Patents Assigned to Patent Navigation
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Patent number: 9639723Abstract: A RFID tag includes logic to compare information in a received signal with conditional response criteria, and to respond to the received signal with an RFID only if the information satisfies the conditional response criteria.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2014Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: Patent NavigationInventors: John M Kellum, James A Billmaier, David P Billmaier
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Patent number: 9569772Abstract: A PIN server system interacts with one or more financial institutions to authenticate a mobile phone and-or a user thereof. The PIN server provides to the mobile phone one or more PIN numbers to use in financial transactions involving the one or more financial institutions, and also provides the one or more PIN numbers to the financial institutions in a manner that results in the one or more PIN numbers being associated with one or more accounts of the mobile phone user with the one or more financial institutions.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2006Date of Patent: February 14, 2017Assignee: Patent Navigation IncInventor: Edward Flinchem
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Patent number: 8994533Abstract: A RFID tag includes an RF transceiver; logic to operate the RF transceiver to respond to a received signal with a unique radio frequency id; logic to compare information in the received signal with conditional response criteria; and logic to determine if data has been received and written into a writable memory area by the RFID tag, and to respond to the received signal only if the data has been received and stored in the writable memory area and matches the conditional response criteria.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2007Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: Patent Navigation, Inc.Inventors: James A. Billmaier, John M. Kellum, David P. Billmaier
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Patent number: 8892131Abstract: Providing a map and/or directions to a visitor to a facility may include and/or involve a wireless communication device signaling its presence at a location in a facility, and communicating to the wireless communication device a map of the facility indicating the location. This may include and/or involve communicating to the wireless device directions to and/or from the location to a destination within the facility.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2012Date of Patent: November 18, 2014Assignee: Patent Navigation Inc.Inventors: James A Billmaier, David P Billmaier, John M Kellum
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Patent number: 8688170Abstract: A device accessible via a wireless service network includes logic to receive digital frames from a wireless communication device, to identify digital frames that are suitable tiles for a digital panorama, to create a digital panorama from the identified frames, and to associate the panorama with one or more locations on a digital map.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2007Date of Patent: April 1, 2014Assignee: Patent Navigation, IncInventors: James A. Billmaier, John M. Kellum, David P. Billmaier
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Publication number: 20130138344Abstract: Providing a map and/or directions to a visitor to a facility may include and/or involve a wireless communication device signaling its presence at a location in a facility, and communicating to the wireless communication device a map of the facility indicating the location. This may include and/or involve communicating to the wireless device directions to and/or from the location to a destination within the facility.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 6, 2012Publication date: May 30, 2013Applicant: Patent Navigation Inc.Inventors: James A. Billmaier, David P. Billmaier, John M. Kellum
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Publication number: 20120319649Abstract: “A charging station for electric vehicles receives customer bids on a charging time interval allotment, compares the customer bids, and supplies electric current from the charging station to a plurality of electric vehicles allocated to each electric vehicle according to the bids.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2012Publication date: December 20, 2012Applicant: Patent Navigation Inc.Inventor: James A. Billmaier
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Publication number: 20120313434Abstract: “A circuit breaker interfaces with a power rail of an electric service panel. The circuit breaker monitors a total present electric current consumption value for electric consumers served by the service panel and not served by the circuit breaker. It compares the present electric current consumption value with a preset maximum current capacity limit, and supplies current to an electric consumer at a level less than a difference between the maximum current capacity limit and a sum of the total present electric current consumption value and a preset current consumption value for an electric consumer coupled to the service panel but that is presently not drawing current.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2012Publication date: December 13, 2012Applicant: Patent Navigation Inc.Inventor: James A. Billmaier
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Patent number: 8331861Abstract: A mobile device wirelessly detects another device that is proximate. The mobile device provides to the other device identifications of which content from a particular content source is stored by the mobile device. The mobile device provides to the other device content from the particular source that is stored by the mobile device but not the other device, and receives from the other device content from the particular source that is stored by the other device but not by the mobile device, so that upon conclusion of an interaction between the mobile device and the other device, each device comprises all of the content from the particular content source originally comprised en toto between the two devices.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2006Date of Patent: December 11, 2012Assignee: Patent Navigation, Inc.Inventor: Edward Flinchem
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Patent number: 8190196Abstract: A wireless service network includes logic to receive one or more requests for temporary dialable numbers from wireless devices, and logic to determine temporary wireless numbers and to provide the temporary wireless numbers to the wireless devices in response to the requests.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2006Date of Patent: May 29, 2012Assignee: Patent Navigation Inc.Inventors: James A Billmaier, John M Kellum, Kristopher C Billmaier, David P Billmaier
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Patent number: 8185133Abstract: Providing a map and/or directions to a visitor to a facility may include and/or involve a wireless communication device signaling its presence at a location in a facility, and communicating to the wireless communication device a map of the facility indicating the location. This may include and/or involve communicating to the wireless device directions to and/or from the location to a destination within the facility.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2007Date of Patent: May 22, 2012Assignee: Patent Navigation Inc.Inventors: James A Billmaier, David P Billmaier, John M Kellum
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Publication number: 20110221393Abstract: An electric vehicle charging system includes logic collocated with an electric service panel to monitor a total present electric current consumption value for all electric consumers below a point in the service panel; a first input to receive the present electric current consumption value from the logic collocated with the service panel, and to compare the present electric current consumption value with a maximum current capacity value for the service panel; a second input to receive electric current from the service panel; an output to supply electric charging power to at least one electric vehicle; and logic to set an electric charging current drawn from the service panel through the second input and provided to the electric vehicle charging output to a value less than a difference between the maximum current capacity for the service panel and a sum of the present electric current consumption value and the current consumption value of a largest expected electric consumer.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2011Publication date: September 15, 2011Applicant: Patent Navigation Inc.Inventor: James A. Billmaier
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Publication number: 20110169622Abstract: A mobile communication device and/or the network by which it communicates may comprise logic to associate a specific vibration pattern to aspects of an outgoing call. The vibration pattern may be associated with one or more of an urgency, seriousness, or humorousness of the outgoing call, or with aspects of the information in the call such as font, style, color, punctuation, or symbols such as emoticons.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2010Publication date: July 14, 2011Applicant: Patent Navigation Inc.Inventors: James A. Billmaier, Kristopher C. Billmaier
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Publication number: 20080268920Abstract: A mobile communication device may include one or more sensors to detect shaking and/or swinging of the device when the device is in a low-power or power-down mode. The device may include logic to determine if shaking and/or swinging occurred within an interval of time after the device was used, and logic to remove the device from low power or power down mode (and thus initiate a power-up mode) if shaking and/or swinging occurred within the interval of time after the device was used.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2008Publication date: October 30, 2008Applicant: Patent Navigation Inc.Inventors: Kristopher C. Billmaier, John M. Kellum, James A. Billmaier, David P. Billmaier
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Publication number: 20080197983Abstract: A RFID tag includes logic to compare information in a received signal with conditional response criteria, and to respond to the received signal with an RFID only if the information satisfies the conditional response criteria.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2007Publication date: August 21, 2008Applicant: Patent Navigation Inc.Inventors: James A. Billmaier, John M. Kellum, David P. Billmaier
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Publication number: 20080048857Abstract: An RFID tag includes a writable memory, and a sensor coupled to persistently affect the writable memory when one or more environmental factors define one or more events of interest.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2007Publication date: February 28, 2008Applicant: Patent Navigation Inc.Inventors: Kristopher Billmaier, James Billmaier, David Billmaier, John Kellum
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Publication number: 20080045245Abstract: Generating a map may include and/or involve detecting a location of a mobile wireless device associated with a first person, communicating information about the location of the wireless device to a network location where the information is applied to identify the location on a map, and communicating the map via the network to a second person associated with the first person.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2007Publication date: February 21, 2008Applicant: Patent Navigation Inc.Inventors: James A. Billmaier, David A. Billmaier, John M. Kellum
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Publication number: 20080046367Abstract: Authenticating/authorizing a transaction may include and/or involve detecting a location of a person, detecting a location of a transaction associated with the person, and signaling a communication device carried by the person when the location of the person and the location of the transaction are substantially different.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2007Publication date: February 21, 2008Applicant: Patent Navigation Inc.Inventors: James A. Billmaier, David P. Billmaier, John M. Kellum
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Publication number: 20080045243Abstract: Providing a map and/or directions to a visitor to a facility may include and/or involve a wireless communication device signaling its presence at a location in a facility, and communicating to the wireless communication device a map of the facility indicating the location. This may include and/or involve communicating to the wireless device directions to and/or from the location to a destination within the facility.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2007Publication date: February 21, 2008Applicant: Patent Navigation Inc.Inventors: James A. Billmaier, David P. Billmaier, John M. Kellum
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Publication number: 20080029608Abstract: A transaction card may include a first biometric sensor and logic to activate a transaction session for the card upon authenticating a biometric input. The card may further include logic to deactivate the transaction card upon expiration of the transaction session.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2007Publication date: February 7, 2008Applicant: Patent Navigation Inc.Inventors: John Kellum, Kristopher Billmaier, David Billmaier, James Billmaier