Patents by Inventor Ilkka Ratamo

Ilkka Ratamo has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 7135958
    Abstract: An arrangement for configuring a device of a system by transferring control information from a removable controller thereto. The controller includes an input apparatus for receiving control information for configuring the device, a memory circuitry arranged to store and retrieve control information for configuring the device, and an output apparatus for transferring to the system retrieved control information for the device. The system includes apparatus for coupling with the output apparatus of the removable controller to transfer retrieved control information therefrom, and a controller arranged to configure the device in dependence upon the transferred control information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2006
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventors: Heikki Suuronen, Ilkka Ratamo
  • Patent number: 6928299
    Abstract: In a method for transmitting user identification data to a wireless communication device (1), user data is stored in a user data identification module (2). Upon initiating operation of the wireless communication device, the user data is examined to obtain access rights of the user of the wireless communication device. The user data is transmitted at least partly in a wireless manner from the user data identification module to the wireless communication device. The invention relates also to a user identification module having means (9) for storing user data and means (4, 6) for transmission of user data to a wireless communication device, and relates also to be wireless communication device (1). The wireless communication device includes means (5) for receiving user data and means (11) for examining the user data to obtain the access rights of the user of the wireless communication device. The data transmitting means (4) includes wireless communication means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2005
    Assignee: Nokia Mobile Phones Ltd.
    Inventors: Juha Rinne, Ilkka Ratamo