Patents Assigned to BlackBerry Limited
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Patent number: 11832190Abstract: A method for control of data transmission in a wireless communication system includes receiving, by an application, from a modem, information indicative of a radio coverage condition, where a user equipment (UE) includes the application and the modem; based on the received information, determining that the UE is in an enhanced coverage state; and in response to the determining, controlling uplink data transmission by the modem to reduce power consumption of the UE.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2022Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Claude Jean-Frederic Arzelier, Stephen John Barrett, Rene Faurie, Karen Lynn Bachman
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Patent number: 11832132Abstract: In an access device associated with a first network cell, a method for enabling user equipment (UE) to obtain a service unavailable through the first network cell includes receiving a request for the UE to access the service, and identifying, in a message to the UE, a plurality of second network cells providing the service.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2022Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Richard Charles Burbidge, Takashi Suzuki, David Philip Hole, Johanna Lisa Dwyer, Venkata Ratnakar Rao Rayavarapu, Maiyuran Wijayanathan, Stephen McCann, Andrew Mark Earnshaw, Chen Ho Chin
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Patent number: 11832178Abstract: A method at a module within a sensor system for updating a timing profile, the method including: turning on a radio of the sensor module for a first time duration; detecting signals from other modules within the sensor system; for each signal, storing data comprising a time such signal is received and an identifier for a module sending such signal; sending the data to a server; and receiving the timing profile from the server.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2023Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Hashim Mohammad Qaderi, Edward Snow Willis, Yuhui Liu, Michael Peter Montemurro
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Patent number: 11820559Abstract: A waterproof container is provided, the waterproof container including a base portion, the base portion having a base; an outer wall extending from the base; and an inner wall disposed inwardly from the outer wall, thereby forming a channel between the inner wall and the outer wall; and a lid portion, the lid portion having: a slot within the lid portion; and a seal configured to fit within the slot, the seal including a groove therein, wherein the groove of the seal is configured to accept an end of the inner wall therein when the lid portion is affixed to the base portion.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2021Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventor: Enliang Wang
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Publication number: 20230359725Abstract: Methods and systems for monitoring the behavior of a process. A profile of a software module is obtained. An association request is received from a process. The association request includes an identifier. In response to receiving the association request, successfully validating the identifier based on the profile and establishing an association of a token to data associated with the identifier. A disassociation request is received from the process. The disassociation request includes a token. In response to receiving the disassociation request, using the token to retrieve the data associated with the identifier, determining that the disassociation request is invalid based on the profile and the data associated with the identifier, and based on the determination that the disassociation request is invalid, taking an action.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 9, 2022Publication date: November 9, 2023Applicant: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Glenn Daniel WURSTER, Benjamin GNAHM
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Publication number: 20230362177Abstract: A method comprises obtaining a training set of network data that includes benign network data and malware network data; engaging a feature extraction engine to generate a set of dyads for each source-destination pair in the training set of network data; and training, using the set of dyads, a machine learning engine to differentiate between the benign network data and the malware network data.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 5, 2022Publication date: November 9, 2023Applicant: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Laura Micah GRAVES, Anandadip MANDAL
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Patent number: 11812357Abstract: There is provided a method and device for provisioning emergency number information on a user equipment. When a dialed number matches an emergency number from the provisioned emergency number information, the user equipment selects either the circuit switched domain or the packet switched domain and executes a call setup procedure for that domain.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2022Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Jan Hendrik Lucas Bakker, Nicholas James Russell
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Patent number: 11812318Abstract: A system and method in a user equipment (UE) for transferring an emergency session from a first network to a second network. The method includes transmitting a first registration request message to the second network; receiving a registration reject message from the second network; detecting the emergency session between the UE and the first network is ongoing; transmitting a second registration request message comprising an emergency registration request to the second network; and receiving a registration accept message for the emergency session.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2022Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventor: Jan Hendrik Lucas Bakker
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Publication number: 20230353501Abstract: Systems, methods, and software can be used to manage resource access. In some aspect, a user interface is outputted on an electronic device. The user interface includes information for resource access and a user interface object for controlling a resource access permission. A user input associated with the user interface object is received. In response to receiving the user input, the resource access permission is changed.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2023Publication date: November 2, 2023Applicant: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Adam Richard Schieman, Katherine Evelyn Kalles, Daniel Jonas Major, Michael George Langlois
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Publication number: 20230345494Abstract: Uplink control channel resource allocation for an enhanced downlink control channel is disclosed. A first example method disclosed herein includes receiving, at a user equipment (UE), a downlink control channel carrying a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource indicator, mapping the PUCCH resource indicator to a first offset, mapping a position of the downlink control channel to a second offset, and mapping a linear combination of the first and second offsets to an index identifying a first PUCCH resource. A second example method disclosed herein includes, in response to receiving, at a UE, an indication of a dynamic resource offset in an enhanced physical downlink control channel (ePDCCH) transmitted in a first ePDCCH set, determining a position of the ePDCCH and a subframe offset, and processing the indication of the dynamic resource offset, the position and the subframe offset to determine an allocated uplink control channel resource for the UE.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2023Publication date: October 26, 2023Applicant: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Robert Mark HARRISON, Shiwei GAO, Yufei Wu BLANKENSHIP
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Patent number: 11800482Abstract: A mobile transceiver for asset tracking having route monitoring and method of operation are provided. In one aspect, the method comprises: determining a location of the mobile transceiver using the satellite receiver; determining whether the determined location deviates from a planned route; and sending an alert to an asset tracking service when the determined location deviates from the planned route.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2021Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Jasmin Mulaosmanovic, Robert Joseph Lombardi, Brian Thomas Wells, Sergio Javier Berriz
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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: 20230335106Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for identifying at least one cause of noise in a vehicle audio system. The vehicle audio system may include a plurality of audio channels. Acoustic output may be generated and received through each of the audio channels. Acoustic input may be received from one or more of the audio channels and may be processed to generate processed acoustic input. The processed acoustic input may include a frequency response of the acoustic input. The processed acoustic input may be compared to corresponding channel target input and at least one deviation may be determined. A cause of the at least one deviation may then be determined based on a relationship between the at least one deviation and a set of resolved indications of cause, each of the set of resolved indications of cause corresponding to at least one of a set of recorded causes.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2022Publication date: October 19, 2023Applicant: BlackBerry LimitedInventor: Bradford James HAMME
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Patent number: 11790043Abstract: A computer-implemented method comprises training, using a validation set of input, a first classifier to predict when a second classifier will issue a classification error on a particular input, the first classifier generating a number of data buckets based on the validation set of input and populating a threshold lookup table for each data bucket based on a number of thresholds set for the second classifier during the training; storing each threshold lookup table in memory; obtaining a target error rate; obtaining a new input and running the new input through the first classifier, the first classifier selecting one of the data buckets for the new input; and selecting a threshold for the second classifier using the stored threshold lookup table for the selected data bucket and the target error rate.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2020Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Edward Snow Willis, Steven John Henkel
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Patent number: 11792073Abstract: A method for balancing sensors within a sensor system, the method including receiving, at a gateway, data from a plurality of sensors, each of the plurality of sensors being connected to one of a plurality of sensor modules or the gateway; determining, at the gateway, that a signal strength from a first sensor falls below a threshold, the first sensor being one of the plurality of sensors; and based on the determining, allocating the first sensor to connect to a different one of the plurality of sensor modules, or to the gateway if connected to one of the plurality of sensor modules.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2022Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Stephen John McCann, Michael Peter Montemurro, James Randolph Winter Lepp
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Patent number: 11792875Abstract: A user equipment implements a method of processing indication messages, such as SCRI (signalling connection release indication) messages. The user equipment (UE) maintains a count of how many indication messages with a cause set have been sent by the UE while in at least one radio resource control (RRC) state. Various conditions are provided for resetting the count. These include receiving packet switched (PS) data by the UE and transmitting packet switched (PS) data.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2020Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Johanna Lisa Dwyer, Paul Marcus Carpenter
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Patent number: 11785508Abstract: A method implemented by a network node is disclosed. The method includes: obtaining registration state information associated with a user equipment (UE) from a first core network node, the registration state information indicating at least one of fourth-generation (4G) UE single radio voice call continuity (SRVCC) capability or fifth-generation (5G) UE SRVCC capability for the UE, wherein the UE is registered with a first IMS network that includes the network node using a session initiation protocol (SIP) via an access network supported by a second core network; and providing, to a second IMS network node, an indication of a single UE SRVCC capability for the UE.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2020Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Jan Hendrik Lucas Bakker, Nicholas James Russell
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Patent number: 11783302Abstract: In some examples, a vehicle receives authorization information that identifies an automotive service to be performed on the vehicle, the authorization information further indicating approval of performance of the automotive service on the vehicle by an operator of the vehicle and a vehicle manufacturer. Based on the authorization information, the vehicle enables access of an electronic component of the vehicle by an authorized repair entity to perform the automotive service.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2020Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Michaela Vanderveen, Stephen John Barrett
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Publication number: 20230319122Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method and system for managing a meeting session. In accordance with one example, there is provided a method of managing a meeting session on a server that manages the meeting session, the meeting session comprising one or more participant devices and a presenter device. The method comprises receiving one or more break request messages from the participant devices, and sending a break message to the participant devices, the break message causing a break notification to be displayed on a display of the participant devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2023Publication date: October 5, 2023Applicant: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Neil Patrick ADAMS, Ge ZHONG
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Patent number: RE49721Abstract: Systems and methods for managing data transfers between a secure location and a less secure location. A data transfer checker operating on a mobile device determines whether an attempted data transfer between two locations is permitted. If it is not permitted, then the data transfer is prevented and the user may be notified of the data transfer prevention.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2021Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Neil Patrick Adams, Herbert Anthony Little, Michael Grant Kirkup