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https://drivepatents.com/patents/985525 · 20 Mar 2013
In at least one embodiment, a power management module measures different observable quantities of a battery, such as terminal voltage or current, and measures a voltage response of the battery based upon the measurements. The measured voltage response of t...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/985762 · 13 Mar 2013
A portable electronics device comprises at least one device subsystem, and a programmable battery. The programmable battery is coupled to a power input of the device subsystem and is configured to dynamically adjust a characteristic of the power that is ap...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/985639 · 13 Mar 2013
The current disclosure is directed at a method and apparatus for starting of a fuel cell within a mobile communication device under emergency. In one embodiment, the emergency starting apparatus includes a fuel cell starter, such as a piezoelectric element...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/992823 · 27 Feb 2013
In accordance with the teachings described herein, a method and apparatus for handling a charging state in a mobile device is provided. A universal serial bus (USB) interface may be used for connecting the mobile device to a USB host. A processing device m...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/986034 · 20 Feb 2013
A device having an electrical plug, such as a charger device, includes a locking member coupled to a carriage that is movable into a housing. Prongs of the device are movable between a retracted position and an extended position along two different travel ...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/994047 · 9 Jan 2013
Various embodiments are described herein for a peripheral device (260) and a method of identifying the peripheral device (260) via power cycling. In one embodiment, the method comprises obtaining characteristic information about the peripheral device (260)...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/994374 · 2 Jan 2013
An apparatus and method of determining a communications mode. An operating condition of a device is monitored to determine if the operating condition satisfies a condition for loss of charging of a power pack of the device (304, 306). Examples of operating...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/995147 · 12 Dec 2012
A method of magnifying a portion of a map displayed on a computing device includes displaying the map at a first zoom level and displaying a magnified portion of the map at a second zoom level. The magnified portion comprises an interactive map element. Th...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/995405 · 5 Dec 2012
A system and method of obtaining magnetometer readings for performing a magnetometer calibration are provided. The method comprises detecting initiation of a magnetometer calibration; displaying a plurality of visual elements representing at least a pair o...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/995919 · 21 Nov 2012
In one example, information is presented to a user in a non-visual manner. In this example, a list of visually representable items (110) defined by a beginning and at least one of dimension of time and space is accessed. Each of the visually representable ...