Abstract: To update an industrial automation device, the industrial automation device may comprise electronic part-powered unit for connecting wirelessly to a low-power wide area network, said electronic part-powered unit comprising first identification information in the low-power wide area network and being arranged at least to receive data addressed to the first identification information and store the data received. The industrial automation device may also comprise a control unit for updating, in response to connecting the industrial automation device to the electrical network, one or more features in the industrial automation device by the data received.

Abstract: A mobile phone and related method for providing hinting capabilities in the mobile telephone is presented which makes a user aware of one or more next possible sub-operational functionalities available for user selection in a selected operational functionality. Control and alphanumeric keys associated with the available functionalities are identified to hint at next possible sub-functionalities available for selection wherein the keys are identified by lighting or shown as icon representations on the display of the mobile phone or tones to suggest to the user that operation of the key is related to the given operational context and sequence progression step in the selected desired operational functionality.

Abstract: A mobile device, system, method, and software for communicating with the internet utilizing a written universal resource locator (URL). A camera unit is used to receive a raw visual light image containing a written URL, the raw visual light image is converted to an electronic image, and the device locates glyphs of at least one particular standardized set of URL characters in the electronic image, for example glyphs corresponding to www. Then the URL characters are extracted from the electronic image, the URL is sent in a request signal to a web server, and in response an internet site is presented. The mobile device includes initiation means for sending an instruction to obtain a raw visual light image that includes glyphs of at least one particular set of characters, such as www, and further includes a camera, a display, and an internet interface. The mobile device processes an electronic image signal provided by the camera, in order to obtain the web site signal from the internet interface.

Abstract: A wireless terminal (10) (and associated method) for protecting pictures (11a, 11b) stored in the wireless terminal for use in messages communicated via a wireless communication system. The wireless terminal includes a picture manager (10) that embeds a predetermined tag (12) in a picture (11a) indicating whether or not the picture is editable (using the picture manager), according to commands by the user after creating the picture.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for extending the functionality of a message according to a predetermined message format, such as the Short Message Service (SMS) format, communicated at least in part via a wireless communication system, the method including the steps of: determining a number of bits to be used for conveying extension data indicating instructions associated with displaying the message; defining the information to be conveyed by each bit; and inserting the extension data into the message at the end of a user data field of the message. The method thus provides an extension to the messaging according to the predetermined format, an extension that is effective for mobile terminals adapted to interpret the extension data but that does not prevent mobile terminals not so adapted from displaying the message without regard for the instructions indicated by the extension data.

Abstract: A wireless terminal (and associated method) for communicating pictures via a wireless communication system. The pictures can be either maintained in the wireless terminal in galleries, each gallery including typically up to eight pictures, or the pictures can be stand-alone pictures. When maintained in galleries and stored in non-volatile memory of the wireless terminal, in an electronic folder, the pictures are termed clip-art pictures. The invention allows sending an entire gallery at a time as, among other formats, a single so-called Graphical Messaging System (GMS) picture (18×72 pixels). The invention also allows sending individual clip-art pictures in a message including text, actually in-line with the text of the message or indicating where in the text the clip-art pictures would appear in a wireless terminal adapted to the invention. In addition, the invention provides a picture editor allowing a user to create or edit either a clip-art or a standalone picture.