Abstract: An input/output device is adopted which includes a pendant strap and a connecting member connecting the strap in a ring shape. The strap incorporates at least one input portion. The connecting member includes a connector for the input portion and a portable information device. The input portion has a plurality of input modes and may be movable along the front or back of the strap body.

Abstract: A mobile terminal having detachably mounted thereon a recording medium in which user-specific information is written, and besides the recording medium, having terminal-specific information recorded thereon, the mobile terminal performing radio communication with the recording medium mounted thereon, including: a locking instruction determination section which determines whether or not announcement information transmitted to unspecified mobile terminals by radio communication is locking instruction information containing terminal-specific information to instruct locking of a mobile terminal specified by the terminal-specific information; a coincidence determination section which determines whether or not terminal-specific information contained in the locking instruction information coincides with that recorded on the mobile terminal; and a locking section which locks the mobile terminal to disable at least part of functions of the mobile terminal.

Abstract: A system and method for providing quality-of-service based network resource allocation and utilization in a dynamic network environment. For example, a wireless communication network may comprise a first system and a second system. The first system may provide a current service to a user at a current quality level. The first system and second system may establish a wireless communication link. At least one of the first and second systems may determine whether utilizing one or more resources of the second system will provide the current service to the user at a higher level of quality than the current quality level. One or more resources of the second system may be allocated for providing the current service to a user at a higher quality level. The allocated resources may be utilized to provide the current service to the user at a higher quality level than the current quality level.

Abstract: It is disclosed a method of adjusting mobility management in a mobile communication network, said mobile communication network comprising a mobility control unit (4; 40; 320) adapted to track location of communication units (1; 10; 310) communicating in said mobile communication network and to control the mobility management for said communication units. Mobility information related to a communication unit is provided (S1) to said mobility control unit, which evaluates (S2) the degree of mobility of said communication unit from said mobility information related to said communication unit. On the basis of said evaluated degree of mobility, mobility management elements used for mobility management of said communication unit in said mobile communication network are correspondingly adjusted (S3). Furthermore, there are disclosed a corresponding mobility control unit, a corresponding communication unit as well as a corresponding mobility management adjustment system.

Abstract: A wireless system is provided for dynamically configuring a multimodal user interface based on user preferences to communicate with a local appliance. An appliance node is operably linked to the local appliance and configured to transmit interface format data of the local appliance for reception by the portable terminal when in the transmit vicinity of the appliance node. The portable terminal transmits an interface request therefrom in response to the reception of the interface format data. A server node is configured to receive the interface request from the portable terminal for identifying a user interface for use in interacting with the appliance.

Abstract: The present invention relates to charging of communications using chargeable resources of a first communication system and a second communication system wherein at least one of said communication systems provides wireless communication services. In accordance with the method, after a set-up procedure for communications initiated a first procedure for obtaining a first charging component is triggered, the first charging component being associated with the first communication system and determined based on a first charging model. If required, a second procedure for obtaining a second charging component is also triggered, the second charging component being associated with the second communication system and determined based on a second charging model. Information associated with the communications in the first and second communication systems is processed simultaneously to obtain the respective first and second charging components. The first and second charging components are combined to obtain a total charge.

Abstract: A method for enhanced power saving on DCF based wireless networks is disclosed. The method divides a beacon transmitting section in an Announcement Traffic Indication Message (hereinafter, referred to as “ATIM”) window period defined by IEEE standard 802.11 according as there is a data packet to be sent or not and allows a terminal that has received the beacon to go to a doze state immediately according to beacon reception timing, thereby preventing unnecessary power consumption.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for reducing the size of an electronic message on a mobile communication device. The mobile communication device may identify address card information in a received electronic message. The mobile communication device may then automatically display a reduced version of the electronic message on the mobile communication device, wherein the address card information is represented by an address card indicia.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for performing a dialing operation using a phone book of a mobile communication terminal, and an apparatus and method capable of displaying all telephone numbers of persons registered in a phone book when a dial history information is displayed. In an apparatus and method for displaying dial history information configured by at least one of a plurality of calling/called telephone classification icons, personal names corresponding to the calling/called telephone classification icons and a single calling/called telephone number icon corresponding to each personal name, the dial history information is sequentially searched. The apparatus and method further determines whether different telephone numbers corresponding to a personal name searched from the dial history information are registered in a phone book.

Abstract: A method includes the steps of selecting an appliance to be controlled from a list of appliances stored in the cellular device, selecting an instruction to be communicated to the selected appliance from a list of instructions stored in the cellular device, and transmitting the instruction to a cellular interface associated with the selected appliance via a public cellular telephone infrastructure by dialing a telephone number stored in the cellular device.

Abstract: An antenna apparatus is installed in a base station in a code division multiple access communication system. The antenna apparatus comprises a plurality of antenna elements, each receiving a radio signal; a controller that produces an antenna control signal based on information contained in the radio signal received at each of the antenna elements; an adjusting unit that adjusts directivity characteristics of each of the antenna elements based on the antenna control signal; and an allocating unit that allocates the antenna elements to sectors based on the antenna control signal. The sector covers a portion of a cell controlled by the base station, and the number of sectors in the cell is variable by means of the antenna control signal.

Abstract: A system (100) for tracking incoming telephone calls includes a first caller identification decoder (166) that decodes caller identification data for a first incoming telephone call including a time stamp having a value reflecting a first time. The system (100) also includes a database (170) for storing the value of the time stamp, a second caller identification decoder (164) that decodes caller identification data relating to a second incoming telephone call initiated at a second time and a frequency counter (156) having a first value at the first time and a second value at the second time. A central processing unit (152) is operable to retrieve the value of the time stamp, identify the first and second values of the frequency counter and thereby determine the second time. A database (170) stores a record reflecting the second time for the second incoming telephone call.

Abstract: A wireless access point includes, in one embodiment, circuitry with a radio transceiver that determines substantially optimal antenna orientation for one or more radio hosts with which an access point is in communication. Received RF signals are down-converted to baseband frequencies and produced to a baseband processor. At least one received signal strength indicator provides signal strength measurements for received communication channels to the baseband processor in the described embodiment. The baseband processor produces control signals to prompt the user to orient at least one antenna into a specified location. In one embodiment, logic prompts the user to move the antenna into a plurality of positions and then evaluates signal strength indication in each position to determine an overall substantially optimal orientation for all of the radio transceivers in communication with the access point.

Abstract: This invention relates to a method and apparatus for selecting carriers to be measured by a subscriber unit (301,303, 501). The subscriber unit (301, 303, 501) is served by a communication system and is operable to measure carriers in a frequency band, which typically belongs to a different communication system. The apparatus comprises a performance processor (329) for determining a measuring performance characteristic of the subscriber unit (301, 303, 501) related to the measurement performance of the subscriber unit (301, 303, 501) when measuring in the frequency band. The apparatus furthermore comprises a carrier subset selector (331) for selecting a subset of carriers in the frequency band to be measured by the subscriber unit. The subset of carriers is selected dependent on the measuring performance characteristic. The invention is applicable to dual 2nd and 3rd generation cellular communication systems such as GSM/UMTS.

Abstract: Improved methods and apparatuses are provided to address a potential “hidden beam problem” in wireless communication systems employing smart antennas. The improved methods and apparatuses utilize complementary beamforming (CBF) techniques, such as, for example, Subspace Complementary Beamforming (SCBF), Complementary Superposition Beamforming (CSBF) and/or Single Beam Complementary Beamforming (SBCBF) techniques.

Abstract: In a mobile communication system, even when cells formed by fixed radio base stations are separated from each other, the switching operation between the cells is easily carried out to conduct continuous communication. A first-end radio device mounted in a first-end section of a mobile unit and linked with one of fixed radio base stations or a last-end radio device mounted in a last-end section of a mobile unit and linked with one of fixed radio base stations is selected. A communication network is established between the first-end or last-end radio device thus selected and a plurality of mobile terminals in the mobile unit. This makes it possible to construct a communicable zone (a virtual cell) on the mobile unit and hence elongates the ranges of cells formed by the base stations.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for setting a wireless communication antenna for use in the home, and more particularly to a method for setting an antenna used in local area wireless communication. The present invention provides a method for determining position of a wireless communication antenna, which is capable of providing a uniform communication environment in the home, and providing a communication environment such that interference between radio waves in a region other than the home does not occur.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for allocating a traffic channel in a concentric cell. Said method comprises the following steps: establishing a SDCCH (Stand-alone Dedicated Control Channel) between the base station and the mobile station; the base station receiving a plurality of measured reports sent from the mobile station; the base station obtaining measured the up-link level values of SDCCH according to said measured reports; the base station determining the distance between itself and the mobile station according to said measured up-link level values. The method for allocating a TCH according to the present invention can allocate reasonable carrier frequencies for calls quickly and effectively, thus can improve the performance of the mobile communication system greatly.

Abstract: A mobile telephony handset has a wireless communications transceiver for exchanging signals with a base station, and a positioning receiver for receiving coded ranging signals from a satellite-based positioning system. The handset is configured such that the positioning receiver is activated only periodically to perform a position fix using the ranging signals and between such active periods is in a power-saving condition. Each position fix includes a respective time measurement in which a precision time indication referenced to the positioning system reference time source is recorded and saved. The handset includes calibration means, which generates a calibrated time reference for performing each of a plurality of new such position fixes.

Abstract: A system and method for improved mobile assisted handoff in a digital cellular communication system that gives the mobile station the ability to synchronize to candidate base station transmissions in order to read the transmitted digital voice color code (DVCC) of the candidate station. This process-is performed during the idle period between two designated time slots in a TDMA frame. The invention is an enhancement to the existing mobile assisted handoff procedures described in the existing IS-136 standard. The present invention improves on the IS-136 standard's use of received signal strength measurements in that it allows the mobile station to acquire and report information regarding the digital verification color code (DVCC) of the candidate base station channels. Since the DVCC uniquely identifies the cell site to which a channel belongs, it is used to distinguish the candidate base station channel from its co-channel interferers, allowing the network to make a more informed handoff decision.