Patents by Inventor Garth Newton

Garth Newton 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).

  • Mobile device diagnosis, test, application deployment and update from a web page
    Patent number: 8818349
    Abstract: A method for deploying an application to a mobile device comprises providing a web page to a computing device coupled to a communications network for receiving the web page, the web page comprising a configuration determination and loading component for deploying the application to the mobile device coupled to the computing device, the web page determining configuration information about the mobile device for determining specific application components for loading; and providing specific application components for loading onto the mobile device in response to the web page. The web page may determine specific application components for the mobile device in response to the configuration information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Gerhard D. Klassen, Garth Newton, Christopher R. Wormald
  • PRECISION LEVEL MANAGEMENT FOR LOCATION REPORTING
    Publication number: 20070249364
    Abstract: A mobile device provides its location information to contacts of a user of the mobile device. A contact has a particular precision level assigned thereto from a set of two or more precision levels. The assignment of precision levels to contacts is according to one or more criteria. The mobile device ensures that any location information of the mobile device provided to the contact is not more precise than the precision level currently assigned to the contact.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2006
    Publication date: October 25, 2007
    Applicant: Research In Motion Limited
    Inventors: Matthew Bells, Gerhard Klassen, Samer Fahmy, Garth Newton
  • Mobile device diagnosis, test, application deployment and update from a web page
    Publication number: 20060073785
    Abstract: A method for deploying an application to a mobile device comprises providing a web page to a computing device coupled to a communications network for receiving the web page, the web page comprising a configuration determination and loading component for deploying the application to the mobile device coupled to the computing device, said web page determining configuration information about the mobile device for determining specific application components for loading; and providing specific application components for loading onto the mobile device in response to the web page. The web page may determine specific application components for said mobile device in response to the configuration information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2005
    Publication date: April 6, 2006
    Applicant: Research In Motion Limited
    Inventors: Gerhard Klassen, Garth Newton, Christopher Wormald