Abstract: Communicating with isolated mobile devices in indoor positioning systems is provided. Information is received from a first mobile device connected to both a first network of a designated environment and a second mobile device that is not connected to the first network. The information includes one or more identifiers of the second mobile device. An estimated location of the second mobile device is determined based, at least in part, on the information received from the first mobile device.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 28, 2015
Date of Patent:
June 6, 2017
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation
Inventors:
Lambert S. Berentsen, Gregory J. Boss, Rick A. Hamilton, II, James R. Kozloski
Abstract: Systems and methods disclosed herein provide proximity services using a proximity services server that can be integrated into existing network infrastructure. Proximity services procedures are disclosed, including procedures for registration to a proximity services server, publication of the direct path of a proximity services enabled user equipment (UE) to a proximity services server, requesting proximity information by a UE, and notifying UEs that are in proximity.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 8, 2015
Date of Patent:
May 30, 2017
Assignee:
Avago Technologies General IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
Inventors:
Florin Baboescu, Dutt Kalapatapu, Kamesh Medapalli, Marko Niemi
Abstract: A computing device includes one or more processors, a user interface, and a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions for determining whether a certain geographic location is within a virtual perimeter of a geographic place. The instructions, when executed on the one or more processors, cause the computing device to determine multiple component shapes that approximately make up a geometry of the geographic place, determine whether the certain geographic location is within at least one of the component shapes, generate an indication that the geographic location is within the virtual perimeter if the geographic location is within at least one of the component shapes, and provide the indication via the user interface.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 10, 2015
Date of Patent:
May 30, 2017
Assignee:
GOOGLE INC.
Inventors:
Jussi Myllymaki, Anup Mantri, Chandrasekhar Thota
Abstract: A request to provision a virtual machine (VM) based on a mobile communications device may be received. In response to the request to provision the VM, a phone number may be allocated to be associated with the VM based on the mobile communications device. Furthermore, VM based on the mobile communications device may be provisioned in view of the allocated phone number.
Abstract: A method of offload selection for a UE to select between 3GPP RAT and WLAN cell is provided. The UE receives configuration information that applies to selecting WLAN or 3GPP radio access technology (RAT). The UE determines if the UE may perform WLAN offload by evaluating 3GPP radio access network (RAN) conditions where at least one RAN condition is related to a radio signal strength or a radio signal quality in 3GPP RAT. The UE then determines if there is at least one suitable WLAN cell by evaluating WLAN conditions. The UE also determines if there is candidate traffic for WLAN offload. Finally, the UE steers the determined traffic to WLAN if the UE may perform WLAN offload and if there is at least one suitable WLAN cell. Otherwise, the UE steers the determined traffic to 3GPP RAT.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 28, 2015
Date of Patent:
May 23, 2017
Assignee:
MEDIATEK INC.
Inventors:
Per Johan Mikael Johansson, Chia-Chun Hsu, Yu-Syuan Jheng, Aimin Justin Sang
Abstract: A subscriber station performs a method for managing a security key. The method includes generating, for each of the base stations, an input value for generation of the security key for data transmission and reception with the each base station; transmitting, to the each base station, the input value for a corresponding base station; and generating the security key of the corresponding base station by using the input value of the each base station. A base station provides cooperative communication to the subscriber station.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 25, 2013
Date of Patent:
May 16, 2017
Assignee:
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
Inventors:
Hyun-Jeong Kang, Jung-Shin Park, Dae-Gyun Kim, Jung-Soo Jung
Abstract: A method is provided in an access point (800) in a wireless communication system. When the access point temporarily does not have an operational backhaul connection (601), the access point receives information from a terminal. The access point provides the information to a messenger (604;605) for mechanical relaying to a service area of an access point having an operational backhaul connection.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 22, 2013
Date of Patent:
May 9, 2017
Assignee:
Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
Inventors:
István Gódor, Pål Frenger, Magnus Olsson, Yngve Selén, Hugo Tullberg
Abstract: A database of Wi-Fi access point location data is built from (a) provisioning data; (b) GPS location estimates; and (c) inferred location estimates.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 24, 2016
Date of Patent:
April 25, 2017
Assignee:
Athentek Innovations, Inc.
Inventors:
Chen Chun-Nan, Ivy H. Tseng, David S. De Lorenzo
Abstract: Disclosed is a mobile terminal including a touch screen display, a camera, a power button and an activation button for turning on the touch screen display. The mobile terminal has a first function and a second function to perform in response to user input and provides user settings for configuring at least one of the first and second functions such that the at least one of the first and second functions is performed along with turning on the touch screen display when pressing of the activation button is detected while the touch screen display is turned off. The mobile terminal is configured to perform the first and second functions depending upon length of pressing of the activation button in addition to turning on the touch screen display.
Abstract: A method for generating a prompt message is provided. The method includes: acquiring information about an opened-or-closed state of a door or window, the information about the opened-or-closed state of a door or window indicating whether the door or window is in an opened or closed state; acquiring information about indoor and outdoor environments; and generating a prompt message according to the information about the opened-or-closed state of the door or window and the information about the indoor and outdoor environments.
Abstract: Systems, device and techniques are disclosed for determining whether a mobile device is in vehicle mode. A notification may be received while the mobile device is in vehicle mode and the notification may be determined to be important or unimportant. If the notification is determined to be important, then the notification may be provided to the user via an output mode (e.g., display or speaker). If the notification is determined to be unimportant, then the notification may not be provided to the user via the display until the mobile device is no longer in vehicle mode.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 20, 2014
Date of Patent:
April 4, 2017
Assignee:
GOOGLE INC.
Inventors:
Evan Malahy, Donald Geoffrey Schuller, Henry Owen Newton-Dunn
Abstract: This disclosure relates to network infrastructure identification by a wireless user equipment (UE) device. According to one embodiment, one or more requests for infrastructure identification information may be transmitted. Each request may indicate a current location of the UE. A respective response may be received to each corresponding respective request. Each respective response may include infrastructure identification information for the current location indicated in the corresponding respective request. Features such as vendor, type, model, or version of cellular network infrastructure equipment with which the UE performs cellular communication may be identified based on the response(s), and features specific to the identified equipment may accordingly be implemented during such cellular communication.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 27, 2014
Date of Patent:
March 21, 2017
Assignee:
Apple Inc.
Inventors:
Paul V. Flynn, Rafael L. Rivera-Barreto, Sreevalsan Vallath, Francisco J. Gonzalez
Abstract: In general, techniques are described for facilitating usage monitoring control in mobile networks. A mobile gateway comprising one or more processors and a memory may be configured to perform the techniques. The one or more processors may be configured to transmit a usage monitoring report indicative of usage of a service provided via a session for which usage monitoring was previously activated. The memory may be configured to store a monitoring key that was configured as a result of activating the usage monitoring for the service. The one or more processors may also be configured to, in response to the indication to deactivate the usage monitoring, remove the monitoring key that was configured as a part of activating the usage monitoring for the session.
Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to telecommunications networks, processing and routing calls between networks, a computing system and methodologies for optimizing pricing particularly in situations with massive amounts of data, processing call volume data, deseasonalizing data, minutes of use data, establishing and distributing pricing data for use in routing decisions, among other features and advantages.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 4, 2015
Date of Patent:
March 14, 2017
Assignee:
Level 3 Communications, LLC
Inventors:
William Gray, Binchao Chen, Peder Hans Engebretson
Abstract: A mobile device includes a housing, a sensor and a deformation detecting IC which detect deformation of the housing, a memory which stores a pattern database in which patterns of the deformation of the housing are registered in advance, and an authentication unit which performs authentication based on whether or not the deformation of the housing detected by the sensor and the deformation detecting IC corresponds to a pattern registered in the pattern database.
Abstract: In general, techniques are described for facilitating usage monitoring control in mobile networks. A mobile gateway comprising one or more processors may be configured to perform the techniques. The one or more processors are configured to establish a session by which a mobile device is to access a service, and in response to receiving an indication to activate a charging rule having an incomplete indication to activate usage monitoring with respect to the service provided via the session, rejecting the charging rule.
Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for adjusting handover parameters (TTT; OFF) used for handover detection within a given serving cell (CS). In accordance with an embodiment of the invention, the method comprises, for respective ones of a plurality of mobile stations (UE1 . . . UEN) served by the serving cell, gathering measurement samples (M(i,CS,k); M(i,CN,k)) of the serving cell and of a respective neighboring cell (CN) carried out by a respective mobile station (UEi) at successive time instances (k), and determining delta values (?(i,CN,k)) indicative of the time-indexed difference between respective ones of the measurement samples of the serving cell and corresponding ones of the measurement samples of the neighboring cell. The method further comprises determining near-optimal values (TTTNO; OFFNO) for the handover parameters by statistical characterization of the ensembles of delta values for the plurality of mobile stations.
Abstract: Techniques are provided which may be implemented in various methods, apparatus, and/or articles of manufacture to allow a mobile device to obtain certain location service(s) and/or the like from one or more computing devices that have been authorized for use. For example, in certain implementations, an authorizing location server may obtain a first message from a mobile device indicating a first set of location servers, determine a second set of location servers based, at least in part, on the first set of location servers, and transmit a second message to the mobile device indicating that the second set of location servers are authorized for location service related access by the mobile device.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 14, 2016
Date of Patent:
February 7, 2017
Assignee:
QUALCOMM Incorporated
Inventors:
Stephen William Edge, Andreas Klaus Wachter, Philip Hawkes
Abstract: A monitoring device includes a transmitting unit, a receiving unit, and a determining unit. The transmitting unit transmits, to a plurality of base stations, instructions on mutual monitoring among the base stations. The receiving unit receives, from a base station that has detected abnormality of a base station serving as a monitoring target in accordance with the instruction among the base stations, information indicating a base station determined as having abnormality. The determining unit determines a level of a fault that has occurred in the base station indicated by the information received by the receiving unit.
Abstract: An electronic device for rendering a display unit antifungal. The electronic device includes a body including a display unit; and an antifungal cover that is removeably attached to the body, the antifungal cover including an antifungal module on one surface thereof. If the antifungal cover covers the display unit, the display unit projects a wavelength of light that activates an antifungal property of the antifungal module.