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20080247344 | Signaling Over Cellular Networks to Reduce the Wi-Fi Energy Consumption of Mobile Devices - Techniques for increasing the battery life on a mobile device by decreasing the energy consumption of the mobile device's wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi) interface are described. In one embodiment, the mobile device's Wi-Fi interface is automatically disabled when the device is not engaged in a voice over internet protocol (VoIP) call via the Wi-Fi interface. When a VoIP call is initiated on the device, or when the device receives a wake up call from a server via its Cellular interface, the Wi-Fi interface is automatically enabled. Using its Wi-Fi interface, the mobile device then connects to an IP-based network via a Wi-Fi access point. The server then initiates a direct call, wherein VoIP technology is used by the mobile device, between the mobile device and a VoIP calling device. | 10-09-2008 |
20080248749 | SIGNALING OVER CELLULAR NETWORKS TO REDUCE THE WI-FI ENERGY CONSUMPTION OF MOBILE DEVICES - Techniques for increasing the battery life on a mobile device by decreasing the energy consumption of the mobile device's wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi) interface are described. In one embodiment, the mobile device's Wi-Fi interface is automatically disabled when the device is not engaged. When the device receives a wake up call from a server via its Cellular interface, the Wi-Fi interface is enabled if the device answers the wake up call and the Wi-Fi interface is available. Using its Wi-Fi interface, the mobile device then connects to an IP-based network via a Wi-Fi access point. | 10-09-2008 |
20130128793 | SIGNALING OVER CELLULAR NETWORKS TO REDUCE THE WI-FI ENERGY CONSUMPTION OF MOBILE DEVICES - Techniques for increasing the battery life on a mobile device by decreasing the energy consumption of the mobile device's wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi) interface are described. In one embodiment, the mobile device's Wi-Fi interface is automatically disabled when the device is not engaged. When the device receives a wake up call from a server via its Cellular interface, the Wi-Fi interface is enabled if the device answers the wake up call and the Wi-Fi interface is available. Using its Wi-Fi interface, the mobile device then connects to an IP-based network via a Wi-Fi access point. | 05-23-2013 |
20140372740 | SECURELY OBTAINING MEMORY CONTENT AFTER DEVICE MALFUNCTION - One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for securely obtaining memory content after a device malfunction. For example, applications, components, and/or an operating system of a device may maintain information within volatile memory in a secure manner (e.g., using encryption). When the device malfunctions, such information may be useful for diagnosing what caused the malfunction. Accordingly, memory content within volatile memory may be securely retrieved, encrypted, and/or stored before such memory content is flushed/removed from volatile memory. For example, a warm reset is performed to initially reboot the device without removing memory content from volatile memory. The memory content may be retrieved and encrypted to create encrypted memory content that may be stored within nonvolatile memory for later access. After a second reboot, device malfunction information may be obtained by decrypting the encrypted memory content using a private key matching a public key used to encrypt the memory content. | 12-18-2014 |
20150139057 | SIGNALING OVER CELLULAR NETWORKS TO REDUCE THE WI-FI ENERGY CONSUMPTION OF MOBILE DEVICES - Techniques for increasing the battery life on a mobile device by decreasing the energy consumption of the mobile device's wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi) interface are described. In one embodiment, the mobile device's Wi-Fi interface is automatically disabled when the device is not engaged. When the device receives a wake up call from a server via its Cellular interface, the Wi-Fi interface is enabled if the device answers the wake up call and the Wi-Fi interface is available. Using its Wi-Fi interface, the mobile device then connects to an IP-based network via a Wi-Fi access point. | 05-21-2015 |
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20100153459 | CONTACT ENTRY POPULATION FROM CALL ENTITY INFORMATION - Populating a contact entry with selected entity information based on an identifier associated with a call (e.g., a telephone call, VoIP call, text message, electronic mail message, or any other communication). As the call is detected, entity information for the identifier (e.g., a telephone number, VoIP address, MAC address, etc.) is generated. The entity information is filtered based on a category of the entity information, user preferences, location of a computing device (e.g., mobile telephone) of the user, or other filtering criteria. The filtered entity information is associated with the contact entry for the identifier, thereby enhancing the contact entry while reducing typing on the computing device. In some embodiments, additional information such as advertisements for a competitor of the entity are provided to the user. | 06-17-2010 |
20120117478 | MANAGING NETWORK USAGE PER APPLICATION VIA POLICIES - Defining and applying policies to manage data traffic including data transmitted and/or received by each of a plurality of applications executing on a computing device. The data traffic is monitored per application and attributes are defined for the monitored data traffic to enable the user to evaluate the data traffic for each application. Usage patterns are determined based on the monitored data traffic and the attributes to create one or more policies. The policies are applied to prevent each application from exceeding a corresponding data usage limit defined by the policies. | 05-10-2012 |
20140187217 | CONTACT ENTRY POPULATION FROM CALL ENTITY INFORMATION - Populating a contact entry with selected entity information based on an identifier associated with a call (e.g., a telephone call, VoIP call, text message, electronic mail message, or any other communication). As the call is detected, entity information for the identifier (e.g., a telephone number, VoIP address, MAC address, etc.) is generated. The entity information is filtered based on a category of the entity information, user preferences, location of a computing device (e.g., mobile telephone) of the user, or other filtering criteria. The filtered entity information is associated with the contact entry for the identifier, thereby enhancing the contact entry while reducing typing on the computing device. In some embodiments, additional information such as advertisements for a competitor of the entity are provided to the user. | 07-03-2014 |
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20120266090 | Browser Intermediary - A browser intermediary provides a user interface that displays representations of various types of available web-based content. Selection of a particular web-based content from the browser intermediary causes a web browser application to be launched and the selected web-based content to be loaded in the browser user interface. | 10-18-2012 |
20130151143 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REMINDING CALENDAR SCHEDULE AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A method and an apparatus for reminding a calendar schedule and a recording medium are provided. First, a schedule and a location of an event are set in a calendar, and first positioning information of the location is obtained. Then, second positioning information of a current location of a mobile device is obtained. Next, the current location is determining whether to be within a signal range of a signal source. Once the current location is within the signal range, the time for moving from the location with the second positioning information to the location with the first positioning information is calculated. Finally, a reminding time is set according to the transferring time, and a reminding action is taken at the reminding time. Thereby, the reminding time of the event can be dynamically adjusted to avoid delay caused when the mobile device is too far from the event location. | 06-13-2013 |
20130218452 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ESTIMATING AND DISPLAYING DESTINATION AND RECORDING MEDIUM USING THE SAME - A method, an apparatus, and a recording medium for estimating and displaying a destination are provided. In the method, a plurality of places frequently visited by a user is set first. Then, a current location of the electronic apparatus is continuously detected by using a positioning module, and a distance between the current location and each of the places is calculated. Whether the distance between the current location and each of the places increases is determined. When the distance increases, the corresponding place is removed and the remaining places are displayed. | 08-22-2013 |
20130226401 | METHOD FOR ACTIVATING APPLICATION, HANDHELD ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND CAR SYSTEM - A method, a handheld electronic apparatus, and a car system for activating an application are provided. The handheld electronic apparatus obtains identification information from a car apparatus when the handheld electronic apparatus is connected to the car apparatus. Herein, the car apparatus is coupled to a power connection unit of a vehicle. The handheld electronic apparatus activates an application corresponding to the identification information after obtaining the identification information. | 08-29-2013 |
20140101582 | MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM AND METHOD OF CONFIGURING HOME SCREEN OF MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE - A method of configuring and updating a home screen of a mobile communications device is provided. The home screen is configured and updated by a processor and displayed on a display panel of the mobile communications device. The method includes providing a plurality of tiles, each of the tiles displaying a feed from a corresponding one of feed sources; filling the tiles into the home screen that has a top page, one or more pages being addable immediately above the top page, each page having a layout of a plurality of slots, each of the slots being for accommodating a corresponding one of the tiles; and after an update that results in insertion of at least one new tile into the home screen occurs, placing the at least one new tile displaying a new feed on the top page, and moving at least one existing tile that was on the top page prior to the update to a new, different location of the home screen. A non-transitory computer-readable medium and a mobile communications device of configuring a home screen of a mobile communications device are also provided. | 04-10-2014 |
20140101597 | MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM AND METHOD OF NAVIGATING BETWEEN A PLURALITY OF DIFFERENT VIEWS OF HOME SCREEN OF MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE - A method of navigating between a plurality of different views of a home screen of a mobile communications device is provide. The mobile communications device includes a home button, a processor, and a display panel configured to cooperate with the processor to display one of the views of the home screen. The method includes selectively displaying one of the views of the home screen on the display panel based on a number of times the home button is activated within a predetermined time period. A non-transitory computer-readable medium and a mobile communications device of navigating between a plurality of different views of a home screen of a mobile communications device are also provided. | 04-10-2014 |
20140101609 | MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM AND METHOD OF ACTIVATING UPDATE OF HOME SCREEN OF MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE - A method of activating an update of a home screen of a mobile communications device is provided. The home screen is displayed on a display panel of the mobile communications device. The home screen includes a plurality of tiles displaying a plurality of feeds from one or more feed sources. The method includes performing one of updating the home screen or activating and displaying a menu bar on the display panel based on a distance of a downward scrolling on a top page of a home screen. A non-transitory computer-readable medium and a mobile communications device for activating an update of a home screen of a mobile communications device are also provided. | 04-10-2014 |
20150205763 | METHOD FOR UPDATING PAGE OF ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A method for updating a page of an electronic device is provided. The page includes a first row and a second row. Each of the first row and the second row includes one or two tiles. Each tile comprises a picture. The method comprises the following steps. After an update that results in insertion of a plurality of new tiles into the page occurs, three new tiles of the plurality of new tiles are displayed by using either a first tile layout or a second tile layout in a third row and a fourth row. The number of tiles in the third row is one and the number of tiles in the fourth row is two in the first tile layout. The number of tiles in the third row is two and the number of tiles in the fourth row is one in the second tile layout. | 07-23-2015 |
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20100293056 | Tile Space User Interface For Mobile Devices - The subject disclosure pertains to systems and methods for providing an improved user interface for mobile devices. Data and services available through the mobile device can be represented as a set of tiles maintained in a display space. The tiles provide a snapshot of the current state of content available through the mobile device without requiring any interaction by the user. The tiles and display space are customizable and can be dynamically updated to display content to a user. In addition, tiles can provide functionality, including simple tasks to a user without requiring the user to navigate away from the tile display space. Tiles can also provide quick access to start software applications. Tiles can be organized in the display space by the user or the tiles can be automatically grouped based upon associated metadata. | 11-18-2010 |
20110148632 | SMART REMINDERS - Systems and methods for scheduling appointment reminders are based on multiple conditions including estimated travel time. An estimate of the time needed to travel between the user's location and the location of the appointment cam be determined by retrieving location information from a global address list (GAL), a local address book of a calendaring application, from a map service, or other location determining technology. Users can subscribe to alert service to receive information regarding recent events such as traffic problems, flight delays, weather conditions, etc., which is then used in setting or modifying reminder times. Notifications can be generated for timing conflicts based on the estimated travel time. If the estimated travel time would require the user to leave a previous appointment early, or be late for a subsequent appointment, a notification can be generated to the user. | 06-23-2011 |
20110310026 | EASY WORD SELECTION AND SELECTION AHEAD OF FINGER - The described embodiments allow for the selection of content in a touch screen display. The method includes detecting a single tap on a word of text in a text editing field in a touch screen, and responsive to the single tap selecting the word of text in whole. In another embodiment additional content can be selected. Contact with selected content displayed in a touch screen can be detected. The contact with the touch screen can be detected moving in a direction along the selected content. Additional content is selected by selecting a word of text adjacent to the selected content being contacted. | 12-22-2011 |
20120173339 | Tile Space User Interface For Mobile Devices - The subject disclosure pertains to systems and methods for providing an improved user interface for mobile devices. Data and services available through the mobile device can be represented as a set of tiles maintained in a display space. The tiles provide a snapshot of the current state of content available through the mobile device without requiring any interaction by the user. The tiles and display space are customizable and can be dynamically updated to display content to a user. In addition, tiles can provide functionality, including simple tasks to a user without requiring the user to navigate away from the tile display space. Tiles can also provide quick access to start software applications. Tiles can be organized in the display space by the user or the tiles can be automatically grouped based upon associated metadata. | 07-05-2012 |
20150242475 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING CHANGES TO A CONTACT DATABASE - Described is a system and method for updating a contact and adding a new contact from a call log in a communications device. The system includes a contact manager that is directed towards creating and updating call contact cards in a contact database with information retrieved from call logs of phone calls made to or from the communications device. In one embodiment, information is pre-populated into a predetermined data field of the contact card, thereby reducing workload to a user. The method includes determining if a request is for updating an existing contact card or for adding a new contact card to the contact database. The update or addition is made with information retrieved from call logs. Call information is pre-populated into a predetermined data field of the contact card, when it is determined that the request is to add a new contact card to the contact database. | 08-27-2015 |
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20100031254 | Efficient detection and response to spin waits in multi-processor virtual machines - Various aspects are disclosed herein for attenuating spin waiting in a virtual machine environment comprising a plurality of virtual machines and virtual processors. Selected virtual processors can be given time slice extensions in order to prevent such virtual processors from becoming de-scheduled (and hence causing other virtual processors to have to spin wait). Selected virtual processors can also be expressly scheduled so that they can be given higher priority to resources, resulting in reduced spin waits for other virtual processors waiting on such selected virtual processors. Finally, various spin wait detection techniques can be incorporated into the time slice extension and express scheduling mechanisms, in order to identify potential and existing spin waiting scenarios. | 02-04-2010 |
20100082851 | BALANCING USAGE OF HARDWARE DEVICES AMONG CLIENTS - Techniques are disclosed for managing the flow of IO jobs from a client to a hardware device such that resource starvation is reduced without significantly impacting throughput. Each flow can be assigned an amount of time that a hardware device can deplete completing IO jobs from the client. When the allocated amount of time is used IO jobs associated with the client can be stored in a queue until the client obtains more time. | 04-01-2010 |
20100083256 | TEMPORAL BATCHING OF I/O JOBS - Batching techniques are provided to maximize the throughput of a hardware device based on the saturation point of the hardware device. A balancer can determine the saturation point of the hardware device and determine the estimated time cost for IO jobs pending in the hardware device. A comparison can be made and if the estimated time cost total is lower than the saturation point one or more IO jobs can be sent to the hardware device. | 04-01-2010 |
20100083274 | HARDWARE THROUGHPUT SATURATION DETECTION - Improved hardware throughput can be achieved when a hardware device is saturated with IO jobs. Throughput can be estimated based on the quantifiable characteristics of incoming IO jobs. When IO jobs are received a time cost for each job can be estimated and stored in memory. The estimates can be used to calculate the total time cost of in-flight IO jobs and a determination can be made as to whether the hardware device is saturated based on completion times for IO jobs. Over time the time cost estimates for IO jobs can be revised based on a comparison between the estimated time cost for an IO job and the actual time cost for the IO job using aggregate IO job completion sequences. | 04-01-2010 |
20130060972 | BALANCING USAGE OF HARDWARE DEVICES AMONG CLIENTS - Techniques are disclosed for managing the flow of IO jobs from a client to a hardware device such that resource starvation is reduced without significantly impacting throughput. Each flow can be assigned an amount of time that a hardware device can deplete completing IO jobs from the client. When the allocated amount of time is used IO jobs associated with the client can be stored in a queue until the client obtains more time. | 03-07-2013 |
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20150277934 | ONE TIME DUAL BOOT MOBILE PHONE DEVICE - Embodiments are disclosed that relate to dual boot mobile phone devices. In one example, a mobile phone device comprises one or more non-volatile storage devices including a first partition storing a first operating system, a second partition storing first user data of the first operating system and second user data of a second operating system, and a third partition storing the second operating system. The mobile phone device further comprises a dual boot selection module configured to recognize user selection of the second operating system, and a dual boot allocation module configured to, responsive to user selection of the second operating system, automatically merge the first and second partitions into a merged partition, and automatically store the user data of the second operating system on the merged partition. | 10-01-2015 |
20150277986 | DYNAMIC PARTITION DUAL BOOT MOBILE PHONE DEVICE - Embodiments are disclosed that relate to multi boot mobile phone devices. In one example, a mobile phone device comprises one or more non-volatile storage devices including an empty partition, a blob partition storing two or more operating systems in a compressed format, a boot selection module configured to recognize user selection of at least one of the two or more operating systems, and a boot allocation module configured to, responsive to user selection of at least one of the two or more operating systems, split the empty partition into a different operating system partition for each selected operating system, decompress each selected operating system, and store each decompressed operating system on its respective operating system partition. | 10-01-2015 |