Patents by Inventor Zakir Patrawala

Zakir Patrawala 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: 9852431
    Abstract: Website management services are disclosed. The services include presenting, by a website management host computer, a web page to a client device. The web page includes options that are configurable by a user of the client device for selecting a provider entity from a list of provider entities. The provider entities provide subscription-based technical services to subscribers. The subscription-based technical services include a links checker configured to verify operability of web page links for a website owned by the user of the client device and a monitor service configured to monitor performance characteristics of the website. The services include receiving, from the client device, a subscription-based technical service and a corresponding provider entity. The provider entities are third-party entities with respect to the website management host computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventor: Zakir Patrawala
  • Patent number: 9558293
    Abstract: A system generating a web page portal customized for a particular requesting mobile device is disclosed. The system includes an information store having multiple groups, each associated with device qualifications, web-design characteristics, and device identifications. The system also includes a custom web page development database (CWDD) including a plurality of web page component modules storing forms of web page components, and a custom web page development server (CWDS). The CWDS (i) receives an incoming request for a web page from the particular requesting mobile device, (ii) identifies a device type, and (iii) determines an applicable group. The CWDS also (iv) obtains web-design characteristics from the applicable group, (v) accesses the CWDD and obtains applicable web page components based on the web-design characteristics obtained from the applicable group of the information store, and (vi) generates the custom web page portal using the applicable web page components obtained from the CWDD.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Zakir Patrawala, Samira Virani
  • Publication number: 20150095766
    Abstract: A system generating a web page portal customized for a particular requesting mobile device is disclosed. The system includes an information store having multiple groups, each associated with device qualifications, web-design characteristics, and device identifications. The system also includes a custom web page development database (CWDD) including a plurality of web page component modules storing forms of web page components, and a custom web page development server (CWDS). The CWDS (i) receives an incoming request for a web page from the particular requesting mobile device, (ii) identifies a device type, and (iv) determines an applicable group. The CWDS also (v) obtains web-design characteristics from the applicable group, (vi) accesses the CWDD and obtains applicable web page components based on the web-design characteristics obtained from the applicable group of the information store, and (vii) generates the custom web page portal using the applicable web page components obtained from the CWDD.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2014
    Publication date: April 2, 2015
    Inventors: Zakir Patrawala, Samira Virani
  • Patent number: 8949322
    Abstract: A system generating a web page portal customized for a particular requesting mobile device is disclosed. The system includes an information store having multiple groups, each associated with device qualifications, web-design characteristics, and device identifications. The system also includes a custom web page development database (CWDD) including a plurality of web page component modules storing forms of web page components, and a custom web page development server (CWDS). The CWDS (i) receives an incoming request for a web page from the particular requesting mobile device, (ii) identifies a device type, and (iv) determines an applicable group. The CWDS also (v) obtains web-design characteristics from the applicable group, (vi) accesses the CWDD and obtains applicable web page components based on the web-design characteristics obtained from the applicable group of the information store, and (vii) generates the custom web page portal using the applicable web page components obtained from the CWDD.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Zakir Patrawala, Samira Virani
  • Patent number: 8631316
    Abstract: A definition of an information category a user wishes to publish to the Internet is received from a user. At least one information asset comprising a link to an information data object is received and assigned to the information category. Sitelet generation parameters are received from the user, including a sitelet category comprising the information category, and optionally, other sitelet generation parameters such as data feed types and additional information categories. A sitelet is then generated using the sitelet category and any other supplied sitelet generation parameters. The sitelet comprises a data feed of a first data feed type comprising a representation of the information assets assigned to the sitelet category and any additional information categories. The data feed type can be in any standard format, such as RSS or ATOM, or any custom format, such as iFrame HTML, XML or JSON. If the user specifies more than one data feed type, sitelets are generated for each data feed type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Zakir Patrawala, Robert K. Rebb, Samira Virani
  • Patent number: 8438219
    Abstract: A system generating a web page portal customized for a particular requesting mobile device is disclosed. The system includes an information store having multiple groups, each associated with device qualifications, web-design characteristics, and device identifications. The system also includes a custom web page development database (CWDD) including a plurality of web page component modules storing forms of web page components, and a custom web page development server (CWDS). The CWDS (i) receives an incoming request for a web page from the particular requesting mobile device, (ii) identifies a device type, and (iv) determines an applicable group. The CWDS also (v) obtains web-design characteristics from the applicable group, (vi) accesses the CWDD and obtains applicable web page components based on the web-design characteristics obtained from the applicable group of the information store, and (vii) generates the custom web page portal using the applicable web page components obtained from the CWDD.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, LP
    Inventors: Zakir Patrawala, Samira Virani
  • Publication number: 20120084629
    Abstract: A definition of an information category a user wishes to publish to the Internet is received from a user. At least one information asset comprising a link to an information data object is received and assigned to the information category. Sitelet generation parameters are received from the user, including a sitelet category comprising the information category, and optionally, other sitelet generation parameters such as data feed types and additional information categories. A sitelet is then generated using the sitelet category and any other supplied sitelet generation parameters. The sitelet comprises a data feed of a first data feed type comprising a representation of the information assets assigned to the sitelet category and any additional information categories. The data feed type can be in any standard format, such as RSS or ATOM, or any custom format, such as iFrame HTML, XML or JSON. If the user specifies more than one data feed type, sitelets are generated for each data feed type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2010
    Publication date: April 5, 2012
    Applicant: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Zakir Patrawala, Robert K. Rebb, Samira Virani
  • Publication number: 20120047199
    Abstract: A system generating a web page portal customized for a particular requesting mobile device is disclosed. The system includes an information store having multiple groups, each associated with device qualifications, web-design characteristics, and device identifications. The system also includes a custom web page development database (CWDD) including a plurality of web page component modules storing forms of web page components, and a custom web page development server (CWDS). The CWDS (i) receives an incoming request for a web page from the particular requesting mobile device, (ii) identifies a device type, and (iv) determines an applicable group. The CWDS also (v) obtains web-design characteristics from the applicable group, (vi) accesses the CWDD and obtains applicable web page components based on the web-design characteristics obtained from the applicable group of the information store, and (vii) generates the custom web page portal using the applicable web page components obtained from the CWDD.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2010
    Publication date: February 23, 2012
    Inventors: Zakir Patrawala, Samira Virani
  • Patent number: 7917808
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for verifying the integrity of web server content. Communication with a server is initiated and content is retrieved that is specified by a Uniform Resource Locator. The content is parsed and searched for an error message. When the content contains linked content, then the linked content is parsed and also searched for the error message. The error message is logged to indicate an existence of a partial page error.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2011
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Karthiksundar Sankaran, Zakir Patrawala, Timothy A. Hill
  • Publication number: 20100306333
    Abstract: Website management services are disclosed. The services include presenting, by a website management host computer, a web page to a client device. The web page includes options that are configurable by a user of the client device for selecting a provider entity from a list of provider entities. The provider entities provide subscription-based technical services to subscribers. The subscription-based technical services include a links checker configured to verify operability of web page links for a website owned by the user of the client device and a monitor service configured to monitor performance characteristics of the website. The services include receiving, from the client device, a subscription-based technical service and a corresponding provider entity. The provider entities are third-party entities with respect to the website management host computer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2010
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Applicant: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventor: Zakir Patrawala
  • Patent number: 7827271
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for verifying the integrity of web server content. A request for a Uniform Resource Locator is received, with the request originating from a referring Uniform Resource Locator. A response to the request is communicated. The requested Uniform Resource Locator is stored along with the referring Uniform Resource Locator, a status code associated with the response, and a file size associated with the response. Logical rules are applied and a report is generated which pinpoints the URLs in error.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Karthiksundar Sankaran, Zakir Patrawala, Timothy A. Hill
  • Patent number: 7809823
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for verifying the integrity of web server content. A client-side integrity verification of a web page communicated from a web server to a client computer is received. A server-side error in the web page is received from the web server. The results of the client-side integrity verification are merged with the server-side error. The results of the client-side integrity verification and the server-side error are presented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2010
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Karthiksundar Sankaran, Zakir Patrawala, Timothy A. Hill
  • Patent number: 7797200
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer program product for providing website management services is provided. The method includes providing technical services for a website including options that are configurable by a representative of the website. The technical services include at least one of: verifying operability of web page links for the website, and monitoring performance characteristics of the website.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2010
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventor: Zakir Patrawala
  • Patent number: 7526678
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for verifying the integrity of web server content. Communication with a server is initiated and content is retrieved that is specified by a Uniform Resource Locator. The content is parsed and searched for an error message. When the content contains linked content, then the linked content is parsed and also searched for the error message. The error message is logged to indicate an existence of a partial page error.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2009
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Karthiksundar Sankaran, Zakir Patrawala, Timothy A. Hill
  • Publication number: 20090063908
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for verifying the integrity of web server content. Communication with a server is initiated and content is retrieved that is specified by a Uniform Resource Locator. The content is parsed and searched for an error message. When the content contains linked content, then the linked content is parsed and also searched for the error message. The error message is logged to indicate an existence of a partial page error.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2008
    Publication date: March 5, 2009
    Inventors: Karthiksundar Sankaran, Zakir Patrawala, Timothy A. Hill
  • Publication number: 20090006935
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for verifying the integrity of web server content. A request for a Uniform Resource Locator is received, with the request originating from a referring Uniform Resource Locator. A response to the request is communicated. The requested Uniform Resource Locator is stored along with the referring Uniform Resource Locator, a status code associated with the response, and a file size associated with the response. Logical rules are applied and a report is generated which pinpoints the URLs in error.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2008
    Publication date: January 1, 2009
    Inventors: Karthiksundar Sankaran, Zakir Patrawala, Timothy A. Hill
  • Patent number: 7444588
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments include methods, systems, and storage mediums for providing multi-media content storage and management services. From a single user interface, the method includes creating a library of content items including at least one of a photo library and a video library, creating at least one other content item including at least one of a web page, newsletter, message board, email, instant message, chat room text message, and electronic greeting, associating at least one component of the library with the at least one other content item to form an arrangement, and designating access restrictions to the arrangement. The access restrictions include the option of applying no restriction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2008
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property, I.L.P.
    Inventors: Timothy A. Hill, Marie McMenamin, Zakir Patrawala, Mukesh K. Singh
  • Patent number: 7426556
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for verifying the integrity of web server content. One method receives a request for a Uniform Resource Locator, with the request originating from a referring Uniform Resource Locator. A response to the request is communicated. The method then stores the requested Uniform Resource Locator, the referring Uniform Resource Locator, a status code associated with the response, and a file size associated with the response. Logical rules are applied and a report is generated which pinpoints the URLs in error.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2008
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Karthiksundar Sankaran, Zakir Patrawala, Timothy A. Hill
  • Publication number: 20080222459
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for verifying the integrity of web server content. A client-side integrity verification of a web page communicated from a web server to a client computer is received. A server-side error in the web page is received from the web server. The results of the client-side integrity verification are merged with the server-side error. The results of the client-side integrity verification and the server-side error are presented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2008
    Publication date: September 11, 2008
    Inventors: Karthiksundar Sankaran, Zakir Patrawala, Timothy A. Hill
  • Publication number: 20080172608
    Abstract: Embodiment of the present disclosure can also be viewed as providing methods for creating a web site. In this regard, one embodiment includes the following steps: receiving a choice of a design template to be used in creating the web site, the design template providing an initial layout for pages of the web site and suggested content; rendering for display a representation of the web site from the design template in a development environment, wherein the representation provides controls for editing content and layout of the web site representation and the rendering produces HTML files that are displayed to a user; and enabling the user to edit design features of the web site based upon a rendered view of the web site in the development environment, a presently displayed representation of a web page having editing tools embedded in the web page.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2007
    Publication date: July 17, 2008
    Inventors: Zakir Patrawala, Mukesh Singh