Patents Represented by Attorney Steven A. Shaw
  • Patent number: 6781925
    Abstract: A communication device including control circuitry with transceiver capabilities, input keys coupled to the circuitry for entering information, a display coupled to the circuitry for visual presentation of information, a chassis for securely holding the circuitry and the display, a sound generation unit coupled to the circuitry for providing audio presentation of information, and an interface unit including a speaker unit and an antenna unit, wherein the interface unit is removable. The interface unit can be removed and replace with other interface units including various other functions and features, such as multimedia, gaming, storage, and interface specific activation of devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2004
    Assignee: Nokia Mobile Phones Ltd.
    Inventor: Frank Nuovo
  • Patent number: 6771981
    Abstract: A changeable cover for an electronic device and method of using same in a payment system is provided. The cover has a transponder responsive to interrogation by an electric field. The cover provides an electronic identification number and other information in response to the interrogation signal. Also provided is a system for making payments, comprising at least one mobile station (4) which has an associated cover (100) for providing local data transfer. The system also comprises at least one point of sale terminal or the like, which has a second transceiver for providing data transfer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2004
    Assignee: Nokia Mobile Phones Ltd.
    Inventors: Thomas W. Zalewski, Michael C Pennington, Randall C. Roberts, Steven A. Shaw
  • Patent number: 6765963
    Abstract: A decoder and method for using a new picture or frame type is provided. This type is referred to a an SP-picture. The temporal redundancies are not exploited in I-frames, compression efficiency of I-frame coding is significantly lower than the predictive coding. A method allows use of motion compensated predictive coding to exploit temporal redundancy in the sequence while still allowing perfect reconstruction of the frame using different reference frames. Methods using this new picture type provide for error resilience/recovery, bandwidth scalability, bitstream switching, processing scalability, random access and other functions. The SP-type picture provides for, among other functions, switching between different bitstreams, random access, fast forward and fast error-recovery by replacing I-pictures to increase the coding efficiency. As will be demonstrated, SP-pictures have the property that identical SP-frames may be obtained even when they are predicted using different reference frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2004
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventors: Marta Karczewicz, Ragip Kurceren
  • Patent number: 6756969
    Abstract: A mobile telephone includes a body, a display, and a keypad. The keypad has a plurality of individual numeral keys assigned to individual numerals and may be rotated with respect to the body. In this way it is possible for the presentation of information on the display to remain in a fixed orientation with respect to a user while the body is rotated about the display so that the mobile telephone can be converted from right-handed to left-handed use or the display can be moved from a first orientation to a second orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2004
    Assignee: Nokia Mobile Phones Ltd.
    Inventors: Frank Nuovo, Todd Wood, Seiji Morioka, Eduardo Salazar
  • Patent number: 6748242
    Abstract: Various embodiments of a compact personal communication device are wherein each embodiment provides a full-feature keyboard and/or gaming control. The device provides a user with voice and data communication. The device includes a display, a first unit and a second unit coupled to the display for providing the user with input controls, a first locking mechanism for engaging the first unit in the closed position to securely hold the first unit in a closed position, and a second locking mechanism for engaging the first unit in the open position in order to securely hold the first unit in an open position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2004
    Assignee: Nokia Mobile Phones Ltd.
    Inventor: Thomas F. Dunleavy
  • Patent number: 6738476
    Abstract: A cover and a method for creating the cover are disclosed. The cover includes a frame and a lens secured to the frame. A first and second surface regions of the lens are proximally located relative to the frame, such that the first surface region is polished to allow light that emerges from the frame to pass through and the second surface region is rough in order to reflect light emerging from the frame. The method of creating a fading color hue in a cover includes the steps of creating a polished region on one surface the lens; creating a reflective region on another surface of the lens to allow for maximum reflection of light; creating a dispersion region on a third surface region of the lens, wherein the third surface is positioned opposite the reflective region; and securing the lens to the frame, such that the polished region and the reflective region are in close proximate to the frame thereby creating a gradually fading hue in the lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2004
    Assignee: Nokia Mobile Phones Ltd.
    Inventors: Ronald Jon Lander, Jr., Gregor Daniel Magnusson
  • Patent number: 6684082
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for operating a mobile station. The method has a first step of storing data into a memory within the mobile station, the stored data including at least one system operator code (SOC) having an assigned priority value. Upon the mobile station receiving a system identification (SID) associated with the stored SOC, the method stores the SID into the memory so as to have the same priority value that is assigned to the SOC. When the mobile station subsequently receives a transmission containing the SID and not the SOC, the mobile station accesses the memory to determine the priority value associated with the SID, and then controls the operation of the mobile station based on the determined priority value. The step of controlling the operation of the mobile station preferably controls at least one of a scanning behavior or a camping behavior of the mobile station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2004
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventor: Kenneth McClure
  • Patent number: 6683599
    Abstract: A mobile telephone includes a body, a display, and a keypad. The keypad is removably secured to the body and coupled to a processor. The keypad is depressible along a plurality of directions and can be switched between a first mode and second mode, wherein each combination of depressible direction and mode represent a unique group of alphanumeric letters. The processor includes word recognition software, such a desire word can be determined form the sequence of groups of letter selected without having to select each individual letter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2004
    Assignee: Nokia Mobile Phones Ltd.
    Inventors: Robert A. Shepherd, Nikolaj Helberg Bestle
  • Patent number: 6624769
    Abstract: Apparatus, and an associated method, for facilitating communication of a vector graphic representation, or other content, pursuant to effectuation of a communication service. The content forms, for instance, an animated graphic, such as that used in a mobile communication application to effectuate an animated multi-media message. The vector graphic is encoded according to codewords that function to compress the data prior to its communication upon a radio link. And, once delivered to a receiving station, a decoder decodes the content into unencoded form. Codebooks are utilized and accessed by an encoder and decoder of a sending/receiving station pair.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2003
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventors: Levent Oktem, Tolga K. Capin
  • Patent number: 6593914
    Abstract: A mobile telephone includes a body, a display, and a keypad. The keypad has a plurality of individual numeral keys assigned to individual numerals and may be rotated with respect to the body. In this way it is possible for the presentation of information on the display to remain in a fixed orientation with respect to a user while the body is rotated about the display so that the mobile telephone can be converted from right-handed to left-handed use or the display can be moved from a first orientation to a second orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2003
    Assignee: Nokia Mobile Phones Ltd.
    Inventors: Frank Nuovo, Todd Wood, Seiji Morioka, Eduardo Salazar
  • Patent number: 6594472
    Abstract: An electronic radiotelephone comprising a first housing, a second housing, and an inner housing having retaining means for retaining to the inner housing the electronic components of the radiotelephone; and first releasable attaching means for releasable attaching the first housing to the inner housing, wherein the first housing, when attached to the inner housing, is presented towards a user during operation of the radiotelephone; and second releasably attaching means for releasable attaching the second housing to the inner housing, wherein the second housing, when attached to the inner housing, faces away from the user during operation of the radiotelephone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2003
    Assignee: Nokia Mobile Phones Ltd.
    Inventors: Alastair Curtis, Bent Ole Poulsen, Michael McKay, Morten Pontoppidan, Claus Nicolaisen, Gert Plenge, Jakob Kristensen, Anne Primdahl, Jesper Andersen, Allan Moeller Kristensen
  • Patent number: 6587696
    Abstract: A method and system for providing efficient transmission power control commands to a base station. In a third generation IS-95 CDMA network, for example, cdma2000, the forward pilot channel is used to estimate the received signal power level. In the presently preferred embodiment, a mobile station measures the received pilot channel power, on a forward link pilot channel. The loss experienced on the pilot channel is estimated as the difference between the pilot channel power transmitted at the base station and the pilot channel power received at the mobile station. The pilot power transmission power is typically fixed based upon the operating environment of the base station. The fixed pilot channel transmission power can be transmitted via a message from the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2003
    Assignee: Nokia Mobile Phones Limited
    Inventors: Lin Ma, Zhigang Rong
  • Patent number: 6584148
    Abstract: A system for testing a communication path for digital subscriber line (DSL) signals includes a loop management device coupled in the communication path between a DSL access multiplexer (DSLAM) and a DSL modem located at a customer premises. The system also includes a remote test interface coupled in the communication path between the loop management device and the DSL modem. The loop management device and the remote test interface communicate using voice-band signals transmitted over the communication path and collaboratively test the communication path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2003
    Assignee: Nokia Inc.
    Inventors: Brent R. Zitting, Robert D. Deaton, Mark O. Rigby, Ron M. Roberson, Kevin R. Banks, Jeffrey J. Sands
  • Patent number: 6567233
    Abstract: There is a need for low-cost and reliable shock-sensing methods in magnetic hard-disk drives to maintain data integrity when a drive is subjected to external shocks. The present invention uses a novel shock-sensing method that is both reliable and low-cost, using a modified head preamplifier to detect servo fields from adjacent disk surfaces, as well as the disk surface being written or read. Servo fields on adjacent surfaces may be staggered. When a write head is writing data to a data field on a disk surface, a read head may be reading a servo field from an adjacent surface, insuring that the write head is on-track. By staggering the servo fields from surface to surface, shock may be sensed by measuring displacement of read heads on adjacent surfaces between servo sectors on the write surface. In addition, the use of a shock sensor or the like may be eliminated, reducing drive component cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2003
    Assignee: Cirrus Logic, Inc.
    Inventors: Kok-Kia Chew, Gerald Keith Lunn
  • Patent number: 6563301
    Abstract: An advanced process for moving a Device under Test (DUT) from surface mount to completion and shipping. The process takes a raw populated Printed Circuit Board (PCB) panel or similar article of manufacture and conducts all possible solder, electrical, boundary scan and flashed self-testing. Individual panels are routed out of larger panels and placed into basic electronic device chassis on a motorized and power delivering fixture carrying a fixture adapter to interface with the electronic device. Power is provided as soon as is feasible in order to leverage the DUTs ability to facilitate it's own functional certification. Without power, the “wake-up” time for an electronic device may be extensive. Additionally, the addition of power would otherwise have to be done numerous times throughout the process. Conditions for impending measurement can be set up on a powered electronic device so that measurements may be made the moment the testing instrumentation is ready to take measurements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2003
    Assignee: Nokia Mobile Phones Ltd.
    Inventor: Brian Gventer
  • Patent number: 6554707
    Abstract: A system and a method for providing an interface to and customizing an interactive application for one or more players is provided. The interactive game of the presently preferred embodiment is played in a wireless environment using a mobile station as a user interface with commands entered via a keyboard or via voice. The game is tracked and controlled using a game center and a game server, which is typically at a location remote from the mobile station. Communication between the game server and the mobile station is typically performed using a base station connected to a telecommunications network. The game server executes a software application, which runs a game center. Individual games are managed within the context of this application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2003
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventors: Matthew Frazer Sinclair, Paul David Schulz, Kenneth Bo Larsen
  • Patent number: 6556183
    Abstract: A compact device for communication and entertainment needs that include combining various functions performed by different keypads and units into a single pad or unit. The device includes circuitry with transceiver capabilities, a chassis, a display two arms secured to the chassis that can rotate from an open position to a closed position, and a user-interface that provides the user with navigational control and image conversion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2003
    Assignee: Nokia Mobile Phones Ltd.
    Inventors: Andrew Julian Gartrell, Alastair Stuart Curtis, Tanja Finkbeiner
  • Patent number: 6552720
    Abstract: A compact device and method for communication and entertainment needs that include combining various functions performed by different keypads and units into a single pad or unit. The device includes circuitry with transceiver capabilities, a chassis, a display, two arms secured to the chassis that can rotate from an open position to a closed position, and a user-interface that provides the user with navigational control and image conversion. The method for reducing the number pads on a keypad of the device, which has the circuitry, includes providing a chassis for securely holding the circuitry, securing a user-interface to the chassis, coupling the user-interface to the circuitry, limiting rotation of the user-interface to a first range of rotational motion using a locking mechanism to provide navigational control, and releasing the locking mechanism to allow rotation of the user-interface beyond the first range of rotational motion to provide image conversion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2003
    Assignee: Nokia Mobile Phones Ltd.
    Inventors: Andrew Julian Gartrell, Alastair Stuart Curtis, Tanja Finkbeiner
  • Patent number: 6542354
    Abstract: A compact device and method for communication and entertainment needs that include having interchangeable user-interfaces and combining various functions performed by different keypads and units into a single pad or unit. The device includes circuitry with transceiver capabilities, a chassis, a display, at least two Freestyle User-Interfaces (FUI) secured to the chassis that can rotate from an open position to a closed position, and a user-interface that provides the user with navigational control and image conversion. The method of interchanging at least two FUIs includes providing a chassis for securely holding the circuitry, rotatably securing the user-interfaces to the chassis, coupling the user-interfaces to the circuitry, and removably securing opposite ends of an elastic piece to each of the user-interfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2003
    Assignee: Nokia Mobile Phones, Ltd.
    Inventors: James Lee Holtorf, Andrew Julian Gartrell, Alastair Stuart Curtis, Tanja Finkbeiner
  • Patent number: 6542150
    Abstract: A display controller in a computer system controls the asynchronous output of graphics display data in a computer system having at least one fixed resolution flat panel display. Fixed panel displays may have problems displaying non-native resolutions particularly at lower resolutions. The controller of the present invention uses a time base converter, horizontal and vertical Discrete Time Oscillators (DTO), and polyphase interpolator, which may be Discrete Cosine Transform(DCT)-based to expand graphics display data asynchronously from native resolution to at least one resolution suitable for display on a fixed resolution panel. Graphics data may also be output asynchronously to a CRT. Time base converter receives frequency related input parameters and generates at least one asynchronous output at the desired output resolution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2003
    Assignee: Cirrus Logic, Inc.
    Inventors: Sridhar Kotha, Vlad Bril, Alexander J. Eglit