Patents by Inventor Ann E. SKUDLARK
Ann E. SKUDLARK has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20230085233Abstract: A cloud based mobile internet protocol messaging spam defense. Short message service (SMS) messages are analyzed by a cloud based virtual machine to determine if should be considered potentially unwanted messages (e.g., spam). The cloud based virtual machine uses a user specific algorithm for determining if a message should be considered to be a potentially unwanted message. Messages that are determined to be potentially unwanted messages trigger a notification to be sent to a user device associated with the virtual machine. The notification requests confirmation from the user that the potentially unwanted message is an unwanted message. The user’s response to a request for confirmation is then used to update an unwanted message database associated with the user and the user device.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2022Publication date: March 16, 2023Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Ann E. Skudlark, Lien K. Tran, Yu Jin
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Patent number: 11539645Abstract: A cloud based mobile internet protocol messaging spam defense. Short message service (SMS) messages are analyzed by a cloud based virtual machine to determine if should be considered potentially unwanted messages (e.g., spam). The cloud based virtual machine uses a user specific algorithm for determining if a message should be considered to be a potentially unwanted message. Messages that are determined to be potentially unwanted messages trigger a notification to be sent to a user device associated with the virtual machine. The notification requests confirmation from the user that the potentially unwanted message is an unwanted message. The user's response to a request for confirmation is then used to update an unwanted message database associated with the user and the user device.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2021Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Ann E. Skudlark, Lien K. Tran, Yu Jin
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Publication number: 20220224768Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method that includes obtaining metadata from media content and consumed by network subscribers; determining for each network subscriber a consumer context associated with the media content; and determining a media consumption pattern for each network subscriber based on the metadata and the consumer context, thereby generating a plurality of media consumption patterns. The method further includes aggregating the media consumption patterns; determining, based on the aggregated media consumption patterns, a media consumption trend for the network subscribers; and correlating the media consumption trend with a profile including a current activity for a network subscriber of the plurality of network subscribers, thereby generating a recommendation for the network subscriber regarding new media content not previously consumed by the network subscriber. The method also includes communicating the recommendation to the network subscriber.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2022Publication date: July 14, 2022Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Ann E. Skudlark, Eric Zavesky, Lien Tran, David Crawford Gibbon, Zhu Liu
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Patent number: 11336743Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method that includes obtaining metadata from media content and consumed by network subscribers; determining for each network subscriber a consumer context associated with the media content; and determining a media consumption pattern for each network subscriber based on the metadata and the consumer context, thereby generating a plurality of media consumption patterns. The method further includes aggregating the media consumption patterns; determining, based on the aggregated media consumption patterns, a media consumption trend for the network subscribers; and correlating the media consumption trend with a profile including a current activity for a network subscriber of the plurality of network subscribers, thereby generating a recommendation for the network subscriber regarding new media content not previously consumed by the network subscriber. The method also includes communicating the recommendation to the network subscriber.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2021Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Ann E. Skudlark, Eric Zavesky, Lien Tran, David Crawford Gibbon, Zhu Liu
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Publication number: 20210273898Abstract: A cloud based mobile internet protocol messaging spam defense. Short message service (SMS) messages are analyzed by a cloud based virtual machine to determine if should be considered potentially unwanted messages (e.g., spam). The cloud based virtual machine uses a user specific algorithm for determining if a message should be considered to be a potentially unwanted message. Messages that are determined to be potentially unwanted messages trigger a notification to be sent to a user device associated with the virtual machine. The notification requests confirmation from the user that the potentially unwanted message is an unwanted message. The user's response to a request for confirmation is then used to update an unwanted message database associated with the user and the user device.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2021Publication date: September 2, 2021Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Ann E. Skudlark, Lien K. Tran, Yu Jin
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Publication number: 20210203749Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method that includes obtaining metadata from media content and consumed by network subscribers; determining for each network subscriber a consumer context associated with the media content; and determining a media consumption pattern for each network subscriber based on the metadata and the consumer context, thereby generating a plurality of media consumption patterns. The method further includes aggregating the media consumption patterns; determining, based on the aggregated media consumption patterns, a media consumption trend for the network subscribers; and correlating the media consumption trend with a profile including a current activity for a network subscriber of the plurality of network subscribers, thereby generating a recommendation for the network subscriber regarding new media content not previously consumed by the network subscriber. The method also includes communicating the recommendation to the network subscriber.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2021Publication date: July 1, 2021Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Ann E. Skudlark, Eric Zavesky, Lien Tran, David Crawford Gibbon, Zhu Liu
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Patent number: 11038826Abstract: A cloud based mobile internet protocol messaging spam defense. Short message service (SMS) messages are analyzed by a cloud based virtual machine to determine if should be considered potentially unwanted messages (e.g., spam). The cloud based virtual machine uses a user specific algorithm for determining if a message should be considered to be a potentially unwanted message. Messages that are determined to be potentially unwanted messages trigger a notification to be sent to a user device associated with the virtual machine. The notification requests confirmation from the user that the potentially unwanted message is an unwanted message. The user's response to a request for confirmation is then used to update an unwanted message database associated with the user and the user device.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2020Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Ann E. Skudlark, Lien K. Tran, Yu Jin
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Patent number: 10979528Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method that includes obtaining metadata from media content and consumed by network subscribers; determining for each network subscriber a consumer context associated with the media content; and determining a media consumption pattern for each network subscriber based on the metadata and the consumer context, thereby generating a plurality of media consumption patterns. The method further includes aggregating the media consumption patterns; determining, based on the aggregated media consumption patterns, a media consumption trend for the network subscribers; and correlating the media consumption trend with a profile including a current activity for a network subscriber of the plurality of network subscribers, thereby generating a recommendation for the network subscriber regarding new media content not previously consumed by the network subscriber. The method also includes communicating the recommendation to the network subscriber.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2018Date of Patent: April 13, 2021Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Ann E. Skudlark, Eric Zavesky, Lien Tran, David Crawford Gibbon, Zhu Liu
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Publication number: 20200314047Abstract: A cloud based mobile internet protocol messaging spam defense. Short message service (SMS) messages are analyzed by a cloud based virtual machine to determine if should be considered potentially unwanted messages (e.g., spam). The cloud based virtual machine uses a user specific algorithm for determining if a message should be considered to be a potentially unwanted message. Messages that are determined to be potentially unwanted messages trigger a notification to be sent to a user device associated with the virtual machine. The notification requests confirmation from the user that the potentially unwanted message is an unwanted message. The user's response to a request for confirmation is then used to update an unwanted message database associated with the user and the user device.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2020Publication date: October 1, 2020Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Ann E. Skudlark, Lien K. Tran, Yu Jin
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Patent number: 10721197Abstract: A cloud based mobile internet protocol messaging spam defense. Short message service (SMS) messages are analyzed by a cloud based virtual machine to determine if should be considered potentially unwanted messages (e.g., spam). The cloud based virtual machine uses a user specific algorithm for determining if a message should be considered to be a potentially unwanted message. Messages that are determined to be potentially unwanted messages trigger a notification to be sent to a user device associated with the virtual machine. The notification requests confirmation from the user that the potentially unwanted message is an unwanted message. The user's response to a request for confirmation is then used to update an unwanted message database associated with the user and the user device.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2018Date of Patent: July 21, 2020Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.Inventors: Ann E. Skudlark, Lien K. Tran, Yu Jin
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Publication number: 20200195748Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method that includes obtaining metadata from media content and consumed by network subscribers; determining for each network subscriber a consumer context associated with the media content; and determining a media consumption pattern for each network subscriber based on the metadata and the consumer context, thereby generating a plurality of media consumption patterns. The method further includes aggregating the media consumption patterns; determining, based on the aggregated media consumption patterns, a media consumption trend for the network subscribers; and correlating the media consumption trend with a profile including a current activity for a network subscriber of the plurality of network subscribers, thereby generating a recommendation for the network subscriber regarding new media content not previously consumed by the network subscriber. The method also includes communicating the recommendation to the network subscriber.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2018Publication date: June 18, 2020Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Ann E. Skudlark, Eric Zavesky, Lien Tran, David Crawford Gibbon, Zhu Liu
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Patent number: 10057420Abstract: A method and apparatus for assigning a mobile device that is unassigned to a user are disclosed. Mobile phone numbers are used as a surrogate for device. For example, the method implemented via a processor obtains the phone number that is unassigned from a list of phone numbers associated with a billing account number, assigns the phone number that is unassigned to the user, wherein the user is selected from among a plurality of users associated with the billing account number, determines a confidence level for the assigning of the phone number that is unassigned to the user, and performs an analysis to provide a service for the user to whom the phone number is assigned.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2015Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Jean-Francois Paiement, Sastry Isukapalli, Ann E. Skudlark, Christopher T. Volinsky, Dan Melamed
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Publication number: 20180191656Abstract: A cloud based mobile internet protocol messaging spam defense. Short message service (SMS) messages are analyzed by a cloud based virtual machine to determine if should be considered potentially unwanted messages (e.g., spam). The cloud based virtual machine uses a user specific algorithm for determining if a message should be considered to be a potentially unwanted message. Messages that are determined to be potentially unwanted messages trigger a notification to be sent to a user device associated with the virtual machine. The notification requests confirmation from the user that the potentially unwanted message is an unwanted message. The user's response to a request for confirmation is then used to update an unwanted message database associated with the user and the user device.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2018Publication date: July 5, 2018Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Ann E. Skudlark, Lien K. Tran, Yu Jin
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Patent number: 9942182Abstract: A cloud based mobile internet protocol messaging spam defense. Short message service (SMS) messages are analyzed by a cloud based virtual machine to determine if should be considered potentially unwanted messages (e.g., spam). The cloud based virtual machine uses a user specific algorithm for determining if a message should be considered to be a potentially unwanted message. Messages that are determined to be potentially unwanted messages trigger a notification to be sent to a user device associated with the virtual machine. The notification requests confirmation from the user that the potentially unwanted message is an unwanted message. The user's response to a request for confirmation is then used to update an unwanted message database associated with the user and the user device.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2014Date of Patent: April 10, 2018Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.Inventors: Ann E. Skudlark, Lien K. Tran, Yu Jin
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Patent number: 9883413Abstract: Network traffic usage information for a set of registered devices is monitored, analyzed, and reported within a cellular service provider portion of a communications network. The network traffic usage information can relate to data traffic, voice traffic, and/or short message service traffic. Reporting the network traffic usage information is customizable such that parameters associated with the network traffic usage can be changed, depending on the parameters that are of current interest to an organization affiliated with the set of registered devices.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2013Date of Patent: January 30, 2018Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.Inventors: Cynthia Cama, Jeffrey Erman, Wen-Ling Hsu, Yu Jin, Ann E. Skudlark, Lien K. Tran
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Patent number: 9843902Abstract: A base location associated with a user of a communication device can be determined. A location identifier component can determine the base location, such as a home location, of the user based on activity data and/or other data, wherein the activity data can be obtained from base stations with which the user's communication device communicates during a defined time period. The location identifier component can designate a defined area as the base location, wherein the defined area can be associated with the base station with which the communication device most frequently communicates during the defined time period or can be an area that is determined based on the activity data and the other data, in accordance with a defined location algorithm. To facilitate maintaining the privacy of users, the activity data can be anonymized and/or the granularity of defining the base location can be adjusted.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2016Date of Patent: December 12, 2017Assignees: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P., AT&T MOBILITY II LLCInventors: Ann E. Skudlark, Olivia Hong, Tuba Aktaran Kalayci, Amritha Joseph, Christopher T. Volinsky
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Publication number: 20170118632Abstract: A method and apparatus for assigning a mobile device that is unassigned to a user are disclosed. Mobile phone numbers are used as a surrogate for device. For example, the method implemented via a processor obtains the phone number that is unassigned from a list of phone numbers associated with a billing account number, assigns the phone number that is unassigned to the user, wherein the user is selected from among a plurality of users associated with the billing account number, determines a confidence level for the assigning of the phone number that is unassigned to the user, and performs an analysis to provide a service for the user to whom the phone number is assigned.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 21, 2015Publication date: April 27, 2017Inventors: Jean-Francois Paiement, Sastry Isukapalli, Ann E. Skudlark, Christopher T. Volinsky, Dan Melamed
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Publication number: 20170118618Abstract: A method and system for identifying short message service (SMS) spammers identifies senders as spammers by determining that the senders are sending SMS messages to devices included in a grey phone space. Devices in the grey phone space are identified using various methods including an analysis of call detail records. A grey ratio for a sender is determined as a ratio of messages sent to grey phone numbers by the sender to messages sent to all phone numbers by the sender. A sender is identified based on a difference between the grey ratio for the sender and a second grey ratio being above a threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2017Publication date: April 27, 2017Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Yu Jin, Ann E. Skudlark, Nan Jiang
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Patent number: 9584989Abstract: A crowd-sourced mobile messaging spam detection and defense system includes an application running on a mobile device. The application uses an unwanted message detection algorithm to analyze and classify messages as potential unwanted messages. The potential unwanted messages are presented to a user for confirmation that the messages are unwanted messages. In response to confirmation, the mobile device transmits a notification to a virtual machine associated with the user. The virtual machine uses the notification to update the unwanted message detection algorithm which may then be transmitted to the mobile device. The virtual machine may also transmit the notification to a global virtual machine. The global virtual machine may use the notification to update a set of classification rules maintained by the global virtual machine and transmit the set of classification rules as necessary to the multiple virtual machines for use in updating the unwanted message detection algorithm.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2013Date of Patent: February 28, 2017Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Ann E. Skudlark, Jeffrey Erman, Yu Jin, Abhinav Srivastava, Lien K. Tran
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Patent number: 9572004Abstract: A method and system for identifying short message service (SMS) spammers identifies senders as spammers by determining that the senders are sending SMS messages to devices included in a grey phone space. Devices in the grey phone space are identified using various methods including an analysis of call detail records. A grey ratio for a sender is determined as a ratio of messages sent to grey phone numbers by the sender to messages sent to all phone numbers by the sender. A sender is identified based on a difference between the grey ratio for the sender and a second grey ratio being above a threshold.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2016Date of Patent: February 14, 2017Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.Inventors: Yu Jin, Ann E. Skudlark, Nan Jiang