Patents by Inventor Richard Eugene Martin

Richard Eugene Martin 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: 20130222272
    Abstract: A method is provided for navigation in a tab-based application interface on a touch-sensitive display of a portable electronic device. A start of a touch contact initiating proximate to a first edge of the touch-sensitive display is detected. An end of the touch contact terminating proximate to a second edge of the touch sensitive display is detected. An angular gesture can then be determined when the start of the touch contact and the end of the touch contact are from the first edge being perpendicular to the second edge of the touch-sensitive display. Content associated with a tab on the touch-sensitive display in the tab-based application interface in response to the angular gesture is then displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2012
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Applicant: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITED
    Inventor: Richard Eugene MARTIN, JR.
  • Publication number: 20080026742
    Abstract: Disclosed is a system, method, and computer program product for exchanging categorized information nuggets stored in a database accessible to a portable mobile communication device with other similarly equipped portable mobile communication devices. The presence of another portable mobile communication device capable of exchanging categorized information nuggets is discovered and a connection is established. Information nugget category data is exchanged with the other portable mobile communication device to determine whether there are common categories shared by each portable mobile communication device. Information nuggets for common categories are then exchanged with the other portable mobile communication device. The information nuggets can be displayed and saved by the receiving portable mobile communication device. The information nuggets can also be date/time and location stamped to add additional contextual data about the information nuggets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2006
    Publication date: January 31, 2008
    Applicant: SONY ERICSSON MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS AB
    Inventors: Gary Donald Thomas, Richard Eugene Martin