| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 368021000 | PLURAL TIME ZONES | 42 |
| 20090168609 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATIC TIME-ZONE SENSITIVE SCHEDULING - A system that enables a user to indicate time zones in their electronic calendar for corresponding time periods in the future, and that makes the future time zone information it collects available for scheduling purposes, so that free time can be correctly determined even for frequently traveling users. The disclosed system further automatically provides indications to the user when input future free time information creates local times for previously scheduled calendar events that are outside of the user's regular working hours. | 07-02-2009 |
| 20090207699 | TIMEPIECE, ESPECIALLY WRISTWATCH COMPRISING A MAIN DISPLAY AND A MECHANISM ACTUATING AT LEAST ONE SECONDARY DISPLAY - The mechanism is driven by the hour wheel of the timepiece and has at least one secondary display comprising a polygonal or round hand or indicator rotating around a track of the secondary display and indicating on its visible surface names of cities or countries separated according to their respective time zones, the names of cities or countries being marked around the circumference of the hand or indicator opposite the hours on the track. | 08-20-2009 |
| 20090285056 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD PROVIDING IMPROVED WORLD CLOCK FEATURE - An improved electronic device and method provide an improved clock feature that includes an improved world clock function. | 11-19-2009 |
| 20100067332 | Watch with a Time Zone Display - A watch includes a conventional hour hand and minute hand. The watch also includes a time zone display with a window in which information regarding a time zone is placed on a disc. This time zone includes a time display comprising at least one hour display, which may also be realized by a window in that an hour display for the displayed time zone is placed on a disc. A crown with a depressor is then provided, which is mechanically connected to the time zone display or the time display for the displayed time zone such that, by actuating the depressor, at least the hour hand may be brought into synchronization with the time zone determined by the time zone display. In this manner, the new local time may be set according to a predetermined time zone by a single operation without stopping the clockwork. | 03-18-2010 |
| 20100091615 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD PROVIDING IMPROVED MANAGEMENT OF MULTIPLE TIMES FROM MULTIPLE TIME ZONES - An improved electronic device and method provide an improved clock feature that includes a time zone management function which enables multiple times from multiple time zones to be managed by the user. Responsive to a detection that the electronic device has been moved from one time zone to another, a dialog is initiated wherein the user is queried whether a current time on the electronic device should be changed and whether multiple times should be output on the display. | 04-15-2010 |
| 20100214878 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING A CALENDAR DATABASE FOR TIME ZONE SHIFTING - A system, method and apparatus for processing a calendar database for time zone shifting are provided. The calendar database is processed to determine a first set of event data associated with a first time zone and a second set of event data associated with a second time zone. Time zone calendar view data is produced, the time zone calendar view data enabled to control a display device to produce a time zone calendar view comprising representations of the first set and the second set sorted according to their associated time zones, said representations displayed on a timeline adjacent to one another, with concurrent times in each of the first time zone and second time zone temporally aligned. A display device is controlled, via the time zone calendar view data, to produce the time zone calendar view. | 08-26-2010 |
| 20110216628 | MAINTAINING DATE AND TIME WITH TIME ZONE RULE CHANGES - A method and system for maintaining date and time information correctly across rule changes for time zones is provided. A time maintenance system provides rules for converting dates and times between various time zones and a common time zone. When the time maintenance system receives a date and time in a designated time zone, it converts the date and time to a date and time in the common time zone based on a provided rule. The time maintenance system then stores the converted date and time along with an identification of the rule used to convert the date and time to the common time zone. The time maintenance system may then receive an indication of an overriding rule that overrides an existing rule for converting a date and time between the designated time zone and the current time zone. The time maintenance system then updates the stored date and time when the rule has been overridden in such a way as to indicate that the original date and time is no longer correct and to indicate the new rule. | 09-08-2011 |
| 20110280108 | Electronic Device - An electronic device that can display the current time reduces the number of times that the time must be manually set. The electronic device | 11-17-2011 |
| 20120033531 | Electronic Device and Method Providing Improved World Clock Feature - An improved electronic device and method provide an improved clock feature that includes an improved world clock function. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120075960 | Time Display Device and Method of Displaying Time - A time display device and a method of displaying time in both 12-hour and 24-hour systems and in any time zones are disclosed. The time display device includes a first time display component which may include a 12-hour system circular member, a second time display component which may include a 24-hour system circular member, and a time zone display member. The time display device also includes a time indication component which may include at least an hour hand for indicating the hour of a time on both 12-hour and 24-hour circular members. The hour hand and the time zone display member advance at a speed of one complete turn every 12 hours. The 24-hour circular member advances at half of the speed of the hour hand. Time zone markings on the time zone display member indicate time in different time zones as shown on the 24-hour circular member. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120134240 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD PROVIDING IMPROVED MANAGEMENT OF MULTIPLE TIMES FROM MULTIPLE TIME ZONES - An improved electronic device and method provide an improved clock feature that includes a time zone management function which enables multiple times from multiple time zones to be managed by the user. Responsive to a detection that the electronic device has been moved from one time zone to another, a dialog is initiated wherein the user is queried whether a current time on the electronic device should be changed and whether multiple times should be output on the display. | 05-31-2012 |
| 20130003504 | UNIVERSAL TIMEPIECE DIAL, ANALOGICAL TIMEPIECE AND DIGITAL TIMEPIECE COMPRISING THE DIAL. - A world timepiece dial comprising a first ring ( | 01-03-2013 |
| 20130003505 | Electronic Device and Method Providing Improved World Clock Feature - An improved electronic device and method provide an improved clock feature that includes an improved world clock function. | 01-03-2013 |
| 20130077448 | ELECTRONIC TIMEPIECE - An electronic timepiece includes: a radio-wave receiving unit; a time acquiring unit that acquires time information and daylight-saving-time implementation information; a storage unit that stores predetermined information associated with a time in a preset area; and a calculation unit that calculates a current time in the preset area, wherein the predetermined information includes daylight-saving-time setting information; and when the time of switching to/from daylight saving time comes during a radio-wave reception process, the calculation unit determines whether a first or second condition is satisfied, wherein the first condition is that radio-wave reception has failed; and the second condition is that the daylight-saving-time implementation information is information provided before the time of switching; and when the first or second condition is satisfied, the calculation unit switches the time to calculate current time. | 03-28-2013 |
| 20130121116 | CONTROL APPARATUS FOR AN ELECTRONIC STOPWATCH - The present invention provides an apparatus for controlling an electronic stop watch. The apparatus comprises a controller and a transmission media. The controller includes a keyboard for inputting a datum and an output port outputting the datum to the electronic stopwatch. The transmission media connects the electronic stopwatch with the controller, through one of a wire connection and a wireless connection. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130182541 | Display for Use in Managing Movement of a Patient in a Bed - A system is provided for communicating to health care workers the turning, positioning and schedule requirements of dependent patients with pressure ulcers, or at risk for the development of pressure ulcers. The system includes a display indicating a clock face divided into sections each with a respective window location for displaying graphics of a display element illustrating a required lying position for the patient. Each of the display elements comprises a disk mounted on the substrate for rotation about a center axis thereof at right angles to the substrate with the graphics arranged thereon at angularly spaced positions around the axis so as to rotate a selected one of the graphics to the window to be displayed. | 07-18-2013 |
| 20130329529 | DEVICE FOR DISPLAYING MULTIPLE TIMES - A device for displaying multiple times, includes a first time-displaying member ( | 12-12-2013 |
| 20140078869 | UNIVERSAL TIMEPIECE - The universal timepiece comprises a winter/summer switching mechanism ( | 03-20-2014 |
| 20140247700 | Electronic Timepiece and Time Correction Method of Electronic Timepiece - An electronic timepiece includes a timing unit that receives a satellite signal transmitted from a positioning information satellite and acquires time information; a positioning unit that receives the satellite signal transmitted from the positioning information satellite and acquires positioning information of a current location; a time zone setting unit that sets time zone information based on the positioning information of the current location which is acquired by the positioning unit; a time display unit that has at least a first time display unit for displaying a first time and a second time display unit for displaying a second time; and a time zone correction unit that corrects the first time using the time zone data and that does not correct the second time using the time zone information, if the time zone setting unit sets the time zone information. | 09-04-2014 |
| 20140355391 | Electronic Device and Method Providing Improved World Clock Feature - An improved electronic device and method provide an improved clock feature that includes an improved world clock function. | 12-04-2014 |
| 20150146503 | ELECTRONIC TIMEPIECE - An electronic timepiece has an outside perimeter part disposed around a dial, hands, and a control unit. Further, 40 to 60 time zone indicators including time difference information representing the time difference between Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) and the standard time used in each time zone are on the outside perimeter part. The control unit indicates a specific time zone indicator with a hand. | 05-28-2015 |
| 20150323905 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR PROCESSING TIME ZONE IDENTIFIERS - According to some aspects, methods and apparatuses for processing time zone IDs are provided. A time zone ID may be received at a client device. After determining that the time zone ID is unknown to the client device, the client device may transmit a request for time zone rules for the received time zone ID. The request may be transmitted to a network component such as a server. If time zone rules for the received time zone ID are available, the network component may transmit the rules to the client device. | 11-12-2015 |
| 20160041530 | ELECTRONIC TIMEPIECE - An electronic timepiece includes: a timer unit configured to count date and time; a current position acquiring unit configured to acquire a current position; an associated position selecting unit configured to select an associated position preset according to a current position when the current position is acquired; a local time calculating unit configured to calculate local time at the current position and local time at the associated position based on the date and time counted by the timer unit, time difference information of the current position and time difference information of the associated position on differences in time from a predetermined reference position; and a display part configured to display the calculated local times simultaneously or by selectively switching therebetween. | 02-11-2016 |
| 20160054708 | DYNAMICALLY RECONFIGURING TIME ZONES IN REAL-TIME USING PLURAL TIME ZONE LIBRARIES - A method for dynamically reconfiguring time zones in real-time using plural time zone (TZ) libraries is provided. The method provides integrating a first time zone information data (TZID) version and a second TZID version into a TZ library in an operating system. A first configuration comprising the TZ library and the first TZID version is selected. Responsive to adjusting the first configuration to a second configuration comprising the TZ library and the second TZID version, the second configuration is used automatically without restarting the operating system and without restarting an application. | 02-25-2016 |
| 20160054709 | DYNAMICALLY RECONFIGURING TIME ZONES IN REAL-TIME USING PLURAL TIME ZONE LIBRARIES - A method for dynamically reconfiguring time zones in real-time using plural time zone (TZ) libraries is provided. The method provides integrating a first time zone information data (TZID) version and a second TZID version into a TZ library in an operating system. A first configuration comprising the TZ library and the first TZID version is selected. Responsive to adjusting the first configuration to a second configuration comprising the TZ library and the second TZID version, the second configuration is used automatically without restarting the operating system and without restarting an application. | 02-25-2016 |
| 20160091865 | TIME ZONE NOTIFICATION - One embodiment provides an information handling device, comprising: an output device; a processor operatively coupled to the output device; and a memory device that stores instructions executable by the processor to: obtain data including a time associated with a location of an entity; and provide, using the output device, a notification, wherein the notification comprises the data including a time associated with a location of the contact. Other aspects are described and claimed. | 03-31-2016 |
| 20160252885 | ELECTRONIC TIMEPIECE | 09-01-2016 |
| 20160378068 | Timepiece and Electronic Timepiece - An electronic timepiece includes a measured time display region, a reception state display region, and one indicating hand that indicates the measured time display region and the reception state display region. In addition, a scale indicating measured time measured by using a time measurement function is disposed in the measured time display region, and a scale indicating a reception state of a satellite signal is disposed in the reception state display region. The one indicating hand indicates the scale in the measured time display region when the time measurement function is executed, and indicates the scale in the reception state display region when the reception function is executed. | 12-29-2016 |
| 368022000 | With manually actuated display | 8 |
| 20090052284 | METHOD FOR CHANGING A TIME ZONE, AND TIMEPIECE THEREFOR - Method for switching the time zone indicated by a timepiece ( | 02-26-2009 |
| 20090103397 | COMPREHENSIVE TIME DETERMINING SYSTEM - A comprehensive time determining system includes a list of geographical locations located on a periphery thereof. The base section further includes a plurality of time zones associated with the geographical locations. The time zones are presented on a time strip on the base section. The list of geographical locations on the base section includes locations using standard time only. A first movable section includes a northern hemisphere portion and a southern hemisphere portion. The northern hemisphere portion and the southern hemisphere portion are each independently movable relative to the base section. The northern hemisphere portion includes a list of northern hemisphere geographical locations. The southern hemisphere portion includes a list of southern hemisphere geographical locations. The lists on the first movable sections contains locations using dual time, the northern hemisphere portion and the southern hemisphere portion being movable to select a desired position depending on the season. The first movable section is so arranged and constructed to allow the user to be able to view the time strip located on the base section. A second movable section includes a rotatable dial, the dial being rotatable relative to the base section and to the first movable section. The dial includes evenly spaced markers positioned about a periphery thereof representing the hours in a day. During use, an operator selects a location on either the base section or the first movable section and adjusts the first movable section depending on the season, and sets the dial so that a reference time on the dial element is set to a reference time on the time strip. The user can then use the evenly spaced markers on the dial to determine time at any selected geographical location on the base section or first movable section. | 04-23-2009 |
| 20100054088 | TIME COUNTING ASSEMBLY WITH A DISPLAY FOR WORLD TIME ZONES - A time counting assembly with a display for world time zones comprised of a power source, a second counter, a minute counter, an hour counter, and a time zone display for displaying a correct time over a faceplate. Stir the time zone adjustable ring with the hand to align a first landmark of a local time zone with a fixed point and then calibrate the time counting assembly in accordance with the local time, and then stir the time zone adjustable ring with the hand to align a second landmark of another locating time zone with the fixed point such that the inner gear ring moves the planetary idle gear set and the planetary base wheel to shift engagement of the engaging hooks in the ratchet holes, and the front hour wheel is rotated on the planetary base wheel with a planetary movement along the minute wheel set to cause rotation of a meshed hour wheel so as to turn a hour hand to the time in accordance with the time zone corresponding to the second landmark. The direct time zone adjustment design greatly reduces the thickness of the assembly so that the time counting assembly is usable in a watch or low-profile timer while maintaining world time zone display and adjustable functions, and providing a modularized design function for ultra-thin time recording device. | 03-04-2010 |
| 20110032802 | WATCH WITH TIME ZONE DISPLAY - The analogue display watch includes two separate time displays ( | 02-10-2011 |
| 20110205852 | TIME ZONE ON DEMAND ON THE MAIN HANDS OF A TIMEPIECE - The invention concerns a mechanism ( | 08-25-2011 |
| 20130322218 | World Time Timepiece - A wearable timepiece having at least one rotateable elongated member, preferably a ring, under the dial, having a plurality of time zone indications thereon, wherein a controller controls the rotation of the at least one elongated member and causes an indicator to rotate in response to a selected time zone indication positioned in a viewing window in the dial, wherein the indicator points to indicia on the dial assembly that indicates to a user the time indicated by the selected time zone indication. | 12-05-2013 |
| 20140003198 | UNIVERSAL TIMEPIECE | 01-02-2014 |
| 20160103427 | WORLD WATCH - A world watch capable of automatically adjusting displayed information otherwise indicating time of day around the world upon occurrence of a daylight savings time event. | 04-14-2016 |
| 368023000 | With a world globe | 1 |
| 20120182839 | Timepiece With Indication of the Time Zone Corresponding to a Chosen Time - The invention concerns a timepiece comprising, in addition to the usual hour and minute hands, a disc on which there is represented a circular map of the world divided into time zones and a pointer designating one particular time zone corresponding to a time chosen by the user. | 07-19-2012 |
| 368027000 | With movable disk display | 5 |
| 20080198696 | Timepiece - The invention concerns a timepiece comprising a dial provided with means ( | 08-21-2008 |
| 20090323477 | UNIVERSAL WRISTWATCH AND RELEVANT TIME SETTING SYSTEM IN TWELFTHS AND TWENTY-FOURTHS ACCORDING TO THE DIFFERENT TIME ZONE - Universal wristwatch and the relevant system for setting the time according to the time zone. The wristwatch ( | 12-31-2009 |
| 20130100780 | Timer Movement with a Display for World Time Zones - The present invention relates to a timer movement with a display for world time zones. While operating, by aligning the landmark of local time zone with a fixed point for calibrating the local time, then turning a time zone adjustable ring to the landmark of another time zone to be aligned with the fixed point, an inner gear ring of the time zone adjustable ring can drive a planetary idle gear, a planetary driven gear and a planetary base gear to rotate, and each elastic positioning ball is sequentially buckled and positioned along each positioning hole, and a first front hour wheel is enabled to perform planetary motion about a first minute wheel set on the planetary base gear, so as to rotate the first hour wheel meshed therewith for displacing a first hour hand to display the time of first location at the landmark of another time zone. | 04-25-2013 |
| 20130343163 | UNIVERSAL WATCH - Universal watch ( | 12-26-2013 |
| 20140321247 | TIME PIECE CAPABLE OF DISPLAYING TWO TIME ZONES | 10-30-2014 |
