155 results about "Computer handheld" patented technology

A pocket computer is presented having an apparatus housing and a user interface with a touch-sensitive display provided at a first side surface of said apparatus housing, at least one key for navigation among content shown on said display, and at least one key for performing zooming on content shown on said display. Various methods of operating this user interface are also presented.

The invention concerns a high speed writing system and a high speed writing device with special menu selection for entering text by means of a pen and a touch-screen. This method of entering text is suitable for desktop PCs, laptop PCs, palmtop PCs, mobile phones (for SMS, WAP and e-mail), watches and other electronic devices. Significantly higher writing efficiency than on a QWERTY keyboard is reached with little investment in practicing time.

The monitor screen features a key section with all consonants of the alphabet, as well as one vowel key distinguished by its arrangement and function. All elements of the writing process defining the method can be generated by pen movements such as selection of a key or guiding it in one of eight stroke directions, as well as combinations of these pen movements

The high speed writing devices described here excel by their small and ergonomically arranged entry sections, whereby all keys for text entry can be reached from one single hand position that never needs re-setting.

A novel and improved engine data system for collecting, displaying and analyzing engine/vehicle data is provided. The system have advantageously results in a more effective, convenient, portable and low cost method of monitoring and processing vehicle data. The vehicle data system includes a handheld computer containing operating system software adapted to operate the handheld computer in accordance with a data protocol different from a vehicle bus protocol and a handheld microprocessor for executing the operating system software. The system importantly includes an adapter for creating a data pathway between a vehicle bus connector and an external data port provided on the handheld computer which is physically incompatible with the engine bus connector. The adapter includes a data port connector for connection with the external data port, a bus compatible connector for connection with the engine bus connector, a battery power supply separate from the power supply of the handheld compuer and an adapter microprocessor powered by the battery power supply and connected via the data pathway with the bus compatible connector for protocol conversion of the data received from the engine bus. An engine data adapter system for creating a data pathway between the engine data bus and the handheld computer while determining the start and stop of messages received from the data bus and adding message identifiers to the engine data so as to minimize the required data processing by the handheld computer.

An improvement to a transceiver, such as a cell phone, a palm pilot, or equivalent telephone or computer display device, comprising a plurality of display devices, expanding supports, and a screen-size indicator. The expanding supports are connected to the transceiver, such as a cell phone, palm pilot or computer, and to the plurality of display devices. The expanding supports expands the plurality of display devices about the transceiver, such as a cell phone. The screen-size indicator is connected to the plurality of display devices. The screen-size indicator displays the video signal on the transceiver, such as a cell phone display, or the plurality of display devices, or the combination of the transceiver, such as a cell phone, palm pilot or computer, display and the plurality of display devices, as determined by the screen size, respectively.

The present invention provides apparatus, systems and methods to wirelessly pay for purchases, electronically interface with financial accounting systems, and electronically record and wirelessly communicate authorization transactions using Personal Digital Assistant (“PDA”)(also referred to as Personal Intelligent Communicators (PICs), and Personal Communicators), palm computers, intelligent handheld cellular and other wireless telephones, and other personal handheld electronic devices configured with infrared or other short range data communications (for referential simplicity, such devices are referred to herein as “PDA's”). The present invention further provides apparatus, firmware, software programs and computer-implemented methods for making service and/or sale service charge payments for credit card charges, debit card charges, electronic cash transfers, ticket and other like financial transactions and for other types of transactions, such as for electronic coupons, where the amount of the transaction is for a small amount of money, such as, for example, less than $5.00.

A system and method that enables users operating originating devices, such as PC's, laptop computers, PDA's, pocket PC's, cell phones, etc., to print documents, images, etc. by sending the content to be printed via an e-mail message. The e-mail message is sent to a virtual printer e-mail address hosted by an e-mail server. The e-mail message is retrieved by a “driverless” print server (DPS) system, separated into a main file and attachment files, and printed on a printer to which the virtual printer e-mail address corresponds. The DPS system utilizes a table driven mechanism to determine appropriate applications to laod and process and handle various printer events generated by various software applications pertaining to the documents desired to be printed by operators of the originating devices. The system and method enable documents and the like to be printed without requiring a printer device driver corresponding to the target printer to be loaded on the originating device.

A method to optimize the energy consumption of a station (STA)—as for example a laptop, palmtop or a mobile phone—in a network, preferably a WLAN according to the IEEE 802.11 standard where a station (STA) sending Power Save (PS) polls to an Access Point (AP) is characterized—regarding an efficient energy management of the station with a possibly low energy consumption—in that the Access Point (AP) confirms the receipt of a Power Save (PS) poll by sending an acknowledgement frame including information which indicates to the station (STA) whether a frame is stored for it at the Access Point (AP).

A time zone management system and method for a date-book like application. A user can associate a time zone with an event or appointment, especially on a palmtop computer. The event can be associated with the time zone by selecting the time zone as an attribute from a details menu, or other suitable user interface mechanism or other mechanism. The user can select a display time zone, and all events to be displayed are translated to the display time zone to be displayed on the palmtop computer.

The disclosed E-mail system comprises: a server, including a user proxy module with a Web Service container, a mail transmission proxy module, and a mail distribution proxy module; and a client. Wherein, the Web Service container comprises a main package sub-module, a mail transmission sub-module, a mail receiving sub-module, a mail decomposition sub-module, a user key management sub-module, an enciphering/deciphering sub-module, and some corresponding calling interfaces. This invention avoids repeated development, and has wide application, such as PC, palm PC, and mobile phone.

The invention discloses an image attendance information acquiring system and a personnel management system based on the same, relating to the technical field of information acquisition and attendance. The invention solves the problems of real-time and correctness of the traditional information acquiring system. The image attendance information acquiring system is realized based on the traditional wire network system, the wireless network system or the hybrid network of two network systems, while an attendance terminal is realized by using a computer with an image acquiring terminal, a palm computer, a mobile phone or an attendance terminal machine, and an image acquiring software module is embedded into the terminal. The attendance information acquiring system is an internet-based system capable of remotely acquiring data, which realizes real-time acquisition and record of the image attendance data by connecting the plurality of image information attendance terminals to an attendance server (in a group form) through the network. The attendance information acquiring system can be hooked with the traditional attendance system and can also be hooked with the attendance module of the traditional OA (Office Automation) office system to realize an attendance function.

An apparatus and method for processing heart rate information by wirelessly transferring the information between a heart rate monitor and a personal computer device (PCD). The information includes programming information and heart rate or training information collected during use of the heart rate monitor. The PCD may include a personal digital assistant (PDA), a pocket personal computer (pocket PC), or a laptop computer. The information is transferred over an infrared, sonic, audible, ultrasonic, magnetic, radio frequency, IEEE 802.11, or Bluetooth-based communication link.

A compact handheld notebook computer using flash memory to store, retrieve and display information needed by emergency responders is designed for prolonged use under severe conditions and utilizes an electrophoretic display to conserve energy and provide a high resolution display more readable than LCD displays.

This invention relates to a network hospital system keeping contact directly with easy-ill people or patients characterizing that said network hospital system includes a network server, a wire and/or wireless network, terminals(desk computers, notebook computers, palm computers or intelligent cell phones), devices(the mono-chip processor system includes information testing process and satellite locating functions in ECG, blood pressure, blood sugar, blood-fat, temperature, breath and blood oxygen), a medical treatment service system( drug-stores, distribution station, a test and a physical examination center and a emergency center), in which, the device timely communicates with the server about the situations of the easy-ill people and patients by the terminal and network, at the same time, the system is connected with traditional hospitals, community hospitals, drug-stores, emergency centers, banks and government departments to provide various medical services.

Systems and methods are described for automatically presenting at least one definition in context, for a dictionary entry, based a contextual analysis of the grammatical unit, such as the sentence, the clause, or the phrase, in which the dictionary entry is embedded. The dictionary entry may be single word, for example, “consideration,” or a phrase, such as “due to.” A definition in context will generally include a definition in accordance with the function of the word in the grammatical unit, and may further include a preferred definition from among several options for the same function, based on contextual clues within the grammatical unit. Similarly, a translation in context may be presented. These may be performed by a supercomputer, a personal computer, a laptop, a palmtop, a stand-alone hand-held, computerized scanning apparatus, a stand-alone hand-held, computerized photographing apparatus, a mobile phone, a blackberry, and the like. They may be perfumed locally, or over the web.

A filtering method and apparatus for a hand-held computing device such as a palmtop computer. The operating system's program registry is copied and then modified to direct all application data to a filter program such as a virus scanning filter program. If the filter program determines that the object is virus free, the copy of the program registry (filter registry) is queried by the filter program to determine the application program associated with the data object. The data object is then forwarded to the appropriate application program.

The present invention is a modular handheld device. The modular handheld comprises a console and a keypad/battery module that acts with the console. The handheld can have other module parts. For example different modular handles can be attached to the handheld. The user or user organization has the option to select from one or more smaller keypad/battery battery modules and/or one or more larger keypad/battery modules with more battery capacity. The appropriate keypad/battery module is selected based on the needs of the particular user or application. This allows an organization to have multiple handheld configurations which utilize the same core computing engine, thus greatly reducing the number of IT platforms that need to be supported. By combining the display, processor, scan engines and radios into a console and separating the keypad and batteries into a “personality module” many different handhelds can be customized from a single console.

The invention discloses an intelligent split screen display available mobile terminal which comprises a CPU (Central Processing Unit) and a GPU (Graphic Processing Unit), wherein the CPU is a single-core or multi-core CPU supporting multithreading and multitasking; an inner core of the CPU supports a multi-domain display management function; the CPU is connected with the GPU; and the GPU is a single-core or multi-core GPU supporting split screen display and full high definition graphic processing, and is connected with a multi-channel video output interface and a projection output interface. The mobile terminal utilizes the CPU with the multi-domain display management function and the GPU with a split screen display function, so that the portability is kept, and display limitation of the mobile terminal is removed; a requirement of a large screen is met; intelligent multi-domain display management is available, so that the problem that display content can only be subjected to mirror image duplication in the prior projection is solved; and mobile equipment has powerful functions of equipment such as a PC (Personal Computer) and a palmtop, and has the potentiality of replacing the equipment such as the PC and the palmtop. The intelligent split screen display available mobile terminal can be widely applied to the field of the mobile terminals.

Employing an automated data collection portable equipment such as a palm top or similar equipment, in addition to a central computer, which includes a database where the captured information is stored through said portable electronic equipment, and such data transfer may occur by means of cable, connection fixed bases, infra-networks or by means of wireless transmissions, and such database shall be operated by a software, which shall receive the unloaded data and shall perform the correlations with the parameters preset in the system, on a systematic and accurate manner, generating statistical reports and electronic spreadsheets, whose results may be automatically made available, aiming at a better adjustment of people's movement in commercial establishments and others.