Patents by Inventor Sherif Aly Abdel-Kader
Sherif Aly Abdel-Kader 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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Publication number: 20190155897Abstract: An improved system and method for address entry are provided for a user to enter a plurality of addresses into a recipient field associated with an electronic communication. According to embodiments described herein, a first user input is received. The first user input is indicative of a first recipient for an electronic communication, where the first recipient includes a first name and a last name. A second user input is received in addition to the first recipient while the electronic communication is currently addressed to the first recipient. The second user input is indicative of a portion of a second recipient for the electronic communication. An auto-complete list of one or more suggested recipients that correspond to the second user input is displayed while the electronic communication is currently addressed to the first recipient. The one or more suggested recipients do not include the first recipient.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 7, 2019Publication date: May 23, 2019Inventors: Nicholas Bryson WILSON, Robert Joseph Alain GUAY, Sherif Aly ABDEL-KADER
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Publication number: 20180084491Abstract: A channel order that is specific to a population of access points is stored in a wireless local area network client device. The order of channels in the channel order represents the decreasing relative prevalence of access point deployment in the population. The wireless local area network client device scans for wireless local area networks according to the channel order.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2017Publication date: March 22, 2018Applicant: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Michael Peter MONTEMURRO, Roger Paul DURAND, Sherif Aly ABDEL-KADER
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Patent number: 8775157Abstract: Methods and systems for sharing information on languages supported by portable electronic devices are disclosed. Some embodiments of the disclosed methods involve, for example, a first portable electronic device transmitting to a server, information identifying the first portable electronic device, and information related to one or more languages that the first portable electronic device is capable of displaying. The server stores the received information, and shares the information with electronic devices that subsequently request information on the language capabilities of the first portable electronic device.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2011Date of Patent: July 8, 2014Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventor: Sherif Aly Abdel-Kader
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Patent number: 8744527Abstract: An apparatus, and an associated method, for facilitating alert handling at a communication device provides for selection at the communication device of the manner by which terminating communications at the communication device are handled. A terminating communication is detected at a receive part of the communication device, and an indication of its reception is displayed. Together with the displayed indication of the terminating communication, an actuation key is provided to permit selection of alert handling of the terminating communication and subsequent terminating communications.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2011Date of Patent: June 3, 2014Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventor: Sherif Aly Abdel-Kader
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Patent number: 8731509Abstract: Techniques in a mobile communication device for signal monitoring in a wireless communication network are described. The mobile device operates for communications over a communication channel of the wireless network. During operation, the mobile device periodically obtains measurements of signal quality of the communication channel at a rate R. In addition, the mobile device obtains a measurement of velocity or acceleration of the mobile device. In response to an increase in the measure of velocity or acceleration, the mobile device increases the rate R. Conversely, in response to a decrease in the measurement of velocity or acceleration, the mobile device decreases the rate R. The measurements of the signal quality may be used to determine whether to initiate a handover to a different wireless network.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2009Date of Patent: May 20, 2014Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Sherif Aly Abdel-Kader, Neil Patrick Adams
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Patent number: 8666386Abstract: A method and mobile device that self-terminates a media service if an out-of-coverage condition is detected. The media service operates on top of a connectionless peer-to-peer packet-based transport protocol. The out-of-coverage condition may relate to the mobile device itself or to a remote mobile device engaged in the media service. The loss of coverage by the remote mobile device may be detected by observing whether the remote mobile device has failed to send any data packets for more than a predetermined period of time. If an out-of-coverage situation is detected, then the method or device initiates service cancellation or release.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2012Date of Patent: March 4, 2014Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventor: Sherif Aly Abdel-Kader
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Publication number: 20130242838Abstract: A channel order that is specific to a population of access points is stored in a wireless local area network client device. The order of channels in the channel order represents the decreasing relative prevalence of access point deployment in the population. The wireless local area network client device scans for wireless local area networks according to the channel order.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2013Publication date: September 19, 2013Applicant: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITEDInventors: Michael Peter MONTEMURRO, Roger Paul DURAND, Sherif Aly ABDEL-KADER
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Patent number: 8538395Abstract: A method is provided on an electronic communications device having a subscriber identifier, the method for disambiguating multiple contacts associated with an electronic communication. The method includes searching a plurality of stored contacts for an association with the electronic communication. For any contact associated with the electronic communication, verifying whether the contact has a subscriber identifier associated with the electronic device and identifying a contact as the initiator or recipient of the electronic communication if the contact is without a subscriber identifier.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2012Date of Patent: September 17, 2013Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventor: Sherif Aly Abdel-Kader
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Patent number: 8331917Abstract: A method is provided on an electronic communications device having a subscriber identifier, the method for identifying a contact entry associated with an electronic communication specified by a communication identifier. The method comprises searching an address book associated with the device; in response to finding a first and a second contact entry each having a respective first contact communication identifier matching the communication identifier, comparing a second contact communication identifier with the subscriber identifier; and identifying the second contact entry associated with the electronic communication if the second contact communication identifier in the first contact entry matches the subscriber identifier.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2012Date of Patent: December 11, 2012Assignee: Research In Motion LimitedInventor: Sherif Aly Abdel-Kader
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Publication number: 20120271619Abstract: Methods and systems for sharing information on languages supported by portable electronic devices are disclosed. Some embodiments of the disclosed methods involve, for example, a first portable electronic device transmitting to a server, information identifying the first portable electronic device, and information related to one or more languages that the first portable electronic device is capable of displaying. The server stores the received information, and shares the information with electronic devices that subsequently request information on the language capabilities of the first portable electronic device.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2011Publication date: October 25, 2012Inventor: Sherif Aly Abdel-Kader
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Publication number: 20120252421Abstract: A method is provided on an electronic communications device having a subscriber identifier, the method for identifying a contact entry associated with an electronic communication specified by a communication identifier. The method comprises searching an address book associated with the device; in response to finding a first and a second contact entry each having a respective first contact communication identifier matching the communication identifier, comparing a second contact communication identifier with the subscriber identifier; and identifying the second contact entry associated with the electronic communication if the second contact communication identifier in the first contact entry matches the subscriber identifier.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2012Publication date: October 4, 2012Applicant: Research In Motion LimitedInventor: Sherif Aly ABDEL-KADER
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Publication number: 20120218880Abstract: A method and mobile device that self-terminates a media service if an out-of-coverage condition is detected. The media service operates on top of a connectionless peer-to-peer packet-based transport protocol. The out-of-coverage condition may relate to the mobile device itself or to a remote mobile device engaged in the media service. The loss of coverage by the remote mobile device may be detected by observing whether the remote mobile device has failed to send any data packets for more than a predetermined period of time. If an out-of-coverage situation is detected, then the method or device initiates service cancellation or release.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 9, 2012Publication date: August 30, 2012Applicant: Research In Motion LimitedInventor: Sherif Aly ABDEL-KADER
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Publication number: 20120190345Abstract: An apparatus, and an associated method, for facilitating alert handling at a communication device provides for selection at the communication device of the manner by which terminating communications at the communication device are handled. A terminating communication is detected at a receive part of the communication device, and an indication of its reception is displayed. Together with the displayed indication of the terminating communication, an actuation key is provided to permit selection of alert handling of the terminating communication and subsequent terminating communications.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2011Publication date: July 26, 2012Applicant: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITEDInventor: Sherif Aly Abdel-Kader
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Patent number: 8208911Abstract: A method is provided on an electronic communications device having a subscriber identifier, the method for identifying a contact entry associated with an electronic communication specified by a communication identifier. The method comprises searching an address book associated with the device; in response to finding a first and a second contact entry each having a respective first contact communication identifier matching the communication identifier, comparing a second contact communication identifier with the subscriber identifier; and identifying the second contact entry associated with the electronic communication if the second contact communication identifier in the first contact entry matches the subscriber identifier.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2010Date of Patent: June 26, 2012Assignee: Research In Motion LimitedInventor: Sherif Aly Abdel-Kader
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Publication number: 20120084707Abstract: A system and method are provided that use visually distinguishable identifiers already associated with particular contacts or groups of contacts to selectively associate a particular contact or group with event notifications displayed in the ribbon. In this way, the user can, at a glance, not only be notified of a new event, but also determine the origin of the event notification to provide better context for determining whether or not they wish to access and view the new event or update or whether this can be deferred.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2010Publication date: April 5, 2012Applicant: Research in Motion LimitedInventors: Sherif Aly Abdel-Kader, Leonid Vymenets, Munish Taneja
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Patent number: 8050241Abstract: A method for determining an identifier of a wireless network to which a mobile device can connect. For at least one wireless network, an identifier and at least one address for component(s) in that network is stored on the mobile device. An address of a component in an available network is received. If the address of the component is received without an identifier for the network, the received address is compared with at least one stored address. If the received address matches one of the at least one stored address, the identifier stored in association with that address is obtained. A module and a mobile device for implementing the method comprise a memory, a receiver, a comparison module and an interface module.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2006Date of Patent: November 1, 2011Assignee: Research In Motion LimitedInventor: Sherif Aly Abdel-kader
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Publication number: 20110212712Abstract: A method is provided on an electronic communications device having a subscriber identifier, the method for identifying a contact entry associated with an electronic communication specified by a communication identifier. The method comprises searching an address book associated with the device; in response to finding a first and a second contact entry each having a respective first contact communication identifier matching the communication identifier, comparing a second contact communication identifier with the subscriber identifier; and identifying the second contact entry associated with the electronic communication if the second contact communication identifier in the first contact entry matches the subscriber identifier.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2010Publication date: September 1, 2011Applicant: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITEDInventor: Sherif Aly ABDEL-KADER
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Patent number: 7983719Abstract: In a mobile communication device, a scanning operation is performed with use of a wireless transceiver to identify one or more available wireless communication networks in a given geographic area. Each time the scanning operation fails to result in identifying a wireless network to be available for connection with the communication device, the scanning operation is repeated after delaying for a next scanning delay period of a plurality of consecutively-increasing scanning delay periods n=[n1, n2, . . . , M], wherein M is set as an upper limit. In response to identifying a first predetermined battery condition of the communication device, a first new upper limit N is added to the plurality of consecutively-increasing scanning delay periods n=[n1, n2, . . . , M, N], wherein N is the first new upper limit such that N>M.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2010Date of Patent: July 19, 2011Assignee: Research In Motion LimitedInventor: Sherif Aly Abdel-Kader
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Publication number: 20110134846Abstract: In a wireless device, active scanning for a particular wireless network name is initiated during passive scanning for a wireless network that matches a profile stored in a wireless local area network controller, the profile including the particular wireless network name. Following receipt of a response from the active scanning that indicates discovery of one or more access points with the particular wireless network name, the profile is identified as misconfigured if the passive scanning fails to result in association.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2011Publication date: June 9, 2011Applicant: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITEDInventors: Sherif Aly Abdel-Kader, David Bajar, Yongsheng Chen
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Publication number: 20110096753Abstract: Techniques in a mobile communication device for signal monitoring in a wireless communication network are described. The mobile device operates for communications over a communication channel of the wireless network. During operation, the mobile device periodically obtains measurements of signal quality of the communication channel at a rate R. In addition, the mobile device obtains a measurement of velocity or acceleration of the mobile device. In response to an increase in the measure of velocity or acceleration, the mobile device increases the rate R. Conversely, in response to a decrease in the measurement of velocity or acceleration, the mobile device decreases the rate R. The measurements of the signal quality may be used to determine whether to initiate a handover to a different wireless network.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2009Publication date: April 28, 2011Applicant: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITEDInventors: Sherif Aly Abdel-Kader, Neil Patrick Adams