Patents Represented by Attorney Snyder, Clark, Lesch and Chung, LLP
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Patent number: 8088074Abstract: A monitoring device may include logic to receive arterial blood pressure data associated with a patient and receive tissue hemoglobin data associated with the patient. The logic may also calculate a linear correlation between the arterial blood pressure data and the tissue hemoglobin data. The correlation may be used to assess vascular reactivity.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2010Date of Patent: January 3, 2012Assignees: Raba Equity Partners II, LLC, The Johns Hopkins UniversityInventors: Robert A. Baruch, Ken M. Brady
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Patent number: 8078468Abstract: A device may identify terms in a speech signal using speech recognition. The device may further retain one or more of the identified terms by comparing them to a set of words and send the retained terms and information associated with the retained terms to a remote device. The device may also receive messages that are related to the retained terms and to the information associated with the retained terms from the remote device.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2007Date of Patent: December 13, 2011Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications ABInventors: Mans Folke Markus Andreasson, Per Emil Astrand, Erik Johan Vendel Backlund
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Patent number: 8078896Abstract: A device may enter a first active state associated with a device, exit the first active state and entering a sleep state associated with the device when user input is not received within a inactivity period, receive a first user input at the device during the sleep state, measure an elapsed time between a start of the sleep state and the first user input, and increase the inactivity period of the device when the elapsed time is less than a particular threshold.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2009Date of Patent: December 13, 2011Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications ABInventor: David Karlsson
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Patent number: 8077915Abstract: A device may obtain tracking information of a face or a head of a user, determine a position and orientation of the user, and determine a direction of focus of the user based on the tracking information, the position, and the orientation. In addition, the device may retrieve information associated with a location at which the user focused.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2007Date of Patent: December 13, 2011Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications ABInventor: Ola Karl Thorn
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Patent number: 8072905Abstract: A device may include a network interface through which the device communicates with a media device in a local network. The device may include a processor to detect whether the device receives a call, determine whether the device is within a predetermined range of the media device based on communication between the device and the media device, and send a message to the media device via the network interface to request the media device to reduce an audio output of the media device when the device is within the predetermined range of the media device and when the device has received the call.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2008Date of Patent: December 6, 2011Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications ABInventors: Olle Haff, Max Cahne
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Patent number: 8068605Abstract: A device may include logic configured to process a request for a keypad layout, and to provide a keypad layout via keypad display in response to the processed request.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2007Date of Patent: November 29, 2011Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications ABInventor: Per Holmberg
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Patent number: 8068798Abstract: A wireless terminal includes an RF transceiver, an auto tuner, and an antenna. When a remote signal is received at the wireless terminal, the auto tuner is adjusted in accordance with the received signal to optimize OTA performance of the wireless terminal. As further remote signals are received by the wireless terminal, the tuner is readjusted. As a user inputs information to be transmitted, the tuner is also readjusted in accordance with the transmission signals to optimize OTA performance of the wireless terminal, and a best compromise between the TX OTA performance and the RX OTA performance is calculated. Current/temperature information may also be obtained for readjusting the tuner.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2008Date of Patent: November 29, 2011Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications ABInventors: Bruce E. Wilcox, Mete Ozkar, Kerrance L. Carpenter
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Patent number: 8068809Abstract: A method is performed by a device that includes a display and a communication application. The method includes identifying a reward criterion for communication activities using the communication application, receiving an indication of a communication activity, and recording the indication of the communication activity with a cumulative total of communication activities. The method also includes presenting, on the display, a graphic representation of the cumulative total of communication activities, where the cumulative total of communication activities is presented in relation to the reward criterion.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2009Date of Patent: November 29, 2011Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications ABInventor: Elizabeth Marie Lestreus
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Patent number: 8054966Abstract: A communication device is provided that includes a speaker for outputting a ringing signal, a microphone for receiving the ringing signal, and logic configured to analyze the spectral content of the received ringing signal and adjust noise reduction parameters and echo cancellation parameters based on the analyzed spectral content of the received ringing signal.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2006Date of Patent: November 8, 2011Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications ABInventors: Fredrik Stenmark, Per Hiselius, Stefan Gustavsson
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Patent number: 8046023Abstract: A mobile communication device includes a processor to identify a direction related to the geo-positioning signals; a display including a pre-defined shape to indicate the direction related to the geo-positioning signals, where the pre-defined shape is exhibited when an optical property of the pre-defined shape is altered; and a power source to supply voltage to the pre-defined shape, where the optical property of the pre-defined shape is altered by a burst of voltage.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2008Date of Patent: October 25, 2011Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications ABInventors: Stefan Sorensson, Martin Wezowski
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Patent number: 8022890Abstract: A quadrifilar helix antenna used to transmit and receive wireless signals may include a number of inductively loaded antenna elements. The antenna elements may be helically wound around a cylindrical structure.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2007Date of Patent: September 20, 2011Assignee: Mobile Satellite Ventures, LPInventor: Probir K. Bondyopadhyay
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Patent number: 8018885Abstract: A device may include logic to enter a power savings mode and wirelessly transmit a first synchronization packet to a remote device within a first transmission time slot in a first power savings cycle, the first synchronization packet including a code that is a member of a set consisting of a predetermined number of codes. In addition, the logic may be configured to sleep after transmitting the first synchronization packet to save energy, awake at a first receive time slot in the first power savings cycle, and receive a reply synchronization packet, the reply synchronization packet including a code is that is a member of the set from the remote device. The logic may be further configured to sleep until a start of a second power savings cycle that follows the first power savings cycle to save energy.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2008Date of Patent: September 13, 2011Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications ABInventor: Jacobus Cornelis Haartsen
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Patent number: 8014721Abstract: 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 contained near field communication (NFC) device, is responsive to operation mode identifier data received from the NFC device during near field communication with an external establishment to change operation from an initial mode to the operation mode linked to the received data.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2008Date of Patent: September 6, 2011Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications ABInventor: Phillip Marc Johnson
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Patent number: 8010338Abstract: A method for dynamically modifying an outgoing message language includes receiving a message from a sender. A language associated with the received message is identified and an outgoing message language is automatically set to the identified language associated with the received message.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2006Date of Patent: August 30, 2011Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications ABInventor: Ola Karl Thörn
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Patent number: 7999797Abstract: A device may receive measurements from an accelerometer in relation to a tap on a surface. The device may process the measurements to obtain a signal that indicates an occurrence of the tap on the surface and may produce the location of the tap based on the processed measurements.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2006Date of Patent: August 16, 2011Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications ABInventors: Hanna Mia Selma Edpalm, Mats Bornmyr
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Patent number: 7996015Abstract: A mobile device a location module configured to determine a location of the mobile device, a controller configured to tag content with a creation location of the mobile device when the content is created using the mobile device, and memory configured to store the tagged content. The controller is configured to sort the tagged content based upon the creation location with respect to a specific location. Also, a mobile device is provided that includes a location module configured to determine a location of the mobile device, a controller configured to tag content with a receipt location of the mobile device when the content is received by the mobile device, and memory configured to store the tagged content.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2008Date of Patent: August 9, 2011Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications ABInventor: L. Scott Bloebaum
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Patent number: 7991285Abstract: A device may receive a background image, capture the background image, receive a subject image, modify the background image, superimpose the modified background image on the subject image to obtain a composite image, display the composite image, and capture the subject image.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2008Date of Patent: August 2, 2011Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications ABInventor: Kally Shi Yi Tan
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Patent number: 7982131Abstract: A cable includes a sheath extending a length of the cable. The cable further includes a flexible wire disposed within the sheath that runs a substantial portion of the length of the cable. The wire acts to fold the cable in a pre-defined configuration. In some implementations, the cable also includes magnets disposed on or within the sheath. The magnets act to fold the cable in the pre-defined configuration in conjunction with the flexible wire.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2006Date of Patent: July 19, 2011Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications ABInventors: Gustav Nils Fagrenius, Fredrik Sven Rune Palmqvist, Martin Johan Wedel, Magnus Carl Waldt, Tina Eva Rålin, Ola Sten Håkansson
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Patent number: 7982846Abstract: A device display includes a light guide with an optical fiber embedded in an optically transparent material, a pixel array that has a pixel aligned with a first end of the optical fiber, and a reflective mechanism provided at a second end of the optical fiber. The reflective mechanism is capable of reflecting light, received by the pixel, back to the pixel via the optical fiber.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2010Date of Patent: July 19, 2011Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications ABInventors: Mats Kleverman, Gunnar Klinghult, Mats Wernersson
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Patent number: 7970119Abstract: A device may retrieve a ring tone, an image, and a visual effect from a database based on a client line identifier. In addition, the device may generate frequency samples based on the ring tone, may transform the image based on the frequency samples and the visual effect, and may display the transformed image.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2006Date of Patent: June 28, 2011Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications ABInventor: Anders Ericson