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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7760072 | System and method for providing user-selected information to a paging-capable device A system and method for providing user-selected information to a paging-capable device. An enhanced paging system responsive to information sources and a selection device transmits information to a paging-capable device. The enhanced paging system comprises a storin... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7349532 | Picture and video message center system A message originator sends a picture or video message to a message center along with caller identifying information. The message is stored in a memory and transmitted to a wireless picture phone, PDA or portable computing device, or stored at the message center in a... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7321750 | Communication system, device and method A communication system such as a telephone system has at least a base station and a communication device to communicate with the base station, the communication device comprises an RF power amplifier having an RF output for coupling to an antenna and an RF output po... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7315614 | Remote notification of communications A remote call notification system for incoming calls to a wireline telecommunications device. The system includes a switch, a service control point, an intelligent server, and a monitoring module all in communication with each other. The remote call notification is ... | 01/01/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7310416 | Method and apparatus for improved personal communication devices and systems A system for adding or updating contact data in a wireless communication device, cellular telephone, pager or personal digital assistant (PDA) is shown. Contact data associated with actual or potential communicants may be entered into a database in the wireless comm... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7305076 | Method and apparatus for improved paging receiver and system A wireless information communication system and method, such as a paging network, that provides caller identification information transmitted from the public switched telephone network to a pager, PDA (Personal Digital Assistant), a portable computing device, or per... | 12/04/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7275994 | Game machine having wireless communication capability A video game machine is provided with wireless functionality. The wireless functionality may be built-into the video game machine or may be provided by a device that is removably attachable to the video game machine. The wireless functionality enables, among other t... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7266186 | Method and apparatus for improved paging receiver and system Contact data in a phonebook database for a personal communication device are remotely updateable from, or transferable between, a computer system using a wireless radio frequency connection. New contact data, and changes or updates to existing contact data, are inpu... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7257210 | Picture phone with caller id Pictures are transmitted to a wireless picture phone with caller ID from a message originator and used by the message recipient to identify who is to sending the picture. In one embodiment the pictures are sent to a message center along with the caller ID of the mes... | 08/14/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7254385 | System and method of automatic conversion of units of measure in a wireless communication network A system and method for automatic conversions of units of measure in a wireless communication network are provided. With the system and method, when a wireless communication device enters a region of a wireless network, the wireless communication device registers wi... | 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 |
| 7250846 | Method and apparatus for providing dynamic user alert Techniques for providing a dynamic alert indication to a user of a signal receiving device. One technique includes the steps of processing a signal transmitted from a signal transmitting device to determine at least one mode to be associated with an alert indication... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7224989 | Communication terminal having a predictive text editor application A communication terminal has a predictive text editor for use in a dialogue application. The communication terminal comprises a transceiver unit through which said communication terminal is connected with a network and being able to receive a dialogue input. Languag... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7221930 | Cellular phone capable of detecting counterfeit currency or lighting and method of the same The present invention is to provide a cellular phone capable of detecting counterfeit currency or lighting comprising a counterfeit currency detection bulb, a lamp and a keypad, wherein the keypad includes a first dual key in association with the counterfeit currenc... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7215246 | Binding for one-way wireless transmissions A system allows binding in a one-way wireless transmission. The system includes a transmitting wireless device having a button and a receiving wireless device having a signaling mechanism. The second wireless device receives a code transmitted from the first wireles... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7216145 | Event notification system In a method of transmitting an event notification, a first data packet that includes a first event code is transmitted to a first individual via a not-automatically receipt confirmed communication. Upon receiving a response communication from the first individual, t... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7197464 | Method and apparatus for reducing access delay in discontinuous transmission packet telephony systems A system, method and computer-readable medium are disclosed for operating a communications network. The method aspect comprises receiving an audio signal and to remove a first portion of a frame of the audio signal, and generating an overlap-added segment from (1) a... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7162419 | Method in the decompression of an audio signal The invention relates to a method in the decompression of a compressed audio signal. In the decompression, a predicting coding has been used, wherein samples taken of the audio signal have been formed into frames, and the samples of the frames have been compared wit... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7142810 | Method of communicating with a quiescent vehicle The invention provides a method for establishing communications with a quiescent mobile vehicle. A satellite radio system broadcast channel is monitored for a command signal. The command signal is extracted from the broadcast channel. A cell phone in a telematics un... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7136670 | Mobile communication device with audio recorder A mobile communication device that has self-contained audio recorder and playback circuitry therein. ... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7130309 | Communication device with dynamic delay compensation and method for communicating voice over a packet-switched network A device and method for communication of speech packets over a packet-switched network allows for a greater channel reallocation delay. Initial speech packets may be buffered during a channel reallocation delay and sent through an access medium when a channel is gra... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7085358 | Visual caller identification A visual caller identification system and method are provided. A caller identification device of a called party's telephone, whether integrated with the telephone or stand-alone, includes a series of colored lights for visually alerting the called party to an incomi... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7079058 | Powering down of DAC and ADC for receive/transmit modes of operation in a wireless device A digital-to-analog converter (DAC) disposed in a data transmission path to convert data from a digital format to an analog format to be transmitted is powered down during a receive mode of operation for a wireless communication device. Likewise, an analog-to-digita... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7054819 | Voice print access to computer resources A dual-access communications server system is disclosed for enabling communication between server resources and a wide spectrum of end-terminals to enable users access to the resources of both converged and non-converged networks via voice and/or electronically gene... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7050037 | Communication terminal device A communication terminal device including a light-emitting unit for lighting at least either a display unit or an input unit, a reception unit for receiving contents data described in a predetermined information description language based on operation information, a... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7035719 | Tone generating electronic device with paging module for verification of energy curtailment A curtailment module is disclosed for enabling an energy provider to send a request to curtail energy use to a user. The curtailment module includes an interface for electronic communications with a temperature control device. A paging module is used to receive the ... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7027425 | Impulse radio virtual wireless local area network system and method A virtual wireless local area network system and method utilizing impulse radio wherein transmission rates (bit rates) can vary according to the impulse radio transmission quality (signal to noise ratio) and wherein the position of the user can be determined and sai... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7016850 | Method and apparatus for reducing access delay in discontinuous transmission packet telephony systems Speech at the beginning of a talkspurt in a discontinuous transmission (DTX) packet telephony system is speeded up to help make up for an access delay incurred during channel allocation. Incoming speech frames are buffered, a pitch period for a current portion of th... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7006839 | Letter message communication method and apparatus A letter message including transmitter's name, letter message destination telephone number 62 and letter message text 63, is worked out and stored in a memory 8 in advance by using an input unit 5 and a display unit 4 before commen... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6998959 | System and method for providing user-selected information to a paging-capable device A system and method for providing user-selected information to a paging-capable device. An enhanced paging system responsive to information sources and a selection device transmits information to a paging-capable device. The enhanced paging system comprises a storin... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6995654 | Apparatus and method for locating a tagged item An apparatus and method for determining the location of an item from a plurality of like items, using matching paging devices and passive transponder tags on each item. The unique code number (IC) of the tag is programmed into its matching paging device. The paging ... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6965757 | Multiband short range radio receiver for motor vehicle data The short range radio receiver for motor vehicle data comprises antenna circuits (1–4) connected to a unit (10–15) for processing a carrier in a plurality of specific frequency bands which is modulated by a data signal, the unit (10–15) co... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6937706 | System and method for data recording A system and method for monitoring a telephone switching environment. In a preferred embodiment the system and method simultaneously monitor both an SMDR link and a real-time CTI link, gather information about calls from both sources, and combine gathered informatio... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6925539 | Data transfer performance through resource allocation Method and apparatus for transferring data between a host device and a data storage device having a first memory space and a second memory space. The first memory space employs a first command queue and a second command queue. The host issues access commands to stor... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6919814 | System and method for providing ancillary page information For use in a paging network, a system for, and method of, providing ancillary page information. In one embodiment, the system includes: (1) an ancillary information collector, associated with a page call-in center of the paging network, that derives party identifica... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6774765 | System and method of dispatching an individual in a transaction establishment A system and method of dispatching an individual in a transaction establishment which employs a communication system and pagers. In a preferred embodiment, the system includes a telephone or other alert device for receiving a first message indicative of a problem, a... | 08/10/2004 |
| 6728300 | Method and apparatus for maximizing standby time in remote stations configured to receive broadcast databurst messages A wireless telecommunications system includes a base station, a plurality of remote stations, a first channel for general page messages containing paging information and broadcast databurst message references, and an auxiliary channel for broadcast databurst notific... | 04/27/2004 |
