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David Paul Yach

Andrew Bocking

Matthew Bells

Thomas Leonard Trevor Plestid

Edward Snow Willis

John Stuart Hodgson

Sean Elliott Wilson

Jason Tyler Griffin

Neil Patrick Adams

Gerhard Dietrich Klassen

Steven Henry Fyke

Andrew Douglas Bocking

David James Mak-Fan

Jennifer Elizabeth Lhotak

Michael Angelo Nanni

Matthew Richard Lee

Brian A Young

Piotr Konrad Tysowski

David M Haigh

Sherryl Lee Lorraine Scott

Christopher R Wormald

Kevin Howard Orr

Kuo-Feng Tong

Douglas Rider

Colin Ho

Jon MacKay

Darrell Reginald May

Harry Richmond Major

David Ryan Walker

James Andrew Godfrey

Thanh Vinh Vuong

Michael George Langlois

Scott Douglas Rose

Scotte Zinn

Julian Paas

Kenneth Wallis

Chris Wormald

Brian Edward McColgan

John S Hodgson

Gerhard Deitrich Klassen

Alek Tziortzis

Deepankar Banshilal Jain

Sherryl Lee Scott

Gerhard Dietrick Klassen

Jordanna Kwok

Ian Paul Barta

Jong-Suk Lee

David Rene Proulx

Janna Corrine Louise Hickson

Jon Mackay

Douglas Clayton Rider

Scott Sherryl Lee Lorraine

Stephen H Fyke

Janna Corrine Hickson

Piotr K Tysowski

Sherry Lee Lorraine Scott

A method and system for delivery and presentation of a message on a communication device. A detection of a connection of a call made by a communication device is detected at the communication device. A further detection that the communication device is operating in a pre-defined mode of operation is performed, a message accessibly stored in memory is accessed, and display or other presentation of the message is initiated on an interface such as a display screen of the communication device. The call connection status is monitored, and the message is presented at least while the call is connected and the device is operating in the pre-defined mode of operation.

System and method for delivery and presentation of messages in dependence upon the mode of operation of the communication device

A method and apparatus for controlling display of data on a screen of a portable electronic device. The method includes launching an application that includes at least one field for receiving data and at least one field label for identifying the at least one field, entering data into the at least one field and removing the at least one field label from the screen when data is entered into the at least one field.

Method for presenting data on a small screen

To facilitate text-to-speech conversion of a username, a first or last name of a user associated with the username may be retrieved, and a pronunciation of the username may be determined based at least in part on whether the name forms at least part of the username. To facilitate text-to-speech conversion of a domain name having a top level domain and at least one other level domain, a pronunciation for the top level domain may be determined based at least in part upon whether the top level domain is one of a predetermined set of top level domains. Each other level domain may be searched for one or more recognized words therewithin, and a pronunciation of the other level domain may be determined based at least in part on an outcome of the search. The username and domain name may form part of a network address such as an email address, URL or URI.

Facilitating text-to-speech conversion of a domain name or a network address containing a domain name

A method is described for transmitting files to a mobile communications device from an associated personal computer over one of a plurality of potential communication paths between the mobile communications device and the computer. The method includes receiving at the computer a user request that a selected file stored on the computer be transmitted to the mobile communications device; selecting a communications path from among the plurality of potential communication paths; and causing a copy of the selected file to be transmitted to the mobile communications device over the selected communication path.

Mobile communications device access from personal computer

A computer-implemented method includes determining a current location of a mobile device, displaying in a map viewport a first map area surrounding the current location of the mobile device and displaying on the first map area a graphical current location indicator representing the current location of the mobile device. The method further entails repositioning the graphical current location indicator relative to the map viewport by shifting the first map area to a partially overlapping second map area that includes both a new map area and a portion of the first map area that contains the graphical current location indicator.

Repositionable graphical current location indicator

A method and hierarchical menu is provided for displaying on the screen of a wireless handheld electronic device an extended menu or a short menu, which is a subset of the corresponding extended menu. The method includes displaying a page on a screen and receiving an ambiguous request/selection when no menu is displayed. In response to the ambiguous selection, a short menu corresponding to the displayed page is displayed on the screen. Various short menus are provided with their respective menu items being dependent and adjustable based upon the position of a cursor on the displayed page, the currently opened application, and/or the previous selections. Further, a selection from the short menu is capable of displaying the extended menu corresponding thereto.

Method and arrangement for providing a primary actions menu on a wireless handheld communication device

Method and arrangement for affecting diagonal movement of a cursoron a display screenof a handheld communication device. The method includes sensing movement at an auxiliary user inputof the handheld communication deviceindicative of a user's desire to affect diagonal movement of the cursoron the display screenof the handheld communication device. X-direction signals and Y-direction signals are produced based on the sensed movement at the auxiliary user input. During that time while necessary signals are being collected and processed, the cursoris held steady on the display screenuntil a predetermined criterion is met for discriminating whether the user has indicated x-direction cursor movement, y-direction cursor movement or diagonal cursor movement.

On-screen diagonal cursor navigation on a handheld communication device

A method and apparatus for determining priority of data in a database managed by a computing device are provided. The data comprises a list of events, the computing device comprising a processing unit interconnected with a memory device and a display device. Context data is processing at the processing unit to determine a priority ranking for each of the items, wherein processing the context data to determine a priority ranking comprises at least one of processing attendance data, location, event data, and telephone record data. Respective areas of the display device are controlled to provide visual representations of each of the events, each respective area controlled according to the priority ranking.

Method, system and apparatus for efficiently determining priority of data in a database

A method and electronic device for activating components based on predicted device activity. The method and device include maintaining a set of device activity information storing data collected from components in the device. The device activity information may be maintained over a predetermined time period and may include times associated with the collected component data. The device activity information may include data regarding scheduled events. Device activity and the appropriate activation state of a component on the device may be predicted based on the current time, current data collected from components in the device and data in the device activity information.

Method and device for activation of components

A method for synchronizing a database at a portable electronic device with a backup database including backup data records includes receiving information representative of data records of the database at the portable electronic device, determining if the database at the portable electronic device is to be updated with the backup data records, and if the database at the portable electronic device is to be updated, transmitting representative viewable or audible samples of ones of the backup data records.

Method and apparatus for synchronizing databases connected by wireless interface

A method and apparatus of facilitating text-to-speech conversion of a domain name are provided. At a processor of a computing device, a pronunciation of a top level domain of a network address is determined by one or more of: generating a phonetic representation of each character in the top level domain pronounced individually; and, generating a tokenized representation of each individual character of the top level domain suitable for interpretation by a text-to-speech engine. For each other level domain of the network address, at the processor, a pronunciation of the other level domain is determined based on one or more recognized words within the other level domain.

A method, handheld electronic device and computer program product for inputting calendar information using a graphical user interface (GUI) of a calendar application are provided. The GUI is displayed on a display screen of the handheld electronic device which comprises a navigational input device for receiving navigational input in a first and a second direction. The method comprises: displaying a calendar event user interface screen on the display screen of the handheld electronic device, the calendar event user interface screen comprising a primary field having at least two subfields; invoking an edit mode of the primary field in response to predetermined user selection input; redisplaying the calendar event user interface screen to provide a visual indication that the edit mode is currently invoked for the primary field; changing the logical value of a selected subfield in response to navigational input in the first direction and redisplaying the changed value of the selected subfield in the calendar event user interface screen; and selecting an adjacent subfield in response to navigational input in the second direction and redisplaying the adjacent subfield to provide a visual indication that the adjacent subfield is the selected subfield in the calendar event user interface screen.

Method and handheld electronic device for improved calendar user interface navigation

A handheld electronic device, such as a GPS-enabled wireless communications device with an embedded camera, automatically geotags a set of data, such as a digital photo, video, notes, or a blog, with a textual plain-language description of the current location. When the data is generated, the current location of the device is determined, e.g. using a GPS receiver. A textual plain-language description of the current location is then generated, e.g. by reverse geocoding the GPS position coordinates or by correlating the current time with a calendar event from which language descriptive of the event can be extracted. This textual plain-language description is automatically generated and written into a tag or metadata file associated with the photo or other set of data. By automatically geotagging data with textual plain-language descriptions that go beyond mere coordinates of latitude and longitude, data can be searched and managed more efficiently.

Method of automatically geotagging data

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