29th week of 2014 patent applcation highlights part 39 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20140199991 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR LTE SIGNAL DETECTION AND CLASSIFICATION BY A Wi-Fi RECEIVER - Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for signal detection and classification are provided. One method includes detecting, by a station, a presence of a signal and classifying the signal according to type. There may be at least three possibilities for the type of signal. The classifying may include performing a composite hypothesis test, such as a generalized likelihood ratio test (GLRT) for the at least three possibilities. | 2014-07-17 |
20140199992 | COLLABORATIVE SENSING USING COORDINATED SILENCING OF USER EQUIPMENT IN LICENSE-EXEMPT BANDS - Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are disclosed to schedule user equipment (UE) measurements. An HeNB may identify a first cluster of UEs and a second cluster of UEs. The HeNB may determine a measuring gap schedule relating to the first cluster of UEs and the second cluster of UEs. The measuring gap schedule may indicate a measurement time for each cluster. The measurement time may indicate that UEs in a cluster withhold a transmission during the measurement time. The UEs in the cluster may measure a spectrum (e.g., frequency, channel, etc.) associated with a supplementary cell during the measurement time. The HeNB may send the measuring gap schedule to the first cluster of UEs and the second cluster of UEs. The HeNB may receive spectrum measurements of the supplementary cell from the first cluster of UEs and the second cluster of UEs, e.g., in accordance with the measuring gap schedule. | 2014-07-17 |
20140199993 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR MITIGATING RECEIVER DESENSE CAUSED BY SIMULTANEOUS TRANSMISSION ON MULTI-SIM WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS DEVICES - Methods are provided that enable mitigation of desense from a transmission on a first radio frequency (RF) resource associated with a first SIM to a receiver circuit of a second RF resource associated with a second SIM in the same device. A multi-SIM wireless device, such as a dual-SIM dual active (DSDA) device, may utilize characteristics of uplink and downlink signals to determine an optimal action that reduces interference from conflicting signals. Mitigating actions do not require involvement on the network side, and may greatly improve processing time for implementing interference prevention measures. | 2014-07-17 |
20140199994 | REPORTING WiFi CHANNEL MEASUREMENTS TO A CELLULAR RADIO NETWORK - A method and devices for providing measurements of WiFi network channels to a cellular radio network are disclosed. According to one aspect, the invention provides a method that includes preparing, at a node of the cellular radio network, a request for measurement of at least one WiFi channel. The measurement is to be provided by at least one user equipment having a WiFi transceiver and a cellular radio transceiver. The method includes transmitting, from the node of the cellular radio network, the request to the at least one user equipment. The node of the cellular radio network receives, from the at least one user equipment, at least one measurement of the at least one WiFi channel. | 2014-07-17 |
20140199995 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING UNIFIED WIRELESS COMMUNICATION THROUGH EFFICIENT MEMORY MANAGEMENT - A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided in connection with improving interactions between various components within a wireless device to enable improved communications between wireless devices. In an example, a wireless device may include an application processor equipped to send first and second amounts of data to be buffered in a buffer associated with a controller, and cease communications with the controller after the second amount of data is sent. In an aspect, the ceasing of communications may include switching to a sleep mode. In an aspect, the amounts of data are larger than a threshold data size, and the buffer includes logically combined dedicated memories from SOCs for a plurality of access technologies controlled by the controller. | 2014-07-17 |
20140199996 | Wireless Communication System Utilizing Enhanced Air-Interface - In a Long Term Evolution (LTE) environment, the LTE network can coordinate with a subscribing user equipment to manage offloading to a wireless local area network (WLAN) access point or other base station. In doing so, the serving base station on the LTE network can acquire device capabilities of the user equipment and provide configuration details to the user equipment based on those capabilities. These configuration details may cause the user equipment to monitor one or more triggers, and may configure a scan to be later performed by the user equipment. Based on the monitored trigger, the user equipment can then scan the environment according to the scan configuration defined by the base station, and relay scan results to the base station to make a handover determination. | 2014-07-17 |
20140199997 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR DATA COMMUNICATIONS IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Techniques for use by a mobile device configured to operate in a wireless network for the communication of data messages with a server are described. When the mobile device does not have an open session with the server, the mobile device receives from a service node via the wireless network a message which informs the mobile device that a data message has arrived at the server and needs to be retrieved. The message includes an identifier which identifies the data message at the server. In response to opening an application at the mobile device, the mobile device communicates directly with the server via the wireless network for retrieving the data message. This involves commencing an open session with the server, sending to the server a command for retrieving the data message, and receiving from the server the data message in response to sending the command. The mobile device may use the identifier for retrieving the data message from the server. | 2014-07-17 |
20140199998 | DISTRIBUTED MOBILE ACCESS POINT ACQUISITION - Providing for distributed access point management for access to a mobile network is described herein. By way of example, an interface application maintained at a Femto cell base station (BS) can facilitate initial power up and/or acquisition for a Femto user terminal (UT). Upon start-up, a bootstrap process is utilized by the Femto cell to provision the UT with an SDL establishing at least one BS as high priority within a particular geographic area (GEO). Thus, when the Femto UT is within the GEO, the UT is more likely to acquire, camp on and/or handoff to the preferred BS. When outside the GEO, a serving access point can provision the Femto UT OTA with a custom SDL suited to another GEO having a different high priority access point. By implementing access point management at distributed access points, expensive network equipment can be mitigated or avoided. | 2014-07-17 |
20140199999 | Discovery - Methods, apparatuses and a computer program product for small cell and user equipment discovery. The present invention includes obtaining information regarding small cell discovery on macro layer, obtaining information regarding user equipment discovery, determining whether the information regarding user equipment discovery depends on the information regarding small cell discovery, if it is determined that the information regarding user equipment discovery depends on the information regarding small cell discovery, building parameters for user equipment discovery based on parameters for small cell discovery included in the information regarding small cell discovery, and starting small cell discovery and user equipment discovery based on the parameters. | 2014-07-17 |
20140200000 | System and Method for Network Selection - Embodiments are provided for supporting network selection for wireless networks and network service providers/operators. The embodiments include procedures that integrate wireless network and service provider/operator selection policies and methods. In an embodiment, the UE obtains a network selection policy from a network, and hence generates a list of candidate wireless networks according to the network selection policy. The UE then selects from the list a wireless network to connect to according to a service provider selection policy. Such procedures improve Access Network Discovery and Selection Function (ANDSF) based wireless local area network (WLAN) selection with service provider selection capability. The procedures also collaborate ANDSF based policy and existing I-WLAN selection, and resolve conflicts between 3GPP WLAN selection and ANDSF policy for WLAN selection. | 2014-07-17 |
20140200001 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MOBILITY ENHANCEMENT - Systems, apparatuses, and methods for a radio resource management (RRM) decision in wireless communication network are provided. In particular, post-processing metric is introduced in RRM decision making. Certain aspects of the disclosure involve, a method, performed at a user equipment (UE) of a wireless communications network. The method includes receiving a reference signal from a network node, processing the reference signal based on a receiver processing algorithm, identifying a post-processing metric based at least in part on the received reference signal, and triggering a mobility event based at least in part on the post-processing metric. | 2014-07-17 |
20140200002 | REDUCING POWER CONSUMPTION THROUGH REDUCED MEASUREMENT FREQUENCY - A method for reducing power consumption by a wireless communication device is disclosed. The method can include the wireless communication device performing a first measurement of an alternative cell during a first measurement gap; sending a first measurement report generated based on the first measurement to the serving cell; storing the first measurement report; determining a mobility state of the wireless communication device; comparing the mobility state to a mobility threshold criterion; resending the first measurement report to the serving network as a report for a second measurement gap in an instance in which the mobility state satisfies the mobility criterion; and performing a second measurement of the alternative cell during the second measurement gap and sending a second measurement report generated based on the second measurement to the serving cell in an instance in which the mobility state does not satisfy the mobility threshold criterion. | 2014-07-17 |
20140200003 | HANDLING UPLINK POWER LIMITED SCENARIOS - A method for reducing power consumption by a wireless communication device is disclosed. The method can include the wireless communication device determining that the device is experiencing an uplink power limited condition. In an instance in which the connection to the serving network was established only for a signaling purpose, the method can further include the wireless communication device sending a measurement report including an actual measured downlink signal quality value for the serving network in response to the uplink power limited condition. However, if the connection to the serving network was not established only for a signaling purpose, the method can include the wireless communication device sending a measurement report including a modified downlink signal quality value for the serving network to trigger a handover in response to the uplink power limited condition. | 2014-07-17 |
20140200004 | Mobility Robustness Optimization with an Extended Key Performance Indicator Message - A method includes (a) detecting based on reporting information from UEs, HO problems which have occurred within a predefined time interval, (b) classifying the detected HO problems into three categories, (c) determining information being related to at least one of the detected HO problems, wherein the information represents a refinement of one or more of the three categories or wherein the information represents a further category, (d) counting a the numbers of HO problems which have been classified into the various categories, (e) reporting a key performance indicator message indicative for the numbers of the various categories and for the determined information, and (f) adapting, based on the reported key performance indicator message, the value a mobility related network configuration parameter of the mobile radio communication network such that the mobility robustness of the communication network is optimized. | 2014-07-17 |
20140200005 | User Equipment Short Stay Report - A second handover of a user equipment from a cell B to a cell C of a cellular communications network is successfully completed, wherein a successful completion of a first handover of the user equipment from a cell A of the cellular communications network to the cell B has immediately preceded the second handover. The second handover is determined as being a rapid handover at the cell B and/or the cell C based on a detection that the second handover of the user equipment has been initiated from the cell B to the cell C within a configurable period of time since the successful completion of the first handover, and the rapid handover is reported to the cell A. | 2014-07-17 |
20140200006 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CELL SELECTION AND HANDOVER IN LTE-ADVANCED HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS - Example implementations are directed to systems and methods based on physical broadcast channel (PBCH) muting are utilized to avoid frequent cell selection/reselection and handover in a LTE-advanced heterogeneous network. In the example implementations, a pico eNB that is fully covered by a macro eNB or other pico eNBs transmits blank PBCH such that it is inaccessible to the UEs who perform cell selection/reselection. Furthermore, a macro eNB may handover a UE to the inaccessible pico eNB by signalling the necessary information to the UE to detect the inaccessible pico eNB. Frequent cell selection/reselection and handover may therefore be avoided in a dense deployment situation. | 2014-07-17 |
20140200007 | INTER-NETWORK HANDOVER SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method includes receiving, from a user device, a global cell identifier of a cell in the second communications network, wherein information for forming a Location Area Identification ‘LAI’ can be obtained from the global cell identifier, and a Routing Area Code ‘RAC’ for use in identifying a target gateway component operating within a location area represented by the Location Area Identification ‘LAI’ and associated with the neighbor base station component, generating a handover request message in the first communications network, for handing over to the neighbor base station component operating as the target base station component, the handover request message incorporating the Routing Area Code ‘RAC’ and the Location Area Identification ‘LAI’, and transmitting the handover request message to facilitate the handover to the second communications network. | 2014-07-17 |
20140200008 | Wireless Communication System Utilizing Broadcast-Based Blind Offloading - In an Long Term Evolution (LTE) environment, LTE base stations may collect relevant data from subscribing wireless devices, as well as from nearby LTE base stations and WLAN access points. Based on the collected data, as well as data of the base station itself, the base station may make a determination as to whether to institute offloading of some or all of the subscribing UEs. Rather than independently communicating the offload command to each of the UEs, the base station may issue a broadcast notification that may be decoded by all of the UEs for performing offloading. In order to mitigate a surge of offloading, the base station can include surge prevention parameters in the broadcast message to distribute or reduce offloading. | 2014-07-17 |
20140200009 | OPERATION OF A HETEROGENEOUS WIRELESS NETWORK BY DETERMINING LOCATION OF A WIRELESS DEVICE - A heterogeneous wireless communication network includes a macrocell base station that one or more low power nodes. The location of a wireless device is estimated based on feedback reports received from the wireless device in response to downlink transmissions of a reference signal. Based on the estimated location, a schedule for future transmissions of the reference signal to the wireless device are determined. The schedule specifies a frequency of transmission of the reference signals. The schedule specifies downlink transmission antenna configuration to be used for the reference signal transmissions. | 2014-07-17 |
20140200010 | HYBRID INTERFERENCE ALIGNMENT FOR MIXED MACRO-FEMTO BASE STATION DOWNLINK - A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided. The apparatus is a first BS. The apparatus determines a first channel between a second BS and a first UE served by a third BS, determines a second channel between the first base station and the first UE, and determines a first direction vector to be used by the second base station for sending a data transmission. The apparatus transmits a set of resource blocks to a second UE served by the first base station with a second direction vector determined based on the first channel, the second channel, and the first direction vector to be used by the second base station. | 2014-07-17 |
20140200011 | LTE/HSDPA Carrier Aggregation - It is provided an apparatus, including deciding means adapted to decide, based on an availability indication received directly from a slave base station of a second radio access technology, if data to be transmitted to a user equipment are to be transmitted by the slave base station; distributing means adapted to distribute, based on the decision by the deciding means, the data to the slave base station for a transmission to the user equipment; transmitting means adapted to transmit the data to the user equipment according to a base station functionality of a first radio access technology if the data are not to be distributed to the slave base station. | 2014-07-17 |
20140200012 | RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, BASE STATION, MOBILE STATION, AND RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD - A radio communication system includes a base station and a mobile station communicating with the base station. The base station includes a selection unit and a first transmitting unit. The selection unit selects an item of identification information for identifying a data series from a plurality of data series corresponding to resources used to transmit a signal that the mobile station uses to measure reception quality. The first transmitting unit transmits the item of identification information. The mobile station includes a receiving unit, a measurement unit, and a second transmitting unit. The receiving unit receives the item of identification information that the first transmitting unit has transmitted. The measurement unit measures the reception quality using a signal of the data series identified by the item of identification information. The second transmitting unit transmits information indicating the reception quality that the measurement unit has measured to the base station. | 2014-07-17 |
20140200013 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR FACILITATING SECURE COMMUNICATIONS OVER A CELLULAR NETWORK - A process for communicating utility-related data over at least one network is described. the process includes: collecting utility-related data at a hub device during a first predetermined period of time; securing the utility-related data at the hub device using digital envelopes during the first predetermined period of time; initiating by the hub device an autonomous wake up process during a second predetermined period of time; sending the secure utility-related data over a first network to a designated server via at least one User Datagram protocol (“UDP”) message during the second predetermined period of time; and receiving an acknowledgement of receipt message of the at least one UDP message from the designated server; wherein the first and second predetermined periods of time typically do not overlap, but may overlap. | 2014-07-17 |
20140200014 | MOBILE STATION APPARATUS, CONTROL APPARATUS, BASE STATION APPARATUS, METHOD IMPLEMENTED THEREIN, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A mobile station apparatus ( | 2014-07-17 |
20140200015 | BASE STATION AND TERMINAL CONNECTION METHOD FOR THE BASE STATION - The present invention relates to a base station, and to a terminal connection method for the base station. The terminal connection method for the base station according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises: a step of connecting to a terminal; an information extracting step of extracting information for determining a timeout value of the connection of the terminal when the connection to the terminal is completed; and a time-out setting step of setting a time-out value of the terminal according to the extracted information. According to the one embodiment of the present invention, the base station may efficiently utilize resources and overhead expenses for connection setup may be reduced. | 2014-07-17 |
20140200016 | Method and Arrangement for Handling Measurements Under Dynamically Configured Patterns - The present disclosure relates to a method in a measuring node and a measuring node for handling measurements performed on signals received over a wireless interface in a wireless communication system. The method comprises performing ( | 2014-07-17 |
20140200017 | COGNITIVE RADIO APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION METHOD THEREOF - To perform communication in a cognitive radio network, a cognitive radio apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment includes: an estimation module configured to generate a channel estimation signal to be transmitted to a predetermined reception apparatus positioned in a predetermined channel in the case of selecting the predetermined channel from among multiple channels; a communication module configured to transmit the channel estimation signal to the predetermined reception apparatus, and to receive a channel response signal from the predetermined reception apparatus; and a control module configured to control the communication module so that at least one of a communication signal set with respect to the predetermined channel and a variable communication signal obtained by varying the communication signal is transmitted to the predetermined reception apparatus, when it is determined that the predetermined channel is positioned in a deep fading section based on the channel response signal. | 2014-07-17 |
20140200018 | MOBILE DEVICE AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING CALL PERFORMANCE OF THE MOBILE DEVICE - In a method for improving call performance of a mobile device, the strength of received signals is sent to a base station when the mobile device receives signals from the base station. The method obtains a path balance value sent by the base station, and determines whether the path balance value is greater than a predefined threshold value. The path balance value is obtained according to the strength of the received signals of the mobile device and an emission intensity of the mobile device. When the path balance value is greater than the predefined threshold value, the method obtains a transmitting power of the mobile device, and increases the transmitting power of the mobile device according to the path balance value to improve call performance of the mobile device. | 2014-07-17 |
20140200019 | CORE NETWORK APPARATUS, RADIO BASE STATION, MOBILE TERMINAL, MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND OPERATION CONTROL METHOD - A core network apparatus ( | 2014-07-17 |
20140200020 | Channel Quality Index Determination - A method of a transceiver arranged to operate in a cellular communication system comprising cells is disclosed. The method comprises receiving a transmission from a first cell; determining an interfering signal and its occupation in time and/or frequency; determining reduced values in the received signal corresponding to the occupation in time and/or frequency of the interfering signal; and measuring a quotient between desired signal and non-desired signal of reference symbols of the received signal. A channel quality index, CQI, is formed taking into account reduction of values performed at the reducing, and the CQI is reported to the communication system. A transceiver and computer program for the same are also disclosed. | 2014-07-17 |
20140200021 | Interference Processing Method and Device - Embodiments of the present invention provide an interference processing method and device. A user equipment receives a notification message sent by a network side. The notification message includes a resource scheduling manner of a first base station, and the resource scheduling manner is a manner of allocating, by the first base station, resources for downlink service data transmission of a local user equipment. The user equipment detects, according to the resource scheduling manner, an interference signal generated by the first base station and performs interference cancellation processing according to a detection result. | 2014-07-17 |
20140200022 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING ACCURATE MOBILITY STATE ESTIMATION IN HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS BASED ON COORDINATED RADIAL SPEED ESTIMATION - A method of determining a mobility state of a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communications network, the method comprising: obtaining, at a first device, a first speed measurement, the first speed measurement being a measurement of a radial speed of the UE relative to a first network element; obtaining, at the first device, one or more second speed measurements corresponding, respectively, to one or more second network elements, each of the one or more second speed measurements being a measurement of a radial speed of the UE relative to the corresponding one of the one or more second network elements; generating, at the first device, a comparison result based on the first speed measurement and the one or more second speed measurements; and determining the mobility state of the UE based on the comparison result. | 2014-07-17 |
20140200023 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GATHERING INFORMATION ABOUT DISCRETE WIRELESS TERMINALS - The present invention is broadly directed to systems and methods for gathering information about wireless transceiver devices in a defined boundary region. To this end, the disclosure is more particularly directed to gathering movement information (e.g., via detection and location) about two-way end-user wireless terminals within three-dimensional boundaries of defined local space (“DLS”) to allow for selective control of the terminals and other subsystems, as desired. Additionally, the data collected can be used to improve accuracy and precision regarding the prediction of behavior characteristics and tendencies of populations based on a sampling of observed terminals. | 2014-07-17 |
20140200024 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINALS, METHOD FOR USING A COMMUNICATION SERVICE AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING INFORMATION RELATED TO A GEOGRAPHICAL POSITION OF A MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL - According to an aspect of this disclosure, a mobile communication terminal is provided including determiner configured to determine a value of a parameter related to the mobile communication terminal and configured to determine an imprecision of the determined parameter value; and a controller configured to perform a setting for a communication service depending on the determined imprecision of the determined parameter value and to control the mobile communication terminal to use the communication service depending on the setting. | 2014-07-17 |
20140200025 | LOCATION DISCREPANCY CORRECTIONS BASED ON COMMUNITY CORRECTIONS AND TRAJECTORY DETECTION - Generally, this disclosure describes location discrepancy fixes using a community of users. A method may include correcting a location of a mobile device when a location signal is lost based on a last known location and a trajectory, wherein a corrected location corresponds to an actual location provided by at least one user of a community of users and stored in a list of corrected locations, and the actual location is related to the last known location and the trajectory. | 2014-07-17 |
20140200026 | Methods and Systems for Positioning Based on Observed Difference of Time of Arrival - Disclosed are systems, methods and devices for computing an estimated location of a mobile device based, at least in part, on an observed difference of time of arrival of messages arriving at the mobile device. In particular implementations, such observed time arrival may comprise a difference between receipt at the mobile device a first message transmitted from a first transceiver device to a second transceiver device and receipt at the mobile device of a second message transmitted by the second transceiver device in response to the first message. | 2014-07-17 |
20140200027 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING LOCATION INFORMATION USING VISIBLE LIGHT COMMUNICATION AND GPS - The present disclosure relates to an apparatus and a method for identifying location information by using visible light communication and a GPS (Global Positioning System). The apparatus includes: a GPS signal processor for receiving a GPS signal, and identifying location information; a visible light signal processor for receiving a visible light signal, and identifying location information; a GPS/visible light selector for identifying strengths of signals provided by the GPS signal processor and the visible light signal processor, and controlling an operation of the GPS signal processor and an operation of the visible light signal processor; and a location information output unit for outputting the at least one location information provided by the GPS signal processor and the visible light signal processor. | 2014-07-17 |
20140200028 | ENHANCING GEO-LOCATION PRECISION IN WIRELESS SYSTEMS - A system may be configured to compute an estimated location of a user device based on an estimation coefficient and a measured distance between the user device and a base station. The estimation coefficient may be based on: an actual distance between a reference device and the base station, and a measured distance between the reference device and the base station. The system may store or output the information regarding the estimated location of the device. | 2014-07-17 |
20140200029 | Measurement Configuration Map for Measurement Event Reporting in Cellular Communications Network - Cells of a cellular communications network are divided into a plurality of areas. For each area, measurement event data is determined, wherein the measurement event data trigger a measurement event in a user equipment, and when the measurement event is detected by the user equipment based on the measurement event data, the measurement event is reported by the user equipment. Map forming data is generated for forming a map associating location data of the user equipment with the measurement event data, and the map forming data is transmitted. A user equipment in the cellular communications network determines location data and, based on the determined location data, derives measurement event data for triggering the measurement event, from the map. When the measurement event is detected based on the derived measurement event data, the user equipment reports the measurement event. | 2014-07-17 |
20140200030 | IDENTIFICATION-ASSISTED WIRELESS NETWORK CONNECTIONS - Systems and methods for transmitting location-specific information such as wireless network connectivity information are generally disclosed herein. One embodiment includes device configurations and techniques implemented to establish a secondary wireless network connection to exchange the location-specific information between a location-aware device and a location-unaware device. In other embodiments, the location-specific information exchanged via the secondary wireless network connection includes the transfer of the connectivity information, such as a Service Set Identifier (SSID) or network authentication information, from a primary network-aware device to establish a primary network connection at a primary network-unaware device. | 2014-07-17 |
20140200031 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING WHETHER TO PROVIDE LOCATION INFORMATION IN BROADBAND WIRELESS ACCESS SYSTEM - A method and an apparatus for operating a server in a wireless access system are provided. The method includes receiving a request for location information of a mobile station, transmitting a measurement request message for requesting measurement data used for location determination of the mobile station, receiving a measurement response message comprising at least one of a rejection code and a rejection duration, and transmitting a notification that the request for the location information is rejected. | 2014-07-17 |
20140200032 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONFIGURING SECURE USER PLANE LOCATION (SUPL) ENABLED TERMINALS - Methods, systems, computer-readable media, and apparatuses are disclosed for providing location services to an application in a Secure User Plane Location (SUPL) Enabled Terminal (SET). In some embodiments, a SUPL configuration server (SUPL CS) may configure multiple secure user plane location (SUPL) location platforms (SLPs) in a first stage. Subsequently, the SUPL CS may configure information independently for the application in a second stage, wherein the configuration information for the application includes identification of a particular Home SLP (H-SLP) configured in the first stage. | 2014-07-17 |
20140200033 | Controlling Device Functionality Based On Device Location And Calendar Information - Embodiments are provided by an application executing on a processor, the embodiments comprising determining a current location of a mobile device hosting the application. A determination is made using a calendar of the mobile device an event and a start time of the event. A location of the event is determined. Travel parameters are used to predict a travel time to the location. An alert is generated and presented based on the predicted travel time, wherein the alert is an alert for when to start travel to the location. | 2014-07-17 |
20140200034 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING POSITIONAL INFORMATION USING WIRELESS FIDELITY (WIFI) INFORMATION - A method and apparatus for providing positional information using wireless fidelity (WiFi) information is provided. A method of providing positional information at a mobile terminal may include collecting WiFi access point (AP) information by scanning for a WiFi AP in a vicinity of the mobile terminal, extracting facility information associated with a facility associated with the WiFi AP, and determining the positional information of the mobile terminal based on the extracted facility information. | 2014-07-17 |
20140200035 | Method, Apparatus and System for Social Networking - A method, apparatus and system for social networking is provided. In an embodiment, the system comprises a plurality of mobile devices that can directly connect to each other via a peer-to-peer connection. The devices can additionally connect to a server. The server maintains a profile schema which can be used to generate profiles for users for each of the mobile devices. | 2014-07-17 |
20140200036 | Method and Apparatus for Context Aware Management of Location Optimization of Virtual Machines for Mobility and Real-time Enterprise Applications - An information handling system includes a processor determining a threshold number of users of a source software application from the plurality of mobile devices near a wireless radio transmitter location and a mobile virtual machine distribution system deploying a virtual machine copy of the source software application to a server near the wireless radio transmitter location when the threshold number of users is met. | 2014-07-17 |
20140200037 | REGION DETERMINATION CONTROL - A method, in a mobile device, of controlling region determination by the mobile device, includes: determining a present pressure at the mobile device; determining, based on the present pressure and a reference pressure, that the mobile device moved from a first region to a second region within a structure, the first region and the second region being different regions of the structure and vertically displaced from each other; and performing region determination in response to determining that the mobile device moved from the first region to the second region. | 2014-07-17 |
20140200038 | Location Assisted Service Capability Monitoring - A digitally stored map can indicate the signal quality for each of the map's regions. A device can determine its location, speed, and direction using global positioning system (GPS) and other sensors. Based on this information, the mobile device can predict a field of locations within which the device will probably be located within a specified future time frame. Based on both the information indicating signal quality and the probable future field of locations, the device can estimate a moment at which the device will probably begin to suffer from low-quality or absent signal. Using this prediction, the device can proactively perform a variety of anticipatory remedial actions. For example, the device can begin allocating a greater portion of currently available wireless network communication bandwidth to the reception of data packets that represent content that is being streamed to the device, so that the device can proactively buffer those packets. | 2014-07-17 |
20140200039 | Smart Telephony Systems and Methods - A telephonic system and method alert a called phone of an importance level of a call. The system includes a caller module including a caller user interface configured to allow a caller to assign an importance level to a call and instructions when executed cause a processor to initiate transmission of a data message to the dialed number phone that, when received by the called phone, advises the called phone of the importance level of the call incoming, and then initiates the call to the called phone. The system includes a called phone module including a called phone user interface and instructions when executed cause a processor to determine the importance level of the call based on the data message and provide a signal to the called phone user interface concerning the importance level of the call. A proximity feature system and a reverse proximity feature system are also described. | 2014-07-17 |
20140200040 | Enabling Receive Diversity During Paging Channel Timeline Operation - Enabling receive diversity based on detecting incorrect paging message length. A paging channel may be monitored. An indication of a paging message may be received on the paging channel. The paging message may include a message length field indicating a message length of the paging message. The message length field of the paging message may be received on the paging channel and decoded. It may be determined that the message length indicated in the message length field is incorrect. Receive diversity may be enabled for at least one subsequent paging occasion in response to determining that the message length indicated in the message length field is incorrect. | 2014-07-17 |
20140200041 | EVALUATION OF OVERALL PERFORMANCE OF INTERACTIVE APPLICATION SERVICE - A performance monitoring system In which a test apparatus sends a test message of a non-realtime messaging service. The test message is formatted for a defined interactive application service. The test apparatus determines content of an expected reply message; the relationship between the content of the expected reply message and the content of the test message corresponds directly with service logic of the defined interactive application service. The test apparatus uses a predefined matching criterion to compare contents of received messages of the non-realtime messaging service to contents of the expected reply message and identifies a received message as an associated message If the matching criterion Is met. The associated message is used to generate a measurement indication for evaluation of current overall performance of the defined interactive application service. | 2014-07-17 |
20140200042 | Communication Apparatus and a Timing Method Thereof - A timing method and communication apparatus therefor. The timing method, performed by a mobile communication device, includes: activating a first communication module; receiving updated information when the first communication module is active; determining and setting an expiry time for an adaptive timer based on the updated information; activating the adaptive timer to count to the determined expiry time; and activating a second communication module when the adaptive timer expires. | 2014-07-17 |
20140200043 | GROUP SUBSCRIBER NUMBER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR A GROUP MESSAGING SERVICE - A method for managing group subscriber numbers in a group messaging device reduces the required number of group subscriber numbers used by the messaging service. The required number of group subscriber numbers is equal to the total number of groups in which a user is permitted to be a member and not the total number of groups of users in the system. | 2014-07-17 |
20140200044 | COMMUNICATION CONTROL DEVICE, COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD, AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL SYSTEM - Provided is a communication control device including an information acquisition unit acquiring first information concerning a position a guard area for a first wireless communication system and second information concerning a position of a master node of a second wireless communication system which is secondarily operated using a frequency channel used by the first wireless communication system, a determination unit determining, using the first information and the second information acquired by the information acquisition unit, whether or not an interval between a reference point of the first wireless communication system and the master node meets a condition which depends on a width of the guard area and a communication distance assumed for the second wireless communication system, and a control unit causing the second wireless communication system to be operated with a given transmission power if the determination unit determines the interval meets the condition. | 2014-07-17 |
20140200045 | HIGH DATA RATE AIRCRAFT TO GROUND COMMUNICATION ANTENNA SYSTEM - A method for ground to air communication includes receiving a first pilot signal on a first wide beam from a first ground base station by a first antenna element covering a first range of azimuth angles from an aircraft. Data is received on a directed data beam from the first ground base station by the first antenna element. A second pilot signal is received on a second wide beam from a second ground base station by a second antenna element covering a second range of azimuth angles different than the first range of azimuth angles. A signal strength of the second pilot signal is compared with a signal strength of the first pilot signal. Data reception is switched from the first antenna element to the second antenna element if the signal strength of the second pilot signal is greater than the signal strength of the first pilot signal. | 2014-07-17 |
20140200046 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MITIGATING VOLTAGE DROOP IN DUAL-TRANSCEIVER WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE - Aspects of the present disclosure relate to a user equipment (UE) and a method of wireless communication using the UE that includes a first transceiver and a second transceiver. The method includes determining that the first transceiver is scheduled to communicate using a first transmission simultaneous to the second transceiver being scheduled to communicate using a second transmission, and altering an operation of at least one of the first and second transceivers to mitigate battery voltage droop due to simultaneous transmissions of the transceivers. Other aspects, embodiments, and features are also claimed and described. | 2014-07-17 |
20140200047 | Interface Card with Multiple Subscriber Identity Modules - An interface card includes a circuit board having an interface unit, a communication operation processing unit mounted on the circuit board, a SIM card slot mounted on the circuit board, and a M2M SIM mounted on the circuit board. The interface unit is coupled with an interface card slot of an external electronic equipment. The SIM card slot outputs at least one signal to the communication operation processing unit. The M2M SIM is provided with a communication protocol of a predetermined telecommunication operator and outputs at least one signal to the communication operation processing unit. Thus, the interface card has a SIM card slot and a M2M SIM to provide two wireless communication connection modes for selection of a user, so that the user can select any one of the wireless communication connection modes according the practical requirement. | 2014-07-17 |
20140200048 | METHOD OF AUTOMATIC SIM CARD SELECTION ACCORDING TO NETWORK ENVIRONMENT - A method of automatic SIM card selection on a multi-SIM user equipment according to network environment is provided. When the user equipment leave its current communication range and enters a new communication range, one or more RATs are used to scan the new communication range and the identity information of each SIM card is compared with the PLMN identification of each scanned PLMN. If a match can be found, the matching SIM card is automatically set as the primary SIM in order to avoid roaming charge. | 2014-07-17 |
20140200049 | Dialed Digits Based Vocoder Assignment - A system and method for providing voice communications with desired characteristics based upon the intended recipient of a voice communication. An apparatus includes a list of dial strings associated with parties having desired voice communication characteristics. A dial string entered by a user and associated with an intended recipient is compared to a list of preferred dial strings to determine the characteristics of an encoded voice signal to be sent to the recipient. The apparatus can include a vocoder having different bit rate modes and a bit rate mode is selected based upon the dial string entered by a user. Dial strings can be stored at the device or on a network. The apparatus can include a mode selector to select a desired vocoder mode to generate an encoded voice signal. | 2014-07-17 |
20140200050 | DISPLAY REPRESENTATION OF TWO DIFFERENT SIGNAL QUALITY VALUES WITHIN A SINGLE SIGNAL QUALITY INDICATOR - A device and method for displaying a signal quality indicator representation on a mobile device is disclosed. Signal quality values for two different wireless networks is determined. The signal quality indicator is displayed in a banner area on a display of the mobile device providing a graphic representation displaying both of the signal quality values. One of the signal quality values is associated with a first color and the other value is associated with a second color. Where portions of the first signal quality values overlap, a combined representation associated with a third color is displayed. The signal quality indicator is at least one bar of a plurality of graduated bars. | 2014-07-17 |
20140200051 | RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION ON MOBILE COMPUTING DEVICE - Method and system for providing radio frequency by using a mobile computing device. A mobile phone comprises a tag antenna and a motherboard integrated with a radio frequency front end module, a processor and a memory. The tag antenna can receive a request carrier signal and transmit an answering carrier signal. The radio frequency front end module can demodulate the request carrier signal to generate a request baseband signal and transfer to the processor, and modulate an answering baseband signal from the processor to generate the answering carrier signal. The processor can decode the request baseband signal to generate request data, and encode answering data to generate the answering baseband signal and transfer the answering baseband signal to the radio frequency front end module. The answering data include the tag data or response data for representing a result of the write operation. | 2014-07-17 |
20140200052 | Co-Molding Display with Body of Mobile Device - Tooling and methods for co-molding a body with two different materials. An internal die assembly comprising at least two parts allows for placement of a component and co-molding of the body around the component and then removal of the internal die assembly without disturbing the body. | 2014-07-17 |
20140200053 | ADVANCED THERMAL CONTROL ALGORITHM - A method implemented on a mobile device that starts by receiving a temperature reading from a sensor included on the mobile device. The temperature reading is compared to a threshold temperature and a power cap is set when the temperature reading is greater than the threshold temperature. The power cap is a maximum transmission power of the mobile device. The method then determines if the mobile device is transmitting a critical message. The power cap is released for a period of time if the power cap is set and the mobile device is determined to be sending a critical message. Other embodiments are also described. | 2014-07-17 |
20140200054 | SENSING CASE FOR A MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A protective case for enveloping a smartphone incorporates at least one sensor for detecting stimuli arriving from outside of the smartphone. The case and the phone form an integral unit that possess extra features than the phone alone wouldn't have. The sensor is supplemented by a signal conditioning and interface electronic circuit for communicating the sensed information to the smartphone inner processor. The communication is via a wired connection to the smartphone's connector or wireless via a radio waves or optical link. For expanding versatility of the smartphone, the sensors may be adapted for detecting non-contact temperature, light, ultrasonic, smell, material composition, human vital signs, and other signals. | 2014-07-17 |
20140200055 | WRAPPING DEVICE FOR A CELL PHONE - A wrapping device for a cell phone has a holder and a wrapping sticker. The holder has a paper recess and a cell phone chamber. The paper recess is formed in a front surface of the holder. The cell phone chamber is formed through a bottom face of the paper recess. The wrapping sticker is mounted in the holder and has a backing paper and a protective film. The backing paper is mounted in the paper recess and has two tearing lines, a tear-off paper and a cutting line. The tearing lines are formed in an external surface of the backing paper beside a midline of the backing paper. The tear-off paper is formed on the backing paper between the tearing lines. The cutting line is formed in the external surface of the backing paper. The protective film is detachably mounted on the external surface of the backing paper. | 2014-07-17 |
20140200056 | CELL PHONE PROTECTIVE SHELL WITH HOLDER - A smart phone protective shell with a holder, comprising a cavity formed by a bottom plate and a main framework; and characterized in that it further comprises a bracket, wherein the support plate with a clamping block of the bracket is connected to the first transverse frame of the surface frame through a side connecting plate; a support block is formed on the second transverse frame of the surface frame; a notch is set in the first transverse side plate of said main framework to adapt to the side connecting plate; a notch is set in the second transverse side plate of the main framework to adapt to the support block; a support plate recess with a clamping slot is formed on the back side of said bottom plate; said surface frame is detachably clamped in the main framework; said support plate is clamped in said support plate recess; said side connecting plate is clamped in said side connecting plate notch; and said support block is clamped in said support block notch. In this way, the present invention solves the problem of instable support and inconvenience in hand-held use with the prior art. | 2014-07-17 |
20140200057 | Harvester with Cleaning System Having Early Clean Grain Evacuation - A clean grain evacuation device for a grain harvester having a threshing system configured to separate grain harvested by the harvester from crop residue and direct a flow of the grain to a cleaning system disposed within the harvester including at least two sieves disposed and configured to sequentially clean the grain. The evacuation device is disposed for receiving a portion of the flow of the clean grain from a first of the sieves, and is configured to evacuate the received clean grain away from the cleaning system. The evacuation device can include a conveyor disposed for directing the evacuated grain directly to a desired location such as a clean grain receiving system on the harvester. The evacuation device can also be located in an air flow path to the sieves for improving operation and MOG removal. | 2014-07-17 |
20140200058 | LEAF REMOVAL APPARATUS - A leaf removal apparatus for removing one or more wrapper leaves of a harvested produce is provided. The leaf removal apparatus includes a framework, a conveyor, a stripping roller, and a plurality of flexible members. The conveyor is configured to transport the harvested produce in a forward direction to the stripping roller. The stripping roller is connected to the framework and rotates in a direction opposite to the moving direction of the conveyor. The stripping roller applies a friction force on the harvested produce. The plurality of flexible members are connected to the framework and are configured to loosen or remove one or more wrapper leaves of the harvested produce and prolong the duration of contact between the harvested produce and the stripping roller. The flexible members may also cause the harvested produce to rotate, helping to remove one or more wrapper leaves. The friction force applied by the stripping roller removes one or more wrapper leaves of the harvested produce. | 2014-07-17 |
20140200059 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SIMULATING A PARTICULAR USER IN AN INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEM - Systems and methods for simulating a user's behavior in an interactive computer system are provided. For example, a computer program product includes a simulator configured to simulate a user interacting with a computer program. The simulator includes a learning mode of operation and a simulation mode of operation. During the learning mode, for example, the simulator is configured to monitor the user's interaction with the computer program for one or more events and analyze one or more current circumstances during the occurrence of the one or more events, and further, to record at least one user input in response to the occurrence of at least one event, store the at least one user inputs in at least one data field, and associate the at least one data field with the at least one events and the at least one current circumstances. | 2014-07-17 |
20140200060 | INTERACTION DISPLAY SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF - An interaction display system applied in a mobile device is provided. The system has a camera unit configured to capture images of a scene; a motion detection unit configured to detect motions of the mobile device during capturing the images; and a processing unit coupled to the camera unit and the motion detection unit, configured to estimate a geometry of the scene according to the captured images and the detected motions. | 2014-07-17 |
20140200061 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING GAME PROGRAM - An information processing device conducts a battle game played by a player by using a battle deck composed of game contents, including: a deck forming unit configured to form the battle deck to be used for a battle by the player; a parameter determining unit configured to determine a deck parameter value; a storage unit configured to store a parameter change condition; a determination unit configured to determine whether or not the parameter change condition is satisfied after the deck parameter value is determined by the parameter determining unit; a parameter changing unit configured to change the deck parameter value; a battle processing unit configured to: determine an outcome of a battle game by using the deck parameter value resulting from the change by the parameter changing unit, and determine an outcome of a battle game; and a screen data generation unit configured to generate data of a game screen. | 2014-07-17 |
20140200062 | Peer-to-Peer Wagering Platform - Data characterizing historical skills-based gaming metrics for a first user and historical skills-based gaming metrics for at least one second user is accessed. Using the accessed data and a set of rules, a targeted advertisement to present to the first user is determined. The targeted advertisement specifies at least one skills-based game and a characterization of the at least one second user's historical skills-based gaming metrics. The targeted advertisement is generated. Data characterizing the targeted advertisement is provided. Related apparatus, systems, techniques, and articles are also described. | 2014-07-17 |
20140200063 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AN INTERNET BASED SWEEPSTAKES - An internet-facilitated contest—a Sweepstakes—played by participants, randomly selected as eligible, on whose computers the application resides. The invention involves such a participant's attempts to electronically connect with another such randomly-selected eligible participant. Prizes are awarded to those participants who successfully make such a connection within certain time constraints. The invention contemplates a computer program being readable by the computer for executing method of the invention. The invention further contemplates a machine-readable memory tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by the machine for executing the method of this invention. | 2014-07-17 |
20140200064 | GAMING MACHINE AND GAMING METHOD - A gaming machine according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a first display unit that includes a plurality of reels including a plurality of symbols thereon; and a controller configured to: determine whether a rendering effect activation is selected; execute a game by spinning and stopping the plurality of reels of the display device; and perform a rendering effect on the spinning and stopping of the plurality of reels when it is determined that the rendering effect activation is selected. | 2014-07-17 |
20140200065 | ASSOCIATING MOBILE DEVICE WITH ELECTRONIC GAMING MACHINE - A wagering game system and its operations are described herein. In some embodiments, the operations can include receiving, at a wagering game server, a request from a mobile device to play a wagering game via a selected wagering game machine among a plurality of wagering game machines on the wagering game network. The operations can also include associating the mobile device with the selected wagering game machine, wherein the associating allows receipt of input for the wagering game from the mobile device. The operations can also include receiving, via the wagering game network, commands resulting from inputs accepted by the mobile device. The operations can also include determining a result of the wagering game. | 2014-07-17 |
20140200066 | GAMING SYSTEM HAVING MULTIPLE REEL SETS AND ONE OR MORE ADDITIONAL REELS - A gaming system for playing a wagering game has a plurality of reel sets and one or more additional reels. The system spins the reel sets and the one or more additional reels to generate an outcome. | 2014-07-17 |
20140200067 | DEVICE HEALTH MONITORING FOR GAMING MACHINES - A gaming peripheral for a gaming machine is described. The gaming peripheral can be configured to emulate the functions of a lighting device, such as a candle. The gaming peripheral can be configured to provide enhanced gaming features such as 1) enhanced networking capabilities, 2) enhanced peripheral device monitoring and upgrade capabilities, 3) enhanced player monitoring and security capabilities 4) enhanced gaming function capabilities and 5) enhanced player reward capabilities. The enhanced gaming features can be provided in a non-intrusive manner such that regulated software executed on a gaming machine does not have to be altered. | 2014-07-17 |
20140200068 | METHOD FOR DISPLAYING GAME RESULT - Embodiments of the invention include a gaming device that has a video display. When the player initiates the game, an animation is shown. If the game had a losing outcome, the animation is very short and allows the player to quickly try for a win. If instead the game has a winning outcome the gaming device spins reels or otherwise shows the player how much he or she has one. The animation may also indicate progress toward a mystery jackpot or a group mystery jackpot. | 2014-07-17 |
20140200069 | BACKLIGHT UNIT AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND GAMING MACHINE INCLUDING SAME - A gaming machine includes: a liquid crystal panel; a backlight unit which is disposed behind the liquid crystal panel; and one or more reels which are disposed behind the backlight unit and on which a plurality of symbols are displayed. The backlight unit includes: a light switch plate which is formed such that a predetermined area corresponding to a symbol selection area where selected symbols among the plurality of symbols displayed on the reel can be selectively turned to be transparent or nontransparent using a polymer dispersed liquid crystal; a half mirror which is disposed behind the light switch plate; a first light source which is disposed in front of the half mirror and emits light passing through the light switch plate and progressing forward; and a second light source which is disposed behind the half mirror and emits lights. | 2014-07-17 |
20140200070 | ONLINE FANTASY SPORTS GAME SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method of enabling a user to play an online fantasy sports game that provides an opportunity to play the game when the user visits a lottery site, provides a plurality of fantasy sports selections in a time window, the plurality of fantasy sports selections corresponds to an option to select a plurality of related actual sports games specified in the time window for that fantasy sport selection, receives the one or more fantasy sports selections that completes a lottery submission before the time window begins, determines a fantasy performance score for each of the plurality of corresponding actual sports games, determines which users have won the game based on each user's selections and each of the determined corresponding fantasy performance scores, and transmits an electronic message indicating one or more winners of corresponding lottery submissions when certain users are identified to have won the game. | 2014-07-17 |
20140200071 | BET SENSORS, GAMING TABLES WITH ONE OR MORE BET SENSORS, AND RELATED METHODS - A bet sensor for determining the value of a wager includes a transparent cover having a bet placement surface configured and oriented to support a stack of gaming tokens thereon. A mirror arrangement is disposed on an opposing side of the transparent cover from the bet placement surface. The bet sensor also includes an image sensor. The mirror arrangement is located and configured to direct an image of a lateral side surface of a stack of gaming tokens supported on the bet placement surface onto the image sensor. A gaming table may incorporate such a bet sensor. Methods of forming such bet sensors include disposing a mirror arrangement on an opposing side of a transparent cover from a bet placement surface, and locating an image sensor such that the mirror arrangement directs an image of a lateral side surface of a stack of gaming tokens onto the image sensor. | 2014-07-17 |
20140200072 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING AGGREGATED WAGERING EVENT PICK INFORMATION TO BETTORS - A method and system are provided by which individual sports event wagering pick information, such as multiple handicapper picks, are collected and aggregated. The aggregated information which was obtained from multiple sources is then provided at a single location and form to a bettor. The method and system has particular applicability to sports event wagering, wherein a plurality of handicapper picks of the winning bets for a sports event are collected and aggregated, giving a bettor a set of data with higher statistical stability and probability. | 2014-07-17 |
20140200073 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ELECTRONIC FUND TRANSFERS FOR USE WITH GAMING SYSTEMS - Electronic fund transfer (EFT) systems and methods are disclosed for managing and transferring electronic funds from a patron's financial account to provide gaming or amusement credit in physical or electronic form. The systems comprise an electronic fund transfer (EFT) device, a secure payment gateway configured to connect to the patron's financial accounts via a financial network, a host system, and a funds management portal connected to the host system and to the secure payment gateway. The EFT device is configured to communicate with the patron's financial account via a secure connection to the secure payment gateway and to transmit instructions for transferring electronic funds from the patron's financial account to a credit system via the secure payment gateway and the funds management portal. | 2014-07-17 |
20140200074 | DIFFERENCE ENGINE HYBRID GAME - Systems and methods in accordance with embodiments of the invention operate a difference engine hybrid game. The hybrid game includes a real world engine constructed to determine a randomly generated payout of real world credits from a wager in a gambling game, the payout determined using a paytable, an entertainment software engine constructed to execute an entertainment game providing one or more entertainment game variables based upon skillful execution of the entertainment game involving at least one player action, and a game world engine constructed to manage the entertainment software engine and communicate gameplay gambling event occurrences based upon skillful execution of the entertainment game involving the at least one player action that trigger a wager in the gambling game to the gambling game; wherein the game world engine utilizes a difference engine module constructed to determine the paytable of the real world engine used to determine the randomly generated payout, from among a plurality of paytables based on the one or more entertainment game variables of the entertainment game. | 2014-07-17 |
20140200075 | PERSONALIZED PLAY WITH REWARDS FOR GAMES OF CHANCE - A personal play system and process are used provide alternative prize structures to lottery players at random or based on player characteristics. An authorized player accesses their user account in the system and creates a personalized game document. The personalized game document is scanned by a retail terminal's electronic scanner. The information is communicated to the lottery system's host computer which logs the information and verifies that the transaction can be completed by printing a personalized lottery ticket at the retailer terminal. Alternative prize structures can be selected from single price point game prizes or multiple price point game prizes and can be optionally presented to the players for their selection according to various criteria, including loyalty-level rewards or other unlock criteria based on a player identifiable information, as well as up-sell options, suggestive-sell options, and mystery prizes. Also, bonus number play and SurePlay options may be selected. | 2014-07-17 |
20140200076 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR OBJECTIVE FANTASY SPORTING CONTESTS - The present invention is directed to systems, methods and computer program products for providing a fantasy sports game that shares the same objective as an actual sporting contest and that is played in real-time during the actual sporting contest. A method of the present invention comprises displaying an indication of an option to start the game and receiving an input indicating to start the game. The method includes displaying a list of players intended to participate in an actual event to occur in the actual sporting contest and receiving an input indicating a first selection of at least one of the players. The method includes receiving real-time data from the actual sporting contest including a first actual result for the first actual event. The method includes displaying an indication of the first actual result and determining a virtual result in the game based on the first actual result. | 2014-07-17 |
20140200077 | CONTROLLER FOR INTERFACING WITH A COMPUTING PROGRAM USING POSITION, ORIENTATION, OR MOTION - A method for determining the position of a controller device, comprises: receiving dimensions of the display input by a user of the computer-based system; capturing successive images of the display at the controller device; determining a position of the controller device relative to the display based on the dimensions of the display and a perspective distortion of the display in the captured successive images of the display; providing the determined position of the controller to the computer-based system to interface with the interactive program to cause an action by the interactive program. | 2014-07-17 |
20140200078 | Video Game Including User Determined Location Information - A method, apparatus and computer program product for a video game including user determined location information is presented. Location information (e.g. GPS, Google Maps, an entered address or the like) determined by a user of a video game is acquired. Then user determined location information relating to a physical location determined by the user is mapped to a video game environment wherein the user of the video game experiences objects from the users entered location while playing the video game. | 2014-07-17 |
20140200079 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DIFFERENTIATING BETWEEN DOMINANT AND WEAK EYES IN 3D DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY - A method of displaying visual information to different viewer-eyes includes receiving eye strength data indicative of a deficiency of a weak viewer-eye with respect to a dominant viewer-eye. The method further includes causing a 3D-display system to display a first perspective of an image to the weak viewer-eye and causing the 3D-display system to display a second perspective of the image to the dominant viewer-eye. A difference between the first perspective and the second perspective is a variation of a display characteristic of one of the first and second perspectives where the variation is made in accordance with the indicated deficiency of the weak viewer-eye | 2014-07-17 |
20140200080 | 3D DEVICE AND 3D GAME DEVICE USING A VIRTUAL TOUCH - Provided is a 3D game device using a virtual touch, the three-dimensional game device using a virtual touch includes a 3D game executing unit rendering a 3D stereoscopic game pre-stored in a game database and generating a 3D stereoscopic image regarding the rendered 3D game to provide the 3D stereoscopic image to a display unit, and a virtual touch unit generating spatial coordinate data of a specific point of a user and image coordinate data from a user's viewpoint using the 3D stereoscopic image provided from the display unit and comparing the generated spatial coordinate data and image coordinate data to verify whether or not a specific point of a user contacts or approaches the 3D stereoscopic image and thus recognize a touch of the 3D stereoscopic image. | 2014-07-17 |
20140200081 | GAME CONTROLLER FOR RESISTIVE TOUCH SCREEN - The embodiment of present invention relates to a game controller for a resistive touch screen, the controller comprising one or more direction control key and one or more function button, the undersurfaces of which are provided with pressing touch pins; and the direction control key and the function button are securely attached to the resistive touch screen when the game controller is in use. | 2014-07-17 |
20140200082 | SERVER DEVICE, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING GAME PROGRAM - A server device according to an embodiment is connected to a plurality of player terminals to communicate information with the player terminals. The server device includes: a storage unit configured to store game content information, the game content information being configured to have special numbers at a predetermined interval in serial number order; a providing unit configured to select the same number of pieces of game content as the number of the predetermined interval, and to provide the selected pieces of game content at a time; a provision notice information generating unit configured to generate provision notice information for notifying in advance of whether a piece of game content with a special number is to be provided; and an image data generating unit configured to generate image data for displaying a game screen on a display unit of the player terminal before providing the pieces of game content. | 2014-07-17 |
20140200083 | VIDEO GAME PROCESSING APPARATUS AND VIDEO GAME PROCESSING PROGRAM - A video game processing apparatus for controlling progress of a multiplayer participatory video game is provided. A player plays the multiplayer participatory video game using a game medium in which parameters are set up. The video game processing apparatus includes a virtual mission information memory for storing virtual mission information. The virtual mission information is information on virtual missions. The player works on one of the virtual missions using the game medium. The video game processing apparatus provides the virtual mission to the player on the basis of the virtual mission information. The video game processing apparatus gives other player a game medium associated with the player using the game medium. The other player is associated with the game medium used in the virtual mission. | 2014-07-17 |
20140200084 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USER CREATION OF DIGITAL OBJECTS - Implementations of systems and methods according to present principles enhance and improve current methods of object creation. In such systems and methods, in addition to keeping track of a seller of an object (as seen, e.g., by an auction house notation), the identities and contributions are maintained of creators of component or subcomponent parts, or those who provided or crafted materials, either for a component or for the finished item, or those whose skills or talents contributed to the creation or obtaining of an item, component, subcomponent, or material, allowing subsequent benefits to such creators, including compensation or recognition. | 2014-07-17 |
20140200085 | GAME CONTROLLER HAND GRIP FOR COUPLING WITH ASSOCIATED SUPPORT APPARATUS - A hand grip provides a means to attach at least one hand-held game controller so that a user can with a single hand grasp of the hand grip and its attached game controller carry the hand grip while the fingers of that same hand can manipulate one or more actuators of said attached game controller while further carrying or operating appropriate supported equipment. The hand grip enables a user to assemble his or her own custom-built interactive, portable device by subsequently attaching various hand-held game controllers to appropriate support apparatus such as a camera support apparatus. Where said support apparatus may optionally and subsequently fixedly support appropriate supported equipment including a mobile computing device, a portable display, or motion-sensing equipment. The hand grip allows a user to arrange the hand grip(s) and any attached support apparatus or supported equipment in a variety of configurations that facilitate hand-held to shoulder-carried configurations. | 2014-07-17 |
20140200086 | TELESCOPIC SHAFT - A telescopic shaft includes a male shaft having an outer circumference formed with a plurality of protruding teeth, and a female shaft having an inner circumference formed with a plurality of tooth grooves and fitted onto the male shaft. The protruding teeth and the tooth grooves are engaged such that the male shaft and the female shaft are relatively axially slidable and a rotational torque is transmittable between the male shaft and the female shaft. At least one of the male shaft and the female shaft is configured such that the radial rigidity of a portion of the at least one of the male shaft and the female shaft in an axial range of a region where the protruding teeth and the tooth grooves are engaged is lower than the radial rigidity of another portion of the at least one of the male shaft and the female shaft. | 2014-07-17 |
20140200087 | Amusement Park Elevator Drop Ride System and Associated Methods - A cable driven elevator system having an elevator platform with an integral motion system is provided using one or multiple actuators. Each actuator includes a support plate attached to the elevator platform, a planetary gearbox engaged with and driven by an electric servo motor, and a drive shaft driven by the servo motor and engaged with a one crank. Connecting rods are connected between the crank and a frame. The frame supports a passenger platform. A control system is operable with each electric servo motor of each actuator for providing a simulated motion to the passenger platform including a heaving (vertical) motion such that the vertical downward acceleration experienced by persons riding the elevator exceeds 1 g, by way of example. The motion system is also capable of directly imparting vibrations to the elevator platform of up to at least 100 Hz without additional vibration generating equipment. | 2014-07-17 |
20140200088 | PROCESS AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING A BOWLING CENTRE - A process and a system for managing a bowling centre, which includes one or more bowling lanes along which a bowl is rolled, one or more pin setting up machines at one end of the lane and one or more bowlers' bays at the opposite end of the lane, one or more overhead monitors or videos above the lane, one or more consoles or keyboards located at the one or more lanes, respectively, and allowing a user to enter data, an electronic control system set up to manage the bowling centre, and in particular, a score program which calculates the score of the games played at the bowling centre and displays the score, in particular at the respective overhead monitor. A visual signal is emitted at the respective lane to indicate that the lane is open and waiting for users. | 2014-07-17 |
20140200089 | DESKTOP BOWLING GAME - A desktop bowling game is provided including bowling pins having metal that is attractable by magnets located at a base of each bowling pin, a ball, a main unit having a playing board having a surface with position markers for setup of the pins, and a pin reset mechanism, located below the playing board. The pin reset mechanism includes a sliding plate that slides up and down beneath the playing board between a first, up position immediately below and adjacent to the playing board to a second, down position away from the playing board. Magnets are disposed on the sliding plate adjacent to the playing board and adjacent to the position markers of the playing board. | 2014-07-17 |
20140200090 | Golf Swing Training Apparatus - Improved golf swing apparatus and methods that include a short shaft (preferably about 13 inches) training club having a training grip and a club head that gives instant visual feedback on swing alignment to a user during the motion of swinging. A bubble or spirit level and light-emitting end of the shaft provide further feedback on a user's swing alignment in terms of correct wrist and shaft position. | 2014-07-17 |