Research in Motion Corporation

Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Blackberry Corporation

3g Licensing S.a.

Colin Ho

Thomas Lee Miller

Matthew Bells

Kenneth J Liang

Kuo-Feng Tong

Mahmud-Ul Hassan

Douglas Rider

Justin Bauer

Jason Tyler Griffin

Pietro Buttolo

James Stewart Rankin, Ii

Michael George Langlois

David James Mak-Fan

Robbie John Maurice

Deepankar Banshilal Jain

Jordanna Kwok

Stephen Michael Coe

Jong-Suk Lee

Ian Paul Barta

Simon Lidwell

Kay Hart

Marc Mills

Philip Mason

Anthony Trentacosti

David Sanabria

Patricia Piedrahita

Mahmud-Ui Hassan

Kenneth Liang

Douglas Clayton Rider

A system includes a mobile device having a processor and memory. The mobile device determines that a new vehicle is assigned to an identified owner and responsively initiates a settings configuration process. The configuration process includes presenting existing vehicle system settings from an existing vehicle that can be transferred to the new vehicle, receiving selection of settings to be transferred, receiving editing of settings to be transferred, presenting configurable vehicle system settings for the new vehicle that can be configured, receiving configuration of the settings, and saving selected, edited and newly configured settings to a data set, which is then uploaded to a server for transfer to the new vehicle.

Method and apparatus for advanced vehicle preconfiguration

An advance pairing system preemptively pairs a phone to a vehicle using a backend cloud system prior to establishing the connection with the vehicle, such as during the time that a user is purchasing a vehicle, or just after the user enters the vehicle for the first time. The system includes a mobile application for automated advance pairing with the vehicle's automotive computer. The mobile app sends a request for advance pairing to a server that assigns a set of unique keys to the account for secure pairing of the mobile device and the vehicle. The server pushes an encrypted payload to both the mobile device app and the vehicle advance pairing app operating on the automotive computer. The encrypted payload can include a unique vehicle ID, a unique mobile device ID, and one or more encryption keys. The mobile device and the vehicle use the encrypted advance pairing information to establish a secured connection with minimal user input.

Advance mobile device and vehicle profile pairing

A method of determining input at a touch-sensitive input surface of a portable electronic device includes detecting a touch event at the touch-sensitive input surface, sampling touch attributes during the touch event, determining an actual touch location and determining at least one shift in touch location based on the touch attributes sampled during the touch event, and determining an input based on the actual touch location and the direction of shift of the touch location.

Electronic device including touch-sensitive input surface and method of determining user-selected input

Method and apparatus for displaying a view of an application on a touch-sensitive display include detecting a touch on the touch-sensitive display. When the touch is at a first force, first feedback is provided and a first function is performed. When the touch is at a second force, second feedback is provided and a second function is performed. The first function and the second function are different. The first force and the second force are different.

Method and apparatus for a touch-sensitive display

A mobile communications device () includes a wireless transceiver () operable to conduct at least two data connections between the mobile communications device () and a wireless network () wherein each of the data connections is associated with a connected application operating on the mobile communications device. A processor () is coupled to the wireless transceiver (). The processor () is operable to process a request for a data connection for an unconnected application operable on the mobile communications device (), to release one of the data connections associated with one of the connected applications and to establish a data connection between the mobile communications device () and the wireless network () for the unconnected application. A contention manager () is operable to select the connected application to be released based upon a comparison of a contention parameter associated with each of the connected applications.

System and method for resolving contention among applications requiring data connections between a mobile communications device and a wireless network

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