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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7809364 | Apparatus, and associated method, for providing an operation parameter to a mobile station of a radio communication station Apparatus, and an associated method, for downloading an operational parameter to a mobile station. The operational parameter is stored at a server operated by an operator of a communication system in which the mobile station is operable. When the parameter is to be ... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7548761 | Radiotelephone An electronic radiotelephone comprising a first and second housing for housing the electronic components of the radiotelephone; the first housing having a element with an operating surface and a formation which cooperates with a complementary formation on the second... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7477702 | Apparatus, and associated method, for selecting a switching threshold for a transmitter utilizing adaptive modulation techniques Apparatus, and an associated method selects an adaptive switching threshold level responsive to a constrained optimization scheme. The switching level is selected by an LRI function forming a portion of a transmitting station, such as a base transceiver station oper... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7466987 | User interface for a radiotelephone A user interface for a radiotelephone 1 is described in which the user is able to select components from a variety of sources including multimedia sources and the Internet. The user is then able to combine the components in a message and furthermore edit them... | 12/16/2008 |
| 7433466 | Radio handset A rear cover of a radio handset having a scooped recess for improving the ergonomics of the phone for single-handed operation. ... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7426245 | DC compensation in direct conversion radio receivers A direct conversion receiver uses an algorithm implemented by a DSP to cancel residual DC offsets during demodulation of a GMSK modulated signal. The algorithm exploits the characteristics of GMSK modulation by determining the. modulation extremes within sampled I/Q... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7408991 | Error detection in low bit-rate video transmission A method for decoding video data blocks using variable length codes, comprising transforming information about the spatial frequency distribution of a video data block into pixel values. Prior to said transformation, a first reference value (Xref) representing the a... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7299267 | Radio terminal with browser A terminal for providing an application using a browser. The terminal comprises a transceiver, arranged to send radio packets to and receive radio packets from a server, and a browser application for displaying content stored in the server. The browser application i... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7245652 | Rake combiner for a CDMA rake receiver A rake combiner for a CDMA rake receiver, the combiner comprising a receiver for receiving a plurality of multipath components of a signal; a memory; a controller arranged to store a first multipath component in the memory; a summer for summing the first multipath c... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7177629 | Annunciating apparatus, and associated method, for selectably annunciating message termination at a radio communication device Apparatus, and an associated method, selectably annunciates a message or call terminating at a mobile station. Examination is made of an indicia of the terminating message or call, and responsive thereto, selected annunciation is made of the terminating message or c... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7171246 | Noise suppression A method of noise suppression to suppress noise in a signal containing background noise (314) in a communications path between a cellular communications network and a mobile terminal. The method comprises the steps of: estim... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7158490 | Apparatus, and associated method, for effectuating power control of a communication device Power control apparatus, and an associated method, for controlling communication signals generated during operation of a communication system, such as an IS-953G cellular communication system. Determinations are made as to whether a communication channel upon which ... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7155199 | System and method of making payments using an electronic device cover with embedded transponder A changeable cover for an electronic device and method of using same in a payment system is provided. The cover has a transponder responsive to interrogation by an electric field. The cover provides an electronic identification number and other information in respon... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7151941 | Location of subscriber terminal in packet-switched radio system The invention relates to a packet-switched radio system and to a method of locating a subscriber terminal in a packet-switched radio system. In the method (302) the core network of the radio system transmits a location service request message to the radio net... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7151531 | Keypads style input device for electrical devices A mobile telephone includes a body, a display, and a keypad. The keypad is removably secured to the body and coupled to a processor. The keypad is depressible along a plurality of directions and can be switched between a first mode and second mode, wherein each comb... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7146645 | Dedicated applications for user stations and methods for downloading dedicated applications to user stations The present invention is directed to a copy-protected dedicated software application and methods for downloading copy-protected dedicated applications to user stations so that the unique dedicated applications are executable upon downloading to the user station and ... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7142520 | Method and apparatus for mobile internet protocol regional paging A mobile internet protocol regional paging network 10 includes a paging foreign agent for handling a regional registration of a mobile node visiting a paging area, which includes internet protocol subnetworks. In operation, the mobile node periodically can pr... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7139697 | Determining language for character sequence A method for selecting the language for a character sequence fed into a data processing device, wherein decision trees are trained for different characters on the basis of lexicons of predetermined languages. The decision trees describe language probabilities on the... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7133434 | Making measurements on parallel frequencies in a radio communications device A diversity receiver in a radio apparatus has at least two reception branches and a RAKE receiver to combine signal received by the different reception branches as well as a measuring receiver to make frequency specific measurements. The radio apparatus includes a s... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7133659 | Methods of operating a reservation system using electronic device cover with embedded transponder A changeable cover for an electronic device and method of using same in a payment system is provided. The cover has a transponder responsive to interrogation by an electric field. The cover provides an electronic identification number and other information in respon... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7133382 | Defining measurement gaps in inter-frequency measurement A method for defining measurement gaps and a wireless telecommunications system comprising at least one base station and at least one wireless terminal. In the data transfer between these two, measurement gaps are generated with one of the following measurement gap ... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7133383 | Method and arrangement for controlling cell change and a terminal of a cellular system The invention relates to an improved method and arrangement for controlling a cell change performed by a terminal of a cellular radio system. In particular the invention relates to a cell change in a situation where the terminal is connected to a special service pro... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7130420 | Acoustic transducer assembly An acoustic transducer assembly comprising an acoustic transducer body having one or more apertures through which an audio signal is passed. Two housing parts when assembled provides a acoustic transducer cavity for containing the acoustic transducer body and a resi... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7126940 | Positioning a subscriber terminal in a packet-switched mobile telephone network The object of the invention is a method, network element, and system for positioning a subscriber terminal in a packet-switched mobile telephone network, the said network comprising a core network element (SGSN, 504), base stations, a Base Station Controller ... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7126998 | Envelope stabilization method and apparatus A system and method is proposed to significantly reduce the peak to average power ratio (PAPR) for an OFDM system by stabilizing the signal envelope. By using partial response (PR) signaling to spread each sub-symbol over multiple subcarriers, the signal is first co... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7127489 | Messaging service An object of the invention is a method for implementing a messaging service between a terminal of a cellular network and a messaging server external to the cellular network. The method comprises receiving a message addressed to said terminal at the messaging server ... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7124439 | Secure user action request indicator A mobile communications device is adapted to use applications resident on a remote network server. The display of the mobile device is divided into static and dynamic display zones. Inquiries originating externally from the mobile device are identified and restricti... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7123595 | Allocation of resources in packet-switched data transfer For transferring packets between a wireless data transfer device and a mobile communication network, temporary block flows are formed, and information is transferred in these block flows in one or more packet data traffic channels either in the first direction from ... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7114820 | Backlighting light pipe for illuminating a flat-panel display The invention relates to a new light pipe (313) for providing backlighting (312) of a flat-panel display (311) by means of at least one light source so that the light pipe has at least one surface which comprises patterns. The patterns have diff... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7113028 | Method and arrangement for calibrating an active filter The invention relates to a calibration method and a calibration arrangement for an active filter intended to be used especially in portable radio apparatus. The filter (100) according to the invention is an active RC filter and it is integrated except for one... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7106857 | Wireless communication devices The invention relates to a wireless communication device (1) comprising at least a display (2) for presenting information which display comprise at least a first edge (2a) and a second edge (2b), wherein information is arran... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7107030 | Transmitter and a modulator therefor A transmitter for a portable radio communication apparatus comprising a modulator having first port for inputting a baseband signal and a second port for inputting a local oscillator signal, and including means for rectifying the input local oscillator signal to pro... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7096267 | Data transmission method and arrangement using method calls The invention relates to a data transmission arrangement between at least two apparatuses in a system in which part of the connection between different apparatuses is a wireless connection. The apparatuses communicate with method calls containing a service request. ... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7092745 | Portable electronics device with variable sound output A portable device including a housing and an electro-acoustic transducer. The housing has a first surface with an outlet for the egress of an acoustic signal when in a loudspeaker mode and a second surface with an outlet for the egress of an acoustic signal when in ... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7092519 | Communication terminal having exchangeable parts A communication terminal has a user interface having a keypad and display means, said key pad is included in a releasable housing part assembly, a processor controlling the terminal in dependence of the operation of the user interface, and identification means inclu... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7089031 | Radio terminal with browser A terminal for providing an application using a browser. The terminal comprises a transceiver arranged to send radio packets to and receive radio packets from a server, and means for determining if the terminal and server are able to communicate. The terminal furthe... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7085649 | Electronic organizer Electronic organiser (10) with a calendar (11) in which appointments at least according to date, time and an individual description, for example a person to be visited, are variable. If the organiser (10) is provided with an interface (22... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7086010 | Three-dimensional graphical icon appearance in displays of electronic devices A strong three-dimensional icon is created for low-resolution displays such as used in portable communication devices by alternating light and dark stripes, with some stripes changing from light to dark and back to light to indicate a shadow, and other stripes from ... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7079832 | Electronic device cover with embedded radio frequency (RF) reader and method of using same A changeable cover for an electronic device and method of using same is provided. The cover has a reader for interrogating transponder tags. The cover provides information from the tag in response to the interrogation signal to the electronic device. Method for taki... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7079115 | Data input An apparatus is disclosed for selecting an item from a predetermined set of items. The apparatus comprises a user interface comprising an input having a plurality of actuators, and an output. It further comprises control means for controlling the user interface to p... | 07/18/2006 |
