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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120129489 | UNLIMITED MEDIA ACCESS OVER WIRELESS INFRASTRUCTURE Methods, systems, and apparatus are presented for providing unlimited access to media content, such as music. A media server environment can be provided, which maintains an instance of each subscriber account and a central archive of media content. Further, selected med... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120129506 | DESKTOP TO MOBILE DATA AND ACTION TRANSFER Methods and systems for utilizing tags to transfer data are provided. Digital tags may be presented on a display device of a first computing device such that the tags are selectable by a second computing device. The tags may include tag content that is associated with a... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120071145 | PERVASIVE CONTACT CENTER Methods and systems that support the receipt of location data and/or touch data from a mobile communication device are provided. More particularly, a mobile customer service server is provided that can receive location data from or regarding a mobile communication devic... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120071146 | PATTERN BASED ENTERPRISE APPLICATIONS FOR MOBILE DEVICES A method is disclosed in which a server generates and transmits a reply to a mobile device via a wireless communication link in response to receiving a request from a mobile device. The reply includes first pattern information and data elements retrieved from a logical ... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20110302615 | WIRELESS MESSAGING SYSTEMS AND METHODS A messaging system for selectively performing an action on information, for remote retrieval of messages, for performing action on information at different times, for selective paging, for providing a user interface for message access and having integrated audio visual ... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110294477 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING MOBILE DEVICE SERVICES USING SMS COMMUNICATIONS An enhanced services platform has an interface for receiving a communication from a user requesting a desired data. An automated response module parses the communication and retrieves the desired data. The enhanced services platform arranges the desired data into a resp... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110287750 | LINK SERVER AND PROGRAM THEREOF, WEBSITE BROWSING SYSTEM, WEBSITE BROWSING METHOD, AND WEBSITE BROWSING PROGRAM In response to a browsing request of a website from a mobile phone, a link server acquires content information from the web server. Based on the content information, a plurality of page images generated by making a picture of the web page, pseudo UIF display data corres... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110281567 | ESTABLISHING SESSIONS BETWEEN DEVICES IN A NETWORK A method may include generating a discovery ID, wherein the discovery ID identifies an IP connection between a network device and a user device. The method may further include receiving a short message service (SMS) message from the user device, wherein the SMS message ... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110256846 | SYSTEMS AND METHOD FOR MEDIA TRANSFER Components of a mobile traffic network and components in communication with the network cooperate to confirm whether a mobile station user or account owner has previously purchased media content for a particular mobile station. Media content that has already been purcha... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110256854 | Cellular Communications System For Providing Non-Real Time Subscription Data And Related Methods A cellular communications system may include a plurality of mobile cellular communications devices each associated with a respective user, and at least one cellular base station for wirelessly communicating with the mobile cellular communications devices. The at least o... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110237232 | Systems and Methods to Provide Offers on Mobile Devices Systems and methods to propagate and redeem offers via mobile communications. In one aspect, a system includes an interchange and a data storage facility storing a value in association with a first phone number. The interchange includes a common format processor and a p... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110230176 | GUI Based Information Access, Web Search and Browsing over SMS GUI based information access, web search and browsing over SMS. The embodiments herein generally relate to wireless communication, and, more particularly, to a method and application for creating and presenting information to and from mobile devices using a GUI interfac... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110217965 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM FOR SYNCHRONIZING SPOT INFORMATION A method, a system, and a computer-readable medium for synchronizing spot information, adapted to synchronize a plurality of spot information displayed on a mobile device and a terminal device, are provided. In the present method, when the mobile device logs in to a ser... | 09/08/2011 |
| 20110207446 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING TILES OF DYNAMIC CONTENT Some techniques for providing tiles of dynamic content include a service that determines a generation time and update time in response to receiving a request for a particular tile, and that returns the particular tile. The generation time is when the particular tile of ... | 08/25/2011 |
| 20110183656 | SYSTEM FOR SENDING INTERNET BASED CONTENT TO A MEDIA DEVICE THROUGH A MOBILE PHONE A method for sending content to a media device. The method comprises receiving a request by a mobile phone for content, the mobile phone including an antenna effective to communicate with a base station or a satellite. The method comprises sending the request from the m... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110173100 | Object Information Derived from Object Images Search terms are derived automatically from images captured by a camera equipped cell phone, PDA, or other image capturing device, submitted to a search engine to obtain information of interest, and at least a portion of the resulting information is transmitted back loc... | 07/14/2011 |
| 20110159857 | INPUT DEVICE WITH AN ACCELEROMETER Methods, devices, and systems are described for bumping a mobile device, such as a smart phone, against a fixed poster board display at a store to initiate a download of coupons, advertisements, or other benefits to the mobile device. Products can be rated by a user's u... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110117897 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND INCOMING SCREEN DISPLAY METHOD THEREOF Disclosed are a mobile terminal, and an incoming screen display method thereof. The mobile terminal comprises: a communication unit configured to perform a communication with a transmitting terminal and/or a community server; and a controller configured to download a se... | 05/19/2011 |
| 20110117896 | System And Method For Using Cellular Network Components To Derive Traffic Information A traffic reporting system and method for geographic area of interest. The system includes standard wireless telecommunication components configured to establish search criteria, determine a sample size, collect traffic information, calculate additional traffic informat... | 05/19/2011 |
| 20110111741 | Audio-Only User Interface Mobile Phone Pairing Address book content information and an input command set are synchronized by an audio-only user interface mobile phone with a mobile device pairing server, such that the address book content information and the input command set of the audio-only user interface mobile ... | 05/12/2011 |
| 20110102605 | IMAGE MATCHING TO AUGMENT REALITY Technology for augmenting reality using image matching is described. The technology can receive a captured image, determine location information relating to the received image, and transmit the location information to a server computing device. The technology may then r... | 05/05/2011 |
| 20110069661 | Telecommunication Service Employing an Electronic Information Repository Storing Social Network User Information, Developer Information, and Mobile Network Operator Information A telecommunication system that carries out telecommunication functions between multiple parties as initiated by the user interaction with a social network application, while maintaining privacy of the device identifiers (phone numbers or static IP addresses assigned to... | 03/24/2011 |
| 20110065425 | DIGITAL PERSONAL ASSISTANCE VIA A BROADBAND ACCESS GATEWAY A system and method supporting access, coordination, modification, updating, and management of multiple sources of multimedia information resident on a plurality of access device is disclosed. A broadband access gateway may support applications that perform user service... | 03/17/2011 |
| 20110065424 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO FACILITATE DOWNLOADING DATA AT A MOBILE WIRELESS DEVICE The invention relates to systems and method to facilitate downloading a data file. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving at a first wireless communication device a request to download a requested data file. A determination is made at the first wireless communic... | 03/17/2011 |
| 20110009103 | RELATIONAL RENDERING WITH A MOBILE TERMINAL Data storing multiple contact entries is access and at least two of the contact entries are selected from the accessed data. A phone number and an image are associated with at least two selected contact entries. A relational characteristic is determined for the selected... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20110010629 | SELECTIVELY DISTRIBUTING UPDATES OF CHANGING IMAGES TO CLIENT DEVICES A network server for sharing images with mobile electronic devices having one or more processors, and image sharing client application, and an image distribution application. The image sharing client application is to be executed on one or more of the processors to rece... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20110003583 | SELECTION OF SENSORS FOR MONITORING PHENOMENA CONSIDERING THE VALUE OF INFORMATION AND DATA SHARING PREFERENCES A method disclosed herein includes the act of computing a value of information for obtaining data from a personal sensor of a user for utilization in a utilitarian computing application, wherein a mobile computing device comprises the personal sensor of the user. The me... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20100311400 | JUKEBOX SYSTEM A jukebox is described where users having mobile telephones can access a server (2) located remote from the jukebox location and select tracks for playing on the jukebox at the user's location. The user's mobile telephone communicates on WAP or WEB on a mobile wi... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100304726 | Method, device and system for implementing multimedia ring back tone A method, device and system for implementing Multimedia Ring Back Tone (MRBT) are provided, where the method includes: when a multimedia terminal sends a multimedia call request to a non-multimedia terminal, receiving the multimedia call request forwarded by a Mobile Sw... | 12/02/2010 |
| 20100304727 | SPAM CONTROL FOR SHARING CONTENT ON MOBILE DEVICES Sharing content among users of mobile devices is facilitated and controlled by a system and method that employs a content sharing application to receive and process requests to share content among users of devices such as mobile devices and personal computers. Recipient... | 12/02/2010 |
| 20100304728 | METHOD FOR ACCESSING HYPERLINKS AND HYPERLINKED CONTENT VIA MOBILE PHONE A method for accessing content from a computer network, the method comprising the steps of: (a) capturing an image of a substrate with a mobile phone having an optical image sensor; (b) forming on the mobile phone, a request based on the captured image; (c) transmitting... | 12/02/2010 |
| 20100303438 | INFORMATION DEVICE A device for obtaining, storing and displaying information from a remote server, the device has a modem for establishing communication sessions with the remote server. A memory coupled to the modem stores the obtained information, and a display is coupled to the memory ... | 12/02/2010 |
| 20100287230 | Internet-enabled Data Transceiver An improved low-power data transceiver with a companion virtual component (a virtual component/clone of the hardware) on the Internet. Users can interact with the virtual component while the physical transceiver is not accessible due to network outages or it being in a ... | 11/11/2010 |
| 20100279670 | TRANSFERRING SESSIONS IN A COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK Systems and methods for transferring a session or components of a session in a communication network are provided. The components of the session include media flows and control over the media flows. The user can initiate a transfer of a existing session with a mobile de... | 11/04/2010 |
| 20100248702 | Methods and system for enhanced directory assistance using wireless messaging protocols Directory assistance provides telephone number look up services to callers based on the business or caller name as listed in a telephone directory. In the prior art, directory assistance provides a value-added service to telephone users and an expense that must be charg... | 09/30/2010 |
| 20100234002 | INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A MOBILE NETWORK A method of and system for distributing information forming part of an information campaign to a user's mobile device in a mobile communication network are provided. The method comprises receiving campaign message information defining campaign messages to be distributed... | 09/16/2010 |
| 20100222042 | Time and Device Shifting of Mobile Advertising A computer implemented method and system for monitoring message usage on a communication device, verifying a presenting of messages in such a way that a benefit may be determined for allowing the presenting. The presenting of messages may be postponed, for example, to a... | 09/02/2010 |
| 20100222043 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND DEVICES FOR PROMPTING MOBILE DEVICE USERS FOR FEEDBACK INFORMATION USING TONE TRANSMISSIONS Systems, methods, and devices for prompting mobile device users for feedback information using tone transmissions are provided. One device may include a network interface, a display, a microphone, and a processor in communication with the network interface, display, and... | 09/02/2010 |
| 20100216432 | Wireless device for receiving calls to automatically transmit messages of current device location A wireless location tracking device (WLTD) includes a global position system (GPS) for receiving signals and generating data for determining a geographic location of the wireless location tracking device (WLTD). The WLTD further includes a transceiver for receiving an i... | 08/26/2010 |
| 20100197286 | System and Method for Improving Cellular Telephone User Experience A method for determining an amount of time required to download a data file to a wireless device includes receiving information indicating a first amount of wireless bandwidth allocated for the download of the data file, calculating a first length of time required to do... | 08/05/2010 |
