Blackberry Corporation

Research in Motion Corporation

Motorola Corporation

2236008 Ontario Limited

Malikie Innovations Limited

Nicholas Patrick Alfano

Adrian Buckley

Noushad Naqvi

Dake He

Craig Allan Dunk

Douglas Michael Gisby

Atul Asthana

Bryan Taylor

Axel D Ferrazzini

Sarmad K Musa

Andrew Michael Allen

James Randolph Winter Lepp

Christopher Labrador

Jyh-Han Lin

Brian Edward Anthony McColgan

Kevin Wilfred Andrewin

Mihal Lazaridis

Michael Peter Montemurro

Stephen John McCann

Jan Hendrik Lucas Bakker

Gary P Mousseau

Stephen John Barrett

Allan David Lewis

Eswar Kalyan Vutukuri

Richard John George

Ian M Patterson

Claude Jean-Frederic Arzelier

Hugh R Hind

Steven D Upp

William David Castell

Leonard Charles Layton

Ian Christopher Drummond Doig

Ian James McDonald

David Lloyd Heit

Roland Emlyn Williams

Rodney Dwight Rempel

Kevin Robert Wagner

Graeme R S Whittington

Sreedhar Sivakumaran

Steve Upp

Graeme R Whittington

Axel Ferrazzini

A method at an infrastructure unit of signaling a presence of a vulnerable road user, the method including receiving at least one report from a sensor unit, the at least one report indicating the presence of the vulnerable road user; composing a message indicating the presence of the vulnerable road user; and transmitting the message to road users proximate the infrastructure unit on a channel.

Method and apparatus for providing road user alerts

A method at a network element for monitoring user plane traffic for a user equipment, the method including configuring a set of characteristics and a range of values for each of the set of characteristics for user plane traffic between the user equipment and the network element; monitoring user plane traffic for the user equipment at the network element, the monitoring determining whether at least one characteristic of the user plane traffic falls outside of the configured range of a values, resulting in a characteristic violation; and if the at least one characteristic of the user plane traffic falls outside the configured range of a values, performing an action resulting from the characteristic violation.

Method and system for user plane traffic characteristics and network security

A method at a computing device for the computing device to act as an intelligent transportation system (ITS) station for a vehicle, the method including detecting that the computing device is proximate to the vehicle; determining whether ITS messages are being sent on behalf of the vehicle; and if the determining finds ITS messages are not being sent on behalf of the vehicle, the computing device acting as the ITS station for the vehicle.

Method and system for a proxy vehicular intelligent transportation system station

Vehicle communication systems and methods of operating the same. The vehicle communication system includes one or more microphones and one or more loudspeakers positioned about a vehicle. The system includes processor executable instructions for determining that the vehicle is operating in an emergency mode and, in response, activating a first microphone and a first loudspeaker for enabling communication between a first acoustic zone within the vehicle and a second acoustic zone exterior to the vehicle. The system may detect, from one of the first acoustic zone and the second acoustic zone, a first acoustic input and generate a second signal from the detected first acoustic input. The system may transmit the second signal to the first loudspeaker for producing sound waves that are audible in the other of the first acoustic zone and the second acoustic zone.

Vehicle communication systems and methods of operating vehicle communication systems

A method of communicating information describing a voice call from a caller device to a recipient device. Call subject information describing the call is obtained from the caller device and sent to the recipient device to inform the recipient about the subject of the call. The call subject information is can be presented as a subject line displayed to on the recipient device to inform the recipient about the nature of the call and/or its urgency, thereby enabling the recipient to better determined whether to answer the call. The call subject information can be input by the caller or extracted automatically from an application from which the call was initiated.

Method and system for communicating and displaying data with a voice call

A method for controlling access to a conference call, the method comprising authenticating a mobile device in accordance with access requirements for the conference call rejecting the mobile device if the participant does not comply with the access requirements in response to the rejection, determining by a processor based on information other than said access requirements that the mobile device is legitimate and overriding the rejection to allow connection to the conference call if it is determined that the mobile device is legitimate.

Method and system for conference call security override

A method for controlling access by of communication devices to a conference call, the method comprising associating proximity settings with a conference call, the proximity settings indicating a acceptable proximity of other communication devices relative to a selected communication device; sensing by the selected communication device proximity of the other devices within its proximity of the communication device to obtain proximity information; and determining, by a processor, from the obtained proximity information and the proximity settings an action to be performed with reference to the conference call.

Method and system for enhanced conference call security

Apparatus, and an associated method, for communicating short message service content to a short message service center. The address of an IP-SM-GW (Internet Protocol-Short Message-Gateway) defined in the 3GPP TS 23.204 is provided to user equipment and used to address an SIP request that contains encapsulated SMS content. The address is stored at the mobile station at a storage element, such as at a SIM card, UICC, or management object. A SIP request generator accesses the storage element and uses the address as the address of the SIP request. The SIP request also includes SMS content, in encapsulation, therein.

Apparatus, and associated method, for supporting SMS messaging by way of an IP network

In one illustrative example, a technique in a server to facilitate a re-establishing of communication over a data connection between an application server and a wireless communication device which communicates via a base station of a wireless communication network is described. In response to a communication loss between the wireless device and the wireless network which causes the data connection to be terminated, the server receives from the application server a plurality of connection requests which are intended for receipt by the wireless device for re-establishing the data connection. The server operates to limit the number or a rate of the connection requests allowed to pass from the server to the base station of the wireless network during the communication loss between the wireless device and the wireless network.

Methods and apparatus for re-establishing communication for wireless communication for a wireless communication device after a communication loss in a wireless communication network

A host server is operative to control the pushing of user data messages to a plurality of mobile communication devices adapted to communicate in a wireless communication network. In particular, the host server is adapted to cause, for each one of the mobile communication devices operating in the wireless communication network, user data messages to be pushed to a mobile communication device via a packet data connection; receive, from a serving node in the wireless communication network, an IP notification message having an IP destination address of the host server and including an identification or address that identifies one of the mobile communication devices, the IP notification message being produced in response to a termination of packet data connectivity for the identified mobile communication device; and in response to receiving the IP notification message, at least temporarily refrain from pushing user data messages to the identified mobile communication device. The IP notification message may be formatted and communicated based on an existing protocol, such as Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP), or any other suitable protocol.

Methods and apparatus for reducing undeliverable server-initiated IP traffic in a wireless network

Several related methods and apparatus for re-establishing communication for a wireless communication device after a communication loss between the wireless device and a wireless communication network are disclosed. In one illustrative example, the wireless network broadcasts identifiers of wireless devices associated with communication losses in the wireless network over a control channel. After regaining signal coverage, a wireless device monitors the control channel to decode and compare each broadcasted identifier with an identifier of the wireless device. Based on a match between a broadcasted identifier and the identifier of the wireless device, the wireless device transmits a control message which informs the wireless network of the presence of the wireless device. Otherwise, the wireless device normally refrains from transmitting the control message to the wireless network. Advantageously, communication with the wireless network is re-established (if at all necessary) without overburdening the wireless link with unnecessary traffic.

Methods and apparatus for re-establishing communication for a wireless communication device after a communication loss in a wireless communication network

Apparatus, and an associated method, by which to facilitate operation of a roaming mobile node to perform a packet communication service. When the mobile node roams beyond its home network, detection is made of the available networks in whose coverage area that the mobile node roams together with the communication capabilities of the available networks. A preferred listing stored at a storage element of the mobile node is accessed to determine if any of the available and compatible networks are listed on the preferred listing. If so, selection is made of one of the available and preferred networks. Otherwise, a network not contained in the preferred listing is selected through which to communicate.

Apparatus, and associated method, for facilitating network selection by a roaming mobile node

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