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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6792245 | Information reproducing apparatus and broadcasting system An information reproducing apparatus and method for reproducing information comprises an identification information provider for providing an identification information. A receiver receives broadcast information including broadcast identification information. The re... | 09/14/2004 |
| 6788925 | Ruggedized tradesworkers radio A tradesworker's radio has a weather and impact resistant features to enable a tradesworker to use the radio under adverse working conditions, such as construction or other work sites. Louvered grills covering moisture resistant loudspeakers are angled downward to p... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6781513 | Telemetry of diagnostic messages from a mobile asset to a remote station A telemeter for telemetry of diagnostic messages from a mobile asset to a remote station comprises a processor coupled to the output of one or more condition sensors. The processor converts the output of the condition sensors to a diagnostic message, and provides th... | 08/24/2004 |
| 6782240 | Megatel communication information system An entertainment device for vehicles adaptable to include various telecommunication and Internet applications, a sunviser monitoring screen for viewing, with an electronic screen protector for protecting the screen. The device, which is referred to as megatel, incor... | 08/24/2004 |
| 6778811 | Electronic device with concealed firearm system An electronic device with a concealed firearm. The device includes a housing having an interior face and an exterior face and with a cavity therein. The housing has a plurality of buttons and digital electronics. A tubular wall with a rigid central bore is adapted t... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6771936 | Apparatus and method for wire or radio transmission information signal processing Communication of a device by controlling a wire communication interface to receive a bit stream from an external device via a wire transmission line, controlling a radio communication interface to receive a bit stream from an external device via a radio transmission... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6771982 | Single action audio prompt interface utlizing binary state time domain multiple selection protocol An interface protocol for the functional manipulation of complex devices such as personal telecommunication devices without the necessity of the visual feedback via textual or graphic data, wherein the sensor functions change with time rather than placement, so that... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6771935 | Wireless bus In order to avoid mechanical assembly problems and transmission of undesired electrical currents among circuit cards or boards in a telecommunications switch or similar digital device, a conventional hard-wired midplane bus is replaced by a wireless bus. The wireles... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6769002 | System and methods for multilevel electronic mail communication programs An electronic mail communication system enables a user to create an email message from system supplied content and user supplied content. The system may be configured in accordance with an electronic mail communication program participant hierarchy. Each system user... | 07/27/2004 |
| 6766143 | Expanded capabilities for wireless two-way packet communications for intelligent electronic devices (IEDs) In an independent basic service set (IBSS) of IEDs, using wireless communications devices to provide license-free two-way wireless peer to peer communications of digital data between pairs of IEDs, and also to provide wireless peer to peer communications between one... | 07/20/2004 |
| 6751452 | Internet based vehicle data communication system An internet based two-way data communication system for interrogating and programming the electronics of motor vehicles, with global positioning system (GPS) and real-time class 2 communication capabilities. A vehicle communications package (VCP) is located aboard e... | 06/15/2004 |
| 6745010 | Wireless, frequency-agile spread spectrum ground link-based aircraft data communication system with wireless unit in communication therewith A system and method provides a retrievable record of the flight performance of the aircraft and includes a ground data link unit that obtains flight performance data representative of aircraft flight performance during flight of the aircraft. A spread spectrum trans... | 06/01/2004 |
| 6738600 | Ceramic microelectromechanical structure A microelectromechanical structure and method is disclosed. A ceramic substrate preferably is formed from low temperature co-fired ceramic sheets. A low loss photodefinable dielectric planarizing layer is formed over one surface of the ceramic substrate. This layer ... | 05/18/2004 |
| 6738601 | Adaptive radio transceiver with floating MOSFET capacitors An exemplary embodiment of the present invention described and shown in the specification and drawings is a transceiver with a receiver, a transmitter, a local oscillator (LO) generator, a controller, and a self-testing unit. All of these components can be packaged ... | 05/18/2004 |
| 6731952 | Mobile telephone system having a detachable camera / battery module A handheld mobile telephone system is disclosed including a detachable camera/battery module for capturing images and a mobile telephone for communicating with a receiving unit. The detachable camera/battery module includes a lens for focusing light from a scene to ... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6718182 | Modularized functionality enhancement for a cellular telephone A cellular telephone has a processing circuit for controlling the operations of the cellular telephone, a keypad to provide input from a user, a display to provide visual output to the user, and an input/output (I/O) port electrically connected to the processing cir... | 04/06/2004 |
| 6714797 | System and method for the transfer of digital data to a mobile device A system, method and computer program for ordering, paying for and download digital products to a mobile device in a cost-effective manner. The mobile device includes a short range transceiver and a network transceiver. The mobile device accesses electronic shop ser... | 03/30/2004 |
| 6711380 | Method and apparatus for reducing interference effects caused by microwave sources A microwave appliance (10) designed to communicate with a plurality of communication devices (11,13, & 15) within a piconet (30) includes a transmitter (24) for communicating with the plurality of communication devices within the p... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6711419 | Integrated information appliance An integrated information appliance includes a central processing unit for executing an action in response to a user request, a storage for storing information for use by the central processing unit in responding to the user request, and a cradle which includes a sc... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6694126 | Digital memo recorder A digital memo recorder in a vehicle for recording/play-back of messages and tagging the messages for future reference. The digital recorder is microprocessor controlled to allow direct sequential access for playing back messages. An auditory and visual i... | 02/17/2004 |
| 6684062 | Wireless game control system A wireless system for video game control comprised of a base transceiver engaged with an electronic game device where said base transceiver communicates wirelessly with one or more wireless controllers concurrently and which implements a variety of techni... | 01/27/2004 |
| 6671497 | Combination of a radio with an earphone and a ball-point pen A combination of a radio with an earphone and a ball-point pen comprises: a lower housing in which a pen core is disposed; a hollow upper housing being provided with an upper thread hole and a lower thread hole at the upper end and the lower end thereof, an... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6671494 | Small, battery operated RF transmitter for portable audio devices for use with headphones with RF receiver A portable FM stereo RF transmitter having an audio plug extending therefrom directly or via a cable and which mates with the earphone or output jack of an audio source such as a portable battery operated CD or tape player and having no external antenna. ... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6665547 | Radio communication apparatus with telephone number registering function through speech recognition A radio communication apparatus includes first and second storage sections, a receiving section, a speech recognizing section and a control section. The receiving section receives a speech data transmitted from a counter apparatus, and the speech data inc... | 12/16/2003 |
| 6661997 | Drive-through system A car detecting unit detects entrance of an incoming car into a drive-through store. A voice processing unit processes a voice signal from a first microphone of a menu board. A base station connected to the menu board via the voice processing unit transmi... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6658236 | Wireless apparatus with frequency synthesizers A wireless apparatus includes a transmitter and a receiver wherein each of the transmitter and the receiver includes a phase-locked loop (PLL) having a frequency synthesizer for generating a plurality of signals with identifications. The plurality of sign... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6633747 | Orthodontic appliance audio receiver An orthodontic appliance audio receiver injects sound into the head and ear cavities of the wearer using vibration, e.g., mandibular (or skull) vibration. Using mandibular vibration, the wearer hears the audio source noiselessly, effortlessly, and without... | 10/14/2003 |
| 6628939 | Personal gaming device The present invention comprises a personal gaming device. The personal gaming device of the invention is adapted to present a game to a player. In one embodiment, the gaming device includes a display screen, a processing unit including a processor and a m... | 09/30/2003 |
| 6594503 | Communication device with dial function using optical character recognition, and method A communication device (200), such as a cellular mobile phone or a cordless phone, has a dial unit (208) for communication with a base station. An input device for dialing a phone number which forwards a coded dial signal (215) to the dial unit (208) is i... | 07/15/2003 |
| 6591085 | FM transmitter and power supply/charging assembly for MP3 player An FM transmitter and power supply/charging assembly electrically coupleable with an MP3 player. The assembly includes a modular docking unit having a main body portion with a docking cavity therein, wherein the main body portion contains the FM transmitt... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6577870 | Wireless communications architecture with an upstream area that overlies a plurality of smaller downstream areas Systems and methods are described for wireless communications. A method includes providing a wireless communications system having narrow cast bi-directional internet channel capability and defining a substantially nonconflicting regional overlay, then tr... | 06/10/2003 |
| 6549756 | Mobile digital communication/computing device including heart rate monitor A mobile client device, such as a wireless mobile or a palm sized personal digital assistant, is provided with a number of sensors and companion programming instructions/circuitry to generate a heart rate reading for a user holding the device. The sensors... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6525762 | Wireless underwater video system A Wireless Underwater Video System for obtaining live video/audio data to profile a designated area of an ocean bottom is described. The system includes a video camera enclosed in a water tight housing which produces video and audio signals which are tran... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6525995 | Method and apparatus for displaying local time on radio-controlled timepieces A radio-controlled timepiece is controlled by time telegrams emitted by a regional transmitter. When the timepiece is out of the effective range of the regional transmitter, the timepiece is controlled by a local (i.e., close-range) transmitter which tran... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6522867 | Wireless, frequency-agile spread spectrum ground link-based aircraft data communication system with wireless unit in communication therewith A system and method provides a retrievable record of the flight performance of the aircraft and includes a ground data link unit that obtains flight performance data representative of aircraft flight performance during flight of the aircraft. A spread spe... | 02/18/2003 |
| 6512929 | Telecommunication assembly A telecommunication assembly includes various terminals which share a transmission channel via a base station for granting or not granting a terminal access to the transmission channel on the basis of different priorities being assigned to the terminals. ... | 01/28/2003 |
| 6507736 | Multi-linguistic wireless spread spectrum narration service system A multi-linguistic wireless spread spectrum narration service system includes a speech database, a plurality of basestation units, and at least one mobile unit. The speech database is stored with multi-linguistic narration service speech messages. The plu... | 01/14/2003 |
| 6456851 | Wireless communications architecture Systems and methods are described for wireless communications. A method includes providing a wireless communications system having narrow cast bi-directional internet channel capability and defining a substantially nonconflicting regional overlay; then tr... | 09/24/2002 |
| 6442403 | Device and method for communicating at a distance and system using them The device (220) of the invention for communicating at a distance has a signal transmission/reception means (223, 224, 102) which has a moving part (102) and a reception device (102, 223, 224), said moving part modifying the electromagnetic environment of... | 08/27/2002 |
| 6437572 | Interactive method and apparatus for locating and identifying utilities The invention provides an interactive means to locate and identify underground utilities. The apparatus is used with a marker associated with an elongate electrical conductor, which may be a cable shield or a trace wire. It includes a remote, portable pro... | 08/20/2002 |
