Abstract: A system is provided for obtaining a landscape design pattern based on selected landscape design elements in a landscape design system having landscape design patterns comprised of at least two of said landscape design elements. The system stores multiple landscape design elements in a storage device, enables a user to select a plurality of landscape design patterns each of which includes a plurality of landscape design elements, matches the landscape design elements in the selected landscape design patterns with stored landscape design patterns, and renders the selected landscape design patterns using stored landscape design elements. The system preferably stores photographs of the multiple landscape design elements, and retrieves and displays photographs of the matched landscape design elements. In one implementation, a unique mnemonic code is assigned to each of the stored landscape design elements.

Abstract: A system is provided for obtaining a landscape design pattern based on selected landscape design elements in a landscape design system having landscape design patterns comprised of at least two of said landscape design elements. The system stores multiple landscape design elements in a storage device, enables a user to select a plurality of landscape design patterns each of which includes a plurality of landscape design elements, matches the landscape design elements in the selected landscape design patterns with stored landscape design patterns, and renders the selected landscape design patterns using stored landscape design elements. The system preferably stores photographs of the multiple landscape design elements, and retrieves and displays photographs of the matched landscape design elements. In one implementation, a unique mnemonic code is assigned to each of the stored landscape design elements.

Abstract: A system is provided for obtaining a landscape design pattern based on selected landscape design elements in a landscape design system having landscape design patterns comprised of at least two of said landscape design elements. The system stores multiple landscape design elements in a storage device, enables a user to select a plurality of landscape design patterns each of which includes a plurality of landscape design elements, matches the landscape design elements in the selected landscape design patterns with stored landscape design patterns, and renders the selected landscape design patterns using stored landscape design elements. The system preferably stores photographs of the multiple landscape design elements, and retrieves and displays photographs of the matched landscape design elements. In one implementation, a unique mnemonic code is assigned to each of the stored landscape design elements.

Abstract: A wireless telephone system is adapted for serving portable telephone sets of itinerant users. The wireless telephone system is provided with a plurality of radio base stations being organized in at least two groups or paging areas. Each group has a boundary, a portion of each boundary being overlapped by at least one other boundary, and at least two of the at least two groups having at least two radio base stations, one of which is in common with the other group. From time to time in relation to each group, a beacon signal is radio transmitted from a radio base station exclusive to the group for soliciting a recordation response from a portable telephone set of an itinerant user within a beacon zone. When the presence of a respondent portable set is recorded as being within a service area of one of the groups, the portable set is instructed not to respond to subsequent occurrences of the same beacon signal for some hours to avoid cluttering the wireless spectrum with undue supervisory signalling.