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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6671494 | Small, battery operated RF transmitter for portable audio devices for use with headphones with RF receiver A portable FM stereo RF transmitter having an audio plug extending therefrom directly or via a cable and which mates with the earphone or output jack of an audio source such as a portable battery operated CD or tape player and having no external antenna. ... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6658254 | Method and apparatus for personalization of a public multimedia communications terminal A multimedia call is completed to a mobile user, who registered to receive a multimedia call at a multimedia terminal using a portable intelligent device. A mobile user record including a physical address of a multimedia terminal and a user address is sto... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6654608 | Tailored power levels at handoff and call setup Methods and apparatus for controlling the initial transmit power from a base station to a mobile station at call set-up and call handoff. The initial transmit power from a base station during a call set-up can be reduced from the conventional full power l... | 11/25/2003 |
| 6639905 | Communication network A transmitter, for controlling at least one receiver by intermittently transmitting groups of messages. The transmitter includes a controller arranged to provide intermittently groups of messages for transmission. Each of said groups includes a plurality ... | 10/28/2003 |
| 6622020 | System for searching for the location of each personal handy phone in the personal handy phone system A location searching service system in the personal handy phone system (or PHS) is capable of searching for the location of each PHS mobile phone (such as the cordless phones used in homes) and providing the information of where the requested user of the ... | 09/16/2003 |
| 6611509 | CDMA/TDD mobile communication system and method Control section 125 at base station 100 in a CDMA/TDD mobile communication system assigns one or more fixed forward link time slots to a plurality of time slots divided at a communication frame at a predetermined interval, and forward link time slots and ... | 08/26/2003 |
| 6609008 | Method and apparatus for controlling signal power level in a communication system A novel and improved method and apparatus for controlling signal power level in a communication system (100) is provided by determining first and second signal to interference ratios of a received signal, respectively before and after an interference canc... | 08/19/2003 |
| 6597924 | Coupled portable telephone/interface module The present invention provides a solution to the dual problems of mobility and portability associated with using a portable telephone in combination with a portable computer in a telecommunications environment. The invention comprises a coupled portable t... | 07/22/2003 |
| 6594494 | Mobile communication terminal A reference pattern comparing means 14 detects the number of error bits, using a reference pattern data portion embedded in the received signal. An error correcting means 15 detects the number of the corrected bits in the user data portion in the signal. ... | 07/15/2003 |
| 6594243 | Methods and apparatus for enhanced soft handoff in a CDMA wireless communication system Soft handoffs in an IS-95 CDMA system or other wireless communication system are controlled using an enhanced set of soft handoff parameters which allow the system to adapt more readily to changing radio frequency (RF) conditions. In an illustrative embod... | 07/15/2003 |
| 6594242 | Broadcasting of two generation cellular system control channel information over a three generation control channel to support roaming and handover to two generation cellular networks A method, node and wireless communication terminal for providing handover and roaming from a 3G communication system to a 2G communication system. A dual-mode wireless terminal operating in a 3G communication system may obtain control channel information ... | 07/15/2003 |
| 6591112 | Communication system and device using dynamic receiver addressing Method and a system for establishing a communication channel between a first communication device, or alternatively, a communication network operator, and one or more second communication devices. The identity of the one or more second communication devic... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6580703 | CDMA base station apparatus and code assignment method A code reader reads code specification information stored in a code list. An interference level measurer measures the interference level of a received signal despread with the code specification information read by the code reader. A threshold selector se... | 06/17/2003 |
| 6580901 | Burst-type transmission output power control apparatus capable of reducing phase errors An burst-type transmission output power control apparatus, includes an open loop formed by variable power driver for amplifying a modulated wave signal, a saturation type high power amplifier and a directional coupler. A closed loop is constructed by a va... | 06/17/2003 |
| 6574204 | Method of canceling interference components included in received signals of base station in mobile communication system A method of canceling interference components included in received signals of a base station in a mobile communication system, despreads user data in the order of user data grouped for the unit of transmission rate and sequentially cancels user data which... | 06/03/2003 |
| 6574484 | Method for emergency service access using a mobile phone There is provided a method for emergency service access using a mobil telephone. When an emergency situation arises and a caller enters an emergency number such as 911 [send] from a locked mobile telephone, the mobile telephone compares the entered value ... | 06/03/2003 |
| 6564056 | Intelligent device controller An intelligent device controller (hub 100) for communications-enabled ("intelligent") devices (120-140) implements a private network (102) of the devices, facilitating communications to and from only those devices that have been registered with the contro... | 05/13/2003 |
| 6556833 | Method and system for transmitting a position information A method and system for transmitting a position information from a mobile terminal of a mobile communication network via a network element to a network node, wherein a control information indicating the requirement of a position information of the mobile ... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6556553 | Method for determining when a communication device should rate shift or roam in a wireless environment Methods for improving communication performance in a wireless communication system where the wireless communication system has at least one mobile wireless communication device and a plurality of transmitter/receiver sites. The transmitter/receiver sites ... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6553016 | Downlink power control at soft handover Method and apparatus are described for controlling base station transmit power (downlink) to a mobile station during soft diversity handover. The present invention adjusts downlink power of the ratio between downlink transmit powers of all of the involved... | 04/22/2003 |
| 6549791 | Watch type portable radiotelephone A watch type portable radiotelephone is disclosed. The watch type portable radiotelephone includes a body element having upper and lower case frames; a battery pack holder including a battery pack for supplying power to the body element; a locking device ... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6549785 | Method for improving performances of a mobile radiocommunication system using a power control algorithm A method for improving performances of a mobile radiocommunication system using a power control algorithm for controlling a transmit power according to a transmission quality target value, and an adjustment algorithm for adjusting the transmission quality... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6549790 | Portable telecommunication apparatus for multiple audio accessories The portable telecommunications apparatus has an audio input for receiving sound, an audio output for generating sound, a controller for controlling the audio input and the audio output, and an audio accessory interface for operatively connecting an exter... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6549758 | Method of testing telecommunication connections in radio system The invention relates to a radio system including one or more network elements, a base station controller and a network management system that are operatively interconnected by means of telecommunication connections, and to a method of testing telecommuni... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6542487 | Radio channel multiplex communication method, a mobile unit, and a base station in CDMA mobile communication system In a code division multiple access mobile communication system, a communication signal is modulated and multiplexed with different diffusion codes and is used in data communication between a base station (30) and each of mobile units (40, 41, 42). The com... | 04/01/2003 |
| 6542757 | Headset docking device A headset docking device is connected to an audio device by a cord. When the headset is placed in a headset dock, a reel activation button is depressed which instantaneously retracts the cord. Examples of audio devices include a cradle, a cellular phone a... | 04/01/2003 |
| 6542519 | Intentional sidelobe creation A beam having the best performance for the present downlink transmits the signal carrying information. In another beam transmitted, in a corresponding manner having the best performance in regard to the next mobile station to be communicated in a next tim... | 04/01/2003 |
| 6535717 | Method, system and apparatus for transmitting, receiving, and reproducing a digital broadcast signal The present system comprises a transmitting apparatus for digital broadcast which includes an original signal generating section, delaying section, information amount reducing section, and transmitting section. A receiving and reproducing apparatus for di... | 03/18/2003 |
| 6535494 | CDMA mobile telecommunication method and system A code division multiple access (CDMA) mobile telecommunication system and method includes a plurality of radio base stations disposed under a base control station. A control channel signal and a traffic channel signal from the base control station are co... | 03/18/2003 |
| 6529484 | Access for mobile terminals network An access network for mobile terminals has a switching circuit (VCX) connected to at least one other external network and to a local access network (RLA) which has a number of radio terminals (BR) for providing communication with mobile terminals (MT). Se... | 03/04/2003 |
| 6529711 | Terminal for wireless communication When a request for reception of radio signals is delivered by wireless communication section 3, subordinate processing portion 12 fetches programs necessary for reception of radio data from external memory 2 and stores them into command cache memory 13. A... | 03/04/2003 |
| 6529741 | Multi-bit power control and power control command sub-channel design The invention provides a system and method for controlling transmission power of a mobile unit in a wireless communication system which minimizes transmission power overshoot caused by counteracting the effects of deep fading. Sets of power control bits a... | 03/04/2003 |
| 6522864 | Spot beam location method and apparatus A mobile terminal (6) communicates via a satellite (8), which projects a number of overlapping spot beams (10), with a fixed earth station (2). To determine which spot beam (10) is to be used for communication, the mobile terminal signals in a common sign... | 02/18/2003 |
| 6522879 | Two-way telephone and two-way paging service on the same wireless infrastructure A wireless communication system or method capable of providing both a two-way telephone service and a two-way paging service on the same infrastructure. The system or method is capable of distinguishing whether a subscriber is a telephone or paging subscr... | 02/18/2003 |
| 6519463 | Location based service request system A wireless phone based system to accommodate users of wireless phones for providing information as to the location of Certain services such as gasoline stations, movie theatres, drug stores, etc., includes the utilization of a GPS receiver and a wireless ... | 02/11/2003 |
| 6519479 | Spoken user interface for speech-enabled devices A spoken user interface for speech-enabled devices includes a processor and a set of software instructions that are executable by the processor and stored in nonvolatile memory. A user of the speech-enabled device is prompted to enter a voice tag associat... | 02/11/2003 |
| 6516202 | Mobile computer system designed for wireless communication expansion A method and apparatus for an organizer that may receive a cellular portion to form a cellular telephone is provided. An organizer comprises an organizer component, including a microphone. The organizer further includes an area for receiving an additional... | 02/04/2003 |
| 6507739 | Apparatus and methods for controlling a cellular communications network having airborne transceivers A cellular communications network (200, FIG. 2) includes one or more aircraft (210), which provide communication channels to cellular communications units, and also communicate with one or more base transceiver stations (206) and a control center (214). T... | 01/14/2003 |
| 6496701 | Pattern-recognition-based geolocation A technique for identifying a geographical location of a mobile terminal which includes receiving a set of characteristics from the mobile terminal, comparing the set of characteristics from the mobile terminal with a set of attributes for each of the cel... | 12/17/2002 |
| 6496707 | System and method for optimizing a wireless network by adaptive configuration of base stations and wireless terminals For use in a wireless network having geographically-distributed base stations that serve wireless terminals, a system for, and method of, improving an operation of the wireless network. In one embodiment, the system includes: (1) a signal quality determin... | 12/17/2002 |
