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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8058844 | Low-power battery system A system for balancing the charge level of a plurality of electrically coupled battery units. The system configuration may utilize an architecture and/or methodology that is more appropriate for lower power applications. In particular, the present invention, in acco... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8041826 | Ajax proxy indirection for external domain requests An Ajax proxy indirection technique enables a local, front-end proxy server to handle Ajax requests from an Ajax client that must be serviced by an external Ajax server in an external domain, instead of a local Ajax back-end server exposing itself to the external do... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8027288 | Reducing beacon slot acquisition time in distributed media access control network A first beacon slot is selected by a wireless communications device in a repeating time interval. Accordingly, beacons of the wireless communications device are transmitted during the first beacon slot. However, when an announcement of the first beacon slot selectio... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8010621 | Offline webpage activated by reading a tag A system for enabling a user to wirelessly download desired information in the form of a offline website without having to maintain a live Internet connection. Information is delivered from an active or passive source to a device via short-range wireless communicati... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8009099 | System and methods for direction finding using a handheld device A system for indicating the relative direction of a target object or location as determined from the current position of a wireless communication device. The system employs Direction of Arrival determination using an antenna array for indicating the direction of a t... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8005465 | Connectionless information transfer from advertising device A system for conveying wireless information between an advertising device (advertiser) and another wireless communication device (receiving device). The advertiser's broadcast signal (advertisement) may inform the receiving device that information is available from ... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8005426 | Method and mobile terminal device including smartcard module and near field communications means According to the present invention, a method for controlling a mobile terminal device is provided, wherein said device comprises a smartcard module and a near field communication module. In a first operation a smartcard operation on said mobile terminal device is st... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7996571 | Wireless coordination of apparatus interaction A system for implementing wireless control between apparatuses. In at least one scenario, an apparatus may, after an event (e.g., receiving wireless communication), create a wireless message based on the event, and may then send the wireless message to a peripheral ... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7965982 | Reconfigurable wireless communications device and radio An apparatus for short-range wireless communications includes a transceiver configured to operate different modes. Each of these modes corresponds to a particular wireless link type. In addition, the apparatus includes a controller for selectively activating one of ... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7956749 | Wireless association A system for determining compatibility between various items is disclosed. A wireless communication device is used to scan a machine-readable tag which includes a plurality of information fields. The information fields include at least identification information of ... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7949364 | System for managing radio modems A system for managing the operation of a plurality of radio modems contained within the same WCD. One or more of the plurality of radio modems may be a dual-mode radio modem enabled to communicate using at least two separate radio protocols concurrently. The operati... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7923573 | Benzene compound having 2 or more substituents A superior LXR modulator is provided. A compound represented by the general formula (I): [wherein R1: —COR9 (wherein R9: alkyl, optionally substituted alkoxy or optionally substituted amin... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7920495 | Channel management via link parameter adjustment A system for allocating communication resources in an apparatus. For example, an apparatus that is enabled to support a plurality of wireless transports may identify a resource-intensive task to be executed using a wireless transport. Prior to the execution of the r... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7908388 | Multicast address to packet identifier mapping for broadcast systems A mapping method for simplifying broadcast systems, such as Digital Video Broadcast Terrestrial (DVB-T). Broadcast address information is mapped to the Packet Identifier (PID) field of a Motion Picture Expert Group level 2 transport stream (MPEG2-TS). Table complexi... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7899642 | Optimized RFID/NFC BER testing A system and method for testing communication performance between two wireless communication devices. A value table is used to determine a test string in both the unit under test and another wireless device. An initiating device transmits data to the secondary devic... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7890116 | Adaptive beacon period in a distributed network A wireless communications network includes one or more wireless communications devices and a wireless transmission medium. The one or more wireless communications devices transmit beacon messages across the wireless transmission medium during a beacon period that is... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7890060 | Enhanced location based service for positioning intersecting objects in the measured radio coverage A method, apparatus or tangible computer medium (which stores computer executable code or program code) performs or facilitates obtaining information concerning one or more characteristics of one or more monitored wireless signals or links, such as radio frequency (... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7885700 | Electrodynamic sensors and applications thereof An electrodynamic sensor comprises a high input impedance electrometer adapted to measure small electrical potentials originating from an object under test and having a pair of input probes, characterized in that at least one of said pair of input probes has no dire... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7868762 | Wireless association A system for determining compatibility between various items is disclosed. A wireless communication device is used to scan a machine-readable tag which includes a plurality of information fields. The information fields include at least identification information of ... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7829580 | Cyclic amine derivative having heteroaryl ring A compound having the general formula (I) wherein R1 represents C1-C6 alkyl, etc., R2 represents hydrogen, C2-C7 alkanoyl, C7-C11 arylcarbonyl, the formula R4—(CH2)lâ... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7809361 | Address privacy in short-range wireless communication A security enhancing system for creating temporary identification information used to mask actual identification in a wireless communication device. The temporary identification information conforms to a standard usable by at least one wireless communication medium,... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7809012 | Managing low-power wireless mediums in multiradio devices A system for optimizing the operation of a plurality of radio modules incorporated within a wireless communication device (WCD) connected as a slave on a low-power wireless network, wherein a low-power device is acting as the master of the wireless network. The timi... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7808966 | Device employment of multiple beacon slots in a distributed network Multiple nodes communicate using repeating patterns of superframes, where each of the superframes includes a beacon period. A beacon slot in a first Media Access Slot (MAS) is reserved by the plurality of nodes. This reserved slot occurs in the beginning of the beac... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7786701 | Compensation for parasitic resistance in battery monitoring A system for balancing charge between a plurality of storage battery cells within a storage battery. The battery balancing system may sense changes, possibly caused by environmental influences, in the overall resonant frequency of charge balancing circuits contained... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7782894 | Ultra-wideband/low power communication having a dedicated removable memory module for fast data downloads—apparatus, systems and methods In a mobile environment, a mobile device includes an attached memory stick (removable memory) having a high speed—memory and storage with direct memory access embodied in an integrated circuit chip coupled to an ultra-wideband (UWB) transceiver. The mobile device ... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7756101 | Efficient resolution of relinquishment requests in a wireless communications network A first device receives a request from a remote device to relinquish at least a portion of an existing reservation in a wireless communications network (e.g., a WiMedia network). The existing reservation is between the first device and a second device. Also, the exi... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7738411 | Arrangement for communicating information The invention relates to a method for communicating information between a first wireless communication device (10) and a communications network (30) via a particular second wireless communication device (20), the communications network being sai... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7733229 | Ultra wideband radio frequency identification techniques Ultra wideband (UWB) techniques are applied to radio frequency identification (RFID). For instance, a reader generates a UWB IR interrogation signal, and receives a UWB IR reply signal from an RFID tag in response to the interrogation signal. In addition, the reader... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7729385 | Techniques for utilization of spare bandwidth A packet encapsulator includes a filter module that identifies one or more carousel packets from a plurality of received packets. These one or more carousel packets are then stored in a packet buffer. The packet encapsulator also includes a channel queue for enqueui... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7723253 | Method for preparing a composition for control of microbial contamination in drinking water Disclosed is a method and composition useful for controlling microbial contamination in drinking water produced from condensation. The composition comprises a zeolite which is modified to introduce zinc by ion exchange. The method comprises passing drinking water pr... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7711373 | Multiradio control interface A system for managing the simultaneous operation of a plurality of radio modems in a single wireless communication device (WCD). The multiradio control may be integrated into the WCD as a subsystem responsible for scheduling wireless communications by temporarily en... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7703962 | Lighting device for a vehicle with a reflector compatible with several models of lamp A lighting device usable in a vehicle, the lighting device comprising at least a reflector and a lamp, wherein the reflector further includes an orifice. The lamp may be mounted in a lamp holder, the lamp holder being coupled to the reflector and positioned at least... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7699509 | Fixed light for bends for a motor vehicle The fixed light for bends for a motor vehicle comprises at least two light sources, means sensitive to the path of the vehicle for supplying a signal dependent on the nature of the road followed by the vehicle, and means for controlling successive switching on the s... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7697893 | Techniques for ad-hoc mesh networking A wireless communications device includes a first radio and a second radio. The first radio is receives information regarding an ad-hoc mesh wireless network from at least one remote device. The second radio exchanges user data with the ad-hoc wireless mesh network.... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7694331 | Phone with secure element and critical data A wireless communication device is implemented with a smart card module to secure the transmission of sensitive or confidential information. The user of the device must request permission to activate an application on the smart card module from a remote source. Afte... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7693797 | Transaction and payment system security remote authentication/validation of transactions from a transaction provider A mobile terminal is equipped for SMS payment and service authentication with a remote transaction provider. The remote provider uses common secrets & a seed in a keyed Hash Machine Address Code (HMAC) executing a Message Digest Algorithm to generate a list of authe... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7693486 | Distributed multiradio controller A system for managing the simultaneous operation of a plurality of radio modems in a single wireless communication device (WCD). The multiradio control may be integrated into a WCD as a subsystem responsible for scheduling wireless communications by temporarily enab... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7682057 | Lighting module for a motor vehicle and a light comprising such a module The invention concerns a lighting module comprising a concave reflector, and at least one light source disposed in the concavity of the reflector in order to illuminate at least upwards, and a lens situated in front of the reflector and light source. The reflector i... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7668565 | Multiradio priority control based on modem buffer load A system for controlling communications in a multiradio wireless communication device (WCD) by monitoring a backlog of messages waiting to be wirelessly transmitted through one or more radio modems as compared to a predetermined threshold. If the amount of pending m... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7667646 | System and methods for direction finding using a handheld device A system for indicating the relative direction of a target object or location as determined from the current position of a wireless communication device. The system employs Direction of Arrival determination using an antenna array for indicating the direction of a t... | 02/23/2010 |
