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...that in 1800 ether was first used by partyers as a fun diversion? Sniffing the gas led to hilarious and raucous laughter as people watched each other become more and more intoxicated and silly. Several doctors independently realized the value ether would have to anesthetize surgery patients. Of those who claimed rights to the "discovery," none had a happy ending. One had a seizure and died defending his rights. Another spent his life in an asylum because he had been denied acclaim. A third became addicted to chloroform and, in a New York City jail, he soaked a cloth in the drug, severed an artery and bled to death.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8190134 | Technique for displaying information ancillary to a location of an entity in a communication network A technique for displaying information ancillary to an entity's location. A request for information ancillary to the location of a communication unit in a communication network is generated by the communication unit wherein the request contains a location of the com... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8176064 | Method, device and system for information based automated selective data handling and provision by identification means In general, the present invention purposes a method for automated information based selective data provision by an identification device is provided. Information data associated with a plurality of data records stored in a data storage are scanned in order to obtain... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8165569 | Method for distributing video information to mobile phone based on push technology The present invention provides a new method for distributing video information to a mobile phone based on push technology where a new function of a mobile phone is utilized sufficiently. In case that a user has registered that the user makes a request for a video in... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8155631 | Multichannel scanning apparatus and method for dual DMB-enabled mobile phone A multichannel scanning apparatus and method for a DMB-enabled mobile phone that are capable of simultaneously displaying multiple images received through different service channels of satellite and terrestrial digital multimedia broadcasting systems is provided. A ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8150378 | Determining position of a node based on aged position data Techniques are provided for determining a position of a node. For example, the node receives first position data from a first reference node and second position data from a second reference node. The second position data includes second position measurement informat... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8135390 | Method for advertising on digital cellular telephones and reducing costs to the end user The present invention relates to a method for displaying messages, such as advertisements, consumer promotions, and customer service announcements, on digital wireless communication devices, such as digital cellular telephones, comprising the steps of creating at le... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8126441 | Method of establishing a cell phone network of participants with a common interest A method, a combined cellular, PDA communication device and system having specialized software applications for allowing a plurality of combined cellular phone/PDA device users to monitor each others' locations and status, to initiate cellular phone calls by touchin... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8116748 | Management of locations of group members via mobile communications devices The location of group members having mobile communications devices such as cellular telephones, PDAs, and the like are managed by maintaining group member location awareness among the individual group members. The location of each group member is known on the basis ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8107935 | Methods and systems for one-to-multiple emergency call communication Systems and methods for contacting associated parties in the event of an emergency communication is described. When an emergency request is made, such as a “911” call, the system determines if other contacts are associated with the requestor or the requesting de... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8103258 | Method for connecting to network server, terminal using the same, and method for storing information using broadcast A broadcasting mobile terminal communication method and the broadcasting mobile terminal are disclosed. The method includes displaying a list of broadcast files stored on the terminal, in which at least one of the broadcast files is associated with broadcast related... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8103259 | System and method for optimisation of media objects A system and method for optimization of media objects for delivery to one of a plurality of mobile communication devices of different types and rendering thereon. In particular, the media objects are optimised according to the mobile device's characteristics to ensu... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8099087 | Location announcement for mobile devices A network includes a switch and at least one network element to track the locations of wireless devices that interact with the network. The network further includes at least one network element to convert location information for a wireless device obtained from the ... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8099086 | System and method for providing a descriptor for a location to a recipient A method for providing a descriptor of a location to a recipient includes receiving geographical position data of the location from a user and using the geographical position data to identify a plurality of regions near or including the location. Each region is asso... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8090357 | Method of distributing the location data of a mobile device A method of distributing the location of a mobile device is disclosed together with a mobile device, a server and a remote terminal for the same. The method comprising the steps of determining the location of the mobile device; encrypting the determined location usi... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8055246 | Information delivery system for mobile communication using location, date, and time information There is provided an information delivery apparatus including a receiving portion to receive location information of a mobile communication terminal at a given time and acquired date and time of the location information from the terminal, an event information storag... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8036646 | Right-sized multimedia content distribution over a cellular network Systems and methods of wirelessly transmitting multimedia data over a cellular network are disclosed which may, in some embodiments, comprise transmitting a segmented multimedia content from a data center to a base transceiver station, transmitting the content from ... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8014763 | Wireless communications with proximal targets identified visually, aurally, or positionally A method of exchanging data comprises specifying in a first electronic device a recipient via perceptual addressing, and sending information from the first electronic device indicating an intent to conditionally communicate with the recipient only upon an expression... | 09/06/2011 |
| 7995997 | Determining geographical position in IPV6 networks A computer-readable medium, device and system for responding to a request for a geographically-based service are provided. A request for a geographically-based service is received. The received request indicates that a geographical position of a target node and a ra... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7970389 | Presentation of sponsored content based on mobile transaction event A system and computer-implemented method for positioning targeted sponsored content on a mobile communication facility includes the steps of: (a) receiving data corresponding to a transaction event having occurred via the interaction of a user with the mobile commun... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7920851 | Secure mobile information management system and method Information or items that otherwise might be carried in a person's wallet or purse may be managed and stored on a mobile phone. Embodiments include a software application loaded on a mobile phone and an Internet website through which certain information can be trans... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7917129 | Method and apparatus for distributed data transfer over multiple independent wireless networks The present invention provides for methods and apparatus for fragmenting a single message and sending the message fragments over multiple independent networks to a single receiving unit. The receiving unit then reassembles the message fragments to generate the origi... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7907940 | Presentation of sponsored content based on mobile transaction event A system and computer-implemented method for positioning targeted sponsored content on a mobile communication facility includes the steps of: (a) receiving data corresponding to transaction events having occurred via the interaction of a user with the mobile communi... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7907939 | Systems, devices and methods for providing services in a proximity-based environment A system is provided for delivery of services to at least one mobile device adapted to communicate in a wireless manner including a plurality of communication/detection devices. Each of the communication/detection devices is adapted to detect the presence of the mob... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7904064 | Methods and systems for targeted delivery of information based on current location of wireless device Methods and apparatus are disclosed for delivering targeted information to a mobile wireless device based on proximity of the wireless device to a given destination location. The information may include travel or routing information directing the user of the mobile ... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7894802 | Method for carrying out the network-side recognition of specific capabilities of subscriber stations in a communications system In a radio communications system having network devices and the at least one subscriber station, each subscriber station has specific capabilities determined by parameter values. Parameters are at least partially combined to form at least one parameter class. A clas... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7890089 | Communication device The communication device implements a voice communicating function, a specific event location producing function, a multiple device door locking function, a multiple device door unlocking function, and a phone call making log recording function. ... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7885644 | Method and system of providing landline equivalent location information over an integrated communication system Some embodiments provide a method and apparatus for seamlessly providing the location of user equipment of a first communication network while accessing a second different communication network. The first and second communication networks may include licensed wirele... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7881705 | Mobile communication terminal and information acquisition method for position specification information There is provided a mobile communication terminal including an information storage unit having registered therein a plurality of registration names and position specification information data with which at least a position can be specified which are correlated respe... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7853245 | System and methods for wireless messaging Systems and methods for enabling data messaging in a wireless communications system is provided in one embodiment. Wireless messaging is enabled by having a host service send enable messages to a mobile communications device. Once an enable message has been received... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7813722 | Enhanced features in an advanced voice services (AVS) framework for wireless communications systems A real-time exchange (RTX) interfaces to a wireless communications system to provide enhanced features for advanced voice services (AVS), which include location-based information, voice portal integration, push ring tones and voice message screening. ... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7809362 | Method and apparatus for providing subscriber-based ringback tone The present invention relates to method and apparatus for providing an arbitrary sound chosen by a called subscriber instead of ringback tone to a calling subscriber. In this present invention, if a call is received, a terminating exchanger requests a trunk connecti... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7801513 | Apparatus and method for transmitting/receiving notification message in a broadcasting system, and system thereof A terminal apparatus is provided for receiving a broadcast service from a broadcasting system. A receiver receives a notification message from the broadcasting system. A message parser parses the notification message received by the receiver according to a certain f... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7787869 | Device, method, and computer program product for providing enhanced blogging features on a mobile phone A method, device and computer program product for updating a blog web-site use a portable mobile communications device equipped with one or more data generating sensors. This includes acquiring sensor data from the sensors and creating a blog entry containing the ac... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7751804 | Dynamic creation, selection, and scheduling of radio frequency communications A method of developing a visual/audio campaign for delivery to a device having a radio wave receiver is disclosed. The method includes a managing node receiving broadcast specific information from a plurality of radio stations, the managing node receiving broadcast ... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7742757 | Location announcement for mobile devices A network includes a switch and at least one network element to track the locations of wireless devices that interact with the network. The network further includes at least one network element to convert location information for a wireless device obtained from the ... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7702318 | Presentation of sponsored content based on mobile transaction event Improved capabilities are described for selecting content for presentation on a mobile communication facility, wherein the content selection is based at least in part on the relevance between the content and a transaction event associated with the mobile communicati... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7657256 | Notifying a user of a portable wireless device A method, apparatus and system for notifying a user of a portable communication device. In one embodiment, a location of a first portable communication device is determined for a first user and the location of a second portable communication device is determined for... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7647038 | Dynamic selection and scheduling of radio frequency communications A method of delivering data from a source to a remote device is disclosed. The method of delivering data from a source to a remote device includes a network node, different from the source, developing a schedule for delivery of the data to the remote device based on... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7627309 | Method of sharing information relating to an information transmitting medium among mobile terminals The information sharing method of the present invention is realized by an information sharing system that includes: first and second mobile terminals and an information sharing server. The first mobile terminal first reads, from a radio tag that is embedded in an in... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7627310 | Methods, systems, and products for distance-based discounting Methods, systems, and computer program products are disclosed for providing a discount to a wireless device. One method obtains a location of the wireless device and retrieves the discount from memory. The discount is based on the location, and the discount increase... | 12/01/2009 |
