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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8170549 | Use of physical location and application state information in routing preferences for electronic communications Electronic communication messages are routed according to a user's current physical location and the physical locations of communication devices. A plurality of communication devices such as telephones and computers are associated with the user. The physical locatio... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8160578 | IP multimedia subsystem access method and apparatus A method of facilitating access to IP Multimedia Subsystem, IMS, services by non-IMS enabled terminals. The method comprises registering a non-IMS enabled terminal with a Home IMS gateway, and, in response to said registration, performing an IMS registration on beha... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8060085 | System and method for communicating location information A system and method for communicating location information are provided. The method includes transmitting location information from the radio unit based on a first sample rate when the radio unit is operating in a normal tracking mode. The method further includes st... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8050675 | Managing sponsored content based on usage history Improved search capabilities are disclosed for mobile communications devices such as cell phones, as well as improved techniques for delivering sponsored content in a mobile communication environment. ... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8023940 | Connecting ad hoc piconets to wide area networks and/or grid computing networks A hyper-scatternet includes a first ad hoc piconet, a second ad hoc piconet and a wide area network, wherein the first and second ad hoc piconets are configured to communicate with one another via the wide area network. Each ad hoc piconet can include an application... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8010102 | Method and apparatus for cognitive radio policy change A method of operation of a cognitive radio in a hierarchical group of cognitive radios, the hierarchy of cognitive radios including at least one master cognitive radio that has a higher position in the hierarchy than another of the cognitive radios in the group, con... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7974621 | Method and apparatus for transitioning between radio link protocols in a packet-based real-time media communication system A method and apparatus for transitioning between radio link protocols in a packet-based real-time media communication system. A wireless communication device such as a cell phone will operate under one radio link protocol (such as IS-856, also known as 1xEV-DO) to e... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7920862 | System and method for improved IMEI registration Methods and systems for IMEI registration are provided. In accordance with exemplary embodiments of the present invention, when an IMEI registration fails due to a network failure, the mobile station implements a back-off algorithm for future IMEI registration attem... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7899454 | Telecommunications subscriber profile management system A telecommunications subscriber profile management method for a telecommunications subscriber profile management system including a customer service representative (“CSR”) terminal. The terminal presents subscriber profile data in a common user interface format.... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7738865 | Apparatus and method for wireless local area networks of different countries Described are apparatus and methods for adapting a mobile unit to communication requirements of a particular country or geographic region. A wireless local area network communications system may include access points and remote terminals. Remote terminals may use co... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7603118 | System and method for providing USSD-like features in a wireless network A system for providing USSD-like features in a wireless network is provided. Furthermore, the system provides for an automated customer service response in a wireless network. The system comprises a mobile switching center configured to analyze a digit string receiv... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7536183 | Network interworking through message translation A method and system for interworking between communications equipment based on different protocols allows communications service providers to use more than one technology in their networks. For example, Mobile Application Part (MAP) messages of TIA-41 are interworke... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7529545 | Sound enhancement for mobile phones and others products producing personalized audio for users A mobile phone or other personal communication device includes resources applying measures of an individual's hearing profile, personal choice profile, and induced hearing loss profile, separately or in combination, to build the basis of sound enhancement. A persona... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7522920 | Method and apparatus for parameter recoding The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for specifying new values for old parameters for controlling the operation of a mobile device with a network node or element in a network; and, more particularly, relates to a method and apparatus for mapping t... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7509124 | Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing multimedia information services over a communication network In a communications network, a network access point address is determined that is currently associated with at least one of a plurality of subscriber mobile devices associated with a subscription to an information service. Content associated with the information ser... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7483699 | Overhead message update with decentralized control A system and method for providing a simple, but effective technique for communicating overhead messages in a wireless communication system providing access to a decentralized network, while achieving bandwidth savings as well as minimizing power consumption. In one ... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7471949 | Process for migrating a mobile station identity from a mobile identification number to an international mobile station identity A method is provided for controllably migrating a wireless network from MIN based operation to IMSI based operation. The method comprises implementing changes that affect inter-network operations during a first phase of the migration. Remaining changes, including ch... | 12/30/2008 |
| 7444141 | Method and system for programmable control of mobile communications units Accordingly, the present invention provides a toolkit for building programmable rules of operation for a prepaid mobile communications unit and for loading the rules into the prepaid mobile unit's internal memory. A rules development language is provided with a pred... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7433687 | Method and device for multi-user detection with simplified de-correlation in a CDMA system A simplified de-correlation method in CDMA multi-user detection comprises: a. receive wireless symbols S; b. obtain a channel correlation matrix R, take a part from R to get a partial correlation matrix RP; c. do inversion operation to the partial correla... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7428414 | Cross technology roaming solution system and method of use The present invention relates to a network-based method and system to control and enable seamless roaming across various cellular network types. The system provides dynamic mapping, processing and conversion of messages to enable seamless communication across variou... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7395063 | Method and device for a shared radio network Method and device, respectively, for determining which one of the owners of a shared radio network that a visiting mobile terminal (MT), which MT is not subscribed to any of the owners of said shared radio network, is going to be connected to, by deriving informatio... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7395050 | Method and system for authenticating user of data transfer device The invention relates to a method and system for authenticating a user of a data transfer device (such as a terminal in a wireless local area network, i.e. WLAN). The method comprises: setting up a data transfer connection from the data transfer device to a service ... | 07/01/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7379737 | Telecommunications subscriber profile management system The invention herein discloses technological advancements as they pertain to telecommunications technologies and subscriber profile management systems. In particular, the invention relates to a vendor independent mediation layer utilizing subscriber management objec... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7369528 | Method and system to send SMS messages in a hybrid network Embodiments of a method and system are disclosed to pass SMS messages from a mobile operating in a CDMA Radio Access Network to a Hybrid MSC, and to route the SMS message from the Hybrid MSC to a GSM SMS-C in the Core network, the hybrid wireless network having at l... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7370050 | Discoverability and enumeration mechanisms in a hierarchically secure storage system A system that generates a per user abstraction of a store from a connection point. Filtering a view set of a hierarchically secured containment hierarchy based on the access permissions of the principal is one of the novel features of the invention. The invention ca... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7366526 | Method and apparatus for providing improved border paging in a wireless network This technique is applied in the circumstances where an intersystem page message, e.g. an IS-41 ISPAGE2 message, is received in a first border switching module. The intersystem page message may originate from a second border switching module. In this case, the netwo... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7362730 | Apparatus, and associated method, for facilitating routing of data in a radio communication system having a mobile node capable of roaming movement Apparatus, and an associated method, for providing routing information to a mobile node operable in a radio communication system. The routing information is used by the mobile node to address data messages that are to be communicated to a relay host, or other, devic... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7363338 | Selective assembly loading and execution based on platform capabilities An arrangement is provided for selectively loading and executing an assembly based on platform capabilities. When an application that includes at least one platform capability-dependent assembly realized to perform a function is initiated on a platform of a device, ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7359697 | Cordless telephone unit including audible confirmation of called party A main phone of a cordless telephone unit has i) a cordless communicator for establishing cordless communications with a cordless handset; and ii) a voice generator for converting called-party information received from a cordless handset into voice data. On the othe... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7359704 | Registration of communications devices Methods and apparatuses are disclosed for registering a subscriber to a communications network. One method receives a registration request to access a first communications network. The registration request is routed to a second communications network based upon an i... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7355509 | Smart modem device for vehicular and roadside applications The present invention is directed generally to a smart modem device for vehicular and roadside applications for remote data collection and transmission to a central data collection and processing facility. The modem includes a number of sets of connection managers a... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356337 | Dialing services on a mobile handset and remote provisioning therefor A mobile communication device such as a mobile telephone comprises: a communication management module configured to use logic in order to manage communication, for example, correct dialing sequences, translate short codes between networks, set preferences for connec... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7353024 | Apparatus, method and system for matching subscriber states in network in which public land mobile network and wired/wireless private network are interworked An apparatus, method and system for matching subscriber states in network in which public land mobile network and wired/wireless private network are interworked are disclosed. The system matches subscriber state information of the public network to subscriber state ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7349703 | Apparatus and method for supporting mobility of wireless terminal in wireless communication network A method and apparatus for informing terminals in a UMTS regarding state information of an MBMS in order to prevent terminals from requesting a service that cannot be provided in a cell in which it is newly located. The mobile communication network informs the termi... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349719 | Portable universal data storage device A portable universal data storage device that includes an universal port adapter for connecting to a personal electronic device including a memory for storing a plurality of communication protocols; a second memory for storing device data; an interface port detectio... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349694 | Method for operating data communication service in mobile communication system A method for operating a data communication service in a global system for mobile communication is provided. The method comprises deciding whether a user equipment requests the data communication service in a real time; deciding whether the user equipment requests t... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349354 | Serving soft handoffs between mobile switching centers that use different protocols The present invention may relate to the following steps. Converting a bundle of data from a first format of a first mobile switching center to a second format of a switch. Routing, at the switch, the bundle data in the second format. Converting the bundle of data fr... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349695 | Multimode roaming mobile devices A mobile device for roaming between wireless communications networks in different geographical regions is provided. The mobile device includes an interface configured to transmit and receive signals over a wireless channel according to a communication mode using one... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7343157 | Cell phone audio/video in-flight entertainment system An airborne cell phone in-flight entertainment (IFE) system uses a cell phone for calls and IFE requests by dialing appropriate numbers. A pico cell receives the calls and the IFE requests. A soft switch switches the calls and IFE requests according to the telephone... | 03/11/2008 |
