Patents Assigned to Vodafone Group Services Limited
  • Patent number: 9214098
    Abstract: A method in a device for providing navigation instructions in a three-dimensional map environment comprises receiving a start and end positions, determining a route, determining graphical two-dimensional map data, generating navigation instructions comprising setting a transparency level and transmitting the navigation instructions to a display. Corresponding device and computer program product are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: Vodafone Group Services Limited
    Inventors: Stefan Carlsson, Simon Ekstrand, Jesper Alsed
  • Patent number: 8942169
    Abstract: It is described a telecommunication network. The telecommunication network includes a base station, which is privately owned and which is adapted to provide a restricted access service to a limited number of communication devices, which are assigned to a picocell of the telecommunication network. The telecommunication network further includes a network element, which is publicly available and which is adapted to provide unrestricted access service to communication devices, which are assigned to a wide area cellular network. The base station is coupled with the network element via a radio transmission link. It is further described a method for operating a telecommunication network of the above described type. Furthermore, it is described a base station and a network element, which in connection with each other represent the described telecommunication network and/or are adapted to carry out the described method for operating the telecommunication network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignees: Nokia Siemens Networks Oy, Vodafone Group Services Limited
    Inventors: Jyri Kalervo Hamalainen, Ralf Irmer, Bernhard Raaf
  • Patent number: 8761750
    Abstract: A social networking system comprises a mobile telephone device relating to a first user. that facilitates telephone calls between the first user and other users. User data including identity data and contact data of the other users is initially resident upon the mobile telephone device. The mobile telephone device comprises a resident client application, a social network server and a network providing communication between the mobile telephone device and the social network server. User data is obtained from the device and transmitted to the social network server. The social network server analyzes the user data to identify which other users are also users of the social network server and to form a social network group accordingly and to receive update data relating to any user of the group. The social network server further selects the update data and transmits it to the client application for presentation to the first user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Vodafone Group Services Limited
    Inventor: Patrick Verdon
  • Patent number: 8649389
    Abstract: Transmitting from a mobile terminal to a telecommunication network data stored in a plurality of queues, each queue having a respective transmission priority, includes setting the data in each of the queues to be either primary data or secondary data, or a combination of primary data and secondary data. The data may be transmitted from the queues in an order in dependence upon the priority of the queue and whether the data in that queue are primary data or secondary data. Resources for data transmission may be allocated such that the primary data of each of the queues are transmitted at a minimum predetermined rate and such that the secondary data of each of the queues are transmitted at a maximum predetermined rate, greater than the minimum predetermined rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: Vodafone Group Services Limited
    Inventors: David Fox, Alessandro Goia
  • Patent number: 8457659
    Abstract: A telecommunication system includes a first radio access technology having a first radio access network and a first network core operable to page a mobile terminal via at least one element of the first radio access technology. The telecommunications system also includes a second radio access technology having a second radio access network and a second network core operable to page said mobile terminal via at least one element of the second radio access technology. Each of these elements may receive the page from its radio access technology, determine whether the mobile terminal is registered with that radio access technology and notify its core network if the mobile terminal is not registered. The core network may cause the mobile terminal to be paged in the other radio access technology. Different timer periods for idle timers at mobile terminal and eNodeB may avoid possible loss of mobile terminating data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: Vodafone Group Services Limited
    Inventor: Christopher David Pudney
  • Patent number: 8374782
    Abstract: A method for providing map tiles associated to a route is described. Generally, a route comprising a number of route segments is received. Then, a respective route segment attribute for each of the route segments is determined. Next, associated map tiles for each of the route segments are determined, using said route segment attributes, and finally an indication of the determined map tiles are transmitted to a map tile fetcher.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2013
    Assignee: Vodafone Group Services Limited
    Inventors: Martin Santesson, Per Ola Ingvarsson
  • Patent number: 8238901
    Abstract: A mobile or cellular telecommunications network includes a plurality of terminals which are registered. The terminal may be fixed in position, such as a terminal in a vending machine. Alternatively, the terminal may be fixed to a vehicle used for sending an SOS message when the vehicle is involved in an accident. The terminal may be immobile, and therefore does not need to continually advise the network of its location. The terminal may not receive incoming calls or other communications. The terminals therefore may not require paging by the network. In the embodiments described, such terminals are assigned a special terminal type identifier which indicates to the network that these terminals do not require paging. The way in which the network interacts with the terminals is adjusted so that signaling to perform location updates is eliminated or at least reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Vodafone Group Services Limited
    Inventors: Christopher David Pudney, John Mahony Watson
  • Patent number: 8190747
    Abstract: An application manager configured for use on a resource-limited device, the application manager including: an application engine configured to effect communications between a plurality of applications installed on the resource limited device and one or more external network sites; and a connection manager configured to control and/or coordinate when the plurality of applications are able to attempt to establish communications with the one or more external network sites. The resource-limited device may be a mobile terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: Vodafone Group Services Limited
    Inventors: James Irwin, David Pollington, David Ashbrook
  • Publication number: 20110090839
    Abstract: It is described a telecommunication network (100). The telecommunication network (100) comprises a base station (110), which is privately owned and which is adapted to provide a restricted access service to a limited number of communication devices (113a, 113b, 113c), which are assigned to a picocell (111) of the telecommunication network (100). The telecommunication network (100) further comprises a network element (130), which is publicly available and which is adapted to provide unrestricted access service to communication devices (133a, 133b, 133c, 133d), which are assigned to a wide area cellular network. The base station (110) is coupled with the network element (130) via a radio transmission link (121). It is further described a method for operating a telecommunication network(100) of the above described type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2009
    Publication date: April 21, 2011
    Applicants: NOKIA SIEMENS NETWORKS OY, VODAFONE GROUP SERVICES LIMITED
    Inventors: Jyri Kalervo Hamalainen, Ralf Irmer, Bernhard Raaf
  • Patent number: D962798
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Vodafone Group Services Limited
    Inventors: James Alexander George Blyth, Matthew Leigh Plested, Thomas Duncan Guy, John William Gutch, Rebecca Jane Lake