Abstract: A method and a base station serving a first cell of a cellular network, for controlling interference coordination with at least one neighboring cell. The base station obtains transaction related information pertaining to a forthcoming data transaction involving at least one wireless terminal in the first cell, and estimates a transaction magnitude (TM) for said data transaction, based on the obtained transaction related information. The base station then controls employment of an Inter-Cell Interference Coordination scheme for the forthcoming data transaction, based on the estimated transaction magnitude.
Abstract: Various embodiments include methods, systems, and devices for tuning away a mobile device's receiver without retuning the mobile device's transmitter, thereby allowing the mobile device to monitor multiple networks with a single radio frequency (RF) chain while avoiding the problems often associated with tune-away methods, such as loss of throughput, loss of tracking or synchronization, delays in acknowledgments, delays in rate control or channel quality control feedback, etc. The transmitter may remain tuned to a first network while the receiver may be separately tuned to one or more other networks. In various embodiments, the separately tuned receiver may monitor for paging signals on one or more networks while the transmitter remains tuned to the first network and transmits data or control signals.
Abstract: The communication device comprising a voice communication implementer, a wireless digital mirror implementer, a non-digital mirror implementer, and an incoming communication ID implementer.
Abstract: An example method of presenting animal-related alerts includes receiving information pertaining to a plurality of non-human animals, where the information includes, for each non-human animal, an indication of a location associated with that non-human animal. The method also includes determining a location of a user's device, determining that a location associated with a particular non-human animal is within a pre-defined distance from the location of the user's device, and generating an alert, where the alert comprises information pertaining to that particular non-human animal. The method also includes presenting, using the user's device, the alert to the user.
Abstract: A wireless communication device having a breath sensor and a proximity sensor to measure the distance from a user to the device. The breath sensor is configured to measure or detect various components in the user's breath that may be indicative of a health issue. The sensitivity of the sensor may be adjusted based upon the proximity of the user. Sensor detections may be communicated in messages to a cloud server, where the cloud server may generate warnings if the messages indicate a health issue.
Abstract: A mobile computing device comprises a wireless transceiver and a processing circuit. The processing circuit is configured to identify a location, to identify a wireless access point within a predetermined distance of the location, to detect a wireless access point identifier using the wireless transceiver, to compare the detected wireless access point identifier to the identified wireless access point, and to initiate location determination based on the comparison.
Abstract: Systems, methods and apparatuses of determining whether to admit the mobile device to the hot spot are disclosed. One method includes establishing communication between a hot spot and a mobile device, determining a first level of communication directly between the mobile device and a cellular network, determining a second level of communication between the mobile device and the cellular network through the hot spot, and identifying a fraction of other mobile devices having a level of communication directly with the cellular network. The method further includes determining whether to admit the mobile device to the hot spot based on a comparison of the first level of communication with the second level of communication, and the fraction of other mobile devices having a level of communication directly with the cellular network that is either better or worse than the first level of communication.
Abstract: A technique is disclosed, according to which a mobile node, having a plurality of interfaces and performing communication according to flow information when an operator is performing communication based on the flow information as defined by a policy, can select an interface suitable for the flow and can perform communication. According to this technique, a mobile node (MN 10) having a plurality of interfaces has a list to indicate domain limited flows to be transmitted only within a specific network (a trusted network), and a list to indicate the trusted networks. When a certain interface performs handover, and in case there is a domain limited flow that uses the interface, it is decided whether the network of handover destination is a trusted network or not, and in case the network of the handover destination is not a trusted network, it is decided whether it is possible or not to transmit and receive the domain limited flow via another interface that is connected to the trusted network.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 1, 2014
Date of Patent:
November 3, 2015
Assignee:
Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
Inventors:
Keigo Aso, Jun Hirano, Chan Wah Ng, Pek Yew Tan, Chun Keong Benjamin Lim, Tien Ming Benjamin Koh
Abstract: Systems and methods include retrieving data indicative of a sequence of content that were previously selected for presentation by a mobile device based in part on physical locations of the mobile device. The sequence of selected content may be used with the current location of the mobile device to determine a likelihood score for a piece of content. Based on the likelihood score, the piece of content may be selected and provided to the mobile device for presentation.
Abstract: A method and nodes for enabling a client node such as a Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) or Location Services (LCS) client to set up a communication to a User Equipment (UE) in a wireless communications network. The method enables the client node to provide solutions that enable location aware non-voice based emergency services by means of new signalling and a new architecture. A text message may be sent from the UE to the client node via a network node, wherein the text message includes UE location information and a client indicator. The UE location information and the client indicator are then utilized to determine a client node which is most appropriate for communication with the UE.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 28, 2011
Date of Patent:
October 27, 2015
Assignee:
Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
Inventors:
Iana Siomina, Torbjörn Wigren, Michael Anderson
Abstract: A method includes preventing fraudulent use of a security module in a device, and the security module is designed to perform the following steps of: retrieving a device identifier of the device from the device; checking whether negative allowance information is stored in the security module for the retrieved device identifier and transmit a security module identifier of the security module and the retrieved device identifier to a server; and receiving a response from the server regarding whether the security module is allowed to operate with the identified device and store negative allowance information in the security module for the retrieved device identifier, if the security module is not allowed to operate with the identified device according to the server response. A security module may execute the method, and a system may include the device and the server.
Abstract: A method for controlling an application in a mobile device is disclosed. The method includes receiving environmental information, inferring an environmental context from the environmental information, and controlling activation of the application based on a set of reference models associated with the inferred environmental context. In addition, the method may include receiving a sound input, extracting a sound feature from the sound input, transmitting the sound feature to a server configured to group a plurality of mobile devices into at least one similar context group, and receiving, from the server, information on a leader device or a non-leader device and the at least one similar context group.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 14, 2013
Date of Patent:
October 20, 2015
Assignee:
QUALCOMM Incorporated
Inventors:
Minho Jin, Taesu Kim, Kisun You, Hyun-Mook Cho, Hyung-Il Koo, Duck-Hoon Kim
Abstract: A wireless communication system has wireless base stations that serve wireless communication devices located in a plurality of wireless communication sectors. The wireless communication devices have wireless device types. The wireless base stations generate performance data that characterizes the performance of the wireless device types in the wireless communication sectors. A data processing system processes the performance data to associate an abnormal condition with one of the wireless device types in one of the wireless communication sectors. The data processing system generates notice data for the one or more wireless device types associated with an abnormal condition. The wireless base stations broadcast the notice data in a Long Term Evolution (LTE) System Information Block (SIB). The notice data identifies the wireless device type. The wireless communication devices decode the LTE SIB to identify the notice data and the wireless device type.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 8, 2014
Date of Patent:
October 20, 2015
Assignee:
Sprint Communications Company L.P.
Inventors:
Sara Gatmir-Motahari, Heesook Choi, Kosol Jintaseranee, Mark J. Bonn
Abstract: A system, apparatus, and method are provided for placing emergency calls from a vehicle to a Public Safety Answering Point. An emergency call apparatus is configured to detect a trigger condition and, if the trigger condition is detected, send a telephone dial command through a vehicle communication network to a telecommunication apparatus to establish voice communication with the Public Safety Answering Point. A method is provided of retrofitting a vehicle with embedded telecommunication apparatus to enable single button access to emergency services without the need for a fee based subscription.
Abstract: A display device includes a telephone communication signal reception antenna that receives radio waves utilized in telephone communication; a reception intensity measurement unit that measures an intensity of the radio waves received by the communication signal reception antenna; a determination unit that determines, based on the intensity of the radio waves measured by the reception intensity measurement unit, a display mode that displays an image at a display unit by using a representation method which is predetermined associated with the intensity of the radio waves; and a display control unit that controls the display unit based on the display mode determined by the determination unit.
Abstract: An apparatus and a method for transmitting and receiving a reference signal in a wireless communication system are provided. The method includes determining a cluster-specific reference signal configuration according a cluster configuration, transmitting information about the cluster-specific reference signal configuration, and transmitting cluster-specific reference signals of at least one cluster according to the cluster-specific reference signal configuration.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 28, 2013
Date of Patent:
October 6, 2015
Assignees:
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Inventors:
Jung-Min Moon, Byung-Chang Chung, Dong-Ho Cho
Abstract: A method and system for processing data packets is described within. The method executed by the system includes the steps of receiving a first data packet, determining if the first data packet is a first expected data packet, determining if the first data packet is a next expected date packet, storing the first data patent if the first data packet is the next expected data packet and waiting a period of time for a second data packet.
Abstract: A method for configuring radio access functionality of a wireless communication unit within a wireless communication network, the method comprising sending to the wireless communication unit an indication of a required radio access protocol version to which the wireless communication unit is to be reconfigured.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 1, 2010
Date of Patent:
September 8, 2015
Assignee:
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
Inventors:
Gert-Jan Van Lieshout, Himke Van Der Velde
Abstract: Example methods, apparatuses, or articles of manufacture are disclosed herein that may be utilized, in whole or in part, to facilitate or support one or more operations or techniques for utilizing a pressure profile to determine a location context identifier (LCI) for use in or with a mobile communication device.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 6, 2013
Date of Patent:
September 8, 2015
Assignee:
QUALCOMM Incorporated
Inventors:
Sai Pradeep Venkatraman, Weiyi Liu, Gengsheng Zhang
Abstract: Systems and methods for providing a geographic location of a mobile device are provided. In one aspect, a method includes determining a geographic location of the mobile device. The method also includes storing the determined geographic location in a geographic location history in a local memory of the mobile device. The geographic location of the mobile device is determined and stored in the geographic location history at a first time interval. The method also includes providing the geographic location history to a server at a second time interval. The second time interval is longer than the first time interval.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 14, 2013
Date of Patent:
September 8, 2015
Assignee:
Google Inc.
Inventors:
Philip Cheeran Verghese, Kenneth Joseph Leftin, Andrew Oplinger, Joseph Lapenna, Kenneth S. Norton