Location sharing and tracking using mobile phones or other wireless devices

A device, system, and method are directed towards providing location information from a social network. A GPS coordinate and a search criterion are received from a client device associated with a member of a social network. The social network is searched for another member associated with a location name based on the GPS coordinate and the search criterion. The location name may be a sponsored advertisement. The location name is provided to the client device. A communication may be enabled between the member and the other member. Moreover, a start and end location may also be received. The GPS coordinate and/or search criterion may be associated with either the start or end location. The searched location name is used to determine a location of interest. A route is determined between the start and end location and through the location of interest. The route is provided to the client device.

Searching and route mapping based on a social network, location, and time

A system, apparatus, and method for locating available information and services/applications via mobile terminals (100, 204) using radio frequency identification (RFID) technology. A transponder(s) (102, 200) is provided, having at least an application identifier (301) and associated content (302), at a location that is accessible to mobile terminal users. The transponder (102, 200) is activated via a wireless signal (702) transmitted by the mobile terminal (100, 204). The application identifier (301) and content (302) from the activated transponder (102) are received at the mobile terminal (100, 204) when it is physically located within a wireless transmission range (120) of the transponder (102). In response, an application (306- 324) identified at least in part by the application identifier (301) is invoked on the mobile terminal (100, 204). Transponders (804, 904) may also be associated with visual representations (802, 902), such that communication functions (1408, 1410) may be automatically initiated by pointing/touching an RF reader-equipped mobile device 100 to the visual representation (902) and associated tag (904).

System, apparatus, and method for effecting network connections via wireless devices using radio frequency identification

A display apparatus includes an image processor which processes an image to display an image content; a display unit which displays thereon an image content that is processed by the image processor; and a controller which displays a user interface (UI) menu including a plurality of UI items to search the image content, as one of a two-dimensional (2D) layout by which the plurality of UI items are arranged in a 2D manner, and a three-dimensional (3D) layout by which the plurality of UI items are arranged in a 3D manner , and changes displaying the one of the layouts to display the other of the layouts according to a user's command while maintaining a continuity of the arrangement of the plurality of UI items. Accordingly, search for an image content can be efficiently performed by using a UI menu.

Display apparatus and control method thereof

A device, system, and method are directed towards updating location information for a social network. A request for the location information associated with a GPS coordinate is received from a client device associated with a member of the social network. In response to the request, a location name associated with another member of the social network is provided to the client device based on the GPS coordinate. Another location name may be received from the client device. The other location name may be associated with the GPS coordinate and with the member in the social network. Thus, the GPS coordinate and/or member may be associated with a plurality of location names. A location description may also be received and associated with the location name and with the member in the social network.

Determining mobile content for a social network based on location and time

A location context-aware mobile system (104, 108) determines the location of a mobile device (102) and updates a user interface (501) based on the location of the device. By using the location of the mobile device to reduce the amount of information required to be entered by a user in a business process application, the system increases the feasibility of providing business process applications on mobile devices such as mobile telephones (102).

Integrating geographical contextual information into mobile entreprise applications

A location context-aware mobile system determines the location of a mobile device and updates a user interface based on the location of the device By using the location of the mobile device to reduce the amount of information required to be entered by a user in a business process application, the system increases the feasibility of providing business process applications on mobile devices such as mobile telephones

Integrating contextual information into mobile enterprise applications

The paper deals with quality attributes for mobile web applications. It describes typical challenges when developing mobile web applications and relates the challenges to the ISO 9126 quality attributes. The quality attributes are summarized to an ISO model that is focusing on the most important quality attributes for the quality assurance of mobile web applications. Finally, the paper proposes that applying formal quality assurance methods during the development of mobile web applications may solve some of the challenges in mobile web application development.

Quality Attributes in Mobile Web Application Development

A source document including at least one event (115) is generated, meta information is associated with one or more of the events (115), and the events (115) are transformed into one or more markup language specific representations (130) of the events (115). The transformation of the event (115) is controlled at least in part by the associated meta­ information. Then, at least one markup language specific representation (130) of the events (115) are sent to a browser (140) running on a client device (405). One or more markup language specific events (130) are coded as HTTP-request parameters (145) are received from the client device (405).

Transformation of web description documents

Integrated development environment IDE (999), method and computer system for developing user interface documents. An editor (104) is used for editing a user interface document. An adaptation engine (105) generates device class specific representations of the user interface document. Each device class specific representation refers to a respective device class. Device class dependent tools (120) of the IDE (999) are used for generating device class specific information and providing it to the author. Device class specific information can be information about the complexity of the user interface by device class provided by a complexity indicator (121), information about how many pages are generated for which device class provided by a device class dependent view (122) or information about the layout for various device classes provided by a frames layouting view (124).

Axel Spriestersbach

Papers

Integrating geographical contextual information into mobile entreprise applications

Integrating contextual information into mobile enterprise applications

Quality Attributes in Mobile Web Application Development

Transformation of web description documents

Method and computer system for document authoring