Patents Examined by Nick Corsaro
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Patent number: 8300563Abstract: A wireless device calculates a number of FEC MPDUs based on an indicator value determined by the quality of the communication channel that are combined with data MPDUs in an aggregated data packet. The wireless device uses the indicator value to calculate an expected error transmission rate to dynamically adjust the number of FEC MPDUs in the aggregated data packet to reduce data retransmissions.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2006Date of Patent: October 30, 2012Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Dilip Krishnaswamy, Robert Stacey
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Patent number: 8290442Abstract: A communications network comprises a wireless communication device, a mobile data service and an apparatus for testing media content developed for a wireless communication device. This apparatus comprises a media content composer module, a web server, and a dispatcher module. The dispatcher module is programmed to: receive a media content simulation request from the composer module; publish media content developed on the composer module onto the web server, the published content having a uniform resource locator (URL) associated thereto; and transmit to the mobile data service the URL and instructions to the wireless communication device or a wireless communication device simulator to open a web browser and access the URL thereby downloading the media content from the web server.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2006Date of Patent: October 16, 2012Assignee: Research In Motion LimitedInventors: Ken Whatmough, John Hayman, David F. Tapuska
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Patent number: 8275389Abstract: An apparatus and method for determining operation of location update in a broadband wireless communication system are provided. The apparatus includes a receiver, an interpreter, and a determiner. In an idle mode, the receiver receives a paging advertisement message from a Base Station (BS). The interpreter identifies paging group identification information included in the paging advertisement message. The determiner determines one of execution and non-execution of a location update process due to a change of a paging group if the paging group identification information is different from paging group identification information included in a previously received paging advertisement message.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2008Date of Patent: September 25, 2012Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Sung-Beom Jung, Jae-Yeong Kwon, Soo-Yeul Oh, Pyeong-Hwan Wee, Sang-Jun Lee, Young-Hak Choi, Sang-Ho Lee
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Patent number: 8270966Abstract: A method, system, and computer-readable media are provided for reducing mobile device roaming. A set of transition mobile-network attributes are captured by an idle mobile device before switching from a roaming network to a home network. A collection of transition mobile-network attributes are used to generate transition-based data. Active mobile-network attributes are compared to the transition-based data and used to recognize when the mobile device is within an area that can receive one or more services from the home network.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2009Date of Patent: September 18, 2012Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.Inventors: Sachin R. Vargantwar, Manoj Shetty, Bhagwan Singh Khanka, Jasinder Pal Singh
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Patent number: 8260275Abstract: A sending method includes supplying a material to a plurality of audio channels that send an entirety of a music title repeatedly for a certain unit of time. The method also includes supplying digital data for forming an audio information screen associated with an audio channel being sent. The method additionally includes supplying audio data for downloading, which is compressed in a certain compression format. Further, the method includes multiplexing the entirety of the music title repeatedly sent using the plurality of audio channels, which is supplied in the supplying the material step, the digital data for forming the audio information screen associated with the audio channel being sent, which is supplied in the supplying the digital data step, and the audio data for downloading supplied in the supplying the audio data step. In addition, the method includes sending the multiplexed data.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2010Date of Patent: September 4, 2012Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Tadaharu Koga, Satoko Nakatsuka, Yasushi Kikuta
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Patent number: 8260373Abstract: A mobile terminal with display control is disclosed. A method of controlling a display screen in the mobile terminal includes recognizing an operation mode of the mobile terminal, wherein the operation mode is associated with displaying information on a display at a first display state with a display control expiration period, displaying display control status information on a portion of the display prior to the display control expiration period, and adjusting the display control expiration period in response to recognizing an external user input.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2008Date of Patent: September 4, 2012Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Sang Hyun Lee, Hye Jin Choi
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Patent number: 8260346Abstract: A multimode mobile terminal and communication method thereof are discussed, by which communication is enabled using various networks. The method according to an embodiment includes a display unit configured to display a plurality of currently available networks detected by the terminal, each network being a different network type, a user input unit configured to generate a selection signal for a specific network of the plurality of currently available networks in response to a user input, a controller operatively connected to the display unit and user input unit and configured to control communication carried out via the specific network selected via the user input unit, and a wireless communication unit operatively connected to the controller and configured to carry out the communication via the specific network.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2008Date of Patent: September 4, 2012Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Woo Seong Kim, Seung Jin Ahn, Jee Young Song
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Patent number: 8260350Abstract: A method, a system and a computer program product for determining one or more characteristics of a caller, such as the mood, gender, age, and urgency of the caller, utilizing the biometric characteristics of the caller. One or more biometric characteristics are detected when a request to place an outgoing call to one or more destinations is received at a first telecommunication device. When the request to place an outgoing call is a verbal request, one or more biometric voice samples are obtained. The biometric voice samples comprise the biometric characteristics of the caller. The biometric characteristics are extracted from the biometric voice samples, encoded into a datagram, and transmitted from the first telecommunication device to the outgoing call destination (i.e. a second telecommunication device).Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2008Date of Patent: September 4, 2012Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Peeyush Jaiswal, Naveen Narayan
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Patent number: 8254885Abstract: A first authorization system authorizes a mobile device to access over a first wireless network a plurality of services provided by a plurality of service systems. A second authorization system authorizes the mobile device to access the plurality of services over a second wireless network. The second authorization system also transfers location information corresponding to a location of the mobile device to the first authorization system. A first service system of the plurality of service systems provides a first service of the plurality of services. The first service system receives a request for the first service and transfers a request to the first authorization system for the location information. The first service system receives the location information, processes the location information, and selects a positioning satellite based on the location information. The first service system transfers a message indicating the positioning satellite to the mobile device.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2009Date of Patent: August 28, 2012Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.Inventors: Wen Xue, Saurindra M. Basu, Jay Douglas Cole
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Patent number: 8254880Abstract: A monitoring device makes decision on whether a service requested by a consumer is a sponsored service to the specific consumer or not based on sponsoring rules, i.e. the delivery of the requested service to the consumer can be sponsored if a sponsoring value of the consumer is sufficient in relation to a charge of delivery of the requested service. The sponsoring rules contain various pieces of information for recognizing a sponsored service and for determining the sponsoring value and the cost of the delivery. The sponsoring of different services to different consumers can be controlled, created, deleted, maintained or modified by means of the sponsoring rules. The sponsor, such an advertiser is able to control the cost of sponsoring by affecting the sponsoring value.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2008Date of Patent: August 28, 2012Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Janne Aaltonen, Ismo Antikainen, Timo Ahopelto
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Patent number: 8254930Abstract: Methods and systems for a wireless communication device (WCD) to change a media session codec prior to handoff to a new wireless coverage area are presented. In particular, a WCD is served by a first wireless coverage area of a RAN, and is conducting a media session using a first codec. The WCD detects that it is about to be handed off to a second wireless coverage area, and transmits a request to a server to determine the capacity available to the WCD via the second wireless coverage area. If this capacity is less than the capacity request by the first codec, the WCD proactively renegotiates the media session to use a second codec that requires less capacity. The server may take various factors into account when responding to the WCD's query, including the sector loading of the second wireless coverage area, available capacity at a backhaul link between the RAN and a network, and/or a profile of the WCD.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2009Date of Patent: August 28, 2012Assignee: Sprint Spectrum L.P.Inventors: Brian D. Mauer, Pedro Zamora, John D. Lynch, Larry D. Cummings
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Patent number: 8254918Abstract: A method for facilitating exchange of one or more signaling messages between a client network and an HSRP network. The method includes identifying by an SPRS router associated with a client network, one or more parameters in the received signaling messages so as to determine from the parameters one or more roaming agreements that are required between the client network and the HSRP network, to allow exchange of the signaling messages. The method further includes facilitating by the SPRS router, exchange of the signaling messages between the client network and the HSRP network via one or more SPRS hubs, when the SPRS router determines absence of the required roaming agreements. The method further includes facilitating by the SPRS router, direct exchange of the signaling messages between the client network and the HSRP network, when the SPRS router determines presence of the required roaming agreements.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2008Date of Patent: August 28, 2012Assignee: Roamware, Inc.Inventor: John Yue Jun Jiang
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Method and system for account balance restriction on application of cellular-PBX integration service
Patent number: 8254989Abstract: A method for using an account balance to limit application of cellular-PBX integration service. A cellular wireless communication device (WCD) will be allotted a quantity of cellular-PBX integration service, such as a number of minutes of use per month for instance. The quantity will be decremented a the WCD uses the service, and the WCD may be precluded from benefiting from the cellular-PBX integration service upon exhaustion of the balance. In one embodiment, for instance, when a radio access network (RAN) that serves the WCD receives a call request for the WCD, the account balance can be used as a basis to decide whether to pass the call to an IP PBX server that serves the WCD or whether to have the RAN handle the call.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2005Date of Patent: August 28, 2012Assignee: Sprint Spectrum L.P.Inventors: Mark R. Bales, Farni B. Weaver, Charles E. Woodson -
Patent number: 8255000Abstract: Process for computing an estimation of the frequency offset in a receiver for a UMTS communication network said receiver receives the signal transmitted by two antennas and including two Common Pilot CHannels (CPICH), said process involving the steps of separating the two signals by means of computation and computing the frequency offset on the base of the two separated signalsType: GrantFiled: June 2, 2010Date of Patent: August 28, 2012Assignee: ST-Ericsson SAInventors: Issam Toufik, Andrea Ancora
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Patent number: 8249596Abstract: A method includes determining a coverage area for each of a plurality of base stations. The method also includes receiving a first location parameter indicative of a mobile unit's location. The method further includes transitioning a first connection between the mobile unit and a first base station of the plurality of base stations to a second connection between the mobile unit and a second base station of the plurality of base stations. The transition is based on the coverage areas of the first base station and the second base station and the first location parameter.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2008Date of Patent: August 21, 2012Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.Inventors: Shmuel Shaffer, Ramanathan T. Jagadeesan, Bich Tu Nguyen, Gregory D. Pelton, Labhesh Patel
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Patent number: 8249558Abstract: In general, this disclosure describes techniques for unlocking certain functionality of a mobile computing device upon wirelessly detecting that an external device is in relatively close proximity to the mobile computing device. One example method comprises: providing a phone application and a second, different application; initiating a first mode of operation when the mobile computing device becomes locked; prohibiting user access to the second application during the first mode of operation when the mobile computing device fails to wirelessly detect a presence of an external device; and initiating a second mode of operation when the mobile computing device wirelessly detects the presence of the external device and when the mobile computing device has received user input specifying an access password, wherein the mobile computing device allows complete user access to both the phone application and the second application during the second mode of operation.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2011Date of Patent: August 21, 2012Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Eric K. Olsen, Nicholas Julian Pelly
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Patent number: 8249518Abstract: In a selective MIMO system, the mobile station provides channel quality feedback for one or more possible transmission mode. The mobile station provides channel quality feedback for a first mode regardless of channel conditions and determines whether to provide feedback for one or more additional modes based on current channel conditions.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2005Date of Patent: August 21, 2012Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)Inventors: Stephen J. Grant, Jung-Fu Cheng, Yi-Pin Eric Wang, Karl J. Molnar, Leonld Krasny
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Patent number: 8249605Abstract: A wireless device is provided that includes a processor configured to execute instructions that promote performing a method. The method includes determining a user profile of a user of the wireless device. The method also includes determining a relationship of the wireless device to a topology of a wireless network wherein the wireless device is a node, the relationship of the wireless device to the topology of the network based at least in part on the user profile.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2007Date of Patent: August 21, 2012Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Niranjan, Mohan Reddy Duggi
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Patent number: 8249030Abstract: A first radio in a wireless network may request a transmit opportunity (TXOP) of a certain duration, with the duration being based a likelihood that a TXOP of that duration would cause interference with a co-located second radio. The duration may be dynamically adjusted based on the likelihood of such interference.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2007Date of Patent: August 21, 2012Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Xue Yang, Ryan Shin, Xingang Guo
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Patent number: 8249647Abstract: A system and method in a mobile communication device for providing and/or utilizing multiple independent optimized physical layers to provide communication services. As a non-limiting example, a mobile communication device may comprising a first PHY layer comprising first circuitry operable to provide any of at least a first plurality of communication services through one or more types of communication network, and a second PHY layer comprising second circuitry operable, independent of the first PHY layer, to provide at least one communication service through one or more types of communication network. For example, operation of the first circuitry may be optimizable in a first manner for providing a first communication service of the first plurality of communication services and optimizable in a second manner, different from the first manner, for providing a second communication service of the first plurality of communication services.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2007Date of Patent: August 21, 2012Inventor: Jeyhan Karaoguz