Motorola Corporation

Motorola Mobility LLC

Motorola Solutions, Inc.

Excalibur Ip, LLC

Scott E Preece

Lawrence Marvin Ecklund

John David Bruner

Steven F Gillig

Whay Chiou Lee

John K Grosspietsch

Charles A Backof, Jr

Steven D Bromley

Suthirug Num Pisutha-Arnond

George W Schaupp, Jr

Eric Christensen

Paul Silver

Haley Thrapp

Keith McConnell

Sheila Renee Crosby

Disclosed is a method and system for selecting targeted advertisements based on a user's personal points of reference. The personal points of reference identify user specific locations of interest based at least on geographic locations. In order to determine which advertisements are relevant to a user's personal point of reference, the advertisements served by an advertising server contain metadata appended therein. The ad metadata is correlated with locations, and provides geographical sensitivity to specific locations. Thus, advertisements are matched to points of reference based on geo-location data. When the advertising server is presented with a user's personal point of reference, the ad server compiles the point of reference's geo-location data against the ad metadata, and determines if there is a match. Upon a match being identified, the advertisement associated with the ad metadata is served to the user.

Use of personalized points of reference in selecting advertisements shown to users

A method for obtaining service when in a no-coverage area of a radiotelephone communication system includes a first step of storing information regarding a last known available communication system. This can be accomplished through the communication system when loss of service is imminent or through independent means after service is lost. A next step includes reporting the information about the last known available communication system to a user of the radiotelephone. A next step includes using the information to obtain service from the last known available communication system. For example, a user could use timing information to backtrack their steps or use location information to obtain service.

Obtaining service when in a no-coverage area of a communication system

In certain embodiments, a method for managing operational parameters of a cognitive radio device to minimize non-compliance with a regulatory policy involves sensing a change in an operational condition that will affect compliance with a current operational policy; estimating a time at which the current operational policy will become invalid; selecting a method for determining how to update the current operational policy; and updating the current operational policy of the cognitive radio device. Other embodiments may incorporate more, fewer or other elements.

Method and apparatus for setting and managing operational dynamics within cognitive radio networks

In certain embodiments of a cognitive radio, a method of establishing operational policies, involves determining that a new policy decision should be made; requesting a policy decision from an authority having more computing power than the cognitive radio; receiving the policy decision from the authority; and implementing the policy decision in the cognitive radio. Other embodiments may incorporate more, fewer or other elements.

Managing operation of a cognative radio by an authority

A message alert system is useful for a communication device () having a display () and a processor (). The message alert system includes a computer-readable medium () and a routine stored in the computer-readable medium () and configured for execution by the processor (). The routine includes a first routine that receives a message having a message type, and a second routine that generates a display item () for the display () of the communication device () in accordance with the message type such that the display item () comprises information indicative of the message type of the received message and whether further messages of the message type have been received by the communication device (). The routine may further includes a memory check routine that determines whether storing the message in the computer-readable medium () would result in exceeding a predetermined amount of the capacity of the computer-readable medium (). The routine may still further include a routine that analyzes the message to determine a size thereof. In such an embodiment, the second routine generates the display item in accordance with the size of the message.

Message alert system and method of providing message notification

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Champaign, IL, United States of America

Scott E Preece