Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080275865 | SEARCHING AND RANKING CONTACTS IN CONTACT DATABASE - In one aspect, a method may include receiving a request from a first mobile device for a search for contacts meeting a criterion; searching a database of contacts for the contacts meeting the criterion and including the contacts meeting the criterion in search results; determining whether a second mobile device associated with one of the contacts meeting the criterion is within a vicinity of the first mobile device; and ranking the search results based on the determination. In another aspect, the method may further include determining a database distance between a reference contact and each of one or more of the search results, where the request is associated with a reference contact in the database of contacts; and ranking the search results based on the determined database distance; where the database of contacts may include a plurality of subsets of contacts, where contacts in the subsets are linked to another contact in the database of contacts; where determining a database distance between the reference contact and each of the one or more of the search results may include determining the number of links between the reference contact and each of one or more of the search results. | 11-06-2008 |
20080281694 | TARGETED ADVERTISING IN MOBILE DEVICES - A system may identify selected device users of multiple device users as members of a virtual group. The system may identify attributes, characteristics or actions that a sub-set of members of the virtual group may have in common that may be related to goods and/or services for sale. The system may send advertisements related to the goods or services to devices associated with other members of the group not included in the sub-set of members. | 11-13-2008 |
20080292299 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PHOTOGRAPHY USING DESIRABLE FEATURE RECOGNITION - To improve the quality of photographs of people, the disclosure describes a system and method of photography using desirable feature recognition. The system and method recognize when the subject persons in a photograph possess one or more desirable features for a desirable photograph, such as when they are all smiling and/or not blinking. The system and method may be applied either to individual or group photographs. The system and method of the present invention may operate in a “Full Mode”, in which a picture is taken when all subject persons possess the desirable feature(s). The system and method also may operate in a “Proportional Mode”, in which a picture is taken when a set proportion of the subject persons possess the desirable feature(s). The system and method also may operate in a “Best Picture Mode”, in which multiple photographs are imaged, and the best photograph is selected for keeping, as measured by the photograph containing the highest proportion of subject persons who possess the desirable feature(s). The system and method also may operate in a timer mode, which permits the camera user to appear in the photograph. | 11-27-2008 |
20080293397 | Method for Disabling a Mobile Device - Methods for disabling a mobile device ( | 11-27-2008 |
20080310686 | DIGITAL CAMERA SYSTEM AND METHOD OF STORING IMAGE DATA - A method of managing image data may include imaging a forward scene with a first camera assembly to generate a forward scene image file. A rearward scene may be imaged with a second camera assembly to generate rearward scene image data. Data derived from the rearward scene image data may be associated with the forward scene image file as an indication of an identity of the user of the camera assemblies. | 12-18-2008 |
20080320077 | Method and Electronic Device for Obtaining an Evaluation of an Electronic Document - A method, an electronic device ( | 12-25-2008 |
20090131115 | GENERIC PARSER FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICES - Electronic device, comprising a memory for storing data files, and means for accessing information in a data file stored in the memory, including a computer system and computer program code means which, when loaded, makes the computer system execute the steps of:—determining file format for the data file;—accessing a meta descriptor language file adapted to the file format of the data file;—parsing the data file by means of a generic parser using said meta descriptor language file;—extracting meta data from the data file;—presenting information related to the data file from the extracted meta data. | 05-21-2009 |
20090254855 | COMMUNICATION TERMINALS WITH SUPERIMPOSED USER INTERFACE - An electronic device includes a user input device and a display screen. A moving picture representative of a pointing object that is external to the electronic device is superimposed onto the display screen, and a plurality of features of the pointing object are interpreted as selection pointers so that a movement of the pointing object relative to the display screen may be interpreted as movement of a plurality of selection pointers. | 10-08-2009 |
20100039527 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PHOTOGRAPHY USING DESIRABLE FEATURE RECOGNITION - To improve the quality of photographs of people, the disclosure describes a system and method of photography using desirable feature recognition. The system and method recognize when the subject persons in a photograph possess one or more desirable features for a desirable photograph, such as when they are all smiling and/or not blinking. The system and method may be applied either to individual or group photographs. The system and method of the present invention may operate in a “Full Mode”, in which a picture is taken when all subject persons possess the desirable feature(s). The system and method also may operate in a “Proportional Mode”, in which a picture is taken when a set proportion of the subject persons possess the desirable feature(s). The system and method also may operate in a “Best Picture Mode”, in which multiple photographs are imaged, and the best photograph is selected for keeping, as measured by the photograph containing the highest proportion of subject persons who possess the desirable feature(s). The system and method also may operate in a timer mode, which permits the camera user to appear in the photograph. | 02-18-2010 |
20100130183 | METHOD OF OPERATING A MOBILE ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND MOBILE ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A method of operating a mobile electronic device, a mobile electronic device, as well as a method of operating a server and a sever are disclosed. The mobile electronic device comprises a receiver unit, a processing unit, a memory and an input unit. The memory stores a plurality of data objects which may be selected by a user of the mobile electronic device. | 05-27-2010 |