International Business Machines Corporation

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Howard Z Lee

Michael Kevin Larkin

Papiya Nath

Zhiping Xia

An apparatus and method for adjusting a display of a portable electronic device having a display unit are provided. The method includes detecting a user's touch of the portable electronic device, determining touch information including at least one of a location and an area of the user's touch on the display unit, determining whether the user's touch is a touch input for executing an operation on the portable electronic device or a user's gripping of the portable electronic device according to the touch information, and adjusting the displaying of a User Interface (UI) according to the user's gripping of the portable electronic device, wherein an entirety of an outward facing surface of the display unit is touch-enabled so as to receive a touch input of a user at any point of the outward facing surface.

Apparatus and method for an adaptive edge-to-edge display system for multi-touch devices

An apparatus and method for transmitting a voicemail from a mobile terminal are provided. The method includes transmitting a voicemail header comprising predefined voicemail information, receiving a voicemail message content from a user of the mobile terminal, and transmitting the voicemail message content.

Apparatus and method for transmitting information in voicemail

A method and system for collecting and reviewing data related to web services receives service criteria from a service requester, selects candidate services that match the service criteria, invokes the selected candidate services, and aggregates results provided by the candidate services. In conjunction with aggregating results, the method and system builds service result objects conforming to a composite schema constructed from the various result schemas. To increase the utility of the aggregated results, metadata such as an invocation timestamp are also attached to each service result object. Result values are inspected and enumerated within a results table that may be used to determine which service result objects contain a particular result value.

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Howard Z Lee