公开(公告)号：US6124701A

公开(公告)日：2000-09-26

申请号：US338144

申请日：1999-06-22

申请人： Richard L. McDowell ,  Philip D. Mooney ,  James C. Popa

发明人： Richard L. McDowell ,  Philip D. Mooney ,  James C. Popa

IPC分类号： G01R31/36 ,  H01M10/44 ,  H01M10/46

CPC分类号： G01R31/362 ,  G01R31/3631 ,  G01R31/3648

摘要： A system for, and method of, determining a condition of a battery and telecommunications equipment incorporating the system or the method. In one embodiment, the system includes: (1) a load controller, having a memory, that couples a load of a known magnitude to the battery and (2) a voltage monitor, coupled to the load controller, that measures voltages of the battery at first and second times and provides the voltages to the load controller, the load controller comparing a slope defined by the voltages to a model stored in the memory and regarding the battery to determine a condition thereof.

摘要翻译： 一种确定电池和包含该系统或方法的电信设备的状态的系统和方法。 在一个实施例中，系统包括：（1）具有存储器的负载控制器，其将已知幅度的负载耦合到电池;以及（2）耦合到负载控制器的电压监视器，其测量电池的电压 第一次和第二次，并且向负载控制器提供电压，负载控制器将由电压限定的斜率与存储在存储器中的模型相关联并且关于电池来确定其状况。

公开(公告)号：US20120149440A1

公开(公告)日：2012-06-14

申请号：US13398656

申请日：2012-02-16

申请人： Richard L. McDowell ,  Philip D. Mooney

发明人： Richard L. McDowell ,  Philip D. Mooney

IPC分类号： H04W52/38 ,  H04W88/06

CPC分类号： H04W52/288 ,  H04B1/3838 ,  H04W52/36

摘要： Proximity regulation systems for use with a portable cell phone and portable cell phones are disclosed. In one embodiment, the portable cell phone includes: (1) an operation mode input or circuit and (2) means for determining a transmit power level of the portable cell phone based on the operation mode input or circuit.

摘要翻译： 公开了用于便携式手机和便携式手机的接近调节系统。 在一个实施例中，便携式蜂窝电话包括：（1）操作模式输入或电路;以及（2）用于基于操作模式输入或电路确定便携式蜂窝电话的发射功率电平的装置。

公开(公告)号：US08086287B2

公开(公告)日：2011-12-27

申请号：US09767839

申请日：2001-01-24

申请人： Philip D. Mooney ,  Joseph M. Cannon ,  James A. Johanson

发明人： Philip D. Mooney ,  Joseph M. Cannon ,  James A. Johanson

IPC分类号： H04M1/00

CPC分类号： H04M1/7253 ,  G08B1/08 ,  H04B1/20 ,  H04M1/6066 ,  H04M2250/02

摘要： A system and method is provided for monitoring a plurality of audio sources and switching from one to another of the audio sources in accordance with a stored program. An audio output device receives a signal from each of the portable electronic devices and selectively switches the contents of its output according to at least one preprogrammed user preference. The audio output device also automatically communicates with transceiver modules connected to local information systems, for example within a vehicle, office or shopping center. Based on programs stored in a storage device connected to the headset, the local information sources may be monitored and selected to interrupt other audio sources received by the headset when desired.

摘要翻译： 提供了一种系统和方法，用于根据存储的程序来监视多个音频源并从一个音频源切换到另一个音频源。 音频输出设备从每个便携式电子设备接收信号，并且根据至少一个预编程的用户偏好来选择性地切换其输出的内容。 音频输出设备还自动与连接到本地信息系统的收发器模块进行通信，例如在车辆，办公室或购物中心内。 基于存储在连接到耳机的存储设备中的程序，可以监视和选择本地信息源以在需要时中断由耳机接收的其它音频源。

公开(公告)号：US07499722B2

公开(公告)日：2009-03-03

申请号：US11369363

申请日：2006-03-07

申请人： Richard L. McDowell ,  Philip D. Mooney

发明人： Richard L. McDowell ,  Philip D. Mooney

IPC分类号： H04B7/00 ,  H04M1/00

CPC分类号： H04W52/288 ,  H04B1/3838 ,  H04W52/36

摘要： Proximity regulation systems for use with a portable cell phone, a portable cell phone and a method of operating the same. In one embodiment, the proximity regulation system includes a location sensing subsystem configured to determine a location of a portable cell phone proximate a user by determining a mode of operation of the portable cell phone. A power governing subsystem is coupled to the location sensing subsystem and configured to determine a proximity transmit power level of the portable cell phone based on the location.

摘要翻译： 与便携式手机一起使用的接近调节系统，便携式手机及其操作方法。 在一个实施例中，接近调节系统包括位置感测子系统，其被配置为通过确定便携式蜂窝电话的操作模式来确定靠近用户的便携式蜂窝电话的位置。 功率控制子系统耦合到所述位置感测子系统并且被配置为基于所述位置来确定所述便携式蜂窝电话的接近发射功率电平。

公开(公告)号：US07363006B2

公开(公告)日：2008-04-22

申请号：US09805195

申请日：2001-03-14

申请人： Philip D. Mooney

发明人： Philip D. Mooney

IPC分类号： H04B7/00

CPC分类号： H04M1/725 ,  H04M1/006 ,  H04M2250/02 ,  H04W76/10 ,  H04W84/042 ,  H04W84/18 ,  H04W88/04

摘要： In accordance with the principles of the present invention utilizing the BLUETOOTH specification Cordless Telephony profile, incoming calls to a cell phone including a Gateway role can be routed to another piconet device (e.g., another cell phone including a Terminal role. Two cell phones with BLUETOOTH capability each include the Cordless Telephony Profile. The cell phone receiving the call acts as a PSTN cordless telephone Gateway cell phone via the cellular network, while the other cell phone acts as a cordless telephone Terminal cell phone. The cordless telephone Terminal cell phone then acts as an extension to the Gateway cell phone allowing both calls to the Gateway cell phone to be answered at the Terminal cell phone, and even allowing calls by the Gateway cell phone to be originated by the Terminal cell phone. Moreover, the present invention includes the ability for any one of a number of authorized Terminal devices (e.g., Terminal cell phone) to answer an incoming call to a Gateway cell phone ‘on the fly’ after hearing the ringing at the Gateway cell phone.

摘要翻译： 根据使用BLUETOOTH规范无绳电话简档的本发明的原理，可以将包括网关角色的蜂窝电话的呼入路由到另一微微网设备（例如，包括终端角色的另一个蜂窝电话），具有蓝牙的两个蜂窝电话 能力各自包括无绳电话简档，接收呼叫的手机通过蜂窝网络作为PSTN无绳电话网关手机，而其他手机充当无绳电话终端手机，无绳电话终端手机随后行动 作为网关手机的扩展，允许在终端手机上对网关手机进行呼叫，甚至允许由网关手机进行的呼叫由终端手机发起，而且本发明包括 许多授权的终端设备（例如，终端手机）中的任何一个应答来电的能力 听到在网关手机上的响铃之后，Teway手机“飞行”。

公开(公告)号：US07127209B2

公开(公告)日：2006-10-24

申请号：US09844063

申请日：2001-04-27

申请人： Philip D. Mooney

发明人： Philip D. Mooney

IPC分类号： H04B7/00

CPC分类号： H04M1/725 ,  H04B3/54 ,  H04B2203/5441 ,  H04B2203/5445 ,  H04B2203/5458 ,  H04M2250/02 ,  H04W4/00 ,  H04W8/20

摘要： A method and system for providing an accurate service record to communication devices seeking modem-based services. The system includes a phone line detector capable of detecting whether a properly working phone line connection exists. This can be accomplished by detecting whether a phone line is actually plugged into a phone jack connected to a modem of a communication device. If a proper phone line connection exists, then the communication device generates a service record identifying, among other services, all modem-based services that the communication device can offer to other communication devices in search of a modem or modem-based service.

公开(公告)号：US07058358B2

公开(公告)日：2006-06-06

申请号：US09759527

申请日：2001-01-16

申请人： Joseph M. Cannon ,  James A. Johanson ,  Philip D. Mooney

发明人： Joseph M. Cannon ,  James A. Johanson ,  Philip D. Mooney

IPC分类号： H04B7/00

CPC分类号： H04W12/08 ,  G01S19/14 ,  H04B1/3805 ,  H04L63/083 ,  H04L63/107 ,  H04M1/7253 ,  H04M1/72577 ,  H04M2250/02 ,  H04M2250/10 ,  H04W12/06 ,  H04W48/04 ,  H04W64/00 ,  H04W74/00 ,  H04W76/10 ,  H04W84/12 ,  H04W84/18 ,  H04W88/14

摘要： A wireless piconet network device includes a GPS receiver to determine and provide earth coordinates to a gatekeeper of a wireless network so as to provide a level of security to wireless networks which requires accessing wireless devices to be within predefined boundary coordinates. The automatic restriction of access to a wireless network (e.g., a wireless local area network (LAN) such as a piconet network) by requiring a wireless network device to provide earth coordinates (e.g., GPS location information) as part of an establishment or maintenance of a connection to a wireless network, independent of a range of communication of any device in the wireless network. A wireless piconet network device outside of predetermined earth coordinates of a secured area (e.g., a building, a room in a building, a desk in a room in a building, etc.) may be denied access to resources on the wireless network, and/or required to provide additional authorization information so as to confirm authorized secured status of the entering wireless device.

公开(公告)号：US06678824B1

公开(公告)日：2004-01-13

申请号：US09432119

申请日：1999-11-02

申请人： Joseph M. Cannon ,  Philip D. Mooney

发明人： Joseph M. Cannon ,  Philip D. Mooney

IPC分类号： H04L932

CPC分类号： A63F13/75 ,  A63F13/10 ,  A63F13/79 ,  A63F2300/63 ,  G06F21/62 ,  G06F2221/2137 ,  G06F2221/2149

摘要： An application usage time limiter monitors certain pre-configured application programs when opened or otherwise executed on a computer (e.g. a PC). The application usage time limiter is itself a program running either as a front end to various selected programs for monitoring, or as a separate program running in a time-sharing operating system environment. Pre-configurable options in a usage limiter configuration file or other memory area are set to limit real time ranges that particular application programs on a particular computer can be started and run, and a limit to a length of time that a specific program (or category of programs-an be operated given a number of available credits for a current user. The user is given credits at a pre-configured rate per hour of usage of an application program designated in the usage limiter configuration file as being beneficial, and the user gives back (or looses) credits at a pre-configured rate per hour of usage for use of programs designated as non-beneficial. Preferably, continued usage of beneficial programs is detected, e.g., by keystrokes. Application programs selected for monitoring in the usage limiter configuration file can be identified on an application by application basis, as a specific category of applications identifiable when the particular application is started, or as being stored in a specific directory (e.g., folder in a Windows™ operating system). A credit-giving (i.e., beneficial program) must be run by a particular user to earn credits before a credit-taking (i.e., non-beneficial program) can be run by that user. Up front credits may be provided to a particular user in a user log.

摘要翻译： 应用使用时间限制器在计算机（例如PC）上打开或以其他方式执行时监视某些预配置的应用程序。 应用程序使用时间限制器本身是作为前端执行到各种所选程序进行监视的程序，或作为在分时操作系统环境中运行的单独程序。 使用限制器配置文件或其他内存区域中的可配置选项被设置为限制特定计算机上的特定应用程序可以启动和运行的实时范围，并限制特定程序（或类别）的时间长度 的程序 - 为当前用户提供多个可用信用，给予用户以预定的使用限制器配置文件中指定的应用程序的每小时的使用率为有益的信用，并且用户 使用指定为非有益的程序，以每小时使用的预先配置的速率回放（或丢失）信用。优选地，例如通过按键来检测有益程序的持续使用。选择用于在使用中进行监视的应用程序 限制器配置文件可以在应用程序的基础上识别，作为特定应用程序启动时可识别的特定应用类别，或者作为存储 在特定目录（例如，Windows TM操作系统中的文件夹）中编辑。 授信（即有益的计划）必须由特定用户运行，以在信用（即无益程序）可以由该用户运行之前赚取积分。 可以在用户日志中向特定用户提供前置积分。

公开(公告)号：US06498935B1

公开(公告)日：2002-12-24

申请号：US09293850

申请日：1999-04-19

申请人： Joseph M. Cannon ,  Richard L. McDowell ,  Philip D. Mooney

发明人： Joseph M. Cannon ,  Richard L. McDowell ,  Philip D. Mooney

IPC分类号： H04Q720

CPC分类号： H04W16/16

摘要： When a plurality of cordless telephones (e.g., digital cordless telephones) are used within range of one another, base units of one or more of the digital cordless telephones may receive transmissions from others of the digital cordless telephones. Conventionally, the base unit would simply ignore information relating to that received from an unintended remote handset, i.e., a remote handset having a security code which fails to match that of the receiving base unit. However, in accordance with the principles of the present invention, information regarding the unique security code received with respect to other remote handsets (i.e., those having security codes which do not match that of the receiving base unit), are logged and used in a way which provides a unique best available channel list to each of the digital cordless telephones so that similar digital cordless telephones operating in a similar environment do not attempt selection of channels in a similar way (causing channel inclarity and/or interference). In a first embodiment, the list of best available channels is randomized based on the unique security code of the relevant digital cordless telephone. In a second embodiment, the list of best available channels is randomized only when another digital cordless telephone becomes within transmission range of the relevant digital cordless telephone. In a third embodiment, a list of best available channels is uniquely indexed for each digital cordless telephone based on a ranking of the digital cordless telephones within transmission range of one another. For instance, the highest ranking digital telephone in an environment with three digital cordless telephones attempts use of, preferably in order, the 1st, 4th, 7th, 10th, etc. channels.

摘要翻译： 当在彼此的范围内使用多个无绳电话（例如，数字无绳电话）时，一个或多个数字无绳电话的基本单元可以接收来自数字无绳电话中的其他人的传输。 通常，基本单元将简单地忽略与从非预期的远程手机（即，具有不匹配接收基站单元的安全码的远程手机）接收到的信息有关的信息。 然而，根据本发明的原理，关于与其他远程手机（即，具有与接收基站单元不匹配的安全代码的那些）相关的唯一安全密码的信息被记录并使用在 为每个数字无绳电话提供独特的最佳可用频道列表，使得在类似环境中操作的类似数字无绳电话不以类似的方式尝试选择频道（导致频道内容和/或干扰）。 在第一实施例中，基于相关数字无绳电话的唯一安全码，将最佳可用频道的列表随机化。 在第二实施例中，只有当另一数字无绳电话变成相关数字无绳电话的传输范围内时，最佳可用频道的列表是随机化的。 在第三实施例中，基于数字无绳电话在彼此的传输范围内的等级，为每个数字无绳电话唯一索引最佳可用信道的列表。 例如，在具有三个数字无绳电话的环境中的最高等级的数字电话尝试优选地使用第一，第四，第七，第十等等频道。

公开(公告)号：US06445936B1

公开(公告)日：2002-09-03

申请号：US09441078

申请日：1999-11-16

申请人： Joseph M. Cannon ,  Philip D. Mooney ,  James C. Popa

发明人： Joseph M. Cannon ,  Philip D. Mooney ,  James C. Popa

IPC分类号： H04Q720

CPC分类号： H02J7/00 ,  H02J9/005 ,  H04W48/16 ,  H04W52/0274 ,  Y02D70/00

摘要： The current draw of a wireless device, e.g., a cordless telephone, is minimized for a cradled remote handset drawing power from an AC outlet. This allows a greater portion of the total current amperage provided by the AC to DC converter to be allowed to charge the battery in the remote unit, and reduces the overall maximum or peak value of the current draw of the wireless device. With an improved peak power budget, a smaller (and presumably less expensive) AC to DC adapter than otherwise necessary may be used to power the wireless device. In one aspect, sniff operations of the remote handset are disabled or otherwise suppressed while the remote handset is in the cradle of the base unit, e.g., receiving a quick charge or trickle charge to its battery. In a second aspect, sniff operations of the base unit are disabled or otherwise suppressed while the remote handset is in the cradle of the base unit. In a last aspect, the charging mode of the battery in the remote handset of a wireless device changes based on activity in the remote handset.

摘要翻译： 无线设备（例如，无绳电话）的当前绘图被最小化，以便从一个交流电源插座中抽取电源的悬挂式远程手机。 这允许由AC至DC转换器提供的总电流安培数的更大部分被允许对远程单元中的电池充电，并且降低无线设备的电流消耗的总体最大值或峰值。 通过改进的峰值功率预算，可以使用比其他必要的更小（可能更便宜）的AC到DC适配器来为无线设备供电。 在一个方面，远程手持机的呼吸操作被禁用或以其它方式被抑制，而遥控手机位于基座的支架中，例如，接收到其电池的快速充电或涓流充电。 在第二方面，当远程手机位于基座的支架中时，基本单元的嗅探操作被禁用或以其它方式被抑制。 在最后一方面，无线设备的远程手机中的电池的充电模式基于远程手机中的活动而改变。