BlackBerry Planet - Selected Patents

From BlackBerry Planet Web Support

"Patenting should be a standard operating procedure for your company, a standard operating procedure for your researchers and engineers. If they come up with an idea to solve a difficult problem, then they should immediately apply for a patent." - Mike Lazaridis

United States Patent: 6,219,694 - System and method for pushing information from a host system to a mobile data communication device having a shared electronic address - May 29, 1998 United States Patent: 6452588, A hand-held electronic device with a keyboard optimized for use with the thumbs - Filed July 6, 2001, awarded September 17, 2002 RIM's first major device and keyboard patent (Image, right) United States Patent: 20080051041, A handheld communication device capable of transmitting and receiving at least voice and text messages, said device comprising:a display bearing component and a keyboard bearing component - February 28, 2008 - a future RIM "slider"? United States Patent: 20080318617, A handheld communication device configurable between a telephone mode and an email mode is described. - December 25, 2008 Lazaridis Patent Search [edit] Campana Push Email Patents #6,317,592 - Electronic mail system with RF communications to mobile processors #6,272,190 - System for wireless transmission and receiving of information and method of operation thereof #6,198,783 - System for wireless serial transmission of encoded information #6,067,451 - Electronic mail system with RF communications to mobile processors #5,819,172 - Electronic mail system with RF communications to mobile radios #5,751,773 - System for wireless serial transmission of encoded information #5,745,532 - System for wireless transmission and receiving of information and method of operation thereof #5,631,946 - System for transferring information from a RF receiver to a processor under control of a program stored by the processor and method of operation thereof #5,625,670 - Electronic mail system with RF communications to mobile processor #5,438,611 - Electronic mail system with RF communications to mobile processors originating from outside of the electronic mail system and method of operation thereof #5,436,960 - Electronic mail system with RF communications to mobile processors and method of operation thereof

United States Patent: 6452588, for what became the RIM 950, the First BlackBerry United States Patent: 20080318617, for a wingpad device that will likely never make it to market