Patents by Inventor Russell Owen

Russell Owen 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).

  • Patent number: 10462144
    Abstract: A system for managing privacy of shared content. The system includes a terminal device and a server device. The terminal device includes a content receiving device configured to receive content, a storage configured to store content by the content receiving device, a privacy setting determiner, a content obfuscator; and a transmitter configured to transmit obfuscated content. The server device includes a receiver configured to receive the obfuscated content from the transmitter of the terminal device, a publisher configured to publish the obfuscated content, and a de-obfuscator configured to, based on the received request to change privacy settings, de-obfuscate the at least a portion of the received content to generate de-obfuscated content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Inventors: Russell Owen, Ivan Medvedev, Garth Shoemaker, Andrew Swerdlow, Yevgeniy Eugene Shteyn, Amanda Elwell Walker
  • Publication number: 20190190916
    Abstract: A system for managing privacy of shared content. The system includes a terminal device and a server device. The terminal device includes a content receiving device configured to receive content, a storage configured to store content by the content receiving device, a privacy setting determiner, a content obfuscator; and a transmitter configured to transmit obfuscated content. The server device includes a receiver configured to receive the obfuscated content from the transmitter of the terminal device, a publisher configured to publish the obfuscated content, and a de-obfuscator configured to, based on the received request to change privacy settings, de-obfuscate the at least a portion of the received content to generate de-obfuscated content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Applicant: Google LLC
    Inventors: Russell Owen, Ivan Medvedev, Garth Shoemaker, Andrew Swerdlow, Yevgeniy Eugene Shteyn, Amanda Elwell Walker
  • Patent number: 10284558
    Abstract: Systems and methods for managing privacy settings of shared content include receiving content associated with an object; receiving privacy settings associated with the object associated with the received content; based on the received privacy settings, obfuscating, at least a portion of the content associated with the object to generated obfuscated content; and transmitting the obfuscated content to a publishing server, wherein the publishing server publishes the obfuscated content to one or more third parties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Russell Owen, Ivan Medvedev, Garth Shoemaker, Andrew Swerdlow, Yevgeniy Eugene Shteyn, Amanda Elwell Walker
  • Publication number: 20170048245
    Abstract: Systems and methods for managing privacy settings of shared content include receiving content associated with an object; receiving privacy settings associated with the object associated with the received content; based on the received privacy settings, obfuscating, at least a portion of the content associated with the object to generated obfuscated content; and transmitting the obfuscated content to a publishing server, wherein the publishing server publishes the obfuscated content to one or more third parties.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2015
    Publication date: February 16, 2017
    Inventors: Russell Owen, Ivan Medvedev, Garth Shoemaker, Andrew Swerdlow, Yevgeniy Eugene Shteyn, Amanda Elwell Walker
  • Patent number: 8856207
    Abstract: A click detection method, apparatus and system is provided. An embodiment includes a method that receives a request from a client destined for a server and a unique identifier for the client. The method of the method also includes generating a representation of the unique identifier, and forwarding the unique identifier and the request to the server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Russell Owen, Michael Brown, Herbert Little
  • Patent number: 8615509
    Abstract: Requesting from a device to a source. In a device comprising a datastore, the datastore comprising a plurality of records, each record comprising a plurality of fields, retrieving a common set of fields from each of the plurality of records. The technology abstracts at least one of the retrieved fields across the plurality of records, resulting in abstracted information. The technology sends, to the source, the abstracted information from the device in place of the retrieved fields.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2013
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventor: Russell Owen
  • Publication number: 20120071144
    Abstract: A system and method for managing mobile device communication in an enterprise includes a device management agent and a synchronization agent in the mobile device. Information about the status of the mobile device is collected by the device management agent and the synchronization agent communicates the status information to the enterprise with which the mobile device is associated. A synchronization server at the enterprise collects device information and updates records at the enterprise. Information such as device telephone number is propagated to the enterprise directory and potentially to a PBX to ensure connectivity with the mobile device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2011
    Publication date: March 22, 2012
    Applicant: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITED
    Inventor: Russell OWEN
  • Patent number: 8085891
    Abstract: A system and method for managing mobile device communication in an enterprise includes a device management agent and a synchronization agent in the mobile device. Information about the status of the mobile device is collected by the device management agent and the synchronization agent communicates the status information to the enterprise with which the mobile device is associated. A synchronization server at the enterprise collects device information and updates records at the enterprise. Information such as device telephone number is propagated to the enterprise directory and potentially to a PBX to ensure connectivity with the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Assignee: Research In Motion Limited
    Inventor: Russell Owen
  • Publication number: 20110145222
    Abstract: Requesting from a device to a source. In a device comprising a datastore, the datastore comprising a plurality of records, each record comprising a plurality of fields, retrieving a common set of fields from each of the plurality of records. The technology abstracts at least one of the retrieved fields across the plurality of records, resulting in abstracted information. The technology sends, to the source, the abstracted information from the device in place of the retrieved fields.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2009
    Publication date: June 16, 2011
    Inventor: Russell Owen
  • Patent number: 7751809
    Abstract: A method for automatically configuring an access control point based upon the network resource requirements of an application. The installation of a new application on a mobile device or other user device is accompanied, before, during, or after installation, with the distribution of access control information. An access control point blocks communications based upon access rules. An access update module modifies or sets the access rules based upon the access control information. The access control point and the access update module may be located within the mobile device, within an associated wireless connector system, or in other locations within the mobile communication system. The setting or resetting of the access rules based upon the access control information may be triggered during installation, modification, or removal of the application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2010
    Assignee: Research in Motion Limited
    Inventors: Russell Owen, Neil Adams, Timothy R. Tyhurst
  • Publication number: 20100003988
    Abstract: A method and mobile device for performing wireless channel selection that employs more than one concurrent level 2 interface to facilitate a level 3 handoff. The method and device maintain an active service over a first level 3 connection through a first transceiver, establish a second level 3 connection through a second transceiver, and then switch the service over to the second connection. To establish an appropriate level 3 connection, the mobile device may evaluate candidate channels against criteria associated with the active service to ensure quality of service can be maintained over the new connection or may adapt the active service to a candidate channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2009
    Publication date: January 7, 2010
    Applicant: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITED
    Inventors: ADRIAN BUCKLEY, CRAIG DUNK, VYTAUTAS ROBERTAS KEZYS, RUSSELL OWEN
  • Publication number: 20090253424
    Abstract: A method for automatically configuring an access control point based upon the network resource requirements of an application. The installation of a new application on a mobile device or other user device is accompanied, before, during, or after installation, with the distribution of access control information. An access control point blocks communications based upon access rules. An access update module modifies or sets the access rules based upon the access control information. The access control point and the access update module may be located within the mobile device, within an associated wireless connector system, or in other locations within the mobile communication system. The setting or resetting of the access rules based upon the access control information may be triggered during installation, modification, or removal of the application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2009
    Publication date: October 8, 2009
    Applicant: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITED
    Inventors: Russell Owen, Neil Adams, Timothy R. Tyhurst
  • Patent number: 7596119
    Abstract: A method and mobile device for performing wireless channel selection that employs more than one concurrent level 2 interface to facilitate a level 3 handoff. The method and device maintain an active service over a first level 3 connection through a first transceiver, establish a second level 3 connection through a second transceiver, and then switch the service over to the second connection. To establish an appropriate level 3 connection, the mobile device may evaluate candidate channels against criteria associated with the active service to ensure quality of service can be maintained over the new connection or may adapt the active service to a candidate channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2009
    Assignee: Research In Motion Limited
    Inventors: Adrian Buckley, Craig Dunk, Vytautas Robertas Kezys, Russell Owen
  • Patent number: 7532882
    Abstract: A method for automatically configuring an access control point based upon the network resource requirements of an application. The installation of a new application on a mobile device or other user device is accompanied, before, during, or after installation, with the distribution of access control information. An access control point blocks communications based upon access rules. An access update module modifies or sets the access rules based upon the access control information. The access control point and the access update module may be located within the mobile device, within an associated wireless connector system, or in other locations within the mobile communication system. The setting or resetting of the access rules based upon the access control information may be triggered during installation, modification, or removal of the application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2009
    Assignee: Research In Motion Limited
    Inventors: Russell Owen, Neil Adams, Timothy R. Tyhurst
  • Publication number: 20090112978
    Abstract: A click detection method, apparatus and system is provided. An embodiment includes a method that receives a request from a client destined for a server and a unique identifier for the client. The method of the method also includes generating a representation of the unique identifier, and forwarding the unique identifier and the request to the server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2008
    Publication date: April 30, 2009
    Applicant: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITED
    Inventors: Russell Owen, Michael Brown, Herbert Little
  • Publication number: 20070275745
    Abstract: A system and method for managing mobile device communication in an enterprise includes a device management agent and a synchronization agent in the mobile device. Information about the status of the mobile device is collected by the device management agent and the synchronization agent communicates the status information to the enterprise with which the mobile device is associated. A synchronization server at the enterprise collects device information and updates records at the enterprise. Information such as device telephone number is propagated to the enterprise directory and potentially to a PBX to ensure connectivity with the mobile device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2006
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Applicant: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITED
    Inventor: Russell Owen
  • Publication number: 20070265007
    Abstract: A method relates to a network identification that uniquely identifies a communication device. The method includes determining a network address corresponding to the network identification. Another step is determining which device manager, of multiple device managers, is assigned the network address. Information and the network address is transmitted to the assigned device manager. The assigned device manager determines, from the network address, a device identification that identifies the wireless device within a communication device network. Using the device identification, the assigned device manager transmits the information to the device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2007
    Publication date: November 15, 2007
    Inventors: Salim Omar, Russell Owen
  • Publication number: 20070207777
    Abstract: A method for automatically configuring an access control point based upon the network resource requirements of an application. The installation of a new application on a mobile device or other user device is accompanied, before, during, or after installation, with the distribution of access control information. An access control point blocks communications based upon access rules. An access update module modifies or sets the access rules based upon the access control information. The access control point and the access update module may be located within the mobile device, within an associated wireless connector system, or in other locations within the mobile communication system. The setting or resetting of the access rules based upon the access control information may be triggered during installation, modification, or removal of the application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2006
    Publication date: September 6, 2007
    Applicant: Research In Motion Limited
    Inventors: Russell Owen, Neil Adams, Timothy Tyhurst
  • Publication number: 20070118729
    Abstract: Enhanced reset logic is included in a user's computerized device so that the device owner (e.g., the user's employer) can assure prompt reset (e.g., to insure device use of newly downloaded software versions or other control or security data) while still allowing user convenience (e.g., some limited continued normal use of the device before reset is forced upon the user thus permitting the user to avoid possibly aggravating losses of data and/or ongoing usage).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2007
    Publication date: May 24, 2007
    Inventors: Neil ADAMS, Herbert Little, Russell Owen
  • Publication number: 20060286976
    Abstract: A method relates to a network identification that uniquely identifies a communication device. The method includes determining a network address corresponding to the network identification. Another step is determining which device manager, of multiple device managers, is assigned the network address. Information and the network address is transmitted to the assigned device manager. The assigned device manager determines, from the network address, a device identification that identifies the wireless device within a communication device network. Using the device identification, the assigned device manager transmits the information to the device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2006
    Publication date: December 21, 2006
    Inventors: Salim Omar, Russell Owen