An architecture for minimizing calibration effort in an IEEE 802.11 device location measurement system. The calibration technique is based upon a regression function that produces adequately accurate location information as a function of signal strength re...

A first query may be generated at a client computing device. The first query is written in a uniform format that is not unique to a particular object. The first query is submitted to a query translation system, which translates the first query to a request...

A method and system for managing power consumption in a portable computing device having a network interface module is presented. A power management module receives inputs from other modules and determines when the network interface module is to be put in ...

A vehicle computer system has a housing sized to be mounted in a vehicle dashboard or other appropriate location, a computer mounted within the housing, and an open platform operating system which executes on an open hardware architecture computer. The ope...

A system and process for determining the location of persons and objects using RF transmitters (TXs) that transmit location messages to at least one receiver connected to a computer, in a network of computers. Each TX comprises an accelerometer for providi...

In a computer system, a touch sensitive input device having touch sensitive auxiliary controls can be used to provide a user with information regarding the functionality of an auxiliary control. When a user's hand approaches a touch sensitive input device,...