Qualcomm Incorporated

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Google Inc.

Edward Knapp

Rajat Prakash

Robert J Anderson

Arvind Srinivasan

Adrian J Isles

Jonathan Philip Levine

Thai Duong

Jyotirmaya Akkad

Samuel Thomas Denton

Junyi Li

Rajiv Laroia

Thomas J Richardson

Vincent Douglas Park

Sathyadev Venkata Uppala

Himanshu Subhash Amin

Vincent Loncke

Victor A Abramsky

MaryBeth Selby

Leslie J Kinney

Stephen J Nesbitt

Krishna G Murti

Implementations disclose an access control mechanism for peer-to-peer sharing technology. A method includes receiving, by a processing device of a first user device, an encrypted media item and a wrapped key from a second user device, wherein the wrapped key comprises content masked from the first user device; transmitting, by the first user device, the wrapped key and a request to a media server to determine whether the first user device is authorized to play the encrypted media item; receiving, from the media server, a response indicating the first user device is authorized to play the encrypted media item, the response comprising a cryptographic key derived from the wrapped key; and decrypting the encrypted media item using the cryptographic key.

Access control technology for peer-to-peer sharing

Disclosed are system and method for managing self-organizing wireless networks by a cloud server. In an aspect, the cloud server is configured to collect from a plurality of radio nodes of the wireless networks statistical and predictive information about accessibility and performance of said nodes; collect from a plurality of mobile devices connected to the wireless networks at least statistical and predictive information about performance, location, mobility and services of said devices; analyze the collected information to assess the performance, loading and distribution of network resource among the radio nodes; determine, based on the analysis, optimization guidelines for performance, loading and distribution of network resources among the radio nodes; and send the optimization guidelines to the radio nodes in order to optimize performance, loading and distribution of network resources at the radio nodes and to make resource optimization decisions specific to the individual mobile devices.

Method and system for cloud-based management of self-organizing wireless networks

Implementations disclose an access control mechanism for peer-to-peer sharing technology. A method includes receiving, by a processing device of a first user device, an encrypted media item and a wrapped encryption key from a second user device via a peer-to-peer connection; transmitting, by the first user device, the wrapped encryption key and a request to a media server to determine whether the first user device is authorized to play the encrypted media item; receiving, from the media server, a response indicating the first user device is authorized to play the encrypted media item, the response comprising an encryption key derived from the wrapped encryption key; and decrypting the encrypted media item using the encryption key to play the media item.

Methods and apparatuses are described for providing a shared eNodeB that is configured to provide shared network access to UEs associated with disparate cellular service providers, or operators, over one or more unlicensed frequency bands in a multi-operator, heterogeneous, and dual-connectivity-compatible system. In an example methodology, a shared eNodeB may establish a secondary communication link with a first user equipment associated with a first operators primary cell, then may establish another secondary communication link with a second UE associated with a second operators primary cell, wherein the shared eNodeB is configured to communicate with both a first core network associated with the first operator and a second core network associated with the second operator, and may communicate wirelessly over one or more unlicensed frequency bands with both the first UE via the first communication link and the second UE via the second communication link.

Methods and apparatuses for shared multioperator LTE service in unlicensed frequency bands

Methods and apparatus for supporting peer to peer and infrastructure, e.g., cellular, communication in a multimode device which can operate in a cellular system are described. Methods and apparatus for supporting peer to peer devices are also described. Peer to peer communication occurs within a switching time period during which infrastructure signaling does not occur and devices switch between an uplink and a downlink mode of infrastructure operation. The time period set for the switching time period is intentionally set larger, e.g., 10, 50, 100 or even more times larger than that required based on maximum cell size. Thus, a peer to peer communications period can be introduced into a TDD system and use the same frequency band as the TDD system in a manner that can remain compliant with a cellular communications protocol which allows for a switching time period, e.g., set in the system by a parameter.

Methods and apparatus for supporting peer to peer communications

Mobile nodes support simultaneous OFDM links with multiple points of network attachment. A MN may simultaneously use multiple IP addresses, allowing packets addressed to the mobile to be routed over different paths. Alternatively, the MN may have a single IP address with packets corresponding to different applications, e.g., identified by packet header information, being routed over different paths. Thus packets corresponding to one application, e.g., a voice application, may be routed over one wireless link while packets corresponding to another application, e.g., a data application such as E-mail, may be routed over another wireless link, while packets corresponding to still another application, e.g., a broadcast TV service may be communicated over another wireless link. The direction of communication, latency, reliability and other QoS characteristics of the different wireless links may be considered in path selection to provide MN's user with cost effective service while still meeting minimum application requirements.

Methods and apparatus for using multiple wireless links with a wireless terminal

Methods and apparatus for storing user generated information, e.g., reviews, comments, suggestions relevant to a particular geographic region, using local access nodes and/or facilitating discovery of the availability of the locally stored and locally relevant content through the use of peer-to-peer signals are described. In various embodiments, the locally stored and available content can be discovered when passing within range a local access point, storing the locally relevant user provided content. User generated information, in some embodiments, can be stored subject to user specified sharing restrictions. In various embodiments, users can limit the information they are provided by controlling profile setting and/or a setting used to control what information is provided as they move through a region. In some embodiments, user provided information distribution and/or access can be, and sometimes is, restricted based on group membership, user identity and/or interests.

Methods and apparatus for leaving and/or discovering locally relevant pieces of information

This invention combines specific new and novel equipment with the equipment of a conventional combustion system for the use of liquid fuel oil to create a new system which converts the liquid fuel into gas and operates as a gas burner rather than as a liquid oil burner. The new and novel equipment thermally cracks liquid hydrocarbons into gaseous hydrocarbons which have substantially lower molecular weights than the liquids from which they were cracked. In the system the burner apparatus itself is modified to burn gas rather than liquid. In this new system the fuel burned does not consist of vapors of the liquids supplied to it but instead operates on the products of decomposition derived from the liquids.

Oil burner

A complete system for a pollution free engine, in which liquid fuels are metered into a device attached to the engine, in which device the liquids are changed into gaseous fuels (not vapors), and the gases so produced are mixed with air so that they can be combusted perfectly in the engine without the production of any polluting emissions. The system includes the three elements required: a device to change liquid fuels into gaseous fuels, a valving system to meter the supply of liquid fuels, and a carburetor to effectively mix gaseous fuels with air.

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Edward Knapp