Xerox Corporation

Intel Corporation

Apple Inc.

Anthony George LaMarca

Warren Keith Edwards

James P Dourish

Michael P Salisbury

James Douglass Thornton

John Ogden Lamping

David Goldberg

Jaroslaw Sydir

Douglas Brian Terry

Roy Want

Karin Petersen

Todd A Cass

Mark D Weiser

Kirk Skeba

Ulun Karacaoglu

Anand S Konanur

Stephen R Wood

Carlos Cordeiro

Shilpa Talwar

Christian Maciocco

Giuseppe Beppe Raffa

Srikathyayani Srikanteswara

Jonathan J Huang

Xue Yang

Joshua R Smith

Paulo Lopez Meyer

Hector A Cordourier Maruri

Kerstin Johnsson

Jeremy N Burr

Jeffrey R Foerster

Matthai Philipose

W Keith Edwards

Jaideep Moses

Meiyuan Zhao

Wen-Ling Huang

Takeo Igarashi

Elizabeth D Mynatt

Gaetano Borriello

Karin Peterson

Mark David Weiser

Described herein is an apparatus comprising a location-awareness determination circuit configured to determine a location of the apparatus; at least one processor configured to determine at least one contextual factor of the apparatus including a type identifier of the determined location; an app-management facilitator configured to activate at least one mobile application ('app') that is associated with the determined location of the apparatus based, at least in part, upon the determined at least one contextual factor; and deactivate at least one of the selected apps on the apparatus when the apparatus exits the location, based on the determined at least one contextual factor of the apparatus.

Location-aware mobile application management

Certain embodiments herein are directed to managing wireless spectrum, which may include recommending or transmitting spectrum usage changes to one or more wireless devices. A spectrum management system comprising one or more computers may receive spectrum usage information associated with one or more wireless devices. The spectrum management system may generate a spectrum usage map based on the received information. Based on the spectrum usage map, a spectrum usage change is determined and transmitted to one or more wireless devices. The wireless devices may change their operation in accordance with the spectrum usage change.

Cloud based spectrum management

Data can be transferred from one device to another in the Internet of Things without using a network by a touch-based human body communication (HBC) interaction between a wearable storage module and HBC-compatible interface pads on external host devices. Information on a source host device is copied to the wearable storage module when the user touches the source device's HBC interface pad, can be stored indefinitely on the wearable module, and is copied to a destination host device when the user touches the destination devices HBC interface pad. Because the interface pads only need to be simple electrodes, their size and shape can be widely varied to fit the host devices.

Data storage, input, and output for human body communication

Systems, apparatuses, and methods may include a human body communication data storage device having at least first and second electrodes and a human body communication modem. A storage component communicating with the human body communication modem includes a first secure storage location provided with a user-specific authentication record and a second data storage location.

Human body communication device with secure access

Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to monitor tasks performed in an environment of interest are disclosed. One such apparatus is a task monitor that includes a signature comparator to compare a first signature to a second signature. The first signature is generated based on first audio collected in an environment of interest and the second signature is generated based on second audio collected during performance of a task in the environment of interest. The task monitor also includes an object identifier to identify an object corresponding to a location determined based on an angle of arrival of the first audio at a sensor. A task identifier is to identify the task as a cause of the first audio when the signature comparator determines the first signature matches the second signature and the object identifier identifies the object as a same object used to perform the task.

Methods and apparatus to detect the performance of an activity by detecting the performance of tasks

Described herein are techniques related to reducing scanning in a cellular network. A mobile device reduces scanning of the cellular network when coverage holes are detected and/or predicted along a route traveled by or a place visited by the mobile device. A mobile device also reduces scanning of the cellular network when the mobile device is stationary. This Abstract is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope and meaning of the claims.

Cellular network scanning control based on ambient identifiable wireless signal sources

Described herein are techniques related to preventing dropped cellular phone calls through predicting the behavior of cell phones along a route traveled by a mobile device. This Abstract is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope and meaning of the claims.

Preventing dropped calls through behavior prediction

Described herein are techniques related to managing mobile applications ('apps') of a mobile device based, at least in part, upon the determined location of the device. The techniques described herein are especially suited for situations where the present location differs from the locations associated with particular apps that are already installed on the mobile device. This Abstract is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims.

Disclosed herein is a technology related to low-power, accurate location estimation for mobile devices (such as a smartphone). More particularly, the disclosed technology facilitates estimation of a physical or 'real world' location (e.g., geo-location) without relying on the conventional always-on and battery-draining approaches of Global Positioning Systems (GPSs) or some form of telemetry based upon multiple radio signals (e.g., cellular). This Abstract is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims.

Geo-location signal fingerprinting

Described herein are technologies for managing lists of universal resource locators ('URLs') for a mobile device based, at least in part, upon the determined location of the device. This Abstract is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims.

Location-aware management of lists of uniform resource locators (URLS) for mobile devices

A location information system uses a positioning system, such as the civilian Navstar Global Positioning System (GPS), in combination with a distributed network. The location information system includes a radio transceiver for communicating to the distributed network and a GPS receiving system. The GPS receiving system receives a signal from the GPS and converts it into a coordinate entry. The coordinate entry is transmitted to the distributed network for retrieval of corresponding location specific information. The location specific information may reside on a web page. The coordinate entry may be incorporated into the web page address that supports the coordinate entry or linked to an existing web page associated with the coordinate entry. The web page and associated information is displayed. Bar code labels, infrared beacons and other labeling systems may also be used in the location information system in place of or in addition to the GPS receiving system to supply location identification information.

System and method for obtaining and using location specific information

One or more switches may be coupled to a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag, so that the response of the RFID tag indicates the state of the switch(es). The RFID tag and the switch(es) may be coupled together in various ways so that the state of the switches affects the response of the RFID tag to an RFID reader.

Switch status and RFID tag

A document management method and system for representing entities as documents. The entities include tasks, persons, devices such as phones, printers, cameras, computational processes, and workflow applications such as trip approval processes and hiring processes. Various data sources are used. A data source generally has an associated property and content information related to the entity. A bit provider is configured to identify the data source having the associated property, retrieve the content information, and provide the retrieved content information as at least a portion of the document. Application interfaces are configured to provide the document to various applications.

Representing an entity as a document using a data source having active properties

A document management system is provided which organizes, stores and retrieves documents according to properties attached to the documents. Applications which function based on hierarchical path names communicate to the document management system through a translator. A tag is inserted into the path of a document to identify the document and represent a dynamic collection. The same tag is inserted into the path of files which support the document so that the supporting files are related to the document by the path tag. In this manner, the document management system identifies and locates all documents which are related to each other based on the tag. Thus, an application is provided with all related files even though the application may not know where the files are actually stored or retrieved from.

Tagging related files in a document management system

A paper document satchel is an ordinary piece of paper that functions as a fully functional document token repository by virtue of the data encoded in printed marks on the page. The paper document satchel provides a portable and functional way to transfer document, reference, owner, etc., information between computer systems.

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Anthony George LaMarca