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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120129547 | Geographic-Based Signal Detection The disclosure relates generally to geographic-based signal detection. One claims recites a method including: receiving information indicating a geographical area; with reference to at least a portion of the information indicating a geographical area, selecting a machin... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120129520 | GEO TAGGING USING LOCATION ESTIMATION A current location of a mobile system in a wireless network can be determined by using information provided by a base station in communication with the mobile system. The location information can be used to index a GEO Locate Table to determine a list of SIDs to populat... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120129546 | PATH PROGRESSION MATCHING FOR INDOOR POSITIONING SYSTEMS A path progression matching system and method that uses path progression to find a current position of a mobile device in an indoor environment and a path history to find the path of the mobile device to get to the current position. Embodiments of the system and method ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120129551 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HYBRID LOCATION IN A UMTS NETWORK A system and method for estimating a location of a wireless device receiving signals from plural nodes of a Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (“UMTS”) network. Observed time difference of arrival (“OTDOA”) measurements of signals received by the wireles... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120129548 | LOCATION ESTIMATION A current location of a mobile system in a wireless network can be determined by using information provided by a base station in communication with the mobile system. The information can include a system identifier (SID) table and a local time offset (LTM_OFF) value and... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120129488 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA FOR INTER-CARRIER ROAMING COST CONTAINMENT Methods, systems, and computer readable media for enabling location-based policy in a mobile communication network are disclosed. According to one method, a first Diameter signaling message is received at a Diameter agent. Subscriber identification information and roami... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120129550 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HYBRID LOCATION IN AN LTE NETWORK A system and method for estimating a location of a wireless device receiving signals from plural nodes of a communications network. A wireless device may be directed to transmit a first signal having one or more predetermined parameters. At one or more location measurem... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120129544 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SELECTIVELY INVOKING POSITIONING SYSTEMS FOR MOBILE DEVICE CONTROL APPLICATIONS USING ACCELEROMETER MEASUREMENTS Systems and methods are provided for controlling a mobile device, in which a processor receives a first accelerometer signal representative of motion of the mobile device. The processor determines a variation in the first accelerometer signal, and sets an acceleration t... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120129545 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SELECTIVELY INVOKING POSITIONING SYSTEMS FOR MOBILE DEVICE CONTROL APPLICATIONS USING MULTIPLE SENSING MODALITIES Methods and systems are described for selectively invoking a positioning system for a mobile device. In some implementations, first and second signals are received from first and second non-position-based sensors, respectively, each representative of a context of the mo... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120129543 | SELECTIVELY FORMATTING MEDIA DURING A GROUP COMMUNICATION SESSION In an embodiment, during a group communication session, media is received from a first set of access terminals that belong to a communication group, wherein the received media corresponds to content for presentation to a second set of access terminals that belong to the... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120129549 | Method and Apparatus for Determining the Location of a Wireless Client Device on a Wireless Network The rate at which a particular wireless client may be PINGed may depend on many factors, including the accuracy with which the location of the wireless client is required to be known, how accurate the system has historically been able to locate other previous clients in... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120130753 | GPS Pathfinder Cell Phone and Method A device and system for use in emergency management operations before and after a disaster. The system can also be readily customized for use in other markets and scenarios that are outside of disaster response. The device incorporates a GPS and/or a radio and/or cell p... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120108258 | Method, Device, and System for Obtaining a Mobile Computing Device Location One embodiment of the present invention comprises a method of determining a mobile computing device location. The method may comprise emitting at least one audio signal from at least one audio signal emitter and determining a sending time of the at least one audio signa... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120108263 | Method and Arrangement for Determining Terminal Position A method and apparatus for determining the position of mobile terminals in a cell of a mobile communication network where timing-based alignment is employed for terminal transmissions in timeslots to a serving base station. First, the distance to the base station is det... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120108259 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AGGREGATING AND ASSOCIATING MOBILE DEVICE LOCATION DATA A computer-implemented method for processing mobile device location data is provided. Location data is filtered based on age and accuracy or precision of location coordinates. Location data is partitioned based on the location coordinates into a plurality of clusters in... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120108260 | Method of and System for Estimating Temporal Demographics of Mobile Users A method of and system for estimating temporal demographics of mobile users is disclosed. A method of estimating demographic information associated with a selected geographical area includes, for at least one individual, determining a selected geographical area along a ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120108261 | DYNAMIC TRAVEL BEHAVIOR ESTIMATION IN MOBILE NETWORK A method and apparatus is disclosed herein for estimating travel behavior in a mobile network. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving event data indicative of user equipment location, pre-processing received event data to produce pre-processed data, performin... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120108262 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NON-COOPERATIVE STIMULATION OF MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINALS Methods and systems for locating Mobile Stations (MSs) that are served by a Wireless communication Network (WLN) in a given geographical area. The MSs typically communicate with other parties, or connect to the Internet, through the WLN, wherein Base Transceiver Station... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120083286 | MOBILE DEVICE LOCATION ESTIMATION USING ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION Estimating a location of a mobile device is performed by comparing environmental information, such as environmental sound, associated with the mobile device with that of other devices to determine if the environmental information is similar enough to conclude that the m... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120083287 | Short messaging system auto-reply and message hold A system and method for auto-replying to a short message service (SMS) message addressed to a mobile device is provided. A designated short code SMS message is received to activate an auto-reply feature for a mobile device. Automatic transmission of a designated SMS mes... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120083285 | METHOD, DEVICE AND SYSTEM FOR ENHANCING LOCATION INFORMATION A method, system and apparatus for obtaining enhanced location information for a mobile device. The mobile device is configured to allow a determination of its location, for example via GPS. Location data for the mobile device, exemplarily obtained via GPS, may be furth... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120083288 | POSITIONING NODE, USER EQUIPMENT AND METHODS THEREIN Embodiments herein relate to a method in a positioning node for enabling positioning of a user equipment, which user equipment is served in a first cell controlled by a radio network node. The positioning node and radio network node are comprised in a radio communicatio... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120083278 | POSITIONING MEASUREMENTS AND CARRIER SWITCHING IN MULTI-CARRIER WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS In a multi-carrier wireless communication network, positioning-aware switching of a primary carrier from a first carrier to a second carrier for a UE is constrained to enable one or more positioning measurements to be performed. Either the selection of the second carrie... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120083290 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MEASURING A SIGNAL OF A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM The present invention relates to a method which involves resetting a signal-measuring cycle for an object system to a specific initial value when a terminal which communicates with one system has changed the location thereof by a value more than a specific reference val... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120083289 | METHOD, DEVICE AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING POSITION INFORMATION A method, device and system for determining position information are used to avoid the defects which result from the way of determining the position information of a wireless sensor node in the prior art. The method for determining the position information provided by t... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120083241 | Location Continuity Service for Locating Mobile Devices Using Multiple Access Networks Including Wireless Telecommunication Networks A location continuity application server described herein is configured to access from an access network a set of location data associated with a position measurement for a mobile device. The location continuity application server may also access from another access net... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120071172 | INTEGRITY MONITORING IN A POSITION LOCATION SYSTEM UTILIZING KNOWLEDGE OF LOCAL TOPOGRAPHY A system for and method of deriving a position estimate of a receiver from a plurality of parameter measurements is provided. Each measurement is derived from a correlation function, which in turn is derived by correlating a signal received at the receiver with an ident... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120071171 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR QUERY PROCESSING OF MOVING OBJECT IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM A mobile communication system process a query of a location-based service. More particularly, an apparatus and a method reduce communication processes for an unnecessary query by expanding a resident domain with a query type. The apparatus includes a server for expandin... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120071173 | DEVICE SPECIFIC TRACKING AREA IDENTITY LISTS A method and system for providing a User Equipment (UE) (101) with a Tracking Area Identity (TAI) list during a Tracking Area Update (TAU) procedure. The TAI is UE specific and is based on a visitation history (305) of the UE (101). If a pre-existin... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120071174 | METHODS OF LOCATING DATA SPOTS AND NETWORKS AND USER EQUIPMENT FOR USING THE SAME Methods determine data spots in a network by identifying a transmission resource and its characteristics so as to determine geography of a data spot. Users are then directed to, locate, and/or move to the data spot and retrieve desired content. Users may be directed to ... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120071170 | METHOD AND SERVER FOR ESTIMATING POSITION OF MOBILE NODE A position estimation server estimates the position of a target mobile node by using position information of a minimum number of anchor nodes knowing their position, distance information estimated between mobile nodes or between the anchor nodes and the mobile nodes, an... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120071130 | Emergency call from a cell phone The invention provides a portable communications apparatus which is useful for reporting positional status report to a user-selected recipient(s). Using a global-positioning-receiver (i.e. GPS) to generate a location indicia of the portable communications apparatus, and... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120052874 | USE OF WIRELESS ACCESS POINT ID FOR POSITION DETERMINATION A mobile computing device comprises a wireless transceiver and a processing circuit. The processing circuit is configured to identify a location, to identify a wireless access point within a predetermined distance of the location, to detect a wireless access point ident... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120052835 | Location Accuracy Improvement Using a priori Probabilities A large volume of high accuracy location data is determined in many commercial wireless networks from location based services (LBS) and, in the United States, for E911. Uplink-Time-Difference-of-Arrival (UTDOA) and Assisted GPS (AGPS) are the predominant geolocation tec... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120052875 | Positioning in Telecommunication Systems A method for providing a position determination comprises obtaining (210) of data representing signal properties of a cellular communication network associated with a user equipment and determining of a position for the user equipment based on the signal properti... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120052843 | Third Party Location Query for Wireless Networks A computer-implemented method provides, to a first user, location-based information concerning a second user, and a system and computer-readable storage medium include computer-readable instructions for performing the same. The method includes determining that the secon... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120052870 | Mobile Tracking A method of tracking a lead mobile device entails receiving tracking data that includes a current location for both the lead mobile device and at least one other mobile device that is also tracking the lead device. The method also entails displaying the current location... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120050532 | Electronic Latch and Locking Device for a Personal Locating and Tracking Device A wearable personal tracking device that can communicate over a cellular network. The device includes a wrist mounted part, having a wristband and a clasp which holds the wristband on to the wrist of a user. The band is remotely lockable, and also creates an alarm when ... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120052872 | AUDIO-BASED ENVIRONMENT AWARENESS A method of determining a position of a mobile device in a wireless communication network includes: accessing mobile device audio information from the mobile device; analyzing the mobile device audio information to determine an environmental characteristic of a present ... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120052873 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DYNAMIC POWER SAVINGS BASED ON LOCATION Techniques to dynamically manage power for a mobile computing device based on a location of the device are described. For example, a mobile computing device may comprise one or more wireless transceivers, a location module operative to monitor one or more location param... | 03/01/2012 |
