Patents Assigned to AOL LLC
  • Patent number: 7373658
    Abstract: Access to content is enabled by reading an out-of-band token. A handler relating to information in the out-of-band token may be identified. The handler may be exchanged with a remote media player to enable access to content related to the out-of-band token.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2008
    Assignee: AOL LLC
    Inventors: Steven M. Blumenfeld, William J. Raduchel
  • Patent number: 7370270
    Abstract: A technique for evolving XML schemas is disclosed. The technique involves methods for performing schema manipulating operations and for validating the schema changes so that the current XML documents remain valid against the new schema.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2008
    Assignee: AOL LLC a Delaware limited liability company
    Inventor: An Feng
  • Patent number: 7370277
    Abstract: An interface enables perception of information regarding e-mail communications. The interface includes an e-mail application user interface that enables perception of e-mail message information for one or more e-mails received by an e-mail participant and that enables active display of one or more of the received e-mails selected by the e-mail participant, The interface also includes a mechanism that determines a request for e-mail message information for one of the e-mails from within a desired e-mail message that is not actively displayed. The interface further includes an informational tool tip that provides a temporary perceivable indication to the e-mail participant of at least a portion of the requested information for the desired e-mail message while maintaining active display of the one or more selected e-mails.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2008
    Assignee: AOL LLC
    Inventors: James Andrew Canfield, Kenneth Carbone, David Fairlie Colburn, Linda Nols Myers, Thomas E. Van Lenten, Gregory Alan Willis
  • Patent number: 7366779
    Abstract: Systems and techniques for transferring a file from a first client associated with a first subscriber to a communications system to a second client associated with a second subscriber to the communications system by connecting from the first client to a communications system host; sending, through the communications system host, a request to the second client to establish a direct connection to the second client; when the second client accepts the request, establishing a direct connection to the second client that bypasses the communications system host; and transferring a file over the direct connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2008
    Assignee: AOL LLC, a Delaware Limited Liability Company
    Inventor: James Crawford
  • Patent number: 7366977
    Abstract: The present invention provides a way to validate data entry at both the client and the server with minimal engineering effort. The system allows the specification of data validation rules for a form on a server. The system provides a version of the rules with the form to the client computer. The system also executes the rules on the server for further validation. The system may translate the rules into JavaScript data structures, passed as the version to the client for client-side validation. Because the rules for the form are specific only once, there is no possibility of the rules becoming out of sync between the form on the client and on the server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2008
    Assignee: AOL LLC a Delaware limited liability company
    Inventor: Sandip Chokshi
  • Publication number: 20080097844
    Abstract: Handling electronic coupons includes accessing information indicating association of an electronic coupon with an account of a user that identifies multiple retail entities associated with the user. Information indicating association of electronic coupons with the user's account may be transmitted to respective computer systems associated with the multiple retail entities. The computer systems may associate electronic coupons with the user such that the user may redeem the electronic coupons at a retail store upon presentation of a user identifier. When the user redeems an electronic coupon, cancellation information for the electronic coupon may be transmitted to the computer systems of other retail entities associated with the user. Receipt of the cancellation information may cause the respective computer systems to cancel the redeemability of the electronic coupon such that the user is prevented from redeeming the electronic coupon at a retail store associated with the corresponding retail entity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2007
    Publication date: April 24, 2008
    Applicant: AOL LLC
    Inventors: MICHAEL HSU, MICHAEL MURRAY
  • Patent number: 7363345
    Abstract: Delivering an electronic notification to an intended recipient may include communicating an electronic notification directed to an intended recipient, and determining presence information associated with the intended recipient before attempting to deliver the notification to the intended recipient. A cascaded delivery instruction also may be resolved based on notification information. The presence information and the cascaded delivery instruction may be used to select among several delivery mechanisms potentially available for the intended recipient based on the presence information, and to deliver the electronic notification to the intended recipient at the selected delivery mechanism. The presence information may include an online presence and/or a physical presence of the intended recipient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2008
    Assignee: AOL LLC, a Delaware Limited Liability Company
    Inventors: Christopher Emery Austin-Lane, Thomas Louis Dellecave, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20080092063
    Abstract: A user interface that enables user perception of status regarding communications that leverage an instant messaging platform may be rendered on a display. The user interface includes an instant messaging application user interface that enables perception and selection of instant messages for an instant messaging user, and a status indicator that provides a perceivable indication to the user of statistics regarding concurrent instant messaging sessions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2007
    Publication date: April 17, 2008
    Applicant: AOL LLC, a Delaware Limited Liability Company (Formerly Known as America Online, Inc.)
    Inventors: James Canfield, Kenneth Carbone, David Colburn, Linda Myers, Thomas Van Lenten, Gregory Willis
  • Publication number: 20080089609
    Abstract: Images may be registered using temporal (time-based) and spatial information. In a film implementation, because film is a sequence of frames, using information from neighboring frames may enable a temporally smoother visual experience. In addition, it may be beneficial to take advantage of the fact that consecutive frames are often shifted similarly during the photographic process. Distortion measures may be used that discount candidate transformations that are considered to be too far from one or more preferred transformations, such as, for example, an optimal transformation from another frame or block or a currently-optimal transformation from the same frame/block. Composite color images may be processed to provide registration of underlying components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2007
    Publication date: April 17, 2008
    Applicants: Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc., AOL LLC, a Delaware Limited Liability Company (formerly known as America Online, Inc.)
    Inventors: Keren Perlmutter, Sharon Perlmutter, Eric Wang, Paul Klamer, Leng Chua, Christopher Cookson, Massimiliano Gasparri
  • Patent number: 7359493
    Abstract: Delivering a bulk voicemail to a group of recipients includes accessing a data store configured to store targeting data related to a group of potential voicemail recipients and identifying voicemail recipients from among the group of potential voicemail recipients based on the targeting data. A bulk voicemail is delivered to each identified voicemail recipient. The bulk voicemail includes at least some audio content that is made available to all recipients within the group of identified voicemail recipients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2008
    Assignee: AOL LLC, a Delaware Limited Liability Company
    Inventors: Myles Thomas Wang, Michael McMorris
  • Patent number: 7359973
    Abstract: Home-networked client devices are connected to a host system that assigns independent Internet addresses to the client devices using a home gateway device that is connected to the home-networked client devices through a network. The home gateway device, which may be physically located in a personal residence, generally includes a communication device to communicate with the host system over a single communication tunnel established between the home gateway device and the host system. The home gateway device also may include a PPPoE access concentrator and an L2TP access concentrator. The client devices communicate with the host system through the home gateway device over the single communication tunnel. This enables the host system to establish individual communication sessions with the client devices over the single communication tunnel and to assign independent Internet addresses to the client devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2008
    Assignee: AOL LLC, a Delaware Limited Liability Company
    Inventors: David Clyde Chiles, Eric Bosco
  • Patent number: 7359951
    Abstract: Website search results obtained from searching multiple electronic information stores may be displayed transparently without distinguishing the electronic information store. The search may be performed by a web host and may include receiving at least one search term that then is compared with first electronic information within a first electronic information store to determine whether matches exist, where the first electronic information includes content provided by an internal source. The search term also is compared with second electronic information within a second electronic information store to determine whether matches exist, where the second electronic information includes content provided by an external source. Results are displayed based on matches that are determined to exist with the first electronic information and the second electronic information. The results are combined in a single list of results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2008
    Assignee: AOL LLC, a Delaware Limited Liability Company
    Inventors: Surendra Goel, David E. Kellum, Thomas E. Donaldson
  • Publication number: 20080086455
    Abstract: According to one general aspect, a method for providing directions to an appointment location appearing in a calendar application includes identifying an appointment in a calendar application, determining a geographic location of the appointment, identifying another geographic location associated with a user of the calendar application, generating directions between the geographic location of the appointment and the geographic location of the other location, and providing the directions generated to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2006
    Publication date: April 10, 2008
    Applicant: AOL LLC
    Inventors: Adrienne C. Meisels, Stephen J. Coughlin
  • Patent number: 7356405
    Abstract: A preferred route may be determined from an origin location to a destination location. The preferred route avoids a particular maneuver or particular maneuvers identified by a user. The determination is made by processing directed links (e.g., one-way edges) in a graph that includes one or more links and two or more nodes. The determination of a preferred route may include an estimate of the time required at one or more intersections along alternative routes and/or an estimate of the time required to travel the alternative routes based on the day of the week or the day of the year in which travel occurs. Individual routing preferences, such as a preference of a rural over an urban route and avoiding particular maneuvers in a route, also may be considered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2008
    Assignee: AOL LLC
    Inventor: David W. Nesbit
  • Patent number: 7356567
    Abstract: Transferring instant messaging sessions includes receiving a selection, from a user within a user interface, of at least one instant messaging session from among multiple instant messaging sessions to transfer from a first instant messaging controller on a first device to at least a second instant messaging controller on a second device, where the user is signed on concurrently to the first instant messaging controller on the first device and the second instant messaging controller on the second device. At least a portion of the selected instant messaging session is transferred from the first instant messaging controller on the first device to the second instant messaging controller on the second device and the transferred portion of the instant messaging session is made perceivable on the second instant messaging controller on the second device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2008
    Assignee: AOL LLC, a Delaware Limited Liability Company
    Inventors: James A. Odell, Barry Appelman, W. Karl Renner
  • Publication number: 20080082512
    Abstract: A search tool graphical user interface comprises search criteria selected by an operator of the search tool. One, or more search results that correspond to the search criteria are displayed on the search tool graphical user interface, and an indication of characteristics is displayed for one or more of the search results. The characteristics displayed may include the availability ,or maturity of content associated with the search results. The search results may be sorted or filtered based on the characteristics of content associated with the search results. The characteristics may be determined before or after the search results are identified and displayed on the search tool graphical user interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2007
    Publication date: April 3, 2008
    Applicant: AOL LLC
    Inventors: David Hogan, W. Renner
  • Patent number: 7353234
    Abstract: A user interface including one or more references to content is customized. Several user profiles are provided from which a user may be associated. Each user profile includes user profile information. The user profile associated with a user to whom a user interface will be provided is accessed. A user interface is configured for the user, based at least in part upon the user profile accessed as being associated with the user. Access to content is enabled based on user manipulation of the configured user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2008
    Assignee: AOL LLC, a Delaware Limited Liability Company
    Inventors: Jeffrey David Kimball, John Thurston Wassom, Jr., Christina Ann Rank Dolan
  • Patent number: 7353280
    Abstract: Home-networked client devices are connected to a host system that assigns independent Internet addresses to the client devices using a home gateway device that is connected to the home-networked client devices through a network. The home gateway device, which may be physically located in a personal residence, generally includes a communication device to communicate with the host system over a single communication tunnel established between the home gateway device and the host system. The home gateway device also includes a network address translation module. The client devices are typically connected to the home gateway device through a network and the client devices communicate with the host system through the home gateway device over the single communication tunnel. This enables the host system to establish individual communication sessions with the client devices over the single communication tunnel and to assign independent Internet addresses to the client devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2008
    Assignee: AOL LLC, a Delaware Limited Liability Company
    Inventors: David Clyde Chiles, Eric Bosco
  • Patent number: 7349892
    Abstract: A method and search engine for classifying a source publishing a document on a portion of a network, includes steps of electronically receiving a document, based on the document, determining a source which published the document, and assigning a code to the document based on whether data associated with the document published by the source matches with data contained in a database. An intelligent geographic- and business topic-specific resource discovery system facilitates local commerce on the World-Wide Web and also reduces search time by accurately isolating information for end-users. Distinguishing and classifying business pages on the Web by business categories using Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) codes is achieved through an automatic iterative process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2008
    Assignee: AOL LLC
    Inventor: Ajaipal Singh Virdy
  • Patent number: 7349700
    Abstract: A method for communicating between an operator at an operator device and a user recipient includes enabling an operator of the operator device to enter a device-independent unique identifier for a user recipient by requiring interaction between the operator and the operator device without requiring interaction between the operator and software on the operator device that is designed for communication over an IP-based network. The method includes identifying an IP network address associated with the user recipient based on the device-independent unique identifier and routing a message entered by the operator to the determined IP network address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2008
    Assignee: AOL LLC
    Inventor: Yair Goldfinger