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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7676505 | System, method and computer program product for shared user tailoring of websites Users create, share, and build collaboration communities around tailored versions of the functional pages of a web site, such as the pages used to select and purchase products, or the pages used to present course materials in an online-learning site. The tailored ve... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7676452 | Method and apparatus for search optimization based on generation of context focused queries Disclosed is a method and apparatus for operating a search system for searching a search space containing domains each representing a collection of related documents. The method includes establishing a domain characterization model (DCM) that includes a DCM index co... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7668202 | Communications bus having low latency interrupts and control signals, hotpluggability error detection and recovery, bandwidth allocation, network integrity verification, protocol tunneling and discoverability features Disclosed are methods and apparatus to control data and command flow over a physical communications channel between a transmitter and a receiver, and more specifically to provide a protocol for a point-to-point serial bus architecture with low latency time for flow ... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7664520 | Low current direct conversion transmitter architecture Disclosed is a method to operate a RF transmitter, and an RF transmitter constructed to operate in accordance with the method. The method includes determining a transmitter output power and varying a level of a signal at a transmitter phase modulator according to th... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7664469 | Casing for a portable communication device The invention relates to personal communications devices and housings for such devices. The casing includes a front face that needs protection and is supported by a substrate that is gripped between an overlaying any underlaying part to secure it in position. ... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7664008 | Apparatus, method and computer program product providing low-density parity-check block length selection A transmitter determines a number of available bits (Navbits) in a minimum number of orthogonal frequency division multiplex (OFDM) symbols in which a data field of a packet may fit, by Navbits=(NCBPS*(1+USTBC))*ceil(N | 02/16/2010 |
| 7660772 | Authentication in a telecommunications network The invention relates to an authentication method intended for a telecommunications network, especially for an IP network. From a terminal (TE1) in the network a first message (RR) containing an authenticator and a data unit is transmitted to the network, the... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7660593 | Method for combining media records in a cellular network terminal device and a cellular network terminal device The invention relates to a method for combining separate media records saved in a cellular network terminal device by means of the numerical keys of the cellular network terminal device. The invention also relates to an application program implementing the method an... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7660578 | Method for saving power in a wireless terminal and a terminal The object of the invention is a method for controlling the power saving properties in a terminal, which utilizes cellular phone technology and short range radio frequency wireless communication features in order to increase the operative life of the batteries, and ... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7660444 | Method and apparatus for user recognition using CCD cameras A user recognition system that utilizes two CCD cameras to obtain two images of the user from two different angles of view. A three-dimensional model of the user's face is created from the obtained images in addition. The generated model and an additional facial tex... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7658655 | Electrical splice connector An electrical connector union coupler assembly including a coupling subassembly and a collet retainer. The coupling subassembly includes a coupling sleeve rotatably connected to a coupling body. The coupling body includes a first end with a threaded section and a fi... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7657734 | Methods and apparatus for automatically multi-booting a computer system The invention allows automatically multi-booting a computer. Each functional mode of a computer having at least two operating systems installed is associated with one of the operating systems. Functional mode information identifying a particular functional mode of t... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7657634 | Quality of service support at an interface between mobile and IP network A signaling regimen between a mobile station MS, a radio node RN, and a packet data switching node PDSN enables a quality parameter to be applied to packets moving between a mobile and a CDMA2000 network. The MS creates a new flow for packets of a certain data type ... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7657427 | Methods and devices for source controlled variable bit-rate wideband speech coding Speech signal classification and encoding systems and methods are disclosed herein. The signal classification is done in three steps each of them discriminating a specific signal class. First, a voice activity detector (VAD) discriminates between active and inactive... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7654867 | Receptacle connector assembly for IC card and IC card connector Disclosed is a receptacle connector assembly for an IC card, comprising: a connector housing (20) having a top surface (21), a bottom surface (22), and a peripheral wall (23) located between the top surface and bottom surface; a plurality... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7654865 | Electrical connector The electrical connector includes an electrical terminal, a housing delimiting a chamber for receiving the terminal along a reception direction (X), successively at a reception position and at a retained position, a pawl hinged to one amongst the housing and the ter... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7654852 | Connector and connector assembling system A connector is described, the connector including a housing with a bottom wall and two upstanding opposite side walls determining a receiving space for receiving an insertion side of a second connector. The housing is provided with a flexible latch for locking the s... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7653858 | Low complexity decoding schemes for single-parity-check (SPC) based concatenated codes This invention provides an iterative PCZZ data decoder that includes circuitry for utilizing all extrinsic information during iterative decoding by updating likelihood information for parity bits LPi, i=1, . . . , M during iterations. The extrinsic inform... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7653366 | Hybrid switched mode/linear power amplifier power supply for use in polar transmitter In one aspect this invention provides a DC-DC converter that has a switch mode part for coupling between a DC source and a load, the switch mode part providing x amount of output power; and that further has a linear mode part coupled in parallel with the switch mode... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7653168 | Digital clock dividing circuit Disclosed is a digital dividing circuit for dividing a timing signal. Memory elements are disposed in opposed pairs at opposed sides of a data loop. Each memory element is clocked to change the data bit it stores on each clock pulse. At least two opposed nodes along... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7650409 | System and method for enabling authorization of a network device using attribute certificates Methods and devices are directed to authorizing a network device to a resource over a network. An access server determines based, in part, on an attribute of the network device associated with the attribute certificate, whether the network device may be authorized a... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7649864 | Allocation period determination for packet data An allocation period for packet data in a packet data communication system is determined. Measurements from mobile stations are collected and a maximum allocation period for at least one possible base station for transmitting data packets to the mobile station is de... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7649858 | Method and apparatus for providing radio bearer multiplexing within segmentation protocol A method is disclosed for multiplexing a plurality of data flows onto a radio channel, as is a wireless communication system that operates in accordance with the method. The method includes steps of (a) segmenting data packets of a first data flow into radio blocks;... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7645171 | Integrated flange seal electrical connection Disclosed herein are a method and an apparatus for providing a high efficiency seal in an electrical connector. The seal provides an impediment to the passage of fluid at one end of the electrical connector to the environment at the other end of the electrical conne... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7644267 | Controlling access to services in a communications system A proxy network element for controlling access to services in a communications system is disclosed. The proxy network element is configured to communicate with at least one further network element using a protocol belonging to a plurality of protocols, the at least ... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7643448 | Transport format data transmission In a flexible layer one (403) of a GERAN transmitter device, a TFCI, which indicates a particular combination of cyclic redundancy check, channel coding and rate matching, is generated by a TFCI generating process (412) using information from the mediu... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7642880 | Switch arrangement A single pole N throw (SPNT) switch arrangement including: a pole, one or more throw nodes and a switch mechanism arranged to connect the pole and a first throw node in response to a first signal and to disconnect the pole and the first throw node in response to a s... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7640780 | Ram retraction selection A compression tool including a ram; a drive system, a battery and a user selectable retraction control. The drive system is connected to the ram to extend the ram and allow retraction of the ram. The battery is connected to the drive system to at least partially pow... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7640028 | Apparatus, method and computer program product providing enhanced location update scheme for mobile station in a relay-based network A method, a computer program product and a network access node that operate to receive a message from a mobile relay node, the message including a request to add a particular paging group (PG) identification to a list of paging group identifications transmitted by t... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7639641 | Method and apparatus providing performance improvement for GPRS neighbour cell measurement reporting when packet broadcast control channel is not available A method operates, in at least one network control mode of operation (preferably NC2), for determining in a MS if a cell to which the MS is currently assigned has a first type of broadcast control channel (the PBCCH) and, if the cell does have the first type ... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7637746 | Magnetic connector for mobile electronic devices A magnetic connector for connecting various cables to a mobile electronic device includes a connector part in the mobile electronic device and a connector part attached to the cable. One of the connector parts includes a permanent magnet and the other connector part... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7636589 | Casing for an electronic device A casing for a mobile electronic device, the mobile electronic device having a display and a user-actuable input device, the casing comprising at least two shells configured to be sealedly interconnected with each other so as to enclose an interior volume for receiv... | 12/22/2009 |
| 7636523 | Communication link for communicating data A communication link for communicating data between a first opto-electronic equipment capable of providing an optical signal and a second opto-electronic equipment capable of receiving the optical signal is described. The communication link includes a first optical ... | 12/22/2009 |
| 7634321 | Method and apparatus for multiradio control in a lightning detection device A method includes receiving information related to an operational status of at least one radiating component, and controlling an operation of a lightning detector at least partially in accordance with the information. ... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7634274 | Connection establishment for PDP contexts There is disclosed a method and apparatus for establishing multiple PDP contexts in a mobile communication system. The method comprises determining the number of PDP context requests required. Preferably this step is performed by the UE. The method comprises receivi... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7630886 | Hochwald construction of unitary matrix codebooks via eigen coordinate transformations A method of deriving a codebook including deriving a first codeword Pl in Euclidean coordinates, transforming the first codeword into eigen-coordinates, applying a Hochwald construction to the first codeword in eigen-coordinates to derive a plurality of c... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7630338 | Techniques for radio link resource management in wireless networks carrying packet traffic A method includes receiving on an uplink communication path one or more packets from a user equipment, and determining radio link resources to be allocated on the uplink communication path for the user equipment. The determination is based at least in part on an inf... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7628940 | Method for manufacturing three dimensional optical components Disclosed is a method for manufacturing an optical component in three dimensions. In one aspect, the method includes providing a substrate that includes contiguous rigid plates that are disposed such that a major surface of each rigid plate lies substantially in a s... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7627704 | Communication interface for an electronic device A mobile telephone handset is provided with a connector (8) and circuitry (18, 19) which permits universal serial bus (USB) and single-ended (SE) modes of data transmission with another device such as a personal computer, another mobile telephone hands... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7627349 | Alternative notifier for multimedia use A method for displaying data on a portable electronic device first displays graphical data on a graphical display. An event that is independent of the graphical data is received at the device. Responsive to the event, an event type is selected from a list that assoc... | 12/01/2009 |
