Patents by Inventor Christian Thomas Hanner

Christian Thomas Hanner 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).

  • Wireless communication terminals and methods that display relative direction and distance therebetween responsive to acceleration data
    Patent number: 8000721
    Abstract: Wireless communication terminals are disclosed that display the direction and distance between them so that users can, for example, travel away from each other and then later find one another. The terminals are configured to track their movement using acceleration data. Some of the terminals may operate as slave terminals in which they transmit their movement data to a master terminal which determines therefrom the relative direction and distance between the terminals. The master terminal may then transmit the relative direction and distance data to the slave terminals where it can be displayed to their users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2011
    Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB
    Inventor: Christian Thomas Hanner
  • WIRELESS COMMUNICATION TERMINALS AND METHODS THAT DISPLAY RELATIVE DIRECTION AND DISTANCE THEREBETWEEN RESPONSIVE TO ACCELERATION DATA
    Publication number: 20090221298
    Abstract: Wireless communication terminals are disclosed that display the direction and distance between them so that users can, for example, travel away from each other and then later find one another. The terminals are configured to track their movement using acceleration data. Some of the terminals may operate as slave terminals in which they transmit their movement data to a master terminal which determines therefrom the relative direction and distance between the terminals. The master terminal may then transmit the relative direction and distance data to the slave terminals where it can be displayed to their users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 29, 2008
    Publication date: September 3, 2009
    Inventor: Christian Thomas Hanner