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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7145903 | Multi-master bus architecture for system-on-chip designs A bus architecture system to provide concurrency, fabricated on an integrated circuit for a system on chip design, for connecting a plurality of bus masters to a plurality of bus slaves. The system includes a plurality of multiplexers in communication with each data... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7142979 | Method of triggering the transmission of data from a mobile asset A navigation system that uses a method for transmitting the location of a vehicle to a location remote from the vehicle is provided. The method includes determining a location of the vehicle relative to a road network defined as a first location, and determining a c... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7142900 | Combined global positioning system receiver and radio A portable GPS/radio unit (10) communicates over a wireless radio network (12) with at least one other such unit. The unit (10) may transmit radio signals over the network (12) indicative of the unit's location. The unit (10) inclu... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7142873 | System and method for calibration of a wireless network In one embodiment, the present invention is a method and system for calibrating a wireless network including a Mobile Switching Center (MSC), and a Position Determination Device (PDD). The wireless network is capable of determining the position of a handset. The met... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7142876 | Location dependent services A service provider entity includes a communication interface for communication with user equipment and for receiving location information from a plurality of different communication systems. The service provider entity further includes a processor for processing the... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7142152 | Device and method for calibrating and improving the accuracy of barometric altimeters with GPS-derived altitudes A portable, handheld electronic navigation device includes an altimeter and a GPS unit. An internal memory stores cartographic data, for displaying the cartographic data on a display of the navigation device. Accordingly, the device is capable of displaying cartogra... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7142524 | System and method for using an ad-hoc routing algorithm based on activity detection in an ad-hoc network A system and method for detecting communication requirements in a network and placing nodes in various stages of activity where conditions allow. The system and method provides an algorithm to detect changes in node activity levels and alter operations, such as upda... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7142812 | Wireless transmission system A wireless transmission system operating in a 60 GHz frequency range comprises fixed hubs (public download server) (2) and mobile terminals (1). The fixed hubs (2) have antennas (4) with a wide angle beam shape. The mobile terminals (1... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7139584 | Apparatus and method for mobile unit positioning An apparatus for mobile positioning and a method therefor are disclosed for determining the location of a mobile unit in a wireless communication system. First, an angle of arrival of a wireless signal transmitted by a mobile unit and being incident on a base statio... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7139582 | Method for the continuous real time tracking of the position of at least one mobile object as well as an associated device In a method for the continuous real time tracking of the position of at least one mobile object in a defined multidimensional space, at least one mobile transmitter module is attached to at least one mobile object and the signals from the at least one module are rec... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7139252 | System and method for aggregating information to determine users' locations Provided is a system and method that acquires and aggregates information to determine the location of a user. Information from multiple sources is collected and evaluated. Location sources include mobile electronic devices such as mobile telephones, cell phones, han... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7139262 | Systems and methods for creating wireless small world networks A system (510) routes packets in a network (200) having multiple nodes. The system identifies a group (500) of the nodes (520–550) and determines routing distances to each of them. The system (510) then selects a set of the nodes... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7138946 | System and method for position detection of a terminal in a network In a position detection system for detecting a position of a terminal apparatus of a radio communications system, a position detection time is shortened using a position detection method for determining signal times-of-arrival between the terminal apparatus and base... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7136587 | System and method for providing simulated hardware-in-the-loop testing of wireless communications networks A system and method for efficiently and effectively simulating hardware-in-the-loop testing of a wireless communications network. The system and method employs an optical matrix-vector multiplier (MVM) for performing optical signal processing to simulate radio frequ... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7136917 | Communication system and method having communication data dividing and transmitting functions In a communication system, a content server reads required data from a content database and transmits the data by packet communications over public communication lines, and a network management server receives and stores the required information from the public comm... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7136645 | Method and apparatus for providing mobile and other intermittent connectivity in a computing environment A seamless solution transparently addresses the characteristics of nomadic systems, and enables existing network applications to run reliably in mobile environments. A Mobility Management Server coupled to the mobile network maintains the state of each of any number... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7136359 | Method and apparatus for transparently proxying a connection A system and method are disclosed for transparently proxying a connection to a protected machine. The method includes monitoring a communication packet on a network at a proxy machine. The communication packet has a communication packet source address, source port n... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7133686 | System and method for identifying interferes in a communication spectrum A method for identifying interferers in a radio communication band, such as the 2.4 GHz ISM band, uses a priori information of the interferers such as channel structure, channel frequency and channel bandwidth. Measured RSSI can be used to detect and identify interf... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7133909 | Systems and methods for locating mobile computer users in a wireless network System and methods for locating a computer user are described wherein the computer either periodically updates a network server with its location, or updates the network server when asked by the server to do so. The network server can be a mobile computer. The user'... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7133391 | Time division protocol for an ad-hoc, peer-to-peer radio network having coordinating channel access to shared parallel data channels with separate reservation channel A novel protocol for an ad-hoc, peer-to-peer radio network that provides collision-free channel access with an emphasis on improving geographic reuse of the frequency spectrum. The protocol of the invention is executed on the reservation or control channel, and prov... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7132980 | Multi-function device with positioning system and shared processor A multi-function device with a positioning function and a real time positioning engine is disclosed. The device contains also a shared processor used by the positioning function and other functions of the device, such as a mobile radio-communication function. The po... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7133498 | Method for confirming end point location of calls Certain exemplary embodiments comprise a method comprising receiving, from a user-operated telecommunications device, a user-initiated communication to a non-911 communications address. The method can comprise automatically providing a user with a current location o... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7133663 | Determining the context of surroundings “Context” of an environment or area is considered to be one or more characteristics of the environment or area, manifested by the presence of various types of equipment or devices. Detection of various types of devices and equipment in a localized area is by way... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7129890 | Dynamic beamforming for ad hoc networks A method, a node and a machine-readable medium are provided for dynamically adjusting a beam of an adaptive antenna array (302). A receiving node (101) receives, via a group of antenna array elements (302), a signal from a transmitting node (... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7130396 | Medical monitoring system having multiple communications channels A medical monitoring system has a sensor system including a sensor associated with a patient and a remote monitoring unit. The remote monitoring unit includes a microprocessor in communication with the sensor system, and a portable-monitoring unit transceiver system... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7130406 | Enhanced directory assistance system The present invention provides for an enhanced directory assistance system (2) for providing directions information to a plurality of callers (4). The system is comprised of a telephone switch (12) for receiving calls from a plurality of callers... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7130584 | Method and device for identifying and pairing Bluetooth devices A method of revealing the device identity of a recipient Bluetooth device. When the recipient device is turned on, it displays the device identity. A user enters the device identity of the recipient device into a sending Bluetooth device in order to establish the in... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7130630 | Location query service for wireless networks A location query service for use with a wireless network that tracks the location of network devices, such as a network complying with enhanced 911 standards. The service provides requesters with the locations of network users, based on the locations of the users' w... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7130644 | Mobile communication terminal capable of executing location-related services A mobile communication terminal includes: a reported location information detecting unit for detecting reported location information from a base station; a reported location information managing unit for managing one of the reported location information specified by... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7127082 | Active fiducials for augmented reality The present invention provides active fiducials for use with augmented reality client systems. A computer system, a method, and a computer program product are presented, which provide location-registered patterns for providing information regarding objects in an are... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7127275 | Automatically populated display regions for discovered access points and stations in a user interface representing a wireless communication network deployed in a physical environment A system for providing automatically populated display regions showing discovered access points and stations in a user interface representing a wireless communication network deployed in a physical environment. A generated user interface includes a first display reg... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7126536 | Position location using terrestrial digital video broadcast television signals A method and computer program product for determining the position of a user terminal includes receiving at the user terminal a plurality of digital television (DTV) broadcast signals from a plurality of DTV transmitters, wherein each of the DTV signals is a Europea... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7127258 | WLAN roaming based on location A wireless data communications system has mobile units which become associated with access points. Association between a mobile unit and an access point is changed as mobile units move within an area having a plurality of access points. Selection of an access point ... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7126535 | System and method of utilizing positioning receiver hardware for network-based transceiver applications A network, network device and method is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes transmitting communication signals from a first network node to a second network node, where the first and second network nodes comprise a network and each include a receiver por... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7127272 | Designing antenna systems A design system designs a first antenna system in a communication system. The design system retrieves demographic information of customers from a first database system. The design system determines communication traffic based on the demographic information. The desi... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7124425 | Audio/video system and method utilizing a head mounted apparatus with noise attenuation A head mounted display in a video/audio system includes a display device, a head mount, noise reduction devices, and a speaker. The display device is coupled to the head mount and produces visual images based on received video signals. The head mount is mounted on t... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7124193 | Method of using link adaptation and power control for streaming services in wireless networks A method for improving the performance for a streaming service by link-adaptation and power-control in a wireless packet network such as an Enhanced General Packet Radio Services (EGPRS) cellular network is described. In particular, the effects of a combined link ad... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7123924 | Method and system for determining the speed and position of a mobile unit Apparatus and methods are disclosed for estimating the position and velocity of mobile wireless transmit/receive units (WTRUs) in a wireless communication system. Network stations use directional communication beams to divide service areas into sectors to provide co... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7123926 | System and method for providing information to users based on the user's location A system for providing an advisory communication to a user via a mobile unit includes locating means for locating the position of the mobile unit and sending means for sending a communication to the mobile unit. The mobile unit includes alerting means for alerting t... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7119716 | Response systems and methods for notification systems for modifying future notifications Response systems and methods are disclosed for communications in connection with a computer-based notification system and a personal communications device (e.g., telephone, pager, computer, PDA, etc.) associated with a party. One such representative response method,... | 10/10/2006 |
