27th week of 2012 patent applcation highlights part 48 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20120171974 | Noise Suppression - The present invention relates to a method of suppressing noise in a communication device. The idea consists in forwarding to a noise suppression module some information regarding the radio transmission in terms of radio activity and/or in terms of radio transmission power. The module then advantageously uses this information to suppress radio path noise. | 2012-07-05 |
20120171975 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING PEAK-TO-AVERAGE POWER RATIO OF SINGLE CARRIER FDMA SYSTEM - A method for controlling peak-to-average power ratio prior to amplification by a power amplifier is provided. The peak sample of a signal is predicted, window length is adjusted based on the peak width around the peak sample or subcarriers used to transmit the signal, and the window is subsequently used to clip the samples. A peak suppression window may be applied prior to predicting the peak sample when a set number of samples exceed a predetermined threshold. Window clipping may be deactivated if interference and throughput of the power amplifier is detrimentally affected. A pulse shaping filter may be optimized based on the window clipping to control transmitted signal characteristics. Various thresholds used in the prediction may be initially based on system design and power amplifier linearity and then dynamically adjusted based on an estimation of active subcarriers or of interferers present in the communication system. | 2012-07-05 |
20120171976 | HEADPHONE ANTENNA FOR RADIO COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE - A radio communications device includes a headphone assembly, which includes at least one aural speaker or transducer and a headphone cable functioning as an antenna and providing electrical signals carrying audio information to the at least one aural speaker or transducer. A signal separator coupled to the headphone cable separates the electrical signals carrying audio information transmitted to the headphone cable and radio frequency (RF) signals received from the headphone cable. A radio receiver receives the RF signals from the signal separator and converts the RF signals to electrical signals carrying audio information. A tuner is provided for tuning the headphone cable to a selected operating frequency of the radio receiver. An audio amplifier amplifies electrical signals carrying audio information from the radio receiver to be transmitted through the headphone cable to the at least one aural speaker or transducer. | 2012-07-05 |
20120171977 | ANTENNA DIVERSITY SCHEME EMPLOYING BAND PASS SAMPLING AND FAST SEMICONDUCTOR SWITCHING - A vehicle or other host station includes first and second antennas, a fast semiconductor switch, a switching controller, and an RF receiver. The controller toggles the switch at a calibrated switching rate to selectively and alternately connect the first antenna to one of the RF receiver and a load having a calibrated impedance value. The first antenna may be a parasitic element in any embodiment using the load. The semiconductor switch may be a CMOS device or a Gallium Arsenide semiconductor switch. A switching control method for use in a vehicle or other host station having the first antenna, the second antenna, and the RF receiver includes transmitting a switching signal from the controller to the switch, and toggling the switch at a calibrated switching rate in response to the switching signal to selectively and alternately connect the first antenna to one of the RF receiver and the load. | 2012-07-05 |
20120171978 | Methods and Systems for Interference Rejection for Low Signals - A radio device and a method to operate a non-heterodyne receiver are provided. The radio device is configured to receive a signal waveform and to provide a wake-up signal to a second communication circuit when the signal waveform is a valid communication request; wherein the second communication circuit switches from a power saving state to an operating state upon receiving the wake-up signal from the non-heterodyne receiver. The non-heterodyne receiver further including an Electromagnetic interference (EMI) rejection circuit, including a narrow band filter and a broadband filter to reject an EMI signal. A filter circuit for a narrow passband circuit is also provided. The filter including a buffer circuit; a crystal oscillator coupled to the output of the buffer circuit; and an inverting amplifier coupled in parallel to the crystal oscillator. | 2012-07-05 |
20120171979 | RADIO FREQUENCY RECEIVER AND RADIO RECEIVER - An RF receiver includes a variable gain amplifier which amplifies a received RF signal based on a gain control signal, a peak detector which determines a peak value of the amplified signal, a mixer which downconverts the amplified signal to a downconverted signal, and a control unit which determines whether or not an interfering signal other than an adjacent channel interfering signal is received. If the control unit determines that the interfering signal other than the adjacent channel interfering signal is received, the control unit generates the gain control signal so that the range of the peak value is a first range; otherwise, the control unit generates the gain control signal so that the range of the peak value is a second range. The upper and lower bounds of the second range are lower than the upper and lower bounds of the first range, respectively. | 2012-07-05 |
20120171980 | Amplifier with On-Chip Filter - An integrated circuit for a radio receiver comprising a radio-frequency amplifier and a radio-frequency filter is described. The amplifier receives radio-frequency signals from an antenna, the filter is connected to the amplifier output, and the output of the filter is provided to a processing stage of the receiver. The amplifier comprises an amplifying stage controlled by a radio-frequency input signal and a signal fed back from the filter. The amplifier input impedance is substantially matched to the antenna impedance at a frequency band of interest. The signal fed back from the filter providing attenuation of signals outside the frequency band of interest at the amplifier input. The filter comprises one or more filter components. A filter component comprises a first input and a second input for receiving the amplifier output, a first switch arranged to selectively connect the first input to a first impedance, a second switch arranged to selectively connect the first input to a second impedance, a third switch arranged to selectively connect the second input to the first impedance, and a fourth switch arranged to selectively connect the second input to the second impedance. The first and fourth switches are controlled by a first oscillator signal and the second and third switches are controlled by a second oscillator signal that is 180° out of phase with the first oscillator signal. | 2012-07-05 |
20120171981 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR RECEIVING RADIO FREQUENCY SIGNALS - Radio frequency signals having a plurality of frequency ranges are received and coupled to a plurality of transmission lines, each of the plurality of transmission lines being formed in a corresponding plurality of generally parallel planes. Circuitry is formed for each of the plurality of transmission lines to define substantially low impedances for all of the plurality of frequency ranges except for a frequency range or ranges to be carried by the corresponding transmission line. Signals are coupled to the plurality of transmission lines so that signals with the plurality of frequency ranges are received and distributed with substantially decreased reflection and substantially high impedance matching by the plurality of transmission lines. | 2012-07-05 |
20120171982 | Medical Data Acquisition and Provision - A computer-implemented method includes determining a user account associated with a vehicle occupant. The method also includes detecting the presence of at least one active monitoring device. The method further includes determining an association between the active monitoring device and the user account and periodically downloading device information from the active monitoring device to a vehicle computing system. Finally, the method includes storing downloaded device information in association with the user account. | 2012-07-05 |
20120171983 | HANDLING EMERGENCY CALLS ON AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE - There are disclosed techniques for handling emergency calls in an electronic device, such as a mobile telephone. For example, in one embodiment, upon receipt of a request at the user-interface of the device to terminate an emergency call, the device first requests confirmation that the call should be terminated. In another embodiment, once the emergency call is terminated, if an incoming call request is subsequently received within a predetermined period of time, the device establishes a voice connection with the incoming caller regardless of whether the device is instructed to establish the voice connection. In another embodiment, once the emergency call is terminated, the device remains operable to receive a subsequent incoming call regardless of whether the device is instructed otherwise. | 2012-07-05 |
20120171984 | HELP MESSAGE TRANSMISSION METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE IMPLEMENTING THE METHOD - The disclosure provides a help message transmission method and an electronic device implementing the method. The electronic device stores a reference value and a phonebook, which records a plurality of phone numbers of contacts and places of registration of SIM cards associated with the phone numbers. The method includes steps: sensing an action and generating a sensed signal, analyzing the sensed signal and generating a characteristic parameter value of the action, evaluating whether the characteristic parameter value reaches the reference value, if yes, acquiring a position information of the electronic device and at least one phone number whose place of registration covers the position of the electronic device from the phonebook according to the position information, generating a help message according to the position information and the phone number, and sending a wireless signal of the help message to the at least one phone number. | 2012-07-05 |
20120171985 | Method of Handling an emergency bearer service for Mobile Station - A method of handling an emergency bearer service for a mobile station is disclosed. The mobile station comprises a terminal adaptor and a terminal equipment. The method comprises the terminal adaptor indicating a first registration status for an emergency bearer service to the terminal equipment of the mobile station. | 2012-07-05 |
20120171986 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REPORTING EMERGENCY IN CALL STATE IN PORTABLE WIRELESS TERMINAL - A method and apparatus for providing telephone conversation information with a called party in a call state to a third party on a network is disclosed. The method comprises acquiring a telephone conversation voice corresponding to a keyword in a call state and transmitting a message regarding a declaration of an emergency to a third party. | 2012-07-05 |
20120171987 | SMOKE OR FIRE ALARMS - The present invention provides a battery-powered smoke/fire alarm unit which comprises a housing accommodating: at least a first battery; a smoke/fire detector linked to an audible alarm powered by the first battery; a telecommunications unit; and a switch responsive to triggering of the alarm to then connect the telecommunications unit to the first battery or to a second battery in the housing to thence power the telecommunications unit to send a warning message. | 2012-07-05 |
20120171988 | EXTENDED EMERGENCY NOTIFICATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Systems and methods are provided for notifying an extended group of persons that a person has requested assistance from a private response center. In one example, an electronic communication is received from the first person, requesting assistance. One or more potential assisting persons are automatically identified as being in position to render assistance to the first person. An electronic message is sent to the one or more potential assisting persons indicating that the first person has requested assistance. The potential assisting persons may be identified based at least in part on their proximity to the first person, for example based on their interaction with the same cell of a cellular communications network, or based on global positioning system data. The electronic message may contain other information, such as information about the first person. In this way, the original caller may be assisted more quickly than would otherwise occur. | 2012-07-05 |
20120171989 | EXTENDED EMERGENCY NOTIFICATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Systems and methods are provided for notifying an extended group of persons that a person has requested assistance from a private response center. In one example, an electronic communication is received from the first person, requesting assistance. One or more potential assisting persons are automatically identified as being in position to render assistance to the first person. An electronic message is sent to the one or more potential assisting persons indicating that the first person has requested assistance. The potential assisting persons may be identified based at least in part on their proximity to the first person, for example based on their interaction with the same cell of a cellular communications network, or based on global positioning system data. The electronic message may contain other information, such as information about the first person. In this way, the original caller may be assisted more quickly than would otherwise occur. | 2012-07-05 |
20120171990 | Systems and Methods to Restrict Payment Transactions - Systems and methods are provided to selectively restrict payment transactions. In one aspect, a system includes: a data storage facility to store restriction data in association with a phone number; and an interchange coupled with the data storage facility. The interchange includes a common format processor and a plurality of converters to interface with mobile controllers. The converters are configured to communicate with the controllers in different formats and to communicate with the common format processor in a common format. In response to a payment request identifying the phone number and a merchant, the common format processor determines whether to reject the payment request based at least in part on the restriction data and the identity of the merchant. If the request is not rejected, the common format processor uses one of the converters to communicate with a telephonic apparatus at the phone number to confirm the payment request. | 2012-07-05 |
20120171991 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONFIGURING NODES IN A WIRELESS NETWORK - Methods, systems, devices and computer programs for configuring nodes on a wireless network can include generating a security key for the network, setting the security settings on the access point based on the security key, and saving the security key in a profile data file on a removable memory device along with a portable configuration utility for using the profile data file for configuring other nodes on the network. The removable memory device can then be inserted into other nodes and the portable configuration utility can be run to match the same key on the other network nodes based on the information stored in the profile data file on the removable memory device. | 2012-07-05 |
20120171992 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SECURE CONTAINMENT OF SENSITIVE FINANCIAL INFORMATION STORED IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL - A method for securing information over-the-air (OTA) in a non-Universal Integrated Circuit Card (UICC) type secure element (SE) of a mobile terminal including receiving a request to initialize an OTA proxy of a mobile terminal, initializing the OTA proxy, receiving a request to secure information, and securing, using the OTA proxy, the requested information in the non-UICC type SE. A method for reconstructing a mobile wallet application including receiving a request to reconstruct the mobile wallet application for a user; transmitting stored mobile wallet application information associated with the user to the mobile terminal; receiving mobile terminal information and SE information; and transmitting a stored application associated with the mobile wallet application information to the mobile terminal. A mobile terminal to secure information OTA in a non-UICC type SE including an OTA proxy to receive a securing command from a TSM, and a non-UICC SE. | 2012-07-05 |
20120171993 | METHODS FOR ACCESS CONTROL WITH A BACK-OFF TIMER MAINTAINED FOR LOW PRIORITY DEVICES OR MACHINE TYPE COMMUNICATION (MTC) DEVICES, AND APPARATUSES USING THE SAME - A mobile communication device configured for Machine Type Communication (MTC) is provided. In the mobile communication device, a wireless module performs wireless transmissions and receptions to and from a service network, and a controller module starts a back-off timer in response to adding a Public Land Mobile Network | 2012-07-05 |
20120171994 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF SECURED WIRELESS COMMUNICATION - A method and a system for secured wireless communication are provided. The method for secured wireless communication includes connecting a first electronic device with a second electronic device via a network, detecting, by the second electronic device, a status of a particular mode of the second electronic device, and transmitting, to the first electronic device, a status of unsecured communication of the second electronic device according to the status of the particular mode of the second electronic device. | 2012-07-05 |
20120171995 | System for Authorizing the Use of Communication Devices by Proximity - The present invention relates to the use of a transponder for wireless communication with the mobile phone, replacing the process of inserting the SIM card inside the device. | 2012-07-05 |
20120171996 | METHOD FOR ENABLING OPERATION OF A WIRELESS MODEM - The present invention provides a method for enabling operation of a wireless modem configured for operation with a Subscriber Identity Module (SIM). The method comprises determining a personal identification number (PIN) based at least in part on a predetermined network domain; configuring the SIM to release wireless network access data only upon providing the PIN; determining a network domain of a user session on a user device, the user device operatively connected to the wireless modem; determining a SIM-unlock code based at least in part on the network domain associated with the user device; providing the SIM-unlock code to the SIM; and comparing the SIM-unlock code to the PIN; whereby wireless network access is enabled only if at least the network domain associated with a user device corresponds with the predetermined network domain. | 2012-07-05 |
20120171997 | ENCODED COLORGRAM FOR MOBILE DEVICE SECURITY - A security system includes a software application running in a user's smartphone and a separately carried visual key that the user can image at will with the smartphone's camera. An effective visual key would typically comprise digital data encoded in a series of colored cells arranged in a colorgram. Such digital data is treated as a what-you-have security factor, and is concatenated with other security factors so users can authenticate themselves to websites, internet services, and even within the smartphone device itself or its applications. In one aspect, when users authenticate themselves to a server, the server returns a short-term supply of one-time-passwords or account numbers for use in secure access and financial transactions on other systems. | 2012-07-05 |
20120171998 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING LOST MODE IN A MOBILE DEVICE - A method and apparatus for performing a lost mode in a mobile device are provided. When the mobile device receives a communication message containing a lost notification string, a lost mode is executed. The mobile device in the lost mode is connected to a social network server, based on user authentication information previously registered in the mobile device. The mobile device transmits a lost notification message, containing information regarding a location where the mobile device is currently located, to the social network server. As a result, it is more likely that the owner of the lost mobile device can retrieve the mobile device from a person who found it. | 2012-07-05 |
20120171999 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING SOCIAL NETWORK SERVICE IN PORTABLE TERMINAL - An apparatus and a method provide a social network service in a portable terminal. The apparatus includes an input unit that allows selection of a login method for accessing the social network service; a login information generating unit that generates login information using information capable of identifying a user when user identification is required in the selected login method and generates the login information by using information capable of identifying a device when the user identification is not required in the selected login method; a controller that determines whether the user identification is required in the selected login method and generates the login information according to the selected login method; and an application executing unit that executes the social network service by using the generated login information. | 2012-07-05 |
20120172000 | Apparatus and Method of Securing Private Content Stored In a Memory - An apparatus and a method of securing private content stored in a memory are presented. A terminal includes a memory configured to store a private content identifier associated with private content. The private content identifier includes international mobile subscriber identity information of a smart card associated with a user that is authorized to access the private content. A particular smart card includes a smart card identifier associated with the particular smart card. The terminal also includes a security function configured to perform a comparison of the private content identifier to the smart card identifier and to grant access to the private content when a result of the comparison is positive. | 2012-07-05 |
20120172001 | METHOD OF SUPPORTING LOCATION PRIVACY - A method of supporting location privacy of a mobile station includes receiving, from a base station, a temporary station identifier (TSTID) during an initial ranging procedure; transmitting a registration request (REG-REQ) message requesting a registration to the base station, the REG-REQ message including a real medium access control (MAC) address of the mobile station; and receiving, from the base station, a registration response (REG-RSP) message including a station identifier (STID) assigned to the mobile station. The TSTID is temporarily used to protect a mapping between the real MAC address of the mobile station and the STID, and the TSTID is used until the STID is assigned to the mobile station. | 2012-07-05 |
20120172002 | METHOD OF SUPPORTING LOCATION PRIVACY - A method of supporting location privacy of a mobile station includes receiving, from a base station, a message including a temporary station identifier (TSTID) during an initial ranging procedure, wherein the TSTID is temporarily used to protect the location privacy of the mobile station; performing, with the base station, a basic capabilities negotiation procedure after the initial ranging procedure; performing, with the base station, an authentication procedure after the basic capabilities negotiation procedure; performing, with the base station, a registration procedure after the authentication procedure; and releasing the TSTID after receiving a station identifier (STID) which is assigned during the registration procedure, wherein the STID uniquely identifies the mobile station in the base station. | 2012-07-05 |
20120172003 | AUTHENTICATION LOADING CONTROL AND INFORMATION RECAPTURE IN A UMTS NETWORK - An authentication loading control feature enables a service provider to control the number of authentication procedures or percentage of time that authentication procedures are performed by a network element adapted to perform authentication procedures (e.g., a Serving GPRS Support Node (SGSN) of a UMTS network); and an information recapture feature enables the network element to obtain, in the absence of authentication, UE information that conventionally would have been received as a part of the authentication procedure as needed, for example and without limitation, to support charging and lawful intercept functions. | 2012-07-05 |
20120172004 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR WIRELESS PHONE RECORDING - The present invention related to a method for recording a mobile phone call and mobile phone recording system for recording audio from mobile phone calls. An external call is established with the mobile phone. A connection is made between the wireless phone and an audio capture and broadcast device, such as a Bluetooth device. The call recorder application can instruct the Bluetooth device to forward copies of transmit and receive audio back to the call recording application. The internal call can be tagged with an identification. Thereafter, the audio, and data such as SMS and MMS, can be forwarded to a third party database for storage or stored locally for the end user to play back on the phone or transfer to an external device using USB, wireless, or similar data connection. | 2012-07-05 |
20120172005 | Community Interaction Using Mobile Communication Devices - Techniques are provided for delivering content to mobile communication devices related to interactions of members with a user community. The method involves detecting a communication session involving a mobile communication device; determining one or more context parameters associated with the communication session; and delivering content related to the context parameters to one or more mobile communication devices. Data is stored at a central computing entity that indicates association or membership of a plurality of mobile communication device users in a user community. The central computing entity detects when an action is taken by one mobile device user that is a member of the user community, and sends a notification to members of the social circle based on the detected action. These techniques allow individuals who are involved in a user community to maintain their interaction with the user community using their mobile communication devices. | 2012-07-05 |
20120172006 | APPARATUS, AND ASSOCIATED METHOD, FOR PROVIDING INDICATION OF RULE-BASED ACTIVITY AT AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An apparatus, and an associated method, that causes indication to be made to alert a user or other viewer of a communication device that a message, notification, or other information indicia has been acted upon by a rule of a rule set. A determiner determines that the indicia has been acted upon by a rule of the rule set and an indication is caused to be generated. The indication is displayed at a display device, together with an indication of the associated message, notification, or indicia, thereby to alert the viewer of the action taken upon the indicia. | 2012-07-05 |
20120172007 | AUTOMATIC WIRELESS DEVICE MESSAGE MANAGEMENT RESPONSIVE TO END USER PREFERENCES - Automatically retrieving messages by a wireless telephone based on user preferences. A method of the invention receives a notification, on a wireless device, indicating that a computing device has a message for a user. One or more rules associated with the user are evaluated based on the received notification. The method also automatically requests the message from the computing device as a function of the evaluated rules and received from the computing device. The method further stores the received message in a memory area of the wireless telephone for rendering to the user. Alternatively, one or more rules associated with the user are dynamically generated by monitoring the user interaction with the wireless telephone. | 2012-07-05 |
20120172008 | MOBILE-ORIGINATED VOICEMAIL MESSAGES WITH LOCATION METADATA - A voicemail message system may process voicemail messages sent by mobile communication devices. A network interface may receive the voicemail messages over a network communication system. Each voicemail message may include metadata relating to the voicemail message containing location information indicative of the location of the mobile communication device at approximately the time the message is sent by the mobile communication device. A voicemail message processing system may cause each message which is received by the network interface to be stored in a message storage system, along with its location information. Related mobile communication devices, telephone switches, and recipient phone call devices are also described. | 2012-07-05 |
20120172009 | PROVISIONING OF CALLBACK REMINDERS ON A VEHICLE-BASED COMPUTING SYSTEM - One or more embodiments include a computer-implemented method and system for providing reply reminders to a vehicle occupant in a vehicle. Information indicating one or more unanswered communications from a nomadic telephone device may be wirelessly received at a vehicle computer. Time and/or date information for the unanswered communication may also be received. By automatically monitoring a passage of time, a determination may be made if one or more unanswered communications have been answered within a predefined reply period. If the one or more unanswered communications have not been answered within the predefined reply period, a reply reminder may be generated and presented in a vehicle. | 2012-07-05 |
20120172010 | MEDIUM RANGE VEHICLE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A communication system for communicating with a vehicle via a wireless personal communication device such as a smart phone. The communication system uses medium-range transceivers to extend the effective range of the communication system. A communication device accessory that includes a portable medium-range RF transceiver is coupled to the wireless personal communication device so that power for the portable medium-range RF transceiver can be drawn from the wireless personal communication device. The communication device accessory is electrically coupled to the wireless personal communication device via a wired connection that provides at least a wired electrical power connection and optionally a wired data connection between the communication device accessory and the wireless personal communication device. | 2012-07-05 |
20120172011 | MULTI-SIM STATUS UPDATE SYSTEM - A particular method includes processing a call connection between a user equipment (UE) device and a first network. The UE device is coupled to or includes at least a first subscriber identity module (SIM) that is associated with the first network and a second SIM that is associated with a second network. The method includes sending a status update message to the second network associated with the second SIM. The status update message instructs the second network to provide a busy status message in response to receiving a call connection request that is directed to the second SIM. | 2012-07-05 |
20120172012 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE WHILE LOCATED IN A MOBILE VEHICLE - A method for controlling a mobile communications device while located in a mobile vehicle involves pairing the mobile communications device with a telematics unit via short range wireless communication. The method further involves, receiving an incoming text message at the mobile device while the mobile device is paired with the telematics unit. Upon receiving the text message, a text messaging management strategy is implemented via the telematics unit and/or the mobile device, where the text messaging management strategy is executable via an application that is resident on the mobile device. | 2012-07-05 |
20120172013 | mPulseRadio: An interactive broadcast radio system that enables real-time demographics collection - This invention assists broadcast radio listeners by facilitating their active engagement of on-air content. Listener selected information invokes search processes within a plurality of mediums and results are returned to the listener over prescribed plurality of communications mediums. Broadcasters acquire real-time listener demographic information based on the number of selections received when specific content is aired. Such information is used to assess the popularity of on-air personalities or particular products. The greatest impact of this invention is the combined application of broadcast radio, cellular telephone and the Internet to provide interactivity for listeners. All three mediums are harnessed to make this invention viable. The invention system offers novel capabilities that are not currently possible in modern broadcast radio. This includes the niche broadcast radio area of satellite radio. | 2012-07-05 |
20120172014 | Detect and Disable Text messaging function of handheld mobile cellular communication device in a moving vehicle. - A method of using a plurality of apparatus, systems, computer application software and communication protocols to create a state that detects and disables the functions of text messaging or voice communication of handheld mobile cellular devices while operating moving vehicle in the form of one and collectively automobile, aircraft, watercraft and locomotive. | 2012-07-05 |
20120172015 | METHOD OF OVER-THE AIR PERSONALIZATION AND COMMUNICATION DEVICE IMPLEMENTING THE SAME - A method of over-the-air (OTA) personalization of a communication device is provided. In this method, the communication device is configured to receive an OTA message, to determine if the OTA message includes personalization data to be used for personalizing the communication device, and to implement a personalization procedure according to the personalization data when it is determined that the OTA message includes the personalization data. | 2012-07-05 |
20120172016 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING COMMUNICATION BETWEEN AN UICC AND AN EXTERNAL APPLICATION - A method may be for controlling communication between a UICC, a handset including the UICC, and an external device associated with an external application running outside the handset. The method may include switching on the UICC by the handset, executing a first initialization procedure by the handset to establish a first communication session between the handset and the UICC, establishing a second communication session between the UICC and the external device, and executing a second initialization procedure between the external device and the UICC. The method may include retrieving an attribute of the handset by the UICC after completing the first initialization procedure, retrieving an attribute of the external device via the handset by the UICC after the completing the second initialization procedure, and comparing the attribute of the handset with the attribute of the external device to distinguish the second communication session from the first communication session. | 2012-07-05 |
20120172017 | SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING CO2 EMISSIONS - CO2G0 is a novel method to automatically estimate in real-time a person's CO | 2012-07-05 |
20120172018 | SYSTEM FOR THE SECURE MANAGEMENT OF DIGITALLY CONTROLLED LOCKS, OPERATING BY MEANS OF CRYPTO ACOUSTIC CREDENTIALS - The invention relates to a system that makes use of a mobile telephone ( | 2012-07-05 |
20120172019 | COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM PROVIDING MOBILE DEVICE NOTIFICATION BASED UPON PERSONAL INTEREST INFORMATION AND CALENDAR EVENTS - A communications system may include at least one mobile wireless communications device for storing personal interest information for respective contacts and for storing calendar event data. The system may further include a notification server communicating with the at least one mobile wireless communications device via a wireless communications network and configured to access the personal interest information and calendar event data from the at least one mobile wireless communications device, and send notifications to the at least one mobile wireless communications device based upon the personal interest information and the calendar event data. | 2012-07-05 |
20120172020 | Missed Telephone Call Management for a Portable Multifunction Device - In one aspect of the invention, a computer-implemented method is disclosed for use in conjunction with a portable electronic device with a touch screen display. A list of items comprising missed telephone calls is displayed. Upon detecting user selection of an item in the list, contact information is displayed for a respective caller corresponding to the user selected item. The displayed contact information includes a plurality of contact objects that include a first contact object, comprising a telephone number object having a first telephone number associated with the missed telephone call, and a second contact object. Upon detecting user selection of the second contact object, a communication with the respective caller is initiated via a modality corresponding to the second contact object. | 2012-07-05 |
20120172021 | CALL FORWARDING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FORWARDING A CALL TO A TERMINAL THROUGH NEAR-FIELD WIRELESS COMMUNICATION - In a call forwarding system, a management apparatus of the call forwarding system determines service terminals capable of near field wireless communication within a reception range of near field wireless communication, generates a terminal list, and receives a call event message reporting the receipt of a call from a reference terminal. The management apparatus may transmit a call report message including the terminal list to the reference terminal and the service terminals. The management apparatus may forward the call initially received by the reference terminal to a terminal which transmitted a receipt request message by transmitting a call forwarding request message to the reference terminal. The management apparatus may transmit, to the reference terminal and the service terminals, a receipt report message reporting the call was forwarded. According to a change receipt message or upon non-receipt by an intended terminal, the call may be reforwarded to another terminal. | 2012-07-05 |
20120172022 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING ETIQUETTE CALL MODE IN MOBILE DEVICE - An apparatus and method are provided to output a received call with a volume adjusted to a reference level range in the etiquette call mode. In the method for providing the etiquette call mode of a mobile device, the apparatus determines whether the etiquette call mode is activated in a call mode. When the etiquette call mode is activated, the apparatus establishes a transmission gain to a given gain value and also establishes a reception gain to a specific gain value corresponding to a minimum receiving volume level. Then the apparatus amplifies a received call by means of the established reception gain, adjusts a volume of the amplified received call to a given reference level range, and outputs the adjusted received call through a speaker. | 2012-07-05 |
20120172023 | MOBILE DEVICE AND METHOD FOR COLLECTING LOCATION BASED USER QUALITY DATA - A mobile device executes software. The software collects realistic and accurate user quality information without degrading the user experience of the mobile device during the data collection process. The software operates as a background application, and may have a user interface, and the software is remotely controllable and updatable by an external server. | 2012-07-05 |
20120172024 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING DE-SUBSCRIPTION OF A MASTER DEVICE AT A BASE STATION - A master device transmits a de-subscription command to a base station with which it is subscribed. The de-subscription command indicates the master device intends to de-subscribe itself, which requires resolution of a conflict handling process. Upon resolution of the conflict handling process, the base station de-subscribes the master device. | 2012-07-05 |
20120172025 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON PRELOADED MODELS - An approach is provided for providing recommendations based on preloaded models. A recommendation model platform determines to cause, at least in part, preloading of a device with at least one user model, at least one item model, or a combination thereof. Then, the recommendation model platform determines to cause, at least in part, processing of the at least one user model, the at least one item model, or a combination thereof to generate at least one recommendation for: (a) the device, (b) at least one user of the device, or (c) a combination thereof. | 2012-07-05 |
20120172026 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING MOBILE WALLET AND ITS RELATED CREDENTIALS - A method for provisioning a contactless card applet in a mobile device with a mobile wallet application, including activating the mobile wallet application, connecting to a Trusted Service Manager (TSM) system, synchronizing the mobile wallet application with the TSM system, displaying a contactless card applet based on attributes of the mobile device, receiving a selection of a contactless card applet, retrieving a widget and a wallet management applet (WMA) corresponding to the contactless card applet, and provisioning the selected contactless card applet, the widget, and the WMA. A wallet management system (WMS) in a non-transitory storage medium to store and manage mobile wallet account information including a wallet client management component, a widget management component, a device profile management component, and a rule engine. | 2012-07-05 |
20120172027 | Use of geofences for location-based activation and control of services - Disclosed herein is a geofence service that enables various remote control and automatic operations based a user's current geographic position as determined by the user's mobile device's current geographic location. The geofence service enables the user to define one or more geofences based on specific geographic locations. Such geofences may be applied against several geofence applications for remote and automatic control of devices. In one embodiment, the mobile device's volume or power control settings are adjusted based on the user's location inside or outside a geofence. In one embodiment, temperature setting of a building or house is controlled based on user's proximity to a geofence. In one embodiment, electrical appliances within a home are activated and controlled automatically based on user's current geographic location. | 2012-07-05 |
20120172028 | METHODS FOR ASSIGNING A PLETHORA OF GROUP COMMUNICATIONS AMONG A LIMITED NUMBER OF PRE-ESTABLISHED MBMS BEARERS IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An infrastructure device in a 3GPP compliant system performs a method to allocate MBMS bearers. The 3GPP compliant system includes a RAN partitioned into a plurality MBMS services areas, wherein each MBMS service area has a plurality of pre-established MBMS bearers for transporting media streams. The infrastructure device: receives a request to transmit a media stream to a communication group; selects a set of the MBMS service areas for transporting the media stream; determines an available MBMS bearer in each selected MBMS service area to assign to transport the media stream; and identifies the assigned MBMS bearers to members of the communication group. In addition, a UE performs a method for MBMS service area location update in the 3GPP compliant system. Accordingly, the UE: determines a 3GPP MBMS service area in which the UE is currently located; and identifies the 3GPP MBMS service area to an infrastructure device. | 2012-07-05 |
20120172029 | COMMUNICATION METHOD OF MOBILE PHONE - A communication method is used for a mobile phone. The mobile phone is capable of receiving a first subscriber identity module (SIM) card and a second SIM card. The mobile phone acquires a first paging reception time of the first SIM card and a second paging reception time of the second SIM card, and further calculates a minimum time gap between the first paging reception time and the second paging reception time. If the minimum time gap is less than a threshold time gap, the mobile phone modulates the first paging reception time and the second paging reception time, such that the minimum time gap is not less than the threshold time gap. | 2012-07-05 |
20120172030 | MOBILE PHONE WITH FUNCTION TO ACQUIRE TARGETED MESSAGE AND METHOD THEREOF - The disclosure provides a mobile phone with function to acquire targeted message and method thereof. The method includes steps: recording sub-actions of the mobile phone in response to input signals from a user in a predetermined time period in a coverage area of the base station, acquiring a defined key phrase of each sub-action and grouping all sub-actions associated with a same key phrase into a same action, counting the number of times of the action is performed in the predetermined time period in the coverage area of the base station, judging whether the number of times of the action reaches a preset value, if yes, sending a wireless signal including the key phrase of the action to the base station, and receiving a message including the key phrase within the text body of the message from the base station and displaying the message. | 2012-07-05 |
20120172031 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DELIVERING MEDIA TO A PLURALITY OF MOBILE DEVICES IN A CELL WITH A GROUP TRANSPORT FUNCTION - A group transfer function (GTF) receives a plurality of inputs and media for delivery to a plurality of mobile devices. The mobile devices are served by a plurality of cells potentially having a plurality of different radio access technologies such that each mobile device is wirelessly connected to one of the cells. The GTF applies policy rules to the inputs to determine, for each mobile device, content delivery using point-to-multipoint or point-to-point media transport based on the capabilities of the servicing cell. The GTF initiates an allocation of a set of resources in each cell to transport the media to each mobile device in the group using the determined media transport for that mobile device. Media is then replicated by the GTF for delivery to the mobile devices over the allocated resources. | 2012-07-05 |
20120172032 | METHOD FOR DETERMINNG THE TYPE OF A MOBILE RADIO BASE STATION; RADIO COMMUNICATION TERMINAL AND NETWORK DEVICES; RADIO COMMUNICATION SMART CARD DEVICE - In an embodiment, a method for determining the type of a mobile radio base station is provided. The method may include receiving a synchronization message comprising a mobile radio base station identifier, and determining the type of a mobile radio base station using a previously signaled and stored piece of mobile radio base station type determining information indicating a rule as to how the type of a mobile radio base station out of a plurality of types of a mobile radio base station can be derived from a mobile radio base station identifier and the received mobile radio base station identifier. | 2012-07-05 |
20120172033 | Playback Pause Before Signal Loss of a Mobile Device - One embodiment described herein may take the form of a system and/or method for monitoring a position of a mobile device and pausing play or recording a multimedia presentation when the mobile device enters or approaches a zone where a wireless signal may be degraded or lost. In one embodiment, the mobile device may utilize a global position system (GPS) signal to determine the location of the mobile device. Further, the mobile device may be configured to display one or more multimedia presentations and may, in response to the mobile device being located near or within a dark zone, pause play of the multimedia presentation until the mobile device returns to a zone of sufficient wireless signal coverage. In this manner, the mobile device may prevent the user from losing or missing portions of the multimedia presentation due to lost or degraded wireless signal of the mobile device. | 2012-07-05 |
20120172034 | Terminal and Method for Idle Handoff Based on High Rate Packet Data System - The present invention provides a terminal and method for an idle handoff based on a High Rate Packet Data (HRPD) system. The method includes, when the terminal switches from the HRPD system to a non-HRPD radio access technology system, an HRPD protocol stack of the terminal migrating from a non-tunnel state to a tunnel state. When the terminal is in a handoff area, and performs the idle handoff from the HRPD system to the non-HRPD radio access technology system, the terminal after the handoff is in the tunnel state, and the HRPD session information of the terminal is reserved. Thus, when the terminal switches back to the HRPD system, it is not necessary to perform the HRPD session negotiation again, thereby effectively avoiding the waste of air interface resources and system processing capabilities, and improving efficiency of interconnection and intercommunication between the HRPD system and other radio access technology system. | 2012-07-05 |
20120172035 | TUNE-AWAY PROTOCOLS FOR WIRELESS SYSTEMS - Systems and methods are provided for processing wireless signal components for a mobile wireless access broadband service. This can include processes for defining a protocol that controls whether to invoke a tune away component to determine an alternative wireless communications path. This can include defining one or more tune away parameters for the tune away component. The process can then automatically select the alternative wireless communications path based in part on the tune away procedure and at least one of the tune away parameters. | 2012-07-05 |
20120172036 | ENABLING HANDOFF FOR MULTIPLE PACKET DATA NETWORK CONNECTIONS - Techniques for enabling handoff for multiple packet data network connection include selecting, when roaming from a current access network (AN) supporting multiple concurrent packet data network (PDN) connections to a handover target AN not supporting multiple concurrent PDN connections, a single PDN connection, from among multiple active PDN connections, for operation in the handover target AN and exchanging messages to register the single PDN connection in the handover target AN. | 2012-07-05 |
20120172037 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR USING IMS COMMUNICATION SERVICE IDENTIFIER - A method includes obtaining, by an HSS, information related to a user subscribed IMS communication service identifier, and sending information of a user subscribed IMS communication service identifier to a SID-requiring network entity according to the information related to the user subscribed IMS communication service identifier. | 2012-07-05 |
20120172038 | METHOD FOR CONFIGURATION CELL BY MULTI MODE TERMINAL AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZATION CELL BY MULTI MODE TERMINAL - A method of configuring a cell of a terminal includes: transmitting, by the terminal, when the terminal searches for an idle band, a downlink frame; performing a network entry procedure with other terminals at 1 hop from the terminal; and optimizing, by the terminal, transmission power. | 2012-07-05 |
20120172039 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SECURING LOST TERMINAL USING WIRELESS NETWORK - A system and method for securing a lost terminal using a wireless network are provided. The system includes a lost terminal registration server to store unique terminal information of a lost terminal, and a terminal including a wireless Local Area Network (LAN) module to connect to the lost terminal registration server to determine whether the terminal is registered as a lost terminal in the lost terminal registration server. If the terminal is determined to be a lost terminal, then the lost terminal may be tracked and/or locked to secure the terminal. | 2012-07-05 |
20120172040 | METHOD FOR HOME BASE STATION TO ACCESS NETWORK AND HOME BASE STATION MANAGEMENT SERVER - A method for accessing a network by a home base station and a home base station management server for a home base station to access a network are provided, wherein the method includes: the home base station management server receivinges a registrationer request sent from the home base station through by a communication link between the home base station management server and the home base station; the home base station management server determines judging whether to allow the home base station to access the network; the user authentication and registration information including: a security key and access port information; after allowing the access of the home base station, the home base station management server configuring a frequency of the home base station; and after finishing frequency configuration, the home base station management server configuring a radio parameter of the home base station. | 2012-07-05 |
20120172041 | METHODS FOR CELL SEARCH IN SYNCHRONOUS INTERFERENCE LIMITED CHANNELS - The cell searcher module (CSM) of a wireless communication device detects that the device is in coverage region of an eNB by processing received signal associated with the primary synchronization (PSCH) and secondary synchronization (SSCH) sequences transmitted by the eNB. The wireless device determines whether candidate SCH signals from candidate neighbor cells are synchronous with SCH sequences from the serving cell by implementing one of three methods. In a first method, the CSM generates a joint estimate of the received power of SSCH sequences corresponding to already detected/identified serving cell and a hypothetical neighbor cell. In a second method, the CSM re-constructs SCH sequences corresponding to already detected cells and subtracts the re-constructed SCH sequences from the received signal to obtain a residual signal with reduced serving cell interference. In a third embodiment, the CSM performs a correlation of estimated channel responses to determine whether the neighbor cell is present. | 2012-07-05 |
20120172042 | REDUCTION OF FLOW BREAK IN SR-VCC MOBILITY - In an embodiment, there is provided a method for the reduction of flow break in Single Radio Voice Call Continuity SRVCC mobility for a User Equipment UE, SRVCC mobility including Hand-Over HO execution procedure and Voice Call Continuity VCC procedure, said method comprising a step of:
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20120172043 | Method and Apparatus for Returning During a Baton Handover - An apparatus and method enable mobile user equipment to return to a first cell after attempting a baton handover to a second cell. In one aspect of the disclosure, a method of wireless communication in a cellular network including a source cell and a target cell is disclosed. Here, the method includes switching transmission of an uplink from the source cell to the target cell while maintaining a downlink with the source cell, determining to return the transmission of the uplink to the source cell, and returning the transmission of the uplink from the target cell to the source cell. In some aspects, the method may further include switching reception of a downlink from the source cell to the target cell, determining to return the reception of the downlink to the source cell, and returning the reception of the downlink from the target cell to the source cell. | 2012-07-05 |
20120172044 | METHOD OF IMPROVING SEMI-PERSISTENT SCHEDULING RESOURCES RECONFIGURATION IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND RELATED COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A method of improving semi-persistent scheduling, abbreviated to SPS, resources reconfiguration for a user equipment in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method comprises receiving a radio resource control, abbreviated to RRC, connection reconfiguration message corresponding to an RRC connection reconfiguration procedure; and forbidding performing SPS resources reconfiguration when the RRC connection reconfiguration procedure is not a handover procedure. | 2012-07-05 |
20120172045 | RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, RADIO BASE STATION, AND HANDOVER CONTROL METHOD - A radio communication system wherein a radio terminal ( | 2012-07-05 |
20120172046 | IN A RADIO NETWORK ENVIRONMENT, REDUCING INTERFERENCE AMONG OVERLAPPING CELLS - Disclosed is a method for a femtocell to reduce interference with an overlapping macrocell. The femtocell determines soft-frequency-reuse (“SFR”) information of the macrocell. From that information, the femtocell determines which frequency sub-channels are assigned by the macrocell for its cell-center users and which frequency sub-channels are assigned for cell-edge users. (Cell-edge users are given a higher transmission power profile in order to overcome potential interference with neighboring macrocells.) Then, the femtocell selects from the cell-center user frequency sub-channels for transmission to the femtocell's users. By transmitting on the cell-center user frequency sub-channels, the femtocell reduces interference with the overlapping macrocell. The femtocell continues to update its knowledge of the macrocell's SFR information and re-assigns frequency sub-channels as the SFR changes. If the macrocell detects that one of its cell-center users is “close enough” to the femtocell, then the macrocell re-assigns the cell-center user as a cell-edge user to overcome interference. | 2012-07-05 |
20120172047 | HANDS-FREE SYSTEM AND VEHICLE HAVING SAME AND MOBILE TELEPHONE INTEGRATED WITH SAME - A system for enabling the hands-free use of a mobile telephone in a vehicle includes a processing circuit, a short-range communication unit and a microcontroller unit. The processing circuit calculates positional coordinates of the system. The short-range communication unit connects with the mobile telephones and receives positional coordinates of all nearby mobile telephones. The microcontroller unit receives the positional coordinates of the system and the mobile telephones, determines which mobile telephone is located in a defined position of the vehicle, and creates a wireless connection with the mobile telephone. | 2012-07-05 |
20120172048 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, BASE STATION APPARATUS, MOBILE STATION APPARATUS, AND RANDOM ACCESS METHOD - A random access instructed by a base station apparatus and having a small delay is enabled in Advanced-EUTRA system. Upon detection of control data in any one of a plurality of component carriers, component carrier information, a preamble number, and random access channel information are extracted from the control data, and if the extracted information indicates dedicated preamble transmission, a random access channel position to be used is selected from information on random access of a component carrier specified in the component carrier information and the random access channel information, a random access preamble is generated from the information on random access and the dedicated preamble number, and the random access preamble is transmitted at the random access channel position. | 2012-07-05 |
20120172049 | BANDWIDTH AND POWER ALLOCATIONS FOR COMMUNICATION NETWORKS WITH IMPERFECT SPECTRUM SENSING - Systems, methods, and apparatus for optimizing a use, by a secondary terminal, of an idle wireless communication channel that is associated with a primary terminal are presented herein. A mapping component can receive: information including an indication that a communication channel assigned to a wireless device is idle; and one or more requests, from respective other wireless devices, to transmit information via the communication channel. Further, an allocation component can compute power allocations of the one or more requests; and grant a request of the one or more requests based on the power allocations. The allocation component can further be configured to iteratively compute a power allocation of the power allocations based on a bandwidth allocation of the bandwidth allocations; and iteratively compute a bandwidth allocation of the bandwidth allocations based on a power allocation of the power allocations. | 2012-07-05 |
20120172050 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTEXT BASED ON SPATIAL TRAILS - Techniques for determining context based on a spatial trail include determining data that indicates a first trail comprising a plurality of locations of finite spatial granularity at a corresponding plurality of times. The techniques also comprise determining data that indicates at least one criterion for belonging in a group. The criterion indicates a first spatial granularity for at least a first location at a corresponding first time in the first trail. The techniques further comprise determining whether a particular entity belongs in the group based, at least in part, on the criterion and a second trail for the particular entity. A trail for any entity comprises a plurality of locations of finite spatial granularity indicating actual locations of the entity at a corresponding plurality of times. | 2012-07-05 |
20120172051 | LOCATION MEASURING METHOD AND APPARATUS USING ACCESS POINT AND LAMP - Measuring a location of a communication terminal using a wireless local area access point based on location coordinates of the access points and location information of a nearby lamp. | 2012-07-05 |
20120172052 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INDOOR LOCATION MEASUREMENT - An indoor location measuring method and apparatus are provided. An apparatus for sectionalizing an indoor area for indoor location measurement includes a reference coordinate inputting unit which receives an input of a reference coordinate corresponding to the indoor area; a sector number inputting unit which receives an input of a number of sectors per column or row in the indoor area; and a sectionalization calculating unit which sectionalizes the indoor area into a predetermined number of sectors based on the reference coordinate and the number of sectors per column or row, and calculates a coordinate of a point of a sector among the sectionalized predetermined number of sectors. | 2012-07-05 |
20120172053 | RECORDING MEDIUM FOR STORING POSITION ESTIMATION PROGRAM, POSITION ESTIMATION DEVICE, AND POSITION ESTIMATION METHOD - A computer executes processing of acquiring, by using a positioning unit to output error region information indicating an ellipse-shaped error region represented by a position acquired from positioning performed by receiving a signal from a plurality of transmitters and a measurement error of the position, a plurality of pieces of the error region information by performing the positioning a plurality of times, processing of extending the error region indicated by each piece of the acquired error region information in a major axis direction, and processing of estimating a position of a positioning target based on an intersect region at which the extended error regions intersect with one another. | 2012-07-05 |
20120172054 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COOPERATIVE POSITIONING - Apparatus and method for cooperatively positioning a mobile wireless device. In one embodiment a mobile wireless device includes a navigation satellite receiver, a WLAN transceiver, and a cooperative positioning system. The navigation satellite receiver is configured to receive positioning signals from positioning satellites. The cooperative positioning system is configured to receive positioning measurements from a cooperating mobile wireless device via the WLAN transceiver. The received positioning measurements are derived from satellite positioning signals received by the cooperating mobile wireless device. The cooperative positioning system is also configured to determine a position of the mobile wireless device based on the positioning measurements received from the cooperating mobile wireless device, positioning measurements provided by the navigation satellite receiver, and a focal measurement that is a function of at least one of the position and the clock bias of both the mobile wireless device and the cooperating mobile wireless device. | 2012-07-05 |
20120172055 | Target Positioning Within a Mobile Structure - Method and apparatus for determining position of a target device relative to a mobile structure are disclosed. The method includes obtaining measurements by the target device with respect to a plurality of radio beacons, determining whether the target device is on the mobile structure using the measurements, and determining location of the target device relative to the mobile structure using the measurements. The method of determining whether the target device is on the mobile structure includes at least one of comparing motion of target device with motion of mobile structure, detecting mobile radio beacon(s) on the mobile structure from the target device over a period of time, comparing velocity and location of the target device with respect to velocity and location of the mobile structure, comparing measurements obtained by target device from the plurality of radio beacons, and comparing locations obtained by target device from the plurality of radio beacons. | 2012-07-05 |
20120172056 | METHOD OF DETERMINING OPTIMAL CELL CONFIGURATION BASED UPON DETERMINED DEVICE LOCATION - A configuration device for configuring a wireless device within a wireless cell can include a receiving unit configured to receive a request message from a wireless device within a wireless cell. In addition, the configuration device can include a first processing unit configured to determine location information of the wireless device, and a second processing unit configured to determine a communication capacity of the wireless device, and to estimate a communication requirement based on the request message. Furthermore, the configuration device can have a transmitting unit configured to transmit optimal information to the wireless device with respect to the request message. | 2012-07-05 |
20120172057 | ROADSIDE PORTION TRAFFIC AMOUNT CALCULATION DEVICE AND ROADSIDE PORTION TRAFFIC AMOUNT CALCULATION METHOD - A roadside portion traffic amount calculation device includes an acquisition unit that acquires positional information, a distribution determination unit that refers to road information stored in a road information storage unit and, based on a positional relationship between locations of users indicated by the positional information and a road, determines a passage roadside portion that is a roadside portion in which the locations of the users are distributed for each piece of the positional information, a summarizing unit that counts the number of pieces of the positional information for which the passage roadside portion has been determined by the distribution determination unit for each of the roadside portions and summarizes a roadside portion traffic amount that is an amount of user traffic on each of the roadside portions, and a processing result output unit that outputs the roadside portion traffic amount summarized by the summarizing unit. | 2012-07-05 |
20120172058 | Tracking and Alerting Populations Using Wireless, Wireline and Internet Mechanisms - A method and system for transmitting alerts messages is provided. An automatic management system determines a location of a device. An alerting device is determined based on the determined location and an alert message is transmitted to the alerting device. | 2012-07-05 |
20120172059 | MOBILE SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATICALLY RECOMMENDING CONTENTS, CONTENT RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM, AND CONTENT RECOMMENDATION METHOD - Provided are a mobile system for automatically recommending contents, a content recommendation system, and a content recommendation method. The mobile system may include a communication unit to receive playlist information of another user based on at least one of a current position and a position set by a user, and a content recommendation unit to recommend at least one content based on the received playlist information. | 2012-07-05 |
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. | 2012-07-05 |
20120172061 | DEVICE POSITION METHOD AND APPARATUS USING CELESTIAL OBJECTS - A system and method of determining a position of an electronic device is presented herein. An image is displayed having at least one celestial object and a celestial object indicator for selecting a celestial object. The celestial object indicator is overlaid on the at least one celestial object. Data indicating a relative angle of the device with respect to the Earth in at least two dimensions is received at the processor. The time when the celestial object indicator is overlaid on the at least one celestial object is determined. The position of the electronic device is determined by comparing the location of the celestial object in the image data and relative angle information at the time of the indication to a database at least partially stored on the electronic device in response to an indication that the celestial object indicator is overlaid on the at least one celestial object. | 2012-07-05 |
20120172062 | NETWORK MANAGER SYSTEM FOR LOCATION-AWARE MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICES - Embodiments of a location sharing network manager process are described. The process is executed on a server computer coupled to a plurality of mobile communication devices over a wireless network. Each mobile device is a location-aware mobile communication device. The process determines the geographic location of a mobile communication device operated by a user within an area, displays a map representation of the area around the mobile communication device on a graphical user interface of the mobile communication device, and superimposes on the map the respective locations of one or more other trusted users of mobile communication devices coupled to the mobile communication device over the network. A comprehensive network manager process provides management functions to allow communication with mobile phone users outside of the service network and allows for efficient communication with groups of users within the service network. | 2012-07-05 |
20120172063 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF UPLINK TRANSMISSION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present invention provides a method of receiving a message by a terminal in a wireless communication system. The method includes receiving a message from a base station, and determining whether to initiate a random access procedure based on the presence of an indicator in the message, wherein the indicator is used for an uplink transmission. | 2012-07-05 |
20120172064 | APPARATUS, AND ASSOCIATED METHOD, FOR DYNAMICALLY CONFIGURING A PAGE MESSAGE USED TO PAGE AN ACCESS TERMINAL IN A RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Apparatus, and an associated method, for paging an access terminal in a radio communication system. Dynamic configuration and reconfiguration of a quick page message is provided. Its configuration is dependent upon paging load in the system. Hash values are selected and used pursuant to the configuration, and use, of the message. A first hash value is selected within a first range. And, a second hash value is selected within a second range. The second range from which the second hash value is selected does not include the first hash value. | 2012-07-05 |
20120172065 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINATION OF NETWORK AND CONDITIONAL EXECUTION OF APPLICATIONS AND PROMOTIONS - System and method for determining whether an incoming call originates from inside or outside of a mobile carriers network. An example system performs a GTT (global title translation) on an incoming number to determine the hosting carrier of any mobile phone number. After the result of the matching determination is made, a message is generated and sent to a caller associated with the call page. The generated message includes any of directory information associated with the subscriber, information associated with cost savings or comparisons associated with in-network calling, information regarding promotions for calling plans, mobile devices or device upgrades, requests to join a network, requests to join a social call plan, information regarding instant savings or call rebates, offers for online services or software, offers for reduced cost or free phone service in exchange for adoption of a predefined product or entering into a social network group. | 2012-07-05 |
20120172066 | COMMUNICATION METHOD, MOBILE NETWORK SYSTEM AND DEVICE - A mobile terminal (UE) used in a mobile communication network that includes a mobility management entity (MME) and a serving gateway (S-GW), receives paging from the mobile communication network, upon an arrival of an incoming call destined for the mobile terminal at the mobile communication network, in which if the mobility management entity has restarted, the serving gateway maintains a specific S5/S8 bearer for a time period prescribed by a timer, the time period equivalent to a time period of a periodic location registration timer provided in the mobile terminal, and deletes the specific S5/S8 bearer on timeout of the timer; and on receipt of the paging, re-attaches to the mobile communication network. | 2012-07-05 |
20120172067 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VERIFYING A SENDER OF AN SMS TEXT MESSAGE - A system and method are provided for verifying a sender of an SMS text message. The SMS text message may be validated by texting or calling the verification server from any phone and providing the unique code as a validation code, by texting or calling from the recipient mobile phone (no unique code is needed as the phone number may be linked to the sent message), or by logging in to an in-box of the verification server where valid messages to the recipient are logged. For example, the verification server receives the received unique code from the recipient for verification by receiving an SMS text message including the received unique code, receiving the unique code from the recipient via an Internet browser, receiving the unique code from the recipient via a phone call, or receiving a trusted authentication short code based on the unique code. The verification server may also receive from the sender a copy of the SMS text message and the recipient's phone number when the SMS text message is sent to the recipient. Then, when the verification server receives a verification request from the recipient to verify the sender, the unique code received by the recipient and/or the recipient's mobile phone number may be compared to the unique code and/or recipient phone number stored with the message received by the verification server from the sender. The verification may include the verification server receiving the last SMS text message sent by the message sender and allowing the message recipient to verify the message sender by accessing the verification server by logging into the verification server or by calling in through an interactive voice response (IVR) unit to check for the presence of the last SMS text message from the message sender to the recipient. | 2012-07-05 |
20120172068 | SYSTEM FOR INTERCONNECTING A REMOTE SERVER WITH A SHORT MESSAGE SERVER CENTRE (SMSC) VIA THE INTERNET - It allows the transmission of short messages (SMS) between a remote server ( | 2012-07-05 |
20120172069 | Method and System for Media Modification - The present invention discloses a method and system for media modification, which is used for solving the problem that it is not considered during media modification whether the user confirmation or precondition of media modification is required, thereby resulting in technical defects, such as possible bearing resource embezzlement, producing redundancy, etc. The present invention regards the 200OK message of Re-INVITE as the confirmed time point of the media addition and/or modification; in the case that there is a precondition and the user confirmation is not required, the time point when the precondition is satisfied is regarded as the confirmed time point of the media component addition and/or existing media component modification; in the case that there is a precondition and the user confirmation is required, the 200OK response message of the Re-INVITE message is regarded as the confirmed time point of the media component addition and/or existing media component modification. | 2012-07-05 |
20120172070 | INITIATING A CALL FROM A MOBILE DEVICE TO A NUMBER THAT IS NOT HYPERLINKED - The present disclosure describes a method and communication device for initiating voice calls. Number strings are identified in displayed text. Number strings are displayed in different formats depending on whether the number strings meet predetermined criteria. A list of user selectable functions is displayed when predetermined user input is detected. The list of user selectable functions includes a voice call function for initiating a voice call to a selected number string. A voice call to the selected number string can be initiated when the voice call function is selected. | 2012-07-05 |
20120172071 | METHOD FOR A PUSH SERVER TO BROADCAST DATA TO USER TERMINALS VIA AN INTERFACE DEVICE - A method for a push server to broadcast data to terminals via an interface device, the data sent by the server passing through a distribution system enabling the data to be broadcast from the server to the device. The server transmits a stream of content data and web application data to the system; the system multicasts the stream of content data and web application data to the device; a receptor in the interface device receives the data; the data are stored in a storage device of the interface device; a local wireless connection is established between a terminal provided with a web browser and the interface device; a HTTP query is transmitted from the terminal to a web server of the interface device, the query requesting the execution of an application stored in the storage device; and the requested application is executed in the browser of the terminal. | 2012-07-05 |
20120172072 | ARC RFID Antenna - A system, in certain embodiments, includes a spider configured to support multiple mineral extraction riser segments. The system also includes a gimbal disposed below the spider and configured to support the spider during operation. The system further includes one or more arcuate radio frequency identification (RFID) antennas disposed within the gimbal and/or the spider. The one or more arcuate RFID antennas are configured to communicate with one or more RFID tags coupled to each riser segment. | 2012-07-05 |
20120172073 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A wireless communication system is disclosed herein. The wireless communication system may include transmitter units and a receiver. In one embodiment, each transmitter has an address and logic programmed to perform the steps of receiving a user selection and, responsive to the receiving, repeatedly transmitting a wireless selection signal until a wireless acknowledgment signal is received. The wireless selection signal may include the address and the user selection. The receiver may include means to receive a wireless selection signal and logic programmed to transmit a wireless acknowledgment signal in response to the receipt of each wireless selection signal. | 2012-07-05 |