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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7751788 | Tool-less snap-in modular replaceable keypad for wireless communication device and method of assembling same A wireless communication device includes a wireless communication device housing member, and a modular keypad removably attachable to the wireless communication device housing member without use of a separate tool. ... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7369988 | Method and system for voice-enabled text entry A method and system for voice enabled text entry. The method includes receiving a first user-entry with a communications device and creating a transient grammar set as a result of receiving the first user-entry, where the transient grammar set is based on the first ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369824 | Receiver storage system for audio program A receiver contains a demodulator system that can deliver a stream of digital data comprising at least a first and a second set of audio data. In a first time interval, a memory is used to store either the first or the second set of audio data. In a subsequent time ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7346373 | Device and method for organizing a menu in a mobile communication terminal A device for organizing a menu in a mobile communication terminal. The device comprises a control unit for dynamically generating and deleting a plurality of menu planes according to a user's setting, each plane including at least one menu item; a control unit for p... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7305225 | Radio signal receiver A motor vehicle entertainment system includes a radio receiver and a control unit. The control unit receives a first status signal indicative of whether or not a motor vehicle door has been unlocked and initiates the application of power to the radio receiver upon t... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7170867 | Radio frequency data communications device A radio frequency identification device includes an integrated circuit including a receiver, a transmitter, and a microprocessor. The receiver and transmitter together define an active transponder. The integrated circuit is preferably a monolithic single die integra... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7162215 | Method and system for setting user preference satellite radio music selections in a mobile vehicle A system and method is directed to setting user preference satellite radio music selections in a mobile vehicle. The method provides creating at least one vehicle preference selection list utilizing a user interface, transferring the vehicle preference selection lis... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7062292 | Computer system with wireless audio signal receiving module A computer system includes a wireless audio signal receiver module for receiving a wireless signal from a wireless transmitter separated from the computer system. The wireless audio signal receiving module includes a mode selector that is switchable between an audio... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7062275 | Wireless communication system To provide a wireless communication system and a wireless communication method including: a first terminal apparatus comprising a computer main body and a second terminal apparatus comprising a displaying section, wherein the two terminal apparatuses perform wireles... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7058686 | Method of sending and receiving personal information by using mobile terminal A system for sending and receiving personal information using a mobile terminal is disclosed. In the present invention, a personal information is sent using a short message service with an attached identification information. Accordingly, when the short message is r... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7054601 | Apparatus and method for storing and selecting radio stations A method of storing and selecting a radio station (104, 106) in a radio (102) having a plurality of tuner presets (130) and a plurality of memory locations (146) assigned to each of the plurality of tuner presets, includes storing a plura... | 05/30/2006 |
| 6995809 | Automatic channel memory device In a broadcasting signal processor, an automatic channel memory device for determining whether a broadcasting signal is present in a channel tuned according to user's selection, and for automatically memorizing the tuned channel if a broadcasting signal is present i... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6961536 | Receiver control using vehicle state conditions A broadcast receiver which automatically tunes to a signal source depending on a set of rules and vehicle state conditions, such as seat occupancy, door sensors, time, day of the week, weather conditions, program content rating, vehicle location, user language prefe... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6957053 | Method for selection of a receiver tuning frequency Method for tuning the reception of radio broadcast signals to an FM RDS transmitter using program related data and transmitter related data and receiver executing the method, providing a band scanning search for detecting FM RDS transmitters exceeding a predetermine... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6941120 | Apparatus and method for automatically programming frequency scanning radio receivers A frequency scanning radio receiver scans and receives transmissions on discrete radio frequencies. The frequency scanning radio receiver is programmable to monitor frequencies in a geographical area where the receiver is located. The receiver is coupled to a commun... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6907232 | Receiver and receiving system and method A receiver and a receiving system capable of obtaining content related information corresponding to a retrieval key are provided. When a retrieval instruction is performed by a user, a retrieval key setting section sets the artist name of a musical piece provided by... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6810199 | Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and recording medium An information processing apparatus is connected to another information processing apparatus via a network and has at least one sub-unit for executing a predetermined function. A reservation is made for causing a tuner sub-unit of an IRD to receive a predetermined c... | 10/26/2004 |
| 6748237 | Automated selection of audio broadcast signal source based on user preference criterion An apparatus, program product, and method automate the selection of audio broadcast signals based upon a user preference criterion, typically by receiving a first audio broadcast signal from a first source, and concurrently monitoring a second source to locate a sec... | 06/08/2004 |
| 6711390 | Program related data in an FM RDS receiver Method for processing transmitter and program related data in an FM RDS receiver and receiver executing the method, providing a band scanning search for detecting FM RDS transmitters exceeding a predetermined reception quality level. To enhance efficiency in data pr... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6606486 | Word entry method for mobile originated short messages A text entry method simplifies entry of the text messages in a mobile phone having a limited number of entry keys. A word list is stored in the phone's memory. The word list is divided into a plurality of groups and each group is associated with a particu... | 08/12/2003 |
| 6529825 | Voice guidance switching device and method A voice guidance switching device for use in a car navigation device. When a navigation control section receives a signal from one of a controller and a controller, the navigation control section determines whether the signal is a first signal or a second... | 03/04/2003 |
| 6490464 | Smart card with multi-character memory for various telephone devices When operational information from a key pad 13 is received from the transmission section 18 of a mobile telephone 11, the microprocessor 17 of a smart card 12 specifies a character or a character string corresponding to operational information of the key ... | 12/03/2002 |
| 6266519 | Receiver A receiver includes a plurality of station-selecting keys arranged in parallel, each of which selects a broadcast frequency; a first memory part for memorizing information relating to the station selection of a plurality of broadcast frequencies capable o... | 07/24/2001 |
| 6195538 | Receiver for receiving text-based multiplex broadcasts and storing text-based data A FM receiver for receiving text-based multiplex broadcasts includes: a receiving circuit for receiving the text-based multiplex broadcasts; a decoding circuit for taking out the plurality of character program data from a multiplexed signal received by th... | 02/27/2001 |
| 6181921 | Broadcasting station data detector and broadcast receiver for moving body that search a channel map based on location The present invention provides a system for a moving body which enables a user to know a receivable broadcast station at the current position in real time and to select smoothly a desired broadcast station in a receiver even in an unfamiliar area. This sy... | 01/30/2001 |
| 6160496 | Remote channel swap for aviation communications A device and method that allows a pilot to switch between communication and navigation inputs without disrupting the pilot's current task. An audio selector panel has inputs for at least two communication transceivers and outputs for at least a pilot's he... | 12/12/2000 |
| 6052600 | Software programmable radio and method for configuring A software programmable radio (200) receives information to configure a reconfigurable resource (208) to perform an operation based on the information. A processor (210) within the reconfigurable resource performs a software program in accordance with the... | 04/18/2000 |
| 6049697 | Translator for messages transmitted to and received by a numeric pager A computer-based hand-held translator device for use in relation to preparing a numeric message for sending from a telephone having a telephone keypad to a numeric pager and also in relation to displaying an alpha message originally received as a numeric ... | 04/11/2000 |
| 6040829 | Personal navigator system A hand-held device and system for monitoring and controlling electronic devices is disclosed. In one embodiment, a control device for monitoring and controlling an electronic device, includes: 1) a base unit including a microcontroller and an interface co... | 03/21/2000 |
| 5956628 | Receiving for receiving FM text-based multiplex broadcasts A receiver for receiving FM text-based multiplex broadcasts has a receiving circuit for receiving FM text-based multiplex broadcasts, a memory for storing character data received by the receiving circuit and a display element, in which character data stor... | 09/21/1999 |
| 5950117 | Car radio receiver comprising a memory for storing predetermined vocabulary elements A vocabulary memory which contains descriptions of vocabulary elements is addressable by a code which is formed by a number designating a vocabulary element, but the set of useful codes for a given user comprises gaps (32-38) between groups of consecutive... | 09/07/1999 |
| 5930690 | FM multiplex broadcasting wave receiver Upon receiving an FM multiplex broadcasting wave carrying audible information and supplemental visible information, an FM radio receiver equipped with a display unit audibly outputs the audible information and displays the supplemental visible information... | 07/27/1999 |
| 5903227 | Remote channel swap for aviation communications A device and method that allows a pilot to switch between communication and navigation inputs without disrupting the pilot's current task. An audio selector panel has inputs for at least two communication transceivers and outputs for at least a pilot's he... | 05/11/1999 |
| 5894276 | Communication device with programmable function button and method of operation A communication device (100) incorporates a programmable function button (105) that operates in conjunction with a display (102). The button (105) operates in an execution mode when engaged for a time period less than a particular threshold (310, 320, 330... | 04/13/1999 |
| 5815732 | System for service activation programming of wireless network access devices using an external module A system and method for programming a wireless network access device which has both a keypad for manually entering data and commands to the device, and a device Input/Output data interface bus port for communicating data and command signals between an ext... | 09/29/1998 |
| 5729209 | Radio selective call receiver with having electronic pocket notebook function for organizing messages A radio selective call receiver with display includes, a storage device for storing at least received messages, a display device for displaying the received messages, an adder for associating the retrieval attribute to the received messages, and a retriev... | 03/17/1998 |
| 5697080 | Method of and apparatus for selecting station in multiplexed broadcast, and receiving system A method of selecting one of broadcast waves, which are received by a receiving system for receiving the broadcast waves in each of which a sub signal including input sorting information to indicate a sort of broadcast for each of the broadcast waves is m... | 12/09/1997 |
| 5640696 | Automatic station selecting and receiving apparatus and automatic station selecting and receiving method An automatic station selecting and receiving apparatus mounted on a movable body is provided with: a memory unit for storing information indicating a tendency of programs and information indicating a broadcast frequency as for each of the broadcasting sta... | 06/17/1997 |
| 5604921 | Radiotelephone user interface for broadcast short message service This invention pertains to a method for operating a radiotelephone for receiving digitally encoded broadcast messages from a radio channel, and also to a radiotelephone that operates in accordance with the method. The method includes a first step of opera... | 02/18/1997 |
| 5603084 | Method and apparatus for remotely programming a cellular radiotelephone A cellular radiotelephone which includes a programmable memory location which is programmed with a unique initial identification number is remotely programmed by providing the initial identification number to a cellular system, and establishing a page fro... | 02/11/1997 |
