Blackberry Corporation

Research in Motion Corporation

Younghwan Kim

Di Tao

Todd Andrew Wood

Anders Fahrendorff

Cortez M Corley

Marco Sixtus Ferrari

Jodie Elizabeth Fletcher

Norman Miner Ladouceur

Alison Phillips

Brian Dennis Paschke

Leonardo Aldana

Alina Claudia Oprea

Aaron Michael Szymanski

Scott Paul Wenger

Joseph Michael Hofer

Michael Joseph Defazio

Charles Curtiss Hunt

Neil Patrick Adams

Roman Peter Rak

Ingve Holmung

Jamaal Peele

Scott David Reeve

Wei He

Michelle Hui Jun Zheng

Patrick David John Murtha

Emily Kuret

Aidan Doan

Thomas P Dye

Yi Ying Wang

Gene Santana

Dominik Josef Gmeiner

A user interface device for an intelligent automated assistant service uses a plurality of audio data paths that can be selectively switched to operate in a privacy mode. There is provided a first audio data input path between the audio input subsystem and an internal buffer; a first audio data output path between the internal buffer and the first communications subsystem; a second audio data output path between the internal buffer and the second communications subsystem; and a first audio data bypass path between the audio input subsystem and the second communications subsystem. In a first state, the first audio data input path directs audio data to the internal buffer, and to the first and second audio data output paths. In a second state, the first audio data input path is terminated and audio data is directed to the second communications subsystem on the first audio data bypass path.

Privacy-enabled voice-assisted intelligent automated assistant user interface device

Electronic device

A portable electronic device includes an input device, an input device housing, a display, and a display housing coupled to the input device housing. The display housing is moveable relative to the i housing by sliding between an extended position in which the input device is exposed and a contracted position in which the input device is covered by the display housing. The portable electronic device also includes a digital camera housed by the display housing. The input device housing includes an auxiliary camera lens fixed to a body such that the auxiliary camera lens is aligned with the digital camera for obtaining digital images utilizing the auxiliary camera lens when the display housing is in the contracted position, and the auxiliary camera lens is out of alignment with the digital camera for obtaining digital images without the auxiliary camera lens when the display housing is in the extended position.

Electronic device and method of controlling same for capturing digital images

A device case has a body forming a compartment holding an electronic device with a back facing camera lens and a front side with a user interface display and front facing camera lens. The device case has a movable lens cover attached to the body and held by the body when moved to any of an open position, a first position, and a second position. The movable lens cover, in the open position, leaves the front facing camera lens, the user interface display, and the back facing camera lens exposed. The movable lens cover, in the first position, covers the back facing camera lens while leaving the user interface display and the front facing camera lens exposed, and when in the second position, covers both the front facing camera lens and the back facing camera lens while leaving the user interface display exposed.

Privacy enhancing device case

A method, system and apparatus for location and time-based messaging using text-based tags is provided. A message and an address of a destination device is received at a processor of a device, the message comprising text for delivery to the destination device, the text comprising and a text-based tag in the text, the tag comprising one or more keywords associated with one or more of a location and a time to deliver the message to the destination device. The tag is processed, at the processor, to associate one or more of the location and the time with the message. The message is transmitted, using the communication interface, for delivery to the destination device using the address, at one or more of the location and the time.

Method, system and apparatus for location and time-based messaging using text-based tags

Electronic device kickstand shell

Electronic device shell

Handheld electronic device

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Waterloo, Canada

Younghwan Kim