Patents by Inventor Jeffrey Allen Haltom
Jeffrey Allen Haltom 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: 11792327Abstract: One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for ringless voicemail detection are provided. In an example, a first call attempt to a phone number may be detected. In response to detecting a second call attempt to the phone number occurring within a first threshold timespan of the first call attempt being detected, first processing of the second call attempt is withheld. In response to the first call attempt being cancelled within a second threshold timespan of the first call attempt being detected, second processing of the second call attempt is performed based upon a policy.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2022Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey Allen Haltom, Kent Lanier Hallford, Jr., Nayankumar Suryakant Patel, Lulia Ann Barakat
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Patent number: 11770475Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for robocall steering over voice-hosted traffic networks. The disclosed framework provides novel systems and methods for increasing the accuracy and efficiency in tracking, identifying, blocking and preventing robocalls and robocallers. The disclosed systems and methods provide mechanisms for identifying and removing unwanted voice traffic from networks. The disclosed systems and methods analyze voice traffic over a predetermined period of time (e.g., 1 day or 30 days, for example), and leverage this information into a “know your customer” (KYC) score. This score enables incoming calls to be routed, controlled and/or blocked as they are communicated over voice networks.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2022Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventors: John Hans Van Arkel, Karl Stang, Katrina Marie Kutchko, Jeffrey Allen Haltom, Lulia Ann Barakat, Joe B. Thornton
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Publication number: 20220353366Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for robocall steering over voice-hosted traffic networks. The disclosed framework provides novel systems and methods for increasing the accuracy and efficiency in tracking, identifying, blocking and preventing robocalls and robocallers. The disclosed systems and methods provide mechanisms for identifying and removing unwanted voice traffic from networks. The disclosed systems and methods analyze voice traffic over a predetermined period of time (e.g., 1 day or 30 days, for example), and leverage this information into a “know your customer” (KYC) score. This score enables incoming calls to be routed, controlled and/or blocked as they are communicated over voice networks.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2022Publication date: November 3, 2022Inventors: John Hans VAN ARKEL, Karl STANG, Katrina Marie KUTCHKO, Jeffrey Allen HALTOM, Lulia Ann BARAKAT, Joe B. THORNTON
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Publication number: 20220232127Abstract: One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for ringless voicemail detection are provided. In an example, a first call attempt to a phone number may be detected. In response to detecting a second call attempt to the phone number occurring within a first threshold timespan of the first call attempt being detected, first processing of the second call attempt is withheld. In response to the first call attempt being cancelled within a second threshold timespan of the first call attempt being detected, second processing of the second call attempt is performed based upon a policy.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2022Publication date: July 21, 2022Inventors: Jeffrey Allen Haltom, Kent Lanier Hallford, JR., Nayankumar Suryakant Patel, Lulia Ann Barakat
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Patent number: 11343376Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for robocall steering over voice-hosted traffic networks. The disclosed framework provides novel systems and methods for increasing the accuracy and efficiency in tracking, identifying, blocking and preventing robocalls and robocallers. The disclosed systems and methods provide mechanisms for identifying and removing unwanted voice traffic from networks. The disclosed systems and methods analyze voice traffic over a predetermined period of time (e.g., 1 day or 30 days, for example), and leverage this information into a “know your customer” (KYC) score. This score enables incoming calls to be routed, controlled and/or blocked as they are communicated over voice networks.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2021Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventors: John Hans Van Arkel, Karl Stang, Katrina Marie Kutchko, Jeffrey Allen Haltom, Lulia Ann Barakat, Joe B. Thornton
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Patent number: 11303754Abstract: One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for ringless voicemail detection are provided. In an example, a first call attempt to a phone number may be detected. In response to detecting a second call attempt to the phone number occurring within a first threshold timespan of the first call attempt being detected, first processing of the second call attempt is withheld. In response to the first call attempt being cancelled within a second threshold timespan of the first call attempt being detected, second processing of the second call attempt is performed based upon a policy.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2021Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey Allen Haltom, Kent Lanier Hallford, Jr., Nayankumar Suryakant Patel, Lulia Ann Barakat
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Patent number: 9143620Abstract: Methods, devices, and storage media provide for receiving a request to use a multiparty service offered by autonomous devices; determining whether persistence information exists that indicates one of the autonomous devices to which the request is to be routed; selecting one of the autonomous devices to transmit the request in response to determining that persistence information does not exist, and wherein the device has no knowledge which of the autonomous devices is to accept the request; transmitting the request; receiving a response; recognizing whether the request is accepted based on the response; storing persistence information indicating the one of the autonomous devices is servicing the request; and using the persistence information to transmit a subsequent request to use the multiparty service to the one of the autonomous devices, wherein the subsequent request pertains to a same session of the multiparty service as the request.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2012Date of Patent: September 22, 2015Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventors: Brian Edmund Somes, Jeffrey Allen Haltom, Rachel Lee Scarbrough, Heath William Hendrickson
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Patent number: 8913493Abstract: A system may receive data collected by a network for a plurality of calls that are to be routed by the network to a call center, detect an event based on the received data, determine a confidence level, for the event, that the event is a denial-of-service attack, determine a call service to be provided to the call center in response to detecting the event, and provide the call service based on the confidence level.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2012Date of Patent: December 16, 2014Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventor: Jeffrey Allen Haltom
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Patent number: 8881259Abstract: Methods, devices, and storage media storing instructions to obtain logs from a security device and one or multiple service-providing devices, wherein the logs include information pertaining to traffic flow activity at an application layer associated with a service; store rules that identify behavior ranging from unintentional through intentional for one or multiple communication layers including an application layer; interpret the logs based on the rules; determine whether a violation exists based on the interpreting; and generate a notification that indicates the violation exists in response to a determination that the violation exists.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2012Date of Patent: November 4, 2014Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventors: Shawn Ferdinand, Jeffrey Allen Haltom, Rachel Lee Scarbrough, Mark A. Nicholson
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Publication number: 20140173712Abstract: Methods, devices, and storage media storing instructions to obtain logs from a security device and one or multiple service-providing devices, wherein the logs include information pertaining to traffic flow activity at an application layer associated with a service; store rules that identify behavior ranging from unintentional through intentional for one or multiple communication layers including an application layer; interpret the logs based on the rules; determine whether a violation exists based on the interpreting; and generate a notification that indicates the violation exists in response to a determination that the violation exists.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2012Publication date: June 19, 2014Applicant: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC.Inventors: Shawn Ferdinand, Jeffrey Allen Haltom, Rachel Lee Scarbrough, Mark A. Nicholson
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Publication number: 20140044017Abstract: A system may receive data collected by a network for a plurality of calls that are to be routed by the network to a call center, detect an event based on the received data, determine a confidence level, for the event, that the event is a denial-of-service attack, determine a call service to be provided to the call center in response to detecting the event, and provide the call service based on the confidence level.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2012Publication date: February 13, 2014Applicant: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC.Inventor: Jeffrey Allen Haltom
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Publication number: 20130243171Abstract: Methods, devices, and storage media provide for receiving a request to use a multiparty service offered by autonomous devices; determining whether persistence information exists that indicates one of the autonomous devices to which the request is to be routed; selecting one of the autonomous devices to transmit the request in response to determining that persistence information does not exist, and wherein the device has no knowledge which of the autonomous devices is to accept the request; transmitting the request; receiving a response; recognizing whether the request is accepted based on the response; storing persistence information indicating the one of the autonomous devices is servicing the request; and using the persistence information to transmit a subsequent request to use the multiparty service to the one of the autonomous devices, wherein the subsequent request pertains to a same session of the multiparty service as the request.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2012Publication date: September 19, 2013Applicant: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC.Inventors: Brian Edmund Somes, Jeffrey Allen Haltom, Rachel Lee Scarbrough, Heath William Hendrickson