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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7463151 | Systems and methods for providing mobile services using short-range radio communication devices Systems and methods for providing mobile services using short-range radio communication devices. A method may include receiving a short-range radio communication (SRC) device information acquired by an SRC-enabled mobile terminal, authenticating the SRC device infor... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7376433 | Subscriber delivered location-based services A method and apparatus are disclosed for providing subscriber delivered and personalized location-based services. In one embodiment, the invention is implemented in an intelligent wireless network (100). A subscriber initiates the location-based service proce... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7359720 | Mobility extended telephone application programming interface and method of use A system and method of for exchanging information between a wireless network and an external system is disclosed. The wireless network detects trigger events related to communications with wireless subscribers. Certain event triggers cause the wireless system to cre... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7343168 | Asynchronous messaging based system for publishing and accessing content and accessing applications on a network with mobile devices An MMS publishing system comprises a management tool, an authoring tool, a storage facility, a message router, and a rendering server. The management tool authenticates a first user by using a telephone number of the first user as a user ID. The authoring tool allow... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7340057 | Method and apparatus for distributing authorization to provision mobile devices on a wireless network A method and apparatus for distributing authorization to provision devices on a wireless network are described. A primary trusted provisioning domain (TPD) operating within a trusted environment established by the wireless carrier's firewall can provision the mobile... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7328030 | Method and apparatus for accessing a common database from a mobile device and a computing device A method for accessing data contained in a data network using a mobile device or a different computing device. Common data may be accessed by both the mobile device and the computing device, with the mobile device communicating over a wireless data network and the c... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7302254 | MMS based photo album publishing system An MMS publishing system comprises a management tool, an authoring tool, a storage facility, a message router, and a rendering server. The management tool authenticates a first user by using a telephone number of the first user as a user ID. The authoring tool allow... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7299033 | Domain-based management of distribution of digital content from multiple suppliers to multiple wireless services subscribers A network server system includes a download manager that manages the publication, purchase and delivery of digital content from multiple content suppliers to wireless services subscribers in multiple domains. Each domain is defined as a different grouping of subscri... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7292996 | Method and apparatus for performing a credit based transaction between a user of a wireless communications device and a provider of a product or service A wireless telecommunications carrier operates a commerce platform in a trusted domain, which may store sensitive information associated with a consumer. During a credit card based transaction, a merchant's POS terminal sends transaction information to an acquirer. ... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7286990 | Universal interface for voice activated access to multiple information providers An interface for accessing data from one or more information systems using a wireless telephone or other user device. The interface is presented to a user as an abstraction of a unified mailbox and permits access by the user to messaging and other services from the ... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7277915 | Application-based protocol and proxy selection by a mobile device in a multi-protocol network environment In a mobile device operating on a wireless network, one of multiple selectable proxies and its corresponding protocol stack are selected, to proxy a request and response, based on the application making the request. Connection information for each available proxy is... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7246371 | System and method for filtering unavailable devices in a presence and availability management system A method for communicating communication network availability information regarding an individual to at least one subscriber of the individual's availability information. According to one embodiment, the method includes detecting whether the individual is present on... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7237034 | Method and apparatus for controlling network traffic An intermediary node on a data communications network implements a flow control algorithm to control network congestion. The intermediary node receives messages destined for servers or other upstream nodes from clients or other downstream nodes and determines whethe... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7233790 | Device capability based discovery, packaging and provisioning of content for wireless mobile devices A network server system includes a download manager that manages the publication, purchase and delivery of digital products from multiple suppliers to wireless services subscribers in multiple domains. Product suppliers can publish and manage their products on the s... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7231406 | Fault-tolerant queue with autonomous client operation Apparatus and methods, including computer program products, for providing a network-accessible queue. The queue is stored on a network-accessible file system having a locking mechanism providing strictly-enforced, network-wide file locking. The data structures of th... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7231218 | Lawful intercept service A system and method is provided for monitoring the activities and/or locations of wireless units in a wireless network independent of location-based service preferences of those wireless units. That is, a system and method is provided that allows an authorized reque... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7209966 | Method and system for facilitating mediated communication A mediation system as disclosed herein is capable of performing a method for facilitating mediated communication. In at least one embodiment of the method for facilitating mediated communication, the method includes receiving a service selection from a mediation sub... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7207011 | Alphanumeric information input method An alphanumeric information entry process that includes provision and use of a personal context model that correlates various examples of user context against a unique personal language model for the user. The personal language model itself along with considerable c... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7206388 | System and method for providing voice-activated presence information Systems and method for providing voice-activated presence information are disclosed. According to one embodiment, the system includes a voice gateway in communication with a presence server. The presence server is for determining presence information of an individua... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7203752 | Method and system for managing location information for wireless communications devices A system and method provide for establishment and use of permission sets for subscribers where client applications in a wireless communication environment are requesting location information for a particular wireless communications device from a provider of such inf... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7197120 | Method and system for facilitating mediated communication One embodiment of the disclosures made herein is a method for facilitating mediated communication. In such an embodiment of the disclosures made herein, a voice-based communication request transmitted from a first communication device is received by a mediation syst... | 03/27/2007 |
| 6301471 | Online churn reduction and loyalty system A method and system are disclosed for providing subscriber loyalty and retention techniques These techniques are suitable for mobile devices with small screens and limited keypad communication. This system and method allows mobile subscribers who have bee... | 10/09/2001 |
| 6263437 | Method and apparatus for conducting crypto-ignition processes between thin client devices and server devices over data networks A crypto-ignition process is needed to establish an encrypted communication protocol between two devices connected by an insecure communication link. The present invention introduces a method of creating an identical secret key to two communicating partie... | 07/17/2001 |
| 6247048 | Method and apparatus for transcoding character sets between internet hosts and thin client devices over data networks The present invention discloses a system for transcoding character sets between Internet hosts and thin client devices over data networks. A proxy server is provided as an intermediary between the Internet hosts and the thin client devices, and is informe... | 06/12/2001 |
