40th week of 2009 patent applcation highlights part 60 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20090247143 | MOBILE PHONE, AND METHOD OF LIMITING OPERATIONS OF MOBILE PHONE - The present invention provides a mobile phone which is capable of giving a high priority to communication with a party that corresponds to a particular phone number, and which is capable of allowing the settings of whether or not the priority function is to be enabled to be easily made. | 2009-10-01 |
20090247144 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MODIFYING SYSTEM FEATURES THEREOF - An exemplary communication apparatus includes at least one system feature. The communication apparatus includes a storage device, a motion sensor, and a controller. The storage device stores a plurality of system parameters for the at least one system feature. The motion sensor detects a movement of the communication apparatus and generates motion data in response to the movement. The controller receives the motion data and the system parameters. The controller selects a system parameter based on the motion data, and modify the at least one selected feature according to the selected parameter. | 2009-10-01 |
20090247145 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SOFTWARE UPDATE OF TERMINALS IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method of updating software of terminals in a mobile broadcast system is provided. The method includes creating an update command for terminals of a particular model, the update command including update information; and broadcasting the created update command. The update information includes software version information and at least one of terminal manufacturer information and terminal model information. Further, the method may further include, before broadcasting the created update command, forcibly requiring terminals subscribe to an update service; and creating and broadcasting an update file for terminals of the particular model from among the forcibly subscribed terminals. The software of the terminals may be firmware. | 2009-10-01 |
20090247146 | System and Method for Remote Asset Management - A remote asset management system comprising a network of programmable wireless modules, each having an antenna and an identification module and configured to communicate via a radio communication protocol. The system further includes a plurality of assets each linked to one of the programmable wireless modules and configured to be managed by the linked programmable wireless module. A remote system server service platform is configured to receive remote asset data from at least one of the programmable wireless modules, pass the remote asset data to and from the wireless modules, send messages to at least one of the programmable wireless modules, monitor the programmable wireless modules by requesting and receiving current mode information, and remotely program the programmable wireless modules. A data processing module located within the at least one programmable wireless module and configured to process messages received by the programmable wireless module, authenticate said message, analyze authenticated messages, and carry out asset management instructions included in the message. | 2009-10-01 |
20090247147 | Predictive Mobile Phone Service Disruption Service - Illustrative embodiments provide a computer implemented method, a data processing system and a computer program product for a predictive mobile phone service disruption service. In one illustrative embodiment, the computer implemented method comprises monitoring a cellular call of a caller, calculating a location and vector of the caller, and determining whether the caller is approaching a drop zone. The computer implemented method responsive to determining the caller is approaching a drop zone, estimates a duration of a loss of service, and responsive to determining the caller is approaching a drop zone, selectively notifying the caller. | 2009-10-01 |
20090247148 | TECHNIQUES FOR FEEDBACK IN CELLULAR SYSTEMS TO MITIGATE INTERFERENCE IN DOWNLINK - An embodiment of the present invention provides a method, comprising broadcasting base station (BS) channel allocation methods and supported interference mitigation techniques in a whole cell by the base station and reporting classification information by mobile stations (MSs) within the cell to said base station about their preferred interference mitigation (IM) techniques. | 2009-10-01 |
20090247149 | METHOD OF SUPPORTING MEASUREMENT IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method of supporting a measurement in a mobile communication system is disclosed, by which a measurement requested by a system can be smoothly performed without data loss in the course of receiving data for a specific service or control data. A UE decides a frequency or time interval necessary for measurement and then transmits information for the decided frequency or time interval to a radio network node. The radio network node controls a transmission of data to be transmitted to the UE using the received information for the frequency or time interval. | 2009-10-01 |
20090247150 | REPORTING MEASUREMENTS FROM A MOBILE STATION TO A NETWORK AND ASSOCIATED HANDOVER CONTROL METHOD - A mobile station receives dedicated signaling from the network to obtain measurement configuration data specified for it. The measurement configuration data stored in the mobile station include: measurement object elements each designating communication resources on which measurements are requested by the network; reporting configuration elements each defining reporting criteria to trigger a measurement report from the mobile station to the network and a reporting format indicating at least one quantity included in the measurement report; and measurement identity elements each identifying a relationship between a measurement object element and a reporting configuration element such that any measurement report sent from the mobile station in accordance with this reporting configuration element includes at least one quantity measured on communication resources designated by the corresponding measurement object element. Storage by the mobile station of at least one measurement identity element identifying a relationship between a stored element, being a measurement object element or a reporting configuration element, and an unspecified element is enabled. | 2009-10-01 |
20090247151 | INFORMATION PROVIDING SYSTEM FOR VEHICLE - A cellular phone accumulates input information, which is inputted by a user using the cellular phone located not only inside but also outside of a vehicle, as parent population data for interest extraction, and extracts interest information, which reflects a present interest of a user, from the parent population data for interest extraction. An in-vehicle information output apparatus internally or externally collects provision information, which matches the interest information extracted in the cellular phone, and provides the user with the collected provision information. | 2009-10-01 |
20090247152 | SYSTEMS, METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING DATA OVER A VOICE CHANNEL OF A WIRELESS TELEPHONE NETWORK USING MULTIPLE FREQUENCY SHIFT-KEYING MODULATION - The various embodiments described herein generally provide apparatus, systems and methods which facilitate the transmission of data between a client device and a remote device over a voice channel of a telephone network. More particularly, data from a client device is modulated into an audio signal using multiple frequency shift keying (MFSK) techniques and transmitted to the remote device over a voice channel of a wireless telephone network during a phone call. The frequency of the audio signal is selected based on the value of the data to be transmitted. The remote device receives the audio signal and determines the frequency of the audio signal to extract the transmitted data. | 2009-10-01 |
20090247153 | AUTOMATIC UPDATING OF A PREFERRED ROAMING LIST STORED IN A VEHICLE TELEMATICS UNIT - A method of updating a preferred roaming list (PRL) onboard a vehicle that wirelessly communicates with a call center and with a communications center over a wireless network. A communication link is established between the vehicle and the call center. A onboard PRL version number is transmitted from the vehicle to the call center where it is compared to a PRL version number stored at the call center. When the call center PRL version number differs from the onboard PRL version number, a PRL update flag is set at the vehicle. Thereafter, a communication link between the vehicle and the communication center is established. An updated PRL is downloaded from the communication center to the vehicle and stored therein, and the PRL update flag is then cleared. | 2009-10-01 |
20090247154 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PRESENCE DETERMINATION OF MOBILE DEVICES - A presence server for determining presence of a mobile station in a mobile network, including structure and/or function to: receive a request for a presence indication that the mobile station is active; send a first query into the mobile network based on the request; receive a response to the first query; and, if the response indicates the mobile station is active then: provide the presence indication; if the response indicates the mobile station is not active then: send a second query into the mobile network for establishing a notification trigger; receive a second query response based on the notification trigger; the second query response including the presence indication and being based on short message service (“SMS”); and provide the presence indication based on the second query response. | 2009-10-01 |
20090247155 | CONTROLLING HAND-OFF IN A MOBILE NODE WITH TWO MOBILE IP CLIENTS - Extending Mobile IP to support both local and remote access by using two MIP client stacks in the end node, a roaming Node in the local access network, a standard Home Agent in the remote network. Messages between the AR and the MN, and between the internal modules of the MN, are then used to control hand-off for each MIP client and to enable backwards compatibility with legacy remote access clients. | 2009-10-01 |
20090247156 | REFERENCE SIGNAL MANAGEMENT IN MOBILE SYSTEMS - A reference signal management (RSM) program executing on a mobile device detects multiple reference signals, allocates those reference signals into groups, and performs reference signal management functions using information conveyed in the reference signals. The RSM program detects both broadband and narrowband reference signals and maintains updated groups of reference signals that are transmitted from access points with independent configurations or different radio technologies. Battery power of the mobile device is efficiently used to manage reference signals in heterogeneous network environments by preventing unnecessary handoffs, overhead downloads, access probes and new registrations. Reference signals are managed from both synchronous and asynchronous sectors and in idle mode as well as in connected state mode. The RSM program performs functions such as managing handoffs between access points, managing an idle mode of the mobile device, managing an active group of the detected reference signals, and collecting overhead parameters for the mobile device. | 2009-10-01 |
20090247157 | FEMTO CELL SYSTEM SELECTION - Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate identifying and/or selecting femto cells in a wireless communication environment. A mobile device can scan an Auxiliary Pilot Channel to detect auxiliary pilot channel information (e.g., a particular Walsh Code, . . . ) sent from a base station. Moreover, the identified auxiliary pilot channel information can be evaluated to detect a characteristic of the base station. For instance, the identified auxiliary pilot channel information can be compared with stored auxiliary pilot channel information (e.g., Walsh Code(s) included in a whitelist, blacklist, . . . ). Moreover, a Synchronization Channel can be read based upon the detected characteristic. Further, a Common Pilot Channel, for example, can be analyzed to search for pseudo-noise (PN) offset(s) reserved for femto cell base stations, and the scan of the Auxiliary Pilot Channel can be initiated in response to detecting at least one reserved PN offset. | 2009-10-01 |
20090247158 | RADIO COMMUNICATION DEVICE, RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD AND RADIO RECORDING MEDIUM - A radio communication method for a radio communication device having a first communication unit and a second communication unit includes determining whether a connection between the radio communication device and a local-area radio network is in a difficult state while the radio communication device is connected to the local-area radio network by the second communication unit, obtaining position information through the started first communication unit, reading out communication set information recorded with the obtained position information that records communication set information, and the position information obtained from the base station at a position connectable to the local-area radio network associated with the communication set information relating with each other, and detecting a connectable local-area radio network based on the read communication set information when the communication determination unit determines that a connection between the radio communication device and a local-area radio network is in the difficult state. | 2009-10-01 |
20090247159 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FACILITATING EXECUTION OF AUTOMATIC NEIGHBOR RELATION FUNCTIONS - Methods and apparatuses for facilitating execution of automatic neighbor relation (ANR) functions are provided. A base station and operation and maintenance (OAM) system are disclosed. The base station receives neighbor cell detection data identifying neighbor cells detected by an access terminal. The base station also receives neighbor cell management data generated by the OAM system, which facilitates performing an ANR function. The base station then automatically updates a neighbor list according to the neighbor cell management data and the neighbor cell detection data. | 2009-10-01 |
20090247160 | METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING SEARCH COMMUNICATION NETWORK BY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS TERMINAL - The present invention relates to a method for optimizing a search of a Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN) by a mobile terminal having a nonvolatile memory and a Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) card. The method includes: searching for a PLMN based on priority information registered in the SIM; regarding the PLMN that has been found, determining whether the SIM card includes any priority information about at least one particular radio access technology associated with the PLMN; when priority information is included, selecting a cell of the PLMN; when priority information is not included, determining whether the nonvolatile memory includes any information about at least one particular radio access technology to be selected on a priority basis in a country of the PLMN; when priority information is included, selecting a cell of the PLMN for which the particular radio access technology has been developed; and when priority information is not included, selecting a cell where a radio access technology, which is set beforehand by default in the nonvolatile memory for all countries that are not listed in the nonvolatile memory, has been developed. | 2009-10-01 |
20090247161 | METHOD OF SUPPORTING CELL RESELECTION IN AN EVOLVED HSPA NETWORK - A method and apparatus of supporting cell reselection in an evolved HSPA network is disclosed. A wireless transmit receive unit that has allocated channel resources, is restricted from cell reselection until a predetermined criteria is met. During this no selection period, the WTRU continues to make and report measurements. | 2009-10-01 |
20090247162 | COMMUNICATION CONTROLLING APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION CONTROLLING METHOD - A communication controlling apparatus includes a track information storage unit that has stored therein track information including tracks passing through a management area of the communication controlling apparatus and shift patterns indicative of which cell and in what order the handover is preferably executed for when a mobile device moves on the tracks defined in a correlated manner; and a movement speed determining unit that determines whether a movement speed of the mobile device is equal to a predetermined speed or more. The apparatus also includes a track determining unit that determines a track including the mobile device in motion by extracting from the track information a track including a cell the mobile device belongs to in the shift pattern if the movement speed determining unit determines that a movement speed of the mobile device is equal to a predetermined speed or more. | 2009-10-01 |
20090247163 | RADIO COMMUNICATION BASE STATION DEVICE - Provided is a radio communication base station device capable of reducing a message size in a call connection. In the device, a report information creation unit ( | 2009-10-01 |
20090247164 | HANDOFF ALGORITHM AND ARCHITECTURE FOR MOBILE SYSTEM - A reference signal and handoff management (RSHM) program executing on a mobile device detects reference signals, allocates them into groups, and performs handoffs between synchronous and asynchronous sectors. Sectors are allocated to an active group. Sectors from the active group that satisfy a channel quality constraint are allocated to a second group. Sectors from the second group that satisfy a link budget constraint are allocated to a third group. The RSHM program calculates a weighted characteristic of the forward and reverse links of sectors in the third group. The RSHM program performs handoffs from current serving sectors to sectors having the largest weighted characteristic that exceeds the weighted characteristic of the current serving sector by an hysteresis amount. Battery power of the mobile device is efficiently used to perform handoffs and to manage reference signals in heterogeneous network environments by preventing unnecessary handoffs, overhead downloads, access probes and new registrations. | 2009-10-01 |
20090247165 | CELLULAR COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OPERATION THEREFOR - A cellular communication system comprises a core network, a first access network not supporting circuit switched services and a second access network supporting circuit switched services. A user equipment detects that an application using circuit switched communication is initiated and accordingly initiates a reselection from the first to the second access network. The user equipment transmits a location update message to a circuit switch mobile switching centre of the core network which in response notifies a mobility management entity for the first access network that the access network reselection has been initiated. In response to the notification the mobility management entity initiates a change of a routing association from being with the first access network to being with the second access network. The invention may e.g. allow improved circuit switched fallback for a 3 | 2009-10-01 |
20090247166 | MEASURING NEIGHBORING CELL LOADING IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS - Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate detecting cell interference and/or loading by analyzing control data transmitted between devices communicating in the cell. Control data resources can be transmitted related to communication received over data channels, and the control data resources can comprise quality indicators related to the data as well as resource identifiers that specify a resource over the data channel related to the data. Multiple control data resources can be transmitted per communication specifying a beginning and ending resource identifier of related data channel resources. If this control data is decodable at a wireless device, the associated resources corresponding to the resource identifiers can be marked as interfered and/or avoided in subsequent communication or resource allocation requests by the wireless device. | 2009-10-01 |
20090247167 | WIRELESS DEVICE - A wireless device and technology operable to optimize communications during an emergency is disclosed. The wireless device can detect communication congestion in a base station, and search for alternate base stations that can provide annunciation information during the emergency. If a suitable base station can be found, handoff is made and the annunciation information is acquired. | 2009-10-01 |
20090247168 | MOBILE STATION, BASE STATION, MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A mobile station, a base station, a mobile communication system and a communication method enabling operations associated with simultaneous uplink reception in multiple stations to be simplified are provided. The base station includes a transmission timing determining unit determining a transmission timing based on scheduling conducted upon a data transmission request from a mobile station and notifying the mobile station of the transmission timing, and a receiving unit receiving data in accordance with the transmission timing. | 2009-10-01 |
20090247169 | Base Transceiver Station, Mobile Station, And Wireless Communication Method - A base transceiver station used in a wireless communication system in which the location of each base transceiver station antenna is included in a coverage area of another base transceiver station antenna, the base transceiver station including a measuring unit measuring a distance between a mobile station and a base transceiver station antenna to which the mobile station is communicatively connected. The base transceiver station includes a switching unit switching the communication connection of the mobile station to another base transceiver station antenna when the distance measured by the measuring unit becomes less than or equal to a predetermined value. | 2009-10-01 |
20090247170 | POWER EFFICIENT SMALL BASE STATION SCANNING AND ACQUISITION - Cellular network may introduce a large number of limited access/limited range (“small”) base stations deployed by end-users such as home base nodes (HNBs) or Femtocells that provide access to access terminals (ATs) or user equipment (UE) to a core network. A selective discovery approach enables UE to discover and to use a small base station without wasting power to discover an alien base station or to search when not within range of any open small base station. Discovery can entail location-dependent determination (e.g., macro base station triangulation, global positioning system, local broadcast channel, etc.) of being within range of an open femtocell whose identity was manually learned, accessed via a distributed neighbor list, etc. The UE can advantageously tolerate small changes in location without having to relearn the identity of the femtocell. The type of access afforded is advantageously communicated to end user via a display indicator. | 2009-10-01 |
20090247171 | TRANSMISSION METHOD, WIRELESS BASE STATION, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD - A transmission method that can implement efficient communication control. A transmission block sends a signal of a first frequency band allocated to each zone, by a first directive beam which covers the entire zone, in a first time slot of a predetermined period and sends a signal of a second frequency band which contains the first frequency band and has a greater width than the first frequency band, by a second directive beam which covers a part of the zone and has a smaller beam width than the first directive beam, in a second time slot of the predetermined period. | 2009-10-01 |
20090247172 | LOW REUSE PREAMBLE FOR A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK - Techniques for sending low reuse preambles in a wireless network are described. In an aspect, a base station may send a low reuse preamble on reserved frequency resources to allow terminals to detect the base station even in the presence of strong interfering base stations. The base station may generate the low reuse preamble to include a pilot portion and a data portion. The base station may determine frequency resources reserved for sending low reuse preambles by base stations. The base station may then send the low reuse preamble on the reserved frequency resources, e.g., at a pseudo-randomly selected time. A terminal may detect for low reuse preambles sent by the base stations on the reserved frequency resources. The terminal may recover information for a base station from a detected low reuse preamble. | 2009-10-01 |
20090247173 | CHANNEL FREQUENCY REUSE FOR NARROW BEAM VIDEO STREAMING BASED UPON MOBILE TERMINAL LOCATION INFORMATION - Transmitting streamed video to at least one wireless terminal by a wireless network having a channel frequency reuse pattern. The wireless network receives a request for the streamed video from the at least one wireless terminal and receives position information from the at least one wireless terminal requesting the streamed video. The wireless network selects a transceiving device to service transmission of the streamed video to the at least one wireless terminal. The transceiving device is allocated a first channel frequency set of the channel frequency reuse pattern. The wireless network or a component thereof selects a channel from a second channel frequency set that is different from the first channel frequency set. The transceiving device then, using a directional antenna, transmits the streamed video to the at least one wireless terminal in a direction based upon the position information using the selected channel. | 2009-10-01 |
20090247174 | UPLINK ACK/NAK RESOURCE ALLOCATION - Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate allocating uplink resources to mobile devices to employ to signal acknowledgment indicators. Persistently scheduled mobile devices can be explicitly assigned uplink resources. Dynamically scheduled mobile device can utilize a one-to-one mapping to identify uplink resources based upon a downlink control channel index. The one-to-one mapping can be revised to remove associations between downlink control channel indices and resources allocated to persistently scheduled users and/or reserved for other control signaling in a mixed resource block. In addition, downlink control channel indices can be selected to avoid collisions between dynamic and persistent users. | 2009-10-01 |
20090247175 | System and Method for Downlink Control Signal Structure for Multi-User MIMO - A system and method for downlink control signal structure for multi-user MIMO is provided. A method comprises selecting a set of mobile stations (MSs) to receive substantially simultaneously transmitted transmissions, and transmitting interference control information and data to each mobile station (MS) in the set of MSs. A number of MSs in the set of MSs is less than a maximum allowable number of simultaneously scheduled MSs, and an amount of interference control information and a type of interference control information transmitted is based on the number of MSs in the set of MSs and the maximum allowable number of simultaneously scheduled MSs. | 2009-10-01 |
20090247176 | MANAGEMENT OF WIRELESS CONNECTIONS - Techniques for signaling whether or not a radio resource control (RRC) connection should be maintained are provided. The signaling may be provided, for example, in existing NAS transport messages, or in separate messages. The signaling may be provided in the uplink and/or downlink direction. | 2009-10-01 |
20090247177 | ADAPTING DECISION PARAMETER FOR REACTING TO RESOURCE UTILIZATION MESSAGES - An adaptable decision parameter is used to determine whether to react to resource utilization messages. The decision parameter may comprise a decision threshold that is adapted based on received resource utilization messages. The decision parameter may comprise a probability that is used to determine whether to react to a received resource utilization message. Such a probability may be based on, for example, one or more channel conditions, the number of interferers seen by a node, the number of received resource utilization messages, or some other form of resource utilization message-related information. | 2009-10-01 |
20090247178 | Apparatus and method for scheduling packets - An apparatus comprising a controller for controlling radio communication using communication resources for user data communication, and control resources for controlling communication on the communication resources, an allocator for allocating mobile stations to use at least one of a dynamic allocation and a persistent allocation, each allocation defining a different utilization of the control resources and communication resources, a monitor for monitoring one or more reallocation conditions associated with at least one of the dynamic allocation and the persistent allocation, and a reallocator configured to reallocate at least one mobile station if one of the one or more reallocation conditions is fulfilled. | 2009-10-01 |
20090247179 | Systems and Methods for Digital Processing of Satellite Communications Data - A digital payload for processing a sub-band spectrum received on an uplink beam at a communications satellite includes a digital channelizer, a digital switch matrix and a digital combiner. The digital channelizer divides the sub-band spectrum into a plurality of frequency slices that can be routed by the digital switch matrix to any of a number of receiving ports. A digital combiner receives the frequency slices and re-assembles them to form one or more output sub-bands for transmission on an output beam of the communications satellite. The digital payload may also include an embeddable digital regeneration module configured to demodulate some or all of the sub-band spectrum to extract a digital bitstream therefrom. The digital bitstream may be processed to implement code-based multiplexing, switching, access control, and other features. | 2009-10-01 |
20090247180 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DECIDING UPLINK TRANSMISSION PARAMETERS - An apparatus for determining uplink transmission parameters includes a reception unit receiving a channel quality indicator from a mobile station; a storage unit storing relationships among a channel quality indicator, a modulation scheme and a channel coding rate for an uplink, and one or both of transmission power and transmission bandwidth for a mobile station; a determination unit determining a set of transmission parameters based on the relationship; and a transmission unit transmitting the set of transmission parameters to the mobile station. | 2009-10-01 |
20090247181 | LONG-TERM INTERFERENCE MITIGATION IN AN ASYNCHRONOUS WIRELESS NETWORK - Techniques for mitigating interference in a wireless communication network are described. A terminal may desire to communicate with a weaker serving base station and may observe high interference from a strong interfering base station. The two base stations may be asynchronous and have different frame timing. In an aspect, high interference may be mitigated by having the interfering base station reserve downlink and/or uplink resources. The interfering base station may transmit at a low power level or not at all on the reserved downlink resources to reduce interference to the terminal. Terminals served by the interfering base station may transmit at a low power level or not at all on the reserved uplink resources to reduce interference at the serving base station. The terminal may then be able to communicate with the serving base station. | 2009-10-01 |
20090247182 | BASE STATION APPARATUS AND CHANNEL ALLOCATION METHOD - A base station includes an adaptive control unit for obtaining weights (w | 2009-10-01 |
20090247183 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LOCATING A VOICE OVER INTERNET PROTOCOL (VoIP) DEVICE USING A GEOMAGNETIC SENSOR - Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to a system and method for receiving first location information associated with a VoIP device having one or more geomagnetic sensor, wherein the first location information is determined using the one or more geomagnetic sensors based at least in part on the Earth's magnetic field, determining second location information associated with the VoIP device based at least in part on the first location information; storing the second location information in one or more databases; and transmitting the second location information to the VoIP device to establish a service. | 2009-10-01 |
20090247184 | LOCALIZED DETECTION OF MOBILE DEVICES - Various aspects are disclosed herein for detection of mobile devices. Detection of mobile devices can be localized to an environment that is radio frequency enclosed. Within this environment, any packages can be scanned for the presence of mobile devices and for the interrogation of information from such mobile devices, such as the mobile device number and mobile device equipment information. The environment can contain an antenna for communicating with any mobile devices within the environment and a receiver component configured to receive information from any contacted mobile device. Based on this information, a determination can be made whether to validate a contacted mobile device or to take any alternative action. | 2009-10-01 |
20090247185 | CLUSTER-BASED FINGERPRINTING ALGORITHMS - Methods and apparatus to provide cluster-based fingerprinting algorithms are described. In one embodiment, m closest fingerprints from k fingerprints are determined. The k fingerprints may be determined as closest fingerprints to a scan s in a signal strength domain, where the scan s is of an environment surrounding a wireless device. The center of mass of the m fingerprints may be used to determine a location estimation for the wireless device. Other embodiments are also described. | 2009-10-01 |
20090247186 | Dynamic Localization Using Geographical Information Systems - In accordance with certain embodiments of the present disclosure, a system to determine the geographic location of a mobile device is described. The system comprises a mobile device. The mobile device comprises a measurement module, the measurement module being capable of detecting information including the direction and acceleration of the mobile device, the mobile device further being capable of determining the received signal strength from at least one access point. The system further comprises at least one access point being in communication with the mobile device. The at least one access point comprises a database module and a location determination module, the database module including data from a geographic information system, the data relating to the potential geographic locations adjacent to the at least one access point, the location determination module being capable of determining the geographic location of the mobile device based on information from the measurement module, received signal strength by the mobile device, and data from the database module. | 2009-10-01 |
20090247187 | INFRARED, TOUCH SCREEN, W-CDMA, GSM, GPS CAMERA PHONE - System and method for receiving and transmitting one or more signals, for processing and generating signals used in an infrared (IR) system, in a cellular system and in a separate Wi-Fi wireless network. Receiver and demodulator for demodulating and processing a modulated signal for generating from a modulated signal a demodulated processed position finder signal, including Global Positioning System (GPS) position finder processed signal. Processors and selector for selection of processed TDMA, CDMA and OFDM signals and for providing selected TDMA or CDMA or OFDM or IR signal to a transmitter. Processors for providing cross-correlated GSM, or cross-correlated spread spectrum, or cross-correlated Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex (OFDM) baseband signals to quadrature modulators for modulation and transmission. System with multiple input multiple output (MIMO) implementations. Transmitters and receivers for Bluetooth systems and barcode reader provided signals. Processors and receivers for processing touch screen generated signals used for IR, OFDM or TDMA or CDMA systems. | 2009-10-01 |
20090247188 | IP phone routing and call initiation based on location information - Routing an incoming call for an IP phone system is disclosed. A location data for a mobile device is received. A way point based at least in part on the location data is determined. A state for a user of the IP phone system is determined based at least in part on the way point. An incoming call is routed to the IP phone system based at least in part on the state. | 2009-10-01 |
20090247189 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINATION OF MOBILE DEVICES IN OR PROXIMATE TO AN ALERT AREA - Systems and methods for determining whether a mobile device is within a specified area and for providing information related to the mobile device are disclosed. A request may be received which inquires as to whether any mobile devices are within an alert area. The request may include a description of the alert area and other preferences or indications. The relevant devices may be determined, as well as related information such as user information. The relevant information may be provided to the requester by any effective means and in any effective format. | 2009-10-01 |
20090247190 | ADVERTISING INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD, ADVERTISING INFORMATION PROVIDING SYSTEM, ADVERTISING INFORMATION PROVIDING PROGRAM AND ADVERTISING INFORMATION RANKING PROGRAM - By using the location information of a wireless communication terminal, an advertising information display method, etc. is provided to display on a display, highly useful advertising information, that is, advertising information of an advertising information transmission source, which is located at a location that is close to the location at which the user of the wireless communication terminal is present. This advertising information display method, which displays, on a display | 2009-10-01 |
20090247191 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING PREVIOUS OCCUPATION IN OR PROXIMATE TO AN ALERT AREA - Systems and methods for determining whether a mobile device was within a specified area and for providing a location history of a mobile device are disclosed. A request may be received from a device which inquires about the location history of a mobile device. The request may include a time period and/or a location. The relevant location history of the device may be determined and provided in response. A request may also be received which inquires whether a mobile device was within a known alert area. The location history of the device may be correlated to the alert area and a response provided. | 2009-10-01 |
20090247192 | SYSTEM FOR MOBILE ADVANCED MATCHING - A system is described for mobile advanced matching. The system may include a processor, a memory and an interface being operatively connected. The memory may store advertisements and a request. The interface may communicate with a user on a mobile device associated with a mobile carrier. The processor may associate the advertisements with one or more content types. The content types may describe the content of the advertisements. The processor may receive a request for items of a content type from the user via the interface. The processor may identify the content type of the items. The processor may determine an advertisement associated with the content type of the items. The processor may provide the advertisement to the user via the interface. | 2009-10-01 |
20090247193 | System and Method for Creating Anonymous User Profiles from a Mobile Data Network - A mobile network device creates and continuously modifies an anonymous user profile from collected network data and subsequently shares the profile with content providers. The mobile network device includes multiple collector devices that monitor data from routers on the mobile data network for application-level activity and a corresponding IP address or mobile phone number. The collectors then analyze the content involved with the activity and correlate it to an IP-address-phone-number pair to create a user profile. Each collector then modifies the user profile with the user's location information at the time the activity was requested. Each collector subsequently transforms the user profile into an anonymous user profile vector and shares it with the profile manager. By repeating this process over time, the collectors create and modify an anonymous user profile vector that can be shared with content providers for targeted advertising. | 2009-10-01 |
20090247194 | System and method for transmitting messages between a platform and a set of terminals - A method for transmitting messages over a telecommunications network between a service platform ( | 2009-10-01 |
20090247195 | MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS - There is provided a method of enhancing a hard copy consumable printed item such as a greeting card or a calendar, with a digital package supported by a multi-media system, comprising the steps of: generating a digital package comprising digital content and/or services; making the digital package accessible to the multi-media system; manufacturing the printed item and including with the printed item a unique set of codes; storing in the multi-media system a mapping between the unique set of codes and the digital package; providing access to the digital packages to users of the printed items using the multi-media system on submission of the codes to the multi-media system. In this way the hard copy consumable is enhanced by a digital package which might include the ability to download pre-paid digital content and/or to access digital services. | 2009-10-01 |
20090247196 | MOBILE TERMINAL FOR PERFORMING INSTANT MESSAGING SERVICE - A method of executing an instant messaging service using a wireless terminal in a wireless communication system includes associating at least one user as a messenger group, activating messenger communication with a server, transmitting a messenger group status activation message to the server, receiving status data associated with the messenger group, and displaying information representing an updated status of the at least one user of the messenger group based on the status data. | 2009-10-01 |
20090247197 | CREATING ONLINE RESOURCES USING INFORMATION EXCHANGED BETWEEN PAIRED WIRELESS DEVICES - A database of family, friends and professional network relationships are established through the exchange of unique identifiers between paired mobile devices using wireless technology. The paired mobile devices exchange information related to the users' identities. The mobile device users can independently upload the exchanged information through one or more access points to an online service. The online service uses the uploaded information to create online resources for the users. | 2009-10-01 |
20090247198 | Method and Apparatus for Blocking ID Information Associated with a Sender of a Short Messaging Service (SMS) Message - A component of the wireless network detects when a party who is sending an electronic message desires to have the sender's ID information blocked. If a determination is made that the sender's ID information is to be blocked, the network component removes the ID information from the communication and transmits the message to the intended recipient without the sender's ID information being included in the transmission. | 2009-10-01 |
20090247199 | RADIO POWER-FED TERMINAL, SYSTEM, AND METHOD - A power-fed terminal includes a first reception unit receiving, from another terminal, first information containing at least one frequency candidate that fails to be used by any other communication system, the frequency candidate being used for transmitting a first microwave, a second reception unit receiving the first microwave transmitted by the another terminal using the frequency candidate, a conversion unit converts an energy of the first microwave into a first DC energy, a transmission unit transmitting, to the another terminal, second information containing an optimum frequency corresponding to a maximum energy of the first DC energy, wherein the second reception unit receives a second microwave transmitted based on the second information by the another terminal, the conversion unit converts an energy of the second microwave into a second DC energy, the terminal further includes a secondary cell acquiring the second DC energy at the optimum frequency. | 2009-10-01 |
20090247200 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING SIGNALS IN A DISTRIBUTED ANTENNA SYSTEM - An apparatus and method for processing signals in a distributed antenna system. The method includes receiving, by a Base Station (BS), Channel State Information (CSI) from Mobile Stations (MSs) located within a coverage area of the BS or a coverage of Relay Stations (RSs) connected to the BS; multiplying signals for transmission to the MSs by beamforming vectors by using the CSI; and transmitting the multiplied signals to the MSs. | 2009-10-01 |
20090247201 | DYNAMIC ALLOCATION OF SPECTRUM SENSING RESOURCES IN COGNITIVE RADIO NETWORKS - A method, wireless controller, and information processing system are provided to dynamically allocate spectrum sensing resources. A first input ( | 2009-10-01 |
20090247202 | SYSTEM FOR RANGING BASED ON PARTITIONED RADIO RESOURCE - A method for ranging in a wireless communication system and a communication apparatus and/or system using the same are provided. A base station (BS) device includes a terminal grouping unit to group terminals associated with the BS device into a plurality of groups, a radio resource assignment unit to allocate a radio resource assigned to the BS device to each of the plurality of groups, a transmission unit to transmit information about a radio resource assigned to a first group of the plurality of groups to a terminal included in the first group, and a receiving unit to receive a ranging signal from the terminal using the radio resource assigned to the first group, wherein the terminal grouping unit assigns the terminal to be included in a second group of the plurality of groups where the ranging signal is not received by the receiving unit. | 2009-10-01 |
20090247203 | Method and Apparatus for Improving DRX Functionality - A method for improving Discontinuous Reception (DRX) Functionality in a user equipment (UE) of a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method includes steps of receiving a Radio Resource Control (RRC) message, which contains a DRX Configuration Information Element (IE drx-Configuration), activating a DRX functionality according to the IE drx-Configuration, and starting monitor a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) until a PDCCH signaling addressed to the UE is received. | 2009-10-01 |
20090247204 | Dynamic Allocation Of Communications Resources - In a communications spectrum shared by public safety users and commercial users, in the event of an emergency condition, commercial users are preempted and corresponding bandwidth is reallocated to authorized public safety users. When the emergency condition subsides, the reallocated bandwidth is made available for commercial use. Reallocation and preemption can be initiated by an authorized public safety entity and/or can be initiated when public safety usage exceeds a predetermined usage threshold. | 2009-10-01 |
20090247205 | Management Of Preemptable Communications Resources - In a communications spectrum shared by public safety users and commercial users, in the event of an emergency condition, commercial users are preempted and corresponding resources are reallocated to authorized public safety users. When the emergency condition subsides, the reallocated resources are again made available for commercial use. In an example configuration, resources and associated attributes including preemptability status are maintained in a Base Station Controller (BSC), Radio Network Controller (RNC), and/or Radio Resource Control (RRC) of a communications network. | 2009-10-01 |
20090247206 | DYNAMIC BOOLEAN CHANNEL MASKS - Systems and methods are provided to establish a set of dynamic channel masks that select channels to be scanned in a wireless environment during a mobile terminal roaming. The set of channel masks is associated with a set of scan groups determined through a Boolean operation applied to a set of scan variables determined via data indicators that reflect channel quality and/or presence in the vicinity of the mobile terminal. Regardless of actual access point geometric configuration in a quasi-two-dimensional coverage plan, a universal set of three scan groups can be determined. In addition to the universal set, a fail-safe set is computed in order to ensure successful scanning in various roaming scenarios. Quality of service indicators like communication reliability and battery performance can be improved by successively scanning the universal scan groups during roaming. | 2009-10-01 |
20090247207 | Device and Method for Participating in a Peer-to-Peer Network - A device for participating in a distributed peer-to-peer communications network has a distributed network application that includes a capability-routing entity having capability information for a group of associated peers participating in the network. A method for establishing peer-to-peer communication in the network including determining which of the group of associated peers can fulfil the requested connection based in the capability information and referring the request to the peer that can fulfil the connection. | 2009-10-01 |
20090247208 | TECHNIQUE FOR CONTROLLING POINT-TO-MULTIPOINT DATA TRANSMISSIONS - A technique for controlling a point-to-multipoint (PTM) transmission of data over a PTM-enabled network ( | 2009-10-01 |
20090247209 | ENHANCING UPLINK LINK BUDGET IN OFDMA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - Methods and apparatus to enhance uplink link budget in Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) communication systems are described. In one embodiment, a wireless device may increase its transmit power and/or perform subchannel repetition (e.g., in a WiMAX environment) based on at least one indication by an access point. Other embodiments are also described. | 2009-10-01 |
20090247210 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, BASE STATION APPARATUS, MOBILE STATION APPARATUS, TRANSMISSION POWER CONTROL METHOD AND INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM - In a mobile communication system performing the space division multiplex, the wireless resources are saved as much as possible and the reception powers of communication signals, which are received by a base station apparatus from mobile station apparatuses, are evened. A mobile communication system wherein each of mobile station apparatuses ( | 2009-10-01 |
20090247211 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING A TRANSMISSION POWER - A base station is configured to be able to set appropriate transmission power of an uplink wireless channel used for a plurality of mobile stations to share wireless resources and to transmit data. | 2009-10-01 |
20090247212 | FAST ADAPTIVE POWER CONTROL FOR A VARIABLE MULTIRATE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - A system and a method of controlling transmitter power in a wireless communication system in which user data is processed as a multirate signal in which the user data signal having a first rate is converted into a transmission data signal having a faster second rate for transmission. The transmission power is adjusted on a relatively slow basis based on quality of data received by a receiver of the transmitted data. The transmitter power is determined as a function of the first and second rates such that a change in the data rate in the multiple channels or the rate of the transmission data signal is compensated in advance of a quality of data based adjustment associated with such data rate change. Preferably, the user data signal having the first rate is converted into the transmission data signal having the second faster rate by repeating selected data bits whereby the energy per bit to noise spectrum density ratio is increased in the transmission data signal. | 2009-10-01 |
20090247213 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FREQUENCY-SHIFT BASED CHIP-TO-CHIP COMMUNICATIONS - Aspects of a method and system for frequency-shift based chip-to-chip communications may include receiving and/or generating modulation control information and demodulation control information within a chip comprising one or more receivers and one or more transmitters. One or more modulation frequencies may be adjusted and utilized to generate transmit signals by the one or more transmitters based on the received modulation control information, wherein the one or more modulation frequencies may be distinct. One or more demodulation frequencies may be adjusted and utilized to generate intermediate frequency signals by the one or more receivers based on the received demodulation control information wherein the one or more demodulation frequencies may be distinct. The modulation control information and the demodulation control information may be received via a communication device comprising said chip. | 2009-10-01 |
20090247214 | Precoding Matrix Index Feedback Interaction with Discontinuous Reception - A user equipment (UE) is provided that includes a processor configured to transmit a preceding matrix index (PMI) using one of an assigned periodic PMI reporting resource that precisely aligns with the start of an on-duration of a discontinuous reception (DRX) operation mode of the UE and a first assigned periodic PMI reporting resource after the start of an on-duration of a discontinuous reception (DRX) operation mode of the UE. | 2009-10-01 |
20090247215 | Portable device and information management method - A portable device and an information management method are provided whereby personal information can be safely shared between two systems. Each entry of telephone directory information includes callee identification information identifying a callee to be called by mobile phone function and is readable from and updatable by an information processor. Use restriction information shows availability of each telephone directory information entry and includes read permission information indicating whether each telephone directory information entry can be read out or not. When a request to read out an entry of the telephone directory information is received from another information processor, a use restriction processor looks up the use restriction information corresponding to the requested entry of the telephone directory information and, if readout of the requested entry is permitted, permits the requested entry of the telephone directory information to be read out and provided to the information processor. | 2009-10-01 |
20090247216 | COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A communication system includes: sender-side communication equipment including a detection unit configured to detect information indicating the condition of a user, and a transmission unit configured to transmit information indicating the condition of the user detected through the detection unit to a communication partner; and receiver-side communication equipment including a reception unit configured to receive information indicating the condition of the user transmitted from the sender-side communication equipment, a notification unit configured to notify the condition corresponding to the condition of the user received through the reception unit, and a control unit configured to control the notification unit based on information indicating the condition of the user received through the reception unit. | 2009-10-01 |
20090247217 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS CAPABLE OF BLUETOOTH, WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORK (WLAN) AND WIMAX COMMUNICATIONS - The invention provides an apparatus capable of wireless communications. In one embodiment, the apparatus comprises a packet traffic arbitration (PTA) module and a first wireless transceiving module, and the first wireless transceiving module is connected to the PTA module via a wire. The first wireless transceiving module sends a first request for performing a first signal transceiving to the PTA module via the wire, receives a first response to the first request via the wire, and performs the first signal transceiving when the first response indicates that the first request has been granted by the PTA module. | 2009-10-01 |
20090247218 | TERMINAL AND METHOD OF IMPROVING INTERFERENCE IN A TERMINAL - A terminal and method of improving interference in a terminal are provided, by which interference generated from implementing a plurality of wireless communication technologies can be improved. The terminal includes a first communication module implemented by a first wireless communication technology and a controller determining that interference is generated by at least one of the first wireless communication technology or a second wireless communication technology and performing an operation to improve the generated interference, the second wireless communication technology implementing a second communication module provided in the terminal or in a different terminal. | 2009-10-01 |
20090247219 | METHOD OF GENERATING A FUNCTION OUTPUT FROM A PHOTOGRAPHED IMAGE AND RELATED MOBILE COMPUTING DEVICE - To perform a search, or other function, based on input from a camera in a mobile computing device, the camera of the mobile computing device captures an image, an area corresponding to text or another searchable object in the image is selected or determined, the text in the area is recognized to generate a plurality of characters, or a string, the plurality of characters or the object becomes input for the function, and output of the function is displayed in a display of the mobile computing device. | 2009-10-01 |
20090247220 | TERMINAL AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING BROADCASTING THEREIN - A mobile terminal including a user input unit configured to select a first broadcast channel, and a controller configured to buffer broadcast data relevant to at least one second broadcast channel different than the first broadcast channel for a predetermined time if the first broadcast channel is selected and to stop buffering the broadcast data relevant to the at least one second broadcast channel when the predetermined time expires. | 2009-10-01 |
20090247221 | Sending A Message To A Number Via A Coded Surface - A method of sensing a message to a number using a print medium is disclosed. The method starts by sensing coded data on a surface of the print medium using a sensor module of a mobile telecommunications device. From the coded information a print media identifier and a position of the sensor module relative to the print medium are determined. Next, using the print media identifier and the position, the number is obtained from a database. Finally, a message editor is opened in the mobile telecommunications device, with a current message being addressed to the number. | 2009-10-01 |
20090247222 | Method And System For Providing A User Interface That Enables Control Of A Device Via Respiratory And/Or Tactual Input - A method and system are provided for a user interface that enables control of a device via respiratory and/or tactual input. A mobile device comprising a graphical user interface may receive data from a second device and/or locally from within the mobile device. The data may be associated with and/or mapped to multimedia content that may be retrievable from a content source. The content source may be external to the mobile device and the second device. The associating and/or mapping may occur at either the mobile device or the second device and the associated or mapped data may be operable to function as at least a portion of the graphical user interface of the mobile device. The graphical user interface may be customized utilizing the data that is associated and/or mapped to the media content. The second device may map the received data to the media content. | 2009-10-01 |
20090247223 | Rank Indicator Transmission During Discontinuous Reception - A user equipment (UE) is disclosed. The UE includes a processor configured to transmit a rank indicator (RI) using one of an assigned periodic RI reporting resource that precisely aligns with the start on an on-duration of a discontinuous reception (DRX) operation mode of the UE and a first assigned periodic RI reporting resource after the start of the on-duration. | 2009-10-01 |
20090247224 | Pluggable Input Device for Chiral Customization of a Mobile Phone - A method of attaching a removable user interface (UI) input device to a mobile phone in a handedness-neutral manner is presented. The method includes incorporating a left-side module socket and a right-side module socket into a mobile phone, such that the left-side module socket is oriented on a left side of the mobile phone, the right-side module socket is oriented on a right side of the mobile phone, and the left-side module socket and the right-side module socket are each capable of electrically and physically coupling with a removable user interface (UI) input device. The UI input device is then selectively coupled to the left-side module socket or the right-side module socket according to a left or right handedness of a user of the mobile phone. | 2009-10-01 |
20090247225 | Data Entry Systems - A data entry system includes a hand held data entry unit having a reading sensor for sensing commands and/or data, rewritable storage for storing information relating to selectable items, a controller (a microprocessor or other processing circuitry) and a display screen for displaying a user readable representation of the commands and/or stored information for a selected item, and a telecommunication interface for the telephonic transmission of information relating to a selected item or items from the storage to a remote processing center and for the telephonic information relating to selectable items from the remote processing center to the storage. Preferably a telecommunications interface is provided in the hand held unit for cellular or other wireless telephony systems. The hand held unit can be configured to combine the data entry functions with those of audio telephony. | 2009-10-01 |
20090247226 | Printing Content using a Mobile Device - A mobile telecommunications device for printing bill data on a print medium is disclosed. The mobile telecommunications device includes a sensor module for sensing data encoded on a surface of the print medium. A print media identifier is determined from the sensed data and bill data associated with the print media identifier is retrieved from a storage medium. A printer module is also provided for printing the bill data on the print medium. | 2009-10-01 |
20090247227 | Retrieving Contact Details Using A Printed Medium - A method is disclosed of retrieving contact details using a print medium. The method determines a print media identifier from the print medium using a sensor module of a mobile telecommunications device. The print media identifier is linked to the contact details. The mobile telecommunications device is then used to retrieve the contact details. | 2009-10-01 |
20090247228 | BOOSTED, DEDICATED REFERENCE SIGNAL - A base station forming part of a cellular communications system includes a reference signal generator, a boost selector and a transmitter. The reference signal generator provides a dedicated reference signal to be transmitted over plural antennas to a dedicated user device. The boost selector selects a dedicated boost level specific for the dedicated reference signal and the transmitter transmits the dedicated reference signal boosted by its dedicated boost level to the user device. A user equipment device includes a receiver, a boost determiner and a data demodulator. The receiver receives a dedicated reference signal transmitted by a base station where the dedicated reference signal has been boosted by a dedicated boost level specific to the user device. The boost determiner determines the dedicated boost level and the data demodulator demodulates a data signal from the base station using the dedicated boost level and a channel estimation value. | 2009-10-01 |
20090247229 | Method for Selecting Antennas in a Wireless Networks - A method selects antennas in a wireless network including a base station and one or more transceivers. The base station specifies times, subcarriers and subsets of antennas to use to transmit sounding reference signals (SRS) to the base station. Then, the transceiver transmits the SRS according to the specified times and subcarriers using different subsets of the set antennas. The SRS are received in the base station, and the base station selects one of the different subset of the antennas based on the received SRS, and indicates the selected subset of the antennas to the transceiver. | 2009-10-01 |
20090247230 | PHYSICAL FEEDBACK TO INDICATE OBJECT DIRECTIONAL SLIDE - A method, system, and medium are provided for enabling a user to control a mobile communications device that includes a vibration component. One embodiment of the method includes presenting an object on a touchscreen display of the mobile communications device; enabling the object to be moveable on the touchscreen by way of a touch interaction; in real time, continuously varying an intensity of an output of the vibration component to cause a vibrational response of the mobile communications device, such that movement of the object in a first direction causes a first continuous vibrational output, and movement of the object in a second direction causes a second continuous vibrational output. | 2009-10-01 |
20090247231 | TELECOMMUNICATION DEVICE AND HANDWRITING INPUT PROCESSING METHOD THEREOF - An exemplary telecommunication device includes a touchscreen, a processing unit, a storage unit, a combining unit, and a communication unit. The touchscreen is used for receiving and recording handwriting inputs. The processing unit is adapted for converting each handwriting input into a separate first image having a first predetermined size. The storage unit is used for storing the separate first images generated by the processing unit. The combining unit is configured for combining the separate first images to generate a resulting second image having a second predetermined size. The communication unit is used for sending the resulting second image wirelessly. | 2009-10-01 |
20090247232 | MOBILE TERMINAL DEVICE - A mobile terminal device includes an input unit, an input detection unit for detecting input information at a predetermined interval from starting to the end of the input reception, and an application control unit which allows the application to execute the process preliminarily allocated corresponding to the input information upon reception of the input information detected by the input detection unit. The application control unit allows the application to execute the preliminarily allocated process corresponding to the input information indicating the end of the input reception when the input information before elapse of the predetermined time is not received, and generates the signal indicating the end of the input reception for transmission to the input detection unit to finish input information detection. | 2009-10-01 |
20090247233 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND METHOD OF DISPLAYING INFORMATION THEREIN - A mobile terminal is presented. The mobile terminal includes a display including a touchscreen, and a controller for selecting information displayed on the touchscreen according to a state of an object in near-proximity to the displayed information. | 2009-10-01 |
20090247234 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND METHOD OF DISPLAYING INFORMATION THEREIN - A mobile terminal is presented. The mobile terminal includes a display including a touchscreen, and a controller for performing an editing operation on information displayed on the touchscreen according to a state of an object in near-proximity to the displayed information. | 2009-10-01 |
20090247235 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - According to the present invention, an information processing apparatus includes: an input unit; a display unit; an image output unit; an image storage unit that stores images; an image selection unit that controls the display unit to display a list of information for identifying the images stored in the image storage unit, selects one item from the list by a first operation input to the input unit, and decides the selected item as a decided item by a second operation input to the input unit; and an image display control unit that controls the image output unit to output an image identified by the decided item to exterior of the information processing apparatus. | 2009-10-01 |
20090247236 | MOBILE TERMINAL DEVICE - A mobile terminal device including a movable side housing includes a movable side front case and a movable side rear case providing an LCD module is provided. The mobile terminal device includes a fixed side housing connected to the movable side housing with a connecting hinge, a frame member integrally fitted on a peripheral portion of the movable side front case, a display panel provided on the frame member by adhering to a peripheral portion of the frame member with double-sided adhesive tape, and a dust-proof sheet member in contact with the frame member, and positioned to an upper surface of the LCD module. | 2009-10-01 |
20090247237 | MOUNTING STRUCTURES FOR PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICES - A portable electronic device such as a handheld electronic device is provided. The device may have upper and lower portions. The upper portion may have clips that attach to springs on the lower portion. The device may have a housing with a bezel. A prong on the springs may ground the bezel. A vibrator mounting bracket may hold a vibrator in place within the housing. The vibrator mounting bracket may have an end that engages the housing. A threaded insert may be welded to the spring. A screw that passes through a hole in the vibrator mounting bracket may be screwed into the threaded insert to attach the vibrator to the housing. An elastomeric member may bias the vibrator towards the bracket. An acoustic module may serve as a subassembly for the device. Components such as an antenna, dock connector, microphone, and speaker may be attached to the acoustic module. | 2009-10-01 |
20090247238 | Analog processing device for a data transmission device - In order to put the voice transmission function of a data transmission device into practice, the present invention provides an analog processing device for a data transmission device, which includes an analog signal processing unit for performing analog signal processes on an input signal received by the data transmission device and an output signal transmitted by the data transmission device, an audio interface unit coupled to the analog signal processing unit, for transmitting the input signal and the output signal, an output unit coupled to the audio interface unit, for transmitting the output signal from the audio interface unit to an external device, and an input unit coupled to the audio interface unit, for transmitting the input signal from the external device to the audio interface unit. | 2009-10-01 |
20090247239 | DETERMINISTIC CHARACTERIZATION AND REDUCTION OF ACOUSTIC ECHO - Techniques to characterize and reduce acoustic echo are described. For example, a mobile computing device may comprise an audio characterization module to send a first signal to a first component and receive a second signal from a second component. The first signal may be a deterministic audio training sequence and the second signal may be a recovered audio training sequence. The audio characterization module compares the first signal and the second signal to determine an audio echo path. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 2009-10-01 |
20090247240 | Auxiliary power management method for cellular based device - A method of operating a control module of a mobile device that communicates with a cellular network and that is powered by an auxiliary power supply comprises generating an interrupt signal based on a tick of a system timer interrupt of the control module; incrementing a counter value based on the interrupt signal; and commanding the auxiliary power supply to cease powering the mobile device when the counter value is greater than or equal to a predetermined value. | 2009-10-01 |
20090247241 | NETWORK SUPPORTING ROAMING, SLEEPING TERMINALS - Improved apparatus for a radio communication system having a multiplicity of mobile transceiver units selectively in communication with a plurality of base transceiver units which, in turn, communicate with one or more host computers for storage and manipulation of data collected by bar code scanners or other collection means associated with the mobile transceiver units. A network controller and an adapter which has a simulcast and sequential mode provide selective interface between host computers and base transceivers. A scheme for routing data through the communication system is also disclosed wherein the intermediate base stations are organized into an optimal spanning-tree network to control the routing of data to and from the RF terminals and the host computer efficiently and dynamically. Additionally, redundant network and communication protocol is disclosed wherein the network utilizes a polling communication protocol which, under heavy loaded conditions, requires that a roaming terminal wishing to initiate communication must first determine that the channel is truly clear by listing for an entire interpoll gap time. In a further embodiment, a criterion used by the roaming terminals for attaching to a given base station reduces conflicts in the overlapping RF regions of adjacent base stations. | 2009-10-01 |
20090247242 | INTEGRAL HOUSING AND USER INTERFACE - A continuous housing ( | 2009-10-01 |