16th week of 2010 patent applcation highlights part 9 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20100099357 | WIRELESS TRANSCEIVER MODULE - A wireless transceiver module has a plurality of through holes and includes a wireless network chip, a circuit substrate, a Bluetooth chip, and a plurality of conductive connection structures. The Bluetooth chip is disposed between the circuit substrate and the wireless network chip, and the through holes are formed by passing through the wireless network chip, the circuit substrate, and the Bluetooth chip. The conductive connection structures are respectively disposed in the through hole. With the conductive connection structures, the Bluetooth chip, the wireless network chip, and the circuit substrate are electrically connected with each another. | 2010-04-22 |
20100099358 | SYNCHRONIZING WAKEUP OPERATIONS IN ELECTRONIC DEVICES - An electronic device includes a first receiver configured to receive a first wireless signal, and a first timing module configured to wake up the first receiver from a first sleep state and to generate a synchronization signal indicating a wakeup time of the first receiver. The electronic device also includes a second receiver configured to receive a second wireless signal, and a second timing module configured to receive the synchronization signal and to wake up the second receiver from a second sleep state based on the synchronization signal. | 2010-04-22 |
20100099359 | METHOD FOR RECEIVING DATA SERVICE - A method for receiving a data service is disclosed. A method for handoff in content transmission comprises the steps of: receiving status information of a data service via short-distance wireless communication from a first device receiving a data service of a specific content through a server; transmitting the status information of the data service to the server; and continuing the reception of the data service being transmitted to the first device from the server. Accordingly, there is an effect of convenience because another apparatus continuously services a corresponding data service during the reception of a specific data service using a specific device. | 2010-04-22 |
20100099360 | DATA COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION DATA CONTROL METHOD - A data communication apparatus includes a band-elimination filter configured to perform a process of reducing a specific frequency component included in transmission data, a packet producer configured to produce packet data including therein data outputted from the band-elimination filter, and an antenna configured to output the packet data produced by the packet producer, and further, the band-elimination filter is configured to reduce a frequency component corresponding to the reciprocal of a packet transmission cycle inherent in the packet data. | 2010-04-22 |
20100099361 | ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD FOR SIMULATING A RADIO ACCESS NETWORK - The present invention relates to a reverberation chamber (RC) comprising at least one antenna head attached at a first side of the chamber and a stirrer adapted to rotate. The RC comprises an arrangement to enable UE antennas to be placed at a location within the RC such that the stirrer is adapted to rotate to simulate a fading condition for the UE antennas in relation to the antenna heads attached at the first side and that RF connections from the antenna heads arc adapted to be connected to a cellular network, such as a closed cellular network. | 2010-04-22 |
20100099362 | Calibration Method and Device in Telecommunication System - A device system, computer medium and method for calibrating at least one impairment of a signal transmitted from a transmitting unit to a receiving unit, the method including receiving at the receiving unit at least two signals transmitted from the transmitting unit, estimating at the receiving unit, based on the received at least two signals, at least one parameter associated with transmit chain links between the transmitting unit and corresponding antennas of the transmitting unit, collecting the at least one parameter in a measurement report at the receiving unit, and transmitting the measurement report from the receiving unit for correcting the at least one impairment based on the at least one parameter. | 2010-04-22 |
20100099363 | CLOSED LOOP TRANSMITTER IQ CALIBRATION - A novel and useful apparatus for and method of closed loop IQ calibration for use in a transmitter. The IQ calibration mechanism functions to provide calibration of IQ imbalance in the presence of real world RF impairments. An iterative process is used to update the gain and phase mismatch values whereby the metrics are calculated in a differential manner without the need for calculation absolute imbalance values. At each iteration, updating the gain and phase mismatch estimate requires only the direction of the correction to be determined. The direction of the correction is calculated using only the differences between output power measurements. The updated gain and phase mismatch estimates are used to update an IQ correction matrix. This process is repeated until a desired stopping criterion is reached. Gear shifting is used to ensure quick convergence of the algorithm while providing the ability to achieve any desired level of accuracy. | 2010-04-22 |
20100099364 | System and Method for Transmitting and Error Handling Control Feedback Information - A system and method for transmitting and error handling control feedback information is provided. A method for error handling in a transmission of control feedback information over a communications link by a first station includes determining a first feedback information at the first station, transmitting the first feedback information at a first instance to a second station, and receiving a scheduling message from the second station. The scheduling message includes a second feedback information, and the second feedback information is based on the first feedback information. The method also includes determining if the first feedback information at the first instance was received correctly by the second station based on the scheduling message, and in response to determining that the first feedback information at the first instance was not received correctly by the second station, transmitting the first feedback information at a second instance to the second station. | 2010-04-22 |
20100099365 | MAGNETIC SHEET, METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE MAGNETIC SHEET, ANTENNA, AND PORTABLE COMMUNICATION DEVICE - The present invention provides a magnetic sheet with improved resistance to folding while maintaining good magnetic characteristics and reliability; a method for producing the magnetic sheet; an antenna; and a portable communication device. | 2010-04-22 |
20100099366 | MULTIPLE-INPUT MULTIPLE-OUTPUT RADIO TRANSCEIVER - A MIMO radio transceiver to support processing of multiple signals for simultaneous transmission via corresponding ones of a plurality of antennas and to support receive processing of multiple signals detected by corresponding ones of the plurality of antennas. The radio transceiver provides, on a single semiconductor integrated circuit, a receiver circuit or path for each of a plurality of antennas and a transmit circuit or path for each of the plurality of antennas. Each receiver circuit downconverts the RF signal detected by its associated antenna to a baseband signal. Similarly, each transmit path upconverts a baseband signal to be transmitted by an assigned antenna. | 2010-04-22 |
20100099367 | MINIATURIZED, LOW POWER, WIRELESS TRANSMITTER AND RECEIVER WITH ON-CHIP ANTENNA, AND WIRELESS COUPLING OF ON-CHIP AND OFF-CHIP ANTENNA - A miniaturized, low power RF transmitter with a dual mode active on-chip antenna/inductor is disclosed in which antenna also serves as the oscillator inductor. Also disclosed is a miniaturized low power RF receiver with an on-chip antenna; and a RF transmitter system wherein an on-chip antenna is wirelessly coupled to an off chip patch antenna are disclosed. Advantageously, the TX chip is housed in a low loss, e.g. Low Temperature Co-fired Ceramic (LTCC) package with a patch antenna to provide a System-on-Package implementation comprising electromagnetic coupling between a RF TX chip comprising an integrated on-chip antenna and a package antenna. The on-chip antenna feeds the LTCC patch antenna through aperture coupling, thus negating the need for RF buffer amplifiers, matching elements, baluns, bond wires and package transmission lines, and significantly increases the gain and range of the module with respect to the on-chip antenna alone, without deterioration of the circuit performance and power consumption. Exemplary embodiments are disclosed which may be fabricated using standard CMOS technology, for operation in the 5 GHz U-NII band for applications such as miniaturized, low cost, low power wireless devices and sensor systems. | 2010-04-22 |
20100099368 | MONOLITHIC FM-BAND TRANSMIT POWER AMPLIFIER FOR MOBILE CELLULAR DEVICES AND METHOD OF OPERATION THEREOF - An FM-band transmit power amplifier and a method of transmitting in multiple bands. In one embodiment, the FM-band transmit power amplifier has an input and an output and includes: (1) a pre-filter including a charge-pump based integrator coupled to the input and a passive notch filter having a notch frequency in a band other than an FM band and (2) an output driver coupled between the passive pre-filter and the output and having PMOS and NMOS transconductors configured to receive an output from the passive filter. | 2010-04-22 |
20100099369 | AUTOMATIC FREQUENCY TUNING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AN FM-BAND TRANSMIT POWER AMPLIFIER - An automatic frequency tuning system and method for a transmit power amplifier. The transmit power amplifier has an antenna feed line including a series capacitor and is coupled to an output of an output driver. In one embodiment, the system includes: (1) a shunt capacitor array having a plurality of capacitors selectably couplable to the antenna feed line to apply a programmable shunt capacitance thereto, (2) a peak detector circuit couplable to nodes of the antenna feed line associated with both terminals of the series capacitor and (3) a processor configured to control the peak detector circuit to determine a ratio of voltage levels measured at the nodes at a given power level of the output driver. | 2010-04-22 |
20100099370 | Active electronically scanned array antenna for satellite communications - An electronically scanned array antenna. The novel antenna includes a first planar array of antenna elements and one or more side planar arrays of antenna elements, each side array adjacent to the first array and tilted at a predetermined angle relative to the first array. In an illustrative embodiment, the antenna also includes a plurality of transmit/receive modules, each module coupled to one antenna element. Each transmit/receive module includes phase shifters for varying the relative phases of the antenna elements to form a desired overall beam pattern, and a low noise amplifier and high power amplifier for amplifying signals received and transmitted by the antenna element, respectively. In an illustrative embodiment, a processor provides individual phase and channel enable control signals for independently controlling the phase shifters and amplifiers, respectively, of each module. | 2010-04-22 |
20100099371 | AUTOMATIC RADIO TUNING SYSTEM - This invention relates to a system for automatically tuning a radio receiver ( | 2010-04-22 |
20100099372 | TUNABLE FILTERS WITH LOWER RESIDUAL SIDEBAND - An apparatus includes first and second filters and a bandwidth control circuit. The first filter operates as part of a first oscillator in a first mode and filters a first input signal and provides a first output signal in a second mode. The second filter operates as part of a second oscillator in the first mode and filters a second input signal and provides a second output signal in the second mode. The bandwidth control circuit adjusts the bandwidth of the first and second filters in the first mode, e.g., adjusts the oscillation frequency of each oscillator to obtain a target bandwidth for an associated filter. The apparatus may further include first and second gain control circuits. Each gain control circuit may vary the amplitude of an oscillator signal from an associated oscillator and/or set a gain of an associated filter in the first mode. | 2010-04-22 |
20100099373 | PERSONALIZED ANSWERING MACHINE - A system for handling incoming calls in a communication device comprises logic processing elements suitable to relate between parameters of the incoming call and the context of the user of said communication device and to react to each incoming call based on the relationship so determined. | 2010-04-22 |
20100099374 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING CONTACT INFORMATION OF A MOBILE DEVICE TO A REVERSE 911 DATABASE - In one embodiment, when a mobile device is powered on, a mobile switching center acquires the contact information, such as, but not limited to, a phone number and the physical location associated with the mobile device. If the mobile device is a new device to the area, the contact information of the mobile device is passed to a reverse 911 database in order for a user of the mobile device to receive local alert messages transmitted by a reverse 911 system. | 2010-04-22 |
20100099375 | MOBILE RECEIVER WITH LOCATION SERVICES CAPABILITY - The subject matter disclosed herein relates to a receiver that is capable of processing signals which are transmitted according to one or more wireless communication protocols. Such a receiver may have sufficient resources to obtain acquisition information from a signal transmitted according to at least one of the wireless communication protocols during an acquisition period and for the purpose of obtaining an estimate of a location of the receiver. | 2010-04-22 |
20100099376 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING CONTACT INFORMATION OF AN OUT OF AREA MOBILE DEVICE TO A REVERSE 911 DATABASE - A system and method for registering the contact information of mobile devices with a service 911 service is presented. In one embodiment, a mobile switching center receives the contact information of a mobile device. If the mobile switching center determines that the mobile device is not located within a particular wireless sub-network, such as, but not limited to, a wireless sub-network associated with an area code registered to the mobile device, the mobile switching center generates a reverse 911 registration text message and transmits the reverse 911 registration text message to the mobile device. A user of the mobile device may then transmit the reverse 911 registration text message to a local reverse 911 database to have the contact information associated with the mobile device added to the local reverse 911 database. | 2010-04-22 |
20100099377 | GPS-ENABLED MOBILE TERMINAL AND CURRENT POSITION LOCATING METHOD THEREOF - A Global Positioning System (GPS)-enabled mobile terminal and current position location method thereof acquires current position information of the mobile terminal while reducing power consumption of conventional mobile terminals with GPS capability. A method for locating position of a mobile terminal having a GPS reception unit includes storing a current position information of the mobile terminal which is acquired from GPS data received by the GPS reception unit; switching off the GPS reception unit after acquiring the GPS data; storing a base station information received from a first base station to which the mobile terminal is connected with starting a first timer. In the case where handover to a second base station is detected, a second timer is started. In the case where an expiration of the second timer is detected, switching on/activating the GPS reception unit to update the current position information; and initializing the first timer simultaneously with the expiration of the second timer. | 2010-04-22 |
20100099378 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE-MEDIUMS FOR MANAGING ROLLOVER USAGE UNITS OF COMMUNICATION SERVICES - A rollover management system (RMS) receives and stores rollover data that includes subscriber identification and a balance of the rollover usage units that may be “rolled-over” to offset overage units used by a subscriber in excess of package plan usage units in a subsequent billing cycle. In response to receiving requests, the RMS presents rollover data elements to the requesting entities. The balance of the rollover usage units may be rolled over and measured in at least one of a plurality of billable units and may be shared by the subscriber's multiple communication services. The rollover usage units expire after a predetermined number of billing cycles where the predetermined number may vary between package plans. The RMS receives post-billing data elements to update the rollover data elements. The RMS is further operative to account for and present for review unbilled communication service usage to subscribers. | 2010-04-22 |
20100099379 | Wireless device content information theft protection system - A wireless device, such as a laptop computer or a cellular phone, may contain confidential information which may be secured by an internal security system. When the device is stolen, the user can provide a portion of a kill code to a wireless service provider. The wireless service provider provides its own portion of the kill code and combines it with the user's supplied code. Then, the service provider may transmit the combined kill code to the wireless device. Upon receipt, the wireless device may erase all confidential information on the device. In other embodiments, it may erase any unlocked block of memory. As still another alternative, the system may also, upon receipt of the combined kill code, disable the operating system. | 2010-04-22 |
20100099380 | COMMUNICATION SERVER AND METHOD FOR GENERATING A ONE-TIME PASSWORD USING A MOBILE PHONE - A method for generating one-time password (OTP) using a mobile phone registers a telephone number of the mobile phone on a website at first. A communication server generates a first random number and a second random number. Furthermore, the communication server generates a first OTP according to the first random number, and a subscriber identity module (SIM) card of the mobile phone generates a second OTP according to the second random number. The communication server checks if the second OTP is the same as the first OTP. If the second OTP is the same as the first OTP, the mobile phone has successfully logged onto the website. | 2010-04-22 |
20100099381 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - A communication apparatus includes: an interface for reading out identification information regarding a communication carrier from a storage medium in which the identification information is stored; a communication unit for deciding the communication carrier based on the identification information read out by the interface and making communication by using the decided communication carrier; an authentication unit for making an authentication by using the identification information read out by the interface; a control unit for enabling a communicating operation by the communication unit according to a success in the authentication by the authentication unit; and a display control unit for allowing an authenticating display screen for making the authentication to be displayed onto a display apparatus. The display control unit decides a display language based on the identification information read out by the interface and changes a display language on the authenticating display screen according to the decided language. | 2010-04-22 |
20100099382 | COMMUNICATION METHOD, COMMUNICATION DEVICE, PORTABLE TELEPHONE TERMINAL, AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A home gateway apparatus is connected to a storage apparatus. A cell phone terminal is connected to the home gateway apparatus via an IP network. Upon acknowledging a telephone number from the cell phone terminal, the home gateway apparatus communicates an IP address of the home gateway apparatus to the cell phone terminal. Subsequently, upon acknowledging a connection request to the IP address thus communicated, the home gateway apparatus performs a process of authenticating the connection request, based on the telephone number of the cell phone terminal and the telephone number already acknowledged. Further, the home gateway apparatus makes the storage apparatus available for use by the cell phone terminal thus authenticated via the IP network. | 2010-04-22 |
20100099383 | Mobile terminal device - A mobile terminal device includes a communication-setting information storage unit, a validating unit, an emergency-state determining unit, and an emergency notifying unit. The communication-setting information storage unit stores therein communication setting information stored in a removable storage medium. The validating unit validates whether an operator who operates the mobile terminal device is a subscriber. If the validating unit validates that the operator is not the subscriber, the emergency-state determining unit determines that it is an emergency state. If the emergency-state determining unit determines that it is an emergency state, the emergency notifying unit notifies a predetermined emergency contact point of an emergency in accordance with the communication setting information stored in the communication-setting information storage unit. | 2010-04-22 |
20100099384 | E-MAIL TRANSMISSION METHOD AND MOBILE TERMINAL - According to an aspect of the embodiment, a cellular phone displays an e-mail creation screen, and when a one-touch key included in the cellular phone is pressed, an e-mail destination corresponding to the one-touch key is acquired from a one-touch key DB, and set to the e-mail. When a numeric key is pressed, the cellular phone acquires an e-mail text corresponding to the numeric key from an example sentence DB, and sets the text to the e-mail to transmit the e-mail to the e-mail destination. | 2010-04-22 |
20100099385 | APPARATUS FOR CHANGING THE BEHAVIOR OF AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A novel apparatus and method for changing the behavior of an electronic device is provided. In an embodiment, an electronic device includes the functionality of a cellular phone, a voice mail system and a calendar application. The device is configured to use the calendar application to determine whether to direct a phone call to the user or whether to instantly direct the call to voice mail. | 2010-04-22 |
20100099386 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RADIO VOICE MAIL - A marine radio comprises a memory for storing a message, in particular, a voice mail message, suitable for transmission to a second marine radio, a communication device for transmitting and receiving radio communications and a controller coupled to the memory and communication device. The controller is operable to cause the communication device to poll the second marine radio (e.g., by initiating a DSC individual call). When in range, the second marine radio may receive and acknowledge the poll. Upon receiving acknowledgement from the second marine radio, the controller causes the communication device to transmit the stored message to the second marine radio | 2010-04-22 |
20100099387 | Controlling and/or Limiting Publication Through the Presence Access Layer - A method for managing presence information sent from a presentity to a watcher is provided. The method includes the watcher providing watcher information to a presence aspect layer. The method further includes the presence aspect layer determining a manner for providing the presence information to the watcher based on an analysis of the watcher information. | 2010-04-22 |
20100099388 | DEVICES, METHODS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIA FOR PROVIDING BROAD QUALITY OF SERVICE OPTIMIZATION USING POLICY-BASED SELECTIVE QUALITY DEGRADATION - Devices, methods and computer-readable media for providing broad quality of service optimization using policy-based selective quality degradation. Data associated with a quality of service for customers and QoS policy rules are stored. Customers are grouped for potential degradation. Levels of degradation are defined for each type of user device. Degradation for the group of customers is optimized using policy rules. Degradation is adjusted to account for variations in user treatment within the group. The adjusted degradation is then implemented. | 2010-04-22 |
20100099389 | Methods, Presence Server, User Equipment (UE), and Presence Message for User Identity Update - There are provided methods, a presence server, a User Equipment (UE), and a presence message in the form of a computer data signal embodied in a transmission medium for notifying about a second identity assignment to the UE. The second user identity is obtained from a network and stored. The first identity may be an MSISDN assigned by a first network, while the second identity may comprise another MSISDN and/or a SIP URI assigned by another network, e.g. by an IMS network for use in obtaining IMS services. Then, a presence message (e.g. a SIP SUBSCRIBE or NOTIFY message) is sent out to notify at least one other user about the assignment of the second user identity, the presence message comprising the first and second identities of the UE, so that communications can be initiated by the other user using the second identity. | 2010-04-22 |
20100099390 | Instant Activation and Provisioning for Telecommunication Services on a Mobile Device - Methods and systems for instant activation of virtual PBX services on a mobile device are disclosed. In one aspect, a user request for activating virtual PBX services is received on a mobile device. An available primary identification number for the virtual PBX services is retrieved from a telecommunication service provider (TSP). A user interface is presented on the mobile device including a first interface portion presenting the available primary identification number and a second interface portion configured to receive a user identifier. Upon receiving the user input specifying the user identifier and while the user interface is still presented on the mobile device, a user instruction for activating the virtual PBX services is received. Upon receiving the user instruction, the user identifier is sent to the TSP. Then, a confirmation is received from the TSP. | 2010-04-22 |
20100099391 | VOICE TICKETING - The invention relates to a method and a system for performing an e-commerce transaction between a user and a provider for a service or product by using a wireless communication terminal comprising a contactless reader. The method comprises the step of receiving a transaction request from the communication terminal, the transaction request being initiated by the contactless reader reading primary information about the service or product from an information tag. The transaction request contains also user information retrieved from the secure element. Next, a speech based dialog is initiated with the user through the communication terminal based on the transaction request, resulting in secondary information about the service or product. Next, a transaction is initiated, based on the primary and secondary information. Finally, a confirmation message may be sent to the communication terminal or to the provider. | 2010-04-22 |
20100099392 | DEVICES, METHODS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIA FOR PROVIDING SEVICES BASED UPON IDENTIFICATION OF DECISION MAKERS AND OWNERS ASSOCIATED WITH COMMUNICATION SERVICES - Devices, methods and computer-readable media for providing services based upon identification of decision makers and owners associated with communication services. Data for providing communication services based upon identification of decision makers associated with communication services is stored, wherein the data including a user profile and default template identifying a default decision maker for a service. Policy rules and the stored data are analyzed. A new decision maker for a particular service is identified based upon the analysis of the policy rules and the stored data. The communication services are provided to the identified new decision maker. | 2010-04-22 |
20100099393 | DEVICE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY SELECTION AND DISPLAY IN MULTI-TECHNOLOGY WIRELESS ENVIRONMENTS - System(s) and method(s) are provided to manage utilization of radio network technology and display thereof when multiple services and radio network technologies are available to a multi-technology mobile device. Management relies at least in part on a subscriber profile that comprises a network selection profile constructed through market policy, subscriber policy, and application policy for radio technology utilization. Network preference(s) profile is generated on per subscriber, or per subscriber type, basis and is conveyed to a subscriber station over the air. Initial subscriber profile can be delivered at a time of provisioning a multi-technology mobile device, and updated based at least upon subscriber demand, a schedule established by a network operator or service provider, or an event related to coverage area relocation or contracted services. Radio technology preferences and display of associated technologies available to a multi-technology mobile device can be dynamically controlled on a per-call and/or per-application basis. | 2010-04-22 |
20100099394 | Method of unlocking a mobile electronic device - A method of unlocking a mobile electronic device and a mobile electronic device are disclosed. The mobile electronic device is operable in a locked state with the touch screen of the mobile electronic device being deactivated. In an embodiment, the mobile electronic device comprises a pressure sensor coupled to the touch-screen for detecting an application of pressure to the touch screen. | 2010-04-22 |
20100099395 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING A FUNCTION EXECUTION RECOMMENDATION ALARM EVENT IN WIRELESS TERMINAL - Disclosed are an apparatus and method for processing function events in a wireless terminal. The apparatus includes a memory for storing a character UI image according to the function events of the wireless terminal; an event collection section for collecting the function events occurring in the wireless terminal, and generating event messages for identifying the function events; an agent control section for including a plurality of specialists for processing the function events, determining a specialist corresponding to the event message among the specialists, selecting and outputting a character UI ID based on the function event of the determined specialist, and processing received user feedback information on a corresponding event according to the user feedback information; and an agent expression section for outputting a character image and text corresponding to the function event and the feedback information. | 2010-04-22 |
20100099396 | REMOTE CONTROL OF DEVICES UTILIZING A MOBILE NETWORK - Providing for remote control of electronic devices at least in part utilizing a mobile radio access network (RAN) is disclosed herein. A control server is provided that can initiate an OTA message requesting control of a client device. The OTA message can be transmitted via the RAN to the client device, which can initiate a data network call upon receipt of the message. A data network address can be forwarded to the control server to facilitate data exchange between the server and client. The client can act upon and respond to commands issued by the server. As described herein, remote control of a client that does not maintain a persistent data network link can be conducted. Furthermore, key-mapping applications, DLL-based middle-ware, and other interface modules traditionally required to implement control of a remote device can be limited or avoided. | 2010-04-22 |
20100099397 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR TRAVERSING A SCAN LIST IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A wireless communication device accesses a scan list that includes a plurality of scan members sorted at least by receive frequency and attempts to detect whether a call of interest exists on a receive frequency by performing a group scan for a group of scan members that are marked scan undone and that have the same corresponding receive frequency, wherein the group includes a first scan member and at least one other scan member. The group scan includes inspecting the receive frequency to obtain inspection results; using the inspection results to determine that there is no signal on the receive frequency having signal attributes that match a set of attributes for the first scan member; and using the inspection results to evaluate at least one of the other scan members in the group to determine whether there is a corresponding signal of interest on the receive frequency. | 2010-04-22 |
20100099398 | CALL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A system, method and program product for managing inbound calls on a mobile device. A system is provided that includes: a mode control system for allowing the mobile device to be set to a do not disturb (DND) mode; a system for calculating dynamic information when an inbound call is received; and a call processing system for broadcasting a message when the mobile device is in the DND mode, wherein the message includes the dynamic information. | 2010-04-22 |
20100099399 | WIRELESS NETWORK SEARCH - A mobile communication device prior to establishing a communication session needs first to connect to a reachable network. To facilitate the search for the reachable network, the mobile communication device is preprogrammed intermediate parameters which lead to a plurality of reachable networks that are preselected based on a predetermined criterion. | 2010-04-22 |
20100099400 | METHODS FOR TRANSMITTING AND MANAGING VOICE FRAMES, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT, MEANS OF STORAGE AND CORRESPONDING DEVICES - A method of transmitting voice frames, via a transmission channel reserved for voice data, by a transmitting terminal generating voice frames using a voice signal is proposed. Such a method includes steps of: obtaining non-voice data; selecting voice data from the voice frame according to configuration data obtained beforehand relative to the transmission of non-voice data on the reserved channel; constructing of a degraded voice frame by replacing selected voice data with non-voice data; transmitting the degraded voice frame via the reserved channel to a receiving terminal. On the receiving terminal side, a method of managing voice frames coming from the transmitting terminal is proposed including the steps of: detecting a non-voice data header included in the voice frame; extracting, from the voice frame, of non-voice data, according to configuration data read in the header; transmitting of extracted non-voice data to a processor of non-voice data. | 2010-04-22 |
20100099401 | Virtual Cells for Wireless Networks - In a network having multiple wireless transmitters, a mobile device operating with the network may be assigned one or more wireless transmitters as a virtual cell. Transmissions to the mobile device may be broadcast from several cells simultaneously, so that the mobile device will receive the transmissions in any of the areas covered by the cells. When the network determines that the mobile device is moving out of one cell area and into another, the virtual cell may move as well. The virtual cell may consist of one or many areas covered by a wireless network, and may have a shape that is determined by geography, trajectory, wireless coverage, or other factors. | 2010-04-22 |
20100099402 | METHOD OF IMPROVING RADIO RESOURCE CONTROL CONNENCTION ESTABLISHMENT IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND RELATED COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A method of improving Radio Resource Control, abbreviated to RRC, connection establishment for an RRC layer of a user equipment in a wireless communication system, the method including when a specific event occurs during an RRC connection establishment procedure, initiating the RRC connection establishment procedure based on completion of the specific event. | 2010-04-22 |
20100099403 | USER EQUIPMENT AND ROAMING SETUP METHOD FOR SELECTING PUBLIC LAND MOBILE NETWORK - A user equipment and a roaming setup method for selecting a public land mobile network for global roaming by receiving a roaming area through a user interface; storing, at a user equipment, identification information of a public land mobile network in the roaming area in preferred public land mobile network identification information of a subscriber identity module; and removing, at the user equipment, last registered public land mobile network identification information from location information of the subscriber identity module. The roaming setup method and user equipment improve a public land mobile network selection procedure to reduce the amount of time and prevent errors during the public land mobile network selection procedure in a roaming area. | 2010-04-22 |
20100099404 | METHODS FOR SITE SELECTION IN A MULTI-SITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A device detects a first signal on a channel that is one of a plurality of channels arranged in a first order on a list, with each channel being associated with a different site in a multi-site communication system. Upon detecting the first signal, the device attempts to measure and record signal strength of a signal at each channel on the list based on the first order beginning with the detected first signal, and selects as a home site the site associated with the channel having the signal with the highest recorded signal strength. The device rearranges the channels on the list into a second order based on the recorded signal strengths with the home site channel at the top. If necessary, the radio attempts to awaken its repeaters one after another based on the second order until a repeater is found to transmit a signal. | 2010-04-22 |
20100099405 | MANAGEMENT OF NETWORK TECHNOLOGY SELECTION AND DISPLAY IN MULTI-TECHNOLOGY WIRELESS ENVIRONMENTS - System(s) and method(s) are provided to manage utilization of radio network technology and display thereof when multiple services and radio network technologies are available to a multi-technology mobile device. Management relies at least in part on a subscriber profile that comprises a network selection profile constructed through market policy, subscriber policy, and application policy for radio technology utilization. Network preference(s) profile is generated on per subscriber, or per subscriber type, basis and is conveyed to a subscriber station over the air. Initial subscriber profile can be delivered at a time of provisioning a multi-technology mobile device, and updated based at least upon subscriber demand, a schedule established by a network operator or service provider, or an event related to coverage area relocation or contracted services. Radio technology preferences and display of associated technologies available to a multi-technology mobile device can be dynamically controlled on a per-call and/or per-application basis. | 2010-04-22 |
20100099406 | Method and Apparatus for Determining the Country Where a Mobile Device Has Acquired Service - An apparatus and method for identifying a serving country using at least one system specific parameter comprising extracting the at least one system specific parameter from a forward link signal; determining whether the at least one system specific parameter maps to a unique country; and identifying the serving country for a call. | 2010-04-22 |
20100099407 | CELL ACCESS CONTROL METHOD AND USER EQUIPMENT - A cell access control method and a user terminal are provided, the method includes: obtaining, by a user equipment (UE), cell access information through a pilot channel and/or a synchronization channel; determining a current cell is a macro base station cell or an HNB cell according to the cell access information; determining, when the current cell is an HNB cell, whether the UE is allowed to access the HNB cell according to HNB information of the cell access information, if the UE is allowed to access the HNB cell, performing the access processing, if the UE is not allowed to access the HNB, abandoning the access. A UE is provided accordingly. | 2010-04-22 |
20100099408 | Method of performing cell search in wireless communication system - A method of performing cell search includes receiving a primary synchronization signal (PSS) comprising a primary synchronization code (PSC), and receiving a secondary synchronization signal (SSS) comprising a first secondary synchronization code (SSC) and a second SSC. The first SSC and the second SSC are respectively scrambled by using a first scrambling code and a second scrambling code, and the first scrambling code and the second scrambling code are associated with the PSC. Detection performance on synchronization signals can be improved, and cell search can be performed more reliably. | 2010-04-22 |
20100099409 | Method of performing cell search in wireless communucation system - A method of performing cell search includes receiving a primary synchronization signal (PSS) comprising a primary synchronization code (PSC) and receiving a secondary synchronization signal (SSS) comprising a first secondary synchronization code (SSC) and a second SSC, wherein the SSS includes a first SSS and a second SSS, the first SSC and the second SSC are arranged in that order in the first SSS, and the second SSC and the first SSC are arranged in that order in the second SSS. Detection performance on synchronization signals can be improved, and cell search can be performed more reliably. | 2010-04-22 |
20100099410 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING EVENTS ASSOCIATED WITH THE DETECTION OF WIRELESS DEVICES - The disclosed embodiments provide a system and method for managing events associated with the detection of wireless devices. The disclosed embodiments utilize a residential wireless access point for detecting the signal transmitted by a wireless device. A user configures a wireless device detection program to perform specified events in response to the detection and/or absence of a wireless device. The disclosed embodiments may provide home automation functions, home security functions, and/or provide child monitoring features. | 2010-04-22 |
20100099411 | METHOD FOR CATEGORIZATION OF MULTIPLE PROVIDERS IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SERVICE ENVIRONMENT - A communication device locates a preferable wireless service provider in a multi-service provider environment using a frequency band search schedule. Initially, the communications device registers with a less preferred service provider in a first frequency band. While remaining registered with the less preferred service provider, the device examines several frequency bands in the order specified by the frequency band search schedule. A frequency band is examined by dividing the frequency band into many sub-bands, and by locating the strongest signal above a threshold within the sub-band being examined. The examination continues until a second frequency band having a more preferred service provider is located. The communication device then registers with the more preferred service provider. The category of service provider may be identified and displayed on the communication device. | 2010-04-22 |
20100099412 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR SYSTEM SELECTION IN A MULTIMODE WIRELESS DEVICE - Devices and methods are provided for system selection from a plurality of wireless system access technologies, such as a first group (e.g., 3GPP2 technologies) and a second group (e.g., 3GPP technologies). In one embodiment, the method may involve storing identification information pertaining to the first group in a database, wherein the database may concern the priority of ones of the access technologies pertaining to the second group. The method may also involve selecting a preferred access technology from one of the first and second groups based at least in part on the identification information stored in the database. | 2010-04-22 |
20100099413 | Mobile Communication Terminal And Position Registration Method Thereof, And Computer-Readable Storage Medium For Computer Program - A mobile telephone terminal ( | 2010-04-22 |
20100099414 | MOBILE STATION APPARATUS AND CELL SELECTING METHOD - A mobile station apparatus, which is used in a mobile communication system including plural base stations, includes a receiver that receives a first signal from any one of the base stations of a first cell group covering a relatively large area and of a second cell group covering a relatively small area; a determining unit that determines an intermittent receiving cycle based on the received first signal; and a setting unit that, based on the determined intermittent receiving cycle, selects a cell group from among the first cell group and the second cell group, and sets the receiver to perform intermittent reception of a second signal transmitted from a base station belonging to the selected cell group. | 2010-04-22 |
20100099415 | METHOD FOR CHANGING ROUTE IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION - A method for changing a route in wireless communication involves: when there is subscriber equipment requesting a change of route in a cell, a base station negotiates downlink measurement contents with a relay station facilitating the route change in the cell; a network side informs the subscriber equipment requesting a change of route of the negotiated downlink measurement contents, and the subscriber equipment executes a downlink measurement according to the received measurement contents and reports the downlink measurement results to a radio access point; and the radio access point executes the route change for said subscriber equipment according to the received measurement results. The method can effectively improve the accuracy of the route change and alleviate the delay due to the route change. | 2010-04-22 |
20100099416 | MIMO Mode Selection at Handover - When a handover is to be performed of a user equipment from a serving radio base station to a target radio base station, it is ensured before the handover that the user equipment is operating in a MIMO mode that is supported by the serving radio base station and by the target radio base station. This can be done by comparing a first mode list, which includes potential MIMO modes jointly supported by the user equipment and the serving radio base station, and a second mode list, which includes potential MIMO modes jointly supported by the user equipment and the target radio base station, to form a common mode list. | 2010-04-22 |
20100099417 | METHOD FOR MULTI-ZONE MANAGEMENT AND METHOD FOR HANDING OFF A MOBILE TERMINAL USING MULTI-ZONE MANAGEMENT - In a multi-zone management method of a mobile terminal and a handoff method of the mobile terminal using multi-zone management, the mobile terminal records or deletes zone identification information in or from a base station table managed for a handoff, and the zone identification information is used as information for preventing a mobile terminal from frequently registering to a new base station due to frequent handoffs in an overlapping area of two base stations. | 2010-04-22 |
20100099418 | ARCHITECTURE AND METHOD OF CALL ROUTING BASED ON SESSION INITIATION PROTOCOL PRESENCE INFORMATION - An architecture and method of call routing is provided based on session initiated protocol presence information of a callee. The method includes providing a computer infrastructure operable to: receive presence information of a callee upon detecting when the callee is within a certain proximity; and provide call routing information to at least one callee designated device based on customized rules provided by the callee and correlated to the presence information of the callee. The presence information is updated by a SIP based notification. | 2010-04-22 |
20100099419 | Telephone dialer and methods - A system, device and method for placing a call in a telecommunications network is disclosed. In the method, a target address of a target station in a telecommunications network is received through a short range wireless connection. The method includes providing an alert that the target address was received, receiving a calling station off-hook confirmation, and establishing a connection through the telecommunications network between the calling station and the target station. | 2010-04-22 |
20100099420 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING ACCESS TO A CHANNEL IN A CONVENTIONAL MULTI-SITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A repeater receives and repeats, on a multi-site channel, a sequence of control and media transmissions included in a session, wherein the session has a plurality of participants. While repeating these transmissions, the repeater further detects, from at least one of the transmissions, a start of the session and a type of the session. Based on the type of the session, the repeater determines whether to perform an arbitration during the session to control access to the multi-site channel, and restricts each performed arbitration to only transmissions received from the participants to the session. In addition, after repeating at least one of the control transmissions, the repeater sets a hang time having a duration that is determined based on a type of the transmission preceding the setting of the hang time. | 2010-04-22 |
20100099421 | EFFICIENT MESSAGING OVER INTERNET PROTOCOL - A method for a client and server based messaging system efficiently exchanges messages over an IP connection in a wireless network. Also included is an automated method by which a messaging client can request intelligent and efficient presence updates from the wireless network by utilizing timers and adapt such timers based on load conditions in the wireless network. | 2010-04-22 |
20100099422 | Data transmission in a multi-user ofdm system with adaptive modulation - A method processes information to be sent via radio, according to which first bits represent a first number of N-tuples and second bits represent a second number of N-tuples. The first bits are to be sent using a first group of sub-bands of a frequency band, and the second bits are to be sent using a second group of sub-bands of the frequency band. A first modulation method is used for the first bits and a second modulation method is used for the second bits. The first bits are rearranged, forming M-tuples, and a symbol is formed from each M-tuple according to the first modulation method. The second bits are rearranged, forming P-tuples, and a symbol is formed from each P-tuple according to the second modulation method, and M≠P. A corresponding method is used for processing information received by radio. Base stations and mobile radio stations carry out the method. | 2010-04-22 |
20100099423 | SEQUENCE ALLOCATION METHOD IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Provided is a sequence allocation method capable of reducing inter-cell interference of a reference signal when a ZC sequence is used as the reference signal in a mobile communication system. In the sequence allocation method divides R×M sequences specified by a ZC sequence number r (r=1 to R) and a cyclic shift sequence number m (m=1 to M) into a plurality of sequence groups X (X=1 to R) in accordance with the transmission band width of the reference signal, so that the ZC sequence is allocated to each cell in each sequence group unit. When it is assumed that R=9 and M=6, the number of sequence is 54. Each of the sequence groups is formed by two sequences. Accordingly, the number of sequence groups is 27. The 27 types of sequence groups are allocated to each cell. | 2010-04-22 |
20100099424 | INTERFERENCE CONTROL IN A MOBILE NETWORK STRUCTURE WITH PRIVATE PICO/HOME BASE STATIONS - A method controls interference between a first and second communication system, each system having a base station and at least one use device. According to the method, in response to a trigger, a connection is set up between a first system user device and a second system base station. A maximum uplink power is allocated for the first system user device. Transmissions are halted between the first system user device and a first system base station. This means that the maximum uplink power is not exceeded and interference between the first system user device and the second system base station and user devices is minimized. The first system base station is a private pico/home base station and the second system base station is a public macro/micro base station. | 2010-04-22 |
20100099425 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING SYSTEM INFORMATION - A device and method for receiving, by a mobile terminal, system information from a base station. The method includes: receiving a block of first system information from the base station via a broadcast channel configured to broadcast only system information; and receiving a plurality of blocks of second system information from the base station via a downlink shared channel configured to carry system information and other data, one of the plurality of blocks of second system information including scheduling information. | 2010-04-22 |
20100099426 | TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORK - A telecommunication network including: a radio access network; and a network switching subsystem operable for communication with the radio access network and with a demand-driven, dynamically-configurable IP based computing infrastructure. | 2010-04-22 |
20100099427 | Virtually Centralized Uplink Scheduling - A method of scheduling uplink transmissions from a plurality of source user equipments to a base station is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of determining the amount of data in the data buffer of each of the user equipments, comparing the amount of data in the data buffers of the user equipments to obtain, for each user equipment, a relative indicator, the relative indicator indicating how full that user equipment's data buffer is in comparison to the data buffers of the other user equipments, and scheduling uplink transmissions in dependence on the relative indicators. In this way, each user equipment is given some knowledge of the state of the buffer in the other user equipments. The user equipments are therefore able to make more efficient scheduling decisions. This can improve the throughput and give lower packet delivery delays. | 2010-04-22 |
20100099428 | NULL PILOTS FOR INTERFERENCE ESTIMATION IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK - Techniques for transmitting null pilots to support interference estimation in a wireless network are described. A null pilot is non-transmission on designated time-frequency resources by a cell or a cluster of cells supporting cooperative transmission to a UE. The received power of the null pilot from the cell or cluster of cells may be indicative of interference from other cells. In one design, a cell in the cluster may determine resources for sending a null pilot by the cell. The cell may transmit the null pilot (i.e., send no transmissions) on the resources to allow UEs to estimate out-of-cluster interference. Some or all cells in the cluster may transmit null pilots on the same resources. The cell may receive interference and channel information from the UE and may send data transmission to the UE based on the interference and/or channel information. Remaining cells in the cluster may reduce interference to the UE. | 2010-04-22 |
20100099429 | BASE STATION APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD - A base station apparatus capable of communicating with a user equipment terminal using an uplink shared channel includes a radio resource allocation unit configured to decrease frequency resources allocated to the shared channel, when transmission power of the user equipment terminal is less than a predetermined threshold. | 2010-04-22 |
20100099430 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING PUSH-TO-TALK OVER CELLULAR (PoC) MEDIA BURST TIME - A method for controlling push-to-talk over cellular (PoC) media burst time includes receiving a burst request time from a PoC client, identifying a burst allocation time corresponding to the PoC client in a database, selecting a burst time for the PoC client based on the burst allocation time and the burst request time, and allowing a data burst from the PoC client at the burst time. A system to control PoC media burst time includes an information receiver to receive the burst request time, an information identifier to identify the burst allocation time for a database, a time selector to select the burst time, and a burst allowing unit to allow the data burst from the PoC client at the selected burst time. | 2010-04-22 |
20100099431 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INTERFERENCE MANAGEMENT IN A SPECTRUM SHARED BY WAN AND FEMTO CELLS - Devices and methods are provided for adapting to interference in a spectrum shared by a WAN macro cell and a femto cell. In particular, described herein are techniques for adapting to the presence of a jamming WAN access terminal (AT) by avoiding or selectively utilizing those bandwidth portions jammed by the WAN AT/AP. For example, the technique may involve intercepting a control message from the WAN AP to the WAN AT, and determining a spectrum resource that the WAN AT will use to communicate with the WAN AP based at least in part on information (e.g., a Cell Radio Network Temporary Identifier, a Media Access Control Identifier, etc.) in the control message. | 2010-04-22 |
20100099432 | Wireless device provisioning tool - Systems and methods are disclosed that include provisioning a target device coupled to a wireless network. These systems and methods include a provisioning server coupled to the wireless network and a target update coupled to the provisioning server. The provisioning server includes instructions relating to the configuration of the target device. In addition, these systems and methods include a server coupled to the target update and a provisioning user interface coupled to the server that is operable to create parameters for a software update and transmit the parameters to the server. The server is operable to communicate the parameters to create the target update, and the target update is transmitted through the provisioning server and the wireless network to the target device. | 2010-04-22 |
20100099433 | Method and Arrangement for Enhanced Cell Identification and Cell Positioning - In a method of enhanced position determination of a user terminal associated with at least one cell in a cellular communications network, providing a predetermined cell identity definition SO | 2010-04-22 |
20100099434 | SIGNAL CAPTURING APPARATUS AND SIGNAL CAPTURING METHOD - A signal capturing apparatus and a signal capturing method wherein the timing at which to implement the clock frequency correction of a GPS reception part during position determination can be optimized to prevent any search omissions, while shortening the time period required for the position determination. A cellular clock precision estimating function part ( | 2010-04-22 |
20100099435 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING LOCATION-DEPENDENT SERVICES TO TERMINALS OF A RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method provides location-dependent services for a terminal of a radio communication system, wherein the terminal receives information regarding at least one service from a local beacon transmitter, wherein transmissions of the beacon transmitter (BE) are compatible with transmissions of a base station of the radio communication system. The beacon transmitter is located in the radio cell of the base station. The terminal evaluates the received signals and, depending on the result of the evaluation, initiates a connection to a base station of the radio communication system. | 2010-04-22 |
20100099436 | USING ELECTRONIC SURVEILLANCE DATA AS EVENT TRIGGERS FOR LAWFUL LOCATION TRACKING - A system and method to automatically provide a location estimate of a mobile station in communication with a mobile wireless network to an appropriate law enforcement agency in response to detecting an electronic surveillance event within a mobile wireless network. A surveillance location server extracts pertinent information from a surveillance event message and sends a request for a location estimate to network components that generate and return the location estimate. The surveillance location server forwards to the location estimate to an appropriate law enforcement agency. | 2010-04-22 |
20100099437 | Mobile Service For Keeping Track Of Competitors During A Race - The invention relates to an application server for use in a mobile communication network, the application server being arranged for: —receiving position information on positions of a first mobile terminal; —calculating a distance traveled since a starting time for the first mobile terminal; —comparing the distance traveled with a distance traveled by a competitor to render a relative distance; —sending feedback information to the first mobile terminal relating to the relative distance. The competitor can be based on a real participant that has done the race before (in theory the end-user itself) or a fictitious opponent that was selected on criteria like average speed. The system can be used during races and may provide information to participants, spectators and officials via bill-boards and/or voice messages and/or SMS messages. | 2010-04-22 |
20100099438 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL EQUIPPED WITH FUNCTION OF INDICATING DIRECTION OF DESTINATION AND METHOD OF INDICATING DIRECTION OF DESTINATION - A method for indicating a direction of a destination in a mobile communication terminal includes: receiving network identification information from a mobile communication network that is currently accessed; reading current location and declination information corresponding to the network identification information from a mobile communication network information table; obtaining true north information by using the declination information to correct magnetic north information of a current location measured with a geomagnetic sensor; obtaining direction information of the destination from the current location information on the basis of the true north information; and displaying the direction information of the destination. | 2010-04-22 |
20100099439 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REALIZATION OF A PUBLIC WARNING SYSTEM - Disclosed are methods and apparatus for the dissemination of public warning system (PWS) information. In one embodiment, a wireless transmit/receive unit receives a Paging Request message that includes PWS notification information. In another embodiment, a base station is configured to transmit a Paging Request message that includes public warning system (PWS) notification information. In another embodiment, a WTRU begins a procedure for the assignment of a radio resource for the WTRU. The procedure may be, for example, a Random Access Channel (RACH) procedure. The WTRU may monitor a control channel for an assignment message related to the radio resource. In response to receiving a PWS notification, the WTRU may terminate the resource assignment procedure. | 2010-04-22 |
20100099440 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING BASE UNIT POSITION OF A CORDLESS HANDSET - A method and system are presented for sensing a physical position of a cordless handset with respect to a base unit. A dataset of measured line currents may be initialized. A line extension may receive a number for use in determining the position of an associated cordless handset. Stored on-base-unit and off-base-unit line currents may be accessed. A determination may be if the cordless handset is positioned on the base unit, and in response to a determination that the handset is in contact with the base unit, a desired task may proceed. | 2010-04-22 |
20100099441 | Mobile Device Advertising - Methods and systems for mobile advertising that include receiving an advertisement banner from an advertiser, incorporating identifying information in to the advertisement banner to produce a modified advertisement banner, and displaying the modified advertisement banner on a display of a mobile device are disclosed. | 2010-04-22 |
20100099442 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR IMPLEMENTING SHORT MESSAGE SERVICE (SMS) IN WIMAX SYSTEMS - In accordance with a method for implementing Short Message Service (SMS) in a WiMAX network, a mobile station may send a mobile station SMS request message to a base station. The mobile station SMS request message may include mobile-originated SMS data. In response, the base station may send a base station SMS response message back to the mobile station. For mobile-terminated SMS data, the base station may send a base station SMS request message to the mobile station. The base station SMS request message may include the mobile-terminated SMS data. In response, the mobile station may send a mobile station SMS response message to the base station. Ranging procedures and medium access control (MAC) management messages may be used to allocate bandwidth for the various messages. | 2010-04-22 |
20100099443 | SMS OVER WIRELESS PACKET DATA NETWORK - A system may include one or more network devices. The one or more network devices may receive a short message service (SMS) message intended for an access terminal, embed the SMS message into a data message, determine whether a data session exists with the access terminal, the data session occurring over a data network, transmit the data message to the access terminal via the data network when the data session exists, and transmit the SMS message via a voice network when the data session does not exist. | 2010-04-22 |
20100099444 | Alert feature for text messages - The technology disclosed in this specification includes a method and system for analyzing text messages, and more particularly a method and system for providing an alert feature for text messages based at least in part on an analysis of the signaling data associated with the text messages. Subscribers of a family plan wireless account (e.g., parents or guardians) or a designated third party may receive a report if an account member's text message contains objectionable material, such as content relating to explicit sexual matters, drugs, alcohol, gangs or violence. | 2010-04-22 |
20100099445 | METHOD OF CONTROLLING INSTANT MESSAGE AND MOBILE TERMINAL USING THE SAME - A method and apparatus are provided for controlling instant messages. This may include a mobile terminal receiving a message, and searching a telephone directory stored in memory of the mobile terminal for sender information of the received message and determining the received message as an instant message according to a result of the search, and displaying text contents of the instant message on an idle screen of the mobile terminal for a specific duration of time that is controllable by a user. | 2010-04-22 |
20100099446 | METHOD AND NODE FOR SELECTING CONTENT FOR USE IN A MOBILE USER DEVICE - The invention relates to a node and to a method, in a telecommunications system, for selecting one of a plurality of contents, such as advertisement, for use in a mobile user device. The node comprises an access module, for accessing mobile user information corresponding to criteria relative to the plurality of contents which are contained in a memory. The node also comprises a processing module for selecting the content for use in the mobile user device based on a total score calculated for each content of the plurality of contents, the total score of each content being calculated by adding correspondence scores calculated between each criterion and the mobile user information corresponding to each criterion. | 2010-04-22 |
20100099447 | Method and Apparatus for Use in a Communications Network - A system and method in a telecommunication network for subscribing a first node to receive event update notifications from a second node. The first node sends a subscription message such as a SIP SUBSCRIBE message to the second node indicating that the first node wishes to subscribe to event update notifications relating to at least one type of event for a plurality of remote nodes of the network that have a predetermined association with the first node or alternatively the second node. In response, the second node generates future event update notifications and sends the notifications to the first node when the event notifications meet the criteria specified in the subscription message. | 2010-04-22 |
20100099448 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INPUTTING RECEIVER INFORMATION OF TEXT MESSAGE - A method and apparatus for a portable terminal intuitively and easily inputs receiver information of a text message for use when the portable terminal transmits the text message to others or replies to the text message. The receiver information inputting method includes extracting and displaying a preset number of items, in response to a request to input receiver information; calling receiver information linked to an item that is selected from among the items; and inputting the called receiver information in a receiver information input field. | 2010-04-22 |
20100099449 | INTERFERENCE MANAGEMENT WITH REDUCE INTERFERENCE REQUESTS AND INTERFERENCE INDICATORS - Techniques for managing interference in a wireless network are described. In an aspect, reduce interference requests and interference indicators may be used for interference management to enable operation in scenarios with dominant interferers. In one design, a terminal may receive a reduce interference request from a first base station requesting lower interference on specified time-frequency resources. The terminal may also receive an interference indicator conveying the interference observed by a second base station. The terminal may determine its transmit power based on the reduce interference request and the interference indicator. For example, the terminal may determine an initial transmit power based on the reduce interference request (or the interference indicator) and may adjust the initial transmit power based on the interference indicator (or the reduce interference request) to obtain its transmit power. The terminal may transmit data to a serving base station at the determined transmit power. | 2010-04-22 |
20100099450 | Inter-Cell Interference Mitigation Signalling Methods And Apparatus - An inter-cell interference mitigation signalling method for controlling the use of a plurality of inter-cell interference mitigation methods during wireless communications between a first wireless communications apparatus and a second wireless communications apparatus, the method comprising
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20100099451 | Method and System for Real Time Control of an Active Antenna Over a Distributed Antenna System - The invention is directed to a method and system for supporting wireless medical telemetry services (MTS) on a Distributed Antenna System (DAS). A DAS can support a many wireless services, including voice and data services using the same physical equipment. WMTS systems can include one or more active antenna units which can be controlled by the MTS access point. The DAS can include one or more control channels for transferring the MTS control and status information between the MTS access point and the antenna. The control channels can be transferred over a separate cable. Alternatively, the control channel signals can be transferred using one or more intermediate frequency signal that is transferred over the existing cables of the DAS between the MTS access point and the antenna. The control channels can be used to configure and control and receive status from the managed components of the DAS including active antennae, control in real time the amplifiers used to process TDD signals, and control in real time the switching of the diversity antenna systems. The original frequency of the WMTS can be converted to an IF signal in order to be combined without interfering with the other services transferred over the DAS. The DAS can also carry a reference clock signal that can be used to synchronize the frequency conversion to and from an IF signal for transmission over the DAS without interfering with other signals. The reference clock signal can be used to control the operation of the antenna units, including controlling the operation of diversity antenna configurations and controlling antenna broadcast operations to reduce interference when two or more antenna units broadcast on the same frequency band at the same time. | 2010-04-22 |
20100099452 | RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - In a radio communication system having a primary station and a plurality of secondary stations, the power of uplink and downlink channels between the primary station and a secondary station is controlled in a closed loop manner by each station transmitting power control commands to the other station. In response to these commands the receiving station adjusts its output power in steps. | 2010-04-22 |
20100099453 | TRANSMISSION POWER CONTROL METHOD, AND MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A transmission power control method for controlling a transmission power of an E-HICH for uplink user data transmitted from a cell controlled by a radio base station to a mobile station, includes: notifying, from a radio network controller to at least one radio base station controlling a first cell and a second cell, offsets between the transmission power of the E-HICH and a transmission power of a DPCH, when a mobile station is performing a soft-handover with the first and second cell; determining, at the first cell, a transmission power of a first E-HICH based on a notified offset, and transmitting the first E-HICH to the mobile station using the determined transmission power; and determining, at the second cell, transmission power of a second E-HICH based on a notified offset, and transmitting the second E-HICH to the mobile station using the determined transmission power. | 2010-04-22 |
20100099454 | MOBILE UNIT HAVING INTERNET PROTOCOL FUNCTIONALITY - A mobile unit includes a handset and a removable storage module having a unique storage module identity, for storing information specific to a user, including an Internet Protocol (IP) address. Additional information regarding a Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN) and International Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI) which uniquely identifies the subscriber is also stored in the removable storage module. Upon successfully camping on a cell of a mobile network, the IP address is forwarded to an IP-based network capable of communicating with the mobile unit. In an alternate embodiment, the mobile unit has multi-network capabilities which allow it to communicate with an IP-based network and a cellular network at the same time. In another embodiment, existing cellular network services for the mobile unit having multi-network capabilities are routed through the IP-based network. | 2010-04-22 |
20100099455 | NETWORK IDENTITY AND TIMEZONE (NITZ) FUNCTIONALITY FOR NON-3GPP DEVICES - A system that provisions a multimode mobile or converged device with local time information and network provider identification when the multimode mobile device is operating within the purview of a wireless local area network (WLAN). The system includes components that receive protocol data and that extract network provider identification from the received protocol data as well as utilizing the received protocol data to ascertain the local time. | 2010-04-22 |
20100099456 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING FUNCTIONS RELATED TO EXTERNAL DEVICES - A mobile terminal and controlling method thereof are disclosed, by which data can be conveniently shared between a terminal having a projector and an external device connected to the terminal. A mobile terminal includes a projector module configured to project an image onto an external surface, a wireless communication unit configured to establish a wireless connection for communicating with an external device, and a controller configured to display an icon in the projected image corresponding to the connected external device, receive an input selecting the displayed icon, execute a function related to the external device in response to the input, and direct a movement of an object displayed in the projected image according to a signal received from the connected external device. | 2010-04-22 |