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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8035481 | Illuminable latch A computing device is disclosed. The computing device includes a data capture device such as a camera. In one aspect, the data capture device may integrated with the housing of the computing device and further detachable therefrom. In another aspect, the data captur... | 10/11/2011 |
| 7373181 | Method and apparatus for sender controllable modalities A method and apparatus (110) for sender controllable modalities includes the step of generating a communication command (108). The method and apparatus further includes generating a priority command (110) wherein the priority command includes a ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7369880 | Mobile phone apparatus A mobile phone apparatus is provided which can register the settings for a ringing operation when receiving a telephone call depending on the situation. The mobile phone apparatus includes: a communication unit 1 which carries out transmission and receipt of ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7363060 | Mobile telephone user interface An improved user interface for use with a mobile telecommunication device such as a mobile phone to make its featured more accessible to a sight-impaired user. The user interface employs a collection of distinguishable non-visual (NV) cues that are selectively gener... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7336173 | Owner aware objects The Owner Aware Object represents a new class of Physical Objects that mimic the awareness of the presence or absence in their immediate surroundings of their rightful owner. The system is composed of an Owner Private Space Generator, one or multiple Owner Private S... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7327277 | Information transmission apparatus, information transmission method, and monitoring apparatus In an information transmitter (2) which is a portable personal information device, a system control circuit (26) analyzes information on vibration obtained from an acceleration sensor (22), information on temperature obtained from a temperature ... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7305256 | Method, apparatus and program for providing user-selected alerting signals in telecommunications devices A method for operating a user communication device (18a, 18b, 19a, 19b), and a program and user communication device that operate in accordance with that method. An interface (2d, 2b, | 12/04/2007 |
| 7301471 | Communications monitor and control for consumer devices A method and apparatus which provide for simultaneously monitoring and controlling multiple consumer devices located in a fixed and/or mobile environment includes a handheld RF communications device having multiple controls. In addition, a transceiver device is prov... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7268672 | System for providing a tactile stimulation in response to a predetermined alarm condition There is provided a tactile alarm system for use in environments having a plurality of audio and/or visual alarms each in communication with a detector measuring a predetermined physical property. The system includes one or more tactile alarms each connected to a di... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7265655 | Handheld computing device with power-saving notification A handheld computing device includes a notification lamp, a melody circuit coupled to the notification lamp for providing a first type notification, an electronic switch coupled to the notification lamp for providing a second type notification, and a notification co... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7260420 | Apparatus and method for stimulating one or more areas on a wearer A system includes a wireless device (101) and at least one stimulator pad (400, 500). The stimulator pad (400, 500) has a set of electrodes (404) that are in communication with the wireless device (101). The stimulator pad (400,... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7254223 | Method and apparatus for improved personal communication devices and systems Contact data in a database for a wireless personal communication device are remotely updatable from, or transferable between, a computer system using a radio frequency connection. New contact data, and changes or updates to existing contact data, are input at the co... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7250846 | Method and apparatus for providing dynamic user alert Techniques for providing a dynamic alert indication to a user of a signal receiving device. One technique includes the steps of processing a signal transmitted from a signal transmitting device to determine at least one mode to be associated with an alert indication... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7251318 | Method and apparatus for improved personal communication devices and systems An apparatus and method provide a database in a pager that contains menus that may be displayed on a pager display. A paging service sends a page including an identification, retrieves a menu from the pager database and displays the menu. The pager responds to the p... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7251506 | Mobile phone system with incoming melody designating function and mobile phone A mobile phone system in which the incoming melodies, used in making a call, are not registered at the outset, and a desired incoming melody, out of plural incoming melodies, stored in a network server, may be selected and designated, so that a large variety of inco... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7246289 | Memory integrity self checking in VT/TU cross-connect A method and apparatus for detecting errors in a memory includes generating a first check word based on incoming data and generating a second check word based on stored data. The method includes comparing the first check word to the second check word, generating a c... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7236749 | Stuck microphone deselection system and method Methods and apparatus are provided for handling a STUCK-ON microphone push-to-talk (PTT) switch. The apparatus comprises an input device receiving the PTT output, switches for selecting a radio, and a controller that receives this information and determines whether ... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7236800 | System and method for generating message reference number for a mobile communication station A system and method is disclosed is capable of receiving messages from a mobile communication system. The system generates a reference number for a received message comprising a terminal, a reference number table, and comparator. The terminal communicates a received... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7234014 | Seamless user interactions for portable storage devices A portable storage device 10 includes a body 12, an actuator 16, and an indicator 18. When coupled to a host device 22, a user depressing the actuator 16 causes an interrupt message to be sent to the host device, which initi... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7219063 | Wirelessly delivered owner's manual This invention is directed to a method of delivering vehicle owner's manual or other vehicle-specific information to the vehicle operator from a remote data center and associated vehicle information database by utilizing a voice recognition system at the remote data... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7209955 | Notification system and method for a mobile data communication device A notification system and method for a mobile data communication device is provided. A clientbased software program operates at the mobile communication device to manage and execute, user-selectable notification schemes (“notification module”) in response to dat... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7203463 | Power efficient channel scheduling in a wireless network A method and system for optimizing channel access scheduling for multiple wireless computing devices over a wireless network improves channel access efficiency with respect to a primary channel. An access point, or host computer, includes a host transceiver for rece... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7200425 | Device and method for augmenting cellular telephone audio signals A system and method is described for augmenting cellular telephone signals for a cellular telephone. In an exemplary embodiment, a cellular battery is equipped with a sound generating device that stores one or more audio signals that are activated upon receipt of a ... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7181233 | Multi-user non-blocking duplex wireless voice communication system and method An economical, reliable, robust and easy to use multi-user voice communication system and method suitable for use in rapidly evolving tactical or hazardous situations continuously permits each user to hear every voice communication occurring among the other users, n... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7142879 | Mobile communications network system, mobile terminal, and paging method A mobile communication network system is provided in which when a radio system is selected from plural types of radio systems as a radio system for use in paging, the optimum radio system for the mobile terminal to be paged can be selected. When it is selected, traf... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7119706 | Method and apparatus for visual silent alarm indicator An apparatus and method thereof wherein a portable computer system or personal digital assistant generates a visual signal in response to an occurrence of a programmed event. For example, the portable computer system can use a light emitting diode to visually signal... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7092925 | Intelligent portable communications device and operation method for the same according to user's schedule An intelligent portable communications device and its operation method according to a user's schedule are provided. The operation method is formed of the steps of recording the schedule, continuously determining if it is necessary to alert the user, determining if t... | 08/15/2006 |
| RE39231 | Communication terminal equipment and call incoming control method In a communication terminal equipment and in a method of controlling call incoming, unnecessary noises in a period from the start of an alert sound to carrying out of the next operation can be reduced. When a predetermined operation is effected under the condition t... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7053753 | Wireless community alerting system A pager-based alert system includes a monitor center that is in telephonic or data communication with a paging station allowing the command center to send multi-digit code words where selected digits comprise an address for selecting one or more of a plurality of ph... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7027840 | Method and apparatus of muting an alert A wireless communication device (100, 800) is provided with a movement sensor (802), and circuitry for controlling the operation of the wireless communication device. In operation in response to detecting predetermined movement of the wireless communic... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7019616 | Wireless message system with monitor feedback and automatic backup control A messaging system for determining whether a wireless message has been transmitted includes a wireless transmitter, a messaging controller and a transmission monitor. The transmission monitor receives all wireless messages transmitted by the transmitter and provides... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7020498 | Portable telephone A portable telephone downloads from the music download center the music data that contain tone color data, tempo data, and a series of note data and rest data with respect to at least a single musical tune. A CPU outputs to an interface the tone color data, and the ... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7006561 | Apparatus and method for detecting baudrate in a universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter Disclosed is a Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter, more particularly, an apparatus and a method for detecting an optimum baudrate. The method preferably includes calculating a number of samplings for each pulse width based on at least one pulse generated fr... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6999731 | Control of an alert mechanism by communication of an event-associated command A method and apparatus for associating a command with an event at a first device, communicating the command to a second device when the event occurs and causing an action at the second device depending on the command. ... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6998966 | Mobile communication device having a functional cover for controlling sound applications by motion This invention relates to a mobile communication device (200) having a functional cover (202) for controlling sound applications by means of measuring motion of said functional cover (202). In particular, the present invention relates to a funct... | 02/14/2006 |
| 7000020 | Automatic baud rate detection of null modem unimodem client connection A baud rate detection system and method automatically detects the baud rate at which a client computing device is communicating with a host computer over a serial connection. The host computer is coupled to the client computing device via a serial connection, which ... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6993364 | Communication device with history based alerts and method therefor A communication device (100) includes a transceiver (115) for receiving a call, a received calls memory (145) for storing call sources (300) and for storing an associated call count (315) for each call source (310), a user p... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6975240 | Electronic alert response system The present invention deals with a plurality of transceivers which are programmable. The plurality of transceivers functions to permit, for example, a hearing impaired individual or a visually impaired individual to receive communications which indicate the source o... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6959013 | Communication network A transmitter for transmitting an intermittent sequence of messages to maintain synchronization between the transmitter and a receiver. The transmitter includes control apparatus which provides messages for transmission, each message forms part of a sequence of mess... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6954657 | Wireless communication device having intelligent alerting system A wireless device (100) having an optimum alert sequence definition analyzes its environment, including time and type of incoming call, and selects an appropriate alert signal sequence. A central processing unit (114) included within the device (100... | 10/11/2005 |
