Patents by Inventor Steven Vick

Steven Vick 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).

  • CREATING SMART NFC POSTERS
    Publication number: 20140148096
    Abstract: Systems, methods, devices, and computer programming products for making and writing data to NFC-enabled “smart” posters, and posters made in accordance therewith.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2013
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Applicant: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITED
    Inventors: Prateek BHATNAGAR, Sri Ganesh Prasad KOLLIPARA, Steven VICK, Vahid MOOSAVI, Scott Douglas ROSE, Jason Tyler GRIFFIN
  • Handling emergency calls on an electronic device
    Patent number: 8594614
    Abstract: There are disclosed techniques for handling emergency calls in an electronic device, such as a mobile telephone. For example, in one embodiment, upon receipt of a request at the user-interface of the device to terminate an emergency call, the device first requests confirmation that the call should be terminated. In another embodiment, once the emergency call is terminated, if an incoming call request is subsequently received within a predetermined period of time, the device establishes a voice connection with the incoming caller regardless of whether the device is instructed to establish the voice connection. In another embodiment, once the emergency call is terminated, the device remains operable to receive a subsequent incoming call regardless of whether the device is instructed otherwise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Robert T. Eitel, Michael Charles Hollatz, Steven Vick, Jean-Philippe Paul Cormier
  • HANDLING EMERGENCY CALLS ON AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE
    Publication number: 20120171983
    Abstract: There are disclosed techniques for handling emergency calls in an electronic device, such as a mobile telephone. For example, in one embodiment, upon receipt of a request at the user-interface of the device to terminate an emergency call, the device first requests confirmation that the call should be terminated. In another embodiment, once the emergency call is terminated, if an incoming call request is subsequently received within a predetermined period of time, the device establishes a voice connection with the incoming caller regardless of whether the device is instructed to establish the voice connection. In another embodiment, once the emergency call is terminated, the device remains operable to receive a subsequent incoming call regardless of whether the device is instructed otherwise.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2011
    Publication date: July 5, 2012
    Applicant: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITED
    Inventors: Robert T. Eitel, Michael Charles Hollatz, Steven Vick, Jean-Philippe Paul Cormier