IP Library Granted Patent US 11,907,499
Granted Patent B2
US 11,907,499 · App. 17/509,533 · Granted Feb 20, 2024

Electronic device and method of messaging meeting invitees

Inventors: Darrell Reginald May (Waterloo, CA); Atif Khan (Waterloo, CA); Andrew Douglas Bocking (Los Altos, CA)
Assignee: Malikie Innovations Limited
G06F3/0482G06F3/04842G06Q10/109H04L51/48H04M1/72436H04M1/72451
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Patent No.
US 11,907,499
App. No.
17/509,533
Granted
Feb 20, 2024
Kind
B2
Abstract

A method of composing an email message at an electronic device and an electronic device operable to carry out the method are provided. The method includes receiving an email command from a user input of the electronic device through a calendar user interface, the email command relating to at least one of a plurality of intended attendees of a calendared meeting, and providing an email composition interface in response to receiving the email command. The email composition interface includes a user-editable portion of an address field. The user-editable portion of the address field is automatically populated with email address information for the at least one of the plurality of intended attendees.

Claims (21)

1. A method comprising:

receiving, in a calendar interface of an electronic device, a first user input to compose a message for an existing event in the calendar interface; and outputting, at the electronic device, a message composition interface, wherein the message composition interface comprises an editable portion of an address field and an editable portion of a message field, wherein the editable portion of the address field is automatically populated with an address for each of a plurality of invitees associated with the existing event, and wherein the message composition interface further comprises a subject field that is automatically populated with data identifying the existing event.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the message composition interface further comprises an option to remove an addresses of at least one of the plurality of invitees from the editable portion of the address field.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the addresses of the plurality of invitees are email addresses.

4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising sending the message.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the message composition interface further comprises an option to add an invitee as a contact.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the electronic device comprises one or more of a handheld device, a portable handheld device, or a mobile handheld device.

7. An electronic device comprising:

at least one processor; and one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage medium coupled to the at least one processor and storing programming instructions for execution by the at least one processor, wherein the programming instructions, when executed, cause the electronic device to perform operations comprising: receiving, in a calendar interface of the electronic device, a first user input to compose a message for an existing event in the calendar interface; and outputting, at the electronic device, a message composition interface, wherein the message composition interface comprises an editable portion of an address field and an editable portion of a message field, wherein the editable portion of the address field is automatically populated with an address for each of a plurality of invitees associated with the existing event, and wherein the message composition interface further comprises a subject field that is automatically populated with data identifying the existing event.

8. The electronic device of claim 7 , wherein the message composition interface further comprises an option to remove an addresses of at least one of the plurality of invitees from the editable portion of the address field.

9. The electronic device of claim 7 , wherein the addresses of the plurality of invitees are email addresses.

10. The electronic device of claim 7 , wherein the operations further comprise sending the message.

11. The electronic device of claim 7 , wherein the message composition interface further comprises an option to add an invitee as a contact.

12. The electronic device of claim 7 , wherein the electronic device comprises one or more of a handheld device, a portable handheld device, or a mobile handheld device.

13. One or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing computer instructions that when executed by one or more processors, cause an electronic device to perform operations comprising:

receiving, in a calendar interface of the electronic device, a first user input to compose a message for an existing event in the calendar interface; and

outputting, at the electronic device, a message composition interface, wherein the message composition interface comprises an editable portion of an address field and an editable portion of a message field, wherein the editable portion of the address field is automatically populated with an address for each of a plurality of invitees associated with the existing event, and wherein the message composition interface further comprises a subject field that is automatically populated with data identifying the existing event.

14. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 13 , wherein the message composition interface further comprises an option to remove an addresses of at least one of the plurality of invitees from the editable portion of the address field.

15. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 13 , wherein the addresses of the plurality of invitees are email addresses.

16. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 13 , wherein the operations further comprise sending the message.

17. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 13 , wherein the message composition interface further comprises an option to add an invitee as a contact.

Assignments (6)
CORRECTIVE ASSIGNMENT TO CORRECT THE COVER SHEET AT PAGE 50 TO REMOVE 12817157 PREVIOUSLY RECORDED ON REEL 063471 FRAME 0474. ASSIGNOR(S) HEREBY CONFIRMS THE ASSIGNMENT. Recorded Sep 5, 2023
From: BLACKBERRY LIMITED
To: OT PATENT ESCROW, LLC
Reel/Frame 064806/0669 →
CORRECTIVE ASSIGNMENT TO CORRECT 12817157 APPLICATION NUMBER PREVIOUSLY RECORDED AT REEL: 064015 FRAME: 0001. ASSIGNOR(S) HEREBY CONFIRMS THE ASSIGNMENT. Recorded Sep 5, 2023
From: OT PATENT ESCROW, LLC
To: MALIKIE INNOVATIONS LIMITED
Reel/Frame 064807/0001 →
NUNC PRO TUNC ASSIGNMENT Recorded Jun 16, 2023
From: OT PATENT ESCROW, LLC
To: MALIKIE INNOVATIONS LIMITED
Reel/Frame 064015/0001 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 27, 2023
From: BLACKBERRY LIMITED
To: OT PATENT ESCROW, LLC
Reel/Frame 063471/0474 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 27, 2021
From: MAY, DARRELL R.; KHAN, ATIF; BOCKING, ANDREW
To: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITED
Reel/Frame 057930/0883 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Oct 27, 2021
From: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITED
To: BLACKBERRY LIMITED
Reel/Frame 057940/0289 →
Continuity (6)
Continuation 16050402 · Jul 31, 2018
Continuation 15349417 · Nov 11, 2016
Continuation 14923583 · Oct 27, 2015
Continuation 12772623 · May 3, 2010
Continuation 11495775 · Jul 31, 2006
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