a prescribed timing and one or more of images obtained at a previous... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080220830 - Storage medium for a cellular telephone: A storage medium for a cellular telephone is disclosed. An apparatus that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a cellular telephone having a housing assembly, and a Modular Hard Disk Drive (MHDD) storage medium that couples to the housing assembly as an integral portable accessory unit.... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080220831 - Earmounted electronic device and method: Disclosed is a wireless communication device capable of being positioned in a wearable position adjacent a user's head. The wireless communication device may include a housing and an arcuate earmount coupled to the housing. The earmount may be configured so that it includes an overhanging portion and a hinge portion,... Agent: Motorola Inc

20080220832 - Mobile communications station: A mobile communications station (MS), which includes a first part (1) that can comprise a display (13) and a second part (2) that can comprise a keyboard (23), which parts are joined together and can be turned 360° apart from each other both against each other as well as to... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.a.

20080220833 - Mobile terminal with camera: A folding-type mobile terminal is provided with a camera that is capable of accurately imaging an object. This is accomplished by mounting the camera such that a viewing direction of the display of the terminal is substantially parallel to a camera imaging direction.... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20080220834 - Protective shroud: A shroud (11) for protecting a communication device, the shroud (11) comprises a receptacle (15) having an opening (21) to receive the device. The receptacle (15) is adapted to releasably retain the device therein. The shroud (11) is movable between a closed condition and an open condition, wherein in the... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20080214101 - Apparatus and method for fm wireless vehicle system interface: A vehicle system interface comprises an antenna configured to receive a digital radio signal, a digital radio receiver circuit configured to receive the digital radio signal from the antenna and to obtain digital audio data from the digital radio signal, an FM modulator and transmitter circuit, and a microprocessor in... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20080214100 - Communication service subscription management: Multiple receivers may be enabled to receive satellite-based digital audio radio (SDAR) services under a single subscription. For example, an SDAR service provider can enable multiple vehicles, a home-based digital radio, or a portable digital radio, singly or in any combination. Multiple receivers transmit information to each other. One receiver... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20080214102 - Method and system to signal network information in tps bits: Embodiments are directed to defining hierarchical digital broadcast transport streams as separate cells, which reduces the signaling in OSI layer 1, and removing use of sub-cells so that the coverage area of a transposer may be treated as a cell. In accordance with at least one embodiment, each hierarchical DVB-H... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20080214103 - Control of wireless connection for a portable media player: A portable media player that provides for wireless connectivity is disclosed. In some examples, the portable media player contains a button that causes the player to search for, connect with, and disconnect from wireless networks. In some examples, the button provides indicators of the connectivity of the player, such as... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C. Pacwest Center, Suite 1900

20080214104 - Dynamically mediating multimedia content and devices: A mediator having at least a ranking component, a listening component, and a control component, selectively controls a group of devices from a plurality of network devices in a network environment to reproduce multimedia content. The mediator correlates the multimedia content with the plurality of network devices. The listening component... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20080214106 - Method, wireless communication system, tangible machine-readable medium, and communication apparatus for transmitting and relaying channel descriptor based on a multi-hop relay standard: A method, a wireless communication system, a tangible machine-readable medium, and a communication apparatus for transmitting and relaying a channel descriptor based on a multi-hop relay standard are provided. The wireless communication system comprises a BS and at least one RS. The BS divides the channel descriptor into a common... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20080214105 - Method, wireless communication system, tangible machine-readable medium, and communication apparatus for transmitting bandwidth allocation based on a multi-hop relay standard: A method, a wireless communication system, a tangible machine-readable medium, and a communication apparatus for transmitting a bandwidth (BW) allocation based on a multi-hop relay standard are provided. The wireless communication system comprises a BS and at least one RS. The BS transmits the at least one particular channel descriptor... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20080214107 - Upstream broad beam diversity: A satellite communication system is provided according to one embodiment of the invention. The satellite communication system includes a gateway with first and second antennas. The first antenna receives a signal from a first satellite that includes at least a first signal from a first user. The second antenna receives... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP Viasat, Inc (client #017018)

20080214108 - Contactless communications method based on asynchronous modulations and demodulations: The invention relates to a method for exchanging information by inductive coupling or without contact between a reader (2) and a transponder (4), comprising a number of demodulation steps, by the transponder, of a transmission signal coming from the reader, each demodulation step being associated with: a detection of a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080214110 - Apparatus and method for exchanging active profile in bluetooth communication system: An active profile exchange in a Bluetooth communication system is provided. A method for exchanging a profile of a server device in the Bluetooth communication system includes receiving a request for a service support list from a client device; when there is no adequate profile for the client device, generating... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080214109 - Communication system for short-range wireless data exchange: Communication system, comprising cooperating modules (1, 4, 5) which are enabled to mutually exchange data via at least one short-range wireless path. Each module comprises at least one wireless termination node (2) which is arranged to be part of the relevant short-range wireless path. The housing (3) of each module... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080214111 - Lost phone alarm system and method: A system and method having an alarm software module recorded on a computer-readable medium programmed to monitor a connection between an accoutrement and a mobile phone. The alarm software module instructs an alarm to be issued if a threshold is met. In addition, the module may instruct the phone to... Agent: Shahpar Shahpar Tiffany & Bosco P.A.

20080214112 - Method and system for using psk sync word for fine tuning frequency adjustment: In RF transceivers, a method and system for using phase shift key (PSK) sync word for fine tuning frequency adjustment are provided. One aspect of the invention provides for adjusting a local oscillator frequency in a radio frequency (RF) receiver when a residual DC offset remains after a coarse frequency... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080214113 - Signal detecting method and apparatus and information reproducing apparatus and method: This signal detection method detects an output signal indicating data information contained at least in two sideband waves from an input signal having a carrier and at least two sideband waves accompanying the carrier. The method includes a cut off step for cutting off a sideband wave positioned at the... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080214114 - Inversion of channel distortion by adaptive wavelet lifting: A method for inverting telecommunication channel distortion by adaptive wavelet lifting. The distortion signal is analyzed using wavelet lifting and the inverse filter is computed. Coefficients of the inverse filter are used to either compute a transmission pre-filter or to update the transmitted message.... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20080214115 - Apparatus and method for estimating channel in multi antenna wireless communication system: The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for estimating a channel in a wireless communication system. The apparatus according to the present invention includes an estimator for initially estimating a channel response value by using a predetermined signal among reception signals, a detector for detecting transmission signals by... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080214116 - Systems and methods for managing wireless communications using link space information: Disclosed are systems and methods which provide for management of wireless communications through the development and use of link space information. Such link space information provides link-centric information with respect to wireless links of a network to thereby provide a view of the network which takes into account phenomena affecting... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.l.p

20080214117 - Method for conducting radiated performance tests of a wireless device: A test apparatus for conducting a radiated performance test on a wireless device under controlled test conditions, the test apparatus having an anechoic chamber; a test computer; and an interface, the interface adapted to connect the test computer to the wireless device, the test apparatus being adapted to: establish a... Agent: Moffat & Co

20080214120 - Communication system and communication method: A noise judgment unit of a receiver (mobile terminal) judges whether there is a factor for poor reception such as 1/f noise in a receiving unit of the mobile terminal based upon the output of an FFT unit, and notifies a transmitter (base station) of that measurement result. When the... Agent: Hanify & King Professional Corporation

20080214118 - Line sensor selection for quantifying alien crosstalk in a shared communications medium: In a communication medium including a first set A of n communication channels and a second set U of m communication channels, a method for selecting sensor channels in A for quantifying crosstalk from U, including operating A in a receive-only mode (FIG. 2 Step of Initialize Modem pool A.... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20080214119 - Link adaptation telecommunication system: The invention relates to a wireless telecommunication system including a transmitter and a receiver, said transmitter being used to transmit data packets to the receiver, said receiver including error detection means (220) in order to detect if a received packet contains errors, and further comprising means of outage detection (225)... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20080214121 - Power control for a wireless communication system utilizing orthogonal multiplexing: Techniques for adjusting transmit power to mitigate both intra-sector interference to a serving base station and inter-sector interference to neighbor base stations are described. The amount of inter-sector interference that a terminal may cause may be roughly estimated based on the total interference observed by each neighbor base station, channel... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080214122 - Circuit and method for providing an auto-off capability for a wireless transmitter: A circuit and method for providing an auto-off capability for a wireless transmitter, of a type having an audio plug which mates with the output jack of an audio source. The portable transmitter modulates signals from a baseband signal source onto a carrier and transmits the RF carrier to a... Agent: Stainbrook & Stainbrook, LLP

20080214123 - Transmission rate control method and mobile station: To control QoS for each mobile station UE while minimizing the affect on radio capacity in the downlink, a transmission rate control method of the present invention comprises: receiving, at a mobile station, a common absolute transmission rate control signal used for a common transmission rate control and a dedicated... Agent: Mots Law, PLLC

20080214124 - Wireless base station: The present invention utilizes a wireless base station having a first radio transceiver and a second radio transceiver connected to the first radio transceiver with a communication cable, a first baseband unit connected to the first radio transceiver with a communication cable, and a second baseband unit connected to the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080214125 - Method and apparatus for dynamically adjusting a transmitter's impedance and implementing a hybrid power amplifier therein which selectively connects linear and switch-mode power amplifiers in series: A method and apparatus for dynamically adjusting the impedance between a transmitter's power amplifier (PA) and antenna to efficiently transfer power from the PA to the antenna. The impedance between the PA and the antenna is adjusted based on power level measurements and/or PA direct current (DC) consumption measurements, depending... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080214126 - Adaptive mode transmitter for papr reduction and link optimization: An adaptive mode transmitter enables either OFDMA or SC-FDMA modulation schemes to be used during transmission of a wireless signal, such as during mobile phone use. The modulation scheme is selected automatically, and is based on characteristics of the transmitting entity, such as bandwidth allocation, selected modulation order, and transmit... Agent: Carrie A. Boone, P.C.

20080214128 - Diversity transmission method and transmitter of a base station using the same in a mobile commmunication system: A diversity transmission method and a transmitter of a base station using the same is provided in a mobile communication system. For this purpose, the diversity transmission method for controlling power of transmit antennas when the transmitter transmits a signal to a mobile terminal using a plurality of antennas includes... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20080214127 - Method, system and apparatus for estimation of propagation path variability of a transmit diversity channel: A method and apparatus for dynamic adaptation of transmit diversity parameters according to detected dynamics that may be, for example, related to changes in actual propagation and network conditions, and may be referred to as mobility parameters. Mobility parameters may apply to variability in a propagation path due to any... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20080214129 - Automated noise measurement system: A noise test measurement system configured to measure a noise component of a transmitted RF signal is described. The noise test measurement system may include an antenna, a low-noise amplifier, a local oscillator, a first coupler, a first variable phase-shifter, a first mixer, and a processor.... Agent: The Eclipse Group

20080214130 - Systems and methods for determining sensing thresholds of a multi-resolution spectrum sensing (mrss) technique for cognitive radio (cr) systems: Systems and methods may be provided for threshold determinations for spectrum sensing. The systems and methods may include receiving a false alarm rate, where the false alarm rate is associated with false occupancy identifications of a spectrum segment, determining a noise floor as a function of a noise figure and... Agent: Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP

20080214131 - User interface to be implemented in a device for organazing broadcast stations and optically their content: This invention relates to a user interface to be implemented in a device, wherein the device comprises a tuner and a receiver for receiving broadcast signals from broadcast stations. The user interface uses semantic information associated with the received broadcast signals for sorting the received broadcast stations based on sorting... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080214132 - Semiconductor device: In an RF tag, a mask ROM or a flash memory is used for storing data such as an ID number. Although the mask ROM can be realized at a low price, rewriting is not possible. In addition, in the flash memory, although electric rewriting is possible, production cost increases.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080214133 - System and method of a stereo receiving system: A system and method of a stereo receiving system, including a plurality of antennas, a receiving device, a plurality of summing devices, a phase lock loop device, a controllable phase shifter device, and a gain-control device. The plurality of antennas receive RF signals having a common frequency but potentially different... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20080214134 - System and method for adjacent channel power detection and dynamic bandwidth filter control: A system for detecting and minimizing interference in a radio receiver includes a plurality of bandpass filters having different response characteristics, a power detector configured to compare a power output of a first bandpass filter and a second bandpass filter, and logic to cascade a third bandpass filter when the... Agent: Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha, LLC

20080214135 - Methods and apparatus to perform noise cancellation in radios: Methods and apparatus to perform noise cancellation in radios are described. According to one example, a receiver includes a front end amplifier to receive and amplify an input signal; a downconverter to downconvert the amplified input signal; a feedback estimator to estimate a noise in the downconverted signal; and a... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080214136 - Reduction of near field electro-magnetic scattering using high impedance metallization terminations: The present invention uses metallization termination techniques to reduce the electro-magnetic field scattering at the edges of metallized areas. The metallization termination techniques provide a gradual transition from high conductivity areas to high impedance areas. The mobile phone antenna illuminates the PCB allowing currents to flow on the PCB. When... Agent: Moore And Van Allen PLLC For Semc

20080214138 - Integrated tracking filters for direct conversion and low-if single conversion broadband filters: A radio frequency (RF) tuner includes a programmable tracking filter bank receiving an RF input and outputting a filtered RF signal. A mixer stage receives the filtered RF signal and outputs a first quadrature component of the filtered RF signal and a second quadrature component of the filtered RF signal.... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080214137 - Receiver for wireless communications: An RF filtering and amplifying apparatus is proposed, comprising: a plurality of RF filters, connected with each other in a manner of cascade, for filtering the received radio signal level by level; a LNA (low noise amplifier), for amplifying the filtered signal to output an amplified and filtered signal. The... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080214139 - Multistage resonant amplifier system and method: A radio-frequency receiver for, e.g., receiving GPS signals in a cellular telephone has an input, a first gain stage in the form of a linear low noise amplifier with voltage-voltage feedback and a resonant load, and a second gain stage based on a common source input transconductor. Associated with the... Agent: John Bruckner, P.C.

20080214140 - Powered patch panel: A powered patch panel (PPP) is disclosed that inserts power in mid-span regions of a network and provides fault-tolerance at the power supply level and the power-plane level. Information such as physical location, port status and policy enforcement information may be locally stored and utilized by a processor of the... Agent: Panduit Corp.

20080214141 - System and method for allowing callback on an emergency call: A system and method suspends incoming call-barring for a subscriber in a telecommunications network for a specified period of time when an emergency call is initiated by the subscriber. During the time period, there is no incoming call-barring for the subscriber making the emergency call and a call from any... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080214142 - Emergency alerting system: An emergency alerting system for permitting a user to secretly send a request for help to multiple parties is described. The system uses a small panic button which may be concealed on the user and which can be activated without an attacker knowing that a call for help has been... Agent: Michelle Morin Steve Morin

20080214143 - Method and system for the collection of voice call statistics for a mobile device: A method and system for collecting and tracking statistics of a mobile device having the steps of: adding a call statistics server at an enterprise, the call statistics server adapted to receive call statistics information from one or more mobile devices or adapted to gather call statistics information directly through... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20080214144 - System and method for message-based access: A method and system for providing message-based access to services includes receiving a request message from a mobile subscriber relating to a service that is desired by the mobile subscriber, routing the request message for processing, performing one or more activities in accordance with the requested service, returning a response... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC

20080214146 - Block-based encoding and decoding information transference system and method: Methods, apparatuses, and systems enabling an information exchange system allowing for the transmission of a message carrier containing at least one message code along with video and television data, as well as subsequent capture and decoding of the message carrier to identify the at least one message code. As discussed... Agent: Law Office Of Mark J. Spolyar

20080214145 - Intelligent group media representation: A method, apparatus, and electronic device for optimizing a media presentation to a group. A memory may store a personal media user profile for a user. A processor may create a group media user profile from the personal media user profile and associated individual media user profiles. A network interface... Agent: Prass & Irving LLP

20080214154 - Associating mobile and non mobile web content: In embodiments of the present invention methods and systems are described for associating a mobile website content with a non-mobile website content, saving the association in a data facility, receiving a request for the non-mobile website content from a mobile communication facility, searching the data facility for the mobile website... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080214157 - Categorization of a mobile user profile based on browse behavior: In embodiments, the present invention provides a method and system for using wireless provider data to ascertain a web browser activity, recording a user's mobile web browser activity performed on a mobile communication facility, storing a plurality of mobile web browser activities activities to determine a relationship among web browser... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080214159 - Customer service messaging, such as on mobile devices: A mobile device and corresponding service provider are configured to provide a user of the mobile device with access to one or more instant messaging help entities, from the mobile device. The one or more instant messaging help entities may be associated with the corresponding service provider or with a... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080214150 - Idle screen advertising: In embodiments, the present invention provides a method and system for providing a user interface that simultaneously and dynamically presents a sponsored content concurrently with activating a mobile communication facility, wherein the dynamic presentation is based at least in part on a mobile subscriber characteristic.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080214155 - Integrating subscription content into mobile search results: In embodiments, the present invention provides a method and system for receiving a search query from a mobile communication facility and presenting search results to the mobile communication facility wherein the search results include non-subscription content and content to which a user is subscribed, wherein an indication that the user... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080214158 - Method and apparatus for storing and retrieving profile data for electronic devices: A method and system for archiving and restoring data in a portable communication device. A first wireless communication connection is established between the communication device and a remote network capable of storing portable communication device data. The identity of an archival function to be performed is transmitted over the first... Agent: Ian F. Burns & Associates

20080214147 - Method and system for customizing user interface by editing multimedia content: Disclosed is a method and a system for customizing a user interface by editing multimedia content, in which, when a user customizes the user interface displayed on a mobile communication terminal according to the preference of the user, the user edits the multimedia content to be used for the user... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080214151 - Methods and systems for mobile coupon placement: In embodiments, the present invention provides a method and system for receiving a navigation request from a mobile communication facility, associating a sponsored mobile coupon with the navigation request based at least in part on a relevancy, wherein the relevancy is based at least in part on a mobile subscriber... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080214152 - Methods and systems of mobile dynamic content presentation: In embodiments, the present invention provides a method and system for receiving a navigation request from a mobile communication facility, receiving an indicator input, dynamically creating a content based at least in part on an association of the navigation request and the indicator input, and presenting the dynamically created content... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080214156 - Mobile dynamic advertisement creation and placement: In embodiments, the present invention provides a method and system for receiving a navigation request from a mobile communication facility, receiving an indicator input, receiving a business rule relating to handling a mobile content type, dynamically creating a content based at least in part on an association of the navigation... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080214153 - Mobile user profile creation based on user browse behaviors: In embodiments, the present invention provides a method and system for recording data related to a user's mobile web browser activity performed on a mobile communication facility, storing a plurality of mobile web browser activities relating to the user, and creating a user browse behavior profile based at least in... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080214148 - Targeting mobile sponsored content within a social network: In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for receiving wireless provider data associated with a first mobile communication facility, determining a relationship between the first mobile communication facility and a third party based at least on the wireless provider data, and establishing a social network based at... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080214149 - Using wireless carrier data to influence mobile search results: In embodiments, the present invention provides a method and system for receiving a wireless carrier datum from a mobile carrier, receiving a navigation request from a mobile communication facility, assessing a relevancy of a content based at least in part on the relation of the wireless carrier datum to the... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080214161 - Location based push presence and profile on a wireless communications device: Changes in profile and/or presence information are pushed to a mobile communications device, in dependence upon device location or other application data stored on the device, such as calendar data, in order to ensure appropriate device behaviour. In this manner, the operation of the device can be automatically controlled in... Agent: Synnestvedt Lechner & Woodbridge LLP

20080214160 - Motion-controlled audio output: A motion of a mobile device, such as motions detected with an accelerometer, may be used to trigger an audio manipulation effect. In one implementation, logic is configured to output audio. Second logic is configured to identify a movement of the mobile device and third logic is configured to manipulate... Agent: Harrity Snyder, L.L.P.

20080214162 - Realtime surveying within mobile sponsored content: In embodiments, the present invention provides a method and system for associating a survey question with an interactive sponsored content, selecting the interactive sponsored content based at least in part on a mobile subscriber characteristic associated with a mobile communication facility, presenting the interactive sponsored content to the mobile communication... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080214163 - System for and method of backing up content for use on a mobile device: In accordance with the invention, mobile phones and other electronic devices access content through links, rather than storing the content on the mobile phone or at a location under the control of a mobile phone operator. A user retrieves the content by accessing a link on the mobile phone, which... Agent: Haverstock & Owens LLP

20080214164 - Transmission of signals in cellular systems and in mobile networks: A system and method for processing a received Global Positioning System (GPS) signal into a processed position finding GPS signal and for processing a first and a second input signal jointly with the GPS signal. A modulator and transmitter for modulation and transmission of processed signals in cellular systems and... Agent: Kamilo Feher

20080214166 - Location based mobile shopping affinity program: In embodiments, the present invention provides a method and system for presenting an affinity program enrollment opportunity to a mobile communication facility based at least in part on a navigation request made on the mobile communication facility and a location of the mobile communication facility, providing a sponsored affinity program... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080214167 - System for managing program applications storable in a mobile terminal: Management server 16 may obtain application programs from content server 20 in response to requests of mobile terminal 11. Management server 16 may transmit the obtained application programs to mobile terminal 11 with information concerning reliabilities of the application programs. After mobile terminal 11 receives the application programs from management... Agent: Indianapolis Office 27879 Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080214165 - Vehicle information communication system, management server, on-vehicle device, and vehicle information communication method: A vehicle information communication system includes a management server 2 whereby an information terminal 4 connected to a network 1 and an on-vehicle device of the vehicle 5 are in communication with each other; wherein the management server 2 includes a contractor confirming part 12 configured to send contractor information... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080214168 - Cell phone with personalization of avatar: An avatar is selected by a user. That avatar is then used as part of their personalized identification information with a call to a remote file. The avatar selected on the local phone is displayed on the remote phone when calling.... Agent: Law Office Of Scott C Harris Inc

20080214169 - Method and arrangement in a telecommunication system: A method for comparing configurations in a telecommunication system comprises switching S1, S3 between two or more configurations, and for each configuration measuring S2, S4 some predetermined parameter. The switching and measuring steps are repeated at least one time during a predetermined time period. For each of the configurations the... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080214171 - Mobile communication system and mobile terminal having function of inactivating mobile communication viruses, and method thereof: The present invention provides a mobile communication system and method for inactivating or curing mobile communication viruses. The mobile communication system for inactivating a virus includes: a database associated with the mobile communication system, for storing at least one virus vaccine program; and a virus monitoring unit associated with the... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080214170 - System and method of updating presence information: A network node provides presence updates to mobile users. The node reduces the amount of network traffic by eliminating the need for explicit messaging used to inform a user of presence updates. Additionally, the node reduces network traffic by consolidating presence updates, and sending the user only changed portions of... Agent: Coats & Bennett/oz

20080214173 - Method and system for provisioning services in a telecommunications network: The present invention is a telecommunication system, comprising of at least one base station connected to a telecommunication network, a plurality of subscriber stations each cooperating with the base station to establish a connection between a user device operably connected to the subscriber station and the telecommunication network. The base... Agent: Patent Administrator Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080214172 - Method of loading software in mobile and desktop environments: using the desktop computing device to run the loader software and direct it to the remote resource to download application software and install it using configuration data relating to the mobile device such that the installed application software can be run to provide functionality and connectivity between the mobile device,... Agent: Kolisch Hartwell, P.C.

20080214181 - Call queue in a wireless device: A wireless phone includes a memory, a processor, and a call queue function, the call queue function to enable the configuration and storage in the memory of a call queue, the call queue comprising an ordered list of entries to dial, wherein the processor and the memory cooperate to enable... Agent: Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP/seattle

20080214180 - Customer service messaging, such as on mobile devices: A mobile device and corresponding service provider are configured to provide a user of the mobile device with access to one or more instant messaging help entities, from the mobile device. The one or more instant messaging help entities may be associated with the corresponding service provider or with a... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080214175 - Data transmission: A communications device (1) communicates with an access point (7) to gateway (21) and local area network (13) by a wired or wireless communications link (9). These components may, for example, be accommodated on a train or serve some other predefined area. Gateway (21) receives data packets from device (1)... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080214174 - Initial cell search in mobile communications systems: An initial search for locating cells in a telecommunication system includes defining a set of carrier frequencies to be searched, and selecting as a cell search mode either a wide cell search mode or a narrow cell search mode, wherein selecting the cell search mode is based on a level... Agent: Potomac Patent Group PLLC

20080214177 - Method and apparatus for controlling the transmission of radio links in a radio-communication system: A method for controlling the transmission timing of a radio link on an air interface between a radio terminal and a radio access node, in a radio access node adapted to transmit a plurality of radio links to a radio terminal with substantially simultaneous transmission timings, is disclosed. It is... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080214178 - Method for optimizing receipt notification information interchange in synchronous communication between terminal and network and mobile terminal: To optimize the interchange of an ACK signal and a NACK signal between a terminal and a network and reduce the conflict on the terminal level. The invention relates to a method for optimizing the interchange of a receipt notification signal between a plurality of base stations and a mobile... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20080214176 - Methods and devices for the transmission of scalable data: ANS method for transmitting data, in which basic data is transmitted while one or several packets are transmitted with data that complements the basic data and increases the quality of the basic data when being decoded by a receiver. The packets contain at least one field with information about how... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080214179 - System and method for dynamically configuring wireless network geographic coverage or service levels: A system and a method for facilitating communication between a remote station and a service network are disclosed. A remote station is associated with a first communicator configured to communicate over a first communication network and a second communicator configured to communicate over a second communication network. A communication controller... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham, PLLC

20080214182 - Power control and channel reuse techniques for wireless relay networks: Various example embodiments are disclosed relating to relay networks or multi-hop networks, and also relating to power control and channel reuse techniques for wireless relay networks. A technique of power control in a wireless relay network may include receiving a channel measurement report via a relay station from a mobile... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP

20080214183 - Method of determining an error rate and a suitable testing device: The invention relates to a method and to a test device (12) which is used to determine an error rate during the transfer of data (1) in a mobile radio system. Said mobile radio system comprises at least one transfer channel, wherein several data partial flows (2.1, 2.2, 2.6) are... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20080214185 - System and method for reselecting antennas in a cellular mobile communication system using multiple antennas: A cellular mobile communication system using multiple antennas reselects a plurality of transmission antennas of base stations connected to a mobile station. The system includes measuring a channel quality parameter used for estimation of channel performance, determining whether to reselect the transmission antennas using the measured channel quality parameter, reselecting... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080214184 - System and method to modify wireless network calibration data: A system and method to re-calibrate an area of a wireless communications network that has been exposed to one or more network configuration changes is disclosed. When one or more attributes of the wireless network undergo a change which impairs the geo-location capability to locate a mobile station, it can... Agent: Duane Morris LLP

20080214187 - Apparatus and method for providing power off information in portable communication system: Provided is an apparatus and method for providing power-off information in a portable communication system. The portable communication system for identifying information on a destination terminal in a power-off state includes a portable terminal and a Mobile Switching Center (MSC).... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080214186 - System for monitoring the quality of service in a communication network: Monitoring system includes a set of peripheral monitoring agents including processing functionalities housed in SIMS. Such processing functionalities, depending at least on operating conditions of each terminal and its respective SIMS, are able to adaptively establish a distribution of measuring functionalities included in the peripheral monitoring agents between the terminal... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080214188 - Aircraft data transmission system for transmitting data between an aircraft and a transmission station located outside thereof: The invention relates to an aircraft data transmission system for transmitting data between the aircraft and a transmission station located outside thereof. The inventive system consists of a transmitting/receiving device (3) for transmitting and receiving data messaged from the outside of the aircraft, a message managing device (6) comprising means... Agent: Stevens Davis LLP

20080214189 - Mobility protocol switching for wireless networks: Techniques for mobility protocol switching for wireless networks are described. An apparatus may comprise a convergence gateway having a protocol converter, the protocol converter to receive as input a first set of control plane protocol signals and a first set of user plane protocol signals from a first network, convert... Agent: Kacvinsky LLC C/o Intellevate

20080214190 - Circuit switched domain services with long term evolution/sytem architecture evolution access: An apparatus and method including attaching a user equipment to a long term evolution system and simultaneously registering the user equipment attached to the long term evolution system to a circuit switched domain, is disclosed. The user equipment is simultaneously registered based on an interface between a mobility management entity... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080214191 - Service status display on a handheld communication device: A method of indicating the availability of a communication service begins by receiving, at a handheld communication device, a service indication of an availability of one of a plurality of communication services, via a wireless communication mode, to the communication device. The handheld communication device receives the service indication from... Agent: Heenan Blaikie LLP

20080214193 - Method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving information using random access procedure in mobile communication system: Disclosed is a method and an apparatus for transmitting and receiving additional information through a random access procedure by mapping at least one additional information element to random access codes to be used in a random access procedure between a UE and an ENB in a mobile communication system. According... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080214192 - Mobile communication system with position detection to facilitate hard handoff: A system for facilitating handoff adapted for use with a telecommunications network. The system includes position equipment for determining the location of a mobile transceiver within a region containing a first cell and a second cell. A comparison circuit compares the location with a predetermined handoff area within the region... Agent: Russell B. Miller Qualcomm Incorporated

20080214194 - Radio network controller and transport network control method for performing relocation: Setting unit 103 stores a first call. When communication unit 101 receives a relocation request, management unit 104 generates a new call different from the first call, and new call information, and adds the new call information to the new call.... Agent: Jackson Chen Nec Corporation Of America

20080214195 - Radio network relocation: There is disclosed a method for serving radio network subsystem relocation from a first radio network controller to a second radio network controller for an established call to a user equipment, comprising transmitting a transmission power control combination index of a radio link established between the user equipment and the... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080214196 - Techniques for high data rates with improved channel reference: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate pilot channel optimization schemes for high data rate communications transmissions. In various illustrative implementations, pilot channel operations can be monitored and controlled by an exemplary base station for one or more cooperating wireless terminals (e.g., user equipment) such that one or more power... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080214198 - Flexible channel quality indicator reporting: System(s) and method(s) are provided that facilitate a flexible channel quality indicator (CQI) reporting directives or policies. A CQI reporting directive delivers an improved tradeoff between reporting accuracy and overhead by establishing subband-specific reporting periods, reporting repetitions, or power requirements. The CQI reporting directive is based at least in part... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080214197 - Technique for radio resource management: A radio resource management technique in a cellular telecommunication system is disclosed. The telecommunication system comprises at least one radio network controlling component and one or more base station components operable to implement an uplink scheduling scheme in relation to one or more user terminals. A method embodiment comprises the... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080214199 - Dynamic frequency selection based on spectrum etiquette: The present disclosure relates generally to systems and methods for dynamic frequency selection based on spectrum etiquette. In one example, the method includes identifying multiple frequencies usable by a central subdivision in a wireless communication system that are not in use by neighboring subdivisions. The method may determine whether the... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20080214200 - Apparatus and method for resource sharing between a plurality of communication networks: An apparatus for resource sharing between a plurality of communication networks (103, 107, 111) each having a nominal resource allocation of a shared air interface resource and a resource exchange allowance is provided. The apparatus (201) comprises a sharing instigation processor (205) which initiates a temporary resource allocation of a... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080214201 - Pilot grouping in wireless communication networks: Systems and techniques for grouping channels, such as pilots, are described. In one aspect, a method includes receiving transmissions of two or more pilot signals at an access terminal of a wireless communications network that includes an access node, based on characteristics of the transmissions of the two or more... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20080214206 - Communication terminal, communication system using same, and information displaying program product and information displaying method for communication terminal: A communication terminal and communication system which are capable of having a grasp of a distance between communication terminals when communication is carried out, an information displaying program product and an information displaying method for the communication terminal and the communication system are provided. A communication network includes an originator... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20080214208 - Computationally-efficient estimation of the location of a wireless terminal based on pattern matching: A method of using a non-GPS-derived technique to estimate the location of an Assisted-GPS-enabled wireless terminal for the purposes of generating location-specific assistance data for the wireless terminal is disclosed. The wireless terminal then uses the assistance data to acquire and process one or more GPS signals and to derive... Agent: Demont & Breyer, LLC

20080214203 - Local positioning system and method of estimating position a mobile wireless unit in a localised area: A local positioning system comprises a plurality of sensor elements that may communicate with mobile units in a wireless fashion. The responsiveness of the mobile units is measured by yes/no answers and averaged so as to provide a measure of the distance of a mobile unit to a specified sensor... Agent: Greenberg Traurig LLP (la)

20080214207 - Location-based broadcast messaging for radioterminal users: Methods, radioterminals, and broadcast message generation consoles provide location-based broadcast messaging for users. A method of operating a radioterminal can include receiving at the radioterminal over a wireless air interface a broadcast message that includes region information that defines a geographic region of applicability. A determination is made at the... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20080214202 - Method and apparatus for bluetooth discoverability using region estimation: Embodiments of the invention generally provide a method and apparatus for Bluetooth discoverability using region estimation. One embodiment of a method for controlling Bluetooth discoverability of a wireless device includes monitoring the physical location of the wireless device and enabling Bluetooth discoverability if the current physical location of the wireless... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20080214204 - Similarity based location mapping of mobile comm facility users: In embodiments of the present invention methods and systems are described for associating a mobile subscriber characteristic with a mobile communication facility for identifying a location of the mobile communication facility and creating a map that includes the location of the mobile subscriber characteristic based at least in part on... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080214205 - System and method for generating a location estimate using a method of intersections: 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

20080214209 - Web to mobile device location based event reminder: Web page ‘event information’ template is provided comprising of data fields to enable users input event information published on corresponding web page. Web page ‘event information’ data can be published or can be imbedded in corresponding web page. Mobile device ‘event information’ database is provided comprising of data fields identical... Agent: Nitesh Ratnakar

20080214210 - Location-based novelty index value and recommendation system and method: The invention is a system and method for computing a result for a location, wherein the result indicates how novel it is for a wireless device to occupy a specific location. After determining the location of a wireless device through various means, a Novelty Index Value (NIV) is calculated for... Agent: James Hwa Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20080214211 - System for enabling or restricting certain cellular telephone device capabilities in certain zones: A system for selectively restricting or enabling the use of a cellular telephone module in a zone is described, comprising: a control signal transmitter for generating a control signal at an entrance to the zone or alternatively generating control signals throughout the zone; the cellular telephone including a module; a... Agent: Gerald John (jack) Lipovski

20080214212 - Methods of setting up a call with, and determining the direction of, a mobile device: A method of setting up a call with a mobile communication device, the method comprising transmitting a call request to the device over a wireless link, wherein the call request is adapted to cause the device to transmit a locator signal whilst blocking a connection management process which would otherwise... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20080214213 - Determining locations of mobile stations in wireless networks: Wireless network methods and apparatuses that may determine and provide, in real-time, the geographical locations of mobile stations of the wireless network are described herein. In one implementation, in order to determine the location of a mobile station (MS), the MS may obtain from a navigation service a decryption key... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C.

20080214214 - Method and system for telecommunication with the aid of virtual control representatives: Method and system of telecommunication between at least two users over a telecommunications network, wherein the first user is connected to the telecommunications network via a first terminal and the second user via a second terminal, and wherein a virtual representative is allocated to each user. A first virtual representative... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080214217 - Method for processing short message and communication terminal: A method for processing a short message and a communication terminal are disclosed. The method includes: receiving a short message; extracting schedule information from the short message after determining that the short message is a schedule short message; and importing the schedule information into a schedule table. The inventive solution... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080214216 - Mobile notification system: A mobile notification system and method is provided for notifying a customer via a telecommunication device when a desired good or service is made available. A customer of an establishment enters customer data into a mobile notification system via a client computer to receive notification from the establishment via the... Agent: Polsinelli Shalton Flanigan Suelthaus PC

20080214215 - Systems and methods for facilitating information control of a device by proxy: Systems, methods and apparatuses for enabling the configuration and/or control of data, content or other information affecting a device(s) by way of another device(s). A first device, such as a mobile device, is associated with a network-addressable document(s). The network-addressable document(s) are provided to a second device, such as a... Agent: Hollingsworth & Funk, LLC

20080214218 - Method for maximal ratio combining of spatially filtered signals and apparatus therefor: The present invention relates to a maximum ratio combining method of spatial-filtered received signals and an apparatus using the same. For this purpose the present invention provides a method for receiving signals by using a plurality of antennas that form a linear array antenna, multiplying a plurality of weight vectors... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20080214219 - Status communication system, status communication method, status collection terminal, and storage medium storing status collection program: A status communication system includes a plurality of first status communication terminals, a status collection terminal that communicates with the plurality of first status communication terminals, and a server that communicates with the status collection terminal via a network. Each of the plurality of the first status communication terminals includes... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20080214220 - Preemption method for management of radio resources in a mobile communication network: s

20080214222 - Mobile station capable of and a method for generating chip patterns for transmission: A base station configured to communicate with a mobile station includes a controlling-information transmitting unit and a receiving unit. The controlling-information transmitting unit is configured to transmit to the mobile station as a set of controlling information, an information set indicating an environment of a cell which is resided by... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080214221 - Radio base station system: A radio base station main unit 4 and a plurality of remote transmitters and receivers 5 are connected to one another via communication cables 6. Each of the remote transmitters and receivers 5 carries out radio communications with mobile communication terminals 3 in a site 100 which is an area... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080214223 - Push-to-talk pressing device: A PTT pressing device for pressing a PTT switch in a continuous manner. The PTT pressing device comprises a PTT pressing element, whereby the PTT pressing element presses the PTT switch to its pressed state, and a mounting element, whereby the mounting element is mounting the PTT pressing element over... Agent: Active Knowledge Ltd.

20080214228 - Automated autonomy increasing system and method for communication devices: A method for automatic powering on and turning off of a communications device, comprising: defining a critical zone to be one of within or outside a range of a base station transceiver; sending a location message from one of the communications device and the base station transceiver; responding to the... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP

20080214229 - Method and apparatus for determining reverse transmission power of mobile station in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing system: A mobile station apparatus for determining reverse transmission power in an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing system is provided. A reception module receives from a base station a Reverse-Link Assignment Message including a Packet Format (PF) field and a Reverse-Link Power Control (RLPC) field. A power level adjuster determines a nominal... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080214224 - Method and system of transmission power control: The present invention relates to cellular mobile radio systems, and more especially it relates to Code Division Multiple Access, CDMA, cellular mobile radio systems, particularly to transmission power control in such systems. A method and apparatus for transmission of compensated TPC commands when a substantial loop delay is experienced for... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080214225 - Method for controlling the transmission power of a mobile terminal in a cellular radio system and a terminal for carrying out said method: The invention relates to a cellular radio system wherein a communication terminal receives servo power instruction from a base station with which a radio communication comprising first uplink and downlink channels is established. In response to an instruction for changing a channel (13), the terminal records a first power level... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080214227 - Transmission power control method, mobile station, radio base station, and radio network control station: The present invention performs an outer loop transmission power control in a more stable manner by preventing a status of being unable to detect an Enhanced Dedicated Physical Control Channel (E-DPCCH). A transmission power control method according to the present application includes: generating, at a mobile station UE, a transport... Agent: Mots Law, PLLC

20080214230 - Transmission power control target calculating apparatus: A transmission power control target value calculating apparatus that calculates target values, which are used for transmission power control of radio waves sent through radio transmission paths, comprises: a first target value calculating section that calculates a first transmission power control target value based on quality of combined data which... Agent: Hanify & King Professional Corporation

20080214226 - Wireless communication control system, radio base station, and wireless communication control method: A radio communication control system (10) which controls a transmission power of a shared control channel for transmitting a control signal to a plurality of mobile stations, includes: a new transmission power setting section (13) configured to set a new transmission power of the shared control channel by adding an... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080214232 - Plural network protocol wireless transmit/receive unit: A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) communicates in a system which includes plural network protocols. The WTRU includes a circuit configured to make an initial communication request. A communication circuit establishes a communication link in response to the initial communication request in a first direction of communication and a second direction... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080214231 - Tiered wireless, multi-modal access system and method: A wireless, multi-modal access device and system adapted to integrate a number of communications networks operating in differing communication modes to facilitate transfer of communication links during a communication session to promote efficient use of the communication networks. The system includes a plurality of Universal Multi-Modal Access Devices UMMAD that... Agent: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

20080214233 - Connecting mobile devices via interactive input medium: A mobile device connection system is provided. The system includes an input medium to detect a device position or location. An analysis component determines a device type and establishes a connection with the device. The input medium can include vision systems to detect device presence and location where connections are... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080214236 - Digital content download associated with corresponding radio broadcast items: A portable device is used to capture, in real time, data sufficient to identify an item, such as a product or service promoted, or a music track played, on a broadcast medium such as radio or television. The capture device can be a standalone implementation, or an application program executable... Agent: Stolowitz Ford Cowger LLP

20080214234 - Local phone number lookup and cache: A system and method for wirelessly connecting a computer device to a server. The system includes a computer device and a phone number look-up device. The computer device generates location data, retrieves a server phone number from memory based on the generated location data, and generates a request that includes... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham, PLLC

20080214235 - Mobile terminal device, remote notification method and recording medium: When detecting that an other cellular phone device 1 is present in the vicinity of a local cellular phone device 1 through a short-range wireless communication unit 24, a CPU 11 receives and acquires a communication-partner ID from the other cellular phone device 1 through the short-range wireless communication unit... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20080214237 - Novel personal electronics device with common application platform: A novel personal electronic device includes a first (embedded) and second (non-embedded) processors including associated operating systems and functions. In one aspect, the first processor performs relatively limited functions, while the second processor performs relatively broader functions under control of the first processor. Often the second processor requires more power... Agent: Haynes Beffel & Wolfeld LLP

20080214239 - Computer-readable medium storing display control program and mobile terminal: A medium storing a program for display control. When the program is executed by a computer realized in a mobile terminal, the mobile terminal operates as follows. An area-information storing unit stores information on a first display area of an external display device and a second display area of a... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080214238 - Devices and methods for facilitating hands-free mode with fm transmitter: Disclosed is a hands-free electronic device including an FM receiver and an FM scanner to continuously scan for FM channels and to locate available FM channels for a list of available FM channels rated according to signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and/or a received signal-strength indication (RSSI). A short range transceiver may... Agent: Motorola Inc

20080214240 - Method and apparatus for connecting emergency call in portable terminal: A method and apparatus for connection an emergency call in a dual mode portable terminal supporting both a cellular network and an unlicensed-band network using an unlicensed Industrial, Science, and Medical (ISM) frequency band (e.g., WiFi, Bluetooth, UWB, etc.) are provided. The method includes if an emergency call connection event... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080214242 - Mobile terminal and method for operating a mobile terminal: The present invention relates to a mobile terminal for a mobile communication network, comprising a mobile equipment system (2) and at least one user identity module (3), wherein a contactless chipset interface (4) is interposed in the communication channel (5) between the mobile equipment system (2) and at least one... Agent: Kriegsman & Kriegsman

20080214241 - Wireless control of operating characteristics of electronic data cards: A system comprising a first device and a second device having an electronic data card associated therewith, information on the electronic data card being useable by and accessible by the first device, wherein the first device is arranged to control the operating characteristics of the electronic data card of the... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20080214243 - Communication device with diversity antenna: A method and apparatus is disclosed for improving signal reception in a wireless communication device by selectively processing one of two or more signals received over two or more antennas that are configured at least partially orthogonal. In one embodiment, the signal source selection is based on comparison of a... Agent: Kyocera Wireless Corp.

20080214244 - Cordless telephone unit including audible confirmation of called party: A main phone of a cordless telephone unit has i) a cordless communicator for establishing cordless communications with a cordless handset; and ii) a voice generator for converting called-party information received from a cordless handset into voice data. On the other hand, a cordless handset has voice-data output section for... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20080214245 - Method of providing schedule information for mobile terminal: A method of providing schedule information for a mobile terminal in order to make a call or to send a message to participants according to a schedule by making a list of the participants in advance when setting the schedule. The method includes setting at least one schedule; storing a... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080214246 - Terminal and method for controlling its audio alarm: The present invention discloses a terminal and a method for controlling audio alarm of the terminal. The method comprises detecting whether a valid wireless signal can be received, and setting said terminal to a non-audio alarm mode when it is determined that said valid wireless signal cannot be received. With... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080214247 - Communication method and communication system: A communication method includes the following steps. First, a cell phone is connected to an earphone in a wireless manner. Next, the cell phone is enabled to be chosen to enter a wireless intercom mode. Then, a voice control module of the cell phone is enabled to receive a first... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080214248 - Auxiliary power supply for a cell phone: An auxiliary power is supplied for use on a cell phone in case the power is lost or not available in an emergency. The auxiliary power supply consists of a casing having a spare battery therein. One end of the casing has a plug-in thereon that will fit into the... Agent: Howard Charles Hensel

20080214249 - Sleep mode controlling apparatus and method in cellular system: In a cellar system providing various packet services, sleep mode operation of a terminal in an idle state is controlled. The cellular system determines a discontinuous receiving (DRX) period according to a QoS of a packet service provided to the terminal, and runs the sleep mode according to the determined... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080214250 - Casing for an electronic handheld device: The invention relates to a casing for a handheld device that has an upright axis defining an operation orientation of the device and a diagonal axis. The casing has only two continuous side sweeps meeting at points in line with the diagonal axis. The diagonal axis coincides with the greatest... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080214251 - Modular access point: Described is a modular access point for wireless communications. The access point includes a housing which has at least one module receiving slot and a first wireless communication radio. The radio communicates with a first wireless device via a first frequency band. The access point also includes a removable module... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20080214252 - Handheld electronic keypad access case: A case for a hand-held electronic device such as a cell phone, having a movable full or semi-covering that covers the data-entry utility of the hand-held electronic device when closed. The display portion of the hand-held electronic device is continuously covered with a transparent sheet, providing full protection of the... Agent: Philip H. Haymond