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| 20120036363 | METHOD FOR KEY IDENTIFICATION USING AN INTERNET SECURITY ASSOCIATION AND KEY MANAGEMENT BASED PROTOCOL - An initiating device: generates a message having an ISAKMP-based header that includes a security parameter index (SPI) field; identifies a key in the SPI field of the ISKMP-based header; and sends the message to a responding device. The responding device: receives the message; extracts the key identifier; and when a shared key is selected using the key identifier, uses the selected shared key to establish, with the initiating device, a session having a secure tunnel. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120036196 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING A MESSAGE INTENDED FOR DIFFERENT RECIPIENTS - A method and apparatus for displaying a message destined for different recipients, wherein the apparatus programs a computer to perform the method, which includes: determining that a message is destined for a first recipient and a second recipient; determining a message size limit for the message based on capabilities of a first device used by the first recipient and a second device used by the second recipient; displaying a first portion of the message in a first format when a length of the message is less than the message size limit; displaying a next portion of the message in a second different format when the length of the message exceeds the message size limit. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120034938 | REAL TIME TEXT MESSAGING METHOD AND DEVICE - Embodiments include communication devices and texting methods performed by communication devices. When the communication device detects that a text session has been initiated with a potential real time text (RTT) destination specified as a destination for text messages transmitted by the communication device, the communication device automatically transitions into an RTT transmission mode. While in the RTT transmission mode, text messages may be communicated to the destination using an RTT protocol. A response system may be configured to communicate with the communication device, while the communication device is in the RTT transmission mode. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120034897 | REAL TIME TEXT MESSAGING METHOD AND DEVICE - Embodiments include communication devices and texting methods performed by communication devices. When the communication device detects that a text session has been initiated with a potential real time text (RTT) destination specified as a destination for text messages transmitted by the communication device, the communication device automatically transitions into an RTT transmission mode. While in the RTT transmission mode, text messages may be communicated to the destination using an RTT protocol. A response system may be configured to communicate with the communication device, while the communication device is in the RTT transmission mode. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120033817 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ESTIMATING A PARAMETER FOR LOW BIT RATE STEREO TRANSMISSION - A method for estimating a parameter for low bit rate stereo transmission that includes deriving estimate of any time delay between left and right audio channels in a multi-channel signal from a time delay subsystem. A cross-correlation between the left and right audio channels in the time delay subsystem is employed. Thereafter a normalized cross-correlation within an inter-channel intensity difference (IID) processor is employed before deriving estimate of panning gains for the left and right audio channels from the IID processor. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120032928 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR DETERMINING USER INPUT LOCATION USING ACOUSTIC SENSING ELEMENTS - Methods and devices are provided for determining location of an input on a surface of a device using an acoustic sensing element. An exemplary method begins by determining an anticipated acoustic response resulting from an output generated by a component of the device at the acoustic sensing element. The method continues by subtracting the anticipated acoustic response from a measured acoustic response at the acoustic sensing element to obtain a nominal acoustic response, and determining the location of the input based on the nominal acoustic response. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120030723 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR STREAMING VIDEO - A method and apparatus for transmitting video is provided herein. A video representation is segmented into video chunks, with each chunk spanning a different time interval. Each chunk may be divided into two or more sub-chunks. During operation, the client requests a sub-chunk of a particular video chunk and then possibly requests an additional sub-chunk of the video chunk. The client then combines and decodes the sub-chunks to provide a reconstructed video chunk for playback on a device. In an embodiment, I-frames of a video chunk are made available in a separate sub-chunk file than P-frames (or B-frames). | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120028686 | PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH CONFIGURABLE OPERATING MODE - A portable electronic device including a user interface, a sensor configured to provide an output signal when the device is oriented from resting on a first housing surface portion to resting on a second housing surface portion, and a controller coupled to the user interface and to the sensor, wherein the controller is configured to invoke a mode of operation in response to an output signal from the sensor and wherein the mode of operation is indicated at the user interface. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120028626 | POLICY DETERMINATION FOR USER EQUIPMENT PROVIDNG MUTUAL AID IN A VISITED ENTERPRISE OPERATING AREA OF A LONG TERM EVOLUTION SYSTEM - A Mutual Aid QoS Function (MAQF) performs a method for determining policy for user equipment (UE) providing mutual aid in a mutual aid enterprise operating area of a Long Term Evolution (LTE) system. The method includes: receiving an indication that a UE is assigned to provide mutual aid in a mutual aid enterprise operating area, wherein the UE has a home enterprise operating area that is different than the mutual aid enterprise operating area; detecting that the UE has entered the mutual aid enterprise operating area; selecting a set of mutual aid policy rules for the UE while the UE is providing mutual aid in the mutual aid enterprise operating area. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120028594 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMBALANCE-FREE FM DEMODULATION IN DIRECT CONVERSION RADIO RECEIVERS - An apparatus and method for demodulating an FM RF signal is presented. An Adaptive Differentiate Cross Multiply (ADCM) system in which the energy estimate of the desired on-channel RF is generated using adaptive filtering. The adaptive filter includes low pass filtering of the instantaneous energy estimate. The bandwidth of the LPF is adjusted in real time based on the received signal strength energy estimate, the periodicity of any changes in the energy estimate, AGC setting for the receiver, and/or the type of sub-audible signaling applied to the RF signal if known. After the bandwidth is set, the optimum filtered energy estimate is applied to the system to demodulate the received information free from distortion artifacts associated with IQ imbalance. A normalized signal in the ADCM system is clipped by a limiter whose clipping threshold is equal to a maximum gain of differentiators in the ADCM system. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120027219 | FORMANT AIDED NOISE CANCELLATION USING MULTIPLE MICROPHONES - A noise cancellation device includes a plurality of first computation modules, a formant detection module, a direction of arrival module and a beamformer. The plurality of first computation modules receives raw audio data and generates a respective transformed signal as a function of formants. A first transformed signal relates to speech data and a second transformed signal relates to noise data. The formant detection module receives the first transformed signal and generates a frequency range data signal. The direction of arrival module receives the first and second transformed signals, determines a cross-correlation between the first and second transformed signals, and generates a spatial orientation data signal. The beamformer receives the first and second transformed signals, the frequency range data signal, and the spatial orientation data signal and generates modification data at selected formant ranges to eliminate a maximum amount of the noise data. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120027111 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MAJOR GROUP SCHEDULING IN A FIXED BEAM COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An OFDMA communication system is provided that schedules partial usage of subchannels (PUSC) major groups by assigning a beam matrix of a plurality of beam matrices to each major group of multiple PUSC major groups, receiving an uplink signal from each user equipment of multiple users equipment, which uplink signal provides an indication of a channel response associated with the user equipment, determining, for each user equipment of the multiple users equipment and based on the indication of channel quality received from the user equipment, a beam matrix and major group to which to assign the user equipment, and based on the determination of a beam matrix and major group to which to assign each user equipment of the multiple users equipment, assigning two or more users equipment of the multiple users equipment to a same beam matrix and major group during a same time slot. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120026947 | LOCATION BASED POLICY FOR USER EQUIPMENT OPERATING IN DIFFERENT AREAS OF A SHARED HOME LONG TERM EVOLUTION SYSTEM - A method for location based policy for UE operating in different areas of a shared home LTE system includes: responsive to detecting a trigger, determining a first enterprise operating area (EOA) in which the UE is currently located, wherein the first EOA is one of a plurality of EOAs of the LTE system; determining whether the first EOA is a home EOA or a visited EOA; when the first EOA is the home EOA, selecting a first set of policy rules for the UE; when the first EOA is the visited EOA, selecting a second set of policy rules for the UE that provides a lower Quality of Service (QoS) than the first set of policy rules; if a trust relationship exists, selecting a third set of policy rules for the UE while in the visited EOA, which provides a higher QoS than the second set of policy rules. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120026135 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR DETERMINING USER INPUT LOCATION BASED ON DEVICE SUPPORT CONFIGURATION - Methods and devices are provided for determining location of an input on a surface of a device using a plurality of acoustic sensing elements. An exemplary method comprises determining a current support configuration of the device, selecting a device acoustic signature corresponding to the current support configuration, measuring acoustic response corresponding to the input at each acoustic sensing element of the plurality of acoustic sensing elements, and determining the location of the input based on the measured acoustic responses and the selected device acoustic signature for the current support configuration. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120026124 | TOUCH SCREEN RENDERING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OPERATION THEREOF - A touch-screen display apparatus, the apparatus may include first and second sheets having opposed major surfaces and a size and shape defined by a periphery. The periphery may be defined by opposed ends and opposed edges. The first and second sheets may each have a conductive pattern including a pair of opposed busbars and a plurality of traces electrically coupled to, and extending between, corresponding pairs of opposed busbars. The transparent force sensing (TFS) sheet may have opposed major surfaces and a variable resistance which is related to a force exerted upon one or more of its major surfaces. The TFS sheet may be situated between the first and second sheets. The apparatus may also include one or more separation portions situated between the TFS sheet and the first or second sheet to bias the TFS sheet apart from the first or second sheet. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120026061 | EMBEDDED PRINTED EDGE-BALUN ANTENNA SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OPERATION THEREOF - An antenna module having a side-edge balance-to-unbalance (BALUN). The antenna module may include a flexible substrate with one or more layers that may be configured to receive one first and second conductive patterns, the substrate may have opposed first and second ends which may define a longitudinal length and/or opposed side edges situated between the first and second ends. The first conductive pattern may form an antenna loop situated adjacent to the first end of the flexible substrate and be suitable for transmitting or receiving signals at one or more frequencies. The second conductive pattern may form at least part of the BALUN and may include one or more of a center portion, side portions which may extend from the center portion at opposite sides of the center portion, and electrically neutral slots situated between a corresponding side portion and the center portion. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120026046 | ANTENNA INTEGRATED WITH A PORTABLE COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A radio is presented in which a short-range antenna, along with a speaker, is contained within a non-conductive speaker bracket. The antenna is a PIFA that is bent and extends through the speaker bracket so that the distance between the free end of the PIFA and various metallic components of the radio including the chassis and speaker is maximized. The structure containing the PIFA is flexible and also contains a contact area where feed/ground contact for the PIFA is made as well as contact for audio components including a speaker and microphone. A flexible cable and extension portion of the flexible structure routes the signals to the audio components far enough away from the PIFA so that the amount of crosstalk is insignificant. The free end of the PIFA and launch pad where feed/ground contact for the PIFA is made are non-planar. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120021708 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ALARMING IN A POWER SUPPLY MODULATED SYSTEM - A communication device is presented that has different processors and a power amplifier. One of the processors receives a signal from a monitor and indicates that an alarm exists to a diagnostics module. The other processor uses the envelope signal of the input signal to be amplified and either the signal from the diagnostics module, the monitor or the power amplifier to adjust modulation of the power supply of the power amplifier dependent on the type of alarm. The power supply voltage or headroom is maximized or frozen at the value of the last detection cycle if a fault or impairment, respectively, of the power amplifier is detected. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120021695 | Method and Apparatus for Improving Efficiency in a Power Supply Modulated System - A radio is presented that has a processor, memory, modulator and a power amplifier. An envelope of a signal to be transmitted is used by the processor to control modulation of the voltage of the power amplifier by the modulator between a desired minimum voltage and a desired maximum voltage. Using the memory, the desired minimum voltage is determined from the desired maximum voltage and these voltages are less than nominal minimum and maximum voltage, respectively. The desired minimum voltage is tailored for the radio and takes into account environmental conditions to optimize operating conditions for the radio. If the range of voltages would exceed the dynamic range of the radio, the modulation provided by the modulator is controlled by the processor in steps until the desired minimum and maximum voltages are achieved. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120020335 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CELL DETECTION IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120020325 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR A HAND OFF OF A COMMUNICATION SESSION ACROSS SERVICE PROVIDER NETWORKS - A communication system ( | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120019689 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS FOR GENERATING BEAMFORMED AUDIO SIGNALS WITH STEERABLE NULLS - An electronic apparatus is provided having a front side and a rear side oriented in opposite directions along a first axis, and a right-side and a left-side oriented in opposite directions along a second axis that is perpendicular to the first axis. A null control signal is generated based on an imaging signal. A first microphone located near the right-side of an electronic apparatus generates a first signal and a second microphone located near the left-side of the electronic apparatus generates a second signal. The first and second signals are processed, based on the null control signal, to generate a right beamformed audio signal having a first directional pattern having at least one first null, and a left beamformed audio signal having a second directional pattern having at least one second null. A first angular location (α) of the at least one first null and a second angular location (β) of the at least one second null are steered based on the null control signal. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120013768 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS FOR GENERATING MODIFIED WIDEBAND AUDIO SIGNALS BASED ON TWO OR MORE WIDEBAND MICROPHONE SIGNALS - At least two microphones generate wideband electrical audio signals in response to incoming sound waves, and the wideband audio signals are filtered to generate low band signals and high band signals. From the low band signals, low band beamformed signals are generated, and the low band beamformed signals are combined with the high band signals to generate modified wideband audio signals. In one implementation, an electronic apparatus is provided that includes a microphone array, a crossover, a beamformer module, and a combiner module. The microphone array has at least two pressure microphones that generate wideband electrical audio signals in response to incoming sound waves. The crossover generates low band signals and high band signals from the wideband electrical audio signals. The beamformer module generates low band beamformed signals from the low band signals. The combiner module combines the high band signals and the low band beamformed signals to generate modified wideband audio signals. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120011436 | Devices and Methods of a User Interface for a Small Display Screen - Disclosed are devices and methods of user interfaces of devices. Such a device includes a display and has at least two keys configured for tactile awareness adjacent thereto. Such keys also can be configured to receive input signals of two types. Two types of input signals can be touch input signals and press input signals. Tactile awareness of a key provides that a user can know when the user has touched the key. Initial information displayed upon the screen can be scrolled when the device receives an input signal of a first key within a predetermined time of receiving an input signal of a second key. A disclosed method further can include, after scrolling the initial information, new information is displayed on the display so that one or more distinct portions of the new information is aligned with one or more of the keys. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120007991 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING AND DETERMINING INTEGRITY OF VIDEO - A method and apparatus for providing and determining integrity of video is provided herein. During operation, a trusted unit such as a computer housed within a securable trunk of a vehicle generates or receives data on stimuli applied to a camera and receives video purportedly taken by that camera, as means for the trusted unit or an independent entity to determine if time periods of the stimuli correspond to responses seen or heard within the video. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120004782 | METHODS FOR MANAGING POWER CONSUMPTION IN A SENSOR NETWORK - Methods for reducing sensor support power in a sensor network include a primary node locating a secondary node. The primary node has a primary node sensor profile, and the secondary node has a secondary node sensor profile. The secondary node sensor profile is compared to the primary node sensor profile. A virtual sensor profile is constructed based on the comparison between the primary and secondary sensor profiles. The virtual sensor profile reduces redundant sensor data gathering between the primary and secondary sensor nodes. A power consumption optimization hardware configuration for the secondary node is determined to provide sensor data for the virtual sensor profile, and the determined hardware configuration is assigned to the secondary node. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120003981 | Signaling Femto-Cell Deployment Attributes to Assist Interference Mitigation in Heterogeneous Networks - There are disclosed methods of a wireless communication device and a wireless base station. The device is served by a serving base station and receives from a neighbor base station a downlink transmission including a broadcast signal. The device decodes the broadcast signal, and determines a bandwidth attribute associated with the neighbor base station based on the broadcast signal. The device then sends to the serving base station a report including the bandwidth attribute associated with the neighbor base station. The wireless base station receives from a first wireless terminal a signal including a bandwidth attribute associated with a neighbor base station. The base station then schedules a second wireless terminal based on the bandwidth attribute of the neighbor base station, in which the first wireless terminal may be identical to the second wireless terminal. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120003969 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ESTABLISHING A GROUP CALL - A method, device, and system for establishing a group call among a plurality of communication devices. The method includes initiating a group call among at least some of the plurality of communication devices, wherein each communication device uses a unicast communication link to participate in the group call. The method further includes computing one or more broadcast or multicast parameters during the group call, identifying a subset of communication devices based on the broadcast or multicast parameters, and switching the identified subset of communications devices to a broadcast or multicast communication link during the group call. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120002581 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ESTABLISHING AND MAINTAINING A SPECTRALLY EFFICIENT MULTICAST GROUP CALL - A method, device, and system for establishing and maintaining a multicast group call. The method includes monitoring one or more link parameters for each of a plurality of communication devices associated with the multicast group call. The method further includes selecting, for each of the plurality of communication devices, a sector from a plurality of permitted sectors, the selected sector providing an associated highest signal strength for the communication device and forming a multicast communication zone based on the selected sectors. The method further proceeds with calculating a signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR) for each communication device based on the formed multicast communication zone, identifying a communication device with a lowest SINR, updating a spectral efficiency metric relative to the formed multicast communication zone based on the lowest SINR, and establishing the multicast group call when the updated spectral efficiency metric meets a minimum expected spectral efficiency metric. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20110320980 | Electronic Device for Providing a Visual Representation of a Widget Associated with a Contacts Database - There is disclosed a method of an electronic device for providing a visual representation of a contact widget, in which the electronic device includes a display and an input component associated with the display. A display provides a contact widget including positions for task representations. An input component then detects selection of a particular position of the contact widget. Next, the input component detects selection of a particular task of a contact list associated with the contact widget. Thereafter, the display provides a representation of the particular task at the particular position. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110320939 | Electronic Device for Providing a Visual Representation of a Resizable Widget Associated with a Contacts Database - There is disclosed an electronic device and method for providing a visual representation of a contact widget. The electronic device includes a display and an input component. A display provides a first representation of the contact widget including a first quantity of task representations. An input component then detects a resizing action of the contact widget. Thereafter, display provides a second representation of the contact widget, different from the first representation, including a second quantity of task representations in response to detecting the resizing action of the contact widget. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110320809 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR KEY REVOCATION IN AN ATTRIBUTE-BASED ENCRYPTION SCHEME - A method and apparatus for key revocation in an attribute-based encryption scheme is provided herein. Prior to operation, a key management service performs a randomized setup algorithm resulting in the generation of public parameters and the key management service's master secret, MK. During operation, the key management service is provided with verified user attribute information. The key management service creates keys for users based on their list of attributes. The keys can then be used to decode appropriate ciphertext. During the key creation, each attribute is associated with a particular text string. As attributes are revoked, the text string is updated. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110319136 | Method of a Wireless Communication Device for Managing Status Components for Global Call Control - There is described a method of a wireless communication device for managing status components for global call control. A selectable region is displayed at a display. A first user input is then detected at an input component associated with the display corresponding to selection of the selectable region. Next, an active call status component associated with a current call is displayed at the display in response to the first user input. A second user input is detected at the input component corresponding to selection of the current call status component. Thereafter, active call information associated with an active call is displayed at the display or an active call is terminated in response to detecting the second user input. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110319064 | METHOD AND DEVICE WITH DYNAMIC DORMANCY | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110319027 | METHOD FOR CHANNEL QUALITY FEEDBACK IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - A method for channel quality feedback in a wireless communication device that receives precoding information of at least one potentially co-scheduled wireless communication device that is potentially assigned a time frequency resource that is also assigned to the wireless communication device. The wireless communication device determines a channel quality metric based on the received precoding information and an assumption that the wireless communication device and the at least one potentially co-scheduled wireless communication device are assigned the same time frequency resource, and then feeds back the channel quality metric. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110317848 | Microphone Interference Detection Method and Apparatus - A method and apparatus for detecting microphone interference includes first and second built-in microphones producing first and second microphone signals. A first filter bank creates first high-frequency-band and first low-frequency-band signals from the first microphone signal. A second filter bank creates second high-frequency-band and second low-frequency-band signals from the second microphone signal. A first measurement calculator determines a high-frequency-band energy value from the first high-frequency-band signal and the second high-frequency-band signal when the first and second high-frequency-band signals' magnitudes exceeds predetermined thresholds. A second measurement calculator calculates a low-frequency-band energy value from the first low-frequency-band signal and the second low-frequency-band signal when the first and second low-frequency-band signals' magnitudes exceed predetermined thresholds. A logic control block, coupled to the first measurement calculator and the second measurement calculator, detects microphone interference and produces an output signal indicating microphone occlusion or wind noise. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110317542 | Method and Apparatus for Diversity Transmission Scheme in Single-Carrier FDMA Systems - The disclosure relates to transmission of user data over multiple transmission layers in a wireless communication system with single-carrier orthogonal frequency division multiple access. A wireless terminal performs transform precoding on a vector of digital modulation symbols and the resulting complex-valued symbols are mapped to frequency/time/space resources. The digital modulation symbols are reordered, modified by a setting of complex-valued functions, and transform precoded. The resulting second set of complex-valued symbols are transform precoded and mapped to frequency/time/space resources. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110317041 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS HAVING MICROPHONES WITH CONTROLLABLE FRONT-SIDE GAIN AND REAR-SIDE GAIN - An electronic apparatus is provided that has a rear-side and a front-side, a first microphone that generates a first signal, and a second microphone that generates a second signal. An automated balance controller generates a balancing signal based on an imaging signal. A processor processes the first and second signals to generate at least one beamformed audio signal, where an audio level difference between a front-side gain and a rear-side gain of the beamformed audio signal is controlled during processing based on the balancing signal. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110316844 | Devices and Methods of User Interfaces to Generate a High Current Drain Impact User Notification Relating to a Wallpaper Image - Disclosed are methods of user interfaces of electronic devices having a displays configured to annunciate wallpaper images wherein a wallpaper image includes image data. Image data can be characterized, for example, by the luminance levels of pixels of the image and/or the power needed to display the image. An image characteristic threshold is related to current drain impact, for example, in terms of luminance and/or power needed to display an image. A disclosed method can include receiving the image data of the wallpaper image and determining whether the image characteristic of the image data (such as luminance level at a given percentile) exceeds the image characteristic threshold. A disclosed method can further provide generating a user interface notification relating to the image characteristic exceeding the image characteristic threshold and relating to the current drain impact of displaying the image as wallpaper. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110312393 | ANTENNA SYSTEM WITH PARASITIC ELEMENT FOR HEARING AID COMPLIANT ELECTROMAGNETIC EMISSION - A system for production of an electromagnetic (EM) field having EM emissions mitigated at one or more predetermined locations within a Hearing Aid Compliant (HAC) measurement plane is provided. The EM field mitigation system includes a ground plane, an antenna element, and a parasitic resonator element. The antenna element is coupled to the ground plane and resonates within at least one predetermined frequency band for transmitting and receiving the radio frequency (RF) signals modulated at one or more frequencies within the at least one predetermined first frequency band. The parasitic resonator element includes at least a first leg and a second leg connected to the ground plane and located a predetermined distance from the antenna element for mitigation of the EM emissions of the antenna element at the one or more predetermined locations within the HAC measurement plane. The first leg of the parasitic resonator element is connected to the ground plane on a first side of an effective electric field mid-line laterally dividing the ground plane and the second leg of the parasitic antenna element is connected to the ground plane on a second side of the effective electric field mid-line of the ground plane. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110312294 | AUDIO HOLE SUPPRESSION METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR A TWO-WAY RADIO - A channel scanning technique and apparatus provides audio hole suppression in two-way radio communications. Upon detecting the absence of a carrier signal on a priority channel during a priority scan mode of operation, a training waveform is constructed upon returning to the home-channel. The training waveform is applied to audio shaping filters within an audio lineup to suppress transients and minimize or eliminate the occurrence of audio pops at a speaker output thereby reducing the audio hole. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110312289 | EMERGENCY BUTTON ASSEMBLY FOR A HANDHELD RADIO - A push-button assembly for a handheld radio ( | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110310750 | JITTER BUFFER MANAGEMENT FOR POWER SAVINGS IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A technique for jitter buffer management for improved power savings in a wireless communication device ( | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110308923 | ASSEMBLY FOR INCREASING TORQUE TACTILITY OF A ROTARY CONTROL FOR A HANDHELD RADIO - A rotary control assembly ( | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110307558 | SHARED SOCIAL PROGRAM GUIDE - Disclosed is a method whereby content-consumption information is gathered from members of a group. Based on the gathered information, a shared social program guide is created and presented to the member of the group. Group members interact with the shared social program guide to recommend and eventually to select content to consume. The selected content is then rendered to the content-consumption devices of the group members. The rendering is done in a coordinated fashion. To enhance social interaction, the shared social program guide can tell a viewer which other group members are currently available for consuming content. A communication channel can be set up among the group members to coordinate their choices or to allow them to discuss the content being viewed. In some embodiments, the shared social program guide accepts commands that alter the rendering of the chosen content. The altered rendering is coordinated among the viewers. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110305145 | METHOD FOR SCHEDULING TRANSMISSIONS IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - A communication system comprises a communication node for scheduling uplink and downlink transmissions in a communication system. The communication node determines based on a first set of parameters of a data associated with the communication node and a second set of parameters of a data associated with one other communication node, whether to load the data associated with the communication node from an end of a data queue buffer. The communication node upon determining to load the data associated with the communication node from the end of the data queue buffer, loads the data associated with the communication node from the end of the data queue buffer. The communication node further determines a start time for transmission of the data associated with the communication node and schedules transmission of the data associated with the communication node at the start time. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110302252 | METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING CLIENT STATION ASSOCIATION IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A communication system comprises an access point and one or more client stations associated with the access point. The access point maintains a simple network management protocol (SNMP) table including a respective media access control (MAC) address for each of one or more client stations associated with the access point. In accordance with some embodiments, the access point receives a SNMP request message including a MAC address of the client station for which the association is to be identified. The access point then identifies the association of the client station by searching the SNMP table for the MAC address of the client station for which the association is to be identified. Further, the access point sends a reply message identifying the association of the client station with the access point when the SNMP table includes the MAC address of the client station. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110294534 | METHODS, SYSTEM, AND APPARATUS FOR INTERCONNECTING DIFFERENT WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS - A data interface interconnection gateway (DIIGW) is provided that interconnects to different wireless communication networks. The DIIGW implements methods for determining the network location of a mobile station from among the different wireless communication networks. The DIIGW communicates data link messages over standardized air interfaces in accordance with standardized air interface protocols using a data service that implements an acknowledgement mechanism. Depending on the implementation, the data service can be one of: a short data service (SDS), a TErrestrial Trunked RAdio (TETRA) high speed data service (TEDS), a TETRA packet data service, a short message service (SMS), general packet radio service (GPRS), a text messaging service or a wireless data link service. The DIIGW also implements at least one virtual mobile station that corresponds to a real mobile station that has migrated to a visited wireless communication network. The virtual mobile station can allow its corresponding real mobile station to continue to communicate with devices at its home wireless communication network. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110294435 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR POLICY AND CHARGING CONTROL DECISIONS BASED ON RADIO SPECTRUM BLOCKS - A policy determination function (PDF) makes policy and charging control decisions based on radio spectrum blocks. More particularly, the PDF: receives radio spectrum block data via an interface; and determines, using the radio spectrum block data, a first radio spectrum block for use during a session for a subscriber, wherein the first radio spectrum block is one of a plurality of radio spectrum blocks, and wherein the subscriber has a unique set of policy and charging control (PCC) rules corresponding to each of the radio spectrum blocks in the plurality. The PDF further selects and provides to a policy enforcement function the set of PCC rules for the subscriber corresponding to the first radio spectrum block, for applying to communications with the subscriber during the session. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110291927 | Smart Method and Device for Adaptive User Interface Experiences - A wireless communication device ( | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110289037 | SUGGESTING A TIME FOR LIVE COMMUNICATIONS BASED ON PREVIOUS CONTENT-CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR - Disclosed is a method for making media consumption more social by suggesting a time when users in a group may engage in live communications while consuming media. First, media-consumption activities of the users in the group are monitored. (For example, the set-top boxes of a cable television system monitor when and what each user watches.) Then, from this and possibly from other information, times when each user will be available for live communications are predicted. Finally, the individual predictions are correlated and, if possible, a future time is suggested when at least some of the users in the group will be available for live communications. Some embodiments use other information, such as electronic calendars, to predict when users may be available. The suggested time may be shown on an electronic program guide for a user watching television and may be added to each user's electronic calendar. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110287719 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUDIO ROUTING IN A VEHICLE MOUNTED COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A system and method for routing audio for a vehicle mounted communication system includes activating ( | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110283218 | Electronic Event Planner in Communication Device - A communication device including a controller coupled to a user interface wherein the controller is configured to recommend an event and a proposed time at which the event occurs based on tentative time and participant information provided to, or obtained by, the communication device. The participant information identifies an individual with which a user of the communication device may participate in the event. The recommended event and proposed time is communicated to the participants. | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110282826 | Destination Planner in Communication Device - An electronic device, like a wireless communication device, includes a controller coupled to an interface, wherein the controller is configured to recommend a location or destination based on information about a user of the communication device and based on general destination information. In other embodiments, other recommendations may also be made, for example, a recommended time for traveling to the recommended destination or destination-related resources. | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110278759 | Anti-Delamination Feature For Double Injection Mold Parts - An effective economical anti-delamination feature | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110276330 | Methods and Devices for Appending an Address List and Determining a Communication Profile - Disclosed are methods and electronic communication devices, such as an in-car speaker device, that can receive via a downloading process, a communication address list from another device to the memory of the electronic communication device and can append a predetermined communication address to the communication address list. The predetermined communication address, which can be to an automated voice recognition based service, can be annunciated first. Also disclosed are methods and electronic communication devices for determining that a communication is with an automated voice recognition based service and then switching from a first call profile to a second call profile. Such a second profile can include different features such as a change of the frequency response of the audio signal of the electronic communication device, and/or reduction or elimination of the echo control, and/or a change in the noise control of the digital signal process. | 11-10-2011 |
| 20110276326 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OPERATIONAL IMPROVEMENTS IN DISPATCH CONSOLE SYSTEMS IN A MULTI-SOURCE ENVIRONMENT - A method and system for operational improvements in a dispatch console in a multi-source environment includes receiving ( | 11-10-2011 |
| 20110273376 | Stylus Devices Having Variable Electrical Characteristics for Capacitive Touchscreens - Disclosed are devices and methods of stylus devices that when in contact with a capacitive touchscreen and a grounding element, can vary the signal level detected on a capacitive touchscreen to create a more realistic writing experience. Disclosed are elements of a touchscreen stylus, which individually or in combination, can enable a touchscreen stylus to have at least one electrical characteristic that is variable. In this way the resistive link between the touchscreen and a grounding element can be varied to enable features such as a capability to vary the width of line being drawn, to vary a region of influence on the touchscreen and/or to vary a temperament of action. The elements of a disclosed stylus can include at least one mechanical feature to provide at least one electrical characteristic that is variable and/or at least one material in an arrangement to provide at least one electrical characteristic that is variable. | 11-10-2011 |
| 20110267967 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SCHEDULING A CONTROLCHANNEL IN AN ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A scheduler capable of operating in an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing communication system schedules a control channel for a user equipment by determining a channel quality metric associated with the user equipment, calculating a target control channel element quality metric, determining a control channel element utilization rate, wherein the control channel element utilization rate a past rate of utilization of control channel elements, and selecting a control channel element aggregation level for the control channel based on the channel quality metric, the target control channel element quality metric, and the control channel element utilization rate. The scheduler then allocates control channel elements to the control channel based on the selected control channel element aggregation level. The scheduler further may steal power from one or more unused control channel elements and assign the stolen power to control channel elements assigned to the control channel. | 11-03-2011 |
| 20110267939 | METHODS FOR FADE DETECTION AND FADE RECOVERY IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Methods are provided for fade protection at infrastructure equipment in a wireless communication network. The disclosed fade protection methods quantify signal quality, and based on the signal quality can detect fade conditions and/or recovery from such fade conditions. In one implementation, the disclosed fade protection methods can be implemented at Fixed Network Equipment (FNE) in an Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials (APCO) Project 25 (P25) compliant system. | 11-03-2011 |
| 20110267938 | FREQUENCY DEVIATION ERROR COMPENSATION IN AN MLSE RECEIVER - A method is described to compensate for deviation error in a H-CPM sync or data burst received by a MLSE receiver in a communication device. The deviation error is estimated and matched filter coefficients are adjusted using the estimated deviation error. Metrics are determined for the current state using the adjusted matched filter coefficients. The state having the minimum metric is determined to be the most likely current state. The most likely previous state is similarly determined The burst is reconstructed backward from the last state to the initial state. The metric is the squared magnitude of the difference between the channel estimate multiplied by the matched filter coefficient associated with one of the possible states and the current state. Timing and frequency errors are compensated for before estimation and correction of the deviation error. Pilot or sync symbols are used in estimating the deviation error. | 11-03-2011 |
| 20110267257 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING AN IMAGE ON A COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A method and apparatus for displaying an image on a communication device are provided. The communication device is formed of a housing ( | 11-03-2011 |
| 20110267253 | WIDEBAND AND MULTIBAND EXTERNAL ANTENNA FOR PORTABLE TRANSMITTERS - A communication device is presented that has an antenna structure with a relatively short length and covers multiple resonances including the UHF and the GPS bands. The antenna structure has a conductive base to which a whip antenna is connected through a helical radiating element. A cylindrical sheath capacitively connected to the helical element provides distributed impedance matching for the antenna structure. A monopole or another helical element provides higher resonance than that of the whip antenna or connected helical element. If the higher resonance is provided by a monopole, the monopole is disposed radially adjacent to the helical element and is capacitively connected with the helical element through an opening in the sheath. If the higher resonance is provided by a helical element, the helical element is capacitively or galvanically connected to the end of the whip antenna. | 11-03-2011 |
| 20110263288 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EXTENDING A BROADCAST GROUP SERVICE - A method and apparatus for extending a virtual channel of a communication area to a user equipment is disclosed. A message including a virtual channel identity and an area identity from the user equipment is received at a call controller. The call controller determines that the virtual channel identity is associated with a communication area and the area identity is associated with an area outside the communication area. The call controller then determines whether a virtual channel extension feature is enabled on the user equipment, and if so, receives data from the user equipment and then distributes the data on the virtual channel. | 10-27-2011 |
| 20110263275 | INTELLIGENT LOCATION-BASED SERVICES - A method for dynamically providing location-based services, including receiving at least one user input indicating a request for a suggested point of interest; and generating a query based on the user input and a time reference. In addition, the generated query can be processed to identify a plurality of points of interest. The points of interest can be presented to a user. | 10-27-2011 |
| 20110260922 | MAPPING LOCATIONS BASED ON RECEIVED SIGNAL STRENGTHS - Disclosed is a system for updating an RSSI-based map. A scanning devices notes which tags are seen during a scan and measures a “proxy distance” from the scanning device to each tag. When the scan is initiated, the scanning device measures the RSSIs from the local WAPs. The current location of the scanning device is determined by triangulating from the proxy distances of the scanned tags. That location is then correlated with the contemporaneously measured RSSIs. The correlation is used to update the RSSI-based map. In some embodiments, it is not the scanning device that measures the RSSIs. Instead, the WAPs measure the RSSIs from the scanning device whenever the scanning device transmits the results of a scan. In some embodiments, the operator of the mapped environment places scannable tags at fixed locations. Scans of these fixed-location tags are especially useful when determining the current location of the scanning device. | 10-27-2011 |
| 20110256871 | Mobility Influenced by Radio Uplink Failure - An intelligent subscriber and method of the subscriber roaming between base stations is presented. An unexpected uplink, such as a request to initiate communication, a SMS communication or request to change talkgroup, is transmitted to a base station. When a predetermined number of such uplinks remain unacknowledged by the base station, the subscriber determines that terminal failure of the base station has occurred. An ordered list of available base stations able to serve the subscriber is maintained in subscriber memory. The ordering is based on service level and within each service level by radio measurements. The list is manipulated such that the service level of the original base station is minimized A new base station is selected using the manipulated ordered list. The service level of the original base station is then restored. A communication is sent to an external host to record information about the terminal failure. | 10-20-2011 |
| 20110255527 | METHOD FOR SYNCHRONIZING DIRECT MODE TIME DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS (TDMA) TRANSMISSIONS - A method for synchronizing the direct mode TDMA transmission of a set of radios by following a selected radio as the leader includes: receiving, by a radio, a communication from an other radio; identifying, by the radio, a leader according to a leadership election rule using the received communication from the other radio and a current leader information; setting, by the radio, the identified leader as its leader; and synchronizing, by the radio, a time slot boundary with a time slot boundary defined by the leader. | 10-20-2011 |
| 20110255521 | METHOD FOR DIRECT MODE CHANNEL ACCESS - A method for direct mode channel access in a time division multiple access (TDMA) system includes: assigning a radio operating in the TDMA system to transmission on a first time slot of a direct mode channel; initiating a request for a direct mode transmission on the direct mode channel; determining, by the radio, whether there is communication activity present in the first time slot or a second time slot of the direct mode channel; aligning, by the radio, to a selected slot timing based on the determining step; and transmitting, by the radio, with the selected slot timing on the first time slot. | 10-20-2011 |
| 20110254736 | MANIFOLD CALIBRATION FOR A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for determining stream weights is provided herein. During operation, an uplink direction of arrival (DOA) and a downlink direction of departure (DOD) calibration procedure is implemented using uplink signals and GPS information from a subset of mobiles without the need of calibration circuitry at the base. Because the presented calibration procedure needs no new hardware it can be deployed in existing deployments with only a soft-ware upgrade. | 10-20-2011 |
| 20110254383 | SMART MODULE AND METHOD WITH MINIMAL STANDBY LOSS - A smart method ( | 10-20-2011 |
| 20110250923 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ESTABLISHING AN INTER-RADIO FREQUENCY SUBSYSTEM INTERFACE (ISSI) UNIT-TO-UNIT CALL - A method and device enable establishing an inter-radio frequency subsystem interface (ISSI) unit-to-unit call between a calling unit of a calling home radio frequency subsystem (RFSS), and a called unit of a called home RFSS, through a hosted ISSI function (HIF). The method includes processing, at the HIF, a first invite message received from the calling home RFSS, wherein the first invite message includes a first request uniform resource identifier (URI) that designates an alias system unit identification (SU-ID). In response to the first invite message, transmitting, from the HIF to the called home RFSS, a second invite message, including a second request URI that designates a real SU-ID, wherein the HIF acts as the calling home RFSS. The unit-to-unit call is thus established between the calling unit and the called unit through the calling home RFSS, the HIF, and the called home RFSS. | 10-13-2011 |
| 20110250922 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ESTABLISHING AN INTER-RADIO FREQUENCY SUBSYSTEM INTERFACE (ISSI) GROUP CALL - A hosted inter-radio frequency subsystem interface (HIF) maintains a list of affiliated radio frequency subsystems (RFSSs), the list identifies at least one serving RFSS. An affiliation request is transmitted from the HIF to the home RFSS, which is a home RFSS of the group. The HIF receives from the serving RFSS a request to initiate an inter-RFSS group call to the group using HIF addressing. The HIF transmits a request to the home RFSS to initiate the inter-RFSS group call using serving RFSS addressing. A data packet from the home RFSS or the serving RFSS is received at the HIF. Upon receipt, the HIF transmits a copy of the data packet to the serving RFSS if the data packet was received from the home RFSS; otherwise, the HIF transmits a copy of the data packet to the home RFSS if the data packet was received from the serving RFSS. | 10-13-2011 |
| 20110249550 | UPLINK TIME SYNCHRONIZATION IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An apparatus and method for uplink time synchronization in a communication system includes a first step | 10-13-2011 |
| 20110248928 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR GESTURAL OPERATION OF CONTEXT MENUS ON A TOUCH-SENSITIVE DISPLAY - There is described a portable electronic device and method for gestural operation of context menus. The portable electronic device comprises a touch-sensitive sensor, a display having the touch-sensitive sensor corresponding to at least a portion of the display, and a processor coupled to the touch-sensitive sensor. The display provides an activation image and a plurality of transient menu options arranged radially from the activation image in response to detecting a first activation at the touch-sensitive sensor. Each transient menu option corresponds to a distinct device action. The processor activates a device action corresponding to a particular transient menu option in response to detecting a second activation at the touch-sensitive sensor that corresponds to the particular transient menu option. | 10-13-2011 |
| 20110243532 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF VIDEO STABILIZATION DURING MOVEMENT - Methods for video stabilization during movement include capturing a video stream by an imaging system of a video stabilization system. The video stream includes a plurality of image frames. As the video stream is captured, a motion sensor of the video stabilization system detects a pattern of recurring motion. Motion sensor data is generated for the sequence of image frames that characterizes the pattern of recurring motion. At least one image frame of the sequence of image frames is edited based on a comparison of the motion sensor data for the sequence of image frames to motion sensor data for a region of interest for the imaging system. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110243262 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CHANNEL SOUNDING IN AN ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing communication system is provided that triggers a transmission of an uplink sounding signal by use of a Downlink Control Information (DCI) message. In various embodiments of the invention, the DCI message may be used to individually trigger an uplink sounding signal by a single user equipment or may be used to trigger an uplink sounding signal by a group of users equipment. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110239308 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF VETTING DATA - Systems and methods for vetting data include receiving a notification at a second processor that a first processor has written first output data to an output data buffer in an output device. A hardware-implemented buffer access flag controls a permission for the first processor to write data to the output data buffer. The second processor sets the hardware-implemented buffer access flag to a first setting that prevents the first processor from writing additional output data to the output data buffer while the first output data in the output data buffer is being inspected. The second processor has a read-write permission to the hardware-implemented buffer access flag. The first processor has a read-only permission to the hardware-implemented buffer access flag. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110239115 | SELECTING AN AVATAR ON A DISPLAY SCREEN OF A MOBILE DEVICE - Disclosed are techniques that allow the user of a mobile device to select an avatar within a virtual world presented on the display screen of the mobile device. In some embodiments, a user manipulates a thumbwheel. As the thumbwheel is turned, the avatars on the display screen are highlighted one after another. The user then presses a thumbwheel button to select a desired avatar. Some embodiments allow the user to select more than one avatar at a time. Several highlighting techniques are available. In some embodiments, the user uses speech commands instead of a thumbwheel to highlight the avatars one by one. Speech input is also used to select one or more avatars. Some devices support a touch-screen interface. Embodiments for these devices allow the user to select an avatar by, for example, drawing an arc enclosing the avatar. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110238995 | METHODS FOR AUTHENTICATION USING NEAR-FIELD - Authentication methods are used to authenticate, a device | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110238726 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISTRIBUTION OF APPLICATIONS TO A PLURALITY OF COMMUNICATION DEVICES FOR AN EXPANDED OPERATING MODE - Applications are provided to communication devices provide flexible operation between default modes of operation and an expanded mode of operation in which both communication devices share capabilities. A purchase order is created for a plurality of communication devices. A determination is made as to whether a collaboration feature is enabled at each device. The collaboration feature being enabled at each device results in additional revenue to the ordering process. If collaboration is enabled at both devices at | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110237288 | UPLINK POWER CONTROL FOR CHANNEL AGGREGATION IN A COMMUNICATION NETWORK - A system and method for uplink power control for aggregated channels in a communication network includes a step | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110237287 | ENHANCED PUBLIC SAFETY COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A communication system ( | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110237217 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENHANCED SAFETY IN A PUBLIC SAFETY COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A communication system ( | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110235534 | UPLINK ACK/NACK SIGNALING FOR AGGREGATED CARRIERS IN A COMMUNICATION NETWORK - A system and method for uplink ACK/NACK signaling for aggregated carriers in a communication network includes a step | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110231478 | System, Server, and Mobile Device for Content Provider Website Interaction and Method Therefore - An aggregate service server, configured to communicate with a user device and a plurality of different content providers. A processor configured to obtain content from the plurality of different content providers and further configured to push the obtained content to the user device. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110230219 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FORINTER-CELL ITNERFERENCE MITGATION THROUGH ENHANCED PREFERRED FREQUENCY REUSE MECHANISMS - In a wireless communication system, a method includes assigning an initial portion of a list of resource block group for each of a plurality of cells such that the resource block groups are spread across the plurality of cells in a non-contiguous order spaced out in frequency. In addition, the method assigns a secondary portion of the list of resource block groups for each of a plurality of cells wherein the secondary portion is assigned in a reverse order and alternating from the initial portion of the list of resource block groups of each of the other plurality of cells. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110227836 | TRANSPARENT FORCE SENSOR AND METHOD OF FABRICATION - A transparent force sensor for use in touch panel displays (touch screens) and method for fabricating the same are disclosed. The transparent force sensor is capable of detecting touch by measuring local pressure applied by a touch input to a display area of the touch screen. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110227642 | PARALLEL FORWARD PATH CARTESIAN FEEDBACK LOOP AND LOOP FILTER WITH SWITCHABLE ORDER FOR CARTESIAN FEEDBACK LOOPS - A communication device having an RF power amplifier stage with a Cartesian feedback loop is provided. The loop has forward paths whose outputs are combined to form an output signal that is fed back to a single feedback path. Each forward path has a common path with a filter that filters the overall loop response and a unique split path. The main and auxiliary split paths have a power amplifier and carry signals respectively of lower and higher frequencies. The auxiliary amplifier is faster than the main amplifier. Different phases of the carrier signal are used during upconversion such that the overall phase response through the split paths is equal. Instability recovery problems introduced by higher-order loop filters are mitigated by baseband loop filters with switchable order. Upon detecting instability, the loop filter order is reduced and is subsequently increased after eliminating the unstable operation. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110223885 | METHOD FOR FACILITATING A HANDOVER OF A COMMUNICATION DEVICE, COMMUNICATION DEVICE, APPLICATION SERVER FOR FACILITATING A HANDOVER OF A COMMUNICATION DEVICE, AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM ARRANGEMENT - A method for facilitating a handover of a communication device ( | 09-15-2011 |
| 20110222485 | Antenna Port Information Signaling in Wireless Communication System - A method in a wireless communication User Equipment (UE) includes receiving a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) message assigning a data transmission on a Physical Downlink Shared CHannel (PDSCH), wherein the PDCCH message includes scheduling information with a first New Data Indicator (NDI) bit field for a first transport block and a second New Data Indicator (NDI) bit field for a second transport block. The UE determines one or more antenna ports for the data transmission based on the NDI bit fields of the transport blocks, before receiving the assigned data transmission on the PDSCH. | 09-15-2011 |
| 20110218799 | DECODER FOR AUDIO SIGNAL INCLUDING GENERIC AUDIO AND SPEECH FRAMES - A method for decoding audio frames includes producing a first frame of coded audio samples, producing at least a portion of a second frame of coded audio samples, generating audio gap filler samples based on parameters representative of a weighted segment of the first frame of coded audio samples or a weighted segment of the portion of the second frame of coded audio samples, and forming a sequence including the audio gap filler samples and the portion of the second frame of coded audio samples. | 09-08-2011 |
| 20110218797 | ENCODER FOR AUDIO SIGNAL INCLUDING GENERIC AUDIO AND SPEECH FRAMES - A method for encoding audio frames by producing a first frame of coded audio samples by coding a first audio frame in a sequence of frames, producing at least a portion of a second frame of coded audio samples by coding at least a portion of a second audio frame in the sequence of frames, and producing parameters for generating audio gap filler samples, wherein the parameters are representative of either a weighted segment of the first frame of coded audio samples or a weighted segment of the portion of the second frame of coded audio samples. | 09-08-2011 |
| 20110216734 | SYNCHRONIZATION IN AN UPLINK SPATIAL DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS MODE OF A WiMAX WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An apparatus and method for synchronization in an uplink spatial division multiple access (UL SDMA) mode of a WiMAX wireless communication system includes a first step ( | 09-08-2011 |
| 20110216692 | SELECTION OF A PREFERRED ACCESS POINT FROM AMONG A PLURALITY OF ACCESS POINTS - Techniques are provided for selecting an access point (AP) to communicate with from a plurality of candidate access points (APs) when a wireless communication device (WCD) roams in a wireless local area network (WLAN). The WCD can determine whether a particular link quality metric (e.g., a signal strength indicator value) of a particular preferred access point (that has the highest link quality metric) is greater than an upper threshold. If so, the WCD can then create a preferred candidate list that comprises only preferred access points, and determine whether a current serving access point of the wireless communication device is a preferred access point. If the current serving access point is not a preferred access point, the WCD can initiate a roam to the particular preferred access point that has the strongest link quality metric. | 09-08-2011 |
| 20110212703 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR E911 LOCATION PRIVACY PROTECTION - The invention relates to a system that enables power to be selectively applied to GPS circuitry in a cellular telephone or other mobile device only when a specific user input is detected. In one embodiment, power to the GPS circuitry may be enabled only when the user strikes the keys “9-1-1.” In other embodiments, other types of GPS enablement or disablement may be employed, such as selectively decoupling the GPS antenna. In another embodiment, the user may depress a privacy bypass button, which alternately enables and disables power to the GPS circuitry. Cellular telephones or other communication devices may therefore activate GPS location service during an emergency call, or when a user wishes to allow their location to be determined, but protect the privacy of that user's location and movement at other times. | 09-01-2011 |
| 20110208969 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING AUTHENTICITY AND INTEGRITY TO STORED DATA - A method and apparatus for storing data is provided herein. During operation, a server will sign only the signatures of the data portions that were generated during the live local capture. The signature of the local signatures generated during the live local capture will then be used to verify the integrity and authenticity of the local signatures. When the integrity and authenticity of the local signatures is verified, an entity can be assured that server is trusted. When a portion of data is to be removed from the server, the data is removed, without removal of its live-local signature. Because data blocks can be deleted as long as the signature remains stored, the overall incident signature, generated at check-in to the trusted server, will still be verifiable as protecting the authenticity and integrity of all remaining data. | 08-25-2011 |
| 20110207469 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR EXTENDED GENERIC MESSAGING IN A NETWORKED GEOLOCATION SYSTEM - Generic messaging and protocols are provided for handset-to-handset communications in accordance with, for example, the Secure User Plane Location (SUPL) protocol. A mobile device initiates a geolocation-related session with a second mobile device by sending a message, including a payload, to a server (e.g., an H-SLP server) over a network. A data connection is the established between the second mobile device and the server in response to the message. A message, including the payload, is then sent to the second mobile device. The payload may include geolocation (e.g., GPS) information, such that two mobile devices may collaboratively share information regarding the other's geographical location. | 08-25-2011 |
| 20110205979 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ALLOCATING SPECTRUM - A method and apparatus for allocating spectrum within a wireless communication system is provided herein. During operation, a first base station will determine a location of a UE wishing to transmit. A database will be accessed containing wireless coverage area information for base stations with overlapping coverage with the first base station. Based on this information the first base station will determine if the UE is within an overlapping coverage area of multiple base stations. Spectrum will be assigned to the wireless equipment in a guard band, based at least in part on the determination that the UE is not within the overlapping coverage area. | 08-25-2011 |
| 20110205978 | Multi-Carrier Control Signaling in Wireless Communication System - A method in a wireless communication terminal including monitoring a terminal specific search space of a first Component Carrier (CC) from a base unit, wherein the search space corresponds to a set of Physical Downlink Control CHannel (PDCCH) candidates monitored by the terminal for PDCCH messages, and receiving an activation message on the first CC, wherein the activation message activates at least one additional CC. The size of the search space monitored by the terminal after receiving the activation message is greater than the size of the search space monitored before receiving the activation message. | 08-25-2011 |
| 20110205914 | Threshold Determination in TDOA-Based Positioning System - A method in a wireless communication terminal including receiving a signal comprising at least a Positioning Reference Signal (PRS) transmission from a serving cell and a PRS transmission from a neighbor cell, estimating a signal quality metric (SQM) based on the PRS transmission from the neighbor cell, estimating a time difference of arrival (TDOA) measurement for the neighbor cell based on the PRS transmissions, determining if the estimated SQM satisfies a criterion, and sending a report to the serving cell that includes at least the estimated TDOA if the criterion is satisfied. | 08-25-2011 |
| 20110205695 | Hinge Mechanism in Electronic Handset - A portable electronic device includes first and second housing portions pivotal about corresponding pivot axes. A biasing member urges a first cam surface of the first housing portion into engagement with a second cam surface of the second housing portion. The biasing member also urges indexing members of the first and second housing portions into engagement to maintain synchronization of the housing portions during rotation, wherein the first and second housing portions are configured in a fixed angular orientation when the first cam surface is engaged with the second cam surface. | 08-25-2011 |
| 20110200200 | TELECOMMUNICATIONS TERMINAL AND METHOD OF OPERATION OF THE TERMINAL - A telecommunications terminal ( | 08-18-2011 |
| 20110199991 | INCREASING SCHEDULING REQUEST EFFCIENCY IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An apparatus and method for increasing Scheduling Request efficiency in a wireless communication system includes a step | 08-18-2011 |
| 20110199961 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING A CONTENTION BASED UPLINK CHANNEL - A method, a mobile system, and a user communication device are disclosed. A receiving unit | 08-18-2011 |
| 20110199718 | Electronic Device Housing with Pivoting and Sliding Portions - An electronic handset device includes a panel pivotally coupled to a base housing portion wherein the panel is pivotal between closed and opened configurations relative to the base housing portion. A movable housing portion is slidably coupled to the panel and is pivotal in unison with the panel. A user interface on the panel is concealed by the movable housing portion when the movable housing portion slides to a closed configuration relative to the panel, and the user interface is exposed when the movable housing portion slides to an opened configuration relative to the panel. | 08-18-2011 |
| 20110191153 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PRESENTING ADVERTISEMENTS - The present invention provides a method for presenting advertisements to a user at an electronic device ( | 08-04-2011 |
| 20110185202 | Mobile Computing Device and Method for Maintaining Application Continuity - A method of maintaining application continuity ( | 07-28-2011 |
| 20110184899 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING RECOMMENDATIONS OF CONTENT ITEMS - A recommendation system comprises a recommendation server ( | 07-28-2011 |
| 20110182220 | USSD Transport Method and Device - An USSD transporting method ( | 07-28-2011 |
| 20110181485 | H-J ANTENNA - A dual-band antenna includes a first antenna element having a generally “J” shaped element, and a second antenna element having a generally “h” shaped element. The first antenna element and the second antenna element share a common feed point and each antenna element is oriented substantially perpendicular to the other. The first antenna element and the second antenna element, in one implementation, are adapted to efficiently operate the dual-band antenna at approximately 1575 MHz and approximately 850 MHz, respectively. | 07-28-2011 |
| 20110179378 | Method Generating a Message for One or More Social Networking Websites - A mobile device includes a message entry area on a display for the user to view input text, the size based on the smallest message size permitted by the one or more destination content providers. The content from the user interface input populates the message input area. A warning is generated when the limit is reached. The message with entered content is communicated to the intermediary server with the identity of the one or more content providers for uploading by the intermediary server to the one or more content providers in the format desired by the content provider website. | 07-21-2011 |
| 20110179084 | SELECTION OF ASSOCIATED CONTENT FOR CONTENT ITEMS - A content device may select associated content, such as adverts, for a user selected content item based on textual characterizing data for the associated content and the user selected content item. A term set characterizing the user selected content item is expanded using semantic graphs and similarity values between the expanded term set and term sets describing associated content is calculated. A specific associated content item is then selected based on the similarity values. The semantic graph based term set expansion may allow improved accuracy in selecting appropriate associated content while providing a process that is suitable for resource constrained scenarios. In particular, communication resource, memory resource, and computational resource usage may be kept low. | 07-21-2011 |
| 20110179001 | ANNOTATING MEDIA CONTENT WITH RELATED INFORMATION | 07-21-2011 |
| 20110176581 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PILOT SIGNAL PROCESSING IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A wireless communication system is provided that spreads pilot signals, or channel state information reference signals (CSI-RSs), using a spreading code chosen from a set of mutually unbiased bases (MUBs). The advantages of such spreading with MUBs are that multiple base stations can send their pilot signals on a same time-frequency resources, making the pilot signal design very efficient and also improving channel estimation at a user equipment through orthogonal and quasi-orthogonal spreading which gives a gain above noise and interference. A short spreading code chosen from MUBs may be used for spreading pilot signals transmitted from each antenna of a base station within a time-frequency resource comprising multiple closely-spaced subcarriers in frequency and/or multiple closely-spaced symbols in time. | 07-21-2011 |
| 20110176511 | REDUCING RESOURCE ALLOCATIONS FOR INTER-TECHNOLOGY HANDOVER BETWEEN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS - Disclosed is a method for reducing resource allocations for inter-technology handover between heterogeneous wireless communication networks. The method includes a first step of completing network entry and new session registration procedures for a mobile station with a handover target technology network. A next step includes defining an activity mode of the new session. A next step includes waiting for the expiration of a resource timer at the target network. A next step includes assigning the resources for the new session upon the expiration of the timer. | 07-21-2011 |
| 20110176439 | CLOSED-LOOP FEEDBACK IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for providing channel feedback is provided herein. During operation a covariance matrix at time t (R) is calculated as a function of a received downlink signal. In order to reduce overhead, R is normalized and quantized. The base unit then uses the covariance matrix estimate to determine appropriate channel beamforming weights, and instructs transmit beamforming circuitry to use the appropriate weights. In an embodiment, circuitry performs a method of calculating a first precoding matrix index I from a codebook using a received signal, calculating a second codebook index J* using the first precoding matrix index I to approximate a covariance matrix and calculating a quantized coefficient α* to approximate the covariance matrix wherein the quantized coefficient α* is determined using the first precoding matrix index I. | 07-21-2011 |
| 20110169986 | PERSPECTIVE IMPROVEMENT FOR IMAGE AND VIDEO APPLICATIONS - A system and method for reducing distance-based distortion in a camera image of an object, where the distanced-based distortion is due to differences in distance from the camera to different parts of the object. In one approach, the distortion is reduced by estimating distances to different parts of the object and then generating a reprojected image of the object dependent upon the estimated distances and upon a virtual viewpoint that is more distant than the camera from the object. In a further approach, the image is warped such that points in the image match corresponding points in one or more stored templates. In a still further approach, if excessive distortion is present in the image, the camera zoom is increased and a magnified image is displayed, prompting a person to move farther from the camera thereby reducing the distortion. | 07-14-2011 |
| 20110169652 | EQUIPMENT AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION TERMINAL - A sensor pad ( | 07-14-2011 |
| 20110167066 | CONTENT ITEM REVIEW MANAGEMENT - A content item review management apparatus ( | 07-07-2011 |
| 20110164691 | CLOSED-LOOP TRANSMISSION FEEDBACK IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - A method and apparatus for providing channel feedback is provided herein. During operation a covariance matrix at time t (R) is calculated by the mobile as a function of a received downlink signal. In order to reduce overhead, R is normalized and quantized by the mobile using multiple codebook entries plus at least one constant for quantization. The mobile then transmits the normalized and quantized covariance matrix back to the base station as bit values indicating the selected entries from the codebook plus bit values corresponding to the at least one constant. The base unit then uses the covariance matrix estimate to determine appropriate channel beamforming weights, and instructs transmit beamforming circuitry to use the appropriate weights. | 07-07-2011 |
| 20110162060 | WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE DEVICES HAVING IMPROVED FIREWALL FEATURES - Methods and systems are provided for improving a firewall implemented at a WLAN infrastructure device (WID). The WID includes a stateful firewall that implements firewall rules based on an ESSID of the WID to specify whether traffic is allowed to or from the ESSID. For example, in one implementation of such a firewall rule, packets that are required to be sent out on all wired ports can be blocked from being flooded out on WLANs (e.g., the packet is allowed to pass only to the wired ports). A method and system are provided for preventing a malicious wireless client device (WCD) that is transmitting undesirable traffic from using RF resources by deauthenticating the malicious WCD to remove it from the WLAN and blacklisting it to prevent it from rejoining the WLAN for a time period. Method and systems are also provided for either “on-demand” and/or predicatively communicating state information regarding an existing firewall session. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110161998 | Systems and Methods Providing Content on a Display Based Upon Facial Recognition of a Viewer - Disclosed is a display system and a method of a display system including a display device configured to provide visual output in a direction, and a camera associated with the display, the camera image collector being pointed in the direction of the visual output, the camera configured to collect facial data. A processor is provided to correlate facial data with content data so that the display will display specific content while the camera collects the facial data. A user's mobile communication device can detect the display system and transmit facial data to the display system. When a user is positioned so that the camera of the system can collect facial data of the user's face, the system can push specific content based upon facial recognition of the user correlated with the user's preferences or other criteria. A determination as to content to display is based upon facial recognition. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110161889 | User Interface for Electronic Devices - An electronic device having a user interface and a display unit on which an object is selected from a source screen in response to a first input at the user interface. The selected object is then tunneled to a target screen, via a virtual tunnel, in response to a second input at the user interface. The source screen and the target screen may be a part of the display unit in the electronic device. The tunneled object is then edited or modified to create an object desired by the user. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110161659 | METHOD TO ENABLE SECURE SELF-PROVISIONING OF SUBSCRIBER UNITS IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method to enable remote, secure, self-provisioning of a subscriber unit includes, a security provisioning server: receiving, from a subscriber unit, a certificate signing request having subscriber unit configuration trigger data; generating provisioning data for the subscriber unit using the subscriber unit configuration trigger data; and in response to the certificate signing request, providing to the subscriber unit the provisioning data and a subscriber unit certificate having authorization attributes associated with the provisioning data, to enable the self-provisioning of the subscriber unit. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110161512 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF MAXIMIZING UTILITY IN MEDIA DELIVERY NETWORK - A method is provided for maximizing utility of a media delivery network having a media source, a first media adaptor, a second media adaptor and a media renderer. The media source can provide data in a first format and a second format. The first media adaptor can receive the data in the first format from the media source. The second media adaptor can receive the data in the second format from the media source. The first media adaptor can further provide data in a third format based on the received data in the first format. The second media adaptor can further provide data in a fourth format based on the received data in the second format. The media renderer can render the data in the third format and can render the data in the fourth format. The method includes: defining constraints of the media delivery network; predetermining factors to measure a utility of the media delivery network; defining a utility function based on the predetermined factors; and maximizing the utility function in light of the defined constraints. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110161474 | BROKERING INFORMATION ACROSS INFORMATION DOMAINS WHILE MAINTAINING CONFIDENTIALITY - Disclosed are methods for extracting and using information about an entity that has a presence in a number of information domains. The entity has separate identifiers in each of several domains. Various techniques are described that bind together the identifiers of the entity across the domains. The results of the binding are provided to an interested party that can review information extracted about the entity's behavior in the multiple domains. The interested party is not given access to information that would compromise the confidentiality of the entity. A trusted broker has access to information about the behavior of the entity in the several domains. The broker analyzes that information and provides the analysis to the interested party, again without compromising the confidentiality of the entity. An “incentivizer” works with the broker to extract from the domains information that would be useful in binding together the different identifiers of the entity. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110161473 | ANALYTICS-BASED BINDING OF IDENTIFIERS ACROSS INFORMATION DOMAINS WHILE MAINTAINING CONFIDENTIALITY - Disclosed are methods for extracting and using information about an entity that has a presence in a number of information domains. The entity has separate identifiers in each of several domains. Various techniques are described that bind together the identifiers of the entity across the domains. The results of the binding are provided to an interested party that can review information extracted about the entity's behavior in the multiple domains. The interested party is not given access to information that would compromise the confidentiality of the entity. A trusted broker has access to information about the behavior of the entity in the several domains. The broker analyzes that information and provides the analysis to the interested party, again without compromising the confidentiality of the entity. An “incentivizer” works with the broker to extract from the domains information that would be useful in binding together the different identifiers of the entity. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110161472 | CLIENT-BASED BINDING OF IDENTIFIERS ACROSS INFORMATION DOMAINS WHILE MAINTAINING CONFIDENTIALITY - Disclosed are methods for extracting and using information about an entity that has a presence in a number of information domains. The entity has separate identifiers in each of several domains. Various techniques are described that bind together the identifiers of the entity across the domains. The results of the binding are provided to an interested party that can review information extracted about the entity's behavior in the multiple domains. The interested party is not given access to information that would compromise the confidentiality of the entity. A trusted broker has access to information about the behavior of the entity in the several domains. The broker analyzes that information and provides the analysis to the interested party, again without compromising the confidentiality of the entity. An “incentivizer” works with the broker to extract from the domains information that would be useful in binding together the different identifiers of the entity. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110161471 | INCENTING DIVULGENCE OF INFORMATION FOR BINDING IDENTIFIERS ACROSS INFORMATION DOMAINS WHILE MAINTAINING CONFIDENTIALITY - Disclosed are methods for extracting and using information about an entity that has a presence in a number of information domains. The entity has separate identifiers in each of several domains. Various techniques are described that bind together the identifiers of the entity across the domains. The results of the binding are provided to an interested party that can review information extracted about the entity's behavior in the multiple domains. The interested party is not given access to information that would compromise the confidentiality of the entity. A trusted broker has access to information about the behavior of the entity in the several domains. The broker analyzes that information and provides the analysis to the interested party, again without compromising the confidentiality of the entity. An “incentivizer” works with the broker to extract from the domains information that would be useful in binding together the different identifiers of the entity. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110161399 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING A COMMUNICATION TARGET AND FACILITATING COMMUNICATIONS BASED ON AN OBJECT DESCRIPTOR - A server performs a method for determining a communication target and facilitating communications with the target based on an object descriptor. The method includes the server receiving, from a requestor in a communication system, an object descriptor for an object, a description of a relationship between the object and a target in the communication system, and a request for a communication action with the target. The server then determines the target using the object descriptor and the relationship between the object and the target and facilitates the communication action with the target. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110161397 | METHOD FOR PRESENCE NOTIFICATION BASED ON A SEQUENCE OF EVENTS - A client entity generates a subscription to a presentity that includes a sequence of events which define a trigger that controls when a presence server sends a notification to the client entity; and the subscription further indicates a time period parameter for the sequence of events. Upon receiving the subscription, the presence server receives and monitors presence information based on the indicated time period parameter to detect an occurrence of the sequence of events, and sends the notification to the client entity when the presence information satisfies the trigger. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110161147 | STIMULUS/RESPONSE-BASED BINDING OF IDENTIFIERS ACROSS INFORMATION DOMAINS WHILE MAINTAINING CONFIDENTIALITY - Disclosed are methods for extracting and using information about an entity that has a presence in a number of information domains. The entity has separate identifiers in each of several domains. Various techniques are described that bind together the identifiers of the entity across the domains. The results of the binding are provided to an interested party that can review information extracted about the entity's behavior in the multiple domains. The interested party is not given access to information that would compromise the confidentiality of the entity. A trusted broker has access to information about the behavior of the entity in the several domains. The broker analyzes that information and provides the analysis to the interested party, again without compromising the confidentiality of the entity. An “incentivizer” works with the broker to extract from the domains information that would be useful in binding together the different identifiers of the entity. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110161087 | Embedded Speech and Audio Coding Using a Switchable Model Core - A method for processing an audio signal including classifying an input frame as either a speech frame or a generic audio frame, producing an encoded bitstream and a corresponding processed frame based on the input frame, producing an enhancement layer encoded bitstream based on a difference between the input frame and the processed frame, and multiplexing the enhancement layer encoded bitstream, a codeword, and either a speech encoded bitstream or a generic audio encoded bitstream into a combined bitstream based on whether the codeword indicates that the input frame is classified as a speech frame or as a generic audio frame, wherein the encoded bitstream is either a speech encoded bitstream or a generic audio encoded bitstream. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110159911 | UPLINK POWER ALIGNMENT ESTIMATION IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for uplink power alignment estimation in a communication system includes a step | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110159894 | METHOD FOR MANAGING POWER CONSUMPTION OF A PAGER ON A TRUNKED NETWORK - Systems and methods for managing power consumption on a trunked network include listening to a control channel on a trunked system with a trunked pager, and receiving a voice channel assignment. The trunked pager listens for voice traffic on the assigned voice channel while in a standby mode. Voice traffic is detected and the trunked pager determines whether the voice traffic is for a communication group that includes the trunked pager. If so, the trunked pager unmutes and listens to the voice traffic. Upon termination of the voice traffic, the trunked pager returns to the control channel to listen for a different voice channel assignment. Otherwise, the trunked pager directly returns to the control channel to listen for a different voice channel assignment. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110159847 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING CONTROL OF PUSH-TO-TALK COMMUNICATION - A method for providing control of push-to-talk communication of a plurality of wireless communication devices within a wireless communication system includes operating each of the plurality of wireless communication devices to: receive a load level indication broadcast from a base station, compare the received load level indication with an access privilege associated with each of one or more applications to determine whether initiation of each of the one or more applications is allowed, and disable at least one of the one or more applications when the compare step indicates initiation of the application is not allowed. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110159834 | BROADBAND INPUT FREQUENCY ADAPTIVE TECHNIQUE FOR FILTER TUNING AND QUADRATURE GENERATION - A method for tuning a filter is provided. The amplitude of a first signal (I | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110158441 | WIRELESS SPEAKER UNITS WITH IMPROVED BATTERY LIFE - A method is provided for managing signal distribution in a wireless speaker unit. The method includes monitoring a power level of the first wireless device; receiving, at the first wireless device, a first signal from the base unit if a power level of the first wireless device has not reached a threshold level; transmitting wirelessly a second signal, derived from the first signal, from said first wireless device to the second wireless device if a power level of the first wireless device has not reached the threshold level; receiving, at the second wireless device, the first signal from the base unit if the power level of the first wireless device reaches the threshold level; and transmitting wirelessly a third signal, derived from the first signal, from the second wireless device to the first wireless device if the power level of the first wireless device reaches the threshold level. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110158309 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING REPRODUCTION ACCURACY OF DECOMPRESSED VIDEO - A video decoder receives compressed video and processes the video to generate decompressed video comprising a plurality of pixels in a sequence of frames. For at least some of the pixels, the video decoder further determines, on a pixel by pixel basis, motion vector and quantizer values used to perform compression of the pixels and determines a quality value for each corresponding pixel using the motion vector and quantizer values, wherein the quality value provide a measure of reproduction accuracy of the decompressed video with respect to corresponding uncompressed video. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110158209 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR UPDATING PRESENCE STATE OF A STATION IN A WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORK (WLAN) - A method and apparatus for presence state determination at an access point of a station determines whether a station associated with the access point is responsive to the access point to indicate the station is “present” or “not present”. The access point informs a presence server when the station's presence state changes. The presence server does not therefore need to rely on presence handshaking between the presence server and the station. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110158186 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SCHEDULING AN ACKNOWLEDGEMENT IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A communication system is provided that facilitates an expedited exchange of a Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) acknowledgment by scheduling the TCP acknowledgment at a higher priority than Best Effort and/or by arranging for a scheduling of the TCP acknowledgment based on a predicted transmission of a request to schedule the TCP acknowledgment. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110158184 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RESOURCE ALLOCATION IN A SHARED WIRELESS NETWORK - Resource allocation is performed in a shared wireless network that includes multiple cells, a shared wireless network QoS manager, and multiple local QoS managers. The shared wireless QoS manager receives from multiple ones of the local QoS managers on a per cell and per QoS service class basis (for a plurality of QoS service classes): an aggregation of current cell usage estimations; an aggregation of cell load level indicators, and an aggregation of additional resources needed. Using this received information, the shared wireless network QoS manager: determines a total capacity of each cell that is needed to satisfy a total resource need on a cell by cell basis for the local QoS managers; and based on a maximum capacity for each cell, allocates to each local QoS manager a percentage of their total resource need. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110158114 | METHOD AND APPARTUS FOR PERFORMING TIMING SYNCHRONIZATION IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for performing time synchronization is provided. The method/apparatus includes, at a radio subsystem: receiving, from a digital subsystem, a first signal via the link, where the link not dedicated to timing synchronization; determining a time difference between the first signal and a second signal; converting the time difference to a time error, sending, via the link, the time error or time difference to the digital subsystem. The method further includes, at the digital subsystem, inputting the time error, received from the radio subsystem, to a phased locked loop (PLL) in order to adjust an oscillator frequency so as to reduce the amount of the time error and thus synchronizing the radio access network with the second signal received at the radio subsystem, without the need for an additional connection between the digital and radio subsystems. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110157728 | Electronic Device Including a Stepped Lens - Disclosed is an electronic device including a lens having a stepped edge and a viewing area and more particularly, an electronic device having a display in which the viewing area of the lens is stacked with the active area wiring of a display panel and the stepped edge of the lens is stacked with the connectors on the periphery of the display panel. A housing portion is stacked with the stepped edge of the lens and the connectors on the periphery of the display panel. In this way, a maker of electronic devices can make use of the space occupied by the connectors of the display panel so that the active area of the display panel may occupy more of the total area of the surface of the device. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110157067 | DUTY CYCLE MODULATION OF PERIODIC TIME-SYNCHRONOUS RECEIVERS FOR NOISE REDUCTION - Methods, systems and apparatus are provided that implement duty cycle modulation of periodic time-synchronous (PTS) receivers for noise reduction. For instance, when a composite signal is received at a PTS receiver, the composite signal includes an input signal and a noise signal. The composite signal is input to a transmission gate of the PTS receiver. The PTS receiver also receives a gating control input signal that turns the transmission gate on and off. A duty cycle controller adjusts a variable duty cycle of the gating control input signal applied to the transmission gate to output an output signal from the transmission gate such that one or more components of the noise signal present in the composite signal is/are reduced in the output signal that is output by the transmission gate. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110156905 | TWO-PART SECURITY TAG - Disclosed is a security tag that contains two parts. The contact (or lack thereof) of the two parts defines the operational state of the security tag. In one state, the security tag responds when a central control station runs a wireless security scan. In the other state, the tag does not respond. Thus the wireless security scan reveals the tag's operational state. If, for example, one part of the tag is affixed to a window, and the other part affixed to a frame of the window, then the two parts can be arranged so that they are in contact when the window is closed but not in contact when the window is open. A wireless scan of the tag thus reveals whether or not the window is open. In one embodiment, one part of the security tag includes an RFID circuit, and the other part includes an antenna. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110156861 | Electronic Device Including a Wireless Actuator and a Method Thereof - Disclosed are electronic devices and methods of electronic devices having a housing including a wireless actuator without an electrical interface, the wireless actuator located on the housing, the wireless actuator being configured to provide tactile feedback and configured to generate an acoustic signal with a unique acoustic signature upon actuation. Included is at least one accelerometer being configured to receive a mechanical or acoustic stimulus and/or an acoustic signal which can include an impulse response being a brief non-periodic and/or non-repeating signal such as a tap or a repeating signal such as a tone, to generate an identifying signal. Also included is a processor configured to receive an identifying signal to generate a control signal based on the received acoustic signal correlated to the acoustic signature. The control signal can provide initiation of any function or application of the device. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110156814 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR A POWER SUPPLY MODULATOR LINEARIZER - A method and apparatus for a power amplifier module is described. The module includes a power amplifier and a power supply modulator coupled to the power amplifier. In addition, the module includes an inverter coupled between the power amplifier and the power supply modulator. The inverter provides a predistorted signal to the power amplifier to cancel distortion in the power amplifier provided by the power supply modulator. In addition, the module can include a driver coupled between the power amplifier and the inverter wherein the driver supplies the predistorted signal to the power amplifier. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110156781 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PHASE COMPENSATION - A frequency generation unit is provided that permits a receiver to tune from channel to channel without cycle skipping and in which compensation for phase offset introduced during tuning is provided. The frequency generation unit includes a fractional-N synthesizer, a voltage controlled oscillator (VCO), and a direct digital synthesizer (DDS). The fractional-N synthesizer generates frequencies from the VCO as well as a temperature controlled crystal oscillator. Outputs from the fractional-N synthesizer are supplied both the VCO and the DDS to control the VCO and DDS. The combination of the voltage controlled oscillator and fractional-N synthesizer is perpetually locked. The fractional-N synthesizer is maintained in a locked condition. The VCO output is provided to the DDS. An output from the DDS or from the fractional-N synthesizer forms the output signal of the frequency generation unit. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110154977 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BEST MATCHING AN AUDIBLE QUERY TO A SET OF AUDIBLE TARGETS - During operation, a “coarse search” stage applies variable-scale windowing on the query pitch contours to compare them with fixed-length segments of target pitch contours to find matching candidates while efficiently scanning over variable tempo differences and target locations. Because the target segments are of fixed-length, this has the effect of drastically reducing the storage space required in a prior-art method. Furthermore, by breaking the query contours into parts, rhythmic inconsistencies can be more flexibly handled. Normalization is also applied to the contours to allow comparisons independent of differences in musical key. In a “fine search” stage, a “segmental” dynamic time warping (DTW) method is applied that calculates a more accurate similarity score between the query and each candidate target with more explicit consideration toward rhythmic inconsistencies. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110154446 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING IDENTITY PRIVACY IN A COMMUNICATION SESSION - A system and methods for controlling identity privacy in a communication session include processing, at a communication server, a request from a first participant of the communication session to add a second participant to the communication session. Based on the request, the communication server establishes a set of privacy rules related to the second participant that control sharing of identity information between the second participant and a third participant of the communication session. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110154260 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING INFORMATION IN AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A method and apparatus includes an electronic device that displays | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110154024 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SELECTING A CERTIFICATE AUTHORITY - A certificate authority selection unit implements a method for selecting one of a plurality of certificate authorities servicing a plurality of administrative domains in a communication system. The method includes: receiving, from an end-entity via an interface, a certificate service request associated with an identifier; selecting, based on the identifier, one of the plurality of administrative domains in the communication system, wherein the plurality of administrative domains are serviced by a plurality of certificate authorities; retrieving a security profile for the end-entity; and selecting, based on the security profile for the end-entity, one of the plurality of certificate authorities to process the certificate service request. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110151944 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR CONSERVING ENERGY USED BY A MOBILE DEVICE - Methods and apparatus are provided for saving energy in a mobile device configured to maintain a persistent communication session with an application server over a wireless network. A method comprises detecting a traffic pattern between a mobile device and an application server for maintaining a persistent communication session and automatically initiating a transition of the mobile device from a first operating state to a second operating state in response to detecting the traffic pattern. The power consumption associated with the second operating state is less than power consumption associated with the first operating state. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110151942 | DYNAMIC CURRENT LIMITING CHARGING CIRCUIT - An apparatus is provided for an electronic device. The apparatus includes a dynamic electrical load, a secondary power coil receiver module that inductively receives a current from a primary coil of an power conversion system, a means for monitoring a current in the secondary receiver module being delivered to the dynamic load, a means for transmitting a power control signal to the power conversion system through the secondary charging coil, a current monitoring circuit that measures a current delivered to the dynamic load and a current limiter circuit that limits the current to the dynamic load based upon the measured charging current. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110151917 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BRIDGING CALLS BETWEEN TWO DISPARATE PUSH-TO-TALK SYSTEMS - A PTT bridging gateway between a first PTT system and a second disparate PTT system: receives an invitation to a first client to join a first group call for a first group comprising multiple member clients on the first PTT system, wherein the first client is one of the member clients of the first group; determines that the first client is mapped to a second group comprising multiple member clients on the second PTT system; and initiates a second group call to the multiple member clients on the second PTT system. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110151904 | AUTOMATED COMMUNICATION USING IMAGE CAPTURE - A server includes a communications adapter; a controller and a datastore. The controller receives a first user input via a user interface to associate at least one image attribute with a contact. Thereby, responsive to receiving an image from an electronic apparatus, the controller automatically processes the image to identify at least one feature of the image that corresponds to the image attribute, and associates the image with the contact based on the image attribute; and communicates the image to the contact via the communications adapter. The datastore is suitable for storing digital information, and is communicatively coupled to the controller. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110151891 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND A MOBILE STATION, PROXY LOCATION SERVER AND METHOD OF OPERATION FOR USE IN THE SYSTEM - A communication system ( | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110151851 | Methods and Communication Devices Configurable for Silence Mode and Exceptions to the Silence Mode - The disclosed are methods and communication devices include a user interface configured receive input to place the device in silence mode and to make exceptions to the silence mode and an indicator to provide an announcement that there is data stored related to incoming communications so that even when the device in silence mode, the user may not miss important notifications. The exceptions to the silence mode include at least one of receipt of an identified communication signal, an identified application indication or an identified event notification. The disclosed methods and communication device may further include a sensor to that the processor will provide an indication whether there is data stored related to detect a user action with respect to the device so incoming communications since a silence mode commenced. The disclosed methods and devices may provide a user choice in how to control incoming communications of the mobile device. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110151826 | METHOD FOR BEARER ESTABLISHMENT IN A RADIO ACCESS NETWORK - Generally speaking, pursuant to the various embodiments, pre-allocation of resources in a RAN of a communication system is performed. A system element having an application function determines, for a set of user equipment (UE), pre-allocation information used to select a set of cells in the RAN to which the set of UE will connect for exchanging data. The element sends a request to establish a bearer to an evolved packet core (EPC), wherein the request includes the pre-allocation information. The determining and sending actions are performed prior to one or more of the UE in the set of UE connecting to the set of cells. The EPC processes the request and returns a response to the system element, which identifies that a bearer for unicast and/or group communications has been established. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110151825 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SELECTIVELY DISTRIBUTING MEDIA INPUTS ASSOCIATED WITH AN INCIDENT - An information distribution device performs a method for selectively distributing media associated with an incident to a plurality of responders assigned to the incident. The method includes receiving, at the information distribution device, an incident information bundle comprising media inputs associated with the incident. For each responder in the plurality of responders assigned to the incident, the information distribution device: determines a set of roles for the responder; selects a set of filtering templates designed based on the set of roles; applies the set of filtering templates to the information bundle to generate a responder information bundle that includes a subset of the media inputs that is customized to the set of roles for the responder; and delivers the responder information bundle to the responder. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110151813 | MULTI CARRIER LEAKAGE TUNING BY ERROR POWER DETECTION - A communication device and method of removing an LO leakage signal from a signal path on the fly is disclosed. The signal path may be that of a transmitter or receiver. An initial RF output signal, containing a desired RF output signal and an LO leakage signal, is supplied from a feedforward path to a combiner/splitter on a feedback path. A 180° out-of-phase copy of the desired RF output signal is also supplied to the combiner/splitter. The resulting LO leakage signal is down-converted and the power of the down-converted signal determined and used to suppress the LO leakage signal. The resulting LO leakage signal is also supplied to the feedforward path of the feedback loop. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110150219 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF INCREASING ENCRYPTION SYNCHRONIZATION AVAILABILITY - Methods for increasing encryption synchronization availability include collecting encryption synchronization data from a first superframe received at a gateway. The encryption synchronization data is for decrypting media in a second superframe also received at the gateway. The encryption synchronization data from the first superframe is used to form a composite encryption synchronization codeword for decrypting media in a third superframe formed by the gateway, wherein the third superframe includes the composite encryption synchronization codeword and at least a portion of the media from the second superframe. The third superframe is sent to a receiving device so that media in the third superframe can be decrypted by the receiving device using the composite encryption synchronization codeword that is included in the same superframe as the media that is being decrypted. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110149875 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENSURING ACCESS IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM FOR A PLURALITY OF GROUPS - A method and apparatus for bandwidth brokering in a communication system ( | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110149812 | METHOD OF COMMUNICATION BETWEEN DEVICES OPERATING WITHIN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A subscriber station (SS) utilizes uplink resources that have been assigned to it for communicating with an infrastructure station to exchange data with a neighboring SS while maintaining its link to the infrastructure station. This is accomplished by the SS receiving an uplink allocation from the infrastructure station, transmitting a subscriber-to-infrastructure station header and trailer to the infrastructure station using the modulation and coding scheme (MCS) assigned by the infrastructure station and also transmitting a subscriber-to-subscriber (S2S) message payload, optionally using a second MCS level appropriate for the link between itself and the receiving SS. The subscriber to infrastructure station message is composed so that it occupies the first m codewords and contains a header that describes the length of the subscriber to infrastructure station message. The subscriber to infrastructure station message, then, is followed by the S2S message, composed to occupy the remaining symbols of the allocation. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110149810 | DECOUPLED CASCADED MIXERS ARCHITECHTURE AND RELATED METHODS - Methods for inter-mixer communication enable a “self-formed” cascaded mixer node tree topology. One method enables inter-mixer node signaling and includes first selecting a plurality of media flow payloads at a first cascaded mixer node. A set of conference payloads are generated and each include the media flow payloads from the plurality of media flow payloads that are part of the same conference call, an identifier for the conference call, and a node identifier for each media flow in the conference call. For each media flow in the conference call, each conference payload further identifies whether the first cascaded mixer node is a root node or a leaf node. The set of conference payloads are bundled into a single packet and sent to a second cascaded mixer node. Another method enables the “self-forming” of the mixer node tree topology. Yet another method enables active talker identification within the “self-formed” tree topology. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110149059 | Method and Device for Visual Compensation | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110148731 | ANTENNA SYSTEM WITH NON-RESONATING STRUCTURE - An antenna system for reception and transmission of radio frequency (RF) signals and a method for tuning the antenna system are provided. The antenna system includes a ground plane, a first element and a second element. The first element includes a driven unbalanced antenna element that resonates within at least one predetermined first frequency band to transmit and receive radio frequency (RF) signals modulated at one or more frequencies within the at least one predetermined first frequency band. The second element is non-resonating within the at least one predetermined first frequency band and is located within an antenna volume of the first element to create a partial loop response within the antenna volume of the first element by capacitively coupling to the first element when connected to the ground plane. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110147455 | ORIENTING A SCANNING DEVICE WITH RESPECT TO A TARGET LOCATION - Disclosed is a method for a scanning device to tell its user how to best orient the scanning device to scan a target location. The user approaches the target location and initiates a scan. The results of the scan are analyzed and compared to information about the target location. Based on the analysis, the user is told how to re-orient the scanning device, if that is necessary to achieve an acceptable re-scan of the target location. In a preferred embodiment, a screen on the scanning device presents a two-dimensional map based on the scan results and on the known relative locations of the target location and of nearby non-target locations. Locations on the map are highlighted to tell the user the results of the scan and to direct him to re-orient the scanning device if necessary. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110145214 | VOICE WEB SEARCH - A search system will receive a voice query and use speech recognition with a predefined vocabulary to generate a textual transcription of the voice query. Queries are sent to a text search engine, retrieving multiple web page results for each of these initial text queries. The collection of the keywords is extracted from the resulting web pages and is phonetically indexed to form a voice query dependent and phonetically searchable index database. Finally, a phonetically-based voice search engine is used to search the original voice query against the voice query dependent and phonetically searchable index database to find the keywords and/or key phrases that best match what was originally spoken. The keywords and/or key phrases that best match what was originally spoken are then used as a final text query for a search engine. Search results from the final text query are then presented to the user. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110144996 | ANALYZING AND PROCESSING A VERBAL EXPRESSION CONTAINING MULTIPLE GOALS - Disclosed is a method for parsing a verbal expression received from a user to determine whether or not the expression contains a multiple-goal command. Specifically, known techniques are applied to extract terms from the verbal expression. The extracted terms are assigned to categories. If two or more terms are found in the parsed verbal expression that are in associated categories and that do not overlap one another temporally, then the confidence levels of these terms are compared. If the confidence levels are similar, then the terms may be parallel entries in the verbal expression and may represent multiple goals. If a multiple-goal command is found, then the command is either presented to the user for review and possible editing or is executed. If the parsed multiple-goal command is presented to the user for review, then the presentation can be made via any appropriate interface including voice and text interfaces. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110143803 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR GROUP CALL INITIATION - Upon a user's command, a communication device accesses a call list having a plurality identifiers and receives a user's selection of a talkgroup identifier from the call list. The communication device switches to a first channel associated with the selected talkgroup identifier to allow a call on the first channel. When the call ends, the communication device sets a first timer and monitors the first channel for voice activity, and if voice activity is detected, continues the call on the first channel. When the first timer expires and no voice activity is detected, the communication device sets a second timer and scans a home channel for voice activity; and if no voice activity is detected, the communication device continues to monitor the first channel until the second timer expires or voice activity is detected on the home channel, then it automatically switches to the home channel. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110143797 | METHOD FOR FACILITATING TRANSMISSION OF DATA IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method for facilitating transmission of data in a communication system is provided herein. In operation, a base radio of a plurality of base radios combines status information corresponding to a plurality of inbound frequencies and transmits the combined status information on a single outbound radio frequency. Further, each of the plurality of inbound radio frequencies corresponds to one of the plurality of base radios. Then, one or more radio terminals monitor the single outbound radio frequency to receive the combined status information, determine at least one available inbound radio frequency from the plurality of inbound radio frequencies based on the received combined status information, selects an inbound radio frequency of the at least one available inbound frequency, and transmitting the data using the selected inbound radio frequency to the corresponding base radio. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110143701 | METHOD TO SUPPRESS UNDESIRED SIDEBANDS IN A RECEIVER - A receiver and method of correcting for amplitude and phase errors in a received complex signal are provided. After separating and processing the complex signal into its I and Q component signals, the magnitude of each of the I and Q signals is obtained. The magnitudes are averaged over a predetermined time period and the average used to correct the amplitude of the I and Q signals. Each amplitude-corrected signal is then rotated by 45° and the average magnitude of the rotated signal determined. The amplitude of the rotated signal is then corrected to provide resultant I and Q signals, which are orthogonal to each other. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110143651 | METHOD FOR SELECTING MEDIA FOR DELIVERY TO USERS AT AN INCIDENT - A media selection and insertion control device implements a method for selecting media for delivery to a plurality of users at an incident. The media selection and insertion control device: receives a plurality of media inputs from multiple media sources; receives capabilities of devices of users at an incident; receives resource capabilities of a set of networks to which the users are communicatively coupled; receives a set of incident-based rules and applies these rules to the plurality of media inputs to select media inputs to deliver to the users; and determines a mode of delivering the selected media inputs to the users based at least on the capabilities of the users' devices and on the resource capabilities of the set of networks to which the users are communicatively coupled. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110142027 | METHOD OF SIGNAL TO TIME-SPECTRUM CHANNEL RESOURCE MAPPING FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A communication device and method of allocating spectrum resources in a communication system to protect data to be transmitted are disclosed. The communication channel resource is divided temporally to form regions. Data to be transmitted is separated into data portions. Each data portion is able to be transmitted over one of the regions. The data portions are prioritized based on the importance of the data portion. The regions are ranked based on the transmission reliability thereon. The prioritized data portions are mapped to the ranked regions such that more important data portions are mapped to more reliable regions and less important data portions are mapped to less reliable regions. The prioritized data is output temporally in order of importance to enable the mapping of the prioritized data. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110141992 | DATA TRANSMISSION IN A FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - When a UE ( | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110141953 | Method for Managing Data Communication Between a Communication Device and Another Device and Communication Device - A method for managing data communication between a communication device ( | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110141362 | SELECTIVE DECODING OF AN INPUT STREAM - A method of selectively decoding an input stream is provided. In the method, an encoded input stream for display as a plurality of frames in a display window is received. In addition, a location of an overlay on the plurality of frames is determined and the encoded input stream is selective decoded to selectively generate the plurality of frames based upon the location of the overlay on the plurality of frames. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110140977 | COMPACT DUAL-MODE UHF RFID READER ANTENNA SYSTEMS AND METHODS - The present disclosure relates to compact, dual-mode ultra high frequency (UHF) radio frequency identification (RFID) reader antenna systems and methods capable of supporting both long range and short range applications. The present invention includes a dual-mode antenna design, a dual-mode RFID reader utilizing the dual-mode antenna design, and an associated usage method. The dual-mode antenna design may include a patch operating mode for long range applications and a slot operating mode for short range applications. Additionally, the dual-mode antenna design may include mechanisms to improve the patch operating mode bandwidth, circular polarization in the patch operating mode, and dual polarization in the slot operation mode. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110136438 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MAINTAINING TRANSMIT AUDIO IN A HALF DUPLEX SYSTEM - A method for maintaining transmit audio quality under harsh environmental conditions, the method includes receiving audio signals into a microphone of a portable communication device and determining at least one parameter associated with the received audio signals. In accordance with an embodiment, the at least one parameter is compared with a received audio parameter threshold. When the at least one parameter falls outside of the received audio parameter threshold, the audio routing is switched from the microphone to the loudspeaker. Subsequent communication may revert back to the microphone or remain at the loudspeaker depending on monitored audio conditions. | 06-09-2011 |
| 20110134919 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SELECTABLE RELIABLE MULTICAST DELIVERY OF DATA USING A PRESENCE SERVICE - A mechanism for selectable reliable multicast delivery of data, such as presence information or other media, to communication devices is implemented in a communication system. A multicast group includes a plurality of communication devices, wherein a subset of the plurality of communication devices sends a subscription for reliable multicast delivery of data to a presence server using a presence service. For those devices in the subset having a confirmed mode of multicast delivery enabled, the data is sent using the confirmed mode of multicast delivery, wherein an acknowledgement is required upon receipt of the data. For all remaining devices in the multicast group, the data is sent using an unconfirmed mode of multicast delivery, wherein no such acknowledgement is required. | 06-09-2011 |
| 20110134904 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING A DATA SYMBOL STREAM - A transmitter comprises a block generator ( | 06-09-2011 |
| 20110133996 | ANTENNA FEEDING MECHANISM - An access point is provided with an electronics enclosure which is surrounded by antenna panels. An antenna feeding mechanism operates using spatial multiplexing multiple input multiple output. Three radio frequency chains are used in a pattern that feeds a total of eight antenna elements. Multiple streams are supported by using two polarizations. Additionally a maximal ratio combiner is used to combine signals from different antennas. The hardware within the access point supports three radio frequency chains which are mapped to four antenna panels, each panel containing two elements; one for vertical and one for horizontal polarization. | 06-09-2011 |
| 20110131514 | POLICY BASED ELECTRONIC CALENDAR MANAGEMENT - A method and a system for managing an electronic calendar. The method can include, in a calendar management system linked to a decision management system, associating a first calendar event with at least a first decision. In the calendar management system, prioritization information pertaining to the first decision can be collected. The prioritization information can indicate a decision type for the first decision and a value at risk in the first decision. A first calendar entry corresponding to the first calendar event, as well as the prioritization information pertaining to the first decision, can be presented to a user via a display of an electronic system. | 06-02-2011 |
| 20110128940 | TIMESLOT CONVERSION IN A CELLULAR COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A cellular communication system employs an air interface time frame structure comprising time frames divided into a plurality of timeslots. In the system, a timeslot configuration processor ( | 06-02-2011 |
| 20110128894 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CALL SETUP IN AN ASYNCHRONOUS FREQUENCY HOPPING DIGITAL TWO-WAY COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method for call setup in an asynchronous frequency hopping digital two-way communication system includes transmitting in adjacent time slots, by a caller device, a preamble slot over a first unique fixed frequency selected from a frequency hopset and a synchronization slot over a second unique fixed frequency selected from the frequency hopset. Further, the method includes one or more target devices transmitting an acknowledgement signal upon receiving the preamble slot over the first unique fixed frequency and the synchronization slot over the second unique fixed frequency, and followed by the caller device establishing the data communication link between the caller device and the one or more target devices over at least one random frequency selected from the frequency hopset, in response to receiving the acknowledgement signal from the one or more target devices. | 06-02-2011 |
| 20110128350 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CHOOSING A DESIRED FIELD OF VIEW FROM A WIDE-ANGLE IMAGE OR VIDEO - A wide-angle camera will collect wide-angle images. A portion of the wide-angle image (desired field of view) will be selected based on accelerometer readings. More particularly, to keep the desired field of view of a camera in an appropriate position, a correction is made to the tilt and roll of the desired field of view by using motion sensors to determine the horizon based on measuring the direction of gravity. A correction is also made to the yaw of the desired field of view using motion sensors to determine a forward facing position when the user is in motion. Because the desired field of view is corrected for variations resulting from user activity, any image collected from the camera is more likely to be pointed at a desired position. | 06-02-2011 |
| 20110127959 | CHARGER DEVICE - A charger provides a user selectable interface which allows a battery operated portable communication device to be charged in either face-up or face-down positions. Both single-unit charger and multi-unit charger embodiments are provided. A dual contact scheme allows for the user to select either the face-up or face-down configuration. The face-down configuration accommodates battery powered portable communication devices having accessories as well as radio back housings of varying thickness. Additional storage bins are configured within the charging systems to further improve organization of multiple accessories. Magnetic coupling is also provided to facilitate organization of two or more single-unit chargers. | 06-02-2011 |
| 20110124383 | RADIO STATUS INDICATOR - A portable communication device includes a status indictor in the form of a single multicolor generating LED. The single LED indicates radio channel and battery status. The LED is responsive to a menu button press to indicate a current channel by color. Channel change is indicated by changing to another color. The LED is also responsive to a power button on the portable communication device to generate predetermined colors associated with battery status. The use of a single LED eliminates the need for knobs or a display as part of the status indicator of the portable communication device. | 05-26-2011 |
| 20110124291 | METHOD FOR QUIETING AND SENSING IN A SECONDARY COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - A method of retaining channel use by a secondary system is described. A secondary channel used during periods of normal communication between a secondary transmitter and receiver is split into sub-bands for use during a quiet period containing quiet phases. During the quiet period, while the transmitter communicates with the receiver on one sub-band, the receiver simultaneously senses for incumbent devices on another sub-band, as well as vice-versa. Transmission and sensing do not occur simultaneously on the same sub-band and transmission is limited to only one of the sub-bands. Transmission and sensing are performed by both the transmitter and the receiver on every sub-band over the course of the quiet period. The locations of secondary receivers are determined and employed during scheduling such that devices sufficiently separated from each other transmit during different quiet phases and transmit and sense in sub-bands separated by another sub-band. | 05-26-2011 |
| 20110123050 | ADJUSTABLE ACCESSORY FOR A PORTABLE COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A user wearable accessory provides push-to-tall (PTT), microphone and adjustable electrical cord length features in a single device. First and second adjustable electrical cords couple a portable communication device to an earpiece. The accessory is formed of front and back housing portions coupled together to provide a spooling feature therebetween. The spooling feature accommodates the two electrical cords such that a user is able to wrap each cord to provide an overall desired length. Users of different heights can adjust the cord length as desired thereby minimizing tangling of the cords. | 05-26-2011 |
| 20110119589 | Navigable User Interface for Electronic Handset - An electronic device having a user interface on which selectable operation indicators are navigated wherein each operational indicator is associated with a corresponding application or other selectable item. The operational indicators are sequentially identified, in a specified order and for a specified time interval, in response to a first input at the user interface. Selection occurs in response to a second input at the user interface during the corresponding time interval. Such selection may, for example, launch an application or cause the display of a submenu or perform some other function | 05-19-2011 |
| 20110119387 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MINIMIZING BANDWIDTH USAGE BETWEEN A COMMUNICATION SERVER AND A MEDIA DEVICE - A communication server implements a method that minimizes bandwidth usage between a media device and the communication server in a communication system where separate session and floor control protocols are used. Where multiple clients have established separate sessions to access a media source at a media device and upon determining that the multiple clients are attempting to access the same media source, the communication server implements floor control logic to tie multiple floor arbiters together across the separate sessions to cause a single media stream to be sent from the media source and received at the communication server for distribution to the clients, thereby minimizing the bandwidth on the uplink between the media device and the communication server. | 05-19-2011 |
| 20110117973 | RADIATED POWER CONTROL SYSTEMS AND METHODS IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICES - Embodiments include systems and methods for controlling radiation of radio frequency (RF) energy by a wireless communication device that includes a transmitter, an antenna, a vector field sensor, and a processing system. The transmitter produces an analog RF signal, and the antenna radiates the analog RF signal into an environment. The vector field sensor senses an intensity of a vector field resulting from the analog RF signal radiated by at least the antenna (and possibly other portions of the device). The processing system determines whether a value representing the intensity is greater than a first threshold, and when the value is greater than the first threshold, the processing system causes the radiated RF energy produced by the wireless communication device to be decreased. | 05-19-2011 |
| 20110117854 | HIGH SPEED MINIMAL INTERFERENCE ADAPTIVE TRANCEIVER INTERFACE AND METHOD THEREOF - A method for minimizing undesired signal coupling from digital interface between peripherals is presented. The method includes transmitting over the interface first and second signals having a parameter ζ | 05-19-2011 |
| 20110117835 | METHOD FOR INTERRUPTING VOICE TRANSMISSIONS WITHIN A MULTI SITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method for interrupting voice transmissions within a multi site communication system includes operating a repeater to engage in an interruptible voice communication; to identify an open burst location based on a repeat delay when the interruptible voice communication is sourced directly via a wireless network, and to identify the open burst location as irrelevant when the interruptible voice communication is indirectly sourced via a wireless network; and repeat the interruptible voice communication including the open burst location. | 05-19-2011 |
| 20110116469 | LOCAL INTERNET PROTOCOL ACCESS/SELECTED INTERNET PROTOCOL TRAFFIC OFFLOAD PACKET ENCAPSULATION TO SUPPORT SEAMLESS MOBILITY - A method, a mobile system, and a mobility management entity are disclosed. A transceiver | 05-19-2011 |
| 20110116433 | METHOD TO CONTROL A MULTIMEDIA BROADCAST MULTICAST SERVICE(MBMS) MODE OF A MBMS SESSION IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method to control a multimedia broadcast multicast service (MBMS) mode of a MBMS session in a communication system is provided herein. In operation, a first network element that is located outside a radio access network determines to use one of a single frequency network MBMS mode and a single cell MBMS mode for the MBMS session based on a property of the MBMS session. The first network element then transmits a session control signaling message to a second network element that is located inside the radio access network. The session control signaling message instructs the second network element that user plane data for the MBMS session shall be transmitted using the determined MBMS mode. The base stations then transmit the user plane data to one or user equipments in a target service area according to the determined MBMS mode. | 05-19-2011 |
