Patents Assigned to IN&MOTION
  • Publication number: 20100056228
    Abstract: A mobile communication device is capable of communicating with a battery authorization server. Determining an authorization status of a smart battery currently powering the mobile communication device involves an initial authorization process and a subsequent authorization process. The initial authorization process is conducted between the mobile communication device and the smart battery. If the initial authorization process is successful, it is followed by a subsequent authorization process between the mobile communication device and the battery authorization server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2009
    Publication date: March 4, 2010
    Applicant: Research In Motion Limited
    Inventors: Michael K. Brown, Ian Robertson, Lyall Winger, Herbert A. Little
  • Publication number: 20100056109
    Abstract: A system is disclosed for messaging between wireless mobile terminals operating on wireless carrier networks and networked computers. The mobile terminals and computers include client applications for communicating messages to one another using push-to-talk modality. A server, located on a packet network outside the wireless carrier networks, forwards messages between the mobile terminals and the computers. The messages consist of text or streaming voice. The server can also include gateways for forwarding messages from the mobile terminals and computers to external email and instant messaging (IM) users. By placing the server outside wireless carrier networks and using conventional packet network protocols such as the Internet protocol (IP), the system provides seamless inter-carrier push-to-talk and/or instant messaging between mobile terminal, networked computers, and users of third-party email and IM services.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2009
    Publication date: March 4, 2010
    Applicant: Research In Motion Limited
    Inventors: Christopher Robert Dale Wilson, Mihaela Kamenova Mihaylova, Joseph Alan Page
  • Publication number: 20100054381
    Abstract: A joint demodulation filter for reducing co-channel interference between a desired signal and a co-channel interfering signal may include an input receiving samples of the desired signal and the co-channel interfering signal, a Viterbi decoder, and a first signal path between the input and the Viterbi decoder comprising a first filter. The joint demodulation filter may further include a second signal path between the input and the Viterbi decoder and comprising a linear finite impulse response (FIR) modeler for generating a channel impulse response estimate for the co-channel interfering signal. Additionally, a third signal path may be between the input and the Viterbi decoder and include a whitened matched filter for generating a channel impulse response estimate for the desired signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2009
    Publication date: March 4, 2010
    Applicant: Research In Motion Limited
    Inventors: Zoltan Kemenczy, Huan Wu, Sean Simmons
  • Publication number: 20100052543
    Abstract: A portable electronic device capable of assuming an open configuration and a closed configuration comprises a primary light sensor and a secondary light sensor. When the portable electronic device is in the open configuration, a light sensor signal is selected from the primary light sensor, and when the portable electronic device is in the closed configuration, a light sensor signal is selected from the secondary light sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2009
    Publication date: March 4, 2010
    Applicant: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITED
    Inventors: Eric Gary MALO, Bergen Albert Fletcher, Ken Wu
  • Publication number: 20100056212
    Abstract: A mobile wireless communications device may include a portable housing, at least one wireless transceiver carried by the portable housing, and a satellite positioning signal receiver carried by the portable housing. An antenna may also be carried by the portable housing and connected to the satellite positioning signal receiver. Further, at least one electrically conductive director element may be carried by the portable housing in spaced apart relation from the antenna and inductively coupled thereto for directing a beam pattern thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2009
    Publication date: March 4, 2010
    Applicant: Research In Motion Limited
    Inventors: Yihong Qi, Ying Tong Man, Perry Jarmuszewski, Adrian Cooke
  • Patent number: 7672412
    Abstract: A receiver and associated method estimates a channel impulse response of the communications signal. A communications signal is received as a burst of transmitted symbols, including a known training sequence. The joint estimation of timing offset and initial channel impulse response is determined based on the cross-correlations of the known transmitted symbols and received communications signal. A constant modulus interference removal iteration is applied to improve the initial channel impulse estimation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2010
    Assignee: Research In Motion Limited
    Inventors: Huan Wu, Sean Simmons, Zoltan Kemenczy
  • Patent number: 7673055
    Abstract: A device and a method of responding to a received interrupt event received by a communication device is provided. The method comprises accessing data associated with a calendar application and/or a location application to determine a current state of availability of a user of the device using data; determining whether a response action is to be sent in response to the event when the device is note available; and sending the response action. The device incorporates modules to perform the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2010
    Assignee: Research in Motion Limited
    Inventors: Sherryl Lee Lorraine Scott, Gary P. Mousseau
  • Patent number: 7672776
    Abstract: A mobile computing device, including a main body, a processor and associated memory housed within the main body, a display screen housed within the main body and responsive to signals from the processor, an optical sensor fixed to the main body for capturing successive images and providing image signals representative of the captured images to the processor, and a navigation module associated with the processor for determining, based on the image signals, a relative movement between the main body and a reference surface and moving a pointer on the display screen based on the determined relative movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2010
    Assignee: Research In Motion Limited
    Inventor: Alexei Skarine
  • Patent number: 7671765
    Abstract: Systems and methods for input of text symbols into an electronic device comprising a reduced keyboard having keys representing a plurality of characters are disclosed. Possible symbol variants are identified based on character inputs received from the reduced keyboard. Each identified symbol variant is grouped into one of a plurality of groups of symbol variants, each group having an associated priority, according to a type of the symbol variant. Within at least one of the groups, the symbol variants are ranked in decreasing order of frequencies of use of the symbol variants. A list of symbol variants comprising the plurality of groups of symbol variants in order of decreasing priority is then displayed, and an input symbol is selected from the list of symbol variants. The symbol variants of the at least one of the groups of symbol variants are thereby sorted by both priority and frequency of use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2010
    Assignee: Research In Motion Limited
    Inventor: Vadim Fux
  • Patent number: 7672663
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for representing a conversation of related messages is provided. In a message collection user interface for displaying messages sent and received by a communications device, a dynamic session placeholder is used for a respective conversation of related messages. The message collection user interface is displayed including any dynamic session placeholders in the list of messages. As messages from the conversation are occasioned, the dynamic session placeholder is updated. When the message collection is displayed, it is displayed in accordance with the updated session placeholder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2010
    Assignee: Research In Motion Limited
    Inventors: Gerhard D. Klassen, Shaul Wisebourt
  • Patent number: 7672915
    Abstract: The described embodiments relate to methods and systems for data classification using a self-organizing map. Certain embodiments relate to a method of labeling data for training a classifier, comprising: obtaining data, the data comprising labeled data and unlabeled data; generating a self-organizing map of the data; and a labeling at least some of the unlabeled data based on proximity of the unlabeled data to labeled data within the self-organizing map to generate self-labeled data. The method may include training a classifier based on the labeled and self-labeled data. Other embodiments relate to systems and computer readable media configured to perform, or allow performance of, the method embodiments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2010
    Assignee: Research In Motion Limited
    Inventors: Rozita A. Dara, Mohammad Tauseef Khan, Jawad Azim, Orlando Cicchello, Gary P. Cort
  • Patent number: 7673256
    Abstract: Apparatus for indicating mobile electronic device status comprising a database for storing mobile electronic device status information and associated color information; a set of light emitting diodes (LEDs); a processor for retrieving the color information based on the mobile electronic device status and transmitting a signal based on the color information to the set of LEDs; wherein the set of LEDs provide a light corresponding to the color information to illuminate an area of the mobile communication device to indicate the mobile electronic device status.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2010
    Assignee: Research in Motion Limited
    Inventor: Sherryl Lee Lorraine Scott
  • Patent number: 7671290
    Abstract: For a cell-phone or PDA, the rows of key-caps include respective light-strips, which pick up light from respective LEDs surface-mounted on the PCB. The light-strips are sandwiched between the key-caps and the key-switch actuators (whereby the light-strips move with the keys when the keys are depressed). Sockets for receiving the key-caps are co-molded to the light-strips. Sockets are provided in the resilient webs of the keys for receiving under-blocks co-molded to the light-strips.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2010
    Assignee: Research In Motion Limited
    Inventors: Chao Carl Chen, Timothy Herbert Kyowski, Dennis James Penner
  • Patent number: 7673018
    Abstract: A method and system for communicating serialized data provides a mechanism for ordering the data in response to a priority. In an embodiment, a server sending the data uses the priority to order the data in a message send queue for sending the data to a requesting device. The server may comprise a gateway and the second device a wireless device communicating with the gateway. The wireless device may send a priority indication in association with a request for the data to facilitate the ordering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2010
    Assignee: Research In Motion Limited
    Inventors: David Tapuska, Michael Knowles
  • Patent number: D610984
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2010
    Assignee: Research In Motion Limited
    Inventors: Gabriel Deen Khan, Anders Fahrendorff, Dustin Jonathan Smith
  • Patent number: D610985
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2010
    Assignee: Research In Motion Limited
    Inventor: Anders Fahrendorff
  • Patent number: D610992
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2010
    Assignee: Research In Motion Limited
    Inventors: Anders Fahrendorff, Todd Andrew Wood, Ian James Murchison, Dustin Jonathan Smith
  • Patent number: D611048
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2010
    Assignee: Research In Motion Limited
    Inventors: Todd Andrew Wood, Cortez Corley, Roman Peter Rak
  • Patent number: D611050
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2010
    Assignee: Research In Motion Limited
    Inventors: Amanda Adelaide Hancock, Kevin Roy Sugden, Donald Somerset McKenzie, Shannon Tyler Moore
  • Patent number: D611056
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2010
    Assignee: Research In Motion Limited
    Inventors: Michael George Langlois, Oliver Ng, Peter Giang Manh La, Alen Mujkic, Joel Steele