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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7356319 | Reduced power consumption A radio frequency receiver for receiving supplementary data transmitted with a radio station signal. The supplementary data includes one or more information word fields containing supplementary data transmitted with the radio station signal. The receiver includes a ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7333952 | Compound order handling in an anonymous trading system Joint execution type compound orders can be processed in an anonymous trading system comprising a plurality of broker nodes each of which includes an order matching functionality and a market distribution functionality. Trader agent nodes are connected to a number o... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7333951 | Method and system for building and maintenance watch lists A method and apparatus for monitoring a items such as stocks and other securities, suitable for use in portable devices, such as personal organizers, wherein instead of separate watch lists, a pool of items being watched is maintained, and the total number of items ... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7315839 | Securities pricing system A system for adjusting a price for a security, the price having a spread, and including a pricing engine for providing to a client a price quote for the security. Also included is a past trades database for storing at least one past trade executed by the client. A p... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7272390 | Method and system for sending facsimile transmissions from mobile devices A system and method for sending facsimile transmissions from mobile devices via web servers wherein a mobile device receives and displays a limited subset of available data on an installed display, a user decides to receive more information than is possible to displ... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7266181 | System and method for the creation and automatic deployment of personalized dynamic and interactive voice services with integrated inbound and outbound voice services This invention relates to a system and method for providing inbound and outbound voice services. The invention may be used in conjunction with a system for the creation and automatic deployment of personalized, dynamic and interactive voice services, including infor... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7265674 | Thin flexible, RFID labels, and method and apparatus for use A radio frequency identification (REID) device may include a first, thin, flexible sheet, an antenna, and an integrated circuit. A surface portion of the first sheet may be affixed to a second, thin, flexible sheet to form a thin, flexible label. Such a label may be... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7216177 | Apparatus and method for supplying electronic content to network appliances A system and method communicates data from a web content provider to a wireless computing device (e.g., a PDA, a cellular phone) via a proxy server. The proxy server transforms web content “on-the-fly” into a streamlined format, optimizes it for display, and del... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7142112 | System and method for managing services and facilities in a multi-unit building The application discloses various methods and systems that utilize infrared communication to enhance and manage the security and convenience of occupants and the operation and efficiency of the staff of a multi-unit building. ... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7116707 | Modem failover without call loss A modem, multiple modem system, and method for operating each is disclosed. Modems in a multiple-modem system save their internal state information in a remote state memory. In the event of a modem failure, a resource controller transfers data-handling to a second a... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7110975 | Order matching system A order matching system which allows users to define and modify buy/sell order schedules for execution within one or more transaction destinations. The system uses order schedules and associated evaluation heuristics to evaluate and update order characteristics such... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7107029 | Reduced power consumption A radio frequency receiver for receiving supplementary data transmitted with a radio station signal, said supplementary data comprising one or more information word fields containing supplementary data transmitted with the radio station signal, said receiver compris... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7082398 | Media wall for displaying financial information A system dynamically displays graphic identifier information, such as corporate logos, and value information for financial instruments, such as recent trade information, on a video wall having several monitors arranged to form a larger display. The system has input ... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7061393 | System and method for managing services and facilities in a multi-unit building The application discloses various methods and systems that utilize infrared communication to enhance and manage the security and convenience of occupants and the operation and efficiency of the staff of a multi-unit building. ... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7035914 | System and method for transmission of data A system and method for data communication connecting on-line networks with on-line and off-line computers. The present system provides for broadcast of up to the minute notification centric information thereby providing an instant call to action for users who are p... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7027568 | Personal message service with enhanced text to speech synthesis A server in a network gathers textual information, such as news items, E-mail and the like. From that information, the server develops or identifies messages for use by individual subscribers. The same server that accumulates the text messages or another server in t... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7028081 | Network-device management apparatus and method, recording medium, and transmission apparatus In a management system for managing network devices connected to a network, it is considered to reduce the load of the network and the devices by preserving device information acquired from each device and not acquiring new information from the device for a predeter... | 04/11/2006 |
| 6976226 | Translating tabular data formatted for one display device to a format for display on other display devices A method and system are provided that translates tabular data prepared for a first display format into a second display format. Tabular data prepared for display on a conventional desktop display device may be adjusted for display on a portable computing device havi... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6965442 | Document information communicating system A document information communicating system having: a sending apparatus for sending document information which is divided into a plurality of pages; and a receiving apparatus for receiving the document information and displaying the received document information. Th... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6915144 | Data transfer display method In a data transfer display method, first unit transfer data containing at least a plurality of unit display data is transferred from a first transmission source to a transmission destination. When display of unit display data of the first unit transfer data is desig... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6906635 | Telecommunication system including device controller with downloadable interface and remote control, and method for controlling communication system Telecommunication systems, which includes a controller (gateway/server), devices (TV, VCR, refrigerator, security system) and a remote control unit for remotely controlling the devices via the controller, is made more flexible and more user-friendly by allowing an i... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6803874 | Remote controller capable of submitting real and virtual channel number entries to a cable box, SAT-receiver or TV-set A remote controller for use with cable or satellite provided TV program signals in which an original “over the air” TV station's real channel assignment (such as channel 38) may be instead translated to a virtual channel (such as channel 14) by the cable or sate... | 10/12/2004 |
| 6785539 | System and method of wirelessly triggering portable devices The present invention provides for a system and method of wirelessly triggering portable devices to provide a user with audio and/or visual information related to a show or attraction, for example, or for the purposes of captioning, language translation, assistive l... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6717522 | Message providing apparatus A message providing apparatus according to one embodiment is apparently a small-sized (for sample, screen size of about 3.5 inches) flat display (for example, LCD), wherein a speaker is provided at a cabinet, and a memory card that is a message data storage medium i... | 04/06/2004 |
| 6687498 | Communique system with noncontiguous communique coverage areas in cellular communication networks The communique system for cellular communication networks that operates with existing cellular communication networks to provide communique communication services to subscribers. The Communique can be unidirectional (broadcast) or bidirectional (interacti... | 02/03/2004 |
| 6625447 | Method and architecture for an interactive two-way data communication network A two-way data communication device such as a data ready cellular telephone, a two-way pager, or a telephone communicates via a two-way data communication network with a server computer on a computer network that has an interface to the two-way data commu... | 09/23/2003 |
| 6484023 | Apparatus of a wireless electronic account book An apparatus and a control system to communicate with a portable wireless communication device to act as an electronic account book. The system comprises: an information providing dealer to provide a personal bank savings; an information transmission deal... | 11/19/2002 |
| 6462671 | Remote securities based data reception and order system An interlink system for conveying security quotations and other related data to remote locations by means of satellite down link and preferably providing a satellite up link for remote users to place authenticated orders for securities. The satellite upli... | 10/08/2002 |
| 6427064 | Method and apparatus for maintaining a database in a portable communication device A method and apparatus is described for the communication of data which is maintained in a database within a memory of a paging receiver. The data maintained in these fields may be utilized during page requests to provide possibly useful information to th... | 07/30/2002 |
| 6392532 | Wireless apparatus with data converting function In a wireless apparatus, a receiving unit receives a wireless signal, extracts a call number and a reception data subsequent to the call number from the received signal. Also, the receiving unit generates a determination signal indicative of whether a mes... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6346890 | Pager-based communications system A communications system is provided for communicating information to and from recipients scattered over wide geographic areas. A computer controlled head end communications interface adds address information to a message in accordance with who the intende... | 02/12/2002 |
| 6278862 | Method and apparatus for enhancing the efficient communication of information in an alphanumeric paging network A method and apparatus is described for enhancing the communication of data in an alphanumeric paging network. In accordance with the present invention, caller-identification information is automatically transmitted through a telephone network to a centra... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6140922 | System for indicating locations of sales items, method thereof, and apparatus thereof Columns of sales item stock shelves in a drive-through type store are referred to as groups. Indicators are disposed on the columns of the shelves. Each of the indicators is composed of, for example, red and blue lamps. The red or blue lamp lights corresp... | 10/31/2000 |
| 6137420 | Selective call radio receiver and a data transmission method In a selective call radio receiver, having a tone dialer function that can transmit as a tone signal a call number of a recipient accompanied by a message, during the transmission of the tone signal by a tone dialer, a pause signal is automatically insert... | 10/24/2000 |
| 6114969 | Method in a selective call radio for presenting advertisement messages and coupons A SCR (122) capable of communicating with a communications center (102) includes a RF receiver (304), a presentation circuit (313), and a processor (308). The processor is adapted to select an advertisement source from a plurality of advertisement sources... | 09/05/2000 |
| 6016107 | Reliably updating an information service message A selective call device (130) has a receiver (204) for receiving a selective call signal including an address (312). An address correlator (214) coupled to a decoder (212) determines that the selective call signal is directed thereto and determines whethe... | 01/18/2000 |
| 5978837 | Intelligent pager for remotely managing E-Mail messages An intelligent pager remotely manages an E-Mail server that receives E-Mail messages transmitted over an E-Mail network. Useful E-Mail messages can be identified by the pager and separated from the junk mail. The pager remotely controls the server to forw... | 11/02/1999 |
| 5959543 | Two-way wireless messaging system with flexible messaging A system and method for two-way wireless messaging is disclosed. A plurality of messages are stored within a user agent of the two-way messaging network. The messages correspond to those selected by a subscriber of a two-way messaging service. The message... | 09/28/1999 |
| 5955963 | Radio selective calling receiver Only information selected from messages transmitted to many persons, especially an unspecified number of persons on the reception side is received by setting the frequency of reception for each call number or each type of information on the reception side... | 09/21/1999 |
| 5929772 | Data processing device and method for use in a paging receiver A data processing device of a paging receiver having a controller for analyzing decoded paging data and for performing a paging function, wherein address data and message data of all frames are decoded and transmitted to the controller at a section of a r... | 07/27/1999 |