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...that it was melting ice cream that inspired the invention of the outboard motor? It was a lovely August day and Ole Evinrude was rowing his boat to his favorite island picnic spot. As he rowed, he watched his ice cream melt and wished he had a faster way to get to the island. At that moment the idea for the outboard motor was born!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8184618 | Methods and apparatus for use in a packet data network A GGSN receives a request associated with a session creation for a mobile entity. The GGSN begins a process (a four-way handshake) for obtaining network access configuration parameters for the mobile entity and responds to the request prior to the completion of the ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8175553 | Wireless communication unit, linearised transmitter circuit and method of linearising therein A wireless communication unit includes a linearised transmitter having a forward path and a feedback path, respectively comprising at least one up-mixer and down-mixer, and forming two loops in quadrature. A phase training signal is applied to the at least one down-... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8169369 | Method and device for generating a location signal A frequency generation unit (FGU) in a communication device includes a voltage controlled oscillator (VCO), an adjustable filter having a capacitive element for wideband operation, a current source with variable gain, and chirp generation control circuitry (CGC) tha... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8141166 | Content access rights management system which embeds restricted metadata into a picture An apparatus comprises a content item receiver which receives a content item such as a digital photo or an audio or video clip. A user preference model generates data indicative of user preferences for content item access. An access rule processor determines a set o... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8139676 | Wireless communication unit, linearised transmitter circuit and method of linearising therein A wireless communication unit includes a frequency generation circuit, and a linearised transmitter operably coupled to the frequency generation circuit and having a forward path for routing a signal to be transmitted; and a feedback path, operably coupled to a powe... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8139613 | Method and device for channel inspection in a communication system To perform channel inspection, a wireless communication device conducts a full inspection on a first channel carrying a first signal that includes: determining a location of a first synchronization message; and determining whether the first signal is of interest. Up... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8135364 | Method and apparatus for controling output power of communication equipment Communication equipment includes a circuit generating an RF input signal; a PA receiving a supply voltage, receiving the RF input signal, and providing an amplified version of the RF input signal as an output signal that is associated with an output power of the com... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8135333 | Distributing a broadband resource locator over a narrowband audio stream A method to transmit a broadband multimedia resource locator using a narrowband communication system embeds the broadband multimedia resource locator into a narrowband audio stream and transmits the narrowband audio stream to one or more receiving communication devi... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8134969 | IP layer-handoff using mobility domains and IP caching The disclosure relates to fast roaming techniques which can reduce L3 handoff delay when a mobile access point and/or a mobile host roams back to a previously visited subnet. These fast roaming techniques can allow the mobile access point and/or the mobile host to s... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8134967 | Method and apparatus for use in wireless communications A method (700) of operation in a cellular communication system including at least one base station and, associated with the at least one base station, a plurality of user terminals in sectors to allow separate communications between the base station and the u... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8131858 | Method and devices for enabling a multi-mode device to establish a session through multiple networks A method, device, and computer-readable storage element enables a multi-mode device to establish a session through multiple networks in a communication system. The method includes registering, at the same time, each of a plurality of sub-clients of a single multi-mo... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8131215 | Method and apparatus for determining location of a communication device A reference device determines its distance from a communication device by first using a training process to determine a calibrated time delay for the communication device when the communication device is at a known distance from the reference device. The calibrated ... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8125909 | Methods and apparatus for controlling congestion in a communication network A subscriber unit: sends a media flow to a correspondent host; receives, from the correspondent host, an indication of a level of congestion in the communication network; compares the level of congestion to a congestion threshold (TH1) during a first time... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8121215 | Broadband self adjusting quadrature signal generator and method thereof Low noise phase quadrature signals are generated after receiving a clock signal and adjusting the clock signal in response to a feedback signal to generate a phase adjusted clock signal. The clock signal and the phase adjusted clock signal are exclusive-ored to gene... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8116798 | Method to indicate status of channels assigned to a talkgroup in a multi-site conventional communication system A method for indicating the status of communication channels assigned to a talkgroup includes: determining the channels in various sites in a conventional communication system that service a talkgroup for media transmissions between subscribers of the talkgroup; rec... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8112079 | System and method for providing congestion control in a communication system utilizing scheduled access communication channels A first communication channel is used by a communication unit for communicating with a base site. The first communication channel has an inbound link and an outbound link. The communication unit determines that congestion is present on the communication channel. The... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8107901 | Feedback loop with adjustable bandwidth A feedback loop with an adjustable closed loop frequency response. The feedback loop contains adjustable pole (212, 213) and adjustable zero elements (220,221) for changing the pole and/or zero locations in the feedback loop's loop frequency response t... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8102857 | System and method for processing data and control messages in a communication system A system and method for receiving data and control messages comprised of a series of data units is provided. The data units comprising each message are structured to follow a particular sequence, such as zero or more data units of a first type followed by one or mor... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8099120 | Method and device for enabling selective privacy in a push to talk (PTT) wireless group communication session A method and device for enabling selective privacy in a push to talk (PTT) wireless group communication session provides improved control over sharing of user identity information. The method includes processing at a PTT server a request for selective privacy. The P... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8098639 | System and method for managing communication channel assignments for different types of communication units in a communication system System and method for efficiently managing communication channel assignments within talkgroups having dual mode communication units capable of operating on a first communication channel type and on a second communication channel type, and single mode communication u... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8081635 | Reconstruction of errored media streams in a communication system A method for reconstructing and reproducing a received media stream while minimizing storage space is presented. The media stream transmitted by a transmitting device is uploaded to an external storage device. Metadata including packetization mapping information, mi... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8078209 | Method and device for controlling access to a channel in a conventional multi-site communication system A repeater receives and repeats, on a multi-site channel, a sequence of control and media transmissions included in a session, wherein the session has a plurality of participants. While repeating these transmissions, the repeater further detects, from at least one o... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8072295 | Frequency agile variable bandwidth radio frequency cavity resonator A radio frequency (RF) cavity resonator having a resonator chamber and one or more RF coupling loop assemblies is presented. The RF coupling loop assembly has a connector with a first connector interface coupled to an inner conductor and a second connector interface... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8068499 | Optimized tunneling methods in a network A method for minimizing tunnels in a network, apparatus and computer-readable storage medium having computer readable code stored thereon for programming a computer to perform the method. The method includes the steps of: obtaining state information associated with ... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8063823 | Method for generating a location signal A communication device uses its FGU to generate a location signal that can be used by a reference device to calibrate the communication device and to determine the distance of the communication device from the reference device. The communication device: receives, fr... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8060120 | System and method for transmitting a sequence of pages in a communication system A system and method for transmitting a series of pages in a communication system. The system includes a paging console for placing a plurality of pages in a queue for transmission to one or more targets devices. Each page includes a Dependent-Upon (DU) field that in... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8059817 | Method and apparatus for encrypted communications using IPsec keys Disclosed is a method for encrypted communications. A first IPsec endpoint selects a security association (SA) from a security association database (SAD) by using a selector and then extracts an indexing parameter from SA. The indexing parameter is used to determine... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8045982 | Methods for site selection in a multi-site communication system A device detects a first signal on a channel that is one of a plurality of channels arranged in a first order on a list, with each channel being associated with a different site in a multi-site communication system. Upon detecting the first signal, the device attemp... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8041305 | Selectively rendering a communication at a communication device A method to selectively rendering a communication at a receiving communication device comprises receiving a communication and determining whether an association exists between the receiving communication device and a source of the communication. If an association do... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8040815 | Spectrum coordination controller A method, wireless controller, and information processing system that define communication channel allocation. Communication channel allocation commands associated with a first network are monitored (102). The first network (102) comprises a plurality ... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8024645 | Method for error detection in a decoded digital signal stream The present invention relates to a method for analyzing a decoded digital signal stream. The method comprises decoding an encoded digital signal stream to obtain a decoded digital stream and terminating the decoding operation in an N dimension, wherein N is an integ... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8023973 | Expandable text messaging service protocol for use with a two-way radio transceiver An expandable text messaging service protocol for use with a two-way radio transceiver includes an extension bit field for creating an expandable header for controlling the overall size of data packets used for communicating message traffic. The protocol further inc... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8019838 | Autonomous operation of networking devices A system, method, and information processing system for managing a configuration of a network device. A current state associated with at least one network device (104) is determined (206). A set of commands (118) available for the current state ... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8010142 | Method and apparatus for including a recording device in a push-to-talk over cellular communication session A communication system provides for an informing of participants in a Push-to-Talk over Cellular (PoC) communication session that the session is being recorded by a recording device, for a storage, by the recording device, of media that conveyed during the session, ... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8000731 | System and method for managing affiliation requests in a communication system A system and method for managing call affiliation in a communication system having a plurality of communication units. When a public call announcement is initiated, a broadcast data message is transmitted to the communication units identifying a public announcement ... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7995858 | Method and apparatus to facilitate creating ancillary information regarding errored image content Pixels in a provided image for which the content has been provided in error are identified. This image content is processed to provide a version of the image wherein the error is at least partially concealed while also creating ancillary information regarding the er... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7983681 | System and method for enhancing interoperability between mobile communication system components using different audio encoding formats A system and method for improving the interoperability of communication system components using multiple audio encoding formats within a single talkgroup is provided. The system includes at least two base site repeaters, each of which may be configured to receive an... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7983210 | Method and system of scanning a TDMA channel A method for scanning a TDMA channel by a mobile station in a wireless communications landscape is disclosed. A mobile station detects RF energy on a TDMA channel to detect activity in the detected RF energy. The mobile station maintains knowledge of previous activi... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7983158 | Routing topology bandwidth management methods and system A system for facilitating bandwidth management in a routing domain is presented. In the system, area bandwidth managers are coupled to a domain bandwidth manager and arranged in accordance with an Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) hierarchical routing topology with th... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7979362 | Interactive data mining system An interactive data mining system (100, 3000) that is suitable for data mining large high dimensional (e.g., 200 dimension) data sets is provided. The system graphically presents rules in a context allowing users to readily gain an intuitive appreciation of t... | 07/12/2011 |
