Patent application number | Description | Published |
20130050063 | COLLABORATIVE GRAPHICS RENDERING USING MOBILE DEVICES TO SUPPORT REMOTE DISPLAY - Systems, devices and methods are described including receiving a policy from a secure storage device, where the policy may be used to implement collaborative rendering of image content. The image content may include multiple portions of image content. The policy may be used to determining rendering assignments for multiple mobile devices where the assignments may specify that a mobile device is to render one content portion while another mobile device is to render another content portion. The rendering assignments may be provided to the mobile devices and rendered output corresponding to the different content portions may be received from the mobile devices. The rendered output may then be assembled into one or more image frames and wirelessly communicated to a remote display. | 02-28-2013 |
20130283182 | MECHANISM FOR FACILITATING PROXY USER INTERFACE-BASED REMOTE MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL OF COMPUTING AND NON-COMPUTING DEVICES - A mechanism is described for facilitating proxy user interface-based remote management and control of computing devices according to one embodiment of the invention. A method of embodiments of the invention includes remotely pairing a first device with a second device, and remotely controlling the second device via a user interface provided at the first device. The user interface may serve as a proxy user interface at the first device for remotely controlling the second device. The first device may include a first computing device, and wherein the second device may include a second computing device or a second non-computing device. | 10-24-2013 |
20130318576 | METHOD, DEVICE, AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING USER AUTHENTICATION - A method, device, and system for managing user authentication includes receiving authentication constraints of authentication data used to authenticate a user of a first computing device, such as a mobile computing device, to a second computing device, such as a financial data, e-commerce server or cloud-based service server. The first computing device automatically generates authentication data as a function of the authentication constraints. The authentication data may be embodied as a strong password and username. The authentication data may be updated or regenerated periodically or responsively to further increase the security of the authentication data. The user authentication data, authentication constraints, and history of transactions may be performed in a secure execution environment to further increase the security of the method, device and system. | 11-28-2013 |
20130322648 | MULTI-STREAM-MULTIPOINT-JACK AUDIO STREAMING - A method and device for streaming the output of one or more audio sources to one or more smart headsets includes establishing a secure connection with a smart headset, associating an audio channel of the one or more audio sources with the smart headset, and streaming the associated audio channel to the smart headset. The audio streaming device may selectively stream one or more audio channels from one or more audio sources to one or more of the smart headsets as a function of a streaming policy. | 12-05-2013 |
20130337793 | BUNDLED MOBILE DEVICE PURCHASE SYSTEM - Generally, this disclosure relates to a bundled mobile device purchase system. The system may include a mobile device and a bundle service. The mobile device may include transponder circuitry configured to receive and store a bundle identifier including an application identifier related to an application, the bundle identifier provided to the transponder circuitry during a transaction that includes purchasing the mobile device and the application. The mobile device may further include memory circuitry configured to receive and store the application after the transaction. The bundle service may include a bundle download module configured to provide the application to the mobile device in response to receiving the application identifier from the mobile device. | 12-19-2013 |
20130339496 | ENTERPRISE DEVICE CONFIGURATION SYSTEM - The present disclosure generally relates to a system and method for enterprise device customization. An example system may comprise an enterprise customization service and a device. The enterprise customization service may be configured to provide at least one of configuration or software to the device based on enterprise customization data. The device may include at least an enterprise customization application and the enterprise customization data. The enterprise customization application may be configured to cause the enterprise customization service to at least one of configure the device or to download software to the device based on the enterprise customization data. | 12-19-2013 |
20130339852 | STREAM-BASED MEDIA MANAGEMENT - The present disclosure provides systems and methods for stream-based media management. A device may be configured to receive information streams including displayable content and to at least display the displayable content. For example, a stream manager in the device may be configured to control how the displayable content is displayed on a display in the device based on activity detected in the information streams. The activity may be defined by user preferences as trigger activities. For example, upon detecting a trigger activity in an information stream, the stream manager may cause the displayable content to be displayed or hidden, may cause the manner in which the displayable content is displayed (e.g., size, shape, order, etc.) to be altered, or may cause a visible or audible alert to be generated. | 12-19-2013 |
20140032327 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM INCLUDING DIGITAL SIGNAGE AND RELATED MOBILE CONTENT - A system may include a signage controller configured to control digital signage (e.g., at least one digital display). In one embodiment, the signage controller may collect and compile demographic information and feedback from mobile devices via close-proximity or short-range communication prior to providing it to cloud resources. The cloud resources may then determine content and mobile content based on the demographic information and feedback. At least the content may be provided to the signage controller, which may cause the digital signage to display some of the content (e.g., at least one advertisement). The mobile content may be pushed to the mobile devices, and may cause the mobile devices to display information and/or provide functionality related to the displayed content. In one embodiment, statistics (e.g., at least one of offer availability or offer acceptance statistics corresponding to the at least one advertisement) may also be displayed on the digital signage. | 01-30-2014 |
20140033269 | COLLABORATIVE GRAPHICS RENDERING USING MOBILE DEVICES TO SUPPORT REMOTE DISPLAY - Systems, devices and methods are described including receiving a policy from a secure storage device, where the policy may be used to implement collaborative rendering of image content. The image content may include multiple portions of image content. The policy may be used to determining rendering assignments for multiple mobile devices where the assignments may specify that a mobile device is to render one content portion while another mobile device is to render another content portion. The rendering assignments may be provided to the mobile devices and rendered output corresponding to the different content portions may be received from the mobile devices. The rendered output may then be assembled into one or more image frames and wirelessly communicated to a remote display. | 01-30-2014 |
20140081572 | PROVISION OF NAVIGATION SERVICE INCLUDING REPORTING OF ELEVATION INFORMATION AND/OR VERTICAL GUIDANCE - Methods, apparatuses and storage medium associated with navigation service are disclosed. In various embodiments, a method may include collecting, by a client mobile device, ambient barometric pressure information at a current location of the client mobile device. The method may further include providing, by the mobile device, contemporaneous navigation assistance to a user of the mobile device or for a user of the mobile device, assisted by a remote navigation assistance service. Assistance by the remote navigation service is associated with determining the current elevation level, based at least in part on ambient barometric pressure information collected by the client mobile device and by one or more crowdsourced mobile devices at the current location. Other embodiments may be disclosed or claimed. | 03-20-2014 |
20140089375 | DETERMINING POINTS OF INTEREST WITHIN A GEOFENCE - Embodiments of apparatus, packages, computer-implemented methods, systems, devices, and computer-readable media are described herein for a mobile computing device with a primary processing unit configured to operate in a normal mode and a reduced power mode. The mobile computing device may include a secondary processing unit, coupled with the primary processing unit, configured to provide, to a remote computing server, location data of the mobile computing device. The secondary processing unit may be configured to receive, from the remote computing server, one or more POIs contained within a geofence, identified based on the provided location data. The providing and receiving may be performed on behalf of the primary processing unit while the primary processing unit is in the reduced power mode. Operation of the secondary power processing unit may require less power than operation of the primary processing unit in the normal mode. | 03-27-2014 |
20140089507 | APPLICATION INDEPENDENT CONTENT CONTROL - Systems and techniques for application independent content control are described herein. It may be determined that a content filter is enabled for a computing device. The content filter may include a restricted term. A content container may be identified in a device buffer of the computing device. The content container may also include the restricted term. A portion of the content container corresponding to the restricted term may be modified in the device buffer to block the restricted term. | 03-27-2014 |
20140090091 | MANAGING PERSONAL PRIVACY SETTINGS - Various systems and methods for managing user information on mobile devices are described herein. A selection of user information is received from a user operating a user device. A privacy setting for the selection of user information is received from the user, the privacy setting to permit or deny access to the user information to a third-party application. The selection of user information and the privacy setting is transmitted from the user device to a receiving device, where the receiving device is configured to enforce the privacy setting for the third-party application executing on the receiving device. | 03-27-2014 |
20140093083 | SYSTEM, DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR SECURING VOICE AUTHENTICATION AND END-TO-END SPEECH INTERACTION - A method, device, and system for secure end-to-end audio recognition is disclosed. A client device launches an application that connects with a server. The client device and server exchange cryptographic keys and establish a secure connection and a shared cryptographic key. The server transmits an encrypted audio prompt to the client device. The client device decrypts the encrypted audio prompt and stores the decrypted audio prompt in secure memory inaccessible to the operating system using an audio engine of the client device. The audio engine then retrieves the audio and renders it for the user through the speakers of the client device. The client device captures the user's audio response with a microphone and stores the audio response in the secure memory. The stored audio response is encrypted and transmitted to the server. | 04-03-2014 |
20140094989 | MECHANISM FOR FACILITATING REAL-TIME CONTEXT-AWARE MESSAGES FOR VEHICLE-BASED AND OTHER COMPUTING DEVICES - A mechanism is described for facilitating real-time context-aware messages at computing devices according to one embodiment. A method of embodiments, as described herein, includes evaluating real-time context-aware data relating to a vehicle, recommending a real-time message based the evaluation of the context-aware data. The recommended message may include one or more of a warning message, an alert message, a reminder message, and an information message. The method may further include facilitating displaying the recommended real-time message at a first display screen at the vehicle or a second display screen of a mobile computing device within a proximity of the vehicle. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 04-03-2014 |
20140095664 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DYNAMIC MEDIA CONTENT OUTPUT FOR MOBILE DEVICES - Embodiments of mechanisms for dynamic media content type streaming management for mobile devices are generally described herein. In some embodiments, the mobile device may receive selection input pertaining to generating output from a media file containing at least two of audio data, video data, and closed-captioning data, the selection input selecting at least one of audio, video, and closed-captioning to be output during play of the media content. In some embodiments, the mobile device may generate an audio output as a signal in response to the selection input including audio. In some embodiments, the mobile device may generate a video output as a signal in response to the selection input including video. In some embodiments, the mobile device may generate a closed-captioning output as a signal in response to selection input including closed-captioning. | 04-03-2014 |
20140164060 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FORECASTING DISCOUNTS USING CROWD SOURCE INFORMATION - Systems and methods for forecasting discounts are described herein. In some embodiments, the systems and methods utilize marketplace information to calculate an initial probability that an item will be subject to a discount within a specified time period. The systems and methods may then utilize relevant crowd source information to weight the marketplace information and output a weighted probability of sale. | 06-12-2014 |
20140169634 | SYSTEM, DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR DETECTING AND LOCATING WANTED VEHICLES - A method, system, and device for analyzing images captured by a vehicle-based camera includes establishing a communication connection between a mobile communication device and an in-vehicle computing system. Scanning data may be retrieved from a scanning data server by the mobile communication device and, in some embodiments, forwarded to the in-vehicle computing system. A vehicle-base camera may be used to capture one or more images. An image analysis module of the in-vehicle computing system or mobile communication device may be used to analyze the captured image(s) for a match between the image(s) and the scanning data. In response to identifying a match, the mobile communication device may notify the scanning data server of the identified match. | 06-19-2014 |
20140181691 | SHARING OF SELECTED CONTENT FOR DATA COLLECTION - Private information can be collected from a receiving computing device user via a requesting computing device sharing selected content presented on a requesting device display with the receiving device. Communication between the devices can be secure, peer-to-peer and can be established using Near Field Communication technologies. The selected content comprises data fields for which a receiving device user supplies data values. The requesting computing device can update the presented selected content based on the received receiving user input and send updated display information to the receiving device. Alternatively, the receiving device can send data fields to the requesting device as data fields are fully entered. The selected content shared with and the data values received from the mobile device can be translated into other languages. Cloud resources can be involved in the pairing and authentication of devices, the translation of data sent between devices and the communication of data between devices. | 06-26-2014 |
20140188719 | MULTI USER ELECTRONIC WALLET AND MANAGEMENT THEREOF - Systems and methods for sharing an e-wallet are disclosed. In some embodiments, the systems and methods may share an e-wallet among multiple users on a single device. In other embodiments, the systems and method may share an e-wallet among multiple devices and/or multiple users on multiple devices. In some instances, an remotely stored e-wallet may be used or leveraged by an e-wallet uncertified device. | 07-03-2014 |
20140189392 | COMMUNICATION LINK AND NETWORK CONNECTIVITY MANAGEMENT IN LOW POWER MODE - Methods and apparatus relating to communication link and network connectivity management in low power mode are described. In one embodiment, logic manages one or more external communication network links (also referred as “links”) in response to a determination that a processor has entered a low power consumption state and based on policy information. The logic also blocks/intercepts one or more signals, corresponding to management of the one or more links, that are directed to the processor to allow the processor to stay in the low power consumption. Other embodiments are also claimed and disclosed. | 07-03-2014 |
20140208340 | DYNAMIC CONTENT RATING MANAGEMENT ACROSS A VARIETY OF TELEVISION INPUT SOURCES - Generally, this disclosure describes a system and method for dynamic content management across a variety of television input sources. The system may include an audience detection module configured to identify a viewer in a viewing area of a display configured to display received media content; a media scanning module configured to determine a media content rating associated with a portion of a media content received from at least one of a local content source and a remote content source; and a media player configured to adapt display of the portion of the received media content based on a policy when the associated media content rating corresponds to inappropriate content for the identified viewer. | 07-24-2014 |
20140212051 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING CONTENT CAPTURE OF PROHIBITED CONTENT - Embodiments of methods, apparatuses, and storage mediums associated with controlling content capture of prohibited content on remote devices, are disclosed. In embodiments, components of a remote device may receive image data of an image captured by the remote device and analyze the image data to determine whether the image includes prohibited content. In embodiments, the remote device may conditionally display or persistently store the image data, based at least in part on a result of the analysis. | 07-31-2014 |
20140222242 | ADAPTIVE THERMAL THROTTLING WITH USER CONFIGURATION CAPABILITY - An apparatus for adaptive thermal management of a device with user configuration capability, including a secure memory configured to store a thermal management policy; thermal monitoring circuitry configured to monitor thermal states associated with one or more sensor sub-systems of the device; and policy enforcement circuitry configured to implement the stored thermal management policy in response to the monitored thermal state violating a thermal threshold. | 08-07-2014 |
20140222578 | DIGITAL SIGNAGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - Generally, this disclosure describes a digital signage management system. The system may include a user device including processor circuitry coupled to communication circuitry, the communication circuitry configured to couple the user device to at least one of a digital sign and a management service, and the user device configured to manage display of user content on the digital sign, the user content configured to be displayed on the digital sign in a time slot. | 08-07-2014 |
20140237279 | PRIORITY BASED APPLICATION EVENT CONTROL (PAEC) TO REDUCE POWER CONSUMPTION - Methods and apparatus relating to Priority Based Application Event Control (PAEC) to reduce application events are described. In one embodiment, PAEC may determine which applications (and their corresponding sub-system(s)) may cause a processor or platform to exit a low power consumption state. In an embodiment, PAEC may determine which applications (and their corresponding sub-system(s)) may resume operations after a processor or platform exit a low power consumption state. Other embodiments are also claimed and disclosed. | 08-21-2014 |
20140247373 | MULTIPLE LENSES IN A MOBILE DEVICE - Generally, this disclosure describes multiple lenses in a mobile device. A mobile device may include a housing including a first surface, an opposing second surface and third, fourth, fifth and sixth surfaces connecting the first surface and the second surface forming the housing; a plurality of lenses, each lens configured to capture a respective image, each lens positioned relative to the housing so that a respective lens axis associated with each lens is perpendicular within a tolerance to at least a portion of at least one surface and a first lens axis associated with a first lens is perpendicular within the tolerance to a second lens axis associated with a second lens; at least one image sensor coupled to the plurality of lenses, configured to convert each captured image into respective image data; and circuitry configured to receive and process the image data. | 09-04-2014 |
20140283018 | MECHANISMS FOR LOCKING COMPUTING DEVICES - Various systems and methods for locking computing devices are described herein. In an example, a portable device comprises an electro-mechanical lock; and a firmware module coupled to the electro-mechanical lock, the firmware module configured to: receive an unlock code; validate the unlock code; and unlock the electro-mechanical lock when the unlock code is validated. In another example, device for managing BIOS authentication, the device comprising an NFC module, the NFC module comprising an NFC antenna; and a firmware module, wherein the firmware module is configured to: receive an unlock code from an NFC device via the NFC antenna; validate the unlock code; and unlock a BIOS of the device when the unlock code is validated. | 09-18-2014 |
20140283087 | SELECTIVE CONTENT SHARING ON COMPUTING DEVICES - Described herein are architectures, platforms and methods for selective content sharing feature in a computing device and more particularly, a system that supports user configurable application-level privacy is described. | 09-18-2014 |
20140289640 | LAYOUT FOR DYNAMIC WEB CONTENT MANAGEMENT - A request for content is sent via a client device. The client device negotiates with a server content provider regarding the layout of the content using a dynamically configurable content layout profile describing layout preferences for content. When the content is received from the server content provider, the content is displayed according to the dynamically configurable content layout profile. The server may format the content in accordance with the profile and send the formatted content to the client device via a network. A user of the device may modify the profile dynamically to specify a different layout and receive reformatted content. | 09-25-2014 |
20140289789 | CLOUD BASED REAL TIME APP PRIVACY DASHBOARD - A method of operating an electronic device comprises detecting access to private information stored in memory of the electronic device. The detecting is performed by a privacy management module downloadable to the electronic device as object code for execution on the electronic device and the access is performed by a client application program. The method further comprises tracking, using the privacy management module, the private information being accessed by the client application program, and reconfiguring the electronic device, using the privacy management module, to change the access to the private information by the client application program according to at least one privacy access policy stored in the electronic device. | 09-25-2014 |
20140289831 | WEB AUTHENTICATION USING CLIENT PLATFORM ROOT OF TRUST - Systems and methods for performing web authentication using a client platform root of trust are disclosed herein. Website and user validity and integrity may be authenticated based on the user device's attempt to access the website. A user device may securely access the website once the user device is successfully authenticated with a server. In an embodiment, the user device may perform an authentication of the website to ensure the website is a valid entity. | 09-25-2014 |
20140308924 | METHOD AND APARATUS FOR BEARER AND SERVER INDEPENDENT PARENTAL CONTROL ON SMARTPHONE, MANAGED BY SMARTPHONE - In some embodiments, the invention involves parental or master control of a child or subordinate mobile phone without service provider intervention. An embodiment of the invention is a system and method relating to master control of the subordinate smart phone using features on the smart phones, and independent of features provided by the phone service providers. Communication between the master and subordinate phones may be initiated using near field communication, Bluetooth, direct connect to a PC, or by other secure, local wireless or wired connections. Once initiated, desired communication events are captured by the parental control application to effect control policies on the subordinate phone. Communication between the phones may be encrypted to prevent malicious intervention of message traffic. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 10-16-2014 |
20140325046 | REMOTE MACHINE MANAGEMENT - Various systems and techniques for remote machine management are described. Simulated device input (SDI) may be received from a source machine at a device driver module of a target machine, the source machine is remote from the target machine. The SDI may correspond to a local target input device serviced by the device driver module. The SDI may be provided to a consumer of the device driver module. A representation of a local target machine graphical display may be transmitted to the source machine including a response to the provided SDI. | 10-30-2014 |
20140358713 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR BULK PURCHASE NEGOTIATING USING AN AD HOC ONLINE GROUP - A method and system enables the formation of an ad hoc group to negotiate a bulk purchase of a product or service in an online user networking environment and to execute the bulk purchase using an electronic commerce transaction. | 12-04-2014 |
20140380046 | COLLABORATIVE STREAMING SYSTEM FOR PROTECTED MEDIA - The present disclosure is directed to a collaborative streaming system for protected media. A presentation device may interact with a group of trusted devices over a network to stream multimedia content. The presentation device may obtain a presentation content encryption key for presenting the content. Each trusted device in a group of trusted devices may obtain a download content encryption key allowing for download without presentation. A leader may be selected for managing the operation of the trusted devices. The leader may determine trusted device condition and assign one or more of the trusted devices to download portions of the content based on the condition. The leader may then consolidate the portions of the content and provide them to the presentation device. If the presentation device is the leader, the presentation device may perform similar operations and collect the portions of the content directly from the group of trusted devices. | 12-25-2014 |