Patents Examined by Charles Shedrick
  • Patent number: 8838168
    Abstract: A data communication method, a communication system, and related devices are configured to establish a transaction identifier (TI) in a user equipment (UE). The data communication method includes the following steps. A mobility management entity (MME) receives a request message and obtains ability information of the UE. If the UE has an ability to access a Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network/GSM/EDGE Radio Access Network (UTRAN/GERAN), the MME generates the TI. A communication system and related devices are also provided. Thus, the TI is effectively established in the UE, so as to ensure normal processing of the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lan Liu, Wanqiang Zhang
  • Patent number: 8831557
    Abstract: Provided is a mobile communication terminal including a display unit and an activation button configured to switch from an inactive state, which is an OFF state of the display unit, to an active state, which is an ON state of the display unit, wherein a predetermined operation is performed simultaneously with switching to the active state by pressing the activation button.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Ideazzan Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Jae Lark Jung, Kyoung Duck Bae
  • Patent number: 8830979
    Abstract: In general, a mobile unit for communicating with other mobile units assigned to a group within a Multipoint Voice Network (“MVN”) having a plurality of groups is shown. The mobile unit may include a time division multiple access (“TDMA”) transmitter, a TDMA receiver, and a controller. The TDMA transmitter is enabled to transmit a set of multiple carrier frequencies, where the TDMA transmitter is configured to transmit on one frequency chosen from a sub-set of multiple carrier frequencies from the set of multiple carrier frequencies. The sub-set of multiple carrier frequencies corresponds to the group to which the mobile unit is assigned. The TDMA receiver is configured to receive and demodulate the sub-set of multiple carrier frequencies and the controller configures the TDMA receiver to receive and demodulate the sub-set of multiple carrier frequencies that is assigned to the group. A switch may be utilized to set time slots for the TDMA transmitter and the TDMA receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Anchor Audio, Inc.
    Inventors: Rohini Minapalli, Tod Edward Gentille, David Jacobs, Jeffrey Alan Paul, Jonathan A. Watkins, Shawn Pasternak
  • Patent number: 8824657
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for providing ring back tones in a communication network. At first, a ring back tone device for storing and playing the ring back tone customized by a subscriber is established in the communication network. Whether a subscriber is a ring back tone service register subscriber is judged with a certain triggering mode, such as intelligent network triggering, signaling interception triggering, call forwarding triggering or switching device triggering. If it is judged the subscriber is a ring back tone service registered subscriber, a connection between the originating switching device and the terminating switching device and a connection between a switching device and the ring back tone device are established. When the called terminal is idle, the ring back tone device provides a piece of customized ring back tone to the calling subscriber for replacing traditional ring back tone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xuanming Lu, Xiaodong Zhao, Yongfeng Cai
  • Patent number: 8825078
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a method of estimating a location of an access point is provided. The method includes storing a first and a second sample respectively received from a first and a second mobile device, both samples including a location of their respective mobile devices, an access point identifier from the access point, and a value corresponding to a signal strength of a signal from the access point measured at their respective mobile device. The cells of a matrix are populated with probabilities based on mobile device locations and the signal strength values. Finally, the location of the access point is estimated based on the matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventor: Arunesh Mishra
  • Patent number: 8825087
    Abstract: An Interactive Tracking Virtual World (ITVW) system, may be utilized with other systems accessible through the Internet and/or a communications network. The ITVW system may be operable as an online game and/or to provide a virtual environment. ITVW system users (i.e., ITVW users) may be individuals or groups, such as parents and/or their children, which utilize the ITVW system for tracking an identity within the ITVW system. The ITVW system may also include ITVW system participants (i.e., ITVW participants), such as commercial business establishments, individuals and/or other entities associated with the ITVW system. The ITVW system collects an ITVW user's location information and location history.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Inventor: Kristan Lisa Hamill
  • Patent number: 8818452
    Abstract: The present invention is a mobile phone having a non-telephone function (e.g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
    Inventors: Youhei Sakamoto, Masaaki Okahashi, Ikue Yamashita
  • Patent number: 8818421
    Abstract: A mobile communication terminal (1) includes a mobile communication unit (13) that receives broadcast signals from base stations (2a, 2b, . . . ) through mobile communication, a wireless LAN positioning unit (12) that performs positioning calculation using wireless LAN communication, a GPS positioning unit (11) that performs positioning calculation through GPS positioning, a comparison unit (14) that compares the number of base stations from which broadcast signals are receivable by the mobile communication unit (13) with a predetermined number and determines whether the number of base stations is large or small, and a positioning system selection unit (15) that controls the wireless LAN positioning unit (12) to perform positioning calculation when the number of base stations is determined to be large and controls the GPS positioning unit (11) to perform positioning calculation when the number of base stations is determined to be small.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: NTT Docomo, Inc.
    Inventors: Jun Hashimoto, Makoto Takahashi, Kentaro Itagaki
  • Patent number: 8812061
    Abstract: A battery backup system for use with vehicle telematics electronics includes a phone module configured for operation by the vehicle telematics electronics. The system further includes a battery module configured to provide power to the phone module and a circuit configured to determine that backup power is needed. The circuit causes the battery module to provide the backup power to the phone module for completing a transmission via the phone module. The battery module can provide the backup power to the phone module without providing operating power to the vehicle telematics electronics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Michael Springs, Jaeyoung Yu, Prabin Pradhan, Todd Sanders, Justin G. Voogt
  • Patent number: 8811939
    Abstract: The subject matter disclosed herein relates in one particular implementation to a method, apparatus, and/or system for transmitting, by a location server, a location identifier to a mobile device. The location identifier may be transmitted from the mobile device to one or more trusted entities. Access to a location estimate of the mobile device may be selectively authorized at least partially in response to a request received at the mobile device from the location server including the location identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Stephen William Edge, Andreas Klaus Wachter
  • Patent number: 8811995
    Abstract: Some embodiments of the present invention pertain to a method for notifying at least one mobile device of a wireless communication network about an update to a database, wherein the update notification is transmitted to the mobile devices by means of a dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Telemaco Melia, Barbara Orlandi
  • Patent number: 8805378
    Abstract: An operating method, a base station, and terminal of a cell of a first communication system for a handover between the first communication system and a second communication system are provided. The method includes, when a terminal initiates a handover between the first communication system and the second communication system, transmitting, by the base station, a message, requesting to measure a signal level of a downlink, to the terminal, when a signal level measured by the terminal falls below a preset threshold, requesting, by the base station, a handover to the second communication system over a core network, receiving, by the base station, a message, including radio channel parameters the that is required when the terminal accesses to the second communication system, from the second communication system, and forwarding, by the base station, the message, including the radio channel parameters of the second communication system, to the terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Young-Hak Choi, Pyeong-Hwan Wee, Sang-Jun Lee, Jae-Yeong Kwon, Sang-Ho Lee
  • Patent number: 8798630
    Abstract: There is provided a method of operating a femtocell base station comprising, following a hand-in or reselection of the femtocell base station by a mobile device, determining a reason for the hand-in or reselection by the mobile device and adjusting a maximum permitted transmission power of the femtocell base station according to the determined reason. A femtocell base station for use in a communication network is also provided that comprises a processor configured to perform the above method following hand-in or reselection of the femtocell base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Nick Whinnett, Fiona Somerville, Christopher Smart
  • Patent number: 8798582
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a mobile phone comprising a gravity sensor, a processor, and a memory. The gravity sensor senses inertia data along a specific direction, the processor couples with the gravity sensor and receives a output signal from the gravity sensor, and the memory stores at least one personal information and operates under the processor's control. When either the gravity sensor or the processor detects a vertical free-fall motion, the processor performs a information security process to lock the personal information to become inaccessible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Sitronix Technology Corp.
    Inventors: Wei-Chung Chang, Chia-Huang Lin, Ming-Huang Liu
  • Patent number: 8787966
    Abstract: Communication apparatus (22) includes an interface (41) to a plurality of wireless modems (42) and bonding circuitry (39), which is configured to receive multiple virtual identities in the apparatus, to load respective ones of the received virtual identities into one or more of the wireless modems, and to communicate over the air by simultaneously transmitting or receiving a data stream over at least the two or more of the wireless modems. Systems and methods for such communication are provided, as well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Liveu Ltd.
    Inventor: Baruch Yosef Altman
  • Patent number: 8781443
    Abstract: Systems and methods for operation upon a wireless mobile device to handle message notifications. A method can include receiving a message by the wireless mobile device over a wireless communications network. The received message is processed so that at least a portion of the sender's message is displayed to a user of the wireless mobile device before a signed receipt is provided to the sender.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Neil Patrick Adams, Herbert Anthony Little, Michael Stephen Brown, Michael Kenneth Brown
  • Patent number: 8774881
    Abstract: A mobile telephone cleaning case is provided. An open face top cover has a substantially flat back platform with raised sides along three of four edges and is dimensioned to receive a mobile device. A bottom cover includes a further back platform with further raised sides along three of four edges and that is rotatably affixed to the fourth edge of the open face cover via a connecting member such that the raised sides interconnect with the further raised sides. A microfiber cloth is affixed to a continuous back surface formed by the back platform and the further back platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Inventor: Gavin A. Johnson
  • Patent number: 8768293
    Abstract: Various aspects of this disclosure are directed to determining, with a computing device, an amount of time that has elapsed since the computing device was last utilized for processing an outgoing or an incoming phone call. The computing device may determine that the amount of time that has elapsed exceeds a threshold time value. Responsive to the determination, the computing device may identify a phone number to call with the computing device, may establish a voice connection using the identified phone number, and may output a message using the voice connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Zhi Dennis Weng, Lantian Zheng
  • Patent number: 8761785
    Abstract: When enabled with common reference signal interference cancelation, a user equipment (UE) may still compute a channel state feedback value with consideration of any canceled interfering neighboring signals. When the neighboring cells are determined to be transmitting data during the time for which the channel state feedback value is being computed, the UE is able to derive the channel state feedback value considering those canceled interfering signals. The UE determines whether each neighboring cell is transmitting during the designated time either by obtaining signals that indicate the transmission schedule of the neighboring cells or by detecting the transmission schedule, such as based on the power class of the neighboring cells. If the UE determines that the neighboring cells are transmitting data during this time period, the UE will compute the channel state feedback value including consideration of the canceled interfering signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Aleksandar Damnjanovic, Taesang Yoo
  • Patent number: 8761762
    Abstract: Methods and system for migrating or activating a service in a network are described. The method for migrating comprises: creating an extended user profile associated with said at least one client in a user profile database, preferably a HSS, said extended user profile comprising migration server routing information; registering said at least one user equipment with a migration application server on the basis of said migration server routing information; executing a migration service hosted on a migration application server for migrating at least one service from said donating network to said receiving network; and, updating said extended user profile by removing said migration server routing information from said extended user profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Koninklijke KPN N.V.
    Inventor: Willem Jacques Alexander Moermans