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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7518486 | Method for locking an electrical device to a given locale A method for locking an electrical device to a location includes installing a location code generating unit into a power network hub servicing a geographic area, generating a location code for the geographic area, at least periodically transmitting the generated loc... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7366285 | Multi-modal communications method A method of collecting information is provided. The method includes sending an interactive text markup programming language script, using a session initiation protocol (SIP) message, to a communications device. The interactive script includes a first query and a sec... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7342930 | Communication equipment, communication system, and communication method A communication equipment comprises a reception/transmission unit configured to notify a target equipment of a plurality of addresses provided for the communication equipment, acquire a plurality of target equipment addresses provided for the target equipment, from ... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7319886 | Communication system In a communication of audio signals between first and second portable-telephone devices through a first portable-telephone base station, a second portable-telephone base station and a portable-telephone line network has been connected, IP addresses are exchanged. Th... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7292628 | Identification system for monitoring the presence / absence of members of a defined set A system which allows multiple senders to asynchronously transmit identification codes via a common communication channel (e.g., RF) to enable a central monitor to identify the presence (or absence) of each sender within the monitor's detection zone. Each sender is ... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7289024 | Method and system for sending pre-scripted text messages A system employing a telematics unit and a telematics call center. The telematics unit includes a first module and a first set of at least one pre-scripted text message, and the telematics call center includes a second module and a second set of at least one pre-scr... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7286817 | System for acknowledging a message received on a mobile terminal A system for acknowledging that a message sent by a sender terminal and received on a destination mobile terminal has been read. The sender terminal comprises a module for: a) supplying the identifier of a destination mobile terminal for the message; b) generating t... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7271727 | Dual frequency radio tag for a radio frequency identification system A dual frequency radio tag for a radio frequency identification system is provided that includes an antenna system and a first receiver coupled to the antenna system. The first receiver receives and processes request signals from a first unit type at a first frequen... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7269793 | Conversational dealing system In a duplex chat conversational trading system, trader terminals monitor for new incoming messages from the time a trader starts to input a new message to the time it is sent. If an incoming message is detected, sending of the message is inhibited and the trader is ... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7254223 | Method and apparatus for improved personal communication devices and systems Contact data in a database for a wireless personal communication device are remotely updatable from, or transferable between, a computer system using a radio frequency connection. New contact data, and changes or updates to existing contact data, are input at the co... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7254616 | Reliable communication mechanism with “at most once” delivery guarantee An improved inter-module communication facilitation mechanism (CFM) is disclosed, which provides improved scalability, improved efficiency, and enhanced functionality and performance. In one aspect, the CFM enables a subscriber to subscribe to multiple events using ... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7251318 | Method and apparatus for improved personal communication devices and systems An apparatus and method provide a database in a pager that contains menus that may be displayed on a pager display. A paging service sends a page including an identification, retrieves a menu from the pager database and displays the menu. The pager responds to the p... | 07/31/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7236740 | Data retransmission apparatus and method in a mobile communication system employing HARQ technique A method and apparatus for retransmitting data in a mobile communication system wherein a receiver determines whether an initial data block received from a transmitter has an error. Upon detecting an error from the initial data block, the receiver estimates a curren... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7225230 | System and method for electronic message status notification This invention is directed to a system and method for providing a status notification for a message in a communications network. An embodiment of this invention is a voicemail system, which provides a caller in a telecommunications network with the option of request... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7200380 | Wireless telecommunications location based services scheme selection An intelligent system for choosing selection schemes to be tried in a predetermined order for determining the location of a wireless mobile client, including retrieving a last known position record from a cache, checking serving network capability, choosing an initi... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7200130 | Short range RF network configuration A network including a host device and a plurality of transceiver satellite nodes for communicating data from terminal devices interacting with the nodes, to the host. The nodes include identification codes used by the host for establishing wireless communication lin... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7197461 | System and method for voice-enabled input for use in the creation and automatic deployment of personalized, dynamic, and interactive voice services The delivery of voice serve messages communicating financial, personal or other news telecasts may be customized according to the identity of the recipient and controlled by voice commands. A voice service bureau may generate voice messages for individual subscriber... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7187947 | System and method for communicating selected information to an electronic device Disclosed are a system and method for communicating selected information to an electronic device. The disclosed system may include a digital engine operable to maintain data representing the selected information in a digital format. In some embodiments, the digital ... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7165132 | Processing node including a plurality of processor cores and an interconnect configurable in a test-mode to cause first and second transaction source indicators to be interchanged In one embodiment, a processing node includes a plurality of processor cores and a reconfigurable interconnect. The processing node also includes a controller configured to schedule transactions received from each processor core. The interconnect may be coupled to c... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7151435 | Method and apparatus for identifying a patient A method for updating information about a subject of interest is disclosed. The method comprises assigning the subject a unique signal which signal is physically associated with the subject, identifying the unique signal, and displaying information related to the su... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7135963 | Method for locating a badge for a motor vehicle hands-free system A method for locating a badge for a motor vehicle handsfree system includes transmission in the form of an inquiry of a signal by a first group of antennas of the vehicle to the tag, response of the tag to this first inquiry, transmission in the form of an inquiry o... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7117245 | Global communication method and system A global messaging system delivers messages to user devices by employing aliases, permissions, and protocols. A sender sends a message to an alias. The message is transmitted to devices associated with the alias. The system compares the message length to a maximum m... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7113537 | Combined searching and page monitoring using offline sample storage A novel and improved method for performing paging is described. In one embodiment of the invention a searcher is used to detect spread spectrum signals. Samples received RF signals are stored in a sample buffer. During standby mode, the samples are gathered during p... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7110372 | Transmission of carry-on objects using a wireless ad-hoc networking environment A carry on service which allows a mobile device adapted for wireless communication over a permanent communication network carries information objects on behalf of other devices. Carry on information objects are transferred from a carry on user device over a wireless... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7103348 | Mobile station (MS) message selection identification system A method for identifying a message selection made at a mobile station (MS), the method including the steps of uniquely associating an inbound telephone number with a message, attaching the inbound telephone number to the message, sending the message and the attached... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7083517 | Remote wagering system A system and method for permitting a wagerer to remotely place a wager is disclosed. The wagerer remotely contacts a ticket writer or computerized system. The ticket writer or computerized system generates a random number and sends the random number to the wagerer v... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7071814 | Contextually aware network announcements of people A context sensitive data announcing device includes an ad hoc network interface configured to receive one or more announcements identifying one or more members of an ad hoc network. The device includes a database which contains information regarding the one or more ... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7043262 | Two-way pager and method for communicating preset messages over the global system for mobile communications (GSM/GPRS) network The present invention provides a communication system for transmitting messages from one or more dispatcher stations to and from one or more stand-alone, two-way pagers via a radio frequency communication channel, namely, the short message service (SMS) of the Globa... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7039591 | Configuring architecture for mobile access to at least one business resource A method of configuring an architecture for provision of mobile access to a wireless communication device provides a structured framework for defining a preferential configuration of the architecture. A target list of resources is established with respect to mobile ... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7032005 | System for handling information and information transfers in a computer network The present invention relates to relates to the efficient and secure transfer of information over a distributed computer network such as the Internet. The system provides parallel communication paths between the source and destination. Each path includes a dedicated... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7024199 | System and method of querying a device, checking device roaming history and/or obtaining device modem statistics when device is within a home network and/or complementary network A system and method for enabling a user to query availability, roaming history and/or modem statistics of a wireless device that can roam between at least two different wireless networks, without assistance from network service provider personnel. ... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7005985 | Radio frequency identification system and method A method and system for monitoring assets using radio frequency tags is provided that includes a plurality of primary tags. Each primary tag stores an identification of each linked tag associated with the primary tag. The primary tag receives a polling event and tra... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6993327 | Multicast distribution of presence information for an instant messaging system The present invention is a system, method and network (110) for multicast distribution of presence information to a plurality of communication devices (102, 104, 106, 108). A contact list (122, 124, 126, 128), associated with each communication ... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6987443 | Unified paging In one embodiment, a method for paging from a pagor to a pager is disclosed. In one step, a page is sent wirelessly to the pager and received from the pagor. After determining that the pagee has not responded to the page for a predetermined time period, the page is ... | 01/17/2006 |
| 6956497 | Method and apparatus for sending presence messages An intentional presence system in accordance with the present invention includes a transmitting device at a first physical location that is responsive to a command intentionally initiated by a first individual at the first physical location to develop a presence sig... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6947737 | System and method of transmitting data messages between subscriber units communicating with/between complementary/disparate networks A system and method for enabling a first device (502, 504, 506) that may optionally roam between at least first and second wireless networks (500, 1102) to communicate with a second device (502, 504, 506) that may optionally roam between the at ... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6925308 | Auto-fill message fields in a communication terminal A method and apparatus for automatically entering information into formatted messages. A communication terminal comprises a receiver for receiving a formatted message, the formatted message comprising a message identification code and a plurality of information fiel... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6922558 | Integrated building control and information system with wireless networking This invention relates to an integrated building control and information system with wireless networking, including the controlling and/or monitoring of various building devices or appliances such as air conditioning, lighting, temperature, humidity, etc., including... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6917281 | Method and apparatus for transmitting and decoding pre-programmed messages Each of a plurality of wireless communication units (102) is pre-programmed (402) with a plurality of orthogonal codes corresponding to a plurality of canned messages, the plurality of orthogonal codes chosen such that when a group of different canned ... | 07/12/2005 |
