Registration Patents (Class 455/435.1)
  • Patent number: 10129910
    Abstract: In a first configuration, a UE may determine a PRACH power ramp-up Pramp-up for the PRACH with respect to a previously unsuccessful PRACH transmission (e.g., a previously unsuccessful PRACH transmission with a highest transmission power). In a second configuration, when the UE is in a power-limited scenario, the UE drops/refrains from transmitting the PRACH transmission if Pramp-up?Pscal<Pdrop, and transmits the PRACH otherwise, where Pscal is the power scaling factor, Pramp-up is the configured ramp-up power value, and Pdrop is a threshold. In a third configuration, the UE determines whether to increment a Preamble_Transmission_Counter. In one sub-configuration, the UE increments the Preamble_Transmission_Counter when the PRACH transmission takes place, and does not increment the Preamble_Transmission_Counter otherwise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Wanshi Chen, Peter Gaal, Jelena Damnjanovic
  • Patent number: 10123177
    Abstract: [Object] To provide an information processing apparatus, a control method, and a program, which are capable of reducing a psychological barrier by sharing position information in accordance with a gathering of users, and also promoting communication with another user. [Solution] An information processing apparatus, including: an acquisition unit configured to acquire pieces of current position information of a plurality of users; and a controller configured to perform control in a manner that, in a case where it is determined that there is a gathering of the plurality of users on the basis of the pieces of current position information, a set sharer is notified of place information based on the pieces of current position information of the plurality of users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Eiji Kamino, Kentaro Nakamura
  • Patent number: 10111086
    Abstract: The embodiments herein relate to methods and apparatuses for mobile activation of a subscription. According to an embodiment, a method includes: receiving an identification information from a mobile device; allocating based on the received identification information a SIM profile from a pool of SIM profiles; transmitting the allocated SIM profile to the mobile device; the SIM profile including at least an IMSI and associated network keys; establishing a connection with the mobile device, wherein the connection is restricted until the IMSI has been associated to a subscription; and activating the mobile subscription for the given IMSI based on associated data or based on the IMSI relating to said subscription. The embodiments are relate to a network node, a mobile device and a method thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: Telia Company AB
    Inventor: Björn Hjelt
  • Patent number: 10108647
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a restore module of a storage system receives a request from a client device over a network for restoring a data stream stored in the storage system. In response to the request, the restore module identifies a sparse disk file stored in the storage system, where the sparse disk file represents the requested data stream. The sparse disk file includes payload blocks sparsely located and intertwined with metadata of the sparse disk file. A converter executed in a memory by a processor of the storage system converts the sparse disk file into a native disk file based on the payload blocks of the sparse disk file, using a fast-copy method without having physically copying data content of the payload blocks. A block-based accessing interface is provided to the client to allow the client accessing the native disk file. Each block of content represented by the native disk is accessed based on a block identifier and an offset indicating a location of the block within the native disk file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Mv Kiran Kumar, Shelesh Chopra, Vladimir Mandic, Chikkam Satyam, Arnab Bose
  • Patent number: 10111274
    Abstract: Various solutions to handling of registration rejects with respect to user equipment (UE) in mobile communications are described. A UE may transmit a first request to a first network element of a wireless network. The UE may receive a first reject from the first network element. The UE may bar the first network element in response to receiving the first reject from the first network element. The UE may transmit a second request to a second network element of the same wireless network or a different wireless network in response to receiving the first reject from the first network element. Alternatively, the UE may transmit a second request to the first network element after a period of barring time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: MEDIATEK SINGAPORE PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Marko Niemi, Matti Moisanen
  • Patent number: 10111261
    Abstract: Provided is a device-to-device (D2D) operation method performed by a terminal in a wireless communication system. The method comprises: acquiring configuration information indicating a first type resource and a second type resource that can be used in the D2D operation; selecting one type of resource among the first type resource and the second type resource; and performing the D2D operation using the selected type of resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Sunghoon Jung, Hanbyul Seo
  • Patent number: 10104567
    Abstract: Protocol agnostic wrapping (PAW) and/or data analytics engine (DAE) functions are embedded within a service capability exposure function (SCEF) entity for handling dynamic device triggering, event monitoring, and/or reporting of Internet of things (IoT) devices. The enhanced SCEF creates a dynamic mobility network infrastructure model for global IoT connectivity and new services delivery. The PAW function can be utilized for enhancing massive IoT devices connectivity with their respective application servers in the next-generation mobility network. By employing the PAW function, the SCEF can generate and securely expose flexible application programming interfaces (APIs) to the external network of various third party IoT application service providers, which in turn can utilize the APIs to access their targeted IoT devices via network elements and extract critical device and network capabilities on an event basis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventor: Rajendra Prasad Kodaypak
  • Patent number: 10085167
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a data transmission method and a base station, the method includes: determining, by a base station according to channel state information CSI, a transmission path for forwarding first data to a first terminal, where if the base station determines that the first data needs to be forwarded by at least one small cell to the first terminal, the transmission path includes a path from the base station to a small cell and a path from the small cell to the first terminal; and sending, by the base station according to the transmission path, a first data frame to the first terminal via the at least one small cell. In the present invention, a macro base station performs centralized scheduling, and performs unified encapsulation according to a scheduled transmission path, thereby effectively simplifying processing by a forwarding node and reducing a delay.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jian Li, Lei Huang
  • Patent number: 10080111
    Abstract: Techniques for securing the delivery of an audio message on a device are described. A method may include presenting a visual representation associated with an audio file in a user interface view of an application executing on a first mobile device and receiving a control directive to select the visual representation. The method may include retrieving, from a data store, an indicator of the audio file associated with the selected visual representation; constructing, by the application, a first message comprising a first field to hold an electronic message address for a recipient and a second field to hold the indicator of the audio file associated with the selected visual representation; and sending the first message to the electronic message address of the recipient for delivery to a destination second mobile device. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: FACEBOOK, INC.
    Inventors: Viswanath Poosala, Ali Yazdan Panah
  • Patent number: 10069600
    Abstract: There is provided a transmitting/receiving method performed by a user equipment (UE) including a dedicated radio frequency (RF) chain for a proximity service (ProSe). The method may comprise: receiving configuration information for a discovery resource pool, the discovery resource pool including a bitmap representing a subframe used for a discovery signal and information representing the number of times when the bitmap is repeated; turning on the dedicated RF chain based on a subframe corresponding to a first bit 1 in a bit string enumerated by the bitmap and the number of repetition times; turning on the dedicated RF chain and thereafter, transmitting/receiving a signal to/from an adjacent UE; and turning off the dedicated RF chain based on a subframe corresponding to a last bit 1 in the bit string.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Yoonoh Yang, Sangwook Lee, Suhwan Lim, Hanbyul Seo, Seungmin Lee, Manyoung Jung, Jinyup Hwang
  • Patent number: 10069950
    Abstract: A mobility management entity device (MME) may receive a request from a user device to attach to a network. The request to attach to the network may include a user device identifier for the user device. The MME may receive, from a home subscriber server (HSS) and based on the user device identifier for the user device, information relating to the user device. The information may include at least one connection parameter. The at least one connection parameter may include at least information indicating whether a bearer should be allocated to the user device. The MME may establish a network connection for the user device based on the at least one connection parameter. The MME may cause traffic to be routed from the user device based on the at least one connection parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Lalit R. Kotecha, Sagiv Draznin, Sudhakar Reddy Patil, Matthew W. Nelson, Brian Olson
  • Patent number: 10070353
    Abstract: A method is provided for controlling radio measurements of a user equipment within a cellular network system served by a cell of a first cell type characteristic, the cell being assigned to a base station, wherein the cellular network system comprises the cell and at least one further cell of a second cell type characteristic, the method including providing a configuration to the user equipment indicative for parameters to be applied for radio measurements including different parameters being assigned to different cell type characteristics for a same frequency, and controlling the radio measurements of the user equipment based on the provided configuration, wherein the configuration comprises a list comprising information of the at least one further cell and an associated cell type characteristic of the at least one further cell, and wherein the list comprises information about a plurality of neighboring cells and associated cell types characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
    Inventors: Mikko Saily, Per Henrik Michaelsen, Simone Barbera
  • Patent number: 10070387
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may receive sensor information from a sensor associated with the user equipment, wherein the user equipment is in a deep sleep mode when the sensor information is received. The user equipment may deactivate the deep sleep mode, based at least in part on receiving the sensor information, to permit the user equipment to transmit or decode a network communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: QUALCOMM, Incorporated
    Inventors: Parthasarathy Krishnamoorthy, Liangchi Hsu, Srinivasan Balasubramanian, Naveen Kumar Pasunooru, Prashanth Mohan, Raevanth Venkat Annam, Shravan Kumar Raghunathan, Muthukumaran Dhanapal, Ankit Maheshwari, Akash Kumar, Atul Soni
  • Patent number: 10061854
    Abstract: A system and method for updating and correcting the location of geospatial entities, the method comprising receiving at a server from a mobile device operated by a first user, a proposed location for a geospatial entity, the proposed location determined by a wireless location system, and based upon a current location of the mobile device; providing information about the proposed location for the geospatial entity to a first plurality of other users; receiving votes from the first plurality of users as to whether the proposed location is correct and responsive to the received votes, determining whether to update the location information for the geospatial entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Chaitanya Gharpure, Charles L. Chen, Tiruvilwamalai Venkatraman Raman
  • Patent number: 10064107
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for mobility management at a network management center. The method comprises indicating a target access node to a terminal device being served by a source access node, in response to determining that the terminal device needs to be handed over to the target access node. The method also comprises transmitting network-related context information of the terminal device to the target access node that receives terminal-related context information of the terminal device from the terminal device. By virtue of this method, the access node may be made with a simple and low cost structure; deployment of access nodes may be more flexible and handover of the terminal device may be more efficient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Rui Fan, Gunnar Mildh, Qianxi Lu
  • Patent number: 10057730
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for providing a virtual push-to-talk (PTT) button is provided herein. During operation, an augmented reality and object recognition circuitry will detect user's fingers and a free surface near the fingers by analyzing image captured by camera. A virtual PTT button is placed upon an object that is near to user's finger. Gesture recognition will be performed by the circuitry to determine if a user presses the virtual PTT button. When a user presses the virtual PTT button, the circuitry identifies the action and transmits a message to a PTT radio, causing the PTT radio to activate a PTT call.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Evgeny Leonidovich Maryaskin, Ranjan Chatterjee, Huitian Jiao, Wei Lin
  • Patent number: 10051681
    Abstract: A selection server device may receive a first registration request and determine that a user device is associated with a non-local call service control function (CSCF) server device and that the user device is located outside of a service area associated with the non-local CSCF server; output a non-preferred server indication to the non-local CSCF server device to cause the non-local CSCF server device to be disassociated with the user device; receive a second registration request from the user device; determine that the user device is not associated with any CSCF server; and output the second registration request to a local CSCF server device, associated with a service area in which the user device is located, to cause the local CSCF server device to register the user device with the local CSCF server device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignees: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Cellco Partnership
    Inventors: Priscilla Lau, Robin P. Clair, John M. Bittenbender, Marcos Vinicio Desouza
  • Patent number: 10051671
    Abstract: [Object] To enable a time before communication by way of a wireless network starts to be further reduced. [Solution] Provided is a terminal device including: an acquisition unit configured to acquire authentication information provided by another terminal device configured to perform mobile communication in a mobile communication network; and an authentication execution unit configured to perform an authentication procedure for connecting to a wireless network different from the mobile communication network by using the authentication information. The authentication information includes information provided by a subscriber identity module of the other terminal device or information generated based on the information. The acquisition unit acquires at least some of the authentication information before the authentication procedure starts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinji Takae, Katsutoshi Itoh, Hideyuki Suzuki, Masanori Sato
  • Patent number: 10028096
    Abstract: Disclosed embodiments pertain to combining Reference Signal Time Difference (RSTD) measurements from partial measurement sessions that result when a single measurement session is interrupted by one or more interruption events including Out of Service (OOS) or Inter-Frequency Handover (IFH) events. In some embodiments, first Time Of Arrival (TOA) measurements of cellular signals during a plurality of discontiguous partial measurement sessions separated by one or more interruption events may be obtained. Second TOA measurements based on a reference time source may be obtained for a plurality of the first TOA measurements from at least two partial measurement sessions. A cell associated with a second TOA measurement may be selected as a reference cell and for each non-reference cell associated with a second TOA measurement, a corresponding RSTD measurement may be obtained relative to the selected reference cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Amit Jain, Harisrinivas Chandrasekar, Borislav Ristic, Dinesh Subramani, Gautam Nirula, Prabhu Kandasamy
  • Patent number: 10028210
    Abstract: An improved technique for encoding and decoding of data for group common control channels is provided herein. Generally, the embodiments disclosed herein involve masking the information bits of the group common PDCCH (or group common control channel information) with the common RNTI, without using parity bits, which reduces the power requirements of the transmitter and receiver. In a first embodiment, the information block and the common RNTI can each be encoded using separate encoders, and then the encoded information block can be masked with the encoded common RNTI, and the resulting code symbol can be transmitted to the group of mobile devices. In a second embodiment, an information block can be appended with bits to match a size of the common RNTI, and then be masked by the common RNTI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: SaiRamesh Nammi, Arunabha Ghosh, Salam Akoum
  • Patent number: 10021557
    Abstract: A method includes determining, by a user equipment (UE) device, whether subscriber identification profile (SIDP) is stored within the UE device; sending, from the UE device, an attach request along with a universal globally unique temporary identifier (UGUTI) to a mobility management entity (MME) within a network, upon determining that the subscriber identification profile is not stored in the UE device; receiving, at the UE device, an authorization to attach to the network in response to the attach request; and accessing, by the UE device, the network in accordance with a pre-provisioned profile associated with the UGUTI, where the pre-provisioned profile limits access to the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: James Mathison, Zhengfang Chen
  • Patent number: 10021616
    Abstract: Upon a determination that a relay backhaul link of a relay node is using excessive resources of a donor access node, wireless devices attached to the relay node are offloaded to other access nodes such as neighbor access nodes or to a different frequency band deployed by the donor access node or its neighbors. A donor access node transmits a congestion indicator to the relay node. The relay node transmits updated measurement parameters to end-user wireless devices connected thereto. An end-user wireless device reports back to the relay node in the event it measures a signal strength that is stronger than the current signal strength. This measurement event triggers a handoff of the end-user wireless device, thereby helping to alleviate the resource utilization of the air-interface of the donor access node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: Sprint Spectrum L.P.
    Inventors: Siddharth Oroskar, Jasinder Singh, Rajil Malhotra, Nitesh Manchanda
  • Patent number: 10015727
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for automatically configuring a mobile device such as a mobile phone with service parameters provided by a network operator. In order to receive the service parameters the mobile phone needs to connect with the network operator associated with the SIM card which the mobile device has been configured with. However, it may be difficult to make this connection since the SIM card does not uniquely define the network operator. According to an embodiment of the invention the network operator is identified or suggested based on databases containing information of names or alternative names of network operators and probabilities indicating a likeliness that a network operator may be the operator associated with the SIM card.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: Mobilethink A/S
    Inventors: Dennis Juul Poulsen, Manuel Rafael Ciosici, Sune Sonne Andersen
  • Patent number: 10013441
    Abstract: An apparatus including a processor to: index multiple data records within a data cell by first and second data fields in a single read pass through the data cell; wherein for each data record within the first data cell, the processor is to retrieve data values from the first and second data fields, search a first binary tree to determine whether the data value from the first data field comprises a unique value, and add the data value to the first binary tree if it is unique, and search a second binary tree to determine whether the data value from the second data field comprises a unique value, and add the data value to the second binary tree if it is unique; and generate a first and second unique values indexes of identifiers of the data records associated with the unique data values within the first and second binary trees.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: SAS Institute Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Payton Bowman, Gordon Lyle Keener, Steven E. Krueger
  • Patent number: 10002146
    Abstract: An apparatus including a processor to receive search criteria including a data value for a search within a data field; in response to the receipt of the query instructions, and for each data cell within a super cell, perform the specified search by comparing the data value to ranges of values indicated in a corresponding cell index to determine whether the data cell includes a data record meeting the search criteria, and in response to a determination that the data cell includes such a data record, use a unique values index in the cell index to search the data records of the data cell to identify one or more data records meeting the search criteria; and in response to identifying at least one data record meeting the search criteria, provide an indication that at least the data cell includes at least one data record meeting the search criteria.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: SAS Institute Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Payton Bowman, Gordon Lyle Keener, Steven E. Krueger
  • Patent number: 10003689
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein provide approaches for communicating availability of a mobile device. Specifically, at least one approach includes: determining a current status of a mobile device operated by a receiving user, the current status including an operating state and an operating time zone; and providing the current status of the mobile device to a sender via the sender's mobile device by performing either of the following: annotating a contact list with visual data indicating the operating state and the operating time zone of the mobile device, and generating a graphic indicating the operating state and the operating time zone of the mobile device when the sender initiates communication with the mobile device. Based on the current status, a warning can be communicated to the sender indicating that is inadvisable to continue with the communication, as the receiving user is unlikely to be available and/or willing to respond.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: James E. Bostick, John M. Ganci, Jr., Ji Young Roe, Kimberly G. Starks
  • Patent number: 9986077
    Abstract: Techniques for providing audio services to multiple devices are described. For instance, connections between a hands-free unit and multiple wireless devices are established. The connections are themselves used to establish active communication channels, such as active audio communication channels, between the hands-free unit and the wireless devices, such as during a phone call. Upon establishment of an active communication channel with one of the wireless devices, the connections to the other wireless devices are disconnected—and/or additional connections refused—for the duration of the active communication channel. Furthermore, a routing module in various embodiments permits multiple hands-free units to route active communication channels to each other depending on user location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Menashe Haskin
  • Patent number: 9986418
    Abstract: A method of determining a network leakage rate within a wireless communication network that uses counters within an application server. The number of users at a second point in time, determined by the counters, is subtracted from a number of users at a first point in time, determined by the counters, to provide a first result. The number of user attempts to access the network, determined by the counters, is multiplied by a success rate and then the number of users leaving the network (de-registering from the network or handing off to a different network) is subtracted to provide a second result. The second result is subtracted from the first result and then divided by the number of users at the first point in time. The absolute value is the network leakage rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Xavier Ligeret, Hui-Hsia Sung
  • Patent number: 9985733
    Abstract: A test system for testing a DUT includes a first array of probe elements located in the near field of the DUT antenna that is either mechanically translated or electrically scanned in a first direction while being electrically scanned in a second direction that is different from the first direction to sense a bounded radiation surface comprising RF signals transmitted by the DUT antenna. A test system receiver receives first near field values contained in the RF signals and inputs them to processing logic of the test system. A reference measurement apparatus of the test system detects the RF signals and obtains reference information therefrom. Processing logic of the test system uses the reference information to correct near field phase values contained in or derived from the first near field values for phase shift between the local oscillator (LO) of the DUT and the LO of the test system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: Keysight Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory S. Lee, Christopher Coleman
  • Patent number: 9977805
    Abstract: An apparatus including a processor to index data records within a data cell, wherein for each data record, the processor retrieves data values from first and second data fields; determines whether the first and second data fields store unique data values; in response to the first data field storing a unique data value, adds an identifier of the data record to a first unique values index, in response to the second data field storing a unique data value, adds the identifier to a second unique values index, wherein identifiers of data records within the unique values indexes are ordered based on corresponding unique data values; and generates an indication of ranges of data values of the first and second data fields to enable a determination of whether a data value specified in search criteria is present within at least the data cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: SAS Institute Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Payton Bowman, Gordon Lyle Keener, Steven E. Krueger
  • Patent number: 9978241
    Abstract: Disclosed are a safety service system and a method thereof. The safety service system comprises: a collection unit for collecting position information and image information related to a protected person who is registered by a protector; and a service providing unit for providing the position information and the image information to one or both of the protector and a security company upon detection of a signal that the protected person is in danger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: THINKWARE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ji Young Lee, Yong Rae Jo, Jung Hwa Yoo, Ji Hyun Yoo
  • Patent number: 9980124
    Abstract: A method in a cellular communication network comprising the following steps: marking a SIM card as dormant when said SIM card has not been used for at least an observation duration, provisioning a release node by backing up managing parameters related to said dormant SIM card, in a database, de-provisioning relevant managing nodes by removing managing parameters related to said dormant SIM card, redirecting any attachment request emanating from said dormant SIM card to the release node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: BUZZINBEES
    Inventors: Michel Anslot, Philippe Bouckaert, Jean-Rene Bouvier
  • Patent number: 9977807
    Abstract: An apparatus including a processor to: receive search criteria including a data value; in response to receiving the search criteria, generate a hash value from the data value of the search criteria, and for each data cell of a super cell, compare the hash value to hash values within a hash values vector in the corresponding cell index to determine whether the data cell includes at least one data record meeting the search criteria, and in response to determining that the data cell includes at least one of such data record, search the data records to identify one or more data records meeting the search criteria; and in response to identifying at least one data record within at least one data cell of the super cell meeting the search criteria, provide results data indicative of the super cell including at least one of such data record.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: SAS Institute Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Payton Bowman, Gordon Lyle Keener, Steven E. Krueger
  • Patent number: 9976862
    Abstract: The present disclosure directs to method, device, and terminal for displaying multiple users' locations on a map. The method includes: acquiring the most current locations of all the users who participate in sharing their locations; determining a starting location on a map, creating a starting region centered on the starting location, and gradually expanding the starting region in accordance with the most current location or each of the users who participate in sharing their locations, until a target region including the most current locations of all the users who participate in sharing their locations is acquired; and determining and displaying a viewable region on the map in accordance with the target region. The target region starting region expands to display a viewable region on the map as determined, such that the most current locations of users participating in sharing location may be efficiently acquired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Pinlin Chen, Yi Shan, Jun Wang, Liang Wu, Runjia Huang
  • Patent number: 9971797
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, analytics module of a storage system receives a request for analyzing a data stream stored in the storage system. In response to the request, the analytics module identifies a sparse disk file stored in the storage system representing the requested data stream. The sparse disk file includes payload blocks sparsely located and intertwined with metadata of the sparse disk file. A converter converts the sparse disk file into multiple native disk files based on the payload blocks of the sparse disk file, using a fast-copy method without having physically copying data content of the payload blocks. A block-based accessing interface is provided to allow multiple clients to concurrently access the native disk files, respectively. Each block of content represented by the native disk is accessed based on a block identifier and an offset indicating a location of the block within the native disk file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Mv Kiran Kumar, Shelesh Chopra, Vladimir Mandic, Chikkam Satyam, Manjunath Jagannatha
  • Patent number: 9967808
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for multi-SIM user equipment (UE) devices to perform system selection. A UE may determine to perform system selection for a first SIM of the UE. Information, such as serving cell and/or neighboring cell information, may be obtained from a second SIM of the UE. System selection for the first SIM may be performed based at least in part on the information obtained from the second SIM.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Harshit Chuttani, Li Su, Madhusudan Chaudhary, Sang Ho Baek, Someet K. Lal, Thanigaivelu Elangovan, Rajesh Ambati
  • Patent number: 9961074
    Abstract: A system includes an access controller including a short range wireless communication controller to couple to a mobile device, and an access point including a long range wireless communication controller. The access point is coupled to the access controller via a secure link, and the access controller authenticates a user of the mobile device and provides access information from the mobile device to the access point via the secure link in response to authenticating the user. The access point couples to the mobile device using the access information to via the long range wireless communication controller and receives unique identification information associated with the mobile device from the mobile device. The system generates a digital certificate associated with the unique identification information and provides the digital certificate to the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: DELL PRODUCTS, LP
    Inventors: Sajjad Ahmed, Arulnambi Raju, Sudhir V. Shetty
  • Patent number: 9961658
    Abstract: A primary user terminal is interfaced with the drone so as to constitute a local network of the infrastructure type, where the drone is configured as an access point (AP) and the primary user terminal is configured as a mobile station. The primary user terminal comprises an adaptive software program able i) to generate piloting and control instructions to be transmitted to the drone, and ii) to establish a connection to the local network and to register the primary user terminal into a registration table of the drone. The network further comprises at least one secondary user terminal with an applicative software program adapted to establish a connection to the local network and to register the secondary user terminal into the registration table of the drone with a hierarchized management of the rights with respect to the primary terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: PARROT DRONES
    Inventor: Nicolas Texier
  • Patent number: 9955043
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus comprises: an accepting portion that accepts a request for a temporary use permission to use a function of the image processing apparatus from a second portable terminal apparatus in place of a first portable terminal apparatus having a proper use permission to use the function, an obtaining portion that obtains application information of an application installed on the second portable terminal apparatus; a determining portion that determines a scope of the temporary use permission with reference to reference data stored on a management apparatus and on the basis of the application information; a judgment portion that judges whether or not the requested process falls within the determined scope when a request for a process requiring the function is received from or transferred to the second portable terminal apparatus; and an executor portion that executes the requested process if it falls within the determined scope.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Junichi Hase, Yosuke Taniguchi, Nobuhiro Mishima, Hidetaka Iwai, Hideaki Soejima
  • Patent number: 9948510
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are provided for managing access information for registration of a device in a smart home service. A validity period of a refresh token for updating an access token of a first device, from a device list for the smart home service, registered in a connectivity server, is checked, when the device list is received from a server. The server is requested to re-register the first device, when a period to the validity period is less than a predetermined threshold period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Jun-Hyung Kim, Dong-Keon Kong, Se-Hoon Kim, Jai-Ick Chun
  • Patent number: 9949076
    Abstract: “Spoof” paging messages including the TMSI of a user equipment (129) known to be a vicinity are transmitted with a relatively high periodicity in an indoor cluster of presence nodes (113-121) and the node which receives the paging response from the user equipment is recorded, thus giving an indication of presence (and location) with a fine granularity. An additional presence node (125) having a different LAC from the macrolayer (123) is located at the entrance to the indoor cluster so that the TMSI and IMSI of the user equipment can be obtained. The invention can advantageously be employed in a retail store where a fine granularity in tracking subscriber movements around the store is desired. To conserve the user equipment's battery life, spoof paging messages are not sent to those user equipments which enter the vicinity on a regular basis, such as employees of the retail store.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: ip.access Limited
    Inventor: James Edward Brereton Harrow
  • Patent number: 9948787
    Abstract: A software application enables a mobile device to make and receive voice calls, video calls, and text messages over a data network using VoIP. The application may run in the background and intercept outgoing and incoming calls. When the outgoing or incoming call is to/from another user of the application, the application may launch an appropriate screen and make/receive the call or text via Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP). Otherwise, the call or text functionality may be performed by native functionality of the mobile device via a GSM network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Invariant Telecom, LLC
    Inventors: S Md Jashimuddin Chisty, Saad Ahmed
  • Patent number: 9949198
    Abstract: A wireless communication system connects User Equipment (UE) to Mobility Management Entities (MMEs). The wireless communication system receives a connection message from the UE. The wireless communication system connects the UE to a first MME responsive to the connection message. The wireless communication system performs MME re-selection for the UE responsive to the connection message. The wireless communication system connects the UE to a second MME responsive to the MME re-selection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: Rajil Malhotra, Saravana Velusamy, Deveshkumar Narendrapratap Rai, Sreekar Marupaduga
  • Patent number: 9949121
    Abstract: A method for authenticating a circuit switched (CS) call on a virtual subscriber identity module (VSIM) includes: authenticating the VSIM for a packet switched (PS) call connection using authentication information obtained from a remote server through a software subscriber identity module (soft-SIM) connection to the remote server; initiating a call connection on a CS radio access technology (RAT) between the VSIM and a first communication network; and authenticating the VSIM CS call connection to the first communication network through the VSIM PS connection in response to an authentication request for the call connection on the CS RAT.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Himanshu Dutta, Raghavendra Shyam Ananda, Kishore Kumar Yannakula, Suresh Sanka, Vagish Gupta
  • Patent number: 9942832
    Abstract: A wireless terminal transmits a probe request message to a non-connected base station by changing the communication frequency from a first frequency to a second frequency used by the non-connected base station. The non-connected base station wirelessly sends a probe response message to the wireless terminal using the second frequency. The non-connected base station sends a probe redundant message to a connected base station by wire through a wired LAN. The connected base station wirelessly sends a probe redundant response message to the wireless terminal using the first frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shuji Nagao
  • Patent number: 9942809
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method for accessing a network by a UE, and an access device. The method includes: sending, by a source side access device, an access indication message to a UE, where the access indication message is used to instruct the UE to access a target side access device; or sending, by a source side access device, a first notification message to a target side access device, where the first notification message is used to instruct the target side access device to send, to a UE, access information used to instruct the UE to access the target side access device; and in a process in which the UE accesses the target side access device, maintains a connection between the UE and the source side access device, therefore, a service interruption is not caused.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiao Chen, Tianle Deng, Hongzhuo Zhang, Li Yang
  • Patent number: 9942090
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communications and, more particularly, to predicting a system loss event and/or proactive system recovery. Aspects of the present disclosure relate to techniques and apparatus for system loss event (e.g., radio link failure event) geo-coding and proactive system recovery. According to certain aspects, a user equipment (UE) may generate and store information about one or more system loss events associated with the UE. The UE may then predict one or more other system loss events associated with the UE based on this information and take action, based on the prediction to continue communication of the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Chintan Shirish Shah, Seyed Ali Ahmadzadeh, Aziz Gholmieh
  • Patent number: 9936060
    Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and media for the provision of emergency services information are provided. Embodiments include receiving emergency services information at a mobile device from a computing device of a cellular network to which the mobile device is in communication. Embodiments further include displaying, in response to input from a user of the mobile device, at least a portion of the emergency services information on a display screen of the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Rajasekar Raja, Keemat Rai, Adiseshu Kumar Mylavaram
  • Patent number: 9936378
    Abstract: A communication device of handling a Non Access Stratum procedure comprises instructions of accessing a first network by using the first IMSI; transmitting a first NAS request message to the first network by using the first IMSI; receiving a NAS response message comprising a timer value and a cause value from the first network; starting a timer for the first IMSI with the timer value; not transmitting a second NAS request message to the first network by using the first IMSI, if the timer is running for the first IMSI; changing from the first IMSI to the second IMSI without removing the USIM; keeping the timer running, after changing to the second IMSI; accessing a second or the first network by using the second IMSI; and transmitting a third NAS request message to the second or the first network by using the second IMSI, when the timer is running.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: HTC Corporation
    Inventor: Kundan Tiwari
  • Patent number: 9936379
    Abstract: A mobile device and information transmission method are provided. The information transmission method is applied to the mobile device in M2M communication and includes the steps of determining whether a base station and the mobile device support transmission of capability information of the mobile device by a General Extension Message; and determining whether the capability information of the mobile device is changed when the base station and the mobile device support transmission of the capability information by the General Extension Message, wherein when the capability information of the mobile device is changed, the changed capability information is tied up with a Registration Message and transmitted to the base station by the General Extension Message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Anthony Lee, Guotong Wang