Service Profile Patents (Class 455/432.3)
  • Patent number: 9271106
    Abstract: An exemplary method includes a machine-to-machine (“M2M”) solutions provider subsystem 1) maintaining data representative of a plurality of distinct data processing schemes associated with a plurality of network services, 2) receiving a plurality of data streams from a single M2M gateway device, 3) identifying a data stream included in the plurality of data streams as corresponding to a network service included in the plurality of network services, and 4) processing, in response to the identifying, the data stream in accordance with a data processing scheme associated with the network service and included in the plurality of distinct data processing schemes. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignees: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Cellco Partnership
    Inventors: Lily Zhu, Aparna Khurjekar, Theresa Wong
  • Patent number: 9247582
    Abstract: A method of processing a handover request from a base station controller (BSC) of a GSM (Global System for Mobile communication)-type network. The method comprises the steps of passing a handover request with GSM-type parameters from a base station controller (BSC) through a Master Switching Center (MSC) of the GSM-type network to a UMTS core network (CN) and to a Radio Network Controller (RNC) of the UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System) network, translating the GSM-type parameters to UTRAN parameters in the Radio Network Controller (RNC), and allocating UTRAN resources in response to the translated parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Gina Parmar, Robert Patterson
  • Patent number: 9226145
    Abstract: A mobile communication device. The mobile communication device comprises a verification application, when executed by a trusted security zone portion of the processor, examines an integrity of a preloaded open mobile alliance (OMA) device management (DM) payload, wherein a security key in the OMA DM payload is compared with a security key stored in the trusted security zone to determine the integrity of the OMA DM payload and to determine the state of a preloaded first operating system from a first network. The verification application further verifies the identification of the mobile communication device, transmits information comprising the security key in the trusted security zone to a server to verify network provisioning of the mobile communication device, and changes the toggle key based on the verification results, whereby asset migration between network carriers is achieved and unauthorized activities are avoided while security keys are kept confidential to individual carriers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: Clint H. Loman, Lyle W. Paczkowski, Robert L. Spanel
  • Patent number: 9215626
    Abstract: In accordance with aspects of the disclosure, a method, apparatus, and computer program product are provided for wireless communication. The method, apparatus, and computer program product may be configured to provide a message from a first network to a device, wherein the message comprises one or more parameters for access to a second network, direct the device to switch from the first network to the second network based on the one or more parameters provided by the first network, and direct the device to perform random access on the second network based at least in part on the one or more parameters provided by the first network. The one or more parameters may comprise a priority parameter for performing random access on the second network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventor: Nathan Edward Tenny
  • Patent number: 9210559
    Abstract: Systems and techniques are provided for managing and categorizing undesired phone calls and text messages. In a specific implementation, information indicating that an electronic communication received at a mobile communications device of each user in the crowd should belong in a specific category is received from a crowd. If a number of users in the crowd exceeds a threshold value, information identifying the electronic communication is stored in a database as belonging in the specific category. The database is provided to a mobile communications device of a user, where when the electronic communication is transmitted to the mobile communications device of the user, the electronic communication is blocked at the mobile communications device of the user because the electronic communication is in the specific category.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: LOOKOUT, INC.
    Inventors: Stephen J. Edwards, Ankur Bharatbhushan Nandwani, Rohan Nagarakere Ramakrishna, Brian James Buck, Kesava Abhinav Yerra
  • Patent number: 9167374
    Abstract: An exemplary method includes a machine-to-machine (“M2M”) rules management system associated with an M2M platform 1) processing a plurality of events associated with one or more M2M objects in substantially real-time as the events occur over a period of time, 2) receiving, while the events are being processed in substantially real-time, data representative of a rule created by a user associated with the M2M platform, and 3) dynamically applying, in response to receiving the data representative of the rule, the rule to the substantially real-time processing of the events. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignees: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Cellco Partnership
    Inventors: David Geltner, Mohanraj Umapathy, Ryan Kennedy, Hon Man Hammond Hui, Yonghong Yang
  • Patent number: 9154944
    Abstract: A method is provided for handling subscription data in a telecommunications network having first, second, and third network entities, the first network entity providing the functions of at least one of a Home Subscriber Server (HSS) and a Home Location Register (HLR), the second network entity providing the functions of at least one of a Visitor Location Register (VLR) and a Mobile Management Entity (MME), and the third network entity providing routing functionality. The method includes: storing first subscription data; receiving, by the third network entity, a first message with regard to the subscriber; and sending, by the third network entity, a second message to the first network entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: T-MOBILE NEDERLAND BV
    Inventor: Rachid El Hattachi
  • Patent number: 9148759
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosed invention include an apparatus, method, and computer program product for performing automated events using a multi-wireless detection device service platform. For example, in one embodiment, a method for performing automated events in an office environment is disclosed. The method may include logging, by the office management system, a user onto a network data processing system located within an office within the office environment using an account associated with the user in response to receiving a notification message from a wireless detection device. In one embodiment, the communication between the wireless detection device and the office management system to log the user onto the network data processing system located within the office is performed in response to a user-initiated request that indicates that the wireless device is within the office.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2015
    Assignee: CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey Sweeney, Kelsyn Rooks
  • Patent number: 9131413
    Abstract: A method for configuring radio access functionality of a wireless communication unit within a wireless communication network, the method comprising sending to the wireless communication unit an indication of a required radio access protocol version to which the wireless communication unit is to be reconfigured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Gert-Jan Van Lieshout, Himke Van Der Velde
  • Patent number: 9100389
    Abstract: A server receives from a mobile communication device application data identifying an application accessible by the mobile communication device. The server uses at least some of the application data to assess the application. The application data can include, for example, behavioral data, metadata, parts of the application, information indicating the application is installed on the mobile communication device, or combinations of these.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: LOOKOUT, INC.
    Inventors: Kevin Patrick Mahaffey, David Golombek, Daniel Lee Evans, David Luke Richardson, Timothy Micheal Wyatt, James David Burgess, Anthony McKay Lineberry, Kyle Barton
  • Patent number: 9094933
    Abstract: Paging load and/or registration load in a network is reduced by using different types of identifiers to specifying which nodes page an access terminal in the network. In some aspects, the network maintains a list that specifies that certain individual nodes (e.g., cells or sectors) are to page a given access terminal and/or that one or more zones (e.g., tracking areas) are to page the access terminal. In some aspects, an access terminal in a network may be configured to provide a forward-looking paging list to the network. The list provided by an access terminal may specify different types of node identifiers (e.g., individual node identifiers, subscriber groups, etc.). The network may then use the list to determine which nodes are to page a given access terminal such that when the access terminal moves to a different node, that node may already be configured to page the access terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Gavin B. Horn, Osok Song, Parag A. Agashe, Rajarshi Gupta, Fatih Ulupinar, Ravindra M. Patwardhan, Rajat Prakash
  • Patent number: 9060380
    Abstract: The disclosure is directed to a mobile communication device that measures characteristics or attributes of a first communications network that vary according to physical location within that first communications network to create a fingerprint, or signature, of a location within the first communications network. When the fingerprint of the current location of the mobile device is created it can be compared to a known fingerprint associated with a second communication network to determine the mobile device's proximity to the second communications network. For example, the first communications network may be a CDMA wide area wireless communication network and the second communications network may be a 802.11 wireless LAN.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Sanjiv Nanda, Aleksandar Gogic, Manoj M. Deshpande, Nikhil Jain
  • Patent number: 9055553
    Abstract: A method for guaranteeing correct establishment of Local IP Access service includes: obtaining the service type of a user equipment (UE) and the equipment capability type of a base station. The method also includes determining whether the UE and the base station are consistent. The method also includes, in response to determining that the UE and the base station are consistent, establishing LIPA service for the UE. The method also includes, in response to determining that the UE and the base station are inconsistent, deciding whether to establish LIPA service for the UE according to the preserved strategy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Huarui Liang, Hong Wang, Lixiang Xu
  • Publication number: 20150148033
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for user equipment obtaining policy information for making a traffic detour. The method for obtaining the policy information may comprise a step of the user equipment receiving via an access point (AP), policy information related to Hotspot 2.0, wherein the policy information related to the Hotspot 2.0 may include policy information related to a roaming consortium established between AP enterprises. The method for obtaining the policy information may further comprise a step of transmitting to a 3GPP-based network node a policy information request message including the policy information related to the Hotspot 2.0 that is received, in order to obtain 3GPP-based policy information that reflects the policy information related to the Hotspot 2.0 that is received.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2013
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hyunsook Kim, Jaehyun Kim, Laeyoung Kim, Taehyeon Kim
  • Patent number: 9042534
    Abstract: A device may receive a request to enable service on a wireless network for a user device. The user device may be associated with a wired network. The device may request network provisioning information, associated with the wired network, identifying service activation parameters. The device may provision the wireless network based on the request for network provisioning associated with the wired network. The device may synchronize caller information to a first caller information device, associated with the wireless network, from a second caller information device, associated with the wired network. The caller information may include caller identification information. The device may enable the service for the user device on the wireless network based on provisioning the wireless network and synchronizing the caller information to the first caller information device from the second caller information device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: Cellco Partnership
    Inventors: Bindu Balan, Nishit Oza
  • Patent number: 9036800
    Abstract: An exemplary method implemented in a telecommunication network generates a charging data record (CDR) for a subscriber that is supported by a visited network while away from the subscriber's home network. A request is transmitted from a first node in the visited network for profile information about the subscriber to be obtained from the home subscriber server (HSS) in the subscriber's home network. A reply is received at the first node in the visited network in response to the request where the reply includes at least a portion of the profile information about the subscriber stored in the HSS of the subscriber's home network. The first node stores the at least portion of the profile information received in the reply, and generates the CDR associated with the subscriber as supported in the visited network where the CDR includes subscriber data derived from the stored at least portion of the profile information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Yigang Cai, Chunguang Xu
  • Patent number: 9038144
    Abstract: A wireless network authorization system receives an authorization request for a wireless communication device transmitted from a visited wireless network. A processing system selects one of a simple internet connection and an encrypted internet connection for the wireless communication device in response to the authorization request. The communication interface transfers an authorization response for delivery to the visited wireless network indicating the selected one of the simple internet connection and the encrypted internet connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: George Jason Schnellbacher, Joao Carlos Osorio Gouvea Teixeira de Magalhaes, Joseph C. Shojayi
  • Patent number: 9037113
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the invention are detection systems and methods for detecting call provenance based on call audio. An exemplary embodiment of the detection system can comprise a characterization unit, a labeling unit, and an identification unit. The characterization unit can extract various characteristics of networks through which a call traversed, based on call audio. The labeling unit can be trained on prior call data and can identify one or more codecs used to encode the call, based on the call audio. The identification unit can utilize the characteristics of traversed networks and the identified codecs, and based on this information, the identification unit can provide a provenance fingerprint for the call. Based on the call provenance fingerprint, the detection system can identify, verify, or provide forensic information about a call audio source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
    Inventors: Vijay Balasubramaniyan, Mustaque Ahamad, Patrick Gerard Traynor, Michael Thomas Hunter, Aamir Poonawalla
  • Patent number: 9037133
    Abstract: A message broadcast from a radio frequency transceiver of a cell of a mobile communication network is based on a profile of a proximity service offered to users of mobile devices within the cell coverage area. The message includes information about the proximity service for prompting the users to respond to receive further communication regarding the proximity service. A user operates a mobile device to respond indicating a request to receive further communication regarding the proximity service. In some examples, upon receiving the response, an application server coupled to the network transmits service content as part providing the proximity service to the user. In other examples, if the service profile and a user profile are compatible so as to allow the direct communication, the application server sends instructions to enable direct communication between the mobile device and a proximity service server of the proximity service provider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC.
    Inventors: Jin Yang, Xiaomei Wang, Priscilla Lau
  • Patent number: 9031559
    Abstract: Facilitation of adaptive traffic flow management by a power-limited device during uplink-limited conditions is provided. A method can include: detecting that power emitted from the device satisfies a first defined condition; evaluating a defined characteristic of a network with which the device is associated and an application being executed by the device, wherein the evaluating is in response to the detecting; and determining whether to transmit information to the network to cause the device to be transferred by the network, wherein transferring is from a first wireless communication system to a second wireless communication system, and wherein the determining is performed based on the evaluating. In various embodiments, the first wireless communication system can be a long-term evolution system and the second wireless communication system can be a universal mobile telecommunications system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: Arthur Richard Brisebois, Richard J. Mountford, Haywood Peitzer
  • Publication number: 20150126185
    Abstract: An improved User Plane location based service (LBS) architecture and message flow, enabling seamless User Plane location based services even when a mobile or wireless device has roamed among different carrier networks. The present invention overcomes constraints inherent in the current protocol for roaming support defined by the Secure User Plane Location Service specification. A location system is enabled to automatically fall back to a message tunneling mechanism to ensure the security of a communication path between the location service system and the target wireless device, ensuring that the communication path is uninterrupted as the wireless device travels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2015
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Inventor: Yinjun Zhu
  • Publication number: 20150126184
    Abstract: Various methods are described for providing updated network subscription information for a device to one or more other devices. One example method may comprise establishing a first subscription associated with a first network operator for a device. The method may further comprise transferring the device from the first subscription associated with the first network operator to a second subscription associated with a second network operator. Additionally, the method may comprise updating one or more other devices identified in a connection map associated with the device of the transfer to the second subscription. Similar and related methods, apparatuses, and computer program products are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2012
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Applicant: Nokia Corporation
    Inventors: Silke Holtmanns, Rune Lindholm
  • Patent number: 9024167
    Abstract: A method of operating an entertainment system includes computer-implemented steps including accessing a remote electronic collection of audio/video recordings. The collection is associated with a user of the entertainment system. The recordings in the collection are analyzed to thereby determine an audio/video preference profile of the user. Electronic audio/video options of the entertainment system that conform to the user's preference profile are selected and offered to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Jens Faenger, Georg Fiechtner
  • Patent number: 9026092
    Abstract: One embodiment of the invention is a method that includes a mobile device receiving via a wireless communication channel a request for an identifier corresponding to a network device. The mobile device transmits the identifier. The mobile device receives a network identifier corresponding to the network device. The mobile device utilizes the network identifier to establish communication with the network device via the wireless communication channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventor: Rajesh Doshi
  • Patent number: 9008654
    Abstract: The invention concerns a method for automatically switching from a Home IMSI to a Roaming IMSI and vice versa, said Home IMSI and Roaming IMSI being contained in a SIM card adapted to be used in a mobile station and adapted to comprise elementary files, wherein it comprises the step of triggering the switch from one IMSI to another when detecting an update of the elementary file comprising forbidden public land mobile networks (EFFPIMN).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Gemalto SA
    Inventor: Vinod Sachanandani
  • Patent number: 9002754
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and system of a campaign in a geo-spatial environment is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes populating each profile of a geo-spatial social network with an address data, forming a group in support of a campaign in the geo-spatial network when a particular user creates the group in support of the campaign and automatically communicating media to a physical location of a member of the group based on the address data associated with each profile of the geo-spatial network. The method may also include automatically creating the group based on a public data associated with each profile of the geo-spatial social network even prior to certain users associated with each profile registering geo-spatial social network by applying the public data to the each profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Fatdoor, Inc.
    Inventor: Raj Abhyanker
  • Patent number: 8995995
    Abstract: A system and method for automatically roaming with a wireless device. A signal strength of a first wireless signal is sampled at a time interval. A determination is made whether the signal strength is less than a threshold for a predetermined duration. The wireless device is set to roam on a second wireless signal in response to the signal strength of the first wireless signal being less than the threshold for the predetermined duration. The wireless device is reset to a default setting for communication after a predetermined duration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC
    Inventors: Bennett Gamel, Robert John Morrill
  • Patent number: 8995994
    Abstract: A telecommunications system includes a first (home) mobile telecommunications network A5 second (roamed) mobile telecommunications network B and a third (virtual) mobile telecommunications network C. The virtual network C does not have its own radio access network but uses the radio access network of network B in accordance with a commercial contract between networks B and C. Network C is a MVNO. When a mobile telecommunications device that has network A as its home network roams to network B, the mobile telecommunications device initially registers with network B as the roamed network. Conventionally, communications between network A and network B would be transmitted via a fixed communication link (25) (such as a leased line). However, in the embodiment described, the network A transmits a command to the mobile telecommunications device, instructing that device to de-register from network B and to re-register with virtual network C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Vodafone IP Licensing Limited
    Inventors: Mark Dowds, Paul Davey, Ian Maxwell
  • Publication number: 20150087284
    Abstract: A roaming condition is detected on a wireless device, in which the wireless device is operational in a region where the wireless device is not permitted in have wireless services other than a designated minimal set of services. A service request message is generated on the wireless device. The service request can be structured for handing by a home region service provider that can initiate one or more wireless services for the computing device using a local service provider for the region. The service request message can be transmitted from the computing device using the designated minimal set of services.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2012
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Inventors: Tiffany Moore, Karen D. Hennigan, Mark A. Montz
  • Publication number: 20150087300
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, an apparatus, and a system for processing an eMPS in a CSFB mechanism. The method in the embodiment of the present invention mainly includes: receiving a CSFB access request of a user equipment; determining that the user equipment has a CSFB priority service right according to acquired priority service information of the user equipment; and providing a CSFB access service preferentially for the user equipment with the CSFB priority service right.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2014
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO.,LTD.
    Inventors: Wei Lu, Fenqin Zhu
  • Patent number: 8989785
    Abstract: Voicemail is received at a voicemail server and converted to an audio file format; it is then sent or streamed over a wide area network to a voice to text transcription system comprising a network of computers. One of the networked computers plays back the voice message to an operator and the operator intelligently transcribes the actual message from the original voice message by entering the corresponding text message (actually a succinct version of the original voice message, not a verbose word-for-word conversion) into the computer to generate a transcribed text message. The transcribed text message is then sent to the wireless information device from the computer. Because human operators are used instead of machine transcription, voicemails are converted accurately, intelligently, appropriately and succinctly into text messages (SMS/MMS).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.
    Inventor: Daniel Michael Doulton
  • Patent number: 8989733
    Abstract: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate improved multi-mode system selection in a wireless communication system. As described herein, various techniques can be utilized to synthesize system databases corresponding to disparate groups of radio access technologies (RATs), such as a Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN) list and/or a Preferred Roaming List (PRL), with one or more overlay databases and associated location information to generate a multi-mode list of preferred systems. As described herein, a preferred system listing can be constructed to leverage fine granularity of information in one or more databases while still supporting databases with coarser information. Techniques are additionally described herein for augmenting and/or grouping one or more overlay databases to facilitate a higher available granularity of information for various RATs than that provided in system databases corresponding to the RATs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Young C. Yoon, Srinivasan Balasubramanian, Arvind Swaminathan
  • Patent number: 8988486
    Abstract: A videoconference system includes a plurality of computers associated with the system to collectively send and receive video data streams. A video encoding program is stored in a memory and is executable by at least a first computer. When executed, the executing computer encodes video data using one or more encoding parameters. A decode information set request monitoring program is stored in a memory and is executable by at least the first computer, causing the first computer to perform the steps of monitoring the network for receipt of a decode information set request message and responding to the received request message by querying the received message for an ID and, if the ID of the received message corresponds to a video data stream generated from the first computer, communicating the corresponding decode information set including the encoding parameters to at least a computer that transmitted the message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Insors Integrated Communications
    Inventor: Christopher Golas
  • Patent number: 8983462
    Abstract: The teachings herein provide authorization control enabling the co-existence of legacy mobile terminals (20) that do not support Closed Subscriber Groups (CSGs), and non-legacy mobile terminals (20) that do. New behaviors are defined for a CSG femtocell base station (10) (referred to as a Home NodeB or HNB), and for a base station gateway (14) (referred to as a HNB Gateway or HNB GW) that couples the HNB (10) to a Core Network (CN) (22). The HNB (10) and/or the HNB GW (14) determine whether a terminal (20) attempting to gain connection through the HNB (10) supports CSGs. If not, the HNB GW (14) performs access control and rejects the connection attempt if authorization fails. If the terminal (20) is recognized as supporting CSGs, the HNB GW (14) defers access control to the CN (22) by automatically accepting registration/connection requests from the HNB (10) for CSG-capable terminals (20). In such cases, the CN (22) is relied upon for access control, including any CSG authorization of the terminal (20).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Mats Buchmayer, Tomas Nylander, Jari Vikberg
  • Patent number: 8983523
    Abstract: A host device may be enabled to support a plurality of wireless interfaces, wherein some of these interfaces may be utilized to support human interface device (HID) based communication. The host device may be enabled to monitor activity of HID devices based on communications via HID capable wireless interfaces, may predict future use of the HID devices based on the monitoring, and may manage sniff communication that is utilized to track and/or detect activities in the HID devices. The management of the sniff communication may comprise adjusting characteristics of the sniff communication to enable improving throughput of other wireless interfaces available via the host device that may be affected by the sniff communication. The adjustment of the characteristics of sniff communication may comprise adjusting, statically and/or dynamically, length of sniff intervals and/or designating of sniff packets as high priority requests.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Brima Ibrahim, Prasanna Desai
  • Patent number: 8983458
    Abstract: A mobile communication device maintains a stored list of a plurality of carrier identifications, where each carrier identification is stored in association with one of a plurality of country codes. The mobile device is also associated with a home wireless carrier that is identifiable by a home carrier identification stored in its memory. The mobile device reads the home carrier identification from the memory, and selects one of the plurality of country codes that is stored in association with the home carrier identification. During operation, the mobile device reads a specified domain name in response to a user-initiated request made via a Web browser or search application. Then, the mobile device produces a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) request with a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) corresponding to a specified domain name and a country code parameter which includes the selected country code. The HTTP request with the URL is submitted via the wireless communication network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Blackberry Limited
    Inventors: Tomasz Buczek, Kalu Onuka Kalu, Sanjay Kalyanasundaram
  • Patent number: 8983457
    Abstract: A policy control architecture for handling policies in communication networks. An independent Identity Provider (IDP) generates IDP user terminal entries for policy control information. Policy controllers are logically divided into separate policy control units. Of these, a User Policy Controller (UPC) generates UPC user terminal entries for service subscriptions, and a Business Policy Controller (BPC) applies related policies on the services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventor: Wei Zhao
  • Patent number: 8983466
    Abstract: A system supporting controlled access to multimedia information and media-related services, the system including a gateway communicatively coupled to a broadband network and at least one wireless interface, the gateway capable of selectively communicating multimedia information among the at least one wireless interface and the broadband network, and of communicating with a plurality of access devices via the at least one wireless interface. The gateway is also capable of selecting one of a plurality of access privilege tiers based upon identification information received from one of the plurality of access devices. The identification information includes a plurality of identity data pieces. Each of the plurality of identify data pieces differs from another of the plurality of identity data pieces. Access to each of the plurality of access privilege tiers requires a different degree of authentication that is represented by a different combination of the plurality of identity data pieces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Jeyhan Karaoguz, Marc Abrams, Nambirajan Seshadri
  • Publication number: 20150072677
    Abstract: The disclosure is related to providing an operation environment of a registered network having first devices to a user in an unregistered network having second devices. In order to provide, the second devices in the unregistered network may be detected when user equipment associated with the user enters a service area of the unregistered network. As compatible devices, devices compatible with the first devices in the registered network may be selected from the detected second devices. Then, system images of the first devices compatible with the selected compatible devices may be obtained. The obtained system images of the first devices may be installed at the selected compatible devices, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2014
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Inventor: Jeong-Yeop YANG
  • Patent number: 8976695
    Abstract: A wireless communications system may include different wireless communications networks, an application server, and an intermediate server configured to communicate with the application server. The wireless communications system may also include a mobile wireless communications device configured to communicate with the intermediate server over each of the different wireless communications networks to determine a selected wireless communications network. The mobile wireless communications device may also be configured to communicate with the application server via the intermediate server over the selected wireless communications network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Harris Corporation
    Inventors: Peter Monnes, Yirong Meng
  • Patent number: 8977260
    Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein provide systems and methods that prevent clone devices from registering with a wireless communication network. In a particular embodiment, a wireless device exchanges communications with a wireless communication network during an initial period of time. The wireless device transfers an initial location of the wireless device during the initial period of time to an authorization system for the wireless communication network. During a second period of time, the wireless device transfers a registration request indicating a confirmation location and a location of the wireless device during the second period of time to the authorization system. The authorization system processes the registration request to validate the confirmation location based on the initial location. If the confirmation location is validated based on the initial location, then the authorization system allows the wireless device to access the wireless communication network during the second period of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Sprint Communication Company L.P.
    Inventors: Heesook Choi, Travis Edward Dawson
  • Patent number: 8971876
    Abstract: A method of customizing a device in accordance with the company for whom the device-user works and in accordance with the job held by the user at the company. A provisioning system receives a request to provision (e.g., activate) a device and responsively determines the company at which the device-user works and the job held by the user at the company. The provisioning system then establishes customization-data usable by the device to become customized in a manner corresponding with the company and job, and the provisioning system sends the customization-data to the device to cause the device to become customized accordingly. This process can be applied to automatically customize a device so as to adopt a base user-interface, functionality, and reference data that is all related to the company at which the device-user works and that is tailored in a manner appropriate to the user's job at the company.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Sprint Spectrum L.P.
    Inventors: Kevin E. Hunter, Pujan Roka, Brian J. Finnerty
  • Patent number: 8971877
    Abstract: A method for relaying a call message requiring a particular service from an MSC to a service logic unit, involves the steps of receiving a service request trigger to provide a particular service at the MSC from a subscriber. The call message requiring a particular service is transmitted from the MSC to an HLR. The HLR determines the service logic unit to provide the particular service responsive to at least one of the call message requiring a particular service, a trigger indication and a subscriber profile associated with the subscriber. The call message requiring a particular service is transmitted from the HLR to the determined service logic unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: MetroPCS Wireless, Inc.
    Inventor: Erik Kosar
  • Patent number: 8964607
    Abstract: A communication apparatus to be used for a newer system employing an FDD scheme in an area where an older system and the newer system coexist. The communication apparatus includes a first communication unit communicating at least a downlink data channel of the newer system using a frequency band belonging to a first frequency range (3.4-3.8 GHz); and a second communication unit communicating at least an uplink control channel of the newer system using a frequency band belonging to a second frequency range (2 GHz band) lower than the first frequency range. The second frequency range is used for uplink and downlink communications in the older system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Motohiro Tanno, Mamoru Sawahashi, Seizo Onoe, Nobuhiko Miki, Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Hidekazu Taoka
  • Patent number: 8965397
    Abstract: The communication apparatus includes an IF that receives positioning information of a mobile user terminal from the mobile user terminal which is able to communicate by using at least one wireless communication scheme; and a controller that detects one or more communicable areas that allow communication by using the at least one wireless communication scheme, by determining which area includes a position indicated by the positioning information among a plurality of areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Daisuke Nitta, Hiromitsu Kawai, Kazunari Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 8965363
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method, system, and computer-readable storage media for controlling channel access to a mobile device are described. Based upon a configuration being initiated for the mobile device, a preferred roaming list (PRL) on the mobile device is compared to a stored PRL for the mobile device. A channel access to the mobile device is denied when the PRL on the mobile device does not match the stored PRL. A channel is assigned to the mobile device when the PRL on the mobile device matches the stored PRL.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: Shoba Umamaheswaran, Kyle Trent Ulrey, Kenneth Michael Kieffer, Jr.
  • Patent number: 8965364
    Abstract: Aspects of a method and system for service mobility via a femtocell infrastructure are provided. In this regard, a mobile cellular enabled communication device may detect a femtocell operable to deliver content for one or more services to the mobile cellular enabled communication device, where the one or more services may be provided via a set-top-box communicatively coupled to the femtocell. The mobile cellular enabled communication device may communicate a user profile to the femtocell, wherein information in the profile may be utilized by the set-top-box to authenticate and/or authorize access to the services by the mobile cellular enabled communication device and thus the mobile cellular enabled communication device may receive the content from the set-top-box based on the authentication and/or authorization. The content may comprise voice, video, data, text and/or still images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Jeyhan Karaoguz, Charles Abraham, Xuemin (Sherman) Chen, Wael William Diab, Vinko Erceg, Victor T. Hou, Mark Kent
  • Patent number: 8958852
    Abstract: A system, method, and wireless communication device that profiles a user thereof, or a user at a second wireless communication device in communication therewith. The wireless communication device gathers user data for a user thereof, or from a user at a second wireless communication device, and either directly generates, or has generated elsewhere, a user profile, such as a personality or psychological profile, or medical diagnosis of the user, and can display the user profile to the user and/or alter the wireless communication device functionality based upon the user profile. The gathered user data can be from physical user interaction with the wireless communication device, or from other equipment resident at the wireless communication device, such as a camera and medical diagnostic devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: David J. Ross, Eric C. Rosen
  • Patent number: 8958792
    Abstract: A method and system for selecting a Mobility Management Entity (MME) of a terminal group are disclosed in the invention, including: after receiving attach request message sent by a terminal, and determining that no effective subscription data of the terminal exist locally, the MME requesting the subscription data of the terminal from a Home Subscriber Server (HSS); after determining that an MME serving the terminal currently is not a group representative MME, the HSS returning terminal group management message and the subscription data of the terminal to that MME; that MME sending context information of the terminal to the group representative MME corresponding to a group representative MME identity in the terminal group management message, and sending attach accept message to the terminal; and the terminal taking the MME corresponding to the group representative MME identity in the attach accept message as a new MME serving the terminal currently.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Kun Yang, Hao Wu
  • Patent number: 8954112
    Abstract: An apparatus and method set up an interface in a mobile terminal. The method includes: storing an interface setup application including customized data unique to countries and operators; determining whether a Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) card is inserted into the mobile terminal when the mobile terminal is powered on; detecting a Mobile Country Code (MCC) and a Mobile Network Code (MNC) included in the SIM card, if the SIM card is inserted into the mobile terminal; executing the interface setup application and searching for customized data corresponding to the detected MCC and MNC from among the customized data unique to countries and operators; and installing an interface of the mobile terminal based on the searched customized data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chae-Whan Lim, Hyun-Soo Kim