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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7218916 | Portable radio communication apparatus The present invention aims at providing a portable radio communication apparatus in which forming of a message is easy. The portable radio communication apparatus is provided with a novel pre-message memory formed of a ROM or the like stored in which are fixed messa... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7212532 | Message re-sending protocol for a wireless communications system In a wireless network having a plurality of nodes configured to send and receive messages between each other, a method is disclosed for determining whether a message sent from a sending node to a receiving node has been successfully transmitted. The sending node tra... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7142841 | Telephone personal information manager A personal information manager (PIM) has been provided for use in controlling telephone call message responses for a wireless communications network mobile station telephone. The PIM permits a telephone user to program a unique response for each calling party. Typic... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7088801 | Single telephone number access to multiple communications services A platform provides access to multiple telecommunications services via a single telephone number. These services may include, for example, voicemail services, facsimile messaging services, paging services, and outbound calling services. A guest caller may call the s... | 08/08/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7042337 | Communication and data entry device A personal communication and data entry device comprises a portable housing, an internal controller coupled to the housing, a paging device coupled to the controller, and at least one of a voice recording device, a cellular telephone transceiver, a radio transceiver... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7035588 | Headset having a short-range mobile system A method for fast transmission of large amounts of data stored in a memory of a main part to a slave by using a short-range mobile system is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of requesting transmission of data stored in the memory of the main part, establish... | 04/25/2006 |
| 6973301 | System for altering operational aspects of a mobile electronic device based upon location A system for altering an operational aspect of a mobile electronic device based on the location of the device and the proximity of the device to certain components is disclosed. The invention provides a system for altering an operational aspect of a mobile electroni... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6968174 | Call routing apparatus The present invention relates generally to telecommunications, and in particular to systems and methods for routing and placing telephone calls. In one embodiment, a call manager system is configured to place a call to a pay-per-call service, or to cause such a call... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6964020 | Method and system for facilitating construction of a canned message in a microbrowser environment A method and system for performing text-entry by facilitating construction of a canned message on a wireless handheld device, the canned message being comprised of at least two canned message segments (i.e., words and/or phrases). A user selects a first canned messa... | 11/08/2005 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 6809641 | Method for disabling alarm temporarily in mobile communication terminal A method for disabling temporarily preset alarm in a mobile communication terminal for one day, or periodically, or on a designated date, as a user wishes, is disclosed. The method comprises determining whether the temporal disabling button has been pushed by a user... | 10/26/2004 |
| 6754314 | Digital text messaging system and method A communication system is disclosed including a first digital telephone set, a second digital telephone set, or its processing equivalent, having a private branch exchange (PBX)-paging server interface, and a PBX operative between the first digital telephone set and... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6696921 | Transmitting and receiving devices and methods for transmitting data to and receiving data from a communications system In one aspect, the present invention provides a transmitting and receiving device and method for transmitting data to and receiving data from a communications system. In one embodiment, the method includes the steps of: receiving at the transmitting and r... | 02/24/2004 |
| 6670884 | Disposable wireless messaging devices and systems and methods related to same The teachings of the present invention are directed to disposable wireless messaging devices, computer systems that incorporate disposable wireless messaging devices, and methods of operating the same. An exemplary disposable wireless messaging device inc... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6553103 | Communication macro composer A method and apparatus is disclosed that allows a user of a message transmission device such as a digital phone or a pager to create a user defined list of words, symbols, macros or graphics, and further allows the user to use each entry as a macro, in or... | 04/22/2003 |
| 6473621 | Method and apparatus for entering shortcut messages A translator for wirelessly provided messages. A user interface is provided that permits a replacement of text to be made if a defined term is detected, followed by further replacements of text if any defined terms are found within the first replacement t... | 10/29/2002 |
| 6157708 | Interactive subscriber telephone terminal with automatic management software download feature Interactive subscriber telephone terminals have a display screen and softkeys which are controlled by management software. The management software may be downloaded from a remote server to control the display and softkeys. Different techniques for achievi... | 12/05/2000 |
| 6137867 | Alphanumeric message composing method using telephone keypad An interactive method for composing an alphanumeric message by a caller using a telephone keypad includes storing (215) a lexical database (135) from which unigram probabilities, forward conditional probabilities, and backward conditional probabilities fo... | 10/24/2000 |
| 6092102 | System and method for notifying users about information or events of an enterprise The invention provides a system for notifying intended recipients, such as clinicians, about information or events of a medical enterprise, such as a hospital. The system includes an information processing system for receiving information as received info... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6084969 | Key encryption system and method, pager unit, and pager proxy for a two-way alphanumeric pager network A method and system allows encryption services can be added to an existing wireless two-way alphanumeric pager network by providing a pager proxy which is arranged to receive an encrypted message from a sending pager and re-packages it for re-transmission... | 07/04/2000 |
| 6061570 | Unified message announcing A system and a service that collects information about waiting messages and forwards the collected information to a multi-service notifier device. Such a device may be wired or wireless and includes sensory indicators to convey message waiting indications... | 05/09/2000 |
| 6049697 | Translator for messages transmitted to and received by a numeric pager A computer-based hand-held translator device for use in relation to preparing a numeric message for sending from a telephone having a telephone keypad to a numeric pager and also in relation to displaying an alpha message originally received as a numeric ... | 04/11/2000 |
| 6020810 | Automatic electronic date/mate finder and method of electronically finding a date/mate An automatic electronic date/mate finder includes a portable case; a screen on the portable case for viewing personal questions about a first person and/or a person that the first person would like to meet; a keypad on the portable case for inputting data... | 02/01/2000 |
| 5978654 | Alphanumeric paging entry system A low cost alphanumeric paging entry and page receiving device for entering alphanumeric messages remotely from a telephone and receiving pages via radio frequency signals. The device is designed so that both page reception and alphanumeric page entry can... | 11/02/1999 |
| 5862484 | Wide area paging sevice processing method and apparatus of a radio paging system A wide area paging service processing method for a radio paging system connected to a public switched telephone network and having a paging system capable of transmitting a radio paging signal. The wide area paging service processing method includes the s... | 01/19/1999 |
| 5862473 | Relay apparatus for pagers A relay apparatus requests entry of a pager number of a person, when the person either accessed a pager through dialing or accessed the relay apparatus through a telephone line. If the pager number is successfully recognized, the relay apparatus informs t... | 01/19/1999 |
| 5809425 | Gateway for low cost alphanumeric paging entry system A low cost alphanumeric paging entry system is based on a low cost paging (LCP) device to enter paging messages remotely from any telephone. The device is designed to minimize the needs for user training and is intended for intuitive operation by the user... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5740235 | User-programmable paging system controller having priority-based, multiple input paging access capability for selectively activating one or more audio/visual paging output devices A paging system controller is accessible from a plurality of input devices, such as an attendant's position, a telephone interface, telephone night bell, programmable switch devices and digital data communications devices, and is user-programmable to resp... | 04/14/1998 |
| 5697060 | Portable voice message terminal capable of transmitting pre-set text-based information A portable wireless voice message transmitter over packet switched network for transmitting a voice message is provided. The transmitter is capable of transmitting a voice message and text-based information when a user makes an emergency call to a special... | 12/09/1997 |
| 5682148 | Paging system with message numbering prior to transmission A paging system repeatedly broadcast each message and associates a sequential message number with each paging message. The message number in each message serves two functions. First, the message number is used to determine if the same message was previous... | 10/28/1997 |
| 5668852 | Automatic caller-associated information provision system, improvement and method for paging system Caller-associated information (CAI) may include various data such as names, addresses, telephone numbers, demographic information, messages, other like information and, most preferably, the caller's telephone number. The system includes telephone line-con... | 09/16/1997 |
| 5613212 | Paging method and apparatus A two-way paging system utilizes four local frequencies for transmissions between pager units (22) and a central control station (20). A first local frequency (f1) carries a local clock; a second local frequency (f2) carries communic... | 03/18/1997 |
| 5592531 | Selective call communication system having adaptive voice data entry A selective call communication system (100), such as a paging system (100), and a method therefor, for using a lexicon (134) for voice data entry in the selective call communication system (100) is shown. The system (100) associates a Voice User ID (206) ... | 01/07/1997 |
| 5459773 | Automatic pager calling device An automatic pager responds to a caller to input the caller's identification code and transmit a received identification code to an absent subscriber possessing the pager. The device includes: a sensor for ringing signals on public telephone lines; an aud... | 10/17/1995 |
| 5315642 | Concurrent creation and transmission of text messages to multiple paging services A paging device sends text messages to pagers via paging services observing different communication protocols. Communication data is stored in random access memory and includes a service file identifying telephone numbers and protocols associated with eac... | 05/24/1994 |
