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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8107993 | Radio communication apparatus, method and program An apparatus includes a unit receiving a first-radio signal indicating a state in which transmission by a SDMA scheme is allowed, a unit determining whether a transmission state is a first state (the SDMA scheme is available), or a second state (the SDMA scheme is u... | 01/31/2012 |
| 7430427 | Radio resource management scheduler using object request broker methodology A method for scheduling RRM procedures in a wireless communication system begins by receiving at least one trigger, each trigger being associated with at least one RRM procedure. A radio link is placed into a busy state, whereby the radio link is accessible only by ... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7380033 | Communication apparatus implementing time domain isolation with restricted bus access A communication apparatus includes a radio frequency circuit that operates on a radio frequency signal and a digital processing circuit coupled to the radio frequency circuit. The digital processing circuit includes a plurality of bus masters coupled to a shared bus... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7366131 | Power saving method in a mobile communication terminal A power saving method in a mobile communication terminal is provided. The method comprises requesting a change from a first slot cycle index (SCI) used by a mobile communication terminal to a second SCI in a power saving mode; transmitting the second SCI to a base s... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7315734 | Method for performing a predetermined action on wireless calls based on caller's location In the method of performing a predetermined action on wireless calls, a determination of whether a received wireless call falls within a defined area is made. If the received wireless call falls within the defined area, then the predetermined action, such as screeni... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7308266 | Method and system for peer-to-peer communication management in wireless communication networks The present invention provides a wireless communication system capable of managing peer-to-peer (P2P) communications. In one embodiment of the invention, upon receiving a request for initiating a call, the system determines whether P2P communication can be establish... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7305079 | Method and apparatus for communicating with one of plural devices associated with a single telephone number A system for (and a method of) selectively establishing communication with one of plural devices associated with a single telephone number is provided. In a preferred embodiment, the system includes a wireless connect unit connected between an enterprise private bra... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7295834 | Telephone number display method and set A telephone number display method for a portable telephone is disclosed, in which desired data can be readily found out from data extracted by retrieval of telephone numbers registered as telephone number diary data. In a portable telephone set, in which telephone n... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7289764 | Cardholder interface for an access control system In a wireless access control system, a method and system for providing indications of the state of a Wireless Access Point Module (WAPM) to an observer using at least one indicator mounted on the WAPM. The WAPM preferably provides indications of the version number o... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7251250 | Method and apparatus for efficient sharing of communication system resources A method for accessing a reverse channel for communication from a remote unit to a base station is disclosed. The method includes waiting a random period of time in response to determining that the reverse channel is available at a first time. The method also includ... | 07/31/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7224957 | Apparatus and method for broadcasting messages to selected group(s) of users There is disclosed a method and apparatus for transmitting a message to at least one group of users selected from a population of the users. The method comprises the steps of assigning to each member of the one group a common characteristic or indication, collecting... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7212816 | Fixed wireless telephone device Methods and apparatus are disclosed for establishing a fixed wireless telephone service. A fixed wireless device includes a wireless device for establishing wireless connections to a wireless communications network that interfaces with a public switched telephone ne... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7174165 | Integrated wireless local loop (WLL) and wireless local area network (WLAN) transceiver apparatus Disclosed is a integrated wireless local loop (WLL) and wireless local area network (WLAN) transceiver apparatus which connects a wireless local loop (WLL) base station and a plurality of wireless local area network (WLAN) terminals, including a WLL transceiver in c... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7149299 | System and method for call completion on busy subscribers System and methods for allowing the extension of the ISDN/GSM Call Completion to Busy Subscriber Supplementary Service across a Network Boundary between a general Switched Circuit Network (SCN) using ISUP as call control protocol, and an IP Packet Network using SIP ... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7142895 | Mobile telephone with pager mode A mobile telephone is arranged to detect when its battery voltage has fallen such that only the lowest segment of the four segment battery charge level bar of its LCD display is showing, and, in response, to transmit a “Restricted Delivery Mode” message to a pre... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7065061 | System and method for providing data services using idle cell resources Providing data services using idle cell capacity in a cellular communications system. The system and method assign priorities to each remote user device in the cellular communications system. In response to a request for service for a remote user device, the mobile ... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7043245 | Call processing method during termination busy state of terminal in radio intelligent network system A call processing method during terminating BUSY states (busy, power down, and paging failure) of a terminal in a radio intelligent network system. The method includes detecting the terminating BUSY state of the terminal from an HLR (Home Location Register); perform... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7038596 | Information providing method for vehicle and information providing apparatus for vehicle Vehicle information indicating the conditions of a vehicle is transmitted from an on-vehicle apparatus to an information center at least before audio guidance provided by a and IVR system (interactive voice response system) begins. The IVR system at the information ... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7035648 | Synchronization of mobile station location measurement with CDMA service A method of synchronizing measurement of a mobile station location with communications service includes performing communications service between the mobile station and a base station, transmitting a synchronization message from the mobile station to the base statio... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7010565 | Communication management using a token action log A communication system includes a token generator to create one or more tokens, as well as a token action log to associate each token with a customizable set of one or more actions, where each token is to trigger the associated set of one or more actions in response... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7006825 | Method and system for facilitating service delivery to users in a communications system A method and system of facilitating service delivery to a first user (A) registered with a home network (home PLMN) for a particular service having an associated announcement accessible to a service subsystem (4,9) of the home network in a communications syst... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6999755 | Method and device for providing information of unfinished call The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for providing a calling number of an incomplete call, and in more detail, a method and apparatus for providing a calling number of an incomplete call for a receiving terminal when the incomplete call, which can... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6999571 | Device and method for playing a ring signal based on a mediate ring information in a communication apparatus The invention provides a device, used in a communication apparatus, for generating a mediate ring information and playing a ring signal based on the mediate ring information. The device comprises a receiving module, a processing module, an analyzing module, a storag... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6973317 | Call completion based on movement of mobile station A callback service for completing a call from a calling party to a mobile station of a called party that was not previously completed due to no response. After the call was not completed due to no response, the mobile station is monitored to determine if it has move... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6931107 | Systems and methods for per use busy message A calling party calls a called party and leaves a message on a voice messaging system after receiving a busy status if the calling party is willing to pay to leave a message and if the calling party has given permission to send messages. The calling party is connect... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6922405 | Wireless LAN with carrier sense threshold adaption The present invention relates to a wireless local area network station comprising a signal processing element, a carrier detect sensing element, a defer behavior sensing element, and memory. The network station transmits and receives signals within a communication c... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6922548 | Providing remote network driver interface specification services over a wireless radio-frequency medium The present invention provides a method and computer program product for providing, over a RF link conforming to the Bluetooth specification, a network message protocol which is bus-independent and was originally designed for bus-attached networking devices. One suc... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6912401 | Communication device for providing an efficient dormant mode for a group communication network A method and apparatus for providing an efficient dormant mode for push-to-talk communication devices in a group communication network provides for determining whether the communication device has been inactive for a predetermined first time period and, if so, causi... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6904288 | Controller for providing an efficient dormant mode for a group communication network A method and apparatus for providing an efficient dormant mode for push-to-talk communication devices in a group communication network provides for determining whether the net has been inactive for a predetermined first time period and, if so, causing each member of... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6901254 | Method of selecting base transceiver system in communication system A method of selecting a base transceiver system (or sector) in an area where signals from various base transceiver systems (or sectors) are superimposed. In order to be suitable for a system that aims at the packet transmission such as the high data rate (HDR) commu... | 05/31/2005 |
| 6701158 | Use controller for a wireless communication device The invention relates to a system for the blocking of transceptions of a wireless communication device situated within an area or space designated, for purposes of safety or security, for protection from selectable electromagnetic frequencies. The system,... | 03/02/2004 |
| 6658255 | Enhanced wireless radio channel utilization Apparatus and a method for establishing a cellular mobile call. If no radio traffic (voice or data) channels are available for a calling or called mobile station (MS), then a test is made to determine the expected wait time before a channel becomes availa... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6628950 | Restriction of incoming calls in a mobil telecommunication system In some mobile telecommunications systems reception of calls outside the home network may be very expensive for the called subscriber. For this reason, subscribers are given the possibility to bar incoming calls when roaming outside the home network. On t... | 09/30/2003 |
| 6625443 | Method for the user-controlled release of wireless telecommunications connections in wireless telecommunications systems, especially DECT systems In order to trigger user-controlled release of wireless telecommunication connections in wireless telecommunication systems particularly DECT systems, in user-friendly and acceptable fashion, connections that have once been setup between telecommunication... | 09/23/2003 |
| 6553237 | Method and apparatus for remote unit passivation A method and an apparatus provide for controlling a remote unit's requests to access network resources in a wireless communication network. The method and apparatus scale back the frequency with which the remote unit attempts to establish a connection wit... | 04/22/2003 |
| 6553221 | Incoming call notification apparatus An incoming call notification apparatus which is capable of notifying an operator of a called terminal of an incoming call received when the terminal was not capable of answering an incoming call. When a terminal calls another terminal which is in use or ... | 04/22/2003 |
| 6427134 | Voice activity detector for calculating spectral irregularity measure on the basis of spectral difference measurements A voice activity detector suitable for deployment in a mobile phone apparatus is disclosed. An advantage of the voice activity detector is that it is better able to provide a decision (79) as to whether an input signal (19) consists of noise (which it is ... | 07/30/2002 |
| 6314300 | Mobile communication system for supporting multiple simultaneous communications on single mobile terminal A mobile communication system which is capable of supporting multiple simultaneous communications on a single mobile terminal device, and collectively controlling all or a part of call states on a mobile terminal device. The system includes at least one m... | 11/06/2001 |
| 6311055 | System and method for providing restrictions on mobile-originated calls A cellular telephony network includes a supplementary service (SS) database in an intelligence network (IN) node. The SS database stores subscriber record which includes call barring data such as screening lists of specific numbers or countries and call b... | 10/30/2001 |
