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Location sharing and tracking using mobile phones or other wireless devices
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The article was published on 2005-04-04. It has received 723 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Assisted GPS & Wireless.read more
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Automated Device Provisioning and Activation
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose a method comprising providing a plurality of links to end-user devices communicatively coupled to a network system, a particular link of the plurality supporting control-plane communications between the network system and a particular user over one or more wireless access networks, the message comprising payload for delivery to the particular user and an identifier identifying a particular device agent on the particular enduser device.
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Preferred contact group centric interface
Andrew Seattle Sherrard,Warren Mcneel,Jasdeep Singh Chugh,Stephen John O'connor,Mikkel Krone Koser,Richard Paul Pinner Turnnidge,Michael Thomas Hendrick,Gary Sentman,Karl Warfel,Wen-Hsing Chang,Sally Abolrous,Adrian Buzescu +11 more
TL;DR: A preferred contact group centric interface for a communication device can be used to facilitate communications by a user as mentioned in this paper, which can be arranged to activate from a user's "home page" on the display, from an idle screen that is accessed after a timeout period expires, or any other appropriate mechanism that activates the preferred contact groups centric experience.
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Eyepiece with uniformly illuminated reflective display
Ralph F. Osterhout,John D. Haddick,Robert Michael Lohse,John N. Border,Gregory D. Miller,Ross W. Stovall +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, an eyepiece includes a mechanical frame adapted to secure a lens and an image source facility above the lens, which includes an LED, a planar illumination facility and a reflective display.
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Service Plan Design, User Interfaces, Application Programming Interfaces, and Device Management
Gregory G. Raleigh,Jose Tellado,Jeffrey Green,James Lavine,Justin James,Laurent An Minh Nguyen,Russell Bertrand Carter +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present methods, systems, and apparatuses to enable subscribers of mobile wireless communication devices to view, research, select and customize service plans; to create and manage device groups, share and set permission controls for service plans among devices in device groups; to manage communication services through graphical user interfaces; to sponsor and promote service plans.
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Content processing apparatus and content display apparatus based on location information
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an approach to generate area-specific list content comprising information on location-dependent content corresponding to location information by extracting a list organized by location conditions, in which location conditions matching location information are provided, from the list content.
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TL;DR: In this paper, a system and a method of locating an online site or document for a user is described, where at least one question is provided to a user, the question being associated with a plurality of predefined answers.
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System and method for positioning a mobile terminal using a terminal based browser
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Method for determining if the location of a wireless communication device is within a specified area
James A. Fitch,Garrick T. Wager +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a method for determining whether a location associated with a wireless station, such as a cellular telephone, is located within an area of interest is defined using a quadtree representation of an area.