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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7620366 | Prefix delegation system and method of ad-hoc network A method, medium, and system for connecting to a communication system in a network having a plurality of nodes capable of communicating with each other. The node requests an identifier to a foreign network when a router advertise (RA) message is received from the fo... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7613427 | Resource location through location history A system and method are disclosed for locating resources available to portable electronic devices which are enabled for short range wireless communications. The system and method include creating and accessing a resource and access location history database accessib... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7613424 | Method for performing bluetooth high rate supervisor handover Disclosed is a method of performing a supervisor handover with ease prior to the supervisor handover by selecting a candidate supervisor on a Bluetooth High Rate (HR) subnet having one supervisor and a plurality of members. The method comprises the steps of selectin... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7613426 | Proximity service discovery in wireless networks Discovery of services between devices is provided prior to establishing a connection between devices, including wireless-enabled devices or devices that are communicatively coupled to wireless access points. Discovering services prior to establishing a connection ma... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7613428 | Resource location through location history A system and method are disclosed for locating resources available to portable electronic devices which are enabled for short range wireless communications. The system and method include creating and accessing a resource and access location history database accessib... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7613425 | Bluetooth communications Bluetooth range extending apparatus is disclosed for extending the range of Bluetooth communication between a master and an associated slave device. The apparatus (2) comprises a first communication module (3) for receiving incoming Bluetooth signals c... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7610014 | System and method for selecting a cellular network on a wireless local area network In accordance with the teachings described herein, systems and methods are provided for selecting a cellular network on a wireless local area network (WLAN). A network list may be used to identify a plurality of preferred WLANs and one or more cellular networks that... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7610016 | System and method for providing an adapter module Embodiments include a system and method for adapting a wireless device, such as a Bluetooth-enabled mobile handset or other Bluetooth-enabled device to a car radio and associated speaker system to effect a hands-free car kit or similar system. The adapter module is ... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7610015 | System and method for coherent communication in a network A method is provided for increasing the effective transmission range for ones of a plurality of low-power transmitters arranged in an array. In particular, the low-power transmitters are arranged to simultaneously transmit a common information stream, and the transm... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7606533 | Method and system for selecting data items for service requests A method and system locate a transponder that has an associated identifier and content data, at a location substantially accessible to a user of the mobile terminal. The transponder is activated by the mobile terminal with a wireless signal. In response, the mobile ... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7603083 | Controlling visibility of a wireless device in discoverable mode A wireless device in a discoverable mode controls its visibility by determining whether to ignore or respond to an inquiry, received from an inquiring device that is searching for discoverable devices, based at least in part on one or more properties of the inquirin... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7599662 | Method and system for frequency feedback adjustment in digital receivers In RF transceivers, a method and a system for a frequency feedback adjustment in digital receivers are provided. A DC offset may result from the difference in frequencies between an RF transmitter and an RF receiver. An adjustment of the receiver's frequency may be ... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7596353 | Enhanced bluetooth communication system The present invention provides a system with a plurality of Bluetooth dongles connected to a single host. Each dongle is connected to a different port on the host and each dongle can accommodate a piconet of up to seven Bluetooth devices. The host communicates with ... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7587169 | Methods and apparatuses for communicating with wireless peripheral devices Methods and apparatuses are disclosed for communicating with wireless peripheral devices. One method receives a communication for the wireless peripheral device. Wireless signals, such as activation, initialization, or registration signals/messages, are communicated... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7583931 | Animal identification and entry control system There is disclosed an animal identification and entry control system based on a radio frequency identification (RFID) system including an animal collar-mounted RFID tag, and RFID circuitry including a single antenna housed within a bezel placed forward of and surrou... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7583932 | Baseband controller in a wireless local area network A baseband controller includes a microsequencer with special hardware resources circuitry and a configuration that supports real-time Bluetooth functionality for an upper limit of Bluetooth slave devices. The microsequencer includes a 72-bit correlator that may also... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7580678 | System, apparatus, and method for effecting network connections via wireless devices using radio frequency identification A system, apparatus, and method for facilitating the initiation/execution of mobile services using radio frequency transponders. Transponders or “tags” having information associated therewith are provided at a location accessible to a mobile device user. A visua... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7580677 | Communications interface device for receiving digital signals A communications interface device (4) has circuitry for receiving digital signals in the form of characters according to a protocol defining that a communications link is initialized by a series of start characters, each having a specified duration. The recei... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7577402 | Radio communication system, fixed information device, and mobile terminal device A first radio communication unit of a stationary information device performs a radio communication to detect an approach of a mobile terminal device. An attracting unit of the stationary information device generates, when the approach of the mobile terminal device i... | 08/18/2009 |
| 7574174 | Apparatus, method and system for a remote-page device An apparatus, method, and system for a remote-page devices. Communications are made more efficient with a connectivity tool. Remote-page enabled clients allow a short-range RF device to communicate beyond its coverage area or that of a nearby access point. Such a re... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7574175 | Method and system for selective equalization enablement based on modulation type Aspects of a method and system for selective equalization enablement based on modulation type may be found in a method for processing a radio frequency (RF) signal that comprises receiving a Bluetooth signal via an RF channel, detecting a modulation type of the rece... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7570917 | Bluetooth communication through a single virtual port A system that provides for Bluetooth communications from a first Bluetooth enabled device to a second Bluetooth enabled device is provided. The system comprising a Bluetooth manager that provides a graphical user interface, an Outgoing Port Driver that shares config... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7565108 | Radio frequency identification (RF-ID) based discovery for short range radio communication with reader device having transponder functionality A RF-ID based wireless terminal includes a reader device with transponder functionality implementing ECMA 340 standard for near field communication and has shortened session set-up and user identification. The reader device is operable in an active communication mod... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7561846 | Vehicle-to-vehicle communication A method for vehicle-to-vehicle communication. The method includes receiving data about a first vehicle and a second vehicle within a proximity of an intermediate node, where the receiving is at the intermediate node. The first vehicle is notified about the presence... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7558529 | Earpiece/microphone (headset) servicing multiple incoming audio streams The present invention provides a modular wireless headset with which to service multiple incoming audio streams. This modular wireless headset includes a wireless microphone and wireless earpiece. The wireless earpiece may exchange radio frequency (RF) signals with ... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7558530 | Device for generating a clock signal A device for generating an output clock signal intended to time a digital processing circuit, said generating device receiving a first clock signal, characterized in that it comprises an oscillator generating a second clock signal constituting said output clock sign... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7555265 | Information delivery system, information delivery method, mobile unit, server, and information delivery terminal In an information delivery system, information desired by the user can be obtained while improving security of the system. A portable terminal registers a condition of an information delivery terminal to acquire information therefrom to a server. The server selects,... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7551893 | Communications unit, communications facility, management device, communication system, and electric field communication device Communications control apparatus CCUn involved in unitary tile carpet CPn has functions of performing communication with communications terminal TRX and wired communication with other communication control apparatus CCUn in adjoining tile carpet CPn. Each tile carpe... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7551894 | Wireless microphone A wireless microphone (1) comprises a radio transmitter for transmitting radio signals carrying audio signals to a hearing device. The wireless microphone (1) further comprises at least one coupling element (11) for detachably fixing one of vari... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7551895 | Progressive directional routing protocol for directional mode ad hoc networks A method of communicating in a mobile ad-hoc network is disclosed. It is determined whether a first directional transmission path between a transmitting node and a destination node is known to be free from obstruction. The transmitting node transmits a message to th... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7548727 | Method and system for an efficient implementation of the Bluetooth® subband codec (SBC) Certain aspects of a method and system for implementing a codec may comprise at least one of inverse discrete cosine transforming windowed data corresponding to a plurality of input audio samples during encoding by a Bluetooth subband codec and discrete cosine trans... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7546086 | Ad-hoc messaging between wireless devices A message is communicated from a first short-range transceiver device to other short-range transceiver devices by determining a set of identifiers of other short-range transceiver devices known by the short-range transceiver device to be within direct communication ... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7546087 | Voice bulletin board apparatus and method for controlling the same A voice bulletin board apparatus and a method for controlling the same. The voice bulletin board apparatus includes: a tag for storing identity information of a user of a voice bulletin board; an identity information entry unit for receiving the identity information... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7542721 | Systems and methods for providing non-dedicated wireless backup service for monitored security systems via Bluetooth An interface provides a non-dedicated wireless communications path for reporting alarm events from a landline-based alarm system to a remote monitoring system via BLUETOOTH. The interface includes a BLUETOOTH receiver that communicates with a cellular handset, or ot... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7539457 | Method and apparatus for communicating with seven or more terminals efficiently in bluetooth system Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for communicating with seven or more terminals in a Bluetooth system of a Wireless Personal Area Network (W-PAN). In the method and apparatus, a sniff mode allowing slaves to be in a sleep state for a Sniff Interval Time (SIT)... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7536151 | Methods, systems, devices and computer program products for providing user-access to broadcast content in combination with short-range communication content Systems, devices and methods for providing user access to broadcast content in combination with user access to short-range communication content, such as RFID tag content or the like. A broadcast medium, such as Radio Data Broadcast, that provides for broadcast freq... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7536152 | Information access system and active-type contactless information storage device In an information access system, an active contactless information storage device senses a carrier of an RF signal at a first frequency in first predetermined periods occurring in a predetermined cycle and senses a carrier of an RF signal at a second frequency in se... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7532862 | Method and apparatus for configuring a wireless device through reverse advertising One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that uses reverse advertising to configure a new wireless device to join an existing wireless network. During operation, the new wireless device broadcasts an advertisement for itself. In response to the adve... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7526252 | Information communication system information communication device and information communication method and computer program An information communication system includes a first telephone operated by a first user, first proximity communication means operated when a first device comes into its vicinity so as to connect the both, a second telephone operated by a second user, and second prox... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7522880 | Wireless networked cash management system A wireless networked cash management system includes a coin handling device (13, 14, 17) for performing at least one of the operations of coin counting, coin sorting, coin dispensing and cash redemption, a currency handling device (15, 16, 17) for perf... | 04/21/2009 |