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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6738298 | Automatic reference voltage regulation in a memory device A transition of an external enable signal generates a reset pulse to a counter to set the counter into a known state. The counter, clocked by the external clock signal, generates a clock signal that is decoded by a fuse decoder circuit. The fuse decoder circuit outp... | 05/18/2004 |
| 6549476 | Device and method for using complementary bits in a memory array An apparatus and method of operating an open digit line and a folded digit line DRAM memory array having a plurality of memory cells wherein, in a plan view, each memory cell, in one embodiment, has an area of 6F2. One method comprises, storing... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6490202 | Non-volatile memory device with erase register A non-volatile memory device includes an array of non-volatile memory cells. The memory has control circuitry to erase the non-volatile memory cells and perform erase verification and scan operations. The memory can be arranged in numerous erasable blocks... | 12/03/2002 |
| 6430698 | Virtual distributed home agent protocol A computer protocol that manages and provides efficient communications and utilization of resources between a mobile computer system or device and other systems and devices. Each home agent maintains a home agent list containing information about each of ... | 08/06/2002 |
| 6167064 | Method and system in an intelligent communications network for a programmable call control utilizing removable configurable control mechanisms A method and system for implementing a communications network having configurable control mechanisms for the identification and transference of particular types of communications data. Detection points are established within the communications network, wh... | 12/26/2000 |
| 5850608 | Directional frequency assignment in a cellular radio system The process of the present invention is based on a hexagonal cellular platform where six, or a multiple of six, frequency groups are directionalized and reused in the same direction. Directional antennas are located in the center of each cell. Each antenn... | 12/15/1998 |
| 5822698 | Microcell frequency planning The system is comprised of a microcellular underlay to increase the coverage of a macrocellular overlay system. The frequencies are assigned to the microcells by interleaved frequency segregation. Channels are selected from the macrocell frequency groups ... | 10/13/1998 |
| 5734983 | Frequency assignment in a cellular radio system The N=4 frequency layout plan of the present invention is based on dividing up the available frequencies into 12 or a multiple of 12 frequency groups. These groups are then distributed evenly and alternately among four tri-cell groups. Each tri-cell group... | 03/31/1998 |
| 5375143 | Method for channel adaptive detecting/equalizing In a communications device, two coherent detection algorithms (102 and 103), one of which has a decision feedback equalizer (103), and a detector selection algorithm (104) are used to dynamically select a detector depending on whether delay spread distort... | 12/20/1994 |
| 5251331 | High efficiency dual mode power amplifier apparatus The dual mode power amplifier apparatus of the present invention is comprised of a number of power amplifiers (101-103) coupled to a voltage convertor (104) through their collector supply lines. A mode select line (105) is connected to the voltage convert... | 10/05/1993 |
| 5247565 | Cellular telephone with keypad controller A unique cellular telephone (500) includes audio circuit 502, microcomputer (508), indicators (506) and (507), cellular telephone transceiver (519), and keypad controller (504) for controlling the operating modes thereof and automatically placing and rece... | 09/21/1993 |
| 5241548 | Method for error correction of a transmitted data word The process of the present invention error corrects sub-audible data words that have been transmitted over a voice channel. A data word may be transmitted up to three times if an acknowledge is not received by the transmitter. If any of the three possible... | 08/31/1993 |
| 5241688 | Frequency and time slot synchronizaton using adaptive filtering The synchronization process of the present invention filters the received signal with an adaptive band-pass filter (101) while buffering the received signal in memory (108). The energies of the input signal and the filtered signal are estimated (103 and 1... | 08/31/1993 |
| 5233633 | Automatic frequency control by an adaptive filter The process of the present invention generates an optimum automatic frequency control signal in an apparatus that has a plurality of adaptive algorithms, each adaptive algorithm having a reference signal with an associated frequency dither. The process st... | 08/03/1993 |
| 5230007 | Method for optimizing an adaptive filter update coefficient The method of the present invention generates an optimal adaptive filter update coefficient by first generating three error signals using a signal input and three update coefficients (301-303). Mean Square Error (MSE) values are estimated (307 and 308) fo... | 07/20/1993 |
| 5222251 | Method for eliminating acoustic echo in a communication device The process of the present invention operates on the voice codewords transmitted in a digital cellular radiotelephone environment. The process first determines if a voice is active (201) on the communications path from the base station to the radiotelepho... | 06/22/1993 |
| 5220936 | Vapor containment apparatus The apparatus of the present invention uses a vessel with a sump for containing a liquid (103). The vessel has one or more downward angled openings (101). A heating device (104) boils the liquid to produce a vapor and a condensing apparatus (102), in the ... | 06/22/1993 |
| 5195106 | Method for channel adaptive detecting/equalize In a communications device, two coherent detection algorithms (102 and 103), one of which has a decision feedback equalizer (103), and a detector selection algorithm (104) are used to dynamically select a detector depending on whether delay spread distort... | 03/16/1993 |
| 5175874 | Radiotelephone message processing for low power operation The process of the present invention first synchronizes to incoming messages from the base station. The first data word is received and stored in the radiotelephone. The error code in the data word is next checked to determine if errors exist in the word.... | 12/29/1992 |
| 5170485 | Hand-off algorithm for elongated radiotelephone cells The hand-off process of the present invention minimizes the number of hand-offs in radiotelephone system using smaller, elongated cells that may provide radiotelephone coverage in an urban environment along streets. While in the idle mode, the process of ... | 12/08/1992 |
| 5170173 | Antenna coupling apparatus for cordless telephone The antenna coupling apparatus of the present invention couples an antenna, located in a hinged element (102) of a wireless communication device, to the receiver (401) of the device. In the preferred embodiment, the communication device is a radiotelephon... | 12/08/1992 |
| 5168522 | Wireless telephone with frequency inversion scrambling The wireless telephone of the present invention is comprised of a base unit, coupled to a land-line telephone system, and a remote unit that communicates with the base unit over radio frequencies. The remote unit has scrambling circuits (207 and 216) for ... | 12/01/1992 |
| 5159283 | Power amplifier The power amplifier in accordance with the invention is responsive to a power level control signal so as to amplify radio frequency signals to define any one of a plurality of amplifier output power envelopes. The power amplifier comprises means for gener... | 10/27/1992 |
| 5148961 | Selective wave solder apparatus The selective wave soldering apparatus (101) of the present invention permits wave soldering of select components on a printed circuit board. This is accomplished by narrowing the flow of solder from the wave solder apparatus and creating the proper back ... | 09/22/1992 |
| 5148473 | Pager and radiotelephone apparatus The present invention encompasses a pager and radiotelephone apparatus (100) having a radio pager section (102) and a cellular radiotelephone section (104) into one unit. The apparatus (100) may automatically receive a plurality of pages while the cellula... | 09/15/1992 |
| 5146620 | One-piece, light conducting gasket The preferred embodiment of the present invention is comprised of a translucent, flexible silicone material having two receptacles (101 and 102) molded into one side and an opening (103), connecting to one of the receptacles (101), in a second side. When ... | 09/08/1992 |
| 5140635 | Wireless telephone with frequency inversion scrambling The wireless telephone of the present invention is comprised of a base unit, coupled to a land-line telephone system, and a remote unit that communicates with the base unit over radio frequencies. The remote unit has scrambling circuits (207 and 216) for ... | 08/18/1992 |
| 5134717 | Radio telephone with repertory dialer A radio (2) having: a first memory (34) for storing first information items; memory receiving slot (18) for temporarily receiving a second memory (20, 36) for storing second items of information; microprocessor (30) for accessing both said first and secon... | 07/28/1992 |
| 5117441 | Method and apparatus for real-time demodulation of a GMSK signal by a non-coherent receiver The GMSK real-time demodulation apparatus and process of the present invention demodulates a coherent quadrature phase modulated GMSK signal in real-time using a non-coherent receiver. The GMSK signal is initially non-coherent detected, thus producing a c... | 05/26/1992 |
| 5107487 | Power control of a direct sequence CDMA radio The power control apparatus of the present invention is comprised of a local oscillator signal path coupled to a mixer (106) through a variable attenuator (107) and an IF signal path coupled to the mixer (106) through two variable attenuators (108 and 109... | 04/21/1992 |
| 5073971 | Cellular radiotelephone communications system A cellular radiotelephone communications system comprising a system of cells that are made up of an array of diretional sector antennas. These antennas are centrally located in the cell and radiates into a 60° area of the cell. Each antenna in a cell has... | 12/17/1991 |
| 5068625 | Method for fast frequency acquisition in a phase locked loop The method of the present invention provides fast frequency acquisition in a PLL. The peak voltage for a phase error signal is detected at time tp and a voltage controlled oscillator warp voltage is sampled at tp. The new warp voltag... | 11/26/1991 |
| 5067139 | Coherent detector for QPSK modulation in a TDMA system The π/4-QPSK coherent detector of the present invention has a vector input and an output comprising recovered data in bit pair form. The π/4-QPSK coherent detector recovers bursts of data, in a TDMA system, that has been encoded in an amplitude modulate... | 11/19/1991 |
| 5058136 | Coherent detection for QPSK modulation The Ï€/4-QPSK coherent detector of the present invention has a vector input and an output comprising recovered data in bit pair form. The Ï€/4-QPSK coherent detector recovers data that has been encoded in an amplitude modulated vector's phase angle. The Ï... | 10/15/1991 |
| 5048116 | Signal routing system A signal routing system for use in cellular RF communications systems wherein a signal can be routed to different antennas, effectively switching transmitters between antennas. The switching is accomplished by placing a frequency responsive device between... | 09/10/1991 |
| 5042071 | Acoustic insulator for a telephone handset microphone An apparatus to isolate a microphone from the speaker audio of a telephone handset, preventing feedback howl. The acoustic insulator consists of a single piece of pliable material that has a smaller diameter element (104) that extends through the handset ... | 08/20/1991 |
| 5036531 | Local PSTN interconnect with remote signal link processing The public switched telephone network (PSTN) (120) is coupled to both the central switch (MSC) (102) and the base station controller (BSC) (101, 110). A call placed to the BSC (101) can be routed to a base station (103-105) by the BSC (101) or to the MSC ... | 07/30/1991 |
| 5029044 | Circuit board spacing and support apparatus An apparatus made of a single piece of resilient material has notches (101) with narrow openings, on the same side, on each end. An indentation (103) opposite each notch (101) creates a narrow, flexible segment (106) on each end of the apparatus. A printe... | 07/02/1991 |
| 5025387 | Power saving arrangement for a clocked digital circuit A power saving arrangement for a microcomputer having a first clock signal operating at a predetermined frequency employs a reduced clock frequency to peripheral circuitry to limit power consumption during a disable or halt mode. A control circuit disable... | 06/18/1991 |
| 5021801 | Antenna switching system An antenna switching system for handling high traffic sectors in a cellular radiotelephone system. The system switches the cell's base station transmitters to sectors that have more mobile traffic than they can handle. The additional transmitters increase... | 06/04/1991 |
