IP Library Granted Patent US 7,477,153
Granted Patent B2
US 7,477,153 · App. 11/001,141 · Granted Jan 13, 2009

System for wireless mobile seating platform

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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 7,477,153
App. No.
11/001,141
Granted
Jan 13, 2009
Kind
B2
Abstract

A system includes a mobile seating platform, a wireless communications system embedded within the seating platform, and a haptic system embedded in the seating platform. The haptic system includes a plurality of vibrators disposed at a plurality of positions in the seating platform for communicating information to the occupant of the seating platform and a plurality of deformable surfaces disposed at a plurality of positions in the seating platform for communicating information to the occupant of the seating platform.

Claims (11)

1. A system, comprising:

a seating platform;

a communications system embedded within said seating platform for receiving an information carrying communication from a remote system; and

a haptic system embedded in said seating platform for communicating information carried by said information carrying communication to an occupant of said seating platform,

wherein said communications system comprises a wireless communications system,

wherein said seating platform is mobile,

wherein said haptic system comprises a plurality of vibrators disposed at a plurality of positions in the seating platform for communicating information to said occupant of said seating platform,

wherein said haptic system comprises a plurality of deformable surfaces disposed at a plurality of positions in the seating platform for communicating information to said occupant of said seating platform,

wherein a predetermined combination of said plurality of vibrators communicates information to said occupant,

wherein a predetermined combination of said plurality of deformable surfaces communicates information to said occupant, and

wherein a predetermined combination of said plurality of vibrators and said plurality of deformable surfaces communicates information to said occupant.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Dec 20, 2021
From: FACEBOOK, INC.
To: META PLATFORMS, INC.
Reel/Frame 058553/0802 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 9, 2012
From: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
To: FACEBOOK, INC.
Reel/Frame 028011/0666 →