32results about "Telephonic communication" patented technology

Aspects of the disclosure provide a computer-implemented method and system for the assignment of roadside assistance service providers such as tow trucks to distressed vehicles/drivers requiring roadside assistance. The methods and systems may include a roadside assistance service provider system with a collection module, an assignment module, and a feedback module. The collection module collects roadside assistance service provider information and historical statistics from real-world information and stores the information in a database that may then be analyzed using particular rules and formulas. The assignment module assigns particular roadside assistance service providers to particular distressed vehicles/drivers based on one or more characteristics. The feedback module may provide near real-time cues to the tow truck driver's mobile device, such as alerting when the amount of time spent on a task exceeds a predefined threshold, flagging high priority tasks/assignments, providing a step-by-step checklist for the repair.

A system and method for procuring non-production commodities for use by employees of a commercial enterprise includes associating the employee with a user profile comprising information relating a status of the employee within the enterprise, automatically generating a requisition for the employee indicating a desired commodity and quantity thereof, and, utilizing the user profile information and the desired commodity to enable employee searching of specific catalogs provided in a database storage device for indication of the desired commodity in a requisition. The system and method further provides for the automatic generation of a purchase order based on the requisition, the forwarding of the purchase order to the vendor for processing the order without a third party intervenor, and provides a mechanism for receiving vendor purchase order acknowledgments and approving vendor initiated changes to the purchase order without third party intervention.

A mobile communications system including a mobile terminal 1 and a base station 2 which relays communications between a network and the mobile terminal 1, in which the base station 2 can deliver information to the mobile terminal 1 by using an MBMS, in which the base station 2 sets a flag indicating presence or absence of emergency information to a control channel used for the MBMS, and notifies the presence or absence of the emergency information to the mobile terminal 1 by using the description of the flag set to the control channel for the MBMS.

The present application provides a system, method and non-transitory computer readable medium of using automatically generated speech messages to audibly validate text messages that are sent using TTY communications. A short length text message can be delivered using TTY communications which is then immediately followed by short-duration speech read-text message designed to either validate the received TTY text message or identify character errors in the same. The use of the VCO-TTY communications mode allows the called party to request resends of the automatically generated TTY text and the corresponding speech read-text messages.

The present invention discloses a method for an intuitive and easy-to-use multi-site ad hoc conference initiation by involving some or all features of a conference managing system. The main concept is to automatically reserve the resources needed to connect selected participants in a conference once the ad hoc conference is requested by the calling party.

A method for allowing a mobile station (MS) to dynamically adjust its T_ADD_R and T_DROP_R pilot signal strength thresholds (established by pilot E_c/I_o values) used to add or drop pilots from the MS's active set during rescue. Dynamic adjustment of T_ADD_R and T_DROP_R allows the MS to select and add BSs (sectors) with sufficient forward link quality into their active sets and drop BSs (sectors) with poorer forward link quality during a call recovery procedure to recover an active connection before it is dropped. In addition, the effectiveness of recovering an active connection is improved through corresponding actions at the BS. The BS may use the signal strength measurements, active set information, and other pilot information to update its own active set for use in generating a forward rescue channel.

The invention discloses the transmitting and receiving method for mobile digital multimedia broadcast physical layer signaling message. Wherein, the transmission method comprises: mapping the signaling message on the idle data sub-carrier or both the continual pilot frequency and idle data sub-carrier, and modulating former sub-carrier or both continual pilot frequency and sub-carrier in OFDM signal for transmitting. The receiving method comprises: receiving OFDM signal to demodulate the idle data sub-carrier or both the idle data sub-carrier and continual pilot frequency; hereby, obtaining the signaling message. This invention improves transmission efficiency, saves system resource, and reduces decoding complexity.

A method is provided for using telemetry data based on user habit information or user monitoring. One or more sensors of a monitoring device detects or measures user information selected from of at least one of, a user's activities, behaviors and habit information, and a user's health. The user information is received at a telemetry system with a database. One or more analysis tools at the telemetry system are used for the analysis. Analysis information is produced that is sent to the monitoring device.

The invention relates to the technical field of communication, in particular to a number portability-based on-line accounting method, a number portability-based on-line accounting device and a number portability-based on-line accounting system. Embodiments of the invention provide the number portability-based on-line accounting method. When a calling party UE (user equipment) in an IMS (information management system) network starts a calling to a called UE, an AS in the IMS network inquires the number portability information which corresponds to the number of the called UE in a NPDB (number portability database) server after receiving an invite message transmitted by a CSCF (call state control function) entity in the IMS network, and transmits the number of the calling UE and the inquired number portability information to an OCS (office communications server) in the IMS network by an initial CCR (channel command register) message, so that the OCS can account and authenticate the calling UE according to the number portability information and the number of the calling UE. According to the method provided by the embodiments of the invention, when the called US changes a contract signing network and subscribes for a NP (network processor) business, the OCS can correctly carry out the accounting and the authenticating on the called UE.

Methods are disclosed for determining end user costs incurred for recently completed calls or services and providing timely notice of such costs to the subscriber. Embodiments of the invention provide for cost notification associated with a last completed call/service and cost notification associated with one or more recent calls responsive to a customer query.

The invention discloses a dealing method of a billing ticket. The dealing method of the billing ticket comprises the flowing steps: obtaining a price policy item list corresponding to the billing ticket according to the billing ticket and price privilege attributes; sequentially conducting each price policy item according to priority sequence, respectively conducting ticket fragments according to the price privilege attributes of each price policy item, and conducting tentative cost calculation of each ticket fragment according to pricing rule of the ticket; obtaining an optimal price aiming at tentative calculation cost or normal calculation tentative calculation cost of different price policy items of the same ticket fragment and according to the pricing rule, and forming an eventual ticket price based on the optimal price. With adoption of the technical scheme, the dealing method and a device of the billing ticket overcomes the defects that in the prior art, minimum cost billing units are excessive separated by cost objects, amount of calculation is heavy, and efficiency is low, the dealing method and a device of the billing ticket reduces calculation tasks, and improves working efficiency. Besides, the invention further discloses the dealing device of the billing ticket.

A method of calculating a bandwidth for a mobile terminal including requesting, by the mobile terminal, a description of a streaming content from a network and receiving a response from the network, requesting, by the mobile terminal, a Quality of Service (QoS) value corresponding to a required amount of bandwidth resources of the network for receiving a streaming service of the contents from information about the content included in the received response, and receiving, by the mobile terminal, allocated bandwidth resources of the network according to the QoS value.

This present invention relates to a system, method, and apparatus for an authorized approver (AA) to receive and transmit information to contacts of an end user or others. The authorized approvers may receive, for example, voice, data or video or a combination thereof from the end user. Said authorized approver may view the received information on a back-end server or on a telecommunications device including but not limited to a mobile device or mobile internet device. The authorized approvers may retransmit the end user data to one or more contacts of the end user. Before such retransmission, the authorized approver, may amend, summarize, modify, tag, or otherwise edit the end user information before sending it on to the end user contacts.

A method for measuring and displaying a factor includes: sensing a factor by using a sensing unit, which is movable in a plane, a curved surface, or a space where the factor for sensing is generated or contained and senses the factor; photographing the plane, the curved surface, or the space; simultaneously recognizing a position of the sensing unit by targeting the sound sensing unit when sensing the factor in the step of sensing; generating a factor map data by mapping the factor sensed in the step of sensing onto the position sensed in the step of recognizing; overlaying the factor map data with the picture data; and displaying the factor map data overlaid with the picture data.

A method and apparatus for simultaneous voice and data (SVD) service in mobile communication system are disclosed. SVD service can be provided by designating a new voice RLP frame type and adding the new voice RLP frame type in the RLP frame transmittal standard for packet data in CDMA mobile communication system. Further, by designating the new SVD service option or additional signaling message exchange, the signaling procedures or multiplexing and de-multiplexing procedures used for SVD service can be simplified. Thus, mobile terminals and base stations, which could not provide SVD service, can be enabled to provide SVD service by performing SVD call processing between mobile terminals and base stations with only one service option.

A positional information storage system stores and verifies positional information of a mobile terminal apparatus. The positional information storage system stores (i) the positional information, (ii) time information, and (iii) signature data that is generated by placing a digital signature on a combination of the time information and the positional information of the mobile terminal apparatus only if a user of the mobile terminal apparatus is successfully authenticated. The positional information storage system also verifies whether the signature data is authentic. With this construction, it is possible to authenticate a person carrying the mobile terminal apparatus, and to verify whether data to be stored in the memory has been tampered with.

The invention is suitable for the technical field of computers, and provides a method and device for monitoring the traffic consumption in advance, a mobile terminal, and a storage medium. The methodcomprises the steps: obtaining a file downloading operation triggered by a user when the mobile data traffic is started, and extracting the downloading address in the file downloading operation; obtaining the file information according to the downloading address, and pre-estimating the required mobile traffic data value according to the file information; obtaining the current remaining mobile traffic data value, and transmitting file downloading prompt information to the user, wherein the file downloading prompt information comprises the current remaining mobile traffic data value and the required mobile traffic data value. According to the invention, the downloading address is extracted when the file downloading operation is triggered by the user, the required mobile traffic data value ispre-estimated and then the current remaining mobile traffic data value is obtained. The file downloading prompt information is transmitted to the user. When the mobile traffic data is started, the method prevents the traffic data used by the user from exceeding the traffic data package under the condition that the user does not know the condition, and avoids the additional cost.

According to a first aspect of the present invention there is provided a method of operating an IP Multimedia Subsystem Application Server to facilitate a communication session between a first user and a second user at a required Quality of Service. The method comprises receiving a notification that a Policy and Charging Rules function associated with the first user has not authorised said required Quality of Service (B4), the notification including an indication of additional Quality of Service required by the first user in order to achieve said required Quality of Service, requesting authorisation, from a Policy and Charging Rules function associated with the second user, for the additional Quality of Service for the first user (B11), receiving a notification that the Policy and Charging Rules function associated with the second user has authorised said additional Quality of Service (B12), and notifying the Policy and Charging Rules function associated with the first user that the additional Quality of Service has been authorised for the first user (B14).

A method and apparatus for tracking user activity on the mobile device, such as voice calls, SMS messages and data downloads. The user activity is tracked against a mobile device plan, which sets limits on the amount of user activity which can take place in a given time period. The amount of activity consumed by the user during the given time period, and how much activity is available for the remainder of the time period is visually indicated on a graphical indicator of the mobile device.

The present invention is related to the information flow control systems for different applications, such as advertising, education, entertainment or transmission of general information for communication purposes, among others. More specifically, it relates to the systems that allow the information flow control and their support systems to project three-dimensional images, floating in space with synchronized audio, and controlling the projected information in situ or remotely by a central control unit. The system, which is the object of the present description, has the technological advantage of allowing the dynamic exchange of information through the projection of static or mobile images that can undergo transformations in their appearance, shape, color, size or any other visual characteristic, that are able to contain audio and be interactive, as well as work in coordination with a second plane visual support (static or dynamic) and incorporate other different functionalities that support the communication strategy. Basically, the structure of the system consists of a remote 3D projection subsystems network, administered, controlled, supervised and operated remotely by a central control unit, through a telecommunications system, or in situ by a group of operators. The remote subsystems can work simultaneously or not, projecting different messages, and be placed in any location.

A communications network, method and computer program product for managing network calls. Calls between mobile stations at base transceiver stations (BTS), each connected to a different base station controller (BSC) in a different switching sub-domain are passed between BSCs over a dedicated line between endpoints. Call linkage for the calls pass in call context objects separate from the calls and need not pass in a signaling channel with the calls.

The invention discloses a disposable anti-counterfeiting communication terminal; the disposable anti-counterfeiting communication terminal comprises digital equipment which is provided with a lock, can read and display the number of a mobile phone card and can be communicated with a telephone; the digital equipment is arranged at an opening of a product packaging; the specialized mobile phone card is inserted into the digital equipment and is bound with the unique number; the number automatically becomes invalid once being dialed; when the product packaging is needed to be opened, after the mobile phone card is inserted into the digital equipment, the number of the mobile phone card is displayed on the digital equipment immediately; a mobile phone or the telephone is used for dialing the displayed number of the mobile phone card, and after connection, the lock of the digital equipment is automatically opened, thereby the product packaging is opened, and the mobile phone card becomes invalid immediately; and the anti-counterfeiting communication terminal has the advantages of being capable of leading merchants to establish back-stage management systems with no need for spending lots of labor power and material resources, reducing the operational cost of the merchants, being more convenient and faster for consumers to use, greatly reducing counterfeit behaviors of lawbreakers and effectively ensuring lawful rights and interests of the merchants and the consumers.

The invention relates to an interconnecting node for use in interconnecting a passive optical network (PON) and a copper wire xDSL access network, wherein said interconnecting node comprises an optical network unit (ONU) arranged to be connected to an optical line termination (OLT) over the PON network; and at least one xDSL access device connectable to at least one user end xDSL equipment over the copper wire xDSL access network. The interconnecting node is characterized in that it further comprises a clocking interconnect between the ONU unit and the at least one xDSL access device arranged to distribute a clock signal obtained from optical network transmissions received in the ONU unit over the PON network to an timing reference input of the at least one xDSL access device. The invention also relates to a further interconnecting node, methods for use in interconnecting nodes, a central office optical network apparatus and an access network.

The proposal concerns a method for providing Internet access to a customer of a service provider (BC, RC). Ones the customer uses this service he may get Internet access free of charge. Actually the service provider (BC, RC) takes over the costs for the customer's Internet use during that time. The method includes the following method steps. When the customer has agreed to the service and the service starts, the customer's user equipment (10) generates a service start notification message to a server of the service provider. This service start notification message triggers the sending out of a query to a data base containing customer data of the service provider (BC, RC), and the checking if the customer has access rights for getting Internet access at the service provider's expenses. If yes, the service provider (BC, RC) generates and sends out a request message to the mobile communication provider (MC) of the customer and requests an intermediate change of the customer's mobile communication contract such that the costs for loading Internet data on the customers user equipment will be temporarily charged to the service provider (BC, RC) instead of charging it to the customer.