Patents by Inventor Jens-Uwe Soehner

Jens-Uwe Soehner has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 10241127
    Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for collecting activity data with a removably attached mobile device. The mobile device may be moved to various holders configured to be used in different activities. The data is collected according to a determined activity. The start and end of a session is automatically detected based on connectivity to the holder. Metrics may be tracked for specific gear, as well as various spans of time such as sessions, seasons, and/or lifetimes. Milestones and highlights may be determined for various combinations of the various activities, gear and/or terms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: HERE Global B.V.
    Inventors: Alistair Adams, Joe Chan, Duncan Burns, Vidyut Samanta, Stephan Scheunig, Clovis Scotti, Jens-Uwe Söhner, James Renwick
  • Publication number: 20070165861
    Abstract: There is disclosed a method for identifying the type of an RFID tag, comprising the steps of receiving encrypted data from said RFID tag, decrypting said data by at least one decryption method, evaluating if said data has been correctly decrypted by said at least one decryption method, and in case said at least one decryption method has succeeded in decrypting said data, deriving a tag type from said decryption method. Further there is disclosed a device for identifying the type of an RFID tag, comprising a radio frequency identification tag reader for receiving data from a radio frequency identification tag, a decryptor for decrypting said data by at least one decryption method, the decryptor being suitable to evaluate if said data has been correctly decrypted by said at least one decryption method, and a data processing unit suitable to derive a tag type from said at least one decryption method and to generate a corresponding output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2003
    Publication date: July 19, 2007
    Inventors: Carmen Kuhl, Markus Schetelig, Jens-Uwe Soehner
  • Publication number: 20050078090
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for indicating available input options of electronic terminal devices by selectively highlighting active inputting means. An electronic terminal device according to one aspect of the invention is able to indicating available input options. Such a terminal device comprises a plurality of user inputting means for inputting a user input, means for highlighting at least one of said inputting means, and means for operating said highlighting means according to said available input options. A device according to the invention can show the user in an input means is available to prevent invalid and frustrating user input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2001
    Publication date: April 14, 2005
    Inventors: Hans-Mathias Glatzer, Amir Imam, Jens-Uwe Soehner, Reza Serafat
  • Publication number: 20050048954
    Abstract: A plurality of users of mobile terminal device connected to a first wireless communication network with one master terminal device and the remaining mobile terminal devices acting as slave terminal devices, the master connected to a service provider via a second communication network, wherein the following steps are carried out: distributing instructional tasks from the master to the slave terminal devices via the first network, receiving responses responsive to the instructional tasks by the users, transmitting the responses from the slave devices to the master device via the first network, transmitting the responses from the master to the service provider via the second network, processing the responses and generating an evaluation for each of the responses by the service provider, and transmitting the evaluations from the service provider to the master device via the second network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2001
    Publication date: March 3, 2005
    Inventors: Udo Gortz, Jens-Uwe Soehner, Wolfgang Theimer, Karsten Lehn, Marcus Pazina, Knut Haberland-Schlosser, Wolfgang Klammer, Frank Zillikens