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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8295867 | Handheld electronic device including automatic mobile phone number management, and associated method A method of updating information included in a handheld device user's contact entry included in a global address list wherein the device stores information of a first type, such as a mobile phone, SMS or MMS number or a PIN. The method includes determining whether t... | 10/23/2012 |
| 8165617 | Wireless communication apparatus and communication control method A wireless communication apparatus and a communication control method wherein even if there occurs a change in communication control information due to a function change, an appropriate correction is implemented to improve the communication quality. A wireless commu... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8155682 | Handheld electronic device including automatic mobile phone number management, and associated method A method of updating information included in a handheld device user's contact entry included in a global address list wherein the device stores information of a first type, such as a mobile phone, SMS or MMS number or a PIN. The method includes determining whether t... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8150436 | Radio-wave propagation characteristic prediction assisting system and radio-wave propagation characteristic prediction assisting method A radio-wave propagation characteristic prediction assisting system includes a storage section, an attribute information input section, and an output section. The storage section stores attribute information of a region and reference information useful for predictin... | 04/03/2012 |
| 7941170 | Wireless transmitter, wireless receiver, wireless communication system, and wireless signal control method A wireless transmitter comprises ID signal storage module for storing an ID signal that identifies a group to which a data signal to be transmitted belongs and provides, for each group, second or higher-order statistic properties unique to each group; modulator for ... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7894839 | Data input device, systems using the device, and methods for operating such systems A data storage device 5 having a storage capacity of at least 8 Mbyte is surrounded by a housing including a stylus portion 23, having a tip 25 for indicating a position. The stylus permits the data storage device 5 to be used for data en... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7783313 | System and architecture for the handling of shared and personal preferences in call processing and presence for IP telephony and collaborative applications A system for resolving conflicts between personal and shared space policies, comprising a location manager for monitoring location of users, each of the users being represented by a user agent for receiving session requests in accordance with user specified personal... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7463899 | Methods and apparatus for detecting local maximums in a two-dimensional data set Methods and apparatus for detecting local maximums in a two-dimensional data set. Apparatus is provided for detecting a local maximum in a two-dimensional data set, where a stream of data elements represents the data set. The apparatus includes first detection logic... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7454221 | Electron tube amplification An amplification apparatus is disclosed. The amplification apparatus includes a plurality of emitters formed on a first substrate, an anode formed adjacent to a second substrate, so that current can be conducted between the emitters of the first substrate and the an... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7444159 | Data input device, systems using the device, and methods for operating such systems A data storage device 5 having a storage capacity of at least 8 Mbyte is surrounded by a housing including a stylus portion 23, having a tip 25 for indicating a position. The stylus permits the data storage device 5 to be used for data en... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7444141 | Method and system for programmable control of mobile communications units Accordingly, the present invention provides a toolkit for building programmable rules of operation for a prepaid mobile communications unit and for loading the rules into the prepaid mobile unit's internal memory. A rules development language is provided with a pred... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7433710 | System and methodology for automated provisioning of new user accounts System and methodology are described that allow a new user of a user-operated device (e.g., wireless digital camera, cellular phone, video camera, audio device, or the like) to immediately begin using the features and services of the device without having to first a... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7403771 | Telecom equipment with memory Embodiments of telecommunications equipment with a memory device are presented herein. ... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7373160 | Method and device for indicating amounts of data in mobile networks A mobile communication device for use in a packet switched wireless communications network includes a display, which is able to indicate an amount of data remaining from a subscribed amount. This allows the user to see how much data he can send or receive, within a ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7359448 | Remote transmitter system and method A remote transmitter system for vehicle applications includes a remote transmitter for carrying by a user and a receiver for mounting on a vehicle and receiving an amplitude modulated signal. The transmitter is operative to transmit the amplitude modulated signal at... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7343150 | Log-based ringtones A method is disclosed for determining properties of an output signal that notifies a user of an incoming message, based on information that is available to and associated with the user's telecommunications terminal. In particular, in the illustrative embodiment one ... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7324830 | System and method of exchanging identification information for mobile stations A system is provided for allowing mobile stations to exchange identification information using a predetermined communication path for the purpose of obtaining identification information to use in establishing a different communication path for communicating. ... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7289630 | Counter initialization, particularly for radio frames A method for protecting traffic in a radio access network connected to at least two core networks. The method includes maintaining a core-network-specific authentication protocol and a radio-bearer-specific ciphering process, and generating, for each ciphering proce... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7283832 | Method and system for establishing wireless peer-to-peer communications The present invention provides a wireless network system for establishing peer-to-peer communication between mobile terminals. Upon determining that peer-to-peer communication can be established between two mobile terminal, the wireless network system transmits to e... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7283834 | Multi-radio unification protocol An invention is disclosed whereby a wireless network node, equipped with two or more radio transceivers statically tuned to non-interfering frequency channels, can make decisions regarding which channel to use when communicating with a neighboring wireless node. A m... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7280835 | Mobile communication system and mobile communication method An estimator 120 of a mobile station 100a of the present invention estimates traveling speed information which is a value variable with either a traveling speed of the mobile station or a variation in the traveling speed. A comparison unit 13... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7263367 | Systems and methods for setting a mode of operation of electronic devices Systems and methods are presented to regulate the usage of electronic devices when the device is located within a predetermined region of space. The sound or light emitted from, or range of motion of the electronic device, for example, may be regulated in the predet... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7254397 | Method and apparatus for a reverse link supplemental channel scheduling An apparatus and method for communications of scheduling information of reverse link transmissions are disclosed. A base station controller determines scheduling of a reverse link supplemental channel transmission for a mobile station in a communication system (1... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7248900 | Compound ring tunes A manner of providing ring-tune alerts to announce the arrival of incoming communications at a communication device such as a mobile station operable in a wireless communication network. When notification an incoming communication arrives at the mobile station, the ... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7245636 | Method for operating a mobile radiotelephone network A method of operating a mobile wireless network is described to ensure proper function of protocol entities during the transmission of data units between two wireless stations of the mobile wireless network. In this case, user data is assembled by a first convergenc... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7203509 | Method for managing communication sessions A method for managing communication sessions in a packet-oriented communication system, consisting of a central control unit and a plurality of mobile stations, which can be interconnected via the central control unit. To achieve this, a communication session is est... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7200396 | Managing group voice communication in telecommunications system The present solution relates to a telecommunications system where information is maintained of communication groups available to a user terminal (UE). A communication server (PoC server) of the system is able to receive a request message (3-1) sent by ... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7190949 | Mobile communication terminal, application software initiating apparatus, application software initiating system, application software initiating method, and application software initiating program The mobile telephone 1 pertaining to the present invention comprises a memory unit 6, a short-range wireless unit 8, and a control unit 2. The memory unit 6 associates and stores an application ID, keyword, and application software... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7177594 | Controlling communications between devices within a mobile and ad hoc network A mobile ad hoc network may be established between a plurality of devices that have common contacts on their contact lists. The contact lists may be conventional contacts stored in a list of contacts on a scheduling and information management or other software packa... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7177907 | Message reception device, message reception method, and program for receiving message is recorded Messages with a valid range are selected by a message filter unit among the messages received through a network by a message reception unit, and the selected messages with a valid range are temporarily stored in a message storage unit. A message delivery assessment ... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7164888 | Systems and methods for analyzing critical circuits and associated telecommunication resources The invention provides systems and methods for analyzing critical circuits and telecommunication resources. For example, in accordance with one embodiment of the invention, a computer-implemented method is provided for identifying critical telecommunication resource... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7162248 | Radio control apparatus, data communication control method, and mobile communication system A mobile communication system is provided that employs a data communication control method that includes a radio control apparatus that communicates with a mobile station that performs VOX control using a first frequency band area and a second frequency band area. R... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7155221 | System and method for wireless call handover from a shared network to a home network A method and system for differential handover of a call into a home mobile network from a partner mobile network is disclosed. An exemplary embodiment of a method for differential call handover includes setting a flag in the partner mobile network which identifies a... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7155236 | Scheduled and autonomous transmission and acknowledgement Techniques for efficient signaling to and from a plurality of mobile stations are disclosed. In one embodiment, a subset of mobile stations may be allocated a portion of the shared resource with one or more individual access grants, another subset may be allocated a... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7149884 | Method and system for configuring a computer system via a wireless communication link A computing product is first assembled according to a predetermined hardware configuration and placed in a shipping container thus providing a containerized computer system. The computing product has a wireless communication subsystem for wirelessly receiving config... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7133686 | System and method for identifying interferes in a communication spectrum A method for identifying interferers in a radio communication band, such as the 2.4 GHz ISM band, uses a priori information of the interferers such as channel structure, channel frequency and channel bandwidth. Measured RSSI can be used to detect and identify interf... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7127266 | System and method for efficient media resource allocation A system and method for allocating service provider network resources for supporting dispatch multi-party calls is disclosed. In an embodiment of a method of the present invention, the method includes receiving a requirement at the service provider network for suppo... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7123877 | Baseband controller in a wireless local area network A baseband controller includes a microsequencer that is formed to include special hardware resources and a configuration that facilitates using the micro-sequencer as a real-time baseband controller. The microsequencer includes a 72-bit correlator that way also be u... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7086005 | Shared virtual space conversation support system using virtual telephones A conversation support system and a conversation support method for providing a realtime communications environment in which a plurality of users simultaneously participate in a virtual world built and provided on a computer network for realtime talking. A shared vi... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7079827 | Method and apparatus for power control in an ultra wideband impulse radio system A method for power control in an ultra wideband impulse radio system includes: (a) transmitting an impulse radio signal from a first transceiver; (b) receiving the impulse radio signal at a second transceiver; (c) determining at least one performance measurement of ... | 07/18/2006 |
