AT&T Patents
Application number: 20150250021
Abstract: Concepts and technologies are disclosed herein for enabling wireless connectivity for devices. A device can pair with a peripheral device and initiate provisioning of services to support communication with a network via the peripheral device. The device can detect completion of the provisioning, and communicate with the network via the peripheral device.
Type:
Application
Filed:
February 28, 2014
Issued:
September 3, 2015
Assignee:
AT&T MOBILITY II LLC
Inventors:
Michael David Stice, Andy P. Salvador
Application number: 20150249863
Abstract: A method for monitoring a monitored display monitors data to be output from a monitored display. The monitored data is analyzed to generate one or more content identifiers. The content identifiers are compared to a set of rules to determine if the monitored data should be blocked from being output or if an alert should be transmitted to a supervisor device. One or more supervisor devices may be used to respond to alerts and may also be used to control the output of the monitored display.
Type:
Application
Filed:
May 18, 2015
Issued:
September 3, 2015
Assignee:
AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
Inventors:
Behzad Shahraray, Andrea Basso, Lee Begeja, David C. Gibbon, Zhu Liu, Bernard S. Renger
Patent number: 9125117
Abstract: Inter-carrier scanning is triggered in a mobile device based at least in part on location thereof. Femto access point (AP) that can serve the mobile device can determine location through cell or sector identifier that is extracted via scan(s) of macro wireless environment of the femto AP. Femto AP can rank extracted sector identifier(s) and establish home macro sector (HMS) identifier(s), and also can generate scanning requirements for idle-mode scan(s) by a mobile device that operates in a HMS and is authorized to access wireless coverage through the femto AP. Scanning requirement(s) can force periodic inter-carrier measurements of a HMS wireless environment, and establish HMS-specific radio link quality threshold(s). Wireless network can receive at least one of HMS identifier(s) and scanning requirement(s) and deliver same to mobile device(s) authorized to exploit wireless coverage through femto AP associated with the HMS ID(s) and the scanning requirement(s).
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 18, 2013
Issued:
September 1, 2015
Assignee:
AT&T MOBILITY II LLC
Inventors:
Arthur Richard Brisebois, Giuseppe De Rosa
Patent number: 9122393
Abstract: Devices and methods are disclosed which relate to improving the efficiency of text input by generating a dynamic virtual keyboard. Disclosed examples display a soft keyboard on a touchscreen of a text-entry device. The touchscreen works with the soft keyboard as a form of text input. Keyboard logic on the text-entry device is programmed to change the sensitivity of the footprint of keys surrounding a predicted key or keys, based upon the prior entry. The keyboard logic assigns a prediction value to each key based on a statistical probability that the key will be entered next. The touchscreen displays a dynamic virtual keyboard based on these prediction values. Enhancements include reducing the sensitivity of the footprint of keys relative to their prediction value. For instance, if a key is very unlikely to be the next intended key pressed, the footprint of the key will only respond to a key press of greater force than a key which is likely to be entered next.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 30, 2009
Issued:
September 1, 2015
Assignee:
AT&T Mobility II LLC
Inventors:
Mark Edward Causey, Jeffrey Norbert Howard, Andrew Thomas Smoak
Patent number: 9123060
Abstract: A method and system for providing targeted advertisement information to consumers over a wireless communications network are provided. In one embodiment, local advertisers register to advertise on wireless communications devices that are in close proximity to the advertiser. As a consumer enters a cell site that is near the location of the advertiser, the wireless network delivers a message to the wireless device specified by the local advertiser. An acknowledgement signal is then received by the network, and the local advertiser's account is charged for transmission of the advertisement. In a further embodiment, each of the messages is associated with one or more demographic codes, and a demographic code is selected to describe an advertisement preference of a user of a wireless communications device. Messages to be transmitted to particular wireless communications devices are selected based upon both the location information and the demographic codes associated with the messages.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 12, 2014
Issued:
September 1, 2015
Assignee:
AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
Inventors:
Charles M. Link, II, Donald M. Cardina, Vernon Meadows
Patent number: 9123346
Abstract: A user device provides dynamic speech processing services during variable network connectivity with a network server. The user device includes a connection determiner that monitors a level of network connectivity between the user device and the network server, a simplified speech processor that processes speech data and is initiated based on a determination by the connection determiner that the level of network connectivity between the user device and the network server is impaired, a memory that stores processed speech data processed by the simplified speech processor, and a transmitter configured to transmit the stored processed speech data. The connection determiner determines when the level of network connectivity between the user device and the network server is no longer impaired.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 31, 2013
Issued:
September 1, 2015
Assignee:
AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
Inventor:
Horst Schroeter
Patent number: 9123082
Abstract: The subject disclosure provides systems and methods for recommending optimal consumption of a variety of resources that may be consumed by a consumer. A recommendation provided by the system may be based upon resource-consumption statistics gathered by a plurality of sensors, consumer's resource-consumption behavior, consumer-defined criteria, resource availability, and a cost of consumption. The recommendation may include a recommendation on how the consumer may lower resource consumption costs. The recommendation may further include optimal consumption considering consumption trends of a plurality of consumers living in a geographical proximity. The recommendation may include optimal usage of a consumer's vehicle such that the vehicle may consume the least amount of energy. The recommendation may further include offer(s) of credit/incentives by resource providers to consumers in exchange for less consumption of resource, alternative consumption of resources, and any combination thereof.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 30, 2012
Issued:
September 1, 2015
Assignees:
AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Mobility II LLC
Inventors:
Qingmin Hu, Brian Kevin Daly, Jamie Toren, Mark Edward Causey, Karen Mullis
Patent number: 9123142
Abstract: A system for adjusting content display orientation on a screen is disclosed. The system may include a processor that may detect both eyes and a body part of a user that is proximal to one or more of the user's eyes. The system may then determine an eye gaze plane based on the positions of the first and second eyes of the user. The eye gaze plane may be determined by identifying a first line of sight extending from the first eye and a second line of sight extending from the second eye. Additionally, the eye gaze plane may bisect a center of the first eye and a center of the second eye of the user. Once the eye gaze plane is determined, the system may adjust the orientation of content displayed on a display device based on the eye gaze plane and on the position of the body part.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 2, 2012
Issued:
September 1, 2015
Assignee:
AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
Inventors:
Marc A. Sullivan, James H. Pratt, Garrett L. Stettler
Patent number: 9124315
Abstract: Compression of an input signal prior to high power radio frequency (RF) amplification and transmission is disclosed. A compression device can receive an input signal and generate a compressed signal that can be passed to an amplification stage to reduce intermodulation effects. The compression device can further generate compression information that can be transmitted to enable a mobile device receiving an amplified version of the compressed signal and the compression information to decompress the amplified version of the compressed signal. Further, a mobile device that can receive an amplified compressed signal and compression information, such that the mobile device can decompress the amplified compressed signal, is also disclosed. The disclosed subject matter can enable use of lower cost, smaller, and less complex RF amplifiers within a wireless network environment.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 5, 2013
Issued:
September 1, 2015
Assignee:
AT&T MOBILITY II LLC
Inventor:
Sheldon Kent Meredith
Patent number: 9124473
Abstract: One preferred embodiment of the present invention provides systems and methods for analyzing the delivery performance of newsgroup services. Briefly described, in architecture, one embodiment, among others, includes a newsgroup evaluation system configured to determine a delivery rate for a newsgroup server. In other embodiments, methods and systems are provided for analyzing completion and retention for newsgroup services.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 25, 2013
Issued:
September 1, 2015
Assignee:
AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
Inventors:
Richard J. Gerlach, Charles S. Shull, David Edward Haslam
Patent number: 9124474
Abstract: In an arrangement where the device that is known to an ISP is communicating with the ISP through an interposed device that is not known to the ISP, the interposed device captures the known device's MAC address upon startup and clones the captured MAC address in all standard packets that it sends to the ISP.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 9, 2010
Issued:
September 1, 2015
Assignee:
AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.
Inventors:
Ali Cherchali, Marius J. Gudelis, Jr., William G. Lester, Robert J. McLaughlin
Patent number: 9124632
Abstract: A method, non-transitory computer readable medium and apparatus for processing a request from a server of a machine-to-machine service provider are provided. For example, the method receives the request from the server of the machine-to-machine service provider to communicate with a machine-to-machine device, determines whether to authorize the request based upon a policy in a privacy database, and enables communications between the server of the machine-to-machine service provider and the machine-to-machine device if the request is authorized based upon the policy.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 13, 2011
Issued:
September 1, 2015
Assignee:
AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
Inventors:
Qingmin Hu, Farooq Bari
Patent number: 9124487
Abstract: A communication network apparatus and method for routing communication signals form a source device to a receiving device. The apparatus performs only local processing on communication signals to thereby increase the speed of processing the signals. A plurality of the processing nodes is combined into a plurality of sub-networks that comprise the network apparatus. Each processing node of a sub-network need only process address information pertaining to the node's current layer, one layer above it, if any, and one layer below it, if any. Additionally, each processing node has associated communication signal frequencies/wavelengths that identify the processing node as the intended recipient of the communication signal.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 2, 2012
Issued:
September 1, 2015
Assignee:
AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.
Inventor:
Xiaolin Lu
Patent number: 9124513
Abstract: A method and system for multicasting Internet-protocol television (IPTV) channels is disclosed. In order to receive desired IPTV channels, a first-hop router (FHR) may send a join message to a last-hop router (LHR) establishing multiple paths across a backbone network. The join message may specify mapping at least one virtual IPTV channel to a plurality of multicast channels, along with the desired IPTV channels. The multicast channels may then be transmitted in a round-robin manner over the multiple paths from the LHR to the FHR. A number of virtual IPTV channels may be modified in response to determining a loading profile over the multiple paths to maintain a balanced load among the multiple paths.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 30, 2009
Issued:
September 1, 2015
Assignee:
AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
Inventor:
Yetik Serbest
Patent number: 9125090
Abstract: In order to provide load balancing in a wireless network that includes a cell with two or more carriers, sequential service requests for radio resources are allocated to respective ones of the two or more carriers in a staggered manner (i.e., a round robin, or least recently used (LRU) approach). In an embodiment, the sequential requests are directed so as to allocate channelization codes of respective code trees associated with the two or more carriers substantially equally. The signal strength of a carrier may be checked prior to allocation. Trigger conditions may be checked prior to allocating a request to a carrier using the LRU approach. The trigger conditions may include power utilization of a first carrier compared to a second carrier, channelization code tree offset between two or more code trees respectively associated with the two or more carriers, and/or average bit rate per subscriber load of the carriers.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 27, 2009
Issued:
September 1, 2015
Assignee:
AT&T Mobility II LLC
Inventors:
Fereidoun Tafreshi, Arthur R. Brisebois
Patent number: 9124691
Abstract: Tools and techniques for performing life cycle management of user-selected applications on wireless communications devices are described herein. In part, the tools provide machine-readable media for presenting to the subscriber a list of available applications for installation on the device, and for receiving selections from the subscriber of one or more of the applications. Additionally, the tools provide methods for selling advertising space on the devices.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 30, 2011
Issued:
September 1, 2015
Assignee:
AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
Inventors:
John Alson Hicks, III, Douglas R. O'Nell
Patent number: 9124660
Abstract: An interactive conference based is supplemented based on terminology content. Terminology content from a plurality of interactive conference participants is monitored. A set of words from the terminology content is selected. Supplemental media content at an external source is identified based on the selected set of words, and selectively made available and presented to an audience member for the interactive conference.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 20, 2014
Issued:
September 1, 2015
Assignee:
AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
Inventors:
David C. Gibbon, Lee Begeja, Zhu Liu, Bernard S. Renger, Behzad Shahraray, Eric Zavesky
Patent number: 9124724
Abstract: Roaming of mobile devices is tracked and accounted for automatically and accurately. Revenue records are received for at least one service provider due to roaming of mobile devices within a geographical area served by the at least one service provider for mobile devices that do not have a subscription for service with the service provider for the geographic area. Expense records are received for the service provider due to roaming of mobile devices within other geographical areas served by at least one other service provider and not served by the at least one service provider. Each of the revenue and expense records is associated with a mobile device and includes a code identifying a service and a geographical area. If the codes are valid, the revenue records and expense records received over a period of time are compiled and summarized.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 5, 2014
Issued:
September 1, 2015
Assignee:
AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
Inventors:
David Braunecker, Noel Vincent Avera, Ruth K. Burrell, Andrew R. Brock, David Cornett, Deborah Ann Hampton, Susan Jungbauer, Joni R. Lavalette, Padma Rallapalli
Patent number: 9124687
Abstract: A voicemail receptionist system includes a memory and a processor. The memory can store data relating to one or more users. An incoming communication can be handled by the voicemail receptionist system and provided with functionality based upon a user's preferences, for example. The data stored by the voicemail receptionist system can be updated at any time, or automatically updated upon updating of the data, or upon occurrence of a trigger event. Voicemail receptionist functionality can include standard voicemail system functionality as well as functionality relating to email, text messaging, MMS messaging, calendar features, schedule announcements, location data, as well as other features.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 21, 2008
Issued:
September 1, 2015
Assignee:
AT&T Mobility II LLC
Inventors:
Scott Swanburg, Andre Okada, Paul Hanson, Chris Young
Patent number: 9124719
Abstract: Devices, systems and methods are disclosed for a subscriber of services on a network to display a custom operator name or alpha tag on the subscriber mobile communications device. The custom alpha tag (or operator name) is selected or defined by the subscriber via an interface on a communications device, and a custom operator name request is submitted to a provisioning logic on the network. The provisioning logic communicates with business rule logic on the network, the business rule logic being configured to retrieve and/or update a first account associated with the subscriber with the custom operator name. A billing logic within a billing subsystem may be invoked to debit a second account associated with the subscriber. A programming logic on the network then updates one or more mobile devices with the custom alpha tag. The several logic units may be part of an Over-the-air (OTA) platform on the network.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 27, 2014
Issued:
September 1, 2015
Assignee:
AT&T Mobility II LLC
Inventors:
Scott Inlow, James Allan Payne
Patent number: 9124573
Abstract: A system that incorporates the subject disclosure may perform, for example, operations including receiving an encrypted secure token from a secure token application function that is remote from the communication device, storing the encrypted secure token in a secure element memory of the secure element, accessing user input requesting the encrypted secure token where the secure device processor is separate from the secure element and is in communication with the secure element, generating a modified secure token by adding identification information to the encrypted secure token and by performing a second encryption of the encrypted secure token with the identification information, receiving the modified secure token from the secure element, and providing the modified secure token to a receiving device. Other embodiments are disclosed.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 4, 2013
Issued:
September 1, 2015
Assignees:
AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, LP, AT&T MOBILITY II, LLC
Inventors:
Walter Cooper Chastain, Stephen Emille Chin, Samuel King, Michael Suozzo, Nicholas Vondrak, Ismaila Wane
Patent number: 9124554
Abstract: A service delivery hub controlled by a network operator includes an access controller; a network services gateway in communication with the access controller and in communication with external network elements, a partner management center in communication with the access controller and the network services gateway, the partner management center configured to establish a service level agreement with application service providers or enabler providers; an interface defined by the service level agreement, the interface configured to provide a single point access to the application service developers, to provide a set of programming interfaces to the developers whereas the programming interfaces provide access to the external network elements; and a charging system interface to a charging gateway, wherein the charging system is subject to the service level agreement and wherein the service delivery hub allocates revenue in accordance with the service level agreement.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 9, 2010
Issued:
September 1, 2015
Assignee:
AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
Inventors:
David Dunmire, Chad C. Keith, Clifford Marcus Owenby
Patent number: 9124908
Abstract: A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may perform operations including, for example, receiving a plurality of user-generated comments associated with media content where the plurality of user-generated comments are temporally associated with a portion of the media content during a presentation of the media content at a group of communication devices, and identifying from the plurality of user-generated comments a cluster of comments associated with a segment of the media content based on a frequency of the user-generated comments. Other embodiments are disclosed.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 11, 2014
Issued:
September 1, 2015
Assignee:
AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, LP
Inventors:
Linda Roberts, E-Lee Chang, Ja-Young Sung, Natasha Barrett Schultz, Robert King
Patent number: 9124603
Abstract: Methods and apparatus to select a peered voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) border element are disclosed. An example method comprises receiving a session initiation protocol (SIP) message that includes an identifier representative of a location of a voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) access border element, querying a telephone number mapping (ENUM) database to identify two or more peered VoIP border elements, and selecting a one of the two or more peered VoIP border elements based on the identifier.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 27, 2007
Issued:
September 1, 2015
Assignee:
AT&T Intellectual Property I., L.P.
Inventors:
James Jackson, Bernard Ku, Mehrad Yasrebi
Patent number: 9124845
Abstract: A system and method to control media display functions is disclosed. A system includes a processing logic and memory accessible to the processing logic. The memory includes instructions executable by the processing logic to perform a method including receiving input associated with a media display function. The instructions are also executable by the processing logic to determine one or more media devices to be controlled. The instructions are also executable by the processing logic to send first control data adapted to cause the media display function to be implemented at a first media device when the first media device is to be controlled. The instructions are also executable by the processing logic to send second control data when the first media device and a second media device are to be controlled concurrently. The second control data is adapted to cause the media display function to be implemented at the first media device and at the second media device.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 19, 2007
Issued:
September 1, 2015
Assignee:
AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
Inventors:
James Pratt, Marc Sullivan
Patent number: 9124942
Abstract: A method is disclosed for determining a mitigation strategy to limit a potential source of interference on an Internet Protocol television (IPTV) system. A new user installation request is received at a server in the IPTV system. A first geographical location of a customer premises associated with the new user installation request is received. A second geographical location of an amplitude modulation broadcasting facility is received. A first distance between the first geographical location and the second geographical location is determined. A first signal transmission power rating for the amplitude modulation broadcasting facility is retrieved from a database. A first mitigation strategy causing filters to filter an IPTV signal according to a frequency range associated with the amplitude modulation broadcasting facility to limit a first interference on the IPTV signal provided to the first geographical location when the first distance is less than the first threshold distance is determined.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 23, 2012
Issued:
September 1, 2015
Assignee:
AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, LP
Inventors:
James G. Beattie, Jr., Stephen Griesmer, Arvind Mallya
Patent number: 9125228
Abstract: Architecture that allows a user to control the way a connection is made to a destination. A destination can be tagged with an attribute that defines how the connection to that destination should be routed. For example, a phone address book allows the user to not only enter the usual call recipient information such as name and telephone number, but also to add an attribute in the form of a network identifier associated with a network that should be used when connecting to the destination. Where multiple networks are associated with the destination, the phone subsystem, recognizing that the destination now has multiple network IDs for connecting the call, can prompt the user to select the desired network pathway. The user can also tag the destination with a protocol that should be employed. Thus, not only will the phone be connected according to the network, but according to the protocol.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 25, 2007
Issued:
September 1, 2015
Assignee:
AT&T Mobility II LLC
Inventor:
Robert Lee Engelhart, Sr.
Patent number: 9124923
Abstract: A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a system to receive a response generated by a media processor based on an analysis of a communication exchange between a user and an avatar having characteristics that correspond to a user profile. The system can identify from the response a requirement for initiation of a communication session with a content source. An avatar profile is received from the content source, including gesture information based on gestures utilized by a character supplied by the content source. An adapted avatar is generated based on the avatar profile by adapting in part the characteristics of the avatar to have a first characteristic that duplicates a gesture of the character supplied by the content source, while retaining a second characteristic corresponding to the user profile. Other embodiments are disclosed.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 12, 2014
Issued:
September 1, 2015
Assignee:
AT&T Intellectual Property I, LP
Inventors:
E-Lee Chang, Horst Juergen Schroeter, Linda Roberts, Darnell Clayton, Madhur Khandelwal
Patent number: 9125060
Abstract: A method includes intercepting, in a carrier network, data communicated from a sending entity and destined for a mobile device, comparing the data that has been intercepted with a data pattern to determine whether the data that has been intercepted matches the data pattern, and blocking the data that has been intercepted from reaching the mobile device when the data that has been intercepted matches the data pattern.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 22, 2013
Issued:
September 1, 2015
Assignee:
AT&T MOBILITY II LLC
Inventor:
Arturo Maria
Patent number: 9125042
Abstract: A system and method for providing a message to a user of a device, such as a mobile cellular phone, which includes using a signal, such as a CMAS alert, to turn on one or more receivers of the device configured to receive the message, conserves battery power for the device until it is needed in order to receive and transmit the message.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 29, 2014
Issued:
September 1, 2015
Assignee:
AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
Inventors:
Brian Kevin Daly, DeWayne A. Sennett
Patent number: 9124943
Abstract: A system for monitoring order fulfillment of telecommunication services is disclosed. An apparatus that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a monitoring system having a controller element that submits a correlation ID to a service orchestration system (SOS) that manages one or more order fulfillment systems (OFSs) that collectively fulfill a select one of a plurality of telecommunication service orders according to a plurality of intermediate fulfillment steps, receives from the SOS information associated with the plurality of intermediate fulfillment steps tagged with the correlation ID, records said information according to the correlation ID, and collects correlated fulfillment activity for the plurality of telecommunication service orders from a plurality of iterations of the foregoing steps. Additional embodiments are disclosed.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 6, 2014
Issued:
September 1, 2015
Assignee:
AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, LP
Inventors:
Catherine Wood, Daniel P. Malee, Jeffrey Dicks, Michael Everett, Srinidhi Venkata Subbarao
Application number: 20150242485
Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses for comparing multi-dimensional datasets are provided. A multi-dimensional dataset comparison includes receiving a plurality of datasets, each including a plurality of coordinates, wherein a subset of coordinates defines a geo-fence. For a coordinate within a geo-fence of one of the plurality of datasets, determining analogous coordinates in each of the other datasets, the analogous coordinates defining a coordinate input set, and performing in parallel an operation on the coordinate input set to determine whether an entry is present at a coordinate of the coordinate input set.
Type:
Application
Filed:
May 12, 2015
Issued:
August 27, 2015
Assignee:
AT&T MOBILITY II LLC
Inventors:
Sheldon Meredith, Mark Pack, John Pastore
Application number: 20150244576
Abstract: Methods, systems, and products notify users when changes in a communication network improve quality of service. When a service provider changes a configuration parameter in the communications network, a change to the configuration parameter is compared to a rule. When the change to the configuration parameter results in a perceivable improvement in quality of service, a notification is sent to a user's device. The notification informs the user's device of the improvement in quality of service caused by the change to the configuration parameter.
Type:
Application
Filed:
May 8, 2015
Issued:
August 27, 2015
Assignee:
AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
Inventors:
Jeffrey A. Aaron, Cagatay Buyukkoc, Robert C. Streijl
Application number: 20150244790
Abstract: A method and apparatus for providing an opportunistic crowd based service platform is disclosed. A mobile sensor device is identified based on a current location and/or other qualities, such as intrinsic properties, previous sensor data, or demographic data of an associated user of the mobile sensor device. Data is collected from the mobile sensor device. The data collected from the mobile sensor device is aggregated with data collected from other sensor devices, and content generated based on the aggregated data is delivered to a user device.
Type:
Application
Filed:
May 12, 2015
Issued:
August 27, 2015
Assignee:
AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
Inventors:
Eric Zavesky, Andrea Basso, Lee Begeja, David C. Gibbon, Zhu Liu, Bernard S. Renger, Behzad Shahraray
Application number: 20150242838
Abstract: Devices, systems and methods are disclosed which relate to securing payments from a mobile communications device. In exemplary embodiments, a mobile communications device communicates with a payment server via a point-of-sale device to conduct a transaction. The mobile communications device uses a client payment logic to send payment information to the point-of-sale device. The point-of-sale device uses a vendor payment logic to forward the payment information to the payment server. The payment server verifies the payment information and sends confirmation to the point-of-sale device.
Type:
Application
Filed:
April 28, 2015
Issued:
August 27, 2015
Assignee:
AT&T Mobility II LLC
Inventor:
Spencer Neil White
Application number: 20150244745
Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer-readable medium for identifying a subscriber home domain in a communication network are described. A national subscriber profile is partitioned into regions and a NAPTR resource record is modified to identify in which region a particular subscriber is located. In response to a calling party requesting that a connection to a called party be established, a database is queried to provide a modified NAPTR record which identifies the region in which the called party is located. A connection can then be established without polling each region.
Type:
Application
Filed:
May 8, 2015
Issued:
August 27, 2015
Assignee:
AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
Inventors:
Bernard Ku, Lakshminarashimhan Naidu, Armstrong Soo
Patent number: 9118956
Abstract: A method includes receiving, at a computing device, a first selection of first video content. The method also includes adding a first element corresponding to the first video content to a list. Each element of the list corresponds to respective previously displayed video content. The method includes receiving, at the computing device, input indicating a request to view the list and sending the list to the display device in response to the request. The elements of the list are ordered based on display times of the corresponding video content.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 13, 2014
Issued:
August 25, 2015
Assignee:
AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
Inventors:
Charles Stahulak, Bruce Barnes, Dolores J. Mallian, Nikhil Marathe
Patent number: 9118727
Abstract: Providing metadata subscription services includes receiving a notification subscription request containing an item selected from a plurality of items residing in a repository. The items are stored in hierarchically-arranged levels of storage within the repository. Providing the services also includes determining that metadata of the item has been modified and creating a notification including changes made with respect to the metadata and any others of the items residing in the repository at a storage level equal to a storage level of the item and any storage levels that are lower than the storage level of the item. Providing the services further includes transmitting the notification to a user-specified first address and transmitting a copy of the item including the changes to a user-specified second address. The user-specified second address is different than the user-specified first address.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 1, 2012
Issued:
August 25, 2015
Assignee:
AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
Inventors:
Todd Stephens, Benjamin Jenkins
Patent number: 9118732
Abstract: The disclosed subject matter relates to an architecture that can employ a control plane for managing communications with respect to a set of sensors. By utilizing a control plane, a distinction between control messages and data messages can be provided in a standardized way and the set of sensors can benefit from additional functionality and configurability. For example, the control plane can be employed to modify parameters associated with the set of sensors, which can be effectuated in real time and in situ as opposed to at the time of fabrication or deployment. Moreover, such modifications can relate to both the sensing portions of a particular sensor as well as the communication portions of a particular sensor.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 5, 2011
Issued:
August 25, 2015
Assignee:
AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
Inventors:
Lusheng Ji, Robert R. Miller, II
Patent number: 9118755
Abstract: A portable radiotelephone can be shifted between a first condition wherein the radiotelephone does not receive or transmit voice communications by radiotelephone transmissions over radiotelephone channels and a second condition wherein the radiotelephone receives and transmits voice communications by radiotelephone transmissions over radiotelephone channels. The radiotelephone automatically calls a central voice-activated phone dialing system remote from the portable radiotelephone in response to producing the second condition in the radiotelephone. The radiotelephone includes a switch for producing the first and second conditions.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 27, 2015
Issued:
August 25, 2015
Assignee:
AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
Inventors:
Gregory Clyde Griffith, Benjamin F. Holcomb
Patent number: 9116958
Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to sample signed weighted updates. Example methods disclosed herein include identifying a first key associated with a data update obtained by sampling a stream of data received from a plurality of nodes in a network, the first key being representative of a first node in the plurality of nodes, adjusting a first value associated with the first key based on a weight associated with the data update, the weight being positive when the data update corresponds to opening of a new data connection with the first node, the weight being negative when the data update corresponds to closing of an existing data connection with the first node, and estimating a status of the first node based on the first value.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 7, 2012
Issued:
August 25, 2015
Assignee:
AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
Inventors:
Graham Cormode, Edith Cohen, Nicholas Geoffrey Duffield
Patent number: 9119051
Abstract: A system that incorporates teachings of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method for detecting, by a first device including a least one processor and a first Universal Integrated Circuit Card (UICC), a second device having a second UICC, detecting, by the first device, that the second UICC is unprovisioned, selecting, by the first device, one of a plurality of selectable options, where the selection identifies a first network operator selected from a plurality of network operators, receiving, by the first device, first credential information of the first network operator, and transmitting, by the first device, to the second device the first credential information for enabling the second device to facilitate establishment of communication services with network equipment of the first network operator according to the first credential information. Other embodiments are disclosed.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 24, 2014
Issued:
August 25, 2015
Assignee:
AT&T MOBILITY II, LLC
Inventors:
David A. Christopher, Dana Tardelli
Patent number: 9118959
Abstract: Providing personal multi-device nomadic media is described herein. In different aspects, the techniques may include providing content to a user on a first device and suspending the delivery of the content on the first device. The user may register on a second device and resume delivery of the suspended content on the second device.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 29, 2012
Issued:
August 25, 2015
Assignee:
AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
Inventor:
Arnold Chester McQuaide, Jr.
Patent number: 9118963
Abstract: A system that incorporates teachings of the subject disclosure may include, for example, determining identified impressions that are detected from consumption data collected from a group of media processors where the identified impressions represent viewing of selected content and where the consumption data indicates channel tuning events at the group of media processors including changing of channels, applying a ridge regression analysis to the identified impressions to determine a predicted number of target impressions per advertisement slot, and generating a media plan based on a ratio of an advertisement slot cost to the predicted number of target impressions per advertisement slot. Other embodiments are disclosed.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 3, 2014
Issued:
August 25, 2015
Assignee:
AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, LP
Inventors:
Suhrid Balakrishnan, David Lee Applegate, Sumit Chopra, Simon Urbanek
Patent number: 9119034
Abstract: A method, computer-readable storage device, and an apparatus for determining a probability for a particular geo-fence in a wireless network are disclosed. For example, the method receives a mobile identification, a location record, and an accuracy level, identifies a bin in a database of record, identifies one or more geo-fences in which the bin is located, identifies one or more geo-fences that are pre-associated with the mobile user endpoint device, determines an intersection of: the one or more geo-fences that are identified as being pre-associated with the user endpoint device, and the one or more geo-fences that are identified as being geo-fences in which the bin is located, and determines for each particular geo-fence in the intersection, the probability of being in the particular geo-fence, wherein the probability of being in the particular geo-fence is determined in accordance with the accuracy level associated with the location record.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 21, 2013
Issued:
August 25, 2015
Assignee:
AT&T Mobility II LLC
Inventors:
Sheldon Kent Meredith, Jeremy Fix, Mario Kosseifi
Patent number: 9119041
Abstract: A personal media storage system within a visual voicemail system may be implemented. A visual voicemail server may receive and store multimedia content on a personal media storage system and associate such content with a voicemail. A visual voicemail server may obtain such content if provided with location data for the content rather than the actual content. A visual voicemail client on a wireless device may transmit a request for content to the visual voicemail server, which may retrieve the content and send to the visual voicemail client using the communications link between the visual voicemail client and the visual voicemail server. The visual voicemail client may render the content within the client.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 15, 2010
Issued:
August 25, 2015
Assignee:
AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
Inventors:
Venson M. Shaw, Gholam-Reza Rahsaz
Patent number: 9118691
Abstract: A method for transferring content includes requesting the content from a serving peer and sending the content to a requesting peer. Requesting the content includes sending a request to a tracker, receiving a request token, a path identifier, and a first peer identifier from the tracker, and sending a request message to a second peer. The first peer identifier includes an identity of a first peer, and the request message includes the request token, the path identifier, and the first peer identifier. Sending the content includes receiving the request token and the path identifier from a third peer, sending a return message to a fourth peer, and transferring the content from the serving peer to the requesting peer through a transfer path. The return message includes the path identifier and a second peer identifier. The second peer identifier includes an identity of a fifth peer. The transfer path includes at least the second, fourth, and fifth peers.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 13, 2013
Issued:
August 25, 2015
Assignee:
AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
Inventors:
Kadangode K. Ramankrishnan, Vijay Gopalakrishnan, Fang Yu, David Lee
Patent number: 9116989
Abstract: There is provided for a system, method, and computer readable medium storing instructions related to controlling a presentation in a multimodal system. A method for the retrieval of information on the basis of its content for real-time incorporation into an electronic presentation is discussed. One method includes controlling a media presentation using a multimodal interface. The method involves receiving from a presenter a content-based request associated with a plurality of segments within a media presentation preprocessed for context-based searching; displaying the media presentation and displaying to the presenter results in response to the content-based request; receiving a selection from the presenter of at least one result; and displaying the selected result to an audience.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 29, 2005
Issued:
August 25, 2015
Assignee:
AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.
Inventors:
Patrick Ehlen, David C. Gibbon, Mazin Gilbert, Michael Johnston, Zhu Liu, Behzad Shahraray
Patent number: 9116998
Abstract: One embodiment of a guest browser system, among others, includes a guest browser interface configured to provide an address bar interface for accepting a network address for retrieving a first web page. The guest browser interface is rendered from code of a second web page, where content of the second web page is rendered by an installed web browser. The system further includes a guest browser engine configured to retrieve contents of web pages. The guest browser engine is built from code provided by the second web page and is used to update content of the second web page with content from the first web page. Other systems and methods are also provided.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 14, 2005
Issued:
August 25, 2015
Assignee:
AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
Inventors:
Barrett Kreiner, Amy Zwarico
Patent number: 9117216
Abstract: An Internet use profile is created by a parent or guardian of an Internet user via a client-side software application at the user's computer. The use profile is submitted via the Internet to an intelligent network component. The use profile sets the duration for Internet use in general and sets the duration for access to particular Internet sites such as chat rooms, shopping sites, etc. The use profile is stored locally on the user's computer and remotely at the intelligent network component. When the user attempts to log on to the Internet via her Internet service provider, the client-side application verifies that the user computer has not already exceeded allowed Internet connection time in a previous Internet connection. If not, the connection to the Internet is allowed. After the connection is established, an Internet usage monitoring and controlling application at the intelligent network component monitors the time of connection between the user computer and the Internet.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 7, 2002
Issued:
August 25, 2015
Assignee:
AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
Inventors:
Hong T Nguyen, Edward M Silver, Linda A. Roberts