258 85 http://www.patentstorm.us/ http://www.patentstorm.us/images/logo.gif http://www.patentstorm.us/rss/class/applications/rss-455.xml Recent patent applications filings in USPTO Class 455 Telecommunications. Thu, 23 May 2013 15:08:06 patents@patentstorm.us en http://www.patentstorm.us/applications/20130132282/description.html

Application Number:  20130132282

Publication Date:  2013-05-23

Inventor:  Shakkarwar, Rajesh G.

In one embodiment, the mobile device includes an NFC tag for near field communication. The NFC tag may include a first storage device and a second storage device. Personal data is stored on the first storage device, which is not accessible by a NFC reader device. Prior to a transaction, the personal data is transmitted from the first storage device to the second storage device, where the data is readable or accessible by the reader device. After transmission of the data to the reader device, ...
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Application Number:  20130130800

Publication Date:  2013-05-23

Inventor:  GAMESTOP , INC.,

A wireless controller is configured to communicate wirelessly with a host device, such as a tablet computer. The wireless controller may operate in multiple modes. For example, the wireless controller may operate in a game mode in which it transmits one or more game commands to the host device. The game commands may be transmitted in response to an actuation of a controller input, such as a button or joystick. The wireless controller may be switched from the game mode to another mode, such as a ...
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Application Number:  20130130757

Publication Date:  2013-05-23

Inventors:  Zhang, Lian; Luo, Minli

A near field communication electronic device and an antenna may include an antenna module, a near field communication control module and a battery-receiving groove. The antenna module may be electrically connected to the near field communication control module and the antenna module may be disposed around the battery-receiving ...
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Application Number:  20130130756

Publication Date:  2013-05-23

Inventor:  Nokia Corporation,

A portable electronic device including a first section, a second section and a connecting section. The first section has a user input section and a first tubular housing member. The first tubular housing member forms a majority of opposite exterior lateral sides of the first section. The second section has a display and a second tubular housing member. The second tubular housing member forms a majority of opposite exterior lateral sides of the second section. The connecting section movably ...
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Application Number:  20130130755

Publication Date:  2013-05-23

Inventor:  Research in Motion Limited,

A mobile wireless communications device includes a housing and circuit board carried by the housing and having radio frequency (RF) circuitry and a processor operative with each other. Audio circuitry is carried by the circuit board and an audio transducer assembly, such as a speaker, has electrical contacts that electrically engage the audio circuitry for carrying audio signals between the audio circuitry and audio transducer assembly. A filter is mounted at the audio transducer assembly and ...
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Application Number:  20130130754

Publication Date:  2013-05-23

Inventor:  RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITED,

A mobile wireless communications device and associated method of making same includes a housing and circuit board having a ground plane. Radio frequency (RF) circuitry and a processor are carried by the circuit board and operative with each other. An antenna is carried by the housing and operative with the RF circuitry. Audio circuitry is carried by the circuit board and operative with the RF circuitry and processor. An audio transducer assembly such as a receiver is carried by the circuit ...
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Application Number:  20130130753

Publication Date:  2013-05-23

Inventor:  Springer, Gilbert

A lens assembly for a smartphone and a method of use is disclosed. In a first aspect, a lens assembly comprises a rotatable wheel; wherein the wheel includes at least two lenses. The lens assembly includes a skin portion coupled to the rotatable wheel, wherein the skin portion is adjustable to cover a smartphone. The at least two lenses of the wheel are positioned such that when one of the lens of the assembly is properly positioned it covers the lens of a camera on the smartphone. In a second ...
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Application Number:  20130130752

Publication Date:  2013-05-23

Inventor:  Skyworks Solutions, Inc.,

Disclosed are devices and methods for improving power added efficiency and linearity of radio-frequency power amplifiers implemented in flip-chip configurations. In some embodiments, a harmonic termination circuit can be provided so as to be separate from an output matching network configured to provide impedance matching at a fundamental frequency. The harmonic termination circuit can be configured to terminate at a phase corresponding to a harmonic frequency of the power amplifier output. ...
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Application Number:  20130130751

Publication Date:  2013-05-23

Inventors:  Vummintala, Shashidhar; Somichetty, Gowrisankar; R.P., Pugazhanthi; Varghese, Felix; Gangadharan, Hariprasad; Rajagopal, Sriram; Airy, Manish; Verma, Sindhu; Stauffer, Erik

A wireless communication device is disclosed that is capable of reduced power consumption. Uplink and downlink sub-frames in a WiMAX, 802.16m or LTE environment often include several vacant symbols during which power-hungry hardware and software components need not operate at full power. By analyzing a physical layer beacon and control information of a received signal, the specific locations of data bursts can be determined, as well as periods of needed operation of a receiver module to ...
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Application Number:  20130130750

Publication Date:  2013-05-23

Inventor:  Skyworks Solutions, Inc.,

A multi-mode power amplifier includes a high-power mode amplifier circuit, a mid-power mode amplifier circuit, and a low power amplifier circuit, where the low-power mode amplifier circuit comprises a plurality of independently selectable power cell/amplifier branches. The multi-mode power amplifiers selectively enable or disable amplifier branches to provide multiple levels of amplification. Selectively enabling certain of a plurality of split collector amplifier branches provides multiple low ...
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Application Number:  20130130749

Publication Date:  2013-05-23

Inventors:  Andersen, Peter Birk; Sorenen, Tommy; Lundberg, Jes; Jurs, Carsten; Andersen, Michael Hoby

A battery powered electronic device (1) comprising a housing (2) and a movable part (3) extending from the housing (2). The movable part (3) is movably attached to the housing (2), such that it can be moved between a compact position and an extended position. The electronic device comprises a switch, which is adapted to sense, whether the movable part (3) is in the compact position or not, and the switch is utilised to switch the electronic ...
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Application Number:  20130130748

Publication Date:  2013-05-23

Inventor:  Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.,

A mobile communication terminal is provided including an audio processing unit, a speaker, a connecting unit that connects to an external audio output device and indicates whether the external audio output device is connected, and a control unit configured to, while in a silent mode, control the audio processing unit to reproduce a music file and to output audio signals, corresponding to the reproduced music file, through the speaker, the silent mode being a mode wherein a vibration signal is ...
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Application Number:  20130130747

Publication Date:  2013-05-23

Inventor:  APPLETON, Ian

A communications apparatus which operates using a multi-layer protocol stack, the communications apparatus comprising an application processor and a communications processor, wherein the communications processor is configured to handle all functionality related to paging of the communications apparatus without intervention from the application ...
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Application Number:  20130130746

Publication Date:  2013-05-23

Inventor:  LG ELECTRONICS,

A mobile terminal and a method of controlling the operation of the mobile terminal are provided. The method includes displaying a map, which is divided into a plurality of blocks in predetermined units of latitude and latitude, on a display module and displaying in each of the blocks identification information indicating whether a corresponding block includes geo-tagged information; and if one of the blocks is selected, displaying one or more thumbnail images corresponding to geo-tagged ...
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Application Number:  20130130745

Publication Date:  2013-05-23

Inventors:  Niu, Chao; Wang, Yaheng; Cong, Wen

The present invention discloses a power-saving system and method for a mobile terminal. By way of monitoring the power level of the mobile terminal, the present invention adopts a high visual contrast power-saving mode while reducing the backlight lightness when the power level is low. The present invention achieves the object of increasing the display resolution and facilitating the user to obtain information while saving ...
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Application Number:  20130130744

Publication Date:  2013-05-23

Inventor:  Pantech Co., Ltd.,

In an apparatus and method for automatically detecting the presence of an external device in a port of a mobile terminal, the external device is automatically enabled without the additional operation of the mobile terminal when plugged into a jack. The mobile terminal may be safeguarded against severe damage being done thereto by mistakenly choosing options to enable an external device while an earphone/microphone set is plugged in the jack of a mobile ...
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Application Number:  20130130743

Publication Date:  2013-05-23

Inventor:  LIN, Sheng

The invention provides an audio jack magnetic card reader, comprising: an audio interface connecting a headphone jack of a mobile phone and comprising a first soundtrack terminal, a second soundtrack terminal and a microphone terminal; a data transmitting unit electrically connecting the microphone terminal so as to transmit the data to the mobile phone; a data receiving unit electrically connecting the second soundtrack terminal so, as to, receive the data from the mobile phone; an encryption ...
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Application Number:  20130130742

Publication Date:  2013-05-23

Inventor:  Research In Motion Limited,

A system and method for speed measurement of a mobile device, using a speed sensor such as a satellite navigation system or an accelerometer, does not need such speed sensor to be continually activated. The system and method make use of a monitor for monitoring at least one motion indicium for indicating that the speed of the mobile device is above an initial threshold, including but not limited to: monitoring the Doppler shift measurements of a timing signal; monitoring the timing advance of a ...
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Application Number:  20130130741

Publication Date:  2013-05-23

Inventor:  GRIMARD, LOUISE

An itinerary travel tag attached to a piece of luggage, the travel tag including a code; a mechanism for retrieving and sending the code electronically; an internet server connected electronically to the mechanism for receiving the code, and for providing a website including a webpage associated with the code and used to provide information pertaining to the piece of luggage, such that the piece of luggage can be tracked and the information used remotely to locate and retrieve the piece of ...
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Application Number:  20130130740

Publication Date:  2013-05-23

Inventor:  Saito, Noriaki

A wireless communication apparatus compatible with a plurality of communication schemes includes a first communicator that performs a communication in a first communication scheme, a second communicator that performs a communication in a second communication scheme, a signal generator that generates a signal for commanding startup of a communicator of the wireless communication terminal which performs a communication in the second communication scheme when the reception quality in the first ...
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Application Number:  20130130739

Publication Date:  2013-05-23

Inventor:  KYOCERA Corporation,

An object of the present invention is to provide a portable electronic device and A method of controlling, all of which are capable of efficiently selecting a communication processing unit. The portable electronic device includes: a first communication processing unit conforming to a first communication scheme; a second communication processing unit conforming to a second communication scheme; a third communication processing unit conforming to a third communication scheme; and a control unit. ...
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Application Number:  20130130738

Publication Date:  2013-05-23

Inventor:  Qualcomm Incorporated,

Access terminals are adapted to transmit a plurality of previously successful access probes to a network node, and determine an initial transmission power level for subsequent access attempts. The initial transmission power level can be determined based at least in part on one or more parameters associated with the plurality of previously successful access probes. An initial access probe of a subsequent access attempt can then be transmitted at the determined initial transmission power level. ...
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Application Number:  20130130737

Publication Date:  2013-05-23

Inventor:  FUJITSU LIMITED,

A control station connected with a plurality of remote stations, the control station being configured to communicate with a terminal via the plural remote stations, includes a memory, and a processor that, when executing a procedure stored in the memory, upon each of the plural remote stations transmitting same data to the terminal according to a transmission power pattern in which transmission power varies in a direction of frequencies or time, receives a group of data of received signal ...
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Application Number:  20130130736

Publication Date:  2013-05-23

Inventors:  Kim, Sung Kyung; Lee, Hyun; Chang, Sung Cheol; Kim, Eunkyung; Yoon, Chul Sik

A group communication method of a terminal is provided. The terminal establishes a group call connection with a first base station belonging to a group call zone, and receives group call data from the first base station. When moving to the coverage area of a second base station belonging to the group call zone, the terminal receives group call data from the second base ...
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Application Number:  20130130735

Publication Date:  2013-05-23

Inventor:  E.F. Johnson Company,

An exemplary land mobile radio dispatch console and method are provided. In one embodiment, the console has the capability to process and handle Requests To Talk (RTT) and emergencies. In another embodiment, the console has the capability to provide a history. In another embodiment, the console provides the capability for operators to configure and save patches of predefined groups for later use. In another embodiment, the console includes a telephone interconnect interface component, and ...
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Application Number:  20130130734

Publication Date:  2013-05-23

Inventors:  Rice, Jennifer; Agha, Gul; Spencer, JR., Billie F.

A smart sensor circuit board comprises an interface to a wireless smart sensor board platform, a multi-axis accelerometer having a sensitivity that can measure ambient structural vibrations resulting from non-catastrophic routine environmental factors, an analog to digital converter (ADC) for converting signals from the multi-axis accelerometer having a plurality of individual channels including oversampling, filtering, and decimation, and each channel being individually programmable for gain, ...
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Application Number:  20130130733

Publication Date:  2013-05-23

Inventor:  Nokia Corporation,

Disclosed is a method, system and computer programs to provide emergent behavior in a network of connected mobile user devices. The method includes advertising with a mobile wireless communication device to other mobile wireless communication devices a vector list that includes at least mobile wireless communication device specific vectors and mobile wireless communication device user specific vectors. The method further includes determining, in cooperation with a cloud-based data processing ...
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Application Number:  20130130732

Publication Date:  2013-05-23

Inventors:  Sheu, Shiann-Tsong; Kao, Ming-Tse; Chang, Wen-Tsung; Tsai, Yi-Hsuch

A signal source deployment system, method, and non-transitory tangible machine-readable medium thereof are provided. The signal source deployment system comprises an electronic computing apparatus, wherein the electronic computing apparatus comprises a storage unit and a processor. The storage unit is electrically connected to the processor. The storage unit is configured to store a piece of plan information of a space and a piece of signal strength information of the space. The space is ...
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Application Number:  20130130731

Publication Date:  2013-05-23

Inventors:  Seok, Yongho; Kim, Eunsun

Disclosed are a method and apparatus for transceiving channel transmit power information in a wireless communication system. According to one embodiment of the present invention, transmit power information for the channel available for the device which operates in a television band may be signaled for each individual ...
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Application Number:  20130130730

Publication Date:  2013-05-23

Inventor:  Apple Inc.,

Mobile devices each maintain a whitelist of application identifiers corresponding to applications that the user(s) of that mobile device wants to receive notification messages for and a blacklist of application identifiers corresponding to applications that the user(s) of the mobile device does not want to receive notification messages for. Each mobile device transmits its representations of the whitelist and blacklist to a certain one of a plurality of couriers that controls transmission of ...
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Application Number:  20130130729

Publication Date:  2013-05-23

Inventors:  Campbell, Jon Allan; Cannon, Neil; Cook, Mark S.; Manico, Joseph Anthony; Traeg, Peter Karl; COK, RONALD STEVEN

A method for making a media collection associated with an event having an event location by a user includes the user receiving an event signal; the user capturing one or more media element(s) with a media-capture device, the media element having an associated capture location; the user receiving a selection tool for the media-capture device for selecting captured media element(s) that have an associated capture location corresponding to the received event signal; operating the selection tool; ...
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Application Number:  20130130728

Publication Date:  2013-05-23

Inventor:  Bendrum, Usha Rani

A device, accessible by a network interface based on cellular telephony, receives an SMS (short messaging service) message, and in response causes information stored on a mobile phone to be transmitted to a server system. A user can thereafter access the data by interfacing with the server system using protocols such as IP. In an embodiment, the device is the mobile phone, which on receipt of the SMS message transmits the data to a server system. In another embodiment, the device is a server ...
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Application Number:  20130130727

Publication Date:  2013-05-23

Inventors:  Turtinen, Samuli; Hakola, Sami-Jukka; Koskela, Timo

A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided to efficiently establish communications regardless of the radio resource control (RRC) state of the device that issues the discovery signal. In regards to a method, a cell identification and/or tracking area code is associated with a discovery signal. Thereafter, the method causes a discovery signal to be transmitted to discover another device with which to establish communications. The method also receives a paging signal in ...
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Application Number:  20130130726

Publication Date:  2013-05-23

Inventor:  HUAWEI DEVICE CO., LTD.,

Embodiments of the present invention relate to the field of electronic communication, and in particular, to a method for sharing a terminal location and a terminal device. The method for sharing a terminal location provided in an embodiment of the present invention includes: displaying, by a first terminal, a location of the first terminal and a location of a second terminal on a map of the first terminal in real time; determining, by the first terminal, a candidate location; and displaying, by ...
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Application Number:  20130130725

Publication Date:  2013-05-23

Inventors:  Forutanpour, Babak; Sheynblat, Leonid

Various arrangements for limiting inaccuracy of dead reckoning are presented. Proximity data may be collected using a plurality of proximity sensors of a mobile device. A position of the mobile device may be determined in relation to a user using the proximity data. Whether to determine a location of the mobile device using a dead reckoning technique may be determined at least partially based on the position of the mobile device in relation to the ...
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Application Number:  20130130724

Publication Date:  2013-05-23

Inventors:  KUMAR REDDY, C. Ashok; MOOKHERJEE, Abir; VUMMINTALA, Shashidhar

A wireless communication device is disclosed that is capable of performing efficient network searching. Specifically, by utilizing its location information and accessing stored cell information, the device can streamline searching. Further, if a full search is to be performed, the device receives information from multiple radio access technologies together, and processes the received information digitally in order to search the individual radio access technologies. In addition, the device is ...
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Application Number:  20130130723

Publication Date:  2013-05-23

Inventor:  HTC CORPORATION,

A mobile communications device with a wireless module and a controller module is provided. The wireless module performs wireless transmissions and receptions to and from a service network. The controller module receives a positioning information request indicating a plurality of desired positioning information elements from the service network via the wireless module, and determines whether some or all of the desired positioning information elements are not supported. Also, the controller ...
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Application Number:  20130130722

Publication Date:  2013-05-23

Inventor:  LG Electronics Inc.,

The present invention relates to a mobile terminal which transfers or receives data, including location information, in various ways, and a method of transferring or receiving data using the same. According to an embodiment, the mobile terminal includes a display; a communication unit; and a controller configured to receive together the message and a specific location information through the communication unit from a communication terminal, wherein the specific location information is location ...
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Application Number:  20130130721

Publication Date:  2013-05-23

Inventor:  LG ELECTRONICS INC.,

The present invention relates to a mobile terminal which transfers or receives data, including location information, in various ways, and a method of transferring or receiving data using the same. According to an embodiment, the mobile terminal includes a display including a touch screen: a communication unit; a location information unit configured to manage at least one location information including a specific location information; and a controller configured to: obtain the specific location ...
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Application Number:  20130130720

Publication Date:  2013-05-23

Inventor:  Sony Corporation,

There is provided an information delivery apparatus including a receiving portion to receive location information of a mobile communication terminal at a given time and acquired date and time of the location information from the terminal, an event information storage portion to store event information including an event place, date and time, a delivery terminal selecting portion to select the mobile communication terminal to which the event information is to be delivered based on the location ...
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Application Number:  20130130719

Publication Date:  2013-05-23

Inventor:  Enhanced Geographic LLC,

In general, the invention relates to methods and systems that facilitate the discovery of business locations of interest to a user and record visits of the user to those business locations. A network includes a server programmed with a database of location information and a database of user information. Sometimes, users may not realize that businesses of interest are nearby. Businesses of interest be selected by the user using a button in a web page or on a mobile phone. The business location ...
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Application Number:  20130130718

Publication Date:  2013-05-23

Inventor:  Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.,

A method and apparatus for providing an alert on a portable communication device such as a user equipment (UE) entering an alerting area is provided. The UE runs a GPS engine continuously to estimate the location of the UE from the time the alert system is activated. The method and apparatus provide an alert system on a UE by calculating the distance between the UE and alerting area. Further, the method and apparatus enable using different positioning systems based on the distance of the UE ...
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Application Number:  20130130717

Publication Date:  2013-05-23

Inventor:  SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS AB,

A method and a communication device for displaying local time relating to a person are provided. The communication device determines the local time relating to the person. Next, the communication device displays, at a display device comprised in the communication device, a view relating to the person. The view comprises an indication about the local ...
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Application Number:  20130130716

Publication Date:  2013-05-23

Inventor:  Hung, Kuo-Hao

A method for obtaining report information in short message service includes defining a first information element identifier (IEI) as a report request and defining a second IEI as a report response in transfer protocol user data (TPUD); operating a first electronic device to generate a first short message; the first electronic device setting the first IEI and a first information element data (IED) in the first short message; operating the first electronic device to transmit the first short ...
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Application Number:  20130130715

Publication Date:  2013-05-23

Inventor:  X ONE, INC.,

A system for exchanging GPS or other position data between wireless devices for purposes of group activities, child location monitoring, work group coordination, dispatching of employees etc. Cell phones and other wireless devices with GPS receivers have loaded therein a Buddy Watch application and a TalkControl application. The Buddy Watch application communicates with the GPS receiver and other wireless devices operated by buddies registered in the users phone as part of buddy groups or ...
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Application Number:  20130130714

Publication Date:  2013-05-23

Inventor:  Bump Technologies, Inc.,

A first device periodically transmits a first audio signal that encodes a first code over an audio channel that is shared between the first device and a second device, and the second device periodically transmits a second audio signal that encodes a second code over the audio channel. When the first device receives the second audio signal over the audio channel, the first device extracts the second code from the second audio signal and sends the second code to a server. When the second device ...
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Application Number:  20130130713

Publication Date:  2013-05-23

Inventor:  Oberthur Technologies,

The process according to various aspects can be executed by a terminal for selecting an application executable at least in part by a secure module incorporated into the terminal, and may include a step for obtaining location information of the terminal, from a memory of the secure module, and a selection step of an application from the obtained location ...
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Application Number:  20130130712

Publication Date:  2013-05-23

Inventor:  KARASUDANI, Akira

A terminal apparatus includes a processor. The processor obtains first information relating to communication states between the terminal apparatus and two or more other terminal apparatuses and between the other terminal apparatuses. The processor identifies using trilateration, based on the first information, first relative positional relationships between the terminal apparatus and the other terminal apparatuses. The processor measures, based on second information detected by a sensor, a ...
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Application Number:  20130130711

Publication Date:  2013-05-23

Inventors:  Winge, Lisa; Bergsbjörk, Hanna

A portable electronic device comprises an image sensor configured to capture at least one image. The at least one image may be output via an optical output device. A processing device is configured to retrieve geographic information associated with the at least one image, and to identify at least one contact included in a set of contacts of the portable electronic device, the at least one contact having captured at least one other image in a geographic area in which the at least one image was ...
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Application Number:  20130130710

Publication Date:  2013-05-23

Inventors:  Boyer, Pete A.; Mia, Rashidus S.; Ward, Matthew L.

A method for combining a plurality of individual location measurements, for use in a wireless location system, includes the following steps. A quality metric for a single location estimate is computed along with individual quality metrics and individual weightings for each individual location measurement. In addition, weighting operations incorporating a quality metric for a single location are performed, and the measurement weights are adjusted based on information about co-location groups; ...
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