Patent application number | Description | Published |
20130136089 | Providing Notifications of Call-Related Services - A first near-end terminal is able to conduct voice or video calls with at least one far-end terminal via a packet-based communication system, the first near-end terminal being a mobile user terminal of a near-end user. The first near-end terminal is enabled to discover proximity of at least one second near-end terminal available to provide a resource for use by the near-end user in conjunction with the first near-end terminal when conducting one of said calls, the resource being for use in conducting at least part of the call or in conjunction with the call. The first near-end terminal is also arranged, based on discovering said proximity, to present the near-end user with a message indicating the availability of the second near-end terminal to provide the resource when conducting the call. | 05-30-2013 |
20140003261 | Determining Network Availability Based on Geographical Location | 01-02-2014 |
20140003404 | Determining Suitability of an Access Network | 01-02-2014 |
20140003405 | Determining Availability of an Access Network | 01-02-2014 |
20140004886 | Determining Suitability of an Access Network | 01-02-2014 |
20140211666 | Providing Notifications of Call-Related Services - The disclosure relates to a first near-end terminal, the first near-end terminal being a mobile user terminal operable to establish voice or video calls with one or more far-end user terminals over a network. A detection module detects when the first near-end terminal is within a relative proximity of a second near-end terminal available to provide a call-related service in relation to one or more of the voice or video calls. A notification module outputs a notification to a user of the first near-end terminal based on said detection, notifying the user of the call-related service. In response to said detection, a configuration module is operable to store a configuration configuring the first near-end terminal as having the second near-end terminal identified for later provision of the call-related service. | 07-31-2014 |
20140213283 | DETERMINING A LOCATION OF A MOBILE USER TERMINAL - Apparatus comprising a decision processing module arranged to determine whether a first mobile user terminal and a second mobile user terminal are within a relative geographic proximity of one another, in dependence on a property of intermediate network equipment of a packet-switched network to which the first and second mobile user terminals are operable to connect. The apparatus also comprises a location processing module arranged to obtain a geographic location of the second mobile user terminal and, on condition that the first and second user terminals are determined to be within the proximity determined by the decision module, to use the geographic location of the second mobile user terminal in estimating a geographic location of the first mobile user terminal. | 07-31-2014 |
20140242997 | WIRELESS NETWORK SELECTION - A mobile terminal comprises transceiver apparatus for communicating with a plurality of wireless networks, each network comprising one or more respective wireless connection points providing a respective coverage area. The mobile terminal also comprises a location module arranged to determine information on geographical location of the mobile terminal, and based thereon to obtain a prediction that the mobile terminal will enter the coverage area of an expected one of said wireless networks. Further, the mobile terminal comprises a protocol module arranged to at least begin a pre-emptive handshake with the expected wireless network while still outside the respective coverage area and so unable to communicate any information via any of the one or more respective wireless connection points. It does this by instead performing some or all of the handshake with the expected network via another of said wireless networks. | 08-28-2014 |
20150206266 | Identity Reputation - A method of indicating a reputation of a first user at a first user device to a second user at a second user device during a communication event between the user devices, comprising: storing one or more characteristics in association with an indication of an identity of at least one known user in a data store; and during the communication event: receiving an indication of an asserted identity and one or more characteristics of the first user; querying the store to determine that the asserted identity corresponds with an identity of one of the at least one known user; retrieving one or more characteristics associated with the asserted identity of the first user from the store; comparing the retrieved characteristics with the received characteristics to estimate the likelihood that the first user is validly correlated with the asserted identity; transmitting an indication of the estimated likelihood to the second user. | 07-23-2015 |
20150334618 | Determining Network Availability Based on Geographical Location - A mobile terminal comprising: a positioning module arranged to determine a geographical location of the mobile terminal; a local transceiver for connecting to local wireless access networks; and processing apparatus for communicating with a first, packet-based network by forming connections with the wireless local area networks using the local transceiver. The processing apparatus is configured to determine measures of connection quality experienced by the mobile terminal on ones of the connections, and to record the determined measures in a database associating measures of connection quality with geographical locations. The processing apparatus is further configured to control activation of the local transceiver to scan for subsequent availability of one or more of the wireless local area networks, in dependence on one or more of the measures of connection quality and associated geographical locations in the database relative to the geographical location of the mobile terminal as determined by the positioning module. | 11-19-2015 |
20160028724 | Identity Reputation - A method of indicating a reputation of a first user associated with a first user device to a second user associated with a second user device, the method comprising: detecting at the first user device initiation by the first user of a communication event to the second user; in response to said detection, capturing one or more characteristics of said first user at the first user device; and transmitting a request to establish a communication event to the second user, the transmitted request including an indication of an asserted identity of the first user and information relating to the captured one or more characteristics of said first user such that the second user can make an assessment as to the likelihood that the first user is validly correlated with the asserted identity. | 01-28-2016 |