Qualcomm Incorporated

Google Inc.

Deshpande, Manoj M.

Ranjith Subramanian Jayaram

Vidya Narayanan

Lakshminath Reddy Dondeti

Sanjiv Nanda

Manoj Madhukar Deshpande

Arnaud Meylan

Saumitra Mohan Das

Kirti Gupta

Ashwin Deepak Swaminathan

Edward T L Hardie

Jun Wang

Peerapol Tinnakornsrisuphap

Anand Palanigounder

Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli

Avneesh Agrawal

Fuyun Ling

Raghuraman Krishnamoorthi

Murali Chari

Alok Aggarwal

Ramachandran Subramanian

Jiming Guo

Edward Thomas Lingham Hardie

Prasanna Kannan

Devarshi P Shah

Rinat Burdo

George Allen Rothrock

Michael M Fan

Pavel A Seliverstov

Nilabh Khare

Anil K Wadhwani

Reynaldo W Newman

Pankaj V Rahate

Pankaj Jain

Lakshminath R Dondeti

Zhibin Wu

Gordon Kent Walker

Vincent Douglas Park

Vinay Sridhara

Michaela Catalina Vanderveen

Charles Nung Lo

Georgios Tsirtsis

Thadi Manjunath Nagaraj

Yinian Mao

Noam A Ziv

Lu Xiao

David William Craig

Ram Brijesh Jagadeesan

Chris Bennett

Camille McMorrow

Ravish Khosla

Norman Ko

Sendil Krishna

Mark Whitney

Edward T Hardie

Larkshminath Reddy Dondeti

Systems and methods for providing a program listing include storing user profile data and a user identifier for a user; storing an association of the user identifier with user identifiers for each of the plurality of social contacts of the user; receiving program identifier data representing programs currently being viewed by the social contacts; ranking the program identifier data for each of the plurality of social contacts based at least in part on the user profile data; and sending display data representing the program identifier data for display in an order based on the ranking.

Providing a program listing

An endorsement application can allow a user to endorse a product on a social network website when the product is purchased at a physical merchant point of sale terminal. Users of social network websites have been given the opportunity to endorse products that they have located or purchased online, but purchasers of products in person have not had that opportunity. The endorsement application can operate on a user's mobile device and can recognize a product purchased through near field or other communication using the mobile device. The application can isolate the product identification and product marketing data supplied by the point of sale terminal or other source and offer the user the opportunity to endorse the product on a social network website. If the user endorses the product, the application sends the endorsement to the user's account on the social network website for display to the user's community.

Endorsing a product purchased offline

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for receiving, at a search engine, a search query submitted by a user to the search engine; identifying an entity that is associated with the search query; determining that the user that submitted the search query to the search engine is associated with the entity in an entity listing portal; and in response to determining that the user that submitted the search query to the search engine is associated with the entity in an entity listing portal, providing a search results webpage that includes i) search results that the search engine generated responsive to the search query and ii) an interface through which edits to data associated with the entity within the entity listing portal can be provided.

Generation of enhanced search results

Disclosed is a method for user identity authentication for a peer device joining a peer-to-peer overlay network. In the method, a credential server of the overlay network receives a registered user identity from a joining peer device. The credential server verifies the registered user identity with an identity provider. Upon receiving, at the credential server, successful verification of the registered user identity from the identity provider, the credential server issues to the joining peer device a signed certificate for use by an authenticated peer device in the overlay network to authenticate the registered user identity of the joining peer device, wherein the signed certificate is signed by a private key of the credential server.

Apparatus and method for user identity authentication in peer-to-peer overlay networks

Multiple protocol tunnels (e.g., IPsec tunnels) are deployed to enable an access terminal that is connected to a network to access a local network associated with a femto access point. A first protocol tunnel is established between a security gateway and the femto access point. A second protocol tunnel is then established in either of two ways. In some implementations the second protocol tunnel is established between the access terminal and the security gateway. In other implementations the second protocol tunnel is established between the access terminal and the femto access point, whereby a portion of the tunnel is routed through the first tunnel.

Remote access to local network

A method, a computer program product, and an apparatus are provided. The apparatus may be equipped to obtain one or more application identifiers from one or more applications on a wireless device, generate a super identifier (SID) having elements corresponding to the one or more applications and a base that identifies one or more common properties of the one or more applications, and broadcast the SID during one or more peer discovery slots allocated for the wireless device. In another example, a UE may be equipped to receive the SID broadcast by another UE, determine a match between at least one of the one or more common properties in the base, and determine whether an element associated with one or more applications is present in the SID.

Methods and apparatus for multiplexing application identifiers for peer-to-peer discovery systems

A system and method for creating a group based on proximate detection are disclosed. In one implementation, the system includes a current device, a subsequent device, a completion determination module and a group creation module. The current device detects a subsequent device via a proximity detection technique and sends group data including a current user identifier to the subsequent device. The subsequent device receives the group data and, responsive to receiving the group data, modifies the group data to include a subsequent user identifier. The completion determination module determines that a completion pattern exists when the completion determination module determines that the subsequent user is a group creator. The group creation module creates an online, social networking group, responsive to the existence of the completion pattern. The group includes a plurality of users associated with a plurality of user identifiers of the group data.

Creating a group based on proximate detection

A venue-cast system and method for providing and receiving venue level transmissions and services, including discovery of a venue specific transmission by receiving an overhead signal from a non-venue network, extracting information for receiving the venue specific transmission from the overhead signal, and tuning to receive the venue specific transmission based on the extracted information. The venue level transmission may be provided and received in a manner that does not prevent an access terminal from receiving a local area or wide area transmission.

Apparatus and methods of providing and receiving venue level transmissions and services

Apparatus and methods for automatic service discovery and connectivity include acts of or components for retrieving service metadata associated with one or more service devices from a connectivity entity, wherein the service metadata comprises connectivity parameters, and configuring one or more links with at least one of the one or more service devices based on the service metadata. Further, the apparatus and methods may include acts of or components for using a service available from the one or more service devices through the one or more links.

Method and apparatus for automatic service discovery and connectivity

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San Diego, CA, United States of America

Ranjith Subramanian Jayaram