Patents Issued in July 17, 2008
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Publication number: 20080171539Abstract: It is presented a method for providing a user interface of a mobile communication terminal including a motion sensitive sensor, a keypad and a display, the mobile communication terminal being capable of being in at least an active mode and a key-lock mode, the method including: detecting, using the motion sensitive sensor, a first user input indicating a desire to switch modes; when the mobile communication terminal is in the active mode, as a response to the first user input, switching the mobile communication terminal to the key-lock mode; and when the mobile communication terminal is in the key-lock mode, as a response to the first user input, switching the mobile communication terminal to the active mode. Corresponding apparatuses and computer program products are also presented.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2007Publication date: July 17, 2008Applicant: NOKIA CORPORATIONInventors: Petri A. AHONEN, Erkki KURKINEN, Pasi A. KAIPAINEN
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Publication number: 20080171540Abstract: A frequency mixer includes a semiconductor substrate. An input current feedback amplifier is formed on the semiconductor substrate and receives a radio frequency (RF) signal and a local oscillator (LO) signal. An inverting current feedback amplifier is formed on the semiconductor substrate and connected to the input current feedback amplifier for inverting the LO signal and producing a half-wave signal. An output current feedback amplifier is formed on the semiconductor substrate and connected to an output of the input and inverting current feedback amplifiers and operative as an inverting summer for the RF and LO signals such that the output polarity of the RF signal is reversed.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2007Publication date: July 17, 2008Applicant: Harris Corporation, Corporation of the State of DelawareInventors: Edward R. Beadle, Roy Vaninetti, John F. Dishman
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Publication number: 20080171541Abstract: The present invention relates to arrangements adapted for implementation in a Session Initiated Protocol, SIP, provider domain in IP multimedia Subsystem, IMS, for managing SIP user identities wherein each SIP user is identified by a SIP URI. In one aspect of the present invention the arrangement comprises a database adapted to store and publish at least one identifier selected by the user, a content manager, adapted to associate the at least one selected identifier with the SIP URI of the user, and a search engine, adapted to search for a SIP URI in the database via the associated published selected identifier and to act as an interface between different SIP provider domains.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 6, 2005Publication date: July 17, 2008Applicant: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)Inventors: Steinar Dahlin, Robert Skog, Ulf Olsson
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Publication number: 20080171542Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and methods for tagging or identifying bad, faulty or objectionable media resource files in real time, as the media is playing, by users who are exposed to the media. The tagging is simple to use and easy to remember, allowing for increased use of the tagging process to identify, correct and replace bad, faulty or objectionable media.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2007Publication date: July 17, 2008Inventors: John Thomas Hursey, Jeffrey Clinton Mikan
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Publication number: 20080171543Abstract: Apparatus, and an associated method, for determining whether to accept as valid a data segment, such as a radio block communicated pursuant to an EDGE communication session. A bit error rate measurer measures the bit error rate of a header part of a received radio block. The measured bit error rate is compared against a selected threshold. Results of the comparison are determinative of whether the radio block is accepted as valid or rejected as corrupted.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2007Publication date: July 17, 2008Applicant: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITEDInventors: PHAT HONG TRAN, XING QIAN
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Publication number: 20080171544Abstract: A method for inter-network communication between a first user and a second user. The method includes receiving a first request for a location associated with the second user from a first switching system for a first network. The method processes information associated with the first request and determines a network identifier for a second network related to the location associated with the second user. The method sends to the first switching system a location message, which includes the network identifier for the second network. The method includes receiving a third request for routing information associated with the second user in the second network from a second switching system for the second network. The method determines a location directory in the second network for the second user and receives the roaming information for the second user from the location directory. The method then sends the roaming information to the second switching system.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2007Publication date: July 17, 2008Applicant: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yubin Li, Peng Yu Dong, Xi Xu
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Publication number: 20080171545Abstract: In a mobile-communication system including a base-transceiver station (BTS), a visitor-location register (VLR), and controllers for controlling a mobile station (MS), the controllers including at least one mobile-switching center (MSC) each controlling at least one radio-network controller (RNC), when a location-registration request is transmitted from the MS, it is determined whether or not being located in a controlled area of the controllers is allowed. If being located in a controlled area of one of the controllers is not allowed, re-location registration is performed for a cell placed under control of the other controller. If it is difficult to perform the re-location registration, forced-location registration is performed so that the location of a different MS is registered with a different cell. Subsequently, it becomes possible to decrease the state where originating calls are made with difficulty when subscribers are concentrated in a predetermined area.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 7, 2008Publication date: July 17, 2008Inventor: Hiroshi Takubo
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Publication number: 20080171546Abstract: Aspects of the present invention relate to a communication method and apparatus in a cognitive radio (CR) environment, the method including: receiving an uplink signal that is repeatedly transmitted via at least one candidate channel that is not being used; determining whether the receiving of the uplink signal is due to an existence of an incumbent user using a CR channel of the target cell; and changing the CR channel of the target cell when the receiving of the uplink signal is due to the existence of the incumbent user using the CR channel of the target cell.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2007Publication date: July 17, 2008Applicants: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., INHA-INDUSTRY PARTNERSHIP INSTITUTE, Inha UniversityInventors: Tae In HYON, Jae Myoung Kim, Jae Hak Chung, Sang Jo Yoo, Sung Hwan Sohn
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Publication number: 20080171547Abstract: A mobile communication controlling apparatus for controlling inter-frequency handover includes a required quality identifying unit configured to identify a quality required for data addressed to a mobile station, a transmission rate control unit configured to control a data transmission rate of a higher layer based on the identification result supplied from the required quality identifying unit, and an inter-frequency handover instruction unit configured to temporarily suspend signal transmission from a radio base station connected to the mobile communication controlling apparatus and allow the mobile station to perform inter-frequency measurement.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2008Publication date: July 17, 2008Applicant: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.Inventors: Sung Uk Moon, Takehiro Nakamura, Minami Ishii, Masafumi Usuda
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Publication number: 20080171548Abstract: Described herein are mechanisms and methods that facilitate utilizing a base station as a regional mobility agent (e.g., regional home agent, regional foreign agent, and/or the like). Thus, a base station can have functionality embedded therein that enables the base station to create tunnels with other base stations and selectively direct data intended for a wireless terminal to those base stations. Such base stations can then transmit the data to the wireless terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2007Publication date: July 17, 2008Inventors: George Tsirtsis, M. Scott Corson, Vince Park
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Publication number: 20080171549Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed which allow for enhanced SMS forwarding by providing a technique for seamless two-way messaging between a source party and a redirected destination. An advantage of the present technique lies in the ability to replace any routing information (originating/destination addresses) between devices owned by the mobile subscriber. The subscriber may define the conditions under which his from or to addresses are switched between devices. This switching can occur for both incoming and outgoing messages, including SMS, MMS, and similar existing and future messaging protocols.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2007Publication date: July 17, 2008Inventors: John Thomas Hursey, Justin Michael McNamara
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Publication number: 20080171550Abstract: A system comprises a network congestion monitoring module for monitoring a congestion-related metric of a wireless medium, the congestion-related metric being based on traffic class, e.g., average contention window; a contention-period/contention-free-period (CP/CFP) adaptation module coupled to the network congestion monitoring module for generating CP/CFP information, e.g., CP/CFP duration information and/or traffic class shifting information, in response to the at least one congestion-related metric; a point coordinator module coupled to the CP/CFP adaptation module for coordinating access to the wireless medium using a point coordination function, e.g., HCCA, based on the CP/CFP information; and a distributed coordinator module coupled to the CP/CFP adaptation module for coordinating access to the wireless medium using a distributed coordination function, e.g., EDCA, based on the CP/CFP information.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2007Publication date: July 17, 2008Inventor: Yun Zhao
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Publication number: 20080171551Abstract: One or more stations are sorted based on respective load levels, and a reuse pattern is generated, based on the sorted load levels and mapped interference levels, including one or more reuse sets of stations capable of sharing a transmission resource. The stations within each reuse set are listed in order based on their respective load levels, and an additional station is added to a reuse set, as long as the cumulative transmission level within the reuse set is below a threshold interference level and the additional station is not already listed in another reuse set. A network schedule is updated based on the reuse pattern to increase bandwidth efficiency in the network.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2007Publication date: July 17, 2008Applicant: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Chenxi Zhu, Wei-Peng Chen, Jonathan Agre, Dorin Viorel, Jagan Seshadri
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Publication number: 20080171552Abstract: A communication method and apparatus for a distributed network system where a cognitive radio (CR) technology is used. A communication method of a distributed network system where the CR technology is used includes transmitting adjacent channel information, from at least one first neighbor node adjacent to a source node, first adjacent channel information of the at least one first neighbor node using a pulse signal according to a request of the source node; by transmitting, from at least one second neighbor node adjacent to a destination node, second adjacent channel information of the at least one second neighbor node to the destination node using a pulse signal according to a request of the destination node; and exchanging data between the source node and the destination node using a channel that is not currently used, according to the transmitted adjacent channel information.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2007Publication date: July 17, 2008Applicants: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., INHA-INDUSTRY PARTNERSHIP INSTITUTEInventors: Tae In HYON, Jae Myoung Kim, Jae Hak Chung, Sang Jo Yoo, Kyoung Jin Jo
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Publication number: 20080171553Abstract: A system for channel selection management in a wireless communication network. The system includes a memory module configured to store at least one channel condition related to at least one infrastructure station among a plurality of infrastructure stations in the wireless communication network, wherein each of the plurality of infrastructure stations is able to monitor a channel condition of a channel between the each infrastructure station and a mobile station; a compare module configured to compare a channel condition related to one of the plurality of infrastructure stations with a threshold and provide a signal for a comparison result; a control module configured to provide a control information based on the signal from the compare module; and a selection module configured to select one of the at least one infrastructure station and notify the selected infrastructure station to serve the mobile station based on the control information from the control module.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 7, 2008Publication date: July 17, 2008Applicant: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTEInventors: Fang-Ching REN, Ray-Guang CHENG, Chie-Ming CHOU, Kun-Ying HSIEH
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Publication number: 20080171554Abstract: A system and method in accordance with the present invention reduce the amount of data that is stalled in a source Node B after a serving HS-DSCH cell change in a communication system that includes a serving RNC and at least one Node B. In a first embodiment, the RNC temporarily suspends data transmissions from the RNC to the Node B. In a second embodiment, the activation time is used in data scheduling. In a third embodiment, a more robust MCS level is selected. In a fourth embodiment flow control is employed for the data transmitted between the RNC and the Node B.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2003Publication date: July 17, 2008Applicant: InterDigital Technology CorporationInventors: Yi-Ju Chao, Stephen E. Terry
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Publication number: 20080171555Abstract: A method and device is provided for transmitting location-based text messages between electronic devices. A mobile electronic device can determine a device's location, create a map of that location, create a text message, embed the map in the text message and transmit the text message to a recipient. The device can also transmit or create navigational directions and update the map and the directions in real time.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2007Publication date: July 17, 2008Applicant: Helio, LLCInventors: Seung June Oh, Minah Oh
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Publication number: 20080171556Abstract: In one arrangement, a method of operating a mobile user terminal in a communications system includes monitoring received broadcast signals and deriving first identification data of fixed wireless nodes from the received broadcast signals. The method includes using data derived from a stored database in combination with the derived first identification data in order to provide a service to a user of a mobile user terminal. The method includes deriving update data from at least the derived first identification data and transmitting the derived update data to a database administration node in order to allow the stored database of fixed wireless nodes to be updated.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2008Publication date: July 17, 2008Applicant: CONNECT SPOT LTD.Inventor: Mark Ian Carter
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Publication number: 20080171557Abstract: A system for locating a communications terminal (10). The system comprises a location hybridization module (14) which comprises: a spatial filter (142); a temporal filter (141) for the geographical location adapted to compare a time corresponding to the age of the latest geographical location with a first predetermined maximum time and, in the event of a positive comparison result, to compare said time corresponding to the age of the latest geographical location with a second predetermined maximum time greater than said first predetermined maximum time; a speed filter (145) adapted to compare the speed at which said terminal (10) is moving with a predetermined maximum speed; a module (144) for estimating the uncertainty as to the geographical location; and a selection module (143) adapted to select either the area defined by the latest geographical location or the network-location area. Application is to mobile telephone services that need to know the location of the terminals.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 14, 2005Publication date: July 17, 2008Inventors: Xiang Bernard, Guillaume Viel, Fabien Dallot, Deborah Baruch, Olivier Peridy
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Publication number: 20080171558Abstract: The present invention relates to a location-based service method and system using location data included in image data, particularly to a method and a system of providing the location-based service with photos taken by a camera phone, using location information at the shooting time. The location-based service method according to the present invention, using the image data provided using a terminal equipped with a camera and the location data including the location information of the terminal, comprises the steps of shooting a target image with the terminal at a predetermined location and generating first image data; receiving the location data; including the received location data in the first image data and generating second image data; and displaying an image corresponding to the first image data and providing a service using the location data, if the second image data are selected.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2006Publication date: July 17, 2008Applicant: SK TELECOM CO., LTD.Inventors: Jin-Seung Choi, Jae-Chul Lim, Jae-Bum Park, Hong-Keun JI, Jong-Ho Kim, Do-Wan Kim, Hyun-Jun Oh, Dong-Won Na, Won-Hee Sull
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Publication number: 20080171559Abstract: One embodiment of the present is a method of using location information to transmit alerting information to a communications device. Such a method comprises receiving location information regarding a communications device; selecting alerting information based on the location of the communications device; and transmitting to the communications device information pertaining to the alerting information. Other methods and systems are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2007Publication date: July 17, 2008Applicant: BellSouth Intellectual Property CorporationInventors: Scott Frank, Robert Starr, John Ruckart, Steven Tischer, Samuel Zellner
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Publication number: 20080171560Abstract: A system for detecting and locating illicit cellular telephone use within a facility includes an array of radio frequency (RF) receivers, each receiver being placed in a predetermined location in the facility, and a central server, the receivers being in electrical communication with the central server. The server commands a group or groups of receivers to tune to a frequency of interest and to perform detailed sample rate measurements of the RF signal level received at the receivers. The array of receivers is organized into a plurality of measurement areas covering widely separated areas of the facility or different buildings of the facility, and the plurality of receivers of a measurement area is organized into a plurality of measurement groups covering areas of approximately uniform RF propagation conditions. Each receiver scans a frequency band of interest non-synchronously and independently of the other receivers in the array. Also, each receiver is preferably a direct-conversion receiver.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2007Publication date: July 17, 2008Inventors: Robert L. Olbers, Yuan-Min Liu, Mark S. Nesky, Craig A. Plecas, Joseph L. Reyes, John Keimig, Kenji C. Horvath
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Publication number: 20080171561Abstract: A novel and useful apparatus for and method of automatically establishing a secondary communications link (e.g., short range wireless connection such as WLAN, Bluetooth, etc.) between two communications devices utilizing an already established primary communications connection (e.g., cellular phone connection). The invention eliminates the need for both sides of a connection to manually initiate and configure their communication devices in order to establish a wireless connection. Connection parameters required to establish the link are configured on only one communication device (e.g., cellular phone), without the need to also configure them on the communication device on the other end of the connection. Messages containing the connection parameters are sent from the requesting (or initiating) side over the established primary connection to the target or destination side of the connection.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2007Publication date: July 17, 2008Inventors: Ran Irony, Itay Sherman
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Publication number: 20080171562Abstract: A method and system for accessing and downloading data stored on a first mobile device by a second device over a cellular network is provided. First, a request is received from the second device for access to data on the first device. The request is then transmitted to the first mobile device and a communications link is established over the cellular network between the first mobile device to the second device. Access is provided to the second device to the data stored on the first mobile device. The data may also be downloaded from the first mobile device to the second device.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2007Publication date: July 17, 2008Inventor: Romeshkumar Bharatkumar Mehta
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Publication number: 20080171563Abstract: A method for changing a standby order of waiting mobile terminals includes displaying a standby order of a plurality of mobile terminals according to an audiovisual communication request order when a first mobile terminal receives requests for audiovisual communication from the plurality of mobile terminals while the first mobile terminal performs audiovisual communication with a second mobile terminal, sending a standby order change request message from the first mobile terminal to a mobile communication network when the first mobile terminal receives a standby order change request, changing the standby order at the first mobile terminal when the first mobile terminal receives a standby order change completion message from the mobile communication network corresponding to the standby order change request message, and displaying the changed standby order.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2007Publication date: July 17, 2008Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventor: Jae-Wan PARK
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Publication number: 20080171564Abstract: The resource controlling unit controls a resource usage state. The receiving unit receives from a first terminal a first message containing a first condition for maintaining a connection that is used to transfer a message exchanged between the first terminal and the second terminal. Based on the first condition contained in the received first message and the resource usage state, the determining unit determines a second condition that is to be accepted for maintaining the connection. The adding unit adds the second condition to the first message. The transmitting unit transmits the first message to which the second condition is added to an external device or the second terminal. The maintaining unit maintains the connection under the second condition.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2007Publication date: July 17, 2008Inventors: Yoshimichi Tanizawa, Naoki Esaka, Tsutomu Shibata
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Publication number: 20080171565Abstract: An apparatus and a method for joint power control in a wireless communication system are provided, in which customer premise equipments to be serviced are selected by scheduling, upon receipt of service requests from the customer premise equipments, the interference level of each of the selected customer premise equipments that affects an incumbent system is calculated, a total interference level affecting the incumbent system is calculated by summing the interference levels of the selected customer premise equipments, and a transmit power of the each customer premise equipment is reduced, if the total interference level is larger than a threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2008Publication date: July 17, 2008Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Cheng Shan, David Mazzarese, Kathiravetpillai Sivanesan, Eun-Taek Lim, Dong-Seek Park, Geun-Ho Lee
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Publication number: 20080171566Abstract: To prevent consecutive transmission of a relative transmission rate control channel (RGCH) including a “Down” command and minimize deterioration in the service quality due to “Down” commands from non-serving cells, a transmission rate control method controls, at a mobile station, a transmission rate of uplink user data by using a first relative transmission rate control channel received from a serving cell and a second relative transmission rate control channel received from a non-serving cell. In the transmission rate control method, a maximum frequency of transmitting the second relative transmission rate control channel which includes a down command for instructing to decrease the transmission rate of the uplink user data is a value fixed in a mobile communication system or a value notified by a radio network controller.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2006Publication date: July 17, 2008Inventors: Masafumi Usuda, Anil Umesh
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Publication number: 20080171567Abstract: Various example embodiments are disclosed relating to wireless networks, such as relating to techniques to improve coverage of push-to-talk wireless networks or services. In an example embodiment, a technique may include forwarding data to a remote push-to-talk (PTT) wireless network via an intermediary device of an intermediary wireless network if the data is received from a wireless device of a local push-to-talk (PTT) wireless network, forwarding data directly to one or more wireless devices of the local PTT wireless network if the data is received from the remote PTT wireless network via the intermediary device, and forwarding data to one or more wireless devices of the local PTT wireless network and to the remote PTT wireless network via the intermediary device of the intermediary wireless network if the data is generated locally.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2007Publication date: July 17, 2008Applicant: Nokia CorporationInventors: JOUNI KOSSI, Martti E. Virtanen
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Publication number: 20080171568Abstract: Provided is an apparatus and method for saving power in a dual mode portable terminal that concurrently supports a cellular network and an unlicensed band network. The method includes, upon disassociating from an in-association Access Point (AP) of an unlicensed band network, measuring a Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) from the AP during a predetermined time and calculating an average value of the RSSI; and comparing the calculated average value with a predetermined threshold value and deciding whether to perform a mode conversion between a low power mode and a general mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 14, 2008Publication date: July 17, 2008Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Jong-Mu CHOI, Jun-Yeop Jung, Mi-Soon Kim, Hee-Jung Chae, Jung-Hun Lee
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Publication number: 20080171569Abstract: A wireless network includes a wireless subscriber station radio-linked to a set of redundant wireless base stations, the set including a primary wireless base station connected to a secondary base station by a link, the link enabling sending and receiving baseband radio data to and from a radio or to and from another base station, a first base radio unit (BRU) connected to the primary wireless base station and a second BRU connected to the secondary base station, a data link connecting the primary wireless base station to the secondary wireless base station.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2007Publication date: July 17, 2008Inventors: Chad A. Pralle, Charles H. Immendorf, Eamonn F. Gormley
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Publication number: 20080171570Abstract: A wireless communications system includes: a first communications processing section for implementing a dedicated communications function that is only for the first wireless communications scheme; a second communications processing section for implementing a dedicated communications function that is only for the second wireless communications scheme; a shared transceiver section shared by the first communications processing section and the second communications processing section; a scheme selection section for selectively inputting a signal from the first communications processing section or a signal from the second communications processing section to the shared transceiver section; and a communications switching control section for indicating, to the scheme selection section, a scheme to be selected.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 3, 2008Publication date: July 17, 2008Inventors: Akifumi Nagao, Masataka Irie, Satoshi Makimoto, Yukiyoshi Nagasawa, Takeshi Hatakeyama
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Publication number: 20080171571Abstract: A portable electronic device is configured in particular as a mobile telephone having a first housing element with a second side. A linking device links the housing elements in such a way that they are movable in relation to each other, the first side facing the second side in at least one first state. A camera for acquiring images is arranged on the first side in such a way that it faces away from the first housing element. Moreover, an optical deflection device is arranged on the second side in such a way that it reflects back light impinging upon the second side. In the first state, the camera is arranged in relation to the optical deflection device in such a way that it receives light via the optical deflection device, while a second state the camera is moved away from the optical deflection device in such a way that it receives light which has not been deflected by the optical deflection device.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2006Publication date: July 17, 2008Inventors: Henry Feil, Ewald Frensch
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Publication number: 20080171572Abstract: A mobile terminal includes a display located on a front side of the terminal and an input device located on a rear side of the terminal and having a rotatable wheel.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2008Publication date: July 17, 2008Inventors: Kyoo-Sung Choi, Ju-Hyun Kim
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Publication number: 20080171573Abstract: A personalized service method using a user history in a mobile terminal is provided. The personalized service method using the user history in the mobile terminal includes: checking at least one of event information and context information which occurred due to a user; checking a user's location, a user's condition, a user's emotional state, or an event occurrence time when the at least one of event information and context information occur; reflecting the user's location, the user's condition, the user's emotional state, or the event occurrence time in the at least one of event information and context information, and recording the at least one of event information and context information, having reflected the user's location, the user's condition, the user's emotional state, or the event occurrence time, in a database in a diary type; and displaying a representing image corresponding to the at least one of event information and context information, having been recorded in the diary type.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2007Publication date: July 17, 2008Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Ki Wan Eom, Hyoung Gook Kim, Jeong Mi Cho, Jae Won Lee, Jung Eun Kim
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Publication number: 20080171574Abstract: A cell phone based sound producing device is a sound producing device that takes advantage of the likelihood that a user is already carrying a cell phone and does not need to also carry an electronic sound producing device. Another advantage is that cell phones are designed to communicate across a communications network. As such, the cell phone based sound producing device can download call sounds from a server, store them, and play them. Electronic payment systems for ring tones and games that are played on a cell phone already exist. These electronic payment systems can be easily adapted for payment of sound producing device modules and sound producing device sounds. Recovery information can be used to restore modules and sounds that are lost due to cell phone breakage or upgrades.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2007Publication date: July 17, 2008Inventors: Edward J. Sceery, Richard Krukar
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Publication number: 20080171575Abstract: A communication device includes a processing part attached to a surface of the communication device for receiving first and second signals from the communication device and including a plurality of first contacts on a surface thereof, and a storage part mounted on the processing part and connected to the plurality of first contacts, wherein the processing part transmits a third signal to the communication device in response to the first signal and the processing part transfers the second signal from the communication device to the storage part in accordance with a portion of the second signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2007Publication date: July 17, 2008Applicant: HealthPia AmericaInventors: Young Rak Choi, Steven Kim
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Publication number: 20080171576Abstract: A system and method identifies a mobile unit in a cradle. The method comprises deactivating power to the cradle. The cradle is capable of recharging the mobile unit. After the cradle is deactivated, the method comprises determining one of (a) if a signal is received from the mobile unit indicating recharging power to the mobile unit has been deactivated and (b) if the mobile unit discontinues an identification transmission. The method comprises determining an identity of the mobile unit in the cradle as a function of one of the received signal and the discontinued identification transmission.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2007Publication date: July 17, 2008Inventor: Daniel BROWN
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Publication number: 20080171577Abstract: A dual memory architecture for software partition on mobile terminals incorporates a mobile information device (MID) handset having a first memory; a plurality of host peripherals; and a card interface. A miniaturized form factor card (mobile card) incorporating wireless communications components is received in the card interface and includes a second memory including default host peripheral drivers. The interface provides operable connection from the MID memory to the mobile card. In certain embodiments, the first memory includes device specific host peripheral drivers, which are uploaded to the mobile card second memory upon insertion of the mobile card in the card interface.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2007Publication date: July 17, 2008Applicant: UTSTARCOM, INCInventors: William X. Huang, Shanquan Bao, Liming Gao, Guang Wan
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Publication number: 20080171578Abstract: Methods and apparatus for use in transferring user data from a first (“source”) mobile communication device to a second (“target”) mobile communication device using a removable memory card are disclosed. The source and target devices may be possessed and/or owned by the same end user. The source device is initially enabled to maintain data synchronization with a host server over a wireless communication network via a first wireless transceiver (e.g. a cellular transceiver) for user data of an application program (e.g. an e-mail application program) associated with the user account. To enable the target device for the communications associated with the user account, the source device is operative to establish a programming session with the target device via a second wireless transceiver (e.g. a short-range wireless transceiver). During the programming session, the source device causes user account data (e.g.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2007Publication date: July 17, 2008Applicant: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITEDInventor: Piotr Konrad Tysowski
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Publication number: 20080171579Abstract: A cellular phone which includes a transmitter and receiver (such as a transceiver), an antenna associated with the transceiver, a processor which is operably connected to the transceiver and in communication with memory, and a user interface which is in communication with the processor. The user interface is operable to cause the cellular phone to enter a signal learning mode during which the cellular phone can learn at least one signal which is received via the antenna and transceiver of the cellular phone and store the at least one signal in the memory. The user interface is also operable to cause the cellular phone to enter a signal transmitting mode during which the cellular phone can transmit the at least one signal which was previously received by the cellular phone and stored in memory.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 14, 2008Publication date: July 17, 2008Inventor: David A. Grubek
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Publication number: 20080171580Abstract: A method of operating a mobile communication terminal. The method includes receiving a signal corresponding to a number to be interconnected with a folder stored on the mobile communication terminal, and interconnecting the folder with the selected number such that when the number is entered on the terminal in a prescribed manner, the folder is automatically displayed on a display of the terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2008Publication date: July 17, 2008Inventor: Jong Hwan KIM
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Publication number: 20080171581Abstract: In a folder type or a swing type terminal including a pair of housings or triple housings for attaining composite opening/closing operation, information transmission with a higher speed and larger capacity is available using optical devices for establishing communication lines between circuit devices in the housings. Also, a stable maintenance of the communication lines is possible between the circuit devices of the housings in spite of repeated opening/closing operation of the housings.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 14, 2008Publication date: July 17, 2008Inventors: Do-Young RHEE, In-Kuk Yun
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Publication number: 20080171582Abstract: A method and apparatus is provided for monitoring a flow path having plurality of different solid components flowing therethrough. For example, in the harvesting of a plant material, many factors surrounding the threshing, separating or cleaning of the plant material and may lead to the inadvertent inclusion of the component being selectively harvested with residual plant materials being discharged or otherwise processed. In accordance with the present invention the detection of the selectively harvested component within residual materials may include the monitoring of a flow path of such residual materials by, for example, directing an excitation signal toward of flow path of material and then detecting a signal initiated by the presence of the selectively harvested component responsive to the excitation signal. The detected signal may be used to determine the presence or absence of a selected plant component within the flow path of residual materials.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2008Publication date: July 17, 2008Applicant: Battelle Energy Alliance, LLCInventors: Reed L. Hoskinson, John M. Svoboda, William F. Bauer, Gracy Elias
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Publication number: 20080171583Abstract: A gaming system comprising a plurality of player terminals, each comprising a player display and a player instruction input mechanism, and a game controller coupled to the player terminals and arranged to cause each player display to display at least a starting portion of a task for completion by a player associated with the player terminal independently of a player or players associated with one or more other player terminals, whereby each player may seek to complete the task independently of each other player by operating their respective player instruction input mechanism, receive one or more player instructions related to completion of the task from at least one of the players, and process the player instructions to determine a winning player based on one or more criteria.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2008Publication date: July 17, 2008Inventor: Christer Hutchinson-Kay
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Publication number: 20080171584Abstract: A game is presented for playing, the game being correlated to one or more cognitive attributes. A score is obtained for the game, and based on the score, a cognitive profile is updated. The cognitive profile includes an assessment associated with cognitive attributes, including the cognitive attributes to which the game is correlated. An updated cognitive profile is displayed.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2007Publication date: July 17, 2008Applicant: Eons, Inc.Inventors: Erik Lincoln Roberts, Nathaniel Caleb Wolfson
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Publication number: 20080171585Abstract: A monitor screen is provided on which symbols may be provided for use in video wagering games, including poker games, card games, slot games, bingo and keno. The player makes a wager to purchase a block of sequentially-playable games. The wager is the aggregate total of the wagers placed on each individual game. This aggregate total wager becomes the wager for the first game. A first partial (or intermediate) outcome of the first game is displayed. The player, having certain information about the potential final outcome from the partially displayed outcome, may choose to either: (a) play the partial first game to a final conclusion, or (b) pass by forfeiting the wager for the individual game. If the player decides to play the first game to its conclusion, the player will either lose the aggregate total wager, or win according to a predetermined paytable, in either case terminating any further play of the remaining games.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2008Publication date: July 17, 2008Inventor: Kathleen Nylund Jackson
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Publication number: 20080171586Abstract: A casino player loyalty system is configured to offer patrons with bonus opportunities. Patrons identified in a player database are selected, at random or in accordance with particular criteria. Each patron is contacted via a communication link, such as by a phone call. The patron is offered the opportunity to participate in a bonus event. The patron may participate over the communication link or travel to the casino and play a gaming machine configured to present the bonus event. The bonus event has at least one winning outcome for which a bonus award is yielded without requirement of a bet or wager. The bonus award may be monies, points or prizes.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2008Publication date: July 17, 2008Inventor: Mickey Roemer
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Publication number: 20080171587Abstract: A monitor screen is provided on which symbols may be provided for use in a slot-type wagering game or a video poker game. A predetermined set of available symbols or cards is provided for use in the symbol game. At any point in the game after a wager is placed by the player, a random spin or deal of a single symbol or plurality of symbols is shown. Based on the rules of the game and predetermined paytables, the symbol(s) are automatically evaluated by the machine or processor to determine which symbol selection, arrangement, order and/or placement would provide the player with the optimum expected value (Optimum EV). Optimum EV is described as the highest average expected payoff in the long run. It is generally calculated by adding up the sum of the probabilities of each event times the payoff for each event. The selection, arrangement, order and/or placement as determined by the Optimum EV is executed as a play function and the game continues according to the predetermined rules.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2007Publication date: July 17, 2008Inventor: Kathleen Nylund Jackson
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Publication number: 20080171588Abstract: A slot management system including a download and configuration server-based sub-system and method for use with game devices, systems, and methods. The slot machine management system is provided to enable users to monitor, control, and modify game devices and other related activities.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2007Publication date: July 17, 2008Applicant: Bally Gaming, Inc.Inventor: Farshid Atashband