Applied Minds, Inc.

Intel Corporation

Clint Blake Hope

Bran Ferren

W Daniel Hillis

Randall Adam Yates

Ira M Lichtman

Robert Curtiss Francis

The invention provides an instrument control panel that is easily customized and reconfigured, and yet provides the familiar tactile sensation of physical knobs, sliders, and buttons. The instrument control panel comprises one or more interface components that are removably coupled to an interface display wherein the interface components communicate with one or more control components disposed behind the interface display. The present invention lends itself particularly well to an instrument panel.

Customizable and reconfigurable virtual instrument panel

Context-based limitation of mobile device operation. An embodiment of a method includes receiving a request for a function of a mobile device. The method further includes obtaining data regarding a context of the mobile device, and determining a current context for the mobile device based on the obtained data. The method includes determining whether the function of the mobile device should be limited at least in part the current context of the mobile device; and responding to the request for the function based on the determination regarding the limitation of the function.

Context-based limitation of mobile device operation

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Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

Clint Blake Hope