Sprint Communications Comapny L.p.

Sprint Spectrum L.p.

Timothy L Swan

John Eric Belser

David Uel McKinney

Leonard E Barlik

Douglas Ray Green

A method and system for providing a user of a wireless communication device (WCD) with vending service. The WCD may present the user with data indicating items available for purchase from a vendor. The WCD may then receive the user's directive to order an item from the vendor. In response, the WCD may obtain data stored at a transponder in proximity to the WCD that indicates a location of the WCD. In one example, the transponder may be at a fixed location, such as by being affixed to a fixed object at a venue (e.g., a stadium seat), in which case the stored data may indicate the fixed location. The WCD may then send an order for the item and the obtained data to the vendor. In turn, the vendor may use the data to determine a location of the WCD and then deliver the item to the determined location.

Method and system of providing vending service

Systems and methods are disclosed describing the transmission of multimedia data to a mobile device. A system describing some of the disclosed embodiments comprises a mobile digital television transmitter transmitting a primary data stream, a transceiver transmitting a secondary data stream, and a mobile device. In some embodiments the mobile device comprises a mobile display, a mobile transceiver, and a mobile processor and receives at least the primary data stream and the secondary data. The mobile device displays data from either the primary data stream or the secondary data stream, and transmits a mobile data stream to the transceiver. The mobile data stream may comprise information relating to the status of both the primary data stream and the secondary data stream. This system may also include a server in communication with the transceiver, wherein the server is capable of determining the signal conditions of the mobile device based upon the mobile data stream and alter the secondary data stream based upon the mobile data stream.

Localized mobile digital TV

Methods and systems are provided for facilitating wireless communications over a coaxial network coupled to a wireless communications network. The system comprises one or more set-top boxes capable of facilitating bi-directional wireless communications, one or more converting devices capable of converting between optical signaling and electrical signaling, and a base transceiver station coupled to one or more communications networks. One method comprises providing a set-top box capable of facilitating bi-directional wireless communications and providing for the communication of data through an out-of-band frequency channel. Another method comprises providing a set-top box physically coupled to a coaxial network and wireless network by a communications line having an out-of-band frequency channel, receiving a request to establish communications, and logically coupling two endpoints.

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Lee's Summit, MO, United States of America

Timothy L Swan