Motorola Corporation

Motorola Mobility LLC

Eric J Overtoom

Mark R Braun

Parikshit Dharawat

Mark J Carlson

Manohar A Joglekar

Priya Rajagopal

Ephrem A Chemaly

David Ning Lai Xu

A method, device and system for accessing mobile device user information. A Personal Content Server (PCS) is used to store mobile device user information for one or more mobile device end users. The mobile device user information can be accessed and downloaded, via a communication network, to one or more mobile devices in an appropriate manner, e.g., wirelessly or via a wired connection between the mobile device and the communication network. The mobile device user information allows one or more end users to operate at least one mobile device according to their respective user preferences. The method can include authenticating an end user before allowing user information to be downloaded to the end user's mobile device, and updating user information between the mobile device and the PCS. Mobile device user information can include user identity information, personal preferences, subscription information and application profile information.

Method, device and system for accessing mobile device user information

Whether an access network supports multicast-based IPTV services from an IPTV service provider is determined. A tone signal encoded with information for the IPTV service provider is used by a terminal to determine whether an access network supports multicast-based IPTV services. The tone signal is also used to determine whether collisions with other IPTV service providers on the access network is probable. Alternatively, a registration request including information for the access network is sent from the terminal to the IPTV service provider. The IPTV service provider uses information in the registration request to determine whether the access network supports multicast-based IPTV services.

Discovering multicast routing capability of an access network

An apparatus, architecture and method for enabling the debugging of USB OTG devices under development is provided herein. An intelligent router () provides the capability to connect to a USB Dual Role Device (DRD) () under development, and obtain debugging information related to the USB interfaces, while also presenting a complete USB OTG compatible interface to another attached USB apparatus (). The intelligent adapter () filters data transmitted by DRD (), and passes data to attached PC () in a debugging setup.

USB OTG intelligent hub/router for debugging USB OTG devices

A Universal Serial Bus hub apparatus and method is disclosed that is compatible with the On-the-Go (OTG) supplement to the USB 2.0 specification so as to enable dual-role devices (OTG devices) to be connected via a hub. The hub includes a number of ports that are configured to connect the hub to one or more external devices, which may include OTG devices. A controller within the hub controls operations therein. The hub also includes a port switching device controlled by the controller for selectively allowing one of the number of ports to act as a host port and the other remaining ports to act as device ports.

Dual-role compatible USB hub device and method

A multiplexed synchronous/asynchronous data bus uses three communications lines (T, C, R) to convey bi-directional synchronous data between two data devices at a relatively low data transfer rate. The data bus is configured as a full-duplex asynchronous data bus by communicating a false address between the two data devices on two communications lines (T, C) using the synchronous data bus, holding the two communications lines (T, C) in a logic high state for a period of time, and continuing to hold one of the two communications lines (C) in the logic high state during full-duplex asynchronous communication. Full-duplex asynchronous data can then communicated between the two data devices at a higher data transfer rate on two of the three communications lines (T, R).

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Grayslake, IL, United States of America

Eric J Overtoom