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7346350 Method for selecting a preferable wireless communications service provider in a multi-service provider environment  
A communication device locates a preferable wireless service provider in a multi-service provider environment using a frequency or frequency band search schedule. Initially, the communication...
7228103 Method and apparatus for improving co-existence between bluetooth and 802.11 networks  
A method and apparatus for improving co-existence between Bluetooth and 802.11 networks is described. In one embodiment, the invention is a method. The method includes detecting in software a...
7190938 Broadcast receiver  
A receiver for receiving a digital radio broadcast in which additional information is multiplexed with audio information includes a memory for storing the additional information, a liquid crystal...
7167696 Method for scanning radio frequency channels  
The performance and ease of management of wireless communications environments is improved by a mechanism that enables access points (APs) to perform automatic channel selection. A wireless network...
7076220 Program for scanning radio frequency channels  
The performance and ease of management of wireless communications environments is improved by a mechanism that enables access points (APs) to perform automatic channel selection. A wireless network...
7062239 On-vehicle equipment for dedicated short-range communication in intelligent transport system  
In an on-vehicle equipment for Dedicated Short-Range Communication (DSRC) in Intelligent Transport System (ITS), a priority sequence for switching local frequencies of f 1 to f 7 in...
7054601 Apparatus and method for storing and selecting radio stations  
A method of storing and selecting a radio station ( 104, 106 ) in a radio ( 102 ) having a plurality of tuner presets ( 130 ) and a plurality of memory locations ( 146 ) assigned to each of the...
7013140 Mobile terminals and methods for performing fast initial frequency scans and cell searches  
A mobile terminal can identify cellular control channels that can be received by the mobile terminal from a cellular system, by identifying a cellular control channel that can be received from a...
6968168 Variable oscillator  
A variable frequency oscillator comprising: an oscillatory circuit for generating a periodic output dependent on the capacitance between a first node and a second node of the circuit, and having a...
6925302 Mobile communication method  
In a mobile terminal communication method, when a zone in which a mobile terminal is positioned becomes in a congestion state, a calling channel having high emergency can be secured. A connection...
6876835 Method and apparatus for providing on-demand access of stored content at a receiver in a digital broadcast system  
A receiver in a digital broadcast system is provided for storing broadcast content files for on-demand playback purposes. The content files are transmitted in a partitioned format. Users can select...
6782259 Method for selecting a preferable wireless communication service provider in a multi-service provider environment  
A communication device locates a preferable wireless service provider in a multi-service provider environment using a frequency or frequency band search schedule. Initially, the communication...
6198926 Method for establishing standby periods in a base station and a handset  
An invention is disclosed having a base station and a plurality of handsets connected to this base station by various radio channels. For saving on accumulators which supply power to these...
6163683 Broadcast data radio system and receiver apparatus therefor  
A presently disclosed radio broadcasting system for a virtual radio program broadcasting station uses a divided regional approach to broadcast digital and analog signals over a large geographic...
6160496 Remote channel swap for aviation communications  
A device and method that allows a pilot to switch between communication and navigation inputs without disrupting the pilot's current task. An audio selector panel has inputs for at least two...
6112064 RDS radio with multi-function RDS button  
A multi-function RDS button and a menu driven interface for accessing RDS features facilitates easy access to RDS functions with minimal demands upon the attention of the user. Large numbers of...
6052562 Method and apparatus for coordinating an operating channel selection  
Methods of and corresponding apparatus for scheduling messages on an operating channel (123) in a selective messaging system (100) for a selective messaging unit (135) include choosing a preferred...
5956629 Method and apparatus for transmitter identification and selection for mobile information signal services  
A programming system in which entertainment and information programming is transmitted, received and stored in real time by a multitude of receivers. The stored programming subsequently may be...
5917887 Emergency alert communication system wherein emergency messages are received by a radio frequency receiver and routed to a telephone device  
An emergency alert communication system comprising a radio frequency receiver. The radio frequency receiver decodes incoming emergency alert signals and demodulates data header signals and...
5806002 Method of scanning using resource analysis  
In a communication unit (105) in which a priority scan occurs, wherein priority scan comprises automatically scanning, while the communication unit (105) is unmuted to a non-priority communication...
5701599 Broadcast receiving apparatus having selection function of good reception condition in designated program item  
Whether or not the reception condition of a received broadcast is good is detected by a reception condition detection unit. If it is detected that the reception condition is good, the broadcast...
5666655 Mobile communication system with autonomous distributed type dynamic channel allocation scheme  
A mobile communication system using an autonomous distributed type dynamic channel allocation scheme, in which each base station manages allocation priority levels for the available radio channels...
5649319 Receiver with automatic tuning function  
A receiver with automatic tuning function includes: unit for dividing an area where broadcasting stations exist into a plurality of blocks and storing block information relating to the blocks; unit...
5640675 Method and system for reducing the time for connecting a mobile to a cellular base station  
Periodically, when a mobile is in its normal mode of operation, a first list of control frequencies transmitted by respective base stations of the geographical area in which the mobile is located...
5574999 Alert receiver  
This invention relates to an apparatus and method for receiving and automatically detecting the issuance of emergency, weather or other alert messages broadcast on a radio channel, and recording...
5551071 Channel sorting scanning receiver  
A scan receiving system comprising an antenna circuit, a radio-frequency reception circuit connected to the antenna circuit and for converting a received radio-frequency signal into an...
5548828 RDS audio receiver having interrupt mode  
A Radio Data Systems (RDS) receiver has a decoder circuit to read RDS data from a broadcast transmission signal. From the RDS data, a control circuit determines a program of the received signal, a...
5541980 Cordless telephone/radio-monitoring system  
A cordless telephone/radio-monitoring system to allow a user to listen to radio broadcasts, such as regional weather broadcasts, through the base unit of a cordless telephone as well as through the...
5524278 Method and apparatus for determining a serving communication system where communication systems operate conjunctively  
A method and apparatus is provided for facilitating scanning of radio control channels where a plurality of communication systems conjunctively cover the same area. A subscriber unit receives an...
5483670 Trunked radio repeater system with control channel monitoring feature  
A digitally trunked radio repeater system provides substantial improvements in timeliness of channel acquisition and channel drop, and in reliability of critical control signalling. The system uses...
5408682 Identification code search in a communication device  
With cordless telephones it is a known fact that each pair of radio stations has m radio channels out of n possible radio channels in common. During a test cycle the mobile unit examines only the...
5390343 Method of tuning a radio receiver using RDS information  
For tuning a microcomputer-controlled radio receiver to the one of several transmitters broadcasting the same program best satisfying the requirements for quality of reception the information...
5355517 Method and apparatus for automatic alternate communications system access  
A method and means of automatically accessing several types of radio systems is described. The present invention allows a subscriber unit, which is normally operative in a operator selected radio...
5307513 Channel frequency storing method for a vehicle radio  
In an autoradio such that a desired broadcasting channel can be received by reading a channel frequency from a preset memory in which plural channel frequencies are previously stored (one-touch...
5262769 Programmed scanning pager receiver  
A pager receiver includes an addressable data memory for storing sets of digital frequency data for application to a frequency synthesizer which responds to each set of frequency data to tune the...
5261117 Method to allow a radio transceiver to automatically select from amongst multiple radio systems  
A method and means of automatically accessing several types of radio systems is described. The present invention allows a subscriber unit, which is normally operative in a operator selected radio...
5257416 Method for dynamically changing channel priority for scan in a receiver  
Briefly, according to the invention, a method (100) for updating the channel priority table in a receiver (300) having a signal condition table is disclosed. The receiver (300) is adapted to...
5247703 Transceiver with off hook scanning  
A transceiver that allows scanning to occur with the microphone in an off hook position. The transceiver includes a main unit, external microphone, and hook for holding the microphone. The external...
5231699 Dual watch radio system  
A method and apparatus is provided for maintaining a dual watch on marine radio bands and more especially on the VHF radio band in which a stand-alone battery-powered receiver is tuned to one of...
5222254 Receiver including means for acquisition and comparison of identification data of two transmission channels  
A receiver, adapted to the reception of identification data in accordance with the RADIO DATA system (RDS) and having only one tuner, effects the acquisition of the identification code of an...
5214790 Enhanced talkgroup scan algorithm  
An enhanced talkgroup scanning algorithm is provided. This algorithm provides an efficient scan function when a unit scan list contains a mixture of trunked talkgroups and conventional channels....
5125103 Automatic control channel acquisition method and apparatus in a trunked communication system  
A trunked communication system automatic system resource acquisition method and apparatus provide for utilizing dual system resource listings to monitor for priority communications within a primary...
5034818 Priority selector for external signals  
The invention provides a priority selector for external signals having a tri-mode converting circuit with a switching part, wherein a TV signal or external signals are selected by operating a...
4984294 Radio communications device incorporating channel guard decode and priority channel scanning  
A significantly improved scanning method and apparatus is disclosed which allows tone channel guard decode and scan to optimally coexist on the priority channel. In an exemplary embodiment of the...
RE33157 Null initiated method and system for monitoring a priority channel  
A null initiated priority channel monitoring system provides enhanced nonpriority signal intelligibility and/or enhanced priority channel sensitivity during sample times. The priority channel or...
4881273 RDS system radio  
An RDS-system radio having an automatic tuning function which is configured to compare program information codes of a currently received broadcasting and other broadcastings in a seeking or...
4868891 Interrupted audio fill-in system for noise reduction and intelligibility enhancement in multi-channel scanning receiver applications  
A method and apparatus for filling audio blanks in a message received by a receiver resulting from switching the receiver between a plurality of input channels each having a different message for...
4856083 Method of connecting a cordless telephone by radio  
A method of connecting a cordless telephone by radio without using control channels selects priority radio channels from radio channels which are shared by cordless telephones and assigns each of...
4833728 Automatic station searcher  
An automatic station searching device for a radio receiver in which the order in which the station data is stored in a memory device can be altered so that the user can easily selected between...
4776037 Method and apparatus for providing priority channel scan in a radio  
A priority channel scan for use in radios capable for receiving at least two channels, wherein one of the channels is a priority communications channel. The radio periodically interrupts...
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