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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8171885 | Continuous flow pet watering device A pet watering device includes a bowl having a base with an upwardly extending sidewall attached to the base. A ramp is disposed within the bowl and extends from the bowl sidewall to the base. The ramp includes an aperture for dispensing water. A pump is disposed wi... | 05/08/2012 |
| D659299 | Pet waterer with ribbon bottle design | 05/08/2012 |
| D659294 | Wave style kennel | 05/08/2012 |
| D656809 | Tool handle | 04/03/2012 |
| 8134717 | Dimensional detection system and associated method An improved dimensional detection system is portable and can be used to characterize a workpiece. The dimensional detection system employs as few as a single focused light source and as few as a single camera along with a calibration data set to convert the illumina... | 03/13/2012 |
| 7725813 | Method for requesting and viewing a preview of a table attachment on a mobile communication device A process is set forth for previewing a table attachment on a mobile communication device, and upon identifying table content of interest viewing and/or retrieving the entire table from an attachment server. In one embodiment, a small 4×4 row/column preview is pres... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7720788 | System and method for implementing a wireless access protocol push by establishing connection-oriented signaling channel for transmitting session initiation request Methods and apparatus for initiating a Wireless Access Protocol (WAP) push session to push information from a push proxy gateway to a mobile station in a wireless communication network are provided. In one embodiment, the method comprises transmitting an initiation ... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7712027 | Method for document page delivery to a mobile communication device A process for viewing a selected portion of a document on a mobile communication device without having to request multiple pages of the document contents containing document global properties applied to the selected part of the document, comprising marking pages of ... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7711362 | System and method for personal identification number messaging A relay site associated with a wireless network can send messages between mobile devices associated with the wireless network without having to transmit the messages to a host system. The messages include PIN messages and each of the mobile devices has a PIN address... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7683886 | Disambiguated text message review function A method of displaying text on a handheld electronic device, the handheld electronic device including an input apparatus, an output apparatus, and a memory having a plurality of objects stored therein, the plurality of objects including a plurality of language objec... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7679606 | Handheld electronic device including automatic preferred selection of a punctuation, and associated method A method of enabling input on a handheld electronic device, which includes an input apparatus having a number of input members that are capable of being actuated, wherein at least one of the input members has a plurality of selectable output alternatives, includes d... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7675304 | Probe assembly with multi-directional freedom of motion and mounting assembly therefor An improved test probe assembly has an improved mounting assembly which provides the test probe multi-directional freedom of movement with respect to a base in order to resist damage frequently caused to the test probe. The improved mounting assembly may, for exampl... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7672915 | Method and system for labelling unlabeled data records in nodes of a self-organizing map for use in training a classifier for data classification in customer relationship management systems The described embodiments relate to methods and systems for data classification using a self-organizing map. Certain embodiments relate to a method of labeling data for training a classifier, comprising: obtaining data, the data comprising labeled data and unlabeled... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7636891 | Method for paginating a document structure of a document for viewing on a mobile communication device A process for transmitting a document from a server to a mobile device on a per page basis, comprising building a graph structure within the server representing a map of the document, transmitting a page size limit from the mobile device to the server indicative of ... | 12/22/2009 |
| 7620540 | Method for generating text in a handheld electronic device and a handheld electronic device incorporating the same Incoming e-mails, instant messages, SMS, and MMS, are scanned for new language objects such as words, abbreviations, text shortcuts and, in appropriate languages, ideograms, that are placed in a list for use by a text input process of a handheld electronic device to... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7603511 | Cyclic buffer mechanism for receiving wireless data under varying data traffic conditions A method of ensuring that data sent to a handheld wireless communications device is written to non-volatile memory is disclosed. In a device, where data is initially written to a first volatile memory and then written to a second volatile memory before being written... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7603105 | Method of making phone calls from a locked out handheld electronic device and a handheld electronic device incorporating the same Outgoing phone calls can be made on a handheld electronic device that has been locked to prevent unauthorized use through an override that permits the making of outgoing phone calls while applications additional to the phone application remain locked. In some embodi... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7599830 | Handheld electronic device with reduced keyboard and associated method of providing quick text entry in a message An improved handheld electronic device having a reduced keyboard provides facilitated language entry by making available to a user certain words that a user may reasonably be expected to enter. In some situations, certain words can be stored, for example, in a tempo... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7598946 | Handheld electronic device having facilitated input and associated method An improved handheld electronic device and an improved method facilitate the entry of data when the data is to be of a particular arrangement of alphabetic (A) and/or numeric (N) and/or other characters. In the depicted exemplary embodiment, the handheld electronic ... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7586423 | Handheld electronic device and method for dual-mode disambiguation of text input A handheld electronic device includes a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with disambiguation software that is operable to disambiguate text input. In response to an ambiguous editing input at a location preceding at least a portion of an output word, the softw... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7583205 | Handheld electronic device with disambiguation of compound word text input A handheld electronic device includes a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with disambiguation software that is operable to disambiguate compound word text input. The device provides output in the form of a default output and a number of variants. The output is ... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7574204 | Memory full pipeline A method of accommodating legacy devices in which application memory is not able to operate fast enough to reliably receive data from a relay or other external device is disclosed. An application queue memory space is provided, either as a separate memory chip or as... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7573404 | Handheld electronic device with disambiguation of compound word text input employing separating input A handheld electronic device includes a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with disambiguation software that is operable to disambiguate compound word text input. The device provides output in the form of a default output and a number of variants. The output is ... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7565624 | Method of learning character segments during text input, and associated handheld electronic device An improved method of learning character segments during text input enables facilitated text input on an improved handheld electronic device. In response to a series of inputs, segments and other objects are analyzed to generate a proposed character interpretation o... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7562219 | Portable smart card reader having secure wireless communications capability A reader device includes a housing for receiving a smart card, a processor in electronic communication with an integrated circuit chip of the smart card when the smart card is received in the housing, a wireless communications device in electronic communication with... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7554289 | Apparatus and method for the power management of operatively connected batteries respectively on a handheld electronic device and a holder for the handheld electronic device A handheld electronic device in conjunction with a holder for the handheld electronic device that together form an electronic device. The handheld electronic device includes a first battery and the holder includes a second battery and a charging apparatus. When the ... | 06/30/2009 |
| D594865 | Card reader | 06/23/2009 |
| 7548849 | Method for generating text that meets specified characteristics in a handheld electronic device and a handheld electronic device incorporating the same Incoming e-mails, instant messages, SMS, and MMS, are scanned for new language objects such as words, abbreviations, text shortcuts and, in appropriate languages, ideograms, that are placed in a list for use by a text input process of a handheld electronic device to... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7545767 | Apparatus and method of controlling unsolicited traffic destined to a wireless communication device An apparatus and method of controlling unsolicited traffic are disclosed herein. The apparatus and method can be applied to wireless communication networks such as CDMA2000, UMTS, GPRS and the like so that traffic which is not solicited by wireless communication dev... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7545290 | Handheld electronic device and method for disambiguation of compound text input and for prioritizing compound language solutions according to completeness of text components A handheld electronic device includes a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with disambiguation software that is operable to disambiguate compound text input. The device is able to assemble language objects in the memory to generate compound language solutions. T... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7538692 | Handheld electronic device and method for disambiguation of compound text input and for prioritizing compound language solutions according to quantity of text components A handheld electronic device includes a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with disambiguation software that is operable to disambiguate compound text input. The device is able to assemble language objects in the memory to generate compound language solutions. T... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7534060 | Keypad and handheld electronic device An improved keypad having a plurality of keys can have linguistic elements assigned to the keys in any of a variety of arrangements depending upon various considerations. ... | 05/19/2009 |
| D591742 | Handheld device | 05/05/2009 |
| 7525552 | Method, system and software product for color image encoding The present invention relates to the compression of color image data. A combination of hard decision pixel mapping and soft decision pixel mapping is used to jointly address both quantization distortion and compression rate while maintaining low computational comple... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7525452 | Handheld electronic device and method for disambiguation of text input providing suppression of low probability artificial variants A handheld electronic device includes a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with disambiguation software that is operable to disambiguate text input. In addition to identifying and outputting representations of language objects that are stored in the memory and t... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7523416 | Navigation of an N-dimensional hierarchical structure using a 2-dimensional controller A system and method for navigating a multi-hierarchical menu system using a two-dimensional controller, comprising displaying an Nth level of the multi-hierarchical menu system having a plurality of icons in proximity to a pointer on a portion of a displa... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7519924 | Handheld electronic device including appointment and meeting conflict notification, and associated method A method of checking a new entry in a calendar application having a cache that includes a first subset of existing entries falling within a first date range. Also, an electronic device implementing the method. The method includes determining whether the date of the ... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7509125 | Method for scanning wireless frequencies A method of scanning frequencies for registration onto a wireless service provider by a wireless device is provided. The inventive method comprises predefining a priority sequence of frequencies in association with each of a plurality of locations. Itinerary informa... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7509122 | Method and system for supporting network 3G data capability information in a CDMA network A method and system of providing a mobile data device in a wireless system with information about preferred networks to connect to, the mobile data device having a preferred roaming list with a list of networks, the method comprising the steps of: adding to the pref... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7501841 | Probe assembly with multi-directional freedom of motion and mounting assembly therefor An improved test probe assembly has an improved mounting assembly which provides the test probe multi-directional freedom of movement with respect to a base in order to resist damage frequently caused to the test probe. The improved mounting assembly may, for exampl... | 03/10/2009 |
