Patents Assigned to Research In Motion
  • EVENT-TRIGGERED HANDS-FREE MULTITASKING FOR MEDIA PLAYBACK
    Publication number: 20140207468
    Abstract: A system and method are provided for hands-free operation of a device based on a context of an event. An example system configured to practice the method can detect an event during playback of media content to a user, and optionally output a first audible indication of the event. Based on the event, the system can activate a speech recognition application using a custom speech recognition grammar for recognizing a set of speech commands associated with the event. Then the system can optionally output a second audible indication of readiness to process speech in association with the event. The system can monitor, for a predetermined duration of time after the second audible indication, audio input received via the microphone to recognize a command via the speech recognition application, and execute the command.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2013
    Publication date: July 24, 2014
    Applicant: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITED
    Inventor: Grant Henry Robert Bartnik
  • METHOD FOR CORRECTING REAL AND DIGITAL INK
    Publication number: 20140198082
    Abstract: An electronic drawing system configured to edit a physical drawing and communicate the edit to a host electronic device that renders a digital rendition of the physical drawing. The electronic system device includes a control circuit configured to communicate with an element that enables erasing at least a portion of the physical drawing. The control circuit generates at least one signal representative of the erasing, where the at least one signal is capable of being processed to edit the digital representation corresponding to the erasing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2013
    Publication date: July 17, 2014
    Applicant: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITED
    Inventors: Robert Felice MORI, Jonathan Haking LO
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENHANCEMENTS FOR DE-PRIORITIZATION BY RRC CONNECTION REJECT IN LTE
    Publication number: 20140198640
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for enhancements for de-prioritization by RRC connection reject, where the enhancements relate, in one aspect, to faster cell reselection to prevent possible service outages. In a further aspect the enhancements relate to release, suspension or resumption of de-prioritization upon PLMN selection. In a further aspect, the enhancements relate to conflict handling with a CSG cell priority. In a further aspect, the enhancements relate to connected mode UE handling. In a further aspect, the enhancements relate to cancellation of a de-prioritization request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Publication date: July 17, 2014
    Applicant: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITED
    Inventors: Takashi SUZUKI, Ayman Ahmed Mahmoud ABDEL-SAMAD, Dinesh Kumar ARORA, Mohamed Galal El-Din EBRAHIM
  • Apparatus and Method Pertaining to the Stylus-Initiated Opening of an Application
    Publication number: 20140198051
    Abstract: A particular application is pre-associated with the detection of a predetermined stylus action that occurs while a given electronic device is in a standby mode of operation. Upon then detecting that predetermined stylus action these teachings provide for responsively opening that particular application. By one approach this opening of the particular application occurs in conjunction with switching the electronic device from the standby mode of operation to the active mode of operation. The pre-association can be based, at least in part, upon an automatic association based upon identifying the most-used application for the electronic device. As another example, the pre-association can be based, at least in part, upon a specific user-based selection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2013
    Publication date: July 17, 2014
    Applicant: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITED
    Inventors: Jacek S. IDZIK, Peter MANKOWSKI, Cornel MERCEA
  • THERMAL DISSIPATER APPARATUS FOR USE WITH ELECTRONIC DEVICES
    Publication number: 20140196878
    Abstract: Thermal dissipater apparatus for use with electronic devices. An example heat dissipater apparatus disclosed herein includes a body defining a lateral wall. A first wall projects from an inner surface of the lateral wall to define a first cavity, and a second wall projects from the inner surface of the lateral wall to define a second cavity. The first wall isolates the first cavity from the second cavity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2013
    Publication date: July 17, 2014
    Applicant: RESEARCH IN MOTION CORPORATION
    Inventors: Martin Earl Holman, IV, Patrick Yves Mas, Rohit Koppal
  • Method and Apparatus Pertaining to Pre-Associated Stylus-Input User Preferences
    Publication number: 20140198080
    Abstract: A control circuit stores profiles of stylus-input user preferences and pre-associates individual ones of those profiles with corresponding different applications. Upon opening one of those applications the control circuit then automatically uses the corresponding pre-associated stylus-input user preferences. So configured, a user's specific preferences regarding how the control circuit will render electronic ink on a display in response to stylus-based input are automatically utilized on an application-by-application basis without requiring the user to access and change global settings for stylus input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2013
    Publication date: July 17, 2014
    Applicant: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITED
    Inventors: Peter MANKOWSKI, Cornel MERCEA, Xiaowei WU
  • ELECTRONIC DEVICE INCLUDING THREE-DIMENSIONAL GESTURE DETECTING DISPLAY
    Publication number: 20140198073
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a display, a plurality of antennae arranged and constructed to emit a signal and to receive backscatter from the signal, and a processor operably coupled to the antennae to utilize the received backscatter to detect location and at least one of size and shape of an object spaced from the display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2013
    Publication date: July 17, 2014
    Applicant: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITED
    Inventors: Huanhuan GU, James Paul WARDEN, Arnold SHEYNMAN
  • ACCESS PANELS FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICES
    Publication number: 20140198432
    Abstract: Access Panels for electronic devices are disclosed herein. An example electronic device disclosed herein includes a housing having an opening to access a card holder and an access panel coupled to the housing to cover the opening. The access panel slides and rotates relative to the housing when the access panel moves between an open position to allow access to the opening and a closed position to cover the opening. A first biasing element has a first end attached to the access panel and a second end attached to the housing and biases the access panel laterally relative to the housing. A second biasing element is coupled to the access panel to cause the access panel to rotate in a first rotational direction relative to the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2013
    Publication date: July 17, 2014
    Applicant: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITED
    Inventors: Li Huang, Timothy Herbert Kyowski, James Infanti
  • ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH TOUCH-SENSITIVE DISPLAY AND GESTURE-DETECTION
    Publication number: 20140198058
    Abstract: A method includes utilizing transmitters and receivers, performing detection of objects spaced from an electronic device, when an object that is spaced from the electronic device is detected, continuing performing detection of objects, when no object is detected, discontinuing performing detection of objects, and utilizing touch sensors of the touch-sensitive display, performing touch detection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2013
    Publication date: July 17, 2014
    Applicant: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITED
    Inventors: James Paul WARDEN, Huanhuan GU, Arnold SHEYNMAN
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MOBILITY ENHANCEMENT
    Publication number: 20140200001
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods for a radio resource management (RRM) decision in wireless communication network are provided. In particular, post-processing metric is introduced in RRM decision making. Certain aspects of the disclosure involve, a method, performed at a user equipment (UE) of a wireless communications network. The method includes receiving a reference signal from a network node, processing the reference signal based on a receiver processing algorithm, identifying a post-processing metric based at least in part on the received reference signal, and triggering a mobility event based at least in part on the post-processing metric.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2013
    Publication date: July 17, 2014
    Applicant: Research In Motion Limited
    Inventors: Yi Song, Chandra Sekhar Bontu, Zhijun Cai, Przemyslaw Czerepinski
  • ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH TOUCH-SENSITIVE DISPLAY AND GESTURE-DETECTION
    Publication number: 20140198059
    Abstract: A method includes utilizing transmitters and receivers in an electronic device to detect at least one object spaced from a touch-sensitive display of the electronic device, determining first signal values utilizing touch sensors of the touch-sensitive display to obtain baseline noise values when no touch is detected and the transmitters are transmitting, and when a touch is detected, applying the baseline noise values to second signal values to reduce the effect of noise when identifying the touch location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2013
    Publication date: July 17, 2014
    Applicant: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITED
    Inventors: Huanhuan GU, Tongyan ZHAI, Dan TOCILA, James Paul WARDEN, Arnold SHEYNMAN
  • ENHANCED DISPLAY OF INTERACTIVE ELEMENTS IN A BROWSER
    Publication number: 20140198055
    Abstract: A method, system and electronic device are provided for processing touch inputs on a touchscreen display. A starting touch input is detected on a document displayed at an initial scale on the touchscreen. If the starting touch input is within a disambiguation region for a number of interactive elements in the document, while contact is maintained on the display a further view of the document at an enlarged scale is displayed showing the area of the touch input. When an ending touch input is detected, one interactive element may be selected according to the location of the ending touch input, and an interaction function, such as requesting a resource hyperlinked by the selected interactive element, is automatically initiated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2013
    Publication date: July 17, 2014
    Applicant: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITED
    Inventor: Michael Ian BARKWAY
  • IMAGE ZOOM CONTROL USING STYLUS FORCE SENSING
    Publication number: 20140198081
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides for an electronic device and method for displaying an image on a screen of the electronic device. In response to a stylus location input, a region of the screen is selected. A first part of the image associated with the selected region of the screen is determined, along with a second part of the image associated with the region of the screen outside of the selected region. In response to a stylus force input, the first part of the image is modified and displayed in the selected region of the screen. The second part of the image is displayed on the screen outside of the selected region. The modified image may be a magnified image, for example.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2013
    Publication date: July 17, 2014
    Applicant: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITED
    Inventors: Peter MANKOWSKI, Ryan Alexander GERIS, Ahmed ABDELSAMIE
  • DISPLAY REPRESENTATION OF TWO DIFFERENT SIGNAL QUALITY VALUES WITHIN A SINGLE SIGNAL QUALITY INDICATOR
    Publication number: 20140200050
    Abstract: A device and method for displaying a signal quality indicator representation on a mobile device is disclosed. Signal quality values for two different wireless networks is determined. The signal quality indicator is displayed in a banner area on a display of the mobile device providing a graphic representation displaying both of the signal quality values. One of the signal quality values is associated with a first color and the other value is associated with a second color. Where portions of the first signal quality values overlap, a combined representation associated with a third color is displayed. The signal quality indicator is at least one bar of a plurality of graduated bars.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2013
    Publication date: July 17, 2014
    Applicant: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITED
    Inventors: Edgar Vaclav TOMEK, Jin KIM
  • WAITING TIME PARAMETER FOR IN-DEVICE COEXISTENCE INTERFERENCE SOLUTION
    Publication number: 20140198672
    Abstract: A user equipment receives, from a wireless access network node, a waiting time parameter indicating an amount of waiting time relating to provision, by the wireless access network node, of a solution for in-device coexistence (IDC) interference at the user equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2013
    Publication date: July 17, 2014
    Applicant: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITED
    Inventors: Changhoi Koo, Jun Li, Zhijun Cai
  • METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PREDICTION FILTERING IN VIDEO CODING
    Publication number: 20140192862
    Abstract: Methods of encoding and decoding video, in particular chroma components, using filtered predictions, are described. An intra or inter predicted block is first filtered before being used to determine residual data at the encoder or to reconstruct chroma data at the decoder. The filtering tends to be low-pass filtering, which removes high-frequency components from the prediction block. The encoder signals the use of the filter to the decoder by including a filtered-prediction flag for each coding unit, or other region within a picture, that has been subject to prediction filtering. The syntax may provide that only coding units above a threshold size have an associated filtered-prediction flag; smaller coding units are governed by a filtered-prediction flag sent in connection with a higher node in the coding tree block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2013
    Publication date: July 10, 2014
    Applicant: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITED
    Inventors: David FLYNN, Dake HE
  • Shared Image Database With Geographic Navigation
    Publication number: 20140195529
    Abstract: There is disclosed a method and device for operating an image database shared by a plurality of users. In an embodiment, each image captured by a user and stored in a shared image database is associating with the geographic coordinates of the location at which the image was captured. A search engine for the image database is configured to accept geographic coordinates as a search criterion for locating at least one captured image stored in the shared image database. The images having location coordinates within a predefined range of geographic coordinates is displayed to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2013
    Publication date: July 10, 2014
    Applicant: Research In Motion Limited
    Inventor: Michael Jonathan FRIEDMANN
  • MOBILE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE INCLUDING NFC ANTENNA MATCHING CONTROL CIRCUIT AND ASSOCIATED METHODS
    Publication number: 20140187153
    Abstract: A mobile wireless communications device includes a near-field communications (NFC) transceiver, NFC antennas and an NFC control circuit. The NFC transceiver generates a received signal strength based on a received signal from an adjacent NFC device. The NFC control circuit includes an antenna switch circuit coupled between the NFC transceiver and the NFC antennas. A capacitance sensing circuit is coupled to the NFC antennas to determine capacitance values thereof. A processor operates the antenna switch circuit based upon the received signal strength and the capacitance values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2013
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Applicant: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITED
    Inventors: LIZHONG ZHU, Libo ZHU, Robert Michael Philip GONDOSCH, Craig Stuart MACKENZIE
  • MANAGING SESSIONS FOR DIRECT DEVICE TO DEVICE COMMUNICATIONS
    Publication number: 20140177449
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses can involve receiving, from a network node, a radio resource control (RRC) configuration message that includes configuration information for a first user equipment (UE) for an inter-device session (IDS) between the first UE and a second UE, the UE1 configuration information including an inter-device session (IDS) radio network identifier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2012
    Publication date: June 26, 2014
    Applicant: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITED
    Inventors: Robert Novak, William Anthony Gage, Biswaroop Mukherjee
  • Method and Apparatus Pertaining to Universal Serial Bus-Based Charging
    Publication number: 20140181350
    Abstract: A control circuit (comprising, for example, a part of a charging hub for a portable electronic communications device) that is not configured to support USB On-The-Go-compatible Host Negotiation Protocol is operably coupled to a USB-ID connector and is configured to transmit an identifier via that USB-ID connector to prompt a USB device in function mode to serve as a USB host. A locally-available power supply can then serve to provide power to that USB device notwithstanding the latter's role as the host.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Publication date: June 26, 2014
    Applicant: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITED
    Inventors: Justin Manuel PEDRO, Ahmed ABDELSAMIE