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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7941272 | Downloading map segment(s) to a cell phone based upon its GPS coordinates and mobility A wireless terminal displays its location and navigation information (map segment) on its display. The wireless terminal accesses a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver of the wireless terminal to determine its location coordinates. The wireless terminal determi... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7941180 | Device for selective power management for a hand held host A hand held radio host includes circuitry for selectively providing power to radiating transceiver elements and non-radiating application elements according to a plurality of power modes of operation to achieve desired effects and in a way that saves power and exten... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7941171 | Activating a push-to-talk group feature using an unstructured supplementary service data message Techniques for implementing a push-to-talk feature in a mobile telecommunications environment (100) involve receiving an indication to activate a push-to-talk service for a first mobile device (130(2)) and identifying a group of mobile devices (... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7941159 | Position determination using received broadcast signals A radio device that is capable of positioning itself within a broadcast radio system includes a receiver operable to receive a plurality of broadcast radio signals, each broadcast from a respective one of a plurality of broadcast radio signal sources. The radio devi... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7941138 | Wireless access point management in a campus environment A Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) is operated in conjunction with a wired Local Area Network (wired LAN) to service a premises, e.g., a campus setting. The wired LAN services the wired communication needs of the premises and serves as the wired backbone of the WL... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7941118 | Method and apparatus to process dedicated physical control channel (DPCCH) in a transmit antenna diversity (TXDIV) rake finger A method to process DP bits and TPC bits from multiple fingers within a WCDMA rake receiver is provided. DPCH symbols are received, quantized and channel compensated. Then processing operations for individual fingers for the channel compensated quantized despread DP... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7941113 | Wide bandwidth transceiver The wide bandwidth transceiver includes a receiver section, a transmitter section, and a local oscillation module. The local oscillation module generates a first and a second local oscillation. The transmitter section converts an outbound baseband signal and/or a lo... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7941107 | High linearity, high efficiency power amplifier with DSP assisted linearity optimization A communications transceiver includes a baseband processor, a receiver section, and a transmitter section that includes a power amplifier. The receiver and transmitter sections communicatively couple to the baseband processor. In a calibration operation, the baseban... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7940751 | Personal area network data encapsulation in WLAN communications An integrated circuit radio transceiver and associated method comprises a multi-mode device operable to support personal area network communications as well as traditional wireless local area network communications. In one embodiment, IEEE 802.11 protocol IBSS commu... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7940506 | Automated AC line filter and surge suppression apparatus and method An automated AC line filter and surge suppression apparatus 100 having an inductive current sense loop (ICSL) circuit 10 for sensing inductive current at a load and controlling the application of AC line filter 112 to an AC power line to the loa... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7940142 | Two-point modulation polar transmitter architecture and method for performance enhancement A polar transmitter includes a two-point modulation phase-locked loop (PLL) for producing an RF signal with a wide bandwidth. The PLL includes a first input for receiving a phase signal of a variable-envelope modulated signal and providing the phase signal along a f... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7937099 | Adaptive piconet protocol A method for adaptive piconet protocol begins by determining, by a master device, a number of slave devices that are currently affiliated with the master device in a piconet. The method continues by determining, by the master device, data requirements and/or voice r... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7936879 | Derivation method for cached keys in wireless communication system A method and apparatus for providing improved security and improved roaming transition times in wireless networks. The same pairwise master key (PMK) from an authentication server can be used across multiple access points and a new pairwise transition key (PTK) is d... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7934230 | IPTV architecture for dynamic commercial insertion Dynamic delivery of different commercials to different viewers is achieved using a network node within an IPTV packet-switched network that is coupled to receive both a multicast television program and commercial programs. The network node is able to identify one or... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7933883 | Associative search engine This invention relates to an advertisement machine which provides advertisements to a user searching for desired information within a data network. The machine receives, from a user, a search request including a search argument corresponding to the desired informati... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7933811 | Method for use with a wireless communication device for facilitating tasks using images and selections An image of at least one object (14) is captured. An object class selection is received from a menu (70) of a plurality of object classes. At least one task menu, specific to the object class selection is provided. A task selection is received from the... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7933636 | Cell phone wireless speaker-microphone sleep modes A hand held radio host includes circuitry for selectively providing power to radiating transceiver elements and non-radiating application elements according to a plurality of power modes of operation to achieve desired effects and in a way that saves power and exten... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7933562 | RF transceiver with adjustable antenna assembly A radio frequency (RF) transceiver includes a baseband processing module, a configurable receiver section, a configurable transmitter section and a configurable antenna assembly. The baseband processing module converts outbound data into an outbound symbol stream, c... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7930741 | System and method for securing an ethernet connectivity fault management (CFM) domain defined on a VLAN A system and method for securing an Ethernet Connectivity Fault Management (CFM) domain defined on a Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN). In one embodiment, the scheme includes, responsive to registering by an external port with the VLAN, whereby the VLAN is extended ... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7929939 | Multi-mode cellular IC memory management An RFIC includes first and second RF sections, first and second PHY processing modules, first and second upper layer processing modules, and memory. When the RFIC is in a first receive mode, the first RF section, the first PHY processing module, and the first upper ... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7925221 | RFIC with on-chip acoustic transducer circuit An RFIC includes a transmit acoustic transducer, a digital conversion module, a transmit baseband module, an analog conversion module, an up-conversion module, a power amplifier circuit, a low noise amplifier circuit, a down-conversion module, a receive baseband pro... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7924764 | Method and apparatus for packet processing Frame processing for a wireless communication system. The frame processing includes detecting reception of a frame based on a portion of a preamble of a frame, wherein the frame includes a preamble and a data payload. With detecting the reception of a frame, determi... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7921040 | Wireless communication device and method for use therewith An image of at least one object (14) is captured. An object class selection is received from a menu (70) of a plurality of object classes. At least one task menu specific to the object class selection is provided. A task selection is received from the ... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7920900 | Shared antenna control A scheme for sharing antenna control pins in a wireless communications device implemented on a single CMOS integrated circuit is described. By providing a routing circuit for coupling the antenna control signal to the appropriate transceiver circuitry in a multi-tra... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7920527 | Real-time/non-real-time/RF IC and applications thereof A real-time/non-real-time/RF IC includes first and second baseband processing modules, an RF section, a wireline interface, and a bus structure. The first baseband processing module converts real-time outbound data into real-time outbound symbols and converts real-t... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7920524 | Multimedia server with channel control module and methods for use therewith A multimedia server module includes a first transceiver module that modulates an encoded signal to produce a first radio frequency (RF) signal and that transmits the first RF signal to a client module over a first transceiver channel when the first transceiver modul... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7919985 | Current-controlled CMOS circuits with inductive broadbanding Various circuit techniques for implementing ultra high speed circuits use current-controlled CMOS (C3MOS) logic with inductive broadbanding fabricated in conventional CMOS process technology. Optimum balance between power consumption and speed for each ci... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7917790 | Separate power island for high performance processor that reboots to second boot sector Separate power island for high performance processor. A multi-processor design is presented in which each of the processors is implemented in separately powered portions of a circuitry (e.g., an integrated circuit). One of the processors can be a main application pr... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7917132 | Direct memory download in a voice data and RF integrated circuit and method for use therewith A voice data and RF integrated circuit (IC) includes an RF transceiver module that produces received data based on a received RF signal and that produces a transmitted RF signal based on transmit data. A memory module includes a first read only memory (ROM) segment ... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7912436 | LNA gain adjustment in an RF receiver to compensate for intermodulation interference A Radio Frequency (RF) receiver includes a low noise amplifier (LNA) and a mixer coupled to the output of the LNA. The gain of the LNA is adjusted to maximize signal-to-noise ratio of the mixer and to force the mixer to operate well within its linear region when an ... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7908420 | Processing system with millimeter wave host interface and method for use therewith A processing system includes a plurality of first circuit modules and a wired data bus, connected to the plurality of first circuit modules. A plurality of second circuit modules are coupled to an RF data bus via a millimeter wave communication path. A millimeter wa... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7907907 | Cooperative link characterization and MCS selection by wireless terminal and network for improved system performance RF communications received by a wireless terminal from a servicing base station are used to determine the downlink quality report and implement link adaptation decisions. This involves first implementing an initial transmission scheme between the servicing base stat... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7907662 | Frequency domain equalizer for dual antenna radio A Radio Frequency (RF) receiver includes a RF front end and a baseband processing module coupled to the RF front end that is operable to receive a time domain signal that includes time domain training symbols and time domain data symbols. The baseband processing mod... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7907614 | Fast block acknowledgment generation in a wireless environment Fast block acknowledgment generation is provided, via a receiving station, for a plurality of received frames to accommodate latency-sensitive data applications. The fast block acknowledgment generation includes receiving a frame of the plurality of received frames ... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7907212 | Multiple path audio video synchronization Audio video synchronization begins by receiving an audio-video signal via a first communication path. The processing continues by capturing a representation of an audio component of the audio-video signal, wherein the audio component was rendered audible via a secon... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7904750 | Sector-oriented hardware defect compression based on format information A system and method identifies and masks physical sectors where the errors encountered during the defect scan exceed a predetermined level. This avoids the need to read and process all the data written to an individual sector during the initial defect scan. This met... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7904645 | Formatting disk drive data using format field elements Formatting disk drive data using format field elements (FFEs). A processing module (which can be a general purpose processor or a RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computer) processor) is employed to generate FFEs that are employed to govern operation of the various dat... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7904475 | Virtualized data storage vaults on a dispersed data storage network A system, method, and apparatus for implementing a plurality of dispersed data storage networks using a set of slice servers are disclosed. A plurality of information records are maintained, with each information record corresponding to a dispersed data storage netw... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7904108 | Double transformer balun for maximum power amplifier power Double transformer balun for maximum PA (Power Amplifier) power. A novel approach is presented herein by which conversion from a differential signal to single-ended signal may be achieved using a double transformer balun design. The secondary coils of the double tra... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7904049 | Wireless terminal baseband processor high speed turbo decoding module A baseband processing module for use within a Radio Frequency (RF) transceiver includes a downlink/uplink interface, TX processing components, a processor, memory, RX processing components, and a turbo decoding module. The RX processing components receive a baseband... | 03/08/2011 |
