Call Routing (e.g., To Prevent Backhaul, Routing Efficiency, Least Cost, Or Alternate Routing) Patents (Class 455/445)
  • Patent number: 9063935
    Abstract: A computer-implemented system and method for generating an index to a captured media stream. The system includes an output device configured to play a media stream. The system further includes an automatic tagging system for generating at least one auto tag based on the content of the received media stream, the auto tag associated with a portion of the received media stream and a user driven tagging system for generating at least one user tag based on a command received from a user, the user tag associated with a portion of the received media stream being provided at the time the command is received. The system yet further includes a non-transitory storage medium for capturing the received media stream in a media data file associated with a media index file, the media index file including the at least one auto tag and the at least one user tag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: HarQen, LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey E. Fitzsimmons, Matthew Stockton, Marc Della Torre
  • Patent number: 9059986
    Abstract: While facilitating (101) a call session for a participating entity having at least one federation-based benefit, one then uses (102) that at least one federation-based benefit to facilitate communications mobility for the participating entity during the call session. Such a call session can comprise, for example and at least in part, a wireless call session. The federation-based benefit itself can be one provided by a content provider, a services provider, or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: Motorola Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Samir Dilipkumar Saklikar, Subir Saha, John C. Strassner
  • Patent number: 9060371
    Abstract: A communication network component is described including a determiner configured to determine whether a communication device operates a plurality of subscriber identity modules; and a controller configured to control data transmission to the communication device depending on whether the communication device operates a plurality of subscriber identity modules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: INTEL MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS GMBH
    Inventors: Bent Henneberg Rysgaard, Henrik Dalsgaard
  • Patent number: 9055589
    Abstract: A mobile device establishes with a wireless network a packet data session associated with a first application for accessing a first communication service, as well as a packet data session associated with a second application for accessing a second communication service. In response to identifying an indication of a request for information via a third application, the mobile device causes the packet data session associated with the second application to be terminated, and establishes with the wireless network a packet data session associated with the third application for accessing a third communication service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Joseph Tu-Long Deu-Ngoc, Jeffery William Wirtanen, Simon Cheuk Kong Ho
  • Patent number: 9049654
    Abstract: An OFDM-based multiple access method and a communication device controlling the same are provided. The OFDM-based multiple access method includes transmitting a predetermined synchronization control signal to many and unspecified terminals, and receiving a test message from the terminals in response to the synchronization control signal; classifying the terminals that receive the test message in a first unit time from a predetermined reference time after the transmission of the synchronization control signal into a first group, and classifying the terminals that receive the test message in a certain n-th unit time from the reference time into an n-th group; allocating use permission time of sub-channels to the groups; and the terminals transmitting/receiving data through partial occupation of the sub-channels and symbols at a time allocated to the corresponding groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignee: AJOU UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Jun woo Jung, Jae sung Lim
  • Patent number: 9049634
    Abstract: A mobile communication device is provided with a wireless module and a controller module. The wireless module performs wireless transmissions and receptions to and from a Long Term Evolution (LTE)-based network and a non-LTE network. The controller module blocks any outgoing Circuit-Switched (CS) service in response to finishing a CS Fallback (CSFB) call and having an ongoing Packet-Switched (PS) session with the non-LTE network, and performs an idle mode cell reselection procedure via the wireless module to camp back to the LTE-based network in response to the outgoing CS service having been blocked. Also, the controller module unblocks the outgoing CS service in response to camping back to the LTE-based network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignee: ACER INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Chu-Hsiang Hsu
  • Publication number: 20150148048
    Abstract: A method and system for handling both voice and non-voice calls in a CSFB scenario is disclosed. An indication is provided to user equipment (UE) to indicate whether the CSFB call is a voice call or a non-voice call (CS data call). The indication can be provided to the UE by a wireless network in a RRC connection release message or a CS service notification message. Further, the UE upon receiving the indication from the network can indicate whether the CSFB call is a voice call or a data call to a target radio access network (RAN) by providing a priority bit indication to all the voice calls for differentiating the voice calls from non-voice calls. The RAN prioritizes all the voice calls ahead of non-voice calls for the UE in the CSFB scenario.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2013
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Inventors: Satish Nanjunda Swamy Jamadagni, Gert Jan Van Lieshout
  • Patent number: 9042902
    Abstract: A system and method are disclosed that provide for the control, by a third party, of call-related services that are provided to a wireless subscriber. For each mobile station whose calls and other communications are to be controlled, the server interposes itself between the serving Visitor Location Register (VLR) of the mobile station and the subscriber's Home Location Register (HLR). Through a sequence of standardized messages, the server represents itself to the unsuspecting HLR as the mobile station's new serving VLR. The server receives from the subscriber's HLR a first set of subscriber data that comprises data related to call-service permissions. The server then modifies a parameter from the first set, restricting an end-user service to the mobile station. The server then transmits the modified parameter to the serving VLR, which is used to block one or more types of calls that involve the mobile station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: Polaris Wireless, Inc.
    Inventor: Mahesh B. Patel
  • Patent number: 9042870
    Abstract: Example embodiments provide a method and/or network element capable of mitigating one or more effects of operating at full capacity. According to an example embodiment, a network element may address load capacity by identifying that a first network element (e.g., a femto) is operating at a threshold capacity. If a communication from a second network element intended for the first network element is received, an operation is performed that informs the second network element of at least one of (i) that the first network element is operating at a threshold capacity and (ii) that the communication cannot be delivered to the first network element while the first network element is operating at a threshold capacity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: John K. Burgess, Donna M. Sand, Robin J. Thompson, Ruth Schaefer Gayde
  • Patent number: 9042874
    Abstract: A method of dynamically invoking a simultaneous ring feature in a telecommunications network includes: identifying a call directed to an address of an end user device (30); notifying user equipment (20) other than the end user device (30) of the identified call; and, receiving an indication from the user equipment (20) whether or not the simultaneous ring feature should be invoked so as to establish a call leg to the user equipment (20).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventor: Alan E. Frey
  • Publication number: 20150141023
    Abstract: A system and method for homogeneously merging locations in a telecommunications network including: calculating a first characteristic of a carrier at a first location and a second location; determining a penalty for excluding the carrier based in part on the first characteristic; comparing the a penalty determined to a preselected value; and, if the penalty is less than the preselected value, merging the first location and the second location, thereby forming a merged location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2015
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Applicant: IDT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jerome Relis, Moshe Gutman
  • Publication number: 20150141022
    Abstract: A method, control node, and system for routing communication calls from a first telecommunication system of a first network operator to a second telecommunication system of a second network operator, the first telecommunication system and the second telecommunication system being interconnected via at least two points of interconnect, and the points of interconnect being physically distant to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2012
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Applicant: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET L M ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Philippe Duroux, Rogerio Oliveira Ferraz
  • Publication number: 20150141009
    Abstract: An object is to provide a communication system and a method for path control that can realize flexible routing in a mobile communication network. The communication system according to the present invention includes a data transfer apparatus (11), a gateway (12) for performing predetermined data processing on data transferred from the data transfer apparatus (11), and a path control apparatus (13) for controlling, when data addressed to a virtual relay apparatus is transmitted to the data transfer apparatus (11), the data transfer apparatus (11) to set a destination of the data to the gateway (12) and to transfer the data to the gateway (12) without transferring the data to the virtual relay apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2013
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Tamura, Stefan Schmid
  • Patent number: 9037141
    Abstract: A method of handling queries caused overload in a core network of a wireless communication is disclosed. The core network comprises a data base and a network control node which stores a mobility management (MM) context of a mobile device. The method comprises the network node sending information in a notification message to the data base, wherein the information comprises at least one of International Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI), UE Reachability Request Parameter for the MME/SGSN (URRP-MME/URRP-SGSN), and a session management (SM) and/or mobility management (MM) back-off timer or a back-off indicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: HTC Corporation
    Inventor: Ching-Yu Liao
  • Patent number: 9037152
    Abstract: The present invention is a real-time operating system for use on embedded controllers having minimal resources controlling reactive systems or applications. One application of the present invention is in wireless sensors in a wireless sensor network. By requiring all tasks to have clearly defined start and end points, the present invention eliminates the Waiting state for a task. This allows the RTOS to have a very small memory footprint and for the RTOS to use a single call/return stack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Inventors: Alberto Herrera, Luis Fernando Reyes
  • Patent number: 9028577
    Abstract: A mobile network is adapted to provide a first mobile telephony service to a first group of subscribers and a second mobile telephony service to a second group of subscribers. The mobile network includes a home location register; at least one switching equipment cooperating with the home location register for providing the first mobile telephony service to the first group of subscribers; at least one adapter node cooperating with the home location register and with the switching equipment for providing the second mobile telephony service to the second group of subscribers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Telecom Italia S.p.A.
    Inventors: Guiliano Muratore, Pier Camillo Pelliccia
  • Patent number: 9031593
    Abstract: A method for determining data enabling a plurality of secondary base stations to time their transmissions to a mobile station within a timing range. The mobile station obtains time delays of transmissions from each of the secondary base stations in reaching the mobile station, and determines time delay differences between the time delays and a reference time delay associated with a primary base station. The mobile station transmits the time delay differences to the plurality of secondary base stations. Each secondary base station receives the difference between its own transmission time delay and the reference time delay, compares the difference with a time range, and corrects the timing of its transmissions if the difference is outside of the time range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventor: Jingyi Liao
  • Patent number: 9031555
    Abstract: A Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN) selection method in a roaming portable terminal and an apparatus thereof are provided. The PLMN selection method includes, determining whether a registered PLMN being a finally registered PLMN is valid when a PLMN selection event occurs, determining whether there is a stored Active PLMN list when the registered PLMN is invalid, selecting a PLMN using the active PLMN list when there is the stored Active PLMN list, and camping on a specific cell of the selected PLMN. Since the portable terminal does not attempt to register in an HPLMN when a PLMN selection event occurs, the portable terminal can be rapidly and efficiently registered in a suitable PLMN.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hyun Jung Kim
  • Patent number: 9031498
    Abstract: A processor-implemented method is provided. The method comprises a communications control device installed in a motor vehicle receiving a wireless communication from a short range wireless device. The method also comprises the communications control device selecting a first radio from a plurality of radios available to transmit the wireless communication to the destination specified in the wireless communication, wherein the radios are components of the communications control device. The method also comprises the communications control device determining that a second radio is connected to a physical expansion slot, wherein the physical expansion slot is a component of the communications control device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: Lyle T. Bertz, Jason R. Delker, Matthew Oommen, Trevor D. Shipley
  • Publication number: 20150126203
    Abstract: A method of operating a network server, such as a mobile application gateway, connect devices on a cellular or carrier network with individual networks, such as enterprise voice and data networks or residential networks. The effects of the present invention are far reaching in terms of transferring effective call control from the cellular network into the control of the individual network, such as the enterprise, and enabling new business models for the purchase of cellular service from a public cellular carrier by an enterprise.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2015
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Inventors: Andrew Silver, Lathan Lewis, Patricia Landgren
  • Publication number: 20150126202
    Abstract: A mobile communication system includes a plurality of call processing servers and a call processing management database that holds data necessary for call processing. The call processing server includes a call processing request accepting unit that accepts a request for call processing, a registration unit that registers the own node as the call processing server that is executing the call processing, an acquisition unit that acquires information of the mobile communication terminal related to the call processing request from the call processing management database or from the call processing server registered as the call processing server that is executing the call processing, a call processing unit that perform call processing, and a call processing result storage unit that stores information of a result of the call processing in the call processing management database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2013
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Shigeru Iwashina, Tetsuya Nakamura
  • Patent number: 9026117
    Abstract: The present invention provides systems and methods for real-time cellular to Internet video transfer during a voice call between an initiator and a recipient handset. In some embodiments, the systems and methods deliver the video stream in real-time from a cellular phone to a personal computer using the Internet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Aylus Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Kiran Chakravadhanula, Abhinav Goyal, Shamim A. Naqvi
  • Patent number: 9026167
    Abstract: An apparatus, system, and method for a communication network that includes a picocell range expansion configuration on authorized shared access. A method may include determining, in a controller, at least one allowable maximal range expansion bias value for at least one picocell within a coverage area of a macrocell. The method may also include sending the determined allowable maximal range expansion bias value for the at least one picocell from the controller to the macrocell. A further method may include receiving at least one allowable maximal range expansion bias value for at least one picocell from a controller. The method may also include updating, by a macrocell, a range expansion bias value for each picocell within a macrocell based on the received allowable maximal range expansion bias value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Haitao Li, Kodo Shu, Huiyue Yi, Rui Wang, Honglin Hu
  • Patent number: 9025956
    Abstract: A system for routing signals in a Distributed Antenna System includes a plurality of local Digital Access Units (DAUs) located at a Local location. Each of the plurality of local DAUs is coupled to each other and operable to route signals between the plurality of local DAUs. Each of the plurality of local DAUs includes one or more Base Transceiver Station (BTS) RF connections. Each of the plurality of BTS RF connections is operable to be coupled to one of one or more sectors of a BTS. The system also includes a plurality of remote DAUs located at a Remote location. The plurality of remote DAUs are coupled to each other and operable to transport signals between the plurality of remote DAUs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Dali Systems Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Shawn Patrick Stapleton, Sasa Trajkovic
  • Patent number: 9025489
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication system and user equipment providing wireless communication services, and a method of transmitting and receiving data between a terminal and a base station in an evolved Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) that has evolved from a Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) or a Long Term Evolution (LTE) system, and more particularly, to a method of configuring radio resource(s) by a MAC layer of the terminal, and it may be an object of the present invention is to provide an improved method of configuring radio resource(s) in a wireless communication system in order to minimize the waste of the radio resource(s) and/or the contention of the radio resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Sung-Duck Chun, Seung-June Yi, Sung-Jun Park
  • Publication number: 20150119049
    Abstract: Provided are a radio communication terminal, a communication control apparatus, and a communication control method capable of enhancing the possibility of providing a communication application through inter-terminal direct communication (D2D communication) even in a case where a call request cannot be accepted due to congestion on the network side. In a terminal 400A, a call restriction reception unit 420 receives a call restriction containing configuration information on a communication environment necessary for direct communication. During restriction of initiation of communication to the radio access network, a radio communication unit 440 executes direct communication with another radio communication terminal based on the configuration information if a direct communication determination unit 430 determines that a communication application is executable through direct communication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2013
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Shin-ichi Isobe, Katsutoshi Nishida
  • Publication number: 20150119050
    Abstract: An embodiment of a method for network resource management comprises performing joint traffic engineering and physical layer power control on a controller and using a routing and power control optimization process that comprises a combined alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) process and a power management process. First and second commands are generated at the controller according to optimization parameters determined by the routing and power control optimization process. The first and second commands are transmitted from the controller to nodes connected to the controller. The first commands are for modifying transmission parameters for links between nodes and the second commands are for modifying transmission parameters for connections between nodes and user devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2014
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Inventors: Wei-Cheng Liao, Mingyi Hong, Zhi-Quan Luo, Hamidreza Farmanbar, Xu Li, Hang Zhang
  • Patent number: 9020512
    Abstract: A radio signal transmission method is used in a radio signal transmission system having a core network (CN), at least one base station and at least one user equipment (UE). After the UE initiates a circuit switch (CS) call, the base station determines whether to activate CS off-loading. If to activate CS off-loading, the base station determines whether identification (ID) codes of all call parties reside on the same base station or on the same group of base stations of the system. If yes, the base station determines whether to off-load only the user-plane data. If yes, the CN controls the signaling and the user-plane data is directly forwarded to another call party; otherwise, the base station processes a signaling and the user-plane data is directly forwarded to another call party via the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Sernet (Suzhou) Technologies Corporation
    Inventor: Pei-Ren Xie
  • Publication number: 20150111582
    Abstract: Described herein is multi-mode communications system (200) that comprises at least one IP network, at least one mobile communications network, at least one multi-mode terminal (175) connectable to each of said IP network and the mobile telecommunications network, a routing server (120) for routing incoming calls from a caller to a multi-mode terminal (175), and an adaptive location register database (230) for storing at least one record relating to each multi-mode terminal (175). An incoming call (205) is received by the routing server (120). The routing server (120) interrogates an adaptive location register server (220) that is associated with the adaptive location register database (230) to determine current availability for routing the incoming call (205) to the multi-mode terminal (175).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2012
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Applicant: MONDIAL TELECOM
    Inventors: Davy Vandemoere, Guillaume Binet
  • Patent number: 9014102
    Abstract: An apparatus and method of a mobile node selecting a transmission channel of a mesh network is disclosed. The method includes the mobile node detecting a quality of routing beacons received over a previously selected transmission channel. If the quality of the routing beacons is below a predetermined threshold, then the mobile node transmits probe requests on each of a plurality of available transmission channels. Responses to the probe request are collected from at least one upstream access nodes over at least one of the available transmission channels. A new transmission channel is selected based upon the responses received over the available transmission channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: ABB Inc.
    Inventors: Ramanagopal V. Vogety, Cyrus Behroozi, Amalavoyal Chari
  • Patent number: 9014354
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to updating routing patterns in an enterprise network. In some implementations, a method for routing sessions includes identifying information associated with call sessions in an enterprise network. The information includes costs to an enterprise for using carrier services during the call sessions. Routing patterns for call sessions are dynamically updated through at least a portion of the enterprise network based, at least in part, on the costs associated with the call sessions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Service Bureau Intetel S.A.
    Inventor: Claudio Marcelo Lopez
  • Patent number: 9014697
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for wireless network selection by a wireless mobile device is disclosed. In one embodiment, network performance metrics related to the wireless networks to be considered can be evaluated. The network performance metrics can be weighted and a related ranking metric can be determined. The ranking metric can be used to select a wireless network. In one embodiment, network performance metrics can include a round trip time, which describes a round trip data transit time between the wireless mobile device to a particular network device, and a power metric describing the amount of power needed to transfer an amount of data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Giri Prassad Deivasigamani, Suresh Nagaraj, Gaurav R. Nukala
  • Patent number: 9014008
    Abstract: Techniques related to a localized routing approach are generally described where the number of transmissions, the maximum number of transmission per node, effective bandwidth, the latency, overall energy consumption, the maximum energy consumption, or other individual or composite objective in a wireless network may be optimized. The localized routing approach may use a metric that combines immediate progress benefit and expense with a statistics-based forward looking estimation of future routing properties and cost. The protocol may also employ a combination of probabilistic and deterministic mechanism to detect and escape local minima.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Empire Technology Development LLC
    Inventor: Miodrag Potkonjak
  • Patent number: 9014023
    Abstract: Mobile network services are performed in a mobile data network in a way that is transparent to most of the existing equipment in the mobile data network. The mobile data network includes a radio access network and a core network. A first service mechanism in the radio access network breaks out data coming from a basestation, and performs one or more mobile network services based on the broken out data. A second service mechanism in the core network performs one or more mobile network services based on the network traffic remaining after the first service mechanism performs its breakout. An optional third service mechanism coupled to the core network provides one or more mobile network services in the mobile data network. An overlay network allows the first, second and third service mechanisms to communicate with each other. The overlay network is preferably a private virtual network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Bruce O. Anthony, Jr., Ronald L. Billau, Canio Cillis, Robert B. Nicholson
  • Patent number: 9013988
    Abstract: A method for estimating engine thrust values of an aircraft is disclosed, the method comprising calculating estimated thrust value of an engine based on an equation of longitudinal motion, aircraft data measured during flight and calibrated drag/lift models, and a method for determining the thrust of an aircraft engine, based on information available from tracking the aircraft air-speed, acceleration, and position, the method comprising calculating the thrust, using the following equation: Thrust=mg{dot over (H)}/V+m{dot over (V)}+Drag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Elbit Systems Ltd.
    Inventor: Aviv Tzidon
  • Patent number: 9014703
    Abstract: A user device receives a notification, via a first radio access technology (RAT), of an incoming user communication on a second RAT, and turns on a receiver associated with the second RAT. The user device then establishes a connection with a corresponding cell at its current location to receive the incoming user communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Kiran K. Edara
  • Patent number: 9008664
    Abstract: An architecture that can redirect communications upon detection of a handover failure in a Long Term Evolution (LTE) network is described. The architecture can obtain information indicative of a handover failure that is available in a first portion of the LTE network (e.g., a serving gateway) that has no control over the communication path. The architecture can utilize the information to instruct a second portion of the LTE network (e.g., a mobility management entity), one that can control the communication path but conventionally has no access to the handover information, to reroute the communication path to avoid unresponsive or failing network entities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Moshiur Rahman, Christopher Opara
  • Patent number: 9008727
    Abstract: A base station broadcasts a message saying that transmittable ranging codes are limited by antenna IDs to limit antennas and the ranging codes to be searched, thereby reducing a processing load of the search. In a cellular radio communication system in which a base station device is connected to plural antennas, and antenna IDs for identifying the antennas are transmitted from the respective antennas, the base station device broadcasts a message saying that a group of ranging codes transmittable by a terminal device is limited by the antenna IDs, the terminal device receives the message, identifies the antenna ID, selects the ranging code from the group of the ranging codes corresponding to the antenna ID, and transmits the selected ranging code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Mikio Kuwahara, Kenzaburo Fujishima, Yunjian Jia
  • Publication number: 20150099524
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a scheme for transmitting a handover message of a terminal when a macro cell base station that can be applied to a small cell cluster environment and a small cell base station simultaneously provide services in a heterogeneous network, and a method for transceiving a handover message through any one of the macro base station and the small cell base station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2014
    Publication date: April 9, 2015
    Inventors: Alex Chungku YIE, Yongjae LEE, Hui KIM, Jun Bae Ahn
  • Patent number: 9002320
    Abstract: Provided are methods and systems for detecting and preventing bypass fraud in telecommunication networks, primarily for detecting and preventing SIM box fraud in telecommunication networks. The methods include generating one or more test calls from a remote agent to a local agent where the remote agent can be a roaming agent or a remote dialer. The local agent is a subscriber number. The methods further include facilitating call forwarding of the test calls from the local agent to a local number. The methods include identifying the presence of bypass fraud by analyzing caller identification information of the test call received on the local number. Finally, the methods include preventing future use of a detected SIM box.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Roamware, Inc.
    Inventors: John Yue Jun Jiang, David Gillot
  • Patent number: 9001177
    Abstract: There is discussed a method of selecting an access domain for receiving a speech and/or video call at a mobile station of a mobile communications network in which calls are routed via a central service control common to a plurality of access domains. The method comprises the central service control transmitting an invite to establish a call to the terminating mobile station; the mobile station deciding on an access domain for receiving the call taking into account the capabilities of the local access network, and transmitting the selected access domain to the central service control; and establishing the call in accordance with the selected access domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Craig Bishop, Chen-Ho Chin
  • Patent number: 9003038
    Abstract: Applications executed out of router memory may acquire additional bandwidth that is not being used by other applications, in order to speed up network traffic. Scavenging may occur up to a point where current congestion is detected, at which point any scavenged bandwidth is relinquished and the application returns to its prescribed limit. After current congestion is mitigated, scavenging may occur up to a limit below the point where congestion was detected. After a predetermined interval, additional scavenging may occur beyond this limit until a preset bandwidth limit is reached.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: QLOGIC, Corporation
    Inventor: Charles Micalizzi, Jr.
  • Patent number: 9002334
    Abstract: Systems and methods for distributing data associated with a caller to a mobile device, in which the caller data may be presented by the mobile device upon receiving a first incoming call from the caller, are provided. In some embodiments, an image associated with the caller may be obtained by the mobile device such that the image may be displayed along with other call screening data during a first incoming call from the caller. In some embodiments, termination of the incoming call is held by a service control point while the data is transmitted to the mobile device over a data channel. Once termination of the incoming call is released by the service control point, the mobile device receives the incoming call and may present the data as call screening information. In some embodiments, the data channel may include a warm socket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Cequint, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark H. Gosselin, James Stephanick, Jeffrey S. Ross
  • Patent number: 8995430
    Abstract: A media over packet networking appliance provides a network interface, a voice transducer, and at least one integrated circuit assembly coupling the voice transducer to the network interface. The at least one integrated circuit assembly provides media over packet transmissions and holds bits defining reconstruction of a packet stream having a primary stage and a secondary stage. The secondary stage has one or more of linear predictive coding parameters, long term prediction lags, parity check, and adaptive and fixed codebook gains. The packet stream has an instance of single packet loss, and the reconstruction includes receiving a packet sequence represented by P(n)P(n?1)?, [Lost Packet], P(n+2)P(n+1)?, and P(n+3)P(n+2)?, obtaining as information from the secondary stage one or more of the linear predictive coding parameters, long term prediction lags, parity check, and adaptive and fixed codebook gains, and performing an excitation reconstruction utilizing said packet sequence thus received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Krishnasamy Anandakumar, Alan V. McCree, Vishu R. Viswanathan
  • Patent number: 8995919
    Abstract: In at least one embodiment, a method includes receiving a first transmission from a device, the first transmission transmitted at a first frequency. In response to receiving the first transmission, a transceiver is disabled and a second transmission is transmitted to the device, the second transmission transmitted at a second frequency. The method further includes receiving a third transmission from the device, the third transmission transmitted at the second frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Randy Zimler, George B. Bolam, James A. Worsham, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20150087319
    Abstract: A vPBX server manages calls in a bridged line appearance (BLA) group. A BLA group can include extensions for location-aware mobile devices. The vPBX server contains location based forwarding rules that can be applied together with BLA redirection rules in managing incoming calls. A single extension can appear as a user interface element (e.g., an icon or button) on multiple mobile devices. Using the user interface element, a primary user can view a secondary user's status, including the secondary user's location information. The vPBX server allows the primary user to redirect the incoming calls to devices in accordance with the forwarding rules and the redirection rules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2014
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Inventors: Vlad Vendrow, Bruce Young, Praful Shah, Boris Elpiner, Vladimir Shmunis
  • Publication number: 20150087318
    Abstract: Systems and method are provided herein which enable dual-protocol femtocell-less communications. A communication router is arranged to communicate with one or more user equipment (UEs) over a non-cellular protocol and further communicate via a communication link with a cellular communication network operating in a cellular communication protocol. The UEs or the communication router comprise a femtoless client module which mediates non-cellular communication between the UEs and the celellular network. The UEs are arranged to communicate with base stations connected to the cellular communication network both over the cellular communication protocol as well as over the non-cellular communication protocol via the communication router. The UEs are configured to switch between non-cellular and cellular communication, based on predefined criteria. In the former case, cellular air interface is avoided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2013
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Applicant: Femto Access Ltd.
    Inventors: Tuvia Apelewicz, Zohar Zeev Barzilai
  • Patent number: 8989759
    Abstract: A system and method for automatic proximity based call termination determines when a mobile telephony device enters a predetermined area. When that occurs, call termination instructions are automatically issued to re-direct incoming telephone calls directed to the mobile telephony device to an alternate telephone number. In some instances, incoming telephone calls directed to the mobile telephony device may be simultaneously sent to both the mobile telephony device, and to an alternate telephone number. When the mobile telephony device leaves the predetermined area, the call termination instructions are automatically canceled, and calls directed to the mobile telephony device are only sent to the mobile telephony device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Vonage Network, LLC
    Inventor: Michael Guerrero
  • Patent number: 8989722
    Abstract: Systems for automatically selecting a user's profile based on location include a device adapted to being tracked by location and a database that includes a user's preferences for routing calls. The user's calls are routed to the user based on the user's call routing preferences and the location of the device. Other systems and methods are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Edward M. Silver, Maria Adamczyk
  • Patent number: 8989749
    Abstract: An apparatus for performing communication by a dual-network terminal is disclosed by the present invention, wherein the dual-network terminal is a dual-network and dual-standby terminal, and the dual-network and dual-standby terminal comprises an application subsystem, a 3G wireless communication subsystem, a 2G wireless communication subsystem and an identification card management module. The identification card management module is connected with an identification card, which stores information used for the 2G network and 3G network to perform identity authentication, and the 3G wireless communication subsystem is connected with the application subsystem and the identification card management module, and the 2G wireless communication subsystem is connected with the application subsystem and the identification card management module. A method for performing communication by a dual-network terminal is also disclosed by the present invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Hongle Duan, Guolin Teng, Qi Yang, Zhuan Yin