Motorola Corporation

Motorola Mobility LLC

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Google Inc.

Motorola Solutions, Inc.

Google Technology Holdings LLC

Michael D Kotzin

Stephen Lee Spear

Anthony P Van Den Heuvel

Eugene J Bruckert

William Paul Alberth, Jr

Jeffrey D Bonta

Kenneth J Crisler

Valy Lev

Reuven Meidan

Joseph J Schuler

Brian Keith Classon

Thomas Casey Hill

Mark L Shaughnessy

Charles Philipp Binzel

Walter J Rozanski, Jr

Barry J Menich

Dennis R Schaeffer

Daehyoung Hong

Lawrence M Mohl

Kenneth Anderson Stewart

Gary W Grube

Surender Kumar

Mark Pecen

Hao Bi

Avinash Joshi

Arnold Sheynman

Randy L Ekl

Sivakumar Muthuswamy

Thomas V D'Amico

Whay Chiou Lee

Duane C Rabe

Greg R Black

Terry Michael Schaffner

Philip J Fleming

Stuart W Thro

Howard J Thomas

Brian J Budnik

Matthew H Klapman

Peggy K Matson

Vijay Nangia

Ravi Kuchibhotla

Philippe J Sartori

Kevin Lynn Baum

Frederick W Vook

Bradley Michael Hiben

Eric LeRoy Krenz

Daniel Richard Tayloe

Christopher N Kurby

Peter Stanforth

Richard A Comroe

David Ryan Haub

Thomas J Walczak

Alan L Wilson

Eric R Schorman

Niels Peter Skov Andersen

Gerald P Labedz

Mark A Birchler

Kamyar Rohani

Henry L Kazecki

Kenneth J Zdunek

Kamala D Urs

Israel A Cimet

Eric F Ziolko

Yilin Zhao

Paul D Steinberg

Scott T Droste

Mark Edward Pecen

James H Stilwell

Arman V Dolikian

Dennis J Thompson

Mathieu Villion

John S Csapo

John Stephen Ruppel

Maya Benson

Pradeep Garani

Ray Owen

Mark R Poulin

Nelson C Hung

Theodore Saltzberg

Aleksandr L Stolyar

Daniel T Buhmann

Sylvia Yu Chen

Chris Schmidt

Niels P Skov Andersen

Barry M Rader

Rob Bero

Lester F Eastwood, Jr

Armin V Dolikian

Ellis W Glick

Mark E Pecen

Dennis Ray Schaeffer

Walter J Rozanski

James Howard Stilwell

Kamala Urs

Walter J Razanski

A Master device (e.g., a SIM card) is configured with information regarding one or more Slave devices (e.g., SIM cards) that are associated with the Master device. The Master device is installed in a user device that receives content files and access and usage rights from a content provider. The Master device identifies one or more Slave devices that are associated with the Master device and transmits content files and the rights data to the Slave devices. A user device in which a Slave device is installed receives the content files and rights data sent by the Master device. The Slave device extracts a key from the rights data and provides the key to a decryption component of the user device, which uses the key to decrypt the content file.

Method and apparatus for enabling content to be shared among multiple devices in a secure environment

A method includes generating a content editing command file devoid of content by editing content. The content editing command file may be used to edit other copies of the same content that was edited to generate the content editing command file. Multiple content editing command files having some variability may be combined to form an aggregated content editing command file.

System for generating and distributing content editing information

A method and apparatus determines whether a wireless apparatus () that is operative to communicate over both a wireless wide area network () and a wireless local area network (), will allow shared use of its short range wireless resources, such as LAN radio frequency bandwidth, optical bandwidth or other local area wireless resources, with other proximal wireless units (-) in the wireless local area network (). In addition, the method and apparatus generated reward data () to provide a reward, such as free telephone calls, account credits, price reductions, or other rewards, so that a billing system is updated when a wireless apparatus (-) has been designated as allowing shared use of its wireless resources by other proximal wireless units.

Method and apparatus for enabling and rewarding wireless resource sharing

A presence attribute information server and manager application, and corresponding method is provided for managing access to presence attribute information. In addition to the presence attribute information entries, access authorization entries associated with at least some of the presence attribute information entries are provided which define conditions in which access to the presence attribute information is authorized. Generally, the defined conditions can include temporal and/or spatial requirements associated with either the user requesting the presence attribute information or the person/item associated with the presence attribute information, for purposes of establishing authorization to access the presence attribute information.

Method and system for managing access to presence attribute information

A wireless device such as a cellular phone is disclosed. The cellular phone is adapted to store a voice message picked-up by a microphone and store voice data representing the voice message in a memory. The cellular phone is further adapted to initiate a call such as an emergency 911 call in response to a turbo-dial or speed-dial key stroke initiated by the user. The cellular phone transmits the stored voice message, along with position data obtained by an onboard geolocation receiver, when the call is established.

Method and apparatus for storing a message for playback during a user-initiated emergency telephone call from a wireless device

A wireless mobile device () provides challenge/response based authentication by receiving a first portion of a challenge () from an external authentication unit (), such as a network unit, and utilizes an internal partial challenge generator () that internally provides a second portion of the challenge () and provides the internally generated second portion of the challenge () back to the authentication unit (). The wireless mobile device () also includes combiner logic () that combines the externally received first portion of the challenge () with the internally produced second portion of the challenge () to produce a complete challenge (). The wireless mobile device () then utilizes a response generators () that takes the complete challenge () that was produced and generates a response () based on the complete challenge (), and other secret information () if desired using a suitable cryptographic operation. The response () is sent back to the authentication unit () for verification.

Method and apparatus for a wireless mobile device with SIM challenge modification capability

A method of operation of a cognitive radio in a hierarchical group of cognitive radios, the hierarchy of cognitive radios including at least one master cognitive radio that has a higher position in the hierarchy than another of the cognitive radios in the group, consistent with the present invention, involves establishing a first operational policy for the group of cognitive radios; determining that the operational policy is unsuitable for use by at least one member of the group; and the master cognitive radio dictating a change in the operational policy used by the group to a second operational policy for use by the group.

Method and apparatus for cognitive radio policy change

A method and system of providing navigation information is provided. The method comprises obtaining () a communication requirement of a user and determining () at least one navigation route for the user based on the communication requirement dependent upon network considerations along the route. The method further comprises providing () the at least one navigation route to the user based on the communication requirement.

Method and system of providing navigation information

A system () and method () for mesh/ad hoc participation is provided. The method can include providing () an incentive to a user operating a device in an ad hoc network and determining () network resources associated with providing the incentive. The method can establish a credit system for devices within the ad hoc network, evaluate a supply and demand for the network resources, and allocate credits to the devices for forwarding packets in the ad hoc network. The method can determine a delivery capacity for the devices and negotiate an optimal packet route through the devices in the ad hoc network based on the supply and demand.

Method and system for incentive-based ad hoc networking

A wide area network assisted multimedia content delivery system () includes a first wide area network handset () and a second wide area network handset () having one or more transceivers () for exchanging information over the wide band network as well as multimedia information via an ad hoc communication. A wide area base unit () is used for communicating with the first wide area network handset () and second wide area network handset () where a content distribution broker () associated with the wide area base unit () is used for brokering multimedia content (audio, video and text data) between the first wide area network handset () and the second wide area network handset (). The transceiver () operates to exchange multimedia content in an ad hoc communication directly between the first wide area network handset () and second wide area network handset () when within a predetermined proximity.

Wide area network handset assisted content delivery system and method of using same

Techniques are provided for allowing a node () in an ad hoc network to deterministically decide whether to relay broadcast information to another node in the ad hoc network. The node () receives broadcast information and measures received signal strength (RSS) of the broadcast information. The node () may determine if the measured RSS is below a low threshold, and if so, can relay the broadcast information to neighbor nodes. Otherwise, the node () can also determine if the measured RSS is above a high threshold, and if not, wait for a waiting period before relaying the broadcast information to the neighbor nodes. The node () may dynamically adjust the low threshold by decreasing the low threshold as the number of neighbor nodes increases and may dynamically adjust the high threshold by increasing the high threshold as the number of neighbor nodes decreases.

Method and apparatus for broadcast in an ad hoc network with dynamic selection of relay nodes

A communication system and a method of communicating data. A first backhaul site can be dynamically selected from a plurality of backhaul sites that are each configured to wirelessly communicate with an access point. A controller can dynamically configure a transmission parameter used to communicate a first backhaul data stream between the access point and the first backhaul site. The first backhaul data stream can be derived from a source data stream and can be wirelessly communicated between the access point and the first backhaul site. A second backhaul site also can be selected. A second backhaul data stream also can be derived from the source data stream and wirelessly communicated between the access point and the second backhaul site. The first and second backhaul data streams can be combined.

Dynamic wireless backhaul

A radiotelephone method includes detecting other mobile stations and identifying possible relay candidates among the other mobile stations. The method then includes communicating information about the candidates to a base station. Communication with a second mobile station is requested of the base station at a first mobile station. If the first mobile station and the second mobile station are physically close, the base station instructs the first mobile station and the second mobile station to establish direct communication.

Method and apparatus for establishing direct communication for mobiles in a radio communication system

A portable subscriber device that is arranged and constructed to augment and facilitate interfaces to the device includes a wireless local area transceiver; an internal user interface; and a controller coupled to the internal user interface and the wireless local area transceiver. These elements are cooperatively operable for executing the method including: detecting an external device that is capable of providing an interface to the portable subscriber device; determining whether the external device is available as an interface to the portable subscriber device; and when available as an interface, establishing a wireless link between the portable subscriber device and the external device that will support the interface.

Subscriber device and method therein for enhancing interfaces thereto

A wireless mobile terminal () and method for utilizing digital broadcast content records () selected digital broadcast content as received, for example, by a digital broadcast receiver () and provides editing of the selected digital broadcast content based on digital rights management data to generate customized clips of information. The selected digital broadcast content is edited () to produce mobile terminal edited digital broadcast content that may be, for example, distributed () by the mobile terminal to a plurality of peer devices. A broadcast content editor () allows for the editing of clips of content wherein the edited clips are then stored in memory as recorded clips for distribution by the mobile terminal. In another embodiment, a network element is remotely controlled by the mobile terminal to effect editing through the mobile terminal at the network element.

Method and apparatus for recording and editing digital broadcast content

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Michael D Kotzin