Patents Examined by Christopher Kohlman
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Patent number: 8805417Abstract: A dynamic contact list for a mobile device presents address book contacts in varying arrangements based on external factors. The mobile device may receive a request to display a contact list and may retrieve a sort procedure for the contact list. The sort procedure may be based on a user's prior selections from a group of contact sort rules. The mobile device may retrieve a list of contact identifiers and other information associated with each contact identifier that is applicable to the sort procedure. The mobile device may then apply the sort procedure to the list of contact identifiers and to the information associated with each contact identifier so as to displaying a sorted list of contact identifiers based on the applied sort procedure.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2009Date of Patent: August 12, 2014Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventor: Joel S. Angiolillo
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Patent number: 8791886Abstract: An organic light emitting display device includes a DC-DC converter that is capable of reducing power consumption by increasing efficiency. The DC-DC converter includes: a variable resistor; an oscillator configured to output a frequency control signal having a frequency corresponding to a resistance value of the variable resistor; a booster configured to receive the control signal and to output a first power by switching an input voltage in accordance with the control signal; and an inverter configured to receive the control signal and to generate a second power by switching and inverting the input voltage in accordance with the control signal.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2010Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Su-Yeon Yun, Sung-Cheon Park
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Patent number: 8791882Abstract: A display device of active matrix type allows reducing display brightness non-uniformity that is caused by initial variation and fluctuation over time in a driving transistor for emissive elements in pixel circuits. The display device includes pixel circuits, a measurement circuit and a gradation voltage supplying circuit. Each pixel circuit includes the driving transistor and an input circuit. The measurement circuit includes a constant current supplying circuit for generating and supplying one or more constant currents to the input circuit of the pixel circuits in a time division manner. The measurement circuit A/D-converts output voltages of the constant current supplying circuit and calculates data relating to electron mobility and threshold value of the driving transistor. The gradation voltage supplying circuit supplies to the pixel circuits a corrected gradation voltage, which is data corrected on the basis of data calculated from the measurement circuit.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2008Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Nobuhiko Tsuji
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Patent number: 8774835Abstract: This disclosure details the implementation of methods, systems and computer program products for remote business contact identification (hereinafter, “RBCI”). RBCI systems implement a remote business identification application whereby users may submit rich media including indicative information of at least one target business entity to a RBCI service provider, and the service provider may identify the target business entity within its database and return the contact information of the target business entity to the user instantly.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2009Date of Patent: July 8, 2014Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventor: Tanya D Cherifi
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Patent number: 8766883Abstract: The present innovation provides a system for driving an OLED pixel that includes an arrangement for driving the OLED pixel in a voltage mode and an arrangement for driving the OLED pixel in a current mode. The system includes an arrangement for switching between the voltage mode and the current mode. When a selected luminance for the OLED pixel is high, the voltage mode may be selected by the switching arrangement, and when the selected luminance for the OLED pixel is low, the current mode may be selected by the switching arrangement. A driver circuit for an OLED pixel is provided. A method of driving an OLED pixel is provided that includes driving the OLED pixel in a voltage mode when a selected luminance for the OLED pixel is high. A computer-readable medium is provided having stored thereon computer-executable instructions that cause a processor to perform a method when executed.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2010Date of Patent: July 1, 2014Assignee: eMagin CorporationInventors: Ihor Wacyk, Olivier Prache
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Patent number: 8723818Abstract: A touch screen position sensor has two sets of electrodes, where at least one of the electrodes is divided into segments that are arranged on opposing faces of a substrate. The electrode segments on one face of a substrate do not overlap with the electrode segments on the opposing face of the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2010Date of Patent: May 13, 2014Assignee: Atmel CorporationInventor: David Brent Guard
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Patent number: 8718652Abstract: The present invention provides a method for implementation in user equipment that is configured to communicate with a wireless communication system that includes a macro-cell and a plurality of femtocells that are deployed in a cluster. The method includes providing a call connection request from the user equipment to one of a subset of the plurality of femtocells and receiving information identifying the subset of the femtocells as a femtocell cluster associated with the user equipment. The method also includes receiving information indicating locations of each of the femtocells in the femtocell cluster. The method further includes storing the information identifying the femtocells in the femtocell cluster and the information indicating the locations in the user equipment.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2008Date of Patent: May 6, 2014Assignee: Alcatel LucentInventors: Suat Eskicioglu, Cristian Demetrescu
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Patent number: 8674960Abstract: A detector circuit and detect method of a capacitive touch panel conditionally abort sensing of useless traces of the capacitive touch panel when the capacitive touch panel senses the traces thereof. For a selected trace, the trace voltage thereof is sampled to be compared with a threshold voltage. If the sampled voltage is lower than the threshold voltage, the sensing of this trace is aborted and thus the operation of the detector circuit is reduced to improve the performance of the capacitive touch panel.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2010Date of Patent: March 18, 2014Assignee: Elan Microelectronics CorporationInventors: Chia-Hsing Lin, Yi-Hsin Tao, Hsuan-Wen Tseng
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Patent number: 8669923Abstract: A pixel includes: an OLED; a first transistor having a first electrode coupled to a power source and a second electrode coupled to the OLED and configured to control a magnitude of current supplied to the OLED; a third transistor having a first electrode coupled a first node and a second electrode coupled to a gate electrode of the first transistor; a capacitor coupled between the first node and a second electrode of the first transistor; a second transistor having a first electrode coupled to the first node and a second electrode coupled to a data line and configured to be turned on when the third transistor is turned off; and a fourth transistor having a first electrode coupled to a gate electrode of the first transistor and a second electrode coupled to a reference power source and configured to be turned on and off concurrently with the second transistor.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2010Date of Patent: March 11, 2014Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: In-Ho Choi, Yong-Sung Park, Deok-Young Choi, Soon-Sung Ahn, Chul-Kyu Kang
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Patent number: 8669969Abstract: A scan driver includes a plurality of stages. Each of the plurality of stages includes an odd-numbered scan unit, an even-numbered scan unit, and a signal shift unit. The scan driver can selectively perform progressive scan and interlaced scan by varying logic levels of mode signals and clock signals applied to the stages.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2010Date of Patent: March 11, 2014Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kyung-Hoon Chung
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Patent number: 8630642Abstract: A method of handling proximity information transmission for a mobile device having a closed subscriber group (CSG) whitelist capable of providing a list of accessible CSG cells in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method comprises sending the proximity information to a network of the wireless communication system when a CSG cell in the CSG whitelist is detected, and resending the proximity information to the network when the proximity information is not received by the network.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2010Date of Patent: January 14, 2014Assignee: HTC CorporationInventor: Chih-Hsiang Wu
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Patent number: 8630628Abstract: A calling method for performing a video phone call including: establishing a bearer of a video phone call between a calling terminal and a Multimedia Ring Back Tone (MRBT) device; playing, by the MRBT device, a MRBT to the calling terminal via the bearer between the calling terminal and the MRBT device; sending, by a MSC server of the calling terminal, a prompt message to the calling terminal; removing the bearer between the calling terminal and the MRBT device upon receiving the prompt message; establishing another bearer of the video phone call between the calling terminal and a called terminal; and performing a video phone call communication between the calling terminal and the called terminal via the bearer between the calling terminal and the called terminal. The present invention also provides the corresponding systems, thereby realizing the Multimedia Ring Back Tone service of a video phone call.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2011Date of Patent: January 14, 2014Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jian Yang, Guoqiao Chen, Lei Wang
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Patent number: 8629847Abstract: There is provided an information processing device that includes: a display portion that displays a plurality of function buttons that respectively correspond to a plurality of functions included in the information processing device; a position detection portion that detects a position where an operating body touches or approaches a display screen of the display portion; a button selection portion that selects, from among the plurality of function buttons, at least one function button that corresponds to an operation state of the information processing device; and a display control portion that causes the function button selected by the button selection portion to move on the display screen such that the function button approaches the position on the display screen detected by the position detection portion.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2010Date of Patent: January 14, 2014Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Koji Arai, Akiko Terayama, Ryo Takaoka, QiHong Wang, Satoshi Akagawa
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Patent number: 8620255Abstract: Techniques for routing an emergency call originated by a mobile station via a femto access point (FAP) in a wireless network and for locating the mobile station are described. In an aspect, the emergency call may be routed to an appropriate emergency center based on location information for the FAP. In one design, the location information for the FAP may include a macro cell identity (ID) and/or a macro Mobile Switching Center (MSC) ID determined based on the FAP location. The macro cell ID and/or the macro MSC ID may be assigned to the FAP and used to access a database, which may store routing information for emergency centers versus cell IDs and MSC IDs. In another design, the location information for the FAP may include a location estimate for the FAP. The location estimate may be used to access a geographic database, which may store routing information for emergency centers for different geographic areas.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2009Date of Patent: December 31, 2013Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Stephen W. Edge, Kirk Allan Burroughs
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Patent number: 8615257Abstract: With the addition of directional information and gesture based input in a location based services environment, a variety of service(s) can be provided on top of user identification or interaction with specific object(s) of interest. For instance, a device can interact with various endpoints of a direction-based location service and any of the content or other information exchanged between clients and services can be synchronized for efficient exchange of information and efficient utilization of network bandwidth and resources. For example, change input is received by a device that alters, deletes or augments dynamically updateable information associated with a point of interest and the changes resulting from the change input are synchronized from the mobile device to a location based network service. Optionally, the synchronization can be according to a knowledge exchange to identify what should be synchronized prior to transmitting the updates.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2012Date of Patent: December 24, 2013Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Moe Khosravy, Lev Novik
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Patent number: 8576184Abstract: An approach is presented for browsing content files. The data manager determines to present a file at a device. Further, the data manager receives an input for selecting one or more of elements of metadata associated with the file based, at least in part, on the presentation of the file. Then, the data manager determines to select one or more other files based, at least in part, on the input.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2010Date of Patent: November 5, 2013Assignee: Nokia CorporationInventors: Juha Henrik Arrasvuori, Elina Maria Inkeri Ollila, Mika Antero Rautava, Olli Esa Immonen, Guido Peter Grassel, Ari Antero Aarnio
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Patent number: 8565716Abstract: Devices, systems and methods are disclosed which relate to a telecommunications network, including a mobile network device, wherein, upon an event, a mobile network device enters a mode of operation defined as a sleep mode interrupted by periodic transmissions of a plurality of mobile network device and user information. Such a mode is referred to throughout this disclosure as an “emergency mode of operation” of the mobile network device. The plurality of mobile network device and user information includes information regarding a location of the mobile network device, a level of threat facing its user, the user's surroundings, etc. Events which trigger the mode of operation include a network command, user interaction, etc.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2008Date of Patent: October 22, 2013Assignee: AT&T Mobility II LLCInventor: Casey Bragg
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Patent number: 8526924Abstract: Many mobile devices can access websites on the Internet. A mobile device running a web server application can host websites and provide services. For a first mobile device to access services on a second mobile device, the first mobile device needs the IP address of the second mobile device. The first mobile device sends a connection request to the second mobile device. The first mobile device receives, from the second mobile device, the network address of the second mobile device, identification of services that are available on the second mobile device, and a security token. The first mobile device selects a service and sends an HTTP or HTTPS request for the service to the network address of the second mobile device, and also sends the security token. The second mobile device authenticates the request based on the token and allows the first mobile device to access the selected service.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2009Date of Patent: September 3, 2013Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.Inventors: Brandon C. Annan, Dhananjay Indurkar, John M. Jones, III
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Patent number: 8519924Abstract: Aspects of the invention can provide an image display device, including a liquid crystal panel used to display an image, a light source, a light transmission unit that can make a light from the light source pass through pixels only for a predetermined length of time within a frame cycle of the image, a drive signal-generating unit that can generate a drive signal to periodically vibrate a transmissivity of each pixel of the liquid crystal panel, and a phase control unit that can control in phase the drive signal based on tone data carried by an image signal.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2005Date of Patent: August 27, 2013Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Hiroshi Hasegawa
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Patent number: 8498657Abstract: A system is provided for user interface update signaling. The system includes a user interface that executes on a mobile device, a signaling server, and a background application. The signaling server receives an update from a third party application and sends at least some of the update to the mobile device. The background application executes on the mobile device, receives the at least some of the update, and stores the at least some of the update in a file in the mobile device. The background application also provides a uniform resource locator that specifies where the file is located to the user interface to enable the user interface to display the at least some of the update.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2009Date of Patent: July 30, 2013Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.Inventors: Jason R. Delker, John M. Everson, Sei Y. Ng, Jason K. Whitney