A personal communications internetworking (40) provides a network subscriber with the ability to remotely control the receipt and delivery of wireless and wireline voice and text messages. The network operates as an interface between various wireless (39) and wireline (29) networks, and also performs media translation, where necessary. The subscriber's message receipt and delivery options are maintained in a database which the subscriber may access by wireless or wireline communications to update the options programmed in the database. The subscriber may be provided with Call/Command service which provides real-time control of voice calls while using a wireless data terminal (32, 34) or PDA (30).

Personal communications internetworking

An adaptive interface for a programmable system, for predicting a desired user function, based on user history, as well as machine internal status and context. The apparatus receives an input from the user and other data. A predicted input is presented for confirmation by the user, and the predictive mechanism is updated based on this feedback. Also provided is a pattern recognition system for a multimedia device, wherein a user input is matched to a video stream on a conceptual basis, allowing inexact programming of a multimedia device. The system analyzes a data stream for correspondence with a data pattern for processing and storage. The data stream is subjected to adaptive pattern recognition to extract features of interest to provide a highly compressed representation that may be efficiently processed to determine correspondence. Applications of the interface and system include a video cassette recorder (VCR), medical device, vehicle control system, audio device, environmental control system, securities trading terminal, and smart house. The system optionally includes an actuator for effecting the environment of operation, allowing closed-loop feedback operation and automated learning.

Adaptive pattern recognition based control system and method

A location reporting paging communication system comprising space satellites, ground stations and a remote receiving unit adapted to resolve a global position from signals transmitted from a communication transmitter. The subscriber in possession of the remote receiving unit updates the paging network with global positioning information. A caller paging a subscriber in possession of the remote receiving unit may request the global location of the remote receiving unit. The paging network could divulge or block such information from a caller depending on the requirements of the subscriber.

Location reporting satellite paging system with optional blocking of location reporting

A system and method of pushing user-selected data items from a host system to a user's mobile data communication device upon detecting the occurrence of one or more user-defined event triggers is provided. The user may then move (or file) the data items to a particular folder within a folder hierarchy stored in the mobile data communication device, or may execute some other system operation on the data item. Software operating at the mobile device and the host system then synchronizes the folder hierarchy of the mobile device with a folder hierarchy of the host system, and any actions executed on the data items at the mobile device are then automatically replicated on the same data items stored at the host system, thus eliminating the need for the user to manually replicate actions at the host system that have been executed at the mobile data communication device.

System and Method for Pushing Information from a Host System to a Mobile Data Communication Device

A mobile communications device comprising a location sensing system, producing a location output; a memory, storing a set of locations and associated events; a telecommunications device, communicating event and location information between a remote system and said memory; and a processor, processing said location output in conjunction with said stored locations and associated events in said memory, to determine a priority thereof.

Mobile communication device

A communication system for carrying messages via a radio channel between one central site (100) of a plurality of central sites and a plurality of two-way remote data units (106). Each central site (100) has a radio coverage area (300) and each remote unit has a unique address and association with one of the central sites. When a message addressed to one of the remote units is received in a central site, a file (804) of remote unit addresses is searched to find the location and central site association of the remote unit to which the message is addressed. If an address match is found indicating that the remote transceiver is in the coverage area of the message-receiving central site, the addressed message is stored and transmitted in that site. If an address match is found indicating that the remote transceiver is in another central site, the addressed message is conveyed to that site for transmission.

A two way personal message system with extended coverage.

A computing device (100) has memory (180) subdivided into a first configuration of pools of fixed size memory buffers (188). In response to requests for memory specifying a particular memory size, a fixed size memory of at least the particular size is allocated from the memory area (510, 520). Metrics are collected for each memory request, the metrics including distinct memory sizes based on the particular size requested, and the peak number of concurrent requests for each distinct memory size (530). The memory area is reconfigured as needed into a second configuration of pools of fixed size memory buffers using the metrics collected (540, 550).

Reallocation of pools of fixed size buffers based on metrics collected for maximum number of concurrent requests for each distinct memory size

A method and apparatus for coordinating the transfer of communications control from one independent radio communications system to another is disclosed. A remote unit which communicates data messages is associated with a home system which has a plurality of fixed sites and overlapping radio coverage areas. As the remote unit travels away from its home system, communications may be maintained by providing radio coverage from an independent roam system. The last message received by the home and roam systems from the remote unit has the associated radio signal strength and time of reception stored at each system. When a current message is transmitted by the remote unit and both the home and the roam system receive the message, the roam system time stamps the message and calculates the signal strength associated with the current message. If the amount of time elapsed between the last and the current message exceeds a predetermined amount of time or if the signal strength exceeds a predetermined threshold, the roam system requests transfer of control of the processing of the current message from the home system. When the home system receives this request, it calculates the difference in signal strength between the signal strength of the current message as received by the roam system and the signal strength of the current message as received by the home system. If the difference exceeds a predetermined amount, the request of the roam system to further process the message is granted.

Method and apparatus for coordinating independent communications systems

A signalling protocol comprising a plurality of interleaved phases is transmitted at various baud rates, the various baud rates being multiples of a base baud rate. The signalling protocol allows a selective call receiver to decode at an operating baud rate equivalent to the base baud rate irrespective of the transmission baud rate by decoding only a portion of the transmitted signal, the portion decoded determined by the baud rate and the address of the selective call receiver.

Time division multiplexed selective call system

A write-once read-many memory system (10) for electronically securing a select portion of memory from being overwritten or erased. Memory system (10) includes one or more storage cells (25) for providing electronic storage of information. A control cell (13) is used for controlling writing and/or erasing access to the storage cells (25). Control logic (11) is provided to control access to the control cell (13). Control cell (13) and control logic (11) are used as a gate to provide selective access to storage cells (25) through write control line (19) and erase control line (21). Storage cells (25) can only be accessed when the control cell (13) in an appropriate logic state.

Jerry L. Sandvos

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A two way personal message system with extended coverage.

Reallocation of pools of fixed size buffers based on metrics collected for maximum number of concurrent requests for each distinct memory size

Method and apparatus for coordinating independent communications systems

Time division multiplexed selective call system

Write-once read-many memory using EEPROM cells