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Neuroimaging as a Marketing Tool
Neuroimaging as a means for validating whether a stimulus such as advertisement, communication, or product evokes a certain mental response such as emotion, preference, or memory, or to predict the consequences of the stimulus on later behavior such as consumption or purchasing.
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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120129554 | Shared Image Database With Geographic Navigation There is disclosed a method and device for operating an image database shared by a plurality of users. In an embodiment, each image captured by a user and stored in a shared image database is associating with the geographic coordinates of the location at which the image... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120040698 | HANDHELD FIELD MAINTENANCE TOOL WITH IMPROVED LOCATIONAL AWARENESS FUNCTIONALITY A handheld field maintenance tool is provided. The tool includes, among other things, a wireless process communication protocol module configured to communicate in accordance with a wireless process communication protocol. The tool also includes a display and an input d... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120040697 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EXPRESSING THE ACCURACY OF A MEASURED LOCATION OF A TERMINAL Provided is an apparatus and method for expressing an accuracy of a measured location of a terminal. The apparatus may include a storage unit to store accuracy information used for indicating an accuracy of a measured location corresponding to each of possible locations... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120034897 | REAL TIME TEXT MESSAGING METHOD AND DEVICE Embodiments include communication devices and texting methods performed by communication devices. When the communication device detects that a text session has been initiated with a potential real time text (RTT) destination specified as a destination for text messages ... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120036016 | VEHICULAR INFORMATION SYSTEM AND METHOD A mobile system and method of operation thereof, comprising a radio frequency system, adapted to derive information relating to a position within an environment, based on communications with at least one terrestrial or extraterrestrial transmitter, and remotely transmit... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120029808 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING SERVICE INFORMATION PROVIDED IN SERVICE ZONE A terminal comprising: a controller configured to determine, in a service zone, whether or not service information corresponding to a service zone is identical to service information previously used in the service zone, and provide control to display previously stored s... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120021778 | DETERMINING A GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION In general, the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods systems, and program products for determining a change in a mode of transportation. A change in a mode of transportation of the mobile computing device may be determined by determi... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120015675 | NETWORK SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND COMMUNICATION PROGRAM A communication terminal includes: a communication unit; a memory; a first obtaining unit for obtaining first data; and a first control unit for detecting, using the communication unit, whether the communication terminal is in a first state in which the communication te... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120009951 | Portable flight tracker for use in airplane mode A portable electronic device containing an embedded application provides real-time flight status information to users traveling on an airplane while the device is operating in airplane mode with no wireless connectivity. Before departure, the application downloads fligh... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20110306366 | SHARING OF LOCATION INFORMATION IN A NETWORKED COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT A system includes a server and a source client executable on a first electronic device in communication with the server The server is configured to provide to a second electronic device in communication with the server access to location data implementable by a user int... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110300883 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF A mobile terminal and an operating method thereof are provided. The operating method includes during the transmission or reception of a communication event between the mobile terminal and a counterpart mobile terminal, obtaining location information of the counterpart m... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110275388 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR GEOSPATIAL-BASED SHARING OF INFORMATION BY MULTIPLE DEVICES A system for exchanging GPS or other position data between wireless devices for purposes of group activities, child location monitoring, work group coordination, dispatching of employees etc. Cell phones and other wireless devices with GPS receivers have loaded therein ... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110275390 | Method For Stitching Multiple Converging Paths A method of stitching converging path segments to aesthetically label Y-intersections, path bifurcations or splits in roads or the like entails determining which pair of adjacent path segments subtend the largest angle. The path segments subtending the largest angle are... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110244892 | PICO BASE STATION LOCATION AND ANALYSIS USING MOBILE DEVICES A base station analysis system and method that may employ commercially-available mobile device platforms is disclosed. The base station analysis application enables a service technician to locate nearby base stations in the field, determine which base stations are funct... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110237279 | Methods And Apparatus For Providing Map Locations In User Applications Using URL Strings Techniques for use in a wireless communication device for displaying a map are described. The wireless device receives via a user interface a selection of a hypertext link object in an electronic file or message. The hypertext link object is associated with a Uniform Re... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110223941 | EQUIPMENT MANAGING SYSTEM, TERMINAL DEVICE, AND LOCATION INFORMATION DISPLAYING METHOD Equipment information including an installation height, which is an elevation, is stored as equipment information in an equipment management DB as location information for the location wherein an applicable piece of equipment is installed, and in a terminal device, the ... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110207480 | Shared Image Database With Geographic Navigation There is disclosed a method and device for operating an image database shared by a plurality of users. In an embodiment, each image captured by a user and stored in a shared image database is associating with the geographic coordinates of the location at which the image... | 08/25/2011 |
| 20110201360 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PHYSICAL MAP-ASSISTED WIRELESS ACCESS POINT LOCATING A mobile device receives a server-assisted location for a wireless access point, either a WiFi access point or a Bluetooth access point, from a remote location server comprising a reference database. The received server-assisted location is refined using a physical map ... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110184789 | DESTINATION INFORMATION SHARING FOR THE AUTOMOBILE ENVIRONMENT An in-vehicle system may detect an occurrence of a triggering event, detect a short-range communication connection between the in-vehicle system and a mobile communication device, send a prompt, including a request for information, to the mobile communication device, an... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110177832 | Adaptive Location Determination Methods, program products, and systems for adaptive location determination are described. A server computer can receive location information from location-aware mobile devices (e.g., GPS-enabled devices) located in a cell of a cellular communications network. The server... | 07/21/2011 |
| 20110177831 | DETERMINING A LOCATION OF A MOBILE DEVICE USING A LOCATION DATABASE Methods, program products, and systems for determining a location of a mobile device using a location database are described. The mobile device can host the location database, which can store locations associated with access points. The locations can be distributed in a... | 07/21/2011 |
| 20110165893 | APPARATUS TO PROVIDE AUGMENTED REALITY SERVICE USING LOCATION-BASED INFORMATION AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM AND METHOD OF THE SAME An augmented reality (AR) service apparatus includes a camera to capture an actual image, a controller to receive feature point information about the captured image from at least one of a plurality of base stations (BSs), detect a location of the camera by matching data... | 07/07/2011 |
| 20110124316 | ENHANCED WIRELESS HANDSET, INCLUDING DIRECT HANDSET-TO-HANDSET COMMUNICATION MODE A wireless handset is provided with enhanced features and capabilities. The wireless handset may be embodied as a full-featured handset that is capable of operating either within a wireless network (such as a cellular or PCS network) or in a direct handset-to-handset co... | 05/26/2011 |
| 20110117938 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING POSITION INFORMATION USING TIME PERIOD A method for providing position information and identifying positions of others, using an electronic apparatus, includes detecting first position information regarding a current position of the electronic apparatus, transmitting a position inquiry request and informatio... | 05/19/2011 |
| 20110092228 | METHOD FOR DISPLAYING LOCATION OF CELLULAR PHONE CALLER The present invention relates to a method for displaying the location of a cellular phone caller. In the present method, a caller's cellular phone transmits a short message preset by a cellular base station to the base station through an Unstructured Supplementary Servi... | 04/21/2011 |
| 20110081922 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING LOCATION BASED SERVICES USING CONNECTIVITY GRAPHS BASED ON CELL BROADCAST INFORMATION An approach is provided for providing location based services using connectivity graphs based on cell broadcast information. A plurality of cell broadcast message identifiers are caused to be received. Cell broadcast message identifiers are respectively associated with ... | 04/07/2011 |
| 20110081923 | DEVICE MOVEMENT USER INTERFACE GESTURES FOR FILE SHARING FUNCTIONALITY Methods and devices provide a gesture activated file sharing functionality enabling users to share files with other nearby computing devices. The file sharing functionality may include establishing wireless links with nearby devices and determine their relative location... | 04/07/2011 |
| 20110065459 | CONTENT TRANSFER INVOLVING A GESTURE Content transfer involving a gesture is described. In an implementation, a method is implemented by a mobile communications device that includes recognizing a gesture input via a touchscreen of the mobile communications device that is indicative of a direction, the touc... | 03/17/2011 |
| 20110065460 | CELLULAR PHONE HAVING NAVIGATION DEVICE, CORRECTING VALUE INITIALIZING METHOD, AND NAVIGATION FUNCTION A navigation device includes a measuring unit to measure the current position; a geomagnetism sensor that is provided on a predetermined main unit, and is to detect geomagnetism; an orientation calculation unit to calculate the orientation of the main unit, upon setting... | 03/17/2011 |
| 20110053615 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND CONTROLLING METHOD THEREOF A mobile terminal including a user input unit configured to receive user-inputs; a wireless communication unit configured to wirelessly communicate with at least one other terminal; at least one camera configured to capture images; a touchscreen configured to display a ... | 03/03/2011 |
| 20110054770 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR GENERATING AND COMMUNICATING GEOGRAPHIC ROUTE INFORMATION BETWEEN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICES Provided is a method, wireless communication device and computer program product for generation and communication of a geographic route from a first device to a second device. The method involves presenting a reference map using the first device; receiving route input u... | 03/03/2011 |
| 20110021214 | PORTABLE TELEPHONE INFORMATION VISUALIZING DEVICE, PORTABLE TELEPHONE INFORMATION VISUALIZING SYSTEM, AND PORTABLE TELEPHONE INFORMATION VISUALIZING METHOD FOR USE IN THE PORTABLE TELEPHONE INFORMATION VISUALIZING DEVICE AND SYSTEM A portable telephone information visualizing device (server device 1) includes: grouping means (portable telephone terminal grouping unit 11) that, based on at least one item of information from among space, time, speed, information associated with the ind... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110009098 | METHOD OF CALLING A VEHICLE AND MOBILE TERMINAL FOR THE SAME A method of calling a vehicle and a mobile terminal for the same are discussed. According to an embodiment, the method includes: requesting vehicle information on each of at least one vehicle, which is located within a predetermined distance from a position of a mobile ... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20110004893 | DEVICES AND TECHNIQUES FOR DETERMINING AND FACILITATING AUTHORIZED DISTRIBUTION OF MEDIA CONTENT A module for use in connection with a media content set-top box is described. The module may include a communications node configured to interface with the media content set-top box that receives media content, a receiver and/or transceiver and control logic. The contro... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20100317373 | IMAGE PROVISION DEVICE AND IMAGE PROVISION SYSTEM An image provision device that provides an image exhibiting a distinctive feature of a locality to an address. On receipt from a mobile telephone (1a) of a position information mail (21) storing position information of the mobile telephone (1... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100279712 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LOCATION TRACKING NOTIFICATION Systems and methods for location tracking notification are provided. Location sharing involves a mobile device sending location information to another device. This can allow another device to track the geographic location of the mobile device. Even though permissions ca... | 11/04/2010 |
| 20100279713 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR LOCATION SHARING AS A FUNCTION OF TIME AND LOCATION Provided is a method and apparatus for location sharing as a function of time and location. Privacy can be a concern when providing location information. Existing rules for location sharing are typically limited to either allowing or not allowing a user to obtain locati... | 11/04/2010 |
| 20100261486 | Method and system for collecting, synchronizing, and reporting telecommunication call events and work flow related information The present invention is directed to a method and apparatus for recording and generating additional information related to telecommunication events using a mobile communication device, such as a telephone call or a text messaging event using cellular phone or a personal... | 10/14/2010 |
| 20100216491 | DYNAMIC ELEMENTS ON A MAP WITHIN A MOBILE DEVICE, SUCH AS ELEMENTS THAT FACILITATE COMMUNICATION BETWEEN USERS A system and method for providing information on a map displayed by a mobile device is described. In some examples, the system facilitates user control of map elements, such as dynamically changing map elements based on events that occur at a user's mobile device or at ... | 08/26/2010 |
| 20100216492 | EMPLOYMENT OF A TEXT MESSAGE BY A USER OF A FIRST MOBILE TELEPHONE TO INVOKE A PROCESS THAT PROVIDES INFORMATION TO A USER OF A SECOND MOBILE TELEPHONE There is provided a method that includes (a) receiving a text message that was sent from a first user device via a communications network, (b) detecting a text string in the text message, (c) executing a process, in response to detecting the text string, wherein the exe... | 08/26/2010 |
