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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8164421 | Adaptive remote verification of vehicular functions Methods and apparatus are provided for generating a confirmation signal indicating that a vehicle function has been activated. The apparatus comprises an annunciator for generating the confirmation signal. A processor is coupled to the annunciator and is configured ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 7370200 | Validation for secure device associations The present invention provides for validating an association between computing devices using a succession of human-perceptible stimuli such as sounds, lights colors or shapes. Commands are sent from the initiating device to the responding device in encrypted message... | 05/06/2008 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7265655 | Handheld computing device with power-saving notification A handheld computing device includes a notification lamp, a melody circuit coupled to the notification lamp for providing a first type notification, an electronic switch coupled to the notification lamp for providing a second type notification, and a notification co... | 09/04/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7253350 | Vibration source driving device A vibration source driving device that realizes various vibration functions on portable telephones. The vibration source driving device includes a sound source for generating musical tone signals in response to music data. A vibration source to generate vibration, a... | 08/07/2007 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7201996 | Sound generator for a portable device A sound generating device is mounted in a recess formed in a case, and a battery is mounted on the case. A pair of terminals are provided on the underside of the case. A pair of leads connect a pair of electrodes of the battery with the terminals. ... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7076044 | Call queuing notification Call queuing is implemented in a telecommunications advanced intelligent network. After a call to a busy subscriber line in queued, a separate call to the subscriber is placed indicating status of the queued subscriber line access call. Call queuing and status notif... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7062535 | Individual XML message processing platform A communications platform (Centerpost) is disclosed containing a message processing platform along with an XML message format (SmartMessage) which provides for the reception, organization, summarization, filing, storage, synthesis, routing, formatting, and intellige... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7020136 | Satellite telecommunication system with storage of messages in electronic mailboxes Telecommunications system, particularly for exchanging telecommunication traffic between fixed and mobile users, such as lorry drivers, by way of a satellite communication network, such as the Inmarsat system, built up from several telecommunication satellites which... | 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 |
| 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 |
| 6850151 | Devices for locating/keeping track of objects, animals or persons Devices for enabling a user to locate an object, animal or person or reminding the user of the location of an object, animal or person. In a non-transmitter/receiver embodiment, the device includes at least one alert mechanism which is connected to a digital clock o... | 02/01/2005 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 6574489 | Incoming call notification method and device for a multimode radio device A multimode radio has: an antenna that transmits and receives calls via radio signals of a plurality of communication modes; receivers that convert the received radio signals to signals for particular communication modes; an incoming call notifying unit h... | 06/03/2003 |
| 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 |
| 6545590 | Musical alert radio pager A radio pager receives from a base station a paging signal consisting of an address code group and a message code group including musical note data. The receiver separates the received paging signal into the address code group and message code group. Furt... | 04/08/2003 |
| 6433670 | Pager and a method of displaying the number of messages received by the same The accounting management of a user of a pager receiving a service in which the user is charged for the number of calls is desired to be facilitated by displaying an illustrated image representing the number of received messages within a fixed period of t... | 08/13/2002 |
| 6404349 | Remocon locator signal transmitting device provided in apparatus having television tuner A remocon locator signal transmitting circuit is provided in an apparatus having a television tuner. When a power for the apparatus is turned on, a micro-computer in the apparatus sets a local oscillation frequency of the television tuner at a predetermin... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6396399 | Reduction of devices to quiet operation An object alerting device discovers nearby alerting devices, compares the nearby alerting devices to a condition, and sets the object alerting device to a quiet mode when the condition is met by the nearby alerting devices. The nearby alerting devices may... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6208237 | Electro-mechanical and acoustic transducer for portable terminal unit The present invention purposes to realize an electro-mechanical and acoustic transducer capable of generating both strong vibration and sound. In an electro-mechanical and acoustic transducer of the present invention, mass of a mechanical vibration system... | 03/27/2001 |
| 6134455 | Annunciating apparatus, and associated method, for radio communication device Annunciator apparatus, and an associated method, for a mobile station, such as a radio telephone operable in a cellular communication system. When a call is to be terminated at the mobile station, a determination is made of the ambient noise levels proxim... | 10/17/2000 |
| 6127918 | Buzzer with a sound film and equalizing or whirlpool sound mechanism A buzzer includes a base with an upper opening, a vibrating plate fixed on the upper opening of the base, a sound film fixed flatly on the vibrating plate, and an equalizing or whirlpool sound mechanism for transmitting the sound produced by the vibrating... | 10/03/2000 |
| 6124801 | Radio selective calling receiver and calling method The message transmitter transmits a re-calling identification signal with a message, and a receiver identifies this signal. Thereby the message transmitter can indicate selectively the re-calling of the receiver. If the message is not confirmed, the recei... | 09/26/2000 |
| 6125264 | Telephone apparatus A signal receiver such as a portable telephone set or pager becomes more convenient when receiving an incoming call. A radio signal receiver for receiving a signal transmitted via a radio communication network line includes calling sound generator operabl... | 09/26/2000 |
| 6097935 | Data receiver apparatus A data receiver apparatus (1) for receiving a stream of data includes a display (27) for displaying a message in accordance with the received stream of data; and a storage device (19, 28) for storing character data and display control data which respectiv... | 08/01/2000 |
| 6075456 | Method of and apparatus for indicating location of lost or misplaced paging receiver and its owner's telephone number A method of informing a finder of a paging receiver of its location and its owner's telephone number includes registering the owner's telephone number in a memory of the paging receiver; and when the paging receiver is misplaced or otherwise lost, calling... | 06/13/2000 |
| 6075998 | Communication apparatus capable of announcing reception of a call by a melody sound composed by a user In a communication apparatus which announces reception of a call by a melody sound, a memory preliminarily memorizes musical tone information data representing tone names of a number of musical tones and tone name frequencies of the tone names, respective... | 06/13/2000 |
| 6070053 | Radio communication system including independent calling sound notification In a radio communication system and radio communication apparatus, the ringing sound or melody of calling notification can be altered by users. A music data receiving section, a music data storage section and a music data reproducing section are provided ... | 05/30/2000 |
| 6069874 | Radio communication apparatus wherein alert of message omission is not carried out erroneously In a communication apparatus comprising a receiving section (102, 103, 104) for receiving message data transmitted from a base station as received message data, and a detection section (105) for detecting a transmission number in the received message data... | 05/30/2000 |
| 5970389 | Portable one-way radio pager with an encoded sound signal transmitter and identification method using same The invention relates to a portable one-way radio pager comprising pager means (4, 5, 6) for receiving radio messages, a memory (8) for storing messages, a screen (2), a keypad (3), a CPU (7), and a loudspeaker (9). The CPU is designed to recognize specif... | 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 |
| 5963143 | Display of timer for programming mode of a radio selective calling receiver A radio selective calling receiver includes at least a loudspeaker, a function setting switch, a display unit, a timer, and a time-out display control section. The loudspeaker notifies an incoming call by generating a sound. The function setting switch is... | 10/05/1999 |
| 5952918 | Recovery mode feature for remote units An apparatus for locating and recovering a misplaced remote unit includes a base unit including a radio frequency transmitter adapted to produce radio signals in response to a user command and a remote unit adapted to control at least one function of the ... | 09/14/1999 |
| 5926086 | System and method for vehicle theft prevention and recovery A vehicle theft prevention and recovery system is activated by a pager upon receiving a telephonic signal from a pager service, in response to a call from a vehicle owner or operator, to activate anti-theft means including a warning to a thief in the vehi... | 07/20/1999 |
