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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120129504 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING SEMANTIC CONTEXT A method for providing a semantic context according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention may include: extracting at least one of address information and surrounding address information of the address information on the basis of a user's location; reading ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120126963 | Over-the-Air Issue Reporting From Vehicles Systems and methods for occupant reporting of a vehicle issue over-the-air from within a vehicle include a cellular device in the vehicle that establishes a connection with a cellular network. A user interface includes a display that provides occupant selectable menu op... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120129503 | Management of Mobile Applications In particular implementations, a mobile device management system allows network administrators to control the distribution and publication of applications to mobile device users in an enterprise network.... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120129505 | GENERATING RELATIONAL INDICATORS BASED ON ANALYSIS OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS EVENTS A system for generating a relational indicator based on analysis of at least one telecommunications event between a first party and a second party, comprises: a relation management engine which is configured to process first content characteristics extracted from a plur... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120108220 | METHOD FOR INITIATING A CONNECTION BETWEEN COMMUNICATION DEVICES OF AT LEAST TWO PARTIES A method and system for initiating a connection between at least a first communication device and a second communication device respective of a first party and a second party. According to the present invention initiating a connection includes obtaining a destination su... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120108219 | MOBILITY CALL MANAGEMENT A mobility call management service is disclosed that provides enhanced call management functionality for a wireless mobile terminal (MT). Incoming and/or outgoing calls are managed based on an assessment of the degree of motion of the MT, or other available data pertine... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120108216 | System And Method For Supporting Mobile Unit Connectivity To Venue Specific Servers The present invention is an applications gateway that offers multiple functions and features for specific geographic venue locations, while providing easy access to advertising, purchasing, and redemption opportunities for that specific geographic venue location. Venue ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120108214 | MOBILE SOFTWARE SERVICES FOR TELECOM OPERATORS A system for performing a telecommunication service, including a cellular network, a processor connected to a memory, a Service Delivery Platform (SDP), and the telecommunication service executed by the processor and configured to execute instructions for the SDP on the... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120108217 | COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, TELEPHONE DIRECTORY RESISTERING METHOD, AND COMMUNICATION TERMINAL HANDLING METHOD The communication terminal according to the present invention includes, an electronic mail receiving means for receiving an electronic mail, a specific information inclusion judging means for judging whether a received electronic mail which the electronic mail receiving... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120108201 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING A TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICE A method for performing a telecommunication service, including identifying, on a Service Delivery Platform (SDP) and by a processor, the telecommunication service, selecting, on the SDP and by the processor, the telecommunication service, and executing, on the SDP and b... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120108218 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING PHONE DIRECTORY SERVICE FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATION SUBSCRIBER A method and system for providing a phone directory service to a user terminal in a mobile communication network are provided. The method includes receiving a search request including a search keyword for the phone directory service and a subscriber identifier for the u... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120083253 | EXCHANGE OF ELECTRONIC BUSINESS CARDS BETWEEN STATIONS A mobile station arranged for receiving an electronic business card, for adding a user instruction to the electronic business card, and for storing the resulting combination on a server provided for this purpose, which mobile station is also arranged for transmitting an... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120083252 | MESSAGING VIA A CODED BUSINESS CARD AND MOBILE TELEPHONE A method of sending a message using a business card with data encoded on a surface, and a mobile phone. The data includes an identifier which uniquely identifies the surface and the mobile telephone senses the coded data to determine the identifier. Using the identifier... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120083250 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO DETECT PBX-MOBILITY CALL FAILURE Aspects relate to initiating voice calls to mobile devices from an enterprise network. In one example, a server can initiate a voice channel to a mobile device, and if the mobile device cannot be reached, an access network may redirect the call from the server to a numb... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120083257 | Enabling Mid-Call Services to be Added to a Communication Session by a Wireless Device Mid-call services may be added to a communication session such as a telephone call (call session) by a wireless device on a mobile telephone network by causing the wireless device associated with the communication session to invoke a second call session directed to a ve... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120083251 | User Interface Methods and Apparatus for Initiating Telephone Calls From a Mobile Station A mobile station includes one or more processors, a wireless transceiver coupled to the one or more processors, and a user interface which includes a visual display and a plurality of keys. The wireless transceiver is operative to receive a message which includes a tele... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120083254 | UNSUCCESSFUL CALL ALERT A method for a mobile phone to provide an unsuccessful call alert, including monitoring an outgoing call from a caller to a callee to determine if the callee is available; if the callee is not available, then automatically actuating a message editor, automatically displ... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120071142 | GENERATION OF MULTI-MEDIA RINGTONES FROM A FRIEND'S RECENT SOCIAL DATA A communications device includes a receiver to receive social data of a friend of a user of the communications device and an animator to animate the social data for playing on the communications device upon an occasion of a communications related triggering event betwee... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120071143 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OBTAINING MAP COORDINATES TO FIXED LOCATION A method for obtaining directions to fixed location such as a restaurant includes using a telephone to call a 411 directory, and providing a prompt to the caller during the 411 call to push a button on the telephone to download the GPS location of the restaurant. The GP... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120071144 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGEMENT OF MOBILE DEVICE COMMUNICATION A system and method for managing mobile device communication in an enterprise includes a device management agent and a synchronization agent in the mobile device. Information about the status of the mobile device is collected by the device management agent and the synch... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120071139 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ACTIVATING SERVICES ON A WIRELESS TERMINAL A method and apparatus for setting a wireless terminal for a service are disclosed. The wireless terminal automatically sends identification information to a server by dialing a predetermined number. Upon receiving the identification information, the server finds custom... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120071148 | METHOD FOR ESTABLISHING TELEPHONE CONNECTION TO MOBILE-COMMUNICATION TERMINAL WHERE CALLING PARTY CONTROLS HOW CALL IS ESTABLISHED The invention relates to a method for establishing a telephone connection to a mobile communications terminal device (11) via a mobile communications network (5, 7, 9), with at least one mobile telephone number being assigned to the mobile communications t... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120071140 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS A method for controlling mobile communications involves identifying an operator of the mobile vehicle, where the operator is associated with the mobile communications device. The method further includes recognizing, via a telematics unit in the mobile vehicle, a first i... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120071141 | HETEROGENEOUS NETWORK ACCESS ON DEVICES WITH ONE OR MORE NETWORK INTERFACES A method for managing TCP flows in a mobile device adapted to connect to two or more wireless network types includes enabling connection to a number of networks of different types at the mobile device and executing a plurality of Internet-enabled applications on the mob... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120052848 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTACT INFORMATION MANAGEMENT IN MOBILE TERMINAL Provided is a contact management method in a mobile terminal that provides a contact synchronization function. A contact list editing screen is displayed, wherein, when a contact integrating function is performed, an entire contact list is scrollably displayed in a firs... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120052849 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO AUTOMATICALLY PARK A VOICE CALL FOR DATA TRANSFER A system and method to automatically park a voice call on a mobile electronic device so that the device can receive data, comprising a switch for establishing a voice call at the at least one caller device, a database for storing at least one call processing rule, and a... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054046 | Mobile Payment Using Picture Messaging Systems and methods are disclosed for mobile payment using picture messaging to deliver an image with an encoded payment key. A mobile device equipped with at least a display and an input is used to connect to a server on the mobile network. Upon authentication of a use... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120052847 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND CONTROL METHOD A mobile terminal and control method to share content with a device and control the device are provide. The mobile terminal includes a communication unit to communicate with a host and the device; a search unit to receive content information and device information; an i... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120046017 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PREVENTION OF INDIRECT USER TRACKING THROUGH AGGREGATE PROFILE DATA Systems and methods are provided for preventing indirect user tracking in a mobile aggregate profiling system. In general, access to aggregate profile data for groups of users is controlled in a mobile aggregate profiling system based on rate of change values for one or... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120040650 | SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATED DETECTION OF MOBILE PHONE USAGE A method and apparatus for automated detection of mobile phone usage includes a detection system operative to detect a mobile phone signal transmitted from a mobile phone from a building or other location. Responsive to the detection, the detection system is operative c... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120040651 | AUTOMATIC GAIN CONTROL IN A NAVIGATION DEVICE In one example, a Bluetooth enabled navigation device pairs with a mobile phone and then sends a plurality of tuning transmissions, each at a different transmission power gain amount, to a remote server using the mobile phone. These tuning transmissions are encoded usin... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120040649 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, INFORMATION ANALYZING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION ANALYZING METHOD For easily and quickly collecting data regarding macroscopic population distribution, and easily and quickly obtaining the survey results, an RNC includes: a location registration signal receiver that receives location registration signals, and a signal number counting ... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120040647 | PORTABLE TELEPHONE An incoming call detection unit (102) detects an incoming call, a time discerning unit (104) uses a clock (103) to discern the time of detection of the incoming call, a response message selection unit (107) reads from schedule storage unit (<... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120040646 | DELAYING DELIVERY OF TELECONFERENCE ACCESS INFORMATION A system and method for delaying delivery of teleconference access information includes at least one processor, at least one computer readable medium in communication with the processor, and at least one program module stored on the medium. The module is operative to cr... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120040648 | Convenient Electronic Sound Producing Device A convenient electronic sound producing device is an electronic sound producing device that is physically configured to be easy to use in the field. A control module faces the use while the sound is projected away from the user. A pistol grip can be used to ease holding... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120034907 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING DIGITAL DATA AND SYSTEM THEREOF AND MOBILE TERMINAL FOR THE SAME IN CALL WAITING The present invention relates to a method and system for transmitting digital data while waiting for call connection and a mobile communication terminal for the same. If an originating mobile communication terminal attempts call connection, the mobile communication syst... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120034908 | Services and Transactions in a Telephony Network At a telephony service location remote from a caller and a call recipient, a request for establishing a connection to the call recipient is received. The request is initiated by the caller specifying a number associated with the call recipient. A call recipient originat... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120034905 | VOICE CONNECTION TO AN INTRASTRUCTURE FACILITY AFTER AN EVENT Disclosed herein is a communication system for a vehicle for communicating with nearby vehicles which includes a control unit and a communication unit. After a triggering event occurs, an inquiry is sent to nearby vehicles whether a communication voice connection is to ... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120034904 | Automatically Monitoring for Voice Input Based on Context In one implementation, a computer-implemented method includes detecting a current context associated with a mobile computing device and determining, based on the current context, whether to switch the mobile computing device from a current mode of operation to a second ... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120034906 | STORAGE MEDIUM STORING RELAY CONTROL PROGRAM, RELAY SERVER DEVICE, AND RELAY CONTROL METHOD A relay server receives from a mobile terminal a delivery request to a delivery server device that provides an application to the mobile terminal. The relay server obtains position information of the mobile terminal from a representative device connected to a position m... | 02/09/2012 |
