Patents Examined by Joseph Dean, Jr.
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Patent number: 9686820Abstract: Methods, systems and computer program products for transferring data between mobile devices having heterogeneous wireless communication interfaces includes identifying one or more intermediate mobile devices from social network databases upon detecting an initiation of data transfer from a first mobile device to a second mobile device, wherein the first and second mobile devices have heterogeneous wireless communication interfaces, and wherein the intermediate mobile devices have wireless communication interface compatibility to form an ad hoc wireless network with the first and second mobile devices for transferring data from the first to the second mobile device; implementing the ad hoc wireless network based on availability of the intermediate mobile devices; and transferring the data from the first to the second mobile device through the ad hoc wireless network, wherein said transferring includes hopping the data through each of the intermediate mobile devices from the first to the second mobile device.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2014Date of Patent: June 20, 2017Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Malolan Chetlur, Vijay Ekambaram, Vikrant Nandakumar, Ashok Pon Kumar Sree Prakash
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Patent number: 9674332Abstract: Provided is a vehicle interface providing terminal including: a wireless communication unit configured to receive a call signal transmitted from a base station; a terminal information collection unit configured to collect terminal information of other callable terminals; a vehicle interface generator configured to provide a vehicle interface to a vehicle information providing terminal and provide a selection list through the vehicle interface based on the terminal information when the call signal is received; and a call voice relay unit configured to relay a voice signal between a second terminal selected in the selection list and the base station, in which the call voice relay unit transmits the voice signal received from the base station and transmits the voice signal received from the second terminal to the base station, when the second terminal is selected.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2015Date of Patent: June 6, 2017Assignee: INFOBANK CORP.Inventors: Hong Suk Kang, Ji Hoon Ah, Jong Cheol Hong
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Patent number: 9668106Abstract: The BLUETOOTH® indoor positioning system can include a plurality of mobile phones forming a signal coverage area indoor and a server. The mobile phone is configured to transmit, receive BLUETOOTH® signals and generate, transmit position information. The server is configured to receive the position information and process the position information to be position coordinates. A method for BLUETOOTH® indoor position executed by a BLUETOOTH® indoor positioning system is also provided. A wearable terminal is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2015Date of Patent: May 30, 2017Assignee: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventors: Yi-Cheng Lin, Jen-Tsorng Chang
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Patent number: 9658072Abstract: This disclosure is directed to providing directional feedback to a user. For example, this disclosure describes techniques for determining at least one characteristic of a device in space. For example, a device may be configured to determine, using one or more sensors, one or more characteristics of the device in space. For example, the device may be configured to determine one or more of a direction, and/or geographical position of the device as pointed by a user in space. The device may compare one or more of the determined one or more characteristics of the device in space to a desired destination or path specified by the user, and provide the user with directional feedback if the determined one or more characteristics of the device in space are consistent with the desired destination or path.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2015Date of Patent: May 23, 2017Assignee: Google Inc.Inventor: James Roskind
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Patent number: 9648504Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices are described for transmitting across a broad azimuth using an antenna array. In one example, a method is described that includes forming two subarrays from an antenna array. Beamforming weights are selected for each subarray to cause the radiation patterns to be complementary over a range of the azimuth of a cell. The beamforming weights may be selected according to a recursive relation based on the number of antenna elements in each subarray. Information may be encoded, scrambled, and mapped to modulation symbols. A Space Frequency Block Code (SFBC) such as an Alamouti Code may then be used to form two signals to be transmitted over the two subarrays.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2013Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: June Namgoong, Srikant Jayaraman, Ruoheng Liu
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Patent number: 9648173Abstract: Network status information is provided to a mobile device. The data usage of the mobile device is tracked. A data usage criterion is determined from an account for the mobile device. The account information is stored on at least one server. The data usage is compared with the data usage criterion. Based on the comparison, it is determined whether the data usage meets the data usage criterion. Upon determining that the data usage meets the data usage criterion, a notification message is sent to the mobile device in real time through an information element field within an existing message in a bearer channel of the wireless packet data communication network. The notification message may instruct the mobile device to prevent generation and/or transmission of automatic network access requests while allowing user-initiated network access requests.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2012Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: Cellco PartnershipInventors: Ho Yin Cheuk, Lixia Yan
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Patent number: 9648664Abstract: A communication terminal, in particular an eCall terminal. The terminal comprises a communication unit and an interface for communication of the terminal with communication networks. The terminal comprises a determination unit for determining in which communication network the terminal is located. The terminal comprises a database in which communication network related data for a number of different communication networks are stored and in which said communication network related data are linked to paging channels of the respective communications networks. The terminal further comprises a scanning unit for scanning paging channels and an evaluation unit for evaluating information received via a paging channel. In addition the present invention relates to a method of scanning paging channel and to a method for activation of a communication terminal.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2012Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: VODAFONE GMBHInventors: Ulrich Dietz, Ben Borsetzky
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Patent number: 9641677Abstract: A system and method for communicating presence information that can include at a first server of a communication platform, receiving an authorization token of a first client application; verifying at least one permission associated with the authorization token; registering a presence status of the first client application upon verifying the at least one permission of the authorization token; at a second server of the communication platform, accepting an incoming communication request; retrieving communication instructions according to the incoming communication request; identifying an instruction to communicate with a communication destination of the first client application; accessing the presence status resource of the first client application; establishing communication with the first client application according to the accessed presence status resource.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2015Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: Twilio, Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey Lawson, Evan Cooke, Rob Simutis, Patrick Malatack, Kyle Conroy
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Patent number: 9596567Abstract: Various techniques and systems are provided for determining a location of a target wireless device. Specifically, various techniques and systems are provided for determining a location of a wireless device using timestamps assigned to communications transmitted between the wireless device and one or more other wireless devices on a same WiFi channel as the wireless device.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2015Date of Patent: March 14, 2017Assignee: Aruba Networks, Inc.Inventors: Peter Thornycroft, Neal Castagnoli, Gautam Bhanage
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Patent number: 9591124Abstract: A method, system and device enable transferring an audio signal between devices of a single user. The method includes pairing, over a master-less communication link, a narrowband communication device operating in a narrowband communication system and a broadband communication device operating in a broadband communication system. A call is then established between the narrowband communication device and the narrowband communication system or between the broadband communication device and the broadband communication system. Next, an audio quality parameter is determined at least one of the narrowband communication device and the broadband communication device. An audio signal of the call is then transmitted, over the master-less communication link and in response to the audio quality parameter, from one to the other of the broadband communication device and the narrowband communication device.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2014Date of Patent: March 7, 2017Assignee: MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS, INC.Inventors: Jesus F. Corretjer, Stuart S Kreitzer
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Patent number: 9585022Abstract: It is disclosed a method and trusted execution environments (TEE) of assigning a selected identifier to an application. A request is received to load or install, within or outside a profile domain, of an application with a selected identifier. It is checked that the selected identifier is not already stored in an application registry entry outside the profile registry 230, 302. If it is requested to load or install the application in the selected profile domain, the selected identifier is assigned to said application if the selected identifier is not already stored in an application entry of a profile domain registry associated with the selected profile domain. If it is requested to load or install the application outside any profile domain, the selected identifier is assigned to said application if the selected identifier is not already stored in an application entry of any of at least two profile domain registries.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2013Date of Patent: February 28, 2017Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)Inventors: Göran Selander, Petter Arvidsson, Miguel Cardo Rodriguez, Mattias Eld
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Patent number: 9578670Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for matching multiple devices, and a device and a server system for enabling the matching thereof. According to one aspect of the invention, provided is a matching method comprising: determining, from a perspective of a first device, characteristic information on a motion of the first device; determining, from a perspective of a second device, characteristic information on at least one of the motion of the first device, an input to the second device according to the motion of the first device, an operation on the second device according to the motion of the first device, and a location change of the first device caused by the motion of the first device; and matching the first device and the second device based on the characteristic information determined from the perspective of the first device and the characteristic information determined from the perspective of the second device.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2015Date of Patent: February 21, 2017Assignee: FuturePlay Inc.Inventor: Sung Jae Hwang
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Patent number: 9578461Abstract: Enhanced input field features and techniques for displaying and resolving location information in meeting items are provided. In response to a user's interaction with a place name displayed in the location field of a user interface for a meeting item, up to date information is retrieved about the location associated with the place name from a web service and displayed. The display can include a map image tile. In addition to enabling the displaying of up to date information, during creation of the meeting item, the location input field of a meeting item can present location suggestions from within the location input field, for example, as a drop-down listing of possible locations. The suggestions for completing a user's input text string to the location input field can be obtained from sources such as a web service, a mailbox, a managed database/directory service, a history cache/database or a combination thereof.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2012Date of Patent: February 21, 2017Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Danilo L. Benzatti, Gregory A. Bolles, Andrew Winslow Brough, Jason Andrew Cook, Michael Anthony Faoro, Vanessa Feliberti, Shivakumar Seetharaman, Yeelin Tan, Gustavo Varo
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Patent number: 9572017Abstract: A mobile device comprising a processor which is configured to run at least one of a plurality of threads, said plurality of threads comprising a mobile control thread, a priority adjusting thread and at least one other thread; a scheduler for scheduling threads to be run on said processor dependent on a priority of an thread relative to other threads, a display for displaying data to a user, an input system for a user to input commands, and a communication link for connecting said mobile device to a remote terminal, wherein, when said mobile control thread is running the processor is configured to capture data currently displayed on said display; send said captured data over said communication link; and issue an update sent notification to activate said priority adjusting thread; wherein, when said priority adjusting thread is running, the processor is configured to determine, on receipt of an update sent notification, whether a previous update sent notification issued less than a threshold time earlier, deteType: GrantFiled: May 24, 2012Date of Patent: February 14, 2017Assignee: RealVNC LtdInventor: Tobias Edward Sebastian Gray
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Patent number: 9565616Abstract: The invention relates to a method for routing telecommunication connections (TC connections) to a mobile communications terminal located in the reception area of a current mobile network that differs from a home network of the mobile communications terminal. The mobile communications terminal firstly has a first SIM card, which is assigned to the home network and to which is assigned a first telephone number.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2012Date of Patent: February 7, 2017Assignee: TELES AG INFORMATIONSTECHNOLOGIENInventors: Frank Paetsch, Heiner Berndt
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Patent number: 9560602Abstract: A wireless communication system comprising a transmitter configured to transmit a data signal and a control signal to the same mobile station and a control unit configured to regulate transmission power of the control signal in accordance with a reception status of the control signal in the mobile station.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2010Date of Patent: January 31, 2017Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Kazuhisa Obuchi, Tetsuya Yano
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Patent number: 9554351Abstract: A communications apparatus includes multiple SIM cards, a RF signal processing module including two or more RF signal processing units which including at least a first RF signal processing unit, and an arbiter configured for dynamically determining which SIM card to use which RF signal processing unit for handling a radio activity of the SIM card according to priority of radio activities of the SIM cards and RF signal processing capability of the RF signal processing units. A number of the SIM cards is equal to or greater than a number of the RF signal processing units included in the RF signal processing module.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2014Date of Patent: January 24, 2017Assignee: MEDIATEK INC.Inventors: Mu-Tai Lin, Wan-Ting Huang
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Patent number: 9554321Abstract: A method of initiating a telecommunication session for a communication device include submitting to one or more telecommunication carriers a proposal for a telecommunication session, receiving from at least one of the one or more of telecommunication carriers a bid to carry the telecommunications session, and automatically selecting one of the telecommunications carriers from the carriers submitting a bid, and initiating the telecommunication session through the selected telecommunication carrier.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2015Date of Patent: January 24, 2017Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Shumeet Baluja, Michael Chu, Mayumi Matsuno
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Patent number: 9553866Abstract: Disclosed are an apparatus and method of performing automated administrative operations on a mobile device. One example method may include determining via a hosted server that an action needs to be performed by a mobile device under management. The method may further include generating a message via the hosted server, the message includes the action, and transmitting the message to the mobile device under management, and receiving a result message from the mobile device under management responsive to the transmitted message, the result message indicating that the action has been satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2016Date of Patent: January 24, 2017Assignee: KASEYA LIMITEDInventor: Allan A. Miller
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Patent number: 9549311Abstract: Techniques for use by a mobile device configured to operate in a wireless network for the communication of data messages with a server are described. When the mobile device does not have an open session with the server, the mobile device receives from a service node via the wireless network a message which informs the mobile device that a data message has arrived at the server and needs to be retrieved. The message includes an identifier which identifies the data message at the server. In response to opening an application at the mobile device, the mobile device communicates directly with the server via the wireless network for retrieving the data message. This involves commencing an open session with the server, sending to the server a command for retrieving the data message, and receiving from the server the data message in response to sending the command. The mobile device may use the identifier for retrieving the data message from the server.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2014Date of Patent: January 17, 2017Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: David Clark, Allan David Lewis, Barry Gilhuly, David Bajar, Nataliya Martsyna, Robbie John Maurice