Abstract: A method and apparatus is provided for communicating on a wireless network which offers a selected service. In accordance with the method, a wireless communicator is tuned to a first signaling control channel broadcast by a wireless network. The first channel identifies one or more services provided over that network. This procedure is repeated for successive signaling control channels until a wireless network providing the selected service is identified. Once this has been identified, communication is conducted between the wireless communicator and the network.

Abstract: A network management method and appartus for wireless terminals. The method and apparatus comprises a new generation of wireless terminals having digital signal processors that can monitor the operating characteristics of the associated wireless terminals and report those characteristics to a network management computer. The network management computer receives communications from the wireless terminals and takes corrective action for out-of-specification conditions and updates the associated DSPs with corrections and flexible dialing instructions. The network management computer also gathers utililization statistics reported to it by the wireless terminals. The wireless terminals can be initialized by direct connection to the wireless terminal with a simple telephone instrument or can be initialized over the air by the network management computer.

Abstract: A system and method for providing short message service point-to-point extension phone service within a radio telecommunications network. The system includes a gateway mobile switching center (G-MSC), a home location register (HLR), a plurality of mobile switching centers (MSCs), and a plurality of intelligent terminals. The intelligent terminals are assigned to a single common pilot directory number (PDN) in addition to their individual directory numbers. When a call directed to the PDN is received in the G-MSC, the G-MSC sends a routing request message to the HLR. The HLR sends a short message service (SMS) data transmission to each of the plurality of intelligent terminals assigned to the PDN notifying associated mobile subscribers of an incoming extension phone call. Mobile subscribers desiring to accept the call utilize their intelligent terminals to send a responding SMS message back to the HLR.

Abstract: A system and method for processing telephone calls to a personal telephone number, such calls being of the type in which a call to a called party's personal telephone number results in a page to a pager of a called party and the caller's call is held in the network to be bridged to a return telephone call of the called party, employs type-ahead for faster perceived system response while not permitting free paging. In particular, although type-ahead is permitted, the page is not immediately initiated upon receipt of the last character of a valid command string prior to the end of the announcement that is played to the caller upon his call reaching a bridging and signaling unit. Instead, the bridging and signaling unit is arranged to respond so that it appears to have accepted and executed the command, and moves into the next phase of operation, e.g., music on hold.

Abstract: This invention provides a mobile communication system in which a call-incoming side can switch a communication line to an appropriate one which corresponds to a communication type requested by a transmitter's terminal. One example of its construction is as follows.A mobile station has a plurality of terminal units corresponding to plural types of communication and a call number is preliminarily assigned to each of them. A terminal unit in a telephone network uses a call number corresponding to a desired communication type when a datum is transmitted to the mobile station. The mobile station informs this call number to all of the terminal units which are connected to the mobile station. The respective terminal units inform the communication type to the mobile station only when the communication type corresponding to the call number can be handled. The mobile station informs this communication type contained in a reception call receiving signal to a mobile communication exchange.

Abstract: In a method for setting up a call connection for a group call to a group of mobile radio subscribers in a mobile radio network, a subscriber calling a group of mobile radio subscribers dials a subscriber call number having numerals for the identification of the call as a group call, which number is received by a mobile switching center in the mobile radio network. The numerals of the subscriber call number are evaluated with reference to area information for the identification of a local service area and with reference to group information. After the evaluation of the numerals of the subscriber call number dialed for the group call, the area information and the group information are transmitted directly to the target mobile switching center responsible for the called group in the service area, by which the further connection set-up for the group call is initiated using the received area information and group information.

Abstract: An image reading apparatus comprises: a scanner portion, having a first line image sensor a carriage system carrying the first line image sensor; and an ADF unit, having a transporting pass for feeding a copy from a stacked copies and carrying the copy from a first end of a copy glass of the scanner and discharging the copy at a the second end of the scanner, the ADF unit further having an attribution detection portion, including a second line image sensor, for detecting an attribution of an image of the copy, such as a color image or monochrome image, or a multi-value image or binary image. According to the attribution, a reading condition such as a reading speed or the reading interval by the first line image sensor is changed. In the absence of a command signal indicative of the attribution, the first line image sensor is positioned at the second end and in the presence of the command signal, the first line image sensor is positioned at the first end.

Abstract: A fixation arrangement for detachably mounting a battery pack onto a cellular phone includes two parallel guide rails defined on the cellular phone, a sloping depression defined between the guide rails and sloping outward to the guide rails, a recess defined adjacent to the sloping depression and in a position opposite to the sloping direction of the depression, and a coupling plate integrally formed with the battery pack and having two parallel lips corresponding to the guide rails for slidably engaging onto the cellular phone, a U-shaped slot provided in a position corresponding to the recess and the slot and defining a tongue portion with a tip over the slot when the battery pack is engaged with the cellular phone, a tab protruding from the tip of the tongue portion for inserting into the slot when the battery pack is engaged with the cellular phone, and two cutouts respectively extending between one of the lips and the U-shaped slot and in a direction substantially parallel to the guide rails.

Abstract: A printer control apparatus provided with a CPU for converting video data supplied from an external unit to video data tailored to the operation of the printer; a memory holding various types of data during that conversion processing; and a read/write control unit performing the read/write control of the data between the memory, CPU, and the printer, which includes latch units which respectively latch the address and data from the CPU and thereby perform the processing at the minimum bus cycle. Also, the upper bit side of that address is made to include the control data from the CPU, and an autonomous read/write control is carried out. Further, that read/write control is carried out while using the video buffer comprising several standard size pages and by freely using that page.

Abstract: A pre-pay service unit uses pseudo-numbers to identify subscribers and substitutes actual numbers to complete a call after verification of authenticity and verification of a positive balance in a subscriber's account. The service unit and the cellular telephone exchange data in the process of authentication. For outgoing calls, a cellular telephone first transmits an "800" number and an ANI. The "800" number is the telephone number of the pre-pay service unit, which then requests number actually dialed. The cellular telephone responds with dialed digits, a security code, and status data. If the information is correct, the dialed digits are then passed to a local exchange carrier to complete the call. For incoming calls, a pseudo-number directs the call to the pre-pay service unit, which converts the pseudo-number to the actual telephone number of a subscriber's cellular telephone.

Abstract: A method and apparatus using a PIN number for preventing theft of cellular telephone service is disclosed. The PIN is requested silently by a visual display panel and entered silently by recalling the number from memory. The PIN number is transmitted as a hookflash message during each call at a limited, variable delay after the mobile unit switches to the voice channel and the cell site requests the PIN number by pressing a single key. This one-touch PIN transmission is also compatible with one-touch dialing, automated mail access, and linked number operations.

Abstract: A cellular communication system and method where a mobile user communicates coded information signals on a radio channel via a cellsite and a cellsite controller to a switching network. The switching network switches the signal to a transcoder which converts the coded signal to an uncoded signal. The uncoded signal is communicated to another user, and may be maintained and remain untouched and uninterrupted during handoffs.

Abstract: Method and apparatus prepare an image for printing--and in some cases include an output stage, performing the actual printing--when the overall number of pixels is being scaled up or down from an original image or portion. Image-sharpening procedures are controlled automatically by a function of the number of pixels in the original image and the number in the output device. Any of a great variety of such functions may be used, but we prefer a step-function of a ratio of the two pixel counts--particularly a two-valued step-function in which one value is zero and the other serves as a sharpening factor in a sharpening algorithm. When the function yields its zero value, for efficiency the sharpening computations are preferably turned off. The nonzero value is automatically selected when the number of output pixels is more than twice the number of input pixels. The sharpening-factor value, ideally two, is multiplied by the deviation of each image element, e. g.

Abstract: In a cellular telephone system, a method for detecting and identifying a fraudulent user who cloned the cellular subscriber's electronic serial number and mobile identification number to gain unauthorized access to the cellular system. Cell sites transmit a paging signal on a control channel immediately after the cellular user establishes a voice communication. If an acknowledgement to the paging signal is received, then the cellular user currently engaged in the voice communication is fraudulent. A location of the fraudulent user can then be precisely identified by comparing a receiver signal strength indicator from several adjacent cell sites.

Abstract: A cordless telephone includes at least one child unit and a mother unit. The mother unit transmits and receives a radio signal to and from the child unit. The mother unit includes first and second receiver circuits, a transmitter circuit, and a muting circuit. The first receiver circuit receives an UP-channel signal from the child unit and transmits the received signal to a telephone line. The transmitter circuit receives the signal transmitted via the telephone line from the counter party, and converts the signal received from the counter party into a DOWN-channel signal which will then be transmitted to the child unit. The second receiver circuit receives a broadcasting radio signal. The muting circuit mutes the output signal from the second receiver circuit. The muting circuit mutes the output signal derived from the second receiver circuit when either the UP-channel signal, or the DOWN-channel signal may give spurious interference to the second receiver circuit.

Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for printing a color computer screen display on a monochrome printer by establishing for the screen display a print filter including a set of filter blocks for controlling the printing of the screen display, wherein each filter block designates a filter realm area on the screen in which the filter block is active and a filter color acted on by the filter block and a filter type instructing the printer to either print or not print pixels which lie within the realm area of the block and have a color which matches the filter color of the block. Plural print filters can be established for a screen display or display components thereof and each print filter is enabled when the associated screen display or display component is displayed on the screen. For any portion of a screen display or display component which lies within overlapping realm areas of different print filters, the last-enabled print filter governs the printing.

Abstract: In an output control method and apparatus, various kinds of setting items can be set or changed in accordance with a function which has been newly added at the side of an output apparatus. A setting-item file of an emulator supplied to the output apparatus is read, and read data are analyzed. A setting menu of the setting-item file is constructed and displayed on the picture surface of a host computer based on the result of the analysis. A setting item of the setting-item file is changed based on a value input in response to the displayed picture surface.

Abstract: An image described in a page description language program is processed by an external image processing module, which may perform screening or color correction on the image. The processed image is then returned to the page description language program to be incorporated into a raster description of an output page. An image operator contained in the page description language program is redefined such the image operator transforms the image for compatibility with the external processing module and then invokes the external module to process the image.

Abstract: A method for handling alarm conditions from paging stations in a paging system is disclosed. The paging system includes a paging terminal, a plurality of paging stations, and a network manager. When a paging station has an alarm condition, the paging station forwards the alarm to the network manager, which in turn, compares the alarm with an alarm record for that paging station and determines whether or not that alarm is a higher priority than the previous alarms received from the paging station. If so, the network manager transmits a signal to the paging terminal to page the technician responsible for servicing that particular paging station. The technician is paged and dispatched to the paging station for service.

Abstract: A terminal, such as character display unit or printer, has a character pattern memory region. A host system controls an operation of outputting a character to the terminal. In case of outputting a desired character to the terminal, firstly an examination is made at the side of the host system as to whether or not a character pattern corresponding to the desired character is stored in the character pattern memory region. When it is determined that the character pattern has not been stored in the character pattern memory region, the character pattern from the host system is loaded into the character pattern memory region.