Abstract: The invention relates to the initiation of a service to a mobile terminal capable of communicating via at least a first and second access network. Further, the invention relates to a reduction of power consumption of mobile terminals supporting connectivity to at least two access networks. The invention also relates to mobile communication systems and in particular to mobile communications through heterogeneous access networks. In order to prove improved method for initiating services to mobile terminals and/or to reduce power consumption of mobile terminals, the invention introduces of a sleep state that can be entered by the terminal for an access system if same is not used. Upon requesting a service from/to the mobile terminal, the mobile terminal starts service initiation through a second access system and transits back to active state for the first access system for service provision.

Abstract: A method alerts a user of a first device to the presence of a second device which can interact with the first device. The method includes using an ultrasonic signal transmitted by one of the devices to determine whether the first device is within a threshold distance of the second device. If the first device is determined to be within the threshold distance of the second device, a notification is triggered on the first device.

Abstract: The invention describes a methods of enabling and performing location-based services especially geomessaging. The invention describes in detail a flexible combination of multicast Internet protocol addresses and area codes in order to generate geomessaging Internet protocol addresses. The geomessaging Internet protocol address enables to receive by means of a mobile communication device (300) according to the invention geomessages and to submit the geomessages by means of the geomessaging network entity (400) according to the invention. No signaling between the mobile communication device (300) and the network or any service provider within the network is necessary to specify the current location of the mobile communication device. Furthermore, there is no need for a geomessaging message provider to know which mobile communication device is currently located within a specific first area.

Abstract: A network test system, a method of performing site acceptance testing for a communications network site, and a computer program product for testing a communications network site are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, the network test system includes: (1) a mobile testing device configured to collect RF data from the communications network site and device location data corresponding to the RF data, and (2) a shakedown server configured to receive the RF data and device location data from the mobile testing device, derive depth data and spread data of each sector based on the RF data and device location data, and automatically determine a MIMO issue at the communications network site based on a comparison of the depth and spread data to pre-defined scenarios.

Abstract: A method is provided including receiving, by a user equipment connected to a serving cell of a wireless network, assistance data for performing measurements of positioning reference signals, wherein the assistance data comprises reference cell information for a reference cell, and neighbor cell information for one or more neighbor cells; in response to determining that the reference cell information comprises an indication that the user equipment is not to measure a positioning reference signal of the reference cell, selecting one of the neighbor cells as a new reference cell; and performing measurements of the positioning reference signals based on one or more of the remaining neighbor cells in the assistance data.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for configuring a device-to-device (D2D) discovery specific logical channel group (LCG) in a wireless communication system is provided. A user equipment (UE) calculates a buffer status for D2D discovery announcement, configures a specific LCG identifier (ID) to transmit the D2D discovery announcement, constructs a proximity based services (ProSe) buffer status report (BSR) based on the calculated buffer status and the configured LCG ID, and transmits the constructed ProSe BSR to an evolved NodeB (eNB).

Abstract: An electronic apparatus for supporting wireless peer to peer (P2P) communication with an external apparatus is provided, that includes a communicator configured to transmit and receive a signal for performing discovery and group formation, and a controller configured to transmit a first preferred channel list including a channel number indicating at least one channel pre-established among a plurality of channels available as an operating channel, to the external apparatus, to select one channel number from at least one channel number included in a second preferred channel list and the channel number included in the first preferred channel list in response to the second preferred channel list being received from the external apparatus as an operating channel with the external apparatus.

Abstract: Tracking devices can be associated with safe zones, smart zones, and high risk zones. Safe zones correspond to regions where a likelihood that a tracking device is lost within the safe zone is lower than outside the safe zone. High risk zones correspond to regions where a likelihood that a tracking device is lost within the high risk zone is higher than outside the high risk zone. Smart zones correspond to an expected tracking device, mobile device, or user behavior. Home areas are geographic regions in which a user resides, and travel areas are geographic regions in which a user does not reside. A tracking device can be configured to operate in a mode selected based on a presence of the tracking device within a safe zone, a smart zone, a high risk zone, a home area, or a travel area.

Abstract: Described in detail herein are systems and methods for tracking clusters of user devices within a facility. In exemplary embodiments, a plurality of network devices are distributed within a facility. The network devices may receive connection data indicating probing by at least one of a plurality of user devices within the facility. A processing unit may be coupled to the network devices and the processing unit may extract location data from the connection data received by the network devices. The location data may indicate the location of the user devices with respect in the facility. The processing unit may determine a projected path for the plurality of user devices based on the location data. The processing unit may generate a response based on then projected path of the plurality of user device.

Abstract: Tracking devices can be associated with safe zones, smart zones, and high risk zones. Safe zones correspond to regions where a likelihood that a tracking device is lost within the safe zone is lower than outside the safe zone. High risk zones correspond to regions where a likelihood that a tracking device is lost within the high risk zone is higher than outside the high risk zone. Smart zones correspond to an expected tracking device, mobile device, or user behavior. Home areas are geographic regions in which a user resides, and travel areas are geographic regions in which a user does not reside. A tracking device can be configured to operate in a mode selected based on a presence of the tracking device within a safe zone, a smart zone, a high risk zone, a home area, or a travel area.

Abstract: A method and device for controlling call forwarding are provided. In the method for controlling call forwarding, a call request is received, where the call request is sent when a second terminal takes a first terminal as a call forwarding destination; whether the first terminal permits reception of the call request forwarded from the second terminal or not is judged; and under a condition that a judgment result is that the first terminal does not permit the reception of the call request forwarded from the second terminal, the call request is denied.

Abstract: A method and system for localizing a mobile device includes deriving and using a spatial derivative magnetic signature or fingerprint. The method, executed in a processor of the mobile device, comprises monitoring mobile device magnetic data along a route being traversed, deriving, from the mobile device magnetic data, a mobile device spatial derivative magnetic fingerprint along the route, accessing a repository of spatial derivative magnetic fingerprint data having associated respective positions along the route, and localizing the mobile device based at least partly on matching the mobile device spatial derivative magnetic fingerprint with the spatial derivative magnetic fingerprint data of the repository.

Abstract: A network-based service is utilized to facilitate twinning of two or more communication devices associated with a subscriber account. Incoming communication is intercepted by a communication device and forwarded to a network server, which in turn transmits the incoming communication to the multiple twinned devices. In addition, identifier data associated with outgoing communication is replaced with a primary identifier (e.g., customer telephone number (CTN)) of a user's primary device or a common identifier (e.g., a mobile one number (MON)) assigned to devices associated with the user's subscriber account. Communication devices can be temporarily twinned for a defined time period, during which a common bill can be generated for the twinned devices.

Abstract: An architecture framework to realize Push-to-X services using cloud-based storage services. Push-to-X messages are transmitted between mobile units by messaging servers. The Push-to-X message may include a short text message contained wholly within the Push-to-X message, or the Push-to-X message may include one or more attachments that comprise multimedia contents, files, or location information, which are stored on storage servers, wherein the Push-to-X message identifies a location for retrieving the attachments from the storage servers. The Push-to-X messages may be sent to a single mobile unit identified by a Mobile Directory Number (MDN) or a group of mobile units identified by a list of MDNs or a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI).

Abstract: Embodiments herein relate to using a convolutional neural network (CNN) for time-of-flight estimation in a wireless communication system. A wireless device may receive, from a remote device, wireless communications including a first transmission time value associated with the transmission of the wireless communications. The wireless device may perform a coarse time-of-arrival (TOA) estimation on the wireless communications received from the remote device. The coarse TOA estimation may be used to generate an estimated impulse response, which may be input to a CNN associated with the wireless device to calculate a line-of-sight estimate. The wireless device may determine a range between the wireless device and the remote device based on the transmission time value and the line-of-sight estimate.

Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed which may allow a user having a mobile device to check in to a location using a packet sequence that includes information for identifying the location transmitted by one or more Bluetooth® Low Energy (BLE) beacons at or near the location. The user may be able to store packet sequences for various locations that may allow the user to automatically check into these locations using the store packet sequences.

Abstract: A satellite communications network, methods of sending, receiving and repetition, and the associated items of equipment wherein the transmission of a signal between a sending station and a receiving station is relayed by a plurality of satellites visible in common to both these stations are provided. The position of the sending station, the receiving station and the satellites relaying the signal is known by at least one of these items of equipment, which is further configured to separate the signals relayed by the satellites, and to compute, for each of the signals, at least one shift introduced by the propagation of the signal, on the basis of the position of the sending station, of the receiving station, and of the satellite by which it is transmitted, and then to apply the inverse shifts to the signal.

Abstract: A hardened VoIP system is presented that includes secure push-to-talk voice functionality. Through the addition of encryption, authentication, user filtering, and integration with new and existing LMR systems, a secure voice platform ensures malicious software, unauthorized access, and brute force security attacks will not compromise the voice communications of the system. The VoIP system is engineered to ensure graceful system degradation in the event of maintenance activities, natural disasters, and failure modes. The hardened VoIP system offers the functions of a LMR trunking system while utilizing broadband connections. Private calls, group calls, Emergency Alarms with covert monitoring capability, scanning, and priority scanning may be incorporated into the system. The system includes a VoIP controller that serves as a trunking controller, manages available VoIP based conference bridges, and assigns them as needed to the parties involved in each voice call.

Abstract: Provided is a wireless communication system that efficiently carries out communications between a wireless control device and a wireless device. A wireless control device (20) has a wireless resource allocation unit (22) and a wireless resource instruction unit (24). The wireless resource allocation unit (22) allocates wireless resources that are used by a wireless device (30) when wirelessly communicating with a wireless terminal (2). The wireless resource instruction unit (24) sends, to the wireless device (30), instructions for causing the allocated wireless resources to be used. The wireless device (30) has a wireless signal processing unit (32) and a wireless transmission unit (34). On the basis of the instructions from the wireless control device (20), the wireless signal processing unit (32) performs processing, for performing wireless communications using the allocated wireless resources, on data to be sent to the wireless terminal (2).

Abstract: This invention provides a method, system and apparatus for controlling mobility on a wireless network, which includes retrieving a network mobility preference, the network mobility preference indicating a level of mobility service for the mobile station, the level of mobility service indicating the extent to which the mobile station can handoff among base stations of the wireless network, and establishing a level of mobility service for the mobile station based on the retrieved network mobility preference. The method and apparatus may further include determining the level of mobility service for the mobile station to be fully or partially restricted based on the mobility preference.