Patents by Inventor Motorola Mobility LLC

Motorola Mobility LLC has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20140281470
    Abstract: In embodiments of electronic device mode detection, a mode detection application, implemented on an electronic device, correlates an identifier of a wireless device and an activity of the electronic device based at least in part on multiple instances of detecting the identifier of the wireless device during the activity of the electronic device. In some embodiments, the mode detection application correlates the identifier of the wireless device and the activity of the electronic device based at least in part on the identifier of the wireless device not being detected during one or more different activities of the electronic device. After correlating the identifier of the wireless device and the activity of the electronic device, the mode detection application configures the electronic device to automatically switch to a mode associated with the activity responsive to detecting the identifier of the wireless device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: Motorola Mobility LLC
    Inventor: Motorola Mobility LLC
  • Publication number: 20140010078
    Abstract: To reduce the likelihood of APN congestion following a power restoration a UE that is communicatively linked to a network may delay its initial attach request to the communication network based on a function of a randomly generated number or on a hardware identifier that is unique or nearly unique to the UE. Examples of hardware identifiers that may be used include the UE's International Mobile station Equipment Identity (IMEI), the UE's International Mobile station Equipment Identity and Software Version number (IMEISV), and the UE's manufacturer serial number (MSN). Also, an operator-provided identifier, such as an International Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI), may be used.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2013
    Publication date: January 9, 2014
    Applicant: MOTOROLA MOBILITY LLC
    Inventor: MOTOROLA MOBILITY LLC
  • Publication number: 20130215783
    Abstract: A method for predicting performance of a radio link in a wireless communication terminal including hypothesizing a second codeword including information associated with a hypothesized first codeword, obtaining channel state information from a received signal, and estimating a decoder error rate of the first codeword under a condition that the second codeword may not be decoded correctly, wherein the decoder error rate is estimated using the channel state information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2013
    Publication date: August 22, 2013
    Applicant: Motorola Mobility LLC
    Inventor: Motorola Mobility LLC
  • Publication number: 20130215064
    Abstract: A method for manipulating graphical user interface elements includes displaying a plurality of elements on a touch screen of an electronic device. Based on a first touch screen contact detected on a first side of the electronic device and a slide contact detected on a second side of the electronic device, a first touch screen element is selected and the non-selected touch screen element(s) are manipulated relative to the first element. The slide contact can be interpreted by the electronic device as a drag, push, or rotate relative to the first element. Various features of the slide movement, such as the speed, the length, the pressure, the direction, and/or the pattern may affect the manipulation of the non-selected elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2013
    Publication date: August 22, 2013
    Inventor: Motorola Mobility LLC
  • Publication number: 20130198325
    Abstract: Disclosed are machine processors and methods performed thereby. The processor has access to processing units for performing data processing and to libraries. Functions in the libraries are implementable to perform parallel processing and graphics processing. The processor may be configured to acquire (e.g., to download from a web server) a download script, possibly with extensions specifying bindings to library functions. Running the script may cause the processor to create, for each processing unit, contexts in which functions may be run, and to run, on the processing units and within a respective context, a portion of the download script. Running the script may also cause the processor to create, for a processing unit, a memory object, transfer data into that memory object, and transfer data back to the processor in such a way that a memory address of the data in the memory object is not returned to the processor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2012
    Publication date: August 1, 2013
    Applicant: MOTOROLA MOBILITY LLC
    Inventor: MOTOROLA MOBILITY LLC
  • Publication number: 20130191442
    Abstract: Disclosed are machine processors and methods performed thereby. The processor has access to processing units for performing data processing and to libraries. Functions in the libraries are implementable to perform parallel processing and graphics processing. The processor may be configured to acquire (e.g., to download from a web server) a download script, possibly with extensions specifying bindings to library functions. Running the script may cause the processor to create, for each processing unit, contexts in which functions may be run, and to run, on the processing units and within a respective context, a portion of the download script. Running the script may also cause the processor to create, for a processing unit, a memory object, transfer data into that memory object, and transfer data back to the processor in such a way that a memory address of the data in the memory object is not returned to the processor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2012
    Publication date: July 25, 2013
    Applicant: MOTOROLA MOBILITY LLC
    Inventor: MOTOROLA MOBILITY LLC
  • Publication number: 20130178221
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for managing transmit power for device-to-device communication is provided. According to an embodiment of the invention, a UE uses a component carrier of one cell to engage in D2D communication. In parallel with its D2D communication, the UE uses one or more other component carriers of one or more other cells to engage in cellular communication. The UE configures its D2D transmit power as well as its cellular transmit power so that its total transmit power does not exceed the UEs maximum power limit, and so that the transmit power on a component carrier of a cell does not exceed the maximum power limit for the cell that provides the component carrier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2013
    Publication date: July 11, 2013
    Applicant: MOTOROLA MOBILITY LLC
    Inventor: MOTOROLA MOBILITY LLC
  • Publication number: 20130176320
    Abstract: Disclosed are machine processors and methods performed thereby. The processor has access to processing units for performing data processing and to libraries. Functions in the libraries are implementable to perform parallel processing and graphics processing. The processor may be configured to acquire (e.g., to download from a web server) a download script, possibly with extensions specifying bindings to library functions. Running the script may cause the processor to create, for each processing unit, contexts in which functions may be run, and to run, on the processing units and within a respective context, a portion of the download script. Running the script may also cause the processor to create, for a processing unit, a memory object, transfer data into that memory object, and transfer data back to the processor in such a way that a memory address of the data in the memory object is not returned to the processor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2012
    Publication date: July 11, 2013
    Applicant: MOTOROLA MOBILITY LLC
    Inventor: MOTOROLA MOBILITY LLC
  • Publication number: 20130168445
    Abstract: A method for controlling an electronic device for use with a docking station is disclosed. The method includes detecting a coupling of the electronic device with the docking station, obtaining an image of an identifier associated with the docking station in response to detecting the coupling, and performing a predefined operation by the electronic device based on the image of the identifier in response to obtaining the image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2013
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Applicant: Motorola Mobility LLC
    Inventor: Motorola Mobility LLC
  • Publication number: 20130165132
    Abstract: A wireless communication entity schedulable in a wireless communication network, including a controller (603) communicably coupled to a power amplifier (608), wherein the controller varies a spectrum emissions level of the wireless communication entity based on the radio resource assignment information receiver by the radio receiver, such as whether NS signaling is active. Examples of NS signaling include sending an NS_07 signaling flag for band 13 signaling or one of a NS_12-15 signaling flag for band 26.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2012
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Applicant: MOTOROLA MOBILITY LLC
    Inventor: Motorola Mobility LLC
  • Publication number: 20130163486
    Abstract: A wireless communication terminal and method for determining a number of Physical Hybrid ARQ Indicator Channel (PHICH) groups (N) in the downlink subframe based on a first parameter, a second parameter and a determined cyclic prefix (CP) duration, wherein the first parameter indicates a downlink system bandwidth in terms of a number of resource blocks and the second parameter indicates a scaling factor. The terminal receives downlink control signaling in a set of resource elements in the subframe, wherein the set of resource elements is determined based partly on the number of PHICH groups (N).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2013
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Applicant: MOTOROLA MOBILITY LLC
    Inventor: MOTOROLA MOBILITY LLC
  • Publication number: 20130156002
    Abstract: A method in a wireless communication device may include receiving a plurality of sub-frames, each sub-frame having time-frequency resource elements, at least one of the sub-frames having a control channel. In some implementations, the plurality of sub-frames forms a continuum of concatenated sub-frames. Each of the plurality of resource allocation fields of the control channel may indicate a resource assignment to the wireless communication device based on a channel quality report, as well as resource assignments in sub-frames of the continuum of concatenated sub-frames. At least one sub-frame of the continuum of concatenated sub-frames may include information indicating that at least some of the resource assignments are frequency diverse.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2013
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Applicant: MOTOROLA MOBILITY LLC
    Inventor: MOTOROLA MOBILITY LLC
  • Publication number: 20130151259
    Abstract: Arrangements described herein relate to providing an audio message. A calendar event can be detected. A voice relating to the detected calendar event can be automatically selected. A background sound relating to the detected calendar event can be automatically selected. The audio message can be generated using the automatically selected voice and background sound relating to the calendar event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2013
    Publication date: June 13, 2013
    Applicant: MOTOROLA MOBILITY, LLC
    Inventor: Motorola Mobility, LLC
  • Publication number: 20130121304
    Abstract: A wireless communication device is disclosed. The device includes a transceiver coupled to a processor configured to determine an antenna port associated with a received control message scheduling a transport block, to determine an acknowledgement resource based on the antenna port, and to cause the transceiver to transmit an acknowledgement on the acknowledgement resource, wherein the acknowledgement indicates receipt or non-receipt of the transport block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2012
    Publication date: May 16, 2013
    Applicant: MOTOROLA MOBILITY LLC
    Inventor: MOTOROLA MOBILITY LLC
  • Publication number: 20130121432
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for feedback for closed-loop transmitting with multiple transmit antenna elements and multiple receive antenna elements. A base station includes a codebook containing sets of weightings for the multiple transmit antenna elements, with each set of weightings identified by an index and the codebook known to the base station and a served mobile station (MS). The base station pre-codes pilot signals using a precoding matrix, preferably a unitary matrix, to produce pre-coded pilot signals, which precoding matrix may or may not be known to the MS and which precoding matrix may or may not be included in the codebook. The base station then transmits the pre-coded pilot signals to the MS via the multiple transmit antenna elements and, in response, receives an index to a set of weightings in the codebook for use in a subsequent transmission of a data stream.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2012
    Publication date: May 16, 2013
    Applicant: MOTOROLA MOBILITY LLC
    Inventor: MOTOROLA MOBILITY LLC
  • Publication number: 20130114656
    Abstract: Methods in a wireless terminal are described for supporting co-ordinated multipoint transmissions including joint transmissions from two or more transmission points, specifically the method of receiving indication of two or more CSI reference signal configurations, each CSI reference signal configuration representing one or more antenna ports comprising a set of antenna ports; determining a first set of transmission parameters corresponding to a first set of antenna ports corresponding to a first CSI reference signal configuration and a second set of transmission parameters corresponding to a second set of antenna ports corresponding to a second CSI reference signal configuration; the first set and second set of transmission parameters determined to maximize the sum data rate for simultaneous transmission from the first set and the second set of antenna ports; conveying, to the base station, information pertaining to the first set of transmission parameters and the second set of transmission parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2012
    Publication date: May 9, 2013
    Applicant: MOTOROLA MOBILITY LLC
    Inventor: MOTOROLA MOBILITY LLC
  • Publication number: 20130114543
    Abstract: In a 3rd Generation Partnership Project, 3GPP, communication system a base station comprises a scheduler allocating communication resource of at least one of a Physical Uplink Shared CHannel, PUSCH, and a Physical Downlink Shared CHannel, PDSCH to a User Equipment (UE). The scheduling may either be a dynamic scheduling wherein a resource allocation for a single frame is provided to the UE or a persistent scheduling wherein a resource allocation for a plurality of frames is provided to the UE. A resource allocator assigns resource of a Physical Uplink Control CHannel, PUCCH, to the UE dependent on whether dynamic scheduling or persistent scheduling is performed by the scheduler for the UE. The UE transmits uplink control data on a physical uplink channel which is selected as the PUCCH or the PUSCH in response to whether persistent scheduling is used for the UE. The invention allows e.g. reduced PUCCH loading.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2012
    Publication date: May 9, 2013
    Applicant: MOTOROLA MOBILITY LLC
    Inventor: MOTOROLA MOBILITY LLC
  • Publication number: 20130103931
    Abstract: Disclosed are machine processors and methods performed thereby. The processor has access to processing units for performing data processing and to libraries. Functions in the libraries are implementable to perform parallel processing and graphics processing. The processor may be configured to acquire (e.g., to download from a web server) a download script, possibly with extensions specifying bindings to library functions. Running the script may cause the processor to create, for each processing unit, contexts in which functions may be run, and to run, on the processing units and within a respective context, a portion of the download script. Running the script may also cause the processor to create, for a processing unit, a memory object, transfer data into that memory object, and transfer data back to the processor in such a way that a memory address of the data in the memory object is not returned to the processor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2012
    Publication date: April 25, 2013
    Applicant: MOTOROLA MOBILITY LLC
    Inventor: MOTOROLA MOBILITY LLC
  • Publication number: 20130097410
    Abstract: Disclosed are machine processors and methods performed thereby. The processor has access to processing units for performing data processing and to libraries. Functions in the libraries are implementable to perform parallel processing and graphics processing. The processor may be configured to acquire (e.g., to download from a web server) a download script, possibly with extensions specifying bindings to library functions. Running the script may cause the processor to create, for each processing unit, contexts in which functions may be run, and to run, on the processing units and within a respective context, a portion of the download script. Running the script may also cause the processor to create, for a processing unit, a memory object, transfer data into that memory object, and transfer data back to the processor in such a way that a memory address of the data in the memory object is not returned to the processor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2012
    Publication date: April 18, 2013
    Applicant: MOTOROLA MOBILITY LLC
    Inventor: MOTOROLA MOBILITY LLC
  • Publication number: 20130093705
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a processor and one or more touch-detecting surfaces for detecting a gesture sequence including a first touch gesture and a subsequent second touch gesture. A related method includes detecting a first touch gesture applied to the touch-detecting surface; and initiating a sequential touch mode if the first touch gesture has a predetermined characteristic. When in the sequential touch mode, the method detects a second touch gesture that is subsequently applied to the touch-detecting surface, wherein the second touch gesture includes a glide movement. The method determines a first parameter and a second parameter associated with the second touch gesture, identifies a corresponding device function in accordance with the determined first parameter, and controls the execution of the identified device function in accordance with the determined second parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2012
    Publication date: April 18, 2013
    Applicant: Motorola Mobility LLC
    Inventor: Motorola Mobility LLC