Qualcomm Incorporated

Nokia Corporation

Michael P Mahan

Giridhar Dhati Mandyam

Kenneth Scott Swinson

Matthew W Hohlfeld

Wendell Ruotsi

Vikram Mandyam

Mark Aaron Lindner

Bin Wang

Dirk Trossen

Luis Henrique Ceze

Ashutosh Aggarwal

Gheorghe Calin Cascaval

Mark Boyns

Arthur Lee

Mandyam Vikram

Frederick Hirsch

David M Minch

Chetan S Dhillon

Chettan S Dhillon

An apparatus and method of managing a licensable item includes accessing a licensing policy related to managing a licensable item, and a license agent making a determination to act to enforce the licensing policy or to first communicate with a server before acting to enforce the licensing policy. Further, the apparatus and method include enforcing the licensing policy in accordance with the determination to act to enforce the licensing policy or to first communicate with a server before acting.

Apparatus and method of managing a licensable item

Apparatus and methods for licensing include executing a base application on a device, initiating a transaction with an application store to obtain access to a subordinate licensable item that is usable by the base application, receiving a transaction receipt corresponding to the transaction for the subordinate licensable item, and obtaining, from a license server, a subordinate license that corresponds to the subordinate licensable item. Additionally, the apparatus and methods may include storing a base license for a base application on a device, acquiring a subordinate license for a subordinate licensable item usable by the base application, receiving a request to execute the base application, enforcing, by a license agent service on the device, the base license with respect to executing the base application, and enforcing, by the base application, the subordinate license during execution of the base application.

Apparatus and method of in-application licensing

A method of receiving a leaderboard associated with a software game executed at a wireless device is provided. The method includes monitoring at least one metric associated with the software game while the software game is played. The method further includes collecting a value of the at least one metric when the game is over and comparing the value of the at least one metric to a device leaderboard. The method additionally includes transmitting the value of the at least one metric to a game server when the value of the at least one metric is a best value when compared to the device leaderboard. The device leaderboard may indicate a ranking of scores achieved by playing the software game at the wireless device in which the software game is executed.

System and method of providing leaderboards for mobile gaming in a wireless network

Various embodiments include a three-dimensional (3D) translator device for translating two-dimensional (2D) visual imagery into 3D physical representations that users can feel with their fingers and thus interact with and experience physically. The 3D translator device may enable users to feel/interact with 2D images displayed on devices such as 2D touchscreen devices by translating the 2D images into a 3D touch surface coordinate data set. The 3D translator device may actuate based on the 3D touch surface coordinate data set so that the users can feel the 3D representation of the 2D images, and translating the users' touches on the 3D translator device's 3D touchpanel into touch inputs that can be processed by a 2D touchscreen device (i.e., '2D touch inputs).

3D translator device

Aspects relate to apparatus and methods for rendering a page on a computing device, such as a web page. The apparatus and methods include receiving a request for a requested instance of a page and determining if the requested instance of the page corresponds to a document object model (DOM) for the page stored in a memory. Further, the apparatus and methods include retrieving a dynamic portion of the DOM corresponding to the requested instance if the requested instance of the page corresponds to the DOM stored in the memory. The dynamic portion may be unique to the requested instance of the page. Moreover, the apparatus and methods include storing the dynamic portion of the DOM corresponding to the requested instance of the page in a relationship with the static portion of the DOM.

Rendering a page using a previously stored DOM associated with a different page

Methods and devices for accelerating webpage rendering by a browser store document object model (DOM) tree structures and computations of rendered pages, and compare portions of a DOM tree of pages being render to determining if portions of the DOM tree structures match. If a DOM tree of a webpage to be rendered matches a DOM tree stored in memory, the computations associated with the match DOM tree may be recalled from memory, obviating the need to perform the calculations to render the page. A tree isomorphism algorithm may be used to recognize DOM trees stored in memory that match the DOM tree of the webpage to be rendered. Reusing rendering computations may significantly reducing the time and resources required for rendering web pages. Identifying reusable portions of calculation results based on DOM tree isomorphism enables the browser to reuse stored webpage rendering calculations even when URLs do not match.

Memoizing web-browsing computation with DOM-based isomorphism

Systems and methodologies are described that enable hybrid web and native applications. A communications device may be equipped to process one or more links where each link may be associated with a workflow directive. Further, the communications device may be equipped to process a workflow directive associated with a link to pre-render a template while a content request including the link is being transmitted. Still further, the communications device may be equipped to apply content received in response to the content request to the pre-rendered template.

Methods and apparatus for enabling a hybrid web and native application

A system for invoking a service includes an invoking entity and a network entity such as a service provider. The invoking entity can send a service invocation request to effectuate invocation of a service. The service invocation request is formatted and sent in accordance with a given messaging architecture (e.g., SOAP). The network entity is capable of receiving the service invocation request, such as to invoke the requested service. The network entity can also send a response to the service invocation request, although the response is sent across a SIP architecture. Similar to the service invocation request, the response includes a payload formatted in accordance with the given messaging architecture. Thus, although the network entity can send a response across a SIP architecture, the invoking entity sends the service invocation request independent of the SIP architecture.

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