Abstract: A user can define two or more input modes with respective input values to establish an authentication protocol to unlock a computer or govern other computer behavior. As an example, the user may first establish a particular voice recognition pattern followed by a particular image recognition and subsequent logons can be accomplished only by speaking the voice recognition pattern into the device and then by presenting the commanded image, such as an image of the use's face, to the device.

Abstract: A personal organizer automatically obtains current position and traffic information for events scheduled on a calendar in the personal organizer. This information is used in combination with event location information and map information in the personal organizer to calculate and present route and estimated time of arrival information to the scheduled event. If the ETA is later than the event time in the calendar, automatic delay notifications can be sent to contacts associated with the event.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus implementing a telephony terminal for connecting a telephone to a data network. In one implementation, a telephony system includes: a phone connection for connecting to a telephone; a network connection for connecting to a network; and a controller connected to said phone connection and to said network connection; wherein said controller provides a phone service for processing inflation for said phone connection, said controller provides a network service for processing information for said network connection, and said controller provides a network voice service for converting information to and from a network voice format.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus implementing a telephony terminal for connecting a telephone to a data network. In one implementation, a telephony system includes: a phone connection for connecting to a telephone; a network connection for connecting to a network; and a controller connected to said phone connection and to said network connection; wherein said controller provides a phone service for processing information for said phone connection, said controller provides a network service for processing information for said network connection, and said controller provides a network voice service for converting information to and from a network voice format.

Abstract: An integrated call processing system, comprising: a wireless telephone including a keypad, a speaker, and a microphone to enable entry of call information and to enable phone transaction through one of a plurality of telephone networks; and a software telephone processor configured to receive and process the call information, wherein the processed call information is used to open phone transaction through a telephone network that incurs lowest price.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for implementing a network gateway supporting one or more service interfaces. In one implementation, a wireless gateway includes: a local network interface; a wireless interface; a controller connected to said local network interface and to said wireless interface; and one or more service interfaces connected to said local network interface and to said wireless interface; wherein each service interface provides data conversion between two services.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus implementing a telephony terminal for connecting a telephone to a data network. In one implementation, a telephony system includes: a phone connection for connecting to a telephone; a network connection for connecting to a network; and a controller connected to said phone connection and to said network connection; wherein said controller provides a phone service for processing information for said phone connection, said controller provides a network service for processing information for said network connection, and said controller provides a network voice service for converting information to and from a network voice format.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for establishing a connection to a hybrid receiver. In one implementation, a hybrid wireless handset includes: a radio interface including an antenna; a wireless telephony modem connected to said radio interface; a wireless IP modem connected to said wireless telephony modem and to said radio interface; an audio interface connected to said wireless telephony modem and to said wireless IP modem; and a user interface connected to said wireless telephony modem and to said wireless IP modem; wherein when said wireless telephony modem receives a connection notification from a first communication network, said wireless IP modem sends a connection reply to a second communication network.

Abstract: A virtual terminal protocol for a mobile station and a fixed station which initializes the mobile station by transmitting from the fixed station a terminal capabilities inquiry, transmitting from the mobile station a terminal capabilities response in response to the terminal capabilities inquiry, transmitting from the fixed station in text messages a selected plurality of scripts in response to the terminal capabilities response, and storing in the mobile station the scripts transmitted by the fixed station. The protocol provides for mobile station originated script action in which a script is invoked at the mobile station, which involves the display of menu options and the selection by a user of one of those options. The protocol also provides for fixed station originated script action in which the fixed station transmits a script invocation request to the mobile station and the mobile station invokes a script in response to the script invocation request.

Abstract: A module (P-code module) provides parameter information to a Number Assignment Module (NAM) in a cellular phone unit by processing a simple programming code (P-code) entered by the user through a telephone keypad. The P-code employs a flexible length telephone keypad coding that can be translated into programmable parameters of cellular phone products. Field identification numbers and look-up tables are used to shorten the P-code length for more frequently used information. To activate a cellular phone, the user provides product and serial number information to a dial-up access center which then generates a scrambled P-code for entry by the user. The P-code module within the processor unit of the cellular phone likewise descrambles, decompresses, and performs an integrity check on the sequence of digits being entered by the user.

Abstract: An IR emitting device and an IR receiving device are employed to transmit data to and receive data from a public telephone network. As a result, the user interface of the portable telephone unit for non-voice communication service is improved.

Abstract: A module (P-code module) provides parameter information to a Number Assignment Module (NAM) in a cellular phone unit by processing a simple programming code (P-code) entered by the user through a telephone keypad. The P-code employs a flexible length telephone keypad coding that can be translated into programmable parameters of cellular phone products. Field identification numbers and look-up tables are used to shorten the P-code length for more frequently used information. To activate a cellular phone, the user provides product and serial number information to a dial-up access center which then generates a scrambled P-code for entry by the user. The P-code module within the processor unit of the cellular phone likewise descrambles, decompresses, and performs an integrity check on the sequence of digits being entered by the user.

Abstract: A module (P-code module) provides parameter information to a Number Assignment Module (NAM) in a cellular phone unit by processing a simple programming code (P-code) entered by the user through a telephone keypad. The P-code employs a flexible length telephone keypad coding that can be translated into programmable parameters of cellular phone products. Field identification numbers and look-up tables are used to shorten the P-code length for more frequently used information. To activate a cellular phone, the user provides product and serial number information to a dial-up access center which then generates a scrambled P-code for entry by the user. The P-code module within the processor unit of the cellular phone likewise descrambles, decompresses, and performs an integrity check on the sequence of digits being entered by the user.

Abstract: An aluminum alloy member is heated to 470.degree.-550.degree. C., and is quenched to room temperature for hardening. Then the aluminum alloy member is heated to 160.degree.-220.degree. C., and is cooled, which is carried out in a cooling process of a tempering treatment. As the aluminum alloy member is in a softening state in the cooling process, plastic working such as shot peening treatment is performed on the surface of the aluminum alloy member. Thereafter, the temperature of the aluminum alloy member falls to room temperature. In this way, it is possible to generate a great amount of compression residual stress in the aluminum alloy member, without performing a severe plastic working treatment on the surface thereof. Since the present invention requires no severe plastic working treatments on the surface of the aluminum alloy member, this causes no severe surface roughness thereon.

Abstract: When display data are written into the terminal's display memory, the data indicative of the display coordinate are converted from the normalized values to the absolute values of the NTSC system or PAL system and are then written into the corresponding addresses of the display memory, so that regardless of the fact that the display is of the NTSC system or of the PAL system, the figure can be displayed with the correct aspect ratio. Further, when the coordinates are converted, the conversion is carried out such that the display resolution is regarded as the highest one, so that even if the resolution of the display is increased by increasing the capacity of the display memory, it is not necessary to change the conversion algorithm. For displays having less than full resolution capability, the display data is scaled by omitting some of the converted data when writing it into the display memory.

Abstract: A water meter eliminates the usual conversion gear trains by using a permanent magnet which rotates in proportion to the volume of water to be measured. A magnetic field sensor, comprising a ferromagnetic magnetoresistor, produces a sensor signal which varies as a function of the rotation of the magnet. A wave shaper forms the sensor signal into a sequence of pulses which drive a totalizer for producing a signal indicative of the volume of the water used. The output of the totalizer is supplied to an indicator device which displays the total amount of water passing through the meter, in terms of a predetermined unit of measure. Preferably, the sensor comprises at least two magnetoresistors for producing two sensor signals with a phase difference therebetween. The wave shaper then produces two pulse sequences for identifying a normal and an inverse flow of water, respectively. These two sequences cause the totalizer to count up or down, respectively.