Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080214238 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR FACILITATING HANDS-FREE MODE WITH FM TRANSMITTER - Disclosed is a hands-free electronic device including an FM receiver and an FM scanner to continuously scan for FM channels and to locate available FM channels for a list of available FM channels rated according to signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and/or a received signal-strength indication (RSSI). A short range transceiver may transmit and receive short range communications, from a handheld device. An FM transmitter of the hands-free device can transmit received short range communications via available FM channels of the rated list of available FM channels. The hands-free device may be in communication with, for example, an automobile FM radio. In this way, the car radio may audibly output that which is transmitted from the handheld device. In an embodiment, a speech synthesizer may be configured to generate speech output to indicate an available FM channel from the rated list of available FM channels. | 09-04-2008 |
20080242365 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR HANDS-FREE CONNECTIVITY TO PLURAL DEVICES - Disclosed are a hands-free device and a method of a hands-free device for automatic connectivity to two or more handheld devices. Upon power-up of the hands-free device, the device may cycle through all voice communication devices on its paired device list until it either cycles through the entire list or establishes a connection link before reaching the end of the list. It may then cycle through all non-voice communication devices on its paired device list. Once all voice and non-voice communication devices on the paired device list have been paged, the hands-free device may enter an idle mode where it is possible for a user to add a new device to the paired device list. The hands-free device may repeat the cycle through the voice communication devices in the paired device list, at a slower rate than the previous cycle through. | 10-02-2008 |
20090081999 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR DYNAMIC MOBILE CONFERENCING WITH AUTOMATIC PAIRING - Described are methods and systems to preset a Bluetooth enabled headset and a Bluetooth enabled conference hub, so that at the time of a conference call, they are pre-paired and ready for use. Pairing information of a particular Bluetooth headset may be stored with a server and downloaded to a particular conference at the time of the scheduled conference. When a conference call is scheduled, via for example an email client conference scheduling tool, the hub will be automatically preset so that when a particular user with a headset comes within range, the headset and hub are paired and may transmit and receive communications between them. The described methods and systems can be used in large scale and small scale businesses with dynamic conferencing needs. The methods and systems can integrate with widely available email client conference scheduling tools currently used by many business enterprises. | 03-26-2009 |
20090149143 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SELECTING A RADIO CHANNEL FOR TRANSMITTING AN AUDIO SIGNAL TO A RADIO LOCAL RECEIVER - A transmitter device ( | 06-11-2009 |
20090191922 | METHOD OF OPERATING A PORTABLE HANDS-FREE PHONE ACCESSORY - A portable hands-free phone accessory ( | 07-30-2009 |
20100197232 | Echo Canceler Circuit And Method - Received data is filtered to produce pre-noise suppression data. Noise is removed from the pre-noise suppression data to provide noise-suppressed data. At least one weighted filter coefficient is dynamically determined using at least the pre-noise suppression data and not the noise suppressed data. The determination occurs independently from and is not affected by removing the noise from the pre-noise suppression data. Removing the noise from the pre-noise suppression data occurs independently from and is not affected by dynamically determining the at least one weighted coefficient. | 08-05-2010 |
20120236835 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RECORDING A GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION FROM A MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A method for recording a geographical location from a docked mobile communication device that includes detecting a mobile communication device communicatively coupled to a docking device; and detecting that the mobile communication device is communicatively uncoupled from the docking device. Afterwards, the geographical location of the mobile communication device is recorded and stored in memory upon detecting that the mobile communication device has communicatively uncoupled from the docking device. | 09-20-2012 |
20120258668 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ENVIRONMENTAL VEHICULAR SAFETY - A method is described for launching a vehicular camera application residing on a docked mobile communication device, such as a smartphone, tablet computer, or mp3 player, for example. A common feature for the many choices of a mobile communication device is that the mobile communication device comprises embedded data processing capability. The launching operation of the vehicular camera application includes detecting a communicative coupling of the mobile communication device with a docking device; and thereafter initiating the vehicular camera application that resides on the mobile communication device. Images are displayed on the mobile communication device that was captured by a vehicular camera or a camera integrated with the mobile communication device or communicatively coupled to the mobile communication device. The associated camera may be controlled by the vehicular camera application | 10-11-2012 |
20140189801 | Method and System for Providing Limited Usage of an Electronic Device - An electronic device ( | 07-03-2014 |
20150050963 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH POWER SHARING CAPABILITIES AND METHODS THEREFOR - Methods and devices for sharing energy between devices are provided. For example, an electronic device ( | 02-19-2015 |
20150054451 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CHARGING DEVICES USING A MULTIPLE PORT POWER SUPPLY - A method and apparatus charge devices using a multiple port power supply. The apparatus can include a power supply. The apparatus can include a first device charging port coupled to the power supply. The first device charging port can receive power from the power supply and output power to a first device. The apparatus can include a second device charging port coupled to the power supply. The second device charging port can receive power from the power supply and output power to a second device. The apparatus can include a device charging port monitor coupled to the first device charging port and coupled to the second device charging port. The device charging port monitor can detect a number of device charging ports in use. The apparatus can include a cable compensator coupled to the device charging port monitor. The cable compensator can select a first cable compensation if one device charging port is in use and can select a second cable compensation if two device charging ports are in use. | 02-26-2015 |