Patents Assigned to IN&MOTION
  • Apparatus, and associated method, for facilitating synchronization of databases connected by way of a radio air interface
    Patent number: 7457631
    Abstract: Apparatus, and an associated method, for facilitating synchronization of databases connected by way of a radio air interface. Changes to a data record embodied at the network part are detected by a detector. A mapping is performed by a mapper, and a synchronization request is generated by a synchronization request generator. The synchronization request is filtered by a filter, and converted into form to permit its efficient communication upon the radio air interface to a mobile node pursuant to a synchronization session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2008
    Assignee: Research In Motion Limited
    Inventors: David Paul Yach, Barry Warren Linkert, Jie Zhu, Salim Hayder Omar, Piotr K Tysowski, Albert Hecht-Enns, Catherine Phillips, Kathy Ann Pereira
  • MOBILE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE COMPRISING A TOP-MOUNTED AUXILIARY INPUT/OUTPUT DEVICE AND A BOTTOM-MOUNTED ANTENNA
    Publication number: 20080287171
    Abstract: A mobile wireless communications device may include a housing having an upper portion and a lower portion, a dielectric substrate carried by the housing, circuitry carried by the dielectric substrate, and an audio output transducer carried by the upper portion of the housing and connected to the circuitry. The device may further include a user input interface carried by the housing and connected to the circuitry, and at least one auxiliary input/output device carried by the upper portion of the housing and connected to the circuitry. An antenna may also be carried within the lower portion of the housing comprising a pattern of conductive traces on the dielectric substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2008
    Publication date: November 20, 2008
    Applicant: Research In Motion Limited
    Inventors: Yihong Qi, Ying Tong Man, Perry Jarmuszewski
  • APPARATUS, AND ASSOCIATED METHOD, FOR DETECTING VALUES OF A SPACE-TIME BLOCK CODE USING SELECTIVE DECISION-FEEDBACK DETECTION
    Publication number: 20080285687
    Abstract: A selective decision-feedback detector for the space-time block code which provides both diversity and spatial multiplexing. To detect a received code block of transmitted symbols, the channel matrix is properly preprocessed with the real and imaginary parts decoupled, and the selective decision-feedback detector makes multiple decisions on the same block upon differently permuted channel matrix and generates multiple candidates for the results. The indicators of the decision errors associated with the candidates are compared, and one of the candidates with the minimum error is selected by a selector as the decided symbols to be used for further processing at a receiving station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2007
    Publication date: November 20, 2008
    Applicant: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITED
    Inventor: SHOUXING QU
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVISIONING A THIRD PARTY MOBILE DEVICE EMULATOR
    Publication number: 20080288237
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for provisioning a third party mobile device emulator from desktop provisioning software, the method having the steps of: designating a common file space between the third party mobile device emulator and the desktop provisioning software; writing files to the common file space from one of the third party mobile device emulator and the desktop provisioning software; and reading the files from the other of the third party mobile device emulator and the desktop provisioning software.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2008
    Publication date: November 20, 2008
    Applicant: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITED
    Inventors: Mahmud-Ul HASSAN, Nicholas WILSON
  • Notification System and Method for a Mobile Data Communication Device
    Publication number: 20080288605
    Abstract: A scheme for replicating data items from a computer system to a mobile data communication device. In one embodiment, a method comprises one or more of the following: automatically detecting arrival of the data items at the computer system; characterizing the data items based on a characterization scheme; and redirecting the characterized data items from the computer system to the mobile data communication device, wherein the characterization scheme is adapted to correspond with a user-selectable notification scheme operable at the mobile data communication device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2007
    Publication date: November 20, 2008
    Applicant: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITED
    Inventors: Harry Major, Krishna K. Pathiyal, Gary P. Mousseau, Mihal Lazaridis
  • Cellular Communications System For Providing Non-Real Time Subscription Data And Related Methods
    Publication number: 20080287110
    Abstract: A cellular communications system may include a plurality of mobile cellular communications devices each associated with a respective user, and at least one cellular base station for wirelessly communicating with the mobile cellular communications devices. The at least one cellular base station may have a capacity associated therewith. The system may also include a central station for determining available capacity of the at least one cellular base station based upon active wireless communications with the mobile cellular communications devices. Moreover, the system may also include a subscription server for cooperating with the central station to provide non-real time subscription data to users on respective mobile cellular communications devices via the at least one cellular base station when the determined available capacity thereof is greater than a threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2008
    Publication date: November 20, 2008
    Applicant: Research In Motion Limited
    Inventor: Jason Tyler Griffin
  • POLICY PROXY
    Publication number: 20080289001
    Abstract: In a system with a policy server, a first device able to communicate with the policy server and a second device able to communicate with the first device and unable to communicate with the policy server, the first device is to act as a policy proxy. The policy server may push to the first device a policy for the second device, and the first device may push the policy to the second device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2008
    Publication date: November 20, 2008
    Applicant: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITED
    Inventors: Michael K. Brown, Neil P. Adams, Herbert A. Little
  • Methods And Apparatus For Selecting A Communication Network
    Publication number: 20080287125
    Abstract: A mobile communication device is adapted to provide voice communications with use of a voice service and data communications with use of a data service. The mobile device maintains a preferred network list as well as a service access list in its memory. The preferred network list has a listing of a plurality of networks with assigned priorities for network selection. The service access list has a listing of a plurality of networks that make the data service available to the mobile device. The mobile device performs a scanning operation for identifying one or more communication networks available in a coverage area of the mobile device. When a home network of the mobile device is unavailable in the coverage area, the mobile device consults the preferred network list and the service access list for identifying one of the networks identified by the scanning operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2008
    Publication date: November 20, 2008
    Applicant: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITED
    Inventors: Hugh Hind, Mark E. Church, Noushad Naqvi
  • Notification System and Method for a Mobile Data Communication Device
    Publication number: 20080288604
    Abstract: A message notification scheme operable at a mobile data communication device, comprising one or more of the following: receiving data items redirected from a computer system; determining if the data items include characterization information based on a characterization scheme; and if so, extracting the characterization information and comparing the characterization information to a plurality of stored notification schemes at the mobile data communication device to provide an appropriate alert associated with a select notification scheme.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2007
    Publication date: November 20, 2008
    Applicant: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITED
    Inventors: Harry Major, Krishna K. Pathiyal, Gary P. Mousseau, Mihal Lazaridis
  • Handheld wireless communication device and holder
    Patent number: 7454239
    Abstract: A holder for a handless wireless communication device has triggering means at more than one location interacting with detecting means in the handheld wireless communication device for the handheld wireless communication device to detect whether or not it is present in the holder in any one of several possible orientations therein. The location of each of the triggering means corresponds to a different one of the possible orientations. In a more specific aspect of the invention, magnets are installed in the holder at more than one location, each location corresponding to a location sufficiently close to the detecting means, for example a proximity switch, in one of several orientations of the device in the holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2008
    Assignee: Research In Motion Limited
    Inventor: James C. Infanti
  • Method and apparatus for scan mode selection during an EVDO traffic state
    Patent number: 7454208
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for user data traffic handling for an EVDO enabled hybrid mode mobile device, the method having the steps of: blocking a system selection at the mobile device until no EVDO traffic state exists, the blocking step includes either monitoring whether a user changes a scan mode on the mobile device; and if the user changes the scan mode, checking whether the mobile device is in an EVDO traffic state; and if yes delaying a system selection until the EVDO traffic state is ended, or monitoring whether a user is in an EVDO traffic state, and if yes, preventing a user from accessing a scan mode menu on the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2008
    Assignee: Research In Motion Limited
    Inventors: Asif Hossain, Hao Xue, Shahid Chaudry, Wen Zhao
  • Adapter system and method for powering a device
    Patent number: 7453233
    Abstract: An adapter for providing a source of power to a mobile device through an industry standard port is provided. In accordance with one aspect of the invention, the adapter comprises a plug unit, a power converter, a primary connector, and an identification subsystem. The plug unit is operative to couple the adapter to a power socket and operative to receive energy from the power socket. The power converter is electrically coupled to the plug unit and is operable to regulate the received energy from the power socket and to output a power requirement to the mobile device. The primary connector is electrically coupled to the power converter and is operative to couple to the mobile device and to deliver the outputted power requirement to the mobile device. The identification subsystem is electrically coupled to the primary connector and is operative to provide an identification signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2008
    Assignee: Research In Motion Limited
    Inventors: Daniel M. Fischer, Dan G. Radut, Michael F. Habicher, Quang A. Luong, Jonathan T. Malton
  • User interface and method of adapting a sensor signal to actuate multiple dimensions
    Patent number: 7453448
    Abstract: A user interface for a mobile device includes an input sensor having one degree of freedom operable by the user to generate a sensor signal, a screen having a two-dimensional surface showing a graphical user interface object, a processor coupled to the sensor and to the screen to actuate the graphical user interface object along the two actuated axis, and a sensor adapter software module executed by the processor to adapt the sensor signal to actuate the graphical user interface object along both actuated axis. The adapter software module selectively drives the sensor signal to actuate the graphical user interface object along the first actuated axis, to actuate the graphical user interface object along the second actuated axis, and to change actuated axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2008
    Assignee: Research In Motion Limited
    Inventor: Arun Munje
  • Apparatus, and associated method, for facilitating initiation of channel allocation to communicate data in a radio communication system
    Patent number: 7454220
    Abstract: Apparatus (48), and an associated method, for facilitating operation of a mobile node (12) operable in a communication system (10) to request allocation of communication capacity upon which to communicate data pursuant to a communication service. A channel allocation request generator (52) is selectably operable to generate requests for allocation of channel capacity upon which to communicate the data. A selector (54) selects when to cause the generator (52) to communicate the additional data packets. Selection is made to delay, or otherwise prevent, retransmission of requests, when a determination is made that the retransmission is unlikely to be successful.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2008
    Assignee: Research In Motion Limited
    Inventors: Hongjun Zhang, Ashok Patel
  • WIRELESS ROUTER SYSTEM AND METHOD
    Publication number: 20080279133
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2007
    Publication date: November 13, 2008
    Applicant: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITED
    Inventors: Roberta A. Bienfait, Mihal Lazaridis, Ian M. Patterson, Allan D. Lewis, Gary P. Mousseau, Alan Tom Panezic
  • SHARING THE COMMON SESSION BETWEEN TWO APPLICATIONS ON THE SAME SERVER
    Publication number: 20080282258
    Abstract: A method of automatically sharing session data between two or more applications executing on a common server. Each application has a respective session. A copy of all session data of a first application's session is stored in a servlet context resident on the server. The stored session data is copied to a second application's session. Thereafter, the stored session data is deleted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2008
    Publication date: November 13, 2008
    Applicant: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITED
    Inventor: Piotr MADEJ
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR A MOBILE STATION TO ENHANCE THE PROBABILITY OF SUCCESSFUL EMERGENCY CALL COMPLETION AND SUCCESSFUL CALLBACK FROM EMERGENCY SERVICE CENTRE
    Publication number: 20080280587
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for enhancing the probability of a successful emergency call completion and emergency callback on a mobile station in a network, the method comprising the steps of: during an emergency call attempt, monitoring whether the mobile station has received a non-voice service request from the network and, if yes, ignoring the non-voice service request. Further, during a callback period, monitoring whether the mobile station has received a service request from the network and, if yes, ignoring the service request if the service request is a non-voice service request that is anything but a position location service request. Further, during a callback period, monitoring whether a user attempts to initiate a non-voice service request that is anything but a position location service request, and if yes ignoring the non-voice service request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2008
    Publication date: November 13, 2008
    Applicant: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITED
    Inventors: Asif Hossein, M. Khaledul Islam, T.L. Trevor Plestid
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DEVICE MANAGEMENT
    Publication number: 20080281956
    Abstract: A system for managing one or more wireless devices in a wireless network, the system comprising: a single generic device manager for implementing device management operations; and an interface layer for translating administration client-specific requests to the generic device manager.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2008
    Publication date: November 13, 2008
    Applicant: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITED
    Inventor: PIOTR MADEJ
  • Card reader
    Patent number: D580935
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2008
    Assignee: Research In Motion Limited
    Inventors: Chris K. C. Leung, Ryan Mitchell Bayne
  • Keypad
    Patent number: D580940
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2008
    Assignee: Research In Motion Limited
    Inventor: Teodor Dabov