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Alon Avital, Haifa IL

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20080211955Camera Modules With Lens Drive Device - A camera module has a plurality of lenses aligned along an optic axis that receive and transmit light from a scene being imaged by the camera module. At least one lens is mounted on a platform which is movable along the optic axis and is moved by action of a piezoelectric motor. Optionally, at least one lens is mounted on a second platform which is movable along the optic axis. The second platform may be driven by a second piezoelectric motor or moved by action of the first platform.09-04-2008
20080259466Platform Transport Systems - A transport system for moving and positioning an object comprising: a tube (10-23-2008

Patent applications by Alon Avital, Haifa IL

Amihay Avital, Petach Tikva IL

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20110279279SECURE POINT OF SALE TERMINAL - A data entry device including a housing formed of at least two portions, data entry circuitry located within the housing, at least one case-open switch assembly operative to sense when the housing is opened and tamper indication circuitry operative to receive an input from the at least one case-open switch assembly and to provide an output indication of possible tampering with the data entry circuitry located within the housing, the at least one case-open switch assembly including an arrangement of electrical contacts including at least first, second and third contacts and a displaceable conductive element, the tamper indication circuitry and the third contact together being operative such that when the third contact is short circuited to at least one of the first contact, the second contact and another contact, an output indication of possible tampering is provided.11-17-2011

Amihay Avital, Bat Hefer IL

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20110248860SECURE DATA ENTRY DEVICE - A secure data entry device including a housing, a keypad mounted in the housing and including a plurality of selectably depressible keys, tampering alarm indication circuitry and at least one electrical conductor located in the housing in operative association with the keypad, the at least one electrical conductor being coupled to the tampering alarm indication circuitry and being arranged such that extraction of at least one of the plurality of selectably depressible keys results in at least one break in the at least one electrical conductor, which causes the tampering alarm indication circuitry to provide a tampering alarm indication.10-13-2011
20120043382CARD READER HAVING IMPROVED ELECTROSTATIC DISCHARGE FUNCTIONALITY - A smart card reader including a smart card reading assembly including a plurality of smart card chip communication contacts and a static electricity discharge element assembled with the smart card reading assembly, the static electricity discharge element including a plurality of static electricity discharge contacts contacting multiple diverse surfaces of a smart card for discharge of static electricity thereon.02-23-2012

Amihay Avital, Hadar Ganin IL

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090184850SECURED KEYPAD DEVICES - A data entry device including a housing including a top housing portion including key apertures, a plurality of data entry keys mounted in the housing to have data entry key depression travel paths in the housing, the plurality of data entry keys being associated with a substrate, which is disposed below the top housing portion and anti-tampering electrical conductors arranged between the top housing portion and the substrate thereby to prevent unauthorized access to the substrate.07-23-2009

Dudu Avital, Tel-Aviv IL

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20110270952COMPUTER IN A DONGLE - Aspects of the disclosure provide a dongle device for providing services at a network device, such as a gateway device. The dongle device includes a connector configured to connect the dongle device to a network device that performs packet switching in and out of a network and/or within the network. The connector has a power pin configured to receive a power supply from the network device to power up the dongle device, and a data pin configured to enable the dongle device to communicate with the network device. The dongle device further includes a processor configured to provide a service in the network after the dongle device is powered up.11-03-2011

Ofer Avital, Yokneam Ilit IL

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090171203Cryotherapy Insertion System and Method - Methods and systems for inserting therapeutic probes into a patient are present. Embodiments include an automated probe insertion system and a probe insertion guide comprising a moveable probe guide sleeve; a positioner for positioning said probe guide sleeve; and a controller operable to receive a definition of a locus within a body of a patient and to direct positioning and orienting of said probe guide sleeve so that a probe advanced through said sleeve will advance in direction of said locus. Cryosurgery applications are presented.07-02-2009
20090318804Cryotherapy Planning and Control System - The present invention relates to devices and methods for planning and supervising minimally invasive surgery. Included are enhancements to systems for planning, monitoring, and controlling cryosurgery.12-24-2009
20100019918Probe Insertion Guide with User-Directing Features - The present invention relates to a probe-insertion guiding apparatus for guiding a user towards correct insertion of therapeutic probes into a patient. The apparatus comprises a template which comprises a plurality of apertures sized to accommodate therapeutic probes and to guide insertion of such probes into a body, a probe command receiver for receiving probe insertion commands specifying template apertures through which probes are to be inserted, and at least one of a) a sensory output device operable to indicate to a user which aperture is to receive a next inserted probe, and b) a probe detection device operable to detect insertion of a probe into an aperture. Preferred embodiments include feedback modules providing feedback to a user indicating whether the user's probe did or did not correspond to a probe insertion specified by a received probe insertion command.01-28-2010

Shlomo Avital, Nataf IL

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20120076107AUTONOMOUS SCANNING AND HANDOVER - In some embodiments a network adapter comprises a first network access technology and a second network access technology and a controller comprising logic to locate an available network which utilizes the first network access technology and automatically connect to the available network using the first network access technology when a network identifier associated with the available network is stored in a memory module coupled to the network adapter. Other embodiments may be described.03-29-2012

Shlomo Avital, Jerusalem IL

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090323570Techniques for management of shared resources in wireless multi-communication devices - An embodiment of the present invention provides an apparatus, comprising a network adapter configured for wireless communication using more than one technology, and wherein the network adapter is configured to share a plurality of shared hardware components by limiting access to the air to one comm only at given time by designating one comm that owns the shared hardware components as a primary comm and all other comms are secondary comms, wherein the primary comm allows the secondary comms to use the shared hardware components when it is in an idle-state but when the primary comm returns from the idle state, it claims ownership of the shared resources and the secondary comms release the shared resources.12-31-2009
20090327767Techniques for distributed management of wireless devices with shared resources between wireless components - An embodiment of the present invention provides an apparatus, comprising a network adapter configured for wireless communication using more than one technology using distributed management and wherein the network adapter is configured to share a plurality of shared hardware components by automatically turning all other comms to OFF when one comm is turned to ON.12-31-2009
20100111053Techniques for enhanced network discovery - An embodiment of the present invention provides a method, comprising retrieving a first network scan while connected to a second network access point (AP), without actually accessing the air, by the AP sending a message to “Get first network base station (BS) list” to devices in communication with the AP and operable to communicate in the first and the second networks, merging by the AP all answers from the devices to provide a list of all base stations (BS's) in the AP's vicinity, and querying the AP by other devices for the network BS list.05-06-2010
20100329230Avoiding beacon conflicts in multi-radio platforms - In a multi-radio platform that operates in two networks, both the announced beacon intervals and the actual beacon intervals in one network may be periodically increased and decreased in defined amounts so that the beacons will not overlap scheduled communications with the other network. The determination of how much and how often to adjust these beacon intervals may be based, at least partially, on the minimum increments in which the beacons intervals are permitted to be adjusted, and on the scheduled communications intervals of the other network.12-30-2010
20120057552TECHNIQUES FOR MANAGEMENT OF SHARED RESOURCES IN WIRELESS MULTI-COMMUNICATION DEVICES - An embodiment of the present invention provides an apparatus, comprising a network adapter configured for wireless communication using more than one technology, and wherein the network adapter is configured to share a plurality of shared hardware components by limiting access to the air to one comm only at given time by designating one comm that owns the shared hardware components as a primary comm and all other comms are secondary comms, wherein the primary comm allows the secondary comms to use the shared hardware components when it is in an idle-state but when the primary comm returns from the idle state, it claims ownership of the shared resources and the secondary comms release the shared resources.03-08-2012

Patent applications by Shlomo Avital, Jerusalem IL

Shlomo Avital, Doar N'A Harie Yehuda IL

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20110205946METHOD APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR REDUCING POWER CONSUMPTION OF A WIRELESS DEVICE - A method, apparatus and a wireless communication system to reduce power consumption of a wireless Multicomm device by using a location-aware scanning for detecting WLAN networks. The location awareness is obtained from a base station identifier of a wireless wide area network (WWAN) and is based on a preconfigured database that associates WWAN BS IDs with potential WLAN networks.08-25-2011

Shlomo Avital, Maaleh Edumin IL

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20110045415LAMP WITH HEAT-RESPONSIVE DECORATION - A lighting product including a holder for an illumination source, a frame, attached to the holder including a back plate having a front surface adjacent to the illumination source, and a layer of a thermochromic material, which is disposed on the front surface of the back plate so as to alter an appearance of the back plate in response to heat emitted by the illumination source.02-24-2011

Shlomo M. Avital, Jerusalem IL

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20120057564METHOD AND APPARATUS TO SHORTEN THE DURATION OF INITIAL NETWORK SELECTION AND HANDOVER DECISIONS IN MULTICOMM PLATFORMS BY UTILIZING ALTERNATE FRAGMENTED SCANNING - An embodiment of the present invention provides an apparatus, comprising a network adapter capable of combining more than one wireless communication technology (comm) for wireless communication in a wireless network, wherein the apparatus includes a network detection phase implemented by doing a full scan of one comm followed by one or more additional comm scans; and wherein the network adapter breaks a scan into buckets, and alternates between different scanning buckets of different comms to provide faster scanning, connection time and handover from one wireless technology to another wireless technology.03-08-2012

Tamir Avital, Tel Aviv IL

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090042545SYSTEM AND A METHOD FOR UNIFYING THE SOCIAL REALITIES OF THE ONLINE INTERNET AND REAL WORLD OF THE MOBILE PHONE - A method combining mobile phone and Internet technologies to create one unified reality. The method includes creating personal Webpage content on a Website. The content may include personal information, pictures, videos and a blog. The method also includes adding details of other people in one's proximity, as recognized by one's mobile phone, to a newbie page, allowing one to initiate an online interaction and later to classify the people into categories and showing the personal information to the other people filtered by the categories, such that the personal Webpage content interacts with mobile phone proximity recognition to initiate valuable longer term relationships.02-12-2009

Yaniv Avital, Modiin IL

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100182776Battery-powered light system - Hand-carried, battery-powered light replacing conventional bank lights are described. In one embodiment, the light includes a generally rectangular body with opposed faces, a peripheral edge having a width substantially less than the width of the faces, and a handle adjacent one end of the body; and a plurality of spaced LED emitter heads mounted on one face of the body, each of the emitter heads including a housing and at least one LED emitter. In another embodiment, the light includes a non-conductive enclosure having rectangular top and bottom walls, and side and end walls connecting the top and bottom walls, the top wall including receiving recesses; and a plurality of rotatable light sources mounted on the top wall, each of the light sources including a telescopic support post having a base end pivotally attached to the top wall and an outer end, and an LED emitter head attached to the outer end of the post.07-22-2010