Patents Examined by Matthews Sams
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Patent number: 9549290Abstract: A method performed by an apparatus includes scanning at least one of multiple radio frequencies using at least two beamforming antennas of a plurality of beamforming antennas coupled to the eyewear and detecting, on a first scanned radio frequency, first externally emitted radio energy. The method further includes identifying a first wireless device using the detected first externally emitted radio energy and determining a first direction of the first wireless device relative to the eyewear.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2014Date of Patent: January 17, 2017Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLCInventor: Dwight R. Smith
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Patent number: 9549350Abstract: Systems and techniques for handover management between macro base stations and home base stations. Upon receiving a measurement report from a user device including a physical cell identity and frequency pair associated with a candidate handover home base station, a macro base station transmits a message to a home base station gateway to obtain cell global identifiers of specified home base stations, which may include home base stations associated with a list of physical cell identifiers and frequency pairs including the pair received in the measurement report. Upon receiving the cell global identifiers, the base station identifies a handover target and performs signaling to the user device to direct handover to the target.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2013Date of Patent: January 17, 2017Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks OyInventors: Rossella De Benedittis, Juergen Mayer, Sean Kelley
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Patent number: 9544776Abstract: Providing a coding scheme for wireless communication downlink reference signals is described herein. By way of example, a dedicated reference signal is mapped to resources of a wireless channel as a function of an identifier (ID) of a cell in which the reference signal is transmitted. The function can be similar to mapping functions employed for common reference signals, or can be distinct from such functions. As one example of the latter, a dedicated reference signal mapping function can be shifted in time or frequency with respect to the common reference signal mapping function. By employing a mapping function based on cell ID, noise caused by concurrent transmission of reference signals can be mitigated in a manner readily determined by terminals in a wireless network.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2009Date of Patent: January 10, 2017Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Tao Luo, Juan Montojo, Peter Gaal, Sandip Sarkar
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Patent number: 9544784Abstract: The present invention provides a mobile terminal, comprising: a detection module for detecting the environment that the mobile terminal is in; and a display module for displaying corresponding control buttons according to detected environmental data. Accordingly, the present invention also provides a method of displaying according to environmental data. The technical solution of the present invention can effectively avoid users' misoperation of an incoming call and the like when the mobile terminal is put in a pocket or bag.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2011Date of Patent: January 10, 2017Assignee: Yulong Computer Telecommunication Scientific (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.Inventor: Chenfu Cui
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Patent number: 9537943Abstract: An apparatus for providing a social network diagram in a P2P network device includes a communication element and an updating element. The communication element is configured to receive an access ticket from an originating node, the access ticket for accessing content via a network. The updating element is configured to determine a true degree of separation between the originating node and the apparatus embodied as a recipient node based on a delivery route of the access ticket and past delivery routes of past access tickets.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2006Date of Patent: January 3, 2017Assignee: Core Wireless Licensing S.a.r.l.Inventors: Jukka Parkkinen, Mikko A. Hyvarinen, Kari Kaarela, Kirmo Koistinen, Hannu Kauniskangas
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Patent number: 9538015Abstract: The invention includes a method and apparatus for computing a bill for a wireless subscriber communicating using a converged wireless network. The method includes obtaining service usage information for communications by the wireless subscriber using a wide-area wireless network, obtaining service usage information for communications by the wireless subscriber using a small-area wireless network, and computing a bill value using the wide-area service usage information and the small-area service usage information, and adjusting the bill value using a bill adjustment value that is determined using the small-area service usage information and a bill adjustment parameter.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2006Date of Patent: January 3, 2017Assignee: Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc.Inventor: David W. Giesecke
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Patent number: 9525994Abstract: A rogue base station detection system that establishes a communication session with a suspected base station, and verifies whether the base station is rogue or innocent by testing which advanced communication features are supported by the base station. The detection system holds a definition of one or more communication features that are supported by innocent base stations and not by rogue base stations. During a communication session with a suspected base station, the detection system requests the base station to activate these communication features. If the base station does not support the features in question, it is likely to be rogue.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2014Date of Patent: December 20, 2016Assignee: VERINT SYSTEMS LTD.Inventor: Eithan Goldfarb
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Patent number: 9521704Abstract: Aspects of the innovations herein relates to a housing having a housing wall comprising a polymer including electrically conductive particles, wherein an inner chamber is provided in the housing, and is formed and enclosed by the housing wall and into which a mobile telephone may be inserted. In some implementations, the housing wall may be designed to attenuate a mobile radio signal of the mobile telephone, such as by ?3 dB, as compared to unobstructed propagation, on the side of the housing wall facing away from the inner chamber.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2016Date of Patent: December 13, 2016Assignee: P3 Communications GmbHInventors: Jan Matti Reiffenrath, Peter Seidenberg
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Patent number: 9516691Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for a base station to control a proximity service (ProSe) in a wireless communication system including the steps of: tracking at least two or more terminals which camp on the base station and have a ProSe relationship with each other on a direct data path; and determining whether to switch the direct data path in the case where one or more terminals from among the two or more terminals try to perform a handover or in the case where the distance between the two or more terminals is equal to or greater than a preset value.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2013Date of Patent: December 6, 2016Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Hyunsook Kim, Jaehyun Kim, Laeyoung Kim, Taehyeon Kim
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Patent number: 9516566Abstract: A method and device for initiation a mobile originating service-based inter-system handover. At least two radio access networks (RANs) of different types, i.e. RAN of a first type and a RAN of a second type. A dual-mode mobile terminal communicates with the communication system via the RAN of the first type. The initiation of the inter-system handover is included in a transmission including a bearer capability (BC) field. The BC field indicates that a requested service is only operable with the RAN of the second type. In particular, at least one BC field is set to a parameter value, which serves as indication for the receiving network and its processing entities, respectively, which receiving network indicated to carry out the inter-system handover initiated by the mobile terminal.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2015Date of Patent: December 6, 2016Assignee: Vringo Infrastructure Inc.Inventor: Antti Pitkamaki
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Patent number: 9510352Abstract: The disclosure relates to methods and arrangements wherein a user equipment (UE) supporting a first frequency band HB is enabled to communicate with a network utilizing a second frequency band. The second frequency band is a sub-band of the first frequency band or overlaps with the first frequency band. The UE, which supports the first frequency band, implements 32 the channel numbering scheme of the second frequency band SB which overlaps with the first frequency band HB. This enables the UE supporting the first frequency band HB to recognize the second frequency band SB and communicate 33 with the network when the UE is camped or connected to a cell operating in the second frequency band SB.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2011Date of Patent: November 29, 2016Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)Inventors: Muhammad Kazmi, Christian Bergljung
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Patent number: 9503894Abstract: The method, system and device examples provide for a mobile device biometric authentication that authenticates an application user via a biometric input, and thereby reduce the need to enter complex user credentials into a mobile device to gain access to a mobile application. The examples leverage the biometric recognition operations managed by the operating system of the mobile device to allow a mobile application to authenticate the user as a valid user of the mobile application. In an example, a successfully unlocking of a mobile device via a biometric input from a user is used by the mobile application to perform an authentication operation with assistance from an authentication server to authenticate the user of the mobile device as a valid user of the mobile application. As a result, the mobile application grants access to the mobile application based on the user's biometric input.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2014Date of Patent: November 22, 2016Assignee: Cellco PartnershipInventors: Sankar Shanmugam, Moorthy Sengottaiyan, Sivagnanalingam Sivaganesh
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Patent number: 9503951Abstract: Disclosed are methods and apparatus for a switch from a first communication path between a first device and a second device to a second communication path to be established between the first device and the second device. A method can comprise: in response to the initiation of the switch, sending a notification of the initiation of the switch to a base station for setting up an intermediate communication path between the first device and the second device, wherein the intermediate communication path is relayed by the base station and does not pass a core network; and delivering traffics between the first device and the second device via the intermediate communication path until the second communication path is established.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2012Date of Patent: November 22, 2016Assignee: Nokia Technologies OyInventors: Yixue Lei, Xiang Xu
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Patent number: 9503937Abstract: A mobile communication system includes a first Home Node B (HNB); a second HNB; and a HNB gateway (HNB-GW) that is connected to a core network, wherein the first HNB is configured to communicate with a user equipment (UE) before a relocation of intra HNB-GW in which the UE is relocated from the first HNB to the second HNB, wherein the second HNB is configured to communicate with a user equipment (UE) after the relocation and send Iu-UP Initialization comprising an RFCI information to the HNB-GW during the relocation, and wherein the HNB-GW is configured to receive the Iu-UP Initialization.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2015Date of Patent: November 22, 2016Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Koichi Mochizuki, Yoshio Ueda
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Patent number: 9497648Abstract: Various embodiments manage service issues in a wireless communication network. In one embodiment, a plurality of call detail records associated with a wireless communication network is received. The plurality of call detail records is analyzed. At least one pattern from the plurality of call detail records is identified based on analyzing the plurality of call detail records. The at least one pattern indicates at least one service issue occurred during a set of calls associated with each of the plurality of call detail records. A location associated with the at least one service issue that has occurred is identified based on identifying the at least one pattern.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2014Date of Patent: November 15, 2016Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Parul Gupta, Shivkumar Kalyanaraman, Ravindranath Kokku, Vinay Kumar Kolar, Ramya Raghavendra
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Patent number: 9491273Abstract: A shell for a mobile telephone able to comprise a subscriber identity card. The mobile telephone has, on the one hand, a front face exhibiting a user interface and, on the other hand, a rear face. The shell has an internal surface and an external surface. This shell has a suitable shape adapted for removably receiving the mobile telephone so that the rear face of the mobile telephone is held along the internal surface of the shell. The internal surface comprises: a first means adapted for holding a near-field communication device and an antenna associated therewith; and a second means adapted for guiding at least a portion of a wire-based interface intended to link the near-field communication device to the subscriber identity card.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2011Date of Patent: November 8, 2016Assignee: OrangeInventors: Philippe Levionnais, David Picquenot
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Patent number: 9491567Abstract: The disclosure is related to a method of providing M2M data to an unregistered user terminal. The method may include receiving a request message from a first user terminal registered at the M2M service server to provide predetermined data collected from a M2M device to a second user terminal, determining whether the second user terminal is a subscriber of the M2M service server, temporary registering the second user terminal when the second user terminal is not a subscriber of the M2M service server, and providing the predetermined data to the second user terminal.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2014Date of Patent: November 8, 2016Assignee: KT CORPORATIONInventor: Bum-Mo Koo
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Patent number: 9474077Abstract: Each of a plurality of first radio units are installed in a plurality of first cells making up a first area, each of a plurality of second radio units are installed in a plurality of second cells making up a second area being separated from the first area, a first radio control unit is constantly connected to a plurality of the first radio units that serve about half of traffic peak in the first area and constantly connected to a plurality of the second radio units that serve about half of traffic peak in the second area, a second radio control unit is constantly connected to the remaining plurality of the first radio units and constantly connected to the remaining plurality of the second radio units, and an upper controller is connected to the first radio control unit and the second radio control unit.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2013Date of Patent: October 18, 2016Assignee: NEC CorporationInventor: Nobumasa Kurihara
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Patent number: 9456333Abstract: A mobile device utilizes a two-stage dialing solution when roaming on a visited mobile operator (MO) network to implement centralized routing so that a home network portion of a hybrid network is inserted into the path of outbound calls. A remote centralized routing (CR) service interoperates with a CR client on the mobile device. When a call is initiated to a remote party, the CR client calls into an arbitrary roaming routing number that is terminated in the home network. Once the call is connected between the mobile device and home network, the CR client sends a dialing string that includes a destination number of the remote party. The CR service calls the destination number and then bridges the calls to the mobile device and remote party to establish an end-to-end call path between the local and far ends of the call that traverses the home network.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2014Date of Patent: September 27, 2016Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Mahendra Sekaran, Vijay Kishen Hampapur Parthasarathy, Anish Desai, Ramkumar Natarajan, Jeffrey Kay, John Bruner, Ray Froelich, Tript Singh Lamba, Bayo Olatunji, Amey Parandekar, Vishal Ghotge, Andrew Peter Schoorl, Eugen Pajor, Shaun Pierce, Dhigha Sekaran, Frank Stephen Serdy, Jr., John Skovron, Reid Kuhn
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Patent number: 9439056Abstract: Methods and systems may provide for conducting an authentication of an external card associated with a borrower of a device, and tracking a usage of the device by the borrower if the authentication of the external card is successful. In addition, the usage may be reported to a billing service. The usage may be billed according to a fee based policy so that payment for the usage may be obtained from the borrower of the device rather than the owner of the device.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2012Date of Patent: September 6, 2016Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Ravikiran Chukka, Gyan Prakash, Rajesh Poornachandran, Saurabh Dadu