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20080238105 | FLUID DRIVEN ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION SYSTEM - A tubular housing includes at least one fixed helical vane formed onto the inner surfaces of the tubular housing in a spiral and adapted to direct fluid into a spiraled flow and focus fluid onto a fan blade assembly associated with an alternator system and located within the tubular housing before a system exhaust. A generator cone can be mounted near the center and front of the fan blade assembly facing fluid passing through the tubular housing. As fluid passes over the generator cone it experiences compression between the generator cone and housing resulting in increased pressure and velocity of the fluid, thereby increasing rotational speed of the generator blades and generator as the compressed, spiraled fluid passes through the blades and exits the tubular housing. The system can be used for fixed or mobile applications in water, wind and manually induced air flow. | 10-02-2008 |
20080253941 | ULTRAVIOLET (UV) RADIATION SOURCE-BASED SURFACE DISINFECTION SYSTEM - A UV radiation-based surface disinfection system disinfects contaminated surfaces by providing disinfecting UV radiation that eliminates pathogens or microbes from the target surface that it irradiates/illuminates. The system includes a housing adapted to contain UV radiation sources and operate as a UV shield and director, at least one UV radiation (light) emitting source mounted within said housing for providing disinfecting UV radiation from said housing onto a target surface, and at least one of a range sensor and timer. UV radiation source(s) can be mounted on a rotating or sliding assembly within the main assembly to disinfect the preferred surface. The UV radiation source(s) can also be mounted in a portable handheld assembly having a range sensor for enhanced safety during use. The system can be powered by standard AC electrical power or batter sources. | 10-16-2008 |
20080272603 | WIND-DRIVEN ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION SYSTEM - A system generating electrical power from wind includes a cowling to capture wind and directs it into a tubular housing. At least one fixed helical vane can be integrated into the inner surfaces of the tubular housing in a spiral, adapted to further direct the captured wind into a spiraled air flow and focus the wind directly onto electrical generator fan blades located near an exhaust of the system. A generator cone can be mounted at the front of the generator or fan blades facing air passing through the tubular housing. As air passes over the generator cone it can experience compression between the generator cone and housing resulting in increased pressure and velocity of the air, thereby increasing rotational speed of the generator blades and generator as the compressed air passes through the blades and exits the system's exhaust. The system can be used for fixed or mobile applications. | 11-06-2008 |
20100143204 | PORTABLE DECONTAMINATION AND DEODORIZATION SYSTEMS - Portable decontamination and deodorization systems configured to decontaminate a target environment for specified periods of time. A housing contains pressurized media. A spherical media diffuser can be connected to and controlled by a sphere retainer module and a funnel-like orifice can be located under a lower hemisphere of the spherical media diffuser to move the spherical media diffuser and over the funnel-like orifice creating a gap there-between to evenly distribute chemical in a fog or spray throughout a room. a valve controller can be coupled by tubing between media contained in said housing and the gap formed between the spherical media diffuser and funnel-like orifice. | 06-10-2010 |
20100230973 | WIND-DRIVEN ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION SYSTEM ADAPTED FOR MOUNTING ALONG THE SIDE OF VERTICAL, MAN-MADE STRUCTURES SUCH AS LARGE BUILDINGS - A updraft wind powered electrical generator system mountable to sides of a vertical, man-made structures facing prevailing winds. The updraft system includes a tubular housing that can include at least one fixed helical vane formed onto the inner surfaces of the tubular housing in a spiral and adapted to direct wind into a spiraled flow and focus fluid onto a fan blade assembly associated with an alternator system and located within the tubular housing before a system exhaust. A generator cone can be mounted near the center and front of the fan blade assembly facing wind passing through the tubular housing. As wind passes over the generator cone it experiences compression between the generator cone and housing resulting in increased pressure and velocity of the fluid, thereby increasing rotational speed of the generator blades and generator as the compressed, spiraled fluid passes through the blades and exits the tubular housing. | 09-16-2010 |
20110285134 | FLUID DRIVEN ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION SYSTEM - A tubular housing can include at least one fixed helical vane formed onto the inner surfaces of the tubular housing in a spiral and adapted to direct fluid into a spiraled flow and focus fluid onto a fan blade assembly associated with an alternator system and located within the tubular housing before a system exhaust. A generator cone can be mounted near the center and front of the fan blade assembly facing fluid passing through the tubular housing. As fluid passes over the generator cone it experiences compression between the generator cone and housing resulting in increased pressure and velocity of the fluid, thereby increasing rotational speed of the generator blades and generator as the compressed, spiraled fluid passes through the blades and exits the tubular housing. The system can be used for fixed or mobile applications in water, wind and manually induced fluid flow. | 11-24-2011 |
20110285135 | FLUID DRIVEN ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION SYSTEM - A tubular housing includes at least one fixed helical vane formed onto the inner surfaces of the tubular housing in a spiral and adapted to direct fluid into a spiraled flow and focus fluid onto a fan blade assembly associated with an alternator system and located within the tubular housing before a system exhaust. A generator cone can be mounted near the center and front of the fan blade assembly facing fluid passing through the tubular housing. As fluid passes over the generator cone it experiences compression between the generator cone and housing resulting in increased pressure and velocity of the fluid, thereby increasing rotational speed of the generator blades and generator as the compressed, spiraled fluid passes through the blades and exits the tubular housing. The system can be used for fixed or mobile applications in water, wind and manually induced fluid flow. | 11-24-2011 |
20150016955 | FLUID DRIVEN ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION SYSTEM - A tubular housing can include at least one fixed helical vane formed onto the inner surfaces of the tubular housing in a spiral and adapted to direct fluid into a spiraled flow and focus fluid onto a fan blade assembly associated with an alternator system and located within the tubular housing before a system exhaust. A generator cone can be mounted near the center and front of the fan blade assembly facing fluid passing through the tubular housing. As fluid passes over the generator cone it experiences compression between the generator cone and housing resulting in increased pressure and velocity of the fluid, thereby increasing rotational speed of the generator blades and generator as the compressed, spiraled fluid passes through the blades and exits the tubular housing. The system can be used for fixed or mobile applications in water, wind and manually induced fluid flow. | 01-15-2015 |
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20080229100 | SECURE DATA MANAGEMENT USING NON-VOLATILE MEMORY - In one embodiment, encrypted data is received from an authenticated remote host at a non-volatile memory. The encrypted data includes received user data, received data volatility information, and received data validity rules. The encrypted data is stored in the non-volatile memory, and a data volatility flag and data valid flag in the non-volatile memory device are set based on the received data volatility information and the received data validity rules. The data may be read from the non-volatile memory by a user if data access is permissible as determined by the data volatility flag and the data valid flag set by the remote host. | 09-18-2008 |
20090163226 | Device, system, and method of power saving using location sensing modules - A method, apparatus and system for, in a computing apparatus, periodically activating a location operating system detecting a substantial change in the location of the apparatus, selecting a computing environment from a predetermined set of computing environments based on the change in the location of the apparatus, where the selected computing environment may be the most appropriate computing environment for the changed location, and altering the power mode of one or more components of the apparatus, specified by the selected computing environment. | 06-25-2009 |
20090164772 | LOCATION BASED POLICY SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CHANGING COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS - A system and method for changing compute environments for a mobile platform device. The mobile platform includes a sensory and location determination engine coupled to a policy engine. The sensory and location determination engine determines a current location of the mobile platform device and the policy engine determines what applications to launch, what applications not to launch, and what core usage to invoke for the determined location of the mobile platform device. | 06-25-2009 |
20110078758 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING USE OF CONTEXT INFORMATION OF A USER - A method and device for controlling use of context information of a user includes establishing a context policy enforcement engine on a mobile computing device. The context policy enforcement engine may be embodied as software and/or hardware components. The context policy enforcement engine retrieves context policy data in response to receiving a request for context information related to a user. The context policy data defines a set of context rules for responding to context requests. The context policy enforcement engine responds to the request based on the set of context rules. | 03-31-2011 |
20110161848 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR MANAGING SECURITY EVENTS - A method and device for managing security events includes establishing a security event manager on a mobile computing device. The security event manager may be embodied as software and/or hardware components. The security event manager receives security event data from a plurality of security event sources of the mobile computing device and correlates the security event data based on a security policy to determine whether a security event has occurred. The security event manager responds to the security event based on the security policy. | 06-30-2011 |
20120124662 | METHOD OF USING DEVICE MOTION IN A PASSWORD - Processing a password in a mobile computing device may be accomplished by sensing movement of the mobile computing device by an accelerometer of the mobile computing device in three dimensional space; capturing first directional motion information representing the movement as at least a portion of an entered password; comparing the entered password to a password previously stored in the mobile computing device, the stored password comprising second captured directional motion information; and allowing access to the mobile computing device by a user when the entered password matches the stored password. The movement of the mobile computing device required for the password may be set by the user during a password training phase of operating the mobile computing device. | 05-17-2012 |
20120173897 | LOCATION BASED POLICY SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CHANGING COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS - A system and method for changing computing environments for a mobile platform device. The mobile platform includes a sensory and location determination engine coupled to a policy engine. The sensory and location determination engine determines a current location of the mobile platform device and the policy engine determines what applications to launch, what applications not to launch, and what core usage to invoke for the determined location of the mobile platform device. | 07-05-2012 |
20130297424 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO AUTOMATE HAGGLING BEFORE PHYSICAL POINT-OF-SALE COMMERCE - In one example embodiment of a method for automating business negotiations, a vendor offers a product for sale at an original price. Subsequently, an automated haggling system receives a counteroffer to buy the product from a mobile device controlled by a shopper. The counteroffer proposes a second price for the product. In response to the counteroffer, the automated haggling system automatically determines whether the second price is acceptable. This determination may be based on data from a negotiation database with data identifying acceptable reduced prices. If the counteroffer proposes an acceptable price, the automated haggling system sends a message to the mobile device of the shopper to signify acceptance the counteroffer. In response to a determination that the shopper is purchasing the product at a point-of-sale (POS) station, the POS station automatically charges the shopper the negotiated price tier the product. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 11-07-2013 |
20140004834 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GESTURE-BASED MANAGEMENT | 01-02-2014 |
20140004891 | MECHANISM FOR FACILITATING DYNAMIC REAL-TIME CUSTOMIZATION OF MESSAGING FOR COMPUTING SYSTEMS | 01-02-2014 |
20140007008 | TECHNIQUES FOR SELECT-HOLD-RELEASE ELECTRONIC DEVICE NAVIGATION MENU SYSTEM | 01-02-2014 |
20140108320 | PREFERENCE PREDICTION TOOL - In accordance with some embodiments of the present invention, information about a user's activities and habits may be collected on an ongoing basis with the user's permission. This information about previous history can then tied to inferences that enable predictions about the user's preferences. As a result, when it comes time for the user to make a decision or a selection, information about past history and permissible inferences can be used to automatically provide suggestions for implementing future activities. In addition, in some cases this previous history information can be used to optimize future selections. | 04-17-2014 |
20140149257 | Customized Shopping - An embodiment of the invention includes a network-accessible compute node, which includes a local storage storing reference images. Each reference image can depict one or more preferences, which can include a quality, a feature, a characteristic, an attribute, a type, and/or a form. Each preference can be associated with a distinctive pattern and a preference criterion. An embodiment includes an optimization module. The optimization module can learn the distinctive patterns from the reference images. The optimization module can also access a remote storage storing images of commodities and use pattern recognition to identify, from the remote storage, one or more images of commodities meeting the preference criterion selected by a user. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 05-29-2014 |
20140172828 | PERSONALIZED SEARCH LIBRARY BASED ON CONTINUAL CONCEPT CORRELATION - A system, devices, and methods for providing a personalized search library based on continual concept correlation include a client computing device and a personalized content server. Content events representing content accessed or manipulated by a user of the client computing device are continually generated. Content associated with the content events is continually parsed and analyzed to extract main concepts. The extracted concepts are correlated and weighted into a concept model, based on the order of the content events. The concept model parallels the structure of the user's memory. Data sources are continually searched for content relevant to a current context of the concept model. Relevant content is indexed according to the concept model. The relevant content may be made available to the user upon request or proactively. Relevant content may be cached for future use by the user. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 06-19-2014 |
20140189603 | Gesture Based Partition Switching - Generally, a user records one or more user-specific gestures to enable switching from one partition to another using the gesture recorder. Information relating to the recorded gestures is stored in a data storage. Once a user-defined gesture is recorded, a context switcher detects a user performed gesture corresponding to the recorded gesture. Then the context switcher automatically switches from one environment to another environment. | 07-03-2014 |
20140214673 | METHOD FOR AUTHENTICATION USING BIOMETRIC DATA FOR MOBILE DEVICE E-COMMERCE TRANSACTIONS - Generally, this disclosure describes authentication using biometric data for mobile device e-commerce transactions. A method may include capturing a mobile device user's biometric data; comparing the captured biometric data to authorized user biometric data stored on the mobile device; and authenticating an e-commerce transaction if the captured biometric data corresponds to the authorized user biometric data stored on the mobile device. | 07-31-2014 |
20140222328 | DYNAMIC ROUTE MAPPING BETWEEN MOBILE DEVICES - Generally, this disclosure describes dynamic route mapping between mobile devices. Techniques may include initiating communication between a first mobile device at a first location and a second mobile device at a second location; receiving a first location indicator by the second mobile device, the first location indicator transmitted from the first mobile device in response to a request from the second mobile device, the first location indicator corresponding to the first location; determining a convergence point based on at least one of the first location and the second location; mapping a travel route from at least one of the first location and the second location to the convergence point; and displaying the travel route on at least one of the first mobile device and the second mobile device. | 08-07-2014 |
20140250490 | AUTHENTICATING TO A NETWORK VIA A DEVICE-SPECIFIC ONE TIME PASSWORD - Generally, this disclosure describes a method and system for authenticating to a network via a device-specific one-time password. A method in an embodiment may include generating a first one-time password (OTP) based at least in part on a plurality of client device attributes; and providing the first OTP to an authenticator associated with a private network during a first session, wherein the authenticator is configured to authenticate the client device to at least one of the private network and protected content included in the private network for a second session following the first session based on the provided first OTPP. | 09-04-2014 |
20140267563 | COLLABORATIVE ENTERTAINMENT PLATFORM - Various systems and methods for a collaborative entertainment platform are herein described. A plurality of viewing devices configured to display images to respective screens may be identified. An application control command may be received from a viewing device in the plurality of viewing devices. An environmental indication may be received from at least one viewing device in the plurality of viewing devices. Display of a video stream may be synchronized at the plurality of viewing devices, where the video stream may include results of the application control command. The environmental indication may be presented to each viewing device in the plurality of viewing devices that is not the at least one viewing device. | 09-18-2014 |
20140273956 | MOTION INITIATED TELECONFERENCE - Systems and method may provide for a communication device that includes a primary communications module, a sensor, and a secondary wireless communications module. The sensor may detect a motion towards a second device while the communication device is involved in a real-time communication with one or more parties using the primary communications module. The secondary wireless communications module may invite the second device to join the real-time communication if the second device is authorized to take part in the real-time communication. | 09-18-2014 |
20140273962 | CALL HANDLING BASED ON USER PROFILE IDENTIFICATION - Technologies for handling a call based on user identification include determining a personal profile identification for a user of a communal mobile communication device and initiating a call to a personal communication device using a phone number of the personal communication device and the personal profile identification. The personal communication device may apply a call treatment to the incoming call based on the personal profile identification. Additionally, the personal communication device may originate a call to a call recipient of the communal mobile communication device using a personal profile identification to identify the call recipient. The communal mobile communication device may apply a call treatment to the incoming call based on the personal profile identification. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280794 | DEVICE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT BASED ON CONTEXTUAL PLANNING - Technologies for resource management include a mobile computing device configured to communicate with a resource database server. The mobile computing device determines a future context and sends a request to the server for resource information associated with a location defined by the future context. The server determines resources located at the location and sends the requested resource information to the mobile computing device. The mobile computing device automatically configures itself to use the resources. The mobile computing device may automatically download and configure device drivers for the resources. The resources may include printers, displays, and network connections. The resource information may be provided by third-party resource providers. The resource database server may provide recommendations, including travel information recommendations. The mobile computing device may monitor its current context and enable the resources at the location or notify a user of the availability of the resources. | 09-18-2014 |
20140282207 | INTEGRATION FOR APPLICATIONS AND CONTAINERS - A computing device for combining one or more containers of one or more applications is provided that includes a processor, a memory, and a dashboard module configured to access a first application that includes a plurality of first containers, access a second application that includes a plurality of second containers, and generate a dashboard based, at least in part, on the first application and the second application. A container mapping module can also be provided and configured to map a particular one of the plurality of first containers to a first functionality, and map a particular one of the plurality of second containers to a second functionality. The dashboard can include the particular one of the plurality of first containers and the particular one of the plurality of second containers, where the dashboard is provided at an assigned display location of the computing device. | 09-18-2014 |
20140282679 | DYNAMICALLY IMPLEMENTING AN IMAGE PROTECTION POLICY - Technologies for dynamically implementing an image protection policy include a camera device with a camera to capture an image of at least one person. The camera device determines a location in the image of at least one person in the image, determines a location of at least one personal computing device, and maps the personal computing devices to the persons captured in the image based on the determined device and image locations. The camera device may broadcast an announcement of the creation of the image to the personal computing devices, negotiate an image protection policy with each of the personal computing devices, and implement the negotiated image protection policy. | 09-18-2014 |
20140304076 | VARIABLE REWARD OFFERS BASED ON TRAVEL ROUTE - Generally, this disclosure describes variable reward offers based on travel route. Techniques may include mapping a travel route from a first location to a second location using a mobile device, the mobile device configured to display at least a portion of the travel route; requesting an interest profile from a user, the interest profile comprising a place of interest and a deviation distance; and receiving a reward offer related to the interest profile and the travel route by the mobile device, the reward offer configured to cause the user to deviate a deviation distance from the travel route to redeem the reward. | 10-09-2014 |
20150106870 | ANOMALY DETECTION ON WEB CLIENT - Embodiments for anomaly detection on a web client are generally described herein. A processor on the web client is monitored, where a web browser is installed on the web client, with the web browser arranged to render a web page, the web page including content originating from a plurality of origins. A request from the web page to store data on the web client is intercepted, with the request originating from a particular origin of the plurality of origins. The request is analyzed and approved or denied based on the particular origin. | 04-16-2015 |
20150156306 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GESTURE-BASED MANAGEMENT - A system includes a first mobile device configured to initiate communication with at least one other mobile device. The first mobile device includes a status indicator configured to provide a persistent visual indication to a user of the status of a mute function of the first user device during the active communication. The first mobile device further includes a user interface configured to receive predefined user input and allow the user to toggle between mute and un-mute states based on the user input regardless of whether a display of the device is shut off and/or the user interface is locked. | 06-04-2015 |