Bizarre Patents
Method and apparatus for making a drink hop along a bar or counter
A method for generating a drink which appears to hop from a remote spot on the bar or counter and take one or more leaps, before landing in a patron's glass.
PatentStorm News
Make the Most of Our Site
See this month's Top Inventors and Most Cited Patents.
Stay on top of the latest innovations by subscribing to an RSS feed.
Registered users: Manage your profile.
| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7936251 | Alerting device and radio communication device having the alerting device In a notifying device comprising a notifying unit 2 having incorporated therein a vibrator to be resonated by a drive signal fed thereto, and a signal preparing circuit 5 for feeding the drive signal to the notifying unit 2, the signal preparing... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7880586 | Cooling system for a mobile terminal for wireless communication The present invention relates to a cooling system for a mobile terminal for wireless communication comprising a rotating fan (1) for reducing the heat generated by the mobile terminal and at least one weight (3) for causing an unbalance of the rotation... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7391330 | Remote controlled awakening device A remote controlled vibratory and auditory awakening device comprising a plurality of parallelepiped pads, vibratory media within each pad, auditory emission mechanism communicating with each pad, a remote control in RF communication with every pad, whereby the vari... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7378939 | Method and apparatus for providing proximity based authentication, security, and notification in a wireless system Techniques and structures are disclosed for providing proximity based authentication, security, and/or user notification in a wireless system. ... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7372968 | Loudspeaker driver An inertial exciter (40) for an acoustic radiator (42), and a loudspeaker incorporating an acoustic radiator and such an exciter. The exciter has a massive member (44); a coupler (56) adapted for attachment to the acoustic radiator (42... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7369042 | Warning device for vehicles A vehicle warning system has an obstacle sensor for detecting approach of an obstacle to a vehicle, tactile information-generating elements for notifying a driver of the obstacle information based on information received from the obstacle sensor, and a controller fo... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7349722 | Wireless communications system and method A system for communicating information facilitates wireless communication between electronic devices. The system includes a transceiver provided in a vehicle. The transceiver communicates with an electronic device located external to the transceiver using a Bluetoot... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7324806 | System and method for storing and managing personal information A system for storing and managing personal information comprising at least one mobile communication terminal, and a wristwatch capable of making mutual communication with the mobile communication terminal through short-range wireless communication. The wristwatch is... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7324094 | Method and device for generating multi-functional feedback A method, a dynamic user interface and an electronic device for generating user-detectable multi-functional feedback using a single component in response to a stimulus signal. One or more resonating vibrating elements, such for example as a piezo-bender, are attache... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7324000 | State adaptation devices and methods for wireless communications A communications system has first and second units whereby, when a user changes the physical state of the first unit, a message is sent to the second unit to cause the second unit to change to the same state. This change in state can be, for example, a physical sque... | 01/29/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7295863 | Portable telephone Disclosed is a portable telephone in which the informing of a reception is performed at the time of the reception by causing a buzzer to generate its reception sound and simultaneously a history of the reception is recorded in a memory, wherein in the case no respon... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7268673 | Electronic device with a vibrator and an exchangeable cover An electronic device comprising a frame part, a PCB (printed circuit board) provided with electronic components, a vibrator electrically connected to said PCB and being fixed in relation to the frame part, and an exchangeable outer cover releasably connected to the ... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7268672 | System for providing a tactile stimulation in response to a predetermined alarm condition There is provided a tactile alarm system for use in environments having a plurality of audio and/or visual alarms each in communication with a detector measuring a predetermined physical property. The system includes one or more tactile alarms each connected to a di... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7263331 | Method and apparatus for sharing a bluetooth module with two computing devices A method and apparatus for a user to interface with a mobile computing device is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method comprises sharing a Bluetooth communications module between a primary processor system and a secondary processor system. ... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7253350 | Vibration source driving device A vibration source driving device that realizes various vibration functions on portable telephones. The vibration source driving device includes a sound source for generating musical tone signals in response to music data. A vibration source to generate vibration, a... | 08/07/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7236087 | On-premises pager and charging unit, and methods for using same On-premises pager loss is reduced by alerting patrons they are out of range. Pagers include an LCD with messages or promotions. An LED on the pager emits different colors indicating the level of battery charge. Circuitry in the pager causes a higher charge to be del... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7234014 | Seamless user interactions for portable storage devices A portable storage device 10 includes a body 12, an actuator 16, and an indicator 18. When coupled to a host device 22, a user depressing the actuator 16 causes an interrupt message to be sent to the host device, which initi... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7227463 | Alarm systems, alarm system operating methods, and alarm extension devices An alarm extension device includes a retainer configured to receive a personal paging device, a vibration sensor in operative association with the retainer, an auxiliary alarm generator, and a link between the vibration sensor and the auxiliary alarm generator. The ... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7225000 | Communication apparatus The mobile communication apparatus informs occurrence of a missed event with a vibrator 54 in response to the detection of a second state that a case separates from the other case in the apparatus. For example, the missed event can be that the apparatus has a... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7212193 | Method and circuit for driving display, and portable electronic device A method for driving a display is provided which is capable of reducing current consumption. In the method above, a scanning frequency in a self-emissive display is changed based on a display content to be displayed in the self-emissive display. ... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7212839 | Visualization supplemented wireless mobile telephony-audio A wireless mobile phone is provided with the capability to visually convey audio to users, using a number of light sources, such as light emitting diodes (LEDs), in accordance with one or more attributes of the audio. The attributes may include different volume, spe... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7203906 | Supplying notifications related to supply and consumption of user context data Techniques are described for providing information about a current state that is modeled with multiple state attributes. In some situations, the providing includes receiving from a module a request related to the modeling of the current state with the multiple state... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7203524 | Article with wireless signal alerting device An article for personal, vehicular or household use provides a visual alert for the presence of a mobile communication signal from a nearby but not physically connected communication device. The article includes a signaling assembly for providing a visual signal whe... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7194280 | Mobile station assisted forward link open loop power and rate control in a CDMA system Establishment of a forward link traffic channel between one or more candidate base stations and a mobile station considers forward link quality such that the initial transmit power is set to a level that achieves a desired received signal quality at the mobile stati... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7178725 | Method for visualizing the input and display components of terminal equipment and corresponding terminal equipment The invention relates to a method for visualizing the input and display components of terminal equipment. The terminal equipment includes the said input component for controlling the operations of the terminal equipment and the display component. The terminal equipm... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7167082 | System, method, and receiver module for alerting users of warning signals A method includes receiving a wireless warning signal. The method also includes identifying a type of warning associated with the wireless warning signal. In addition, the method includes generating at least one stimulus based on the identified type of warning and c... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7164348 | Inconspicuous tactile notification for speaking engagements With the increasing popularity of multimedia presentations at business meetings and conferences, presenters often wish to be free to move about during their presentation. Moderators at a presentation or conference can use this invention to communicate with the prese... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7150637 | Battery chamber structure A battery chamber structure for an electronic apparatus includes a casing having an opening, through which a battery is inserted into the battery chamber, and a battery chamber lid detachably attached to the opening to close the battery chamber. The battery includes... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7146133 | Wireless transmission interference avoidance on a device capable of carrying out wireless network communications A wireless technology (e.g., Wi-Fi) coexistence architecture and method are disclosed for managing potential conflicts between wireless technology interference sources. A coexistence driver maintains a conflict map identifying potentially conflicting wireless techno... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7136678 | Vibrating portable electronic device, method of vibrating a portable electronic device and method of messaging by vibrating a portable electronic device A portable vibrating device has two electrical motors each having an axle and a weight element coupled to the axle. The axles couple the electrical motors to the weight elements. The weight elements form a weight unit having a total mass m and having a mass center w... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7136894 | Distinctive vibrate system, apparatus and method An apparatus is disclosed which is configured to announce a transmission from a caller by vibrating in a predetermined manner associated with the caller. Also disclosed is a method comprising: receiving a transmission from a first caller; identifying the first calle... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7137069 | Thematic response to a computer user's context, such as by a wearable personal computer Techniques are disclosed for creating, modifying, categorizing, modeling, distributing, purchasing, selling, and otherwise using themes and theme-related information. Themes can represent various types of contextual aspects or situations, and can model high-level co... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7133700 | Wireless visual alerting method and system A method and system in a telecommunications network for visually alerting a user of an incoming call are disclosed herein. A call can be transmitted to a mobile device associated with a user of the telecommunications network. An alert can also be transmitted to one ... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7129824 | Tactile transducers and method of operating A portable electronic device (100) includes a vibrating transducer having a resilient support and a first mass supported by the first resilient support forming a mechanical resonator, and an electrical circuit coupled to the first vibrating transducer to appl... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7130581 | Wireless data communication device and communication system including such a device The wireless data communication device (1) is mounted in a portable object, such as a wristwatch. The device includes an oscillator circuit (6), which produces high frequency signals (SH), and a signal processing unit (7), connected t... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7123948 | Microphone aided vibrator tuning A method of tuning an alert device in a portable communication apparatus having a microphone. The method involves the steps of recording, through the microphone, an acoustic signal which is emitted by the alert device in response to a drive signal; deriving a charac... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7107539 | Thematic response to a computer user's context, such as by a wearable personal computer Techniques are disclosed for creating, modifying, categorizing, modeling, distributing, purchasing, selling, and otherwise using themes and theme-related information. Themes can represent various types of contextual aspects or situations, and can model high-level co... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7103389 | Radio communication device capable of generating melody patterns via sound, tactical and visual notifications Sound source pulses are output to a sound drive circuit based on first to fourth sound source data of a ringer melody. Thus, the sound drive circuit drives a speaker based on the sound source pulses. As a result, the ringer melody including first to fourth melodic l... | 09/05/2006 |
