Patents Examined by Tan Trinh
  • Patent number: 7412252
    Abstract: A system, transmitter, receiver and method for communication power control by the transmitting entity (150A) keeping a sequence number counter (200) per UE (130A) that is incremented whenever a common channel transmission is made specifically to that UE, the value of the counter is signalled inside the message itself (or possibly by other signalling means) across the Uu interface, when the intended recipient UE correctly decodes a message, it also decodes the counter value, it compares this counter value with the last correctly received sequence number, which it holds in a memory (300), and deduces whether there are any missing sequence numbers, and accordingly effects transmission power control, this provides the advantage that the transmitting entity is able to provide information to the receiving entity that enables a correct recipient-specific error statistic to be generated, when applied to 3GPP release 5 HS-SCCH for TDD, this technique is able to assist the UE in calculating a correct error statistic fo
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2008
    Assignee: IPWireless, Inc.
    Inventor: Nicholas William Anderson
  • Patent number: 7411937
    Abstract: A time synchronization system synchronizes local clocks of locating units within a communication system using a known external signal. Each of the locating units receives a radio frequency (RF) signal from a transmitter at a known geographical location and measures the RF signal to produce a respective measurement of the signal and a respective timestamp of the measurement recorded at substantially the same time of the local clocks of the locating units. A controller determines a measured time difference of arrival between the locating units using the measurements and timestamps, computes a time synchronization error between the locating units from a difference between the measured time difference of arrival and an expected time difference of arrival and provides a respective time adjustment to each of the locating units to offset the time synchronization error.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2008
    Assignee: Agilent Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: John H. Guilford
  • Patent number: 7412206
    Abstract: Systems and techniques to wirelessly provide audio in a spa. A system includes an audio system coupled with a spa, and a wireless communication system communicably coupled with the audio system and with a remote audio source, wherein the wireless communication system provides audio signals from the remote audio source to the audio system, and a volume of the audio system is controlled locally at the spa without affecting a volume indication at the remote audio source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2008
    Assignee: Dimension One Spas
    Inventors: Brent Mark Hutchings, Angelo Vito Pugliese, Jr.
  • Patent number: 7412258
    Abstract: An electronic device (1) comprises preferably at least a keyboard (4), which comprises at least one key (15a, 15b) for controlling the functions of an electronic device (1). This keyboard (4) is arranged as a keyboard plate (16). Said keyboard (4) is implemented so that it also comprises a touch sensitive element (19), over which said keyboard plate (16) is arranged so that the depression of a key is arranged to be transmitted to a touch sensitive element (19) essentially at the point of a key (15a, 15b). In addition, the electronic device (1) comprises means (21, 22b) for determining the point of depression from the touch sensitive element (19), whereby on the basis of the determined point of depression it is determined which key (15a, 15b) has been depressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2008
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventors: Markku Lipponen, Ari Aho
  • Patent number: 7412254
    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: December 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2008
    Assignee: Nortel Networks Limited
    Inventors: Nimal Senarath, Kelvin Kar-Kin Au, Shalini Peliyalwar
  • Patent number: 7412245
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a dynamic wireless meshing network system, which applies a management frame stipulated in IEEE 802.11 standard for regulating access point (AP) to a wireless distribution system (WDS) mode and adds an information element (IE) to the management frame, enabling an AP to select another AP having smaller hop count value and service hop count value to establish a wireless link therewith according to information in a hop count field and a service hop count field of the IE provided by the another AP and to determine whether a wireless link therebetween should be established according to information of real time network flow in a RunOutofVport field of the same IE for achieving the goal of establishing a dynamic wireless meshing network system with high efficiency, low loading and simple topology for supporting load balance and flow control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2008
    Assignee: Alpha Networks Inc.
    Inventor: Ming-Wang Guo
  • Patent number: 7409188
    Abstract: Equipment and a method by which power consumed by a ranging receiver (12) is reduced without appreciably impairing performance of the GPS receiver (12), the method including: a step (21) in which a controller (15) reads sensor signals provided by a motion sensor (14) mechanically coupled to the ranging receiver (12); and a step (22) in which the controller (15) powers down selected components of the ranging receiver (12) based on whether the sensor signals indicate only at most insubstantial motion of the ranging receiver (12). The motion sensor is advantageously a motion sensor constructed using MEMS technology, but at any rate is of a type using so little power as to provide a power savings when used according to the invention, i.e. when it is always on and at least partially based on its sensor signals, the ranging receiver (12) is sometimes at least partially turned off.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2008
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventors: Jari Syrjarinne, Jani Kappi
  • Patent number: 7409229
    Abstract: Disclosed is a mobile communication terminal capable of speech recognition that includes a speech processing unit, a speech recognizing unit, a speech information managing database and a control unit, and method for utilizing same. A speech signal is modulated by the speech processing unit and converted into speech data for the speech recognizing unit to recognize and to output corresponding speech information. The speech information managing database includes a table storing character information corresponding to the speech information. The control unit recognizes speech through the speech recognizing unit upon a demand for character input by speech recognition in a character input mode, detects character information corresponding to the recognized speech information, recognizes whether detected corresponding character information is input and displays via a display unit the input character information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2008
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Hye-Rym Choi
  • Patent number: 7406338
    Abstract: A dual display module is provided. The dual display module comprises a common circuit board, a first display panel and a second display panel. The common circuit board has a first surface and a second surface. The first display panel and the second display panel are respectively set up on the first surface and the second surface. At least one of the display panels is directly attached to the common circuit board through a connecting interface. The dual display module has a lower manufacturing cost and provides a better yield.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2008
    Assignee: Au Optronics corporation
    Inventor: Hung-Chih Chen
  • Patent number: 7406325
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method of allocating links in a base station of a 1×EVDO (EVolution Data Only) system. Conventionally, since a 1×EVDO system sequentially allocates a link to a user who requested a call setup irrespective of the link status, some of the allocated links may suffer from overload that eventually decreases the data transmission rate for the user. However, in order to perform the link allocation in due consideration of the link status, the present invention uses a link database including various status information, such as an equipment confirmation flag, a block flag, a current status, the total call user number, and the current call user number. With the status information, a base station control processor (BCP) in the 1×EVDO system of the present invention distributes traffic loads among the links and ensures an optimized data transmission rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2008
    Assignee: UTStarcom Korea Limited
    Inventor: Kye Chol Cho
  • Patent number: 7403502
    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: August 9, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2008
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo. Inc.
    Inventors: Sung Uk Moon, Minami Ishii, Takehiro Nakamura
  • Patent number: 7403780
    Abstract: A method of adapting a communication link in a network of radio communication nodes is disclosed, The method includes sending by a first node a first radio communication, The method also includes receiving by a second node the first radio communication, Further, the method includes estimating by the second node the dynamics of the communications channel, Further still, the method includes categorizing the dynamics of the communications channel into one of at least two groups, based on the estimate, Yet further still the method includes selecting, based on the chosen group, the use of either closed loop link adaption or open loop adaption of communication link parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2008
    Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven L. VanLaningham, Jeffrey A. Barton, James A. Stevens, Hersh B. Parekh, C. David Young
  • Patent number: 7400858
    Abstract: The present invention comprises a docking system for connecting a portable communication device to a further signal transmission line, The docking system may be arranged within a workstation such as a desk or a tray, The system may also envelope a room in a building or be located in a vehicle, to control and restrict the radiative emission from the communication device and to direct such radiation to a further remote antenna and or signal distribution system connected to the transmission line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2008
    Assignee: AMBIT Corp
    Inventors: Robert J Crowley, Donald N. Halgren
  • Patent number: 7398103
    Abstract: A high-frequency module includes a diplexer, first and second high-frequency switches, a SAW duplexer, first and second LC filters functioning as first and second filters, and an SAW filter functioning as a third filter, the module defines a unit that integrates front-end sections of first to third communication systems, a digital cellular system (1.8 GHz band), a personal communication service (1.9 GHz band) and a global system for mobile communications (900 MHz band).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2008
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji Furutani, Norio Nakajima, Tetsuro Harada, Yoshiki Takada, Akihiro Ochii
  • Patent number: 7397784
    Abstract: An apparatus and method of receiving multi-path signals in a direct sequence Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) mobile communication system is disclosed. Timing control signals from respective fingers are collected, and relations among positions of time delays where the respective fingers intend to perform a demodulation are analyzed. If it is determined that the time delay position for a specified finger approaches the time delay position of the finger allocated with an adjacent multi-path as close as a threshold value, the distance between the time delay positions is compulsorily kept as the threshold value. This can be effected by making the timing control signal of the finger allocated with the adjacent multi-path be equally used in the specified finger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2008
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dong-Ryeol Ryu, Seong-Kyu Hwang, Jae-Hawk Lee, Jeoung-Gil Lee, Chae-Man Lim
  • Patent number: 7395081
    Abstract: A mobile telephone has a display (240) and a rotator input device (250) comprising a rotatable element and capable of generating commands for browsing and selecting objects on the display. It also has a wireless telecommunication interface to a mobile telecommunications network. A processing device is coupled to the display, the rotator input device and the wireless telecommunication interface. A text-handling software application is executable by the processing device. The processing device is configured, in a first operating mode, to provide first user input by way of the rotator input device (250), said first user input including a number sequence representative of a desired telephone number which is to be reached over the mobile telecommunications network, and to use said first user input when establishing a telephone call connection through the wireless telecommunication interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2008
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventors: Jakob Bonnelykke Kristensen, Rasmus Christjansen, Henrik Balle, Lone Stagsted, Janne Juul-Jakobsen, Christian Saxe Knudsen, Thomas Pederson
  • Patent number: 7392069
    Abstract: A bangle or handle for supporting a mobile station that includes a continuous loop of resiliently compressible material. A portion of the length of the handle is configured to fit within a channel defined in a housing of the mobile station. A second length portion extends from the housing to form a loop of the handle that can be gripped by the user, or otherwise used to suspend the mobile station. The handle may also include a conducting element that extends through the loop and is in communication with a conducting contact of the loop. The conducting contact of the continuous loop can be positioned in overlying contact with a conducting contact of the housing of the mobile station. Such contact supplies power or signals to, and receives power or signals from, a device such as a light, fan, noise generator or camera, connected to the second length portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2008
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventors: Andrew Julian Gartrell, Steven Arthur Shaw
  • Patent number: 7389118
    Abstract: A system and method for performing person-to-person messaging with a value added service having a short message service center (SMSC) that receives a message having an address of a terminating wireless device, such as a and a Universal Resource Location (URL); a message server that creates an enhanced message from the address and URL of the message; and a Short Message Service Gateway Mobile Switching Center (SMS GMSC) that forwards the enhanced message to the terminating wireless device. The message server includes a SMSC interface that communicates with the SMSC; an Internet interface that communicates with the Internet; a system bus that connects the SMSC interface and the Internet interface; and a processor, connected to the system bus that extracts the URL and address from the message received via the SMSC interface, retrieves internet content from the Internet located at the URL address, and creates the enhanced message having the retrieved Internet content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2008
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventors: Petri Vesikivi, Sakari Kotola
  • Patent number: 7389121
    Abstract: There is disclosed a method for serving radio network subsystem relocation from a first radio network controller to a second radio network controller for an established call to a user equipment, comprising transmitting a transmission power control combination index of a radio link established between the user equipment and the first radio network controller to the second radio network controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2008
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventors: Juha P. Sipila, Sture Gustafsson
  • Patent number: 7389120
    Abstract: A dispatch communications system is disclosed that facilitates dispatch communications respectively between subscriber units residing within a first geographical area, subscriber units residing within a second geographical area, and subscriber units residing respectively in the first and second geographical areas. The dispatch communications system includes a first intra-area dispatch communications network to facilitate dispatch calling between subscriber units residing within a first geographical area; a second intra-area dispatch communications network to facilitate dispatch calling between subscriber units residing within a second geographical area different than the first geographical area; and an inter-area dispatch communications network to facilitate dispatch calling between subscriber units residing respectively in first and second geographical areas. A call processing unit controls both inter-area and intra-area dispatch calls for the dispatch communications system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2008
    Assignee: Nextel Communications Inc.
    Inventor: David Zufall