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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7369824 | Receiver storage system for audio program A receiver contains a demodulator system that can deliver a stream of digital data comprising at least a first and a second set of audio data. In a first time interval, a memory is used to store either the first or the second set of audio data. In a subsequent time ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7336938 | Phase-alternating mixer with alias and harmonic rejection Rejection of local oscillator alias response is provided in a mixing circuit by (1) a switching mixer producing an output that changes at least twice between two states (e.g., high-low-high or low-high-low) during each local oscillator period, and (2) a charge integ... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7324615 | Time signal receiver and decoder A time signal receiver and decoder receives, detects and stores time information from time signals, e.g., WWV, WWVH, WWVB (USA), JJY (Japan), MSF (UK) and the like. The time information may be used for a self setting clock, and the clock may be used as a reference i... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7158027 | Emergency interrupt system An emergency interrupt system, for supplying emergency information to a person while using an electronic device, and monitoring the electronic device with a monitor device. The emergency interrupt system is connected between the electronic device and monitor device,... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7069143 | Mobile traffic information system The present invention provides a device, system, and method for a portable handheld device for displaying information. An embodiment of the invention provides a portable handheld device for displaying information, including traffic information. The portable device i... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7042959 | DSP-based variable aperture code generation technique Variable Aperture Coded (VAC) signals for VAC modulation are advantageously generated by a digital signal processor (12) that yields a VAC signal having a single narrow peak in the positive frequency region. A Discrete-Time Hilbert transformer (12) iso... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7010293 | Digital advertising method utilizing a cellular telephone display A digital advertising method in a cellular telephone having three types of advertisements. One is an N type for broadcasting advertisements from a central exchange to relay stations at specific times. Another is emergency notification as a warning message or image d... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6904270 | Radio receiver for processing digital and analog audio signals A receiver contains a demodulator system that can derive an analog audio signal and compressed digital data from radio frequency signal. The receiver also contains a decompressor that can decompress the compressed digital data into uncompressed form. A digital to an... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6414588 | Selective call receiver with improved setting of test mode A selective caller receiver which can facilitate easy setting of a test mode without using an exclusive jig and also easy management and adjustment of a receiving unit. In the selective caller receiver, a memory for storing therein test mode setting data ... | 07/02/2002 |
| 6392560 | Reminding device A reminding device to permit the user to determine, at a later date, using a portable device, whether a routine task to secure an object or piece of equipment has been performed.... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6137420 | Selective call radio receiver and a data transmission method In a selective call radio receiver, having a tone dialer function that can transmit as a tone signal a call number of a recipient accompanied by a message, during the transmission of the tone signal by a tone dialer, a pause signal is automatically insert... | 10/24/2000 |
| 6043754 | Radio paging receiver having an additional function requiring setting work A radio paging receiver comprises a key input unit including an additional function setting switch and a message confirming switch. A closeable cover is provided on the receiver housing for covering at least the additional function setting switch, and a c... | 03/28/2000 |
| 6031467 | Method in a selective call radio for ensuring reception of advertisement messages An SCR (122) that receives personal messages and corresponding advertisement messages, includes a receiver (304), memory (310), presentation circuit (313) and processor (308). The processor is adapted to cause the receiver to receive a personal message (4... | 02/29/2000 |
| 5969635 | Radio paging receiver in which announcement of a call is controlled in accordance with a form of a received signal In the radio paging receiver having an announcing arrangement for announcing reception of a radio call signal, an operable switch (16) is provided for determining a particular mode relating to an operation of the announcing arrangement. Received with the ... | 10/19/1999 |
| 5905448 | Multipart analog message and a response in a communication system A communication system in which a multipart analog message (480) is generated by a controller (112) by including an analog part delimiter (440) between successive independent analog parts (420, 431, 432, 433). The multipart analog message (480) is positio... | 05/18/1999 |
| 5583785 | Method and apparatus for signal decoder using instantaneous magnitude and phase detection Disclosed is a tone decoder (20) that identifies one or more tones encoded on an RF carrier signal for use in controlling various systems and devices located at a remote site. The tone decoder includes a bandpass filter (22), an A/D converter (24), and a ... | 12/10/1996 |
| 5539392 | Method for coordinating radio paging transmissions on local and nationwide channels To ensure that a user of radio paging services receives page messages while traveling, page messages are broadcast over both the user's local paging channel and a nationwide paging channel during periods of scheduled travel. At all other times, page messa... | 07/23/1996 |
| 5495234 | Method and apparatus for length dependent selective call message handling A method in a communications receiver (20) for handling a selective call message comprises the steps of measuring a parameter of the selective call message (104, 116) and selecting whether to provide the selective call message to a display (118) or a comm... | 02/27/1996 |
| 5491836 | Method and apparatus for selectively squelching analog signals produced by a paging terminal A communication system (200) for providing analog signals comprises a terminal (220) for generating tone and voice signals on tone and voice lines (230, 235), respectively, and a signal processor (205) coupled to the terminal (220) for processing the tone... | 02/13/1996 |
| 5432495 | Beeper controlled auto security system A beeper controlled auto security system in which a vehicle disabling device such as an ignition kill switch is selectively activated either by a hand held rf transmitter unit or a beeper paging system satellite transmission initiated by a telephone call ... | 07/11/1995 |
| 5355126 | Selective call system interactive with a wide area selective call system An on-site selective call receiver interacts with a wide area selective call system to increase the probability of timely message reception by a selective call receiver capable of operating in either the wide area or the on-site selective call system. A f... | 10/11/1994 |
| 5287099 | Multi-alert radio paging system A multi-alert paging receiver of this invention includes a decoder. The decoder constitutes ON durations of alert signals corresponding to the plurality of addresses by using combinations of at least two tones having different frequencies including a spec... | 02/15/1994 |
| 5276909 | Traffic information broadcast system A broadcast and reception system provides a segmented broadcast signal for providing regional traffic information and a receiver adapted to receive selected segments of that broadcast. The segmented broadcast signal includes a number of segments which eac... | 01/04/1994 |
| 5128980 | Automatic paging telephone set and method for controlling thereof An automatic paging telephone set comprising first and second DTMF transmitters, a mode selector for selecting either a pager number recording mode, a paging mode, or a general communication mode, and a controller for controlling the telephone set accordi... | 07/07/1992 |
| 5039984 | Paging receiver with programmable areas of reception A paging receiver is disclosed which is compatible with transmissions from analog or digital paging transmitters. The paging receiver has a command structure which permits it to be dynamically programmable to change its functionality including programming... | 08/13/1991 |
| 5020094 | Cordless telephone network A cordless telephone network comprises a base unit (12) that is interconnected into a normal telephone network (19) and a plurality of hand-held cordless telephones (20). Each of the hand-held cordless telephones has a distinctive identification code and ... | 05/28/1991 |
| 4928100 | Paging receiver for receiving pages from analog or digital paging transmitters A paging receiver is disclosed which is compatible with transmissions from analog or digital paging transmitters. The paging receiver has a command structure which permits it to be dynamically programmable to change its functionality including programming... | 05/22/1990 |
| 4875039 | Paging system with transmission protocol compatible with analog and digital transmitters A paging network is disclosed which utilizes a plurality of distributed switches to transmit pages on a non-real time basis to achieve efficient and low cost transmission. Each of the switches processes packets of pages received from the network. Each of ... | 10/17/1989 |
| 4857915 | Paging receiver with paging receiver identification code digits transmitted in order of increasing significance A paging receiver is disclosed which is compatible with transmissions from analog or digital paging transmitters. The paging receiver has a command structure which permits it to be dynamically programmable to change its functionality including programming... | 08/15/1989 |
| 4856047 | Automated remote telemetry paging system A remote telemetry unit (RTU) for use in an automated telemetry paging system for providing remote pager notification of changes in selected operating parameters measured at a specific site location. The selected parameters and the unacceptable changes th... | 08/08/1989 |
| 4853688 | Paging receiver displaying place of origin of pages A paging receiver is disclosed which is compatible with transmissions from analog or digital paging transmitters. The paging receiver has a command structure which permits it to be dynamically programmable to change its functionality including programming... | 08/01/1989 |
| 4849750 | Paging receiver with dynamically programmable channel frequencies and functionality A paging receiver is disclosed which is compatible with transmissions from analog or digital paging transmitters. The paging receiver has a command structure which permits it to be dynamically programmable to change its functionality including programming... | 07/18/1989 |
| 4818989 | Selective calling decoder There is disclosed an aircraft selective calling decoder for decoding individual signal tones used in selectively signaling communication of a particular aircraft. The decoder is associated with a channel of receiving equipment in an aircraft and is respo... | 04/04/1989 |
| 4776034 | Radio communication system operable in cooperation with a VOX system In a radio communication system, a mobile station (11) includes a detecting circuit (16) for producing a detection signal during presence of an audio signal, a producing circuit (31) for delivering a predetermined coded data signal to an audio signal circ... | 10/04/1988 |
| 4721955 | Paging universal remote control system A paging station remote control system capable of providing analog or binary modulation modes is described. Control of the paging base station is effected through a signalling scheme comprising a combination of tones and timed pauses generated in response... | 01/26/1988 |
| 4701759 | Call reminder for a radio paging device An alerting device, such as a radio pager, which produces an audible alerting signal, in response to a unique identifier received and decoded by said device, incorporates circuitry for periodically reminding the user that a lagging signal has been receive... | 10/20/1987 |
| 4654881 | Remote control system having symmetrical tone, send/receive signaling circuits for radio communications The remote control system having symmetrical signaling circuits for radio communications is coupled to a single wire line/audio channel and permits two or more units, base stations and/or remote consoles, to be coupled to the single wire line. Each signal... | 03/31/1987 |
| 4618860 | Radio paging method of arranging message information with reference to a key code and a base station and a pager receiver for use in the method In a radio paging method of transmitting message information from a subscriber's substation (32) through a base station (30) to pager receivers (31) in the form of a radio calling signal, the message information is divided into a plurality of species to w... | 10/21/1986 |
| 4600922 | Paging universal remote control encoder A paging station remote control system encoder is described. The paging system encoder generates signals in accordance with a predetermined signalling scheme comprising a series of tones and timed pauses and generated in response to control signals suppli... | 07/15/1986 |
| 4589075 | Remote load data acquisition and control system for a power network A load management system for a power network which both addresses remote load controllers and acquires load data through a retransmission network. A central controller processes power load a data and generates digital messages which address loads and comm... | 05/13/1986 |
