Patents Assigned to Phone-OR Limited
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Patent number: 7236773Abstract: A conference call facility is described in which one (2a) of a group of communication devices (2a,2b,2c,2d) connected to a low power radio frequency network (9) is able to set up a call to a party external of the network (9) and then selectively add further devices (2a,2b,2c) to the call under the control of the user of the one device (2a). The users of the other devices (2b,2c) are able to enable or disable the selection of their device in a conference call. One or more of the communication devices may be a mobile radio telephone equipped with the necessary network interface (1).Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2001Date of Patent: June 26, 2007Assignee: Nokia Mobile Phones LimitedInventor: Graham Thomas
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Patent number: 7177629Abstract: Apparatus, and an associated method, selectably annunciates a message or call terminating at a mobile station. Examination is made of an indicia of the terminating message or call, and responsive thereto, selected annunciation is made of the terminating message or call. Determination of whether, and in what manner, to annunciate the terminating message or call is made responsive to a rule-set selected by the user of the mobile station.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2000Date of Patent: February 13, 2007Assignee: Nokia Mobile Phones LimitedInventor: Douglas Deeds
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Patent number: 7158490Abstract: Power control apparatus, and an associated method, for controlling communication signals generated during operation of a communication system, such as an IS-953G cellular communication system. Determinations are made as to whether a communication channel upon which communication signals are transmitted exhibits a deep fade condition. If a determination of a deep fade condition is made, power control is effectuated to reduce the power levels of communication signals subsequently transmitted on the communication channel.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 1999Date of Patent: January 2, 2007Assignee: Nokia Mobile Phones LimitedInventors: Jean-Marie Tran, Antti Kansakoski
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Patent number: 7155199Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 6, 2004Date of Patent: December 26, 2006Assignee: Nokia Mobile Phones LimitedInventors: Thomas W. Zalewski, Michael C Pennington, Randall C. Roberts, Steven A. Shaw
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Patent number: 7151531Abstract: 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 that a desired word can be determined from the sequence of groups of letters selected without having to select each individual letter.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2003Date of Patent: December 19, 2006Assignee: Nokia Mobile Phones LimitedInventors: Robert A. Shepherd, Nikolaj Helberg Bestle
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Patent number: 7139697Abstract: A method for selecting the language for a character sequence fed into a data processing device, wherein decision trees are trained for different characters on the basis of lexicons of predetermined languages. The decision trees describe language probabilities on the basis of characters in the environments of the characters. The decision trees for at least some of the characters of the character sequence fed into the data processing device are traversed, thus obtaining a probability of at least one language for each character. The language for the character sequence is selected on the basis of the probabilities obtained.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2002Date of Patent: November 21, 2006Assignee: Nokia Mobile Phones LimitedInventors: Juha Häkkinen, Markku Mettälä
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Patent number: 7133659Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 6, 2004Date of Patent: November 7, 2006Assignee: Nokia Mobile Phones LimitedInventors: Thomas W. Zalewski, Michael C Pennington, Randall C. Roberts, Steven A. Shaw
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Patent number: 7130420Abstract: An acoustic transducer assembly comprising an acoustic transducer body having one or more apertures through which an audio signal is passed. Two housing parts when assembled provides a acoustic transducer cavity for containing the acoustic transducer body and a resilient sealing gasket, and the acoustic transducer cavity has a sound passage through the housing wall. The resilient sealing gasket provides a channel for transferring said audio signal from said one or more apertures to the sound passage through the housing wall. The housing parts have an inclined wall part that transfers a biasing force originating from the two housing parts and acting on the acoustic transducer body to a force acting on the resilient sealing gasket in order to provide a sealing between the resilient sealing gasket and the sound passage through the housing wall.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2002Date of Patent: October 31, 2006Assignee: Nokia Mobile Phones LimitedInventors: Lars Windeballe, Peter Thorndahl
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Patent number: 7126998Abstract: A system and method is proposed to significantly reduce the peak to average power ratio (PAPR) for an OFDM system by stabilizing the signal envelope. By using partial response (PR) signaling to spread each sub-symbol over multiple subcarriers, the signal is first compress in time. The signal is then rearranged such that it is possible to stabilize the envelope at some constant value ?, thus improving the PAPR without using excessive time-bandwidth resources.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2005Date of Patent: October 24, 2006Assignee: Nokia Mobile Phones LimitedInventor: Venkatesh Vadde
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Patent number: 7113028Abstract: The invention relates to a calibration method and a calibration arrangement for an active filter intended to be used especially in portable radio apparatus. The filter (100) according to the invention is an active RC filter and it is integrated except for one or more of its capacitances or one or more of its resistances. Advantageously the highest capacitance or the highest resistance is left unintegrated. When using an external capacitance, the principle of the calibration is as follows: The integrated resistances are corrected using a common coefficient such that the external capacitance together with the integrated resistances produces the correct time constants (1). Then the integrated capacitances are corrected using a common coefficient such that they together with the internal resistances that were corrected in the previous phase produce the correct time constants (2). If the filter comprises multiple circuit stages, the two-phase calibration process described above is repeated for each circuit stage.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 1998Date of Patent: September 26, 2006Assignee: Nokia Mobile Phones LimitedInventors: Harri Kimppa, Markus Pettersson, Kjell Östman
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Patent number: 7107030Abstract: A transmitter for a portable radio communication apparatus comprising a modulator having first port for inputting a baseband signal and a second port for inputting a local oscillator signal, and including means for rectifying the input local oscillator signal to provide a conductance waveform at a multiple of the local oscillator signal, and means for mixing the baseband signal with the conductance waveform at said multiple of the local oscillator signal frequency for up-converting the baseband signal to a radio frequency modulated carrier, the transmitter including means for controlling the gain of the modulator thereby to control the output level of the modulator.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2000Date of Patent: September 12, 2006Assignee: Nokia Mobile Phones LimitedInventor: Simon Furmidge
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Publication number: 20060190819Abstract: A method of searching for records in a database matching the string of ambiguous key strokes received by the input means, said database includes a plurality of records containing at least two words, and comprises reception of information representing a string of ambiguous key strokes, searching in said records for individual words matching said information representing a string of ambiguous key strokes, and presenting records found by the search engine.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 14, 2006Publication date: August 24, 2006Applicant: Nokia Mobile Phones LimitedInventors: Christian Ostergaard, Christian Kraft
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Patent number: 7092745Abstract: A portable device including a housing and an electro-acoustic transducer. The housing has a first surface with an outlet for the egress of an acoustic signal when in a loudspeaker mode and a second surface with an outlet for the egress of an acoustic signal when in an earpiece mode. The electro-acoustic transducer is located within the housing and converts an electrical signal input to the transducer into an acoustic signal. The transducer is operable to output acoustic signals when in the loudspeaker mode or the earpiece mode, the audio path between the transducer and the outlet for the egress of an acoustic signal when in the loudspeaker mode being less attenuated than the audio path between the transducer and the outlet for the egress of an acoustic signal when in the earpiece mode.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2000Date of Patent: August 15, 2006Assignee: Nokia Mobile Phones LimitedInventor: Winand D'Souza
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Patent number: 7089031Abstract: A terminal for providing an application using a browser. The terminal comprises a transceiver arranged to send radio packets to and receive radio packets from a server, and means for determining if the terminal and server are able to communicate. The terminal further comprises an outbox buffer, and a browser application for displaying content stored in the server. The browser application is arranged to initiate a first application by accessing a first item associated with the first application from the server using a first content identifier. The application being provided by the combination of the first item and further items each of which is accessible using an individual content identifier, and each of which comprises content, or means for linking to content. The browser further comprising means for creating content in association with an item and means for transferring messages comprising the created content to the server.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2000Date of Patent: August 8, 2006Assignee: Nokia Mobile Phones LimitedInventors: Claus Pedersen, Lars Bohn Hansen
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Patent number: 7079115Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed for selecting an item from a predetermined set of items. The apparatus comprises a user interface comprising an input having a plurality of actuators, and an output. It further comprises control means for controlling the user interface to provide a first menu selection comprising a plurality of items not exceeding the number of actuators, and selection means responsive to operation of the actuators for selecting the item from the menu associated with the operated actuator. The control means controls the user interface to provide a further menu selection in response to selection of an item, at least one item of the further menu selection representing a subset of the selected item.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2001Date of Patent: July 18, 2006Assignee: Nokia Mobile Phones LimitedInventor: Steve Arnold
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Patent number: 7072428Abstract: The present invention provides a method and a device in which two or more fingers of a RAKE receiver can locked to a multipath received signal in a situation of a fat finger impulse response. One embodiment of the present invention assigns two RAKE fingers to an impulse response so that one finger tracks the impulse response with an Early-Ontime DLL method and the other finger is tracking the impulse response with an Ontime-Late DLL method. The method comprises detecting the delay between the received signal and a delayed version, comparing the delay with a pre-determined threshold and when the delay falls below the threshold, changing the tracking method of the delayed version of the received signal to a second tracking method.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2001Date of Patent: July 4, 2006Assignee: Nokia Mobile Phones LimitedInventors: Ilkka Niva, Kaj Jansen, Kjell Ostman
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Patent number: 7069063Abstract: A cordless telephone handset. The cordless telephone handset has telephone circuitry with a front side. The front side of the telephone circuitry has a top end and a bottom end. A housing is provided having a top shell and a bottom shell where the top shell and the bottom shell are disconnectable. The housing is adapted to substantially enclose the telephone circuitry when the top shell and the bottom shell are mated in a direction from the top end to the bottom end of the telephone circuitry.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2001Date of Patent: June 27, 2006Assignee: Nokia Mobile Phones LimitedInventors: Heikke Halkosaari, Mikko Laaksonen, Mikko Laitinen, Jarmo Lehtonen, Juoko Pirila
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Patent number: 7058406Abstract: The invention relates to a method for performing cell re-selection in a cellular network, and a subscriber terminal and a network part using the method. In the method: (402) the subscriber terminal measures received powers of neighbour cells in accordance with system information received from a current cell; (406) one of the neighbour cells is selected as a new cell; (408) the subscriber terminal receives a part of the system information sent by the new cell; (408, 412) the time it takes to receive the system information of the new cell is calculated using length information in a system information part sent by the new cell.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 1999Date of Patent: June 6, 2006Assignee: Nokia Mobile Phones LimitedInventors: Antero Lundell, Lars Dalsgaard
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Patent number: 7054658Abstract: A method is provided for defining a pulse function shape for acting on a data stream for transmission in a telecommunication system in accordance with a predetermined modulation scheme. The method comprises defining desired cost parameters (e.g., error functions for amplitude, BER, bandwidth, energy, AFC) and defining the shape of the pulse function in dependence of the desired cost parameters. A pulse generator, modulator and communications device using such a defined device are also provided. Application in dual mode TDMA/CDMA system.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2000Date of Patent: May 30, 2006Assignee: Nokia Mobile Phones LimitedInventor: Natividadel Lobo
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Patent number: RE39164Abstract: A method and system for transmitting packet data over a cellular telecommunications network is presented. A novel medium access control (MAC) logical layer is implemented between a service option layer and multiplex sublayer. The MAC layer handles the multiple accesses of packet users over selected dedicated traffic channels. The MAC layer provides a multiple access control function for packet data users only. Users requiring only circuit switched services (voice calls) are not serviced through the MAC layer multiple access control function. If a user has simultaneous circuit switched and packet data services operating, the MAC layer multiple access control function handles the packet data services, while the circuit switched services are handled simultaneously by bypassing the MAC layer multiple access control function.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2003Date of Patent: July 11, 2006Assignee: Nokia Mobile Phones LimitedInventors: Mark Cheng, Zhi-Chun Honkasalo