Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090082111 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONNECTING USERS BASED ON COMMON INTERESTS, SUCH AS SHARED INTERESTS OF REPRESENTATIONS OF PROFESSIONAL ATHLETES - A system and method for connecting users based on common participation, ownership, or interest in a commodity or market, such as common ownership of a player associated with fantasy sports, is described. In some cases, the system presents a page associated with the commonly-interesting player to a user. In some cases, the provided content includes comments provided by other users or content provided by sources other than a source hosting a fantasy sports league associated with the player. | 03-26-2009 |
20110025842 | Automatically capturing information, such as capturing information using a document-aware device - A system and method for automatically changing the operation of a mobile device in response to a presence of information is described. In some examples, the system determines an information capture device is proximate to text, automatically changes operation of the capture device to a certain mode, captures the text, and performs an action associated with the captured text. | 02-03-2011 |
20110029443 | PERFORMING ACTIONS BASED ON CAPTURING INFORMATION FROM RENDERED DOCUMENTS, SUCH AS DOCUMENTS UNDER COPYRIGHT - A hardware, firmware, and/or software facility (“facility”) for providing information relevant to rendered documents is described. In some embodiments, the facility identifies multiple versions of an electronic document corresponding to a rendered document captured by a capture device. The facility may then provide a person utilizing the capture device with various ways to interact with one or more versions of the electronic document. In some embodiments, the facility determines that use of a rendered document is restricted, such as by copyright, to some degree. The facility may then offer the person the option to obtain unrestricted use of the rendered document. If the person accepts, the person obtains the right to store captures of the rendered document. If the person declines, the facility automatically discards captures of the rendered document. In some embodiments, the facility may automatically purchase rights to restricted-use rendered documents based upon the person's pre-defined criteria. | 02-03-2011 |
20110035656 | Identifying a document by performing spectral analysis on the contents of the document - A system and method for identifying a document based on a spectral analysis of the text of the document is described. In some examples, the system generates a document identifier for a rendered document based on assigning values to words in the rendered document, such as values associated with the frequency of use of the word by the rendered document, the absolute or relative position of the word in the rendered document, and so on. The system may use the document identifier to generate a group of documents having similar document identifiers, and choose a likely match from the group of documents based on predictive analysis. | 02-10-2011 |
20110035662 | Interacting with rendered documents using a multi-function mobile device, such as a mobile phone - A system and method for facilitating interactions between multi-function devices and rendered documents is described. In some examples, the systems overlays an image of a rendered document with display elements associated with actions to perform for the rendered document. In some examples, the system presents a virtual real-time image in place of a real-time of a document or other display of information. | 02-10-2011 |
20110043652 | AUTOMATICALLY PROVIDING CONTENT ASSOCIATED WITH CAPTURED INFORMATION, SUCH AS INFORMATION CAPTURED IN REAL-TIME - A system and method for automatically providing content associated with captured information is described. In some examples, the system receives input by a user, and automatically provides content or links to content associated with the input. In some examples, the system receives input via text entry or by capturing text from a rendered document, such as a printed document, an object, an audio stream, and so on. | 02-24-2011 |
20110096174 | ACCESSING RESOURCES BASED ON CAPTURING INFORMATION FROM A RENDERED DOCUMENT - A system and method for authorizing access to computing resources, access to services, software and so on, based on capturing information associated with a request is described. | 04-28-2011 |
20110153653 | IMAGE SEARCH USING TEXT-BASED ELEMENTS WITHIN THE CONTENTS OF IMAGES - A mobile device searches for electronic content. The mobile device captures an image from a rendered document, and searches for an electronic version of the image using characteristics of the image and using text within the contents of the image. The mobile device receives a result for the search based upon the image characteristics and the text within the context of the image. | 06-23-2011 |
20120214463 | DETECTING USE OF A MOBILE DEVICE BY A DRIVER OF A VEHICLE, SUCH AS AN AUTOMOBILE - A system and method for detecting that a driver of a vehicle is using a mobile device is described. In some examples, the system uses information identifying a rate of speed of a vehicle and information identifying a location of a mobile device, such as information extracted from images taken of the vehicle and/or distance measurements performed within the vehicle, to determine whether a driver is using a mobile device. | 08-23-2012 |
20130275849 | Performing Actions Based on Capturing Information from Rendered Documents, Such as Documents under Copyright - A hardware, firmware, and/or software facility (“facility”) for providing information relevant to rendered documents is described. In some embodiments, the facility identifies multiple versions of an electronic document corresponding to a rendered document captured by a capture device. The facility may then provide a person utilizing the capture device with various ways to interact with one or more versions of the electronic document. In some embodiments, the facility determines that use of a rendered document is restricted, such as by copyright, to some degree. The facility may then offer the person the option to obtain unrestricted use of the rendered document. If the person accepts, the person obtains the right to store captures of the rendered document. If the person declines, the facility automatically discards captures of the rendered document. In some embodiments, the facility may automatically purchase rights to restricted-use rendered documents based upon the person's predefined criteria. | 10-17-2013 |
20140113828 | ELECTRICAL, MECHANICAL, COMPUTING/ AND/OR OTHER DEVICES FORMED OF EXTREMELY LOW RESISTANCE MATERIALS - Electrical, mechanical, computing, and/or other devices that include components formed of extremely low resistance (ELR) materials, including, but not limited to, modified ELR materials, layered ELR materials, and new ELR materials, are described. | 04-24-2014 |
20140232889 | AUTOMATICALLY CAPTURING INFORMATION SUCH AS CAPTURING INFORMATION USING A DOCUMENT-AWARE DEVICE - A system and method for automatically changing the operation of a mobile device in response to a presence of information is described. In some examples, the system determines an information capture device is proximate to text, automatically changes operation of the capture device to a certain mode, captures the text, and performs an action associated with the captured text. | 08-21-2014 |