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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7834740 | Audible command method for handing off messages between two appliances A method for receiving messages in an appliance such as a clock radio modified to retrieve messages from a remote computer, converting the retrieved messages into corresponding audio messages, generating a wake up signal to the user at a selected time in the radio a... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7777608 | Secure cargo transportation system One embodiment provides a wireless communications device comprising a processing unit; a location-determining subsystem communicatively coupled to the processing unit, the location-determining subsystem to determine a current location of the wireless communications ... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7370085 | Method, system, and program for providing user location information with a personal information management program Provided is a method, system, program, and data structures for providing user location information with a personal information manager program. Position coordinates of a wireless device associated with a user are generated, along with time information indicating a t... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7366766 | Web-based speech recognition with scripting and semantic objects The present invention is a system and method for creating and implementing transactional speech applications (SAs) using Web technologies, without reliance on server-side standard or custom services. A transactional speech application may be any application that req... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7360004 | Powering a notebook across a USB interface A laptop computer and mating docking station where the docking station provides power to the laptop computer over power rails of the Universal Serial Bus (USB) interface. The laptop computer has laptop docking logic that both provides power in accordance with standa... | 04/15/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7343004 | Numeric and text paging with an integral PLC modem At least one exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a method comprising formatting a message at a first modem integral to a first programmable logic controller, and transmitting the formatted message from the first modem via a communications network.... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7330693 | Broadcast channels for wireless telephony A wireless system and method for providing informative broadcast services includes a plurality of base stations, each serving a plurality of wireless communications device users via a plurality of communications channels. An alert message is first transmitted to wir... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7319858 | System and method for querying message information A method for querying message information includes assigning a unique identifier to a message transmitted in a wireless network, providing the unique identifier to a wireless device associated with the message, receiving the unique identifier in a query request, and... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7315902 | Compression and abbreviation for fixed length messaging A method, computer program product, and data processing system for compressing and abbreviating text messages at a first text messaging device for transport and subsequent interpretation at a second text messaging device is disclosed. A user-defined message length r... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7283807 | Method and telecommunication system for indicating the receipt of a data message The method operates in a telecommunications network having at least one subscriber terminal corresponding to at least one subscriber at a subscriber location. The method implements a message waiting indication service for indicating the presence of a data message co... | 10/16/2007 |
| RE39870 | Global paging system using packet-switched digital data network and remote country designation A global paging system and corresponding method are disclosed in which an originating user pages a receiving user in a different country without the paging message being broadcast in all areas. According to certain embodiments, the originating user E-mails a web sit... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7269629 | Method and apparatus for distributing notification among cooperating devices and device channels Methods and devices for networked applications are disclosed. In one embodiment, a device instructs a proxy server to receive traffic inbound for the device, and to notify the device when such traffic arrives. The device can then sleep, except for a notification cha... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7256708 | Telecommunications network for remote patient monitoring A communications network for providing continuous patient monitoring to provide critical care services from a remote location. A plurality of patient monitoring stations with associated patient monitoring instrumentation is connected over a communications network to... | 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 |
| 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 |
| 7246145 | Fully distributed, scalable infrastructure, communication system A fully distributed, scalable infrastructure, communication system. The system comprises at least on Space, at least one double agent and at least one non-space specific double agent. Devices and applications that wish to communicate with other members of the Commun... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7243123 | Video call routing with presence determination A request to establish video communication with a recipient associated with multiple communication devices is received. The recipient is identified using information contained within the request. A set of communication devices associated with the recipient is determ... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7243124 | Architecture for general purpose near real-time business intelligence system with client devices and methods therefor A method of transferring a set of data elements to a recipient on a network, the network includes a set of devices registered to the recipient. The method also includes receiving the set of data elements. The method further includes ascertaining if the first device ... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7240326 | System and method for obtaining display names from management models CIM elements are retrieved from the management definition object and a determination is made as to whether the element is a non-instance element or an instance element. If the element is a non-instance element and a qualifier is found in the management object, then ... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7233789 | Wireless security and access device A wireless security and access device including a housing, a wireless radio receiver embedded in the housing for receiving notification of an arrived message, a processor and memory embedded in the housing for processing and storing the notification, an indicator fo... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7231423 | Interactive wireless device communication system for meetings and conferences A conference organizer uses conference software to define a conference and to store conference information on the organizer's computer system. The stored conference information includes a list of attendees, and a personal proxy mailbox for each attendee. Each attend... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7227843 | Method for reducing congestion in packet-switched networks The present invention permits a network service provider to detect an operational condition—such as congestion—in a packet-switched network and to alleviate such congestion by providing customer incentives to avoid use of the network. The detection mechanism tri... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7209738 | Portable communications device coupled to first network by way of second network A portable communications device (PCD) is coupled to a first network by way of a second network. The PCD is normally in radio communication with the first network, and is coupled to the first network by way of the second network when the PCD is out of radio communic... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7209949 | System and method for synchronizing information between a host system and a mobile data communication device A system and method of pushing user-selected data items from a host system to a user's mobile data communication device upon detecting the occurrence of one or more user-defined event triggers is provided. The user may then move (or file) the data items to a particu... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7203739 | Terminal device for controlling transmission size of documents with capability of receiving device Terminal devices and a method of transferring sets of transmission document information in a network system between terminal devices such as portable devices which can be grouped together into a plurality of different groups is provided. A terminal device can store ... | 04/10/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7200680 | Method, apparatus and system for providing multimedia messages to incompatible terminals The present invention provides a method, apparatus and system for providing multimedia messages to incompatible terminals. The apparatus includes a notification module (216), a media converter (220) and a retrieval module (218). The notification... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7200808 | Electronic document processor An electronic document processor is provided in which a controller sets a size of an abstract display area, in an entire display area, according to an input supplied to an input unit, determines an abstract length based on the set abstract display area size, generat... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7193511 | Rapid-mounting security monitoring and controlling system A rapid-mounting security monitoring and controlling system is disclosed. Co-axial cable is used to transmit power supply, images, sound, and to control detected signals so as to rapidly installation of wirings for the security monitoring and controlling system. The... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7191404 | System and method for mapping management objects to console neutral user interface A generic management definition object, described using a CIM MOF file or an Extensible Markup Language document, can be used to format display panels that are independent of a management console. A generic integration layer is created between the management data an... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7183898 | Coupling wireless portable communications device to a base station by a second network when out of communication with a first network A method of coupling a wireless portable communications device (PCD) to a base station by way of a second network is disclosed. The PCD is normally in communication with the base station by way of a first network, and is coupled to the base station by way of the sec... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7177793 | System and method for managing translatable strings displayed on console interfaces NLS translations can be provided by extracting translatable strings from the management definition object, such as a CIM MOF file, and writing the strings into one or more translation files. A unique identifier is assigned to each translatable string. The identifier... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7167830 | Multimodal information services A system for multimodal information services includes a multimodal information service mechanism for providing the multimodal information services. An information user connects to a first network through at least one communication device, the first network connectin... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7165114 | Web streaming in a messaging system A messaging system having a network interface unit (NIU) with an embedded services processor (ESP) that provides a general purpose computing capability within the NIU that supports the streaming of data for the messaging system with external computer networks, and t... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7162543 | Process for synchronizing data between remotely located devices and a central computer system A process for synchronizing data between a remotely located device, such as a personal digital assistant, Internet-enabled phone, handheld computer, laptop or desktop computer, and a central computer system. The data may be related to offline applications running on... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7143182 | Smart secretary for routing call objects in a telephony network A message-processing agent receives an object from a space in a Scalable Infrastructure system. The message-processing agent determines the destination of the object and checks a preference setting for the destination. The message-processing agent then routes the ob... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7130388 | Portable message waiting indicator An apparatus and method are provided for easily indicating to a user that a communication has been received for him or her. A portable message waiting indication device (MWID) includes a power source (e.g., battery), signal receiver and a visual and/or audible indic... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7131133 | Access control method and information utilization apparatus The encoded contents of a piece of delivered information is accompanied by an applicable time data indicating a specific time period for authorizing a particular mode of utilization. When a request for utilizing the contents is issued in an information utilization a... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7127263 | Private branch exchange system Each of a plurality of mobile stations is provided with a plurality of extension numbers including at least one unique extension number, and different lines are set for the plurality of extension numbers respectively. This enables a call using a line even when anoth... | 10/24/2006 |
