Abstract: A wireless communication device (100, 800) is provided with a movement sensor (802), and circuitry for controlling the operation of the wireless communication device. In operation in response to detecting predetermined movement of the wireless communication device, an alert (212) that was previously activated to alert a user to an incoming wireless communication is muted.

Abstract: A dual grounded internal antenna (110) is described herein. The dual grounded internal antenna (110) may include a first ground plane (210), a second ground plane (220), and a radiating element (230). The second ground plane (220) may be operatively coupled to the first ground plane (210) via a first connection (242). The radiating element (230) may be operatively coupled to the first ground plane (210) via a second connection (244). Further, the radiating element (230) may be operatively coupled to the second ground plane (220) via a third connection (246).

Abstract: A system (100) and methods (400, 500) for alerting user equipment devices (116) in a wireless communication network (102) to broadcasts while limiting the amount of power that must be consumed in order to ascertain if the user equipment devices (116) have subscribed to the broadcasts are provided. A communication indicator (300) that is compatible with UMTS protocols and includes, in addition to paging indicators, one or more broadcast category indicator codes (304) is provided. Devices receiving the communication indicator (300) are able to ascertain based on the broadcast category indicator codes (304) whether there is a need to expend further power in determined whether they are subscribed to the broadcast.

Abstract: A hand held electronic device (50) has a flip cover (52) movable between a latched closed position and an open position, the flip cover (52) being slidable in a closed position along a sliding axis between a latched position and an unlatched position whereby in the unlatched position the flip cover (52) is rotatable between a closed position and an open position about a rotational axis transverse to the sliding axis. The flip cover (52) is securable in a latched closed position and an unlatched open position by frictional engagement between gripping fingers at opposite ends of parallel tracks in which rollers attached to the flip cover hinge shaft are able to travel.

Abstract: A portable communication device (100) includes at least one sensing circuit (101) and a processor (104), and operates in accordance with a corresponding method of operation. The sensing circuit detects (205) either a characteristic of an external environment containing the portable communication device (e.g., a chemical in the air or acceleration of the device) or a characteristic of the portable communication device user (e.g., heart rate or blood sugar content), and generates a signal (207) representative of a feature of the sensed characteristic. The processor receives the signal and initiates an event based at least on the feature of the sensed characteristic as represented by the signal. Events include, but are not limited to, one or more of the following: alerting the device user, transmitting a signal (e.g., an emergency call) to a remote communication device, re-sensing the characteristic or sensing another characteristic, and modifying a setting or profile of the device.

Abstract: A method and apparatus that enables incremental control the flow of downlink data on an external interface-by-interface basis, reducing the risk of repeatedly exhausting internal memory resources. A mobile device (300), having a plurality of device interfaces (328–330) for transmitting data received from a network (306) through a network controller (302), includes an identity associating layer (322) that associates identifiers with packet data protocol contexts corresponding to the plurality of device interfaces. A general resource indicator (334) generates a first indication in response to system memory of the mobile device being substantially exhausted, and a private resource indicator (336) generates a second indication in response to private resources corresponding to the plurality of device interfaces being substantially exhausted.

Abstract: A radio communications device (100) having an antenna radiator assembly (19) has radio frequency communications circuitry (2), a ground plane (40), a radio frequency radiator element (7) and connectors each physically contacting the radio frequency radiator element (7) at contact points. A feed point (30) formed by one of the connectors couples the radio frequency radiator element (7) to the radio frequency communications circuitry (2). Grounds links (32, 36a, 36b, 36c) formed the connectors selectively couple the radio frequency radiator element (7) to the ground plane (40) via a switching unit (22). When operating in a specific frequency band during a transmit mode, the switching unit (22) selects one the connectors to provide a transmit frequency sub-band, and when operating in the specific frequency band during a receive mode, the switching unit selects another of the connectors to provide a receive frequency sub-band.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for applying patches to a code or data residing on a non-volatile memory device is illustrated. A code residing at a first location in a non-volatile memory can be replaced by a codes residing at a second locations in a memory map. A patching device compares a first address of a first code to an address identified by a pre-fetch instruction. If the first address matches the address identified by the pre-fetch instruction, a pre-fetch abort is issued to facilitate replacing a bad code residing at the first address with a good code. The good code can be pointed to by a vector in a vector table where the address of the vector is dynamically loaded into a program counter.

Abstract: A method of compressed mode communications permits evaluation of one communication network while communicating in another communication network. User equipment devices (108, 110) are assigned to different portions of a frame during compressed mode.

Abstract: A method (500) and a mobile station (160) for reporting multi-path signals based on a report window are described herein. The mobile station (160) may determine a distribution of a plurality of multi-path signals observed by a receiving unit (220) within the mobile station (160). The mobile station (160) may determine a report window based on the distribution. Based on the report window, the mobile station (160) may report at least one of the plurality of multi-path signals.

Abstract: A multiple card holding apparatus (10) includes a first bracket (12), a second bracket (22) oriented in opposition to the first bracket (12); and a separation member (30), disposed between the first bracket (12) and the second bracket (22), forming a first holding region (31) and a second holding region (32) with the first bracket (12) and the second bracket (22).

Abstract: A wireless system includes base station transceivers (102-104) to communicate with at least one mobile station (108), the base station transceivers communicate with a network controller (110). The base station controls a header for a packet frame to be communicated between the base station transceiver and the network controller wherein a portion of the header identifies the frame as one containing no data package. The data bits of the header field may contain a predetermined bit pattern for a frame including no data package. Information received by the base station from the mobile station may be dropped, and the header information replaced with the specified bit pattern, if a decoding metric passes a threshold. The information received by the base station from the mobile station may be dropped, and the header information replaced with the specified bit pattern, if a CRC for the frame received from the mobile station fails.

Abstract: Decoding signals represented by a trellis of a block length divided into windows includes a step of decoding a portion of the trellis using backward recursion starting from a point that is after the end of a window backwards to the end of the window, defining a learning period, to determine a known state metric at the end of the window. A length of the learning period for each window dependents on the signal quality such that a shorter learning period is chosen for a higher signal quality. The signal quality used is an intrinsic signal-to-noise ratio derived from the log-likelihood-ratio of the soft outputs of the decoded window. In particular, the intrinsic signal-to-noise ratio of the signal is defined as a summation of generated extrinsic information multiplied by a log-likelihood-ratio (LLR) value at each iteration.