Patents by Inventor Ralph S. Hoefelmeyer
Ralph S. Hoefelmeyer 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: 8908852Abstract: A system for and method of providing local number portability is presented. A request may be received to establish a session between an origination user agent and a destination user agent. The request may comprise a destination user agent identifier. It may be determined whether the destination user agent identifier was ported from one service provider to another. If so, routing information may be provided for establishing the session through the second service provider rather than through the first service provider. The session may be established over one or more Internet protocol networks.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2009Date of Patent: December 9, 2014Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventors: Anna Marie May, Ralph S. Hoefelmeyer, Harry C. Leung
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Patent number: 8627457Abstract: A network device used to provide network security includes an interface configured to receive data transmitted over a network. The network device also includes a firewall, intrusion detection logic and forwarding logic. The firewall, intrusion detection logic and forwarding logic process the received data to determine whether the data contains malicious content. When the data contains malicious content, the data may be dropped before it reaches a user device to which the received data was sent. Optionally, the network device may interact with an external device in order to make the forwarding decision. In addition, the network device may subscribe to services offered by the external device to receive updated security information.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2003Date of Patent: January 7, 2014Assignee: Verizon Business Global LLCInventors: Shawn E. Wiederin, Ralph S. Hoefelmeyer, Theresa E. Phillips
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Patent number: 8589517Abstract: A device includes a memory and a processor. The processor may be configured to receive a gaming package. The gaming package may include an operating system, a script for detecting a hardware configuration of the device, software for accessing a network, and peering software. The processor may be further configured to establish a peer-to-peer gaming session with another device over the network.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2003Date of Patent: November 19, 2013Assignee: Verizon Business Global LLCInventors: Ralph S. Hoefelmeyer, Shawn E. Wiederin
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Patent number: 8566234Abstract: A managed service for the detection of fraud and/or anomalous transactions is disclosed. In one implementation, the managed service receives data from customers over a wide area network, the data for each customer relating to information that the customer would like monitored for anomalous transactions. The service may analyze data from the customers based on Benford's law to detect potential anomalous transactions in the data from the customers. The managed service may further report occurrences of detected potential anomalous transactions to the customer.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2011Date of Patent: October 22, 2013Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventor: Ralph S. Hoefelmeyer
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Publication number: 20110184878Abstract: A managed service for the detection of fraud and/or anomalous transactions is disclosed. In one implementation, the managed service receives data from customers over a wide area network, the data for each customer relating to information that the customer would like monitored for anomalous transactions. The service may analyze data from the customers based on Benford's law to detect potential anomalous transactions in the data from the customers. The managed service may further report occurrences of detected potential anomalous transactions to the customer.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2011Publication date: July 28, 2011Applicant: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC.Inventor: Ralph S. HOEFELMEYER
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Patent number: 7937321Abstract: A managed service for the detection of fraud and/or anomalous transactions is disclosed. In one implementation, the managed service receives data from customers over a wide area network, the data for each customer relating to information that the customer would like monitored for anomalous transactions. The service may analyze data from the customers based on Benford's law to detect potential anomalous transactions in the data from the customers. The managed service may further report occurrences of detected potential anomalous transactions to the customer.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2007Date of Patent: May 3, 2011Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventor: Ralph S. Hoefelmeyer
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Publication number: 20110019811Abstract: A system for and method of providing local number portability is presented. A request may be received to establish a session between an origination user agent and a destination user agent. The request may comprise a destination user agent identifier. It may be determined whether the destination user agent identifier was ported from one service provider to another. If so, routing information may be provided for establishing the session through the second service provider rather than through the first service provider. The session may be established over one or more Internet protocol networks.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2009Publication date: January 27, 2011Applicants: Verizon Business Network Services Inc., Verizon Corporate Services Group, Inc., Verizon Patent and Licensing, Inc.Inventors: Anna Marie MAY, Ralph S. Hoefelmeyer, Harry C. Leung
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Publication number: 20080172264Abstract: A managed service for the detection of fraud and/or anomalous transactions is disclosed. In one implementation, the managed service receives data from customers over a wide area network, the data for each customer relating to information that the customer would like monitored for anomalous transactions. The service may analyze data from the customers based on Benford's law to detect potential anomalous transactions in the data from the customers. The managed service may further report occurrences of detected potential anomalous transactions to the customer.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2007Publication date: July 17, 2008Applicant: Verizon Business Network Services, Inc.Inventor: Ralph S. Hoefelmeyer
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Patent number: 7151942Abstract: A method for appending advertisements to paging messages may be utilized to reduce or substantially eliminate the fees for paging services paid by paging service customers while allowing companies to easily get their advertisements directly to a specific market or market segment. Alpha-numeric pagers may be programmed/reprogrammed to accept advertisements either prior to or after receiving a page. The alpha-numeric pagers may be programmed with an identification code which indicates to the paging service provider that advertisements are acceptable. Accordingly, if an alpha-numeric pager is programmed to accept advertisements, the paging service provider transmits the advertisements with the page.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 1999Date of Patent: December 19, 2006Assignee: MCI, LLCInventors: Carl J. Evens, Joan Harkey, Ralph S. Hoefelmeyer
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Patent number: 7043757Abstract: A system for malicious code detection includes a front-end processor, multiple scanning computer systems, and a detection management system. During operation, the multiple scanning computer systems scan content for malicious code and generate an alarm when the content contains malicious code. The front-end processor receives a flow of content from an external network and distributes copies of the flow to each of the multiple scanning computer systems in parallel for scanning. The detection management system employs a countermeasure on the flow if at least one of the scanning computer systems generates the alarm.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2001Date of Patent: May 9, 2006Assignee: MCI, LLCInventors: Ralph S. Hoefelmeyer, Theresa E. Phillips
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Publication number: 20040268147Abstract: A network device used to provide network security includes an interface configured to receive data transmitted over a network. The network device also includes a firewall, intrusion detection logic and forwarding logic. The firewall, intrusion detection logic and forwarding logic process the received data to determine whether the data contains malicious content. When the data contains malicious content, the data may be dropped before it reaches a user device to which the received data was sent. Optionally, the network device may interact with an external device in order to make the forwarding decision. In addition, the network device may subscribe to services offered by the external device to receive updated security information.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2003Publication date: December 30, 2004Inventors: Shawn E. Wiederin, Ralph S. Hoefelmeyer, Theresa E. Phillips
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Publication number: 20030198186Abstract: A call processing network performance verification and validation system and test methodology. The call processing network implements Internet Protocol (IP) subnet topology, ATM WAN configuration, equipment placement, and device configuration to provide partitioning of a call processing application across multiple sites. The partitioning reduces latency for mission critical messages, while providing for necessary provisioning traffic needs. Further, the overall topology provides the redundancy and resiliency necessary for mission critical call processing application, utilizing the IP subnets, ATM permanent virtual circuits, network device configuration, and server segregation to achieve Quality of Service (QoS). The validation testing method and system proves out the various segregated routes, verifies subnet integrity and measures total latency and data path traversal in a verifiable manner.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2003Publication date: October 23, 2003Applicant: WorldCom, INC.Inventors: Ralph S. Hoefelmeyer, Michael L. Hutchinson
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Publication number: 20020172158Abstract: A call processing network performance verification and validation system and test methodology. The call processing network implements Internet Protocol (IP) subnet topology, ATM WAN configuration, equipment placement, and device configuration to provide partitioning of a call processing application across multiple sites. The partitioning reduces latency for mission critical messages, while providing for necessary provisioning traffic needs. Further, the overall topology provides the redundancy and resiliency necessary for mission critical call processing application, utilizing the IP subnets, ATM permanent virtual circuits, network device configuration, and server segregation to achieve Quality of Service (QoS). The validation testing method and system proves out the various segregated routes, verifies subnet integrity and measures total latency and data path traversal in a verifiable manner.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2001Publication date: November 21, 2002Inventors: Ralph S. Hoefelmeyer, Michael L. Hutchinson