Patents Examined by Olumide T Ajibade Akonai
  • Patent number: 9326219
    Abstract: A web server and a network connection method for local network log-in are provided. The method includes receiving a first calling signal from a mobile communication device through a mobile phone network, identifying a phone number of the mobile communication device according to the first calling signal from the mobile communication device, and permitting the mobile communication device to access an operating interface by using a class C network uniform resource locator through a local area network, and the phone number is contained in the class C network uniform resource locator. Accordingly, users can connect to the local network easily and safely through the provided web server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: proeasy network solutions co., LTD.
    Inventor: Hsing-Hung Lu
  • Patent number: 9326267
    Abstract: The communication device comprising a voice communication implementer, a caller's phone number displaying implementer, and an area dependent notice type changing implementer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Inventor: Iwao Fujisaki
  • Patent number: 9325937
    Abstract: This disclosure relates generally to radio access technology information storage in a mobile network. The device, method, and/or system may include receiving, by a network node of a mobile network, a request from user equipment related to one or more radio access technologies and transmitting, by the network node in response to the request, a reply message to the user equipment including, for each of the one or more radio access technologies, an indication of an amount of electronic storage the network node may allocate to storage of information related to the one or more radio access technologies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Intel IP Corporation
    Inventors: Robert Zaus, Chen-ho Chin
  • Patent number: 9319086
    Abstract: A wireless charging stand is used to position a handheld electronic device and contains: a body, a wireless charging transmitter, a rotary head, a body, and a bluetooth mechanism accommodated in the body. The body includes an upper segment axially connected with the rotary head which universally rotates on the upper segment and couples with and removes from the handheld electronic device. The wireless charging transmitter is accommodated in or on the body to wirelessly charge power to the handheld electronic device. The bluetooth mechanism includes a bluetooth module, a speaker, and a first power component for supplying the power. The speaker and the first power component are electrically connected with the bluetooth module, the bluetooth module receives audio information of the handheld electronic device and plays the audio information by ways of the speaker, and the first power component is also electrically connected with the wireless charging transmitter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Inventor: Chih-Juh Wong
  • Patent number: 9313820
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a link failure recovery method and apparatus. The method includes: first receiving, by a primary base station, failure report information sent by a user equipment, acquiring, according to the failure report information, an identifier of a DRB that needs to be reconfigured, and reconfiguring a parameter for the DRB that needs to be reconfigured; and then sending, by the primary base station, a first reconfiguration message to the user equipment, so that the user equipment reconfigures a failed DRB according to the first reconfiguration message. The present invention is applicable to the field of communications systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tao Zhang, Bo Lin
  • Patent number: 9313769
    Abstract: Paging load and/or registration load in a network is reduced by using different types of identifiers to specifying which nodes page an access terminal in the network. In some aspects, the network maintains a list that specifies that certain individual nodes (e.g., cells or sectors) are to page a given access terminal and/or that one or more zones (e.g., tracking areas) are to page the access terminal. In some aspects, an access terminal in a network may be configured to provide a forward-looking paging list to the network. The list provided by an access terminal may specify different types of node identifiers (e.g., individual node identifiers, subscriber groups, etc.). The network may then use the list to determine which nodes are to page a given access terminal such that when the access terminal moves to a different node, that node may already be configured to page the access terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Gavin B. Horn, Osok Song, Parag A. Agashe, Rajarshi Gupta, Fatih Ulupinar, Ravindra M. Patwardhan, Rajat Prakash
  • Patent number: 9307404
    Abstract: A network unlocking method of a mobile terminal is disclosed in the invention. The method includes: after being used, a mobile terminal whose network is locked transmitting hardware information to a network sever (101); when the mobile terminal needs to unlock the network, it logging in a website providing the download of a network unlocking file, the website obtaining the hardware information of the currently logging-in mobile terminal and performing hardware information matching by the network server (103); when the matching is successful, the mobile terminal downloading the network unlocking file from the website and unlocking the network with an unlocking code in the network unlocking file. A mobile terminal and a network unlocking system thereof are also disclosed in the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Guangyu Hu, Cuirong Huang, Yanjin She
  • Patent number: 9307541
    Abstract: A wireless station (STA) and a method are disclosed that allow the STA to determine suitable characteristics for wireless transmissions from the STA. The STA may receive frames from a number of access points (APs), each frame including a country code indicating a country in which the corresponding AP is located, determine a popularity of each country code by polling the received country codes, determine in which country the STA is currently located based, at least in part, on the determined popularities of the country codes, and select a wireless channel and a transmit power level based, at least in part, on the determined country.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Tushnim Bhattacharyya, Ashish Kumar Agrawal
  • Patent number: 9307430
    Abstract: A method and system for testing a SMS text messaging network is disclosed herein. The method and system allows for real-time testing of the mobile terminated (“MT”) and mobile originated (“MO”) delivery delays across the major American mobile phone carriers, and accurately measures the progress on SMS broadcasts and records when a broadcast has been completed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: Mobivity, Inc.
    Inventors: Alex Shah, Dennis Becker
  • Patent number: 9306658
    Abstract: A system for wireless data transmission that uses a channel bandwidth, channel separation, and radio frequency power spectrum which is compatible with existing deployments of wireless voice services. The transmitted waveforms are thus compatible with existing cellular networks. However, the time domain digital coding, modulation, and power control schemes are optimized for data transmission. Existing cellular network sites can thus be used to provide a high speed service optimized for wireless data traffic without the need for new radio frequency planning, and without interfering with existing voice service deployments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: IPR Licensing, Inc.
    Inventors: Carlo Amalfitano, James A. Proctor
  • Patent number: 9298975
    Abstract: A method of creating a video sequence. The method comprises setting at least one repetitive reminder in a schedule managed by a handheld device having an image sensor, alarming a user according to the at least one repetitive reminder, capturing a sequence of images using the image sensor, automatically identifying a facial image depicting a face in a preset area in the sequence of images, automatically selecting the facial image, in response to the identification, and adding the facial image to a facial video sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Inventor: Roy Melzer
  • Patent number: 9301216
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method for controlling cell activation, a base station, and a terminal. According to the method for controlling cell activation, the base station, and the terminal that are provided in the embodiments of the present invention, through determination on cell identification information in the RRC signaling reconfiguration message, a corresponding cell remembers a previous activated state, or activation processing is performed, thereby implementing in an MF-Tx scenario, optimized configuration of an activated or deactivated state of the cell that participates in the multi-flow transmission when reconfiguration is implemented through RRC signaling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fan Wang, Wenying Xu, Xueli Ma
  • Patent number: 9294966
    Abstract: Systems and techniques for managing priorities are disclosed. A network sending broadcast and/or dedicated priorities to a mobile terminal may include priorities with respect to a radio access technology that does not support priority based reselection, such as for a legacy network that does not support priority based reselection. Priorities may be supplied to a mobile terminal to allow cell reselection decisions without using different cell reselection mechanisms in parallel. An indication of a plurality candidate cells with respect to cell reselection of a mobile terminal may be received and then a priority may be assigned to each candidate cells, where at least one candidate cell of the plurality of candidate cells does not support priority based cell reselection. The priorities may be provided to the mobile terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
    Inventors: Harri A. Jokinen, Vlora Rexhepi-Van Der Pol, Leonardo Provvedi
  • Patent number: 9294995
    Abstract: A method includes determining, at a first cell and for a selected user equipment, a second cell would have a better performing RF interface connection with the selected user equipment than the selected user equipment currently has with the first cell. The first cell can provide radio frequency coverage for the second cell. The method includes sending to the second cell one or more messages indicating the second cell should not enter or be in an energy saving state at least while the selected user equipment or a selected user application on the selected user equipment is connected to the second cell. Another method includes determining a cell should not enter an energy saving state at least while a selected user equipment is connected to the cell; and the cell not entering the energy saving state at least while the selected user equipment is connected to the cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
    Inventor: Michael Joseph Bach
  • Patent number: 9288615
    Abstract: A technique to allow a server such as a location server to throttle concurrent or closely timed location requests for the position of a given wireless device such that within a certain time period preferably only one location request will be initiated to the positioning engine and the remaining closely-timed location requests will be buffered or cached. When a position for the given wireless device is returned per the outstanding location request, then the retrieved position will be used to respond to each of the buffered location requests. Thus, a plurality of location requests are satisfied with a single request to the positioning engine. By optimizing the use of cached position requests, throttling of location requests per the invention reduces network traffic significantly, increases the efficiency of a positioning server (therefore reducing business cost), and provides for an improved grade or quality of location based services in general.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: Telecommunication Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Yinjun Zhu, Gordon John Hines, Victor Burton, Hsin-Chih Liao
  • Patent number: 9286625
    Abstract: Application developers can request to have their applications registered for use with a content delivery platform. The operator of the content delivery platform establishes perimeters defining geographic areas, and maintains records reserving particular areas for delivery of content associated with particular sponsors. Registered applications running on mobile devices can request content from the content delivery platform. Based at least in part on the request, the content delivery platform can identify a target location, which may be the location of the mobile device, or some other location indicated in the request. A mobile device can be provided content based on the relationship of the target location to the geographic areas, so that a registered application running on a mobile device with a target location contained within a geographic area assigned to a particular sponsor will receive content related to that sponsor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Inventors: Ryan Hardin, Andrew Hill
  • Patent number: 9288653
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and a system for managing an emergency call between a terminal and a network by using a non-access stratum protocol in a mobile communication network. A method for providing an emergency call service by a terminal in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention comprises the steps of: enabling the terminal to transmit an access request message including an emergency call identifier to a mobility management entity; enabling the terminal to attempt to authenticate the mobility management entity after the step of transmitting the access request message; enabling the terminal to receive an access grant message including the emergency call identifier from the mobility management entity; and enabling the terminal which receives the access grant message, to provide an emergency call service through the mobility management entity. According to one embodiment of the present invention, the emergency call is enabled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyung Joo Suh, Song Yean Cho, Beom Sik Bae, Han Na Lim
  • Patent number: 9288641
    Abstract: Exemplary methods and systems for facilitating SMS data transfer services in mobile devices are described. An exemplary method includes sending a first SMS message to a device with a payload of the first SMS message including machine-readable information. Next, a second SMS message may be received from the device with a payload of the second SMS message including machine-readable information. The first or second SMS message payloads may include, for example, a synchronization message, a call message, call data, or a scheduling message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignees: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Verizon Data Services India Private Limited
    Inventors: Craig L. Reding, Christopher L. Helbling, Robert C. Baruch, Sathish Subramanian, Paula A. Dromlewiez
  • Patent number: 9282455
    Abstract: A system and method for user certificate initiation, distribution, and provisioning in converged WLAN-WWAN interworking networks. A computing device operable in a wireless local area network sends a public key to a mobile device operable in a wireless cellular wide area network. The mobile device performs a bootstrapping procedure with a cellular operator in the wireless cellular wide area network to obtain a user certificate based on the public key. The mobile device sends the user certificate to the computing device for installation on the computing device. The user certificate may be used for digital signature, verification, and encryption purposes. The user certificate is also used in both the wireless local area network and the wireless wide area network for authenticating a subscriber when accessing services from both networks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Selim Aissi, Mrudula Yelamanchi, Abhay Dharmadhikari, Benjamin Matasar, Jane Dashevsky
  • Patent number: 9282587
    Abstract: A method and apparatus of an electronic device for managing notifications is disclosed herewith. The method includes identifying a plurality of notifications associated with one or more electronic devices. The method further determines context data of the plurality of notifications based, at least in part, on their association with at least one remote device. The method then determines an order of display of the plurality of notifications based on the context data. The method further provides the plurality of notifications based on the order of display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: Google Technology Holdings, LLC
    Inventor: David P Winkler