Patents by Inventor April Trost

April Trost 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).

  • Patent number: 9462429
    Abstract: Users can be alerted of important missed calls while away from their mobile device by sending missed call notifications to contacts of the user, which may include friends, family, colleagues, or other people/entities associated with the called party. The missed call notifications may include text or automated voicemail messages, email messages, and/or messages sent via a social networking site or service to name a few, and can specify information pertaining to the missed call and/or the calling party. Missed call notifications can be triggered when one or more predefined conditions are met, such as when the mobile device is deemed not to be in the possession of the user and/or the missed call is deemed to be important. Missed call notifications can originate from the mobile device or a network device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: April Trost
  • Publication number: 20160182312
    Abstract: Peer-to-peer service agreements can be facilitated by a third party without the terms of the service agreement being brokered by the third-party. In one example, a user sends a service request to a network node maintained by the third-party. The third-party operator identifies candidate service providers registered to provide the requested service, and sends referrals to the identified candidates. The referrals may be sent to each candidate device without filtering the candidate devices based on their real-time locations. The referrals may prompt a service agreement to be independently established between operators of the requesting device and one of the candidate devices without brokering from the third-party.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2014
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Inventors: Yumin Tang, Julia Wang, April Trost, Limei Wang