Did You Know...
...that after Parker Brothers executives turned down the game of Monopoly because it had "52 fundamental errors" (including taking too long to play), a copy of the game wound up in the home of the company president who stayed up until 1 a.m. to finish playing it? He was so impressed by the game that the next day he wrote to inventor Charles Darrow and offered to buy it!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7340246 | Transmission of information during call establishment The present invention relates to a method for transmitting information to a subscriber in a telephone system in connection with call establishment. In order to achieve more efficient transmission of information between the parties participating in the call establish... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7339853 | Time stamping events for fractions of a clock cycle Generally, the embodiments are directed to circuits and methods for time stamping an event at a fraction of a clock cycle. A time stamping circuit comprises two or more detection circuits. The detection circuits receive an event-in signal and generate event signals ... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7327293 | Compression and data encoding for transmission over a character-based protocol ACARS systems and methods for compiling messages includes a processing device configured for mapping eight-bit characters in an eight-bit character stream into a six bit map to create a generally six-bit character stream. The processing device is further configured ... | 02/05/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7286817 | System for acknowledging a message received on a mobile terminal A system for acknowledging that a message sent by a sender terminal and received on a destination mobile terminal has been read. The sender terminal comprises a module for: a) supplying the identifier of a destination mobile terminal for the message; b) generating t... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7272419 | Method for transmitting symbols and/or information from a sender to a recipient The invention relates to a method for transmitting symbols and/or information from a transmitter to a receiver. The method further relates to devices for coding, transmitting, and receiving symbols and/or information. It is specified that the symbols and/or i... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7266591 | Providing content delivery during a call hold condition An approach for providing content transmission upon placement of a call on hold is disclosed. A data communications system includes a proxy server that is configured to receive a message from a first client indicating the hold condition of a Voice Over Internet Prot... | 09/04/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7260420 | Apparatus and method for stimulating one or more areas on a wearer A system includes a wireless device (101) and at least one stimulator pad (400, 500). The stimulator pad (400, 500) has a set of electrodes (404) that are in communication with the wireless device (101). The stimulator pad (400,... | 08/21/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7209955 | Notification system and method for a mobile data communication device A notification system and method for a mobile data communication device is provided. A clientbased software program operates at the mobile communication device to manage and execute, user-selectable notification schemes (“notification module”) in response to dat... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7193538 | Matrix improvements to lossless encoding and decoding A lossless encoder and decoder are provided for transmitting a multichannel signal on a medium such as DVD-Audio. The encoder accepts additionally a downmix specification and splits the encoded stream into two substreams, such that a two-channel decoder of meagre co... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7180431 | Apparatus and method for an accelerated thumbwheel on a communications device An accelerated roller apparatus on a handheld electronic communications device that handles urgency conditions. The device includes a manipulable mechanism that is capable of generating a manipulation-related signal. Changes in the signal occur whenever motion is im... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7113541 | Method for software driven generation of multiple simultaneous high speed pulse width modulated signals Systems and methods can provide, in one aspect, a method for modulating the pulse width of control signals generated on a plurality of separate channels. In one practice, the methods described herein are suitable for execution on a microprocessor or micro controller... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7089003 | Methods and systems for selective broadcast enhancement Data is transmitted to and obtained by selected wireless devices in a wireless network without assignment of a unique network address (UNA) to the wireless devices. The data is transmitted over a broadcast and the wireless device obtains the data from the broadcast.... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7079054 | V.42bis standalone hardware accelerator and architecture of construction Methods and systems for on-chip processing of data are disclosed. Aspects of the method may include generating a plurality of data processing commands for data compression. A first string of characters may be encoded in one operating cycle utilizing the generated pl... | 07/18/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7054280 | Voice communication between a portable communication apparatus and an external terminal A portable communication apparatus (200) for radio communication of digital audio data (240) representing analog voice signals has an asynchronous interface (250) for exchanging digital non-audio data (242, 244) with an external terminal ... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7003327 | Heuristically assisted user interface for a wireless communication device A method and apparatus for implementing a heuristic user interface for a mobile device that assists a user with the management and utilization of contact identifiers (e.g. phone numbers, facsimile numbers, email addresses and uniform resource identifiers (URIs)). Co... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6985721 | Method and apparatus for reducing bandwidth use in a portable device A method and apparatus for reducing bandwidth use in a portable device is provided. A method of using a storage module in a device comprises receiving data in the device and identifying a code in the data. The method further comprises replacing the code in the data ... | 01/10/2006 |
| 6965785 | Cooperative wireless luminescent imagery A wireless communication device having luminescent display capabilities in accordance with various embodiments is provided with a machine accessible medium including instructions to receive data representing a set of one or more picture elements of an audience assis... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6950994 | Data list transmutation and input mapping A method for converting a list of data, each entry in said list having at least one alpha-numeric character, to a format suitable for display and manipulation in a limited display area. The method comprises: sorting said list based on a first of said alpha-numeric c... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6950019 | Multiple-triggering alarm system by transmitters and portable receiver-buzzer The invention concerns transmitters and a portable receiver-buzzer with programmable triggering, hand-, voice-/sound- and pulse-operated, for remotely warning one or several persons. The inventive device consists of a receiver-buzzer case (16), a presence-det... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6919814 | System and method for providing ancillary page information For use in a paging network, a system for, and method of, providing ancillary page information. In one embodiment, the system includes: (1) an ancillary information collector, associated with a page call-in center of the paging network, that derives party identifica... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6917281 | Method and apparatus for transmitting and decoding pre-programmed messages Each of a plurality of wireless communication units (102) is pre-programmed (402) with a plurality of orthogonal codes corresponding to a plurality of canned messages, the plurality of orthogonal codes chosen such that when a group of different canned ... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6907253 | Method and apparatus for high density message coding A remote reporting unit, such as freight trailer monitoring device, generates a number of different status messages representing conditions such as door open, latitude, longitude, battery condition, and the like. The remote unit combines the status messages into an ... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6816060 | Message delivery for appliances and method therefore A method for receiving messages in an appliance such as a clock radio modified to retrieve messages from a remote computer, converting the retrieved messages into corresponding audio messages, generating a wake up signal to the user at a selected time in the radio a... | 11/09/2004 |
| 6693510 | Image communication terminal, image communication system, and mobile station An image communication terminal having a reception section for receiving a paging signal and image data based on the paging signal, a storage section for storing data, and a control section for controlling to store the image data based on the paging signa... | 02/17/2004 |
| 6590492 | Pager having customized page alert A pager having customized page alert for customizing messages when a page is received. The pager having customized page alert includes a housing having a substantially rectangular configuration. The housing has a top surface and a bottom surface, a periph... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6400256 | Communication apparatus capable of displaying simultaneously the latest messages received from a plurality of callers A communication apparatus of the present invention displays, in its stand-by state, particular callers' name belonging to a preset group and the latest messages respectively corresponding to particular callers' names continuously on a display 6. On the re... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6388560 | Messaging terminal with voice notification A method for receiving and processing an incoming message in a wireless messaging terminal is disclosed. In particular, the method includes providing a receiver which receives the message and a memory for storing the message. The method further includes m... | 05/14/2002 |
| 6313736 | Method and apparatus in a selective call communication system for identifying a category of information associated with a message A method and apparatus in a selective call communication system is used for transmitting a message of a message type selected from non-maildrop and maildrop (504), wherein the message of maildrop type includes one of a plurality of categories of informati... | 11/06/2001 |
| 6304746 | Method and system for providing formatted information via a two-way communications system A method and system for providing formatted information via a wireless communications system that includes a plurality of cell sites. The method includes the steps of storing a plurality of page templates each having a page identifier and at least one inf... | 10/16/2001 |
| 6208878 | Radio communication apparatus A radio communication apparatus is disclosed, that comprises a receiving portion for receiving a radio signal transmitted from a base station, the radio signal including character codes, a display portion for displaying a character string corresponding to... | 03/27/2001 |
| 6205322 | Selective call receiver A selective call receiver includes a memory which stores a plurality of conversion tables each having a different character set. Each conversion table is used to convert a numeral code to a display character code for displaying visual information on scree... | 03/20/2001 |
| 6192218 | Method and system for identifying and transmitting calling party information as part of a paging signal A method of identifying and transmitting predetermined calling party information as part of a messaging signal is provided for use in a communications network having a messaging processor serving at least one messaging device. At least one database is pro... | 02/20/2001 |
| 6131037 | Method for transmitting local area/wide area messages and selective call receiver for use therewith A selective call receiver (102) for use in a communication system (100) includes a receiver (404), a memory (412), and a processor (408). The receiver (404) is capable of receiving a message code (314) during a first frame from a first transmitter and the... | 10/10/2000 |
| 6088593 | Two-way paging system and apparatus Paging systems typically include a network of ground stations or orbiting satellites equipped with transmitters and antennas for transmitting paging messages to small, battery-operated paging receivers that are worn about the person, known as pagers. Conv... | 07/11/2000 |
| 6085100 | Routing a short message reply The invention relates to a digital mobile system and a method for routing a short message via a short message gateway application in a digital mobile system. The invention discloses an arrangement which provides a subscriber with a transparent routine for... | 07/04/2000 |
