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Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) received Patent No. 121,992 for "An Improvement in Adjustable and Detachable Straps for Garments." He later received two more patents: one for a self-pasting scrapbook and one for a game to help players remember important historical dates.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8107878 | Methods and apparatus for user-selectable programmable housing skin sensors for user mode optimization and control An embodiment relates generally to a method of operating a device. The method includes providing for a plurality of sensors, where each sensor is configured to sense and transmit data values associated with an interaction with the device by a user. A subset of the s... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8107879 | Device, system, and method of establishing multiple wireless connections Device, system, and method of establishing multiple wireless connections. For example, a system includes: a tag to store wireless connection information readable by a mobile device, the wireless connection information including: a first connection information item i... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8099045 | Near field communication system and associated apparatus A near field communication (NFC) system and an associated apparatus are provided. The NFC system includes a display device, a host computer, at least one RF module coupled to the host computer, a plurality of antennas coupled to the at least one RF module, and a NFC... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8099044 | Radio frequency detection system for a medical device and process A radio frequency detection system is provided that includes at least two radio frequency detection devices, which have an antenna each with a detection range for a radio frequency identification and detect the radio frequency identification information provided in ... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8086176 | Information processing apparatus, method, and program for performing near field communication with an external device An information processing apparatus including a plurality of elements each configured to perform an independent process, a controller configured to control the plurality of elements, and a front end shared by the plurality of elements and configured to perform near ... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8081925 | Transceiver for an implantable medical device having switchable series-to-parallel tank circuit An improved transceiver circuit particularly useful in an inductively coupled wireless communication system such as an implantable medical device system is disclosed. The improved transceiver circuit is switchable to assume a serial L-C configuration in the transmit... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8078103 | Multi-element RFID coupler An RFID communication system comprising a near field coupler that is capable of selectively communicating with a targeted transponder positioned among a group of multiple adjacent transponders. The coupler is configured to receive communication signals from a transc... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8064825 | Power reception control device, power transmission control device, non-contact power transmission system, power reception device, power transmission device, and electronic instrument A power-receiving-side control circuit of a power reception device performs intermittent load modulation by causing an NMOS transistor to be turned ON/OFF during normal power transmission. A power-transmission-side control circuit included in a power transmission co... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8060012 | Method and apparatus for automatic near field communication application selection in an electronic device In a portable electronic device (100) having a plurality of near field communication applications stored within a plurality of execution environments, an application discovery manager (311) is configured to automatically select and launch one or more o... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8060011 | Power transmission control device, power transmission device, electronic instrument, and non-contact power transmission system A power transmission control device provided in a power transmission device of a non-contact power transmission system includes a drive clock signal generation circuit that generates a drive clock signal that specifies a drive frequency of a primary coil, a driver c... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8060010 | Communication partner appliance with automatic send mode activation In a data carrier (2) which is provided as a communication partner appliance for a communication system with at least one further communication partner appliance (3, 40), a first communication mode or a second communication mode can be activated. A det... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8045920 | Apparatus for access control, and read/write device In an access control device including a lock with a locking element, an actuating element for the locking element, an electronic key, a receiver unit for receiving key identification data and an evaluation circuit for determining access authorization based on the re... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8041295 | Mobile communication device A mobile communication device capable of reducing a size of a proximity noncontact communication antenna and improving a proximity noncontact communication distance is provided. In a mobile communication device having both functions of a card function and a reader/w... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8036596 | Method and apparatus for generating device address of wireless local network An apparatus for generating a device address of a wireless local network includes an alien beacon determination unit which determines whether a received beacon is an alien beacon; a zone identity management unit which compares an alien zone identity included in the ... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8036595 | Capacitive bonding of devices The present invention relates to systems and methods that facilitate wireless device communications and configuration. A detection component identifies N devices that are coupled together via a biological medium, N being an integer, wherein the medium includes direc... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8032082 | Amplifier for a radio frequency transmitter for transmitting a transmit signal to an otological apparatus There is described an amplifier for a radio frequency signal for transmitting a transmit signal to an otological apparatus. The amplifier comprises at least one power transistor for switching an output signal. A breaker gap of the power transistor is actively connec... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8023891 | Interconnection network between semiconductor structures, integrated circuit and method for transmitting signals The invention relates to an interconnection network and an integrated circuit and a method for manufacturing the same. Furthermore, the invention relates to a method for signal transfer between semiconductor structures. The invention is characterized in that a signa... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8023889 | Intelligent device integration using RFID technology A method of integrating devices using radio frequency identification (RFID) technology can include receiving a notification, from a communication system, of an incoming communication directed to a first communication address. An intended recipient of the communicati... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8023890 | Communication system, communication apparatus, and electric-field-coupling antenna A communication system includes the following elements: a transmitter including a transmission circuit unit configured to generate an RF signal for transmitting data and an EFC antenna configured to transmit the RF signal as an electrostatic field or an induced elec... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8023892 | Wafer mobile phone platform system The wafer mobile phone platform system provides a minimalist mobile telephone that can be used alone as a wireless communication device or utilized to transfer its mobile telephone functions from one peripheral device to another. A transceiver unit having telephone ... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8014720 | Service provisioning utilizing near field communication Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, apparatuses, and programming instructions configured to enable a device to receive provisioning data over a Near Field Communication link, and utilize the provisioning data to receive services. ... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8014722 | Provisioning of wireless connectivity for devices using NFC The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates connecting a wireless device to a secure network. A device can establish a near field communication link with a verified device on a network, wherein the near field communication link can ... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8014721 | Setting mobile device operating mode using near field communication A mobile communication device is capable of operation in accordance with a plurality of operation mode profiles. Data linking each operation mode profile to a respective operation identifier are stored in the device memory. The device controller, coupled to a contai... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8010046 | Wireless communication apparatus A wireless communication apparatus for demodulating modulated information which is transmitted from a wireless tag so as to read out the modulated information, includes: an antenna which transmits a transmission signal to the wireless tag and receives a signal trans... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7995964 | Personal wireless network capabilities-based task portion distribution Where a plurality of personal portable devices communicating with each other through a personal wireless network are to cooperate to perform a task made up of a plurality of task portions, the task portions are automatically distributed among the personal portable d... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7995965 | Adaptable power supply circuit A power supply circuit and a transponder having a circuit for rectifying an A.C. voltage and two power storage elements, the rectifying circuit providing a rectified voltage to at least one of the storage elements and an output voltage being provided by at least one... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7991355 | Voltage overshoot protection A transmission circuit for an RF inductive link, particularly for an implanted device such as a cochlear implant. In a preferred form, the transmission circuit 1 includes a transmitter coil 24 and a damping device, including an auxiliary coil 4 ... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7986916 | Demodulation communication signals in a near field radio frequency (RF) communicator A near field RF communicator has an IQ demodulator and a demodulator processor that identifies a transition between logical states on the basis of either: 1) a magnitude obtained by adding a first value representing a difference between positive and negative peaks i... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7983614 | Handover for audio and video playback devices Playback of a media work is handed over from a source playback device to a target playback device while the source playback device is in a play mode. The target playback device continues playback of the media work at a current location in the media work being played... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7970350 | Devices and methods for content sharing Described are methods and devices for automatically coupling two or more mobile communication devices (502, 541) to share content such as calls, music, documents, video and games where two or more devices automatically determine the feasibility of sharing the... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7965981 | Device and method for content searching between peer devices A portable communication device is equipped to search for content stored on a target electronic device. The portable communication device transfers user-defined content search query to an electronic device via a near-field communications (NFC) module. The portable c... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7953369 | System and method for inductive power supply control using remote device power requirements An adaptive inductive ballast is provided with the capability to communicate with a remote device powered by the ballast. To improve the operation of the ballast, the ballast changes its operating characteristics based upon information received from the remote devic... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7953368 | RFIC chip, and position recognition system and security system using the same Included are: a circuit unit having a non-volatile memory; a circuit unit having a volatile memory; a read-write circuit for reading data from, writing data into, the non-volatile memory, and for reading data from, writing data into, the volatile memory; an antenna ... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7933553 | Tuneable radio-frequency identification tag reader and method of reading such a tag A radio-frequency identification (RFID) system is provided that includes an RFID reader that is provided with a capacitor apparatus or circuit that may be used to tune the transmitter to a different frequency to improve communication with an RFID tag. The frequency ... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7929910 | Portable electronic apparatus with near field communication (NFC) application and method of operating the portable electronic apparatus A portable electronic apparatus with NFC application and the method of operating the portable electronic apparatus are disclosed. The portable electronic apparatus includes an application module, an active NFC device, a passive NFC device, and a power supply unit. T... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7920828 | Portable terminal, portable telephone and master slave portable telephone system using the portable terminal The invention relates to a portable terminal such as a portable telephone terminal and so forth for effecting communication, information processing and so forth, and to provide the portable terminal and a master slave portable telephone system capable of rendering a... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7920827 | Apparatus and method for facilitating physical browsing on wireless devices using radio frequency identification A system, apparatus, and method for locating available information and services/applications via mobile terminals radio frequency identification (RFID) technology. At least one transponder is provided, having at least an application identifier and associated content... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7917086 | Charger, electronic instrument, and charging system A charger and an electronic instrument include a planar air-core coil, a magnetic sheet disposed on a side of the planar air-core coil that is opposite to a transmission side, and a housing disposed at a position that faces the transmission side of the planar air-co... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7907895 | Electric field sensor device, transceiver, positional information obtaining system and information input system When a human hand (100) holds a transceiver (3a), the hand holds a bottom of an external wall surface and a side of the external wall surface of an insulating case (33). Therefore, a transmitting and receiving electrode (105) and a... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7907896 | Mobile commerce method and device Disclosed are methods for a near-field communication/RFID enabled mobile communication device. The methods include receiving from a first affiche a first near-field communication that initiates a process of an application of the mobile communication device, and rece... | 03/15/2011 |
