Motorola Corporation

Motorola Mobility LLC

General Instrument Corporation

Google Technology Holdings LLC

Morris A Moore

Michael J DeLuca

Jheroen Pieter Dorenbosch

Robert J Schwendeman

David F Willard

Douglas I Ayerst

William V Braun

Robert H Bass

Paul Moroney

John Douglas Reed

David W Kravitz

Stelios J Patsiokas

Petr Peterka

Theodore S Rzeszewski

William J Kuznicki

Jeffrey Martin Harris

Gregory L Cannon

Ezzat A Dabbish

Clinton C Powell, Ii

Zaffer S Merchant

Eric R Schorman

Zhonghe Wang

Leonard E Nelson

Ernest Earl Woodward

Manuel Oliver

Gregory O Snowden

William L Olson

Brian K Johnson

William J Macko

Vida Ilderem

Malik J Khan

Ronald William Borgstahl

Daniel J Sadler

George William Muncaster

William Bryan Austin

Subir Saha

Craig S Wallace

Robert H Yacobellis

Robert K Lockhart, Jr

Yi Q Li

Sandeep M Adwankar

Kwok K Choi

Dipikalyan Saha

Frederick L Kitson

Diptikalyan Saha

A method and system for extending an authentication of a wireless device are disclosed. For example, the method includes authenticating access to the wireless device via a first authentication. The method detects a bonded authentication device as a second authentication. The method permits access to the wireless device when the bonded authentication device is detected.

Method and system for providing extended authentication

A network infrastructure element () can be configured to, upon determining () that an end-user platform () seeks to download an executable program, execute () the program to develop a corresponding model that represents corresponding operating system call-based behavior. The network infrastructure element can then use () this model to vet the operating system call-based behavior of the program with respect to end-user platform policies. When the operating system call-based behavior vets acceptably with respect to these policies, the end-user platform can then be permitted to download () the executable program. If desired, the network infrastructure element can provide () the model to the end-user platform to permit vetting of the modeled behavior with respect to locally-maintained policies. The model provided to the end-user platform can comprise a size-reduced sliced model.

Method and apparatus to vet an executable program using a model

Embodiments of the invention generally provide a method and apparatus for enabling digital rights management in file transfers. One embodiment of a method for transferring digital content from a first user to a second user, includes transferring ownership of an instance of the digital content to the second user, where the instance of the digital content resides on a first device belonging to the first user. Copies of the digital content are then deleted from one or more additional devices belonging to the first user (including at least one offline device).

Method and apparatus for enabling digital rights management in file transfers

A method () and apparatus () for bundling and partitioning access rights to network services and applications. The method includes providing communication devices and paired smart cards that are configured to access network services and applications when a smart card paired with a communication device is inserted in or coupled to the communication device. The method also includes transferring a portion of access rights to authorized network services and applications between associated owner smart cards and borrower smart cards using one or more paired communication devices. The method also includes transferring a portion of network service and application access rights between communication devices using one or more paired smart cards. The use of access rights can be limited by duration or in such a way that only one device/smart card pair can access the associated service or application at a given time.

Method, apparatus and system for partitioning and bundling access to network services and applications

Disclosed is a method, system and apparatus for transferring protected data having an authorizing entity's outer encryption layer and having a user-fixed inner encryption layer from a first electronic device having a first unique, unalterable identifier to a second electronic device having a second unique, unalterable identifier. A central unit includes a receiver configured to receive from the first electronic device protected data having an authorizing entity's first outer encryption layer corresponding to the first unique, unalterable identifier and having a user-fixed inner encryption layer; a processor configured to decrypt the authorizing entity's first outer encryption layer of the protected data; a processor configured to encrypt an authorizing entity's second outer encryption layer of the protected data corresponding to the second unique, unalterable identifier; and a transmitter configured to transmit protected data to the second electronic device.

System and method for protected data transfer

A communication network (FIG.) makes available, to a first vending machine () of a plurality of vending machines, information from nearby ones of the plurality of vending machines for coordinating product availability and vending machine location. The first vending machine then determinesthat the desired product is no longer available at the first vending machine. Thereafter, the first vending machine obtains () the information including a location of the nearby alternate vending machine for the desired product. The first vending machine then conveys () the location of the nearby alternate vending machine to a customer who wishes to purchase the desired product.

Method and apparatus for locating a nearby alternate vending machine for a desired product

A mobile station ( ) of a wireless communication system ( ) detects ( ) a predetermined user command applied to a user interface ( ) of the mobile station. In response, the mobile station transmits ( ), to a fixed portion ( ) of the wireless communication system, a message including a request for local information and services. The fixed portion receives ( ) the message, and, in response, determines ( ) the location at which the mobile station is positioned. The fixed portion then generates ( ) A the local information and services custom-tailored to a predetermined area around the location, and sends ( ) the local information and services to the mobile station.

Method and apparatus in a wireless communication system for retrieving local information and services

A peer device ( ) is arranged and programmed for maintaining a virtual queue for an event, and a personal presence identifier ( ) is carried by a user and coupled to the peer device by a short-range two-way wireless link. The peer device and the personal presence identifier are arranged and programmed to establish (58) a two-way personal area network with one another when the personal presence identifier is within wireless transmission range of the peer device. The personal presence identifier and the peer device are also arranged and programmed to exchange (82) needs specifications and capability specifications with one another after establishing the two-way personal area network.

Virtual queuing system using proximity-based short-range wireless links

A messaging unit (,) receives (,)a message (,) having a header string, and compresses (,) a display of the header string when the messaging unit is operating (,) in a message preview mode.

Method and apparatus for enhancing a message preview mode in a messaging unit

A first service provider having a highest security of access, initially programs (,) tables in a subscriber unit (,), including an address table (,) having entries including addresses to which the subscriber unit is responsive, a sub-address table (,) including a sub-address identifier and a corresponding first pointer to a first decryption key for an algorithm required to decrypt a sub-message associated with the sub-address identifier, and a key table (,) including the first decryption key. A second service provider having a security of access less than that of the first service provider reprograms (,) an attribute of at least one of the sub-address table and the key table. The second service provider obtains reprogramming access by encrypting a first reprogramming message such that it can be properly decrypted using the first decryption key.

Method and apparatus in a wireless messaging system for controlling a hierarchical provision of service

A pricing entity (124) periodically transmits (502) pricing information (226) including pricing of a utility commodity as a function of time. A meter apparatus (130) periodically make s a measurement (602) of consumption of the utility commodity during a predetermined interval, and determines (603) a time at which the measurement is made. The meter apparatus stores (604) the measurement and the time of the measurement in a memory (212), and receives and stores (504) the pricing information. The meter apparatus calculates (610) a billable cost incurred during the predetermined interval, from the measurement and the pricing of the utility commodity corresponding to the time of the measurement.

Method and apparatus for reducing channel capacity required to report a

A server (112) sends (604) selected codebooks (226) and application identifiers (228) to be associated with the codebooks, to a client (122) in preparation for communicating messages. The client receives and stores (606) the selected codebooks and application identifiers. Subsequently, the server, in response to having a message to send to the client, compresses (708) the message according to a codebook associated with an application generating the message, and transmits (710) the message and an application identifier to the client. The client, in response to receiving the message and the application identifier, identifies (714), from the application identifier, the application to receive the message and, hence, the codebook associated with the application, to use for decompressing the message. The client then decompresses (716) the message according to the codebook.

Method and apparatus in a wireless communication system for compressing

A selective call receiver (106) has a frequency synthesizer (708) for scanning a plurality of frequencies to determine a control channel to receive a signal and a receiver (704) for receiving the signal representative of an available frequency associated with a geographic region. The signal includes a channel identifier (404), a frequency assignment (406) and an active channel indicator (408). A processor (712) associates the channel identifier (404) with the frequency assignment (406) in response to the active channel indicator (408) indicating an available frequency of the geographic region and a memory (720) stores channel identifiers (404) associated with frequency assignments (406) designating available frequencies (408). The receiver (704) receives an address (333) and the channel identifier (404) on the control channel, a decoder (714) decodes the channel identifier (404) associated with the frequency assignment (406) to determine the available frequency where a message will be transmitted and the frequency synthesizer (708) switches to the available frequency indicated by the channel identifier (404) for receiving the message.

Method for determining available frequencies in selective call receivers

A system and method are shown for providing a fully synchronized two-way communication network having a number of transmission stations (10) and selective call receiving devices (27). Each transmission station (10) stores station identifying information and an updatable synchronization priority indicator. Periodically, each station (10) transmits a timing message that includes the station's identifying information, priority indicator, and information relating to the timing of the station's frame clock (45). When a given station receives a timing message transmitted from another station, it determines whether the other station is a direct upstream station thereof. The given station is responsive to a timing message from its direct upstream station for adjusting its frame clock (45) based upon the timing information contained in the message received from the direct upstream station. The given station thereby synchronizes itself with its direct upstream station. Each station also updates its stored priority indicator in the event that there is a change in the station's direct upstream station.

System and method for fully distributed synchronization of a radio

A technique for communicating global information in a radio communication system (100) in which a radio (106) is in a receive state during a first predetermined period of each of a plurality of transmission cycles (320) includes decoding a global event indicator (344) in a system information portion (331) of the first predetermined period of a first transmission cycle (320), setting the radio (106) to the receive state during a second predetermined period of a second transmission cycle (320), receiving the second predetermined period, decoding global event information in the second predetermined period, and processing the global event information. The second transmission cycle (320) is subsequent to the first transmission cycle (320).

Method and apparatus for delivering global event information in a radio

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