Apparatus and methods of providing and receiving venue level transmissions and services

US8635645B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• QUALCOMM Incorporated · US

Inventors

• Raghuraman Krishnamoorthi · San Diego, US
• Pankaj V. Rahate · San Diego, US
• Pankaj Jain · San Jose, US
• Devarshi Shah · San Diego, US
• Pavel A. Seliverstov · San Diego, US
• George Allen Rothrock · San Diego, US
• Nilabh Khare · San Diego, US
• Anil K. Wadhwani · San Diego, US
• Jiming Guo · Beijing, CN
• Sanjiv Nanda · Ramona, US
• Fuyun Ling · Beijing, CN
• Murali Ramaswamy Chari · San Diego, US
• Avneesh Agrawal · San Diego, US
• Rinat Burdo · San Diego, US
• Prasanna Kannan · San Diego, US
• Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli · San Diego, US
• Reynaldo W. Newman · San Diego, US
• Michael Mingxi Fan · San Diego, US
• Manoj M. Deshpande · San Diego, US
• Ranjith Jayaram · San Diego, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 29, 2009
• Grant date: Jan 21, 2014
• Expiry date: Dec 11, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04W48/16
• WIPO field: Audio-visual technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A venue-cast system and method for providing and receiving venue level transmissions and services, including discovery of a venue specific transmission by receiving an overhead signal from a non-venue network, extracting information for receiving the venue specific transmission from the overhead signal, and tuning to receive the venue specific transmission based on the extracted information. The venue level transmission may be provided and received in a manner that does not prevent an access terminal from receiving a local area or wide area transmission.