Patents by Inventor Matthew Bells

Matthew Bells 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).

  • Interactive display management systems and methods
    Patent number: 8595218
    Abstract: An interactive display management device for managing content to be displayed on each of a plurality of interactive display devices is configured to receive respective content items from each of one or more content clients. Interactive display devices transmit interaction data indicating interactions between one or more body parts of users or objects held by users and virtual objects displayed on respective interactive display devices to the display management device, and the display management device is configured to determine, based at least on the interaction data received from one or more interactive display devices, playlists for respective interactive display devices, wherein the playlists indicate one or more content item to be displayed on the respective display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: Intellectual Ventures Holding 67 LLC
    Inventors: Matthew Bell, Scott Anthony Bylo Chacon, Nick Hengeveld
  • MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE ACCESS FROM PERSONAL COMPUTER
    Publication number: 20130290562
    Abstract: A method is described for transmitting files to a mobile communications device from an associated personal computer over one of a plurality of potential communication paths between the mobile communications device and the computer. The method includes receiving at the computer a user request that a selected file stored on the computer be transmitted to the mobile communications device; selecting a communications path from among the plurality of potential communication paths; and causing a copy of the selected file to be transmitted to the mobile communications device over the selected communication path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2013
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Inventors: Matthew BELLS, Gerhard Dietrich KLASSEN
  • PALETTE-BASED COLOR SELECTION WITHIN A USER INTERFACE THEME
    Publication number: 20130290864
    Abstract: Methods and devices that enable the customization of colors in a user interface by using a palette to define colors are provided. The palette includes strings that have color values assigned to them. The strings are referred to in style sheets where color attributes are specified, such that colors can be redefined in the palette rather than in the style sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2013
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Inventors: Matthew Bells, Julian Paas
  • Navigation tool with audible feedback on a handheld communication device having a full alphabetic keyboard
    Patent number: 8537108
    Abstract: System and method that provides tactical feedback through a speaker of a handheld electronic device having a full alphabetic keyboard upon activation of a navigation tool. The audible feedback produced by the speaker is capable of being modified based on upon the location, speed, and other characteristics of the movement of a cursor on the display of a handheld electronic device. The sound produced by the speaker can originate from an audio file stored or otherwise available on the handheld electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: Research In Motion Limited
    Inventors: Matthew Richard Lee, Andrew D. Bocking, David Mak-Fan, Steven Henry Fyke, Matthew Bells
  • Graphics stack system and method
    Patent number: 8533633
    Abstract: A system and method are provided for drawing graphics, such as to display a user interface on a display of a mobile device. A graphics stack is used to store pre-computed coordinate values to improve performance for drawing graphics, such as to display a user interface on a display of a mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Matthew Bells, Brian A. Young
  • Estimating a location of a mobile device
    Patent number: 8515453
    Abstract: The approximate location of a directed cell of a cellular network is calculated based on locations in the vicinity of which mobile devices were able to detect the directed cell. A mobile device is able to estimate its own location from the approximate locations of one or more directed cells that it can identify. This estimated location of the mobile device may be used to seed its GPS receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Research In Motion Limited
    Inventors: Matthew Bells, Christopher Wormald, Gerhard Dietrich Klassen
  • Mobile communications device access from personal computer
    Patent number: 8494448
    Abstract: A method is described for providing files to a mobile communications device from an associated personal computer over one of a plurality of potential communication paths between the mobile communications device and the computer. The method includes receiving at the computer a user request that a selected file stored on the computer be provided to the mobile communications device; selecting a communications path from among the plurality of potential communication paths; and causing a copy of the selected file to be provided to the mobile communications device over the selected communication path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: Research In Motion Limited
    Inventors: Matthew Bells, Gerhard Dietrich Klassen
  • Method and system for managing an interactive video display system
    Patent number: 8487866
    Abstract: A method for managing an interactive video display system. A plurality of video spots are displayed on the interactive video display system. Data based on interaction with the interactive video display system corresponding to video spots of the plurality of video spots is gathered. The data is stored, wherein the data is for use in managing presentation of the video spots. By analyzing data relating to different video spots, popularity and other metrics may be determined for the video spots, providing useful information for managing the presentation of the video spots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: Intellectual Ventures Holding 67 LLC
    Inventors: Matthew Bell, Russell H. Belfer
  • Palette-based color selection within a user interface theme
    Patent number: 8473848
    Abstract: Methods and devices that enable the customization of colors in a user interface by using a palette to define colors. The palette includes strings that have color values assigned to them. The strings are referred to in style sheets where color attributes are specified, such that colors can be redefined in the palette rather than in the style sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: Research In Motion Limited
    Inventors: Matthew Bells, Julian Paas
  • FACILITATING TEXT-TO-SPEECH CONVERSION OF A DOMAIN NAME OR A NETWORK ADDRESS CONTAINING A DOMAIN NAME
    Publication number: 20130110512
    Abstract: A method and apparatus of facilitating text-to-speech conversion of a domain name are provided. At a processor of a computing device, a pronunciation of a top level domain of a network address is determined by one or more of: generating a phonetic representation of each character in the top level domain pronounced individually; and, generating a tokenized representation of each individual character of the top level domain suitable for interpretation by a text-to-speech engine. For each other level domain of the network address, at the processor, a pronunciation of the other level domain is determined based on one or more recognized words within the other level domain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2012
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITED
    Inventors: Matthew BELLS, Jennifer Elizabeth LHOTAK, Michael Angelo NANNI
  • System and method for providing knot tying
    Patent number: 8414035
    Abstract: A knot tying system is presented containing a feeding mechanism, a knot tying device, and a clamp. The feeding mechanism has a drive roller and an idle roller capable of guiding a wire. A truck is connected to the end of the wire, and fed into a guide track, fixed relative to the feeding mechanism. The guide track provides a curved track in the shape of a knot desired. The track has a tube having a wire extraction slot running along the length of the tube, an intersection region where an outer portion of the guide track intersects an inner portion of the guide track, and a slit through the inner portion of the guide track substantially at the intersection region. A sensing and control system may also be present.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2013
    Assignee: Dartmouth College
    Inventor: Matthew Bell
  • Apparatus, and an associated method, for providing and using opaque presence indications in a presence service
    Patent number: 8386769
    Abstract: An apparatus, and an associated method, enables presence information of a presentity to be retrieved by a watcher. Elements, or portions, of the presence information may be made selectively opaque (unreadable) to any but authorized watchers or other consumers of the presentity information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Research In Motion Limited
    Inventors: Matthew Bells, Gerhard D. Klassen, Brian Edward McColgan
  • Estimating a location of a mobile device
    Patent number: 8385941
    Abstract: The approximate location of a directed cell of a cellular network is calculated based on locations in the vicinity of which mobile devices were able to detect the directed cell. A mobile device is able to estimate its own location from the approximate locations of one or more directed cells that it can identify. This estimated location of the mobile device may be used to seed its GPS receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Research In Motion Limited
    Inventors: Matthew Bells, Christopher Wormald, Gerhard Dietrich Klassen
  • Electronic device including touch-sensitive input surface and method of determining user-selected input
    Patent number: 8384677
    Abstract: A method of determining input at a touch-sensitive input surface of a portable electronic device includes detecting a touch event at the touch-sensitive input surface, sampling touch attributes during the touch event, determining an actual touch location and determining at least one shift in touch location based on the touch attributes sampled during the touch event, and determining an input based on the actual touch location and the direction of shift of the touch location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Research In Motion Limited
    Inventors: David Mak-Fan, Kuo-Feng Tong, Matthew Bells, Douglas Rider, Michael Langlois, Jong-Suk Lee, Jason T. Griffin, Colin Ho
  • Method and apparatus for a touch-sensitive display
    Patent number: 8378798
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for displaying a view of an application on a touch-sensitive display include detecting a touch on the touch-sensitive display. When the touch is at a first force, first feedback is provided and a first function is performed. When the touch is at a second force, second feedback is provided and a second function is performed. The first function and the second function are different. The first force and the second force are different.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: Research In Motion Limited
    Inventors: Matthew Bells, Jordanna Kwok, Colin Ho, Kuo-Feng Tong, Deepankar Banshilal Jain, Douglas Clayton Rider, Ian Paul Barta
  • SCISSOR LINKAGE MECHANISM
    Publication number: 20130032682
    Abstract: A mounting apparatus for an object including a rear mounting plate, a linkage system having first, second, third and fourth links, each of the first, second, third and fourth links includes first and second ends, and a swivel assembly. The first end of each of the first and second links is pivotably secured to the rear mounting plate, the second end of each of the third and fourth links is pivotably secured to the swivel assembly, the second end of the first link is pivotably secured to the first end of the third link, and the second end of the second link is pivotably secured to the first end of the fourth link. The linkage system includes a first gear and a second gear, and the first gear is rotatably connected to the second gear.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2011
    Publication date: February 7, 2013
    Applicant: Weber Knapp Company
    Inventor: Matthew A. BELL
  • System and method for escalating event alerts
    Patent number: 8350681
    Abstract: An event entry is stored in a computing device, the event entry having a start time associated therewith. A plurality of alerts are provided at respective times prior to the start time, and one of a plurality of levels of notification to be associated with each of the plurality of alerts, wherein the plurality of levels are distinguishable from each other to enable the alerts to be escalated by changing the level associated with each subsequent alert. An initial alert is provided prior to the start time, the initial alert comprising a first level of notification and, upon detecting an increased urgency associated with the event entry subsequent to the initial alert, a next alert is provided prior to the start time, the next alert providing a second level of notification to thereby escalate the next alert with respect to the initial alert.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Research In Motion Limited
    Inventor: Matthew Bells
  • Facilitating text-to-speech conversion of a username or a network address containing a username
    Patent number: 8352271
    Abstract: To facilitate text-to-speech conversion of a username, a first or last name of a user associated with the username may be retrieved, and a pronunciation of the username may be determined based at least in part on whether the name forms at least part of the username. To facilitate text-to-speech conversion of a domain name having a top level domain and at least one other level domain, a pronunciation for the top level domain may be determined based at least in part upon whether the top level domain is one of a predetermined set of top level domains. Each other level domain may be searched for one or more recognized words therewithin, and a pronunciation of the other level domain may be determined based at least in part on an outcome of the search. The username and domain name may form part of a network address such as an email address, URL or URI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Research In Motion Limited
    Inventors: Matthew Bells, Jennifer Elizabeth Lhotak, Michael Angelo Nanni
  • GRAPHICS STACK SYSTEM AND METHOD
    Publication number: 20130002692
    Abstract: A system and method are provided for drawing graphics, such as to display a user interface on a display of a mobile device. A graphics stack is used to store pre-computed coordinate values to improve performance for drawing graphics, such as to display a user interface on a display of a mobile device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Publication date: January 3, 2013
    Applicant: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITED
    Inventors: Matthew Bells, Brian A. Young
  • CAPTURING AND ALIGNING MULTIPLE 3-DIMENSIONAL SCENES
    Publication number: 20130004060
    Abstract: The capture and alignment of multiple 3D scenes is disclosed. Three dimensional capture device data from different locations is received thereby allowing for different perspectives of 3D scenes. An algorithm uses the data to determine potential alignments between different 3D scenes via coordinate transformations. Potential alignments are evaluated for quality and subsequently aligned subject to the existence of sufficiently high relative or absolute quality. A global alignment of all or most of the input 3D scenes into a single coordinate frame may be achieved. The presentation of areas around a particular hole or holes takes place thereby allowing the user to capture the requisite 3D scene containing areas within the hole or holes as well as part of the surrounding area using, for example, the 3D capture device. The new 3D captured scene is aligned with existing 3D scenes and/or 3D composite scenes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2012
    Publication date: January 3, 2013
    Inventors: Matthew Bell, Dave Gausebeck