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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8180401 | Method and apparatus for providing a card application toolkit command for reporting terminal environmental information An apparatus for providing a card application toolkit command for reporting terminal environmental information may include at least one processor and at least one memory storing computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatu... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8169909 | Optimization of a transfer layer protocol connection In the preferred embodiments, it is first determined whether or not a TCP connection from a sending device to a receiving device in the wireless communications network is in a slow start phase. If the TCP connection is in a slow start phase, then the data to be sent... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8161481 | Operating system providing a mutual exclusion mechanism An operating system for a computing device includes a scheduler incorporating an algorithm for ordering the running of threads of execution having different priorities. The operating system is also arranged to provide a list of threads which are scheduled to run on ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160617 | Apparatus and method for use in location determination An apparatus is provided that includes circuitry configured for location determination arranged to obtain a geographic location of the apparatus; circuitry configured receiving connection point identification data, the connection point identification data useable in... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160084 | Method for time-stamping messages A method for calculating message queue times. The method includes queuing a message into a buffer at a first time, generating a time stamp message representative of a number of messages in the buffer at the first time, transmitting the message to another device, tra... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159982 | Method, system and network entity for providing digital broadband transmission A method, a system, a transmitter and a receiver for identification of a time sliced elementary streams using PSI/SI tables. This identification provides a way to separate time-sliced elementary stream from non-time-sliced elementary streams by defining two descript... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8156442 | Life recorder and sharing A system and method that includes capturing content active in a device, identifying at least one target device to which the captured content is to be uploaded, and automatically uploading the content to the at least one other target device if a content sharing modul... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8154247 | Portable telecommunications device A portable telecommunications device comprises a charging interface for connection to an external power supply, a voltage and current ratio converter configured to convert an input voltage at the charging interface into an output voltage for charging a battery; and ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8151205 | Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for providing activity coordination information A method, apparatus, and computer program product are provided, which may provide activity coordination information. An apparatus may include a processor configured to cause a map to be displayed in a viewing agent. The processor may be further configured to receive... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149783 | Providing mobility control information to a communications device A method for providing mobility control information to a communications device includes determining, for a transceiver device of a communication system, mobility control information of at least one further transceiver device and broadcasting system information from ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149724 | Selecting a data transfer method The invention relates to a method for selecting a data transfer method in a telecommunication system wherein several data transfer methods exist for selection. The method comprises determining a message to be transmitted on the basis of inputs received from a user. ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8139520 | Method of preventing or limiting the number of simultaneous sessions in wireless local area network (WLAN) A method, program product and system of preventing or limiting the number of simultaneous sessions in a wireless local area network (WLAN). The method includes: determining whether subscriber terminal information has been changed between an old session and a new ses... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8130631 | Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing synchronization Embodiments are directed to first and second OFDM pilot symbols. The first and second pilot symbols may have first and second sets, respectively, of allowed, forbidden, and active carrier frequencies. The second sets of carrier frequencies may be formed by frequency... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8122145 | System, method and computer program product for grouping clients and transferring content in accordance with the same A system is provided that includes a plurality of clients and a server capable of assigning the plurality of clients to at least one group for the transfer of content to the server and/or from the server. The server is capable of assigning at least one of the client... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8117303 | Systems, methods, devices, and computer program products for downloading content for offline browsing Systems, methods, devices and computer program products are provided for: receiving an indication that an electronic device is to be communicatively disconnected from a network; downloading information from the network in response to the received indication, but bef... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8116740 | Mobile communication terminal and method A method in electronic messaging in a mobile telecommunications network for mobile communication terminals is disclosed. The method involves, in a sender terminal, the steps of generating an electronic message, associating the electronic message with a message notif... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8099112 | Network entity, method and computer program product for dynamically changing a request for location information A network entity includes a controller adapted to operate a location-based application for initiating a location reporting session. The location reporting session includes determining and reporting a current location of a mobile station based on one or more paramete... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8095184 | Wireless control of operating characteristics of electronic data cards A system comprising a first device and a second device having an electronic data card associated therewith, information on the electronic data card being useable by and accessible by the first device, wherein the first device is arranged to control the operating cha... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8094938 | Apparatus and method for handwriting recognition An apparatus (100) for handwriting recognition has a touch-sensitive display screen (240) providing a hand writing input area (270) capable of detecting hand-made user input. The apparatus also has a processing device (300) coupled to the... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8085890 | Apparatus and method for base band filtering Disclosed is a base band filter apparatus and a method for base band filtering comprising filtering a base band signal in time domain, said filtering including a filter transfer function (F), wherein the base band signal is provided in frequency domain, the frequenc... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8073452 | System and method utilizing a cognitive transceiver for ad hoc networking The present invention provides methods and apparatuses for utilizing unused portions of an allocated frequency spectrum in a wireless communications system that broadcasts content to wireless stations. A first wireless station may communicate with a second wireless ... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8069315 | System and method for parallel scanning A system and method for parallel scanning among multiple scanning entities. According to various embodiments of the present invention, buffers are allocated from a pool of memory pages, with one packet being located on each page. Each of the pages is mapped such tha... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8046429 | Service mobility for composed components A system and method for exchanging components between platforms is described. As a user terminal changes location or preferences, the user terminal may be provided with a new platform that supports desired services. A method and system that relates to migrating one ... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8045628 | Digital video broadcast service discovery Embodiments are directed to binary phase shift key modulating a first pilot symbol according to a reference sequence, and differentially binary phase shift key modulating a second pilot symbols. The original reference sequence and the delayed differentially modulate... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8041388 | Method for using applications in a mobile station, a mobile station, and a system for effecting payments The invention relates to a method for using an application (18) in a mobile station (1). The application has a first mode of operation and a second mode of operation, whereby the first mode of operation is passive, and in the second mode of operation t... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8032895 | Inter process communication in a computing device An operating system for a computing device comprises a kernel portion having a publish and subscribe facility for retrieving a property published by a first process and notifying the retrieved property to one or more further processes requesting to subscribe to that... | 10/04/2011 |
| RE42800 | Apparatus, and associated method, for facilitating selection of power levels at which to communicate data in a radio communication system Apparatus, and an associated method, for effectuating power control in a radio communication system, such as an IS-95/IS-2000 system which deploys 1×EV-DO technology. At a mobile station, a channel indicia measurer measures channel conditions upon a radio link. Res... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8027259 | Opportunistic routing protocol in ad hoc networks An opportunistic ad hoc routing protocol system and method includes a dynamic ad hoc network having one or more nodes configured to communicate wirelessly with each other. Each node is configured to implement a routing protocol wherein a list of possible relay nodes... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8010669 | Method, apparatus and computer program product for enabling dual mode communication An apparatus for enabling dual mode communication may include a processor. The processor may be configured to receive property information from a provider node, provide the property information to a delivery context client interface based context model, and enable a... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8009685 | Signalling the presence of extension frames Aspects of the invention are directed to signalling extension frames in a telecommunication system. Extension-frame-signalling data may signal whether one or more extension parts are present in one or more gaps in time between data frames, when the one or more exten... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8009652 | Information transmission in a communications system A method for transmitting information between a control network element and a transceiver network element in a communications system is discussed. A first connection and a second connection connecting the control network element and the transceiver network element a... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7974254 | Digital broadcast signaling metadata Embodiments are directed to transmitting L1 pre-signaling information with predetermined modulation and code rate such that L1 pre-signaling information can be received without preliminary knowledge on the network. L1 pre-signaling information makes it possible to r... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7970376 | Charging efficiency A method for performing charging in a telecommunications system, comprising: storing at a subscriber information store subscription information including charging arrangement information indicative of the charging arrangement for a first communication terminal opera... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7962953 | DRM protected content sharing A system and method for transmitting protected real-time content from one user to another is described. In a first aspect, a user sends a Rights Object to another user. In a second aspect, a user sends a Rights Object to another user via an intermediate server for a... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7953399 | Network-initiated service change from speech to multimedia A method, apparatus and system for initiating a service change in a wireless system, the wireless system including an originating side and a terminating side. The invention includes initiating a modification request in a wireless system, wherein the modification req... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7903642 | Multi-processor architecture for a device Aspects of the invention provide apparatuses and methods for composing a device with different types of multi-processor subsystems based on expected latency times and processing bandwidths. An apparatus may include multi-processor subsystems with different performan... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7903574 | Service discovery mechanism in broadcast telecommunication network Aspects of the invention are directed to service discovery in a digital broadcast network. A service discovery descriptor, which may be electronic service guide-provider and cell specific, provides mapping between a service identifier, a logical channel identifier, ... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7882352 | Secure mobile wireless device A secure mobile wireless device in which executable code to be installed on the device is assigned a set of capabilities which define the protected resource(s) on the device which it can access. Hence, the present invention takes the idea of capabilities (known in t... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7876688 | Traffic protection in a communication network A loop protection mechanism including dynamically determining a link connecting two adjacent nodes of a loop in a communication network in accordance with a predefined criterion, and reconfiguring the loop so that the loop is broken at the determined link which is a... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7873863 | Portable computing device with a non-volatile memory drive A portable computing device, in which an internal non-volatile memory drive that is used to boot to a functional device GUI is automatically swapped with a temporary RAM drive if the internal non-volatile memory drive is found to be corrupted. The non-volatile memor... | 01/18/2011 |
