Patents by Inventor Antti Juhani PIIRA

Antti Juhani PIIRA 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).

  • Method and apparatus for automatically uploading an attached document to a device
    Patent number: 10637809
    Abstract: A method and electronic device are provided to determine that a text-based message to be sent from a sender to a recipient includes a document attached thereto, determine a probability value for a portable electronic device associated with the recipient based at least on behavioural data associated with the recipient, in response to determining that the probability value meets a threshold, cause the portable electronic device to automatically download the document to a memory of the portable electronic device associated with the recipient, and transmit the text-based message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Rupen Chanda, Antti Juhani Piira
  • Method and apparatus for an interactive action log in a collaborative workspace
    Patent number: 10574611
    Abstract: A method and apparatus is provided to determine that a comment has been added to a document associated with the collaborative workspace, and display an entry associated with the comment in an activity log, the entry including a reply indicator to enable entering a reply to the comment. In an aspect, a reply entered via the entry is incorporated into the document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Antti Juhani Piira, Rupen Chanda
  • Method and apparatus for automatically storing and applying permissions to documents attached to text-based messages
    Patent number: 10410006
    Abstract: A method and electronic device are provided to determine that a text-based message to be sent from a sender to a recipient includes a document attached thereto, determine a protection setting value associated with a protection setting, the protection setting value determined based on collaboration data associated with the sender and the recipient, determine whether the protection setting value meets a threshold, in response to determining that the protection setting value meets the threshold, apply the protection setting associated with the protection setting value to the document attached to the text-based message, and transmit the text-based message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Rupen Chanda, Genevieve Elizabeth Mak, Pauline Po Ning Siu, Paul Wilson Lemarquand, Antti Juhani Piira, Leonid Zolotarev
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATICALLY UPLOADING AN ATTACHED DOCUMENT TO A DEVICE
    Publication number: 20180063050
    Abstract: A method and electronic device are provided to determine that a text-based message to be sent from a sender to a recipient includes a document attached thereto, determine a probability value for a portable electronic device associated with the recipient based at least on behavioural data associated with the recipient, in response to determining that the probability value meets a threshold, cause the portable electronic device to automatically download the document to a memory of the portable electronic device associated with the recipient, and transmit the text-based message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2016
    Publication date: March 1, 2018
    Inventors: Rupen CHANDA, Antti Juhani PIIRA
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATICALLY STORING AND APPLYING PERMISSIONS TO DOCUMENTS ATTACHED TO TEXT-BASED MESSAGES
    Publication number: 20180046816
    Abstract: A method and electronic device are provided to determine that a text-based message to be sent from a sender to a recipient includes a document attached thereto, determine a protection setting value associated with a protection setting, the protection setting value determined based on collaboration data associated with the sender and the recipient, determine whether the protection setting value meets a threshold, in response to determining that the protection setting value meets the threshold, apply the protection setting associated with the protection setting value to the document attached to the text-based message, and transmit the text-based message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2016
    Publication date: February 15, 2018
    Inventors: Rupen CHANDA, Genevieve Elizabeth MAK, Pauline Po Ning SIU, Paul Wilson LEMARQUAND, Antti Juhani PIIRA, Leonid ZOLOTAREV
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AN INTERACTIVE ACTION LOG IN A COLLABORATIVE WORKSPACE
    Publication number: 20180041457
    Abstract: A method and apparatus is provided to determine that a comment has been added to a document associated with the collaborative workspace, and display an entry associated with the comment in an activity log, the entry including a reply indicator to enable entering a reply to the comment. In an aspect, a reply entered via the entry is incorporated into the document.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2016
    Publication date: February 8, 2018
    Inventors: Antti Juhani PIIRA, Rupen CHANDA