Patents by Inventor David Ryan Walker

David Ryan Walker 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).

  • Publication number: 20240311450
    Abstract: Methods and devices for distributing and receiving content are provided. In one example aspect, a method comprises: receiving a command on a first electronic device to output content at an output device associated with a second electronic device; and in response to receiving the command to output content at the output device associated with the second electronic device: providing content access information from the first electronic device to the second electronic device, and adjusting a security state on the second electronic device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2024
    Publication date: September 19, 2024
    Applicant: Milikie Innovations Limited
    Inventors: Steven Henry FYKE, Hans Mathias LEWIN, David Ryan WALKER
  • Publication number: 20240261421
    Abstract: Methods of treating metabolic diseases and disorders using a composition comprising a GLP-1/GIPR antigen binding protein fusion protein are provided. In various embodiments the metabolic disease or disorder is type 2 diabetes, obesity, dyslipidemia, elevated glucose levels, elevated insulin levels and diabetic nephropathy. In certain embodiments the composition comprises the C-terminus of a GLP-1 analog fused to the N-terminus of the light chain variable or heavy chain variable region of an antibody or functional fragment thereof that binds GIPR, optionally with a linker in between.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2024
    Publication date: August 8, 2024
    Applicant: AMGEN INC.
    Inventors: KENNETH W. WALKER, JERRY RYAN HOLDER, DAVID J. LLOYD, SHU-CHEN LU, MURIELLE M. VENIANT-ELLISON, SHANAKA STANISLAUS
  • Patent number: 11921828
    Abstract: Methods and devices for distributing and receiving content are provided. In one example aspect, a method comprises: receiving a command on a first electronic device to output content at an output device associated with a second electronic device; and in response to receiving the command to output content at the output device associated with the second electronic device: providing content access information from the first electronic device to the second electronic device, and adjusting a security state on the second electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Malikie Innovations Limited
    Inventors: Steven Henry Fyke, Hans Mathias Lewin, David Ryan Walker
  • Patent number: 10614439
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus to obtain transaction confirmation are described. One example method includes emulating a payment method using a close-proximity communication device of a mobile device, establishing a close-proximity communication link using the close-proximity communication device of the mobile device, transferring payment information from the mobile device using the close-proximity communication device, switching the close-proximity communication device of the mobile device to an information receiving communication mode, and receiving a transaction confirmation at the close-proximity communication device of the mobile device. Other implementations are possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Geoffrey Wendell MacGillivray, Vahid Moosavi, David Ryan Walker
  • Patent number: 10401965
    Abstract: A method includes detecting a query gesture and actuating, in response to the query gesture, an actuator to provide tactile feedback including information associated with the query gesture. The query gesture may be detected on a touch-sensitive display of a portable electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Jerome Pasquero, David Ryan Walker, Michael Joseph Defazio, Jason Tyler Griffin
  • Publication number: 20190179414
    Abstract: A method includes detecting a query gesture and actuating, in response to the query gesture, an actuator to provide tactile feedback including information associated with the query gesture. The query gesture may be detected on a touch-sensitive display of a portable electronic device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Inventors: Jerome PASQUERO, David Ryan WALKER, Michael Joseph DEFAZIO, Jason Tyler GRIFFIN
  • Patent number: 10274574
    Abstract: Systems and methods of transmitting location data based on wireless communication activity can include a location transmitting device having a sensor communicatively coupled to a low-power transmitter. The transmitter (e.g., a Bluetoothâ„¢ transmitter) can transmit location data from which an electronic device can derive its location. The sensor can be a sensor configured to detect wireless data transmissions (e.g., cellular data transmissions). In one example, the transmitter can transmit location data in response to the sensor detecting data transmissions of an electronic device. The transmitter can remain in an idle, standby, or otherwise low-power state until the sensor detects data transmissions of an electronic device. In response, the transmitter can transmit data which can be received by the electronic device. The electronic device can then derive the electronic device's location from the data transmitted by the transmitter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Douglas James Arthur Burrell, Jerome Pasquero, David Ryan Walker
  • Patent number: 10223743
    Abstract: A communication system may include a transaction terminal configured to perform a transaction based upon receiving account information, a first NFC device(s), and a mobile wireless communication device. The mobile device may include a second NFC device configured to communicate with the first NFC device(s) upon being swiped therewith, a memory configured to store account information associated with different accounts and store respective account swipe patterns for the different accounts, where each account swipe pattern comprising at least one of a set time or a set number of swipes, and a controller. The controller may be configured to detect a swipe pattern, determine whether the detected swipe pattern corresponds to one of the plurality of stored account swipe patterns, determine a respective account based upon the determined corresponding stored account swipe pattern, and communicate the associated account information for the determined respective account to the transaction terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: David Ryan Walker, Vahid Moosavi
  • Publication number: 20190026441
    Abstract: Methods and devices for distributing and receiving content are provided. In one example aspect, a method comprises: receiving a command on a first electronic device to output content at an output device associated with a second electronic device; and in response to receiving the command to output content at the output device associated with the second electronic device: providing content access information from the first electronic device to the second electronic device, and adjusting a security state on the second electronic device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2018
    Publication date: January 24, 2019
    Applicant: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Steven Henry FYKE, Hans Mathias LEWIN, David Ryan WALKER
  • Patent number: 10162419
    Abstract: A method includes detecting a query gesture and actuating, in response to the query gesture, an actuator to provide tactile feedback including information associated with the query gesture. The query gesture may be detected on a touch-sensitive display of a portable electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Jerome Pasquero, David Ryan Walker, Michael Joseph Defazio, Jason Tyler Griffin
  • Patent number: 10083283
    Abstract: Methods and devices for distributing and receiving content are provided. In one example aspect, a method comprises: receiving a command on a first electronic device to output content at an output device associated with a second electronic device; and in response to receiving the command to output content at the output device associated with the second electronic device: providing content access information from the first electronic device to the second electronic device, and adjusting a security state on the second electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: BLACKBERRY LIMITED
    Inventors: Steven Henry Fyke, Hans Mathias Lewin, David Ryan Walker
  • Patent number: 10013623
    Abstract: A system and method are provided for enabling a primary device to track a secondary device. The method comprises determining a frequency at which a marker is being displayed with media content on the secondary device; capturing images using the primary device at the frequency at which the marker is being displayed; and providing an output on the primary device while the marker is being displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: David Ryan Walker, Steven Henry Fyke
  • Patent number: 9961182
    Abstract: A communications system may include a plurality of electronic devices each configured to wirelessly communicate via an NFC format and another wireless communications format(s). A first electronic device may have an NFC transfer parameter associated therewith, and may be configured to establish an NFC link with a second electronic device of the plurality of electronic devices when in proximity therewith, designate data to be transferred to the second electronic device, and determine whether the designated data complies with the NFC transfer parameter. Based on a determination that the designated data complies with the NFC transfer parameter, the first electronic device may be configured to transfer at least some of the designated data via the NFC link, and otherwise transfer at least some of the designated data to the second electronic device over a separate wireless communications link using the at least one other wireless communications format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: BLACKBERRY LIMITED
    Inventors: David Ryan Walker, Vahid Moosavi
  • Publication number: 20180075431
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus to obtain transaction confirmation are described. One example method includes emulating a payment method using a close-proximity communication device of a mobile device, establishing a close-proximity communication link using the close-proximity communication device of the mobile device, transferring payment information from the mobile device using the close-proximity communication device, switching the close-proximity communication device of the mobile device to an information receiving communication mode, and receiving a transaction confirmation at the close-proximity communication device of the mobile device. Other implementations are possible.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2017
    Publication date: March 15, 2018
    Applicant: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Geoffrey Wendell MacGillivray, Vahid Moosavi, David Ryan Walker
  • Patent number: 9843607
    Abstract: A system and method for transferring control of media playback between electronic devices. Playback of media content is initiating at a source device and peer-to-peer device pairing is established with a destination device. Media content from the source device is streamed to the destination device and a determination of whether to transfer media playback control to the destination device is made based on characteristics of the media content. The control of media playback may be transferred to the destination device based on the destination device having a local copy of the streaming media content, a playlist with similar characteristics to the streaming media content, a local media content having similar characteristics to the streaming media content, or a local playlist similar to the playlist from the source device. The peer-to-peer device pairing is terminated when media playback control is transferred, thereby preserving battery and processing power to the source device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Steven Henry Fyke, David Ryan Walker, Jerome Pasquero
  • Patent number: 9818096
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus to obtain transaction confirmation are described. One example method includes emulating a payment method using a close-proximity communication device of a mobile device, establishing a close-proximity communication link using the close-proximity communication device of the mobile device, transferring payment information from the mobile device using the close-proximity communication device, switching the close-proximity communication device of the mobile device to an information receiving communication mode, and receiving a transaction confirmation at the close-proximity communication device of the mobile device. Other implementations are possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Geoffrey Wendell MacGillivray, Vahid Moosavi, David Ryan Walker
  • Patent number: 9747594
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus to obtain transaction confirmation are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Geoffrey Wendell MacGillivray, Vahid Moosavi, David Ryan Walker
  • Publication number: 20170235926
    Abstract: Methods and devices for distributing and receiving content are provided. In one example aspect, a method comprises: receiving a command on a first electronic device to output content at an output device associated with a second electronic device; and in response to receiving the command to output content at the output device associated with the second electronic device: providing content access information from the first electronic device to the second electronic device, and adjusting a security state on the second electronic device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2017
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Applicant: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Steven Henry FYKE, Hans Mathias LEWIN, David Ryan WALKER
  • Patent number: 9715489
    Abstract: A method includes receiving an input string from a virtual keyboard, generating at least one string based on the input string, where the input string is not a substring of the generated string, responsive to a determination that the generated string was previously generated based on the input string, selecting a candidate character associated with the input string and with the generated string, and displaying the generated string at a location on the virtual keyboard that is associated with the selected candidate character.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Jerome Pasquero, David Ryan Walker, Gil Pinheiro
  • Patent number: 9706036
    Abstract: A mobile device may include a display, an optical sensor having a field of view, a movement sensor, a first near-field communication (NFC) device, and a controller. The controller may be configured to display the field of view of the optical sensor on the display, locate a second NFC device within the field of view, and display a direction indicator(s) on the display to indicate a guide direction of movement to align the first NFC device with the second NFC device. When the second NFC device falls outside the field of view, the controller may be configured to display the guide direction indicator(s) on the display to relocate the second NFC device within the field of view based upon the movement sensor. The controller may also be configured to cause the first NFC device to communicate with the second NFC device based upon proximity to the second NFC device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: BLACKBERRY LIMITED
    Inventors: David Ryan Walker, Jerome Pasquero