Abstract: A card holder for a mobile electronic device for receiving accessory cards, which includes a substantially cuboidal housing having an open front face for inserting accessory cards, the housing including a back face, a left and a right lateral face, and a top and a bottom face, at least two guiding elements protruding from the interior side of the left and right lateral faces, respectively, and extending parallel to and between said top and said bottom face. The guiding elements define an upper slot of a first height h1 between the top face and the guiding elements and a lower slot of a second height h2 between the bottom face and the guiding elements, for receiving accessory cards of first height h1 and second height h2, respectively, and the upper and the lower slots together define a combined slot for receiving an accessory card of a third height h3.

Abstract: A control unit for a mobile telephone includes a Web server adapted to connect to a Web browser in the mobile telephone, wherein the Web server receives information and provides the information to the Web browser when connected to the Web browser.

Abstract: A mobile telephone for Internet applications comprising at least one WEB server which can be coupled to at least one further server and to at least one client.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a method and device for determining and outputting a similarity measure between two data strings each data string comprising data entities, comprising: receiving a first data string, receiving a second data string, which is characterized by determining consecutively following data entities in the first data string, determining the relative positions of the consecutively following data entities in the first data string, determining similar data entities with the same order in the second data string, determining the relative positions of the determined data entities in the second data string, determining a matching measure by determining how far the relative positions of data entities in the second data string match with the relative positions of consecutively following data entities in the first data string, and outputting a similarity measure which corresponds to the matching measure of at least one comparison result.

Abstract: A mass storage, an electronic multi-track reproducer, and a method to reproduce multi-track data are shown. The possibility is provided to change the reproduction medium according to present environmental conditions, e.g., to change from a text reproduction seamlessly to the reproduction of a radio play, in case environmental conditions indicate that the user is actually not capable of reading because of vibrations or illumination that is too low. To provide these features to a user, a mass storage, a multi-track reproducer, and a method for reproducing the tracks according to detected environmental conditions is provided. The invention is based on multi-track data, wherein at least a subset of the tracks is sufficient for a basic perception of the data, and at least two of the tracks are provided with synchronization markers. The reproduction can seamlessly jump between the different tracks and reproduction modes, as the tracks are synchronized by the markers.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for handling and generating and editing of digital documents or digital contents on mobile electronic devices in accordance with sensor data perceived. The method comprises the reception of sensor data or the monitoring of sensors, and the generation of said digital content according to said perceived sensor data. It is further disclosed a mobile terminal and a network device disclosed that are capable of handling a digital content according to the above mentioned methods.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for inputting data into a system. In order to make it easier for users to input data, the invention provides that, in response to an input by a user, one or more terms which are as appropriate as possible for this input are determined as identified terms, that a confidence value is defined for each of these identified terms, and that the terms associated with an input are dealt with further, taking account of their confidence values.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for handling and generating a mobile homepage of a mobile terminal device in accordance with context related information of said device. The method comprises the determination of context related information of said mobile terminal device, and the generation of said mobile homepage in accordance with said determined context related information. It is further disclosed a mobile terminal and a network device disclosed that are capable of handling mobile homepage according to the above mentioned methods.

Abstract: An odor analysis must be made before any device is capable of synthesizing an odor. Generally, odor analysis must result in an abstract device-independent odor representation that can easily be processed by various devices. Of course, this representation has to be detailed enough to be the basis for a synthesis of an odor by chemical or mechanical processes. The present invention provides a method for coding, processing (e.g. modifying/adapting) and decoding odor. The method according to the invention allows coding a representation of an odor in a digital form or odor information, respectively. This odor information can fulfil the demand of an abstract device-independent odor representation whereas the odor information shows a form adequate for communicating odor information even over a wireless communication network. According to further aspects of the invention, a device for sensing, coding and communicating odor and a device for receiving, decoding and generating odor is provided.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for generating a compound graphic. The compound graphic is composed of a plurality of illustrating graphical elements. These illustrating graphical elements are provided by a graphical element library. The graphical element library is dedicated to a graphical subject and hence the illustrating graphical elements of the graphical element library are dedicated to graphical sub-subjects of the comprehensive graphical subject of the graphical element library. The structuring of the graphical element library provides the possibility to compose a high number of individual different compound graphics out of a limited number of illustrating graphical elements. The composing may be controlled easily even in case of employing for example an ITU-T keyboard of a mobile phone since the request for modifying the compound graphic can be limited to request exchanging illustrating graphical elements of a graphical sub-subject in a pre-defined way.

Abstract: A plurality of users of mobile terminal device connected to a first wireless communication network with one master terminal device and the remaining mobile terminal devices acting as slave terminal devices, the master connected to a service provider via a second communication network, wherein the following steps are carried out: distributing instructional tasks from the master to the slave terminal devices via the first network, receiving responses responsive to the instructional tasks by the users, transmitting the responses from the slave devices to the master device via the first network, transmitting the responses from the master to the service provider via the second network, processing the responses and generating an evaluation for each of the responses by the service provider, and transmitting the evaluations from the service provider to the master device via the second network.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for context-dependent user input prediction for at least one device in the environment of at least one user comprising the steps of: detecting the parameters of the actual states of said at least one device, comparing said detected parameters with previously saved parameters of said at least one device, obtaining a most probable next input proposal according to the result of the comparison, and offering said input proposal to at least one user.

Abstract: A method is provided for authenticating a user (10) on a remote server (16a, 16b, 16c) of a network (18), comprising the steps of receiving an authentication request firm said remote server (16a, 16b, 16c) of said network (18) by a terminal device (14), retrieving authentication key firm a personal trusted device (12) in which a plurality of network addresses of remote servers (16a, 16b, 16c) and corresponding authentication keys are stored in a database, and displaying said authentication key to the user (10) on said personal trusted device (12).

Abstract: A method of composing messages for speech output and the improvement of the quality of reproduction of speech outputs. A series of original sentences for messages is segmented and stored as audio files with search criteria. The length, position, and transition values for the respective segments can be recorded and stored. A sentence to be reproduced is transmitted in a format corresponding to the format of the search criteria. It is determined whether the sentence to be reproduced can be fully reproduced by one segment or a succession of stored segments. The segments found in each case are examined using their entries as to how far the individual segments match as regards speech rhythm. The audio files of the segments in which the examination resulted in the pre-requisites for optimal maintaining of the natural speech rhythm are combined and output for reproduction.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a navigation system for guiding users, in particular drivers of vehicles, to a destination having a route computer (10) which determines a route, in particular a driving route, from a starting position and to a destination position and transmits it to a destination guidance unit (15) which in accordance with the route or driving route determined issues guidance directions to the user as a function of the user's current position at the time and having a user identification unit (17) which transmits a user identification signal designating the user is question to a destination input unit (11) which from current time and user position data and from user-specific information establishes a destination position for the determination of a route, in particular a driving route.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for accessing information, especially for accessing additional information to information which is audibly and/or visually presented to a user, in which the information presented to the user comprises individual information sections to which additional information is allocated, and in which the additional information can be transmitted via a transmission channel during the presentation of the information so that it can be provided for later use on request.

Abstract: The invention relates to an interface device (10) for transmitting information between input/output means (12, 13) and application units (11) in an information and/or communication system. In order, to be able to operate application units with different output/input means of a user interface without changing their input/output interface, the interface device comprises an interface circuit (14) and a storage device (15), connected to the interface circuit (14) for system data and input/output formats and structures, the interface circuit (14) processing input and/or output information to be transmitted in accordance with the stored system data as a function of the input/output means (12, 13) available with the aid of the stored input/output formats and structures, and outputting said information to the respective application unit (11) and/or to the input/output means (12, 13) available.

Abstract: A mobile telephone according to the invention contains at least one WEB server which can be coupled to at least one further server and to at least one client.

Abstract: Memory management method in which lifetimes are assigned to messages which are to be written into a memory, and in which, in addition, when the memory is full and further messages arrive those stored messages whose period of activation has expired the longest are cleared.

Abstract: A mobile telephone for Internet applications comprising at least one WEB server which can be coupled to at least one further server and to at least one client.