Patents Examined by Asghar Bilgrami
  • Patent number: 9781620
    Abstract: A radio measurement collection method according to the present invention, comprises the steps of: sending IdleMDTConfiguration message for setting a plurality of measurement triggers from E-UTRAN including a radio base station eNB to a radio terminal UE; setting the plurality of measurement triggers in the radio terminal UE by the radio terminal itself according to the IdleMDTConfiguration message from the E-UTRAN; measuring a radio environment for each of the plurality of measurement triggers by the radio terminal UE in an idle mode; and storing, by the radio terminal UE, each measurement result obtained at the measuring step in association with the measurement trigger corresponding to the measurement result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Henry Chang, Noriyoshi Fukuta
  • Patent number: 9730182
    Abstract: Disclosed are a mobile terminal capable of allowing a driver to drive a vehicle safely, by providing notification information related to the vehicle, and notification information received from the mobile terminal according to priorities, and a method of controlling the same. The mobile terminal includes: a communication unit; an output unit configured to output road guidance information; and a controller configured to detect first notification information related to a vehicle, to receive second notification information from a mobile terminal through the communication unit, to set priorities of the first and second notification information, and to output the first and second notification information to the output unit according to the set priorities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Mingoo Kim, Kwangjae Lee
  • Patent number: 9715676
    Abstract: A method and system for confirming proper receipt of an e-mail file sent by a sending party over a communications network such as the Internet and intended to be received by a target party. The e-mail file sent by the sending party is properly or improperly delivered to a recipient e-mail address and stored in a data storage location of a recipient computer system. When the accessing party, who may or may not be the intended target party, accesses either the e-mail file itself or an e-mail processing program or user account, various recipient information, including identity information associated with the accessing party, is discovered from the recipient computer system and included in a generated confirmation of receipt notice. The confirmation of receipt notice is subsequently and automatically return transmitted to the sending party.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Inventor: Reuben Bahar
  • Patent number: 9712475
    Abstract: An enterprise email governance system including an enterprise-wide email communication item events monitoring subsystem providing at least near real time indications of email communication item events and an enterprise-wide email communication item events storage subsystem receiving inputs from the monitoring subsystem and providing at least near real time user accessibility to the email communication item events.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: VARONIS SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Ohad Korkus, Yakov Faitelson, Ophir Kretzer-Katzir, David Bass
  • Patent number: 9699408
    Abstract: A cable management system comprising at least a first control cable with a respective cable connector that is configured to operably link with a video/audio source device, a control button configured to generate a control signal when pressed thereby causing transfer of control of the one or more pieces of video/audio presentation equipment from a video/audio source device of a previous user upon selection of the button while the previous user is controlling the pieces of video/audio presentation equipment to a video/audio source device of the user that pressed the control button and initiating control of the pieces of video/audio presentation equipment upon selection of the button while no user is controlling the one or more pieces of video/audio presentation equipment and an illuminated indicator configured to illuminate in a manner indicative of a control state of the video/audio presentation equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Steelcase Inc.
    Inventors: Lewis Epstein, Brett Kincaid, Hyun Yoo, Suzanne Stage, Lukas Scherrer, Larry Cheng
  • Patent number: 9681417
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a paging method, apparatus, and system, so as to implement paging of UE in an area with relatively poor signal coverage. UE includes: a receiving unit, configured to receive a broadcast message sent by a base station; and a determining unit, configured to determine whether the UE is first UE where the determining unit is further configured to: in a case in which it is determined that the UE is the first UE, determine a start PF and a start PO according to the first radio frame parameter; the determining unit is further configured to determine a first subframe set according to the start PF and the start PO; and the receiving unit is further configured to receive, according to the start PF, the start PO, and the first subframe set, a paging message sent by the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhenxing Hu, Yongqiang Gao, Wei Quan, Bingzhao Li, Jian Zhang
  • Patent number: 9673996
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method and system for providing streaming media to a client device. Specifically, in a streaming media session that is initially ongoing between a content server and a client device via a first proxy server: (i) the first proxy server may determine that an interruption in the streaming media session is going to occur and responsively (a) send a transfer request to the client device and (b) send session information to a second proxy server, the session information comprising information identifying the streaming media session and a progress indicator that indicates a current status of the streaming media session, and (ii) after the transfer request and the session information is sent, continuing the streaming media session via the second proxy server. The second proxy server uses the progress indicator as a basis to continue the streaming media session with the client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: Sprint Spectrum L.P.
    Inventors: Piyush Upadhyay, Badri Subramanyan, Hemanth Pawar, Shilpa Kowdley Srinivas, Vivek Kurisunkal
  • Patent number: 9668141
    Abstract: Various devices and methods are disclosed to support clustering optimization in a communication system. For example, multiple nodes of the communication system can be segmented into multiple clustering plans. Each clustering plan can include multiple clusters that do not overlap with one another within that clustering plan. At least one of the clusters of one clustering plan can overlap at least one of the clusters of at least one other clustering plan. Each node could be a non-boundary node in at least one cluster of at least one clustering plan. Multiple nodes of the communication system can alternatively be segmented into clusters having expanding and contracting borders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Gamini Senarath, Aaron Callard, Mohammadhadi Baligh, Keyvan Zarifi, Liqing Zhang, Ho Ting Cheng
  • Patent number: 9654934
    Abstract: In an approach for determining an unauthorized device, a computer receives detection information from a computing device, wherein the detection information includes a broadcast transmission from one or more devices. The computer creates a state trajectory map based on the received detection information, wherein the state trajectory map identifies connections between at least the computing device and a first device of the one or more devices and the computing device and a second device of the one or more devices. The computer one or more anomalies within the created state trajectory map. The computer determines an unauthorized device based on the determined one or more anomalies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Zhang Chao, Qiang Guan, Li Li, Chun hua Tian, Fengjuan Wang, Zhi Jun Wang
  • Patent number: 9654945
    Abstract: An electronic device (12) is capable of sending chat-style messages by instant message (IM) messaging and short message service (SMS) messaging. IM messaging is preferred, but a message will be sent by SMS messaging upon user authorization when IM messaging for the electronic device is not available. When IM messaging is not available for a message destination electronic device (14), the user of the electronic device will be notified that the transmission mechanism is SMS messaging and an attempt to wake-up IM messaging in the message destination electronic device will be made.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
    Inventor: Henrik Bengtsson
  • Patent number: 9654240
    Abstract: An aspect includes receiving, by a computer processor, a sign up request from a mobile device for a message service. The message service is configured to distribute messages spanning a time period that corresponds to an event at which the mobile device is present. A further aspect includes determining, during the course of the time period, an occurrence of a condition for triggering a first message and sending the first message to the mobile device during the time period using a wireless internet browser based protocol. The first message is transmitted over a wireless network. A further aspect includes cancelling the message service at the expiration of the time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Guillaume Hoareau, Johannes J. Liebenberg, John G. Musial, Todd R. Whitman
  • Patent number: 9648441
    Abstract: A method and system for providing on-line services to a user from a services provider over a wireless cellular network. The cellular network is located between the user and the services provider, and a distributed computer system such as the Internet is located between the services provider and the cellular network for transmitting data between the services provide and the cellular network. In one embodiment, the services provider transmits software and operating characteristics over the distributed computer system to the cellular network, and the cellular network installs this software on one or more nodes of the network. When a user connects to the cellular network for services from the service provider, the network operates the software on the one or more nodes in accordance with the operating characteristics, to provide one or more services from this one or more nodes to the user from the service provider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Dakshi Agrawal, Chatschik Bisdikian, Dinesh C. Verma, Petros Zerfos
  • Patent number: 9641981
    Abstract: There is provided a visual localization method comprising: (a) transmitting data representative of one or more detected visual features from a mobile device to a server; (b) estimating the location of the mobile device at the server based on the visual features 5 received from the mobile device; (c) transmitting reference data associated with the estimated location from the server to the mobile device; and (d) the mobile device determining its location based on the reference data received from the server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: NAVVIS GMBH
    Inventors: Eckehard Steinbach, Georg Schroth, Mohammad Abu-Alqumsan, Robert Huitl, Anas Al-Nuaimi, Florian Schweiger
  • Patent number: 9635526
    Abstract: A method for utilizing a Diameter proxy agent to communicate short message service (SMS) messages in a Diameter network includes receiving, from an SMS service center via a Diameter interface, a mobile subscriber location information request message directed to a home subscriber server (HSS), wherein mobile subscriber location information request message is associated with a recipient mobile subscriber. The method further includes querying a number portability database to determine whether the recipient mobile subscriber has been ported to a foreign network and forwarding the mobile subscriber location information request message toward a gateway associated with the foreign network In response to determining the recipient mobile subscriber has been ported to the foreign network. The method also includes, in response to determining the recipient mobile subscriber has not been ported to the foreign network, forwarding the request message to the HSS in the first network or the foreign network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: TEKELEC, INC.
    Inventor: Thomas Matthew McCann
  • Patent number: 9634854
    Abstract: A method of sharing a function via a network includes selecting a second device having a shared function desired by a first device from among at least one device connected to the network, linking the first device with the second device via the network, transmitting original multimedia content from the first device to the second device via the network, and performing the shared function with respect to the original multimedia content in the second device and transmitting result data of the performing of the shared function to the first device via the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Keum-koo Lee, Hee-jeong Choo, Ju-yun Sung, Ji-young Kwahk
  • Patent number: 9626305
    Abstract: A method, article of manufacture, and apparatus for efficiently backing up information are disclosed. In an embodiment, this may comprise using a first space reduction method to space reduce data in a client, transmitting the first space reduced data from a client to an intermediate shared storage at a time convenient for the client, using a second space reduction method to space reduce data from the intermediate shared storage, transferring the second space reduced data to a server, and storing the data in a server storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
    Inventors: Michael John Dutch, Christopher Hercules Claudatos, William Dale Andruss, Bruce David Leetch
  • Patent number: 9628937
    Abstract: In an approach for determining an unauthorized device, a computer receives detection information from a computing device, wherein the detection information includes a broadcast transmission from one or more devices. The computer creates a state trajectory map based on the received detection information, wherein the state trajectory map identifies connections between at least the computing device and a first device of the one or more devices and the computing device and a second device of the one or more devices. The computer one or more anomalies within the created state trajectory map. The computer determines an unauthorized device based on the determined one or more anomalies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Zhang Chao, Qiang Guan, Li Li, Chun hua Tian, Fengjuan Wang, Zhi Jun Wang
  • Patent number: 9621406
    Abstract: A browsing process is directed to the generation and management of a browse session at a network computing and storage provider. A client computing device requests a remote browse session instance at a network computing and storage provider. The browse session instance may correspond to requested network content. The network computing and storage provider determines a browse configuration. The browse configuration may identify a communication protocol and various processing actions. The network computing and storage provider retrieves the requested content through an instantiated network browse session instance, and performs a first set of processing actions to generate a processing result. The processing result may be provided to the client computing device for display, including performing a second set of processing actions on the processing result at the client computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew L. Trahan, Samuel S. Gigliotti, Jonathan A. Jenkins, Brett R. Taylor
  • Patent number: 9621606
    Abstract: A request to retrieve data from a client device is intercepted by a video detector. The video detector determines if the request is for retrieving a video file. If the request is for a video file, and the video file is deemed to be transcoded to be displayed on the client device, the video detector forwards the request to a video optimizer along with encoding parameters. Encoding parameters are selected by the video detector based on properties of the client device, networks accessible by the client device, conditions of those networks, properties of the requested video and the type of video requested. The encoding parameters also include a file format type to which the requested video is to be transcoded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Opera Software Ireland Limited
    Inventors: Erik R. Swenson, Nitin Bhandari, Jaime Heilpern, Robert Oberhofer, John Hansen
  • Patent number: 9615207
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for changing geofence-based operating parameters is provided herein. During operation, all members within a first geofence will have their radio parameters change to those used within a second geofence when a member of the first geofence crosses into the second geofence. Therefore, even though a particular member of the first geofence may not have crossed over the second geofence, the particular member will still have their radio parameters changed to those in use within the second geofence if a member of the first geofence has crossed the second geofence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: David E. Klein, Graeme Peter Johnson