Abstract: A method and system for managing location polling intervals is provided. A location determining element will determine a mobile station's current location and will compare the current location to a designated location. Based on the comparison between the current location and the designated location, the location determining element will compute a next time to determine the mobile station's current location. This process will repeat until the mobile station is located at or within a range of the designated location. Once the mobile station is located at or within the range of the designated location, the location determining element will notify a content server, which will provide specific content to the mobile station.

Abstract: A client terminal may present focusable objects and non-focusable objects on a display screen. The focusable objects are objects selectable by a user, while the non-focusable objects are objects not selectable by the user. A client terminal may receive web content that defines a non-focusable object and present the web content on a display screen. Additionally, the client terminal may execute computer instructions for converting the non-focusable object into focusable objects. The client terminal may present the focusable objects on the display screen so that a user can scroll through one or more of the focusable objects, select, and copy the one or more of the focusable objects.

Abstract: A subterranean equipment bay for housing telecommunications equipment comprising a vault having a floor, sidewalls, and a top cover, and having a shallow depth. The vault further includes means for ventilating the vault and means for removing water from the vault.

Abstract: A system and method for controlling data session in a wireless network are described. One exemplary method includes detecting a request to establish a data session between a first client device and another device, determining whether the first client device is authorized to establish the data session and, if so, establishing the data session and a control communication. The method further includes using the control communication session to control the data session.

Abstract: A system and method for providing wireless communication services to passengers of an aircraft. An incoming signal is received from a base station at an external antenna on the aircraft. The incoming signal is converted to a low-energy signal type to be conveyed across a low-energy transmission medium. The low-energy signal may be light energy and the low-energy transmission medium may be a fiber optic cable, for example. The signal is converted to a signal type that can be transmitted into the passenger compartment for reception by one or more wireless handsets. Outgoing signals transmitted by the one or more wireless handsets may also be received and converted to low-energy signals for transmission on a low-energy signal path, which may be the same as or different from the incoming signal path. The outgoing signals may then be transmitted through an external antenna on the aircraft to be received by a base station.

Abstract: A system for authenticating and/or authorizing users of a service includes one communication interface with an access communication channel and another communication interface with a confirmation communication channel. Requests for a user to access a service are received over the access communication channel, and confirmation codes for the user are received over a trusted confirmation channel, such as an SMS text messaging system. Confirmation codes may be received from the user requesting access to the service or by a third party acting as a gatekeeper to the service. The system tests the validity of received confirmation codes, and enables the user to access the service if a valid confirmation code is received.

Abstract: A digital camera apparatus wherein the cable used to link the camera to a processing device is stored within the body of the camera. The camera includes a cover associated with the camera housing that together define a storage cavity. The storage cavity is adapted to receive at least a portion of a cable and an associated connector. The cover, when closed, protects the connector and the portion of the cable against damage. When the cover is opened the connector is freely accessible to the user. The connector is compatible with a processing device and the cable communicatively couples the connector to the data storage mechanism, allowing files stored on the camera's data storage mechanism to be transfer to the processing device.

Abstract: A method and system for geographically verifying a wireless service customer. An operating boundary of a first sector is identified and a first transmitting characteristic is assigned to this first sector. The method includes assigning the customer to operate in the first sector and authorizing the customer to operate according to this first transmitting characteristic. Geographic coordinates of the customer are obtained and it is determined whether the customer resides within the first sector. The customer may be reassigned to a second sector if the customer is physically located within a boundary of a second sector. The method and system facilitates better verification of customer location.

Abstract: A method and system for predicting wireless communication system traffic is provided. Inputs, such as current wireless system traffic and expected future market traffic, are input into a system. The system can use the expected future market traffic to extrapolate from the current wireless system traffic to establish a future expected wireless system traffic estimation. The system may also identify capacity problems within the future expected wireless system due to unbalanced traffic loading or overloading of traffic within the future expected wireless system.

Abstract: In a telecommunications network having switching points (such as SSPs and/or MSCs) controlled by a control point (such as an SCP), the switching points are provisioned to send messages to the control point when they encounter trigger conditions during processing of a call to a called station that has a forward-to number. When the control point receives the messages, it determines whether a loop condition exists, i.e., whether the call has already been forwarded from the forward-to number. If the control point determines that a loop condition exists, the control point instructs the switching point so as not to forward the call to the forward-to number.

Abstract: A method and system for allowing a user to select and save non-focusable objects presented by a browser application. The non-focusable objects may be objects that the browser application does not allow the user to select and save. The browser application may present the non-focusable objects as a list of objects, rather than as the non-focusable objects. The user may select an object from the list of objects and save a file that defines the object. As a result, the user may select and save the objects presented by the browser application even though the objects were presented as non-focusable objects.

Abstract: Increased data communication capacity in a sector of a CDMA wireless system using a combination of code division multiplexing and time division multiplexing. Adjacent subsectors may transmit carrier signals having the same frequency and using the same Walsh codes may be used by imposing a partial offset of the sector PN sequence.

Abstract: A system and method for using location data to monitor wireless network events are described. One exemplary method includes establishing a plurality of location history records for mobile terminals, establishing a plurality of network operation records for the plurality of mobile stations, and combining the location history records with the network operation records to determine locations of predetermined network events, such as a dropped call event or a blocked call event, in the wireless network.

Abstract: Managing channel element licenses for base transceiver stations. Preferred methods include license accounting at a BSC or MTS level, thereby providing better utilization of BTS channel element licenses in a wireless communication network. The BTS notifies a license manager whenever a channel element is put into use by transmitting a first channel element utilization message. If the number of available license has been not been exceeded, the license manager transmits a channel element utilization authorization message. If, on the other hand, the number of available license has been exceeded, the license manager transmits a channel element utilization denial message, instruction the BTS to terminate the call setup. Alternative embodiments include the BTS requesting a license using a first channel element utilization message and awaiting authorization prior to utilization of the channel element.

Abstract: A method and system for providing telecommunication services to a mobile-subscriber terminal roaming between private and public-wireless networks is disclosed. After roaming from the public-wireless network into the private-wireless network, for example, an entity in the private-wireless network executes an application that retrieves from a roaming-agreement database roaming-agreement information for operating the mobile-subscriber terminal in the private-wireless network. Using this information as an input, the application may determine one or more roaming rules for operating in the private-wireless network.

Abstract: A method and system for providing transcribed voice content in a human-readable format during an on-going teleconference is provided. In the method, a first terminal engages in an on-going teleconference with a second terminal. During the on-going teleconference, the second terminal is operable to communicate voice content. Sometime during the on-going teleconference, the first terminal may invoke a transcription service for transcribing the voice content into a human-readable notation. After being invoked, the transcription service transcribes the voice content into the human-readable notation and forwards it to the first terminal. After receiving the human-readable notation, the first terminal is operable to display the human-readable notation.

Abstract: A method and system for transmitting and receiving multiple types of signals on a multifunctional base station. The multiple types of signals may include fixed wireless signals, cellular signals, and back haul signals. The multifunctional base station may sample an analog signal as received from the antenna and transmit a digital signal over a network interface. Alternatively, the multifunctional base station may convert a digital signal as received from the network interface into an analog signal and transmit the analog signal over an air interface.

Abstract: A method and system for controlling location-determination in a wireless communication system. A rules engine can be positioned in a communication path between a location-based service (such as a PSAP) and a location-determination system (such as an MPC) and can cache the location of a wireless communication device as determined by the location-determination system. The next time the location-based service sends a position request to the location-determination system, the rules engine can then intercept the request and provide the cached location in a response without passing the request along to the location-determination system. In another embodiment, a rules engine external to a location-determination system can push logic to the location-determination system, to cause the location-determination system to carry out useful functions such as determining if a wireless communication device is fixed or mobile, setting a cache timer, and/or setting an overlap threshold for use in an overlapping circles analysis.

Abstract: A method and system for establishing software documentation is provided. Rather than being static, the set of user accessible software documentation for a particular software program could be dynamically updated. The software documentation set accessible by the user may be defined by the configuration state of one or more configuration parameters at any given time. Once the states of the configuration parameters are determined, the program will dynamically update the set of accessible software documentation based at least in part on the configuration states of the configuration parameters. Thus, for any configuration state, only software documentation deemed relevant to the state of the software application could be made accessible to the user, thereby providing a more concise, focused and easily navigable set of software documentation.

Abstract: A method and system of wireless signal repeating. A wireless signal repeater may receive a group of signals and select signals to be amplified so as to produce amplified signals. The repeater may also select antenna elements to re-transmit the amplified signals. The repeater may further select areas to direct the elements' radiation patterns in order to provide extensive wireless service to desired areas. The repeater can perform any of these selection functions simultaneously and/or independently, and based on any desired criteria. For example, each signal received into the wireless signal repeater may carry an identifier. The repeater may perform the selection functions based at least in part on the identifiers of the signals.