Patents by Inventor Allan D. Lewis
Allan D. Lewis 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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Patent number: 9258372Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 6, 2012Date of Patent: February 9, 2016Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Roberta A. Bienfait, Mihal Lazaridis, Ian M. Patterson, Allan D. Lewis, Garu P. Mousseau, Alan Panezic
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Patent number: 8706075Abstract: In one embodiment, a network architecture is described for facilitating delivery of data items over a communications network to a mobile communications device. A remote services server disposed in an enterprise network is operable for detecting a data item at a computer system and for processing the data item into processed information that includes address information relating to the mobile communications device. A service gateway disposed in an Internet Protocol (IP) Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) network is operably connected to the remote services server for receiving the processed information using a first protocol, wherein the service gateway includes functionality to transmit the processed information using a second protocol over the IMS network based on routing information obtained from an IMS-aware node.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2007Date of Patent: April 22, 2014Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Giyeong Son, Allan D. Lewis, Bruno R. Preiss
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Patent number: 8693996Abstract: A wireless router employing a technique to couple a plurality a 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 message 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: GrantFiled: February 16, 2012Date of Patent: April 8, 2014Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Allan D. Lewis, Gary P. Mousseau, Barry J. Gilhuly, Ian M. Patterson, Vi Thuan Banh, Adrian Rogobete, Anthony G. Burns, Mihal Lazaridis
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Patent number: 8671130Abstract: A system for managing the exchange of data items between a mail database on a mail server and a mobile communication device operable to send and receive data items over a wireless network, wherein the mail database and the mobile communication device are associated with a user address and wherein the data items are stored in the mail database and referenced by corresponding mail database identifiers, includes a state database associated with the user address. The state database is operable to receive and store the mail database identifiers corresponding to the data items stored in the mail database.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2002Date of Patent: March 11, 2014Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Anand Sinha, Allan D. Lewis, Carl L. Cherry, Andrew J. Legg, Jeffrey R. Schnurr
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Patent number: 8559446Abstract: In one embodiment, a service gateway decomposition method is described that is operable in an Internet Protocol (IP) Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) environment. A service gateway controller (SGC) is provided for effectuating a signaling interface with respect to at least one remote services server. One or more service gateways (SGWs) are provided for effectuating a message transport interface with respect to the remote services server, wherein the SGC and SGWs are interfaced together using a suitable signaling architecture.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2007Date of Patent: October 15, 2013Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Giyeong Son, Allan D. Lewis, Bruno R. Preiss
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Patent number: 8516055Abstract: A system and method for redirecting data from a host system (or messaging server) to one or more mobile data communication devices via a wireless packet data network is provided in which the wireless packet data network dynamically assigns addresses to the one or more mobile data communication devices on an as-needed basis. A redirector application operating at the host system is configured by each user to continuously redirect certain data to the wireless packet data network, as the data is received (or otherwise altered) at the host system. Two methods are provided for communicating the redirected data from the network to the mobile device. In a first method, the mobile device is configured to periodically contact a store-and-forward server within the wireless network, which, when contacted, assigns a network address to the mobile device and then transmits the stored, redirected data to the mobile device.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2001Date of Patent: August 20, 2013Assignee: Research In Motion LimitedInventors: Hugh Hind, Michael Knowles, Noushad Naqvi, David Bajar, Ian M. Patterson, Anthony G. Burns, Allan D. Lewis, Gary P. Mousseau, Mihal Lazaridis
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Patent number: 8483694Abstract: A wireless router employing a technique to couple a plurality a 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 message 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: GrantFiled: September 9, 2011Date of Patent: July 9, 2013Assignee: Research In Motion LimitedInventors: Allan D. Lewis, Gary P. Mousseau, Barry J. Gilhuly, Ian M. Patterson, Vi Thuan Banh, Adrian Rogobete, Anthony G. Burns, Mihal Lazaridis
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Patent number: 8347390Abstract: A messaging server forwards emails to mobile communication devices of users to whom the emails were respectively addressed. An antivirus server determines whether an email addressed to a user of a mobile communication device, to be forwarded by the messaging server to the mobile communication device, is infected with a virus. In response to determining the email is infected with a virus, a bulletin generator transmits, to the mobile communication devices besides the mobile communication device of the addressee of the email determined to be infected, an all points bulletin message disclosing the existence of the virus. The bulletin message is transmitted directly to, instead of via email to, the wireless mobile communication devices.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2010Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: Research In Motion LimitedInventors: William D. Castell, Allan D. Lewis, Tabitha K. Ferguson, Bill Yuan, Ian M. Patterson
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Publication number: 20120201125Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2012Publication date: August 9, 2012Applicant: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITEDInventors: Roberta A. Bienfait, Mihal Lazaridis, Ian M. Patterson, Allan D. Lewis, Gary P. Mousseau, Alan Tom Panezic
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Publication number: 20120142359Abstract: A wireless router employing a technique to couple a plurality a 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 message 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: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2012Publication date: June 7, 2012Applicant: Research In Motion LimitedInventors: Allan D. LEWIS, Gary P. Mousseau, Barry J. Gilhuly, Ian M. Patterson, Vi Thuan Banh, Adrian Rogobete, Anthony G. Burns, Mihal Lazaridis
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Patent number: 8179922Abstract: A method and system for monitoring the health of a wireless telecommunication network. Network health is monitored without placing an administrative burden on the carrier network itself, instead, this burden is placed on components that lie outside the carrier network and pass communications through it. The data service provider infrastructure sends a request to a mobile device, asking that it return data regarding its location. The carrier networks handling the request insert location information into the packet that is sent to the mobile device, but this information is not sent to the data service provider infrastructure itself. The mobile device harvests this location information from the packets it receives and inserts it in a response packet that finds its way back to the data service provider infrastructure. The data service provider infrastructure is able to collate this location data and to analyze it, determining the carrier network's health.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2009Date of Patent: May 15, 2012Assignee: Research In Motion LimitedInventors: Allan D. Lewis, Mihal Lazaridis, Gerald Winton Lankford, Herbert A. Little, Hugh Hind, Ian M. Patterson
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Patent number: 8179872Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 29, 2007Date of Patent: May 15, 2012Assignee: Research In Motion LimitedInventors: Roberta A. Bienfait, Mihal Lazaridis, Ian M. Patterson, Allan D. Lewis, Gary P. Mousseau, Alan Tom Panezic
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Patent number: 8165575Abstract: A wireless router employing a technique to couple a plurality a 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 message 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: GrantFiled: May 19, 2011Date of Patent: April 24, 2012Assignee: Research In Motion LimitedInventors: Allan D. Lewis, Gary P. Mousseau, Barry J. Gilhuly, Ian M. Patterson, Vi Thuan Banh, Adrian Rogobete, Anthony G. Burns, Mihal Lazaridis
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Publication number: 20120093083Abstract: Techniques in a wireless device for use in accessing a common data application with a service network which is external to a plurality of wireless networks are described. The device receives a data session configuration file which includes a list of the plurality of wireless networks mapped against authentication credentials associated with each wireless network. The device communicates with a current one the wireless networks. The device selects from the list one of the authentication credentials that is associated with the current wireless network. The device submits, via the current wireless network, the selected authentication credentials for establishing a packet data session via the current wireless network. The device then accesses, via the current wireless network using the packet data session, the common data application with the service network which is external to the current wireless network.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2011Publication date: April 19, 2012Applicant: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITEDInventors: Thomas Leonard Trevor Plestid, Allan D. Lewis, Ian M. Patterson
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Publication number: 20120008560Abstract: A wireless router employing a technique to couple a plurality a 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 message 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: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2011Publication date: January 12, 2012Inventors: Allan D. Lewis, Gary P. Mousseau, Barry J. Gilhuly, Ian M. Patterson, Vi Thuan Banh, Adrian Rogobete, Anthony G. Burns, Mihal Lazaridis
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Patent number: 8050684Abstract: A wireless router employing a technique to couple a plurality a 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 message 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: GrantFiled: January 22, 2009Date of Patent: November 1, 2011Assignee: Research In Motion LimitedInventors: Allan D. Lewis, Gary P. Mousseau, Barry J. Gilhuly, Ian M. Patterson, Vi Thuan Banh, Adrian Rogobete, Anthony G. Burns, Mihal Lazaridis
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Patent number: 8019820Abstract: In one embodiment, a scheme is described with respect to a service network system adapted to interoperate in an Internet Protocol (IP) Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) environment wherein signaling and message media planes are decoupled. The service network system comprises a service gateway controller (SGC) that is decomposed from a plurality of a plurality of service gateways (SGWs) operable to effectuate a message transport interface with respect to a remote services server.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2007Date of Patent: September 13, 2011Assignee: Research In Motion LimitedInventors: Giyeong Son, Allan D. Lewis, Bruno R. Preiss
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Publication number: 20110165863Abstract: Methods and apparatus in a wireless device for use in maintaining appropriate authentication credentials for receiving a message service provided by a service network which is external to a wireless network are described. The wireless device receives, via the wireless network, a data session configuration file which includes a list of a plurality of wireless networks mapped against authentication credentials associated with each said wireless network. The list includes authentication credentials associated with the wireless network. The wireless device submits, via the wireless network, the authentication credentials for establishing a data session via the wireless network. Then, the wireless device receives, in the data session via the wireless network, the message service provided by the service network.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2011Publication date: July 7, 2011Applicant: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITEDInventors: Thomas Leonard Trevor Plestid, Allan D. Lewis, Ian M. Patterson
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Patent number: 7937073Abstract: Methods and apparatus of a wireless portable communication device for maintaining appropriate authentication credentials for accessing a data application maintained in a service network are provided. A default access point name (APN) or network access identifier (NAI) is maintained in memory of the wireless device. The wireless device submits, via a default wireless network, the default APN or NAI for establishing a data session in the default wireless network. The wireless device is then able to receive, in the data session via the default wireless network, a message service using the common data application maintained in the service network. In response to a change in service subscription for the wireless device, the wireless device receives, via a current cellular network, a current APN or NAI and stores it in its memory. The wireless device then submits, via the current wireless network, the current APN or NAI for establishing a data session in the current wireless network.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2009Date of Patent: May 3, 2011Assignee: Research In Motion LimitedInventors: Thomas Leonard Trevor Plestid, Allan D. Lewis, Ian M. Patterson
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Publication number: 20100223670Abstract: A messaging server forwards emails to mobile communication devices of users to whom the emails were respectively addressed. An antivirus server determines whether an email addressed to a user of a mobile communication device, to be forwarded by the messaging server to the mobile communication device, is infected with a virus. In response to determining the email is infected with a virus, a bulletin generator transmits, to the mobile communication devices besides the mobile communication device of the addressee of the email determined to be infected, an all points bulletin message disclosing the existence of the virus. The bulletin message is transmitted directly to, instead of via email to, the wireless mobile communication devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2010Publication date: September 2, 2010Applicant: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITEDInventors: William D. Castell, Allan D. Lewis, Tabitha K. Ferguson, Bill Yuan, Ian M. Patterson