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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8102271 | Apparatus and method for asset tracking based on ubiquitous sensor network using motion sensing Provided are an apparatus and method for asset tracking based on a ubiquitous sensor network (USN) using a motion sensing. The apparatus may include: a motion sensing manager to receive motion sensing information from a sensor; a filtering processor to filter the mo... | 01/24/2012 |
| 7933509 | Device and method for reducing optical blurring A camera-movement compensation device includes a first liquid-crystal cell with a pair of parallel transparent plates and a first voltage source coupled to the first liquid-crystal cell and able to apply and alter a first voltage gradient across the plates of the fi... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7911405 | Multi-band low profile antenna with low band differential mode An antenna assembly includes a ground plane and an element coupled to the ground plane. The element has a center point, a first element portion extending away from the center point on a first side of the center point for a first distance in a first direction, bendin... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7907946 | Circuit and method for acquiring a more-preferred system identification (SID) element A circuit (10) to acquire a more-preferred stored SID element (62) includes memory (20) and logic circuitry (30). The memory (20) stores a roaming list (60), such as a PRL, that includes a plurality of SID elements ranked ac... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7904497 | Hardware arithmetic engine for lambda rule computations A recursive lambda rule engine (114, 302) includes a first multiplier (204) that sequentially multiplies each of series of inputs by a nonlinearity determining parameter and supplies results to a second multiplier (214) that multiplies the outpu... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7903061 | Self illuminating electro wetting display A portable electronics device (110, 210) having a self illuminating display (112, 200, 400, 402, 404, 406, 500, 600, 700) that reduces both the thickness of known displays and processing steps in the fabrication thereof is provided. The portable electr... | 03/08/2011 |
| D633457 | Communication device | 03/01/2011 |
| 7894371 | System and method of resource allocation within a communication system A system and method of resource allocation within a communication system is provided. A communication system comprises a plurality of nodes operating in a first architecture network mode, wherein at least a portion of the plurality of nodes are reconfigured to opera... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7885606 | Assisted measurement survey of a wireless communication network An apparatus and method for providing measurement assistance in a survey of a wireless communication network includes a first step (1) of defining a scope of measurement targets to complete the survey. A next step (2) includes measuring an RF parameter... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7885240 | Hybrid time division multiple access (TDMA)-carrier sense multiple access (CSMA) medium access control (MAC) for multi-hop ad hoc networks A hybrid TDMA-CSMA MAC protocol is provided for allocating time slots within a frame having a structure in which transmission time is divided into a first number of actual TDMA time slots and a second number of “virtual” CSMA time slots. Each of the nodes in a m... | 02/08/2011 |
| D632269 | Communication device | 02/08/2011 |
| 7881737 | Method and apparatus for acquiring and establishing a deployable communication system A radio deployment pack (110) includes a plurality of radios and deployable infrastructure package within a single package. The package is created by placing an order including the selection of frequency band of operation and either stand-alone mode infrastru... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7881726 | Method and apparatus for spectrum sharing between an incumbent communications system and a cognitive radio system Efficient frequency spectrum sharing between at least one incumbent communication system(s) (102, 152) and at least one cognitive radio (CR) system (105) is provided. The incumbent system's system parameters and CR system's operational requirements are... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7881666 | Ad-hoc communication network and method A method of controlling location information of subscribers (210, 212, 222) in a wireless, ad-hoc communications network (200). The network (200) comprises a plurality of nodes (204, 216, 226), wherein at least portion of said nodes are p... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7881459 | Acoustic echo canceller using multi-band nonlinear processing An echo canceller (106) can include a first multi-band filter (152) which receives a first input signal (108) and generates a first plurality of sub-band signals (110, 111, 112), and a second multi-band filter (154) which receives ... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7880607 | Intelligent risk management system for first responders A risk management system (100) for first responders (102) equips first responders with physiological and environmental sensors (104) in order to track the stress conditions and stress responses of the first responders. Data from the sensors is d... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7880558 | Method and apparatus for adjusting load impedance of a distributed amplifier The application discloses a method and apparatus for adjusting internal load impedances, by section, at feed points present on a distributed amplifier's output transmission line. The method includes determining a summing-point load impedance (Zx) at an of... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7848739 | Method for transfer of user identity between CDMA wireless communication devices A method is provided for transferring user identities between one CDMA wireless communication device (120) and another in a wireless CDMA communication system (100) having a network system controller (140). The network controller (140) re... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7848363 | System and method for receiving call signals in a communication system A system and method for dynamically altering detection criterion value at a receiving device based on the portion of a call signal being received. A receiving device is configured to extract a first call signal portion from the call signal, and compare the first cal... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7876868 | System and method for reducing interference in an orthogonal frequency division modulation system An interference contribution associated with a selected subcarrier of a plurality of subcarriers associated with a previously transmitted OFDM symbol or a current OFDM symbol is determined. A fast Fourier transform (FFT) output for the current OFDM symbol is also de... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7876864 | Method and device for enhancing signal detection in a frequency selective fading channel A method and system are provided for enhanced signal detection in a frequency selective fading channel. Improved signal detection is realized by replacing single matched filters with multiple matched filters. The single matched filter spectrum is partitioned by freq... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7876740 | Method and system for synchronization of link layer windows A method and system for synchronization of link layer windows in a wireless communications system is disclosed. At a transmitter in the wireless communications system, the transmitter transmits a plurality of frames in a transmitter's link layer window, wherein each... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7876706 | Method and apparatus for root node selection in an ad hoc network Techniques are provided for selecting a root node in an ad hoc network comprising a plurality of nodes including a first node. According to one implementation of these techniques, a first node can receive a message from at least one of the other nodes. Each message ... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7876199 | Method and apparatus for controlling a skin texture surface on a device using a shape memory alloy A portable electronic device (100) includes a controllable skin texture surface that includes a skin texture surface actuation structure having a plurality of hinged elements (802-808) with a shape memory alloy (812) coupled thereto to ef... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7873047 | Method and apparatus for quality of service for packet communications A packet communications system includes a method for maintaining quality of service by dynamically determining a maximum packet size for a communications system that transports at least one of real-time and time-sensitive data and other data in packets. Accordingly,... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7872514 | Latch circuit and clock signal dividing circuit Latch circuit and clock signal dividing circuit comprises sequentially connected latch circuits. Each latch circuit has D-type latch with latch clock input, data input and data output. A difference detector is coupled to D-type latch, and has a difference output tha... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7870180 | Method and apparatus for nonlinear signal and data aggregation A method (1500) and apparatus (700, 2300, 2400) for aggregating two or more input signals with a versatile reconfigurable signal aggregator. The aggregator (700, 2300, 2400) is reconfigured by adjusting a control signal λ, and can emulate a ran... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7869769 | Method and apparatus for reconfigurable frequency generation A frequency generator (100) takes a signal source (clock or carrier) (101) and generates a edge encoded direct digital modulated differential output signal (110). The differential signal (110) is applied to a frequency extension quadratur... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7865717 | Method and apparatus for dynamic, seamless security in communication protocols Communication nodes, acting as intermediate routers for communication packets transmitted between a source node and a destination node, are provided with different access rights to the fields of the routed communication packets. Routes of intermediate routers betwee... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7864270 | Electronic device and LC shutter with diffusive reflective polarizer An electronic device (200) includes a display (202) and an LC shutter (204), at least a portion of which is operatively positioned over the display (202). The LC shutter (204) provides switching between a transparent state and a di... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7860541 | Apparatus for conveying information in a portable communication device A portable communication device (100) includes a radio (102) and RF memory key (104) that allows both RF and baseband signals to be transported over the radio antenna port. A single wire memory device (134) is embedded into RF memory key ... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7860521 | System and method for minimizing inter-communications system mobile station-to-mobile station interference A system and method for minimizing inter-communications system mobile-to-mobile station interference includes a plurality of base stations (BS A and BS B) and a plurality of mobile stations (MS A and MS B) each communicating with a base station using a first mode of... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7860500 | Method and apparatus for determining appropriate channels for communication During operation of a secondary communication system, nodes having different channel monitoring capabilities or requirements will cooperatively monitor possible frequencies for transmissions, each node using only a subset of all possible modulation sensing schemes. ... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7860196 | Method and circuit for estimating in-phase/quadrature signal amplitude imbalance A method and circuit are described for estimating I and Q amplitude imbalance occurring in a signal received by a direct conversion receiver (DCR). The DCR generates a mixing signal having a frequency substantially the same as the carrier signal of the signal receiv... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7860074 | Method and apparatus for allocating communication resources In a communication system (10) having a pool of communication resources (11), such resources are preferentially allocated amongst a plurality of communication services (such as, for example, voice services, single-slot packet data services, and multi-s... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7860060 | Method and apparatus to facilitate persistence of a handed-off communication system During a communication session (101) for a multi-network user platform (which communication session is presently occurring in a first network and is terminable by a Session Initiation Protocol server as comprises a part of that first network), one establishes... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7860002 | Priority-based admission control in a network with variable channel data rates A method for priority-based admission control in a network, comprises receiving an admission request for transmitting an information flow to a network through a communication channel and determining an admissible region within a range of a channel data rate of a com... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7859334 | Hybrid power control for a power amplifier A hybrid power control system (102) that selectively applies voltage-based gain control and current-based gain control and method (300) of controlling a power amplifier (104) gain are presented. A voltage-based gain control signal (120) i... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7856238 | Method for mobile to inform base station of additonal GPS capabilities In a method of configuring a mobile communication between a position determination entity and a mobile device, an indication that the mobile device has an ability to perform a positioning system search simultaneously with a communication is sent to the position dete... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7855878 | Goal posts side key implementation scheme for offset hinge clamshell phone with thickness flip hardware compartment A mobile phone or other electronic device is provided with side keys inside the goalpost compartment at a location offset from the axis of rotation to optimize the use of internal limited space inside the goalpost. In the preferred form, side keys comprise keycaps p... | 12/21/2010 |
