BlackBerry deposita nuovi brevetti per wearable, conference call e sicurezza
Tra i migliaia depositati settimanalmente presso lo United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), Bloomberg ha notato 26 nuovi brevetti associati al nome di BlackBerry.
Tra tutti quelli presenti nel lungo elenco che trovate in fondo, ne spiccano tre relativi a dispositivi wearable, conference call e miglioramenti per la sicurezza.
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Per quel che riguarda i device indossabili, non si parla di smartwatch o nulla di simile ma di un prodotto da portare al polso che sblocchi automaticamente il cellulare quando si trova in prossimità.
A proposito delle conference call, BlackBerry non ha nascosto la collaborazione con Zoom per la prossima release di BBM Meetings ma alcuni dei brevetti dovrebbero servire proprio a migliorare l'esperienza utente e la sicurezza durante questo tipo di conversazioni.
Di seguito potete trovare il (lungo) elenco di brevetti registrati da BlackBerry la settimana scorsa:
- Wireless communications system providing mobile device authentication bypass based upon user-wearable security device and related methods
- Communication system providing wireless authentication for private data access and related methods
- System and method of security function activation for a mobile electronic device
- System and method for centralized retrieval and delivery of content to mobile devices using a server based RSS feed
- Handheld electronic device with reduced keyboard and associated method of providing improved disambiguation
- Adjusting coverage regions of wireless access points serving as handoff indication mechanism in wireless local area networks
- Method and user interface for facilitating conference calls
- Method and system for enhanced conference call security
- Systems and methods for generating a calling list for a conference call
- Transmit diversity using low code rate spatial multiplexing
- Timing advance enhancements for cellular communications
- Indication of multicast control information
- Precoding matrix index feedback interaction with discontinuous reception
- System and method for conserving power for a wireless device while maintaining a connection to a network
- Methods and systems for scheduling in a virtual MIMO communication environment
- Systems and methods for a thin film capacitor having a composite high-K thin film stack
- Device cover with drawing pad input device
- Handheld electronic device and associated method providing disambiguation of an ambiguous object during editing and selectively providing prediction of future characters
- GPS pre-acquisition for geotagging digital photos
- Password entry using 3D image with spatial alignment
- Keypad navigation selection and method on mobile device
- Portable electronic device and method of controlling same
- Method and apparatus for integrating social networking status updates with contact data at a communication device
- Method of switching power modes and a portable electronic device configured to perform the same
- System and method of indicating the strength of encryption
- Optimizing the delivery of email messages containing alternative versions of content