22nd week of 2015 patent applcation highlights part 45 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20150148003 | Adaptive Request Processing Service For Charging Requests - The present disclosure provides a method, non-transitory computer readable storage medium, and apparatus that implement an adaptable payload object model. In one embodiment, a payload object is generated using a payload specification that defines a plurality of payload attributes, where the payload object includes the plurality of payload attributes. The plurality of payload attributes of the payload object are populated with message attribute values that are extracted from an incoming message. The plurality of payload attributes of the payload object is validated. In one embodiment, an outgoing message is built that includes the payload object and is forwarded to a destination, such as a subscriber or a charging engine. | 2015-05-28 |
20150148004 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ZONE ANALYSIS IN A CHARGING SYSTEM - The present disclosure described a method, non-transitory computer readable storage medium, and computer system that implement zone analysis in a charging system. Accordingly, the method, non-transitory computer readable storage medium, and computer system provide for receiving a service usage request, where the service usage request represents, at least in part, a request for service usage received from a subscriber and comprises a value pair, which, in turn, comprises a first value and a second value; identifying a zone item by traversing a configurable zone model tree, where the traversing is performed using the first value and the second value; and returning a zone name of the zone, where the zone item comprises the zone name, and the zone name identifies a charging structure to be used in satisfying the service usage request. | 2015-05-28 |
20150148005 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE LOCK SCREEN CONTENT DISTRIBUTION BASED ON ENVIRONMENTAL CONTEXT SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system and method that (i) provide for features that provide assurances to content providers that their content is being viewed in a meaningful manner and (ii) encourage user adoption of dynamic lock screen content. A system and method may include selecting content to display on a mobile electronic device may include tracking, by the mobile electronic device, applications that are actively being utilized by a user of the mobile electronic device. The mobile electronic device may determine an environmental context of the user based at least in part on the applications of which the user has been utilizing. Content to display may be selected based at least in part on the determined environmental context of the user. The selected content may be displayed by the mobile device. The environmental context may be determined based on recently used apps, geographic location, information from apps (e.g., weather), and so on. | 2015-05-28 |
20150148006 | System and Method for Crowd-Sourcing Mobile Messaging Spam Detection and Defense - A crowd-sourced mobile messaging spam detection and defense system includes an application running on a mobile device. The application uses an unwanted message detection algorithm to analyze and classify messages as potential unwanted messages. The potential unwanted messages are presented to a user for confirmation that the messages are unwanted messages. In response to confirmation, the mobile device transmits a notification to a virtual machine associated with the user. The virtual machine uses the notification to update the unwanted message detection algorithm which may then be transmitted to the mobile device. The virtual machine may also transmit the notification to a global virtual machine. The global virtual machine may use the notification to update a set of classification rules maintained by the global virtual machine and transmit the set of classification rules as necessary to the multiple virtual machines for use in updating the unwanted message detection algorithm. | 2015-05-28 |
20150148007 | PHONE LOCK SYSTEM - Technologies related to mobile communication devices are disclosed. A mobile communication device is identified, including identifying a unique identifier associated with the mobile communication device. An application is stored in firmware of the mobile communication device. The application is executed at boot-up and periodically when the mobile communication device is operating. Executing the application includes checking with a service to ensure that the mobile communication device is confirmed to be operational, including providing the unique identifier to the service. A confirmation is received that the mobile communication device is confirmed to be operational, and when so, waiting until a next check time for further processing. Upon receiving an indication that the device is confirmed to no longer be operational, a script is executed that locks the device, including creating a password, locking the mobile communication device with the password, and disabling a USB port that is included in the device. | 2015-05-28 |
20150148008 | METHOD FOR AUTHENTICATING DATA PACKETS RECEIVED BY A STATION OF A DIGITAL TELLECOMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - A method of authenticating data packets transmitted by terminals and received by a station, each terminal successively transmitting data packets in a plurality of different frequency bands according to a frequency hop sequence specific to said terminal, includes, for a data packet received by the station, i) measuring the frequency band in which the considered data packet has been received, ii) extracting an identification code from said considered data packet, iii) determining a theoretical frequency hop according to the frequency hop sequence associated with said extracted identification code, and iv) calculating a frequency hop deviation according to the theoretical frequency hop and to the frequency bands measured for the considered data packet and for the previous data packet. The authentication method includes determining whether data packets have been transmitted by the terminal associated with this identification code according to at least one frequency hop deviation. | 2015-05-28 |
20150148009 | SECURE DEPLOYMENT OF TERMINALS IN A WIRELESS NETWORK - A method for securely deploying a communication device in a communication network, the method comprising: storing a device identity and an associated token in the network; receiving, in the network, a device identity, a token and an indication of a data routing point; determining whether the received device identity and the received token correspond with a device identity and associated token stored by the network; and, if so, determining that the communication device corresponding to the received device identity has been validly deployed in the network and storing the data routing point as a destination to which data associated with the validly deployed communication device should be routed by the network. | 2015-05-28 |
20150148010 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE EQUIPPED WITH TOUCH PANEL - An electronic device includes a touch panel, an operation position detecting unit that detects an operation position, in a locked state, at which a touch operation has been made on the touch panel, an ear pinna determining unit that determines whether the touch operation has been made by a user's ear pinna, according to the detected operation position, and an ear pinna operation accepting unit that, if the touch operation is determined to have been made by the user's ear pinna, accepts an operation input made by the touch operation by the ear pinna. | 2015-05-28 |
20150148011 | METHOD AND MOBILE TERMINAL FOR SPEECH COMMUNICATION - Method and device of providing multi-modal instant messaging communication are disclosed. The method includes: while displaying a conversation interface of a current dialogue session between a user of the mobile device and the user's conversation partner: detecting a change in a manner by which the mobile device is carried by the user; in response to detecting the change: obtaining a current conversation status of the current dialogue session; and in accordance with predetermined rules based on the current conversation status and the detected change, selectively activating a respective conversation mode of a plurality of conversation modes available to the current dialogue session; processing a message under the activated respective conversation mode; and updating the current conversation status of the current dialogue session. | 2015-05-28 |
20150148012 | FACILITATING MOBILE PHONE CONVERSATIONS - Methods and arrangements for managing termination of a telephone call. A contemplated method includes: detecting a request by a first party to terminate a telephone call between the first party and a second party; detecting whether the second party is still speaking after detecting the request to terminate the call; and automatically forestalling termination of the call if the second party is still speaking, via affording the first party an opportunity to continue the call, via at least one of: sending a confirmation request to the first party, and sending an audio signal to the first party. Other variants and embodiments are broadly contemplated herein. | 2015-05-28 |
20150148013 | DIRECT INTERACTION BETWEEN A USER AND A COMMUNICATION NETWORK - A mechanism is provided for direct interaction between an individual and a communication network. Captured data is received of the individual in an environment to be analyzed by a network management computer. The data is captured by network sensors. The network management computer determines that the individual is a subscriber to services of the communication network by identifying the subscriber from the data that has been captured. The subscriber is registered with a network carrier that operates and provides the services on the communication network. The data is obtained without assistance from a subscriber owned device providing the data. The data is analyzed to interpret commands when presented by the subscriber via the network sensors. The commands include gesture commands from the subscriber. An action is performed for the subscriber based on the commands. | 2015-05-28 |
20150148014 | DYNAMICALLY CONSTRUCTING AND UPDATING SOCIAL MEDIA STATUS FOR USE AS RINGBACK TONES - Methods and arrangements for constructing ringback tones. A contemplated method includes: obtaining data pertaining to a first user of a communication medium from one or more communication channels comprising at least one channel selected from the group consisting of: an enterprise system, a personal social network, personal information derived from the communication medium, a contacts list, an instant messaging system, a professional social network, and a personal blog; and when a second user attempts communication with the first user via the communication medium: dynamically and automatically constructing a status update based on the obtained data; and using the constructed status update as a ringback tone. Other variants and embodiments are broadly contemplated herein. | 2015-05-28 |
20150148015 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF MANAGING COUNTERPART TERMINAL INFORMATION, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An apparatus, system, and method of managing candidate counterpart terminal information, each of which determines, in response to a request for adding a candidate counterpart terminal to a candidate list of a request sender terminal, whether attribute information stored in association with the request sender terminal matches attribute information stored in association with the candidate counterpart terminal to be added, and stores counterpart terminal identification information that identifies the candidate counterpart terminal in association with terminal identification information of the request sender terminal to update the candidate list of the specific request sender terminal when a determination result indicates that the attribute information match. | 2015-05-28 |
20150148016 | COMMUNICATION TERMINAL DEVICE | 2015-05-28 |
20150148017 | BRING CALL HERE SELECTIVELY - A communication system includes logic to detect a second communication device in proximity to a first communication device engaged in a call, and to provide a substantially uninterrupted transfer of selected parties to the call to the second communication device. A proximate device may be identified as one capable of rendering a particular data type, and a substantially uninterrupted transfer may be performed to the proximate device of data of the communications having the data type. An application associated with communication data may be identified, as well as a proximate device capable of providing the application, and a substantially uninterrupted transfer may be performed to the proximate device of data associated with the application. | 2015-05-28 |
20150148018 | VEHICLE OPERATOR SPECIFIC USER DEVICE MANAGEMENT - An embodiment provides a method, including: detecting, in a vehicle, a user device is proximate to a receiver device of the vehicle; determining, using a processor, that the user device is associated with a current operator of the vehicle; permitting access to the vehicle; and disabling a communication capability of the user device. Other aspects are described and claimed. | 2015-05-28 |
20150148019 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS TO ENSURE THAT THE USER OF A TOUCH OR KEYPAD OPERATED DEVICE WITHIN A MOVING VEHICLE MUST USE TWO HANDS FOR DEVICE OPERATION - Systems and methods are directed to configuring a portable electronic device such that a user of the portable electronic device is required to use two hands to operate the portable electronic device. In some configurations, the portable electronic device determines whether the portable electronic device is moving at a rate of speed that is greater than a predetermined threshold before requiring the user to use two hands. Alternatively, or in addition, a function, feature, and/or application of the portable electronic device may be inhibited such that two hands are required. Once the portable electronic device determines that the user is using two hands, an operation, feature, function, and/or application may then be enabled although still be inhibited. | 2015-05-28 |
20150148020 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SELF-ACTIVATING A MOBILE DEVICE - To activate a pre-provisioned mobile device on a network, an initial data communication for device activation is allowed between the device and an self-activation portal. At this point, the network prevents other more regular communication of the mobile device via the network. The portal automatically collects identification information from the mobile device and collects information from the user to activate the device on a network service account. The portal causes a provisioning system to provision data to network elements to activate device service in the network. After provisioning is complete, a notification is sent to the mobile device; and after device communication is completed a record that controlled routing to the portal before activation is deleted. The mobile device then communicates via the network to obtain data for storage in the device, to complete activation and permit normal operation of the mobile device via the network. | 2015-05-28 |
20150148021 | Methods and Systems for System Updating of Mobile Devices Operating in Privacy or other Informationally Restricted Modes | 2015-05-28 |
20150148022 | CONCURRENT USES OF NON-CELLULAR INTERFACES FOR PARTICIPATING IN HYBRID CELLULAR AND NON-CELLULAR NETWORKS - The subject matter describes software, devices, networks, and methods to configure a non-cellular interface of a wireless device to establish two or more wireless links in a hybrid of cellular network and a non-cellular network. The advantage of concurrent uses of non-cellular interfaces maximizes the use of computing and communication resources to perform multi-hop communication and to expand the coverage of cellular networks. | 2015-05-28 |
20150148023 | System and Method for Managing an Alarm Clock - A system and a method for managing an alarm clock are disclosed. The method includes the follow steps: activating a periodic alarm clock setting; receiving an activation command of the periodic alarm clock setting; deactivating the periodic alarm clock setting according to the activation command and displaying a reactivation setting interface; receiving a reactivation time of the periodic alarm clock setting inputted by a user from the reactivation setting interface; and reactivating the periodic alarm clock setting automatically at the reactivation time of the periodic alarm clock setting. | 2015-05-28 |
20150148024 | UE CONFIGURATION METHOD, NETWORK SIDE DEVICE AND SYSTEM FOR PROXIMITY AWARENESS - Disclosed are a UE configuration method, network side device and system for proximity awareness in the present invention, which are used to achieve the function of obtaining the service information by proximity awareness between terminals in a cellular communication system. The network side device configures the service ID of each service type to be sent by the transmission UE and the temporary device ID, and the network side device configures the service ID filtering template for the receiving UE according to the service types to be received by the receiving UE, and thus the configured transmission UE and the receiving UE can obtain the service information by proximity awareness. | 2015-05-28 |
20150148025 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING CELL DENSITY, CELL CONTROLLING APPARATUS AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The disclosure relates to an electronic device, method for controlling cell density in a wireless communication system and a non-transitory computer readable medium. The electronic device includes a circuitry configured to determine a target density of cells and a target energy efficiency based on current network status. The circuitry is further configured to control adjusting operating states of a plurality of cells to fit the target density of cells. A current density of cells of the plurality of cells is different with the target density of cells. | 2015-05-28 |
20150148026 | CONTROLLING WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS ON BEHALF OF PUBLIC SERVICE AGENCIES | 2015-05-28 |
20150148027 | CORDLESS TELEPHONE APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD OF THE SAME - A cordless telephone apparatus comprises a portable handset and a base station. The base station including a first wireless communication unit which, in operation, communicates data with a music player, a first control unit which, in operation, monitors a status of the music player and remotely controls the music player via the first wireless communication unit, a speaker which outputs audio data, an audio processing unit which, in operation, reproduces the audio data received by the first wireless communication unit from the music player and outputs the audio data to the speaker, a second wireless communication unit which wirelessly communicates data with the portable handset; and a second control unit which, in operation, controls the portable handset as an operation unit to remotely control the music player. | 2015-05-28 |
20150148028 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR QUANTIFYING THE CUSTOMER IMPACT OF CELL TOWER OUTAGES - A method, computer-readable storage device and apparatus for quantifying a total number of customers impacted by a cellular tower outage are disclosed. For example, the method monitors a plurality of cellular towers, detects a failure of one of the plurality of cellular towers, identifies a subset of the plurality of cellular towers that are included in an affected region, calculates a number of additional customers served by each one of the subset of the plurality of cellular towers that are included in the affected region due to the failure of the one cellular tower, and quantifies the total number of customers impacted by the failure of the one cellular tower by adding the number of additional customers served by the each one of the subset of the plurality of cellular towers that are included in the affected region. | 2015-05-28 |
20150148029 | RE-TRANSMISSION OF MANAGEMENT INFORMATION IN A MANAGEMENT NETWORK OF A COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - Disclosed are a system, methods, devices and computer program products for re-transmission of management information in a management network for monitoring and controlling a communications system. The management network comprises managers and agents configured as devices on different management levels. Management information is transmitted as event reports between these devices of the management network and event reports transmitted to a manager by an agent (EMS) are temporarily stored by the agent for future re-transmissions, the manager recognizes a loss of one or more event reports, identifies the lost event reports and requests re-transmission of the lost event reports by sending a request to the agent, the agent retrieves the requested event reports from storage and re-transmits them to the requesting manager. | 2015-05-28 |
20150148030 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PERFORMING DIRECT COMMUNICATION BETWEEN TERMINALS IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present application discloses a method of performing, by a terminal, direct communication between terminals in a wireless communication system to which a carrier wave aggregating technique is applied. In particular, the method includes: reporting, to a base station, performance information on a terminal including information on a limited frequency band; and performing direct communication between the terminal and an opposite terminal through a specific frequency band, wherein if the specific frequency band is the same as the limited frequency band, signal reception from the base station when performing direct communication between the terminals is limited. | 2015-05-28 |
20150148031 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DYNAMICALLY ADJUSTING ROAMING PARAMETERS - This disclosure includes systems and methods for adjusting one or more roaming parameters using information regarding WLAN activity and/or a connection characteristic indicative of the reliability of the connection. | 2015-05-28 |
20150148032 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING INTERNATIONAL MOBILE SUBSCRIBER IDENTITY - Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, responsive to a mode of operation being a reseller mode, providing a second international mobile subscriber identity to a mobile communication device to cause the mobile communication device to store the second international mobile subscriber identity in the universal integrated circuit card and to cause the mobile communication device to delete the first international mobile subscriber identity from the universal integrated circuit card. Responsive to the mode of operation being an agency mode, a third international mobile subscriber identity and authentication keys can be provided to the mobile communication device to cause the mobile communication device to store the third international mobile subscriber identity and the authentication keys in the universal integrated circuit card without deleting the first international mobile subscriber identity from the universal integrated circuit card. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 2015-05-28 |
20150148033 | METHOD FOR OBTAINING POLICY INFORMATION FOR MAKING TRAFFIC DETOUR - The present invention provides a method for user equipment obtaining policy information for making a traffic detour. The method for obtaining the policy information may comprise a step of the user equipment receiving via an access point (AP), policy information related to Hotspot 2.0, wherein the policy information related to the Hotspot 2.0 may include policy information related to a roaming consortium established between AP enterprises. The method for obtaining the policy information may further comprise a step of transmitting to a 3GPP-based network node a policy information request message including the policy information related to the Hotspot 2.0 that is received, in order to obtain 3GPP-based policy information that reflects the policy information related to the Hotspot 2.0 that is received. | 2015-05-28 |
20150148034 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING MASS REGISTRATION SCENARIO IN TWO-WAY RADIO SYSTEM - A method and apparatus are described for managing a mass registration scenario in a two-way radio system. A site controller in a trunked radio system detects a mass registration condition in which registration requests by subscriber units are likely to collide on an inbound control channel. During the mass registration condition, the site controller initiates a restriction period by instructing subscriber units that are members of particular talkgroups to temporarily cease registration requests. Those talkgroup members are permitted to resume their registration requests when a predetermined delay time has passed since the members were instructed to cease registration, or when a particular silence time has passed without registration activity over the control channel. | 2015-05-28 |
20150148035 | Access Control for Terminals in UTRAN FEMTO System - The teachings herein provide authorization control enabling the co-existence of legacy mobile terminals ( | 2015-05-28 |
20150148036 | SYSTEMS, METHODS AND MEDIA FOR SMALL CELL IDLE MODE MOBILITY - Systems and methods for small cell idle mode mobility include receiving, at a first small cell of a preconfigured cluster of small cells, a mobility area update request from a user equipment (UE). The method can also include registering location information of the UE with a small cell gateway, and retrieving a core network periodic timer for the UE from a mobility server. If certain conditions are met, the first small cell forwards the mobility area update request to a core network via the small cell gateway. Otherwise, the method can include the first small cell updating the location information of the UE with the mobility server, generating a locally-generated mobility area update accept message, and sending a locally generated mobility area update accept message to the UE along with a local periodic timer instructing the UE to send another mobility area update request when the local periodic timer expires. | 2015-05-28 |
20150148037 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OBTAINING RADIO ACCESS NETWORK (RAN) INFORMATION OF CELLULAR TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS - A system for obtaining information relating to an idle mobile station in a cellular network is provided. The system includes a computing platform which is in communication with a radio network controller of the cellular network. The computing platform is configured for (i) generating and sending an input signal through the radio network controller to the radio access network; and (ii) identifying in data outputted by the radio network controller an output signal resulting from the input signal, the output signal including information relating to at least one idle mobile station. | 2015-05-28 |
20150148038 | TECHNIQUES FOR PROVISIONING CONFIGURATION INFORMATION BASED ON CELL CHARACTERISTICS - Techniques are described for configuring wireless service for a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communications network in which the UE may be served over one or more of multiple available cells. Wireless service for the UE may be configured based on parameters associated with each of the multiple cells, such as, for example, a primary/secondary cell designation of a cell, whether the cell operates using a licensed or an unlicensed radio frequency spectrum band, a radio access technology associated with a cell, and/or an operating frequency band of a cell. Based on the parameters for each cell, one or more cell configurations for serving the UE may be provided. The cell configurations may identify, for example, a set of rules that control how much and/or what type of traffic is sent on different cells. | 2015-05-28 |
20150148039 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION OPTIMIZED MULTIPLE FREQUENCY MEASUREMENT SCHEDULE - An optimized strategy for preparing measurement reports in a telecommunication system separates searching and measuring of candidate frequencies for device handover, searching a series of frequencies and then determining which frequencies to measure based on the search results. The search results may be sorted, prioritizing the order measurements are undertaken. Preliminary results may be used to determine that a frequency is a poor handover candidate, advancing to the next frequency. | 2015-05-28 |
20150148040 | ANOMALY CORRELATION MECHANISM FOR ANALYSIS OF HANDOVERS IN A COMMUNICATION NETWORK - Optimizing neighbor cell relationships for improving handover performance by interpreting handover failures is presented herein. A method can include receiving data representing a time series of failures of outgoing handovers corresponding to a wireless access point device, and determining, based on a determined condition corresponding to a metric, that a source cell of the wireless access point device is associated with an anomalous cell relation corresponding to the time series of the failures of the outgoing handovers in response to quantifying the time series based on the metric. In various examples, the quantifying can include quantifying the time series with respect to: a volume of the failures during a period of time, an entropy calculated on a probability distribution of the failures by determined relations between the source cell and target cells, and/or an entropy calculated on a probability distribution of determined outgoing handover outcomes. | 2015-05-28 |
20150148041 | Generating and Analyzing Mobility Vectors to Determine Subscriber Behavior - Concepts and technologies are disclosed herein for generating and analyzing mobility vectors to determine subscriber behavior. A processor can execute an analysis engine. The analysis engine can obtain a log from a data collection device associated with a cellular network. The log can include subscriber data, cell identifier data, and time data. The analysis engine can identify a subscriber represented by the subscriber data and determine a vector associated with the subscriber. The vector can represent a movement of the subscriber within the cellular network. The analysis engine can store vector data that corresponds to the vector determined. | 2015-05-28 |
20150148042 | METHODS, USER EQUIPMENT AND BASE STATION FOR SUPPORTING UPDATE OF NEIGHBOUR CELL RELATIONS IN A CELLULAR COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK - Methods, user equipment ( | 2015-05-28 |
20150148043 | MANAGING SYSTEM FRAME NUMBERS (SFNs) FOR CIRCUIT-SWITCHED FALLBACK (CSFB) - A method of wireless communication includes recording an absolute system frame number (SFN) of a target radio access technology (RAT) and/or recording a relative system frame number (SFN) difference between a serving radio access technology (RAT) and the target RAT. A transmission time interval (TTI) boundary, is determined after redirection, based at least in part on the recorded absolute frame number (SFN) and/or the recorded relative system frame number (SFN) difference. | 2015-05-28 |
20150148044 | Methods and Arrangements in a Mobile Telecommunication System - Methods and arrangements in a base station and a User Equipment are provided. The methods and arrangements relates to the scenario when the UE is handed over from a source base station to a target base station in a handover scenario, and wherein the target base station may not support functionalities which the source base station and the UE support. The method in the UE comprises receiving ( | 2015-05-28 |
20150148045 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR STATION LOCATION BASED NEIGHBOR DETERMINATION AND HANDOVER PROBABILITY ESTIMATION - The present invention is a method and system for station location based neighbor determination and handover probability estimation. A serving access point determines the location and movement measurements of a station (STA). Neighboring access points report coordinates of cell fringes of the neighboring access points. The STA sends a request for system information to the current access point along with current location of the STA. The current access point provides the system information, and the STA utilizes the system information to determine best handover candidate from among neighboring access points and an estimate of the time for handover. | 2015-05-28 |
20150148046 | DATA OFFLOADING METHOD - A method of offloading data is provided by a UE. The UE receives data from a macro cell base station over an MC-RB while an E-RAB between the macro cell base station and a gateway is established. The UE receives a first connection reconfiguration message from the macro cell base station after the E-RAB between a small cell base station and the gateway is established, and establishes an SC-RB according to the first connection reconfiguration message. Next, the UE receives a second connection reconfiguration message from the macro cell base station after a path between the macro cell base station and the gateway is switched to a path between the small cell base station and the gateway, and data for the MC-RB are exhausted on the macro cell base station. Then, the UE releases the MC-RB and switches to the SC-RB. | 2015-05-28 |
20150148047 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION HANDOFFS WITHIN A MACROCELL - Handoffs within a wireless communication system ( | 2015-05-28 |
20150148048 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR HANDLING VOICE AND NON-VOICE CALLS IN A CSFB SCENARIO - A method and system for handling both voice and non-voice calls in a CSFB scenario is disclosed. An indication is provided to user equipment (UE) to indicate whether the CSFB call is a voice call or a non-voice call (CS data call). The indication can be provided to the UE by a wireless network in a RRC connection release message or a CS service notification message. Further, the UE upon receiving the indication from the network can indicate whether the CSFB call is a voice call or a data call to a target radio access network (RAN) by providing a priority bit indication to all the voice calls for differentiating the voice calls from non-voice calls. The RAN prioritizes all the voice calls ahead of non-voice calls for the UE in the CSFB scenario. | 2015-05-28 |
20150148049 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ALLOCATING RESOURCES FOR DEVICE-TO-DEVICE COMMUNICATION - A method on a network entity of a wireless network is described. The network entity communicates with a first user equipment (UE). The network entity allocates radio resources for use by the first UE. The network entity receives, from a monitor UE, information regarding usage of radio resources by a second UE that is engaged in device to device communication. The network entity is not in a communication from the second UE. Based on the received information, the network entity determines whether the radio resources allocated for use by the first UE should be changed. Based on the determining step, the network entity changes the radio resources allocated for use by the first UE from a first set of radio resources to a second set of radio resources, the second set being different from the first set by at least one member. | 2015-05-28 |
20150148050 | ENHANCED RECEIVER ADAPTATION BASED ON RELATION BETWEEN SIGNALS FROM AGGRESSOR AND VICTIM CELLS - A method in a first radio node for adapting a receiver type is described. The first radio node includes a first a second different receiver types. The first radio node is included in a wireless communications network, which further includes a second and at least one third radio nodes. The method includes adapting the receiver type to be one of the first and the second types in the first radio node, for receiving first signals from the second radio node, based on a relation between an activity of the first signals and second signals received from the at least one third radio node. The first signals include signals received from a first cell associated with the second radio node. The second signals include signals received from a second cell associated with the at least third radio node. The at least third radio node causes interference on the first signals. | 2015-05-28 |
20150148051 | MOBILE TERMINAL TEST DEVICE AND MOBILE TERMINAL TEST METHOD - Setting means does not respond to a transmission signal from a mobile terminal for a predetermined period of time and sets the mobile terminal to a designation value saturation level excess state during a random access process. Data transmission instruction means allocate M resource blocks and N resource blocks (where N is less than M) to the mobile terminal in the designation value saturation level excess state, respectively, and instruct the mobile terminal to transmit signals in which data are inserted into the allocated resource blocks. Power measurement means measures the power of the signals. Determination means determines whether a difference between the measured values when the numbers of resource blocks are M and N is within an allowable range and determines whether the mobile terminal quickly responds to an output power reduction instruction on the basis of the determination result. | 2015-05-28 |
20150148052 | Signaling for Legacy Terminal Operation in Harmonized Bands - Network nodes and methods therein for enabling use, in a cell, of different types of mobile terminals. A method in a network node ( | 2015-05-28 |
20150148053 | METHOD OF SYNCHRONIZATION WITHIN AN LTE/LTE-A SYSTEM IN UNLICENSED SPECTRUM - Methods, systems, and devices are described for wireless communication. One method may include receiving, at a first base station, at least one clear channel assessment (CCA)-exempt transmission (CET) indicating timing information of at least a second base station over a shared spectrum. A timing of the first base station may be adjusted based on the received timing information of the second base station. Another method of wireless communication may include identifying a CCA slot assigned to a first base station for a frame, which may be associated with time synchronization, of a shared spectrum. A CCA may be performed at the identified CCA slot for the frame. When the CCA is successful, a first timing information of the first base station may be selectively transmitted during the frame. When the CCA is unsuccessful, a second timing information of a second base station may be listened for during the frame. | 2015-05-28 |
20150148054 | CONTROL APPARATUS, RADIO STATION, RADIO TERMINAL, AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING UTILIZATION OF SHARED FREQUENCY - In one embodiment, a controller ( | 2015-05-28 |
20150148055 | System and Method for Location Boosting Using Proximity Information - A system and method for determining the location of a target mobile device in a communications network. A set of mobile devices in proximity to the target mobile device may be determined as a function of a common parameter of information observed by mobile devices in the set. Measurement data may be shared for the set of mobile devices and the target mobile device, and a location of the target mobile device determined as a function of the shared measurement data. This sharing of measurement data may occur amongst the set of mobile devices and the target mobile device or may also occur at a communications network entity. | 2015-05-28 |
20150148056 | Methods, Devices, and Computer Readable Storage Devices for Collecting and Reporting Location Data with a High Frequency - A mobile communication device collects and reports location data associated with itself and with mobile communication devices within a proximity The mobile communication device determines its location and detects the presence of another communication device located within the proximity of the mobile communication device. The mobile communication device determines a location of the other mobile communication device. The mobile communication device reports it location and the location of the other mobile communication device. | 2015-05-28 |
20150148057 | MOTION STATE BASED MOBILE DEVICE POSITIONING - Various techniques are provided which may be implemented as methods, apparatuses and articles of manufacture for use by a mobile device or one or more computing devices to provide for or otherwise support motion state based mobile device positioning. In an example, a method may be implemented at a mobile device to identify two or more subsets of grid points corresponding to an electronic map representing a particular environment, select one of the two or more subsets of grid points for use in position estimation based, at least in part, on a motion state of the mobile device, and determine an estimated position of the mobile device based, at least in part, on the selected subset of grid points. | 2015-05-28 |
20150148058 | MOBILE DEVICE ANALYTICS - A computing device generates profiles based on mobile device data. The computing device receives a plurality of mobile device records of a plurality of mobile devices in a region, that each include a timestamp, a location data, and an activity data, and assigns each of the plurality of mobile device records to one of a plurality of space-time boxes. The computing device performs analytics on the mobile device records assigned to the plurality of space-time boxes to yield a resulting plurality of profiles, which can include a mobility profile indicating the number of locations in the region that each mobile device occupies during a span, a hangout profile indicating the number of mobile devices that occupy each location in the region during a span, and a buddy profile indicating the mobile devices that occupy the same location in the region as a given mobile device. | 2015-05-28 |
20150148059 | TIME DISTANCE OF ARRIVAL BASED MOBILE DEVICE LOCATION DETECTION WITH DISTURBANCE SCRUTINY - Techniques for locating a mobile device using a time distance of arrival (TDOA) method with disturbance scrutiny are provided. In an aspect, for respective combinations of three base station devices of a number of base station devices greater than or equal to three, intersections in hyperbolic curves, generated using a closed form function with input values based on differences of distances from the device to pairs of base station devices of the respective combinations of three base station devices, are determined. The intersection points are then tested for robustness against measurement errors associated with the input values and a subset of the intersection points that are associated with a degree of resistance to the measurement errors are selected to estimate a location of the device. | 2015-05-28 |
20150148060 | GEOFENCE COMPOSITIONS - Architecture that enables geofence combinations and compositions where multiple correlated geofences are generated for an entity such as a point of interest. The geofences can have varying radii relative to a specific entity and represent distinct areas or aspects of the entity. The geofences can relate to correspondingly different categories to which the entity can belong. The geofences can be of differing shapes than circular, such as polygons (e.g., rectangles, squares, etc.). Moreover, these differently shaped geofences can be applied to a single entity. Each geofence of a geofence set associated with an entity can be assigned to represent different parts of an entity such as a part a shopping mall. Geofence composition is obtained by combining multiple primitive geofences to compose more complex geofence(s) for an entity and for embedding the relationship of the primitive geofences into such compositions. | 2015-05-28 |
20150148061 | GEOFENCES FROM CONTEXT AND CROWD-SOURCING - Architecture that enables the capability to more effectively define and resize geofences to provide improved geofence utility based on rich context and crowd-sourced data. The architecture enables the intelligent placement of geofences based on rich context that includes both user context and ambient context such as the (predicted or implicitly/explicitly defined) user's travel path, mode of transport, the type of the entity to be visited by the user and geofenced, and the user incentive for visiting the entity to be geofenced. The ambient context includes non-user specific information such as external conditions that may limit or thwart user mobility such as traffic and weather conditions. The rich context and crowd-sourced data assist in improving the spatiotemporal accuracy of suggested/constructed geofences thereby creating a “shaped” geofence that is sufficiently defined to approximate the shape of the entity being geofenced with some degree of accuracy. | 2015-05-28 |
20150148062 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONFIGURING MOBILE RELAY NODE TRACKING AREA AND LOCATION UPDATE - A method and apparatus for mobile relay node tracking area configuration and location update. The method includes: configuring a dedicated tracking area for a Donor eNodeB (DeNB); configuring a dedicated tracking area for a mobile Relay Node (RN) accessing the DeNB; when a terminal (UE) accessing the mobile RN registers or tracking area updates, allocating a tracking area identifier list containing the dedicated tracking area to the UE; the dedicated tracking area is a tracking area code dedicated to a mobile relay. The method and apparatus try the best to guarantee that a paging area list allocated to the UE contains the tracking area configured for the mobile relay serving the UE, thereby avoiding that numerous UEs served by the RN trigger location update simultaneously in the process of the RN moving. | 2015-05-28 |
20150148063 | VARIABLE-POSITIONING BASED REPORTING METHOD IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND DEVICE SUPPORTING SAME - Provided is a reporting method performed by a terminal in a wireless communication system. The method comprises receiving positioning duration setting from a network, evaluating a positioning enabling condition, and if the positioning enabling condition is satisfied, starting a positioning duration timer, enabling positioning, acquiring position information through the enabled positioning, and transmitting a report message including a measurement result and the position information to the network. | 2015-05-28 |
20150148064 | METHOD, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM, DEVICE AND SYSTEM - The present application relates to a method whereby the communication traffic between a wireless communication apparatus such as a smartphone and another device such as a map information providing server and/or server managed by mobile virtual network operator MVNO. According to a first aspect, the communication traffic can be reduced by dividing items of geographical information that are sent to the smartphone are divided into static information and dynamic information and the two types of information are separately processed in that the map data is updated less often than information such as traffic congestion, weather information or the congestion level of a base station. According to a second aspect, congestion information is derived by averaging over time the number of vehicles which pass through a certain point. According to a third aspect, the updating interval, i.e. the frequency by which new information will be downloaded from the server, is adapted to degree of change of the dynamic information over time. According to a fourth aspect, the updating interval is adapted to the movement speed of the smartphone. According to a fifth aspect, download rates of a communication carrier are displayed on top of a map, thereby providing some sort of geobrowsing. According to a sixth aspect, an MVNO informs its subscribers about base station related information, such as signal intensity and the base station's congestion level. According to a seventh aspect, the smartphone selects, on the basis of the various items of information received, another network, either manually or automatically. | 2015-05-28 |
20150148065 | TERMINAL DEVICE, SCANNING METHOD AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - A terminal device includes a memory, and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to execute scanning for a wireless signals at a first frequency for a first time period after the terminal device changes from a stationary state to a movement state or for a second time period after the terminal device changes from the movement state to the stationary state, and stop the scanning or execute the scanning at a second frequency lower than the first frequency after the first time period has elapsed or after the second time period has elapsed. | 2015-05-28 |
20150148066 | DEVICE LOCATION MONITORING - Method of monitoring a first device proximity to a second device, comprising:
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20150148067 | POSITIONING DATA BASED CELL MANAGEMENT - A mobile communication network comprises a first cell ( | 2015-05-28 |
20150148068 | METHOD FOR ESTIMATING SPEED OF USER DEVICES IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS - A method of user speed estimation in a mobile network ( | 2015-05-28 |
20150148069 | Method And System For Map Generation For Location And Navigation With User Sharing/Social Networking - Methods and systems for map generation for location and navigation with user sharing/social networking may comprise a premises-based crowd-sourced database that receives images and location data from a plurality of users of wireless communication devices, and for each of said plurality of users: receiving a determined position of a wireless communication device (WCD), where the position is determined by capturing images of the surroundings of the WCD. Data associated with objects in the surroundings of the WCD may be extracted from the captured images, positions of the objects may be determined, and the determined positions and the data may then update the premises-based crowd-sourced database. The position of the WCD may be determined utilizing global navigation satellite system (GNSS) signals. The elements may comprise structural and/or textual features in the surroundings of the WCD. The position may be determined utilizing sensors that measure a distance from a known position. | 2015-05-28 |
20150148070 | CROWDSOURCING BASED ON BASE STATION ALMANAC QUALITY - Systems, apparatus and methods for a mobile device and a base station almanac server to throttle crowdsourcing information are presented. The crowdsourcing information is used to improve a location of a base station in a base station almanac. A portion of the base station almanac is provided to a mobile device. For example, the mobile device may identify its current cell and request the base station almanac. The mobile device records crowdsourcing information to identify, for each particular base station of at least one base station, a cellular identifier for the particular base station, optional ranging information between the particular base station and the mobile device, and an independent position of the mobile device. The independent position of the mobile device may be formed from global navigation satellite system (GNSS) or station signals independent of the at least one base station. | 2015-05-28 |
20150148071 | System and method for determining audience characteristics of a music concert based on mobile phone tracking and mobile data transmissions - A concert profiling server (CPS) obtains and analyzes information about a venue hosting a music concert and mobile phone location information related to the audience members attending the concert. Based on this information, the CPS determines the size of the audience in attendance. The CPS also obtains and analyzes sentiment information related to audience members at the concert with which the CPS determines the audience's sentiment toward the concert as favorable or unfavorable. The CPS further obtains and analyzes other information with which it makes a profile of the demographics of the audience and the audience members' levels of engagement. | 2015-05-28 |
20150148072 | Methods and Systems for Locating Persons and Places with Mobile Devices - Methods, computer readable storage medium, and systems for mobile devices to locate persons or places are described. In a feature, the invention is a method implemented in a server for providing beaconing sequences to the mobile devices for location sharing. In a feature, the invention is a server executing a method of locating a user using a beaconing mobile device. In a feature, the invention is a non-transitory computer readable medium on a server that encodes a program to execute a method on a first mobile device that determine directions and/or distance between the first mobile device and a second mobile device. In a feature, the invention is a server executing a method to remember a place on a mobile device. | 2015-05-28 |
20150148073 | REDUCING SIGNALING LOAD CAUSED BY CHANGES IN TERMINAL LOCATION - This disclosure is directed to a serving node ( | 2015-05-28 |
20150148074 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROXIMITY-BASED SERVICE - A method and apparatus may be configured to monitor a first channel allocated to proximity-based services within a cluster. The method may also include transmitting, if the user device is not receiving transmissions on the first channel, an indication that the receiving user device is not receiving transmissions on the first channel allocated to the proximity-based services within the cluster. The method may also include receiving an indication of a second channel allocated to the proximity-based services within the cluster. | 2015-05-28 |
20150148075 | SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING LOCATION RELEVANT INFORMATION - A system for providing location relevant information to users of a plurality of mobile devices within a multi-storey building. A plurality of transmitters are located in different locations across multiple floors of the building. Each transmitter transmits a signal for identifying the location of its associated transmitter and signals transmitted at least by transmitters located on the same floor share at least one common transmission parameter. The mobile devices each run software that identifies signals received substantially concurrently from the transmitters, determining the closest transmitter, and then displays on the mobile device location relevant information associated with that location. | 2015-05-28 |
20150148076 | PUSH METHOD, SYSTEM AND SERVER BASED ON LOCATION INFORMATION - The present invention proposes a pushing method based on location information, comprising: recording a plurality of areas passed by a user; obtaining a resident area of the user according to the frequencies at which the user uses an electronic map in the plurality of areas, and pushing, when it is judged that the user enters a new area from the resident area, point of interest information in the new area to the user according to the point of interest information about the user in the resident area. The method in the embodiments of the present invention fully exploits the interests of a user and performs personalized customization, may better meet and inspire the needs of the user, and is widely applicable and easy to expand. The present invention also discloses a pushing system and server based on location information. | 2015-05-28 |
20150148077 | DYNAMIC COOPERATIVE GEOFENCE - A system includes one or more location determining devices for determining the locations of a plurality of mobile objects and one or more computing devices. The one or more computing devices are operable to identify the geographic locations of the objects using data generated by the one or more location determining devices and generate a single geofence corresponding to the geographic locations of the objects, wherein the objects associated with the geofence form a geofence group. The one or more computing devices are further operable to identify a change in the geographic location of at least one of the objects and change the geofence to reflect the change in the geographic location of the at least one object. The one or more computing devices are further operable to, after creating the geofence, include additional objects in the geofence group and remove objects from the geofence group according to inclusion rules. | 2015-05-28 |
20150148078 | LOCATION-BASED SERVICES - Provided herein are methods and systems relating to location-based services such as providing a geofence, outputting location-based information on a mobile device, varying transmissions to and from a mobile device, and providing location-based alerts. More specifically, a method can include obtaining a first physical location of a mobile device; and generating a geofence on the mobile device based on the first physical location. The methods and systems also provide the capability to generate a geofence based on one or more physical locations of a mobile device over a course of time. | 2015-05-28 |
20150148079 | Location Derived Presence Information - The number of messages required in networks where both location and presence services are deployed may be reduced, by retrieving presence data from messages otherwise intended to provide only location information. Thus, information determined in a location service scheme is utilized to provide a presence service as well. A location server requests mobile subscriber (MS) information from a Core Network (CN) Node (i.e. HLR, MSC, etc.) that can be used in determining the Location of the MS. A single message aggregates retrieval of information for two services, specifically, for both location and presence. | 2015-05-28 |
20150148080 | NETWORK ARCHITECTURE FOR SYNCHRONIZED DISPLAY - Systems and methods are provided that couple one or more devices to one or more presentation screens and to one or more servers via network connections. Various devices can be identified on a network and location data regarding each of the mobile devices can be delivered to the servers. Data can be displayed on a presentation screen based on mobile devices in its proximity, for example. | 2015-05-28 |
20150148081 | PRESENTING MAPS ON A CLIENT DEVICE - A system and method associated with displaying a map on a client device. The method includes transmitting context data related to the client device to a server, where the server is configured to identify that a location-specific map corresponding to a location of the client device is available to be displayed based to the context data; and receiving a signal from the server to display a prompt indicating that the location-specific map is available to be displayed on the client device, where the server determines whether to transmit the signal based on the context data. | 2015-05-28 |
20150148082 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR LOCATION BASED AD HOC GROUP CREATION FOR MESSAGING - Methods and apparatuses for ad-hoc group messaging are provided herein. In some embodiments, methods for ad-hoc group messaging may include detecting two or more subscribers proximate a common location, creating an ad-hoc group including contact information of the two or more subscribers proximate the common location, and transmitting information associated with the ad-hoc group to a device of each of the two or more subscribers associated with the ad-hoc group. | 2015-05-28 |
20150148083 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - A mobile terminal including a wireless communication unit configured to perform wireless communication; a touch screen; a sensor unit configured to detect a tapping input on the touch screen; and a controller configured to display an object on the touch screen corresponding to a counterpart terminal, receive a multi-tapping input on the object, and control the wireless communication unit to transmit a prescribed request message among a plurality of stored request messages to the counterpart terminal in response to the multi-tapping input. | 2015-05-28 |
20150148084 | Method and Message Server for Routing a Speech Message - A method and message server ( | 2015-05-28 |
20150148085 | RATING OF MESSAGE CONTENT FOR CONTENT CONTROL IN WIRELESS DEVICES - Systems, methodologies, and devices are described that facilitate filtering content sent to a mobile device(s) by a content provider via a core network. A content provider can determine a content rating for content, and/or the core network and/or mobile device can determine or infer a content rating for unrated content from a content provider, based in part on predefined content rating criteria. A mobile device user can specify a desired content rating preference for the mobile device. A filter(s) respectively associated with the core network and/or mobile device can filter the content based in part on the content rating of the content and the content rating preference of the mobile device to which the content is being sent. Content that does not meet a content rating threshold can be filtered out and stored in a secure content folder accessible using a security code or discarded. | 2015-05-28 |
20150148086 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COMMUNICATING SHORT MESSAGE SERVICE AND SUPPLEMENTARY SERVICES MESSAGES - Methods and apparatus for enabling short message service (SMS) and supplementary services (SS) in a long term evolution (LTE) network via evolved packet system (EPS) mobility management (EMM) over the LTE control plane are described. In one embodiment, the radio resource control (RRC) connection signaling radio bearer (SRB) is used for SMS and SS transport over the LTE control plane between a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) and a mobility management entity (MME). EMM interfaces and primitives are defined for actions towards SMS and SS entities for enabling SMS and SS services in LTE via the LTE control plane media. Message formats for SMS and SS message transport are also disclosed for sending SMS and SS messages within EMM uplink (UL) non-access stratum (NAS) transport and downlink (DL) NAS transport messages. | 2015-05-28 |
20150148087 | Mobile Device Message Scheduler for Reducing Congestion - A method, device and system are provided for scheduling the delivery of messages from a wireless device in order to reduce congestion on the wireless network used by the wireless device. A message scheduler application operating on the wireless device intercepts messages being sent from at least one application running on the wireless device to a device layer for transmission, where intercepted messages are collected and held in a message queue for later transmission. The message scheduler monitors operation of the wireless device to detect the establishment of a communication connection, such as a voice call or packet data session, and causes the messages in the message queue to be transmitted from the wireless device utilizing logical channels assigned to the wireless device when setting up the communication connection that are different from the traffic channel assigned for the communication connection to transmit voice or data content. | 2015-05-28 |
20150148088 | INTERFERENCE MANAGEMENT SERVICE FOR PORTABLE COMMUNICATION DEVICES - Method for mitigating interference is established by means of a local wireless communication ( | 2015-05-28 |
20150148089 | COMMUNICATION DEVICES AND METHODS FOR OPERATING A COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A communication device is described comprising a receiver configured to receive a radio signal from another communication device via a communication channel; a detector configured to detect the presence of an impairment of the communication channel; a determiner configured to determine a type of the impairment of the communication channel; and a transmitter configured to transmit an indication of the type of the impairment of the communication channel to the other communication device. | 2015-05-28 |
20150148090 | FREQUENCY NOTIFYING DEVICE, WIRELESS DEVICE, MANAGEMENT DEVICE AND METHOD - The frequency notifying device includes: a processor configured to store usable frequencies containing a restricted frequency being restricted in use thereof by radio equipment in a predetermined communication area and a frequency not being restricted in use thereof by the radio equipment in the communication area; and notify the radio equipment, in the communication area, of a signal for requesting the radio equipment to check whether the restricted frequency is usable or not before performing a communication using the restricted frequency when notifying the radio equipment of the usable frequency. | 2015-05-28 |
20150148091 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, TRANSMISSION POWER CONTROL METHOD, AND NETWORK CONTROL APPARATUS - The objective of the invention is to improve the communication performance of a secondary system within such a range that does not affect a primary system. A wireless communication system comprises: a primary system that can use a given frequency on a priority basis; secondary wireless communication systems each of which is operated with the same frequency; and a network control apparatus that controls the secondary wireless communication systems. The network control apparatus comprises: a primary system information acquiring unit that acquires information of the primary system; a secondary system information acquiring unit that acquires communication quality information of the secondary wireless communication systems; and an optimum computing unit that calculates, on the basis of the primary and secondary system information acquiring units, the transmission powers of a plurality of base stations of the secondary wireless communication systems. | 2015-05-28 |
20150148092 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE FOR COMMUNICATING USING TV WHITE SPACE AND METHOD THEREOF - A communication device is provided. The communication device includes: a transceiver configured to communicate with a counterpart communication device using a television (TV) white space; a measurer configured to measure power of a signal received from the counterpart communication device; a memory configured to store information corresponding to an initial power level; and a controller configured to determine a transmission power level based on the power measured by the measurer and control the transceiver to communicate with the counterpart communication device while gradually increasing a transmission power of a signal transmitted to the counterpart communication device from the initial power level to the transmission power level. Accordingly, the effect on surrounding broadcast receiving apparatuses can be minimized. | 2015-05-28 |
20150148093 | BATTERY PACK WITH SUPPLEMENTAL MEMORY - Features are disclosed relating to a case for a mobile device that provides supplemental battery power and supplemental storage space to the mobile device. Additional features are disclosed relating to an external storage device that can provide supplemental battery power and/or supplemental storage space for one or more devices. Further features are disclosed relating sharing and searching for files. Files may be shared across multiple (e.g., two or more) devices, operated by or associated with multiple users, providing multiple file storage locations. Files may be searched across the multiple devices using, e.g., search terms, tags, and/or other search options. Searching may also be performed with respect to activities performed in connection with subject files. | 2015-05-28 |
20150148094 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF EXTENDING USEFUL LIFE OF POWER SUPPLY - A method of internally heating a power supply of an electronic device in reduced temperatures is provided. The method comprises positioning an antenna of the electronic device proximate to the power supply and receiving a “temperature” signal that is a function of a temperature of the power supply. When it is determined that the temperature is within a reduced operating-temperature range, the temperature is elevated and the equivalent series resistance (ESR) of the power supply is correspondingly reduced by actively sending current through the antenna. The “current sending” operation is reduced when the temperature of the portable electronic device is outside the reduced operating-temperature range. | 2015-05-28 |
20150148095 | MULTI-MODE POWER AMPLIFIER - A power amplifier module that includes a power amplifier and a controller is presented herein. The power amplifier module may include a set of transistor stages and a plurality of bias circuits. At least one transistor stage from the set of transistor stages may be in electrical communication with a first bias circuit and a second bias circuit from the plurality of bias circuits. The first bias circuit can be configured to apply a first bias voltage to the at least one transistor stage and the second bias circuit can be configured to apply a second bias voltage to the at least one transistor stage. The controller may be configured to activate one of the first bias circuit and the second bias circuit. | 2015-05-28 |
20150148096 | Electronic Mobile Device - An electronic mobile device is disclosed. The electronic mobile device includes a housing including a plurality of sidewalls, a receiving space formed by the sidewalls, a slot formed in one of the sidewalls, and a non-conductive portion received in the slot. The non-conductive portion includes a non-metal body having a first surface facing the receiving space and a second surface opposed to the first surface. An antenna module is coupled with the housing, and the antenna module comprises an antenna coil locating on the first surface of the non-metal body. | 2015-05-28 |
20150148097 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, CONNECTION DESTINATION SWITCHING METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM - According to one embodiment, a electronic device includes a detector, a first connection processor and a second connection processor. The detector is configured to detect, when the electronic device is connected to a first apparatus which is a connection destination of the first wireless communication, a second apparatus which is a connection destination of the second wireless communication. The first connection processor is configured to connect the electronic device to the detected second apparatus. The second connection processor is configured to switch the connection destination of the first wireless communication from the first apparatus to a third apparatus when the second apparatus is detected or the device is connected to the second apparatus. | 2015-05-28 |
20150148098 | INTEGRATED CIRCUIT WITH ANTENNA ARRAYS AND METHODS FOR USE THEREWITH - Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, an integrated circuit that includes at least one die having transceiver circuitry that generates outbound signals that convey outbound data and that receives inbound signals that convey inbound data. A first array of antenna elements arranged along the top portion of the IC package operate in conjunction with the transceiver circuitry to transmit at least a first portion of the outbound signals as first wireless transmissions and/or generate at least a first portion of the inbound signals from first wireless receptions. A second array of antenna elements arranged along the bottom portion of the IC package operate in conjunction with the transceiver circuitry to transmit at least a second portion of the outbound signals as second wireless transmissions and/or to generate at least a second portion of the inbound signals from second wireless receptions. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 2015-05-28 |
20150148099 | Portable Electronic Device - A portable electronic device including a first section, a second section and a connecting section. The first section has a user input section and a first tubular housing member. The first tubular housing member forms a majority of opposite exterior lateral sides of the first section. The second section has a display and a second tubular housing member. The second tubular housing member forms a majority of opposite exterior lateral sides of the second section. The connecting section movably connects the second section with the first section. The first tubular housing member at least partially houses the user input section. The second tubular housing member at least partially houses the display. | 2015-05-28 |
20150148100 | INTERCOM HANDSET FOR CELLULAR PHONES AND SMARTPHONES WITH E.M.F. SHIELD - Intercom handset for cellular phones and smartphones provided with a ferritic layer of shielding against the electromagnetic field or E.M.F. emitted by mobile phone devices. The intercom handset can be rapidly inserted onto the cellular phone and used directly connected to the latter by means of an extensible and retractable cable, contained inside its body, or by means of a Bluetooth connection. The intercom handset can also be used separated from the phone, by means of said extensible and retractable cable, contained inside its body, or by means of a wireless connection by means of the built-in Bluetooth module, whose battery is charged by means of an inductive load system that charges the battery of the built-in Bluetooth module, using the radio transmission energy of the cellular phone or smartphone, normally dispersed in the air during the periodic search for the cellular transmission network and during the telephone conversation. | 2015-05-28 |
20150148101 | Subscriber Identity Module Card Compatible Apparatus and Terminal Device - A subscriber identity module card compatible apparatus and a terminal device, including: a base; a first card slot for a first SIM card to be inserted into, a second card slot for a second SIM card to be inserted into, and a stopper used for preventing the second SIM card from being inserted into the second card slot after the first SIM card is inserted into the first card slot or preventing the first SIM card from being inserted into the first card slot after the second SIM card is inserted into the second card slot; all of the first card slot, the second card slot and the stopper are arranged on the base, and the stopper is arranged between the first card slot and the second card slot. | 2015-05-28 |
20150148102 | SYSTEM FOR MECHANICALLY AND ELECTRICALLY CONNECTING A MOBILE DEVICE CASE TO DIFFERENT MOUNTS - A system, for mechanically and electrically connecting to a mobile device that includes a first connector having an exposed first set of one or more electrodes, including a mount and a case. The case is removably attachable to the mount and can removably receive the mobile device at least partially. The case includes: a second connector, configured to removably engage the first connector, and having an exposed second electrode set corresponding to the first set, respectively; and a first mating part that includes an integral and exposed third electrode set corresponding at least in part to and electrically connected to the second set, respectively. The mount includes a second mating part having an integral and exposed fourth electrode set corresponding to the third set, respectively. The first and the second mating parts are removably engageable and provide mechanical and electrical connections between the case and the mount. | 2015-05-28 |