Apple Inc.

Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Fujitsu Corporation

Seagate Technology Incorporated

Macronix International Co., Ltd.

Arris Enterprises LLC

Hp Indigo B.v.

Silicon Magic Corporation

Michael M Lee

Justin Lawrence Gregg

Chad Seguin

Nagendra Bage Jayaraj

Christopher D McKillop

Jeffrey J Terlizzi

Cyril Labidi

Scott James Forstall

Michael Nathaniel Rosenblatt

Alexei L Glebov

Henri C Lamiraux

Maurice L Schlumberger

Tang Yew Tan

Richard Hung Minh Dinh

Michael F Culbert

David C Buuck

Nadim Awad

Khaled Ahmad Obeidat

Jay F Hamlin

Christopher N Ryan

Matthew William Lee

Phillip George Tamchina

Leo John Geskey

Patrick Robert Foo

Kun-Nan Cheng

Fu-Chi Wang

Nicholas V King

Erhard Theodor Schreck

Stephan Vincent Schell

David Tupman

Christopher P Dudte

Seongsik Chang

Don Brunnett

Bradley James Bozarth

Michael G Peters

Greg Marriott

James J Roman

Derek Boyd Barrentine

Casey Maureen Dougherty

John McGarry

Marshall Williams

Daniel Benjamin Rausch

Shinya Sasaki

Thomas Bruno Mader

Bernhard Hiller

Cheng-Jung Lee

Bruce C Schardt

Laura Allison Ridlehoover

Richard David Young

Amir Pelleg

David Kudzuma

Chandra Shaker Buddhavaram

Joseph Christopher Modro

David Chew

Samuel Richard Duell

Pantelis Alexopoulos

Mark Corbridge

Gabriel Isaiah Rowe

Jean-Francois Vincent

Greg L Tanaka

Tony Aghazarian

Leroy L Leach

Eric Kvamme

Sean Hsi-an Kuo

Gregory Mitchell Stefanek

Anna Kim Lee

Robert L Kimball

Richard Sonnenfeld

Kenneth Choy

Mason R Lee

John Eric Arthur

Brian D Lemker

Bob Burrough

Daniel Farrell

Christian Paez

Thierry Chatard

Jeff Griffiths

Johanna Hernandez

James McGrath

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Robert Milby

In one example, a wheel includes an annular body having a central axis; and multiple concentric grooves in the body surrounding the central axis. A first one of the grooves penetrates the body from a first side and a second one of the grooves penetrates the body from a second side opposite the first side.

Wheel

Described herein are systems and methods for content streaming with bandwidth management. Prior to shipment of a streaming device, partial content and remaining content from content may be generated. The partial content may be configured to be unusable for presentation at the streaming device without at least a portion of the remaining content, and the remaining content may be configured to be unusable for presentation at the streaming device without at least a portion of the partial content. The partial content may be combinable with the remaining content by the streaming device to form a presentable file corresponding to the first content. The partial content may have a filename extension indicating that an associated media file includes the partial content, and the associated media file is different from the presentable file. The partial content on the streaming device may be stored prior to the shipment of the streaming device.

Establishing an initial configuration of a streaming device

Techniques for implementing a fan-less mode in a Power over Ethernet (PoE) network device are provided. According to one set of embodiments, the PoE network device can receive a user command to enable the fan-less mode. In response to the command, the PoE network device can (1) turn off the active cooling fans of the device, and (2) modify a PoE power budget of the device from a first amount to a second, reduced amount that is less than the first amount.

Fan-less mode in a power over ethernet (PoE) network device

Methods, systems and computer readable media for altering an audio output are provided. In some embodiments, the system may change the original frequency content of an audio data file to a second frequency content so that a recorded audio track will sound as if a different person had recorded it when it is played back. In other embodiments, the system may receive an audio data file and a voice signature, and it may apply the voice signature to the audio data file to alter the audio output of the audio data file. In that instance, the audio data file may be a textual representation of a recorded audio data file.

Methods and apparatus for altering audio output signals

An effortless and automated reordering system includes a dedicated electronic device with a simple button interface that, upon depression of the button, initiates a process of ordering (or reordering) a product associated with the device and a button on that device. The electronic device may store in memory a device identifier and button identifiers for each button as the basis for order request information. The stored data may be communicated to a fulfillment service (e.g., an online merchant, fulfillment center, etc.) for order identification processing. In some cases, an application provided by the fulfillment service may be executed on a secondary management device to allow a user to configure the electronic device to map the buttons to different products, and even different vendors, to facilitate reconfigurable order management.

Effortless and automated reordering

A dedicated control path architecture for systems of devices, such as stacking systems, is provided. In one embodiment, a network device for use in a system of devices can comprise a CPU complex; a first set of ports for establishing a data path between the network device and other network devices in the system of devices; and a second set of ports for establishing a control path between the network device and the other network devices in the system of devices. The control path can be separate from the data path and can allow the CPU complex to exchange control plane traffic with other CPU complexes resident in the other network devices.

Dedicated control path architecture for systems of devices

A mobile electronic device has a touch sensitive screen and an accelerometer. A translator is to translate a word or phrase that is in a first human language and that is entered via a first virtual keyboard displayed on the touch sensitive screen, into a second human language. A translator is to cause the touch sensitive screen to display the translated word or phrase and a second virtual keyboard having characters in the second human language, in response to the accelerometer detecting a change in the physical orientation of the device or movement of the device. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.

Mobile device having human language translation capability with positional feedback

Methods and systems for powering-off a wireless communication device from a linked device are provided. A device can transmit a wireless communication signal to a linked device to instruct the linked device to power-off. In this manner, the user need only turn off one device manually which results in all linked devices being powered off. This process can be initiated by a user through a device directly linked with the device to be powered-off or through a device that is indirectly connected, through one or more wireless communication networks, with the device to be powered-off. This process can also be automatically initiated by a device when a set of predetermined conditions exist. Once instructed to do so, a device can initiate a predetermined power-off process which can involve terminating any ongoing functions and turning off various subsystems. In accordance with the present invention, a user can initiate a power-off of all the devices on a wireless communication network through a single device.

Automatic power-off of wireless communication device from linked device

Computing devices are disclosed that use haptic technology to communicate data to a stylus device. This data may include, for example, updates to the stylus device, instructions on how the stylus should behave, authentication and identification information, and other data. This communication may also allow a stylus to implement security features and copy and paste functionality from one user device to another. In an aspect, the computing device includes a haptic element that provides a vibration force to the device or touchscreen of the device, and communicates data embedded on a carrier to the stylus. The stylus receives the vibration force through a pressure sensor on the stylus and used the information to enhance the user experience.

Device stylus haptic communication system

Approaches are described for securely sending, receiving, or otherwise processing communications between electronic devices. A communication can be received at a computing device (such as a mobile phone). The communication can include information captured about a person initiating the communication such as an image of the user, voice data of the user, typing pattern information of the user, or any other information that can be used to identify the user generating the communication. The information can be compared against profile data (e.g., contact information such as a phone number or name of the sender) associated with or otherwise stored for an indicated sender of the communication to generate a confidence value, where the confidence value can be used to indicate that the person initiating the communication is the indicated sender.

Secure messaging

A communications system by which a user may provide inputs using an accessory device is provided. The accessory device may provide instructions to the communications device over any suitable wired or wireless communications path. The accessory device may include any suitable input mechanism for providing an input, including for example one or more switches, sliders, knobs, keys, motion sensing components, environmental sensing components, or any other input mechanism that the user may actuate. A communications system by which a communications device may transmit urgent communications requests is provided. The user may select an urgent option when transmitting a communications request to cause the recipient communications device to enable an urgent mode in which the recipient communications device may change the notification scheme to ensure that the recipient receives the urgent communications request.

Urgent communications

Device-stylus haptic communication system

During an ongoing wireless telephone call communication session between a pair of mobile devices, a local device responds to its user's activation of a virtual or actual button or key, or its user's verbal command, by automatically sending an over the air message (e.g., a SMS or text message or other network communication message) to the remote device. The message requests location information of the remote device. Upon obtaining location information from the remote device, a location of the remote device is automatically displayed on the local device. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.

Device-to-device location awareness

Media can be presented based on location associated with presentation of media (e.g., physical location of a device that is to present media). Presentation of media can be effectively controlled in order to automatically present a first media content (e.g., a list of songs, an album) in accordance with a first set of media presentation attributes or parameters (e.g., volume associated with presentation of audible media) at a first location, while a second media content is automatically presented in accordance with a second set of media presentation attributes or parameters when the current location is changed to a second location.

Location-based media presentation

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Michael M Lee