Qualcomm Incorporated

Motorola Corporation

Google Inc.

Motorola Solutions, Inc.

Vidya Narayanan

Lakshminath Reddy Dondeti

Ranjith Subramanian Jayaram

Sanjiv Nanda

Saumitra Mohan Das

Ashwin Deepak Swaminathan

Jun Wang

Leonard Henry Grokop

George Popovich

Lukas Daniel Kuhn

Peerapol Tinnakornsrisuphap

Parag Arun Agashe

Fatih Ulupinar

Raymond Tah-Sheng Hsu

Arungundram C Mahendran

Yinian Mao

Narayanan Venkitaraman

Christophe Janneteau

Jin Won Lee

Edward T L Hardie

Samir Salib Soliman

Soumya Das

Surender Kumar

Dilip Krishnaswamy

Murali Chari

Ravindra Manohar Patwardhan

Pawan Kumar Baheti

Li Ding

Ramachandran Subramanian

Serafin Diaz Spindola

Shankar Sadasivam

Edward Thomas Lingham Hardie

Bolan Jiang

Piyush Sharma

Craig J Detter

Ramandeep Ahuja

Ghouse Adoni Mohammed

Subbarao V Yallapragada

David Nicholas Christie

Vel Pratheesh Sankar

Lakshminath R Dondeti

Alexandros Manolakos

Rajat Prakash

Paul E Bender

Kalle Ahmavaara

Anthony R Metke

Tyrone D Bekiares

Mario Frank DeRango

Noam A Ziv

Matthew C Keller

Lu Xiao

Anthony Sarah

Wolfgang Granzow

David William Craig

Deviprasad Putchala

Alexandru Petrescu

Arvind Subramanian Krishna

Jinwon Lee

James William Dolter

Pawel Lukowicz

Greg Rose

Fuming Shih

Kalle I Ahmavaara

Edward T Hardie

Murali R Chari

James W Dolter

Larkshminath Reddy Dondeti

Sanjiv Nansa

An authentication server may be adapted to (a) authenticate an authentication peer seeking to establish communications via a first network access node; (b) retrieve user profile information associated with the authentication peer; and/or (c) send the user profile information to a network gateway node that facilitates communication services for the authentication peer. A PMIP network node may be adapted to (a) provide wireless network connectivity to an authentication peer via a first network access node; (b) provide a PMIP key to both ends of a PMIP tunnel between the first network access node and a PMIP network node used to provide communications to the authentication peer; (c) provide the PMIP key to a first authenticator associated the first network access node; (d) receive a request at the PMIP network node from a requesting entity to reroute communications for the authentication peer; and/or (e) verify whether the requesting entity knows the PMIP key.

User profile, policy, and PMIP key distribution in a wireless communication network

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

A method on an electronic device for a wireless network is described. A first set of unique wireless access point IDs is collected. A second set of unique wireless access point IDs is collected. The first set and the second set are compared to determine intersecting wireless access point IDs and non-intersecting wireless access point IDs of the second set. If the number of intersecting wireless access point IDs meets an intersection threshold for the first set, the non-intersecting wireless access point IDs of the second set are added to the first set. A confidence level is updated for the unique wireless access point IDs of the first set that correspond to the intersecting wireless access point IDs. Geographic information is determined for the unique wireless access point IDs of the first set that meet a confidence threshold.

Method and apparatus for wireless network data collection

Examples describe methods, computing devices, and systems for using location provider (LP) processes to accurately identify a proximate location of a computing device, while reducing the power consumption of the computing device. An example method may include executing, on a computing device, both a first LP process and a second LP process simultaneously for at least part of a time period to determine outputs indicative of locations of the computing device for the time period. Further, the method may include determining a motion model of the computing device that indicates expected locations of the computing device. Yet further, the method may include making a comparison of the outputs to the motion model for the time period. In addition, the method may include disabling one of the LP processes based on the comparison.

Running location provider processes

A mobile platform efficiently processes image data, using distributed processing in which latency sensitive operations are performed on the mobile platform, while latency insensitive, but computationally intensive operations are performed on a remote server. The mobile platform acquires image data, and determines whether there is a trigger event to transmit the image data to the server. The trigger event may be a change in the image data relative to previously acquired image data, e.g., a scene change in an image. When a change is present, the image data may be transmitted to the server for processing. The server processes the image data and returns information related to the image data, such as identification of an object in an image or a reference image or model. The mobile platform may then perform reference based tracking using the identified object or reference image or model.

Adaptable framework for cloud assisted augmented reality

Methods, systems, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for inferring context are provided. In one potential implementation, first context information associated with a first duration is identified, second context information is accessed to determine a context segmentation boundary; and the first context information and the second context information is then aggregated to generate an inferred segmented aggregated context. In a further implementation, the first context information is used to average inferred contexts, and the context segmentation boundary is used to reset a start time for averaging the first context information.

Aggregate context inferences using multiple context streams

A mobile platform efficiently processes sensor data, including image data, using distributed processing in which latency sensitive operations are performed on the mobile platform, while latency insensitive, but computationally intensive operations are performed on a remote server. The mobile platform acquires sensor data, such as image data, and determines whether there is a trigger event to transmit the sensor data to the server. The trigger event may be a change in the sensor data relative to previously acquired sensor data, e.g., a scene change in an image. When a change is present, the sensor data may be transmitted to the server for processing. The server processes the sensor data and returns information related to the sensor data, such as identification of an object in an image or a reference image or model. The mobile platform may then perform reference based tracking using the identified object or reference image or model.

A system and method are provided that allow an application on a first terminal to inquire about available network communication associations that it can use to send data to another terminal, thereby avoiding the establishment of a new network communication association with the other terminal. A security information module may serve to collect and/or store information about available network communication associations between the first terminal and another terminal across different layers. The security information module may also assess a trust level for the network communication associations based on security mechanisms used to establish each association and/or past experience information reported for these network communication associations. Upon receiving a request for available network communication associations, the security information module provides this to the requesting application which can use it to establish communications with a corresponding application on the other terminal.

Method and apparatus for providing network communication association information to applications and services

One or more mobile devices make measurements while moving along a path. Each measurement may comprise a specific group of identifiers of wireless transmitters, and strengths of corresponding wireless signals. A set of measurements are made in a sequence along a path, and the subsets of the measurements are identified for satisfying a test on a value of a measure of similarity of measurements included in the subset. A new place of relevance is identified, by comparing the just-described subsets of the measurements with similar subsets of additional measurements (e.g. by clustering). Alternatively, a known place of relevance (e.g. having a label) is identified, by comparing the just-described subsets of the measurements with pre-computed model of measurements. Also, the just-described subsets of the measurements may be compared with corresponding subsets of measurements of another path, e.g. to identify common portions therein.

Discovering and automatically sizing a place of relevance

Information about a context of a mobile device is inferred using measurements from light detectors of the mobile device. The light detectors may be located on multiple different sides of the mobile device. In some embodiments, measurements from one or more cameras may be used to infer context.

Method and apparatus for characterizing context of a mobile device

A position estimate for a mobile device is generated using data from motion sensors, such as accelerometers, magnetometers, and/or gyroscopes, and data from light sensors, such as an ambient light sensor, proximity sensor and/or camera intensity sensor. A plurality of proposed positions with associated likelihoods is generated by analyzing information from the motion sensors and a list of candidate positions is produced based on information from the light sensors. At least one of the plurality of proposed positions is eliminated using the list of candidate positions and a position estimate for the mobile device is determined based on the remaining proposed positions and associated likelihoods. The proposed positions may be generated by extracting features from the information from the motion sensors and using models to generate likelihoods for the proposed positions. The likelihoods may be filtered over time. Additionally, a confidence metric may be generated for the estimated position.

Device position estimates from motion and ambient light classifiers

A user device generates a social graph-based user certificate that conveys a trust level to other users of the social network. A user certificate for a user is obtained, the user having a user public key and corresponding user private key. A plurality of potential signers is identified within one or more social networks. The certificate is then sent to the identified plurality of potential signers. One or more signed versions of the user certificate may be received from at least some of the plurality of potential signers. The user device may assign a signer weight to each signed version of the user certificate, each corresponding signer weight associated with the signer of each signed version of the certificate. The user certificate, the user signature, one or more signed versions of the user certificate, and the user-assigned signer weights are distributed to one or more recipients.

Social network based PKI authentication

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