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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8099074 | Method for transmitting data in a blood glucose system and corresponding blood glucose system The invention relates to a method for wireless transmission of data between components of a blood glucose system including a master controller (i.e., “master”) and a slave device (i.e., “slave”). The master and slave each have a receiver and transmitter. The... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8032107 | Power management by constant awake correlator Disclosed is a circuit for improved power management of a wireless device, comprising an input signal from an antenna, an oscillator, a mixer and a circuit for correlating. In a first analog embodiment of the circuit, the circuit for correlating comprises a surface ... | 10/04/2011 |
| 7953385 | System and method to manage processing operations within a wireless terminal following receipt of a null page A method and system to determine when a wireless terminal has been paged by a servicing base station. An encoded paging burst is received on a paging channel and then decoded to produce a decoded paging burst. The decoded paging burst is processed to determine if it... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7899435 | Wireless communication unit, power control method for wireless communication unit and wireless network The present invention, which is aimed at providing a wireless communication unit which is operated by battery power and offers long battery life, power control method thereof and a wireless network which utilizes the wireless communication unit, includes: a direct d... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7873343 | Communication network terminal with sleep capability Improved apparatus for a radio communication system having a multiplicity of mobile transceiver units selectively in communication with a plurality of base transceiver units which, in turn, communicate with one or more host computers for storage and manipulation of ... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7853236 | Rectifier circuit and RFID tag A rectifier circuit includes a first MOS transistor; a first capacitor connected between a gate and a source of the first MOS transistor; a first switching circuit for supplying a bias voltage to the first capacitor in response to a control signal; a second MOS tran... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7778623 | Communication system and server apparatus and terminal apparatus According to one embodiment, a communication system includes a first terminal to be connected to a first communication network, assigned a terminal ID and driven by power supplied from a battery, a server apparatus to be connected to a second communication network d... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7668528 | Alternatively powered low power IC A low power integrated circuit (IC) includes a power supply module, first circuitry, and second circuitry. The power supply module is coupled to receive a power source signal from a source external to the low power IC, derive an electromagnetic signal from the power... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7650135 | Remote sensor interface (RSI) stepped wake-up sequence A transceiver includes a two-way communication component capable of powering down to conserve energy and capable of powering up in response to an electronic signal, the two-way communication component including a transmitter and a first receiver; and a second receiv... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7630701 | System and method to manage processing operations within a wireless terminal following receipt of a null page A method and system to determine when a wireless terminal has been paged by a servicing base station. An encoded paging burst is received on a paging channel and then decoded to produce a decoded paging burst. The decoded paging burst is processed to determine if it... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7567792 | Method for controlling the power supply of a mobile data memory, use of said method in an identification system having at least one mobile data memory A method for controlling a power supply of a mobile data memory (MDS). The mobile data memory is operable to communicate via wireless data transfer using an antenna (A). The mobile data memory has at least one energy accumulator (BAT), a data demodulator (EMP), a da... | 07/28/2009 |
| 7561866 | RFID tags with power rectifiers that have bias A system and method for generating a rectified signal in a RFID tag. An alternating signal is received by the RFID tag, and a first phase of the alternating signal is coupled to a gate and to a first non-controlling terminal of a first switching transistor. The non-... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7440781 | System and method for power conservation in a wireless device Described is a system and method for power conservation in a wireless device. The method includes switching, by a wireless computing unit, from a first communication mode to a second communication mode at a predefined time interval. The unit receives wireless signal... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7400595 | Method and apparatus for battery life extension for nodes within beaconing networks An “identical beacons” field (401) is inserted near the beginning of a transmitted beacon (403) that contains either an integer equal to the number of consecutive identical beacons sent (i.e., identical to the one presently being transmitted) or a ... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7363483 | System for rebooting relay apparatus based on detection of completely no communication establishment data presence A relay apparatus enables automatic execution of the reboot process after a controller has detected a discontinuance of data. Accordingly, data in a communication is reliably prevented from destruction. Moreover, the reboot process can be achieved with simple operat... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7359739 | Portable electronics device A portable electronics device comprises an interior space for storing a fuel vessel, and a chassis that includes at least one transparent window opposing the interior space. ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7356014 | Apparatus and method for controlling data communication in wireless local area network An apparatus and method for controlling data communication in a wireless local area network (LAN) can check a remaining power level of a host computer battery and determine a data transmission characteristic such as a data transfer speed and/or power save mode perio... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7346331 | Power management for locking system In an access control system, a method and system for power management. A method of power management in a wireless access control system includes monitoring usage of a transceiver in a remote access point in a wireless access control system, de-activating the transce... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7336991 | Multi-channel biological signal telemetry systems A system for performing telemetry of multi-channel biological signals obtained from electrodes attached to a subject, is provided with a transmitter and a receiver. In the transmitter, a converter converts the multi-channel biological signals to digital data, and a ... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7333460 | Adaptive beacon interval in WLAN The present invention relates to Wireless Local Area Networks and Access Points in such networks, in particular it relates to the control and use of varying beacon intervals in such networks. According to the present invention, the beacon frames in the Wireless Loca... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7321787 | Power management method and apparatus of wireless local area network module in computer system A power management method and apparatus for a wireless LAN module in a computer system may include a communication sensitivity checking unit for checking a communication sensitivity of a wireless communications channel. If a communications sensitivity is lower than ... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7293184 | Programmatic binding for power management events involving execution of instructions in a first programming system with a first interface and a second programming system with a second interface A plurality of instructions corresponding to a power management event are received. An instruction of the plurality of instructions is executed in a first programming system with a first interface, in response to determining that the instruction is in accordance wit... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7289804 | Method for controlling sleep interval in broadband wireless access communication system Disclosed is a method for establishing a sleep mode in a broadband wireless access communication system. The method for establishing the sleep mode includes a first step of placing a subscriber station into the awake mode after time having a maximum window value lap... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7272366 | Method and apparatus for reducing RF filter induced distortion in a wide bandwidth wireless system by the use of channel-dependent RF filter compensation A mobile station is constructed to include a transceiver comprising a transmitter circuit having a transmit RF filter that passes a transmit band of frequencies that is partitioned into transmit frequency channels and a receiver circuit having a receiver RF filter t... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7251510 | Wireless communication terminal and mobile type wireless communication terminal A wireless communication terminal includes first and second case members coupled together by a coupling portion so that the positional relation therebetween can be changed, an external wireless communication antenna provided at the first case member, an external wir... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7245888 | Phone energy management for low battery voltages The present invention provides a power supply arrangement with a DC-to-DC converter (10) for providing at least one supply voltage to a load (20, 30, 40) from an energy source (11). The converter comprises means for inputting (4) a batter... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7245946 | Optimal power saving scheduler for 802.11e APSD A new system and method is described, utilizing a scheduler based on a transmission power consumption calculation and prioritizing algorithm. The system utilizes the (APSD) protocol specified in the 802.11e draft for saving power in wireless local area networks. The... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7212843 | Current reduction in a communication device A method for reducing current drain in a communication device includes a first step of developing a history of readings of received signal strengths (RSS) of a neighboring broadcast control channel (BCCH). A next step includes monitoring a RSS of the neighboring cha... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7181189 | Vehicular remote control system and tire pressure monitoring system A vehicular remote control system has a mobile unit, a vehicle unit for establishing bidirectional wireless communication with the mobile unit, wherein the vehicle unit is able to transmit a wireless signal to the mobile unit through transmission antennas provided a... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7181190 | Method for maintaining wireless network response time while saving wireless adapter power To reduce the power consumption of a wireless communication hardware device, power conservation scheduling algorithms can be implemented. Reoccurring events, including DTIM intervals and listen intervals can be scheduled as awake times. Similarly expected response i... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7167678 | Persistent peer-to-peer networking over a piconet network A persistent peer-to-peer network is implemented over a network with master-slave topology. Data being sent from master to slave or from slave to master are sent in one transmission, but data sent from one slave to another is received by the master and retransmitted... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7167732 | Method for enhanced power saving on DCF based wireless networks A method for enhanced power saving on DCF based wireless networks is disclosed. The method divides a beacon transmitting section in an Announcement Traffic Indication Message (hereinafter, referred to as “ATIM”) window period defined by IEEE standard 802.11 acco... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7155261 | Method and apparatus for saving battery power in a mobile device using recovery mechanism for cell update procedure in CELLDCH state A method of conserving power in a mobile device during a cell updating procedure in a wireless communication system. The mobile device uses a first timer and a second timer to monitor its internal operations. If only one timer is running, a running timer is assigned... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7149539 | Program for self-adjusting power at a wireless station to reduce inter-channel interference The performance and ease of management of wireless communications environments is improved by a mechanism that enables access points (APs) to perform automatic channel selection. A wireless network can therefore include multiple APs, each of which will automatically... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7148807 | Information transmission system and information transmission apparatus When a remaining battery power amount of a child appliance is lowered, a battery recharging operation of the child appliance is not quickly carried out, lowering of the remaining battery power amount of the child appliance is displayed on a mother appliance which is... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7146201 | Portable wireless apparatus A portable wireless apparatus with transmission capability. An inner common antenna, including a metal frame embedded in an LCD and an inverse F-type antenna device, is provided, such that performance of the electromagnetic wave is increased to a maximum and resonan... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7133704 | Manufacture of LPRF device wake up using wireless tag A method is disclosed for manufacturing a wireless transceiver (5008) having a low power radio frequency (LPRF) component (5010) that powers down to conserve energy and powers up in response to a signal; and a second receiver (5014) that provide... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7133374 | Processing wireless packets to reduce host power consumption An access point in a wireless network may receive packets over a wired network. The access point may be provided with instructions from the host to determine when to awaken the host from a reduced power consumption state in response to the receipt of a packet. Thus,... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7130667 | Methods and apparatus for expeditiously releasing network resources for a mobile station based on low battery and lost signal conditions Methods and apparatus for expeditiously releasing network resources for a mobile station based on low battery and lost signal conditions are disclosed. The wireless network (104) receives a power down warning message from the mobile station (102) indic... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7113311 | Facsimile communication method A facsimile transmission control procedure for a relay use to relay facsimile communication via a public telephone network between mobile communication control units placed at different places from one another in which such facsimile communication is implemented by ... | 09/26/2006 |
