11th week of 2011 patent applcation highlights part 42 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20110065375 | SYSTEM FOR LIMITING MOBILE DEVICE FUNCTIONALITY IN DESIGNATED ENVIRONMENTS - Apparatuses, systems and methods for limiting mobile device functionality in defined environments. One system includes a detection structure or arrangement for detecting illicit mobile device RF transmissions and/or an operating state in relation to a defined environment, and an interference or disabling structure or arrangement for at least partially disabling the functionality of the mobile device upon detection of an illicit mobile device RF transmission or a particular operating state. For instance, the system may be implemented in an automobile or aircraft cabin to prevent drivers and/or passengers from utilizing at least one functionality of a mobile device (e.g., talking, texting, Internet surfing). | 2011-03-17 |
20110065376 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING A SELECTIVE DISTRIBUTION OF MEDIA CONTENT FEEDS - Aspects relate to systems and methods for generating a selective distribution of media content feeds. A content server can identify a set of mobile video cameras or other sources for delivery to a mobile device, based on a state of motion or orientation of the mobile device. Media content can be collected from video-equipped cellular devices capable of reporting their position, bearing, speed, and other sensor data. In one aspect, the position, bearing, and speed of the mobile device along with similar data for the media sources can be taken into account to generate a media envelope, or included set of media devices, to make available to the user. In one aspect, the selected content can be based on the compass orientation of a sensor in the mobile device. In one implementation, user preferences along with other access criteria can be used to further select content feeds. | 2011-03-17 |
20110065377 | EQUIPMENT, SYSTEM AND METHODOLOGIES FOR SEGMENTATION OF LISTENING AREA INTO SUB-AREAS ENABLING DELIVERY OF LOCALIZED AUXILIARY INFORMATION - Radio broadcasting equipment is provided that enables targeted radio broadcast advertisement delivery in an radio broadcast area wherein a plurality of radio transmitters are used to transmit broadcasting area wide programming and localized auxiliary information on a single frequency and wherein broadcasting area wide programming is transmitted by at least one of the radio transmitters and localized auxiliary information is transmitted by individual radio transmitters included in the plurality of transmitters. | 2011-03-17 |
20110065378 | WIRELESS TERMINAL AND COMMUNICATION PROCESS - In a wireless terminal which performs wireless communication with other wireless terminals by using a first time interval for data transmission and a second time interval for data reception: a receiver receives from one of the other wireless terminals a request for broadcast communication; and a controller generates broadcast control information and controls the wireless terminal according to the present invention so as to transmit the broadcast control information to the other wireless terminals in the first time interval after the receiver receives the request, where the broadcast control information instructs the one of the other wireless terminals to transmit broadcast data in the second time interval, and instructs the other ones of the wireless terminals to receive the broadcast data in the second time interval. | 2011-03-17 |
20110065379 | RELAY STATION DEVICE, BASE STATION DEVICE, MOBILE STATION DEVICE, AND RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - There is provided a relay station including a base station-relay station resource allocation request-transmission section which transmits a base station-relay station resource allocation request indicating that allocation of a base station-relay station resource is requested, the base station-relay station resource being a resource used by a radio signal transmitted/received between a base station and the relay station, to the base station using a radio signal, a base station-relay station resource allocation response-reception section which receives base station-relay station resource information indicating the base station-relay station resource from the base station using a radio signal, as a base station-relay station resource allocation response which is a response with respect to the base station-relay station resource allocation request, and a base station-relay station resource information storage section which stores the base station-relay station resource information received by the base station-relay station resource allocation response-reception section. | 2011-03-17 |
20110065380 | RADIO NODE APPARATUS, MULTI-HOP RADIO SYSTEM, AND MULTI-HOP RADIO SYSTEM CONSTRUCTING METHOD - The present invention provides a radio node apparatus, a multi-hop radio system and a multi-hop radio system constructing method, capable of constructing a tree type multi-hop radio system in which mutual radio nodes determine a radio node which becomes a root node of a tree in an autonomous manner and the root node is set as a root in an autonomous manner. The radio node apparatus includes a storage unit for storing state information, used for constructing a multi-hop radio system, including information for specifying a root radio node apparatus positioned at a summit of the multi-hop radio system, with the radio node apparatus has a connection, and the number of hops from the root ratio node apparatus, a collection unit for collecting state information transmitted from surrounding radio node apparatus, and a selection unit for selecting a host connection-accepting radio node apparatus on the basis of the information for specifying the root radio node apparatus and the number of hops included in the collected state information. | 2011-03-17 |
20110065381 | METHOD OF TRANSMITTING HIGHER POWER FROM A SATELLITE BY MORE EFFICIENTLY USING THE EXISTING SATELLITE POWER AMPLIFIERS - A method of enhancing the power transmitted from a satellite includes the steps of modulating a carrier signal at an Earth station. The non-linearity is established of a downlink amplifier on the satellite. The modulated carrier signal is to compensate for the non-linearity of the downlink and/or the uplink amplifiers. The predistorted modulated carrier signal is transmitted in an uplink to the satellite. The uplink carrier is amplified in the downlink amplifier. A downlink signal is to an Earth station, whereby the downlink signal compensates for non-linearities in the downlink amplifier to thereby optimize amplification with minimum distortion of the signals. A system for implementing the method is described. | 2011-03-17 |
20110065382 | SCHEMES FOR THE EFFICIENT RECEPTION OF RADIO COMMUNICATIONS SIGNALS - Receiving a Wi-Fi radio signal using a Bluetooth receiver architecture. Also, adapting a Wi-Fi receiver architecture to constrain a received radio signal to less than the bandwidth of a conveyed Wi-Fi signal for subsequent processing purposes. | 2011-03-17 |
20110065383 | FOCUSED ANTENNA, MULTI-PURPOSE ANTENNA, AND METHODS RELATED THERETO - Exemplary embodiments are directed to a device including a focused antenna. A device may include a minor plane surface and an antenna positioned proximate the minor plane surface. The antenna may be configured for generating a field focused around the minor plane surface. The antenna may further include an element extending from the minor plane surface toward another minor plane surface of the device. | 2011-03-17 |
20110065384 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SWITCHING DEVICES USING NEAR FIELD COMMUNICATION - An approach is provided for switching devices using near field communication by transferring services. A first device executes an online service. The first device initiates communication to a second device over a near field communication link during the execution of the online service to coordinate the transfer of information relating to the online service. The first device initiates the transfer of information relating to the online service to the second device for execution of the online service by the second device based on the communication. | 2011-03-17 |
20110065385 | NEAR FIELD COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A near field communication device being operable in a first operating state and a second operating state, the near field communication device comprising a communication unit adapted for communicating with an external device; and a control unit coupled to the communication unit; wherein the control unit is adapted for controlling the communication unit to be presented to the external device to be in the first operating state and supporting the second operating state, and wherein the control unit is adapted for switching the communication unit from the first operating state to the second operating state upon receipt of a configuration signal received from the external device. | 2011-03-17 |
20110065386 | CHIP CARD HAVING TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING DEVICE, AND ANTENNA FOR RADIO TRANSMISSIONS - The invention relates to a SIM card ( | 2011-03-17 |
20110065387 | ANTENNA APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - A communication apparatus includes a coupler for first wireless communication and a loop antenna for second wireless communication. The coupler is electrically asymmetrical, and arranged in such a manner that a feed point substantially coincides with a center position of the second wireless communication. | 2011-03-17 |
20110065388 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND MEDIUM PROCESSING APPARATUS - A wireless communication device according to embodiments includes a position detection unit configured to detect the position of the wireless communication medium in a moving path, and a control unit configured to control communication based on the detection signal from the position detection unit. | 2011-03-17 |
20110065389 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - A wireless communication apparatus comprises a selection module to select an application from applications to be run on the apparatus, a movement information generation module to generate movement information indicating positional change of the apparatus by detecting a position of the apparatus, a target selection module to select a counterpart wireless communication apparatus as a connection target from other apparatuses which are wirelessly connectable with the apparatus by referring to a type of the application selected by the selection module and the movement information generated by the movement information generation module, and a wireless communication module wirelessly transmits data handled by the application to the counterpart wireless communication apparatus selected by the target selection module. | 2011-03-17 |
20110065390 | POLARIZATION CO-ORDINATION - The present invention relates to a group (G | 2011-03-17 |
20110065391 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS FOR CHANGING DIRECTIONAL PATTERN OF VARIABLE DIRECTIVITY ANTENNA ACCORDING TO VARIATIONS IN RADIO WAVE PROPAGATION ENVIROMENT - When a variable directivity antenna apparatus is controlled to form an initial composite directional pattern, RSSI is measured, and a weak electric field group or an intense electric field group is selected based on the measured RSSI. When the variable directivity antenna apparatus is controlled to form the composite directional patterns included in the selected composite directional pattern group, PER for each of the composite directional patterns is measured, and one composite directional pattern is selected from among the composite directional patterns included in the selected composite directional pattern group based on the measured PER, so that the variable directivity antenna apparatus is controlled to form the selected composite directional pattern. | 2011-03-17 |
20110065392 | WIRELESS DEVICE AND SIGNAL PATH CONFIGURATION METHOD THEREOF - A signal path configuration method and apparatus of a wireless device are provided for avoiding radiation performance degradation caused by holding a specific part of the wireless device. A wireless device of the present invention includes a Radio Frequency (RF) unit that includes a plurality of antennas, an RF connector for RF calibration, and a detection unit for detecting connection of an RF cable, a switch for switching a signal path to one of the plurality of antennas, and a control unit for distinguishing between communication modes based on a detection signal output by the detection unit and for generating a control signal for controlling the switch to connect the signal path to one of the antennas according to the communication mode. | 2011-03-17 |
20110065393 | Reporting Cell Measurement Results in a Cellular Communication System - The present invention relates to reporting cell measurement results associated with a plurality of cells of a cellular communication system. The reporting is transmitted from a station via a radio interface to receiver element of a cell serving the station. The cells are arranged in a reporting order that is to be used by the station for the reporting. The cell measurements are performed by the transceiver station for getting cell measurement results associated with a number of the cells. Relevant cell measurement results are then selected and the selected results are transmitted in the defined reporting order. | 2011-03-17 |
20110065394 | Traffic constraints in a mmWAVE wireless network - A network controller may schedule directional communications between two devices in its own network in such a way as to avoid potential interference from anticipated transmissions from another device. In some instances, the network controller may be one of the two devices using the directional communications. The timing of the anticipated transmissions may be determined by the network controller based on its own observations, or it may be informed of that timing in a transmission from a device in its own network. A possible format is given for transmitting that information to the network controller. | 2011-03-17 |
20110065395 | PORTABLE TERMINAL, PORTABLE TELEPHONE - The invention relates to a portable terminal such as a portable telephone terminal and so forth for effecting communication, information processing and so forth, and to provide the portable terminal and a master slave portable telephone system capable of rendering a transmission and/or reception mode of information to be multi-functional to enhance communication function, thereby enhancing the convenience thereof. The portable terminal comprises an information transmission and/or reception part for effecting transmission and/or reception of information, a radio communication part for effecting communication by radio, and an information processing part for processing information. The portable terminal can effect transmission and/or reception of information relative to another portable terminal by any of a master terminal made up of the information transmission and/or reception part and the information processing part, a slave terminal made up of the information transmission and/or reception part and the radio communication part, and a normal terminal configured by combining the radio communication part with the information processing part via the information transmission and/or reception part. | 2011-03-17 |
20110065396 | RADIO BASE TRANSCEIVER STATION AND POWER SUPPLYING METHOD - A radio base station includes a radio equipment to which a power is supplied from a power source which supplies the power from a battery and a power source unit, and a radio control device which controls the radio equipment, and wherein the radio base transceiver station performs control for changing an operating band of the radio equipment according to switching of a power supply source to and from the power source unit and the battery in the radio equipment. | 2011-03-17 |
20110065397 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a main body, a display unit rotatably attached to the main body via a coupling portion, first and second antennas provided in the display unit, a first mixing/distributing device provided in the display unit, first and second wireless communication modules provided in the main body, and a second mixing/distributing device provided in the main body. The signal transmission/reception between the first mixing/distributing device in the display unit and the second mixing/distributing device in the main body is executed via a cable which is inserted in the coupling portion. | 2011-03-17 |
20110065398 | UNIVERSAL DEMODULATION AND MODULATION FOR DATA COMMUNICATION IN WIRELESS POWER TRANSFER - The present invention provides a universal demodulation circuit, a load modulation circuit and associated method, and an associated power transfer system, all suitable for use in wireless power transfer. A power receiver with signal strength detection is also provided. Modulation of the impedance of the demodulation circuit is determinable by detecting the amplitudes of a first and a second electrical parameter, thereby demodulating data communicated by modulation of the impedance of the demodulation circuit. The modulation circuit has a communication modulator to modulate the impedance of the modulation circuit, to a predetermined minimum modulation depth, thereby to communicate data. | 2011-03-17 |
20110065399 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMICALLY REGULATING VOLTAGE TO MINIMIZE POWER CONSUMPTION - A system includes a voltage regulator connected to a voltage source for providing a regulated voltage at a first level in a first mode of operation and at least one second level in a second mode of operation. The second voltage level is higher than the first voltage level. A control processor provides control signals to select between the first and the second modes of operation. A component associated with the voltage regulator. The component is disabled in the first mode of operation and enabled in the second mode of operation. The control processor generates control signals to configure the voltage regulator to generate the voltage at the first level in the first mode of operation when the component is disabled and to configure the voltage regulator to generate the voltage at the at least one second level in the second mode of operation when the component is enabled. | 2011-03-17 |
20110065400 | INTEGRATED ANTENNA ARRAY AND RF FRONT END MODULE - Apparatus comprising an antenna switch ( | 2011-03-17 |
20110065401 | RECEIVING DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD FOR RECEIVING DEVICE - A receiving device that can maintain a desired search condition is provided. | 2011-03-17 |
20110065402 | Dynamic Radio Data System Options - A broadcast radio event such as a song or a concert promotion, and a plurality of radio data fields corresponding to the event such as RTplus information, are received at a device. A user selects to display broadcast radio options simultaneous with receiving the broadcast radio event. Then is displayed a set of user-selectable options, at least one o which is derived from at least one of the radio data fields. In various embodiments, each time a new set of radio data fields are received, the set of displayed options is updated, with certain provisions to ‘freeze’ the displayed set of options. Examples of a derived option include a link to an Internet page, a phone number or email address, and posting a time and place of an advertised event to a calendar. A method, device, computer program product, and apparatus are detailed. | 2011-03-17 |
20110065403 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO PERFORM RADIO FREQUENCY (RF) ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL CONVERSION - Methods and apparatus to perform radio frequency (RF) analog-to-digital conversion are described. According to one example, a receiver includes an amplifier to amplify received analog RF signals and a mixer-free circuit for converting the received analog RF signals to digital signals. | 2011-03-17 |
20110065404 | PORTABLE RADIO - There is provided a portable radio that enables simultaneous input of high frequency signals from a plurality of built-in antennas and performance of optimum receiving operation. | 2011-03-17 |
20110065405 | METHOD OF CANCELING NOISE CONTAINED IN RECEIVED SIGNAL - A multiplication section multiplies a signal output from a GPS antenna by a local oscillation signal generated by a local oscillation signal generation section to down-convert the signal output from the GPS antenna into an intermediate-frequency signal. A sampling circuit section samples a generated signal generated by a portable electronic circuit using a sampling clock signal having a frequency lower than a frequency of the generated signal. An attenuation section generates a cancellation signal by attenuating the sampled signal, and an addition section adds the cancellation signal to the signal output from the multiplication section to cancel in-band noise superimposed on the received signal. | 2011-03-17 |
20110065406 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING SIGNAL - A signal processing method and system are provided. The method includes receiving an input signal within a first frequency range, the input signal including a desired signal and an interference signal. The method includes down-converting the input signal to a second frequency range, which is lower than the first frequency range, using an offset local oscillator signal having a frequency substantially equal to the central frequency of the desired signal. The method includes separating the interference signal from the down-converted input signal. The method includes up-converting the separated interference signal to the first frequency range. The method includes subtracting the up-converted interference signal from the input signal at the first frequency range to obtain an interference removed signal. The method includes down-converting the interference removed signal to a third frequency range, which is lower than the first frequency range, using a local oscillator signal, for demodulating. The frequency of the offset local oscillator signal is different from the frequency of the local oscillator signal. | 2011-03-17 |
20110065407 | JOINT SPACE-TIME OPTIMUM FILTERS (JSTOF) FOR INTERFERENCE CANCELLATION - A filter for reducing co-channel interference within a communications receiver may include a multi-channel, space-time filter circuit that filters n signal parts that have been split from a communications signal by jointly estimating space-time filter weights and multi-channel impulse responses (CIRs). The filter may further include a multi-channel, matched filter circuit that receives multi-channel signals from the multi-channel, space-time filter circuit and has a filter response that is provided by a channel impulse response estimation from the space-time filter circuit. | 2011-03-17 |
20110065408 | MISMATCHED DELAY BASED INTERFERENCE CANCELLATION DEVICE AND METHOD - An interference signal cancellation device comprises a signal splitter, a delay element and a signal combiner. The signal splitter distributes a disturbed signal to a first signal path and a second signal path. The delay element is situated in at least one of the first signal path and the second signal path for introducing a relative delay between a first signal in the first signal path and a second signal in the second signal path. The signal combiner combines the first signal and the second signal. An interference signal within the disturbed signal is substantially reduced within the signal combiner. A method for interference signal cancellation is also proposed. Furthermore, a computer program product with instructions for the manufacture and a computer program product enabling a processor to carry out the method for interference signal cancellation are also proposed. | 2011-03-17 |
20110065409 | FREQUENCY SHIFTING BASED INTERFERENCE CANCELLATION DEVICE AND METHOD - An interference cancellation device comprises an input for a disturbed signal, a first frequency shifter, a bandpass filter, and a signal combiner. The first frequency shifter shifts the disturbed signal from an original frequency range to a filtering frequency range. The frequency-shifted signal is filtered by the bandpass filter. The filtered signal is supplied to the signal combiner which combines the filtered signal with the disturbed signal to substantially reduce the interference signal that is present in the disturbed signal. A method for interference signal cancellation is also proposed. Furthermore, a computer program product with instructions for the manufacture and a computer program product enabling a processor to carry out the method for interference signal cancellation are also proposed. | 2011-03-17 |
20110065410 | Receiver with Improved Flicker Noise Performance - A method for demodulating an RF input signal using an envelope detector and synchronous switching of the input signal before entering and after leaving the envelope detector, the envelope detector having a non-linear transfer function acting essentially as a squaring function. | 2011-03-17 |
20110065411 | Method And Apparatus For Controlling A Harmonic Rejection Mixer - In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for receiving a radio frequency (RF) signal and mixing the RF signal with a master clock to obtain a mixed signal, cyclically rotating the mixed signal to each of N gain stages for at least one cycle of the master clock, and summing the outputs of the N gain stages to provide an output signal. | 2011-03-17 |
20110065412 | MIXER CIRCUIT, INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DEVICE AND RADIO FREQUENCY COMMUNICATION UNIT - A mixer circuit comprises an input stage arranged to convert an input voltage signal received at an input of the mixer circuit into at least one current signal, and a frequency conversion stage comprising at least one switching element arranged to convert a signal component of the at least one current signal from an input frequency to a output frequency. The input stage comprises at least one resistance connected between the input of the mixer circuit and the at least one switching element. The at least one switching element and the at least one resistance are arranged such that the at least one switching element comprises a ‘turn-on’ resistance that exhibits a resistivity that is a factor less than the at least one resistance connected thereto. | 2011-03-17 |
20110065413 | Power-Saving Receiver - A signal receiver capable of operating in two modes: a normal mode for reception and decoding of signals and a detection mode for detecting the presence of signals, the signal receiver having: a functional unit that can operate in two manners: a first manner having relatively low power consumption and relatively poor accuracy and a second manner having relatively high power consumption and relatively high accuracy, and a controller for causing the functional unit to operate in the first manner when the receiver is in its detection mode and in the second manner when the receiver is in its normal mode. | 2011-03-17 |
20110065414 | TWO WAY VOICE COMMUNICATION THROUGH GSM WITH ALARM COMMUNICATION - An alarm system senses alarm conditions on a premises, reports the occurrence of an alarm condition to a remote monitoring facility and for selected alarm conditions establishes two way voice communications with a person at the monitored premises or elsewhere. Multiple modes of communication are available such as public switched telephone (audio or audio modulated data), GSM (cellular audio), GPRS (cellular packet data), GSM/SMS (cellular text), etc. The programmed processor selects the network and communication protocol to rely on data communications if only data reporting is required. When two way voice communications will be required, the processor can select a network (e.g., GSM) that can be used for both data and audio communications. | 2011-03-17 |
20110065415 | FACILITATING INTEROPERABILITY AMONG COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS VIA INTER- AND INTRA-AGENCY COMMUNICATIONS USING A SHARED NETWORK - Providing contact information via a directory service comprises a request being received from an originator to obtain at least a portion of contact information associated with a target. A first policy associated with the originator is identified, and a second policy that is associated with the target is identified. Based on at least one of the policies, it is determined whether a portion of the contact information associated with the target is authorized to be presented to the originator. If authorized, the portion of the contact information is presented to the originator. Upon receiving a request from the originator to establish communication with the target, it is determined whether a portion of contact information associated with the originator is authorized to presented to the target based on at least one of the policies. If authorized, the portion of the contact information associated with the originator is presented to the target. | 2011-03-17 |
20110065416 | METHOD OF CONTACTING A PSAP - A method of contacting a public safety answering point (PSAP) that includes determining the location of a vehicle, communicating the location of the vehicle to a PSAP location service, identifying a PSAP proximate to the location of the vehicle, determining a direct inward dialing (DID) number associated with the identified PSAP, communicating the DID number to the call center from the PSAP location service, contacting the identified PSAP using the DID number, and transmitting the DID number of the identified PSAP and the location of the vehicle to the PSAP. | 2011-03-17 |
20110065417 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO CONTROL THE USE OF APPLICATIONS ON HANDHELD DEVICES BASED ON NETWORK SERVICE - A method and apparatus to control the use of applications on handheld device is based on network service, the method comprising the steps of: receiving a network identifier; correlating the network identifier with application and/or feature limitations stored on the mobile device; and limiting application usage based on the results of such correlating step. | 2011-03-17 |
20110065418 | Method and System for Providing International Electronic Payment Service Using Mobile Phone Authentication - Disclosed herein is a method and system for providing an international electronic payment service using mobile phone authentication. A payment method using an IPN server is selected, and results of verification of the product are relayed to a PG company server in a first country “A.” A user in country A enters primary authentication information, and a mobile communication company server performs primary authentication. The mobile phone of the user is then notified of an OTP, and the PG company server in country A receives the OTP and performs secondary authentication. The IPN server vicariously processes a payment between the PG company server and the mobile communication company server, and notifies a PG company server in a second country “B” of results of payment. The mobile communication company server sends paid money to the PG company server in country A, and the PG company server gives money corresponding to product price to the seller. | 2011-03-17 |
20110065419 | System and Method for Controlling a Mobile - A system includes a controlling module for controlling a mobile device remotely A system includes a controlling module for controlling a mobile device remotely, wherein the controlling module includes a parental control module for controlling a mobile device used by a child. A system includes a controlling module for controlling a mobile device remotely, wherein the controlling module includes a parental control module for controlling a mobile device used by a child, wherein the parental control module includes a monitoring module for monitoring a use of the mobile device, and a filtering module for filtering an inappropriate content | 2011-03-17 |
20110065420 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR BINDING PAYMENT METHODS AND PAYMENT INFORMATION TO MOBILE DEVICES - Embodiments of the present invention provide distributed-data-structure-implemented licenses, shared between purchasers and an authentication service, that, in one embodiment of the present invention, are partially stored on purchasers' devices and partially stored within an authentication-service database to facilitate payment authorization, purchase tracking, and other methods and operations within an e-commerce environment. When the authentication service finds previously-installed licenses on a purchaser's device, the authentication service can automatically reconstruct and verify device-authentication information and payment information, so that a purchaser need not re-enter the reconstructed information, through awkward text-input facilities of a mobile device, to multiple displayed forms. The authorization protocols and distributed-data-structure-implemented licenses provide increased security for electronic commerce via mobile devices. | 2011-03-17 |
20110065421 | AWARDING MESSAGE SLOTS FOR A CONSUMER MOBILE DEVICE CAMPAIGN - Techniques and systems are disclosed for forwarding a limited number of vendor messages during a consumer mobile device campaign, such as a CSC campaign. Opt-in events are received from an aggregator's message service platform for a consumer mobile device (e.g., smart-phone), and a time interval is identified for the campaign that comprises a duration for the campaign. Campaign parameters are identified, where the parameters comprise a desired number of campaign messages for the “opted-in” consumer mobile device. Vendors are grouped into one or more campaign message categories (e.g., by service or products), and a bidding frequency is identified for campaign message categories for the campaign duration. Bids are received for message slots at the bidding frequency for a campaign message category, a desired bid is selected if it meets a threshold, and the corresponding vendor message is sent to the opted-in phone(s). | 2011-03-17 |
20110065422 | Provisioning A User Device For Multiple Services - Systems and methods for provisioning an electronic device for multiple services are disclosed herein. An exemplary embodiment, among others, of a provisioning method includes receiving a first request to procure a user device capable of operating under a plurality of service plans. The method also includes receiving a second request to provision the user device for operation under a first service plan and receiving a third request to provision the user device for operation under a second service plan. Also, the method includes coordinating the first request, second request, and third request to provision the user device under the first service plan and second service plan. | 2011-03-17 |
20110065423 | SPONSORED CELLULAR PHONE - A cellular telephone or other wireless communications device supports association with a third party sponsor other than a network operator. The device establishes default user interface settings for the user interface consistent with association with the network operator. The device then determines a desired association with one or more third party sponsors. Based upon the desired association, the device retrieve third party sponsor settings. The device then alters its user interface settings based upon the third party sponsor settings, wherein the altered user interface settings differ from the default user interface settings. The device then communicates with a third party sponsor server computer via the communications interface to exchange information relating to operation of the cellular telephone. Multiple third party sponsors could share access to the user interface. The third party sponsor may be a business, a group of individuals, or another entity. | 2011-03-17 |
20110065424 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO FACILITATE DOWNLOADING DATA AT A MOBILE WIRELESS DEVICE - The invention relates to systems and method to facilitate downloading a data file. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving at a first wireless communication device a request to download a requested data file. A determination is made at the first wireless communication device whether the requested data file is stored at a second wireless communication device with which the first wireless communication device communicates via a local wireless link. If the requested data file is determined to be stored at the second wireless communication device, the first wireless communication device retrieving the requested data file from second wireless communication device via the local wireless link. | 2011-03-17 |
20110065425 | DIGITAL PERSONAL ASSISTANCE VIA A BROADBAND ACCESS GATEWAY - A system and method supporting access, coordination, modification, updating, and management of multiple sources of multimedia information resident on a plurality of access device is disclosed. A broadband access gateway may support applications that perform user services involving multiple sources of multimedia information across a network by acting as a focal point for access to multimedia information related to the applications. Using information that identifies such sources, the broadband access gateway may coordinate modification of one or more multimedia information sources based upon the content of other related sources of multimedia information. One such application may include the coordination of calendars for the planning of a meeting involving multiple participants. A representative embodiment of the present invention may identify available meeting dates and times, and the placement of reservations for appropriate travel accommodations using services accessible to the broadband access gateway via a broadband network. | 2011-03-17 |
20110065426 | METHOD AND NETWORK FOR DISPLAYING A CALLER ID IN WiMAX/GSM INTEGRATED SUPPORT TERMINAL - A method of displaying a caller ID in a WiMAX/GSM integrated support portable terminal is provided. When a service is requested from a portable terminal, a message is transmitted for confirming whether to perform a caller ID (CID) display service through a corresponding channel through which the service has been requested. If the CID display service is determined to be performed after the message is received through the channel through which the service has been requested, the corresponding inherent identification information of the portable terminal in an SMS for transmission, and a subscriber identification information of the corresponding portable terminal is confirmed through the received SMS. The inherent identification information included in the SMS is extracted and the extracted inherent identification information to the subscriber identification information is matched. The matched identification information stored and a caller ID service is registered for a subsequent identification purpose. | 2011-03-17 |
20110065427 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF SUPPORTING WIRELESS FEMTOCELL COMMUNICATIONS - A method and apparatus of routing a call in a femtocell network are disclosed. In one example call routing method, a call is originated from the mobile station via a femtocell access point and the call is transmitted to a femtocell gateway, a mobile switching center and a carrier gateway server and onto an enterprise gateway server to obtain policy information. A routing policy is determined based on the obtained policy information and the call is routed to its destination based on the routing policy. The call may be routed via local media from a femtocell access point directly to the enterprise gateway server. The call routing procedures may implement the Iuh protocol and/or the session initiation protocol (SIP) for call signaling in the femtocell network. Call routing may be performed in a wireless cellular communications network or an enterprise network environment. | 2011-03-17 |
20110065428 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SELECTING AN OUTPUT MODALITY IN A MOBILE DEVICE - A method and system for selecting the output modality of an application in a mobile device from attributes of the mobile device includes a detection of at least one attribute of the mobile device, automatically identifying available modalities for the output of the application based on the attribute, and selecting a preferred output modality from the available modalities. The output of the application is converted to the output modality and transmitted through an output interface selected based on the attributes measured. | 2011-03-17 |
20110065429 | APPARATUS FOR ENHANCING EFFICIENCY OF ANTENNA IN A MOBILE TERMINAL - An apparatus for enhancing an efficiency of an antenna in a mobile terminal includes an antenna matcher whose setting is changed under control of a controller, the antenna matcher coupled to the antenna, a sensing unit for sensing whether or not a user holds the mobile terminal and a holding pattern in which the user holds the mobile terminal, and a controller for controlling the setting of the antenna matcher according to whether or not the user holds the mobile terminal and the holding pattern. | 2011-03-17 |
20110065430 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PAGING DELEGATION IN HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS - A method for paging delegation in a gateway of a first network among heterogeneous networks is provided. The gateway of the first network receives a first request message that requests paging delegation of the first network from the terminal, and transmits a second request message that requests paging delegation of the first network to a paging controller of the second network. The gateway receives a first response message including a result value for the paging delegation request from the paging controller, sets paging delegation registration information of the terminal based on the first response message, and transmits a second response message. | 2011-03-17 |
20110065431 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OBTAINING NEIGHBOURING CELL ATTRIBUTES - A network element for providing access to a cellular communication network via a communication cell, the network element comprising signal processing logic arranged to initiate neighbour cell attribute discovery by a wireless communication unit located within the communication cell. The signal processing logic is further arranged to receive a neighbour cell attribute report from the wireless communication unit, extract neighbour cell attribute information from the received neighbour cell attribute report, and to update a neighbour cell list for the communication cell based on the extracted neighbour cell attribute information. | 2011-03-17 |
20110065432 | MOBILE STATION - A mobile station comprises an access right management section configured so as to manage the CSG-ID corresponding to a CSG cell which permits access to the mobile station, a measurement section configured so as to measure the radio quality in peripheral cells, and a display section configured so as to display at least the CSG cell corresponding to the CSG-ID managed by the access right management section for each frequency out of the peripheral cells the radio quality of which has been measured by the measurement section on a screen as an available CSG cell. | 2011-03-17 |
20110065433 | HANDOVER CONTROL METHOD, CELL RESELECTION METHOD AND MOBILE STATION - A handover control method comprises a step in which a mobile station measures radio qualities in a plurality of different frequency cells at predetermined measurement intervals and a step in which the mobile station, when determining that the radio quality in a specific frequency cell satisfies a report condition, starts up a timer for the specific frequency cell and, when the timer for the specific frequency cell has expired, transmits to a radio base station a measurement report including the radio quality in the specific frequency cell. The mobile station, even when a timer for a second frequency cell has expired, does not transmit to the radio base station a measurement report including the radio quality in the second frequency cell if a timer for a first frequency cell having a higher priority than the second frequency cell is running. | 2011-03-17 |
20110065434 | METHOD, TERMINAL, AND SYSTEM FOR CELL RESELECTION - A method, terminal, and system for cell reselection are disclosed. The method includes: a terminal obtains a dedicated priority list from a first system; and performs cell reselection according to the dedicated priority list when the terminal camps on a cell of a second system. The corresponding terminal and system are also provided in other embodiments of the invention. According to an embodiment of the invention, the terminal performs cell reselection by using the dedicated priority list obtained from the first system so as to free the second system from establishing the dedicated priority list. Problems in the prior arts that establishment of the dedicated priority list causes too much increased signaling and too high costs for network upgrade are solved. | 2011-03-17 |
20110065435 | BEARER CONTROL MODE (NW-ONLY OR USER-ONLY) HANDLING IN INTERSYSTEM HANDOVER - A method, a gateway node, a policy control node and a infrastructure network for handling a handover of a User Equipment communicating wirelessly with the infrastructure network. A first gateway node receives handover information indicative of a handover of the user equipment between two radio access networks the first gateway node determining a bearer control mode on the basis of the handover information the first gateway node transmitting control information determined on the basis of the bearer control mode to a policy control node the first gateway node controlling the bearer binding on the basis of the bearer control mode. | 2011-03-17 |
20110065436 | INTER-PLMN HANDOVER IN A SHARED RADIO NETWORK - Handover control in a control node, said control node controlling allocation of radio resources in a first set of cells belonging to at least two different Public Land Mobile Networks, said first set of cells including at least a first subset of cells belonging to a first Public Land Mobile Network and a second subset of cells belonging to a second Public Land Mobile Network. Traffic load exceeding a predefined level is detected ( | 2011-03-17 |
20110065437 | MOBILE STATION AND METHOD OF RECONNECTION PROCESS - There is provided a mobile station that minimizes a pause or a silent period during communication at the time of a reconnection process of communication, thereby to improve the user's convenience and achieve the reduction in the load applied onto the communication network or the mobile station. When an out of synchronization detection unit | 2011-03-17 |
20110065438 | METHOD AND ARRANGEMENT FOR SUPPORTING FAST CARRIER RESELECTION - In order to utilize uplink multi-carrier communication more efficiently and to support fast inter-frequency handovers and other types of carrier reallocations, carrier reallocation decisions are performed by the serving base station. Various non-limiting example embodiments are described for executing the base station carrier reallocation decision. | 2011-03-17 |
20110065439 | Method for Use of Azimuth and Bearing Data to Select a Serving Sector for a Mobile Station - A method for selecting a wireless coverage sector to serve a mobile station, such as in response to a handoff request that designates a sector-identifier that represents two or more possible sectors. A serving radio access network (RAN) may identify potential sectors in the region and may then select the sector whose azimuth is closest to the geographic bearing of the mobile station from the sector's base station. Further, in the event of a tie between two or more sectors or in other circumstances, the RAN may also take into consideration how close the mobile station is to various base stations, such as selecting the sector to whose base station the mobile station is closest. In a system that uses neighbor lists to govern handoff, the invention can help to facilitate handoff in a scenario where a mobile station requests handoff to a sector not listed in the mobile station's neighbor list. | 2011-03-17 |
20110065440 | DATA PATH TRANSFER FOR MULTIBAND COMMUNICATION - Method, apparatus, and computer program product embodiments are disclosed to setup data path transfer between concurrently operating frequency bands of multiband wireless LAN (WLAN) devices. The embodiments provide an enhancement to the Fast Session Transfer (FST) by introducing a new Information Element (IE) in the Fast Session Transfer (FST) frames to enable negotiating the parameters to be established as a result of switching of at least a portion of the existing data/traffic streams to another frequency band. The new Information Element (IE) includes at least the number of streams being switched and for each stream being switched the stream ID. The new Information Element enables the transmitting and receiving devices to negotiate the connection setup parameters associated with a requested transfer of the operating frequency band. The transmitting wireless device sends a Fast Session Transfer (FST) Setup Request frame with the new Information Element (IE) that includes at least the requested number of streams being switched and for each requested stream being switched the stream ID. The receiving wireless device (STA) replies with a Fast Session Transfer (FST) Setup Response frame with the new Information Element (IE) that either accepts the requested parameters or replies with an alternate number of streams being switched and for each alternate stream being switched the stream ID. In this manner, there is no need to re-establish the traffic streams, but instead the existing parameters are modified or scaled to meet the available resources in the new band. This allows the state of the data exchanges, for example the Acknowledgement bitmap, to be carried forward from one band to another. Also, if for any reason, for example quality of service (QoS), there is any problem in switching a stream to be in a new band, it is possible to switch only specific streams by including only the stream IDs in the Information Element for the specific streams that are to be switched. Alternately, it is possible to abort the switching of all the streams. | 2011-03-17 |
20110065441 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OPTIMIZING PROGRAMMABLE INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION - A wireless system may receive a plurality of multipath signals from a plurality of transmitters and sequentially process each of a plurality of data symbols in the received multipath signals utilizing a plurality of shared hardware modules within a chip. Desired information may be recovered from data transmitted by one or more of the transmitters utilizing the interference suppressed signal. Chips of data may be cell combined utilizing one or more of shared hardware modules. The shared modules may include channel rotation modules and sum and difference modules. One or more fast Hadamard transforms and/or inverse Hadamard transforms may be performed utilizing shared hardware modules. Data symbols may be interpolated, scrambled, descrambled, and/or weighted and added back utilizing the shared hardware modules. | 2011-03-17 |
20110065442 | METHOD OF MANAGING TERMINAL AND CONTROLLING INTERFERENCE IN SMALL BASE STATION - A method of managing a terminal and controlling an interference in a small base station is provided. The small base station, including: an access preamble control unit to assign a unique preamble for each terminal registered in the small base station; a transmitting/receiving unit to receive a random access request message from each of the terminals through the unique preamble, to transmit a reply message to each of the terminals, and to receive information about each of the terminals and a Radio Resource Control (RRC) connection request Message from each of the terminals in response to the reply message; and a terminal verification unit to verify whether each of the terminals is a registered terminal using the information about each of the terminals. | 2011-03-17 |
20110065443 | BLOCK ENCODING WITH A VARIABLE RATE BLOCK CODE - A control channel encoder includes a determiner to determine a current value of K for encoding control signals of a length M, wherein K is a function of a code rate for a data channel. A table generator generates first and second block encoding matrices, each of the first and second block encoding matrices having a variable length, from a fixed block encoding matrix by variably repeating rows from the fixed block encoding matrix to produce a repeated matrix of length K, puncturing the repeated matrix a first time to generate the first block encoding matrix, and puncturing the first block encoding matrix a second time to generate the second block encoding matrix. A block encoder utilizes the block encoding matrix to encode M input control bits as K encoded control bits. | 2011-03-17 |
20110065444 | MOBILE STATION APPARATUS, BASE STATION APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION METHOD AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - In the case that periodical transmission of transmission signal number-of-sequence quality indicative signal cannot be performed, the number of transmission signal sequences is clarified in association with reception quality information that is generated immediately after the case, and the base station apparatus performs appropriate communication resource allocation. A mobile station apparatus has a feedback information control section | 2011-03-17 |
20110065445 | METHOD FOR ALLOCATING TRANSMISSION RESOURCES IN A TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The invention relates to a method for allocating resources for transmissions from a secondary station to a primary station, wherein the primary station transmits to the secondary station a first indication of a transmission resource for use by the secondary station for transmitting data to the primary station, wherein the indication of the transmission resource indicates at least one selected transmission resource out of a set of transmission resources and further comprises a second indication which may request that the secondary station sends a report of the downlink channel quality using at least part of the selected transmission resource and that a time offset of the selected transmission resource from the first indication depends on whether the second indication requests a channel quality report. | 2011-03-17 |
20110065446 | RADIO RESOURCE MANAGER DEVICES AND RADIO COMMUNICATION DEVICES - In an embodiment, a radio resource manager device is provided. The radio resource manager device may include a receiver configured to receive an application applying for radio resources; an interference allowance determiner configured to determine whether interference of signal transmission during radio communication using radio resources is allowed; and a radio resource assigner configured to assign radio resources based on the determined interference allowance. | 2011-03-17 |
20110065447 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION USING INFORMATION FROM NON-LISTENED BASE STATIONS - Aspects of a method and system for interference suppression using information from non-listened base stations are provided. In this regard, one or more circuits in a wireless communication device may be operable to receive a raw signal comprising one or more desired signals from one or more serving base transceiver stations (BTSs) and comprising one or more undesired signals from one or more non-listened BTSs. The one or more circuits may be operable to generate first estimate signals that estimate the one or more undesired signals as transmitted by the one or more non-listened BTSs, generate an interference suppressed version of the raw signal based on the first estimate signals, and recover the one or more desired signals from the interference suppressed version of the raw signal. The non-listened BTSs may comprise one or more BTSs that are not serving the wireless communication device and are not involved in a handoff of the wireless communication device. | 2011-03-17 |
20110065448 | System and Method for Supporting Antenna Beamforming in a Cellular Network - The present invention is a method and system for supporting a beamfonming antenna system in a mobile broadband communication network with an improved beam pattern, beam sweep pattern, pilot channel design with feedback and reporting rules, and control signaling design. Specifically, the improved beam pattern includes a method of supporting wireless communications in a wireless network forming at least two spatial beams within a cell segment where the at least two spatial beams are associated with different power levels, and separately, where at least two spatial beams can be moved across the cell segment according to a unique sweep pattern. The pilot channel design improves network bandwidth performance and improve user mobility tracking. Feedback and reporting rules can be established using a particular field designator, CQI, in the preferred embodiment. | 2011-03-17 |
20110065449 | ADAPTIVE USE OF POLARIZATION AS A MEANS OF INCREASED WIRELESS CHANNEL CAPACITY - A mobile transceiver uses position and/or orientation knowledge to increase the capacity of a wireless link by transmitting over multiple electromagnetic polarizations. Sensors may include accelerometers, compasses, position sensors such as GPS receivers, and other means of determining the relative orientation of a mobile tranceiver to its base station. This information is used to properly shape transmitted signals and correlate received signals to increase the link capacity of the wireless link, either through channel multiplexing or increased link quality. This is particularly useful for mobile phones used on cellular networks utilizing high data volume on the allocated spectrum. | 2011-03-17 |
20110065450 | Method and Apparatus for Location Fingerprinting - Methods and apparatus taught herein facilitate accurate estimation of a mobile terminal's location via location fingerprinting. Specifically, the methods and apparatus obtain a radio fingerprint of the mobile terminal's location based on signal measurements (e.g., signal strength, signal quality, or path loss) performed at a radio frequency distinct from that used to obtain the reference radio fingerprints. The methods and apparatus transform the radio fingerprint, or the reference radio fingerprints, or both, based on that distinction, such as by offsetting signal measurements of the radio fingerprint by an amount determined based on theoretical or experimental models of the dependency of the signal measurements on the radio frequency at which they are performed. The radio fingerprint of the mobile terminal's location may then be compared to the reference radio fingerprints, to accurately estimate the mobile terminal's location despite the radio fingerprint and the reference radio fingerprints having been obtained using different frequencies. | 2011-03-17 |
20110065451 | CONTEXT-TRIGGERED SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INFORMATION AND SERVICES - A computer implemented method for providing location-based services using a mobile device is provided. A location of a mobile device is automatically determined. A user context is generated based at least on a user preference and the automatically determined location of the mobile device, wherein the user preference represents at least a content interest of a user. A request is made to a computer remote from the location of the mobile device for an available service relevant to the user context and compatible with a capability of the mobile device. The available service is executed using the mobile device. | 2011-03-17 |
20110065452 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING AND CONTROLLING TRANSMISSION DEVICES - A method of detecting, controlling and managing transmission of a transmitting device within a facility is disclosed. The method involves transmitting information to the transmission device, detecting a response transmission from the transmission device by a least one transmission detection facility, extracting identification information associated with the transmission device in response to the transmitted information; and determining a location of the transmission device based on the response transmission received by the at least one received transmission detection facility, wherein the response transmissions are sorted by the identification information, determining an allowability of the located transmission device with the set area and interacting and manipulating transmission of the detected transmitting device. | 2011-03-17 |
20110065453 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING GEOGRAPHICAL POSITION RELATED INFORMATION IN A WIRELESS NETWORK - Method and arrangement in a first node for providing geographical position related information. The first node and a second node are comprised within a wireless communication system. The first node and the second node are adapted to exchange wireless signals. The method comprises receiving a signal from the second node. Apart of the received signal that has propagated through a first channel path from the second node is detected by using a circular correlator. A timing estimate associated with the propagation time of the part of the signal which is received over the first channel path from the second node is calculated. Thus the calculated timing estimate is provided, which timing estimate is to be used when determining the geographical position. | 2011-03-17 |
20110065454 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING CENTRALIZED POSITIONING DETERMINATION FOR MULTIPLE RADIO ACCESS NETWORKS - An apparatus and method are provided for processing requests by a stand-alone serving mobile location center (SAS), shared by multiple radio access networks in a wireless network, for determining locations of mobile devices within the wireless network. A positioning request message for a mobile device is received from a radio network controller (RNC) in a radio access network (RAN) of the multiple radio access networks. An originating point code (OPC) and a cell identifier are retrieved from the positioning request message. A mobile country code (MCC) and a mobile network code (MNC) corresponding to the RAN are determined based on the retrieved OPC. A serving network node communicating with the mobile device is identified using the cell identifier and the determined MCC and MNC. | 2011-03-17 |
20110065455 | Wireless network tour guide - Location based wireless services in a service provider's network are intertwined with a message database (text and/or audio) to automatically provide location information regarding the subscriber to the message database, without requiring the wireless device itself to provide the location information. A location management system is provided to perform the location management functions of determining subscriber location (e.g., by call/sector ID, angle of arrival (AOA), time difference of arrival (TDOA), time of arrival (TOA)), and of mapping the location to the desired text and/or audio. Speed information may also be determined by the location management system, or the subscriber may be prompted to input a particular mode of transportation, or generally indicate their speed. Of course, the slower the speed of the subscriber, the fewer location updates will be required, lessening the burden on the tour guide system in the wireless network. | 2011-03-17 |
20110065456 | CELLULAR DEVICE DEACTIVATION SYSTEM - In general, in one aspect, the disclosure describes a wireless device that is capable of linking to a vehicle via a close range antenna, such as a Bluetooth antenna. Once the wireless device is linked to the vehicle it can receive location data and determine the speed of the wireless device. If the speed exceeds a predefined threshold the wireless device may have its wireless communications deactivated. If the wireless device is utilizing a hands free device wireless communications may be permitted. The use of the link to the vehicle ensures that the wireless device will not be deactivated when, for example, it is used on a train. In addition, waiting to gather location data and determine speed until when the wireless device is associated with a vehicle will save battery life. The wireless device may have a speed determination scheme that takes into account GPS multipath. | 2011-03-17 |
20110065457 | TRANSMITTER POSITION INTEGRITY CHECKING - The subject matter disclosed herein relates to determining whether a reported position of a wireless transmitter is sufficiently accurate in accordance with an accuracy metric based at least in part on a calculated range between an estimated position of a mobile station and the reported position and also based at least in part on one or more measurements taken from one or more signals transmitted by the wireless transmitter. | 2011-03-17 |
20110065458 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO MONITOR AND CONTROL DEVICES UTILIZING WIRELESS MEDIA - A method and system of selectively communicating with one or more devices within pre-defined geographical zones is disclosed. A plurality of geographical zones is defined, each zone being defined by latitude and longitude attributes. A plurality of devices is associated with each geographical zone with which a portable device can communicate, the portable device having data representative of the plurality of geographical zones. The portable device also has a ground positioning unit receiver to obtain geographical coordinates of the portable device. If the portable device determines that its location is within one of the plurality of geographical zones, the portable device communicates with the devices in associated with the geographical zone. | 2011-03-17 |
20110065459 | CONTENT TRANSFER INVOLVING A GESTURE - Content transfer involving a gesture is described. In an implementation, a method is implemented by a mobile communications device that includes recognizing a gesture input via a touchscreen of the mobile communications device that is indicative of a direction, the touchscreen including a display of content. One or more other mobile communications devices are located that are positioned, approximately, along the indicated direction of the gesture. A communication is formed to transfer the content to the located one or more other mobile communications devices. | 2011-03-17 |
20110065460 | CELLULAR PHONE HAVING NAVIGATION DEVICE, CORRECTING VALUE INITIALIZING METHOD, AND NAVIGATION FUNCTION - A navigation device includes a measuring unit to measure the current position; a geomagnetism sensor that is provided on a predetermined main unit, and is to detect geomagnetism; an orientation calculation unit to calculate the orientation of the main unit, upon setting correction values for correction detection values of the geomagnetism, based on the detection values and the correction values; a presenting unit to present measurement results by the measuring unit and the calculation results of the orientation to a user; an operating state switchover unit to switch between a normal operating state that executes the presenting processing and a suspended state that maintains a portion of processing state while stopping at least the calculation processing of the orientation; and an initialization processing unit to initialize the correction values, in the case of having switched from the suspended state to the normal operating state by the operating state switchover unit. | 2011-03-17 |
20110065461 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING A PAGING MESSAGE IN A FREQUENCY OVERLAY COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An apparatus and method for transmitting/receiving a paging message in a frequency overlay communication system are provided. The method includes determining if information is to be transmitted to a Mobile Station (MS) that is in an idle state, determining a sub frequency band for allocation to the MS, and transmitting a paging message to the MS using the determined sub frequency band. | 2011-03-17 |
20110065462 | Group-based communications between associated electronic devices - Methods and systems are provided for managing a group of portable communication devices. In accordance with one implementation, a method is provided for initializing a portable communication device in a group of portable communication devices at a point of activation. The method includes the steps of acquiring, by an initialization computer, a device identifier of the portable communication device, acquiring, by the initialization computer, a group identifier of the group, and associating the portable communication device with the group based on the group identifier. The method may further include accessing, by the initialization computer, a member profile associated with one of the portable communication devices, and storing the member profile in a memory accessible by the portable communication device. | 2011-03-17 |
20110065463 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF COMPOSING A MESSAGE - An apparatus ( | 2011-03-17 |
20110065464 | BOOSTING A SIGNAL-TO-INTERFERENCE RATIO OF A MOBILE STATION - In a cell of a cellular wireless communication system, the SIR of at least one user in a sector of the cell is altered by temporarily reducing transmissions on a forward link in at least one other sector of the cell or a sector in another cell in accordance with a pattern. | 2011-03-17 |
20110065465 | PRECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND PRECODING CONTROL METHOD AND APPARATUS - To control precoding of a terminal in a serving base station, a first codeword that maximizes transmission power of the serving base station is determined by a codebook, and an index of a second codeword that minimizes interference to the neighboring base station is transmitted from the neighboring base station. The serving base station transmits an index of the first codeword, an index of the second codeword, and a combination ratio of a precoding matrix corresponding to the index of the first codeword and a precoding matrix corresponding to the index of the second codeword to the terminal. | 2011-03-17 |
20110065466 | MOBILE STATION DEVICE, BASE STATION DEVICE, AND RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - There is provided a mobile station including a reception section which receives a radio signal from a base station, a communication information acquisition section which acquires, based on the radio signal received by the reception section, communication information which is information related to communication with the base station, a position information acquisition section which acquires position information indicating a position of the mobile station, and a transmission section which transmits the position information acquired by the position information acquisition section and the communication information acquired by the communication information acquisition section to the base station using a radio signal. | 2011-03-17 |
20110065467 | METHOD OF PAGING - The present invention relates to a wireless access system, and more particularly, to a method of transmitting/receiving a paging message by minimizing power consumption of a mobile station. A method of performing paging for a mobile station in idle mode comprises receiving a deregistration command message including a paging cycle, a paging offset and a paging group identifier and if moving away into a different cell area, performing a location update with a target base station of the different cell area. Preferably, the location update is performed only if moving away into an initially different cell area but is not performed if moving into another different cell area. | 2011-03-17 |
20110065468 | LOCALIZED AND DISTRIBUTED TRANSMISSION - The available transmission resources on a downlink-shared channel are divided into resource blocks, each resource block comprising a predetermined number of sub-carriers during a predetermined time period. The resource blocks are subdivided into localized resource blocks and distributed resource blocks. A user requiring sufficient resources can be allocated a plurality of said localized resource blocks. A user who would require only a small number of said localized resource blocks can instead be allocated subunits of a plurality of said distributed resource blocks. | 2011-03-17 |
20110065469 | DYNAMIC TRANSMISSION CONTROL FOR A WIRELESS NETWORK - In one possible embodiment, a wireless network with dynamic transmission control is provided that includes a multiple of nodes. The nodes include an arbiter and multiple client nodes. The arbiter is configured to control an operation of the client nodes by defining communications operation cycles and allocating a bandwidth to each of the client nodes on a cycle by cycle basis in response to requests for bandwidth from the client nodes. | 2011-03-17 |
20110065470 | APPARATUS, AND ASSOCIATED METHOD, FOR FACILITATING INITIATION OF CHANNEL ALLOCATION TO COMMUNICATE DATA IN A RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Apparatus ( | 2011-03-17 |
20110065471 | METHOD AND APPARATUS RELATING TO SPECTRUM SENSING - The invention presents methods and corresponding devices for improving cooperative spectrum initiating sensing. A device ( | 2011-03-17 |
20110065472 | Apparatus and method for an integrated multi-mode multi-band power amplifier - An apparatus and method for amplifying a transmission signals in multiple modes and multiple bands. The apparatus includes a tunable power amplifying module adapted to receive a plurality of signal types comprising multiple modes and multiple bands. The tunable power amplifying module includes a first and second power amplifier stages and a number of tunable matching networks configured to optimize an impedance value based on the mode and band of the signal to be amplified. | 2011-03-17 |
20110065473 | ANGULAR VELOCITY CORRECTION DEVICE, ANGULAR VELOCITY CORRECTION METHOD, NAVIGATION DEVICE, AND CELLULAR PHONE HAVING NAVIGATION FUNCTION - An angular velocity correction device includes a horizontal angular velocity detection unit to detect horizontal axis angular velocity, that is mounted on a main unit attached to a moving object that moves along a predetermined movement surface, and that is made up of angular velocity around the horizontal axis which is orthogonal to the advancing direction of the moving object, occurring according to the inclination angle of the movement surface; a correction value generating unit to generate a correction value for correcting the horizontal axis angular velocity, based on the horizontal axis angular velocity that satisfies predetermined horizontal determining conditions of the horizontal axis angular velocity in the past; and a correction unit to correct the horizontal axis angular velocity using the correction value. | 2011-03-17 |
20110065474 | MOBILE TERMINAL - A mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a terminal main body having a touch screen, and a flip cover foldably coupled to the terminal main body and configured to have a closed state and an open state, the flip cover including a first solar cell disposed on a front surface, a second solar cell disposed on a rear surface, and a display window, where the display window allows one region of the touch screen to be viewable in the closed state. | 2011-03-17 |