Patents Assigned to Swisscom AG
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Patent number: 8527420Abstract: The present invention relates to a process and a system for data transmission. Authentication data and an electronic key are generated, whereby the electronic key is stored as assigned to the authentication data. At least part of the electronic key is transmitted by means of an authentication module of the central module to a communications terminal. Asynchronously to that, data are encrypted into encrypted data by means of an encryption module and by means of at least part of the electronic key. The encrypted data are transmitted between a central module and a communications terminal. The encrypted data are decrypted by means of a decryption module and by means of at least part of the electronic key.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2007Date of Patent: September 3, 2013Assignee: Swisscom AGInventors: Marc Danzeisen, Jan Linder, Simon Winiker, Florian Baumgartner
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Publication number: 20130218895Abstract: For selectively accessing data elements in a data library, an image data object which can be shown on a display is provided. A plurality of image subobjects are defined which respectively correspond to a portion of a representation of the image data object. The data elements are associated with at least a respective one of the image subobjects. One of the image subobjects is selected from a representation of the image data object on the display. The data elements which are associated with the selected image subobject are then reproduced. A data object which comprises the data elements in the data library, the image data object and the association between the data elements and the image subobjects is transmitted to a communication terminal via a telecommunication network for the purpose of selectively accessing the data elements.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2013Publication date: August 22, 2013Applicant: SWISSCOM AGInventor: SWISSCOM AG
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Patent number: 8509737Abstract: For a communication terminal (10), proposed is a security module (1) configured to authenticate a telecommunications network (2). The security module (1) comprises a locking module (12), for disabling usability of an application module (11), an unlocking module (13), for re-enabling usability of the application module (11), and a control module (14) for activating the unlocking module (13), depending on received data that is assignable in an authenticated way to a specific telecommunications network (2). The control module (14) is configured to activate the locking module (12) depending on the selection and usage of the application module (11). The control module (14) is configured to activate the unlocking module (12) depending on the reception of authorization messages, that can be authenticated, or authentication data of the telecommunications network (2).Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2006Date of Patent: August 13, 2013Assignee: Swisscom AGInventors: Renato Cantini, Paul Aebi
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Patent number: 8498613Abstract: A method and system for location-dependent billing for services that are available to mobile terminals. A mobile terminal may access a fixably installed external location tag, and may obtain from the external location tag a billing rate code, which may then be forwarded from the mobile terminal to a central unit of a mobile communication network, in which the mobile terminal is logged. The central unit may determine a geographic location identification of the external location tag—e.g., by evaluation of the billing rate code—and may select a billing rate for billing for service(s) available to the user, based on the billing rate code at the external location tag. The mobile terminal may access the external location tag via a local communication connection, which may be set up between the mobile terminal and external location tag, such as using a corresponding wireless interface therebetween.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2012Date of Patent: July 30, 2013Assignee: Swisscom AGInventor: Paul Aebi
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Patent number: 8484468Abstract: The present invention relates to a process and a system for selectable data transmission. Authentication data and an electronic key are generated, whereby the electronic key is stored as assigned to the authentication data. Data are encrypted into encrypted data by means of an encryption module of a central module and by means of at least part of the electronic key. A signaling message is transmitted to a first communications terminal. A second communications terminal is selected by means of the first communications terminal. On the identification of the selected second communications terminal, the encrypted data are transmitted to the second communications terminal. At least part of the electronic key is transmitted to the second communications terminal by means of an authentication module of the central module. The encrypted data are decrypted by means of a decryption module of the second communications terminal and by means of at least the part of the electronic key.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2007Date of Patent: July 9, 2013Assignee: Swisscom AGInventors: Marc Danzeisen, Simon Winiker, Jan Linder, Florian Baumgartner
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Patent number: 8457970Abstract: Voice portal hosting system (2) with which a plurality of users (1) in a first voice telecommunication network (10) can establish a connection with a voice equipment (11), comprising a memory (26) in which a plurality of interactive voice response applications have been independently uploaded through a second telecommunication network (3) by a plurality of independent value-added service providers (4), wherein at least a plurality of said interactive voice response applications uses a common speech recognition module (24) run on said system.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2001Date of Patent: June 4, 2013Assignee: Swisscom AGInventor: Robert Van Kommer
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Patent number: 8452304Abstract: A method, and corresponding system, for locating mobile communication terminals associated with a mobile radio network covering a geographical area. Antenna probabilities for a plurality of sub-areas of the geographical area are determined and stored, and locations of mobile communication terminals are estimated based on antennas used by the mobile communication terminals and the antenna probabilities for the sub-areas. The antenna probabilities are determined based on expected field strength. In this regard, the antenna probabilities indicate for at least some of the antennas the probability that in a respective sub-area the field strength of the corresponding antenna is higher than the field strength of other antennas, and the antenna probabilities indicate the probability that the mobile communication terminal, located in the respective sub-area, uses the corresponding antenna for at least one of registering or communicating with the mobile radio network.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2012Date of Patent: May 28, 2013Assignee: Swisscom AGInventor: Ernst Versteeg
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Patent number: 8423001Abstract: A method is disclosed with which a telecommunication user can access a telecommunications service by means of a telecommunications terminal and an electronic address. The telecommunications user reads an electronic code (100) stored in an RFID element (1) by means of an RFID reader device (2), said electronic code (100) is transmitted to a name service server (6) over a telecommunications network (4), said name service server (6) replies with the electronic page address of a page corresponding to the code and that can be used to determine the electronic address, the electronic address is made available to the telecommunications terminal and said telecommunications service is accessed.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2006Date of Patent: April 16, 2013Assignee: Swisscom AGInventor: Eric Lauper
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Patent number: 8401867Abstract: A method and associated arrangement allows a content or service provider to establish an anonymous profile of a consumer using at least one request sent by the consumer through a communication network. The request sent by the consumer includes identification data of the consumer. The identification data is substituted in the network with an alias so as to anonymize the request. The identification data is not accessible to the content or service provider and there is a one-to-one and immutable correspondence between the identification data and the alias.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2009Date of Patent: March 19, 2013Assignee: Swisscom AGInventors: Roger Lagadec, Didler Durand, Christophe Taddei
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Patent number: 8302850Abstract: A method is disclosed with which a terminal (3) can retrieve information associated to an EPC code from an EPC network (4, 5, 6, 7). The EPC code is virtual, is generated independently of RFID tags and is stored permanently and is not—or not permanently—associated to an RFID tag. A terminal (3) sends a message with the EPC code over a telecommunication network (4) to an object name server (6), the server (6) replies with the address of the desired PML page and the terminal (3) access the content of said PML page. The invention also relates to a corresponding device.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2009Date of Patent: November 6, 2012Assignee: Swisscom AGInventor: Eric Lauper
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Patent number: 8238874Abstract: A method for location-dependent billing for a services that are available to a mobile terminal, a local communication connection is set up to a fixably installed external location tag with a corresponding wireless interface between the fixably installed tag and the mobile terminal, the method including the steps of accessing the external location tag and transmitting a billing rate code from the external location tag to the mobile terminal, forwarding the billing rate code from the mobile terminal to a central unit of a mobile communication network, in which the mobile terminal is logged, determining a geographic location identification of the external location tag by evaluation of the billing rate code at the central unit, and selecting a billing rate for billing for the service available to the user based on the billing rate code at the central unit.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2011Date of Patent: August 7, 2012Assignee: Swisscom AGInventor: Paul Aebi
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Publication number: 20120196535Abstract: A user-controlled method for modifying the radiation of a wireless device (1) in one or more volumes used for in-house communications, comprising user-selecting this one or more volumes (10, 10?, 10?, 10??, 10IV) while holding the orientation of this wireless device (1) modifying the intensity of this radiation in one or more directions so as to control the radiation in this user-selected one or more volumes (10, 10?, 10?, 10??, 10IV). The invention allows the user to define volumes or regions where radiation should be modified, e.g. reduced, and one or more temporal intervals in which this radiation should be reduced.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2011Publication date: August 2, 2012Applicant: SWISSCOM AGInventors: Andreas Jarosch, Carolin Latze, Thomas Zasowski
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Patent number: 8233883Abstract: The present invention concerns a method and a system for establishing a dynamic peer-to-peer communications channel between a first terminal and a second terminal. A first terminal and a second terminal are connectable over secured communications channels to a secured network. The first terminal sends a connection request for establishing a communications channel between the terminals. The connection request is analyzed by an analyzer module. Based on network parameters of the terminals, the analyzer module searches for a further network, and establishes a peer-to-peer communications channel over this further network. Security of the peer-to-peer communications channel may be maintained by means of a central unit of the secured network.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2010Date of Patent: July 31, 2012Assignee: Swisscom AGInventor: Eric De Froment
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Patent number: 8230461Abstract: A method for the aggregation and the transmission of multimedia data is proposed, in which multimedia data (52) is analyzed according to its content and corresponding metadata (51) is generated and a user profile (21) is established. The user stipulates and/or modifies at least parts of the user data (211) of the user profile (21) in advance of a purchase of multimedia data from the central unit (20) by means of a communication device (10). Multimedia data (52) are selected utilizing the metadata (51) and based upon the user profile, and content oriented and user specific optimized multimedia data are produced out of the selected multimedia data by means of a repackaging module (30). The content oriented and user specific optimized multimedia data are stored and made available to the user via a database (41) of a content module (40) of the central unit (29).Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2000Date of Patent: July 24, 2012Assignee: Swisscom AGInventors: Daniel Ledermann, Souheil Ben Yacoub, Beat Herrmann, Denis Schlauss
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Patent number: 8165965Abstract: A transaction method between a client and a terminal (2) connected to a telecommunication network comprises the transmission of at least one client identification (IDUI), a terminal identification (POSID), and transaction-specific data to a financial server connected to the telecommunication network. The terminal identification is read or entered in the terminal and transmitted by the telecommunication network to the financial server. The client is equipped with a SIM card which can be connected functionally to a mobile apparatus. The client identification transmitted to the financial server is read in the memory of the SIM card and transmitted to the financial server via at least one interface.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2004Date of Patent: April 24, 2012Assignee: Swisscom AGInventor: Rudolf Ritter
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Patent number: 8166129Abstract: For providing to a user on a communication terminal (1) media content (31) from a content server (3), a Session Initiation Protocol message, addressed to a resource identifier identifying the media content (31), is transmitted from the communications terminal (1) to a Call Session Control Function unit (S-CSCF), in response to the user activating a hyperlink associated with the media content (31). If there are filter criteria (iFC) associated with the user and associating the first message with an application server (SIP-AS), the resource identifier is transmitted from the Call Session Control Function unit (S-CSCF) to the application server (SIP-AS). The application server (SIP-AS) transmits to the communication terminal (1) accessing means for the user to retrieve the media content (31) from the content server (3).Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2006Date of Patent: April 24, 2012Assignee: Swisscom AGInventor: Christophe Gourraud
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Patent number: 8160035Abstract: The invention relates to a method and a system for creating an optimized communications link (SC/DC) between at least two mobile network nodes (10, 11), whereby corresponding interface management modules (40, 41) create lookup tables (401, 411) of available network interfaces (30, 31), whereby configuration data are transmitted between the mobile network nodes via an available signaling channel (sSC), whereby at least one signaling channel (SC) is created via one of the available network interfaces (30, 31) based on the configuration data by means of corresponding signaling router modules in order to transmit configuration data, and whereby at least one data channel (DC) is created via one of the available network interfaces (30, 31) based on the configuration data by means of corresponding data router modules 60, 61.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2004Date of Patent: April 17, 2012Assignee: Swisscom AGInventors: Marc Danzeisen, Michael Schaedler, Daniel Rodellar
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Patent number: 8151334Abstract: A removable communication card for mobile network devices, respectively a corresponding authentication method, which communication card includes a network interface module for bidirectional transmission of data with a network, an identification module for storing identification data for users, a measurement device for capturing biometric features of a user, and an analysis module with a processor unit for comparison with the stored identification data for the user.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2005Date of Patent: April 3, 2012Assignee: Swisscom AGInventor: Eric Lauper
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Patent number: 8145237Abstract: A computer system determines and stores antenna probabilities for defined sub-areas (41, 43) of a geographical area (4), e.g. for squares arranged in a grid (40), based on field strengths expected in the small sub-areas (41, 43) from the antennas (A1, A2 A3, A4). The antenna probabilities indicate for the antennas (A1, A2 A3, A4) of a mobile radio network the probability that a mobile communication terminal uses a respective antenna (A1, A2 A3, A4) when located in a particular sub-area (41, 43). The computer system determines the current location of the mobile communication terminal based on the antenna probabilities associated with the antenna used by the mobile communication terminal.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2008Date of Patent: March 27, 2012Assignee: Swisscom AGInventor: Ernst Versteeg
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Publication number: 20120020470Abstract: For enabling the forwarding of communication requests directed by callers to callees who are subscribers of a carrier network (4) and users in an enterprise network (5), forwarding-profile information is received in a computerized central unit (2). The central unit (2) transfers forwarding information to a network server (41) in the carrier network (4) and/or a network server (51) in the enterprise network (5) for enabling the network servers (41, 51) to forward communication requests based on forwarding information. Thus, forwarding-profile information can be captured and maintained in one central location for generating consistent forwarding-profiles in a plurality of separate communication networks (4, 5, 8) which are operated and managed independently form each other by different entities with regards to technical platforms and organization.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2011Publication date: January 26, 2012Applicant: Swisscom AGInventors: Thomas Staudte, Erich Gebhardt, Frank Fitzlaff, Oscar Genovese