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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110043417 | MOBILE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE WITH REDUCED INTERFERING RF ENERGY INTO RF METAL SHIELD SECURED ON CIRCUIT BOARD A mobile wireless communications device includes a housing and circuit board carried by the housing and having RF circuitry comprising at least one RF component and plurality of other components mounted on the circuit board. An RF metal shield is secured to the circuit ... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110041316 | HANDHELD ELECTRONIC DEVICE INCLUDING MULTI-COMPARTMENT SHIELDING CONTAINER AND ASSOCIATED METHODS A handheld electronic device may include a portable housing and a shielding container within the portable housing. The shielding container may include a shielding frame and a shielding lid carried thereby. A printed circuit board may be within the shielding container. T... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110040895 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR SYNCHRONIZING NOTIFICATIONS FOR SERVICE EVENTS The communications method for synchronization of service event related communications at an event management platform, may include receiving a notification transmitted from a service event source including event information related to at least one service offered by the... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110040863 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING NOTIFICATIONS FOR SERVICE EVENTS The communications method may include opening a communication channel, e.g. a HyperText Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) connection, between a service event source and an event management platform, and at the event management platform, generating a request to the servic... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110028192 | MOBILE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE INCLUDING AN ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE, ELECTRICALLY FLOATING ELEMENT AND RELATED METHODS A mobile wireless communications device may include a portable housing having a surface, a printed circuit board (PCB) carried by the portable housing, and wireless transceiver circuitry carried by the PCB. The device may further include an antenna connected to the tran... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110025567 | MOBILE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE ANTENNA ASSEMBLY WITH ANTENNA ELEMENT AND FLOATING DIRECTOR ELEMENT ON FLEXIBLE SUBSTRATE AND RELATED METHODS A mobile wireless communications device may include a portable housing, a circuit board carried by the portable housing and having a ground plane thereon, wireless communications circuitry carried by the circuit board, and an antenna assembly carried by the housing. Mor... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110025261 | PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND CAPACITIVE CHARGER PROVIDING DATA TRANSFER AND ASSOCIATED METHODS The electronic apparatus includes a portable electronic device and a charger for capacitively charging the portable electronic device when the portable electronic device is temporarily placed adjacent the charger. The portable electronic device includes a device data co... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110016322 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EXCHANGING KEY GENERATION PARAMETERS FOR SECURE COMMUNICATIONS A communication system exchanges key generation parameters for secure communications. An internet service and communications device of a user are in communication with each other. The internet service includes an account authentication mechanism for a user and includes ... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20110016176 | ELECTRONIC MAIL COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM WITH CLIENT EMAIL INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDER (ISP) POLLING APPLICATION AND RELATED METHODS An electronic mail (email) communications system may include a mobile wireless communications device, a wireless communications network connected to the Internet, and an Internet Service Provider (ISP) server connected to the Internet for receiving emails for a given us... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20110006952 | MOBILE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE INCLUDING WRAP-AROUND ANTENNA ASSEMBLY WITH FEED ARM EXTENSION AND RELATED METHODS A mobile wireless communications device may include a portable housing, at least one wireless communications circuit carried by the portable housing, and a wrap-around antenna assembly carried by the portable housing. The wrap-around antenna assembly may include a subst... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20100328183 | MOBILE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE INCLUDING A GROUND PATCH PROVIDING SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATE (SAR) REDUCTION AND RELATED METHODS A mobile wireless communications device may include a portable housing, a dielectric substrate carried by the portable housing having a front side facing toward a user and a back side opposite the front side, and a ground plane carried by the dielectric substrate. The d... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100325231 | WIRELESS EMAIL COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM PROVIDING DEVICE CAPABILITY SET UPDATE FEATURES AND RELATED METHODS plurality of mobile wireless communications devices each having a subscriber account associated therewith including a respective personal identification number (PIN) and a device identification (ID). Each device ID may have associated therewith a device capability set f... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100287252 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONFIGURING ACCESS TO ELECTRONIC MAILBOXES A system and method for configuring access to an electronic mailbox based on limited configuration parameters received from a user. A database stores configuration conventions for a mail domain. A mailbox interface module receives configuration information from a user t... | 11/11/2010 |
| 20100232556 | JOINT SPACE-TIME OPTIMUM FILTERS (JSTOF) FOR INTERFERENCE CANCELLATION A filter for reducing co-channel interference within a communications receiver may include a multi-channel, space-time filter circuit that filters n signal parts that have been split from a communications signal by jointly estimating space-time filter weights and multi-... | 09/16/2010 |
| 20100228720 | MOBILE WIRELESS DEVICE TO DISPLAY SELECTED WEB FEEDS AND ASSOCIATED METHODS A mobile wireless communications device includes a processor cooperating with a wireless transceiver for communicating with a remote server to search a markup language file of at least one web page stored on a remote web server to determine addresses of a plurality of w... | 09/09/2010 |
| 20100223142 | COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM PROVIDING CHANGEABLE MOBILE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE APPLICATION SKINS BASED UPON BIDDING AND RELATED METHODS A communications system may include a mobile wireless communications device which may in turn include a display and a processor cooperating therewith for running at least one application having a changeable skin. Additionally, a notification server may also be configure... | 09/02/2010 |
| 20100223140 | COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM PROVIDING PERSONALIZED MOBILE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE NOTIFICATIONS AND RELATED METHODS A communications system may include at least one mobile wireless communications device associated with a respective user and storing personalizing information for the user, a network server within a protected computer network, and a notification server outside of the pr... | 09/02/2010 |
| 20100223139 | COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM PROVIDING PERSONALIZED MOBILE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE NOTIFICATIONS AND RELATED METHODS A communications system may include at least one mobile wireless communications device associated with a respective user, a network server within a protected computer network, and a notification server outside of the protected computer network for generating generic not... | 09/02/2010 |
| 20100223136 | COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM FOR SENDING ADVERTISEMENT MESSAGES TO A MOBILE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE AND ASSOCIATED METHODS A communications system includes at least one mobile wireless communications device operable based upon payment of a wireless network user subscription fee, and for sequentially playing media files. The communications system also includes an advertising server for sendi... | 09/02/2010 |
| 20100223135 | COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM PROVIDING MOBILE DEVICE ADVERTISEMENTS BASED UPON ACTIVITY HISTORY AND RELATED METHODS A communications system may include at least one mobile wireless communications device and an advertising server cooperating with the at least one mobile wireless communications device via a wireless communications network. The advertising server may be for generating a... | 09/02/2010 |
| 20100223133 | COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM PROVIDING MOBILE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE PREDICTED SEARCH QUERY TERMS BASED UPON GROUPS OF RELATED ADVERTISING TERMS A communications system may include an advertising server for providing at least one group of related advertising terms, and a mobile wireless communications device comprising a display, a user input device, and a processor coupled to the display and the user input devi... | 09/02/2010 |
| 20100223131 | COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM PROVIDING MOBILE DEVICE NOTIFICATION BASED UPON CONTACT WEB PAGES AND RELATED METHODS A communications system may include at least one mobile wireless communications device for storing an address of a contact Web page including personal interest information for a contact, and a notification server which communicates with the at least one mobile wireless ... | 09/02/2010 |
| 20100223112 | ADAPTIVE ROADSIDE BILLBOARD SYSTEM AND RELATED METHODS An adaptive roadside billboard system which may include a roadside display for passing vehicle traffic, and a memory for storing a plurality of notifications having different visual feature detail levels. Furthermore, a controller may be configured to cooperate with the... | 09/02/2010 |
| 20100223055 | MOBILE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE WITH SPEECH TO TEXT CONVERSION AND RELATED METHODS A mobile wireless communications device may include a housing and a wireless transceiver carried by the housing. The mobile wireless communications device may also include audio transducer carried by the housing, and a controller cooperating with the wireless transceive... | 09/02/2010 |
| 20100222099 | Mobile wireless communications device with orientation sensing and related methods A mobile wireless communications device may include a housing, a wireless transceiver carried by the housing, and a display carried by the housing. The mobile wireless communications device may further include a non-visual indicator carried by the housing, and an orient... | 09/02/2010 |
| 20100222098 | MOBILE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE FOR HEARING AND/OR SPEECH IMPAIRED USER A mobile wireless communications device includes a housing and transceiver carried by the housing for transmitting and receiving radio frequency (RF) signals carrying communications data of speech. A processor is coupled to the transceiver for processing the communicati... | 09/02/2010 |
| 20100222078 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM PROVIDING NOTIFICATION-BASED MOBILE DEVICE NAVIGATION FEATURES AND RELATED METHODS A wireless communications system may include a notification server and at least one mobile wireless communications device. The at least one mobile wireless communications device may include an output device, a position determining device, and a processor. The processor ... | 09/02/2010 |
| 20100222040 | MOBILE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM PROVIDING DEVICE ICON NOTIFICATION INDICIA FRAMING AND RELATED METHODS A wireless communications system may include a notification server and at least one mobile wireless communications device. The at least one mobile wireless communications device may include a display, a wireless transceiver, a user input device, and a processor. The pro... | 09/02/2010 |
| 20100222036 | ADVERTISING SERVER FOR DELIVERING TARGETED ADVERTISEMENTS TO A MOBILE WIRELESS DEVICE AND ASSOCIATED METHODS A communications system includes at least one mobile wireless communications device for contacting a given entity having a telephone number associated therewith and an advertising server. The advertising server is configured to identify the given entity based upon the t... | 09/02/2010 |
| 20100222035 | MOBILE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE TO RECEIVE ADVERTISING MESSAGES BASED UPON KEYWORDS IN VOICE COMMUNICATIONS AND RELATED METHODS A communications system may include an advertising server for sending advertisement messages based upon keywords. The communications system may further include at least one mobile wireless communications device having a processor cooperating with at least one audio tran... | 09/02/2010 |
| 20100222033 | COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM PROVIDING MOBILE DEVICE NOTIFICATION BASED UPON PERSONAL INTEREST INFORMATION AND CALENDAR EVENTS A communications system may include at least one mobile wireless communications device for storing personal interest information for respective contacts and for storing calendar event data. The system may further include a notification server communicating with the at l... | 09/02/2010 |
| 20100222032 | COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM PROVIDING NOTIFICATION EFFECTIVENESS RANKING FOR A NOTIFICATION DISPLAY AND RELATED METHODS A communications system may include at least one mobile wireless communications device including an input device and a processor cooperating therewith and configured to receive input data corresponding to a notification display. The system may further include a notifica... | 09/02/2010 |
| 20100222029 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NOTIFYING USERS OF AN EVENT USING ALERTS An alert engine module receives an alert for an event in a generic communications format and delivers an alert for the event to a target address in a communications format that is preferred by a user based on the alert content. The generic format can be an e-mail messag... | 09/02/2010 |
| 20100222027 | COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM PROVIDING MOBILE DEVICE NOTIFICATION CONTENT TYPE SELECTION FEATURES AND RELATED METHODS A communications system may include at least one mobile wireless communications device for storing a plurality of notification preferences scheduled for respective different time periods. The notification preferences may be associated with different types of notificatio... | 09/02/2010 |
| 20100220637 | MOBILE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE INCLUDING A DIFFERENTIAL OUTPUT LNA CONNECTED TO MULTIPLE RECEIVE SIGNAL CHAINS A mobile wireless communications device may include an antenna, a wireless radio frequency (RF) receiver, a wireless RF transmitter, and a duplexer connecting the wireless RF receiver and the wireless RF transmitter to the antenna. More particularly, the wireless RF rec... | 09/02/2010 |
| 20100220636 | MOBILE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE INCLUDING A POWER DIVIDER CONNECTING AN LNA TO MULTIPLE RECEIVE SIGNAL CHAINS A mobile wireless communications device may include an antenna, a wireless radio frequency (RF) receiver, a wireless RF transmitter, and a duplexer connecting the wireless RF receiver and the wireless RF transmitter to the antenna. More particularly, the wireless RF rec... | 09/02/2010 |
| 20100220061 | MOBILE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE TO DISPLAY A CURSOR BASED UPON A SELECTED KEYBOARD MODE AND ASSOCIATED METHODS A mobile wireless communications device includes a housing to carry a wireless transceiver, a display, a keyboard, and a processor cooperating with the wireless transceiver to perform at least one wireless communication function. The processor also cooperates with the d... | 09/02/2010 |
| 20100219973 | ADAPTIVE PEDESTRIAN BILLBOARD SYSTEM AND RELATED METHODS An adaptive pedestrian billboard system may include a display for passing pedestrian traffic, and a memory for storing a plurality of notifications having different visual feature detail levels. The system may further include a controller configured to cooperate with th... | 09/02/2010 |
| 20100217838 | MOBILE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE TO DISPLAY A REMAINING CONTENT PORTION OF A WEB ARTICLE AND ASSOCIATED METHODS A mobile wireless communications device includes a processor cooperating with a wireless transceiver for displaying on a display a linking web page including a plurality of introductory content portions of linked web articles having hyperlinks associated therewith. User... | 08/26/2010 |
| 20100217721 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BLOCKING OBJECTIONABLE COMMUNICATIONS IN A SOCIAL NETWORK A system and method blocks objectionable communications in a social network. A first user of the social network determines when communications from a second user to the first user that are displayed and viewed by third party users of the social network are objectionable... | 08/26/2010 |
