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User-operated amusement apparatus for kicking the user's buttocks
An apparatus including a user-operated and controlled apparatus for self-infliction of repetitive blows to the user's buttocks by a plurality of elongated arms bearing flexible extensions that rotate under the user's control.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7426264 | Method and apparatus for improved personal communication devices and systems Picture messages are transmitted to a wireless device with a paging notification that includes the telephone number of a message originator and are used by the message recipient to identify who is sending the message. ... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7372470 | System and method for transmitting and displaying messages in a mobile terminal A method and system for transmitting and displaying messages in a mobile terminal using short messaging service (SMS) is disclosed. An SMS message having a primary format information is encoded with a secondary format information, wherein the primary and secondary f... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7349691 | System and apparatus for performing broadcast and localcast communications Described is a communication system including mobile communication devices. In the described system, the mobile devices many be wrist-worn watches such as are in common use today, except that the watches are specially configured to receive data in a “broadcast” ... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349532 | Picture and video message center system A message originator sends a picture or video message to a message center along with caller identifying information. The message is stored in a memory and transmitted to a wireless picture phone, PDA or portable computing device, or stored at the message center in a... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7330100 | Mobile device and related method for displaying text message with background images A wireless communications device includes a communication circuit for receiving a message signal having a text message via radio transmission; a storage device having a plurality of image data stored therein; a selecting module for selecting an image datum from the ... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7310416 | Method and apparatus for improved personal communication devices and systems A system for adding or updating contact data in a wireless communication device, cellular telephone, pager or personal digital assistant (PDA) is shown. Contact data associated with actual or potential communicants may be entered into a database in the wireless comm... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7308088 | Method and apparatus for improved personal communication devices and systems Contact data in a database for a wireless personal communication device are remotely updatable from, or transferable between, a computer system using a radio frequency connection. New contact data, and changes or updates to existing contact data, are input at the co... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7305076 | Method and apparatus for improved paging receiver and system A wireless information communication system and method, such as a paging network, that provides caller identification information transmitted from the public switched telephone network to a pager, PDA (Personal Digital Assistant), a portable computing device, or per... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7286658 | Method and apparatus for improved personal communication devices and systems A method for use in a wireless communication device, cellular telephone, pager or personal digital assistant (PDA) is shown in which Caller ID data originating from the public switched telephone network or other caller identifying data is received in a paging signal... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7272419 | Method for transmitting symbols and/or information from a sender to a recipient The invention relates to a method for transmitting symbols and/or information from a transmitter to a receiver. The method further relates to devices for coding, transmitting, and receiving symbols and/or information. It is specified that the symbols and/or i... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7266186 | Method and apparatus for improved paging receiver and system Contact data in a phonebook database for a personal communication device are remotely updateable from, or transferable between, a computer system using a wireless radio frequency connection. New contact data, and changes or updates to existing contact data, are inpu... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7257210 | Picture phone with caller id Pictures are transmitted to a wireless picture phone with caller ID from a message originator and used by the message recipient to identify who is to sending the picture. In one embodiment the pictures are sent to a message center along with the caller ID of the mes... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7254223 | Method and apparatus for improved personal communication devices and systems Contact data in a database for a wireless personal communication device are remotely updatable from, or transferable between, a computer system using a radio frequency connection. New contact data, and changes or updates to existing contact data, are input at the co... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7251318 | Method and apparatus for improved personal communication devices and systems An apparatus and method provide a database in a pager that contains menus that may be displayed on a pager display. A paging service sends a page including an identification, retrieves a menu from the pager database and displays the menu. The pager responds to the p... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7202861 | Control of a unit provided with a processor The invention relates to a method for controlling a unit provided with a processor. The method includes receiving at least one graphical notation in the form of positions representing a sensor device's movement across a base that is provided with a position-coding p... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7167731 | Emoticon input method and apparatus An apparatus, such as a communication device, is provided with emoticon input logic associated with an input key to improve the ease-of-use of the apparatus for entering emoticons, e.g. into a text message, while the apparatus is operating e.g. in a text mode. Respo... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7162275 | Apparatus and method for performing a dialing operation using a phone book of a mobile communication terminal An apparatus and method for performing a dialing operation using a phone book of a mobile communication terminal, and an apparatus and method capable of displaying all telephone numbers of persons registered in a phone book when a dial history information is display... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7129825 | Action recommendation system for a mobile vehicle Specific advertisements and other information can be communicated to the user of a mobile vehicle depending on the vehicles or occupants needs or preferences. ... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7120870 | Method, system, and program for presenting data in a limited display area Disclosed is a system, method, and program for displaying data on a display monitor under control of a computer. A first portion of a field of data and a graphical element indicating that there is a second portion of the field of data are displayed within a display ... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7079006 | Radio paging receiver and message erasing method Message data are picked up by using a decoder 2 from received signals received by a receiver portion 1 of a radio paging receiver, and stored in a RAM 4a of a CPU 4. An informing portion 9 informs a user of the message. The ... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7072941 | System and method for chat based communication multiphase encoded protocol and syncrhonization of network buses A system and method for providing chat group services to wireless mobile terminals is disclosed. The chat forum permits integrated voice and text messaging. The system includes plural mobile terminals, each being capable of running a chat client application. A serve... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7054233 | Wall clock with dial illumination A wall clock of the analog type with hands for indicating the time includes a battery, a housing, a dial with time indicia disposed in the housing and an illumination module disposed adjacently to the dial. The illumination module has one or more recesses defined in... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7053753 | Wireless community alerting system A pager-based alert system includes a monitor center that is in telephonic or data communication with a paging station allowing the command center to send multi-digit code words where selected digits comprise an address for selecting one or more of a plurality of ph... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7043235 | Secondary data encoded along with original data for generating responses to requests from wireless devices Encoding secondary data with original data for providing robust responses to requests from wireless devices. As a server receives data from various sources for wireless device users, it saves the data, associates it with the corresponding users, and sets flags to pr... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7020499 | Hands free vehicle mounted mobile telephone with audio A hands-free vehicle mounted mobile telephone system with audio that enables the user of the phone to dial and operate the phone without taking the user's hands off of the steering wheel of a car or other motor-operated vehicle. The user may select the party to be c... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7010372 | Semiconductor memory card, apparatus for recording data onto the semiconductor memory card, and apparatus for reproducing data of the semiconductor memory card A semiconductor memory card for storing audio information with corresponding text information and type information, where the type information indicates a type of the text information. The type is classified into at least (a), (b), and (c) in which the text informat... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7003327 | Heuristically assisted user interface for a wireless communication device A method and apparatus for implementing a heuristic user interface for a mobile device that assists a user with the management and utilization of contact identifiers (e.g. phone numbers, facsimile numbers, email addresses and uniform resource identifiers (URIs)). Co... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6987991 | Emoticon input method and apparatus An apparatus, such as a communication device, is provided with emoticon input logic associated with an input key to improve the ease-of-use of the apparatus for entering emoticons, e.g. into a text message, while the apparatus is operating e.g. in a text mode. Respo... | 01/17/2006 |
| 6978938 | Optical information reader and optical information reading method A tabletop type optical information reader has a projection unit, a trigger unit, a decode unit, a data processing unit, a memory unit, and a switch unit. The projection unit projects light to a read object. The trigger unit instructs the projection unit for project... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6980083 | Radio communication system, radio communication apparatus, and radio communicating method A mobile station capable of connected to an information providing server via a radio link, comprises a reception history table which stores an identification of information which has been received, and a controller which prevents the same information from being rece... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6956497 | Method and apparatus for sending presence messages An intentional presence system in accordance with the present invention includes a transmitting device at a first physical location that is responsive to a command intentionally initiated by a first individual at the first physical location to develop a presence sig... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6956968 | Database engines for processing ideographic characters and methods therefor A computer-implemented method for encoding a handwritten stroke set, each of the handwritten stroke set being representative of a constituent stroke of an ideographic character, to obtain an encoded input sequence. The method includes ascertaining a shape of a first... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6859134 | Data communication device Simplified data message terminals and data communicating voice terminals are described for providing additional functionality in a facility using a wireless data communication system. The simplified data message terminals provide message and paging communication to ... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6791467 | Adaptive remote controller A method and system for the remote controlling of appliances includes an adaptive remote controller that adapts itself automatically to its environment so as to remotely control a plurality of appliances. The adaptive remote controller is RF based and has the capabi... | 09/14/2004 |
| 6711379 | Digital broadcasting system and terminal therefor The terminal device is equipped with a location judgment database which stores setting data indicating the relationships between the location of the self device and the corresponding object to be presented to the user. On the basis of the location detection data obt... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6708206 | Apparatus, and associated method, for providing a client with messages Apparatus, and an associated method, provides OOB (out-of-band) and other asynchronous messages to a mobile client. OOB and other asynchronous messages formed of alerts, notifications, push messages, advertising, as well as many other types of messages, are able to ... | 03/16/2004 |
| 6693510 | Image communication terminal, image communication system, and mobile station An image communication terminal having a reception section for receiving a paging signal and image data based on the paging signal, a storage section for storing data, and a control section for controlling to store the image data based on the paging signa... | 02/17/2004 |
| 6587033 | Message display control in selective call receiver An individual selective call receiver with a display function, include a display unit displaying a data, a storage unit storing a priority display specifying data and a processor. The processor searches the message for the priority display specifying data... | 07/01/2003 |
| 6583716 | System and method for providing location-relevant services using stored location information A method for storing geographic information at a communication node is provided. Geographic data is received and an authentication request to a geographic authentication database in communication with the communication node is transmitted. An authenticati... | 06/24/2003 |
| 6556131 | Method for indicating that only a portion of a received message can be displayed and communication device employing same A communication device (100) employs a method and apparatus for indicating to a user of the communication device that only a portion of a received message (120) can be displayed to the user. Some time after receipt of a message, the communication device d... | 04/29/2003 |
