Don Lindsay

A method of detecting and processing touch and drag (gestural) input simultaneously throughout the duration of the events. This was needed to enable the gestural swipe-to-reveal the inbox in BB10.

This Apple patent was an early exploration into a simplified mode of operation that limited interaction to a single full screen application window. It was implemented in a recent release of Mac OS X.

A mobile wireless communications device includes a display, at least one input device, and a processor coupled to the display and the at least one input device. The processor is configured to associate each of a plurality of search categories with each of a plurality of search data sources, based upon the at least one input device. The processor is also configured to determine a given search category of the plurality thereof associated with a search term input via the at least one input device.… Show more

A mobile wireless communications device includes a display, at least one input device, and a processor coupled to the display and the at least one input device. The processor is configured to associate each of a plurality of search categories with each of a plurality of search data sources, based upon the at least one input device. The processor is also configured to determine a given search category of the plurality thereof associated with a search term input via the at least one input device. The processor is further configured to search the search data source associated with the given search category for the search term, and generate search results based thereupon, and display the search results on the display Show less

Facilitates capturing 2D data for implementation in a 3D environment directly within a device.

This Apple patent describes a method to address repetitious utterances from a synthesized speech system by incorporating variations in prosody.

This Microsoft (Live Labs) patent covers a novel experience for navigating long documents/web pages using a variable scale to quickly locate desired content.

This Microsoft patent covers the design & implementation of a user interface rendering facility that incorporates both traditional bitmap elements alongside programmatically-generated elements at runtime to produce a translucent and colorized window frame.

This Apple patent covers the "Dock", first introduced in the first release of Mac OS X and still a critical component of the Mac OS X experience over a decade later.

A method for programmatically changing a window frame's glass properties, including color and opacity.

This Microsoft patent covers the design & implementation of a user interface rendering facility that dynamically updates the interface in response to user input.

This Apple patent covers a system-managed toolbar facility introduced in Mac OS X.

An early patent (Bell Northern Research, 1993) covering a wireless voice & data communications device with a graphical touch interface, stylus input and a detachable wireless earpiece.

This BlackBerry patent covers the underlying concept behind BlackBerry 10's multiple pane home screen that incorporates an application launcher, application switcher and unified inbox.

This BlackBerry (RIM) patent broadly covers the user interface concepts behind the bezel-initiated gestures introduced in BlackBerry PlayBook and BlackBerry 10.

This BlackBerry (RIM) patent defines a novel multi-finger gesture for selecting a contiguous range of items in a list or array.