Patents by Inventor Michele Bethany Boland

Michele Bethany Boland 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).

  • Apparatus, and associated method, for assigning policy settings to a mobile station
    Patent number: 8958776
    Abstract: An apparatus, and an associated method, automatically calculates and assigns policy settings to be implemented at mobile stations. Information is collected relating to groups, such as groups within an enterprise, to which users of the mobile stations are members. Policy-setting conflicts between different groups, if the user is a member of more than one group, are reconciled, and the policy settings that are assigned are of reconciled settings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Michele Bethany Boland, David Macklem, Keith Alwyn Watson, Kenneth Cyril Schneider, Peter L. Mitchelmore, Jeffrey John Holleran
  • APPARATUS, AND ASSOCIATED METHOD, FOR ASSIGNING POLICY SETTINGS TO A MOBILE STATION
    Publication number: 20110263237
    Abstract: An apparatus, and an associated method, automatically calculates and assigns policy settings to be implemented at mobile stations. Information is collected relating to groups, such as groups within an enterprise, to which users of the mobile stations are members. Policy-setting conflicts between different groups, if the user is a member of more than one group, are reconciled, and the policy settings that are assigned are of reconciled settings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2010
    Publication date: October 27, 2011
    Applicant: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITED
    Inventors: Michele Bethany Boland, David MacKlem, Keith Alwyn Watson, Kenneth Cyril Schneider, Peter L. Mitchelmore, Jeffrey John Holleran