Patents Examined by Muthuswamy G. Manoharan
  • Patent number: 10382609
    Abstract: A system for sharing sounds on a phone call, using a smartphone having a touchscreen display, having a sound library containing a plurality of sounds, and having an app for facilitating the sound sharing functionality, and for initiating a phone call. The app includes a pad controller view which displays a plurality of pads that may each be associated with one of the sounds in the library and will play that sound upon request. The app includes means for associating the sounds with the pads, for editing the sounds associated with the pads, and for adjusting the relative volume of sounds associated with the pads with a mix that may be provided as outgoing audio on the phone call.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Inventor: Steve Antoine
  • Patent number: 10356630
    Abstract: A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium provide to receive from an end device operated by a user, a measurement of a signal transmitted by a wireless station of a wireless access network to the end device, wherein the measurement is taken outside of a building; receive, from the end device, another measurement of a signal transmitted by the wireless station to the end device, wherein the other measurement is taken inside the building; calculate, based on the first measurement and the second measurement, a path loss, for a second frequency, between a future generation cell site and the building; calculate a received signal power of the future generation cell site based on the path loss; compare the received signal power to a threshold value; determine, based on the comparison, whether the user is qualified to receive future generation equipment to be placed in the building.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Deepak Chadaga, Nimalan Kanagasabai, Rohit Saraf, Robert Malupin
  • Patent number: 10349243
    Abstract: Various systems are provided comprising: a building including one or more facilities each including at least one broadcast short-range communications unit having a fixed location, an application/computer code configured for execution by at least one of a plurality of mobile devices, and at least one server, that, together, are configured to cooperate to trigger one or more mobile device actions including causing to be output visual information, based on particular location-relevant information that is, in turn, based on at least one value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: Dyfan, LLC
    Inventors: Scott Sturges Andrews, Axel Fuchs
  • Patent number: 10306045
    Abstract: [Object] To reduce power consumption even more. [Solution] Provided is a communication control device including a communication necessity information acquisition unit configured to acquire communication necessity information indicating necessity to communicate with an external device, and a drive control unit configured to control drive of a first communication unit and a second communication unit on a basis of the acquired communication necessity information, the first communication unit communicating with the external device using a first communication mode, the second communication unit communicating with the external device using a second communication mode capable of transferring data at a rate higher than the first communication mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hirotaka Ishikawa, Makoto Takahashi, Yuichi Suzuki, Yasuki Kanema, Chisako Kajihara, Tohru Kadono, Takeshi Iwatsu
  • Patent number: 10264496
    Abstract: A method of performing cell selection for a set of mobile terminals among at least two neighboring cells including a first and a second radio access node, respectively, includes acquiring a value of at least one property reflecting a network condition for each one of the mobile terminals, determining with which one of the first and second radio access nodes each of the mobile terminals initially should be associated based on the value of the acquired property for each mobile terminal, and generating a plurality of variations to the determined initial association based on a corresponding selected parameter. The method includes performing cell selection for at least a subset of the generated plurality of variations to the initial association, and determining a value of a metric for each of the performed cell selections and associating each metric value with said acquired property.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Vincent Huang, Asa Bertze, Steven Corroy
  • Patent number: 10257658
    Abstract: A method and system for automatically updating a self-learning data repository. The method is executed in a processor of a server computing device to store a fingerprint map of an area in the self-learning data repository, the fingerprint map having positioning fingerprint data that includes magnetic spatial derivative fingerprint data, receive, at the self-learning data repository, at least one of mobile device signal data and mobile device sensor data correlated with a sequence of positions along a trajectory describing a movement of a mobile device relative to the area, the sensor data including mobile device magnetic spatial derivative data, and automatically update, using the processor, the self-learning data repository by adding the at least one of mobile device signal data and mobile device sensor data to the positioning fingerprint data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: MAPSTED CORP.
    Inventors: Sean Huberman, Eros Gulo
  • Patent number: 10251148
    Abstract: A method for locating a terminal equipped with a UICC card, connected to a cellular telecommunications network and located in a current cell, the terminal storing in the UICC card an identifier of the current cell and at least one identifier of a previous cell in which the terminal was previously located. This method comprises the following steps, implemented by a processing server connected to the network: receiving said identifiers received from the terminal via the communication network; estimating location information for the terminal using location coordinates associated with at least one previous cell identified by an identifier stored in the terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: Orange
    Inventors: Yann Collet, Stephane Bandin
  • Patent number: 10244386
    Abstract: A method and system for assigning a unique logical address in a cloud cell having a mobile station, slave base stations and a master base station are provided. The method includes determining at least one unassigned logical address from respective address spaces associated with the slave base stations and the master base station in the cloud cell by the master base station, selecting the unique logical address from the at least one unassigned logical address determined from the respective address spaces associated with the plurality of base stations, and assigning the selected unique logical address to the mobile station in the cloud cell. The mobile station and each of the plurality of base stations communicate in the cloud cell using the assigned unique logical address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Anil Agiwal, Anshuman Nigam, Young-bin Chang
  • Patent number: 10231278
    Abstract: A technique for controlling set up of a terminating call to a UE in a CSFB situation involving a first MSC paging the UE and a second MSC where the UE is performing a Location Update is described. A method implementation of this technique comprises receiving, from an HLR, a PRN message and forwarding information received in the PRN message to the second MSC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Ralf Keller, Karl-Peter Ranke
  • Patent number: 7929512
    Abstract: A method in a cellular mobile packet data network is provided composed of four main steps. These are capturing raw traffic traces over standardized interfaces of an operational cellular mobile data network, parsing through the traces in order to extract and correlate all the information, which is needed to build a traffic and session database, defining a set of appropriate key performance indicators, and calculating the above defined key performance indicators. A system in a mobile data network is also provided, the key element of which is a traffic and session database, which correlates traffic and mobility information extracted from passively captured traces collected from standardized interfaces. A set of key performance indicators describing the true, user perceived end-to-end quality of the most commonly used applications is also listed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2011
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Szabolcs Malomsoky, Andras Veres, Istvan Szabo, Tamas Borsos
  • Patent number: 7924792
    Abstract: Methods, systems, gateways and user devices for receiving/sending multimedia message. According to the invention, a multimedia messaging service system comprising a wireless LAN, a multimedia messaging service user device and a multimedia messaging service gateway, the user device communicates with the gateway via the wireless LAN so as to send and receive multimedia messages. Furthermore, the gateway of the invention detect whether the user device is located within the wireless LAN. If yes, then multimedia messages are sent and received via the wireless LAN; and if not, then via conventional telecom network. The invention also discloses a corresponding gateway and a corresponding user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jun Shen, Song Song, Pei Sun, Jian Ming Zhang
  • Patent number: 7907966
    Abstract: A system and method for operation of cross-platform applications on a wireless phone is provided. The applications can be cross-platform applications in that the same application code can be run on different wireless phone platforms. The method and system can for a wireless phone which runs a cross-platform application that enables the processor of the wireless phone to run the cross-platform applications. The wireless phone processor can operate to determine platform parameters of the phone and then run the cross-platform application using the determined phone parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2011
    Assignee: AOL Inc.
    Inventor: Abraham Mammen
  • Patent number: 7889755
    Abstract: In a wireless network (100) with HSDPA-enabled user equipment devices (130), the base transceiver station (120) transmits to each HSDPA-enabled UE information regarding allocation of HSDPA codes and associated modulation techniques for other HSDPA-enabled UEs. Using this additional control information, each UE configures decision feedback filter of its equalizer to reduce inter-user interference. The additional control information may be transmitted in a packet (300) that includes a CRC portion (310) with the packet's CRC masked by a common ID, which is known to the HSDPA-enabled UEs. To reduce the number of bits needed to transmit the additional control information, the HSDPA codes used with a particular modulation technique are allocated consecutively. For each modulation technique, only the beginning code and the total number of codes need be known to the UEs. The number of codes used with each modulation technique may be allowed to change once in several TTIs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2011
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: Durga Prasad Malladi, Peter Gaal, Yongbin Wei
  • Patent number: 7860520
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present invention disclose a method for issuing paging messages and an MSC/VLR, the method includes: determining types of networks terminating the process, if the MS only accesses a 2G network; issuing, by the MSC/VLR, paging messages on an RNC, and terminating the process, if the MS only accesses a 3G network; and issuing, by the MSC/VLR, paging messages on both the BSC and RNC, if the MS accesses both the 2G network and the 3G network. According to the embodiments of the present invention, the MSC/VLR can choose to issue paging messages on the BSC or the RNC separately or on both the BSC and the RNC, since it can determine the types of networks accessed by the MS. Thus, unnecessary paging messages issued on the BSC same time, a great deal of radio paging channel resources on the BSC or the RNC is saved, which greatly reduces effects on the process of paging other MSs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2010
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yongli Jia, Hao Zhang
  • Patent number: 7853269
    Abstract: A system and method for providing wireless network services using three-dimensional access zones is provided. One or more sensors may determine signal strength information, distance, or other positional information for wireless devices. An agent may provide information relating to fixed wireless reference points, and may control underlying operating systems for the reference points based on policies defined by a manager. For example, the manager may be coupled to the sensors and to the agent, and may define a three-dimensional coordinate system for a managed environment. By collecting information from the sensors and the agent, the manager may triangulate three-dimensional locations of the wireless devices, and may enforce three-dimensional access zone policies for the wireless network via the agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignee: Computer Associates Think, Inc.
    Inventor: Joannes G. van de Groenendaal
  • Patent number: 7813313
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provides a MIMO communication system based on random beamforming and its user scheduling method. The system includes: a transmitter that is used to transmit the data frame including at least the channel estimation signal and the user data; and at least one receiver that is used to receive the data frame from the transmitter and to produce the corresponding feedback information and recover the user data. The transmitter produces the scheduling information according to the feedback signal and utilizes the scheduling information to implement adaptive user scheduling. The scheduling information includes the scheduled users, data streams that should be supported by each scheduled user and the transmit beam adopted by each data stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2010
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Zhengang Pan, Lan Chen
  • Patent number: 7729285
    Abstract: An “on-demand” approach for a routing protocol for a wireless network that achieves balanced energy consumption among all participating nodes in the network. Synchronization messages transmitted by nodes associated with an upstream node include local node information (LNI) that a node can use to repair or bypass a lost upstream node in a real or virtual (temporary) manner depending upon the local node's battery level. Only if a repair process fails will a global re-organization (Re-Org) be initiated. The LNI also allows for nodes having lower power availability (battery level) not to transmit the LNI so that unaffiliated node(s) can select an upstream node having more power availability thereby extending network life.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2010
    Assignee: ITT Manufacturing Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventor: Chang-June C. J. Yoon
  • Patent number: 7725107
    Abstract: A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) and method for wireless uplink communication to and downlink communication from a wireless network are provided. The WTRU has a selectively configurable transceiver that has a network connected mode defined by a plurality of functional states including at least one monitoring state and a duplex state. The transceiver is configured to transition from a monitoring state upon occurrence of predefined WTRU events that are each associated with a respective uplink procedure initiation communication where at least one of procedures results in a network response that includes a temporary identifier. The transceiver is configurable into a transition state wherein the transceiver is configured to send only the uplink initiation communications and is otherwise configured only for downlink communications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2010
    Assignee: InterDigital Technology Corporation
    Inventor: Sanjeev Sharma
  • Patent number: 7715821
    Abstract: In the method of updating a unique call back number for a wireless unit having originated an emergency call, a unique call back number for the wireless unit is updated (e.g., changed or added to a list of unique call back numbers) based on a received unique call back number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2010
    Assignee: Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc.
    Inventor: Douglas H. Rollender
  • Patent number: 7701960
    Abstract: An apparatus and method of assigning a public long code mask (PLCM) to a mobile terminal in a mobile communications network is provided. The invention comprises assigning a first PLCM type, when the PLCM for the mobile terminal is based on an international mobile station identification number that is based on a mobile identification number (MIN) associated with the mobile terminal and assigning a second PLCM type, when the PLCM for the mobile terminal is provided by a service provider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2010
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jong Hoe An, Chan Ho Kyung, Kyoo Jin Han