Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080255932 | Method for Enticing Computer Users to Return to an Electronic Commerce Portal - A method for enticing computer users to return to an electronic commerce portal is disclosed. In response to a user registering to a merchant server for the first time, a unique number is associated with the user. Hardware information is then obtained from a computer utilized by the user. A digital certificate is generated by encrypting the unique number along with the obtained hardware information. The digital certificate is subsequently sent to the user computer for generating a unique customer number to be displayed on a web page of the user computer. On a periodic basis, the merchant server sends a master number to the user computer to be displayed on a web page of the user computer. In response to a notification of the master number matches the unique customer number on the user computer, a prize claiming process can be initiated. | 10-16-2008 |
20090037825 | MODE-SWITCHING IN ULTRA MOBILE DEVICES - Arrangements for managing displays of ultra-mobile devices (UMD's). Automatically or manually, a small-mode interface on a UMD screen, wherein one application window is visible, is switched to a large-mode interface. | 02-05-2009 |
20090138868 | Techniques for Providing Software Patches to a Computer System - A technique for providing a software patch to an associated computer system includes receiving, at a wireless communication device, a communication. Next, it is determined, at the wireless communication device, whether the communication is associated with a software patch available for the associated computer system. When the communication is associated with the software patch, a notification is sent from the wireless communication device to the associated computer system that the software patch is available. | 05-28-2009 |
20090222651 | S3 BIOS OPERATING SYSTEM SWITCH - Arrangements for employing a system BIOS (basic input/output system) to handle email during a suspended state (such as an “S3” state as will be better understood herebelow). Preferably, the BIOS is employed to “jump” between two suspended images such that, e.g., two more powerful OS's can be employed to manage the mail function. | 09-03-2009 |
20090245485 | PUSH VOICEMAIL VIA "ALWAYS ON" - Solutions which address a growing and compelling need recognized in connection with rendering VOIP systems on laptops, or even on other mobile devices, even more versatile and user-friendly so as to even better replicate the advantages of cell phones. Broadly contemplated herein two modes of network access and two modes of user interface, which modes can be combined in any way as deemed suitable or appropriate. Preferably, a commonality between the contemplated network access and user interface modes is the use of a low-powered secondary processor, a secondary operating system, and non volatile storage applications which could be networking applications (e.g., an Always On subsystem). | 10-01-2009 |
20100132032 | FACILITATING ACCESS TO DATA FROM VIRTUAL PRIVATE NETWORKS - Arrangements and methods for facilitating access to VPN-derived data regardless of computing platform power state. | 05-27-2010 |
20100159911 | REMOTE LOCKING ARRANGEMENTS FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICES - The invention broadly contemplates locking methods and arrangements for electronic devices, including laptop personal computing (PC) devices. The invention provides methods and arrangements for authorizing remote devices, such as cellular phones, to control the locking of electronic devices, such as laptop PCs. After receipt of a lock message from an authorized device at a guaranteed buffer, the laptop PC becomes locked such that only an authorized user may enable the functionality of the device. | 06-24-2010 |
20110078325 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DISCONTINUOUS MULTI-MEDIA CONTENT TRANSFER AND HANDLING - Embodiments of the invention broadly provide systems, methods and devices for discontinuous multi-media content transfer and handling. Various embodiments of the invention also provide for multi-media content management such that various policies (for example, DRM policies of multi-media content providers) are efficiently adhered to. | 03-31-2011 |
20120162058 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SHARED DISPLAY IN A HYBRID ENVIRONMENT - Embodiments operating shared peripherals in a hybrid computing system are described. Embodiments control one or more shared peripheral devices variously between a primary system and a secondary system via one or more communication links, where the secondary system is detachable from the primary system and operates as an independent computing device in the disconnected state, while operating as a display device in the connected state. | 06-28-2012 |