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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7613456 | System and method for automatic registration notification for over-the-air activation A method and system automatically activates a mobile station in a wireless communications network. The system includes an over the air activation function (OTAF) processor in the network that initiates an activation process in response to receiving a registration me... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7598943 | Resizable wireless pointing device with a storable receiver The present invention relates to a resizable wireless pointing device with a storable receiver. The body housing comprises at least one inner compartment which is located next to the back of a wheel and used for storage of the wireless receiver. A sliding cover, loc... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7565692 | Floating intrusion detection platforms The present invention is a “floating” intrusion detection system that can use any computer on the network as an intrusion detection platform. A software agent program called a “socket” is installed on each computer that is to be available to be an intrusion ... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7551913 | Methods and apparatus for anonymous user identification and content personalization in wireless communication Methods and apparatus for providing personalized content to a user of a wireless network include establishing an anonymous user identifier and delivering the user identifier to a content provider. Based on the user identifier, communication with a predetermined data... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7551583 | Method and system for coordinating operation modes of a GPRS network A system and method for coordinating network operation modes of a GPRS network is disclosed. The system includes a database storing a preferred list of network operation modes of the GPRS network. A SGSN detects the status of an interface for GPRS packet data servic... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7548978 | Network access using network identification A network system that identifies a home network of a user by a network identification in an access request. When the access request is received in a network, the accessed network extracts a network identification from the access request and determines whether the ac... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7548746 | General purpose automated activation and provisioning technologies Automated activation and provisioning technologies can be applied in a variety of scenarios. For example, an automated activation and provisioning server can translate user desired features into associated provisioning directives. The directives can then be sent to ... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7548745 | Method and system for delivering a voice mail notification to a subscriber using cellular phone network A method and system of the present invention delivers a voice mail notification to a subscriber of a voice mail system to indicate that a voice mail message is waiting in the subscriber mailbox. The voice mail system cellular phone network. The voice mail notificati... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7526290 | Establishing a communication channel in a wireless network A method of operating a communication system is disclosed. The method includes transmitting from a remote unit to a base station remote unit channel data. The remote unit channel is generated at the remote unit and includes data about a first portion of communicatio... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7519372 | Methods and apparatus for mobile station location estimation Methods and apparatus for estimating mobile station location include receiving reported signal strengths or other attachment indicator values from a mobile station. The reported signal strengths are compared with characteristic received signal strength values in a c... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7515903 | Speech to message processing Voice message processors are configured to produce text representations of voice messages. The text representations can be compacted based on one or more abbreviation libraries or rule libraries. Abbreviation processing can be applied to produce a compact text repre... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7511603 | Filtered in-box for voice mail, e-mail, pages, web-based information, and faxes The present invention is directed to a system for displaying, organizing, and prioritizing the incoming information on a wireless device. Using the present invention the wireless device can display the number of voice mails, e-mails, pages, and Internet information ... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7503001 | Text abbreviation methods and apparatus and systems using same Text processors are configured to shorten or compact text based on one or more abbreviation libraries or rule libraries. Messaging methods include such text abbreviation processing to reduce message length based on display properties or to enhance user perception. M... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7500010 | Adaptive file delivery system and method An adaptive file delivery system and method transmits a data file, such as an audio-video file, over a network or collection of networks in segments, each segment transmitted during a different time period. Each time period has a transmission portion to transmit its... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7474894 | System and method for IMEI detection and alerting A system and method for detecting and storing information regarding a mobile communications device within a mobile communications network. Initially, a first data record is received at a subscriber/device database comprising subscriber/device data. Next, a second da... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7460561 | Delay compensation In a discrete tone system, a base station receives a transmission burst from a remote unit being installed that includes delay compensation pilot tones that are uniformly spread throughout the transmission bandwidth. The arrival time transmission burst is not synchr... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7457613 | Method and apparatus for indicating to a wireless network the operational mode of a wireless communicator A method for communicating on a wireless network includes receiving a mode signal from a network node. The mode signal represents an operational mode of the network node. The operational mode is defined by selecting from among a plurality of services at least one se... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7453187 | Piezoelectric micro-transducers, methods of use and manufacturing methods for same Various micro-transducers incorporating piezoelectric materials for converting energy in one form to useful energy in another form are disclosed. In one embodiment, a piezoelectric micro-transducer can be operated either as a micro-heat engine, converting thermal en... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7453901 | Networks and methods integrating digital mobile standards Communications in a wireless communication system based on two or more communication standards are configured for delivery to cell sites or to subscribers using a digital link having channels assigned to the two or more communication standards. A T-1 level can be di... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7447495 | Methods and systems for providing application level presence information in wireless communication Methods and apparatus for determining and maintaining user presence information include capturing user presence data with an application presence server. The application presence server can be configured to update user presence data as a user initiates or exits an a... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7444136 | System and method for providing information services to subscribers in a GPRS network The present invention is directed to a system and method for providing services, such as location-based services, in a GPRS network. In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, a database including local geographical information is stored in a BSS (Base Stat... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7440758 | Cell planning methods and apparatus, and networks configured based on same Coverage areas for wireless networks are divided into a plurality of cells that are arranged in rows. Channel frequencies are assigned to cell sectors and associated with respective antenna axes. The antenna axes of adjacent rows are alternatingly rotated, thereby r... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7433929 | Intelligent network selection based on quality of service and applications over different wireless networks A system and method for selecting a wireless network is disclosed. The method relates to selecting a wireless network from a plurality of wireless networks. A variation of the invention includes selecting a new platform from a plurality of platforms offered by the c... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7386302 | Hotline routing of pre-activated GSM subscribers using pseudo-MSISDNs The present invention relates to hotline routing of calls originating from mobile stations. The hotline routing conserves MSISDNs for valid subscribers and provides a relatively generic solution. In one example, a computer system stores in a location register a subs... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7354020 | System for use of external secondary payloads An experiment system with six different re-entry experiment locations for testing high temperature re-entry materials, creating new thermal protection systems, proving innovative new concepts for spacecraft exterior surfaces and the incremental development of next g... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7346348 | Selective retry of attach and location update procedures The present invention is directed to a system and method for providing improved wireless services in a GPRS network operating in network operation mode 1. In an embodiment of the present invention, a MS attempts a combined attach. If the combined attach is no... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7346350 | Method for selecting a preferable wireless communications service provider in a multi-service provider environment A communication device locates a preferable wireless service provider in a multi-service provider environment using a frequency or frequency band search schedule. Initially, the communication device registers with a less preferred service provider in a first frequen... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7340682 | Method and system for controlling a complementary user interface on a display surface An alternate display content controller provides a technique for controlling a video display separately from and in addition to the content displayed on the operating system display surface. Where the display is a computer monitor, the alternate display content cont... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7333836 | System and method for providing mobile device capability to a wireless network subscriber A method and system for alerting a mobile network subscriber to capabilities of a mobile station associated with a contact of the subscriber. The system receives registration information from the contact mobile station, whereupon an IMEI number of the contact mobile... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7324495 | System and method for broadcasting timing information to remote units in a wireless multiple access network A method has been provided for using the broadcast channel of a wireless multiple access network to communicate network timing information, or a time-stamp, to remote units. The method defines a broadcast channel protocol which divides communication frames into unit... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7310540 | Personal communicator with flip element display A portable personal communicator includes a body portion and a flip element having a built-in display. The body portion includes either a telephone keypad or a second display. The personal communicator functions as a radiotelephone, and can also transmit and receive... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7293094 | Method and apparatus for providing end-to-end quality of service in multiple transport protocol environments using permanent or switched virtual circuit connection management A method and apparatus for ensuring end-to-end QoS for user applications operating in multi-transport protocol environments while using PVC or SVC connection management procedures. A user application at a workstation having specific QoS requirements can selectively ... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7283805 | Methods and systems for providing application level presence information in wireless communication Methods and apparatus for determining and maintaining user presence information include capturing user presence data with an application presence server. The application presence server can be configured to update user presence data as a user initiates or exits an a... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7280803 | Monitoring network performance using individual cell phone location and performance information A system and method of collecting call data from a Mobile Telephone Switching Office and combining this data with location information of a wireless device (or devices) to generate information reports concerning the electromagnetic coverage of a cell site. The colle... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7280503 | TDMA messaging service microcell A cellular messaging network includes a switching controller connected to the wireless telephone network. One or more base station micro/picocell retransmitters are coupled to the switching controller. The base station micro/picocell transmitter uses simplified cont... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7266362 | Virtual subscriber network A user device (e.g., a mobile telephone) communicates with an access node in a manner that causes the access node to provide call control and service options available through the access node. The capability and cost information is presented to a user device subscri... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7263347 | Biometric authentication of a wireless device user A network storage location stores voice prints from a user of a wireless telephone. The voice prints are context-specific to likely responses to voice prompts from an interactive voice response (IVR) system. The voice prompts are communicated from the IVR to the wir... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7260249 | Rules-based approach for processing medical images A technique flexibly applies pre-programmed rules that specify the manner in which medical image data is to be classified or otherwise processed. A rules-based system selects from the pre-programmed rules, with different rules being used based on different doctors' ... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7251374 | System and method for hierarchical analysis of contrast enhanced medical imaging information A method for analyzing or processing contrast enhanced medical imaging information includes determining whether one or more candidate voxel sets within a Volume of Interest (VOI) exhibit washout curve behavior. If so, the method may identify a candidate voxel set ex... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7235914 | Piezoelectric micro-transducers, methods of use and manufacturing methods for same Various micro-transducers incorporating piezoelectric materials for converting energy in one form to useful energy in another form are disclosed. In one embodiment, a piezoelectric micro-transducer can be operated either as a micro-heat engine, converting thermal en... | 06/26/2007 |