Patents by Inventor Dan Dumitru

Dan Dumitru 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).

  • Patent number: 9122768
    Abstract: A method and mobile communications device for retrieving and presenting partial skipped content are provided. A display of a mobile communication device provides content of a first segment and a further segment of an electronic document received at the mobile communication device. Content between the first segment and the further segment is skipped content which has not been received. On the display, an indication of the skipped content is provided, the indication including a selectable client control for retrieving at least a portion of the skipped content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Olav A. Sylthe, Jianwei Yuan, Dan Dumitru
  • Patent number: 9092543
    Abstract: A method is set forth of displaying a document identified by a URL on a mobile browser, comprising registering an attachment viewer plug-in to the mobile browser for a predetermined data stream content type, registering a mobile data service transcoder for predetermined document types, sending a request for the document of one of the predetermined document types from the mobile browser to the mobile service transcoder, retrieving and converting the document to the predetermined data stream content type, and forwarding the converted document from the mobile data service transcoder to the mobile browser for display via the attachment viewer plug-in.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Olav A. Sylthe, Dan Dumitru, Eshwar Stalin, Michael Hung, Andreea Manolescu
  • Patent number: 9070114
    Abstract: A method for downloading an attachment to an attachment viewer of a portable electronic device includes: sending an initial data request from the attachment viewer to a server in response to receipt of an email message including the attachment, building and storing a graph structure within the server representing a map of the attachment, encapsulating the graph structure in data having an attachment viewer readable format and sending an initial chunk of the data to the attachment viewer, the initial chunk of the data being stored on the portable electronic device. The initial chunk of the data is received by the portable electronic device prior to a request to view the attachment being selected by a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Dan Dumitru, Eshwar Stalin, Rakesh Arora
  • Patent number: 8942182
    Abstract: A method for downloading data from a server to a portable electronic device operating on a wireless network includes determining a network speed of the wireless network, setting a chunk size based on the network speed, sending a request to the server including the chunk size and receiving data from the server in chunks having the chunk size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Blackberry Limited
    Inventors: Dan Dumitru, Rakesh Arora, Eshwar Stalin
  • Patent number: 8793387
    Abstract: A method for downloading an attachment to a portable electronic device's attachment viewer includes: sending an initial request from the attachment viewer to a server in response to receiving an email including the attachment by the device; from the server, accessing a graph structure representing a map of the attachment previously built on the server; reconstructing the graph structure in response to the request and encapsulating the graph structure in data having an attachment viewer readable format; (i) downloading successive chunks of the data from the server to the attachment viewer responsive to successive requests; (ii) storing each of the successive chunks on the device prior to display thereof; (iii) displaying the successive chunks on the device and automatically downloading respective next chunks of the data from the server; and (iv) while chunks remain to be downloaded from the server performing (i) to (iii).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Dan Dumitru, Rakesh Arora, Eshwar Stalin
  • Patent number: 8601063
    Abstract: A method for presenting an attachment within an email message on a display of a portable electronic device includes displaying the email message using a messaging application, sending a conversion request to an attachment server in order to view the attachment in an attachment viewer of the portable electronic device, receiving a converted attachment from the attachment server; and upon receiving the converted attachment from the attachment server, inserting a thumbnail image in a message body of the email message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Olav A. Sylthe, Dan Dumitru
  • Patent number: 8583691
    Abstract: A process for viewing document information on a mobile communication device without having to retrieve the full document onto the device. The solution is client-server based. The client is the mobile device attachment viewing application and the server is the document (attachment) handling process on a remote machine. The process comprises server document information construction and delivery, and document information display on the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Blackberry Limited
    Inventors: Jainwei Oliver Yuan, Olav A. Sylthe, Dan Dumitru
  • Patent number: 8584037
    Abstract: A process is set forth for viewing an enlarged area of an image. The image is stored on a server and re-sized for viewing on a mobile communication device based on screen size and color display capabilities of the device. The image is enlarged within the server by modifying binary raw data of the original image based on crop rectangle coordinates entered at the mobile communication device. The process allows users to quickly retrieve any relevant part of a large image attachment that has been resized by the server. This minimizes bandwidth usage, device memory/CPU consumption, and request/response latency while still allowing the user to view an image area in its original level of detail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Olav A. Sylthe, Jianwei (Oliver) Yuan, Dan Dumitru
  • Publication number: 20120218269
    Abstract: A process is set forth for viewing an enlarged area of an image. The image is stored on a server and re-sized for viewing on a mobile communication device based on screen size and color display capabilities of the device. The image is enlarged within the server by modifying binary raw data of the original image based on crop rectangle coordinates entered at the mobile communication device. The process allows users to quickly retrieve any relevant part of a large image attachment that has been resized by the server. This minimizes bandwidth usage, device memory/CPU consumption, and request/response latency while still allowing the user to view an image area in its original level of detail.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2012
    Publication date: August 30, 2012
    Applicant: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITED
    Inventors: Olav A. SYLTHE, Jianwei (Oliver) YUAN, Dan DUMITRU
  • Publication number: 20120166595
    Abstract: A method for downloading an attachment to a portable electronic device's attachment viewer includes: sending an initial request from the attachment viewer to a server in response to receiving an email including the attachment by the device; from the server, accessing a graph structure representing a map of the attachment previously built on the server; reconstructing the graph structure in response to the request and encapsulating the graph structure in data having an attachment viewer readable format; (i) downloading successive chunks of the data from the server to the attachment viewer responsive to successive requests; (ii) storing each of the successive chunks on the device prior to display thereof; (iii) displaying the successive chunks on the device and automatically downloading respective next chunks of the data from the server; and (iv) while chunks remain to be downloaded from the server performing (i) to (iii).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2012
    Publication date: June 28, 2012
    Applicant: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITED
    Inventors: Dan DUMITRU, Rakesh ARORA, Eshwar STALIN
  • Publication number: 20120158874
    Abstract: A method for viewing an attachment of an email message on a portable electronic device in which the attachment has a renderable format. The method includes: requesting to view the attachment in an attachment viewer of the device, building a graph structure within an attachment server representing a map of the attachment, the graph structure including at least one renderable identifier corresponding to a page of the attachment, requesting rendering of the attachment, the rendering request sent from the attachment viewer to the attachment server and including the at least one renderable identifier, initializing a rendering library and storing rendering commands corresponding to command types of the graph structure in the rendering library, drawing the rendering commands in an off-screen bitmap which is saved as a JPEG file, sending the JPEG file to the portable electronic device and displaying the JPEG file in the attachment viewer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2012
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Applicant: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITED
    Inventors: Olav A. SYLTHE, Dan DUMITRU, Andrew BOCKING, Eshwar STALIN
  • Patent number: 8196062
    Abstract: A process is set forth for viewing an enlarged area of an image. The image is stored on a server and re-sized for viewing on a mobile communication device based on screen size and color display capabilities of the device. The image is enlarged within the server by modifying binary raw data of the original image based on crop rectangle coordinates entered at the mobile communication device. The process allows users to quickly retrieve any relevant part of a large image attachment that has been resized by the server. This minimizes bandwidth usage, device memory/CPU consumption, and request/response latency while still allowing the user to view an image area in its original level of detail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: Research In Motion Limited
    Inventors: Olav A. Sylthe, Jianwei (Oliver) Yuan, Dan Dumitru
  • Publication number: 20120117460
    Abstract: A method is set forth of displaying a document identified by a URL on a mobile browser, comprising registering an attachment viewer plug-in to the mobile browser for a predetermined data stream content type, registering a mobile data service transcoder for predetermined document types, sending a request for the document of one of the predetermined document types from the mobile browser to the mobile service transcoder, retrieving and converting the document to the predetermined data stream content type, and forwarding the converted document from the mobile data service transcoder to the mobile browser for display via the attachment viewer plug-in.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2012
    Publication date: May 10, 2012
    Applicant: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITED
    Inventors: Olav A. SYLTHE, Dan DUMITRU, Eshwar STALIN, Michael HUNG, Andreea Manolescu
  • Publication number: 20120096346
    Abstract: A method and mobile communications device for retrieving and presenting partial skipped content are provided A display of a mobile communication device provides content of a first segment and a further segment of an electronic document received at the mobile communication device. Content between the first segment and the further segment is skipped content which has not been received. On the display, an indication of the skipped content is provided, the indication including a selectable client control for retrieving at least a portion of the skipped content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2011
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Applicant: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITED
    Inventors: Olav Andre SYLTHE, Jianwei (Oliver) YUAN, Dan DUMITRU
  • Patent number: 8145766
    Abstract: A method for downloading an attachment to an attachment viewer of a portable electronic device includes: sending an initial data request from said attachment viewer to a server in response to receipt of an email message including said attachment by said portable electronic device; accessing a graph structure representing a map of said attachment from said server, said graph structure having been previously built on said server; reconstructing said graph structure in response to said initial request and encapsulating said graph structure in data having an attachment viewer readable format, said data being stored on said server; and i) downloading successive chunks of said data from said server to said attachment viewer responsive to successive user requests; ii) storing each of said successive chunks of said data on said portable electronic device prior to display thereof; iii) displaying said successive chunks of said data on said portable electronic device and automatically downloading respective next chunks
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: Research in Motion Limited
    Inventors: Dan Dumitru, Rakesh Arora, Eshwar Stalin
  • Patent number: 8117269
    Abstract: A method for viewing an attachment of an email message on a portable electronic device in which the attachment has a renderable format is provided. The method includes: requesting to view the attachment in an attachment viewer of the portable electronic device, building a graph structure within an attachment server representing a map of the attachment, the graph structure including at least one renderable identifier corresponding to a page of the attachment, requesting rendering of the attachment, the rendering request being send from the attachment viewer to the attachment server and including the at least one renderable identifier, initializing a rendering library and storing rendering commands -corresponding to command types of the graph structure in the rendering library, drawing the rendering commands in an off-screen bitmap, saving the off-screen bitmap as a JPEG file, sending the JPEG file to the portable electronic device and displaying the JPEG file in the attachment viewer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Assignee: Research in Motion Limited
    Inventors: Olav A. Sylthe, Dan Dumitru, Eshwar Stalin, Andrew Bocking
  • Patent number: 8108404
    Abstract: A method is set forth of displaying a document identified by a URL on a mobile browser, comprising registering an attachment viewer plug-in to the mobile browser for a predetermined data stream content type, registering a mobile data service transcoder for predetermined document types, sending a request for the document of one of the predetermined document types from the mobile browser to the mobile service transcoder, retrieving and converting the document to the predetermined data stream content type, and forwarding the converted document from the mobile data service transcoder to the mobile browser for display via the attachment viewer plug-in.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: Research In Motion Limited
    Inventors: Olav A. Sylthe, Dan Dumitru, Eshwar Stalin, Michael Hung, Andreea Manolescu
  • Publication number: 20120023181
    Abstract: A process for viewing document information on a mobile communication device without having to retrieve the full document onto the device. The solution is client-server based. The client is the mobile device attachment viewing application and the server is the document (attachment) handling process on a remote machine. The process comprises server document information construction and delivery, and document information display on the mobile device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2011
    Publication date: January 26, 2012
    Applicant: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITED
    Inventors: Jianwei (Oliver) Yuan, Olav A. Sylthe, Dan Dumitru
  • Patent number: 8069410
    Abstract: Systems and methods of retrieving and presenting partial (skipped) document content are provided. A typical system includes a document parsing stage, a device request for content stage and a delivery of requested content stage. A target device can include a device presentation of the requested content stage. The system parses the content of an electronic document and generates a document object model (DOM) representation of the electronic document, where each source and destination target is assigned a document object model identifier (DOM ID). In some instances, upon completion of parsing, the document object model is then paginated in computer memory into segments of a certain size called chunks; in such instances the pagination operation can update each DOM ID with an additional information attribute containing the chunk index with the purpose of establishing a relationship between a document object model identifier and the corresponding chunk index.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2011
    Assignee: Research In Motion Limited
    Inventors: Olav A. Sylthe, Jianwei (Oliver) Yuan, Dan Dumitru
  • Patent number: 8018473
    Abstract: A method for viewing a full image of a server stored original attachment on a portable electronic device including: building a graph structure within the server representing a map of the original image, downloading and displaying a re-sized image from the server to the portable electronic device, the original image exceeding an image size limit of the portable electronic device indicative of screen size of the portable electronic device, dividing the original image into four individual quadrants and calculating width and height parameters of the four individual quadrants, sending a request from the portable electronic device to the server to enlarge the image displayed on the device based on the width and height parameters, the request including the image size limit, retrieving and traversing the graph structure within the server to locate a separate image component constructed for the image size limit, collecting image binary data from the separate image component and modifying the image binary data based on
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2011
    Assignee: Research In Motion Limited
    Inventors: Olav A. Sylthe, Andrew Bocking, Dan Dumitru