Patents by Inventor Kelsey McKinnon Smith

Kelsey McKinnon Smith 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).

  • Application assignment reconciliation and license management
    Patent number: 10015279
    Abstract: The present disclosure involves systems, software, and computer-implemented methods for reconciling application assignments of different types to users and devices, and associating appropriate licenses for the applications to the users from purchase accounts managed by an external application store. An example method includes identifying a change in an assignment configuration for a user, the assignment configuration including a plurality of assignments of an application to the user; determining a winning assignment from the plurality of assignments; in response to determining the winning assignment, determining that the winning assignment requires a change to an external application store; and in response to determining that the winning assignment requires a change to the external application store, instructing the external application store to perform a configuration change corresponding to the winning assignment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Andrew Christopher Smith, Haseem Ul Haq Kheiri, Qiusheng Wang, Paul Douglas Morley, Kelsey McKinnon Smith
  • APPLICATION ASSIGNMENT RECONCILIATION AND LICENSE MANAGEMENT
    Publication number: 20160142511
    Abstract: The present disclosure involves systems, software, and computer-implemented methods for reconciling application assignments of different types to users and devices, and associating appropriate licenses for the applications to the users from purchase accounts managed by an external application store. An example method includes identifying a change in an assignment configuration for a user, the assignment configuration including a plurality of assignments of an application to the user; determining a winning assignment from the plurality of assignments; in response to determining the winning assignment, determining that the winning assignment requires a change to an external application store; and in response to determining that the winning assignment requires a change to the external application store, instructing the external application store to perform a configuration change corresponding to the winning assignment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2015
    Publication date: May 19, 2016
    Applicant: BLACKBERRY LIMITED
    Inventors: Andrew Christopher Smith, Haseem UI Haq Kheiri, Qiusheng Wang, Paul Douglas Morley, Kelsey McKinnon Smith