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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7197313 | Method for allocating wireless resource in wireless communication system A wireless resource allocation method considering retransmission in a wireless communication system is provided. In the wireless communication system including a plurality of wireless terminals and a single access point (AP) having a bridge function, the AP allocate... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7103373 | Method of processing data used in wireless applications using unstructured supplementary service data (USSD) and computer readable medium therefor A method for processing data, in a wireless application protocol for wireless applications using Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD), includes the steps of: (a) receiving data from an upper layer into a Wireless Datagram Protocol (WDP) layer; (b) storing ... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7050771 | Method and apparatus for increasing a probability that a dual-band mobile station will acquire a desired autonomous system A method for operating a dual-band mobile station (10) includes a first step of (a) storing information in the mobile station. The stored information includes an ordered list of frequency bands (Band Order Table 24A). For example, at least one frequenc... | 05/23/2006 |
| 6856818 | Data store for mobile radio station A removable data store (34) for a mobile station (8) used in a mobile communications system, the data store being provided with two alternative fixed dialling number lists (70, 72) which are accessible by the mobile station. The data store itsel... | 02/15/2005 |
| 6839573 | Apparatus and method for beamforming in a changing-interference environment An apparatus and method for adaptively producing transmitted signals and processing received signals in a communication system which includes smart antenna array of antenna elements. When processing received signals, the invention modifies an existing processing sch... | 01/04/2005 |
| 6832084 | Wireless database environment The wireless environment includes an object processing module to process objects obtained from a wireless receiver on the mobile device. The object processing module processes the object to alter data stored in memory on the mobile device. The data comprises at leas... | 12/14/2004 |
| 6826403 | Method and system for identifying a user A data server derives information regarding the identities of users placing calls in a circuit-switched communication network. It performs this task by initially establishing at least one known and trusted identity “seed.” The data server uses the trusted identi... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6801767 | Method and system for distributing multiband wireless communications signals This invention provides a method and system for distributing multiband wireless communications signals. Downlink RF signals in a plurality of downlink frequency bands are received and then combined into a combined downlink RF signal at the main unit. The combined do... | 10/05/2004 |
| 6792272 | Rapid decoding of control channel to decrease handoff time A portion of a traffic channel message is detected and decoded to determine if a rapid handover procedure may be used. A first portion of the traffic channel includes information data and CRC data. The CRC data is decoded, and if the CRC determines the message is va... | 09/14/2004 |
| 6785509 | Converter for satellite broadcast reception having structure for uniform grounding pressure In a converter for satellite broadcast reception having a fixing structure provided with a circuit board, a plurality of radio-frequency circuits mounted on the circuit board and separated from one another by a grounding pattern, a chassis having ribs arranged in a ... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6771975 | Method of processing data used in wireless applications using unstructured supplementary service data (USSD) and computer readable medium therefor A method for processing data, in a wireless application protocol for wireless applications using Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD), includes the steps of: (a) receiving data from an upper layer into a Wireless Datagram Protocol (WDP) layer; (b) storing ... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6728539 | Method of registering location in mobile communication system and mobile device used in said method The present invention relates to a method of registering a location in a mobile communication system in which the call signal traffic can be further reduced without increasing the location registration signal traffic. When a base station ID defined by notification i... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6725012 | Method for deploying an orbiting sparse array antenna A deployment method maintains a cluster of subsatellites within a rigid formation relative to and orbiting about a real or fictitious center satellite that in turn orbits the earth in a frozen inclined eccentric reference orbit by determining the subsatellite refere... | 04/20/2004 |
| 6704546 | Method and apparatus for allocation of a transmission frequency within a given frequency spectrum A method/apparatus for use of the power/frequency characteristics of the candidate transmission for which the frequency must be allocated, the method/apparatus providing a power spectrum of the cumulative effect of the power/frequency characteristic of at... | 03/09/2004 |
| 6675010 | Mobile communication system for learning foreign vocabulary The present invention provides a mobile communication system for learning foreign vocabulary. The popular Internet, mobile communication devices (e.g. Wireless Application Propocol (WAP) mobile phone, General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) mobile phone or Pe... | 01/06/2004 |
| 6654596 | Homodyne radio receiver having DC compensation A homodyne radio receiver apparatus receives radio frequency signal bursts containing a number of symbols and generates digital samples of at least a complex base band signal (I and Q) of each signal burst. A DC compensator comprises an average calculator... | 11/25/2003 |
| 6643521 | Method of predicting the received power level at a base station of a CDMA network and base station implementing the method The invention concerns in particular a method of predicting a power level received by a base station assuming admission of a candidate user by the base station. According to the invention, the method consists in allowing for the impact of introducing the ... | 11/04/2003 |
| 6633553 | Apparatus and method for forward power controlling in CDMA mobile telecommunication system A forward power controlling apparatus in a CDMA mobile communication system is provided. In the forward power controlling apparatus, an SIR measurer measures the SIR of each received frame on a forward user channel using all the demodulated symbols of the... | 10/14/2003 |
| 6628636 | Method and apparatus for managing communication resources using neighbor segregation A method and system for managing communication resources between nodes in a network, and more particularly to a dynamic distributed multi-channel time division multiple access (TDMA) slot assignment method is presented. The method and apparatus include a ... | 09/30/2003 |
| 6625424 | Autocalibration of a transceiver through nulling of a DC-voltage in a receiver and injecting of DC-signals in a transmitter A quadrature tranceiver has a transmitter, a receiver, and a common local oscillator. With the transmitter switched off and the receiver switched on, a DC-error in the receiver is nulled in servo loops in in-phase and a quadrature receiver paths. After se... | 09/23/2003 |
| 6620014 | Communicating radio planning information among control nodes in a cellular communication network In a cellular communication network, radio planning information is provided in a first control node that controls a plurality of first fixed-site radio transceivers which define a plurality of first cells in the cellular communication network. Without net... | 09/16/2003 |
| 6622018 | Portable device control console with wireless connection A system and method for controlling a remote device over a wireless connection. In one embodiment, a hand-held computer system having a Bluetooth-enabled transceiver is used to control other Bluetooth-enabled devices. A wireless connection between a trans... | 09/16/2003 |
| 6618594 | Over the air user zone assignment for wireless telephony systems A method of defining a user zone for a mobile user terminal in a wireless communication system including a network controller providing communication services to a plurality of mobile user terminals. The method includes the steps of locating a user termin... | 09/09/2003 |
| 6615033 | Synchronized-timed-reminded communications for family radios Communications sessions between two or more radio transceivers are synchronized automatically to conserve battery power. A duty cycle is established, and the duty cycle data are communicated from one transceiver to the other(s) along with the time of day ... | 09/02/2003 |
| 6615040 | Self-configurable wireless systems: spectrum monitoring in a layered configuration A method and system are disclosed for coordinating RF use in primary and adjunct wireless systems which are overlapped or layered in a common geographic area and which share the same the same RF spectrum. The adjunct system includes adjunct base stations ... | 09/02/2003 |
| 6606307 | Techniques for utilization of bandwidth space assets Methods for operating a satellite constellation are disclosed that utilize spatial diversity and directional gain antennas at ground terminal locations to provide multiple data rate services on a single frequency channel. One method comprises receiving a ... | 08/12/2003 |
| 6603755 | Mobile terminals, methods, and computer program products that can facilitate the selection of a communication service provider in a multiple communications mode environment Using service provider selection methodologies and protocols developed for each specific communication mode, a configurable overlay can be created that can maximize the usability or availability of a multi-mode terminal or other communication device. A se... | 08/05/2003 |
| 6597906 | Mobile client-based station communication based on relative geographical position information Mobile client based wireless communication is enhanced by using geographical position information of a respective mobile client relative to one or more communication dead zones. When a mobile client is approaching a dead zone, data communications can be d... | 07/22/2003 |
| 6587670 | Dual mode class D amplifiers Pulse width modulated ("Class D") amplifiers and controllers switching in the 50 khz to 2 MHz range generate harmonics which interfere with AM radio reception. This has precluded wide spread acceptance of class D amplifiers in products with an AM radio. T... | 07/01/2003 |
| 6584085 | Apparatus for and method of allocating D-channel to minimum channel when performing basic rate interface service in wireless local loop network system An apparatus for and a method of allocating D-channel to minimum channel when performing a basic rate interface (BRI) in WLL, in which D-channel is allocated to the minimum channel when connection is made to V5.2 of WLL exchanger and BRI, while satisfying... | 06/24/2003 |
| 6553219 | Mobile internet access system and method mapping mobile to internet service provider A method of authenticating a mobile wireless terminal 9 in a mobile telecommunications network, the terminal 9 being a subscriber of an Internet Service Provider (ISP) 11 rather than of a mobile network. The terminal 9 is allocated an International Mobile... | 04/22/2003 |
| 6547620 | Communication apparatus, memory medium and method A communication apparatus that is capable of switching to an external caller apparatus if a ringing signal from the external caller apparatus is received during a telephone communication with another external apparatus. The communication apparatus has a h... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6549775 | Mobile communication system A mobile communication system employs narrow paging areas for calling mobile stations without increasing location registration requests to a location management center. This system reduces useless calls and improves the efficiency of use of radio resource... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6549761 | Radio frequency transmission control apparatus for preventing oscillation in wideband wireless local loop terminal A radio frequency transmission control apparatus for preventing an oscillation in a wideband wireless local loop terminal has a radio frequency transmitting unit for modulating a baseband transmitting signal to a WLL radio frequency band signal and transm... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6529723 | Automated user notification system The present invention provides an automated user notification system for monitoring user items and notifying a user when selected conditions occur. A first portion of the notification system comprises a network operations center (NOC). The NOC stores user... | 03/04/2003 |
| 6507730 | Communication device and a method for simultaneous transmission of speech and data A communication device (100) including a receiver (110), a demodulator (120), a frequency dependent LF amplifier (130) as well as a frequency dependent decoder (150) receives a HF signal (105) onto which speech information and data information are modulat... | 01/14/2003 |
| 6496682 | Satellite communication system employing unique spot beam antenna design A satellite communication system includes a plurality of spacecraft in geosynchronous orbit, where each spacecraft provides a plurality of beams on the surface of the earth, and a plurality of ground stations individual ones of which are located in one of... | 12/17/2002 |
| 6484024 | Method for the programming of an instrument, especially a mobile telephone To facilitate the customization of instruments, especially mobile telephones whose operation is validated by a chip card, it is planned to use a cargo chip card provided in its memory firstly with complementary function elements and, secondly, with unload... | 11/19/2002 |
| 6459903 | Method and system for locating mobile station in mobile telecommunication system A method of locating a mobile station is provided. In the present invention, the mobile station is capable of communicating with at least three base stations, each having at least two antennas. To estimate the location of the mobile station, the distance ... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6424840 | Method and system for dynamic location-based zone assignment for a wireless communication network A method for dynamic location-based zone assignment for a wireless communication network is provided. The method utilizes the location of a user's wireless communication device relative to a number of network zones in the wireless communication network. T... | 07/23/2002 |
