Did You Know...
...that after Parker Brothers executives turned down the game of Monopoly because it had "52 fundamental errors" (including taking too long to play), a copy of the game wound up in the home of the company president who stayed up until 1 a.m. to finish playing it? He was so impressed by the game that the next day he wrote to inventor Charles Darrow and offered to buy it!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7174192 | Method for controlling a hands free system, radio apparatus, and hands free apparatus A radio apparatus, to be used as a first ending node of a communication network, is connectable to a hands-free apparatus by a local radio link to form a hands-free system. A call made on the hands-free apparatus for an second ending node in the communication networ... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7173057 | Ketoamides with cyclic P4'S as inhibitors of NS3 protease of hepatitis C virus The present invention discloses novel compounds which have HCV protease inhibitory activity as well as methods for preparing such compounds. In another embodiment, the invention discloses pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds as well as methods of us... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7171199 | Method and system for directing a data message in a wireless communications network including multiple wireless systems A mobile station scans for electromagnetic signals representing control channels of the public wireless system and the private wireless system. The mobile station measures a received signal parameter of at least one of the scanned control channels. The hybrid commun... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7171236 | Call service method for a cellular phone A call service method includes the steps of determining if the electronic phone book database is being used upon occurrence of a call event, searching the electronic phone book database for individual information using a phone number associated with the call event i... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7167082 | System, method, and receiver module for alerting users of warning signals A method includes receiving a wireless warning signal. The method also includes identifying a type of warning associated with the wireless warning signal. In addition, the method includes generating at least one stimulus based on the identified type of warning and c... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7167680 | Method, system and computer readable medium for adjusting output signals for a plurality of devices in a short distance wireless network responsive to a selected environment A system, method and computer readable medium allows a user to alter output signals for a respective plurality of devices in short distance wireless network in response to a selection of an environment. In embodiments of the present invention, the output signal is a... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7167558 | Foldable portable telephone A piece of data to be sent by mail is selected from data displayed on the back surface liquid crystal in the state of the portable telephone being folded. The selected data is sent with a button operating. Upon completion of the mail sending, the mail sending ends w... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7167725 | Music reproducing apparatus, music reproducing method and telephone terminal device In a music reproducing apparatus, a timbre data memory has a limited capacity for storing timbre data corresponding to a first number of timbres, which is less than a second number of timbres reserved in a data source. An interface can be operated to transfer the ti... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7167860 | Fault tolerance for network accounting architecture A system for collecting and aggregating data from network entities for a data consuming application is described. The system includes a data collector layer to receive network flow information from the network entities and to produce records based on the information... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7164345 | Apparatus and method for realizing alarm function in a charging device for a mobile terminal Disclosed is an apparatus for realizing an alarm function using a mobile terminal and a charging device for charging the mobile terminal. The mobile terminal includes a controller for generating an alarm control signal a predetermined time period ahead of a predeter... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7164348 | Inconspicuous tactile notification for speaking engagements With the increasing popularity of multimedia presentations at business meetings and conferences, presenters often wish to be free to move about during their presentation. Moderators at a presentation or conference can use this invention to communicate with the prese... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7164760 | Audible caller identification with nametag storage The present invention provides a system and method for audible caller identification with nametag storage. A call signal is received, the call signal including an automatic number identification. A determination is made whether the automatic number identification ma... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7164906 | System and method of music generation There is provided herein a system and method for generating music on multiple cell phones or other mobile computing devices, wherein two or more users (to include a user and a computer) acting together may create a joint musical work. The instant methods enable mult... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7162026 | Alert muting method through indirect contact for portable devices The invention generally relates to a method for muting an alerting portable device such as a ringing cell phone or alarming PDA. Specifically where muting is activated in a means not requiring direct contact with the keys of the device. The indirect contact such as ... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7162274 | Folding communication terminal and display control method therefor The folding communication terminal of the present invention is composed of a display device which is visible to the user when the folding communication terminal is in a folded state, and which is capable of multicolor display. The user knows by glancing at the illum... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7154746 | Multifunctional cover integrated into sub-panel of portable electronic device A cover for an opening in the housing of a portable electronic device that provides a function in addition to that of protecting the opening from dirt. The cover can be coupled to the housing so that it can move between a closed position within the housing's surface... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7155259 | System for transmitting to a wireless service provider physical information related to a moving vehicle during a wireless communication The present invention is directed to a method and system for detecting a wireless telephone communication in a vehicle, and once detected, when the vehicle exceeds a predefined speed limit, for generating and sending Dual-Tone Multi Frequency (DTMF) encoded informat... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7151954 | Cellular phone set and incoming call notification control method used therein This invention is associated with an incoming call notification technique in a cellular phone set. In the cellular phone set of this invention, when a radio wave directed to the cellular phone set is received, the reception electric field strength level of the radio... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7151953 | Communication apparatus having a light emitting unit that emits light in a variety of colors A communication apparatus of the present invention notifies a user that one of a plurality of events has occurred, and includes a first reception unit, a second reception unit, a detection unit, and a light emitting unit. The first reception unit receives from the u... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7151948 | Scheme for realizing path selection using optimum path selection threshold in radio communication A receiver of a mobile station or a base station in radio communications is formed by a correlation unit for generating a delay profile for specifying paths by taking correlations by using replica signals for a received pilot signal, and a path selection unit for co... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7151924 | Communication system, hold control method therefor, telephone set, control method therefor and recording medium There is obtained a telephone set capable of preventing a noise generated by an operation of application software during voice communication from being sent to a speech counterpart. In a mobile telephone set, if a user operates activated application software other t... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7149512 | Apparatus and method to automatically adjust volume or control operation of an appliance An apparatus includes a device adapted to detect one of receiving an incoming call or initiating an outgoing call. A transmitter is adapted to send a request signal in response to receiving the incoming call or initiating the outgoing call. The request signal may be... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7149501 | Voice mail server, mobile station and method for voice mail message transmission Within a cellular network, an incoming voice mail message is received at a voice mail server (20), adapted into a format suitable for transmission by a network connection which does not meet a delay requirement for delay sensitive information, dispatched to a... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7149535 | Method and system for initiating mobile station re-paging at an interval based on paging slot cycle A method and system for initiating re-paging of a mobile station at an interval that is a function of the mobile station's paging slot cycle. A radio access network will select a time interval based on a mobile station's slot cycle index and will conclude that a pag... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7149549 | Providing multiple perspectives for a venue activity through an electronic hand held device Methods and systems for receiving and displaying venue-based data at hand held devices are disclosed herein. Data transmitted from one or more venue-based data sources may be received by at least one hand held device present within a venue, such as a sports stadium ... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7149319 | Telecommunication system, speech recognizer, and terminal, and method for adjusting capacity for vocal commanding Time-limited electrical audio signals are fed to an electromechanical output transducer in addition to the signals from the hearing aid input. Some of the time-limited audio signals are user-defined. The process is implemented in a hearing aid having an electromecha... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7149471 | Portable cellular phone Music data stored in a data card 101 is input into a portable cellular phone 110, and also a plurality of pieces of application software (131, 133) suitable for a music data format defined in connection with the music data is selected by a user ... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7149509 | Methods and apparatuses for programming user-defined information into electronic devices A device for programming user-defined information into an electronic device is provided. The programmer allows a user to program customized information, such as user-selected audio, video, or Internet access information into his or her programmable device. Such elec... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7146188 | Method and system for requesting photographs A programmed, first communication device, such as a cell phone, operable by a first user in a celebrity mode for requesting a photograph, and operable in a paparazzi mode for taking a picture. When in the celebrity mode, a celebrity signal indicating that a photogra... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7142892 | Systems, methods and computer program products for communicating amber alerts to a mobile workforce Mobile workforce communication systems include a mobile workforce dispatch system that is configured to dispatch the mobile workforce to perform tasks, and wireless terminals that are carried by the mobile workforce and are configured to communicate with the mobile ... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7142893 | Apparatus, and associated method, for facilitating identification of a mobile telephone A method for facilitating identification of a telephone, whereby a determination is made whether a custom ring tune has been set for the mobile telephone. If it is determined that a custom ring tune has been set for the mobile telephone, then the custom ring tune is... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7142841 | Telephone personal information manager A personal information manager (PIM) has been provided for use in controlling telephone call message responses for a wireless communications network mobile station telephone. The PIM permits a telephone user to program a unique response for each calling party. Typic... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7142879 | Mobile communications network system, mobile terminal, and paging method A mobile communication network system is provided in which when a radio system is selected from plural types of radio systems as a radio system for use in paging, the optimum radio system for the mobile terminal to be paged can be selected. When it is selected, traf... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7142664 | Intelligent multimode message alerts An apparatus that intelligently determines how to alert a user to the arrival of an incoming message at a telecommunications terminal, and what information is imparted to the user via the alert, is disclosed. In the illustrative embodiments, the terminal has a proce... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7142877 | Apparatus and method for automatically muting restricted electronic devices in restricted areas A system, consisting of an ultrasonic transmitter and a receiver, is described for controlling certain electronic sound-generating and radio-frequency-generating devices. In restricted areas where the audible sound generated by these electronic devices is objectiona... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7139553 | Providing real time call log data to a remote call log for calls to and from a mobile communications apparatus Methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer program products provide call data associated with calls to and from a mobile communications apparatus. The call data supports a web-accessible call log feature that presents a summary of calling activity to a subscriber o... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7136909 | Multimodal communication method and apparatus with multimodal profile A multimodal communication system and method creates and accesses a multimodal profile (114) that contains at least multimodal preference information (202), such as desired input modality and a desired output modality for a given multimodal communicati... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7136669 | Radio communication apparatus A radio communication apparatus including an operator control section with at least one actuator for appointing a function setting that may be recorded in a first data structure and thereafter detected and recorded in a second data structure wherein a microprocessor... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7136677 | Portable terminal A portable terminal reading text, such as predetermined information sent as an electronic mail message, and/or viewable by using a browser in a convenient or user-friendly manner for a visually-impaired user. The portable terminal executes operations including, read... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7136668 | Method for adjusting the volume of communication voice and key tone in a cellular phone A method for adjusting the volume level of communication voice and key tones in a cellular phone, comprising the steps of inputting a first and a second voice command for commanding the cellular phone to raise the volume level or lower it, determining whether the ce... | 11/14/2006 |
