Abstract: A method a system of providing information pertaining to an object within a premises. The method includes obtaining images of the premises, processing the images to identify at least one object and its corresponding location within the premises, creating a three-dimensional point cloud of the premises, the identified at least one object being represented by at least one point in the three-dimensional point cloud, storing information pertaining to the identified at least one object, the information pertaining to the identified at least one object including location information of the identified at least one object, receiving a given image captured within the premises, identifying a location and a viewing direction from which the given image was captured, and locating at least one object in the given image, based upon the location and the viewing direction, and the location information. The system includes a server arrangement and a database arrangement.

Abstract: The present invention provides methods and apparatus for integrating the operation of a plurality of radio networks. The plurality of radio networks may utilize a common frequency spectrum. The radio center frequencies are adjusted so that frequency drift in relation to each radio network is reduced. Also, system information about the plurality of radio networks may be sent on a radio channel that is associated with one of the radio networks. An oscillator synchronizer synchronizes a first reference oscillator that is associated with a first radio network and a second reference oscillator that is associated with a second radio network in order to adjust radio center frequencies. With a variation of the embodiment, a reference oscillator of one of the radio network adjusts center frequencies for radios that are associated with the other radio network.

Abstract: The present invention provides methods and apparatus for integrating the operation of a plurality of radio networks. The plurality of radio networks may utilize a common frequency spectrum. The radio center frequencies are adjusted so that frequency drift in relation to each radio network is reduced. Also, system information about the plurality of radio networks may be sent on a radio channel that is associated with one of the radio networks. An oscillator synchronizer synchronizes a first reference oscillator that is associated with a first radio network and a second reference oscillator that is associated with a second radio network in order to adjust radio center frequencies. With a variation of the embodiment, a reference oscillator of one of the radio network adjusts center frequencies for radios that are associated with the other radio network.

Abstract: The invention concerns a method for the implementation of charging in a telecommunications system including customer terminals used by customers for ordering services and servers for providing services to customers. In order to implement the charging of services easily especially in a multimedia environment, at least one separate billing server is used in the network so that each customer terminal has a dedicated billing server. A contract message is sent to the customer terminal stating that the customer must make a contract on the selected service, and the customer's acceptance of the contract is sent from the customer terminal to the billing server in the network. The billing servers of the network are used for transferring charging records to the billing system so that the transfer of the charging record(s) concerning the selected service involves at least one billing server.