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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7356316 | Wireless communication system A sleep length calculation unit 410 of a terminal calculates a sleep length based on what is contained in a PLCP header of a frame, and sets the calculated length on a timer 430. An address detection unit 420 of the terminal detects a destinatio... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7310529 | Packet data traffic control for cellular wireless networks Data traffic over a plurality of data communications links of a wireless data communications system is controlled by identifying a poorly performing wireless link, and interrupting data communications over the poorly performing link. The data throughput of remaining... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7295827 | Mobile station dynamic power saving control A mobile station in an 802.11 wireless network dynamically adjusts a number of 802.11 beacon intervals to sleep based on a power savings level and a required wake-up time to receive packets from an access point. The power savings level is based on data traffic activ... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7289578 | Wireless local area network apparatus A wireless local area network apparatus includes a transmitter and a receiver in which operation of the receiver is accurately synchronized with periodic signals from the transmitter. The periodic signals contain timing data indicating the state of a timer in the tr... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7279920 | Expeditious and low cost testing of RFID ICs System and method for integrated circuit manufacturing. A preferred embodiment comprises transmitting a first set of data to integrated circuits (ICs) while they are in an on-wafer state and having each IC store the first set of data into memory, transmitting a seco... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7260109 | High bandwidth legacy compatible multiplexer framing formats A communication multiplexer device is provided. The multiplexer device includes a legacy port adapted to communicate a legacy data frame format having at least one major data frame. The legacy major data frame includes overhead fields which may include a sync field.... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7254725 | Method for the power-saving control of a receiving device, in particular for an access control system for an automobile, and a corresponding receiving device A method for the power-saving control of a receiving device 1, in particular for an access control system for an automobile, is disclosed wherein in an inquiry mode it is determined in response to a control signal Sa whether a receive signal S... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7236213 | Receiving apparatus and receiving method of reduced power consumption for receiving a broadcast transmission A receiving apparatus that is capable of effectively reducing power consumption in the receiving state. The receiving apparatus is provided with: an RF tuner, digital-demodulation unit, error-correction unit, demultiplexing unit and decoding unit. A control unit det... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7231198 | Context-dependent operation of computer devices A computing device such as a notebook computer comprises a processor and one or more power sources. A plurality of operational states are defined, each with a set of device operation choices for settings (such as power management or configuration) appropriate to tha... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7206849 | Communication in a wireless communications network when a mobile computer terminal may be unreachable A method and apparatus for communication between a mobile computer terminal and a host computer in a system in which it is necessary for the mobile computer terminal to send a message to the host computer at a particular time. The specific time at which the mobile c... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7203134 | People-on-the-go-watch A wrist watch that also has a pager function incorporated into it. The wrist watch comprises a flexible band and with a watch unit attached to the flexible band. The watch unit displays the time manually, while a LCD readout located on the flexible band displays the... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7196737 | Method of using control loops in a broadband cable tuner Currently tuner circuits maintain normal power consumption while they are receiving RF signals and do not have provisions therein for disabling portions of their circuitry for reducing of power consumption. For example, during changing of channels, portions of the t... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7187924 | Intelligent data network with power management capabilities In one embodiment, a method for implementing two-way communication between at least first and second devices comprises steps of: (a1) during finite time periods following transmission of respective first messages from the first device to the second device, us... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7176810 | On-vehicle DSRC apparatus An on-vehicle DSRC apparatus capable of being operated with a battery power supply while decreasing power consumption includes a radio unit (1) for performing communication with an on-road radio equipment (30), a data processing unit (2) for pro... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7158324 | Self-adjusting PRML receiver A partial response maximum likelihood (PRML) data detecting in a magnetic recording storage device is carried out with a preliminary measuring of write-read channel responses to all nonzero binary combinations of a given length. Decoding of the user data is performe... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7103330 | Method of transmitting information between an information transmitter and an information receiver The invention describes a method of transmitting information between an information transmitter and an information receiver, the potential difference of which moves in cycles between a minimum value and a maximum value and is situated at the minimum value for regula... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7079821 | Signal correction method and receiver A signal correction method and receiver receives an asynchronous wireless signal including a code signal, and determines whether the code signal is discriminated as a regular code. When the determined code signal is not discriminated as the regular code, the signal ... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7075903 | Reduced power consumption in a communication device A method for controlling power consumption in a communication device is provided. The method includes powering down a receiver of the communication device for a selected period of time and, when the selected period of time expires, powering up the receiver to check ... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7010058 | Wireless local area network apparatus A wireless local area network apparatus includes a transmitter and a receiver in which operation of the receiver is accurately synchronized with periodic signals from the transmitter. The periodic signals contain timing data indicating the state of a timer in the tr... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7003273 | Temperature compensating circuit, electronic apparatus and radio unit having temperature compensating function A temperature compensating circuit is provided in a radio unit, an ambient temperature is detected by a temperature sensor of the temperature compensating circuit, the detected temperature value is supplied to a correction address storage section as an address after... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6995685 | Utility meter power arrangements and methods An arrangement for providing power in a utility meter includes a power conversion circuit and a bank of capacitors. The power conversion circuit is operable to provide power to metering circuitry within the utility meter, the power conversion circuit having a maximu... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6990362 | Communication unit energy conservation apparatus and method A communication unit (10) can have at least a first receiver (11) and a second receiver (12). The latter typically consumes more power than the former during ordinary operation. Pursuant to one embodiment a communication unit can use the lower-p... | 01/24/2006 |
| 6961566 | Frequency search method for a mobile station and a mobile station therewith A smaller number of frequencies are dynamically defined, from which a frequency to be used is first searched, failing which, all the frequencies available to a particular mobile communication system are searched, thereby frequency search is efficiently performed wit... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6937080 | Current-controlled CMOS logic family Various circuit techniques for implementing ultra high speed circuits use current-controlled CMOS (C3MOS) logic fabricated in conventional CMOS process technology. An entire family of logic elements including inverter/buffers, level shifters, NAND, NOR, X... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6904289 | Method and apparatus that annunciates when a mobile telephone is out of a service area The mobile telephone includes a detector, a timer and an annunciator. The detector transmits a detection signal when the detector detects that the mobile telephone is in a stand-by mode and is located out of a service area. The timer starts measuring a period of tim... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6697651 | Communication system having implemented point-to-multipoint-multicast function The present invention relates to a communication system having a network (1) and a plurality of user terminals (2,3,4) that are coupled to the network via a communication channel using wireless radio frequency transmission and having a downlink channel fo... | 02/24/2004 |
| 6658247 | Portable telephone terminal apparatus for receiving data and data receiving method therewith A data reception terminal apparatus and a data receiving method suitable for a music delivering system using a portable telephone terminal apparatus. When data is downloaded with a portable telephone terminal apparatus, received data is divided as blocks.... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6658381 | Methods and systems for robust frame type detection in systems employing variable bit rates Techniques and systems for identifying coding rates of transmitted frames are described. Unused bits in rate adapted frames are used to carry frame type indicator patterns. Maximal rate frames (i.e., with a highest coding rate) need not include a frame ty... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6633753 | Radio communication apparatus with power consumption reduced A radio communication apparatus includes a receiving section, a power supply section and a control section. The receiving section receives a radio signal when electric power is supplied, and the radio signal has a preamble field for storing a preamble pat... | 10/14/2003 |
| 6480476 | Variable sleep mode for mobile stations in a mobile communications A sleep cycle of a mobile station may be optimally varied depending upon one or more conditions relating to the mobile station's operation. Based on one or more of those conditions, a variable wake up parameter is determined and used to establish times wh... | 11/12/2002 |
| 6433669 | Radio paging receiver with an error indicating function in which error indication data to overwrite faulty message data can be altered A radio paging receiver including a data memory (1) for memorizing message data and error indication data to overwrite the message data, a control unit (2) for overwriting the message data with the error indication data when the message data contains an e... | 08/13/2002 |
| 6396411 | Reliable and fast frame synchronization scheme for flex paging protocol A method and apparatus that utilizes soft outputs from a paging device demodulator to perform frame synchronization is provided. The soft outputs are summed after being correlated to a first pattern associated with a paging protocol. The summation is then... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6295005 | Radio selective-calling receiver with deferring function informing received contents and method thereof A radio selective-calling receiver that defers indication of receipt of a call for the receiver until after a further frame when the further frame is also for the receiver. A data separating section takes in demodulated signals by sampling. When the recei... | 09/25/2001 |
| 6289227 | Method and apparatus for scheduling wake-up time in a CDMA mobile station A method and apparatus for scheduling the paging wake-up time in a wireless mobile station. The decision to wake-up a mobile station in order to decode a slotted paging message is determined probabilistically. An initial missed page rate constant, M, is l... | 09/11/2001 |
| 6216385 | Radio calling receiver with means to control reception based on service area, time zone, and/or electric field strength A receiving frame controlling unit 4a for controlling receiving operations of a plurality of frames individually, and a receiving state detecting unit 1b for detecting whether or not a receiving state is in or out of a service area of the base station are... | 04/17/2001 |
| 6215980 | Apparatus and method for saving battery power of a paging receiver An apparatus and method for saving a battery of a paging receiver. The apparatus includes a paging terminal for sequentially assigning time slots by the unit of a POCSAG code, and generating the first batch following a preamble as a header batch with resp... | 04/10/2001 |
| 6212370 | Radio receiver for selective calling Provided is a radio receiver for selective calling that improves the efficiency of a battery saving function and that can reduce the possibility that an incorrect time will be displayed. According to the radio receiver for selective calling of the present... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6157816 | Method of increasing battery life in mobile communications devices which use paging channel displacement A mobile communications device such as a pager or a cellular telephone enters a low power state more promptly than under TIA/EIA/IS-136 standards when an incoming message is pending for the device but is delayed by a first message broadcast for another su... | 12/05/2000 |
| 6144656 | Synchronizing a telecommunications connection in a mobile communications system A method for synchronizing a telecommunications connection in a mobile communications system including a database, at least one base station communicating with mobile stations on system channels which include control channels and traffic channels. Mobile ... | 11/07/2000 |
| 6112072 | Method for entering and leaving a power-saving operation of a subscriber in an annular communication network A method for entering and leaving a power-saving operation of a subscriber in an annular communication network includes transmitting data in the communication network in a format that prescribes a pulsed sequence of individual bit groups of identical leng... | 08/29/2000 |
