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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7187929 | Radio link controlling apparatus, mobile communication system, and radio link controlling method A radio link controlling apparatus configured to maintain communication quality at the time of setting a communication line. The radio link controlling apparatus includes a communication request receiving device for receiving a communication request including inform... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7187924 | Intelligent data network with power management capabilities In one embodiment, a method for implementing two-way communication between at least first and second devices comprises steps of: (a1) during finite time periods following transmission of respective first messages from the first device to the second device, us... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7187946 | Method and system for delivering wireless telephone service to customer premises via local loop telephone lines A method and system for delivering wireless telephone service to landline customers via local loop telephone lines. Each of multiple local loop telephone lines will be interfaced with a respective wireless bridge at a point between a telephone company switch and the... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7187759 | Mobile voice mail screening method A voice mail method screens calls made by a calling subscriber (10) to a called subscriber (20) which is unavailable (or otherwise screening calls). The screening method determines (110) whether the called subscriber (20) has a voice mail... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7187663 | Flexible processing system A multi-mode wireless device on a single substrate includes an analog portion and a digital portion integrated on the single substrate. The analog portion includes a cellular radio core; and a short-range wireless transceiver core. The digital portion includes a mul... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7184777 | Server and multiple sensor system for monitoring activity in a shared radio frequency band An intelligent spectrum management (ISM) system and method are provided that includes sophisticated features to detect, classify, and locate sources of RF activity. The system comprises one or more sensors positioned at various locations in a region where activity i... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7184787 | Wireless console/control concentrator The invention is a method and apparatuses for a console/control concentrator utilizing a location based dynamic coordinate addressing network over a programmable pulse modulated wireless protocol such as TM-UWB™. The physical connections are wireless, which involv... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7184758 | Transfer of bookmark information A user browsing the Internet using a personal computer (PC) is able to transfer bookmark information for WAP sites from his PC to his mobile WAP-enabled telephone by clicking on a link on an HTML page, which prompts the user for his mobile phone number and sends the... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7184764 | Method and apparatus for supporting cellular data communication to roaming mobile telephony devices A cellular data communication interfacing apparatus, for association with a mobile network and for supporting cellular data communication to roaming mobile telephony devices, comprises a data request analyzer, a service network selector, and an interfacing engine. E... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7184418 | Method and system for host mobility management protocol The present invention is directed to a mobility management protocol for supporting real-time and non-real-time multimedia applications on mobile stations of third generation internet protocol (3G-IP) networks. The present invention utilizes as well as extends the se... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7181211 | Service discovery and service partitioning for a subscriber terminal between different networks The present invention is a method for service provisioning to a subscriber terminal (TE) having roamed from a first communication network (H-NW) to a second communication network (V-NW), each of said first and second networks comprises an access network (H-A-NW, V-A... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7181239 | Portable telephone apparatus with camera A portable telephone apparatus with camera is disclosed, in which the interference between the harmonic component generated from the camera and the receiving frequency band for radio communication can be reduced. The apparatus comprises a radio communication circuit... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7178725 | Method for visualizing the input and display components of terminal equipment and corresponding terminal equipment The invention relates to a method for visualizing the input and display components of terminal equipment. The terminal equipment includes the said input component for controlling the operations of the terminal equipment and the display component. The terminal equipm... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7180875 | System and method for performing macro-diversity selection and distribution of routes for routing data packets in Ad-Hoc networks A communications network which is capable of effectively and efficiently handling fading between mobile wireless user terminals of a packet-switched network with minimal overhead and packet loss, and a method for using the same. The communications network employs an... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7181201 | System and method for routing a call to a called party's landline or wireless communication unit A method and system are provided for routing a call to a called party's landline or wireless communication unit based on the availability of the wireless communication unit. A call placed to a called party's landline communication unit is routed to the called party'... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7181005 | Telephone interface circuit An interface circuit that interconnects a terminal device at an extension station with the adjunct port circuit of a telephone of a business communications system (BCS), such as a digital PBX. The interface circuit enables a call diverted to a BCS telephone to be an... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7181204 | Methods and apparatus for re-establishing communication for a wireless communication device after a communication loss in a wireless communication network Several related methods and apparatus for re-establishing communication for a wireless communication device after a communication loss between the wireless device and a wireless communication network are disclosed. In one illustrative example, the wireless network b... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7177642 | Method and system for handling multiple registration Method for supporting multiple registration from the same user requested from different terminals in a telecommunications system requiring to manage information related to the location of said user and related to the plurality of identifiers that identify said user ... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7177952 | Method and system for switching between two network access technologies without interrupting active network applications A system and method is provided for seamlessly switching between different network access technologies without interrupting active network applications or sessions. A Network Access Arbitrator (NAA), which contains a virtual network adapter driver, resides between a... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7174149 | Method and system for indirectly establishing a call A call is indirectly established by triggering a call register to request a mobile switching center, associated with a mobile station, to establish a call between the mobile station and a second party. ... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7174129 | Information transmission system, telecommunications device suitable for such a system and transmission method An information transmission system is formed by a first transmission assembly and second transmission assembly. A telecommunications device is provided to have access to these two assemblies of the time-division type to produce information pulses at times that diffe... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7173917 | Unicast agent advertisement based on layer 2 and layer 3 motion detection An improved wireless mobile IP system including an apparatus and method for managing transmission of information. Agent advertisements are used to detect movement of the mobile node and derive care-of addressing information for the Home Agent. Foreign Agents and Hom... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7171189 | Location based billing of data services in a mobile telecommunication system A mobile telecommunication system supporting location based billing of data services is provided. The mobile telecommunication system includes a plurality of routing areas each having one or more base transceiver stations therein for providing a radio interface to a... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7171194 | Network device management A method is provided to dynamically interact with a plurality of enabled devices within a personal network. Individual ones of the devices are configured to interoperate with a service provider network and configure or alter services to individually identifiable dev... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7171639 | Comparison of circuit layout designs A first circuit layout design is obtained, and a second circuit layout design is obtained. A first topology graph is generated for the first circuit layout design, and a second topology graph is generated for the second circuit layout design. The first topology grap... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7167728 | Graphical user interface for a portable telephone A portable telephone provides a graphical user interface (GUI) using a high-resolution display. The GUI provides a Universal Mailbox for storing both electronic mail and voicemail messages, either of which can be accessed by a user from the same display screen. An a... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7167892 | System, method and apparatus for vending machine wireless audit and cashless transaction transport The present invention provides a system, method and apparatus for collecting, storing and communicating vending machine transaction data. The system preferably includes an embedded data collection and storage device that, when placed inside a vending machine, will c... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7167720 | Communication terminal unit capable of receiving a message and method for identifying a message sender in the same A communication terminal unit capable of identifying a message sender by comparing a source address attached to a received message with an address registered in a memory of the unit in advance, which can identify the message sender even if the source address has an ... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7167470 | Method and apparatus for locating a communication device using local area network switch information The present invention includes a system and method for using Local Area Network (LAN) switch information of an internet protocol phone to determine the location of the internet protocol phone. The internet protocol phone communicates with a server and receives a dyn... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7167723 | Dual channel redundant fixed wireless network link, and method therefore A dual channel redundant wireless network link formed by the Redundant Fixed Wireless Network Link device 10 of the present invention provides a very high reliable network element for mission critical wireless network application. Redundant Fixed Wireless Lin... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7167463 | System and method for creating a spectrum agile wireless multi-hopping network A system and method for creating a spectrum agile wireless multi-hopping network, such as a wireless ad-hoc peer-to-peer multi-hopping network. The spectrum agile multi-hopping network that can respond to conditions affecting spectrum, such as FCC rulings or busines... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7167709 | Handovers of user equipment connections in wireless communications systems An inter-frequency handover of a UE connection is performed in which the frequency of the uplink connection from the UE to a base station remains the same and the frequency of the downlink connection from the base station to the UE changes from a first downlink freq... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7167711 | System and method for controlling financial transactions over a wireless network A system and method for controlling financial transactions is disclosed. A customer, using a wireless device, identifies a point of sale and the amount of a transaction at that point of sale is first communicated to a central service and then transmitted to the wire... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7164884 | Method and system for interfacing a machine controller and a wireless network A wireless interface module interfaces a machine control system, such as a vending machine controller, with one of plural wireless networks through one of plural removably coupled wireless transceivers. Communication between geographically distributed vending machin... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7164904 | Multiple-processor wireless mobile communication device A multiple-processor wireless mobile communication device is disclosed. A wireless mobile communication device includes a first processor with which software applications are configured to operate, a second processor configured to manage wireless communication opera... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7164755 | Voice storage device and voice coding device The voice storage device of the invention includes a storage means that stores a voice signal, and a voice compression means that compresses the voice signal requiring a re-coding compression, of the voice signal stored in the storage means, in accordance with a com... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7164924 | Location-based information and acquisition method A system for providing a mobile communication terminal, the position of which can be detected with location-based information that is associated with a detected position, and a method of service for providing the mobile communication terminal with the location-based... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7164921 | Auxiliary switch activated GPS-equipped wireless phone A wireless phone having an internal GPS-receiver is turned on by an auxiliary switch coupled to a Microwire bus for turning on the phone and the internally carried GPS receiver so that the phone can be made to call a predetermined number and report location. If the ... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7164905 | High frequency module Heretofore, a plurality of packages were used in a high frequency module in which a plurality of waveguide terminals were positioned resulting in problems, such as degradation of characteristics in the connection lines between packages, lower ease of assembly when m... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7164912 | Apparatus, and associated method, for facilitating selection by a mobile node of a network through which to communicate using a hierarchical selection process Apparatus, and an associated method, for facilitating selection of with which wireless local area network, or other network, that a mobile node should attempt to communicate. A plurality of listings are maintained at storage entities embodied at, or otherwise access... | 01/16/2007 |
