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| 20090046598 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ACQUIRING OR DISTRIBUTING INFORMATION RELATED TO ONE OR MORE ALTERNATE AD HOC SERVICE PROVIDERS - An ad hoc service provider includes a processing system configured to receive information regarding a second ad hoc service provider. The information includes service information of the second ad hoc service provider. The processing system is further configured to support transmission of the information to a server. The processing system is also configured to support an access point to a network for a mobile client. A method is also provided for acquiring or distributing information related to one or more alternate ad hoc service providers. | 02-19-2009 |
| 20090046644 | SERVICE SET MANAGER FOR AD HOC MOBILE SERVICE PROVIDER - An ad hoc mobile service provider for a wireless network includes a processing system configured to support a public service set, comprising the ad hoc mobile service provider and one or more mobile clients, and a private service set, comprising the ad hoc mobile service provider and one or more authenticated mobile clients. The processing system is further configured to authenticate a mobile client with a server, the mobile client being associated with the public service set, and transfer an authenticated mobile client from the public service set to the private service set. | 02-19-2009 |
| 20090046658 | HANDOFF AT AN AD-HOC MOBILE SERVICE PROVIDER - An ad-hoc service provider is configured to support pre-authentication with a server for the purpose of receiving a handoff of a mobile client from another ad-hoc service provider. The ad-hoc service provider is further configured to enable the mobile client to maintain a session with the server while receiving the handoff from said another ad-hoc service provider. | 02-19-2009 |
| 20090046861 | SECURITY FOR A HETEROGENEOUS AD HOC MOBILE BROADBAND NETWORK - A server provides security for a heterogeneous ad hoc mobile broadband network. The server is configured to maintain an encrypted control session with an ad-hoc service provider and a mobile client while enabling the mobile client to support an encrypted data tunnel through the ad-hoc service provider. | 02-19-2009 |
| 20090047964 | HANDOFF IN AD-HOC MOBILE BROADBAND NETWORKS - A server is configured to maintain a session with a mobile client through a first mobile service provider. The server is further configured to pre-authenticate a second mobile service provider for handoff. The server is also configured to enable the handoff of the mobile client from the first mobile service provider to the second mobile service provider while maintaining the session with the mobile client. | 02-19-2009 |
| 20090049158 | AD HOC SERVICE PROVIDER TOPOLOGY - A server includes a processing system configured to register a first ad hoc service provider and to register a second ad hoc service provider. The processing system is further configured to receive from the first ad hoc service provider information regarding the second ad hoc service provider. The information includes service information of the second ad hoc service provider. A method is also provided for a server to acquire or distribute information related to one or more alternate ad hoc service providers. | 02-19-2009 |
| 20090073943 | HETEROGENEOUS WIRELESS AD HOC NETWORK - A heterogeneous wireless ad-hoc network includes a server and a number of ad-hoc service providers that provide connectivity to a network for mobile clients. The mobile client is configured to search for ad-hoc service providers with wireless backhauls to the network and associate with one of the ad-hoc service providers detected in the search based on one or more parameters. | 03-19-2009 |
| 20090124241 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR USER PROFILE MATCH INDICATION IN A MOBILE ENVIRONMENT - Methods and systems for determining a suitability for a mobile client to display information are disclosed. For example, a method for determining a suitability for a mobile client to receive a targeted content message includes generating user profile data by the mobile client, receiving a set of target profile data associated with the targeted content message, the set of target profile data being descriptive of the targeted content message, comparing the user profile data with the target set of profile data to produce a set of confidence-level data, a target set of profile data describing the content of a respective targeted-content message, and storing the targeted content message in the mobile client based upon the set of confidence-level data. | 05-14-2009 |
| 20090125321 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETERMINING A GEOGRAPHIC USER PROFILE TO DETERMINE SUITABILITY OF TARGETED CONTENT MESSAGES BASED ON THE PROFILE - Methods and systems for determining the suitability of information to be received by a mobile client are disclosed. For example, an exemplary method may includes identifying a set of location history information by the mobile client, updating a user profile by the mobile client based on the location history information, and displaying/storing target information on the mobile client based on the updated user profile. | 05-14-2009 |
| 20090125462 | Method and system using keyword vectors and associated metrics for learning and prediction of user correlation of targeted content messages in a mobile environment - Methods and systems for determining a suitability for a mobile client to display information are disclosed. A particular exemplary method includes receiving a plurality of sets of one or more first keywords on a mobile client, each set of first keywords associated with one or more respective first messages, monitoring user interaction of the respective first messages on the mobile client, performing learning operations on the mobile client with the first keywords based on monitored user interaction to estimate a set of keyword interest weights, receiving a set of target keywords associated with a target message, and displaying the target message on the mobile client based on the estimated keyword interest weights. | 05-14-2009 |
| 20090125517 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR KEYWORD CORRELATION IN A MOBILE ENVIRONMENT - Methods and systems for determining a suitability for a mobile client to display information are disclosed. A particular exemplary method includes receiving a plurality of sets of one or more first keywords on a mobile client, each set of first keywords associated with one or more respective first messages, monitoring user interaction of the respective first messages on the mobile client, determining a user selection rate for each unique first keyword of the plurality of sets of first keywords, receiving a set of target keywords associated with a target message, performing one or more matching operations between the set of target keywords and corresponding user selection rates to produce a set of one or more matching parameters, and displaying the target message on the mobile client dependent upon the matching parameters. | 05-14-2009 |
| 20090125585 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR USING A CACHE MISS STATE MATCH INDICATOR TO DETERMINE USER SUITABILITY OF TARGETED CONTENT MESSAGES IN A MOBILE ENVIRONMENT - Methods and systems for determining a suitability for a mobile client to display information are disclosed. A particular exemplary method includes maintaining on the mobile client a list of first attributes relating to message cache misses of a cache memory located on the mobile client, receiving on the mobile client a set of target attributes associated with a target message, performing on the mobile client one or more matching operations between the first attributes and the target attributes to produce a matching result, and storing the target message in a cache in the mobile client dependant upon the matching result. | 05-14-2009 |
| 20090216847 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MESSAGE VALUE CALCULATION IN A MOBILE ENVIRONMENT - Methods and systems for determining a suitability for a mobile client to display information are disclosed. A particular exemplary method includes generating a first value for a first targeted content message based on at least a first weighted sum of first user profile attributes, a user profile attribute being a numeric quantity relating to at least one of a preference and a demographic of a user of the mobile client, comparing the first value with a stored list of second values related to respective stored messages in a cache memory of the mobile client to produce a comparison result; and updating the cache memory based on the comparison result by storing the first targeted content message in the cache memory if the comparison result indicates a higher desirability of the first targeted content message over at least one stored message. | 08-27-2009 |
| 20090268807 | MULTIMEDIA BROADCAST FORWARDING SYSTEMS AND METHODS - In various embodiments, communication apparatus and methods for providing robust communications are disclosed. For example, an exemplary communication apparatus for distributing media to one or more receiving apparatus may include receiving circuitry configured to receive a first wireless multimedia broadcast signal containing at least a first media stream, transmitting circuitry configured to wirelessly transmit one or more individual media streams simultaneously to the one or more receiving apparatus using one or more wireless transmit signals, and decision circuitry configured to control the transmitting circuitry to transmit the first media stream to at least one receiving apparatus using at least one wireless transmit signal type based on a forward-link data capacity of each wireless channel between the transmitting circuitry and each receiving apparatus. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20100017861 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MOBILE VIRTUAL NETWORK OPERATOR (MVNO) HOSTING AND PRICING - A method and apparatus facilitating access to a communication session for a client is provided. The method may comprise receiving, at a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO), an access request from a client, wherein the MVNO is associated with a set of mobile network operators (MNOs), receiving, from the client, client connection parameters associated with at least one of the set of MNOs, formulating at least one option for a communication session over a network associated with at least one of the set of MNOs, the at least one option based on the client connection parameters and MVNO-connection parameters associated with the set of MNOs, and establishing a selected communication session based on the at least one option. | 01-21-2010 |
| 20100074119 | OPPORTUNISTIC DATA FORWARDING AND DYNAMIC RECONFIGURATION IN WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS - Mobile communication devices and wireless network device each can participate in, or solely provide, opportunistic data forwarding in a wireless network such as a wireless local area network or radio access network. A supporting node receives wireless communication between a transmitting node and a receiving node comprising packet data units (PDUs). The receiving node communicates to the transmitting node that one or more portions of the communication were not received, which is overheard by the supporting node. The supporting node can have sufficient over-the-air (OTA) allocation in its transmit opportunity to relay the failed portions to the receiving node. Thereby, techniques such as more robust error encoding, longer transmit allocations, etc., that would reduce the effective data throughput for OTA resources are avoided while providing an ability to more rapidly adapt to a changing channel state. | 03-25-2010 |
| 20100112955 | WAKE-UP TRIGGER FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF TARGET ACTIONS - Aspects relate to automatic execution of a target action, which can be energy-intensive tasks, processing compute-intensive tasks, interaction with a node, or combinations thereof. A context aware trigger, power aware trigger, a randomly scheduled wakeup trigger, a deterministically scheduled wakeup trigger, and/or a predictively scheduled wakeup trigger can be utilized to determine the availability of contexts associated with the target action. Based on the availability of a context that should be available, one or more target actions are automatically executed and/or selectively suspended. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20100131332 | TELEPHONE NUMBER BASED SYSTEM TO DELIVER COUPONS TO MOBILE DEVICES - Disclosed is a system to implement a method to deliver a coupon to a mobile device. A network entity may receive a telephone number from a mobile device operated by a caller. The network entity may obtaining identifying information about a target service provider as a function of the dialed telephone number. Using the identifying information about the target service provider, the network entity may obtain a coupon. The network entity then may send the coupon to the mobile device. | 05-27-2010 |
| 20100203876 | INFERRING USER PROFILE PROPERTIES BASED UPON MOBILE DEVICE USAGE - Demographic information regarding a user of a mobile device is inferred by observing the user's mobile device usage behavior. Bayesian probability principles are applied to the observed usage behavior in order to infer a most likely demographic category classification. Probabilities of the user being a member of various demographic category classifications may be obtained from population surveys. Conditional probabilities of the user being a member of a behavior category classification given a demographic category classification may also be obtained from population surveys. A most likely user demographic category can be determined by calculating the product of the probability of the user being a member of each of the demographic category classifications and the first conditional probability of the user being a member of the behavior category classification, and identifying the demographic category classification that yields a maximum relative likelihood. The user demographic category may alternatively be determined by a table look up using the determined behavior category classification. | 08-12-2010 |
| 20100211698 | WAKEUP TRIGGER TO SUPPORT MULTIPLE USER INTERFACES, ENVIRONMENTS, AND/OR VIRTUAL MACHINES - Detection of remote computing devices triggers a wakeup signal that subsequently activates a remote computing environment. The remote computing environment can be utilized at substantially the same time as a local computing environment or at a different time. A list of available remote peripheral devices can be gathered automatically and/or based on a user request. One or more of the peripheral devices can be chosen by the user and/or chosen automatically based on various criteria. After selection of one or more devices, a wakeup trigger is sent to activate a remote computing environment that includes the one or more devices. The remote computing environment can be monitored and if the devices are no longer available, deactivation of the remote computing environment is performed automatically. | 08-19-2010 |
| 20100246506 | APPARATUS AND METHODS OF WHITESPACE COMMUNICATION - The described apparatus and methods provide communication services utilizing a combination of non-white space (NWS) and white space (WS) networks. For example, in an aspect, the described apparatus and methods receive, at a first base station (BS) and on a licensed frequency, a communication request for network access from a wireless access terminal (AT). The aspects also determine at least one available unlicensed frequency corresponding to a location of the wireless AT. Further, the aspects partition at least a portion of the network access for the wireless AT to be via the at least one available unlicensed frequency. Additionally, the aspects inform the wireless AT of the at least one available unlicensed frequency for use to obtain at least the portion of the network access. Additional aspects relate to NWS BS assisted handoffs of WS calls, dynamic caching of WS information, peer-to-peer WS communication, and WS BS venue-specific broadcasting. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100322126 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR LOW POWER SENSING OF COMMUNICATION ACCESS TECHNOLOGIES - Apparatus and methods for low power sensing of wireless access technologies are disclosed. In particular, a mobile wireless device, such as an access terminal, may utilize a lower power circuitry portion that operates at a lower power than active circuitry, such as a primary transceiver. The lower power circuitry portion includes a configurable searcher that is capable of sensing if signals of one or more various wireless access technologies are present. When the wireless device utilizes sleep or idle modes for power savings, use of the lower power sensing circuitry to sense the presence of wireless access technologies, rather than using an awoken higher power primary transceiver for sensing, affords increased power savings. An added ability of the lower power circuitry to be put into sleep or idles modes achieves even greater power savings. | 12-23-2010 |
| 20110019627 | Maximizing Service Provider Utility in a Heterogeneous Wireless Ad-Hoc Network - An ad-hoc service provider is configured to support a wireless connection to the network. The ad-hoc service provider is further configured to provide access to the network for one or more mobile clients. The one or more mobile clients are configured to select the ad-hoc service provider based on at least one parameter related to the ad-hoc service provider's ability to support the wireless connection. The ad-hoc service provider is further configured to allocate bandwidth to the one or more mobile clients based on at least one parameter related to the effect on the ad-hoc service provider for providing such bandwidth. | 01-27-2011 |
| 20110040888 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR LINK AGGREGATION IN A HETEROGENEOUS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Wireless communication devices for communicating via link aggregation in a heterogeneous wireless communication system are disclosed. One such wireless communication device includes logic configured to establish a first communication path between the wireless communication device and a network element, logic configured to discover a peer-to-peer communication link between the wireless communication device and a proxy access terminal, the wireless device and proxy access terminal being separate individual devices, logic configured to establish a second communication path between the wireless communication device and the network element using the discovered peer-to-peer communication link with the proxy access terminal, logic configured to receive data from the network element via both the first and second communication paths, and logic configured to aggregate the received data. | 02-17-2011 |
| 20110051642 | Selection and Utilization of Shared Wireless Wide Area Network Modems - A device chooses to use any one of a number of nodes with wireless wide area network (WWAN) modems, depending on whether utilization of one of the nodes will mitigate the power consumption of the device. The choice might also be a function of an energy level of the nodes. The choice can also be based on a link performance indicator. The chosen node is selected as a WWAN modem for communication and utilizes the identity of the device for application data services being supported in this mode. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110080868 | ENERGY EFFICIENT QUALITY OF SERVICE AWARE COMMUNICATION OVER MULTIPLE AIR-LINKS - A method, an apparatus, and a machine-readable medium are provided for wireless communication in which at least two modems are selected from a set of modems for the wireless communication based on quality of service requirements for and an energy consumption of the wireless communication. In addition, the selected at least two modems are utilized concurrently for the wireless communication. | 04-07-2011 |
| 20110085524 | WIRELESS WIDE AREA NETWORK TECHNOLOGY AGGREGATION AND BROADCAST - A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product are provided for wireless communication in which wireless signal information is received through at least one wireless wide-area-network technology. In addition, data related to the wireless signal information is aggregated. Furthermore, the data is provided to a wireless node through a wireless wide-area-network technology different from the at least one wireless wide-area-network technology. | 04-14-2011 |
| 20110164539 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DELAY-CONSTRAINED END-TO-END ENERGY OPTIMIZATION FOR WIRELESS SERVICES - An apparatus including a processing system configured to determine an energy consumption on the mobile device during sleep and active modes of the mobile device; determine an energy consumption on the sensor during sleep and active modes of the sensor; determine energy levels of the mobile device and the sensor, and; set sleep durations of the mobile device based on the sleep duration of the sensor while meeting an end-to-end delay constraint for a service related to the sensor. A method is also disclosed. | 07-07-2011 |
| 20110167478 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING SIMULTANEOUS SUPPORT FOR MULTIPLE MASTER KEYS AT AN ACCESS POINT IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The described apparatus and methods include a wireless local area network (WLAN) access point having a wireless wide area network (WWAN) backhaul connection to provide a gateway between a LAN and a WAN. In one example, the access point may be a cellular telephone. Here, a processor in the access point is configured to generate a plurality of master keys, such that a plurality of access terminals may each utilize a respective one of the master keys to access the LAN. Further, the processor is configured to enable control of an allocation of resources to at least one of the access terminals. | 07-07-2011 |
