Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080207166 | Method and Apparatus for Providing a Data Protocol Voice Enabled Subscription Lock for a Wireless Communication Device - A method and system for restricting at least partial usage of a wireless communication device ( | 08-28-2008 |
20090134836 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICE RECHARGING - Disclosed are devices and methods for regulating providing a charge via a charge receiving port of one device, the one device coupled to another device having a charge providing port. In one embodiment, the ports can be coupled by a cable. In another embodiment, the ports can be coupled wirelessly. The charge delivering device may regulate a charge providing process, controlled by a charge regulating controller of the charge providing device and based, for example, upon predetermined criteria. A charge regulating controller can disable the charging process, monitor the charge depletion rate, or the charging process may be based upon user established criteria. A charge regulating controller of the other device can regulate the charge accepting process. Each device may take on both roles, that is providing charge and receiving charge. | 05-28-2009 |
20100159955 | Method and Apparatus for Providing Location-Based Information - A method and apparatus for providing location-based information to a wireless communication device is disclosed. The wireless communication device receives its geographic position information and provides its geographic position information to a web server while accessing a web service provided by the web server. Based on the geographic position information received from the wireless communication device, the web server provides geographic coordinates of locations relevant to the web service in the form of web geo-cookies. The wireless communication device maintains a database of the received geographic coordinates. When the wireless communication accesses a geographic map of a route or region, the wireless communication device determines if the geographic coordinates in the database lie within boundaries of the accessed map. The geographic coordinates that lie within boundaries of the received map are annotated and displayed on the wireless communication device. | 06-24-2010 |
20130163733 | LOCATION AWARE SPEED DIAL ON A COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A method of assigning contacts to a speed dial function. The method can include identifying contacts that are candidates to be assigned to the speed dial function on a communication device. The method also can include identifying a geographic distance between each of the identified candidates and the communication device. The method further can include, via a processor, assigning a first of the identified candidates that is closest to the communication device to a first speed dial indicator, and assigning a second of the identified candidates that is next closest to the communication device to a second speed dial indicator. | 06-27-2013 |
20130265238 | Communication Device and Method for Visual Speed Dial - A communication device for visual speed dial is described. The communication device comprises a user interface, a display and a transmitter. The user interface detects activation of a speed dial mode. The display provides virtual keys in response to detecting activation of the speed dial mode. The virtual keys include characters associated with one or more phone numbers. One or more keys are associated with a particular phone number and a photographic image associated with the particular phone number. The user interface detects selection of the key or keys associated with the particular phone number and the photographic image. The transmitter communicates with a remote device in response to detecting selection of the key or keys. | 10-10-2013 |
20130281154 | MULTI-MODE METHODS AND DEVICES UTLIZING BATTERY POWER LEVEL FOR SELECTION OF THE MODES - Disclosed are a methods and devices in a battery-powered multimode wireless communication device ( | 10-24-2013 |
20140136643 | Dynamic Buffer Management for a Multimedia Content Delivery System - A method implemented in a computing device that connects over a network to server computers that host content streams. The method displays content items on the computing device, where each content item includes a link to one of the content streams, determines an amount of available bandwidth on a data connection from the computing device to the network, and associates a pre-fetch buffer and a streaming buffer with each content item. For each content item, the method obtains a measurement based on a condition relative to the linked content stream. The method then calculates, for each content item, a size for the pre-fetch buffer based on the amount of available bandwidth and the measurement, allocates memory for the pre-fetch buffer and the streaming buffer, and initiates a download of a first portion of the linked content stream to the pre-fetch buffer. | 05-15-2014 |
20140155041 | RADIO INTERFACE LAYER DESIGN FOR SMARTPHONES - A method and system communicates a request between a user application and a modem within a wireless communication device. A radio interface layer (RIL) architecture includes an application framework which receives a hardware specific request as a first application programming interface (API) call from the user application. In response to receiving the request, the application framework sends a corresponding, second API call to a vendor radio interface layer (Vendor RIL) which provides an interface configured for communicating with a specific type of transceiver or modem. In one embodiment, the second API call is transmitted via a Java Native interface (JNI). The JNI provides access to software programs associated with the transceiver, which programs are written in a language that is different from Java. The Vendor RIL communicates with the modem using a modem protocol software corresponding to the specific type of modem to perform commands associated with the request. | 06-05-2014 |
20140191041 | MOBILE DEVICES WITH RFID CAPABILITIES AND CORRESPONDING MEMORY WRITE METHODS - An electronic device ( | 07-10-2014 |
20140191846 | MOBILE DEVICE WITH RFID CAPABILITY AND CORRESPONDING BOOT SEQUENCE - An electronic device ( | 07-10-2014 |
20140273820 | AUTOMATIC USER NOTIFICATION, WITH QUICK RESPONSE (QR) CODE GENERATION FOLLOWING FAILED NFC DEVICE PAIRING - A first user equipment (UE) includes a display, at least two communication mechanisms that respectively supports a first and a second communication mode, and a processor communicatively coupled to the display and the communication mechanisms. The first UE further includes a failed pairing notification (FPN) utility that configures the first UE to: initiate communication with a second UE via a first communication mode; and in response to a trigger condition indicating that the first communication mode is not supported at either the first UE or the second UE, generate a notification alerting a user of the first UE that (1) a different communication mode is required for the first UE to communicate with the second UE and (2) an authorization QR code is required to be exchanged between the first UE and the second UE as an authentication mechanism before the communication can be established via the different communication mode. | 09-18-2014 |
20140273983 | Communication Device and Method for Enhanced Speed Dial - A communication device for enhanced speed dial is described. The communication device comprises a user interface, a display and a transmitter. The user interface detects activation of a speed dial mode. The display provides keys in response to detecting activation of the speed dial mode. The keys include characters associated with one or more phone numbers. One or more keys are associated with a particular phone number of a meeting notice of a scheduling application. The user interface detects selection of the key or keys associated with the particular phone number. The transmitter communicates with a remote device in response to detecting selection of the key or keys. | 09-18-2014 |
20140273984 | Communication Device and Method for Enhanced Speed Dial - A communication device for enhanced speed dial is described. The communication device comprises a user interface, a display and a transmitter. The user interface detects activation of a speed dial mode. The display provides keys in response to detecting activation of the speed dial mode. The keys include characters associated with one or more phone numbers. One or more keys are associated with a particular phone number of a recent call list of the communication device. The user interface detects selection of the key or keys associated with the particular phone number. The transmitter communicates with a remote device in response to detecting selection of the key or keys. | 09-18-2014 |
20140282923 | DEVICE SECURITY UTILIZING CONTINUALLY CHANGING QR CODES - A method provides device access security via use of periodically changing Quick Response (QR) codes. The method includes: generating a first authentication QR code and assigning the generated QR code as the current authentication mechanism for accessing the device. Contemporaneously with the generation of the QR code, at least one QR code validity parameter is established to define when access to the device can be provided to a second device that provides the correct authentication QR code along with the access request. The method includes, in response to a pre-defined trigger of the QR code validity parameter: generating a new authentication QR code, different from a previously generated authentication QR code; assigning the new authentication QR code as the current authentication mechanism for accessing the device; and enabling access to the first device to only second devices that provide the current authentication QR code as the authentication mechanism. | 09-18-2014 |
20140335916 | Method and Device for Determining User Handedness and Controlling a User Interface - A handheld portable device ( | 11-13-2014 |
20140348127 | MICRO TO MACRO IP CONNECTION HANDOVER - Disclosed are a system and method for moving a connection from a localized network, e.g., a personal area network (“PAN”), to a different or larger network, e.g., a wide area network (“WAN”). In one aspect, wherein two devices are in communication on a PAN, each device uses the PAN to query the IPv6 WAN prefix assigned to each other device to which it is communicating on the PAN. The querying device then creates a globally routable IPv6 address for the desired communication and uses it to continue the connection after the device detects that the PAN is out of range. In an embodiment, one of the endpoint devices may determine that it has changed its IPv6 prefix and may transmit the new prefix to the other device through an out-of-band method such as the Short Message Service. | 11-27-2014 |
20150087231 | DEVICE AUTO PAIRING WITHOUT TOUCH AND TAP - A device-to-device (D2D) pairing assembly comprises: a first and a second device detecting and communicating (DDC) component communicatively coupled to each other and to a microprocessor that executes a device pairing parameter exchange (DPPE) utility, which configures the D2D pairing assembly to: detect a communicative coupling of a first user device to the first DDC component; receive from the first user device at least one first pairing parameter, which first pairing parameter enables another device to connect to and participate in a pairing session with the first user device; detect a communicative coupling of a second user device to the second DDC component; and communicate the at least one first pairing parameter to the second user device, via the second DDC component, to trigger the second user device to connect to and participate in a pairing session with the first user device via a direct device-to-device communication channel. | 03-26-2015 |