Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090176474 | APPARATUS, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR MAINTAINING EMERGENCY CALLS DURING MOBILE DEVICE MOVEMENT - An apparatus, method and computer program product are provided for maintaining emergency calls during mobile device movement. In order to ensure that an emergency call is not lost despite movement of the mobile device, the mobile device may provide an update of its geographic location, as well as its network address, if it has changed, each time the mobile device performs a handover. In addition, in order to ensure that the mobile device maintains a connection to the same emergency call center throughout the duration of the emergency call, the mobile device may receive an address associated with the emergency call center upon initiating the emergency call. This address can thereafter be transmitted, along with the mobile device's updated location information, so that the connection to the call center associated with that address can be maintained, where possible, regardless of the location of the mobile device. | 07-09-2009 |
20100004950 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USAGE OF PERSONAL MEDICAL RECORDS IN MOBILE DEVICES - A document containing medical-related information is created and stored on, e.g., a mobile device. The document can then be transmitted from the mobile device to an appropriate servicing entity, such as a public safety answering point (PSAP) when an emergency call is made, allowing the PSAP to receive pertinent information about an emergency caller. Additionally, the document can be transmitted to, e.g., an appropriate near field communication (NFC) reader/receiver so that, e.g., a patient may automatically transfer information that is conventionally gathered by the patient completing a plurality of complex forms. Further still, various embodiments can enable the querying/transmitting of medical-related information over hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) so that online questionnaires may be completed and responses received directly for users wishing to purchase medication online. | 01-07-2010 |
20100008337 | METHOD PROVIDING POSITIONING AND NAVIGATION INSIDE LARGE BUILDINGS - Positioning and/or navigation of an electronic device within a building when GPS signals are unavailable is provided. The electronic device scans for available Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) Access Points (APs) upon, e.g., entering a building. The electronic device detects a signal (e.g., beacon) from at least one available WLAN AP, whereupon the electronic device retrieves the indoor location of the available WLAN AP. The location information can be directly downloaded from the WLAN AP while in state-1 via, e.g., a Native Query Protocol which includes an extension to currently defined Native Query info elements that returns location information. Alternatively, the Media Access Control (MAC) address of the WLAN AP can be read from the beacon signal, which is then used to retrieve the location of the WLAN AP from an associated database. Additionally, various embodiments may be implemented with or via a mapping application or service, where the mapping application is able to display any floor's floor plan of a building and determine/obtain the position of the electronic device inside the building relative to the floor plan. | 01-14-2010 |
20100085895 | System and Method For Preparing And Exhibiting A Network Coverage Map - Systems and methods by which network coverage in a specific area can be exhibited to a user of a mobile node. Information stored on an information server may be used in an application which is capable of exhibiting the network coverage in a specific area. The network coverage may be based, for example, on an operating carrier, a carrier and its roaming partners or on a specific type of network. The information stored on the information server can be downloaded by a mobile node, thereby permitting to observe the coverage area for a network type(s) in which the user is interested. The coverage information may be exhibited, for example, in the form of a visual coverage map. | 04-08-2010 |
20100122321 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTHENTICATION FOR WIRELESS EMERGENCY SERVICES - A method of authenticating a user device includes transmitting a request, the request including a query for information, and receiving an identifier, the identifier being associated with one or more authentication mechanisms for obtaining access to emergency services. | 05-13-2010 |
20100205305 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SERVICE LOCALIZATION - A method comprises building a list of services available from stations associated with a network, wherein the list of services includes an indicator of a location of the station associated with each service. | 08-12-2010 |
20110010246 | SERVICE INFORMATION EXCHANGE IN WIRELESS NETWORK - Method, apparatus, and computer program product embodiments of the invention are disclosed to automatically advertise a change in service offering of a wireless first device in wireless networks. In an example embodiment of the invention, if there is a change in service offering of the first device that is connected to a wireless second device, the first device automatically generates a reassociation request frame and transmits it to the second device. In addition to the standard processing of the reassociation request frame, the second device considers the received reassociation request frame as a trigger to respond by transmitting a generic advertisement service request to the first device. The first device will then have an opportunity to transmit its updated and up-to-date service description to the second device in a generic advertisement service response frame. The second device buffers the first device's updated service description and makes it available to other wireless devices searching the network for services, to facilitate network selection. | 01-13-2011 |
20110149938 | METHODS, APPARATUSES AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR PROVIDING TEMPORAL INFORMATION - An apparatus for providing temporal information may include a processor. The processor may be configured to provide a request for receipt of temporal information associated with a wireless communication access point, and receive a response to the request prior to either or both of authentication of a device providing the request by the wireless communication access point or association of the device with the wireless communication access point in which the response includes the temporal information. | 06-23-2011 |
20110271112 | METHODS, APPARATUSES, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR FACILITATING RANDOMIZED PORT ALLOCATION - A method, apparatus, and computer program product are provided for facilitating randomized port allocation. An apparatus may include a processor configured to receive a port allocation message from a network management entity. The port allocation message may comprise an encryption key, an initial input value, and a value indicating a number of ports allocated to the apparatus for communication on a network. The processor may be further configured to calculate at least one port allocated to the apparatus with an encryption function based at least in part upon the encryption key and initial input value. Corresponding methods and computer program products are also provided. | 11-03-2011 |
20120117377 | Mobile security protocol negotiation - A security gateway/home agent controller HAC is used to assign one home agent HA from a plurality of HAs and to identify at least one security protocol that is common between a mobile node MN and the assigned HA. Establishment of a security association between the MN and the assigned HA is enabled according to the identified security protocol and utilizing bootstrapping parameters provided over a secure connection between the security gateway/HAC and the MN. The bootstrapping parameters include at least a home address for the MN, an address of the assigned HA and security credentials and security parameters for the identified at least one security protocol. In an exemplary embodiment the home address for the MN may be an IPv6 home address and the MN may have certain capabilities with respect to security protocols and ciphering suites which the MN sends to the security gateway. | 05-10-2012 |
20120208558 | CHANNEL AVAILABILITY FOR WHITE-SPACE DEVICES, ASSOCIATED APPARATUS AND METHODS - An apparatus configured to determine one or more channels available for use by respective one or more white-space devices in a particular determined geographical location. The apparatus is configured to: receive geographic location signalling associated with the particular determined geographical location of one or more white-space devices; receive uncertainty indication signalling for the uncertainty associated with the particular determined geographic location of the one or more white-space devices; and determine the one or more channels available for use by the respective one or more white-space devices in the particular determined geographical location by using the geographic location signalling and uncertainty indication signalling. | 08-16-2012 |
20130039275 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING ACCESS POINT SERVICE CAPABILITIES - A method for determining access point service capabilities may include identifying, at a mobile terminal, an access point to which the mobile terminal is capable of establishing a connection, determining, prior to authentication between the mobile terminal and the access point, whether the access point supports a particular service or connection, and enabling a connection determination to be made at the mobile terminal regarding whether to connect to the access point based on whether the access point supports the particular service or connection. A corresponding computer program product and apparatuses are also provided. | 02-14-2013 |
20130078985 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING A NETWORK INTERFACE PREFERENCE POLICY - A method and apparatus are provided for determining a network interface preference policy. An example method may include determining a network address family preference policy signaled to a host apparatus by an access point for a first network interface. The example method may additionally include selecting an interface from the first network interface and a second network interface for network traffic of the host apparatus based at least in part on the signaled preference policy. A corresponding apparatus is also provided. | 03-28-2013 |
20140113649 | CHANNEL AVAILABILITY FOR WHITE-SPACE DEVICES, ASSOCIATED APPARATUS AND METHODS - An apparatus configured to determine one or more channels available for use by respective one or more white-space devices in a particular determined geographical location. The apparatus is configured to: receive geographic location signalling associated with the particular determined geographical location of one or more white-space devices; receive uncertainty indication signalling for the uncertainty associated with the particular determined geographic location of the one or more white-space devices; and determine the one or more channels available for use by the respective one or more white-space devices in the particular determined geographical location by using the geographic location signalling and uncertainty indication signalling. | 04-24-2014 |