Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090011740 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING TARGETED INFORMATION BASED ON A USER PROFILE IN A MOBILE ENVIRONMENT - A method for providing targeted content-messages on a wireless access terminal (W-AT) includes receiving metadata concerning a pool of content-messages from a remote apparatus, filtering the metadata based on a user profile on the W-AT to select at least one specific content-message, and receiving the at least one specific content-message from the pool of content-messages. | 01-08-2009 |
20090011744 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DELIVERY OF TARGETED INFORMATION BASED ON A USER PROFILE IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE - Methods and systems for receiving targeted content messages on a wireless access terminal (W-AT) are disclosed. For example, a particular method may include selecting at least one reception time based on a user profile and a targeted content message delivery schedule, and receiving a targeted content message at the selected reception time. | 01-08-2009 |
20090012861 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING TARGETED INFORMATION USING PROFILE ATTRIBUTES WITH VARIABLE CONFIDENCE LEVELS IN A MOBILE ENVIRONMENT - Various systems and methods for of generating a user profile for use in providing targeted-content-messages to a wireless access terminal (W-AT) are disclosed. For example, a user profile with at least one profile element may be provided to the W-AT, and a profile confidence level for the profile element may be also provided. | 01-08-2009 |
20090013024 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROVIDING TARGETED INFORMATION USING IDENTITY MASKING IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE - Methods and systems for providing user information from a wireless access terminal (W-AT) to a remote apparatus without revealing a primary identity of the user of the W-AT include generating an alternate user identifier for the W-AT, and providing the alternate user identifier and first information related to targeted-content-message information and/or user profile information to the remote apparatus. | 01-08-2009 |
20090013051 | METHOD FOR TRANSFER OF INFORMATION RELATED TO TARGETED CONTENT MESSAGES THROUGH A PROXY SERVER - Information transfer methods for exchange of information with a wireless access terminal (W-AT) includes receiving a first message from the W-AT, the first message including first information provided by the W-AT and an address of the W-AT capable of identifying the W-AT, converting the first message to an anonymized message by replacing the W-AT address with a transaction identifier (ID), transmitting the anonymized message to a remote server, receiving a first response from the remote server, the first response having response information and the anonymized address information, converting the first response to a second response by replacing the transaction ID with the W-AT address, and transmitting the second response to the W-AT. | 01-08-2009 |
20090048977 | USER PROFILE GENERATION ARCHITECTURE FOR TARGETED CONTENT DISTRIBUTION USING EXTERNAL PROCESSES - A targeting-message profile may be obtained by a wireless access terminal (W-AT) by receiving a rule for establishing a user profile, synthesizing at least one profile attribute based on user behavior, and determining a need for further information based on the at least one profile attribute. Then, the W-AT may request the further information from an apparatus external to the W-AT, such as a server containing census information, receive the further information from the apparatus, and generate the profile based on the profile attributes and the further information. | 02-19-2009 |
20090124241 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR USER PROFILE MATCH INDICATION IN A MOBILE ENVIRONMENT - Methods and systems for determining a suitability for a mobile client to display information are disclosed. For example, a method for determining a suitability for a mobile client to receive a targeted content message includes generating user profile data by the mobile client, receiving a set of target profile data associated with the targeted content message, the set of target profile data being descriptive of the targeted content message, comparing the user profile data with the target set of profile data to produce a set of confidence-level data, a target set of profile data describing the content of a respective targeted-content message, and storing the targeted content message in the mobile client based upon the set of confidence-level data. | 05-14-2009 |
20090216847 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MESSAGE VALUE CALCULATION IN A MOBILE ENVIRONMENT - Methods and systems for determining a suitability for a mobile client to display information are disclosed. A particular exemplary method includes generating a first value for a first targeted content message based on at least a first weighted sum of first user profile attributes, a user profile attribute being a numeric quantity relating to at least one of a preference and a demographic of a user of the mobile client, comparing the first value with a stored list of second values related to respective stored messages in a cache memory of the mobile client to produce a comparison result; and updating the cache memory based on the comparison result by storing the first targeted content message in the cache memory if the comparison result indicates a higher desirability of the first targeted content message over at least one stored message. | 08-27-2009 |
20090268807 | MULTIMEDIA BROADCAST FORWARDING SYSTEMS AND METHODS - In various embodiments, communication apparatus and methods for providing robust communications are disclosed. For example, an exemplary communication apparatus for distributing media to one or more receiving apparatus may include receiving circuitry configured to receive a first wireless multimedia broadcast signal containing at least a first media stream, transmitting circuitry configured to wirelessly transmit one or more individual media streams simultaneously to the one or more receiving apparatus using one or more wireless transmit signals, and decision circuitry configured to control the transmitting circuitry to transmit the first media stream to at least one receiving apparatus using at least one wireless transmit signal type based on a forward-link data capacity of each wireless channel between the transmitting circuitry and each receiving apparatus. | 10-29-2009 |
20090319329 | USER PROFILE GENERATION ARCHITECTURE FOR MOBILE CONTENT-MESSAGE TARGETING - A targeted-content-message-related profile for use with wireless access terminals (W-ATs) may be generated by one or more usage-related rules on the W-AT itself. The usage generate rules may be used by the W-AT to generate a user profile, with the usage-related rule providing a dynamic property to the user profile. All or part of the user profile may then be used as a targeted-content-message-related profile for targeting content messages. | 12-24-2009 |
20100017861 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MOBILE VIRTUAL NETWORK OPERATOR (MVNO) HOSTING AND PRICING - A method and apparatus facilitating access to a communication session for a client is provided. The method may comprise receiving, at a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO), an access request from a client, wherein the MVNO is associated with a set of mobile network operators (MNOs), receiving, from the client, client connection parameters associated with at least one of the set of MNOs, formulating at least one option for a communication session over a network associated with at least one of the set of MNOs, the at least one option based on the client connection parameters and MVNO-connection parameters associated with the set of MNOs, and establishing a selected communication session based on the at least one option. | 01-21-2010 |
20100064244 | MULTI-FOLD MOBILE DEVICE WITH CONFIGURABLE INTERFACE - A multi-fold mobile device with a configurable interface is disclosed. In a particular embodiment, a method includes detecting a hardware configuration change from a first configuration to a second configuration at an electronic device that includes at least a first panel having a first display surface and a second panel having a second display surface. The hardware configuration change includes a change in a relative orientation of the first display panel to the second display panel. The method also includes automatically modifying a graphical user interface displayed at the first display surface and the second display surface at least partially based on the second configuration. | 03-11-2010 |
20100112955 | WAKE-UP TRIGGER FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF TARGET ACTIONS - Aspects relate to automatic execution of a target action, which can be energy-intensive tasks, processing compute-intensive tasks, interaction with a node, or combinations thereof. A context aware trigger, power aware trigger, a randomly scheduled wakeup trigger, a deterministically scheduled wakeup trigger, and/or a predictively scheduled wakeup trigger can be utilized to determine the availability of contexts associated with the target action. Based on the availability of a context that should be available, one or more target actions are automatically executed and/or selectively suspended. | 05-06-2010 |
20100179865 | MULTIMEDIA CONTENT CACHE - Music can be broadcast from a radio station and recorded onto a cache of a personal electronic device, such as a portable digital music player. The recording can occur such that there is segmenting of music into different cache portions based upon classification. Instead of playing music from the radio station, music can be played from the cache to ensure high quality and desirable variety. Different rules can be used to govern which music is played as well as how music should be removed from the cache. In addition, targeted advertisements can be used that relate to the music in the cache as well as a user location. | 07-15-2010 |
20110090078 | Methods and Apparatus for Estimating Departure Time Based on Known Calendar Events - A method and apparatus generating a departure alert for an event based on a current location. The method may comprises: obtaining scheduling data associated with a first event, wherein the first event scheduling data includes a first event time value and a first event location value, obtaining a device location value, obtaining a current time value, determining if the first event location value and the device location value differ by more than a event location threshold, upon a determination that the first event location value and the device location value differ by more than the event location threshold, estimating a first travel time value from the device location and the first event location, generating a departure time value by comparing the first event time value and the estimated first travel time value, and generating a departure alert by comparing the departure time value and the current time value. | 04-21-2011 |
20110126141 | MULTI-PANEL ELECTRONIC DEVICE - Methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable storage media for displaying an image at an electronic device are disclosed. In a particular embodiment, an electronic device is disclosed that includes a first panel having a first display surface to display a graphical user interface element associated with an application. The electronic device also includes a second panel having a second display surface. The first display surface is separated from the second display surface by a gap. A processor is configured to execute program code including a graphical user interface. The processor is configured to launch or close the application in response to user input causing a movement of the graphical user interface element in relation to the gap. | 05-26-2011 |
20110216064 | SENDING A PARAMETER BASED ON SCREEN SIZE OR SCREEN RESOLUTION OF A MULTI-PANEL ELECTRONIC DEVICE TO A SERVER - In a particular embodiment, a method includes detecting a hardware configuration change at an electronic device. The electronic device includes at least a first panel having a first display surface and a second panel having a second display surface. An effective screen size or a screen resolution corresponding to a viewing area that includes the first display surface and the second display surface is modified in response to the hardware configuration change. The method also includes sending at least one parameter associated with or based on the modified effective screen size or the modified screen resolution to a server. | 09-08-2011 |
20110282964 | DELIVERY OF TARGETED CONTENT RELATED TO A LEARNED AND PREDICTED FUTURE BEHAVIOR BASED ON SPATIAL, TEMPORAL, AND USER ATTRIBUTES AND BEHAVIORAL CONSTRAINTS - Methods and apparatuses and for determining suitability to display information from an information source, such as an advertiser, to a mobile client are described. Learning distribution vectors are tagged to specific content in the information by the advertiser and delivered with the derived learning distribution vectors to the mobile client. The mobile client refines the derived learning distribution vectors based on any one or more combinations of temporal, spatial, attributes, behavioral constraints of the user using context independent/context aware/prediction schemes to determine suitability of the content for display to the user. | 11-17-2011 |
20110299587 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR RESIZING MULTIMEDIA CONTENT BASED ON QUALITY AND RATE INFORMATION - In general, this disclosure describes techniques for exchanging information between a plurality of encoder modules and a multiplex module to combine segments of data from the encoder modules with an improved overall quality. In particular, the encoder modules associate their respective segments of data with quality and rate information and send at least the quality and rate information associated with the segments of data to the multiplex module. The multiplex module analyzes the quality and rate information to determine whether the segments of data that encoder modules desire to include in the current superframe fit within the available bandwidth of a transmission channel. If the multiplex module determines the plurality of segments of data do not fit within the available bandwidth, the multiplex module selects one or more of the segments to be resized based on the quality and rate information received from the encoder modules. | 12-08-2011 |