U.S. Patent 7836400 was awarded to Research In Motion Limited on 2010-11-16 and describes a “Snooze support for event reminders.” This patent has been cited 275 times by other U.S. patents which places it in the top 500 cited patents since 2010 according to our law firm research, and makes it of the most innovative it methods for management patents in the field of electrical engineering. The abstract states:

Snooze support for event reminders produced on a hand held mobile device is disclosed. Snooze support in at least one example embodiment is characterized by an event reminder rescheduling method. This event reminder rescheduling method includes the step of prompting for a device user to take one of a number of actions in relation to an event reminder released from an event reminders queue. One of the number of actions is requesting, through operation of one or more input components of the mobile device, that the event reminder be generated again after a lapse of a snooze time. Link: U.S. Patent 7836400

This patent was originally filed on 2006-03-31 which gives it a processing time of 1691 days, compared to an average processing time of 1842 in the field. Research In Motion Limited has 4473 total patents. The first named inventor is Raymond Vander Veen of Waterloo, CA. The primary examiner was William L Bashore.

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