Patents by Inventor Jason Tyler Griffin

Jason Tyler Griffin 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).

  • In-context word prediction and word correction
    Patent number: 9223497
    Abstract: Methods and systems for predicting user input on a keyboard. Methods include enabling user input on a display comprising at least three fields. The first field displays an input string that is based on input selections such as keyboard entries. The second field displays a candidate prediction generated based on other input selections, consisting at least in part of a proposed completion to the input selection, and partially based on the input string in the first field. The third field displays another candidate prediction generated based on the input string in the first field as well as the candidate prediction in the second field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Jerome Pasquero, Donald Somerset McKenzie, Jason Tyler Griffin
  • Combined passcode and activity launch modifier
    Patent number: 9223948
    Abstract: A method and system are disclosed whereby an activity launch modifier is combined with a passcode. The activity launch modifier is used to determine a portion of an application to activate upon valid authentication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Jason Tyler Griffin, Alistair Robert Hamilton
  • Method and device having touchscreen keyboard with visual cues
    Patent number: 9201510
    Abstract: A method for providing visual cues rendered on a display is provided. The method comprises: detecting a touch input associated with a user interface element rendered on the display; determining an input direction of the touch input; and displaying on the display a visual cue associated with the user interface element, wherein the visual cue is located at a position based on the input direction of the touch input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Jason Tyler Griffin, Jerome Pasquero, Alistair Robert Hamilton
  • Method and apparatus for word prediction selection
    Patent number: 9189157
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are provided for improving word prediction candidate selection in an electronic device. Input of one or more characters is received via a capacitive physical keyboard. A word prediction process generates a set of word prediction candidates, determines a unique character in each word prediction candidate, and displays the word prediction candidates along with visual indicia to indicate the unique character. A second input is then received comprising a tap input of a single character on the keyboard. The electronic device determines whether the second input corresponds to a unique character associated with any of the word prediction candidates, and if so, displays the selected word in an input field on the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Jerome Pasquero, Donald Somerset McCulloch McKenzie, Jason Tyler Griffin
  • Handheld Device With Notification Message Viewing
    Publication number: 20150319280
    Abstract: Displaying information related to a message on a display screen of a handheld electronic device. In response to a movement of the handheld electronic device from an initial position to a first orientation, displaying on the display screen a first notice related to the message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2015
    Publication date: November 5, 2015
    Applicant: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Dan Zacharias GÄRDENFORS, Leif Fredrik ADEMAR, Jason Tyler GRIFFIN, Alistair Robert HAMILTON, Karl-Anders Reinhold JOHANSSON, Mihal LAZARIDIS
  • Event notification on a mobile device using binaural sounds
    Patent number: 9167368
    Abstract: In one example, information is presented to a user through an electronic device in a non-visual manner. In this example, an informational event is received. Next, a determination is made if the informational event has been previously associated with a binaural sound sequence, the binaural sound sequence includes a user's nominal ear spacing for sound localization in a 3D space. The binaural sound sequence is presented to a multimedia port, in response to a binaural sound sequence being previously associated with the event. The localization in the 3D space using a binaural sound can be associated with importance, future times, source of information associated with the event, a person associated with the event, or a combination thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Janice Leigh De Jong, Jerome Pasquero, Jason Tyler Griffin, Scott David Reeve
  • Handheld electronic device that has a keypad which can be rendered ineffective, and associated method
    Patent number: 9160823
    Abstract: An improved handheld electronic device is movable among a retracted configuration and a deployed configuration. Several different exemplary embodiments are described, some having two members, others having more. In one embodiment, certain features or objects are unavailable in a retracted configuration but are available in a deployed configuration or an overtravel configuration. A method of responding to predetermined events comprises detecting a movement of a handheld electronic device away from a first configuration toward a second configuration without reaching the second configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Norman Miner Ladouceur, Jason Tyler Griffin
  • Virtual keyboard providing an indication of received input
    Patent number: 9152323
    Abstract: A virtual keyboard providing an indication of received input and method of controlling the same is provided. The method comprises receiving an input of a character from a virtual keyboard displayed on a display, and highlighting a key in the virtual keyboard which corresponds to the input character when the input character belongs to a current set of characters which is incomplete.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Jason Tyler Griffin, Jerome Pasquero, Donald Somerset McCulloch Mckenzie
  • Reduced qwerty keyboard system that provides better accuracy and associated method
    Patent number: 9146621
    Abstract: An electronic device having a keyboard, display, and a processor is presented. The keyboard includes a plurality keys with at least a subset of the plurality of keys having a plurality of indicia, each key in the subset having a primary and secondary conductor. The primary conductor can be associated with a first set of indicia. The first set of indicia can include one or more indicia. The secondary conductor can be associated with a second set of indicia. The second set of indicia can include the one or more indicia that are not in the first set. The processor can be communicatively coupled to the keyboard and the display. The processor receives an input based on the secondary conductor associated with the given key, and outputs data to the display to display a list of characters corresponding to the plurality of indicia of the given key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2015
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Jason Tyler Griffin, Mihal Lazaridis
  • ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PREVIEWING CONTENT ASSOCIATED WITH AN APPLICATION
    Publication number: 20150268855
    Abstract: A portable electronic device is provided. The portable electronic device includes a memory configured to store instructions, a plurality of keys configured to receive respective key inputs, and a screen. The portable electronic device also includes a processor configured to execute the instructions to detect a first key input at one of the plurality of keys, enable a preview mode based on the detected first key input. While the preview mode is enabled, the processor is also configured to a second key input at one of the plurality of keys, at least one of the first or second key input being associated with a content preview for one of a plurality of applications, and display on the screen the content preview for the associated one of the plurality of applications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2014
    Publication date: September 24, 2015
    Applicants: BLACKBERRY SWEDEN AB, BLACKBERRY LIMITED
    Inventors: Jason Tyler GRIFFIN, Dan Zacharias GÄRDENFORS
  • Next letter prediction for virtual keyboard
    Patent number: 9134810
    Abstract: A method including receiving an input of a character from a virtual keyboard displayed on a display, generating one or more sets of predicted input characters based on the input character, wherein each set of predicted input characters corresponds to a subsequent candidate input character, and displaying a visual indication of at least some of the one or more sets of predicted input characters, wherein the visual indication is displayed at keys of the virtual keyboard associated with subsequent candidate input characters corresponding to the sets of predicted input characters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Jason Tyler Griffin, Jerome Pasquero, Donald Somerset McCulloch Mckenzie
  • Password entry using moving images
    Patent number: 9135426
    Abstract: A method of authenticating a user of a computing device is proposed, together with computing device on which the method is implemented. In the method, an authentication video is displayed on a display. In response to receiving an input at a point in time in the video that matches a pre-selected time reference point, positive authentication is indicated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Jason Tyler Griffin, Steven Henry Fyke, Jerome Pasquero, Neil Patrick Adams, Michael Kenneth Brown
  • TEXT RECOGNITION THROUGH IMAGES AND VIDEO
    Publication number: 20150254518
    Abstract: The display of text by a first device, that is extracted and used by a second communication device, based upon a determined context of the text, is provided. The image displayed for the first device is captured by an image capture element of a second communication device, which also has a recognition module and an extraction module. The image includes the text and a context element representing a context of the text.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2012
    Publication date: September 10, 2015
    Inventors: Jason Tyler Griffin, Alistair Robert Hamilton
  • Information system with detachable information module
    Patent number: 9131532
    Abstract: A unitary handheld portable module includes a keypad for entering data and a display for displaying data. A base module is configured to be coupled with and communicate through a telephone line and includes a keypad for dialing a telephone number and a display for displaying information. The portable and base modules are configured to have a mounted configuration in which the portable module is removably mounted on the base module and covers the base module's display, and the modules communicate with each other for the portable module's display to display information relating to operation of the base module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Jessica L. Postma, Jason Tyler Griffin, James Carl Infanti, Mihal Lazaridis
  • Touchscreen keyboard with corrective word prediction
    Patent number: 9128921
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a touchscreen keyboard with corrective word prediction. A method for correcting text input on an electronic device is described. The method comprises: displaying a virtual keyboard on a touchscreen, the virtual keyboard including a plurality of keys; receiving input from the virtual keyboard; generating one or more predicted sets of characters in accordance with the received input; and displaying a predicted set of characters at a designated location when the received input does not match one of the predicted sets of characters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Jason Tyler Griffin, Alistair Robert Hamilton, Donald Somerset McCulloch McKenzie, Jerome Pasquero
  • Expandable keyboard
    Patent number: 9122315
    Abstract: A keyboard includes a housing, a frame surrounding the housing, and a plurality of keys arranged in a plurality of columns and a plurality of rows. The keyboard is movable between a closed configuration and an expanded configuration, and the keys are accessible in both the closed and expanded configurations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Jason Tyler Griffin, Roman Peter Rak
  • In-letter word prediction for virtual keyboard
    Patent number: 9122672
    Abstract: A method including receiving an input of a character from a virtual keyboard rendered on a display, generating a set of characters that includes the character, and displaying the generated set of characters at a location associated with a key of the virtual keyboard of the display which corresponds to a subsequent candidate input character. An electronic device including a display having a virtual keyboard rendered thereupon and a processor, the processor being configured to perform the method. Also disclosed is a keyboard, including a plurality of keys, each key corresponding to one or more different characters of a plurality of characters, wherein in response to receiving an input of a character, the keyboard is configured to perform the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Jason Tyler Griffin, Jerome Pasquero, Donald Somerset McKenzie, Alistair Robert Hamilton
  • Mobile communication device with subscriber identity module
    Patent number: 9124704
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method of directing calls on a mobile communication device comprises receiving a call signal at the mobile communication device from a short-range enabled communication device operably connected with the mobile communication device, accessing subscriber identity module data of the short-range enabled communication device, preparing an outgoing call signal using the accessed subscriber identity module data of the short-range enabled communication device, establishing a communication session between the short-range enabled communication device and a network, and transmitting the outgoing call signal to the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Jason Tyler Griffin, Mihal Lazaridis, Christopher Pattenden
  • Touchscreen keyboard providing selection of word predictions in partitions of the touchscreen keyboard
    Patent number: 9116552
    Abstract: A method, including receiving an input of a character from a virtual keyboard displayed on a display; generating at least two sets of predicted input characters based on the input character; displaying at least two of the generated sets of predicted input characters at an input field, wherein each displayed set is displayed at a position in a defined arrangement; and selecting one of the displayed sets of predicted input characters in accordance with a gesture received at a partition of the virtual keyboard is disclosed. An electronic device and a non-transitory computer-readable medium to perform the method are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Jason Tyler Griffin, Jerome Pasquero, Donald Somerset Mckenzie
  • Adjustable output power supply
    Patent number: 9075425
    Abstract: An adjustable output power supply with a data communications connector that at least partially complies with physical specifications of a defined data interface standard connector, such as a USB connector. The data communications connector has a number of data contacts and power contacts coupled to and providing output electrical power from a programmable power supply. A controller receives an indication of a detection of a feature of a mating connector coupled to the data communications connector, determines, based on receiving the detection, at least one resistance value between a data contact and at least one power contact, and adjusts an output voltage of the programmable power supply based on the at least one resistance value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Douglas James Arthur Burrell, Jason Tyler Griffin, Todd Andrew Wood