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https://drivepatents.com/patents/969050 · 8 Oct 2014
A method, device, and a vehicle information system are provided for persisting application context from the mobile device to the vehicle information system. An operating context is determined for at least one application executing on the mobile device. A u...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/969937 · 17 Sep 2014
A wirelessly powered device (350) and operating method to aid in locating the device in relation to an energy transmitter (340). A device positioning aid processor (314) places at least one component (308, 330, 332, 312) into a high electrical current cons...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/970538 · 3 Sep 2014
A computer-implemented method includes determining a current location of a mobile device, displaying in a map viewport a first map area surrounding the current location of the mobile device and displaying on the first map area a graphical current location ...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/971288 · 13 Aug 2014
A method and system to charge efficiently and safely batteries that power an electronic device and are comprised in an electronic device. The method and system performs measurement of electrical currents flowing in different branches of an electrical circu...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/971878 · 30 Jul 2014
A method performed by a mobile device entails determining a current location of the mobile device, storing the current location as a breadcrumb (recorded) location of the mobile device, and performing an action with respect to the breadcrumb location when ...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/974018 · 4 Jun 2014
Methods and devices for determining a timestamp that represents a time a sensor sample was generated are described. In one aspect, a method includes: obtaining a sampling rate estimate for the sensor; determining an expected sample time based on the sampli...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/974328 · 28 May 2014
System (100), method (400), devices (110, 120, 1006, 952), and computer programming product for improved navigation inside buildings, using both passive and active NFC-capable devices, in conjunction with inertial and/or magnetic devices (8242, 8134, 8135)...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/974880 · 14 May 2014
A method of indicating an interference magnetic field at an electronic device (100) includes: displaying a first arrow (206) indicating a direction of magnetic north on a display (112) of the electronic device, the direction of the first arrow (206) correc...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/975178 · 7 May 2014
A computer-implemented mapping method comprises determining a fixed reference point (240), displaying a static-scale map (200) on a display screen (150) of a computing device (100) such that the map always includes the fixed reference point, and displaying...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/975504 · 30 Apr 2014
A solar cell (50) and a portable electronic device (66) are provided. The solar cell (50) includes a semiconductor material (54) configured to absorb light for generating a current. The solar cell further includes a positive contact (58) and a negative con...