SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SYNCHRONIZING A BLACKBERRY WITH A MACINTOSH

• US 20070005663A1
• Filed: 10/28/2005
• Published: 01/04/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 06/16/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Gula Consulting Limited Liability Company (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Original Assignee: Information Appliance Associates
• Inventors: Winsper, Russ, GOGGIN, TERENCE
• Granted Patent: US 7,974,945 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/273 Asynchronous replication or reconciliation

Abstract

A system and method enable a BlackBerry device to communicate with and be synchronized with a Macintosh computer.

Claims

1. A method of synchronizing a BlackBerry device with a Macintosh computer, comprising:

adding a configuration zero ok to an IORegistry;

interfacing with the BlackBerry device;

receiving data from the BlackBerry device; and

synchronizing the received data with data from the Macintosh computer.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising parsing the received data.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising formatting the parsed received data into XML formatted data.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising storing a file from the BlackBerry device onto the Macintosh computer.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the file is an executable file.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising synchronizing the received data with data on a plurality of Macintosh computers communicatively coupled to the Macintosh computer.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the synchronizing includes synchronizing data on the Macintosh computer belonging to the user of the BlackBerry device.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the interfacing causes the BlackBerry device to appear as a serial port to the Macintosh computer.

9. A system, comprising:

means for adding a configuration zero ok to an IORegistry;

means for interfacing with the BlackBerry device;

means for receiving data from the BlackBerry device; and

means for synchronizing the received data with data from the Macintosh computer.

10. A computer-readable medium having stored thereon instructions to cause a computer to execute a method, the method comprising:

adding a configuration zero ok to an IORegistry;

interfacing with the BlackBerry device;

receiving data from the BlackBerry device; and

synchronizing the received data with data from the Macintosh computer.

11. A system, comprising:

a device driver capable of adding a configuration zero ok to an IORegistry;

an interface driver capable of interfacing with the BlackBerry device;

a library capable of receiving data from the BlackBerry device; and

an application, communicatively coupled to the library, capable of synchronizing the received data with data from the Macintosh computer.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the library is further capable of parsing the received data.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the library is further capable of formatting the parsed received data into XML formatted data.

14. The system of claim 11, wherein the library is further capable of storing a file from the BlackBerry device onto the Macintosh computer.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the file is an executable file.

16. The system of claim 11, wherein the application is further capable of synchronizing the received data with data on a plurality of Macintosh computers communicatively coupled to the Macintosh computer.

17. The system of claim 11, wherein application is further capable of synchronizing data on the Macintosh computer belonging to the user of the BlackBerry device.

18. The system of claim 11, wherein the interface driver causes the BlackBerry device to appear as a serial port to the Macintosh computer.