Patents by Inventor Tomas Karl-Axel Wassingbo
Tomas Karl-Axel Wassingbo 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).
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Patent number: 10680925Abstract: Internet websites that are popular for users in a specific location are determined and displayed to a user of an electronic device. The popularity information may be of benefit to users in the location or to users of inherently portable devices, such as a mobile telephone or a laptop computer, that travel to the location. In one embodiment, position data relating to devices used to access websites is used to establish statistics regarding the most visited websites based on location. For instance, positioning data may be added to “webpage look-up/URL requests” that are made by the devices. This data may be transmitted to a server for deriving of the statistics.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2014Date of Patent: June 9, 2020Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Tomas Karl-Axel Wassingbo
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Patent number: 9294609Abstract: A method and device for distributing an event to more than one electronic device comprising receiving the event on a first electronic device, determining whether the first electronic device is connected to at least one other electronic device, and forwarding the event to the at least one other electronic device if connected.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2007Date of Patent: March 22, 2016Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications ABInventors: Tomas Karl-Axel Wassingbo, Darius Katz
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Patent number: 9075808Abstract: A server provides an information record comprising selected information related to an image depicted in a digital photograph. The server may comprise a database and a recognition application. The database may store, in association with each of a plurality of subject matters: i) recognition data for recognizing the subject matter within an image; and ii) information related to the subject matter. The recognition application may receive a request from a remote client system. The request comprises a digital image embodying at least a portion of a digital photograph. The recognition application applies recognition data to the digital image to determine a selected subject matter. The selected subject matter is the subject matter depicted in the digital image. The recognition application further obtains selected information from the database. The selected information may be the information related to the selected subject matter. A response is then returned to the remote client system.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2007Date of Patent: July 7, 2015Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications ABInventors: Tomas Karl-Axel Wässingbo, Gunnar Klinghult, Johan F. Gulliksson, Eral Denis Foxenland, Randi-Lise Hjelmeland Almås, Anna-Maria Lagerstedt
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Patent number: 8914070Abstract: A mobile wireless communication terminal includes a wireless communication module and a controller. The wireless communication module is configured to communicate with other communication terminals over at least one direct point-to-point wireless interface. The controller is configured to establish a connection with each of a plurality of participant wireless communication terminals via the wireless communication module, to receive an image send command from a user, and to send a digital image file over the at least one direct point-to-point wireless interface to each of the plurality of participant wireless communication terminals as a group responsive to the image send command.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2006Date of Patent: December 16, 2014Assignee: Thomson LicensingInventor: Tomas Karl-Axel Wässingbo
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Publication number: 20140210727Abstract: To enhance user interaction with an electronic device having a touch screen, the electronic device permits touch-based user input even if the user inadvertently rests a thumb or finger on the touch screen.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2011Publication date: July 31, 2014Applicant: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications ABInventor: Tomas Karl-Axel Wassingbo
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Publication number: 20140207952Abstract: Internet websites that are popular for users in a specific location are determined and displayed to a user of an electronic device. The popularity information may be of benefit to users in the location or to users of inherently portable devices, such as a mobile telephone or a laptop computer, that travel to the location. In one embodiment, position data relating to devices used to access websites is used to establish statistics regarding the most visited websites based on location. For instance, positioning data may be added to “webpage look-up/URL requests” that are made by the devices. This data may be transmitted to a server for deriving of the statistics.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2014Publication date: July 24, 2014Applicant: Sony CorporationInventor: Tomas Karl-Axel Wassingbo
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Patent number: 8725727Abstract: Internet websites that are popular for users in a specific location are determined and displayed to a user of an electronic device. The popularity information may be of benefit to users in the location or to users of inherently portable devices, such as a mobile telephone or a laptop computer, that travel to the location. In one embodiment, position data relating to devices used to access websites is used to establish statistics regarding the most visited websites based on location. For instance, positioning data may be added to “webpage look-up/URL requests” that are made by the devices. This data may be transmitted to a server for deriving of the statistics.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2008Date of Patent: May 13, 2014Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications ABInventor: Tomas Karl-Axel Wässingbo
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Patent number: 8656294Abstract: A user interface (UI) for a text editing application executing on an electronic device, such as a wireless communication device, partitions a touch-sensitive display into two functional areas, a user input area and a text composition area. The UI displays text output in the text composition area and allows a user to scroll “user documents” through the input area. From an active user document displayed in the input area, users can automatically copy-and-paste text directly into a text area without having to exit the text editing application.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2011Date of Patent: February 18, 2014Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications ABInventor: Tomas Karl-Axel Wässingbo
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Patent number: 8233886Abstract: Methods and apparatus for accessing data objects stored in a communication device are disclosed. An exemplary method comprises detecting a trigger event related to a remote communications party, retrieving contact data from a contacts database using a party identifier corresponding to the remote communications party, searching for stored data objects associated with the remote communications party, using the contact data as search parameters, and displaying the results of the search. The method may further include ranking the data objects by relevancy and formatting the display according to the ranking.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2007Date of Patent: July 31, 2012Assignee: Sony Mobile Communications ABInventor: Tomas Karl-Axel Wässingbo
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Publication number: 20110289406Abstract: A user interface (UI) for a text editing application executing on an electronic device, such as a wireless communication device, partitions a touch-sensitive display into two functional areas, a user input area and a text composition area. The UI displays text output in the text composition area and allows a user to scroll “user documents” through the input area. From an active user document displayed in the input area, users can automatically copy-and-paste text directly into a text area without having to exit the text editing application.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2011Publication date: November 24, 2011Applicant: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications ABInventor: Tomas Karl-Axel Wässingbo
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Patent number: 7831141Abstract: A mobile device comprises a network communication system such as a wide area network mobile telephony system, a camera for capturing a digital photograph, and a photograph management application. The photograph management application receives the digital photograph, obtains an information record comprising information related to the digital photograph; and associates at least a portion of the information related to the digital photograph with the digital photograph. The information record may be obtained from local sources such as a contact directory or from a remote directory server.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2007Date of Patent: November 9, 2010Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications ABInventors: Tomas Karl-Axel Wässingbo, Gunnar Klinghult, Johan F. Gulliksson, Eral Denis Foxenland, Randi-Lise Hjelmeland Almås, Anna-Maria Lagerstedt
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Publication number: 20100274855Abstract: A computer-implemented method may include associating each of a plurality of guests with an event time and an event location, wherein the association of each of the plurality of guests includes information indicating whether the guest is expected to be present at the event location at the event time, and wherein the event time and the event location is the same for each of the plurality of guests. The method may also include associating each of a plurality of mobile devices with a different one of the plurality of guests that is associated with information indicating that the guest is expected to be present at the event location at the event time. Further, the method may include receiving a location update message from each of the mobile devices, wherein each location update message indicates a location of the corresponding mobile device, and displaying an indication of the location of the each of the mobile devices as indicative of the location of the associated guest.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2009Publication date: October 28, 2010Applicant: SONY ERICSSON MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS ABInventor: Tomas Karl-Axel Wassingbo
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Publication number: 20100222107Abstract: A mobile wireless communication terminal includes a wireless communication module and a controller. The wireless communication module is configured to communicate with other communication terminals over at least one direct point-to-point wireless interface. The controller is configured to establish a connection with each of a plurality of participant wireless communication terminals via the wireless communication module, to receive an image send command from a user, and to send a digital image file over the at least one direct point-to-point wireless interface to each of the plurality of participant wireless communication terminals as a group responsive to the image send command.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2006Publication date: September 2, 2010Applicant: SONY ERICSSON MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS ABInventor: Tomas Karl-Axel Wässingbo
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Publication number: 20100082526Abstract: Internet websites that are popular for users in a specific location are determined and displayed to a user of an electronic device. The popularity information may be of benefit to users in the location or to users of inherently portable devices, such as a mobile telephone or a laptop computer, that travel to the location. In one embodiment, position data relating to devices used to access websites is used to establish statistics regarding the most visited websites based on location. For instance, positioning data may be added to “webpage look-up/URL requests” that are made by the devices. This data may be transmitted to a server for deriving of the statistics.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2008Publication date: April 1, 2010Inventor: Tomas Karl-Axel Wassingbo
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Publication number: 20100070385Abstract: A wireless device, such as a mobile phone, and a method for operating the wireless device to access a media option. The wireless device may include a media player; a radio signal receiver system configured to receive media signals; a controller comprising a memory comprising a list of different media options, indicating media items the user is interested in taking part of and a media scanner configured to scan the radio signal receiver system to detect media content associated with the media options; a user input interface to select one media item currently indicted as detected; and a media selector configured to pass received media signals relating to the selected media item to the media player.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2009Publication date: March 18, 2010Applicant: SONY ERICSSON MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS ABInventors: Tomas Karl-Axel WÄSSINGBO, Heino WENDELRUP
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Publication number: 20090262085Abstract: An improved touch display input device for incorporation into a portable electronic device is described. In exemplary embodiments, the touch display includes a smart glass layer that selectively blocks and transmits light from a light source to a transparent touch input surface. As a result of the selectivity of the smart glass, a particular set of characters and/or symbols may become visible to the user through the transparent touch surface. The user may select a visible character or symbol by touching the character or symbol on the touch display. The selective blocking and transmission of light by the smart glass may be altered to display different sets of input characters and/or symbols depending upon the operational state of the portable electronic device.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2008Publication date: October 22, 2009Inventors: Tomas Karl-Axel Wassingbo, Anders Eibye
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Patent number: 7561890Abstract: The invention relates to a hotspot location database system and a method for creating, maintaining and updating such a system. A hotspot location database (6) is created locally in a mobile terminal (1). The mobile terminal is adapted to monitor locations of available hotspots and store information in its local database (6). The mobile terminal is also adapted to monitor the presence of other mobile terminals (9) using a local connectivity network, in order to share information with the other mobile terminals by exchanging information for update of their local databases. The invention also relates to such a mobile terminal for use in the system.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2006Date of Patent: July 14, 2009Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications ABInventors: Magnus Jendbro, Tomas Karl-Axel Wässingbo
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Patent number: 7555291Abstract: A mobile wireless communication terminal includes a wireless communication module and a controller. The wireless communication module is configured to communicate with other communication terminals over a wireless interface. The controller is configured to establish a connection with a participant wireless communication terminal via the wireless communication module, to maintain a play list representing song files to be played, to receive a participant song identification from the participant wireless communication terminal, wherein the participant song identification corresponds to a participant song file stored on the participant wireless communication terminal, to add the participant song identification to the play list, and to thereafter execute playback of the song files represented by the play list, including retrieving the participant song file from the participant wireless communication terminal for playback.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2005Date of Patent: June 30, 2009Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications ABInventor: Tomas Karl-Axel Wässingbo
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Publication number: 20090049093Abstract: A method for creating and displaying custom user pages for participants in a two-way communication is described. A content profile for a second party in a two-way communication is selected or retrieved responsive to a triggering event. The content profile includes one or more content identifiers that identify content of interest to or otherwise relevant to the second party. Media content corresponding to said content identifiers in said content profile is downloaded from one or more remote content servers. The downloaded media content is used to create a custom user page for the second party to be displayed on a mobile terminal of a the first party.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2007Publication date: February 19, 2009Applicant: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications ABInventors: Tomas Karl-Axel Wassingbo, Markus Mans Folke Andreasson, Charles Liu
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Patent number: RE45369Abstract: A mobile device comprises a network communication system such as a wide area network mobile telephony system, a camera for capturing a digital photograph, and a photograph management application. The photograph management application receives the digital photograph, obtains an information record comprising information related to the digital photograph; and associates at least a portion of the information related to the digital photograph with the digital photograph. The information record may be obtained from local sources such as a contact directory or from a remote directory server.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2012Date of Patent: February 10, 2015Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications ABInventors: Tomas Karl-Axel Wassingbo, Gunnar Klinghult, Johan F. Gulliksson, Eral Denis Foxenland, Randi-Lise Hjelmeland Almas, Anna-Maria Lagerstedt