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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7339976 | Method and apparatus for reducing power consumption within a wireless receiver A method and apparatus for reducing power consumption within a wireless receiver is provided herein. Particularly, the use of partial chip sequence correlation to reduce the average power consumption of a direct sequence spread spectrum (DSSS) wireless transceiver i... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7324785 | Transmit power control of wireless communication devices A method and apparatus for controlling transmit power of a wireless communication device includes processing that begins when a transmitting wireless communication device transmits a packet to a targeted wireless device via a wireless channel of a communication syst... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7317495 | Mobile telephone and image receiving device with reduced power consumption In a portable receiving device 1 operable with a battery 18 as power supply and capable of receiving the TV broadcast outdoors, a CPU 13 detects the receiving level of the TV receiving unit 12 at timings set in the timer 24, compar... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7245725 | Dual processor framer A dual processor framer includes a receiver and a transmitter which share common circuitry and/or code. Separate direct memory access controllers may be used for each of the receiver and transmitter. Processing is distributed over two or more processors. One process... | 07/17/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7233588 | Hardware assist system and method for the timing of packets in a wireless network In a wireless local area network (“WLAN”), a system and method for assisting the timing calculation associated with the transmission timing of packets or data frames through the air. The present utilizes the baseband PHY processor to detect the trailing edge of ... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7212843 | Current reduction in a communication device A method for reducing current drain in a communication device includes a first step of developing a history of readings of received signal strengths (RSS) of a neighboring broadcast control channel (BCCH). A next step includes monitoring a RSS of the neighboring cha... | 05/01/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7194638 | Device and method for managing power consumed by a USB device A method and device for reducing an amount of power consumed by a USB device (such as a host/hub/peripheral device which may include a receiver, phy, synchronizer, or other component associated with a data path) adapted to communicate using one or more USB signals e... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7190979 | Battery economizing in a communications system In communications systems such as telemetry systems in which a receiver (34) is periodically energised to receive transmissions from a central station, the receiver includes a power control means (12) for controlling the energisation of the receiver, a... | 03/13/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7142844 | Technique for effectively providing services to vehicles In an automobile, communications to and from the automobile are in the form of messages. Such messages are referred to as “electronic car-mail” or “C-mail” messages as each message has a destination or origination address which includes an identifier, e.g., ... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7127325 | Controllable object remote control and diagnosis apparatus A robot apparatus having a robot and a controller for controlling the robot. The apparatus has a diagnosing computer connected to the controller and acquiring a state quantity of the robot. An analyzing computer is provided remotely from the robot and has a control ... | 10/24/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7099691 | Mobile radio terminal apparatus A control unit controls a 1x RAKE receiving unit to intermittently receive a paging signal transmitted from a first base station in a first cycle, in the first cycle. The control unit also controls a 1xEV-DO RAKE receiving unit to intermittently receive a paging sig... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7061992 | Parallel correlator architecture The present invention relates to real time spectral analysis of wide-band sampled signals, in particular to a method and system for real time digital spectral analysis of wide-band sampled signals using parallel processing techniques. The center frequency of each re... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7057372 | Battery management system and method A battery management system for managing a plurality of subsystem circuits and functions of a mobile communication device powered by a battery is disclosed. The battery management system includes a battery monitoring circuit, a user interface, and a battery manageme... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7053753 | Wireless community alerting system A pager-based alert system includes a monitor center that is in telephonic or data communication with a paging station allowing the command center to send multi-digit code words where selected digits comprise an address for selecting one or more of a plurality of ph... | 05/30/2006 |
| 6987964 | Technique for effectively providing to a vehicle information concerning a condition of the vehicle In an automobile, communications to and from the automobile are in the form of messages. Such messages are referred to as “electronic car-mail” or “C-mail” messages as each message has a destination or origination address which includes an identifier, e.g., ... | 01/17/2006 |
| 6980823 | Intermediate wake mode to track sleep clock frequency in a wireless communication device Various techniques for improving a wireless communication device are described. The techniques may include reducing power in a wireless communication device for a first sleep period and then increasing power in the wireless communication device for an intermediate w... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6928066 | RSMA control device and method for mobile communication system An access request message transmission device for a mobile station in a CDMA communication system employing RSMA in which a base station assigns a reverse common channel in response to an access request message from the mobile station, and the mobile station transmi... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6892112 | Modularity system for computer assisted surgery A medical system that allows a medical device to be controlled by one of two input devices. The input devices may be consoles that contain handles and a screen. The medical devices may include robotic arms and instruments used to perform a medical procedure. The sys... | 05/10/2005 |
| 6754485 | Technique for effectively providing maintenance and information to vehicles In an automobile, communications to and from the automobile are in the form of messages. Such messages are referred to as “electronic car-mail” or “C-mail” messages as each message has a destination or origination address which includes an identifier, e.g., ... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6459360 | Networks, communication systems, transmitting and receiving devices and methods for transmitting, receiving, and erasing stored information A paging transceiver and method for selectively paging provides a page to a paging transceiver but does not automatically provide an associated message. The paging transceiver receives the page and alerts the user that information is waiting and provides ... | 10/01/2002 |
| 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 |
| 6411197 | Apparatus and method for receiving an interleaved selective calling signal A radio selective call receiver for receiving an interleaved selective calling signal with reduced power consumption is disclosed. The Interleaved address data is converted to address data for each of the addresses. A timing detector detects predetermined... | 06/25/2002 |
| 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 |
| 6229988 | Method of and apparatus for battery and similar power source conservation in periodically operable portable and related radio receivers and the like In a signal receiving apparatus as, for example, that used in the monitoring in a stolen vehicle transceiver of the presence of sequential transmitted signals specifically requesting that transceiver to respond to enable tracking the vehicle, wherein the ... | 05/08/2001 |
| 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 |
| 6138001 | Scheme for intermittent reception of paging signals in mobile communication system A scheme for intermittent reception of paging signals in a mobile communication system, in which each base station repeatedly transmits a frame which contains: at least one regular reception section having a plurality of paging indication regions provided... | 10/24/2000 |
| 6125262 | Selective call radio for selectively decoding prioritized messages and method therefor A SCR (122) is assigned to a plurality of addresses, and includes a receiver (304) and a processor (308) coupled thereto. The processor is adapted to assign a priority level to each of the plurality of addresses assigned to the SCR. At or near a predeterm... | 09/26/2000 |
| 6052564 | Portable individual calling device The present invention provides a portable individual calling device which performs no indication on the LCD indicator as a measure for preventing decrease in signal-receiving sensitiveness due to CPU noises, wherein the non-indication time period is short... | 04/18/2000 |
| 6044069 | Power management system for a mobile station A power management system for a mobile station reduces standby mode processing by receiving and processing single time slots of a short paging channel. Each single time slot of a short paging channel includes a mobile station identifier which alerts a rec... | 03/28/2000 |
| 6031466 | Method for reducing power consumption in wait-mode A method for reducing power of a receiver, having an identification number and receiving a non sequential hailing message containing at least one hailed identification number, wherein the message includes a plurality of lines, each having a code portion a... | 02/29/2000 |
| 5955963 | Radio selective calling receiver Only information selected from messages transmitted to many persons, especially an unspecified number of persons on the reception side is received by setting the frequency of reception for each call number or each type of information on the reception side... | 09/21/1999 |
| 5930681 | Method and apparatus for conserving energy in a selective call receiver A radio communication system (5) includes a transmitting unit (1) coupled to at least one controller (6). The controller (6) is adapted to subdivide the SCR's (selective call receivers) (2) into SCR groups, assign the SCR groups to supergroups, and assign... | 07/27/1999 |
| 5930706 | Detecting messages transmitted over a communications channel such as a paging channel The present invention allows for the detection of data contained in transmitted messages (e.g., page messages) at a selected early point in the receiving and decoding process. By forming, at that point, a received data vector (RDV) from the data correspon... | 07/27/1999 |
| 5929773 | Selective call device and method for battery saving during information services A selective call device (130) has a receiver (204) for receiving a selective call signal including an address (312) and a topic sub-address (504) indicative of a subscribed information, a processor (212, 214) for correlating the address (312) in the selec... | 07/27/1999 |
| 5920269 | Repeat call message transmission radio pager with front end deactivated following reception of a message In a repeat call paging system, a paging signal is transmitted in a sequence of frames each comprising a series of fields respectively assigned to different pagers. Each of the fields contains a copy of a message for a pager and the message copy is repeat... | 07/06/1999 |
| 5905965 | Radio communication apparatus which includes a base station and terminals that save power as they monitor for incoming calls from the base station A base station includes an incoming call terminal identification message generating portion When the base station transmits an incoming call message to a terminal, an incoming call terminal identification message useful for only the incoming call terminal... | 05/18/1999 |
