Method and system for electronic organization of coupons
According to one embodiment of the present invention, an electronic or "virtual" coupon is obtained when a user selects a given link in a Web page being displayed on a client machine. Preferably, the ... Read More
Inventors: Mankoff, Jeffrey W.;, Assignee: |
Location security for a subscriber unit in a telecommunication system by denying a parties' location request
The present invention addresses the problem of an outsider being able to establish the geographical location of a mobile station with the aid of a mobile locating service. Determination of the geograp... Read More
Inventors: Johansson, Jorgen; Lundin, Magnus;, Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm, SE) |
Telecommunications network with fixed and mobile subscribers
EP-A-0 660 672 discloses a telecommunications network to which mobile terminals are likely to be connected via different switching systems. Different service profiles are associated with the mobile te... Read More
Inventors: Nevoux, Rola; Chatras, Bruno;, Assignee: France Telecom (Paris, FR) |
Method and apparatus in a communication network for facilitating a use of location-based applications
OF THE DRAWINGS Referring to FIG. 1, an electrical block diagram depicts a portable device 100 in accordance with the present invention. The portable device can, for example, be a laptop computer. Th... Read More
Inventors: Dorenbosch, Jheroen Pieter;, Assignee: Motorola, Inc. (Schaumburg, IL) |
System and method for profiling the location of mobile radio traffic in a wireless communications network
The present invention provides a method and system for profiling the location of MR traffic that does not require any data other than that which is already being gathered by the base transceiver stati... Read More
Inventors: Yost, George; Harper, Clinton E.; Kim, Shawn;, Assignee: Ericsson Inc. (Richardson, TX) |
Controlled transmission of wireless communications device identity
The present invention determines which of two or more identifiers belonging to the wireless communications device should be provided to the network entity based upon the control function being process... Read More
Inventors: Findikli, Nadi S.; Ahluwalia, Inderpreet S.; Carlson, Hans; Lindh, Annika B.;, Assignee: Ericsson Inc. (Research Triangle Park, NC) |
Wireless system, a method of selecting an application while receiving application specific messages and user location method using user location awareness
What is claimed is: 1. In a wireless device, a method of selecting an application, said method comprising: receiving application specific messages from a wireless station, said application specific me... Read More
Inventors: Rachabathuni, Sailesh; Griffiths, Jonathan; Rankin, Paul John;, Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Eindhoven, NL) |
Location blocking service for wireless networks
OF THE INVENTION The present invention is a location blocking service for use in wireless networks that track the locations and identities of network users. The location blocking service provides a w... Read More
Inventors: Zellner, Samuel N.; Enzmann, Mark J.; Moton, Jr., Robert T.;, Assignee: BellSouth Intellectual Property Corporation (Wilmington, DE) |
System and method for routing special number calls in a telecommunication network
A system for routing mobile special number calls in a telecommunication network includes: (a) a mobile call originating station for originating a special number call from a call locus; the mobile call... Read More
Inventors: Antonucci, James T.; Barnier, Brian Glen;, Assignee: Lucent Technologies Inc. (Murray Hill, NJ) |
Enabling services for multiple sessions using a single mobile node
Methods and apparatus for performing registration on behalf of a session associated with a mobile node are disclosed. A session may be an application (e.g., running on the mobile node) as well as a de... Read More
Inventors: Leung, Kent K.; Dommety, Gopal;, Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc. (San Jose, CA) |
Parasitic adoption of coordinate-based addressing by roaming node
According to the invention, in a packet communication system wherein stationary nodes are assigned an absolute coordinate-based address, the addressing of roaming nodes is accomplished by parasiticall... Read More
Inventors: Flammer, III, George H.;, Assignee: Metricom, Inc. (Los Gatos, CA) |
Synchronous method and apparatus for processors
It is an object of the invention to provide a synchronous method and apparatus for processors which is capable of reducing an empty processing time, produced in a queuing processing among processors d... Read More
Inventors: Kametani, Masatsugu;, Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd. (Tokyo, JP) |
Real time event determination in a universal serial bus system
What is claimed is: 1. In a computer system having a processor, a memory, a video controller, and a USB (universal serial bus) controller coupled to a system bus for interfacing a peripheral device on... Read More
Inventors: Evoy, David R.; Goff, Lonnie; Chambers, Peter; Eidson, Mark;, Assignee: VLSI Technology, Inc. (San Jose, CA) |
Method and apparatus for reducing the transmission of repetitive broadcast datagrams over communication links
The disclosed invention relates to reducing the flow of broadcast datagrams over a private or switched communication link at one end of the link, while maintaining the equivalent flow of broadcast dat... Read More
Inventors: Chang, Eugene Y.; Richardson, David B.; Baker, Bennett C.;, Assignee: Microcom Systems, Inc. (Granada Hills, CA) |
Data communication method for communicating data having different frame formats and format conversion unit used for such a data communication method
It is a general object of the present invention to provide an improved and useful data communication method and a format conversion unit in which the above-mentioned problems are eliminated. A more sp... Read More
Inventors: Miura, Kenji;, Assignee: Fujitsu Limited (Kanagawa, JP) |
Automatic adjustment delay technique for simulcast of paging system
Therefore, it is an object of the present invention to provide an improved telecommunications system. It is another object to provide to a system for automatically adjusting the transmission delay of ... Read More
Inventors: Kim, Kon-Soo;, Assignee: SamSung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Suwon, KR) |
Radio receiver alignment indicator
It is an object of this invention, therefore, to provide a simple, efficient and precise method for the aligning of a radio receiver. It is a further object of the invention to provide an improved mea... Read More
Inventors: Gould, Larrie A.; Reed, Kim W.;, Assignee: Motorola, Inc. (Schaumburg, IL) |
High sensitivity FM signal demodulation system
The object of the present invention is to overcome the disadvantages of a prior system, and to improve the noise characteristics of an FM signal modulated with a picture signal in particular when the ... Read More
Inventors: Ohta, Tomozo; Tsutsumi, Yoshio; Sugano, Motoshi;, Assignee: OKI Electric Industry Co., Ltd. (Tokyo, JP) |
FM receiver
OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT With reference to FIG. 1, there is shown a block circuit diagram of a preferred embodiment of an FM receiver 10 according to the present invention. Receiver 10 is driven b... Read More
Inventors: Washburn, Jr., Clyde;, Assignee: Cincinnati Microwave, Inc. (Cincinnati, OH) |
FM TVRO receiver with improved oscillating limiter
I have discovered that efforts to steer or tune the feedback filter are unnecessary. Indeed, as indicated in the Baghdady patent, the feedback filter should be as wide as the bandwidth of the FM signa... Read More
Inventors: Washburn, Jr., Clyde;, Assignee: Cincinnati Microwave, Inc. (Cincinnati, OH) |
Tunable device
Among others, it is an object of the invention to provide for a device which is capable of calibration without requiring accurate additional circuitry or an external generator for the calibration. Ano... Read More
Inventors: Sempel, Adrianus; Van Nieuwenburg, Johannes;, Assignee: U.S. Philips Corporation (New York, NY) |
Quality factor tuning system for a tunable filter and current rectifier used therein
We claim: 1. Tuning system for generating a tuning signal (VTQ) to be applied to at least one master tunable filter in order to tune the quality factor of the master tunable filter to substantially eq... Read More
Inventors: Sevenhans, Joannes M. J.; Van Paemel, Mark G. S. J.;, Assignee: Alcatel N.V. (Amsterdam, NL) |
Linear tunable Gm-C integrator
We claim: 1. Linear tunable Gm-C integrator including between a first (VDD) and a second (VSS) supply terminal two parallel branches each comprising a series connection of a first current source (I11/... Read More
Inventors: Chang, Zhong Yuan; Haspeslagh, Didier Rene;, Assignee: Alcatel N.V. (NL) |
Apparatus and method for remote convenience message transmission and control with a tunable filter receiver
In accordance with the present invention, a receiver/controller apparatus is provided for use in a remote convenience system. The receiver/controller apparatus is responsive to a function request tran... Read More
Inventors: Lin, Xing Ping;, Assignee: TRW Inc. (Lyndhurst, OH) |
Private telephone system using a personal code number to access the telephone nearest to the code number holder
The object of the present invention is to provide a telephone system which can connect a telephone to another in accordance with the personal ID number assigned to a person, thereby enabling a caller ... Read More
Inventors: Shigenaga, Yoshimi;, Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd. (Tokyo, JP) |
Call processing method for distributed switching
The following description is arranged in three parts: (1) the AT&T 5ESS.RTM. Switch is described as it exist in the prior art; (2) call processing in an exemplary embodiment of the invention is descr... Read More
Inventors: Ardon, Menachem T.; Zimmerman, III, Gustavus H.;, Assignee: AT&T Bell Laboratories (Murray Hill, NJ) |
Dynamic network automatic call distribution
This invention will be described in connection with a local telephone switching network as illustrated in FIG. 1, but the application of this system is much broader. For example, an ACD according to ... Read More
Inventors: Chen, Hsing-Tsuen; Parrish, Jr., Donald M.; Sand, Paul R.;, Assignee: AT&T Corp. (Murray Hill, NJ) |
Repeater having a bypass circuit for passing time division multiplex signals along even though some time slots are not reinjected
OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT A repeating circuit 10 shown in FIG. 1 serves to branch and re-inject time slots of a time-division multiplex signal which is fed to the repeater via an input line 14 and ... Read More
Inventors: Neth, Alois;, Assignee: Alcatel N.V. (Amsterdam, NL) |
Portable telephone user profiles
OF THE INVENTION Turning to FIG. 1, plural user telephone lines 1A, 1N are connected to a remote switching system 3. The remote switching system has at least one trunk 5 preferably a CAMA MF ANI (cen... Read More
Inventors: Pinard, Deborah L.; Wilson, Graham;, Assignee: Mitel Corporation (CA) |
Paging system control apparatus
According to the present invention, a paging system control apparatus which has a queue buffer for temporarily storing a transmission signal format that includes a plurality of batches each including ... Read More
Inventors: Nozaki, Reiko;, Assignee: NEC Corporation (Tokyo, JP) |
Cell Phones 
