Motorola Corporation

Patrick A Stadler

Mark Clayton

Merlin J Smith

Kungwel Liu

Ryan J Kummet

An embodiment of the invention includes an information appliance system () having an information appliance device () with a focus manager (). Among other things, the focus manager is disposed to manage a plurality of asynchronous entities (). Focus manager () receives an asynchronous request (), stores it in a queue () and assigns it a priority level (). Based on the priority level (), an asynchronous entity () takes over control of user interface device resources from an entity (), utilizes the resources, and returns them to the entity ().

Managing asynchronous requests for user interface resources in an information system

An embodiment of the invention includes a plurality of navigational position sources ( ) disposed to provide position data, a position service module ( ) to form a composite of position data ( ) and a position session module ( ) to transmit composite of position data ( ) to applications ( ). An embodiment of a method includes providing a plurality of navigational position sources ( ) disposed to provide position data, providing a position service module ( ) disposed to receive position data, and form composite of position data ( ). Composite of position data ( ) is then transmitted to one or more applications ( ) via a position session module ( ).

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Gilbert, AZ, United States of America

Patrick A Stadler