Patents by Inventor Jeremy Richard Breau

Jeremy Richard Breau 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: 9137837
    Abstract: Proxy mobile IP provides mobility to a mobile device that is not equipped to perform client mobile IP by moving the mobile IP signaling responsibility from the mobile device into the network. A network element performs the mobile IP signaling on behalf of the mobile device. In one scenario, the mobile device establishes a PPP session with a foreign agent, with no mobile IP signaling on top of the PPP session. The foreign agent then performs mobile IP signaling with the mobile device's home agent to negotiate a proxy mobile IP session for the device. Once the session registration lifetime has been established by the foreign agent and the home agent, the foreign agent communicates the registration lifetime to the mobile device by way of a PPP vendor-specific packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventor: Jeremy Richard Breau
  • Patent number: 8700409
    Abstract: Subject matter described herein relates to providing to a mobile device a version of content (e.g., music, video, text message, live call, etc.) that is consistent with a user's filter setting. That is, a user is allowed to specify content elements (e.g., words or images) that are proscribed from being presented on the mobile device, and the user's preferences are stored by a mobile telecommunications network. When the network receives content to be provided to the mobile device, the network edits the content in real time to prevent proscribed elements from being presented on the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: Carl J. Persson, Jeremy Richard Breau, Eric Eugene Miller, Sei Yen Ng
  • Patent number: 8683019
    Abstract: Network address translation allows hosts within a private network (“internal hosts”) to access the Internet through a single or a limited number of public IP addresses. When an internal host accesses the Internet, NAT translates the internal host's private IP address into a temporary public IP address for a given session. A method and media are provided for enabling a host external to the private network (“external host”) to initiate communication with an internal host. The internal host requests that a global address be mapped to its private address. The internal host receives the global address and sends it to a server where it is available to an external host. The mapping between the private address and the global address is maintained in a NAT system so that an inbound connection request from an external host can be forwarded to the internal host.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventor: Jeremy Richard Breau
  • Patent number: 8654079
    Abstract: Systems, products, and methods are disclosed for facilitating a method of mapping a numerical keypad to keys of a keyboard on a mobile communications device based on an initial selection of an edge key. One embodiment of the method includes receiving input by way of a given key of the keypad and then dynamically configuring that given key to be a numerical key of a numerical keypad. In particular, input received by way of the numerical key is interpreted as a corresponding numeral regardless of a prior configuration associated with the numerical key. Further, keys of a keyboard within a proximity of the numerical key are mapped to remaining numerical keys of the numerical keypad.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: Trevor Daniel Shipley, Jeremy Richard Breau
  • Patent number: 8495186
    Abstract: Proxy mobile IP provides mobility to a mobile device that is not equipped to perform client mobile IP by moving the mobile IP signaling responsibility from the mobile device into the network. A network element performs the mobile IP signaling on behalf of the mobile device. In one scenario, the mobile device establishes a PPP session with a foreign agent, with no mobile IP signaling on top of the PPP session. The foreign agent then performs mobile IP signaling with the mobile device's home agent to negotiate a proxy mobile IP session for the device. Once the session registration lifetime has been established by the foreign agent and the home agent, the foreign agent communicates the registration lifetime to the mobile device by way of a PPP vendor-specific packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventor: Jeremy Richard Breau
  • Patent number: 8411558
    Abstract: A method and system for resilient mobile communications in a network when network elements are removed, upgraded or fail are provided. A mobile device communicates with an endpoint through foreign and home agents communicatively connected to the network. An active home agent stores communication information for the mobile node and multicasts the communication information to non-active home agents associated with the active home agent. When an active home agent is removed, upgraded or fails, the mobile device is able to maintain mobile communications with the endpoint through one or more non-active home agent. A non-active home agent having a high priority is transitioned to active status to maintain communication service between the mobile node and endpoint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventor: Jeremy Richard Breau
  • Patent number: 8238309
    Abstract: A method and system for resilient mobile communications in a network when network elements are removed, upgraded or fail are provided. A mobile device communicates with an endpoint through foreign and home agents communicatively connected to the network. An active home agent stores communication information for the mobile node and multicasts the communication information to non-active home agents associated with the active home agent. When an active home agent is removed, upgraded or fails, the mobile device is able to maintain mobile communications with the endpoint through one or more non-active home agent. A non-active home agent having a high priority is transitioned to active status to maintain communication service between the mobile node and endpoint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventor: Jeremy Richard Breau
  • Patent number: 8059649
    Abstract: A method, medium, and communication system are provided for preventing fragmentation when tunneling between a first and second communication network. The communication system includes nodes and routers that transmit packets over the first and second communication networks. The nodes generate requests to identify the maximum transmission sizes of the first and second communication networks. In turn, the nodes format packets based on the minimum of the maximum transmission sizes of the first and second communication networks. The routers transmit the packets formatted by the nodes over the first and second communication networks without fragmenting the packets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: Jeremy Richard Breau, Robert Jolin Pierce
  • Patent number: 8036172
    Abstract: A method and system for resilient mobile communications in a network when network elements are removed, upgraded or fail are provided. A mobile device communicates with an endpoint through foreign and home agents communicatively connected to the network. An active home agent stores communication information for the mobile node and multicasts the communication information to non-active home agents associated with the active home agent. When an active home agent is removed, upgraded or fails, the mobile device is able to maintain mobile communications with the endpoint through one or more non-active home agent. A non-active home agent having a high priority is transitioned to active status to maintain communication service between the mobile node and endpoint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventor: Jeremy Richard Breau