Patents Examined by Michael Mapa
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Patent number: 9992619Abstract: A proximity beacon signal transmitted by a network device-coupled proximity beacon transmitter is received at a network device. A RSSI reporting message is generated at the network device based on the proximity beacon signal. A position of the network device-coupled proximity beacon transmitter with respect to the network device is determined using the RSSI reporting message. A location of the network device within a region is determined using the RSSI reporting message and network device map data for the region. The location of the network device-coupled proximity beacon transmitter in the region is determined based on the position of the network device-coupled proximity beacon transmitter with respect to the network device and the location of the network device within the region.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2014Date of Patent: June 5, 2018Assignee: Aerohive Networks, Inc.Inventors: Changming Liu, William Hoppin, Chris Scheers
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Patent number: 9986400Abstract: A wearable computing device identifies a gesture made by the user of the wearable computing device. The wearable computing device sends an offer to a second wearable computing device, where the offer is to follow the user. The wearable computing device receives an indication of acceptance of the offer from the second wearable computing device, where the acceptance of the offer comprises an identified gesture made by the user of the second wearable computing device. The wearable computing device sends information related to at least the current location of the wearable computing device to the second wearable computing device.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2017Date of Patent: May 29, 2018Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Eli M. Dow, Joseph D. Harvey, Thomas D. Fitzsimmons, Douglas E. Rohde
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Patent number: 9967702Abstract: An electronic device for managing one or more applications is provided. The electronic device includes a display, a location measurement module, a communication interface, a memory configured to store a first application program and a second application program, and a processor, electrically connected to the display, the location measurement module, the communication interface, and the memory, configured to execute the first application program, acquire a location information request from the first application program, and determine whether to respond to the location information request at least partially based on a state of the display or information related to the first application program when the instructions are executed.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2016Date of Patent: May 8, 2018Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hyun-Woo Park, Dae-Yong Son, Jae-Woong Song, Chang-Ryeol Song, Woo-Jin Jun
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Patent number: 9967376Abstract: The present disclosure provides an electronic device, including: a movable body having at least one functional unit and a main body. The movable body is movable from a first position to a second position with respect to the main body, the main body has a first surface provided with a first display unit, the movable body includes a second surface, a long side of the second surface has a length identical to a length of a short side of the first surface. The first surface and the second surface are both located in a first plane when the movable body is located in the first position with respect to the main body.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2015Date of Patent: May 8, 2018Assignees: Beijing Lenovo Software Ltd., Lenovo (Beijing) LimitedInventors: Shipeng Zhang, Yanyong Li
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Patent number: 9954803Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method of augmenting a voice call with supplemental audio. In one example, the method comprises: receiving predetermined input on a first mobile device during a voice call established between the first mobile device and a second mobile device; determining an audio segment corresponding to the predetermined input; and sending the audio segment from the first mobile device to the second mobile device over a communications network during the voice call.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2017Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventor: Jeremy Lawson Kominar
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Patent number: 9948733Abstract: A system and method for analyzing media requests and evaluating the authenticity of geographic data associated with the media requests. A mobile device may use media requests to retrieve media items that are displayed to a user. A media request may include geographic data with latitude and longitude information and entity data identifying a user, application, mobile device, or combination thereof. The system may analyze the geographic data to identify locations and may analyze the entity information to identify user activity. The user activity may be internet activity of an application running on another device (e.g., user's desktop). The system may then correlate the user activity (e.g., accessing a venue web site) with the geographic locations (e.g., venue locations) to evaluate the authenticity of the geographic data associated with the mobile requests.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2016Date of Patent: April 17, 2018Assignee: DSTILLERY, INC.Inventors: Melinda Han Williams, Ori M. Stitelman, Rodney Alan Hook
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Patent number: 9942385Abstract: A system and a method for preventing and/or limiting use of mobile devices are provided. The method includes receiving, by a mobile device, a message indicating that the mobile device is in a certain location, and determining a user-configured security policy of the mobile device based on the certain location. The method further includes at least one of disabling and enabling, by the mobile device, one or more functions of the mobile device based on the determined user-configured security policy.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2011Date of Patent: April 10, 2018Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Frank C. Fisk, Sri Ramanathan, Matthew A. Terry, Matthew B. Trevathan
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Patent number: 9942690Abstract: Method and device for information push are provided in the disclosure, which may include: obtaining a keyword input by a user, identifying an Application Program (APP) package name corresponding to the keyword input based on a first data table stored in the smart device, the first data table including correspondence relationships between APP package names and keywords, determining whether the APP corresponding to the APP package name is installed in the device, pushing the keyword to the APP if the APP is installed in the device. The technical solutions of the disclosure may push the keyword related with the user behaviors to an APP, so that the APP may locate operations related with the keyword, and push the operations to the user in the form of operation prompt messages, and thus facilitate the user quickly starting the related operations of the APP with simple action.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2016Date of Patent: April 10, 2018Assignee: Xiaomi Inc.Inventors: Yi Gao, Hongqiang Wang, Yunyuan Ge
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Patent number: 9930592Abstract: Methods and systems are provided herein for selecting networks for a mobile communications device. Methods for selecting a network connection for a mobile communications device may include receiving signals that comprise location information of the mobile communications device and selecting a first network type or a second network type for the mobile communications device based upon a magnitude of movement of the mobile communications device determined from the location information, the first network type comprising a network that is capable of handing off active sessions for the mobile communications device, the second network type comprising a network that having a reduced capacity or no capacity to hand off active sessions for the mobile communications device.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2014Date of Patent: March 27, 2018Assignee: Mimosa Networks, Inc.Inventor: Brian L. Hinman
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Patent number: 9917919Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a memory configured to store at least one of a contact list or a call list, a communication module configured to transmit a phone number, included in at least one of the contact list or the call list, to a server and receive company information, associated with the phone number, from the server, and a control module configured to estimate a user profile using at least one of a word included in the contact list or a word included in the company information.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2015Date of Patent: March 13, 2018Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hee Jun Song, Joo Seuk Kim, Jong Eun Yang, Jin Ho Moon, Hee Seon Park
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Patent number: 9900821Abstract: When a handover request for performing a handover of a terminal (70) from a macro cell C1 to a CSG cell C2 is received from an SeNB 10 (S8), a base station (TeNB) (40) of the CSG cell C2 transmits a handover response in accordance with a handover enabled/disabled state (S12). The handover response includes an identifier of the terminal (70) in the CSG cell C2. Upon receiving the response, the SeNB (10) notifies the identifier to the terminal (70) (S14). The TeNB (40) repeatedly transmits a dedicated signal containing a handover command via a dedicated channel set using the identifier at an interval shorter than a gap period (S18). Accordingly, whether or not access is permitted can be judged promptly and a smooth handover can be realized.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2017Date of Patent: February 20, 2018Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of AmericaInventors: Hidenori Matsuo, Takahisa Aoyama, Hong Tat Toh, Hidetoshi Suzuki
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Patent number: 9900446Abstract: An information processing method, an electronic apparatus, and a server are described.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2015Date of Patent: February 20, 2018Assignee: LENOVO (BEIJING) CO., LTD.Inventors: Zhuangzhuang Hao, Daliang Sun, Chenggui Wu, Ming Xiang, Meng Liu
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Patent number: 9894568Abstract: A method for policy converging, a UE, and a server are provided. The method includes: sending, by a UE, a policy request message to a first policy server; receiving a policy response message from the first policy server, where the policy response message includes first policy information of the first policy server and information about at least one piece of second policy information; acquiring the at least one piece of second policy information according to the information about the at least one piece of second policy information; and converging, according to the policy response message, the first policy information and the at least one piece of second policy information to generate converged policy information.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2015Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventor: Youyang Yu
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Patent number: 9894600Abstract: A method, system, and medium are provided for adaptively providing network access to mobile devices. The mobile devices have a first interface for a wireless access network and a second interface for a personal area network. The wireless access network connects the mobile devices to a base station, and the personal area network connects the mobile device to other mobile devices that are part of the personal area network. Wireless access conditions are generated by the base station and communicated over the wireless access network to mobile devices that generate network access requests. Additionally, the mobile devices may transmit the wireless access conditions over the personal are network to other mobile devices that are within a predetermined distance. The mobile devices detect that the wireless access conditions in the wireless access network have degraded and adaptively select alternate routes to complete the network access requests.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2015Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.Inventors: Ahsan Habib, Brian Douglas Mauer, Lyle Walter Paczkowski, Pallavur Ananthakrishnan Sankaranaraynan, Matthew Carl Schlesener
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Patent number: 9888478Abstract: According to one embodiment of the present specification, a method for reporting performance of a terminal in a mobile communication system includes the steps of: receiving a request for performance reporting from a base station; determining an indicator of whether a delay time related operation that the terminal supports is in correspondence with the request which corresponds to a pre-set condition; and transmitting a message including the determined indicator to the base station. According to one aspect of the present specification, the size of the performance reporting message is minimized in reporting the performance of the terminal.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2013Date of Patent: February 6, 2018Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Soeng Hun Kim, Gert Jan Van Lieshout, Kyeong In Jeong
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Patent number: 9882938Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are provided for operating a server apparatus for providing a composite Automatic Response System (ARS) service through a mobile communication network. An ARS scenario and composite ARS related information are received from a first terminal. The composite ARS related information includes video ARS related information and voice ARS related information based on the ARS scenario. The ARS scenario and the composite ARS related information are stored. A call establishment request message directed to the first terminal, is received from the second terminal. The composite ARS related information is provided to the second terminal in response to the received call establishment request message. A call is established between the first terminal and the second terminal in response to an input for a call connection request, directed to the first terminal, received while the composite ARS related information is provided to the second terminal.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2015Date of Patent: January 30, 2018Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., LtdInventors: Dohyung Kim, Young-Ky Kim, Jae-Duck Lee, Ki-Ho Cho
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Patent number: 9872136Abstract: Described herein are architectures, platforms and methods for implementing a direct estimation of a transmitter's position based upon raw radio frequency (RF) signals that are received by a portable device. A mathematical operation such as a maximum-likelihood estimation (MLE) algorithm, which utilizes collected snapshots from the received raw RF signals as variables, is implemented to perform direct estimation.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2015Date of Patent: January 16, 2018Assignee: Intel IP CorporationInventors: Ofer Bar-Shalom, Assaf Kasher
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Patent number: 9854513Abstract: A cell is recommended to a first user equipment for selection during its cell selection process, wherein the recommendation is based on a performance parameter between the cell and a second user equipment, wherein the recommendation is based on a determined degree of similarity between the first user equipment and the second user equipment.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2013Date of Patent: December 26, 2017Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (publ)Inventors: MingXue Wang, John Keeney
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Patent number: 9838063Abstract: A device case for a portable electronic device includes a device stand attached to a back surface of the case housing. The device stand is formed by an inner stand and outer stand connected by releasable hinged connections to the back surface of the case housing. A track is formed on a surface of the outer stand that the inner stand slides along. A locking portion such as a cavity or channel on the outer stand locks the inner stand into an open position with respect to the outer stand. At least a portion of the outer stand is flexible such that applying a threshold pressure to the device case causes the portion of the outer stand to flex such that the locking portion releases the inner and outer stand from the open position without damaging the stand.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2016Date of Patent: December 5, 2017Assignee: Griffin Technology, LLCInventors: Daniel Poon, Tony Ray Plunk
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Patent number: 9839002Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a mobility management method and a device, where the mobility management method of a single radio controller includes: receiving a paging message for a UE sent by at least one first network device, where the paging message carries a user identifier used for indicating the UE; determining a paging management context of the UE according to the user identifier, where the paging management context of the UE records network standard information; and determining a paging range according to the paging message and the paging management context of the UE, and initiating paging on the UE in a cell in the paging range. The mobility management method and the device provided in the embodiments of the present invention implement optimization on a paging process and improve a mobility management effect.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2015Date of Patent: December 5, 2017Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., LtdInventor: Weisheng Jin