Patents by Inventor Daryl Joseph Martin
Daryl Joseph Martin has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 11797656Abstract: A computing device and method of controlling access to a computing device. An application to be used when the computing device is in a locked state is selected, wherein in the locked state, only use of the selected application is permitted. The computing device enters the locked state. Use of the selected application without unlocking the computing device is allowed.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2021Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Ahmed E. Hassan, John Ferguson Wilson, Daryl Joseph Martin
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Publication number: 20210326418Abstract: A computing device and method of controlling access to a computing device. An application to be used when the computing device is in a locked state is selected, wherein in the locked state, only use of the selected application is permitted. The computing device enters the locked state. Use of the selected application without unlocking the computing device is allowed.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2021Publication date: October 21, 2021Applicant: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Ahmed E. Hassan, John Ferguson Wilson, Daryl Joseph Martin
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Patent number: 11080374Abstract: A computing device and method of controlling access to a computing device. A software lock request is received via an input device of the computing device. In response to receiving the software lock request, a picklist of a plurality of applications executable on the computing device is displayed on a display of the computing device. A selection of one or more impermissible applications from the plurality of applications executable on the computing device or one or more permitted applications from the plurality of applications executable on the computing device is received receiving via the input device. A locked state is entered. In the locked state, access is not permitted to the one or more impermissible applications and access is permitted to other applications of the plurality of applications executable on the computing device.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2020Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Ahmed E. Hassan, John F. Wilson, Daryl Joseph Martin
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Publication number: 20200257779Abstract: A computing device and method of controlling access to a computing device. A software lock request is received via an input device of the computing device. In response to receiving the software lock request, a picklist of a plurality of applications executable on the computing device is displayed on a display of the computing device. A selection of one or more impermissible applications from the plurality of applications executable on the computing device or one or more permitted applications from the plurality of applications executable on the computing device is received receiving via the input device. A locked state is entered. In the locked state, access is not permitted to the one or more impermissible applications and access is permitted to other applications of the plurality of applications executable on the computing device.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2020Publication date: August 13, 2020Inventors: Ahmed E. HASSAN, John F. WILSON, Daryl Joseph MARTIN
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Patent number: 10635791Abstract: A device and method for placing the device in a locked state having an associated set of permitted tasks so as to permit the device owner to share the device with others but maintain security over aspects of the device. A task change request is evaluated to determine whether the requested task is permitted and, if so, the requested task is allowed; if not, then an authorization process is invoked to prompt the user to input authorization data. Upon verification of the authorization data, the device may be unlocked and the requested change implemented. The permitted tasks may designate specific applications, specific operations or functions within applications or at the operating system level, one or more currently open windows, and other levels of granularity.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2013Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Ahmed E. Hassan, John F. Wilson, Daryl Joseph Martin
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Patent number: 10419874Abstract: An indoor positioning system and method that correlates map locations to respective wireless access point (AP) fingerprints, and wherein each wireless AP fingerprint is a plurality of wireless AP signal measurements associated with the correlated map location. The method includes receiving position-inference data associated with a user; determining a probable location inside the building based on the position-inference data; receiving wireless AP signal measurements detected by a wireless device associated with the user; associating the probable location with the wireless device based on the association between the position-inference data and the user of the wireless device; and updating the wireless AP fingerprint correlated to the probable location using the received wireless AP signal measurements. The method and system use crowd-sourcing to build and refine the wireless AP fingerprints.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2016Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: I-Ming Tsai, Krishnam Raju Jampani, Jason Christopher Beckett, Daryl Joseph Martin, Jerry Mailloux
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Patent number: 10142157Abstract: A method and system for reducing protocol headers sent over a wireless network are described. The method includes receiving at a proxy server, from a mobile device, a protocol request device addressed to a remote system. The protocol request including defined headers and an enable-caching indicator. The proxy server stores at least one of the defined headers as cached headers and sends a protocol response to the mobile device identifying the cached headers. Subsequent requests from the mobile device are formatted as abridged requests that exclude the cached headers, thereby reducing the data transmitted. The proxy server adds the cached headers to the abridged requests before forwarding them as unabridged requests to the remote system.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2010Date of Patent: November 27, 2018Assignee: BLACKBERRY LIMITEDInventor: Daryl Joseph Martin
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Patent number: 10075438Abstract: Methods and systems for enabling activation of a wireless communication device to operate with a server on a wireless communication network. An activation request to establish a wireless communication service relationship between the device and the server is pushed from the server to the device. After the device verifies the server, a mutually authenticated communication session is established between the device and the server for activation of the device on the server.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2016Date of Patent: September 11, 2018Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Alexander Truskovsky, Daryl Joseph Martin
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Patent number: 9955316Abstract: A method of determining room occupancy of a room in a facility having an indoor positioning system with wireless access point fingerprints each correlated to a location in the facility. The method may include receiving a request from a computing device for a room occupancy assessment associated with the room. It may further include obtaining location data that correlates to the location of one or more people from the indoor positioning system and determining from the location data associated with the room whether the room is occupied. The determination of whether the room is occupied is then sent to the computing device.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2015Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Krishnam Raju Jampani, Daryl Joseph Martin, I-Ming Tsai, Jason Christopher Beckett
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Patent number: 9860707Abstract: A method of determining room occupancy of a room in a facility having an indoor positioning system with wireless access point fingerprints each correlated to a location in the facility. The method may include receiving a request from a computing device for a room occupancy assessment associated with the room. It may further include obtaining location data that correlates to the locations of wireless devices associated with one or more people from the indoor positioning system and determining based on the location data whether the room is occupied. The determination of whether the room is occupied is then sent to the computing device.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2017Date of Patent: January 2, 2018Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Krishnam Raju Jampani, Daryl Joseph Martin, I-Ming Tsai, Jason Christopher Beckett
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Publication number: 20170223511Abstract: A method of determining room occupancy of a room in a facility having an indoor positioning system with wireless access point fingerprints each correlated to a location in the facility. The method may include receiving a request from a computing device for a room occupancy assessment associated with the room. It may further include obtaining location data that correlates to the locations of wireless devices associated with one or more people from the indoor positioning system and determining based on the location data whether the room is occupied. The determination of whether the room is occupied is then sent to the computing device.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2017Publication date: August 3, 2017Applicant: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Krishnam Raju JAMPANI, Daryl Joseph MARTIN, I-Ming TSAI, Jason Christopher BECKETT
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Patent number: 9679273Abstract: According to embodiments described in the specification, a method, system and apparatus for generating notification signals are provided. The method includes storing an identifier of a slave device in a memory of a master device; detecting, at a processor interconnected with the memory, a notification message via execution of a notification application; in response to detecting the notification message, retrieving the slave device identifier and transmitting an instruction message to the slave device, the instruction message including an identifier of the notification message and an alert parameter; and generating an alert via an output device interconnected with the processor according to the alert parameter.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2012Date of Patent: June 13, 2017Assignee: BLACKBERRY LIMITEDInventors: Hayward Ivan Craig Welcher, Daryl Joseph Martin
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Patent number: 9660746Abstract: Songs titles and song artists or other content received on an HD-radio are cross-referenced to one or more geographic locations where they were heard on the radio by identifying a song title or artist in the HD radio data stream and instructing a global positioning system navigation unit to contemporaneously determine its location. The determined location and song title and/or artist are cross-referenced to each other in a list or database. A touch-sensitive display device is configured to display the location or portion of a route where a listened-to song was heard. Song titles and/or artists can be determined by tactile selection of portions of a route displayed on the map.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2014Date of Patent: May 23, 2017Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Daryl Joseph Martin, Conor Michael O'Neill
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Patent number: 9560499Abstract: Mobile device usage may be monitored and restricted by pushing enabling/disabling events from an administrator the device. The events impose a certain set of rules that can “lock” certain features provided by the device, according to permissions and pre-established policies, for a certain period of time. Such restricted periods may coincide with meetings or other events in which distractions should be kept to a minimum or be during regular, predetermined time periods. Preferably, the rules include conditional locks that allow a user to use a feature a reasonable number of times before the lock is activated to place the onus on the user for minimizing such distractions, while enabling the user to maintain access to such a vital communication tool.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2013Date of Patent: January 31, 2017Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Risvan Coskun, Daryl Joseph Martin, Ahmed E. Hassan, John Ferguson Wilson
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Publication number: 20170026804Abstract: An indoor positioning system and method that correlates map locations to respective wireless access point (AP) fingerprints, and wherein each wireless AP fingerprint is a plurality of wireless AP signal measurements associated with the correlated map location. The method includes receiving position-inference data associated with a user; determining a probable location inside the building based on the position-inference data; receiving wireless AP signal measurements detected by a wireless device associated with the user; associating the probable location with the wireless device based on the association between the position-inference data and the user of the wireless device; and updating the wireless AP fingerprint correlated to the probable location using the received wireless AP signal measurements. The method and system use crowd-sourcing to build and refine the wireless AP fingerprints.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2016Publication date: January 26, 2017Applicant: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: I-Ming TSAI, Krishnam Raju JAMPANI, Jason Christopher BECKETT, Daryl Joseph MARTIN, Jerry MAILLOUX
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Publication number: 20170026806Abstract: A method of determining room occupancy of a room in a facility having an indoor positioning system with wireless access point fingerprints each correlated to a location in the facility. The method may include receiving a request from a computing device for a room occupancy assessment associated with the room. It may further include obtaining location data that correlates to the location of one or more people from the indoor positioning system and determining from the location data associated with the room whether the room is occupied. The determination of whether the room is occupied is then sent to the computing device.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2015Publication date: January 26, 2017Applicant: BLACKBERRY LIMITEDInventors: Krishnam Raju JAMPANI, Daryl Joseph MARTIN, I-Ming TSAI, Jason Christopher BECKETT
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Publication number: 20160285869Abstract: Methods and systems for enabling activation of a wireless communication device to operate with a server on a wireless communication network. An activation request to establish a wireless communication service relationship between the device and the server is pushed from the server to the device. After the device verifies the server, a mutually authenticated communication session is established between the device and the server for activation of the device on the server.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2016Publication date: September 29, 2016Applicant: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Alexander Truskovsky, Daryl Joseph Martin
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Patent number: 9444771Abstract: A method and device to simplify message reply composition on a communications device, using a partially transparent overlay to allow a user to freely scroll and move around to other sections of a message or message chain while still being able to see and edit the reply being composed. When the reply is scrolled such that the composition field is not visible on the display screen, the device displays the overlay when the user enters text or on user request. The user may then type text into the overlay while viewing the underlying portion of the reply message, such as previous messages in the string.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2014Date of Patent: September 13, 2016Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Daryl Joseph Martin, James Andrew Godfrey, John Ferguson Wilson
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Patent number: 9406049Abstract: A method, device and system are provided for automated updating of message recipients designated for a reply message based on a declaration or notification in a body of the message. Once a reply message is initiated at a first device and an initial recipient set defined for the reply message based on the participants of a previous message of the thread, a declaration or instruction may be inserted in the message body identifying a change to be made to the initial recipient set. In response to a trigger detected at the device, any such declarations are identified and a determination is made whether the current recipient set is consistent with them. If not, changes are made to the current recipient set to render it consistent.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2012Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Daryl Joseph Martin, Conor Michael O'Neill
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Patent number: 9384342Abstract: Methods and devices for providing a warning associated with credentials to be stored in a credential store on a computing device are disclosed herein. In one broad aspect, the method comprises receiving a request to store, in the credential store, at least one credential for a specified service, determining whether a secure connection between the computing device and the specified service is available, associating the specified service with a level of security based on at least one of an availability of the secure connection or one or more properties of the secure connection, and providing a warning in response to determining that at least one credential stored in the credential store corresponds to the at least one credential for the specified service and is for a service that is associated with a level of security different from the level of security with which the specified service is associated.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2013Date of Patent: July 5, 2016Assignee: BLACKBERRY LIMITEDInventors: Jeremy L. Kominar, Neil Patrick Adams, Alexander Truskovsky, Christopher Lyle Bender, Daryl Joseph Martin