Patents Examined by Marcos Torres
  • Patent number: 9037170
    Abstract: Approaches are provided for managing an electronic calendar using short message service (SMS). Specifically, an approach is provided that is implemented in a computer infrastructure having computer executable code tangibly embodied on a computer readable storage medium having programming instructions operable to receive an SMS text message including an SMS command to manage an electronic calendar with at least one pre-existing event. The SMS command includes an instruction to modify the at least one pre-existing event. The programming instructions are further operable to execute the SMS command such that the at least one pre-existing event is modified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Dario R. Abramskiehn, John R. Dingler, Blaine H. Dolph, Kelly E. Songer, Matthew B. Trevathan
  • Patent number: 9031032
    Abstract: A system and method for inter-cell interference coordination is provided. A method for controller operation includes receiving interferer information from a device served by the controller, scheduling a cell edge device based on the received interferer information, and reporting usage information of the subset of resources to neighboring controllers. The cell edge device operates in a periphery of a coverage area of the controller, and the cell edge device is scheduled to a subset of resources. The method also includes from each neighboring controller, receiving neighboring usage information of a neighboring subset of resources reserved for cell edge devices served by the neighboring controller. The method further includes scheduling a cell center device based on the received usage information from the neighboring controllers, and transmitting to scheduled devices over their respective scheduled resources. Cell center device is scheduled to resources not in the subset of resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Weimin Xiao, Oghenekome Oteri, Cornelius van Rensburg
  • Patent number: 9031578
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to systems and methods for generating information regarding demographic composition of a location using mobile devices associated with individuals at the location. A method of the present invention comprises receiving information indicating presence of one or more mobile devices associated with one or more individuals at a given location and identifying one or more attributes of the individuals. Information regarding demographic composition of the location is generated through use of the one or more attributes of the one or more individuals with which the one or more mobile devices are associated, wherein the one or more attributes may comprise one or more of age, relationship status, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, race, hobbies, occupation or religion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Inventor: Daniel Mitry
  • Patent number: 9026106
    Abstract: A hybrid satellite communication system in which a hub station transmits signals to remote stations through a satellite at a relatively low frequency which is unaffected by weather effects and in which the remote stations transmit signals to the hub station at a relatively higher frequency which enables the use of more economical equipment at the remote stations. The hub station senses the signal quality or strength received from each remote station and transmits power control signals to remote stations with poor signal strengths to cause such remote stations to increase their output power to overcome weather effects. The power control signals are transmitted on the lower frequency to prevent the power control signals from being masked by the weather effects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Foundation Telecommunications, Inc.
    Inventor: George A. Livergood
  • Patent number: 9014661
    Abstract: In one implementation, a computer-implemented method includes determining a location of a mobile computing device using one or more of a plurality of data sources; communicating, by the mobile computing device, with another computing device as part of a two-way video chat session over a first network connection, the communicating including transmitting the location of the mobile computing device; displaying, as part of the two-way video chat session, real-time video from the other computing device; recording video using one or more cameras that are accessible to the mobile computing device; and transmitting, over a second network connection, the video to a remote storage system for persistent storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Inventor: Christopher deCharms
  • Patent number: 9002333
    Abstract: A reputation system aids in the prevention of unwanted spam or malicious communications from being sent to a mobile device, such as a cell phone. A collaborative process is used to determine ratings for a collection of source identifications of the communications. The source identifications are caller identifications (IDs) of a corresponding voice or SMS communication. A collection of opinions is maintained regarding the caller IDs. The reputation system then uses a method of making automatic predictions about the caller IDs by collecting caller ID information from many users to populate the database of maintained opinions. As such, caller IDs of users who have sent spam or malicious messages can be blocked by using collaborative information from many users, as opposed to relying on individual users to block unwanted communications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Trend Micro Inc.
    Inventors: Ning Tong, Gang Chen
  • Patent number: 8989720
    Abstract: Various embodiments for conducting a phone conferencing session are disclosed. One embodiment is a method implemented in a communication device for conducting a phone conferencing session. The method comprises determining that a user of the communication device wishes to initiate the phone conferencing session, determining a current location of the communication device, retrieving information relating to the user for initiating the phone conferencing session, and initiating the phone conferencing session associated according to the information relating to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: HTC Corporation
    Inventor: Gregory A. Dunko
  • Patent number: 8965325
    Abstract: Emergency call backs may be placed to a user device in a manner that bypasses certain features (e.g., call forwarding) that may be enabled by the device. A method may include receiving an emergency call from a user device; and creating, in response to the emergency call, an emergency session associated with the user device, where the creating includes forwarding the call to a public safety access point (PSAP) server that handles emergency calls. The method may further include receiving a call, such as an emergency call back call, destined for the user device; determining that the emergency session has not expired when an elapse time associated with the emergency session is less than a threshold; and forwarding, to the user device, the call, as a return call from the PSAP server, based on the determination that the emergency session has not expired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Mingxing Li, Jeffrey R. Evans, John H. Wurster, Priscilla Lau
  • Patent number: 8958804
    Abstract: A communication system and a communicating connection method are disclosed. The communication system comprises a first user side, a second user side and a cloud platform. The first user side has a first identity identification code, a first space identification code or a combination thereof. The second user side has a second identity identification code, a second space identification code or combination thereof. The cloud platform comprises a cloud database and a cloud processing module. When the first user side is positioned, the cloud processing module matches and establishes the first user side and the second identity identification code, the second space identification code or the combination thereof, to connect the first user side and the second user side by a VoIP technology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Inventors: Nen-Fu Huang, Wei-Kuan Shih
  • Patent number: 8953573
    Abstract: A method and apparatus may be used for network management via MAC measurements. The measurements may include WTRU uplink traffic loading measurement, and an AP service loading measurement. The measurements may be applicable to at least to layers 1 and 2 as applied to, for example, 802.11k in the context of OFDM and CDMA 2000 systems, but may be applicable to other scenarios as well. A method for determining and transmitting congestion information may be provided for a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) system. The method and apparatus may be used for managing congestion when congestion is detected. The method and apparatus may be used in wireless systems that use a Carrier Sense Multiple Access/Collision Avoidance (CSMA/CA) mechanism. The methods may be implemented in wireless transmit/receive units (WTRU)s and access points (AP)s of various forms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: InterDigital Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Joseph A. Kwak, Marian Rudolf, Teresa Joanne Hunkeler, Shamim Akbar Rahman, Angelo A. Cuffaro, Christopher R. Cave, Vincent Roy, Athmane Touag, Frank LaSita, Ahmed Ali, Paul Marinier
  • Patent number: 8948811
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a communication terminal device capable of performing an image registration correlating with address book information with an easy operation. [Constitution] A mobile phone includes: a camera module 24 for shooting a subject; a memory 105 for storing address book information including telephone numbers; a numeric key portion 11 for an input; and a CPU 100 for extracting the address book information relating to information input by the numeric key portion 11 from the memory 105 and for storing an image shot by the camera module 24 by correlating the image with the address book information in the memory 105 at the same time. When the subject is shot by the camera module 24 after the information is input by the numeric key portion 11, the CPU 100 correlates the image with the extracted address book information and stores them in the memory 105.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroki Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 8942730
    Abstract: A method and system for defining a route between a first user and a second user having respective mobile devices. A communication is established between a backend server (13) and a plurality of mobile devices (11) belonging to a respective user of a cellular phone network (12).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Telefonica, S.A.
    Inventors: Mauro Cherubini, Nuria Oliver Ramirez
  • Patent number: 8942696
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and arrangement in a cellular communication system, in particular to methods and arrangements in a user equipment and a network node for reporting cell measurement results. The present invention provides improved methods and arrangements for reporting cell measurements without significantly increasing the complexity in the cell measurement procedure. The user equipment reports the number of transmit antenna ports used for performing cell measurements on each of the neighbouring cell in its measurement report to the network node. The network node receives the number of transmit antenna ports which enables the network to be aware of the actual number of antenna ports that are used for cell measurements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Vera Vukajlovic Kenehan, Walter Müller, Muhammad Kazmi
  • Patent number: 8942737
    Abstract: Measuring a location of a communication terminal using a wireless local area access point based on location coordinates of the access points and location information of a nearby lamp.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: KT Corporation
    Inventor: Seung-Hyuk Jeong
  • Patent number: 8929871
    Abstract: Methods for reminding a user of a task associated with a communication are disclosed herein. One example of the method involves reminding the user of a task associated with an incoming communication, and another example of the method involves reminding the user of a task associated with an outgoing communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: General Motors LLC
    Inventor: Travis L. Bradburn
  • Patent number: 8914040
    Abstract: Method and arrangement in a network node 302 for improving conditions for ground-based positioning of mobile terminals 310 in a wireless communication system. The method and arrangement concerns adaptation of an antenna arrangement 308 associated with the network node 302, so that a virtual positioning cell 306 is formed in a positioning radio resource, in which positioning reference signals are transmitted or received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Ari Kangas, Bo Hagerman, Yngve Selén, Iana Siomina
  • Patent number: 8913981
    Abstract: A method, system, and medium are provided for generating a profile for public safety answering platforms (PSAP). The profile identifies media formats supported by the PSAPs at various cell sector locations maintained by a network provider. A network server selects a cell sector and generates a first test emergency services call and subsequent test emergency services calls. The test emergency services call is transmitted to a PSAP. During the session with the PSAP, the subsequent test emergency services calls are processed to determine mid-call support for additional multimedia formats or codecs. The PSAP generates responses that indicate whether the PSAP supports a multimedia format or codec identified in the test emergency services call or the subsequent test emergency services call. The PSAP transmits the responses to the network server for storage in the profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventor: Gregory David Schumacher
  • Patent number: 8897755
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention are directed to an information-transfer system that operates within a cell phone. The information-transfer system includes a data-transfer application that, prior to displaying a user interface with a call feature that allows a user to invoke a cell-phone application to place a phone call, places information to transfer to the cell-phone application in an information block for transfer to the cell-phone application. The information-transfer system further includes the cell-phone application, which receives the information block, extracts, from the information block, data for transfer to a telecommunications network, and transfers the extracted data to the telecommunications network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventor: James M. Mann
  • Patent number: 8862154
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for measuring a location of a communication terminal using an access point for a wireless local area network service is provided. The method includes storing access point information collected at each location, extracting information of nearby access points collected together at a location, where information of a reference access point is collected, from the access point information, calculating a barycentric coordinate using location coordinates of the extracted nearby access points, and determining the calculated barycentric coordinate as a final location of the communication terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: KT Corporation
    Inventors: Seung-Hyuk Jeong, Joo-Seong Jeon, Tae-Sook Ha
  • Patent number: 8849357
    Abstract: A mobile terminal according to the present invention includes a first display unit, a second display unit, and a light guide unit. A first internal display area and a second internal display area are arranged to be adjacent to each other via a border. The light guide unit is provided on a side of the first internal display area and the second internal display area. The light guide unit guides display light output from the first display unit and display light output from display light output from the second display unit so that an image displayed on the first internal display area and an image displayed on the second internal display area become a continuous image. Further, the light guide unit has a crystal structure including a plurality of fiber-like crystals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: NEC Casio Mobile Communications Ltd.
    Inventor: Takeshi Houryu