Patents by Inventor Ian Clough

Ian Clough 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: 9137280
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for wireless systems provide a mechanism to enhance the communication capabilities of wireless users. In an embodiment, a server includes a processor that manages information in a database of the server, regulates, using instructions of a policy service in the server, communication of information from each of the clients to other entities, maintains reconfiguration policy with instructions having a sequencing procedure to provide the configuration data and a hierarchy identifying which of the clients controls re-supplying the configuration data to the server, controls, using instructions of a share agent in the server in conjunction with the instructions of the policy service, dissemination of information to one or more of the clients from the database on a shared basis, and manages the database, the router, the policy service, and the share agent using the processor in the server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Jesse Boudreau, Thomas Murphy, Ian Clough, Alan Panezic, David Yach, Salim Omar, Mike Washburn
  • Patent number: 9021016
    Abstract: A method, apparatus and system for managing communications between a client machine and a mobile computing device. The mobile computing device comprising: a storage configured to maintain a host application; a processor configured to execute the host application; an interface configured to connect to the client machine, the interface further configured to carry a web request from the client machine to the processor, the host application configured to respond to the web request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignees: BlackBerry Limited, 2236008 Ontario Inc.
    Inventors: Edward Snow Willis, Ennis Al-Asaaed, Michael Ian Clough, Cédric Charrier, Timothy Richard Tyhurst, George Dos Santos, Aleksandar Ristovski, Sean Derek Boudreau
  • Patent number: 9014725
    Abstract: A method and system for enhancing security using location-based wireless authentication for a mobile device, the method comprising the steps of: sending from the mobile device to a base station a message, the message having a unique identifier associated with the mobile device; appending, at the base station, a location identifier to said message; sending the message to a recipient; and authenticating the message at the recipient, said authenticating step confirming that the location identifier appended at the base station corresponds with an expected location for the message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventor: Ian Clough
  • Patent number: 8352550
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for wireless systems provide a mechanism to enhance the communication capabilities of wireless users. In an embodiment, a system includes a wireless server communicatively operable with a set of mobile wireless clients, where the wireless server has a share agent configured to control dissemination of information from a database on a shared basis responsive to a determination of a privacy state of the information. In an embodiment, a mobile wireless device has an integrated management system operable with a controller. The management system is configured to manage the mobile wireless device operable as a multiple-mode wireless client to each wireless server of a set of wireless servers such that information may be shared among the mobile wireless device and the set of wireless servers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Research In Motion Limited
    Inventors: Jesse Boudreau, Thomas Murphy, Ian Clough, Alan Panezic, David Yach, Salim Omar, Mike Washburn
  • Publication number: 20120079006
    Abstract: A method, apparatus and system for managing communications between a client machine and a mobile computing device. The mobile computing device comprising: a storage configured to maintain a host application; a processor configured to execute the host application; an interface configured to connect to the client machine, the interface further configured to carry a web request from the client machine to the processor, the host application configured to respond to the web request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2011
    Publication date: March 29, 2012
    Applicants: QNX Software Systems, Research In Motion Limited
    Inventors: Willis Edward Snow, Ennis Al-Asaaed, Michael Ian Clough, Cédric Charrier, Timothy Richard Tyhurst, George Dos Santos, Aleksandar Ristovski, Sean Derek Boudreau
  • Publication number: 20090030995
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for wireless systems provide a mechanism to enhance the communication capabilities of wireless users. In an embodiment, a system includes a wireless server communicatively operable with a set of mobile wireless clients, where the wireless server has a share agent configured to control dissemination of information from a database on a shared basis responsive to a determination of a privacy state of the information. In an embodiment, a mobile wireless device has an integrated management system operable with a controller. The management system is configured to manage the mobile wireless device operable as a multiple-mode wireless client to each wireless server of a set of wireless servers such that information may be shared among the mobile wireless device and the set of wireless servers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2008
    Publication date: January 29, 2009
    Inventors: Jesse Boudreau, Thomas Murphy, Ian Clough, Alan Panezic, David Yach, Salim Omar, Mike Washburn
  • Publication number: 20070184818
    Abstract: A method and system for enhancing security using location-based wireless authentication for a mobile device, the method comprising the steps of: sending from the mobile device to a base station a message, the message having a unique identifier associated with the mobile device; appending, at the base station, a location identifier to said message; sending the message to a recipient; and authenticating the message at the recipient, said authenticating step confirming that the location identifier appended at the base station corresponds with an expected location for the message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2007
    Publication date: August 9, 2007
    Applicant: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITED
    Inventor: Ian CLOUGH
  • Patent number: 7221949
    Abstract: A method and system for enhancing security using location-based wireless authentication for a mobile device, the method comprising the steps of: sending from the mobile device to a base station a message, the message having a unique identifier associated with the mobile device; appending, at the base station, a location identifier to said message; sending the message to a recipient; and authenticating the message at the recipient, said authenticating step confirming that the location identifier appended at the base station corresponds with an expected location for the message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2007
    Assignee: Research in Motion Limited
    Inventor: Ian Clough
  • Publication number: 20060194592
    Abstract: A method and system for enhancing security using location-based wireless authentication for a mobile device, the method comprising the steps of: sending from the mobile device to a base station a message, the message having a unique identifier associated with the mobile device; appending, at the base station, a location identifier to said message; sending the message to a recipient; and authenticating the message at the recipient, said authenticating step confirming that the location identifier appended at the base station corresponds with an expected location for the message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2005
    Publication date: August 31, 2006
    Inventor: Ian Clough