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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185841 | Electronic text input involving a virtual keyboard and word completion functionality on a touch-sensitive display screen A text input method for an electronic apparatus having a user interface with a touch-sensitive display screen, where a virtual keyboard is presentable on the display screen to facilitate text input for a user by pointing at different virtual keys of the virtual keyb... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185601 | Sharing information between devices A system configured for facilitating the sharing of information between apparatuses. An apparatus may include one or more applications that, for example, upon configuration and execution, may yield information that may also be stored in the apparatus. At some point ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185073 | Noise/signal estimation for wireless systems A method, apparatus, and computer program product, wherein received signal components are determined for a selected group of sub-carriers based on individual noise and signal contributions of the sub-carriers. At least one of noise and a parameter relating to at lea... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184801 | Acoustic echo cancellation for time-varying microphone array beamsteering systems In a mobile terminal device having a processing unit and a memory unit, an acoustic echo cancellation and a microphone beamforming are provided. Said device includes a plurality of a microphones, a pre-processing stage has an amplifier and a signal converter for an ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184761 | Controlling phase locked loop A method and apparatus for controlling phase locked loop are provided. The apparatus includes a voltage controlled oscillator configured to generate an output signal with a frequency proportional to a control voltage fed into the oscillator. The apparatus also inclu... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184602 | System and associated terminal, method, and computer program product for configuring and updating service access points and providing service content in the mobile domain Various techniques for service access point configuration for mobile terminals of wireless systems are provided. Pre-configured service access point settings may be provided on a multimedia memory card with a client application capable of configuring the service acc... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184561 | Terminal based packet loss due to mobility detection The invention proposes a method for controlling a packet transmission between a sender and a receiver sent via a packet transport protocol, the receiver being a mobile network element, comprising the steps of detecting whether a mobility event has occurred, detectin... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184166 | Method, device, mobile terminal and computer program product for a camera motion detection based scheme for improving camera input user interface functionalities A device for utilizing camera motion detection for a camera input interface includes a feature extractor, a feature tracker and a capture module. The feature extractor is configured to determine at least one obvious feature in an image frame. The feature tracker is ... | 05/22/2012 |
| D660292 | Headset | 05/22/2012 |
| D660281 | Handset | 05/22/2012 |
| D660280 | Handset | 05/22/2012 |
| 8181095 | System and method for improving signaling channel robustness A system and method for improving signaling channel robustness. Additional error correction is provided for (L1) dynamic signaling that is carried in P2 symbols in such way that high time diversity can be provided. In other embodiments, transmitted ser... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180904 | Data routing and management with routing path selectivity Data transfer over a network is effected in a manner that facilitates the use of available communications channels and makes possible enhanced data routing control and monitoring. According to an example embodiment of the present invention, data is routed to a remot... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180376 | Mobile analytics tracking and reporting Mobile analytics data gathered from Internet sites accessed via mobile devices is tracked and reported. A tracking package at the publisher's server collects unique user, device and page data when a web page is accessed. The tracking package communicates the collect... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180359 | Data transmission method, system, base station and subscriber station, a data processing unit, computer program product, computer program distribution medium and baseband module A data transmission method in a communication system including transmitting at least one capacity request message from a subscriber station, granting capacity subscriber station-specific by a base station, transmitting at least one capacity grant message from the ba... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180342 | System, method and computer program product for delivering a service guide of a first broadcast/multicast system as a program of a second broadcast/multicast system An apparatus is provided which includes a server of a first broadcast/multicast system and an adaptation function. The adaptation function provides communication between the server of the first broadcast/multicast system and a server of a second broadcast/multicast ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180062 | Spatial sound zooming Aspects of the invention provide methods, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for digital processing of acoustic signals to create a reproduction of a natural or an artificial spatial sound environment. An aspect of the invention supports spatial audio processi... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179999 | Decoding of blocks in radio communications Apparatuses and methods are disclosed for decoding expected block messages transmitted as radio signals over an air interface in interleaved bursts from a shorter received burst. A method for detecting certain expected messages from received bursts is described, com... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179772 | Data storage medium and method for scanning a storage medium A data storage medium stories data in the form of marks, said marks being written and/or read by an array of probes. The storage medium further includes a plurality of data fields, each field including an area of the storage medium which, in use, is scanned for read... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179457 | Gradient color filters for sub-diffraction limit sensors An apparatus includes an array of sub-diffraction limit-sized light receptors formed in a substrate having a light receiving surface. Each receptor is configured to output an n-bit element and to change state based on the absorption of at least one photon (n is an i... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8176184 | Method and system providing a messaging service The invention is directed to a instant messaging method and communication system comprising one or more network elements, wherein a connection from one to another network element can be established using a protocol which allows the sending of one or more messages fr... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8176132 | Messaging A device for transmitting a message for reception by another device, comprising: a processor for adding location information to the message, before transmission, wherein the location information identifies an area within which the message is to be hosted for recepti... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8176064 | Method, device and system for information based automated selective data handling and provision by identification means In general, the present invention purposes a method for automated information based selective data provision by an identification device is provided. Information data associated with a plurality of data records stored in a data storage are scanned in order to obtain... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175921 | Location aware product placement and advertising A product placement and advertising method utilizes a video signal having a product placement with an active hypertext link and/or a linking advertisement. If the user of a mobile terminal receiving the video signal clicks on the product placement or linking adverti... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175610 | Apparatus, and an associated method, for facilitating airlink resource management in a radio communication system Apparatus, and an associated method, for allocating radio resources in a radio communication system that provides for data communication services, e.g., reverse link communication services in which data is communicated by a mobile station to a network part of the co... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175293 | Apparatus, methods and computer programs for converting sound waves to electrical signals An apparatus comprising: a first member including a plurality of portions separated from one another by electrical insulator material; a second member configured to form capacitors with the plurality of portions of the first member; and wherein one of the first memb... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175148 | Method and device for indicating quantizer parameters in a video coding system A method and device for coding of digital video sequence, wherein an indication of quantization parameter (QP) is provided in the encoded bit-stream for decoding purposes. The QP related information is indicated by introducing a sequence level quantization parameter... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175024 | Bandwidth allocation for relay networks Various example embodiments are disclosed relating to relay networks or multi-hop networks, and also relating to bandwidth allocation for relay networks. According to an example embodiment, a method of allocating bandwidth in a relay network may include receiving at... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174994 | Selection of a communication interface A data processing mechanism is disclosed for selection of a communication interface for a communication device from a plurality of communication interfaces provided by a communication system. The mechanism comprises a first controller entity for executing a first se... | 05/08/2012 |
| RE43370 | Communication device with two modes of operation The invention relates to a mobile station which comprises two separate user interfaces and an outer covering (10, 11) which can be unfolded. The device has the appearance and the size of a common mobile phone when the outer covering (10, 11) is closed,... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8171541 | Enabling provider network inter-working with mobile access Various example embodiments are disclosed herein. In an example embodiment, a method may comprise authenticating a subscriber based upon one or more messages received from a subscriber equipment, via an Access Network Gateway (ANG); sending an access authorization m... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8171362 | Apparatus, method and computer program product for HARQ buffer size reduction Apparatus, methods and computer program products implement HARQ buffer size reduction by storing successfully received blocks of a multi-block signal in a code block buffer and only storing unsuccessfully received blocks of the multi-block signal in the HARQ buffer.... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8171291 | Method for checking the integrity of data, system and mobile terminal The invention relates to a method for checking the integrity of a message transmitted between a sender in a transmitting end and a recipient in a receiving end, in which method an authentication value is calculated for the first message and a random string is genera... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170615 | Method and device for storing and accessing personal information Basic personal data of an individual is stored as different data files based on content or intended use. The selection of personal data for inclusion in a data file may be performed in accordance with service provider requests or by the end user, preferably with the... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170555 | Method of selecting a new cell A method for selecting a new cell for a station in a cellular telecommunications system, the station being associated with a current cell is provided. The method comprises the steps of measuring at the station the strength of a communication from the current cell, m... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170531 | Method for producing authentication information A method in a mobile station for a communication system includes determining if a security module installed in a mobile station is able to produce authentication information for use in a predetermined authentication procedure with a communication system. If not, the... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170420 | Changing hardware settings based on data preamble The present invention provides a new and unique method and apparatus for a new data speed switching scheme for a wired data interface. The method features receiving high-speed serial data over a physical link using a first coding scheme in a receiver; receiving a tr... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170116 | Reference picture marking in scalable video encoding and decoding A device, an encoding method, and a decoding method enable a separate marking of base representations and enhanced representations of key access units to save memory or to allow a better scalable video coding optimization. The encoding method of a sequence of origin... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170063 | Method for reducing interference This invention relates to wireless communication systems, specifically to methods for reducing interference. The invention allows a mobile station to determine if certain transmissions of the mobile station cause interference to reception by a second receiver in the... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169965 | Inter-mode/inter-rat handover There is disclosed a method of packet switched handover in a communications system having at least two modes of operation, the method comprising, at a terminal of the system, associating identifiers of each mode of operation, and responsive to a packet switched conn... | 05/01/2012 |
