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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5889814 | Transmit/receive compensation for a dual FDD/TDD architecture Compensation measurements can be made of the transmit and receive path circuitry of a dual FDD/TDD system which can be selectively operated in either the FDD mode or alternately in the TDD mode. BY selectively controlling the switches coupling low frequen... | 03/30/1999 |
| 5878328 | Method and apparatus for wireless communication system organization A level of system self-organization in a wireless communication system is provided using a combined design, planning and verification process to determine system organization parameters. The process determines the parameters based on a measured path loss-... | 03/02/1999 |
| 5870722 | Apparatus and method for batch processing of wireless financial transactions Disclosed are methods for providing electronic settlement of authorized financial transactions via a wireless transmission system. A conventional financial transaction processing point-of-sale terminal is connected to a wireless adapter. The wireless adap... | 02/09/1999 |
| 5864543 | Transmit/receive compensation in a time division duplex system In a time division duplex (TDD) system, compensation measurements are made for the transmission circuitry during the receive portion of the TDD cycle and compensation measurements are made for the receive circuitry during the transmit portion of the TDD c... | 01/26/1999 |
| 5859985 | Arbitration controller for providing arbitration on a multipoint high speed serial bus using drivers having output enable pins An arbitration controller provides arbitration on a multipoint, high speed serial bus with a plurality of drivers. Each driver includes a data input pin, an output enable pin, and an output pin. The bus defaults to a first state when the output of the plu... | 01/12/1999 |
| 5854984 | Radio telephone with detachable pager A radio telephone and pager system includes a radio telephone handset and a pager that detachably mounts to the handset. The pager employs a transceiver that provides both paging service, such as a messaging service, and radio telephone service, such as c... | 12/29/1998 |
| 5845207 | Service transfer to a wireless telephone In a wireless communication network, a feature initiation signal is received from a first wireless telephone, a data record for a second telephone is updated, and calls placed to the second telephone are routed to the first wireless telephone based on the... | 12/01/1998 |
| 5832367 | Method for selecting a wireless communications service provider in a multi-service provider environment A communication device locates a wireless service provider in a multi-service provider environment using a frequency band search schedule. The frequency band search schedule has a first or home band and a several other frequency bands in a predetermined o... | 11/03/1998 |
| 5819173 | Dynamically reconfigurable wireless communicator A method and apparatus is provided for communicating on a wireless network which offers a selected service. In accordance with the method, a wireless communicator is tuned to a first signaling control channel broadcast by a wireless network. The first cha... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5809083 | Differentially encoded pilot word system and method for wireless transmissions of digital data A system and method for transmitting digital data over a wireless channel uses periodically-transmitted, differentially encoded pilot words to allow a receiver to rapidly synchronize with a transmitter. Each differentially encoded pilot word comprises at ... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5799000 | Delay compensation In a discrete tone system, a base station receives a transmission burst from a remote unit being installed that includes delay compensation pilot tones that are uniformly spread throughout the transmission bandwidth. The arrival time transmission burst is... | 08/25/1998 |
| 5790551 | Packet data transmission using dynamic channel assignment A method for transmitting packetized data in a cellular communication system uses a dynamic channel assignment scheme. In this aspect of the invention a data control channel is used in addition to the data traffic channel. The mobile end system uses the d... | 08/04/1998 |
| 5732354 | Method and apparatus for determining the location of a mobile telephone A method and apparatus for determining the location of a mobile telephone within the serving area of a mobile telephone system are disclosed. A mobile switching center analyzes the calling mobile telephone number and called telephone number to determine i... | 03/24/1998 |
| 5724660 | Method and apparatus for locating a mobile station by comparing calculated location area with GPS coordinates A method and apparatus for determining the location of a mobile telephone within the serving area of a mobile telephone system. A mobile switching center analyzes the calling mobile telephone number and called telephone number to determine if a location f... | 03/03/1998 |
