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| 20080214191 | SERVICE STATUS DISPLAY ON A HANDHELD COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A method of indicating the availability of a communication service begins by receiving, at a handheld communication device, a service indication of an availability of one of a plurality of communication services, via a wireless communication mode, to the communication device. The handheld communication device receives the service indication from a provider of the one communication service via a wireless non-traffic channel of the wireless communication mode. The communication device then provides a user-indication of the communication service availabilities in accordance with the received service indication. | 09-04-2008 |
| 20080248839 | DISPLAYING MESSAGES ON HANDHELD DEVICES - A method of displaying messages on handheld devices. The device displays messages in a scrollable viewport of vertically arranged fields. Date separators inserted into the vertically arranged list of messages to enable the user to associate the messages with a date. The date separators have “sticky” operation, meaning that the device ensures a date separator always appears within the viewport, even when the viewport has been scrolled to the middle of a long list of messages all associated with the same date. The device may ensure that the top field of the viewport always contains a date separator associated with the message immediately below. | 10-09-2008 |
| 20080275938 | VIRTUAL MACHINE WEB BROWSER - A system and method of browsing documents is provided that does not require a traditional document browsing application at a client device. In order to achieve browsing without a browsing application, the client device first transmits an information request to a host system. The host system retrieves the requested information from one or more information sources that store the information. A translation component receives the information from the host system and translates the information from a plurality of content types into a virtual machine language program. The virtual machine language program is then transmitted to the client device, which executed the virtual machine language program in order to display and interact with the information. | 11-06-2008 |
| 20090013275 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR QUICK VIEW OF APPLICATION DATA ON A HOME SCREEN INTERFACE TRIGGERED BY A SCROLL/FOCUS ACTION - A home screen user interface permits a user to select an application icon to trigger a quick preview of event data maintained by the associated application. The home screen presents a background and a predetermined number of application icons arranged on the home screen to enable viewing of a majority of the background. At least some of the application icons are operable to invoke respective user interfaces for event applications that manage respective data communication, voice communication and calendar events. Upon a user selecting an application icon corresponding to the respective event application, event data is displayed, preferably after a time delay, on a portion of the home screen. | 01-08-2009 |
| 20090030968 | REMOTE CONTROL IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Apparatus and methods for wireless systems provide a mechanism to enhance the communication capabilities of wireless users. In an embodiment, a mobile wireless device is configured to access and control an application executable on a wireless server. In an embodiment, wireless server is configured to execute an application resident on the wireless server under the control of a set of commands from a mobile wireless client. In various embodiments, the application is an application different from an application to maintain and control a wireless communication link between the mobile wireless device and the wireless server. | 01-29-2009 |
| 20090030995 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - Apparatus and methods for wireless systems provide a mechanism to enhance the communication capabilities of wireless users. In an embodiment, a system includes a wireless server communicatively operable with a set of mobile wireless clients, where the wireless server has a share agent configured to control dissemination of information from a database on a shared basis responsive to a determination of a privacy state of the information. In an embodiment, a mobile wireless device has an integrated management system operable with a controller. The management system is configured to manage the mobile wireless device operable as a multiple-mode wireless client to each wireless server of a set of wireless servers such that information may be shared among the mobile wireless device and the set of wireless servers. | 01-29-2009 |
| 20090031296 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM INSTALLATION - Apparatus and methods for wireless systems provide a mechanism to enhance the communication capabilities of wireless users. In an embodiment, data is stored on a wireless mobile device, where the data is correlated to information to install a wireless server on an electronic system. At least a portion of the data from the wireless mobile device may be downloaded to initiate installation of the wireless server on the electronic system. | 01-29-2009 |
| 20090036148 | MAPPING AN EVENT LOCATION VIA A CALENDAR APPLICATION - A method of mapping a location of an event that is scheduled in a calendar application includes steps of identifying a contact associated with the event, determining address information associated with the contact, obtaining map data for the address information, and generating a map of the location associated with the contact based on the map data. Meeting or event locations can thus be mapped even if there is no event location or address information specified directly in the meeting request or appointment. | 02-05-2009 |
| 20090164784 | SECURE PEER-TO-PEER MESSAGING INVITATION ARCHITECTURE - A system and methods providing immediate peer-to-peer messaging between mobile devices in a wireless system. An invitation architecture is disclosed which enables the exchange of personal identification numbers (PINs) without requiring a user to directly access or provide his or her PIN. A messaging application encrypts its associated PIN before providing it to a messaging application on another mobile device through an existing communication application. An invitation process for exchanging encrypted PINs involves receiving an invitation containing a question, obtaining user input of an answer, and transmitting the answer back to the sender with an encrypted PIN. The sender confirms the received answer is correct and replies with its encrypted PIN. | 06-25-2009 |
| 20090221268 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR LINE SELECTION IN A COMMUNICATION DEVICE - Embodiments of an apparatus and methods for selecting a communication line from two or more lines on a communication device are described herein. The communication device comprises a display module, an input module, a line selection module, and a communication module for making a call over a network to a target recipient. In at least one broad aspect, priority rankings are determined based on a number of factors and selection of a communication line accessible at the communication device on which an outgoing call may be placed is made based on the priority rankings. A list of communication lines ordered by priority rankings may also be displayed. | 09-03-2009 |
| 20090221291 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR LINE SELECTION IN A COMMUNICATION DEVICE - Embodiments of an apparatus and methods for selecting a communication line from two or more lines on a communication device are described herein. The communication device comprises a display module, an input module, a line selection module, and a communication module for making a call over a network to a target recipient. In one broad aspect, a determination of which of the communication lines is the communication line associated with the selected one of at least two appointment categories for an appointment is made in the selection of a communication line accessible at the communication device on which an outgoing call may be placed. | 09-03-2009 |
| 20090221322 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR LINE SELECTION IN A COMMUNICATION DEVICE - Embodiments of an apparatus and methods for selecting a communication line from two or more lines on a communication device are described herein. The communication device comprises a display module, an input module, a line selection module, and a communication module for making a call over a network to a target recipient. In one broad aspect, upon detecting initiation of the call to the target recipient, a determination of which of the communication lines is a communication line most frequently used on the mobile device is made in the selection of a communication line accessible at the communication device on which an outgoing call may be placed. | 09-03-2009 |
| 20090221323 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR LINE SELECTION IN A COMMUNICATION DEVICE - Embodiments of an apparatus and methods for selecting a communication line from two or more lines on a communication device are described herein. The communication device comprises a display module, an input module, a line selection module, and a communication module for making a call over a network to a target recipient. In one broad aspect, a determination of which of the communication lines is a communication line associated with the one of two or more message addresses at which a message is received is made in the selection of a communication line accessible at the communication device on which an outgoing call may be placed. | 09-03-2009 |
| 20100091615 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD PROVIDING IMPROVED MANAGEMENT OF MULTIPLE TIMES FROM MULTIPLE TIME ZONES - An improved electronic device and method provide an improved clock feature that includes a time zone management function which enables multiple times from multiple time zones to be managed by the user. Responsive to a detection that the electronic device has been moved from one time zone to another, a dialog is initiated wherein the user is queried whether a current time on the electronic device should be changed and whether multiple times should be output on the display. | 04-15-2010 |
| 20100220850 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENABLING ENCRYPTED VOICE COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN AN EXTERNAL DEVICE AND TELEPHONY DEVICES ASSOCIATED WITH AN ENTERPRISE NETWORK - A telecommunication system that can selectively establish communications with one of a plurality of telephony devices associated with a particular telephone number for a device in an enterprise network. More particularly, the system is configured to route an incoming telephone call received from an external device, such as a mobile device for example, to one or more of a plurality of telephony devices associated with the telephone number. The plurality of telephony devices may include personal digital assistants and other remote devices. In one embodiment, the system comprises a network server configured to connect the incoming telephone call from an external device to a telephony device, where voice communications are encrypted for transmission by the network server to the external device from which the incoming telephone call is received, and encrypted voice communications received from the external device can be decrypted, re-encrypted and/or stored by the network server if required. | 09-02-2010 |
| 20110029989 | METHOD FOR MODIFYING NOTIFICATIONS IN AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An embodiment relates to a novel apparatus and method for changing modes of notification in an electronic device. An electronic device includes a calendar application and a variety of other applications such as the message reader application or the daily alarm application. The device is configured to use the calendar application to track whether and how the user is notified of the receipt of an electronic. In one embodiment, the user specifically associates a profile behavior to the calendar entry when the calendar entry is first created. | 02-03-2011 |
| 20110047383 | SECURE PEER-TO-PEER MESSAGING INVITATION ARCHITECTURE - First and second communication devices respectively have first and second personal identification numbers (PINs). The first communication device transmits to the second communication device a first encryption key, and receives from the second communication device the second PIN that has been encrypted by the second communication device using the first encryption key. The first communication device receives from the second communication device a second encryption key, decrypts the encrypted second PIN, and encrypts the first PIN using the second encryption key, and transmits the encrypted first PIN to the second communication device. The first communication device conducts, with the second communication, device a peer-to-peer messaging session by transmitting to the second communication device peer-to-peer messages that contain the second PIN and receiving from the second communication device peer-to-peer messages that contain the first PIN. Each message is routed by a routing server based on the respective first and second PINs. | 02-24-2011 |
| 20110078265 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PREDICTING MESSAGE RECIPIENTS - A method and communications device is provided for determining a list of possible additional recipients to add to an electronic message that is composed by a user of the communications device for transmission to another communications device. Once the user indicates that there is an additional recipient for the distribution list of the electronic message, the device employs the method to create the list of possible additional recipients. The method may be implemented on a computer program product. | 03-31-2011 |
| 20110087993 | DISPLAYING MESSAGES ON HANDHELD DEVICES - A method of displaying messages on handheld devices. The device displays messages in a scrollable viewport of vertically arranged fields. Date separators inserted into the vertically arranged list of messages to enable the user to associate the messages with a date. The date separators have “sticky” operation, meaning that the device ensures a date separator always appears within the viewport, even when the viewport has been scrolled to the middle of a long list of messages all associated with the same date. The device may ensure that the top field of the viewport always contains a date separator associated with the message immediately below. | 04-14-2011 |
| 20110164602 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PRESENTING LISTS OF WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORK PROFILE INFORMATION - A method for selecting a wireless local area network (“WLAN”) for a wireless device, comprising: generating a first list of WLAN identifiers for a first group of one or more wireless local area networks (“WLANs”) accessible at a first geographic location and storing the first list in the wireless device; generating a second list of WLAN identifiers for a second group of one or more WLANs accessible at a second geographic location and storing the second list in the wireless device; selecting one of the first and second lists as an active list; and, scanning for WLANs identified by the active list to identify an available WLAN for the wireless device. | 07-07-2011 |
| 20110214132 | METHOD FOR MODIFYING NOTIFICATIONS IN AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An embodiment relates to a novel apparatus and method for changing modes of notification in an electronic device. An electronic device includes a calendar application and a variety of other applications such as the message reader application or the daily alarm application. The device is configured to use the calendar application to track whether and how the user is notified of the receipt of an electronic. In one embodiment, the user specifically associates a profile behavior to the calendar entry when the calendar entry is first created. | 09-01-2011 |
| 20110299475 | Wireless Messaging Using Notification Messages In A Wireless Communication Network - A method of operating a router for enabling communication between a plurality of host services and a mobile device is described. The method includes receiving notification messages from a host service of the plurality of host services, where the plurality of host services support a plurality of message types. Each notification message has contents indicating a destination mobile device and a data message for the destination mobile device stored on the host service. The data message has a message type corresponding to one of the plurality of message types. The method further includes determining whether a first active service session with the destination mobile device exists and, if the first active service session exists, then sending the notification message to the destination mobile device for subsequent retrieval of the indicated data message stored on the host service using a second active service session between the destination mobile device and the host service. The method further includes, if no active service session exists, then holding the notification message until a new active session is detected, and upon detecting the new active session, sending the notification message to the destination mobile device for subsequent retrieval of the indicated data message stored on the host service using a second active service session between the destination mobile device and the host service. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110302262 | Wireless Messaging Using Notification Messages In A Wireless Communication Network - A method of operating a host service in a communication system which includes the host service and a mobile device, includes receiving a data message for the mobile device at the host service; determining whether a service session between the host service and the mobile device is active; if the service session is inactive: creating a notification message at the host service, the notification message indicating the data message and the mobile device; forwarding the notification message for subsequent delivery to the mobile device, the notification message associated with an application of a plurality of applications on the mobile device; and subsequent to an active service session being established between the host service and the mobile device, sending the data message indicated by the notification message to the mobile device during the active service session; and if the service session is active, sending the data message to the mobile device during the active service session without creating a notification message. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110310875 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PRESENTING LISTS OF WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORK PROFILE INFORMATION - A method for selecting a wireless local area network (“WLAN”) for a wireless device, comprising: generating a first list of WLAN identifiers for a first group of one or more wireless local area networks (“WLANs”) accessible at a first geographic location and storing the first list in the wireless device; generating a second list of WLAN identifiers for a second group of one or more WLANs accessible at a second geographic location and storing the second list in the wireless device; selecting one of the first and second lists as an active list; and, scanning for WLANs identified by the active list to identify an available WLAN for the wireless device. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20120058785 | Wireless Messaging Using Notification Messages in a Wireless Communication Network - A wireless communication system, comprising a host service, a wireless router system coupled to the host service, a wireless network coupling the wireless router system and a wireless mobile communication device (“mobile device”), adaptively delivers data to the mobile device in the wireless communication system using a pull message delivery mechanism. In one embodiment, before the actual message is sent to the mobile device, a small notification message is sent first to enable the mobile device to send a pull request to the host to fetch the incoming message. Upon activation of a session, a pull request is sent from the device to the host service to fetch the incoming data message. The data message may be an e-mail message. | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120134240 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD PROVIDING IMPROVED MANAGEMENT OF MULTIPLE TIMES FROM MULTIPLE TIME ZONES - An improved electronic device and method provide an improved clock feature that includes a time zone management function which enables multiple times from multiple time zones to be managed by the user. Responsive to a detection that the electronic device has been moved from one time zone to another, a dialog is initiated wherein the user is queried whether a current time on the electronic device should be changed and whether multiple times should be output on the display. | 05-31-2012 |
| 20120157022 | System and Method For Reducing Power Consumed By A Wireless Communication Device - A system and method are provided for facilitating reduced power consumption when communicating between a wireless communication device and a wireless communication controller. A power management controller comprising a power saving detection unit and a power level controller is provided. The power savings detector detects when power savings can be applied in accordance with whether or data loss between the base state controller and the wireless communication device can be tolerated. The power level controller selects a reduced transmission power level at which to transmit data if a data loss can be tolerated. | 06-21-2012 |
| 20120190348 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR LINE SELECTION IN A COMMUNICATION DEVICE - Embodiments of an apparatus and methods for selecting a communication line from two or more lines on a communication device are described herein. The communication device comprises a display module, an input module, a line selection module, and a communication module for making a call over a network to a target recipient. In one broad aspect, a determination of which of the communication lines is the communication line associated with the selected one of at least two appointment categories for an appointment is made in the selection of a communication line accessible at the communication device on which an outgoing call may be placed. | 07-26-2012 |
| 20120289260 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR LINE SELECTION IN A COMMUNICATION DEVICE - Embodiments of an apparatus and methods for selecting a communication line from two or more lines on a communication device are described herein. The communication device comprises a display module, an input module, a line selection module, and a communication module for making a call over a network to a target recipient. In one broad aspect, a determination of which of the communication lines is a communication line associated with the one of two or more message addresses at which a message is received is made in the selection of a communication line accessible at the communication device on which an outgoing call may be placed. | 11-15-2012 |
| 20120309370 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR LINE SELECTION IN A COMMUNICATION DEVICE - Embodiments of an apparatus and methods for selecting a communication line from two or more lines on a communication device are described herein. The communication device comprises a display module, an input module, a line selection module, and a communication module for making a call over a network to a target recipient. In at least one broad aspect, priority rankings are determined based on a number of factors and selection of a communication line accessible at the communication device on which an outgoing call may be placed is made based on the priority rankings. A list of communication lines ordered by priority rankings may also be displayed. | 12-06-2012 |
| 20130005338 | SERVICE STATUS DISPLAY ON A HANDHELD COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A method, device and system for indicating availability of services to a communication device is provided. The method comprises: receiving a service indication of availability of a communication service from a first communications network and a second communications network via a non-traffic channel of each of the first and the second communications networks; when the communication service is available to the communication device from both the second communications network and the first communications network, issuing a service information request to the second communications network over the non-traffic channel of the second communications network; and flashing an indicator on the communication device at a first rate when the communication device roams from a first geographic region into a second geographic region and the second geographic region provides a communication mode for the communication device that is not available to the communication device in the first geographic region. | 01-03-2013 |
| 20130097281 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - Apparatus and methods for wireless systems provide a mechanism to enhance the communication capabilities of wireless users. In an embodiment, a server includes a processor that manages information in a database of the server, regulates, using instructions of a policy service in the server, communication of information from each of the clients to other entities, maintains reconfiguration policy with instructions having a sequencing procedure to provide the configuration data and a hierarchy identifying which of the clients controls re-supplying the configuration data to the server, controls, using instructions of a share agent in the server in conjunction with the instructions of the policy service, dissemination of information to one or more of the clients from the database on a shared basis, and manages the database, the router, the policy service, and the share agent using the processor in the server. | 04-18-2013 |
| 20130159715 | Secure Peer-to-Peer Messaging Invitation Architecture - First and second communication devices respectively have first and second personal identification numbers (PINs). The first communication device transmits to the second communication device a first encryption key, and receives from the second communication device the second PIN that has been encrypted by the second communication device using the first encryption key. The first communication device receives from the second communication device a second encryption key, decrypts the encrypted second PIN, and encrypts the first PIN using the second encryption key, and transmits the encrypted first PIN to the second communication device. The first communication device conducts, with the second communication, device a peer-to-peer messaging session by transmitting to the second communication device peer-to-peer messages that contain the second PIN and receiving from the second communication device peer-to-peer messages that contain the first PIN. Each message is routed by a routing server based on the respective first and second PINs. | 06-20-2013 |
| 20140181713 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING NAVIGATIONAL AND OTHER COMMANDS ON A MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A wireless handheld communication device having a housing containing a display screen located above a physical keyboard. The keyboard includes a plurality of physical keys and corresponding indicia. Some of the keys are associated with alphabetic characters corresponding to a QWERTY array of letters A-Z and some are associated with numeric characters 0-9 corresponding to a telephone keypad arrangement. At least some of the keys associated with numeric characters are overlaid on the physical keys associated with alphabetic characters. A microprocessor is included that runs the device in at least a telephony mode, an email mode and at least one additional mode. The microprocessor displays a key-function map on the display screen indicative of enabled functions associated with particular physical keys of the keyboard which are different from any function signified by the indicia associated with the respective particular physical key. | 06-26-2014 |
