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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185659 | Handheld computer system that attempts to establish an alternative network link upon failing to establish a requested network link A computer system that attempts to establish an alternative network link upon failing to establish a requested network link is described. The computer system may encounter conditions where access to numerous networks, in particular wireless networks, is not availabl... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8171489 | Task switching with state preservation for programs running on an electronic device A method and system providing switching between a plurality of installed programs in a computer system. Embodiments include a jump function comprising the steps: (1) determining a jump program that is to be the next program to be run, possibly from a plurality of po... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8144873 | User interface technique for selection and activation of wireless service among multiple transport carriers A method and device are provided for handling network activation between a computer and a carrier. In one example, the method involves receiving a command to initiate network activation procedures. The network activation status of the computer is then determined. If... | 03/27/2012 |
| RE43247 | Method and apparatus for communicating information over low bandwidth communications networks A system having a distributed web site is described. The web site is distributed between a client, a server and a web server. The client stores a set of predefined applications that correspond to a part of the web site. The applications are formatted according to a ... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8127229 | Controlling focus, and movement of the focus, between focus items in a multi-frame document The present invention enables a focus to be moved easily among focus items in different frames when frames are displayed. To do so, the last focused item in an in-frame document once activated is stored (S11) and, when a frame movement event is caused by a fo... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8116261 | Message display terminal, gateway server, program for message display terminal, and program for gateway server A message display terminal for displaying content existing on a network comprises reception means which receives an HTTP response message, a first display area for displaying a message body, a second display area for displaying other information, and display control... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8095965 | Secure authentication for authorization for transaction processing A method and apparatus for authenticating and authorizing online transactions. An authentication cookie is transmitted to a client system. The authentication cookie includes a user encryption key and an encrypted buffer that contains user identification data and a p... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8095504 | N-way synchronization of computer databases A method and system for N-way synchronization of computer databases. Synchronization of computer databases is structured into three rounds, namely an agenda round, a query round and a report round. In the agenda round, a synchronization agent software module inquire... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8090878 | One-to-many device synchronization using downloaded/shared client software A method and system for performing one-to-many synchronization using a central server and also using downloadable client software. The system includes a central server, e.g., a web server or an enterprise server, that synchronizes with multiple electronic devices in... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8090849 | Information exchange between a handheld device and another computer system using an exchange manager and uniform resource locator (URL) strings A method and electronic system for exchanging data between a handheld device and another computer system using universal resource locator (URL) strings. With respect to sending information from the handheld, an application may define a URL string that may indicate 1... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8082223 | Synchronization of computer databases using caching agents A method and system for synchronization of computer databases using caching agents. In one embodiment, information is accessed from a first database. The information is stored into a persistent store, which may be a permanent media, such as a magnetic disk. The info... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8082008 | User-interface and architecture for portable processing device A user interface for a portable device is disclosed. The method includes a computer-implemented method for providing a user interface for interacting with a computing device, the method including the steps of: representing an indicator of an application on the compu... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8055992 | Method and apparatus for managing calendar information from a shared database and managing calendar information from multiple users A method and system for synchronizing and using calendar information from a shared database is disclosed. Calendar information can be stored in a shared database, e.g., on a server system and accessed and synchronized with one or more portable computer systems. The ... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8055796 | Communication protocol for wireless data exchange via a packet transport based system A protocol for wireless data exchange may be used in conjunction with two or more portable computer systems. One of the portable computer systems may be a personal digital assistant (PDA) having an internal or an external wireless communication unit. The protocol ca... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8055249 | System and method of managing connections with an available network A system and method for automatically managing connections between a mobile device and one or more available networks (including dedicated connections), as a user changes locations, is disclosed. The connection manager determines the connection profiles and assigns ... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8051388 | Device having bookmark thumbnail management function There is provided a device having a function of browsing contents obtained through a network. The device includes a display unit, an operation unit, a storing unit configured to store a thumbnail corresponding to a part of a captured image of contents as a bookmark,... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8046494 | Extensible transcoder annotation for transcoding proxy servers Within one embodiment of the present invention, the rules for transcoding web content are abstracted from the transcoding functionality of a transcoding proxy server. Specifically, within the transcoding proxy server, the functions that perform the transcoding of we... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8046485 | Method and system for implementing URL scheme proxies on a computer system A method and system for implementing URL scheme proxies. Embodiments of the invention allow URL schemes that are not natively supported by a computer to be supported via proxy, e.g., using a URL scheme that is native to the computer to forward the non-native transpo... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8037208 | Method and system for device bootstrapping via server synchronization A method and system for restoring basic functionality to a portable computer system via a server accessed remotely by telephone. A user of a portable computer system which has lost data and software which was held in volatile memory may connect to a server to restor... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8037015 | Flexible interface using scalable vector graphics with metalevel palette The present invention provides a method and system of storing information for drawing an object on a computer system that includes providing a palette file that includes a set of first labels matched with numerical values, tagging a vector graphics file for drawing ... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8019328 | Method and system for enabling timed events of a portable computing device to trigger remote control of external devices One embodiment in accordance with the present invention includes using a portable computing device to remotely control devices and/or systems wirelessly. Specifically, a software timer application operating on the portable computing device enables its user to predef... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8001288 | Method and system for enabling personal digital assistants and protecting stored private data A method and system for enabling personal digital assistants (PDAs) and protecting stored private data. Specifically, one embodiment in accordance with the present invention includes a removable expansion card about the size of a postage stamp which plugs into a slo... | 08/16/2011 |
| 8001081 | Determining priority between data items in shared environments One embodiment of the invention enables nodes or endpoints that have been involved with synchronization of data items to determine which version of a data item (if any) has priority over another version of that same data item. For example, one embodiment of the inve... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7982598 | Method for integrating user notifications and user alerts on an electronic device An interface for integrating and presenting user notifications and alerts consistently on an electronic device such as a mobile device is disclosed. First, an application programming interface provides the segregation to multiple preselected levels of priority notif... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7971263 | Method and system for secure activation of web clipping applications The invention disclosed is a method and system for the secure activation of web clipping applications upon a portable information device (PID). In an embodiment of the invention, the method first provides for preventing a user from accessing web clipping application... | 06/28/2011 |
| RE42465 | Rule-based, n-way, synchronization of multiple copies of a database The present invention relates to a method for synchronizing databases in a network environment. Specifically, the present invention pertains to a method of using a set of hierarchical rules to enable an efficient and speedy synchronization between multiple copies of... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7941766 | Method and apparatus for the selection of records An improved method and system for record selection. Specifically, one embodiment of the present invention interprets the “gesture” of swiping the pen, from left to right, across a line-item of a record entry as a command to highlight the line-item and to select ... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7894803 | Mobile information terminal device, storage, server, and method for providing storage region A user-dedicated storage area (97) of a cellular phone (10) is retained in a storage server (9) on a network (6). Software purchased by a user via a sales server (12) is not transferred directly to the user's cellular phone (10 | 02/22/2011 |
| 7467099 | Information home electric appliance By performing initial user registration via an SSL-compliant browser in an information home electric appliance 100, user's private key, digital certificate, and member information are downloaded (b2) into the storage device in the information home elec... | 12/16/2008 |
| 7457582 | Broadcast program scene notification system A registration server (40) is connected to a mobile terminal (20) via a communication network (10) and registers desired scene information specifying a desired scene of a user in a broadcast program together with the communication address inform... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7228340 | Wireless communication device with markup language based man-machine interface A wireless communications device with a markup language based man-machine interface provides a user interface for telecommunications functionality, including dialing telephone numbers, answering telephone calls, creating messages, sending messages, receiving message... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7039928 | Method and device for obtaining audience data on TV program The TV program table data in the area where a viewer resides are received through the Internet or a broadcasting medium by using the TV set with an internet connection function at the viewer. While the viewer is watching a TV program, the audience data including vie... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7007180 | System and method for switching a computer system to a first or second power saving mode based on whether or not there exists a timer-expiration-waiting event in an event queue A power saving method and device capable of dynamically select an appropriate power saving mode according to operation states of a computer system. When a power saving system task 15 detects that an execution queue 132 does not contain any executable u... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6772394 | Internet television device capable of selecting hot spots by the use operation buttons An Internet television device having a capability of connecting to the Internet. An HTML document received from a WEB server includes a definition of assigning operation buttons of a remote controller to hot spots, the definition containing button identifiers indica... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6675204 | Wireless communication device with markup language based man-machine interface A wireless communications device with a markup language based man-machine interface provides a user interface for telecommunications functionality, including dialing telephone numbers, answering telephone calls, creating messages, sending messages, receiv... | 01/06/2004 |
| 6622306 | Internet television apparatus An internet television apparatus which has an internet connecting capability, comprising a means for storing an HTML document received from a Web server, a means for interpreting the HTML document and develops an image on an image memory, a display device... | 09/16/2003 |
| 6470381 | Wireless communication device with markup language based man-machine interface A wireless communications device with a markup language based man-machine interface provides a user interface for telecommunications functionality, including dialing telephone numbers, answering telephone calls, creating messages, sending messages, receiv... | 10/22/2002 |
| 6381637 | Information apparatus having automatic web reading function An information apparatus which has access means by which a document on the Internet is accessed and automatic Web tracing means which automatically trace link destinations successively according to a predetermined rule and parameters based on the link inf... | 04/30/2002 |
| 6192258 | Mobile communication device with a rotary push switch A mobile communication device with a flat display of relatively large screen size, capable of displaying an HTML document, to enhance its operability. A personal information list written in HTML is present on the display. Anchor points are set to person n... | 02/20/2001 |
