PSEUDO-INTERACTIVE INPUT PROCESSING IN WIRELESS ENVIRONMENTS

• US 20120289202A1
• Filed: 07/23/2012
• Published: 11/15/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 11/07/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Malikie Innovations Limited (Key Patent Innovations Limited)
• Original Assignee: Research In Motion Limited (Blackberry Limited)
• Inventors: Robertson, Ian M., Tapuska, David F.
• Application Number:
  US13/555,582
• Publication Number:
  US 20120289202A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/412.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0018 based on latency requirement
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/10 Flow control; Congestion control
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/29 using a combination of thresholds
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72424 with manual activation of emergency-service functions
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/14 using intermediate storage
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/12 Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements

Abstract

An electronic communication device includes a buffer and a controller. The buffer stores characters as they are being input by a user. The controller transmits the stored characters over a network when the number of characters stored exceeds a threshold. The controller also dynamically adjusts the threshold time period.

Claims

1. A wireless communication device comprising:

a user input device;

a buffer configured to store characters of an electronic message as the characters are being input via the input device; and

a controller configured to wirelessly transmit the stored characters over a wireless network, prior to completion of input of the electronic message, in response to a pause in the input of characters exceeding a dynamically adjustable threshold time period.

2. The wireless communication of claim 1 wherein the controller is configured to dynamically adjust the threshold based on at least one of a transmission packet size and a transmission packet overhead.

3. The wireless communication of claim 1 wherein the controller is configured to dynamically adjust the threshold based on at least one of a latency and a bandwidth of the network.

4. The wireless communication of claim 1 wherein the controller is configured to dynamically adjust the threshold based on processing resources available on the device.

5. The wireless communication of claim 1 wherein the electronic message is an email message.

6. The wireless communication of claim 1 wherein the electronic message is a text message.

7. The wireless communication of claim 1 wherein the user input device is a keyboard.

8. The wireless communication of claim 1 wherein the controller is further configured to wirelessly transmit the stored characters, over the wireless network, prior to completion of input of the electronic message, in response to receipt of a predetermined submit input from the user input device.

9. A method performed by a wireless communication device, the method comprising:

storing characters of an electronic message as the characters are being input into a user input device of the wireless communication device;

wirelessly transmitting the stored characters over a wireless network, before the electronic message has been completely input, in response to a pause in the input of characters exceeding a threshold; and

dynamically adjusting the threshold.

10. The method of claim 9 wherein the dynamically adjusting includes dynamically adjusting the threshold based on packet size and packet overhead of the network.

11. The method of claim 9 wherein the dynamically adjusting includes dynamically adjusting the threshold based on latency and bandwidth of the network.

12. The method of claim 9 wherein the dynamically adjusting includes dynamically adjusting the threshold based on processing resources available on the device.

13. The method of claim 9 wherein the electronic message is an email message.

14. The method of claim 9 wherein the electronic message is a text message.

15. A method performed by a wireless communication device, the method comprising:

storing characters of an email message as the characters are being input into a user input device of the wireless communication device; and

wirelessly transmitting the stored characters over a wireless network, before the email message has been completely input, in response to a pause in the input of characters exceeding a threshold.

16. The method of claim 15 wherein the user input device is a keyboard.

17. The method of claim 15 further comprising dynamically adjusting the threshold.