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...that it was melting ice cream that inspired the invention of the outboard motor? It was a lovely August day and Ole Evinrude was rowing his boat to his favorite island picnic spot. As he rowed, he watched his ice cream melt and wished he had a faster way to get to the island. At that moment the idea for the outboard motor was born!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7136649 | Environment aware message delivery The invention provides environment aware messages delivery systems, apparatus and methods. In example embodiments the system and method automatically deliver messages to the user based on the environment around the user. In the system and method, a portable message ... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7133659 | Methods of operating a reservation system using electronic device cover with embedded transponder A changeable cover for an electronic device and method of using same in a payment system is provided. The cover has a transponder responsive to interrogation by an electric field. The cover provides an electronic identification number and other information in respon... | 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 |
| 7133660 | E-mail filtering services and e-mail service enrollment techniques Disclosed are methods of managing the delivery, including in certain cases the blocking, of electronic messages based at least in part on an electronic message's IP routing information. Also disclosed are methods of managing electronic messages with an intermediate ... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7133658 | Method and apparatus for image processing The position of a body part area for a personal image in an input image is detected. According to the position of the detected body part area, the position of the origin of a coordinate system for an ornament image is defined. Based on the position of the defined or... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7133373 | Wireless network with improved sharing of high power consumption tasks Protocols for ad-hoc wireless networks (200) that use mediation devices (202–210) to facilitate communication between low power, low duty cycle wireless devices (212–226) are provided. In order to avoid premature battery exhaustion in partic... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7133062 | Graphical user interface for video feed on videoconference terminal The Graphical User Interface (GUI) of a videoconference terminal is provided with user-selectable icons which are associated by the user with various video signals. Textual labels for the various video signals may also be provided. This information may be exchanged ... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7133380 | System and method for selecting a transmission channel in a wireless communication system that includes an adaptive array A method for establishing wireless communication between a transmitter and a receiver in a wireless communication system. The receiver includes an adaptive array that has at least two antennas. Each antenna receives a signal and produces a received signal. The trans... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7130608 | Method of using a communications device together with another communications device, a communications system, a communications device and an accessory device for use in connection with a communications device A method of using a first communications device, such as a mobile telephone, together with at least one other communications device, such as a telephone, comprises the steps of playing back audio signals in the first communications device, transmitting the same audi... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7130294 | Digital multichannel multipoint distribution system (MMDS) network that supports broadcast video and two-way data transmissions The present invention comprises a MMDS broadcast digital video cell system on one polarization and a smaller array of cells, designed for two way services that use the orthogonal polarization in the same area. The present invention includes a method for distributing... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7130401 | Speech to text conversion system Disclosed is a system for automatically accessing an account and routing speech to text converted communication to a predetermined text capable device based on user identification. A user placing a call into a communications server is automatically identified based ... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7130634 | Method for automatically designing cellular mobile radiotelephone networks A method for automatically designing cellular mobile radiotelephone networks whereby a design for a cellular mobile radiotelephone network or partial network for a new planning area can be produced automatically using available planning data for existing, planned, o... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7130631 | Method of controlling a communication terminal having a plurality of functions, communication terminal apparatus, communication control system When a radio communication is made between a predetermined base station and a communication terminal, the communication terminal is allowed to make a communication if a predetermined registration processing is made. If the above registration processing is not execut... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7130609 | Wireless backup telephone device and associated support system A wireless telephone backup device for landline telephone equipment that may be located on the customer side of the landline service connection, typically in a restricted access location, such as an attic, basement, or utility closet. An interconnection circuit in t... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7127263 | Private branch exchange system Each of a plurality of mobile stations is provided with a plurality of extension numbers including at least one unique extension number, and different lines are set for the plurality of extension numbers respectively. This enables a call using a line even when anoth... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7127247 | Radio communication system A radio communication system has means for enabling the control channels associated with a data channel transmitting packet data with a low duty cycle to be switched to a dormant state or interrupted entirely. This reduces the excessive overhead that such control ch... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7126939 | Packet-based calls in a wireless network A communications system includes a wireless access network that is coupled to a packet-based data network. Packet-based calls may be established between a mobile station coupled to the wireless access network and a network endpoint coupled to the data network. For e... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7126935 | Wireless serial port transceiver A pair of compact, energy-efficient, intelligent, wireless transceiver units are designed to replace the cable that interconnects a portable bar-code scanner, keyboard, and display or other host to a portable bar-code printer or the like. When reset, the units excha... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7127270 | Wireless communication and control system A communication and control system for use by the disabled and their caretakers. The system has at least two communication modules, each module having a processing unit which has a unique identification code. Each communication module also has a unique hierarchical ... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7127210 | Wireless communication apparatus This invention relates to a wireless communication apparatus including a discovery unit which discovers the completion of connection with another wireless communication apparatus, a mode setup unit which sets up a mode which defines processing for a signal for perfo... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7123936 | Cellular phone with expansion memory for audio and video storage A cellular telephone includes an internally integrated digital entertainment module. The telephone includes a transceiver unit and a headset which is connected to the transceiver unit by wired or wireless link. The entertainment module includes an interchangeable RO... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7124087 | System and method for updating user home automation systems A system and method for automatically contacting one or more contacts when a user makes travel plans. A profile is used to determine to which contacts messages are sent. One of the contacts can be a home automation system that is registered with an email system to e... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7123886 | Handheld mobile phone with a detachable battery pack In a handheld mobile phone (10) having a detachable battery pack (20) which can be removably mounted to a body (11) of the handheld mobile phone, the detachable battery pack has a memory card receiving recess (22) for removably receiving ... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7120454 | Auto sensing home base station for mobile telephone with remote answering capabilites The present invention discloses in one embodiment a mobile telephone capable of communicating with a home base station through radio signals. The mobile telephone registers with a home base station before beginning to communicate with the home base station. The home... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7120443 | Method and apparatus for fast link setup in a wireless communication system A method and apparatus for a communication system provide for fast link setup for a mobile station by transmitting a request message, transmitting an assignment message from the base station to the mobile station, and transmitting a notification message from the bas... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7120441 | Method and system for re-routing a call The present invention relates to a method and system for re-routing a call which has been routed from a calling party (1) through a communication network to a destination (4). A need to relay the call to another destination (5) is identified and... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7120423 | Enhanced call barring A system 230, communications unit 101, and method (FIG. 3), for dynamically controlling access to services in an unobtrusive manner is disclosed, where the method includes receiving a request for services (303) and denying the request unt... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7120417 | Mobile communications terminal, service area calculation apparatus and method of calculating service area A mobile communications terminal includes positional information generator configured to generate positional information indicating a current position of the terminal, receiver which receives identification information sent from the base station of the second mobile... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7120241 | Method and apparatus for controlling a network device A personal communications device may be placed in, or removed from, a docking station. In response, a predetermined command may be selected from a plurality of predetermined commands and transmitted from the docking station to at least one of a plurality of network ... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7119843 | Mobile phone provided with video camera A mobile phone includes a phone body 1 having a wireless transmitting and receiving function of an image and sound and a virtual image optical display device 2 for forming a virtual image on a retina of an eye of a user by passing image information fro... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7117008 | Mitigating interference among multiple radio device types At least two types of wireless devices may be simultaneously handled in a system (i.e., on a wireless-enabled platform (e.g., Bluetooth and IEEE 802.11) in a personal computing environment, such as a personal computer system) in a way that substantially mitigates in... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7117004 | Method and subscriber unit for performing an access procedure A base station for controlling transmission power during the establishment of a communication channel utilizes the reception of a short code during initial power ramp-up. The short code is a sequence for detection by the base station which has a much shorter period ... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7116648 | Method for implementing system information broadcasting function in asynchronous mobile communication system Asynchronous mobile communication system, and method for implementing a system information broadcasting function in an asynchronous mobile communication system. Upon reception of a system information renewal message from a radio network controller, a base station st... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7113806 | Apparatus, and associated method, for reporting a measurement summary in a radio communication system Apparatus, and an associated method, for generating a message summary field. The message summary field indicates whether 802.11-formatted data packets are communicated upon a frequency range to which a mobile station operable in an IEEE 802.11 radio communication sy... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7113805 | Method of combining fixed-network telephone and mobile radio telephone communications The invention relates to a method for combining landline network and mobile telephony with the use of at least a home cell, a landline network and a mobile network, whereby the user uses a dual mode terminal that operates both in cellular mode and in cordless mode. | 09/26/2006 |
| 7113784 | Method of registering position of mobile communication terminal, general calling method for mobile communication terminal and mobile communication system A relay device installed in a moving unit can, by notifying an own identification number to a mobile communication network along with identification numbers of all mobile communication terminals subordinate to itself, perform en bloc updating of location registratio... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7113760 | Direct conversion receiver for amplitude modulated signals using linear/log filtering A receiver circuit that includes a direct conversion receiver that receives a modulated signal, and generates an in-phase differential signal and a quadrature-phase differential signal. The receiver circuit includes an in-phase branch that processes the in-phase dif... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7113490 | Communication sequence, data circuit-terminating equipment, data terminal equipment, and storage medium storing communication control program A DCE sends a first command to a DTE if data transmission from the DCE has not ended at a predetermined timing after the end of data transfer from the DTE to the DCE. The DTE sends a second command to the DCE at an arbitrary timing upon reception of the first comman... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7110756 | Automated real-time site survey in a shared frequency band environment An intelligent spectrum management (ISM) system and method that includes sophisticated features to detect, classify, and locate sources of RF activity. The system comprises one or more radio sensor devices positioned at various locations in a region where activity i... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7110778 | Remote telemetry device The systems and methods disclosed herein relate to digital data communication systems, and more particularly, the systems and methods relate to systems and methods for facilitating digital communication between a modem equipped meter and a central data acquisition s... | 09/19/2006 |
