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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7444172 | Device and method for controlling radio mobile terminal connected to hands-free kit A device and method for automatically controlling power of a radio mobile terminal connected to a hands-free kit and for preventing the radio mobile terminal from malfunctioning. In a power control method for automatically turning on a radio mobile terminal connecte... | 10/28/2008 |
| 6873827 | Method and apparatus for providing feeder cable insertion loss detection in a transmission system without interfering with normal operation A method and apparatus for measuring a change in the insertion loss of a transmission line in a communication system is disclosed. The method provides feeder cable insertion loss detection in a transmission system without interfering with normal operation. The metho... | 03/29/2005 |
| 6738616 | Automatic telephone service forwarding device An automatic telephone service forwarding device including a base or enclosure defining a socket for receiving a wireless telephone. Upon detecting the presence of the wireless telephone in the socket, the device automatically forwards telephone service for the wire... | 05/18/2004 |
| 6665529 | System and method for authenticating a cellular subscriber at registration An apparatus for authenticating a subscriber at registration is provided for use in a mobile communications system having at least a switching center communicatible with at least one equipment registry and at least two subscriber registries, wherein, for ... | 12/16/2003 |
| 6652295 | Ground bus for junction box Ground bus (50) including a body section (48) having a plurality of apertures (52) for grounding of a like plurality of modules (16). Ground bus (50) is mountable in an enclosure (10) and includes an integral termination section (62) whereinto an external... | 11/25/2003 |
| 6654617 | Antenna system for narrowband communications systems and method of operation There is disclosed an improved base station for communicating with communication units in a wireless messaging system. According to an advantageous embodiment, the base station comprises: 1) a transmitter that is capable of transmitting messages to the co... | 11/25/2003 |
| 6640101 | Remote transmission testing and monitoring to a cell site in a cellular communications network Systems and methods provide remote performance monitoring and testing to a cell site in a cellular communications network. The systems and methods include a network management center having remote monitoring and testing capabilities utilizing an intellige... | 10/28/2003 |
| 6618588 | Methods and systems for implementation of the calling name delivery service through use of a location register in a network element in a wireless network Methods and systems for providing for calling party name and/or other information corresponding to a wireless unit to be stored in association with the mobile identity number (MIN) and/or mobile directory number (MDN) of the wireless unit in a location re... | 09/09/2003 |
| 6615038 | System and method for automatically creating and updating a mobile station configuration database in a wireless network There is disclosed, for use in a wireless network comprising a group of base stations that communicate with a group of mobile stations, an apparatus for automatically gathering configuration data associated with the mobile stations. The apparatus comprise... | 09/02/2003 |
| 6597894 | Radio communication device and method of controlling transmission rate The communication terminal apparatus measures reception quality and reports the measurement result to the base station apparatus, and the base station apparatus switches the transmission rate based on the reported result of the reception quality. In this ... | 07/22/2003 |
| 6594507 | Method for allocating channels The present invention relates to a mobile communication system comprising a rate adaptation unit (TC) which communicates with a base station system via first data transmission channels (Ater1-Ater4) and with a mobile services switching center (MSC) via se... | 07/15/2003 |
| 6591099 | Method and system for transferring information to a post processing subsystem outside the wireless network Within a wireless telecommunications network, a method and system of transferring information from a Mobile Station (MS) 12 in the network 40 transparently to a Post Processing Subsystem (PPSS) 50 outside the network 40. The PPSS 50 requests information a... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6587681 | Mail reception notifying system and mail reception notifying method When the telephone number of digital portable telephone A is notified to reception notifying apparatus 3 (S101), the telephone number is stored (S102), and is forwarded to digital portable telephone B (S103). Next, when digital portable telephone B transm... | 07/01/2003 |
| 6584302 | Method and arrangement for forming a beam The invention relates to a method and an arrangement for forming a beam for transmission in a TDD communication system, wherein an antenna comprises several elements. A multipath propagated signal is received and an antenna response is estimated. A subset... | 06/24/2003 |
| 6580898 | Supervisory system and method First and second supervised cards 103 and 104 are respectively provided with bus registers 114 and 115, CPUs 116 and 117 detect occurrence of a state change or failure of the respective apparatuses, the detected state change or failure information is stor... | 06/17/2003 |
| 6580903 | Circuit and method for recording and playing back voice and other sounds in digital mobile radio devices A circuit for recording and playing back voice in digital mobile radio devices and a method for appropriately recording and playing back the voice. The circuit includes a transmit-end voice encoder, a receive-end voice decoder, a memory for the recorded s... | 06/17/2003 |
| 6577864 | Elliptical satellite system which emulates the characteristics of geosynchronous satellites An elliptical satellite system which carries out communication. The satellite orbits a height above the earth less than that necessary for geosynchronous orbits. When the satellite is near the apogee portion of its orbit, its velocity approximates the rot... | 06/10/2003 |
| 6574485 | Power control in a radio system The invention concerns a method of power regulation in a radio system including at least two transmitters, e.g. base transceiver stations, transmitting at the same frequency and receivers, e.g. mobile stations, which have set up a radio communication with... | 06/03/2003 |
| 6574459 | Multiple branch receiver system and method A receiver provides received analog signals to a plurality of channel branches, and on at least one of the channel branches, the frequency of the received analog signals is adjusted independent of the relative positions of the corresponding analog signals... | 06/03/2003 |
| 6571099 | Cell searching method in asynchronous wideband code division multiple access system A method for quickly searching a cell at a mobile station by using a synchronization channel structure of a forward link in a code division multiple access system which operates by an asynchronous mode between base stations is provided. In the method, a p... | 05/27/2003 |
| 6568956 | Portable electric apparatus having a detachable power source A portable electric apparatus, such as a radio telephone, has a main apparatus unit and a detachable power source unit, such as a battery pack. The apparatus also has first and second externally operable fastening members having respective first and secon... | 05/27/2003 |
| 6567664 | Registration for mobile nodes in wireless internet protocols A re-registration authorization is attached to a registration request or data packet sent from a mobile node roaming on a foreign network. The mobile node requests registration with its home network in order to maintain communication with the Internet and... | 05/20/2003 |
| 6567651 | Retractable microphone/speaker lead for a belt clip attachment device for a mobile phone or the like A retractor belt clip device which includes a retractable lead for a personal hands free kit or other similar device such as speaker leads for personal CD or tape device is disclosed. The device includes a receptacle body and corresponding flanged lug fas... | 05/20/2003 |
| 6567652 | Mobile phone housing top A mobile phone housing top of the present invention comprises a main body and a front wall, a rear wall, a left wall and a right wall depending from the main body. The main body comprises a speaker section, a display section, and a keypad section includin... | 05/20/2003 |
| 6567674 | Radio information terminal capable of facilitating on-line operation by a portable computer A radio information terminal comprises a radio unit, functioning as a proxy server to a portable computer when it is connected to the portable computer and unable to receive a control radio wave from a base station, and synchronizing information received ... | 05/20/2003 |
| 6567461 | Device and method for performing frame sync using sync channel in mobile communication system A base station transmitter for a CDMA communication system which includes a superframe period of a sync channel, a plurality of first sync channel frames segmented from the superframe period, the first sync channel frames each having a first period, and a... | 05/20/2003 |
| 6564047 | Advanced air time management A system and method of communications usage management for multiple networked devices such as cellular telephones in a telecommunications network. A management database is provided for storing communications attributes for at least one networked device. T... | 05/13/2003 |
| 6564064 | Cellular telephone using pseudolites for determining location A cellular telephone having a global positioning system (GPS) receiver using a blended combination of GPS signals from GPS satellites and GPS pseudolites for determining a location. The cellular telephone includes a cellphone transceiver and a GPS receive... | 05/13/2003 |
| 6564068 | Method and apparatus for providing a communication service to a communication unit in a wireless communication system with overlapping coverage areas The present invention addresses the need for an apparatus and method for providing a communication service to a communication unit (112) with acceptable audio quality, when a serving site (109) does not have sufficient resources. To obtain the required co... | 05/13/2003 |
| 6564065 | Bayesian-update based location prediction method for CDMA systems The location of a mobile unit in the service area of a CDMA cellular telephone system is predicted from a spatial probability distribution that is generated over a region of sub-cells within the service area. The spatial distribution, and hence the predic... | 05/13/2003 |
| 6564038 | Method and apparatus for suppressing interference using active shielding techniques A method and apparatus are disclosed for suppressing interference in a radio frequency (RF) communication system using active shielding techniques. An opposing neutralizing signal is applied to actively neutralize stray signals in a microwave communicatio... | 05/13/2003 |
| 6560449 | Image-rejection I/Q demodulators In a communications receiver for quadrature demodulation, a feedback technique for reducing the image response of the receiver. The communications receiver includes an I demodulator and a Q demodulator. A local oscillator (LO) signal is provided by a PLL ... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6560439 | Satellite paging channels In a satellite communications system, where a user terminal 34 may wish to page more than one satellite 10 or more than one spot beam 30, and where the definition of a timeslot 38 for a paging channel 48 occurs a predetermined period after the sending of ... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6556815 | Transmitting circuit in which damage to power amplifier due to reflected wave is prevented and transmitter-receiver provided with the transmitting circuit The power amplifier will be prevented from being damaged due to a reflected wave without the aid of any expensive isolator. There are disposed a power amplifier as well as a directional coupler provided between the power amplifier and an antenna, for dete... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6556814 | Memory-based amplifier load adjust system A power amplifier load adjust system includes a power amplifier and a variable impedance network coupled to the output of the power amplifier. The variable impedance network presents a plurality of impedances to the output of the power amplifier responsiv... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6556552 | Signal strength measurement method and device In CDMA mobile communication systems, there are cases in which communications are interrupted with the local base station while the mobile station is searching for channels other than the communication channel. A method is offered of preventing loss of in... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6553236 | On demand location function for mobile terminal A wireless communications system supports affinity groups of like minded individuals who wish to know locations of other members of the affinity group. The system supports members of the affinity group querying, through a mobile terminal for the location ... | 04/22/2003 |
| 6553032 | Packeting timeout spoofing in a wireless data communications network Method and apparatus are provided to prevent unneccessary execution of TCP/IP performance enhancing algorithms in a wireless communications network. The method includes monitoring acknowledgment message traffic between a sending unit and a receiving unit ... | 04/22/2003 |
| 6553229 | Signal scanning systems and methods for multiple-mode cellular radiotelephones Multiple-mode cellular radiotelephones use a wide bandwidth receiving mode while scanning for signals in a narrow bandwidth receiving mode. Thus, when it is desired to scan the received frequency band to search for the presence of narrowband signals, the ... | 04/22/2003 |
| 6553217 | Mobile communication system for call charging and corresponding mobile station One or more preferred call numbers are defined and managed for mobile subscribers. A destination number dialed with the call is compared to the preferred call numbers for the mobile subscriber. When the destination call number is identical to a preferred ... | 04/22/2003 |
