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20090098880 | MOBILE TERMINALS AND METHODS FOR REGULATING POWER-ON/OFF OF A GPS POSITIONING CIRCUIT - A method for determining location of a mobile terminal includes repetitively switching power-on and power-off to a GPS receiver circuit which determines location of the mobile terminal using GPS signals. The power-on to power-off duty cycle of the GPS receiver circuit is regulated in response to distance that the mobile terminal has moved from a previously determined location. The power-on to power-off duty cycle can be regulated in response to identifying GPS isolation, in response to an acceleration-determined distance from previous GPS-determine location, an acceleration-determined velocity of the mobile terminal, availability of position assistance information from a cellular system, presence/absence of signals from a WLAN/Bluetooth device, and/or detection of a new cellular base station ID. | 04-16-2009 |
20090193124 | Methods, Portable Electronic Devices, Systems and Computer Program Products for Automatically Creating Social Networking Services (SNS) - Methods, portable electronic devices, systems and computer program products are provided for automatically creating a social networking service (SNS) session. The methods include generating at and transmitting from a first device a first audio and/or video fingerprint of an audio and/or video event. The first audio and/or video fingerprint has a first predetermined length (T). A second audio and/or video fingerprint is periodically transmitted to a server from the first device. The second audio and/or video fingerprint has a second predetermined length (t), smaller than the first predetermined length (T), and includes data associated with the audio and/or video event that is later in time than data included in the first audio and/or video fingerprint. The first device is joined to an SNS session, automatically created by the server, responsive to receipts at the server, of a third audio and/or video fingerprint having the first predetermined length (T) from a second device that includes a portion of the first audio and/or video fingerprint or the second audio and/or video fingerprint periodically transmitted from the first device. | 07-30-2009 |
20100109864 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IN-BUILDING LOCATION DETERMINATION - To enhance in-building location determination of an electronic device, described is a system and a method that uses a blip access point to transfer location assistance information to the electronic device. The location assistance information may contain a map of dummy beacons that serve as reference points (e.g., landmarks) from which the electronic device may determine its location relative to the map information. | 05-06-2010 |
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20090307736 | METHOD AND BROWSER FOR PROVIDING IPTV TO MULTIPLE IMS USERS - A method and terminal for providing Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) and other communication services to a group of users, such as a family, using an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) network. A group private user identity is associated with a group public user identity and with a plurality of individual public user identities, each of which is associated with a different user in the group. Utilizing the group private User ID and the group public User ID, a browser registers a group subscription with the IMS network. When an individual user enters an identifier such as a PIN, the individual is then registered with the IMS network, while maintaining the group registration with the IMS network and the IPTV network. Individual users can be changed without having to restart the browser. | 12-10-2009 |
20100118778 | Improvements in Mobile Technology - Apparatus for enabling interworking of CS (Circuit Switched) video calls with video calls using IP multimedia protocols, comprising: a MGW ( | 05-13-2010 |
20100134590 | CODEC NEGOTIATION - A method of interworking CS (Circuit Switched) video calls with video calls using IP multimedia protocols is provided. According to the method, an interworking function receives signalling comprising an indication of the codec capability of a CS terminal involved in the CS video call, as part of a MONA (Media Oriented Negotiation Acceleration) negotiation. Thereafter IP codec negotiation is initiated. And thereafter the MONA negotiation is continued and/or completed. Thus the codec capabilities and/or preferences of the CS terminal can be taken into account during the IP codec negotiation with the IP endpoint. | 06-03-2010 |
20110035780 | IPTV Session Management - A session management involves registering at least one IPTV application ( | 02-10-2011 |
20110099595 | Method and a User Equipment for Reserving Bandwidth - At a user equipment a conditional bandwidth renegotiation method is provided for managing bandwidth renegotiations when the user equipment is engaged in an IPTV session with an IPTV network and a channel switch has been requested. When it is determined that the requested channel requires less bandwidth than the presently selected channel, a conditional bandwidth re-negotiation process is initiated wherein, upon having switched to the requested channel, a timer is started. If, a timeout of the pending timer is recognised prior to another channel switch request, a band-width re-negotiation procedure is initiated, while no bandwidth re-negotiation is to be executed if another channel switch request is recognised prior to timeout of the pending timer. | 04-28-2011 |
20110138431 | POLICIES FOR CONTENT DOWNLOADING AND CONTENT UPLOADING - Methods and arrangements for setting up a policy for downloading of IPTV media content from a Content Server ( | 06-09-2011 |
20110219416 | Network Time-Shift Methods and Apparatus - Effects of a network delay in handling messages in time-shifting media information streams are eliminated by either the network side's providing a media stream start time to the client side, which uses the media start time to compute a correct time offset for restarting the media stream after a pause, or by the client side's providing the time of a pause request to the network side, which uses the pause request time to compute the correct time offset and provides the offset to the client side. | 09-08-2011 |
20110246567 | METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING IMS FUNCTIONALITY IN A SET TOP BOX - A set top box ( | 10-06-2011 |
20110314112 | Handling of Communication Session Invitations - The invention is directed towards improving the handling of communication session invitations in a communication network. In the network (N) a communication session control device ( | 12-22-2011 |
20120047276 | SESSION PUSH TRANSFER - A first UE (User Equipment) initiates a device discovery procedure by registering ( | 02-23-2012 |
20120084454 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR ADAPTIVE CONTROL OF STREAMING - Apparatuses and methods used in a media streaming system in which at least two representations of a media content item are available are provided. An apparatus ( | 04-05-2012 |
20120143976 | DIFFERENTIATING IPTV NOTIFICATIONS - Methods and arrangements for presenting a received Instant Message comprising an IPTV Notification, e.g. a Program Reminder, and differentiating the IM comprising the IPTV Notification from other Instant Messages received from other users. The differentiation is achieved by the SCF-node ( | 06-07-2012 |
20120226756 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR STANDBY HANDLING IN A STREAMING MEDIA RECEIVER - It is presented a method executed in a streaming media receiver, the streaming media receiver comprising native software and web software for executing a web application. The method comprising the steps of: receiving, in an active web application running in the web software, a message indicating that the streaming media receiver is to be put in a passive standby mode; sending, from the active web application, a message to the native software indicating when the active web application is to be reinstated; setting, from the native software, a timer with the time of when the web application is to be reinstated; setting the streaming media receiver in a passive standby mode; receiving, in the native software, a signal that the timer has expired; setting the streaming media receiver in an active standby mode; and sending, from the native software, a message to the web application that the timer has expired. | 09-06-2012 |
20130305306 | IPTV Session Management - A session management involves registering at least one IPTV application in a registration table so that the registration table includes at least a respective identifier of the IPTV applications. The IPTV applications are invokable at a set top box and can be so-called embedded applications and/or browser-based applications. An event requiring the invocation of an IPTV application at the set top box is detected and triggers a look-up in the registration table. The registration table is thus used as source to indicate those IPTV applications that are potentially available and can be launched at the set top box. One of the registered applications is launched for the purpose of handling the detected event. | 11-14-2013 |
20130332977 | Methods and Apparatuses for Resuming Paused Media - Methods and apparatuses in a user equipment ( | 12-12-2013 |
20140020021 | Hybrid Media Receiver, Middleware Server and Corresponding Methods, Computer Programs and Computer Program Products - It is presented a hybrid media receiver capable of receiving broadcast media content using a first broadcast media network and a second broadcast media network, wherein the first broadcast media network complies with Internet Protocol Television, IPTV. The hybrid media receiver comprises: a content type receiver arranged to receive a first content type identifier and a second content type identifier, corresponding to the first broadcast media network and the second broadcast media network, respectively; and a channel data obtainer arranged to obtain, using the first content type identifier, a first list of scheduled media channels available to the hybrid media receiver over the first broadcast media network; and to obtain, using the second content type identifier, a second list of scheduled media channels available to the hybrid media receiver over the second broadcast media network. A corresponding middleware server, methods, computer programs and computer program products are also presented. | 01-16-2014 |
20140237528 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR USE WITH A DATA STREAM - Telecommunications Network and Method An apparatus ( | 08-21-2014 |
20140304377 | METHOD FOR ADAPTIVE STREAMING, LOCAL STORING AND POST-STORING QUALITY INCREASE OF A CONTENT FILE - A method includes monitoring a bandwidth currently available for streaming of a segment file pertaining to the selected content asset from a server to the client. A selected content asset is registered by receiving a user-originating request identifying the selected content asset. An adequate segment quality level to be requested is selected based on the currently available bandwidth. A segment to be requested is adaptively selected contingent upon the local availability or quality level of file segments. The segment is requested from the content providing server in the specified adaptively selected adequate segment quality level. The requested segment is received in a current segment quality level corresponding to the adaptively selected adequate quality level, stored locally associated with information regarding its quality level. Received file segments pertaining to the content file are rendered in a manner as specified by a received manifest file pertaining to the content file. | 10-09-2014 |
20150026711 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR VIDEO CONTENT DISTRIBUTION - Accordingly, there is provided a client device for receiving video content from a server, the client device comprising a processor. The processor is arranged to determine if a particular clip has been played. If it is determined that the client has played the particular clip, the processor is arranged to increase the quality of a video content that is played. By determining if a particular clip has been played before increasing the quality of video content that is played, a user of the client device is encouraged to watch the particular clip before watching the video content. | 01-22-2015 |
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20100325834 | CYCLONE-LIKE SEPARATOR FOR A VACUUM CLEANER - A cyclone separator for a vacuum cleaner. The separator has a cyclone chamber, an air entrance device having a flow passage arrangement therethrough for introducing an air stream into the cyclone chamber in a manner that causes the air stream to swirl in the cyclone chamber to remove dust from the air stream, and an air outlet for emitting the air stream from the cyclone chamber. The entrance device has a control member that is operable to alter the flow passage arrangement such that one or more properties of the air stream in the cyclone chamber are affected by the alteration. The flow passage arrangement has a first path and a second path, and the control member is operable to alter the flow passage arrangement by redirecting the air stream from the first path to the second path. | 12-30-2010 |
20110010888 | Accessory Unit of a Vacuum Cleaner - An accessory unit of a vacuum cleaner, alone, with a vacuum cleaner conduit, and with a vacuum cleaner. The accessory unit has a housing, a first tool end, and a second tool end for releasable connection to a vacuum cleaner conduit. The first tool end has a first nozzle for vacuum cleaning, and the second tool end has two pivotable arms for forming second and third nozzles. Each arm has distal and proximal ends. The distal ends are arranged to be brought together for forming the second nozzle, and to be spread apart for forming the third nozzle. Furthermore, the arms are folded together to bring the distal arm ends in vicinity of each other for releasable connection of the second tool end to the vacuum cleaner conduit by at least partial insertion into said vacuum cleaner conduit. | 01-20-2011 |
20120090132 | Vacuum Cleaner Nozzle - The present invention provides, in one embodiment, a vacuum cleaner nozzle comprising a nozzle body ( | 04-19-2012 |