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| 20090082005 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR COORDINATING A SINGLE TELEPHONE NUMBER - The described methods and devices provide for transferal of an operational identity between two mobile communication devices of an activation pool, making one device active and another inactive, but maintain the same telephone number or other operational identity. The operational identity may be, for example, a user account number, a telephone number, or other identifier that can identify the active mobile communication device in the communication network so that telephone calls or other communications may be sent to and/or received by one device of the set of devices of the activation pool. A mobile communication device may transmit a signal to a server of the communication network to make active the mobile communication device and to operate the device under the operational identity. At the same time, the server may register as inactive the previously active mobile device of the activation pool. | 03-26-2009 |
| 20090143044 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OPERATING A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE IN AN ELECTROMAGNETICALLY SENSITIVE ENVIRONMENT - A method and apparatus for operating a wireless communication device in an electromagnetically sensitive environment is disclosed. The method comprises selecting an operating mode of the wireless communication device. If the selected operating mode is a factory safe mode ( | 06-04-2009 |
| 20090168684 | BROADCAST MESSAGING IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS - A method for receiving a broadcast message in a wireless communication device is disclosed. The device receives a broadcast message that has associated therewith a unique message grouping identifier and determines whether the unique message grouping identifier of the received message is equal to a unique message grouping identifier of a previously received message. The device ignores the received broadcast message when the unique message grouping identifier of the received message is equal to the unique message grouping identifier of the previously received message and in some implementations enters sleep mode. | 07-02-2009 |
| 20090174805 | DIGITAL CAMERA FOCUSING USING STORED OBJECT RECOGNITION - A technique for focusing a digital camera is described that includes pre-storing | 07-09-2009 |
| 20100167707 | Devices and Methods for Providing Exorbitant Charge Information to a User of a Communication Device - Methods of an out-going call intercept process by a communication device, a communication device, and a server access premium service calls data if an outgoing call communication address is not stored by the communication device in its outgoing call history or in its phonebook. The disclosed methods and device may thwart the fraudulent practice of tricking a user into establishing communication with a premium service calls communication address that they may not otherwise call. The premium service calls data may be stored in the communication device memory, or may be accessed remotely by a remote server. A prompt may be provided by the communication device for authorization to establish an outgoing communication when it is determined that the premium service calls data for the outgoing call communication address meets predetermined criteria. A user may provide authorization to establish a communication in accordance with the outgoing call communication address. | 07-01-2010 |
| 20110039532 | METHODS FOR TRANSFER OF USER IDENTITY BETWEEN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICES - Embodiments of methods are provided for transferring a user identity from one wireless communication device to another in a wireless communication system having a network system controller. A first device sends a deactivation request to the network controller, which includes information identifying the first device and a second device. The second device sends an activation request to the network system controller, which includes the information identifying the second device. The first device also sends repertoire information to the second device via the network system controller. The repertoire information is associated with the first device, and is selected from a group consisting of personal phone books, stored messages, stored recent call logs, and calendar information. | 02-17-2011 |
| 20110148917 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING A BACKGROUND SETTING TOGETHER WITH ICONS AND/OR APPLICATION WINDOWS ON A DISPLAY SCREEN THEREOF - An electronic device is operable to display images on a display screen of the device's display. The images include at least one icon and at least one image to be used as a background setting for the display screen. The electronic device includes the display, at least one storage device, and a processing unit. The storage device(s) digitally stores the images and operating instructions for displaying the images. The processing device is operable in accordance with the operating instructions to: retrieve the images from the storage device, determine at least one portion of the background setting that is of higher importance than a remainder of the background setting to produce at least one high importance portion of the background setting, and instruct the display to display the background setting and the icons on the display screen such that the high importance portion(s) of the background setting is viewable. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20120044853 | BROADCAST MESSAGING IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS - A wireless communication device includes a receiver configured to receive an emergency alert configuration message identifying which sub-message of an emergency broadcast message comprising a collection of sub-messages to be received by the wireless communication device, wherein the wireless communication device is configured to receive only the sub-message of the emergency broadcast message identified by the emergency alert configuration message. | 02-23-2012 |
