Research in Motion Corporation

Blackberry Corporation

2012244 Ontario Inc.

Soti Inc.

Blackberry Limitied

Research in Motion Limited and 2012244 Ontario Inc.

Daniel Rubanovich

Sergey Kolomiets

Michael Elizarov

Dan Rubanovich

Harry Richmond Major

Ronald Scotte Zinn

Carlo Chiarello

Harry Major

Vadim Fux

Sergey V Kolomiets

Jason Tyler Griffin

Michael G Elizarov

Alexander Kornilovsky

Andrew Douglas Bocking

Denis Fedotenko

Timothy Koo

Aleksej Trefilov

Shannon White

Jason T Griffin

Xin Wang

Shannon Ralph White

Sherryl Lee Lorraine Scott

Shannon Tyler Moore

Kevin Roy Sugden

Donald Somerset Mckenzie

Shannon Ralph Normand White

Carl Rodrigues

Hany Kashif

Joseph Gordon

Chadi Elkadri

Sheldon Davis

Harry R Major

Andrew D Bocking

Neil Patrick Adams

Steven Henry Fyke

David Paul Yach

Alen Mujkic

Velimir Pletikosa

Richard Paul Sibley

Parul Nanda Gilani

Parul Nanda

Xiaoting Sun

Michal Rybak

Panul Nanda Gilani

Micahael Elizarov

Peter La

Dennis Fedotenko

Denis N Fedotenko

Arie V Mazur

Richard Sibley

Jason Griffin

Gabriel Shelley

Disclosed are systems, methods, and devices for managing a plurality of remote devices of disparate types. There is maintained an electronic device definition repository comprising: a plurality of semantic model definitions for corresponding devices of the plurality of remote devices. An action request for an action to be performed by one or more selected devices of the plurality of remote devices is received. For each one or more selected devices, the action request is processed including: converting a generic device action and a generic device property to a device-specific action and a device-specific property using the semantic model definition for the selected device; establishing one or more messages for communicating the device-specific action request to a given selected device using the data protocol definition for the selected device; translating the one or more messages of the sequence of messages to an application protocol suitable for communication with the selected device.

Systems and methods for managing devices using dynamically configurable device and protocols definitions

A handheld electronic device enabled with disambiguation software. The device provides output in the form of a default output and a number of variants. The output is based largely upon the frequency, i.e., the likelihood that a user intended a particular output, but various features of the device provide additional variants that are not based solely on frequency and rather are provided by various logic structures resident on the device. The device enables editing during text entry and also provides a learning function that allows the disambiguation function to adapt to provide a customized experience for the user. The disambiguation function can be selectively disabled and an alternate keystroke interpretation system provided. Additionally, the device can facilitate the selection of variants by displaying a graphic of a special &#x3c;NEXT&#x3e; key of the keypad that enables a user to progressively select variants generally without changing the position of the user's hands on the device.

Handheld electronic device with text disambiguation

Incoming e-mails, instant messages, SMS, and MMS, are scanned for new language objects such as words, abbreviations, text shortcuts and, in appropriate languages, ideograms, that are placed in a list for use by a text input process of a handheld electronic device to facilitate the generation of text.

Method for generating text in a handheld electronic device and a handheld electronic device incorporating the same

A handheld electronic device includes a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with disambiguation software. The device provides output in the form of a default output and a number of variants. The output is based largely upon the frequency, i.e., the likelihood that a user intended a particular output, but various features of the device provide additional variants that are not based solely on frequency and rather are provided by various logic structures resident on the device. The device enables editing during text entry and also provides a learning function that allows the disambiguation function to adapt to provide a customized experience for the user. The disambiguation function can be selectively disabled and an alternate keystroke interpretation system provided. Additionally, the device can facilitate the selection of variants by displaying a graphic of a special &#x3c;NEXT&#x3e; key of the keypad that enables a user to progressively select variants generally without changing the position of the user's hands on the device.

Systems, methods, and software can be used to disambiguate an input into a handheld electronic device. In some aspect, one computer-implemented method includes detecting an ambiguous input including one or more selections of one or more input keys; generating one or more prefix objects corresponding with the ambiguous input; generating an output set including at least some of the one or more prefix objects, wherein each of the at least some of the one or more prefix objects is associated with an identified corresponding word object; determining, using a processor, a quantity of prefix objects in the output set is fewer than a predetermined quantity, and, based on the determination, adding as an orphan prefix object to the output set an additional prefix object of the one or more of prefix objects for which a corresponding word object was not identified; and outputting the output set.

A method of ambiguous word review or correction for a handheld electronic device includes receiving a plurality of actuations of input members in which each of a number of these members has a plurality of assigned characters, rendering a plurality of words responsive to the actuations, displaying a plurality of representations of the words, and detecting a number of the words, which are ambiguous. For each of the detected number, a visual indicator is displayed associated with a corresponding one of the representations. Touching of a touch screen is detected in connection with the displayed visual indicator. Preferably, a first magnification of the corresponding representation and a second magnification of a representation of a number of alternative words are displayed. The touch screen can be used to select one of the first and second magnifications to correct the ambiguous word.

Method and handheld electronic device employing a touch screen for ambiguous word review or correction

A handheld electronic device includes a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with disambiguation software that is operable to disambiguate text input. The device is structured to identify and output representations of language objects that are stored in the memory and that correspond with a text input. The device is additionally structured to identify and output representations of language objects that are stored in the memory and that correspond with a known spelling substitution particular to a language active on the handheld electronic device.

Handheld electronic device and method for disambiguation of text input and providing spelling substitution

An improved method of learning character segments during text input enables facilitated text input on an improved handheld electronic device. In response to a series of inputs, segments and other objects are analyzed to generate a proposed character interpretation of the series of inputs. Responsive to detecting a replacement of a character of the character interpretation with another character, a character learning string comprising the another character and a number of additional characters of the character interpretation are stored as a candidate. In response to another series of inputs, another proposed character interpretation is generated. Responsive to detecting another replacement of a character of the another character interpretation with a different character, another character learning string comprising the different character and a number of characters of the another character interpretation are compared with the stored candidate. If a set of characters in the another character learning string match characters in the candidate, the set of characters are stored as a segment.

Method of learning character segments during text input, and associated handheld electronic device

A handheld electronic device includes a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with disambiguation software. The device provides output in the form of a default output and a number of variants. The output is based largely upon the frequency, i.e., the likelihood that a user intended a particular output, but various features of the device provide additional variants that are not based solely on frequency and rather are provided by various logic structures resident on the device. The device enables editing during text entry and also provides a learning function that allows the disambiguation function to adapt to provide a customized experience for the user. The disambiguation function can be selectively disabled and an alternate keystroke interpretation system provided. During text entry, a user is able to delimit a language entry session, such as the entering of a word, by actuating a multiple-axis input device or another input device. The user can also reinitiate the language entry session by actuating a linguistic input member at a location abutting the delimited word.

Handheld electronic device and associated method employing a multiple-axis input device and reinitiating a text disambiguation session upon returning to a delimited word

A handheld electronic device includes a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with disambiguation software that is operable to disambiguate text input. In addition to identifying and outputting representations of language objects that are stored in the memory and that correspond with a text input, the device is able to generate artificial variants in certain circumstances. Each artificial variant is compared with N-gram data on the handheld electronic device and is suppressed from being output if the artificial variant is determined to have a low probability of being the input intended by a user.

Handheld electronic device and method for disambiguation of text input providing suppression of low probability artificial variants

A handheld electronic device is provided with a function of text disambiguation. The device detects an ambiguous input including a number of selections of a number of keys, and displays a plurality of outputs for a duration of time based on an elapsed time between the number of selections of the number of keys. Each of the plurality of outputs corresponds to the ambiguous input. At least one of the plurality of outputs is an orphan prefix corresponding to the ambiguous input.

An improved method of learning a context of a segment of text input enables facilitated text input on an improved handheld electronic device. In response to a series of inputs, segments and other objects are analyzed to generate a proposed character interpretation of the series of inputs. Responsive to detecting a replacement of a segment of the character interpretation with another segment, a combination object comprising the another segment and a preceding object is stored. In response to another series of inputs, the combination object can be employed by a processing algorithm to ascertain a preference for the another segment in the context of the preceding object of the combination object.

Method of learning a context of a segment of text, and associated handheld electronic device

An improved handheld electronic device and associated method enable spell checking in a reduced keyboard and disambiguation environment. The improved spell checking routine converts a misspelled word into a canonical version thereof and receives from a dictionaryproposed letter for possible acceptance by the spell checking routine. The spell checking routine advantageously maintains states of various spell check algorithms in order to ensure that no letter is accepted that would require an edit distance of more than one from the misspelled word. The improved spell checking routine advantageously reduces unnecessary processor operation by reducing the extent to which certain portions of the dictionaryare searched multiple times during a spell checking operation.

Handheld electronic device and associated method enabling spell checking in a text disambiguation environment

A handheld electronic device includes a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with a disambiguation routine that is operable to disambiguate text input. In addition to identifying and outputting representations of language objects that are stored in the memory and that correspond with a text input, the device is able to perform a spell check routine during input of a text entry. The spell check routine subjects a text entry to a sequentially ordered series of spell-check algorithms and ceases subjecting the text entry to further spell-check algorithms upon identification of a predetermined quantity of spell-check language objects.

Handheld electronic device and method for performing optimized spell checking during text entry by providing a sequentially ordered series of spell-check algorithms

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