46th week of 2008 patent applcation highlights part 43 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20080280544 | Apparatus for lapping sliders using axially deformable member - An apparatus for lapping sliders comprises a rotatable lapping plate for lapping elements that are to be formed into sliders, a pushing force adjusting member that has an internal space therein and that extends vertically along an lapping plate axis that is perpendicular to the lapping plate, a pusher for pressing the elements, the pusher being connected to the pushing force adjusting member, and gas supply means for supplying a gas into the internal space, the gas supply means being connected to the pushing force adjusting member. The pushing force adjusting member comprises a first part that includes a connection with the pusher, a second part that includes a coupling between the internal space and the gas supply means, and an axially deformable part that is located between the first part and the second part. A length of the axially deformable part changes in a direction of the lapping plate axis in accordance with pressure in the internal space such that deformation of the axially deformable part causes a change in the pushing force of the pushing force adjusting member against the pusher. | 2008-11-13 |
20080280545 | MACHINE FOR DRESSING THE EDGES AND OUTER SURFACES OF FLAT WORKPIECES - In a machine for processing the edges and outer surfaces of flat workpieces, including a machine frame with a workpiece support surface | 2008-11-13 |
20080280546 | Method and apparatus for grinding the blade tips of a rotor wheel in Blisk design - Tip grinding of BLISK blades is performed in a static state of an incrementally rotatable BLISK, with a rotational axis ( | 2008-11-13 |
20080280547 | Power tool with output shaft - A motorized power tool includes an output shaft ( | 2008-11-13 |
20080280548 | ICE SKATE BLADE SHARPENING MACHINE - A ice skate blade sharpening machine comprises a skate holder which holds the blade in a releasably fixed position, a rotatable grinding wheel having a periphery and rotatable about a grinding wheel axis, and a contouring tool having a contour surface, moveable between an engaged position and a disengaged position, wherein in the engaged position the contouring tool is held in place with respect to the grinding wheel axis, the contour surface engages the rotating grinding wheel and grinds the periphery of the grinding wheel to define a grinding wheel contour, and wherein the grinding wheel contour grinds the blade to define a profile when the grinding wheel is rotating and the blade is held in the releasably fixed position. | 2008-11-13 |
20080280549 | Guard Attachment Device - The invention is based on a protective hood fastening device having a fastening element ( | 2008-11-13 |
20080280550 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING GIZZARDS - A method and apparatus for separating an intestine from a gizzard comprising an infeed overhead rail indexing conveyor assembly, and a dual blade cutter assembly, which teaches a novel method and apparatus for separating a substantial portion of the intestine from a gizzard with an increased yield. The steps of the process can include feeding a viscera pack into a feed end of the overhead rail system; capturing and conveying the pack with a conveyor belt or chain having indexing members along a path to engage the dual blade cutter assembly. A substantial portion of the intestine and the separated gizzard with a small portion of the intestine remaining are allowed to separate after being severed by the dual blade and fall along separate chutes for further processing. | 2008-11-13 |
20080280551 | Garage and Outbuilding Safety Ventilation System - A ventilating system for a garage is provided. The ventilating system comprises an automatic garage door opening mechanism and a hazardous gas detector. The automatic garage door opening mechanism is configured for wireless communication and to move a garage door between an open position and a closed position. The hazardous gas detector is configured for wireless communication and to sense the presence of a hazardous gas within the garage. The hazardous gas detector wirelessly instructs the automatic garage door opening mechanism to move the garage door to the open position when the hazardous gas reaches a predetermined level in the garage. As such, the garage is ventilated. | 2008-11-13 |
20080280552 | BLOWER EXHAUST BACKFLOW DAMPER METHODS - Methods for preventing exhaust backflow into a blower are disclosed. Embodiments may include a blower system with an invertible blower chassis having a blower exhaust to direct airflow from the blower chassis at an airflow angle. The system may also include a backflow damper frame attached to the blower chassis and positioned to receive airflow from the blower chassis and one or more vertical damper vanes rotatably attached to the backflow damper frame. Each damper vane may freely rotate between a first, closed position and a second, open position. The damper vanes may block airflow into the blower exhaust when in the closed position and may freely rotate to a position where the damper vanes are substantially parallel to the airflow from the blower exhaust. The damper vanes may each include a vane pin to rotatably attach to frame holes of the backflow damper frame. | 2008-11-13 |
20080280553 | VENTILATOR FOR FREIGHT CONTAINER - A ventilator device for a freight container configured to prevent the ingress of water into the cargo tank interior. The ventilator device comprises a floatation-based valve configured to shuttle backwards and forwards in response to contact with water. The valve acts to open and close the air flow passageway through the device and is mounted over the air flow vents of the container. A manual override actuator may be provided to manually open and close the valves. | 2008-11-13 |
20080280554 | Adjustable Width Vent Baffle - An adaptable vent baffle mountable to an underside of a roof deck and to a wall plate of a building structure between a pair of roof rafters having a rafter spacing for permitting ventilation between a soffit and an attic space of the building structure. A main body portion has a longitudinal axis and is positioned generally on a main body place. A spacer extends from the main body portion and a tail portion is hingedly mounted to the main body portion. The main body portion and tail portion include first and second side edges and a baffle width is defined between the first and second side edges. At least one line of weakness extends generally parallel to the longitudinal axis for modifying the baffle width to adapt to the rafter spacing. | 2008-11-13 |
20080280555 | METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING A WIRELESS DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM - A method for configuring a wireless distribution system is provided. In the method, a target node starts a building procedure and begins to broadcast a building information. A joining node starts a scanning procedure for scanning all channels available and locks one channel used by the target node. The joining node sends a connect request signal and a channel assign request to the target node. The target node selects one link and one channel available for the joining node for communication, and sends a channel reset signal to the joining node. The MAC address of the joining node is added into an internal table of the target node. After the joining node has received the channel reset signal, the MAC address of the target node is stored into an internal table of the joining node, and the designated link channel is configured. | 2008-11-13 |
20080280556 | CONTROL METHOD FOR A WIRELESS AUDIO/VIDEO SYSTEM - A control method for a wireless audio/video system is disclosed. The control method is used for detecting whether a wireless receiving module receives an invalid signal by an error detection module in an audio/video player and thereby prevents the audio/video player from unable to receive or play the audio/video signal or other programs normally. Furthermore, the audio/video player of the present invention has a button controlling module and a wireless transmission module for operating with a wireless receiving module and a wireless transmission module of a fore end controlling device to substantially achieve bidirectional communication for the wireless audio/video device. | 2008-11-13 |
20080280557 | Transmitting/receiving method, transmitter/receiver, and recording medium therefor - A transmitting/receiving method that can easily detect an influence exerted in transmission channels at a transmitter/receiver is provided. An acquiring unit | 2008-11-13 |
20080280558 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING DATA IN NFC - A data transmission/reception method in Near Field Communications (NFC) for enhancing data throughput between at least an initiator device and a target device. The data transmission/reception method typically includes initiating a communication between an initiator and a target that perform NFC, aggregating a plurality of data packet units to be transmitted in order to form an aggregated frame, and transmitting the aggregated frame to a counterpart NFC device. | 2008-11-13 |
20080280559 | Enabling Bluetooth Support Within a Secondary and/or Across Multiple Operating System Partitions - A method for sharing Bluetooth pairs across multiple operating system partitions. The method includes the steps of pairing a first operating system partition with a Bluetooth enabled device; determining when a memory of an information handling system includes an additional operating system partition; and, pairing the additional operating system partition with the Bluetooth enabled device when the additional operating system partition is present. | 2008-11-13 |
20080280560 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF PLACING A RFID TAG IN A CONTINUOUS TRANSMISSION MODE - Method and system of placing a RFID tag in a continuous transmission mode. At least some of the illustrative embodiments are methods comprising sending a command from a radio frequency identification (RFID) reader to a first RFID tag, and then transmitting continuously by the first RFID tag based on the command. Other illustrative embodiments are RFID tags comprising a tag antenna, and a RFID circuit coupled to the tag antenna. The RFID circuit is configured to, responsive to a first command from a RFID reader, repeatedly transmit a message to the RFID reader. | 2008-11-13 |
20080280561 | Intergrated communication apparatus - An integrated communication apparatus is linked to the PSTN or the Internet for making a PSTN call or a VoIP call. The integrated communication apparatus includes a Bluetooth earphone having a signal transmitting terminal, and a body having an earphone receiving slot and a control circuit board. The earphone receiving slot is used for receiving the earphone and the signal transmitting terminal of the Bluetooth earphone is electrically connected with the control circuit board. The control circuit board includes a control module. The control module is connected with a Bluetooth module, a wireless VoIP module, a PSTN module, a voice-signal encoding/decoding circuit, a judging and charging circuit, and a voice-signal switching module for operating and controlling the modules and the circuits. The voice-signal switching module is connected with a speaker and a microphone via an ECHO eliminating circuit. | 2008-11-13 |
20080280562 | COMMUNICATION METHOD, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATION DEVICE - The present invention relates to a data communication method, a data communication system and a communication device. In particular, the present invention relates to a wireless communication device, wherein a broadband internet connection between said communication device and a data network is used. Said broadband internet connection has a high security between said wireless communication device and a data network by the usage of a unique port secured access by means of public known keys. | 2008-11-13 |
20080280563 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS USING ANTI-INTERFERENCE TO INCREASE CHANNEL CAPACITY - A method and system for wireless communications between a sender and a receiver enables effective blocking of interference signals by other senders and improving the channel capacity. The receiver uses two or more receiving devices, such as antennas or smart antennas, to receive multiple wireless input signals. By performing a noise-transparent autocorrelation matching analysis on the multiple input signals, the receiver derives an anti-interference filter for interference-blocking action, without the need for information of the interfering vector. The information derived by the receiver may be further used to control the reception by the receiving devices of the receiver, or transmitted to the sender to control its transmission, such that the signal vector may be set to be parallel to the obtained filtering vector to achieve an enhanced channel capacity that may exceed the limit imposed by the well-known Shannon channel capacity of the original channel. | 2008-11-13 |
20080280564 | LOCATION ESTIMATION IN END-USER DEVICES USING PUBLIC RADIO SIGNALS | 2008-11-13 |
20080280565 | Indoor coverage estimation and intelligent network planning - A method is described that involves calculating, by processing software program code on a computer, wireless signal coverage within a building for each of multiple floors within the building. The calculating includes accounting for outdoor signal coverage, accounting for building height, accounting for external building wall material and accounting for internal building wall material. Another method is described that involves planning, by processing software program code on a computer, node upgrades to a wireless networking service. The planning includes calculating outdoor node cost as a function of in building wireless network service coverage; calculating indoor node cost as a function of in building wireless network coverage; identifying an in building wireless network coverage value where said outdoor node cost equals said indoor node cost; recommending addition of an outdoor node because current coverage is less than said value; and, recommending addition of an indoor node because current coverage is greater than said value. | 2008-11-13 |
20080280566 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS WITH BUILT-IN CHANNEL EMULATOR/NOISE GENERATOR - The invention provides a wireless communication apparatus with performance simulation function. The wireless communication apparatus includes a channel emulator and at least one noise generator; therefore a real transmission environment can be simulated inside the wireless communication apparatus to thereby accelerate the testing process. Moreover, as this invention sets a random noise generator in front of the FFT, an approximate AWGN effect will be generated when the wireless communication apparatus is under test. | 2008-11-13 |
20080280567 | WIRELESS TRANSMIT RECEIVE UNIT HAVING A TRANSITION STATE FOR TRANSITIONING FROM MONITORING TO DUPLEX CONNECTED STATES AND METHOD - A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) and method for wireless uplink communication to and downlink communication from a wireless network are provided. The WTRU has a selectively configurable transceiver that has a network connected mode defined by a plurality of functional states including at least one monitoring state and a duplex state. The transceiver is configured to transition from a monitoring state upon occurrence of predefined WTRU events that are each associated with a respective uplink procedure initiation communication where at least one of procedures results in a network response that includes a temporary identifier. The transceiver is configurable into a transition state wherein the transceiver is configured to send only the uplink initiation communications and is otherwise configured only for downlink communications. | 2008-11-13 |
20080280568 | RF ADAPTER FOR FIELD DEVICE - An adapter for coupling to a process control transmitter of the type used to monitor a process variable in an industrial process is provided. The adapter includes I/O circuitry configured to couple to a two wire process control loop and to the process control transmitter and communicate on the process control loop. Wireless communication circuitry couples to the two wire process control loop and is configured to transmit an RF signal. Power supply circuitry provides power to the wireless communication circuitry. | 2008-11-13 |
20080280569 | System and Method for Carrying a Wireless Based Signal Over Wiring - A device, network and method wherein a standard wireless modem is coupled to wiring for carrying a wireless baseband signal that may be OFDM based, and may be directly generated by the wireless IF modem, or extracted from the modem RF signal. The wiring may be a building utility wiring, such as telephone, AC power or CATV wiring. The baseband signal is carried simultaneously with the utility service signal over the utility wiring using Frequency Division Multiplexing. The device may be enclosed with a data unit, a standalone dedicated enclosure, within an outlet or as a plug-in outlet adapter. Data units may couple the device by a wiring port such as standard data connector, or via wireless connection. The device may be locally powered or via a power signal carried over the wiring. This abstract is not intended to limit or construe the scope of the claims. | 2008-11-13 |
20080280570 | Hybrid techniques for antenna retuning utilizing transmit and receive power information - An embodiment of the present invention provides an apparatus, comprising a transceiver, an antenna tuner connecting said transceiver to an antenna, a power sensor adapted to acquire measurements about transmit power, a receive signal strength indicator (RSSI) adapted to acquire measurements about receive power and wherein said tuner tunes said antenna based upon said transmit and receive measurements to optimize said antenna in both the receive and transmit bands. | 2008-11-13 |
20080280571 | RF transceiver with adjustable antenna assembly - A radio frequency (RF) transceiver includes a baseband processing module, a configurable receiver section, a configurable transmitter section and a configurable antenna assembly. The baseband processing module converts outbound data into an outbound symbol stream, converts an inbound symbol stream into inbound data and generates a transmit adjust signal and a receive adjust signal. The receiver section converts an inbound RF signal into the inbound symbol stream. The transmitter section converts the outbound symbol stream into an outbound RF signal. The antenna assembly receives the inbound RF signal via a first antenna structure and transmits the outbound RF signal via a second antenna structure. The first antenna structure and/or the configurable receiver section adjusts phase and/or amplitude of the inbound RF signal in accordance with the receive adjust signal. The second antenna structure and/or the configurable transmitter section adjusts phase and/or amplitude of the outbound RF signal in accordance with the transmit adjust signal. | 2008-11-13 |
20080280572 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REVOKING A TALK BURST - An embodiment of the present invention discloses a method for revoking a talk burst, which includes: entering a pending release state by a talk burst after a client having the talk burst releases the talk burst initiatively; monitoring a duration of the talk burst in the pending release state; and revoking the talk burst when the duration of the talk burst in the pending release state exceeds a preset duration. An embodiment also discloses an apparatus for revoking a talk burst. By applying certain embodiments of the present invention, after a client initiatively releases a talk burst so that the talk burst enters a pending release state, the talk burst can be revoked in time and the waiting time of the client is saved. | 2008-11-13 |
20080280573 | Linear RF amplifier with polar feedback - A system for power amplification of an RF signal including polar feedback control. The system may include a feedback-controlled modulator configured to modulate an RF signal based on a feedback-corrected control signal. The modulator is further configured to generate a modulated RF signal. The system also may include a phase shifter configured to correct the phase of the modulated RF signal based on a feedback phase control signal. The system further includes a power amplifier in communication with the modulator and/or the phase shifter. The amplifier is configured to amplify the modulated RF signal and to generate an amplified RF output signal. The system also includes a feedback network configured to generate polar feedback signals, including the feedback-corrected control signal and/or the feedback phase control signal. | 2008-11-13 |
20080280574 | RF transmitter with adjustable antenna assembly - A radio frequency (RF) transmitter includes a baseband processing module, an up conversion module, a power amplifier module, and an antenna assembly. The baseband processing module is coupled to convert outbound data into a first outbound symbol stream and a second outbound symbol stream and to generate an adjust signal. The up conversion module is coupled to convert the first outbound symbol stream into a first up converted signal and to convert the second outbound symbol stream into a second up converted signal. The power amplifier module is coupled to amplify the first and second up converted signals to produce first and second outbound RF signals. The antenna assembly is coupled to transmit the first and second outbound RF signals, wherein the antenna assembly adjusts at least one of amplitude and phase of at least one of the first and second outbound RF signals based on the adjust signal. | 2008-11-13 |
20080280575 | Transmitter emission control - The present invention relates to transmitter emission control. An apparatus is provided with a power amplifier and a power control part operatively connected to the power amplifier. The power control part is configured to receive an indication of a spectrum mask requirement and control supply power of the power amplifier on the basis of the indication of the spectrum mask requirement. | 2008-11-13 |
20080280576 | SEARCHING RECEIVER - A monitoring receiver accepts program preferences from an operator. The receiver automatically monitors alternate frequencies for programming that matches the program preferences, alerts the operator when a match is found, and may switch to a preferred program. The receiver may be configured to automatically turn ON when a preferred program is located. | 2008-11-13 |
20080280577 | RECEIVER AND INTEGRATED AM-FM/IQ DEMODULATORS FOR GIGABIT-RATE DATA DETECTION - This disclosure addresses providing gigabit-rate data transmission over wireless radio links, using carrier frequencies in the millimeter-wave range (>30 GHz). More specifically, a circuit for detection of amplitude-shift keyed (ASK) or other amplitude modulations (AM) which can be easily incorporated into an integrated circuit receiver system is described, making the receiver capable of supporting both complex IQ modulation schemes and simpler, non-coherent on-off or multiple-level keying signals. Several novel radio architectures are also described which, with the addition of a frequency discriminator network, have the capability of handling frequency shift keyed (FSK) or other frequency modulations (FM), as well as AM and complex IQ modulation schemes. These radio architectures support this wide variety of modulations by efficiently sharing detector hardware components. The architecture for supporting both quadrature down-conversion and ASK/AM is described first, followed by the ASK/AM detector circuit details, then the AM-FM detector architecture, and finally the most general AM-FM/IQ demodulator system concept and the FSK/FM detector circuit details. | 2008-11-13 |
20080280578 | Receiver circuit and amplifier circuit - A receiver circuit includes an attenuator that receives a received signal and attenuates the received signal, a DC level shifter that shifts a DC level of an attenuated signal from the attenuator, an amplifier section that has frequency characteristics of a band-pass filter and amplifies a signal from the DC level shifter that has been shifted with respect to the DC level, and a control circuit that controls an attenuation of the attenuator based on a signal output from the amplifier section. The control circuit controls the attenuation of the attenuator by changing filter characteristics of the attenuator corresponding to an amplitude of the signal output from the amplifier section so that the signal output from the amplifier section has a constant amplitude even when an amplitude of the received signal has changed. | 2008-11-13 |
20080280579 | Systems And Methods For Controlling Local Oscillator Feed-Through - A method for controlling local oscillator (LO) feed-through in a direct transmitter includes detecting a signal level corresponding to LO feed-through in a radio frequency (RF) signal that is output by a direct transmitter. Responsive to detecting the signal level corresponding to LO feed-through, DC offset levels are modified for an in-phase (I) signal and/or a quadrature-phase (Q) signal in the direct transmitter. | 2008-11-13 |
20080280580 | IMAGE COMPENSATION FOR WIRELESS RECEIVER - A receiver ( | 2008-11-13 |
20080280581 | RF receiver with adjustable antenna assembly - A radio frequency (RF) receiver includes an antenna assembly, a low noise amplifier module, a down conversion module, and a baseband processing module. The antenna assembly is coupled to receive an inbound RF signal that includes a first signal component and a second signal component. The antenna assembly adjusts amplitude and/or phase of the first and/or second signal components to produce an adjusted inbound RF signal based on an adjust signal. The low noise amplifier module amplifies the adjusted inbound RF signal to produce an amplified inbound RF signal. The down conversion module converts the amplified inbound RF signal into a first inbound symbol stream corresponding to the first signal component and into a second inbound symbol stream corresponding to the second signal component. The baseband processing module converts the first and second inbound symbol streams into inbound data and to generate the adjust signal. | 2008-11-13 |
20080280582 | RADIO RECEIVER HAVING IGNITION NOISE DETECTOR AND METHOD THEREFOR - An AM receiver including an AM demodulator for demodulating an AM signal received by an antenna coupled to the AM demodulator is provided. The AM receiver further includes a bandpass filter for receiving the demodulated signal and generating a bandpass filtered signal. The AM receiver further includes a moving average filter for receiving the bandpass filtered signal and generating a moving averaged signal and a highpass filter for receiving the moving averaged signal and generating a highpass filtered signal. The AM receiver further includes an averaging filter for receiving the highpass filtered signal and generating an averaged signal and a summer for receiving the averaged signal and the highpass filtered signal and generating a difference signal. The AM receiver further includes a comparator for generating a noise blanking signal based on a comparison of the difference signal with a threshold. | 2008-11-13 |
20080280583 | Submillimeter wave heterodyne receiver - In an embodiment, a submillimeter wave heterodyne receiver includes a finline ortho-mode transducer comprising thin tapered metallic fins deposited on a thin dielectric substrate to separate a vertically polarized electromagnetic mode from a horizontally polarized electromagnetic mode. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 2008-11-13 |
20080280584 | MIXER USED FOR DIRECT CONVERSION RECEIVER - Provided is a mixer including a mixing unit configured to mix high frequency data signals and local oscillation (LO) signals, generate first and second low frequency data signals, and output the first and second low frequency data signals to first and second output terminals, respectively; a common mode amplification unit coupled to the mixing unit, the common mode amplification unit configured to compare a common mode voltage of the first and second low frequency data signals and a predetermined reference voltage, the common mode amplification unit further configured to output a feedback signal at a control node based on the comparison; a first load transistor coupled to the first output terminal and the control node, the first load transistor configured to provide the first output terminal with a first load current corresponding to the feedback signal; a first calibration transistor unit connected in parallel to the first load transistor in order to calibrate an input impedance of the first output terminal; and a first current mirror unit coupled to the first calibration transistor unit, the first current mirror unit configured to discharge a first calibration current that is output from the first calibration transistor unit to prevent the first calibration current from entering the first output terminal. | 2008-11-13 |
20080280585 | RF receiver front-end and applications thereof - A radio frequency (RF) receiver front-end includes an low noise amplifier (LNA) module, a current domain mixing module, and a buffer module. The LNA module is coupled to amplify an inbound RF signal to produce an amplified inbound RF current signal. The current domain mixing module is coupled to mix the amplified inbound RF current signal with a local oscillation to produce a mixed current signal. The buffer module is coupled to provide a baseband or near baseband voltage signal from the mixed current signal. | 2008-11-13 |
20080280586 | Remote Control with Rf Protocol - The invention relates to an electronic system ( | 2008-11-13 |
20080280587 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR A MOBILE STATION TO ENHANCE THE PROBABILITY OF SUCCESSFUL EMERGENCY CALL COMPLETION AND SUCCESSFUL CALLBACK FROM EMERGENCY SERVICE CENTRE - A method and apparatus for enhancing the probability of a successful emergency call completion and emergency callback on a mobile station in a network, the method comprising the steps of: during an emergency call attempt, monitoring whether the mobile station has received a non-voice service request from the network and, if yes, ignoring the non-voice service request. Further, during a callback period, monitoring whether the mobile station has received a service request from the network and, if yes, ignoring the service request if the service request is a non-voice service request that is anything but a position location service request. Further, during a callback period, monitoring whether a user attempts to initiate a non-voice service request that is anything but a position location service request, and if yes ignoring the non-voice service request. | 2008-11-13 |
20080280588 | User Interface Methods, Such as for Customer Self-Support on a Mobile Device - A method for providing a localized, context-sensitive user interface ( | 2008-11-13 |
20080280589 | Wireless Device with Billing Code Button - A wireless communication device comprises a button depressable to associate a communication with the device with a billing account. A method is also disclosed of assigning a communication with a wireless device to a billing account. The method comprises receiving a code from the wireless device corresponding to the billing account, and associating the communication with a billing account. | 2008-11-13 |
20080280590 | SELECTIVE CALLING PARTY PAYS VIA A SECURE SERVICE FEATURE - Selective calling party pays via a secure service feature may be provided. A determination is conducted to decide if a called party's wireless communications service has entered a suspension state. Next, if the wireless communication service is in a suspension state, a determination is conducted to decide if a secure service feature has been purchased for the particular wireless communications service under suspension. Next, if the wireless communications service includes the secure service feature, a determination is conducted to decide if a caller calling the called party is permitted to communicate with the called party when the called party's communications service is under suspension. If a caller is determined to be an authorized caller, a communications path is provided for the caller and the called party. Billing associated with the communications is charged to the caller instead of the called party. | 2008-11-13 |
20080280591 | Inbound Phone Control - A method, including receiving at a network element, from a first telecommunications enabled device, a control connection request directed to a second telecommunications enabled device, connecting a control connection to the second telecommunications enabled device wherein the control connection is connected without requiring user input at the second telecommunications enabled device to answer the control connection request, and providing access to one or more functionalities of the second telecommunications enabled device to the first telecommunications enabled device through the control connection. | 2008-11-13 |
20080280592 | WIRELESS DEVICE MONITORING METHODS, WIRELESS DEVICE MONITORING SYSTEMS, AND ARTICLES OF MANUFACTURE - Wireless device monitoring methods, wireless device monitoring systems, and articles of manufacture are described. According to one embodiment, a wireless device monitoring method includes accessing device configuration information of a wireless device present at a secure area, wherein the device configuration information comprises information regarding a configuration of the wireless device, accessing stored information corresponding to the wireless device, wherein the stored information comprises information regarding the configuration of the wireless device, comparing the device configuration information with the stored information, and indicating the wireless device as one of authorized and unauthorized for presence at the secure area using the comparing. | 2008-11-13 |
20080280593 | Protecting Caller Function from Undesired Access by Callee Function - Disclosed is a method for restricting access of a first code of a plurality of codes and data of a first function from a second function. Thee method comprises calling the second function by the first function, addresses of the plurality of data may be stored in a stack page and colored in a first color ( | 2008-11-13 |
20080280594 | Method for Transferring the Context of a Mobile Terminal in a Wireless Telecommunication Network - The present invention concerns a method for obtaining a context of a mobile terminal ( | 2008-11-13 |
20080280595 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND MOBILE SERVICE DEVICE FOR NOTIFYING MISSING-CALL - In a missing-call notification method, a called party is called by a calling party. When the called party is unconnectable, a calling request sent by the calling party to the called party is obtained; missing-call information of the calling party is recorded; and a notification message according to the missing-call information is generated. The notification message is sent to the called party. By retrieving the notification message containing the phone message left by the calling party, the called party may conveniently obtain the communication object of the calling party. | 2008-11-13 |
20080280596 | Server-Coordinated Ringtones - An apparatus and methods are disclosed for enabling multiple telecommunications terminals that are associated with a common user to notify their user of the arrival of an incoming message via a ringtone, where the ringtone is: (i) coordinated across the terminals, and (ii) customized for each terminal based on one or more attributes of the terminal. In particular, in the illustrative embodiments a network infrastructure element (e.g., a switch, a wireless base station, a server, etc.) that receives a message directed to a telecommunications terminal sets the values of one or more properties of a ringtone (e.g., tempo, timbre, pitch, rhythm, etc.) based on one or more attributes of the telecommunications terminal (e.g., terminal type, etc.). | 2008-11-13 |
20080280597 | Method for Adding Background Sound to Mobile Communication Telephone Talking and Communication System Thereof - The present invention relates to a method for adding background sound to mobile communication telephone talking and a communication system thereof. In the method of the present invention, a background sound system is added into corresponding talk at the time of establishing a talking link between the calling mobile communication terminal and the called mobile communication terminal based on contracting information of calling and/or called parties. In the communication system of the present invention, one or more than one background sound service system is introduced into conventional communication system, The background sound service system comprises at least a switching device, a background sound storage device, a background sound playing device and a control device that are connected to each other. According to the present invention, new telecommunications valued-added services may be added in existing mobile communication networks, making the talking between the calling and called parties more interesting and humanized. Meanwhile, a system capable of storing, managing and setting background sound data is provided to background sound providers, background sound subscribers and background sound service operators. | 2008-11-13 |
20080280598 | Location Based System and Method for Exchanging Videos or Notes - A system and method are described herein for enabling end-users of mobile terminals to exchange messages that are associated with a specific geographical location. In one embodiment, a first end-user can use their mobile terminal to submit a message (text, voice, video . . . ) about a specific piece of art located in a museum. Then, a second end-user can use their mobile terminal to retrieve the message (which was previously provided by the first end-user) that is associated with the specific piece of art while they are located in the museum. | 2008-11-13 |
20080280599 | CALL PROCESSING METHOD AND SYSTEM - A mobile communication terminal is provided. A storage unit stores a disconnect cause associated with caller information. A communication unit receives an incoming call. A controller determines whether the incoming call is associated with the caller information, disconnects the incoming call if the incoming call is associated with the caller information, and sends a disconnect message indicating the disconnect cause to a network station relaying the incoming call. | 2008-11-13 |
20080280600 | Geographic Mobile Address Book - A mobile device is provided that comprises a processor and an address book configured to provide a display to display a current geographic location of a contact associated with an entry in the address book. | 2008-11-13 |
20080280601 | System and Method for Spoken Caller Identification in a Cellular Telephone Headset - A spoken caller identification system comprises a headset and mobile communication device. The mobile communication device sends the caller identification to the headset upon a determination that the headset is in communication with the mobile communication device. | 2008-11-13 |
20080280602 | Vehicle control apparatus with data reprogrammable via wireless communication network - In a vehicle control apparatus for reprogramming data stored therein based on a reprogramming instruction transmitted thereto via a wireless communication network, an asking unit is provided. The asking unit asks a data reprogramming unit about whether the reprogramming instruction is validated or not. The data reprogramming unit has been authorized to reprogram the data stored in the vehicle control apparatus. A determining unit is provided in the vehicle control apparatus. The determining unit receives a reply to the asking transmitted from the data reprogramming unit via the wireless communication network and determines whether to enable or disable the reprogramming of the data stored in the vehicle control apparatus based on the received reply. | 2008-11-13 |
20080280603 | Device For Intercepting and Analyzing Traffic For a Terminal - A device and method for intercepting and analyzing traffic for terminals connected to a telecommunications network, according to wireless technology, using telecommunications standards. A terminal is connected to a telecommunication network such that the terminal can transmit and receive with the network. The terminal executes at least one service on the network in accordance with at least one communication protocol and a graphic user interface. The device also intercepts and stores data frames exchanged over the network by said terminal in the context of services being executed, and analyzes the stored frames to deduce parameters characterizing the connection of the terminal to the network. The device also identifies the various executed services and their associated instantaneous rate, and while allowing real time viewing of the parameters characterizing the connection via the graphic user interface. | 2008-11-13 |
20080280604 | Forbidden neighbor cell list - Mobility in E-UTRAN might not rely on neighbor cell list. In such a case, the user equipment (UE) may be responsible for finding cells and reporting to the network. Consequently signaling load may be increased and also handover (HO) performance can be degraded for the cases in which the target cell proposed by the UE is not good. Certain embodiments of the present invention give the operator some control of the signaling load and HO performance by providing a list of forbidden cells with regard to which the UE does not have to search and report. | 2008-11-13 |
20080280605 | System and method for providing local IP connectivity for a roaming mobile subscriber - A system installed at a roaming mobile network, comprises: a signaling relay enabled to monitor, intercept and modify mobile network signaling messages between the roaming network and the home network, a controller application for the signaling relay, said controller configured to instruct the signaling relay to replace an identity of a roaming user with a local network subscriber identity, thereby to enable registration of the roaming user with the local network for receiving at least one local mobile service as a local user, the roamer retaining a pre-existing registration with a respective home mobile network for receiving at least one other roaming mobile service, wherein authentication of the mobile device with the roaming network uses authentication data of the home network registration. | 2008-11-13 |
20080280606 | INCREASING SYSTEM CAPACITY VIA UTILIZATION OF END USER EQUIPMENT KNOWLEDGE - A method and information processing system are provided for dynamically encoding a control channel for transmitting messages to a wireless device based on performance capability information associated with the wireless device. The method includes determining that a wireless device ( | 2008-11-13 |
20080280607 | System for changing location registration - A mobile terminal, which is registered to either a first mobile communication network or a second communication network, determines whether it is possible to register to the first mobile communication network on the basis of control information received fi-om the second mobile communication network. Then, the mobile terminal attempts to register to the first mobile communication network a predetermined number of times in a case that it is determined that it is possible to register to the first mobile communication network. | 2008-11-13 |
20080280608 | Enhanced Timer Based Registration Method for Wireless Communication Networks - Techniques and systems that provide enhanced timer based registration for efficiently registering access terminals with a wireless network. | 2008-11-13 |
20080280609 | Provisioning of User Information - The present invention relates to method and arrangements to provide information related to user devices in a telecommunication system (TS). The system comprises at least one network domain (HPLMN, WCDMA) that is associated with a central database (DCR). The method comprises identification in the central database (DCR) of a first request (REQ | 2008-11-13 |
20080280610 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR OUT OF SERVICE PROCESSING WITH VARIED BEHAVIORS - Methods and apparatus for out of service processing with varied behaviors. In an aspect, a method is provided for service acquisition. The method includes determining one or more conditions, wherein each condition is associated with at least one weight, detecting whether an out-of-service event has occurred, and if an out-of-service event is detected: identifying selected conditions and associated weights, and processing the associated weights to determine service acquisition “on” and “off” times. In an aspect, an apparatus includes condition logic configured to determine one or more conditions, wherein each condition is associated with at least one weight, and processing logic configured to detect whether an out-of-service event has occurred, and if an out-of-service event is detected, to identify selected conditions and associated weights, and process the associated weights to determine service acquisition “on” and “off” times. | 2008-11-13 |
20080280611 | Smooth Hard Handover Method, Mobile Station and Base Station Adapted For The Method - The present invention relates to a cellular radio communications system and especially a method, a mobile station and a base station for a smooth hard handover. The smooth hard handover includes preparing radio links in selected base stations for potential communication with a mobile station. This is similar to selecting base stations for the active set in the prior art soft handover. A difference is though that just one radio link is actively used for transmission. The handover from the active to a prepared radio link is quick and safe, as compared to conventional hard handover, because of the preparation, while requiring a less complex system architecture then the conventional soft handover. The smooth hard handover can replace the soft handover. | 2008-11-13 |
20080280612 | Telecommunications Apparatus and Method - A telecommunications system for providing mobile communications to mobile user equipment is provided which includes an internet protocol access network and a cellular mobile radio network. The internet protocol access network provides a facility for mobile communications to mobile user equipment within a coverage area for wireless communication provided by the internet protocol access network, the mobile communications being provided using an internet protocol. The cellular mobile radio network provides a facility for mobile communications to mobile user equipment within a coverage area for wireless communication provided by the cellular mobile radio network. The mobile communications are provided using at least one of a packet switched communications channel in which data is divided into packets and communicated on a communications bearer shared with other data packets, and a circuit switched communications channel in which data is communicated on a communications channel having a dedicated bandwidth. Mobile user equipment is provided and may activate a connection on the cellular mobile radio network using the packet switched communications channel whilst receiving a communications service via the internet protocol access network. The mobile user equipment communicates via the connection on the packet-switched channel of the cellular mobile radio network in response to a handover event for changing affiliation of the mobile user equipment fro m the internet protocol access network to the cellular mobile radio network. The mobile user equipment also establishes a connection on the cellular mobile radio network using the circuit switched channel in response to the handover event, continues to communicate via the connection on the packet-switched channel while the connection on the circuit-switched channel has been established, and then communicates via the connection on the circuit-switched channel once it has been established. In this way, improved continuity of service can be provided and the incidence of dropped calls can be reduced. | 2008-11-13 |
20080280613 | HANDOVER APPARATUS AND HANDOVER METHOD IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for performing handover of a terminal in a wireless communication system, the method including obtaining information on neighboring networks from a media independent handover (MIH) server by using a MIH layer if a state of a link connected to a serving network is changed; transmitting a handover initiation request message to the MIH layer of the serving network through the MIH layer; checking handover support information and tunnel state information of the neighboring networks which are received from the MIH layer of the serving network; determining a target network to which handover is performed and performing layer-2 (L2) handover with the target network, by using the handover support information; and performing layer-3 (L3) handover with the target network by using the tunnel state information. | 2008-11-13 |
20080280614 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING MEDIA INDEPENDENT HANDOVER MEASUREMENT AND REPORTING - The method and apparatus are used for media independent handover (MIH) measurement and reporting in wireless communications. A periodicity for measurement and reporting is set on the MIH function through an MIH protocol message or an MIH SAP primitive and on the link layer device through an MIH_LINK_SAP primitive. A new MIH_SAP primitive, MIH protocol message or MIH_LINK_SAP primitive is added to configure the periodicity. A new information element (IE) field for measurement reporting period may be added. | 2008-11-13 |
20080280615 | Method and apparatus ensuring application quality of service - A method and apparatus for ensuring application of quality of service requirements on an access network. The method includes comparing, in a mobile communication device, one or more application signaling requirements of a selected application with one or more link characteristics of a link between the mobile communication device and an access node of an access network. Based on the comparison, the method further includes selecting at least one of: signaling, in the mobile communications device, to a handover algorithm to indicate that a handover to another access node is desired if it is determined that the application signaling requirements cannot be met by the link; and determining, in the mobile communication device, one or more transmission characteristics for the selected application based on the one or more application signaling requirements and the one or more link characteristics, and transmitting a signal from the mobile communication device to the access node for the selected application using the determined one or more transmission characteristics if it is determined that the application signaling requirements can be met by the link. | 2008-11-13 |
20080280616 | Media Gateway Interconnect Routing in a Softswitch Environment - Calls are routed in a distributed mobile switching center environment in response to receiving a call to be routed from a first switching mode ( | 2008-11-13 |
20080280617 | Target Base Station - Based Media Gateway Selection in a Distributed Mobile Switching Center Environment - A temporary directory number is assigned ( | 2008-11-13 |
20080280618 | METHOD OF DISTRIBUTING IDENTICAL DATA AND DIFFERENT DATA TO MOBILE UNITS - The present invention provides a method of distributing identical data and different data to mobile units. One embodiment of the method may include providing a plurality of first messages including information indicative of a first pseudo-address. Each first message includes information indicative of an address of one of a plurality of mobile units. The method may also include providing at least one second message including information indicative of at least one second pseudo-address and information indicative of the address of each mobile unit in at least one subset of the plurality of mobile units. The method further includes providing at least one third message including the first pseudo-address and a portion of a packet destined for the plurality of mobile units. At least one fourth message including the second pseudo-address and a portion of a packet destined for the subset of the plurality of mobile units is also included. | 2008-11-13 |
20080280619 | Method for Transmitting Information in a Multiple Antenna System - A method of transmitting and receiving information in a wireless mobile communication system where a mobile station (MS) has at least one antenna is disclosed. More specifically, the method discloses transmitting information to a base station (BS). Here, the information includes the number of antennas to be used for transmission by the MS and whether the MS supports a collaborative spatial multiplexing (SM) scheme. Furthermore, the method discloses receiving information from the BS. Here, the information includes the number of antennas that can be used by the MS for transmission and a multi-input multi-output (MIMO) matrix to be used by each antenna of the MS. | 2008-11-13 |
20080280620 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR USER EQUIPMENT INTERACTION WITH A NETWORK USING INTERACTION INFORMATION - A method of operating a communications network and mobile user equipment (UE) in the network includes providing the UE with an algorithm usable with at least one input parameter to derive a quantity of interaction information according to the at least one input parameter, transmitting at least one said input parameter from the network to the UE, using the algorithm with the received at least one input parameter to derive a quantity of interaction information according to the received at least one parameter, and using the derived quantity of interaction information to determine at least one aspect of interaction between the UE and the network. | 2008-11-13 |
20080280621 | Method and System For Signaling Available Channels in a Wireless Network - In order to better and more easily identify candidate APs and/or channels, an AP can transmit frames announcing its capabilities in a channel where it is not serving. For example, if an AP is operating in channel | 2008-11-13 |
20080280622 | Smart Antenna Apparatus and Method with Automatic Gain Control - A smart antenna apparatus including a receiving system, one or more beam analysis modules, a control channel monitoring module, a processing system, and a receiving beam switch is provided. The receiving system is operable to receive a plurality of uplink beams, each including traffic signals transmitted by a mobile station. The beam analysis modules are operable to analyze the uplink beams to determine one or more characteristics of each uplink beam. The control channel monitoring module is operable to monitor control channel signals being communicated from a base station transceiver. The control channel signals include synchronization signals. The processing system is operable to synchronize the smart antenna apparatus with the base station transceiver using the synchronization signals received by the control channel monitoring module. The processing system is further operable to determine a selected beam from the plurality of uplink beams based at least in part on the one or more characteristics determined by the beam analysis modules. The receiving beam switch is operable to switch to the selected beam to allow the selected beam to be communicated to the base station transceiver. | 2008-11-13 |
20080280623 | Method and Apparatus For Distributing Load on Application Servers - A method and apparatus for handling incoming service requests, where an application server comprises a set of traffic modules, each being capable of handling at least one predetermined multimedia service. When an initial service request is received from a requester, a load balancing function, capable of selecting basically any traffic module in the set of traffic modules, is applied to assign a traffic module in the set of traffic modules for handling the received service request. After processing the request, a response is sent to the requester including a port number associated with the assigned traffic module. When receiving a subsequent service request including a port number indication, a port mapping function is applied to determine the earlier-assigned traffic module associated with the given port number indication, for handling said subsequent service request. | 2008-11-13 |
20080280624 | Methods and Apparatuses for Beacon Assisted Position Determination Systems - Methods and apparatuses for microcell beacon assisted position determination. In one embodiment, microcell beacons that are based on low cost, mass market electronics for wireless local area data communication (e.g., Bluetooth or WiFi) are used to broadcast to mobile stations location information and/or identification information, which can be used to look up for the location information, to improve the precision of position solutions in a wide area position determination system (e.g., a GPS system, an AFLT system, or a hybrid system). In one embodiment, the location information and/or the identification information are site specific; and, the distribution and the transmission strength of the microcell beacons are adjusted to prevent misidentification. In one embodiment, the microcell beacons have the transmission capability but not the receiving capability for wireless local area data communication; and, the mobile station has the receiving capability but not the transmission capability for wireless local area data communication. | 2008-11-13 |
20080280625 | Position Determination of Mobile Stations in a Wireless Network - A network, and a method of operating a network. The network includes a plurality of stations each able to transmit and receive data so that the network can transmit data between stations via at least one selected intermediate station. Each station transmits probe signals in broadcast fashion to other stations to gather a list of neighbour stations. The stations transmit position data and/or position determining data in at least some of the probe signals. Each station maintains position data and/or position determining data received from selected probing stations, and utilizes the data to determine the absolute or relative position of itself and/or other stations. The stations can determine the relative or absolute position of other stations in direct communication with themselves, and also of other stations not in direct communication with themselves. | 2008-11-13 |
20080280626 | Method for Providing Location-Based Service Using Location Token - Provided is a method for providing a location-based service using a location token. The method includes the steps of: a) receiving an encrypted token message including constraints for location information access from a terminal; b) decoding and storing the transmitted token message in a token database; c) creating a location token accessible to the transmitted token message and transmitting the location token to the terminal; d) extracting a token message number in the location token transmitted from a location-based service server, checking constraints of a user and updating an exception list; and e) acquiring location information of the terminal and transmitting the location information to the location-based service server. | 2008-11-13 |
20080280627 | DEVICE AND SYSTEM FOR SELECTIVE WIRELESS COMMUNICATION WITH CONTACT LIST MEMORY - Methods, devices and systems for wireless communication. A device user defines a list of contacts and receives a collective indication of which contacts are located within a neighborhood of the device. The neighborhood is defined at the device, for example by the device itself or by the user. A plurality of device users define respective user profiles including user attributes. One of the users defines a target attribute, and receives an indication of which other users that have that attribute have devices in the first user's neighborhood. The devices communicate among themselves either indirectly, for example via cellular base stations, or directly. | 2008-11-13 |
20080280628 | Mobile handset information stream - A system and method which allows for a more direct form of presenting useful information to a mobile handset user is disclosed. More specifically a method to dedicate a transmission period of the MAC protocol when certain pre-formatted information is transmitted to all users on a network. | 2008-11-13 |
20080280629 | Positioning system of positioning wireless communication apparatus - The invention provides a positioning system of positioning a wireless communication apparatus. The positioning system transmits and receives positioning signals which have different frequency bands and generates corresponding positioning values according to the positioning signals. The positioning system then judges and selects positioning values which have less error from the generated positioning values, and calculates an average value of the selected positioning values. Therefore, positioning of the wireless communication apparatus will be more precise. Furthermore, if the positioning system is implemented in a radio-wave-based wireless communication environment, the N positioning signals can be polarized in a linear polarization way, a left-handed circular polarization way or a right-handed circular polarization way, so as to reduce the environmental impact to enhance precision of the positioning. | 2008-11-13 |
20080280630 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BROADCASTING PAGE MESSAGES IN POOR COVERAGE REGIONS - A system and method for paging wireless mobile devices selectively varies the effective modulation order of a paging channel to achieve improved coverage in a wireless wide area network (WWAN) cell. In one embodiment, the paging channel modulation order is selected based on a measured signal strength and/or common channel error rate. The selected modulation order is directly related to the quality of the channel environment. In another embodiment, a page message is segregated into base and extended components that are layer modulated. With layered modulation, wireless mobile devices in good coverage regions can successfully demodulate both the base and extended components to recover the entire page message. Wireless mobile devices in poor coverage regions can successfully demodulate the base component of the page message, and then request that the extended component of the page message be re-broadcast as a base component to thereby recover the entire page message. | 2008-11-13 |
20080280631 | Method for Processing Paging Information in a Wireless Mobile Communication System - In a wireless mobile communications system, a method for processing paging information allows the operations of a mobile terminal to be simplified and permits efficient use of resources for the mobile terminal. The network instructs in advance, the transmission of control information, such as a particular paging message, a notification message, system information and the like, via a single indicator channel. The mobile terminal receives this single indicator channel and uses the indicator information that was transmitted via the indicator channel in order to receive the control information. | 2008-11-13 |
20080280632 | Method, System and Devices for Processing Messages in Multimedia Messaging Service - A method for processing messages in MMS, which includes: after receiving a message from a user side, an MMSC notifying a home Value Added Service Applications Server corresponding to receivers of the message to process the message according to each identifier, which is carried in the message, of the receiver that belongs to the Value Added Service Applications Server and that is carried in the message. The present invention further discloses a system for processing messages in the MMS. By adopting the technique solution provided in the invention, it could successfully implement the message service of a terminal sending messages to multiple receivers which belong to the same Value Added Service Applications Server. Moreover, it could further reduce the message flux between the MMSC and the Value Added Service Applications server so as to reduce the occupancy of the communication resources, increase the efficiency and save the cost. | 2008-11-13 |
20080280633 | Sending and Receiving Text Messages Using a Variety of Fonts - A method for sending a text message over a telephone network from a sending device to a receiving device. A set of images (or font) is selected by a user of the sending device. The text message is displayed using the set of images on the sending device as a presented rich content message. The sending device uploads the text message and one or more codes indicative of the set of images to a server operatively connected to the telephone network. A message is transmitted from the server to the receiving device, the message including information of the text message and of the set of images. The message presented on the receiving device is the same rich content message previously presented on the sending device. The rich content message presented at the sending and receiving devices preferably includes sounds associated with the set of images. | 2008-11-13 |
20080280634 | Adaptive antenna control method and adaptive antenna transmission/reception characteristic control method - An adaptive antenna control method is used for a radio communication system built by a plurality of radio base stations and a plurality of terminal stations capable of communicating with the radio base stations. Each radio base station includes an adaptive antenna having a plurality of antenna elements, a distributor for generating signals to be input to the plurality of antenna elements by branching a signal of one system to be transmitted, and weighting circuits for respectively weighting transmission signals to the plurality of antenna elements. For reception by each terminal station, an interference wave power given by the transmission signal from each of the plurality of radio base stations is estimated. A weight in the adaptive antenna of each radio base station is determined to minimize a sum of square errors between reception signals and desired signals for all the radio base stations which simultaneously use the same communication channel. An adaptive antenna transmission/reception characteristic control method is also disclosed. | 2008-11-13 |
20080280635 | METHOD FOR GROUPING WIRELESS DEVICES AND APPARATUS THEREOF - A method for grouping wireless devices and an apparatus thereof are provided. First, the feature values of a plurality of access points (APs) detected by a wireless device are received, wherein these APs are designated as a first set, and the feature values of the APs constitute a feature vector. A first grouping process is performed to the wireless device according to the first set, which allocates the wireless device to an appointed clustering factory. A second grouping process is performed to the wireless device according to the feature vector, which divides all of the wireless devices within the appointed clustering factory into a member group or a noise group. Eventually, the grouping result is transmitted to the wireless device. | 2008-11-13 |
20080280636 | Method for altering communication mode and mobile communication terminal using the same - A method is disclosed that alters a communication mode in a mobile communication terminal. The method includes: if the mobile communication terminal receives a connection signal for an external device, determining whether the communication mode is set to a bidirectional mode; if the communication mode is not a bidirectional mode, determining whether the communication mode is set to a unidirectional mode; and if the communication mode is a unidirectional mode, paging with the external device. The mobile communication terminal can reduce its power consumption and thus extends its remaining run time. | 2008-11-13 |
20080280637 | Method and System for Handling Dynamic Incidents - A method for handling dynamic incidents includes initiating a first policy in response to a first incident. The first policy comprises a plurality of actions to be performed in response to the first incident. The method also includes creating at least one virtual talk group comprising a plurality of endpoints of different communication networks communicating using a respective communication protocol. The method further includes monitoring a plurality of events via a plurality of sources. At least one source comprises an endpoint from the plurality of endpoints of the virtual talk group. The method additionally includes detecting a deviation event and storing information indicative of the deviation event. | 2008-11-13 |
20080280638 | UPLINK POWER CONTROL FOR LTE - Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate employing aperiodic closed loop power control corrections in a Long Term Evolution (LTE) based wireless communication environment. An aperiodic power control command can be sent over a downlink to control and/or correct an uplink power level employed by an access terminal. Transmission of the aperiodic power control can be triggered by a measurement (e.g., received power being outside a set margin, . . . ). The aperiodic power control command can include a single-bit and/or a multi-bit correction. Further, the access terminal can alter the uplink power level employed for subsequent uplink transmissions based upon the aperiodic power control command when received. Additionally, regardless whether the aperiodic power control command is received at a given time over the downlink, the access terminal can employ periodic power control commands and an open loop power control mechanism to adjust the uplink power level. | 2008-11-13 |
20080280639 | Multiple Line Cellular Telephone With Individual Features - A cellular phone having two or more unique phone numbers with circuit means for simultaneously communicating with each of the lines. The cellular phone has at least two independent phone numbers with circuit means for differentiating between each of the lines incorporating a feature set for using each of the numbers so that a call can be received on one line while an indicator is actuated for a call on the other line and placing one of said calls on hold while answering a call on another line. The multi-line cellular phone has circuit means and memory for recording and playing prerecorded messages for each of the lines and for leaving messages on each of the lines an indicator means for as to which line is being used with the indicator taken from the list of audio indicator, visual indicator, vibratory indicator or any combination thereof. | 2008-11-13 |
20080280640 | INDUCTIVE JOYSTICK - A portable electronic device includes communication circuitry operative to establish a communication over a communication network, an input device for entering at least one user input into the electronic device, and at least one contactless sensor. The contactless sensor is operative to detect at least one of motion or position of the input device relative to the electronic device. | 2008-11-13 |
20080280641 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR GENERATING MULTIMEDIA CONTENT IN RESPONSE TO SIMULTANEOUS INPUTS FROM RELATED PORTABLE DEVICES - Methods of operating a mobile device having a transceiver configured to communicate with a wireless communication network include detecting a motion of the mobile device using a sensor associated with the mobile device, and generating a signal indicative of the motion of the mobile device. An ancillary sensor signal is received from a sensor of an ancillary device associated with the mobile device, and a multimedia object is generated and stored in response to the motion of the mobile device and the ancillary sensor signal. A mobile device includes a sensor that detects motion of the mobile device and generates a signal indicative of a motion of the mobile device, a transceiver configured to communicate with a wireless communication network, and a short-range wireless communication interface configured to receive an ancillary sensor signal from an ancillary device. The device further includes a controller that generates a multimedia object in response to the signal indicative of the motion of the mobile device and the ancillary sensor signal, and stores the multimedia object. | 2008-11-13 |
20080280642 | INTELLIGENT CONTROL OF USER INTERFACE ACCORDING TO MOVEMENT - A device and method of controlling a user interface of an electronic device. The method includes detecting the occurrence of an event for which a user response is desired, moving the electronic device, detecting such moving, and in response to said moving of a prescribed character, controlling the user interface of the electronic device. The controlling includes substituting an automated response for a user response. | 2008-11-13 |
20080280643 | MODULAR MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS DEVICE HAVING A PRINTER - A modular mobile telecommunications device has a printer and image capture means for printing and interacting with printed media. The device includes a mobile phone module for operatively executing a phone operating system, and a sensor module in signal communication with the phone module, the sensor module configured for sensing tags encoded on the printed media. The device also includes a print engine controller module in signal communication with the phone module, the print engine controller module configured for controlling the printer. Also included is a media transport to transport the print media through the printer. | 2008-11-13 |