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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8190152 | Wireless network roaming timer method and apparatus A mobile station in a wireless network includes a roaming timer. The roaming timer is set based on various criteria, and when the roaming timer expires, an attempt to roam is performed. ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8190175 | Closest user terminal search method for a telecommunication network and service node applying such a method Service node for a telecommunication network and method for determining a group of n user terminals which are closest to a point of interest. First, a search range with an upper limit is set. Then in an iterative manner, a current search cell of the set of cells is ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189513 | Radio base station apparatus and base station controller The invention provides a radio base station apparatus forming a wireless zone in a mobile communication system and to a base station controller performing channel control over a terminal visiting a wireless zone. The radio base station apparatus has an identifying s... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189619 | Systems and methods facilitating high throughput control in wireless communications Embodiments include systems and methods for frame tunneling in a wireless communications system comprising digital beam forming. Embodiments comprise a first and second frame control field with the second frame control field comprising a High Throughput Control (HTC... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8185122 | Method for creating a cellular telephone infrastructure The Demographic Index (DI) was created for wireless communication network design, however has relevance in other marketing based applications. The DI combines a series of demographic census records into a single weighted index value that can be used to evaluate geog... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185109 | Identifying communications between telecommunications networks A telecommunications system is disclosed including a host telecommunications network (A) having a radio access network (6) and a virtual telecommunications network (C) with which a telecommunications device (3) is registered and operable to communicate... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8179911 | Extended call handling functionality using multi-network simulcasting A system for handling calls using simulcasting of multimedia information via a gateway device communicatively coupled to a wide area network, the system including at least one processor for use in an access device, the at least one processor arranged to communicate ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8175644 | Task switching between two computing devices A method is provided to enable a user to operate a computing device to share data with another device. An event may be detected, where the event indicates the intent of the user to share content to the other device while already using a first computing device. Once ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175643 | Switching states between two computing devices A method for switching use between a first computing device and a second computing device is provided. The method may be performed by the first computing device. An event is detected while a first application is operated on the first computing device. In response to... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8170606 | Dynamic thermal control for wireless transceivers Methods and apparatus for dynamic thermal management and control within, e.g., small form-factor wireless devices such as laptop computers or cellular “smartphones”. In one embodiment, a thermal management system monitors the temperature (or other relevant crite... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169989 | Access point multi-level transmission power control based on the exchange of characteristics A first plurality of characteristics are received from a first client device relating to transmissions received by the first client device from both an access point and a second client device. A second plurality of characteristics are received from the second client... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8165584 | Multi-MVNO wireless service Systems and methods for determining an optimal range of frequencies of electromagnetic waves are described. In some embodiments, mobile voice communications devices measure average power received from certain ranges of such frequencies, each range associated with a ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165142 | Handling of multimedia call sessions and attachments using multi-network simulcasting A method and apparatus supporting the handling of multimedia information using simulcasting using a broadband access gateway are disclosed. A broadband access gateway supporting both a personal area network and a broadband network may receive multimedia information ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165571 | Anonymous call blocking in wireless networks Wireless networks and methods are disclosed that provide for anonymous call blocking in wireless networks. A wireless network of the invention includes an MSC system and an HLR system. When a calling party initiates a call to a called party, the MSC system receives ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165578 | Method and system for improving the spectral efficiency of a data communication link An apparatus for communicating between a mobile device, and a plurality of transceivers. The apparatus includes a first transceiver which transmits to the mobile device on any one of a plurality of channels. The apparatus further includes a second transceiver which ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8160543 | Methods and apparatus for use in processing disconnected emergency calls and other communications involving mobile communication devices and the remote monitoring thereof Techniques in a mobile communication device configured to operate using a wireless communication network are described. The mobile device operates to establish an emergency call with a public safety answering point entity, and subsequently monitors to receive an inc... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8150386 | Call to action lockout system and method A Call-To-Action Lockout on a mobile device coupled to a data network is disclosed as a method and apparatus comprising providing a media application configured to respond to a control point associated with media content, providing media content which has at least o... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8145196 | Creation and management of voicemail greetings for mobile communication devices Methods, graphical user interfaces and devices for creation and management of voicemail greetings are disclosed. A user of a mobile communication device can create and manage multiple voicemail greetings. In one aspect, a user of a mobile communication device can cr... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8145204 | Communication terminal out of range determination method, wireless communication system switching method and communication terminal There is provided a communication terminal out of range determination method, a wireless communication system switching method and a communication terminal, capable of determining accurately whether or not a communication terminal is out of range. Determining whethe... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8145271 | Base station apparatus and communication control method A disclosed base station apparatus is capable of communicating with a user equipment terminal using a downlink shared channel. The base station apparatus includes a selection unit selecting a user equipment terminal transmitting a shared channel from among user equi... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8145227 | Method of determining an access mode of cell in a wireless communication system The present invention relates to a wireless communication system and UE providing wireless communication services, and a method of determining the operation mode of a base station, that is, the connection mode (access mode) of a cell, based on which UE's connection ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8140067 | Systems and methods for call analysis A method of operating a computer system comprises receiving per call measurement (PCM) data associated with a radio access network, processing the PCM data to perform a rolling average analysis of dropped calls by the radio access network, processing the rolling ave... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8135394 | Computational communications service maintenance methods and systems Methods and means provide for handling wireless signal sessions. A failure in wireless communication between a wireless device and a supporting wireless system is detected. The wireless signal session is preserved in a hold state for a limited time. The wireless sys... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8135385 | Mobile terminal, access control management device, and access control management method A mobile terminal (200) comprises an application execution unit (240) configured to execute an application program; an access control rule management unit (270) configured to retain an access control rule defining whether the application program... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8135334 | Methods, systems, and computer program products for transmitting streaming media to a mobile terminal using the bandwidth associated with a wireless network A communication network is operated by obtaining a subscription at a wireless network from at least one device for a rebroadcast of streaming media and rebroadcasting the streaming media to the at least one device using the wireless network responsive to obtaining t... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8134949 | Efficient use of the radio spectrum A communication device including a receiver for receiving information via a first radio protocol directly from a first communication device concerning at least a second radio protocol; and a controller for controlling communication of the communication device in dep... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8134996 | Downlink synchronization for a cellular OFDM communication system The present invention provides a method of operating a base station transmitter. In one embodiment, the method includes providing a cellular downlink synchronization signal having primary and secondary portions, wherein the primary portion is common for all cells an... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8131276 | Method for extracting content, content extraction server based on RSS and apparatus for managing the same and system for providing standby screen of mobile communication terminal using the same The present invention relates to a method for extracting a content, a content extraction server based on RSS and an apparatus for managing the same and a system for providing a standby screen of a mobile communication terminal using the same. a system for providing ... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8131318 | Radio communication device comprising at least one radio communication module and one SIM card, corresponding radio communication module and SIM card A radio communication device includes at least one radio communication module including baseband and/or radio frequency signal processing. The module of the device carries an internal SIM card, permanently welded thereto. ... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8131317 | Apparatus and method for downloading SIM data in mobile communication system Provided are an apparatus and a method for downloading Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) data in a mobile communication system, which includes an authentication server that stores authentication information and a list of registered networks; a service provider server... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8131302 | Method and system for dynamically splitting jobs across multiple agnostic processors in wireless system Dynamically splitting jobs in wireless system between agnostic processor may comprise evaluating a job that a wireless mobile communication device may be requested to perform. The wireless mobile communication (WMC) device may evaluate a requested job to determine i... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8121635 | Communication device The wireless mobile phone which includes the 1st controller and the 2nd controller, wherein the 1st controller displays the audiovisual replaying device controller on the display, and the 2nd controller configures the wireless mobile phone to voice communication mod... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8121619 | Geographic location information updates A method, computer program product, and system are provided to update geographic location information for an electronic device. The method can include transmitting the geographic location information for the electronic device to a server device at a first time inter... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8121622 | Method and system for providing location measurement of network based to mobile communication terminal by using G-pCell database according to location Disclosed is a system and method for providing a mobile communication terminal with network-based location measurement according to locations by using a G-pCell database. The system includes an NPS for storing a neighboring base station database and a G-pCell databa... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8116275 | System and network for wireless network monitoring A technique for wireless network monitoring involves scanning channels using clients instead of access points. An example of a method according to the technique may include, for example, receiving from a wireless access point a command to perform a channel scanning ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8116740 | Mobile communication terminal and method A method in electronic messaging in a mobile telecommunications network for mobile communication terminals is disclosed. The method involves, in a sender terminal, the steps of generating an electronic message, associating the electronic message with a message notif... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8116758 | Simulating time-varying conditions in a wireless network Time-varying conditions in a wireless network are simulated using an architecture that includes an enclosure for shielding a wireless device under test (“DUT”) from electro-magnetic interference, including other wireless devices; and at least one of: (1) a commu... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8116732 | Routing mobile users to secure locations based on transaction type Systems and methods are disclosed for routing mobile users to safe, or secure, locations. In one embodiment, based on threat information obtained from one or more source, a threat level is determined for a location of a user of a mobile device. The threat level is i... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8107974 | Probabilistic location prediction for a mobile station A probabilistic prediction is made of the location of a wireless-enabled mobile station in a wireless local area network. The prediction includes calculating a vector representing movement of the mobile station through a space in which two or more access points of t... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8107975 | Shared image database with geographic navigation There is disclosed a method and device for operating an image database shared by a plurality of users. In an embodiment, each image captured by a user and stored in a shared image database is associating with the geographic coordinates of the location at which the i... | 01/31/2012 |
