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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 05, 2006
Filed:
Apr. 09, 2001
Applicants:
Paul J. Rankin, Horley, GB;
Simon R. Turner, Redhill, GB;
Stefan Pannenbecker, Seattle, WA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
In a networked communications apparatus comprising at least one server () and a plurality of user terminals (), together with a portable communications device () co-operating with one or more user terminals (), the coupling () between terminal and communications device is by wireless transmission. The portable communications device () means for receiving wireless transmissions from the terminal are further configured to receive additional data transmitted wirelessly from other sources, such as message delivery beacons (B1–BN) distributed in the locality.