Patents Examined by Alemayehu Behulu
  • Patent number: 6823197
    Abstract: A system and method for providing PBX-like functionality at a remote office location includes the capability of maintaining a network session with a mobile number associated with the remote worker once the worker terminates the remote office session. The system utilizes a remote office platform interposed between a data communications network and a conventional PBX switch (located either at a subscriber-based office location or within the communication network and shared by a number of different subscribers). A remotely located individual (such as a telecommuter) “logs in” to the remote office platform and, once the individual is authenticated, a graphical user interface (GUI) emulating a PBX station set is enabled at the remote employee's personal computer, the GUI including a field for entry of the user's mobile number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2004
    Assignee: AT&T Corp.
    Inventors: Yihsiu Chen, Mark Jeffrey Foladare, Kathleen C. Fowler, Shelley B. Goldman, Shaoqing Q. Wang, Roy Philip Weber, Robert S. Westrich, Aleksandr Zelezniak
  • Patent number: 6807415
    Abstract: Disclosed is a mobile communication system including a mobile station and a server to communicate with the mobile station through a base station. The mobile station has: notification means for notifying data processing ability to the server beforehand; reception means for receiving a program and data from the server; and processing means for processing service information from the server using the program and data received from the server. The server has: storage means for storing the data processing ability from the mobile station; determination means for, according to the information stored in the storage means, determining whether the mobile station can process the service information or not; and transmission means for, when the result of the determination by the determination means is NO (negative), transmitting the program and data for processing the service information along with the service information to the mobile station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2004
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Naoki Sato
  • Patent number: 6766177
    Abstract: To resolve problems of communication between a mobile telephone provided with a smart-card reader and the circuits of a smart-card reader, it is planned to provide this mobile telephone with a fourth microprocessor designed to manage the communications of the mobile telephone with the smart card only. This fourth microprocessor then becomes, in competition with a SIM security circuit of the mobile telephone, a master of the microprocessor of the mobile telephone. To resolve the problem of competition resulting from the existence of these two master circuits, it is planned that one of the two will be called upon to execute a command and that it will execute this command if it falls within the commands that are executable by it. If this command is not executable by this first microprocessor, then it is transmitted to the microprocessor of the second master circuit so that this second master circuit executes it. By acting in this way, it is shown that it is very easy to update mobile telephones, even old models.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2004
    Assignee: Sagem SA
    Inventors: François Chambon, Jocelyn Leheup
  • Patent number: 6763239
    Abstract: The invention relates to a control unit for a terminal of a digital, cordless telecommunication system, and to a method for such a control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2004
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventors: Holger Huber, Christopher Stobart
  • Patent number: 6751488
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an apparatus for operating the cover of a mobile device. The apparatus includes a cylindrical housing formed on one end of the device cover. The cylindrical housing accommodates an operating means. The cylindrical housing has a projection at its first side and is open at its second side. Two holding projections are integrated with a device body, have opposite holding recesses and rotatably support the cylindrical housing. A hinge shaft is connected to the output end of the operating means, the cam portion of which is inserted into one of the holding recesses. Elasticity means is situated in the holding recess into which the cam portion is inserted for exerting a predetermined amount of elastic force on the cam portion. A switch is formed on one side of the device body for applying an operating signal to the operating means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2004
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: In Ho Lee
  • Patent number: 6731934
    Abstract: A wireless communications network, a home location register and a method are provided that have an improved signal strength arbitration scheme which can ensure that a mobile terminal is registered at the most appropriate mobile switching center. In particular, the home location register includes a database coupled to a processor capable of implementing a signal strength arbitration scheme that assigns a provisional quality value to a registration signal that was received from a mobile switching center which failed to include a quality parameter within the registration signal, wherein that mobile switching center may now be considered and possibly registered as the most appropriate mobile switching center to process a wireless call of a mobile terminal that broadcasted a registration access signal to a plurality of mobile switching centers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2004
    Assignee: Alcatel
    Inventors: Kevin M. Mills, Zia U. Haque