40th week of 2016 patent applcation highlights part 87 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20160295329 | LOUDSPEAKER DIAPHRAGM AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - A loudspeaker diaphragm, comprising a dome portion located at central position and a suspension ring portion located at edge position; the dome portion and/or the suspension ring portion comprise silk fabric and thermoplastic polyurethane combined with the silk fabric; and the silk fabric is coated with thermosetting adhesive. The method for manufacturing the loudspeaker diaphragm comprises following steps: a. coating the silk fabric with a thermosetting adhesive under a high temperature, and drying the silk fabric; b. hot pressing and combining the silk fabric and thermoplastic polyurethane to form a membrane; c. pressing the membrane to form the dome portion and/or the suspension ring portion. The dome portion, or both the dome portion and the suspension ring portion of the loudspeaker diaphragm comprise silk fabric coated with a thermosetting adhesive and thermoplastic polyurethane. Thus formed loudspeaker diaphragm has good rigidity and damping characteristic, thus improving acoustic performance of the diaphragm. | 2016-10-06 |
20160295330 | Acoustic Diaphragm - An acoustic diaphragm made at least in part from an expanded material. The expanded material includes one or more of cellulose, synthetic fibers and glass fibers. The expanded material has more than about 55% by volume voids. | 2016-10-06 |
20160295331 | Acoustic Diaphragm - An acoustic diaphragm made at least in part from an expanded material. The expanded material includes one or more of cellulose, synthetic fibers and glass fibers. The expanded material has more than about 55% by volume voids. | 2016-10-06 |
20160295332 | Vibration Unit for Acoustic Module - A vibration unit includes an encircling frame defining a vibration cavity therewithin, a vibration member disposed in the vibration cavity, and a suspension including an elastic diaphragm having a periodical wave-shape extended between the vibration member and the encircling frame to support the vibration member within the vibration cavity. The wave-shape diaphragm provides a 3-dimensional connection between the vibration member and the encircling frame to self-generate a repelling force to against a lateral movement of the vibration member so as to ensure the vibration member to be reciprocatingly moved in a linear direction. | 2016-10-06 |
20160295333 | Entrained Microphones - In some embodiments, a microphone system may include a deformable element that may be made of a material that is subject to deformation in response to external phenomenon. Sensing ports may be in contact with a respective region of the deformable element and may be configured to sense a deformation of a region of the deformable element and generate a signal in response thereto. The plurality of signals may be useable to determine spatial dependencies of the external phenomenon. The external phenomenon may be pressure and the signals may be useable to determine spatial dependencies of the pressure. | 2016-10-06 |
20160295334 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A HEARING DEVICE AND A HEARING DEVICE OPTIMIZED FOR BEING POWERED BY A MERCURY-FREE BATTERY - The present invention proposes a method for operating a hearing device which prevents battery leakage, especially in the case when the hearing device | 2016-10-06 |
20160295335 | NON-CONTACT ANTENNA FEED - The present disclosure relates to inclusion of a non-contact antenna. The non-contact antenna can allow a variety of antennas to be used on a hearing assistance device and can overcome issues associated with mounting an antenna internal to the case of a hearing assistance device. A non-contact antenna may include a proximity coupled antenna, such as an antenna mounted on a hearing assistance device case (external to the case) near a feed line that will transfer energy between the antenna and an SMD internal to the case. A non-contact antenna may include an aperture coupled antenna, such as an antenna mounted external to the case on an antenna substrate, where the antenna substrate is on a feed substrate with a feed line, and where there is an aperture in a ground plane. | 2016-10-06 |
20160295336 | PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE COMPRISING A FOLDED SUBSTRATE - The application relates to a portable electronic device comprising a) a folded substrate carrying components of the device, and b) another, separate component having a fixed outer contour, and c) a housing for enclosing said folded substrate and said separate component, said housing having an inner contour, wherein said folded substrate is folded from a planar substrate along a folding line, said folded substrate exhibiting outer edges comprising a folded edge following said folding line. The application further relates to a method of manufacturing a folded substrate. The object of the present application is to facilitate miniaturization of a portable electronic device, such as a hearing aid. The problem is solved in that the folded substrate is shaped to provide that at least one of said outer edges follow(s) the fixed outer contour of the separate component and/or the inner contour of said housing. This has the advantage of providing a larger area on the substrate to place components and soldering points thereby improving the use of the available space in the portable electronic device. The invention may e.g. be used in electronic devices where volume utilization is an important design parameter, e.g. hearing aids comprising a part adapted for being mounted in an ear canal of a user, e.g. in the bony part of the ear canal. | 2016-10-06 |
20160295337 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A LOUDSPEAKER - A method for manufacturing a loudspeaker includes creating a dual-layered fabric having an acoustic resistance by attaching a first fabric having a first acoustic resistance to a second fabric having a second acoustic resistance lower than the first acoustic resistance. The method further includes applying a coating material to a first portion of the dual-layered fabric. The coating material forms a pattern on the first portion of the dual-layered fabric that changes the acoustic resistance of the dual-layered fabric along at least one of: a length and radius of the dual-layered fabric. | 2016-10-06 |
20160295338 | MICROPHONE DIAPHRAGM - Embodiments of the present invention relate to graphene-based microphone diaphragms. In one embodiment, a acoustic wave sensor comprises a diaphragm comprised of a graphene-based composition, wherein the diaphragm has a first side at least partially covered with a reflective material. An emitter fiber is positioned proximate to the diaphragm, wherein the emitter fiber transmits light towards the first side. A collector fiber is positioned proximate to the diaphragm, wherein the collector fiber captures at least a portion of light reflected by the first side, wherein the collector fiber is in communication with a detector. A converter is in communication with the detector and converts a signal received by the detector to a digital signal for processing. The portion of light that is captured as a result of diaphragm distortion is different than the portion of light captured in the absence of diaphragm distortion. The graphene-based composition includes graphene sheets. | 2016-10-06 |
20160295339 | METHOD FOR MAKING THERMOACOUSTIC DEVICE ARRAY - A method for making a thermoacoustic device array includes the following step. A substrate having a surface is provided. The surface defines a grid having a number of cells. A number of holes are defined on each of the cells. A first electrode and a second electrode are formed on each of the cells. The first electrode is spaced from the second electrode, and one row of the holes is located between the first electrode and the second electrode. A sound wave generator is applied on the substrate and electrically connected to the first electrode and the second electrode. The sound wave generator is suspended over the holes. The sound wave generator is divided according to the cells. | 2016-10-06 |
20160295340 | HANDSFREE BEAM PATTERN CONFIGURATION - An audio system that adjusts one or more beam patterns emitted by one or more loudspeaker arrays based on the preferences of users/listeners is described. The audio system includes an audio receiver that contains a listener location estimator, a listener identifier, and a voice command processor. Inputs from the listener location estimator, the listener identifier, and the voice command processor are fed into an array processor. The array processor drives the one or more loudspeaker arrays to emit beam patterns into the listening area based on inputs from each of these devices. By examining the location, preferred usage settings, and voice commands from listeners, the generated beam patterns are customized to the explicit and implicit preferences of the listeners with minimal direct input. Other embodiments are also described. | 2016-10-06 |
20160295341 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING 3D AUDIO - Embodiments of the subject invention relate to a method and apparatus for virtualizing an audio file. The virtualized audio file can be presented to a user via, for example, ear-speakers or headphones, such that the user experiences a change in the user's perception of where the sound is coming from and/or 3D sound. Embodiments can utilize virtualization processing that is based on head rotated transfer functions (HRTF's) or other processing techniques that can alter where the user perceives the sounds of the music file to originate from. A specified embodiment provides Surround Sound virtualization with DTS Surround Sensations software. Embodiments can utilize the 2-channel audio transmitted to the headphones. | 2016-10-06 |
20160295342 | AUDIO REPRODUCTION APPARATUS AND GAME APPARATUS - An audio reproduction apparatus includes: a signal processing unit that converts an audio signal into N channel signals, where N is an integer greater than or equal to 3; and a speaker array including N speaker elements that respectively output the N channel signals as reproduced sound, wherein the signal processing unit includes: a beam formation unit that performs a beam formation process of resonating the reproduced sound output from the speaker array at a position of one ear of the listener; and a cancellation unit that performs a cancellation process of preventing the reproduced sound output from the speaker array from reaching a position of the other ear of the listener. | 2016-10-06 |
20160295343 | POSITION-BASED GAIN ADJUSTMENT OF OBJECT-BASED AUDIO AND RING-BASED CHANNEL AUDIO - The positions of a plurality of speakers at a media consumption site are determined. Audio information in an object-based format is received. Gain adjustment value for a sound content portion in the object-based format may be determined based on the position of the sound content portion and the positions of the plurality of speakers. Audio information in a ring-based channel format is received. Gain adjustment value for each ring-based channel in a set of ring-based channels may be determined based on the ring to which the ring-based channel belongs and the positions of the speakers at a media consumption site. | 2016-10-06 |
20160295344 | NOTIFICATION METHOD FOR CONFIGURING A SECURE ELEMENT - Notification devices and methods for configuring a secure element incorporated into a terminal connected to a network are disclosed. The devices and methods may perform steps implemented by an application of the secure element, such as obtaining at least one item of information that can be used to configure the secure element stored in a memory of the terminal outside the secure element, sending the item of information and an identifier of the secure element to a configuration system, and obtaining configuration data originating from the configuration system, the configuration data being supplied to the secure element depending on the item of information. | 2016-10-06 |
20160295345 | METHOD FOR PERFORMING MACHINE TYPE COMMUNICATION FOR THE PURPOSE OF COVERAGE IMPROVEMENT, APPARATUSES AND SYSTEMS FOR PERFORMING THE SAME - A method of performing a downlink machine type communication from a base station to a MTC (machine type communication) terminal includes, at the base station, transmitting at least one of a system information—the system information excluding a Master Information Block (MIB)—, a control information and data to the MTC terminal using a system bandwidth having a predetermined size. The base station performs frequency hopping using a frequency hopping pattern in a unit of narrow band on the at least one of the system information—the system information excluding a Master Information Block (MIB)—, the control information and the data to transmit to the MTC terminal, and the narrow band is less than the system bandwidth. | 2016-10-06 |
20160295346 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, RELAY APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - A communication system according to the present invention includes an application server ( | 2016-10-06 |
20160295347 | METHODS, APPARATUSES AND SYSTEMS DIRECTED TO PROXIMITY SERVICES (ProSe) DIRECT DISCOVERY - Methods, apparatus, systems, devices, and computer program products directed to enhancements to proximity-based services (ProSe) direct discovery are provided. Among the methods is a method that may be implemented in a proximity services (ProSe) function and that may include receiving a discovery request message including a ProSe application identifier; determining whether or not the ProSe function can retrieve a valid ProSe application code corresponding to the ProSe application identifier; and transmitting a reject-type discovery response message conditioned on the determining that a valid ProSe application code is not available to the ProSe function. | 2016-10-06 |
20160295348 | PROXIMITY AND INTERFACE CONTROLS OF MEDIA DEVICES FOR MEDIA PRESENTATIONS - Embodiments relate generally to electrical/electronic hardware, computer software, wired and wireless network communications, portable, wearable, and stationary media devices. RF transceivers and/or audio system in each media device may be used to wirelessly communicate between media devices and allow configuration and other data to be wirelessly transmitted from one media device to another media device. The proximity detection system may be configured to detect a presence of a user or multiple users and upon detecting presence, access content on a user device, and record the content while also playing back the content on the media device. One or more user devices in proximity of the media device post detection may wirelessly communicate with the media device and the media device may orchestrate handling of content from those devices or from a wirelessly accessible location such as the Cloud or Internet. | 2016-10-06 |
20160295349 | PROXIMITY BASED AUTHENTICATION USING BLUETOOTH - Techniques for securing communications between fixed devices and mobile devices. A mobile device management server mediates communications between the fixed device and mobile device. The mobile device management server enrolls mobile devices and then assists with pairing the mobile devices to fixed devices in an out-of-band manner. This enrollment, coupled with out-of-band pairing, improves the speed and security of authenticating communication between fixed and mobile devices. If the mobile device has appropriate capabilities, the mobile device management server may request that the mobile device obtain and verify biometric data from a user prior to enrollment and performing authentication procedures. | 2016-10-06 |
20160295350 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR CHANNEL USAGE INFORMATION DELIVERY WITHIN A PEER-TO-PEER GROUP - A method to manage of coexistence between infrastructure networks and peer-to-peer groups, including receiving, by a peer-to-peer wireless client device associated with a peer-to-peer wireless group owner device in a peer-to-peer wireless network, channel usage information of a wireless infrastructure network, from a wireless access point device managing the wireless infrastructure network; and transmitting, by the peer-to-peer wireless client device, the received channel usage information of the wireless infrastructure network, to the peer-to-peer wireless group owner device, as coexistence information. | 2016-10-06 |
20160295351 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION INTEROPERABILITY - A method for wireless communication is described. The method includes receiving a signal from a short-range transmit device using a first communication technology. The signal indicates proximity and characteristics of a remote device that uses a second communications technology. The method also includes configuring a controller according to the signal for communications with the remote device using the second communications technology. | 2016-10-06 |
20160295352 | Multiple Connection Management For Bluetooth Low Energy Devices - Methods and systems are disclosed for multiple connection management for Bluetooth (BT) devices, and more particularly for BT Low Energy (BLE) devices, to multiple different bonded BT peer devices. A BT device database within a non-volatile memory (NVM) stores identification and persistent information for each bonded BT peer device. At power-on reset (PoR), only device identification information (DII) data, such as an address (ADDR) and an IRK (identity resolving key), for each bonded BT peer device is copied from the NVM to a volatile memory that is used for run-time operation. When a bonded BT peer device forms an active connection, it is identified using the DII data, and its persistent data is copied from NVM to volatile memory as run-time data. The BT device then communicates with the actively connected BT peer device at least in part using the run-time data for the actively connected BT peer device. | 2016-10-06 |
20160295353 | TERMINAL DEVICES, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHODS, AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUMS - A terminal device includes at least one processor and a transceiver. The at least one processor is configured to execute computer readable instructions to generate a list of a plurality of other terminal devices located within a threshold range from the terminal device via short-range wireless communication. The transceiver is configured to transmit, in response to selection of a set of terminal devices from among the plurality of other terminal devices included in the list, a request to establish an association with users corresponding to terminal devices in the selected set of terminal devices. | 2016-10-06 |
20160295354 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A communication system includes a first communication terminal and a second communication terminal. The first communication terminal provides first terminal identification information read out from a memory to a first mobile terminal. The second communication terminal obtains the first terminal identification information from a second mobile terminal, the second mobile terminal being a mobile terminal that has received the first terminal identification information from the first mobile terminal through a first communication session. The second communication terminal further transmits a request for starting communication with the first communication terminal to establish a second communication session with the first communication terminal. | 2016-10-06 |
20160295355 | ZIGBEE Network-Based Data Transmission Method, Apparatus, and System - A ZIGBEE network-based data transmission method used to resolve a problem, that when a ZIGBEE network to which interference is relatively large is used to perform data transmission, a relatively low success rate of data transmission may be caused. The method includes, when detecting that a current working channel is interfered, acquiring, by a first routing node, interference energy intensities of remaining channels, determining that channels whose interference energy intensities are less than a first threshold are available switching channels, and sending a channel report message to an upper-layer routing node, where the channel report message includes all available switching channels, receiving a channel switching message sent by the upper-layer routing node, and switching to a target switching channel indicated by the channel switching message and receiving data using the target switching channel. | 2016-10-06 |
20160295356 | ENTITY TRACKING - A method for tracking an entity is disclosed. In one embodiment, a plurality of messages conveying an identification of an entity are received using a wireless identification component. A geographic location of the wireless identification component is determined by a position determining component wherein the geographic location describes a respective geographic location of the wireless identification component when each of the plurality of messages is received. A geographic position of the entity is determined based upon a known spatial relationship between the position determining component and the wireless identification component. | 2016-10-06 |
20160295357 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING INTERFERENCE IN A NETWORK ENVIRONMENT BASED ON USER PRESENCE - An example method is provided in one example embodiment and may include determining a presence of user equipment (UE) in relation to small cell radio(s) of a small cell network based on information obtained through the small cell network and one or more parallel networks; and adjusting transmit power for the small cell radio(s) based on the presence of UE in relation to the small cell radio(s). Another example method can include determining that a UE in cell paging channel mode has changed its selected macro cell radio; determining that the UE is allowed service on a small cell radio located in a vicinity of a macro cell coverage area of a selected macro cell radio; and adjusting a transmit power of the small cell radio based on a presence of the UE in a surrounding macro cell coverage area of the small cell radio. | 2016-10-06 |
20160295358 | COMMUNICATION METHOD AND SYSTEM - The present invention relates to methods and systems for providing context-sensitive information to a mobile device, particular location-based information or the like. Specifically, the present invention relates to a distributed system that can use existing devices to send and receive context-sensitive information. In particular, the present invention relates to a method and system of providing context-sensitive information to a user of a mobile device comprising: transmitting from a tag attached to a moveable object via a wireless protocol a unique identifier to a mobile device; determining a measure of location of the mobile device and/or tag; and providing from a server information for display on the mobile device based on both the unique identifier and the measure of location. | 2016-10-06 |
20160295359 | LOCATION-AWARE MOBILE APPLICATION MANAGEMENT - Described herein are techniques related to managing mobile applications (“apps”) of a mobile device based, at least in part, upon the determined location of the device. This Abstract is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims. | 2016-10-06 |
20160295360 | TECHNIQUES FOR COMPUTING LOCATION OF A MOBILE DEVICE BASED ON OBSERVED WI-FI ACCESS POINTS - In one embodiment, scanning data is received for wireless access points whose wireless signals were observed by the one or more scanning devices in a target area. For each group of scanning data that shares a common identifier of a Wi-Fi access point, a centroid of the scanning data is determined, a set of scanning data of the group that exceeds a threshold distance from the centroid is designated as having potential error, and a location of the Wi-Fi access point is calculated. The calculated location of the Wi-Fi access point for each group of scanning data is stored in a reference database. Upon receiving a request for a location of a mobile device, an identity of one or more Wi-Fi access points in range of the mobile device is determined, and the location of the mobile device is computed using calculated locations from the reference database. | 2016-10-06 |
20160295361 | DYNAMIC COOPERATIVE GEOFENCE - A system includes one or more location determining devices for determining the geographic locations of a plurality of mobile objects and one or more computing devices. The one or more computing devices are operable to identify the geographic locations of the objects using data generated by the one or more location determining devices, generate a single geofence corresponding to the geographic locations of the plurality of mobile objects, identify a change in the geographic location of at least one of the objects, change the geofence to reflect the change in the geographic location of the at least one object, detect an event associated with the geofence, and respond to the event. | 2016-10-06 |
20160295362 | A Wireless Location Determining System - The wireless device ( | 2016-10-06 |
20160295363 | DYNAMIC COOPERATIVE GEOFENCE - A system includes one or more location determining devices for determining the locations of a plurality of mobile objects and one or more computing devices. The one or more computing devices are operable to identify the geographic locations of the objects using data generated by the one or more location determining devices and generate a single geofence corresponding to the geographic locations of the objects, wherein the objects associated with the geofence form a geofence group. The one or more computing devices are further operable to identify a change in the geographic location of at least one of the objects and change the geofence to reflect the change in the geographic location of the at least one object. The one or more computing devices are further operable to, after creating the geofence, include additional objects in the geofence group and remove objects from the geofence group according to inclusion rules. | 2016-10-06 |
20160295364 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ACCURATELY SENSING USER LOCATION IN AN IOT SYSTEM - A system and method are described for accurately detecting a location of a wireless device. For example, one embodiment of a method comprises: collecting signal strength data indicating signal strength between a wireless device and a plurality of IoT devices and/or IoT hubs in a user's home; associating the signal strength data with locations in the user's home and storing the association in a location database; and determining a current location of the wireless device by comparing the signal strength data in the database with current signal strength data indicating current signal strength between the wireless device and the plurality of IoT devices and/or IoT hubs. | 2016-10-06 |
20160295365 | LOCATING MISPLACED MOBILE COMPUTING DEVICES - Locating misplaced mobile computing devices through transmission of location information. Mobile computing devices periodically request information from surrounding mobile computing devices to more accurately identify the location where a mobile computing device was misplaced. | 2016-10-06 |
20160295366 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR POSITIONING A MOBILE TERMINAL IN A RADIO NETWORK - A method for positioning a mobile terminal in a radio network including a plurality of base stations, comprising: transmitting a signal from a base station for receipt in the mobile terminal along a line of sight of a radio beam; receiving time measurement data from the mobile terminal, obtained based on receipt in the mobile terminal of the transmitted signal; calculating a distance value (D | 2016-10-06 |
20160295367 | PROXIMITY-BASED SERVICES - The invention is related to an apparatus, comprising: at least one processor and at least one memory including computer code for one or more programs, the at least one memory and the computer code configured, with the at least one processor, to cause the apparatus at least to: receive a signal from a first user device, the signal being transmitted using at least one resource of one group of a plurality of resource groups, the one of the plurality of resource groups being associated with a first range class; and determine the first range class based on the one of the plurality of resource groups. | 2016-10-06 |
20160295368 | OPERATING METHOD OF USER-SPECIFIC DEVICE PROVIDING CUSTOMIZED SERVICE TO MULTIPLE ADJACENT MOBILE TERMINALS, USER-SPECIFIC DEVICE, AND MOBILE TERMINAL - A method and apparatus are configured to recognize mobile terminals positioned within a coverage area for short range communication with a user-specific device, wherein each mobile terminal comprises identification information for the user-specific device. The method and the apparatus provide a customized service corresponding to at least one of the mobile terminals. | 2016-10-06 |
20160295369 | TRACKING DEVICE, BATTERY CHARGER, AND TRACKING METHOD THEREOF - A tracking device, a battery charger, and a tracking method thereof are provided. The method, adopted by a tracking device, includes: upon being attached to a battery charger, scanning, by the tracking device, for a first radio environment; and transmitting, by the tracking device, a request for setting the scanned first radio environment as a home zone to a monitoring device. | 2016-10-06 |
20160295370 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LOCATION-BASED TUNING - A method for wireless communication by a wireless communication device is described. The method includes receiving geographic location information. The method also includes querying a geographic location tuning database for tuning parameter values corresponding with the geographic location information. The method further includes determining one or more tuning parameters to change based on the tuning parameter values. The method additionally includes adjusting an antenna for inductively coupled communication with a reader device according to the determined tuning parameters. | 2016-10-06 |
20160295371 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO TRACK REGIONS VISITED BY MOBILE DEVICES AND DETECT CHANGES IN LOCATION PATTERNS - Systems and methods including mobile devices determining their location using a location determination system, such as a global positioning system. A database stores the identifiers of cells representative of predefined regions in a hierarchical grid system. The location coordinates as function of time are converted to visitation patterns of the mobile devices to the predefined regions, based on converting the coordinates to cell identifiers and searching the database to find matches between the cell identifiers representing the regions and the cell identifiers representing the mobile device locations. For example, mobile devices having similar visitation patterns can be identified and divided into two groups; and information relevant to a region is transmitted to one of the group but not another. The visitation patterns of the two group after the transmission is identified and compared to measure a difference. | 2016-10-06 |
20160295372 | VENUE IDENTIFICATION FROM WIRELESS SCAN DATA - In non-limiting examples, wireless scan data collected from a processing device is directly mapped to venues. Wireless scan data is received from a processing device where the wireless scan data comprises at least a first identifier of a wireless connection. Venues associated with the first identifier are identified from a mapping of wireless identifiers to venues based on active validation data associated with particular venues including historical wireless scan data of the particular venues. The plurality of venues are ranked according to a likelihood that the processing device is located at a particular venue based on evaluating the active validation data including the historical wireless scan data from the mapping. A predicted venue that the processing device is located at is determined based on the ranking of the plurality of venues. Other examples are also described. | 2016-10-06 |
20160295373 | MOBILITY DETERMINATION USING LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION - A method for determining a mobility state of a mobile device is provided. A first estimated location of the mobile device is determined based on a first predictor set by generating a first location probability distribution associated with the first predictor set. A second estimated location of the mobile device is determined based on a second predictor set by generating a second location probability distribution associated with the second predictor set. A third estimated location of the mobile device is determined based on the first and second predictor sets and based on a combined first location probability distribution and second location probability distribution. A consistency analysis of the calculated first, second and third estimated locations is performed for the first and second predictor sets to determine the mobility state of the mobile device. | 2016-10-06 |
20160295374 | APPARATUS, SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MOBILE NETWORK POSITIONING OF MTC DEVICES USING COMMON REFERENCE OR SYNCHRONIZATION SIGNALS - Embodiments improve User Equipment (UE) positioning accuracy in a mobile communication system by providing for a UE configured to listen for Positioning Reference Signal (PRS) transmissions within an operating bandwidth around Direct Current (DC) sub-carrier and at least one non-PRS transmission including, for example, a CRS or PSS/SSS; receiving, at the UE, PRS and non-PRS(s) transmissions transmitted from base stations within the operating bandwidth; performing, at the UE, Time of Arrival (TOA) measurements for each of the plurality of base stations, wherein the TOA measurements are determined based on the at least one non-PRS transmission; obtaining Observed Time Difference of Arrival (OTDOA) measurements by subtracting TOA for the plurality of base stations from a TOA for a reference base station, and transmitting, from the UE to a Location Server (LS), the OTDOA measurements, wherein the LS performs a positioning estimation of the UE based on the OTDOA measurements. | 2016-10-06 |
20160295375 | IN-BUILDING LOCATION SECURITY AND PRIVACY - A mobile device includes: a transceiver configured to send and receive signals to and from a location-based services application server (LBS AS) and an access/location network (ALN); and a processor communicatively coupled to the processor and configured to: send, via the transceiver, a first identity for the mobile device to the LBS AS; send, via the transceiver, a second identity for the mobile device to the ALN, wherein the first identity and the second identity comprise a common identity for the mobile device; and obtain a location service from the LBS AS, or the ALN, or a combination thereof, via the transceiver. | 2016-10-06 |
20160295376 | BLUETOOTH LOW ENERGY LOCATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A BLE location system and method are disclosed. The BLE system may provide accurate location of a BLE enabled object in a three dimensional space. The three dimensional space may be a building and the BLE system and method permits accurate location at a room, bay, and bed level in the three dimensional space to be determined. In some embodiments, the BLE system may determine if a BLE enabled object crosses a boundary and the boundary may be, for example, a boundary to a room, such as a door, a boundary to a space, such as a hallway or meeting area, or a boundary to a particular location identified by set of coordinates (X,Y or X,Y,Z for example). The determination of the boundary crossing of the BLE enabled object or the location of the BLE enabled object may be used for staff and patient locating and their associated workflows as well as high accuracy asset tracking in a hospital embodiment. | 2016-10-06 |
20160295377 | Rapid Deployment of Software Updates in Multi-Hop Wireless Networks - In a system and method for upgrading software in a wireless mesh network, a first node in the network sends a first multicast request to a plurality of other nodes in the network that are in radio range of the first node. The first multicast request queries whether the other nodes are running a software version older than the software version and device type currently running in the first node. The first node then selects a node to upgrade and sends a request asking if any other nodes have already claimed that node. The first node then updates the nodes only if they have not been claimed for update by another node. In upgrading the claimed nodes, the first node copies to the claimed nodes the software it is currently executing in its internal flash memory thereby creating a clone, and does not store any additional copies of the updated software. | 2016-10-06 |
20160295378 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR CONTROLLING A WIRELESS ACCESS POINT - A method for controlling a wireless access point includes detecting that a control event relating to a smart device is triggered, acquiring a service set identifier (SSID) corresponding to the control event, generating a Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi) broadcast message according to the SSID corresponding to the control event, and broadcasting the Wi-Fi broadcast message, such that the smart device enables the wireless access point according to the Wi-Fi broadcast message. | 2016-10-06 |
20160295379 | OFFLINE CONTENT DISTRIBUTION NETWORKS - Approaches, techniques, and mechanisms are disclosed for the secure distribution of media content to devices having minimal or no Internet connectivity. Computing devices referred to herein as “local servers” are strategically deployed at various locations, such as stores and other public locations. Packages of media contents are stored on the local servers, and may be updated using various online and/or offline data transfer techniques. Portable devices may directly connect to the local servers via various types of proximity-based connections, such as by wireless local area networks, by wired connections over Universal Serial Bus cables, or by sharing of removable media such as Secure Digital cards. The local servers may copy their media contents to authorized devices when such connections are established. The contents on a device may be automatically be updated the next time the device connects to one of the local servers, so as to include newly selected and/or available content. | 2016-10-06 |
20160295380 | MULTICAST SUB-GROUPING METHODS FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS - Methods, systems, and devices are described for wireless communication at an access point (AP). The AP may determine a multicast grouping metric for a wireless station based at least in part on a channel condition associated with the wireless station and a data rate capability of the wireless station. The AP may assign the wireless station to a multicast subgroup based at least in part on the multicast grouping metric of the wireless station. The AP may transmit multicast transmissions to the multicast subgroup at a streaming rate based at least in part on the assigned multicast subgroup. | 2016-10-06 |
20160295381 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING TALK BURST SOURCES - According to one aspect, a method includes obtaining, at a client included in a push-to-talk (PTT) system, a plurality of talk bursts including at least a first talk burst and a second talk burst, the first talk burst being associated with a first source included in the PTT system, the second talk burst being associated with a second source included in the PTT system, wherein the plurality of talk bursts are obtained at approximately a first time. The method also includes identifying the first source as a source of interest and determining, after identifying the first source as the source of interest, an identity of the first source. Finally, the method includes processing the first talk burst as having a priority over the second talk burst. | 2016-10-06 |
20160295382 | INFORMING RECIPIENT DEVICE OF MESSAGE CONTENT PROPERTIES - According to one aspect of the present invention, a content class of a data set for a message to be transmitted to the recipient device is defined. A network element transferring messages to the recipient device specifies at least one information element in a message to the recipient terminal such that the information element includes an indication of the content class. The message is transmitted to the recipient device. | 2016-10-06 |
20160295383 | M2M-BASED INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND M2M SERVICE PLATFORM - The disclosure discloses a Machine-to-Machine/Man (M2M)-based information processing method and an M2M service platform. The method includes that: an M2M service platform provides signature information storage and query service for signed M2M terminal devices and M2M applications; and the M2M service platform executes the transmission of service data between each signed M2M terminal device and the corresponding M2M application, between the M2M applications, and between the M2M terminal devices. The M2M service platform includes: a signature module, configured to provide signature information storage and query service for signed M2M terminal devices and M2M applications; and a service processing module, configured to execute the transmission of service data between each signed M2M terminal device and the corresponding M2M application, between the M2M applications, and between the M2M terminal devices. | 2016-10-06 |
20160295384 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FACILITATING REAL-TIME LOCATION SHARING - Methods and systems for facilitating real-time location sharing are disclosed herein. A computing device with processor(s) and memory displays a chat interface of a social networking platform for a conversation between two or more users including a first user and a second user associated with the computing device. The computing device receives a location-sharing request from the first user to join a real-time location sharing group and, in response, displays a message corresponding to the location sharing request from the first user among a set of messages in a first region of the chat interface and displays a location sharing status banner corresponding to the location-sharing request from the first user in a second region of the chat interface, where the location sharing status banner is displayed with a first display characteristic indicating that the second user has not yet joined the real-time location sharing group. | 2016-10-06 |
20160295385 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR FACILITATING EMERGENCY CALLS OVER WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - One embodiment of the present disclosure relates to a method implemented by a first gateway node for processing an emergency call from an untrusted non-3GPP access network. The method comprises: receiving an emergency call request initiated from a terminal device over an untrusted non-3GPP based access network; detecting an event of the emergency call depending upon the emergency network access identifier included in the request message; selecting for the terminal device an emergency access point name that identifies an external network providing an emergency call service; and establishing for the terminal device an emergency call session with a second gateway node interfacing with the external network which is identified by the selected emergency access point name. According to an aspect of the present disclosure, there are provided corresponding methods and devices. | 2016-10-06 |
20160295386 | TECHNIQUES TO SUPPORT EMERGENCY SERVICES - Methods, systems, and devices are described for wireless communication to enable a UE to establish emergency services (e.g., IMS emergency calls) over WLAN (e.g., Wi-Fi) in 3GPP networks. Such mechanisms may help ensure that an ePDG capable of supporting emergency services is selected. Further, such mechanisms may help ensure that an appropriately located ePDG is selected. For example, the selected ePDG may be located in the visiting public land mobile network (VPLMN) for a roaming UE so that IMS emergency calls are routed appropriately. Selection of the ePDG may be under control of the network with which the UE is establishing connectivity for the emergency call, namely the VPLMN, as opposed to the home PLMN (HPLMN), for example. Such mechanisms may rely on knowledge that the connectivity being established is for emergency services, as well as other information regarding the UE, such as a current location of the UE. | 2016-10-06 |
20160295387 | A SYSTEM AND A METHOD FOR MANAGING A POTENTIAL EMERGENCY SITUATION - Invention regards a method for managing a potential emergency situation, the method comprising: storing ( | 2016-10-06 |
20160295388 | METHOD FOR OPERATING AN EMERGENCY CALL SYSTEM, EMERGENCY CALL SYSTEM - An emergency call system and a method for operating the emergency call system are provided. The emergency call system includes a mobile device and receiving stations. The mobile device has a radio module to transmit an emergency call and each of the receiving stations is configured as a router and has an alarm device and a radio module to receive the emergency call. The emergency call is transmitted from the mobile device to a first receiving station to trigger the alarm signal and a position of the mobile device relative to the receiving stations is determined. Depending on the position, only one of the receiving stations is selected to trigger the alarm signal. | 2016-10-06 |
20160295389 | EMERGENCY ALERT SYSTEM CHANNEL ASSIGNMENT - A device automatically is configured to the emergency alert system (EAS) channel utilized by the location from which the device registers with a network. In an example configuration, an EAS server provides a mobile switching center (MSC) configuration information regarding the emergency alert channels to be used for the cellular sites supported by the MSC. When the mobile device registers via a cellular site supported by the MSC, the designated channel to be used for EAS messages is sent to the mobile device as part of the registration process. The mobile device assigns an internal channel to the designated channel. In another example configuration, the mobile device is preconfigured with a table listing all possible EAS channels, and the MSC provides, during the registration process, a pointer to the appropriate portion of the table. | 2016-10-06 |
20160295390 | CENTRALISED CAPABIITY DISCOVERY - According to aspects of the invention there are provided methods and apparatus for use in a communication network ( | 2016-10-06 |
20160295391 | System and Method for TDD Configuration for D2D Open Discovery - Embodiments are provided to support device-to-device (D2D) communications in a time-division duplexing (TDD) communications system, and ensure that D2D discovery signals are transmitted by user devices on an uplink subframe when there is a TDD frame configuration change. In an embodiment, a user device receives form the network a TDD frame configuration selected from a set of available TDD frame configurations according to the TDD configuration. The device further receives a D2D discovery configuration for a discovery time interval. The user device then allocates a transmission resource a D2D discovery signal within the discovery time interval according to the D2D discovery configuration. The user device is also configured to receive from another device a second D2D discovery signal during the discovery time interval in accordance with the TDD configuration and the D2D discovery configuration. | 2016-10-06 |
20160295392 | MESSAGE ORDERING FOR NETWORK BASED MOBILITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS - The claimed subject matter relates to systems and methods for processing messages in a wireless communications environment. In an aspect, a communications method is provided. The method includes initiating a registration with a network domain node and generating sequence information with respect to the registration. The sequence information is then employed to facilitate further communications with the network domain node. | 2016-10-06 |
20160295393 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ESTABLISHING INTRA-NETWORK CALLS - A method for establishing an intra-network call between a first subscriber, which is served by a first call control node in a visited public land mobile network, V-PLMN, and a second subscriber of a home public land mobile network, H-PLMN, which is different to the V-PLMN. The second subscriber is served by a second call control node of the same V-PLMN. The method include sending, by the first call control node, a call setup message to a gateway node in the V-PLMN which is adapted to perform re-routing of calls to another network. The gateway node requests routing information of the second call control node from a proxy location register, PLR, in the V-PLMN. The gateway node routes the call to the second call control node responsive to if routing information towards the second call control node is available from the PLR. | 2016-10-06 |
20160295394 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR CONNECTING ROAMING MOBILE DEVICES TO A VIRTUAL DEVICE PLATFORM - Systems, methods and computer program products that enable efficient roaming of virtual mobile devices. In one embodiment, multiple PoP locations having a set of common master images are maintained. A communication from a mobile device received at a central facility identifies a user, a location and a type of the mobile device. The central facility determines performance measures for the PoP locations and identifies a preferred PoP location in response to the communication. If the preferred PoP location has available capacity, the central facility directs the preferred PoP location to provision resources and instantiate a virtual device from a selected master image corresponding to the mobile device. If the preferred PoP location persistently stores a user data volume for the user, the virtual device is attached to the stored user data volume. Otherwise, data is transferred from the user's data volume to a cache attached to the virtual device. | 2016-10-06 |
20160295395 | TECHNIQUE FOR TRIGGERING MOBILITY MANAGEMENT SPECIFIC PROCEDURE TO AVOID REGISTRATION STATE MISMATCH BETWEEN USER EQUIPMENT AND NETWORK - A method in a mobile station (MS) and an MS in a wireless communication network are provided. The method includes detecting an intersystem change from an S1 mode to one of an A/Gb mode and an Iu mode, detecting that a routing area update (RAU) has failed detecting that a successful generic location updating procedure has not been performed since the detected intersystem change, and triggering an MM specific procedure based on detecting that the RAU has failed and the successful generic location updating procedure has not been performed. The MM specific procedure corresponds to a location area update (LAU). | 2016-10-06 |
20160295396 | USER ONBOARDING FOR NEWLY ENROLLED DEVICES - Disclosed are various embodiments for onboarding users of devices newly enrolled with a remote service. According to various embodiments described herein, a computing environment operated by an enterprise can be employed to disable a function of a client device owned or operated by a user. The computing environment is employed to determine a role of the user. Content to be presented on the client device can be determined based at least in part on the role of the user. In response to a determination that the content has been presented to, viewed, and/or consumed by the user of the client device, the computing environment may remotely enable the previously disabled function of the client device. | 2016-10-06 |
20160295397 | PRESENCE DETECTION IN BUILDING AUTOMATION SYSTEMS - A method of controlling a building automation system ( | 2016-10-06 |
20160295398 | SYSTEMS, METHODS AND DEVICES FOR DERIVING SUBSCRIBER AND DEVICE IDENTIFIERS IN A COMMUNICATION NETWORK - A network monitoring node receives one or more data messages regarding User Equipment (UE) from one or more network interfaces for a communication session in the communication network continuously in real-time, determines a subscriber identification (ID) associated with the UE from the one or more data messages regarding the UE, and determines an equipment identification (ID) associated with the UE from the one or more data messages regarding the UE. The network monitoring node further receives a base-key associated with the UE from the one or more data messages regarding the UE, derives a decryption key from the base-key, decrypts a temporary ID associated with the UE from the one or more data messages regarding the UE based on the decryption key, maps the temporary ID with the subscriber ID for the UE, and the subscriber ID with the equipment ID for the UE, and assigns data messages for all further communication sessions to the UE based on the mapping. The Subscriber ID and Equipment ID are preferably assigned to all further communication sessions for that UE. It updates the mapping when changes to the temporary ID or equipment ID occur. | 2016-10-06 |
20160295399 | METHODS AND SUBSCRIBER DATA STORAGE NODES FOR HANDLING SIGNALING REQUESTS IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method performed by a subscriber data storage node of a visiting communication network for handling a signalling request in a communication system comprising a home communication network and the visiting communication network. The signalling request originates from a communication device subscribing to the home communication network and having a home subscriber identification, ID, for communication in the home communication network. The communication device is registered to the visiting communication network with a local subscriber ID different from the home subscriber ID, the local subscriber ID being associated with the home subscriber ID. The method comprises receiving the signalling request originating from the communication device, the signalling request being associated with the local subscriber ID and identifying that the local subscriber ID is associated with the home subscriber ID. The method further comprises requesting a subscriber data from a subscriber data storage node of the home communication network, the request comprising the home subscriber ID, and receiving the subscriber data from the subscriber data storage node of the home communication network. | 2016-10-06 |
20160295400 | METHOD FOR CHANGING AID IN WIRELESS LAN SYSTEM - Disclosed is a method for changing an AID in a wireless LAN system. The method for changing an AID of a terminal by an access point comprises: a step of receiving an AID reassignment frame from the access point; a step of extracting an AID reassignment counter value from the AID reassignment frame; and a step of changing the AID of the terminal to the new AID included in the AID reassignment frame after the beacon periods of the access point indicated by the AID reassignment counter value extracted from the AID reassignment frame reception time have elapsed. Thus, a conflict between AIDs can be prevented. | 2016-10-06 |
20160295401 | ANONYMOUS COMMUNICATION OF DEVICES IN WIRELESS NETWORKS - A system and method for managing device communication anonymously in wireless networks. A controller in a device manages communication for the device. The device has a static device tag. The controller establishes a first key for the device. The controller establishes the first key in response to a first triggering event of the device. The first key is based on a first status of the device. The controller generates a first identifier of the device. The controller generates the first identifier by using a hashing technique. The controller uses the hashing technique on a combination of the first key and the static device tag. The first identifier is for identifying the device on a first wireless network. The controller provides a second status of the device. The controller provides the second status to the first wireless network. The controller couples the second status with the first identifier. | 2016-10-06 |
20160295402 | HANDLING INSTANT MESSAGE DELIVERY MEDIA TO END USER - A method for handling a plurality of instant message delivery media to a user of a mobile device is provided. The method may include detecting at least one instant message to be delivered to a recipient-user on the mobile device. The method may also include determining if a plurality of predefined conditions have been configured by the recipient-user. The method may further include displaying the at least one instant message to the recipient-user in accordance with the plurality of predefined conditions configured by the recipient-user. | 2016-10-06 |
20160295403 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING SECURITY DATA AND METHOD FOR RECEIVING SAME - According to one embodiment of the present specification, a method for transmitting security data is disclosed. The method for transmitting security data can comprise the steps of: outputting a first sequence by scrambling a bit stream of dummy data; outputting a second sequence by scrambling the security data to be transmitted by using the bit stream; and transmitting a first code word and a second code word obtained by encoding the first sequence and the second sequence. | 2016-10-06 |
20160295404 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SECURING COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN A CARD READER DEVICE AND A REMOTE SERVER - The present invention concerns the implementation of end-to-end security for the communication between a low cost card reader and the remote server. The purpose of the present invention is the establishment of a secure channel between the card reader and the remote server through an un-trusted communication device (e.g. a smart phone or a tablet) that is intrinsically resistant to some basic differential side-channel analysis in a context where there is no secure random number generator and no source of entropy in the card reader, while providing the following characteristics:—Mutual authentication between the card reader and the server—Secure channel based on session keys such that the keys of the secure channel related to a past transaction cannot be re-played, or the session keys of a future transaction cannot be pre-computed by the card reader and later re-use by the card reader in a legitimate transaction. | 2016-10-06 |
20160295405 | Protecting WLCP Message Exchange Between TWAG and UE - A method of protecting WLAN Control Protocol (WLCP) message exchange between a Trusted WLAN Access Gateway (TWAG) ( | 2016-10-06 |
20160295406 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING SECURITY KEY IN A NEAR FIELD D2D COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). The present disclosure further relates to a method and apparatus for managing a security key in a communication system are provided. The method includes transmitting a first key request message including an identifier (ID) of an originating user equipment (UE) to a server through a mobility management entity (MME), receiving a key response message including security parameters and a secret key of the originating UE from the server, determining a security key based on the security parameters and the secret key of the originating UE by the originating UE, and communicating with a terminating UE based on the security key by the originating UE, while a connection between the originating UE and the terminating UE is maintained. | 2016-10-06 |
20160295407 | METHOD FOR MODIFYING RIGHTS TO SECURITY DOMAIN FOR SMARTCARD, AND SERVER, SMARTCARD, AND TERMINAL FOR SAME - The present invention relates to modifying rights to a security domain for a smartcard, and more specifically, to a server for managing modification of rights to a security domain, a smartcard for modifying the rights to the security domain, a terminal which is loaded with the smartcard, and to a method for modifying the rights. | 2016-10-06 |
20160295408 | CONTROLLING ACCESS TO A LONG TERM EVOLUTION NETWORK VIA A NON-LONG TERM EVOLUTION ACCESS NETWORK - A device may receive, from an access network, a mobile device identifier. The mobile device identifier may identify a mobile device that is connected to the access network. The device may receive or determine subscriber information associated with the mobile device identifier. The subscriber information may identify one or more users associated with the mobile device. The device may provide the mobile device identifier and the subscriber information for determination of an action indicator. The action indicator may indicate an action to perform with respect to the mobile device identifier. The device may receive the action indicator based on providing the mobile device identifier and the subscriber information. The device may provide the action indicator for routing toward the mobile device for performance of the action. | 2016-10-06 |
20160295409 | WIRELESS NETWORK FAST AUTHENTICATION / ASSOCIATION USING RE-ASSOCIATION OBJECT - A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided. The apparatus may be a STA. The STA sends, in a re-association procedure, a re-association object to a first AP to establish a first security association with the first AP. The re-association object is encrypted by using a first key unknown to the STA. The re-association object includes a second key derived from a second security association in a previous association procedure between the STA and a second AP. The STA receives a response from the first AP indicating that the first security association has been successfully established. The STA authenticates the response. | 2016-10-06 |
20160295410 | SECURITY GATEWAY FOR A REGIONAL/HOME NETWORK - Systems, devices and methods to protect a regional network (e.g., home network) by monitoring devices connected to and attempting to connect to the regional network. Monitoring includes assessing and addressing security concerns regarding devices attempting to or available to connect to the regional network as well as monitoring configurations and activity of connected devices. Devices to monitor include: computers, Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs), laptops, tablets, home appliances, smartphones, smart televisions, and any other type of device in the logical proximity of the regional network. | 2016-10-06 |
20160295411 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING RADIO COMMUNICATION WITH AN OBJECT IN A LOCAL ENVIRONMENT - A method and apparatus for providing radio communication with an electronic object in a local environment are disclosed. For example the method receives via a mobile endpoint device of a user at least one first digital certificate associated with the local environment from a trusted source, and a second digital certificate from the electronic device deployed in the local environment via a wireless connection. The method then authenticates the electronic device using the at least one first digital certificate and the second digital certificate. | 2016-10-06 |
20160295412 | WIRELESS NETWORK ACCESS FOR SOCIAL NETWORK CONNECTIONS - For automatically providing wireless network access to a guest, a method includes identifying an authorized guest of a provider of a wireless network, determining a distance between the authorized guest and the wireless network, and providing an access credential to the authorized guest in response to the authorized guest being within a predetermined distance of the wireless network. Identifying an authorized guest of the provider may include accessing a social networking account of the provider and identifying a social network connection of the provider from the social networking account, wherein the authorized guest is a social network connection of the provider. The wireless network may be a secured wireless network, wherein the access credential includes a wireless network identifier and a password for the secured wireless network. | 2016-10-06 |
20160295413 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR JOINING WIRELESS SERVICE GROUPS - The disclosed embodiments provide a system that provides wireless service groups. During operation, a wireless device's advertising mechanism advertises a service group over Wi-Fi, wherein the service group comprises at least the wireless device and wherein the service group's security requirements regulate multicast protection within the service group. In response to receiving a request from a second device to be admitted into the service group, the wireless device's security mechanism admits the second device into the service group and sends the service group's security requirements to the second device, thereby enabling the second device to initialize multicast protection in accordance with the service group's security requirements. | 2016-10-06 |
20160295414 | MOBILE APPLICATIONS USING VEHICLE TELEMATICS DATA - Operating state information is received at an on-board telematics control unit (TCU) from an on-board diagnostic (OBD) system of a vehicle. The TCU transmits an indication of vehicle state over at least a wireless data link component of a communications network for delivery to a mobile computing device. The mobile computing device receives the indication of vehicle state and utilizes the indication of vehicle state at a mobile application program. In one example, the mobile application program presents vehicle state information via a graphical display of the mobile computing device. In another example, the mobile application program augments a functionality of the mobile computing device responsive to the indication of vehicle state. | 2016-10-06 |
20160295415 | MOBILE TERMINAL DEVICE, INFORMATION MANAGEMENT DEVICE, AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - According to the present invention, a mobile terminal device includes: an operation input section which accepts operations; a memory section which previously stores a list of states of the mobile terminal device during use as locking conditions to determine a state at the time of limiting an operation of the mobile terminal device; a state determining section which generates state information in accordance with a state of the mobile terminal device; and a function limiting section which determines whether the state information meets the locking conditions, and switches the mobile terminal device to a locked state to limit an operation of the operation input section, when the state information is determined to meet the locking conditions. | 2016-10-06 |
20160295416 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING A MESSAGE INTEGRITY CHECK - Disclosed is a method for performing a message integrity check. In the method, a processor reads a message from a storage device. The message comprises a plurality of first level sections. The processor determines one or more second level sections from the plurality of first level sections. Each second level section comprises a fixed number of first level sections. A crypto engine calculates a hash value for each second level section to generate a respective calculated hash value, and a hash value for each first level section not included in a second level section to generate a respective calculated hash value. The processor compares each of the respective calculated hash values with a corresponding stored hash value. The processor provides an integrity check indication if each respective calculated hash value is equal to the corresponding stored hash value. | 2016-10-06 |
20160295417 | WIRELESS RELAY DEVICE, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND WIRELESS RELAY METHOD - A wireless relay device for relaying encrypted data via a wireless network according to one aspect of the present invention includes a relay controller and an encryption processor. The relay controller is configured to relay a first data to a predetermined relay destination as a second data via the wireless network. The first data is transmitted to the wireless relay device via the wireless network and is addressed to the wireless relay device. The encryption processor is configured to decrypt the first data into a decrypted first data and to input the decrypted first data into the relay controller, and encrypt the second data to be relayed by the relay controller. | 2016-10-06 |
20160295418 | RESOURCE ALLOCATION AND INTERFERENCE MANAGEMENT FOR DENSE AND SMALL CELL DEPLOYMENTS - Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for grouping cells according to traffic characteristics and allocating resources in time and/or frequency domain to the different groups and within the groups, allowing a partial overlap. | 2016-10-06 |
20160295419 | SPECTRUM SHARING IN DEVICE-TO-DEVICE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - A method for managing spectrum sharing in a wireless communication network includes identifying a set of users in the wireless communication network which shares a spectrum of communication, classifying the set of users into multiple subsets of users, and scheduling, within a given time slot, one subset of users among the multiple subsets of users to transmit and receive data at the same time so that the scheduled subset of users shares the spectrum of communication. The users in a subset are selected by comparing the desired channel strength with the sum of strengths of the strongest interference from that user and the strongest interference to that user, all values in dB scale. | 2016-10-06 |
20160295420 | ENHANCED PREAMBLE WAVEFORM FOR COEXISTENCE - Methods, systems, and devices are described for wireless communication at a device. A Long Term Evolution Unlicensed (LTE-U) device may transmit an enhanced preamble that may be understood by Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) devices, in addition to conveying a characteristic that is detectable by receiving LTE-U devices. The transmitting LTE-U device may generate the enhanced preamble by generating a first training field and a second training field. The characteristic that is detectable by receiving LTE-U devices may be a phase shift between the first and second training fields. Additionally or alternatively, the characteristic may be a sequence or tone mapping of the first or second training field. In some cases, the transmitting LTE-U device may introduce a third training field to the preamble which serves as the characteristic. | 2016-10-06 |
20160295421 | Defining Logical Cells - It is disclosed a method and a network node ( | 2016-10-06 |
20160295422 | Multiple Feedback Instance Inter-Coordination to Determine Optimal Actions - Concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed to multiple feedback instance inter-coordination to determine optimal actions. According to one aspect, a system can receive a plurality of events associated with a group of feedback instances operating in a runtime. The system can examine the plurality of events to determine if a match exists between the plurality of events and an optimization plan. If so, the system can instruct a further system to realize the optimization plan. If not, the system can identify an extensibility of a feedback instance in the group of feedback instances. The extensibility can extend functionality of the feedback instance to provide additional information responsive to an event of the plurality of events. The system can update a feedback instance model associated with the feedback instance for which the extensibility was identified and can instruct the further system to extend the scope of the feedback instance. | 2016-10-06 |
20160295423 | A Network Node, A Wireless Communication Device and Methods Therein for Handling Uplink Transmissions - A method performed by a wireless communication device for handling uplink transmission in a wireless communications network. The wireless communications network comprises one or more serving cells serving the wireless communication device. The wireless communications network further comprises at least a first network node associated with at least one serving cell out of the one or more serving cells. | 2016-10-06 |
20160295424 | METHOD OF EXPANDING TRANSMISSION RANGE AND BASE STATION APPARATUS USING THE SAME - Disclosed herein is a method of expanding, by a small cell BS, a transmission range in a heterogeneous network. The method includes estimating a number of success devices which successfully access a small cell BS through a contention based on an idle Random Access Opportunity (RAO) and comparing the estimated number of expected access device with an actual number of measured success devices and determining a transmission range expansion distance. | 2016-10-06 |
20160295425 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PARTITIONING WIRELESS NETWORK CELLS INTO TIME-BASED CLUSTERS - In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a cluster partitioning module and an optimization module. The cluster partitioning module receives a first performance indicator set for a first instance of a time period set. The cluster partitioning module defines a recurring schedule set, where each time period from the recurring schedule set is associated with a performance indicator from the first performance indicator set and within a predefined range of a performance indicator associated with the remaining time periods from the recurring schedule set. The optimization module receives a second performance indicator set for a second instance of the time period set. The optimization module defines a metric value based on the second performance indicator set, and causes a change in a network implementation based on the metric value at each time period from a third instance of the time period set and from the recurring schedule set. | 2016-10-06 |
20160295426 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COMMUNICATION NETWORKS - Fixed and variable phase transmissions can be used to reduce interference in a wireless communications system. Timing and location information can be provided over existing infrastructure in a building. Managed restoration of networks includes phasing-in network elements over time. Network elements may be aligned to a reference time source. | 2016-10-06 |
20160295427 | SIGNAL QUALITY DEPENDENT THROTTLING OF DEVICES FOR REDUCING ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERFERENCE - This disclosure relates to systems, methods, and apparatus for limiting or throttling an activity of an accessory device communicatively coupled to a computing device. The activity of the accessory device is limited or throttled in order to reduce electromagnetic interference and improve signal quality of a wireless communication in which the computing device is participating. In some embodiments, a decision to throttle can be based on battery charge level of the computing device. For example, in some embodiments, the accessory device is an accessory battery charger configured to provide power to the computing device when a power outlet is not immediately available. If the signal quality of a phone call from the computing device is diminished or the user is in an area of low signal coverage, the accessory battery charger can be limited or throttled in order to prevent interference between the accessory battery charger and computing device. | 2016-10-06 |
20160295428 | CONFIGURING CAPTIVE PORTALS WITH A CLOUD SERVICE - Embodiments provision captive portals on network access points (NAPs). In response to a request from a NAP owner, a cloud service associates a NAP with the NAP owner and provides a control channel for configuring the NAP. The NAP owner inputs configuration settings describing the captive portal. The cloud service processes the configuration settings to generate configuration data. The cloud service transmits the configuration data to the NAP. The NAP applies the configuration data to configure the NAP. Some embodiments configure Wi-Fi hotspots with captive portals for gated access to the Internet. | 2016-10-06 |