Patents Issued in January 28, 2014
  • Patent number: 8639206
    Abstract: The teachings presented herein allow the same sequence of local oscillator waveform sample values to be used for driving two harmonic rejection mixers for which quadrature operation is desired, irrespective of whether the oversampling rate of the sequence is divisible by four or only divisible by two. This ability is obtained by controlling whether the quadrature mixer clocks coincidentally with the in-phase mixer, or clocks a half clock cycle out of phase relative to the in-phase mixer. Several advantages attend the contemplated circuit arrangement and method of operation. Example advantages include the improved matching that comes from operating both mixers with the identical waveform sample values, and the improved flexibility in optimizing the harmonic rejection and/or interference-related operation of the mixers over a broader range of frequencies of interest, which flows from having a larger set of usable OSRs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Staffan Ek, Lars Sundström
  • Patent number: 8639207
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus which is capable of appropriately providing notification about a connecting state and an operating state of a wireless communication unit, and reducing power consumption. Upon receiving a beacon signal from a wireless communication access point with a predetermined period, a notification unit provides notification that the wireless communication unit is linked to the wireless communication access point. Based on a time corresponding to the predetermined period, the wireless communication unit is returned into a first state from a second state in which a smaller amount of power is consumed than in the first state. When the wireless communication unit lies in the second state, the notification unit is intermittently disabled, and when the wireless communication unit returns from the second state into the first state, the notification unit is disabled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masami Tsunoda
  • Patent number: 8639208
    Abstract: A mobile device and method in one example for automatically redialing a dialed number when a call has failed is provided. The mobile device stores the dialed number when the call is initially being placed. If the call fails, the mobile device determines if a call retry service should be invoked. If so, the mobile device determines whether a call retry system has already been enabled. If the call retry system has been enabled, the mobile device will continually and automatically call the dialed number until a terminating party at the dialed number answers or a selectable time limit has expired. When the terminating party answers the call, the mobile device rings so that a subscriber of the mobile device may answer the ring and connect the call. The mobile device may also detect if the dialed number is an emergency number or non-emergency number. A recorded message recorded by the subscriber may be automatically played to the terminating party if the subscriber does not answer the ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventor: Raymond L. Ruggerio
  • Patent number: 8639209
    Abstract: Communications are established with a first base station and the communications include first validation information associated with the first base station. Second validation information is obtained and the second validation information is stored in a data structure. The second validation information is associated with a second and valid base station. The first validation information is compared to the second validation information stored in the data structure and it is determined whether the first base station is valid based upon the comparison. When the comparing indicates that the first base station is not valid, a warning is initiated to a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Continental Automotive Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: James Walby, Robert F. D'Avello, Harsha Dabholkar, James Snider
  • Patent number: 8639210
    Abstract: When communication of a type, such as a priority call, to be prioritized over a normal call has occurred, appropriate measurement of CSG cells is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Katsunari Uemura, Hidekazu Tsuboi
  • Patent number: 8639211
    Abstract: A mobile communication method according to the present invention includes the steps of: (A) transmitting, from a radio base station (eNB) to a plurality of cells designated by a transmission request received from a switching center (MME), broadcast information; and (B) transmitting, from the radio base station (eNB) to the switching center (MME), a transmission response which includes an information element to which the number of cells and identification information of the cells are set, in accordance with the transmission request; wherein, in the step (B), when the broadcast information was not successfully transmitted to all the plurality of cells, the radio base station sets “0” to the number of cells in the information element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Wuri Andarmawanti Hapsari, Tadashi Uchiyama, Minami Ishii
  • Patent number: 8639212
    Abstract: Emergency alert area definitions are mapped to associated cell sites. Emergency alert messages are provided to subscribers within the alert area. Areas not having cellular coverage are identified. The identification of areas not having cellular coverage is provided to appropriate personnel, such as an incident commander. Accordingly, alternate mechanisms can be utilized for providing the alert message to the areas not having cellular coverage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: DeWayne Allan Sennett, Brian Kevin Daly
  • Patent number: 8639213
    Abstract: A method, computer programs and a use for automatic identification and classification of land uses. The method including a computing mechanism running in a computer device receiving as inputs, a geographical region R, a plurality of base stations giving coverage to the geographical region R and a call records generated by individuals using the base stations, and performing automatically the identification and classification of land uses by making use of information extracted during a given time period from the call records. The programs include code adapted to perform the approximation of each coverage region when the program is run on a computer, and to perform a comparison when the program is run on a computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Telefonica S.A.
    Inventors: Enrique Frías Martínez, Vanessa Frías Martínez
  • Patent number: 8639214
    Abstract: The communication device comprising a voice communicating implementer, a payment monetary value data transmitting implementer, a remaining monetary value data updating implementer, an automated supplementary monetary value data adding implementer, and a simultaneous implementation implementer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Inventor: Iwao Fujisaki
  • Patent number: 8639215
    Abstract: A financial transaction processing system in a legacy financial transaction network for wireless mobile handset devices having an internal SIM or USIM under control of a service provider in a wireless communication network connected to an open world communication network in which the SIM or USIM has a secure part of an account management application that manages a financial account in the handset and adjusts the financial account when the user of the handset communicates a number related to the mobile number of the handset to a legacy remote card terminal which routes the number and transaction data to the secure link server of the service provider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Inventors: Gregory M. McGregor, Christopher M. McGregor, Travis M. McGregor
  • Patent number: 8639216
    Abstract: A system and method for the real-time management of a device, and more particularly to the establishment and enforcement of policies or rules associated with the feature or functions that may be performed with the device, such as making and receiving calls, exchanging data, playing games and music, sending and receiving email, accessing web sites, and paying for goods and services. If a child or employee is using the device, there may be a need to regulate how that device can be used and to determine who will pay for what goods or services. In addition to providing all of the features associated with a device, service providers need to be able to establish and enforce rules (policies) regulating how and when that device can be used and who will pay for a good or service requested by the user of the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Kajeet, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Donald Baker, Steven Ira Geller, Douglas Owen Kesser, Daniel John Neal, Carol Ann Politi, Ben Julian Weintraub
  • Patent number: 8639217
    Abstract: A system is connected to an access point via a network, receives packet transmission information held by the access point, and extracts an address having a transfer destination which is radio interface from the packet transmission information. It is assumed that the terminal of the extracted address exists under the access point holing the packet transmission information. Thus, it is possible to realize connection relationship between a terminal and an access point at low cost and not depending on the vendor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Koichi Ebata
  • Patent number: 8639218
    Abstract: A method of operation of a communication system includes: registering a primary communication identification for identifying a reception device; generating a map communication identification associated with the primary communication identification; generating an authorization condition for the map communication identification for contacting the reception device; and controlling a device access based on the authorization condition for accepting an access request to the reception device with the map communication identification instead of the primary communication identification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Telenav, Inc.
    Inventor: XiZhen Sun
  • Patent number: 8639219
    Abstract: Various embodiments are described herein for a mobile communication device that authenticates a smart battery prior to use. The mobile device includes a main processor and a device memory. The device memory stores first and second portions of security information used for authentication. The smart battery includes a battery processor and a battery memory. The battery memory stores a third portion of security information used for authentication. The main processor sends an authentication request including the first portion of security information to the battery processor, and the battery processor generates a response based on the first and third portions of security information and sends the generated response to the main processor. The smart battery is authenticated if the generated response matches the second portion of security information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventor: Herbert Anthony Little
  • Patent number: 8639220
    Abstract: A method and a system for providing a Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi) service, in which when multiple counterpart devices are selected based on manufacturer information and support information on supported functions and capability defined in a service information field of each beacon message or each probe response message, a final device is determined by checking multiple pieces of signal information of the selected counterpart devices, are provided. The method includes receiving messages from multiple counterpart devices, selecting one or more counterpart devices, each of which supports a requested service, from an identical manufacturer when the messages are received, checking multiple pieces of signal information of the selected counterpart devices when the number of the selected counterpart devices is greater than one, and determining a device having the signal information satisfying set conditions as a final device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jong Mu Choi, You Na Lee, Jhong Il Kim, Jun Ho Lee, Jung Hun Lee
  • Patent number: 8639221
    Abstract: What is disclosed is a method and system for determining an anonymity level of a user's data. If it desired to change the anonymity level, location and time information may be changed and/or deleted to effect the change. The change may be user directed, or may be achieved by the system, before providing the information to a third party.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: Hui Zang, Jean C. Bolot
  • Patent number: 8639222
    Abstract: A message transmission method includes storing message data whose message contents change depending on a value of a parameter in a storage unit, acquiring the value of the parameter based on an operation of a called party when a second terminal device receives a call from a first terminal device, determining the contents of the message based on the acquired parameter value and the message data, and transmitting the message whose contents are determined to the first terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Tomohiro Ikeda, Yuuji Nanba, Shuichi Enomoto, Tooru Natsumi, Hiroyuki Tanaka, Yukio Kise, Hideo Shirai, Minao Tanaka, Naoto Matsuo, Takashi Nagata, Shigehiro Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 8639223
    Abstract: A unified alerts message service delivers an alerts message, including content of interest to a user, to a mobile station of the user. Interest information of the user, which defines user's preferences or interests, is inputted by the user to an interface provided by a platform for providing the alerts message service. The platform receives various alerts contents from a number of content providers, and performs a logical matching to find alerts contents that logically match the user's interest information among the received alerts contents. The alerts contents found from the logical matching are sent in one or more mobile messaging service messages including combined alerts contents are sent to a mobile station of the user via a mobile network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Cellco Partnership
    Inventor: Dongliang Hu
  • Patent number: 8639224
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, by a directory service, a call from a user of a mobile phone requesting a number of a communication device associated with a callee. The number is then retrieved from a database by the directory service and then dialed to connect the mobile phone with the communication device. The directory service also sends the number to the mobile phone, the mobile phone being configured to store the number in a storage location. It is emphasized that this abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract that will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Randall B. Baird, Jennifer K. Walker
  • Patent number: 8639225
    Abstract: An E-Mail to Phone Number Resolution for Mobile to Mobile, Mobile to Landline, And PC to Mobile Communications comprising of a plurality of profiles associated with a plurality of email addresses and mapped to phone numbers. Callers subscribe to the service platform to initiate a call to a called party. The call is directed to an email address and not a phone number. The email address is resolved to a phone number by the service platform and the call is established between the caller and the called party. The phone number of the caller is masked by the service platform so that the called party is unable to determine the originating phone number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Inventor: Heine F. Nzumafo
  • Patent number: 8639226
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for weighing a use located on an electronic scale in communication with a mobile telecommunication terminal having a display screen, the scale and the mobile terminal both wirelessly communicating with a telecommunication network adapted to put at least the mobile terminal in communication with an additional communication device, the method including a weighing step, a two-way communication step during which the scale transmits weighing data resulting from the weighing to the mobile terminal, and a display step during which the mobile terminal displays weighing data on the screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Withings
    Inventors: Cédric Hutchings, Eric Carreel
  • Patent number: 8639227
    Abstract: A method, system, and medium are provided for ensuring usability of digital content on a mobile device. In exemplary aspects, digital content on a mobile device is rendered unusable, such as where a download is interrupted. The usability of the digital content is automatically restored to the mobile device without user intervention. In situations in which the mobile device is unavailable, digital content might be restored to an alternative mobile device and an advisory notification might be communicated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: Geoffrey Martin, Jonathan Kindred
  • Patent number: 8639228
    Abstract: The present invention provides systems and methods for acquiring content (e.g., a ring tone or a ring view) for a communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Music Choice
    Inventors: Jeremy C. Rosenberg, Robert A. Ellis, Ronald M. Yurman, Siamak Behta
  • Patent number: 8639229
    Abstract: This document describes tools capable of enabling users of mobile communication devices to create communication groups quickly and easily. With such a communication group a user may call, text, or instant message all persons in the group at once by selecting the communication group rather than each person in the group. In one embodiment, the tools enable a user to build a communication group by dragging and dropping indicators for persons he or she knows from one area of a screen into another area. In another embodiment, the tools automatically collect persons from those that the user knows based on one or more criteria. The user may then easily create a communication group of those collected persons, such as by tapping on an area of a mobile device's display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Darren A. Apfel, Jon Friedman, Keith L. Rowe, Rosanna H. Ho, Sandra I. Vargas, Peter A. Bernard, Matthew Justin Von Bencke
  • Patent number: 8639230
    Abstract: In general, this disclosure describes techniques for transferring an active telephone call between devices using short-range wireless communication. In one example, a method includes, while the first device and a second device are connected to a telephone call, obtaining, by the first device and from a third device using short-range wireless communication, configuration information associated with the third device, sending, by the first device, a message to a call controller in order to connect the third device to the telephone call, wherein the message includes at least a portion of the configuration information associated with the third device, and disconnecting the first device from the telephone call after the third device is connected to the telephone call.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Kyle Williams, Jeffrey William Hamilton
  • Patent number: 8639231
    Abstract: A method for providing a mobile network code associated with a network operations center to a mobile terminal. The method reading a first mobile network code from a removable data device installed in the mobile terminal. The method further comprises reading a second mobile network code from a fixed memory of the mobile terminal. The method further comprises comparing the first mobile network code with the second mobile network code. The method further comprises, responsive to determining that the first mobile network code does not match the second mobile network code, disabling at least one non-emergency function of the mobile terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventor: Mark Pecen
  • Patent number: 8639232
    Abstract: A system and method to manage processes of a mobile device based on available power resources is disclosed. In a particular embodiment, an apparatus is disclosed that includes an interface configured to receive a user selection of a scheduled program to be received at a mobile device. The apparatus also includes a battery threshold calculator configured to determine a battery charge threshold based on at least one of a duration of the scheduled program and a processing complexity of the scheduled program. The apparatus includes an alert generator configured to generate a battery alert notification prior to receiving the scheduled program in response to a determination that a battery charge of the mobile device at a starting time of the scheduled program does not satisfy the battery charge threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventor: Khosro M. Rabii
  • Patent number: 8639233
    Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein provide systems and methods to provide data session continuity between wireless networks. In a particular embodiment, a method provides receiving a request to create a data session for a wireless communication device exchanging communications with a wireless local area network via a wireless access point. The method further provides determining an access point identifier for the wireless access point and selecting a control system for a cellular communication network of a plurality of cellular communication networks based on the access point identifier. The method further provides anchoring the data session to the control system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: Wen Xue, Suryanarayanan Ramamurthy, Jay Douglas Cole
  • Patent number: 8639234
    Abstract: A system and a method for improving wireless communications between a call center and a vehicle. The system and method can reduce the number of wireless connections needed between a call center and a vehicle by using multimedia messaging service (MMS) messages to convey information therebetween. This obviates the need for the call center to make an initial wireless connection simply to alert the vehicle that it wishes to communicate. Instead, the system and method can convey information or push down content to the vehicle on a very first connection, which can reduce wireless connections and improve reliability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: General Motors LLC
    Inventors: Anthony J. Sumcad, Navjot Sidhu, Kevin R. Krause
  • Patent number: 8639235
    Abstract: Provided are methods for executing an action in response to a request for a service using location information in conjunction with service-specific parameters. A user may request a provider of a specified service (e.g., taxi, plumber, pharmacist, etc.). In evaluating the request, providers may be evaluated based on the location information in addition to service-specific parameters. An action in response may include merely displaying selected service provider(s) in response to the request, or acting on behalf of the user by communicating with a selected service provider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventor: Samuel N. Zellner
  • Patent number: 8639236
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a system, method and device for controlling function on an electronic device. The method comprises: receiving a communication from a communication network at the first device, the communication addressed to an account accessed by the first device and providing a first request for a meeting, a start time for the meeting and a second request to control a function of the first device for the meeting; identifying a component on the first device associated with the function; and deactivating the component when the start time arrives on the first device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Alexander Truskovsky, Shivangi Anantrupa Gandhi, Lei Zhang
  • Patent number: 8639237
    Abstract: A system and a method for controlling access at a user end are disclosed. The correlation between a tag signal of a femtocell access point and a tag signal of a fixed internet device is established, such that when the femtocell access point would access internet via the fixed internet device, a tag signal of the femtocell access point and a tag signal of the fixed internet device are acquired, so as to determine whether the tag signal of the femtocell access point and the tag signal of the fixed internet device match the correlation in the data bank. When the tag signal of the femtocell access point and the tag signal of the fixed internet device match the correlation, the femtocell access point is allowed to provide access services. The present invention provides an effective mechanism for controlling access at a user end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignees: Askey Technology (Jiangsu) Ltd., Askey Computer Corporation
    Inventors: Kuo-Wei Hung, Ying-Sheng Kuo, Ching-Feng Hsieh
  • Patent number: 8639238
    Abstract: A mobile terminal includes a measuring unit that measures at least the moving speed of the self terminal and communication quality of wireless communication, and a communication unit that transmits terminal information including moving speed information and communication quality information. A quality monitoring apparatus (90) includes a terminal information collection unit (901) that collects the terminal information from at least one mobile terminal, and a terminal information classification unit (903) and a quality analyzing unit (904) that monitor communication quality in a predetermined target area for each moving speed range of the mobile terminal based on the collected terminal information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Kosei Kobayashi, Yasuhiko Matsunaga
  • Patent number: 8639239
    Abstract: A base station apparatus, in a mobile communication system comprised of a plurality of base station apparatuses for performing transmission using mutually different frequency bands and a mobile station apparatus capable of concurrently communicating with each of the base station apparatuses, makes a determination whether the mobile station apparatus needs to perform Inter-Frequency Measurement to communicate with the plurality of base station apparatuses, and when Inter-Frequency Measurement is needed, based on the number of frequency bands of base station apparatuses that concurrently communicate with the mobile station apparatus and the number of frequency bands that the mobile station apparatus is capable of concurrently receiving, selects one of a first Inter-Frequency Measurement method without the need for providing a measurement gap in one of the frequency bands, and a second Inter-Frequency Measurement method with the need for providing a measurement gap in one of the frequency bands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Katsunari Uemura, Waho Oh
  • Patent number: 8639240
    Abstract: Embodiments describe manufacturing, programming, testing, and servicing of wireless computing devices utilizing their embedded wireless technology. An embodiment method ensures that the wireless computing devices are successfully programmed in the event a disruption to the manufacturing, programming, testing and servicing process flow occurs. The method includes retrieving a last known location of the wireless device before the disruption event and comparing the last known location with the location of the wireless of the wireless device after the disruption event. A wireless device may be returned to the last known location before the disruption event if there is a difference in locations. The programming at the last known location before the disruption event occurred may be successfully completed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Christopher Mark Romine, Dennis Michael Feenaghty, Joseph Patrick Burke, Sanjay K Jha, Samir S Soliman
  • Patent number: 8639241
    Abstract: A user equipment, in a cellular telecommunication system having a plurality of downlink physical channels, detects radio link problems using a subset of said physical channels, where said subset is dynamically adjustable depending upon which channels are available at a particular instant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Lars Lindbom, Johan Mikael Bergman, Dirk Gerstenberger, Muhammad Ali Kazmi
  • Patent number: 8639242
    Abstract: Certain embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method and an apparatus for registration and service announcements in peer-to-peer wireless networks to increase capacity of such networks. The present disclosure proposes a hybrid registration mechanism allowing a peer-to-peer node to leverage an administrative architecture of a neighboring cellular system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Oliver Michaelis, J. Rodney Walton, John W. Ketchum
  • Patent number: 8639243
    Abstract: According to some wireless network standards the size of a neighbor cell list is restricted to a maximum size. The limited size of a neighbor cell list may not reflect the realities of a wireless network deployment, especially for deployments including numerous femto cells clustered in close proximity. Accordingly, as the concentration of macro cells and/or femto cells in an area increases, there lies a challenge to identify and communicate neighbor lists to user devices that reflect the arrangement of a particular portion of the deployment and the needs of the user devices. Various systems, methods and apparatus described herein are configured to provide a user device or a group of user devices a neighbor cell list that includes neighbor cell identifiers chosen from a candidate list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Andrei Dragos Radulescu, Peter Hans Rauber, Sanjiv Nanda, Damanjit Singh, Jen M. Chen, Farhad Meshkati
  • Patent number: 8639244
    Abstract: In a wireless communication system having at least first and second radio stations located at a network end and connected to a core network, the first radio station receives a registration message from a user station to initially register the user station in a radio station located at the network end, after the user station has been switched on. Subsequently, communication takes place between the core network and the user station. Signaling messages that are to be sent from the core network to the user station are transmitted, at least at the beginning of the communication between the core network and the user station, from the core network to the second radio station, then from the second radio station to the first radio station or another radio station located at the network end, and from the first radio station (or the other radio station) directly to the user station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Michael Färber, Norbert Kroth
  • Patent number: 8639245
    Abstract: A system and method for providing updated rules governing the switching of enabled provisioning data supporting a wireless service contract. A mobile device may be initially programmed with a profile data table and priority list index data table to automatically enable provisioning data supporting one of the plurality of service providers stored in a VSIM internal memory unit to conduct a wireless communication when certain operational parameter values are satisfied. The profile data table and priority list index data table may be automatically updated in response to a variety of triggers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Guangming Shi, Venkat Tangirala, Ta-yan Siu, Julian Durand, Stephen A. Sprigg
  • Patent number: 8639246
    Abstract: A method, terminal and system for cell reselection are disclosed. When in a cell of a Long Term Evolution (LTE) system, the terminal receives a message from the LTE system. The message includes a dedicated priority list for the cell reselection. When the terminal camps on a cell of a non-LTE system, the terminal performs inter-system cell reselection in accordance with the dedicated priority list before a valid time of the dedicated priority list expires. With the discloses method, terminal and system, the problems of establishing a dedicated priority list causes too much increased signaling and too high costs for network update in the prior art when perform inter-system cell (re)selection are effectively resolved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Michael Roberts, Johan Johansson, Boyun Xie, Min Huang
  • Patent number: 8639247
    Abstract: In addition to other aspects disclosed, a radio access network authenticates the identity of an access terminal using a session identifier and another identifier (different from the session identifier). The session identifier and the other identifier are provided by the access terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Ericsson Evdo Inc.
    Inventors: Dennis Ng, Woojune Kim, Airin D. Cherian
  • Patent number: 8639248
    Abstract: A basestation (50) in a mobile communications network is connected to the core network of the mobile communications network over a public wide area network. In the event of a handover between the basestation and another of the network nodes of the PLMW (120), handover information (130, 132, 134) is sent between the basestation and the core network over the public wide area network, for example embedded in a SIP message or in a UMA message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Ubiquisys Limited
    Inventors: Andrea Giustina, Richard Byrne
  • Patent number: 8639249
    Abstract: An apparatus and method provides for controlling communications from multiple base stations to a mobile station in a communication system. A mobile station transmitter transmits from the mobile station channel quality indicator data of a first base station. The data is covered with Walsh code assigned to the first base station. A base station receiver receives the transmission of the channel quality indicator data of the first base station. The mobile station transmitter punctures the transmission of the channel quality indicator data of the first base station with null channel quality indicator data, and covers the null channel quality data with Walsh code assigned to a second base station of the multiple base stations to indicate a desire to switch a source of transmission of traffic data from the first base station to the second base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Aziz Gholmieh, Peter Gaal, Edward G Tiedemann, Jr.
  • Patent number: 8639250
    Abstract: When a Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (UTRAN) receives an indication on Layer 3 (L3) (an L1/L2 indication is also possible) from the User Equipment (UE) that it is switching the High Speed-Data Shared Channel (HS-DSCH) reception to another cell in the active set (AS), the UTRAN sends a reconfiguration message to the UE via the target cell using a pre-configured configuration that UE has taken into use. The message can only include an indication that the pre-defined configuration can be used further by the UE or that a complete new configuration is to be used, e.g., using new HARQ info or even a hard handover (HHO) to another frequency. After receiving the configuration message, the UE responds with a normal reconfiguration complete message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Intellectual Ventures I LLC
    Inventor: Juho Pirskanen
  • Patent number: 8639251
    Abstract: The present invention relates to handover procedures in a cellular communications system (1). The cells (10-70) of the system (1) are divided into multiple handover-related classes based on their respective radio coverage characteristics. Each such cell class is then associated with a unique handover parameter or a unique set of parameters that are used in handover procedures involving the cells (10-70). The parameter values are adapted for the radio coverage characteristics of each cell class in order to generate a suitable handover region size of the cells (10-70). The handover parameters are used together with user equipment-assisted signal quality measurements for triggering the handover procedures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Fredrik Gunnarsson, Bo Hagerman
  • Patent number: 8639252
    Abstract: A method in a first base station for supporting DTX is provided. The first base station serves a first cell being in an active mode. The first base station communicates with a user equipment within the first cell. The first base station is comprised in a radio communications system further comprising the user equipment and a second base station serving a second cell being in a non observable mode. The first base station sends (602) to the second base station, a request to switch the second cell state from a non observable mode to an observable mode. It further sends (603) to the user equipment or to the second base station, a request to perform signalling between the user equipment and the second base station for quality measurements. The first base station then obtains (604) information that handover is feasible, based on quality measurement of the performed signalling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Pål Frenger, Robert Baldemair, Erik Dahlman
  • Patent number: 8639253
    Abstract: A distributed services modular client architecture may be used to implement IP-based real time communication services in a flexible manner among a wide variety of different types of chip sets and systems-on-chip. The various services are distributed among one or more processor cores in accordance with a number of factors, including power consumption, media latency, on-time, performance, and other considerations. A processor “core” may refer to a processor itself if single core, and may also refer to a “core” of a multicore processor. The architecture uses a SIP/IMS framework, and is modularized by placing certain services into their own framework so that a particular service may be plugged into the SIP/IMS framework if and when desired, and otherwise omitted. The frameworks may be installed on various processor cores within the chip set or system-on-chip to allow for more effective power conservation without unduly sacrificing performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Ecrio, Inc.
    Inventors: Krishnakumar Narayanan, Michel E. Gannage
  • Patent number: 8639254
    Abstract: A femto cell at a customer premises, such as an IP-based femto Base Transceiver System (IP-BTS), can be configured as a “private access” node intended to service a limited set of mobile stations. However, mobile stations not associated with the private femto cell may acquire and lock onto the femto BTS. To avoid service blockages in such cases, the private femto BTS will allow call access attempts by, and call deliveries to, a non-associated mobile station, despite the “private access” configuration. However, upon completion of call set-up, the non-associated mobile station is directed to initiate handoff, from the private femto cell coverage provided by the femto BTS into a cell coverage of a base station of the macro network, to conserve femto cell resources for use in servicing calls of the associated mobile station(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Cellco Partnership
    Inventors: Derek Hongwei Bao, David Chiang
  • Patent number: 8639255
    Abstract: A simulation apparatus according to the present invention performs propagation simulation regarding the radio wave quality of a base station radio wave in a specific area. The apparatus includes: a receiving unit configured to receive, from a plurality of mobile terminals existing in the specific area, measured results of the radio wave quality of a base station radio wave from a base station around the mobile terminal, the field intensity of a GPS wave from a GPS satellite, and a position of the mobile terminal; and a simulating unit configured to identify a mobile terminal having the measured result of the field intensity at or above a predetermined value from the plurality of mobile terminals and correct a propagation equation used for the propagation simulation using the measured result of the radio wave quality at the position of the identified mobile terminal for performing the propagation simulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Takeshi Inaba