Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080205205 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING VISUAL INDICATORS IN A MEDIA APPLICATION - A method is provided for providing a visual indicator of content existing in a play list while displaying available media items for adding to the play list. The method comprises the steps of: retrieving information related to the available media items; retrieving information related to the content existing in the play list; comparing the available media item information with the play list content information to determine items from the available media that are already included in the play list; displaying a menu showing the available media items; and displaying visual indicators next to the items in the menu of the available media that are already included in the play list. | 08-28-2008 |
20080214191 | SERVICE STATUS DISPLAY ON A HANDHELD COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A method of indicating the availability of a communication service begins by receiving, at a handheld communication device, a service indication of an availability of one of a plurality of communication services, via a wireless communication mode, to the communication device. The handheld communication device receives the service indication from a provider of the one communication service via a wireless non-traffic channel of the wireless communication mode. The communication device then provides a user-indication of the communication service availabilities in accordance with the received service indication. | 09-04-2008 |
20080234006 | METHOD AND MOBILE DEVICE FOR FACILITATING CONTACT FROM WITHIN A TELEPHONE APPLICATION - The described embodiments involve use of a mobile communication device in the context of facilitating contact from within a telephone application. The described embodiments are primarily concerned with enabling quick and efficient access to contact methods other than by telephone from within the telephone application. This is done by generating a contact list, which may have one or more contacts, using an integrated dialing field provided by the telephone application and then displaying all available contact types or methods available for contacting a particular contact selected from the list. | 09-25-2008 |
20080281878 | METHOD FOR STORING MEDIA CAPTURED USING A PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A method for updating data in a media storage location includes: storing an identity on a portable electronic device, the identity allowing access to the media storage location; storing a file in a device memory of the portable electronic device, the file being captured by a media capturing component of the portable electronic device; and performing a synchronization operation using a media manager, the media manager being in communication with the device memory and the media storage location; the synchronization operation synchronizing data between the device memory and the media storage location. | 11-13-2008 |
20090007026 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MAKING AN ELECTRONIC HANDHELD DEVICE MORE ACCESSIBLE TO A DISABLED PERSON - An electronic handheld device is described having an options module for providing a user with at least one option in the handheld device, each option associated with an enabling mode of operation of the handheld device. The device also includes an enabling module for implementing, in response to a particular option being selected by a user, an associated enabling mode of operation. Each enabling mode of operation makes the handheld device more accessible to a person having a corresponding disability. | 01-01-2009 |
20090042599 | EXPEDITED COMMUNICATION GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method for managing expedited communication functions for a mobile device having a processing subsystem, a memory subsystem, a display subsystem, a communication subsystem, and a keyboard subsystem includes displaying a graphical key representation of mobile device keyboard subsystem keys, arranging the graphical keys in similar disposition to the mobile device keyboard subsystem keys, and displaying visual indicia to indicate mobile device keyboard subsystem keys associated with expedited communication functions. | 02-12-2009 |
20090058690 | Mobile Wireless Communications Device Providing Enhanced Predictive Word Entry and Related Methods - A mobile wireless communications device may include a portable, handheld housing, and a display and keyboard carried by the portable, handheld housing. The keyboard may include a plurality of multi-symbol keys each having indicia of a plurality of respective symbols thereon, and a predetermined multi-symbol key may have a comma/apostrophe symbol and at least one other symbol thereon. A controller may be used for generating, in response to an ambiguous input including an ambiguous punctuations input, a menu of possible desired words including at least one word with a comma and at least one word with an apostrophe and at least one other character additional to the ambiguous input. The device further includes a multiple-axis input device that is operable to provide movement inputs to move to, for example, a variant output and is further operable to provide a selection input as to, for example, the variant output. | 03-05-2009 |
20090213088 | EXPEDITED COMMUNICATION KEY SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method of performing expedited communication functions on a mobile device includes monitoring the duration-of key press on a keyboard of the mobile device and determining if the monitored duration of the key press is greater than a threshold duration. If the monitored duration of the key press is determined to be less than a threshold duration, then a primary key function associated with the pressed key is activated. If the monitored duration of the key press is determined to be greater than a threshold duration, then an expedited communication function associated with the pressed key is activated. | 08-27-2009 |
20090279392 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD PROVIDING IMPROVED INDICATION THAT AN ALARM CLOCK IS IN AN ON CONDITION - An improved electronic device and method provide an improved clock feature having an alarm clock function that advantageously provides an indication to a user that the alarm is set, i.e., is in an ON condition, by outputting the alarm time itself. | 11-12-2009 |
20090285056 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD PROVIDING IMPROVED WORLD CLOCK FEATURE - An improved electronic device and method provide an improved clock feature that includes an improved world clock function. | 11-19-2009 |
20100046737 | METHOD OF MAPPING A TRADITIONAL TOUCHTONE TELEPHONE KEYPAD ON A HANDHELD ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND ASSOCIATED APPARATUS - A method of mapping a traditional touchtone telephone keypad on a handheld electronic device having a disambiguation function, and an associated apparatus comprises outputting a representation of a remapped character layout and generating a disambiguated interpretation of an input. | 02-25-2010 |
20100121962 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY RESPONDING TO A RECEIVED COMMUNICATION - A device and a method of responding to a received interrupt event received by a communication device is provided. The method comprises: determining a current state of availability of a user associated with the device; determining whether a response action to the interrupt event is required based on a level of importance associated with the interrupt event and further based on the current state of availability; and providing notice of response actions which occurred during a previous state of unavailability, where the notice provides a link to initiate a response communication to the interrupt event. The current state of availability may be determined based on data associated with an operating application on the device. Also, providing the notice may occur upon a change of the current state of availability. | 05-13-2010 |
20100141584 | STROKE BASED INPUT SYSTEM FOR CHARACTER INPUT - An improved handheld electronic device includes an input apparatus, preferably a trackball, an output apparatus, namely a display, and a processor apparatus. The processor apparatus is structured to execute a number of routines including a stroke-based input user interface routine. The stroke-based input user interface routine is structured to present a user interface on the display. The user interface includes an active portion, a filter portion and an output portion. | 06-10-2010 |
20100205569 | AGENDA DETERMINATION IN AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A method of displaying an agenda at an electronic device includes retrieving, from at least one database of the electronic device, calendared events that meet a set of constraints, determining free time periods absent of the calendared events, and providing the calendared events and at least some of the free time periods in a time-ordered list. | 08-12-2010 |
20100218119 | USER INTERFACE FOR INTEGRATING APPLICATIONS ON A MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A user interface, in accordance with the teachings described herein, is provided for integrating applications on a mobile communication device. An instant messaging user interface may be included for displaying an instant messaging communication that includes an instant messaging contact. An instant messaging user interface menu may be included for displaying a list of commands, one or more of the commands being specific to the displayed instant messaging contact, and the list of commands including a command associated with a calendar application. The user interface may be operable to automatically launch the calendar application in response to a user selecting the command associated with the calendar application. A field in the calendar application may be automatically populated with the instant messaging contact. | 08-26-2010 |
20100219973 | ADAPTIVE PEDESTRIAN BILLBOARD SYSTEM AND RELATED METHODS - An adaptive pedestrian billboard system may include a display for passing pedestrian traffic, and a memory for storing a plurality of notifications having different visual feature detail levels. The system may further include a controller configured to cooperate with the display and the memory for determining a density of the passing pedestrian traffic, select notifications from the memory based upon the density of the passing pedestrian traffic so that notifications for higher density passing pedestrian traffic have lower visual feature detail levels and so that notifications for lower density passing pedestrian traffic have higher visual feature detail levels, and display the selected notifications on the display. | 09-02-2010 |
20100220851 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING DIALING ACCESS LINKS - There is disclosed a system and method of displaying a selectable access link. In an embodiment, the method comprises: assigning a dialing short form to an entity; storing the dialing short form in persistent memory; associating one or more access links with the dialing short form; and upon receiving a dialing short form input, displaying for selection together with the dialing short form the one or more access links. Upon selection of an access link, a process to access the selected displayed access link is initiated. The dialing short form may be one of a short code, fast dial key, or voice activated dialing. The selectable access link may be time limited to geographically limited to a geographic region. | 09-02-2010 |
20100222027 | COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM PROVIDING MOBILE DEVICE NOTIFICATION CONTENT TYPE SELECTION FEATURES AND RELATED METHODS - A communications system may include at least one mobile wireless communications device for storing a plurality of notification preferences scheduled for respective different time periods. The notification preferences may be associated with different types of notification content. Further, a notification server may communicate with the at least one mobile wireless communications device via a wireless communications network for determining a scheduled one of the notification preferences, and sending to the at least one mobile wireless communications device notifications including the corresponding type of notification content based on the scheduled one of the notification preferences. | 09-02-2010 |
20100222033 | COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM PROVIDING MOBILE DEVICE NOTIFICATION BASED UPON PERSONAL INTEREST INFORMATION AND CALENDAR EVENTS - A communications system may include at least one mobile wireless communications device for storing personal interest information for respective contacts and for storing calendar event data. The system may further include a notification server communicating with the at least one mobile wireless communications device via a wireless communications network and configured to access the personal interest information and calendar event data from the at least one mobile wireless communications device, and send notifications to the at least one mobile wireless communications device based upon the personal interest information and the calendar event data. | 09-02-2010 |
20100223112 | ADAPTIVE ROADSIDE BILLBOARD SYSTEM AND RELATED METHODS - An adaptive roadside billboard system which may include a roadside display for passing vehicle traffic, and a memory for storing a plurality of notifications having different visual feature detail levels. Furthermore, a controller may be configured to cooperate with the roadside display and the memory to determine a rate of the passing vehicle traffic, select notifications from the memory based upon the rate of passing vehicle traffic so that notifications for faster passing vehicle traffic have lower visual feature detail levels and so that notifications for slower passing vehicle traffic have higher visual feature detail levels, and display the selected notifications on the roadside display. | 09-02-2010 |
20100223131 | COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM PROVIDING MOBILE DEVICE NOTIFICATION BASED UPON CONTACT WEB PAGES AND RELATED METHODS - A communications system may include at least one mobile wireless communications device for storing an address of a contact Web page including personal interest information for a contact, and a notification server which communicates with the at least one mobile wireless communications device via a wireless communications network. The notification server may be configured to access the address from the at least one mobile wireless communications device, retrieve the personal interest information on the contact Web page based upon the address, and send notifications to the at least one mobile wireless communications device based upon the retrieved personal interest information. | 09-02-2010 |
20100223133 | COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM PROVIDING MOBILE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE PREDICTED SEARCH QUERY TERMS BASED UPON GROUPS OF RELATED ADVERTISING TERMS - A communications system may include an advertising server for providing at least one group of related advertising terms, and a mobile wireless communications device comprising a display, a user input device, and a processor coupled to the display and the user input device. The processor may be configured to display a user search interface on the display, receive entry of search query characters, and match the entered search query characters to identify at least one predicted search query term. Moreover, if the at least one predicted search query term is among the at least one group of related advertising terms, then the processor may cause the display to display at least one other of the group that would otherwise not match the entered search query character data. | 09-02-2010 |
20100223135 | COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM PROVIDING MOBILE DEVICE ADVERTISEMENTS BASED UPON ACTIVITY HISTORY AND RELATED METHODS - A communications system may include at least one mobile wireless communications device and an advertising server cooperating with the at least one mobile wireless communications device via a wireless communications network. The advertising server may be for generating an activity history for the at least one wireless communications device including geographical positions at corresponding times of day, and selectively sending advertisements to the at least one mobile wireless communications device based upon the activity history and a given time of day. | 09-02-2010 |
20100223279 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LINKING AD TAGGED WORDS - There is disclosed a computer-implemented method operable on a mobile communication device for linking words to advertising resource links. In an embodiment, the method comprises: scanning a list or a body of text in order to identify a tagged keyword; linking at least one corresponding advertising resource link to each identified tagged keyword; and visually distinguishing a tagged keyword upon the at least one advertising resource link becoming accessible to the mobile communication device. In another embodiment, the method further comprises providing as an advertising resource link one or more of an advertising website, an email address, an SMS text address, a telephone number, or a purchase option screen corresponding to the identified tagged keyword. | 09-02-2010 |
20100223356 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING ACCESS LINKS IN A MEDIA FOLDER - There is disclosed a system and method of providing access links in a media folder. In an embodiment, the method comprises: receiving as an access trigger one of a search term or short code corresponding to content in the media folder; displaying at least one access link in response to the access trigger; and in response to selection of an access link, providing access to a corresponding media resource. The access trigger may be received from one of an input field, a history log or content usage statistics, and the method may display a list of access links to media resources related to the content of the media folder. The access trigger is directly linked to content provided in the media folder in order to provide users with a convenient way to link to access links to related media resources. | 09-02-2010 |
20100279620 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND MOBILE DEVICE FOR DISPLAYING WIRELESS MODE INDICATORS - Embodiments relate to a mobile device comprising: a processor; a display responsive to the processor; a plurality of wireless communication subsystems responsive to the processor; and a memory. The memory is accessible to the processor and stores program code executable by the processor for executing a user interface application. The user interface application is configured to determine a first connection status of the mobile device with respect to a cellular network and a second connection status with respect to a wireless local area network (WLAN). The user interface application, when executed by the processor, is further configured to cause the display to display a selected combination of icons in three display fields in a banner area of the display. The combination of icons is selected from a plurality of icon combinations based on the determined first connection status and the second connection status. | 11-04-2010 |
20110003620 | HANDHELD ELECTRONIC DEVICE INCLUDING AUTOMATIC SELECTION OF INPUT LANGUAGE, AND ASSOCIATED METHOD - A method of automatically establishing an input language for a handheld electronic device includes receiving a request to initiate the composition of a new message, receiving a selection of a particular contact that is the intended recipient of the message, and determining whether the particular contact has a stored preferred input language. If a preferred input language is stored, the method includes determining whether the preferred input language is different than the current input language (which may be a pre-established default input language). If the preferred input language is different, the method further includes switching the current input language to the preferred input language. Also provided is an improved handheld electronic device having one or more routines adapted to implement the method. Also provided is a method of indicating a preferred language in association with a call received by or placed to the device. | 01-06-2011 |
20110009134 | METHOD FOR CREATING A PEER-TO-PEER IMMEDIATE MESSAGING SOLUTION WITHOUT USING AN INSTANT MESSENGING SERVER - A messaging method in a system including a wireless network, a routing server, and a plurality of mobile stations. A first mobile station has first communications applications and a first PIN and a second mobile station has second communications applications and a second PIN. The method includes sending an invitation including the first PIN from the first mobile station to the second mobile station using one of the first communications applications, and sending an acceptance including the second PIN from the second mobile station to the first mobile station using one of the second communications applications. The method further includes creating first messages including the second PIN and sending them to the second mobile station through the wireless network, and creating second messages including the first PIN and sending them to the first mobile station through the wireless network. The routing server routes the messages based on the PINS. | 01-13-2011 |
20110025600 | METHOD OF INDICATING ADDITIONAL CHARACTER COMBINATION CHOICES ON A HANDHELD ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND ASSOCIATED APPARATUS - A method and associated apparatus for indicating additional character combination choices from a disambiguation function on a handheld electronic device. | 02-03-2011 |
20110045871 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING A DISPLAY IN AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A novel method and apparatus for controlling a display of an electronic device is provided. In an embodiment, the device is a portable electronic device with the combined features of wireless email and telephony. The portable electronic device also includes a camera. The device includes a trackball which can be used to control the image shown in the viewfinder when the device is being used as a camera. | 02-24-2011 |
20110070826 | MOBILE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE, METHOD AND SYSTEM USING MAGNETIC SENSOR AND ACTIVATED NFC CIRCUIT FOR ESTABLISHING COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN MOBILE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS DEVICES - A mobile wireless communications device includes a housing and a circuit board carried by the housing. Radio frequency (RF) circuitry and a processor are carried by the housing and operative with each other. A Near Field Communications (NFC) circuit is connected to the processor for communicating using an NFC communications protocol. A magnetic sensor is supported by the housing and connected to the processor for sensing a magnetic field and generating a signal to the processor and in response, the processor activating the NFC circuit for transmitting or receiving data using the NFC communications protocol. | 03-24-2011 |
20110078111 | METHOD FOR STORING MEDIA CAPTURED USING A PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A method for updating data in a media storage location includes: storing an identity on a portable electronic device, the identity allowing access to the media storage location; storing a file in a device memory of the portable electronic device, the file being captured by a media capturing component of the portable electronic device; and performing a synchronization operation using a media manager, the media manager being in communication with the device memory and the media storage location; the synchronization operation synchronizing data between the device memory and the media storage location. | 03-31-2011 |
20110106278 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING A LOCATION AUTOMATION SYSTEM VIA A CALENDAR DATABASE - A method and apparatus for controlling a location automation system via computing device having access to a calendar database is provided. Calendar data, from the calendar database, is processed to determine that at least one location automation event controlled by the location automation system is affected by the calendar data. The location automation setting data is updated, based on the calendar data, such that the at least one location automation event occurs according to the calendar data. | 05-05-2011 |
20110112828 | Handheld Electronic Device with Text Disambiguation - A handheld electronic device includes a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with disambiguation software. The device provides output in the form of a default output and a number of variants. The output is based largely upon the frequency, i.e., the likelihood that a user intended a particular output, but various features of the device provide additional variants that are not based solely on frequency and rather are provided by various logic structures resident on the device. The device enables editing during text entry and also provides a learning function that allows the disambiguation function to adapt to provide a customized experience for the user. The disambiguation function can be selectively disabled and an alternate keystroke interpretation system provided. Additionally, the device can facilitate the selection of variants by displaying a graphic of a special key of the keypad that enables a user to progressively select variants generally without changing the position of the user's hands on the device. | 05-12-2011 |
20110153048 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING VISUAL INDICATORS IN A MEDIA APPLICATION - A method is provided for providing a visual indicator of content existing in a play list while displaying available media items for adding to the play list. The method comprises the steps of: retrieving information related to the available media items; retrieving information related to the content existing in the play list; comparing the available media item information with the play list content information to determine items from the available media that are already included in the play list; displaying a menu showing the available media items; and displaying visual indicators next to the items in the menu of the available media that are already included in the play list. | 06-23-2011 |
20110179018 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR STORING AND ACCESSING RETAIL CONTACTS - A method and device for storing and accessing retail contacts. The retail contact data includes retail contact information detailing a plurality of retail contacts, keywords, and a plurality of associations linking each retail contacts to at least one of the keywords. User input of a keyword results in display of the associated retail contacts. Selection of a retail contact from the display may result in initiation of a session such as a voice call or website access. | 07-21-2011 |
20110208865 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVISIONING A REMOTE RESOURCE FOR AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE - The disclosure recites a system and method for updating a resource to an electronic device. The system comprises: a resource providing information for the device; a server to maintain the resource; a communication link providing the device with access to the resource; a data transmission module for extracting and transmitting access information about the resource to the device; and a data processing module for processing the received information at the device. In the device, a GUI provides information on a topic retrieved from local storage on the device and additional information about the resource is incorporated into the GUI for that topic. | 08-25-2011 |
20110212711 | SCHEDULING AND DELIVERING AD MEETINGS - A system and method for scheduling advertisement viewing sessions (“ad meetings”) and delivering those advertisements to a willing user. An ad meeting is scheduled by a user by creating and storing an ad meeting calendar item and sending a notification to an advertising agent. The advertising agent may select advertisements to send to the user based on the user's specified preferences, location, the time of the meeting, the time of the shopping trip, and/or other criteria. Alternatively, the advertising agent may invite users to an ad meeting by sending an invitation containing an ad meeting calendar item, or alternatively a user may share advertisements with other users by forwarding advertisements or inviting other users to an ad meeting. As an incentive to view advertisements, the user may have credits applied to their communications service provider account based on their advertisement viewing and sharing activity. | 09-01-2011 |
20110235624 | Handling Virtual Private Network Connections over a Wireless Local Area Network - A wireless local area network ‘WLAN’ client device has one or more virtual private network ‘VPN’ profiles defined therein. In response to the WLAN client device connecting to a WLAN, a user of the WLAN client device is able to indicate whether to attempt to establish a VPN connection over the WLAN. | 09-29-2011 |
20110238824 | Wireless Local Area Network Hotspot Registration - A wireless local area network ‘WLAN’ client device that has just connected to a WLAN detects that the WLAN is offered by a hotspot, where access to a public network is provided by the WLAN via a gateway. A browser application of the WLAN client device is launched, either automatically or in response to receiving an indication via a user input element of the WLAN client device to register at the hotspot. The browser application is launched with an Internet Protocol address that ought to trigger an Internet Protocol filtering rule of the gateway. | 09-29-2011 |
20110238847 | Saving a Connection Profile when Unable to Connect to a Wireless Local Area Network - Various connection parameters of a wireless local area network ‘WLAN’ may be saved in a WLAN client device in a connection profile, even if the WLAN client device is unable to connect to the WLAN. | 09-29-2011 |
20110251898 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTING MESSAGES TO ELECTRONIC DEVICES BASED ON LEVELS OF ACTIVITY OF THE DEVICES - The present disclosure described herein relates to a system and method for distributing messages to electronic devices. The method comprises: identifying a set of devices that meet a first criteria regarding an activity level; and transmitting a set of advertisements to the set of devices based on activity levels of the set of devices. For at least one of the devices, the activity data may relate to at least one communication log of communications processed by at least one device. | 10-13-2011 |
20110251899 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DELIVERY AND PRESENTATION OF MESSAGES IN DEPENDENCE UPON THE MODE OF OPERATION OF THE COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A method and system for delivery and presentation of a message on a communication device. A detection of a connection of a call made by a communication device is detected at the communication device. A further detection that the communication device is operating in a pre-defined mode of operation is performed, a message accessibly stored in memory is accessed, and display or other presentation of the message is initiated on an interface such as a display screen of the communication device. The call connection status is monitored, and the message is presented at least while the call is connected and the device is operating in the pre-defined mode of operation. | 10-13-2011 |
20110256903 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND MOBILE DEVICE FOR DISPLAYING WIRELESS MODE INDICATORS - Embodiments relate to a mobile device comprising: a processor; a display responsive to the processor; a plurality of wireless communication subsystems responsive to the processor; and a memory. The memory is accessible to the processor and stores program code executable by the processor for executing a user interface application. The user interface application is configured to determine a first connection status of the mobile device with respect to a cellular network and a second connection status with respect to a wireless local area network (WLAN). The user interface application, when executed by the processor, is further configured to cause the display to display a selected combination of icons in three display fields in a banner area of the display. The combination of icons is selected from a plurality of icon combinations based on the determined first connection status and the second connection status. | 10-20-2011 |
20110264523 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTING MESSAGES TO COMMUNICATING ELECTRONIC DEVICES BASED ON PROFILE CHARACTERISTICS OF USERS OF THE DEVICES - The present disclosure related to a system, method and device for distributing messages to electronic devices is provided. The method comprises: identifying two devices that have been communicating with each other and that have at least one common attribute; identifying an advertisement campaign that matches the at least one common attribute; and transmitting a set of advertisements relating to the advertisement campaign to the two devices. | 10-27-2011 |
20110270679 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTING MESSAGES TO AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE BASED ON MOVEMENT OF THE DEVICE - The present disclosure described herein relates to a system and method for distributing messages, such as advertisements, to electronic devices. The method comprises: selecting an advertisement from a set of advertisements based on a state of movement of the device, where the state of movement is at least partly based on movement data of the device; and transmitting the advertisement to the device. After transmitting the advertisement to the device, the advertisement may be generated on the device. | 11-03-2011 |
20110276401 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTING MESSAGES TO AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE BASED ON CORRELATION OF DATA RELATING TO A USER OF THE DEVICE - The present disclosure described herein relates to a system and method for distributing messages to an electronic device. The method comprises: analyzing data relating to the device to determine a correlation of data relating to a user of the device; selecting an advertisement from a set of advertisements based on the correlation of data; and transmitting the advertisement to the device. The correlation of data may be determined from analyzing movement data and at least one status indicator relating to the device. | 11-10-2011 |
20110287814 | METHOD AND MOBILE DEVICE FOR FACILITATING CONTACT FROM WITHIN A TELEPHONE APPLICATION - The described embodiments involve use of a mobile communication device in the context of facilitating contact from within a telephone application. The described embodiments are primarily concerned with enabling quick and efficient access to contact methods other than by telephone from within the telephone application. This is done by generating a contact list, which may have one or more contacts, using an integrated dialing field provided by the telephone application and then displaying all available contact types or methods available for contacting a particular contact selected from the list. | 11-24-2011 |
20110316789 | METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY PREFERRING A DIACRITICAL VERSION OF A LINGUISTIC ELEMENT ON A HANDHELD ELECTRONIC DEVICE BASED ON LINGUISTIC SOURCE AND ASSOCIATED APPARATUS - A method for automatically preferring a diacritical version of a linguistic element on a handheld electronic device by utilizing a linguistic source. | 12-29-2011 |
20120015624 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ORGANIZING APPLICATION INDICATORS ON AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A device for and a method of refreshing presentation of icons for objects processed on an electronic device are provided. The method comprises: providing a first template for a layout of the icons having a first trigger condition based on a time for the device, the layout of the icons including a first icon layout where an icon of the icons is placed in a first location on the display and other icons are placed in ranked order in the display according to their respective activity levels; providing a second template for the layout of the icons having a second trigger condition based on a location condition for the device; refreshing the layout of the icons to highlight an icon associated with a more frequently used communication technology using one of the first or second templates when either of the first or second trigger conditions is detected by the device; and providing a graphical user interface (GUI) to list options for the first or second triggering conditions, the GUI including an interface to allow entry of a selection of a format for the layout of icons and to allow for entry for a parameter for a triggering event for the format. | 01-19-2012 |
20120033531 | Electronic Device and Method Providing Improved World Clock Feature - An improved electronic device and method provide an improved clock feature that includes an improved world clock function. | 02-09-2012 |
20120041755 | HANDHELD ELECTRONIC DEVICE HAVING SELECTABLE LANGUAGE INDICATOR FOR LANGUAGE SELECTION AND METHOD THEREFOR - A method of enabling the selection of a language to be employed as a method input language by a disambiguation routine of a handheld electronic device having stored therein a plurality of method input languages and disambiguation routine number, includes detecting a selection of a language, detecting as an ambiguous input an actuation of one or more input members, outputting at least a plurality of the language objects that corresponds to the ambiguous input, outputting an indicator which one of the method input languages is currently employed by the disambiguation function, and enabling an alternate one of the input language methods to be selected in response to a selection of the indicator in lieu of one of the plurality of language objects. | 02-16-2012 |
20120069985 | INTEGRATED DIALING - Call initiation on a device with potential for a large number of stored telephone numbers is simplified through the use of an integrated field for entry of an ambiguous filter string. As it is not clear, a priori, whether the user is manually specifying, in the integrated field, a telephone number or providing a filter string for filtering contacts, filtering is performed based on at least one filter string. Among the contacts that are part of a filtering result list, a default contact is selected for quick access. | 03-22-2012 |
20120089737 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVISIONING A REMOTE RESOURCE FOR AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE - The disclosure recites a device, system and method for provisioning resources from a server in a network to a mobile electronic device. The method comprises at the mobile electronic device: generating and sending a network registration request to the server to allow the server to determine whether the mobile electronic device is in a device registry linking resources managed by the server; waiting for a data transmission from the server, the data transmission containing text and a link to the resource that can receive the data transmission at the mobile electronic device; incorporating text and a link from the data transmission into a graphical user interface (GUI) generated on a display of the mobile electronic device to provide an interface to activate the link from the mobile electronic device; and generating an indicator on the GUI that the resource is new, if the resource is new to the mobile electronic device. | 04-12-2012 |
20120101818 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CREATING DATA RECORDS IN A DATA-STORE BASED ON MESSAGES - Updating a data-store associated with an electronic communications device includes wirelessly communicating an electronic message. A location identifier representative of a physical location is identified within the electronic message. The physical location of the electronic communications device is measured or estimated as needed, after which validating the location identifier occurs when the measured or estimated physical location is calculated to be within a threshold distance of the physical location represented by the location identifier. Initiating creation of a new data record in the data-store is then performed, with the new data record storing at least the validated location identifier and a time identifier. | 04-26-2012 |
20120146955 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INPUT INTO A PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE - Methods and systems for selecting input in a portable electronic device comprising a display and a plurality of input members are disclosed. The methods and system use semi-transparent windows displayed in partially overlapping layers to present output options to the user of the device. For example, the method includes detecting a pre-determined type of actuation of one of the input members of the electronic device and determining the representations associated with the actuated input member. The method further includes outputting the representations using the display, each representation appearing in a semi-transparent window, the semi-transparent windows being displayed in partially overlapping layers. The method further includes receiving a selection input and outputting the representation displayed in the top-most semi-transparent window using the display. | 06-14-2012 |
20120172019 | COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM PROVIDING MOBILE DEVICE NOTIFICATION BASED UPON PERSONAL INTEREST INFORMATION AND CALENDAR EVENTS - A communications system may include at least one mobile wireless communications device for storing personal interest information for respective contacts and for storing calendar event data. The system may further include a notification server communicating with the at least one mobile wireless communications device via a wireless communications network and configured to access the personal interest information and calendar event data from the at least one mobile wireless communications device, and send notifications to the at least one mobile wireless communications device based upon the personal interest information and the calendar event data. | 07-05-2012 |
20120178427 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND MOBILE DEVICE FOR DISPLAYING WIRELESS MODE INDICATORS - Embodiments relate to a mobile device comprising: a processor; a display responsive to the processor; a plurality of wireless communication subsystems responsive to the processor; and a memory. The memory is accessible to the processor and stores program code executable by the processor for executing a user interface application. The user interface application is configured to determine a first connection status of the mobile device with respect to a cellular network and a second connection status with respect to a wireless local area network (WLAN). The user interface application, when executed by the processor, is further configured to cause the display to display a selected combination of icons in three display fields in a banner area of the display. The combination of icons is selected from a plurality of icon combinations based on the determined first connection status and the second connection status. | 07-12-2012 |
20120182221 | HANDHELD ELECTRONIC DEVICE INCLUDING AUTO COMPLETION OF PUNCTUATION IN NUMERICAL ENTRY, AND ASSOCIATED METHOD - The disclosed and claimed concept describes a handheld electronic device that has the capability to automatically prefer a preferred punctuation arrangement in response to determining whether a first output has a predetermined characteristic. | 07-19-2012 |
20120200505 | METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY PREFERRING A DIACRITICAL VERSION OF A LINGUISTIC ELEMENT ON A HANDHELD ELECTRONIC DEVICE BASED ON LINGUISTIC SOURCE AND ASSOCIATED APPARATUS - A method for automatically preferring a diacritical version of a linguistic element on a handheld electronic device by utilizing a linguistic source. | 08-09-2012 |
20120232996 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LINKING AD TAGGED WORDS - A method and apparatus for providing advertisement on a mobile communication device is disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a primary keyword and at least one secondary keyword are identified in a list or a body of text at the mobile communication device. A compound keyword is formed from the primary keyword and the at least one secondary keyword. At least one advertising resource link is associated with the formed compound keyword, and the formed compound keyword is visually distinguished. | 09-13-2012 |
20120250470 | Electronic Device and Method Providing Improved Indication that an Alarm Clock is in an on Condition - An improved electronic device and method provide an improved clock feature having an alarm clock function that advantageously provides an indication to a user that the alarm is set, i.e., is in an ON condition, by outputting the alarm time itself. | 10-04-2012 |
20120268383 | METHOD OF INDICATING ADDITIONAL CHARACTER COMBINATION CHOICES ON A HANDHELD ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND ASSOCIATED APPARATUS - A method and associated apparatus for indicating additional character combination choices from a disambiguation function on a handheld electronic device. | 10-25-2012 |
20120309459 | EXPEDITED COMMUNICATION KEY SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method of performing expedited communication functions on a mobile device includes monitoring the duration-of key press on a keyboard of the mobile device and determining if the monitored duration of the key press is greater than a threshold duration. If the monitored duration of the key press is determined to be less than a threshold duration, then a primary key function associated with the pressed key is activated. If the monitored duration of the key press is determined to be greater than a threshold duration, then an expedited communication function associated with the pressed key is activated. | 12-06-2012 |
20120322427 | INTEGRATED DIALING - Call initiation on a device with potential for a large number of stored telephone numbers is simplified through the use of an integrated field for entry of an ambiguous filter string. As it is not clear, a priori, whether the user is manually specifying, in the integrated field, a telephone number or providing a filter string for filtering contacts, filtering is performed based on at least one filter string. Among the contacts that are part of a filtering result list, a default contact is selected for quick access. | 12-20-2012 |
20130003505 | Electronic Device and Method Providing Improved World Clock Feature - An improved electronic device and method provide an improved clock feature that includes an improved world clock function. | 01-03-2013 |
20130006606 | HANDHELD ELECTRONIC DEVICE HAVING SELECTABLE LANGUAGE INDICATOR FOR LANGUAGE SELECTION AND METHOD THEREFOR - A method of enabling the selection of a language to be employed as a method input language by a disambiguation routine of a handheld electronic device having stored therein a plurality of method input languages and disambiguation routine number, includes detecting a selection of a language, detecting as an ambiguous input an actuation of one or more input members, outputting at least a plurality of the language objects that corresponds to the ambiguous input, outputting an indicator which one of the method input languages is currently employed by the disambiguation function, and enabling an alternate one of the input language methods to be selected in response to a selection of the indicator in lieu of one of the plurality of language objects. | 01-03-2013 |
20130006615 | MOBILE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE PROVIDING ENHANCED PREDICTIVE WORD ENTRY AND RELATED METHODS - A mobile wireless communications device may include a portable, handheld housing, and a display and keyboard carried by the portable, handheld housing. The keyboard may include a plurality of multi-symbol keys each having indicia of a plurality of respective symbols thereon, and a predetermined multi-symbol key may have a comma/apostrophe symbol and at least one other symbol thereon. A controller may be used for generating, in response to an ambiguous input including an ambiguous punctuations input, a menu of possible desired words including at least one word with a comma and at least one word with an apostrophe and at least one other character additional to the ambiguous input. The device further includes a multiple-axis input device that is operable to provide movement inputs to move to, for example, a variant output and is further operable to provide a selection input as to, for example, the variant output. | 01-03-2013 |
20130007283 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVISIONING A REMOTE RESOURCE FOR AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE - The disclosure recites a device, system and method for provisioning resources from a server in a network to a mobile electronic device. The method comprising at the server: after receiving a network registration request from the device, accessing a device registry; if the device is in the device registry, determining whether a resource is may be provisioned to the device from the server, otherwise, if not, awaiting a request from the device for the resource; determining whether the resource has already been provisioned to the device or the device has been designated to be provisioned with the resource from an alternative source, and if so, not approving the resource to be provisioned to the device, otherwise providing a data transmission to the device from the server containing text and a link to the resource that can be extracted by the device. | 01-03-2013 |
20130080262 | SCHEDULING AND DELIVERING AD MEETINGS - A system and method for presentation of advertising content at a communication device are disclosed herein. A notification is provided corresponding to an advertisement event for presentation of at least one advertisement at the communication device. An indication is received associated with presentation of the advertisement at a scheduled time. And checking whether the indication is a permitted action on the advertisement event, wherein a network service is continued to be enabled for the communication device based on the indication being the permitted action. | 03-28-2013 |
20130085927 | Providing Increased Ability To Perform A Transaction Based On Locale - A method and system is provided that allows a user to select a default currency to be used with the mobile device and associate it with the currency selector of the device. When using the mobile device for mobile payments in a locale with a different currency than the user's default or home currency, the user can actuate the currency selector to convert the currency amount to the default currency and easily determine the default equivalent currency. | 04-04-2013 |
20130109418 | METHOD FOR CREATING A PEER-TO-PEER IMMEDIATE MESSAGING SOLUTION WITHOUT USING AN INSTANT MESSAGING SERVER | 05-02-2013 |
20130110503 | Method for Automatically Preferring a Diacritical Version of a Linguistic Element on a Handheld Electronic Device Based on Linguistic Source and Associated Apparatus | 05-02-2013 |
20130132899 | MENU FOR A MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A mobile communication device having a user interface for invoking a text editing command is provided. The interface comprises a reduced set of commands which is accessed by actuating an input device on the mobile communication device, the reduced set of commands comprising a set of context-sensitive commands derived from a full-function set of commands associated with a text-based application. The input device may be a dedicated input device, such as a trackball, for accessing the set of context-sensitive commands. | 05-23-2013 |
20130144601 | HANDHELD ELECTRONIC DEVICE HAVING SELECTABLE LANGUAGE INDICATOR FOR LANGUAGE SELECTION AND METHOD THEREFOR - A method of enabling the selection of a language to be employed as a method input language by a disambiguation routine of a handheld electronic device having stored therein a plurality of method input languages and disambiguation routine number, includes detecting a selection of a language, detecting as an ambiguous input an actuation of one or more input members, outputting at least a plurality of the language objects that corresponds to the ambiguous input, outputting an indicator which one of the method input languages is currently employed by the disambiguation function, and enabling an alternate one of the input language methods to be selected in response to a selection of the indicator in lieu of one of the plurality of language objects. | 06-06-2013 |
20130167066 | DYNAMIC BAR ORIENTED USER INTERFACE - Method and user interface for controlling an apparatus are provided. At least one dynamic bar is provided for displaying on a main screen of a graphical user interface for controlling the apparatus. Each dynamic bar is associated with respective one or more interfaces for applications and/or functions provided by the apparatus and each dynamic bar has a pop-up interface for providing at least one of preview information determined from information managed by the applications and/or functions and links to invoke said respective interfaces. | 06-27-2013 |
20130211837 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MAKING AN ELECTRONIC HANDHELD DEVICE MORE ACCESSIBLE TO A DISABLED PERSON - An electronic handheld device is described having an options module for providing a user with at least one option in the handheld device, each option associated with an enabling mode of operation of the handheld device. The device also includes an enabling module for implementing, in response to a particular option being selected by a user, an associated enabling mode of operation. Each enabling mode of operation makes the handheld device more accessible to a person having a corresponding disability. | 08-15-2013 |
20130225241 | EXPEDITED COMMUNICATION GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method for managing expedited communication functions for a mobile device having a processing subsystem, a memory subsystem, a display subsystem, a communication subsystem, and a keyboard subsystem includes displaying a graphical key representation of mobile device keyboard subsystem keys, arranging the graphical keys in similar disposition to the mobile device keyboard subsystem keys, and displaying visual indicia to indicate mobile device keyboard subsystem keys associated with expedited communication functions. | 08-29-2013 |
20130282278 | METHODS, DEVICE AND SYSTEMS FOR DETERMINING ROUTE METRICS USING STORED ROUTE INFORMATION - The disclosure is directed to a method, computer program product, mobile device or a system allowing for determining various route metrics based on stored route records associated with routes traversed by the mobile device. The determination of a route metric may utilize processing of a single route record or multiple route records. Exemplary route metrics include route timing metrics such as lap times, or route record metrics. Configurations of computer program products, mobile devices and systems for enabling the determination of various route metrics are also described. | 10-24-2013 |
20140006009 | HANDHELD ELECTRONIC DEVICE INCLUDING AUTOMATIC SELECTION OF INPUT LANGUAGE, AND ASSOCIATED METHOD | 01-02-2014 |
20140015848 | METHOD OF GRAPHICALLY INDICATING ON A WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE THAT MAP DATA IS STILL BEING DOWNLOADED - Displaying a map on a wireless communications device includes downloading map data from which the map is to be rendered, rendering portions of the map for which the map data has been fully downloaded, and then graphically overlaying on a portion of the map for which the map data has not yet been fully downloaded a graphical indication, such as hatching, crosshatching or shading, to indicate that further map data is being downloaded. This hatching, crosshatching, shading, or writing informs the user that further map data is being downloaded and that not all of the map features have been rendered yet. | 01-16-2014 |
20140046943 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR STORING CONTENT BASED ON CLASSIFICATION OPTIONS - Methods and devices for storing content are described. In one example embodiment, a method includes: displaying, on a display of an electronic device, a plurality of selectable content classification options for classifying a content item, the selectable content classification options including a selectable option to classify the content item as an action item and a selectable option to classify the content item as an archive; receiving, via an input interface associated with the electronic device, a selection of one of the content classification options; and storing the content item in accordance with the selected content classification option. | 02-13-2014 |
20140146200 | ENTRIES TO AN ELECTRONIC CALENDAR - An example method of entering calendar events into an electronic calendar involves capturing a digital image of a document that contains a written calendar event; analyzing the digital image of the document containing the written calendar event to extract text information appearing on the digital image of the document; matching the extracted text information in the digital image of the written calendar event document to a date in the electronic calendar; and populating the extracted text information to at least one field of the electronic calendar associated with the date. | 05-29-2014 |
20140164950 | EXTENDED USER INTERFACE FOR EMAIL COMPOSITION - Method and apparatus for composing an email to be sent by a mobile device is disclosed. A screen including one or more fields for receiving user input to define a content of the email is adapted to expand at least a one of the fields to present additional options to define the content. | 06-12-2014 |
20140181713 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING NAVIGATIONAL AND OTHER COMMANDS ON A MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A wireless handheld communication device having a housing containing a display screen located above a physical keyboard. The keyboard includes a plurality of physical keys and corresponding indicia. Some of the keys are associated with alphabetic characters corresponding to a QWERTY array of letters A-Z and some are associated with numeric characters 0-9 corresponding to a telephone keypad arrangement. At least some of the keys associated with numeric characters are overlaid on the physical keys associated with alphabetic characters. A microprocessor is included that runs the device in at least a telephony mode, an email mode and at least one additional mode. The microprocessor displays a key-function map on the display screen indicative of enabled functions associated with particular physical keys of the keyboard which are different from any function signified by the indicia associated with the respective particular physical key. | 06-26-2014 |
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