Abstract: Methods and systems for transferring an object from a sending device to a recipient comprises determining at least one catching device associated with the recipient for receiving the object; receiving on the sending device a user gesture representing a flick of a displayed object; transferring the object from the sending device directly to the catching device of the recipient when the catching device is in proximity of the sending device; and when the catching device is not in proximity of the sending device, transferring the object to a server for forwarding the object to the recipient.

Abstract: Methods and systems for transferring an object from a sending device to a recipient comprises determining at least one catching device associated with the recipient for receiving the object; receiving on the sending device a user gesture representing a flick of a displayed object; transferring the object from the sending device directly to the catching device of the recipient when the catching device is in proximity of the sending device; and when the catching device is not in proximity of the sending device, transferring the object to a server for forwarding the object to the recipient.

Abstract: A hand held electronic device having at least two displays is disclosed. At least one display is a direct-view display, like those on most cell phones or PDAs in use in 2001, for viewing at normal reading distance of approximately 12 to 24 inches (“arms'-length” viewing). At least one of the other displays is a microdisplay, a tiny display with magnifying optical elements, for viewing larger, higher-resolution images when the microdisplay is positioned close to the eye. The invention allows coordinating microdisplays and direct-view displays in ways that allow people to comfortably access and interact with full-page Web content on pocket-size devices.

Abstract: The invention comprises a hand-held device with multiple keys on its face (“face-keys”) and with one or more buttons on its side (“side-buttons”). A user types a character (or invokes a function) by pressing one of the face-keys using a finger on the hand that is not holding the device while simultaneously holding in combinations of the side-buttons with fingers on the hand that is holding the device. Pressing a face-key without holding in any of the side-keys produces a given character (or function). Pressing the same face-key while simultaneously holding in a given combination of the side-keys can result in a different character (or function). The invention allows for faster typing of text on cell phone handsets and other hand-held devices.

Abstract: This invention provides a hand-held electronic device that enables users to comfortably view large high-resolution content on the device while still being able to easily interact with that content and with the device's other functions. The device includes two displays in the device. One is a microdisplay for viewing the large high-resolution images when the microdisplay is held near the eye, and a traditional “direct-view” display like those found on most cell phones today for viewing lower resolution text or images when the phone handset is held at normal or arms' length reading distance. The two displays should be positioned close to one another and in the same line of sight, so that transitioning between near-to-eye viewing of the microdisplay and arms'-length viewing of the direct-view display is a simple matter of moving the device nearer or further from the eye in a straight line.

Abstract: A hand held electronic device having at least two displays is disclosed. At least one display is a direct-view display, like those on most cell phones or PDAS in use in 2001, for viewing at normal reading distance of approximately 12 to 24 inches (“arms'-length” viewing). At least one of the other displays is a microdisplay, a tiny display with magnifying optical elements, for viewing larger, higher-resolution images when the microdisplay is positioned close to the eye. The invention allows coordinating microdisplays and direct-view displays in ways that allow people to comfortably access and interact with full-page Web content on pocket-size devices.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method and system that allows sellers to communicate conditional offers to potential buyers. The conditions include prices that depend on the aggregate amount of goods or services that buyers collectively agree to purchase by a given time and date. The invention facilitates “demand aggregation”, that is, aggregating demand by potential buyers (who may or may not know each other), for products offered by sellers. This invention allows sellers conveniently to offer “Demand-Based Pricing”, that is, prices which go down as the volume of units sold in any given offer goes up. A seller can therefor offer volume discounts to buyers acting as a group, even when the buyers may not have any formal relationship with one another.

Abstract: A speech recognition system operating on a computer system, where the speech recognition system uses a language model with embedded structure and attached data values, and the speech recognition system returns recognition results as a reconstructed language model with embedded structure and attached data values. An application program can receive and traverse the embedded structure of the recognition results and use the attached data values to improve the speed and accuracy of interpretation of the speech recognition results.

Abstract: A speech recognition system operating on a computer system, which uses a single speech recognizer for all of the currently running application programs and provides a way of efficiently determining the proper destination application program for recognized speech. The speech recognizer uses a language model formed from the merging of the language models from two or more application programs. The merged language model includes data values indicating which application program's language model was the source of the language model elements so that when those elements are recognized, recognition results can be directed to that application program.