Sprint Spectrum L.p.

Sprint Communications Comapny L.p.

Sprint Communication Cômpany L.p.

Independent Telecommunications Network, Inc.

Sprint Specrtrum L.p.

Von Karl McConnell

Baoquan Zhang

Thomas M Sladek

Warren Bruce Cope

Arun Santharam

Farni B Weaver

Kenneth Charles Jackson

Jason Delker

Mark Yarkosky

Lyle Thomas Bertz

John Michael Everson

Bryce Alan Jones

Charles Woodson

Lyle W Paczkowski

Manish Mangal

Piyush Jethwa

Debashis Haldar

Jesse Money

Shane Robert Werner

Douglas Alan Olding

Martin Geddes

Stephen James Bye

David John Anderson

Ronald E Lewis

Terry Gene Rayburn

Dorene G Weiland

James Hallock

Donald F Douglas

Christopher Ginn

Daren R Furness

Wen Xue

James Walter Norris

Jarrod Allen Nichols

Dale Scott Schempp

Joao Teixeira

Jason Robert-Anthony Delker

Joao Carlos Osorio Gouvea Teixeira De Magalhaes

Matthew Barrow

Terry T Yu

Tae-Woo Cha

Jeffrey F Phillips

Karen Harden Miller

Karl William Hammerberg

Robert W Hammond

Alex A Zhang

Russell Spaid McGuire

Correy S Trupp

Joao C Teixeira De Magalhaes

Tania Mazza-Deblawe

Tracy Poffenroth

Mark Marsee

Rakesh C Saxena

Thomas A Crook

Doreen D Weiland

Douglas Bagarozy

Laurie M Jampolsky

Bradley A Borchert

A mobile communication device promoting an extendable display. The mobile communication device comprises a software application stored in a memory of the electronic device, when executed by a processor of the electronic device in response to detecting the second proximate display screen, communicates with the second display screen and ad hoc collaborates with the second display screen. The software application further adapts a graphic to display it on the first display screen and the second display screen, with one part of the graphic displayed on the first display screen and the rest of the graphic displayed on the second display screen, without displaying an opaque bar at an edge where display screens touch, wherein the graphic is scaled based on a size of the combined single display screen.

Extendable display screens of electronic devices

A processor-implemented method of accessing content is provided comprising a server composing a first list of broadcast content, wherein each entry in the first list comprises a link to access a broadcast content associated with the entry. The method also comprises the server composing a second list of stored content, wherein each entry in the second list comprises a link to access a stored content associated with the entry, and the server dynamically aggregating entries from the first list and the second list to compose a content guide. The method further comprises presenting at least a portion of the content guide on a display, wherein at least one entry from the first list and at least one entry from the second list are present at the same time on the display, and presenting content on the display based on selecting an entry from the guide.

Centralized program guide

A method and system are provided for admitting new participants to an ongoing conference session. In one example, a conference server hosting a conference session may receive a request for a UE to join the ongoing conference session. In response to receiving such a request, the conference server may determine whether to admit the UE to the ongoing conference session as a full participant or as a partial participant. When the conference server determines to admit the UE as a full participant, the conference server establishes a conference leg with the UE and permits the UE to communicate with each and every current participant of the ongoing conference session. However, when the conference server determines to admit the UE as a partial participant, the conference server may establish a conference leg with the UE and may permit the UE to communicate with just some of the ongoing conference's current participants.

Access level determination for conference participant

A mechanism is disclosed for facilitating the performance of communication services in a communication network. An enhanced proxy server receives and proxies to a voice mail server a message indicative of a call attempt from an originating party to a terminating party. Further, the enhanced proxy server extracts an outgoing voice mail message from a data store and makes the outgoing voice mail message available for the voice mail server to play to the originating party in a session established between the voice mail server and the originating party in response to the signaling message.

Method and system for facilitating voice mail service in a communication network through data-publication by a signaling server

An application repository is provided. The application repository comprises a first computer having a processor and a memory, a data store, a plurality of applications stored in the data store, and a billing apportionment module stored in the memory. Each application contains an instruction to invoke a run-time license tracking application programming interface (API), the plurality of applications comprising a first application. The billing apportionment module, when executed by the processor, receives a first run-time license tracking report generated by invocation of the run-time license tracking application programming interface by the first application executing on one of a second computer and a mobile electronic device, determines a first application usage fee to bill to an account associated with a user of the first application, bills the first application usage fee to the account associated with a user of the first application, determines a first usage fee share based in part on the first application usage fee and on the first run-time tracking report, and transfers the first usage fee share to an account associated with the first application.

Application development and execution framework

A delivery system, media, and method for communicating content to devices are provided. The delivery system includes a services aggregator and content aggregator for processing requests from the devices. The services aggregator processes the request to identify credentials for the devices that generate the request and to identify providers of content specified in the request. The content aggregator receives the content from the identified providers and formats the content based on limits imposed by the device. Because the devices are configured to allow the services aggregator and content aggregator to perform computational-intensive tasks associated with requesting and transmitting the content, the complexity and cost of the devices are minimized.

Delivering content to mobile clients

A wireless communication network exchanges wireless data with wireless communication devices and transfers device data indicating device locations and device status to a network server. A sensor system detects a trigger condition and responsively determines proximate wireless communication devices. The sensor system transfers indications of the trigger condition and the currently proximate wireless communication devices to the network server. The network server processes the device data, trigger condition, and proximate wireless communication devices to generate notice data indicating the trigger condition and to select at least one of the wireless communication devices for receipt of the notice data. The network server transfers the notice data to the selected wireless communication devices over the wireless communication network.

Distribution of sensor data among a group of wireless communication devices

A method, system, and medium are provided for operating a computing device and a mobile device to access computer software with a secure access and to access a packet network, and for operating a computer software on a mobile device with different computing devices. A mobile device is used to authenticate a user's access to computer software. The computer software may reside on the mobile device, the user's computing device, or another computing device. A unique identifier is stored in the mobile device associated with the computer software to enable the authentication.

Application digital rights management (DRM) and portability using a mobile device for authentication

A method and system for registering a client for a call-pickup service and for executing the call-pickup service for a new call placed to a given communication device. The call-pickup service may carried out, in part, by providing the client with notification of when the new call is placed to the given communication device, the client requesting that the new call be re-routed to a location other than the given communication device, and a server re-routing the new call to the location other than the given communication device. The location other than the given communication device may be the client that registers for the call-pickup service or another location.

Dynamic registration for call-pickup group membership, and selective rerouting of calls

An embodiment of the current invention is directed to displaying additional data related to a mobile video stream. A mobile video stream is received via a network interface. Metadata related to the mobile video stream is acquired. The mobile video stream is displayed on a display device. A communications link to a mediation server is established. The metadata are communicated to the mediation server. Additional data is received from the mediation server and is displayed.

Augmenting media streams using mediation servers

A system and method for routing calls based on the different fee structure between voice and data is disclosed. The origination type for an incoming call is determined. When the incoming call is a VoIP call then the call is routed based, in part, on selecting the minimum fee required to terminate the call.

System and method for jurisdictional routing

A communication gateway receives an Internet Protocol (IP) message sourced from a first IP address and directed to a second IP address. The gateway associates the first IP address with a code. The gateway processes the second IP address to identify a Radio Access Network (RAN) address. The gateway transfers the IP message directed to the RAN address and sourced from the second IP address. The IP message uses the code as the source port number. A base station receives the IP message, and in response to the RAN address, wirelessly transfers the IP message to a routing system. The routing system wirelessly receives the IP message and forwards the IP message based on the second IP address which is now in the source address field.

Message address manipulation using source port codes

A mobile node is associated with a username assigned by the mobile node's wireless service provider and a nickname selected by the mobile node's user. The nickname is different than the username. When the mobile node logs on for packet data services, the mobile node is assigned a home address and an on-line registration is established in a DNS server. The on-line registration associates the nickname with the home address. The DNS server may then be queried to determine that the mobile node with that nickname is on-line and/or to determine how to reach the mobile node with that nickname. When the mobile node goes off-line, the on-line registration may be changed to an off-line registration that associates the nickname with an address of a messaging server. The messaging server may receive messages for the mobile node and/or provide messages indicating that the mobile node is off-line.

Method and system for registering a nickname associated with a mobile node

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Leawood, KS, United States of America

Von Karl McConnell