Patents by Inventor Manuel BINNA

Manuel BINNA 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).

  • Method, computer program product and system for switching application programs
    Patent number: 9582318
    Abstract: In a processor-controlled multimedia terminal connected to a processor-controlled multimedia docking device, a group of application programs is stored and made available for execution. The application programs can run on the multimedia terminal in the foreground or background. Only one application program of the group is executed in the foreground at one time. An application program can output data via a graphical user interface while running in the foreground. While running in the background, however, an application program cannot output data via the graphical user interface. In the multimedia terminal, a memory area is also provided, to which the application programs have read and write access during execution thereof. An application-specific data set is stored in the memory area for each application program, the data set remaining in the memory area even after the respective application program has ended.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Tobias Schroepf, Michael Huebler, Andreas Netzmann, Manuel Binna
  • Method, Computer Program Product and System for Switching Application Programs
    Publication number: 20160371114
    Abstract: In a processor-controlled multimedia terminal connected to a processor-controlled multimedia docking device, a group of application programs is stored and made available for execution. The application programs can run on the multimedia terminal in the foreground or background. Only one application program of the group is executed in the foreground at one time. An application program can output data via a graphical user interface while running in the foreground. While running in the background, however, an application program cannot output data via the graphical user interface. In the multimedia terminal, a memory area is also provided, to which the application programs have read and write access during execution thereof. An application-specific data set is stored in the memory area for each application program, the data set remaining in the memory area even after the respective application program has ended.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2015
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Inventors: Tobias SCHROEPF, Michael HUEBLER, Andreas NETZMANN, Manuel BINNA