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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7415281 | Cell broadcasting service system and method A cell broadcasting service system includes: a terminal for generating a short message service (SMS) type message and a cell broadcasting service (CBS) type message; an SMS center for transmitting a CBS type message to a CB center when receiving the CBS type message... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7394364 | Wireless item location monitoring system and method A wireless electronic tracking system employs transmitters attached to moveable target items that send continuous analog radio frequency (RF) digitally-coded signals at prime number differentiated time intervals to a base receiver. The coded signals carry transmitte... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7394345 | Arrangement for indicating presence of individual When an entity (such as a customer using a communication device 131, 141, 151 . . . ) attempts to communicate with a target (such as an employee), an arrangement indicates to the customer, “status” information describing at least the employee's present an... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7389104 | Methods, systems and apparatus for providing urgent public information Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for distributing urgent public information. For example, one exemplary of the invention provides a method for providing an alert to a subscriber. The exemplary method comprises receiving an alert message from ... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7382227 | Portable computer supporting paging instructions A portable computer is described that contains a circuit for receiving pages and performing security functions based on the received page. Once a page has been received by the portable computer, the computer's hard drive can be automatically reformatted, or the port... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7373156 | Providing time information A method for providing time information comprises sending time information to at least one communications device and receiving information indicating error in received time information from at least one of said at least one communications device, said error in recei... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7372370 | Remotely activated, multiple stage alarm system An alarm system (100) to wake sleeping occupants in the event of an emergency has a receiver (105) for detecting a warning signal (130) emitted from an external device (125), such as a smoke or carbon monoxide detector. A processor (11... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7372358 | Portable computer supporting paging instructions A portable computer is described that contains a circuit for receiving pages and performing security functions based on the received page. Once a page has been received by the portable computer, the computer's hard drive can be automatically reformatted, or the port... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7369530 | Apparatus and method for interfacing packet-based phone services with emergency call centers A gateway is provided for interfacing packet-based phone services with controllers of emergency call centers. For each type of electronic medium to be interfaced, the gateway comprises a specific I/O interface and a specific module such as a protocol stack. The gate... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7366548 | Method for alerting a mobile unit of a missed call upon movement of the mobile unit The present invention provides a method for alerting a mobile unit of a missed call. A mobile unit receives a call request. If the mobile unit does not answer the call request and the mobile unit is stationary, the mobile unit waits for the mobile unit to move. Upon... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7363031 | System for monitoring and controlling a set of household appliances A system for monitoring and controlling a set of power users, in particular household appliances, which users (U) are connected to a first communication network (RE) through appropriate interfacing means (N) for the exchange of information and/or instructions, where... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7359367 | Device for preventing erroneous synchronization in wireless communication apparatus An erroneous synchronization preventing device includes a pattern detector detecting a sync pattern from received data with a broader sync window to output a sync detection notice and a sync timing. On receipt of the notice, a packet header detector checks an error ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7358853 | Crime prevention assisting apparatus and radio terminal apparatus The invention relates to a crime prevention assisting apparatus which can work with a radio terminal apparatus manipulated by a subscriber or the like of a mobile communication system in order to prevent crime as well as to a radio terminal apparatus that has a func... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7355505 | System and method for controlling access to designated area A system and associated method for controlling access to a designated area. The system includes a programmable unit, a programming unit, a programmable tag, and a validation system. The programmable unit generates a first and second key for each access to the design... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7353075 | Manufacturing system and controller, controlling method, controlling system, and control program for the manufacturing system A manufacturing system, located at a manufacturing system site, includes a discharger for discharging a liquid material having fluidity onto a substrate, communication means for transmitting and receiving data through a communication line, and monitoring means for m... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7352972 | Method and apparatus for the zonal transmission of data using building lighting fixtures This invention relates to the zonal transmission of data by radio means and optionally by optical means through the modulation of light from common building light fixtures, including the light output of fluorescent, mercury vapor, and other arc or discharge lamps an... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7349894 | Method and apparatus for dynamic information connection search engine A method and apparatus are provided for a dynamic information connection engine. User actions are detected on at least one client system. In response, a determination is made whether the user is searching for supported information. When the user is searching for sup... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7347781 | Method and system for reality gaming on wireless devices A system, method and computer readable medium are provided for facilitating a multiplayer game over a wireless network. According to the method, a request to transfer information between two of the wireless devices is received during the multiplayer game (e.g., 8... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7342321 | Bicycle electric power unit A bicycle electric power unit supplies electric power to a bicycle motor unit having a power source, a power source controller, a power source voltage detector, a first power source switch and a second power source switch. The power source controller turns off the f... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7339464 | Detection-resistant transponder with “stealth packaging” for high-risk surveillance applications An easily deployed, extremely detection-resistant surveillance method, apparatus, and system are disclosed. Preferred embodiments of the apparatus are adapted for generating and broadcasting pulsed transmissions optimized for electronic tagging, tracking, and “hom... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7339895 | Gateway device and control method for communication with IP and IPV6 protocols A non-IP device holds an interface ID defined by Ipv6. A gateway generates and holds an Ipv6 address for the non-IP device. The gateway serves to convert the protocol of a packet destined to the non-IP device from a portable telephone or a personal computer coupled ... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7340215 | Communication system, communication terminal apparatus and wireless key apparatus It was constituted such that in a case when a function of the communication terminal apparatus 10 is limited in response to a wireless communication state between the communication terminal apparatus 10 and the wireless key apparatus 50, it is c... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7310512 | Radio communication method, radio communication system, wide area radio communication base station, and radio communication terminal The present invention is intended to provide, for a wireless communication system originally having a calling function, a wireless communication system enabling an audio communication service or the like which requires a calling function, and to provide a wireless c... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7310390 | Decoding coded data streams A method of decoding, in one particular embodiment, an IEC 60958 biphase coded data stream comprising determining the maximum period in the data stream without a transition; determining a first threshold corresponding to a period of time less than the maximum period... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7305441 | Time-sensitive messages and events Methods, systems, and computer program products for enabling message senders and event creators to convey time-sensitivity of their messages and events (such as electronic mail messages, electronic calendar entries, and “to-do” items), and for handling such mess... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7305012 | Method and system to synchronize mobile units to a base transceiver station Method to synchronize at least one mobile unit to at least one base transceiver station belonging to a digital telecommunication network, in which radio signals transmitted and received by said base station are subdivided in frames (Fn) having pre-determined duratio... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7302397 | System for issue identification, prioritization, and resolution and associated method A method of collaboratively identifying, prioritizing, and resolving issues is provided. An issue and/or a comment corresponding to the issue are received over a computer network from a customer and/or an originating entity via respective computer devices and posted... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7293049 | Accounting for update notification in synchronizing data that may be represented by different data structures Methods, systems, and computer program products for synchronizing data stored at one or more message clients with data stored at a message server where the message clients may receive update notifications and may represent the data using different data structures th... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7293062 | Apparatus and method for communication control An internet facsimile apparatus (IFAX) can normally function even on a network managed by the HTTP protocol, in a system where an e-mail communicator receives e-mail from an IFAX according to the SMTP protocol, an HTML processor converts the e-mail data into an HTML... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7289768 | Portable terminal capable of guiding user to invoke a function and method thereof A portable terminal capable of guiding a user to invoke a function and a method thereof. In the portable terminal, a voice detector detects a keyword uttered by voice corresponding to a function; a display displays guide information for guiding a user to access the ... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7284012 | Multiple attribute object comparison based on quantitative distance measurement A system selects a plurality of attributes common to objects being compared and defines at least one value space for each selected attribute. Each selected attribute can have a value space that is different from a value space of the same attribute associated with a ... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7260421 | Communication device that communicates events using compressed audio information Compressed entertainment content such as audio or video or both includes additional aspects and operations associated their way. The compressed audio may be used to signal computers such as a telephone or reminder for an appointment. A melody line may be extracted f... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7236087 | On-premises pager and charging unit, and methods for using same On-premises pager loss is reduced by alerting patrons they are out of range. Pagers include an LCD with messages or promotions. An LED on the pager emits different colors indicating the level of battery charge. Circuitry in the pager causes a higher charge to be del... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7230523 | Vehicular rear view mirror/video display A rear view mirror/video display includes a one-way mirror and a selectively activated video display that is mounted immediately behind the one-way mirror so that the driver is presented with a typical semi-obstructed rearward view when the video display is deactiva... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7225262 | System and method for selecting an external user interface using spatial information A method and system for selecting an external user interface using spatial information is described. In one configuration the floor space of a mailroom is mapped using a two dimensional grid. At least one machine is located on the mapped grid and an associated contr... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7216015 | HVAC control system Systems and methods are described for a HVAC control system. An apparatus, includes: a microcontroller; a digital temperature sensor coupled to the microcontroller; a liquid crystal display coupled to the microcontroller; a set of cursor buttons coupled to the micro... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7198227 | Aircraft cargo locating system An aircraft cargo locating system determines the location and weight of aircraft cargo placed in unit loading devices. A wireless tag, such as an Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tag is affixed to each of the loading devices. The system receives information fro... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7196620 | Sensor monitoring apparatus, monitoring system, sensor monitoring method and program A sensor monitor comprises a sensor monitoring section for monitoring a sensor, notifying section for notifying a first notifying destination of a predetermined state when sensed by the sensor, notification confirming section for confirming that the notification has... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7197323 | Wireless communication method and system for coordinating paging occasions on a common paging channel A method of paging a plurality of users by synchronizing user equipment (UE) specific paging and Point-to-Multipoint (PtM) user group paging to reduce power consumption when the UE is in a discontinuous reception state. The UE identities are defined such that paging... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7194038 | Method for data communication between a wireless device and an electric device, and a data communication device A memory card mounted in a general purpose ATA expansion memory location in a separate electronic device, such as a high-class digital camera, includes a data communication feature for transmitting the memory contents to a mobile station. Expansion cards containing ... | 03/20/2007 |
