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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8180395 | Modular wireless communicator A wireless communicator including a housing, wireless communication functionality located within the housing, native user interface functionality cooperating with the wireless communication functionality and including user interface surfaces located on at least one ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8160549 | Mood-based messaging A method for social interacting, including using a portable messaging device for designating, from time to time, a plurality of friends, selecting a mood, sending one or more representations of the selected mood to each of the plurality of designated friends, furthe... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8095879 | User interface for mobile handheld computer unit The present invention relates to a user interface for a mobile handheld computer unit, which computer unit comprises a touch sensitive area (1), which is divided into a menu area (2) and a display area (3). The computer unit is adapted to run se... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8091772 | Automated appliance registration A system for automatically registering an appliance, including a storage housed within an electrical appliance for storing identifying information about the electrical appliance and its purchase, and a communication card including a controller, an interface connecto... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8090489 | Computerized driverless vehicles and traffic control system A transportation system, including a network of roads for traveling to and from various destinations, a plurality of vehicles for transporting passengers, each vehicle situated within the network of roads, and each vehicle including a power supply, a positioning sys... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8078204 | Unsuccessful call alert A method for a mobile phone to provide an unsuccessful call alert, including monitoring an outgoing call from a caller to a callee to determine if the callee is available, if the callee is not available, then automatically activating a message editor, automatically ... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8078191 | System and method of updating presence information A network node provides presence updates to mobile users. The node reduces the amount of network traffic by eliminating the need for explicit messaging used to inform a user of presence updates. Additionally, the node reduces network traffic by consolidating presenc... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8069282 | SD switch box in a cellular handset A method for arbitrating between a host device and a cellular base band mode for use of a shared SD storage, including requesting, by a cellular base band modem from a host device, access to an SD storage, including writing an access request message, notifying the h... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8068101 | On a substrate formed or resting display arrangement A touch screen apparatus, including a display unit including a touch surface, a number of light pulse emitting units, connecting to the display unit, for emitting light pulses over and across the touch surface, a number of light pulse receiving units, connected to t... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8046268 | Multi-merchant payment system A method of payment for multi-vendor gift cards, comprising maintaining a merchandise database comprising records for merchandise and services for a plurality of merchants, enabling a gift card giver to interactively purchase a gift card for a gift card recipient, e... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8032259 | Bi-directional power control An electrical circuit for bi-directional power control between two devices, including a first battery-operated device, including a first battery for providing a source of power to the first battery-operated device, a first power management subsystem connected to the... | 10/04/2011 |
| 7970433 | SD switch box in a cellular handset A cellular handset, including a cellular base band modem, including a UART interface, and an SD host interface, a NAND flash memory, a NAND controller coupled with the NAND flash memory, a host device including a host controller, wherein the electronic host device s... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7966355 | Interface for extending functionality of memory cards An enhanced flash memory card, including a flash memory for storing a file system a wireless modem for downloading data from a remote computer to the flash memory, and a driver that controls the modem by associating designated flash card file system commands with mo... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7953455 | Wireless telecommunication device A wireless telecommunication device including a foreground unit, and a background unit that is physically separated from the foreground unit and in local communication with the foreground unit. The foreground unit is provided to support incoming calls independently ... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7899946 | Audio and USB multiplexing An analog/digital switching circuit for connecting a primary electronic device to a peripheral electronic device, including D+ and D− signal lines connected to a primary electronic device, a first analog/digital switch connected to the D+ signal line, for multiple... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7899443 | Multi-access solid state memory devices and a telephone utilizing such A method of sending e-mail from a computer, including attaching a telephone to a computer, saving at least one e-mail message from the computer on the telephone, activating the telephone, and automatically sending the e-mail message after the activating. ... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7880732 | Touch screen for mobile telephone A touch screen arrangement fitted to a mobile telephone apparatus and built-on or resting on a substrate. The touch screen includes a display unit and a number of light pulse emitting units and a number of light pulse receiving units, said units being edge-related t... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7863856 | Bi-directional battery charging for coupled electronic devices A system for bi-directional battery charging, including a first electronic device, including a first rechargeable battery, for providing power to the first electronic device, and a first battery charger, and a second electronic device, including a second rechargeabl... | 01/04/2011 |
| D626928 | Cell phone | 11/09/2010 |
| 7827298 | Peer-to-web media broadcasting and managing online publisher computers A system for peer-to-web media broadcasting, including a plurality of publisher computers, for broadcasting media over the Internet, each publisher computer including a video transcoder, and an image processor, a plurality of HTTP web client computers for viewing br... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7821541 | Remote control apparatus using gesture recognition A video processor for recognizing gestures, including a video camera for capturing photographs of a region within the camera's field of view, in real-time, an image processor coupled with the video camera for detecting a plurality of hand gestures from the photograp... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7795842 | Adjustable cut-off voltage for mobile device battery A power management system for a mobile electronic device, including a microprocessor for continually monitoring a voltage of a battery within a mobile electronic device, wherein the device can operate in either a standalone mode powered by the battery, or in an exte... | 09/14/2010 |
| D620895 | Electronic device connector | 08/03/2010 |
| 7761344 | Electronic commerce rule-based multi-selection gifting A method for multi-selection gifting, including maintaining a merchandise database comprising records for merchandise for a plurality of merchants, each record including a stock keeping unit (SKU) for an item of merchandise, a description of the item, a price of the... | 07/20/2010 |
| D619537 | Electronic device connector | 07/13/2010 |
| 7693548 | Multi-access solid state memory devices and a telephone utilizing such A mobile telephone device, comprising, an enclosure; a plurality of hardware components that provide the functionality of a cellular telephone or a satellite telephone, at least some of said components being inside or on said enclosure; a solid state non-volatile st... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7684552 | Phone batch calling task management system A system and method for postponing and managing outgoing calling tasks for on or off-site retrieval are presented. More precisely a system and method are presented to compile a list of pending calling tasks, transfer a task to a calling device and prompt a user to m... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7676068 | Biometric authentication A biometric authentication system, including a database of digital images of biometrics of known people, a camera for capturing a digital image of a biometric of an unknown person, a two-dimensional gradient filter coupled with said database and said camera for deri... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7616948 | User method for selective wireless communication with contact list memory Methods, devices and systems for wireless communication. A device user defines a list of contacts and receives a collective indication of which contacts are located within a neighborhood of the device. The neighborhood is defined at the device, for example by the de... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7574549 | Bridge design for SD and MMC multiplexing A method for determining direction of signal transmission in a bi-directional signal line, including sampling data signals at two terminals, A and B, enabling data flow from A to B when data flow from B to A is not enabled, and a logical 0 bit is sampled at A, enabl... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7552245 | Communication card with three operational states A communication card with three operational states, including a controller, a battery, a flash storage unit, a wireless modem, and a connector for connecting the communication card to a shell host and to an electronic device host, wherein the communication card (i) ... | 06/23/2009 |
| D593550 | Keypad | 06/02/2009 |
| 7509094 | Wireless telecommunication device and uses thereof A wireless telecommunication device including a foreground unit, and a background unit that is physically separated from the foreground unit and in local communication with the foreground unit. The foreground unit is provided to support incoming calls independently ... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7433712 | Multi-access solid state memory devices and a telephone utilizing such A mobile telephone device, comprising, an enclosure; a plurality of hardware components that provide the functionality of a cellular telephone or a satellite telephone, at least some of said components being inside or on said enclosure; a solid state non-volatile st... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7398081 | Device and system for selective wireless communication with contact list memory Methods, devices and systems for wireless communication. A device user defines a list of contacts and receives a collective indication of which contacts are located within a neighborhood of the device. The neighborhood is defined at the device, for example by the de... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7333604 | Adaptive notification of an incoming call in a mobile phone A device and method for handling announcement of an incoming call in a telephone handset at least in part in accordance with a measured ambient noise level is provided. In some embodiments, the disclosed device includes an audio signaling mechanism such as a ringer ... | 02/19/2008 |
