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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7957750 | Location estimation method A location estimation method is provided. The method locates coordinates of a mobile station (MS) by referencing a plurality of base stations (BS). A geometric distribution of the BS is analyzed to provide a list of conditional equations. A virtual BS is allocated, ... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7957748 | System and methods for establishing a real-time location-based service network A network and method to establish a real-time location based service for client mobile device users. Asynchronous data connections are established between client mobile devices and a data server over wireless networks. Synchronous data connections are established be... | 06/07/2011 |
| RE42435 | Wireless location determining device The present invention discloses a system and a method to locate moving objects, such as people, pets and vehicles, over a wide area, by attaching small wireless devices, such as Bluetooth transceivers, to said objects and determining the location of said devices. Th... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7953419 | Method for integration of network nodes In a data communications network building automation system, integration of wirelessly communicating network nodes is visualized in a process environment on an output unit of a commissioning device. The current spatial position of the commissioning device is detecte... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7949347 | Using landline telephone RF sniffers to provide Z-coordinate and in-building location of mobile telephones A cellular telephone or other wireless mobile user equipment (UE) can be located with greater than cell precision by monitoring for transmitted radio signals at landline telephone sites, such as offices in a building. At each site, a telephone instrument device not ... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7949346 | Method and system for locating a terminal in a wireless telecommunications network, computer program product therefor A method is disclosed for locating a terminal in a local wireless telecommunications network adapted to provide an estimated position of the terminal depending on a set of configuration data and a set of measuring data indicating whether the terminal belongs to a su... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7945270 | Estimating a location of a mobile device The approximate location of a directed cell of a cellular network is calculated based on locations in the vicinity of which mobile devices were able to detect the directed cell. A mobile device is able to estimate its own location from the approximate locations of o... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7945271 | Location inference using radio frequency fingerprinting A method for inferring location of a mobile device is provided. A radio frequency fingerprint is taken for a mobile device, wherein the radio frequency fingerprint includes cell tower data and cell sector data that includes a cell sector through which the mobile dev... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7941159 | Position determination using received broadcast signals A radio device that is capable of positioning itself within a broadcast radio system includes a receiver operable to receive a plurality of broadcast radio signals, each broadcast from a respective one of a plurality of broadcast radio signal sources. The radio devi... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7941157 | Hybrid localization in wireless networks A hybrid localization method and a wireless network that performs the method are disclosed herein. In an embodiment of a hybrid localization technique, one or more sensor nodes in the network switch between different localization techniques depending on location are... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7941158 | Computerized mine production system The system contains a central computer unit having a first database controlled by a first logic unit. At least one mobile computer unit is joined with the mobile equipment. Each of the mobile computer units has a second database controlled by a second logic unit. At... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7937094 | Wired and mobile wi-fi networks, cellular, GPS and other position finding systems A voice signal is processed and connected by wire to a mobile wireless unit for further processing into time division multiple access (TDMA) and into spread spectrum signals. The wireless unit is processing a data signal into orthogonal frequency division multiplex ... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7937092 | Method for providing a location information service in mobile communications system In a method for providing a location information service based upon a user's location, when a user is currently located within a preferred location or preferred area set by the user to apply privacy with respect to a transmission of location information thereto, a p... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7937093 | Cellular and internet mobile systems and networks Method, system and process for receiving, processing and transmitting signals, including the steps of: receiving a Global Positioning System (GPS) signal for generating from said signal a processed location finder signal and processing and filtering an input signal ... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7933608 | Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing presence gateway functionality in a telecommunications network A method for providing presence gateway functionality includes deriving presence information for subscribers in a first set of subscribers based on telecommunications signaling messages. The first set of subscribers includes at least one subscriber who is not a subs... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7933609 | Tracking a group of mobile terminals A method performed by a mobile terminal may include identifying a group of mobile terminals, generating a message that includes a link to a map showing a position each of the mobile terminals in the group and transmitting the message to each of the plurality of mobi... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7933610 | Method and apparatus to select an optimum site and/or sector to provide geo-location data A system and method selects secondary base stations to task that provide geo-location information used to geo-locate a mobile station. A network overlay location system may be co-located at base station sites of a wireless communications network. The location measur... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7929978 | Method and apparatus for providing enhanced communication capability for mobile devices on a virtual private network A communication system has a cellular telephony interface in individual ones of two or more mobile vehicles, a position determination system in individual ones of the mobile vehicles, a network of cellular base stations coupled to the mobile vehicles, individual bas... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7929975 | Prequalification of potential wireless customers An apparatus and method of pre-qualifying a potential customer of a wireless network is disclosed. The prequalification includes obtaining a location input by the potential customer, and accessing a wireless network performance database. An expected level of wireles... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7929976 | Communicating forwarding information for a communications device based on detected physical location Detecting a physical location change of a mobile communications device may initiate a process to initiate, or cancel, forwarding of future incoming communications to the mobile communications device. Forwarding information for a mobile communications device may be a... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7929977 | Method and system for determining the location of an unlicensed mobile access subscriber A method and system for locating an unlicensed mobile access (UMA) subscriber. The method enables a user of a mobile station comprising a hand-set or the like that supports voice and data access via both licensed and unlicensed radio spectrums to be located. Accordi... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7925274 | TDOA/GPS hybrid wireless location system A method and system for enhancing the accuracy and robustness of locations determined for a mobile wireless transceiver in a cellular telephone communications system integrating location-related information both from an assisted GPS device embedded in the mobile uni... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7925273 | Method and apparatus for updating the location of a mobile device within a wireless communication network A location reporting paging communication system comprising space satellites, ground stations and a remote receiving unit adapted to resolve a global position from signals transmitted from a communication transmitter. The subscriber in possession of the remote recei... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7920871 | Telephone device A telephone device which enables a user to consciously send a determined present position to a device in the surrounding area is provided. A portable telephone device 10 sends position determination information acquired by a GPS unit including a GPS antenna | 04/05/2011 |
| 7920873 | Assisted method of locating mobile communications terminals of a cellular network using a USSD transport channel A mobile communications terminal (T) for a cellular communications network comprises an assisted satellite positioning device (D) connected to a satellite positioning installation connected to an assistance data server, a USSD management module (MGT) for setting up ... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7920874 | Position estimating system A position estimating system capable of accurately estimating the position assumed by a target terminal user based upon measurement of wireless reception signal levels of signals from a target terminal is provided. The position estimating system includes a target te... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7920875 | Subscriptionless location of wireless devices Techniques for locating wireless devices involve a wireless device making measurements of signals transmitted by geographically distributed base stations within a wireless network. If some key site information is known about these transmitters, such as the transmitt... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7920876 | System and method for evaluating accuracy of an automatic location identification system A method (38) and system (56) evaluate the accuracy of an Automatic Location Identification (ALI) system (36) deployed within an environment (20) and configured to location a wireless communication device (24) originating an emerge... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7920877 | Using base-station location to assist mobile-device system acquisition Methods and systems are provided for using base-station location to assist mobile-device system acquisition. A mobile station, which stores a network identifier, selects a carrier frequency. The mobile station receives, from a base station on a first carrier frequen... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7920872 | Method for the transmisson of location-related information The supplementary location-related information which may be included in a digital map of the receiver is transmitted in such a way that the location-related information may be downloaded from an Internet page. ... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7917153 | Method and apparatus for creating, directing, storing and automatically delivering a message to an intended recipient upon arrival of a specified mobile object at a designated location A technique to electronically deliver a message from a sender to an intended recipient based on tracking movement of a mobile object, including obtaining a message provided by the sender, obtaining a location designated by the sender for delivery of the message, tra... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7917154 | Determining mobile content for a social network based on location and time A device, system, and method are directed towards updating location information for a social network. A request for the location information associated with a GPS coordinate is received from a client device associated with a member of the social network. In response... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7917155 | Location of cooperative tags with personal electronic device The present disclosure relates to location and communication systems that can be utilized for locating people, pets and other objects with a software defined radio set. A personal electronic device (PED) such as a cellular telephone, personal data assistant (PDA) or... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7917156 | Position determination for a wireless terminal in a hybrid position determination system Techniques to determine a position estimate for a wireless terminal. An accurate position estimate for the terminal is initially obtained (e.g., based on a first (accurate) position determination sub-system). For each of one or more transmitters (e.g., base stations... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7917152 | Enhanced fast handover procedures A method for performing a change of a connection of a mobile entity from a first network access entity to a second network access entity, wherein a global address of the first network access entity is not known to the mobile entity is provided. According to one embo... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7912482 | Mobile communication system and method for capturing information of other mobile communication terminals A mobile communication system and a method for capturing information of other mobile communication terminals located within a distance from the user's mobile communication terminal may include a first mobile communication terminal for transmitting capture signal, lo... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7912480 | System and method for electronic notes in a mobile environment A system and method for handling electronic notes in a mobile environment, wherein the system includes a memory configured to store an electronic note, which electronic note includes location information, a location detector configured to detect location information... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7912481 | Receiver, receiver for positioning system using the same, and positioning method An invention for estimating the first path of an arrival signal by a method and device with a simple structure and lower power consumption. In this method, the nominal pulse repetition frequency or its integer multiple are A/D converted at a frequency less than the ... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7904097 | Location determination techniques A method for estimating a target object properties, including location, in an environment. A topology model indicates permissible locations and transitions and a data model models a location-dependent physical quantity which is observed by the target object's sensin... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7904095 | GPS microphone for communication system A GPS microphone, which is adapted for incorporating a communication system, includes a speaker-microphone set, a radio frequency transmitter communicatively networked with the communication system through radio frequency signals, and a GPS controller electrically c... | 03/08/2011 |
