Patents by Inventor Timothy Allen Neil

Timothy Allen Neil 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: 9575944
    Abstract: A system and method for displaying and navigating through structured content, such as a webpage, is provided. The content includes focusable elements, at least one of which is a non-enableable element that is normally not capable of gaining focus when the content is displayed in a browser or other viewing application. Navigation of the content by moving focus from one element to another includes moving the focus to the focusable, non-enableable element. The non-enableable element is defined as a focusable element by an attribute. Focusable elements may also be defined with attributes for capturing directional navigation instructions and calling event handling functions in response to detected directional navigation instructions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Timothy Allen Neil, James Roger Blashill, Lei Li
  • Publication number: 20140351691
    Abstract: A system and method for displaying and navigating through structured content, such as a webpage, is provided. The content includes focusable elements, at least one of which is a non-enableable element that is normally not capable of gaining focus when the content is displayed in a browser or other viewing application. Navigation of the content by moving focus from one element to another includes moving the focus to the focusable, non-enableable element. The non-enableable element is defined as a focusable element by an attribute. Focusable elements may also be defined with attributes for capturing directional navigation instructions and calling event handling functions in response to detected directional navigation instructions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2014
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Inventors: Timothy Allen NEIL, James Roger BLASHILL, Lei LI
  • Patent number: 8843849
    Abstract: A system and method for displaying and navigating through structured content, such as a webpage, is provided. The content includes focusable elements, at least one of which is a non-enableable element that is normally not capable of gaining focus when the content is displayed in a browser or other viewing application. Navigation of the content by moving focus from one element to another includes moving the focus to the focusable, non-enableable element. The non-enableable element is defined as a focusable element by an attribute. Focusable elements may also be defined with attributes for capturing directional navigation instructions and calling event handling functions in response to detected directional navigation instructions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Inventors: Timothy Allen Neil, James Roger Blashill, Lei Li
  • Publication number: 20110113364
    Abstract: A system and method for displaying and navigating through structured content, such as a webpage, is provided. The content includes focusable elements, at least one of which is a non-enableable element that is normally not capable of gaining focus when the content is displayed in a browser or other viewing application. Navigation of the content by moving focus from one element to another includes moving the focus to the focusable, non-enableable element. The non-enableable element is defined as a focusable element by an attribute. Focusable elements may also be defined with attributes for capturing directional navigation instructions and calling event handling functions in response to detected directional navigation instructions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2009
    Publication date: May 12, 2011
    Applicant: Research In Motion Limited
    Inventors: Timothy Allen NEIL, James Roger BLASHILL, Lei LI
  • Patent number: 7904421
    Abstract: The inclusion of metadata within an application description file allows a virtual machine to create an application descriptor file that may be registered with the mobile device operating system so that an icon associated with the application description file may be displayed in the main ribbon. Execution of an application defined by the application definition file may then be initiated by the selection, by the user, of the icon that is associated with the application definition file. This improves over the situation wherein execution of the application defined by the application definition file would require a selection of the runtime environment for the application and then the selection of the application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2011
    Assignee: Research In Motion Limited
    Inventors: Kamen Vitanov, Jeffrey Christopher Rogers, Timothy Allen Neil
  • Publication number: 20100217747
    Abstract: The inclusion of metadata within an application description file allows a virtual machine to create an application descriptor file that may be registered with the mobile device operating system so that an icon associated with the application description file may be displayed in the main ribbon. Execution of an application defined by the application definition file may then be initiated by the selection, by the user, of the icon that is associated with the application definition file. This improves over the situation wherein execution of the application defined by the application definition file would require a selection of the runtime environment for the application and then the selection of the application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2010
    Publication date: August 26, 2010
    Inventors: Kamen VITANOV, Jeffrey Christopher Rogers, Timothy Allen Neil
  • Patent number: 7734583
    Abstract: The inclusion of metadata within an application description file allows a virtual machine to create an application descriptor file that may be registered with the mobile device operating system so that an icon associated with the application description file may be displayed in the main ribbon. Execution of an application defined by the application definition file may then be initiated by the selection, by the user, of the icon that is associated with the application definition file. This improves over the situation wherein execution of the application defined by the application definition file would require a selection of the runtime environment for the application and then the selection of the application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2010
    Assignee: Research in Motion Limited
    Inventors: Kamen Vitanov, Jeffrey Christopher Rogers, Timothy Allen Neil
  • Publication number: 20090300578
    Abstract: A system and method for developing an application for subsequent deployment on a mobile device, the mobile device configured for using the deployed application to communicate over a network with a data source through a transaction server. The system and method comprising: an interface component module for providing access to a defined interface component for use in providing communication between the application and a local software configured to be resident on the mobile device; and a composer module for defining a text file containing definitions expressed in a structured definition language, the definitions describing a message section and a data section and a user interface section of the application, the composer module further for inserting handler definitions in the text file such that the handler definitions are configured for calling the interface component of the interface component module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2009
    Publication date: December 3, 2009
    Applicant: Nextair Corporation
    Inventor: Timothy Allen Neil