Patent application number | Description | Published |
20130096726 | Home Appliance That Can Operate In A Time Range - A home appliance can operate in a future time frame. Information is obtained from a power distributor in order to determine a time when to operate the home appliance in this future time frame. The home appliance then operates at the time determined with information from the power distributor. | 04-18-2013 |
20140195345 | CUSTOMIZING ADVERTISEMENTS TO USERS - A computer system analyzes a user profile of a user and determines a product that the user expressed an interest in purchasing. A template video for the product is obtained. This template video is modified to include personal information about the user in order to generate a customized advertisement that is unique to the user. The customized advertisement is presented to the user. | 07-10-2014 |
20140244744 | EXCHANGING PERSONAL INFORMATION TO DETERMINE A COMMON INTEREST - A user agent of a user selects another user having a user agent. The user agents exchange personal information about the user and personal information about the other user. The user agent determines whether a common interest exists between the two users based on the exchange of personal information. The other user is added to a social networking webpage of the user when the user agent determines that a common interest exists. | 08-28-2014 |
20140297742 | PEER-TO-PEER DATA STORAGE - A determination is made of users that form a group within a social network in which the users communicate with each other over a network with electronic devices in a client-server architecture. The users in the group within the social network form a peer-to-peer (P2P) storage group within a P2P storage network. In the P2P storage network, users are peers that act as a client and a server for each other. | 10-02-2014 |
20140313551 | COVER FOR HANDHELD PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A method displays a template, an HPED, and an image selector. The template is marked with zones to display selected images, and the HPED includes a cover that has surfaces to display the selected images. The image selector displays images that when selected appear as the selected images on the zones of the template and on the surfaces of the cover. The template is printed with the selected images and folded into the cover that has a form factor of the HPED. | 10-23-2014 |
20140316853 | Determine a Product from Private Information of a User - A user agent of a user obtains private information that is restricted from being disclosed to third parties except the user and the user agent. This private information is analyzed to predict a product that the user desires to purchase. An identity of the user and an identity of the product are provided to a third party without disclosing any of the private information to the third party. | 10-23-2014 |
20140330649 | Displaying Targeted Advertisements to Users - A targeted advertisement is retrieved for a first user, and a targeted advertisement is retrieved for a second user. The targeted advertisements are switched such that the targeted advertisement intended for the first user plays on a display of an electronic device of the second user, and the targeted advertisement intended for the second user plays on a display of an electronic device of the first user while the first and second users communicate. | 11-06-2014 |
20140359439 | User Agent with Personality - A method builds a personality of a user agent that is based on verbal and nonverbal communication preferences of a person. The user agent executes a search request from a user and displays results to the search request based on the personality of the user agent opposed to a personality of the user. | 12-04-2014 |
20140379153 | HOME APPLIANCE THAT CAN OPERATE IN A TIME RANGE - A home appliance can operate in a future time frame. Information is obtained from a power distributor in order to determine a time when to operate the home appliance in this future time frame. The home appliance then operates at the time determined with information from the power distributor. | 12-25-2014 |