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| 7359676 | Systems and methods for adaptively scanning for wireless communications This application is directed to systems and methods for adaptively scanning for wireless communications. Scan data associated with scanning one or more wireless network channels based upon a scan pattern is received. Each wireless channel has a designation of primar... | 04/15/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7295817 | Wireless data communication unit A wireless data communication unit (700) shares a data communication resource with a plurality of other data communication units. The wireless data communication unit (700) receives channel status information from a wireless serving communication unit ... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7277696 | System and method for minimising bandwidth utilisation in a wireless interactive voice response system The present invention provides a novel system, method and apparatus of delivering interactive voice response services in a more efficient manner over a network. The system provides for the placement of a subscriber station local 28 to the subscriber and a gat... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7216152 | Mobile web A system and method of interfacing includes a mobile web information exchange device. Information about a user is recorded on a mobile web recording medium. Information terminals are provided at locations which receive the mobile web recording medium. Information is... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7212122 | Methods and apparatus of meshing and hierarchy establishment for tracking devices Devices, such as tracking devices, cooperate with one another to establish the routing necessary for a relay network in which a device having power-efficient and data-reliable communication with an access portal, operates to relay messages from devices which do not ... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7171378 | Portable electronic terminal and data processing system The present invention relates to a personal shopping system for combined use in both the home of a user and a shopping establishment. The system includes a host computer which is coupled to a host modem and, optionally, to at least one wireless multi-access point. A... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7136915 | System for communicating through maps A communications system to post arbitrary information to any geographical region simply by outlining the region on a map in the system's user interface and attaching the information to the outlined region is provided. The outlined region can be of any size, e.g., a ... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7106814 | Method and wireless device employing a preamble to initiate communications A wireless receiver 300 and corresponding method to detect a message identifier or preamble that has been generated and provided by a transmitter 200 uses FFTs to estimate frequency and time offset. The wireless receiver 300 scans, asynchronousl... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7092730 | Dynamic creation of channels in a simulcast wireless communication system Dynamic allocation of communication resources in a wireless communication system employing simulcast transmission. When a simulcast station of a simulcast channel at a remote site becomes unavailable, a simulcast site controller determines if there is an unused simu... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7082479 | System and method for maintaining synchronized data transfer using a plurality of different control words individually indicative of the same single event A method and apparatus for the transmission of multiple control characters of the same type to a receiver to improve the retention of transmitter to receiver synchronization in a noisy environment having receiver code that is less complex and does not require an inc... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7062281 | Multi-mode paging system A multi-mode paging system and method of selectively paging an individual through one of a plurality of paging mechanisms. An indication of a paging mechanism for each individual to be paged is stored in a memory device. When an input is received from a user to page... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7058594 | Distributed network system which transmits information to users based on past transactions of the users A geographic-based communications service system has a mobile unit for transmitting/receiving information, and access points connected to a network. The access points are arranged in a known geographic locations and transmit and receive information from the mobile u... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7030730 | System and method for formatting an electronic message A client/server based system provides an integrated messages system for a user having access to accounts on a number of different terminal communication devices, including at least one wireless terminal device. In a preferred embodiment, the system includes an agent... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7013157 | Method for multicast delivery with designated acknowledgment A packet format for multicast messages which designates a single receiver to send an acknowledgment to the multicast message. The designated receiver responds to the multicast message with an acknowledgment. If the designated receiver does not respond to the multica... | 03/14/2006 |
| 6965297 | Wide area radio paging system A system for delivering page messages to paging units over a wide area is provided through multiple transmission systems. The system has a controller for routing page messages to each paging unit through the transmission system to which the paging unit is registered... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6931250 | Portable telephone set and communicative base station switching system A received electric field measuring section 11 measures the received electric fields from the communicative base station and the neighbor base stations. A received electric field memory section 12 stores received electric field patterns of the communic... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6925309 | Method and apparatus for quickly establishing a CDMA dispatch call To address the need for an apparatus and method for quickly establishing a CDMA dispatch call, the present invention provides for paging mobile stations (e.g., 120-123) to inform them of the call and then starting the dispatch call without waiting for page re... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6920322 | Paging control method and paging control system in communication system Efficient paging control is achieved in a communication system that selectively provides one of communication services implemented by integrating a plurality of communication systems. Before transmitting a downlink signal to a terminal, a gateway requests each of th... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6917621 | Enhanced emulation system on a communication network The present invention supports a packet-based communication by emulating the functions of an enhanced mobile radio system. The communication device executes emulation software to support simplex communications, as well as other communication features such as voice m... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6903651 | Method of unlocking electronic lock A method of unlocking an electronic lock capable of saving a labor by unmanning a system on the side of an object to be unlocked and increasing a security, comprising the step of unlocking by using a radio and a plurality of identification codes, wherein a cashbox (... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6834179 | Method for operating an access control system, in particular for a motor vehicle, and access control system In the access control system, a code transmitter-end transceiver unit and a vehicle-end transceiver unit emit signals approximately synchronously on approximately the same carrier frequency. As a result of superimposition, a new code signal arises and its code infor... | 12/21/2004 |
| 6574479 | Method and apparatus for sending a message to a pager using a subscriber telephone number A paging system in which a subscriber's telephone number is used as the PIN number to identify the subscriber's pager. When a caller places a call to the paging system, the caller enters the telephone number of the subscriber when prompted for a PIN. The ... | 06/03/2003 |
| 6545588 | Pager with rotating knob and character display for inputting messages A pager allows the input and transmission of a virtual unlimited range of messages. The pager comprises a character display control knob which controls the sequential display of alphabetic and numeric characters on a display. By rotating the knob, the dis... | 04/08/2003 |
| 6538561 | Data communication network for minimizing toll-charge dependent links and method of operation There is disclosed an inbound message receiving system for use in a wireless messaging system. The inbound message receiving system comprises: 1) a source base transceiver station capable of receiving a wireless message from a source mobile station dispos... | 03/25/2003 |
| 6208839 | Remote token based information acquistion system A remote token based information acquisition system (100) operates generate the wireless request and delivery of information corresponding with a uniform resource locator. The system includes a personal messaging device (200) having a receiver (205) that ... | 03/27/2001 |
| 6198406 | Method and apparatus for providing a predictable upper bound for a channel search time of a portable subscriber unit A portable subscriber unit (PSU) (222) operating in a plurality of messaging systems selects (605) a first messaging system to monitor for messages. The PSU then initiates (610) background scanning according to a scan list (326), including a plurality of ... | 03/06/2001 |
| 6167235 | Method and apparatus for providing additional information to a selective call device about a broadcast A technique is used in a selective call communication system (100) and in a broadcast communication system (106) to provide additional information about a broadcast to a selective call device (111). A broadcast receiver (109) receives a broadcast that inc... | 12/26/2000 |
| 6141535 | Communication systems for controlling registration of selective call devices A method in a communication system (100) having at least a first and a second base stations (104, 108) for communicating with selective call devices (102) includes the steps of transmitting a first signal on a first frequency that indicates an alternate f... | 10/31/2000 |
| 6108518 | Method of controlling paging in a plurality of mobile switching centers in a radio telecommunications network A method of paging for a mobile station operating in a radio telecommunications network having a serving mobile switching center (MSC), a home location register (HLR), and a plurality of border MSCs. The method comprises the steps of paging for the mobile... | 08/22/2000 |
| 6101394 | CDMA multiple carrier paging channel optimization A method of reducing paging channel usage in a CDMA communication system. Each mobile switching centre maintains in its visitor location registry information regarding a paging channel or carrier frequency that each mobile station registered is monitoring... | 08/08/2000 |
| 6101370 | Method and apparatus used in a simulcast radio communication system for providing improved local time A technique is used in a simulcast radio communication system (200) for providing improved local time information. The technique includes, in a fixed portion (300) of the simulcast radio communication system (200), alternatively transmitting in a radio si... | 08/08/2000 |
| 6075794 | Method for coordinating inbound channels in a selective call communication system A method for coordinating an inbound channel in a selective call communication system (100) includes the steps of encoding (702) an expected time for an inbound response and a number of bits in the inbound response with an outbound message requesting info... | 06/13/2000 |
| 6072768 | Automatic satellite/terrestrial mobile terminal roaming system and method A communications system includes a satellite communications component having at least one satellite and at least one terrestrial gateway, and also a wireless terrestrial communications component having at least one repeater and at least one mobile switchi... | 06/06/2000 |
| 6054934 | Call reception control method in wide area radio pager capable A method for controlling a call reception operation in a wide area radio pager, which is capable of providing a continued stable radio call service to the radio pager without generating errors in receiving radio call signals even when the user of the radi... | 04/25/2000 |
| 6014549 | Communication system and method using two-way paging to provide call control A system and method of using two-way paging to establish communications with a mobile party having a Personal Telephone Number. The mobile party is equipped with a two-way pager which the party may use to provide call control. The pager is periodically qu... | 01/11/2000 |
| 5995804 | Repeater station for augmenting the coverage area of a paging system A low power miniature repeater station is located on a vehicle such as a train, cargo ship, cruise ship or other vehicle which is expected to carry multiple paging receivers. The repeater station receives paging messages that originate as satellite signal... | 11/30/1999 |
| 5966662 | Subscriber paging control in a mobile communication system A mobile communication system and a method controls subscriber paging messages in a mobile communication system. The base stations of a mobile communication system are arranged according to their traffic load into paging groups with different priorities, ... | 10/12/1999 |
| 5950113 | Method and apparatus for inbound transmission in a two-way radio messaging system A first portable subscriber unit (122, 602) of a plurality of portable subscriber units transmits (504) an inbound message (400) on an inbound channel. The inbound message is intended for a base receiver (616). The inbound message is received (506) by a s... | 09/07/1999 |
| 5864298 | Pager (ringer) amplification by co-operative emission relay (pacer/racer) A pager/ringer system for permitting co-operative emission relay between a plurality of user terminals of a satellite personal communication network (S-PCN) service. Each user terminal includes a receiver, a transmitter, a memory storage device and a uniq... | 01/26/1999 |
