Did You Know...
...that Robert Adler has the dubious distinction of being the Father of the Couch Potato? Back in 1955 Adler was employed by what was then Zenith Radio Corp., where he was charged to invent something that would allow viewers to turn down the TV volume without leaving their chairs. After a series of flops (such as a wired contraption that people tripped over), Adler hit on the idea of using sound waves. Thus the Remote Control was born...
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7321823 | Unmapped terrain navigational system A navigational system provides information on unmapped terrain based on a waypoint positioned between a point of departure and a destination. The navigational system includes position data stored in a memory and communication logic. The position data represents a cu... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7319414 | Secure notification messaging systems and methods using authentication indicia Systems and methods are disclosed for notification or messaging systems that give confidence to the notification-receiving party that a notification concerning the travel status of a mobile thing is from a proper authorized source. One representative method, among o... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7319387 | GPS interface for locating device A system for locating a position marker includes a locating device for locating the position marker, and a GPS device communicatively coupled to the locating device that provides GPS coordinate data when the position marker is located by the locating device. Electro... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7317661 | Tuna grazing system A pre-selected fish grazing system to enhance harvesting of such pre-selected fish from a body of water. The fish grazing system includes at least one conductor unit attached to a body of a pre-selected fish for acting as a guide for other preselected fish present i... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7317705 | Mobile data device and method of locating mobile data service A method including providing a PDA having a processor, a memory coupled to the processor, a GPS receiver coupled to the processor and a RF transponder capable of communicating using Internet Protocol; storing user identification information in the memory; storing me... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7315281 | Location determination method and system for asset tracking devices A method of determining a geographical location of an asset tracking device, includes searching, by the asset tracking device, for available location determination schemes at the geographical location, selecting one of the available location determination schemes, a... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7315522 | Communication methods using slotted replies An RFID tag population is selected by an interrogator. Each tag of the selected tag population then responds to the interrogator in accordance with a slotted arbitration scheme. According to the slotted arbitration scheme, each tag of the selected tag population pic... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7315734 | Method for performing a predetermined action on wireless calls based on caller's location In the method of performing a predetermined action on wireless calls, a determination of whether a received wireless call falls within a defined area is made. If the received wireless call falls within the defined area, then the predetermined action, such as screeni... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7315745 | Radio positioning systems The invention provides a method of estimating the time offsets between signals transmitted by plural transmitters of a communications network and received by a receiver attached to a terminal. In the method a section of a representation of the signals from the plura... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7313362 | High altitude airborne craft used as radio relay and method for placing said airborne craft on station The present invention relates to an aircraft and to a method of getting the aircraft onto station. According to the invention, said aircraft (1) includes propulsion means (2) capable only of enabling said aircraft (1) to move and to orient itsel... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7313402 | System and method for evaluating accuracy of an automatic location identification system A method (38) and system (56) evaluate the accuracy of an Automatic Location Identification (ALI) system (36) deployed within an environment (20) and configured to location a wireless communication device (24) originating an emerge... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7313405 | Radio communication system, mobile terminal and radio communication method A radio communication system able to determine the position of each mobile terminal, able to deliver exact information, and able to precisely centrally manage the entire system, including mobile phones wirelessly transmitting image information obtained in image capt... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7312696 | Vehicle tracker including input/output features and related methods A vehicle tracking unit may include a vehicle position determining device, a wireless communications device, and a controller. The controller may cooperate with the vehicle position determining device and the wireless communications device to send vehicle position i... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7313626 | Operations and maintenace architecture for multiprotocol distributed system The present disclosure is directed to an open access Network Management System (NMS) that provides multiple tenants in an open access wireless distribution system with an appropriate level of access and control over the system elements that carry their signaling. Fo... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7313506 | Advanced applications for 3-D autoscanning LIDAR system A laser scanning system can be used in construction projects to generate a field survey. An architect or engineer can use the field survey to create construction drawings. In addition, relevant points from the construction drawings can be identified at the construct... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7313401 | Positioning system using packet radio to determine position and to obtain information relative to a position A positioning system includes the ability to receive GPS signals and to receive and transmit packet radio signals. The positioning system receives GPS transmissions to determine its pseudo position. The positioning system also receives differential corrections relat... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7312752 | Wireless position location and tracking system Techniques for accurate position location and tracking suitable for a wide range of facilities in variable environments are disclosed. In one aspect, a system for position location comprises a plurality of sensors (e.g. a network monitor, an environment sensor) for ... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7310661 | Approach for transferring functions between participants in a communications arrangement A novel approach for transferring management functions between participants generally involves the use of an associate master participant that assumes responsibilities for functions assigned to the master participant if the master participant can no longer perform t... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7310532 | Method of automatically updating presence information A method, apparatus, and signal-bearing media for determining a presence rule for a mobile device and updating presence information for the mobile device when the presence rule is met. The presence rule may have a condition and a corresponding state. When the condit... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7305350 | System for notifying an online client of a mobile vendor Systems and techniques for notifying a potential customer of a vendor that is in geographic proximity to the potential customer. The vendor is associated with a vendor and may include available good and/or services. The potential customer may be notified of several ... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7304606 | Mode determination for mobile GPS terminals The present invention discloses a system for determining the position of a GPS terminal. The system comprises a GPS terminal, a location aiding server, and a communications system. Messages are passed between the GPS terminal and the server, as well as within the GP... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7304960 | Methods and systems for provisioning SONET elements Methods and systems are disclosed for provisioning a SONET network. One method acquires a SONET Capacity Activation report. The report contains information for telecommunications network equipment connected to the SONET network. A target identification number is gen... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7305212 | Message passing to a known location A message is carried towards a target receiver (T) at a known location by one or more mobile entities (L,Q) that receive and pass on the message by short-range communication. The message includes an indication of the location of the target receiver (T). Before a mob... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7304609 | Hybrid wireless ranging system and associated methods A wireless ranging system includes a first wireless unit and a second wireless unit spaced therefrom. The first wireless unit may include a time-of-arrival (TOA) wireless transmitter, and a near-field electromagnetic (NFE) wireless transmitter having a settable oper... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7304610 | Positioning of mobile wireless terminal An apparatus for determining a position of a mobile wireless station comprises means for determining the position of the mobile wireless station in accordance with a position of a first reference wireless station, a position of a second reference wireless station, a... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7305293 | Vehicle tracker including input/output features and related methods A vehicle tracking unit preferably includes a vehicle position determining device, a wireless communications device, and a controller connected to the wireless communications device and the vehicle position determining device. The controller preferably cooperates wi... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7304571 | Firefighter locator with activator A device for activating a signal emitter for use in a firefighter locator system operates in conjunction with the firefighter's self-contained breathing apparatus (SCBA). The activation device includes a pressure sensor to monitor pressure on an air line that delive... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7305448 | Information-presenting apparatus, information-presenting method, information-processing apparatus, information-processing method and program-storing medium Disclosed is an information-presenting apparatus includes a first holding means for holding a first information transmission destination and a second information transmission destination; a second holding means for holding a criterion for selecting either the first ... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7301498 | Inserting measurements in a simplified geometric model to determine position of a device The invention relates to a method and a system for determining the position of a device (1) by taking measurements to determine the range between at least a first positioning station (2) and the device (1) and to determine the range between at l... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7301992 | Multipath processing for GPS receivers A GPS receiver system determines the presence of trackable signals at code delays less than the prompt delay being tracked for a particular, signal and changes the prompt delay to correspond to the smallest code delay having a trackable signal. Trackable signals at ... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7298327 | Geographic location using multiple location estimators A location system is disclosed for commercial wireless telecommunication infrastructures. The system is an end-to-end solution having one or more location centers for outputting requested locations of commercially available handsets or mobile stations (MS) based on,... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7295808 | Method of and system for calibrating a repeater A method of and system for calibrating a repeater in a wireless communications system are provided. The one or more calibration parameters for the repeater are derived from (a) time measurements derived from one or more signals relayed by the repeater and received a... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7296088 | System and method for determining the geographic location of internet hosts A system and methodologies are disclosed for determining the geographic location of an Internet host. A first method infers host location based on the DNS names of the host of interest or other nearby network nodes. A second method employs network delay measurements... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7295133 | Electrical circuit monitoring device The present invention is directed to a method of (1) providing continuous monitoring of various operating and environmental characteristics using RFID technology or similar wireless technology and (2) capturing data on historical events that have occurred on the cir... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7295633 | Triple multiplexing spread spectrum receiver A GPS car navigation system derives GPS position update information from motion of the car along the actual track. Turns along the track are detected when they actually occur and are compared with the predicted turns so that the time and position at the actual turn ... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7292850 | Communication processing apparatus, communication processing method, and computer program A Communication processing device, a communication processing method, and a computer program are provided. A configuration is provided wherein multiple access points are set as slaves, a mobile device is set as a master, so as to enable use of multiple resources at ... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7292938 | Position locating system, terminal device, control method for terminal device, control program for terminal device, and computer readable record medium storing control program for terminal device therein A terminal device 50 includes aid-information acquisition device to acquire aid information 154 from an information providing apparatus, an information-providing-apparatus-sort judgment device to judge the type of information providing apparatus on the... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7292848 | Method of activating an in-vehicle wireless communication device The invention provides a system and method for activating an in-vehicle wireless communication device. A mobile identification number associated with the wireless communication device is provided. A broadcast signal containing the mobile identification number and a ... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7293088 | Tag location, client location, and coverage hole location in a wireless network Determining the location of a radio tag or client station of a wireless network, and the location of coverage holes by receiving from a plurality of wireless stations of the wireless network path loss information of the path loss of one or more location frames recei... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7289466 | Localization for low cost sensor network Wireless devices, systems and approaches or methods having the capability of determining the location of a given wireless device. An example system includes a wireless device that generates at least one pulse as a part of an output signal, and the at least one pulse... | 10/30/2007 |
