Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090012705 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR DATA COMMUNICATION FOR MOBILE ELECTRONIC DEVICES - According to one embodiment of the invention, a method for discovering the presence of at least one source and target mobile device, automatically displaying a graphical interface to show the dataset from the source mobile device, and initiating the transmission of data between the mobile devices, is provided. The method further includes automatically receiving the dataset from the source mobile device, where the dataset is at least a representation of the data on the source device. In one embodiment, the representation is a subset of the data on the device and/or a description of the data on the mobile device. In another embodiment, a method for a navigation system to discover the presence of at least one mobile device, to automatically receive data from the mobile device, and to process the data with navigation operations, is provided. | 01-08-2009 |
20090037634 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EXTERNAL DATA TRANSFER IN A PERSONAL STORAGE DEVICE - A micro-watt class sensing device uses host-computer Input/Output (I/O) capabilities when transferring data to/from the host-computer directly from/to memory in the sensing device. This capability allows data to be directly transferred (downloaded/uploaded) to/from the host system at a higher rate when a host system is present. | 02-05-2009 |
20090113020 | UNSOLICITED AND UNCONFIRMED COMPUTING PLATFORM SERVICE INFORMATION - An apparatus and a system, as well as a method and article, may operate to receive solicited or unsolicited computing platform service information associated with services offered by a plurality of service points in a range area, store some portion of the received information, and periodically transmit, with or without confirmation, some portion of the stored information to one or more potential subscribers. | 04-30-2009 |
20090167635 | DEVICE, SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF APPENDING A DISPLAY OF A MOBILE DEVICE - Device, system, and method of appending a display of at least one mobile device. In some demonstrative embodiments, a mobile device may include a display; a wireless communication module to establish one or more wireless communication links with one or more or more other mobile devices having one or more other displays, respectively; a frame buffer having a first area allocated to buffer information to be displayed on the display; a frame buffer allocator to dynamically expand the frame buffer to include one or more additional areas allocated to buffer information to be displayed on the one or more other displays, respectively; and one or more remote-frame-buffer protocols to transfer the information from the one or more additional areas to the one or more mobile devices, respectively. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 07-02-2009 |
20090167774 | DEVICE, SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF USER-INTERFACE RENDERING - Device, system, and method of user-interface rendering. In some demonstrative embodiments, a mobile device may include a display having a first display area; a first user-interface application to render a first user-interface on the display; a second user-interface application to render a second user-interface adapted to be displayed on a second display having a display area larger than the first display area; a frame buffer allocated to buffer information of the first user-interface application; a second frame buffer allocated to buffer information of the second user-interface application; a wireless communication module to communicate with an external display over a wireless communication link; and a remote-frame-buffer protocol to transfer the information of the second user-interface from the second frame buffer to the second display via a wireless communication link. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 07-02-2009 |
20090170431 | DEVICE, SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF ESTABLISHING MULTIPLE WIRELESS CONNECTIONS - Device, system, and method of establishing multiple wireless connections. For example, a system includes: a tag to store wireless connection information readable by a mobile device, the wireless connection information including: a first connection information item including data to support establishment of a first wireless communication link between the mobile device and a first wireless device; and a second connection information item including data to support establishment of a second wireless communication link between the mobile device and a second wireless device. | 07-02-2009 |
20090170554 | DEVICE, SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF SELECTIVELY ACTIVATING A WIRELESS NETWORK CONNECTION - Device, system, and method of selectively activating a wireless network connection. In some demonstrative embodiments, a mobile device may include a wireless network communication unit capable of communicating with an access-point over a wireless network connection; a personal-area-network communication unit capable of communicating with one or more other mobile devices over one or more wireless personal-area-network connections, respectively; and a communication controller to mediate communications between the mobile devices and the access point when the wireless network connection is active, and to communicate with the access-point via at least one of the personal-area-network connections when the wireless network connection is not active. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 07-02-2009 |
20090171180 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONFIGURING WEARABLE SENSORS - A mobile device may use near field communication (NFC) technology to configuration a generic pool of wearable, wireless sensors that may occupy different physical locations on an end user s body. The wearable sensors have an embedded NFC tag in them such, that a mobile device, such as a mobile phone, with an NFC capability may be used to configure sensors in the field so that it recognizes which sensor is connected to which body part. Such a system may be used for example to monitor and report on the user's daily physical activity patterns or be used for video gaming applications where the user's physical movements are detected and utilized to control the game. | 07-02-2009 |
20090171882 | DEVICE, SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF KNOWLEDGE PROPAGATION FOR LOGICAL PLATFORM CREATION - Device, system, and method of knowledge propagation for logical platform creation. For example, an apparatus includes: a Dynamically Composable Computing (DCC) engine to store DCC information; and a knowledge sharing manager to automatically exchange DCC information stored in the DCC engine with DCC information stored in another DCC engine of another apparatus. | 07-02-2009 |
20090172583 | DEVICE, SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF COMPOSING LOGICAL COMPUTING PLATFORMS - Device, system, and method of composing logical computing platforms. For example, a wireless computing device includes: one or more wireless transceivers to send and receive wireless communication signals; a logical platform composition manager to provide a visual indication representing a logical platform that includes said wireless computing device and one or more wireless devices; and an input unit to receive a user selection corresponding to the visual representation; wherein, in response to the user selection, the logical platform composition manager is to command the one or more wireless transceivers to establish one or more wireless communication links between the wireless computing device and the one or more wireless devices. | 07-02-2009 |
20090243959 | DEVICE, SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF PROVIDING AN EXTENDED DISPLAY WITH DESIRED RELATIVE DISPLAY ORIENTATION - Device, system, and method of providing an extended display area with a desired relative display orientation. In some demonstrative embodiments, a mobile device may include a primary display that is extendible onto a remote display; a context sensor to provide an indication of the desired relative display orientation between first and second portions of the extended display area; and a connection module to determine the desired relative display orientation based on the provided indication, to associate the primary and remote displays, and to automatically configure the extended display area with the desired relative display orientation. The indication may be responsive to a manipulation of the mobile device, for example, a tilting or a rotation of the device in a direction generally corresponding to the desired orientation. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 10-01-2009 |
20090245142 | ADDITIVE SERVICE BEACON - Embodiments of methods and apparatus for wirelessly transmitting a plurality of beacons describing one or more services offered by a service providing device are disclosed. In some embodiments, the service providing device transmits a first beacon including a first component providing a basic description of one or more services offered by the service providing device, and a second component providing a first part of an expanded description of the one or more services; and transmits wirelessly a second beacon including another first component re-providing the basic description of the one or more services, and another second component providing a second part of the expanded description of the one or more services. Additional variants and embodiments are also disclosed. | 10-01-2009 |
20100164839 | PEER-TO-PEER DYNAMICALLY APPENDABLE LOGICAL DISPLAYS - In general, in one aspect, the disclosure describes an apparatus that includes memory to store application window images of applications running thereon and a composite display generator to generate a composite display based on at least some of the application window images stored in the memory and any application window images received from other wireless devices. The apparatus may also include a remote display to transmit at least some of the application window images stored in the memory to the other wireless devices. The apparatus may include a frame buffer to store the composite display and a display to display the composite display stored in the frame buffer. The apparatus may include a communication interface to establish wireless communication links with the other wireless devices. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 07-01-2010 |
20100164970 | DYNAMIC GEOMETRY MANAGEMENT OF VIRTUAL FRAME BUFFER FOR APPENDABLE LOGICAL DISPLAYS - In general, in one aspect, the disclosure describes an apparatus having a frame buffer having a first area allocated to buffer display information for content to be displayed on a local display. A frame buffer allocator is to dynamically expand the frame buffer to include one or more additional areas allocated to buffer display information for content to be displayed on one or more remote displays associated with one or more wireless devices. A dynamic geometry manager is to configure the one or more additional areas of said frame buffer. One or more remote-frame-buffer protocols are to transfer the display information from the one or more additional areas to the one or more wireless devices. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 07-01-2010 |
20100165961 | SOCIAL NETWORKING AND ADVERTISEMENTS IN A MOBILE DEVICE ON A LOCAL PERSONAL AREA NETWORK - Methods and apparatus are disclosed for media access control (MAC) layer processing to support social networking and advertisements over the MAC layer of a local personal area network (PAN). An application interface permits a service category corresponding to the application to be selected, and further permits service announcements corresponding to the application to be advertised. Generator logic may generate the service announcements to be advertised. The MAC layer processor inserts the service announcements into beacons in the local MAC layer of the local PAN and also receives advertisements from other devices over the MAC layer of the local PAN. Monitor logic can monitor the MAC layer of the local PAN for advertisements corresponding to the selected service category. The monitor logic is also operatively coupled with the application interface for displaying advertised services corresponding to the selected service category. | 07-01-2010 |
20100169791 | REMOTE DISPLAY REMOTE CONTROL - A Remote Display Protocol (RDP) server, such as a hand-held mobile device, may control various aspects of the RDP client, such as a large display. For example, if a user wishes to use a RDP system to project the display from their laptop computer onto a large-screen display mounted in a conference room, embodiments would allow the user to control aspects of the remote client such as location, size, and full-screen treatment. | 07-01-2010 |
20100169817 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTEXT ENHANCED WIRELESS DISCOVERY - A system, apparatus, method and article for context enhanced wireless discovery are described. The apparatus may include a discovery module to receive status information for one or more target devices, the status information comprising physical characteristics of the one or more target devices. The apparatus may also include a composition manager to generate a graphical user interface including icons representing the one or more target devices, the icons including graphical representations of the status information. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 07-01-2010 |
20100271302 | SENSOR FUSION TO COMBINE SENSOR INPUT DATA FROM MULTIPLE DEVICES INTO ONE INPUT STREAM - Software gaming applications may be written to accept an input from one or more standard controllers such a joystick with input buttons. However, multiple wearable sensors or hand held MID devices may enhance the gaming experience. These sensors may include devices such as accelerometers to detect movement of the extremity they are attached to and wirelessly communicate this information to a receiver. Embodiments are directed to using sensor fusion to combine sensor data from multiple wireless input devices, such as wearable sensors and MID devices together to form one logical input stream that is presented to an application and which the application sees are a standard controller. | 10-28-2010 |
20100278342 | DEVICE, SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF ESTABLISHING SECURE WIRELESS COMMUNICATION - Device, system, and method of establishing secure wireless communication. A system includes at least one wireless communication device having a sensor to measure one or more parameters of a physical event shared between that device and another wireless communication device, and a processor to translate the one or more measured parameters into a secret data sequence known only to the devices sharing the event. A first of the wireless communication devices sharing the event is to combine a communication key with the secret data sequence, thereby to generate an encoded message for distribution over a wireless link accessible by the devices, and a second of the wireless communication devices sharing the event is to decode said encoded message using the secret data sequence, thereby to obtain the communication key. The wireless communication devices may then connect using the secret communication key as a basis for secure communication. | 11-04-2010 |
20110059772 | Method and Device for Communicating Data - A wireless device is disclosed. The wireless device includes a wireless communication module, a data storage module, and a controller for controlling the storage and/or retrieval of data from the data storage module. The wireless communication module communicates with each of a plurality of remote devices and the data storage module defines a first storage area and a second storage area. The controller controls the communication of data between the first storage area and the remote device, and the second storage area and the remote device dependent upon access rights associated with the remote device. The first storage area typically defines a public storage area with which data is exchanged in a relatively free manner, and the second storage area typically defines a private storage area with which data is exchanged in a relatively restricted manner. | 03-10-2011 |
20120075439 | MOTION INITIATED TIME SYNCHRONIZATION - Systems and methods of synchronizing devices may include detecting a movement of a first mobile device and conducting a time synchronization procedure with respect to a second mobile device in response to the movement of the two mobile devices. The time synchronization can be conducted without network infrastructure support at the mobile devices. | 03-29-2012 |
20120082081 | DEVICE, SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF SELECTIVELY ACTIVATING A WIRELESS NETWORK CONNECTION - Device, system, and method of selectively activating a wireless network connection. In some demonstrative embodiments, a mobile device may include a wireless network communication unit capable of communicating with an access-point over a wireless network connection; a personal-area-network communication unit capable of communicating with one or more other mobile devices over one or more wireless personal-area-network connections, respectively; and a communication controller to mediate communications between the mobile devices and the access point when the wireless network connection is active, and to communicate with the access-point via at least one of the personal-area-network connections when the wireless network connection is not active. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 04-05-2012 |
20120155885 | RACK TO RACK OPTICAL COMMUNICATION - In some embodiments a light transceiver is associated with a computing rack and is adapted to transmit and/or receive one or more light beams via air to and/or from a second light transceiver associated with a second computing rack to communicate information between the computing rack and the second computing rack. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 06-21-2012 |
20120158390 | USER MODEL CREATION - In some embodiments a controller is adapted to receive textual representation of content experienced by a user, to receive information about an interaction by the user with the content, and to determine a user model in response to the textual representation and the interaction. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 06-21-2012 |
20120162091 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR MULTIDISPLAY DRAGGING - Methods and systems to allow users to gain the advantages of a large-format touch display by using smaller, cost-effective touch displays. Given two adjacent displays, regions may be created on both sides of the boundary between the displays. These regions may grow and shrink based on the user's movement, i.e., the velocity of a stylus or finger towards the boundary. If the user lifts his stylus within a region on one display, he may finish the tracking on the other by landing within the corresponding region of the latter display. This may allow a user to begin a drag on one display, drag towards another display, and “flyover” to the second display without slowing. The lift event may be removed when the first display detects the stylus being lifted as it moves towards the second. The landing on the second display may be removed. | 06-28-2012 |
20120197630 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS TO SUMMARIZE A SOURCE TEXT AS A FUNCTION OF CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION - Methods and systems to summarize a source text as a function of contextual information, including to fit a summary within a context-based allotted time. The context-based allotted time may be apportioned amongst multiple portions of the source text, such as by relevance. The context-based allotted time and/or relevance may be user-specified and/or determined, such as by look-up, rule, computation, inference, and/or machine learning. During summary presentation, one or more portions of the source text may be re-summarized, such as to adjust a level of detail. A presentation rate may be user-controllable. Where new and/or changed contextual information affects an available time to review a remaining portion of the summary, the summary presentation may be automatically adjusted, and/or one or more portions of the source text may be re-summarized based on a revised context-based allotted time. | 08-02-2012 |
20120249806 | COLLABORATIVE IMAGE CONTROL - Systems and methods of conducting collaborative sessions between mobile devices may provide for determining a time delay associated with a set of participating mobile devices, and determining a command execution time based at least in part on a clock of a managing device and the time delay. One or more control messages may be transmitted to the participating mobile devices, wherein the control messages include the command and the command execution time. Upon receiving a control message, each participating mobile device may determine a local execution time based at least in part on the command execution time and an offset of the clock of the managing device relative to a local clock. Execution of the command can therefore be coordinated across the set of participating mobile devices. | 10-04-2012 |
20120251016 | TECHNIQUES FOR STYLE TRANSFORMATION - Techniques to stylistically transform source text are disclosed. A source text and information about an output channel may be received. The source text may be stylistically transformed based on the information about the output channel. The stylistically transformed source text may be output. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 10-04-2012 |
20130113760 | TECHNIQUES FOR PROVIDING LOCALIZED TACTILE FEEDBACK TO A USER VIA AN ELECTRO-ACOUSTIC TOUCH DISPLAY OF A USER DEVICE - A user device is presented. The user device includes an interactive substrate configured to receive touch input from a user of the user device. The user device also includes a plurality of acoustic transducers, each of the plurality of acoustic transducers being configured to generate an acoustic wave along the interactive substrate in response to a control signal. The user device also includes a first circuit configured to sense a position of the touch input from the user with respect to the interactive substrate. The user device further includes a second circuit configured to generate the control signal for each of the plurality of acoustic transducers to generate a desired vibration at the position of the touch input. | 05-09-2013 |
20130138521 | Contactless Payment System Providing Supplemental Content Associated with the Transaction - A wireless communication device configured to transmit and receive near-field communication including data associated with the purchase of a product. Supplemental content associated with the purchased can be identified by the wireless device and/or a merchant device and provided to the wireless device. Supplemental content may include machine-readable and machine-storable work product and instruction, document, electronic media, computer-implemented instructions, or any form of content that can exist in a computer-based environment. The supplemental content may be determined based on information about the user, information about the product or service being purchased, and information about the point-of-sale. | 05-30-2013 |
20130179306 | MOBILE COMPUTING DEVICE CONFIGURED TO EXECUTE A MULTI-DIMENSIONAL FUNCTION PRESENTED ON A VISUAL MEDIA - A multi-dimensional function presented on a visual media including a plurality of tags associated with a plurality of parameters of the function is electronically executed using a mobile computing device. Each of the tags is interpretable by the mobile computing device. The mobile computing device interacts with two or more of the tags of the visual media to select values for two or more of the parameters of the function. The function is executed according to the selected values for the two or more parameters. | 07-11-2013 |
20130201098 | ADJUSTMENT OF A PARAMETER USING COMPUTING DEVICE MOVEMENT - In general, techniques and systems for controlling a parameter of a target device are described. In one example, a method includes obtaining, by a computing device, control information from an identification device that is associated with a target device, wherein the control information identifies the target device and a parameter that at least partially defines operation of the target device. The method may also include detecting, by at least one sensor of the computing device, physical movement of the computing device subsequent to obtaining the control information and transmitting the control information and movement information to a networked device configured to adjust a value of the parameter of the target device based at least in part on a function of the movement information. The movement information may include information that indicates the detected physical movement. | 08-08-2013 |
20130222743 | PRIVACY DISPLAY - A display device can include a housing, a processor, and a display assembly. The processor can be arranged within the housing. The display assembly can be operably coupled to the processor and arranged within the housing. The display assembly can include a first display, a privacy filter, and a second display. The first display can output a first portion of the display. The second display can output a second portion of the display. The privacy filter and the first and second displays can be arranged such that the first portion of the display assembly is filtered by the privacy filter to be viewable in a first viewable arc. The second portion of the display assembly can be viewable in a second viewable arc that is different than the first viewable arc. The first and second displays can be LCD's. | 08-29-2013 |
20130276075 | Secure Peer-to-Peer Network Setup - Apparatuses for peer-to-peer network setup are presented. In one embodiment, an apparatus comprises a wireless processing unit to communicate with a master device. The wireless processing unit is operable to receive encoded data in a two-dimensional (2D) barcode. The encoded data comprise at least user information associated with the master device including a user identifier, a device identifier, or both. The encoded data further comprise network information including a network identifier, a password, and a profile lifetime value. In one embodiment, the apparatus further comprises a display unit to display at least part of the user information and the network information to a user. The wireless processing unit is operable to initiate a peer-to-peer network setup with the master device based at least on a response from the user. | 10-17-2013 |
20140222798 | Search with My Location History - A method for incorporating information pertaining to geographic locations previously visited by a user into a search. The method includes: obtaining location information corresponding to a user account; determining, from the location information, one or more geographic locations that correspond to the location information; providing a user interface that includes a prompt that accepts search terms as input to a search query and an option to include a group of one or more geographic locations in the search query; and providing for display results related to the search terms and to one or more geographic locations in the group of one or more geographic locations when the option to include the group of one or more geographic locations is selected. | 08-07-2014 |
20140293013 | COLLABORATIVE IMAGE CONTROL - Systems and methods of conducting collaborative sessions between mobile devices may provide for determining a time delay associated with a set of participating mobile devices, and determining a command execution time based at least in part on a clock of a managing device and the time delay. One or more control messages may be transmitted to the participating mobile devices, wherein the control messages include the command and the command execution time. Upon receiving a control message, each participating mobile device may determine a local execution time based at least in part on the command execution time and an offset of the clock of the managing device relative to a local clock. Execution of the command can therefore be coordinated across the set of participating mobile devices. | 10-02-2014 |
20140358685 | Method and System for Providing Sign Data and Sign History - Methods and systems include determining that a device is proximate to a sign, providing sign identification information associated with the sign, and providing a sign history. A request for sign data associated with the sign identification information may be received, and sign data may be provided. Determining that a sign is proximate to a device may be based on a signal from the sign and/or the device. Additionally, a location of a device may be received and it may be determined that the device is proximate to a sign based on determining a location of the sign and determining that the difference in the location of the device and the location of the sign is less than a given threshold. A request for sign data associated with the sign may be sent. In response, sign data may be received, stored, and displayed. | 12-04-2014 |