Patents by Inventor Ian M. Patterson
Ian M. Patterson 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: 9258372Abstract: A wireless router employing a technique to couple a plurality of host services or host systems and a plurality of wireless networks. A method to route data items between a plurality of mobile devices and a plurality of host systems through a common wireless router. A point-to-point communication connection is preferably established between a first host system and a common wireless router, a mobile network message at a mobile device is generated, the mobile network is transmitted via a wireless network to the common wireless router which in turn routes a data item component of the mobile network message to the appropriate host service.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2012Date of Patent: February 9, 2016Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Roberta A. Bienfait, Mihal Lazaridis, Ian M. Patterson, Allan D. Lewis, Garu P. Mousseau, Alan Panezic
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Patent number: 8923819Abstract: Apparatus, and an associated method, for providing routing information to a mobile node operable in a radio communication system. The routing information is used by the mobile node to address data messages that are to be communicated to a relay host, or other, device. The routing information that is provided to the mobile node includes a plurality of separate routing sequences. Different ones of the routing sequences are used by the mobile node, depending upon at what location that the mobile node is positioned when the data message is sent. A registration server is used by which to create the routing information, responsive to indications of a home network associated with the mobile node and a current location of the mobile node.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2012Date of Patent: December 30, 2014Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Ian M. Patterson, Richard T. Betel, Adrian Rogobete, Ken Axtmann
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Patent number: 8693996Abstract: A wireless router employing a technique to couple a plurality a host services or host systems and a plurality of wireless networks. A method to route data items between a plurality of mobile devices and a plurality of host systems through a common wireless router. A point-to-point communication connection is preferably established between a first host system and a common wireless router, a mobile network message at a mobile device is generated, the mobile network message is transmitted via a wireless network to the common wireless router which in turn routes a data item component of the mobile network message to the appropriate host service.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2012Date of Patent: April 8, 2014Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Allan D. Lewis, Gary P. Mousseau, Barry J. Gilhuly, Ian M. Patterson, Vi Thuan Banh, Adrian Rogobete, Anthony G. Burns, Mihal Lazaridis
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Patent number: 8516055Abstract: A system and method for redirecting data from a host system (or messaging server) to one or more mobile data communication devices via a wireless packet data network is provided in which the wireless packet data network dynamically assigns addresses to the one or more mobile data communication devices on an as-needed basis. A redirector application operating at the host system is configured by each user to continuously redirect certain data to the wireless packet data network, as the data is received (or otherwise altered) at the host system. Two methods are provided for communicating the redirected data from the network to the mobile device. In a first method, the mobile device is configured to periodically contact a store-and-forward server within the wireless network, which, when contacted, assigns a network address to the mobile device and then transmits the stored, redirected data to the mobile device.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2001Date of Patent: August 20, 2013Assignee: Research In Motion LimitedInventors: Hugh Hind, Michael Knowles, Noushad Naqvi, David Bajar, Ian M. Patterson, Anthony G. Burns, Allan D. Lewis, Gary P. Mousseau, Mihal Lazaridis
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Patent number: 8483694Abstract: A wireless router employing a technique to couple a plurality a host services or host systems and a plurality of wireless networks. A method to route data items between a plurality of mobile devices and a plurality of host systems through a common wireless router. A point-to-point communication connection is preferably established between a first host system and a common wireless router, a mobile network message at a mobile device is generated, the mobile network message is transmitted via a wireless network to the common wireless router which in turn routes a data item component of the mobile network message to the appropriate host service.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2011Date of Patent: July 9, 2013Assignee: Research In Motion LimitedInventors: Allan D. Lewis, Gary P. Mousseau, Barry J. Gilhuly, Ian M. Patterson, Vi Thuan Banh, Adrian Rogobete, Anthony G. Burns, Mihal Lazaridis
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Patent number: 8351902Abstract: Apparatus, and an associated method, for providing routing information to a mobile node operable in a radio communication system. The routing information is used by the mobile node to address data messages that are to be communicated to a relay host, or other, device. The routing information that is provided to the mobile node includes a plurality of separate routing sequences. Different ones of the routing sequences are used by the mobile node, depending upon at what location that the mobile node is positioned when the data message is sent. A registration server is used by which to create the routing information, responsive to indications of a home network associated with the mobile node and a current location of the mobile node.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2011Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Research In Motion LimitedInventors: Ian M. Patterson, Richard Betel, Adrian Rogobete, Ken Axtmann
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Patent number: 8347390Abstract: A messaging server forwards emails to mobile communication devices of users to whom the emails were respectively addressed. An antivirus server determines whether an email addressed to a user of a mobile communication device, to be forwarded by the messaging server to the mobile communication device, is infected with a virus. In response to determining the email is infected with a virus, a bulletin generator transmits, to the mobile communication devices besides the mobile communication device of the addressee of the email determined to be infected, an all points bulletin message disclosing the existence of the virus. The bulletin message is transmitted directly to, instead of via email to, the wireless mobile communication devices.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2010Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: Research In Motion LimitedInventors: William D. Castell, Allan D. Lewis, Tabitha K. Ferguson, Bill Yuan, Ian M. Patterson
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Publication number: 20120275336Abstract: A router is operative to perform the following actions for each one of a plurality of wireless mobile devices operating in a wireless network. The router transmits to the wireless mobile device a number of data packets matched for a window size. The router changes the window size for the wireless mobile device based on whether a round trip time for communicating the data packets is within a threshold value. The router will update the threshold value based on the round trip times associated with traffic communicated via the router for all of the wireless mobile devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2012Publication date: November 1, 2012Applicant: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITEDInventors: Simon Wise, Marc Plumb, Ian M. Patterson, Allan David Lewis
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Publication number: 20120250623Abstract: A router system receives from a host service a message which is intended for delivery to a mobile device via a wireless network. The message includes at least a first field having an identifier which identifies the mobile device, a second field having a payload of the message, and a third field having a return packet indication on whether to return a return packet to the host service. The router system examines the indication in the message and, if the indication is set to a first setting, the router system returns to the host service a return packet which indicates a status associated with the message for delivery to the mobile device. If the indication is set to a second setting, then the router system does not return to the host service the return packet which indicates the status associated with the message for delivery to the mobile device.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2012Publication date: October 4, 2012Applicant: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITEDInventors: Ian M. Patterson, Allan David Lewis, Alina Kushnir, Simon Wise
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Publication number: 20120201125Abstract: A wireless router employing a technique to couple a plurality of host services or host systems and a plurality of wireless networks. A method to route data items between a plurality of mobile devices and a plurality of host systems through a common wireless router. A point-to-point communication connection is preferably established between a first host system and a common wireless router, a mobile network message at a mobile device is generated, the mobile network is transmitted via a wireless network to the common wireless router which in turn routes a data item component of the mobile network message to the appropriate host service.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2012Publication date: August 9, 2012Applicant: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITEDInventors: Roberta A. Bienfait, Mihal Lazaridis, Ian M. Patterson, Allan D. Lewis, Gary P. Mousseau, Alan Tom Panezic
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Patent number: 8233438Abstract: A router is operative to perform the following actions for each one of a plurality of wireless devices operating in a wireless network. The router initially transmits a number of data packets matched for a window size which corresponds to a default window size. The router then measures a round trip time (RTT) associated with communication of each of the transmitted packets. The router increases the window size if the RTT associated with the communication of each of the transmitted packets is within a first threshold. On the other hand, the router decreases the window size if the RTT associated with the communication of any of the transmitted packets is more than the first threshold but less than a second threshold. The router sets or updates at least one of the first or the second thresholds based on traffic communicated to the plurality of wireless devices via the router.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2010Date of Patent: July 31, 2012Assignee: Research In Motion LimitedInventors: Simon Tyler Wise, Marc Plumb, Ian M. Patterson, Allan David Lewis
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Publication number: 20120142359Abstract: A wireless router employing a technique to couple a plurality a host services or host systems and a plurality of wireless networks. A method to route data items between a plurality of mobile devices and a plurality of host systems through a common wireless router. A point-to-point communication connection is preferably established between a first host system and a common wireless router, a mobile network message at a mobile device is generated, the mobile network message is transmitted via a wireless network to the common wireless router which in turn routes a data item component of the mobile network message to the appropriate host service.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2012Publication date: June 7, 2012Applicant: Research In Motion LimitedInventors: Allan D. LEWIS, Gary P. Mousseau, Barry J. Gilhuly, Ian M. Patterson, Vi Thuan Banh, Adrian Rogobete, Anthony G. Burns, Mihal Lazaridis
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Patent number: 8179872Abstract: A wireless router employing a technique to couple a plurality of host services or host systems and a plurality of wireless networks. A method to route data items between a plurality of mobile devices and a plurality of host systems through a common wireless router. A point-to-point communication connection is preferably established between a first host system and a common wireless router, a mobile network message at a mobile device is generated, the mobile network is transmitted via a wireless network to the common wireless router which in turn routes a data item component of the mobile network message to the appropriate host service.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2007Date of Patent: May 15, 2012Assignee: Research In Motion LimitedInventors: Roberta A. Bienfait, Mihal Lazaridis, Ian M. Patterson, Allan D. Lewis, Gary P. Mousseau, Alan Tom Panezic
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Patent number: 8179922Abstract: A method and system for monitoring the health of a wireless telecommunication network. Network health is monitored without placing an administrative burden on the carrier network itself, instead, this burden is placed on components that lie outside the carrier network and pass communications through it. The data service provider infrastructure sends a request to a mobile device, asking that it return data regarding its location. The carrier networks handling the request insert location information into the packet that is sent to the mobile device, but this information is not sent to the data service provider infrastructure itself. The mobile device harvests this location information from the packets it receives and inserts it in a response packet that finds its way back to the data service provider infrastructure. The data service provider infrastructure is able to collate this location data and to analyze it, determining the carrier network's health.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2009Date of Patent: May 15, 2012Assignee: Research In Motion LimitedInventors: Allan D. Lewis, Mihal Lazaridis, Gerald Winton Lankford, Herbert A. Little, Hugh Hind, Ian M. Patterson
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Patent number: 8165575Abstract: A wireless router employing a technique to couple a plurality a host services or host systems and a plurality of wireless networks. A method to route data items between a plurality of mobile devices and a plurality of host systems through a common wireless router. A point-to-point communication connection is preferably established between a first host system and a common wireless router, a mobile network message at a mobile device is generated, the mobile network message is transmitted via a wireless network to the common wireless router which in turn routes a data item component of the mobile network message to the appropriate host service.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2011Date of Patent: April 24, 2012Assignee: Research In Motion LimitedInventors: Allan D. Lewis, Gary P. Mousseau, Barry J. Gilhuly, Ian M. Patterson, Vi Thuan Banh, Adrian Rogobete, Anthony G. Burns, Mihal Lazaridis
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Patent number: 8165611Abstract: A router system maintains a status of a wireless device of either available or unavailable. The status of available may be indicative of the wireless device being in-coverage with a wireless network, whereas the status of unavailable may be indicative of the wireless device being out-of-coverage with the wireless network. The router system is adapted to receive, from a host service, a user data message that is addressed to an address of the wireless device. The user data message has a user data payload and one or more request parameters, where the one or more request parameters instruct the router system on whether to return at least a portion of the user data message to the host service when the device status is unavailable. In response to the user data message being received at the router system when the device status is available, the router system delivers the user data message to the wireless device via the wireless network.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2009Date of Patent: April 24, 2012Assignee: Research in Motion LimitedInventors: Ian M. Patterson, Allen David Lewis, Alina Kushnir, Simon Wise
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Publication number: 20120093083Abstract: Techniques in a wireless device for use in accessing a common data application with a service network which is external to a plurality of wireless networks are described. The device receives a data session configuration file which includes a list of the plurality of wireless networks mapped against authentication credentials associated with each wireless network. The device communicates with a current one the wireless networks. The device selects from the list one of the authentication credentials that is associated with the current wireless network. The device submits, via the current wireless network, the selected authentication credentials for establishing a packet data session via the current wireless network. The device then accesses, via the current wireless network using the packet data session, the common data application with the service network which is external to the current wireless network.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2011Publication date: April 19, 2012Applicant: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITEDInventors: Thomas Leonard Trevor Plestid, Allan D. Lewis, Ian M. Patterson
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Publication number: 20120008560Abstract: A wireless router employing a technique to couple a plurality a host services or host systems and a plurality of wireless networks. A method to route data items between a plurality of mobile devices and a plurality of host systems through a common wireless router. A point-to-point communication connection is preferably established between a first host system and a common wireless router, a mobile network message at a mobile device is generated, the mobile network message is transmitted via a wireless network to the common wireless router which in turn routes a data item component of the mobile network message to the appropriate host service.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2011Publication date: January 12, 2012Inventors: Allan D. Lewis, Gary P. Mousseau, Barry J. Gilhuly, Ian M. Patterson, Vi Thuan Banh, Adrian Rogobete, Anthony G. Burns, Mihal Lazaridis
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Publication number: 20110317618Abstract: Apparatus, and an associated method, for providing routing information to a mobile node operable in a radio communication system. The routing information is used by the mobile node to address data messages that are to be communicated to a relay host, or other, device. The routing information that is provided to the mobile node includes a plurality of separate routing sequences. Different ones of the routing sequences are used by the mobile node, depending upon at what location that the mobile node is positioned when the data message is sent. A registration server is used by which to create the routing information, responsive to indications of a home network associated with the mobile node and a current location of the mobile node.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2011Publication date: December 29, 2011Applicant: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITEDInventors: Ian M. Patterson, Richard Betel, Adrian Rogobete, Ken Axtmann
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Patent number: 8050684Abstract: A wireless router employing a technique to couple a plurality a host services or host systems and a plurality of wireless networks. A method to route data items between a plurality of mobile devices and a plurality of host systems through a common wireless router. A point-to-point communication connection is preferably established between a first host system and a common wireless router, a mobile network message at a mobile device is generated, the mobile network message is transmitted via a wireless network to the common wireless router which in turn routes a data item component of the mobile network message to the appropriate host service.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2009Date of Patent: November 1, 2011Assignee: Research In Motion LimitedInventors: Allan D. Lewis, Gary P. Mousseau, Barry J. Gilhuly, Ian M. Patterson, Vi Thuan Banh, Adrian Rogobete, Anthony G. Burns, Mihal Lazaridis