Research in Motion Corporation

Blackberry Corporation

Nortel Networks Corporation

Ahmed E. Hassan

John F. Wilson

Risvan Coskun

Daryl J. Martin

Luis Pablo Estable

Haining Zhang

Robert D Oliver

Arun Munje

Jagdish Venkata Sonti

Ahmed Reza

Goran Janevski

John F Wilson

Daryl J Martin

Daryl Joseph Martin

Ahmed E Hassan

John Ferguson Wilson

Areef Reza

William Anthony Gage

Jean-Philippe Paul Cormier

Shahid Rasul Chaudry

Bill W Gage

Gary W Kenward

Henry S Lee

Jean-Phillippe Cormier

Areef Raza

Luis Estable

A wireless communication device declares one of a plurality of extended instant messaging states and transmits the declared states to a presence information server. Declared extended instant messaging states for destination devices are received, and an enhanced instant message based on declared extended instant messaging states is generated.

Apparatus and method of wireless instant messaging

Mobile device usage may be monitored and restricted by pushing enabling/disabling events from an administrator the device. The events impose a certain set of rules that can 'lock' certain features provided by the device, according to permissions and pre-established policies, for a certain period of time. Such restricted periods may coincide with meetings or other events in which distractions should be kept to a minimum or be during regular, predetermined time periods. Preferably, the rules include conditional locks that allow a user to use a feature a reasonable number of times before the lock is activated to place the onus on the user for minimizing such distractions, while enabling the user to maintain access to such a vital communication tool. Cancel packets may also be used to not only control but to monitor the application of the rule sets and when certain conditions are breaches, which provides an employer with sufficient information to use in auditing device usage or in reprimanding users for misuse of a privilege such as the use of mobile data communications devices.

System and method for controlling device usage

A system and method for facilitating the establishment of a virtual private network between a network and a remote computer, the system having: a mobile device connectable to the remote computer and storing a user profile, virtual private network information, and password information; virtual private network software being located on one of the mobile device and the remote computer; an access point communicating with the network; and communication means for communications between the access point and one of the mobile device and the remote computer, wherein the user profile, virtual private network information, and password information is passed to the virtual private network software upon connection of the mobile device to the remote computer, the virtual private network software using the user profile, virtual private network information, and password information to establish a virtual private network through the communications means and the access point to the network.

System and method to provide built-in and mobile VPN connectivity

A mobile communications device and registration server and methods of use thereof. The mobile communications device comprises means for establishing a first data context and means for establishing a second data context. The first data context is established to transmit a request for parameters from the mobile communications device to a first network node and to receive at the mobile communications device a response from the first network node including the parameters. The second data context is established by transmitting the parameters from the mobile communications device to the second network node.

Apparatus and methods for over the air provisioning of a single PDP context mobile communications device

A system and method for facilitating the efficient operation of a mobile station as it transfers from communicating via one wireless data network to another. A session control node is coupled to the mobile node in such a manner that it selectively buffers data being transmitted to the mobile node, at least while the network transfer is being executed. When the mobile node had dropped its communication session with a first wireless network and established a new communication session with a second wireless network, the buffered data is read out and transmitted to the mobile node. The session control node may be coupled with a home network associated with the mobile node or a control node may be associated with the mobile node on an ad hoc basis.

System and method of handling IP layer mobility in a wireless network

An electronic message server () including a message receipt module () operable to receive at least one electronic message () having a message size from at least one sender (); a message size comparison module () operable to compare the message size to at least one message size limit; a message parsing module () operable to parse at least one message having a message size larger than at least one message size limit into at least a first message portion () and a second message portion (); a message portion forwarding module () operable to forward the first message portion () to a mobile communication device () via a wireless link; and a message portion return module () operable to return the second message portion () to the sender ().

Method, system and apparatus for partial electronic message forwarding

Facilitating a communication directed to a communication device operable to receive data over a plurality of transport mediums includes determining present transport coverage of the communication device, determining which transport mediums the communication device is presently operable to receive the communication, and selecting one of theses transport mediums for delivery of the communication to the communication device.

Integrated message delivery over a plurality of transport mediums

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