261 |
Managing a network element |
US12736548 |
2009-04-14 |
US08831587B2 |
2014-09-09 |
Olaf Pollakowski; Henning Sanneck |
A method for managing a network element involves receiving via a first interface field data from a communication network. The field data is compared with available network status data such, that a difference between network status data and field data can be determined. A configuration data is generated such that the configuration data are adapted to align the network status data and the field data. Then, a corresponding network element for receiving the configuration data is determined and the configuration data is distributed via a first interface to a corresponding network element. |
262 |
Dynamic text communication administration |
US12891876 |
2010-09-28 |
US08831571B2 |
2014-09-09 |
Scott Riffe |
A system for administering text communications may be configured to determine if an incoming communication that includes text meets any of various criteria and respond based on that determination. A reply may include information based on the criteria or information related to how other messages with the same or similar criteria have historically been handled by a user. Reply communications may be in a different form than that of the incoming communication. Other actions may be taken in addition or instead of replying, including setting calendar reminders or tasks, and sending delegate notifications. Data used for determinations may be collected over time or gathered from external systems. |
263 |
System and method for selecting an external user interface using spatial information |
US12833455 |
2010-07-09 |
US08806039B2 |
2014-08-12 |
Jean-Hiram Coffy; George M. Macdonald |
A method and system for selecting an external user interface using spatial information is described. In one configuration the floor space of a mailroom is mapped using a two dimensional grid. At least one machine is located on the mapped grid and an associated control zone is defined for that particular machine. The machine includes a wireless transceiver for providing user interface access. An external portable processor with a wireless transceiver is provided with user interface logic for the machine. A user then moves the external portable processor into the control zone of the machine. An indoor positioning system is utilized to provide relative or absolute position information relating to the machine and the external processor. The system determines that the external processor is in the machine control zone and allows the external processor to function as a user interface for the machine. |
264 |
System and method for forming automatically launching user set default app from smartphone |
US13655952 |
2012-10-19 |
US08805351B2 |
2014-08-12 |
Jacob R. Sigal; Philip J. Danne; Joey R. Grover; Erika Nice |
A system is disclosed for automatically restarting an application running on a smartphone present in a predetermined environment, after the application has been paused. A hardware interconnect apparatus may be configured to establish a first communications link with the smartphone, and also to establish a second communications link with an electronic device present at the predetermined environment. A processor executable auto launch application may be adapted to run on the smartphone to detect when a previously selected application has been at least one of stopped or paused, and to automatically re-start the previously selected application without a command being physically entered on the smartphone by a user of the smartphone. |
265 |
APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR OPTIMAL SCHEDULING OF ENVELOPE UPDATES TO SIM CARD |
US13759218 |
2013-02-05 |
US20140220949A1 |
2014-08-07 |
Shriram Ganesh; Damir Didjusto; Xiaomin Zhu |
Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to an apparatus and methods that may improve scheduling of envelope updates to a SIM. An apparatus for wireless communication is configured to receive a plurality of updates in one or more envelope commands, categorize the updates into a plurality of groups having respective priorities, and send the updates to a SIM at the apparatus in order according to the respective priorities. Other aspects, embodiments, and features are also claimed and described. |
266 |
System, wireless communication device and method for combining compatible services |
US12689005 |
2010-01-18 |
US08793306B2 |
2014-07-29 |
Jithesh Sathyan; Krishnananda Shenoy |
The present invention provides a system, wireless communication device, method and computer program product for combining one or more compatible services with a current service. A user of a wireless communication device is subscribed with a registered service provider. A user sends a request for identifying the one or more compatible services with the current service to the registered service provider. The registered service provider identifies and sends a list of the identified compatible services to the wireless communication device. The user then selects at least one compatible service from the list of the identified compatible services. Thereafter, the registered service provider sends the software required for combining the selected compatible services with the current service. The user creates a combined service by combining the selected compatible services with the current service using the software on the wireless communication device. |
267 |
Remotely Provisioned Wireless Proxy |
US14219609 |
2014-03-19 |
US20140206334A1 |
2014-07-24 |
Kevin Tsurutome; Bob Barcklay; Robert Wang |
A remotely provisioned proxy within a wireless/mobile phone that proxies a wireless communication path between a disconnected piconet (e.g., BLUETOOTH™) device and a network resource such as a universal resource locator (URL) via a mating mobile phone. Thus, an application proxy module embodied within the mobile phone provides managed access of a piconet device connected to the mating mobile phone to remote services. A disconnected piconet device uses the full data bandwidth available to a wireless phone, without the need for the disconnected piconet device to include its own separate wireless front end, or to require use of a modem within the mobile phone. Thus, using a mobile phone with application proxy, the user need not pay for the luxury of a tethered data plan. |
268 |
AUTOMATIC ARCHIVING OF AN APPLICATION ON A MOBILE DEVICE |
US13722756 |
2012-12-20 |
US20140179272A1 |
2014-06-26 |
Ning ZHANG; Charles LANE |
A mobile device includes an automatic archiver program which configures a processor to identify an unused application which satisfies one or more predetermined archiving criteria, and prompts a user to archive the identified application via a user interface. A user interface is provided such that the user may either confirm or decline archiving of the identified application. Upon receiving user input that confirms archiving of the identified application, the application is archived. Several techniques are disclosed to effectively render the application inaccessible by the operating system, so as to prevent the application from executing any background tasks associated with the archived application. The automatic archiver program has root level access to an operating system of a mobile device such that the program may perform access, create, modify and/or delete operations for archiving private data as part of archiving of the application. |
269 |
LOCATION-AWARE MOBILE APPLICATION MANAGEMENT |
US13715356 |
2012-12-14 |
US20140171052A1 |
2014-06-19 |
Anthony G. LaMarca; Kirk W. Skeba; Jaroslaw J. Syder |
Described herein are techniques related to managing mobile applications (“apps”) of a mobile device based, at least in part, upon the determined location of the device. The techniques described herein are especially suited for situations where the present location differs from the locations associated with particular apps that are already installed on the mobile device. This Abstract is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims. |
270 |
Wireless communication provisioning using state transition rules |
US11804582 |
2007-05-18 |
US08745184B1 |
2014-06-03 |
Scott Barkley; Amit Gupta; Zhongling Li |
A method for wireless communication provisioning is disclosed. A first wireless communication provisioning state associated with one or more identifiers is defined. A second wireless communication provisioning state associated with one or more identifiers is defined. A state transition rule is defined, wherein the state transition rule defines a transition between the first wireless communication provisioning state and the second wireless communication provisioning state, wherein the first wireless communication provisioning state and the second wireless communication provisioning state are based on the lifecycle of the service of a wireless communication device associated with the first and second wireless communication provisioning states. |
271 |
Digital signage system |
US13473524 |
2012-05-16 |
US08743753B2 |
2014-06-03 |
Yung-Cheng Lin; Kuo-Feng Huang |
A digital signage system, includes: a gateway device, coupled to a network; at least one first hot spot, including: an adaptor box, coupled to the gateway device, downloading a content transmitted through the network via the gateway device; a first access point device, coupled to the gateway device, downloading a service on the network via the gateway device; and a display device, coupled to the adaptor box, displaying the content through the adaptor box, and at least one second hot spot, including: a second access point device, coupled to the gateway device, downloading the service via the gateway device, wherein the first access point device and the second access point device provide the service to at least one mobile terminal through wireless communication. |
272 |
METHOD, SOFTWARE AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING ACTIONS ON A WIRELESS DEVICE USING ACTION LISTS AND VERSIONING |
US14152412 |
2014-01-10 |
US20140128054A1 |
2014-05-08 |
Sudheer B. KOGANTI; Stephen A. SPRIGG; Amy Suzanne THERRELL; Brian MINEAR; Phil Tien NGUYEN |
A system and method for performing actions on a wireless device using action lists and versioning. The system includes receiving, over a network, a remote action list version number, the remote action list version number associated with a remote action list containing an instruction for the wireless device. The system further includes determining whether the remote action list version number is different from a local action list version number. The system also includes sending, over a network, a request for the remote action list in response to determining the remote action list version number is different from the local action list version number. Also, the system includes receiving, over a network, the remote action list. |
273 |
Wireless Device Configured to Operate Under a Plurality of Different Brands and a Plurality of Different Networks and Configured to be Customized to One Brand and One Network |
US14057570 |
2013-10-18 |
US20140113610A1 |
2014-04-24 |
Satish Ramprasad; Sergio Rivera |
A process of configuring an electronic device and an electronic device configured to operate under a plurality of different brands and with a plurality different networks. The brand and network to be utilized are designated at the point-of-sale, during activation, by the seller, and/or by the user. The electronic device including a processor configured to execute instructions and a display device configured to generate an interface based in part in response to the processor. The electronic device further including a memory configured to store the instructions to operate the electronic device. The processor further configured to execute a component to designate a brand and network to be utilized at the point-of-sale, during activation, by the seller, and/or by the user. |
274 |
Signaling Control for Reduced Signaling Storm and Improved User Equipment Battery Life |
US13645354 |
2012-10-04 |
US20140098740A1 |
2014-04-10 |
Shuqing Xing; Yuqiang Tang |
A UE comprising a transmitter configured to transmit data from a network; and a processor coupled to the transmitter and configured to execute an application that performs signaling with a wireless network via the transmitter, determine that the application is assigned to an application group based on signaling requirements of the application, and determine that the application group is associated with a connection parameter that limits network signaling of all applications in the group, and initiate a network signaling link for the application according to the connection parameter. |
275 |
Control software for unlocking and relocking cellular telephones |
US13435929 |
2012-03-30 |
US08670755B2 |
2014-03-11 |
Ivan Knezevic |
Cellular telephone handsets often include electronic or software coding that “locks” them to a specific wireless network. Provided herein, is a method for provisioning locked handsets by unlocking them from their established network and relocking them on a new cellular network. The handset is connected in communication with the control process, identified, and provisioned. The method allows for provisioning of multiple models and brands to be provisioned from different carriers and to different carriers. It further allows multiple handsets to be provisioned simultaneously. During the process, the handset may be sensitivity tested. Further, the identification portion of the method can be used in conjunction with phone support tools beyond the provisioning process. |
276 |
WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD |
US13931033 |
2013-06-28 |
US20140010111A1 |
2014-01-09 |
Kazutoshi KODAMA |
A wireless communication system according to one aspect of the present invention includes a provisioning device, a gateway, and a management device. The provisioning device sets to a wireless device, provisioning information required for the wireless device to join a wireless communication network. The gateway determines, using the provisioning information set by the provisioning device, whether or not to allow the wireless device to join the wireless communication network. The management device manages join history information including the provisioning information set by the provisioning device and join information associated with the provisioning information, the join information indicating a result of the determination by the gateway, and provides the join history information to the provisioning device in response to a request from the setting device. |
277 |
Adaptive thresholding for image recognition |
US13491398 |
2012-06-07 |
US08606011B1 |
2013-12-10 |
Volodymyr V. Ivanchenko; Geoffrey Scott Heller; Richard Howard Suplee, III; Daniel Bibireata |
Various approaches for providing textual information to an application, system, or service are disclosed. In particular, various embodiments enable a user to capture an image with a camera of a portable computing device. The computing device is capable of taking the image and processing it to recognize, identify, and/or isolate the text in order to forward the text to an application or function. The application or function can then utilize the text to perform an action in substantially real-time. The text may include an email, phone number, URL, an address, and the like and the application or function may be dialing the phone number, navigating to the URL, opening an address book to save contact information, displaying a map to show the address, and so on. Adaptive thresholding can be used to account for variations across an image, in order to improve the accuracy and efficiency of text recognition processes. |
278 |
Multiplexing multiple mobile services on a single mobile access point name |
US13214556 |
2011-08-22 |
US08605672B2 |
2013-12-10 |
Terry Durand; Timothy Mortsolf; Deepak Garg |
Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for multiplexing multiple mobile services on a single mobile access point name (APN). A method includes, in a General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) network, examining Internet Protocol (IP) packets that traverse a mobile GN link of a Gateway GPRS Support Node (GGSN), and applying a combination of packet protocols coupled with a carrier defined set of work flow rules to route the IP packets to their next destination and earmark billing CDRs for mediation and correlation by back office IT systems residing with a carrier in the mobile network. |
279 |
CHIP CARD, END UNIT WITH CHIP CARD AND METHOD FOR MODIFYING A CHIP CARD |
US13851462 |
2013-03-27 |
US20130316765A1 |
2013-11-28 |
Frank Helmreich; Dierk Dohmann |
The present invention in particular relates to a chip card (10) for use in a terminal device (20) that is assigned to a communications network, having at least one data field (11) containing variable parameter data (12). In order to be able to modify parameter data stored on the chip card (10), it is provided that the chip card (10) has an application (13), which is implemented on the chip card (10), in addition to the at least one data field (11) containing variable parameter data (12), that the application (13) is designed for generating and/or providing variable parameter data (12a), and that an interface (14) is provided between the application (13) and the at least one data field (11) containing variable parameter data (12). In addition, a terminal device (20) having such a chip card (10) is described, the terminal device additionally having an input application (21) for generating parameter data for the chip card (10) and for providing the generated parameter data in the application (13) for generating and/or providing variable parameter data (12a). Further, a method is described for modifying parameter data (12) found on a chip card (10) or a chip card application. |
280 |
FIXED MOBILE CONVERGENCE HOME CONTROL SYSTEM |
US13951819 |
2013-07-26 |
US20130309992A1 |
2013-11-21 |
Kenneth L. ADDY |
Systems and methods for controlling a building automation system with an FMC cellular device are provided. The FMC cellular device can locally interface with a building automation system via a femtocell base station or a wireless access point, remotely interface with a building automation system over a wide area network via a macrocell base station, or remotely interface with a building automation system via a GAN enabled wireless access point. |