Patents by Inventor James Roger BLASHILL

James Roger BLASHILL 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).

  • Directional navigation of page content
    Patent number: 9575944
    Abstract: A system and method for displaying and navigating through structured content, such as a webpage, is provided. The content includes focusable elements, at least one of which is a non-enableable element that is normally not capable of gaining focus when the content is displayed in a browser or other viewing application. Navigation of the content by moving focus from one element to another includes moving the focus to the focusable, non-enableable element. The non-enableable element is defined as a focusable element by an attribute. Focusable elements may also be defined with attributes for capturing directional navigation instructions and calling event handling functions in response to detected directional navigation instructions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Timothy Allen Neil, James Roger Blashill, Lei Li
  • DIRECTIONAL NAVIGATION OF PAGE CONTENT
    Publication number: 20140351691
    Abstract: A system and method for displaying and navigating through structured content, such as a webpage, is provided. The content includes focusable elements, at least one of which is a non-enableable element that is normally not capable of gaining focus when the content is displayed in a browser or other viewing application. Navigation of the content by moving focus from one element to another includes moving the focus to the focusable, non-enableable element. The non-enableable element is defined as a focusable element by an attribute. Focusable elements may also be defined with attributes for capturing directional navigation instructions and calling event handling functions in response to detected directional navigation instructions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2014
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Inventors: Timothy Allen NEIL, James Roger BLASHILL, Lei LI
  • Directional navigation of page content
    Patent number: 8843849
    Abstract: A system and method for displaying and navigating through structured content, such as a webpage, is provided. The content includes focusable elements, at least one of which is a non-enableable element that is normally not capable of gaining focus when the content is displayed in a browser or other viewing application. Navigation of the content by moving focus from one element to another includes moving the focus to the focusable, non-enableable element. The non-enableable element is defined as a focusable element by an attribute. Focusable elements may also be defined with attributes for capturing directional navigation instructions and calling event handling functions in response to detected directional navigation instructions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Inventors: Timothy Allen Neil, James Roger Blashill, Lei Li
  • DIRECTIONAL NAVIGATION OF PAGE CONTENT
    Publication number: 20110113364
    Abstract: A system and method for displaying and navigating through structured content, such as a webpage, is provided. The content includes focusable elements, at least one of which is a non-enableable element that is normally not capable of gaining focus when the content is displayed in a browser or other viewing application. Navigation of the content by moving focus from one element to another includes moving the focus to the focusable, non-enableable element. The non-enableable element is defined as a focusable element by an attribute. Focusable elements may also be defined with attributes for capturing directional navigation instructions and calling event handling functions in response to detected directional navigation instructions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2009
    Publication date: May 12, 2011
    Applicant: Research In Motion Limited
    Inventors: Timothy Allen NEIL, James Roger BLASHILL, Lei LI