Patents Examined by Tan Trinh
  • Patent number: 8000650
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for performing Automatic Retransmission reQuest (ARQ) of a Relay Station (RS) in a wireless communication system using a relay scheme are provided. The method includes receiving data from a transmitter and transmitting the received data to one or more receivers; and receiving Acknowledgment (ACK)/Negative-Acknowledgment (NACK) information for the data received from the one or more receivers and transmitting the received ACK/NACK information to a Base Station (BS).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2011
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Young-Bin Chang, Jae-Weon Cho, Eun-Taek Lim, Sung-Jin Lee, Mi-Hyun Lee, Hyun-Jeong Kang, Chang-Yoon Oh, Cheng Shan, Dong-Seek Park, Pan-Yuh Joo, Joon-Young Choi, Jae-Hyuk Jang
  • Patent number: 8000752
    Abstract: A portable terminal device capable of emitting a random ringtone, includes a call arrival processing device, in which a radio broadcast is set as one of the items of information indicating the type of ringtone in set data, and the frequency of radio broadcast signals set as a ringtone is detected out of the frequency information in the set data. If the power of the signals of this frequency is at or above a prescribed level, then signals of that frequency are fed to a loudspeaker to cause a radio broadcast to sound as a ringtone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2011
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Toru Aoike
  • Patent number: 7995974
    Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention discloses a method for revoking a talk burst, which includes: entering a pending release state by a talk burst after a client having the talk burst releases the talk burst initiatively; monitoring a duration of the talk burst in the pending release state; and revoking the talk burst when the duration of the talk burst in the pending release state exceeds a preset duration. An embodiment also discloses an apparatus for revoking a talk burst. By applying certain embodiments of the present invention, after a client initiatively releases a talk burst so that the talk burst enters a pending release state, the talk burst can be revoked in time and the waiting time of the client is saved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Wangguang Zhang
  • Patent number: 7996032
    Abstract: A method for controlling power in a wireless network is provided. The method includes determining a relative power parameter at a wireless device such as a mobile wireless terminal and receiving a load parameter at the wireless device, where the load parameter is associated with at least one other wireless cell. The method includes adjusting transmit power of the wireless device in view of the relative power parameter and the load parameter. In another embodiment, the transmit power can be controlled in view of an absolute power spectral density parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Durga Prasad Malladi, Byoung-Hoon Kim, Xiaoxia Zhang
  • Patent number: 7991359
    Abstract: A receiver has an offset application circuit for applying a known offset to an input signal, and a decision circuit for comparing the offset-applied input signal with a reference voltage. The level of the input signal is determined based on the known offset and on the result output from the decision circuit. With this configuration, a large common mode voltage can be eliminated in a circuit used for signal transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventor: Hirotaka Tamura
  • Patent number: 7991418
    Abstract: A system, method, and apparatus that retrieve data from one or more wireless communication devices that are at least members of a communication group without user intervention are disclosed. In one embodiment, a request for data is sent to an intermediate device, which forwards the request to a target wireless device. The target wireless device determines if the request is allowed and preferably responds with the requested data or a failure notice. The location of the requested data may be known to the requesting device and included in the request, or it may be known to the target wireless device, which locates the data upon receiving the request. In another embodiment the requesting device and the target wireless device directly communicate without the intervention of an intermediate device. The data requested can help the requesting device or its user determine if and when to initiate group communications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventor: Beth Ann Brewer
  • Patent number: 7991380
    Abstract: An emergency monitoring and reporting system includes a user unit and a monitoring system. The user unit includes an input device, a user satellite communication system, and a user processor communicatively coupled to the input device and the user satellite communication system. The monitoring system includes a monitoring satellite communication system, an output device, and a monitoring processor communicatively coupled to the monitoring satellite communication system and the output device. The user satellite communication system and the monitoring satellite communication system are adapted for mutual communication via a satellite network such that the output device can present information corresponding to information entered at the input device to an observer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignee: Briar Tek IP
    Inventors: Charles K. Collins, Joseph Landa
  • Patent number: 7986659
    Abstract: A notification equipment comprises a transmission data determination unit configured to determine whether transmission data to be transmitted to a terminal equipment is first transmission data or repeated transmission data, an instruction data generator configured to generate identification instruction data indicating that the transmission data is the first transmission data or the repeated transmission data based on a transmission data determination result by the transmission data determination unit, and an instruction data transmitter configured to transmit the identification instruction data to the terminal equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2011
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo. Inc.
    Inventors: Sung Uk Moon, Minami Ishii, Takehiro Nakamura
  • Patent number: 7983722
    Abstract: The invention is directed at a headset for a mobile communication device having a multi-button control and is implemented with a standard headset jack. The multi-button control is decoded by a microprocessor after which an encoded signal is then transmitted from the processor to the handset. In this manner, by using the standard jack, no additional hardware is required on the handset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2011
    Assignee: Research In Motion Limited
    Inventors: Robert J. Lowles, Edward Hui, David Mak-Fan
  • Patent number: 7983611
    Abstract: An electronic infrastructure consisting a plurality of client mobile devices, a distribution server and a media creator computer, wherein the client mobile devices present interactive media upon user request. The plurality of client mobile devices support dynamic screen display and, contain a plurality of soft keys. The distribution server that supports delivery of interactive media to the client mobile devices. The media creator is a personal computer that generates interactive media and sends them to the distribution server for distribution. A network such as combination of Internet and mobile network communicatively couple the plurality of client mobile devices, distribution server and personal computer (media creator). The personal computer sends interactive media to the distribution server, the distribution server processes and sends the interactive media to the client mobile device and the client mobile devices presents the interactive media in a series of screens to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2011
    Assignee: Bindu Rama Rao
    Inventor: Bindu Rama Rao
  • Patent number: 7979085
    Abstract: The receive power of uplink signals in a CDMA mobile communication system is measured by prohibiting a mobile station from transmitting an uplink signal including a frame over a first channel during a predetermined transmission prohibition period, and measuring a receive power of uplink signals at a base station transmitted from each of the mobile stations located in a cell during the prohibition period. Another method of measuring the receive power includes measuring a first receive power of uplink signals at a base station from each mobile station located in a cell, and measuring each second receive power of uplink signal including a frame only over a first channel transmitted from each mobile station, and then calculating a total receive power of uplink signals excluding frames over the first channel by subtracting respective second receive powers from the first receive power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2011
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Takayuki Kondo
  • Patent number: 7979083
    Abstract: A wireless device may include two or more wireless interfaces capable of transmitting and/or receiving signals over separate wireless networks. To reduce the likelihood of interference, a processing unit may determine whether to permit a transmission under one wireless network when a reception under another wireless network is already in progress.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2011
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventor: Charles L. Brabenac
  • Patent number: 7970384
    Abstract: The present invention is a phonebook system including a mobile, wireless communications device having a microprocessor and user interface giving the user the capability of inputting, accessing, and modifying communication recipient identities, state data required to establish and/or enhance a communication session between the communications device and one or more recipients, and expanded information data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2011
    Assignee: PicoMobile Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Aerick Lambert, Lu Chang
  • Patent number: 7970391
    Abstract: A system and a method are disclosed for a presence engine and a method of operating a presence engine for encoding or decoding availability status into a signal representative of an audio signal. The presence engine is configured to manage availability status of a user. The presence engine comprises an input configured to receive a signal representative of an audio signal and an output configured to send a signal representative of an audio signal. The presence engine also comprises a processor configured to encode availability status of a user into a signal representative of an audio signal and/or configured to decode availability status of a user from a signal representative of an audio signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2011
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L. P.
    Inventors: Kevin Michael O'Shaughnessy, Ivo Ruben Willem Jager
  • Patent number: 7970364
    Abstract: A power control system includes a reference path filter used to suppress high frequencies in an input signal and generate a filtered envelope signal, a reference path amplifier to scale the filtered input signal based on a gain signal and generate a reference signal, a signal path amplifier to amplify an RF modulated signal and generate a signal path output signal scaled by a gain of an actuator signal, and a power detector to detect a power associated with the signal path output signal. The system includes an ADC to receive, pre-filter and convert the detected envelope signal into a measurement signal, and a comparator block to receive the reference signal and the measurement signal, and generate an error signal based on the difference, and a controller to generate the actuator signal for controlling the gain of the signal path amplifier based on the error signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2011
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Christian Mayer, Andreas Schwarz, Nick Shute, Günter Märzinger, Andrea Camuffo, Bernd Adler, Michael Meixner, Peter Bundgaard
  • Patent number: 7966028
    Abstract: The throughput of communication is enhanced in a wireless base station device communicating with each of a plurality of terminal devices according to a modulation scheme selected from a plurality of modulation schemes by using any one channel of a plurality of channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2011
    Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
    Inventor: Yasuhiro Nakamura
  • Patent number: 7962133
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for provisioning a physical link to a service provider is disclosed whereby physical link information in a carrier network is store, in one embodiment, in a database within the carrier network or, in another embodiment, in a database shared by a carrier and a service provider. In response to a request from the service provider for the use of the physical link, physical link information and network management information associated is retrieved from that database. In one embodiment, this information is sent directly from the carrier via in-band signaling. In another embodiment, the information is retrieved from the shared database and is transmitted via out-of-band signaling. In accordance with yet another embodiment, messages exchanged between service providers and carriers comprise digital certificates that are used to verify the identity of the providers and carriers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2011
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.
    Inventors: Guy Euget, Jean-Francois Pennec
  • Patent number: 7962092
    Abstract: A small-sized Integrated Radio Frequency Type Repeater includes first and second Service (transmitting) Antennas, a Junction circuit part with RF type (200) which plays the role of relay, a Shield Box (400) which protects the first and second Service Donor (receiving) Antennas (310, 320) and a Junction circuit part (200) installed inside of the same body. (Cover) (500). The first Service (transmitting) Antenna (110) and the first Donor (receiving) Antenna (310) attached to opposite sides of the Shield Box (400) and the second Service Antenna (120) is separated from the first Service (transmitting) Antenna (110) between the inside of Cover (500) and the first Service (transmitting) Antenna (110), and the second Donor (receiving) Antenna (320) is installed to be separated from the first Donor (receiving) Antenna (310) between the inside of the Cover (500) and the first Donor (receiving) Antenna (310).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2011
    Assignee: LG Uplus Corp.
    Inventors: Jae-Chang Kho, Jun-Pyo Hong
  • Patent number: 7957746
    Abstract: To schedule uplink transmission time slots for a collection of mobile communication devices, a set of base station target interference patterns is associated with base stations. A time slot target interference pattern is assigned for each time slot and it repeats after several time slots. The time slot target interference pattern in a given time slot specifies the interference allowed by each time slot to a given base station by any single mobile. A priority index may be determined for each time slot for each mobile associated with the particular base station. The priority index may be based, in part, on a determined correlation between the time-slot target interference patterns and a potential interference profile of a mobile to which a time slot is to be allocated. A mobile's throughput requirement, the throughput already received over a specified past duration, the system fairness requirement, as well as the amount of data available for transmission are also used for evaluating the priority index.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2011
    Assignee: Nortel Networks Limited
    Inventors: Nimal Senarath, Kelvin Kar-Kin Au, Shalini Periyalwar
  • Patent number: RE42543
    Abstract: A system and method for assisting an integrated GPS/wireless terminal unit in acquiring one or more GPS satellite signals from the GPS satellite constellation. The invention includes a method for narrowing the PN-code phase search. That is, by accounting for the variables in geographic location and time delay relative to GPS time, the systems and methods of the present invention generate a narrow code-phase search range that enables the terminal unit to more quickly acquire and track the necessary GPS satellites, and thereby more quickly provide accurate position information to a requesting entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2011
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Alkinoos Vayanos, Samir Soliman, Parag Agashe, Jeremy Stein, Peter Gaal, Ivan Jesus Fernandez-Corbaton