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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7250846 | Method and apparatus for providing dynamic user alert Techniques for providing a dynamic alert indication to a user of a signal receiving device. One technique includes the steps of processing a signal transmitted from a signal transmitting device to determine at least one mode to be associated with an alert indication... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7149501 | Voice mail server, mobile station and method for voice mail message transmission Within a cellular network, an incoming voice mail message is received at a voice mail server (20), adapted into a format suitable for transmission by a network connection which does not meet a delay requirement for delay sensitive information, dispatched to a... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7127325 | Controllable object remote control and diagnosis apparatus A robot apparatus having a robot and a controller for controlling the robot. The apparatus has a diagnosing computer connected to the controller and acquiring a state quantity of the robot. An analyzing computer is provided remotely from the robot and has a control ... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7103389 | Radio communication device capable of generating melody patterns via sound, tactical and visual notifications Sound source pulses are output to a sound drive circuit based on first to fourth sound source data of a ringer melody. Thus, the sound drive circuit drives a speaker based on the sound source pulses. As a result, the ringer melody including first to fourth melodic l... | 09/05/2006 |
| RE39231 | Communication terminal equipment and call incoming control method In a communication terminal equipment and in a method of controlling call incoming, unnecessary noises in a period from the start of an alert sound to carrying out of the next operation can be reduced. When a predetermined operation is effected under the condition t... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7075415 | Conversion of light signals to audio A system for the automated conversion of light signals to audio. ... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7072641 | Reactive management of dropped calls in a wireless communication system A method and system is disclosed for reactively managing dropped calls in a wireless communication system. A mobile station determines that it has experienced a dropped call. In response, the mobile station allows a user to continue communicating, such as by recordi... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7050786 | Method and apparatus for locating a wireless device Disclosed is a method and apparatus for locating a wireless device especially useful for locating a cellular telephone making a call from an unknown location. The call may be a request for emergency assistance, or for location-based commercial services, for example.... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7035719 | Tone generating electronic device with paging module for verification of energy curtailment A curtailment module is disclosed for enabling an energy provider to send a request to curtail energy use to a user. The curtailment module includes an interface for electronic communications with a temperature control device. A paging module is used to receive the ... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7020498 | Portable telephone A portable telephone downloads from the music download center the music data that contain tone color data, tempo data, and a series of note data and rest data with respect to at least a single musical tune. A CPU outputs to an interface the tone color data, and the ... | 03/28/2006 |
| 6999731 | Control of an alert mechanism by communication of an event-associated command A method and apparatus for associating a command with an event at a first device, communicating the command to a second device when the event occurs and causing an action at the second device depending on the command. ... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6987443 | Unified paging In one embodiment, a method for paging from a pagor to a pager is disclosed. In one step, a page is sent wirelessly to the pager and received from the pagor. After determining that the pagee has not responded to the page for a predetermined time period, the page is ... | 01/17/2006 |
| 6937700 | Device for and method of outputting data on display section of portable telephone Disclosed is a device for outputting display data information displayed on a display section as audio of a portable telephone, comprising: an audio output key for selecting an audio output mode of the portable telephone; a memory for storing the data displayed on th... | 08/30/2005 |
| 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 |
| 6892112 | Modularity system for computer assisted surgery A medical system that allows a medical device to be controlled by one of two input devices. The input devices may be consoles that contain handles and a screen. The medical devices may include robotic arms and instruments used to perform a medical procedure. The sys... | 05/10/2005 |
| 6864781 | Portable paging system A portable paging system for responsive signaling between a first person and a second person. The portable paging system includes a housing. The housing has a top side, a bottom side and peripheral wall integrally coupled to the bottom and top sides and extending th... | 03/08/2005 |
| 6859134 | Data communication device Simplified data message terminals and data communicating voice terminals are described for providing additional functionality in a facility using a wireless data communication system. The simplified data message terminals provide message and paging communication to ... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6762740 | Apparatus for lighting a display in a color dependent on information and method therefor A display lighting apparatus is disclosed, that comprises a first storing means for storing date information, a second storing means for storing color information correlated with the date information, a displaying means for displaying information, a lighting means f... | 07/13/2004 |
| 6653930 | Urgency-based variable call notification A method and device are configured to generate alerts that are varied based upon whether an incoming communication is perceived to be mode (i.e., a non-urgency mode), with different tactile-based patterns being dependent upon the selection of the mode. Th... | 11/25/2003 |
| 6636602 | Method for communicating The method entails assigning each letter in an alphabet a musical note, converting words in a message into the musical notes and then using the musical notes to communicate the message to another human being. Different instruments are used to play the mus... | 10/21/2003 |
| 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 |
| 6573825 | Communication apparatus and alerting method A communication apparatus allowing easy setting operation of alerting mode and a high degree of flexibility in setting an alerting mode. A character-scale table contains scale note data associated with each of numeric characters. One of a first alerting m... | 06/03/2003 |
| 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 |
| 6337972 | Melodic alerts for communications device A point-to-point communications device (SS) which is capable of generating melodic alerts, each alert being generated using numeric data in a received message. The device includes a controller (36) programmed with an algorithm for dividing the digits in a... | 01/08/2002 |
| 6313734 | Voice synthesis of e-mail for delivery to voice pager or voice mail A voice paging system includes a computer for receiving an electronically transmitted text message and controlling the voice paging system, a text-to-voice converter for converting the text message to a voiced message, a transmitter for transmitting the v... | 11/06/2001 |
| 6304765 | Foldable communication device and method A foldable communication device (10) with a housing having two portions (11,12) pivotably mounted to each other to allow relative movement therebetween. This relative movement is about an axis (13) and enabled by mounting portion (11) to two mounts (14,15... | 10/16/2001 |
| 6088577 | Multiple subcarrier communication system The present invention is a digital FM voice paging system which uses digital signal processing (including D/A conversion and data compression) to transmit voice pager data over existing FM broadcast subcarriers.... | 07/11/2000 |
| 6040782 | Radio signal receiving apparatus with audio signal receiving and reproducing function In a radio signal receiving apparatus with audio signal receiving and reproducing function, if a message signal is received from an external device when an accompanying sound reproducer is in use, the connection of the sound reproducer to a speaker is req... | 03/21/2000 |
| 6035352 | Computerized pager for storing and managing information An information management device that is capable of efficiently using the different components that are required to perform information detection, recording and transmission that are necessary for a user with the efficient use of the limited memory resour... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6029049 | Wireless selective call receiver with speech notice function in which power supply voltage is determined in loading state In a wireless selective call receiver with a speech notice function, a receiving section operates based on the power from a power supply section, and receives a radio signal to determine whether an own call number is contained in the received radio signal... | 02/22/2000 |
| 6028513 | Wireless activation of multiple alarm devices upon triggering of a single device A method and apparatus for use in wireless alarm systems is provided which enable the simultaneous sounding of any or all alarm devices in the system upon sensing of an alarm condition by at least one of the alarm devices. The alarm devices are battery po... | 02/22/2000 |
| 5986567 | Selectively called wireless receiver with automatically selectable output A selectively called wireless receiver extracts a reception message signal destined to an intrastation from an electromagnetic wave wireless signal. When the peripheral area of the selectively called wireless receiver is quiet and dark, a message is outpu... | 11/16/1999 |
| 5970387 | Voice and digit compatible fully automatic radio paging system There is provided a voice and digit compatible fully automatic radio paging system comprising a radio page central station and a plurality of pagers with voice and digit compatibility. The central station automatically captures a digit and voice informati... | 10/19/1999 |
| 5969636 | Messaging terminal with voice notification A method for receiving and processing an incoming message in a wireless messaging terminal. The method includes providing a receiver which receives the message and a memory for storing the message. The method further includes matching the message with a p... | 10/19/1999 |
| 5950123 | Cellular telephone network support of audible information delivery to visually impaired subscribers Cellular telephone network textual messages are conventionally delivered to mobile stations for subscriber presentation on an included display. To accommodate a visually impaired subscriber, however, these textual messages are instead converted to an audi... | 09/07/1999 |
| 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 |
