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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20060281401 | Method and system to acquire customizable data in a satellite radio system The present invention involves a media player and method for providing digital audio data in satellite digital audio radio (SDAR) format. The media player includes a satellite radio receiver, audio circuitry for reproducing sound from signals provided by the satellite r... | 12/14/2006 |
| 20060281402 | Radio receiving system and method for searching radio signals A system for receiving radio signals and a method for searching radio signals. The system includes a satellite receiver, a look-up table, and a radio signal receiver. The satellite receiver receives satellite signals, and provides position information according thereto.... | 12/14/2006 |
| 20060281403 | Enhancing perceptions of the sensory content of audio and audio-visual media The invention generally pertains to enhancing a sensory perception of media. More particularly, the invention pertains to creating a composition having at least one frequency in the ultrasonic or infrasonic range. By way of example, the composition is inaudible in its p... | 12/14/2006 |
| 20060281404 | Relay system and method for cellular communication A relay method is disclosed in a cellular communication system including an access node for providing an access service using resources of a licensed band to a particular terminal among a plurality of terminals with a partial licensed band of the full frequency spectrum... | 12/14/2006 |
| 20060281405 | Portable object having multi-level demodulation and being inductively coupled to a fixed station The portable object (1) is provided with an antenna (3) inductively coupled to a fixed station of a remote transmission device that emits an alternating magnetic field whose amplitude is modulated on 2 | 12/14/2006 |
| 20060281406 | Information processing system and information processing method An information processing system includes: a first information processing apparatus disposed in correspondence with an entrance of a space including a plurality of areas; a plurality of second information processing apparatuses respectively disposed in correspondence wi... | 12/14/2006 |
| 20060281407 | Methods for controlling contact information and corresponding electronic devices and program products An electronic communication device is disclosed that is arranged in connection with a caller party in order to communicate with a target party. The device includes a processor, communication modules for communicating with the said target party and a memory in which cont... | 12/14/2006 |
| 20060281408 | Frequency separation for multiple bluetooth devices residing on a single platform A method for frequency separation for multiple Bluetooth communication devices on a single platform may comprise determining initial frequencies to be utilized by a plurality of Bluetooth communication devices residing on a single host device. A first portion of the det... | 12/14/2006 |
| 20060281409 | Device pairing via intermediary device A first device may include and/or involve at least one contact sensor, and logic to facilitate pairing between a second device and a third device as a result of contact between the contact sensor and at least one of the second and third devices. ... | 12/14/2006 |
| 20060281410 | Methods and apparatus to integrate image rejection into quadrature mixers Methods and apparatus to integrate image rejection into quadrature mixers are disclosed. A disclosed image-rejection quadrature mixer comprises a quadrature mixer, and a cross-coupled differential pair of transistors to provide a complex filter response, wherein the mix... | 12/14/2006 |
| 20060281411 | Method of reducing imbalance in a quadrature frequency converter, method of measuring imbalance in such a converter, and apparatus for performing such method A method is provided for reducing imbalance in a quadrature frequency converter. A test tone generator controlled by an alignment controller supplies a test signal to the input of the frequency converter. A starting point is selected in a solution space addressed by I a... | 12/14/2006 |
| 20060281412 | Method and apparatus for coverage and throughput enhancement in a wireless communication system A multiple access wireless communications architecture provides selective, simultaneous communications with wireless devices located in different sections of a spatial area around a communications apparatus referred to as “sectors”. In one embodiment, channel alloca... | 12/14/2006 |
| 20060281413 | Establishing radio link control in wireless communication networks A wireless communication terminal (300) including a radio transceiver (320), and a radio link control entity (310) that re-initiates a radio link control reset procedure when the transceiver receives a message containing an instruction to change an ... | 12/14/2006 |
| 20060281414 | Shared control channel detection strategies A detection strategy is selected for use in detecting a shared control channel that is transmitted on a physical channel in a communication system. This involves using a previously selected detection strategy to detect the shared control channel. The power of the detect... | 12/14/2006 |
| 20060281415 | Received signal quality display method and received signal quality display system A base station receives a pilot signal and position information on each of a plurality of mobile stations from the each mobile station. An uplink pilot signal separating unit separates the pilot signal of the each mobile station. A received uplink signal quality calcula... | 12/14/2006 |
| 20060281416 | Data transmission error reduction via automatic data sampling timing adjustment A data transmission error reduction circuit is formed including a delay circuit, a detection circuit and a control circuit. In one embodiment, the delay circuit includes n delay element and multiplexor pairs, selectively employable to apply an aggregate amount of time d... | 12/14/2006 |
| 20060281417 | Transmission rate control method and mobile station A transmission rate control method for controlling a transmission rate of uplink user data which is transmitted from a mobile station located in a predetermined cell to a radio base station, includes: notifying, from the radio base station to the mobile station, a trans... | 12/14/2006 |
| 20060281418 | Device and methods for high isolation and interference suppression switch-filter Systems and methods are provided for a stacked die configuration of a high isolation switch and a rejection filter where transmit and receive signals are desired to have a high out-of-band rejection and a low loss band-pass region. In some aspects of the invention the h... | 12/14/2006 |
| 20060281419 | Methods and apparatus of providing a radio frequency local oscillator signal for a transceiver In the present technique of duplex local oscillator technique provided, a radio frequency local oscillator frequency and a duplex local oscillator frequency at a selected timeslot are assessed (516, 520) to provide a radio frequency local oscillator signal (51... | 12/14/2006 |
| 20060281420 | Emergency Mobile Radio Telephone with Reduced Key Set A mobile radio telephone or portable hot link communicator is described which provides a simple, efficient and effective means of communication to enable a child or elderly person to communicate with a known parent, relative or friend carrying a standard mobile telephon... | 12/14/2006 |
| 20060281421 | Method and apparatus for generating feedback information for transmit power control in a multiple-input multiple-output wireless communication system The present invention is related to a method and apparatus for generating feedback information for transmit power control in a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless communication system. Both a transmitter and a receiver comprise multiple antennae for transmiss... | 12/14/2006 |
| 20060281422 | Method and system for transmit power control in a multiple-input multiple-output wireless communication system The present invention is related to a method and system for transmit power control in a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless communication system. Both a transmitter and a receiver comprise multiple antennae for transmission and reception. The transmitter comp... | 12/14/2006 |
| 20060281423 | Methods and Apparatuses for Adaptively Controlling Antenna Parameters to Enhance Efficiency and Maintain Antenna Size Compactness An antenna for a communications device having configurable elements controlled to modify an antenna impedance and/or an antenna resonant frequency to improve performance of the communications device. The antenna impedance is controlled to substantially match to an outpu... | 12/14/2006 |
| 20060281424 | Ingress susceptibility on return path An apparatus includes an RF input configured to receive RF signals from a communication network subscriber site. The apparatus includes a signal processor operably coupled to the RF input. The signal processor is operable to scan the RF signals for power levels at a plu... | 12/14/2006 |
| 20060281425 | Feed forward spur reduction in mixed signal system A mixed-signal system is capable of reducing spurious signals in data signals by estimating the amplitude and phase of a spur cancellation signal. The mixed-signal system includes a processor connected to receive a converted test signal including one or more spurious si... | 12/14/2006 |
| 20060281426 | Architecture for a receiver front end An architecture for a receiver front end utilizes a dual output low noise amplifier (102) driving separate, fixed preselectors (104, 106) coupled to a transformer (108) to generate a single ended output (113). A pair of blocks coupled in seri... | 12/14/2006 |
| 20060281427 | Frequency change arrangement and radio frequency tuner A frequency changer arrangement is provided for a radio frequency tuner. The arrangement comprises a first quadrature frequency changer for converting a desired input channel to zero or near-zero intermediate frequency in-phase and quadrature signals. These signals are ... | 12/14/2006 |
| 20060281428 | System and method for transmitting radio signals via cable television broadband networks A system for transmitting radio signals via cable television broadband networks includes a wireless access device, an adapter device and a plurality of distributing devices. The wireless access device is disposed in one of spaces for receiving and transmitting radio sig... | 12/14/2006 |
| 20060281429 | Downconverter and upconverter A downconverter and upconverter are provided which can obtain a satisfactory image rejection ratio in a low-Intermediate Frequency (IF) scheme while reducing power consumption, and can improve Error Vector Magnitude (EVM) in a zero-IF scheme. A complex-coefficient trans... | 12/14/2006 |
| 20060281430 | Frequency converter capable of preventing level of intermediate frequency signal from lowering due to rise in temperature There is provided a bias power supply for setting a collector bias current of a mixer transistor and a collector bias current of an oscillation transistor. When a control voltage is equal to or smaller than a first predetermined value, an output voltage of the bias powe... | 12/14/2006 |
| 20060281431 | Radio frequency tuner A radio frequency tuner comprises one or more tracking filters ahead of at least one frequency changer. A controller has a filter alignment mode and a reception mode. Each filter has one or more resonant networks comprising an inductance and a switched capacitor network... | 12/14/2006 |
| 20060281432 | Radio frequency tuner A radio frequency tuner includes a first quadrature frequency changer, I and Q filters which are electronically adjustable, and a second quadrature frequency changer. During alignment of the filters, an alignment controller connects a test tone generator to the input of... | 12/14/2006 |
| 20060281433 | Method and apparatus for demodulation A demodulation method and apparatus are provided. An RF signal is down converted to generate a first in-phase signal and a first quadrature signal of a first frequency. Limiting amplification is performed on the first in-phase signal and the first quadrature signal to g... | 12/14/2006 |
| 20060281434 | Electronic device, power source control method, ROF system and its power supplying method and remote unit Electronic devices to which power is supplied from a power supplying unit commonly connected with other electronic devices, each of the electronic devices comprising a switch unit having an input terminal, an output terminal and a control terminal to which a control sig... | 12/14/2006 |
| 20060281435 | Powering devices using RF energy harvesting Disclosed is an apparatus for an application including a core device for the application. The apparatus includes a power (preferably RF energy) harvester connected to the core device to power the core device. Also disclosed is a method for an application. The method inc... | 12/14/2006 |
| 20060281436 | Method of performing actions related to handover by a mobile station that is in power saving mode in a wireless mobile communication system A method of performing actions related to handover by a mobile station (MS) in a wireless mobile communication system is disclosed. More specifically, the MS receives information from a base station (BS), wherein the information includes at least one action for performi... | 12/14/2006 |
| 20060281437 | Systems and methods for supporting E911 emergency services in a data communications network The present invention provides systems and methods for supporting enhanced 911 (E911) emergency services in data communications networks that includes Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) telephones, by facilitating the identification of the geographic location of a VoIP... | 12/14/2006 |
| 20060281438 | Method and system for blocking incoming calls to mobile subscriber devices A method includes setting an account value of an account to a first amount, wherein the first amount is associated with a specified level of authorized usage of a phone associated with the account. The method further includes blocking an incoming call intended for the p... | 12/14/2006 |
| 20060281439 | Network support for credit card charge notification An apparatus in one example has: a network service provider; a mobile terminal operatively coupled to the network service provider; a credit card company system operatively coupled to the network service provider; and the network service provider structured such that, w... | 12/14/2006 |
| 20060281440 | TEST ENABLED APPLICATION EXECUTION Systems and methods consistent with the present invention provides safe and secure application distribution and execution and controls the risk of providing a test environment associated with the testing of applications. Test enabled permissions are created and distribu... | 12/14/2006 |
