Patents by Inventor Shawn FERDINAND

Shawn FERDINAND 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: 9019339
    Abstract: Methods, devices, and storage media provide for receiving a request to use a multiparty service; applying priority rules for routing the request toward a destination endpoint, wherein the applying comprises determining whether the destination endpoint is a private destination endpoint or a public destination endpoint; routing the request toward the private destination endpoint in response to determining that a destination address or a portion thereof included in the request corresponds to the private destination endpoint; and routing the request toward the public destination endpoint in response to determining that the destination address or the portion thereof included in the request corresponds to the public destination endpoint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Mark A. Nicholson, Shawn Ferdinand, Rachel Lee Scarbrough
  • Patent number: 8881259
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Shawn Ferdinand, Jeffrey Allen Haltom, Rachel Lee Scarbrough, Mark A. Nicholson
  • Publication number: 20140173712
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2012
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC.
    Inventors: Shawn Ferdinand, Jeffrey Allen Haltom, Rachel Lee Scarbrough, Mark A. Nicholson
  • Publication number: 20140146126
    Abstract: Methods, devices, and storage media provide for receiving a request to use a multiparty service; applying priority rules for routing the request toward a destination endpoint, wherein the applying comprises determining whether the destination endpoint is a private destination endpoint or a public destination endpoint; routing the request toward the private destination endpoint in response to determining that a destination address or a portion thereof included in the request corresponds to the private destination endpoint; and routing the request toward the public destination endpoint in response to determining that the destination address or the portion thereof included in the request corresponds to the public destination endpoint.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2012
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Applicant: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC.
    Inventors: Mark A. Nicholson, Shawn Ferdinand, Rachel Lee Scarbrough
  • Patent number: 8497895
    Abstract: A computing device determines a schedule for monitoring an immersive video-telepresence (IMV-TP) network, and receives, based on the schedule, immersive video (IMV) information directly from one or more of devices, software, or systems associated with the IMV-TP network. The computing device aggregates the received IMV information, generates a report based on the aggregated IMV information, and provides the generated report to one or more users associated with the IMV-TP network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2013
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventor: Shawn Ferdinand
  • Publication number: 20120194634
    Abstract: A computing device determines a schedule for monitoring an immersive video-telepresence (IMV-TP) network, and receives, based on the schedule, immersive video (IMV) information directly from one or more of devices, software, or systems associated with the IMV-TP network. The computing device aggregates the received IMV information, generates a report based on the aggregated IMV information, and provides the generated report to one or more users associated with the IMV-TP network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2011
    Publication date: August 2, 2012
    Applicant: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC.
    Inventor: Shawn FERDINAND