Patents by Inventor Mark Allan Beckwith

Mark Allan Beckwith 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).

  • Method and apparatus for supplementing a keyboard and for helping a user operate an electronic device
    Patent number: 5982351
    Abstract: In an electronic device having a keyboard (120) and a display (116), a processing system (106) displays on the display a message entered through the keyboard and selects a supplemental mode, in response to entry of a first predetermined key sequence by a user. The supplemental mode is selected in accordance with the first predetermined key sequence, from at least one of a group of supplemental modes included in the electronic device. The group of supplemental modes comprise an acronym mode (200), a supplemental scrolling keyboard mode (300), a predictive character pairing mode (301), a predictive menuing mode (400), and a bi-directional delete mode (500). The electronic device operates in accordance with the supplemental mode until an occurrence of at least one of (a) the user entering a second predetermined key sequence and (b) the supplemental mode executing to completion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 9, 1999
    Assignee: Motorola, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Anthony Maximillian White, Jeffrey Ricks Stripling, Ardsley Pihl Congdon, Jr., David Patrick Kilp, Mark Allan Beckwith, Keith Thomas Grandin, Nickolaos Pete Lagen