Patents by Inventor Jason Christopher BECKETT
Jason Christopher BECKETT 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).
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Patent number: 10419874Abstract: An indoor positioning system and method that correlates map locations to respective wireless access point (AP) fingerprints, and wherein each wireless AP fingerprint is a plurality of wireless AP signal measurements associated with the correlated map location. The method includes receiving position-inference data associated with a user; determining a probable location inside the building based on the position-inference data; receiving wireless AP signal measurements detected by a wireless device associated with the user; associating the probable location with the wireless device based on the association between the position-inference data and the user of the wireless device; and updating the wireless AP fingerprint correlated to the probable location using the received wireless AP signal measurements. The method and system use crowd-sourcing to build and refine the wireless AP fingerprints.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2016Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: I-Ming Tsai, Krishnam Raju Jampani, Jason Christopher Beckett, Daryl Joseph Martin, Jerry Mailloux
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Patent number: 9955316Abstract: A method of determining room occupancy of a room in a facility having an indoor positioning system with wireless access point fingerprints each correlated to a location in the facility. The method may include receiving a request from a computing device for a room occupancy assessment associated with the room. It may further include obtaining location data that correlates to the location of one or more people from the indoor positioning system and determining from the location data associated with the room whether the room is occupied. The determination of whether the room is occupied is then sent to the computing device.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2015Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Krishnam Raju Jampani, Daryl Joseph Martin, I-Ming Tsai, Jason Christopher Beckett
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Patent number: 9860707Abstract: A method of determining room occupancy of a room in a facility having an indoor positioning system with wireless access point fingerprints each correlated to a location in the facility. The method may include receiving a request from a computing device for a room occupancy assessment associated with the room. It may further include obtaining location data that correlates to the locations of wireless devices associated with one or more people from the indoor positioning system and determining based on the location data whether the room is occupied. The determination of whether the room is occupied is then sent to the computing device.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2017Date of Patent: January 2, 2018Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Krishnam Raju Jampani, Daryl Joseph Martin, I-Ming Tsai, Jason Christopher Beckett
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Publication number: 20170223511Abstract: A method of determining room occupancy of a room in a facility having an indoor positioning system with wireless access point fingerprints each correlated to a location in the facility. The method may include receiving a request from a computing device for a room occupancy assessment associated with the room. It may further include obtaining location data that correlates to the locations of wireless devices associated with one or more people from the indoor positioning system and determining based on the location data whether the room is occupied. The determination of whether the room is occupied is then sent to the computing device.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2017Publication date: August 3, 2017Applicant: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Krishnam Raju JAMPANI, Daryl Joseph MARTIN, I-Ming TSAI, Jason Christopher BECKETT
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Publication number: 20170026804Abstract: An indoor positioning system and method that correlates map locations to respective wireless access point (AP) fingerprints, and wherein each wireless AP fingerprint is a plurality of wireless AP signal measurements associated with the correlated map location. The method includes receiving position-inference data associated with a user; determining a probable location inside the building based on the position-inference data; receiving wireless AP signal measurements detected by a wireless device associated with the user; associating the probable location with the wireless device based on the association between the position-inference data and the user of the wireless device; and updating the wireless AP fingerprint correlated to the probable location using the received wireless AP signal measurements. The method and system use crowd-sourcing to build and refine the wireless AP fingerprints.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2016Publication date: January 26, 2017Applicant: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: I-Ming TSAI, Krishnam Raju JAMPANI, Jason Christopher BECKETT, Daryl Joseph MARTIN, Jerry MAILLOUX
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Publication number: 20170026806Abstract: A method of determining room occupancy of a room in a facility having an indoor positioning system with wireless access point fingerprints each correlated to a location in the facility. The method may include receiving a request from a computing device for a room occupancy assessment associated with the room. It may further include obtaining location data that correlates to the location of one or more people from the indoor positioning system and determining from the location data associated with the room whether the room is occupied. The determination of whether the room is occupied is then sent to the computing device.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2015Publication date: January 26, 2017Applicant: BLACKBERRY LIMITEDInventors: Krishnam Raju JAMPANI, Daryl Joseph MARTIN, I-Ming TSAI, Jason Christopher BECKETT
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Patent number: 9301100Abstract: An indoor positioning system and method that correlates map locations to respective wireless access point (AP) fingerprints, and wherein each wireless AP fingerprint is a plurality of wireless AP signal measurements associated with the correlated map location. The method includes receiving position-inference data associated with a user; determining a probable location inside the building based on the position-inference data; receiving wireless AP signal measurements detected by a wireless device associated with the user; associating the probable location with the wireless device based on the association between the position-inference data and the user of the wireless device; and updating the wireless AP fingerprint correlated to the probable location using the received wireless AP signal measurements. The method and system use crowd-sourcing to build and refine the wireless AP fingerprints.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2015Date of Patent: March 29, 2016Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Krishnam Raju Jampani, Daryl Joseph Martin, I-Ming Tsai, Jason Christopher Beckett, Jerry Mailloux
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Patent number: 9258676Abstract: A method performed by a mobile device entails determining a current location of the mobile device, storing the current location as a breadcrumb (recorded) location of the mobile device, and performing an action with respect to the breadcrumb location when the mobile device has moved away from the breadcrumb location. The action may entail sharing the breadcrumb location with another device. Reverse geocoded address information may be provided for the breadcrumb locations.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2013Date of Patent: February 9, 2016Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Jason Christopher Beckett, Raymond Lee Canton, Siamak Sartipi
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Patent number: 9207096Abstract: A method of magnifying a portion of a map displayed on a computing device includes displaying the map at a first zoom level and displaying a magnified portion of the map at a second zoom level. The magnified portion comprises an interactive map element. The magnified portion acts as a localized map magnifier. The magnified portion may be round to resemble a virtual magnifying glass. In certain implementations, multiple map magnifiers may be displayed simultaneously. Map magnifiers may be displayed, for example, at waypoints along a route, at map markers corresponding to points of interest or at the locations associated with search results.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2011Date of Patent: December 8, 2015Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Siamak Sartipi, Jason Christopher Beckett
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Patent number: 9173055Abstract: A method of managing place data for a mobile device, the method comprising storing place data for a place in a centralized place database and receiving input to specify which one or more applications on the mobile device are to have access to the place data for the place. In response to a place data request from a data-requesting application executing on the mobile device, the device determines if the data-requesting application has access to the place data for the place and provides the place data to the data-requesting application only if the data-requesting application has access. This technology enables the device to control the sharing of place data among applications on the device.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2012Date of Patent: October 27, 2015Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Ngoc Bich Ngo, Siamak Sartipi, Jason Christopher Beckett
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Patent number: 9100795Abstract: An apparatus, method, and system for determining geofence data based on estimated time of arrival are provided. At a computing device, geofence data is determined, wherein geographic boundaries associated with the geofence data are based on a given estimated time of arrival (ETA) from one of the given location and a current location of a handheld communication device. Given location data associated with the given location is transmitted to the handheld communication device, via a communication interface, when the current location of the handheld communication device and the given location are each within the geographic boundaries such that the handheld communication device is transportable to the given location within the given estimated time of arrival.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2014Date of Patent: August 4, 2015Assignee: BLACKBERRY LIMITEDInventors: Siamak Sartipi, Jason Christopher Beckett
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Patent number: 9094788Abstract: A method of managing place data for a mobile device, the method comprising storing place data for the mobile device in a centralized place data store, the centralized place data store storing location data for each of a plurality of places defined by the mobile device, and in response to place data requests from a plurality of applications executing on the mobile device, providing the place data from the centralized place data store to the plurality of applications.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2012Date of Patent: July 28, 2015Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Ngoc Bich Ngo, Siamak Sartipi, Jason Christopher Beckett, Hai Quang Pham
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Patent number: 9055398Abstract: A method of managing place data for a mobile device, the method comprising storing place data for the mobile device in a centralized place data store, the centralized place data store storing location data for each of a plurality of places defined by the mobile device, and in response to place data requests from a plurality of applications executing on the mobile device, providing the place data from the centralized place data store to the plurality of applications.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2013Date of Patent: June 9, 2015Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Ngoc Bich Ngo, Siamak Sartipi, Jason Christopher Beckett, Hai Quang Pham
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Patent number: 9049547Abstract: A computer-implemented method of presenting place-related content on a computing device entails, in response to receiving input identifying a place, obtaining place-related content for the place from a place database that stores place-related data related to each one of a plurality of places and presenting the place-related content from the place database in a consolidated place-specific view. This technology provides a place-centric view that presents a consolidated view of place-related content for a selected place.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2012Date of Patent: June 2, 2015Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Ngoc Bich Ngo, Jason Christopher Beckett, Siamak Sartipi
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Patent number: 8954093Abstract: A method of managing place data for a mobile device, the method comprising storing place data for a place in a centralized place database and receiving input to specify which one or more applications on the mobile device are to have access to the place data for the place. In response to a place data request from a data-requesting application executing on the mobile device, the device determines if the data-requesting application has access to the place data for the place and provides the place data to the data-requesting application only if the data-requesting application has access. This technology enables the device to control the sharing of place data among applications on the device.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2013Date of Patent: February 10, 2015Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Ngoc Bich Ngo, Siamak Sartipi, Jason Christopher Beckett
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Publication number: 20140213304Abstract: A method performed by a mobile device entails determining a current location of the mobile device, storing the current location as a breadcrumb (recorded) location of the mobile device, and performing an action with respect to the breadcrumb location when the mobile device has moved away from the breadcrumb location. The action may entail sharing the breadcrumb location with another device. Reverse geocoded address information may be provided for the breadcrumb locations.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2013Publication date: July 31, 2014Applicant: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITEDInventors: Jason Christopher Beckett, Raymond Lee Canton, Siamak Sartipi
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Publication number: 20140135039Abstract: An apparatus, method, and system for determining geofence data based on estimated time of arrival are provided. At a computing device, geofence data is determined, wherein geographic boundaries associated with the geofence data are based on a given estimated time of arrival (ETA) from one of the given location and a current location of a handheld communication device. Given location data associated with the given location is transmitted to the handheld communication device, via a communication interface, when the current location of the handheld communication device and the given location are each within the geographic boundaries such that the handheld communication device is transportable to the given location within the given estimated time of arrival.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2014Publication date: May 15, 2014Applicant: BLACKBERRY LIMITEDInventors: Siamak SARTIPI, Jason Christopher BECKETT
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Publication number: 20140074873Abstract: A computer-implemented place-recognition method comprises searching text for a place-indicating text string (word or character), identifying a place reference from the text based on the place-indicating text string, and looking up the place reference in a place database to determine if the place reference corresponds to a place for which place data is stored in the place database. If the place is already in the database, a menu of user-selectable actions may be presented. If the place is not in the database, the device may ask the user whether the place should be added to the database. Searching the text may also comprise searching the text for one of a plurality of frequent search terms. If a place reference corresponding to a frequent search term is in the database, the place is linked. If not, the place is still linked but only for local search.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2013Publication date: March 13, 2014Applicant: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITEDInventors: Ngoc Bich NGO, Siamak SARTIPI, Jason Christopher BECKETT
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Publication number: 20140074871Abstract: A computer-implemented place-recognition method comprises searching text for a place-indicating text string (word or character), identifying a place reference from the text based on the place-indicating text string, and looking up the place reference in a place database to determine if the place reference corresponds to a place for which place data is stored in the place database. If the place is already in the database, a menu of user-selectable actions may be presented. If the place is not in the database, the device may ask the user whether the place should be added to the database. Searching the text may also comprise searching the text for one of a plurality of frequent search terms. If a place reference corresponding to a frequent search term is in the database, the place is linked. If not, the place is still linked but only for local search.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2012Publication date: March 13, 2014Applicant: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITEDInventors: Ngoc Bich NGO, Siamak SARTIPI, Jason Christopher BECKETT
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Publication number: 20140066106Abstract: A computer-implemented method of presenting place-related content on a computing device entails, in response to receiving input identifying a place, obtaining place-related content for the place from a place database that stores place-related data related to each one of a plurality of places and presenting the place-related content from the place database in a consolidated place-specific view. This technology provides a place-centric view that presents a consolidated view of place-related content for a selected place.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2012Publication date: March 6, 2014Applicant: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITEDInventors: Ngoc Bich NGO, Siamak Sartipi, Jason Christopher Beckett