Telecommunications inventions 10/09

20090247066 - Method and apparatus for transferring digital content from a personal computer to a mobile handset: A system for synchronizing digital content stored on a user's mobile handset with digital content stored on the user's personal computer is disclosed.... Agent: Dla Piper LLP (us )

20090247067 - Hot-spot wireless access exploiting shadowing diversity of distributed antennas: The embodiments of the invention describe method and system for maximizing capacity of a distributed antenna system. A relaying antenna is selected to maximize a signal-to-leakage ratio (SLR) ratio of the distributed antenna system. Further, the capacity of the system is improved by allocating a signal power based on a... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20090247068 - Transmission system and transmission method: Provided is a transmission system with increased degree of freedom in a lane configuration, which corrects disalignment of data sequences in respective channels due to differences in arrival time, thereby freely changing a number of lanes. The transmission system includes: a transmitter; a relay; and a receiver, the transmitter inputting... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090247069 - Repeater and mobile station: A repeater amplifies and relays radio waves sent and received between a base station and a mobile station. The repeater includes an evaluation function calculator which, with the base station and one or more other repeaters serving as communication partners, calculates an evaluation function for evaluating the state of communication... Agent: Intellectual Property / Technology Law

20090247071 - Method and system for fm transmitter coexistence: A system and method for operating an FM system and wireless networking system coexistent in a mobile wireless device. A mobile wireless device includes a frequency modulation (“FM”) system that includes an FM transmitter and, optionally, an FM receiver. The mobile wireless device also includes a wireless networking system having... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090247072 - Relay station, radio communication system, and control method of relay station: A relay station for relaying a radio communication between a radio terminal and a base station includes a relay standby unit configured to, in a relay standby state, receive a connection request transmitted from the radio terminal to the base station in response to broadcast information from the base station;... Agent: Myers Wolin, Llc

20090247070 - Wireless communication system, portable radio repeater and magazine therefor: A wireless communication system and portable radio repeater are described. The system includes a portable magazine having multiple portable radio repeaters disposed therein. One or more of the repeaters are automatically or manually ejected based on a received signal strength measurement. Once ejected, each repeater communicates from the ejected location,... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20090247073 - Xm radio satellite reception without degrading coverage in xm terrestrial markets: A system is provided for enhancing coverage for a mobile satellite service, the system comprising a signal threshold comparator module for monitoring a predetermined threshold for a satellite service signal received on a first frequency band, a signal gain block operable to vary amplification of the satellite service signal received... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd.

20090247074 - Bi-directional signal interface: A bi-directional signal interface includes a first waveguide that propagates a first traveling wave. The first waveguide has one end that is coupled to a RF input port that receives a RF transmission signal and another end that is coupled to a RF bi-directional port that receives a RF reception... Agent: Rauschenbach Patent Law Group, Llc

20090247075 - Method and system for a low-complexity multi-beam repeater: Aspects of a method and system for a low-complexity multi-beam repeater may include receiving one or more information signals at one or more receiver antennas, and receiving one or more local oscillator control signals via an out-of-band link. The one or more received information signals may be demodulated to one... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090247076 - Radio frequency signal distribution using data cable system: A system for distributing radio frequency signals using a data cable system includes a method and components that receive a radio frequency (RF) signal, identify at least one unoccupied channel on the data cable system, convert the RF signal to the frequency associated with an unoccupied channel as a converted... Agent: Muirhead And Saturnelli, Llc

20090247078 - Method and apparatus for automatic application selection in an electronic device using multiple discovery managers: In a portable electronic device (100) having a plurality of near field communication applications stored within a plurality of execution environments, automatic selection of one of the near field communication applications is performed by a protocol discovery manager (319) and an application discovery manager (316). The application discovery manager (316)... Agent: Philip H. Burrus, Iv

20090247077 - Method and apparatus for automatic near field communication application selection in an electronic device: In a portable electronic device (100) having a plurality of near field communication applications stored within a plurality of execution environments, an application discovery manager (311) is configured to automatically select and launch one or more of the near field communication applications. A near field communication circuit (300) receives a... Agent: Philip H. Burrus, Iv

20090247079 - Terminal of radio-frequency transmission/reception by inductive coupling: A method and a device of transmission/reception by inductive coupling including circuitry for generating an AQ.C. signal intended to drive an oscillating circuit and circuitry intended to modulate the impedance of the oscillating circuit when data is to be transmitted, the oscillating circuit including an inductive element forming an antenna... Agent: Stmicroelectronics Inc. C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.c.

20090247082 - Electronic apparatus, computer system, and communication control method: According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus comprises a wireless communication device configured to conduct wireless communication with an external apparatus, a switch connected to a radio frequency circuit of the wireless communication device, and configured to couple an RF signal input and output port of the radio frequency circuit... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090247080 - Method of transferring application data from a first device to a second device, and a data transfer system: The invention describes a method of transferring application data (F1, F2) from a first device (Ds) to a second device (DT1, DT2), which method comprises exchanging, through the body of a user (2) touching a touch interface (210) of the first device (Ds), connection-related data (4) between the first device... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090247081 - Wireless transmitting/receiving device: A wireless transmitting/receiving device includes a wireless emitter, a connector, a digital signal processor, an audio signal connector and an analog signal processor. The wireless transmitting/receiving device is used to be electrically connected to an electronic device and transmit data by sending and receiving wireless signals. The connector is used... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090247083 - Wavelength selection and outlier detection in reduced rank linear models: There is provided an optimization system and method for identifying useful channels. The method for selecting useful channels includes embedding a discrete predictor problem into continuous space of a predictor preweighting and executing an optimization algorithm to optimize a preweighting vector, wherein the optimization algorithm determines the relative importance of... Agent: Nellcor Puritan Bennett Llc Attn: Ip Legal

20090247084 - Short-term interference mitigation in an asynchronous wireless network: Techniques for mitigating interference in an asynchronous wireless network are described. A terminal may desire to communicate with a serving base station and may observe high interference from other base stations. In an aspect, some frequency resources may be reserved for sending reduce interference requests and pilots to support interference... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090247085 - Communication system: A communication system includes a main communication unit, a subcommunication unit that communicates with the main communication unit by using first wireless channels, and an external communication unit that communicates with the main communication unit by using second wireless channels. The subcommunication unit includes a state detection unit that detects... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20090247086 - Reducing co-channel interference: A base station may transmit at varied power levels. Subscriber stations receiving the power levels can transmit noise information back to the base station. As a result, co-channel interference can be determined from the varied power transmissions, either in the base station or in the subscriber station. In addition, in... Agent: Trop, Pruner & Hu, P.c.

20090247087 - Methods and apparatus for measuring round-trip delay at a mobile station: A method for measuring round-trip delay at a mobile station may include determining a first time difference between two different types of frames at a base station. The method may also include determining a second time difference between the two different types of frames at a mobile station. The method... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090247088 - Apparatus and method for signal transmission over a channel: Apparatus and methods are disclosed, such as those involving data transmission. One such apparatus includes a transmitter, a receiver, and a channel. The transmitter includes a pair of current sources and a pair of switches. Each of the pair of switches conducts one of the current sources to the channel... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090247089 - Multicast communication system with power control: A method for delivering multicast communications over an IEEE 802.11 compliant network is provided. The method comprises transmitting a data stream to a plurality of receivers from a transmitter over respective network links as a multicast communication, selecting a receiver from the plurality of receivers; receiving a feedback signal from... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090247090 - Data transmission: The transmitter receives information on a computing architecture of a receiver. A controller in the transmitter forms and transmits receiver-specific instructions based on data to be delivered and the information on the computing architecture. The controller in the receiver controls processing of the data on the basis of the instructions.... Agent: Hoffmann & Baron, LLP

20090247091 - Selecting receiver chains of a mobile unit for receiving wireless signals: A method and apparatus of selecting which of a plurality of receiver chains of a mobile unit to receive wireless signals, is disclosed. One method includes measuring a first receive signal quality while all of the plurality of receiver chains are receiving wireless signals, and measuring a second receive signal... Agent: Beceem Communications, Inc.

20090247092 - Agile remote radio head: A system for providing wireless communication is provided. The system comprises a radio transceiver comprising a plurality of configurable receivers and transmitters and a programmable processor, wherein the programmable processor is operable to configure at least some of the plurality of receivers and transmitters to operate using an operational mode... Agent: Nortel Networks Limited

20090247093 - Wireless communication apparatus and method of controlling the same: A wireless communication apparatus for performing wireless communication by selectively switching among a plurality of transmission schemes having different transmission performance capabilities is provided. A detection unit detects reception quality of a signal, and a changeover unit changes over the transmission scheme in accordance with the reception quality detected. A... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090247094 - Communication apparatus and communication method, and computer program therefor: A communication apparatus includes a transmitter for transmitting wireless signals, and a receiver for receiving wireless signals. A first communication functional unit uses the transmitter and the receiver to operate as a station in a first network operating on a first communication channel, while a second communication functional unit uses... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090247095 - Method and system to prevent harmonics from causing distortion in a communications system: According to one exemplary embodiment, a method of preventing harmonics from causing distortion in a communications system includes feeding a test signal through a pre-distortion circuit in the communications system to a transmitter in the communications system. The method continues by transmitting a distorted output signal produced by the transmitter... Agent: Farjami & Farjami LLP

20090247096 - Method and system for integrated fm recording: Aspects of a method and system for integrated FM recording are provided. A multimedia device with various integrated systems such as an integrated FM radio may provide content-based multimedia content recording, recorded content retrieval, and playback of desired or potentially relevant contents. The multimedia device may receive multimedia content along... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090247097 - Receiver module with dual mode capability: The present invention supports the remote control of a controlled device. A hybrid device receives a control signal over an infrared communications channel or a wireless networking channel. The hybrid device can replace an IR receiver module in the controlled device in order to provide backward compatibility as well as... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20090247098 - System and method for autoranging in test apparatus: A system for receiving signals and performing autoranging is disclosed. The system includes an adjustable attenuator at an input. A mixer combines the input signal with a tuning frequency to generate a mixed signal. The mixed signal is filtered to generate a component of the input signal at the tuning... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20090247099 - Method and apparatus for dynamically adapting fm tuner sensitivity to a local environment for a single-tuner system: A method of operating a single-tuner radio includes tuning into a first frequency. A pause in a first signal associated with the first frequency is detected. Tuning is switched from the first frequency to a second frequency. A signal quality metric for the second frequency is measured. Tuning is switched... Agent: Panasonic Automotive System Company Of America

20090247100 - Dual threshold demodulation in an amplitude modulation radio receiver: A method, algorithm, circuits, and/or systems for demodulation in an amplitude modulated (AM) radio receiver are disclosed. In one embodiment, a radio receiver can include an amplifier configured to receive a radio frequency (RF) input signal and a gain control signal, and provide an amplified signal, an automatic gain control... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20090247101 - Auto-detection of broadcast channel spacing: Methods and systems are disclosed for automatic detection of channel spacing for broadcast bands in different regions that use different channel spacing. Using the described embodiments, channel spacing at a users' current location can be automatically detected so that manual settings by the user are not necessary, especially when a... Agent: O'keefe, Egan, Peterman & Enders LLP

20090247102 - Circuit and method of calibrating direct current offset in wireless communication device: A circuit for calibrating the DC offset in a wireless communication device utilizes a voltage-generating circuit to generate a first voltage value and its negative value, and utilizes a detecting circuit to detect an output of the wireless communication device and generate a first target-branch reference value corresponding to the... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090247103 - Smoothing filter for irregular update intervals: A technique for determining a received signal strength from multiple messages filters noise from the received signal to provide an accurate signal strength value. Advantageously, the more accurate output signal strength value can be used to identify movement of a station as well as estimate locations and direction of movement.... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20090247104 - Vehicle antenna: A vehicle antenna includes a first Automatic Gain Control (AGC) unit and a second AGC unit. The first AGC unit may attenuate an input signal based on the strength of the input signal, and then output the attenuated signal to a transistor. The second AGC unit may control a power... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090247105 - Method and circuit for adaptive automatic gain control: A method for adaptive automatic gain control and an automatic gain control circuit are provided. A predetermined waveform is injected into the automatic gain control circuit. A signal is sampled at at least one point in the automatic gain control circuit in which the sampled signal includes the injected predetermined... Agent: Christopher & Weisberg, P.a.

20090247106 - Method and system for detecting an out of band interferer in an rf receiver: A system and method is provided for reducing signal distortion and saturation within an RF receiver which may be operated in an environment under the presence of interfering signals such as in a WiMAX environment. In an embodiment, a first gain stage and a second gain stage are selectively lowered... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20090247108 - Signal processing device and method, and signal processing program: Provided is a signal processing device performing filter processing operations on an input signal using a plurality of filters to generate an output signal, including a filter processing unit configured to perform a filter processing operation on the input signal using a filter and a generating unit configured to generate... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090247107 - Simplified interference suppression in multi-antenna receivers: A signal received via a plurality of antennas, and containing an interference component and a desired communication component, is processed to suppress the interference component. The interference component is suppressed based on an inverse of a spatial covariance matrix, which inverse is produced without performing a matrix inversion operation.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090247109 - Method and system for communicating via a frequency shifting repeater: Aspects of a method and system for communicating via a frequency shifting repeater are provided. In this regard, a signal having a first frequency may be received, the received signal may be quadrature down-converted by mixing it with a pair of phase-quadrature local oscillator (LO) signals, the down-converted signals may... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090247115 - Communication control device and communication control method: A communication control apparatus includes a database which stores identification information of a party on the other end of communication with whom communication should be controlled, a search circuit which acquires communication data for requesting a connection to a party on the other end of communication and searches the database... Agent: Osha Liang L.l.p.

20090247114 - Emergency alert initiation via a mobile device: Systems, methods and computer readable media are disclosed for initiating an emergency alert system alert from a mobile device. In addition to the general system, methods and computer readable medium for such initiating of an emergency alert system alert from a mobile device the process may further implement receiving multiple... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Ww

20090247113 - Emergency alert system instructional media: Emergency instructional messages are utilized to provide instructions to a user in the event of an emergency. The instructional message may be various media, including, but not limited to, text, images, video, audio, and/or multimedia. The instructional message can be prerecorded and stored in a mobile device and/or on a... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Ww

20090247112 - Event disposition control for mobile communications device: A method, system, and medium are provided for responding to an event by way of a mobile communications device. One embodiment of the method includes receiving at the mobile communications device an indication of an occurrence of an event; presenting an informational element (e.g., a slideable graphical-user-interface control) on a... Agent: Sprint Communications Company L.p.

20090247111 - Multi-mode provision of emergency alerts: Systems and methods are provided for sending emergency alerts to mobile devices in a geographical region affected by an emergency condition. An emergency alert may be broadcast via cellular network to devices with active cellular communications, while those mobile devices comprising cellular communications components that are temporarily inoperative due to... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Ww

20090247110 - Systems and methods for activating a security system upon receipt of emergency alert messages: An Emergency Alert System (EAS) alert message may be used to activate a security system. For example, a mobile device of a subscriber may receive an EAS alert message from a network provider of the mobile device. Upon receipt of the EAS alert message, the mobile device may send an... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Ww

20090247117 - Cellular telephone system that uses position of a mobile unit to make call management decisions: A cellular telephone system has call management decisions made based on the exact geographic location of the mobile unit. These call management decisions include billing and taxing decisions, cell site selection, frequency selection and even cellular system selection. The decisions are continuously updated during a call whereby decisions can be... Agent: Fiala & Weaver, P.l.l.c. C/o Cpa Global

20090247116 - Integration of emergency alert information: A subscriber of the Emergency Alert System (EAS) receiving an EAS alert message can obtain additional multimedia information in based upon the location of the subscriber. The additional multimedia information can include information pertaining to available shelter, medical facilities, the location of emergency supplies, a plume map, evacuation routes, or... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Ww

20090247118 - System for authentication of network usage: Apparatus for collecting subscription data for subscribers in a telecommunications system for use in metering usage of network resources includes a data storage device operatively arranged to store subscriber records, and a data processor. The subscriber records include a plurality of fields including a group field for storing data indicative... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman 7 Chick, P.c.

20090247121 - Customer sales and service calls using cell phone, flat fee local and long distance calling plans, digital voice and internet calling plans: A system and methodology that allows customers to use cell phones, flat fee long distance calling plans or internet calling to obtain sales and service by calling toll free telephone numbers provided by stores or businesses interested in providing these services by telephone. Customers with these calling capabilities are more... Agent: William T. Morrison, Jr.

20090247119 - Method and device in a telecommunications system for setting up and billing a roaming communications connection: The invention relates to a method and a device for setting up and billing a roaming communications connection between a first calling subscriber of a first communications network and a second called subscriber of the first and or another communications network who is checked into a roaming communications network. Billing... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20090247120 - Switching system and corresponding method for unicast or multicast end-to-end data and/or multimedia stream transmissions between network nodes: A method for setting up a data link including the steps of requesting an identity of an IP network node by a registration module; transmitting an International Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI) stored on a Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) card of the IP network node to the registration module, storing the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20090247123 - Method for providing security services by using mobile terminal password and mobile terminal thereof: A security service providing method using a mobile terminal password and a mobile terminal thereof. A normal password and an emergency password are stored in a smart card in advance. When a password for using a special service is input by a mobile terminal user, the input password is compared... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20090247124 - Provisioning mobile devices based on a carrier profile: Systems and methods for provisioning computing devices are provided. Carrier provisioning profiles are distributed to computing devices via an activation service during the provisioning process. The carrier provisioning profiles specify access limitations to certain device resources which may otherwise be available to users of the device.... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP

20090247122 - System for monitoring the unauthorized use of a device: The invention is directed to systems and methods for detecting the loss, theft or unauthorized use of a device and/or altering the functionality of the device in response. In one embodiment, a device monitors its use, its local environment, and/or its operating context to determine that the device is no... Agent: Squire Sanders & Dempsey LLP

20090247127 - Communication device: A communication device includes a base unit and a handset. The base unit includes a first communication unit, an authentication data storing unit, and an authentication data transmitting unit. The first communication unit is configured to communicate with an external device by using a communication service subject to setting authentication... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20090247126 - Method and arrangement for operating mobile communication ter-minals: A method and arrangement for operating mobile communication terminals in a radio network with at least one base station, providing a first radio coverage area, and at least one mobile communication terminal in which at least one locally limited area of activity within the first radio coverage area is communicated... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090247125 - Method and system for controlling access of computer resources of mobile client facilities: Embodiments of the present invention relate to systems and methods of controlling resource access on a plurality of mobile communication facilities. The systems and methods may involve providing a central access management facility that is capable of regulating the access control protocols of a plurality of resources that are operational... Agent: Strategic Patents P.c..

20090247129 - Method and system for registering a smartcard terminal with a broadcast server: A method and system for registration with a broadcast server is provided. A request from a smartcard terminal for registration is received and the smartcard terminal is authenticated based on the request. Further, A specific key material, Ks_NAF, is generated in response to the request. At least one of registering... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, LLP

20090247128 - Mobile communication system and subscriber identity code notification apparatus: A mobile communication system is provided such that multiple identity codes assigned to a terminal device are displayed on the terminal device, whereby such multiple identity codes are selectively and arbitrarily used without a specific provision, and an identity code is displayed according to an arrival of an appropriate notification... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20090247130 - Mobile terminal apparatus: A mobile terminal apparatus checks if a user is a proper user based on the operation of the user and, if the result of authentication is negative, uploads predetermined data, which is part of data stored in a memory, to a predetermined server. After the transmission is completed, the mobile... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer Pllc

20090247131 - Systems and methods for restricting the use of stolen devices on a wireless network: Systems and methods for controlling wireless network access for wireless devices are disclosed. In an exemplary embodiment, a system can create an electronic record for a device intended for sale in a retail store. The record associated with the device can include an indication that the device has not been... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Pk Attn: Patent Docketing

20090247132 - System and method for processing vehicle communications: A system and a method for improving wireless communications between a call center and a vehicle. The system and method can reduce the number of wireless connections needed between a call center and a vehicle by using multimedia messaging service (MMS) messages to convey information therebetween. This obviates the need... Agent: General Motors Corporation C/o Reising, Ethington, Barnes, Kisselle, P.c.

20090247133 - Information communication method: The present system provides a method for exchanging contact information that can be accomplished easily using a telephone or SMS texting device. A first user maintains a database of contact information at a repository. Upon meeting a second person, the first person gives a unique ID to the second person,... Agent: Dla Piper Us LLP

20090247136 - Assisted application operation service for mobile devices using screen sharing: When a mobile user (42) needs assistance in operating applications (44) at the mobile device (31), he makes a call to remote help center and sends display contents from the mobile device (31) into the remote help center which routes the display contents to corresponding remote help center agents who... Agent: Sudharshan Srinivasan

20090247135 - Information processing device: An information processing device such as cellular phone includes an input unit to input channel information, a transmitting unit to send out, on the basis of the channel information inputted by the input unit and an inputted time, desired information demanding for the channel information, the time information, and information... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, Pc

20090247134 - Synchronizing communications and data between mobile devices and servers: A system, method, and computer program product for synchronizing communications, data, application workflow events, and business processes between a mobile device and a server are described herein. In an embodiment, the method operates by determining whether there is a data object to be synchronized between a source and a target,... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20090247144 - Communication apparatus and method for modifying system features thereof: An exemplary communication apparatus includes at least one system feature. The communication apparatus includes a storage device, a motion sensor, and a controller. The storage device stores a plurality of system parameters for the at least one system feature. The motion sensor detects a movement of the communication apparatus and... Agent: Pce Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090247142 - Information communication processing device, information communication terminal, information communication system, function switching method and function switching program: Provided is the information communication processing device capable of executing terminal function switching control in linkage with an external communication content on one information communication processing device based on the external communication content without a problem in switching. The information communication processing device has at least one information processing device... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090247143 - Mobile phone, and method of limiting operations of mobile phone: The mobile phone includes: a first judging unit (S105) which judges whether or not the caller of the incoming call matches a predetermined phone number if the incoming call signal is received; and a limiting unit (S109) configured such that, in a case in which the first judging unit judges... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, Pc

20090247141 - Moving of a node: A system and a method for moving a node within a real time communications network, where said node is at least connected to a first controller node and the node is disconnected and moved from the first controller node to a second controller node, where the system comprises a macro... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090247138 - Over the air programming via cellular broadcast: In a communications system, one or more mobile devices may be programmed through the use of an assigned channel of a logical channel. For example, a broadcast control channel (BCCH) transmission may be received by one or more mobile devices, the transmission comprising a set of instructions to program the... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Ww

20090247137 - Potential call drop indicator: Mobile device user notifications of highly likely call drops or service losses are provided. A wireless network can determine from the location history of a mobile device if that mobile device is likely to lose connectivity to the wireless network or to a particular wireless service and issue an alert... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Ww

20090247139 - System for adapting online advertising campaigns to incorporate mobile advertising: A system is described for adapting online advertising campaigns to incorporate mobile advertising. The system may include a processor, a memory and an interface being operatively connected. The memory may store ad groups of an advertiser, and mobile advertisements. An ad group may include keywords and web advertisements. The interface... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Yahoo! Overture

20090247140 - System for providing mobile advertisement actions: A system for providing mobile advertisement actions may include a memory to store a request, mobile carrier data, mobile advertisement data, and mobile advertisement action data. The system may include an interface operatively connected to the memory to communicate with a mobile device. The system may include a processor operatively... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Yahoo! Overture

20090247145 - Method and apparatus for software update of terminals in a mobile communication system: A method of updating software of terminals in a mobile broadcast system is provided. The method includes creating an update command for terminals of a particular model, the update command including update information; and broadcasting the created update command. The update information includes software version information and at least one... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, LLP

20090247146 - System and method for remote asset management: A remote asset management system comprising a network of programmable wireless modules, each having an antenna and an identification module and configured to communicate via a radio communication protocol. The system further includes a plurality of assets each linked to one of the programmable wireless modules and configured to be... Agent: Sunstein Kann Murphy & Timbers LLP

20090247147 - Predictive mobile phone service disruption service: Illustrative embodiments provide a computer implemented method, a data processing system and a computer program product for a predictive mobile phone service disruption service. In one illustrative embodiment, the computer implemented method comprises monitoring a cellular call of a caller, calculating a location and vector of the caller, and determining... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20090247148 - Techniques for feedback in cellular systems to mitigate interference in downlink: An embodiment of the present invention provides a method, comprising broadcasting base station (BS) channel allocation methods and supported interference mitigation techniques in a whole cell by the base station and reporting classification information by mobile stations (MSs) within the cell to said base station about their preferred interference mitigation... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Cpa Global

20090247149 - Method of supporting measurement in a mobile communication system: A method of supporting a measurement in a mobile communication system is disclosed, by which a measurement requested by a system can be smoothly performed without data loss in the course of receiving data for a specific service or control data. A UE decides a frequency or time interval necessary... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090247150 - Reporting measurements from a mobile station to a network and associated handover control method: A mobile station receives dedicated signaling from the network to obtain measurement configuration data specified for it. The measurement configuration data stored in the mobile station include: measurement object elements each designating communication resources on which measurements are requested by the network; reporting configuration elements each defining reporting criteria to... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090247151 - Information providing system for vehicle: A cellular phone accumulates input information, which is inputted by a user using the cellular phone located not only inside but also outside of a vehicle, as parent population data for interest extraction, and extracts interest information, which reflects a present interest of a user, from the parent population data... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, Pc

20090247152 - Systems, methods and apparatus for transmitting data over a voice channel of a wireless telephone network using multiple frequency shift-keying modulation: The various embodiments described herein generally provide apparatus, systems and methods which facilitate the transmission of data between a client device and a remote device over a voice channel of a telephone network. More particularly, data from a client device is modulated into an audio signal using multiple frequency shift... Agent: Echostar Technologies, L.l.c. Legal Department

20090247153 - Automatic updating of a preferred roaming list stored in a vehicle telematics unit: A method of updating a preferred roaming list (PRL) onboard a vehicle that wirelessly communicates with a call center and with a communications center over a wireless network. A communication link is established between the vehicle and the call center. A onboard PRL version number is transmitted from the vehicle... Agent: General Motors Corporation C/o Reising, Ethington, Barnes, Kisselle, P.c.

20090247155 - Controlling hand-off in a mobile node with two mobile ip clients: Extending Mobile IP to support both local and remote access by using two MIP client stacks in the end node, a roaming Node in the local access network, a standard Home Agent in the remote network. Messages between the AR and the MN, and between the internal modules of the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090247154 - Method and system for presence determination of mobile devices: A presence server for determining presence of a mobile station in a mobile network, including structure and/or function to: receive a request for a presence indication that the mobile station is active; send a first query into the mobile network based on the request; receive a response to the first... Agent: Perry & Currier Inc.

20090247157 - Femto cell system selection: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate identifying and/or selecting femto cells in a wireless communication environment. A mobile device can scan an Auxiliary Pilot Channel to detect auxiliary pilot channel information (e.g., a particular Walsh Code, . . . ) sent from a base station. Moreover, the identified auxiliary... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090247159 - Method and system for facilitating execution of automatic neighbor relation functions: Methods and apparatuses for facilitating execution of automatic neighbor relation (ANR) functions are provided. A base station and operation and maintenance (OAM) system are disclosed. The base station receives neighbor cell detection data identifying neighbor cells detected by an access terminal. The base station also receives neighbor cell management data... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090247158 - Radio communication device, radio communication method and radio recording medium: A radio communication method for a radio communication device having a first communication unit and a second communication unit includes determining whether a connection between the radio communication device and a local-area radio network is in a difficult state while the radio communication device is connected to the local-area radio... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090247156 - Reference signal management in mobile systems: A reference signal management (RSM) program executing on a mobile device detects multiple reference signals, allocates those reference signals into groups, and performs reference signal management functions using information conveyed in the reference signals. The RSM program detects both broadband and narrowband reference signals and maintains updated groups of reference... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090247160 - Method for optimizing search communication network by mobile communications terminal: The present invention relates to a method for optimizing a search of a Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN) by a mobile terminal having a nonvolatile memory and a Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) card. The method includes: searching for a PLMN based on priority information registered in the SIM; regarding the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20090247161 - Method of supporting cell reselection in an evolved hspa network: A method and apparatus of supporting cell reselection in an evolved HSPA network is disclosed. A wireless transmit receive unit that has allocated channel resources, is restricted from cell reselection until a predetermined criteria is met. During this no selection period, the WTRU continues to make and report measurements.... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.c. Dept. Icc

20090247165 - Cellular communication system and method of operation therefor: A cellular communication system comprises a core network, a first access network not supporting circuit switched services and a second access network supporting circuit switched services. A user equipment detects that an application using circuit switched communication is initiated and accordingly initiates a reselection from the first to the second... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20090247162 - Communication controlling apparatus and communication controlling method: A communication controlling apparatus includes a track information storage unit that has stored therein track information including tracks passing through a management area of the communication controlling apparatus and shift patterns indicative of which cell and in what order the handover is preferably executed for when a mobile device moves... Agent: Myers Wolin, Llc

20090247164 - Handoff algorithm and architecture for mobile system: A reference signal and handoff management (RSHM) program executing on a mobile device detects reference signals, allocates them into groups, and performs handoffs between synchronous and asynchronous sectors. Sectors are allocated to an active group. Sectors from the active group that satisfy a channel quality constraint are allocated to a... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090247166 - Measuring neighboring cell loading in wireless communications: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate detecting cell interference and/or loading by analyzing control data transmitted between devices communicating in the cell. Control data resources can be transmitted related to communication received over data channels, and the control data resources can comprise quality indicators related to the data as... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090247163 - Radio communication base station device: Provided is a radio communication base station device capable of reducing a message size in a call connection. In the device, a report information creation unit (203) creates report information by allocating cell level information as Preconfiguration information managed at a cell level and PLMN level information as Preconfiguration information... Agent: Dickinson Wright Pllc James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090247167 - Wireless device: A wireless device and technology operable to optimize communications during an emergency is disclosed. The wireless device can detect communication congestion in a base station, and search for alternate base stations that can provide annunciation information during the emergency. If a suitable base station can be found, handoff is made... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20090247168 - Mobile station, base station, mobile communication system, and communication method: A mobile station, a base station, a mobile communication system and a communication method enabling operations associated with simultaneous uplink reception in multiple stations to be simplified are provided. The base station includes a transmission timing determining unit determining a transmission timing based on scheduling conducted upon a data transmission... Agent: Osha Liang L.l.p.

20090247169 - Base transceiver station, mobile station, and wireless communication method: A base transceiver station used in a wireless communication system in which the location of each base transceiver station antenna is included in a coverage area of another base transceiver station antenna, the base transceiver station including a measuring unit measuring a distance between a mobile station and a base... Agent: Hanify & King Professional Corporation

20090247170 - Power efficient small base station scanning and acquisition: Cellular network may introduce a large number of limited access/limited range (“small”) base stations deployed by end-users such as home base nodes (HNBs) or Femtocells that provide access to access terminals (ATs) or user equipment (UE) to a core network. A selective discovery approach enables UE to discover and to... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090247172 - Low reuse preamble for a wireless communication network: Techniques for sending low reuse preambles in a wireless network are described. In an aspect, a base station may send a low reuse preamble on reserved frequency resources to allow terminals to detect the base station even in the presence of strong interfering base stations. The base station may generate... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090247171 - Transmission method, wireless base station, and wireless communication method: A transmission method that can implement efficient communication control. A transmission block sends a signal of a first frequency band allocated to each zone, by a first directive beam which covers the entire zone, in a first time slot of a predetermined period and sends a signal of a second... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20090247173 - Channel frequency reuse for narrow beam video streaming based upon mobile terminal location information: Transmitting streamed video to at least one wireless terminal by a wireless network having a channel frequency reuse pattern. The wireless network receives a request for the streamed video from the at least one wireless terminal and receives position information from the at least one wireless terminal requesting the streamed... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20090247176 - Management of wireless connections: Techniques for signaling whether or not a radio resource control (RRC) connection should be maintained are provided. The signaling may be provided, for example, in existing NAS transport messages, or in separate messages. The signaling may be provided in the uplink and/or downlink direction.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090247175 - System and method for downlink control signal structure for multi-user mimo: A system and method for downlink control signal structure for multi-user MIMO is provided. A method comprises selecting a set of mobile stations (MSs) to receive substantially simultaneously transmitted transmissions, and transmitting interference control information and data to each mobile station (MS) in the set of MSs. A number of... Agent: Slater & Matsil, L.l.p.

20090247174 - Uplink ack/nak resource allocation: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate allocating uplink resources to mobile devices to employ to signal acknowledgment indicators. Persistently scheduled mobile devices can be explicitly assigned uplink resources. Dynamically scheduled mobile device can utilize a one-to-one mapping to identify uplink resources based upon a downlink control channel index. The... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090247177 - Adapting decision parameter for reacting to resource utilization messages: An adaptable decision parameter is used to determine whether to react to resource utilization messages. The decision parameter may comprise a decision threshold that is adapted based on received resource utilization messages. The decision parameter may comprise a probability that is used to determine whether to react to a received... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090247178 - Apparatus and method for scheduling packets: An apparatus comprising a controller for controlling radio communication using communication resources for user data communication, and control resources for controlling communication on the communication resources, an allocator for allocating mobile stations to use at least one of a dynamic allocation and a persistent allocation, each allocation defining a different... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.l.p.

20090247179 - Systems and methods for digital processing of satellite communications data: A digital payload for processing a sub-band spectrum received on an uplink beam at a communications satellite includes a digital channelizer, a digital switch matrix and a digital combiner. The digital channelizer divides the sub-band spectrum into a plurality of frequency slices that can be routed by the digital switch... Agent: Hope Baldauff Hartman, Llc

20090247180 - Apparatus and method for deciding uplink transmission parameters: An apparatus for determining uplink transmission parameters includes a reception unit receiving a channel quality indicator from a mobile station; a storage unit storing relationships among a channel quality indicator, a modulation scheme and a channel coding rate for an uplink, and one or both of transmission power and transmission... Agent: Osha Liang L.l.p.

20090247182 - Base station apparatus and channel allocation method: A base station includes an adaptive control unit for obtaining weights (w1′ to w4′) of antenna elements indicating an arrival direction of an interference signal detected on a radio channel that is not being used for communication, and weights (w1 to w4) indicating an arrival direction of a desired signal... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20090247181 - Long-term interference mitigation in an asynchronous wireless network: Techniques for mitigating interference in a wireless communication network are described. A terminal may desire to communicate with a weaker serving base station and may observe high interference from a strong interfering base station. The two base stations may be asynchronous and have different frame timing. In an aspect, high... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090247185 - Cluster-based fingerprinting algorithms: Methods and apparatus to provide cluster-based fingerprinting algorithms are described. In one embodiment, m closest fingerprints from k fingerprints are determined. The k fingerprints may be determined as closest fingerprints to a scan s in a signal strength domain, where the scan s is of an environment surrounding a wireless... Agent: Caven & Aghevli Llc C/o Cpa Global

20090247186 - Dynamic localization using geographical information systems: In accordance with certain embodiments of the present disclosure, a system to determine the geographic location of a mobile device is described. The system comprises a mobile device. The mobile device comprises a measurement module, the measurement module being capable of detecting information including the direction and acceleration of the... Agent: Dority & Manning, P.a.

20090247187 - Infrared, touch screen, w-cdma, gsm, gps camera phone: System and method for receiving and transmitting one or more signals, for processing and generating signals used in an infrared (IR) system, in a cellular system and in a separate Wi-Fi wireless network. Receiver and demodulator for demodulating and processing a modulated signal for generating from a modulated signal a... Agent: Kamilo Feher

20090247184 - Localized detection of mobile devices: Various aspects are disclosed herein for detection of mobile devices. Detection of mobile devices can be localized to an environment that is radio frequency enclosed. Within this environment, any packages can be scanned for the presence of mobile devices and for the interrogation of information from such mobile devices, such... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Ww

20090247183 - System and method for locating a voice over internet protocol (voip) device using a geomagnetic sensor: Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to a system and method for receiving first location information associated with a VoIP device having one or more geomagnetic sensor, wherein the first location information is determined using the one or more geomagnetic sensors based at least in part on the Earth's... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20090247188 - Ip phone routing and call initiation based on location information: Routing an incoming call for an IP phone system is disclosed. A location data for a mobile device is received. A way point based at least in part on the location data is determined. A state for a user of the IP phone system is determined based at least in... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP

20090247189 - Systems and methods for determination of mobile devices in or proximate to an alert area: Systems and methods for determining whether a mobile device is within a specified area and for providing information related to the mobile device are disclosed. A request may be received which inquires as to whether any mobile devices are within an alert area. The request may include a description of... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Ww

20090247190 - Advertising information providing method, advertising information providing system, advertising information providing program and advertising information ranking program: By using the location information of a wireless communication terminal, an advertising information display method, etc. is provided to display on a display, highly useful advertising information, that is, advertising information of an advertising information transmission source, which is located at a location that is close to the location at... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.c.

20090247193 - System and method for creating anonymous user profiles from a mobile data network: A mobile network device creates and continuously modifies an anonymous user profile from collected network data and subsequently shares the profile with content providers. The mobile network device includes multiple collector devices that monitor data from routers on the mobile data network for application-level activity and a corresponding IP address... Agent: Wilmerhale/boston

20090247192 - System for mobile advanced matching: A system is described for mobile advanced matching. The system may include a processor, a memory and an interface being operatively connected. The memory may store advertisements and a request. The interface may communicate with a user on a mobile device associated with a mobile carrier. The processor may associate... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Yahoo! Overture

20090247191 - Systems and methods for determining previous occupation in or proximate to an alert area: Systems and methods for determining whether a mobile device was within a specified area and for providing a location history of a mobile device are disclosed. A request may be received from a device which inquires about the location history of a mobile device. The request may include a time... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Ww

20090247197 - Creating online resources using information exchanged between paired wireless devices: A database of family, friends and professional network relationships are established through the exchange of unique identifiers between paired mobile devices using wireless technology. The paired mobile devices exchange information related to the users' identities. The mobile device users can independently upload the exchanged information through one or more access... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20090247198 - Method and apparatus for blocking id information associated with a sender of a short messaging service (sms) message: A component of the wireless network detects when a party who is sending an electronic message desires to have the sender's ID information blocked. If a determination is made that the sender's ID information is to be blocked, the network component removes the ID information from the communication and transmits... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Moazzam Attn: Patent Docketing

20090247196 - Mobile terminal for performing instant messaging service: A method of executing an instant messaging service using a wireless terminal in a wireless communication system includes associating at least one user as a messenger group, activating messenger communication with a server, transmitting a messenger group status activation message to the server, receiving status data associated with the messenger... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090247195 - Multimedia systems: There is provided a method of enhancing a hard copy consumable printed item such as a greeting card or a calendar, with a digital package supported by a multi-media system, comprising the steps of: generating a digital package comprising digital content and/or services; making the digital package accessible to the... Agent: David A. Guerra International Patent Group, Llc

20090247194 - System and method for transmitting messages between a platform and a set of terminals: A method for transmitting messages over a telecommunications network between a service platform (100) and at least one identified set of terminals (10, 21, 22, 31, 32), wherein said method comprises the steps of: defining at least one communication device (10) including said set of terminals, said device corresponding to... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20090247199 - Radio power-fed terminal, system, and method: A power-fed terminal includes a first reception unit receiving, from another terminal, first information containing at least one frequency candidate that fails to be used by any other communication system, the frequency candidate being used for transmitting a first microwave, a second reception unit receiving the first microwave transmitted by... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090247200 - Apparatus and method for processing signals in a distributed antenna system: An apparatus and method for processing signals in a distributed antenna system. The method includes receiving, by a Base Station (BS), Channel State Information (CSI) from Mobile Stations (MSs) located within a coverage area of the BS or a coverage of Relay Stations (RSs) connected to the BS; multiplying signals... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, LLP

20090247201 - Dynamic allocation of spectrum sensing resources in cognitive radio networks: A method, wireless controller, and information processing system are provided to dynamically allocate spectrum sensing resources. A first input (804) including available sensing session time for performing spectrum sensing with respect to one or more primary systems (102) is received. A second input (806) including a set of communication channels... Agent: Motorola, Inc

20090247203 - Method and apparatus for improving drx functionality: A method for improving Discontinuous Reception (DRX) Functionality in a user equipment (UE) of a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method includes steps of receiving a Radio Resource Control (RRC) message, which contains a DRX Configuration Information Element (IE drx-Configuration), activating a DRX functionality according to the IE drx-Configuration,... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090247202 - System for ranging based on partitioned radio resource: A method for ranging in a wireless communication system and a communication apparatus and/or system using the same are provided. A base station (BS) device includes a terminal grouping unit to group terminals associated with the BS device into a plurality of groups, a radio resource assignment unit to allocate... Agent: Mcneely Bodendorf LLP

20090247204 - Dynamic allocation of communications resources: In a communications spectrum shared by public safety users and commercial users, in the event of an emergency condition, commercial users are preempted and corresponding bandwidth is reallocated to authorized public safety users. When the emergency condition subsides, the reallocated bandwidth is made available for commercial use. Reallocation and preemption... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Ww

20090247205 - Management of preemptable communications resources: In a communications spectrum shared by public safety users and commercial users, in the event of an emergency condition, commercial users are preempted and corresponding resources are reallocated to authorized public safety users. When the emergency condition subsides, the reallocated resources are again made available for commercial use. In an... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Ww

20090247206 - Dynamic boolean channel masks: Systems and methods are provided to establish a set of dynamic channel masks that select channels to be scanned in a wireless environment during a mobile terminal roaming. The set of channel masks is associated with a set of scan groups determined through a Boolean operation applied to a set... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20090247207 - Device and method for participating in a peer-to-peer network: A device for participating in a distributed peer-to-peer communications network has a distributed network application that includes a capability-routing entity having capability information for a group of associated peers participating in the network. A method for establishing peer-to-peer communication in the network including determining which of the group of associated... Agent: Wells St. John P.s.

20090247208 - Technique for controlling point-to-multipoint data transmissions: A technique for controlling a point-to-multipoint (PTM) transmission of data over a PTM-enabled network (150) to a user group is proposed. In a first PTM transmission, a location information query message is distributed into a group service area (154). Upon receiving the query message, items of user equipment respond with... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090247209 - Enhancing uplink link budget in ofdma communication systems: Methods and apparatus to enhance uplink link budget in Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) communication systems are described. In one embodiment, a wireless device may increase its transmit power and/or perform subchannel repetition (e.g., in a WiMAX environment) based on at least one indication by an access point. Other embodiments... Agent: Caven & Aghevli Llc C/o Cpa Global

20090247212 - Fast adaptive power control for a variable multirate communications system: A system and a method of controlling transmitter power in a wireless communication system in which user data is processed as a multirate signal in which the user data signal having a first rate is converted into a transmission data signal having a faster second rate for transmission. The transmission... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.c. Dept. Icc

20090247210 - Mobile communication system, base station apparatus, mobile station apparatus, transmission power control method and information recording medium: In a mobile communication system performing the space division multiplex, the wireless resources are saved as much as possible and the reception powers of communication signals, which are received by a base station apparatus from mobile station apparatuses, are evened. A mobile communication system wherein each of mobile station apparatuses... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20090247211 - Wireless communication system and method of controlling a transmission power: The base station notifies each mobile station of transmission power information on an uplink RACH, the mobile station transmits transmission delay estimation information on the RACH to the base station over the RACH at transmission power set based on the transmission power information, and the base station changes the transmission... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20090247216 - Communication equipment and communication system: A communication system includes: sender-side communication equipment including a detection unit configured to detect information indicating the condition of a user, and a transmission unit configured to transmit information indicating the condition of the user detected through the detection unit to a communication partner; and receiver-side communication equipment including a... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.c.

20090247213 - Method and system for frequency-shift based chip-to-chip communications: Aspects of a method and system for frequency-shift based chip-to-chip communications may include receiving and/or generating modulation control information and demodulation control information within a chip comprising one or more receivers and one or more transmitters. One or more modulation frequencies may be adjusted and utilized to generate transmit signals... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090247215 - Portable device and information management method: A portable device and an information management method are provided whereby personal information can be safely shared between two systems. Each entry of telephone directory information includes callee identification information identifying a callee to be called by mobile phone function and is readable from and updatable by an information processor.... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090247214 - Precoding matrix index feedback interaction with discontinuous reception: A user equipment (UE) is provided that includes a processor configured to transmit a preceding matrix index (PMI) using one of an assigned periodic PMI reporting resource that precisely aligns with the start of an on-duration of a discontinuous reception (DRX) operation mode of the UE and a first assigned... Agent: Research In Motion Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20090247217 - Apparatus and method for wireless communications capable of bluetooth, wireless local area network (wlan) and wimax communications: The invention provides an apparatus capable of wireless communications. In one embodiment, the apparatus comprises a packet traffic arbitration (PTA) module and a first wireless transceiving module, and the first wireless transceiving module is connected to the PTA module via a wire. The first wireless transceiving module sends a first... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090247218 - Terminal and method of improving interference in a terminal: A terminal and method of improving interference in a terminal are provided, by which interference generated from implementing a plurality of wireless communication technologies can be improved. The terminal includes a first communication module implemented by a first wireless communication technology and a controller determining that interference is generated by... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090247219 - Method of generating a function output from a photographed image and related mobile computing device: To perform a search, or other function, based on input from a camera in a mobile computing device, the camera of the mobile computing device captures an image, an area corresponding to text or another searchable object in the image is selected or determined, the text in the area is... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090247221 - Sending a message to a number via a coded surface: A method of sensing a message to a number using a print medium is disclosed. The method starts by sensing coded data on a surface of the print medium using a sensor module of a mobile telecommunications device. From the coded information a print media identifier and a position of... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20090247220 - Terminal and method of controlling broadcasting therein: A mobile terminal including a user input unit configured to select a first broadcast channel, and a controller configured to buffer broadcast data relevant to at least one second broadcast channel different than the first broadcast channel for a predetermined time if the first broadcast channel is selected and to... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090247222 - Method and system for providing a user interface that enables control of a device via respiratory and/or tactual input: A method and system are provided for a user interface that enables control of a device via respiratory and/or tactual input. A mobile device comprising a graphical user interface may receive data from a second device and/or locally from within the mobile device. The data may be associated with and/or... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090247224 - Pluggable input device for chiral customization of a mobile phone: A method of attaching a removable user interface (UI) input device to a mobile phone in a handedness-neutral manner is presented. The method includes incorporating a left-side module socket and a right-side module socket into a mobile phone, such that the left-side module socket is oriented on a left side... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20090247226 - Printing content using a mobile device: A mobile telecommunications device for printing bill data on a print medium is disclosed. The mobile telecommunications device includes a sensor module for sensing data encoded on a surface of the print medium. A print media identifier is determined from the sensed data and bill data associated with the print... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20090247223 - Rank indicator transmission during discontinuous reception: A user equipment (UE) is disclosed. The UE includes a processor configured to transmit a rank indicator (RI) using one of an assigned periodic RI reporting resource that precisely aligns with the start on an on-duration of a discontinuous reception (DRX) operation mode of the UE and a first assigned... Agent: Research In Motion Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20090247227 - Retrieving contact details using a printed medium: A method is disclosed of retrieving contact details using a print medium. The method determines a print media identifier from the print medium using a sensor module of a mobile telecommunications device. The print media identifier is linked to the contact details. The mobile telecommunications device is then used to... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20090247225 - Data entry systems: A data entry system includes a hand held data entry unit having a reading sensor for sensing commands and/or data, rewritable storage for storing information relating to selectable items, a controller (a microprocessor or other processing circuitry) and a display screen for displaying a user readable representation of the commands... Agent: Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky & Popeo

20090247228 - Boosted, dedicated reference signal: A base station forming part of a cellular communications system includes a reference signal generator, a boost selector and a transmitter. The reference signal generator provides a dedicated reference signal to be transmitted over plural antennas to a dedicated user device. The boost selector selects a dedicated boost level specific... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce P.L.C

20090247229 - Method for selecting antennas in a wireless networks: A method selects antennas in a wireless network including a base station and one or more transceivers. The base station specifies times, subcarriers and subsets of antennas to use to transmit sounding reference signals (SRS) to the base station. Then, the transceiver transmits the SRS according to the specified times... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20090247235 - Information processing apparatus: According to the present invention, an information processing apparatus includes: an input unit; a display unit; an image output unit; an image storage unit that stores images; an image selection unit that controls the display unit to display a list of information for identifying the images stored in the image... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, Pc

20090247233 - Mobile terminal and method of displaying information therein: A mobile terminal is presented. The mobile terminal includes a display including a touchscreen, and a controller for selecting information displayed on the touchscreen according to a state of an object in near-proximity to the displayed information.... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090247234 - Mobile terminal and method of displaying information therein: A mobile terminal is presented. The mobile terminal includes a display including a touchscreen, and a controller for performing an editing operation on information displayed on the touchscreen according to a state of an object in near-proximity to the displayed information.... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090247232 - Mobile terminal device: A mobile terminal device includes an input unit, an input detection unit for detecting input information at a predetermined interval from starting to the end of the input reception, and an application control unit which allows the application to execute the process preliminarily allocated corresponding to the input information upon... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, Pc

20090247236 - Mobile terminal device: A mobile terminal device including a movable side housing includes a movable side front case and a movable side rear case providing an LCD module is provided. The mobile terminal device includes a fixed side housing connected to the movable side housing with a connecting hinge, a frame member integrally... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090247230 - Physical feedback to indicate object directional slide: A method, system, and medium are provided for enabling a user to control a mobile communications device that includes a vibration component. One embodiment of the method includes presenting an object on a touchscreen display of the mobile communications device; enabling the object to be moveable on the touchscreen by... Agent: Sprint Communications Company L.p.

20090247231 - Telecommunication device and handwriting input processing method thereof: An exemplary telecommunication device includes a touchscreen, a processing unit, a storage unit, a combining unit, and a communication unit. The touchscreen is used for receiving and recording handwriting inputs. The processing unit is adapted for converting each handwriting input into a separate first image having a first predetermined size.... Agent: Pce Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090247237 - Mounting structures for portable electronic devices: A portable electronic device such as a handheld electronic device is provided. The device may have upper and lower portions. The upper portion may have clips that attach to springs on the lower portion. The device may have a housing with a bezel. A prong on the springs may ground... Agent: Treyz Law Group

20090247238 - Analog processing device for a data transmission device: In order to put the voice transmission function of a data transmission device into practice, the present invention provides an analog processing device for a data transmission device, which includes an analog signal processing unit for performing analog signal processes on an input signal received by the data transmission device... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090247239 - Deterministic characterization and reduction of acoustic echo: Techniques to characterize and reduce acoustic echo are described. For example, a mobile computing device may comprise an audio characterization module to send a first signal to a first component and receive a second signal from a second component. The first signal may be a deterministic audio training sequence and... Agent: Kacvinsky Llc 4500 Brooktree Road

20090247240 - Auxiliary power management method for cellular based device: A method of operating a control module of a mobile device that communicates with a cellular network and that is powered by an auxiliary power supply comprises generating an interrupt signal based on a tick of a system timer interrupt of the control module; incrementing a counter value based on... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090247241 - Network supporting roaming, sleeping terminals: Improved apparatus for a radio communication system having a multiplicity of mobile transceiver units selectively in communication with a plurality of base transceiver units which, in turn, communicate with one or more host computers for storage and manipulation of data collected by bar code scanners or other collection means associated... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090247243 - Housing structure of hand-held electronic device: A housing structure of a hand-held electronic device is provided, including a first frame, a second frame connected to the first frame, and a transparent window. The first frame forms a slot and a flexible cantilever on a surface thereof, wherein the slot and the flexible cantilever are adjacent to... Agent: Quintero Law Office, Pc

20090247242 - Integral housing and user interface: A continuous housing (100) and integral user interface (101) is disclosed. The housing comprising a continuous housing having a cavity (117) to receive an electrical component and to surround the component on a plurality of sides. The housing further comprises, an integral user interface portion incorporated into a continuous housing... Agent: Motorola Inc

20090247244 - Receiver acoustic system: A mobile communications device has an outer housing with a front wall in which an acoustic opening is formed. A tub is disposed inside the housing, wherein an acoustic opening is formed in a bottom of the tub and is positioned to be aligned with the acoustic opening in the... Agent: Apple Inc./bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090247245 - Improvements in or relating to electronic headset devices and associated electronic devices: An electronic headset comprising connectivity functionality, the connectivity functionality arranged to allow the headset to be operatively coupled to a remote associated electronic device for the transmission of signalling between the headset and the device, the headset further comprising camera functionality arranged to capture one or more images, and wherein... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20090247246 - Mobile terminal device: A mobile terminal device includes a fixed side housing including a fixed side front case and a fixed side rear case, the fixed side rear case having a circuit board and a frame chassis disposed adjacent to the circuit board, a movable side housing including a display, connected to the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090247248 - Slide device and electronic equipment: A slide device includes a base, a slider provided at the base and slidable along an axis serving as a y-axis with respect to the base, a cam provided at the base and having a surface undulating in an x-axis direction orthogonal to the y-axis, a cam follower provided at... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20090247247 - Slide module and mobile terminal having the same: A mobile terminal including a first body, a second body slidably moveable with respect to the first body such that the first body is moved between a closed position and an open position, a connector electrically connecting the first body to the second body, and a slide module connecting the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch