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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7382227 | Portable computer supporting paging instructions A portable computer is described that contains a circuit for receiving pages and performing security functions based on the received page. Once a page has been received by the portable computer, the computer's hard drive can be automatically reformatted, or the port... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7372358 | Portable computer supporting paging instructions A portable computer is described that contains a circuit for receiving pages and performing security functions based on the received page. Once a page has been received by the portable computer, the computer's hard drive can be automatically reformatted, or the port... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7330100 | Mobile device and related method for displaying text message with background images A wireless communications device includes a communication circuit for receiving a message signal having a text message via radio transmission; a storage device having a plurality of image data stored therein; a selecting module for selecting an image datum from the ... | 02/12/2008 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7076663 | Integrated system security method Logic scan based design and electronic fuse (e-fuse) technology are combined to create a circuit macro function that is integrated in a non-critical area of a processor chip or related circuit to provide a new means of securing electronic systems and devices such as... | 07/11/2006 |
| 6995749 | Auto font magnification mechanism According to one embodiment, a handheld device is disclosed. The handheld device includes a housing, a display mounted within the housing, and a font magnification mechanism. The font magnification mechanism automatically magnifies a font being displayed on the disp... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6751444 | Method and apparatus for adaptive carrier allocation and power control in multi-carrier communication systems An apparatus and process for allocating carriers in a multi-carrier system is described. In one embodiment, the process comprises determining a location of a subscriber with respect to a base station, selecting carriers from a band of carriers to allocate to the sub... | 06/15/2004 |
| 6696922 | Interactive pager docking system An interactive pager docking system includes a docking cradle which is powered by a rechargeable battery, and includes a battery charger module which monitors the status of the battery and recharges it if necessary. It also includes a plurality of externa... | 02/24/2004 |
| 6683529 | Terminal device and method of setting a terminal device In the setting of a communication terminal, a message for setting the terminal is sent by radio and a command and data for setting the terminal, a text for indicating a successful setting, and a text for indicating a failed setting are included in the mes... | 01/27/2004 |
| 6393308 | Pager with auto powerup for message receipt A pager unit that can receive a message when it is turned off. A power supply of the pager unit is turned on by a control unit prior to the time scheduled to receive a message, and then turned of f after the message has been received. Accordingly, the pag... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6044250 | Wireless selective call receiver in which display is changeable in reception wait state In a wireless selective call receiver, a display section displays a screen display data inputted thereto. A screen display data storage section stores a plurality of screen display data which are to be displayed in a reception wait state. The control sect... | 03/28/2000 |
| 6032055 | Method of activation of mobile station When a power supply to a mobile station is turned on, mobile station identification information is read out from a non-volatile storage of a subscriber information module. A module identification information is read out from the non-volatile storage of th... | 02/29/2000 |
| 5929771 | Portable wireless communication device A portable communication device which also has an infrared transceiver. A portable communication device can automatically establish infrared communication sessions with another portable communication device or desktop computer having an infrared transceiv... | 07/27/1999 |
| 5839054 | Automatic registration paging system A dedicated paging system having single button paging, requiring only a single press of a dedicated button on a page base to automatically page a pager associated with the page base. Information associating the page base with the pager is stored in the pa... | 11/17/1998 |
| 5828311 | Circuitry and method for accessing a radio pager Remote access circuitry and an associated method for a pager permits remote access to a pager from a source other than a network paging terminal. Human-perceptible signals are provided to the remote access circuitry by way of a mass-market communication m... | 10/27/1998 |
| 5675324 | Paging device having last-to-first sequential character memory search routine A paging device with a message display function enables a person who possesses the paging device to register plural calling numbers including an area code in a memory section by operating an attached input section. The paging device is arranged such that ... | 10/07/1997 |
| 5673032 | Selective calling receiver for computing devices A selective calling receiver connectable to a computing device which is capable of reading or writing information particular to the receiver. An external signal transmission device is provided independently of the computing device and sends an optical sig... | 09/30/1997 |
| 5611055 | Method and apparatus for implementing a PCMCIA auxiliary port connector for selectively communicating with peripheral devices Circuitry and methods are provided for a standardized serial interface. The interface uses auxiliary port connector pin of a device conforming to the Personal Computer Memory Card International Association (PCMCIA) standard as a serial bus. Protocols are ... | 03/11/1997 |
| 5515228 | Portable terminal unit with a dual purpose external connection In portable terminal units each of which has a rechargeable battery and a data processing section, one terminal is used as both a terminal for charging the rechargeable battery and a terminal for connecting a data processing unit to an external data proce... | 05/07/1996 |
| 5495236 | Paging receiver with a display and a programmable altering device A paging receiver having a display and an alerting device which alerts the user to an incoming call by producing tones in any one of a plurality of different patterns. The paging receiver allows the user to replace any of the patterns with a desired patte... | 02/27/1996 |
| 5488356 | Method and apparatus for secure programming of communication radios A method of providing operational features for a programmable radio (202) employs a security key (210). The security key (210) is preferably coupled to an interface device (208) and includes at least an indication of a desired feature set. Using this indi... | 01/30/1996 |
| 5430892 | Receiver having an individual selective call function and a security function for preventing unauthorized use of the receiver A receiver with an individual selective call function includes a ROM for storing an individual selection number in which a secret number of the receiver is registered. A data control unit compares a secret number registered in its own memory and the secre... | 07/04/1995 |
| 5414418 | Method and apparatus for pre-programming and subsequently designating a response characteristic of a selective call receiver A method and apparatus user-tailor a response characteristic of a selective call receiver (108) having a memory (221) and a user control interface (216). The memory (221) is pre-programmed (402) through a programming port (218) to store a plurality of use... | 05/09/1995 |
| 5396650 | Wireless communication device with multi-function integrated circuit processing card Disclosed herein is a wireless device of the present invention, of a type wherein an external connecting terminal for electrically connecting an IC card having a function for processing various applications is disposed so as to be electrically connected t... | 03/07/1995 |
| 5392457 | Battery saving method and apparatus for providing selective receiver power switching A battery saving apparatus selectively supplies power to the receiver functions of a battery powered communication receiver at predetermined time intervals prior to the reception of coded message signal. The selective supplying of power to the receiver fu... | 02/21/1995 |
| 5381134 | Static discharge protection for programming ports associated with an electronic device An electronic device (300) has a housing (301) forming a cavity that enshrouds a circuit supporting substrate (302) having at least one electrical contact (303) coupled to a conductor (304). The conductor (304) couples an electrical signal between the ele... | 01/10/1995 |
| 5294922 | Data display radio pager A data display radio pager for receiving a digital paging signal including an address codeword made up of an address bit group and function bits following the address bit group, and a message codeword following the address codeword. A PROM (Programmable R... | 03/15/1994 |
| 5274454 | Programming interface for electronic devices A programmable electronic product includes a video generator (120) and RF modulator (122) for interfacing with an external video monitor. The programmable electronic product can then be programmed by the product user with the programming information being... | 12/28/1993 |
| 5272475 | Alerting system for a communication receiver An alerting system for a selective call communication receiver (10) which includes a battery (26A, 26B) for supplying energy at a first supply rate and a receiver (14) coupled thereto for receiving transmitted selective call message signals includes a dec... | 12/21/1993 |
| 5262769 | Programmed scanning pager receiver A pager receiver includes an addressable data memory for storing sets of digital frequency data for application to a frequency synthesizer which responds to each set of frequency data to tune the pager receiver to a channel or frequency identified by the ... | 11/16/1993 |
| 5257307 | Radio pager system which transmits secret coded messages from a caller to a pager terminal apparatus A radio pager system and pager terminal apparatus used in the system are disclosed. A pager signal to be transmitted includes destination information and message specifying information for specifying a message to be transmitted. The pager terminal apparat... | 10/26/1993 |
| 5252964 | Non-contact pager programming system and a pager for use therewith A non-contact pager programming system includes a controller (30) which is responsive to command and data signals to generate first signals (34) including command and data words to govern a transmitting circuit (36) to transmit over the air a programming ... | 10/12/1993 |
| 5251325 | Battery saving method and apparatus for providing selective receiver power switching A battery saving apparatus selectively supplies power to each receiver function of a battery powered communication receiver at predetermined time intervals prior to and continuing therefrom for enabling the reception of the coded message signals with each... | 10/05/1993 |
| 5239295 | Serial light interface which also functions as an ambient light detector A photodetector mounted on an electrical device serves as an ambient light sensor for low light illumination control and an optical receiver for receiving optically transmitted data.... | 08/24/1993 |
| 5177478 | Paging system having an effective ID-code transferring function A paging apparatus comprises a control device for controlling all other components of the apparatus. The control device can have a memory for storing the ID number of the paging apparatus. There is shown methods and devices for storing the ID number in th... | 01/05/1993 |
| 5073767 | Selective call receiver theft protection device A selective call receiver allows reprogramming of the options stored within a code plug only after entry of a correct password. After a predetermined number of unsuccessful attempts to enter a correct password, the selective call receiver is user disabled... | 12/17/1991 |
| 4866434 | Multi-brand universal remote control A multi-brand universal remote control handunit stores compressed device control codes to make efficient use of the available memory space. In addition to storing data pointers to pairs of pulse off and pulse burst components of a transmission, the memory... | 09/12/1989 |
