Abstract: “An User Interface provision method involving the use of display state and/or display cells, and apparatuses equipped to practice the method, are described herein.

Abstract: A tactile display layer is provided on a back side of a flexible visual display layer of a display to facilitate selective tactile pushing against different portions of the flexible visual display layer. In one embodiment, the display further includes a sensor circuit to sense user touching of activated ones of tactile pistons of the tactile display layer. In one embodiment, the display further includes a transparent touch sensitive layer disposed on a viewing side of the flexible visual display layer, with its effective touch sensitive area limited to a perimeter area surrounding the effective area of the tactile display layer.

Abstract: A remote control device receives the user interface displays for controlling a primary controllee electronic device from the primary controllee device itself. The remote control device may also receive the user interface displays for controlling an auxiliary controllee electronic device from the primary controllee electronic device, which in one embodiment, generates the user interface displays in response to specifications received from the auxiliary controllee electronic display. A user controls the controlee devices using the user interfaces provided to the remote control device. In response, control commands are provided to the primary controllee electronic device, including commands for the auxiliary controllee device(s). The primary controllee device relays the commands to the auxiliary controllee device(s). Alternatively, commands for the auxiliary controllee devices may be provided to the auxiliary controllee devices directly.

Abstract: In accordance with a first aspect of the present invention, a digital device is provided with a data transmitter designed to receive constituting elements of a data structure, determine occurrence frequency of each unique constituting element in the data structure, assign a cookie representation to each of the unique constituting elements based at least in part on the occurrence frequencies of the unique constituting elements, and transmit the data structure implicitly in a substantively equivalent form that allows a receiver of the data structure in the substantively equivalent form to be able to reconstitute the data structure using the occurrence frequency based cookie representations.

Abstract: A removable medium is equipped with at least a first storage unit, a processor and an interface. The first storage unit includes first programming instructions designed to implement an embedded application. The embedded application is designed to dynamically generate a content in response to a hosting computing device accessing the removable medium to retrieve the content. The processor is coupled to the first storage unit to execute the first programming instructions, and the interface facilitates attachment of the removable medium to the host computing device, access of the removable medium by the host computing device and return of the content to the host computing device.