An internet radio for portable applications and uses such as in an automobile enables providing navigational services to be provided to a wireless communication device, and comprises the steps of providing a user interface in said wireless communication device for providing navigational services to a user; downloading updated navigational data from a remote network; and providing navigational services based upon said updated navigational data. Customized information is also communicated to the radio such as stock quotes, travel information, advertising, and e-mail. Onboard global positioning allows for channel updating by location, traffic information, geographic advertising and available similar content.

Method and apparatus for providing navigational services in a wireless communication device

A wideband radio transceiver system that features a wideband RF section and a flexible and scalable baseband signal processing section. The transceiver system architecture has configurable baseband processing to process signals for multiple communication protocol standards, or multiple instances of the same communication protocol standard, that operate over the same frequency band. Optional additional features include a transmit carrier suppressor and transmit interference canceller to suppress the effects of a transmit signal on receive signal processing when signals are being transmitted and received simultaneously.

Wideband multi-protocol wireless radio transceiver system

A method and system locate a transponder that has an associated identifier and content data, at a location substantially accessible to a user of the mobile terminal. The transponder is activated by the mobile terminal with a wireless signal. In response, the mobile terminal receives at least the identifier and the content data from the activated transponder at the mobile terminal. From the received identifier and/or content data, the method and system select one or more of the stored data items according to one or more criteria.

Method and system for selecting data items for service requests

An apparatus and method for facilitating a shopping experience. A user creates and stores a shopping list in a mobile terminal. Upon entering a shop, the mobile terminal downloads a shopping mini-application, which checks item availability and provides recommended substitute and complimentary items preferably taking user profile information into consideration. The mobile terminal also provides the user with reminders based on the user's purchasing history. Special offers are also presented to the user. Once the shopping list has been finalized, an optimal shopping route is computed for gathering the items on the list and is displayed to the user in the form of a map. The optimal route and recommendations may be updated at any time throughout the shopping experience in response to either the user's request, modifications to the shopping list and/or the user's divergence from the optimal route. The mini-application automatically may be deleted at the POS to conserve memory space.

Method and apparatus for making daily shopping easier

Disposable mini-applications (106) are executable software items whose activation, deactivation and deletion in a mobile terminal are defined by trigger parameters and rules (250). Trigger parameters (250) may include, but are not intended to be limited to, location, time (218), stored user data and the like. Rules are one or more trigger parameters needed to effect one of the foregoing actions. In one embodiment, a housekeeping means (206) monitors for data that corresponds to the parameters and satisfies the rules, and performs a variety of housekeeping functions relating to the disposable mini-applications (106). The deletion of the disposable mini­application clears memory space associated with storing and executing the disposable mini-application, and thus, makes that space available for other purposes.

Disposable mini-applications

According to the present invention, a single chip semiconductor devices is provided. In one version of the invention, a single chip CMOS technology architecture is used to implement all or various combinations of baseband radio transmission, baseband interfaces and filtering, source coding, source interfaces and filtering, control and supervision, power and clock management, keyboard and display drivers, memory management and code compaction, digital signal processing ( DSP ) and DSP memory and radio interface functions.

Johan Lodenius

Papers

A single chip solution for multimedia GSM mobile station systems