Research in Motion Corporation

Blackberry Corporation

2236008 Ontario Limited

Melanie Arlene Barker

Jeffrey Kenneth Emery

Sriram Darbha

Luis Pablo Estable

Thomas Owen Parry

John S Hodgson

Timothy Ryan Salter

Douglas Eugene Ross

Robert David Turner

David Brandon Sosby

James Arthur Bruck

Nicole Melissa DeBickes

Cora Lynne Collins

Richard Enrique Lopez

Paul Munguia

Martin John Bowyer

Neil Patrick Adams

Edward Snow Willis

David Noel Vanden Heuvel

Andrew Kugler

David Brian Seel

Andrew Frank Young

Nicole Melissa Debickes

Methods and devices are provided relating to taking an action in response to determining that a person who is present in the vicinity of the device, such as a smart speaker, is not authorized to be present. In an aspect, the electronic device receives the notification and a topic identifier associated with the notification. Information identifying persons located in the vicinity of the electronic device may be received. The device may then receive and/or determine information identifying at least one person located within the vicinity who is not authorized, based on the topic identifier, to be present in the vicinity when the notification is to be outputted. The device generates an output signal indicating receipt of the notification and that there is at least one person present in the vicinity who is not authorized to be present when the notification is to be outputted.

Method and device for taking an action based on unauthorized presence of a person in area

Personalization of a mobile device, including receiving at the mobile device a unique code; selecting, from a plurality of personalization policies stored on the mobile device a personalization policy that corresponds to the unique code; and storing the selected personalization policy in a persistent protected storage element of the mobile device. Customizing a mobile device, including determining at the mobile device a unique code; selecting, from a plurality of customized data sets stored on the mobile device a data set that corresponds to the unique code; and activating the selected data set on the mobile device.

Mobile equipment customization using a single manufacturing configuration

A system and methods for coordinating the operation of a client security module and a host security module on a mobile electronic device. The modules communicate with each other through a platform abstraction layer using application programming interfaces to coordinate their activities. In particular, the client security module instructs the host security module when to lock and unlock the device, and the host security module alerts the client security module to attempts by the user to lock or unlock the device.

Method and system for coordinating client and host security modules

A system and methods for coordinating the operation of a client security module and a host security module on a mobile electronic device. The modules communicate with each other through a platform abstraction layer using application programming interfaces to coordinate their activities. In particular, on start-up of the device, the host security module obtains user authorization input from a user and passes the input to a client operating system for validation. Once validated, the host security module unlocks the host-side of the device. At the same time, the client operating system sends a notice or request to the client-side virtual machine requesting that the client-side be unlocked. Once the virtual machine is initialized and available it launches the client security module and unlocks the client-side. During the delay while the virtual machine loads, the user is given access only to the host applications.

Method and system for managing delayed user authentication

A method and apparatus for synchronizing data between a mobile communication device and a remote application operating on an external computer. A first application is operable to communicate and synchronize with a remote application operating on an external computer. A second application is operable to communicate and synchronize with the remote application. The mobile communication device receives a user's identification of a preferred application selected from one of the first and second applications, and uses the preferred application to synchronize the mobile communication device with the remote application.

Method, system and apparatus for selective application access and synchronization

A mobile device for electronic mailing of data utilizing a data reference, the mobile device having: a communications subsystem for communicating with a wireless gateway; a user interface; a processor interacting with the user interface and the communications subsystem; an electronic mail application adapted to run on the processor; a data application adapted to run on the processor; and memory adapted to be accessed by the electronic mail application and the data application, the memory storing a data reference identifier for data in the data application, the data reference identifier capable of identifying the data on a data server remote from the mobile device, wherein the data application is adapted to interact with the electronic mail application to send data in an electronic mail message, and wherein the data is replaced in the electronic mail message with the data reference identifier.

Method and apparatus for electronic mailing of data utilizing a data reference

A method, system and apparatus for synchronizing data between a mobile communication device () and an external computer (-) across one of a plurality of communication paths (). A first application () resident on the mobile communication device () is operable to synchronize with the external computer (-) via a first communication path (). A second application () resident on the mobile communication device is operable to synchronize with the external computer (-) via a second communication path (). A related remote application () is resident on the external computer (-). A preferred application is selected by the user from the first and second applications (). The mobile communication device () synchronizes data associated with the preferred application with data associated with the related remote application () via the communication path associated with the preferred application.

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Melanie Arlene Barker