Patents Examined by Meless Zewdu
  • Patent number: 9179432
    Abstract: For operating a telecommunications network for mobile telecommunication, a network register is used holding identifiers of mobile terminals for communication via the telecommunications network and network-related user data of the terminals. This the network register is formed from a peer-to-peer network having a multiplicity of decentralized register nodes that are networked with one another and are each associated with one geographic region. Hash tables held in the register nodes hold the identifiers of the terminals as hash values, and user data is stored associated with these hash values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: DEUTSCHE TELEKOM AG
    Inventor: Rainer Schatzmayr
  • Patent number: 9167405
    Abstract: A device receives a message from a fixed user device associated with a first user. The first user is associated with a first mobile user device, and the message is destined for a second mobile user device associated with a second user. The device generates a first charge record for the first user based on the message and on a telephone number associated with the first mobile user device, and provides the first charge record to a billing system. The device generates a copy of the message, provides the copy of the message to the first mobile user device, and forwards the message toward the second mobile user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: Cellco Partnership
    Inventors: Kumar Sanjeev, Zhijian Lin, Wei Guang Tan, Seng Kin Liew
  • Patent number: 9155100
    Abstract: A cellular communication system comprising a plurality of user equipment and a network infrastructure. Radio resource of the plurality of cells is divided into more than one radio resource groups. A network infrastructure element detects a requirement of radio resource allocation for a user equipment and determines effective interference to be generated by the required radio resource to a defined group of neighboring cells. User equipment is allocated a radio resource from one of the radio resource groups on the basis of the determined effective interference to be generated to the defined group of neighboring cells. Inter-cell interference decreases and the throughput of the cellular system increases, but the exchange of physical layer information is not increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Esa Tapani Tiirola, Kari Pekka Pajukoski, Kari Juhani Hooli, Kari Horneman
  • Patent number: 9148792
    Abstract: This disclosure is directed to a dynamic certification system. In general, a device may transmit a request message to a cloud spectrum broker/licensed shared access (CSB/LSA) controller requesting certification for operation in shared wireless spectrum. The device may then receive a response message containing information on available certifications for operating in the shared wireless spectrum. If at least one available certification is determined to be usable by the device, then, depending on the system configuration, the device may claim an available certification (e.g., by obtaining an electronic certification document, token, etc.) or may request to use an available certificate, which may be confirmed by the CSB/LSA controller. The device may then operate in the shared wireless spectrum based on conditions set forth in the certificate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2015
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Reza Arefi, Markus Dominik Mueck
  • Patent number: 9144046
    Abstract: Systems and methods for adaptive OTA (over-the-air) synchronization of RF (radio frequency) base stations are described herein. Using these systems and methods, base stations in wireless audio systems can automatically identify externally sourced base station clocks and merge overlapping clock system domains, thereby eliminating the need for complex base station management and network configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: Revo Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Alexandre Sousa, Antonio Manuel Pedroso, Martin Bodley, Pascal Cleve, Jonathan Schau
  • Patent number: 9143894
    Abstract: A mechanism is described for facilitating proximity and context-based deduction of global positioning of computing devices according to one embodiment of the invention. A method of embodiments of the invention includes detecting wireless proximity of a plurality of computing devices with respect to a computing device, and selecting one or more of the plurality of computing devices based on their detected proximity to the computing device. The method may further include receiving contextual information from the one or more computing devices, and semantically deducing location of the computing device based on the received contextual information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Justin Lipman, Robert Colby
  • Patent number: 9137836
    Abstract: Systems and methods for user equipment (UE) for inter-device communication authorization and data sniffing in wireless communication systems are provided. A UE may communicate directly with another UE over a direct inter-device communication link when they are located in proximity. The UE may receive data sniffing related parameters corresponding to the inter-device communication link from a network entity, e.g. a mobile management entity (MME). The UE may store data exchanged over the inter-device communication link in a buffer and upload the stored data to a secure server in a network periodically or upon receiving a request from the network. Long term evolution (LTE) downlink or uplink radio resources may be used for the data exchange over the inter-device communication link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Chandra Sekhar Bontu, Yi Song, Zhijun Cai
  • Patent number: 9131377
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and an apparatus for unlocking an operating system, which are used to unlock the system with personal information data when a user forgets a password, thereby increasing a probability of successful unlocking of the user. The method of the embodiment of the present invention includes: when a user fails in unlocking the system via an unlock pattern in an unlocking interface for pattern unlocking, displaying an unlocking interface for personal information authentication, and matching personal information input by the user with personal information pre-stored in a local database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: Huawei Device Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kai Huang
  • Patent number: 9125031
    Abstract: A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided. Embodiments can enhance and improve USSD based messaging options. In an example, a USSD GW is equipped to determine that an USSD based message is able to be communicated using a common channel, and send the USSD based message as part of a USSD session to a MSC with a service indicator prompting the MSC to communicate an informational element of the message to a MS using the common channel. In another example, a MSC is equipped to receive an USSD based message that includes a service indicator prompting the MSC to communicate an informational element to a MS using a common channel. Other aspects, embodiments, and features are also claimed and described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventor: Roozbeh Atarius
  • Patent number: 9125113
    Abstract: A user equipment UE selects between a first scanning mode and a second scanning mode using at least inputs of signal quality of a link with an access node and at least one of UE speed and network type of the access node. It then determines a scanning rate using the selected scanning mode and the UE speed, and detects and measures inter-frequency neighbor cells according to the determined scanning rate. In one example both modes the increase scanning rate for increased UE speeds, except that for the first mode speeds above Vt1 yield a zero scanning rate regardless of UE speed and for the second mode speeds above Vt2 yield a constant maximum scanning rate regardless of UE speed. In an embodiment the second mode is selected when the UE speed is >Vt1, and the signal quality is less than a predetermined minimum. Various other examples are detailed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Athul Prasad, Carl S. Wijting, Jari Petteri Lunden, Osman Nuri C. Yilmaz
  • Patent number: 9113318
    Abstract: Management of multiple subscriber identity modules by a server is disclosed. The server includes one or more processors, and one or more memories storing instructions, that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the server, for each subscriber identity module belonging to a set of subscriber identity modules of a user of a mobile terminal, to: cause an analysis on use of the subscriber identity module; cause a prediction of a future activity status change of the subscriber identity module on the basis of the analysis; and cause an action affecting the activity status of the subscriber identity module on the basis of the prediction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: UROS TECHNOLOGY S.ÀR.L.
    Inventors: Jari Korkiakoski, Tommi Uhari
  • Patent number: 9100848
    Abstract: A location judgment unit (411) judges whether an installation location of a base station (10) is in a first area corresponding to a service area of a first network operator. A frequency determination unit (412) determines, by using a first procedure, a radio frequency for use in wireless communication between the base station (10) and a mobile station (30) when the installation location of the base station (10) is in the first area, and determines the radio frequency of the base station (10) by using a second procedure different from the first procedure when the installation location of the base station (10) is outside the first area. The second procedure includes: receiving information on a frequency available in the installation location of the base station (10) from a frequency management system (50) that manages a frequency of a second area including the installation location of the base station (10); and determining a radio frequency of the base station (10) based on the frequency information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Atsushi Nakata
  • Patent number: 9088936
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method of establishing a call to or from a user equipment in a wireless communication system comprising a first wireless network and a second wireless network, the second wireless network having an association with the first wireless network, the wireless communication system having a serving node and an application server capable of communication with said serving node, and the method comprising: receiving a message from said serving node at the application server, said message having information regarding network capabilities of said user equipment; and determining at the application server whether to anchor said call in the first wireless network or the second wireless network dependent on said information regarding network capabilities of said user equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Haris Zisimopoulos, Ricky Kaura
  • Patent number: 9084086
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for location matching. The method may include tracking, by the user equipment, a plurality of locations of the user equipment, the plurality of locations mapped to a plurality of time values representative of when the user equipment traversed the plurality of locations; determining, by the user equipment, a first location of the user equipment, wherein the determining is based on a first time value received from an interface; providing, by the user equipment, at least one of the determined first location and the received first time value to a database searchable based on the at least one of the determined first location and the received first time value; and receiving, at the user equipment, an indication of whether the database includes one or more items matching the at least one of the determined first location and the received first time value. Related systems, methods, and articles of manufacture are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: SAP AG
    Inventor: Jens Bombolowsky
  • Patent number: 9078078
    Abstract: A call-forwarding method that is implemented using a computer includes storing a profile that is associated with a mobile communications device and at least one additional forwarding destination using the computer; receiving a status indicator; receiving a call that is directed to an identifier that is associated with the profile; and selectively routing the call to the mobile communications device or the additional forwarding destination, based on the status indicator and the profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventor: Lawrence Ari Fine
  • Patent number: 9078201
    Abstract: An idle mode UE can RACH to a cell different from the cell paging the UE. The UE can be allocated additional time to respond to all cells in the neighborhood to identify the cell in which to RACH. Interference cancellation can occur at different rates based on whether the UE is in connected mode or idle mode. The time to respond to the page can be a function of a paging cycle. Additionally, a variable bias may promote early handoff to lower power cells and late handoff to high power cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Kapil Bhattad, Alexei Yurievitch Gorokhov, Tingfang Ji, Ke Liu, Tao Luo, Xiliang Luo
  • Patent number: 9071433
    Abstract: The present disclosure presents an improved method and apparatus for re-transmission of reconfiguration messages. For example, the disclosure presents a method for detecting that a reconfiguration complete message is transmitted from a user equipment (UE) to a network and initiating a reconfiguration re-transmission timer upon the detection. In addition, such an example method, may include determining that the UE has not received a layer two acknowledgement (L2 ACK) message for the transmitted reconfiguration complete message from the network prior to expiration of the reconfiguration re-transmission timer and triggering a cell update message to the network in response to the determination that the UE has not received the L2 ACK message. As such, improved re-transmission of reconfiguration messages may be achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ansah Ahmed Sheik, Liangchi Hsu, Sathish Krishnamoorthy
  • Patent number: 9063216
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for providing a location based service in a wireless communication system are provided. A method of a Base Station (BS) for a Location Based Service (LBS) in a wireless communication system includes allocating identifiers to a plurality of transmission devices in a service coverage area of the BS, generating a Reference Signal (RS) including the identifier of the corresponding transmission device and an identifier of the BS with respect to each of the transmission devices, and transmitting the RS generated for each of the transmission devices, to a Mobile Station (MS) via the corresponding transmission device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jin-Hee Won, Sang-Heon Kim, Seong-Hyeon Chae, Hee-Won Kang
  • Patent number: 9066330
    Abstract: Methods, systems and devices are provided for controlling a communication device. Embodiments include receiving, through the transceiver, a voice call from a first network subscription associated with a first SIM of the communication device. The voice call may interrupt an active data services session through the transceiver with a second network subscription associated with a second SIM of the communication device. Also, embodiments include establishing an active voice communication connection for the voice call on the transceiver with the first network subscription. Additionally, reestablishing the active data services session through the transceiver with the first network subscription while maintaining the active voice communication connection for the voice call with the first network subscription.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ling Hang, Chih-Ping Hsu
  • Patent number: 9014722
    Abstract: It is determined whether a location of a mobile device is within a coverage region of a first information service. Communications for the first information service are redirected to a second information service when the location of the mobile device is not within a coverage region of the first information service. The second information service generally has a coverage region encompassing the location of the mobile device. Communications between the mobile device and the first information service are redirected to a new information service when properties of the new information service are determined to meet predetermined criteria set by a user of the mobile device, by an application, or both. In yet another aspect of the invention, replacement of information services can be “aggressive” or “non-aggressive.” Communications between the mobile device and an original information service are redirected to another information service when the original information service fails.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Alan George Cole, Sastry S. Duri, Jonathan Paul Munson, John S. Murdock, Jr.