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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120129453 | DOCK FOR GUIDING ORIENTATION OF A MOBILE PHONE FOR ENHANCED ACOUSTIC DATA TRANSFER An acoustic dock for guiding placement and orientation of a mobile device for enhanced acoustic data transfer comprises a bottom surface; a plurality of sides attached to the bottom surface for receiving a mobile device having a transducer; and one or more transducers p... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127983 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING WARNING INFORMATION, AND SECURITY MONITORING SYSTEM An electronic device for transmitting warning information to a monitoring device is provided. The monitoring device includes a radio frequency transmitting unit transmitting a wireless signal. The electronic device includes a radio frequency receiving unit, a detector, ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120129454 | COMMUNICATION TERMINAL AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD A communication terminal (10) including a first communication unit (11) and a second communication unit (12) includes a presence status detection unit (13) that detects a presence status indicating whether a distance from a personal computer ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120128172 | WIRELESS SYNCHRONIZATION MECHANISM A media delivery device that can automatically initiate and establish a secure wireless communication channel with an audio output device comprises a proximity module that recognizes a mutual engagement zone proximate to the media delivery device. The proximity module c... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120108174 | TECHNIQUES TO IMPROVE THE RADIO CO-EXISTENCE OF WIRELESS SIGNALS Techniques are described that can be used to perform one or more of the following actions in order to reduce signal interference between WLAN and BlueTooth radios that are proximate to one another. One action is to selectively reduce a filter bandwidth in a WLAN radio a... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120108173 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONNECTING WIRELESS NETWORK IN A DIGITAL DEVICE A method and an apparatus for automatically connecting a wireless Local Area Network (LAN) between digital devices and executing an application program based on the wireless LAN, and more particularly, an apparatus and a method for generating device information indicati... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120108163 | Intelligent Telematics Information Dissemination Using Delegation, Fetch, and Share Algorithms A system for intelligent dissemination of messages via long-range communications to select delegate vehicles, and short-range communications from the delegate vehicles. The system includes a processor and a memory storing a delegation and dissemination algorithm that, w... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105209 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND PORTABLE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL USING THE SAME When commonly using a receiving antenna and a transmitting antenna having mutually opposing characteristics, the present invention makes it possible to commonly use the antennas without deteriorating the characteristics of both antennas. In a communication apparatus inc... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120108172 | PERSONAL DIGITAL CONTEXT A personal digital context may be provided. A context element may be identified and used to update a context state associated with a user. Upon determining that a context-aware device is available, the context state may be provided to the context-aware device.... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120108171 | Telemetry Conveyed by Pipe Utilizing Specks Drill pipe segments, communication systems, and methods of manufacturing pipe segments usable for communicating data wirelessly between sensors and tools placed in an oil and/or gas well are provided. Communication specks are applied on at least one of an outer surface ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120083214 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD According to one embodiment, an electronic device includes a communication module, a connection establishment module, a negotiation module, a service execution module, and an execution control module. The communication module executes close proximity wireless transfer. ... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120083212 | DATA TRANSMITTING SYSTEM AND DATA TRANSMITTING METHOD A data transmitting system, comprising: a processor; a first transmitting interface; a first transmitting apparatus; a second transmitting interface; a second transmitting apparatus and a signal transmitting line. The processor enters a power down mode when the first tr... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120083211 | MOBILE DEVICE AND METHOD OF ACCESSING CHANNEL USING MOBILE DEVICE Disclosed is a mobile device to calculate an energy efficiency degree corresponding to a ratio of an amount of transmission of a data packet to an expected energy consumption, in response to the transmission of the data packet to a base station, to set a threshold value... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120083210 | Channel Randomization for Backoff Efficiency Improvement Methods and apparatus for solving problems caused by backoff procedures like that specified in the BLUETOOTH Link Layer Specification, by introducing selected randomizations of communication channels used for communication by scanning devices.... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120083911 | COMMUNICATING SENSOR DATA BETWEEN ELECTRONIC DEVICES Sensor data is communicated between two electronic devices under control of the receiving device. For example, one device is equipped with one or more sensors that can produce a stream of real-time readings. The other device can request the sensor data from the first de... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120083209 | WIRELESS ACCESSORY DEVICE PAIRING DETERMINATION FOR MULTIPLE HOST DEVICES A wireless communications system includes an accessory device and multiple host devices. A host device pairs wirelessly with an accessory device using a unique link key, detects a primary trigger event and responds by transferring automatically its pairing with the acce... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120083213 | PORTABLE MOBILE APPARATUS PROVIDING SUPPLEMENTARY SERVICE FOR USER AND METHOD THEREOF The prevent invention relates to a portable mobile apparatus for a user for providing a supplementary service and a method for providing a supplementary service by using the same, and more particularly, to an apparatus and a method for providing supplementary enhanced s... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120083207 | Method and System for 60 GHZ Distributed Communication Methods and systems for 60 GHz distributed communication are disclosed and may include generating IF signals from baseband signals in a computing device with wireless capability. The IF signals may be communicated to remote RF modules within the computing device via coa... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120083208 | WIRELESS ACCESSORY DEVICE PAIRING TRANSFER BETWEEN MULTIPLE HOST DEVICES A wireless communications system includes an accessory device and multiple host devices. A host device pairs wirelessly with an accessory device using a unique link key, detects a primary trigger event and responds by transferring automatically its pairing with the acce... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120069838 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR A BLUETOOTH-ENABLED ETHERNET INTERFACE In one embodiment, a method includes determining when a relay arrangement is available to pair with an endpoint. The relay arrangement is arranged to wirelessly communicate with the endpoint and to communicate over a wired network. The method also includes authenticatin... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120071100 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM A processing system is described that includes a wireless communication interface that wirelessly communicates with one or more wireless client devices in the vicinity of an establishment. The wireless communication interface receives a remote order corresponding to an ... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120071097 | In-vehicle apparatus A control circuit of an the in-vehicle apparatus repeatedly performs a Bluetooth connection operation to connect to both of registered cellular phones and registered portable AV players in such a manner that, if an HFP connection has already been established to a cellul... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120071098 | IMPROVEMENTS TO SHORT RANGE WIRELESS NETWORKS A sensor for use in a wireless sensor network of devices, comprising:
| 03/22/2012 |
| 20120071099 | PORTABLE DEVICE When a first module and a second module of a plurality of modules 110 to 150 perform authentication processing through short range communication, the first module detects remaining capacity of its own battery 101. When the remaining capacity surpass... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120071096 | In-vehicle apparatus When connecting a multi-profile device by Bluetooth, an in-vehicle apparatus performs a MAP connection establishment process in succession to an HFP connection establishment process to have a MAP connection established earlier than a conventional timing, thereby reducin... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120071095 | Device Arranged To Use An Electromagnetic Link To Replicate A Serial Port A device arranged to connect to a serial port and to use an electromagnetic link to replicate a serial connection thereto, the device comprising a link-processing module arranged to establish the electromagnetic link and at least one switching device capable of being sw... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120071094 | Communication through a composite barrier The present invention discloses a system that implements data communications through a barrier composed of composite, layered materials. A low frequency electromagnetic signal is used to achieve acceptable channel losses as the signal passes through a composite barrier ... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120071092 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE INCLUDING ACTUATOR AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING SAME FOR PROVIDING TACTILE OUTPUT A method of controlling an electronic device includes detecting receipt of an input, determining a response number in response to receipt of the input, and actuating an actuator of the electronic device a discrete integer number of times based on the response number.... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120071093 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IDENTIFYING BLUETOOTH CONNECTION BETWEEN CRADLE AND HANDHEL DATA CAPTURE DEVICE A method and apparatus for identifying a Bluetooth connection between a cradle and at least one handheld data capture device that includes a barcode reading arrangement or an RFID reader. The apparatus includes a cradle configured to accommodate a handheld data capture ... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120052806 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATION DEVICE A communication apparatus includes a short-range communication unit that receives an inquiry signal from a short-range external communication apparatus and transmits a response signal in response to the inquiry signal. The communication apparatus also includes a long-ra... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120052804 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING FUNCTION AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE APPLYING THEREOF A method for controlling a function is used for an electronic device. The electronic device includes a first sensor and a second sensor. In the method for controlling the function, a first determination result is generated by determining if a neighboring object neighbor... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120052802 | ADVERTISEMENT OF AN EXISTING WIRELESS CONNECTION Method, apparatus, and computer program product enable devices to advertise an existing connection to other devices so that they can synchronize to the connection and listen to the information exchanged, in a listen-only mode. In example embodiments, after a slave devic... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120052805 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM In a master device, an address for a transmission origin and an address of an ultimate transmission destination, included in a message from an end device, are stored, as a pair, as proxy information, and the address of the transmission origin included in the message is ... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120052803 | Cellular Telephone Apparatus In one aspect, the present invention is directed to a cellular telephone apparatus (2), comprising: a “traditional” handset (10); and a communication box (20) in which is installed at least a cellular transmitter of the apparatus (2). The... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120044888 | Method for Switching Channels in a Wireless Communication Network A method for switching channels in a wireless communication network comprising at least one access point and clients, wherein the communication network as secondary user uses one of a number of possible channels for data communication. In accordance with the invention, ... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120045990 | Intelligent Audio Routing for Incoming Calls A user's wireless communication device communicates cellular signals with a remote party over a wireless communications network and short-range wireless signals with a headset worn by the user. Upon receiving an incoming call, a controller in the user's device determine... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120045993 | Apparatus for discovering devices in a wireless network A Bluetooth-enabled computing device includes a user interface for displaying a prompt to specify a descriptive identifier for a network device prior to performance of a Bluetooth Device Discovery Routine, the descriptive identifier being different from Bluetooth Device... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120046862 | Tagging A Location By Pairing Devices A method of tagging a location using a mobile device entails obtaining position data for a current location of the mobile device, detecting a proximity of another device using a short-range wireless interface, and automatically storing the position data for the current ... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120045991 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD, X-RAY SENSOR, AND PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM A wireless communication apparatus includes an X-ray sensor that transmits X-ray image data, a wireless access point that receives the X-ray image data from the X-ray sensor by wireless communication, and an entry apparatus that communicates with the X-ray sensor by sho... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120045994 | BLUETOOTH COMMUNICATION METHOD AND SYSTEM A Bluetooth communication method and system for enabling one Bluetooth device to rapidly connect to another Bluetooth device using an audio signal, and also enabling them to transmit data to each other are provided. The system includes first and second Bluetooth devices... | 02/23/2012 |
