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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7272393 | Location-based services for a multi-technology wireless device operating in a foreign technology mode An existing network conversion element built to an existing standard is used to obtain the information needed to perform location-based services for a multi-technology wireless device operating in a foreign technology mode. A system includes a database relating temp... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7272399 | Method of recovering dropped call in mobile communication system There is provided a method of recovering a dropped call in a mobile communication system. When a call is dropped, a mobile station determines whether two consecutive good frames have been received on a traffic channel that was disconnected in relation to the dropped... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7272392 | Connection set-up in a communication system The present invention relates to provision of connections in a communication system, and more particularly, to establishment of a connection involving a mobile station subscribing to a first mobile communications network and roaming in a second mobile communications... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7272385 | Activating an interactive multimedia terminal To activate an interactive multimedia station (BN) providing facilities of a mobile office to a user of a mobile radio terminal (TM), the mobile terminal (TM) signals its presence in the vicinity of the station (BN), either by local radio link to the station itself,... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7272121 | Methods and apparatus for a modular wireless system Methods and systems are provided for wireless communications using base stations interconnected by a packet network. A base station receives communications from a wireless device in a first cell served by the base station. The wireless device may be handed off from ... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7272381 | Mobile authentication system with reduced authentication delay Many examples exist of a mobile node moving between the operational zones of multiple network access points or base stations. To minimize delay in re-authenticating with the network through a new base station, an additional form authenticated access mode called “c... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7272383 | System and method for controlling a mobile terminal using a digital signature A mobile terminal control system using a digital signature. The system including a server for preparing a command message for a relevant mobile terminal according to mobile terminal status information set by a user, adding a digital signature to the prepared command... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7269173 | Roaming in a communications network Communicating over a network may include a mobile proxy device to receive a request for a home agent from a mobile device. The mobile proxy device can assign a home agent to the mobile device and send a reply including a home-address associated with the assigned hom... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7269429 | Communications protocol for mobile device A communication device and method for operating the same includes a GPS receiver that periodically generates a position signal, a wireless modem transmitting or receiving messages and a controller that is coupled to the receiver and the modem. The controller discont... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7269448 | Method for recognizing request for data transmission by mobile/base station RRC using network transfer device A method recognizes a request for data transmission by a mobile/base station RRC (Radio Resource Control) using a network transfer device, by which the mobile/base station RRC can recognize the request for data transmission using the network transfer device in a sta... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7269421 | Control of frame timing on handover The uplink transmission timing from a mobile communications device is defined with reference to the downlink reception timing of signals from a particular reference cell. When that reference cell is removed from the active set, there is defined a virtual reference c... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7266125 | Landmark numbering based auxiliary network for peer-to-peer overlay network A system and method for an auxiliary network for a peer-to-peer overlay network using landmark numbering. Using information available through the auxiliary network, expressway connections are established amongst expressway nodes and ordinary connections are establis... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7263384 | Radio network controller and broadcast information transmission method The object of the invention is to allow two systems residing in the same area and same frequency band to be coexistent compatibly with each other while reducing the mutual interference. A radio network controller 20 for controlling the broadcast timing when v... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7263093 | Control method A method of controlling a first wireless station and a second wireless station is described, the wireless stations being connected with one another via at least one communication link and being controlled according to a communication protocol, the first wireless sta... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7263357 | Method for fast roaming in a wireless network A roaming service method for a fast and secure wireless network is provided. In an embodiment of the present invention, an AP, which an STA associates with, transmits security keys needed for roaming to neighbor APs of the AP. When the STA moves to one of the neighb... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7263368 | Anticipation of communication connectivity changes for mobile devices According to an embodiment of the invention, the location of a mobile device and a direction in which the mobile device is moving are determined. Communications service changes for the mobile device are anticipated based at least in part on the location of the mobil... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7263087 | Method and system for adding IP routes to a routing mobile terminal with 3G messages The invention is directed to enabling an serving node and a gateway node to be informed of a new route for a new node or sub-network that has become active behind a Mobile Terminal that can also act as a router. When IP level route injection occurs at the Mobile Ter... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7262733 | Method of estimating the location of a device Methods of providing an estimate of the location of a first device are discloses comprising the steps of determining the location of a separately housed, second device located near to the first device; providing the location of the second device to the first device;... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7263078 | Method and apparatus for scanning in wireless computing devices A method and system for scanning in a wireless device having a wireless network interface card (NIC) is presented. The system has a scanning history table for storing scanning results and a scanning engine that adjusts the scanning period based upon a history of sca... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7260767 | Methods and apparatus for error correction of transparent GFP (Generic Framing Procedure) superblocks Methods for correcting errors in a GFP-T superblock include buffering the 64 bytes of data in an 8×8 byte buffer, buffering the flag byte in a separate buffer, calculating the CRC remainder, and performing single and double bit error correction in three stages. In ... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7260394 | Using an enhanced preferred roaming list in a terminal device A method (200) in a CDMA terminal device for acquiring a system identified in an enhanced preferred roaming list (enhanced PRL), with at least one entry containing a mobile country code, includes the steps of obtaining (210) system identifiers from SYN... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7260392 | Seamless teardown of direct link communication in a wireless LAN In a wireless local area network (LAN), a source node initially communicates with a destination node using a direct link. After the destination node moves to a different location and becomes associated with a new access point (AP), the destination node notifies the ... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7260393 | Systems and methods for reducing communication unit scan time in wireless networks A communication unit operates in a wireless-networking environment and maintains a mapping for active channels and associated network identifiers. The communication unit may associate with a wireless network using the mapping for one or more of the active channels h... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7260082 | Seamless interfacing for instant messaging and internet telephony across wireless networks A method for managing communications while an application location changes between a first wireless network and a second wireless network is provided. The method includes mapping an internal address to a first external address for the first wireless network. A secon... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7260388 | Communication device qualification for broadband wireless service A software product for qualifying communication devices for a broadband wireless service is disclosed. The software product first identifies requirements of the broadband wireless service. Examples of the requirements include hardware and software requirements for a... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7257399 | Apparatus and method of uplink data during cell update in universal mobile telecommunications system user equipment The details of an apparatus and method of uplink data during cell update in universal mobile telecommunications system user equipment are disclosed herein. According to one aspect of the present application, there is provided a user equipment to send uplink data to ... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7257402 | Method and apparatus for managing a plurality of mobile nodes in a network A method and apparatus for allowing a plurality of mobile nodes to access a network with one or more Network Access Identifiers (NAIs), This allows a user to access a network with multiple mobile nodes using a single NAI. The method and apparatus is achieved by the ... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7257401 | Messaging service for communications devices Methods and apparatuses are disclosed for delivering a message to a communications device. One method migrates a subscriber's communications device to a Global System for Mobile communications network. The subscriber's communications device is migrated from a Time D... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7257092 | Method of communicating between a communication station and at least one data carrier In a method of communicating between a communication station (1) and at least one data carrier (2 (DC)) comprising an information data block (IDB) and useful data (UD=N×UDB), an inventorization procedure with successive procedure runs is carried out a... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7254395 | Request to mobile station to change to common mode of communication upon entry into zone A mobile switching component of an apparatus in one example requests a mobile station to change to a common mode of communication upon entry of the mobile station into a zone, wherein every mobile station supported by the mobile switching component in the zone emplo... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7254391 | Methods, systems, and computer program products for processing mobile originated query messages for prepaid mobile subscribers in a number portability environment Methods, systems, and computer program products for routing query messages associated with prepaid subscribers in a number portability environment are disclosed. One method may include sending a registration message to an HLR. At the HLR, the ID or address of an STP... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7254393 | Intercellular handover method in a radiocommunication system with mobile terminals In a system of radiocommunication with mobile terminals, the invention proposes to establish a vote configuration or a simulcast configuration for intercellular handover of a communication set up between a mobile terminal (60) and a base station (11) o... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7251496 | Mobile director Methods and apparatus for processing registration requests by a Home Agent supporting Mobile IP are disclosed. A registration request is received from each of a plurality of Mobile Nodes, the registration request specifying a care-of address. A binding is establishe... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7251472 | Communication method and system for selecting public land mobile network Disclosed is a communication system for selecting a PLMN (Public Land Mobile Network). In the communication system, an MS (Mobile Station) transmits an MIN (Mobile Identification Number) message, an ESN (Electronic Serial Number) message and a location update reques... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7248574 | Apparatus for selecting an optimum access point in a wireless network 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... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7248885 | Automatic/timed silencing of mobile phone from a network A method and system provides automatic/timed silencing of a mobile phone by a telecommunications network. The method has the steps of: forming a schedule of silence at a mobile phone; sending the schedule of silence to a mobile switching center; storing the schedule... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7248858 | Visitor gateway in a wireless network A system and method for restricting access to a wireless network is disclosed herein. One or more access points are generally associated with the wireless network (e.g., an IEEE 802.11 wireless network), and a visitor gateway for automatically preventing visiting us... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7248569 | Method and system for disconnecting a terminating connection leg (leg2) for enhanced dialed services in a mobile intelligent network A method and system for disconnecting a terminating connection leg in a dialed service for a mobile subscriber in an MSC in a mobile intelligent network. Upon receipt of Int_Disconnect_Leg (Leg2) from an SCP in a DP_Analysed_Info state in a call initializatio... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7248871 | Method and system for improving mobile radio communications A method of identifying areas for improving radio communications coverage in a mobile radio network under analysis. The method comprises detecting cancel location signalling data, update location signalling data and service signalling data. The cancel location signa... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7246154 | Directing data network communications based on geographic location of a user A method and apparatus for directing data network communications based on the geographic location of the user. One or the other or both of the geographic location of the local telephone access number with which the user is connected to one of a plurality of points o... | 07/17/2007 |
