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Flextronics Ap, LLC

Hisense USA Corporation

Qingdao Hisense Electronics Co., Ltd.

Hisense International Co., Ltd.

Jamdeo Canada Ltd.

Hisense Electric Co., Ltd.

Hisense Visual Technology Co., Ltd.

Jamdeo Technologies Ltd.

Renu, Inc.

Autoconnect Holdings LLC

Onx, Inc.

Multimedia Technologies, Inc.

Qingdao Hisense Elecronics Co., Ltd.

Sanjiv Sirpal

Martin Gimpl

Alexander De Paz

Paul Edward Reeves

Mohammed Selim

John Visosky

Rodney Wayne Schrock

Salvador Soto

Brian Joseph Reeves

Richard Teltz

Jared Leigh Ficklin

Saulo Correia Dourado

Ron Cassar

Denise L Burton

Chris Tyghe

Eduardo Diego Torres Milano

David Reeves

Gregg Wygonik

Brett B Faulk

Karina Amaral Limongi

Sergii Grysenko

Mikhail Shoykher

Eric Freedman

Robert Csiki

Misty Cripps

Maxim Marintchenko

Octavian Chincisan

Wuke Liu

Paul Webber

Fuqu Wu

Alexander dePaz

Sean Burke

Dean Britto

Tong Chen

Alisher Yusupov

Ehsan Taghavi

Richard Zane DeLoach

Gregory Burdzinski

Taylor Michael Keep

Jennifer L Fraser

Christopher Tyghe

Lucilla Madamba

Mohammad Aliakbari Miyanmahaleh

Nikhil Swaminathan

Christopher P Ricci

David Hull

Kean Wing Kin Lam

Terrance D Voth

Todd Lee

Cristian Hancila

David Taylor

Stephen Edwards

Mike Uhl

Guli Meng

Brian Reeves

Aaron VonderHaar

Stanley Kurdziel

Ken Leung

Chao Zhou

Yong Miao

Cuong Hung Nguyen

Salvador Guterrez

Sepideh Shahi

Salvador Solo

Rod Schrock

Zhe Cao

Suxiang Wei

Xuan Hu

Charles Edward Becze

An intelligent television system provides an operating system and an application framework for controlling a user interface to handle user input events from a handheld remote control. The remote control includes color keys that are configured for triggering different functions in different application panels displayed on the television.

Remote control having hotkeys with dynamically assigned functions

A digital signaling device provides visual, audible, and haptic indicators when the digital signaling device changes state. The digital signaling device has a same operational feel and response as a classic electro-mechanical decorator-style light switch, including maintaining switch paddle position, using attractive magnetic latching in combination with a spring contact. The switch paddle can be pressed into one of two positions, each position representing a different state of the digital signaling device. The switch paddle provides a visual indicator of the digital signaling device state in that the switch paddle is maintained in one of the two positions. The attractive magnetic latching provides both an audible and haptic indicator when the magnet pairs are engaged, which corresponds to a change of state of the digital signaling device. The spring contact provides a digital switching mechanism for changing the state of the digital signaling device.

Digital signaling device for signaling an electrical switch

An Intelligent Television provides unique user interfaces and user interface interactions to provide social media. The interfaces and interface are intuitive and allow the user to quickly retrieve and view social media with respect to content displayed on the Intelligent Television. Further, intuitive user interface interactions are provided to allow for the quick and efficient posting of social media from the Intelligent Television to a social media site.

Systems and methods for providing social media with an intelligent television

A networked HVAC system is implemented as part of a multi-unit dwelling. At least one HVAC unit is installed within each unit of the multi-unit dwelling. Each individual HVAC unit includes a localized HVAC unit controller, which is connected to an external network. The HVAC unit controller also can be connected to any other controllable HVAC devices in the unit, such as an exhaust fan. The HVAC system addresses the open-loop issue by monitoring temperature, air flow, humidity, air pressure, occupancy, window open/close state, and HVAC units of all units in a multi-unit dwelling, as well as common areas, and optimizing operating parameters to minimize wide swings in operational states and managing the overall system of multiple units/common areas so that energy usage and temperature/ventilation control is optimized. The HVAC system also enables learning and predictive modeling for adapting to real-time and anticipated condition requirements within each zone.

HVAC system having learning and prediction modeling

Networked HVAC system having local and networked control

A dual-screen user device and methods for revealing a combination of selected desktops and applications on single and dual screens are disclosed. Desktops and applications can be shifted between screens by user gestures, and/or moved off of the screens and therefore hidden. Hidden desktops and screens can be re-displayed by other gestures. The desktops and applications are arranged in a window stack that represents a logical order of the desktops and applications providing a user with an intuitive ability to manage multiple applications/desktops running simultaneously. One embodiment provides an annunciator window extending across both screens in a dual screen configuration. The annunciator window provides alerts, notifications, and statuses of the device in an increased area thereby enhancing viewability of the information in the window. The annunciator window can be expanded over a selected screen to view full contents of the window without having to minimize or close running applications.

Annunciator drawer

Embodiments provide for a handheld device with a unified desktop for integrating the functionality of the handheld device with a larger computer system. When connected to a peripheral display and/or a display of the larger computer system, the handheld device provides a unified desktop displayed across the screen(s) of the handheld device and the peripheral display. The unified desktop unifies the functionality provided by the larger computer system and the handheld functionality, e.g., communication applications (e.g., phone, SMS, MMS). A user can seamlessly interact with applications, e.g., open, move, close, receive notifications, on the unified desktop whether the applications are displayed on the screens of the handheld device, or the peripheral display of the larger computer system.

Displaying a unified desktop across connected devices

A dual display communication device includes a gesture capture region to receive a gesture, a first touch sensitive display to receive a gesture and display displayed images (such as a desktop or window of an application), and a second touch sensitive display to receive a gesture and display displayed images. Middleware receives a gesture, the gesture indicating that a displayed image is to be moved from the first touch sensitive display to the second touch sensitive display, such as to maximize a window to cover portions of both displays simultaneously; in response and prior to movement of the displayed image to the second touch sensitive display, moves a transition indicator from the first touch sensitive display to the second touch sensitive display to a selected position to be occupied by the displayed image; and thereafter moves the displayed image from the first touch sensitive display to the second touch sensitive display to the selected position.

Displayed image transition indicator

Methods and devices for minimizing and maximizing displayed output associated with applications are provided. More particularly, an application presented across two or more screens of a device in a landscape mode can be minimized to present portion of the application in one of the screens. With respect to a maximization operation received with respect to a page of an application results in the expansion of the displayed portion of the application to multiple screens of the device. Input to effect minimization and maximization operations can be entered in one or more gesture capture regions associated with the screens.

Minimizing and maximizing between landscape dual display and landscape single display

Methods and devices for selectively presenting a user interface or 'desktop' across two devices are provided. More particularly, a unified desktop is presented across a device and a computer system that comprise a unified system. The unified desktop acts as a single user interface that presents data and receives user interaction in a seamless environment that emulates a personal computing environment. To function within the personal computing environment, the unified desktop includes a process for docking and undocking the device with the computer system. The unified desktop presents a new user interface to allow access to functions of the unified desktop.

Unified desktop input segregation in an application manager

Methods and devices for selectively presenting a user interface for a phone application are provided. More particularly, a change in the display mode of a multiple screen device can be determined after the device is rotated. More particularly, a presentation of a user interface for a dialer of a phone application can be retained after receiving a signal indicating the rotation of the device. However, based on the direction of the rotation, the dialer may be moved from a first screen to a second screen and the window is changed to a landscape orientation.

Windows position control for phone applications

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Oakville, Canada

Sanjiv Sirpal