Patents Examined by Alemayehu Behulu
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Patent number: 6823197Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 13, 2001Date of Patent: November 23, 2004Assignee: 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
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Patent number: 6807415Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 8, 2001Date of Patent: October 19, 2004Assignee: NEC CorporationInventor: Naoki Sato
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Patent number: 6766177Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 14, 2001Date of Patent: July 20, 2004Assignee: Sagem SAInventors: François Chambon, Jocelyn Leheup
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Patent number: 6763239Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 7, 2001Date of Patent: July 13, 2004Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.Inventors: Holger Huber, Christopher Stobart
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Patent number: 6751488Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 11, 2001Date of Patent: June 15, 2004Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.Inventor: In Ho Lee
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Patent number: 6731934Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 9, 2001Date of Patent: May 4, 2004Assignee: AlcatelInventors: Kevin M. Mills, Zia U. Haque