Patents by Inventor Diana Maria Cantu
Diana Maria Cantu 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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Patent number: 10455293Abstract: Methods and apparatus to provide messages to consumer electronics devices are disclosed. An example method includes determining an identifier associated with a consumer electronics device from which a request has been received. The method also includes querying a database to determine first and second account identifiers associated with the identifier of the consumer electronics device. When the request is for messaging information stored with a first message provider, a first command is sent to cause the first message provider to forward the messaging information. When the request is for messaging information stored with a second message provider, a second command is sent to cause the second message provider to forward the messaging information. The messaging information received from at least one of the first message provider and the second message provider is sent to the consumer electronics device.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2017Date of Patent: October 22, 2019Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Chaoxin Charles Qiu, Jeffrey Lee Scruggs, John E. Lemay, Jessie Tsae-Jiuan Lee, Diana Maria Cantu
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Publication number: 20170180815Abstract: Methods and apparatus to provide messages to consumer electronics devices are disclosed. An example method includes determining an identifier associated with a consumer electronics device from which a request has been received. The method also includes querying a database to determine first and second account identifiers associated with the identifier of the consumer electronics device. When the request is for messaging information stored with a first message provider, a first command is sent to cause the first message provider to forward the messaging information. When the request is for messaging information stored with a second message provider, a second command is sent to cause the second message provider to forward the messaging information. The messaging information received from at least one of the first message provider and the second message provider is sent to the consumer electronics device.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2017Publication date: June 22, 2017Inventors: Chaoxin Charles Qiu, Jeffrey Lee Scruggs, John E. Lemay, Jessie Tsae-Jiuan Lee, Diana Maria Cantu
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Patent number: 9578386Abstract: Methods and apparatus to provide messages to consumer electronics devices are disclosed. In response to a request from a consumer electronics device for messaging information stored with at least one of a first message provider or a second message provider, determining, with a processor of a mediation system, an identifier associated with the consumer electronics device. Querying, with the processor, a database at the mediation system to determine first and second account identifiers associated with the identifier of the consumer electronics device. When the request is for the messaging information stored with the first message provider, sending, with the processor, a first command to cause the first message provider to forward the messaging information associated with the first message account identifier to the mediation system.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2015Date of Patent: February 21, 2017Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, LPInventors: Chaoxin Charles Qiu, Jeffrey Lee Scruggs, John E. Lemay, Jessie Tsae-Jiuan Lee, Diana Maria Cantu
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Publication number: 20160100228Abstract: Methods and apparatus to provide messages to consumer electronics devices are disclosed. In response to a request from a consumer electronics device for messaging information stored with at least one of a first message provider or a second message provider, determining, with a processor of a mediation system, an identifier associated with the consumer electronics device. Querying, with the processor, a database at the mediation system to determine first and second account identifiers associated with the identifier of the consumer electronics device. When the request is for the messaging information stored with the first message provider, sending, with the processor, a first command to cause the first message provider to forward the messaging information associated with the first message account identifier to the mediation system.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2015Publication date: April 7, 2016Inventors: Chaoxin Charles Qiu, Jeffrey Lee Scruggs, John E. Lemay, Jessie Tsae-Jiuan Lee, Diana Maria Cantu
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Patent number: 9184937Abstract: Methods and apparatus to provide messages to television users are disclosed. An example method includes determining an identifier associated with a television device in response to detecting a request for a list of voicemail message information, querying a database to determine a voicemail mailbox associated with the identifier, initiating a terminal session in accordance with a remote desktop protocol for the television device, and sending the list of voicemail message information to the television device via the terminal session.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2012Date of Patent: November 10, 2015Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.Inventors: Chaoxin Charles Qiu, Jr., Jeffrey Lee Scruggs, John E. Lemay, Jessie Tsae-Jiuan Lee, Diana Maria Cantu
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Patent number: 9071880Abstract: According to one example embodiment disclosed herein, there is provided a system and an article of manufacture allowing a set top box to be controlled from an interactive voice response unit. A system according to an example embodiment may include a set top box control processor having a common-layer application interface and a control plug-in framework. An interactive voice processor obtains voice inputs from a voice call and through the set top box control processor remotely accesses control features of a set top box. The set top box control processor performs command process management to manage set top box commands including changing channels and controlling volume. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2014Date of Patent: June 30, 2015Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, LPInventors: Diana Maria Cantu, Chaoxin Qiu
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Publication number: 20140237515Abstract: According to one example embodiment disclosed herein, there is provided a system and an article of manufacture allowing a set top box to be controlled from an interactive voice response unit. A system according to an example embodiment may include a set top box control processor having a common-layer application interface and a control plug-in framework. An interactive voice processor obtains voice inputs from a voice call and through the set top box control processor remotely accesses control features of a set top box. The set top box control processor performs command process management to manage set top box commands including changing channels and controlling volume. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2014Publication date: August 21, 2014Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, LPInventors: Diana Maria Cantu, Chaoxin Qiu
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Patent number: 8755335Abstract: According to one example embodiment disclosed herein, there is provided system and method allowing a set top box to be controlled from an interactive voice response unit, such as a connection to a public switched telephone network or an Internet Protocol (IP) telephone system. A system according to an example embodiment may include a set top box, a telephone access point, a network receiving commands entered into the telephone access point, wherein the commands impart information that can be used to control the set top box, and one or more computer programs operative to direct the information in the commands to the set top box.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2006Date of Patent: June 17, 2014Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Diana Maria Cantu, Chaoxin Charles Qiu
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Publication number: 20130051538Abstract: Methods and apparatus to provide messages to television users are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2012Publication date: February 28, 2013Inventors: Chaoxin Charles Qiu, Jeffrey Lee Scruggs, John E. Lemay, Jessie Tsae-Jiuan Lee, Diana Maria Cantu
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Patent number: 8266664Abstract: Methods and apparatus to provide messages to television users are disclosed. An example method includes receiving a request for a voicemail message from the television user, determining a voicemail mailbox associated with the television user, and sending at least one of a list of one or more voicemail messages or a voicemail message to a display device associated with the television user.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2007Date of Patent: September 11, 2012Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, LPInventors: Chaoxin Charles Qiu, Jeffrey Lee Scruggs, John E. Lemay, Jessie Tsae-Jiuan Lee, Diana Maria Cantu
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Publication number: 20080181377Abstract: Methods and apparatus to provide messages to television users are disclosed. An example method includes receiving a request for a voicemail message from the television user, determining a voicemail mailbox associated with the television user, and sending at least one of a list of one or more voicemail messages or a voicemail message to a display device associated with the television user.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2007Publication date: July 31, 2008Inventors: Chaoxin Charles Qiu, Jeffrey Lee Scruggs, John E. Lemay, Jessie Tsae-Jiuan Lee, Diana Maria Cantu
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Publication number: 20070283385Abstract: Methods and apparatus to provide to provide media content created for a specific individual on Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) are disclosed. An example set top box includes an interface coupled to a television to display an identification of a channel on the television. A user control is in communication with the interface. The user control allows a user to select the channel to activate a secure Internet Protocol television transmission. The interface accepts the media content created for a specific individual via the secure Internet Protocol television transmission for display on the television.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2006Publication date: December 6, 2007Inventors: Chaoxin Charles Qiu, Diana Maria Cantu