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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7373140 | Wireless communication system and method of changing language to be displayed in wireless client A wireless communication system is provided which supplies an only necessary font to a wireless client and avoids incorrect display on the wireless client. A wireless communication gateway server receives language information from the wireless client, and supplies a... | 05/13/2008 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7274480 | Portable communicator This communicator makes it possible for the user to do telephone, facsimile, and data communication at any location. On a pen input device, a space eye 2, a telephone control system, a facsimile control system, and a data transmission system are mounted. All ... | 09/25/2007 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7236705 | Methods and systems for aligning and maintaining alignment of point-to-point transceivers in a network A digital data network uses network nodes incorporating infrared transceivers. Each node includes a plurality of infrared transceivers having transmitter and receiver optics designed to facilitate line-of-sight infrared optical communications in a residential or bus... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7232126 | Over the raceway divert device, system and method for diverting suspect documents The present subject matter relates to the field of document material handling in high-speed in-line mailing systems. In particular, the present subject matter relates to a cross track divert device, system and method for diverting a suspect or invalid document from ... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7228501 | Method for selecting a font The invention is generally directed to a method for selecting a font that uses a mark-up language document to group together multiple pre-existing fonts into a single font family or “virtual font.” The mark-up language document includes rules regarding the condi... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7228123 | Method and system for automatically determining lines of sight between nodes The present invention uses data from several sources to determine lines-of-sight between nodes in a FSO network. The present invention provides a three-dimensional neighborhood modeling system that uses aerial image data, Digital Elevation Models, U.S. street map da... | 06/05/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7215246 | Binding for one-way wireless transmissions A system allows binding in a one-way wireless transmission. The system includes a transmitting wireless device having a button and a receiving wireless device having a signaling mechanism. The second wireless device receives a code transmitted from the first wireles... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7199765 | Mobile communication apparatus and global positioning system (GPS) antenna thereof A mobile communication apparatus includes a printed circuit board (PCB) and a global positioning system (GPS) antenna. The GPS antenna is made of a metal sheet, and vertically inserted into the PCB. ... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7183898 | Coupling wireless portable communications device to a base station by a second network when out of communication with a first network A method of coupling a wireless portable communications device (PCD) to a base station by way of a second network is disclosed. The PCD is normally in communication with the base station by way of a first network, and is coupled to the base station by way of the sec... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7180427 | Information system An information system for supplying a predetermined region with information includes a transmitter for transmitting information in digitally coded form and a hand-held device. The hand-held device includes a receiver for receiving the information transmitted by the ... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7176802 | Radio IC tag reader, radio IC tag read apparatus and radio IC tag read system A radio IC tag reader includes an antenna capable of conducting radio communications with an IC tag on which predetermined data is recorded, the IC tag being attached to an article. An antenna sheath for housing the antenna is formed as a flat body and both sides of... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7142786 | Wireless infrared network transceiver A digital data network uses network nodes incorporating infrared transceivers. Each node includes a plurality of infrared transceivers having transmitter and receiver optics designed to facilitate line-of-sight infrared optical communications in a residential or bus... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7130581 | Wireless data communication device and communication system including such a device The wireless data communication device (1) is mounted in a portable object, such as a wristwatch. The device includes an oscillator circuit (6), which produces high frequency signals (SH), and a signal processing unit (7), connected t... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7092636 | Optical network employing erbium-doped fiber amplifiers A point-to-multipoint bi-directional wide area telecommunications network employing atmospheric optical communication. The network comprises a primary transceiver unit, a plurality of subscriber transceiver units and an optical router. The primary transceiver unit m... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7085553 | Data communication protocols for a mobile-based client-server system over a wireless network Intelligent paging services provided by a GSM-based mobile communication network are employed in a mobile-based client-server system to provide automatic notification of a mobile client station of the type and quantity of information awaiting delivery to a mobile cl... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7048183 | RFID rag and method of user verification An identification tag (100) facilitates use of a secure computer system (300). The tag (100) is adapted to be worn on a user's wrist and includes an identification and registration circuit (102) that includes an identification component (... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7042337 | Communication and data entry device A personal communication and data entry device comprises a portable housing, an internal controller coupled to the housing, a paging device coupled to the controller, and at least one of a voice recording device, a cellular telephone transceiver, a radio transceiver... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7030910 | Wireless camera A wireless camera 11 includes a main body unit 16, encoding/transmission unit 17, and a battery unit 18. The encoding/transmission unit 17 includes a encoding/modulation unit 23 for performing MPEG 2 encoding and OFDM modula... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7027840 | Method and apparatus of muting an alert A wireless communication device (100, 800) is provided with a movement sensor (802), and circuitry for controlling the operation of the wireless communication device. In operation in response to detecting predetermined movement of the wireless communic... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7027955 | Guard tour system incorporating a positioning system A guard tour system comprising a computer running a computer program that enables a variety of electronic hardware components to function as the guard tour system. It is contemplated that the computer program be multi-user and/or network compatible. The electronic h... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7019961 | Arrangement of card slot in laptop computer A display unit containing a display is openably attached to a base unit of a laptop computer. While the laptop computer is not in use, the display unit is closed over the top face of the base unit with a display face of the display being inward. To use the laptop co... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7016612 | Digital optical communication device and method for transmitting and receiving data with light emission intensity controlled A digital optical communication device includes an optical reception circuit converting an optical signal received from any external source to an electric signal, a decoding circuit decoding the electric signal resultant from conversion by the optical reception circ... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7006846 | Credit card communication system A system for long range communications is disclosed. The system includes a base station and credit card sized wireless long range communications devices. The wireless long range communication devices each include a transceiver, a man machine interface (e.g., display... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7003319 | Data carrier system A cellular telephone (102) in a vehicle includes a data carrier system comprising a first semi-permanent Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) (200) selectively couplable to the cellular telephone (102) and a second SIM (300) selectively coupl... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6973336 | Method and apparatus for providing a notification of received message The present invention is directed to a method and apparatus for providing a notification of a received message when the user may not have received the initial alert. An auto notification feature is provided, such that if the apparatus upon receiving a message detect... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6968471 | System for arbitrating clock synchronization among networked devices Electronic devices coupled together via a communications network having date and time functions which are synchronized using an arbitration scheme so that any device in the network may have its date and time set after the clock on any respective electronic device ha... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6961004 | Portable messaging and scheduling device with homebase station A portable device (10) for selective message recordation and playback and scheduling includes a portable unit (11) and an optional homebase station (12). Portable unit (11) includes a housing (15), unit controller (20), tact... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6957082 | Electronic device having power saving function and extension unit When the connector of an electronic card device is mated with the connector of a host device with the main power supply of the host device being turned off, a power supply control unit in the host device starts the supply of power to the card device. When no operati... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6917280 | Cradle for accepting portable communications device and coupling portable communications device to first network by way of second network A cradle for accepts a portable communications device (PCD) that is normally in radio communication with a first network. The cradle couples the accepted PCD to the first network by way of a second network when the PCD is out of radio communication with the first ne... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6909908 | Plain ordinary telephone line and local area network connections for mobile phones A mobile phone handset has incorporated connectors and/or circuitries to connect to plain ordinary telephone (POT) lines, various computing devices and/or a local area network (LAN). The POT line connection, e.g., a RJ-11 type connector, and the relevant circuitries... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6879259 | Battery voltage indicator in a portable computing device Systems and methods for indicating the status of a battery in a portable computing device are disclosed. The methods include retrieving battery status data from a basic input-output system (BIOS) on the computing device, and comparing the retrieved battery status da... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6833792 | Battery capacity indicator in a portable computing device Systems and methods for indicating the status of a battery in a portable computing device are disclosed. The methods include retrieving battery status data from a basic input-output system (BIOS) on the computing device, and comparing the retrieved battery status da... | 12/21/2004 |
| 6441720 | Message transmission to external unit in radio apparatus A selective call radio receiver with an external connection function, includes a connection section, a normal message storage section, a transfer message storage section and a control section. The connection section is connected with an external unit. The... | 08/27/2002 |
