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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7697450 | Method and apparatus for broadcast in an ad hoc network with dynamic selection of relay nodes Techniques are provided for allowing a node (300) in an ad hoc network to deterministically decide whether to relay broadcast information to another node in the ad hoc network. The node (300) receives broadcast information and measures received signal ... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7696992 | Method and apparatus to facilitate multi-setting virtual reality experiences When providing (101) a user a first interactive virtual reality experience via a first virtual setting and upon detecting (102) a need to transition the user to a second interactive virtual reality experience via a second virtual setting (that is diffe... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7696875 | Antenna interfaces for mobile RFID readers Methods, systems, and apparatuses for communicating with radio frequency identification (RFID) tags using an RFID reader are provided. A first communication signal configured to communicate with at least one RFID tag is generated. The first communication signal is t... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7696837 | RF system having a one-dimensional nanostructure multi-port coupler A one-dimensional nanostructure multi-port coupler (100, 300, 400, 600) is provided for use in an RF device (700). The coupler (100, 300, 400, 600) includes a first plurality of one-dimensional nanostructures (102) aligned substantially i... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7693284 | Method and apparatus for encryption of over-the-air communications in a wireless communication system A communication device encrypts symbols at a physical layer in order to improve encryption of data transmitted over a wireless link. A symbol mapper of the communication device receives a bit stream comprising multiple bits and maps the multiple bits to multiple sym... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7693110 | System and method for downlink signaling for high speed uplink packet access A wireless communication system (100) and method for providing high speed uplink packet access from user equipment (128, 130) to a base station (114, 116, 118, 120). Each of the user equipment (128, 130) and the base station (114, 116,... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7692681 | Image and audio controls for a communication device in push-to-video services A method (300) and an apparatus (110) for a communication device for controlling an image portion and an audio portion of a push-to-video communication are disclosed. The communication device (110) initiates the push-to-video communication (3... | 04/06/2010 |
| D613262 | Communication device | 04/06/2010 |
| D613261 | Communication device | 04/06/2010 |
| 7689239 | System, method, and apparatus for establishing headroom for a mobile station A system, method, and apparatus for establishing headroom for a mobile station operating in a wireless communication system by determining (230) a communication channel variance condition and establishing (245) a headroom value based on the communicati... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7689228 | Method and apparatus for providing in-band wireless backhaul Various embodiments are described to address the need for providing wireless backhaul that may reduce operator startup costs while avoiding some of the drawbacks present in the prior art approaches. Generally expressed, the wireless network equipment (WNE) (121 | 03/30/2010 |
| 7689217 | Radio receiver having a multi-state variable threshold automatic gain control (AGC) for fast channel scanning acquisition and mehtod for using same A radio receiver (300) having a multi-state variable threshold automatic gain control (AGC) for fast channel scanning acquisition includes an amplifier (303) having an automatic gain control (AGC) for controlling the gain of a receiver analog signal. A... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7689187 | Dual input low noise amplifier for multi-band operation A dual input low noise amplifier (LNA) for multi-band frequency operation is disclosed. The dual input LNA (100) simultaneously operates in two amplifier configurations for the two inputs (101 and 103), of a first frequency band and a second fre... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7689165 | Method and system for communicating within a wireless communication network A method and system for communicating within a wireless communication network (200) is provided. The communication between Portable Subscriber Units (PSUs) (104 and 106) by using a Vehicular Repeater (110) over a conventional communicatio... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7688970 | Interconnect assembly for a clam style portable communication device An interconnect assembly for a clam style portable communication device (100) provides for a hermetically sealed device that prevents water intrusion. A flex (106) electrically interconnects a flip compartment (102) to a main radio compartment (... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7688846 | Cooperative CSMA mode identification in clustered networks In one embodiment, a sensing device (200) can include a transceiver (202) to monitor a communication signal, and a controller (203) communicatively coupled to the transceiver to receive from a Cluster Head (140) a schedule comprising a li... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7688835 | Dynamic wireless backhaul A communication system and a method of communicating data. A first backhaul site can be dynamically selected from a plurality of backhaul sites that are each configured to wirelessly communicate with an access point. A controller can dynamically configure a transmis... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7688793 | Wireless sensor node group affiliation method and apparatus A wireless sensor node can obtain (102) a wireless sensor node group affiliation pursuant to an affiliation formation process and then subsequently transmit (103) information regarding that wireless sensor node group affiliation. By one approach this a... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7688764 | Method and apparatus for speaker arbitration in a multi-participant communication session A communication system provides in-band speaker arbitration in a multi-participant communication session by use of RTP floor control messages that include a speaker arbitration command embedded in a data packet header extension. ... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7688755 | Method and apparatus for group leader selection in wireless multicast service In a telecommunication system comprising a multicast group (110) and a base station (200), a signal performance value (304) is received from at least two members of the multicast group (110) to generate a set of signal performance values ... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7688208 | Monitoring for radio frequency enabled items based on shared group activity profiles A method, radio frequency ID reader, and wireless communication device monitor radio-frequency identification enabled items associated with a group activity. The method includes receiving a set of radio frequency IDs representing a set of radio frequency ID enabled ... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7686664 | Method of manufacturing customized electroluminescent display An electroluminescent display device contains an electroluminescent phosphor sandwiched between a pair of electrodes and a graphic arts element. The device is fabricated by bonding a generic electroluminescent base laminate containing an electrode and an electrolumi... | 03/30/2010 |
| D612826 | Communication device | 03/30/2010 |
| 7685154 | Method and system for generating a play tree for selecting and playing media content A play tree may be generated for selecting and playing media content. A list of media files may be generated and displayed to the user. The user's selection from the list may be received and played to the user. The user's selection may be stored in a media content d... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7685070 | Method and system for using entertainment files as ring tones A method and system, suitable for using an original entertainment file for playing as a ring tone on a communication device (104), is provided. The method includes decrypting (304) a part of the original entertainment file using an authorization key up... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7684816 | Method and apparatus to facilitate communication resource allocation for supergroups A network element (300) can facilitate allocating first and second communication resources (such as, but not limited to, FDMA and TDMA communication resources) in support of supergroup communications. By one approach this comprises identifying (101) co... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7684813 | Method and apparatus for establishing direct communication for mobiles in a radio communication system A radiotelephone method includes detecting other mobile stations and identifying possible relay candidates among the other mobile stations. The method then includes communicating information about the candidates to a base station. Communication with a second mobile ... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7684799 | Method for data transfer with a mobile station while in discontinuous reception state A method for sleep mode during an impending handover is disclosed. The method comprises receiving (104) from a network a handover threshold value. Then once in sleep mode, monitoring (128) a channel condition of a handover candidate cell and determinin... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7684755 | Garment for controlling an electronic device Disclosed is a garment (102) made of a particular type of material, the garment can include a garment appendage (104, 108, 110, 112) and a sensor (114, 116) coupled to the garment appendage with the sensor configured to detect activation of the ... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7684516 | Method and apparatus for improving signal reception in a receiver A method and apparatus for improving signal reception in a receiver (100) by performing all-channel and/or on-channel estimations on a received signal so as to predict future RF environments. The prediction is achieved through the use of one or more detector ... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7684407 | Status report method in a wireless communication system A method for reporting missing data of a re-segmented data transmission in a wireless communication device is disclosed. The method comprises determining that a last re-segmented protocol data unit (PDU) segment of a re-segmented PDU has not been received. In respon... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7684387 | Method for routing combinational services to a single endpoint A method for routing a plurality of calls to a single endpoint of a plurality of endpoints at a common destination is disclosed. The method comprising the steps of: initiating (202) a call over a first network (118) having a first network type, the cal... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7683994 | Electrode mask shorted to a common electrode A liquid crystal display device with a liquid crystal material layer (414) includes a common electrode layer (406) proximate the liquid crystal material layer (414), a patterned metal oxide layer (408) arranged opposite the common electro... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7683965 | System and method for flash control The invention concerns a method (200) and system (100) for flash control. The method can include the steps of—in a portable electronic device (122)—detecting (212) a request to operate a flash component (132), determining (2... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7683918 | User interface and method therefor A scrolling user interface comprises proportional scrolling responsive to contact in a proportional zone of a scrolling strip and multi-mode scrolling in response to contact in a multi-mode zone of the scrolling strip. Multi-mode scrolling can include proportional s... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7682733 | Thin film battery having textured layer A monolithically integrated lithium thin film battery (10) provides increased areal capacity on a single level (without stacking of multiple cells). The Lithium thin film battery (10) comprises a substrate (12) having a surface (13) textu... | 03/23/2010 |
| D612366 | Headset for a communication device | 03/23/2010 |
| 7681009 | Dynamically updateable and moveable memory zones A command is received to perform an update operation on a first component of code contained in a plurality of memory blocks in a memory. It is determined whether or not the update operation requires additional space, beyond that which is already allocated to the fir... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7680488 | Apparatus for notification in a cellular communication system A notification apparatus 201 for a cellular communication system 100 comprises a call detector 209 which detects a communication initialization involving a first subscriber 101. A notification processor 211 determines if a communic... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7680487 | Method and apparatus to facilitate scheduling transmissions to group recipients Upon detecting (201) a communication need for a group of communication recipients that entails attempting to make at least one transmission to each of the communication recipients in the group (wherein at least one of the communication recipients has both a s... | 03/16/2010 |
