Did You Know...
...that Robert Adler has the dubious distinction of being the Father of the Couch Potato? Back in 1955 Adler was employed by what was then Zenith Radio Corp., where he was charged to invent something that would allow viewers to turn down the TV volume without leaving their chairs. After a series of flops (such as a wired contraption that people tripped over), Adler hit on the idea of using sound waves. Thus the Remote Control was born...
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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110018695 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR A TOUCH-SENSITIVE DISPLAY Method and apparatus for displaying a view of an application on a touch-sensitive display include detecting a touch on the touch-sensitive display. When the touch is at a first force, first feedback is provided and a first function is performed. When the touch is at a s... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20100329244 | System And Method For Voice Service In An Evolved Packet System A system and method for enabling voice services using a network component in a communication system including a user equipment (UE) is provided. The UE is configured to receive a first message which may be a SIP request. The network component is configured to create a s... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100329243 | System And Method For Voice Service In An Evolved Packet System A system and method for accessing voice services using a user equipment (UE) in a communication system is provided. The UE is configured to receive a first message which may include an audio session indication. The method includes the step of sending a second message in... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100328231 | OVERLAY FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD OF IDENTIFYING SAME An overlay includes a sheet corresponding to a plurality of keys that are associated with an application for a portable electronic device. A plurality of magnets has a set of orientations associated with the application. The set of orientations is identifiable by the po... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100328229 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING TACTILE FEEDBACK Methods and apparatus for providing tactile feedback to a touch-sensitive display comprising detecting a touch on the touch-sensitive display and providing tactile feedback by one or more actuators in response to the touch, wherein tactile feedback is substantially the ... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100328052 | OVERLAY FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD OF IDENTIFYING SAME An overlay includes a sheet corresponding to a plurality of keys that are associated with an application for a portable electronic device. An identifier is associated with the application. The identifier is identifiable by the portable electronic device, such that the a... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100325503 | System and Method for Determination of Reserved Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request Identifiers A system and method are provided for determining a minimum number of reserved hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process identifiers (IDs). The method includes, determining a minimum number of reserved HARQ Process IDs based upon a maximum transmission time and a pe... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100322485 | GRAPHICAL AUTHENTICATION A method includes displaying a base image and a secondary image overlying the base image on a display, detecting an alignment of a first element of the base image with a second element of the secondary image, and when the first element and the second element are pre-sel... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100321303 | PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING SAME A method of controlling a portable electronic device that has a touch-sensitive display includes displaying a representation of a user-selectable feature on the touch-sensitive display, detecting the touch on the touch-sensitive display at a first location associated wi... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100281487 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MOBILITY SERVER ADMINISTRATION An administration server of an administration service assigns attributes to objects by a plug-in of the administration service. The plug-in implements a method of a functionality set and the method is callable by the administration service to perform the assigning. Addi... | 11/04/2010 |
| 20100268674 | Systems and Methods for Achieving PLMN Continuity When Moving Between Networks of Different Types Through Network Selection Systems and methods for achieving PLMN continuity when moving between networks of different types through network selection are provided. When a mobile station moves from a first network type, such as cellular, to a second network type, such as GAN, if there is a PLMN d... | 10/21/2010 |
| 20100267384 | Systems and Methods for Prioritizing Network Selection to Achieve PLMN Continuity When Moving Between Networks of Different Types Systems and methods for prioritizing network selection to achieve PLMN continuity when moving between networks of different types are provided. In network centric embodiments, the network generates a PLMN list that prioritizes networks for which PLMN continuity is possi... | 10/21/2010 |
| 20100265893 | Network Methods and Systems for Maintaining PLMN Continuity When Moving Between Networks of Different Types as a Function of PLMN Continuity Preference Network methods and systems for maintaining PMLN continuity when moving between networks of different types as a function of PLMN continuity preference are provided. PLMN continuity preference concerns a preference for the mobile station when transferring from a first n... | 10/21/2010 |
| 20100262664 | Transmission of Status Updates Responsive to Status of Recipient Application Selecting and modifying the transmission rates and sizes of status update messages transmitted by a mobile communications device to a recipient application based on use of the updates by the recipient application improves resource utilization or accuracy. During one mod... | 10/14/2010 |
| 20100262579 | Reducing Transmission of Location Updates Based on Loitering The mobile communications device may reduce the amount of location updates transmitted by applying algorithm-based filters. By setting a minimum distance threshold applied to a location update, the mobile communication device reduces the amount of location updates trans... | 10/14/2010 |
| 20100220066 | HANDHELD ELECTRONIC DEVICE HAVING A TOUCHSCREEN AND A METHOD OF USING A TOUCHSCREEN OF A HANDHELD ELECTRONIC DEVICE A handheld electronic device having a touchscreen and a method of using a touchscreen of a handheld electronic device are provided. In accordance with one embodiment, there is provided a method of input using a touchscreen display of a handheld electronic device, the me... | 09/02/2010 |
| 20100214237 | TOUCH-SENSITIVE DISPLAY AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING SAME Information including a first part of a list is displayed on a touch-sensitive display (118) of a portable electronic device (100). The touch-sensitive display (118) detects (403) a first gesture in a first direction on the touch-sensitive di... | 08/26/2010 |
| 20100198854 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SEARCHING MULTIPLE CONTACT INFORMATION SOURCES IN A NETWORK-BASED ADDRESS BOOK SYSTEM Methods are provided for searching at least one directory that is external to an address book architecture including a client and a server. In one embodiment a client may communicate a contact search request that specifies an external directory which does not support a ... | 08/05/2010 |
| 20100156844 | PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROL A portable electronic device includes a touch-sensitive display and a piezoelectric actuator disposed and preloaded on a support and arranged to provide tactile feedback to the touch-sensitive display in response to an actuation signal. The touch-sensitive display may b... | 06/24/2010 |
| 20100156843 | PIEZOELECTRIC ACTUATOR ARRANGEMENT A portable electronic device includes a touch-sensitive display and a piezoelectric actuator arranged to provide tactile feedback to the touch-sensitive display in response to an actuation signal. A pad is disposed in alignment with a force sensor such that depression o... | 06/24/2010 |
| 20100156824 | PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROL A portable electronic device includes a housing, a touch-sensitive display movable with respect to the housing, and at least one piezoelectric actuator arranged to provide tactile feedback to the touch-sensitive display in response to an actuation signal by moving the t... | 06/24/2010 |
| 20100156823 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE INCLUDING TOUCH-SENSITIVE DISPLAY AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING SAME TO PROVIDE TACTILE FEEDBACK A method includes determining an adjustable response setting for an electronic device, detecting a touch event on a touch-sensitive display of the electronic device, and imparting, by an actuator, a first force on the touch-sensitive display by increasing the first forc... | 06/24/2010 |
| 20100156245 | COATING FOR ACTUATOR AND METHOD OF APPLYING COATING A method includes applying a lip, comprised of a first material, along at least a portion of an actuator of an electronic device, and applying a coating, comprised of an elastic material, to cover a part of the actuator, the coating disposed to facilitate actuation of t... | 06/24/2010 |
| 20100130174 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CUSTOMIZING A DELIVERY STATUS NOTIFICATION A method for customizing a delivery status notification from a recipient to a sender, comprising associating at least one sender device with a notification message; and upon receipt of a message from the sender device delivering the message to a recipient device and ret... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20100085303 | PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING SAME A method of controlling a portable electronic device having a touch screen display moveable with respect to a base thereof. The method includes providing a graphical user interface having user-selectable features on the touch screen display, detecting a touch event at a... | 04/08/2010 |
| 20100040171 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMMUNICATING USING ASK OR QAM WITH UNEVEN SYMBOL CONSTELLATION Systems and methods of performing ASK or QAM modulation with uneven distance between symbols are provided. These are used to provide differing BER performances among bits sent from a transmitter to a receiver.... | 02/18/2010 |
| 20100022235 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CIPHERING IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS USER EQUIPMENT OPERATIVE WITH A PLURALITY OF RADIO ACCESS NETWORKS A method in a wireless telecommunications device operative with a plurality of radio access networks, the method comprising: when operating with a first radio access network reading at least one ciphering variable applicable in the second radio access network (e.g. in U... | 01/28/2010 |
| 20100017607 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS TO RESOLVE MESSAGE GROUP A method and system for resolving addresses of a message including looking up, from a source directory, a group name associated with a message address of the message, looking up through a cache of user names mapped to user addresses, a user address for each of the looke... | 01/21/2010 |
| 20090299941 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ADDING AN ASPECT TRIGGER TO AN ASPECT A method within a computing execution environment for adding an aspect trigger for an aspect, an aspect being an application level abstraction relevant to a source or service, along with the execution environment, where the method includes defining service aspects; inse... | 12/03/2009 |
| 20090298489 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A CONVERGED NETWORK-BASED ADDRESS BOOK A converged address book system having a converged address book (CAB) client for managing contact information, the CAB client including: an interface for interacting with a CAB server; and a synchronization interface for communicating with a synchronization module for i... | 12/03/2009 |
| 20090287561 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO AVOID FAKE METRICS IN ADVERTISING A method and apparatus to avoid fake advertisement metrics from an untrusted application, the method receiving an indication from the untrusted application that an advertisement is required, assuming control of at least a portion of a user interface, providing the adver... | 11/19/2009 |
| 20090285141 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR THE CONTROL OF DISCONTINUOUS RECEPTION IN A WIRELESS NETWORK Methods and apparatus for controlling discontinuous reception on a mobile device and in particular to control a short discontinuous reception timer in response to receipt of a medium access control control element. The methods and apparatus include stopping, restarting ... | 11/19/2009 |
| 20090282463 | EFFICIENT ATTACHMENT OF USER-SELECTED FILES TO E-MAIL FROM HANDHELD DEVICE A wireless telecommunications system includes facilities in a wireless hand-held device (WHHD) that allows a user to browse files available to that user on storage devices in an enterprise network, and to identify one or more such files to be attached to an e-mail messa... | 11/12/2009 |
| 20090267920 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING A FEEDBACK SIGNAL IN RESPONSE TO AN INPUT SIGNAL PROVIDED TO AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE The disclosure relates to a system for providing feedback signals to input signals provided to an electronic device is provided. The system comprises: a display; an input device; an input module to detect activation of the input device; and a input module to generate a ... | 10/29/2009 |
| 20090267904 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE INCLUDING TOUCH-SENSITIVE INPUT SURFACE AND METHOD OF DETERMINING USER-SELECTED INPUT A method of determining input at a touch-sensitive input surface of a portable electronic device includes detecting a touch event at the touch-sensitive input surface, sampling touch attributes during the touch event, determining an actual touch location and determining... | 10/29/2009 |
| 20090267892 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING ENERGY FROM ACTIVATION OF AN INPUT DEVICE IN AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE In this disclosure, a description of a system for providing feedback signals relating to input signals provided to an electronic device is provided. The system comprises: an input device; a transducer associated with the input device; and a feedback module to generate a... | 10/29/2009 |
| 20090258633 | Differentiated Message Delivery Notification A user equipment (UE) is disclosed. The UE comprises a processor configured to transmit a session initiation protocol (SIP) SUBSCRIBE method request that comprises at least one filter criteria used for selecting specific messages and selecting the information about the ... | 10/15/2009 |
| 20090258594 | Method and System for Progressive Delivery and Synchronization of Discrete Content in Rich Media Services A method for authoring and sending from a network element and receiving at a mobile device, rich media, the sending having the steps of checking whether the rich media includes discrete content; if yes, sending a low resolution version of the discrete content with the r... | 10/15/2009 |
| 20090253432 | System and Method for Generating a Blacklist for Femtocells Provided are systems and methods for generating a blacklist for femtocells. According to an embodiment of the application, a mobile device generates and maintains a femtocell blacklist including an identification of at least one femtocell to be avoided by the mobile dev... | 10/08/2009 |
| 20090247223 | Rank Indicator Transmission During Discontinuous Reception A user equipment (UE) is disclosed. The UE includes a processor configured to transmit a rank indicator (RI) using one of an assigned periodic RI reporting resource that precisely aligns with the start on an on-duration of a discontinuous reception (DRX) operation mode ... | 10/01/2009 |
