Patents by Inventor Claus Hoefele

Claus Hoefele 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).

  • Information processing apparatus, method, and information processing program
    Patent number: 7685535
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a display section provided with a screen capable of displaying a content of an application; a user-input processing section for acquiring an instruction input from a user; and a screen-hierarchy control section for managing a screen hierarchical order of each application when contents of a plurality of started applications are displayed in the display section. When one of at least two applications of a plurality out of the applications is set to be a master application and the other of the applications is set to be a slave application, the screen-hierarchy control section disposes and links the slave application at an immediately lower level than that of the master application in the screen hierarchy, and performs screen-hierarchy control such that the master application and the slave application are moved in the screen hierarchy in a state being linked at the time of updating the screen hierarchy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2010
    Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB
    Inventors: Kaneo Todoroki, Claus Hoefele, Tao Qin
  • INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM
    Publication number: 20070240054
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a display section provided with a screen capable of displaying a content of an application; a user-input processing section for acquiring an instruction input from a user; and a screen-hierarchy control section for managing a screen hierarchical order of each application when contents of a plurality of started applications are displayed in the display section. When one of at least two applications of a plurality out of the applications is set to be a master application and the other of the applications is set to be a slave application, the screen-hierarchy control section disposes and links the slave application at an immediately lower level than that of the master application in the screen hierarchy, and performs screen-hierarchy control such that the master application and the slave application are moved in the screen hierarchy in a state being linked at the time of updating the screen hierarchy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2007
    Publication date: October 11, 2007
    Applicant: SONY ERICSSON MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS JAPAN, INC.
    Inventors: Kaneo TODOROKI, Claus Hoefele, Tao Qin