Patents Examined by Phuoc Doan
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Patent number: 8249674Abstract: An exemplary portable electronic device includes a main body, a cover member movably connected with the main body, a sensing unit, a signal processing unit, an audio output unit. The audio output unit is configured for outputting audio signals and disposed in either one of the main body and the cover member. The audio output unit includes a magnetic member. The sensing unit is disposed in the other one of the main body and the cover member and configured for detecting relative displacement of the magnetic member and capable of generating a corresponding command signal. The signal processing unit is disposed in the main body and electrically connected to the sensing unit. The signal processing unit is capable of actuating different operation modes according to the command signal.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2009Date of Patent: August 21, 2012Assignee: Chi Mei Communication Systems, Inc.Inventor: Jui-Hsiang Lin
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Patent number: 8249024Abstract: Soft handoff in an OFDMA system is disclosed. If the pilot signal strength for a base station exceeds the defined threshold, the base station is added to an active set list. Subcarriers in a plurality of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols are divided and allocated into subchannels. The OFDM symbols are divided and multiplexed. A soft handoff zone with a first dimension of the subchannels and a second dimension of the divided and multiplexed OFDM symbols is defined. The soft handoff zone has subcarriers with a subchannel definition, for example, an identical permutation.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2011Date of Patent: August 21, 2012Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jianglei Ma, Wen Tong, Ming Jia, Peiying Zhu, Mo-Han Fong, Hang Zhang
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Patent number: 8248985Abstract: In a satellite communication network, a link between a remote terminal and a traffic processor located at the hub may be used for providing services over a satellite link, such as traffic routing, protocol acceleration, data compression and data encryption. Aspects of this invention relate to methods and apparatus for automatically and dynamically associating remote terminals with traffic processors. These methods may be used for simplifying the satellite network's configuring process, especially for large scale networks, for offering load balancing between traffic processors and for offering an efficient automatic redundancy mechanism when a traffic processor malfunctions.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2009Date of Patent: August 21, 2012Assignee: Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd.Inventors: Isacc Ben Laish, Moti Goldshtein, Eldad Yitzhaki, Elad Nachman
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Patent number: 8244244Abstract: The invention discloses an arrangement for triggering a user equipment, wherein the user equipment is not connected to the network. In the machine type communications there is a need for reducing network activity, however, at the same time there is a need for being able to wake up a device. In the arrangement the network detaches the user equipment locally and is then triggered when needed.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2011Date of Patent: August 14, 2012Assignee: Renesas Mobile CorporationInventors: Hannu Hietalahti, Matti Kullervo Jokimies
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Patent number: 8238819Abstract: Two satellite communications systems can use the same frequency or frequencies in geographically overlapping footprints, without creating undue interference in a given system that is caused by the same frequency signal(s) that is/are used by the other system. In particular, an aggregate Effective Isotropic Radiated Power (EIRP) of the radioterminals and/or ancillary terrestrial components of a second satellite communications system in the common footprint is sufficiently low, and/or the receive antenna gain of a first satellite communications system is sufficiently low compared to the receive antenna gain of the second satellite communications system, so as to increase an aggregate receiver noise that is seen by the first satellite system receivers by an amount that does not substantially change a Quality of Service (QoS) of the first satellite communications system.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2011Date of Patent: August 7, 2012Assignee: ATC Technologies, LLCInventor: Peter D. Karabinis
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Patent number: 8238986Abstract: Provided are a tilt-type sliding module for a mobile phone and a terminal holder using the tilt-type sliding module, which enable a display unit of the mobile phone to perform a planar sliding motion and at the same time, to perform a tilt motion for inclining upwardly, thereby providing optimal convenience according to a user's purpose. The tilt-type sliding module allows a stable tilt motion of the display unit of the mobile phone by means of: a control bracket for controlling a rotation motion of a tilt rotation portion formed on each of both ends of a frame and a rotation motion and a lock motion of the tilt rotation portion by being fixedly coupled to an intermediate member of the mobile phone; a stopper shaft; and a spring ball.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2009Date of Patent: August 7, 2012Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Satec co. Ltd.Inventors: Seong-Jun Lee, Sang-Wha Park, Jeong-Min Park, Han-Gyu Hwang, Sung-Ho Ahn
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Patent number: 8233891Abstract: In a telecommunications network including a plurality of mobile terminals, a method of analysing missed call events in relation to at least one of the plurality of mobile terminals, the method including: determining the occurrence of a missed call event; recording the missed call event in a database, including an identity relating to the called terminal; determining and allocating a status of the called mobile terminal to the missed call event, the status selected from a plurality of options, with at least one option relating to an unreachable terminal situation; and analysing the missed call event data relating to unreachable situations to identify the existence of any patterns relating to a particular called terminal/user, called terminal type, location and/or time period. The method may also be embodied in a network element, such as a Call Alert Application Server.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2011Date of Patent: July 31, 2012Assignee: Vodafone Group, PLC.Inventor: Yannis Markoulidakis
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Patent number: 8229400Abstract: Granular access control over data is provided. The access control can be on an individual entity, a group of entities or other data characterizations. Further, the control is not limited to data in folders, but can include contacts from a contact list, calendar entries, incoming calls, applications that can be accessed by the electronic device, etc. A new attribute is associated with a data characterization, designated an access level. Another attribute is associated with profiles stored on the electronic device, designated as a guard level. When a request for access to data is received, the electronic device allows access to the data if the value of the guard level associated with the active profile satisfies a predetermined access requirement relative to the value of the access level associated with the requested data.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2011Date of Patent: July 24, 2012Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventor: Shirish T. Shenvi Kuncolienkar
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Patent number: 8224293Abstract: A security system includes a software application running in a user's smartphone and a separately carried visual key that the user can image at will with the smartphone's camera. An effective visual key would typically comprise digital data encoded in a series of colored cells arranged in a colorgram. Such digital data is treated as a what-you-have security factor, and is concatenated with other security factors so users can authenticate themselves to websites, internet services, and even within the smartphone device itself or its applications. In one aspect, when users authenticate themselves to a server, the server returns a short-term supply of one-time-passwords or account numbers for use in secure access and financial transactions on other systems.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2010Date of Patent: July 17, 2012Inventors: Ronald P. Knapp, Kerry D. Brown, Peter Landrock
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Patent number: 8224386Abstract: Radio base station equipment is connected to radio transmitting/receiving equipment provided in sectors (S), into which a communication area is divided, by an optical fiber (30), and performs radio communication with mobile terminals located in the respective sectors (S) via the radio transmitting/receiving equipment wherein a delay processing section delays a signal for each sector (S) according to a delay correction value obtained by subtracting a delay amount in each sector (S) from a maximum delay amount of a delay amount measured for each sector (S) and a baseband processing section obtains the signal from each sector (S) delayed by the delay processing section by setting a reception window at a position corresponding to the maximum delay amount.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2009Date of Patent: July 17, 2012Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.Inventors: Hidehiko Oyane, Daisuke Tanigawa
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Patent number: 8224350Abstract: A method of determining the location of a portable device comprises obtaining identities of wireless communication devices detectable by the portable device at a particular location which is to be determined, thereby to obtain a set of identities. The set of identities is compared with the content of a database, which database stores a plurality of findings, to select one or more findings; each finding comprising a reference location and a set of identities of wireless communication devices sighted at that location. The location of the portable device is found based on processing the selected findings.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2009Date of Patent: July 17, 2012Assignee: U-Blox A.G.Inventors: Chris Marshall, Graham Thomason
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Patent number: 8219127Abstract: A method and apparatus for performing measurements logging in a mobile communications system is provided. An user equipment receives a first measurement configuration message including a first measurement configuration and receives a second measurement configuration message. The user equipment discards the first measurement configuration upon receiving the second measurement configuration message.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2011Date of Patent: July 10, 2012Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Young Dae Lee, Sung Hoon Jung, Seung June Yi, Sung Duck Chun, Sung Jun Park
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Patent number: 8213407Abstract: One object of the present invention is to improve stability of wireless communication, regardless of a movement speed of a mobile station by estimating a movement speed of a mobile station using a signal prepared in advance for a used standard and selecting an appropriate base station. In the wireless communication system 100 according to the present invention, in order to adjust a timing of receiving data from the PHS terminal 110 to a desired timing, base stations 120, 122 transmit an adjustment signal for advancing or delaying data transmission timing in the PHS terminal 110. Thus, the PHS terminal 110 calculates a bias amount of such an adjustment signal to determine high speed movement of the PHS terminal 110 and perform handover from a micro cell base station 120 to a macro cell base station 122.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2009Date of Patent: July 3, 2012Assignee: Kyocera CorporationInventors: Nobuaki Takamatsu, Yasuhiro Nakamura
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Patent number: 8208924Abstract: A method and system for improving a call drop caused by a Radio Link Failure (RLF) before handover triggering in a mobile communication system are provided. The method of improving the call drop caused by the RLF in the mobile communication system includes detecting an RLF occurring before handover triggering (RLF_before_HO), generating one of an RLF_before_HO-dependent statistics and an RLF_before_HO-dependent log file, transmitting the one of the RLF_before_HO-dependent statistics and the RLF_before_HO-dependent log file to a serving Base Station (BS), and updating a Neighbor Relation Table (NRT) and optimizing a handover parameter using the one of the RLF_before_HO-dependent statistics and the RLF_before_HO-dependent log file.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2010Date of Patent: June 26, 2012Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jung-Hee Han, Kyeong-In Jeong, Yong-Shin Cho, Hwa-Jin Cha, Mi-Sun Do
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Patent number: 8204477Abstract: Disclosed are methods and devices including a mobile communication device, a proximity application server and a receiving device. The methods of the mobile communication device include receiving an enterprise identification signal that may be an SSID transmitted by an enterprise access point. The user of the mobile communication device may have opted into receiving the services of the enterprise in accordance with the disclosed methods and devices. Therefore, the mobile communication device may generate a proximity data signal including an indication of receipt of the enterprise identification signal and an identifier of the mobile communication device. The identifier may be the telephone number of the mobile communication device. The mobile communication device can then transmit the proximity data signal to a proximity application server. The proximity application server can correlate the proximity data signal. Correlated data in turn may be sent back to a receiving device of the enterprise.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2008Date of Patent: June 19, 2012Assignee: Motorola Mobility, Inc.Inventors: Keith A Tenbrook, Alicia S Miller
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Patent number: 8203963Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods and systems for scheduling pages to mobile stations in a radio access network. An exemplary method involves (a) at a radio access network, determining whether or not a first load that is scheduled for transmission during a first paging period, is greater than a threshold load, (b) if the first load is greater than the threshold load, then (i) determining whether or not a second load that is scheduled for transmission during a second paging period, is less than the threshold load and (ii) if the second load is less than the threshold load, then rescheduling at least a portion of the first load for transmission during the second paging period, and (iii) otherwise, refraining from rescheduling the portion of the first load for transmission during the second paging period.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2009Date of Patent: June 19, 2012Assignee: Sprint Spectrum L.P.Inventors: Siddharth S. Oroskar, Sachin R. Vargantwar, Deveshkumar N. Rai, Debasish Sarkar
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Patent number: 8204541Abstract: A holding base for removably holding an electronic device has a holding base body, a signal terminal provided in the holding base body, and connected to the electronic device in a holding position in which the electronic device is held, and a first connector attached to a surface of a printed circuit board, connected to the signal terminal, and connected to another electronic device. The printed circuit board is held by a bottom of the holding base body with the first connector held underneath the printed circuit board, such that a connecting port of the first connector faces a back side of the holding base body, and with an end edge of a front side of the holding base body positioned lower than an end edge of the back side thereof by an offset amount. The offset amount is set to be less than a thickness of the first connector.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2010Date of Patent: June 19, 2012Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Michihiro Fujii, Shinichi Ohgame, Kazunori Katou
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Patent number: 8200298Abstract: A mobile computing device includes a housing, a keypad assembly, and a housing lip. The keypad assembly provides a plurality of keys on a façade of the housing. The keypad and the plurality of keys are dimensioned to be operable with one or both of a user's thumbs. A housing lip that protrudes from the façade of the housing so as to at least partially circumvent the plurality of keys.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2008Date of Patent: June 12, 2012Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventor: Yoshimichi Matsuoka
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Patent number: 8200244Abstract: A system and method for locating mobile stations in a wireless communication system such as a cellular system based on at least one received wireless signal and a database of geographical information.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2010Date of Patent: June 12, 2012Assignee: Nice Systems Ltd.Inventors: Moshe Levin, Avraham Freedman, Adam Weinberg, Meir Veisberg, Ori Nurick
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Patent number: 8195213Abstract: A system, method, and computer readable product for allowing a member of a mobile communications group, such as a push-to-talk (PTT) group, to receive indications from at least one other mobile communication device that a current conversation or talk spurt may be recorded. The member may further record or receive the recorded conversation or talk spurt, and store the recorded conversation or spurt in a local memory for later retrieval or automatic playback.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2009Date of Patent: June 5, 2012Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Mark Maggenti, Kulathumani Krishnan, Mohammed Ataur Rahman Shuman