Patents Examined by Joseph Dean, Jr.
  • Patent number: 10212275
    Abstract: A system and method for communicating presence information that can include at a first server of a communication platform, receiving an authorization token of a first client application; verifying at least one permission associated with the authorization token; registering a presence status of the first client application upon verifying the at least one permission of the authorization token; at a second server of the communication platform, accepting an incoming communication request; retrieving communication instructions according to the incoming communication request; identifying an instruction to communicate with a communication destination of the first client application; accessing the presence status resource of the first client application; establishing communication with the first client application according to the accessed presence status resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: Twilio, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeff Lawson, Evan Cooke, Robert J. Simutis, Patrick Malatack, Kyle Conroy
  • Patent number: 10182338
    Abstract: Representative embodiments described herein set forth techniques for provisioning bootstrap electronic Subscriber Identity Modules (eSIMs) to mobile devices. According to some embodiments, a mobile device can be configured to issue, to an eSIM selection server, a bootstrap eSIM request that includes (i) metadata associated with the mobile device, and (ii) metadata associated with an electronic Universal Integrated Circuit Card (eUICC) included in the mobile device. In turn, the eSIM selection server selects and binds a particular bootstrap eSIM to the mobile device, and provides information to the mobile device that enables the mobile device to obtain the particular bootstrap eSIM from one or more eSIM servers. When the mobile device obtains the particular bootstrap eSIM, the mobile device can interface with a mobile network operator (MNO) and obtain a complete eSIM that enables the mobile device to access services provided by the MNO.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Li Li, Clark P. Mueller, Avinash Narasimhan, Arun G. Mathias, Najeeb M. Abdulrahiman, David T. Haggerty
  • Patent number: 10182147
    Abstract: A system and method for communicating presence information that can include at a first server of a communication platform, receiving an authorization token of a first client application; verifying at least one permission associated with the authorization token; registering a presence status of the first client application upon verifying the at least one permission of the authorization token; at a second server of the communication platform, accepting an incoming communication request; retrieving communication instructions according to the incoming communication request; identifying an instruction to communicate with a communication destination of the first client application; accessing the presence status resource of the first client application; establishing communication with the first client application according to the accessed presence status resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: Twilio Inc.
    Inventors: Jeff Lawson, Evan Cooke, Robert J. Simutis, Patrick Malatack, Kyle Conroy
  • Patent number: 10182332
    Abstract: A method for providing assistance to each of a plurality of users, each having been enrolled as a member of a community includes receiving, at a server, communications from corresponding mobile devices, each of which is associated with a user who has enrolled as a member in a first community. These emergency communications were initiated by activation of respective personal security buttons on the mobile devices, and provide information about respective security conditions. In response to the communications, the server alerts corresponding first and second security services that are appropriate responding to the respective security conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: Rave Wireless, Inc.
    Inventors: Ghen Saito, Rodger Desai, Raju Rishi
  • Patent number: 10171605
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein relate to systems and methods for transmitting service related messages, e.g., via a reverse push connection. In some embodiments, a UE may be configured to receive a random value from a server, the random value based at least in part on a capacity of the server and/or network. The UE may be configured to compare the random value to a generated value, and determine, based at least in part on the comparison, to transmit a service related message over a reverse push connection rather than via a hypertext transport protocol (HTTP) request. In some embodiments, the service related message may be any message that relates to a service available between devices, such as an identity (ID) query request, a service (de-) registration request, and/or a device listing request, among other types of messages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas P. Devanneaux, Nicholas J. Circosta, Daniel B. Pollack
  • Patent number: 10166917
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are described, for providing short-range uncompressed video service in a cellular network. The method comprises the steps of: establishing a communication link between at least one local sensor to a base station or to a first user equipment (UE), by using a non-cellular technology; establishing a radio communication channel by using a cellular technology between at least one second user equipment (UE) and the base station or between at least one second UE and the first UE by using a device-to-device (D2D) cellular technology; transmitting over the radio communication channel, uncompressed video data representing at least one area of the video image that was received from the at least one local sensor or control information resulting from processing the received data; and providing the received data or the control information to at least one mobile application residing at the at least one second UE or to at least one control element associated with the at least one second UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Inventor: Mariana Goldhamer
  • Patent number: 10154381
    Abstract: Enhanced input field features and techniques for displaying and resolving location information in meeting items are provided. In response to a user's interaction with a place name displayed in the location field of a user interface for a meeting item, up to date information is retrieved about the location associated with the place name from a web service and displayed. The display can include a map image tile. In addition to enabling the displaying of up to date information, during creation of the meeting item, the location input field of a meeting item can present location suggestions from within the location input field, for example, as a drop-down listing of possible locations. The suggestions for completing a user's input text string to the location input field can be obtained from sources such as a web service, a mailbox, a managed database/directory service, a history cache/database or a combination thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Danilo L. Benzatti, Gregory A. Bolles, Andrew Winslow Brough, Jason Andrew Cook, Michael Anthony Faoro, Vanessa Feliberti, Shivakumar Seetharaman, Yeelin Tan, Gustavo Varo
  • Patent number: 10148826
    Abstract: Example methods disclosed herein include accessing first messaging received from an enterprise mobility management system to identify a first device, the first messaging conforming to a first set of application programming interfaces. Disclosed example methods also include exchanging respective instances of second messaging with respective ones of multiple different service provider information technology systems supporting service ordering to identify a first one of the service provider information technology systems associated with the first device, the respective instances of the second messaging including first data from the first messaging and conforming to respective second sets of application programming interfaces, different from the first set of application programming interfaces, that are specific to the respective ones of the different service provider information technology systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignees: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: Daniel P. Malee, Jeloni Shabazz, Robert Hammond, Laury Ann Wills, Gregory Miller
  • Patent number: 10148501
    Abstract: A method in a Base Transceiver Station, BTS for configuring hardware, HW, equipment being added or removed to/from the BTS. The BTS receives (201) configuration data for the added or removed hardware equipment via a user interface, UI. The BTS then initializes (202) a HW configuration according to the received configuration data in an installation database, IDB, of the BTS. When the HW configuration is initialized, the BTS sends (203) information about the added or removed HW equipment to a Base Station Controller, BSC. Based on the received information the BSC creates an object model of the added and/or removed HW equipment in the BTS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Bartek Knapek, Örjan Sjelvgren
  • Patent number: 10142450
    Abstract: A method of managing a custom configuration manifest, comprising: collecting by an application configuration selections about a user equipment (UE) that are dynamically configured to create the custom configuration manifest; processing by a server the configuration selections and dynamically configuring the configuration selections to create the manifest; transmitting by the server the manifest to both the UE and a database with a plurality of custom configuration manifests; receiving by a custom configuration manifest handling application authorization through one or more authorization options, but not authentication credentials, to allow the manifest handling application to install preferred applications on the UE; installing by the manifest handling application the preferred applications on the UE without providing the authentication credentials; and customizing by the manifest handling application the UE based on the manifest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: Brent A. Clay, Ricky A. Hohler, Jason B. Marshall, Ryan P. Sullivan
  • Patent number: 10142315
    Abstract: Disclosed are an apparatus and method of performing automated administrative operations on a mobile device. One example method may include determining via a hosted server that an action needs to be performed by a mobile device under management. The method may further include generating a message via the hosted server, the message includes the action, and transmitting the message to the mobile device under management, and receiving a result message from the mobile device under management responsive to the transmitted message, the result message indicating that the action has been satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: KASEYA LIMITED
    Inventor: Allan Miller
  • Patent number: 10142852
    Abstract: Various communication systems may benefit from improved signaling. For example, certain communication systems may benefit from improved signaling before network access is revoked through a citizens broadband radio service. A method may include receiving at a network entity from a citizens broadband radio service device a warning message. The warning message may include a drop time after which communication between a network and a user equipment using the citizens broadband radio service will terminate. The method may also include triggering the performing of an action based on the warning message by the network before the drop time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS OY
    Inventors: Curt Wong, Ruth Gayde, Tarun Agarwal, Alex Hirsbrunner
  • Patent number: 10133717
    Abstract: A mobile communication device and a method for managing images, associated geographic location data, and associated supplemental information, in which geographic location data is generated based on a current location of the mobile communication device; a map corresponding to the generated geographic location data is displayed; a plurality of images and associated supplemental information corresponding to each image in a list mode are displayed in a first user interface, wherein the displayed associated supplemental information comprises description information and a street address; a selection of the plurality images, the associated description information, and the associated street address is received; the selected associated location information is displayed in a second user interface, wherein the second user interface comprises an editing mode; and the supplemental information is edited in the edit mode by receiving note information and the note information is associated with the selected associated descri
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: HTC Corporation
    Inventors: John C. Wang, Shu-Fang Hsu, Chih-Wei Cheng
  • Patent number: 10136299
    Abstract: Techniques for use by a mobile device configured to operate in a wireless network for the communication of data messages with a server are described. When the mobile device does not have an open session with the server, the mobile device receives from a service node via the wireless network a message which informs the mobile device that a data message has arrived at the server and needs to be retrieved. The message includes an identifier which identifies the data message at the server. In response to opening an application at the mobile device, the mobile device communicates directly with the server via the wireless network for retrieving the data message. This involves commencing an open session with the server, sending to the server a command for retrieving the data message, and receiving from the server the data message in response to sending the command. The mobile device may use the identifier for retrieving the data message from the server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: David Clark, Allan David Lewis, Barry Gilhuly, David Bajar, Nataliya Martsyna, Robbie John Maurice
  • Patent number: 10129708
    Abstract: A service method in a service system implemented with a computer includes generating, by one or more processors, movement path information from a source location to a destination location in a target building including a plurality of floors; configuring a card view including the movement path information according to each floor from among the plurality of floors; and providing a card view of an occupied floor to the user terminal based on a location of the user terminal, the occupied floor being a floor, from among the plurality of floors, where a user terminal is located, wherein the movement path information is generated based on information about one or more inter-floor moving devices included on paths which extend from the source location to the destination, and wherein the card view includes information about one or more inter-floor moving devices of the occupied floor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignees: LINE CORPORATION, NAVER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jieun Shin, Seungjun Lee, Hyojin Kwon
  • Patent number: 10129807
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods related to reducing or making more efficient handovers from one cell to another cell in a communications network. The method includes receiving mobility data for a device being serviced by a first cell, classifying the device based on the mobility data to yield a classification and making a handoff decision when handing off the device from the first cell to a second cell based at least in part on the classification. An example of the mobility data is a speed at which the device is moving.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: ALFRED CONSULTING LLC
    Inventors: Joseph Anderson Alfred, Yonatan Aharon Levy
  • Patent number: 10129382
    Abstract: An electronic device receives a first distance signal from a sensor embraced by a left receiver of a headset, and a second distance signal from a sensor embraced by a right receiver of the headset. The electronic device obtains a first distance between the left receiver and a left ear of the person according to the first distance signal, and obtains a second distance between the right receiver and a right ear of the person according to the second distance signal. The electronic device executes a specific operation according to the first distance and the second distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: FIH (HONG KONG) LIMITED
    Inventor: Chih-Hao Chang
  • Patent number: 10122408
    Abstract: Detection of a confusion caused by scrambling code reuse is provided herein. Timing measurements, as observed by a mobile device, and an identification of primary scrambling codes associated with the timing measurements are captured. The timing measurements are identified by the primary scrambling codes for the particular radio measured. The mobile device also reports its location information. Radios for which timing measurements have been received are paired. Based on the paired radios and a history of observed time difference reference values for radio pairs, comparisons are made between paired radios having at least one common radio. Radios, exhibiting a set of values that is near an expected range, are removed from the analysis. Radios, exhibiting two sets of values that are distinct, are isolated in order to identify the radio that is causing the scrambling code confusion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: AT&T MOBILITY II LLC
    Inventors: Jeremy Fix, Sheldon Kent Meredith, Rick Tipton
  • Patent number: 10117051
    Abstract: A method for localization of a target device within an environment, the method comprising the steps of: (i) receiving, by a target device, a plurality of wireless signals transmitted from one or more anchor devices within the environment; (ii) determining, by a target device, a received signal strength indication for at least some of the received plurality of wireless signals; (iii) estimating, based on the determined received signal strength indications, a distance from the target device to each of the one or more anchor devices from which a wireless signal was received; and (iv) estimating, based on the estimated distances, a location of the target device within the environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: Clarkson University
    Inventors: Mahesh Banavar, Kevin Mack
  • Patent number: 10104710
    Abstract: A dual-mode mobile device and a method for coordinating calls for the dual-mode mobile device over a first and second connection within a controlled environment is disclosed. The method includes communications between a monitoring server and the dual-mode mobile device over the first connection while the dual-mode mobile device conducts the call over the second connection. The monitoring server transmits control messages to the dual-mode mobile device to control operations of the dual-mode mobile device and establishment of the call and also monitors operations of the dual-mode mobile device as well as the communications transmitted and received by the dual-mode mobile device during the call.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: Global Tel*Link Corporation
    Inventor: Stephen L. Hodge