Telecommunications inventions 11/08

20080293353 - Cognitive radio methodology, physical layer policies and machine learning: P

20080293352 - Identification of self jammer tone for suppression thereof in rfid systems or the like: Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, a self jammer may be detected and suppressed from a received signal by embedding a pilot tone in the transmitted signal and then detecting the pilot tone in the received signal. Detection of the pilot tone in the received signal indicates the... Agent: Cool Patent, P.C. C/o Intellevate

20080293354 - Broadcast playback method and broadcast playback apparatus: A broadcast playback system comprises a computer and a broadcast playback apparatus being connected to each other via a serial bus module. The computer loads predetermined control codes stored in the broadcast playback apparatus, performs the predetermined control codes to display a control menu. The broadcast playback apparatus plays a... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080293355 - System and method for intercepting cellular satellite communication: The present invention provides a method for intercepting and monitoring of cellular satellite communication wherein communication between at least one mobile device (MES) and the satellite is through a first band link that includes plurality of first-band spot beams each accommodating at least one basic channel unit that includes a... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20080293356 - System and method for requesting and rendering audio contents: Order requests for playing audio contents and/or video contents are transmitted by way of communication transmission apparatus (3) via a telecommunication network (2) to a computer-based central unit (1). The central unit (1) determines one of several geographically distributed play units (5, 6, 7) which are remote from the central... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080293357 - Wireless hand-held multimedia player and method thereof: A wireless hand-held multimedia player and a method thereof are provided. The wireless hand-held multimedia player includes a wireless network module, a multimedia playing unit, a data process module, and a control unit. The multimedia playing unit is used for playing multimedia data. The data process module is coupled to... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080293358 - Wireless communication mimo system with repeaters: The present invention relates to a wireless communication system (C) comprising at least one base station (1) in a communication cell (2), from which base station (1) at least two essentially uncorrelated antenna radiation lobes (7, 8, 9, 10) are formed. Each antenna radiation lobe (7, 8, 9, 10) communicates... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080293359 - System and method of communicating and re-using frequencies within terrestrial and satellite signal paths: A system and method for communicating and re-using frequencies is provided, which includes a source provider, at least one transmitter, and a plurality of antennas. The transmitter transmits source data along a plurality of signal paths including a first signal at a first frequency transmitted along a first satellite signal... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20080293360 - On frequency repeater with agc stability determination: An on frequency repeater for wireless networks with feedback oscillation detection is disclosed. The on frequency repeater includes an automatic gain control loop which samples amplified signal envelope. The automatic gain control loop is monitored and a characteristic saw tooth pattern in the gain control loop indicating feedback oscillation is... Agent: Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman, LLP

20080293361 - Communication devices, communication systems, a bluetooth communications protocol communication device, and communication methods: Communication devices, communication systems, a Bluetooth communication protocol communication device, and communication methods are provided. According to a first aspect, a communication device includes a single buffer configured to store communication data; control circuitry coupled with the buffer and configured to generate a plurality of packets including different amounts of... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20080293362 - Method for polarization correction in user equipment: A method and device for compensation of received signal components at a user equipment (UE) used for receiving signal components from a radio base station (RBS). The signal components have at least a first and a second polarization orientation, respectively. The intended reception of the signal component (Yh(n)) having the... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080293364 - Wireless industrial data transmission system: A wireless data transmission system incorporates a process sensor providing an output for process monitoring data with a transmitter connected to the output of the sensor and transmitting the data in time gated intervals. A receiver receives the data from the transmitter and a determination is made if new data... Agent: Felix L. Fischer, Attorney At Law

20080293365 - Method and apparatus for measuring state of plurality of channels and for selecting idle channel: A method of measuring a state of a plurality of channels is provided. The method includes transmitting to a second device test signal information needed to transmit/receive a test signal for measuring the state of the plurality of channels; receiving an information received response from the second device, indicating that... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080293363 - System for testing an embedded wireless transceiver: A test equipment for testing a wireless communication device includes a wireless transceiver, memory, and a controller. The wireless transceiver transmits a first and second series of packets. The wireless transceiver receives a power level indicator that is based on at least one of the first series of packets. The... Agent: Vedder Price P.C.

20080293366 - Transmit power control in a random access scheme: A method and control device for generating a transmit power level for a communication apparatus for operation in a wireless communication network having a network node. The control device comprises a controller adapted to generate a request message for requesting access to a communication channel, to be transmitted to the... Agent: Potomac Patent Group PLLC

20080293367 - Modular keypad with wireless arrangement for a mobile device: Described is a mobile device comprising a base unit and a keypad detachably coupled to the base unit. The keypad includes an input arrangement and a first wireless arrangement operating in accordance with a first wireless protocol.... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20080293368 - Shared lna and pa gain control in a wireless device: A wireless device includes at least one antenna, a plurality of shared signal path components coupled to the at least one antenna, the plurality of shared signal path components including a shared adjustable gain element, e.g., Low Noise Amplifier (LNA), Power Amplifier (PA), etc., a first wireless interface, e.g. Wireless... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080293369 - Signal processing device and signal processing method: A signal processing device and signal processing method is provided that includes a detection unit for detecting a signal strength of a signal, whereby the detection unit is configured to output a detection value that represents the signal strength of the signal; a settable digital filter connected upstream of the... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20080293370 - Receiver gain control: A gain controller for controlling the gain of at least one amplifier in a receiver, the gain controller being arranged to, when the receiver is receiving a signal: for a first period of time, repeatedly determine an indication of the strength of the received signal and adjust the gain of... Agent: Novak Druce Deluca + Quigg LLP

20080293371 - Radio communication device: A spatial filtering adaptable for an interference wave that appears unsteadily can be implemented and also an interference canceling ability can be increased even in a condition that the interference wave does not steadily exist. At a time of non-active communication, the signals from a plurality of interference source radio... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20080293372 - Optimum nonlinear correntropy filted: A signal processing method is provided. The method includes receiving a signal input, and filtering the signal input using a nonlinear correntropy filter. The method additionally includes generating an output based upon the filtering of the signal input. The nonlinear correntropy filter can be configured as a nonlinear Wiener filter.... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080293373 - Electronic device: With the object of providing an electronic device having good radio signal receiving characteristics with a metal outer case housing therewithin an antenna section without restrictions imposed with regard to material or design, an electronic device minimally having an antenna section 32, an information processing means 33 for processing information... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080293374 - Method and apparatus for transmitting emergency alert messages: A method and apparatus for transmitting emergency alert messages is disclosed. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a cellular phone having a transceiver to engage in wireless voice and data communications with third party communication devices, a global positioning system receiver to locate... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080293375 - Intelligent information control repository: Systems and methods are disclosed for alleviating the network congestion inherent in monitoring several million subscribers' usage by incorporating an Information Control Repository (ICR) at the user-level, ideally within the mobile device in the form of a software program. This Micro Intelligent Information Control Repository (MIICR) augments the user profile... Agent: Moazzam & Associates, LLC Matters For At&t Mobility Ii LLC

20080293376 - Method and system for managing mobility of an access terminal in a mobile communication system using mobile ip: A method for managing mobility of an AT in a mobile communication system using Mobile IPv4. The AAA and the AT generate a first key for mutual authentication between the AT and a HA, and the AAA and the AG generate a second key for mutual authentication between the AG... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080293382 - Authenticating femtocell-connected mobile devices: The present disclosure includes a method and system for authenticating femtocell-connected mobile devices. In some implementations, a method includes receiving information associated with an authentication request transmitted by a cellular core network. The information is internetworked between a cellular radio technology and Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) for authenticating a cellular... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080293380 - Messeaging service: Messages are processed by receiving, from a first user on a wireless phone, a first message addressed to a second user. An extended header that is related to the first user and is for the first message is accessed. An alert is generated in response. A response to the alert... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080293379 - Method and apparatus for accessing a foreign network with an obfuscated mobile device user identity: A mobile device identifier (such as an MSISDN) that typically accompanies a mobile device request is replaced with an “enriched” identifier that exposes the mobile device user's home operator but obfuscates the mobile device's (and, thus, the device user's) identity. In one embodiment, the identifier comprises a first part, and... Agent: Ibm Corp. (dhj) C/o David H. Judson

20080293378 - Mobile device with an obfuscated mobile device user identity: A mobile device identifier (such as an MSISDN) that typically accompanies a mobile device request is replaced with an “enriched” identifier that exposes the mobile device user's home operator but obfuscates the mobile device's (and, thus, the device user's) identity. In one embodiment, the identifier comprises a first part, and... Agent: Ibm Corp. (dhj) C/o David H. Judson

20080293377 - Reuse of identity data from a user equipment identity module by a peripheral device: The invention relates to the reuse of identity data from an identity module in a user equipment by a peripheral device. In order to enable the reuse of identity data from an identity module, such as a SIM or UICC card, in a user equipment by a peripheral device, the... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080293381 - Wireless methods using signature codes: Data representing media content, such as audio data, is processed to produce a signature code therefrom. This code can be used by wireless and other devices for a variety of purposes. Some relate to cryptographic operations. Others relate to determining whether operations involving the media content are legitimate.... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20080293384 - Communicating a real-time text response: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a communication from a text telephone via a packet-switched network. The method also includes, automatically and without user intervention, generating a real-time text response to the communication from the text telephone and, automatically and without user intervention, communicating the real-time text response to... Agent: Cisco Systems, Inc. Scientific-atlanta, Inc.

20080293383 - Recording data at a mobile telephone during a telephone call: A method for recording data at a mobile telephone during a telephone call between a user of the mobile telephone and a participant, including enabling a user to record first data during the telephone call; augmenting the first data with second data that identifies the participant, without user input of... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080293385 - System and method for delivering information to a transmitting and receiving device: Systems and methods for delivering information to a transmitting and receiving device. The device receives a notification alerting a user of the device that information is available to be obtained and, in some embodiments, providing a short description of the information. After receiving the notification at the device, the user... Agent: Jon E. Kappes Law Offices Of Steven G. Lisa, Ltd.

20080293386 - Charging of a short message transmission: The invention relates to charging of a short message transmission in a telecommunications network. The invention provides a mechanism for refunding the subscriber for an already charged short message in the event of a failure during the delivery of that short message. The invention also relates to the methods and... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080293391 - In-vehicle communication apparatus and position information notifying system: An incoming call waiting date and time is specified to exceed a time when a predetermined period passes after an ACC switch of an in-vehicle emergency call apparatus is switched from ON to OFF. In this case, a low power operation is continued in the in-vehicle emergency call apparatus until... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080293388 - Method and apparatus for providing a phone book forwarding list in a communication system: A method and corresponding entity for providing phone book forwarding list in a communication system (100) is described. The method comprises of receiving at a first mobile device (106) a notification message from a second mobile device (108). The notification message includes an identity of the second mobile device (108).... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080293389 - Method and system of forwarding sms messages: A method of forwarding messages in a wireless network is provided. The method comprises receiving a message destined for a first mobile station, processing the message based on call forwarding data to make a determination as to whether the message is to be forwarded to different mobile station, and transmitting... Agent: Fay Sharpe/lucent

20080293387 - System and method for responding to information requests from users of personal communication devices: There are provided methods and systems for responding to information requests from users of personal communication devices, such as mobile telephones and more particularly cellular telephones. In one embodiment, information requests issued from a plurality of user's cellular telephones are received and processed at a central host site. Processing comprises... Agent: Jlb Consulting, Inc. C/o Intellevate

20080293390 - Method and system for implementing interconversion between ring back tone and ringing tone: A method and a system for implementing interconversion between a ring back tone and a ringing tone are disclosed. The method for converting the ring back tone into the ringing tone includes: configuring ring back tone information for a user according to a ring back tone configuration request; obtaining relevant... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20080293392 - Reminder notification system and method: A system and method of providing medication reminder notifications to a plurality of users is provided. In one embodiment, the method comprise storing data of mobile telephone number for each of the plurality of users in a memory, storing medication data in association with each of the plurality of users... Agent: Capital Legal Group, LLC

20080293393 - System and method for providing commercial broadcast content information to mobile subscribers: System and method for providing information regarding broadcast content, such as advertising, commentary, music, or sports, to a wireless device. A preferred embodiment comprises sending a broadcast station identifier and a user identifier to a host server. The host server identifies the station and retrieves a list of content for... Agent: Slater & Matsil, L.L.P.

20080293394 - System, method, and computer-readable medium for concurrent termination of multiple calls at a mobile terminal: A system, method and computer-readable medium for allocating multiple subscriptions to a single mobile terminal thereby allowing concurrent termination of multiple calls at the mobile terminal are provided. A mobile terminal adapted to terminate multiple concurrent calls is described. In one implementation, a network need not have any configuration data... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20080293396 - Integrating mobile device based communication session recordings: Mobile device based communication sessions are recorded and communicated via a receiver to a session data manager. The session data manager processes received representations of the communication sessions in response to metadata generated on the mobile device. In some embodiments, the session data manager is coupled to a data store... Agent: Setter Roche LLP

20080293395 - Using downloadable specifications to render a user interface on a mobile device: A representation is rendered on the user interface of a mobile device using a presentation specification and a behavior specification. The presentation specification defines styles, and the behavior specification defines interactions. Each specification can be used to set corresponding rules and libraries for rendering the user interface. The mobile device... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080293397 - Method for disabling a mobile device: Methods for disabling a mobile device (1) having communication capabilities. A message comprising disabling data for disabling at least one functionality of the mobile device (1) is transmitted from a control center (2) to the mobile device (1). The disabling data comprises data for altering program instructions for at least... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080293399 - Method for supporting mbms service transmission in lte system: A method for supporting Multicast Broadcast Multimedia Service (MBMS) data transmission in a Long-term evolution (LTE) system includes a network entity (ECN) to which a user equipment (UE) is registered, receives an Activate MBMS context request message from the UE, and sends a Create MBMS UE Context Request message to... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20080293398 - Transmission processing method in mobile communications system and base station: In a case where multiple kinds of frames having different lengths (Ngi_s and Ngi_l) of guard intervals inserted before the head of the effective data, the length of the guard intervals are adjusted in such a manner that at least the position of a part of the effective data is... Agent: Myers Wolin, LLC

20080293400 - Neighboring cell list setting method, terminal, server, and mobile communication network: An optimization terminal 100, connected to a mobile communication network, generates neighboring cell list of a wireless base station 103 specified to be added and a wireless base station 104 neighboring to the wireless base station 103 specified to be added, based on the location relation between the specified wireless... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20080293401 - Transmission/reception channel matching apparatus and method for mobile communication terminal and mobile phone test equipment: Disclosed herein is a transmission/reception channel matching apparatus and method for a mobile communication terminal and a mobile phone test equipment. The apparatus includes mobile communication terminal-side terminals, transmission and reception terminals, a connection detection unit, a switching unit, and a control unit. The mobile communication terminal-side terminals are connected... Agent: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

20080293402 - System determination emulator for analysis and testing: A roaming emulator provides a tool for emulating system determination for monitoring the operation of a wireless communication device (WCD) during system determination. A signal monitoring program and service selection protocol are stored, and a signal emulation module provides a signal emulation output in accordance with a predetermined set of... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin LLP

20080293404 - Dynamically created and expanded wireless network: A system and method for the establishment and maintenance of wireless network, such as wireless network enabling access to the World Wide Web. The network can be created by its users as part of social network activity. The users are using automated resources discovery, verification and mapping as a comprehensive... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20080293403 - Mobile communication service bridging: A system is disclosed that provides functionality for mobile communications service bridging with distributed service gateway call managers that allow application clients running on users' communication devices to be served by any of the available service gateways, preferably in an active-active load balance configuration. Each service gateway instance may bridge... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080293406 - Handover management in group calls: A mobile terminal of a digital cellular radiocommunication system that is in the receiving phase in a group call while roaming in a current cell, indicates to a fixed network element of the system, a given destination cell out of a number N of cells adjacent to the current cell... Agent: Miller, Matthias & Hull

20080293405 - System and method for adaptive roaming: Described is a system and method for adaptive roaming. The system may include a memory storing at least one roaming parameter. The at least one roaming parameter corresponds to a performance of a mobile unit roaming within a network that includes a plurality of access points. The system also includes... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20080293409 - Method and system for exchanging nrtrde files between a visited network and a home network in real time: The present invention provides a method for facilitating exchange of roaming information between a first gateway and either a Near Real Time Roaming Data Exchange (NRTRDE) agent or second gateway in real time. The method includes obtaining, by a first gateway associated with the VPMN, one or more event parameters... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20080293408 - Signaling gateway with multiple imsi with multiple msisdn (mimm) service in a single sim for multiple roaming partners: A method and apparatus for mobile communication in multiple mobile communications networks. Embodiments include installing a SIM that includes at least one IMSI and at least one MSISDN in a mobile communications device. The SIM is used to receive and place calls while the user is in the user's home... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20080293407 - Wireless device and method for determining which apn to use: Wireless devices and methods are provided for performing mobile discovery of an active data subscription. This involves a wireless device attempting to register using an APN that is one of a CDMA-centric APN and a GSM-centric APN. If that attempt fails, then the wireless device attempts to register using an... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20080293410 - Method and system for sensing discontiguous channels in a wireless network: A method for sensing channel availability in a wireless network includes receiving a measurement request message which includes a channel interval list. A first channel interval in the list includes information associated with a first starting channel number, a first number of channels, and first linkage information of the channel... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080293412 - Location update with multipoint functionality: The present invention provides methods for performing a location update in a mobile communication network. According to an embodiment of the invention, after receiving a location update request message from a managing node, a data base composes a location update acknowledge message including information about an identification of a switching... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080293411 - Method and apparatus for managing obfuscated mobile device user identities: A mobile device identifier (such as an MSISDN) that typically accompanies a mobile device request is replaced with an “enriched” identifier that exposes the mobile device user's home operator but obfuscates the mobile device's (and, thus, the device user's) identity. In one embodiment, the identifier comprises a first part, and... Agent: Ibm Corp. (dhj) C/o David H. Judson

20080293413 - System and method of registering with an access point: A method of registering a mobile device with an access point, is provided in which the mobile device preregisters with access points nearby in order to accelerate the registration process when roaming is initiated. Roaming may be initiated when the SNR is increasing relative to the current access point and... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C. Pacwest Center, Suite 1900

20080293415 - Assembly comprising a cellular network and at least one mobile terminal, method for the operation of such an assembly, mobile terminal and control device: In order to be able to flexibly and dynamically control the selection of an access network to be used by a mobile terminal, an assembly contains a cellular network which is provided with a core network and several access networks for connecting mobile terminals to the core network, and at... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20080293414 - Communication apparatus capable of accessing multiple telecommunication networks of the same telecommunication standard: A communication apparatus for using a first and second subscriber identifications at the same time for accessing a first and second telecommunication networks correspondingly includes a first communication circuit for accessing the first telecommunication network according to the first subscriber identification; a second communication circuit for accessing the second telecommunication... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080293418 - Managing call continuity between network devices: The present disclosure includes a system and method for managing handovers between network devices. In some implementations, a method includes receiving a request to handover a call session from a femtocell to a macrocell associated with a cellular core network. The femtocell comprise cellular radio technology. A Session Initiation Protocol... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080293417 - Method and system for implementing subscriber terminal handover accounting in broadband wireless access system: The present invention relates to a method and system for implementing subscriber terminal handover accounting in broadband wireless access system. The present invention mainly includes: first, in a broadband wireless access system, an accounting client entity before handover reports handover accounting information to an accounting server after a subscriber terminal... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20080293416 - Method for relocating srns in a mobile communication system: A system and method for performing SRNS relocation in a communications system transmits radio resource information including a ciphering parameter from a source RNC to a target RNC, modifies the ciphering parameter to coincide with a deciphering parameter which a user terminal uses when out-of-sequence data is received, ciphers a... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20080293419 - Mobility procedures and differentiated charging in home node-bs: A method and apparatus for implementing Idle and Connected Mode mobility to and from a Home evolved Node-B (HNB) in a wireless environment. Methods to implement differentiated charging when accessing HNBs, as well as the criteria used to make a cell reselection decision when an HNB is detected, criteria for... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080293420 - Apparatus and method for registration of mobile station to compact base station using rfid in a broadband wireless communication system: An apparatus and method for registration of a Mobile Station (MS) to a compact Base Station (BS) using Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) in a broadband wireless communication system are provided. The method includes receiving RFID tag information of the MS from an RFID receiver, determining whether the MS is a... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20080293421 - Method and apparatus for processing procedures in selected interlace states in an open state in wireless commnunication system: A method and apparatus for processing procedures in selected interlace states in an Open state is provided, the method comprising determining if a SelectedInterlaceOn state is entered, generating a SelectedInterlaceEnabled indication and placing the most recent SelectedInterlaceAssignment message in the public data.... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin LLP

20080293422 - System and method for updating a sleep id of a mobile station in a bwa communication system: A system and method for updating a sleep identifier (SLPID) of a mobile station (MS) in a broadband wireless access (BWA) communication system having a sleep mode in which there is no transmission data and an awake mode in which there is transmission data. Upon recognizing a need to update... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080293424 - Method and apparatus for allocating ackch resources in a wireless communication system: A method for allocating physical resources to an Acknowledgement (ACK)/Negative Acknowledgement (NACK) signal channel representative of a response signal in a wireless communication system. The method includes grouping ACK/NACK signal channels corresponding to a plurality of resource blocks used for transmission of a data channel or a control channel into... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080293426 - Method and apparatus for discontinuous transmission/reception operation for reducing power consumption in celluar system: Provided is a method and apparatus for discontinuously transmitting/receiving packets for low-power consumption of a terminal in a cellular system for packet transmission. The present research provides a method and apparatus that can perform a low-power consuming operation when a terminal is in active state in a cellular system. The... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080293423 - Method of transmitting a measurement report in a wireless mobile communications system: In a wireless mobile communications system, a method of transmitting a measurement report to a network. The network transmits in advance, a message including the allocated uplink radio resources and the like, to the terminal so that the terminal can transmit the measurement report to the network using the previously... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20080293425 - Portable wireless communication system: A wireless communication system operates without a base station and allows effective real time conferencing between two or more units. A particular communication protocol used by the devices synchronizes the signals. Received signals are combined to provide the full conferencing feature.... Agent: Dennison Associates

20080293427 - System and method for mobile originated optimal call routing: A system and method is disclosed that provides dynamic and optimal call routing functionality for originating calls from a mobile to the callee party involving alternate network access points and call routing based on considerations such as caller and callee device type, type of available network connections, caller preference, callee... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080293428 - Adaptive and scalable qos architecture for multi-bearer multicast/broadcast services: The invention relates to a method for filtering and a network entity of the core network or the radio access network of a mobile communication system filtering streams belonging to a single user service. The packet streams, each being transported by a bearer service, provide a multicast or broadcast service... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC

20080293429 - Method and apparatus for providing deferable data services in a cellular communication system: A communication system, upon receiving an instruction to transfer deferrable data, determines whether an air interface is congested and, when the air interface is congested, defers a transfer of the deferrable data or transfers the deferrable, lower priority data as higher priority data. When, during a transfer of deferrable data,... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080293434 - Determining approximate locations of network devices that are inaccessible to gps signals: Methods, apparatus, and computer program products for determining approximate locations of network devices. Information is received concerning last known locations of portable network devices that attach to a network, and used to compute an approximate location of an obscured network device attached to the network. In some embodiments, the last... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080293433 - Discovering cellular network elements: The present disclosure includes a system and method for discovering network elements. In some implementations, a method includes identifying information indicating a location of a femtocell device. A communication node associated with the femtocell device is identified. A Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) message including the location information is transmitted to... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080293432 - Location information to identify known location for internet phone: A mobile phone includes the ability to place calls using a voice over Internet protocol. Location information is provided from the phone itself which can be used to identify the location of the mobile phone.... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080293430 - Method, apparatus and computer program product for a social route planner: An apparatus for a social route planner may include a processing element. The processing element may be configured to generate social information classifications with respect to other devices, request routing information from a server, receive routing information including at least one candidate route associated with social information provided at least... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080293431 - Systems, devices and methods for location determination: In part, the invention relates to a method for generating location data using a wireless mobile device, the wireless mobile device adapted to communicate with a plurality of location services, each service associated with one of a plurality of networks. In one embodiment, the method comprises the steps of: selecting... Agent: K&l Gates LLP

20080293435 - Method and apparatus to select an optimum site and/or sector to provide geo-location data: A system and method selects secondary base stations to task that provide geo-location information used to geo-locate a mobile station. A network overlay location system may be co-located at base station sites of a wireless communications network. The location measurement units of the network overlay system provide location information of... Agent: Duane Morris LLP

20080293436 - Methods and apparatus for adjusting the quality of service related to location determination in a wireless communication device: Methods, systems, devices and computer program products for executing a predetermined routine including one or more location determination modes to determine a geographic position, i.e., the location of a wireless communication device. In certain aspects, the predetermined routine may be configured to adjust the Quality of Service (QoS) for one... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080293440 - Access terminal paging improvements: A method, apparatus, and system are disclosed providing improved paging procedures in a wireless communication system. In one embodiment, a Power-down Registration signal is transmitted via a 1×RTT modem from an Access Terminal (AT) to an Access Network (AN) in a wireless communication system that includes both a 1×RTT modem... Agent: Martin J. Jaquez, Esq. Jaquez & Associates

20080293439 - Associated paging indicator: A receiver for receiving wireless communication signals from a transmitter is arranged to operate in one of a plurality of states. The receiver is arranged to perform a state transition from the current state to another state among the plurality of states upon reception of a Paging Indicator Signal. The... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080293438 - Method of use for a quick paging system: A method and apparatus of a waking up a communication unit (102-104) from a sleep mode is disclosed. The method includes determining the power resources of a communication unit. The communication unit monitors a quick paging channel and a paging channel when the power resources of the communication unit a... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080293437 - Reducing paging response time in a wireless communication system: A method and wireless communication system to reduce paging response time for a target mobile station (MS) operable using slotted and unslotted modes in multiple paging location areas of the system includes a first step 300 of receiving a paging request message for the MS. A next step 302 includes... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080293442 - Broadcast message service method in mobile communication terminal: A broadcast message service system and method comprises transmitting a broadcast message including information designating receivers' phone numbers and whether or not each receiver's phone number is to be opened once received, content of the broadcast message is certified and so is the opened receivers' phone numbers. Other receivers' phone... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20080293443 - Live media subscription framework for mobile devices: A subscription-based system provides transcribed audio information to one or more mobile devices. Some techniques feature a system for providing subscription services for currently-generated (e.g., not stored) information (e.g., caption information, transcribed audio) for one or more mobile devices for a live/current audio event. There can be a communication network... Agent: Gaspar Sanabria

20080293441 - Method for retrieving and delivering multimedia messages using the session initiation protocol: A method for retrieving an MMS message, to be executed at an MMS User Agent, involves: generating an MMS subscription request; sending said MMS subscription request to an MMS server; receiving an MMS notification of an MMS message from the MMS server; in response to receiving said MMS notification, generating... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080293444 - Method for power control in a wireless station: The present invention relates to a power control method in a wireless station and a wireless station implementing said method. A transmission power is selected for transmission of a signal (e.g. a Request to Send control frame or a Clear to Send control frame) locally reserving a wireless medium for... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080293445 - Radio frequency apparatus: A radio frequency apparatus comprising an interface configured to receive a command from a radio protocol stack. A command generator configured to generate a plurality of commands from said received command is provided. The apparatus also has configurable hardware, said hardware having a configuration which is controlled in dependence on... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080293446 - Fully integrated rf transceiver integrated circuit: 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

20080293447 - Rf integrated circuit having an on-chip pressure sensing circuit: An integrated circuit includes a on-chip pressure sensing circuit that generates a pressure signal based on a pressure of the integrated circuit. An RF transceiver generates an outbound RF signal from outbound data and to generate inbound data from an inbound RF signal, based on the pressure signal.... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080293448 - Assisted lookup of contacting identifiers: According to the invention a first communication device investigates if there is an entry of a contacting identifier received in the device in a contacts register. In case there is no such entry it locates, in the contacts register, communication devices in a set of communication devices providing a lookup... Agent: Harrity & Harrity, LLP

20080293449 - Method and system for partitioning a device into domains to optimize power consumption: Methods and systems for partitioning a device to optimize power consumption are disclosed and may include partitioning circuitry within an integrated circuit into a plurality of power domains, wherein each of the domains includes different power consumption and handling requirements and a processor. A processor in one of the domains... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080293450 - Consumption of items via a user device: An item-providing system supplies items to a user device for consumption at the user device via communication infrastructure. In one illustrative implementation, the communication infrastructure may rely, in part, on wireless communication. The device may correspond to a book reader device or other type of device.... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20080293451 - Sectorisation of cellular radio: An antenna installation for cellular radio has four antennas ANT 1A, ANT 1B, ANT 2 and ANT 3 mounted on respective sides of a rectangular support 48 and giving rise to four antenna coverage sectors 1A and 1B and sectors 2 and 3. A splitter/combiner unit (SCU) receives three signals... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20080293452 - Handheld electronic device providing an alert when additional user action is required to initiate an outgoing phone call, and associated method: A method of facilitating the initiation of an outgoing phone call on a handheld electronic device including receiving a request to initiate the outgoing phone call and determining whether additional user action is required in order to initiate the outgoing phone call. If it is determined that additional user action... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20080293453 - Method and apparatus for an audio-linked remote indicator for a wireless communication device: A remote ring monitor for a mobile communications device comprises an audio sensor to detect a sound signal emitted by the monitored device and one or more indicators which may provide visual, auditory or tactile alert signals to the user. A plurality of indicators may be used to indicate various... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri, L.L.P.

20080293454 - Communication apparatus: A communication apparatus for performing a communication with other communication apparatus by using identification information, includes a housing, a plurality of grounding terminals which are respectively connected to one ends of internal grounding lines provided within the housing for connecting to an external grounding line outside the housing, a grounding... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20080293455 - Energy source communication employing slot antenna: The invention relates to a wireless communication device that is coupled to an energy source, such as a battery, capacitor, or solar cell. The wireless communication device is coupled to an antenna of the energy source for wireless communication. The antenna receives communication signals from an interrogation reader or other... Agent: Christensen O'connor Johnson Kindness PLLC

20080293456 - Mobile phone: A battery cover of a mobile phone includes an input interface formed on one side thereof; and a wireless transmission module. The input interface is capable of operating thereon, and the wireless transmission module is capable of conducting wireless communication between the battery cover and the mobile phone when the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080293457 - Mobile phone: A mobile phone includes a housing and a keypad module. The keypad module is mounted detachably on the housing. The keypad module is double-sided and has a first user interface and a second user interface formed on two corresponding sides for providing operations different from each other.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080293458 - Pads for improved manual grip of a portable electronic device: Pads provide an improved manual grip upon a portable electronic device, such as a cell phone, where at least one pad adheres to the casing of the cell phone, and upon an adjacent edge. When gripping a cell phone, a user generates friction between the hand of the user and... Agent: Charles C. Mccloskey

20080293459 - Communication device: A communication device includes a first casing, a second casing, a hinge, a keyboard and an antenna. The hinge is connected to the first casing and the second casing, so that the first casing is capable of rotating with respect to the second casing. The keyboard for inputting data is... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080287057 - Method and apparatus for providing multimedia broadcasting multicasting services: A method of providing multimedia broadcast multicast services (MBMS) over a communication system that comprises a shared network and a proprietary network comprises allocating a first portion of logic elements of a broadcast multicast service centre (BM-SC) to support MBMS content delivery over the shared network and allocating a second... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080287056 - System and method for providing wireless network services using three-dimensional access zones: A system and method for providing wireless network services using three-dimensional access zones is provided. One or more sensors may determine signal strength information, distance, or other positional information for wireless devices. An agent may provide information relating to fixed wireless reference points, and may control underlying operating systems for... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080287058 - System and method for peer-to-peer datacasting in a broadcasting network: A system and method for peer-to-peer datacasting in a broadcasting network is disclosed. The method may include providing first and second peers and a source, wherein the first and second peers are configured to communicate data with the source via the broadcasting network, wherein each of the first and second... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080287059 - Video/audio system and method enabling a user to select different views and sounds associated with an event: A video/audio system includes an interface device that receives a plurality of audio and video signals from a plurality of sources. The interface device combines these signals into various combinations and transmits the combinations to a receiver. The receiver is configured to interface one of the combinations of signals with... Agent: The Small Patent Law Group LLP

20080287061 - Communication apparatus: The present invention provides a communication apparatus being in directly contact with a human body and using the human body as a transmission channel for data communication. The communication apparatus attached to the human body transmits a signal in the form of a current, receives a signal transmitted from another... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080287060 - Electronic equipment for a wireless communication system and method for operating an electronic equipment for a wireless communication system: The present invention relates to an electronic equipment for a wireless communication system comprising a near field interface (4) for exchanging contact information with at least one further electronic equipment via near field communication, said contact information serving for communicating within the wireless communication system, a group editing means (3)... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080287064 - Automatic in-vehicle mobile device detection: A system and method for automatically configuring a communications system between a local mode in which a local communications device (such as an in-vehicle device or “land-line phone”) is active and a remote mode in which a mobile communications device is active and coupled to the communications system. One example... Agent: Lowrie, Lando & Anastasi, LLP

20080287063 - Controller integrated audio codec for advanced audio distribution profile audio streaming applications: A novel and useful apparatus for and method of integrating the advanced audio distribution profile (A2DP) audio codec into a Bluetooth controller for audio streaming applications. The mechanism functions to break the prior art Bluetooth protocol stack by integrating a profile packet composer into the controller. The profile/stack control signaling... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080287062 - Exclusive pairing technique for bluetooth compliant devices: A method and system of establishing communications between at least two independent software modules in a safety critical system, such as a medical system, is provided. The design comprises providing an exclusive Bluetooth connection between at least two wireless devices. A master wireless device is configured with Bluetooth master device... Agent: Advanced Medical Optics, Inc.

20080287065 - Device playback using radio transmission: Implementations related to media playback and storage devices are presented herein.... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20080287066 - Radio communication apparatus and method: A radio communication apparatus which uses a first radio communication system that makes a radio communication by sharing frequencies with a second radio communication system, the apparatus includes a detection unit configured to detect an available frequency channel which fails to be used by the second radio communication system in... Agent: Charles N.j. Ruggiero, Esq. Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.L.P.

20080287067 - System for controlling wireless communication between portable device and communication controller: A portable device for preventing communication errors caused by disturbance such as noise. The portable device receives a first request signal from a communication controller and transmits a first response signal corresponding to the first request signal. A transmitter transmits the first response signal with a selected one of a... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20080287068 - Multicarrier techniques for wireless systems: Multicarrier techniques for wireless communications system are described. An apparatus may comprise a carrier management module to define a primary carrier for use by a multicarrier communications system to communicate control information, and a secondary carrier for use by the multicarrier communications system to communicate media information, with the secondary... Agent: Kacvinsky LLC C/o Intellevate

20080287069 - Wireless communication apparatus, program, wireless communication method and wireless communication system: A wireless communication apparatus includes a transmitting portion to transmit a data signal to other wireless communication apparatus, a receiving portion to receive a reception confirmation signal indicating reception of the data signal by the other wireless communication apparatus from the other wireless communication apparatus during a specified period, a... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080287072 - Detecting a signal in the presence of noise: In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for receiving an incoming radio frequency (RF) signal in a receiver, estimating a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of a constant modulus (CM) signal in the incoming RF signal based on a calculated magnitude of the incoming RF signal, and indicating presence of... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20080287071 - Expandable wireless transceiver: An expandable wireless transceiver is provided. The expandable wireless transceiver includes an antenna, a receiver, a transmitter and a switch connector. The antenna detects an electromagnetic signal in surrounding space and receives a signal with a first central frequency according to the detection result. The receiver receives the signal based... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20080287070 - Phone service processor: An integrated circuit radio transceiver and method therefor includes primary transceiver operation circuitry. In addition to routine transceiver circuitry, the radio transceiver includes a service processor module operable to support redundant operations to facilitate any one of monitoring, test, device management and boot-up sequence functions of the primary transceiver operation... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080287073 - Clock generation circuit and semiconductor device provided therewith: It is an object of the present invention to solve a problem that malfunction of communication is generated by varying a frequency of a clock due to noise from outside in a case where there is no supplied signal in a circuit which performs negative feedback control so that the... Agent: Eric Robinson

20080287074 - Cell phone based vehicle control system: A cell phone based vehicle control system includes a vehicle having an electronic network for the vehicle's electrical devices. A data interface module is serially connected to a central processing module and the electronic network. A transceiver module is serially connected to the central processing module and the data interface... Agent: Belasco, Jacobs & Townsley LLP Howard Hughes Center

20080287075 - Transposed structure for cyclic delay diversity (cdd) based precoding: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate applying cyclic delay diversity (CDD) and precoding to wireless transmissions. In particular, data vectors to be transmitted to a number of receive antennas of a receiver can be transformed to a virtual antenna domain. CDD can be applied to this domain followed by... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080287076 - Compact wide dynamic range transmitter for point to point radio: A radio frequency transmitter comprising a modem which receives one or more input data signals and an adaptive predistortion signal and provides a baseband in-phase signal and a baseband quadrature signal. The transmitter may comprise a power amplifier module which receives the in-phase and quadrature phase signals and provides a... Agent: Thelen LLP

20080287077 - Method and apparatus for cartesian error feedback: A method of reducing distortion in the output of an amplifier is provided. The method comprises subtractively combining baseband error signals with the appropriate phase shift with baseband input signals, the baseband error signals generated by subtractively combining delayed fed-forward portions of the baseband input signals with baseband converted portions... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080287078 - Terminal and method for controlling transmission power: A terminal of a communication system includes a power amplifier, an open-loop power controller, a gain controller, a modulator, and a digital/analog converter. The power amplifier amplifies transmission power of a transmission signal. The open-loop power controller measures a received signal strength to control the transmission power, and increases a... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20080287079 - Transmitter, rf transmitter signal processor and method for operation of transmitter: An internal operation of RF IC is adjusted so that the level of an RF transmitter signal is substantially stopped from rising, or made to descend in course of ramp-up of the RF transmitter signal. This adjustment is enabled by ramp-up adjustment data Last 4 symbols contained in preamble data... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080287080 - Methods of operating a mobile terminal such that a communication operation mode is changed based on a current voltage of a battery that powers the mobile terminal and related mobile terminals and computer program products: A mobile terminal having a plurality of communication operation modes is operated by determining a current communication operation mode of the plurality of communication operation modes of the mobile terminal, determining a current voltage of a battery that powers the mobile terminal, comparing the current voltage of the battery with... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20080287081 - Receiver for receiving multiple standards: A receiver is arranged to receive at least two RF signals (51,52). A first RF signal of the at least two radio frequency signals (S] 5S2) is having a first center frequency, whilst a second signal of the at least two RF radio frequency signals (si,s2) is having a second... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080287082 - Method and apparatus to improve network acquisition: The present invention provides architectures and methods which use multiple radio receive chains in mobile devices to provide enhanced performance, such as when acquiring and maintaining network access. A plurality of receive chains simultaneously perform signal level measurements across one or more measurement cycles. The number of RF channels upon... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080287083 - Broadcast receiver having integrated spectrum analysis: A receiver for receiving a broadcast channel comprising a spectrum analyzer physically integrated into the receiver and operative to receive an intermediate frequency signal and process the spectral contents of the receive signal.... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080287084 - Antenna device and portable radio communication device comprising such antenna device: An antenna device for a portable radio communication device adapted for receiving radio signals comprises an internal radiating element (10) comprising at least one feeding portion (21, 22) connected to a receiver circuit (40). The radiating element (10) comprises an electrical impedance (30) that is controllable in dependence on the... Agent: Holland & Hart, LLP

20080287085 - Rf front-end for a radar system: An RF sender/receiver front-end is disclosed comprising a terminal for receiving an oscillator signal, at least one distribution unit for distributing the oscillator signal into different signal paths, two or more mixer-arrangements for sending a transmit-signal or for receiving an receive-signal, where each mixer-arrangement comprises a mixer and an amplifier... Agent: Maginot, Moore & Beck

20080287086 - Noise suppression apparatus, fm receiving apparatus and fm receiving apparatus adjustment method: Variations in characteristics due to individual differences among RFs cause differences between estimated noise spectrum patterns and actually occurring noise characteristics, resulting in variations in noise suppression capabilities. A pattern table stores, in advance, a spectrum pattern of a noise component contained in an audio signal and which is determined... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080287087 - Merged high pass filtering and down-converting mixer circuit: According to one exemplary embodiment, a mixer circuit comprises first and second switching branches driven by a local oscillator and an input radio frequency (RF) signal. The mixer circuit further comprises at least one capacitor coupled between the first and second switching branches for high-pass filtering of a down-converted output... Agent: Farjami & Farjami LLP

20080287088 - Subharmonically pumped mixer: The present invention relates to a sub-harmonically pumped conversion mixer arrangement comprising a transistor arrangement and transistor terminals for application of a local oscillator, LO-, signal and application of a radio frequency, RF-, signal and for extraction of a mixed intermediate frequency, IF-, signal. The transistor arrangement comprises at least... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080287089 - Input filter for image frequency suppression: An input filter is provided for a superheterodyne receiver for image frequency suppression and a method for operating a superheterodyne receiver. The input filter for a superheterodyne receiver includes a first filter circuit with bandpass characteristics and a center frequency that can be preset as a function of a desired... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20080287090 - Semiconductor integrated circuit device: The present invention is to provide a technique which optimizes a gate resistor of a bias circuit to thereby make it possible to greatly improve a distortion characteristic of a power amplifier. A bias circuit used as for biasing the gate of a final-stage power transistor is included in a... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080287091 - Method and system for discontinuous reception de-synchronization detection and recovery: A method and apparatus for recovery from discontinuous reception desynchronization, the method having the steps of: determining a most recent time that an explicit message indicating a change from an old discontinuous reception period to a new discontinuous reception period was sent; adding to the most recent time that the... Agent: Research In Motion Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20080287092 - Vehicle message addressing: A vehicle messaging method (600) and system (100) can include any number of data sources (101-103), an interface (104) that formats messages and addresses from the data sources, and a corresponding number of messaging servers (111-113) that receive targeted messages intended for a predetermined subset of subscribers associated with a... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080287093 - Retrofit automobile radio for older automobiles: A replacement or retrofit radio which can be used to replace a wide range of older automobile radios and fit into an almost unlimited number of dashboard configurations comprises a radio case or enclosure having a display sized to fit into most original automobile dashboard radio display openings. Separate control... Agent: Thorpe North & Western, LLP.

20080287096 - Access control: A monitoring device makes decision on whether a service requested by a consumer is a sponsored service to the specific consumer or not based on sponsoring rules, i.e. the delivery of the requested service to the consumer can be sponsored if a sponsoring value of the consumer is sufficient in... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20080287094 - Authorization and authentication of user access to a distributed network communication system with roaming feature: A system and method for providing roaming access on a network are disclosed. The network includes a plurality of wireless and/or wired access points. A user may access the network by using client software on a client computer (e.g., a portable computing device) to initiate an access procedure. In response,... Agent: Jeffrey C. Hood Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel PC

20080287097 - Method and system for automatic calling unit replenishment: A method for automatically replenishing vehicle calling units is disclosed herein. The method includes selecting, in response to a user input, a call unit rate plan including parameters designating automatic replenishment of calling units for loading into a telematics unit. A calling plan configuration signal is transmitted to the telematics... Agent: Julia Church Dierker Dierker & Associates, P.C.

20080287095 - Systems and methods for generation, registration and mobile phone billing of a network-enabled application with one-time opt-in: A method of providing a service to a customer comprises receiving a request by a customer for an item of content, providing to the customer an option to subscribe to a service for a limited time, if the customer opts to subscribe, then providing the service for the limited time,... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP Patent Department

20080287098 - Mobile content access and transmission method using hyperlink message, and mobile terminal, mobile communication provider server and content provider server for the same: Disclosed herein are a mobile contents access, transmission and reception method using a hyperlink message, the method allowing predetermined contents to be displayed or to be activated when a hyperlink of the hyperlink message is selected, the hyperlink message includes hyperlink information designating a connection point at which the contents... Agent: Holme Roberts & Owen LLP

20080287099 - System and method for managing charges and airtime values for cellular phones and accounts: A system and method for managing calling values of calls to be charged to a call receiving party by associating a first code, such as a telephone number, inputted by a caller placing a call with the call receiving party at a call receiver platform and determining the amount that... Agent: Leason Ellis LLP

20080287103 - Electronic device and computer-readable medium: A CPU 11, in the condition where the limited mode is not set, outputs the data arbitrarily selected by a user operation from a display unit 18 and a sound speaker 23, and in the condition where the limited mode is set, predetermined data is output instead of data specified... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20080287102 - Method and system for managing mobility of mobile station in a mobile communication system using mobile ip: A method and system for managing mobility of an MS in a mobile communication system using Mobile IP are provided. It is determined whether to generate an authentication key for mutual authentication between the MS and an HA after access authentication with an AG. The authentication key is generated, if... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080287101 - Method for generating a pseudo-esn in mobile communication: In generating a pseudo terminal identifier (pseudo-ESN; pseudo-Electronic Serial Number), a pseudo terminal identifier generating method includes the steps of generating a first configuration code by hashing a mobile equipment identifier (MEID), selecting a second configuration code from codes not used as an electronic serial number (ESN), and generating the... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080287100 - Mobile account access through a data processing system: A system, method and apparatus of mobile account access through a data processing system are disclosed. In one embodiment, a system includes a personal computer coupled to a network, a mobile service provider module of a mobile network to provide access to a mobile account, to verify that the mobile... Agent: Raj Abhyanker, LLP C/o Intellevate

20080287105 - Communication system, user device thereof and synchronization method thereof: A communication system, user device thereof, and a synchronization method thereof are provided. The communication system includes a user device and a wireless network. The wireless network transmits a RRC re-configuration message containing ciphering configuration information to a user device on a logical link. The user device suspends all measurement... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080287104 - Method for smm capability distribution: The invention relates a method for automatically distributing a message comprising Multimedia Service Capability information of a user terminal in a cellular mobile radio telecommunication system supporting simultaneous circuit switched (CS domain) and package switched (PS domain) connections between user terminals The method comprises the step of sending the message... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080287106 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing subscriber-controlled message service message delivery using a dynamic mailbox service: According to one aspect, the subject matter described herein comprises methods, systems, and computer program products for providing subscriber-controlled message service message delivery using a dynamic mailbox service. One method includes receiving a message service message destined for a subscriber and forwarding the message service message to a mailbox application... Agent: Jenkins, Wilson, Taylor & Hunt, P. A.

20080287110 - Cellular communications system for providing non-real time subscription data and related methods: A cellular communications system may include a plurality of mobile cellular communications devices each associated with a respective user, and at least one cellular base station for wirelessly communicating with the mobile cellular communications devices. The at least one cellular base station may have a capacity associated therewith. The system... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20080287108 - Guiding system and method for guiding wireless communication device in wireless communication network: The invention provides a method for guiding a mobile communication device in a wireless communication network. At first, the method according to the invention determines a plurality of referenced positions covered in the wireless communication network. Afterward, the method obtains a plurality of communication quality parameters which each corresponds to... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20080287111 - Method and system for the prevention of unwanted wireless telecommunications: A method and system for the prevention of unwanted wireless telecommunications, which is implemented as part of a computer program product in (preferentially) the telecommunications operator's network. The method and system meets and/or exceeds much of current, proposed, and even academically anticipated legislative (and by necessity, technical) criteria, and thus... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP (c/o Patent Administrator)

20080287109 - Service escrowed transportable wireless event reporting system: A portable service escrowed event reporting system that may be sold through mass-market sales channels. Communications between a consumer and the provider of the event reporting system are not required in advance of the system being purchased by the consumer. After purchase of the system by the consumer, the system... Agent: King & Spalding LLP

20080287107 - System and method for providing advertisements over a communication network utilizing shared-revenue incentives: Systems and methods for adverting over a communication network are disclosed. Generally, an attempt by a first communication device to communicate with a second communication device is detected. An advertisement is sent to the first communication device and an indication is stored in an account record associated with the second... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Yahoo! Overture

20080287112 - Systems and methods for locating cellular phones and security measures for the same: Systems and methods for locating a cellular phone are provided. More particularly, systems and methods for providing the location of a requested user's cellular phone from a requesting user's device (e.g., a second cellular phone) based on access rights defined by the requested user. Location descriptions may be provided at... Agent: Jeffrey D. Mullen

20080287114 - Adaptive resource handling for radio link reconfigurations: The present invention relates to a method and arrangement in a radio base station (122,133) of a telecommunication system (100) to achieve an adaptive resource handling for quasi-synchronised reconfigurations of radio bearers and transport channels. In response to a received message to prepare a synchronised radio link reconfiguration, the radio... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080287113 - Allocation system and method: A method of recording allocation of resources in response to a request for a data item to be transmitted to a device in the network where the request comprises data indicative of one or more requested items. The device is typically a mobile device and the requested items can be... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080287115 - Methods and apparatuses for programming user-defined information into electronic devices: A device for programming user-defined information into an electronic device is provided. The programmer allows a user to program customized information, such as user-selected audio, video, or Internet access information into his or her programmable device. Such electronic devices include wireless telephones, pagers, and personal digital assistants. The programmer allows... Agent: Mccarter & English, LLP

20080287118 - Method, apparatus and computer program for anonymization of identification data: The invention allows anonymization of identification data items associated with telecommunication traffic measurement data that is fast, secure, and easy to use with distributed traffic measurements. Acquired identification data item is input as an initialization vector to a block cipher. The block cipher is executed to output a ciphertext. The... Agent: Fasth Law Offices (rolf Fasth)

20080287116 - Radio mobile unit location system: Disclosed is a method for locating a mobile radio unit within a mobile radio communications network. The method provides for the calculation of network variables such as a Real Time Difference (RTD) between network elements, from measurements already available to the network from, for example, handovers between network elements. The... Agent: Jones Day

20080287117 - System for testing an embedded wireless transceiver: A test equipment for testing a wireless communication device includes a wireless transceiver and a controller. The wireless transceiver transmits a first series of packets while operating in a first mode. The wireless transceiver transmits a second series of packets while operating in a second mode. The wireless transceiver receives... Agent: Vedder Price P.C.

20080287120 - Method of managing queuing operation for a wireless communications system and related apparatus: A method of managing a queuing operation of a user equipment, known as UE, in a paging state for a network terminal of a wireless communications system includes, through a cell update procedure, queuing the UE at a frequency carrier where the UE currently camps and keeping the UE in... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080287119 - Mobile radio terminal: A location registration control unit stores PSC used in a roaming prohibition cell in a prohibition cell list storage area. After that, if the reselection of cells is required for the reason that the receiving conditions become worse or other reasons, a reselection control unit detects PSC of neighbor cells,... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080287121 - Method and apparatus for remote service of an appliance: An appliance network has a service key accessory to facilitate remote diagnosis and service of an appliance.... Agent: Whirlpool Patents Company - Md 0750

20080287122 - Method and system of sharing a controller for a combined cellular phone and satellite radio: A method (300) and system (100) for sharing a controller for a combined cellular phone and satellite radio includes a cellular phone module (102), a satellite radio module (106), and a controller module (108) having a digital signal processor (120) shared by the cellular and satellite modules. A base band... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080287123 - System and method for processing satellite communication data: The present invention provides an apparatus and method for intercepting and monitoring communications between target mobiles and a main station of a satellite communication system, wherein communication between the mobiles and a satellite is achieved by using a first-band spot beams, chosen by the mobiles and wherein communication between the... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20080287124 - Systems, methods and devices for reusing spectrum of another operator: A system according to some embodiments includes a first transceiver configured to transmit downlink signals to, and to receive uplink signals from, a first plurality of mobile terminals in a geographic area using a telecommunications resource, and a resource coordination controller coupled to the first transceiver and configured to communicate... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20080287126 - Method of managing queuing operation for a wireless communications system and related apparatus: A method of managing a queuing operation corresponding to a cell update procedure for a user equipment of a wireless communications system includes initiating the cell update procedure, entering a waiting state of the queuing operation according to a received response message corresponding to the cell update procedure, and re-initiating... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080287125 - Methods and apparatus for selecting a communication network: A mobile communication device is adapted to provide voice communications with use of a voice service and data communications with use of a data service. The mobile device maintains a preferred network list as well as a service access list in its memory. The preferred network list has a listing... Agent: John J. Oskorep, Esq. One Magnificent Mile Center

20080287127 - Forward access channel measurement occasion scheduling device: A wireless device (105) for scheduling a forward access channel measurement occasion (FMO) includes a transmitter (202) to transmit radio signals required to perform random access channel (RACH) transmission (RACHing) and report the results of cell measurements. A receiver receives radio signals required to acquire information blocks, serving cell selection... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080287128 - Server: A service processing server for providing a communication processing service with an information providing server, to a cell phone belonging to a network capable of identifying subordinate cell phones, and including an application receiving part for receiving first communication terminal-specific information to specify a specific cell phone, and service-specific information... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080287130 - Base station base methods and apparatus for supporting break before making handoffs in a multi-carrier system: A mobile communications device initiates a handoff from its current base station (BS) sector network attachment point to a new BS sector. The mobile sends a handoff request over its current wireless link to the current BS sector, which forwards the request to the new BS sector, e.g., via a... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080287129 - Cell reselection and handover with multimedia broadcast/multicast service: A method and apparatus for providing wireless communication services, (e.g., multimedia broadcast multicast services (MBMS)), are disclosed. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) detects a plurality of target cell evolved Node-Bs (eNodeBs) that neighbor a serving cell eNodeB. The WTRU evaluates cell reselection criteria and determines a neighboring target cell eNodeB... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080287131 - Mixed mobile communication system of asynchronous communication network and synchronous communication network having handover function of mobile communication terminal, and handover method in the same: In the mobile communication system, asynchronous and synchronous Mobile Switching Centers (MSCs) are interconnected via an Interworking Interoperability Function (HF), and are connected to a Dual stack Home Location Register (D-HLR). The D-HLR stores and manages asynchronous subscription and synchronous subscription information of the mobile communication terminal. The HF stores... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080287132 - Method, computer program and base station for prediction based allocation of processing resources in a non-serving base station: The present invention relates to a base station and a method in a mobile telecommunication network for allocating and de-allocating uplink base station processing resources to a mobile terminal. The base station are adapted to communicate to a mobile terminal on an uplink channel supporting macro-diversity, and the base station... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080287133 - Soft handoff system, mobile terminal having the same, and soft handoff method: Disclosed are a soft handoff system, a soft handoff method, and a mobile terminal equipped with the soft handoff system. The soft handoff system for a mobile terminal analyzes periodically monitored wireless conditions of neighbor base stations, transmits a PSMM (Pilot Strength Measurement Message) to a current base station when... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20080287135 - Communication scheme with arbitration mechanism for cases of address initialization and server setting: The other communication devices are prohibited to transmit the address initialization request for a prescribed period of time since one communication device transmitted the address initialization request for an address managed by a control protocol, so that the conflict of the initialization requests for the same address will not occur... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080287134 - Reducing mobile-terminated call set up by identifying and mitigating overlap between paging and system information broadcast: In a Universal Mobile Telecommunications (UMTS) system, a mobile device reads scheduling information for uplink interference (SIB7) from a Master Information Block, broadcasted on the Broadcast Channel (BCCH). The UE wakes up from the sleep during its periodic paging occasions and reads the paging indicator channel (PICH). If the UE... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080287136 - Node b-control-proxy: The present invention relates to a first node and a second node in a mobile telecommunication network. The network comprises a first node, a second node and a third node, wherein the first node is connectable to the second node and the second node is connectable to the first node... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080287137 - Method for allocating radio resource in multi-carrier time division duplex mobile communication system: A method for distributing wireless resource in multicarrier time division duplexing mobile communication system, such as TD-CDMA system, to overcome the shortage of 3GPP single carrier cell channel distribution technology of covering more lager area in composing cellular system, which contains using an area of covering same or almost same... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20080287138 - Method for requesting and reporting channel quality information in wireless system and apparatus thereof: The subscriber station of claim 15, wherein the uplink data includes data to be transmitted, and a header having information on the data and the subscriber, and the uplink data generator adds the subheader includDisclosed is a method and device for requesting and reporting channel quality information in a mobile... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080287139 - System and method for estimating the location of a mobile station in communications networks: A system and method for estimating the location of a mobile station that receives signals from a plurality of base stations. An estimated location of a mobile station may be determined through any number of or combination of location technologies. Network measurements such as observed time difference values and/or a... Agent: Duane Morris LLP

20080287140 - Network based location measurement method and system using pcell database: The present invention provides a network-based location measurement method using a pCELL database, comprising the steps of establishing a pCELL database in which a location measurement service target area is divided into lattices each having a predetermined size; continuously determining whether a request for location measurement occurs by a service... Agent: Baker & Hostetler LLP Attn: Jim Coffman

20080287141 - Method and device for optimizing the radio transmission of data between a vehicle and an external remote station: Control of the transmission of data between a vehicle and an external remote station that functions as a data source or data sink is geographically and temporally planned in order to achieve an optimization of the data transmission. In the planning of the data transmission, information is taken into account... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080287142 - Location dependent content provision: A method of providing location dependent content to an end station using a base station. The base station receives from an end station and via a communications network, a content request, and an identifier indicative of an identity of the end station. The base station then authenticates the user or... Agent: Jones Day

20080287143 - System and method for tracking the relative location of mobile stations belonging to a pre-defined group of mobile stations: Embodiments of the present invention are related to a method and apparatus for determining whether each mobile station in a pre-defined group of two or more mobile stations is in compliance with acceptable location criteria. A group tracking server receives mobile station tracking information including a mobile station identifier for... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080287144 - Vehicles as nodes of wireless sensor networks for information collection & prognostication: A system and method are provided that use mobile sensor nodes for monitoring of mobile assets and one or more mobile sensor nodes have mobility that is unpredictable to a wireless network. The mobile sensor nodes collect data with the goal of monitoring the environment including weather and pollution, biological... Agent: Aginova Inc

20080287145 - Method for increasing system capacity and wireless device battery life by selection of delay gap between qpc message and page message: A method in a wireless communication system (100) dynamically updates paging gap times (314, 324) associated with a plurality of addresses (312, 322) of at least one wireless device (110) in a two phase paging system included in the wireless communication system (100). The method includes updating a first paging... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080287146 - Method of paging and late-entry after establishing group call: The present invention discloses a method for Late-Entry in CDMA or other trunking systems. The method includes the following steps: after a group call is established, the base station checks the load condition of the paging channel, and if the load on the paging channel is relatively light, then the... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080287151 - Apparatus and method for communicating with an asset monitoring device via text message: A system enables communications between a mobile wireless communication device, such as a cellular phone, and an asset monitoring device using a text messaging protocol, such as Short Message Service (SMS). A command text message is entered on the mobile wireless device including a serial number of the asset monitoring... Agent: Luedeka, Neely & Graham, P.C.

20080287147 - Haptically enabled messaging: A mobile terminal device receives a haptically enabled message that includes text and at least one haptic feedback command. The device determines the timing of the haptic feedback command within the message. When the device receives an indication that the message is being displayed by a user, the device synchronizes... Agent: Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC

20080287149 - Method and system for discontinuous reception de-synchronization detection: A method and apparatus for detecting loss of discontinuous reception synchronization, the method comprising the steps of: finding the shorter of a new discontinuous reception period and an old discontinuous reception period; and sending a message at a multiple of the shorter of the new discontinuous reception period and the... Agent: Research In Motion Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20080287150 - Method and system for inserting advertisment content into a text message: The present invention provides a method and system for inserting advertisement content into a text message. The text message is sent from a first communication device by a subscriber to a recipient via a SMSC. The method for inserting advertisement content into the text message includes changing (302) original SMSC... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20080287148 - System, method, and computer-readable medium for using alternative numbers for routing voice calls and short messages in a communications network: A system, method and computer-readable medium for allowing the use of an alternative numbering plan for delivering short messages to mobile subscribers using the public mobile telephone network is provided. Users of an enterprise or other closed networks as well as users that are not part of a closed network... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20080287152 - Teaching material having identification unit and teaching-material communication system: The present invention provides a teaching material having an identification unit and a teaching-material communication system. The teaching material having the identification unit comprises at least one learning unit and at least one identification unit. The teaching-material communication system comprises at least one transmitting end system and at least one... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20080287153 - Clock synchronization for a wireless communications system: A method of clock synchronization for a wireless communications system includes receiving a radio frequency (RF) signal at a base station and at a network reference server (NRS). The NRS is also coupled to receive a reference clock signal. A clock offset value is then calculated in response to the... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080287154 - Methods and apparatus for push to talk type service: A method for use in a push to talk type service in which a floor is required before a client terminal may distribute a media item to at least one other terminal participating with the client terminal in a push to talk type session. According to the invention, the floor... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080287155 - Multiplexing and power control of uplink control channels in a wireless communication system: Techniques for transmitting control information in a wireless communication system are described. The system may support acknowledgement (ACK) channels and channel quality indicator (CQI) channels, which may have different target signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs). The ACK and CQI channels from different user equipments (UEs) may be multiplexed on the same resource... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080287156 - Radio base station apparatus, radio terminal apparatus, mobile communication system, and reception operation control program: In response to a connection request from a terminal, a base station provides a signal indicating a reception operation adapted to a transmission operation of the base station to the terminal. Based on the indicating signal, the terminal selects and performs the optimum reception operation. The terminal also provides its... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080287157 - Wireless mobile communications terminals and methods using the same: A mobile wireless communications terminal includes a housing having a front side and top and bottom opposed ends. A controller is mounted on the housing. A keypad is located on the front side of the housing. A keypad includes text input keys connected to the controller and selectively operable to... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20080287158 - Method and apparatus for multi-radio traffic arbitration in wireless communication protocols: A method and apparatus of coordinating operation of subsystems implementing different wireless communication protocols is disclosed. The method comprises coordinating operation of a first subsystem implementing a first wireless communication protocol and at least other subsystem implementing at least one other wireless communication protocol by arbitrating between conflicting real time... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080287159 - Communicating with visible person: A method including a seeking person pointing a directed energy transceiver in a communication device towards a sought person, the seeking and sought persons subscribing to a database in which all subscribers are equipped with means to transmit, receive, accept and reject directed energy signals, and the seeking person receiving... Agent: David Klein Dekel Patent Ltd.

20080287160 - Communication system and method, information processing apparatus and method, information processing terminal and method: The present invention relates to a communication system and a method thereof, an information processing apparatus and a method thereof, an information processing terminal and a method thereof, which can start wireless communication easily and promptly. When an electromagnetic wave radiated from a reader/writer of a PDA 2 is received... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080287161 - Cellular communication system for reducing the effects of radiation emitted from cellular phone antennas: A cellular communication system includes a cellphone interface unit that includes a transceiver for low power RF communication; a microphone; an earphone; a display; a keypad; a hub device that includes a transceiver for low power RF communication; an antenna for high power RF communication and circuitry and appropriate software... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20080287162 - Radiotelephone terminal with chip card provided with browser: This invention improves the intelligence of chip cards (SIM) in mobile radiotelephone terminals, so that a subscriber may, through the terminal, easily access databases (DB), attached to a server of services (SV). It facilitates the dialog between a subscriber who owns a mobile radiotelephone terminal and a server of services... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080287163 - Method and apparatus for converting between a multi-sector, omni-base station configuration and a multi-sector base station configuration: A base station includes multiple sector antenna units. Each sector antenna unit has an antenna for receiving a carrier signal associated with an antenna frequency in an available frequency band. The base station is converted between a multiple sector base station configuration and a multi-sector, omni-base station configuration. In a... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080287164 - Weighting a signal received by an antenna array to enhance the signal and suppress interference: b

20080287165 - Portable communicator: This communicator makes it possible for the user to do telephone, facsimile, and data communication at any location. On a pen input device, a space eye 2, a telephone control system, a facsimile control system, and a data transmission system are mounted. All of them are operated by an input... Agent: Davis Bujold & Daniels, P.l.l.c.

20080287166 - Portable bluetooth speaker: A portable Bluetooth speaker includes a Bluetooth module for communicating wirelessly with a Bluetooth communication device and outputting a voice signal, a voice switching module connected with the Bluetooth module for receiving the voice signal, a speaker connected with the Bluetooth module, a wire-receiving unit having a wire slot, a... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080287167 - Method and apparatus for controlling a skin texture surface on a device: A portable electronic device (100) includes a controllable skin texture surface (104) and control logic (200) that is operative to change a tactile configuration of at least a portion of the controllable skin texture surface (104) in response to at least any one (i.e., one or more) of: a received... Agent: Motorola Inc. C/o Vedder Price P.C.

20080287168 - Mobile phone with rotatable connecting apparatus: A mobile phone (100) includes a base (10), a cover (20) and a connecting apparatus (30). The cover is rotatably mounted on the base. The connecting apparatus connects the cover to the base. Either of the base and the cover defines a leading pole (24) and another of them defines... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080287169 - Bidirectional slide-type mobile communication terminal and method of providing graphic user interface thereof: A bidirectional slide-type mobile communication terminal for providing a user interface that changes in real time according to input includes a sensor-equipped lower body and an upper body that slides with respect to the lower body. A method of providing such a graphic user interface includes sensing a sliding movement... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20080287171 - Mobile wireless communications device comprising a top-mounted auxiliary input/output device and a bottom-mounted antenna: A mobile wireless communications device may include a housing having an upper portion and a lower portion, a dielectric substrate carried by the housing, circuitry carried by the dielectric substrate, and an audio output transducer carried by the upper portion of the housing and connected to the circuitry. The device... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20080287170 - Wireless communication apparatus: A wireless communication apparatus is provided. The wireless communication apparatus includes a transceiver and a hanging decoration. The transceiver includes an antenna having a metal area exposed to air. The transceiver receives or transmits electromagnetic signal through the antenna. The hanging decoration is disposed on the wireless communication apparatus and... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20080280555 - Method for optimizing a wireless distribution system: A method for configuring a wireless distribution system is provided. In the method, a target node starts a building procedure and begins to broadcast a building information. A joining node starts a scanning procedure for scanning all channels available and locks one channel used by the target node. The joining... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20080280556 - Control method for a wireless audio/video system: A control method for a wireless audio/video system is disclosed. The control method is used for detecting whether a wireless receiving module receives an invalid signal by an error detection module in an audio/video player and thereby prevents the audio/video player from unable to receive or play the audio/video signal... Agent: Wei-chin Huang

20080280557 - Transmitting/receiving method, transmitter/receiver, and recording medium therefor: A transmitting/receiving method that can easily detect an influence exerted in transmission channels at a transmitter/receiver is provided. An acquiring unit 12 acquires left audio data and right audio data of audio data received by a metadata calculator 1. An adding unit 141 then calculates added data based on an... Agent: Day Pitney LLP

20080280558 - Method for transmitting and receiving data in nfc: A data transmission/reception method in Near Field Communications (NFC) for enhancing data throughput between at least an initiator device and a target device. The data transmission/reception method typically includes initiating a communication between an initiator and a target that perform NFC, aggregating a plurality of data packet units to be... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20080280562 - Communication method, communication system and communication device: The present invention relates to a data communication method, a data communication system and a communication device. In particular, the present invention relates to a wireless communication device, wherein a broadband internet connection between said communication device and a data network is used. Said broadband internet connection has a high... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080280559 - Enabling bluetooth support within a secondary and/or across multiple operating system partitions: A method for sharing Bluetooth pairs across multiple operating system partitions. The method includes the steps of pairing a first operating system partition with a Bluetooth enabled device; determining when a memory of an information handling system includes an additional operating system partition; and, pairing the additional operating system partition... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20080280561 - Intergrated communication apparatus: An integrated communication apparatus is linked to the PSTN or the Internet for making a PSTN call or a VoIP call. The integrated communication apparatus includes a Bluetooth earphone having a signal transmitting terminal, and a body having an earphone receiving slot and a control circuit board. The earphone receiving... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080280560 - Method and system of placing a rfid tag in a continuous transmission mode: Method and system of placing a RFID tag in a continuous transmission mode. At least some of the illustrative embodiments are methods comprising sending a command from a radio frequency identification (RFID) reader to a first RFID tag, and then transmitting continuously by the first RFID tag based on the... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP (sv)IPDocketing

20080280563 - Method and system for wireless communications using anti-interference to increase channel capacity: A method and system for wireless communications between a sender and a receiver enables effective blocking of interference signals by other senders and improving the channel capacity. The receiver uses two or more receiving devices, such as antennas or smart antennas, to receive multiple wireless input signals. By performing a... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080280564 - Location estimation in end-user devices using public radio signals: A device (20) is capable of making location determinations from publicly available broadcasting signals that contain programming such as radio or television programming. A location estimating portion (26) in one example uses a determined received power of a detected signal from a transmitter and information regarding the location and transmit... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds, P.C./alcatel-lucent

20080280566 - Wireless communication apparatus with built-in channel emulator/noise generator: The invention provides a wireless communication apparatus with performance simulation function. The wireless communication apparatus includes a channel emulator and at least one noise generator; therefore a real transmission environment can be simulated inside the wireless communication apparatus to thereby accelerate the testing process. Moreover, as this invention sets a... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080280565 - Indoor coverage estimation and intelligent network planning: A method is described that involves calculating, by processing software program code on a computer, wireless signal coverage within a building for each of multiple floors within the building. The calculating includes accounting for outdoor signal coverage, accounting for building height, accounting for external building wall material and accounting for... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080280567 - Wireless transmit receive unit having a transition state for transitioning from monitoring to duplex connected states and method: A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) and method for wireless uplink communication to and downlink communication from a wireless network are provided. The WTRU has a selectively configurable transceiver that has a network connected mode defined by a plurality of functional states including at least one monitoring state and a duplex... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080280568 - Rf adapter for field device: An adapter for coupling to a process control transmitter of the type used to monitor a process variable in an industrial process is provided. The adapter includes I/O circuitry configured to couple to a two wire process control loop and to the process control transmitter and communicate on the process... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20080280569 - System and method for carrying a wireless based signal over wiring: A device, network and method wherein a standard wireless modem is coupled to wiring for carrying a wireless baseband signal that may be OFDM based, and may be directly generated by the wireless IF modem, or extracted from the modem RF signal. The wiring may be a building utility wiring,... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20080280570 - Hybrid techniques for antenna retuning utilizing transmit and receive power information: An embodiment of the present invention provides an apparatus, comprising a transceiver, an antenna tuner connecting said transceiver to an antenna, a power sensor adapted to acquire measurements about transmit power, a receive signal strength indicator (RSSI) adapted to acquire measurements about receive power and wherein said tuner tunes said... Agent: Law Office Of William J. Tucker

20080280571 - Rf transceiver with adjustable antenna assembly: A radio frequency (RF) transceiver includes a baseband processing module, a configurable receiver section, a configurable transmitter section and a configurable antenna assembly. The baseband processing module converts outbound data into an outbound symbol stream, converts an inbound symbol stream into inbound data and generates a transmit adjust signal and... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080280572 - Method and apparatus for revoking a talk burst: An embodiment of the present invention discloses a method for revoking a talk burst, which includes: entering a pending release state by a talk burst after a client having the talk burst releases the talk burst initiatively; monitoring a duration of the talk burst in the pending release state; and... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080280573 - Linear rf amplifier with polar feedback: A system for power amplification of an RF signal including polar feedback control. The system may include a feedback-controlled modulator configured to modulate an RF signal based on a feedback-corrected control signal. The modulator is further configured to generate a modulated RF signal. The system also may include a phase... Agent: Tyco Technology Resources

20080280574 - Rf transmitter with adjustable antenna assembly: A radio frequency (RF) transmitter includes a baseband processing module, an up conversion module, a power amplifier module, and an antenna assembly. The baseband processing module is coupled to convert outbound data into a first outbound symbol stream and a second outbound symbol stream and to generate an adjust signal.... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080280575 - Transmitter emission control: The present invention relates to transmitter emission control. An apparatus is provided with a power amplifier and a power control part operatively connected to the power amplifier. The power control part is configured to receive an indication of a spectrum mask requirement and control supply power of the power amplifier... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080280576 - Searching receiver: A monitoring receiver accepts program preferences from an operator. The receiver automatically monitors alternate frequencies for programming that matches the program preferences, alerts the operator when a match is found, and may switch to a preferred program. The receiver may be configured to automatically turn ON when a preferred program... Agent: Harman - Brinks Hofer Chicago Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080280577 - Receiver and integrated am-fm/iq demodulators for gigabit-rate data detection: This disclosure addresses providing gigabit-rate data transmission over wireless radio links, using carrier frequencies in the millimeter-wave range (>30 GHz). More specifically, a circuit for detection of amplitude-shift keyed (ASK) or other amplitude modulations (AM) which can be easily incorporated into an integrated circuit receiver system is described, making the... Agent: Ference & Associates LLC

20080280578 - Receiver circuit and amplifier circuit: A receiver circuit includes an attenuator that receives a received signal and attenuates the received signal, a DC level shifter that shifts a DC level of an attenuated signal from the attenuator, an amplifier section that has frequency characteristics of a band-pass filter and amplifies a signal from the DC... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080280579 - Systems and methods for controlling local oscillator feed-through: A method for controlling local oscillator (LO) feed-through in a direct transmitter includes detecting a signal level corresponding to LO feed-through in a radio frequency (RF) signal that is output by a direct transmitter. Responsive to detecting the signal level corresponding to LO feed-through, DC offset levels are modified for... Agent: Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha, LLC

20080280580 - Image compensation for wireless receiver: A receiver (20) for use in wireless communications with plural transmitters (22) comprises transmitter selection logic (34); a signal estimator (36); and an image estimator (38). The image estimator (38) is configured to form an estimate of an image signal occurring on the second sub-carrier and attributable to a transmission... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080280581 - Rf receiver with adjustable antenna assembly: A radio frequency (RF) receiver includes an antenna assembly, a low noise amplifier module, a down conversion module, and a baseband processing module. The antenna assembly is coupled to receive an inbound RF signal that includes a first signal component and a second signal component. The antenna assembly adjusts amplitude... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080280582 - Radio receiver having ignition noise detector and method therefor: An AM receiver including an AM demodulator for demodulating an AM signal received by an antenna coupled to the AM demodulator is provided. The AM receiver further includes a bandpass filter for receiving the demodulated signal and generating a bandpass filtered signal. The AM receiver further includes a moving average... Agent: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. Law Department

20080280583 - Submillimeter wave heterodyne receiver: In an embodiment, a submillimeter wave heterodyne receiver includes a finline ortho-mode transducer comprising thin tapered metallic fins deposited on a thin dielectric substrate to separate a vertically polarized electromagnetic mode from a horizontally polarized electromagnetic mode. Other embodiments are described and claimed.... Agent: Seth Z. Kalson C/o Intollevate

20080280584 - Mixer used for direct conversion receiver: Provided is a mixer including a mixing unit configured to mix high frequency data signals and local oscillation (LO) signals, generate first and second low frequency data signals, and output the first and second low frequency data signals to first and second output terminals, respectively; a common mode amplification unit... Agent: Volentine & Whitt PLLC

20080280585 - Rf receiver front-end and applications thereof: A radio frequency (RF) receiver front-end includes an low noise amplifier (LNA) module, a current domain mixing module, and a buffer module. The LNA module is coupled to amplify an inbound RF signal to produce an amplified inbound RF current signal. The current domain mixing module is coupled to mix... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080280586 - Remote control with rf protocol: The invention relates to an electronic system (1) comprising a remote control unit (10) and a controlled electronic device (20) which communicate via RF signals and an RF protocol. According to said protocol, data packets to be sent are first extended by a check sum, then extended by information for... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080280587 - Method and apparatus for a mobile station to enhance the probability of successful emergency call completion and successful callback from emergency service centre: A method and apparatus for enhancing the probability of a successful emergency call completion and emergency callback on a mobile station in a network, the method comprising the steps of: during an emergency call attempt, monitoring whether the mobile station has received a non-voice service request from the network and,... Agent: Moffat & Co

20080280588 - User interface methods, such as for customer self-support on a mobile device: A method for providing a localized, context-sensitive user interface (100) for mobile devices is presented. The mobile device may automatically display (120) information received from the network, and update settings on the device when network status changes. A user interface for readily accessing common functions permits efficient navigation on the... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20080280589 - Wireless device with billing code button: A wireless communication device comprises a button depressable to associate a communication with the device with a billing account. A method is also disclosed of assigning a communication with a wireless device to a billing account. The method comprises receiving a code from the wireless device corresponding to the billing... Agent: Larson Newman Abel Polansky & White, LLP

20080280590 - Selective calling party pays via a secure service feature: Selective calling party pays via a secure service feature may be provided. A determination is conducted to decide if a called party's wireless communications service has entered a suspension state. Next, if the wireless communication service is in a suspension state, a determination is conducted to decide if a secure... Agent: Devon K. Grant

20080280591 - Inbound phone control: A method, including receiving at a network element, from a first telecommunications enabled device, a control connection request directed to a second telecommunications enabled device, connecting a control connection to the second telecommunications enabled device wherein the control connection is connected without requiring user input at the second telecommunications enabled... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080280593 - Protecting caller function from undesired access by callee function: Disclosed is a method for restricting access of a first code of a plurality of codes and data of a first function from a second function. Thee method comprises calling the second function by the first function, addresses of the plurality of data may be stored in a stack page... Agent: Grossman, Tucker, Perreault & Pfleger, PLLC C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080280592 - Wireless device monitoring methods, wireless device monitoring systems, and articles of manufacture: Wireless device monitoring methods, wireless device monitoring systems, and articles of manufacture are described. According to one embodiment, a wireless device monitoring method includes accessing device configuration information of a wireless device present at a secure area, wherein the device configuration information comprises information regarding a configuration of the wireless... Agent: Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC

20080280594 - Method for transferring the context of a mobile terminal in a wireless telecommunication network: The present invention concerns a method for obtaining a context of a mobile terminal (30) which is expecting to be served by a first base station (10b) of a wireless telecommunication network comprising a plurality of base stations (10) linked together by a telecommunication network. The first base station which... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080280595 - Method, system and mobile service device for notifying missing-call: In a missing-call notification method, a called party is called by a calling party. When the called party is unconnectable, a calling request sent by the calling party to the called party is obtained; missing-call information of the calling party is recorded; and a notification message according to the missing-call... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080280596 - Server-coordinated ringtones: An apparatus and methods are disclosed for enabling multiple telecommunications terminals that are associated with a common user to notify their user of the arrival of an incoming message via a ringtone, where the ringtone is: (i) coordinated across the terminals, and (ii) customized for each terminal based on one... Agent: Avaya Demont & Breyer, LLC

20080280598 - Location based system and method for exchanging videos or notes: A system and method are described herein for enabling end-users of mobile terminals to exchange messages that are associated with a specific geographical location. In one embodiment, a first end-user can use their mobile terminal to submit a message (text, voice, video . . . ) about a specific piece... Agent: Alcatel Lucent Intellectual Property & Standards

20080280597 - Method for adding background sound to mobile communication telephone talking and communication system thereof: The present invention relates to a method for adding background sound to mobile communication telephone talking and a communication system thereof. In the method of the present invention, a background sound system is added into corresponding talk at the time of establishing a talking link between the calling mobile communication... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson, P.C.

20080280599 - Call processing method and system: A mobile communication terminal is provided. A storage unit stores a disconnect cause associated with caller information. A communication unit receives an incoming call. A controller determines whether the incoming call is associated with the caller information, disconnects the incoming call if the incoming call is associated with the caller... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080280600 - Geographic mobile address book: A mobile device is provided that comprises a processor and an address book configured to provide a display to display a current geographic location of a contact associated with an entry in the address book.... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C.

20080280601 - System and method for spoken caller identification in a cellular telephone headset: A spoken caller identification system comprises a headset and mobile communication device. The mobile communication device sends the caller identification to the headset upon a determination that the headset is in communication with the mobile communication device.... Agent: Larson Newman Abel Polansky & White, LLP

20080280602 - Vehicle control apparatus with data reprogrammable via wireless communication network: In a vehicle control apparatus for reprogramming data stored therein based on a reprogramming instruction transmitted thereto via a wireless communication network, an asking unit is provided. The asking unit asks a data reprogramming unit about whether the reprogramming instruction is validated or not. The data reprogramming unit has been... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080280603 - Device for intercepting and analyzing traffic for a terminal: A device and method for intercepting and analyzing traffic for terminals connected to a telecommunications network, according to wireless technology, using telecommunications standards. A terminal is connected to a telecommunication network such that the terminal can transmit and receive with the network. The terminal executes at least one service on... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20080280604 - Forbidden neighbor cell list: Mobility in E-UTRAN might not rely on neighbor cell list. In such a case, the user equipment (UE) may be responsible for finding cells and reporting to the network. Consequently signaling load may be increased and also handover (HO) performance can be degraded for the cases in which the target... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080280605 - System and method for providing local ip connectivity for a roaming mobile subscriber: A system installed at a roaming mobile network, comprises: a signaling relay enabled to monitor, intercept and modify mobile network signaling messages between the roaming network and the home network, a controller application for the signaling relay, said controller configured to instruct the signaling relay to replace an identity of... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan Prtsi, Inc.

20080280608 - Enhanced timer based registration method for wireless communication networks: Techniques and systems that provide enhanced timer based registration for efficiently registering access terminals with a wireless network.... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20080280606 - Increasing system capacity via utilization of end user equipment knowledge: A method and information processing system are provided for dynamically encoding a control channel for transmitting messages to a wireless device based on performance capability information associated with the wireless device. The method includes determining that a wireless device (104) has registered with a base station (116). A device profile... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080280609 - Provisioning of user information: The present invention relates to method and arrangements to provide information related to user devices in a telecommunication system (TS). The system comprises at least one network domain (HPLMN, WCDMA) that is associated with a central database (DCR). The method comprises identification in the central database (DCR) of a first... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080280607 - System for changing location registration: A mobile terminal, which is registered to either a first mobile communication network or a second communication network, determines whether it is possible to register to the first mobile communication network on the basis of control information received fi-om the second mobile communication network. Then, the mobile terminal attempts to... Agent: Indianapolis Office 27879 Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080280610 - Methods and apparatus for out of service processing with varied behaviors: Methods and apparatus for out of service processing with varied behaviors. In an aspect, a method is provided for service acquisition. The method includes determining one or more conditions, wherein each condition is associated with at least one weight, detecting whether an out-of-service event has occurred, and if an out-of-service... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080280613 - Handover apparatus and handover method in wireless communication system: A method and apparatus for performing handover of a terminal in a wireless communication system, the method including obtaining information on neighboring networks from a media independent handover (MIH) server by using a MIH layer if a state of a link connected to a serving network is changed; transmitting a... Agent: Perman & Green

20080280614 - Method and apparatus for performing media independent handover measurement and reporting: The method and apparatus are used for media independent handover (MIH) measurement and reporting in wireless communications. A periodicity for measurement and reporting is set on the MIH function through an MIH protocol message or an MIH SAP primitive and on the link layer device through an MIH_LINK_SAP primitive. A... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080280611 - Smooth hard handover method, mobile station and base station adapted for the method: The present invention relates to a cellular radio communications system and especially a method, a mobile station and a base station for a smooth hard handover. The smooth hard handover includes preparing radio links in selected base stations for potential communication with a mobile station. This is similar to selecting... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080280612 - Telecommunications apparatus and method: A telecommunications system for providing mobile communications to mobile user equipment is provided which includes an internet protocol access network and a cellular mobile radio network. The internet protocol access network provides a facility for mobile communications to mobile user equipment within a coverage area for wireless communication provided by... Agent: Thorne & Halajian Applied Technology Center

20080280615 - Method and apparatus ensuring application quality of service: A method and apparatus for ensuring application of quality of service requirements on an access network. The method includes comparing, in a mobile communication device, one or more application signaling requirements of a selected application with one or more link characteristics of a link between the mobile communication device and... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080280616 - Media gateway interconnect routing in a softswitch environment: Calls are routed in a distributed mobile switching center environment in response to receiving a call to be routed from a first switching mode (310(1) to a second switching node (3101(2)). An inter-switch mute for the call from the first switching node to the second switching node is identified. The... Agent: Alcatel Lucent Intellectual Property & Standards

20080280618 - Method of distributing identical data and different data to mobile units: The present invention provides a method of distributing identical data and different data to mobile units. One embodiment of the method may include providing a plurality of first messages including information indicative of a first pseudo-address. Each first message includes information indicative of an address of one of a plurality... Agent: Mark W. Sincell, Ph.d. Williams, Morgan & Amerson, P.C.

20080280617 - Target base station - based media gateway selection in a distributed mobile switching center environment: A temporary directory number is assigned (225, 240, 250) in a distributed mobile switching center environment in response to receiving (205) a request for routing information at a signaling node (110) in a telecommunication network (100). The request for muting information is associated with a call to a mobile station... Agent: Alcatel Lucent Intellectual Property & Standards

20080280620 - Method and apparatus for user equipment interaction with a network using interaction information: A method of operating a communications network and mobile user equipment (UE) in the network includes providing the UE with an algorithm usable with at least one input parameter to derive a quantity of interaction information according to the at least one input parameter, transmitting at least one said input... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080280619 - Method for transmitting information in a multiple antenna system: A method of transmitting and receiving information in a wireless mobile communication system where a mobile station (MS) has at least one antenna is disclosed. More specifically, the method discloses transmitting information to a base station (BS). Here, the information includes the number of antennas to be used for transmission... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080280621 - Method and system for signaling available channels in a wireless network: In order to better and more easily identify candidate APs and/or channels, an AP can transmit frames announcing its capabilities in a channel where it is not serving. For example, if an AP is operating in channel 1 and has created a Basic Service Set ID (BSSID) in that channel,... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080280622 - Smart antenna apparatus and method with automatic gain control: A smart antenna apparatus including a receiving system, one or more beam analysis modules, a control channel monitoring module, a processing system, and a receiving beam switch is provided. The receiving system is operable to receive a plurality of uplink beams, each including traffic signals transmitted by a mobile station.... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20080280623 - Method and apparatus for distributing load on application servers: A method and apparatus for handling incoming service requests, where an application server comprises a set of traffic modules, each being capable of handling at least one predetermined multimedia service. When an initial service request is received from a requester, a load balancing function, capable of selecting basically any traffic... Agent: Potomac Patent Group PLLC

20080280627 - Device and system for selective wireless communication with contact list memory: Methods, devices and systems for wireless communication. A device user defines a list of contacts and receives a collective indication of which contacts are located within a neighborhood of the device. The neighborhood is defined at the device, for example by the device itself or by the user. A plurality... Agent: Soquel Group, LLC

20080280626 - Method for providing location-based service using location token: Provided is a method for providing a location-based service using a location token. The method includes the steps of: a) receiving an encrypted token message including constraints for location information access from a terminal; b) decoding and storing the transmitted token message in a token database; c) creating a location... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080280624 - Methods and apparatuses for beacon assisted position determination systems: Methods and apparatuses for microcell beacon assisted position determination. In one embodiment, microcell beacons that are based on low cost, mass market electronics for wireless local area data communication (e.g., Bluetooth or WiFi) are used to broadcast to mobile stations location information and/or identification information, which can be used to... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080280625 - Position determination of mobile stations in a wireless network: A network, and a method of operating a network. The network includes a plurality of stations each able to transmit and receive data so that the network can transmit data between stations via at least one selected intermediate station. Each station transmits probe signals in broadcast fashion to other stations... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080280628 - Mobile handset information stream: A system and method which allows for a more direct form of presenting useful information to a mobile handset user is disclosed. More specifically a method to dedicate a transmission period of the MAC protocol when certain pre-formatted information is transmitted to all users on a network.... Agent: The Law Offices Of Dennis L. Cook, PLLC

20080280629 - Positioning system of positioning wireless communication apparatus: The invention provides a positioning system of positioning a wireless communication apparatus. The positioning system transmits and receives positioning signals which have different frequency bands and generates corresponding positioning values according to the positioning signals. The positioning system then judges and selects positioning values which have less error from the... Agent: Reed Smith LLP Suite 1400

20080280631 - Method for processing paging information in a wireless mobile communication system: In a wireless mobile communications system, a method for processing paging information allows the operations of a mobile terminal to be simplified and permits efficient use of resources for the mobile terminal. The network instructs in advance, the transmission of control information, such as a particular paging message, a notification... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080280630 - System and method for broadcasting page messages in poor coverage regions: A system and method for paging wireless mobile devices selectively varies the effective modulation order of a paging channel to achieve improved coverage in a wireless wide area network (WWAN) cell. In one embodiment, the paging channel modulation order is selected based on a measured signal strength and/or common channel... Agent: Kyocera Wireless Corp.

20080280632 - Method, system and devices for processing messages in multimedia messaging service: A method for processing messages in MMS, which includes: after receiving a message from a user side, an MMSC notifying a home Value Added Service Applications Server corresponding to receivers of the message to process the message according to each identifier, which is carried in the message, of the receiver... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080280633 - Sending and receiving text messages using a variety of fonts: A method for sending a text message over a telephone network from a sending device to a receiving device. A set of images (or font) is selected by a user of the sending device. The text message is displayed using the set of images on the sending device as a... Agent: Dr. Mark M. Friedman C/o Bill Polkinghorn - Discovery Dispatch

20080280634 - Adaptive antenna control method and adaptive antenna transmission/reception characteristic control method: An adaptive antenna control method is used for a radio communication system built by a plurality of radio base stations and a plurality of terminal stations capable of communicating with the radio base stations. Each radio base station includes an adaptive antenna having a plurality of antenna elements, a distributor... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080280635 - Method for grouping wireless devices and apparatus thereof: A method for grouping wireless devices and an apparatus thereof are provided. First, the feature values of a plurality of access points (APs) detected by a wireless device are received, wherein these APs are designated as a first set, and the feature values of the APs constitute a feature vector.... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080280636 - Method for altering communication mode and mobile communication terminal using the same: A method is disclosed that alters a communication mode in a mobile communication terminal. The method includes: if the mobile communication terminal receives a connection signal for an external device, determining whether the communication mode is set to a bidirectional mode; if the communication mode is not a bidirectional mode,... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080280637 - Method and system for handling dynamic incidents: A method for handling dynamic incidents includes initiating a first policy in response to a first incident. The first policy comprises a plurality of actions to be performed in response to the first incident. The method also includes creating at least one virtual talk group comprising a plurality of endpoints... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080280638 - Uplink power control for lte: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate employing aperiodic closed loop power control corrections in a Long Term Evolution (LTE) based wireless communication environment. An aperiodic power control command can be sent over a downlink to control and/or correct an uplink power level employed by an access terminal. Transmission of... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080280639 - Multiple line cellular telephone with individual features: A cellular phone having two or more unique phone numbers with circuit means for simultaneously communicating with each of the lines. The cellular phone has at least two independent phone numbers with circuit means for differentiating between each of the lines incorporating a feature set for using each of the... Agent: Michael I Kroll

20080280640 - Inductive joystick: A portable electronic device includes communication circuitry operative to establish a communication over a communication network, an input device for entering at least one user input into the electronic device, and at least one contactless sensor. The contactless sensor is operative to detect at least one of motion or position... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080280642 - Intelligent control of user interface according to movement: A device and method of controlling a user interface of an electronic device. The method includes detecting the occurrence of an event for which a user response is desired, moving the electronic device, detecting such moving, and in response to said moving of a prescribed character, controlling the user interface... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080280641 - Methods and devices for generating multimedia content in response to simultaneous inputs from related portable devices: Methods of operating a mobile device having a transceiver configured to communicate with a wireless communication network include detecting a motion of the mobile device using a sensor associated with the mobile device, and generating a signal indicative of the motion of the mobile device. An ancillary sensor signal is... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20080280643 - Modular mobile telecommunications device having a printer: A modular mobile telecommunications device has a printer and image capture means for printing and interacting with printed media. The device includes a mobile phone module for operatively executing a phone operating system, and a sensor module in signal communication with the phone module, the sensor module configured for sensing... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080280646 - Data input device, systems using the device, and methods for operating such systems: A data storage device 5 having a storage capacity of at least 8 Mbyte is surrounded by a housing including a stylus portion 23, having a tip 25 for indicating a position. The stylus permits the data storage device 5 to be used for data entry to an electronic device... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20080280645 - 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

20080280644 - Sim messaging client: The invention relates to a portable device (in particular a SIM card), a communication device (in particular a cellular phone) and a system comprising a portable device and a communication device. The portable device of the invention comprises processing means, external communication means, message storage means, and a web server.... Agent: The Jansson Firm

20080280647 - Integrated telecommunications architecture for extended operability: The embodiments of the invention allow a mobile phone that is part of a wireless network, access to a landline telephone network and utilize mobile phone features across a landline telephone network to another landline or mobile phone. Furthermore, embodiments of the invention provide a method and system for utilizing... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080280649 - Location information erase on sim cards: A method and system of erasing at least part of the location information stored on a subscriber identity module (SIM) of a mobile phone. The SIM stores the most recently used service provider in its location information. Either at power down or power up, the location information is erased so... Agent: Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP/seattle

20080280648 - Semiconductor integrated circuit and wireless communication device: The present invention relates to a semiconductor integrated circuit and a wireless communication apparatus that can be reduced in size without deteriorating a receiving sensitivity and a transmission efficiency. Communication with an external reader/writer and an external non-contact IC card is carried out through a common antenna 211. The signal... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080280650 - Communication control apparatus, communication apparatus and communication system: An EV-DO terminal module is made up of hardware and software for implementing the function as an EV-DO terminal. A W-LAN terminal module is made up of hardware and software for implementing the function as an AP of W-LAN. An information exchange terminal module has a function equal to that... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20080280652 - Reconfigurable keypad method in handset device operable with plural subsystems: A user input device is provided that permits multiple functions to be implemented in a confined space using key images defined by a reconfigurable backlight structure under automatic software control. The keypads change automatically depending on what the user is doing with the device. By selectively illuminating one of several... Agent: Perry Hoffman & Associates P.C.

20080280651 - Symmetric softkeys on a mobile electronic device: A mobile electronic device is provided having a display with a display centerpoint; a first softkey and a second softkey, each substantially equidistant from the display centerpoint; and a third softkey and a fourth softkey, each substantially equidistant from the display centerpoint, wherein the first softkey and the third softkey... Agent: K&l Gates LLP

20080280653 - Noise reduction on wireless headset input via dual channel calibration within mobile phone: A communication device includes: (1) a wireless adapter at which a wireless headset is communicatively connected to the communication device and at which is received a first acoustic input that includes a speech input and a first ambient noise input; (2) a microphone that receives a second acoustic input, which... Agent: Dillon & Yudell, LLP

20080280654 - System and method for wirelessly providing multimedia: System and method for wirelessly providing multimedia. A system includes a headset and a wireless communications device. The wireless communications device controls the operation of the headset with transmissions over a first wireless network. The headset includes a first ear piece, a second ear piece, and a connecting piece. The... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080280655 - In- vehicle apparatus: An in-vehicle navigation apparatus performs the following: according to an initial operation of a user to register a handsfree function, connecting a handsfree profile with a cellular phone and registering a handsfree function to be associated with the cellular phone; if the cellular phone has an audio visual function, displaying... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080280656 - Power management unit (pmu) sequencer: A technique to use a power management unit (PMU) sequencer to control switching of a plurality of functional modules between two or more power modes. The PMU sequencer sequences through a hierarchical order of turn-on and turn-off sequences based on dependencies established for each of the functional modules. In addition... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080280657 - Seal and actuator assembly: A user interface seal and actuator assembly including an electrical feedback actuator adapted to provide movement when energized; and an overmolded seal. The overmolded seal is overmolded on the feedback actuator to form an overmolded sealing engagement and attachment with the feedback actuator. The assembly is adapted to provide a... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080280658 - Keypad for a slider type portable mobile communications device: Disclosed is a slider type portable mobile communications device includes a top panel and a bottom panel. The bottom panel further includes one or more tapered keys that are tapered from front to back and associated recessed areas. The top and bottom panel are slidably movable in at least one... Agent: Williams Mullen

20080280659 - Sliding apparatus of sliding type portable terminal: A sliding apparatus of a sliding type portable terminal allows a sliding housing of the sliding type portable terminal to slide in two directions. The sliding apparatus of a sliding type portable terminal includes a main housing including a fixing member and a sliding housing slidably coupled with the main... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20080274687 - Dynamic mixed media package: It has been discovered that a dynamic mixed media package with a mechanism for dynamic modification/update provides a media experience to users that exceeds the experience offered by individual media files. A dynamic mixed media package accommodates various types of media and allows for additional media and modifications of existing... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080274688 - Method and system for mobile vehicle content management: A method and system for mobile vehicle content management. Content may be received wireless from a plurality of access technologies within a mobile vehicle. The content may be balanced from the plurality of access technologies to select the content from at least one access technology for decryption. The selected content... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080274689 - Extension of wired controller area networks to wireless personal area networks: An architecture to extend a wired controller area network (CAN) to the wireless domain of a low rate wireless personal area network (PAN) network is described herein. Such architecture provides a low cost, low power, efficient, and secure wireless network interface compatible with many existing SCADA infrastructure networks, in addition... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20080274690 - Method and apparatus for compensation for weather-based attenuation in a satellite link: A controlled satellite link, comprising a reference unit for measuring signal attenuation over said link, and a control unit, associated with said reference unit, configured for controlling at least one link transmission parameter to dynamically adapt to changes in said measured signal attenuation.... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan Prtsi, Inc.

20080274691 - Cable system with active rf device powered by rf energy converted to dc power, and associated method: A cable system comprises a main line carrying first RF signals for a plurality of subscribers, and a subscriber line coupled with the main line and carrying the first RF signals between the subscriber's facility and the main line and also carrying second RF signals that are different in frequency... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080274692 - Scheduling in a wireless multi-hop relay network: A wireless relaying network having a number of network nodes including a designated originating node, at least one relaying node, and at least two receiving nodes. The designated originating node transmits a pilot signal, and the relaying node(s) receives and forwards the pilot signal to the receiving nodes, each of... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080274693 - Method for selecting the installation position and direction of link antenna in inbuilding radio frequency repeater and cable apparatus used in the same: The present invention relates to a method for selecting an installation position of a link antenna of an in-building RF repeater, a cable device thereof, and a terminal. The method selects the position for measuring the greatest Ec/lo by using directivity of the link antenna in an area for installing... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080274694 - System and method for multi-channel blocking: A system and method for multi-channel blocking, the method having the steps of: creating a block filter to block a plurality of communication channels to a mobile device; communicating the block filter to a blocking element; and executing the blocking filter at the blocking element.... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20080274695 - Bluetooth-enabled system and related method: According to one exemplary embodiment, a Bluetooth-enabled system includes a computer coupled to a Bluetooth-enabled host, e.g. a Bluetooth-enabled IP phone, via a communication link, where the communication link can be either an Ethernet link or a WLAN link. The Bluetooth-enabled system further includes at least one Bluetooth-enabled input device,... Agent: Farjami & Farjami LLP

20080274696 - Procedure for headset and device authentication: Disclosed herein is a system for configuring and setting up a one to one communication correspondence between a headset and a mobile device. The authentication PIN allows communication of the headset with only those devices that are authenticated using the PIN. A first software application and a second software application... Agent: Ashok Tankha, Of Counsel, Lipton, Weinberger & Husick

20080274697 - Radio communication apparatus: Disclosed here in is a radio communication apparatus for transmitting a modulated reflected wave signal to a reflected wave reading apparatus as a signal resulting from a modulation process to modulate an unmodulated carrier, which is received from the reflected wave reading apparatus, in order to superpose information to be... Agent: Robert J. Depke Lewis T. Steadman

20080274698 - Method and apparatus for indicating a temporary block flow to which a piggybacked ack/nack field is addressed: A method and an apparatus for indicating a temporary block flow (TBF) to which a piggybacked acknowledgement/non-acknowledgement (PAN) field is addressed. A method and apparatus of performing receive processing to reduce the probability of false acceptance of erroneous PANs are also disclosed. A transmit station generates a PAN check sequence... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080274701 - Method and system to reconfigure a network to improve network lifetime using most reliable communication links: A method and system of enhancing an operational lifetime of a wireless network is provided, which includes monitoring a link quality between node elements of the wireless network, periodically collecting information regarding the link quality between node elements of the wireless network, and reconfiguring a network topology of the wireless... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080274699 - Method for analysing the operation of a radiocommunication terminal, corresponding radiocommunication terminal and analysis device: A method and apparatus are provided for analyzing the operation of radiocommunication terminal according to a predetermined radiocommunication protocol. The radiocommunication terminal transmits data representing at least one operation to be analyzed to a remote analysis device via a link according to the predetermined radiocommunication protocol.... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20080274700 - Radio communication apparatus and mcs determination method: A radio communication apparatus is disclosed that is capable of improving throughput even when accuracy of channel quality estimation is low and variation of channel quality estimation values is substantial. In this apparatus, MCS(SIR) acquisition section (201) acquires from MCS table (202) an MCS level (MCS(SIR)) corresponding to an SIR... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC

20080274702 - Method and device for measuring radio interference levels with frequency tracking: The invention relates to a method for measuring radio interference levels in a specific frequency range. Said method consists in adjusting the frequency range by means of a pre-measurement; respectively detecting, for each measuring frequency one measuring level of the signal which is to be measured; comparing the measured measuring... Agent: Lewis, Rice & Fingersh, Lc Attn: BoxIPDept.

20080274703 - Circuit and method: Implementations related to circuits including an oscillator and a switch-mode DC/DC converter are presented herein.... Agent: Eschweiler & Associates LLC

20080274704 - Rf transceiver and a method of operation therein: A RF transceiver and method of operating a transceiver are provided. The transceiver has a frequency synthesizer that generates a stable, operational frequency signal, a reference VCO that provides a reference frequency for use in operation of the synthesizer, a voltage source coupled to the reference VCO that produces a... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080274705 - Automatic tuning of telephony devices: Various embodiments are disclosed relating to the automatic tuning of telephony devices. An example method comprises, determining, based on a change in an operating environment of a telephony device, that a speech enhancement algorithm of the telephony device is to be tuned. The example method further comprises, determining one or... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP C/o Intellevate

20080274706 - Techniques for antenna retuning utilizing transmit power information: An embodiment of the present invention provides a radio frequency (RF) transceiver, comprising a transmitter, a receiver, an antenna connected to the transmitter and the receiver via a tuner, a power detector adapted to acquire information about transmit power, and wherein the tuner tunes the antenna based upon the transmit... Agent: Law Office Of William J. Tucker

20080274707 - Method and apparatus to minimize interference among co-located multiple wireless devices: Disclosed is a method and apparatus for managing transmit requests among a plurality of co-located transmitting devices each associated with a wireless transmitting protocol. The method comprises the steps of determining the cost associated with each of the transmit requests, wherein the cost is associated with the cost of granting... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20080274708 - Multi-frequency detector: The method provides a method and device for detecting in a single or multi frequency signal, one or more frequencies from a predetermined set of frequencies. The Signal is subjected to a complex filter substantially passing all of the frequencies in the predetermined set of frequencies. For each of one... Agent: The Nath Law Group

20080274709 - Wireless communication apparatus: A wireless communication apparatus for demodulating modulated information which is transmitted from a wireless tag so as to read out the modulated information, includes: an antenna which transmits a transmission signal to the wireless tag and receives a signal transmitted from the wireless tag as a reception signal; a demodulator... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080274710 - Wireless transmitter receiver: A wireless monitoring receiver and system use multiple video data feeds from a plurality of cameras. The video feeds are transmitted using a multi-antenna technique, and decoded by a multi-antenna processor. The resulting transmissions are resistant to noise, interference, etc., and can be focused using antenna beams to achieve a... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20080274711 - Successive interference cancellation in code division multiple access system using variable interferer weights: A method for successive interference cancellation in code division multiple access (CDMA) systems is provided that uses variable interferer weights. This method allows interfering signals to be cancelled in order to recover a transmitted data signal. This method involves receiving the data signal subject to interference from at least one... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080274712 - High frequency signal combining: 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

20080274713 - Wireless communications device with global positioning based on received motion data and method data and method for use therewith: A circuit includes a global positioning system (GPS) receiver that receives a GPS signal and that generates GPS position data based on the GPS signal. A wireless receiver converts an inbound RF signal into an inbound symbol stream. A processing module converts the inbound symbol stream into inbound data that... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080274714 - Amplifier, filter using the same, and radio communication device: An amplifier includes an amplification unit which amplify a first difference between first and second input signals, a second difference between second and third input signals and a third difference between third and first input signals by a differential mode gain, and amplify an average of the first, second and... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080274715 - Call cost indicator for mobile devices: A method and apparatus to enhance decision making capabilities of a user of a mobile device, the method having the steps of: receiving, at the mobile device, information related to the cost of mobile services; and communicating an indication of the cost of mobile services to the user.... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20080274716 - Application logging interface for a mobile device: A mobile device, and particularly a wireless device, provides a computing platform upon which third-party (e.g., accessory) applications can execute, increasing features/functions desirable to a user. In order to better serve users of wireless devices, third-party developers of such applications would benefit from information about how their fielded applications are... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080274717 - Apparatus of transmitting private information in mobile terminal and its method: Disclosed is an apparatus and method of transmitting private information in a mobile terminal, which is capable of transmitting all data (for example, a telephone directory, moving pictures, photographs, memos, a call list, transmitted and received messages, bell sound, MP3 data, etc.) stored in a mobile terminal to another mobile... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20080274718 - Restricted access full band repeater: A method and system for restricting access to communications services of a network by wireless terminals within a coverage area of a repeater. A controller attempts to authenticate a wireless terminal within a coverage area of a repeater. If the authentication attempt is successful, an up-link path of the repeater... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP

20080274719 - Reducing signalling load: A message distribution centre for routing a message from a first subscriber (10) to a second subscriber (20) across a communication network, comprising means for receiving a message for a second subscriber from a first subscriber (50), the message including a subscriber ID for the second subscriber, database (55) for... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080274720 - Method for collecting user behavior during run-time in a mobile 3gpp ip-based multimedia subsystem (ims): The invention relates to a method and an arrangement for collecting user behavior during run-time in a mobile 3GPP IP-based multimedia subsystem (IMS). According to the invention, a collection of statistical data in communications systems ensues, and the user behavior is evaluated during the run-time of the application.... Agent: Baker & Daniels LLP 111 E. Wayne Street

20080274721 - Interoperable system and method for managing multiple geolocatable services: The invention relates to an interoperable system and method for managing geolocatable multiple services. The invention is particularly for use in toll transport services. The system comprises a database and a module for managing this database. The database contains identification information of a number of users, a number of services... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080274722 - Method and apparatus for date-based integrated processing of data in mobile terminal: A method and apparatus wherein data generated in a mobile terminal can be classified in an integrated manner based on dates and can be displayed in various forms. User data generated in the mobile terminal can be processed by the mobile terminal or can be sent to and processed by... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080274723 - Cell phone remote configuration and nap time: A system for using a cell phone by a user includes a cell phone. The system includes a global network in communication with the cell phone. The system includes a configuration gateway in connection with the network which remotely configures the cell phone. The system includes a remote interface not... Agent: Ansel M. Schwartz

20080274724 - Subscriber management and accounting using event detection in a wireless device: A system and method performs real-time subscriber management and accounting for a wireless device by detecting predetermined events within the wireless device and communicating information pertaining to such events from the wireless device to a real-time subscriber management platform in association with each communication session. The information received by the... Agent: Weingarten, Schurgin, Gagnebin & Lebovici LLP

20080274725 - Wireless multifunction network device: The wireless multifunction network device includes a radio, first and second amplifier or filter devices, first and second antennae, a control system and a power module. The radio is adapted to support multiple protocols. The first amplifier or filter device is operably attached to the radio and is for processing... Agent: Ralph A. Dowell Of Dowell & Dowell P.C.

20080274729 - Apparatus and method for setting up quality of service in a wireless communication system: An apparatus and method for setting up Quality of Service (QoS) in a wireless communication system are provided. The method includes, during an initial network entry, generating at least one static Service Flow (SF) by receiving a QoS profile from a Base Station (BS), if QoS change is requested for... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20080274727 - Co-sequence interference detection and treatment: Signal properties of a signal section (106) comprising a training sequence are compared with corresponding signal properties of other signal sections (108, 110). At a too large discrepancy, co-sequence interference is concluded to be present. The used signal property can preferably be a signal-to-noise ratio measure or a signal statistics... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080274728 - Inferring a state of activity of a carrier of a mobile device: g

20080274726 - Testing a receiver of wireless messaging device: The invention relates to a method, system and computer program for testing a wireless messaging device in a mobile communication system. The invention comprises generating test signal which contains physical time-slots, at least one of which is allocated for transmission of system information from a base transceiver station of the... Agent: Hoffmann & Baron, LLP

20080274731 - Modular, portable data processing terminal for use in a radio frequency communication network: Modular, portable data collection terminals are disclosed for use in mixed wireless and hard-wired RF communication networks, wherein various radio transmitter modules and associated antennas may be selectively added to a base terminal unit to solve networking problems associated with specific types of business environments. Modularity exists in both the... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080274730 - Wireless telephone system: A wireless telephone system is used to connect a plurality of cordless telephone handsets to a telephone network. The system has a short range radio module for sending and receiving telecommunication signals to and from a plurality of cordless telephone handsets, a cellular communication modules for sending and receiving telecommunication... Agent: Egbert Law Offices

20080274732 - Digital radiocommunication method and system, particulary for mobile ground stations: The invention relates to a digital radiocommunication system having an antenna, one or several modems and frequency translators. The system also has at least one device external to the modems connected firstly to at least one modem, and secondly to at least one frequency translator. This device is designed to... Agent: Lowe Hauptman & Berner, LLP

20080274733 - Wireless telecommunications system for accessing information from the world wide web by mobile wireless computers through a combination of cellular telecommunications and satellite broadcasting: A hybrid cellular telephonic and satellite radio broadcast system for enabling a wireless mobile computer to rapidly and effectively access information from the Web. The combination of a mobile wireless receiving computer, with wireless cellular telecommunication associated with the receiving computer for transmitting a request for data from the receiving... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080274734 - System for providing high speed communications service in an airborne wireless cellular network: The present Broadband Link System supplements the existing Air-To-Ground Radio Frequency communications link with an additional, separate high speed Broadband Ground-To-Air Data Channel to provide additional data communication capacity for aircraft. This Broadband Ground-To-Air Data Channel is typically a uni-directional (Ground-To-Air) link directed via a focused beam to selected aircraft... Agent: Patton Boggs LLP

20080274735 - Dispatch network with ims integration: A wireless communications system includes a radio network facilitating wireless communications with a wireless subscriber unit, a dispatch application server providing dispatch communications services to the subscriber unit via the radio network, and an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) infrastructure including a Proxy-Call Session Control Function (P-CSCF) and a Serving-CSCF (S-CSCF).... Agent: Sprint Nextel Corporation

20080274736 - Method and system for implementing data routing of roaming user: A method and system for implementing data routing of a roaming user are disclosed. The method comprises: configuring a roaming protocol between the home network and the roaming network; during the registering process of the user in the roaming network, performing an interactive negotiation between the home network and the... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20080274737 - Method for scanning network in mobile station and the mobile station using the same: A network scanning method in a mobile station and the mobile station using the method are disclosed, which can efficiently scan a network intended to be selected. The method includes: requesting a network selection, and scanning frequencies in an order starting from the highest receive-level of each frequency; detecting a... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20080274738 - Method for communication between a wlan radio station and a base station of a cellular radio communications system, and corresponding radio station and base station: A radio facility receives a request, which is made by a first radio station and which is routed by a second radio station to the radio facility, regarding a future sending of a message from the first radio station to a third radio station. In addition, the radio facility sends,... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080274739 - Method of informing a network of change of user equipment capability: A method of informing a network of a change of user equipment capability includes: stopping a registration timer on the user side set currently when the user equipment capability changes; sending a register request message carrying information of new user equipment capability to the network; analyzing, by the network, the... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20080274740 - System for signaling the availability of a device to receive forward data: System for signaling the availability of a device to receive forward data. A method is provided that includes receiving an information message to be transmitted to the device, and transmitting a registration cancellation message to cancel registration of the device at a visiting location register. The method also includes receiving... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080274741 - High-density wireless local area network: A data communication system includes an access point and a plurality of stations each for exchanging wireless data communication messages with the access point. At least some of the messages are in a format that includes at least one message header and a plurality of data units. Each of the... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080274742 - Method for performing mobility measurements among different networks: A mobile station (102) operating in a present serving cell (104) evaluates a candidate cell (108) for handover. The candidate cell is of a different air interface from the present serving cell, and thus the mobile station initially has no timing information regarding the candidate cell. To minimize measurement time... Agent: Motorola, Inc

20080274743 - Data relay apparatus and method using telephone number: A data relay apparatus and method using a telephone number are provided. The data relay apparatus includes: a searching unit that searches for an IP address of a host apparatus corresponding to a receiver's telephone number received from a sender; and an output unit that outputs information transmitted from the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080274744 - Systems and methods for using a recipient handset as a remote screen: The present invention provides systems and methods for using a recipient handset as a remote screen for the initiator handset, while the two handsets are engaged in a voice call. The systems and methods allow a party to transmit its screen buffer to the other party during a voice call... Agent: Wilmerhale/boston

20080274745 - Interference mitigation technique: A backhaul network for a mobile wireless network including a plurality of nodes forming links, the links utilizing a 1:n frequency re-use scheme in backhaul communication, where n equals 2 to about 16, wherein each link communicates over a different portion of an entire bandwidth of the network.... Agent: Deborah A. Gador

20080274746 - Scheduling methods and systems for wireless multi-hop relay communications: A scheduling method for a wireless multi-hop relay communication system, wherein the communication system includes a base station dominating a plurality of relay stations, the scheduling method including separating the plurality of relay stations into N groups, N being a natural number, dividing a period for providing a service by... Agent: Akin Gump LLP - Silicon Valley

20080274747 - Method and apparatus for allocating bandwidth in a wireless communication system: Network resources can be allocated more efficiently to communication sessions in a wireless telecommunications network, by the method of—monitoring the traffic load in the uplink and downlink direction in the network,—for the at least one session, determining the parameters ul_ratio and dl_ratio, given as ul_ratio=ul_throughput/(ul_throughput+dl_throughput) dl_ratio=dl_throughput/(ul_throughput+dl_throughput) wherein ul_throughput is the... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080274748 - Methods and apparatus for channel assignment: A method, according to various aspects of the present invention, for assigning channels to a plurality of wireless cells. The method is performed by the plurality of wireless cells. The method includes in any practical order: (1) assigning an initial integer to a master wireless cell, wherein the integer is... Agent: Letham Law Firm, LLC

20080274749 - Apparatus and method for allocating resources in a mobile communication system: A resource allocation method and apparatus for downlink transmission of a base station in a mobile communication system. The base station compares the number Ntx of data transmissions with the number Nper of available persistent resource allocations, and allocates resources by at least one of a persistent resource allocation scheme... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080274751 - Delay and backhaul-efficient paging method and apparatus: Described herein is methodologies for efficient utilization of backhaul resources of a network for delivering paging data to an access terminal (AT) without sacrificing delay performance. A location that buffers data for an AT can be adaptively changed based on factors such as the location of the AT, applications utilized... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080274752 - Method and system for location-based monitoring of a mobile device: Method and system for monitoring location of a mobile device relative to a region of interest includes defining a geographic region of interest, receiving a request to obtain notification when the mobile device leaves from, is present in or enters into the region of interest, determining when the mobile device... Agent: Brian Roffe, Esq

20080274750 - System and method for estimating the location of a mobile device: A system and method for estimating the location of a mobile station that receives signals from a plurality of base stations. The base station timing offsets may be estimated utilizing an observed time difference of arrival value at the mobile between a first signal received from a first base station... Agent: Duane Morris LLP

20080274753 - Position location for wireless communication systems: The subject matter disclosed herein relates to position location in a wireless communication system, and may more particularly relate to position location for a mobile station.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080274754 - Method of transmitting paging information for a wireless communications system and related apparatus: A method of transmitting paging information for a network terminal of a wireless communications system including initiating a dedicated paging procedure to transmit dedicated paging information to a user equipment using a high speed downlink operation in a CELL_PCH state. The high speed downlink operation includes reception of a high... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080274755 - Personal service integration on a network: Described are computer-based methods and apparatuses, including computer program products, for personal service integration on a network. A personal service monitors and stores user requests for services. The stored user requests are processed to determine usage patterns. The personal service processes the usage patterns to determine future requests and/or to... Agent: Proskauer Rose LLP

20080274756 - Message handling based on receiver display size: Before sending an original text-based message to a receiver that is known to have a display screen of limited size, a user may indicate a desire to translate the original message, at least in part, into a visually compressed message, where the visually compressed message uses abbreviations in place of... Agent: Ridout & Maybee LLP

20080274758 - Method for transmitting messages in a telecommunications network: A method is provided for transmitting messages, for example, in a telecommunications network, in which a first message service and a second message service are available. Dedicated messages of the first message service are sent using messages of the second message service. An exemplary method according to the present invention... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080274757 - System and method for enhanced item tracking: A service that leverages established wireless messaging paradigms such as, possibly inter alia, Short Message Service and Multimedia Message Service to allow Mobile Subscribers to use their Wireless Devices to comprehensively dynamically track items such as, possibly inter alia, RFID-augmented items, within multiple devices such as, possibly inter alia, next-generation... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC

20080274759 - System and method for controlling base stations for multimedia broadcast communications: A method, apparatus and system are provided for controlling base stations for multimedia broadcast communications. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a reporting subsystem configured to compile an activity status report based on a counting report and a channel quality indicator report received from user equipment and to send the... Agent: Slater & Matsil, L.L.P.

20080274760 - Power management and distributed scheduling for uplink transmissions in wireless systems: To schedule uplink transmission time slots for a collection of mobile communication devices, a set of base station target interference patterns is associated with base stations. A time slot target interference pattern is assigned for each time slot and it repeats after several time slots. The time slot target interference... Agent: Smart And Biggar

20080274761 - Method and system for communication system interoperability: An system for interlinking communication devices having different communication mechanisms, includes a first device having a plurality of radios that are software configurable to operate on different channels, and/or different frequencies, and/or via different protocols, and a switch arranged to selectively interconnect audio signals with audio inputs of at least... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080274762 - Method and apparatus for obtaining group information by an invited user during a session: The present invention relates to a method for obtaining group information by an invited user in a Push-to-Talk over Cellular (PoC) session. The method comprises: sending, by a PoC client where a user initiating the session is located, a session request message carrying information about the user initiating the session... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080274763 - Transmit power control in a radio station: A radio station (100), transmits a continuous control signal and a discontinuous data signal simultaneously. It receives UP and DOWN power control commands and adjusts its transmit power by  in response to the UP power control commands, increasing its transmit power by a power step,  in response to... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080274764 - Automatic-switching wireless communication device: A base unit and a handset comprise a wireless part, a control part, and a transmission (151) and reception part (150), respectively. Communications are switched by either of the two ways: PT switching and tone generation in the base unit, and tone detection in the handset or PTT switching in... Agent: Stolowitz Ford Cowger LLP

20080274767 - Adaptive omni-modal radio apparatus and methods: The present invention provides, among other things, a multi-modal device for facilitating wireless communication over any one of a plurality of wireless communication networks operating pursuant to differing transmission protocols and/or over differing radio frequencies.... Agent: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

20080274766 - Combined wired and wireless communications with field devices in a process control environment: A method of providing a wireless extension to a plant automation network connected to a plurality of wired devices, each wired device performing a process control function, includes connecting a plurality of wireless devices to the plant automation network, each of the plurality of wireless devices adapted to communicate with... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20080274765 - Interactive control of access to services and capabilities of a mobile device: A system device and method are provided which determine authorization for access to one or more services grouped together as a package of services without direct intervention of a wireless network provider or wired network access provider. This offers business proprietors, contractors for telecommunication services, service resellers, OEMs and service... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080274768 - Mobile terminal, tv program recording system for mobile terminal, and tv program recording program: A mobile terminal 10, which includes a TV receiver to receive a broadcast of a TV program and which is provided with the function of recording and pre-programming a received TV program, uses the detection parts (151, 152, 153) to detect the occurrence of an event which will preclude the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080274769 - Powered physical displays on mobile devices: In certain embodiments, a mobile electronic apparatus for facilitating live physical communications with a remote person includes a transducer configured to sense a physical gesture performed by a user of the device; a physical display apparatus configured to convert energy into physical movement; a processor operatively connected to the transducer... Agent: Craig L. Linden

20080274770 - Apparatus and method for controlling built-in microphone of portable terminal: An apparatus and method for controlling a built-in microphone of a portable terminal is provided. The method includes detecting a call connection event when a call connection request is received or transmitted; checking information on a currently connected connection device upon detecting the call connection event; and when the information... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080274771 - Method of grouping users for opportunistic downlink in multiuser, multiple-input-multiple-output wireless communication: The present invention provides a method implemented in a base station having a plurality of antennas. The method includes associating a plurality of users with a plurality of first pre-coding matrices based on information provided by the plurality of users. The method also includes determining whether at least one of... Agent: Mark W. Sincell Williams, Morgan & Amerson, P.C.

20080274772 - Industrial process field device with improved battery assembly: An industrial process field device is provided. The device includes wireless process field device electronics disposed within the industrial process field device and at least one battery cell disposed within the industrial process field device and operably coupled to the wireless process field device electronics. A circuit is provided that... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20080274773 - Wireless network device with a signal detection function and switching method for the same: A wireless network device is provided for switching into a first functional mode and a second functional mode according to the source of received power. The wireless network device includes a wireless network communication module, a processor, a power module, and a voltage regulator. The wireless network communication module is... Agent: Apex Juris, PLLC

20080274775 - Body-worn personal communications apparatus: A body-worn personal communications apparatus that includes a physically-short electric antenna that is physically smaller in at least one dimension than its electrical length in that same dimension, a transceiver connected to the antenna, a microphone connected to the transceiver, and a casing having a height that is less than... Agent: Attention Of: David Cordeiro Of Nxp Ip&s Corporate Patent Counsel

20080274774 - Multi-step hinge and portable terminal having same: Disclosed herein is a multi-step hinge. The hinge includes a housing. A rotary member is rotatably installed inside of the housing. The rotary member has a retainer groove formed in the outer circumferential face thereof. A stopper is slidably installed at either side of the rotary member inside of the... Agent: Harness, Dickey, & Pierce, P.l.c

20080274776 - Sliding-type portable terminal: A sliding-type portable terminal is provided. The sliding-type portable terminal includes a first housing and a second housing. The second housing faces the first housing and can slide relative to the first housing. The sliding-type portable terminal also includes a pair of link members coupled with the first housing and... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP