Patents by Inventor Tom Schirtzinger

Tom Schirtzinger 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).

  • Patent number: 8438287
    Abstract: Described is a system and method for managing a mobile device by using a user device, wherein the mobile device includes a web server and one or more web pages including a home web page that is accessible via an assigned uniform resource locator (URL). The method includes establishing a local connection between the mobile device and the user device, and detecting the established local connection by the user device. The method further includes launching a web browser of the user device when the local connection is detected using an auto-launch application to access the home web page via the assigned URL using a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) request, and providing the home web page to the web browser by the web server in response to the HTTP request, wherein the home web page provides access to the mobile device and facilitates management of the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC
    Inventors: Dongmin Liu, Tom Schirtzinger, Judy Ma, Minh Quan Phan Huy, Chris Gremo, Sambhavi Jayavelan, Ashish Dore
  • Publication number: 20110119600
    Abstract: Described is a system and method for managing a mobile device by using a user device, wherein the mobile device includes a web server and one or more web pages including a home web page that is accessible via an assigned uniform resource locator (URL). The method includes establishing a local connection between the mobile device and the user device, and detecting the established local connection by the user device. The method further includes launching a web browser of the user device when the local connection is detected using an auto-launch application to access the home web page via the assigned URL using a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) request, and providing the home web page to the web browser by the web server in response to the HTTP request, wherein the home web page provides access to the mobile device and facilitates management of the mobile device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2009
    Publication date: May 19, 2011
    Inventors: Dongmin Liu, Tom Schirtzinger, Judy Ma, Minh Quan Phan Huy, Chris Gremo, Sambhavi Jayavelan, Ashish Dore
  • Publication number: 20090052899
    Abstract: The present application discloses a method and apparatus for controlled device selection by a portable electronic device (110). The method may include transmitting, from the portable electronic device, a first wireless signal (140) requesting information corresponding to remote controlled devices (132, 134, 136, 138), sending an optical signal (150) over the air to at least one remote controlled device, receiving a second wireless signal including information corresponding to at least one specific remote controlled device in response to sending the optical signal, adjusting settings, in response to receiving the second wireless signal, on the portable electronic device to enable remote control of at least one selected remote controlled device (134) of the at least one specific remote controlled device based on the information corresponding to the at least one specific remote controlled device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2007
    Publication date: February 26, 2009
    Applicant: Motorola, Inc.
    Inventors: Swee MOK, Zili Ll, Tom Schirtzinger, Chi Zhou
  • Publication number: 20040203520
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for application control in an electronic device. The electronic device can include a housing including a housing face, a display coupled to the housing face, the display having a first display side and a second display side opposite the first display side, a navigational speaker coupled to the housing face on the first display side, and a public speaker. The navigational speaker can include a first speaker and a multidirectional input device coupled to the first speaker. The electronic device can also include a microphone coupled to the housing face on the second display side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2002
    Publication date: October 14, 2004
    Inventors: Tom Schirtzinger, Michael Charlier, Daniel Wong