Patents by Inventor Jie McKnight
Jie McKnight 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: 20220263722Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, analyzing data associated with a plurality of network domains, identifying, based on the analyzing of the data, a first action to be taken in a first network domain of the plurality of network domains, identifying, based on the analyzing of the data, a second action to be taken in a second network domain of the plurality of network domains, issuing a first directive to the first network domain to cause a first communication device in the first network domain to take the first action, and issuing a second directive to the second network domain to cause a second communication device in the second network domain to take the second action. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2021Publication date: August 18, 2022Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Rajendra Prasad Kodaypak, Jie McKnight, Joseph Dahan, Ryan Redfern, Yaron Koral, Michal Cwian
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Patent number: 10939226Abstract: A method, computer readable medium and apparatus for transmitting signaling information within payload traffic. The method parses a certificate received from a service provider to obtain service imprint information associated with a mobile service, inserts a service control parameter derived from the service imprint information into a packet header, and forwards the packet header within payload traffic to a policy charging and enforcing function.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2019Date of Patent: March 2, 2021Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.Inventors: Qingmin Hu, Gus Bourg, Terry Figurelle, Jie McKnight, Jeffrey Dean Hjort
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Publication number: 20190268448Abstract: A method, computer readable medium and apparatus for transmitting signaling information within payload traffic. For example, the method parses a certificate received from a service provider to obtain service imprint information associated with a mobile service, inserts a service control parameter derived from the service imprint information into a packet header, and forwards the packet header within payload traffic to a policy charging and enforcing function.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2019Publication date: August 29, 2019Inventors: Qingmin Hu, Gus Bourg, Terry Figurelle, Jie McKnight, Jeffrey Dean Hjort
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Patent number: 10291751Abstract: A method, computer readable medium and apparatus for transmitting signaling information within payload traffic. For example, the method parses a certificate received from a service provider to obtain service imprint information associated with a mobile service, inserts a service control parameter derived from the service imprint information into a packet header, and forwards the packet header within payload traffic to a policy charging and enforcing function.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2017Date of Patent: May 14, 2019Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Qingmin Hu, Gus Bourg, Terry Figurelle, Jie McKnight, Jeffrey Dean Hjort
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Patent number: 10164834Abstract: Aspects describe using a Policy Access Gateway that can facilitate scalability within a communication network and that can provide a solution to deploy an enhanced policy gateway. The Policy Access Gateway can enhance standard defined Diameter Routing Agent (DRA) functions with session binding mechanisms. Further, the Policy Access Gateway is scalable and can be deployed in a very large network that supports hundreds of millions of users. Further, the Policy Access Gateway can provide additional policy information to enable policy information consolidation and caching capabilities.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2016Date of Patent: December 25, 2018Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.Inventors: Qingmin Hu, Douglas Eng, Terry Figurelle, Jie McKnight
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Publication number: 20170171364Abstract: A method, computer readable medium and apparatus for transmitting signaling information within payload traffic. For example, the method parses a certificate received from a service provider to obtain service imprint information associated with a mobile service, inserts a service control parameter derived from the service imprint information into a packet header, and forwards the packet header within payload traffic to a policy charging and enforcing function.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2017Publication date: June 15, 2017Inventors: QINGMIN JAMES HU, Gus Bourg, Terry Figurelle, Jie McKnight, Jeffrey Dean Hjort
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Patent number: 9584636Abstract: A method, computer readable medium and apparatus for transmitting signaling information within payload traffic. For example, the method parses a certificate received from a service provider to obtain service imprint information associated with a mobile service, inserts a service control parameter derived from the service imprint information into a packet header, and forwards the packet header within payload traffic to a policy charging and enforcing function.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2015Date of Patent: February 28, 2017Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Qingmin Hu, Gus Bourg, Terry Figurelle, Jie McKnight, Jeffrey Dean Hjort
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Publication number: 20170033998Abstract: Aspects describe using a Policy Access Gateway that can facilitate scalability within a communication network and that can provide a solution to deploy an enhanced policy gateway. The Policy Access Gateway can enhance standard defined Diameter Routing Agent (DRA) functions with session binding mechanisms. Further, the Policy Access Gateway is scalable and can be deployed in a very large network that supports hundreds of millions of users. Further, the Policy Access Gateway can provide additional policy information to enable policy information consolidation and caching capabilities.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2016Publication date: February 2, 2017Inventors: Qingmin Hu, Douglas Eng, Terry Figurelle, Jie McKnight
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Patent number: 9497087Abstract: Aspects describe using a Policy Access Gateway that can facilitate scalability within a communication network and that can provide a solution to deploy an enhanced policy gateway. The Policy Access Gateway can enhance standard defined Diameter Routing Agent (DRA) functions with session binding mechanisms. Further, the Policy Access Gateway is scalable and can be deployed in a very large network that supports hundreds of millions of users. Further, the Policy Access Gateway can provide additional policy information to enable policy information consolidation and caching capabilities.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2015Date of Patent: November 15, 2016Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Qingmin Hu, Douglas Eng, Terry Figurelle, Jie McKnight
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Publication number: 20160119454Abstract: A method, computer readable medium and apparatus for transmitting signaling information within payload traffic. For example, the method parses a certificate received from a service provider to obtain service imprint information associated with a mobile service, inserts a service control parameter derived from the service imprint information into a packet header, and forwards the packet header within payload traffic to a policy charging and enforcing function.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2015Publication date: April 28, 2016Inventors: Qingmin Hu, Gus Bourg, Terry Figurelle, Jie McKnight, Jeffrey Dean Hjort
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Patent number: 9271188Abstract: A method, computer readable medium and apparatus for transmitting signaling information within payload traffic. For example, the method parses a certificate received from a service provider to obtain service imprint information associated with a mobile service, inserts a service control parameter derived from the service imprint information into a packet header, and forwards the packet header within payload traffic to a policy charging and enforcing function.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2012Date of Patent: February 23, 2016Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Qingmin Hu, Gus Bourg, Terry Figurelle, Jie McKnight, Jeffrey Dean Hjort
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Publication number: 20150127803Abstract: Aspects describe using a Policy Access Gateway that can facilitate scalability within a communication network and that can provide a solution to deploy an enhanced policy gateway. The Policy Access Gateway can enhance standard defined Diameter Routing Agent (DRA) functions with session binding mechanisms. Further, the Policy Access Gateway is scalable and can be deployed in a very large network that supports hundreds of millions of users. Further, the Policy Access Gateway can provide additional policy information to enable policy information consolidation and caching capabilities.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2015Publication date: May 7, 2015Inventors: Qingmin Hu, Douglas Eng, Terry Figurelle, Jie McKnight
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Patent number: 9026078Abstract: A system that incorporates the subject disclosure may perform, for example, operations including monitoring events relating to activities by a plurality of communication devices, content sources supplying content to the plurality of communication devices, and network conditions during content exchanges between the plurality of communication devices and the content sources, tagging the events to generate tagged events, detecting an event initiated by a communication device of the plurality of communication devices, obtaining tagged event information from the tagged events according to the event detected, generating a policy according to the tagged event information, and transmitting the policy to a policy enforcement function system to facilitate a communication session between the communication device and the content source according to the policy. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2013Date of Patent: May 5, 2015Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, LPInventors: Qingmin Hu, Farooq Bari, Terry Figurelle, Jie McKnight
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Publication number: 20150079925Abstract: A system that incorporates the subject disclosure may perform, for example, operations including monitoring events relating to activities by a plurality of communication devices, content sources supplying content to the plurality of communication devices, and network conditions during content exchanges between the plurality of communication devices and the content sources, tagging the events to generate tagged events, detecting an event initiated by a communication device of the plurality of communication devices, obtaining tagged event information from the tagged events according to the event detected, generating a policy according to the tagged event information, and transmitting the policy to a policy enforcement function system to facilitate a communication session between the communication device and the content source according to the policy. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2013Publication date: March 19, 2015Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, LPInventors: Qingmin Hu, Farooq Bari, Terry Figurelle, Jie McKnight
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Patent number: 8966057Abstract: Aspects describe using a Policy Access Gateway to facilitate scalability within a communication network and to provide a solution to deploy an enhanced policy gateway. The Policy Access Gateway can enhance standard defined Diameter Routing Agent (DRA) functions with session binding mechanisms. Further, the Policy Access Gateway is scalable and can be deployed in a very large network that supports hundreds of millions of users. Further, the Policy Access Gateway can provide additional policy information to enable policy information consolidation and caching capabilities.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2011Date of Patent: February 24, 2015Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Qingmin Hu, Douglas Eng, Terry Figurelle, Jie McKnight
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Patent number: 8874729Abstract: Aspects describe using a network element to facilitate scalability within a communication network and to provide policy as a network service in a mobile core network. The network element can be scalable and can be a primary policy access gateway for a first geographic region and can be a secondary policy access gateway for at least a second geographic region. The first geographic region and the second geographic region can have portions that overlap. Further, the network element can hide topology of the home network from roaming partners.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2011Date of Patent: October 28, 2014Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Qingmin Hu, Douglas Eng, Jie McKnight
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Publication number: 20140169172Abstract: A method, computer readable medium and apparatus for transmitting signaling information within payload traffic. For example, the method parses a certificate received from a service provider to obtain service imprint information associated with a mobile service, inserts a service control parameter derived from the service imprint information into a packet header, and forwards the packet header within payload traffic to a policy charging and enforcing function.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2012Publication date: June 19, 2014Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: QINGMIN HU, Gus Bourg, Terry Figurelle, Jie McKnight
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Patent number: 8543698Abstract: A system and method for a mobile data access network to make policy control and charging decisions based on domain name queries. A mobile device sends a query about a domain name associated with a service a user of the mobile device wishes to engage. The access network carries the domain name query from a mobile device to a domain name server. The access network detects the domain name query and copies the queried domain name. The access network uses the queried domain name to make an incomplete policy decision. The policy decision is incomplete because one or more service data flow filters in the decision lack addresses for providers of the service. The access network detects a response to the domain name query and copies a service provider address from the response. The access network uses the service provider address to complete the policy decision.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2012Date of Patent: September 24, 2013Assignee: AT&T Mobility II LLCInventors: Q. James Hu, Douglas Eng, Terry Figurelle, Michael Britt, Jie McKnight
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Publication number: 20120297044Abstract: A system and method for a mobile data access network to make policy control and charging decisions based on domain name queries. A mobile device sends a query about a domain name associated with a service a user of the mobile device wishes to engage. The access network carries the domain name query from a mobile device to a domain name server. The access network detects the domain name query and copies the queried domain name. The access network uses the queried domain name to make an incomplete policy decision. The policy decision is incomplete because one or more service data flow filters in the decision lack addresses for providers of the service. The access network detects a response to the domain name query and copies a service provider address from the response. The access network uses the service provider address to complete the policy decision.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2012Publication date: November 22, 2012Applicant: AT&T Mobility II LLCInventors: Q. James Hu, Douglas Eng, Terry Figurelle, Michael Britt, Jie McKnight
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Publication number: 20120259970Abstract: Aspects describe using a network element to facilitate scalability within a communication network and to provide policy as a network service in a mobile core network. The network element can be scalable and can be a primary policy access gateway for a first geographic region and can be a secondary policy access gateway for at least a second geographic region. The first geographic region and the second geographic region can have portions that overlap. Further, the network element can hide topology of the home network from roaming partners.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2011Publication date: October 11, 2012Applicant: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.Inventors: Qingmin Hu, Douglas Eng, Jie McKnight