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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7398080 | Mobile content delivery system A mobile content delivery system that optimizes the delivery of especially bandwidth-consuming content (or the flow of any peak-hour data traffic) in a way that best utilizes the free capacity in the radio network, thus enabling considerably more efficient usage of ... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7398087 | Private wireless network integrated with public wireless network A private wireless network is able to provide wireless telecommunication services to subscriber mobile stations that also subscribe to a public wireless network. The private wireless network includes a private base transceiver station (BTS), a private mobile switchi... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7398082 | Method of configuring an in-vehicle telematics unit The present invention present invention provides a method and system for configuring a telematics unit in a mobile vehicle. An assigned system identifier is stored in the telematics unit, and a determination is made as to whether the assigned system identifier corre... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7398050 | Method and apparatus for processing air-borne digital data received in a motor vehicle A method of communicating data in a satellite digital audio radio (SDAR) system includes transmitting two radio frequency digital signals to a SDAR receiver within a motor vehicle. The two signals include substantially identical information. Each signal includes uni... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7395072 | System and a method for providing a communication link System and method for providing a communication link between a central station (11) and a remote mobile or stationary object (13) including transmitting and receiving communication means (13) having transmitting and receiving communication means... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7395052 | Process of sending access data to a vehicle mounted subscriber station for a special access mode to a service provider station A process provides access data to a transportable subscriber station, for establishing access to a service provider station. A first access mode which can be provided using first access data includes a first network that is accessible by means of a selectable networ... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7395053 | Cell site maintenance scheduler A cell site maintenance scheduling and monitoring system is accessible by a maintenance user and a control center user via a public telephone network and via a private computer network. A scheduling database stores event records, wherein each event record includes a... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7395076 | Paging apparatus and method for MBMS service in a mobile communication system A method for paging user equipments (UEs) receiving a second service in a mobile communication system providing a first service and the second service. A serving General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) support node (SGSN), determines an identifier indicating the second ... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7395046 | Method and apparatus for a mobile station to enhance the probability of successful emergency call completion and successful callback from emergency service centre A method and apparatus for enhancing the probability of a successful emergency call completion and emergency callback on a mobile station in a network, the method comprising the steps of: during an emergency call attempt, monitoring whether the mobile station has re... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7395031 | Mobile device and method for receiving and processing program-accompanying data Mobile device (3) and method for receiving and processing program-accompanying digital data, which are transmitted by a radio transmitter (1), for example a DAB transmitter, and of which at least certain comprise location parameters. The mobile device ... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7395071 | System and method of making location updating management on a mobile station, mobile station and mobile network The invention provides a system and method for location management in a mobile network through sharing individual mobility model between a mobile station and the mobile network. The mobile station and the mobile network always exchange large amounts of data in order... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7395099 | System and method to conduct idle mode paging channel monitoring within a cellular wireless 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... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7395051 | Cellular communications system for providing non-real time subscription data and related methods A cellular communications system may include a plurality of mobile cellular communications devices each associated with a respective user, and at least one cellular base station for wirelessly communicating with the mobile cellular communications devices. The at lea... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7392041 | Mobile access to information using images The subject application relates to a system(s), methodology, and user interface that facilitate improving mobile awareness of information, activities, events, and occasions by way of images. The application involves providing images of a desired application such as ... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7392013 | Exciter-excitation system and methods for communications An exciter system (1, 2) able to communicate information between an exciter unit (10) and one or more remote units (12) or between multiple exciter units (10). The exciter units (10) may include wireless type exciter devices, such ... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7392042 | Method, apparatus and system for notifying a user of a portable wireless device A method, apparatus and system for notifying a user of a portable communication device. In one embodiment, a location of a first portable communication device is determined for a first user and the location of a second portable communication device is determined for... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7392057 | Message service method for mobile communication terminal using position information A system and method for providing a message service. Position information and/or security information is inserted into messages before transmission. A receiving mobile terminal may open the received message depending on its position or knowledge of the security info... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7392035 | Consolidated billing in a wireless network Consolidated billing in a wireless network is achieved by employing a processing node having storage capabilities for facilitating service creation and/or negotiation, and billing for those services in a wireless network, by associating user information and/or servi... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7392040 | Method and apparatus for negotiating mobile services A method and apparatus for performing a service negotiation between a mobile terminal and a server offering mobile services. A service request is received from the mobile terminal including a list of requested services, which is compared with a set of available serv... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7389106 | Traffic shaping of cellular service consumption through modification of consumer behavior encouraged by cell-based pricing advantages Changes in wireless service user behavior are encouraged and produced to shape utilization patterns among cells within a rate plan region by using shaping rules which define potential discounts from a standard charge rate under certain cell-specific utilization cond... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7386311 | Communication system, mobile communication network, contents server, program and recording medium A provider code is added to a request signal transmitted to contents server SP1 from mobile unit MS by mobile communication network GSM. Border switching station CMMS adds a roaming flag to the request signal, and forwards the request signal to gateway unit G... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7386318 | Location based service provider The disclosed method and system provide extensible or stand-alone location enabled services at granularity down to a stand-alone service. The various interfaces are preferably specified via DTD or schemas for communication based on XML. This collection of services e... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7386295 | Communication billing system A communication billing system comprising a processing system coupled to an interface system. The processing system is configured to process a plurality of wireless service events from a wireless system together at the event level with a plurality of wireline servic... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7385948 | Determining the state of a station in a local area network In a wireless local area network, transmissions exchanged between a station and an access point is received using a detector located adjacent to the station. The received transmissions are analyzed to determine the state of the station, where the state of the statio... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7386301 | Method and apparatus for mobile based access point name (APN) selection A procedure is provided wherein a serving general packet radio service (GPRS) support node (SGSN) receives a request for an access point name (APN) the SGSN making a determination if the requested packet data protocol (PDP) and APN are the same as subscribed informa... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7386273 | Receiving apparatus A decision portion decides whether a tuner can receive real-time broadcast content delivered from a server apparatus. If the real-time broadcast content can be received, a control portion controls the tuner so that it may receive the delivered real-time broadcast co... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7383037 | Lottery channel The present invention provides lottery content to a user on a mobile device. The lottery content is automatically delivered and stored on a mobile electronic device for access by a user. Using the device, users can quickly access the lottery information they are int... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7383036 | Home network system A home network system is disclosed, which includes a remote control server for controlling transmitting/receiving data at a long distance by WEB server connected to an external PC or WAP server connected to a communication terminal and by home network; an internal P... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7383019 | Field data collection and relay station A field data collection and relay station is equipped to receive sensor data from locations in a region. The station has directional antennas that are focused to transmit and receive energy in and from unique directions. The station establishes a wireless network in... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7382752 | Apparatus, and an associated method, for communicating text data in a radio communication system Apparatus, and an associated method, for facilitating communication of text data, such as TTY data formed at a mobile node. The mobile node includes a TTY text generator together with mobile station circuitry, operable in a cellular radio communication system. The m... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7378956 | ULID data structure, ULID-based location acquisition method and location-based service system The present invention relates to an LBS system in which user location information is obtained using a ULID code of RFID tags attached to various places such as a building, a store, road signs, footway and road, and various LBSs are provided based on the location inf... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7379760 | Data transmission-reception system and data transmission-reception method A data communication system is disclosed which comprises: first terminal devices for transmitting contents and content provider identification data identifying the providers of the contents; a server device for receiving and storing the transmitted contents and cont... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7379738 | Information service broadcast control in a wireless communication network A wireless communication network limits the service areas within the network by transmitting time registration flag information in each of a plurality of network service areas. The flag information indicates whether registration for a given broadcast service current... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7379733 | Mobile meeting and collaboration A method for enabling a mobile device to view one or more slides in a presentation is provided. The method comprises: determining when slides for the presentation have been changed; when a slide has been changed, performing the steps of: determining a current slide ... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7379732 | System and method of wireless instant messaging A system and method of instant messaging is provided. A plurality of messaging clients capable of transmitting instant messages to one another are each configured to share presence information with one another via a network. A determination is made, with respect to ... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7376384 | Wireless data network security Access to a wireless data network to nodes located in a defined operational area is limited by transmitting a network signal within the defined operational area while transmitting a wave that can cause destructive interference with the network signal into a prohibit... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7376395 | Controlling a telecommunications device A telecommunications device comprises a communication alert system arranged to inform the user that a telecommunications signal has been received. The communication alert system uses one of a number of different indicators. The controller is arranged to control the ... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7376419 | Call triggering to one or more service nodes upon receipt of initial trigger response An originating mobile switching center of an apparatus in one example handles one or more calls. A serving mobile switching center for a communication device on a call of the one or more calls passes control of the call to the originating mobile switching center. Th... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7376226 | Systems, methods and devices for a callback/callback reminder feature A telecommunications device. The device includes a receiver for receiving an incoming call and a processor in communication with the receiver. The processor has a callback/callback reminder module for automatically calling back a calling party of an incoming call or... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7375628 | Message transmission in one or more languages based on one or more personal information component inputs An information component of an apparatus in one example selects one or more languages for transmission of one or more messages to one or more personal information components based on one or more inputs from one or more of the one or more personal information compone... | 05/20/2008 |
