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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8190200 | System and method for automatically scheduling radios on a mobile device Systems and methods are disclosed for automatically powering on and off one or more radios in a mobile device according to a schedule generated automatically for each of the one or more radios. To generate the schedules, each of the one or more radios are powered on... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8190199 | Multiband-multimode mobile communication terminal and its method for controlling the modem power The present invention is directed to an MB-MM mobile communication terminal. According to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, an MB-MM mobile communication terminal comprising a first modem and a second modem, further comprises an activation control uni... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8175636 | Desktop phone with interchangeable wireless handset Systems, methods, and devices for providing an external wireless interface for use with a desktop telephone are disclosed. In accordance with various embodiments of the present disclosure, a telephone is provided which may include a universal connector operable to r... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8160639 | Communication terminal A communication terminal optimally switches between the use of multicast reception and unicast reception, in consideration of the mobile radio environment of each terminal. For example, received signal strength indicator information is acquired at a received signal ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8155695 | Apparatus and method to improve WLAN performance in a dual WLAN modality environment A portable communication device including a first wireless transceiver operable under a first communication protocol for transmitting and receiving signals and a second wireless transceiver operable under a second communication protocol for transmitting and receivin... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8150454 | System and method for implementing antenna diversity A system, communications device, method and computer program product for implementing antenna diversity may include a first switch to selectively connect a first radio section to one of a plurality of antennas and a second switch to selectively connect a second radi... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8145264 | Method and system for message transmission and reception Wireless devices may contain multiple radio transceivers, each conforming to different communication protocols. A first transceiver conforming to a first communication protocol in a first wireless device may be able to receive, detect, and/or decode messages transmi... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8140113 | High frequency signal combining An integrated circuit transmission system includes a dielectric substrate wave guide and first and second substrate antennas. A substrate transmitter is operable to produce an radio frequency (RF) signal, the RF signal having first and second components. A micro-str... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8131315 | Wireless electronic device with multimode audio amplifier An electronic device such as a handheld electronic device may include wireless communications circuitry. The wireless communications circuitry may include a radio-frequency receiver circuit or other circuitry that is sensitive to noise. Audio amplifier circuitry may... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8126503 | Dynamic MIMO resource allocation during a single communication A system and method for providing dynamic allocation of MIMO communication resources during a single communication. Various aspects of the present invention may comprise determining a first set of MIMO communication resources to utilize for communicating a first por... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8126504 | Method of controlling wireless communication system and wireless communication system A method of controlling a wireless communication system including a plurality of communication devices is disclosed. In the method, firstly, one of the communication devices establishes a fixed beam pattern and transmits a training signal, and another communication ... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8111506 | Electronic device An electronic device including a first body, a second body, a connecting mechanism, and an input unit is provided. The second body is movably disposed on the first body. The connecting mechanism is disposed in the first body. The input unit is movably disposed on th... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8090401 | Virtual gateway node for dual-mode wireless phones The invention is a virtual gateway that mediates between a dual-mode subscriber device and an IP-based PBX. In particular, the virtual gateway includes a WLAN interface for communicating with the dual-mode subscriber device and a network interface (wired or wireless... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8073486 | Methods for opportunistic multi-user beamforming in collaborative MIMO-SDMA A system and method for opportunistically designing collaborative beamforming vectors is disclosed for a wireless multiple input, multiple output (MIMO) space division multiple access (SDMA) communication system by sequentially designing beamforming vectors for rank... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8068872 | Signaling support for antenna selection using subset lists and subset masks A mobile phone is described herein that has control (or at least partial control) over which virtual antenna(s) in one or more base stations should be used for transmissions. In one embodiment, the mobile phone performs the following steps: (1) receives an antenna s... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8060134 | Communication terminal According to the embodiment of the invention, a communication apparatus including: a first communication module radio communicating based on a first radio access technology; a second communication module radio communicating based on a second radio access technology;... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8041387 | Information processing apparatus According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a main body, a display unit rotatably attached to the main body via a coupling portion, first and second antennas provided in the display unit, a first mixing/distributing device provided in t... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8036702 | Method and apparatus for multicarrier communication in wireless systems Multicarrier techniques for wireless communications system are described. An apparatus may comprise a carrier management module to define a primary carrier for use by a multicarrier communications system to communicate control information, and a secondary carrier fo... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8023995 | Radio frequency device and mobile communication terminal using the same There is provided a radio frequency circuit device for multi-band and multi-mode which is low in a circuit loss, and a mobile communication terminal using the radio frequency circuit device. The radio frequency circuit device has a first path 110 that include... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8019382 | Communication apparatus having a standard serial communication interface compatible with radio isolation A communication apparatus including a digital processing circuit coupled to a radio frequency (RF) circuit and to a serial communications device. The serial communications device may be configured to buffer data communicated between the digital processing circuit an... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8019383 | Techniques to increase coverage of push-to-talk wireless networks Various example embodiments are disclosed relating to wireless networks, such as relating to techniques to improve coverage of push-to-talk wireless networks or services. In an example embodiment, a technique may include forwarding data to a remote push-to-talk (PTT... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8014820 | Baseband / RFIC interface for high throughput MIMO communications Analog signal paths are utilized between a baseband processor and a radio front end to support high throughput communications for a multiple in multiple out radio transceiver that support communications over two or more antennas. Specifically, analog differential I ... | 09/06/2011 |
| 7996035 | Matching circuit for adaptive impedance matching in radio An impedance matching circuit for a radio receives antenna signals and has its matching elements, such as capacitors, progressively switched into the circuit, with the matching element configuration resulting in the highest RSSI being subsequently used until a succe... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7983712 | Multi-mode wireless communication devices and systems for prepaid communication services There is provided a multi-mode wireless communication device. A cellular transceiver communicates over a cellular network in a cellular mode. A wireless transceiver communicates over a wireless network in a wireless mode. A selector makes a selection between operati... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7983711 | Software architecture for dual mode phone and method of use Alternative software architectures for a dual mode wireless communication device and methods of use are provided for efficient and effective use of the processor and memory capabilities of first and second air interface processors on a dual mode wireless communicati... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7941179 | System and method providing concurrent multimode communication A system and method providing concurrent multimode communication through multimode signal multiplexing. Various aspects of the present invention may comprise, during a first time period, transmitting a first portion of a first communication in a first communication ... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7925297 | TXOP duration adaptation for dual radio devices Transmission opportunity (TXOP) duration is adapted for a wireless local area network (WLAN) transceiver in a dual radio wireless device based on an end of free time indication associated with a wireless wide area network (WWAN) transceiver within the same device. I... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7912498 | Adaptive buffering to reduce audio truncation A method and apparatus are provided for reducing truncation of time sensitive information such as audio in a trunked radio system having a plurality of zone controllers. The method includes the steps of receiving a call request from a calling radio or wireline conso... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7881748 | Network identity and timezone (NITZ) functionality for non-3GPP devices A system that provisions a multimode mobile or converged device with local time information and network provider identification when the multimode mobile device is operating within the purview of a wireless local area network (WLAN). The system includes components t... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7873384 | Multimode mobile communication device with configuration update capability A system and method in a multimode mobile communication device for providing communication configuration update capability. Various aspects of the present invention may comprise establishing a first communication link characterized by a first communication mode of a... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7873386 | Dual mode wireless data communications A dual mode mobile unit is arranged to communicate in either a first or second data communications standard, such as combined Bluetooth and 802.11 operation. An interface unit converts received Bluetooth or 802.11 format signals into 802.11 frame format data signals... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7873385 | Antenna sharing techniques Antenna sharing techniques are described. A mobile computing device may comprise an antenna, a switch to couple to the antenna, and multiple transceivers to couple to the switch. The mobile computing device may also comprise an antenna management module to couple to... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7860529 | Information processing apparatus According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a main body, a display unit rotatably attached to the main body via a coupling portion, first and second antennas provided in the display unit, a first mixing/distributing device provided in t... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7826866 | System, apparatus and method to route radio frequency signals Briefly, a wireless communication device having two or more different wireless radio frequency (RF) units operably coupled to a router by two or more respective buses. The router is able to route bit streams of radio frequency signals from a digital baseband unit to... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7813760 | Method of controlling communication mechanism utilized to arbitrate transmissions of wireless signals and communication apparatus utilizing the same A method of controlling a communication mechanism utilized to arbitrate transmissions of a first and a second wireless signals and a communication apparatus utilized the method are disclosed. The method includes determining a transmission quality indicator correspon... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7805159 | Dual-mode keypad for a mobile device In accordance with the teachings described herein, systems and methods are provided for implementing a dual-mode keypad for a mobile device. The mobile device may operate in a telephony mode and a text-entry mode. The dual-mode keypad may include a plurality of dual... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7805160 | Method and system for mobile receiver architecture for US band cellular and VHF/UHF broadcasting In a video processing system, a method and system for a mobile receiver architecture for US Band cellular and VHF/UHF broadcasting are provided. Received channels may be processed in at least one radio frequency front end (RFFE) in a mobile terminal and may comprise... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7801559 | Methods and apparatus for baseband digital spectrum translation (BDST) A method for transmitting and receiving digitally modulated wireless signals using an analog FM transceiver is provided. The analog FM transceiver has a transmit speech audio frequency band, a receive speech audio frequency band substantially equal to the transmit s... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7792545 | Radio communication terminal and method of controlling internal radio communication A carrier sensor senses the input/output level of a radio processing unit. When the input/output level sensed by the carrier sensor is more than a specified level, a transmission-reception controller stops internal radio communication by stopping the operation of tr... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7774020 | Method and system for ascertaining whether multiple radios are associated with a single wireless device A computer-based method and system for ascertaining whether multiple radios available for connection to a mobile computing device are associated with a single wireless device comprise the steps of: using the mobile computing device to receive data from a radio of a ... | 08/10/2010 |
