Motorola Corporation

Blackberry Corporation

Jon Stacey Miller

Joseph Patino

Eric Thomas Eaton

Salvador Sibecas

John M Burgan

Russell L Simpson

Andrew F Burton

Edward A Diaz

Ronald S Coapstick

Dalier J Ramirez

Jaime Diaz

A method and computer program product are provided for operating a device having a housing section carrying a touch-sensitive display and a physical keyboard section movable in a sliding direction relative to the housing. A position detector determines a position of the physical keyboard section in relation to the housing section. A processor displays a graphical element on the touch-sensitive display when the position of the physical keyboard is closed and displays no graphical element when the position of the physical keyboard is open. The position detector is one or more of a magnetic sensor, a mechanical switch, or a touch controller coupled to a capacitive touch detection sensor matrix carried by the physical keyboard section. The graphical element may be a virtual keyboard. The virtual keyboard is displayed as a scrolling animation correlated to the position of the physical keyboard section.

Method and apparatus for movable assembly position sensing and virtual keyboard display

Example methods and apparatus to facilitate voicemail interaction are disclosed. A disclosed example method involves, during a call session with a voicemail system, receiving an audio segment from the voicemail system. The example method also involves performing feature recognition on the audio segment and outputting a display element to a user interface based on a recognized feature in the audio segment.

Methods and apparatus to facilitate voicemail interaction

A portable electronic device and a method to protect the portable electronic device from a battery bounce are provided. The portable electronic device () can comprise a free-fall condition sensor () enabled to detect a pre-battery bounce condition in the portable electronic device and a processor () coupled to the free-fall condition sensor (). The processor (), in response to a detection of the pre-battery bounce condition by the free-fall condition sensor (), can be programmed to place the portable electronic device () in a pre-battery bounce setting. The method can include detecting a pre-battery bounce condition in the portable electronic device () and in response to the detection of the pre-battery bounce condition (), placing the portable electronic device in a pre-battery bounce setting ().

Portable electronic device and method to protect same

A device for verifying hardware in a circuit arrangement that includes one or more configuration elements () operable to configure hardware elements () that are electrically coupled by one or more electrically-conductive pathways (). The device includes a hardware-verification register () coupled to at least one of the electrically-conductive pathways (). The register () is operable to sample a voltage level on at least one of the electrically-conductive pathways () at a first time point; store in a memory one or more bits, each bit representing the voltage level on at least one of the electrically-conductive pathways () at the first time point; sample a voltage level on at least one of the electrically-conductive pathways () at a second time point; and compare, for at least one of the electrically-conductive pathways, the voltage level at the first time point and the voltage level at the second time point.

Device and method for detecting corruption of digital hardware configuration

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Jon Stacey Miller