Blackberry Corporation

Dejan Petronijevic

Michael Shenfield

Gaelle Christine Martin-Cocher

Piotr Madej

Viera Bibr

Brian Edward Anthony McColgan

Suresh Chitturi

Brian Edward McColgan

Laura Brindusa Fritsch

Clara Margarida Severino

Imtiyaz Ahmed Mulla

Jane Ellen Hearnden

Brian McCOLGAN

A centralised identity and capability resolution server is provided. Each subscriber is provided with a unique ecosystem identifier. The server maintains an association between subscriber identifiers, device identifiers and service identifiers and the unique ecosystem identifier. In one aspect, the server is notified of changes to account information and notifies services and subscribers of the changes.

System and method for service advertising and discovery

A centralised identity and capability resolution server (ICRS) keeps track of which user or subscriber is logged in on every device in a communications ecosystem and maintains the state of user, device and service relationships based on multiple external events. Each subscriber is provided with a unique identifier within the ecosystem or unique ecosystem identifier. The ICRS establishes an association between the service identifier, user and particular device that a user is using for that service. The devices within the ecosystem are configured to inform the ICRS of new accounts, or changes affecting existing accounts, such as cancelling of an account or loss of device. In that way, the ICRS has up to date state of the relationships between user or subscriber identifiers, devices, and various service identifiers. This enables ICRS to retrieve any identifier associated to the subscriber when any other identifier belonging to the user is provided.

A method and system for hypertext transfer protocol digest authentication through the use of a token issuing entity trusted by both a client and a service provider. The token issuing entity may issue an encrypted token and a token secret to the client. The client may then use the token secret instead of a password for digest authentication, and provided the encrypted token along with the digest authentication response to the service provider. The service provider may decrypt the encrypted token to obtain the token secret, which may then be used for digest authentication with the client.

Method and system for hypertext transfer protocol digest authentication

Example methods and apparatus to maintain ordered relationships between server and client information are disclosed. A disclosed example method involves defining, via an extensible markup language (XML) schema for an XML document that is managed by an XML management document (XDM) server (XDMS), an attribute with a unique value such that every element within sequence of the XML document is consistently addressable.

Methods and apparatus to maintain ordered relationships between server and client information

A method is provided for validating advertising metrics which relate to tracking of interactive events performed by electronic devices. A metric report with an event code that indicative of at least one interactive event performed by an electronic device associated with the network is received. The format of the event code is analyzed to determine whether the event code is consistent with predetermined format rules and the substance of information conveyed by the event code is analyzed to determine whether the event code is consistent with predetermined substance rules. If the event code is determined to be consistent with the predetermined format rules and the predetermined substance rules, the event code is accepted as valid. Otherwise, the event code is identified as being invalid.

System and method for validating metrics associated with interactive events related to advertising

Methods and apparatus to forward documents in a communication network are disclosed. An example method to forward a resource in an extensible markup language (XML) document management (XDM) system disclosed herein comprises receiving an XML document command protocol (XDCP) forward request specifying a first identifier corresponding to the resource to be forwarded and a list of recipients to be notified, the first identifier comprising a uniform resource identifier (URI), and notifying a recipient in the list of recipients that the resource is available.

Methods and apparatus to forward documents in a communication network

A method within a computing execution environment for adding an aspect trigger for an aspect, an aspect being an application level abstraction relevant to a source or service, along with the execution environment, where the method includes defining service aspects; inserting or encapsulating the service aspects as named aspects into an abstraction layer in the computing execution environment; and associating the named aspects with the aspect trigger, wherein the abstraction layer is configured to associate aspect triggers for a plurality of client applications.

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Dejan Petronijevic