Patent application number | Description | Published |
20100115096 | RESOURCE SHARING OVER WIRELESS PERSONAL AREA NETWORKS - Apparatuses and methods to establish and share resources over a personal area network are provided. The units sharing similar functions or common applications are connected by a personal area network such as a ZigBee network such that a selected one of the units sharing the functions or applications runs the application or function for each of the connected units. the similar function or common applications may include, for example, location determinations, data transmission, or the like. The selection of the one unit to run the application may be based on battery charge, processor capacity, or the like. | 05-06-2010 |
20100250134 | DEAD RECKONING ELEVATION COMPONENT ADJUSTMENT - The subject matter disclosed herein relates to adjusting an elevation component of a estimated location based, at least in part, on sensor-based dead reckoning. | 09-30-2010 |
20100273418 | STATIC NODES POSITIONING IN A WIRELESS NETWORK - Positions in a region serviced by a short range wireless network are established by defining a grid for the region. The grid is divided into a plurality of cells having a predetermined size. A plurality of static nodes can be placed in the cells. A network identifier that is associated with a standard protocol for the network is assigned to each of the static nodes. The identifier is assigned so as to identify the node and to represent a set of X, Y coordinates associated the cell where static node is located. The X,Y coordinate are assigned to the identifier without deviating from the standard protocol. The identifier is periodically broadcast from the static nodes. A cell of the grid within which a mobile node is located is estimated based on the identifier and an additional parameter received from one of the static nodes. | 10-28-2010 |
20110260858 | HYBRID TRACKING DEVICE - Apparatus and methods for tracking various assets. The apparatus includes a hybrid tracking device (HTD) for tracking an associated asset. The HTD includes a personal area network (PAN) transceiver to couple the HTD to a gateway, proxy or slave HTDs. The HTD may include a sensor to generate sensor information. Alternatively, the sensor information is generated remotely. The sensor information includes a determined location and/or information characteristic of an HTD or its environment. Sensor information from one sensor is used to represent HTDs separated by the PAN. The HTD may also include a wide area network (WAN) transceiver to communicate with an asset tracking server. | 10-27-2011 |
20110280167 | WIRELESS PERSONAL AREA NETWORK COORDINATOR - Systems and methods for saving power by a personal area network (PAN) coordinator are described herein. A PAN coordinator is provided to form a wireless PAN with one or more devices. Further, the PAN coordinator enters a sleep state to save power. The wireless PAN is available when the PAN coordinator enters an active state. | 11-17-2011 |
20120208605 | MOBILE DEVICE POWER OPTIMIZATION WITH PERIPHERAL SENSORS WITH STANDARD INTERFACES - Methods and systems for using sensors on peripherals with mobile devices are disclosed. The peripherals connect with the mobile device using standard interfaces that are normally used for other functional devices. Using sensor data from the peripheral, the power consumption of the mobile device can be reduced. | 08-16-2012 |
20140089610 | Dynamically Improving Performance of a Host Memory Controller and a Memory Device - Methods, apparatuses, systems, and computer-readable media for dynamically improving performance of a host memory controller and a hosted memory device are presented. According to one or more aspects, a memory controller may establish a data connection with a memory device. The memory controller may perform a first write operation of a plurality of write operations to the memory device using a first block size. Subsequently, the memory controller may perform a second write operation of the plurality of write operations to the memory device using a second block size different from the first block size. The memory controller then may determine an optimal value for a block size parameter based at least in part on the plurality of write operations. Thereafter, the memory controller may use the optimal value for the block size parameter in performing one or more regular tasks involving the memory device. | 03-27-2014 |
20140101511 | Algorithm for Optimal Usage of External Memory Tuning Sequence - A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for optimally tuning a memory card in a host device are provided. The apparatus determines at least one tuning parameter associated with the memory card, initiates a reading operation with the memory card, and sends a tuning command to the memory card based on the at least one tuning parameter. The at least one tuning parameter includes a temperature of the memory card, a time elapsed since a last tuning sequence was performed, a number of data blocks sent from the memory card to the host device, and/or a number of transactions between the memory card and the host device. The apparatus also reads data from the memory card, detects a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) error associated with the read data, and sends the tuning command to the memory card upon detecting the CRC error. | 04-10-2014 |
20140254446 | WIRELESS PERSONAL AREA NETWORK DEVICE - Systems and methods for saving power by a personal area network (PAN) coordinator and a device are described herein. A PAN coordinator is provided to form a wireless PAN with one or more of the devices. Further, the PAN coordinator and the devices enter sleep states to save power. The wireless PAN is available when the PAN coordinator enters an active state. | 09-11-2014 |