Patents by Inventor Nicholas James VAFIADES

Nicholas James VAFIADES 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).

  • Publication number: 20170213305
    Abstract: A first-party vendor provides a licensed first-party service on one or more electronic devices, the first-party service associated with a licensed third-party service provided by a third-party vendor on the electronic devices. A cloud service of the first-party vendor may host one or more third-party license keys that are securely accessible to the first-party service, each third-party license key pointing to a corresponding global third-party license issued by the third-party vendor for access to the third-party service on the electronic devices. In some examples, distribution of a third-party license key to a particular device may be based on a current affinity of that device to a particular third-party license type, as determined from a mapping agreed upon by the first-party and third-party vendors between one or more types of first-party licenses and one or more types of third-party license, and from the first-party license type currently associated with the device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2016
    Publication date: July 27, 2017
    Applicant: BLACKBERRY LIMITED
    Inventors: Andrew Christopher SMITH, Srdan DIKIC, Julio Gilberto CHIU, Sandeep DAMARAJU, Kafeelurrahman KOTAPALI, Calin Marius BOZSITZ, Nicholas James VAFIADES, Piotr MADEJ, Dejan PETRONIJEVIC