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Alistair Hamilton

Researcher at BlackBerry Limited

Publications -  79
Citations -  2139

Alistair Hamilton is an academic researcher from BlackBerry Limited. The author has contributed to research in topics: Terminal (electronics) & Virtual keyboard. The author has an hindex of 24, co-authored 79 publications receiving 2139 citations. Previous affiliations of Alistair Hamilton include NCR Corporation & Microsoft.

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Electronic device and method of displaying information in response to a gesture

TL;DR: In this article, a gesture is detected on the touch-sensitive display, which gesture indicates a request to display information associated with a second application without opening the second application, and at least part of the information from the first application is displayed without opening it.
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Opportunistic power supply charge system for portable unit

TL;DR: In this paper, a primary inductance assembly is energized by a main power source for inducing an electro-magnetic flux in a secondary coil assembly associated with a power source of the portable unit.
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Electronic shopping system

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a system and methods for an electronic shopping system including a portable or mobile shopping cart device or tablet, which can be handheld or coupled to the shopping cart.
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System and method for monitoring a mobile computing product/arrangement

TL;DR: In this article, a system and method for monitoring a mobile computing Arrangement is described, where a sensor detects first data of an event including a directional orientation and a motion of the arrangement, and then compares the first data to second data to determine if at least one predetermined procedure is to be executed.
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Portable data collection system

TL;DR: A portable data collection device has a display; manual data entry circuitry; a processor for receiving entered data and for controlling the display; a first wireless communication circuit for receiving data using a first protocol over short range from at least one data transmitting unit and a second protocol for transmitting and receiving data over a long range from a host as discussed by the authors.