Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
455421000 | Out-of-range indication | 19 |
20080233944 | Method, Apparatus, Computer Program Product and System for Providing Dynamic Assignment of Session Capabilities - An apparatus for providing dynamic assignment of session capabilities such as buddy list capabilities includes a processing element. The processing element may be configured to receive a message associated with a communication session with a network node, acquire service plan based capabilities associated with the network node, receive device based capabilities associated with the network node, and determine session based capabilities associated with the service based on the device based capabilities and the service plan based capabilities on a per subscriber basis. | 09-25-2008 |
20080268830 | Proximity detection of coverage area boundary and display of mobile station location relative thereto - A method is provided for producing a user perceivable warning output by a mobile station ( | 10-30-2008 |
20090111455 | METHOD OF SETTING THE DISPATCH AREA BASED ON THE CLUSTER SYSTEM OF CDMA TECHNOLOGY - The present invention relates to a method for allocating dispatch service areas for trunking system based on code division multiple access technology, comprising: dividing the service area of a trunking system into a plurality of dispatch location areas geographically not overlapping each other; assigning one or a plurality of dispatch location areas as dispatch service area for each fleet on the push-to-talk home register of above trunking system; assigning dispatch service areas for groups of above fleet, wherein the dispatch service areas of the groups should be full set or subset of the fleet's dispatch service area; synchronizing information of dispatch service areas from network side to mobile station by updating user information; system parameter message of base station has the information of dispatch location area that this cell belong to, to inform the mobile station whether it is out of a dispatch service area, and the push-to-talk home register will control the trunking conversation of said mobile station based on whether the mobile station locates in the dispatch service area. The present invention is capable of meeting the requirements for performing the service functions of the trunking system, such as out-the-dispatch-area indication and service area selection. | 04-30-2009 |
20090247147 | Predictive Mobile Phone Service Disruption Service - Illustrative embodiments provide a computer implemented method, a data processing system and a computer program product for a predictive mobile phone service disruption service. In one illustrative embodiment, the computer implemented method comprises monitoring a cellular call of a caller, calculating a location and vector of the caller, and determining whether the caller is approaching a drop zone. The computer implemented method responsive to determining the caller is approaching a drop zone, estimates a duration of a loss of service, and responsive to determining the caller is approaching a drop zone, selectively notifying the caller. | 10-01-2009 |
20090286526 | RADIO QUALITY DEGRADATION PREDICTION SYSTEM, WIRELESS TERMINAL AND MONITORING SERVER THEREFOR, RADIO QUALITY DEGRADATION PREDICTION METHOD AND PROGRAM - A radio quality degradation prediction system includes a wireless terminal and a monitoring server. The wireless terminal includes a positioning unit that determines a position of the wireless terminal and notifies the monitoring server of movement history of the wireless terminal via a wireless network, and a user notification unit that gives a warning to a user upon receiving a radio quality degradation alert at the wireless terminal. The monitoring server includes a future position prediction unit that predicts a future position of the wireless terminal based on the movement history of the wireless terminal, a radio propagation prediction unit that estimates radio quality in a service coverage area by using a radiowave propagation simulator, and a quality degradation prediction unit that predicts degradation of radio quality at the future position of the wireless terminal and transmits a radio quality degradation alert to the wireless terminal. | 11-19-2009 |
20090312002 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SIGNAL FIELD STRENGTH PREDICTION IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - A method and system for communication involving a mobile station and one or more radio base stations providing a signal field in an area, is provided. One implementation includes determining signal field variation at a mobile station in said area due to motion of the mobile station relative to the base stations; and predicting the time remaining to an eventual drop of the signal field by estimating the time remaining to an eventual drop of the signal field based on a rate of variation of the signal field. | 12-17-2009 |
20100035598 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION OUT OF RANGE INDICATION - With respect to a wireless network, an out of range warning provides an estimate of an amount of time remaining until a wireless device is out of range of the wireless network. In this way, the user is presented with an opportunity to take corrective measures, if desired. | 02-11-2010 |
20100173623 | Mobile Terminal - A mobile terminal includes a first communication module, a second communication module, a state management module configured to make an out-of-range notification when a communication state of the first communication module moves out of a communication range, a notification module configured to send a user notification as a notification indicating that the first communication module is disconnected to a user when the out-of-range notification is received, a determination module configured to determine whether or not a given process for the user notification is completed, a setting module configured to perform setting indicating that the process for the user notification is completed to the state management module when the determination module determines that the process is completed, and a communication prohibition module for prohibiting the data communication by the second communication module until the setting indicating that the process is completed is performed after the communication state of the first communication module moves out of the communication range. | 07-08-2010 |
20110086632 | OBJECT RANGE DETECTOR AND LOCK DOWN DEVICE - A range detector system includes an safety system, a first electronic object, and a second electronic object, wherein the first and second electronic objects are wirelessly communicably connected in a manner equipped such that when the first object and the second object are moved from a first predetermined distance range from each other to a second predetermined distance range from each other, the safety system is operably deployed on at least one the first and the second objects is activated. | 04-14-2011 |
20120157081 | LEADERSHIP SUPPORT SYSTEM DETERMINING A DANGER OF ISOLATION OF A GROUP MEMBER EVEN UNDER TEMPORARILY WORSENED COMMUNICATION CONDITIONS - A leadership support system includes a leader terminal and plural member terminals. The member terminals, according to either the relay of communication information not addressed thereto or the reception of communication information addressed thereto, send back a response to the appropriate communication information. The leader terminal determines, based on the times of relaying the communication information, whether or not the member terminal that transmitted the communication information is in danger of isolation. When the leader terminal determines the member terminal in danger of isolation, it outputs a warning signal indicative of a ranger of isolation to that member terminal. | 06-21-2012 |
20130005325 | METHODS, MOBILE NETWORK NODE AND MOBILE TERMINAL FOR REDUCING THE NUMBER OF UNSUCCESSFUL SERVICE CHANGE REQUESTS PERFORMED BY THE MOBILE TERMINAL - A method for reducing the number of unsuccessful service change attempts of a first mobile terminal is presented. The mobile terminal ( | 01-03-2013 |
20140018061 | ROUTE NAVIGATION FOR OPTIMAL MOBILE COVERAGE - A utility within a mobile device or other device computes and provides an optimal mobile coverage route. The device receives a stating point/location and a destination point/location. The mobile device downloads a provider's mobile coverage information, accesses historical data stored by the mobile device, and obtains user feedback from the provider. The optimal mobile coverage route is then computed at the device, and the optimal mobile coverage route is provided via one of the following: a web site, or a text message (SMS) to, a voice operated feed, or any direct feed to the user of the mobile device. The computed optimal mobile coverage route is then used by the user of the mobile device when communicating with another mobile device while travelling from the starting point to the end point. | 01-16-2014 |
20140038586 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING EVENTS ASSOCIATED WITH THE DETECTION OF WIRELESS DEVICES - The disclosed embodiments provide a system and method for managing events associated with the detection of wireless devices. The disclosed embodiments utilize a residential wireless access point for detecting the signal transmitted by a wireless device. A user configures a wireless device detection program to perform specified events in response to the detection and/or absence of a wireless device. The disclosed embodiments may provide home automation functions, home security functions, and/or provide child monitoring features. | 02-06-2014 |
20140308949 | System and Method for Providing Mobility Management and Out-of-Coverage Indication in a Conventional Land Mobile Radio System - The present disclosure provides a system and a method for providing mobility management and out-of-coverage indication in a conventional Land Mobile Radio (LMR) system. A radio provides its location and user group data to the disclosed system through its traffic channel when the channel is idle. Knowledge of the radio's current location and user group data is used to provide dynamic call routing and data management within the disclosed system. The disclosed system and method may provide operability similar to that of a trunking system by providing mobility management and out-of-coverage indication while providing low-cost benefits through operation of a conventional system. | 10-16-2014 |
20150079970 | DEFINING A PERIMETER TO MONITOR A WIRELESS DEVICE FOR A VIOLATION OF THE PERIMETER - Examples disclose a storage medium encoded with instructions executable by a processor of a computing device, the instructions to define a perimeter within a wireless network to monitor a wireless device for violation of the perimeter. Further, the examples provide the instructions to receive a signal data associated with the wireless device. Additionally, the examples also disclose the instructions to detect a location of the wireless device based on the signal data to determine whether the wireless device has violated the defined perimeter. | 03-19-2015 |
20150094054 | DROPPED CALL WARNING AND PREVENTION METHODS - The disclosure provides methods and systems for warning users of mobile terminals during active phone calls or active data transfer that they approach certain geographical areas known as areas where active phone calls or active data transfer may be interrupted. In one embodiment, a method includes obtaining, by a processor, location information associated with a mobile terminal, determining, by the processor, that the mobile terminal approaches a particular geographical area, the particular geographical area being associated with previous dropped calls based at least in part on historical data, and, based on the determination, sending, by the processor, a warning signal to the mobile terminal for informing a user of the mobile terminal that the mobile terminal is about to enter the particular geographical area. | 04-02-2015 |
20150148028 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR QUANTIFYING THE CUSTOMER IMPACT OF CELL TOWER OUTAGES - A method, computer-readable storage device and apparatus for quantifying a total number of customers impacted by a cellular tower outage are disclosed. For example, the method monitors a plurality of cellular towers, detects a failure of one of the plurality of cellular towers, identifies a subset of the plurality of cellular towers that are included in an affected region, calculates a number of additional customers served by each one of the subset of the plurality of cellular towers that are included in the affected region due to the failure of the one cellular tower, and quantifies the total number of customers impacted by the failure of the one cellular tower by adding the number of additional customers served by the each one of the subset of the plurality of cellular towers that are included in the affected region. | 05-28-2015 |
20150327210 | APPARATUS AND METHODS OF HAND-IN TO A FEMTO NODE - Methods and apparatuses are provided for causing active hand-in of a device from a macrocell base station to a femto node, which can be an inter-frequency hand-in. The femto node can broadcast a beacon over an operating frequency of the macrocell base station, and the macrocell base station, and/or one or more network components, can identify the femto node based on one or more parameters reported by the device from receiving the beacon. The beacon can be transmitted at varying powers to ensure active hand-in triggering, mitigate interference and/or can be powered on and off for such purposes. In addition, a macrocell base station can regulate compressed mode periods during which a device can measure the femto node based on receiving information regarding device proximity to the femto node, or a device can generate proximity indication messages base on measuring the beacon signals, etc. | 11-12-2015 |
20160381660 | MOBILE DEVICE WITH USER INDICATION OF PENDING RADIO COVERAGE LOSS - A mobile device includes wireless local area network (WLAN) baseband hardware, a wide area network (WAN) transceiver, location hardware, and a processor. The processor is operatively coupled to the WLAN baseband hardware, the WAN transceiver and the location hardware. The processor is configured to determine that the mobile device is moving away from a radio coverage area of a WLAN access point and to provide a mobile device user with notification of pending loss of radio coverage. The processor may also provide instructions to the user of a direction to move in so as to maintain WLAN radio coverage. The instructions may be provided visually by displaying an arrow on the display, or vocally using text-to-voice audio output. | 12-29-2016 |