| Patent application number | Description | Published |
| 20100130070 | RUGGED, POLARIZED CONNECTOR AND ADAPTOR - This disclosure relates to a rugged, polarized connector or adaptor with interlocking end tabs and notches for polarizing a jack to a specific plug, and in one specific embodiment, a QMA-type RF connector where a rugged spanner nut and a rugged jack casing are used to reinforce the mating connector ends. The connector also includes tabs and mating notches on the spanner nut and the jack casing to polarize the connectors without creating a weakness in the rugged connection. A series of tab orientations is illustrated, a method for grounding the spanner nut to the connector, and a method of using the rugged and polarized interface on any type of connector or as part of a connector adaptor or add-on. | 05-27-2010 |
| 20100221958 | RUGGED, POLARIZED CONNECTOR AND ADAPTOR - This disclosure relates to a rugged, polarized connector or adaptor with interlocking end tabs and notches for polarizing a jack to a specific plug, and in one specific embodiment, a QMA-type RF connector where a rugged spanner nut and a rugged jack casing are used to reinforce the mating connector ends. The connector also includes tabs and mating notches on the spanner nut and the jack casing to polarize the connectors without creating a weakness in the rugged connection. A series of tab orientations is illustrated, a method for grounding the spanner nut to the connector, and a method of using the rugged and polarized interface on any type of connector or as part of a connector adaptor or add-on. | 09-02-2010 |
| 20110105157 | SMS Communication Platform and Methods for Telematic Devices - The present disclosure generally relates to a bidirectional communication platform using short message communication with a telematics device for remotely updating parameters of the device, for obtaining reports and other information regarding the parameters of the device, and to upload control data and specific data to the device. More specifically, a software adaptation layer is added to a telematics device to bidirectionally communicate with receiver and emitter cell phones. | 05-05-2011 |
| Patent application number | Description | Published |
| 20090017868 | Point-to-Point Wireless Audio Transmission - An audio sharing device is capable of receiving audio through one wireless point-to-point link from a first external electronic device; and retransmitting that audio through another wireless point-to-point link to a second external electronic device, while also outputting that audio to a user of the audio sharing device through an acoustic driver. The audio sharing device may be further capable of transmitting other audio received from a microphone to one or both of the first and second external electronic devices. The audio sharing device may also be capable of initiating a simplified form of link establishment procedure with another audio sharing device. | 01-15-2009 |
| 20090109894 | Pseudo hub-and-spoke wireless audio network - An apparatus induces a first wireless device to transmit audio-related data to both the apparatus and a second wireless device by providing the first wireless device with a false indication of the apparatus being capable of performing an audio function that the apparatus is incapable of performing so as to enable the second wireless device to receive the audio-related data simultaneously with the apparatus, and wherein the second wireless device cooperates with the apparatus to leave the first wireless device unaware of the simultaneous receipt of the audio-related data by the second wireless device. | 04-30-2009 |
| 20090271534 | Automated Exchangeable Docking Configuration - A base device meant to cooperate with one of a plurality of exchangeable docking adapters to enable the base device to cooperate with a personal portable device docked with the docking adapter to perform an audio/visual task. The base device incorporates a programmable logic that is programmed with a configuration data specifying a configuration of interconnections to enable the cooperation between the base device and the personal portable device, and may further incorporate a processor to execute a sequence of instructions of a routine causing the processor to cooperate with the personal portable device through the docking adapter to perform the task. The configuration data and/or the routine may be selected depending on which docking adapter is coupled to the base device, depending on a comparison of versions of configuration data and/or routine stored within one or both of the base device and the docking adapter, and/or depending on the identity of one or more of the base device, the docking adapter, the personal portable device, and the programmable logic. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271639 | Personal Wireless Network Power-Based Task Distribution - Apparatus and method for dynamically reassigning between a plurality of personal portable devices in a wireless network one or more task portions of a task that have been distributed among the personal portable devices in response to at least one of the personal portable devices having diminishing access to electric power. A reassignment may be prompted by the remaining electric power available to one of the personal portable devices diminishing to a predetermined level, and/or it may be prompted as a result of a goal of causing the remaining operating times of the personal portable devices engaged in performing the task to be as close to equal as possible. A reassignment may be prompted by the remaining electric power available to one of the personal portable devices being changed either by the coupling of that personal portable device to an external power supply or by a suspension of execution of a task routine associated with a task portion that had been assigned to that personal portable device. A reassignment of a particular task routine between two of the personal portable devices may be forestalled as a result of it being impermissible to transmit a copy of a task routine associated with a task portion and/or a piece of data associated with that task routine from one of the two personal portable devices to the other. A task portion reassigned between two personal portable devices may be associated with communications between personal portable devices and its reassignment may result in a changing in topological positions of the two personal portable devices within the topology of the wireless network. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090318074 | Personal Wireless Network Capabilities-Based Task Portion Distribution - Where a plurality of personal portable devices communicating with each other through a personal wireless network are to cooperate to perform a task made up of a plurality of task portions, the task portions are automatically distributed among the personal portable devices at least partially in response to comparisons between the capabilities required to perform each task portion and the capabilities of each of the personal portable devices. In making such comparisons, the capabilities of each of the personal portable devices that are actually available for the performance of one or more of the task portions at the time such comparisons are made may be taken into account, and further, such comparisons may be repeated as the capabilities of each of the personal portable devices that are actually available change over time. | 12-24-2009 |
| 20100027463 | Personal Wireless Network User Behavior Based Topology - Point-to-point links making up a wireless network in which the point-to-point links connect at least personal portable devices are dynamically altered (i.e., new point-to-point links are established and/or other point-to-point links are removed) in response to recurring comparisons of the extents of interaction of each of the personal portable devices with the wireless network to increase the resiliency of the wireless network to the observed behavior of the user of the personal portable devices in changing which personal portable devices are within the network at any given time. | 02-04-2010 |