Patents Assigned to Nokia Corporation
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Publication number: 20150126184Abstract: Various methods are described for providing updated network subscription information for a device to one or more other devices. One example method may comprise establishing a first subscription associated with a first network operator for a device. The method may further comprise transferring the device from the first subscription associated with the first network operator to a second subscription associated with a second network operator. Additionally, the method may comprise updating one or more other devices identified in a connection map associated with the device of the transfer to the second subscription. Similar and related methods, apparatuses, and computer program products are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2012Publication date: May 7, 2015Applicant: Nokia CorporationInventors: Silke Holtmanns, Rune Lindholm
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Patent number: 9025767Abstract: An approach is provided for reducing communication traffic/cost and protecting content by applying recipient criteria in identity-based encryption. A criterion application of a querier causes, at least in part, transmission of a query associated with a first user described according to a first set of criteria. Based on the query, the criterion application of the querier receives one or more second sets of criteria associated with respective second users, wherein the second sets of criteria are matched, at least in part, to the first set of criteria, and wherein at least one of the second sets of criteria is used as a public key for encrypting data according to an identity-based encryption scheme. A criterion application of an information store receives the query associated with the first user, and matches one or more second sets of criteria with all or part of the first set of criteria.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2010Date of Patent: May 5, 2015Assignee: Nokia CorporationInventors: Sampo Juhani Sovio, Vesa-Veikko Luukkala
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Patent number: 9024909Abstract: An apparatus including a capacitance touch sensor arrangement configured to have a variable capacitance that varies when a user finger touches the capacitance touch sensor arrangement; and at least one variable resistor sensor integrated within the capacitance touch sensor arrangement wherein the variable resistor sensor has a variable resistance that varies with a sensed parameter; the apparatus including an input configured to receive an input signal including a time varying component and an output configured to provide an output signal that depends upon both the capacitance of the capacitance touch sensor arrangement and the resistance of the variable resistance sensor.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2012Date of Patent: May 5, 2015Assignee: Nokia CorporationInventors: Richard White, Jani Kivioja, Darryl Cotton, Samiul Md Haque, Piers Andrew, Tapani Ryhanen
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Patent number: 9025775Abstract: An apparatus for enhancing a multichannel audio signal comprising at least two channels configured to: estimate a value representing a direction of arrival associated with a first audio signal from at least a first channel and a second audio signal from at least a second channel of at least two channels of a multichannel audio signal; determine a scaling factor dependent on the direction of arrival associated with the first audio signal and the second audio signal; and apply the scaling factor to a parameter associated with a difference in audio signal levels between the first audio signal and the second audio sign.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2008Date of Patent: May 5, 2015Assignee: Nokia CorporationInventor: Pasi Ojala
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Patent number: 9025433Abstract: An example apparatus is provided that receives a plurality of protocol data units (PDUs) formatted according to a standard that prescribes segmenting service data units (SDUs) into sequential PDUs. Each SDU is segmented into PDU(s), and each PDU includes data field element(s). The apparatus detects a current received PDU including data field element(s) that do not belong to a SDU, and handles the detected PDU. This handling includes one or more of (a) accepting the detected PDU but discarding the data field element(s) of the respective PDU; (b) discarding the detected PDU including the data field element(s) of the respective PDU; (c) processing the detected PDU and forming a SDU from the data field element(s) of the respective PDU; or (d) handling the error as a radio link failure. The apparatus then operates according to the standard with respect to the received PDUs after handling the detected PDU.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2009Date of Patent: May 5, 2015Assignee: Nokia CorporationInventors: Tero Petteri Miettinen, Antti Ilmari Tormanen, Antti Johannes Rauhala, Mika Petteri Kaukoranta, Tommi Matias Eemeli Kallio
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Patent number: 9026156Abstract: In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, an apparatus, method and computer storage product are disclosed which compose a report at an apparatus having at least one network radio and at least one other radio, the report comprising in-device coexistence related information that combines information descriptive of potential and on-going interference to the at least one other radio as two orthogonal components comprised of power domain information and time domain information and transmit the report to a network station with which the apparatus communicates using the at least one network radio.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2012Date of Patent: May 5, 2015Assignee: Nokia CorporationInventors: Antti Piipponen, Lars Dalsgaard, Petri Vasenkari, Jussi-Pekka Koskinen, Sari Nielsen
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Patent number: 9026609Abstract: An approach is provided for coordinating media presentation on devices via an information space. In response to a request for presentation of media content, a media provision coordinating application retrieves from an information space raw media content corresponding to the request. The media provision coordinating application determines one or more first devices for pre-processing the raw media content and one or more second devices for presenting pre-processed media content based upon respective technical capabilities and availabilities of the first devices, the second devices, or a combination thereof, the first and second devices are connected to the information space.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2011Date of Patent: May 5, 2015Assignee: Nokia CorporationInventors: Ian Justin Oliver, Sergey Boldyrev, Sergey Balandin, Timofey Turenko
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Patent number: 9026095Abstract: A method and system which may determine when to deliver assistance data to a requesting user device. In one example, the user device may request updates of assistance data related to one or more data type from an assistance server. Additionally, the user device may include one or more parameters for the delivery of updates of assistance data. The assistance server may provide updated assistance data based on an event and in compliance with the one or more parameters.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2008Date of Patent: May 5, 2015Assignee: Nokia CorporationInventors: Ismo Halivaara, Lauri Wirola
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Patent number: 9024300Abstract: An apparatus including: a stacked structure including a first substrate having a flat surface; a flat first graphene layer adjacent the flat surface of the first substrate; a flat second graphene layer adjacent the flat first graphene layer; and a second substrate having a flat surface adjacent the flat second graphene layer. An apparatus including: a stacked structure including a substrate having a flat upper surface; a flat lower patterned layer overlying the flat upper surface of the substrate and including at least one patterned electrode; a flat lower graphene layer overlying the flat lower patterned layer; a flat upper graphene layer overlying the flat lower graphene layer; and a flat upper patterned layer overlying the flat upper graphene layer and including at least one patterned electrode.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2010Date of Patent: May 5, 2015Assignee: Nokia CorporationInventors: Martti Kalevi Voutilainen, Pirjo Pasanen
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Patent number: 9025481Abstract: A user's downlink component carriers DL-CCs are divided into groups. An aperiodic CQI/PMI report is triggered by signaling (for example one bit). There is a pattern that maps the signaled trigger to a particular DL-CC within a group of DL-CCs that are configured for a user equipment UE, and that mapped particular DL-CC is determined to be the subject of the aperiodic report. In various embodiments the pattern is implicit and points to the DL-CC for which an aperiodic report has not been sent for more than a threshold time interval; or to the DL-CC for which resources have not been allocated for a periodic report; or to every DL-CC in the group that are activated for the user equipment. Examples are detailed for apparatus, method and computer program from the perspective of the network and from the perspective of the UE.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2010Date of Patent: May 5, 2015Assignee: Nokia CorporationInventors: Chunyan Gao, Peng Chen, Timo Lunttila
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Patent number: 9025335Abstract: An apparatus including a sliding mechanism configured to enable a card holder to be moved between a first position and a second position; a resilient member configured to bias the card holder towards the first position; and an adjustment mechanism configured to enable tension in the resilient member to be adjusted when the card holder is in the second position.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2012Date of Patent: May 5, 2015Assignee: Nokia CorporationInventor: Juuso Juhani Heiskanen
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Patent number: 9026359Abstract: A method comprising: presenting a three-dimensional environment, comprising routes, to a user by using a selected one of a plurality of perspective views of the environment that corresponds to a current position on a current route; detecting a gesture user input comprising a characteristic that changes in time, and changing the current position on the current route to a new position on a route in response to the gesture user input wherein a first characteristic of the gesture user input determines a direction along the current route of the new position relative to the current position and a second characteristic of the gesture user input determines the new position; and presenting the three-dimensional environment, comprising routes, to the user by using a newly selected one of the plurality of perspective views of the environment that corresponds to the new position.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2010Date of Patent: May 5, 2015Assignee: Nokia CorporationInventor: Petros Belimpasakis
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Publication number: 20150120408Abstract: An approach is provided for determining proximity of a user to a POI to dynamically adapt applications, content, and user incentive. One or more service providers determine a proximity of at least one device to at least one point of interest and determine at least one difficulty level associated with at least one application, at least one content item, or a combination thereof based, at least in part, on the proximity.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2012Publication date: April 30, 2015Applicant: NOKIA CORPORATIONInventors: Huanglingzi Liu, Xu Jia, Huanhuan Cao, Yongguang Guo, Ying Liu
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Publication number: 20150117418Abstract: There is provided a method, comprising: detecting, by a node of a first wireless network, that at least one overlapping second wireless network is configured to apply contention periods and contention-free periods for communicating with different subsets of devices; detecting that a contention period timing applied by the at least one overlapping second wireless network is not aligned with a contention period timing applied by the node of the first wireless network; and causing a modification of the contention period timing in at least one of the wireless networks in order to have the contention periods to take place at least partly at the same time in each overlapping wireless network.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2013Publication date: April 30, 2015Applicant: Nokia CorporationInventors: Erika Portela Lopes De Almeida, Andre Mendes Cavalcante, Fuad Mousse Abinader, JR., Sayantan Choudhury, Fabiano Chaves, Klaus Franz Doppler
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Publication number: 20150119016Abstract: A technique for operating a wireless communication apparatus is provided. According to an example embodiment, the technique comprises operating a wireless communication apparatus in one of a plurality of states, said plurality of states comprising at least a discoverable state wherein the wireless communication apparatus is discoverable but not connectable and a connectable state wherein the wireless communication apparatus is both discoverable and connectable, receiving, when operating the wireless communication apparatus in the discoverable state, one or more requests from a remote wireless communication apparatus, and changing from the discoverable state to the connectable state in response to said requests fulfilling predefined criteria.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2014Publication date: April 30, 2015Applicant: NOKIA CORPORATIONInventors: Arto PALIN, Jukka REUNAMAKI
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Publication number: 20150116519Abstract: An apparatus including at least one processor; and at least one non-transitory memory including computer program code, the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to generate a signal from at least one sound transducer of an apparatus, where the signal is generated based upon sound received at the at least one sound transducer, where the sound includes acoustic noise generated by a component of the apparatus; and remove a noise component from the signal, where the noise component at least partially corresponds to the acoustic noise generated by the component.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2013Publication date: April 30, 2015Applicant: Nokia CorporationInventors: Petri Jarske, Miikka T. Vilermo, Juha R. Backman
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Publication number: 20150119002Abstract: An approach is provided for determining one or more items installed on one or more devices. The one or more devices process and/or facilitate processing of the one or more items to cause, at least in part, an association of the one or more content items with respective contact entries associated with the one or more devices, one or more users of the one or more devices, or a combination thereof. Consequently, the one or more devices may cause, at least in part, a rendering of one or more representations of the one or more items in a contact-based user interface based, at least in part, on the association.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2011Publication date: April 30, 2015Applicant: NOKIA CORPORATIONInventors: Xiantao Chen, Yongguang Guo, Ying Liu
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Publication number: 20150119032Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer program product are described for reducing delay when making a network connection between user equipment (UE) and a network node when a tracking area update (TAU) request has been deniedduring LTE reselection. Following a revised signaling protocol, a UE can avoid activation of a NAS Attach Retry timer and move directly to establishing a connection to the network, reducing the UE communications delay from about eleven seconds to less than one second.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 6, 2013Publication date: April 30, 2015Applicant: Nokia CorporationInventors: Jarkko Koskela, Hannu Bergius, Jorma Kaikkonen, Ari Laukkanen
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Publication number: 20150117310Abstract: In accordance with an example embodiment, a method is provided comprising receiving packets of at least one flow in a packet switching function, and based on at least one criterion, deciding in the packet switching function on switching the packets to one or both of a cellular transport radio and a wireless local area network transport radio. In some embodiments, the packet switching function is disposed in a protocol stack between a radio link control protocol layer and a medium access control protocol layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2012Publication date: April 30, 2015Applicant: NOKIA CORPORATIONInventors: Li Zexian, Cassio Ribeiro, Esa Malkarnaki, Mikko Uusitalo, Antti Sorri
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Publication number: 20150120575Abstract: An approach is provided for negotiating and authenticating coupons. A coupon management platform receives a request for determining a first offer information associated with at least one first coupon. The coupon management platform processes and/or facilitates a processing of the first offer information against one or more negotiation rules to determine at least one second coupon. The coupon management platform further causes, at least in part, a presentation of the at least one second coupon, second offer information associated with the at least one second coupon, or a combination thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2012Publication date: April 30, 2015Applicant: Nokia CorporationInventors: Dhaval Jitendra Joshi, Hao Yang
