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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8134450 | Content provision to subscribers via wireless transmission Methods and systems that provide content to subscribers via wireless transmission by initiating a page that does not automatically provide associated content. The content provider conserves air time by not automatically transmitting the content. The information cont... | 03/13/2012 |
| 7403787 | Paging transceivers and methods for selectively retrieving messages 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 a message is waiting and preferably provides a ... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7376432 | Paging transceivers and methods for selectively retrieving messages 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 a message is waiting and preferably provides a ... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7366546 | Sports channel The present invention provides a sports channel that includes sports content to a user on a mobile device. Sports content associated with the sports channel is automatically delivered and stored on a mobile electronic device for access by a user. Using the device, u... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7363029 | Unified interface for voice, text or picture message authoring A unified messaging interface and associated methods that enables mobile communication device users to initiate the creation of a message for a recipient without being required to explicitly specify the type of message that is to be created. The mobile communication... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7349532 | Picture and video message center system A message originator sends a picture or video message to a message center along with caller identifying information. The message is stored in a memory and transmitted to a wireless picture phone, PDA or portable computing device, or stored at the message center in a... | 03/25/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7328020 | Mobile-service switching center, base station controller, multicall communication mode supporting terminal and method of changing number of calls in multicall communication mode A method and apparatus of changing the number of calls in a multicall communication mode including detecting an occurrence of handover, transmitting a special message having inserted therein call-number changing information regarding the increase or decrease of a nu... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7324802 | Method and system for managing communication in emergency communication system A method and system for managing communication in an emergency communication network is described. The emergency communication network receives a plurality of radio messages from a plurality of channels. The incoming radio messages sometimes overlap in time. Incomin... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7312701 | Method and system for environment detection A method for environment detection to be implemented by a system, which includes a detection module and a control module, includes the steps of establishing a wireless communications link between the detection module and the control module, enabling the detection mo... | 12/25/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7295835 | Wireless telephone device and computer readable medium storing program for controlling the same A wireless telephone device comprises: a unit for identifying a telephone number of a received call; a timer for measuring a time period from a time instant of receiving the call; a memory for storing a predetermined message and a predetermined time period both of w... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7296075 | Method, apparatus and system for connecting a portable unit to a particular server unit from among a plurality of server units The present invention relates to a method for connecting a portable unit (1) to a particular server unit from among a plurality of server units (5, 6, 7 and 8). The portable unit (1) comprises a first address list and the particular serve... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7296241 | System and method for managing a message view Described is a system and method for managing a message view on a mobile device. The system includes a switch manager and a plurality of message stores. Message stores may include an email account, SMS account, and a MMS account. A message view may include a custom ... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7295863 | Portable telephone Disclosed is a portable telephone in which the informing of a reception is performed at the time of the reception by causing a buzzer to generate its reception sound and simultaneously a history of the reception is recorded in a memory, wherein in the case no respon... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7286658 | Method and apparatus for improved personal communication devices and systems A method for use in a wireless communication device, cellular telephone, pager or personal digital assistant (PDA) is shown in which Caller ID data originating from the public switched telephone network or other caller identifying data is received in a paging signal... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7280031 | Barrier operator system with enhanced transmitter storage capacity and related methods of storage and retrieval A method and related system for enabling receipt and storage of data by an operator from at least two types of transmitters, is disclosed. The method includes designating a number of records in a memory array; sub-dividing the memory array into at least two groups, ... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7266186 | Method and apparatus for improved paging receiver and system Contact data in a phonebook database for a personal communication device are remotely updateable from, or transferable between, a computer system using a wireless radio frequency connection. New contact data, and changes or updates to existing contact data, are inpu... | 09/04/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7251477 | Method for storing and reproducing a voice message in a mobile telephone A method for managing voice messages in a mobile telephone, including a voice message store mode and a voice message reproduce mode. In the voice message store mode, the remaining memory capacity is calculated first, and, if there is sufficient memory, the voice mes... | 07/31/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7243134 | Server-based navigation system having dynamic transmittal of route information A navigation system having a client device and a service center. The client device is capable of transmitting a starting point and a destination point from a user. The client device also includes a memory having a memory limit. The service center is capable of recei... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7231406 | Fault-tolerant queue with autonomous client operation Apparatus and methods, including computer program products, for providing a network-accessible queue. The queue is stored on a network-accessible file system having a locking mechanism providing strictly-enforced, network-wide file locking. The data structures of th... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7230531 | Imprintable ancillary signal indicator for indicating a communication An ancillary signal indicator notifies the reception of a signal that is associated with a user. The ancillary signal indicator includes an imprint actuator configured to instigate a signal imprint mode. A receiver is configured to receive an imprint signal when in ... | 06/12/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7203848 | Electrical apparatus, program for controlling electrical apparatus, and method for controlling electrical apparatus A printer changes a setup menu in such a way as to enable a user to select an automatic mode for automatically setting a switching time for switching to a power saving mode in accordance with information concerning execution frequency of a printing process, when a p... | 04/10/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7142645 | System and method for generating and distributing personalized media Personalized media is generated by obtaining a master clip having predefined insert points, obtaining an insert clip, seamlessly merging the insert clip into the selected master clip to generate a personalized media clip with undetectable transitions between spliced... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7139555 | Unified contact list Methods, systems, and computer program products for maintaining current contact and metadata information for one or more contacts. A mobile phone stores contact information for multiple forms of mobile phone communication with the contacts. Each contact is identifie... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7136678 | Vibrating portable electronic device, method of vibrating a portable electronic device and method of messaging by vibrating a portable electronic device A portable vibrating device has two electrical motors each having an axle and a weight element coupled to the axle. The axles couple the electrical motors to the weight elements. The weight elements form a weight unit having a total mass m and having a mass center w... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7130818 | Method and system for providing order status information using a network address A method and system for providing order status information using a network address, by receiving a network address from a customer when the customer places an order with the merchant. An information system is interrogated via a network to determine a status of the o... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7120435 | Mobile cellular radio A method of forwarding a data message to a vehicle is provided. The method includes registering a user's cellular identity as present aboard a vehicle; receiving a data message intended for the cellular telephone associated with the user's cellular identity, the dat... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7116659 | Data transmission memory Data transmission memory (1) for the transmission of data packets between subscribers T with a pointer address memory (2) for storing chained subscriber-pointer address lists, comprising pointer addresses, for each subscriber; a plurality of subscriber... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7117248 | Text message delivery features for an interactive wireless network An apparatus and method for sending a message to a wireless device over a wireless network includes receiving the message transmitted over an external network in communication with the wireless network or a gateway in the network. The message includes a deletion ins... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7099324 | System and method for processing packets A searching system allowing high-speed data searching and operation is disclosed. A search table is provided which stores a copy of an entry that has been retrieved from a database to retrievably store a plurality of retrieved entries. Further, an address pointer ta... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7099700 | Message display method in mobile terminal Disclosed is a message display method in a mobile communication terminal, which includes the steps of receiving a message, detecting message information from the received message, and displaying detected caller information on LCD by a scroll system. The present inve... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7096391 | Error message suppression system and method The disclosed embodiments relate to a system and method for message suppression. The system comprises a memory that is adapted to store a data element corresponding to a failure notification and to store a corresponding timestamp. Also included in the system is an i... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7062281 | Multi-mode paging system A multi-mode paging system and method of selectively paging an individual through one of a plurality of paging mechanisms. An indication of a paging mechanism for each individual to be paged is stored in a memory device. When an input is received from a user to page... | 06/13/2006 |
