Qualcomm Incorporated

Intellisist, Inc.

Wi-gui, LLC

Wingcast, LLC

Marc Stephen Phillips

Stephen Alton Sprigg

Gilad Odinak

Brian E Minear

Mazen Chmaytelli

Laurence Geoffrey Lundblade

Mitchell B Oliver

Nishith Chaubey

Gerald Charles Horel

Karen Crossland

Anand Krishnan

Yan Zhuang

Jason Borthwick Kenagy

Robert David Briggs

Gina M Lombardi

Samir Salib Soliman

Matthew Stuart Grob

Marcello Vincenzo Lioy

Gwain Bayley

Richard J Kerr

James J Willkie

Daniel D Claxton

Panayotis Argyroudis

David B Doan

Mark G Staskauskas

Kent D Baker

Robert J Miller

Raymond Tah-Shen Hsu

Nishith K Chaubey

Mark Staskauskas

The present invention provides safe and secure application distribution and execution by providing systems and methods that test an application to ensure that it satisfies predetermined criteria associated with the environment in which it will execute. Furthermore, by using rules and permission lists, application removal, and a modification detection technique, such as digital signatures, the present invention provides mechanisms to safely distribute and execute tested, or untested, applications by determining whether the application has been modified, determining if it has permission to execute in a given wireless device environment, and removing the application should it be desirable to do so.

Safe application distribution and execution in a wireless environment

A system and method for reducing the amount of repetitive data sent by a server to a client for vehicle navigation. The system includes a computer-based vehicle unit located in a vehicle, a gateway configured to wirelessly send and receive trip information to and from the vehicle unit, and a computer-based server in communication with the gateway over a network. The vehicle unit wirelessly receives signals from a computer-based server that includes the desired navigation information in packet form. The vehicle unit includes a user interface component that presents the received navigation information and records user requests. The server processes the requests, generates a trip plan according to the navigation information and sends the generated trip plan back to the vehicle unit via a gateway when a request has been completed.

System and method for reducing the amount of repetitive data sent by a server to a client for vehicle navigation

A system, method, and computer program for data communication, or 'handshaking,' between wireless devices and a server on a wireless network. Upon a wireless device communicating with the server, the server obtains data from the wireless device indicative of wireless device attributes, and the server determines access of the wireless device, based upon the wireless device attributes, to applications either resident on that server or on other computer devices on the wireless network.

System and method for handshaking between wireless devices and servers

The invention comprises a method and apparatus for enabling a user of a personal wireless communication handset to define a macro for selectively operating a feature of the personal wireless communication handset and store the macro in the device's memory. The user can then playback the macro to effect rapid operation of the feature. The macro can be triggered by pressing a dedicated 'hot key', by pressing an overloaded existing key on the keypad, or by pressing a 'soft key' under a menu-driven user interface.

Method and apparatus for defining and executing features in a personal wireless handset

An apparatus, method, and article of manufacture that provides an efficient way to invoice the users of a communication system () for the system resources consumed. Invoicing is based upon flexible criteria that can be adapted depending upon the charges a resource provider charges. For example, a user may incur a one-time charge for downloading a desired application program, or the user may be charged a download fee plus a recurring monthly fee for having continual access to the program and any updates to the program. A fee might also be charged for each time the application is used. These fees are recorded as debits and transferred to an invoicing location where an invoice reflecting the debits is constructed. For example, the debits may comprise fees for wireless service access, Internet service access, downloaded application programs, data, multimedia services, or other fees.

Apparatus, method, and article of manufacture used to invoice for services consumed in a communications network

A wireless communication device, comprising one or more intra-device modules, an internet protocol (IP) router for providing inter-device connectivity between a host and the intra-device modules, and one or more transport mechanisms, for coupling the IP router to the host. One or more intra-device modules are accessed via a standard internetwork protocol as if the intra-device modules were local servers.

Adaptive transport TCP/IP phone management

A system for efficiently accommodating an authentication protocol in a communications system. The system includes a first mechanism for establishing a first communications interface between a first device and a second device and for establishing a second communications interface between the second device and a third device. A second mechanism selectively relays authentication signals received by the second device between the first device and the third device. A third mechanism employs the third device and the second mechanism to authenticate the first device via the first communications link and the second communications link.

System and method for facilitating device authentication in a wireless communications system

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San Diego, CA, United States of America

Marc Stephen Phillips