Patents Examined by Huy Phan
  • Patent number: 7970420
    Abstract: A novel and improved method and system for paging a cellular telephone or other wireless terminal using two paging channels that reduces standby mode power consumption described. In one embodiment of the invention, a minimally encoded quick paging channel is established over which short, quick page messages are transmitted during one of a set of quick paging slots. The quick page message indicates that a communications request has been received, and that the receiving communication terminals should process a highly encoded full paging channel over which more detailed, full page messages are transmitted during the next full paging slot. A terminal monitors full paging channel only after a quick page message has been received on the quick paging channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2011
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: Brian K. Butler, Klein S. Gilhousen
  • Patent number: 7966022
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a location based notification method in a system including a H-SLP (Home-SUPL Location Platform), and a V-SLP (Visited-SLP) having a V-SLC (Visited-SUPL Location Center) and a V-SPC (Visited-SUPL Positioning Center) for a location service, the method comprising: receiving, by the H-SLP, a request for positioning of a roaming terminal; transmitting, by the H-SLP, a session initialization message including a notification mode parameter to the roaming terminal if one or more of location-based notification and verification are required as a result of checking a privacy of the roaming terminal; transmitting and receiving, by the V-SPC, messages with the roaming terminal for performing a positioning process if a positioning start message is received from the roaming terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2011
    Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc.
    Inventor: Dong-Hee Shim
  • Patent number: 7965074
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a position sensor including, a magnetic recording medium including two incremental layers and an absolute layer, the absolute layer provided between the incremental layers, each of the layers having magnetic information recorded therein, and a magnetic detection section including three magnetoresistance effect devices opposite to the layers of the magnetic recording medium, being moved relative to the magnetic recording medium in the extending direction of the layers, and being operative to detect the magnetic information in the layers by the magnetoresistance effect devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2011
    Assignee: Mori Seiki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Nakagawa, Gunichi Nakamura, Masaaki Kusumi
  • Patent number: 7961707
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for managing neighbor cells of a mobile communication terminal is provided. In the method, when a neighbor cell list is received from a network, neighbor cells are scanned to select a number of neighbor cells having high received signal strength indicator (RSSI) levels. The selected neighbor cells are managed in a BA list. The BA list is divided into a number of groups according to the RSSI levels. Different minimum signal strengths are applied to the respective groups, and it is determined whether there are neighbor cells that do not satisfy the minimum signal strengths. When the neighbor cells that do not satisfy the minimum signal strengths, the corresponding neighbor cells are deleted from the BA list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2011
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Yu-Shin Kim, Ranganadh Karella
  • Patent number: 7957778
    Abstract: A folding mobile phone (folding portable communications device) includes a first housing including a liquid crystal display part (display part) provided at a surface thereof, a second housing including an operating part provided at a surface thereof, and a hinge connecting the first and second housings to allow the first and second housings to be freely opened and closed in their folded form. A cam mechanism (support mechanism) supports the liquid crystal display part switchably between a vertical position and a horizontal position and to allow the liquid crystal display part to turn both clockwise and counterclockwise as viewed from the front.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2011
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Minoru Makino, Kimiaki Imai
  • Patent number: 7957745
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for providing adaptive bearer configuration for MBMS delivery is disclosed. A first aspect of the present disclosure is a method of operating a wireless infrastructure entity (103) wherein a common radio resource (303) is allocated for receiving a response from at least one mobile station (109). A request message, similar to a request for counting, is broadcast to all mobile stations (109) within a coverage area (105. If at least one mobile station (109) responds to the request, PTM transmission mode will be used for MBMS delivery within the given coverage area (105). If more than one mobile station (109) within the coverage area (105) responds to the request, then all the responses will be over the common radio resource (303). The total number of responses to the request message may be limited by providing a probability factor within the request message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2011
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility, Inc.
    Inventors: Zhijun Cai, Mansoor Ahmed, Robert M. Harrison
  • Patent number: 7957733
    Abstract: Multimedia communications with cross-layer optimization in multimedia communications with different user terminals. Various optimization for the delivery of multimedia content across different channels are provided concurrently to a plurality of user terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2011
    Assignee: SellerBid, Inc.
    Inventors: Tiehong Wang, Ning Wang, Ximing Wang, Tiejun Wang, William E. Halal
  • Patent number: 7953411
    Abstract: Efficient hand over mechanisms for OFDM and OFDMA wireless communication systems to operate a mobile subscriber station to transmit and receive a frame with only one base station while monitoring communications with adjacent base stations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2011
    Assignee: ZTE (USA) Inc.
    Inventor: Mary Chion
  • Patent number: 7949349
    Abstract: An object is to provide a cell phone capable of achieving improvement in efficiency of communication and improvement in user's operability on the occasion of providing location information. A cell phone 10 has a data transmitter 101 for transmitting user data to a content delivery server 30, using a user channel, a location request part 102 for transmitting request information to request calculation of location information about the cell phone 10, to a GPS server 40 in accordance with the transmission of the user data, using a control channel, a location acquiring part 103 for acquiring the location information calculated based on the request information by the GPS server 40, using the control channel, and a location transmitter 105 for transmitting the location information to the content delivery server 30, using the control channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2011
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Menjo, Manabu Fujita, Aki Kariya, Katsutoshi Murata
  • Patent number: 7948918
    Abstract: This document describes, e.g., a system and method for minimizing superfluous signaling traffic and for minimizing data processing pressures on a network including a network information repository (NIR), comprising: having mobile stations that enter a network domain compare and detect inconsistencies in network information received through different sources and report those inconsistenci to the NIR; having the NIR update a cell broadcast controller (CBC)/BMSC with said network information; and having the CBC/BMSC broadcast or multicast the updated information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2011
    Assignees: Toshiba America Research, Inc., Telcordia Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Raziq Yaqub
  • Patent number: 7949353
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a system and method in which data messages, which otherwise would be displayed on the screen of a mobile device are delivered in audible format. The message itself, in one embodiment does not contain the audible message, but rather the message triggers the retrieval of an audible message (or if the user chooses, he/she can be prompted to view additional information in a text or video format on the phone). The audible, message that is ultimately delivered can be prestored in the mobile device; can be created based upon data sent to the device; can be retrieved from an external source, such as from a web server accessed by the mobile device in accordance with data contained in the message received by the mobile device; or it can be sent by the sender as a “whisper” message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2011
    Assignee: Intervoice Limited Partnership
    Inventors: Ruth Pollock, Kieron Hudson
  • Patent number: 7945207
    Abstract: Systems and methods for facilitating communications between a monitoring and monitored device using a mobile station are provided. The mobile station includes a wide area network interface for communicating with a monitoring device via a wide area network. The mobile station also includes a short-range wireless network interface for communicating over a short-range wireless communication link with the monitored device. Using these communication links the mobile station can forward data between the monitoring and monitored devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2011
    Assignee: Nextel Communications Inc.
    Inventor: Jihad Hermes
  • Patent number: 7941154
    Abstract: A method for providing, in a communication network including at least a first and a second set of resources, a service to users of at least a first and a second type. The users of the first type are in a condition to be provided said service only by means of said first set of resources, while the users of the second type are in a condition to be provided said service both by means of the first set of resources and by means of the second set of resources. The method includes the steps of detecting during at least one time interval, the total number of requests for service coming from said users, identifying within the total number the fraction of requests adapted to be met only by means of the first set of resources, identifying at least one parameter representative of said fraction, and providing the service to the users of the second type by means of the second set of resources as a function of the at least one parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2011
    Assignee: Telecom Italia S.p.A.
    Inventors: Andrea Barbaresi, Paolo Goria
  • Patent number: 7941166
    Abstract: Data is transmitted via time division multiple access methods and every radio cell includes one base station each for the radio coverage of a plurality of mobile stations assigned to the radio cell. The base station receives, in addition to mobile station signals of its own radio cell, mobile station signals of neighboring radio cells and determines, on the basis of the mobile station signals received, a time synchronization value and/or a frequency synchronization value to which the base station synchronizes itself.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2011
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Elena Costa, Dirk Galda, Harald Haas, Niclas Meier, Hermann Rohling, Egon Schulz
  • Patent number: 7941155
    Abstract: A method for data transmission, contemplates calculating a cell-load ratio by: r cl , n = ( 1 - ? ) · r cl , n - 1 + d n S n , where rcl,n-1 is a cell-load ratio calculated in a previous stage, rcl,n is an instant cell-load ratio, ? is a forgetting factor, dn is an instantaneous cell load, and Sn is a frame capacity; and broadcasting the calculated cell-load ratio by carrying the cell-load ratio in a designated message. Methods of a cell selection and a handover for a subscriber which are initiated by a subscriber are in dependence upon both of the cell-load ratio and the signal strength provided by the base stations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2011
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Baowei Ji, Changhoi Koo
  • Patent number: 7940735
    Abstract: A system for selecting an access point for a wireless device on a wireless network including a first wireless router in communication with the wireless device for transmitting and receiving RF signals between said first wireless router and the wireless device; a second wireless router in communication with the wireless device for transmitting and receiving RF signals between the first wireless router and the wireless device; a packet network switch in communication with the first and second wireless routers for routing the data packets between the first and second wireless routers and the packet network switch; and a network management device in communication with the packet network switch for instructing the packet network switch to route the data packets to one of the first and second wireless routers based on the network performance information to provide an access point for the wireless device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2011
    Assignee: Embarq Holdings Company, LLC
    Inventors: Steven E. Kozisek, Carl M. Coppage, Robert J. Morrill
  • Patent number: 7936715
    Abstract: A method and a device for reconfiguration in a wireless system utilizing flexible layer one (FLO). In proposed solution one TFC (Transport Format Combination) is selected and reserved (504) exclusively for signalling use. The TFC may contain only one active transport channel and always utilize the same CRC and transport block size in order to unambiguously define the proper settings for signalling. Considering uplink transmission in a wireless system and special case of TFCI (Transport Format Combination Identifier) size change due to the TFCS (Transport Format Combination Set) reconfiguration that also generates a need to switch to a new dedicated basic physical subchannel (DBPSCH); whenever the network notices that the mobile station does not switch to the new DBPSCH (518), it concludes that the TFCS reconfiguration message sent was lost and stays with the existing configuration (520). Otherwise the new configuration is taken into use (514).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2011
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventors: Benoist Sébire, Harri Jokinen
  • Patent number: 7936719
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the handing off without packet loss, from a mobile device traveling from a current point of attachment to a new point of attachment, by providing a copy and forward module in association with the current point of attachment. The copy and forward module copies and stores packets that are being transmitted to a mobile node while the mobile node is in transition from the current point of attachment to the new point of attachment. The copy and forward module maintains a list of addresses as the last known contact addresses of the mobile node, and the mobile node's initial copy request contains an initial contact address of the mobile node. Subsequent copy requests are used to add or delete addresses to the list, and carry a per-address flag to indicate whether the address is to be added or deleted from the list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2011
    Assignees: Toshiba America Research, Inc., Telcordia Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Victor Fajardo, Yoshihiro Oba, Kenichi Taniuchi, Ashutosh Dutta
  • Patent number: 7933592
    Abstract: A cellular telephone signal monitoring method and system. The method includes receiving and storing by a computing system from a first cellular telephone, a first profile associated with a first user of the first cellular telephone and first monitoring data associated with the first user and the first cellular telephone. The computing system receives and stores from a plurality of cellular telephones, first additional monitoring data associated with a plurality of users and the plurality of cellular telephone. The computing system analyzes the first monitoring data and the first additional monitoring data. The computing system generates a first analysis report based on results of the analyzing. The computing system transmits to the first cellular telephone and the plurality of cellular telephones the first analysis report.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2011
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Sandra K. Johnson, Ruthie D. Lyle, Kelly Malone, LaTondra Alyce Murray, Demethria Johnson Ramseur
  • Patent number: 7933609
    Abstract: A method performed by a mobile terminal may include identifying a group of mobile terminals, generating a message that includes a link to a map showing a position each of the mobile terminals in the group and transmitting the message to each of the plurality of mobile terminals in the group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2011
    Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB
    Inventors: Anna-Maria Lagerstedt, Eral Denis Foxenland, Randi-Lise Hjelmeland Almas, Lisa Wiveca Lindahl