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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110260833 | Event Communication System for Providing User Alerts An event communication system involves facilitating entry by a user of one or more device addresses via a network accessible user interface of the event communication system. The device addresses are associated with alerts provided by the event communication system. Tes... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20100001835 | Customer Paging and Communications System A customer paging and communications system comprising a base unit and a plurality of pagers. The base unit may include an input interface and a base unit processor that's configured to receive pager identifiers and then generate alert signals associated with the respec... | 01/07/2010 |
| 20070291052 | Panoramic display for a wireless device Various embodiments of a panoramic display for a wireless device are described. In one embodiment, a wireless device may include a display comprising a plurality of display regions. The display regions may include a central display region and multiple lateral display re... | 12/20/2007 |
| 20070290801 | Coach and player sports communication system A portable, wireless, bi-directional communication system for transmitting visual information about plays and instant messaging between a coach and players during a game comprises a notebook or palm sized computer device with transmitter and receiver, and a wrist sweat ... | 12/20/2007 |
| 20070159424 | Methods for driving devices capable of displaying images and processing audio messages Methods for driving devices capable of displaying images and processing audio messages are provided. A representative method comprises: operating a device capable of displaying images and processing audio messages at a first operating frequency when the device is not pr... | 07/12/2007 |
| 20070139447 | Mobile communication terminal and method for displaying character message selectively A mobile communication terminal for a character message display and a method thereof are provided to enable individual configuration of a display condition and a display with respect to individual character messages, in which, a storage unit stores the character message... | 06/21/2007 |
| 20070040652 | Entertainment paging system and method A system having a console and remote media device. The console transmits a page to the remote media device. The console may also be used to synchronize the remote media device. Alternatively, a docking station may be used for synchronization or recharging for the power ... | 02/22/2007 |
| 20060279404 | Distribution System and Implement for Subscribed and Voiced Publications A method and system of distributing massive voiced publications to individual subscribers is described; The distribution system is constructed by: a transmission system including encoders, amplifiers, FM transmitters and other necessary equipments; some receiver devices... | 12/14/2006 |
| 20060192654 | Portable terminal equipment, notifying method and its program Portable terminal equipment including a registering unit for registering a predetermined character string and a specific notifying operation corresponding to the character string. When the terminal receives an electronic mail, it retrieves the registered character strin... | 08/31/2006 |
| 20060179127 | System and Method for Location-based Interactive Content A system and method for providing and managing location-based interactive content, including messages sent to specific location-based screens via mobile communication devices or the Internet. The location-based screens are display devices connected to a central content ... | 08/10/2006 |
| 20060099997 | Portable cellular phone, portable cellular phone system, message format controlling method, and message format controlling program A portable cellular phone is provided which is capable of transmitting a message corresponding to a terminal of a message receiver even in a case where any one or some of terminals of message receivers have a function of receiving a message of a MMS (Multimedia Message ... | 05/11/2006 |
| 20060080704 | Method and system for transmitting a video message to television set Data are transmitted to a television receiver by creating audiovisual stimuli and a video message that convey these stimuli, has an identifier of its recipient, and is in the form of a stream of digital data. The stream of digital data is converted into an analogue sign... | 04/13/2006 |
| 20060017542 | Short range wireless RFguest pager system with removable memory providing displayed ancillary information for making waiting in line more tolerable and productive An implementation for giving the guest carrying the pager ancillary information in a short range guest pager system, including a localized short range RF transmitter and portable wireless receiving pager with an activatable page indicator. The implementation comprises a... | 01/26/2006 |
| 20060012463 | Local 2-way paging systems and associated methods Systems and methods for 2-way paging are disclosed. A 2-way pager ceiver for transmitting a sent page and for receiving a received page, and a or displaying information of the received page and for inputting information of The pager also includes memory configured to st... | 01/19/2006 |
| 20050200455 | Paging system for queue management A pager or other wireless communication device is used to keep participants of a queue informed of remaining wait time. An estimate of wait time is generated by a host management application using information concerning availability of a resource, for example, restauran... | 09/15/2005 |
| 20050046615 | Display method and apparatus for navigation system A display method and apparatus for navigation system enables a user to quickly view zoomed images by using a radial scaling method. The display method includes the steps of: reading out map data from a map data storage for displaying a map image on a screen of a navigat... | 03/03/2005 |
