Patents Assigned to Unwired Planet, LLC
  • Patent number: 8913964
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a device and method for simulating a radio channel with a defined characteristic between at least one antenna port (102a, 102b) of a first device (101), and a second device (103) in a test environment. The device comprises a first antenna (104a) adapted to receive signals, and arranged to provide a first radio channel (105a) between the first antenna (104a) and the second device (103) and, a second antenna (104b) adapted to receive signals, and arranged to provide a second radio channel (105b) between the second antenna (104b) and the second device (103). A characteristic of the second radio channel (105b) is dissimilar to a characteristic of the first radio channel (105a). The device further comprises a modifying circuit (107a, 107b) adapted to modify an amplitude relation between the received signals, and a multiport circuit (106) arranged to connect the first and second antennas (104a, 104b) with the at least one antenna port (102a, 102b).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: Unwired Planet, LLC
    Inventors: Anders Lundström, Henrik Asplund, Mikael Kvist, Emil Mellfeldt
  • Patent number: 8914293
    Abstract: Web browser implementable instructions are generated from interactive voice instructions that are not natively interpreted by web browsers. Generating web browser implementable instructions in this manner allows for faster and cheaper deployment of voice, video, and/or data services by allowing legacy services based on interactive voice instructions to function seamlessly within an all data network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: Unwired Planet, LLC
    Inventor: Kim Quo-That Liu
  • Patent number: 8913963
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a device and method for simulating a radio channel with a defined characteristic between at least one antenna port (102a, 102b) of a first device (101), and a second device (103) in a test environment. The device comprises a first antenna (104a) adapted to transmit signals, and arranged to provide a first radio channel (105a) between the first antenna (104a) and the second device (103) and, a second antenna (104b) adapted to transmit signals, and arranged to provide a second radio channel (105b) between the second antenna (104b) and the second device (103). A characteristic of the second radio channel (105b) is dissimilar to a characteristic of the first radio channel (105a).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: Unwired Planet, LLC
    Inventors: Anders Lundström, Henrik Asplund, Mikael Kvist, Emil Mellfeldt
  • Patent number: 8902725
    Abstract: A modulation method for data packets transmitted on a mobile communication channel, the method comprising a first linear modulation mode, to be used when the radio conditions are good, and a second constant envelop modulation mode, to be used when the radio conditions are poor. Since a constant envelope-modulated signal is degraded more when time dispersion occurs, the first linear modulation mode is also used when the time dispersion is severe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Unwired Planet, LLC
    Inventors: Tomas Stolt, Bo Hedberg
  • Patent number: 8902962
    Abstract: A method for compensating frequency response of a filter unit in remote radio unit in real time, said remote radio unit comprises filter unit equalizer, transmitter observation receiver and antenna calibration receiver, said method comprising the steps of: receiving input signal of said filter unit by transmitter observation receiver; receiving output signal of said filter unit by antenna calibration receiver; calculating coefficients of filter unit equalizer in real time based on said input signal and said output signal; updating said filter unit equalizer based on said calculated coefficients in order to compensate frequency response of said filter unit. A device to carry out the above method, remote radio unit comprising said device and a telecommunication system comprising said remote radio unit are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Unwired Planet, LLC
    Inventor: Jack Xu
  • Publication number: 20140329493
    Abstract: A group of wireless device users are notified of an event. A location data determination algorithm is provided to a wireless device, where the algorithm determines a frequency at which the device interacts with network elements to determine its location. The location data is stored in a notification server and used to identify a user at a specific location. When a governmental or commercial entity wishes to issue a notification, a message is provided to those users whose location is identified as being in an area defined by the entity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2014
    Publication date: November 6, 2014
    Applicant: UNWIRED PLANET, LLC
    Inventor: Mark Drennan
  • Publication number: 20140329506
    Abstract: A group of wireless device users are notified of an event. A location data determination algorithm is provided to a wireless device, where the algorithm determines a frequency at which the device interacts with network elements to determine its location. The location data is stored in a notification server and used to identify a user at a specific location. When a governmental or commercial entity wishes to issue a notification, a message is provided to those users whose location is identified as being in an area defined by the entity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2014
    Publication date: November 6, 2014
    Applicant: UNWIRED PLANET, LLC
    Inventor: Mark Drennan
  • Patent number: 8880617
    Abstract: Email messages stored on a mail server are filtered to identify the email messages that contain unwanted content. The mail server receives incoming email messages over a network. A content filter performs an initial scan to identify the incoming email messages that contain unwanted content by determining whether signatures associated with the email messages are included on a list of signatures that identify email messages that are known to include unwanted content. The email messages that are not identified as containing unwanted content are forwarded to appropriate mail boxes on the mail server. Multiple scanning threads perform a subsequent scan of the email messages in the mail boxes to identify those email messages containing unwanted content that were not identified by the initial scan. The subsequent scan determines whether signatures associated with the email messages in the mail boxes are included in an updated list of the signatures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Unwired Planet, LLC
    Inventor: Bart Mankiewicz
  • Publication number: 20140324941
    Abstract: Techniques for providing a proxy service are disclosed. In an embodiment, a proxy system includes a proxy service module and a scripting engine. The proxy service module is configured to intercept and process messages that travel between user devices and the Internet and the scripting engine is in communication with the proxy service module and is configured to manage a plurality of scripts that are written in one or more scripting languages. The proxy service module is configured to intercept a message that travels to the proxy service module and that is related to a user device, to associate a script with the intercepted message, and to cause the script to be executed at one of the user device, the proxy system, or a system that is external to the user device and the proxy system depending on the function associated with the script.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2014
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Applicant: UNWIRED PLANET, LLC
    Inventors: Philippe Piernot, Steven J. Drach
  • Publication number: 20140317230
    Abstract: A system, apparatus, and method for improving the user experience when accessing web pages containing embedded objects over a network. In one embodiment, information regarding the contents of a locally accessible cache is added to a request directed to a web server. The information is used to control certain aspects of a pre-fetch process that is designed to reduce network latency affects and improve network resource utilization, thereby improving a user's experience. The cache contents information may be provided to an intermediate server via a modification to an existing request-response protocol, with the information being encoded or compressed if desired to reduce data transport requirements. The information is used by the intermediate server to determine whether to request an embedded object referenced in the requested resource or web page, and to determine if a browser having access to the cache will request the object or access the object from the local cache.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2014
    Publication date: October 23, 2014
    Applicant: Unwired Planet, LLC
    Inventors: Michel Levesque, Emmanuel Papirakis
  • Publication number: 20140317102
    Abstract: A system and method for providing location information for communications through an access network in accordance with embodiments of the invention are disclosed. The system and method involve receiving a communication including a message from an origination device. The communication includes access point information and the message includes an identifier of the communication. The access point information from the communication is extracted and the access point information or geographic data based on the access point information is stored in a database. The message including the identifier is sent to a destination device of the message. The storing of the access point information or the geographic data in the database enables the destination device to obtain the access point information or the geographic data using the identifier included in the message by querying the database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2014
    Publication date: October 23, 2014
    Applicant: Unwired Planet, LLC
    Inventor: William T. Cooper
  • Patent number: 8856346
    Abstract: According to one embodiment of the invention, a method for forming a push notification and pushing the push notification and client state information to a client device is provided. In addition, a method for processing the push notification and client state information is provided. In one embodiment, processing may include embedding metadata with the client state information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Unwired Planet, LLC
    Inventors: Fergus M. Wills, David J. McTavish
  • Publication number: 20140297732
    Abstract: A content descriptor is received at a download server on a network from a remote content server, which is coupled to the download server through a computer network. The content descriptor is indicative of a selection by a user transmitted from a wireless client device to the remote content server and relating to a digital product hosted by the remote content server. The content descriptor is used by the download server to obtain the digital product from the remote content server. The digital product is then downloaded from the download server to the wireless client device via a wireless network. The content descriptor may include information such as a reference for use by the download server in locating the digital product, information describing the digital product, price information relating to the digital product, and/or information specifying a licensee of the digital product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: UNWIRED PLANET, LLC
    Inventors: Rikard M. Khellberg, Joseph W. Azure, Richard M. Lee, Sheng Liang
  • Publication number: 20140295890
    Abstract: This invention concerns a process and a system for providing location information for a wireless unit in a wireless network to a location-based service provider, using a data network. In particular, the location information is provided to the location-based service provider without necessarily providing the identity of wireless unit, e.g., a subscriber's wireless identification number, to the service provider. In this regard, a subscriber's identification number may be hidden from the positioning service provider via a process in which an alias is used instead of the subscriber's normal identity. The subscriber's number may further be concealed from the service provider via a process wherein encrypted information is used instead of the subscriber's normal identity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: UNWIRED PLANET, LLC
    Inventors: Mats Cedervall, Thomas Ekerborn
  • Publication number: 20140293986
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention are directed to systems and methods for establishing and/or routing wireless data and/or voice connections across a hybrid network based upon a user's selection or preference. In some embodiments, a method for routing a wireless connection across a hybrid network comprises allowing a user to select a routing preference, routing the wireless connection via a short-haul communications network if the routing preference indicates a short-haul communications network choice, and routing the wireless connection via a cellular network if the routing preference indicates a cellular network choice. In other embodiments, the present invention provides a system and method for learning the user's data, cellular, and/or VoIP access habits in order to optimize the user's experience. In yet other embodiments, the present invention allows carriers to comply with CALEA and E911 rules by identifying the location of hybrid devices within the hybrid network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: UNWIRED PLANET, LLC
    Inventor: Mark Drennan
  • Patent number: 8842599
    Abstract: A base station in a wireless network receives link quality data from multiple relay nodes that relay data from the user terminals to the base station and/or from user terminals. The base station applies one or more cost functions to the link quality data and selects a relay node from the multiple relay nodes for network coding of data from a group of the user terminals based on results of the one or more cost functions. The base station notifies the selected relay node to network code data from the group of user terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: Unwired Planet, LLC
    Inventors: Afif Osseiran, Jawad Manssour
  • Patent number: 8842559
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a solution for taking into account that the interference, which each of the transmission resource elements is affected by, may differ between the different transmission resource elements when determining an interference estimate by determining a mixed interference estimate, e.g. based on both reference symbols and data symbols. Furthermore, signalling from the network is also introduced which makes it possible to control what the mixed interference estimate should be based on.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: Unwired Planet, LLC
    Inventors: George Jongren, Anders Furuskar, Bo Goransson, Magnus Lundevall
  • Patent number: 8831572
    Abstract: A group of wireless device users are notified of an event. A location data determination algorithm is provided to a wireless device, where the algorithm determines a frequency at which the device interacts with network elements to determine its location. The location data is stored in a notification server and used to identify a user at a specific location. When a governmental or commercial entity wishes to issue a notification, a message is provided to those users whose location is identified as being in an area defined by the entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Unwired Planet, LLC
    Inventor: Mark Drennan
  • Patent number: 8831624
    Abstract: A processor node stores and processes the last known location for certain mobile terminals to provide intermediate back-channel data in a form that is a function of whether the intermediate back-channel data is to be used in a situation that would encroach on information that might be sensitive to the subscriber or user of the mobile terminal, as viewed contractually, ethically or otherwise. If, for example, the subscriber or user of the mobile terminal has no such concerns (rights have been waived voluntarily by agreement with the wireless network operator or a third party, or involuntarily such as by a government mandate), the processor node generates location-identity-based back-channel data in a form that does not attempt to hide or code the user's identity and/or specific location. This form of (nonanonymized) data can be freely used internally by processor nodes internal to the wireless carrier as well as produced for review and analysis, such as demographic analytics, for use by a third party.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Unwired Planet, LLC
    Inventor: Anand Chandrasekaran
  • Publication number: 20140250343
    Abstract: A communication device (100) for communicating in accordance with a hybrid automatic repeat request protocol, the communication device (100) comprising a receiving unit (102) adapted for receiving a communication message including soft-bit values, the soft-bit values representing reliability information for received verification data verifying proper transmission of the communication message, a storage unit (104) adapted for storing the soft-bit values, and a storage management unit (106) adapted for dynamically managing storage of the soft-bit values in the storage unit (104) so that soft-bit values failing to fulfill at least one relevance criteria are not maintained in the storage unit (104).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2014
    Publication date: September 4, 2014
    Applicant: Unwired Planet, LLC
    Inventors: Stefan MUELLER-WEINFURTNER, Steffen REINHARDT, Udo WACHSMANN