| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 6522877 |
Methods and apparatus for providing an interactive cell broadcast service |
February 18, 2003 |
| A method is disclosed for operating a cellular communications system of a type that comprises a Base Station/Mobile Switching Center/Internetworking function (BMI) and a plurality of mobile stations. The method includes the steps of transmitting a point-to-multipoint message (e.g., a Bro |
| 6173194 |
Mobile terminal having improved user interface |
January 9, 2001 |
| A cellular telephone (10) has a user interface (5) that includes an actuator (23) for inputting information to the telephone. The actuator extends from a surface of the telephone and has multiple degrees of freedom for selecting at least individual ones of numeric digits 0 through 9. |
| 6006114 |
Radiotelephone enabling adjustment of alerting indicator volume/level during incoming calls |
December 21, 1999 |
| This invention pertains to a method for varying the level of an alerting indicator of a radiotelephone while an incoming call is being received, and also to a radiotelephone that operates in accordance with the method. The method includes a first step of operating a user interface (22) f |
| 5903832 |
Mobile terminal having enhanced system selection capability |
May 11, 1999 |
| A mobile station (10) maintains a single, prioritized list of all available networks (i.e., all public, residential, and private networks). Access to the various networks is then based on the user's needs. A first type of access is an automatic access, that requires little or no user |
| 5870683 |
Mobile station having method and apparatus for displaying user-selectable animation sequence |
February 9, 1999 |
| A wireless mobile station (10), such as a cellular telephone, executes a method to selectively display one of a plurality of graphical information sequences on a display (20) of the mobile station. The graphical information sequence is displayed during an Idle state of the mobile sta |
| 5842141 |
Mobile terminal having user-actuated pager mode |
November 24, 1998 |
| A method is disclosed for operating a cellular telephone that includes a first step, executed in response to input from a user, of disabling the cellular telephone from receiving cellular telephone calls. A second step then periodically enables the cellular telephone to receive, store an |
| 5835858 |
Easy activation of a cellular phone |
November 10, 1998 |
| An Easy Activation sequence for cellular phones that includes a checking code calculation feature which enables a phone owner or user to safely carry out operator assisted NAM programming activation locally in the phone independent of the support provided by the network. The user need |
| 5794142 |
Mobile terminal having network services activation through the use of point-to-point short messa |
August 11, 1998 |
| A radiotelephone (10) includes a keypad (22) having a plurality of keys (22a, 22b) and a display device (20) for displaying information, including messages, to a user. A method includes the steps of: (a) transmitting a point-to-point short message service (SMS) message from an operator's |
| 5692032 |
Mobile terminal having one key user message acknowledgment function |
November 25, 1997 |
| A cellular radiotelephone (10) includes a keypad (22) having a plurality of keys (22a, 22b) and a display device (20) for displaying information, including messages, to a user. A method includes the steps of: (a) transmitting a short message service (SMS) message from a network (32) to |
