Author: claimsbot

1. An apparatus comprising:
a plurality of content sources providing content relevant to an event at a venue;
one or more wireless access points positioned at the venue;
a plurality of servers distributing the content signals to the wireless access points; and
a plurality of wireless communication devices, each using a browser to retrieve the content through one of the wireless access points.
2. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the wireless communication devices comprise Wi-Fi enabled devices.
3. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the content sources comprise one or more of:
a control room;
a camera array;
a venue broadcast;
a venue display; and
a non-video source.
4. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the servers comprise one or more of:
a streaming videoaudio server;
a video-on-demand server;
a non-video services server; and
a miscellaneous services server.
5. An apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:
a format converter for converting content to a format usable by a browser.
6. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein each wireless communication device is associated with one of the wireless access points and receives signals therefrom.
7. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the wireless access points exchange information with each other and using a distributed protocol and determine which of the wireless communication devices will receive content from the wireless access points.
8. An apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the distributed protocol uses signal strength to determine which of the wireless communication devices will receive content from the wireless access points.
9. An apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:
an authentication server.
10. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the wireless communication devices access one content signal at a time.
11. A method comprising:
receiving content relevant to an event at a venue from a plurality of content sources;
distributing the content to a plurality of wireless access points at the venue; and
using browsers in a plurality of wireless communication devices to receive content through one of the wireless access points.
12. The method of claim 11, wherein the wireless communication devices comprise Wi-Fi enabled devices.
13. The method of claim 11, wherein the content sources comprise one or more of:
a control room;
a camera array;
a venue broadcast;
a venue display; and
a non-video source.
14. The method of claim 11, wherein the content is received by one or more of:
a streaming videoaudio server;
a video-on-demand server;
a non-video services server; and
a miscellaneous services server.
15. The method of claim 11, further comprising:
exchanging information among the wireless access points and using a distributed protocol and determine which of the wireless communication devices will receive content from the wireless access points.
16. The method of claim 15, wherein the distributed protocol uses signal strength to determine the wireless access point that is to be accessed by one of the wireless communication devices.
17. The method of claim 16, wherein the comparison of signal strengths occurs after the signal strength falls at one of the wireless access points below a threshold value.
18. The method of claim 17, further comprising:
maintaining communication with a wireless access point until confirmation of a successful handoff is made.
19. The method of claim 11, wherein each wireless communication device coordinates its own handoff by measuring signal strength and requesting an association with a wireless access point having the largest measured signal strength.
20. The method of claim 11, further comprising:
converting the content to a format usable by a browser.

The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.

What is claimed is:

1. An electronic-mail reception apparatus having a body, said apparatus comprising:
a facsimile receiver that negotiates with a sender before receiving image data, to receive image data in facsimile format from the sender via a telephone network;
an electronic-mail receiver that receives image data in an electronic mail format and character code data in the electronic mail format from a mail sender via a communication network;
a converter that converts the image data in the electronic mail format into image data in the facsimile format;
a font section that converts the character code data received by the electronic-mail receiver into image data; and
an output section that outputs the image data converted by the converter and the image data converted by the font section,
wherein the facsimile receiver, the electronic-mail receiver, the converter, the font section and the output section are integrated in the body of the apparatus.
2. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the output section is a printing mechanism.
3. The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a detector that detects whether the data received by the electronic-mail receiver is the image data in the electronic mail format or the character code data in the electronic mail format.
4. The apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the detector refers to a data format information in a header of the received data in the electronic-mail format to detect whether the received data is the image data or the character code data.
5. The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a expander that expands the received character code data to output the expanded character code data to the output section.
6. The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:
an operational panel that designates one of an electronic mail destination address and a facsimile destination address;
an acceptor that converts document data into image data;
a compressor that compresses the image data;
a facsimile transmitter that transmits the compressed image data to the designated facsimile destination via a telephone network; and
an electronic-mail transmitter that transmits the compressed image data converted into an electronic-mail format to the designated electronic mail destination address via the communication network.
7. The apparatus according to claim 1,
said font section comprising a memory which stores relationship between character code data and image data.
8. An electronic-mail reception apparatus having a body, said apparatus comprising:
a facsimile receiver that negotiates with a sender before receiving image data, to receive image data in facsimile format from the sender via a telephone network;
an electronic-mail receiver that receives character code data in the electronic mail format from a mail sender via a communication network;
a font section that converts the character code data received by the electronic-mail receiver into image data; and
an output section that outputs the image data received by the facsimile receiver and the image data converted by the font section,
wherein the facsimile receiver, the electronic-mail receiver, the font section and the output section are integrated in the body of the apparatus.
9. The apparatus according to claim 8,
said font section comprising a memory which stores a relationship between character code data and image data.
10. A method for receiving image data using an electronic-mail reception apparatus having a body, comprising:
negotiating with a sender before receiving image data, to receive image data in facsimile format from a sender via a telephone network;
receiving image data in an electronic mail format and character code data in the electronic mail format from a mail sender via a communication network;
converting the image data in the electronic mail format into image data in the facsimile format;
converting the character code data into image data;
outputting the image data in the facsimile format and the image data converted from the character data; and
performing the negotiating with a sender, the receiving image data in the electronic mail format and the character code data in the electronic mail format, the converting image data in the electronic mail format into image data in the facsimile format, the converting the character code data into image data, and the outputting in the body of the electronic-mail reception apparatus.
11. A method for receiving image data using an electronic-mail reception apparatus having a body, comprising:
negotiating with a sender before receiving image data, to receive image data in facsimile format from a sender via a telephone network;
receiving character code data in the electronic mail format from a mail sender via a communication network;
converting the character code data into image data;
outputting the received image data in the facsimile format and the image data converted from the character data; and
performing the negotiating with a sender, the receiving character code data in the electronic mail format, the converting the character code data into image data, and the outputting in the body of the electronic-mail reception apparatus.

1. An electromechanical damper for a vehicle for damping between two components mechanical oscillations by which a drive torque is transmittable to an electric generator for generating a damping force, said damper comprising:
a first gearbox constructed in the form of a planetary gear train having a sun wheel connected to one end face of a rotor of the generator, a ring gear, and planet wheels in mesh with the sun wheel and the ring gear;
a second gearbox constructed in the form of a planetary gear train having a sun wheel connected to another end face of the rotor, a ring gear, and planet wheels in mesh with the sun wheel and the ring gear; and
a stator housing forming a gear element which is integrated in the first and second gearboxes,
wherein the sun wheel, ring gear and planet wheels of the first and second gearboxes are each provided with helical teeth in axial direction, with the helical teeth of the sun wheel of one of the first and second gearboxes and the sun wheel of the other one of the first and second gearboxes being directed in opposition to one another.
2. The electromechanical damper of claim 1, wherein the helical teeth are oriented at an angle of about 45\xb0 in relation to the axial direction.
3. The electromechanical damper of claim 1, wherein the first and second gearboxes are arranged on both sides of the generator.
4. The electromechanical damper of claim 1, wherein the ring gear of the first gearbox and the ring gear of the second gearbox form jointly with the stator housing a single-piece structure, with the planet wheels forming input elements of the first and second gearboxes via which input elements drive torques are introduced into the first and second gearboxes.
5. The electromechanical damper of claim 1, wherein the stator housing is connected in fixed rotative engagement with a coupler, which is linked to the damper, for introducing oscillations into the damper.
6. The electromechanical damper of claim 1, wherein each of the first and second gearboxes has a planet carrier for supporting the planet wheels, and further comprising a connection element placed between the first and second gearboxes and connected to a vehicle body, said planet carriers of first and second gearboxes being connected in fixed rotative engagement with the connection element.

The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.

What is claimed is:

1. A context-aware proxy server system, comprising
a proxy engine that processes a request from a client system coupled to the proxy server system to retrieve a web page from a remote web server and pass the web page to the client system;
a context store that stores context information of the client system;
a transformation module coupled to the proxy engine and the context store to add the context information into the web page before the web page is sent to the client system such that services specified in the context information can be readily invoked by the client system via the modified web page.
2. The proxy server system of claim 1, wherein the context information of the client system specifies web-enabled services available to the client system.
3. The proxy server system of claim 2, wherein the context information specifies each of the web-enabled services in the form of a command-like URL (Universal Resource Locator).
4. The proxy server system of claim 2, wherein the transformation module adds the context information into the web page by creating and embedding a context-menu directly in the web page adjacent to a content item, wherein the context-menu includes a list of URL commands specifying a plurality of web-enabled services.
5. The proxy server system of claim 4, wherein each of the URL commands is a location-aware, and URL-dependent command.
6. The proxy server system of claim 1, wherein the context information of the client system specifies web-enabled services offered by physical devices adjacent to the client system.
7. The proxy server system of claim 1, further comprising a plurality of client systems coupled to the proxy server system, wherein the context store stores the context information of each personalized environment of each of the client systems and the transformation module also transforms the web pages sent to these client systems by adding their corresponding context information into the web pages.
8. The proxy server system of claim 7, wherein each of the client systems can be stationary or mobile.
9. A method of including context information of a client system into a web page sent to the client system, comprising
storing the context information in a proxy server coupled to the client system;
processing a request from the client system to retrieve the web page from a remote web server;
adding the context information into the web page before the modified web page is sent to the client system such that services specified in the context information and available to the client system can be readily invoked via the modified web page.
10. The method of claim 9, further comprising the step of sending the modified web page to the client system.
11. The method of claim 9, wherein the context information specifies web-enabled services available to the client system.
12. The method of claim 11, wherein the context information specifies each of the web-enabled services in the form of a command-like URL (Universal Resource Locator).
13. The method of claim 11, wherein the step of adding the context information further comprising
creating a context-menu that includes a list of URL commands specifying a plurality of web-enabled services;
embedding the context-menu directly in the web page adjacent to a content item.
14. The method of claim 13, wherein each of the URL commands is a location-aware, and URL-dependent command.