Blackberry Corporation

Research in Motion Corporation

Jong-Suk Lee

Jason Tyler Griffin

Matthew Bells

Michael George Langlois

David James Mak-Fan

Gregory Jason Fields

Kuo-Feng Tong

Douglas Rider

Colin Ho

William Donald Santo

Sherman Wang

A method is provided which comprises, upon detecting a particular event, determining that a notification is to be provided for the particular event; and activating a light source acting as a camera flash to provide the notification. The method may further comprise determining if an image capture application is currently active and only having the light source emit the camera flash as the notification if the image capture application is not currently active. The method may also comprise determining an orientation of the mobile device, determining if the image capture application is active, and only having the light source emit the camera flash as the notification if the orientation is indicative of visibility of the light source and if the image capture application is not currently active. The method may also comprise determining that the camera flash is to be modulated; and having the light source modulated.

System and method for providing notifications on a mobile device

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

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Thornhill, Canada

Jong-Suk Lee