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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7412247 | Remote location based services The invention relates to a method, system and service for processing at a remote device a request from a first device, the method has the steps of receiving a request message to obtain information on location based services available at the physical location of the ... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7395089 | Integrated personal digital assistant device An integrated device provides functionality of both a PDA and cellular telephone. Features include a power button offering control of both the computing and telephony functions of the device; a lid that turns the device on and off and controls additional telephony f... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7395088 | Mobile electronic apparatus, and battery pack for the apparatus A mobile electronic apparatus in which various functions can be easily added without impairing the mobility and without making any change in the hardware. The mobile electronic apparatus is carried by its authorized user to perform various types of electrical inform... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7389100 | Method and circuit for down-converting a signal Methods, systems, and apparatuses for down-converting an electromagnetic (EM) signal by aliasing the EM signal are described herein. Briefly stated, such methods, systems, and apparatuses operate by receiving an EM signal and an aliasing signal having an aliasing ra... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7379724 | Method and apparatus for classifying interference A mobile communications terminal for use in a cellular communications system such as a CDMA system. The terminal includes an electronic circuit for receiving a wire-less communications signal carrying signal channels having processing means for extracting the signal... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7372841 | Packet-based communication system and method A system and method for facilitating communication of packets between one or more applications residing on a first computing device and at least one second computing device. The system comprises a connection manager adapted to receive packets from the at least one s... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7366540 | Hand-held communication device as pointing device A hand-held communication device capable of being configured as a pointing device employs a camera assembly for sensing movement of the device with respect to a surface, or movement of a user's finger over the camera assembly, allowing the hand-held communication de... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366552 | Compound portable computing device with dual portion variable keyboards coupled over a wireless link A compound portable computing device comprising two or more separate portable devices coupled over a wireless link is described. A first portable computing device contains a first portion of a full-size keyboard, such as a standard QWERTY keyboard or foreign languag... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7353044 | Method for processing and transmitting data on a mobile telephone network and microchip onboard system The invention relates to a method for processing and transmitting digital data in a mobile telephone network, particularly using the GSM standard, and more particularly for applications using the so-called SIM Toolkit standard stores in a smart card of the so-called... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7295826 | Integrated frequency translation and selectivity with gain control functionality, and applications thereof Methods and apparatuses for frequency selectivity and frequency translation, and applications for such methods and apparatuses, are described herein. The method includes steps of filtering an input signal, and down-converting the filtered input signal. The filtering... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7292837 | Mixer and converter using same A mixer, which is a single balanced mixer, includes an LO port for inputting an LO signal, an RF port for inputting an RF signal, an IF port for outputting an IF signal, a balun for converting an unbalanced signal into a balanced signal, and a pair of mixer diodes c... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7280820 | System and method for authentication in a mobile communications system The present invention provides an authentication method and apparatus for authenticating an identity of a subscriber attached to a network. According to the invention, in a network terminal, a subscriber identity module is used so that a response is obtained as a re... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7274930 | Distance determination program for use by devices in a wireless network The performance and ease of management of wireless communications environments is improved by a mechanism that enables access points (APs) to perform automatic channel selection. A wireless network can therefore include multiple APs, each of which will automatically... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7251490 | System and method for GSM hard handoff A GSM1×-to-GSM handoff feature allows a GSM1× subscriber with a dual-mode (GSM1× and GSM modes) handset to seamlessly roam from GSM1× coverage areas to GSM coverage areas. This functionality is facilitated by the GSM1× system design which integrates a CDMA RAN ... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7245875 | System and method to facilitate wireless communication in a welding environment A system and method for wireless communication with and among nodes of a welding cell are provided. The system includes a communications device adapted for wireless communication with a welding node provided with a wireless communications interface. The system furth... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7242958 | Boosting a signal-to-interference ratio of a mobile station Techniques for transmitting encoded data packets to one or more mobile stations in a communication system including a cell that has sectors serving at least partially different geographic areas. The techniques include transmitting in a first sector an encoded data p... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7242966 | Personal telematics device A system and method for a personal telematics device (PTD) are provided. In an exemplary embodiment, a PTD may include an actuator that can be selectively activated by a user. Furthermore, the PTD may include a controller in communication with the actuator. The cont... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7236754 | Method and system for frequency up-conversion A method and system is described wherein a signal with a lower frequency is up-converted to a higher frequency. In one embodiment, the higher frequency signal is used as a stable frequency and phase reference. In another embodiment, the invention is used as a transm... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7233794 | Method for robust handoff in wireless communication system A communication system that allows a soft handoff to be completed, even when the communications link between the active base station and the mobile station deteriorates before the mobile station has received the handoff direction message. The mobile station maintain... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7221931 | Network support for electronic passports An apparatus in one example has: a telecommunications network having at least an image recognition and comparison module and an scanned image database; a mobile terminal having image scan functionality and image capture functionality, the mobile terminal operative c... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7218907 | Method and circuit for down-converting a signal Methods, systems, and apparatuses for down-converting an electromagnetic (EM) signal by aliasing the EM signal are described herein. Briefly stated, such methods, systems, and apparatuses operate by receiving an EM signal and an aliasing signal having an aliasing ra... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7212797 | DC removal techniques for wireless networking A wireless communication device (WCD) performs DC removal on a received signal using a coarse DC removal unit that removes relatively large DC components and a fine DC removal loop that removes residual DC components. The coarse DC removal unit can be implemented in... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7209732 | Audio scrambler and recorder for cellular telephones A security device for a cellular telephone includes a cellular telephone interface for coupling the device to the cellular telephone, a microphone, a speaker, and an analog scrambler coupling the microphone and the speaker to the cellular telephone interface. The sc... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7200419 | Mobile electronic apparatus, and battery pack for the apparatus A mobile electronic apparatus in which various functions can be easily added without impairing the mobility and without making any change in the hardware. The mobile electronic apparatus is carried by its authorized user to perform various types of electrical inform... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7200409 | On-board communication terminal and information service center communicating with on-board communication terminal The invention provides an on-vehicle communication terminal that secures a report to a center and safety of a crew by providing short-range radio communication means in the on-vehicle communication terminal, separately configuring a mobile terminal provided with a p... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7171232 | Method of selecting a cell to connect by radio with a mobile station and a mobile communications terminal therefor A mobile communications system includes an RF processor for transmitting and receiving radio signals to and from a base station, and a base-band processor for spread-spectrum coding a frame signal to be transmitted to transfer it to the RF processor and spread-spect... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7164910 | International roaming service for permitting a cellular/wireless telephone instrument to access different wireless telephone networks/systems A cellular/wireless foreign subscriber is enabled to use her/his own cellular/wireless telephone instrument in a local cellular/wireless (C/W) network/system by entry of a code and a PIN into the local network/system desired to be used. The local C/W network/system ... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7164927 | Telecommunication method and suitable system for establishing a connection with a mobile station The invention relates to a telecommunication method and a system suitable for same for establishing a connection with a mobile station, for example a GSM mobile telephone, of a subscriber located in a visited public land mobile network. According to said method the ... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7158769 | Device and method for alerting user to interference An alerting device allowing easy estimation of possible interference and useful suggestions to eliminate deteriorated communication quality due to interference is disclosed. A signal including a band used by a target radio communication system is selected from a rec... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7116963 | Simplified high frequency tuner and tuning method A disclosed method tunes a signal from a channelized spectrum having a predetermined channel spacing. A signal of interest having a predetermined maximum bandwidth is mixed with a local oscillator signal, which has a frequency that is an integer multiple of the chan... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7107082 | Method of exchanging data between mobile phones The present invention is related to a method of exchanging data between mobile phones through an inter-working function or proxy inter-working function service. The method includes a first step in which as a transmitting user manipulates a keypad of a transmitting m... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7103380 | Wireless handset communication system A small light weight modular microcomputer based computer and communications systems, designed for both portability and desktop uses. The systems make use of a relative large flat panel display device assembly (2), an expandable hinge device (10), batt... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7095998 | Mixer and converter using same A mixer, which is a single balanced mixer, includes an LO port for inputting an LO signal, an RF port for inputting an RF signal, an IF port for outputting an IF signal, a balun for converting an unbalanced signal into a balanced signal, and a pair of mixer diodes c... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7085589 | Multifunction telephone and multifunction telephone switching system using the same A multifunction telephone switching system includes a portable radiophone, a plurality of multifunction telephones, a specific one of which is connected to the portable radiophone, and a control unit connected to the plurality of multifunction telephones to manage t... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7068994 | Methods and apparatus for communication A communication system according to various aspects of the present invention comprises one or more remote units. The communication system may also include at least one communication center. The remote units may also be configured to communicate with each other. The ... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7054603 | RF integrated circuit with signal gain adjustment A method and apparatus for signal gain adjustment within an RF integrated circuit (IC) include processing that begins by determining the signal strength of a received RF input signal with respect to a first signal strength scale to produce a signal strength indicati... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7054662 | Method and system for forward link beam forming in wireless communications According to one embodiment, an antenna beam pattern is used to send a communication signal to a user. For example, the antenna beam pattern can be formed using adaptive antenna array technology on the forward link of a wireless communication system. A control signa... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7050828 | Inter-system monitor function Method and apparatus for monitoring one or more telecommunications systems supported by a wireless device with respect to which the wireless device is in an idle mode while the wireless device is in a connected mode with respect to another supported system. The appa... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7043271 | Radio communication system There is disclosed a radio communication system in which a constitution of a base station and further a control station can be simplified. A radio communication system according to the present invention converts a received signal received by a plurality of antenna e... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7039379 | Method for maintaining automatic gain control settings for a multi-frequency communication device In time divisioned, multi-frequency communication air interfaces it is common for a control channel to be defined on a first frequency while traffic channels are carried on other frequencies. A mobile communication device maintains the automatic gain control (AGC) s... | 05/02/2006 |
