US 11,902,862 B2Granted

Service type symbols

AssigneeT-Mobile USA, Inc.

InventorsJohn Humbert, Scott Francis Migaldi, Hsin Fu Henry Chiang

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Abstract

A service type symbol may be presented on a display of a communication device to indicate a type of service supported or unsupported on the communication device over a network to which the communication device is presently connected. The communication device may determine a value of a parameter, may determine, based at least in part on the value of the parameter, a service type symbol from a set of multiple different service type symbols to present on a display of the communication device, and may present the symbol on the display. Service type symbols might include, among others, a video symbol corresponding to a video streaming service, a voice symbol corresponding to a voice calling service, a basic data symbol corresponding to a basic data service.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A communication device comprising:

a display;
one or more processors;
and
a memory storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:
determine a value of a parameter;
send, over a network to which the communication device is connected, the value of the parameter to a network device;
receive, over the network, an instruction from the network device;
determine, based at least in part on the value of the parameter and the instruction from the network device, a symbol from a set of multiple different symbols to present on the display, the symbol indicating a type of service that is supported on the communication device over the network, wherein the set of multiple different symbols includes at least one of a video symbol, a voice symbol, a web browsing symbol to indicate that a web browsing service is supported on the communication device over the network, or a basic data symbol to indicate that a basic data service is supported on the communication device over the network;
and
present the symbol on the display, wherein the symbol comprises at least one of:
the video symbol indicating that a video streaming service is supported on the communication device over the network;
or
the voice symbol indicating that a voice calling service is supported on the communication device over the network.

10 more elements

A processor-implemented method comprising:

determining a value of a parameter;
sending, over a network to which a communication device is connected, the value of the parameter to a network device;
receiving, over the network, an instruction from the network device;
determining, based at least in part on the value of the parameter and the instruction from the network device, a symbol from a set of multiple different symbols to present on a display, the symbol indicating a type of service that is supported on the communication device over the network, wherein the set of multiple different symbols includes at least one of a video symbol, a voice symbol, a web browsing symbol to indicate that a web browsing service is supported on the communication device over the network, or a basic data symbol to indicate that a basic data service is supported on the communication device over the network;
and
presenting the symbol on the display, wherein the symbol comprises at least one of:
the video symbol indicating that a video streaming service is supported on the communication device over the network;
or
the voice symbol indicating that a voice calling service is supported on the communication device over the network.

6 more elements

A system comprising:

A communication device comprising:
a display;
one or more processors;
and
a memory storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:
determine a value of a parameter;
send, over a network to which the communication device is connected, the value of the parameter to a network device;
receive, over the network, an instruction from the network device;
determine, based at least in part on the value of the parameter and the instruction from the network device, a symbol from a set of multiple different symbols to present on the display, the symbol indicating a type of service that is supported on the communication device over the network, wherein the set of multiple different symbols includes at least one of a video symbol, a voice symbol, a web browsing symbol to indicate that a web browsing service is supported on the communication device over the network, or a basic data symbol to indicate that a basic data service is supported on the communication device over the network;
and
present the symbol on the display, wherein the symbol comprises at least one of:
the video symbol indicating that a video streaming service is supported on the communication device over the network;
or
the voice symbol indicating that a voice calling service is supported on the communication device over the network.

11 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 17/409,507Filed 23 Aug 2021 · continuation
Priority: 14 Feb 2020
Published: US 2021/0258746 A19 Dec 2021
Granted: 13 Feb 2024
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification20 codes

H04L 65/1016
Architectures or entities: iP multimedia subsystem [IMS]
H04W 4/18
Services specially adapted for wireless communication networks; Facilities therefor: information format or content conversion, e.g. adaptation by…
H04B 7/0632
Feedback content: channel quality parameters, e.g. channel quality indicator [CQI]
H04L 5/0083
At predetermined intervals: symbol-by-symbol

Family

Application16/791,969Parent of this continuation · filed 14 Feb 2020
US 2021/0385626 A1Pre-grant publication · published 9 Dec 2021
US 11,102,627 B1Parent of this continuation
US 2021/0258746 A1Published application
US 11,902,862 B2This patent

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