| Patent application number | Description | Published |
| 20080208990 | PRESENCE SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, SERVER AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT THEREFOR - A presence system in which communication terminals and a presence server may cooperate to provide status notifications. A communication terminal may provide the server a store message to suspend transmission of status notifications to that communication terminal. The presence server may be arranged so that in response to a store message requesting storage of status notifications the transmission of status notifications from the server to that communication terminal is suspended. Several approaches to release the suspension are provided. The presence system, communication terminal and/or the communication presence server may include hardware and/or computer code or software to provide the respective functions and operations. | 08-28-2008 |
| 20080270305 | Validation of queue tickets in wireless communications terminals by near-field communicatons with ticket machines - Methods, wireless communication terminals, and queue management system are disclosed that operate electronically accessible queues, such as customer service queues. A wireless communications terminal is used to obtain a queue ticket from a ticket machine. The queue ticket indicates that a ticket client has been entered a queue associated with the ticket machine. The queue ticket is stored in the wireless terminal. The queue ticket in the wireless terminal is validated via a near-field communications protocol wireless interface between the wireless terminal and the ticket machine. Service for the ticket client is authorized in response to validation of the queue ticket and movement of the ticket client to a threshold level within the queue. | 10-30-2008 |
| 20080278520 | Methods, systems, and computer program products for modifying an electronic text message with warped images - Methods, devices, and computer program products modify an electronic text message with warped images. At least one emoticon is identified in an electronic text message. An image associated with a sender of the electronic text message is identified. The images warped based on the identified emoticon to provide a warped image. The warped images embedded in the electronic text message by replacing the at least one emoticon with the warped image. | 11-13-2008 |
| 20080294436 | SPEECH RECOGNITION FOR IDENTIFYING ADVERTISEMENTS AND/OR WEB PAGES - A device may identify terms in a speech signal using speech recognition. The device may further retain one or more of the identified terms by comparing them to a set of words and send the retained terms and information associated with the retained terms to a remote device. The device may also receive messages that are related to the retained terms and to the information associated with the retained terms from the remote device. | 11-27-2008 |
| 20080301718 | ENHANCED NATIVE CONTACT BOOK APPLICATION - An electronic device that includes a native contact book application, at least one Java application for providing one or more functions relating to information included in the native contact book application, and a content handler serving as an interface between operations of the native contact book application and operations of the at least one Java application. | 12-04-2008 |
| 20080307112 | USING PERSONAL DATA FOR ADVERTISEMENTS - A device may receive personal data that is collected at a client device, obtain a network address of a media device from the client device, send the network address to an advertisement device, and send the personal data to the advertisement device. The advertisement device may retrieve advertisements based on the personal data and send the retrieved advertisements to the media device. | 12-11-2008 |
| 20090264150 | CONNECTING MOBILE TERMINALS BASED ON SENSOR DATA - A method performed by a mobile terminal may include receiving sensor data from a plurality of sensors on a mobile terminal, determining when the received sensor data satisfies a rule, transmitting information from the mobile terminal to a network device, where the information includes at least one of an application identifier, a rule or some of the received sensor data, and connecting the mobile terminal to another mobile terminal, where the another mobile terminal is selected by the network device based on the transmitted information from the mobile terminal. | 10-22-2009 |
| 20090271829 | TERMINALS, SERVERS, AND METHODS THAT FIND A MEDIA SERVER TO REPLACE A SENSED BROADCAST PROGRAM/MOVIE - A wireless mobile terminal works with an identification server to automatically identify a broadcast program/movie and then identify and connect to a networked media server to receive the identified program/movie therefrom. The terminal generates data that characterizes content of a broadcast program/movie that is send by the terminal and is playing external thereto. The terminal transmits a message that includes the characterization data and a request for identification of a media server from which the broadcast program/movie can be received. The identification server identifies the broadcast program/movie, and identifies a user viewed location within the identified program/movie that corresponds to what was sensed by the terminal. The identification server identifies an Internet address of a media server from which the terminal can receive transmission of the identified program/movie. The identification server transmits a message to the terminal that identifies the identified program/movie, the user viewed location therein, and the Internet address of the media server. The terminal responds to the message by establishing a communication connection to the identified media server and requesting transmission therefrom of the identified program/movie starting from a location corresponding to the user viewed location. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20100112989 | AUTOMATIC DETECTION OF PERSONAL NETWORKS - A method may include receiving information about a geographic position of each of a plurality of mobile terminals for a particular time. The method may further include determining a relationship between two of the mobile terminals based on the geographic position and the particular time and automatically suggesting, based on the relationship, an information exchange of contact information between the two mobile terminals. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20100190513 | MOBILE DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING LOCATION BASED CONTENT - A mobile device and method are disclosed to provide location based content to a user of a mobile device based on the current location, wherein the provision of location based content depends on obtained location data. The mobile device comprises a location obtaining section for obtaining location data based on locations of the mobile device, location based content section for obtaining location based content, and a controller adapted to compare presently obtained location data with previously obtained location data and to select between a first operation mode and a second operation mode according to the comparison, wherein in the first operation mode the location based content section is adapted to provide location based content to a user of the mobile device according to the current location of the mobile device and in the second operation mode providing of location based content is suppressed. | 07-29-2010 |
| 20100210244 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR HANDLING MESSAGES - A device, method and system for handling received messages on a portable electronic device. The device includes a message handling section | 08-19-2010 |
| 20110061000 | Interconnecting Applications on Personal Computers and Mobile Terminals Through a Web Server - Methods of communicatively connecting a local application on a mobile terminal to a Web application on a personal computer and related Web servers and mobile terminals are disclosed. A first session ID for the Web application and a corresponding first code may be communicated from a connector application on a Web server to the personal computer. A second code and user ID may be communicated from the mobile terminal to the connector application on the Web server. The connector application on the Web server may be operated to determine whether the first code from the personal computer matches the second code from the mobile terminal and, if so, to communicatively connect the local application on the mobile terminal to the Web application on the personal computer. | 03-10-2011 |