Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090248420 | MULTI-PARTICIPANT, MIXED-INITIATIVE VOICE INTERACTION SYSTEM - A voice interaction system includes one or more independent, concurrent state charts, which are used to model the behavior of each of a plurality of participants. The model simplifies the notation and provide a clear description of the interactions between multiple participants. These state charts capture the flow of voice prompts, the impact of externally initiated events and voice commands, and capture the progress of audio through each prompt. This system enables a method to prioritize conflicting and concurrent events leveraging historical patterns and the progress of in-progress prompts. | 10-01-2009 |
20090248820 | INTERACTIVE UNIFIED ACCESS AND CONTROL OF MOBILE DEVICES - An interface between mobile devices and computing devices, such as a PC or an in-vehicle system permits a user to use the better user interface of the computing device to access and control the operation of the mobile device. | 10-01-2009 |
20090318119 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM WITH VOICE MAIL ACCESS AND CALL BY SPELLING FUNCTIONALITY - A method of initiating a communication from a mobile communication device includes receiving a plurality of spoken letters corresponding to a spelling of at least a portion of a contact name and identifying a contact and associated contact information from a database associated with a mobile communication device in response to the spoken letters. A communication to the contact is initiated from the mobile communication device using the associated contact information. A method of presenting voicemail to a user establishes communication with a mobile communication device. A first voicemail box is checked for messages, the first voicemail box being associated with the mobile communication device. A second voicemail box is checked for messages, the second voicemail box being associated with a second communication device. At least one voicemail message received from at least one of the first and second voicemail boxes is presented to a user via a single interface. | 12-24-2009 |
20100023204 | POWER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A vehicle communication system facilitates hands-free interaction with a mobile device in a vehicle or elsewhere. Users interact with the system by speaking to it. The system processes text and processes commands. The system supports Bluetooth wireless technology for hands-free use. The system handles telephone calls, email, and SMS text messages. The user can customize the device via a user profile stored on an Internet web server. The system also includes a plurality of power conservation features. | 01-28-2010 |
20100305807 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM WITH PERSONAL INFORMATION MANAGEMENT AND REMOTE VEHICLE MONITORING AND CONTROL FEATURES - A vehicle communication system includes a control unit in a vehicle, a vehicle data bus operable to transmit vehicle data to the control unit, and a mobile communication device having data network access. The mobile device has a self-contained mode in which the mobile communication device processes and displays the network data received via the data network and in which the control unit transmits the vehicle data to the mobile communication device. The mobile communication device also has an immersive mode in which the control unit processes the network data received via the data network and in which the control unit converts the vehicle data to audible speech and plays the audible speech in the vehicle. | 12-02-2010 |
20110098879 | HARDWARE RECONFIGURABLE VEHICLE ON-BOARD DIAGNOSTIC INTERFACE AND TELEMATIC SYSTEM - A telematic system interfaces with a vehicle diagnostic interface to provide access to vehicle health and performance related information. The telematic system includes a primary gateway connector and various subsystem modules that connect to the primary gateway connector to provide functions in addition to those provided by the primary gateway connector. | 04-28-2011 |
20110098880 | REDUCED TRANSMISSION OF VEHICLE OPERATING DATA - An in vehicle appliance gathers data from various sensors mounted within the vehicle, stores that data and generates summaries of that data for transmission through a wireless network. The data summaries reduce the length of the transmission over a wireless network while providing sufficient data to characterize vehicle operations without excessive transmission length, cost and use of available bandwidth. | 04-28-2011 |
20110173437 | INTERFACE FOR PDA AND COMPUTING DEVICE - A method of reviewing an email attachment receives at an email server an email message including at least one attachment. A preview portion of the email message is transmitted to a mobile communication device. The preview portion does not include the at least one attachment, and the preview portion is viewable on a computing device in communication with the mobile communications device. An attachment download instruction based on the preview portion is received from the computing device via the mobile communication device. The at least one attachment is transmitted to the computing device based on the attachment download instruction. The attachment is not transmitted to the computing device until the attachment download instruction is received. | 07-14-2011 |
20110291902 | WIDEBAND L-SHAPED CIRCULAR POLARIZED MONOPOLE SLOT ANTENNA - A wideband circularly polarized L-shaped monopole slot antenna has a single C-shaped feed. The measured results demonstrate that the antenna has 23% of circular polarization bandwidth (Axial Ratio<3 dB and Return Loss<−10 dB). The monopole slot antenna occupies a half area on the corner of circuit board compared to half-wavelength slot antenna that requires the area at the center of the board. This feature is attractive for compact wireless devices operate at low frequencies in which circuit board floor planning and signal routing are major concerns. The antenna is extremely low cost and does not require any truncation corner, reflector surface and via connection which increase the fabrication cost. | 12-01-2011 |
20110307119 | WEB PORTAL SYSTEM FOR MANAGING VEHICLE USAGE AND MOBILITY - A network including a web portal gathers, compiles and formats information on vehicle usage across a vehicle community. The vehicle community is comprised of a plurality of vehicles whose users and owners have joined the network and communicate through the web portal to allow gathering and accumulation of vehicle operation information for various uses including maintaining a record of vehicle operation and determining energy usage and environmental impact. | 12-15-2011 |
20120036441 | INTERFACE FOR MOBILE DEVICE AND COMPUTING DEVICE - An interface between mobile devices and computing devices, such as a PC or an in-vehicle system permits a user to use the better user interface of the computing device to access and control the operation of the mobile device. | 02-09-2012 |
20120232747 | FLEXIBLE COACHING PLATFORM FOR TELEMATICS SYSTEM - A telematics system provides a platform for generating coaching tips, feedback, and simple indices based on driving behavior, historical information, heursistics and expert knowledge. The coaching tips are displayed on the policyholder portal and text describing the tips is completely configurable by an administrator on the server for the application. Furthermore, both ‘driving behavior’ and ‘environmentally friendly (green) driving’ tips can be supported. | 09-13-2012 |
20130030605 | SELECTIVE VEHICLE TRACKING AND VEHICLE ROUTING - A vehicle monitoring system permits a user to designate some usage as personal, such that the location of the vehicle is not tracked (or not recorded or not reported). The user can designate the usage as personal in terms of time of day or day of the week or in terms of geographic areas. Optionally, in calculating a route, the system may take into account a safety index; i.e. which route is safer. The system may also take into account which route will consume less energy, particularly where the vehicle is an electric vehicle, which has different efficiencies in certain types of road conditions. | 01-31-2013 |
20130041521 | VEHICLE MONITORING SYSTEM WITH AUTOMATIC DRIVER IDENTIFICATION - A vehicle monitoring system includes at least one sensor in the vehicle. A processor receiving information from the at least one sensor, the processor programmed to automatically identify a driver of the vehicle based upon the information from the at least one sensor. | 02-14-2013 |
20130081442 | Method of Correcting the Orientation of a Freely Installed Accelerometer in a Vehicle - A vehicle monitoring system includes an accelerometer installed in the vehicle in an unknown orientation. The system infers the orientation of the accelerometer in the vehicle from the acceleration signals. The proposed method detects and corrects the orientation in two steps. In the first step, the gravity vector is used to estimate the orientation in the vertical plane. Then, based on the acceleration data collected during the vehicle movement, the heading of the vehicle is estimated and the orientation within the horizontal plane is corrected. | 04-04-2013 |
20130218563 | SPEECH UNDERSTANDING METHOD AND SYSTEM - A speech recognition system includes a mobile device and a remote server. The mobile device receives the speech from the user and extracts the features and phonemes from the speech. Selected phonemes and measures of uncertainty are transmitted to the server, which processes the phonemes for speech understanding and transmits a text of the speech (or the context or understanding of the speech) back to the mobile device. | 08-22-2013 |
20140148972 | DRIVING EVENT CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM - This vehicle monitoring system provides a plurality of sensors in the vehicle recording performance of the vehicle. A processor (remote or on-board) receives data from the sensors. The processor classifies the data from the at least one sensor as an event in one of a plurality of classifications. The processor associates at least one parameter with the classification. | 05-29-2014 |
20140163809 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM WITH PERSONAL INFORMATION MANAGEMENT AND REMOTE VEHICLE MONITORING AND CONTROL FEATURES - A vehicle communication system includes a control unit in a vehicle, a vehicle data bus operable to transmit vehicle data to the control unit, and a mobile communication device having data network access. The mobile device has a self-contained mode in which the mobile communication device processes and displays the network data received via the data network and in which the control unit transmits the vehicle data to the mobile communication device. The mobile communication device also has an immersive mode in which the control unit processes the network data received via the data network and in which the control unit converts the vehicle data to audible speech and plays the audible speech in the vehicle. | 06-12-2014 |
20140349619 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM WITH VOICE MAIL ACCESS AND CALL BY SPELLING FUNCTIONALITY - A method of initiating a communication from a mobile communication device includes receiving a plurality of spoken letters corresponding to a spelling of at least a portion of a contact name and identifying a contact and associated contact information from a database associated with a mobile communication device in response to the spoken letters. A communication to the contact is initiated from the mobile communication device using the associated contact information. A method of presenting voicemail to a user establishes communication with a mobile communication device. A first voicemail box is checked for messages, the first voicemail box being associated with the mobile communication device. A second voicemail box is checked for messages, the second voicemail box being associated with a second communication device. At least one voicemail message received from at least one of the first and second voicemail boxes is presented to a user via a single interface. | 11-27-2014 |
20150073808 | REMOTE CONTROL AND PAYMENT TRANSACTIONING SYSTEM USING NATURAL LANGUAGE, VEHICLE INFORMATION, AND SPATIO-TEMPORAL CUES - A system enables a mobile platform to issue commands using natural language dialog in order to control and/or monitor the functionality of remote systems according to a desired set of criteria and/or meta-criteria. | 03-12-2015 |
20150088618 | ROAD TOLLING - A precision usage-based transportation infrastructure charging service includes a dynamic road and infrastructure usage engine that can fairly assess road usage based on any combination of mileage, time of day, vehicle mass, location, road class, defined zones and other relevant parameters. This flexible service leverages detailed vehicle driving information to generate road usage summaries, detailed validation data, and invoices or bills where appropriate. This service applies not only to movement along road networks, but also includes time-based and complex rules that support usage-based charging within parking lots, and usage-based charging based on per-person transportation efficiency and environmental impact. | 03-26-2015 |