Patents Examined by Khai Nguyen
  • Patent number: 7251486
    Abstract: A method relates to a network identification that uniquely identifies a communication device. The method includes determining a network address corresponding to the network identification. Another step is determining which device manager, of multiple device managers, is assigned the network address. Information and the network address is transmitted to the assigned device manager. The assigned device manager determines, from the network address, a device identification that identifies the wireless device within a communication device network. Using the device identification, the assigned device manager transmits the information to the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2007
    Assignee: Research In Motion Limited
    Inventors: Salim H. Omar, Russell N. Owen
  • Patent number: 7245939
    Abstract: A wireless communication system for transmitting and receiving wireless communications using at least one beam is disclosed. The system comprises a plurality of WTRUs, at least one beam-forming antenna, and at least one radio network controller (RNC). The antenna is capable of beam-forming and beams emanating from the antenna may be adjusted in accordance with actual conditions in the wireless communication system. The antenna is further capable of dithering beams in the azimuth and/or elevation plane for breaking up null areas due to beam overlap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2007
    Assignee: Interdigital Technology Corporation
    Inventor: Steven Jeffrey Goldberg
  • Patent number: 7242968
    Abstract: In acquiring the information accumulated in the storage unit of the information center by making the connection of the line connecting the communication unit mounted on the vehicle mounted terminal and the center communication unit of the information center, a process for starting the line connection with the information center is started in advance, when the display on the display unit mounted on the vehicle mounted terminal transfers to the predetermined display contents, whereby the information can be transmitted immediately via the line already connected at the time when an actual operation for transmitting the information from the vehicle mounted terminal to the information center is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2007
    Assignee: Pioneer Corporation
    Inventor: Takeharu Arakawa
  • Patent number: 7239867
    Abstract: A wireless handheld communication device (102) for reducing a communication delay at a proximate wireless communication device is disclosed. The wireless handheld communication device simultaneously transmits to a remote station (106) through a base station (108), and transmits to the proximate wireless communication device (104) directly. The method includes communicating a first communication on first link (116) to a proximate wireless communication device and communicating, simultaneously with communicating the first communication, a second communication on a second link (112) to a base station, wherein the first communication and the second communication are substantially the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2007
    Assignee: Motorola, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael D. Kotzin, Charles P. Binzel, Greg R. Black
  • Patent number: 7236805
    Abstract: There is provided a program sharing method using board IDs in a mobile communication system. When power is on, a shared execution file is executed for a plurality of target board in the system. The ID of each target board is read and hardware is initialized according to the target board IDs. An operating system (OS) for each target board is initialized according to the ID of the target board. A branch routine for each target board is invoked according to the target board ID and an application program is implemented for the target board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2007
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jeong-Dae Son
  • Patent number: 7236774
    Abstract: Disclosed is a system for displaying on calling partner terminal during call waiting information on a wireless terminal received via an Internet server through which a user stores a call connection community screen, with a message containing a call connection community screen is received via the Internet server and displayed for a calling partner during a call waiting in a wireless terminal. A predetermined field of the message is checked when a message is received from the messaging server in a call waiting status. If the predetermined field has a specific set value, the call connection community screen is extracted from the message and displayed on a display window, with the call connection community screen containing information of the calling partner. User individuality can be visually expressed to the calling partner during the call waiting and the call waiting time can be more efficiently utilized through the interactive screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2007
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jong-Hoon Lee
  • Patent number: 7236808
    Abstract: A wireless communication system for transmitting and receiving wireless communications using at least one beam is disclosed. The system comprises a plurality of WTRUs, at least one beam-forming antenna, and at least one radio network controller (RNC). The antenna is capable of beam-forming and beams emanating from the antenna may be adjusted in accordance with actual conditions in the wireless communication system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2007
    Assignee: InterDigital Technology Corporation
    Inventor: Steven Jeffrey Goldberg
  • Patent number: 7233804
    Abstract: A communication system that permits the coexistent of a plurality of ultrawide band (UWB) radio communication networks that use different signal systems is achieved by using the same beacon signal and specifying the format of part of the control command among a plurality of UWB radio communication networks that use different signal systems, as defined, for example, by impulse period, impulse width, spreading ratio, and spreading code. When one UWB network receives a beacon signal from another UWB network, it grasps, judging from the received beacon signal, the transmission parameter that is used by another party and performs time-division on the transmission frame period for its own system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2007
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeru Sugaya, Masakatsu Toyoshima
  • Patent number: 7233798
    Abstract: To address the need for faster location determination by GPS-equipped units, this application describes embodiments of the present invention that provide GPS-assist data to a remote unit (110) that is determining its location. This GPS assist data is relative to a central point of a grid element that contains the particular remote unit. The grid element is a geographical area within which a predetermined number of GPS satellites are viewable from anywhere within the grid element. By providing GPS-assist data for a grid element, the remote unit receives GPS-assist data sufficiently local in nature to help it determine its location more quickly. Also, because there are significantly fewer grid elements than cell sites over a region such as the US, the maintenance of current GPS-assist data on a grid element basis requires less network bandwidth than it would on a cell site basis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2007
    Assignee: Motorola, Inc.
    Inventors: Bruce M. Drawert, Audrey Longhurst
  • Patent number: 7228126
    Abstract: A portable communication terminal includes a non-contact IC card. The non-contact IC card receives, from a passage verification apparatus, information indicating a passage of the non-contact IC card through the passage verification apparatus including a gate for verifying a passage; a passage detection device receives the information on the passage from the non-contact IC card, and then detects the passage of the portable communication terminal through the passage verification apparatus; and a mail transmission control device controls transmission of the electronic mail reserved for transmission in accordance with the detection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2007
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Keiichi Hayashi
  • Patent number: 7224983
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for increasing the accuracy and reliability of geolocation estimates for wireless communication networks devices includes calculating a geolocation estimate of a wireless communication device for a plurality of time periods, and selecting from the plurality of calculated geolocation estimates, a most reliable geolocation estimate of the wireless communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2007
    Assignee: Lucent Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth C. Budka, Doru Calin, Tingfang Ji
  • Patent number: 7224971
    Abstract: A radio network controller connected to a first exchange and a second exchange which manage a same location registration area. The radio network controller includes a manager configured to manage a mobile station under control of the radio network controller, in association with the first exchange or the second exchange; a transfer configured to transfer a signal transmitted from the mobile station to the first exchange or the second exchange which is associated with the mobile station; and a monitor configured to monitor state of the first exchange and the second exchange. The transfer is configured to transfer a signal from the mobile station associated with the first exchange, to the second exchange, when the monitor detects inaccessibility to the first exchange.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2007
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Katsuhiro Noguchi, Kazuyuki Kozu, Kota Fujimura, Takashi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 7221960
    Abstract: Described is a high-frequency connecting device comprising a first connecting element and a second connecting element which in the connecting position are in electrical contact without engaging into each other, forming a coaxial connection. The first connecting element and the second connecting element each have a respective plurality of separate outer conductors which are arranged at a spacing relative to each other and which are respectively arranged at a spacing around an inner conductor. In the electrical connecting position the mutually facing contact ends of the outer conductors are in touching contact. At the same time the mutually facing contact ends of the inner conductors are in touching contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2007
    Assignee: Audioton Kabelwerk GmbH
    Inventor: Thomas Schlegel
  • Patent number: 7221953
    Abstract: A message composed by a user using a computer is stored in a computer-readable medium. The message is associated with a distribution list of one or more intended recipients of the message, and an identifier to trigger sending of the message to the one or more intended recipients on the distribution list. An SMS message is received in an inbox of the computer. The SMS message is composed using an SMS-capable wireless device, and has a user-entered header. The user-entered header matching the identifier triggers sending of the message to the one or more intended recipients on the distribution list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2007
    Assignee: SBC Knowledge Ventures, LP
    Inventor: Mark Kenneth Roche
  • Patent number: 7218953
    Abstract: An infrared communication adapter which can carry out a data exchange with an external equipment having an infrared communication interface even though a portable telephone does not have an infrared communication function. The adapter includes a portable telephone side connecting section for transmitting a serial data supplied from the portable telephone by connecting an external communication interface of the portable telephone; an infrared communication interface for carrying out a data communication with the external equipment in accordance with the infrared communication protocol. The adapter analyzes a communication protocol of the communication interface disposed on the data supply side and carries out an RS232C emulation internally to transmit the data by converting the analyzed communication protocol into a communication protocol corresponding to a communication interface disposed on the data receive side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2007
    Assignee: ITX E-Globaledge Corporation
    Inventors: Gontaro Kitazumi, Takeshi Ohyama, Shin-ichi Nagamura
  • Patent number: 7203520
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for reducing signal interference within a cellular radio system to increase both coverage and capacity. The method and apparatus include altering the direction of beams within cell sectors is among discrete angular positions according to a predetermined, cyclic pattern. The predetermined, cyclic pattern varies in a group of adjacent cell sectors such that inter-cell interference is significantly reduced or eliminated by rotating at a different cycle the beams in adjacent cells. This discrete, angular movement of beams provides for downlink transmissions to be timed in such a way (i.e., scheduled) such that transmission to a user will occur in accordance with the beam and time slot having the best carrier to interference (C/I) ratio for that user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2007
    Assignee: Nortel Networks Limited
    Inventors: Nimal Gamini Senarath, Yoon Chae Cheong, Shalini Periyalwar, Robert Matyas
  • Patent number: 7203513
    Abstract: The stationary body 12 comprises a plurality of operation keys 18 and two or more microphones 22 and 24. The movable body 16 comprises a receiver 34 and a liquid crystal image displaying surface 32, and is connected to the stationary body 12 by the hinge 14 so that the movable body 16 can be folded to the stationary body 12. The movable body 16 further comprises a structure 40 by which a user or others can recognize the presence of the microphones. The microphones 22 and 24 can be used for conversation purposes or for recording sound in stereo. The structure 40 capable of indicating the presence of two or more microphones can guide sound to the microphones. The structure 40 capable of indicating the presence of the microphones is constituted in such a manner that the user or others can see a hole provided on the wall above the microphone or a recess portion communicated with the hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2007
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventor: Kazuhiro Kakuguchi
  • Patent number: 7200383
    Abstract: A system for ensuring that a first subscriber in a unlicensed mobile access system is prevented from unauthorized use of a second subscriber's identity when the first subscriber requests services from a mobile station to a core network. The system comprises authenticating means for authenticating a mobile station to an unlicensed mobile access network before higher-layer messages are sent from the mobile station, and thereafter, for authenticating the mobile station to a core network. The system also includes a mobile station with a subscriber identity module that includes an identifying means for identifying the mobile station. The system further includes a unlicensed mobile access network for connecting the mobile station to the core network and for relaying signals between the mobile station and the core network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2007
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventor: Pasi Eronen
  • Patent number: 7197282
    Abstract: Processing of loop-back information returned by one or more mobile stations that are served by a wireless communication network permits the network to compensate its transmit signals for increased transmission efficiency and reduced signal interference at the mobile stations. Generally, the network forms one or more transmit signals as a combination of different signals intended for the different mobile stations, and remembers transmit information associated with these transmit signals. The mobile stations return loop-back signals to the network, which determines transmit signal compensation information by comparing loop-back information to memorized information. The mobile stations may loop-back samples from composite received signals, from processed received signal samples, or loop-back estimates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2007
    Assignee: Ericsson Inc.
    Inventors: Paul W. Dent, Kambiz C. Zangi, Leonid Krasny
  • Patent number: 7197300
    Abstract: A mobile telephone (mobile communication terminal) (100) searches data sections (11-1 to 11n) of the address book (10) based on attribute information (ATTm) inputted by a user through an operation unit (207) in order to contact a desired communication counterpart to thereby retrieve identification information (ID, names) associated with the attribute information. Further, the mobile telephone (100) sets a telephone number or an e-mail address, which is associated with the retrieved identification information in the address book (10), as a destination of communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2007
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Masayuki Kushita