RIM Files Unified Communications Patent

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RIM Files Unified Communications Patent

It’s pretty neat what you can find on TMCnet. I had a European patent application forwarded to me this evening, which I found interesting on a number of levels. For starters we have recently seen the importance of patents (Vonage) as well as witnessed the secretive filing for patents overseas under the names of ‘subsidiaries’ (see: Apple’s iPhone), etc… I also have been very much involved with the subject of Unified Communications lately as TMC has announced the launch of a new publication titled, surprise surprise… Unified Communications magazine.
 
Apparently Research in Motion has filed for a patent titled: USER INTERFACE AND METHOD OF VIEWING UNIFIED COMMUNICATIONS EVENTS ON A MOBILE DEVICE (Appl. Data EP02787317 20021223).
 
Here is the abstract as it appeared on TMCnet this evening:
 
A method for viewing communications events on a mobile device which includes a user interface, a communications event handler, and a communications event database is disclosed herein.The communications event handler interfaces with the database and the user interface to provide a user of the mobile device with a communications event history associated with the correspondent of an incoming communications event. Additionally the communications event handler interfaces with the database and the user interface to provide a user of the mobile device with a communications event history for a specified correspondent. When a communication event is received, the communication events history associated with the correspondent is presented on the user interface. This gives the advantage that the user of the mobile device is able to determine the context of the communicaion event.
 
 


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