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Comic actor Danny Kaye received patent D166,807 for the co-design of "Blowout Toy or the Like". It's similar to one of those toys that unravels when you blow into at a birthday party except Kaye's has three blowouts going in different directions, not just one.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8190136 | Initiating tracing of wireless terminal activities The invention is directed to a method and an access network management device for initiating a tracing of the activities of a wireless terminal in a wireless network as well as to a method and a core network management device for ordering a tracing of the activities... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8190135 | Attribute and location based entity presentation in presence based communication systems Presence information and communication options for contact entities (people and other) of a user are provided to the user based on the user's own location. The user's location information is used as initial criterion to filter contact entities. Further filtering is ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8170535 | System and method for providing content to portable devices The present disclosure introduces a system and method for distributing content. Content is stored on a server located on a vehicle prior to departure by the vehicle for a destination. A portable device is provided by a passenger on the vehicle. A communication link ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8131275 | Broadcasting terminal and method of controlling vibration of a mobile terminal A method of controlling vibration of a mobile terminal includes receiving broadcast data including vibration control information for controlling the vibration of the mobile terminal and vibrating the mobile terminal responsive to the vibration control information. A... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8116749 | Protocol for anonymous wireless communication Techniques for facilitating the exchange of information and transactions between two entities associated with two wireless devices when the devices are in close proximity to each other. A first device uses a first short range wireless capability to detect an identif... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8095118 | Address book remote access and extensibility Address book data available to a user such as contact information, group information, resource information, and similar data, are retrieved from a plurality of sources by a third party service. The retrieved data is customized for consistent presentation and provide... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8090360 | Mobile wireless communication terminals, systems, methods, and computer program products for publishing, sharing and accessing media files A method for publishing and sharing media files includes: making a published media file available to other wireless communication terminals from a publisher wireless communication terminal; establishing a connection via a wireless communication module of the publish... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8090358 | Methods and computer-readable media for location-based targeted advertising Methods and computer-readable media are provided for providing targeted advertising to subscriber devices based on the location of the subscriber device and a set of advertiser-defined and subscriber-defined criteria. In one embodiment, the method includes retrievin... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8090359 | Exchanging identifiers between wireless communication to determine further information to be exchanged or further services to be provided Techniques for facilitating the exchange of information and transactions between two entities associated with two wireless devices when the devices are in close proximity to each other. A first device uses a first short range wireless capability to detect an identif... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8073435 | System and method for providing quality of service in a communication network Method and system for providing quality of service in communication network. According to an embodiment, the present invention provides a communication network system. The communication network system includes a first entity that is configured to store information o... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8064891 | Means and method for controlling service progression between different domains At present, the existing mechanisms for authorizing a user of a service network operator to access a service provided by a third party service provider are valid for most of the existing services based on a request and an answer, but for transactional services, thos... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8045967 | Method of managing customer information A multi-function customer satisfaction survey device, system, and method. A restaurant management system includes a plurality of electronic tip trays and a base unit. Each of the tip trays electronically obtains and stores customer contact information, customer paym... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8045966 | Wireless terminal, base device, wireless system, wireless terminal control program, base device control program, and computer-readable storage medium The present invention is a method for establishing and identifying a communication pair in a wireless AV system and provides a system in which notification is provided to a user in a case where a wrong pair that the user does not intend to establish among plural AV ... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8036647 | Vehicle information communication system, management server, on-vehicle device, and vehicle information communication method A vehicle information communication system includes a management server 2 whereby an information terminal 4 connected to a network 1 and an on-vehicle device of the vehicle 5 are in communication with each other; wherein the management se... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8032127 | Announcing information service through broadcasting or multicasting A receiver (FIG. 2) receives IP session announcement signals from a terrestrial digital video broadcasting system. Each IP session announcement (RM) includes information concerning announcements on an immediately lower level as well as information identifying... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8032126 | Mobile communications matching system A wireless communications network comprises a server in a central location storing matching profiles for a plurality of users of the network. The matching profile for each user is stored in the server through the user's mobile unit or a secure page on the Internet. ... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8027668 | Method and system for creating a personalized journal based on collecting links to information and annotating those links for later retrieval A system and method is provided for handling data in wireless communication devices where data may be captured and linked to a personal journal via indexing and mapping of context data tags abstracted from captured data. The captured data may be retrieved by matchin... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8019325 | Podcasting on a mobile phone The field of mobile telephony and, more particularly to accessing podcast content from mobile telephones is disclosed. More precisely, a method and a system for downloading a podcast on a Web server onto a mobile terminal, the method including: | 09/13/2011 |
| 8014764 | Interrogate-response communication system with privacy indication A method of and apparatus for obtaining information about a product or service offering having an associated receiver responsive to an information request or query. The method comprise providing a portable subscriber device linked with a communication network, prese... | 09/06/2011 |
| 7995999 | Methods and systems for delivering travel-related information Methods and systems are provided for delivering travel related information with an intelligent network. One method embodiment includes establishing a communication with the intelligent network through an access device, determining a location of the access device, an... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7995998 | Wireless device with integrated emergency alert notification A telecommunications device for use by a telecommunications user is disclosed. The telecommunications device includes a housing having located therein a wireless telephone for receiving an incoming call and a receiver unit for receiving an emergency alert broadcast.... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7970390 | Mobile communications matching system A wireless communications network comprises a server in a central location storing matching profiles for a plurality of users of the network. The matching profile for each user is stored in the server through the user's mobile unit or a secure page on the Internet. ... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7962128 | Mobile image-based information retrieval system An image-based information retrieval system, including a mobile telephone, a remote recognition server, and a remote media server, the mobile telephone having a built-in camera and a communication link for transmitting an image from the built-in camera to the remote... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7953396 | Reducing latency in push to talk services A method of processing user speech data for transmission to a participant or participants in a Push to talk Over Cellular (PoC) session over a cellular telephone network. The method comprises, detecting an initial period of silence in the initial talk burst of the s... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7949330 | System and method for providing weather warnings and alerts A method is provided for providing weather data to a vehicle comprising the steps of: (a) receiving a broadcast signal containing weather data referenced to a plurality of cells arranged in a grid corresponding to a geographic map; (b) determining the present locati... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7941128 | Data backup system A data backup system includes a mobile device, a data storing apparatus for backup-saving user data used in the mobile device, and a user management apparatus for managing user information about a user using the mobile device, where the device and apparatuses commun... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7925244 | Mobile wireless communication terminals, systems, methods, and computer program products for publishing, sharing and accessing media files A method for publishing and sharing media files includes: making a published media file available to other wireless communication terminals from a publisher wireless communication terminal; establishing a connection via a wireless communication module of the publish... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7912457 | Methods and apparatus for creation and transport of multimedia content flows System for creation and transport of multimedia content flows. The system includes a method for transporting a content flow to a wireless access network for broadcast to devices coupled to the wireless access network. The method includes transmitting a request messa... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7904065 | Serving data/applications from a wireless mobile phone Various methods and apparatuses associated with the serving of data from a wireless mobile phone, including a wireless mobile phone, are described herein. ... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7894803 | Mobile information terminal device, storage, server, and method for providing storage region A user-dedicated storage area (97) of a cellular phone (10) is retained in a storage server (9) on a network (6). Software purchased by a user via a sales server (12) is not transferred directly to the user's cellular phone (10 | 02/22/2011 |
| 7881706 | Communication terminal, server, playback control method and program The communications terminal comprises: a playback device which playbacks content; a reading device which reads in access information recorded on a prescribed recording medium, the access information being necessary for downloading the content which can be played bac... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7877085 | Portable electronic device capable of receiving distributed contents, content information server, and content list providing method for content distribution system and recording medium recording program for providing content list Reception of a list including information on a content not receivable at a current location is avoided in acquiring a multicast content list. A portable terminal searches a wireless base station which can communicate with the portable terminal at a current lo... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7856228 | Measurement, collection, distribution and reporting of atmospheric data For improved reliability and relevancy of reporting of atmospheric condition data, faster access to the data, and more geographically granular collection of data, data pertaining to atmospheric conditions is measured at network towers, collected, managed, distribute... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7826831 | Video based interfaces for video message systems and services The user interface to a video based telecommunications system is enriched by the provision of multi-media user interfaces. The user interface may include active video portions along with instructional audio or may be icons or thumbnails representing available video ... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7817990 | Method of ordering location-specific services A method of ordering location-specific services in which RFID or NFC interaction between an RFID or NFC-enabled portable device or a mobile telephone of a user, on the one hand, and a location and service-specific smartposter comprising at least one RFID or NFC labe... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7813723 | Method and system for connecting a voice call using a domain name database A method for connecting a telephone call includes receiving, at a server, from a communication terminal, a first message including at least one word corresponding to a name of an individual or an organization, wherein the first message is transmitted using an Intern... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7796978 | Communication system for receiving and transmitting data using an acoustic data channel There is described a communication system in which data is received by and/or transmitted to a telecommunications apparatus using an acoustic data channel. In embodiments, the data is encoded within the audio track of a media broadcast or other public broadcast. The... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7773976 | Spam control for sharing content on mobile devices Sharing content among users of mobile devices is facilitated and controlled by a system and method that employs a content sharing application to receive and process requests to share content among users of devices such as mobile devices and personal computers. Recip... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7761089 | Method and system for downloading data A method for downloading high-capacity data of multimedia content data (e.g., MP3, music video, and movie, etc.) in a mobile communication terminal, and a system for implementing the same are disclosed. The method for downloading data in a mobile communication termi... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7756513 | Command and control communications system with sub-networks and interface devices A sub-network device and a method of communicating using a sub-network, interconnect device and a network as a backbone within a communications system includes receiving a request for information at the interconnect device from a wireless communications device to co... | 07/13/2010 |
