Patents Examined by Dinh P Nguyen
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Patent number: 8275369Abstract: A method of automatically testing a mobile communication terminal selects a communication frequency band for testing the mobile communication terminal. The mobile communication terminal switches to the selected communication frequency band. One or more service modes, of the mobile communication terminal, which need to be tested under the selected communication frequency band are selected, and a test sequence of the one or more service modes is set. The mobile communication terminal using one of the service modes. Test data of the mobile communication terminal is obtained according to a preset use duration, a test frequency and the test interval of each service mode. A report is generated using the test data.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2011Date of Patent: September 25, 2012Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shen-Chun Li, Hsien-Chuan Liang, Chun-Neng Liao, Shou-Kuo Hsu
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Patent number: 8270968Abstract: Systems and methods for handoff of a mobile node between first and second points of attachment are provided. A communication between a first and second mobile node is optimized and conducted independent of a home agent. During the handoff process the communications directed to the mobile node performing the handoff are routed to the mobile node's home agent. Once the handoff process is complete the communication is again optimized and conducted independent of home agents.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2011Date of Patent: September 18, 2012Assignee: Nextel Communications, Inc.Inventors: Steve Wall, Sid Chaudhuri
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Patent number: 8260377Abstract: A mobile device is disclosed that includes a housing, a touch sensitive display subassembly, and a gasket. The touch sensitive display subassembly is received in the housing and is movable relative to the housing. The touch sensitive display subassembly includes a lens overlaying a display. The gasket is attached to only one of the housing and the touch sensitive display subassembly. This gasket inhibits passage of debris between the housing and the touch screen display subassembly.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2009Date of Patent: September 4, 2012Assignee: Research In Motion LimitedInventors: Todd Robert Paleczny, Patrick Smittmatter
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Patent number: 8238872Abstract: A system and method of for establishing a connection between a vehicle and an external network includes a plurality of personal electronic devices and a transceiver. The plurality of personal electronic devices are each configured for establishing a data connection to the vehicle. Each of the plurality of personal electronic have a mobile plan that includes a data limit and an amount of data used. At least one of the plurality of personal electronic devices are selected to be in communication with the external network. Selection of at least one of the plurality of personal electronic devices is based on a corresponding amount of data available in a mobile plan for each of the personal electronic devices.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2010Date of Patent: August 7, 2012Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLCInventors: Mark A. Wisnewski, Kenneth L. Peirce, David J. Trzcinski, Charles A. Massoll, David R. Petrucci, Thiep T. Nguyen, Nathan C. Callaghan
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Patent number: 8229348Abstract: A ground station multiplexes audio digital data of a plurality of audio broadcasts, GUI data, and download audio data and transmits the multiplexed signal to a receiving side through a satellite. The receiving side displays a GUI screen corresponding to an audio broadcast. When a music information selection command is input on the display screen, an audio broadcast of a music program corresponding to the music information is selected. When a music information download command is input on the display screen, download audio data corresponding to the music information is output. The download audio data is stored to a storage device so as to download audio data corresponding to a desired music title.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2005Date of Patent: July 24, 2012Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Tadaharu Koga, Satoko Nakatsuka, Yasushi Kikuta
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Patent number: 8224334Abstract: Providing for data exchange between mobility management and location management components over a signaling network to facilitate establishment of end-to-end mobile communication is disclosed herein. Components can include an access control component that receives identification information associated with a target mobile device, and a lookup component associated with the mobile device that can provide routing information via a signaling network to the access control component. Such routing information can be sufficient to locate a second access control component serving the target device to assist in establishing end-to-end communication between the target device and an originating device. By such systems and methods, the claimed subject matter can increase scalability and capacity of finite core network resources engaged in facilitating mobile communication.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2007Date of Patent: July 17, 2012Assignee: AT&T Mobility II LLCInventors: Robert Fleming White, Alan Johns
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Patent number: 8213911Abstract: A mobile communication device is provided for enabling a user to establish an automated call back from a communication system, such as a call center, for example. A software device application enables the mobile communication device to communicate with the call center through the exchange of data. The mobile communication device includes a display screen for displaying controls for allowing the user to interact with the communication system. The controls allow the user to request a list of providers from which to select a provider or company to contact. The mobile communication device further provides controls for allowing the user to select a queue to join from a list of queues associated with the selected provider. For example, one queue may be related to billing and another queue may be related to another aspect of customer service. The user may then request the expected wait time in the selected queue for receiving a call-back from the communication system.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2009Date of Patent: July 3, 2012Assignee: Virtual Hold Technology LLCInventors: Mark J. Williams, Eric I. Camulli, Larry Miner
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Patent number: 8208925Abstract: An inter-system handover system for a wireless communication system supports hand-down and hand-up of user equipment (UE) to different radio access technologies, including synchronous and asynchronous systems. Latency and handover connection failures are reduced by an access node (nodeB) broadcasting information about neighboring systems (targets) when the UE reception (RX) capability is both inside or outside the reception range of the target. A single RX chain is sufficient, although transitioning between a wireless wide area network (WWAN) to a wireless local area network may (WLAN) may advantageously benefit from simultaneous operation on two Rx chains. Optimized list of neighboring RAT systems (targets) are broadcast from the network, including measurement parameters and reporting instructions. Thereby, UE-driven reporting minimizes latencies. UE reports other-system searches to network only if needed for a handover.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2011Date of Patent: June 26, 2012Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Rashid Ahmed Akbar Attar, Durga Prasad Malladi, Francesco Grilli, Kirti Gupta, Lorenzo Casaccia, Nathan Edward Tenny, Oronzo Flore
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Patent number: 8204478Abstract: A system for setting security in a wireless network system using a cluster function. An access point stores a list of candidate terminals of each neighboring access point. When an arbitrary terminal sends an access request, the access point determines whether or not the terminal is authenticated using the stored list of candidate terminals, and transmits an authentication success message to the requesting terminal if the requesting terminal is authenticated. The terminal performs hand-over to the access point without performing authentication upon receiving the authentication success message from the access point in response to the access request. Thus, the hand-over time of a Wi-Fi phone is reduced in an environment based on Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) that is one of the strongest wireless LAN security policies, so that the safety and mobility of wireless LAN services can be improved at the same time.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2009Date of Patent: June 19, 2012Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hyun-Jung Na, Soo-Seob Won
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Patent number: 8204551Abstract: An attachable battery pack having a battery body with a pivoted clamp for detachably fastening to one end of an intelligent cell phone (iPhone or Google phone) as a spare battery. The battery body is configured to overlay the display screen of the intelligent cell phone to provide protection for the display screen and includes a charging circuit and connector for charging the built-in battery of the intelligent cell phone.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2010Date of Patent: June 19, 2012Inventor: Chih Hsing Lee
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Patent number: 8195246Abstract: A multi-microphone hands-free device distinguishes between non-steady noise and speech and adapts the de-noising to the presence and characteristics of the detected non-steady noise without spoiling any speech that is present. In the frequency domain, the method comprises calculating a first noise reference by analyzing spatial coherence of signals picked up, calculating a second noise reference by analyzing directions of incidence of signals picked up, estimating a main direction of incidence of signals picked up, selecting as a referent noise signal noise references as a function of estimated main direction, combining signals picked up into a noisy combined signal, calculating probability that speech is absent in the noisy combined signal on basis of respective spectral energy levels of the noisy combined signal and of the referent noise signal, and selectively reducing noise by applying variable gain that is specific to each frequency band and to each time frame.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2010Date of Patent: June 5, 2012Assignee: ParrotInventors: Guillaume Vitte, Julie Seris, Guillaume Pinto
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Patent number: 8180333Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus, system, and method for differentially routing communication-usage records based on an identity of the base station that served the underlying communication. For example, if the base station is a home carrier base station, then the communication-usage records may be routed to a particular usage-tracking system, whereas, if the base station is an affiliate carrier base station, then the communication-usage records may be routed to a different usage-tracking system. Further, depending on the base station identity, the routing of the communication-usage records may be delayed or may be more immediate.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2009Date of Patent: May 15, 2012Assignee: Sprint Spectrum L.P.Inventors: Anthony C. Wells, Roger Bartlett, Terry D. Nebergall
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Patent number: 8170524Abstract: A power line communication system including a plurality of intelligent devices in communication with a power line and operable to monitor energy usage at a site and communicate usage data onto the power line, and a controller also in communication with the power line, wherein each intelligent device maintains a routing table identifying a first set of other intelligent devices downstream of it relative to the controller that it can communicate with directly and identifying a second set of other intelligent devices downstream of it relative to the controller that it can communicate with through one or more of the first set of other intelligent devices.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2009Date of Patent: May 1, 2012Assignee: Pulse Utilities International LimitedInventors: Stephen Allen Abbot, John Richard Futter, James Lee Allworthy Martin, Gerard Brendan Rowe, Rand Cary Huso
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Patent number: 8170564Abstract: A communication terminal apparatus wherein even if there occurs a dropout or overtaking of call control messages, the current service can be continued without increasing the load of an apparatus such as a server in the network. In this apparatus, a VoIP call control part (103) performs call controls including both a call establishment of a VoIP telephone conversation using a wireless LAN system and a call disconnection thereof. A line switching call control part (104) performs call controls including both a call establishment of a line switching telephone conversation using a mobile communication (cellular) system and a call disconnection thereof. A handover part (105) determines the reception quality of the wireless LAN system and that of the mobile communication (cellular) system and controls, based on the determination results, the handover between the wireless LAN system and the mobile communication (cellular) system.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2006Date of Patent: May 1, 2012Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Mikihito Sugiura, Tomoharu Kaneko, Shinkichi Ikeda
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Patent number: 8155659Abstract: A radio network resource controller directs a first network node associated with a first cell region, or a wireless terminal in communication through the first cell region, to measure and report radio resource-related data selected from the group consisting of: resource activity per channel; the number of transmitted power samples that exceed a threshold over a measurement period; and, channel quality samples that exceed a quality threshold. The controller then receives at least one measurement report of the radio resource-related data and, as a function of the radio resource-related data in the first cell region, dynamically reallocates the distribution of resources, such as radio-frequency channels associated with uplink and downlink communications, between the first cell region and at least a second cell region.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2007Date of Patent: April 10, 2012Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)Inventors: Muhammad Kazmi, Arne Simonsson
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Patent number: 8155653Abstract: A mobile radio terminal stores transfer information indicating whether a base station to which the mobile radio terminal is connected is changed from a base station belonging to a second mobile communication network to a base station belonging to a first mobile communication network; and control the second communicating unit so as to search for a base station belonging to the second mobile communication network, when it is determined using the stored transfer information that the mobile radio terminal is on standby in a base station belonging to the first mobile communication network after the base station to which the mobile radio terminal is connected is changed from a base station belonging to the second mobile communication network to the base station belonging to the first mobile communication network.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2009Date of Patent: April 10, 2012Assignee: Fujitsu Toshiba Mobile Communications LimitedInventor: Yoshiyuki Kubo
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Patent number: 8112069Abstract: A communication system for receiving incoming communications from mobile communication devices and for initiating a call-back is disclosed. The communication system receives incoming communications from a mobile communication device, such as data requests. The data requests may be for a list of providers or companies and for a list of corresponding queues related to customer services, such as billing, for example. Further, the communication system typically includes components and queues for initiating a call-back sequence to a communication receiving device and placing an identifier associated with the communication receiving device in a user-selected queue. The communication system also determines the wait time in a queue and places an outgoing call to the communication receiving device. Also, a method for initiating a call-back to a communication receiving device is disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2009Date of Patent: February 7, 2012Assignee: Virtual Hold Technology, LLCInventors: Mark J. Williams, Eric I. Camulli, Larry Miner
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Patent number: 8107880Abstract: A system for managing the operation of a plurality of radio modules integrated within the same wireless communication device. In at least one embodiment of the present invention, time may be allocated for use in communicating over one or more wireless communication mediums. The allocated time may take the form of timeslots. The timeslots may be dedicated or shared timeslots, the type of timeslot affecting the behavior of each wireless communication medium. Use of shared timeslots may, for example, be determined locally to the radio modules based on a relative priority between the wireless communication mediums sharing the timeslot.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2007Date of Patent: January 31, 2012Assignee: Nokia CorporationInventors: Jani Okker, Jussi Ylänen, Ville Pernu
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Patent number: 8010105Abstract: A scheme for facilitating accelerated network selection by a wireless user equipment (UE) device. In one exemplary embodiment, prior to performing a full band scan, the wireless UE device is operable to interrogate a list of networks with which the wireless UE device has registered at least once in a given period of time, wherein a network availability likelihood score may be associated with each of the list of networks. A particular network is selected from the list of networks based on its network availability likelihood score.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2007Date of Patent: August 30, 2011Assignee: Research In Motion LimitedInventors: Adrian Buckley, Michael J. Crowley
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Patent number: 8005487Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention provides an apparatus, comprising a transceiver operable in a wireless network, wherein said transceiver is configured to optimize location determination in said wireless network by preventing scheduled uplink (UL) transmissions at a reference base station (BS) from interfering with an uplink (UL) reference signal from a mobile station (MS).Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2008Date of Patent: August 23, 2011Assignee: Intel CorporationInventor: Muthaiah Venkatachalam