Qualcomm Incorporated

Sandeep Sharma

Mohammed Ataur Rahman Shuman

Amit Goel

Vijay Anandrao Suryavanshi

Binita Gupta

Ashutosh Aggarwal

Kirankumar Bhoja Anchan

Ravinder Paul Chandhok

Mohammed Ataur R Shuman

Paul Eric Jacobs

Liat Ben-Zur

Sunvir Gujral

Frank A Lane

Isaac David Guedalia

Rotem Cooper

Shriram Ganesh

Shobha Subbaramoo

Nivedita Sarkar

Mark Maggenti

Jacob Guedalia

Sarah Glickfield

Rajan Verma

Naveen Kalla

Kulathumani Krishnan

Raphael Ruben Freiwirth

Mark A Maggenti

In an embodiment, a client device obtains a list of client devices registered in association with a particular client application, and then detects listed client device(s) as proximate via a local communications interface. One of the proximate client devices is identified as responsible for sending an aggregated registration request message for renewing their respective application registrations with a server. In another embodiment, the server receives a registration message for the client application from a client device and detects that at least one other registered client device for that client application is proximate to the requesting client device. The server attempts to preemptively renew the registrations for both the requesting client device and the at least one other registered client device based on the proximity detection.

Renewing registrations for client applications installed on different proximate client devices

Methods and apparatuses for optimizing performance using data from an Internet of Things (IoT) device with analytics engines. The method receives, from a requesting Internet of Things (IoT) device, a request for trend data of physical resource consumption based at least in part on a portion of received data from at least one of a plurality of IoT devices. The method retrieves, from memory of an analytics engine, at least the portion of the received data. The method calculates, in a calculator of the analytics engine, the trend data based on at least the portion of the received data. The method transmits, to the requesting IoT device, the calculated trend data, wherein the requesting IoT device adjusts parameters in an IoT device using the calculated trend data.

Analytics engines for IoT devices

The disclosure relates to mechanisms that may be used to route notifications in an Internet of Things (IoT) environment according to user activity and/or proximity detection. More particularly, in various embodiments, an entity that manages the IoT environment may receive one or more messages, actions, or responses that indicate detected activity or detected proximity associated with one or more users from one or more IoT devices in the IoT environment. The management entity may then establish an activity and proximity trail from the one or more messages, actions, or responses that indicate the detected activity or the detected proximity, whereby in response to an IoT device reporting one or more notifications, an IoT device in proximity to at least one of the one or more users may be identified and the one or more notifications may be routed to the identified IoT device.

Mechanisms to route IoT notifications according to user activity and/or proximity detection

The disclosure relates to leveraging peer-to-peer (P2P) discovery messages for application layer contextual communication. A P2P middleware layer of a user device receives a P2P discovery message, the P2P discovery message comprising metadata including an identifier of a first application and content to be rendered by the first application, determines whether or not there is an application installed on the user device that can render the content, and sends the content to be rendered by the first application to the installed application based on there being an application installed on the user device that can render the content.

Efficient group communications leveraging LTE-D discovery for application layer contextual communication

Systems and methods for connecting a proxy device to a mobile device are disclosed. In an aspect, the proxy device continuously scans for the mobile device, wherein the mobile device broadcasts advertising messages to connect to the proxy device, connects to the mobile device in response to the mobile device coming into communication range of the proxy device, and sends information to the mobile device, the information configured to enable the mobile device to connect to a low energy device.

IOT device to enable fast connection between low energy IOT devices

A system and method for associating a mobile computing device with a particular seat in a seating environment. The system collects first sensor data from device sensors of a first mobile computing device based on activity detected within the seating environment. The system then determines, for each of a plurality of seats in the seating environment, a degree of correlation with the mobile computing device based at least in part on the first sensor data, and associates the mobile computing device with the seat, among the plurality of seats, having the highest degree of correlation with the first mobile computing device.

System and method for determining a seat location of a mobile computing device in a multi-seat environment

In the network-based group management and floor control mechanism disclosed herein, a server may receive a request to occupy a shared IoT resource from a member device in an IoT device group and transmit a message granting the member IoT device permission to occupy the shared IoT resource based on one or more policies. For example, the granted permission may comprise a floor that blocks other IoT devices from accessing the shared IoT resource while the member IoT device holds the floor. Furthermore, the server may revoke the permission if the member IoT device fails to transmit a keep-alive message before a timeout period expires, a high-priority IoT device pre-empts the floor, and/or based on the policies. Alternatively, the server may make the shared IoT resource available if the member IoT device sends a message that voluntarily releases the floor.

Coordinated resource sharing in machine-to-machine communication using a network-based group management and floor control mechanism

Disclosed is a method for assigning a variable Quality of Service (QoS) Class Identifier (QCI) for a call among a plurality of user devices by determining an initial QCI for the call based on one or more metrics related to the plurality of user devices, assigning the initial QCI for the call to the plurality of user devices or to a first user device of the plurality of user devices, determining a second QCI for the call, wherein the second QCI is based on a plurality of user engagement scores and information related to the one or more metrics received from the plurality of user devices, and assigning the second QCI for the call to the plurality of user devices or to the first user device of the plurality of user devices.

Assigning a variable QCI for a call among a plurality of user devices

The disclosure generally relates to enabling communication among one or more Internet of Things (IoT) device groups. In particular, various heterogeneous IoT devices that may need to interact with one another in different ways may be organized into IoT device groups to support efficient interaction among the IoT devices. For example, pre-defined IoT device groups may be formed organize certain IoT devices that perform similar activities and certain IoT devices may be dynamically allocated to ad-hoc IoT device groups for certain contexts (e.g., the ad-hoc IoT device groups may include IoT devices that can implement a desired function and therefore be dynamically formed to implement the desired function). Furthermore, the IoT groups may communicate hierarchically, wherein messages may be exchanged among IoT group owners or ranking members to support efficient communication between different IoT groups.

Establishing groups of internet of things (IOT) devices and enabling communication among the groups of IOT devices

The disclosure generally relates to Internet of Things (IoT) device social networking, and in particular to an IoT device publish-subscribe messaging model and automatic IoT device social network expansion. For example, IoT devices from different networks may publish status data that relates to certain topics, wherein the published status updates may be managed in a distributed manner at each IoT network. Furthermore, IoT devices interested in published data can subscribe to data relating to certain topics, which may be used to dynamically adjust actions that the subscribing IoT devices may take. Furthermore, IoT devices can employ common social networking capabilities (e.g., refer, follow, like, publish, subscribe, etc.) to interact with other IoT devices and find relevant information from other IoT devices that can be used to improve performance and effectiveness.

Automatic IoT device social network expansion

Methods, servers and systems are disclosed for authenticating location information in a message from a sending computing device to a receiving computing device. Location information of a sending computing device at an actual location may be incorporated in the message. Location information in a message may be compared with information regarding the actual location of the sending computing device maintained by a server. The location information in the message may be authenticated based on the comparison.

Methods, servers and systems for verifying reported locations of computing devices

The disclosure is related to determining an association among Internet of Things (IoT) devices. A first IoT device receives an identifier of a second IoT device, obtains a schema of the second IoT device based on the identifier of the second IoT device, and determines whether or not there is an association between the first IoT device and the second IoT device based on a schema of the first IoT device and the schema of the second IoT device, where the schema of the first IoT device comprises schema elements and corresponding values of the first IoT device and the schema of the second IoT device comprises schema elements and corresponding values of the second IoT device.

Adaptive and extensible universal schema for heterogeneous internet of things (IOT) devices

Systems and methods are disclosed for maintaining continuity of a peer-to-peer group session. The method may include exchanging a first P2P group session communication with a member of the P2P group via a direct data traffic connection, requesting session data from an application server, conveying the session data to a proxy UE, wherein the proxy UE is a member of the P2P group, and exchanging a second P2P group session communication with the application server in accordance with the session data.

Peer-assisted seamless mobility for peer-to-peer data traffic

In an embodiment, a P2P device discovers other P2P devices that belong to a P2P group. The P2P device calculates a reachability vector that indicates each discovered P2P device within a threshold number of P2P hops. The P2P device receives reachability vector(s) for each proximate P2P device in a set of proximate P2P devices discovered via the P2P discovery procedure. The P2P device ranks the P2P device and each proximate P2P device in the set of proximate P2P devices based on the calculated and received reachability vectors. The P2P device identifies a leader (e.g., the P2P device itself and/or one or more of the other P2P devices) that is responsible for performing a floor arbitration function for a P2P session from the ranked P2P devices based on the rankings, and participates in the P2P session by exchanging media in accordance with the floor arbitration function performed by the leader.

Selecting a leader to perform a floor arbitration function for a P2P session

In an embodiment, a UE obtains one or more quorum conditions for communication with a given group from a set of groups to which the UE is registered. The UE searches, over a P2P interface, to identify one or more group members that are registered to the given group and which are proximate to the UE. The UE determines whether the identified one or more group members are sufficient to satisfy at least one of the one or more quorum conditions. The UE selectively triggers a communicative action associated with the given group based on whether the determining determines the at least one quorum condition to be satisfied.

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Sandeep Sharma