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20080200187 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ESTIMATING CELL CENTER POSITION FOR CELL ID BASED POSITIONING - Systems and methods for estimating a cell center location in a wireless communication system having all interface to a satellite positioning system (“SPS”) such as for example, a Geosynchronous Positioning System (“GPS”). The wireless communication system provides service to mobile stations within a cell, each mobile station includes a SPS receiver. Examples of the systems and methods for estimating a cell center location analyze the mobile station locations in a cell as a uniform distribution of mobile station locations and calculate a statistical measure characterizing the mobile station locations as a function of the mobile station locations. In one example, the statistical measure is a maximum likelihood mobile station location. In another example, the statistical measure is the mean mobile station location in the cell. The estimated cell center location may be used to approximate the location of the mobile station during a warm or cold restart of the SPS receiver part of the mobile station. | 08-21-2008 |
20080207226 | POSITIONING SYSTEM, POSITIONING METHOD, AND POSITIONING PROGRAM - An object of the present invention is to implement accurate positioning of a mobile communication terminal even in an environment in which delay waves are included in radio waves arriving at the mobile communication terminal from radio wave sources. A positioning server | 08-28-2008 |
20080214213 | DETERMINING LOCATIONS OF MOBILE STATIONS IN WIRELESS NETWORKS - Wireless network methods and apparatuses that may determine and provide, in real-time, the geographical locations of mobile stations of the wireless network are described herein. In one implementation, in order to determine the location of a mobile station (MS), the MS may obtain from a navigation service a decryption key to decrypt encrypted location information of multiple base station's (BS's) in its local area. The encrypted location information of the BS may then be decrypted and based at least in part on the recovered location information of the BS, determine the location of the MS. In another implementation, in order to determine and provide the location of an MS of a wireless network, a combination of location agents, location controller, and a location server may be employed to determine and provide the current location of the MS to requesting authorized clients. | 09-04-2008 |
20080227470 | Wireless communication system for automatically generating a received signal strength distribution map - The invention discloses a wireless communication system including first mobile devices, a second mobile device, and a system end. The system end cooperates with the second device to determine a coordinate of each of the first mobile devices. When each of the first mobile devices receives a signal from the system end, each of the first mobile devices can detect its corresponding received signal strength. The system end or the second mobile device is capable of generating a received signal strength distribution map according to the coordinates and the strengths of the received signals. | 09-18-2008 |
20080227471 | METHOD FOR TRACKING CREDIT CARD FRAUD - A system and method for automatically comparing obtained wireless device location information from a wireless network and comparing that location with another independent source geographic location is provided. Location information is derived from two or more sources in a multiplicity of ways and a comparison is made within a Location Comparison Engine. The Location Comparison Engine makes use of databases that assist in resolving obtained raw positioning information and converting that positioning information into one or more formats for adequate location comparison. Results of the location comparison are deduced to determine if the wireless device is in some proximity to some other activity source location. Other location information used for comparison may be obtained from a multiplicity of sources, such as another network based on some activity of the wireless device user, another wireless device via a wireless network, or any system capable of providing location information to the Location Comparison Engine. | 09-18-2008 |
20080227472 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING TRANSMIT DIVERSITY FEEDBACK DURING SOFT HANDOFF - Embodiments of the present invention describe methods for increasing the amount of information available to a mobile transmit diversity transmitter during soft handoff. According to embodiments of the invention, a transmit diversity transmitter may determine substantially when it is within the range of at least two receivers. In such situations, the transmitter may use the power control signals from more than one receiver, for example, from the two most dominant receivers in order to focus the beamforming accordingly. | 09-18-2008 |
20080242319 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MONITORING A MOBILE DEVICE OVER A VIDEO NETWORK - An approach is provided for monitoring location of a user of a mobile device. A notification triggering event based on location of a mobile device is detected. Notification information is generated in response to the detection of the notification triggering event. The notification information to a video processor (e.g., set-top box) that is configured to transmit the notification information to a display. | 10-02-2008 |
20080254813 | Control Device, Mobile Communication System, and Communication Terminal - A control device comprises a first memory, a second memory, and a processor. The first memory is configured to store captured image data and alternative image data. The second memory is configured to store positional data in association with a communication terminal. The processor is configured to: retrieve from the second memory first positional data associated with a first communication terminal and second positional data associated with a second communication terminal; calculate a distance between a first position indicated by the first positional data and a second position indicated by the second positional data; and select image data to be sent to the first communication terminal from among captured image data or alternative image data, on the basis of the calculated distance, to allow the first communication terminal to display an image on the basis of the selected image data. | 10-16-2008 |
20080268872 | Wireless communications device and integrated circuits with global positioning and method for use therewith - A circuit includes a global positioning system (GPS) receiver that receives a GPS signal and that generates GPS position data based on the GPS signal. A wireless telephone transceiver section coupled to generate an outbound RF signal from an outbound symbol stream, and to convert an inbound RF signal into an inbound symbol stream. A processing module is coupled to convert outbound data into the outbound symbol stream, convert the inbound symbol stream into inbound data, to weight the GPS position data with a first weighting factor when the wireless telephone transceiver section is generating the outbound RF signal to produce first weighted GPS position data and weight the GPS position data with a second weighting factor with a second weighting factor when the wireless telephone transceiver section is not generating the outbound RE signal to produce second weighted GPS position data, and to generate position information based on at least one of the first and second weighted GPS position data. | 10-30-2008 |
20080268873 | Cooperative localization for wireless networks - A system and corresponding method using a cooperative localization technique for self identifying a location of a wireless device in a wireless network is presented. The system may estimate an arbitrary signal metric as a function of a signal received by the wireless device from the at least one other wireless device in the wireless network. The system may also convert at least one belief representing a distribution of at least one possible location of the at least one other wireless device to generate at least one converted belief. The system may further determine a self-belief as a function of the at least one converted belief and identify a self location, as a function of the self-belief, within the wireless network. | 10-30-2008 |
20080268874 | Cellular phone with special GPS functions - Mobile cellular phone with integrated positioning system and archiving in this way advanced functions based on its location and navigation capabilities. Based on its location and internal consumption statistics can notify the user if the expected battery-level won't be enough for the next period of time outside such location. Based on its location can automatically send predefined or programmed messages (SMS) to defined users. In its internal call log register keeps also the location where the call has been received or done, and can display this back to the user on request. Can encode navigation instructions to the user when walking through mechanic vibration signals. | 10-30-2008 |
20080268875 | LOCATOR SYSTEM - A locator system is disclosed. An e911-enabled wireless network including a switching center is configured receive a request to generate location information regarding a remote mobile station, and send said location information to a subscriber only after obtaining consent from the remote mobile station. | 10-30-2008 |
20080274753 | POSITION LOCATION FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - The subject matter disclosed herein relates to position location in a wireless communication system, and may more particularly relate to position location for a mobile station. | 11-06-2008 |
20080287144 | Vehicles as Nodes of Wireless Sensor Networks for Information Collection & Prognostication - A system and method are provided that use mobile sensor nodes for monitoring of mobile assets and one or more mobile sensor nodes have mobility that is unpredictable to a wireless network. The mobile sensor nodes collect data with the goal of monitoring the environment including weather and pollution, biological and chemical agents for security application and traffic application. The mobile sensors form local groups opportunistically to coordinate measurements and other actions. The collected sensor data will be stored locally with global positioning system (GPS) data and the time of data collected. The information can be transmitted to a remote computer opportunistically using a low cost method such as WiFi or the cell phone network. The information will be aggregated to provide environmental maps, traffic maps and maps to first responders in the event of biological nuclear or chemical calamity. | 11-20-2008 |
20080299994 | System and Method for Location Determination for Mobile Clients - A first position ( | 12-04-2008 |
20080299995 | Location Estimation of Wireless Terminals Through Pattern Matching of Signal-Strength Differentials - A method of estimating the location of a wireless terminal is disclosed that is ideally suited for use with legacy systems. The illustrative embodiment of the present invention is based on the observation that the signal strength of a signal from a transmitter is different at some locations, and, therefore, the location of a wireless terminal can be estimated by comparing the signal strength it currently observes against a map or database that correlates locations to signal strengths. For example, if a particular radio station is known to be received well at a first location and poorly at a second location, and a given wireless terminal at an unknown location is receiving the radio station poorly, it is more likely that the wireless terminal is at the second location than it is at the first location. | 12-04-2008 |
20080311931 | LOCATION SUPPORT IN WIRELESS NETWORKS - Various embodiments of the invention determine and/or enhance the location of a wireless mobile station in a WiMAX network, and provide that location to a requesting device. Some embodiments produce more that one determination of the location, using different sources for the information, and combine the different determinations to produce an enhanced version of the location. | 12-18-2008 |
20090005084 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR POSITIONNG USING ATSC DIGITAL TV SIGNALS - An apparatus for positioning comprising a method is provided. The method includes the step of calculating a transmission time of a training sequence of a television signal from a transmitter to a mobile receiver. | 01-01-2009 |
20090011779 | Mobile Location - A method and system for calculating the location of a mobile radio terminal in a radio communications network. The method provides for the collection of measurements of radio signal parameters at the mobile radio terminal which are then processed and transmitted to a network processor for calculating the location of the mobile radio terminal. The collected measurements may be filtered and subsets of the measurements may also be selected according to their suitability for particular applications. | 01-08-2009 |
20090061904 | MANAGEMENT OF ANTICIPATED DATA OUTAGES IN A PUSH-TO-X COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A mobile station ( | 03-05-2009 |
20090061905 | Determining Geographic Zone - Included are embodiments for determining data for at least one geographic zone. At least one embodiment of a method includes determining at least one geographic zone for monitoring and receiving data related to at least one contact of a user entering the at least one geographic zone. Some embodiments include providing an indication, to the user, that the at least one contact of the user is currently located in the determined geographic zone. | 03-05-2009 |
20090061906 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR LOCATION-BASED SERVICES IN WIRELESS NETWORKS - Methods and systems are provided for location-based services in a wireless environment. The location-based service is provided on a mobile unit operating within an environment. A position of the mobile unit is determined within the wireless network environment using RFID or other wireless information received at a wireless switch. An available location-based service is identified in response to the position of the mobile unit, and subsequently provided using the mobile unit. | 03-05-2009 |
20090075677 | Dynamically Updated Proximity Warning - Methods and apparatus are disclosed for alerting a mobile device user of the proximity of a target party. In an exemplary method, an electronic location information message corresponding to the target party is received, the electronic location information message including target location data. In response to the receipt of the location information message, a target location estimate is determined, based on the target location data. The target location estimate is compared to a bounded region surrounding a current position estimate for the mobile device, and an alert is selectively generated based on the proximity of the target location estimate to the bounded region. An application processor, configured to implement one or more methods for alerting the user of a mobile device of the proximity of a target party, is also disclosed. Various embodiments of the disclosed application processor may be used in an application server operatively connected to the mobile device through a communications network, or in the mobile device itself. | 03-19-2009 |
20090075678 | PORTABLE WIRELESS TERMINAL AND MOVING VELOCITY DETECTING METHOD FOR PORTABLE WIRELESS TERMINAL - A portable wireless terminal and a moving velocity detecting method for the portable wireless terminal capable of detecting a moving velocity with high accuracy without increasing power consumption and terminal cost are provided. At the start of a communication, GPS reception-related circuits | 03-19-2009 |
20090082038 | SOCIAL NETWORKING ON A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Wireless communication systems and methods are described that provide location-based social networks to mobile communication devices. Mobile users of the wireless communication system define social networking profiles storing characteristics of the user. The wireless communication system determines a location of a user's mobile communication device and identifies a set of other mobile users that are geographically proximate to the user. The wireless communication system then filters the set of other mobile users based on characteristics of the social networking profiles of the other mobile users, and transmits identifiers of the filtered set of other mobile users to the user's mobile communication device. The mobile communication device then displays the identifiers of the filtered set of other mobile users to the user allowing the user to initiate contact with any of the other mobile users that are of interest. | 03-26-2009 |
20090082039 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING SITE-SPECIFIC OPERATIONS - A method and apparatus for controlling a site-specific activity at a plurality of remote locations, for example, the inspection of geographically remote equipment or the gathering of data for a census. A mobile operator transports a portable tool ( | 03-26-2009 |
20090088184 | MOVING BODY COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, MOVING BODY TERMINAL, INFORMATION PROVIDING APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION TRANSMISSION METHOD - A moving body terminal is basically provided with a position information acquiring section, a receiving section and a control section. The position information acquiring section is configured to acquire position information indicating a current position of the moving body terminal. The receiving section is configured to receive from an information providing apparatus simple map information which includes information transmission determining information indicating an information transmission unnecessary region of the simple map information where the position information of the moving body terminal is not required to be transmitted from the moving body terminal to the information providing apparatus. The control section is configured to prohibit a transmission of the position information to the information providing apparatus when the position information acquired by the position information acquiring section is inside the information transmission unnecessary region contained in the simple map information that was received. | 04-02-2009 |
20090098889 | Wireless device location alerts on battery notification events - As part of a handset finder service, a customer will download and install a small application, e.g., handset finder application, onto their wireless device. The first time this handset finder application runs, it registers to receive battery notification events from the device (or if not available, another type of wake-up event, like a timer or SMS wake-up). These events wake-up the application, which will determine whether a “low power” threshold has been reached. When this occurs, the application initiates a location query. The application will submit a determined location to a handset finder server. | 04-16-2009 |
20090111487 | TEXT DISPLAY OF GEO-REFERENCED INFORMATION BASED ON RELATIVE DISTANCE TO A USER LOCATION - A system, method, and computer readable medium are provided for displaying geographically referenced information. In one example, a method includes causing a display of search results from a search of geographically referenced information (e.g., point-of-interest locations, geo-tagged objects, other users, and so on), the display comprising text associated with each of the search results, where the text varies for at least one of the search results based on the distance of the search results from a user location. For example, text associated with relatively close search results displayed more prominently than relatively distant search results. The method may further include generating presentation data according to a display scheme for displaying search results and communicating the presentation data to a user device. The method may vary the text based on at least one of font size, font style, color, shading, three-dimensional height, associated features, animation, combinations thereof, and the like. | 04-30-2009 |
20090124267 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR LOCATING A LOST AND/OR STOLEN PHONE BASED ON SUPL NETWORK INITIATED, TRIGGERED BY REVERSE-BILLED SMS - A user and/or owner of a mobile terminal may access a password protected application that is enabled to determine a location of the mobile terminal. In this regard, the mobile terminal may receive a reverse billed SMS message from a communication device hosting a web server application. The reverse billed SMS message comprising a request for mobile terminal location may be authenticated by the mobile terminal. The mobile terminal may be billed for the SMS message. A response from the mobile terminal may comprise its location. A navigation satellite system receiver such as GPS and/or GLONASS and/or an assisted navigation satellite system receiver may be utilized to determine the mobile terminal location. In addition, cell ID, location ID and/or network mobile report (NMR) information may be utilized to determine the mobile terminal location. | 05-14-2009 |
20090131081 | ADJUSTING WLAN SCANNING PARAMETERS BASED ON RATE OF CHANGE OF LOCATION OF MOBILE DEVICE - A mobile device adjusts its scanning parameters, depending on the rate of change of location of the mobile device. Examples of scanning parameters that may be adjusted include a back-off parameter that affects the time between successive scans, and a scan/don't scan parameter that according to its value prevents the mobile device from scanning or permits the mobile device to scan. The mobile device may maintain different back-off parameters for different types of scans. Determining which scanning parameters to adjust and how to adjust them may depend on whether the rate of change of location of the mobile device does not exceed a low threshold, exceeds a high threshold, or exceeds the low threshold and does not exceed the high threshold. Different thresholds may be applied by the mobile device for different types of scans. | 05-21-2009 |
20090137256 | Using Signal-Generated Location Information to Identify and List Available Devices - A wireless detecting device may be operable to receive one or more signals from a corresponding one or more wireless devices within range of the wireless detecting device. A list of the corresponding one or more wireless devices within range of the wireless detecting device may be displayed on the wireless detecting device. Based on the received one or more signals from the corresponding one or more wireless devices, distance range and/or geographic location of the one or more wireless devices, relative to the wireless detecting device may be indicated on the wireless detecting device. The wireless detecting device may comprise one or more processors that may be operable to calculate and/or otherwise determine distance range and/or geographic location of the one or more wireless devices, as well as the location of the wireless detecting device. | 05-28-2009 |
20090143080 | Method, Subscriber Identity Module and System for Providing Mobile Communication Terminal Location Data - The invention relates to a method for providing mobile communication terminal location data. In the method, radio signal is received from a beacon in a wireless local area network. Next, beacon identification data that identifies the beacon is derived, based on the received radio signal. The identification data is transmitted to a server. Beacon location data is then provided by and received from the server. Mobile communication terminal location data, particularly presence data that indicates that the mobile communication terminal is in the vicinity of the beacon, is derived from the beacon location data. Upon such detected presence, an additional application process is advantageously executed. The method is executed by a processing device in a subscriber identity module that is included in the mobile communication terminal, thus achieving hidden operation and portability. The invention also relates to a subscriber identity module and a system operating in accordance with the method. | 06-04-2009 |
20090143081 | Information distribution system, information distribution server, mobile terminal, and information distribution method - There is provided an information distribution system capable of distributing a content to a mobile terminal in a predetermined area, distributing content guide information to the mobile terminal, and distributing the content selected by the mobile terminal, within the area. The information distribution system includes an information distribution server, a mobile terminal, and a content DB. The content DB contains content information to be provided to the mobile terminal and information on the area to which the content is provided. The information distribution server distributes the content guide information to the mobile terminal. According to this content guide information, the mobile terminal performs a content distribution request. The information distribution server judges the position of the mobile terminal according to position judgment means. When the mobile terminal is in the distribution area of the content requested, the content is downloaded. | 06-04-2009 |
20090143082 | Location Aware Voice Calls and Messages - A communications network includes a mobile communications device and a communications terminal. The device and terminal are engaged in a call which includes audio stream data. An operation is performed, either at the mobile device or in the supporting network, to determine a location of the mobile communications device and link metadata representing the determined mobile communications device location to the audio stream data sent from that mobile communications device for the call. At the communications terminal, the metadata is extracted from the audio stream data to allow for presentation of the location of the mobile communications device. | 06-04-2009 |
20090149201 | Apparatus and method for providing position information of wireless terminal - An apparatus and method for providing position information of a wireless terminal are provided. The apparatus map-matches a position estimated using a wireless signal received from a satellite or a base station to output the map-matched result when a reception state of the wireless signal is good, and map-matches a position detected by dead reckoning to output the map-matched result when the reception state of the wireless signal is not good, thereby enabling a user to correctly detect the position of the wireless terminal regardless of the reception state of the wireless signal received from the satellite or the base station. | 06-11-2009 |
20090149202 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINATION OF POSITION - A system and method of determining and reporting on the position of a wireless device relative to a group of other wireless devices dispersed within a specified geographic area. The system includes at least one Query Unit, three or more Responding Units disposed at determinable locations within the specified geographic area, and one or more Mobile Units, which may correspond to additional Responding Units or units that function only as receivers. The Query Unit sequentially queries the Responding Units, and, responsive to the respective query messages, the Responding Units transmit corresponding response messages. One or more of the Mobile Units receive the query and response messages, and generate, for each query-response message pair, a set of time-difference-of-arrival (TDOA) measurements, which are used by the Mobile Units to determine their positions relative to the Responding Units. The Mobile Units record the times-of-arrival (TOAs) of the query message and the response messages at their respective receivers, and calculate the TDOAs based on the recorded TOAs. The TDOAs are then analyzed to determine the time differences due to the differences in lengths of the respective message propagation paths. The position of each Mobile Unit can then be computed using computation techniques typically employed in Long Range Navigation (LORAN) receivers, or any other suitable computation technique. | 06-11-2009 |
20090156235 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE WITH IMPROVED ANTENNA ADAPTIVITY - The invention discloses a wireless telecommunications device intended to communicate with an access point, such as a base station, in a wireless telecommunications system. The device comprises at least a first radio chain and at least a first and a second antenna, which antennas each have a certain radiation pattern, and which are used for receiving and transmitting information to and from the base station. The device includes a motion sensor for giving information on the spatial orientation of the device, and the device additionally includes means for utilizing said orientation information in order to control the total radiation pattern in the device's communication with the base station by controlling the phase and/or amplitude of signals associated with said first and second antennas. | 06-18-2009 |
20090176512 | PASSIVE TRAFFIC ALERT AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A passive traffic alerting method includes: identifying traffic events from analyzing traffic information; selecting an identified traffic event based on a location of a mobile communicator; and alerting the mobile communicator with a passive message regarding the selected traffic event without prompting the mobile communicator to launch an application on a mobile communication device. In some cases a user-zone and an event zone is selected and the user gets alerted when his user-zone overlaps with the event-zone. The alert can contain hierarchical messages. The method may include: determining an alert zone by rating a traffic incident and overlaying maps of the incident, the cell-phone towers, and the corresponding road network; acquiring user identification of cell phone users from data from cell-phone towers in the alert-zone; identifying subscribers from acquired cell-phone tower data; matching subscribers with alerts in appropriate formats; and sending the appropriate alert messages to cell phones of identified subscribers. | 07-09-2009 |
20090186633 | LOCATION-BASED PROFILE-ADJUSTING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An electronic device includes a communication element, a location-determining component, a computing device, and a display. The communication element receives and transmits communication. The location-determining component monitors the location of the electronic device. The computing device is coupled to the communication element and the location-determining component and can change at least one setting of the electronic device based on the location of the device. | 07-23-2009 |
20090209271 | Mobile device location systems and methods - This invention is generally concerned with computer systems, methods and computer program codes for determining a location of a mobile communications device moving along a known path, and more particularly for adding location information to “drive” test data captured from a mobile device. Embodiments of the invention are particularly useful for drive testing on high-speed trains. A method of locating a mobile communications device, in particular on a known path, the mobile device communicating with a mobile communications network infrastructure including a plurality of base stations, communications between the mobile device and the base station to which it is attached having a timing advance to compensate for a time taken for a radio signal to reach the base station from the mobile device, the method comprising: reading a time ordered sequence of messages captured from said communications between the mobile device and said network infrastructure; reading timing advance information from said captured messages; identifying a step change in timing advance using said timing advance information; and determining a location of said mobile devices, in particular on said path, at a time of said step change. | 08-20-2009 |
20090221302 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR REVERSE LOAD BALANCING FOR THE PROVISION OF SERVICES TO CLIENT DEVICES - An apparatus for providing reverse load balancing for the provision of services to client devices may include a processor. The processor may be configured to receive, at a device, a report from each of a plurality of mobile terminals, each report including a dynamic value indicative of a characteristic of the respective mobile terminal, define a group of mobile terminals based on members of the group having respective dynamic values similar to each other within a threshold amount, and provide the members of the group with rules defining criteria for at least some of the members with respect to providing future reports to the device. | 09-03-2009 |
20090233626 | PROXY SERVER AND METHOD THEREOF FOR FORWARDING LOCATION REQUESTS TO A POSITION DETERMINING ENTITY - A proxy server in a wireless communication network and method thereof that receives data from a mobile station, processes the data in conjunction with information contained within proxy server databases, and forwards the data to a Position Determining Entity (PDE). The proxy server may include subscriber and network information databases. The subscriber database may include information regarding characteristics of the mobile station. This subscriber database information may be used by the proxy server to determine whether to forward or modify the data to the PDE. The network information database may include information regarding characteristics of the wireless communication network. The information from the network information database may be used by the proxy server to determine a route to forward the data to the PDE. A billing information database may also be included that prepares billing information based on predetermined characteristics of a roaming environment of the mobile station. | 09-17-2009 |
20090233627 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING POSITION INFORMATION - An apparatus and a method process position information. A mobile phone sends a first position signal for itself through an RF module and receives a second position signal for other party through the RF module. Therefore, the positions of users using the mobile phones can be simultaneously shown on display of the mobile phone. Moreover, a GPS destination point can be set with reference to the second position signal for other party, and an optimal path can be dynamically programmed according to the GPS destination point. The position signal can be sent through a composite voice signal after it is combined with a voice signal; or the position signal can be sent through short message service (SMS). | 09-17-2009 |
20090233628 | DEVICE AND METHOD IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The invention is directed towards a method in a first wireless communication device, for retrieving information data. The information data is retrieved from a remote data base accessible to a second communication device. The first wireless communication device and the second communication device are adapted to communicate with each other. The communication is made in a communication network. The method comprises the step of sending a request for retrieving information data. The request is sent to the second communication device. Also, the method comprises the step of receiving the requested information data from the second communication device. | 09-17-2009 |
20090280837 | Arrangement and method for a location database - The present invention relates to the field of location databases containing position related information, and specifically to a method of providing quick and accurate response to users requesting location dependant data from such database. This speed-up in response is done by storing information that is related to most probable path for travelling users on top of database stack and therefore is easy to find and sent to requesting users. | 11-12-2009 |
20090280838 | Device and Method for Adding Location Data to Images - Described are a device and a method for adding location data to images. The method may include the following steps: capturing image data with a mobile device; creating an image file based on the image data; determining location data of the mobile device based on a location of the mobile device; and adding the location data to the image file. | 11-12-2009 |
20090286556 | APPARATUS, METHOD, AND PROGRAM FOR OUTPUTTING PRESENT POSITION - An apparatus, method and program for outputting a present position that enables a user to be located with further accuracy even in a multi-level area. A control unit periodically sends a reference atmospheric pressure information obtaining request to a base station and obtains reference atmospheric pressure information including the atmospheric pressure and altitude of the base station from the base station and stores the obtained information in a data storage. The control unit uses the measurement value of atmospheric pressure obtained from a pressure sensor and an altitude calculation equation including the reference atmospheric pressure information to periodically calculate and record in the data storage the altitude of the present position. When an emergency button is pushed, the control unit issues to an emergency contact an emergency notification including the present altitude or the altitude recorded in the data storage. | 11-19-2009 |
20090312039 | GEO LOCATION POLLING AND REPORTING FOR MOBILES IN IDLE MODE - Systems and methods are described that facilitate obtaining geolocation information describing the geographical location of a mobile device while the device is in idle mode, without requiring the device to awaken and connect to an access network. A request for geolocation information is transmitted to the mobile over a control channel, and a geolocation report including geographical coordinates (latitude, longitude, altitude, etc.) is received from the mobile over an access channel. In this manner, the no user action, or user knowledge of the geolocation report, is required to obtain the report. | 12-17-2009 |
20100009700 | Methods and Apparatus for Collecting Image Data - An image processing system identifies desired views of a particular subject and triggers a mobile camera device in proximity to the subject to capture a digital image, thus collecting new image data to augment an existing database. In an exemplary method, location data for a camera-equipped mobile communication device in visual proximity to a subject of interest is received at an image collection server. Upon determining whether the location data corresponds to a desired view of the subject of interest, the image collection server sends an image capture request to the mobile device, triggering the user of the device to capture an image of the subject. Finally, digital image data is received from the mobile communication device in response to the image capture request. The digital image data may then be used for assembling a composite representation of the subject of interest, such as a 3D model of the subject. | 01-14-2010 |
20100022254 | Location-Based Authentication of Mobile Device Transactions - Systems, methods, and software for implementing location-based authentication of both online and mobile web-based transactions. This implementation may involve verifying whether a mobile device (such as a cellular telephone) is proximate to a computer from which the transaction is being performed. Depending upon the location of the mobile device, further transactions may be approved or rejected. In further implementations, the transactions may be made from the mobile device itself. In this case, the location of the mobile device compared with one or more pre-stored locations may affect whether further transactions from the mobile device are approved or rejected. | 01-28-2010 |
20100029302 | DEVICE-TO-DEVICE LOCATION AWARENESS - During an ongoing wireless telephone call communication session between a pair of mobile devices, a local device responds to its user's activation of a virtual or actual button or key, or its user's verbal command, by automatically sending an over the air message (e.g., a SMS or text message or other network communication message) to the remote device. The message requests location information of the remote device. Upon obtaining location information from the remote device, a location of the remote device is automatically displayed on the local device. Other embodiments are also described and claimed. | 02-04-2010 |
20100056185 | Location Determination of Mobile Device - The subject matter disclosed herein relates to determining a location fix of a mobile station based on identification information of a cellular base station included in a pilot signal | 03-04-2010 |
20100093376 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AREA CODE ROUGH INITIAL POSITION FOR GNSS ASSISTANCE DATA IN A COMMUNICATION NETWORK - A method and system is presented for a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) enabled WCDMA handset to receive reference locations from a network location server based on RNC geographic service areas. The GNSS enabled WCDMA handset may generate a location request comprising an RNC ID and may determine its location based on the received reference location and/or received GNSS assistance data. The RNC geographic service area and/or an area of uncertainty may comprise one or more of a latitude, a longitude and uncertainty value. Accuracy of the RNC geographic service area and/or the area of uncertainty may be increased over time. The RNC service area may be determined by the network location server based on an average of a plurality of handset locations that are reported by handsets that are served by the RNC. Handset location reports may comprise the RNC ID. | 04-15-2010 |
20100093377 | Creating And Using Base Station Almanac Information In A Wireless Communication System Having A Position Location Capability - In a wireless mobile communication system having a position determination service, base station information is stored in a base station almanac. In addition to the position of the base station antenna, forward link delay calibration, and base station identification information, a base station almanac record includes the center location of the base station sector coverage area, the maximum range of the base station antenna, the terrain average height over the sector coverage area, the terrain height standard deviation over the sector coverage area, round-trip delay (RTD) calibration information, repeater information, pseudo-random noise (PN) increments, uncertainty in the base station antenna position, uncertainty in the forward-link delay calibration, and uncertainty in the round-trip delay calibration. | 04-15-2010 |
20100099436 | USING ELECTRONIC SURVEILLANCE DATA AS EVENT TRIGGERS FOR LAWFUL LOCATION TRACKING - A system and method to automatically provide a location estimate of a mobile station in communication with a mobile wireless network to an appropriate law enforcement agency in response to detecting an electronic surveillance event within a mobile wireless network. A surveillance location server extracts pertinent information from a surveillance event message and sends a request for a location estimate to network components that generate and return the location estimate. The surveillance location server forwards to the location estimate to an appropriate law enforcement agency. | 04-22-2010 |
20100130236 | LOCATION ASSISTED WORD COMPLETION - Embodiments include systems and methods for providing location and object specific word completion assistance. Sensors may detect information regarding a landmark, location or object, and an embodiment may identify such landmarks, locations and objects and provide word lists to assist a user in entering text. Identification of such places and objects may include receiving information from one or more sensors; such information includes location and orientation information, near field communications information, and images. Images may be analyzed to determine objects and locations in the images. | 05-27-2010 |
20100137005 | METHOD FOR POSITIONING PORTABLE COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A method for positioning a portable communication device is provided. First, the signal intensities of a plurality of base stations near the portable communication device receiving radio waves from the base stations are detected, and coordinates of the base stations are found in order to calculate a position coordinate of the portable communication device through the coordinates and the signal intensities of the base stations. Then, the values of a plurality of environmental features between at least one of the base stations and the portable communication device are obtained from a geographic information system (GIS) according to at least one coordinate of the base stations and the position coordinate of the portable communication device. After that, the signal intensities of the base stations are modified by substituting the values of the environmental features into a path loss model. Finally, the position coordinate of the portable communication device is recalculated according to the modified signal intensities of the base stations thereby enhancing the positioning accuracy substantially. | 06-03-2010 |
20100144376 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PRODUCING HARD COPIES OF ELECTRONIC INFORMATION EMPLOYING A PORTABLE PERSONAL RECEIVING DEVICE - A method for producing hard copies of electronic information employing a portable personal receiving device includes the steps of selecting information to print and utilizing the receiving device to identify available printers based on the location of the receiving device for printing the selected information in hard copy form. The portable receiving device is connected to one of the available printers and the selected information is printed in hard copy form. A system for producing hard copies of electronic information employing a portable personal receiving device includes a portable receiving device having a program enabling selection of information to print. The portable device includes a program to identify available printers based on the location of the receiving device. A communications link connects the portable receiving device to an available printer. The receiving device may be a cell phone and global positioning satellite functionality and/or cell phone tower positions may be employed to determine the location of the receiving device. | 06-10-2010 |
20100234048 | DETERMINING THE CHANGE IN TIME AT A MOBILE TERMINAL - In a terminal | 09-16-2010 |
20100234049 | Apparatus For Wireless Connection To A Mobile Phone And Possible Applications Of The Apparatus - There is provided an apparatus that is connectable wirelessly with a mobile phone. The apparatus includes a casing for encasing components of the apparatus. A display unit is mounted within the casing for the display of content to a user. There is a processor coupled with the display unit to control the content displayed in the display unit. There is also a transceiver coupled to the processor within the casing to enable the wireless connection between the apparatus and the mobile phone. A memory module is coupled to the processor, the memory module being for storage of data and applications. There may be a positioning module coupled to the processor, the positioning module being for provision of a location of the apparatus to the mobile phone. It is preferable that a set of controls is coupled to the processor for controlling the apparatus, and the set of controls may be controllable by the user either via touch or voice. It is advantageous that the apparatus is used for applications selected from the group consisting of: making and receiving telephone calls using a wide area connection of the mobile phone, composing and receiving messages using the wide area connection of the mobile phone, accessing the internet using the wide area connection of the mobile phone, and playing back media content on the apparatus. | 09-16-2010 |
20100248748 | RADIO COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE, UNIVERSAL INTEGRATED CIRCUIT CARD AND RELATED METHOD AND COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE - The present invention provides for a UICC interface and related interfacing method, for use in a mobile radio communications device and including means enabling the UICC to provide an indication that at least one service requiring location data is present in the UICC, means for UICC to receive notification that a source of location data is available, means for allowing the UICC to initiate transfer of location data thereto, means for the actual transfer of the location data to the UICC, and means enabling the UICC to terminate the transfer of the location data, and wherein the location data can be provided from a GPS module or remotely in a contact-less manner. | 09-30-2010 |
20100291951 | ADAPTIVE RECEIVER BASED ON MOBILITY INFORMATION OF USER DEVICE - A method includes a user device connecting to another device, receiving position-based signals associated with the user device, calculating mobility information associated with the user device based on the position-based signals, providing the mobility information to a receiver of the user device, and adapting one or more parameters associated with a connection between the receiver and the other device based on the mobility information. | 11-18-2010 |
20100317371 | CONTEXT-BASED INTERACTION MODEL FOR MOBILE DEVICES - A context-aware mobile device such as a cell phone automatically determines appropriate user interface (UI) settings to implement at different times and/or locations. A behavior of the mobile device is tracked by determining locations visited and UI settings which are manually configured by the user. Patterns in the movement and UI settings relative to one another and to time are detected. When a particular location or time is subsequently reached which corresponds to the pattern, an appropriate UI setting can be implemented, thereby relieving the user of this task. Locations can be detected by electromagnetic signals at different locations, such as from a Wi-Fi network, Bluetooth network, RF or infrared beacon, or a wireless point-of-sale terminal. An identifier from the signals such as an SSID can be stored. Labels for locations can be automatically assigned, or the user can be prompted to provide a label for commonly visited locations. | 12-16-2010 |
20100317372 | Measurement Systems and Methods for Fingerprinting Positioning - A system, computer software and method for collecting, in addition to position data, additional positioning data in a user terminal served by a communication network. The method includes initiating, by generating a message within the user terminal, collection of the positioning data, where the positioning data includes information based on which a physical location of the user terminal is determined; measuring, by the user terminal, at least one parameter related to the physical location of the user terminal in response to the message; producing, within the user terminal, measurement reports that include the at least one parameter; selecting, within the user terminal, one or more measurement reports that were generated in response to the message generated by the user terminal; reporting the selected one or more measurement reports to an interface within the user terminal; and transmitting, from the interface, the reported one or more measurement reports to an external server or to the communication network. | 12-16-2010 |
20100331018 | TERMINAL, METHOD FOR MANAGING THEREOF, BASE STATION AND METHOD FOR MANAGING THEREOF - A method for managing a terminal operated in an idle state is provided. The method includes entering a femto cell, determining whether a femto base station managing the femto cell has the same paging group as a macro base station managing a macro cell overlapping the femto cell, transmitting a first ranging code triggering a paging enable state to the femto base station if it is determined that the paging group is the same as the determination result, and receiving a paging message from the femto base station. | 12-30-2010 |
20110053614 | POSITION INFORMATION SYSTEM - A positioning information transmitter transmits a positioning identifier instead of directly transmitting position information. A positioning information management server stores and manages the positioning identifier and the position information while correlating them with each other. In response to a position information request with a positioning identifier, the positioning information management server converts the positioning identifier into position information according to the aforementioned correlation. Furthermore, the positioning information management server updates the positioning identifier to be transmitted from the positioning information transmitter in a certain time by using predetermined means. | 03-03-2011 |
20110065457 | TRANSMITTER POSITION INTEGRITY CHECKING - The subject matter disclosed herein relates to determining whether a reported position of a wireless transmitter is sufficiently accurate in accordance with an accuracy metric based at least in part on a calculated range between an estimated position of a mobile station and the reported position and also based at least in part on one or more measurements taken from one or more signals transmitted by the wireless transmitter. | 03-17-2011 |
20110065458 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO MONITOR AND CONTROL DEVICES UTILIZING WIRELESS MEDIA - A method and system of selectively communicating with one or more devices within pre-defined geographical zones is disclosed. A plurality of geographical zones is defined, each zone being defined by latitude and longitude attributes. A plurality of devices is associated with each geographical zone with which a portable device can communicate, the portable device having data representative of the plurality of geographical zones. The portable device also has a ground positioning unit receiver to obtain geographical coordinates of the portable device. If the portable device determines that its location is within one of the plurality of geographical zones, the portable device communicates with the devices in associated with the geographical zone. | 03-17-2011 |
20110117937 | PUSH DELIVERY SERVICE PROVIDING METHOD, INFORMATION PROVIDING SERVICE SYSTEM, SERVER SYSTEM, AND USER STATION - The present invention relates to a technique of providing a push delivery service. A data center transmits attribute information on positions and radii of areas A through J to a user station. The user station compares the attribute information with a self-predicted position to predict that the user station itself lies in the area A through J. When the user station confirms that the user station lies in the area A through J, and requests the data center for delivery information attached to the area A through J on the basis of a result of confirmation. The data center transmits delivery information to the user station in response to the request. The user station knows itself in one of plural push delivery areas A through J, and decreases the frequency of positioning and pinpoints delivery of information such as shop advertisements is possible. | 05-19-2011 |
20110136514 | MOBILE PHONE AND METHOD FOR ADJUSTING SUSPENSION OF COMMUNICATION TIME OF MOBILE PHONE - A method for adjusting a suspension of communication time of a mobile phone is provided. Wherein the mobile phone receives wireless signals from a base station and transmits signals to the base station. The wireless signals include the suspension of communication time. The method includes decoding the received wireless signal and determining whether there are too many failed attempts to decode wireless signals in a first predetermined time, further determining the mobile phone enters a dead zone of a network, and determining size of dead zone and sensing movement speed of the phone to determine when the mobile phone will leave the dead zone. If the mobile phone will leave the dead zone soon, maintaining the connection with the network, otherwise hanging up the call. | 06-09-2011 |
20110136515 | MOBILE TERMINAL DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - A mobile terminal device includes: a memory that stores a restriction on a predetermined function or a release condition of the restriction as initial setting information; a determining unit that determines whether a condition of the setting information of the memory is satisfied; a generation unit that generates a restriction change request signal, which changes the initial setting information by a setting information change signal under a condition to change the initial setting information of the memory, and which requests the restriction on a function stored in the memory or the change of the release condition of the restriction when the determining unit determines that the condition of the changed setting information is satisfied; and a restriction release unit which, when detecting the restriction change request signal generated by the generation unit, performs the use restriction on the function or the restriction release based on the changed setting information. | 06-09-2011 |
20110151894 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROMPTING INCOMING EVENTS OF THE COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A communication device and method for prompting incoming events of the communication device are provided. The method monitors environment situation around the communication device when the communication device receives an incoming event, and determines an environment mode of the communication device according to the environment situation. The method further searches a storage system of the communication device for a prompt mode matching the environment mode, and prompts a user using the prompt mode so as to avoid urgent or important events. | 06-23-2011 |
20110151895 | MOBILE MONITORING DEVICE AND MONITORING SYSTEM FOR ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT - A mobile monitoring device with a global positioning function that can interfere with monitored electronic equipment and a monitoring module that can carry out two-way communication with a control center. The monitoring module is connected to a power module and electrically linked to a voice device in two-way communication. The monitoring module is electrically connected to switch control wiring and sends switching order to it, so as to transfer between power control wiring and signal control wiring. The power control wiring and the signal control wiring of this mobile monitoring device are electrically linked to the monitored electronic equipment. In this way, it can conduct power control or signal control on the monitored electronic equipment. | 06-23-2011 |
20110201359 | POSITIONAL INFORMATION SYSTEM - In an indoor positioning system, for establishment of a cost sharing system, the positioning information transmission device does not directly transmit positional information but performs concealment and variablization on the device ID and transmits the concealed and variablized device ID. The positioning information management server stores and manages correspondence between the device IDs and positional information, and performs conversion from the device ID to the positional information in accordance with the correspondence. Further, the problem of conflict between concealed IDs upon concealment of positioning identification information by the positioning information transmission devices, which occurs when all the positioning information transmission devices use the same secret key, can be prevented. The system can be operated even when the bit length of the device ID is short. | 08-18-2011 |
20110244891 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR LOCALIZING MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINALS - A method of determining a geographic position of a mobile communications terminal operable in a wireless communications network includes a receiver of signals of a global navigation satellite system, includes calculating a first estimated position of the mobile communications terminal based on pseudo-range measurements related to a plurality of signals received from transmitters of the global navigation satellite system; calculating a second estimated position of the mobile communications terminal based on information provided by the wireless communications network; and analyzing the first estimated position to derive an indication of whether at least one of the pseudo-range measurements is affected by errors. The analyzing includes exploiting the calculated second estimated position to derive the indication. If the indication that at least one of the pseudo-range measurements is affected by errors is obtained as a result of the analyzing, calculating at least one third estimated position based on pseudo-range measurements related to a respective sub-set of the plurality of signals received from transmitters of the global navigation satellite system, evaluating whether the at least one third estimated position is more accurate than the first estimated position; and if affirmative, taking as estimated position of the mobile communications terminal the calculated third estimated position. | 10-06-2011 |
20110300882 | MOTION ADAPTIVE COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE AND INTEGRATED CIRCUITS FOR USE THEREWITH - A circuit includes a package substrate that supports an on-chip gyrating circuit that generates a motion parameter based on motion of the circuit. The package substrate further supports a die that supports a processing module that processes the motion parameter to produce motion data, wherein the processing module further generates a receive control signal and a transmit control signal in accordance with the motion data. The die further supports a wireless local area network transceiver that generates an outbound RF signal that includes outbound data and that generates voice inbound data from an inbound RF signal, wherein the wireless local area network transceiver is further operable to adjust a receive parameter based on the receive control signal and to adjust a transmit parameter in response to the transmit control signal. | 12-08-2011 |
20110306364 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING NETWORK ACCESS TO ELECTRONIC DEVICES - Systems and methods of providing network access information from one or more servers to a wireless device. The wireless device acquires information from the servers about available networks at a current location of the wireless device. The network information is based on a plurality of device parameters, network parameters and regulatory requirements that govern the operation of the wireless device. In addition, the wireless device may assess the acquired information for suitability for communications to be carried out by the wireless device. | 12-15-2011 |
20110306365 | Screening Terminal Positions at a Terminal - It is disclosed an apparatus, a method and a computer program for determining, at a terminal, whether at least one terminal position associated with a coverage area of a communication node shall be discarded or reported to allow at least one of said coverage area and said communication node to be characterized at least partially based on said at least one reported terminal position. | 12-15-2011 |
20120009949 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LOCATING WIMAX OR LTE SUBSCRIBER STATIONS - A system and method for estimating a location of a subscriber station receiving a first signal from a first base station and receiving a second signal from a second base station where the first and second base stations are nodes in a WiMAX or LTE network. A message may be received from the subscriber station containing first and second information, and a range ring determined from the first base station using the first information. A location hyperbola may be determined using the second information wherein the location hyperbola has the first and second base stations as foci. A location of the subscriber station may be estimated using the range ring and the location hyperbola. | 01-12-2012 |
20120009950 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LOCATING WIMAX OR LTE SUBSCRIBER STATIONS - A system and method for estimating a location of a subscriber station receiving a first signal from a first base station and receiving a second signal from a second base station where the first and second base stations are nodes in a WiMAX or LTE network. A message may be received from the subscriber station containing first and second information, and a range ring determined from the first base station using the first information. A location hyperbola may be determined using the second information wherein the location hyperbola has the first and second base stations as foci. A location of the subscriber station may be estimated using the range ring and the location hyperbola. | 01-12-2012 |
20120028655 | RADIO COMMUNICATION DEVICES, INFORMATION PROVIDERS, METHODS FOR CONTROLLING A RADIO COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING AN INFORMATION PROVIDER - In an embodiment, a radio communication device may be provided. The radio communication device may include a first receiver configured to receive from a first cell first data representing a content encoded using a first codec; a second receiver configured to receive from a second cell second data representing the content encoded using a second codec; and a combiner configured to combine the first data and the second data. | 02-02-2012 |
20120040696 | METHODS OF PROVIDING CELL GROUPING FOR POSITIONING AND RELATED NETWORKS AND DEVICES - A method of grouping cells of a radio communications network may include defining first and second groups of cells from a plurality of cells that transmit reference signals for positioning measurements. The first and second groups of cells may be defined according to a characteristic of the reference signals transmitted by the respective cells and/or of the respective cells that transmit the reference signals. Reference signals used for positioning measurements from the cells of the first group may be measured at a positioning target device. Reference signals used for positioning measurements from the cells of the second group may be measured at the positioning target device separately in time and/or separately in frequency from measuring the reference signals from the cells ( | 02-16-2012 |
20120064921 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MOBILE TRACKING, COMMUNICATIONS AND ALERTING - A moblie device that can optionally communicate with a server, the mobile device including latitude/longitude determining capabilities, a display, a data communication system and a power source. The mobile device can be used to communicate, provide location information, track an individual, as well as allow alerting, such in a case of an emergency. This location information could be accompanied with one or more of video information, audio information, multimedia information, and pictures taken by the mobile device. The mobile devices also allow inner-communicability among the devices such as text messaging, chat, voice communications, and the like. The capabilities of the mobile device can also be used to determine if the device has traversed a geo-fence, or defined electronic perimeter, with the crossing of the perimeter capable of triggering special functionality such as the turning on of the mobile device, or smart phone, sending an alert, altering functionality, or the like. | 03-15-2012 |
20120064922 | Accessory Device for Mobile Host Device - A method and apparatus for an accessory device for a mobile host device is disclosed. An accessory device for interfacing with a mobile host device includes a communication channel designed to establish a bi-directional communication link between the accessory device and the host device. In some embodiments, the accessory device allows walkie-talkie communication between an accessory device and a mobile host device as well as control by the accessory device of functions of the mobile host device. In some embodiments, the accessory device allows simplified speed dial control of a mobile phone host device. In other embodiments, accessory devices provide walkie-talkie communication with a mobile host device and provide positioning information to a mobile host device so that an application on the mobile host device can track locations of a plurality of accessory devices. These and other embodiments are more fully disclosed herein. | 03-15-2012 |
20120083292 | MOBILE PHONE COMPRISING ANTITHEFT FUNCTION AND ANTITHEFT METHOD THEREOF - A mobile phone with antitheft function and an antitheft method thereof are provided. The mobile phone enters antitheft mode if the mobile phone has not been moved outside a user's registered geographical range for more than a predetermined time period and outputs an alarm sound and transmits current location information and images photographed around the mobile phone if detecting a movement of the mobile phone so that a user can easily locate his mobile phone. Furthermore, the mobile phone does not allow anyone other than the user to move or use the mobile phone, and photographs the attempter, carries out face recognition based on the photographed image and outputs a predetermined alarm message. | 04-05-2012 |
20120108271 | APPARATUS AND METHOD USING RADIO SIGNALS - A method of using radio signals transmitted for reception by mobile user equipment that includes receiving, with mobile user equipment (UE), radio signals having at least one format; monitoring, with the mobile user equipment, at least one property of the received radio signals; identifying a pattern in said monitored property or properties; and in response to identifying said pattern, triggering at least one action according to the identified pattern, and/or providing the UE with an indication of a location of the UE based at least part of the identified pattern. | 05-03-2012 |
20120108272 | POSITION DETECTING SYSTEM AND POSITION DETECTING PROGRAM - A plurality of positional information transmitters | 05-03-2012 |
20120122492 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR UPDATING FEMTOCELL PROXIMITY INFORMATION - Techniques are described herein for updating proximity information associated with a femtocell in a wireless communication system. An example of a method described herein includes identifying a location within a wireless communication network, associating the location with a femtocell for which proximity information relating to position of the femtocell is maintained, performing at least one search for the femtocell, and updating the proximity information maintained for the femtocell based on results of the at least one search. Another example of a method described herein includes obtaining a report of proximity information relating to a femtocell, identifying one or more network devices for which the proximity information is relevant, and communicating proximity information update signaling to the one or more network devices. | 05-17-2012 |
20120122493 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, POSITION RECORDING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing device includes a main function unit which realizes main functions of the information processing device and is operated by being switched between a normal operation mode and a power-saving mode in which less power is consumed than in the normal operation mode, a position acquisition unit which acquires positional information indicating the current position, and a logging controller which causes a first storage unit to record movement trace information obtained by making the positional information acquired by the position acquisition unit correspond to the time when the positional information is acquired in the state where the main function unit is switched to the power-saving mode. | 05-17-2012 |
20120142378 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING LOCATION OF MOBILE DEVICE - A method for determining a location of a mobile device with reference to locations of a plurality of reference devices is disclosed. The mobile device receives ambient sound and provides ambient sound information to a server. Each reference device receives ambient sound and provides ambient sound information to the server. The ambient sound information includes a sound signature extracted from the ambient sound. The server determines a degree of similarity of the ambient sound information between the mobile device and each of the plurality of reference devices. The server determines the location of the mobile device to be a location of a reference device having the greatest degree of similarity. | 06-07-2012 |
20120157127 | HANDHELD ELECTRONIC DEVICE USING STATUS AWARENESS - Through status awareness, a handheld communications device may determine the location, activity, and/or physical or emotional state of the user. This information may in turn be used for various purposes, such as 1) determining how to alert the user of an incoming communication, 2) determining what format to use for communicating with the user, and 3) determining how to present the user's status to another person's communication device. | 06-21-2012 |
20120157128 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION TERMINAL - A wireless communication terminal includes a communication status measurement element for measuring communication status data representing a communication status of the self terminal at the time of wireless communications; a reference data storage element for storing respective pieces of preset reference data representing communication statuses of a terminal which can be measured at respective locations at the time of wireless communications, in association with respective pieces of location data identifying the respective locations, and a location specifying element for comparing the communication status data measured by the communication status measurement element with the respective pieces of reference data stored in the reference data storage element, and based on the comparison result, specifying a location corresponding to the location data associated with a particular piece of reference data as a location of the self terminal. | 06-21-2012 |
20120172060 | DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD AND MOBILE DEVICE ADAPTED THERETO - A method and a mobile device are adapted to transmit data through short-range communication based on movement of the mobile device. External mobile devices near the mobile device are searched. Location information for each external mobile device found near the mobile device is acquired. Data to be transmitted is set. The movement of the mobile device is recognized. At least one target mobile device is set to receive data, based on the movement of the mobile device and the acquired location information of the found external mobile devices. And the data is transmitted to the at least one target mobile device. | 07-05-2012 |
20120178476 | DETERMINING THE LAST LOCATION OF LOST AND STOLEN PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICES WHEN WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS ACCESS TO THE LOST OR STOLEN DEVICES IS LOST OR INTERMITTENT - The last known location of a lost or stolen device can be determined based on the device's last communication with a wireless data network. A portable device can be set up to communicate its location to a server after it obtains a wireless connection to a wireless data network and registers a most recent location with the server. A device can be set up to communicate its location based on at least one of communication with wireless data network hardware or portable device GPS location determined after the device obtains a wireless connection to a wireless data network. Location is stored until a subsequent location is registered in the server. The server can be programmed to send at least one of “lost” message, ringtone, lock code and wipe command to a lost or stolen portable device. The server can be programmed to provide map location information for the last known location of the lost portable device. | 07-12-2012 |
20120178477 | CONTINUOUS DATA OPTIMIZATION OF NEW ACCESS POINTS IN POSITIONING SYSTEMS - Methods and systems of continuously optimizing data in WiFi positioning systems. A location-based services system uses WiFi-enabled devices to monitor WiFi access points in a target area to indicate whether a WiFi access point is newly-observed. A WiFi-enabled device communicates with WiFi access points within range of the WiFi-enabled device so that observed WiFi access points identify themselves. A reference database is accessed to obtain information specifying a recorded location for each observed WiFi access point in the target area. Observed WiFi access points for which the reference database has no information specifying a corresponding recorded location are identified. The recorded location information for each of the observed WiFi access points is used to calculate the position of the WiFi-enabled device. The reference database is informed of the WiFi access points (for which there was no information in the database) and is provided the calculated position in conjunction therewith. | 07-12-2012 |
20120214518 | PORTABLE TERMINAL AND MANAGING METHOD OF IMAGE TAKEN BY PORTABLE TERMINAL - A portable terminal of the present invention enables a user to easily transfer an image photographed with the portable terminal to a personal computer or a portable terminal of another user by comprising: a transfer mode setting unit which is able to set an automatic transfer mode or a manual transfer mode; a display unit which displays image data and the transfer mode set by the transfer mode setting unit; a wireless communication unit which transfers the image data to an address through wireless communication; and a control unit which controls the wireless communication unit so that the image data may be stored at a storage unit and automatically transferred to the address preset by a user if the automatic transfer mode is set in the transfer mode setting unit. | 08-23-2012 |
20120225676 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR PROCESSING RECEIVED SIGNALS FOR LOCATING - Example embodiments are directed to various aspects of processing received signals for determining a location of a source of the signals. An example method may include generating signal timing information, and determining times for a plurality of window periods for the signal of interest based on the signal timing information. The example method may also include retrieving, from a memory device that stores the signal stream, symbols of the signal of interest based on the window periods, and formatting the symbols of the signal of interest in preparation for determining a location of a source of the signal of interest. Additional and alternative methods and apparatuses are also provided. | 09-06-2012 |
20120225677 | SYNCHRONIZING MOBILE AND VEHICLE DEVICES - Location information is received at a mobile device from the memory of a vehicle device. The mobile device is updated based on the location information. Sensor data is received from at least one sensor measuring movement of the mobile device, and an estimated location of the mobile device is calculated based at least in part on the location information and the sensor data. | 09-06-2012 |
20120238298 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING POSITIONS - Systems and methods for detecting positions are provided. First, a reference point is recorded by a first mobile device. Then, a movement, an acceleration, and an orientation of the first mobile device are detected by at least one sensor. Then, after a predetermined time interval, a relative displacement between the reference point and the first mobile device is calculated according to the predetermined time interval, and the data detected by the at least one sensor, and the relative displacement to the first mobile device is transmitted to a second mobile device. | 09-20-2012 |
20120252502 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CORRECTION METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus that conducts positioning on the basis of received signal strength indications obtained from access points, includes, a contact information detector that detects contact information between the information processing apparatus and a dielectric body, a recording module that stores a gain table including gain data corresponding to obtained contact information, a gain data correcting unit that extracts the gain data corresponding to the contact information obtained by the contact information detector from the gain table of the recording module and corrects gain by using the extracted gain data, and a positioning module that conducts the positioning by using the gain obtained by the correcting unit and the received signal strength indications. | 10-04-2012 |
20120252503 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PASSIVELY DETERMINING OWN POSITION LISTENING TO WIRELESS TIME SYNCHRONIZATION COMMUNICATIONS - The system and method of the present invention provides a mobile node (e.g., target), such as an aircraft, vehicle or mobile piece of equipment, the ability to determine its own position by passively listening to wireless time synchronization communications, such as IEEE 1588 Precision Time Protocol (PTP) messages, exchanged between nodes over a wireless network. | 10-04-2012 |
20120270571 | ANNOTATING ELECTRONIC DATA WITH GEOGRAPHIC LOCATIONS - Embodiments of the present invention provide an approach for annotating electronic data with geographic locations. Specifically, a first geographic location of a device (e.g., a camera, a cellular/smart phone, etc.) can be determined using technology such as GPS technology, a wireless Internet signal, and/or a cellular signal. Then, a motion detector associated with the device (e.g., integrated with the device, carried by a user of the device, etc.) will determine a positional difference of the device from the first geographic location (e.g., by detecting a series of movements of the device from the first geographic location). Based on the first geographic location and the positional difference, a second geographic location will be determined/computed. Thereafter, a set of electronic data available to the device (e.g., on the device's internal memory, on a removable memory card inserted into the device, etc.) can be annotated/tagged with the second geographic location. In one embodiment, the second geographic location may only be annotated to the electronic data that was captured/received at the second geographic location. | 10-25-2012 |
20120270572 | NETWORK-SIDE POSITIONING OCCASION ADJUSTMENT VIA ASSISTANCE DATA ADJUSTMENT - A network node ( | 10-25-2012 |
20120276932 | HANDHELD ELECTRONIC DEVICE USING STATUS AWARENESS - Through status awareness, a handheld communications device may determine the location, activity, and/or physical or emotional state of the user. This information may in turn be used for various purposes, such as 1) determining how to alert the user of an incoming communication, 2) determining what format to use for communicating with the user, and 3) determining how to present the user's status to another person's communication device. | 11-01-2012 |
20120295641 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND LOCATION DETERMINATION METHOD - A detection unit detects an error of second location information by designating first location information periodically or aperiodically acquired on the basis of information from an artificial satellite, designating the second location information periodically or aperiodically acquired on the basis of information from a base station serving as a connection target, and comparing the second location information to the first or second location information acquired at a timing before an acquisition time of the second location information on a time axis. A determination unit determines a current location based on the first or second location information, and determines the current location based on other location information specified by a base station related to the second location information when the first location information has not been acquired at a timing of the determination and the error of the second location information acquired at the timing of the determination has been detected. | 11-22-2012 |
20120295642 | POSITIONING TIME INTERVAL CONTROL DEVICE AND POSITIONING TIME INTERVAL CONTROL METHOD - A positioning time interval control device for controlling a time interval for measuring a position includes an obtaining unit configured to obtain a movement state and a movement speed of a mobile terminal, and a positioning time interval setting unit configured to set the time interval for measuring the position of the mobile terminal and a time interval for outputting position information derived from the measurement based on the movement state and the movement speed of the mobile terminal obtained by the obtaining unit. The positioning time interval setting unit changes the time intervals when the movement state and/or the movement speed of the mobile terminal is changed. At the time interval set by the positioning time interval setting unit, the mobile terminal obtains the position information of the mobile terminal and outputs the position information. | 11-22-2012 |
20120302262 | Method and process for activating a telematics device without a pre-activated MDN - The described principles provide a method and system for circumventing the use of live MDNs and nongeographic prefixes in new vehicle-hosted telematics devices, while allowing the purchaser/user convenient use of the vehicle-hosted telematics device. The telematics unit is programmed or configured from the manufacturer with the same parameters as a cancelled or deactivated unit, with a cleared number for re-acquisition. A geographically specific MIN/MDN is later programmed into the device based on one or more preset locational and other VDU triggers. | 11-29-2012 |
20120302263 | ESTIMATING ACCESS TERMINAL LOCATION BASED ON UPLINK SIGNALS - A location of an access terminal is estimated based on uplink signals that a plurality of femto cells receive from the access terminal. The transmit power of the access terminal may be adjusted in some cases to facilitate the reception of signals at the femto cells during a location determination operation. In some embodiments, a location of an access terminal is estimated based on relative path loss values derived from the signals received by the femto cells. | 11-29-2012 |
20120309430 | METHOD FOR IMPROVING DISCOVERY OF PREFERRED MOBILE COMPUTING LOCATIONS - A method for improving discovery of preferred mobile computing locations includes monitoring sensor data corresponding to a mobile computing device (MCD) and monitoring non-GPS network data implemented by the mobile computing device. Additionally, the method determines whether sensor data and non-GPS network data indicate that the mobile computing device is stationary within a cell site as well as scanning any network that the mobile computing device is electronically linked to. In short, the method discovers an improved preferred mobile computing location based on the sensor data and non-GPS network data that provide reliable information that the mobile computing device is stationary within the cell site. The sensor data and non-GPS network data are converged when several corresponding scans produce overlapping results. | 12-06-2012 |
20120309431 | GEOGRAPHICAL DETERMINATION OF COVERAGE IN COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS - A method of determining geographical determination of coverage in a mobile communications system by obtaining measurement data provided by a plurality of mobile terminals the method comprising the steps of: requesting terminal capability information from the subscriber terminals in a cell; obtaining the terminal capability information from the subscriber terminals; comparing the terminal capability information with capability requirement information; selecting selected subscriber terminals on the basis of their capability information; sending a trace activation command to the selected subscriber terminals; and receiving measurement data measured by the selected subscriber terminals. | 12-06-2012 |
20120309432 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRACKING STOLEN COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, AND COMMUNICATION TERMINAL - A system and method for tracking a stolen communication terminal and a communication terminal provide tracking of a thief. The system comprises: a communication terminal and a standby server for receiving theft tracking information; the communication terminal comprises: a radio frequency module, a camera for taking pictures, a storage module for storing data, a baseband module for setting anti-theft protection information, and a GPS module for obtaining current positioning information; wherein the radio frequency module, the camera, the storage module and the GPS module are connected with the baseband module. When the communication terminal is stolen, facial pictures of the thief obtained by the camera and current positioning information of the communication terminal obtained by the GPS module are sent to a standby server. | 12-06-2012 |
20120315928 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND LOCATION MEASUREMENT METHOD - A mobile terminal and a location measurement method that can reduce measurement loads on the terminal. A GPS positioning unit performs location measurement in predetermined cycles or in accordance with user instructions. In performing the measurement, a control unit determines a movement state of the mobile terminal. The control unit, when determining that the mobile terminal is in a stationary state and the mobile terminal has not moved from a most recently measured location by referring to state information stored in a state information management table, can cause the location information storage table to store therein the most recently measured location stored in the location information storage table as a current location of the mobile terminal. | 12-13-2012 |
20120322465 | LOCATION-BASED NETWORK DETECTION - A mobile device establishes communication with a number of wireless cellular networks at particular locations and records the locations and network information associated with the wireless cellular networks. The network information can be used to narrow a search for an available wireless cellular network from a plurality of potentially available wireless cellular networks when the mobile device is operating at a stored location. In one aspect, a Radio Frequency (RF) receiver on a mobile device can receive a broadcast radio signal from a transmitter and use the signal to determine an approximate location of the device based on a known location of the transmitter. A match between the approximate device location and wireless cellular network transmitters in communication range of the mobile device can be used to narrow a search for wireless cellular networks. | 12-20-2012 |
20130012241 | ACCESSORY DEVICE FOR MOBILE HOST DEVICE - A method and apparatus for an accessory device for a mobile host device is disclosed. An accessory device for interfacing with a mobile host device includes a communication channel designed to establish a bi-directional communication link between the accessory device and the host device. In some embodiments, the accessory device allows walkie-talkie communication between an accessory device and a mobile host device as well as control by the accessory device of functions of the mobile host device. In some embodiments, the accessory device allows simplified speed dial control of a mobile phone host device. In other embodiments, accessory devices provide walkie-talkie communication with a mobile host device and provide positioning information to a mobile host device so that an application on the mobile host device can track locations of a plurality of accessory devices. These and other embodiments are more fully disclosed herein. | 01-10-2013 |
20130035118 | MOBILE WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND A COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - A mobile wireless communication device that wirelessly communicates with a base station that provides wireless communication service includes a location information storage unit configured to store a location information, a content storage unit configured to store the content, a history storage unit configured to store history information, a determination unit configured to determine a possibility of transition from a current base station to in an outside zone of the wireless communication service, and an updating unit configured to acquire a content from the location information storage unit by using wireless communication service that is provided by the current base station, so as to update content of the content storage unit, when the determination unit determines that there is a possibility of transition to the state that the mobile wireless communication device is in the outside zone of the wireless communication service. | 02-07-2013 |
20130035119 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND MOBILE TERMINAL - A mobile communication system is disclosed. An area information management server sends area information indicating a communicable peripheral area of a location where a mobile terminal exists, and out-of-service information indicating outside of an accessible region, to the mobile terminal. In the mobile terminal, a generating part generates a moving route and moving projection information. A planning part makes a plan for communication execution indicating a communication term in which the mobile terminal communicates with a base station and an interruption term in which the mobile terminal is outside of the accessible region, based on the moving projection information, and the area information and the out-of-service information. A suspension indicating part indicates suspending or restarting the communication of the mobile terminal and a communication partner before and after the interruption term indicated by the plan. A communication part communicates with the base station in accordance with the plan. | 02-07-2013 |
20130045759 | Method and System for Providing Enhanced Location Based Information for Wireless Handsets - Methods, devices and systems for generating enhanced location information on or about a mobile device may include hybrid lateration and/or trilateration solutions in which the mobile device performs location determination calculations with or without the aid or support of network components or global positioning systems (GPS). Mobile devices may automatically form groups based on proximity and/or may be grouped together via a network server. Mobile devices in a group may share computed location information and/or information collected from internal sensors with other grouped mobile devices. Information shared between grouped mobile devices may be used to enhance the location information computed on each mobile device. For example, each mobile device may supplement and/or augment previously computed location information based on the received location information and/or relative positions of other mobile devices in the same group. Each mobile device may also utilize local sensors to further enhance their location information. | 02-21-2013 |
20130045760 | Geo-Fence Entry and Exit Notification System - A method is provided for determining when a mobile communications device has crossed a geo-fence. The method comprises (a) providing a mobile communications device ( | 02-21-2013 |
20130059609 | Mobile Device Battery Management - In general, the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods, systems, and program products. Data representing a plurality of power management profiles for a battery-operated wireless computing device are stored on the device. The power management profiles correspond to different power consumption levels. Each power management profile defines a feature for determining a geographic location of the device from among a plurality of features that are available for determining the geographic location of the device, and a frequency for employing the feature to determine the geographic location of the device. A first battery level of the device is determined. If the determined battery level is lower than a first predetermined amount, the device switches from a first power management profile having a first consumption level to a second power management profile having a second consumption level that is lower than the first consumption level. | 03-07-2013 |
20130059610 | Methods and Apparatus for Supporting Inter-Frequency Measurements - The invention relates to methods and devices for supporting configuration of a measurement gap pattern for a user equipment ( | 03-07-2013 |
20130065615 | LOCATION MEASURING METHOD AND APPARATUS USING ACCESS POINT FOR WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORK SERVICE - A method and apparatus for measuring a location of a communication terminal using an access point for a wireless local area network service is provided. The method includes storing access point information collected at each location, extracting information of nearby access points collected together at a location, where information of a reference access point is collected, from the access point information, calculating a barycentric coordinate using location coordinates of the extracted nearby access points, and determining the calculated barycentric coordinate as a final location of the communication terminal. | 03-14-2013 |
20130079039 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REFINING ACCURACY OF LOCATION POSITIONING - To accurately determine the location of mobile device a multi-phase procedure incorporating mapping and location determination phases is suggested, wherein covered area estimation comprises (i) estimation of base station location, (ii) estimation of transmission range, (iii) estimation of signal map and/or (iv) estimation of area type. The actual location of the mobile device ( | 03-28-2013 |
20130084892 | Methods and Arrangements for Proximity Detection - A method in a network node for enabling proximity detection is presented. The network node is comprised in a wireless communications network and serves a wireless device. According to the method, the network node obtains a fingerprint of a CSG cell, or of an inter-frequency cell. The network node then transmits the fingerprint to the wireless device, thereby enabling the wireless device to determine when it is in the proximity of the cell. | 04-04-2013 |
20130095861 | Location Determination - Techniques for determining a location of a device include estimating a mobility trace of the device, mapping the mobility trace to a map, and determining the location of the device based on the mapped mobility trace. The mobility trace may be estimated based on a reading obtained from the device, which may be a reading from an accelerometer and/or magnetometer sensor. The determined location of the device may correspond to a location on the mapped mobility trace. | 04-18-2013 |
20130102332 | CHANGING THE ORIENTATION OF A USER BASED AT LEAST IN PART ON TRANSMIT POWER - Implementations and techniques for changing the orientation of a user of a mobile communication device based at least in part on transmit power are generally discussed. The change in orientation of the user may reduce radiation absorbed by the user. | 04-25-2013 |
20130109413 | Providing and utilizing maps in location determination based on RSSI and RTT data | 05-02-2013 |
20130115975 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL AND LOCATION SYSTEM SELECTION METHOD - A mobile communication terminal ( | 05-09-2013 |
20130130724 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE CAPABLE OF EFFICIENT NETWORK SEARCH - A wireless communication device is disclosed that is capable of performing efficient network searching. Specifically, by utilizing its location information and accessing stored cell information, the device can streamline searching. Further, if a full search is to be performed, the device receives information from multiple radio access technologies together, and processes the received information digitally in order to search the individual radio access technologies. In addition, the device is capable of performing efficient 4G searches by setting its RF module to capture information of multiple raster points simultaneously within a search band, and shifting the search band so as not to duplicatively search raster points. | 05-23-2013 |
20130130725 | DEAD RECKONING USING PROXIMITY SENSORS - Various arrangements for limiting inaccuracy of dead reckoning are presented. Proximity data may be collected using a plurality of proximity sensors of a mobile device. A position of the mobile device may be determined in relation to a user using the proximity data. Whether to determine a location of the mobile device using a dead reckoning technique may be determined at least partially based on the position of the mobile device in relation to the user | 05-23-2013 |
20130137465 | HANDSET AGENT CALIBRATION FOR TIMING BASED LOCATING SYSTEMS - The systems and methods disclosed herein can implement a handset agent calibration solution that uses the GPS receivers on mobile devices to determine a location of the mobile device to calibrate timing based locating systems. The handset agent can be installed on the mobile device and can upload to an internet server the coordinates captured by the GPS receiver along with the observed time differences. The observed time differences and the location of the mobile device can be used to solve for reference time differences to calibrate unsynchronized macrocells. The reference time difference can be used to solve for the location of other mobile devices if the observed time differences between that mobile device and the macrocells are known. The solution can include receiving measurement reports from many mobile devices to obtain averaged observed time differences at a reference location to achieve more accurate reference time differences. | 05-30-2013 |
20130143603 | INFERRING POSITIONS WITH CONTENT ITEM MATCHING - Embodiments infer position information using captured content items. A computing device such as a mobile computing or a cloud service analyzes one or more content items to generate information describing the content items. For content items that include photographs, for example, the photographs are processed to identify faces, objects, places, text, etc. The generated information is compared to reference content items (e.g., image comparison), user data (e.g., calendar data, contact information, etc.), and/or public data (e.g., address information, event information, etc.) to identify at least one match. Location information associated with the matched reference content items, user data, and/or public data is obtained. A position is determined for the content items based on the location information obtained from the matched reference content item, user data, and/or public data. In some embodiments, the obtained location information is used to refine a position determined using a beacon-based positioning service. | 06-06-2013 |
20130165158 | Computational Systems and Methods for Locating a Mobile Device - Systems and methods are described relating to determining a specified time period of non-movement in a mobile device and presenting an indication of location of the mobile device at least partially based on the specified time period of non-movement. Additionally, systems and methods are described relating to means for determining a specified time period of non-movement in a mobile device and means for presenting an indication of location of the mobile device at least partially based on the specified time period of non-movement. | 06-27-2013 |
20130172019 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING POSITION OF A WIRELESS DEVICE - A method and apparatus for determining the location of a device capable of receiving/transmitting wireless signals from/to reference stations is provided, for example providing wireless signals in the form of range information to the device; determining a region or area surrounding each reference station, wherein regions intersect to form intersecting spaces; defining the intersecting spaces to delineate a device location search space and determining device locations within the search space; determining combinations of said device locations, and using a distribution analysis test to examine a skewness value of each combination; detecting and selecting the combinations of device positions that result in a minimum skewness value or simply a combination that provides skewness value less than a pre-defined minimum threshold value; and utilizing the detected and selected combinations to determine a refined final position of the device. | 07-04-2013 |
20130184012 | Radio model updating - The subject matter disclosed herein relates to systems, methods, apparatuses, devices, articles, and means for updating radio models. For certain example implementations, a method for one or more server devices may comprise receiving at one or more communication interfaces at least one measurement that corresponds to a position of a first mobile device within an indoor environment. At least one radio model that is stored in one or more memories may be updated based, at least in part, on the at least one measurement to produce at least one updated radio model. The at least one radio model and the at least one updated radio model may correspond to the indoor environment. The at least one updated radio model may be transmitted to enable a second mobile device to use the at least one updated radio model for positioning within the indoor environment. Other example implementations are described herein. | 07-18-2013 |
20130190018 | DETERMINING VIRTUAL LOCATION BASED UPON SCANNED WIRELESS SIGNALS - A method for determining proximity of two or more mobile units within a defined locale is disclosed. Each of the mobile units is operable to scan at least a portion of the locale associated with the scanning one of the mobile units. The presence of the ones of the plurality of wireless devices is detected within the associated portion of the locale, detecting receiving the unique information from the detected ones of the plurality of wireless devices or device IDs. The received information is formed into a wireless fingerprint and transmitted to a server, which has a database of stored wireless fingerprints that are compared to the received fingerprint and a determination made as to the stored wireless fingerprints within the locale. The relative proximity position of the mobile devices associated with stored wireless fingerprints within the locale is then determined and are transmitted to the scanning one thereof. | 07-25-2013 |
20130225208 | Wireless Communication Device Capable of Accurately Performing Position Estimations - A wireless communication device capable of more accurately estimating its location in an indoor environment is disclosed. In an indoor environment, the wireless communication device may seek to generate a fingerprint map so as to later identify its location within the environment. However, the map requires the device to at least estimate its current position. Therefore, the device includes one or more sensors to identify each of a bearing and a speed of the device. For example, the speed may be determined based on sensed steps and a stored step length. This information may then be used to estimate the device's location as it moves through the indoor environment. | 08-29-2013 |
20130225209 | Wireless Communication Device Capable of Performing Enhanced Fingerprint Mapping and Location Identification - A wireless communication device capable of determining its location in an indoor environment is disclosed. In an indoor environment, a wireless communication device may have insufficient access to GNSS satellites or cellular towers to make an accurate determination as to its location. Therefore, the wireless communication device generates a fingerprint map of the environment by estimating its position and scanning multiple positions within the environment for accessible access points and characteristics. The device stores this information in memory, which it can later refer to for determining its current position. | 08-29-2013 |
20130237255 | MOBILE TERMINAL WITH ELECTRONIC COMPASS, AND ORIENTATION CALCULATION METHOD - A mobile terminal with electronic compass is provided with a first housing that houses a geomagnetic sensor, a second housing connected to the first housing, with relative position thereto being variable, a state detection unit that detects a relative position state between the first housing and the second housing, an offset correction initial value storage unit that stores an offset correction initial value for each of a plurality of relative position states detected by the state detection unit, and an offset correction value determination unit that determines whether the offset correction value calculated by a calibration unit is valid or invalid. The offset correction value determination unit, in a case of determining that the offset correction value calculated by the calibration unit is valid, updates the offset correction value as the offset correction initial value corresponding to the relative position state, and stores the offset correction initial value in the offset correction initial value storage unit. | 09-12-2013 |
20130244700 | MOBILE DEVICE AND INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS - Magnetic field sensors of mobile devices are used for providing the mobile devices with information at a locally extremely restricted area in that, specifically, a magnetic field modulated with the information is locally generated at this position by an information signal generator. | 09-19-2013 |
20130267259 | MECHANISM FOR REDUCING TIME AWAY FROM PACKET SWITCHED OPERATION IN A SINGLE RADIO SOLUTION - A single radio wireless communications device is contemplated in which the user equipment (UE) operates according to more than one radio access technology. The UE may operate preferentially according to a first radio access technology, and may switch to a different radio access technology at predetermined intervals to check for incoming calls. An error unit within the UE may provide frequency error estimates to a GPS unit during operation according to the first radio access technology based upon signals received in the first radio access technology, unless any time spent in the different radio access technology is longer that a predetermined duration. In response to the predetermined duration being met, the error unit may provide the frequency error estimation to the GPS unit based upon signals received in the different radio access technology. | 10-10-2013 |
20130295969 | MECHANISM TO REDUCE MISSING BREACH DETECTION IN GEOFENCING SOLUTION - A system and method for a mobile device to efficiently use a geofence capability without draining its battery, and to allow flexibility in specifying various parameters related to geofencing, such as the latency and confidence in determining when or where a geofence breach occurs, and reducing the probability of not detecting a geofence breach. | 11-07-2013 |
20130295970 | GEOFENCE BREACH CONFIDENCE - A system and method for a mobile device to efficiently use a geofence capability without draining its battery, and to allow flexibility in specifying various parameters related to geofencing, such as the latency and confidence in determining when or where a geofence breach occurs, and reducing the probability of not detecting a geofence breach. | 11-07-2013 |
20130316742 | Method and apparatus for transmitting indoor context information - The subject matter disclosed herein relates to a system and method for determining indoor context information relating to a location of a mobile device. Indoor context information may be utilized by a mobile device or a network element to obtain an estimate of a location of the mobile device within an indoor environment. | 11-28-2013 |
20130324163 | Obtaining timing of LTE wireless base stations using aggregated OTDOA assistance data - An apparatus and method for calculating time offsets for imperceptible base stations, which include base stations that have limited or no communication with a mobile station are presented. Time offsets for the imperceptible base stations are computed using transmit time offset information for a plurality of base station pairs received from a non-carrier base station almanac. A time offset between the mobile device at a first location and a serving base station at a second location is also computed. The time offsets for the imperceptible base stations may then be computed using the received transmit time offsets of the plurality of base station pairs and the time offset between the mobile device and the serving base station. The non-carrier base station almanac is built using a mobile device that informs a non-carrier location server of observed time difference of arrival (OTDOA) assistance data it receives from a carrier's location server. | 12-05-2013 |
20130337847 | ADAPTIVE PASSIVE SCANNING AND/OR ACTIVE PROBING TECHNIQUES FOR MOBILE DEVICE POSITIONING - Various methods, apparatuses and/or articles of manufacture are provided which may be implemented to support mobile device positioning through the use of adaptive passive scanning and/or adaptive active probing techniques. For example, a mobile device may acquire signals from wireless transceivers, identify wireless transceivers based, at least in part, on the acquired signal(s), determine a received signal strength measurement for each of the wireless transceivers based, at least in part, on the acquired signal(s), and determine a transmission power of a probe signal to be transmitted to at least one of the wireless transceivers based, at least in part, on at least one of the received signal strength measurements. | 12-19-2013 |
20130337848 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION APPARATUSES, METHOD FOR PERFORMING SIGNAL RECEPTION QUALITY MEASUREMENTS AND METHOD FOR ASCERTAINING A MOVEMENT BY A MOBILE COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - A mobile communication apparatus is provided which has a receiver, an ascertainment device which is set up to ascertain whether the movement of the mobile communication apparatus is below a prescribed limit and a control device which is set up to prompt the receiver to perform a signal reception quality measurement on the basis of whether the movement of the mobile communication apparatus is below the prescribed limit. | 12-19-2013 |
20130337849 | MOBILE DEVICE POSITION DETECTION - A method may include calculating a first distance between first and second devices and determining a direction of a movement of the first device. The method may further include calculating a second distance between the first and second devices after the movement of the first device and determining the relative position of the first device with respect to the second device based on the direction of the movement, the first distance, and the second distance. | 12-19-2013 |
20130344901 | Methods and Apparatuses for Affecting A Motion Model Within a Mobile Device - Methods, apparatuses and articles of manufacture are provided which may be implemented, at least in part, in a mobile device and used to affect one or more motion models and/or the like based, at least in part, on one or more determined range rates for one or more wireless signals acquired from one or more terrestrial transmitters. Here, for example, a range rate may be determined based, at least in part, on a measured phase value and/or a measured Doppler value. | 12-26-2013 |
20130344902 | ADAPTIVE OUT OF SERVICE SCANNING - A method for selecting an out of service (OOS) scan mode for a wireless communication device is provided. The method can include the wireless communication device detecting occurrence of an OOS condition; setting a displacement threshold in response to the OOS condition; determining a displacement magnitude indicative of a distance traveled by the wireless communication device during the OOS condition; determining whether the displacement magnitude exceeds the displacement threshold; using a first scan mode to scan for network coverage in an instance in which it is determined that the displacement magnitude exceeds the displacement threshold; and using a second scan mode to scan for network coverage in an instance in which it is determined that the displacement magnitude does not exceed the displacement threshold. The first scan mode can have a greater scan frequency than the second scan mode. | 12-26-2013 |
20140004886 | Determining Suitability of an Access Network | 01-02-2014 |
20140004887 | CRYSTAL OSCILLATOR CALIBRATION | 01-02-2014 |
20140004888 | COMMUNICATION CONTROL APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION CONTROL SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD | 01-02-2014 |
20140018111 | LOCALIZATION METHOD EMPLOYING RADIO SIGNAL STRENGTH MEASUREMENTS OF ELECTRIC AND GAS METERS - Systems, methods, and devices for determining the geospatial position/location of a mobile device by using transmissions from surrounding wireless utility meters and prior knowledge of the locations of the surrounding meters. A mobile device may receive transmissions from a plurality of wireless utility meters, and determine signal strengths and meter identifiers of each of the plurality of wireless utility meters from the received transmissions. The signal strengths and meter identifiers may be compared to data records stored in a wireless utility meter signal signature database to identify a best match data record, which may include geographic coordinates that may be used by the mobile device to determine its current geospatial position and/or location. | 01-16-2014 |
20140038645 | ENHANCED PILOT SIGNAL RECEIVER - Briefly, in accordance with one embodiment, a method of adjusting for digital automatic gain control (DAGC) quantization error in a mobile station is as follows. A first DAGC value is stored before reception of one or more enhanced pilot signals. A second DAGC value is computed during reception of the one or more enhanced pilot signal. The first DAGC value is restored after reception of the one or more enhanced pilot signals is over. An advantage associated with this particular embodiment may include reduction in quantization error for digital automatic gain control. | 02-06-2014 |
20140038646 | INSTALLATION AND METHOD FOR LOCATING BY COUPLING OF AUTONOMOUS MEANS FOR MEASURING A DISPLACEMENT TO WIRELESS MEANS OF MEASUREMENT OF LOCATION DATA SUPPORTS - This method for locating a terminal ( | 02-06-2014 |
20140045537 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ENERGY EFFICIENT LOCATION SENSING - An apparatus for energy efficient location sensing of a mobile device, said apparatus comprising: An orientation sensing module for sensing the orientation of said mobile device; one or more location sensing modules for sensing the location of said mobile device, a control module for controlling said orientation sensing module such that it repeatedly senses the orientation of said mobile device, wherein said control module controls said one or more location sensing modules such that at least one of said one or more location sensing modules is switched on if said sensed orientation indicates an orientation change of said mobile device, wherein the frequency with which said orientation sensing module senses the orientation of said mobile device is changed depending on the time in accordance with the behaviour pattern of the user of said mobile device such that at a time where the behaviour pattern corresponds to a lower activity the sampling frequency is lower and at a time where the behaviour pattern corresponds to a higher activity the sampling frequency is higher. | 02-13-2014 |
20140057665 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL WITH DISTANCE AND SPEED SENSING FUNCTION AND SENSING METHOD - A method for sensing distance between a mobile communication terminal and a target object and speed value of the mobile communication terminal relative to the target object is provided. The method includes receiving an activating signal generated by an input unit, controlling a switching unit to connect an encoding/decoding unit to a wave guide pipe; sending the activating signal to the encoding/decoding unit; generating an encoded electromagnetic wave signal having a specific frequency band according to the activating signal by the encoding/decoding unit; transmitting the encoded electromagnetic wave signals to a target object and receiving the electromagnetic wave signal reflected by the target object by the wave guide pipe; calculating distance value between the mobile communication terminal and the target object and speed value of the mobile communication terminal relative to the target object; and outputting a result of the calculating. The mobile communication terminal is also provided. | 02-27-2014 |
20140073364 | METHOD OF OPERATING USER EQUIPMENT FOR PROVIDING MEASUREMENT REPORT IN UMTS - In a universal mobile telecommunications system, a radio access network includes multiple base stations for communicating with user equipment. The radio access network is configured to send the user equipment a measurement control message which includes configuration information and a location reporting indicator. The user equipment is configured to perform a minimization of drive test according to the configuration information, and provide location information along with the recorded measurement result according to the location reporting indicator. | 03-13-2014 |
20140087766 | TRANSMISSION SYSTEM, LOCATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF TRANSMITTING LOCATION DATA - A transmission system, a location management system, and a transmission method, each of which transmits first location data and second location data, respectively, from a first transmission device and a second transmission device, and receives, at the second transmission device, the first location data and terminal identification data that identifies a communication terminal, from the communication terminal that receives at least the first location data. | 03-27-2014 |
20140087767 | COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING COMMUNICATION TERMINAL CONTROL PROGRAM - A communication terminal, a communication method, and a communication terminal control program stored in a non-transitory recording medium, each of which receives, from a first transmission device, first location data indicating a location at which the first transmission device is located, and transmits the first location data and terminal identification data that identifies the communication terminal, to a second transmission device, which is a separate device from the first transmission device. | 03-27-2014 |
20140087768 | RECEIVER SYSTEM, LOCATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF RECEIVING LOCATION DATA - A receiver system, a location management system, and a receiving method, each of which transmits first location data from a first receiver device, and receives, at a second receiver device, the first location data and terminal identification data that identifies a communication terminal, from the communication terminal that receives at least the first location data. | 03-27-2014 |
20140087769 | System and Method for Proximity Detection - The present invention is for a system and method for determining the proximity of a mobile device to a location without the use of a satellite based or other location awareness system, nor a stationary beacon of any kind Instead, the mobile device monitors radio frequency broadcast identification codes from nearby mobile devices, and determines if the set of detected identification codes is sufficiently similar to a weighted set of identification codes attributed to specified location. If the calculation of similarity meets the confidence conditions of the system, notification is made that the customer or visitor has arrived. The invention utilizes a combination of confidence interval computation, machine learning, and fault tolerance mechanisms to optimize the success of correctly detecting that the device is near the relevant location. | 03-27-2014 |
20140094200 | ROTATION-TOLERANT DEVICES AND SCHEMES FOR PEDESTRIAN-DEAD-RECKONING (PDR) LOCATION DETERMINATION - Devices, systems, and methods are directed to the determination of current location information of a wireless communication device. Such devices, systems, and methods include a plurality of sensor elements configured to provide orientation parameter information, velocity and/or acceleration parameter information, and directional heading parameter information; a camera mechanism configured to capture images at predetermined intervals of a user's body as the user handles the wireless communication device; orientation logic configured to determine orientation change information attributable to the user's handling, based on the captured images, and provide orientation correction information; and location estimation logic configured to provide current location information based on previous location information, the velocity and/or acceleration parameter information, the directional heading parameter information and/or the orientation parameter information, and the orientation correction information. | 04-03-2014 |
20140099978 | Method and Apparatus for Connection Context Aware Radio Communication Management with Predictive Mobile Path - An information handling system includes a wireless adapter for communicating with a wireless link and a storage device for storing a spatial-temporal user profile comprising wireless device usage trend data for a location where the information handling system is operating. The information handling system further includes positional detector and an application processor that determines a trajectory estimation during a future time interval. The application processor correlates the wireless device usage trend date for a location in or near the trajectory estimation. | 04-10-2014 |
20140106789 | PROVIDING BASE STATION ALMANAC TO MOBILE STATION - The subject matter disclosed herein relates to a hierarchal base station almanac received at a mobile station. | 04-17-2014 |
20140120955 | TARGET ACCESS POINT RECOMMENDATION - Recommending a target access point is contemplated. The target access point recommendation may be used to recommend device connection to an access point having capabilities sufficient to facilitate access to electronic services, such as but not necessarily limited to recommending connection of a wireless device to a cellular or Wi-Fi capable access point. | 05-01-2014 |
20140120956 | DATA TRANSMISSON SYSTEM, DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD AND MOBILE ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A data transmission system, a data transmission method, and a mobile electronic device are provided. The data transmission system includes a first mobile electronic device and a server. The first mobile electronic device includes an orientation recognition module, a positioning unit, and a network communication module. When a user designates at least one shared data and performs a throw-like motion on the first mobile electronic device, the orientation recognition module is adapted for detecting a direction of the throw-like motion to produce direction information corresponding to the direction. The positioning unit obtains position information of the first mobile electronic device. The network communication module transmits the direction information, the position information, and the shared data to the server via a network. After receiving a transmission request from the first mobile electronic device, the server transmits the shared data to at least one second mobile electronic device according to the received. | 05-01-2014 |
20140135040 | Techniques for generating environment and reference data reports for particular environments on behalf of mobile devices - Various methods, apparatuses and/or articles of manufacture are provided which may be implemented using one or more fixed electronic devices to generate a reference data report corresponding to a particular environment. Various methods, apparatuses and/or articles of manufacture are provided which may be implemented using one or more mobile electronic devices to generate an environment report corresponding to a particular environment. | 05-15-2014 |
20140135041 | LOCATOR BEACON AND RADAR APPLICATION FOR MOBILE DEVICE - A locator device and system including (a) a beacon, configured to be located via a wireless means; and (b) an adhesive means, adapted to adhere the beacon to a substantially flat surface, wherein the beacon is configured to be tracked by a mobile device running a mobile application adapted to locate the beacon via the wireless means. | 05-15-2014 |
20140135042 | Locator Beacon and Radar Application for Mobile Device - A device, system and method for providing (a) a wireless communications component, configured to send and receive wireless signals such that the device is locatable via a wireless means; the wireless communications component including: (i) a Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) module for measuring signal strength of a wireless signal received at the wireless communications component, wherein the device is configured to be tracked by a mobile computing device (MCD) running a mobile application wherein the distance of the device from the MCD is calculated by the mobile application upon receiving between one and three RSSI values, measured by the RSSI module, and sent in a signal by the device to the MCD, wherein the distance is calculated based an average of the received RSSI values. | 05-15-2014 |
20140148202 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LOCATION ASSURANCE OF A MOBILE DEVICE - A method for forging location measurements at a wireless device can include determining, at the wireless device, a Cell-ID for a cell in a vicinity of a false location. The method can also include receiving, at the wireless device, an identification of a set of satellites that are within view from the false location. The method can further include generating, at the wireless device, forged location measurements that characterize satellite signals from a subset of the set of satellites that would be received at the false location. The method can still further include providing, from the wireless device, the forged location measurements. | 05-29-2014 |
20140155106 | MATCHING BASED ON GEOLOCATION INFORMATION FROM A MOBILE APPLICATION - Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for location matching. The method may include tracking, by the user equipment, a plurality of locations of the user equipment, the plurality of locations mapped to a plurality of time values representative of when the user equipment traversed the plurality of locations; determining, by the user equipment, a first location of the user equipment, wherein the determining is based on a first time value received from an interface; providing, by the user equipment, at least one of the determined first location and the received first time value to a database searchable based on the at least one of the determined first location and the received first time value; and receiving, at the user equipment, an indication of whether the database includes one or more items matching the at least one of the determined first location and the received first time value. Related systems, methods, and articles of manufacture are also disclosed. | 06-05-2014 |
20140155107 | Tracking Apparatus - An apparatus is provided for gaming or for other purposes where tracking of the relative location of a plurality of individuals can be used which includes for each person a wireless network device connected to a network. Each device detects a current location of the device while being carried for communication to a server arranged to communicate through the network with each of the devices having a downloaded program to obtain repeatedly an indication of the current location of the device. The server detects from the current locations when any two or more of the devices are within a predetermined distance and communicates to at least one of the devices when the location is within said predetermined distance. The signal can be used to trigger various events including actions in a gaming situation. | 06-05-2014 |
20140162701 | MOBILE DEVICE LOCATION FINDER - Methods and apparatuses for mobile device location finding are disclosed. In one example, an event notification is received at a first device. A location of the first device is determined responsive to the notification, and the location of the first device is correlated to a location of a second device. The location of the second device is indicated on a user viewable display. | 06-12-2014 |
20140162702 | Decentralized Location Triangulation System and Data Transfer Protocol - Systems and methods for distributed location determination are disclosed. Mobile computing devices within proximity of one another can exchange signals to determine relative physical locations. Such signals include signals for determining proximity or distances that can be used by the mobile computing devices to triangulate the relative positions of the mobile computing devices. The signals can also include unique identifiers that can be used to associate a determined position with a particular mobile computing device. The mobile computing devices share their own location information and location information for other known mobile computing devices to distribute the location determination tasks. Data from stationary nodes and external positioning systems may be superimposed on the relative position determination to add external location references. The resolution of the external location references can be enhanced using the relative positions determined by the mobile computing devices. | 06-12-2014 |
20140162703 | MOBILE DEVICE FOR ESTIMATING LOCATION USING PARTICLE FILTER GENERATED BASED ON THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) MAGNETIC FIELD MAP AND METHOD USING SAID MOBILE DEVICE - A mobile device includes a magnetic field sensor configured to measure a magnetic field value at a location of the mobile device, and a memory configured to store first magnetic field maps corresponding to a number N of respective heights. The mobile device includes a magnetic field map deriving unit configured to derive second magnetic field maps corresponding to a number M of respective heights based on the first magnetic field maps, the number M being greater than the number N, and a location determining unit configured to determine the location of the mobile device based on the magnetic field value and the second magnetic field maps. | 06-12-2014 |
20140162704 | METHOD OF DETERMINING POSITION OF TERMINAL IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEM USING MULTIPLE BEAMS - A method of determining a position of a terminal in a communication system using multiple beams is provided. The method includes receiving a first beam from a first point, receiving a second beam from a second point, and determining a position of the terminal by use of information about the first beam and information about the second beam, so that in a case in which two or more effective beams are received in a system using multiple beams, the position of the terminal is determined by use of the angle of a beam, and information about coordinates of departure of a beam and/or coordinates of final arrival of a beam without using a positioning device, such as GPS. | 06-12-2014 |
20140171126 | LOCATION DATA REGRESSION - A server can receive, from a mobile device, a reference location and one or more measurements of signal from signal sources. Each signal source is associated with a signal source location in a location database. The server can use the measurements and the signal source locations to validate the reference location. The server can use the validated reference location to validate the signal source locations, including detecting moved signal sources. | 06-19-2014 |
20140171127 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR LOCATION BASED UPDATES IN A COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE - The location or changes in location of a communications device may be determined by various means, such as via a satellite navigation system, within the communications device. The location of the communications device may then be used to determine communication standard parameters needed for operation. Different countries may require different parameters for various applications, such as digital video broadcasting (DVB) and/or Bluetooth communication. The communications device may then configure itself to use the appropriate parameters for operation using the determined standards. The configuration information may be stored in the communications device. The communications device may comprise at least one radio wireless communication that may need to be updated. The wireless communication may comprise cellular communication, Internet access, and reception of audio and/or video broadcasts, where the audio/video broadcasts may be analog and/or digital. | 06-19-2014 |
20140171128 | HARVESTING COMMUNICATION PARAMETER OBSERVATIONS IN GNSS-DENIED ENVIRONMENTS - A method includes receiving location information from a mobile device, the location information indicating a location of a mobile device operating the mobile device in a global positioning navigation satellite system (GNSS)-location-denied environment. One or more communication parameters associated with communications between the mobile device and a network can be identified. The communication parameters can be associated with the location of the mobile device. The mobile device can provide the location information using a social networking site, for example, using a check-in feature or drop-down location menu. | 06-19-2014 |
20140187273 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ACCURACY CERTIFICATION OF GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATIONS ON A LAND TRACT - The current invention is a system and method for certifying GPS locations on a land tract using consumer devices having standard GPS chipsets. The system takes a plurality of readings from at least four satellites into one or more sample sets. A smoothing function is used to remove outlier GPS values and a circular plot of spatial positions made. A center location of the plot is then calculated and recorded. The process is repeated and then compared to the first center calculation. If the difference is less than a predetermined certification value, the position can be certified as accurate. Various features in a land tract can be certified to the predetermined accuracy. For example, using the process to certify or correct errors in a shapefile representing the land tract, physical markers placed on the land tract, or environmental features of a land tract to lessen environmental impact during development. | 07-03-2014 |
20140200037 | REGION DETERMINATION CONTROL - A method, in a mobile device, of controlling region determination by the mobile device, includes: determining a present pressure at the mobile device; determining, based on the present pressure and a reference pressure, that the mobile device moved from a first region to a second region within a structure, the first region and the second region being different regions of the structure and vertically displaced from each other; and performing region determination in response to determining that the mobile device moved from the first region to the second region. | 07-17-2014 |
20140213304 | MOBILE DEVICE FOR CREATING, MANAGING AND SHARING LOCATION INFORMATION - A method performed by a mobile device entails determining a current location of the mobile device, storing the current location as a breadcrumb (recorded) location of the mobile device, and performing an action with respect to the breadcrumb location when the mobile device has moved away from the breadcrumb location. The action may entail sharing the breadcrumb location with another device. Reverse geocoded address information may be provided for the breadcrumb locations. | 07-31-2014 |
20140213305 | Determining Path Traversed by a Mobile Communication Device - The invention provides a method and system for determining path traversed by a mobile communication device in an unobtrusive manner. The method involves providing a tower transition data involving identifying a set of GPS coordinates associated with a cellular network tower ID, and identifying the tail GPS coordinate and head GPS coordinate of consecutive cellular network tower IDs. Then the distance between the tail and head is estimated, based on which the sequence of cellular network tower IDs are determined, which provides the path traversed by the mobile communication device. | 07-31-2014 |
20140221022 | Grouping Ambient-Location Updates - In one embodiment, a method includes receiving location data from a mobile device associated with a user. The location data includes one or more location readings sent automatically and without manual input from the user. The method also includes representing the location data as one or more geo-location data points based at least in part on a distance between the location readings and the geo-location data points; and grouping one or more of the geo-location data points into one or more geo-location clusters based at least in part on a distance between each geo-location data point and a geo-location centroid of each geo-location cluster. | 08-07-2014 |
20140235280 | FOCUSED ASSISTANCE DATA FOR WIFI ACCESS POINTS AND FEMTOCELLS - Systems, apparatus and methods for reducing a long list of access points (APs) to a short list of access points are presented. Advantageously, a mobile device only need to search for access points on the short list thereby more quickly discovering access points, saving battery power, determining a position fix based on the discovered access points, and reducing a time to fix. Embodiments enable a mobile device to determine which access points should be detectable at a new location of the mobile device. Various embodiments comprise: (1) a linked database; (2) a grouped database; (3) an associated database; and (4) database feedback. | 08-21-2014 |
20140256363 | SYSTEM, SERVER AND METHOD CAPABLE OF DISPLAYING USER STATUS - A server includes a communication module, a database and a processor. The communication module receives identification information of a user of a mobile terminal and a movement status and a geographic position of the user from the mobile terminal. The processor determines real time traffic condition of the geographic position of the user according to the real time traffic information of the area where the user is located stored in the database and evaluates a time period to be spent from the geographic position of the user to the display terminal according to the movement status of the user and the real time traffic condition of the area. The communication module further transmits the geographic position of the user, the evaluated time period and the identification information of the user to the display terminal. A system including the server and a method of displaying a user status are also disclosed. | 09-11-2014 |
20140274161 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GEOTAGGING - Methods and apparatuses for performing geotagging referencing in both indoor and outdoor environments are presented. In some embodiments, a mobile device may record a digital media object comprising at least one digitally recorded event of a surrounding environment of the mobile device. The mobile device may obtain at least one geotagging datum, the at least one geotagging datum comprising at least one timing measurement from at least one reference source. The mobile device may determine a location of the digital media object using the at least one geotagging datum. The mobile device may then label the digital media object with the location of the digital media object. | 09-18-2014 |
20140274162 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO REDUCE HARMONIC INTERFERENCE OF BROADBAND WIRELESS DEVICES TO GPS RECEIVER - A technique for reducing interference in a GPS-equipped wireless device having a transmitter is provided. In doing so, a GPS signal is acquired, and it is determined whether the GPS signal contains valid GPS data, the GPS signal having a GPS frequency range. If the GPS data is not valid due to the noted second harmonic interference, the transmit power levels of the transmitter within different categories of frequency blocks (frequency blocks corresponding to the second harmonic of the transmit frequency of the device interfering with the GPS frequency range entirely, partially and only slightly) are selectively and iteratively determined. The power levels in these frequency blocks are iteratively and selectively reduced to help determine valid GPS data. | 09-18-2014 |
20140274163 | USER ASSISTED LOCATION DEVICES - Methods, systems, and devices are described herein. One method can include determining a cross validation model using a user input, estimating a movement of a device from a first location to a second location using the cross validation model and the user input, and determining the second location of the device using the estimated movement of the device. | 09-18-2014 |
20140274164 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, WIRELESS ACCESS DEVICE, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD - The wireless access device is installed in a predetermined space so as to be connected to a wireless communication terminal. The wireless access device comprises a radio communication component, a controller and a memory. The radio communication component receives terminal location information, terminal position information, and communication situation information from the wireless communication terminal. The memory holds the terminal location information, the terminal position information, and the communication situation information such that they are associated with each other. The controller calculates a recommended tilt, and a recommended direction for the wireless communication terminal based on the terminal position information and the communication situation information. The radio communication component transmits the calculated information to the wireless communication terminal corresponding to the terminal location information. | 09-18-2014 |
20140287783 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR USE IN DETERMINING A LIKELY MOTION STATE OF A MOBILE DEVICE - Techniques are provided which may be implemented within a mobile device for determining a likely motion state of the mobile device. In an example, a mobile device may obtain sets of measurement signals from an inertial sensor, determine corresponding measures of variation for each of the sets of measurement signals, determine flatness indications corresponding to sets of the measures of variation, determine a motion state threshold level based, at least in part, on one or more flatness indications; and determine a likely motion state of the mobile device based, at least in part, on the motion state threshold level and one or more of: (i) a subsequently determined measure of variation, and/or (ii) a subsequently determined flatness indication. | 09-25-2014 |
20140323160 | UTILIZING A PRESSURE PROFILE TO DETERMINE A LOCATION CONTEXT IDENTIFIER - Example methods, apparatuses, or articles of manufacture are disclosed herein that may be utilized, in whole or in part, to facilitate or support one or more operations or techniques for utilizing a pressure profile to determine a location context identifier (LCI) for use in or with a mobile communication device. | 10-30-2014 |
20140323161 | ADAPTIVE PASSIVE SCANNING AND/OR ACTIVE PROBING TECHNIQUES FOR MOBILE DEVICE POSITIONING - Various methods, apparatuses and/or articles of manufacture are provided which may be implemented to support mobile device positioning through the use of adaptive passive scanning and/or adaptive active probing techniques. For example, a mobile device may acquire signals from wireless transceivers, identify wireless transceivers based, at least in part, on the acquired signal(s), determine a received signal strength measurement for each of the wireless transceivers based, at least in part, on the acquired signal(s), and determine a transmission power of a probe signal to be transmitted to at least one of the wireless transceivers based, at least in part, on at least one of the received signal strength measurements. | 10-30-2014 |
20140357305 | ORIENTATION OF MOBILE DEVICE MEASURING EARTH'S MAGNETIC FIELD INDOORS - There is provided an apparatus configured to: acquire Earth's magnetic field, EMF, measurement results indicating the EMF measured by a mobile device in a building, wherein the EMF measurements are performed by the mobile device in an unknown three-dimensional orientation in a three-dimensional coordinate system of a person carrying the mobile device along a movement direction of the person; acquire motion data of the mobile device, wherein the motion data is measured by at least one inertial measurement unit comprised in the mobile device; determine at least one angle estimate of a difference between the three-dimensional orientation of the mobile device and at least one dominant movement direction on the basis of at least one feature related to the at least one dominant movement direction of the mobile device; and adjust the acquired EMF measurement results on the basis of the determined at least one angle estimate. | 12-04-2014 |
20140378170 | DEAD RECONING SYSTEM BASED ON LOCALLY MEASURED MOVEMENT - A Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) chipset embedded within the cellular device is accessed. The GNSS chipset calculates raw pseudoranges. The raw pseudoranges are extracted from the GNSS chipset for processing elsewhere in the cellular device outside of the GNSS chipset. A position fix is calculated based on the raw pseudoranges. At a first point in time, a first image, and at a second point in time, a second image are obtained with an image capturing device that is in a known physical relationship with the cellular device. An estimate of a distance that the cellular device moved from the first point in time to the second point in time is calculated by processing image data collected from the first point in time to the second point in time. The position fix is processed based on the estimate of the distance. | 12-25-2014 |
20140378171 | CONCURRENT DUAL PROCESSING OF PSEUDORANGES WITH CORRECTIONS - A first process and a second process are executed concurrently by one or more hardware processors located in the cellular device and outside of a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) chipset embedded in the cellular device. The first process determines a first set of one or more position fixes based on extracted raw pseudorange information. The second process determines carrier phase smoothed pseudoranges based on carrier phase information and determines a second set of one or more position fixes based on the carrier phase smoothed pseudoranges. One or more of the first set of position fixes are provided to a user while a predetermined amount of carrier phase information is not available for performing carrier phase smoothing. One or more of the second set of position fixes are provided to the user while a predetermined amount of carrier phase information is available for performing carrier phase smoothing. | 12-25-2014 |
20150011249 | MOBILE DEVICE LOCATION DETERMINATION USING WI-FI SIGNALS - A location of a mobile device is determined using Wi-Fi signals. The location of a moving mobile device may be initially determined using a satellite navigation system. When the speed at which the mobile deice is moving falls below a threshold, a determination is made as to whether Wi-Fi signals are receivable at the mobile device. If Wi-Fi is receivable, Wi-Fi signals are used to determine the location of the mobile device rather than the satellite navigation system. The Wi-Fi signals are continuously or repeatedly used to identify the location of the mobile device until the speed at which the mobile device is moving surpasses the threshold or until Wi-Fi signals are no longer receivable at the mobile device. Since Wi-Fi sensors of mobile devices consume less power than satellite navigation sensors, the power consumption of the mobile device is reduced when mobile device location is determined using Wi-Fi signals. | 01-08-2015 |
20150024789 | AUTOMATED RETRIEVAL OF PHYSICAL LOCATION INFORMATION - Systems and methods may provide for detecting an event on a mobile platform, and determining a physical location of the mobile platform in response to the event. The event may be one of a time-based trigger that identifies a colloquial name for the physical location and a single-action request from a user interface of the mobile platform. In one example, the time-based trigger is scheduled based on a calendar entry that includes the colloquial name and is created before the mobile platform enters the physical location. | 01-22-2015 |
20150024790 | GEO-LOCATION SERVICES - A method for geo-location services is described. In one embodiment, the method includes monitoring, via a sensor, a location of a service provider in relation to a predetermined location and receiving a request for a current status of the service provider. The current status includes a current location of the service provider and a current job-related status of the service provider. Upon determining the current status of the service provider, a notification including the current status of the service provider is generated. | 01-22-2015 |
20150024791 | Wireless Communication Device Capable of Efficient Network Search - A wireless communication device is disclosed that is capable of performing efficient network searching. Specifically, by utilizing its location information and accessing stored cell information, the device can streamline searching. Further, if a full search is to be performed, the device receives information from multiple radio access technologies together, and processes the received information digitally in order to search the individual radio access technologies. In addition, the device is capable of performing efficient 4G searches by setting its RF module to capture information of multiple raster points simultaneously within a search band, and shifting the search band so as not to duplicatively search raster points. | 01-22-2015 |
20150031402 | WIRELESS-BASED POSITIONING ADJUSTMENTS USING A MOTION SENSOR - Apparatuses and methods for adjusting wireless-derived positions of a mobile station using a motion sensor are presented. One method includes estimating a position of a mobile station based upon wireless signal measurements and measuring a movement of the mobile station using a relative motion sensor. The method further includes detecting a displacement of the mobile station based upon the measured movement, determining that the displacement is below a threshold and then adjusting the estimated position of the mobile station using information from the relative motion sensor. An apparatus includes a wireless transceiver, a relative motion sensor, a processor coupled to the wireless transceiver and the relative motion sensor, and a memory coupled to the processor. The memory stores executable instructions and data for causing the processor to execute methods for adjusting wireless-derived positions using a motion sensor. | 01-29-2015 |
20150045072 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR POSITION ESTIMATION USING TRAJECTORY - Techniques for position estimation, e.g., of a mobile communication device, using trajectory are described herein. A method for estimating position of a mobile device described herein includes obtaining a routing graph corresponding to an area, wherein the routing graph indicates traversable paths through the area; collecting trajectory information corresponding to movement of the mobile device through the area; forming a trajectory graph from the trajectory information; comparing the trajectory graph to at least one subset of the routing graph to determine at least one matching subset of the routing graph; and estimating the position of the mobile device based at least in part on the at least one matching subset of the routing graph. | 02-12-2015 |
20150065178 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR PROVIDING POSITIONING ASSISTANCE DATA - Methods and apparatuses of providing positioning assistance data are disclosed. According to aspects of the present disclosure, a venue is partitioned into a plurality of tiles, with each tile represents an area of the venue. Measurements from each tile with respect to one or more access points in the venue may be represented as one or more images. The one or more images are then processed to generate a compressed positioning assistance data of the venue. The compressed positioning assistance data may then be provided to a mobile device. Position of a mobile device may be determined using the compressed positioning assistance data of the venue. | 03-05-2015 |
20150094102 | CORRELATION VALIDITY EVALUATION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REPORTING BASED ON SAME - Provided is a method for reporting performed by user equipment in a wireless communication system. The method comprises: obtaining an estimation result from a first point in time; obtaining location information from a second point in time; determining a correlation between the location information and the estimation result; and transmitting to a base station a report message including the estimation result. When the location information is determined to have a high correlation to the estimation result through a correlation validity evaluation, the method further comprises transmitting the location information to the base station. | 04-02-2015 |
20150094103 | Fine timing measurement transmissions between APs - A wireless communication device (WDEV) receives, detects, snoops, etc. (generally, “receives”) signals that are transmitted between two other WDEVs and extracts information therefrom to determine the location of the WDEV. These signals can include fine timing measurement (FTM) and/or timestamps related information as part of a frame exchange procedure between those two other WDEVs. A new protocol specifies when such an FTM and/or timestamps frame exchange procedure is performed between the two other WDEVs, and the WDEV intelligently detects/receives such signals at such specified times. When the WDEV operates in a reduced power or sleep state, the WDEV awakens from the reduced power or sleep state at the appropriate times to detect FTM and/or timestamps related information of such a frame exchange procedure. The WDEV then can process such FTM and/or timestamps related information for use in determining the location of the WDEV relative to the two other WDEVs. | 04-02-2015 |
20150119086 | SIMULTANEOUS LOCALIZATION AND MAPPING SYSTEMS AND METHODS - A system and method for providing localization and mapping within an environment includes at least one mobile device adapted to be moved within the environment. The at least one mobile device includes an inertial measurement unit and at least one radio frequency receiver. The at least one mobile device detects inertial measurements through the inertial measurement unit and values of signal strength through the at least one radio frequency receiver. The system and method also includes a localization module that provides simultaneous localization and mapping of the at least one mobile device within the environment based at least on the inertial measurements detected by the inertial measurement unit and the values of signal strength detected by the at least one radio frequency receiver. | 04-30-2015 |
20150126232 | POSITION ESTIMATION METHOD, SYSTEM, AND POSITION ESTIMATION APPARATUS - A position estimation apparatus acquires, for base devices, the number of hops from a target sensor node to a base device. The position estimation apparatus calculates, for each base device, a distribution of estimated distances corresponding to the total hops, based on the number of hops and a distribution of estimated distances stored in a storage device. The position estimation apparatus calculates, for each base device, a distribution of estimated positions within a given region, based on the distribution of estimated distances, information concerning a range of the given region, and information concerning a position of the base device. The position estimation apparatus calculates an index that indicates a probability of a position of the target sensor node within the given region, based on the sum of distributions of estimated positions concerning the base stations. | 05-07-2015 |
20150133171 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMPLEMENTING A DUAL-MODE DUAL-BAND GNSS/M-LMS PSEUDOLITES RECEIVER - A method, device and circuit for determining a position of a mobile cellular communication device is disclosed. A pseudolites positioning signal is received in a first frequency band at an antenna of the mobile cellular communication device. The pseudolites signal is converted from the first frequency band to a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) frequency band to obtain a corresponding positioning signal in the GNSS frequency band. The converted positioning signal is delivered to a GNSS chipset of the mobile cellular communication device. The GNSS chipset determines the position of the mobile cellular communication device using the converted positioning signal. | 05-14-2015 |
20150133172 | Distributed-Input OFDM Angle-of-Arrival Scheme for Location Determination - A particular first wireless device having a plurality of antennas and that is part of a group of a plurality of first wireless devices, transmits to a second wireless device (whose location is to be determined) a packet across the plurality of antennas of the particular first wireless device simultaneously with a plurality of packets transmitted by a corresponding one of other first wireless devices in the group. The packet transmitted by the particular first wireless device uses a subset of a set of subcarriers available for use in the packet such that substantially the entire set of subcarriers are used in the aggregate across the plurality of packets simultaneously transmitted by the plurality of first wireless devices in the group to the second wireless device. The simultaneous reception of the plurality of packets at the second wireless device enables the second wireless device to determine its location. | 05-14-2015 |
20150133173 | UTILIZING A REFERENCE SIGNAL FOR INDOOR POSITIONING - Example methods, apparatuses, or articles of manufacture are disclosed herein that may be utilized, in whole or in part, to facilitate or support one or more operations or techniques for utilizing a reference signal for indoor positioning, such as for use in or with a mobile communication device, for example. In an implementation, a reference signal may be focused into a directed beam, for example using a phased antenna array, and rotated electronically through a sequence of directional angles in a horizontal plane. A mobile device may determine a most probable directional angle from one or more transmitters transmitting a directional beam, measure one or more parameters for each directional angle and determine a location estimate using, for example triangulation. | 05-14-2015 |
20150133174 | USER DESCRIPTION BASED ON CONTEXTS OF LOCATION AND TIME - A description of a user is estimated based on the context of a user's past and present locations. A disclosed data-processing system continually receives data points for each user that represent spatial and/or temporal events. These events represent, for example, presence of a person at a specific geographic location such as a geographic area or point of interest (POI). The data-processing system evaluates the received data points in relation to one or more of the geographic locations, yielding results that are also based on the demographic characteristics of each visited location and the commercial characteristics of each visited location. The data-processing system evaluates the data points also to determine patterns exhibited in each user's activity or inactivity, and patterns exhibited in the distance traveled and the type of travel. The data-processing system bases the user descriptions on the results of these evaluations. | 05-14-2015 |
20150296479 | SYSTEMS, APPARATUS, AND METHODS FOR LOCATION ESTIMATION OF A MOBILE DEVICE - Systems, apparatus, and methods for estimating the location of a wireless device include determining the location estimate based on accessible access points and without using a received signal strength indicator. In some embodiments, the location estimate is determined based on a center of mass of the accessible access points, a closest accessible access point, a center of mass of N access points, an average angle of the accessible access points, or a Parzen density of accessible access point distributions. | 10-15-2015 |
20150304980 | TERMINAL DEVICE, BASE STATION DEVICE, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD ADAPTED TO TRANSMIT LOCATION INFORMATION - A retrieval unit retrieves location information. A storage stores location information transmitted from a transmitter. A derivation unit derives a distance of travel based on the location information stored in the storage and the location information newly retrieved by the retrieval unit. A controller causes the transmitter to transmit the location information newly retrieved by the retrieval unit, if the distance of travel exceeds a threshold value. | 10-22-2015 |
20150312878 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESS METHOD AND PROGRAM - Provided is an information processing apparatus including: a wireless station information acquisition unit which acquires information showing wireless stations with which a terminal apparatus is capable of communicating; a clustering unit which generates a wireless station cluster by clustering the wireless stations based on a time at which the wireless stations are capable of communicating with the terminal apparatus; and a stay detection unit which detects a state in which the terminal apparatus is capable of communicating with wireless stations included in the wireless station cluster as a state in which the terminal apparatus is staying at a location corresponding to the wireless station cluster. | 10-29-2015 |
20150319296 | METHOD OF PROVIDING A CELLULAR PHONE/PDA COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A cellular, PDA communication device and communication system for allowing a plurality of cellular phone users to monitor each others' locations and status, to initiate cellular phone calls by touching a symbol on the touch screen display with a stylus which can also include point to call conferencing calling. Each participant's cellular phone PDA device includes GPS navigation receiver with application software for point to call cellular phone initiation to participants and geographical entities including vehicles, persons or events, conference calls and video transfers. The method and system also includes automatic shifting from GPRS/EDGE/CDMA/1XEVDO to SMS when any of the cellular phones in the communication network is in the voice mode and in use and for automatic shifting back to GPRS/EDGE/CDMA/1XEVDO upon completion of the voice phone call. | 11-05-2015 |
20150319297 | METHOD OF PROVIDING A CELLULAR PHONE/PDA COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A cellular, PDA communication device and communication system for allowing a plurality of cellular phone users to monitor each others' locations and status, to initiate cellular phone calls by touching a symbol on the touch screen display with a stylus which can also include point to call conferencing calling. Each participant's cellular phone PDA device includes GPS navigation receiver with application software for point to call cellular phone initiation to participants and geographical entities including vehicles, persons or events, conference calls and video transfers. The method and system also includes automatic shifting from GPRS/EDGE/CDMA/1XEVDO to SMS when any of the cellular phones in the communication network is in the voice mode and in use and for automatic shifting back to GPRS/EDGE/CDMA/1XEVDO upon completion of the voice phone call. | 11-05-2015 |
20150319578 | TECHNIQUES FOR GENERATING ENVIRONMENT AND REFERENCE DATA REPORTS FOR PARTICULAR ENVIRONMENTS ON BEHALF OF MOBILE DEVICES - Various methods, apparatuses and/or articles of manufacture are provided which may be implemented using one or more fixed electronic devices to generate a reference data report corresponding to a particular environment. Various methods, apparatuses and/or articles of manufacture are provided which may be implemented using one or more mobile electronic devices to generate an environment report corresponding to a particular environment. | 11-05-2015 |
20150326709 | User Activity Tracking System - In one embodiment, sensor signals corresponding to motions of a computing device are determined. Activities of a user corresponding to the computing device are determined by selecting activity types which are based on the sensor signals, a set of user characteristics associated with the user, a classification of the set of user characteristics, and signal parameters. A reference to the selected activity types is displayed to the user. User input indicating whether the reference is correct is received. Based on the user input, the signal parameters may be adjusted. | 11-12-2015 |
20150327017 | RANGE RATE BASED STOPPED DETECTION - Methods, devices, and systems are described for determining whether a mobile device is in a stopped state based at least in part on round trip time (RTT) measurements between the device and at least one access point. The stopped state determination may be based on RTT measurements alone, or on RTT measurements in combination with other positioning and movement measurements. Further, filtering such as particle and Kalman filtering may be used to improve determination of whether the device is in a stopped state. | 11-12-2015 |
20150334529 | SHARING MOMENT EXPERIENCES - A system for sharing moment experiences is described. A system receives moment data from an input to a mobile device. The system receives geographic location information, time information, and contextual information that is local to the mobile device. The system creates a message about the moment data based on the geographic location information, the time information, and the contextual information. The system outputs the moment data with the message. | 11-19-2015 |
20150334532 | Running Location Provider Processes - Examples describe methods, computing devices, and systems for using location provider (LP) processes to accurately identify a proximate location of a computing device, while reducing the power consumption of the computing device. An example method may include executing, on a computing device, both a first LP process and a second LP process simultaneously for at least part of a time period to determine outputs indicative of locations of the computing device for the time period. Further, the method may include determining a motion model of the computing device that indicates expected locations of the computing device. Yet further, the method may include making a comparison of the outputs to the motion model for the time period. In addition, the method may include disabling one of the LP processes based on the comparison. | 11-19-2015 |
20150338500 | MEASUREMENTS REPORT QUALITY OF POSITION VALIDATION UNDER MOBILE STATION-ASSISTED MODE OF OPERATION - Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards devices and methods for measurement report Quality of Position (QoP) validation in mobile station or mobile device (MS)-Assisted GNSS position systems. In one embodiment, a QoP value is calculated at a mobile device and a requested measurement report is only sent to a network server if the calculated QoP value exceeds a threshold value. In another embodiment, the QoP threshold value is included in the request for measurement report. | 11-26-2015 |
20150341748 | SELECTED RESTRICTION OF WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SERVICES - Wireless communications services on a wireless communications device are selectively restricted in accordance with a location of the wireless device and specific permission and/or restrictions assigned to the wireless device while within/at the location. Services can be selectively blocked (denied), selectively modified, or selectively allowed on a wireless device based on lists indicating permissibility for specific services for specific devices at/within specific locations. A location can be a zone of coverage of a cellular tower, micro/pico/Femto cell or wireless access point, a sector of a zone of coverage, a geographic region within a zone of coverage, or any appropriate combination thereof. | 11-26-2015 |
20150341756 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING POSITION USING A GEOFEATURE - Systems and methods are disclosed for refining a coarse location determination by detecting patterns of motion sensor data that may be associated with predetermined locations. One or more geofeatures may be identified that cause a mobile device associated with a user to detect a distinguishable pattern of sensor data when the user interacts with the object. Accordingly, a coarse location may be refined using information associated with the geofeature, such as the location of the geofeature. | 11-26-2015 |
20150341890 | AUDIOLOCATION METHOD AND SYSTEM COMBINING USE OF AUDIO FINGERPRINTING AND AUDIO WATERMARKING - An audio-based navigation system for determining a present location or position of a mobile device such as a smartphone within a venue. The system includes a sound system with a first speaker playing first audio content and a second speaker playing second audio content. The first speaker is positioned in a first space in a venue, and the second speaker is positioned in a second space of the venue. The navigation system also includes a mobile device with memory storing a database of fingerprints of a plurality of differing audio content. The mobile device includes a microphone for receiving an audio signal associated with the first audio content or with the second audio content. The mobile device includes a processor(s) selectively running software to determine the mobile device location in the first or second space using either fingerprinting or watermarking module by processing the received audio signal. | 11-26-2015 |
20150350833 | Evaluating Location Based On Multiple Data Sources - Among other things, we describe a method that includes, on an electronic device, receiving, from a first location system of the electronic device, first data indicative of a first location of the device at a first time, comparing the first data to second data indicative of a second location of the device at a second time, the second data having been received from a second location system of the electronic device, and based on the comparison, determining whether the first data meets a threshold of location data integrity. | 12-03-2015 |
20150358778 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING LOCATION INFORMATION - Disclosed herein are an electronic device and method. The electronic device includes a display, and a processor. The process may execute the method, which includes detecting, when the electronic device is moved from a first position to a second position, path information corresponding to a sequence of location changes according to movement of the electronic device from the first position to the second position, and controlling the display of the electronic device to display guide information including a generated path from the second position to the first position utilizing the detected path information. | 12-10-2015 |
20150365797 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING A PROBABILITY FOR A GEO-FENCE - A method, computer-readable storage device, and an apparatus for determining a probability for a particular geo-fence in a wireless network are disclosed. For example, the method receives a mobile identification, a location record, and an accuracy level, identifies a bin in a database of record, identifies one or more geo-fences in which the bin is located, identifies one or more geo-fences that are pre-associated with the mobile user endpoint device, determines an intersection of: the one or more geo-fences that are identified as being pre-associated with the user endpoint device, and the one or more geo-fences that are identified as being geo-fences in which the bin is located, and determines for each particular geo-fence in the intersection, the probability of being in the particular geo-fence, wherein the probability of being in the particular geo-fence is determined in accordance with the accuracy level associated with the location record. | 12-17-2015 |
20150369900 | DEAD ZONE LOCATION DETECTION APPARATUS AND METHOD - Embodiments of techniques and systems for dead-zone-location detection in wireless systems are described. In embodiments, a wireless device may be configured to receive radio signals and provide indicators that convey signal strength of received radio signals. The received radio signals are considered degraded when signal strength of the received radio signals is below a threshold level. The wireless device may also be configured to determine which dead zone the wireless device is currently located, in response to a determination that receipt of radio signals is degraded. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. | 12-24-2015 |
20150373663 | LOCALIZATION USING CONVERGED PLATFORMS - In one aspect of the invention, a method for determining the location of a device is described. The method involves using one or more signal emitting platforms, which are capable of performing a wide variety of operations. In some embodiments, for example, the signal emitting platform is capable of physical movement. Various embodiments relate to signal emitting platforms, devices, systems, servers, computer code, methods and techniques for determining the location of a device. | 12-24-2015 |
20160007317 | SIGNAL PROCESSING TO EXTRACT A PEDESTRIAN'S MOVING DIRECTION - Disclosed here are methods and systems that relate to determining a moving direction of a mobile device user. The methods and systems relate to using an inertial navigation system such as an accelerometer and gyroscope to aid in the determination of the moving direction of the user. The methods and systems may receive an acceleration reading associated with the mobile device, and determine a step frequency of the user based on the acceleration reading. The methods and systems may determine a theoretical model to fit the acceleration reading, and may determine the moving direction of the user based on the theoretical model. | 01-07-2016 |
20160007405 | TIMING DETERMINING DEVICE, TIMING DETERMINING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - According to one embodiment, a timing determining device used in a mobile terminal, includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry performs a detecting process of whether the mobile terminal is positioned at a reference point being a point at which a predetermined condition is satisfied for the mobile terminal. The processing circuitry employs feasibility data representing relationship between an adequacy of a communication environment and elapsed time from a start time point at which the mobile terminal is positioned at the reference point, estimates elapsed time until the adequacy satisfies a communication condition since the mobile terminal is positioned at the reference point and determines a timing of evaluating the communication environment according to an estimated elapsed time. The processing circuitry determines whether to permit the mobile terminal to perform communication on basis of measurement of the communication environment at the timing determined. | 01-07-2016 |
20160021617 | REMOTE SENSOR DATA SHARING FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND ASSOCIATED METHOD - An electronic device and associated method is provided. The electronic device includes: a first sensor; and a processing unit, coupled to the first sensor, wherein the electronic device enters a remote sensor mode when the electronic device is connected to a remote electronic device having a second sensor for generating sensor data, wherein the processing unit executes an application which utilizes the sensor data from the remote electronic device in the remote sensor mode. | 01-21-2016 |
20160029212 | Device Location History Anonymization Based on Stop Detection - Embodiments described herein may help to protect users' privacy when storing and/or utilizing location data that is provided by the users' mobile devices. An example method may involve: (a) determining a location history associated with a first client device, wherein the location history comprises a plurality of time-stamped location reports associated with the first client device, (b) before the location history is exported: (i) identifying at least one stop in the location history, wherein the at least one stop corresponds to a plurality of location reports that indicate a substantial lack of movement by the first client device, and (ii) scrubbing the location history in order to obscure at least one location report that corresponds to the at least one stop, and (c) exporting the scrubbed location history to long-term data storage. | 01-28-2016 |
20160037296 | PROVISION OF INFORMATION REGARDING A MOBILE STATION - A method of providing information regarding a mobile station adapted for communication via a communication system is provided. In the method an area event notification request is received at a location service entity provided in association with the communication system, the area event notification request containing information associated with the identity of the mobile station and an area of interest. Monitoring for an event indicative of a change in the presence status of the mobile station relative to said area of interest is then activated. A notification is signalled in response to detection of such event. | 02-04-2016 |
20160044630 | PARTIALLY SYNCHRONIZED MULTILATERATION OR TRILATERATION METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR POSITIONAL FINDING USING RF - Systems and methods for determining a location of user equipment (UE) in a wireless system can comprise receiving reference signals via a location management unit (LMU) having two or more co-located channels, wherein the two or more co-located channels are tightly synchronized with each other and utilizing the received reference signals to calculate a location of the UE. Some systems may include multichannel synchronization with a standard deviation of less than or equal 10 ns. Some systems may include two LMUs, with each LMU having internal synchronization, or one LMU with tightly synchronized signals. | 02-11-2016 |
20160057728 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LOCATION REPORTING IN AN UNTRUSTED NETWORK ENVIRONMENT - An example method is provided and may include retrieving by a user equipment (UE) an access point (AP) Media Access Control (MAC) address for an AP to which the UE is connected; reporting location information for the UE to an evolved Packet Data Gateway over an SWu interface using Internet Key Exchange version 2 (IKEv2) protocol, wherein the location information includes, at least in part, a UE location in GPS coordinates, a service set identifier, the retrieved AP MAC address and cell identity information for the UE; and populating a location database with the location information. The method can include embedding the location information in an identity initiator (Idi) of an IKE Authentication Request (IKE_AUTH_REQ) message using a Network Access Identifier (NAI) and communicating the location information from the ePDG to a PGW over an S2b interface using a private extension information element of GPRS Tunneling Protocol version 2 (GTPv2). | 02-25-2016 |
20160077185 | TERRESTRIAL POSITIONING SYSTEM CALIBRATION - Embodiments disclosed aggregate a plurality of crowdsourced measurement sets for antennas received from a plurality of Mobile Stations (MS) with a Base Station Almanac (BSA), based on a measurement location estimate and a measurement location uncertainty estimate associated with each measurement set. A map comprising a plurality of map layers may be obtained, where each map layer associates locations in the BSA with spatially variable Forward Link Calibration (FLC) values for the antenna derived from the updated BSA data, wherein each spatially variable FLC value is associated with a corresponding location in the updated BSA data. Map layers, which may also include multipath map and/or received signal strength layers, may be provided to MS′ as location assistance data. | 03-17-2016 |
20160077189 | MOBILE PORTABLE DEVICE AND POSITIONING - The relation between realization effort for a positioning system on the one hand and positioning accuracy on the other hand is improved by using, for determining the position of a mobile portable device, two sensors within the device, namely one sensor for detecting the movement of the mobile portable device as well as one sensor for detecting the approximation of the mobile portable device to one or several reference beacons, wherein, from a knowledge of a position of the one or several reference beacons by means of data provided by the sensor detecting the movement, the position of the mobile portable device relative to the one or several reference beacons is calculated. | 03-17-2016 |
20160088583 | USING PUSH NOTIFICATIONS TO TRIGGER AN ANNOUNCING UE TO UPDATE LOCATION INFO IN LTE DIRECT - A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided. The apparatus receives, from a second UE, a first signal including a first expression code associated with the second UE, and determines at least a second expression code using the first expression code, the at least a second expression code associated with the second UE. | 03-24-2016 |
20160094949 | Method and System for Providing Enhanced Location Based Information for Wireless Handsets - Methods, devices and systems for generating enhanced location information on or about a mobile device may include hybrid lateration and/or trilateration solutions in which the mobile device determines whether information obtained via a geospatial system of the mobile device is accurate, collects location information from a plurality of mobile devices in a communication group in response to determining that the information obtained via the geospatial system of the mobile device is not accurate, computes computing more precise location information (including three-dimensional location and position information) based on the location information collected from the plurality of mobile devices, and using the generated location and position information to provide an enhanced location based service, such as an emergency location service, a commercial location service, an internal location service and/or a lawful intercept location service. | 03-31-2016 |
20160105868 | ASSET TRACKING SYSTEM ACTIVATED BY PREDETERMINED PATTERN OF ASSET MOVEMENT - An asset tracking system that optimizes the value per ping by tying the ping to a pattern of movements of the asset. The asset tracking device will send a ping to a remote host (i.e., receiver) when pre-determined condition(s) regarding the movement are met, conditions such as the pattern of movement, and number of movements within a time period. In such a manner, the value per ping is optimized, leading to increased battery life and decreased operational cost. To satisfy these conditions, the asset tracking device is equipped with appropriate sensors, actuators, and trigger mechanism(s). The sensors and actuators detect movements and/or confirm or recognize a sequence of movements. When the detected movements and/or sequence of movements match a predetermined, recognized pattern or condition, the trigger mechanism is activated, after which a data ping is sent. | 04-14-2016 |
20160109554 | ADAPTIVE OPTIMIZATION OF TIME OF FLIGHT (ToF) EXCHANGE - Embodiments for providing adaptive optimization of time of flight (ToF) exchange are generally described herein. In some embodiments, a mobile station includes a range management module arranged to transmit a measurement request action frame having a first flag for indicating to an access point to perform an optimized sequence for calculating the ToF, to receive ranging information in response to the transmission of the measurement request action frame having the first flag, and to calculate a time of flight based on the received ranging information. | 04-21-2016 |
20160112833 | LOCATION-BASED CONTROL OF MOBILE DEVICE RING MODE - A system for location-based control of a ring mode of mobile communication devices includes a server configured to communicate with the devices via a network. The server is also configured to receive from a device an indication to change a zone designation of a geographic region at a current location of the device to a silent zone. Any previously received indications for the change of zone designation from other devices are retrieved. If a criterion for implementing the indicated change is met, a change of the zone designation to a silent zone is recorded. The ring mode of a mobile communication device that is located within that geographic region is automatically switched to silent mode. | 04-21-2016 |
20160127871 | Method and System for Providing Enhanced Location Based Trilateration - Method, systems and devices for determining for performing enhanced location based trilateration include receiving location information (e.g., waypoints) from one or more external devices, determining the validity of the received location information, performing normalization operations to normalize the received location information, assigning an overall ranking and a device-specific ranking to the location information, and storing the validated and normalized location information in memory. The enhanced location based trilateration may also include selecting four locations (e.g., waypoints) from the memory based on a combination of the overall ranking and the device-specific ranking, and generating a final location value or waypoint based on a result of applying the four selected waypoints to a kalman filter. The output of the kalman filter may also be reported and/or used as the device's current location. | 05-05-2016 |
20160127983 | APPLICATION ASSISTED BAND SCANNING METHOD TO REDUCE NETWORK ACQUISITION TIME - A method of selecting a cellular network entails determining a current location of a mobile device by obtaining location data from an application on the mobile device, prioritizing cellular network frequency bands based on the current location to define a band priority, and selecting the cellular network based on the band priority. This method expedites selection of the cellular network when a mobile device is powered on, when its cellular radiofrequency transceiver is activated or when returning from an out-of-coverage area. | 05-05-2016 |
20160146922 | Determining the Position of a Mobile Device Using the Characteristics of Received Signals and a Reference Database - Some embodiments use scanning devices to characterize radio signals received at a number of locations within a geographical area of interest. The signal characteristics along with the location information associated with the characteristics are stored in a centralized reference database. A mobile device characterizes signals it receives at a certain location and compares the characteristics with the signal characteristics stored in the reference database to obtain accurate location information of the certain location. | 05-26-2016 |
20160150364 | LOCATION LOGGING AND LOCATION AND TIME BASED FILTERING - Techniques for performing location logging and location and time based filtering are described. In one design of location logging, a terminal periodically determines its location, e.g., during its paging slots. The terminal determines whether there is a change in its location and stores its location if a change in location is detected. In one design of location and time based filtering, the terminal obtains a location and time criterion with a target area and a time period. The terminal determines its location during the time period, e.g., based on the location log. The terminal evaluates the location and time criterion based on the target area and its location during the time period, e.g., based on at least one sector ID for the target area and one or more sector IDs for its location. The terminal determines whether to download and/or present broadcast information based on the result of the evaluation. | 05-26-2016 |
20160165398 | METHOD FOR MEASURING DISTANCE BETWEEN DEVICES VIA DIRECT DEVICE-TO-DEVICE COMMUNICATION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND APPARATUS THEREFOR - Disclosed is a method for transmitting, by a device, a signal for direct device-to-device communication in a wireless communication system. Specifically, the method comprises the steps of: receiving a downlink subframe from a reference base station; transmitting a first signal to a counterpart device on the basis of the boundary of the downlink subframe; and transmitting a second signal to the counterpart device prior to the boundary of the downlink subframe by a predetermined offset. | 06-09-2016 |
20160183058 | SYSTEM FOR CONNECTING TO WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS WHILE IN MOTION TO SEND AND RECEIVE GPS DATA AND OTHER INFORMATION TO A WEB PORTAL OR SOFTWARE APPLICATION | 06-23-2016 |
20160192320 | MOBILE INFORMATION SERVER SYSTEM - A mobile information server system is installed on mobile devices. When more than two mobile devices are carried by users, each of the mobile devices sends a geographic position and an IP address to a network location server to be stored and updated by the network location server. The network location server further analyzes the geographic position of each of the mobile devices, and sends the geographic positions and the IP addresses of other mobile devices that are nearby the mobile devices to each of the mobile devices, respectively. And then, the mobile devices obtain and display the information published by the other mobile devices through software protocol to accomplish the function of local business service. The network location server delivers the geographic position and the IP address, but not other information, and each of the mobile devices plays a role of an information server. | 06-30-2016 |
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