Telecommunications inventions 10/08

20080261509 - Distributed wireless communications for tactical network dominance: Ad-hoc networks employing cooperative signal processing are configured for detecting, identifying, and visualizing radio communication networks used by an adversary, such as enemy combatants or criminals. These networks are further configured for performing a non-passive tactical response to an adversary's communication capabilities. Such ad-hoc networks are particularly useful for identifying... Agent: Steven J Shattil

20080261510 - Wireless communication system for monitoring and managing client interface for area-specific process: A method enables a communication between a process client and a wireless process server to carry out an area-specific process in an area. The method includes a step of transmitting a message from a wireless process server to a wireless communication device operated by the process client. The message includes... Agent: Bo-in Lin

20080261511 - Wireless local loop antenna: A wireless local loop system is provided that includes a wireless base station that communicates with a subscriber station via a wireless link. The wireless link can carry a voice service, such as telephone calls, or a data service, such as internet browsing. The subscriber station includes a steerable antenna.... Agent: Patent Administrator Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080261512 - Systems and methods for satellite augmented wireless communication networks: A system and method for a satellite augmented wireless communication network is disclosed. The method includes transmitting at least a portion of digital data via a satellite communication network to a satellite signal receiving device, receiving the digital data by the satellite signal receiving device, and providing the received digital... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20080261517 - Communication framework and method and system for providing a real-time audio and/or video signal: A method for providing a remote real-time audio and/or video (AV) signal includes: displaying an AV terminal list that records a plurality of AV terminals, and requesting a user terminal to select one of the AV terminals in the AV terminal list; determining whether a connection has been established with... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20080261515 - Method and system for automatically providing alternate network access for telecommunications: A communications unit is provided that can be coupled to a building's telecommunication wiring to provide an automated mechanism for isolating the building's wiring from a PSTN, while also providing a telecommunications connection to an alternative communications network via, for example, broadband or cellular networks. The communications unit can further... Agent: Campbell Stephenson LLP

20080261513 - Mobile communication terminal capable of playing and updating multimedia content and method of playing the same: There is a problem in conventional technologies in that updating multimedia content can be initiated only by a mobile communication terminal side. A mobile communication terminal according to the present invention updates at least one of elements of content stored in a permanent storage area of a memory unit using... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080261516 - Playing digital content from satellite radio media based on taste profiles: A portable content-playing device which automatically constructs a virtual channel of content consistent with the tastes of the user of the device, where the content originates from one or more satellites. The portable device contains software for computing similarity values between a local taste profile (representative of the tastes of... Agent: Elman Technology Law, P.C.

20080261514 - System and apparatus for supplying media content to portable communication devices: A system and apparatus for supplying media content to portable communication devices is disclosed. An apparatus that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure can include, for example, a Set-Top Box (STB) having a cellular transceiver and a controller element to direct the cellular transceiver to transmit a media guide for... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080261519 - Dual cancellation loop wireless repeater: A wireless repeater comprises dual cancellation loops. The wireless repeater includes an active cancellation loop and a passive cancellation loops. The active cancellation loops reduces an environmentally induced signal component from a receive signal entering the repeater's amplifier. The passive cancellation loop reduces leaked signal component from the received signal.... Agent: Fish & Associates, PC Robert D. Fish

20080261518 - Method for transmitting messages by radio while using a repeater: A method transmits a message by radio from a transmitter to a receiver. In a first step, the transmitter transmits the message to a forwarding station. In a second step, the message is subsequently transmitted at the same time form the transmitter and the forwarding station to the receiver. A... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080261520 - Wireless communication system and lift system having the same: A wireless communication system for providing a radio frequency (RF) link between an enclosed environment that is at least substantially shielded from RF signals, and the outside of the enclosed environment is disclosed. The wireless communication system includes at least one gateway antenna arranged at an entrance point of the... Agent: Crockett & Crockett, P.C.

20080261521 - Monitoring condition of network with distributed components: In a system having distributed components arranged in a logical ring structure, each component monitors only their respective neighboring component in the structure and the condition of the neighboring component is determined. If a component determines a condition of its neighboring component that corresponds to a predefinable condition, the component... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080261522 - Multi-antenna satellite system with wireless interface to vehicle: A wireless satellite communication device is provided according to one embodiment of the invention. The wireless satellite communication device may include one or more satellite antennas, one or more local antennas and circuitry. A satellite antenna may be configured to communicate with one or more satellites. The local antenna may... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP Viasat, Inc (client #017018)

20080261523 - Communication device and method, and program: The present invention relates to a device and a method for communication, and a program that makes it possible to provide a communication environment not limited by a use environment. An electrode controlling unit 261 in a transmitting device 260 checks a state of capacitive coupling of each of an... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080261527 - Bluetooth earpiece with two-way audio transmissions: A Bluetooth earpiece with two-way audio transmissions adopts a base body combined with a Bluetooth earphone containing a signal transmitting end. An electrically connected amplifying unit, loudspeaker unit and audio signal capture unit are installed in the base body. The amplifying unit electrically connects to signal transmitting end of the... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080261526 - Identifying and reaching users through mobile devices to provide relevant and real-time information: A method to identify and reach users of mobile devices to provide relevant and real-time information including discount coupons and promotional messages is disclosed. The present invention uses short range connectivity present in most mobile devices to identify mobile devices and reaches the mobile devices using long range or short... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080261524 - Method and system for a bluetooth device that supports multiple connections: Methods and systems for a Bluetooth device that supports multiple connections are disclosed. Aspects of one method may include enabling an active Bluetooth device to generate an indication of an incoming call via a second of a plurality of Bluetooth devices when the Bluetooth enabled device is engaged in an... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080261525 - Wireless communication system, wireless communication device, program, and wireless communication method: There is provided a wireless communication device that includes a first communication portion that performs non-contact communication with an other wireless communication device and receives unit specific data indicating the other wireless communication device's communication function; a second communication portion that can communicate wirelessly faster than the first communication portion;... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080261528 - Personal area network systems and devices and methods for use thereof: Systems and methods are provided for interfacing wireless communications between two devices such that a device devoid of a relatively long-range communications protocol can access that protocol. This may be accomplished by providing a host device having relatively short-range communications circuitry integrated therein, which circuitry may be operative to communicate... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20080261529 - Personal area network systems and devices and methods for use thereof: Systems and methods are provided for interfacing wireless communications between two devices such that a device devoid of a relatively long-range communications protocol can access that protocol. This may be accomplished by providing a host device having relatively short-range communications circuitry integrated therein, which circuitry may be operative to communicate... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20080261530 - Method and arrangement for activity detection in a telecommunication system: The present invention relates to a method and arrangement for efficient use of network resources, in particular for continuous connectivity services. The present invention introduces a set of established rules for uplink and/or downlink activity detection such that a Node B and/or a UE is enabled to detect active and... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080261531 - System and method for providing coverage and service continuation in border cells of a localized network: A system and method for providing continuous multimedia broadcast multicast services over different localized areas, while also avoiding frequency interference. In various embodiments, a service provides reduced-quality data at the border of each localized area. In one approach, border cells of a single frequency network (SFN) broadcast reduced quality data,... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080261532 - Telecommunications jack with crosstalk multi-zone crosstalk compensation and method for designing: The present disclosure relates to a telecommunications jack including a housing having a port for receiving a plug. The jack also includes a plurality of contact springs adapted to make electrical contact with the plug when the plug is inserted into the port of the housing, and a plurality of... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20080261533 - Method and arrangement in a communications network: A method in a first communications device for setting up a point-to-point IP connection to a second communication device is provided. The first device is adapted to communicate with the second device over a radio communication network IP connection. The first device and the second device use a point-to-point radio... Agent: Harrity Snyder, L.L.P.

20080261534 - Adjust equipment and method for array antenna transmitting link: Adjust equipment and method for array antenna transmitting link, include: power detect device, signal synthesize device and array adjust device; the downlink signal of the transmitting link processed by the power detect device and be transmitted to the power detect signal feed device, and then transmitted to the signal synthesize... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson, P.C.

20080261536 - Automatic delay calibration and tracking for ultra-wideband antenna array: A method for determining changes in internal delays of RF units, the RF units including a plurality of receivers and transmitters. The method includes providing initial direct signals' time of arrivals of the RF units initial internal delays of the RF units. Following this, each transmitter transmitting a direct signal,... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080261535 - Detection of underperforming antennas of nodes of wireless networks: An apparatus and method of detecting underperforming antennas of a wireless node of a wireless network are disclosed. The method includes measuring a wireless link quality between a first antenna of the wireless node and a receiver, and measuring a wireless link quality between a second antenna of the wireless... Agent: Tropos Networks

20080261537 - Re-configurable communication device and managing method thereof: A communication apparatus including a physical information recognizing module, an MAC information recognizing module, a coordinating module, and a re-configurable transmitting/receiving module is provided. The physical information recognizing module recognizes a set of physical information relative to at least one communication network. The MAC information recognizing module recognizes a set... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20080261538 - Dipole antenna for a portable communication device: The present invention relates to a portable communication device arrangement comprising a main unit and an auxiliary unit. The main unit includes an electrical interface to an auxiliary unit, a ground plane dimensioned for antenna operation at a multiple of a quarter of a wavelength of a desired frequency, and... Agent: Harrity Snyder, L.L.P.

20080261539 - Wireless transmission system having architecture based on three internal antennas and method thereof: A wireless transmission system is provided for receiving a wireless signal in a wireless electronic device. The wireless transmission system includes a first antenna for vertical polarization, a second antenna for horizontal polarization, a sensor module for sensing pose status of the wireless electronic device and generating a control signal,... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080261540 - Universal front end module for networking device: In one embodiment a universal front end module for network communications is disclosed. The module can include a mode controller coupled to components of a transmission path. A first tunable filter on a transmit path can receive a mode control signal from the mode controller and receive a signal to... Agent: Schubert, Osterrieder & Nickelson, PLLC C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080261541 - Method and device for amplifying an amplitude and phase modulated electric signal: The aim of the invention is to suppress interference caused by a mismatch of the power amplifier of a polar-loop transmitter. To achieve this, the crest factor of the output signal from the power amplifier is measured during operation to detect the state of the mismatch and to identify the... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P. Patent Department

20080261542 - Power supply circuit: Provided is a power supply circuit capable of operating with low noise and low power consumption. In a power supply circuit 11, a power level control signal Pa for controlling a power level of a power amplifier 12, and an internal current control signal Pb which is a result of... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080261543 - Transmission circuit and communication device: Provided is a transmission circuit capable of operating with high linearity and with low noise. An AM variable fc filter 102 uses an AM cutoff frequency to remove a high frequency component from an amplitude signal. An amplifier 105 supplies a power amplifier 107 with a voltage which is a... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080261544 - Techniques for improved adaptive impedance matching: An embodiment of the present invention provides an apparatus, comprising an RF matching network connected to at least one RF input port and at least one RF output port and including one or more voltage or current controlled variable reactive elements; and wherein the RF matching network is tuned to... Agent: Law Office Of William J. Tucker

20080261545 - Communication terminal apparatus and base station apparatus: An allocation section 101 in a base station apparatus of the present invention sets the transmission rate of a transmit signal for a communication terminal apparatus based on a DRC signal transmitted from that communication terminal apparatus. A power margin information detector 117 detects power margin information from a demodulated... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC

20080261546 - Method and apparatus for controlling antenna connectivity as a function of antenna orientation: Methods and apparatuses presented herein control antenna connectivity for a wireless communication device as a function of rotation of a connector assembly plugged into the device, such as where an external antenna or cable includes the connector assembly. Assuming the device has a mating connector for the external antenna that... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20080261547 - Methods and apparatus for rf channel selection in a multi-frequency network: Methods and apparatus for RF channel selection in a multi-frequency network. A method includes identifying selected local operations infrastructures (LOIs) and their neighboring LOIs, generating a neighbor description message (NDM) that identifies the selected LOIs and their neighboring LOIs and associates a descrambling sequence identifier with each RF channel of... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080261548 - System and method for selecting an intermediate frequency: A receiver including a mixer configured to generate a mixed signal at a first intermediate frequency from an input signal and a mixing signal and processing circuitry configured to detect a power level for each of a plurality of possible images in the mixed signal and configured to cause the... Agent: Dicke, Billig & Czaja, PLLC Attn: Silabs Matters

20080261549 - Noise blanker circuit and method for removing noise and correcting a signal: A noise blanker circuit and method of removing impulse noise from a signal and correcting the signal is provided. The circuit includes a detection stage, a pulse removal stage, and a pulse removal correction stage. The detection stage includes at least an input that emits an input signal along a... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20080261550 - Radio communication device, radio communication system, method for radio communication and program thereof: A radio communication device according to an exemplary aspect of the present invention which communicates in a form of multi data streams can reduce antennas which become useless in communication with a radio communication device which communicates in a form of one data stream, and can improve transmission characteristic in... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20080261551 - System and method for channel bonding in multiple antenna communication systems: Systems and methods that provide channel bonding in multiple antenna communication systems are provided. In one embodiment, a method for signal transmission over a plurality of antennas of a transmitter may include, for example, one or more of the following: demultiplexing an input signal into a plurality of signal components;... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080261552 - Low voltage iq dual mixer: An IQ dual mixer for use in radio transmitters and receivers, comprising an in-phase (I) local oscillator transistor pair, a quadrature-phase (Q) local oscillator transistor pair, and a first radio frequency (RF) transistor. The I local oscillator transistor pair is operably coupled to receive an I local oscillator signal and... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080261553 - Rf input transconductor stage: A transconductor input circuit for a down converting quadrature mixer stage of a direct-conversion receiver comprises a pair of common-gate input transistors whose source electrodes are coupled to a differential radio frequency (RF) input signal outputted from an interstage RF filter. The transconductor circuit further comprises a pair of equally-sized... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080261555 - Intertalk wristband radio frequency identification tag: The present invention discloses an intertalk wristband RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) tag, which applies to any type of wireless automatic wristband RFID system and comprises an RFID system, an audio-receiving system, and an audio-outputting system. The present invention utilizes the RFID system to receive and transmits the audio information-bearing signal... Agent: Joe Mckinney Muncy

20080261554 - Method for informing multiple mobile terminals of an emergency event: A method, devices, a system, and computer programs for informing multiple mobile terminals (UE10-90) of an emergency event are disclosed. The method comprises the steps of receiving (S300) emergency information associated with the emergency event, establishing (S400) an emergency multimedia capable distribution bearer for a delivery of an emergency service... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080261557 - Method and system for providing an emergency location service: When a user equipment accessing an access network transmits an emergency call initiating request message to an E-CSCF, the E-CSCF transmits a message requesting for retrieving a current location of the user equipment to a location retrieval unit and the location retrieval unit measures the current location of the user... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080261556 - Mobile phone handset: A mobile phone set is provided that includes a personal locator beacon circuit. A microprocessor activates the circuit when emergency service is requested and no mobile service is available. The set can also include a global positioning satellite circuit so that location coordinates can be sent with the locator beacon.... Agent: Lester H. Birnbaum

20080261559 - Camel service charging in ims networks: IMS networks and associated methods are disclosed that provide charging for CAMEL services provided in the IMS network. If a CAMEL service is provided by an application server for a session in an IMS network, then the application server generates CAMEL charging data for the service provided and also generates... Agent: Duft Bornsen & Fishman, LLP

20080261558 - System and method for transferring credit between mobile phone subscribers: A system (10) for transferring credit between mobile phone subscribers (12) comprising: a telecommunications carrier (16), the telecommunications carrier (16) having a billing system (22); mobile phone subscribers (12), each mobile phone subscriber (12) possessing a mobile phone (18) that communicates using a mobile phone network (20) operated by the... Agent: Intellectual Property Law Group LLP

20080261560 - Access authorization servers, methods and computer program products employing wireless terminal location: An access authorization server includes an access authorization processor configured to receive information concerning an access attempt at a subscribed location, to obtain location information from a wireless network provider for a wireless terminal associated with the subscribed location, to correlate a location of the wireless terminal with the subscribed... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20080261563 - Method for interfacing a femto-cell equipment with a mobile core network: connecting at least one Mobile Network entity of said Femto-Cell equipment to at least one Mobile Core Network node with at least one standard Mobile Network interface, via a Femto Core Network Gateway entity, said at least one standard Mobile Network interface being encapsulated in a secure tunnel established between... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080261561 - Secure soft sim credential transfer: The method and apparatus described herein transfers soft SIM credentials from a transferring mobile device to a target mobile device while ensuring that only one mobile device contains active soft SIM credentials at a time. Broadly, a transferring mobile device securely transfers the soft SIM credentials to a target mobile... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20080261562 - System and method for providing bidirectional message communication services with portable terminals: The present invention relates to a bidirectional message transmission system and method. The system performs first authentication on a first user based on user ID information provided by a first user terminal connected to the wired Internet, and performs second authentication in cooperation with a first portable terminal having a... Agent: Summa, Allan & Additon, P.A.

20080261564 - Communication and control system using location aware devices for audio message storage and transmission operating under rule-based control: A cellular telephone handset stores audio files previously recorded by the user as well as voice mail messages from other users and selectively transmitted selected ones of these files to the remote listener, or to the voice mail system of a remote user. Voice mail messages are composed, stored, transmitted,... Agent: Charles G. Call

20080261569 - Integrated messaging, contacts, and mail interface, systems and methods: Systems and methods for integrating and aggregating content for a mobile device are provided. Electronic content gathered from service providers over a network is presented in an intuitive, efficient and effective manner to easily allow a mobile device user seamless access to a variety of electronic content and functionality. An... Agent: K&l Gates LLP

20080261571 - Location blocking service from a wireless service provider: Location-blocking and identity-blocking services that can be commercially offered by a service promoter, e.g., a cellular service provider or a web advertiser. In the identity-blocking service, the service promoter may disclose the current physical location of a mobile subscriber (i.e., a cellular phone operator) to a third party (e.g., a... Agent: Merchant & Gould Bellsouth Corporation

20080261566 - Method for activating a network-based service in a communication network, apparatus, device and network therefore: According to one aspect of the present invention, there is provided apparatus, in a communication network, for processing a request to initiate a communication using a first communication system, the request including information relating to one or more parties with which the communication is intended to be initiated, comprising: processing... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080261565 - Method for obtaining cross-network accessible information on a mobile communications system: The application relates to a method for obtaining cross-network accessible information about a mobile station (110). The method has a first step of receiving the request for mobile station information at a query server (120); a second step of defining one or more subqueries in the query server (120) to... Agent: Intellectual Property / Technology Law

20080261568 - Methods and systems for providing contact information: A system includes a communication device comprising a device database of contact information; and a lookup application communicating with the communication device and configured to identify additional contact information in a contact information database that corresponds to a piece of contact information entered into the communication device and to provide... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080261567 - Mobile telephony device having a print request dedicated key for transmitting digital images to a printing system: A mobile telephony device is provided having a print request dedicated key, a digital image acquiring assembly for acquiring at least one digital image, and a processor in operative communication with the print request dedicated key for initiating printing of the at least one digital image in response to selection... Agent: Xerox Corporation (cdfs)

20080261570 - Radio communication apparatus and method of control: A method of operating a radio communication apparatus (100), comprises receiving an access parameter transmitted intermittently by a radio station (200), storing a value of the latest received access parameter, and transmitting an access signal. It further comprises receiving a validity indicator transmitted by the radio station (200), and if... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080261573 - Method and apparatus for enhancing receiving efficiency of an multimedia broadcast multicast service in a wireless communications system: A method for enhancing receiving efficiency of a multimedia broadcast multicast service, know as MBMS, in a wireless communications system includes setting an indicator for indicating whether an MBMS service is transmitted on an MBSFN, an abbreviation of MBMS over a Single Frequency Network, carrier or not, and sending the... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080261572 - Mobile device business models: A mobile device facilitates customized services for its user. For example, a mobile device can record information about a user using multiple inputs (e.g., sensors, GPS, camera, etc.). The information recorded creates a log of activities and interests of the user. One or more parts of the log are published... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080261574 - Extending wlan signalling: The present invention relates to a method, device, instruction set, and signal for communicating the availability of additional information in access points relevant for determining in a mobile station which access point to connect to. An information tag is inserted into a beacon signal alerting of the additional information available;... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080261575 - Method for forming an audiovisual call identifier, a mobile communication device and a call identifier: In the invention, an audiovisual call identifier including image and sound is formed for a mobile communication device. The call identifier is repeated on the display and in the loudspeaker of the communication device when a call comes in, i.e. it functions in the same way as an ordinary ring... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080261576 - Communication system for oil and gas platforms: Communications between oil platform operators and radio users on oil platforms are facilitated using a conference server that provides software-based conference rooms enabling the oil platform operators to speak and listen to desired radio users and other oil platform operators.... Agent: Garlick, Harrison & Markison (alu)

20080261577 - Mobile virtual communication invitations: In general, in an aspect, the invention provides a method including prompting a first user of a first mobile communication device to invite a second user of a second mobile communication device to become associated with a virtual community associated with the first user, sending a first notification from the... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky And Popeo, P.c Attn: Patent Intake Customer No. 30623

20080261580 - Controlled temporary mobile network: A communication device and method for controlling a temporary Mobile Group within a Controlled Temporary Mobile Network. The device is configurable by an administrator to act as a Mobile Group Node within the temporary Mobile Group. The administrator may further configure the device to act as a Mobile Group Leader,... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080261578 - Methods and devices for set-up of a call in an intelligent network: Methods and devices for set-up of a call in an intelligent network (300) comprising a switching entity (SE-31,SE10,SSF) and a control entity (CE-31,CE10,SCP) are described. The call is subjected to a control by the control entity (CE-31,CE10,SCP) and the control entity (CE-31,CE10,SCP) is adapted to perform the steps of obtaining... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080261579 - Mobile communication terminal and method of controlling volume thereof: A mobile communication terminal and method of controlling a volume thereof are disclosed, by which the volume of the mobile communication terminal can be controlled in case of entering a specific mode while a manner mode is set. The present invention includes entering a specific mode for outputting an audio... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080261582 - Method and apparatus for using a mac protocol for broadcast: Method and apparatus that provide for broadcast multicast services in an ultra mobile broadband network are disclosed. A broadcast transmission structure provides for efficient indexing of subbands reserved for BCMCS. Transmissions on the logical channels are segmented into error control blocks beginning with zero or one MAC packet received by... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080261583 - Mobile communication method and system: In the method for wireless communication between a terminal and a base station supporting a real time packet transfer service mode and reliable packet transfer service mode according to the present invention, one of the real time packet transfer service mode and reliable packet transfer service mode is selected and... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20080261581 - Polling method and apparatus for long term evolution multimedia broadcast multicast services: A device for wirelessly communicating a service to user equipment is provided. The device includes a transmitter, a receiver, and a processor. The processor is programmed to promote the transmitter polling to determine whether user equipment desire a service and responsive to receiving, via the receiver, at least one user... Agent: Research In Motion Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20080261584 - Method and system for conducting specific absorption rate testing of a mobile communication device: Embodiments relate to systems and methods for conducting specific absorption rate testing of a mobile communication device. A system includes: a simulated head; a simulated hand positioned proximate to the simulated head for supporting the mobile communication device during the testing; a probe positioned within the simulated head; and a... Agent: Bereskin And Parr

20080261585 - Radiocommunication equipment monitoring and control system: Monitoring and control system for radiocommunication equipment, comprised of a recording and monitoring set (CM), a computer equipped with a specific and dedicated software and a decoder PCI board (2, 2a), and such computer is provided of peripherals defined by a radio (Rt), a power supply and antenna; and such... Agent: Stites & Harbison PLLC

20080261587 - Expert system: Expert system for evaluating diversity antenna installations. Antenna elements 11a. 11b have the respective coverage areas 32a and 32b. Due to an antenna mismatch the diversity is degraded or even lost for reception from mobile stations 13, 33 especially far from the antenna. By measuring the received signal strength. RXLEV,... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080261586 - Method and apparatus for improving call quality: A method of selectively improving the quality of calls carried by a communications network. The method comprises defining off-peak and peak call periods, and during off-peak periods, for each call carried by the network, analysing call data to determine whether or not a network based Voice Quality Enhancement function should... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080261588 - Tdd fdd communication interface: TDD access equipment modified by introducing a frequency change at the normal TDD guard point, with respective downlink or uplink periods for individual subscriber stations offset to form overlapping frames. Cyclo-stationary processing, block equalization, and burst timing coordination allow the boundary between downlink and uplink portions of both frames to... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080261589 - Mobile radio terminal: Even if domestic roaming setting is ON (domestic roaming setting flag is ON) (YES in step 2h), it is discriminated on the basis of information transmitted from the other carrier network whether the mobile radio terminal is permitted to execute roaming and whether the other carrier network permits the own... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080261590 - System and method for providing multimedia messaging service: A mail message, sent by a subscriber of a Mobile Station Integrated Services Digital Network (MSISDN)-restricted messaging service, may be intercepted by a network gateway. A unique ID number, which may be in the form of a standard MSISDN number, may be assigned to the restricted subscriber, and used to... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080261594 - Complete message delivery to multi-mode communication device: A system and method for complete message delivery to a multi-mode communication device is presented. The communication device is adaptable to communicate with one or more carrier networks and one or more data networks. When a new message is received for the communication device, a message notification is sent to... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080261591 - Method for transmitting application-specific registration or de-registration data and system, server and communication terminal therefor: A communication system having a communication terminal and a server, wherein the communication terminal has a signaling device which is configured to transmit to the server an information element which specifies whether at least one application installed on the communication terminal uses Multimedia Messaging Service as a transport medium for... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080261592 - Method to improve the registration of <permanently registered users> in an ngn-ims subsystem: A method to improve the registration of “Permanently Registered Users” (User1, User2, . . . User500) in an NGN-IMS subsystem. The permanently registered users are coupled to the IMS subsystem via a group device (AGW1, IP-PBX, SIP/H.323 GW) that is registered in the IMS subsystem as a dedicated IMS virtual... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080261593 - Systems and methods for ims user sessions with dynamic service selection: Under one aspect, a system generates dynamic call models within an IMS network, allowing different user entities (UEs) to have different service experiences. The IMS network includes application servers (ASs) and a serving call state control function (S-CSCF) that receives and then forwards UE service requests. The system includes storage... Agent: Wilmerhale/boston

20080261595 - System, device, and method for providing call forwarding in dual subscription mode: A method and system for providing interworking between a first and a second network of different types, preferably an IMS and a CS (Circuit-Switched) network. A call received by the first network and directed to a terminal unregistered from the first network, is forwarded to the second network, whereas when... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080261599 - Fast serving cell change: In a wireless communication system in which a user using a mobile equipment requests a serving cell handoff from a source cell to a target cell, the mobile equipment monitors authorization for the handoff from the target cell. At the same time, the mobile equipment can decode data from either... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080261597 - Handoff method between different systems and wireless terminal: A method of performing a handoff between a plurality of wireless systems having different service areas and a wireless communication terminal are provided. A means for selecting one of the wireless systems to be connected according to the average moving speed of the wireless terminal is provided. When the average... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080261596 - Method and apparatus for establishing transport channels for a femtocell: Some embodiments are implemented in a communication system that includes a first wireless communication system and a second wireless communication system that includes a Femtocell access point (FAP) and a network controller that can communicatively couple the FAP to the first wireless communication system. In some embodiments, the network controller... Agent: Adeli & Tollen, LLP

20080261598 - Method and apparatus for transfer of session reference network controller: Systems and methods of decoupling session management from connection management of a wireless network by enabling transfer of a session between session controllers. A session transfer component transfers ownership of a session from a source session controller to a target session controller, wherein the session transfer does not necessarily require... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080261600 - Radio link and handover failure handling: The method and apparatus disclosed are used for handling RL and handover failures based on context transfer details and RACH procedures that enhance the failure handling procedures. After an RL failure, a user equipment (UE) includes the identity of an evolved Node-B (eNodeB) and/or cell as an information element (IE)... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080261601 - Method for hand-over in the mixed network asynchronous communication network and synchronous communication network: Disclosed herein is a handover method for a mobile communication terminal in a mobile communication network in which an asynchronous network and a synchronous network coexist. In the present invention, as a mobile communication terminal, which is making a call through an asynchronous mobile communication system, moves into the area... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080261602 - Backhaul network for femto base stations: Providing an inter-femto Base Station (fBS) network to facilitate low interference, low power cellular access utilizing two or more fBSs is provided herein. For example, a group of fBSs can be inter-connected by a wired and/or wireless communication network. Multiple fBSs then can link with a mobile device and coordinate... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080261603 - System for optimizing cellular telephone call placement with minimal user overhead: A method and system for automatically placing calls made from a mobile telephone in an economical manner via calling card and call-back programs, with minimal user overhead. The system may be installed on an existing telephone by the user. To operate, the user initiates the placement of a call in... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20080261605 - Intelligent video, data streaming and access to distributed resources in a wireless network: The invention provides a method of operating a network which comprises a plurality of stations each able to transmit and receive data so that the network can transmit data directly, or indirectly via one or more intermediate stations, between a requesting station and potential resource providing stations. The method comprises... Agent: Michael P Pettit C/o Iwics Inc

20080261604 - Method for performing location-specific services, broadcasting unit and mobile receiving device: In order to perform location-specific services of a broadcasting unit (3), virtual cells (22, 23, 24) for the location-specific services are set up so that cell data, which define a local cell area, are transmitted to a mobile receiving device (1) via the broadcasting unit (3). The cell data are... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080261607 - Channel allocation for channel allocation tiering: A method and device for channel allocation using channel allocation tiering (CHAT), where radio resources are de-coupled from hardware resources and the available hardware resource units in a cell are divided into logical groups, “channel tiers”. Each tier simultaneously utilizes, partly or fully, the same radio resources. There is a... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080261608 - Radio resource allocation apparatus and method: A radio resource allocation method is provided wherein one of a plurality of mobile stations is allocated to one or each of a plurality of frequency blocks. The method comprises: (a) calculating allocation index representing transmission quality of each of said mobile stations in said each of frequency blocks; extracting... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080261606 - Transmission rate control method, mobile station and radio network controller: The present invention can flexibly adjust trade-off between the radio network capacity and the radio quality by changing decrease stop of uplink user data in accordance with the congestion of uplink or the uplink user data type. A transmission rate control method according to the present invention includes the steps... Agent: Mots Law, PLLC

20080261609 - Method of allocating resources in a radio base station apparatus: A method of allocating resources in a radio base station apparatus is disclosed. A call processing controller, upon receipt of a call connection request from a mobile terminal, multicasts a resource allocation request to each signal processing card in a signal processor. Each signal processing card that has received the... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20080261610 - Resource partitioning in a cellular communication system: A cellular communication system (100) a first Radio Network Controller (107) supporting different communication service types. A first resource controller (203) controls resource allocation for a first communication service type from a first resource partition and a second resource controller (205) controls resource allocation for a second communication service type... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080261615 - Apparatus, system and method for determining a geographical location of a portable communication device: A wireless access point receives a reverse link (RL) wireless wide area network (WWAN) signals from a wireless communication device and forwards wireless local area network (WLAN) location information related to the received RL WWAN signal to a position determining entity (PDE). The PDE uses the WLAN location information and,... Agent: Kyocera Wireless Corp.

20080261621 - Dynamic service binding providing transparent switching of information services having defined coverage regions: It is determined whether a location of a mobile device is within a coverage region of a first information service. Communications for the first information service are redirected to a second information service when the location of the mobile device is not within a coverage region of the first information... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080261619 - Injection of location object into routing sip message: The function of determination of location is separated from the function of gathering information based on determined location by use of a Location Object (LO) proxy between an initiating VoIP capable device and a positioning center. The LOProxy queries an appropriate location database using a location key, and injects a... Agent: Manelli Denison & Selter PLLC

20080261620 - Location notification method, location notifcation system, information processing apparatus, wireless communication apparatus and program: There is provided a wireless communication apparatus including a base station information input portion to input base station information of a base station transmitting a radio wave having a wave reaching range including a particular location, the base station information acquired from a first memory storing a plurality of pieces... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080261618 - Mobile communication system, base station, mobile station, location management station, incoming call control method, and program: To obtain a mobile communication system in which a mobile station can prevent a call loss due to move among base stations while performing battery saving. Base stations 200 and 210 transmit paging signals 10 and 11 in order to call a terminal 100 when there is an incoming call... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20080261617 - Mobile wireless apparatus and connection method thereof: A mobile wireless apparatus includes a network interface, a storage and a processing device. The network interface provides a wireless protocol of a personal area network. The storage stores access codes and location indicators. Instead of scanning coverable external apparatuses every time when the mobile wireless apparatus moves from one... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080261616 - Position-based automatic configuration of portable device: A method for automatically configuring a portable device comprises determining a position of the portable device and automatically configuring the portable device based on the determined position.... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080261611 - Sparsed u-tdoa wireless location networks: In an overlay, U-TDOA-based, Wireless Location System, LMUs typically co-located with BTSs, are used to collect radio signaling both in the forward and reverse channels. Techniques are used to compensate for sparse LMU deployments where sections of the U-TDOA service area are uplink demodulation or downlink beacon discovery limited.... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20080261612 - Sparsed u-tdoa wireless location networks: In an overlay, U-TDOA-based, Wireless Location System, LMUs typically co-located with BTSs, are used to collect radio signaling both in the forward and reverse channels. Techniques are used to compensate for sparse LMU deployments where sections of the U-TDOA service area are uplink demodulation or downlink beacon discovery limited.... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20080261613 - Sparsed u-tdoa wireless location networks: In an overlay, U-TDOA-based, Wireless Location System, LMUs typically co-located with BTSs, are used to collect radio signaling both in the forward and reverse channels. Techniques are used to compensate for sparse LMU deployments where sections of the U-TDOA service area are uplink demodulation or downlink beacon discovery limited.... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20080261614 - Sparsed u-tdoa wireless location networks: In an overlay, U-TDOA-based, Wireless Location System, LMUs typically co-located with BTSs, are used to collect radio signaling both in the forward and reverse channels. Techniques are used to compensate for sparse LMU deployments where sections of the U-TDOA service area are uplink demodulation or downlink beacon discovery limited.... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20080261622 - Method and system for determining position of mobile communication device using ratio metric: A method of determining a location of a mobile communication terminal, the method including: receiving base station identification signals from a plurality of base stations; calculating distance ratios between the plurality of base stations and the mobile communication terminal, from the received base station identification signals; generating first variables and... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080261624 - System and method for using location information to execute an action: A system and method is provided for using location information associated with wireless devices. The system includes a wireless device, a location system, and a feature server. The wireless device includes any wireless apparatus having wireless communications capabilities. The location system can generate location information pinpointing the location of the... Agent: Merchant & Gould Bellsouth Corporation

20080261623 - Techniques to enhance location estimation in an ofdma based system: An embodiment of the present invention provides an a method, comprising determining the position of a mobile station in a wireless network by transmitting a single or multi tone location beacon by the base station on a downlink or mobile station on an uplink with focused power on at least... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080261625 - Remote location based services: The invention relates to a method, system and service for processing at a remote device a request from a first device, the method has the steps of receiving a request message to obtain information on location based services available at the physical location of the remote device from the first... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20080261626 - Method and system for transmitting a location of a mobile communication device: There is provided a method for use by a mobile communication device for transmitting a location of the mobile communication device over a network using a protocol stack. In one embodiment, location data indicating the location of the mobile communication device is received. The location data can include, for example,... Agent: Farjami & Farjami LLP

20080261627 - Legacy cellular device with upgraded gis functionality: Embodiments of the present invention recite a method for implementing Geographic Information Systems (GIS) data collection utilizing a legacy electronic device. In one embodiment, a GIS data collector application is installed upon a legacy electronic device which is not originally intended to be used as a GIS data recording device.... Agent: Trimble Navigation Limited C/o Wagner Blecher

20080261628 - Inter-system paging control: A method, information processing system, and wireless communication system for dynamically updating paging slot cycles associated with a wireless device (104). The method includes monitoring behavior of a wireless device (104) across multiple access networks (122). A set of slot cycles for each access network associated with the wireless device... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080261629 - Logical paging areas: Paging of a mobile device within a mobile pool area serviced by two or more mobile switching nodes is reduced using logical paging areas. The mobile pool area includes a plurality of location areas, each serviced by the two or more switching nodes. In addition, the mobile pool area is... Agent: Garlick, Harrison & Markison (alu)

20080261634 - Dynamic display generation for mobile communication devices: A method and apparatus, including a computer program product, implementing techniques for receiving, from a dynamic application server, a short message including a dynamic menu encoded using one of a plurality of protocols supported by a mobile communications device, interpreting the encoded dynamic menu, and rendering a dynamic menu on... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080261630 - Indicating user presence on a messaging network: A system and method for indicating when a message recipient is unavailable to receive messages in an instant messaging network, for example, being engaged in telephone communications on the receiving device, where disruption of service is likely or imminent. When notification of an inbound call is received the communications device... Agent: Dimock Stratton LLP

20080261636 - Method and system for enhanced messaging: Techniques for acquiring, sending, receiving or using status information from a remote location over a network are disclosed. The status information is transmitted over the network between or among electronic devices. The status information can be provided by one or more sensors associated with the electronic device that is transmitting... Agent: Ipventure, Inc.

20080261635 - Mobile messaging system: A mobile messaging campaign is established to process bidirectional mobile campaign messages associated with each of a plurality of mobile numbers using a single short code. A mobile message associated with the mobile messaging campaign is received. The received mobile message is parsed to extract a campaign identifier and the... Agent: The Eclipse Group LLP

20080261633 - System and method for pushing information from a host system to a mobile data communication device: A scheme for redirecting data items from a messaging system to a user's mobile communication device. One embodiment of a method comprises: configuring a plurality of redirection trigger events for a user, wherein upon occurrence of a redirection trigger event, a redirection flag configured for the user is set so... Agent: Research In Motion Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20080261632 - System and method for pushing information from a host system to a mobile data communication device in a wireless data network: A scheme for redirecting data to a mobile communication device from a messaging server. One embodiment comprises one or more of the following: setting a redirection flag configured for a user associated with the mobile communication device to enable continuous redirection of data items received at the messaging server to... Agent: Research In Motion Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20080261631 - System and method for sending notification message to a mobile station using session initiation protocol (sip): The present invention is a method and system for sending SIP notification messages to a wireless device, for example a wireless telephone, that can accept SIP control messages. A method is described for establishing a data session between a wireless device and a management server over a wireless network, the... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080261637 - System for interconnecting a remote server with a short message server center (smsc) via the internet: It allows the transmission of short messages (SMS) between a remote server (1) and a mobile telephone user (7), that is in communication with a short message service centre (5) via GSM network 10. It is characterized in that remote server (1) communicates with the short message server (5) via... Agent: Klauber & Jackson

20080261638 - Direct digital sampling method for radios: A direct digital sampling and synthesis general purpose radio system is disclosed which employs single or multiple receiver and/or transmitter sub-systems that require no analog frequency conversion or translation circuitry. Receiver signal processing is disclosed that describes methods of conditioning and digitizing an entire received RF signal band in which... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20080261639 - Cluster-based cooperative spectrum sensing in cognitive radio systems: Cluster-based cooperative spectrum sensing is provided for cognitive radio systems. For each cluster of cognitive users, a cluster head is determined. Each cluster head collects energies of a reporting channel measured by the cognitive users within the cluster and decides whether a primary user is absent from a given spectrum.... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080261640 - Communication control method and wireless communication apparatus: A printer (103) belongs to a service set (107) and communicates via an access point (101) in the infrastructure mode. The printer (103) searches for a beacon periodically. If a beacon is received from a terminal such as a digital camera (104), the printer registers the terminal address, service-set identifier... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080261643 - Extensible infotainment/telematics system: An infotainment/telematics system includes a fixed base unit and a portable communication device. The fixed base unit may include a plurality of base unit devices cooperating with a base unit processor to execute a set of stand-alone infotainment/telematics functions. The portable communication device may include a one or more PCD... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080261644 - Extensible infotainment/telematics system having fixed base unit control of a portable communication device: An infotainment/telematics system includes a fixed base unit adapted to execute a set of stand-alone infotainment and/or telematics functions, and a portable communication device adapted to execute a stand-alone infotainment and/or telematics function. The fixed base unit and the portable communication device may be connected for intelligent communication with one... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080261641 - Redundant wireless base station: In a redundant wireless base station, a first baseband processing unit is coupled to a first radio unit and a second baseband processing unit is coupled to a second radio unit. A link couples the first baseband processing unit and the second baseband processing unit. The link allows at least... Agent: Holland & Knight LLP

20080261642 - Redundant wireless base station: A redundant base station including a first baseband processing unit and at least a second baseband processing unit. The first baseband processing unit and the at least a second baseband processing unit are coupled by a link. The link is configured to communicate activity status information, operational status information, and... Agent: Holland & Knight LLP

20080261645 - Interference and power control for wireless communication: Techniques for performing interference and power control in a wireless communication system are described. An asymmetric power control scheme adjusts the transmit power of a user equipment (UE) in an asymmetric manner, e.g., with different up and down step sizes. In one design, a parameter value may be determined based... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080261647 - Electronic apparatus, control method for electronic apparatus and control program for electronic apparatus: An electronic apparatus having a plurality of antennas and a plurality of telecommunication modules equipped with a telecommunication function for transmitting and receiving data by simultaneously using a plurality of antennas comprises: an antenna changeover switch for changing the connection of the antennas to the telecommunication modules; and a judgment... Agent: Hanify & King Professional Corporation

20080261646 - Mobile communication device and power saving method thereof: A mobile communication device (10) communicating with a communication network (20) includes a microphone (11) for receiving sounds of a user and converting the sounds into outgoing analog signals, a processor (13), a system memory (16) for storing system data from the processor, and a data converter module (12). The... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080261649 - Radio communication apparatus and method: A radio communication apparatus compatible with a plurality of communication systems and application services comprises a radio transmitting/receiving unit for transmitting and receiving a radio signal, signal processing circuit for executing part of digital signal processing which may be executed when a radio signal is transmitted or received, first processors... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080261650 - Radio integrated circuit with integrated power amplifier: A radio system includes a radio frequency (RF) integrated circuit (IC), a baseband digital signal processing (DSP) IC, and a serial digital interface coupling data there-between. In one embodiment of the invention, the RF IC has an input receiver to receive a serial digital transmission bit stream from a digital... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080261648 - Wireless communication terminal apparatus and computer readable medium therefor: A wireless communication terminal apparatus having a radio section that performs switching between a first communication system and a second communication system to execute wireless communication by a shared antenna, and a control section for controlling the wireless communication executed by the radio section, wherein the control section monitors an... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20080261651 - Multi-mode communication apparatus for selectively using w-cdma system and gsm system: In a multi-mode communication apparatus including independent transmitter circuits and receiver circuits of a W-CDMA system and a GSM system, which are capable of complying with communication systems of the W-CDMA system and the GSM system, a first switching device is connected between a ground and an input terminal of... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080261652 - Integrated personal digital assistant device: An integrated device provides functionality of both a PDA and cellular telephone. Features include a power button offering control of both the computing and telephony functions of the device; a lid that turns the device on and off and controls additional telephony functions; a jog rocker that activates the device... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20080261653 - Cellular phone with built-in ic tag reader: A cellular phone having a main body with a built-in IC tag reader is disclosed. The built-in IC tag reader includes an IC tag reader chip having a function for reading IC tags, and a communications antenna for IC tag use connected to the IC tag reader chip.... Agent: Berenato, White & Stavish, LLC

20080261655 - Apparatus, and associated method, for facilitating network selection using access technology indicator: Apparatus, and an associated method, for facilitating selection of an I-WLAN PLMN. A PLMN listing is created and maintained at a wireless device. The listing includes entries that identify PLMN together with their associated access technology indicators. The wireless device creates a list of available I-WLAN PLMNs. And a selector... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080261654 - Information processing system: An information processing system for wireless access to an external subscriber and high speed searching of the internet incorporates a wireless modem that uses a Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) card and the technology of a third Generation System for Mobile Modems (iw3gsm) to connect a computer to the internet. A... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080261656 - Joint ic card and wireless transceiver module for mobile communication equipment: An integrated circuit card for a mobile terminal incorporates a radio transceiver module intended for communications that do not pass through the mobile network. To allow using, for the chip of the IC card and the radio transceiver module, the same chips as would be used for conventional IC cards... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080261657 - Plug-in device for enabling mobile telephone to execute applications: A device for plugging into the data port of a mobile telephone, for enabling the mobile telephone to execute user applications; and a method for developing such devices and programming the applications therein. Application plugs may be inserted into the data port of the mobile telephone by the user for... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080261658 - Hybrid time-spatial multiplexing for wireless broadcast messages through antenna radiation beam synthesis: A hybrid time-spatial multiplexing technique is provided for beamforming broadcast messages to mobile stations that may be within a coverage region or cell of a base station. The coverage region is divided into a plurality of plurality of segments. The mobile stations are assigned to at least one of the... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC

20080261659 - Mobile communication terminal: A mobile communication terminal including a first body, a second body slidably connected to the first body and moveable between a first position and a second position, and a slide module connecting the first body to the second body. The slide module is configured to guide the second body along... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080261660 - Mobile terminal and screen displaying method thereof: A mobile terminal and screen displaying method thereof are disclosed, by which an image can be displayed on a screen using a virtual polyhedral pillar. The present invention includes a user input unit for inputting key signals, a display for displaying a first facet of a polyhedral pillar, and a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080261661 - Mobile telephone devices: An electronic device such as a mobile telephone device incorporates a flexible keyboard within its casing, said keyboard incorporating a plurality of switches or sensors distributed over said keyboard area which detect finger pressure, or which alternatively detect the presence of a finger adjacent to said switch means, where said... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20080261662 - Mobile telecommunications device: An arrangement and technique for providing an educated indication of battery consumption for any particular mobile terminal usage type. This allows the user to be provided with an accurate indication of the battery life remaining for the current usage type and also the battery life that is remaining for any... Agent: Muirhead And Saturnelli, LLC

20080261663 - Methods and arrangements for adaptively changing snoozing intervals of wireless devices: Methods and arrangements for wireless communications are described. Embodiments include transformations, code, state machines or other logic to adaptively change a snoozing interval of a station. The embodiments may also include determining a timeout (TO) period for a station, examining network traffic of the station after a period of network... Agent: Schubert, Osterrieder & Nickelson, PLLC C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080261664 - Cover for electronic device: A plush cover for a flip style cell phone is provided. The cover can include a top half having a first pocket, the first pocket being dimensioned to accept a top portion of a flip style cell phone, and a second half having a second pocket. The second pocket is... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Sprinkle,anderson & Citkowski, P.c

20080261666 - Electronic device: A cellular phone device has an operation-unit casing, a sliding casing which is coupled to the operation-unit casing with the front face of the sliding casing facing the rear face of the operation-unit casing, and which slides with respect to the operation-unit casing in a direction parallel to the rear... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20080261665 - Slidable mobile terminal: A slidable mobile terminal including a first body having a first surface and a second surface, a second body having a first surface and a second surface, the first body being movable with respect to the second body between a closed position where the first body substantially overlaps the second... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080261667 - Mobile terminal having an improved internal antenna: A mobile terminal is provided that includes a first area having a first conductive surface, a second area having a second conductive surface, the second area separated from the first area, and a feeding point formed between the first conductive surface and the second conductive surface to supply electrical signals... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080261509 - Distributed wireless communications for tactical network dominance: Ad-hoc networks employing cooperative signal processing are configured for detecting, identifying, and visualizing radio communication networks used by an adversary, such as enemy combatants or criminals. These networks are further configured for performing a non-passive tactical response to an adversary's communication capabilities. Such ad-hoc networks are particularly useful for identifying... Agent: Steven J Shattil

20080261510 - Wireless communication system for monitoring and managing client interface for area-specific process: A method enables a communication between a process client and a wireless process server to carry out an area-specific process in an area. The method includes a step of transmitting a message from a wireless process server to a wireless communication device operated by the process client. The message includes... Agent: Bo-in Lin

20080261511 - Wireless local loop antenna: A wireless local loop system is provided that includes a wireless base station that communicates with a subscriber station via a wireless link. The wireless link can carry a voice service, such as telephone calls, or a data service, such as internet browsing. The subscriber station includes a steerable antenna.... Agent: Patent Administrator Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080261512 - Systems and methods for satellite augmented wireless communication networks: A system and method for a satellite augmented wireless communication network is disclosed. The method includes transmitting at least a portion of digital data via a satellite communication network to a satellite signal receiving device, receiving the digital data by the satellite signal receiving device, and providing the received digital... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20080261517 - Communication framework and method and system for providing a real-time audio and/or video signal: A method for providing a remote real-time audio and/or video (AV) signal includes: displaying an AV terminal list that records a plurality of AV terminals, and requesting a user terminal to select one of the AV terminals in the AV terminal list; determining whether a connection has been established with... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20080261515 - Method and system for automatically providing alternate network access for telecommunications: A communications unit is provided that can be coupled to a building's telecommunication wiring to provide an automated mechanism for isolating the building's wiring from a PSTN, while also providing a telecommunications connection to an alternative communications network via, for example, broadband or cellular networks. The communications unit can further... Agent: Campbell Stephenson LLP

20080261513 - Mobile communication terminal capable of playing and updating multimedia content and method of playing the same: There is a problem in conventional technologies in that updating multimedia content can be initiated only by a mobile communication terminal side. A mobile communication terminal according to the present invention updates at least one of elements of content stored in a permanent storage area of a memory unit using... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080261516 - Playing digital content from satellite radio media based on taste profiles: A portable content-playing device which automatically constructs a virtual channel of content consistent with the tastes of the user of the device, where the content originates from one or more satellites. The portable device contains software for computing similarity values between a local taste profile (representative of the tastes of... Agent: Elman Technology Law, P.C.

20080261514 - System and apparatus for supplying media content to portable communication devices: A system and apparatus for supplying media content to portable communication devices is disclosed. An apparatus that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure can include, for example, a Set-Top Box (STB) having a cellular transceiver and a controller element to direct the cellular transceiver to transmit a media guide for... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080261519 - Dual cancellation loop wireless repeater: A wireless repeater comprises dual cancellation loops. The wireless repeater includes an active cancellation loop and a passive cancellation loops. The active cancellation loops reduces an environmentally induced signal component from a receive signal entering the repeater's amplifier. The passive cancellation loop reduces leaked signal component from the received signal.... Agent: Fish & Associates, PC Robert D. Fish

20080261518 - Method for transmitting messages by radio while using a repeater: A method transmits a message by radio from a transmitter to a receiver. In a first step, the transmitter transmits the message to a forwarding station. In a second step, the message is subsequently transmitted at the same time form the transmitter and the forwarding station to the receiver. A... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080261520 - Wireless communication system and lift system having the same: A wireless communication system for providing a radio frequency (RF) link between an enclosed environment that is at least substantially shielded from RF signals, and the outside of the enclosed environment is disclosed. The wireless communication system includes at least one gateway antenna arranged at an entrance point of the... Agent: Crockett & Crockett, P.C.

20080261521 - Monitoring condition of network with distributed components: In a system having distributed components arranged in a logical ring structure, each component monitors only their respective neighboring component in the structure and the condition of the neighboring component is determined. If a component determines a condition of its neighboring component that corresponds to a predefinable condition, the component... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080261522 - Multi-antenna satellite system with wireless interface to vehicle: A wireless satellite communication device is provided according to one embodiment of the invention. The wireless satellite communication device may include one or more satellite antennas, one or more local antennas and circuitry. A satellite antenna may be configured to communicate with one or more satellites. The local antenna may... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP Viasat, Inc (client #017018)

20080261523 - Communication device and method, and program: The present invention relates to a device and a method for communication, and a program that makes it possible to provide a communication environment not limited by a use environment. An electrode controlling unit 261 in a transmitting device 260 checks a state of capacitive coupling of each of an... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080261527 - Bluetooth earpiece with two-way audio transmissions: A Bluetooth earpiece with two-way audio transmissions adopts a base body combined with a Bluetooth earphone containing a signal transmitting end. An electrically connected amplifying unit, loudspeaker unit and audio signal capture unit are installed in the base body. The amplifying unit electrically connects to signal transmitting end of the... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080261526 - Identifying and reaching users through mobile devices to provide relevant and real-time information: A method to identify and reach users of mobile devices to provide relevant and real-time information including discount coupons and promotional messages is disclosed. The present invention uses short range connectivity present in most mobile devices to identify mobile devices and reaches the mobile devices using long range or short... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080261524 - Method and system for a bluetooth device that supports multiple connections: Methods and systems for a Bluetooth device that supports multiple connections are disclosed. Aspects of one method may include enabling an active Bluetooth device to generate an indication of an incoming call via a second of a plurality of Bluetooth devices when the Bluetooth enabled device is engaged in an... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080261525 - Wireless communication system, wireless communication device, program, and wireless communication method: There is provided a wireless communication device that includes a first communication portion that performs non-contact communication with an other wireless communication device and receives unit specific data indicating the other wireless communication device's communication function; a second communication portion that can communicate wirelessly faster than the first communication portion;... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080261528 - Personal area network systems and devices and methods for use thereof: Systems and methods are provided for interfacing wireless communications between two devices such that a device devoid of a relatively long-range communications protocol can access that protocol. This may be accomplished by providing a host device having relatively short-range communications circuitry integrated therein, which circuitry may be operative to communicate... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20080261529 - Personal area network systems and devices and methods for use thereof: Systems and methods are provided for interfacing wireless communications between two devices such that a device devoid of a relatively long-range communications protocol can access that protocol. This may be accomplished by providing a host device having relatively short-range communications circuitry integrated therein, which circuitry may be operative to communicate... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20080261530 - Method and arrangement for activity detection in a telecommunication system: The present invention relates to a method and arrangement for efficient use of network resources, in particular for continuous connectivity services. The present invention introduces a set of established rules for uplink and/or downlink activity detection such that a Node B and/or a UE is enabled to detect active and... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080261531 - System and method for providing coverage and service continuation in border cells of a localized network: A system and method for providing continuous multimedia broadcast multicast services over different localized areas, while also avoiding frequency interference. In various embodiments, a service provides reduced-quality data at the border of each localized area. In one approach, border cells of a single frequency network (SFN) broadcast reduced quality data,... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080261532 - Telecommunications jack with crosstalk multi-zone crosstalk compensation and method for designing: The present disclosure relates to a telecommunications jack including a housing having a port for receiving a plug. The jack also includes a plurality of contact springs adapted to make electrical contact with the plug when the plug is inserted into the port of the housing, and a plurality of... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20080261533 - Method and arrangement in a communications network: A method in a first communications device for setting up a point-to-point IP connection to a second communication device is provided. The first device is adapted to communicate with the second device over a radio communication network IP connection. The first device and the second device use a point-to-point radio... Agent: Harrity Snyder, L.L.P.

20080261534 - Adjust equipment and method for array antenna transmitting link: Adjust equipment and method for array antenna transmitting link, include: power detect device, signal synthesize device and array adjust device; the downlink signal of the transmitting link processed by the power detect device and be transmitted to the power detect signal feed device, and then transmitted to the signal synthesize... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson, P.C.

20080261536 - Automatic delay calibration and tracking for ultra-wideband antenna array: A method for determining changes in internal delays of RF units, the RF units including a plurality of receivers and transmitters. The method includes providing initial direct signals' time of arrivals of the RF units initial internal delays of the RF units. Following this, each transmitter transmitting a direct signal,... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080261535 - Detection of underperforming antennas of nodes of wireless networks: An apparatus and method of detecting underperforming antennas of a wireless node of a wireless network are disclosed. The method includes measuring a wireless link quality between a first antenna of the wireless node and a receiver, and measuring a wireless link quality between a second antenna of the wireless... Agent: Tropos Networks

20080261537 - Re-configurable communication device and managing method thereof: A communication apparatus including a physical information recognizing module, an MAC information recognizing module, a coordinating module, and a re-configurable transmitting/receiving module is provided. The physical information recognizing module recognizes a set of physical information relative to at least one communication network. The MAC information recognizing module recognizes a set... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20080261538 - Dipole antenna for a portable communication device: The present invention relates to a portable communication device arrangement comprising a main unit and an auxiliary unit. The main unit includes an electrical interface to an auxiliary unit, a ground plane dimensioned for antenna operation at a multiple of a quarter of a wavelength of a desired frequency, and... Agent: Harrity Snyder, L.L.P.

20080261539 - Wireless transmission system having architecture based on three internal antennas and method thereof: A wireless transmission system is provided for receiving a wireless signal in a wireless electronic device. The wireless transmission system includes a first antenna for vertical polarization, a second antenna for horizontal polarization, a sensor module for sensing pose status of the wireless electronic device and generating a control signal,... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080261540 - Universal front end module for networking device: In one embodiment a universal front end module for network communications is disclosed. The module can include a mode controller coupled to components of a transmission path. A first tunable filter on a transmit path can receive a mode control signal from the mode controller and receive a signal to... Agent: Schubert, Osterrieder & Nickelson, PLLC C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080261541 - Method and device for amplifying an amplitude and phase modulated electric signal: The aim of the invention is to suppress interference caused by a mismatch of the power amplifier of a polar-loop transmitter. To achieve this, the crest factor of the output signal from the power amplifier is measured during operation to detect the state of the mismatch and to identify the... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P. Patent Department

20080261542 - Power supply circuit: Provided is a power supply circuit capable of operating with low noise and low power consumption. In a power supply circuit 11, a power level control signal Pa for controlling a power level of a power amplifier 12, and an internal current control signal Pb which is a result of... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080261543 - Transmission circuit and communication device: Provided is a transmission circuit capable of operating with high linearity and with low noise. An AM variable fc filter 102 uses an AM cutoff frequency to remove a high frequency component from an amplitude signal. An amplifier 105 supplies a power amplifier 107 with a voltage which is a... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080261544 - Techniques for improved adaptive impedance matching: An embodiment of the present invention provides an apparatus, comprising an RF matching network connected to at least one RF input port and at least one RF output port and including one or more voltage or current controlled variable reactive elements; and wherein the RF matching network is tuned to... Agent: Law Office Of William J. Tucker

20080261545 - Communication terminal apparatus and base station apparatus: An allocation section 101 in a base station apparatus of the present invention sets the transmission rate of a transmit signal for a communication terminal apparatus based on a DRC signal transmitted from that communication terminal apparatus. A power margin information detector 117 detects power margin information from a demodulated... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC

20080261546 - Method and apparatus for controlling antenna connectivity as a function of antenna orientation: Methods and apparatuses presented herein control antenna connectivity for a wireless communication device as a function of rotation of a connector assembly plugged into the device, such as where an external antenna or cable includes the connector assembly. Assuming the device has a mating connector for the external antenna that... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20080261547 - Methods and apparatus for rf channel selection in a multi-frequency network: Methods and apparatus for RF channel selection in a multi-frequency network. A method includes identifying selected local operations infrastructures (LOIs) and their neighboring LOIs, generating a neighbor description message (NDM) that identifies the selected LOIs and their neighboring LOIs and associates a descrambling sequence identifier with each RF channel of... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080261548 - System and method for selecting an intermediate frequency: A receiver including a mixer configured to generate a mixed signal at a first intermediate frequency from an input signal and a mixing signal and processing circuitry configured to detect a power level for each of a plurality of possible images in the mixed signal and configured to cause the... Agent: Dicke, Billig & Czaja, PLLC Attn: Silabs Matters

20080261549 - Noise blanker circuit and method for removing noise and correcting a signal: A noise blanker circuit and method of removing impulse noise from a signal and correcting the signal is provided. The circuit includes a detection stage, a pulse removal stage, and a pulse removal correction stage. The detection stage includes at least an input that emits an input signal along a... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20080261550 - Radio communication device, radio communication system, method for radio communication and program thereof: A radio communication device according to an exemplary aspect of the present invention which communicates in a form of multi data streams can reduce antennas which become useless in communication with a radio communication device which communicates in a form of one data stream, and can improve transmission characteristic in... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20080261551 - System and method for channel bonding in multiple antenna communication systems: Systems and methods that provide channel bonding in multiple antenna communication systems are provided. In one embodiment, a method for signal transmission over a plurality of antennas of a transmitter may include, for example, one or more of the following: demultiplexing an input signal into a plurality of signal components;... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080261552 - Low voltage iq dual mixer: An IQ dual mixer for use in radio transmitters and receivers, comprising an in-phase (I) local oscillator transistor pair, a quadrature-phase (Q) local oscillator transistor pair, and a first radio frequency (RF) transistor. The I local oscillator transistor pair is operably coupled to receive an I local oscillator signal and... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080261553 - Rf input transconductor stage: A transconductor input circuit for a down converting quadrature mixer stage of a direct-conversion receiver comprises a pair of common-gate input transistors whose source electrodes are coupled to a differential radio frequency (RF) input signal outputted from an interstage RF filter. The transconductor circuit further comprises a pair of equally-sized... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080261555 - Intertalk wristband radio frequency identification tag: The present invention discloses an intertalk wristband RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) tag, which applies to any type of wireless automatic wristband RFID system and comprises an RFID system, an audio-receiving system, and an audio-outputting system. The present invention utilizes the RFID system to receive and transmits the audio information-bearing signal... Agent: Joe Mckinney Muncy

20080261554 - Method for informing multiple mobile terminals of an emergency event: A method, devices, a system, and computer programs for informing multiple mobile terminals (UE10-90) of an emergency event are disclosed. The method comprises the steps of receiving (S300) emergency information associated with the emergency event, establishing (S400) an emergency multimedia capable distribution bearer for a delivery of an emergency service... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080261557 - Method and system for providing an emergency location service: When a user equipment accessing an access network transmits an emergency call initiating request message to an E-CSCF, the E-CSCF transmits a message requesting for retrieving a current location of the user equipment to a location retrieval unit and the location retrieval unit measures the current location of the user... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080261556 - Mobile phone handset: A mobile phone set is provided that includes a personal locator beacon circuit. A microprocessor activates the circuit when emergency service is requested and no mobile service is available. The set can also include a global positioning satellite circuit so that location coordinates can be sent with the locator beacon.... Agent: Lester H. Birnbaum

20080261559 - Camel service charging in ims networks: IMS networks and associated methods are disclosed that provide charging for CAMEL services provided in the IMS network. If a CAMEL service is provided by an application server for a session in an IMS network, then the application server generates CAMEL charging data for the service provided and also generates... Agent: Duft Bornsen & Fishman, LLP

20080261558 - System and method for transferring credit between mobile phone subscribers: A system (10) for transferring credit between mobile phone subscribers (12) comprising: a telecommunications carrier (16), the telecommunications carrier (16) having a billing system (22); mobile phone subscribers (12), each mobile phone subscriber (12) possessing a mobile phone (18) that communicates using a mobile phone network (20) operated by the... Agent: Intellectual Property Law Group LLP

20080261560 - Access authorization servers, methods and computer program products employing wireless terminal location: An access authorization server includes an access authorization processor configured to receive information concerning an access attempt at a subscribed location, to obtain location information from a wireless network provider for a wireless terminal associated with the subscribed location, to correlate a location of the wireless terminal with the subscribed... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20080261563 - Method for interfacing a femto-cell equipment with a mobile core network: connecting at least one Mobile Network entity of said Femto-Cell equipment to at least one Mobile Core Network node with at least one standard Mobile Network interface, via a Femto Core Network Gateway entity, said at least one standard Mobile Network interface being encapsulated in a secure tunnel established between... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080261561 - Secure soft sim credential transfer: The method and apparatus described herein transfers soft SIM credentials from a transferring mobile device to a target mobile device while ensuring that only one mobile device contains active soft SIM credentials at a time. Broadly, a transferring mobile device securely transfers the soft SIM credentials to a target mobile... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20080261562 - System and method for providing bidirectional message communication services with portable terminals: The present invention relates to a bidirectional message transmission system and method. The system performs first authentication on a first user based on user ID information provided by a first user terminal connected to the wired Internet, and performs second authentication in cooperation with a first portable terminal having a... Agent: Summa, Allan & Additon, P.A.

20080261564 - Communication and control system using location aware devices for audio message storage and transmission operating under rule-based control: A cellular telephone handset stores audio files previously recorded by the user as well as voice mail messages from other users and selectively transmitted selected ones of these files to the remote listener, or to the voice mail system of a remote user. Voice mail messages are composed, stored, transmitted,... Agent: Charles G. Call

20080261569 - Integrated messaging, contacts, and mail interface, systems and methods: Systems and methods for integrating and aggregating content for a mobile device are provided. Electronic content gathered from service providers over a network is presented in an intuitive, efficient and effective manner to easily allow a mobile device user seamless access to a variety of electronic content and functionality. An... Agent: K&l Gates LLP

20080261571 - Location blocking service from a wireless service provider: Location-blocking and identity-blocking services that can be commercially offered by a service promoter, e.g., a cellular service provider or a web advertiser. In the identity-blocking service, the service promoter may disclose the current physical location of a mobile subscriber (i.e., a cellular phone operator) to a third party (e.g., a... Agent: Merchant & Gould Bellsouth Corporation

20080261566 - Method for activating a network-based service in a communication network, apparatus, device and network therefore: According to one aspect of the present invention, there is provided apparatus, in a communication network, for processing a request to initiate a communication using a first communication system, the request including information relating to one or more parties with which the communication is intended to be initiated, comprising: processing... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080261565 - Method for obtaining cross-network accessible information on a mobile communications system: The application relates to a method for obtaining cross-network accessible information about a mobile station (110). The method has a first step of receiving the request for mobile station information at a query server (120); a second step of defining one or more subqueries in the query server (120) to... Agent: Intellectual Property / Technology Law

20080261568 - Methods and systems for providing contact information: A system includes a communication device comprising a device database of contact information; and a lookup application communicating with the communication device and configured to identify additional contact information in a contact information database that corresponds to a piece of contact information entered into the communication device and to provide... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080261567 - Mobile telephony device having a print request dedicated key for transmitting digital images to a printing system: A mobile telephony device is provided having a print request dedicated key, a digital image acquiring assembly for acquiring at least one digital image, and a processor in operative communication with the print request dedicated key for initiating printing of the at least one digital image in response to selection... Agent: Xerox Corporation (cdfs)

20080261570 - Radio communication apparatus and method of control: A method of operating a radio communication apparatus (100), comprises receiving an access parameter transmitted intermittently by a radio station (200), storing a value of the latest received access parameter, and transmitting an access signal. It further comprises receiving a validity indicator transmitted by the radio station (200), and if... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080261573 - Method and apparatus for enhancing receiving efficiency of an multimedia broadcast multicast service in a wireless communications system: A method for enhancing receiving efficiency of a multimedia broadcast multicast service, know as MBMS, in a wireless communications system includes setting an indicator for indicating whether an MBMS service is transmitted on an MBSFN, an abbreviation of MBMS over a Single Frequency Network, carrier or not, and sending the... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080261572 - Mobile device business models: A mobile device facilitates customized services for its user. For example, a mobile device can record information about a user using multiple inputs (e.g., sensors, GPS, camera, etc.). The information recorded creates a log of activities and interests of the user. One or more parts of the log are published... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080261574 - Extending wlan signalling: The present invention relates to a method, device, instruction set, and signal for communicating the availability of additional information in access points relevant for determining in a mobile station which access point to connect to. An information tag is inserted into a beacon signal alerting of the additional information available;... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080261575 - Method for forming an audiovisual call identifier, a mobile communication device and a call identifier: In the invention, an audiovisual call identifier including image and sound is formed for a mobile communication device. The call identifier is repeated on the display and in the loudspeaker of the communication device when a call comes in, i.e. it functions in the same way as an ordinary ring... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080261576 - Communication system for oil and gas platforms: Communications between oil platform operators and radio users on oil platforms are facilitated using a conference server that provides software-based conference rooms enabling the oil platform operators to speak and listen to desired radio users and other oil platform operators.... Agent: Garlick, Harrison & Markison (alu)

20080261577 - Mobile virtual communication invitations: In general, in an aspect, the invention provides a method including prompting a first user of a first mobile communication device to invite a second user of a second mobile communication device to become associated with a virtual community associated with the first user, sending a first notification from the... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky And Popeo, P.c Attn: Patent Intake Customer No. 30623

20080261580 - Controlled temporary mobile network: A communication device and method for controlling a temporary Mobile Group within a Controlled Temporary Mobile Network. The device is configurable by an administrator to act as a Mobile Group Node within the temporary Mobile Group. The administrator may further configure the device to act as a Mobile Group Leader,... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080261578 - Methods and devices for set-up of a call in an intelligent network: Methods and devices for set-up of a call in an intelligent network (300) comprising a switching entity (SE-31,SE10,SSF) and a control entity (CE-31,CE10,SCP) are described. The call is subjected to a control by the control entity (CE-31,CE10,SCP) and the control entity (CE-31,CE10,SCP) is adapted to perform the steps of obtaining... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080261579 - Mobile communication terminal and method of controlling volume thereof: A mobile communication terminal and method of controlling a volume thereof are disclosed, by which the volume of the mobile communication terminal can be controlled in case of entering a specific mode while a manner mode is set. The present invention includes entering a specific mode for outputting an audio... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080261582 - Method and apparatus for using a mac protocol for broadcast: Method and apparatus that provide for broadcast multicast services in an ultra mobile broadband network are disclosed. A broadcast transmission structure provides for efficient indexing of subbands reserved for BCMCS. Transmissions on the logical channels are segmented into error control blocks beginning with zero or one MAC packet received by... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080261583 - Mobile communication method and system: In the method for wireless communication between a terminal and a base station supporting a real time packet transfer service mode and reliable packet transfer service mode according to the present invention, one of the real time packet transfer service mode and reliable packet transfer service mode is selected and... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20080261581 - Polling method and apparatus for long term evolution multimedia broadcast multicast services: A device for wirelessly communicating a service to user equipment is provided. The device includes a transmitter, a receiver, and a processor. The processor is programmed to promote the transmitter polling to determine whether user equipment desire a service and responsive to receiving, via the receiver, at least one user... Agent: Research In Motion Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20080261584 - Method and system for conducting specific absorption rate testing of a mobile communication device: Embodiments relate to systems and methods for conducting specific absorption rate testing of a mobile communication device. A system includes: a simulated head; a simulated hand positioned proximate to the simulated head for supporting the mobile communication device during the testing; a probe positioned within the simulated head; and a... Agent: Bereskin And Parr

20080261585 - Radiocommunication equipment monitoring and control system: Monitoring and control system for radiocommunication equipment, comprised of a recording and monitoring set (CM), a computer equipped with a specific and dedicated software and a decoder PCI board (2, 2a), and such computer is provided of peripherals defined by a radio (Rt), a power supply and antenna; and such... Agent: Stites & Harbison PLLC

20080261587 - Expert system: Expert system for evaluating diversity antenna installations. Antenna elements 11a. 11b have the respective coverage areas 32a and 32b. Due to an antenna mismatch the diversity is degraded or even lost for reception from mobile stations 13, 33 especially far from the antenna. By measuring the received signal strength. RXLEV,... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080261586 - Method and apparatus for improving call quality: A method of selectively improving the quality of calls carried by a communications network. The method comprises defining off-peak and peak call periods, and during off-peak periods, for each call carried by the network, analysing call data to determine whether or not a network based Voice Quality Enhancement function should... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080261588 - Tdd fdd communication interface: TDD access equipment modified by introducing a frequency change at the normal TDD guard point, with respective downlink or uplink periods for individual subscriber stations offset to form overlapping frames. Cyclo-stationary processing, block equalization, and burst timing coordination allow the boundary between downlink and uplink portions of both frames to... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080261589 - Mobile radio terminal: Even if domestic roaming setting is ON (domestic roaming setting flag is ON) (YES in step 2h), it is discriminated on the basis of information transmitted from the other carrier network whether the mobile radio terminal is permitted to execute roaming and whether the other carrier network permits the own... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080261590 - System and method for providing multimedia messaging service: A mail message, sent by a subscriber of a Mobile Station Integrated Services Digital Network (MSISDN)-restricted messaging service, may be intercepted by a network gateway. A unique ID number, which may be in the form of a standard MSISDN number, may be assigned to the restricted subscriber, and used to... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080261594 - Complete message delivery to multi-mode communication device: A system and method for complete message delivery to a multi-mode communication device is presented. The communication device is adaptable to communicate with one or more carrier networks and one or more data networks. When a new message is received for the communication device, a message notification is sent to... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080261591 - Method for transmitting application-specific registration or de-registration data and system, server and communication terminal therefor: A communication system having a communication terminal and a server, wherein the communication terminal has a signaling device which is configured to transmit to the server an information element which specifies whether at least one application installed on the communication terminal uses Multimedia Messaging Service as a transport medium for... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080261592 - Method to improve the registration of <permanently registered users> in an ngn-ims subsystem: A method to improve the registration of “Permanently Registered Users” (User1, User2, . . . User500) in an NGN-IMS subsystem. The permanently registered users are coupled to the IMS subsystem via a group device (AGW1, IP-PBX, SIP/H.323 GW) that is registered in the IMS subsystem as a dedicated IMS virtual... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080261593 - Systems and methods for ims user sessions with dynamic service selection: Under one aspect, a system generates dynamic call models within an IMS network, allowing different user entities (UEs) to have different service experiences. The IMS network includes application servers (ASs) and a serving call state control function (S-CSCF) that receives and then forwards UE service requests. The system includes storage... Agent: Wilmerhale/boston

20080261595 - System, device, and method for providing call forwarding in dual subscription mode: A method and system for providing interworking between a first and a second network of different types, preferably an IMS and a CS (Circuit-Switched) network. A call received by the first network and directed to a terminal unregistered from the first network, is forwarded to the second network, whereas when... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080261599 - Fast serving cell change: In a wireless communication system in which a user using a mobile equipment requests a serving cell handoff from a source cell to a target cell, the mobile equipment monitors authorization for the handoff from the target cell. At the same time, the mobile equipment can decode data from either... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080261597 - Handoff method between different systems and wireless terminal: A method of performing a handoff between a plurality of wireless systems having different service areas and a wireless communication terminal are provided. A means for selecting one of the wireless systems to be connected according to the average moving speed of the wireless terminal is provided. When the average... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080261596 - Method and apparatus for establishing transport channels for a femtocell: Some embodiments are implemented in a communication system that includes a first wireless communication system and a second wireless communication system that includes a Femtocell access point (FAP) and a network controller that can communicatively couple the FAP to the first wireless communication system. In some embodiments, the network controller... Agent: Adeli & Tollen, LLP

20080261598 - Method and apparatus for transfer of session reference network controller: Systems and methods of decoupling session management from connection management of a wireless network by enabling transfer of a session between session controllers. A session transfer component transfers ownership of a session from a source session controller to a target session controller, wherein the session transfer does not necessarily require... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080261600 - Radio link and handover failure handling: The method and apparatus disclosed are used for handling RL and handover failures based on context transfer details and RACH procedures that enhance the failure handling procedures. After an RL failure, a user equipment (UE) includes the identity of an evolved Node-B (eNodeB) and/or cell as an information element (IE)... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080261601 - Method for hand-over in the mixed network asynchronous communication network and synchronous communication network: Disclosed herein is a handover method for a mobile communication terminal in a mobile communication network in which an asynchronous network and a synchronous network coexist. In the present invention, as a mobile communication terminal, which is making a call through an asynchronous mobile communication system, moves into the area... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080261602 - Backhaul network for femto base stations: Providing an inter-femto Base Station (fBS) network to facilitate low interference, low power cellular access utilizing two or more fBSs is provided herein. For example, a group of fBSs can be inter-connected by a wired and/or wireless communication network. Multiple fBSs then can link with a mobile device and coordinate... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080261603 - System for optimizing cellular telephone call placement with minimal user overhead: A method and system for automatically placing calls made from a mobile telephone in an economical manner via calling card and call-back programs, with minimal user overhead. The system may be installed on an existing telephone by the user. To operate, the user initiates the placement of a call in... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20080261605 - Intelligent video, data streaming and access to distributed resources in a wireless network: The invention provides a method of operating a network which comprises a plurality of stations each able to transmit and receive data so that the network can transmit data directly, or indirectly via one or more intermediate stations, between a requesting station and potential resource providing stations. The method comprises... Agent: Michael P Pettit C/o Iwics Inc

20080261604 - Method for performing location-specific services, broadcasting unit and mobile receiving device: In order to perform location-specific services of a broadcasting unit (3), virtual cells (22, 23, 24) for the location-specific services are set up so that cell data, which define a local cell area, are transmitted to a mobile receiving device (1) via the broadcasting unit (3). The cell data are... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080261607 - Channel allocation for channel allocation tiering: A method and device for channel allocation using channel allocation tiering (CHAT), where radio resources are de-coupled from hardware resources and the available hardware resource units in a cell are divided into logical groups, “channel tiers”. Each tier simultaneously utilizes, partly or fully, the same radio resources. There is a... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080261608 - Radio resource allocation apparatus and method: A radio resource allocation method is provided wherein one of a plurality of mobile stations is allocated to one or each of a plurality of frequency blocks. The method comprises: (a) calculating allocation index representing transmission quality of each of said mobile stations in said each of frequency blocks; extracting... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080261606 - Transmission rate control method, mobile station and radio network controller: The present invention can flexibly adjust trade-off between the radio network capacity and the radio quality by changing decrease stop of uplink user data in accordance with the congestion of uplink or the uplink user data type. A transmission rate control method according to the present invention includes the steps... Agent: Mots Law, PLLC

20080261609 - Method of allocating resources in a radio base station apparatus: A method of allocating resources in a radio base station apparatus is disclosed. A call processing controller, upon receipt of a call connection request from a mobile terminal, multicasts a resource allocation request to each signal processing card in a signal processor. Each signal processing card that has received the... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20080261610 - Resource partitioning in a cellular communication system: A cellular communication system (100) a first Radio Network Controller (107) supporting different communication service types. A first resource controller (203) controls resource allocation for a first communication service type from a first resource partition and a second resource controller (205) controls resource allocation for a second communication service type... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080261615 - Apparatus, system and method for determining a geographical location of a portable communication device: A wireless access point receives a reverse link (RL) wireless wide area network (WWAN) signals from a wireless communication device and forwards wireless local area network (WLAN) location information related to the received RL WWAN signal to a position determining entity (PDE). The PDE uses the WLAN location information and,... Agent: Kyocera Wireless Corp.

20080261621 - Dynamic service binding providing transparent switching of information services having defined coverage regions: It is determined whether a location of a mobile device is within a coverage region of a first information service. Communications for the first information service are redirected to a second information service when the location of the mobile device is not within a coverage region of the first information... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080261619 - Injection of location object into routing sip message: The function of determination of location is separated from the function of gathering information based on determined location by use of a Location Object (LO) proxy between an initiating VoIP capable device and a positioning center. The LOProxy queries an appropriate location database using a location key, and injects a... Agent: Manelli Denison & Selter PLLC

20080261620 - Location notification method, location notifcation system, information processing apparatus, wireless communication apparatus and program: There is provided a wireless communication apparatus including a base station information input portion to input base station information of a base station transmitting a radio wave having a wave reaching range including a particular location, the base station information acquired from a first memory storing a plurality of pieces... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080261618 - Mobile communication system, base station, mobile station, location management station, incoming call control method, and program: To obtain a mobile communication system in which a mobile station can prevent a call loss due to move among base stations while performing battery saving. Base stations 200 and 210 transmit paging signals 10 and 11 in order to call a terminal 100 when there is an incoming call... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20080261617 - Mobile wireless apparatus and connection method thereof: A mobile wireless apparatus includes a network interface, a storage and a processing device. The network interface provides a wireless protocol of a personal area network. The storage stores access codes and location indicators. Instead of scanning coverable external apparatuses every time when the mobile wireless apparatus moves from one... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080261616 - Position-based automatic configuration of portable device: A method for automatically configuring a portable device comprises determining a position of the portable device and automatically configuring the portable device based on the determined position.... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080261611 - Sparsed u-tdoa wireless location networks: In an overlay, U-TDOA-based, Wireless Location System, LMUs typically co-located with BTSs, are used to collect radio signaling both in the forward and reverse channels. Techniques are used to compensate for sparse LMU deployments where sections of the U-TDOA service area are uplink demodulation or downlink beacon discovery limited.... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20080261612 - Sparsed u-tdoa wireless location networks: In an overlay, U-TDOA-based, Wireless Location System, LMUs typically co-located with BTSs, are used to collect radio signaling both in the forward and reverse channels. Techniques are used to compensate for sparse LMU deployments where sections of the U-TDOA service area are uplink demodulation or downlink beacon discovery limited.... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20080261613 - Sparsed u-tdoa wireless location networks: In an overlay, U-TDOA-based, Wireless Location System, LMUs typically co-located with BTSs, are used to collect radio signaling both in the forward and reverse channels. Techniques are used to compensate for sparse LMU deployments where sections of the U-TDOA service area are uplink demodulation or downlink beacon discovery limited.... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20080261614 - Sparsed u-tdoa wireless location networks: In an overlay, U-TDOA-based, Wireless Location System, LMUs typically co-located with BTSs, are used to collect radio signaling both in the forward and reverse channels. Techniques are used to compensate for sparse LMU deployments where sections of the U-TDOA service area are uplink demodulation or downlink beacon discovery limited.... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20080261622 - Method and system for determining position of mobile communication device using ratio metric: A method of determining a location of a mobile communication terminal, the method including: receiving base station identification signals from a plurality of base stations; calculating distance ratios between the plurality of base stations and the mobile communication terminal, from the received base station identification signals; generating first variables and... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080261624 - System and method for using location information to execute an action: A system and method is provided for using location information associated with wireless devices. The system includes a wireless device, a location system, and a feature server. The wireless device includes any wireless apparatus having wireless communications capabilities. The location system can generate location information pinpointing the location of the... Agent: Merchant & Gould Bellsouth Corporation

20080261623 - Techniques to enhance location estimation in an ofdma based system: An embodiment of the present invention provides an a method, comprising determining the position of a mobile station in a wireless network by transmitting a single or multi tone location beacon by the base station on a downlink or mobile station on an uplink with focused power on at least... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080261625 - Remote location based services: The invention relates to a method, system and service for processing at a remote device a request from a first device, the method has the steps of receiving a request message to obtain information on location based services available at the physical location of the remote device from the first... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20080261626 - Method and system for transmitting a location of a mobile communication device: There is provided a method for use by a mobile communication device for transmitting a location of the mobile communication device over a network using a protocol stack. In one embodiment, location data indicating the location of the mobile communication device is received. The location data can include, for example,... Agent: Farjami & Farjami LLP

20080261627 - Legacy cellular device with upgraded gis functionality: Embodiments of the present invention recite a method for implementing Geographic Information Systems (GIS) data collection utilizing a legacy electronic device. In one embodiment, a GIS data collector application is installed upon a legacy electronic device which is not originally intended to be used as a GIS data recording device.... Agent: Trimble Navigation Limited C/o Wagner Blecher

20080261628 - Inter-system paging control: A method, information processing system, and wireless communication system for dynamically updating paging slot cycles associated with a wireless device (104). The method includes monitoring behavior of a wireless device (104) across multiple access networks (122). A set of slot cycles for each access network associated with the wireless device... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080261629 - Logical paging areas: Paging of a mobile device within a mobile pool area serviced by two or more mobile switching nodes is reduced using logical paging areas. The mobile pool area includes a plurality of location areas, each serviced by the two or more switching nodes. In addition, the mobile pool area is... Agent: Garlick, Harrison & Markison (alu)

20080261634 - Dynamic display generation for mobile communication devices: A method and apparatus, including a computer program product, implementing techniques for receiving, from a dynamic application server, a short message including a dynamic menu encoded using one of a plurality of protocols supported by a mobile communications device, interpreting the encoded dynamic menu, and rendering a dynamic menu on... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080261630 - Indicating user presence on a messaging network: A system and method for indicating when a message recipient is unavailable to receive messages in an instant messaging network, for example, being engaged in telephone communications on the receiving device, where disruption of service is likely or imminent. When notification of an inbound call is received the communications device... Agent: Dimock Stratton LLP

20080261636 - Method and system for enhanced messaging: Techniques for acquiring, sending, receiving or using status information from a remote location over a network are disclosed. The status information is transmitted over the network between or among electronic devices. The status information can be provided by one or more sensors associated with the electronic device that is transmitting... Agent: Ipventure, Inc.

20080261635 - Mobile messaging system: A mobile messaging campaign is established to process bidirectional mobile campaign messages associated with each of a plurality of mobile numbers using a single short code. A mobile message associated with the mobile messaging campaign is received. The received mobile message is parsed to extract a campaign identifier and the... Agent: The Eclipse Group LLP

20080261633 - System and method for pushing information from a host system to a mobile data communication device: A scheme for redirecting data items from a messaging system to a user's mobile communication device. One embodiment of a method comprises: configuring a plurality of redirection trigger events for a user, wherein upon occurrence of a redirection trigger event, a redirection flag configured for the user is set so... Agent: Research In Motion Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20080261632 - System and method for pushing information from a host system to a mobile data communication device in a wireless data network: A scheme for redirecting data to a mobile communication device from a messaging server. One embodiment comprises one or more of the following: setting a redirection flag configured for a user associated with the mobile communication device to enable continuous redirection of data items received at the messaging server to... Agent: Research In Motion Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20080261631 - System and method for sending notification message to a mobile station using session initiation protocol (sip): The present invention is a method and system for sending SIP notification messages to a wireless device, for example a wireless telephone, that can accept SIP control messages. A method is described for establishing a data session between a wireless device and a management server over a wireless network, the... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080261637 - System for interconnecting a remote server with a short message server center (smsc) via the internet: It allows the transmission of short messages (SMS) between a remote server (1) and a mobile telephone user (7), that is in communication with a short message service centre (5) via GSM network 10. It is characterized in that remote server (1) communicates with the short message server (5) via... Agent: Klauber & Jackson

20080261638 - Direct digital sampling method for radios: A direct digital sampling and synthesis general purpose radio system is disclosed which employs single or multiple receiver and/or transmitter sub-systems that require no analog frequency conversion or translation circuitry. Receiver signal processing is disclosed that describes methods of conditioning and digitizing an entire received RF signal band in which... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20080261639 - Cluster-based cooperative spectrum sensing in cognitive radio systems: Cluster-based cooperative spectrum sensing is provided for cognitive radio systems. For each cluster of cognitive users, a cluster head is determined. Each cluster head collects energies of a reporting channel measured by the cognitive users within the cluster and decides whether a primary user is absent from a given spectrum.... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080261640 - Communication control method and wireless communication apparatus: A printer (103) belongs to a service set (107) and communicates via an access point (101) in the infrastructure mode. The printer (103) searches for a beacon periodically. If a beacon is received from a terminal such as a digital camera (104), the printer registers the terminal address, service-set identifier... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080261643 - Extensible infotainment/telematics system: An infotainment/telematics system includes a fixed base unit and a portable communication device. The fixed base unit may include a plurality of base unit devices cooperating with a base unit processor to execute a set of stand-alone infotainment/telematics functions. The portable communication device may include a one or more PCD... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080261644 - Extensible infotainment/telematics system having fixed base unit control of a portable communication device: An infotainment/telematics system includes a fixed base unit adapted to execute a set of stand-alone infotainment and/or telematics functions, and a portable communication device adapted to execute a stand-alone infotainment and/or telematics function. The fixed base unit and the portable communication device may be connected for intelligent communication with one... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080261641 - Redundant wireless base station: In a redundant wireless base station, a first baseband processing unit is coupled to a first radio unit and a second baseband processing unit is coupled to a second radio unit. A link couples the first baseband processing unit and the second baseband processing unit. The link allows at least... Agent: Holland & Knight LLP

20080261642 - Redundant wireless base station: A redundant base station including a first baseband processing unit and at least a second baseband processing unit. The first baseband processing unit and the at least a second baseband processing unit are coupled by a link. The link is configured to communicate activity status information, operational status information, and... Agent: Holland & Knight LLP

20080261645 - Interference and power control for wireless communication: Techniques for performing interference and power control in a wireless communication system are described. An asymmetric power control scheme adjusts the transmit power of a user equipment (UE) in an asymmetric manner, e.g., with different up and down step sizes. In one design, a parameter value may be determined based... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080261647 - Electronic apparatus, control method for electronic apparatus and control program for electronic apparatus: An electronic apparatus having a plurality of antennas and a plurality of telecommunication modules equipped with a telecommunication function for transmitting and receiving data by simultaneously using a plurality of antennas comprises: an antenna changeover switch for changing the connection of the antennas to the telecommunication modules; and a judgment... Agent: Hanify & King Professional Corporation

20080261646 - Mobile communication device and power saving method thereof: A mobile communication device (10) communicating with a communication network (20) includes a microphone (11) for receiving sounds of a user and converting the sounds into outgoing analog signals, a processor (13), a system memory (16) for storing system data from the processor, and a data converter module (12). The... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080261649 - Radio communication apparatus and method: A radio communication apparatus compatible with a plurality of communication systems and application services comprises a radio transmitting/receiving unit for transmitting and receiving a radio signal, signal processing circuit for executing part of digital signal processing which may be executed when a radio signal is transmitted or received, first processors... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080261650 - Radio integrated circuit with integrated power amplifier: A radio system includes a radio frequency (RF) integrated circuit (IC), a baseband digital signal processing (DSP) IC, and a serial digital interface coupling data there-between. In one embodiment of the invention, the RF IC has an input receiver to receive a serial digital transmission bit stream from a digital... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080261648 - Wireless communication terminal apparatus and computer readable medium therefor: A wireless communication terminal apparatus having a radio section that performs switching between a first communication system and a second communication system to execute wireless communication by a shared antenna, and a control section for controlling the wireless communication executed by the radio section, wherein the control section monitors an... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20080261651 - Multi-mode communication apparatus for selectively using w-cdma system and gsm system: In a multi-mode communication apparatus including independent transmitter circuits and receiver circuits of a W-CDMA system and a GSM system, which are capable of complying with communication systems of the W-CDMA system and the GSM system, a first switching device is connected between a ground and an input terminal of... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080261652 - Integrated personal digital assistant device: An integrated device provides functionality of both a PDA and cellular telephone. Features include a power button offering control of both the computing and telephony functions of the device; a lid that turns the device on and off and controls additional telephony functions; a jog rocker that activates the device... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20080261653 - Cellular phone with built-in ic tag reader: A cellular phone having a main body with a built-in IC tag reader is disclosed. The built-in IC tag reader includes an IC tag reader chip having a function for reading IC tags, and a communications antenna for IC tag use connected to the IC tag reader chip.... Agent: Berenato, White & Stavish, LLC

20080261655 - Apparatus, and associated method, for facilitating network selection using access technology indicator: Apparatus, and an associated method, for facilitating selection of an I-WLAN PLMN. A PLMN listing is created and maintained at a wireless device. The listing includes entries that identify PLMN together with their associated access technology indicators. The wireless device creates a list of available I-WLAN PLMNs. And a selector... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080261654 - Information processing system: An information processing system for wireless access to an external subscriber and high speed searching of the internet incorporates a wireless modem that uses a Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) card and the technology of a third Generation System for Mobile Modems (iw3gsm) to connect a computer to the internet. A... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080261656 - Joint ic card and wireless transceiver module for mobile communication equipment: An integrated circuit card for a mobile terminal incorporates a radio transceiver module intended for communications that do not pass through the mobile network. To allow using, for the chip of the IC card and the radio transceiver module, the same chips as would be used for conventional IC cards... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080261657 - Plug-in device for enabling mobile telephone to execute applications: A device for plugging into the data port of a mobile telephone, for enabling the mobile telephone to execute user applications; and a method for developing such devices and programming the applications therein. Application plugs may be inserted into the data port of the mobile telephone by the user for... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080261658 - Hybrid time-spatial multiplexing for wireless broadcast messages through antenna radiation beam synthesis: A hybrid time-spatial multiplexing technique is provided for beamforming broadcast messages to mobile stations that may be within a coverage region or cell of a base station. The coverage region is divided into a plurality of plurality of segments. The mobile stations are assigned to at least one of the... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC

20080261659 - Mobile communication terminal: A mobile communication terminal including a first body, a second body slidably connected to the first body and moveable between a first position and a second position, and a slide module connecting the first body to the second body. The slide module is configured to guide the second body along... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080261660 - Mobile terminal and screen displaying method thereof: A mobile terminal and screen displaying method thereof are disclosed, by which an image can be displayed on a screen using a virtual polyhedral pillar. The present invention includes a user input unit for inputting key signals, a display for displaying a first facet of a polyhedral pillar, and a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080261661 - Mobile telephone devices: An electronic device such as a mobile telephone device incorporates a flexible keyboard within its casing, said keyboard incorporating a plurality of switches or sensors distributed over said keyboard area which detect finger pressure, or which alternatively detect the presence of a finger adjacent to said switch means, where said... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20080261662 - Mobile telecommunications device: An arrangement and technique for providing an educated indication of battery consumption for any particular mobile terminal usage type. This allows the user to be provided with an accurate indication of the battery life remaining for the current usage type and also the battery life that is remaining for any... Agent: Muirhead And Saturnelli, LLC

20080261663 - Methods and arrangements for adaptively changing snoozing intervals of wireless devices: Methods and arrangements for wireless communications are described. Embodiments include transformations, code, state machines or other logic to adaptively change a snoozing interval of a station. The embodiments may also include determining a timeout (TO) period for a station, examining network traffic of the station after a period of network... Agent: Schubert, Osterrieder & Nickelson, PLLC C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080261664 - Cover for electronic device: A plush cover for a flip style cell phone is provided. The cover can include a top half having a first pocket, the first pocket being dimensioned to accept a top portion of a flip style cell phone, and a second half having a second pocket. The second pocket is... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Sprinkle,anderson & Citkowski, P.c

20080261666 - Electronic device: A cellular phone device has an operation-unit casing, a sliding casing which is coupled to the operation-unit casing with the front face of the sliding casing facing the rear face of the operation-unit casing, and which slides with respect to the operation-unit casing in a direction parallel to the rear... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20080261665 - Slidable mobile terminal: A slidable mobile terminal including a first body having a first surface and a second surface, a second body having a first surface and a second surface, the first body being movable with respect to the second body between a closed position where the first body substantially overlaps the second... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080261667 - Mobile terminal having an improved internal antenna: A mobile terminal is provided that includes a first area having a first conductive surface, a second area having a second conductive surface, the second area separated from the first area, and a feeding point formed between the first conductive surface and the second conductive surface to supply electrical signals... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080254737 - Ionizing communication disruptor unit: An apparatus includes a voltage generator and a superstructure. The voltage generator includes a conductive base, an insulating spacer and a conductive top. The superstructure includes a platform and an antenna system. The voltage generator provides a voltage difference between the conductive base and the conductive top that is greater... Agent: Millen, White, Zelano & Branigan, P.C.

20080254738 - System and method for suppressing radio frequency transmissions: A system and method for suppressing radio frequency (“RF”) transmissions includes a transmitter for transmitting electronic signals that suppresses (e.g., prevents, disrupts, jams, interferes with or otherwise disables) RF transmissions. Some embodiments of the invention include a transmitter that suppresses one or more signals transmitted from a target transmitter in... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080254739 - Method and system for file sharing between a group of user devices using obtained permissions: A communication system 100 includes a plurality of user devices 110 and a content delivery network 120 that is in communication with the plurality of user devices 110. The content delivery network 120 communicates a participation signal to each of the plurality of communication devices. The content delivery network 120... Agent: The Directv Group, Inc. Patent Docket Administration

20080254740 - Method and system for video stream personalization: A method and system for video stream personalization. A personalization policy may be accessed. The personalization policy may include an image identification and an image alteration to a video image identified by the image identification. At least one instance of the video image may be identified in a video stream.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080254741 - Leader and follower broadcast stations: An apparatus includes a plurality of software-controlled broadcast stations, each station capable of operating in a leader mode or a follower mode during a simulcast. Each station in the follower mode is configured to broadcast the same programs as a station in the leader mode during common program periods, and... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080254742 - System for media content delivery to a media destination device, a related input reception device, a related association device and a related multimedia delivery device: The present invention relates to a system for media content delivery to a media destination device of a plurality of media destinations devices. The media content delivery is based on an input of an input reception device where based on the input the media content is selected. The system for... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080254743 - Wireless communication system: In a wireless repeater apparatus communicating with wireless communication apparatuses, a switching circuit transfers a data packet received through any one of antennas to any one of antennas for transmission. A correspondence table memory stores a correspondence table that includes relations of an identifier of each antenna between an identifier... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080254744 - Data distribution systems: A communication system of the type in which a base station, which can take the form of an electronic tag, is used to send data to users of wireless mobile units. The tags are used in environments such as on poster panels and in football grounds to deliver information relevant... Agent: Fleit Gibbons Gutman Bongini & Bianco Pl

20080254745 - Systems and methods for providing collaborative coexistence between bluetooth and wi-fi: Methods and systems are described for providing Bluetooth and Wi-Fi coexistence on an electronic device. Aspects of exemplary embodiments include determining Bluetooth link parameters for a Bluetooth connection and Wi-Fi link parameters for a Wi-Fi connection. Also, a Bluetooth path loss for the Bluetooth connection and a Wi-Fi path loss... Agent: Strategic Patent Group, P.C.

20080254747 - Handheld device and communication method: A handheld device includes a first wireless transceiver and a second wireless transceiver. The first wireless transceiver is used for implementing normal communication. The second wireless transceiver is used for abnormal conditions. When the first wireless transceiver is used, the second wireless transceiver is disabled for saving electrical energy. The... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080254746 - Voice-enabled hands-free telephone system for audibly announcing vehicle component information to vehicle users in response to spoken requests from the users: A voice-enabled, hands-free telephone system includes an appliance, speakers, and a component connected to a communications bus of a vehicle. The component provides to the bus a signal indicative of a condition monitored by the component. During a call between a user using a Bluetooth enabled phone and another party... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C. / Lear Corporation

20080254748 - Method for dimensioning or evaluating a radio network: A simple and reliable method for dimensioning CDMA based networks is achieved by a method for evaluating or dimensioning a radio network comprising the steps of—defining a radio network model comprising at least one radio base station and a plurality of mobile terminals, —for each mobile terminal in the model,... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080254749 - Management of variable-rate communication links: In another method, data is exchanged over two opposite directions of a bidirectional link that uses ACM by communicating using two ACM profiles. A joint constraint is defined on the two directions. The two ACM profiles are set based on first and second measured reception quality metrics of the two... Agent: Welsh & Katz, Ltd. Gerald T. Shekleton

20080254750 - Presence of communication interlock method and apparatus for reducing or eliminating aircraft communications radio interference: In one exemplary illustrative non-limiting aircraft radio communications system, a “POCI” (“Presence Of Communication Interlock”) is comprised of a double balanced low pass LC filter covering the voice range. The voice signals coming from the two VHF's are filtered and processed by an amplifier at an adequate level to be... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080254751 - media transfer and control system: A media transfer and control system that includes a handheld device and an audio/visual system. The media transfer and control system provides for: (i) the transfer of media files between the handheld device and the audio/visual system, (ii) the transmission of control commands from the handheld device to the audio/visual... Agent: Research In Motion Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20080254752 - Apparatus and method for transmitting data and apparatus and method for receiving data: Provided are an apparatus and method for transmitting data and an apparatus and method for receiving data, in which beam forming is performed in consideration of the communication capabilities of antennas of stations that perform directional communication in a high-frequency band. The apparatus for transmitting data includes a communication-capability-determination module... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080254753 - Dynamic volume adjusting and band-shifting to compensate for hearing loss: A remote station apparatus comprises a transmit/receive circuit that is operable to transmit/receive signals to/from a communications network. A control processor receives signals from the transmit/receive circuit, the signals comprising an audio signal to be provided to a user through a user interface. The control processor is operable to modify... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080254754 - Mixer circuit and rf transmitter using such mixer circuit: Described herein are techniques for providing a mixer circuit having a mixer core. The mixer circuit includes a variable current block that is arranged to feed the mixer core with an amplified input signal.... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20080254755 - Radio receiver and radio transmitter: In a radio receiver including an aerial wire (1) that receives a radio signal in which a transmission signal is superimposed on a carrier, a (VCXO 2) that oscillates a local oscillation signal, a frequency multiplier (3), and a demodulation circuit that demodulates the transmission signal on the basis of... Agent: Murata Manufacturing Company, Ltd. C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20080254756 - Receiver and wireless communication apparatus: A receiver has a first voltage control oscillator configured to generate a first oscillation signal, a second voltage control oscillator configured to generate a second oscillation signal having a first phase, a first phase comparator configured to detect a phase difference between the first and second oscillation signals, a demodulator... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080254757 - Method and system for avoiding detection of false modulated signals in wireless communications: There is provided a method for use in a wireless communication to avoid detection of a false modulated signal in a paged device. In one embodiment, a modulated signal is received by the paged device. Then, the modulated signal is identified by the paged device as a preliminary false modulated... Agent: Farjami & Farjami LLP

20080254758 - Frequency converter circuit and receiver: A frequency converter circuit includes a frequency conversion section for converting an inputted radio frequency voltage signal to a radio frequency current signal, converting the frequency of the signal to a low frequency current signal, and then outputting the low frequency current signal from an output section thereof; an amplifier... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080254759 - High linearity frequency conversion system and method: A frequency converter (100) is provided, comprising: a pulse generator (150) configured to receive a balanced local oscillator signal pair and to generate a balanced rectangular pulse signal pair having the reference frequency; and a mixer (160) configured to mix an input signal having an input frequency with the balanced... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20080254760 - Adaptive power control data transmission systems and methods: Systems and methods of performing power control in combination with AMC are provided. AMC is performed on the basis of an AMC parameter such as CINR. Once the AMC is set to a highest available AMC for transmission to a given receiver, if the CINR indicates that the highest AMC... Agent: Smart & Biggar P.o. Box 2999, Station D

20080254761 - Radio frequency (rf) module: The disclosed embodiments relate to a radio frequency (RF) receiver module (100). An exemplary embodiment of the RF receiver module (100) comprises a base (102), an RF connector (104) secured to the base (102), the RF connector (104) adapted to receive an RF signal from an audio signal source, and... Agent: Panasonic Automotive System Company Of America

20080254762 - Method and apparatus for call protection over a telephone system: Embodiments of the invention generally provide a method and apparatus for call protection over a telephone system. One embodiment of a method for protecting a telephone call between a first user and a second user includes receiving a request from the first user to protect the telephone call, monitoring wireless... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20080254763 - Method for managing wireless devices using exception monitoring: An improved solution for managing use of a plurality of wireless devices is provided. In an embodiment of the invention, a usage policy is obtained for the plurality of wireless devices. Usage data for one or more of the plurality of wireless devices is compared against the usage policy, wherefrom... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20080254765 - Method and system for monetary billing for the use of content services in internet sites, by sending sms messages from cellular phones: A system and method for billing web services provided by a service provider to a user. A server of the service provider is connected to a computerized terminal of the user, and to a telecommunication device of the user via a communication link. The system and method generate codes related... Agent: Fleit Gibbons Gutman Bongini & Bianco Pl

20080254764 - Roaming method with call announcement: A method is disclosed for completing a roaming cellular call between a roaming subscriber and another party. The first step is initiating the roaming call between the roaming subscriber and the another party. The roaming subscriber is provided with a prepaid debit account. The roaming subscriber is then connected to... Agent: Howison & Arnott, L.l.p

20080254766 - Method and system for using an integrated subscriber identity module in a network interface unit: Each NIU may receive data from a single source and distribute appropriate telephony, data and video services to telephones, computers and televisions, respectively, based on the level and duration of the services requested by a user/subscriber. Thus, services access and billing are user-associated and location-independent. The SIM can be renewable... Agent: Arris International, Inc

20080254768 - Packet data network connectivity domain selection and bearer setup: A network device includes a receive module that receives a PDN descriptor that includes at least one of a PDN identifier and a PDN gateway identifier from a remote device before bearer setup of the remote device by the network device. A control module generates a reply signal that indicates... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce P.L.C

20080254767 - System and method for limiting access to features in a mobile telecommunications device: A mobile telecommunications device with a processor, memory in electronic communication with the processor, and instructions stored in the memory, the instructions being executable to implement a method for childproof operation wherein the user's access is limited to a subset of applications and services while the device is in childproof... Agent: Sharp Laboratories Of America, Inc

20080254770 - Method and system for processing a message: A method and system are provided for processing a message, which is being delivered from one mobile network to another. A request to send routing instructions of the message to a store-and-forward center of a transmitting mobile network is received at a moderator server of a receiving mobile network. The... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20080254769 - Wireless email communications system providing resource update tracking features and related methods: A wireless communications system may include a plurality of mobile wireless communications devices to permit users to send and receive wireless electronic mail (email) messages. Each device may be enabled for email communication based upon user acceptance of terms and conditions (T&Cs) in a corresponding user selected language and in... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20080254771 - Apparatus and method for performing call setup for domain transfer in mobile communication system: A mobile communication system and method for maintaining a call setup for a domain transfer are provided. The mobile communication system includes a calling terminal and a VCC server. The calling terminal notifies, when performing a domain transfer during reception of a ring-back tone in a call setup process with... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20080254772 - Method and system for recognition of incoming calls to a voicemail system: A system and method for recognition of incoming call to a voicemail system is disclosed. A radio frequency identification (RFID) authenticates a user of a mobile communication device. The mobile communication device enables a one-button dialing of a voicemail system based on the RFID signal. The voicemail system recognizes the... Agent: Larson Newman Abel Polansky & White, LLP

20080254774 - Communications system that provides user-selectable data when user is on-hold: Systems and methods for providing user-selectable data when a user is on hold are provided. A communications system can automatically detect when a user is placed on hold. Additionally, a user can indicate when he/she has been placed on hold. After it has been determined that a user is placed... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20080254773 - Method for automatic presentation of information before connection: When a communications system initiates a connection, adaptive information can be presented to a user while waiting for that connection to be finalized. The adaptive information that is presented can be selected based on predetermined criteria which can be configured by a user. Moreover, the adaptive information that is presented... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20080254776 - Method for implementing do-not-disturb service and intelligent phone terminal: A method for implementing a do-not-disturb service includes: determining, by an intelligent phone terminal, whether to initiate a do-not-disturb service for an incoming call upon detection of the incoming call, the intelligent phone terminal being a fixed phone terminal or a PC software phone terminal provided with human-machine interfaces and... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080254775 - Methods, media, and mobile devices for providing information associated with a visual code: Methods, media, and mobile devices for providing information associated with a visual code are provided. In some embodiments, methods for providing information associated with a visual code are provided, including capturing an image including a visual code and non-visual code regions using a mobile device; selecting a non-visual code region... Agent: Wilmerhale/new York

20080254777 - Systems and methods for facilitating automatic generation of metadata about data that is collected by a mobile device: A mobile device that facilitates automatic generation of metadata about data that is collected by the mobile device may include a processor and memory in electronic communication with the processor. Instructions may be stored in the memory. The instructions may be executable to collect data and to create an identifier... Agent: Madson & Austin

20080254778 - Mobile communication terminal and web page control method thereof: A method of controlling a mobile communication terminal method includes receiving Internet tag information identifying an Internet address, providing a menu screen on a display of the terminal so that a user can select representative image data that visually represents to the user the Internet address, linking the representative image... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080254779 - System and method for decorating short message from origination point: A method for converting a SMS sent through a mobile communication network into a SMS or MMS in a previously registered format includes the steps of: receiving a SMS from a certain sending subscriber, determining whether the corresponding sending subscriber is subscribed to a SMS converting service, then converting the... Agent: Jones Day

20080254782 - Apparatus, method and computer program product providing inter-operability between legacy and other radio network subsystem: RNCs are assigned different bit length identifiers, for example 12 bits (legacy) and 16 bits (extended). To enable handovers between adjacent RNCs with different bit length identifiers, several solutions are presented. In a first solution, no logical/direct connection is configured between the adjacent RNCs having different bit length identifiers at... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080254780 - Automated application-selective processing of information obtained through wireless data communication links: The present invention provides a method for automated application-selective processing of data by a portable processor based terminal device and the portable processor based terminal device enabled to perform the aforementioned method. The data is receivable wirelessly from an external counterpart data provision entity. One or more content data is... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20080254784 - Dynamic reconfiguration of resources through page headers: Methods and systems for reconfiguring communications systems are provided. In one embodiment, a radio head interface for a communications system comprises: a first interface for communicating with a signal processing module digitally performing waveform processing to modulate and demodulate radio signals; a second interface for communicating with a radio head... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20080254783 - Mobile terminal and method for displaying image according to call therein: A mobile terminal and a method for displaying an image in the mobile terminal. The method includes registering a counterparty's image in a counterparty's phone number information, extracting an image containing the counterparty's image based on the registered image, and displaying the registered image and the extracted image. At least... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080254781 - System and apparatus for silencing communication devices: A system and method for silencing communication devices is disclosed. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a silencing system having a controller element to transmit an RF signal to an RF receiver of a mobile communication device. An audible alerting function of the... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080254786 - Managing wireless devices using access control: An improved solution for managing wireless devices that uses access control is provided. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for managing wireless devices includes receiving a notification for one of the plurality of wireless devices, the notification indicating at least one of: an access attempt threshold is exceeded... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20080254785 - Media transfer and control system: A media transfer and control system that includes a handheld electronic device and and audio/visual system. The media transfer and control system provides for: (i) the transfer of media files between the handheld electronic device and the audio/visual system, (ii) the transmission of control commands from the handheld electronic device... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20080254787 - System, method, and apparatus for avoiding call drop for a wireless phone: A method for facilitating a call session includes receiving a request to establish a call session between a wireless phone and a remote phone, and establishing a call session between the wireless phone and the remote phone. The call session includes a first connection with the wireless phone and a... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080254789 - Cellular mobile communication network operating method and system: A cellular mobile communication network operating method comprises a step of calculating at least one adjustment frequency parameter representative of the adjustment frequency of at least one radio parameter associated with at least one network object and a step of using said at least one adjustment frequency parameter in at... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080254788 - Complexity reduction in power estimation: A signal-power related quantity is estimated by repeating a processing step, where measured values of instantaneous signal powers are processed. At each relevant part step of the processing and for each relevant matrix (99), elements (98) that are indicated to be negligibly small are changed to instead be exactly equal... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080254790 - Telecommunications systems and methods for wireless e-911 call testing: The technology described herein provides systems and methods for remote emergency wireless E-911 call testing. The wireless E-911 call testing system includes a remote call testing unit (RCTU) which, in combination with an Automated Emergency Operator Server (AEOS), allows for verification of 911 call functionality without the need for in-person,... Agent: Clements Bernard Miller

20080254792 - Controlling access to private access points for wireless networking: e

20080254794 - Gw coupled sip proxy: In one embodiment, a method can include: (i) performing an initial authentication with a mobile device in an access gateway, the access gateway being a point of attachment; (ii) forwarding a first message from the mobile device to an edge proxy; (iii) receiving a second message from the edge proxy;... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20080254791 - Ims communication node proxies and methods: Systems and methods for splitting communication nodes to provide inter-domain functionality are described. For example, a home subscriber services (HSS) node can be split into a proxy node in a first domain and a non-proxy node in a second domain. The proxy node may or may not include a subset... Agent: Ericsson Canada Inc. Patent Department

20080254795 - Ip multimedia subsystem virtual call/session control functions: Systems and methods provide virtual CSCFs in an IMS system. The Virtual CSCFs may be virtual S-CSCFs or virtual P-CSCFs. A master virtual CSCF may be used to distribute subscriber data and initial filter criteria to the virtual CSCFs in a group. Thus one of multiple servers may be used... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080254793 - System accounting in a multiprocessor environment: In one embodiment, a method can include: (i) assigning an attribute to each of a plurality of processors, and designating one of the plurality of processors as a proxy processor; (ii) when a user session begins using a first of the plurality of processors, sending a first notification message to... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20080254796 - Hand over method for dual band/dual mode mobile communication terminal: The present invention relates to a handover method for a dual band/dual mode mobile communication terminal between a synchronous mobile communication network and an asynchronous mobile communication network. The method includes the first step of the main processor setting an initial mobile communication network connection to the asynchronous mobile communication... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080254798 - Handover method and system: Systems and methods are described which provide cell data between radio network controllers including monitoring at least one cell being controlled by a first radio network controller, compiling cell data based on configuration changes to the at least one cell and transferring the compiled cell data to at least a... Agent: Ericsson Canada Inc. Patent Department

20080254799 - Mobile communications system and control method thereof: Disclosed is a mobile communications system including a plurality of base station apparatuses which are located at geographically dispersed locations and perform a wireless communication with a mobile device. The system further includes a maximum ratio combining unit which performs maximum ratio combining processing regarding a signal the base station... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20080254797 - Seamless and vertical call handoff solution architecture: A system, method and apparatus for facilitating handoff of communications with a user device between a first communication network having a first domain technology, and a second communication network having a second domain technology different from the first domain technology, the system, method and apparatus includes an anchor point that... Agent: Christopher & Weisberg, P.A.

20080254800 - Data transfer management in a radio communications network: A mobile communications system comprising, a network with a source network node and a target network node that supports a handover procedure, and a mobile terminal that is allowed to access the source network node and access the target network node according to the handover procedure, whereby information related to... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080254801 - Method and apparatus for establishing a priority call in a fixed wireless access communication system: A wireless communication system has a plurality of subscriber stations linked by radio with a network infrastructure coupled to a correspondent node. A call is originated at a subscriber station apparatus. The apparatus includes a call establishment message generator coupled to receive an origination indication of the call. The call... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080254802 - Mobile control device and handover control method: The present invention is a handover control method in a mobile communication system that performs handover control by switching base stations that communicate with a mobile terminal as the mobile terminal moves. In this handover control method, a mobile control device selects one or more handover base station candidates based... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080254803 - Method of scheduling cell search operations: e

20080254804 - Scheduling of mobile terminals in a mobile communication system: The invention relates to a method for scheduling mobile terminals within a mobile communication network and to a base station performing this method. Further, the invention relates to a method for acting upon the reception of scheduling grants in a mobile communication system and to a mobile terminal performing this... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC

20080254805 - Method and system for managing communication session: A method and system for managing a communication session is provided. The method includes receiving (304) a call setup request from a calling communication device, to establish the communication session with a called communication device. Further, the method includes determining (306) whether the calling communication device and the called communication... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080254807 - Access network, gateway and management server for a cellular wireless communication system: The access network for a cellular wireless communication system includes home gateways (5) placed in customer premises and providing wireless links to mobile stations, and a private operator network (20). The private operator network includes base station control units (22), security gateways (21) and a home gateway management server (26).... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080254806 - Method for decentralized assignment of frequency band to base stations: In a radio communication system having network-side and subscriber-side radio stations a frequency band is used for communication respectively by a subset of the network-side radio stations in time slots. The network-side radio stations are coordinated according to which network-side radio station(s) the frequency band can be used in a... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080254808 - Position information processing method, position information processing system, position information processing apparatus, communication apparatus and program: A position information processing method includes: measuring, at a communication apparatus, a signal intensity of a signal transmitted from a plurality of base stations; recording a history of signal intensity information at one or more times in a history storage medium of the communication apparatus; recording, in an information storage... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080254809 - Secure user plane location session initiation improvement: Systems and methods of sending a secure user plane location (SUPL) session initiation message from a location platform to a SUPL-enabled terminal are provided. When a network-based application has an internet protocol (IP) connection with the SUPL-enabled terminal using general packet radio service (GPRS) and needs location information regarding the... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080254812 - Method and apparatus of tracking area allocation: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate camping load balancing utilizing a frequency attribute. In a tracking area update procedure, each tracking area confirmed to user equipment can include an attribute of preferred, non-preferred, or forbidden. Based on such attribute, the user equipment can camp or idle on a particular... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080254810 - Methods and apparatus for location determination in a wireless communication device: Methods, systems, devices and computer program products are presented for identifying a location determination mode based on execution of a mode-selection routine in response to a received location determination request. In certain aspects, identifying a location determination mode may involve sequencing through a plurality of modes until a successful location... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080254811 - System and method for monitoring locations of mobile devices: A method of identifying mobile computing devices includes sending a request from a first mobile computing device to a second mobile computing device for the location of the second mobile computing device, and receiving the location of the second mobile computing device at the first mobile computing device. The method... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080254813 - Control device, mobile communication system, and communication terminal: A control device comprises a first memory, a second memory, and a processor. The first memory is configured to store captured image data and alternative image data. The second memory is configured to store positional data in association with a communication terminal. The processor is configured to: retrieve from the... Agent: Michaud-duffy Group LLP

20080254814 - Method for effective fast re-paging in a wireless communication network: A method for paging a mobile station where the mobile station (208-212) may be in a dormant state is described. The method begins by sending a first paging message (302) in a first zone (214) of a given area to a selected mobile station wherein the first paging message is... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080254817 - Charging of numbers triggered premium sms: A method and arrangement for enabling a mobile terminal user currently roaming in a visited mobile network, to execute a purchase by means of an SMS payment mechanism. An SMS message containing a purchase request is received from the mobile terminal. After detecting that the SMS message is addressed to... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080254816 - Method for supporting combinatorial cs call and ims session: The method for supporting combinatorial CS call and IMS session that includes initiating an IMS domain session or sending a IMS relevant signaling to a called subscriber by a UE A, indicating a unique identification of the called terminal and checking whether his/her own identification matches with the unique one... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080254815 - Session management system and method for use with stateless messaging services: The present system uses dynamic assignment of key codes to select options of response content in request messages prior to transmission from an application server to a communication device. Dynamic assignment of key codes to selection options can occur according to a list of key codes having a predefined order... Agent: Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP/seattle

20080254818 - Method, communication system and communication unit for protecting incumbent wireless services: The invention relates to a Method, a Communication System and an Communication Unit for protecting incumbent services whereas in the incumbent services first information is exchanged between first communication means by radio frequency transmission within a first bandwidth using a first protocol and second information is exchanged between second communication... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20080254819 - Mobile station, fixed station, communication system and communication method: In view of this, a communication method according to the present invention includes a transmission process for multiplexing a transport channel for transmitting data from a high-order layer on a physical data channel and transmitting the multiplexed result to the fixed station, a status notification process for notifying status information... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080254820 - Power control in wireless communications networks during hand-over: A method and devices are provided for adapting the transmission power level of a mobile terminal during a handover phase at which the mobile terminal switches from one base station to another. The method provided comprises applying values of operating parameters that characterize both base stations and adapting the transmission... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20080254821 - Electronic apparatus: An electronic apparatus includes key operation means, control means, detection means, storage means and memory means. The detection means detects motion of the electronic apparatus. The storage means stores motion identification data obtained from detection data on a motion after a predetermined key operation in the key operation means after... Agent: Muirhead And Saturnelli, LLC

20080254822 - Method and system for correlating user/device activity with spatial orientation sensors: A system and method for determining an operating mode for a mobile unit (“MU”), comprising defining a plurality of spatial regions, tracking at least one activity of the MU when the MU is oriented within the one of the plurality of spatial regions, determining an orientation of the mobile unit,... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20080254827 - Automatic access of a networked resource with a portable wireless device: A camera-enabled cell phone that is adapted to image a machine readable code such as a bar code, decode the bar code, send the bar code data over the Internet to a resolution server that will return an associated URL that will link the camera phone to content on an... Agent: Anthony R. Barkume

20080254826 - Caption data transmission and reception method in digital broadcasting and mobile terminal using the same: The present invention relates to a caption data transmission and reception method in digital broadcasting and to a mobile terminal performing the caption data transmission and reception method. The mobile terminal capable of digital broadcast reception can provide a caption service using Binary Format for Scenes (BIFS) data contained in... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20080254829 - Control apparatus, mobile communications system, and communications terminal: There is provided a control apparatus comprising: a receiving unit that, from one of a first communications terminal and a second communications terminal, each of the communications terminals being capable of sending and receiving images and messages and of displaying messages and images, receives a notification indicating detection of an... Agent: Michaud-duffy Group LLP

20080254828 - Control device, mobile communication system, and communication terminal: A control device includes a display control unit that causes one of first and second communication terminals, to display one of a camera image and a substitute image substitutable for the camera image. The camera image or the substitute image being transmitted from the other communication terminals. A transmission unit... Agent: Michaud-duffy Group LLP

20080254824 - Mobile communication device with musical instrument functions: Describes a mobile communication device (1, 20, 55, 111, 150, 200, 220, 335) having musical instrument (percussion, keyboards, string and blow) function, which “can be scrapped onto the user's body through an adjustable elastic belt (151). It is also able to receive commands from a remote sensor (4, 70, 75,... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080254830 - Print medium having webpage linked linear and two-dimensional coded data: A print medium is provided which has a surface provided with first coded data in a linear pattern encoding first information and second coded data in a two-dimensional coordinate grid encoding second information. The first and second information are indicative of a print media identifier linked to a web page.... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080254823 - Tv antenna for a mobile terminal device: A mobile telephone has an integrated TV receiver and a TV antenna connected thereto. The mobile telephone has an E-field antenna for receiving radio signals and an H-field antenna for receiving TV signals. The TV antenna is connected to a low noise amplifier which in turn is connected to a... Agent: Bachman & Lapointe, P.C.

20080254825 - Wearable ultra-thin miniaturized mobile communications: A cellular telephone is provided with a wearable housing, desirably in a form which can be concealed in the user's clothing, wallet, or other place. The housing may be devoid of switches or buttons for controlling the cellular telephone, and control inputs can be provided through free space communications such... Agent: Tessera Lerner David Et Al.

20080254832 - Method for playing a routed request on a player device: A method is provided for playing a routed 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 submitted to the first application. The method involves sending, from... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080254831 - Reception device, antenna, and junction cable: A reception device including a transmission part having transmission cables transmitting a signal and/or power of a main-body device, an antenna part provided along the transmission cables from main-body-device-side ends of the transmission cables to a point between the main-body-device-side ends and the other ends of the transmission cables so... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080254834 - Apparatus and method of securing private content stored in a memory: Apparatus and a method of securing private content stored in a memory are presented. A terminal includes a memory to store private content. The terminal also includes a security function to compare a private content identifier with a smart card identifier that includes MSISDN information associated with the smart card,... Agent: Toler Law Group

20080254833 - Private access point containing a sim card: An access point, or base station, for a mobile communications network, such as a cellular communications network, can be installed by a user, for use within or close to their own home or office. The base station has a SIM card, and can establish secure communications with the core network... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20080254835 - System and method for a portable communication device to ...: A system and a method for a portable communication device to receive and transmit information (e.g., place and receive telephone calls, transmit and receive E-mail messages, SMS messages, Internet communications, etc.) through an unlicensed mobile access network, when such network is available. When the unlicensed mobile access network is unavailable,... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080254837 - Adjustment of screen text size: A motion sensor monitors the motion of a mobile phone. If it is determined that the mobile phone is shaking, the text on the display of the mobile phone may be increased. If it is determined that the mobile phone is not shaking, the text on the display of the... Agent: Harrity Snyder, L.L.P.

20080254839 - Apparatus and method for controlling a touchscreen in a wireless terminal: An apparatus and method for controlling a touchscreen in a wireless terminal are provided. The apparatus includes a display unit which is activated when the wireless terminal is in a first operation state, a touchscreen unit which is activated and displays an icon for performing a corresponding function at a... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20080254840 - Control device, mobile communication system, and communication terminal: A control device includes: a word storage unit that stores a plurality of words; an obtaining unit that obtains messages which are transmitted/received together with images between first and second communication terminals; a determination unit that determines whether any of the plurality of words stored in the storage unit is... Agent: Michaud-duffy Group LLP

20080254838 - Electronic devices with sensible orientation structures, and associated methods: Electronic devices with sensible orientation structures are disclosed. The electronic devices can include a faceplate having a faceplate surface and a display at or near the faceplate surface for providing content to a user. The electronic devices can also include an input device proximate to the display for accepting input... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20080254836 - Mobile wireless communications device including a ground patch providing specific absorption rate (sar) reduction and related methods: A mobile wireless communications device may include a portable housing, a dielectric substrate carried by the portable housing having a front side facing toward a user and a back side opposite the front side, and a ground plane carried by the dielectric substrate. The device may further include at least... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20080254841 - Communication terminal and computer-readable storage medium: A controller of the communication terminal identifies, after power is turned on, whether or not to use a cellular phone communicating unit or a wireless LAN communicating unit based on communication system information stored beforehand in a storing unit. When the identification is complete, the controller initializes the cellular phone... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20080254842 - Transceiver with power-saving function and the method thereof: The present invention provides a transceiver with power-saving function and the method thereof, in which when the network is on link-down status, the transmitter will enter the power-saving mode, and with an auxiliary circuit to provide a comfortable common-mode voltage and to present comfortable impedance matching to save the power... Agent: Apex Juris, PLLC

20080254843 - Electronic device having different use positions: Disclosed herein is a portable electronic device. The portable electronic device includes a housing and electronic circuitry. The housing includes a plurality of housing sections and the electronic circuitry is mounted in the housing. The plurality of housing sections are adapted to be re-oriented relative to each other into at... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080254844 - Link assembly with springs which can be extended and contracted and slider assembly for sliding type mobile phone having the link assembly: Disclosed is a link assembly which includes a spring, a first link plate and a second link plate. The spring is formed with catching portions with a reduced outer diameter at both ends thereof. The first link plate includes one widthwise extending side that is formed with a spring fixing... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080254845 - Antenna module and apparatus utilizing the same: An antenna module and a signal-processing module using the antenna module to process a plurality of wireless signals are proposed. The signal-processing module includes the antenna module, a first processing circuit and a second processing circuit. The antenna module includes at least a first antenna, at least a second antenna... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080248740 - Method and system for sharing content items and their metadata among mobile device users and purchasing content items from an online store: The present invention relates to a method and system for short-range sharing data among mobile device users and for purchasing one or more content items represented by or relating to the shared data, comprising: (a) providing a plurality of mobile devices, each having one or more short-range communication capabilities, for... Agent: Kevin D. Mccarthy Roach Brown Mccarthy & Gruber, P.C.

20080248741 - Time difference of arrival based estimation of direction of travel in a wlan positioning system: Methods of estimating the bearing of a WLAN-enabled device are provided. A method of estimating a bearing of a WLAN-enabled device includes estimating a speed and geographic location of the device and receiving signals transmitted by an access point, including a first message and a second message. The method further... Agent: Wilmerhale/boston

20080248742 - Extensible infotainment/telematics system having updatable user interface: An infotainment/telematics system includes a fixed base unit adapted to execute a set of stand-alone infotainment and/or telematics functions and a portable communication device adapted to execute a stand-alone infotainment and/or telematics function. The fixed base unit includes a user interface that is updated when the fixed base unit and... Agent: Harman - Brinks Hofer Chicago Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080248743 - Location based services quality assessment: An automatic radio station tuning control system senses when a mobile radio receiver is leaving the coverage area of the transmitter that is transmitting program content, and entering the coverage area of another transmitter that is transmitting the same program content. The program content can be from a radio station,... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080248744 - System and method for detection of mobile operating through a repeater: A system and method for a network analysis system operating in a wireless communication system with repeaters is disclosed. Embodiments of the system and method enable the network analysis system to determine if signals being received by the network receivers arrive directly from a target mobile appliance or if the... Agent: Duane Morris LLP

20080248745 - System and method for identifying the path or devices on the path of a communication signal using (1+r(t)) amplitude modulation: A system and method of applying a known modification to a signal to enable a determination of a signal received by a first node is received directly from a second node or indirectly through a repeater. The repeater receives a primary signal and creates a secondary signal as a function... Agent: Duane Morris LLP

20080248747 - Apparatus, and associated method, for facilitating reconnection of a wireless device to a network: Apparatus, and associated methodology, for an I-WLAN or other wireless device. Information associated with network entities, such as an SSID or an associated PLMN, with which the wireless device communicates is buffered. In the event of subsequent loss of communication connectivity, the buffered information is retrieved and used pursuant to... Agent: Research In Motion Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20080248746 - Diversity system for transmitting a signal with sub-carriers: In diversity systems (3) for transmitting signals (4) comprising sub-carriers from first units (1) to second units (2,2a), receivers (22,22a) coupled to antennas (25,26) located at different positions for receiving the signals (4) are provided with transforming modules (38,38a) for converting received antenna signals into sub-carrier-vectors per sub carrier and... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080248750 - Componentization of mobile devices: A mobile device with full functionality is comprised of two or more hardware components. Each hardware component provides a subset of mobile device functionality. Full functionality includes transceiver communications, processing, non-volatile memory, power, input and output. A communications interface, whether wired or wireless means, is used to link the two... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080248749 - Signaling over cellular networks to reduce the wi-fi energy consumption of mobile devices: Techniques for increasing the battery life on a mobile device by decreasing the energy consumption of the mobile device's wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi) interface are described. In one embodiment, the mobile device's Wi-Fi interface is automatically disabled when the device is not engaged. When the device receives a wake up call... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080248751 - Systems and methods for managing out-of-band device connection: Systems and methods for managing connection of devices to a wireless network using out-of-band communications.... Agent: O'keefe, Egan, Peterman & Enders LLP

20080248748 - Systems and methods for pairing bluetooth devices: Embodiments of software-supervised pairing processes are provided. The processes enable a user to pair a mouse and keyboard with a Bluetooth transceiver without having to use a second mouse and keyboard. At least two separate processes are provided, including a long transition for initial pairing or re-pairing and a short... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20080248752 - Radio transmission system, transmitter and radio transmission method: A radio transmission system includes a transmitter and a receiver. The transmitter includes: first and second antennas; a transmission circuit converting an signal into a radio signal corresponding to a transmission channel, and transmitting the radio signal via a transmission antenna; a receiving circuit measuring an electric field strength, for... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080248753 - Method and apparatus for retransmitting data based on antenna scheduling in mimo system: Provided is a method for retransmitting data based on antenna scheduling in a MIMO system to which a spatial multiplexing technique is applied. The method includes the steps of: (a) at a transmitter side, modulating an input packet into transmittable data to transmit to a receiver side; (b) at the... Agent: Steptoe & Johnson LLP

20080248754 - Communication control system, information center, motor vehicle, communication control program, and system establishing the communication control system: A system controlling an operation of an information processing device mounted on a mobile apparatus such as a motor vehicle to cause it to efficiently receive data, while ensuring economy of the resources of the mobile apparatus, is provided. According to the device control system (10), even when the motor... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20080248755 - Wireless audio transfer system, wireless microphone, audio transmitting apparatus, audio receiving apparatus, image pickup apparatus, recording apparatus, and audio mixer: Disclosed is a wireless audio transfer system that includes an audio transmitting apparatus including a microphone and a modulating/transmitting unit for transmitting radio waves modulated using an audio signal from the microphone, an audio receiving apparatus including a receiving/demodulating unit for receiving the radio waves and demodulating the audio signal,... Agent: William S. Frommer, Esq. C/o Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20080248756 - Method of measuring traffic volume in mobile communication system: A method for measuring the traffic volume of a transport channel in a mobile communication system is disclosed, including receiving a buffer occupancy for each of a set of logical channels mapped to a transport channel, measuring a traffic volume of the transport channel based on the received buffer occupancies,... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080248757 - Receiver having a gain-controllable stage: A gain-controllable stage (CLN, A1, A2 . . . , A7, ACC) comprises a reactive signal divider (CLN) followed by an amplifier arrangement (A1, A2 . . . , A7, ACC). The reactive signal divider (CLN) may be in the form of, for example, a capacitive ladder network. The gain-controllable... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20080248758 - Data transmission and retransmission: A method transmits data. The method includes transmitting a series of data unit, receiving a retransmission request indicating a plurality of corrupt data units in the transmitted data units which were not received correctly, and retransmitting the corrupted data units.... Agent: Dicke, Billig & Czaja

20080248759 - Apparatus for coupling a wireless communication device to a physical device: A wireless communication device may be configured to transmit and receive data through a physical device, such as a cable. Relatively higher transmit radio frequency (RF) signals from the wireless communication device may be shifted to a relatively lower frequency, thereby enabling the relatively lower frequency signals to be carried... Agent: Bever Hoffman & Harms, LLP

20080248760 - Method of controlling at least one terminal from a base station: One or more identifiers are set for each terminal and a priority ranking is allocated to each identifier to determine priority of one scheduling command relative to any other scheduling command. A data block is transmitted from the base station to the, or each, terminal, including the scheduling command and... Agent: Staas & Halsey

20080248762 - Method for managing one or more media types supported in a poc session, and a poc system and a poc user equipment for implementing the same: A PoC system, method, user equipment and server used for managing one or more media types supported in a PoC session opened between a PoC server and one or more PoC clients is provided. When at least one PoC client is engaged in a Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) Push-to-talk (PPT)... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20080248763 - Method for managing pre-established session, poc system and poc user equipment for implementing the same: Disclosed is a method for enabling a terminating-side PoC client to open a PoC session by using a pre-established session, and to maintain the pre-established session when the terminating-side PoC client terminates the open PoC session, and a PoC system and a PoC user equipment (UE) for implementing the same.... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20080248761 - Mobile communication terminal for ptt and method for processing missed call information thereof: The present invention relates to a mobile communication terminal for Push To Talk (PTT) and a method for processing missed call information thereof, which allows a receiver to check why an originator requested the PTT telephone call during the absence of the receiver through missed call information. The missed call... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20080248764 - Electronic apparatus and method to control electronic apparatus: An electronic apparatus and a control method of the electronic apparatus are provided. A user may perform data communication between the electronic apparatus and an external apparatus connected to the electronic apparatus by moving the external apparatus to move a connector or a dial switch of the electronic apparatus to... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080248765 - Superheterodyne receiver with switchable local oscillator frequency and reconfigurable if filter characteristics: An integrated circuit RF receiver processes multiple RF frequencies without internally changing the local oscillator to receive the multiple signals. No front-end tuner is used. In one embodiment, multiple crystals are connected to pins of the IC. A switch within the IC, controlled by a switch signal, selects one of... Agent: Patent Law Group LLP

20080248766 - Reuse of digital-to-analog converters in a multi-mode transmitter: A transmitter for generating modulated signals is shown, wherein in a first-type operating mode, a first digital signal is input into a digital-to-analog converter to obtain a first analog signal that is input into a first-type unit, in which a first-type modulated signal is generated in dependence on at least... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20080248767 - System and method for detecting radio frequency signals over a range of powers: The present invention is directed to a power detection circuit for use in a wireless transmitting device. The circuit makes use of multiple gain paths so that two or more scaling factors are provided. Each scaling factor allows the detector circuit to provide more ADC levels per dB and thus... Agent: Stolowitz Ford Cowger LLP

20080248768 - Radio communication method and radio communication device: A first receiving unit typically receives a control frame in a narrowband channel. A communication data selection unit controls power saving of a second receiving unit performing reception in a UWB channel, based on the control frame. A communication data generation unit generates communication time reservation response information by adding... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20080248769 - Signal processing apparatus and signal processing method, program, and recording medium: An IC chip allows first communication for performing communication with all of the other IC chips, and second communication for performing communication while restricting communication parties. That is to say, the IC chip performs sending/receiving signals with a new communication arrangement with both the first communication which is a broadcasting... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080248770 - Broadband reception system: A reception system is proposed which is intended for receiving radio broadcasting in the AM and FM bands having an antenna coupled to an analog part on the input side, for receiving a complete reception band. The system also has a frequency selection module and a digital part that is... Agent: Collard & Roe, P.C.

20080248771 - Calibration techniques for frequency synthesizers: In one embodiment, this disclosure describes a frequency synthesizer for use in a wireless communication device, or similar device that requires precision frequency synthesis but small amounts of noise. In particular, the frequency synthesizer may include a phase locked loop (PLL) and an integrated voltage controlled oscillator (VCO). The frequency... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080248772 - Integrated aviation rf receiver front end and antenna method and apparatus: An aviation radio frequency receiver front end (502) and a corresponding antenna (501) are coupled together. The antenna is configured and arranged to be disposed during use in a fixed position proximal to an exterior surface of the aircraft fuselage. By one approach the antenna and the aviation radio frequency... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin And Flannery

20080248773 - Apparatus and method for interference cancellation in multiple-antenna communication system: An apparatus and method for interference cancellation in multiple-antenna communication system is disclosed. Accordingly, a receiver of a multiple-antenna communication system cancels interference by selecting either a multiple-symbol processing scheme or a single-symbol processing scheme depending on a signal type, thereby improving performance of the communication system.... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080248774 - Apparatus and method of removing interference noise in personal communication terminal: Apparatus and method for removing interference noise in a personal communication terminal. A function of removing interference noise is adapted to the personal communication terminal, and adjustment parameters for removing interference noises are continuously set to up-to-date adjustment parameters, so that, in the activation of broadcast receiving, a turn-on stabilizing... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080248775 - Dynamic current steering mixer: A dynamic current steering mixer. The dynamic current steering mixer comprises a Gilbert cell mixer core, a pair of load devices, a dynamic current steering cell, and a transconductor cell. The Gilbert cell mixer core has first and second nodes, receives a first differential input signal, and provides a differential... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080248776 - High-frequency circuit: A mixer circuit receives a local signal and an input signal so as to output a high-frequency signal generated based on the received signals. An output buffer receives the high-frequency signal. A band-pass filter having predetermined characteristics is formed by using the parameters of passive elements included in an output... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080248777 - Apparatus and method for communicating in a high noise, multiple-recipient environment: An apparatus and method for communicating in a high noise, multiple-recipient environment, such as a convoy or other collection of vehicles or personnel operating in adverse conditions. A plurality of user terminals is provided. For example, each vehicle in a military convoy may be provided with a user terminal. The... Agent: The Law Office Of John T. Whelan, L.L.C.

20080248778 - Method and system for triggering a local emergency system using wireless means: A method and system for triggering a local emergency system using wireless means. Existing local emergency systems are exploited through an ordinary mobile user device implementing the present invention. Disadvantages of current local emergency system are overcome by facilitating a user to remotely report emergency service request with more accurate... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080248779 - Media content and mobile devices: Methodologies and related devices and systems are provided that facilitate provision, usage, publication, and/or rating of media content by providers and/or users media content. According to one aspect, content preloaded on a mobile device can be activated based on user fulfillment of an access requirement. According to another aspect, a... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080248780 - Systems and methods for currency querying: A system and method is disclosed that includes a currency conversion mechanism for a mobile device prior to authenticating with and accessing a network in a foreign jurisdiction such that the mobile does not require knowledge of exchange rate between the currencies used in visited and home jurisdictions.... Agent: Watchstone P+d, PLC

20080248781 - Interactive information method and system: Methods of providing information using an interactive information device (2) are provided. A first method comprises displaying on a display (3) of an interactive information device (2) information selected from information for display stored in a memory of or accessible to the interactive information device (2), establishing a communications connection... Agent: Hayes, Soloway P.C.

20080248782 - Providing devices with command functionality in content streams: Mechanisms are provided for delivering command functionality such as out-of-band data to a mobile device in a media stream. A media stream may be divided into multiple portions. One or more portions are modified to include command functionality. The command functionality associated with the media stream is extracted at a... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20080248783 - Method and apparatus to facilitate selecting an audible alert that will contrast with local audible ambient content: A portable communications device (300) (upon determining (101) a need to alert a user of the device to a given event, such as, but not limited to, an incoming call) uses (103) information regarding local audible ambient content to select an audible alert having at least some sonic content (such... Agent: Motorola/fetf

20080248784 - Methods and system for dynamically and anonymously linking wireless communications unit users: A system and method for wireless communications unit users within proximity to make social connections. Users can dynamically discover potential matches in the proximity and interactively find out mutual intentions to socially connect in an anonymous and discreet manner.... Agent: Ipr Works, LLC

20080248785 - System and method for matching users in a wireless communication system: A system for matching users in a wireless communication system based on proximity of the users and user-defined profiles includes at least two mobile units. The mobile units include a requesting unit and at least one target unit, and each mobile unit is capable of operating as both a requesting... Agent: Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff LLP Attn:IPDepartment Docket Clerk

20080248786 - Broadcast program recording method, communication control device, and mobile communication device: Disclosed are an example broadcast recording method, information terminal, communication device and broadcast recording system for resolving the problem of missing programs when radio wave difficulties occurs or an electronic communication is made during viewing or listening to a program. When an incoming or outgoing call is made in an... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080248787 - Method for connecting to network server, terminal using the same, and method for storing information using broadcast: A broadcasting mobile terminal communication method and the broadcasting mobile terminal are disclosed. The method includes displaying a list of broadcast files stored on the terminal, in which at least one of the broadcast files is associated with broadcast related data stored on the terminal, and the broadcasting related data... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080248789 - Mobile middleware supporting context monitoring and context monitoring method using the same: Disclosed herein is mobile middleware, a context monitoring method, a context-aware system, and a context-aware service provision method, which support energy-efficient context monitoring. The mobile middleware receives a request for a CMQ from context-aware application programs, receives sensor data from sensors, monitors whether the CMQ is satisfied, and transmits an... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20080248788 - Systems and methods for multi-modal mobile media services: In embodiments of the present invention, systems and methods for a method for multi-modal mobile media services may comprise delivering a message comprising content to a user handset, associating an offer for related content with the message, associating at least one request for response with the offer, wherein the request... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080248790 - System and method for providing caller name or caller information to a callee via call signaling: A system for transferring alphanumeric information to a mobile device, embedded with the call signaling, where the mobile device is able to extract the information from the incoming call and display it on the device, the information containing at least one of: {caller's name, caller's brand name, caller's information, caller's... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan Prtsi, Inc.

20080248791 - User equipment, radio network controller, and method for controlling user equipment: The present invention relates to user equipment that includes a transmitting/receiving unit that transmits/receives information to/from a base transceiver station of a cell where the user equipment is located. Also included is a control unit that controls a specific operation while the user equipment is located in the cell by... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080248793 - Apparatus and method for data retransmission in multihop relay wireless communication system: An apparatus and a method for sending a control message for retransmission in a multihop relay wireless communication system are provided. Data received from a lower node is checked for errors. The data is transmitted to an upper node, when the data has no errors. When two or more messages,... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080248792 - Systems and methods for implementing lazy-lock control in real-time communication services: Lazy-lock control methods for use with a real-time communication network are presented, the real-time communication network incorporating a right-to-send procedure, the methods including: a) sending a first floor control request message to the real-time communication network by a first requesting user equipment (UE), the real-time communication network configured for connecting... Agent: Kali Law Group, P. C

20080248795 - Call results failure classifications: A method of classifying a call failure. In one embodiment, an indication of a call failure is received and the cause of the failed call is automatically identified and classified. In one embodiment, identifying the cause of a call failure comprises determining signal characteristics, determining network resource availability, and determining... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20080248794 - Configuration and management of wireless network devices: An approach is provided wherein a lack of wireless connectivity between a wireless network device and a wireless network is detected, and the wireless network device connects to an administrator device over a separate wireless network. Network configuration data is transmitted from the administrator device to the wireless network device... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20080248796 - Wireless communication system having adaptive threshold for timing deviation measurement and method: Apparatus and method of wireless communication that determines received signal timing deviation which is used to generate a timing advance for adjusting wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU) transmissions. An adaptive threshold for measuring the timing deviation is set based on the energy level of received WTRU signals. WTRU signal samples... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080248797 - Method and system for operating a multi-function portable electronic device using voice-activation: Methods and systems in which a portable electronic device can be voice activated are disclosed. The portable electronic device can be a multi-function electronic device. The voice activation can be robust and context sensitive. The voice activation can also be utilized without any preparatory user action with respect to the... Agent: Technology & Innovation Law Group, PC

20080248798 - Wireless signal receiver with antenna pointing search control: A wireless signal receiver with antenna pointing search control includes a base, a rotatable antenna assembly, a rotary supporting mechanism, and a driving motor. The driving motor is controlled via an antenna pointing operation unit and a control circuit to drive the rotatable antenna assembly supported on and connected to... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080248799 - Communication apparatus and method for dual-mode mobile terminal: A communication apparatus and method for a dual-mode mobile terminal provides supporting communications through a wireless local area network and a cellular network, simultaneously. The communication apparatus includes a first communication unit for supporting a wireless local area network communication; a second communication unit for supporting a cellular communication; and... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20080248800 - Managing handoffs between overlaid networks: A method and apparatus of managing a subscriber handoff between types of wireless networks is disclosed. The method includes the subscriber maintaining a wireless connection with a first wireless network. The subscriber simultaneously monitors availability of a second wireless network during open time slots of frames of transmission scheduling of... Agent: Beceem Communications, Inc.

20080248801 - Access to locally relevant services and personally relevant services within a mobile communications environment: Accesses to locally-relevant and contextually-relevant services information within a mobile communications environment are enabled. The solutions include an improved location determination in which a first mobile communications device processes location information broadcast by other devices via short-range wireless signals to determine its approximate location. The described solutions include a context-based... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080248802 - Antenna pattern selection within a wireless network: A method of a multiple antenna node within a wireless network selecting an antenna pattern is disclosed. The method includes identifying a plurality of transmission paths through the node. One of a plurality of antenna patterns formed by the multiple antenna node is selected, providing a desired level of link... Agent: Tzero Patent Dept

20080248803 - Apparatus and method for allocating frequency resource in a communication system: A method and apparatus for allocating resources for a mobile station in a communication system is provided. The method includes determining if a mobile station within a cell is located in one of a first region corresponding to a cell center, a third region corresponding to a cell edge, and... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20080248805 - Method and apparatus for subcell selection for assigning subcarrier in das ofdma scheme: Disclosed is a method and an apparatus for assigning a subcarrier to a subcell serviced by a Distributed Antenna System (DAS) employing an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing Access (OFDMA) scheme in a broadband wireless access system. The method includes dividing an overall frequency band into multiple subcarrier bands, assigning the... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20080248804 - Radio bearer mangement in a cellular communication system: A cellular communication system comprises a network based radio bearer controller (123) which is arranged to control and manage the setup and operation of radio bearers. The radio bearer controller comprises a RAB processor (201) which is arranged to set up a plurality of user plane radio bearers for a... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080248806 - Cellular radiotelephone signal permitting synchronization of a supplementary channel by means of a principal channel and corresponding method, terminal and base station: The disclosure relates to a cellular radiotelephone signal of the type comprising, a principal bidirectional symmetrical channel, comprising a principal uplink path and a principal downlink path, particularly to guarantee transmission of data at low or medium rate and of the signalling information and commands, at least one auxiliary channel... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20080248807 - Method and apparatus for controlling a call in a communication system: A method for controlling a call, by a base station, in a communication system is provided. The method includes receiving a call admission request for call connection from a mobile station; determining whether to admit the call admission request taking into account a backhaul section capacity available in a backhaul... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080248808 - Estimation of position, speed and bearing using time difference of arrival and received signal strength in a wlan positioning system: A method of estimating the speed of a WLAN-enabled device in a WLAN positioning system is provided. A method of estimating a speed of travel of a WLAN-enabled device includes the WLAN-enabled device receiving signals transmitted by a WLAN access point in range of the WLAN-enabled device. The signals include... Agent: Wilmerhale/boston

20080248810 - Gps publication application server: A GPS publicaton application server. A mobile location knowledgeable device is in communication with a server. The server provides indications of the device's location to a home page associated with the device. The home page includes information about a user of the device and methods of contacting the user at... Agent: Christie Parker & Hale, LLP

20080248809 - Location aware activity profiling: The present invention relates to context or location aware computing, and in particular though not exclusively to providing an activity based view of a location. The invention provides a method for providing activity based information for a location (100), and comprises determining the location (410); automatically determining data about a... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080248811 - Tdoa/gps hybrid wireless location system: A method and system for enhancing the accuracy and robustness of locations determined for a mobile wireless transceiver in a cellular telephone communications system integrating location-related information both from an assisted GPS device embedded in the mobile unit and from infrastructure-based facilities that extract signal characteristic data at networked base... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20080248812 - Global positioning system (gps) based secure access: Presented herein are systems and methods for global positioning system based secure access. A request for access to a computer network is received. A determination is made whether a mobile terminal is within a predetermined location. If the mobile terminal is within the predetermined location, access is granted. If the... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080248813 - System and methods for obtaining coarse location for a mobile device: Various embodiments are described for obtaining coarse location for a mobile device. In one embodiment, a mobile device may comprise one or more interfaces for detecting location reference nodes in view of the mobile device and a client module to send a location query to a location database. The location... Agent: Kacvinsky LLC C/o Intellevate

20080248814 - Location visit detail services for wireless devices: A location visit detail service, typically provided by a wireless carrier to a subscriber, includes a portable wireless device, a location identification means and a central processor. The central processor periodically receives location data generated by the location identification means. The central processor data transforms the location data into time... Agent: Merchant & Gould Bellsouth Corporation

20080248815 - Systems and methods to target predictive location based content and track conversions: Methods and systems that record the location of a user and transmit targeted content to a user based upon their current and past location information. A network is configured to include a server programmed with a database of targeted content, a database of location information, a database of user information,... Agent: James David Busch

20080248816 - Information terminal: It is an object of the present invention to suppress an increase of a processing load caused due to a cross fade process and implement the cross fade process simply. An information terminal of the present invention includes a contents reproducing portion 40 for reproducing contents data, a ringtone reproducing... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20080248817 - Method and system for communication of a dual-mode terminal: The invention discloses a communication method of a dual-mode terminal, including: a Mobile Switch Centre (MSC) sends a message containing calling party information to an access functional entity of a High Rate Packet Data (HRPD) network via an InterWorking Solution (IWS) after receiving an initiated paging to a dual-mode terminal... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080248820 - Location based messaging: Systems and methods are provided for messages, such as short messages and multi-media messages. In one implementation a message is received from a sender, a location of the sender is determined, the message is modified to include the location of the sender, and the modified message is transmitted to a... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080248818 - Method and apparatus providing multimode response options to an incoming voice or text message: A method and apparatus is provided for allowing a recipient to reply to an inbound message. The method begins by receiving a message from a sender using a first communication service. The message includes a first contact identifier for the sender. A plurality of user-selectable contact identifiers is presented to... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20080248821 - Method for sharing data using sms: Disclosed is a method for sharing data between mobile terminals and between a server and a mobile terminal using SMS. The server provides a search engine necessary to search for data requested by a mobile terminal and share the requested data. The server also has a group list of mobile... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080248819 - Systems and methods for mobile media services utilizing a short form command structure: In embodiments of the present invention, systems and methods for media services may comprise transmitting a message comprising content to a handset, soliciting a response message, wherein the solicitation indicates a short form command structure for the response, receiving a response from the handset comprising a short form command, and... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080248822 - Link adaptation in mobile telecommunication system: A method for managing transmission conditions in a mobile telecommunication system according to movement of a mobile terminal is provided. The mobile terminal is having a communication link with a base station. The movement of the mobile terminal is monitored, and then a database is checked for the most optimal... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080248824 - Scheduling method, base station and terminal: A radio communications system includes a base station that measures reception quality based on a pilot signal received from terminals in its service area and allocates radio resources to the terminals based on the reception quality. The base station generates scheduling information that specifies time for transmission of a pilot... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080248823 - Wireless communication control method, wireless communication system, and radio control station: A wireless communication control method includes the steps of transmitting data from a mobile station to a base station using a first resource assigned based on a first scheduling method, transmitting data from the mobile station to the base station using a second resource which is assigned based on a... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080248825 - Method of transmitting in an uplink direction from mobile stations having a plurality of antennas: A method of transmitting uplink signals in a wireless communication system is disclosed. In the system, there is at least one mobile station (MS) which possesses at least three antennas. In operation, at least one signal is generated using a matrix which represents a combination of transmission signals for each... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080248826 - Answer modes in push-to-talk mobile communication services: A method of operating a push-to-talk service over a mobile wireless communication network, where a user of a mobile wireless terminal may select an automatic or manual answer mode for incoming session invitations for at least some other users. The method comprises including in the push-to-talk session invitation sent from... Agent: Albihns Stockholm Ab

20080248827 - Method, system and terminal for processing poc service: A method for processing PoC service, comprising: PoC user terminal initiates a call to PoC media storage means to start the media storage means; then, establishing media stream path between the PoC server and PoC media storage means; and transferring media stream between the PoC server and the PoC media... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080248828 - Mobile terminal apparatus, printing system, printing communication control method, and computer program of the same: A mobile terminal apparatus (10) which can selectively conduct one of a printing operation and an operation corresponding to an event when the event is generated. In this mobile terminal apparatus (10), when the generation of an event of an incoming call, or the like is detected while conducting the... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20080248830 - Implementing a web server on a mobile station: A system and method are provided for implementing a web server on a mobile station. A first mobile station may include a database of information. A network address for the first mobile station may be transmitted to a second mobile station to enable the second mobile station to communicate with... Agent: Joseph M. Sauer Jones Day Reavis & Pogue

20080248829 - System and method for portable compatibility determination: A system and method for portable compatibility determination includes a service computer configured to handle compatibility requests from mobile users. The service computer includes a messaging system configured to receive a request from a sender, decipher identifying information from the request for the sender and a subject person, and reply... Agent: Keusey, Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.C.

20080248832 - Mobile communication terminal and method of controlling broadcast output thereof: A mobile communication terminal and method of controlling a broadcast output thereof are discussed, by which the broadcast output can be controlled by terminating the broadcast output in case that a call signal is received by the mobile communication terminal in the course of a broadcast viewing. An embodiment of... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080248833 - Mobile telephone with an internal inkjet printhead arrangement and an optical sensing arrangement: Provided is a mobile telephone which includes an internal printhead, an ink cartridge and an optical sensing arrangement. The internal inkjet printhead arrangement is fed with print media via internal and external pathways defined by a body of the telephone. The ink cartridge supplies ink to the printhead. The optical... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080248831 - Mobile terminal device: When a mobile terminal is brought close to an external R/W, a FeliCa chip in the mobile terminal detects an information signal via a communication section. A header identifying section identifies a header of the information signal received via the communication section, and when Felica content is included in the... Agent: Michaud-duffy Group LLP

20080248834 - System and methods for providing access to a desktop and applications of a mobile device: Various embodiments are described for providing a terminal with access to a desktop and applications of a mobile device. In one embodiment, a mobile device may comprise an interface to establish a connection to a terminal and one or more browser based applications to be run locally on the mobile... Agent: Kacvinsky LLC C/o Intellevate

20080248835 - Accessory communication method and system for mobile services: A mobile device includes a communications interface and a processor configured to determine whether an accessory device has been attached via the communications interface. The processor is further configured to configure a high bandwidth link to the accessory device via an initial low power link to the accessory device. The... Agent: Harrity Snyder, L.L.P.

20080248839 - Displaying messages on handheld devices: A method of displaying messages on handheld devices. The device displays messages in a scrollable viewport of vertically arranged fields. Date separators inserted into the vertically arranged list of messages to enable the user to associate the messages with a date. The date separators have “sticky” operation, meaning that the... Agent: Ridout & Maybee Suite 2400

20080248837 - Light sensor within display: A mobile communication device with a display may be configured to apply pulse width modulation (PWM) signals to light emitting diodes (LEDs) for providing backlighting for the display, monitor ambient light conditions during off periods of PWM signals applied to the LEDs and adjust the PWM signals based the monitored... Agent: Harrity Snyder, L.L.P.

20080248836 - Method and apparatus for controlling a skin texture surface on a device using hydraulic control: A portable device (100) includes a controllable skin texture surface that includes a skin texture surface actuation structure that includes a hydraulic actuation structure and a flexible skin structure (1100) that moves in response to movement of fluid to change a tactile configuration of at least a portion (322) of... Agent: Motorola Inc. C/o Vedder Price P.C.

20080248838 - Watch-like cell phone: A watch-like cell phone has a cell phone module, a strap module and one or more expandable modules connected between them for fitting the cell phone module to a user's wrists to serve as a watch model for displaying time or as a cell phone model for displaying information, receiving... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080248840 - Discontinuous reception method and apparatus of user equipment in a mobile communication system: A method and apparatus for DRX of a UE in a mobile communication system are provided, in which the UE receives setting information from a network, the setting information including a first DRX cycle length and a second DRX cycle length for a predetermined data service. Upon generation of uplink... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080248841 - Ventilation for a portable electronic device: A portable electronic device comprising a casing (5); a speaker (20) mounted adjacent an orifice (10) of the casing (5); an air permeable membrane (25) sealingly mounted to the cading (5) intermediate the orifice (10) and the speaker (20), so as to form a chamber (35) between the speaker (20)... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080248842 - Wireless earphone telephone and communication method thereof: The present invention relates to communication equipments, and particularly relates to a kind of wireless earphones telephone and converse method which has common telephone and network telephone function. The present invention comprising a earphone which include host part and a duplex communication earphone with wireless work, and the host part... Agent: GlobalIPServices

20080242220 - Method, system and mobile device for prioritizing a discovered device list: The described embodiments relate generally to methods, systems and computing devices, including at least a mobile device, for ordering a discovered device list according to a Received Signal Strength Indication (RSSI) of each device in the discovered device list. Thus, the discovered device list has at the top of the... Agent: Bereskin And Parr

20080242221 - Customized content delivery system and method: A method and system for providing customized content for a plurality of users is provided. In one embodiment, the method may comprise receiving user information from a plurality of users including location information of each user. For each of the plurality of users, the method may include constructing first compilation... Agent: Capital Legal Group, LLC

20080242223 - Information communication system and method: An information communication system for transmitting position data includes a short range wireless communication system for transmitting the position data between a cellular telephone and a digital still camera. There is a communication subsystem for communication, and for transmitting an enable signal between the cellular telephone and the digital still... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080242224 - Method and apparatus for delivery of high rate data as part of a multimedia broadcast/multicast service: A communication system (100) is provided that comprises a Radio Access Network (110) having a Radio Network Controller (RNC) (114) coupled to each of a cellular Node B (112) and a Digital Broadcasting Video-Handhelds (DVB-H) Node B (120). When the communication system delivers low rate Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service (MBMS) user... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080242222 - Unification of multimedia devices: Described herein are various methods and systems relating to the unification of media devices, and more specifically to the provision of wireless audio systems. In overview, two or more wireless speaker subsystem units substantially autonomously form a single wireless audio system having its own control interface. This control interface is... Agent: Tarolli, Sundheim, Covell & Tummino L.L.P.

20080242225 - Apparatus and methods for testing using modulation error ratio: Apparatus and methods are disclosed for testing or qualifying a repeater/transmitter in a multicarrier system by utilizing modulation error ratio (MER). In particular, a disclosed method includes determining an estimated effective modulation error ratio of an output of the repeater/transmitter. The estimated effective modulation error ratio is compared with a... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080242226 - Repeater for providing coverage within a wireless communications network and methods thereof: A repeater and methods thereof are provided. The example repeater first receives a donor signal (e.g., from a base station for repeating in a downlink direction, from a mobile station for repeating in an uplink direction, etc.) and a transmitted version of an internally generated pilot signal. The repeater configures... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080242227 - Movable apparatus and duplex module thereof: A movable apparatus and a duplex module thereof are provided. A duplex module comprises a bluetooth wireless module and a wireless network module. The bluetooth wireless module is matched with and activates an electronic product. The wireless network module retrieves an internet protocol address by internet connection, wherein the electronic... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080242228 - Radio communication apparatus, wireless headphone and radio communication system: According to one embodiment, a radio communication system has a radio communication apparatus and a wireless headphone for connecting a communication link with the radio communication apparatus to perform radio communication. The radio communication apparatus has a first radio communication device configured to connect a communication link with the wireless... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080242229 - Wireless earphone: An audio device includes a Bluetooth receiver, a Bluetooth transmitter, a speaker and a housing. The Bluetooth receiver is capable of wirelessly receiving signals in at least two audio channels. The Bluetooth transmitter is capable of wirelessly retransmitting at least a first one of the two audio channels. The speaker... Agent: Duane Morris LLPIPDepartment (agere)

20080242230 - Method and apparatus for increasing data throughput: A method, according to various aspects of the present invention, for improving a data throughput between the wireless cell and the client. A wireless cell performs the method. The method includes in any practical order (1) determining a primary direction of data flow between the wireless cell and the client,... Agent: Letham Law Firm, LLC

20080242231 - Updating presence based on detecting user activity: A controller in a wireless communication device automatically generates and sends presence updates when a detector in the device senses user motion or other parameters related to the user's current activity. The presence updates may indicate that the user is performing the sensed activity. When the detector no longer senses... Agent: Coats & Bennett/sony Ericsson

20080242232 - Digitized reverse link monitor: A method of monitoring a broadband digitized reverse link system comprising monitoring at least one radio frequency down-convert path in at least one remote unit in the digitized reverse link system using an internal tone generating system, digitally verifying the health of at least one digitized communication link communicatively coupled... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20080242233 - Radio transmitting method and apparatus, and radio receiving method and apparatus: A radio transmitting apparatus includes a storage unit configured to store a plurality of weight sequence sets, which are each assigned to a plurality of transmission blocks sectioned by time axes and frequency axes, by associating the plurality of weight sequence sets with the plurality of transmission blocks, a first... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080242235 - Circuit arrangement with improved decoupling: A circuit arrangement includes a component having a closed signal path, that closed signal path connected to a first port, a second port and at least a third port. The component has a directed signal flow of a signal applied to one of that ports. Such a coupling device can... Agent: Eschweiler & Associates LLC

20080242236 - Encoding and decoding systems with header and data transmission success indication: A transceiver includes a receiver that receives and demodulates a first encoded block of data. The first encoded block of data includes a first redundancy version that corresponds to a first payload portion and a first header portion. The first encoded block of data is received from a communication device... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce P.L.C

20080242234 - Minimizing the noise figure of broadband frequency agile radio receivers: A wireless device includes an impedance transforming network that couples an antenna to a Low Noise Amplifier (LNA) and includes at least one digitally controllable variable capacitor that may be adjusted to maximize an impedance transformation ratio on a desired channel. A tuned response centered on the desired channel provides... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080242237 - Antenna system for use within a wireless communication device: An antenna system includes an antenna, a transmission line, an inductor module, a tunable capacitor module, and control logic. The transmission line is coupled to the antenna and to the inductor module. The tunable capacitor module is coupled to the transmission line in accordance with a capacitance control signal to... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080242238 - Method and system for improving the spectral efficiency of a data communication link: An apparatus for communicating between a mobile device, and a plurality of transceivers. The apparatus includes a first transceiver which transmits to the mobile device on any one of a plurality of channels. The apparatus further includes a second transceiver which transmits to the mobile device on any one of... Agent: Dla Piper US LLP

20080242239 - Software-definable radio transceiver with mems filters: A transceiver apparatus comprising a software-definable-radio-transceiver architecture. The transceiver apparatus comprises at least one up-conversion path including at least one configurable micro-electro-mechanical-system (MEMS) transmit filter communicatively coupled to transmit output from a digital-to-analog converter to an antenna, and at least one down-conversion path including at least one configurable-MEMS-receive filter communicatively... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080242240 - Calibration of wireless communication device: A wireless communication device includes an integrated circuit (IC) and an antenna system. The IC includes a baseband processing module, a network processing module, a calibration processing module, a receiver section and a transmitter section. The network processing module establishes a wireless communication protocol and operational parameters based on the... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080242241 - Wireless communications systems, remote communications systems, external device circuits, wireless device communications modification methods, and wireless communications device communications methods: Some embodiments include wireless communications systems, remote communications systems, external device circuits, wireless device communications modification methods, and wireless communications device communications methods. In one embodiment, a wireless communications system includes a reader configured to output first wireless signals and to receive second wireless signals, a wireless communications device configured... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP (sv)IPDocketing

20080242242 - Highly reliable receiver front- end: A receiver front-end for use in a transceiver station of a wireless communication network. The transceiver station is associated with an antenna assembly having a primary and at least a secondary antenna. The receiver front-end is adapted for insertion between the antenna assembly and signal processing sections of the transceiver... Agent: Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner

20080242243 - Transmission directional antenna control system, base station, and transmission directional antenna control method used for system and base station: To provide a base station capable of selecting an optimum beam from among transmitted ones of multi-beams. In the arrangement, a beam power determining part (4) determines M received signal powers of multi-beams, and a beam output selecting part (5) selects, based on the information of the received powers from... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080242244 - System having a filter: A system having a filter is disclosed. One embodiment includes at least two polyphase filter branches, each of the polyphase filter branches including a respective recursive allpass filter, wherein the filter approximates a linear filter.... Agent: Dicke, Billig & Czaja

20080242245 - Rejection of transmit signal leakage in wireless communication device: This disclosure describes techniques for reducing adverse effects of transmit signal leakage in a full-duplex, wireless communication system. The disclosure describes techniques for reducing adverse effects of second order distortion and cross-modulation distortion of transmit signal leakage from a transmitter via a duplexer. The techniques may be effective in rejecting... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080242246 - Rf transmitter with compensation of differential path delay: A transmitter has a power amplifier (40) to amplify an input signal having amplitude modulation, a supply voltage controller (10) to control a supply voltage of the power amplifier (40) according to the envelope, a sensor (R1) for sensing a modulation of a current drawn by the power amplifier (40),... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20080242247 - Resolving potential conflicts in interoperability communications: A communication device and computerized method to address conflicts in Virtual Talk Groups is provided. The method may comprise accessing a database to monitor resources in a plurality of Virtual Talk Groups (VTG) to detect if there is at least a potential conflict of the resources. When the potential conflict... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080242248 - Fm receiver: An FM receiver which can be used by being switched between stereophonic and monophonic, and comprises detecting unit for detecting a received signal, two routes over which a detected signal is transmitted to an output buffer, and a switching unit for selecting either one of the two routes. The two... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20080242249 - Three stage algorithm for automatic gain control in a receiver system: In an embodiment, a receiver for processing a RF input signal having a variable signal strength includes an RF amplifier, an IF amplifier, and a controller. The RF amplifier is configured to receive and amplify the RF input signal. The IF amplifier is coupled to an output of the RF... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080242250 - Receiver for a multi-carrier signal: A receiver which is arranged to receive an RF multi-carrier signal (60) comprises an in-phase mixer (51) for frequency down converting the RF multi-carrier signal to an in-phase multi-carrier signal (I) and a quadrature mixer (52) for frequency down converting the RF multi-carrier signal (60) to a quadrature multi-carrier signal.... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20080242251 - Method and device for transmitting signals in a wireless communication system and method and device for receiving signals in a wireless communication system: r

20080242252 - Wideband resistive imput mixer with noise-cancelled impedance: A radio frequency (RF) mixing circuit including a quadrature mixer that receives non-overlapping in-phase and quadrature local oscillator (LO) signals, and a plurality of low noise amplifiers (LNAs) operatively connected to the quadrature mixer, the plurality of LNAs presenting an input impedance at a baseband. A first voltage at an... Agent: Gibb & Rahman, LLC

20080242253 - Frequency converter and radio receiver using the same: According to an embodiment of the invention, there is provided a frequency converter including: an input circuit converting a voltage signal to a current signal; a load circuit supplying a constant current to an input circuit; a first switch circuit configured to output a current signal from the first output... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080242254 - Rx dual-band mixer: A dual-band input transceiver block is formed to operably receive one of a 2.4 GHz radio frequency signal or a 5.0 GHz radio frequency transceiver signal in a manner that minimizes duplication of circuitry and creates a combined circuit path for RF front end input stages for much of the... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080242255 - Receiver, transceiver circuit, signal transmission method, and signal transmission system: A receiver has an offset application circuit for applying a known offset to an input signal, and a decision circuit for comparing the offset-applied input signal with a reference voltage. The level of the input signal is determined based on the known offset and on the result output from the... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20080242256 - Suppression of adjacent channel interference by adaptive channel filtering in mobile radio receivers: A channel filter (200) with a variable pass bandwidth has a first low-pass filter (200.2) on the input side and is driven by a means (30) for controlling the pass bandwidth as a function of the adjacent channel interference. A first input of the control means (30) is connected to... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080242257 - Field effect transistor amplifier with linearization: An amplifier comprises a source degeneration inductance and at least two field effect transistors coupled in parallel and having mutually different gate biasing. Source connections of the field effect transistors are coupled along different positions of the source degeneration inductance.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080242258 - Receiving system and methods for processing broadcasting signal: A receiving system comprises a first module configured to receive location information identifying current location of the receiver, a second module configured to receive a broadcasting signal including cell information which includes first information defining a location of each cell and second information defining a transport channel of each cell,... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080242259 - Radio for a motor vehicle: A radio for a motor vehicle includes a housing in which a radio module and a digital radio decoder are arranged. The radio module includes a radio-module low-frequency input and a radio-module low-frequency output for the emission of a low-frequency signal which is inputted via the radio-module low-frequency input. The... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080242261 - Emergency rescue system, emergency rescue method, mobile phone device for emergency rescue, and computer program product for emergency rescue: Disclosed is an emergency rescue system comprising a mobile terminal device and a control center. The mobile terminal device includes: a sender unit capable of sending an electrical mail; an abnormality sensor which detects an abnormality in an outer environment; a GPS receiver which generates GPS positional information; and a... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20080242260 - Wireless telecommunications location based services scheme selection: An intelligent system for choosing selection schemes to be tried in a predetermined order for determining the location of a wireless mobile client, including retrieving a last known position record from a cache, checking serving network capability, choosing an initial selection scheme according to parameters including at least the required... Agent: Manelli Denison & Selter PLLC

20080242262 - System and method for mid-call merging of multi-protocol call messages on the iub and iur interfaces in utran: System and method for combining call records for different protocols into a single combined call record during a call. An embodiment comprises correlating messages having multiple protocol formats, comprising correlating messages complying with a first protocol into a first call record using a first correlation key, correlating messages complying with... Agent: Matthew D. Rabdau Tektronix, Inc.

20080242263 - Information processing system capable of calculating communication fees corresponding to communication utilization forms: An information processing system of the present invention comprises a storage apparatus for storing subscription information including information on a first subscription course which is one type of service for calculating a communication fee in the particular utilization form corresponding to an identifier of the information terminal and a date... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20080242264 - Methods and system for terminal authentication using a terminal hardware indentifier: A system includes an access network and an authentication server. The access network: requests and receives a hardware ID for a terminal attempting access to a network that provides access to a service; constructs a user ID that includes the hardware ID; forwards the user ID for use in a... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080242268 - Methods, systems and computer program products for remotely controlling wireless terminals: Wireless terminals are remotely controlled by identifying a wireless terminal that is located at a premises and obtaining at least one operational authorization rule for the wireless terminal that was identified, and that applies to the premises at which the wireless terminal is located. Selected operations of the wireless terminal... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20080242266 - Mobile terminal: A mobile terminal includes a processor shifting a state between a first restricted state for restricting a key operation except for at least a code inputting operation, a second restricted state for restricting a key operation including at least said code inputting operation, and a unrestricted state for making a... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080242267 - Remote activation of a user account in a telecommunication network: The invention relates to a personal token (20) storing a temporary account (32) identifier and a permanent account (34) identifier, said token storing and running a set of instructions for disabling said temporary account identifier and activating said permanent account identifier, characterized in that the set of instructions comprises instructions... Agent: The Jansson Firm

20080242265 - System and method for providing dynamic presence information as collected by a mobile device: A system and method for detecting proximity of at least one outside party to a multi-party communication includes steps of: receiving presence information of the at least one outside party, wherein the presence information comprises sensor data received from at least one sensor indicating that the outside party is in... Agent: Michael Buchenhorner, P.A.

20080242269 - Apparatus and method for e-mail polling in portable terminal: Provided is an apparatus and method for e-mail polling in a portable terminal. In the e-mail polling method, a state of the portable terminal is detected after a predetermined time period of a first timer expires in an idle state after a periodical e-mail polling mode is set in the... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080242270 - Automated communication line switching for voicemail access: A telephone station apparatus that is arranged to operate on two, or more, communication lines, receives an instruction to access a voicemail server. The telephone station apparatus switches from a first communication line to a second communication line and initiates a call to the voicemail server. At the voicemail server,... Agent: Ridout & Maybee Suite 2400

20080242271 - Electronic device with location-based and presence-based user preferences and method of controlling same: A method of controlling preferences of a mobile telephone includes associating one or more user-settable preferences with a location or geographic area. The one or more preferences is applied to operation of the mobile telephone when the mobile telephone is at the location or geographic area. In one embodiment, the... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080242275 - Information providing system and information providing method: A disclosed information providing system includes a communication device; an information providing apparatus; and a mobile terminal device carried by a shopper and configured to communicate by wireless communication with the communication device and to communicate via a network with the information providing apparatus. The information providing apparatus is configured... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080242273 - Method and apparatus for providing interactive services to users using unicast and broadcast wireless networks: The invention includes a method and apparatus for providing interactive services using unicast wireless networks and broadcast wireless networks. A method includes receiving content interaction information indicative of interactions by a user with content presented at a wireless user terminal, obtaining at least one service parameter, and providing a service... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/ Lucent Technologies, Inc

20080242276 - Method for saving communication fee by wireless communication interface of mobile phones: A method for saving communication fee by a wireless communication interface of mobile communication devices includes forming a fee saving network by a plurality of mobile communication devices through the wireless communication interface, inputting a destination terminal number into a first mobile communication device of the plurality of mobile communication... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080242272 - System and method for search engine marketers to implement behavioral targeting: A system for providing profile information of a user to at least one subscriber includes a processor and a memory unit having a set of processor executable instructions. The processor executable instructions configuring the processor to: collect profile information from the user, the profile information being generated as the user... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Yahoo! Overture

20080242274 - Systems and methods for profile-based mobile commerce: The invention discloses systems and methods for integrating Mobile Commerce applications with dynamically generated user profiles. A profiling engine collects and stores information regarding a mobile subscriber's usage of Mobile Banking, Mobile Payment, and Mobile Brokerage, and stores the information in a profile. A Dynamic Event Server Subsystem comprising a... Agent: Moazzam & Associates, LLC Matters For Cingular Wireless Ii, LLC

20080242279 - Behavior-based mobile content placement on a mobile communication facility: In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for receiving a webpage, relevant mobile content, or other mobile information based at least in part on behavioral information related to a mobile communication facility user, and displaying the content or other information to the user's mobile communication facility.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080242277 - Communicating community features for mobile electronic devices: A method for social networking includes storing at least one profile on at least one server, the profile being associated with at least one local profile on a mobile device and wherein each of the profile and the local profile includes social networking information, receiving changes to one of the... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080242278 - Wireless communication device, wireless communication method, information processing device, information processing method, and program: A wireless communication device includes a transmission portion, an information acquisition portion, a storage portion, a selection portion, and a transmission control portion. The transmission portion transmits information. The information acquisition portion acquires location information for the wireless communication device that includes a received signal strength of a signal that... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080242280 - Content delivery system and method: A method and system for delivering content to a plurality of devices is provided. In one embodiment, the method may be for delivering content elements of one or more presentations to a device configured to communicate via a wireless data network, wherein the content elements include static content elements, dynamic... Agent: Capital Legal Group, LLC

20080242281 - Mobile addressability with mapping of phone numbers to dynamic ip addresses: A network device, method, and mobile device are directed towards enabling a computing device to initiate an Internet Protocol (IP) connection with a mobile device using text messaging. The initiating computing device may attempt to contact the mobile device by sending a request to a gateway device. In one embodiment,... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20080242284 - Intuitive device identification: A method and system for making it easy for users to identify their mobile device and the applications available for their device is provided, referred to as a device identification system. The device identification system simplifies the process of determining the device a user is using and the applications available... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20080242283 - Methods, systems and computer program products for enhancing communications services: Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, systems, and/or computer program products for enhancing communication services. In some method embodiments, an originating device of a call transmitted to a communication device is identified and a location of the originating device is determined. An identification of the originating device and the... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20080242282 - System and method for providing a user interface for managing calls received at a mobile device: Embodiments of a system and method for providing a user interface for managing calls received at a mobile device is described. The user interface provides an incoming call screen to the user, where the incoming call screen comprises a caller identification data field for displaying data associated with incoming calls... Agent: Bereskin And Parr

20080242285 - Hotline routing of pre-activated gsm subscribers using pseudo-msisdns: The present invention relates to hotline routing of calls originating from mobile stations. The hotline routing conserves MSISDNs for valid subscribers and provides a relatively generic solution. In one example, a computer system stores in a location register a subscriber profile with an IMSI and a pseudo-MSISDN. A mobile station... Agent: Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP/seattle

20080242286 - System and method for learning based device management: The present disclosure relates generally to systems and methods for learning based device management. In one example, the method includes identifying functions available on a mobile device and determining a usage pattern for each of the functions. A determination is made as to whether each of the functions is to... Agent: Timothy F. Bliss

20080242287 - Method, system and apparatus for cell phone noise reduction: A telecommunications system includes a cell phone having an audible indication mode which produces an audible signal when a call is received by the phone, a vibration indication mode in which the cell phone vibrates when a call is received and an off mode. The system includes a transmitter remote... Agent: Ansel M. Schwartz Attorney At Law

20080242288 - Centralized voice recognition unit for wireless control of personal mobile electronic devices: Described are a method and system for controlling the operation of personal mobile electronic devices disposed about a user. Each device is adapted to receive command according to a common wireless protocol. A voice signal is generated in response to a voice command spoken by the user. Command data are... Agent: Ibm Lotus & Rational Sw C/o Guerin & Rodriguez

20080242290 - Method and apparatus for providing content to users using unicast and broadcast wireless networks: The invention includes a method and apparatus for providing content to user terminals. A method includes identifying a request for content from a user terminal, obtaining a network selection parameter for the content request, selecting, using the network selection parameter, a wireless network over which to propagate the requested content,... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/ Lucent Technologies, Inc

20080242291 - Method and system for transmitting/receiving data in communication system: Disclosed is a method and system for transmitting and receiving data in a communication system. The system includes a base station, and a relay station connecting the base station with at least one mobile station. The base station transmits data for a plurality of mobile stations to the relay station,... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080242289 - System and method for providing a user interface that facilitates user selection of a communication line for an outgoing call on a mobile device: A system and method for providing a user interface that allows users to change the active line on which an outgoing call may be placed. In example embodiments, a direction to display a line selection menu on the call screen is received from the user, where the line selection menu... Agent: Bereskin And Parr

20080242292 - Method and apparatus for providing context recovery: An approach is provided for context recovery. A radio link failure condition of a wireless link employed by a mobile unit is detected. An identifier of the mobile unit is received. A determination is whether the mobile unit can re-use connection parameters that were established prior to the failure condition.... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.C.

20080242294 - Determining per sector received power level: At a mobile device, a total received power represents signals received from all access points. In order to calculate an appropriate transmit power for communication with a single access point, a mobile device determines a per sector received power level. The mobile device can ascertain a time-domain channel response from... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080242293 - System and method for providing caller id name display in wireless communications system: System and method for providing caller name display in a wireless communications system. The method includes receiving an originating telephone number at a mobile device, storing the originating number in the mobile device, transmitting a name lookup request for the originating number from the mobile device to a server, receiving... Agent: Frank Frisenda, Jr. Frisenda, Quinton & Nicholson

20080242296 - Roaming gateway enabling location based services (lbs) roaming for user plane in cdma networks without requiring use of a mobile positioning center (mpc): LBS support to CDMA mobiles while roaming on another network. IS-801 session data is routed by a routing gateway to a correct visited network PDE that contains correct BSA data, which is used to return assistance data to an interrogating mobile device. A standalone exemplary roaming LBS routing gateway (XRG)... Agent: Manelli Denison & Selter PLLC 7th Floor

20080242295 - System and method for accomplishing mobile management of fixed network switching node: The present invention discloses a system and method for realizing mobile management of fixed network switching node. The method comprises the following steps: setting a subscriber attribute register (SAR) in the fixed network, connecting the subscriber attribute register to each switching node via signaling link; distributing an unique logic number... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080242297 - Method for searching for network in radio communication system: A method for improving the network search rate by reducing the manual network search time in a radio communication system. System information messages are periodically broadcast, and the messages include a Master Information Block (MIB) containing location area information regarding at least one Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN). The MIB... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20080242299 - Service mode display on a handheld communication device: In a handheld communication device capable of a plurality of wireless communication modes, a method of communication begins by receiving, at the handheld communication device, a notification of an available one of the wireless communication modes. Then, in a data communication window of the communication device, a user-indication of an... Agent: Heenan Blaikie LLP

20080242298 - Unlicensed-radio access networks in a mobile communications system: Cellular mobile networks can include unlicensed-radio access networks, which comprise access point controllers (303) connected via a fixed broadband network (302) to access points (301) that communicate with mobile stations (1) via unlicensed radio. The access points are connected to the broadband network from any location by the subscriber. In... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080242300 - Wireless communication: Access to wireless communication is disclosed, wherein a network control unit identifies availability of different communication networks for a communication device. The communication device is notified of a recommendation of identified communication networks. In response to this notification, the communication device initiates access to the recommended communication network for establishing... Agent: Louis Paul Herzberg

20080242303 - Radio communication method, radio mobile device and radio base station accommodation apparatus: In a radio communication system in which sequence numbers of radio packets transmitted to first and second radio base stations are managed independently to perform hand-off, when the hand-off is performed while a plurality of fragmented radio packets are transmitted, a mobile device applies sequence numbers of radio packets managed... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080242302 - Radio telecommunications network management: Management of a radio telecommunications network, in which a plurality of a radio network controllers (RNCs) are served with a gateway support node having a given configuration. An added RNC connected to the radio telecommunications network is detected and then it is detected the serving gateway support node if the... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080242301 - Reducing access latency while protecting against control signaling data processing overload: A control signal data processing load associated with mobile terminals currently having a connection with a radio access network is regulated. The connection is terminated when the control processing cost for maintaining the connection exceeds the benefit of maintaining the connection to achieve shorter access latency. A connection activity level... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080242304 - Inter-system handover: A method of handover in a wireless communication system in which an asynchronous system and a synchronous system are mixed is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of: the asynchronous system ordering a dual mode mobile terminal to perform a handover from the asynchronous system to the synchronous system; when... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080242305 - Location based handoff for mobile devices: Mobile devices (121, 122, . . . , 12n) are handed off in overlapping cells (181, 182, . . . , 18n) by tracking a velocity (speed and direction) of movement of any number of the mobile devices (121, 122, . . . , 12n). Access points (141, 142, .... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080242306 - Apparatus and method to facilitate use of a cookie to protect an intranet: A wireless two-way communications device (206) can provide to a network gateway (200) for a particular protected intranet a cookie that comprises, at least in part, a substantially unique identifier for the wireless two-way communications device and a temporal stamp as corresponds to the assignment of that substantially unique identifier.... Agent: Motorola/fetf

20080242307 - Method and apparatus for allocating a beacon signal in a wireless communications network: A method and apparatus for transmitting beacon signals in a wireless communications network. For a given cell site, a single frequency may be used for the beacon signal by assigning different beacon signal time slots to different sectors of the cell site. During one time slot, the beacon signal is... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080242308 - Selection of an uplink carrier frequency corresponding to one of co-sited cells having different coverage areas and supporting different uplink data rates: Random access coverage is assured while at the same supporting high uplink data rates in a same service area served by a base station. The service area includes first and second co-sited cells. The first co-sited cell is associated with a first uplink frequency, and the second co-sited cell is... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080242309 - Mimo communication system with user scheduling based on reduced channel state information: A multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO) communication system is configured to perform user scheduling with reduced channel station information. The system includes multiple terminals and at least one base station configured to communicate with the terminals. The base station is operative to obtain channel vector magnitudes for respective ones of the terminals,... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080242313 - Low duty cycle device protocol: The subject matter disclosed herein relates to a system and method for establishing communication between a low duty cycle device and other devices through a wireless communication network. In one particular implementation, the low duty cycle device may awaken from a hibernating state in synchronization with transmission of messages.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080242310 - Method and apparatus for determining location of access point: Method and apparatus for determining a location of an access point associated with a wireless communication network use phase measurements of a signal transmitted from an access point, at known locations to calculate the location of the access point. In some aspects, GPS information is used in conjunction with phase... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080242311 - Methods and systems for proximity-based monitoring of wireless devices: Method and apparatus are disclosed for monitoring the geographic location or velocity of a first wireless device relative to at least one other wireless device and noting an exception if the first wireless device moves beyond a predetermined threshold of separation from the second wireless device, or if the velocity... Agent: Roger T. Frost Merchant & Gould, PC

20080242314 - Portable wireless sensor for building control: A network of wireless radios automatically conserves energy, directs the operation of equipment, and locates assets and personnel. The network may identify changes in the occupancy of a building area and automatically alter the building environment according to predetermined settings, personal preferences, or unexpected conditions. The wireless radios also may... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080242312 - Updating position assist data on a mobile computing device: A mobile computing device comprises a memory, a processor and a transceiver. The memory is configured to store at least one type of position assist data. The processor is configured to provide a position fix based on the position assist data. The transceiver is configured for wireless communication. The memory... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080242316 - Mobile communication system and method for measuring distance between mobile phones: A mobile communication system includes at least one base transceiver station and a mobile switching center. The at least one base transceiver station is used for exchanging data with mobile phones. The mobile switching center is used for choosing one base transceiver station as a primary base transceiver station, and... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080242315 - Traffic data collection utilizing a cellular communication network and probe units: A system for collecting request signal and probe data from telematics units using a cellular communication network, wherein the units each cause to be transmitted registration request signal data to a carrier, the carrier periodically compiles a cell history log comprising a list of cell hand-offs for each unit, and... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20080242318 - Consolidating online privacy preferences: User privacy preferences are consolidated for location-based services. A mobile user is able to control the service providers to which the mobile user's location is transmitted as well as control the service providers from which the user wishes to receive content. Service providers and other online vendors request the location... Agent: Ibm Corporation - Rsw (jvl) C/o Van Leeuwen & Van Leeuwen

20080242317 - Mobile content creation, sharing, and commerce in a geo-spatial environment: A method, apparatus, and system of a mobile content creation, sharing, and commerce in a geo-spatial environment are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes communicating a positioning data of the mobile device to a server at a periodic interval, automatically generating in the mobile device, in response to the... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20080242319 - Method and system for monitoring a mobile device over a video network: An approach is provided for monitoring location of a user of a mobile device. A notification triggering event based on location of a mobile device is detected. Notification information is generated in response to the detection of the notification triggering event. The notification information to a video processor (e.g., set-top... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080242320 - Method for controlling the delivery of messages in a telecommunications network while taking multi-device configurations into special consideration: A method for controlling the delivery of messages in a telecommunications network, particularly in a mobile communications network, with data assigned to a subscriber relationship and to a terminal, that is, to the identification chip (for example, GSM, SIM, UMTS, USIM) connected thereto. These assigned data, entirely or in part,... Agent: The Maxham Firm

20080242321 - Radio communication system, base station apparatus, and terminal apparatus: A base station apparatus includes a first transmission unit configured to transmit area common information common to all base station apparatuses in an area by using not less than one time slot of not less than one common time slot assigned to each of a plurality of areas including a... Agent: Charles N.j. Ruggiero, Esq. Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.L.P.

20080242322 - Apparatus and methods of sharing contact information between mobile communication devices using short message service: Methods and devices are presented for sharing contact information amongst wireless communication devices using Short Message Service (SMS) communication. SMS transfer of contact information occurs seamlessly, in that the sender automatically generates and sends a SMS message(s) that includes the contact information upon designating a contact file for sharing and... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080242324 - Efficient message communication in mobile browsers with multiple endpoints: Described is a technology directed towards providing a single page of data that when rendered (e.g., on a mobile device) displays combined content from multiple endpoints (e.g., corresponding to different messaging participants). Interaction with the page facilitates communication back to each endpoint. Bidirectional communication logic such as a messaging application... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080242323 - Employing the sms protocol as a transport layer protocol: Communicating data by transforming images or other non-text data into subsets of text characters and communicating each subset in an electronic message that can carry only a limited number of text characters. An embodiment transforms portions of binary data of an image or other non-text data into subsets of hexadecimal... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20080242325 - Just-in-time training of deployed skill support personnel via cell phone multimedia: A content delivery system, such as a Just in Time Training (JITT) system which allows the broadcast of multimedia messages to recipients or users. The JITT system identifies the multimedia capabilities as well as the capabilities of the service provider and recipient device for each user and uses this profile... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080242326 - Sms wrapper/dewrapper and mobile devices embedded with the sms wrapper/dewrapper: Disclosed is a method for providing a GUI for manipulation utilizing a SMS in PDU mode, comprising: receiving a SMS message which comprises encoded SM data; parsing said SM data for decoding to retrieve form display data; generating a UI element corresponding to said form display data; and displaying said... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A.

20080242327 - System and method for sending sms and text messages: A system for sending SMS messages from a cell phone on one cellular network to a cell phone on a different cellular network bypasses the Short Message Service Center (SMSC) established by network administrators to enable SMS messages to be sent to an SMS Network Boundary device where it is... Agent: Feldmangale, P.A.

20080242328 - Broadcast communication system and method for providing users with information associated with a geographical area: A method is presented for providing information associated with a geographical area to users of broadcast communication receivers. The information, as well as an indication of the geographical area associated with the information, are transmitted to, and received by, each of the broadcast communication receivers. In each of the receivers,... Agent: Setter Roche LLP

20080242329 - Methods and arrangements for link rate adaptation in multi-radio co-existence platforms: Methods and arrangements for link rate adaptation in multi-radio co-existence platforms (MRPs) are contemplated. Embodiments include transformations, code, state machines or other logic to determine an overlap between receiving by a wireless device of the MRP and transmitting by other of the wireless devices of the MRP and to select... Agent: Schubert, Osterrieder & Nickelson, PLLC C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080242330 - Method and system of distributing transmissions in a wireless data transmission system: A method and System for communicating between a mobile device, and first and second transceivers are described. The second transceiver is positioned in an area covered by the first transceiver. The first transceiver and the mobile device can exchange data on at least one of a plurality of channels. The... Agent: Dla Piper US LLP

20080242334 - Communication apparatus: A cordless handset receives status information from two or more base units indicating at least one of a waiting status and a non-waiting status. The non-waiting status may further include an internal-line-call status and/or an external-line-call status. The cordless handset may display the status information on a display with the... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20080242335 - Communication system and method for mobile and stationary devices: A communication system for mobile and stationary devices has at least one transmitter/receiver unit provided for the mobile and stationary devices and covering a defined transmission/reception range, and is formed so that at least partial overlap of the transmission/reception ranges of the mobile and/or stationary devices results in accidental communication... Agent: Striker, Striker & Stenby

20080242332 - Decentralized control of feedback for multi-user diversity: A communication apparatus includes a mobile terminal to measure a downlink channel state of a downlink between a base station and the mobile terminal, and to determine whether to transmit feedback information about the downlink channel state to the base station based on the measured downlink channel state.... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080242331 - High frequency testing infrastructure: A radio transceiver device includes circuitry for radiating electromagnetic signals at a very high radio frequency both through space, as well as through wave guides that are formed within a substrate material. In one embodiment, the substrate comprises a dielectric substrate formed within a board, for example, a printed circuit... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080242333 - Radio communication system, slave unit, master unit and communication method: The invention provides a radio communication system allowing a user to readily set a delay time. The controller determines whether the test button was depressed and then determines how long the test button has been kept depressed. The depressed time is set as a delay time and stored in a... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080242336 - Shared communication capabilities of mobile stations for high bandwidth communications: A wireless communication arrangement (20) includes a plurality of mobile stations (22, 24, 26) and a remotely located server (28). A local group connection (44) among the mobile stations and individual wireless links (32, 34, 36) between the mobile stations and the server (28) facilitate realizing a higher effective bandwidth... Agent: Docket Administrator Lucent Technologies Inc.

20080242339 - Controlling forward and reverse link traffic channel power: Forward link transmission power to a user terminal in a wireless communications system having a plurality of beams is controlled by determining a baseline power level, Pbaseline, from a received active pilot channel signal-to-noise ratio (SNR); determining a power margin, Pmargin, from an identified interference susceptibility; determining a power level... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080242337 - Digital and analog power control for an ofdma/cdma access terminal: Aspects describe controlling a power level for an access terminal in a wireless communication system that utilizes multiple modulation waveforms. The power can be controlled after an Access Grant is received in response to an Access Probe until the mobile device transitions into a steady state. A reference power can... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080242338 - Radio communication apparatus and transmission power control method: A radio communication apparatus which performs a direct communication with a counter radio communication apparatus is provided. The radio communication apparatus includes a radio section configured to receive from the counter radio communication apparatus, a first radio signal which contains a first transmission power setting value as a setting value... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20080242340 - Method for supporting fast base station switching in a wireless communication system using multiple frequency bands: A method for performing fast base station switching in an mobile station capable of using multiple frequency assignments in a wireless communication system are provided, in which initial network entry to a base station managing at least two frequency assignments is performed in one of the at least two frequency... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080242341 - Paging group network and method for updating mobile station locations: A paging group network includes multiple paging groups formed by areas covered by base stations (BSs). The paging group network further includes an anchor paging controller (PC) and a relay PC. The anchor paging controller initiates a page to a mobile station (MS), addresses the paging group in which the... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20080242343 - Modeless electronic systems, methods, and devices: Methods and device are provided for searching and displaying informational objects using a mobile device. In more specific terms, embodiments relate to a modeless search architecture in which queries can be initiated simply by actuating an input device, such as typing on the keypad, or issuing a voice command. In... Agent: K&l Gates LLP

20080242342 - Rf filtering at very high frequencies for substrate communications: A radio transceiver device includes circuitry for radiating electromagnetic signals at a very high radio frequency both through space, as well as through wave guides that are formed within a substrate material. In one embodiment, the substrate comprises a dielectric substrate formed within a board, for example, a printed circuit... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080242345 - Application-oriented and intelligent method for switching communication modes of a dual-mode communication module: An application-oriented and intelligent method for switching communication modes of a dual-mode communication module is provided. Whether the application program utilizes location-based service is first confirmed. When the application program utilizes location-based service, said communication module is switched to the first communication mode. Otherwise, evaluation, about which one from both... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080242347 - Fast multiradio context switching: An apparatus, computer program product and method concern first and at least second radios adapted to operate according to respective first and second wireless radio systems, and which share hardware. While the first radio is inactive, first hardware configuration data HCD for the first radio is written to a first... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080242344 - Isolation trap circuit, antenna switch module, and transmission circuit: In an isolation trap circuit of the present invention, a PIN diode PD and an inductor L are connected in parallel to a first terminal 61, and a capacitor C1 is connected in series to the inductor L, while the PIN diode PD and the capacitor C1 are connected in... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080242346 - Wireless communication device with programmable antenna system: A wireless communication device includes an integrated circuit (IC) and an antenna system. The IC includes a processing module and a transceiver section. The processing module establishes a wireless communication protocol, converts outbound data into an outbound symbol stream, converts an inbound symbol stream into inbound data, and establishes operational... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080242351 - Apparatus for capturing, converting and transmitting a visual image signal via a digital transmission system: An image capture, conversion, compression, storage and transmission system provides a data signal representing the image in a format and protocol capable of being transmitted over any of a plurality of readily available transmission systems and received by readily available, standard equipment receiving stations. In its most comprehensive form, the... Agent: Moore Landrey

20080242352 - Image transmission apparatus, image transmission method and image transmission program product: A cellular phone includes, for the sake of privacy protection, a camera for outputting a pick up image in which an operator is photographed, a touch panel to accept designation of at least a partial region of the pick up image, and a control portion to determine a masked region... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080242348 - Mobile phone with vital signs measurement and display capabilities: A mobile phone includes a control unit having two amplification circuits, an ADC, a control IC, a display circuit, and an inflation control circuit; first and second measurement units; and a releasably attached inflatable wrist band having a sphygmomanometer and an air pump. In response to wrapping the wrist band... Agent: Sam Chen

20080242350 - Obtaining network information for seamless vertical handovers: Methods and apparatus to obtain network information for seamless vertical handovers are described. In one embodiment, a wireless device transmits an information query to an information server to cause the information server to determine one or more available access networks for the wireless device (e.g., as the wireless device moves... Agent: Caven & Aghevli C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080242349 - Wireless communication device having gps receiver and an on-chip gyrator: A circuit for use in a wireless communication device includes a on-chip gyrating circuit that generates a motion parameter based on motion of the circuit. A GPS receiver receives a GPS signal and that generates GPS position data based on the GPS signal. A processing module processes the motion parameter... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080242353 - Input shortcuts for a communications device: A method of inputting an electronic address into an address field on a communications device, the electronic address including a plurality of text characters and non-text symbol characters. The method includes: receiving a plurality of inputs for the address field through a user input interface of the device; adding text... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20080242354 - Communication devices with integrated gyrators and methods for use therewith: A device includes an on-chip gyrating circuit that generates a motion parameter based on motion of the device. An RF transceiver generates an outbound RF signal from an outbound symbol stream, transmits the outbound RF signal to a remote station of a wireless network, and generates an inbound symbol stream... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080242355 - Mobile terminal with user identification card including personal finance-related information and method of using a value-added mobile service through said mobile terminal: The present invention enables a user to receive a financial service anywhere through a mobile terminal equipped with a UIM (User Identification Module) electronic card. In the present invention, a user enters his or her password to a mobile terminal with a UIM card including subscriber telephone number, finance, authorization,... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080242358 - Broadcast receiver and method of receiving broadcast thereof: A method of receiving a broadcast on a broadcast terminal. The method includes displaying the received broadcast on a display of the broadcast terminal, and providing location information about a specific place or location shown on the currently displayed broadcast to a user of the broadcast terminal.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080242361 - Communication terminal and computer readable medium: A CPU of mobile a terminal causes, if to-do data is selected on a to-do review screen, a liquid crystal display to display a to-do data confirmation screen of the to-do data. In the to-do data confirmation screen, if the to-do data contains a character string that is an index... Agent: Michaud-duffy Group LLP

20080242357 - Method and apparatus for fulfilling purchases: A method and apparatus for fulfilling purchases is disclosed. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure can include, for example, a portable communication device having a controller element that receives from an online system a barcode image as an object of acknowledgment of a product purchased from said... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080242360 - Method and apparatus for key input in a portable terminal having multiple displays: A key input apparatus and method for a portable terminal including a plurality of display units are provided. The apparatus and method include a detachable case detachably assembled with the portable terminal, an external key input unit connected to the detachable case and a control unit performing a control operation... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20080242359 - Mobile terminal: A mobile terminal including a first body having a first surface and a second surface and a second body having a first surface and a second surface. In addition, the first body includes a first display located at the first surface and configured to display at least one icon, the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080242362 - Rapid content association methods: Methods and systems are provided for organizing the display of informational objects using a mobile device. Certain embodiments may be used to automatically search for related informational objects so that they can be viewed together with minimal user input and minimal user manipulation.... Agent: K&l Gates LLP

20080242363 - System and method for generating a graphical user interface: A communications terminal comprises a display, a first storage for storing data, a second storage unit that stores a first and a second information set, the first information set including a first communications address and a communications recipient's name, and the second information set includes a second communications address and... Agent: Michaud-duffy Group LLP

20080242356 - System and method for providing calling feature icons in a user interface that facilitates user selection of a communication line for an outgoing call on a mobile device: A system and method for providing calling feature icons in a user interface that allow users to determine with ease the status of different calling features, and in respect of at least one embodiment, to identify with ease the communication lines associated with calling features that have been enabled (and/or... Agent: Bereskin And Parr

20080242364 - Mobile terminal device comprising vibrating component having light effects: Mobile phones use light signaling or vibrational effects to silently indicate to a user that e.g. a telephone call is incoming. The present invention provides a method, a component for generating vibrational effects combined with light effects and a mobile device implementing this component. The generation of the light effects... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20080242365 - Devices and methods for hands-free connectivity to plural devices: Disclosed are a hands-free device and a method of a hands-free device for automatic connectivity to two or more handheld devices. Upon power-up of the hands-free device, the device may cycle through all voice communication devices on its paired device list until it either cycles through the entire list or... Agent: Motorola Inc

20080242366 - Hands free aural device holder: A hands-free aural device holder for hands-free use of an aural device that is designed to be held up to a user's ear is connectable to the device and defines at least a portion of a pocket for receiving the top of a user's ear when the holder is connected... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20080242367 - Spread spectrum cellular subscriber unit: A spread spectrum base station comprises an automatic gain control (AGC) circuit having an input configured to receive a received spread spectrum signal and gain control the received spread spectrum signal to produce a gain controlled signal. A correlation circuit has an input configured to receive the gain controlled signal... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080242368 - Battery and battery locking unit of mobile terminal: In a battery locking unit of a mobile terminal capable of increasing space usability of a terminal body and simplifying battery detachment operation by installing a battery locking unit on a cover, the locking unit consists of a battery installed at the rear of a terminal body; a cover attached/detached... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080242369 - Portable electronic apparatus: When a host PC acts as a host and communicates with a portable electronic apparatus, the portable electronic apparatus can release connection between the portable electronic apparatus and the host PC in no response to the host PC and in accordance with an amount of remaining power of a rechargeable... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080242370 - Efficient server polling system and method: A method of requesting content from a communication server in a mobile communication network is provided. The method comprises determining whether the mobile device is in a first mode; requesting content for delivery to the mobile device, while the mobile device is in the first mode; and discontinuing requesting the... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20080242371 - Mobile terminal device, communication system, electric power control method: A mobile terminal device has an electric-power-reduction operation mode for operation with reduced electric power consumption. The mobile terminal device includes an emergency determining unit that determines whether there is an emergency; and an operation mode control unit that controls to shift to the electric-power-reduction operation mode when the emergency... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080242372 - Electronic device with location-based and presence-based physical attributes and method of controlling same: A mobile telephone includes a radio circuit for establishing a call over a communications network. The mobile telephone also includes a housing that retains the radio circuit and an illumination assembly. The illumination assembly is controlled to generate light in a color having a user specified relationship to a location... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080242376 - Holder for electronic apparatus: The invention provides a holder having a main body, a fixing module and an actuating module. Both the fixing module and the actuating module are positioned on the main body. When the actuating module moves along a first direction, the fixing module is driven from either a release state or... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080242377 - Input device for mobile terminal: An input device for a mobile terminal includes a touch unit disposed on a surface of a housing of the mobile terminal, a conductive member disposed on an inner surface of the housing in a position corresponding to the touch unit, and a touch sensor to sense an operation of... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20080242374 - Method and apparatus for transparent invocation and transport of encrypted position location data: In one embodiment, the disclosure relates to a method for locating a mobile terminal in a communication network. The method includes: receiving a request data frame for locating the mobile terminal; uniquely encoding at least a portion of the request data frame (at an LCS client); determining the location of... Agent: Duane Morris LLP

20080242373 - Method and device for providing position information: A method and wireless device for providing position information as provided enables increased control by the wireless device of location services. The method includes processing a location services request at the wireless device. In response to the location services request, a preferred schedule for location update messages is then determined... Agent: Motorola Inc

20080242375 - Modular multi-sided radio architecture: A multi-sided radio (200) includes an audio centric side (210) including a speaker (208) operationally independent of functions on an opposing side, a data centric side (220) on the opposing side of the audio centric side, and a top controller side (250) having at least one control function (202 or... Agent: Motorola, Inc

20080242378 - Headset with multi-button control for a mobile communication device: The invention is directed at a headset for a mobile communication device having a multi-button control and is implemented with a standard headset jack. The multi-button control is decoded by a microprocessor after which an encoded signal is then transmitted from the processor to the handset. In this manner, by... Agent: Borden Ladner Gervais LLP Anne Kinsman

20080242379 - Communication terminal: A communication terminal includes a first case and a second case. The first case and the second case are connected by a connector such that a position of the first case with respect to the second case is changeable. An antenna is provided to one main surface of the first... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080242381 - Bi-directional sliding-type portable terminal: Disclosed is a bi-directional sliding-type portable terminal. The bi-directional sliding-type portable terminal comprises a phone body and a bi-directional sliding body. The phone body comprises a first section which is located on one side of the top surface thereof and within which a plurality of keys are mounted, and a... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080242380 - Portable electronic device: A longitudinally-extending liquid crystal display part is provided at a front face of a first housing. A camera accommodation part is provided at an upper end of a second housing to bulge from a front face of the second housing and extend laterally, and an operating part is disposed in... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080242382 - Multi-mode pivoting carrying holder for mobile devices: A holster or carry holder (100) for a mobile device (150) forms an assembly or combination (200) that includes a first housing (102) and a second housing (112) pivotably coupled to the first housing. The second housing can receive and carry the mobile device in at least a first position... Agent: Motorola, Inc

20080242383 - Fire retardant cover for radio accessories: A protective cover assembly is provided for a communications device of the type comprising a radio unit interconnected with an accessory either through a power cord or wireless technology. The cover assembly includes first and second portions constructed of a fire retardant material, such as NOMEX®. The first portion is... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080242384 - Mobile device housing and method for manufacturing such: A housing assembly (100), used, e.g., in a mobile device (300), includes a housing body (10) and an attached unit (20). The housing body defines a display opening (110). The attached unit includes a base layer (21) and an electronic ink layer (22). The attached unit is received in the... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang