Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080207184 | EVENTS ON MULTIPLE PHONES - A method and device for distributing an event to more than one electronic device comprising receiving the event on a first electronic device, determining whether the first electronic device is connected to at least one other electronic device, and forwarding the event to the at least one other electronic device if connected. | 08-28-2008 |
20080240702 | MOBILE DEVICE WITH INTEGRATED PHOTOGRAPH MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A mobile device comprises a network communication system such as a wide area network mobile telephony system, a camera for capturing a digital photograph, and a photograph management application. The photograph management application receives the digital photograph, obtains an information record comprising information related to the digital photograph; and associates at least a portion of the information related to the digital photograph with the digital photograph. The information record may be obtained from local sources such as a contact directory or from a remote directory server. | 10-02-2008 |
20080243861 | DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPH CONTENT INFORMATION SERVICE - A server provides an information record comprising selected information related to an image depicted in a digital photograph. The server may comprise a database and a recognition application. The database may store, in association with each of a plurality of subject matters: i) recognition data for recognizing the subject matter within an image; and ii) information related to the subject matter. The recognition application may receive a request from a remote client system. The request comprises a digital image embodying at least a portion of a digital photograph. The recognition application applies recognition data to the digital image to determine a selected subject matter. The selected subject matter is the subject matter depicted in the digital image. The recognition application further obtains selected information from the database. The selected information may be the information related to the selected subject matter. A response is then returned to the remote client system. The response comprises the information record comprising the selected information. | 10-02-2008 |
20090047934 | Accessing Stored Data Objects Using Contact Data Corresponding to a Remote Communications Party - Methods and apparatus for accessing data objects stored in a communication device are disclosed. An exemplary method comprises detecting a trigger event related to a remote communications party, retrieving contact data from a contacts database using a party identifier corresponding to the remote communications party, searching for stored data objects associated with the remote communications party, using the contact data as search parameters, and displaying the results of the search. The method may further include ranking the data objects by relevancy and formatting the display according to the ranking. | 02-19-2009 |
20090049093 | Custom User Pages for Participants in a Two-Way Communication - A method for creating and displaying custom user pages for participants in a two-way communication is described. A content profile for a second party in a two-way communication is selected or retrieved responsive to a triggering event. The content profile includes one or more content identifiers that identify content of interest to or otherwise relevant to the second party. Media content corresponding to said content identifiers in said content profile is downloaded from one or more remote content servers. The downloaded media content is used to create a custom user page for the second party to be displayed on a mobile terminal of a the first party. | 02-19-2009 |
20100070385 | WIRELESS MEDIA PLAYER - A wireless device, such as a mobile phone, and a method for operating the wireless device to access a media option. The wireless device may include a media player; a radio signal receiver system configured to receive media signals; a controller comprising a memory comprising a list of different media options, indicating media items the user is interested in taking part of and a media scanner configured to scan the radio signal receiver system to detect media content associated with the media options; a user input interface to select one media item currently indicted as detected; and a media selector configured to pass received media signals relating to the selected media item to the media player. | 03-18-2010 |
20100274855 | SCHEDULING EVENTS WITH LOCATION MANAGEMENT - A computer-implemented method may include associating each of a plurality of guests with an event time and an event location, wherein the association of each of the plurality of guests includes information indicating whether the guest is expected to be present at the event location at the event time, and wherein the event time and the event location is the same for each of the plurality of guests. The method may also include associating each of a plurality of mobile devices with a different one of the plurality of guests that is associated with information indicating that the guest is expected to be present at the event location at the event time. Further, the method may include receiving a location update message from each of the mobile devices, wherein each location update message indicates a location of the corresponding mobile device, and displaying an indication of the location of the each of the mobile devices as indicative of the location of the associated guest. | 10-28-2010 |